skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm so glad that I installed a reverse osmosis water filter two weeks ago (completely unrelated to the pandemic). It has been amazing!

When the toilet paper shortages started happening, I used them as an excuse to convince my wife that we should buy a bidet. I had floated the idea by her multiple times over the years, but she was always weirded out by it, but I was finally able to convince her.

We also have an entire deep freezer full of food and are both fortunate enough to be able to work from home, so as long as the electricity and water stay on, we can survive in complete isolation for at least a month.

No toilet paper needed! We just have a stack of washcloths and we use one to pat ourselves dry (and then set it aside in a container to be washed weekly).
Subscription models vary across SaaS vendors (and even across different offering tiers at the same vendor). At the low end of the market, monthly subscriptions are the norm. As you move up to bigger deal sizes, annual subscriptions become more and more common.
I am sorry to hear this. Would freelancing websites like Upwork be able to help? I hope things work out soon!
I think that FTA == TFA.
The wildlife trade definitely contributes to the increased likelihood that disease jump from animals to humans. However, it seems that most of the risk comes from bushmeat, or meat from wildlife that are not domesticated sources. As far as we know, the SARS outbreak was from bushmeat, for example. But China is not the only country that has a problem with bushmeat. Africa, also has a problem with bushmeat, which has been linked to Ebola outbreak. Bushmeat is a problem, and illegal poaching for "medicine" is a problem; but these are two separate phenomenons. What they have in common is the victim: wildlife.
Front end Vue PWA starter for SaaS startups
For you perhaps. There is no denying that Slack is relevant to many people given there are 10mil+ daily active users.
Thanks for answering!

> Perhaps our users are particularly honest

Or particularly dishonest and have historically goofed off on HN at the office everyday until they ran out of content to read!
I have been watching Picard (the new Star Trek show) and came to the realization that all the greatest sci-fi interfaces do not have keyboards. Searching for a person? Tap here, tap there, swipe up, and push forward and BAM “looks like person of interest was on goobazoar on the night in question”! Anyways, I’m in the security space and have been doing lots of HackTheBox [0] in prep for the OSCP [1] this year. With active boxes, they kind of just throw you in the deep end and you just google tools and exploits to see if they work. After a few boxes you start using the same tools over and over again (enumeration mainly) and they are all command line based. there is this tool called metasploit [3] that is labeled a skiddy tool (script kiddy AKA run stuff without knowing what they do). it let’s you type in software/OS name, lists the exploit, add a few parameters and BAM! (Usually). In fact On the OSCP you can only use metasploit once because it’s so easy. We have metasploit pro at work and it’s GUI based and even easier! You can integrate it with their scanner (Nexpose) and make the whole process pretty streamlined from enumeration to exploitation. The problem is their pro tools are very expensive and all the FOSS stuff is command line and not integrated. You also have to use the keyboard! I have been imaging an interface where everything is touch based - a screen filled with little cards with pictures on them that do things. Click on one picture, does an action, and populates other cards on the screen. You drop these new cards in colored circles on the screen where it either turns green, yellow, or red. If a circle goes green the action worked and it becomes a gold card. You stack the gold cards together for an exploit chain and a successful stack means you rooted the box (or whatever goal you had). A lot of time paths you take seem promising but then don’t produce fruit so you would have to try different combinations of the gold cards. The ultimate skiddy tool! On mobile so apologies for the formatting.

[1] https://www.hackthebox.eu/
[2] https://www.offensive-security.com/pwk-oscp/
[3] https://www.metasploit.com/
PBS Series – “Networld”
Totally agree. I find video is ok for initial meetings, but after that I vastly prefer audio-only, for small groups. Works well with inferior wifi connections in coffee shops, etc. Using this for global discussions every day. Currently I use Skype since it works well for audio-only. I prefer zoom for video, for one thing because it usually works well in China, and the 40 minute limit for free calls has been removed now. Also zoom doesn't force the use of a web client; in my experience, reliability, performance and web clients for videoconferencing don't go together. May explain why they are now worth more than several airlines.
In the old days Steve would owe up to their mistakes, or at least put forward with a statement, or talk about it in conference.

New Apple doesn't act. Refuse to listen. Even with the Repair programme they still act as if it was not their fault.
(That's kind of what I meant, but don't tell them.)
Exactly. The argument that you can’t find talent for less than 10m is crap. Comp is well known to not be a function of good stewardship.
Well, this kind of disproportion would only be worse in traditional media: dozens of writers serving millions of newspaper/magazine readers.
>With the help of experts in network theory and precedents from history, Ferguson argues that the printing press had similar consequences for 16th-and 17th-century Europe as the personal computer and the Internet have for the world since the 20th century, leading to polarization and the dissemination of fake news.

Episode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMisW1JKjp0
Episode 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYlBnmxMZcQ
A remark about the unrelated tip: A good chunk of companies, if not the majority, out there are looking for "just a programmer", noted by how much they advertise and place emphasis that you must know specific languages and software tools (especially if React or Java is gonna be part of your job title), over broader concepts like design patterns and algorithms.

This can be a problem when you want to sell yourself as a proper SWE, when the people in charge of the hiring pipeline only understand simple pattern-matching for "React Wizard with 5 years experience". And you can't be too picky about where you want to work, even though they might continue to be picky for employees. It unfortunately makes it so you either already have to already be a very good match for their specific needs, or you are compelled to lie on your resume.
Local law?
We're not goofing off, Dan; we're using our non-commute time to learn about the environment.
1% sounds bad, but compared to pre-internet days it's pretty good. Consider a large city newspaper: probably hundreds of journalists and letter writers, but millions of readers, so much less than 1%.
> Under this model, the app is completely isolated by default, and never knows how many permissions the user has granted it, so it never knows whether or not to ask for more of them.

This model has benefits, but it also has a major downside: if the app doesn't know it doesn't have privileges, it can't inform the user of that fact. The user has to realize on their own that the reason their search for a local bakery returned something on the other side of the country is that they forgot to enable location permissions.
oddly enough I have a system76 ibex pro and a 2015 macbook pro 13". I'm almost a year into switching over. (Everything except lightroom). The system76 is much bigger, clunkier and not as well built. But honestly its fine, the software is updated frequently and besides a couple of times where the keyboard didn't come back after sleep the systm76 has been a trooper (sleep awake cycle brought it back).

I enjoy this machine and would buy another.
I'm not clear you know what science is.

you have not made a scientific argument that gold has more uses than any other element nor does geology.com

intuitively, gold is less useful and has fewer uses than iron since we tend to measure industrial output in terms of steel and not gold production

tautologically though, hydrogen takes the cake for having the most uses since if you have enough of it, it can be fused into all the other elements.
Coronavirus Forces Bureau to Suspend Census Field Operations Until April 1
Please just stay at home. At all times. I've locked myself in weeks ago, before the government of my country ordered lockdowns. Even if the true fatality rate in your age range is low - you'll kill some old person out there. Perhaps dozens. It's the most you can do. Bill Ackman does a good job of explaining why you should do that (and why should all countries be shut down):

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/bill-ackman-pleads-to-trump-...
The price point is now low enough that I'm down to preorder. I could use pen and paper (as I do) forever and probably not spend $400 but the price is low enough for a gadget that would be fun and novel for now.
Can also get a squeeze bottle that women use to wash when recovering from child birth. Costs like $10 for 3.

https://www.amazon.com/Perineal-Lavette-Irrigation-Bottle-Pa...
and we have proper "reverse shower" bidets, not those "porcelain seats with a tap" common in europe.
Even worse, each article has only 1 writer for all readers!
Does isolation reduce viral load?
>It allows me to be much more granular with volume and brightness

I press the physical button a few more times? I find that 10 times easier.
This reminds me of our prof encouraging us to ask anything "because at least five others are wondering the same thing."
Compiling routinely pegs all 12 cores on my top-spec MBP for 5-10 minutes at a time. YMMV.
IMHO Pat deserves another Turing Award for creating Tableau.
Perhaps I spoke too soon, within hours I saw an article claiming GM was looking into whether they could divert resources to healthcare products.
They should have various tiers for security levels. What is often the challenge is that the most interesting work requires citizenship + clearance. Since OP is fine with rote work there might be some possibilities here.
Convention centers
What does this mean for the build up of antibodies? Is reinfection likely to occur as a result of this?
Guidance for Extended Use and Reuse of N95 Respirators in Healthcare Settings
Markets Enter New Phase–Where Cash Is All That Matters
With modern genomic science, we can pinpoint almost the exact time and place Covid-19 jumped from an animal host (likely pangolins intermediate host from bat reservoir) to humans.

It almost certainly jumped hosts to humans in November of 2019[1]. It has not been circulating in humans for long.

Indeed, several scientific publications have come out in the past decade that more or less predicted that a similar strain of SARS would jump hosts and become a pandemic disease[2].

Also, technically the Spanish Flu was just a bad flu season, right? Now, few believe now that Covid-19 will be nearly as bad as the 1918 pandemic (at least in its current mutation), but it will almost certainly worse than the 1957 flu pandemic, which was bad enough and which resulted in many governmental edicts similar to today, with many school and library closings.

I agree we need to keep cool and not overreact or panic, but we also need to take this thing very seriously. Even the experts are trying to figure this thing out. Disease modeling has come a long way since 1918, but modelers are not seers.

1. https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/24/dna-sleuths-read-coronav...

2. https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985

3. https://www.encyclopedia.com/media/educational-magazines/inf...
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I just have to add one thing: just like you, all ordinary people I've met have treated me just fine. I'm not worried about the couple nutjobs in every city going around beating up Asians, they're a rounding error.

When I say "they", I mean people with power, such as politicians and journalists. Naturally, this is a category that excludes Asians, by design. I'm willing to bet that I've interacted with these people far more than you have, and I can assure you that they're far more racist than ordinary people. Unfortunately, they also are in charge of telling ordinary people what to do and think.
I really hope this turns out to be the magic bullet that saves us from this mess.
You seem very humble. Keep up the good work. Listen to feedback but not all the feedback here needs to be taken seriously.
I am almost tempted by it, but I'm really worried about the WiFi.

Networking 1 RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet LAN, optional WiFi 802.11n (2.4/5.0 GHz) via Atheros ATH9k module

No AC? 802.11n is 10 years old.
one nice thing on stackoverflow is you can see your "Impact". For instance mine is...

IMPACT
~3.9m
people reached

looking at their stats, a very small percentage are answering most of the questions.
Logos Ethos Pathos
because we've always been at war with eastasia.

for people not familiar with 1984:
"Goldstein's book [in a book] explains that the purpose of the unwinnable, perpetual war is to consume human labour and commodities so that the economy of a superstate cannot support economic equality, with a high standard of life for every citizen."
Agreed. When constructing a house it would be cheap to run another line and put in a floor drain. Would make life much easier.

No more worrying about leaking pipes, overflowing toilet, etc.
Almost. The idea is to make our browser extremely much faster than the rest of them for rendering such pages.

This should hopefully get people to switch to our new browser and force other browsers to start competing.
I mean, you can run it right now...
Shutting down the country destroys everything. I'm not sure it's worth it.
2 weeks...perhaps in 2 weeks time it will be obvious how serious this is. i hope a serious consideration of the problem will follow.
Could this be skewed at the moment due to the number of nursing homes in Washington State that were hit early on?
The history of 'paper gold', in all its forms, including many national currencies until they floated in the 70s, is one of 'detachment' from the actual gold by the issue of more paper than what was backed by actual goods (fraud in other words).

There are some interesting arguments by people in the industry that the gold certificates in use today, supposedly backed by gold in mostly London, have only a small fraction of the physical gold behind them from what their denomination proclaims. Indeed, the more you look into the terms and details of the big gold funds, the fishier they look (as an example, their terms explicitly exclude the fund from any custodian risk, meaning they have no responsibility for the gold actually existing).

A thesis is that the paper gold is now being used as an instrument to regulate the demand for actual gold - whenever demand gets too high, more paper gold can be issued to counter the trend. This is managed by creative bookkeeping, where gold bars are leased to other entities (a practice that central banks openly use), who then lease them somewhere else, etc., until the ownership of any one given bar is no longer particularly clear, and may well be 'owned' by a number of entities at the same time. Thinking back to the previous financial crisis, it is not hard to believe a scenario where the financial industry invents creative tricks to make value out of thin air.
Perhaps there should be a different phrase, like "virtual tunnel".
Almost $2k Australian for the quad-core model. Pretty steep for a machine that still needs an upgrade of 16g of ram for my use, then the Y-series processor is still too low performance.
Sell some stock and come out stronger than competitors. Lobotomizing hurts more if you're good. If you can't, well, that says a lot about the owners and company when push comes to shove. Not the narrative, but fundamentals.

Of course, if $300M is VC ponzi valuation money, this was 80% fake anyways, and dependent on funny math continuing until the company caught up to the hype or exited to Someone Else's Problem, but that was the game being played. Then yes, time to cut. 2K people sucks, but like Uber employees complaining about RSU devaluation.. sucks, but you are the 1% and will ride it out.
For me the iPad is best for music and that sort of creative segment. It handles touch better than windows imo, and the os handles low latency applications much better. Core Audio is really just an exceptional framework for audio.
H1N1 also came from viruses from pigs in North America.
So it's not just bushmeat.
I think we have our share of work to do here as well.
An effective bum gun sprays water with a lot of force. There's a certain way to aim it (to be specific, first near your anus and then circle outwards) that completely removes all feces in just a few seconds.

I have tested the cleanliness with paper, but after 6 years now I never need any paper. Unless your ass is really hairy there won't be as much residual wetness as you'd expect and air drying for a moment is enough.
Younger Adults Comprise Big Portion of Coronavirus Hospitalizations in U.S.
At a 9W TDP the chip wont spend any more than a few seconds at boost clock.
35 residents are now known to have died of COVID-19.
How's working in battle.net? I interned on a dev team in 2014 and the general consensus was that work conditions were pretty rough. Is that still the case?
That is essentially the point in Gladwell's famous article "In the Air | Who says big ideas are rare?"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/05/12/in-the-air
Does that help with fragmentation though? If the connecting user must be the same then it doesn't add much, except lower connection latency.
There's also an open source digital synthesizer named Helm
Things "even out" here, its been like that for years. The top comments are usually smart with added inflammatory BS that only top comments possess. You can actually find really good advice, about many subjects, right after that first block of unstoppable up-votes.
My very naive take: could the difference in mortality between South Korea and Italy be explained by how SK tried antiviral drugs even when there was no strong evidence yet, while Europe stuck to anti inflammatory which we know now to be linked to severe outcomes?

Also, the probability of receiving a prescription drug is almost linear with respect to age.

So, could the highest death of >60 y.o. with comobidities be explained similarly by them taking drugs that have a negative impact on the disease?
> I thought the goal was to be more hygienic. I can see this maybe working if you live by yourself but anything beyond that is: no thanks.

I'm not trying to dissuade you from holding that opinion, just pointing out that there are many, many people who regularly use cloth diapers for newborns. While many people choose not to use them, I don't think most people consider them a less sanitary option.
looks promising.

"A renowned research professor in France has reported successful results from a new treatment for Covid-19, with early tests suggesting it can stop the virus from being contagious in just six days.

Professor Raoult is an infectious diseases specialist and head of the IHU Méditerranée Infection, who has been tasked by - and consulted by - the French government to research possible treatments of Covid-19."

https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/French-researche...
> I'm regretting turning down the offer

Ask them if it's still on the table. I know you're going to feel terrible asking that, but you have to realize that you are probably a very valuable employee to them, who knows their systems well. Considering you might be leaving in 2 weeks, there is nothing to lose in asking (other than maybe pride).

> Whats worse is I emailed the new job asking if we're still going ahead with me starting, and there was no reply.

This is extremely messed, and a huge red flag. It's extremely unprofessional and rude to offer someone a job, and then not even have the courtesy to communicate if the offer is being rescinded.
This is not a scientific measurement. "1%" is an idiom for "very few". "9%" is a mismathematization of "10%" meaning "few".
> I'm not sure it's worth it.

It is. The quarantines/border-restrictions are not permanent measures, and acting swiftly is the correct way to nip it in the bud.

> Shutting down the country destroys everything.

Empty hyperbole. Death tolls in the tens of millions is a far worse outcome, as is stressing our current healthcare systems well beyond their capacities.
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Another interesting point is a library written in Clojure and designed to used in both Java and Clojure
Some people are already calling the virus the "boomer remover"

I'm not sure I want to be in their camp.

Even with all the generational resentment in the world, destroying the economy may be better than destroying lives.
A $500 per person "get it out of your system at home" fund, I love it
> The book was Tipler / Llewellyn by the way.

Ah, you're talking about lower-level-answers-at-the-back undergraduate books in physics. Yes, most of them are shit, and it would be a futile task to learn any real physics from them. Who was even talking about such books? Lol.

> I would consider most other physics textbooks to be the haphazard ones, and when you compare the rate of errors in the text I have a strong suspicion those other books have much higher rates on average

From your comments it's pretty apparent that you've not even looked into any graduate-level or even upper-level undergrad physics books and the only physics books you've read are overpriced freshmen/sophomore physics textbooks. In any case, do you really think a book (series) like Landau and Lifshitz or The Feynman Lectures (which is actually freshman physics) has more errors and typos compared to some obscure text in engineering with contrived methods and reinvented wheels? Lol.

Anyway, there's no point in taking this argument further. It's unlikely that either of us would change our viewpoints ;-)
Zfs on a laptop means you run zfs with a single disk?
100% excluding the 6 patients that had problems. From the article:

> Six hydroxychloroquine-treated patients were lost in follow-up during the survey because of early cessation of treatment. Reasons are as follows: three patients were transferred to intensive care unit, including one transferred on day2 post-inclusion who was PCR-positive on day1, one transferred on day3 post-inclusion who was PCR-positive on days1-2 and one transferred on day4 post-inclusion who was PCR positive on day1 and day3; one patient died on day3 post inclusion and was PCR-negative on
day2; one patient decided to leave the hospital on day3 post-inclusion and was PCR-negative on days1-2; finally, one patient stopped the treatment on day3 post-inclusion because of nausea and was PCR-positive on days1-2-3.

They lost 6 patients in the treatment group, but none in the control group.

> None of the control patients was lost in follow-up.

And it is not a randomized control group

> Untreated patients from another center and cases refusing the protocol were included as negative controls
Your own self-serving bologna doesn't count as well-established science, and making unfounded health claims about supplements is illegal under numerous federal laws. I suggest everyone reading this contact the FDA to urge enforcement action against these shylock clowns.
The same as brick layer vs architect.
Having live television feeds of people dying in the streets (like in Wuhan) would absolutely crater the economy and cause massive social unrest.
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Hypertension being a highly prevalent comorbidity seems suggestive of something.