skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the community effort but this thing is waaay too unfocused. Batteries, chores and a todo list?

I've been using an app called Cinnamon to handle grocery shopping. The general idea is similar: define a bunch of things you want to keep in stock in your pantry. Every two weeks before a shopping run I do a sub-five minute scan. The app groups by category, which usually helps keep it fast. Anything I'm low on swipe left and it's on the buy list.

In the grocery store, swipe left again as you buy and it's in the cart. Swipe right for 'next time.' (After a certain amount of time, anything in your cart is presumed to have moved back into the pantry, and anything in next time moves to buy list). For multiperson households, you could split the buy list construction from the acquisition.

I guess the key realization here is that data entry is simpler if you only check before planned grocery store runs, and if you can predict how much you need on hand to last between shopping runs. For toiletries its a pretty quick 'do I have an unopened one still?' For food I know some people use meal planning but I just keep stuff on hand and wing it -- spices keep for quite a while and meat freezes fine.
i think very much. There is a process for merging threads, if they are similar enough but "coronavirus" is too general of a tag for merging on that basis.

i wonder how much extra work would be required to branch topics off into "hyperthreads" or something like that.
And around graduation season, tossing it over neighbors' trees...
Why do we place such low stock in mere fortune?
If original cases that penetrated borders were asymptomatic then that merely creates a rare event (i.e. all Japanese risk vectors being clearly symptomatic) and its always plausible for a rare event to happen.

Instead we're bending over backwards wondering if its about Japanese bowing/shoe/mask culture.
Financial heavyweights have unveiled forecasts for a sudden US recession
This is actually causing a severe shortage at many pharmacies and hospitals. People are rushing out and hoarding this drug, preventing us from having adequate supplies for treating the serious cases.
Endurance athletes do not routinely exhaust themselves during workouts. Instead they work out to build mitochondria (among other goals). Hence the popularity of polarized training programs. Exhaustion impairs proper rest and recovery. Your suggestion is not consistent with what we see happening in humans.
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Japan has the oldest population of any country with a median age of almost 50 years old.

I can see the virus spreading silently among the young and healthy. But Seattle and Italy have showed us that it’s very clear when the very old start catching it.

Doesn’t this suggest that Japan truly isn’t experiencing a wave of silent infections?
This is such a strange response. Byuu's two posts later in the thread contain several corrections, particularly on their alleged cartridge hoarding behavior. It invalidates the claims of the original post while not denying any of the evidence was true. A well sourced Wikipedia article can still be biased. The presence of sources isn't mutually exclusive with bias.
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If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
Is it close to where you can supply a link?
If you’re in the mood for some more punishing difficulty that’s still fast paced, definitely give Spelunky HD a try! It’s a classic for a reason.

I finally started playing it recently and am hooked. I’m still working on the zero gold run achievement —- it’s so frustrating making it to the caves and stepping on gold buried behind the snow foreground :( I’m determined to finish it before the lockdown is over, though.
> Still, there is a massive blindspot with this type of graph. None of these charts are weighted on a per-capita basis.

Since this is an exponential phenomenon, I don't buy that "per-capita" matters (on top of the fact that he seems to be pulling in numbers as a snapshot in absolute time rather than windowed from initial cases).

If the numbers double every 5 days, the US can have 16 times the population of some other smaller country and be only 3 weeks from the same per capita effects.
This is a manufacturer issue. This has nothing to do with Amazon.

Amazon is the company selling the product. Every brick and mortar store is expected to not sell defective goods, why should Amazon be exempt?
This is a cool concept, but in addition to all of the concerns other people have voiced, I have a very specific problem: I've been trying to go "zero waste" and reduce packaging as much possible. This means there is no package to scan, I'm just buying in bulk and putting stuff into bags/jars. There's also no clear expiration date, which is actually somewhat troubling these days, but so far I haven't had bulk stuff go bad b/c I wasn't stockpiling/prepping it.

We'll see what happens during the pandemic, that's definitely thrown a wrench into my low-packaging shopping.
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Yep, never been to Japan but I can confidently say there are plenty of excellent sushi restaurants here in LA.
Yes, some breweries and distilleries are making sanitizer.
Note that they have smaller versions of them too, which works like regular coins.
I am particularly disturbed by emergent behaviors and life decisions that are now laid bare in this crisis.

As a Bay Area resident, it is incumbent upon me to maintain, in perpetuity, several weeks of food and drinking water as well as various other life essentials. I owe this to my family and everyone in my community as we all live in a place where a tremendous natural disaster and accompanying social dis-integration could occur at any time.

Of course I have had my suspicious ...

Now we see that most residents of the Bay Area are barely prepared to make dinner tomorrow and have supplies on-hand for a day or two. They don't have contingency plans for the absence of water, electricity or gas and I suspect very few are certified and practiced in even basic CPR.

Shame on you.

There is going to be a day when even the grocery stores aren't open and the water isn't going to flow. Possibly for weeks. I plead with you to spend your quarantine time getting your shit together the way you've always been expected to.
It's one of the bulkiest consumable products people buy. Which means a whole shelf is only equivalent a few families worth of demand. So it only takes a few buyers stocking up for a few weeks of use to empty the shelves. And once the shelves are empty the panic sets in.
No mention of actual drug in story?
I view this more as like a publication of a vulnerability: "Hey, one major university believes they have to thoroughly investigate even the most bad-faith accusations against academic rivals for the same job, which is ripe for abuse."

It doesn't matter that only one (publicly known) case has happened, if there's the potential of others latching on.
It’s unlikely to take that long, in the US our number of dead ~= number of infected 2 weeks ago. Part of that is from in insufficient testing, but 30+% daily increases mean 2,600+% growth per month.
Based on unpublished data, and the article neither names the drug nor says anything about the kind of study this claim is based on.

Not something to get excited about.
Yep it's unmai rained and I couldn't find any good alternatives. Which is why I put the whole grocery tracking thing on hold. Barrier here is the lack of accessible data for me
Why do you think it's inevitable that there will be a deflation? Genuine question, it seems the money supply is going to be increasing?
The WHO recommendations are meant to preserve a limited supply of masks for where they are needed most. It's not because masks are ineffective
I'm doing remote work for over thirty years, and email works fine. Much better than telephone calls. Everything real-time is a massive waste of everyone's time.

Websites, like github or jira, are also OK.
They don't say which one...
Building a mobile analytics platform for tracking daily / monthly active / new users, etc. similar to Fabric (thankfully they extended the shutdown). Not a big fan of the Firebase console.
It's going to end up killing people. Chloroquine is nasty stuff and irresponsible to be hawking...pharmaceuticals can cause as much damage as they can prevent! There is no clinical basis and Trump continues to hawk it ultimately because he is so vested in hotels and hospitality and is more focused on financial damage control of his own investments than the health and safety of the American people.
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The same way the US is considered first world with half of its population living in poverty, a third or more without proper healthcare, almost one percent in prison, etc.
Yeah, one of the more obscure benefits of vegan(-ish) diet: tidy BMs. Much less odor too.
I'm spending some more time on https://en.howtruthful.com/ which is for creating trees of arguments and evidence. I've also been thinking about using deno for multiplayer text adventures.
Been working on https://divjoy.com, a React codebase generator. Wrapping up database integration (can choose between Firestore or Mongo).
> Why do they enrich themselves during good times

Did they? Airline stock prices have collapsed, so unless insiders sold everything in January, "enrich themselves" really means standard executive pay...which might be high, but that's another issue. Airlines, as businesses, didn't behave especially irresponsibly for the past decade. It's nothing like the banking excesses in 2007 that causes 2008.

Air travel in the US was significantly more expensive when it was heavily regulated. By your logic, you very quickly get to a Chinese level of state ownership of businesses. Practically every large cap company would be on that list.
I have a form of cystic fibrosis. It isn't relevant treatment for anything for most people and coconut oil is medically recommended for the condition or, alternately, MCT oil. Coconut oil is high in medium chain triglycerides and has a long history of being medically recommended by doctors for serious gut issues, including stomach cancer.

I've seen citations for such. I don't happen to have them at my fingertips. But you (or anyone) can go looking for such if they are curious.
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My current personal projects/areas of focus:

- Writing a lot of music, both for practice and for an indie rhythm game some friends and I are developing.

- Spending a lot of time with my kid now that she’s home from school and I’m working from home without my commute sucking up time. We’ve been playing games together, building with LEGO, and just enjoying some carefree kid time.

- Cooking all meals at home. My spouse and I are both decent cooks but this is a good chance to get more practice in and try some new recipes.

- “Socializing” with friends online via Slack and online games.
Then stop what you're doing for a while. Problem solved.
I think people talk past each other a lot on this issue because there's a conflation of population-level versus individual-level decision-making and benefits. The recommendation that you cite is worded for individuals; population-level benefits are simply out of scope.
One of the pros of the paid plan being "No more license key interruptions" concerns me, how often will it nag for payment? I understand needing to be paid but shouldn't nag screens be for trial periods leading to paid subscriptions not for "free" tiers?

This concern stems from the giant full screen unclosable (no X at top right) popup offering me 20% off if I buy now before I've even finished reading the landing page.
See the letters between Jefferson and the Danbury Baptists. Who were the Danbury Baptists worried about? Muslims? Jews? Atheists? The local Congregationalist Christians.
My understanding is this is being used to try to dismantle Title IX (Devos and company are against it).

The article shows a very troubling abuse of the system, but it should be a prompt to fix it rather than destroy it.
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How to make your own mask
I run freesewing.org, the website linked to in the Forbes article (1).
The university hospital here in Antwerp where I live is actively reaching out to the community asking them to make masks. (2)
I'm not a scientist, but here's something that I can do, so I'm trying to help. I trust the doctors, that's good enough for me.

(1) https://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2020/03/20/calling-all-...
(2) https://www.uza.be/mondmaskers. (in Dutch)
I recently re-platformed my personal site onto Hugo, and it's really nice. You can easily use GitHub to host, and posts are in markdown.

Templating is pretty simple and as close to plain html markup as I think you can reasonably get. Outputs flat files that you could put anywhere.

Totally reduced friction to post, no server processes or database to babysit and the binary to build it is one versioned package. I will be able to build it for years without worrying too much. Can't recommend enough.
I'm currently working on a Wayland Flutter embedder for Linux (the existing GLFW embedder is using X11 so desktop Flutter apps are running through XWayland in Wayland environments).
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Because it is quite clear from the article that the investigator was motivated to be "bad" by incentives baked in to Title IX.
The author makes the point that the investigator was sympathetic, but had to follow policy. It's the policy that is defective:

>Melanie also hadn’t been able to locate a current student named Rebecca James in Marta’s department, but she said that the name could always be an alias, and she was still obligated to investigate Marta now that a “credible” accusation had been made.

>“Good question,” Melanie responded, her voice bright again. “Because of the funding that we receive through Title IX, we’re required to investigate everything. And with that we want to really run everything to the ground.”
Absolutely right!

Also "normal-weighted" is a pretty bad standard, cause that "criteria" is easily flawed.
Good question, seems like it's still being determined, but apparently the US president has made some statements that suggest it does. Being a doctor does come naturally to him of course.
Probably, but as you say, once everyone has a month or two's supply in their closet, they'll stop buying no matter what.
"fever shortness of breath" filtered by metro region has been what I look at every day for more than a month now. It is a window into where community spread has been appearing (and people are googling their symptoms) and it is this weird view into the future of what will be reported in the news. Watching it spread county by county from the main cities to elsewhere in the country has been something.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=fever%20sh...
I'm working on https://spendlight.com a SMS-powered spending journal.

With all the uncertainty and risk to our personal finances, it seems fitting to work on a project that will (worst case) help me buckle down and improve my spending habits.
There's places doing it, but not by mandate.

With the amount of ethanol produced for fuel in the US, it's the other ingredients and packaging that would be the capacity limit.
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reads like a common scam
I started something very similar a few years ago. The chord generator is a bit buggy though...

https://guitar.tardin.com
For me it's mostly fitness (as all the gyms are now closed in Austria, I've to become creative) and working on ImageMonkey - a public open source image dataset. (https://imagemonkey.io)
This is a great translation, thank you!
Finally polished off my personal site (basically a dev portfolio) and now working on a site comparing orbital rockets with back of the napkin math.

https://fotijr.com/

https://rockets.fotijr.com
an important aspect of rogues is the interaction with the world, using a fantasy background allows to take a lot of shortcuts in world building, imagine you join the game the first time and you have to select a role, you kinda know what to expect from an elf range or a dwarf thief, but if the world is original content, say like rogue trader, most of the initial choices are arbitrary and disorienting on the first few games and can impact negatively on the perception of the game system
I have aliases very similar to yours (only differences are that they're one or two characters long, and the logs use ISO 8601 date format). Super quick to append, read, and edit personal logs - no GUI could be better or more immediate. I often grep it, but gotta admit could use an automated way to calculate time differences.
I acknowledge that asking for increased wages may not pitch well. Perhaps the more effective angle is for strikers to demand all health expenses these workers incur during this time be covered.
All of this doesn't undermine the fundamentals of the model I'm approaching the problem of online voting with. What is the potential upside, and is a system that reaps those benefits without compromising on security possible? I believe there are answers to most of these problems, providing you can restructure some aspects of voting.

It's not something I would advocate implementing in the nearish term, but I do think work can and should be done on it's fundamental problems.

One if the best/most frequent arguments against online voting is that there will be exploits and individual votes can and will be tampered with. So, lets take that in isolation for a second. Lets say I have to cast a vote a month in advance. I can change it for another month, but perhaps only in person. Is that enough fraud mitigation? What if that period is a year long? What if my political positions have been known by this app for years, and a dramatic shift in their distribution sends an alert prompting confirmation processes?

Essentially, is there some level of triage/verification process at which the online vote is considered acceptably secure? Well, if so, then can it be made compatible with a system that ensures ballot secrecy?

To flesh out my overall thinking of this problem domain – my kind of dream/ideal future of democracy is a system in which the positions of the electorate are "simply known". Right now we clumsily take a partial pulse every 2-4 years. But, if we had a system where voting (and polling) was "passive", then we could see the shift in sentiment way easier. Tampering would show in the data, or else have to be maintained for long periods of time. Essentially, the further we move from instantaneous votes, the better the process should get across the board.

To get a bit soap-boxy, if representation is a right as opposed to a privilege, then deepening and broadening it is an obligation of the state. More aggressively accessible in-person voting options would be good, but in the long run nothing will beat technologically-enabled democracy... if we can figure it out.
maybe, maybe not. it's impossible to say. developing new stuff is a very different game from catching up, especially when you get to manufacture mid-tech stuff for the west and take a loose interpretation of intellectual property. as a state, china currently seems much more able to direct its resources towards worthwhile endeavors than the US, but afaik they are still pretty far behind when it comes to cutting-edge stuff. the new j-20 fighter isn't a match for the f-22, let alone the f-35. they can't touch the level of US silicon fabs without annexing taiwan. I've read some convincing arguments that it may have an edge in cyberespionage/warfare, but it's always hard to judge those capabilities.
Do you ever feel like you wont have enough toilet paper for your next shit?

Introducing Grocy: easily find a missing product in your fridge,bathroom or an underground bunker. Always know what's expiring next.
I think this is the case. Japanese (and other East Asians) already have a pre-existing mask culture. Wearing a mask is normal over there and is encouraged. They also do not hug, shake hands and have body contact with does that are not family or close friends. Another big factor is that they tend to follow the rules unlike in Italy or America where social distancing suggestions were not taken seriously by a large chunk of the population.

Even with these explanation, I'm still perplexed as trains in Japan are always packed and it's impossible to stay 6-feet away from others when you're travelling in dense cities in Tokyo. You're also constantly touching poles/handles in the train or pushing elevator buttons.
There was a time when blog posts by “regular Joes” was the norm on HN and it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. Quality content can come from anywhere.

I’d rather judge them on the merits of their contribution than some meta signals.
I'd be satisfied with simply stepping up police manpower for enforcement, and then much stronger punishment. e.g. for first-time violators, license revocation for a year, after which the individual is allowed to re-apply as a new driver, with all of the testing/license restriction/insurance implications of being an entirely new driver.
It's not people executing arbitrary code vs. them not getting access to apps outside the ecosystem, or that some apps are really privileged over others, making it a very unfair competition.

Similarly, most people aren't going to be reading the documented output that comes from various gov't institutions, but they're not missing the impact of individual documents as opposed to the aggregate products that emerge from such information.
Reflecting on all my Go project I am trying to come up with a scalable and easy to maintain application structure that is not too much OOP (no hexagonal stuff) and easy to grasp. Lots of drawing and thinking ten steps ahead.
Those two things can both be true in a way: if an untrained person uses masks in non-high risk situations they may gain no significant benefit and even cause more harm by causing supply pressure.
It's not a lie. Those two statements are taken wildly out of context. Wearing a mask while walking down the street does effectively nothing for you. But if your job is to be surrounded by infected for the whole day, a mask helps your chances of avoiding getting sick, since you're in close contact all day long. I'm not really sure why people don't understand this.
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (https://cataclysmdda.org/) is ab open source post-apocalyptic near future scifi roguelike. The best way to play it is with a launcher:

Windows GUI launcher - https://github.com/remyroy/CDDA-Game-Launcher/releases

Linux/Docker CLI launcher - https://github.com/houseabsolute/catalauncher/releases

The Linux one is mine and could in theory work on macOS too. Patches are welcome.
It wouldn't hide it at all. Shifting an exponential curve gives you another exponential curve.
This article is a clickbait. The title tells about sushi parasites, but there is no such thing.
I kinda understand wanting to have people not rush to testing the drug, though if both are administered by infusion the risk of self-medication is reduced.

Better wait for the article.
Bill guessing the cost of household goods - https://youtu.be/ad_higXixRA
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I'm working on Slide to Subscribe, an embeddable signup form and universal subscribe link.

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When I use dutch oven or clay pot I use leavening basket and just flip the bread into it.
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