skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was right. He was right before the pandemic and he’s even more right now. Whenever this ends, it’s going create even more incentive for employers to automate. Some of these jobs are going to disappear over the next few weeks and they may never come back.
Ask HN: Has the source of SARS-CoV-2 already been identified?
See the following paper on the original SARS: http://159.226.126.127:8082/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=f9a31c29-b814-4c33-9b75-9de6fa07079d&groupId=55577

LI, Wendong, et al. Bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses. Science, 2005, 310. Jg., Nr. 5748, S. 676-679.
I was pleasantly surprised that my therapist (60+ years old) is now using it with his clients because of the coronavirus.
Australia is doing pretty damn well. The pay there is fantastic, and it's one of the few countries where you can work any honest job and still get paid well (I can attest that this is not the case in the U.S.). Many foreigners flock there in large part for this reason. 1 month+ vacation, strong healthcare system, good benefits, etc. And remember their population is only 24.6 million.

I'd say having a higher standard of living is more important than being the "innovation engine of the world", however arbitrarily defined that is.
No writeup, but have published a 'serverless' Kindle dictionary using a similar method. This is for reading the Game of Thrones books to improve the x-ray feature. Instead of Gitbook it's just a Jekyll site with some Liquid templates to generate the files needed for Amazon's kindlegen program. Builds happen in Travis and it's hosted on Pages.

- https://github.com/wjdp/gotdict
- https://gotdict.wjdp.uk/
So do plenty of others? Last I checked, most supermarkets, electronic stores, clothes stores, etc, all have online shops. Oh and mind you, those shops usually have curated list of products, not scamy products imported from China and sold at massive markups and inflated with fake reviews...
> Use a dozen cheap foam panels to reduce unwanted room sound (placed closer to the vocals/instrument depending on situation). I tacked mine to a sheet of plywood so that it could be moved around.

This is a good suggestion. Acoustic panels can be made really cheaply and simply. Here's a couple of examples.

Old towels in a timber frame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pABvTWSxOes

Aluminum / Aluminium frames with foam or insulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qczNxoG8s6o

I like the first video because he does a bit of minimal testing with a tone generator. I'd be interested to see more testing, using more realistic frequencies, in a room.
True as this may be, it’s not the homeless people spreading this thing across national boarders. Here in Pennsylvania the initial confirmed cases all appeared in the five or six wealthiest counties first.
Corona is actually GOOD NEWS. I'm not kidding. What the world needs is a severe recession that stops flying, overconsumption, and overworking. The longer the recession lasts the better. It's the only thing that can effectively slow global warming. Climate change is a global threat, coronavirus could be a blessing in disguise.
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A bit of caveat, but do many people here still use Vagrant?
Yeah it seems to be a designer-virus, indeed; it's not CIA, I guess Chinese Intelligence, Russia wouldn't directly bother with this. -- Too thin Hollywood'esuqe story; which means designed, OK, I'm CIA and would know about this. Don't blame anyone else than the Chinese mu friends, I know Cia did not design this drug. Don't delete dang
Bronx School Gets Early Look at Remote Learning
Don't Block the Messenger
Two things we know with high confidence
How to Use Notebooks in 2020
It's a designer virus.
No surely a trickle down would work better?
For regulatory reasons, US drug list prices are completely detached from the actual price you end up paying (assuming you do a bit of research). See e.g. https://www.goodrx.com/hydroxychloroquine ($20 for 60x200mg)
Sandwhiches don't need to be maintained
The only real way to fix this in the U.S. is to allow rank-based voting, otherwise it is practically impossible for any third-party candidate to get elected.

So long as we have a two-party system, we will have dumbed down political policies pandering to the brainless masses with little room for innovative progressive ideas.
A better article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22599598
This has been disputed:

"This speculation about the safety of ACE-i or ARB treatment in relation to COVID-19 does not have a sound scientific basis or evidence to support it. Indeed, there is evidence from studies in animals suggesting that these medications might be rather protective against serious lung complications in patients with COVID-19 infection, but to date there is no data in humans.

The Council on Hypertension of the European Society of Cardiology wish to highlight the lack of any evidence supporting harmful effect of ACE-I and ARB in the context of the pandemic COVID-19 outbreak.

The Council on Hypertension strongly recommend that physicians and patients should continue treatment with their usual anti-hypertensive therapy because there is no clinical or scientific evidence to suggest that treatment with ACEi or ARBs should be discontinued because of the Covid-19 infection. " [1]

There are also the brilliant MedCram updates, where the issue of ace inhibitors et. al just happened to be discussed yesterday. In it he describes the mechanics of ACE-i and ARB treatment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZDVbqRhyM

[1] https://www.escardio.org/Councils/Council-on-Hypertension-(C...
Yeah, except anything that is not trivial ends up being write-only
I think what helps me the most is trying to focus as much as I can at what I can do and what's in area of my control.

For me, it's making sure I have followed the recommendations of health organisations in my country, making sure I get my work done and do what I do well every day, making sure I take care of my health, reaching out to my colleagues / friends if I need help or they need help.

But most of all, it's focus. I am training better focus via Headspace app and it's really helping.
Are you sure you’re not talking about Malarone? That’s the other anti-malaria drug which has very intense and emotional dreams as a side effect.
I remember when slicing means using the slice feature from Photoshop. Now slicing is just writing code and copying bits of css from Figma (or something similar). Ah the good old web where (almost) everything is an image :D
Make happy events at home and celebrate them.

- Learned to bake my first loaf of bread from scratch. Wife and I celebrate by eating some of the bread together.

- Germinating my seeds in seed trays for the first time. Food stuffs like corn and bell pepper plants, in addition to flowers. Taking pictures every day as the corn and red cabbage sprouts.

- Playing with our dog extra, since he is depressed I'm home and ignore him for most of the morning and afternoon to WFH.
It's a white lie by the media. If they told the truth to the public then they fear it would deprive hospitals of masks and cause worse outcomes for society.
Well everyone gets the common cold!
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We're arguing about a couple of days here. All the information they had in January was widely distributed and available to medical professionals worldwide. They were advising aggressive containment and isolation methods in the first declaration of the international emergency.

Really, this is the level we're sinking to? The first death in India was on 12 March. The Thai case was not Coronavirus according to the hospital that treated her, she was tested negative and had been in India since November [0]. If you're aware of the case, surely you must know this?

[0]https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2020/01/28/no-chance-thai-...
I'd love to see the results of that call next Thursday
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22588367
Why tech markets are winner-take-all
If you were an alien on a spaceship watching us from orbit - sure. But once things start affecting you it just becomes grim reality. Personally I'm stressed as balls because my mum runs a few retail shops and if the situation doesn't improve rapidly she will literally face bankrupcy. It's hard for me to look at it and say "hey, it's great because it stops overconsumption!". And that's not even considering that she or anyone else I know might get ill and I won't be able to go home because all flights to my home country have been cancelled and the borders closed so even if I had to I have extremely limited options for getting home.

Like, I agree with you in principle - but as a human being, I think your opinion in extremely priviledged and something you can only say sitting behind a computer screen shielded from real life.
Well if that's what the experiment shows, that people don't need to go to school all the time for 13 years, that's useful in decision making as well.

There's no arguing that observing this will be useful to science though.

I thought the same about middle school. Total waste of time, I could have done high school right after primary school, which actually was useful.
If the last century has taught us anything, is that whatever comes after a severe recession is not something that one should be wishing for.
There is hope that now politicians will face real pressure from their voters to get Internet regulated as utilities and to properly fund its build-out.
That may be the good news, but the bad news is that a lot of people will run out of money for basic necessities like food and shelter. It might have been different if every country had evolved to allow people to survive economically during recessions with something like a basic income but that's generally not the case.
The Good and Bad News of a Coronavirus Pandemic Model
Or as a "one-armed router" with the use of a VLAN capable switch.
Pet cats that have boxes at home are more friendly and interactive than others
I try to search for news myself, otherwise it will just feel that we are living the reality of one of those doomsday movies.

Which might be true, but going crazy won't fix it.
I am notorious tab hoarder (100+ tabs in Firefox open right now).

I have decided that now is a good time to go through all those pre-pandemic tabs. This limits my exposure to covid news and allows me to stay sane.
> Bush senior that is, initiative announced 1989

That seems like a disingenuous comparison given how much control a President has vs a CEO in this context. Bush Sr. had less than four years.

This isn’t meant to bash Musk, just to point out the somewhat unfair comparison. I actually think entities like SpaceX are necessary to combat the political risk inherent in administration turnover
Not just the WHO and major governments. Remember the whole wave of "worry about the flu, not the coronavirus" articles, some of which outright said that people were irrational for worrying about it? The press haven't got better since either, they've just changed the narrative they're misleading people towards.
Yeah, until your parents die and your kid aswell because the IC is overloaded.
I'm not at Microsoft anymore but I was there when Skype got acquired and I had a bunch of friends who worked on it.

You have to understand that the technology underlying Skype at the time was very brittle and poorly designed.

Google almost bought Skype before Microsoft did and backed out after they got a look at the code.

When Microsoft acquired it Skype was routing its traffic over port 80 for example.
Really I feel competition with Gitlab which is pushing Github to do things like Actions that they should have done for a long time.
Tony Stark then snaps his fingers...
Enjoy themselves.
A decade ago my country was hammered by the financial crisis. I made the decision to stop actively seeking out the latest news, apart from skimming HN or Reddit and seeing headlines by accident since it was all negative, negative, negative stuff for several years in a row. I don't stress about events as much as people around me, and it doesn't negatively affect my life in any way, in fact it probably improves my mental health. I don't watch TV apart from sport, and don't seek out information online apart from my hobbies and interests. I don't actively use FB or Twitter either.
One day we will look at all the homelessness and blatant poverty in our society we allow in absolute disgust, similar to the repulsion people feel about slavery.

UBI isn't just about liberty and accelerating ourselves forward (though it's also about that), it's a statement that no matter how dire your circumstances, no matter how useless you are seen to our corporate overlords and private employers, that you belong to society, you are deserving of a modest respectable standard of living, and you are entitled to some of the proceeds of the wealth generated by the land with which you've been excluded.
Worth noting that the crisis that provoked the removal of Chamberlain, the disastrous Narvik campaign in Norway, was actually caused by Churchill!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/churchills-un...
Exactly. This is akin to the argument that we shouldn't further nationalize healthcare because "do you really want some government beaurocrat making healthcare decisions for you?"

Compared to the current system where some combination of the numbers in your bank account and am insurance company beaurocrat are making the decision? Yes.
I was surprised to hear from a struggling mother of two that Charter of all companies was offering free 60 days of Internet. That should let her kids keep up with online school.
Open source and1B home tests per day [help needed: analytical chemists]
Goal: open source design of Corona virus home test kits.

This would allow any chem eng / bio production facility in the world to turn themselves into home test manufacturing factories.
When a new strain emerges tomorrow or in 2 months, all the herd immunity will be for naught. We need to stop that spreading and stop the initial strain spreading.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/diybio/714Hk2Ekdo0
or tl; dr:

* know someone high level in Qiagen, Roche, Thermofisher and can coerce them to open source their RNA extraction kits? Please contact them.
* analytical chemist with a mass spec ready to reverse engineer?

Please let me know. Thanks!

AJP

p.s. first HN post, be gentle! ;)
A good way to think of this is a git checkout from anywhere . And then all future commits happen in a branch / detached head state, not affecting the place you checked out from i.e. original timeline.
just curious, why even release it as an app if the web version is good enough?
I think it's important to remember that IE6 was an amazing browser when it was first released.

The problem is that it was left to stagnate after Microsoft won.
Let's talk in a year when 60%-80% of the population will have been infected and millions will have died. Maybe you have no one you love who is in the high risk group, but I do.
> My primary concern with UBI is not the concept itself, but the risk for people in power to use it against the people.

It's not a question of 'if' but 'when'. You can learn quite a bit from India's insane "reservation" policy where more than half of all opportunities (and in some cases > 80%) are 'allocated' to certain 'backward classes'. Never mind that these 'backward classes' dominate politics of the country, and are often quite rich (the 'creamy layer' in India is about $20k, in a country with per-capita GDP of 1/10 that).

The supposedly 'conspiratorial all-controlling' Brahmins are but scapegoats (like the Jews) in a propaganda story that only dates back to the British times (see Nicholas Dirks). It's depressing that the supposed 'liberal' Western media is creating a situation which very well might lead to widespread genocide and pogroms in India (this has happened before), like in Rwanda, Germany and elsewhere. The grand Hindu temples and all its wealth has already been looted by these supposed 'backward classes'; I wonder what else they'll come for next.
> Microsoft bought Github, then NPM... and the community is celebrating both of those things??

I don't think you could honestly say the community celebrated both of those things.
In case you are looking only for a web app you can check out this open source starter - https://github.com/hasura/gatsby-gitbook-starter (Made using Gatsby and MDX).

You can write markdown with added benefits of React components and this Gatsby starter will render a GitBook theme documentation site. Self host using Docker or build the static bundle and deploy to Netlify :)

Disclaimer: I maintain this starter.
I suppose it might be possible to get 'ahead of the curve' by having a confirmed infected person sneeze directly in your face, but yeah, it would royally suck to end up needing an ICU in a week or two from now. Doesn't seem worth the risk.
Isn't using port 80 a trick to avoid being blocked by firewalls?
Self-isolation is feeding my Warhammer addiction
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51873799
That is not actually a refutation.
Periodic recessions are not really a sustainable solution for environment. The industry will try to catch up and recuperate losses and we'll be where we've started. Plus the investment in green tech will be less of priority in following months.

The one good thing that comes out will be improvements in home office and home education culture. Better tools, more online materials, wider acceptance.
Pandemics Are Also an Urban Planning Problem
Keep a routine. Get up, exercise, work, read, etc. Stay busy and try not to let your imagination get the best of you.
Every time things are nationalized, people eventually clamor for privatization. Govts can rarely run corporations.
> So if someone with no immune system dies of Covid-19 can you reasonably say Coronavirus killed them?

Yes, especially if those persons were walking freely and minding about their own lives just a week or two before, as is the case with the majority of the people that have died in Italy because of covid. I highly suspect that only a small fraction of those that died were days or weeks away from dying of other causes. To put things into perspective, from somewhere that I just read now reguarding the situation in Bergamo:

> In Bergamo, normally, about 3/4 people die every day.

> Only yesterday 50 died. 50 deaths in a single day, in a city where 3 usually die.

Bergamo is one of the best developed cities in Northern Italy and as such one of the best developed in Western Europe, I fail to see how the Germans are very different.
Is this the same malaria drug that can cause depression and lead to suicidal thoughts?
Sometimes it's good to remind yourself that HN comment threads are not written by single person and the opinions are not those of a single entity. Different posts attract different cross-sections of users which lead the discussion in various directions. In my experience it's not that uncommon to see completely different threads on similar posts here.
Especially in our time now when the relative cost of these things is so low. And worse even still is the atrocious conditions in jails and prisons in the U.S. wherein we often end up depositing people who need not be there if simply supplied necessities at a much lower cost without incarceration.
Leaning on friends, talking about my issues. Being open about my problems to management. And being OK (as in accepting) that I am not doing OK (as in not doing very well).

A lot of my friends also have free time. So a lot of doing stuff together remotely. Some of doing stuff together physically in small groups. And mostly, just a lot more contact with people on WhatsApp.

I read some advice that said, only check the news on e.g. 2 set moments in the day. I am trying to follow that.
As for anxiety about how this is going to play out, I have accepted that things will be touch for a while. But I have faith that, here in the Netherlands at least, society will survive. And I have enough buffers (financial and supply wise) that I believe I am setup well enough that I can last longer than most. Hence, I think drastic measures will be taken to protect most people before I really start feeling the pinch.

My advice to you: stay in contact with people. Be open about your anxiety to them. Don't be an alarmist to your friends if you can help it.

As for work, I just sent them an e-mail saying "I ain't doing very well" with an implicit 'deal with it' in there.
I've seen realistic figures for my country on UBI and from what I've seen UBI at a realistic level does not seem to be affordable. It's insanely expensive. Moreover, without massive changes elsewhere in society, UBI would decrease social mobility and lead to a two-class society that keeps the poor even poorer than now.

I'd rather see reasonable minimum wages, and higher taxes that are spent on universal health care, free education and social welfare in the usual Prioritarian way, though with very loose conditions on eligible recipients. Make it the least bureaucratic possible and the most friendly to side jobs and transitioning to self-sustenance as possible, and it will works optimally. The current systems in most countries are horrible, because they are designed to punish people who are creative and try to make money on the side - they are based on the stupid and outdated idea that you're either a successful entrepreneur, or an employee, or get social welfare. In reality, the system should allow anyone to transition between those three roles with ease, as it fits best in the current situation, and without being bogged down by existential sorrows all the time.
Just got it from Bloomberg related email, so it is getting noticed...
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That and Medicaid, which covers a significant portion of America already.
I'm an NFL person...
I worried a lot. Did the Amazon guy cough on my deliver? Why is my neighbor’s kid knocking on my door?

To solve this, I smoked a lot of weed. I’m out of weed now. Guess I should try to get some work done.
You have a valid point; however the point I had been trying to make was more along the lines of “Musk isn’t particularly bad even when he doesn’t meet his own goals; the goals are really hard”.
What is more "essential", the job doing the essential work or the job creating the conditions that makes others do the essential work?
People carry it for up to five weeks.
Merriam Webster:

book noun
\ ˈbu̇k \

Definition of book (Entry 1 of 3)
1a: a set of written sheets of skin or paper or tablets of wood or ivory
b: a set of written, printed, or blank sheets bound together between a front and back cover
an address book
c: a long written or printed literary composition
reading a good book
reference books
hardcover and paperback books
d: a major division of a treatise or literary work
the books of the Bible
eaccounting : a record of a business's financial transactions or financial condition —often used in plural
the books show a profit
f: MAGAZINE sense 1a
g: E-BOOK

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Cambridge Dictionary:

book
noun
UK /bʊk/ US /bʊk/

A1 [ C ]
a written text that can be published in printed or electronic form:

[...]

You're entitled to have your own rigid definition if you wish, but it's pretty silly to go in a public forum and try to browbeat others with it.
Proposed, yes, but you can't buy it yet. Also, the cheaper tests so far are all antibody tests, not the more accurate RNA tests that everyone is clamoring for. Antibody tests don't work until you have had the infection for a while.
NIH clinical trial of investigational vaccine for Covid-19 begins
My thoughts as well. I've been at Skype when it was still running semi autonomously, when I left we were part of the office organization.
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This "herd immunity" strategy is just a sophisticated form of denial. UK announced it on Thursday and abandoned it the following Monday.

It doesn't take into account the high hospitalisation rate and the fact that mortality is a function of hospital stress.
Minor detail, but why 12 people plus 108 collaborators - is there some significance to these numbers I'm unaware of?