skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is there a lack of supply and not of demand right now? Most of China is already back to work, and we'll see lack of demand in the coming weeks/months when people isolate themselves and not going out buying things.
Yeah, I mean if they entered into another acceleration phase, that would be terrible. I suppose it possible another region in China not hit as hard still might enter one.

I guess we just have to trust they will keep things under wraps long enough.
Change my mind: package management infrastructure run by government as a public service should be the ideal end outcome for everyone.

Why I think this: private or volunteer models are unsustainable in the long run owing to funding uncertainties or conflicts of interest between stakeholders. Utilities that support the bulk of our technical infrastructure should be secured by public interests. Governments can keep things free.

Common objections:

- "Governments are inefficient". Depends on the area. The government tends to be inefficient in handling areas with direct consumer benefit, but less so in dealing with consortiums or private entities. Since private entities are the primary mainstream users of packages, I don't think government will be too slow on this front.

- "Governments will be malicious". This I don't doubt, but the solution for that is building better trust mechanisms rather than keeping a practical solution at bay, and for software at least such trust mechanisms are tenable e.g. see the CNCF's Falcon project.
Viruses, unlike bacteria can't survive outside of a living host. Thus, they can only decrease over time on an inanimate object. This means if you have ~10 - 20 disposable surgical masks you can reuse them until they're disintegrated. Simply adopt a First In Last Out protocol to maximize the days between reuse. The longest we've seen the literature indicate the virus survives on a surface is 3 days and viral loads decrease at an exponential rate so at 6 days, you're >99.99% safe, at 9 days, you're >99.9999% safe etc. Distributing 20 - 30 disposable masks to every American is not outside of logistical possibility.

Just make sure you wash and dry the mask as soon as it's off your face so bacterial colonies don't have time to multiply.
There is going to be a wave of airline bankruptcies. There is going to be a wave of retail bankruptcies. Add in cruise lines, tourism, restaurants, etc. Now add the secondary effects and most indicators are flashing red.

A significant cause for the massive drop today is that indicators out of China are that the disruption is much, much larger than anyone accounted for.

A few days ago there was a guy talking about refinancing his house and putting 20% of the value into the market[1]. He asked whether it was a bad time. I said it was a bad time -- not that it was going up or down but that there is enormous uncertainty and a long way to drop -- and got moderated down to the gray. The non-gray comments were all that this is a great time. Buy 'em on sale is a claim that has been foolishly made again and again.

No, it isn't a great time. Anyone deluding themselves that there is a market "bottom" that it is bouncing off of has been proven wrong repeatedly. Over the past couple of days the federal government has done more to try to fix the markets than they did during the entire housing crash, but compressing it all into a weekend. They have essentially nothing left.

And here we are, staring into the abyss.

Things will improve, and at one point we'll laugh about this and consider it all an overreaction, etc. But there's a lot of downside between now and then. And if history is any example, once we bottom out we'll hang around for a while.

[1] Oh add that we have historic debt levels, bubbled house prices in some areas, and the simple idea of financing the current, elevated value of a house seems risky.
It simply does the landlord no good at all to evict them.
The planet is getting a break right now. Unfortunately it probably won't last.
This is the sort of logic that keeps a desktop-development plague like Electron going strong

> Yes, Electron requires more resources than native apps

It requires orders of magnitude more resources. Many of us are sick of watching huge chunks of expensive computers' ample resources go to waste so that some startup dweeb can avoid hiring actual desktop development people. It is the #1 harbinger of the kind of resource inflation and lack of engineering excellence that keeps people having to buy new hardware unnecessarily, but hey who cares BeCaUsE mAh BaLaNcE sHeEtS
I took care to mention that x86 is not the only platform, and to what extent they're relevant. I also made sure to not specifically answer as if this is only for x86. I don't know why you're willingly misinterpreting what I said. It's quite frustrating, especially after I took care to not answer as if x86 were the only platform.

I asked you why you're asking about specifics here in a querying conversational, when you can just search the internet and be given the specific answers immediately.

Because you're asking me to reply again, I'll go ahead and answer your question for you: all of those platforms are the same as far as padding/alignment for char is concerned. But just to reiterate, I was careful to not require this kind of knowledge for my replies to make sense.
How quickly would the difficulty adjust? My understanding is that there is an algorithm that slowly adjusts difficulty. If a big chunk of the ASIC miners went offline and mining reverted to individual GPUs, it might be a very long time before the difficulty reverted to something reasonable.
I don't need a source, this is common knowledge. Do you not know how the US federal income tax system works?

CA does have a high state income tax, but it also contributes far more to federal coffers than NV, and it doesn't get as much back as it puts in. Many other states get more back than they put in. Again, I don't need a source for this, this is common knowledge.
The protocol is open, even if the most commonly used implementations may not be.

As for secure, well that's a whole other matter.
Hopefully someone is manufacturing a billion masks somewhere in the USA.
my xiaomi has a separate dust bin that you can remove from the unit and open elsewhere. I just stick my hands in the trash bin and open it there. For the upright dyson vacuum which I use on higher pile carpet that clogs the robot, I have to take the canister to the large trash can outside because dust gets absolutely everywhere.
There have been sufficient reports of people who either got reinfected or else had an extremely long “false recovery” period to cause the question of whether or not immunity can be relied on to be debated. Various explanations are available but none are as of yet proven.
It's too late for that. If you exposed yourself now, you'd be direly sick just as the first unhandleable wave is going to hit the health care system.
It's up to the states to either postpone the elections or ramp up infrastructure to ensure they can be done safely (more polling places for no long lines, multi day elections to reduce the rush, lots of cleainging supplies with cleaning between votes, etc). But saying people shouldn't vote at all is antidemocratic. Why not shut down the national election as well and just give it to (candidate you dont like)?
Realistically, neighbors are going to hassle people more about this than cops. No cop wants to deal with any more of this than they're forced to.
And it's not a flu.
Reread that, this is a limitation on Congress's power to limit habeus corpus, not the executive's power.
>That's absolutely going to "go back to the way things were"

China printed money in the past 10 years on a scale we've never before seen in history (300% Debt-to-GDP). They remain in a trade war with the US, are being blamed for the virus and their economy has shut down. Things aren't "going back to normal".
I'm not sure if you missed the news today but large parts of the world have politely asked it's citizens to avoid all non essential travel. In a week or two they are going to stop with the polite part.

You don't need a personal vehicle, you need to figure out how to stay home.
This is all true, but detecting the viral proteins directly with reasonable sensitivity and specificity is much more difficult. The reason is that there is just a lot less of it to detect. After seroconversion, the amount of antibody against the virus can be very high and relatively easy to check.
Oh this takes me back to when Internet Exploder was the most popular browser
>Don't be so hard on yourself - you could have a remote job working for a company in SF like me :). It took a lot to get here but almost anyone can do it.

Unlikely. I'm not a programmer and have no desire for it. Everything else remote wants people with years of experience and a degree in something like marketing or only hires via short term contracts for stuff like customer service/support and doesn't actually want to make you a proper employee. At least in my experience over the past few years.

A lot of places just flat out require a bachelors degree (especially startups once they get some investor money).
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This plan has several serious drawbacks: many deaths, possible long-term effects, the fear and anxiety of getting an illness with a 1% fatality rate, the discomfort and pain of being ill, overloaded healthcare system even if you build hospitals because then new bottlenecks like medical staff appear.

And probably more, this is just quick out of my mind.

Here's a better approach: Hardcore lockdown for 2 weeks, which stops the spread and reveals the vast majority of cases. Then switch to high-volume testing and targeted interventions (with would be much more efficient than now because many of the processes can be improved).
Fortunately, the new moon is just a week away, at which point the "dark side" of the moon will be facing Earth and we'll have a clear view of his base.
Free GPU resources for Covid-19 research offered by Paperspace
> this complaint is lodged by an upstart privacy-based browser which directly competes with a Google product (Chrome) so they are not objective players here

This is not really a problem. Quite the contrary, it's unusual for a neutral party to be the one lodging a complaint. The important thing is that whomever processes the complaint is a neutral/objective party.
> Interestingly, that comment started out as +3 and is down to -2 now.

Is there somewhere to check that score, or is it a higher karma feature?
Pet peeve of mine: as I understand it Discord labels each of its communities as "servers". That's why you've probably encountered youngins calling subreddits or group chats "servers" lately. That's obviously a misnomer since it's not like they're technically independent servers (as showcased by this crash).

It's just vocabulary but for somebody like me who still hangs onto IRC even though it's been almost entirely displaced by proprietary and centralized solutions like Discord it really feels like they're rubbing it in. Just co-opting decentralized lingo with none of the actual features.
The construction of green infrastructure is also going to have to be put on hold too, and in the meantime CO2 levels are just going to keep on rising...
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That's what insurance is for, or maybe a loan.

If the repair is not basic, then it sounds like it's going to be very costly. If it's very costly, then the tenants missing a month or two of rent is not going to be enough to make a difference on the landlord being able to afford it. After all, the amount of money they should be raking in above the mortgage on the property is not generally going to be a large fraction of the total rent. So if the landlord can't swing a few hundred dollars for an unforeseen repair, then they aren't in sufficient financial shape to be owning and renting out that property, since the landlord (in normal circumstances) is fully responsible for keeping the property in good repair at all times. "I can't afford it" is not a valid excuse for not doing repairs, and the court system agrees with me.
One of the few things epidemiologists can be certain of in their assumptions is that our economy and society won't sustain indefinite lockdowns. Extended localised lockdowns, until R0 drops below 1, yes. Repeated localized lockdowns, maybe but decreasingly so. Let's wait until we have a vaccine or something, no.
I worked for a ventilator startup for a few years, and it took us about 18 months to get our line to the point where we could make first articles built to manufacturing instead of prototype processes. These first articles then continued to develop some performance problems which needed to be rectified over the following year or so. This was starting from an empty building, which is where you'd be even if you retrofitted a ventilator factory into a car factory, because none of the tools in a car factory are precise or accurate enough to build or test a ventilator.
Ah yes, the California solution to everything - tax it.
Imhi Npm is two things a cli tool, and a central repo that tries to be the one and only js repo: to make money from that position. Their infra costs them money only because that was their angle for selling out.

Linux repos take the alternative approach to try to get as many mirrors as possible so it can remain free.

Microsoft did not buy npm to help it become free. Believe. They bought it because they rekon they can make buck out of it.

That buck comes from somewhere.

Nodejs going to the Linux foundation was good news.

Microsoft buying Npm is bad news.
The wording of the Santa Clara order (only one I read) is interesting. If one splits time between two locations (both private residences) one residing in one of the impacted counties and one not, is transit between both allowed for?

I'm going with the assumption that surrounding counties outside the six mentioned in the article will take up a similar measure.
That's insane, I always assumed it was for much lower household incomes. I consider 100k to be upper middle class in the US.
GDPR is a good example on how treating information carefully is important.

Facebook, YouTube, etc spreading of missinformation is something that needs to be fixed for democracy to survive.

Apps like Uber that do not recognize its own employees and follow the strategy of running faster than laws are also a good example of something that is damaging our society.

Addictive loot boxes that prey on teenagers is another ugly one.

I will need more time to think to make a better list, but these are some of the ones I think need stronger regulation.
I was unclear. Sorry.

I was wondering why we even expect persistent immunity.
Scripting languages have been removed because bundling them created problems. Apps would rely on the system version so an OS upgrade that, for example, moved to Python 3 would break apps.

The solution is to bundle your own runtime, or install with homebrew if you’re a dev.

I really don’t see Apple removing the UNIX utilities and terminal.app any time soon. Of course if they do I’ll be in the market for a new OS.
But we can sure as hell judge our current reactions based on the direction the infection charts are pointing!
Also anecdotal evidence, but my contacts are gradually showing up in Signal - and I continue to recommend it to friends and colleagues.
And yet in Australia we've found that most of the cases have come from the US. (We've been testing travellers mostly)

Scroll down to the bar chart:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-17/coronavirus-data-reve...

My feeling is that it is uncontrolled and untested in the US in a way it isn't in places that actually are on lockdown.
As far as I can tell, and admittedly this is conjecture based on piecing together a bunch of off-hand comments by official spokespersons and a few industry insiders I talk to regularly, it's because the U.S. decided that everyone needs to use the same exact test. There is some validity to that approach in that it makes the data a lot better for comparison tracking. But, they compounded that somewhat defensible decision to require that everyone uses the same exact test kit. This turned into a disaster when the chosen supplier couldn't produce the reagents in the required time/amount.
To be honest, I would prefer OSes to just offer some rendering primitive instead. Remove the "layers of crap" (I'm quoting John Carmack), and let developers do whatever.

At this point HTML+JS is one option that gives a good amount of flexibility and support, and it looks like OSes should just be a browser. In my view, any OS should be able to use any windowing manager at the same time, provided they can use the same rendering core.

I like building simple interfaces using SDL or SFML, and as long as you only redraw when needed, it's just good enough. The godot editor works that way, that's how it's able to work on all platform: you have a small throbber that turns indicating when it's redrawing.
Not only that: if you send links to people in DM, their surveillance ability gives them a shoot-first-ask-questions-later option to counteract spam (or any false positives they mistakenly deem spam).

They suspended my account for linking three people I know personally to my own website. In DM. Not twenty, not some spam site, not strangers. They nuked my whole account with no recourse.

The ToS, of course, says you can't sue them, either in a class action or outside of one. Their ToS also bans political cartoons that "mock" anyone, again, even in DMs.

It's not possible to use Discord without agreeing to these terms.
I thought this was related to phone phreaking when I clicked the link. Still very cool going keep this on my phone for future fun.
Emergency services don't provide transportation to their workers. Most of them drive their own cars to work just like everyone else. Some law enforcement agencies do allow officers to drive squad cars home when they have extras available.
One man lost his life savings in a SIM hack, you can try to protect yourself
>Monsanto has been rebranded "Bayer Crop Science"

When the company that commercialized heroin and was complicit in the holocaust is a better brand you really got a PR problem.
Firstly, is a physical shortage of beds the problem? Capacity is not just physical, where do the doctors come from?

As for building additional capacity with a WW mindset... how about just annex the currently empty offices and buildings?

...now to train some doctors!
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I have a very large home (3,200 sq ft) but with 3 adults, 3 kids we start to fill it up.* I wanted to be able to have guests without having a dedicated guest room. The Murphy bed was a perfect solution. Got a local furniture maker to make it out of hardwood for about $2,700. Pricey but was wrapped in with a renovation loan so made it doable.

The room is now the guest/meeting/sewing/fitness room. And is easy to toggle between the different uses. I really like it.

*that said, it’s still very spacious feeling
There are some tips for working from home & under social isolation (including as a parent) in this Google Doc: https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/isolation

It might not all be directly relevant to your situation, but they do accept feedback and hopefully it'll spark some ideas. Good luck!
Because that is the fatality rate range (0.9-5%) when everyone gets a ventilator/ICU bed when needed.
The part of the article I did not find compelling is handing things over to the military. The army that I served in is not exactly led by the best and the brightest, and armies in other countries can be actively malicious entities.
This event is going to be extremely valuable for evaluating myriad environmental models, including climate.
All these things bug me because it is very easy to hurt your lungs with a ventilator.
I haul water from a bulk water dispenser in town operated by the city water department, have a cistern cache on site which gets topped up that way.

It's not that unusual in desert communities like mine.
I think that was responding to the call for "mainstream messengers that put actual effort into respecting the user, along with their autonomy and privacy." iMessage is closed-source and centralized, but from what I know of it, it does seem fair to say it doesn't violate people's autonomy or privacy in a significant way.
Attacking the credibility of an accuser to make them seem ridiculous or hysterical is what the modern application of 'gaslighting' implies.
Depends, in austria you have different laws and measures for one person companies to bigger companies.
The coronavirus 'flatten the curve' chart
I think my point is more that the pandemic + this sort of government response inherently pits the young vs old. The government has enacted a sweeping lockdown (unprecedented loss of freedom AFAIK^) that overwhelming hurts people of working age for the benefits of high-risk older people. But where is the help for those that now can't pay their rent or buy enough food? That situation inherently breeds resentment at a time where resentment is already a mainstream topic.

^This matters because it shows that the government is capable of taking dramatic action
Cars are fine for essential transportation as defined in this order. They aren't making the immediate situation any worse. Overall vehicle traffic is way down and will be even lower tomorrow.
> Pneumonia still kills 13 thousands people every year in Italy

In bad epidemic years it kills way more in Italy. 24k in 2017 epidemic

You are absolutely right
Elixir. I don't recommend it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20660260
UWP is WPF done right. You were right about the problem with WPF. The other problem was that it was very different from WinForms. But WinForms was also fundamentally broken, in a way that didn't appear until you had to make anything larger than a basic calculator app. UWP fixed all of that. If you take the time to learn it, it makes a lot of sense.
Letting them all fail would do more harm to others than warranted.

But letting the weakest one fail as a warning to the others that the bailouts are over and perhaps they should learn to save against rainy days isn't the worst idea.
In places where health care systems are overwhelmed, medical personnel are having to choose to who let in to the ICU, and they've been choosing to let in those most likely to survive, which tend to be young people.

In such a situation, old people are going to effectively be left to die, and it'll be younger people who are more likely to survive (which they are anyway, simply by virtue of being young).

The only old people that are likely to benefit are those who manage to live long enough in isolation to not get infected before a vaccine or effective treatment becomes widely available... which could take a long time.
See this for SF: https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/files/HealthOrderC19-07-%20...

There are similar orders for each county.

Edit: It actually says that going out for safe exercise is allowed.
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In some ways, it thematically works better
His tone was out of place but I don't see any xenophobia in his comment? Is it not ok to criticize China? China really did made huge mistakes early on. And there has been a lot of criticism towards the EU and the US too.
Wait until you see what Discord calls servers internally :) [0]

Jokes aside, I don't think there's anything about the term "server" that implies independence. I can think of many centralized access points that are called "servers" but aren't independent. Hell, even racks aren't necessarily independent.

I get what you're saying, but the term "server" can be pretty vaguely applied.

0: https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/resources/guild
People First: Wikimedia’s Response to Covid-19
The irony is that their entire business would not exist if it wasn't for Google developing and open sourcing Chromium, yet they seem hell-bent on destroying the very hand that feeds them.
Open/loose borders is far left policy everywhere. Most countries are far stricter with borders than the US.