skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> French govt already took control of their face mask supply.

I don't know about that. What I know is that they sent all the production to China and Iran a month ago and now that we critically need masks there are none to be found even for medical professionals deemed 'not essentials'.

We're talking about a government that allowed elections to happen 3 days ago then quarantined the whole country today ...
In reality, it's just that these outlets are the only ones with large bureau operations. There are plenty of other independent reporters and smaller sources with much better coverage.
That part stuck out to me as well, especially since the lack of https was their only reason.

You can stick Cloudfront in front of it and get HTTPS very easily (with the added benefit of being on edge servers).

Personally I have found S3+Cloudfront to be perfect for static content for that reason.
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>The only way we can avoid large scale impact is if the virus finds it hard to survive in the heat

Personally, I'm hoping against hope that the heat really does slow this virus down. I don't really have much faith in the policies that the various developed nations have enacted to deal with this particular threat. Not really the fault of the leaders, This situation's just something that has not been seen previously. No experience with it at all. I do think governments are emphasizing the wrong things and not being comprehensive. But so are the people. We're buying toilet paper, but leaving soap on the shelves? But overall, governments at least seem to concede it is a threat at this point.

If the heat won't help us? We're in trouble. If India's heat doesn't slow it down, we're gonna be living with this virus for a good long time. Everyone should be rooting for India and Africa at this point. Cut off the rest of the world from those two places so that we can see if the spread is, at least, impaired a little by the heat or the humidity.
Hey, here with you. I have chest tightness (and sometimes a stabby pain) and it feels like I cannot breathe as well. Going on for almost two weeks now - no other symptoms at all.

I called in with a physician and they said likely not covid, just muscular stuff. I also have allergies and thing begin to bloom...

So I am confused and worried, lots of anxiety. But it could just be allergies or something muscular from workout (had that before).
Martin Sandsmark, the CTO, is a KDE developer and long-time Arch Linux community...guy.

It's not going away in a future software update :)
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It would look very similar - for more information, I suggest you go pick up "Enlightenment Now" by Steve Pinker and/or "Factfulness" by Rosling

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073TJBYTB/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

https://www.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Bett...
Addendum;

Sure, society can always compel and force somebody to obedience. That's why a society usually tries to monopolize the exertion of power through law enforcement. That might even give society the power to expel a homeless mother along with her children from a house that's been empty for 35 years.

My argument is not about ability but about morality.
Wealth is accumulated income tax

That's only valid if you think "wealth" can only be a bunch of cash in a bank account you saved. You may own a piece of land that could even predate the government in some places. Or you may own a patent. That's "wealth" which is subject to different taxes to "income".

so even if you expect an additional tax that grows at the same rate?

I don't expect, anything I was just pointing a fact.

I live in a country that has experienced inflation over the last ten years and the reality is that income taxes have followed inflation but property taxes not, because the government doesn't update property book values as often. The result is that you can hold very expensive property while paying very low taxes. But this also happens in lots of other places: California and Proposition 13 come to mind.
I'm always wary of any strategy that is fine with having less information. Of course cost of information is never zero but in this case the actual cost of tests is relatively low.
Is the country effective in turning companies around?
I'm not surprised. I've never thought HBR had high quality stuff. This sentence alone is ridiculous:

> Taking on debt to finance buybacks, however, is bad management, given that no revenue-generating investments are made that can allow the company to pay off the debt.

Not necessarily. Just as debt can be paid back by issuing more shares to raise capital, debt can be issued to raise money to buy back shares. It depends on whether management thinks the current valuation is too hot or too cold.
OP comment: Here's a link that supports the idea https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4699414/

Also clickable links for the Amazon items mentioned in the post:

https://www.amazon.com/Light-Clean-Ozone-minutes-Capacity/dp...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FB140TU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
It is unclear if he was symptomatic in the first positive test. I have read at least some of the tests are capable of giving false positives. Could this have been the case here?
> What is a similar measurement for information? Grocery stores only sell physical goods; they don't, for example, determine what medical information you see, or what information about political candidates you consume... those are things that search engines do.

Okay, but that's a different discussion. Google showing Google Maps first instead of Apple Maps on a search for "maps" is not related to the kind of shadowy political subterfuge you're referencing here.

I still don't see what's wrong with highlighting your own products to your customers, which is the discussion here.
This would introduce liquidity to a struggling category.
In Pennsylvania at least liquor stores are state run and closed at the moment. You can get beer or wine at some gas stations but that's about it. Anything less popular than huge international brands or very, very popular micro-brews you typically have to go to a beer distributor for and most of those are closed, too (the only ones open are those defying the Governor's strong recommendation to close).

Basically if you want anything less popular than Sam Adams-level of popularity, you have to get it from a restaurant.
I tend to agree with you, I would like to know as well. But consider this: if it is cold or flu - would you want to risk your health being more prone to the infection while your immune system fights another virus, or bringing more people into the same situation in circumstances like these?
That search traffic is probably largely DNS lookup failure spam searches.
What is the point of going into debt to buy your own stock?

The economics are no different than a shop keeper getting a loan at .05% to pay himself.

the actual action in and of itself makes no sense from a business perspective.

The action basically is, a company doesn't have any good investments or R&D or whatever to invest in, so i'm going to return money to shareholders to do that

...but am going to take on debt to do that...because of dat phat interest rate doh??
To-go cups are legal in NYC as of Tuesday, so long as they're sold with food[0].

[0] https://ny.eater.com/2020/3/17/21182052/new-york-state-liquo...
What would you recommend for site hosting instead of S3?
People are not always rational utility maximizers. See the Ultimatum Game[1]. There are always people who would rather get nothing than get a small amount when they know the other person would get more.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
The only times i use a printer these days if someone else wants me to deliver something on paper, not for myself. ePaper is just as unacceptable as digital on phone. Last time was to have a paper copy of a india e-visa.
> It’s literally impossible to exhaust R&D Opportunities.

Tell that to AAPL: how many projects got cut when Jobs came back to run the company in the 1990s.

Just because you can spend time on something does not mean you should. A company has a finite amount of employess, who have a finite amount of hours of daylight, with competitors nipping at their heels.
There are a lot of us tech yuppies that either can’t cook or won’t cook. We will continue to order in all our meals.

Of course that depends on the variety remaining. It may not. It’s been 3 weeks and I’m already starting to tire of my local options.

Maybe I might end up learning to cook after all...
It's obviously dependent on the use case. This is probably the main reason for the abundance of programming languages.
I want to agree with you, but I think we might both be underestimating the extent to which Americans don't know how to cook food at home. At a certain level of income, I know people who eat every meal out other than maybe breakfast. I can only guess that they're going to be having most meals delivered now.
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Presumably applications that are never exposed to unexpected input?
If you were already logged in through your default browser it'll use that to authenticate you through oauth.
the beauty of the equation is that you can fiddle with the numbers as much as you want, it will always lead to a collapse of the health care system
Require a photo ID and tax documents.
Stop with the doomsday panic. This lockdown thing isn’t going to last more than a few weeks at most—at least without massive social upheaval.

Source: my ill informed opinion, same as yours. same source as yours.
Because life is so easy that people need a crisis. This is especially true in the United States, where life is exceptionally easy.
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I just miss the desktop mode link on the bottom of every page. Sure it's harder to use, and I spend most of my time in mobile view, but sometimes I just need to get shit done.

I actually sent them a support ticket about this, and this was their reply:

"I understand how the previous workflow would be useful, and we apologize for the inconvenience it has caused.

However, the good news is that the mobile team is working on releasing iOS and Android GitHub mobile applications early next year, which should resolve some of the limitations of the current mobile site."

Like really, just give me the desktop view back ffs.
> Really don't know what to do

People are trapped at home, itching to get out. You run aggressive promotions right now to drive up your customer base since everyone is sitting at home bored with nothing to do.
Conflating TLS and HTTPS makes that row weird, but NLB supports TLS termination at the load balancer.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-tls-termination-for-net...
Most brass doorknobs are coated in lacquer or a polymer.
Your local restaurant might make less (I'm not sure I buy that), but the delivery driver likely makes more per hour.

If it was a net loss for everyone except GrubHub or Uber, it wouldn't exist.
Cause they can and the decided to do it. Adjusting to remote work does have a cost or two
Is the value in circumventing KYC and AML?
When I really have to use GitHub on mobile, I usually use the browser in desktop mode.
How is the PDF reading experience?
How would loans help? A lot of employees aren't currently needed so they will be laid off regardless of whether the business owner can take out cheap loans. I don't see how loans can make up for the much reduced economic activity.
I believe that org restriction applies only to third-party application. This app is a first-party app.
Looks like they really upped their production quality with this release! Excite to see their team is still at it.

Also pumped to see them officially releasing a Chrome extension to send to reMarkable. Long overdue. It doesn't look like it's out yet, so here's a link to the unofficial version I made last year (used by over 700 other reMarkable owners):

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-to-remarkable...

Open source at https://github.com/michaelschade/remarklater
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I'll take a crack at it. I would prefer commercial rent abatements combined with commercial property tax abatements. The same would make sense for residential as well. Unemployment payments should be increased and restaurants should temporarily lay off staff as needed.
Not the parent, so I can't speak for them, but my experience is that it's pretty likely that you'll eventually run into situations where you really want to store something different in the DB than what you send out from your API.

For example, you may want to keep some fields internal and not expose them to users, or you may want to normalize your DB schema so some fields are stored in a linked table, or maybe you had something as timestamp+duration, and need to keep the same external API for compatibility, but also want to refactor it internally into two timestamps.
People using unproven remedies is not really a problem. It does not help but it mostly does not hurt either. I am moderator for super large fb groups and over dozens of whataspp groups and I find them to be a boon in the moments of crisis. We have been able ot convince people of its seriouseness, got marriages to be cancelled and religious ceremonies to be postponed.
> we're gonna be living with this virus for a good long time

That's optimistic
Jeez, all of their posts are ads for this nsoft crap. Is this allowed on HN? Not sure how to alert a moderator.
Apparently in the case of viral infections it is normal to still be tested positive for some time after recovery, up to a few weeks. Unless there is really a confirmation of symptoms reappearing etc. I think this is the most plausible explanation.
> Have Facebook contractors been given the right to work from home yet?

Facebook contractors have that right implicitly. If the contractor is required to perform their work in a certain way, they are a statutory employee. By filing their taxes as employees, rather than contractors, this would hit facebook with an IRS investigation and hefty fines. They don't need to be given permission to work from home.
I can't blame them..
The cost as in “COGS + markup” may be low but the opportunity cost (cost of not doing a test when it is more important) might be higher when the supply of tests and lab time is limited. While it is absolutely important to ramp up both, it is a different story.
> They are Accenture's w-2 employees.

Then Accenture should be giving them allowance to work from home, not facebook.
How can I trick it into thinking I'm on desktop. Firefox's (for iOS) "Request Desktop Site" button doesn't work for me.
What's the drawing latency like? High latency is what keeps me from switching away from paper.
> Given their threat this week to withhold ingredients for pharmaceuticals

Source?
>Stop with the doomsday panic. This lockdown thing isn’t going to last more than a few weeks at most—at least without massive social upheaval.

Social upheaval against a "lockdown" becomes a moot point if people you know keep dropping dead.
That can't be right? Is it?

If so, note to self; use first party app's token.
Ok, that makes sense if true. It asked for my password, so wasn’t clear.
>if you're home all day long one of the main spurs for going out to eat is gone,

Actually, if I'm home all day long, I like to go out to socialize. The normal daily interactions with co-workers/clients/etc is now removed by working from home. While I don't eat out that much, Happy Hour has become a thing for me. Now, I guess I'm going to have to start labeling myself an alcoholic since I've resorted to drinking alone at home.
> You present it as if the poor country that allows foreign companies to exploit its cheap labor is somehow the one taking advantage of the rich countries. Just ask yourself: is that a likely way for the world to work? Do you think the rich countries just let themselves get walked over in that way by much weaker, poorer countries?

Your questions don't make a lot of sense, because the situation is much complicated than than a model with two monolithic actors ("poor country" and "rich country") can handle. For instance: "rich country" has powerful actors that work to benefit their own private interests against the national common good.

At a national level, industrial capabilities are more valuable than currency and finished product, but for many private actors, the opposite is often true. National time horizons are longer (or should be longer, as in multiple lifetimes), but private time horizons are usually much shorter (fractions of a lifetime).

> It's hard to square your view with the fact that American companies have made massive sums of money by exploiting cheap Chinese labor, or with the fact that when you walk around any Chinese city, you see American brands everywhere (Apple, Starbucks, KfC, GM, Tesla, all the fashion brands whose names I don't know).

What the US has had with China is private interests trading industrial capabilities for short term increased profit. The US government hasn't kept those private interests in check (because they're powerful), and China has been happy to take advantage of the situation.
The single biggest gripe I have with GitHub on Android is that when I click on a GitHub link to a new repo, it asks if I want to open the repo in Chrome or GitHub. This happens for every. single. repo. I think they messed up their URL intent handler such that each repo counts as a different intent. It's super annoying.
What has caused the slow rate of transmission in Japan?

It seems that the number of cases in Europe and the US keeps climbing (despite limited/late containment actions), but Japan seems to have it under control, comparatively speaking.
Looks nice. A few years back my friend and I built formbucket.com to solve the same problem, and we quickly found out that keeping a lid on spam is a big challenge. How are you planning to deal with that?
Yes, it absolutely can, and hopefully our changes ARE helping - but everyone needs to realize the lag time between stimulus and response. My thoughts are really more about those people who don't see it as a big deal now - if we do the right things we can stop this, but if we don't do those right things right now it's going to grow, and by the time it hits those people's "oh no, this is a problem" mark, we're going to have another 2 weeks of growth before THEIR changes come into effect. We can't let the "oh, it's not a problem right now" people dictate the course of this pandemic.
Shorter working hours is another solution. I think that makes a lot of sense now that the global economy is contracting. More fair that jobs are "shared fairly" rather than that some gets to keep theirs and others don't.
I found this to be rather credible http://chinamediaproject.org/2020/01/27/dramatic-actions/ when i found it maybe two or three days after appearance and acted accordingly regarding preparedness.
>We blew it.

What did we "blow" by not appeasing governments that do things like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

I really don't understand how things like this are acceptable for the sake of commerce. We should expect more of our allies and partners.
I'm talking about radio energy powering the device. 802.1 beacon radio frames, which your access points send out over the air. Configure it via USB, etc, then just hang it on the wall. No cables. Just a passive device.
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> "best" (most on-topic) results according to an impartial computer algorithm.

Any algorithm looking for the "best" result is inherently partial to something. Best result in terms of most recent, most local to you, most-likely-what-you-actually-want, I mean, the dimensions are endless.

The concept of "organic search results" is only possible if the algorithm were public, and that's just not a realistic expectation.

>A corporation inserting its own pages into organic results means it's not a search engine anymore. It's "a paid directory service augmented by a search engine".

I mean, Google doesn't have to pay themselves to promote their own pages. If you want to split the difference at "a search engine, part of a larger business whose results might show up preferentially in that search because why wouldn't they," that makes sense to me.
> I do think we as a society should ensure that all can be housed.

That's a good point. That we should indeed.
How are people concerned with hyperinflation when we should be expecting deflation here?

Hyperinflation is what happens when banana republics print their entire money supply a hundred times over every year.

How much inflation did we get from QE in 2008? In 2009 the rate of "inflation" was negative, and the Fed has been hitting the low side of their low inflation targets for more than a decade since, despite more rounds of QE and maintaining historically low interest rates. Meanwhile the entire world is hoarding US dollars (which causes deflation) because of this coronavirus.

The number of dollars we would have to print to unintentionally get hyperinflation right now is difficult to even imagine. We could print trillions of dollars and be lucky to get regular inflation.
You can write the loan interest off your taxes.
I'd like to believe this is true, but I once was at my boss's house and saw inside his fridge. All it has was a few beers. I asked him where his food was and he said he ate out for every meal. He was a single guy in a 5000 square foot home on an acre of land. I suppose he could afford to buy every meal out. I kind of doubt he will magically start using his kitchen.
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It is my understanding that chloroquine isn't exactly elixir to the already ailing elders. So, the section of population that's the most vulnerable is the one that simply can't take in doses of chloroquine without worrying about grave side-effects.
S3 can HTTPS for static hosting if it's done through CloudFront. Are there other reasons to not use S3 for static web hosting?
I know it's possible to have an issue with your immune system not storing the antibodies after fighting off a virus, so you can catch it again. But it's pretty rare?
A rather large MSSP enacted WFH for their employees last week. India will be very interesting for sure.
That's because they had only tested people who came from abroad and had symptoms.

Today's numbers are 114 total. They have started testing people with symptoms who had immediate contact with the infected..
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In fact the most infamous pro-Russian propagandists ever employed by the NYTs won a Pulitzer Prize for his propaganda. It took the NYTs a few decades to really admit it, but at least they came clean in the end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
Could be little testing.
As much as I use Rust personally and for some of my own pet projects, for serious HTTP services and introducing it into a new developer team, I'm afraid that isn't feasible for my requirements. I'm put off with the immaturity of the crates ecosystem and the costs it will bring. Most of the crates are not even 1.0 including Rocket and that also requires a nightly build which isn't good enough for my requirements. (I only use stable Rust).

As a language it is mature, but the crates ecosystem is of lesser quality, especially for applications like HTTP servers. I've already overcome its learning curve, but the devs who swear by other languages that pay them well may not be so forgiving.
If this lasts more than two or three weeks, at least with out a crisp well articulated end game, things are going to go downhill very fast.
Charter engineer quits over “reckless” rules against work-from-home
It’s simple emotional distancing. For many, talking about sad things makes them irrational or depressed, so if it has to be discussed it will be done so in academic terms.

The less conversant you are with the actual academia, the more contrived the terms you invent will be. I doubt many did more than undergrad business or economic here.