skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? Where do they recommend this? Sounds insane.

Czech Republic recently started requiring face covers so we will have results in few weeks.
It's been widely known outside of China that this a novel SARS-like disease was spreading since December 20th, they just didn't confirm that it was novel until the 31st.
If all of the high ranking officials of countries got this I bet the swiftness at which govts can move would be very different.
A Canadian friend of mine who was going to Amazon got sent to Amazon Japan temporarily, but working on the same team, until the Visa cleared.
>Are the flu deaths increasing because of the coronavirus?

In Japan influenza rates went way down because of the threat of coronavirus. [1] It might actually save lives assuming it's contained at some point.

[1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/21/national/influe...
Qt Creator has vertical tabs ("Opened documents" panel) which is way superior as soon as you have more than 3 files open. It's also pretty useless since you can just <ctrl-k> <first few letters> <enter> or <ctrl-tab> to switch
It's easy to get a low rate of false positives: Just always report no virus found.

So, we care about both false positives and false negatives. Dr. Brix said as much recently.
Kicking off any sellers for the specific products in the catalog not using Transparency, providing assurances to buyers that the products are authentic. Making money for Amazon because they charge a fee for every unit.

https://brandservices.amazon.com/transparency

(Not employed by Amazon, but work with many Amazon sellers, am an Amazon seller)
> I'm not a frontend dev, in fact I know little about the current "cool" JS framework.

> That being said, I donate to Wikipedia/Wikimedia every year and I will reconsider if this goes through. This is exactly the kind of bloat that no one needs.

The latter seems an overreaction given the former.
Since the beginning of the crisis it has been clear to the people who know how to do stuff like curve fits that the universal global response policy of every government has been to wait for a need before asking that the need be filled. The closest any country came to a proactive response was the SARS countries who had some pandemic plans. I expect that, in line with history, Trump will wait for a ventilator shortage before doing anything to help increase ventilator production. That's not a criticism of Trump, that's a criticism of the way leaders around the world work.

(Note: the New York ventilator shortage doesn't necessarily count because there are still ventilators available elsewhere.)
> The problem is that almost no one buys products based on the stability of the supply chain, so irresponsibly-global supply chains will beat out responsibly-global ones on price.

We should qualify the term "irresponsible" here:

1) If we somehow avoid events like covid19 for an entire decade (for example), in retrospect the self-imposed inefficiencies could be called "irresponsible". I think the real issue is that there are costs associated with guessing wrong in either direction regarding when these events will occur.

2) Just a guess, but I would think having interdependent supply chains reduces the chances that those countries will go to war. Giving up that benefit could also be seen as irresponsible.
so cron is working now in it? I will definitely try it out again. also... why do you mean by "running"? it's basically a vm so as long as i have a command prompt open, it should be running, correct? it would be cool if there was a way of keep it up and running like a regular vm.
Agreed.

That's the necessary data to know when we can start rolling back the extreme measures being taken to slow the spread.

We need a measure to detect herd immunity
Events like this should weed out firms with irresponsible supply chains, unless we’re forced to bail them out.
I really wish we had widespread testing, or even a test to see if you had COVID-19 in the past. Before we had all been so focused on this thing, my child's friend came back from China in December, and she had a upper respiratory illness with a fever. Then my whole family and I suffered under a low-grade fever and upper respiratory illness for a week or so in early January. I have no idea if it was COVID-19, but it is hard not to wonder.
I feel like the problem is less that supply chains are globalized, and more that they aren't redundant. By that I mean, there's too much reliance on China as the primary producer/exporter for countless industries and products. Having just one nation account for such a large share of manufacturing introduces single points of failure. It would be wise to have multiple sources for any given good, especially if it's essential.
Ha! I tried to resist saying that no-one should attempt parody without bearing in mind the caveat that one should avoid making the target look less deserving of it than one's counterpoint, but failed, no?
Is there a test, or, what are the chances that there will be a test, to check if somebody already had covid19?
Doctors wouldn't let either of those things happen because it would lower their salary. The AMA is a powerful lobbying association, no way any law that lowers doctor salary would pass.
https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pa-ice-immigr...
A comment by Bradley Kuszmaul on that blog post gives a good reason why the scenario presented is not likely:

> Given the amount of testing being done in South Korea, we can rule out that there are a lot more people currently infected than we know about. And if there were a lot more people recovered than we know about, we would have seen deaths earlier in South Korea, since South Korea started their testing earlier. I suspect there's a lot more evidence that rules out the "fast and stealthy" hypothesis.
Thanks, I’ve reported iSH to Apple for misusing the location API for background execution.
I remember when I bought my XPS13 a year ago, to work while I traveled, I found that even with WSL, it was painful to get my toolchain working on windows (mostly unix based tools) I ended up putting ubuntu (and currently popOS) and never looking back.
There was a viral photo a few days ago. There a lot of context around it: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/the-right-and-w...

It basically boils down to "ICE has a policy of not arresting anyone at hospitals; this was a special case where someone they were in the middle of arresting had to be taken to a hospital, and they continued as soon as he was discharged".
They listed SPA capabilities as a requirement when choosing a framework.

Every framework allows only rendering to part of the screen, but all of them also allow and encourage the building of SPAs, including Vue. Building SPAs is the overwhelming norm when using any of these frameworks.

If they are bucking the trend here, that's great, I encouraged using a declarative library for the truly dynamic parts in my above post. However this post contains a lot of red flags such as the term "Server-Side Rendering" that are unnecessary if using it not for a SPA. So it's worth pointing out the risk.
This comment shared one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22626664
Does your company want a data scientist or yes man?
.. because when I met him personally at a hack event in the 1980s, he was obviously in the "dominant and loud" mode, and directly commanded anyone within earshot, at most opportunities.. later, it turned out he forked his company and left the people who built Mathematica out of future profits. Silicon Valley bred people like that .. it is still common in some environments.
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The ultimate anti-pattern of this philosophy is Tailwind.css (the newest, "coolest" css framework). Not trying to hate on it, but I find it ironic that the whole point of Tailwind is that you can basically style your entire website within the HTML, without needing to customize it with CSS.

For someone who learned CSS during the CSS Zen Garden era where we were told to only use the HTML document for structure and never style, it makes Tailwind cringe-worthy.

Yes, I know lots of people customize it and stuff, but the idea still stands that 95% of styles are done within the HTML document through tens of thousands of ultra-specific css classes which basically just tweak a single css property.
86% of all SARS-CoV2 infections might be undocumented
Sure, you don't need an IDE to build a Qt app.

If you set it up using cmake, it's like any other app: cmake, make, done. (cmake has support for handling the Qt specific bits for you)

If you're using Qt's qmake, which is likely if they just started with QtCreator, you call qmake and then make to build.

In both cases I'd refer you to Qt's documentation for details, but QtCreators project configuration UI and build log also shows you which commands it is running.
I wonder if this includes or if they can use Direct Connect? [1]

Cloud data transfers are too expensive, personally I assume that it costs more to measure and bill for bandwidth than the usage itself...

1: https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/
Not much scope for that, it's POSIX (and Ken Thompson's "fault" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8390979/)
I don't know, I fought Bluetooth and headset mic configurations all the afternoon and got it working (God, I have two mic, why is there 12 mic outputs to choose from ?!) but I still don't want to get back on Windows (it wants too much ram and its file Explorer is too slow compared to dolphin).

And then, how do I use bindfs with WSL ? Where are the WSL files and the docker volumes inside it ?
Off-topic, but my podcast list has been so enriched through reading HN comment. Thanks for the link.
Another possibility: don't do any industrial bailouts and let high-risk investors take their medicine. Next time, risky businesses will find it more expensive to get capital, as investors realize some things they weren't thinking about before.
What about a classes like primary-color, secondary-color, danger-color & success-color?

Having two elements share the same color creates a relation between the two elements. If you have decided to use the same color for both elements it is probably because this color has a specific meaning. If the color of one of the elements changes it is probably a good idea to also change the other element.
It pains me to think that this will probably never happen.
5,000 years from now Bitcoin will the name for a category of physical relics surrounded by myths of hidden wealth, if only they could be unlocked. A loose network of hobbyists, cultists, and oddballs will trade in old digital wallets, external hard drives, and servers, and the occult pseudo-mathematical techniques they employ to try to unlock the encryption to see what's inside.

Legend has it that it would take beyond the end of the universe to succeed... but legends have been wrong before.
Well, the mobile side is certainly betting on "if you build the bandwidth, the apps will come".

In fixed broadband the same is still happening albeit more slowly, we have streaming tv, then hd/4k streaming movies, then games ala ps live/Stadia, enormous gb console/pc game downloads .. new apps are continuously enabled by improving bw & latency.
I wonder if NASA machines could include small "3D printers" able to use sand and other local matherials so they could just print small glass objects in situ. That could improve some of the weight problems.

You could make an "unlimited" suply of high quality lenses to replace broken ones, replace small pieces or even fix small cracks in space hatches. If you can make a glass table in situ you don't need to pack it. You can just pack a set of legs for a small table and made it extensible to fit a bigger surface later (Metallic spacial furniture should be printed as a mess of spongy filaments in any case to reduce weigth without losing resistence). And another important matherial that will be needed at some time is the optical fiber, of course.

I assume that heating sand to 1400 degree would be expensive but possible in a combustion chamber with modified pressure and all rockets have some kind of this.

The need to cool the melted glass fast to harden it should not be a problem in Mars. Just put it outside. And there is plenty of sand available.
I never miss an opportunity to rave about the "Sleep With Me" podcast.[1] Thanks to Scooter's soothing voice I no longer need medication to sleep every night.

I have no affiliation other than being a very happy listener.

[1] https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com
What are you doing with 100 cores in your garage?
Do I need toilet paper?
Yeah this move seems rather self-aggrandizing to me. A move meant to make twitter seem more important than it actually is.
This app/website needs to go.
Show HN: Simulating Infectious Disease in 200 lines of C
That is an interesting study but your summary isn't accurate. Over half of those digestive symptoms are anorexia not what would usually be called GI distress. 41 of the 99 with digestive symptoms had more specific GI issues, mostly diarrhea. Only 7 of the 99 had no respiratory symptoms and they did not say if any had only digestive symptoms.
There is the climate change / pollution angle too.
Its such a waste to ship things half way around the world.
A proper carbon tax on ships could improve things.
Just like on your LinkedIn profile, there would be way more than a simple list of keywords and skills. The keywords would be part of a full profile which includes universities/degrees, certificates, years of experience, accomplishments, etc...some of which are easier for an ML to train on than others, but my point is those are stronger signals than “Java: Yes.” If there is residual fuzziness in the process, the platform can add skill tests (taken at a test center) that can get listed on your profile.

A third party ecosystem of skill tests could emerge, some of which would be more prestigious/respectable than others. Some would have a binary output, and some would give you a score that is benchmarked against the population of test takers. This would only really be necessary for more technical skills. I’m not talking about rinky dinky khaki cubicle test centers. I’m talking about new age corporations with $1B market cap that develop an unparalleled ability to assess skills so that corporate HR departments don’t have to. These testing companies would be part of the ecosystem developed by the theoretical ideal, statistically-oriented, applicant friendly job platform that I’m talking about.
Have you had bad experiences with Windows subsystem for Linux? In my experience it's useful, effective, and works out of the box with no configuration.
I’m a layman, so I’d like someone from the community to elaborate on Sony’s approach of constant power to the CPU/GPU while the clocks are variable. My interpretation is that the silicon will downclock based on load - if it is only running the UI dashboard, it will slow down appropriately; if running an intensive software title, it will clock up to theoretical max frequency.
> But we will not adopt suboptimal methods on the private economy. It doesn't work that way.

It does. Many business in many natiins are encouraged or forced to remain domestic for strategic reasons. Eg why were car companies in US bailed out. Ports are very restricted. Semiconductors. Farmland. Aero industry. Steel manufacturing etc.

This is often done for security rational. And what nations consider 'for security' may well expand post Coronavirus.
Shorter load times is an attractive argument, but it doesn't matter when the #1 issue with current-gen consoles is how unoptimized most games are. The traditional argument to game consoles was that it was cheaper and allowed developers to make the most out of known hardware configurations.

As things are now, flagship games on the PS4/Xbox One struggle to stay at 30FPS, frequently dropping to 20FPS or less, without the option to reduce graphics quality or resolution PC gamers have. All the while the low power Nintendo Switch is a joy to game on because most games are specifically optimized for it.
WHO themselves have several tweets still up suggesting that the virus is incapable of human-to-human spread.

Suppressing "unofficial" or "inexpert" advice is extremely dangerous, I know people who would not have supplies by now if I hadn't convinced them two months ago that, because China is willing to shut down their economy to stop the spread of it, it is probably going to be extremely serious.

I hope they do not crack down on genuine, proactive communications: saying that the pathogen is more transmissible than it is yet officially recognized to be, or genuine arguments for more proactive isolation.
She talks about going to bed only when she actually felt sleepy, not just physically tired.

Which I feel like isn't real insomnia. If I didn't go to bed until I actually felt sleepy (as in, almost falling asleep) most nights I wouldn't go to bed until 5am. That's with or without using my computer in the time between 9pm and whenever-I-feel-sleepy. And then my kids wake me up at 7:30. Even if they didn't, I'd be awake by 9am, not able to sleep anymore, but feeling really dragged out, stretched thin (like too little butter over too much toast), but not actually feeling sleepy.

Feeling sleepy, for me, is just not really a common occurrence. I occasionally feel sleepy in the mid-afternoon, especially if I've not managed my sleep well for several days. But if I relied on my sleepy-cue, I'd never get any sleep.
For doctors to be able to use this they need encrypted at rest. I think this would be an amazing device for them but without encrypted storage it is a non-starter.

I reached out to the manufacturer to find out.
Fascinating link, I had no idea YKK was like that.

Vertical integration stories like this, or Ford's Rouge plant[1], make me reconsider my general predisposition towards "buy" in the software space.

For many years, I've argued against building software you can easily buy or download, but maybe reinventing the wheel is not so terrible if someone wants a company to be long-lived. Primary benefit is the software can be customized for the company's specific needs and not held back by other companies' software, of course. But even if using open source, it can help avoid fad software trends, or the whiplash-speed changing of standard tools/libraries (e.g. the open-source client-side Javascript world).

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_River_Rouge_Complex
Can you do better in a few hundred lines of code?
It would be nice to compare the results of multiple toy simulations to see if there are some shared outcomes.
If conversations with my family are any indication, yes. People see low-looking numbers and place names of faraway cities in headlines and think it isn't serious.

After making them think about incubation times that starts changing, but it takes a conversation.

What is common knowledge depends very much on who you're common with.
In my view stopping caffeine should be the first thing to do if you have sleep problems. But somehow even mentioning this seems offensive to people.
SARS-CoV-2 / Covid-19 Economic Impact and News Tracker
One thing we've all learned about epidemiology over the last few weeks is that like many network processes, it's not about the raw number of infected, it's about their centrality to other networks of connections. Hence you get super-spreaders, like how over 80% of the cases in South Korea are directly traced to one person going to church.

If we imagine that news and reporting works the same way, then what matters is not that only 10% of Americans read Twitter, but which 10%. If, say, all journalists and reporters and members of congress read Twitter, then that would be a conduit for misinformation posted on Twitter to spread more broadly, right?

(I do agree that in the past Twitter's role in civic life has been overblown, e.g. westerners projecting Twitter as being operative in the Arab Spring when in fact most domestic organization in the Arab Spring was done over local mesh network apps and Twitter was mostly used to report the events to the English-language world, not initiate change internally)
Is the issue the branding, or is the issue FOSS vs proprietary? I'm much more sympathetic to the later criticism, which really has nothing to do with the first I think.
Not to nitpick but CDC doesn't say they don't help, they say not to wear them if you're not sick or not caring for someone that is.

Then again CDC says a bandanna is also appropriate alternative...
When you close the shell it sort of sleeps; there seems to be some hooks to allow it to wake on request, for ssh, but for the most part the system sleeps and won't wake until a shell is opened.

I get around this by having an X app always running, and its behaviour is sufficient to prevent WSL from sleeping.

Some folks I know just leave the shell open, but having an xfce panel is desirable to me.
Sunsets/-rises take much longer the closer to the poles you get, because the sun moves "sideways" across the sky, not up/down.

So even when the sun is technically "set", it is often just under the horizon, and lighting things up.
The problem is how long it takes for that to occur. If the bankruptcies occur immediately, then people learn. If the bankruptcies occur 30 years down the line when a rare event occurs, then the high-risk investors are the only ones left in the market.
SK is the exception.
Given the ongoing statistics coming out of South Korea (which I'd suggest are the most accurate) where only one person under 50 has died. It seems that these safeguards would be best spent around those aged 60+ and perhaps those 50+ with other health issues.

Those who are younger seem to be mildly affected for the most part and could go on with their lives as long as they didn't interact with the older population.
There's a fourth option: close down all U.S. trade ports for a month once a year. No paperwork or other administrative headaches. "Just" a dry run once a year.
Yeah, but it is like 15-20 GB if I recall correctly. It's been a few years, but I was like daaaaang.
I have an M&M Mars Co 1911 that was made by the candy company as a effort to show they could help with WWII efforts.

So definitely not an unheard of scenario to move excess capacity to out of industry items.

But I think my 1911 is more collectible than a Tesla Ventilator. Still, someone might pay decent money for that some day.
> By the time I am able to get tested it seems likely that I won't be shedding the virus any longer, and will test negative.

Shouldn't the test detect antibodies that your immune system has developed?
I second that request for a source. It sounds like disinformation to make people upset.
I really wish there were one right answer, but it doesn’t seem like there is one.

The last time I tried to write code with just raw SQL, the query patterns got tedious really quickly, and I found myself using the most bizarre patterns to normalize query fragments and avoid typos in rarely used queries. It all made sense to me as I did it but others thought I was nuts. They were probably not wrong.

But every time I used an ORM or worked with people who did, things got sloppy, quickly.