skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cannabis is an effective way to accelerate the perceived passage of time when you're stuck alone at home for months.

Accelerate? Maybe medical marijuana is different, but my non-medical experience was of time seeming to stretch out forever, not to speed by.
> 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.

Apple needs a development environment for its own in-house OS developers to use. macOS needs to have the necessary facilities to support its own development, and also the development of iOS. So long as Apple uses macOS as its OS development platform, it is going to want to keep the UNIX components to satisfy the needs of its own OS developers.
Alone removing perl would massively suck because many shellscript installers depend on some form of perl being present on the system, partially to avoid the differences between GNU/Linux userland (sed!) and OS X userland.
Do those stats count all detections where the patient died, or all deaths where the cause of death was determined to be cancer? I can imagine in the USA someone who can’t afford treatment might end up committing suicide, thereby artificially lowering the cancer rate and the deaths from cancer statistic.

Remembering that different countries have different definitions for, say, infant mortality (eg: difference of opinion as to what counts as a live birth, meaning that some countries report lower infant mortality but higher perinatal mortality)
Maybe in some countries. But it's a big world.
Are you running your own IRC servers or using something like freenode? If the prior, your comparison is moot because there's plenty of other centralized self-hosted options that would work the fine (eg mattermost/rocketchat). Otherwise, many public IRC servers would experience a netsplit in these cases making them basically useless.
Same in LA. I got through by checking in at midnight. Took 4 days to get groceries, but almost everything showed up (like 57/59 items)
Okay lets see if anybody else has a suggestion
I doubt they'd do anything to break Macs for developers because that's one of the big market segments for Macs. It'd be like removing emojis from the iPhone. :)
> one of the reasons to keep your engine bay clean isn't for it to look pretty, but so that problems (esp. leaking fluid or oil) are more obvious

That's a very good point. But, in my case, I would counter it with the fact that the car had a brake fluid change performed and that they inspected the braking system as part of the inspection process (hence how they determined the rear rotors would not pass inspection).

An essential part of a brake system inspection is to check if there are any leaks by examining the brake fluid reservoir, master cylinder, brake lines, and calipers. I would understand if they missed a power steering fluid leak or a coolant leak since they weren't directly dealing with those systems as part of the service I paid them for, but they should have definitely spotted that leak before giving me the keys.
It wouldn’t be much per person for living alone but it would save families if it were really per person. A family of four would get 4000 per month, which for me would cover all family expenses.
I’d assume you could keep installing utility scale solar and wind while practicing social distancing, at least in my experience of installing ground racking, panels, wiring, inverters, etc.
I agree, no one that knows that they are talking about expects persistent immunity; the number I’ve heard floating about is along the lines of six months’ immunity after recovering from the illness. I’m not clear on whether the article is written with that definition of immunity or not (and based off its suggestion that this would prevent a second wave next year, etc, I’m assuming not) but I assumed it was questioning whether even six months of immunity was on the table.
Surely people then resist going to the hospital when they need to because its going to financially cripple them?

Like if you are rich enough to not qualify for medicaid, but not rich enough to have good insurance?

"So I have a deep cough and a bad fever but I will just ride this out. I'll be fine".. And that's exactly how the Corona virus manifests, like a bad cold that just keeps getting worse.
You don't need Azure to use any part of .NET - and VSCode, Github, etc., stretch beyond both.
Can someone explain exactly who this targets?

Outside of Microsoft (including Office), who actually develops native windows apps which would use this any more?

- Things like games or steam don't use native+OS-specific UI.
- Internal company software (including finance, etc) seems to always be web-based.
- Tools like slack, etc all seem to be Electron.

Any "off-the-shelf app" will probably want something that's cross platform -- I don't think anyone targets "windows only" any more, right?
You have listed challenges faced by autistic individuals.

We should not confuse them with Elon Musk's character flaws. He is wealthy enough to employ people to catch mistakes. That he does not reveals a character flaw.
ha, yeah thanks!

If you aren't familiar with the original song she's covering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eimgRedLkkU
As of tonight in France, the governement just forbad citizen to go outside FOR WHATEVER REASON unless you have an authorization delivered by the prime minister site for : 1) essential work that cannot be done remotly, 2) essential shopping and 3) walking / jogging alone to not get mad and stay healthy. For now, nobody really know anything about this authorization whose details will be available in the following hours.
Hi, kind author :-)

microk8s is really cool! We wanted kind for development of kubernetes itself and I don't think microk8s was around at the time.

One difference besides being able to build & run arbitrary Kubernetes versions is being able to run on mac, windows, and Linux instead of only where snap is supported.

We're paying more attention to local development of applications now, expect some major improvements soon :-)
My gigabit home internet was consistently up/down at 890-920mbps but since the outbreak it is only at 490-510mbps. :(
Thanks. Although the author is not an expert and he kind of lost me when he used normal distribution to model the curve, it still looks like the right ballpark. That's a lot.
Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions to reduce Covid-19 mortality
Even with dividends reinvested the Nikkei's return over the past 30 years is negative.
And looking for TP and other paper products.
Retrofits, yes. But that newer 201x BMW with the roof rack, body kit and euro plate illuminating the damn treetops along the highway at night is running with high beams on. It's just shitty car culture attention whoring.
The fear is unification of iOS and macOS, which Apple has hinted at occasionally. macOS doesn't need to disappear completely for many fears to be realized. The more application APIs are unified, for example, the more pressure there becomes for macOS to deprecate and let stagnate its POSIX interfaces. And you don't need the POSIX interfaces to disappear completely for the environment to cease being targetable by most open source projects, especially command-line projects. Windows has a significant number of POSIX APIs stemming from Windows NT 4.0 POSIX compliance, but it's just not a practical Unix target based on that subset alone.
Yes, the "q" is often used instead of "real-time" to avoid confusion with RT, which can also be "reverse transcriptase". RT in these cases is the enzyme that converts RNA to DNA.
Yep. Every "steepest annual contraction" has been followed by eventual greater oil use because consumption/production is just shifted to the future. The buildings not being built today, the movies not seen this week, the vacation not taken this month, etc are just moved to sometime in the future. In other words, consumption/production isn't being ended, it's simply being delayed.
Really neat article. The part about promoting your music seems really hard. I have 0 knowledge about music industry but I've heard there are some sites like Submithub that promote your music to blogs for a small fee. Maybe you can try that. A few reviews from music blogger can help you get more fans.
Germany ordered 10k from Drägerwerk:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-draege...

If your country doesn't have a local manufacturer for these things, it seems you are kinda out of luck.
It's not nihilistic at all. It's just human nature proven time and time again over history. Us vs them is a core concept of human society. That's why it's so heartwarming when we see stories of people making major sacrifices for people that aren't part of their family/community.
This shouldn't happen, can you please file a bug with more more information about your environment and specific usage?

I run kind in the minimum docker for mac spec which is one core / 1gb and it performs just fine. We've worked hard to make it lightweight, including a KEP upstream for slimming down the binaries.
Yes, sorry, what I meant was that the lockdown was likely going into effect already, but not for completely apocalyptic reasons.
>Full disclosure: I've been short term short the market for the last three weeks

You hit the exact peak of the market before deciding to short? Wow. Can you share with us your prognostications on just how "short-term" you expect this to be, or will you update us with hindsight on that, too?

"I've been short the market" after a 30% draw-down is the new version of all prisoners claiming they're innocent. It's never "I started to get defensive 6 months ago" or "I went to half cash expecting a crash near-term". Top tick and went short. Every forum, every time.

This is where /r/wallstreetbets has it right: if you aren't going to post your trade in advance or verify it, don't talk about it.
You should really check your tone as well. This is good advice.
filter bubble intensifies

This is very bad, concerning, in pretty serious ways.

One man's toxic is another's manure.

The point of having the tools of any basic grown up, as I was taught from a pre teen age, is to know how to discard things that are problematic.

Letting an algorithm do it is the end of days. For reasons too obvious

This is so on point as a concept that I initially thought it satire
actually we run containerd and I think you will find it is comparatively lightweight and fast compared to most options :-)

it's certainly heavier than _not_ using Kubernetes
in so many ways
> Most of my work these days is below 30kV,

Oh. Good. "Most".

I figured 2kv/mm back when, using scavenged neon sign transformers and coat hangers for probes. The graph in the article is enlightening.

That i survived making and living with bare wire Jacob's Ladders says something about my teenage years. To this day I cant decide if it says something good or bad, however.

Further enlightenment: http://teslamania.delete.org/frames/longarc.htm
Don't have to be a big boy trader to do that. I'm up nearly 200% since last Monday just trading on Robinhood. yeah I didn't get my max returns due to their system being fucked a couple of time but I'm steady making money.
The general Western game plan right now seems to be: (1) shut down the whole nonessential part of the economy, (2) buy time to not overwhelm medical systems, (3) gradually turn the economy back on where safe.

For part (3) the general idea of "safe" has meant, allow people who are medically low-risk to return to the workplace and retail establishments. But we could see that could be expanded to also factor in carbon impact. In other words, we prioritize turning back on the low-carbon parts of the economy first, and maybe leave some high-carbon parts (international vacations) turned off or reduced for good.
If you're going to use terms like 'a lot' when dealing with financial topics it helps to offer real numbers backed up by sources so that comparisons can be made. It helps add specificity to points being discussed.

So now, when I say "Yes, but a lot of that difference is due to California's own policies forcing higher costs of living -> forcing higher wages -> pushing incomes into higher federal tax brackets...therefore it is actually California's fault that their citizens get creamed on taxes" we could have a meaningful discussion as to what degree California's policies have such effects, and what levers could be manipulated to alter those effects.

But sure, go with 'common knowledge' and remove any semblance of intellectualism in the discussion. Let's just make claims like we're on Reddit.

> Do you not know how the US federal income tax system works?

I do. I'm very aware that there is a substantial systemic interplay between economic conditions within a state and the downwind effects it has on the cost of living, taxation, and quality of life for citizens in that state.

The interplay of the various systems at work is definitively not within the realm of 'common knowledge' even if this forum's demographics show higher than average education.
Honest question - should taxes be abolished?
Ask HN: Video conferencing that works with group singing?
Hello. Could you recommend any video conferencing services that would work with group singing?

I work with two organizations that use video conferencing apps for online classes. During these online classes, the participants sing together (10-20 people). The problem we're having is that the voices are out of sync. I assume this is because of the different latency participants have with the server.

We have tried zoom.us, webex, hangouts, skype-- same problem across all apps (out of sync singing).

I don't know enough about video conferencing technology to know what to look for in terms of features. Perhaps a service that lets me adjust the latency of each participant manually? Or a service that dynamically adjusts for latency in a way that makes in-sync group singing possible?

Any help the HN community could provide is much appreciated!
There's likely to be massive job loss either way. At least this way there's a chance to keep our health care system from being overwhelmed as well.

Either way, we may be looking at an economic depression the likes of which hasn't been seen for a hundred years.

Unfortunately, the current government is very unlikely to offer a New Deal to get us out of it, and it remains to be seen what the voters who survive this pandemic will do about it.
Although they seem to be more interested in keeping the bare minimum around versus making it easier for development, since there isn't a brew-esque thing built in (Windows at least has NuGet, albeit just like everything else in PowerShell, it's super unfriendly), the coreutils are old (this may be a licensing thing), and no Darwin containerization (which would be handy for development without having to give 2GB to Docker Desktop to get a Linux userland up).

It's still fine (my only major showstopper being that valgrind just straight up isn't a thing for recent versions of OS X, with the brew version not compiling on 10.15 or 10.14), but they definitely have enough resources to make it, you know, "just work". which hurts especially when Microsoft is going full "developers developers developers"
A buyback is a form of capital return to shareholders.

Improvements in leg room, amenities, services, infrastructure, etc, are a form of capital return to customers.

When executive compensation is tied to operating profit or market capitalization, there is an incentive to reduce the product quality (the air traveler experience, in this case) to the minimum competitive level and boost the share price. A buyback boosts the share price in two inter-related ways. First, it reduces the amount of shares available in the secondary market (the "float"), which distributes the market cap across a smaller number of shares. Second, it provides artificial demand for the stock, impacting the price upward by buying shares.

Warren Buffett has stated that he likes investing in equities in part because companies reinvest their profits in their business. A buyback doesn't do that because when you spend $5B on your own stock, you're not spending it on providing a better experience to your customers, and you're not spending it on R&D. You're just spending it on concentrating shareholder ownership and driving up the stock price.

Guess who often gets paid in shares? Executives. It's common for a CEO to get a small portion of his compensation as salary and a large portion as shares and options.

The point is that these companies could have reinvested that money in their business, but instead they aimed to boost share price and financial optics.

That's not to say the airlines don't care about the little guy. Some shareholders are regular folks. Plus, at least Delta paid out a bonus to employees a few months ago. But there is indeed a reason to dislike large buybacks.
There's no stopping anyone from getting the primers (small pieces of DNA) and doing a qPCR yourself. You'll also need reverse transcriptase (the RT, converts RNA->DNA) and a way to purify RNA from a mix of cells/spit/junk. These are all relatively inexpensive, standard molecular biology reagents. There are some shortages of RNA extraction kits, but a good molecular biologist can do without one.

What you might be missing is consistency, which is what the medical system is worried about. You want to avoid false negatives AND false positives when it really counts. Getting that consistency is where the regulations come in. Nowadays I think it's appropriate to relax them a little in the interest of the emergency.
The article is interesting but it seems to be just a mathematical model rather than a biological study actually finding and studying people who had undocumented infections.

I know they have found people like that but I'd still be leery about going from data to a pronouncement since I assume the data just isn't extensive or reliable.
The WinUI project templates[1] have had about "600 installs".

Tells you everything you need to know about how excited Windows developers are about yet-another half-baked UI framework that will likely never get critical, required features before it is abandoned.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Microsof...
Smart message, hopefully it is received at the cell phone companies. I noticed TMobile is going to give everyone unlimited internet for a couple months whether you have that plan or not - but they didn't say if they were going to avoid shutoff's for no pay.
Are you aware of what Oracle is doing to its customers right now?
Congress just had to add a ton of exemptions to a bill to guarantee paid sick leave for CORVID, making it meaningless for a vast majority of americans, because of republican pushback. Never underestimate the greed and corruption baked into the influence channels in the USA.
> Everything I have looked for to stock up on from them due to the current conditions (alcohol wipes, nonperishable food, etc) is sold out.

Do you have any idea what the full industrial capacity of the American economy is? These type of basic items are all dead-simple to manufacture, and highly unlikely to run into supply-chain interruptions.

I guarantee you that once Americans get the full on prepping instinct out of their system, the inventories will all be replenished by next week at the latest. This isn't the collapse of industrial civilization. The factories are churning at 100% capacity.

People won't keep stockpiling six months of toilet paper every single week. There's virtually zero chance that there's any significant supply interruption beyond a few days.
Just in case anyone gets drawn into this, all the above is not based on any evidence. The poster has literally made up a ‘protocol’ that sounds right.

Chloroquine is under current investigation (ie results not yet in, and certainly not a treatment protocol) and zinc has been shown in some cases to maybe improve some aspect of illness, it’s far from proven.

The rest of what they said is at best speculation/conjecture.
Interesting paradox created here, as Homebrew is written in Ruby...
Agreed. It was profitable before, (no indication they sold at a loss), it will probably be profitable after for MS.

"2fa" sounds bad. That is clearly marketing bs for linking your npm account to a MS account with more personal info attached.

Ease of publishing will be the first thing to go.

Then the fun will disappear with MS as owner, like when Oracle bought Java.

Happy to be a rustacean.
Well the big ones are hosted by commercial enterprises, and the smaller ones don't have the scale of JavaScript so they don't require that level of support.
> Github not providing reasoning is also unfair, but seems to be standard practice among corporations

There is absolutely no normative contribution to such practice being common. It is entirely unacceptable. GitHub is a public good, even if technically it's owned by a private corporation.

GitHub shouldn't "prioritize the author's case" - it should not remove people automatically this way. See my other, independent comment.
Filesystem-oriented flags: sad, messy and not going away
If you're always agreeable and self-sacrificing, you'll be taken advantage of by malicious actors. And it's not always easy to figure out whether the other person is actively trying to take advantage of you or not.
We've essentially implemented the Green New Deal.
Bezos shouldn't be taxed because his company is offering a service people are using?
Spanish flu didn’t impact elderly nearly as much nor, at the time, was the government so elderly on average. The death rates for those in their 60s and above seem to be much greater than those younger
It's currently very difficult to move equipment and expertise from where it is to where you need it for the project. So far the biggest problem for us has been getting panels and inverters from China to site, but it's now shifting to being more of an issue around continuing operations here as the virus escalates. It's highly likely this will delay solar and wind projects in the construction and planning phases.

The other interesting angle is what will happen to electricity emissions as demand drops, it should increase the market share of renewables as the highest cost generators drop out first.
In theory the best organization to handle this is the US Government, no charitable organization could hope to cover the costs of lost wages - though Bezos might be able to float everyone for a while if he decided to act personally.
Do you assume full recovery?
Yeah, that CDC page is one of the best resources I’ve seen. Explains everyone great detail.

I didn’t mean to make it sound like it happens naturally. I imagine it probably only happens through human intervention. It just says ” The duration and severity of each phase can vary depending on the characteristics of the virus and the public health response.

So, as we are entering the early stages, the public health response in the US right now is massive. Unlike anything most of us have seen in our lifetime. Except for the west coast, NYC, and a few others, the spread so far is still very low. Knowing that, and now seeing China enter deceleration, gives me hope we will minimize the duration and severity of the outbreak.

But on the other hand, I am more worried about the economic fallout. The aggressive response with isolation & canceling events, may be necessary, but it will cause many businesses to fail and many folks to lose their jobs.
No true Scotsman?

How about changing the measure of “no amount of money” because there will always be some amount of money sufficient to get you the healthcare you need — in some cases that will mean flying you out to a different country, in others it means flying a medical team and equipment to you.

When a simple drug like insulin costs $1000/vial versus the $10 everywhere else, and simply setting a broken leg can set you back $30k where everywhere else that procedure costs $300, it’s clear that there are certain levels of “having money” that are insufficient to afford health care. There’s a huge problem of accessibility hidden behind employer provided health insurance.
How does blinding the other driver in retaliation mitigate it?