skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China spent more than a week attempting to cover coronavirus up. By the time the Chinese government made a statement the problem was pretty well known among the Wuhan medical community.
The response is enthusiastic, but kind of misses the point my original comment was making. All I was saying in that comment is that as a hiring organization, we bring in candidates who on paper have the skills and experience we are looking for, but flame out in spectacular fashion when asked to talk about their skills, experience, and how they might apply to our specific problems and situation.

Note that I am carefully NOT saying, oh the candidate knows javascript, but not vue.js, so they don't fit for us. I am also not saying "oh, if only candidates knew we wanted them to get vue.js certified and it would be more likely we would put them in our interview loop."

I don't think the problem of how candidates can better understand why they are or are not getting callbacks from employers maps very well to any stats-based measurement of job posting descriptions against applicant resumes/CV/LinkedIn profiles.

My only thoughts on the hiring process are really anecdotal, but I believe a few things to be true.

1 - Most job descriptions are crap.
2 - Most jobs for software engineers can be done by any
reasonably trained and/or experienced candidate
who can pass a work-sample test.
3 - Totally untrained and inexperienced candidates
seem to apply to lots of jobs.
4 - Software engineer hiring should be ideally
based on work-sample tests.
4a - I have a *very* hard time finding companies
that do #4.
AFAIK there is currently no plan to replace existing php rendering with Vue SSR. They just wanted to make sure the framework they went with supports SSR so they are not locking themselves out of the possibility.

The HN implementation renders the comments on the client side because it was using the Firebase HN API which doesn't provide a friendly API for fetching the entire comment tree. Notably, some other HNPWA implementations were using a custom API endpoint. We didn't switch to it because the Vue HN was built as an educational demo rather than a benchmarking subject.
Here is the thing... if you think a mask will help you from touching your face, or remind you to be cautious, wear it. It literally can not hurt.
FHIR APIs are allowing a standards-based approach to accessing healthcare data from external sources, such as an app. In addition, there are national networks for sharing data between clinics and hospitals, like CareQuality and Commonwell. I'm most familiar with CareQuality, as that's the system my company's EHR software integrates with. It uses SOAP calls to exchange CDA documents.
Whoa. How did I miss that? Thanks!

Are there any add ons or widgets that enhance it?
Because it would be, if my suspicion proves to be the case, the point where adherence to the FHS tips over from being the norm to the exception. MacOS, Windows, and who Arch users are have nothing to do with it. How many distribution creators have made each of the various choices, does. Arch's decision to use systemd had some influence (in both directions, c.f. Hyperbola Linux). Arch's decision to abandon the FHS in favour of the systemd file-hierarchy may well do likewise.
Because you can spread the virus before you show symptoms this advice would also cause the virus to spread more, and thus would be bannable.
I'm being massively downvoted here, thanks for asking the why ! Been using windows 95,98,2k,7,10. I've had countless problems with it for more than 10+ years. Countless steps for system setup, bad/missing drivers, malware, spyware, performance degradation over time, system creeping more and more resources, cannot fix bugs upstream...

Since then I've switched to linux (less gaming) which has its own flaws and pains, but I love it.

Regarding WSL, why bother mixing two philosophies together ? Switch to linux and you've got it all, unaltered, and open source.
Totally agree with this. It's faster to prototype with Tailwind though, if you remember the class names well.
Are you sure that easy access to antivirals is effective against covid19?

That seems contrary to what I'm hearing from other expert sources.
That's really awful. Twitter has become very heavy-handed lately. Even accounts that just tweets about American politics have been suspended. For example, there's some videos of a certain politician touching women and children inappropriately and those who have tweeted or retweeted some of those videos have either been banned or have had their access restricted.

Yes, I know Twitter is a privately-owned site and they can do whatever they want with their site. But it also means that it should no longer be seen as a neutral platform.

I really wish some hackers got together and created a censorship resistant social media platform. It is sorely needed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/health/coronavirus-young-...

A significant number in my opinion. "Young" people are acting not only selfishly, but stupidly.
https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/311752?v=4
That seems to be saying updates should go through the app store, rather than blithely downloading and running random bits of code.

It doesn't rule out something like Pythonista (which is great!) that lets you write/run your own code (which doesn't change the app itself).
Because they, like some people I know, think that Apple should enforce their rules consistently but fail to realize that the position they’re in means they will never do so, and as such their actions are merely petty regardless of their end goal.
The EU has terrible infrastructure? Color me shocked. Nobody who isn't being obstinate thinks much of Europe these days.
I see... How interesting. That would deserve a separate post:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_situ_resource_utilization
Separation of html and css can still be a useful paradigm and does not have to be incompatible with separating your code into components.

For medium-sized projects, I have found it useful to have general (or "base" and "cosmetic" a la MCSS) styling in a central place with all my variables. For my components, I strive to balance the "structure-" and "container-" -like (similar to OOCS) styling they need while not trying to make them so general that they are over-engineered. To that end, I am comfortable enough using the central variables within my components and even some central classes, recognizing that when I do want to re-use my components across projects there is occasionally ad-hoc refactoring/customization.

Also, Css in JS is only one way of building components. You can keep your component-specific css separate from the rest without using JS.
The European-style bidet does require extra real estate in your bathroom. The Japanese-style washlet does not; it's built into the toilet (or replaces the regular lid).

Honestly, I have no idea why Europeans still use their old-fashioned bidets now that washlets have been around for several decades. Why would you want to use two different devices just to do a #2 when you can just sit on one and get it all done at once?
The right way to fix that would have been to add a simple annotation that the purpose of the table was for styling, not semantics, something like:

<table type=for-display-only ...>
That was a superb article. Really sublime stuff.
I would like to wear homemade mask from this site https://diymask.site/ but that stupid recommendation will make me look like a sick person.
China tested hundreds of thousands of people in provinces with known cases, and found very little evidence of asymptomatic circulation. See my comment from a week ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22475853, which quotes Bruce Aylward, an assistance director general and epidemiologist for the WHO.

Our current evidence points to there not being millions of asymptomatic people.
I think the motivation for this change is to prevent employers from trying to maintain "business as usual" operating conditions.

Anecdotally I've heard of places where the company has made no policy changes about sick leave or what employees who are feeling ill should do and, therefore, hourly workers keep coming in to work with "flu-like symptoms" or days after having had symtpoms because otherwise they don't get paid and could get fired.
I did too. My in person interview consisted of me showing them my drivers license and verbally confirming my email.

Honestly I was pretty pissed that I needed to spend so much time waiting and scheduling around a trip to the office for that.
Sure, that's the historic route that we ended up at the place we are in.

However, this is not the logical foundations that are used for current teaching and research.
There has been a lot of effort, in particular in the late 19the century by folks like Hilbert, Goedel, Frege, etc.
to put Mathematics on solid foundations.
This is what we ended up with.
I think you might have read that wrong. Article says 1 in 5 for those between 45 and 65

“The early estimates show that a fifth to a third of those between the ages of 45 and 65 who contract the disease are hospitalized.”
Yes, if I don't get any good options in Java then I would go with either codemirror (used in the dev console in many browsers) or highlight.js
> They don't make the computers, fiber optics, switches, exchanges, or software that their web site requires to run.

Because they don't need to. The quality of their network setup has no, utterly no, relationship to the quality of the final product - the machines and materials however do have such a relationship and therefore it's done in-house.

Additionally this vertical integration removes the incentive for a supplier to cut corners somewhere for more profit - which is something that Tesla and SpaceX also have discovered and apply it wherever they can.
> I have always thought it was insane from a national security perspective to allow functionally all of key manufacturing capabilities (e.g., microprocessors) to go offshore.

I am not sure, a completely dependent world may make us safer as wars will very hard to execute.
It seems to me, you are outright dismissing paper-towels-in-trash-can approach, in both home and hospital use, no matter how it's managed, while recommending not drying or hot air dryers as a less bad substitute.

Do you have any references linking paper towel (disposal) in particular, as an added risk for drug-resistant bacteria, stunting enteric infections, sick building syndrome or your other claims?

> Wet paper is a horrifying breeding ground of horribleness.

I would especially be interested in this claim, as I would intuitively expect paper to be a worse environment for dangerous organisms than most other damp indoor locations.

First link on "hot air hand drying" shows bacterial spreading a breading[1], and a search on "paper towels" yields a paper[2] says paper drying is more sanitary than not drying or hot air drying.

[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-bacterial-horror-of-...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538484/
Per the CDC, 20% of hospitalizations are from people aged 20-44. Another 20% are 45-54:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/health/coronavirus-young-...
The FAQ answer only answers one very specific aspect of things.

The broader question is that emulating a foreign chipset (especially one as complex as x86), in order to have a local terminal, is ridiculous. Why be so ridiculous?

The answer is that it has to be that way, due to Apple's restrictions on what is allowed to run, so iSH is a very clever hack on top of those restrictions, in order to get a "blessed" local unix environment on an iOS device.
Britain didn’t seem convinced by 2) for the EU probably because it was spared the worst of the war (invasion)
Coronavirus Testing Chaos Across America
In theory, sure; in practice we're not so capricious. We don't ban, or are happy to unban, anyone who sincerely wants to use HN site as intended, except perhaps in rare cases of misunderstanding. And we wouldn't ban an established user because of a couple comments, except perhaps in truly extreme cases.
That sounds like an excellent use case for CSS variables.
Sure you could do everything on the HTML with Tailwind but they do recommend composing component classes for regularly used things. I’m not saying that solves all your concerns but it helps.

Abstracting out CSS into utility classes can make it much quicker to get a consistent looking site up while still giving you a little more control over the look and feel. Of course you can misuse this but I think people who don’t understand standard CSS make a much bigger mess of it than if they have something like Tailwind.
Downvoters, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22628158
It is about 6GB on my linux system.
Thank You :-) Would be great if anyone still involved could drop by /r/blockbattlenet ... would be happy to help with hosting (or if open sourcing at this point is an option, even better). Thanks again!
As others here have mentioned, during normal times, companies have strong economic and competitive incentives not to invest in expensive, redundant, inefficient infrastructure that is robust to rare events.[a]

This is true of financial companies too. For example, banks that are run to survive rare events like global pandemic or world war cannot compete with banks that ignore the possibility of such events during normal times.

The obvious question is, should societies impose limits on competition to ensure there is always a minimum baseline level of redundancy in the economy, and if so, what kinds of limits? I don't know of any obviously good answers to this question.

[a] See, for example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22628239 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22628157
One of the most interesting folder on Funet archive is mirror of Simtel[0] FTP-serever[1]: there are a lot of very interesting software for various old platforms.

Especially interesting — there are some very cool CAD, GIS and graphics apps or MS-DOS, Windows (from 3.1 to XP).[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simtel

[1] ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Archived/simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/

[2] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1240002398577397772
If you can have 30 years of better returns and try to sell right before the next pandemic, you can bet most investors will go for that.

People already invest on much shorter timelines than 30 years.
Depends on what percentage of transmission is hand to nose/mouth vs inhaling the virus I guess? To prevent hand to face anything would do.
I played through "A Short Hike" this week (because it was free on the Epic store.) Easily the most enjoyable indie adventure experience I've had: a unique but intuitive flying mechanic, simple "quests", and a short (<5 hour) overall gameplay time.
It's the Windows Subsystem for (running) Linux.
Is this advice anecdotal or from personal experience?
The cost of virtualizing CS conferences
> In some sense it's pretty obvious that a free market capitalist system will mostly lose in competition with a state regulated system, if the latter decides it is important to have control of a sector through tying or dumping.

This is not really specific to state control -- it's a classic antitrust problem. A monopoly in one sector leverages it into control of another sector.

The problem being, what do you use for a remedy in this case? The US DoJ can't exactly break up the Chinese government.
Wow, the idea of a real-world chaos monkey is genius.

Robotic or biological?

Perhaps COVID-19 is a chaos-monkey?
> OP is a great example of how a disinformation campaign by conspiracy theorists works. They make you believe they have credible sources you can rely on they base their arguments

Here's what I did before submitting this:

- Saw this video on youtube, found the non-political arguments to be convincing.

- Since I've never heard about Wolfgang Wodarg before, I googled and found his wikipedia page [1], which suggested he was an expert in the field. I also considered the possibility that he had very strong political views and it may influence his judgement. For example, I never considered (or mentioned here) the parts where he talks about Chinese government.

- Googled for more articles about this guy, most of the results were in German which I didn't try to translate. The only few english results were talking about this video.

- Also looked on reddit, found many people dismissing the video without presenting any counter-arguments (which I'm still looking for).

I'm currently locked in my home with my wife and two kids, respecting the consensus that staying at home is the best way to contribute positively to this pandemic.

When I saw this video, I can't deny that it brought a bit of hope. I know that we are biased and tend to believe in things we'd like very much to be true: Emotions can cloud our judgement (something you should consider in the future when calling someone you've never met a "conspiracy theorist") .

But I left my emotions aside when I stepped through the video making notes of the relevant points and creating a summary to for Ask HN. The only reason I brought this here was to find convincing counter-arguments. I didn't read through the whole thread, but still haven't found anything.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Wodarg
Highly recommend https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

It can do everything with json as well and convert between
Unless the US central bank is hoarding ventilators, "the feds" have 13000, not "the fed".
Some people have no problem with caffeine and sleep though. They'll even have a coffee shortly before bed, or an energy drink after dinner. It's not a universal rule that caffeine disrupts sleep.
Dane here. Yes, it's because of limited testing capacity (new machines arrived recently and they are ramping up to 1000 tests per day, additional capacity will among other things go to surveillance of cases with mild symptoms, modeled on our existing system for influenza-like illness surveillance where samples are, well, sampled among a specific subset of GPs), but it's not only those with severe symptoms who are tested, it's anyone who is hospitalized (which also includes members of vulnerable populations with only moderate symptoms) and health care workers, with the goal being to prevent hospital-acquired infections. In a single sentence, the strategy could be summed up as "people who aren't in the hospital should assume it's COVID-19 if they have symptoms and act accordingly, but once they get to the hospital we can't afford to assume".
Today I dressed up in a suit and tie
Because it's just a series of loaded questions. If you have already drawn conclusions then why ask the question in the first place.
I’d like to understand what’s the benefit of this opposed to running at a fixed clock speed?

My guess is it has something to do with cost savings (cheaper to manufacture silicon that has to perform “better” some of the time as opposed to all of the time).
Ok I feel dumb but I was thinking this was a thermometer for a home, not a body.
It's neither these days. It's a glorified VM.
Getting started with GStreamer's gst-build
How Journalists Can Work from Home Securely
A11y hang-ups? It's a benefit that it makes it less accessible? That doesn't make any sense to me at all.
I don't think the government's going to force them to censor tweets as part of a tyrannical plan to suppress dissent. Twitter's just wedged themselves in a spot where they may have to censor tweets until the pandemic is over, since any attempt to walk back the policy will be seen - not inaccurately! - as a decision to allow fake COVID-19 news. Maybe inconsistent enforcement of the policy will be a good enough safety valve, but I'd prefer if people judging which tweets they believe were the safety valve.
"But it also means that it should no longer be seen as a neutral platform."

Bizarre to me that anyone would ever have thought that in the first place. Twitter has always been a for-profit enterprise, which completely precludes neutrality.

"I really wish some hackers got together and created a censorship resistant social media platform. It is sorely needed."

And then what happens when that platform is used to plan and execute violent attacks and share illegal pornography? I don't disagree that this is a good idea, but it's also not a silver bullet. Free and open communication will always be a perpetual struggle requiring trade-offs and compromises.
Twitter already filters some far-right content if your location is Germany: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/twitter-germany-nazis/

So that line has already been drawn, it seems.
I don’t know what he wanted, but he walked into creating this aware, awake and knowing:

https://twitter.com/BostonJoan/status/1240626380020289539
I still prefer Cygwin. I can't make a WSL program that is also a win32 program and that has a native win32 GUI. With Cygwin, I can. If I want a sandboxed VM, I can get a sandboxed VM using a number of different technologies, of which WSL is merely one.
Ask HN: Expected schedule for YC S20 replies?
So we all applied early this week. Does anyone know what's the schedule for getting some replies? I guess the interviews themselves are mostly during April so not too long
It sure is nice for all the people who are stuck on Windows/prefer Windows but need access to Linux tools.

But I'm not sure what this will do to Open Source in the long run. I don't think WSL users will care a lot about the ideals of the Free Software people and I'm not sure whether the Free Software people will love to maintain code for people who don't give a fuck.

Or maybe it will expose more people to the idea and will provide a new entry point for new talents.

At least Canonical is getting paid.
Panic-free guide on transitioning to remote work for tech companies
Lessons from South Korea’s Response to Covid-19
Had the same experience, I was forced to use Windows for a while, it was all so cumbersome. Tooling does not work, permission errors, wsl <-> host system copy errors, line ending errors, docker errors, character escaping errors, especially quotes and double quotes, PATH errors. The list goes on and on and on.

Also, if there are are no hard requirements for Windows such as most webdev why would anyone use WSL instead of the real thing? Especially if the deployment platform is Linux, makes no sense for me.
Ah, I didn't make this obvious but that's a feature we're currently testing. We can enable ephemeral disks on apps, but it's not generally available. They're local SSDs, size is variable (still figuring that out). They're free right now. ;)

If you want to try them out, you can create an app and then an email to either me or support at fly.io and we'll turn them on for you.
How about no authentication (guest mode)? That seems even more seamless.
As long as there are people without good internet options and I could break even, yes. I plan on doing this in the Eastern Tennessee mountains, but I am somewhat financially secure and work remotely, YMMV.

Like any bootstrapped venture, make it a side gig until you reach a comfortably sustainable run rate and subscriber base. You’re not going to get rich as a private ISP, but it can be a comfortable small biz.
Canadian tech workers – public lay-off list from Covid-19
I came across an article that gives the details of a list created for Canadian tech workers that have been laid-off due to the COVID-19 crisis:
https://betakit.com/grassroots-database-launched-to-help-unemployed-canadian-startup-workers-amid-covid-19/

You can add your profile here to be seen publicly by employers:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNnOJvBnRfW-XS5M159zdBUt3yUbulFtWAbXHSsUbhZfM0bw/viewform

The public list is here and has over 600 entrants. I JUST ADDED MYSELF:
https://airtable.com/shrtUXqWvxHF9HUkj/tblu64pkqYbWUFKxA?blocks=hide

The list was created by Prospect, a Canadian startup job board that I hadn't heard of, kudos to them:
https://jobs.prospect.fyi/

Best of luck to everyone in these challenging times, we'll survive and thrive!
>I have every linux desktop app I want at my finger tips

Oh huh, are you running an X server for this? And if so, does GPU acceleration work for Linux apps?
Mass Testing Is Crucial: The US Should Study the Veneto Model to Fight Covid-19