skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "if you're home all day long one of the main spurs for going out to eat is gone, at the end of the day you're no longer too tired to make food"

You clearly don't have children. I need to work from home while also getting primary school children to do their schoolwork and not kill each other.
Patagonia folds up but still pays workers
I’m mad about the pasta too. Price gouging is usually regulated internationally, though. E.g. groceries in India are labeled with a maximum retail price set by the manufacturer to avoid problems like this.
While powershell is a lot more then passing hashtable around, it would make a first good step. Accepting json object as parameter in "unix standard" should be done along.
> Because it's not like a restaurant that you can close and then open a month later with little consequence to the public.

That hits a nerve. A lot of restaurants are going to close and never reopen again as a result of this lockdown.
Show HN: Sqope Health – Fax is still a thing. Trying to kill it
If prior exposure to the virus itself won't give a person immunity, I would expect it would be much more difficult to create a vaccine to grant immunity. I wonder if the 18 month vaccine timeline I have heard mention would be affected.
Ha, this is why I love HN.

Thanks for the awesomeness of DDG, and if you ever need help with your mobile site, let me know. claire at theoic dot me.

I love what you guys do, but your mobile UX leaves a ton to be desired and even some very basic tweaks would go a long way to significant improvement. :)
> Your local restaurant might make less (I'm not sure I buy that), but the delivery driver likely makes more per hour.

I don't know what Uber pays their drivers, but I happen to know the place in question pays a good wage, comparably. I seriously doubt it driving Uber beats it.

>If it was a net loss for everyone except GrubHub or Uber, it wouldn't exist.

And yet, here we are. Econ 101 only takes you so far; why do you choose to ignore the other pressures? Once the econ brain worms take hold, people stop thinking.
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It is exceptionally easy in the US to not end up working 2 service jobs and living paycheck to paycheck, some people just screw it up. Not much you can do about that then. People don’t listen, they don’t take things seriously, until it’s too late.

If you can’t be an example, be a warning.
That's why I said an "upper-bound" approximation. As in, CFR for general population is likely below 1%.
U.S. Schools Deploy Remote Learning on Unprecedented Scale
Why can't we just build robots and lay at home while driving them across galactic or build a big aquarium for brain like in futurama ?
Touching can be stimulated by hardware, people wake up.
Nono sorry but I can't agree.

In my very limited understanding the price of stocks were way to high already. The virus is just the proverbial drop, it is not the cause.
Charging rent based on rank would be a form of discrimination... also this is anti-competitive behavior. It is pretty well understood that regulation should exist. It is just a question of how much and how to regulate.
it stopped working for me. I suspect they have made the website responsive now.
Many companies implemented work-from-home policies very quickly, almost all public events (sports, standardized tests) were canceled, schools and sports gyms closed, and some companies that didn't go to remote work had employees stagger commute times so trains would be less crowded. This all started, iirc, while the number of cases was still in the tens (not counting the cruise ship).

It is also more accepted to wear face masks, as many people have pollen allergies so it's quite normal, and there is less direct physical contact between people overall.

I remember reading that the number of flu cases was about half that of a normal flu season because of the precautions everyone was taking, which points to a high percentage of people doing their part to help prevent the spread.
Thanks! Any plans for GitHub Enterprise support?
Anyone know the current percentage of total U.S. deposits that are "insured" by the fdic?
Hi All - Founder here. The healthcare industry still uses the fax for 75% of its communication. It’s like you and your friends are still passing handwritten notes in class while the rest of the school is on their iPhones.

We are trying to make the transition to modern tools as simple as possible. The reason the fax persists is because: 1) everyone uses it and 2) it meets healthcare regulations (unlike email). The Sqope app allows any professional to send a file or message to any fax number, email or registered user. We are specifically avoiding patient interactions. There are lost of solutions out there for patients and that’s not where most of the fax activity happens.

I was floored at how much manual data entry, phone tag or lost work happens because of the fax. I never worked in healthcare so didn’t really understand the extent until I dug into customer interviews.

I’m around for the next couple hours and would love your feedback, thoughts or just to complain about the problem.
Are you sure they haven't been exempted already?
worldwide number of new cases appear to be leveling off:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/coronaviru...

that's pretty darn encouraging, considering most places haven't gotten serious until recently.
Mediocre, though reasonable for small PDFs. Reading something like scientific papers (5-10 pages) is pretty great, with long PDFs (manuals or ebooks) the navigation is a pain and you notice the slowdowns. I wouldn't get the rM as a reader, but reading and annotating PDFs is a decent secondary function.
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> On Monday, the CMO cited the chief minister’s advice against large gatherings to say they didn’t have “infrastructure to screen and hand out masks to 5 lakh people”.

For anyone interested, I did some quick math and it seems like it'd be about two tablespoons of hand sanitizer per person (500k people / 4000 litres).
I've heard it has bad side effects. Also people with G6PD deficiency (about 400M people worldwide) cannot take it. So some screening tests are needed.
Has nothing to do with value of the company.

A share buyback results in an increase in share price because it reduces the number of shares of the company to buy. All things being equal.

McKinsey advertises as much

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-cor...
I'll just say that I found end user documentation for microk8s to be nice and friendly. And that k3s (the little I looked) felt maybe a little too much like administering and running a production k8s cluster. We're not planning to do that; what I needed was something that worked easily for prototyping and experimenting - and could be run mostly via kubectl (and/or helm) just like a managed cluster.
It is a great article and I really enjoyed it. I fear that people might latch on too quickly to "Rust" and not appreciate that the preciser (formally defined?) data model was key, and that languages like Rust (and Haskell) are merely very suited for this, but not the key. [Reworded to make my point clearer]

OT: I really really hate the top bar that drops down and covers what I'm reading when I'm trying to scroll up. It's such a frequent pattern on the modern web and I can't wait for people to get rid of it. (It violates the symmetry of scrolling up and down)
The killer GitHub feature for me is "browse files" at any commit in the past.
See also William J. Rapaport, emeritus professor of computer science at SUNY Buffalo, Philosophy of Computer Science:

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/Papers/phics.pdf

Discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10388603 (2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20912718 (6 mos ago)

Rapaport is cited numerous times in the Plato article.
You can still use the desktop site by using the 'Request Desktop Site' on your phone's browser (at least on most browsers). If you're logged in to GitHub, you can enable 'Opt out of mobile pages' in your account settings, though it sounds like you want to use both.
What lurks under the microscope? Dust detective work
Ask HN: IDE / environment for developing image tools?
Anyone know a software platform for testing & visualizing code that operates on images? My goal is to have a basic environment for viewing the images before and after filters, as well as basic libraries for image manipulation.

My use case is that I want to improve the quality of a photogrammetry tool for a specific and simple use case, but I don't want to build the whole stack.

Could imagine countless other uses in the AR / OCR spaces.

Have seen jupyter and matlab used for this, not sure what's state of the art though.
Practice makes perfect.

No one can learn to cook well instantly. I've been cooking for 30 years and coding for 25. There are no shortcuts. Maybe watch Alex of French Guy Cooking, get a book on the science of cooking, and then a translated series of books on classical French techniques that start from the beginning. Don't expect to make a soufflé or merengue before boiling an egg. Start at the beginning.

And for god's sake, don't use powdered garlic. Start with reasonable quality, fresh ingredients or cooking will be utterly pointless and frustrating. I wouldn't waste money on very high quality ingredients for practice, but gets some basic staples like good onions, peppers, carrots, celery and make some soups, chili or stews in a crockpot. Those are hard to ruin. One of my grandmothers just took some random leftover vegetables from her fridge to make chicken noodle soup.

I have boxes and boxes of heirloom recipes that my grandmothers made and collected over the years... they're handwritten and I can't decipher some of them. For most people, it's easiest to just go on allrecipes or similar sites, pick a dish and sort by highest user review because there are hundreds of thousands of recipes online now and statistically thousands of good recipes.
> When you can't even type the other word out you are referring to it's not in the same realm of conversation.

That's a lame attack. One of them has power here, the other has power there. What you can't say here doesn't define how the other is considered there.
Here’s the thing: if a company has 1 million dollars in cash, and a 2 million dollar market cap, and they spend the cash buying back 1 million worth of stock, the total value of the company, including the cash they spent, has decreased by 1 million dollars and the stock price should therefore not change at all.

So why should these stock buybacks consistently be boosting the share price? Either investors are stupid, or the company is intentionally paying too much for its own stock so that the CEO can get a big bonus.

I know which one sounds more likely to me.

Edit: I suppose there is a third option: maybe the CEOs were assuming the stock price would rise forever, and were hoping to cash in on the speculative bubble, which is less fraudulent but more reckless. I don’t know which one is worse.
Different corona viruses show different immunity periods after infection. The common cold is one that gives immunity of about a year after infection. We don't know how long immunity will last with covid-19.
You're also right. One thing led to the other. Also the Russo-Afghan war.

https://unherd.com/2019/06/chernobyl-and-the-meltdown-of-the...

The part with "poor quailty Soviet tech" is of course bullshit. The VVER reactor fleet works fine without any major incidents. The RBMK by contrast was an irresponsible design pushed by a politically connected engineer. Otherwise most of the article also applies to China.
Because the people who need/would benefit aren't paying anything remotely near 1k/month in taxes, that's the whole point. Your solution only works in a society where people already have a reasonable amount of income.
Any references for the German number?
Even if you love cooking as an art, it can still be a chore sometimes. It's hard to deliver art when tired, picky children are screaming.
Preferred ... for whom? Owners? Sure.

People footing the bill? Hell no. If we (taxpayers) are footing the entirety of the risk than we're also be taking the entirety of the profits (if any). Why do you expect the public to NOT play by the capitalist rules?

Low-term ownership of non-critical companies by government is usually a bad idea. Sure.

But isn't it better to nationalize, save and then, when the market is good, sell it for a profit (or break even) than just ... give out high-risk money hoping you get it back?
Besides ... if a company was going to collapse without government intervention that means it's irrelevant to the current owners anyway since they have already failed and lost everything. The fact society managed to stop that from happening with extraordinary measures is irrelevant to that fact.

Don't get me wrong: I'm all for private enterprise. But I hate people who turn from "no government handouts for the poor" to "Companies need government handouts!" the second it's convenient.
You're absolutely right; our economy is far too interconnected to isolate specific industries. Right now it's a bit of a "tragedy of the commons" situation where the companies that are able to sustain operations (legally or illegally) will reap huge rewards when everything starts to go back to some version of normal.

I honestly think the thing we will learn from this pandemic is that we can't stop a modern economy like this for a couple months without also incurring significant loss of life. If this shutdown extends more than a month we're going to see supplies start to run low and people will panic. Grocery stores around me (large northeastern city) are already having trouble restocking.
> The official solution is to fan out to multiple streams

Not anymore. Enhanced fanout allows up to 20 consumers, doesn't count against read limits and has lower latency than polling.

> It's very, very easy for provisioned capacity to be more expensive than on-demand.

Reserved capacity will beat on-demand pretty handily, even with massive overprovisioning. Assuming a 50% target and a 16 hour daily duty cycle, reserved provisioned is 20% the cost of running on-demand.
We have never successfully created a vaccine against a coronavirus before, so this is new territory. On the other hand, we have new tools like the RNA vaccine being produced by Moderna which doesn't work like a traditional vaccine and so might be more effective. Ultimately we won't know until we try.
In one case you're talking about the rules on if people can gather information. In the second you're talking about the rules on what it's reasonable to publish.

Few are going to argue the merits of China publishing lies which is the same as when Russia does it. What they will argue is that banning journalists from gathering information be it russian or chinese is wrong.
At the end of one of Harari's books he points out that nothing that we see today is natural or inevitable: that there are infinite outcomes for the way that humanity lives and organizes itself. Proof of this can be seen in how we've lived historically.

Those in power want us to believe that current power structures were inevitable, that the world wants to return to the current mean should we try to change it. We just have to stop people from getting power over others. I think that this is best achieved through random selection of leadership.
The Chinese government silenced the doctor first raising the issue and blocked him from communicating about the disease. If other countries do that, then they will also be suppressing and censoring. Have other countries done that?
Oh my god you're a life saver. Thank you so much for pointing that out!
Thank you. Amazing how I can read that multiple times, and still miss the first word. My brain is frazzled from dealing with an endless stream of emergency VPN, call forwarding, remote access, "how do I use Google Meet" requests.
You are right. The book Science, Strategy and War basically promotes the idea that the Orient stage of the OODA Loop is where mental models come into play which makes sense since how else do you Orient without having an idea of what you are Orienting against. i.e, if you are in a dogfight with a Russian aircraft what are the mental models that you have that what mental models do they lack.
Even with Dr. Li's silencing...we (USA) still had 2 months to prepare...but didn't. Trump bought us time with blocking flights to/from China, but travel from Italy and Korea were still happening...Korea STILL is happening.

The first cases in my city (Atlanta) were all from Italy.

I suspect banning flights from China was also motivated by politics.
You mean that's not a feature? ;)

Seriously though, this is a valid point. Still, I believe you could run it in a vm? I'm not on win/Mac, and I'm not sure if that would make sense.
> So what happens when the market sells off?

Nothing happens. This was examined during the Q4 2018 almost-bear (19.5<20%) market: I am not aware of any data showing that index investors sell off their holdings during these types of events.

Do you have any such data?

I would hazard to guess we'll see something similar for Q1 2020 fund flows: either neutral or net inflow.
I don't understand how a vaccine would work if prior exposure to the virus doesn't prevent re-infection :/ Honest question, no snark intended.
Is it feasible to create a vaccine against a virus if even infection with a live virus and catching the disease does not give you immunity?
Not to mention the resulting product is far superior than what is available at 95% of restaurants.
The value of share buybacks (2005)
no, what's tiring and lazy (and yes, evil) is the idea that the peons at the bottom should be grateful for what the people at the top, who hoard 99% of the world's wealth, can get away with paying them. $15/hour is hardly living large, and a $2 bump is insulting
That's what I was thinking. Especially if there is a genetic factor involved, and we can determine that only a small percentage of the population have it, then we could still achieve a level of herd immunity.
It's the opposite. The PCR tests are more specific (99%) than sensitive (perhaps 90%, we're not really sure).
Ask HN: What do you use to manage your financials?
With what seems to be a recession looming over the US, I was wondering what the HN community uses to manage personal financials. When I say “manage”, I’m curious about the following...

- View your net worth + future trends
- View your current assets & diversification status
- View spending habits
- Suggestions on investment moves

No shame self plug: Because I couldn’t find a good tool to do this, my co founder and I have been creating Mosaic (https://getmosaic.io). If you are interested in learning more, please feel free to sign up for early access or email us at hello at getmosaic.io
That makes sense but I think that it's still more plausible to solve a sync problem than to double the amount of machines.
If that's the case then maybe the sync can be controlled somehow?

Maybe (just maybe as I'm over optimistic) we could reach a problem that a mechanical engineer could solve and could potentially save many lives..

Thanks for the answer!
It just depends. It's really hard to talk about this stuff because it's always so variable. I think that Rust tends to expose complexity in places that other languages paper over. This means that it can feel like Rust is adding complexity, but it's not really. It's surfacing the underlying complexity. This makes the end result more robust. It takes some practice, and there is the perennial question of "how long does it take to get to that point, and how much effort is it?" I think this line of questioning is more likely to be a real reason to not choose Rust, and is one of the reasons we've been trying to lower the learning curve.

> Put another way, once you're familiar with the borrow checker, how often do you find yourself or your teams fighting it?

Extremely rarely, if ever. It yells at you, you go "oh yeah, oops" and fix it, and move on with life.

But, I should qualify that's mostly personal experience and what I hear from other folks generally and other teams at work; my team at work doesn't really write Rust, our main codebase is in Typescript and Go.

I just saw this thread by the ex-CTO of Chef, it matches my experiences here: https://twitter.com/adamhjk/status/1239989909714173952
https://www.reddit.com/r/MealPrepSunday/

Look through here for week meal plans. They often utilize all of the ingredients fully over the course of a week, and a lot of the recipes are simple (you can cook them all in one day). Feel free to take your time, and watch youtube videos to learn techniques
For a small change set with CI that runs automatically against PRs for both the branch and the result of the merge, I think this is a useful and safe option to quickly review something. Similarly if you do a lot of your project management through GitHub, having the ability to file and track issues from your phone is nice.
There's a 9% chance of two false negatives in a row, so that could be the case. But why would he develop a fever so late after being first tested positive? His fever would have been 20 days after first detection of his infection.

Also, the article doesn't say whether he had fever initially and it went away and then came back, which is important information.
What happens to the submitted form data?
People will start dropping dead from social unrest, addiction, substance abuse, suicide, etc. this “lockdown” isn’t free. It has massive health impacts that could easily outweight any lives saved by the lockdown.

People need to put on their critical thinking caps around here. What is the end game of this lockdown? What data is it based on? How will we know when to end it—given all factors, which include vastly more than slowing the spread of the virus.

Also stop downvoting people asking questions. Asking questions and thinking critically and rationally is what this forum is supposed to be about.
Yeah, to me the main problem isn't bias it's just that:
1. It's not possible for any human to produce insightful opinion pieces on anything close the schedule that oped writers are expected to
2. So opinion pages end up being full of mediocre filler
3. The writing thus ends up just being a regurgitation of the biases of the writers / editors
Sounds right to me? You wouldn’t edit code on your phone. Git client on an iPad is barely usable to edit anything, just give up and use ssh. On a desktop, the browser already has the social features, and it would be a waste of your employees to constantly replicate work to the desktop client.

GitHub isn’t competing against Working Copy, or SourceTree. It’s competing against GitLab etc. So on desktop, they aimed to make an oversimplified beginner’s git client, to encourage beginners to use GitHub over alternatives. On mobile I suspect it was just too hard to build what people needed as a web app. Some people want push, which iOS web apps can’t do. May as well have it do a bunch of other things people like to do from their phone, and beat web with native controls.
Tesla and SpaceX are financially designed to run so hot that if they shut down for half a year they might not come back. This also applies to a lot of other businesses.
Wow, I'm still using JDK 1.8. I thought I was way behind until I looked up the release schedule: apparently they're pushing out two (major) releases a year now.