skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found out I am more productive from home, even with kids that disturb. Partly it is due to interruptions in office being more frequent then kids.

Partly it is because some high level members of our team already worked from home, so we already have processes and habits adjusted to that. We already have the habit to just call about every small thing that you would normally say in the office.

Partly because work from home is more intensive, as in, I feel more bad when I am wasting time.
It's at least (apparently) easy to produce and abundantly available in other countries. The medical system status quo is a challenge, but not having to stand up an entirely new production line is a big plus here.
Wow. So powerful; much sharing. Will you be doing anything with puppy imagery - it would suit my brand. Very thankyou.
Non-lts is a risk because if something crops up that prevents upgrade then you are very quickly out of support, which also sort of forces you to actively keep up with and test beta versions. In comparison the LTS versions have plenty of overlap so you have good time to resolve any issues that might come up, and you have had three years to test with the intermediary versions so its less likely that there will be any big surprises.
Feeling at Home: Between Human and AI
At the beginning of the crisis I was under the same impression and hoped for the government to provide masks here in Europe. Then, I learned some aspects I can‘t fully verify, but that changed my thinking about everyone using masks:

Masks give a false sense of protection for ordinary people without education about the correct usage. Most of the masks are used wrong and they do not protect eyes (which are touched frequently) nor hands (you‘d need to wear gloves as well, but putting them off without potential cross-infection is even more complicate for untrained people). Masks need to be changed frequently (else they even collect more potential infected material), used masks need to be disposed safely. According to some experts, using a mask in the wrong way and too long even makes it more likely to get infected. As others have pointed out, masks can lead to touching your face more often if the mask feels uncomfortable. And there are simply not enough masks available and the current production is needed for medical staff. And have a look at videos from China and SG: Most people do not use FFP3 / N95 rated masks but simpler ones not really giving full protection for COVID-19.

All that changed my view as masks for everybody. Of course, you should definitely use a mask during every human contact if you have symptoms or are worried you could be infected yourself.
No, it is a relative to the drug. Although from what I understand is that they behave similarly. Someone posted a link to this useful video yesterday, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7F1cnWup9M

edit: typo
We could turn all these empty hotel rooms into ICU beds if we upgrade to negative pressure ventilation, and we could turn all these empty restaurants into community testing and supply distribution centers staffed by the laid off employees paid for with federal helicopter-drop funds. Think New Deal-level changes.
Judging by the technical specifications on https://remarkable.com/ it seems not to have a microsd card or much in the way of onboard storage. I wonder if the device can recognize a storage device attached to the usb-c port.

The writing experience, battery life and hackability are very appealing to me, but it also looks like it's not as good a reading device as high end readers, where really good lighting and water resistance are common. It's also slightly big for me. The size would be great for academic pdfs, or reference works but for normal books, or even for normal note taking (rather than sketching) it's a little on the large side. Maybe if it had less bezel, the size could be closer to best of both.

I don't mind it having a high price point, but I hoped that it would compete with high-price point e-readers (kobo forma / kindle oasis) too.
Chloroquine is a common anti-malarial and can be purchased OTC in much of Latin America.
People staying home don't just protect themselves; the more distancing is done by everyone, the better the outlook. I do agree with you that it's possible extreme lockdown measures won't have to last more than a month or two, but we really don't know at this point. Over the coming weeks we will continue to learn more about the virus and how it spreads, and testing infrastructure will continue to scale up. If the distancing measures work to get control of the outbreaks, and this can be confirmed through more extensive testing, then it should be possible to ease up and to try to find a balance between minimizing risk of spread and maintaining daily activities. Until an effective treatment/vaccine is found though, there is likely to be some level of continuing disruption.
There was no rapid response. The military and others routinely broke containment due to the war cause. Allowing the virus to spread.
even for P2P, WebRTC most often still requires outside servers for STUN/TURN, because everyone's behind a NAT of firewall.
And why should they do otherwise? They're bailed out every time things go south.
SS: This is the webserver for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22600998

It's really a POC so no guarantees on stability and security of the server, but highlights how cool handshake can be when used as a decentralized identity solution to create 'accountless' hosting possible!
It’s similar to the proposal in that not passing a replacement bill (“raise the debt ceiling” : “murder is illegal”) would have very obviously negative results.

The debt ceiling is a functional sunset clause on the ability of the US government to pay its bills.
> Well, you can go blind by overdosing it for a while ...

A "while" here means months, or even years. In fact, many people with Lupus or RA take this for years.
> A notice sent to WeWork shareholders Tuesday said that SoftBank believes regulatory probes into the startup’s business [...] give it an out under the deal struck last fall to purchase $3 billion of WeWork shares from existing investors.

> That will include Adam Neumann, former chief executive of WeWork parent We Co., who had the right to sell up to $970 million in stock as part of the October deal that led to his ouster from the company’s board.

Wow.
U.S. govt, tech industry discussing ways to use location data to combat Covid-19
I am most definitely a pedant, but this isn't an example of pedantry. This is an important distinction that has escaped a lot of people.
Server posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22610940
> I wish their web experience was improved on mobile. I have no interest in downloading apps of 90% of the websites I visit on my mobile browser.

Totally agree with you here. Lots of other sites link to GitHub and being pulled out of the browser and into a native app is just not a good user experience. I've uninstalled Facebook and Twitter the same reason, and I enjoy using the social sites a lot more now.
> I'm not installing a stupid app so Microsoft can collect data on me.

This is going far off topic, but I am currently consulting with a client that requested using Visual Studio Community Edition [2019] for the project. I was a month into development, when all of a sudden one morning, it was no longer possible to start Visual Studio. Why? Because I had not connected it to my Microsoft account, of course... I wonder how people put up with this..
Here's a jaw-dropping video of Hunter Shaffer typing >200wpm for 60 seconds despite not using "proper" technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GrOhwPryAs
Near the town of Moffat, in Scotland, not Moffat Federal Airfield (Naval Air Station) in Sunnyvale, CA.
The article is misleading. That's either unintentional or intentional.

Per Hanlon's razor, my first hypothesis is the former but we shouldn't rule out the latter. Proactively question good faith but don't proactively doubt it.

Calling out the article as misleading mitigates the damage it causes and thus exactly "contributes to understanding the topic."
Institut Pasteur is not the only research body in France regarding infectious diseases... They are directly linked to the Marseille University Hospital (AP-HM) and all the usual public research bodies like INSERM, CNRS.

If you want another source than connexion France, you have this article from Le Monde: https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2020/03/17/la-chloro...

Are you highly skeptical of Le Monde?
ZZT is great. Without it, we wouldn't have gotten MegaZeux. Both had really fun communities
Threatening to withhold medication during a pandemic that originated in China is beyond the pale. What precisely is the U.S. guilty of again?
This made me think of a joking short poem by Galileo Galilei, "Against the Donning of the Gown".*

A passage:

I now conclude, and turn to you, signior,
And force you to confess, against your will,
The Greatest Good will be all clothes to abhor.

Think, if you please, of happy times gone by and
Of times when malice and deceit were still unknown,
And things under the stars went hand in hand;

You will then see that, not only when alone,
But all the time, in rain and weather fair
Man went unclothed, both young and fully grown.

Nothing at all, no knickers did they wear,
So that, what good there was, but also what of bad,
Was well exposed, out in the open air.

* The translation is by Giovanni Bignami
They are being treated more favourably than any invaders ever have in any other country, culture, or time period. Until their peaceful deportation, they will probably receive better healthcare and other public services than many taxpaying Americans who fund it.
I find that while Musk appears to be more than competent on a number of things, his opinions and stances on many subjects are, to me, downright dumb.
And that's the problem. We need to find ways to solve the moral hazard, and also insure that economically necessary industries have necessary restrictions so that they can survive downturns.
Unsure why this was downvoted as the inspector general's findings in 2018 concurred:

"The Department of Homeland Security inspector general found expired food and dilapidated bathrooms during unannounced visits to four immigrant detention facilities in 2018, according to a report released Thursday."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/06/politics/ice-detention-center...
Obviously this means California should intervene even more on behalf of its gig workers. If earnings are forced to 0 then they can only go up afterwards!
> At the end of one of Harari's books he points out that nothing that we see today is natural or inevitable: that there are infinite outcomes for the way that humanity lives and organizes itself. Proof of this can be seen in how we've lived historically.

That's true, and a good point, but this was much more pointed: less "had humanity evolved differently, we could have been nicer people" and more "what seems like the inevitably market- and capitalism-focussed way of life that's all anyone has ever experienced was actually a creation of the '60's and after." (Sort of like the current geopolitics of the US, which seem eternal to those of us, like me, who came of political age when they were already fairly well established, but which have actually changed dramatically in the mere 250-ish years the US has been around to have geopolitics.)
OODA was developed for fluid environments, where strategy and tactics must constantly adapt to an uncertain world whose understanding is constantly being updated.

Video games don't work well with this model because in most video games a) information is perfect and b) results are deterministic. You don't have to update your understanding of the world constantly because your knowledge of the world is more or less complete.

In John Boyd's world, you couldn't "pre-compile" any decisions because he was working in the real world, not a game.
Amazon provides Corretto 8 maintenance until 2023 as well. It's been a drop in replacement for everything I've needed.

11 is the correct go-to version now. The small but high value language improvements definitely make it worthwhile.
> postponed/cancelled taxes

If a business loses 2-3 quarters of revenue/profit due to COVID-19, how will they "make it back" to payback their previously postponed taxes (from the quarter they made little to no money in)?
Keep in mind this is China clapping back at senior US administrations forwarding the Wuhan bioweapon theory and Pompeo insisting on referring to the virus as the "Wuhan / Chinese" virus in public statements. This is a dangerous (though not random) escalation. New generations of Chinese diplomats is embracing Trumpian style of propaganda, it's is a large deviation from their traditional messaging. People keep conveniently ignoring that the current US administration set the tenor for the Chinese confrontation and other diplomatic relationships. They'll condemn the lies, tone and disrespect when current admin deals with allies, but embrace it when it comes to China - and are surprised that like US allies, China will eventually assert themselves. At the end of the day, US sentiments is determined by US propaganda, China was never going to win Americans over. This display is for domestic Chinese audiences and seed doubt in other countries.

E: I don't agree with the new direction, but it's something different and not entirely unexpected after 4 years of aggressive US propaganda, things will only get worse unless Pompeo and Trump deescalates. Politiburo has ran out of patience like many US allies, except China is large enough that they can afford to speak their mind and retaliate rhetoric in kind. Keep in mind TPP and Pivot to Asia under Obama was explicitly designed to target China, but anti-Chinese sentiments and nationalism (on both sides) never got out of hand until Trump decided to weaponize it.
The results of the individual test might have limited use to the individual.

But the idea that the information won't be used is nonsense. It's invaluable for the overall response. We have only the vaguest of ideas how many people (in the U.S.) are infected. The more information we have about cases with few or no symptoms, the more we can understand the spread and take appropriate measures (that will also be more obviously justified, countering people who claim overreaction).

More accurate information about symptoms would also help individual people:

- help them understand that they can feel fine and still be getting other people sick

- help them have an accurate picture of contracting the disease, instead of leaving it to nightmares

There's no universe where having more information about the situation would not be better.
You're missing the point that patients receiving this treatment are considered in a terminal condition and are likely on life-support (that is the only situation you could give an unapproved drug to a patient).
Believe it or not, the US imposed sanctions targeting specifically to the rich. But the sad reality is that a lot of poor people are dependent on the rich to make their day to day living (food). So sanctions eventually affected poor people even if they are designed for the rich. For example, make it difficult for the rich to buy cars in the country by imposing sanctions? Too bad, the rich also buy cars to run their tax companies etc. and so the sanction has to be applied to those class of cars as well. Then what happens is the car prices are too expensive across the board and people have to import second-hand cars which costs more for maintenance and are MPG inefficient. Since the car prices are too high, there's no insurance to be had and once you get into an accident as a bus driver, your life can be ruined (meaning, you'll lose your job and career regardless of whether you are at fault or not). I have not even started about gas prices (because of the sanctions, the gas prices are much higher than they should be and people have to queue up in long lines to get their weekly quota--not to mention it creates black markets and dangerous consequences like occasional fires--thereby wasting productivity of everyone involved. I'm not giving you very good examples here, but one will understand how sanctions impact poor people the most only if one has lived in a country under sanction.

The quickest and most effective way to transform an authoritarian country for the better is to let the rich, the poor and the middle class have a taste of what quality living (to some extent, the capitalism) is like. Then their children will get proper education and things will automatically change for the better in a generation at most. I have seen that with the children of the rich and military/ruling class people in my home country; these younger generations are the ones who, using their parents' accumulated enormous wealth and influence, to make changes (some bad, some pretty decent) to copy what they've tasted in other, more developed countries.
Having some semblance of transportation is essential for alot of people in a way things like entertainment events or bar life is not.
A simple algorithm increases the throughput of standard COVID19 tests 10-fold
yes, you still need 'jq' for pretty print.
> far from every dining place offers take-outs.

I suspect this is going to start changing soon. High end takeaways will have to happen where restaurants would fail otherwise.
There's no scoping so it's really hard to know which bits of an app any CSS affects
Shadow dom and css modules say hi

really hard to find all the CSS that affects a particular part of an app
Devtools show which selector from which file affect which element.

It mixes styling (colours etc) with layout (flexbox).
Yes, why not? :)
The marketshare might not be great, but it's doing just fine technology-wise. No problem in "maintaining a working web browser" there.
Ah, good point. Pandemics make even ISPs and Trump seek to be seen to be acting in the public good. (But not Charter, and not hoarders.)
WebAssembly is not more closed of as normal minnified JavaScript.

Sure you could combine WebAssembly with some DRM thinks to close it off. But so can you do for normal JavaScript.

At the same time WebAssembly does open the web for more programming languages, more programs/use-cases (due to more close to hardware performance).

Lastly WebAssembly turned out to be very usefull for having a standartized cross platform, cross architecture sand-boxing system. I.e. what Java tried but failed to do.
I don't have numbers but I feel this is exaggerated. Most people work on pretty normal stuff.

The biggest proprietary sink for most people is stuff like the build system/tooling/etc. Not many people have to be in a role where you're micro-optimizing something. They certainly exist, but not in the numbers some people on here seem to think.
Trying to use your smallest finger to get all of the programming-relevant punctuation isn't going to make you happy as a programmer. I tend to just shift my hand over and alternate my ring and pinky fingers for the -=[]\;'./ keys.
I’m not disagreeing with you, I’m just saying there’s a difference between the capital needed to buy a two store franchise, and a ten store franchise. But yes, neither is pocket change.
If a placebo is actually effective against covid-19, what difference does it make that it's a placebo? It's still good news.
Took a lyft today in Socal, the driver told me I'm the first person he gave a ride to in six hours. Hes worried how he will make any money at all in the next few months.
With this in mind I would buy it, but with current pandemic it will have to wait.

Links/lynx should work great on such a device.
And because China reacted with extreme measures, they got the virus under control, and are now starting to reduce the restrictions, and commerce is starting back up. It's nowhere near normal, but by reacting quickly and decisively you reduce the likelihood of longer lockdowns being required in the future (as well as the likelihood of significant loss of life).

This video gives a sense of the measures taken in cities outside of Wuhan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsdJGj3-jM
Don't let people be alone now that we're (mostly) work from home
Any doctors or medical researchers here?
I am not, so DON'T take the following as if I personally have any knowledge in this area. So talk to a medical expert about this!

A Chinese study from March 9, see the link 1) with a downloadable PDF, say the following in its conclusions:
"Hydroxychloroquine was found to be more potent than chloroquine to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 in vitro."

Does the French study use Hydroxychloroquine as well? From the article it mentions Hydroxychloroquine but also Chloroquine phosphate.

1) https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...
If this wasn't an automobile that was a high priced toy, this would be pretty obvious. Should we stop producing truck parts? The fleet of 18-wheelers across the US is the only thing sustaining us.
EDIT: this source [0] seems to confirm that it is indeed milligrams, but I don't understand how any of this jives with what I found earlier from the FDA on therapeutic index and overdosing.

[0]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTi-g18ftNZUMRAj...

See the original comment with my findings from the FDA below, however.

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I don't think it's a mistake. 600mg per day is 14x the recommended dosage for malarial suppression with cholorquine.

Per the FDA, the dosage is 300mg of chloroquine per week for malarial suppression:

> Adult Dose: 500 mg (=300 mg base) on exactly the same day of each week.

For children:

> The weekly suppressive dosage is 5 mg calculated as base, per kg of body weight, but should not exceed the adult dose regardless of weight.

Source: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2013/00...

Additionally, it seems that it is incredibly easy to fatally overdose on this:

> Chloroquine is very rapidly and completely absorbed after ingestion. Toxic doses
of chloroquine can be fatal. As little as 1 g may be fatal in children. Toxic symptoms can occur
within minutes. These consist of headache, drowsiness, visual disturbances, nausea and
vomiting, cardiovascular collapse, shock and convulsions followed by sudden and early
respiratory and cardiac arrest. Hypokalemia has been observed with arrhythmias in cases of
intoxication. The electrocardiogram may reveal atrial standstill, nodal rhythm, prolonged
intraventricular conduction time, and progressive bradycardia leading to ventricular fibrillation
and/or arrest. Cases of extrapyramidal disorders have also been reported in the context of
chloroquine overdose (see WARNINGS and ADVERSE REACTIONS)

See also this paper about known cases of overdose in kids: https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/27/1/95.long?...

Note that is for all for cholorquine base, not chloroquine phosphate which is ~60% choloroquine.
A question is what you would consider a more mature environment? E.g. C++ - a decades old programming language - does not contain widely accepted solutions for building web services. There are some libraries, but I mostly have not seen them being used outside of the companies that developed them. I think Rust already has a better stance there.

Probably Go and node.js could be counted as good solutions, because their standard libraries cover the use-case very well. Or Java, thanks to a mature ecosystem around web services - even though the mainstream solutions (Servlet) focus on blocking IO.
Trump said his thought is he handled it 10/10.
Do you work at levels.fyi? Maybe you can explain why those salary numbers don't match any company I've ever worked for. :P
America is not even close to Italy. Not demographically, not density, not medically. Nothing is the same between us. And it isn't "Italy" it is a region in Italy with the problem. Same with china. China isn't locking down "China". Just a small part of it. You cannot take those two datapoints and apply them to the rest of the world. Not even close.

And I'm not panicking, I'm just tired of people running around doomsaying. There is so much trash information out there and people have completely shut down their ability to think rationally. It kinda ticks me off.