skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The API is full of little details that show you care (I smile every time I see you can do '.prevent" - "oh right, they though of that!").

I tend to have the opposite reaction. I want a framework with a small API I can keep cached in my head. I don't want to worry about finding the magic switches to get it working the way I want.
Folding Home: How Your PC Can Help in the Fight Against Covid-19
The value of robust and redundant supply chains only becomes manifest when serious disruption actually occurs.

In vast swaths of both the consumer and industrial economy, the supply chain bean counters have tolerated no argument for choosing anyone besides the low cost supplier.

Cost optimizations were the only rewarded metrics.
Testing everyone with a symptom would be nice, but coverage is not quite that good here.
You don't need full MDs for respiratory therapy, or for many medical treatments. PAs and RNs can do a lot, and it's far easier and less expensive to attain those certifications than full MD.
Hadabot: Setting up MicroPython on an ESP32 for ROS2 robotics
ISH makes me happy and frustrates me in equal measure.

On one hand, it’s exactly what I want on iOS in terms of a shell and Posix sandbox.

On the other, it forces x86 emulation on me that I don’t want. If ISH could just give me an aarch64 environment without QEMU at all I’d be in love.
Yeah, everything will be back to normal - if you can weather the storm.

The problem is that many small business can't/won't. How will government help them?

Sounds like a perfect (horrible) storm.
More on this point of view ("formalism") and a provably unfixable issue (incompleteness) in these notes of mine: https://iblech.gitlab.io/bb/multiverse.html
I thought this was about the music education software by the same name
They probably never developed a SARS vaccine because it didn't turn into a major worldwide pandemic. There's lots of diseases that don't have vaccines mainly because it's seen as not worth the effort or cost. SARS and MERS looked scary at first but never got this big.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23607047
Most governments have announced pretty generous packages to businesses
China moved heaven and earth to stop the virus from spreading. If anyone should pay reparations it's the US for breaking quarantine and spreading the virus when china told them not to.
Yes, ORM patterns generally lead to great inefficiencies, such as client-side implementation of JOINs and such.

That doesn't mean that you can't have a RESTful API for a relational database that doesn't have these problems. For example, PostgREST does exactly that.
That is quite possible. I wouldn't be surprised if - once all this is over - wet markets are seen as having a similarly skewed risk profile as, e.g., 1st-to-3rd generation nuclear reactors. No problems most of the time; downside risk dominated by rare yet devastating black swans.
From what I have heard and seen, the reason is that there isn't any other place where labour is that cheap. In combination with very cheap transport costs (which may be quite subsidized in order to encourage trade), what you get is a single location where almost all production occur.

A extreme example I have heard of (could of course be false) is that some fish from the north parts of Norway get sent to be processed and packaged in china in order to be imported back at the same place where it was once fished.

If we want more redundancy by encouraging more spread out production there would need to be something to balance the desire to just move production where labour is cheapest.
I like the idea! It's definitely a good way for trying to bring a little bit of humanity through slacking back into our virtual rooms (pun intended)
I don't think this analogy works. For Fastmail, there is a cost regardless of whether you want to access government data. You have to pay for the account itself. For most cloud providers, there is zero cost for having an account. Even if they hosted this themselves, they could just as likely charge for data transfer costs...and get to choose how to collect that. They could choose PayPal and you have to create an account. Or they take credit cards...and you must have a card belonging to one of the networks they support. The barrier to entry doesn't change regardless of how many cloud providers there are, all it does is increase infrastructure costs unnecessarily.
Very true. Here's some more comprehensive numbers from Italian media:

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=https:/...

Since Feb 25 there have been 91 deaths with positive COVID-19 diagnoses. In total there have been 330 deaths. I'd be very curious what the age breakdowns are.

Anyhow, this was just a small example that shows that we're already seeing significant mortality relative to the _total population_ and not just by confirmed positive cases.
Often, when bad things happen, humans tend to go broad and deep and question everything around them. This is the wrong approach, IMO. Nobody has the power to alter everything around them, so nothing gets done.

If we look at history, we see tiny, continuous improvements in reaction to bad events are what have led to the relative stability of modern life. Bad thing happens, we figure out the (usually small) root cause, then we stop it.

For example, when the automobile emerged, we learned that allowing people to drive without rules resulted in gridlock and frequent crashes. Did we ban automobiles altogether? No. We created regulations (traffic rules), and improved the issue.

Then we then learned that more people die in car crashes if they have nothing protecting their body in a crash, so we created seatbelts. Then we learned they still needed cranial protection in a crash. We created airbags, and improved the issue. And so on.

After coronavirus, the solution is not to lock down global supply chains and force everybody to stay indoors forever. The solution is easy. We simply change regulations and practice around the storage of certain animal species. Until the next thing comes along, and we tweak our model of the world again to address it.

This is not complicated. Human life is one giant continuous improvement model.
A good idea! Thanks :)
That's right. Most companies have not stopped business due to bodies lining the streets. If they had been forced to close due to the sheer reality of unconstrained growth, the recession would be terrible. However, right now, most countries are closing businesses preemptively, which is great, but if the government mandates a recession, they will be forced to compensate (which they're doing)
Links to this?
Just as Tom Cotton (Senator from Arkansas) declared on Fox news that it was a Chinese bioweapon. All governments have wingnuts.
I run a small company so I am on the other side BUT I can tell you that there is a lot of concern right now if we will be able to sustain the same levels as normal even though we are SAAS and should not be directly impacted. I am just worried if this situation will unleash more issues in next few weeks and I really cannot/do not want to lay anyone off in our team.
a classic blog post on this topic from "Old Man Murray": https://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html

"Who killed Adventure Games? I think it should be pretty clear at this point that Adventure Games committed suicide."
Cord-19: Covid-19 Open Research Dataset
Age is definitely a factor. In my 20s I could drink liters of coffee any time without problems. Now even one cup is having significant impact on me. I have heard the same from other people.
He did it because Mike Pompeo keeps calling it the China or Wuhan virus, instead of Covid-19, and it irritates China. Now Trump calls it "China virus" consistently...

There's many ways to debunk Lijian Zhao's conspiracy theory including the fact that the people who participated in the Wuhan military games and admitted to the hospital for an "unknown respiratory illness" was confirmed to be malaria by the hospital itself.

He knows it, and anyone who did brief research knows (there are lots of Chinese who believe it, though...they are the Chinese equivalent to MAGA supporters).
Global Viral Outbreaks Like Coronavirus, Once Rare, Will Become More Common: Urbanization, globalization and increased human consumption of animal proteins are driving a rise in epidemics

https://www.wsj.com/articles/viral-outbreaks-once-rare-becom...
They did and now there are no new cases from local transmission.
A REST API on top of an ORM is going to have the same problems the ORM has. But you can have a RESTful interface to a relational database. For example, PostgREST is awesome.
Then you'd probably still want this switch, but expect to be notified of the block. Then you could move in an orderly fashion.
They sound more akin to kernel programmers.
Are we not able to have polite discourse anymore? Sheesh..

Container orchestration is not the first silver bullet that has grown a large following that makes money off of it, whether reasonable or not. I do have a question though. Say you have a bunch of microvms processing your workload or serving dynamic pages. How are you going to manage your fleet of MicroVMs? Would you perhaps write a microvm orchestrator of some sort?

Got a huge kick out of the first comment on the linked page:

> You know what you call a "micro-VM that's purpose-built to run one application" if you're a Unix person?

> A process.

> And now we've come full circle. Everything old is new again!
Nothing new needed - this tune has been played before: Depression.
This isn’t needed though.

Chrome OS handles this quite gracefully by having container support baked in. You can just install whatever distro you need in the container and get rolling with it. It would make iPad Pro my perfect device (I’d replace my MBP in a heartbeat).
Given that the government is being generous with a stimulus, and that most banks will see the writing on the wall which is that these businesses are not insolvent due to lack of demand, but rather the fact that demand was legislated away, only to be reintroduced in (hopefully) a few months), most banks and financial institutions will almost certainly salivate at the thought of almost guaranteed loan yields if they have the funds to wait it out. And banks of course certainly do have the funds to wait it out.
Yes! That's a piece of wisdom that many managers would need to learn. It seems easier to sell an ambitious rewrite with the newest tech than common sense, do what's right, fix what's wrong, baby steps work.
I wonder if it is the same thing that stalled AI research for decades? After the initial burst of hacks that seemed really impressive (ELIZA for example), the field focused on finding formal mathematical solutions to the problems and effectively stalled for 30+ years. It's only in the past few years with a shift to doing statistical things on large sets of data--something that feels a lot more like the hacky original efforts--that it feels like we're making any progress again.

This is from a outsider's point of view so it may be completely wrong. But I did try to take an AI course in the late 90s and it was so far divorced from computer hardware that I joked it should have been in the math department.
>> Redundancies and buffers that could protect us from once-in-couple-decades events are considered as "fat", and are cut off by competitive pressure.

THIS.

My brother-in-law owns a company and they put in place a ton of redundancies after the 08' crash. They're in a specialized manufacturing. After 6-7 years of stability and some of their markets recovering and stabilizing, he started getting pressure from his two partners to cut the safety nets and re-invest it in supply chain improvements. He was against it saying the same thing, "This isn't a five or six year plan, it's a permanent plan to protect the company." In short, he was outvoted. The redundancies were removed and the money was re-invested in other areas. .

The last week basically saw their entire supply chain shut down, almost all of their customers shut down and yesterday they had to send everybody home and shut down themselves for the time being.

My brother in law texted me saying, "This is the worst fucking "I told you so" in my life, I'm not sure we can survive this." He's meeting with his partners this week to assess the damage and how long they can survive before they'll need an influx of capital to keep the lights on.

Had they kept all of their money tied up in their emergency plan, they would've been able to pivot to other suppliers and continue to serve their clients. Right now? They put all their eggs into one basket and it could very well kill the company.
Shouldn't this tool allow for modifying the numbers in the "Severity assumptions" section, too? This uses the same estimate from the Imperial College model, which is basically an educated guess at this point:

> A total of 72,314 patient records—44,672 (61.8%) confirmed cases, 16,186 (22.4%) suspected cases, 10,567 (14.6%) clinically diagnosed cases (Hubei Province only), and 889 asymptomatic cases (1.2%)—contributed data for the analysis.

Another study guesses that 86% of cases are asymptomatic and/or otherwise undocumented:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/13/scie...
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Another place where ifconfig doesn't work properly is that it assumes network interfaces have 48 bit hardware addresses. Works fine on ethernet but not on infiniband.
Anyone have a non-paywall copy?
Fair. Thanks
What am I missing? Seems fine to me: https://github.com/aurelia/framework
Zoom CEO Selling Shares on St. Patrick's Day
Software using obscure kernel interfaces does keep private copies of kernel data structures.

The reason is that people want the software to have full functionality no matter what system is used for building it. You can build on an old system, with a kernel that totally lacks the functionality, and produce a binary that can use the new kernel interfaces when run on a system that has them.
In terms of the broader economic picture, companies have more cash than ever. Just a few years ago, the new york times had an article decrying the situation and accusing companies of 'hoarding' cash. My how the times have changed: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/magazine/why-are-corporat...
My first question is: how does Github know that certain committers are from sanctioned countries? Do they have Github profiles showing they're from sanctioned countries?

Given the number of huge FOSS projects on Github, it's feasible to imagine that many major repos have code contributed by people from sanctioned countries.

I have no idea what their motive is, but it smells really political to me. I could see Github's argument if they violated labor laws by hiring or contracting with individuals illegally, but that doesn't sound like what happened here.
> I wonder if this will be the final nail in the coffin for wet markets

You can't stop it anytime soon. There will always be underground community wet markets. A high level engineer, that used to work for Disney, happens to be a close family friend (my brother's Godparent^).

He was contracted out to work on the Ghost cities' transportation lines. As it's been documented, they were the planned destination for the forcible relocation of rural residents. At least, as much of the rural population as China thought they could move. In the test cases, the farmers just ended up reverting to american homeless-style survival, as they didn't stay in their sterile buildings for very long and ended up scavenging/defecating on the streets and trying to escape back to the jungle, as you might expect.

After almost 2 years of working by commuting to-from China, one day he saw an accident where some workers got killed and he got the VERY strong sense that he might not be allowed to leave, due to his danger of leaking the story. He calmly finished out that month, came back home to the US and promptly told Disney he wasn't going back. Since it was insisted that the work continue, he stepped down.

^ This informs me, while it should just be a rumor to anyone else.
I talk about this a lot when giving talks or working with folks on their reliability. This article does a great (if a bit long winded) job on explaining why it's important to know your p50,p95, and p99.

But what rarely gets mentioned is that there is no one right answer as to which to use.

It's a business decision on a per product basis.

In some cases, it's totally fine if 5% of the customers get an awful response. In some cases, p99 must be sub 5ms or your customers will leave.

This is one of the key areas where engineering and management need to work together -- deciding which percentile is key for which metrics.
The wet markets were already illegal. I’m not sure that betting we can prevent another pandemic is the right approach here.
I will keep that in mind if we ever play poker.

But the phrase remains a common idiom. And in an internet discussion like this, the rationale that makes it bad form in poker does not apply. I cannot see anyone's reactions until after my action is complete and I hit "reply". And therefore I cannot gain a read and final decision based on my incomplete first stage of the action.
Software Development and ADHD: An Insight
Then take the project elsewhere but the leave the switch
Modern React UI Library
Very limited free version asking for very few, non-sensible, non-relevant data to try and convert from the pool of the maybes?
Not a bad idea. But I haven’t seen it work in practice with strong usability. The fact of the matter is, if you ask developers where they discovered software, “GitHub” would rank higher than GitLab.

This is due not only to higher traffic numbers, but also more features revolving around discoverability. GitLab could build those features too, but it’s difficult to overcome the network effect driving GitHub’s momentum. It’s especially hard because even the people who did migrate to GitLab mostly did so for the free private projects and CI. It’s unlikely many will move public repositories to GitLab now that GitHub nears feature parity in CI.
Github just reversed their decision.
> GitHub has the most eyeballs

You're being downvoted for a true statement.

There is a lot of GitLab zealousness at HN. Please don't downvote simply because you disagree over product favoritism and outlook. Offer a refutation.
If China had been more forthcoming with the nature of the virus, instead of ramping up both internal and external censorship, perhaps the world would have been better prepared. Instead their KGB equivalent went into overdrive. Do you know that in addition to admonishing and disappearing doctors and scientists who dared to blow the whistle, at least one multimillionaire tycoon has been disappeared for criticizing the response? The CCP puts the CCP first, before both global and Chinese citizens.

And before anyone accuses me of nationalism, the US has its own share of worldbuilding to answer for, and our response is also difficult to excuse as US intelligence was no doubt aware of the true danger, considering papers regarding R0 and lethality and such have been floating around since early January. Like credit, assign blame where it is due. The behavior of the CCP is not a reflection on the Chinese people.
> the pain of configuring LILO

LI
A secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT (2018)
Coronavirus Outbreaks Spreading in Nursing Homes
It seems like some Italian official theorized that Germany might be misreporting in an interview and now it gets repeated as a fact over and over (at least that's the only source I've seen cited, if you have others I'd love to see them - it would be important to know), while a simple look into German news reports shows you that tons of the reported deaths are linked to other illnesses.

I don't have good data for Germany overall, but at least here in Berlin a large chunk of the currently known infections spread through night clubs, giving you lots of fairly young and otherwise healthy infected. If there was spread from those to more vulnerable groups, they're likely not infected long enough to have died from it yet.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/national-strategy...

What do you think the CDC does in the years there aren't pandemics?
How do you build in redundancy, though? If China makes widgets for $0.13 a unit and the US makes widgets for $0.15 a unit, how do you incentivize people to buy some of them from China, and some of them from the US? It seems like the logic of free trade and specialization dictates it's mostly all-or-nothing.

That's a genuine question, by the way. I'm curious.
That's OK. Assuming the universe is finite or countable, the number of all possible circumstances in which a real number needs to be described (e.g. a practical problem needing solution or somebody's curiosity needing satisfaction) is also countable. In other words, most real numbers will never come up in any situation in the entire history of a countable universe.
White supremacy is more than mere "political opposition." Don't trivialize that.
To a patient on life support.. did try turning it off and on? How's the healthcheck?
This approach can be super helpful for dealing be with reference data... See https://clearpoint.digital/blog/struggling-with-reference-da...
All numbers in the table should be editable by the user -- apart from the fatality percentages which are computed from the values given. We've been working on the design to make this more obvious at a glance.
Here in the UK there is talk of 2020 being the year society gets its act together and starts making significant changes for the better. I’ve heard this praised as an opportunity, or bemoaned as lefty idealists trying to take over.

One positive outcome we can all agree on though: the end of BT OpenReach’s passive aggressive “monopoly“ couldn’t come soon enough though. The amount of makework that goes on in UK broadband caused by OpenReach’s emplacement at the heart of it all is ridiculous.

Kelly Communications (a major broadband hookup contractor for OpenReach and Virgin): your days are numbered.

Any mention of Netflix is a deflection.
Used to be a rare market occurrence.
oh nice to see this on the web again! i recently remade this with modern web technologies - Svelte, Monaco, and serverless functions to pull things from GitHub Gists: https://github.com/sw-yx/svelte-zen-garden
Air pollution and CO2 fall rapidly as virus spreads
Formula 1 teams are to help in supply of ventilators
> NASA also knows that a torrent of petabytes is on the way.

Oh that sounds like a potential solution.

/s
I've reopened your comment for editing if you want to edit it.
> your ISP would still take you down if you were violating US sanctions in most parts of the world

No, they would not.

These are US sanctions, not most parts of the world sanctions. You could have problems with companies in the jurisdiction of US, but most parts of the world are not it.
Cool!

That's the cleanest link I came across to illustrate the point. I think people forget how much end-to-end manufacturing capability the military retains (especially the Navy), even in these days of outsourced procurement pressure.
In China, you are not allowed to talk about Wuhan as the source of outbreak anymore [1]. A prominent microbiologist is forced to apologize after saying the virus was originated Wuhan seafood market and blaming the culture of eating wild animals[2]. The whole country is trying to shape US as the source of virus, at least on Chinese social media.

1. https://www.ft.com/content/d420ce18-641f-11ea-b3f3-fe4680ea6...
2. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/artic...
3. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-ch...
Just realized you are a student of Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen in Augsburg.

Extend my greeting when you see him! He introduced me to Category Theory around 2006 in Mainz.