skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pinnacle BIoLabs has a NOW SHIPPING IgG/IgM covid-19 test.

They state it can detect covid-19 3-5 days after infection, with a 90% sensitivity, and 100% negative predictive value.

The test is shipping NOW to European Union countries and the U.K.

IT IS NOT SHIPPING IN THE USA BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE FDA'S AUTHORIZATION.

This is insane.

> At a glance: The Pinnacle BioLabs COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus Dual IgG/IgM Rapid Test® 2 Pack contains two complete test kits and finger-stick device to collect the sample (2 drops of blood), gauze, bandages, buffer solution, package insert and Quick Reference Guide for sample collection and results interpretation. The entire test takes 15 minutes and results are available immediately. Ships 3/20/2020 to European Union and Great Britain Customers.

> Pinnacle BIoLabs has submitted its EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) to the FDA, and as such can not ship product WITHIN the United States until the test comes out of pre-EUA protocol with a decision summary.
API examples for retrieving regional info from global phone numbers
That's how science works. 99.9% still leaves a small chance, so no good scientist would say 'I'm sure'. They'd only say that if they had proof of something and you can't prove a negative. So there never will be proof that it is not the case, only ever more evidence that it probably is not the case. And all of that evidence could - in theory - be made moot by proof to the contrary.
> ripped out vital security features like sandboxing

Fake news. Firefox had sandboxing (that was the excuse for deprecating XUL/XPCOM) before Chrom* and Electrolysis:

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Sec...

2. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Dis...

3. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Int...
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IIRC immunity for coronaviruses typicaly is 6months-two years. And I am not sure , but if you get reinfected after that, once you clear the second infection your immunity will last longer yet.
I'm not pro or contra Tesla and Elon, but an automobile factory simply can't be exempted as an essential business at the time when 99% of their customers are ordered to shelter themselves and restrain movement.
Yup, having had AWS experience from work, this is the exact stack I always use whenever I need to build a static site; I could use an ordinary host but I'm less sure about the security guarantees there and to what extent they will be able to handle load.
CEO's like this only care about themselves and bottom line, people are expendable. That Wheeler guy will never have any regrets and hopefully will find a better employer.

Coronavirus is really going to define what employers think about there people, especially major corporations telling people to take unpaid leave for extended periods of time.
My wife found out about this move when she noted that quite a few people on her Facebook feed were talking about pulling their money out of the bank.

Strange times.
We bailed out the car companies not long ago and they all paid us (the government) back. If they can guarantee something like that I think most people would be fine with it. But here's one guy's opinion on why airlines for instance should be different (low margin/high capital/generally much riskier but somewhat vital to nation):
https://slate.com/business/2020/03/airlines-bailout-coronavi...
Posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22609741
That doesn’t answer the question. Why debt and not equity? Both can be used to raise cash.
I'm sure your deposit made a huge dent in sales. Good job.
100% agree. It is painful in the short-term but if we rescue these companies, they will continue to be reckless and will need more rescuing in the future.
Fun fact: some are functional. The only way to know for sure is to not press the button and watch an entire light cycle go by without an opportunity to cross.
This is the real big one. I'm not at Facebook (but I am at a similar company), and I expect to be getting meets in biannual review process. If I instead got exceeds that would be a huge boon to me. It'd mean a bigger bonus and a bigger stock refresher, and would easily be worth tens of thousands of dollars in the first year alone (plus the remaining three years of the refresher).
Most Americans who are 'barely surviving' are still surviving. Surviving means you have all your immediate needs met. That means your life is exceptionally easy. Most of the world cannot have their basic needs met. That is the typical state of humanity. Most Americans can not only have all their immediate needs met, they are also able to pay off the debts they have taken, which puts them lightyears ahead of most of the world.
Ask HN: Will stocks plunge further? Some suggestions about what and when to buy?
You’re describing one of primary benefits of an union - bargaining power.
Right on!
I also enjoyed "The Untethered Soul" (Singer), "You Are Here" (Hanh), "A New Earth" (Tolle) and "The Daily Stoic"(Holiday)
Less than one is enough for the virus prevalence to decrease.
I didn't make anything profound or philosiphical that's just you. I'm conflating illegality, morality and ethics into a singular simple concept: What you did is wrong plain and simple, and you're aware of it.

What's going on with your 'philosophy' now is a complicated attempt at justification.
>Because working from home with kids unable to leave house produces extra expenses for child care

Why on earth would you need childcare if you work from home? Oh such hard work at FB.
Stop looking at or obsessing about news except to gather details. Odds are, you'll be perfectly fine if you prepare and act sensibly, because in reality, all you have or need is you to save yourself.

Keep busy and use time effectively. Practice a skill, write a novel, make something, finish some projects.

I've been through:

- storms with 100 mph/160 kph winds blowing down 200-year-old oak trees, concrete-anchored redwood fences flying through the air like kites and bowing-in glass windows several inches / 10 cm nearly to the point of failure

- Loma Prieta and a myriad of earthquakes too numerous and forgettable

- Enron rolling blackouts

- the Camp Fire

- week-long and longer power outages

- and now a pandemic

I'm probably forgetting some events. All I'm missing on my disaster bucket list T-shirt are volcano, hypercane, locust, GRB, asteroid and tsunami. :)

The current situation is a necessary but major inconvenience is all. Things and life will be better in 6-18 months. It will be OK. There's no point to worrying about things that are absolutely beyond one's own control, while addressing and preparing for things within one's control to eliminate sources of worry.
I don't think companies are afraid of losing productivity, I think they are afraid of losing their grip of power over the employees.
> Most of the world uses lean manufacturing.

This applies just as much to anything food-related (grocery or restaurant); maybe moreso because most of what a restaurant needs (or farm/ranch/fishery could produce) is not as shelf-stable as most car parts.
Makes you wonder if the real “virus” is a mental one? Society got infected with one hell of a meme.

It is like everybody has that X-Files “I want to believe” poster on their wall when they repeat some of this doomsday stuff.

We are all stuck inside all day, bouncing around with nothing better to do than read doomsday porn. And around and around that stuff goes into people’s head until you get where we are now.

People should be much less concerned about this virus and way more concerned about social unrest. Humans are social creatures. You can’t just “lock” people in their homes for an indeterminate amount of time and expect good things to happen.

Those toilet paper memes and work from home memes are funny at first, but once the novelty wears off over the next week or so, shit is going to get very real. It ain’t funny to see empty shelves of toilet paper or baby wipes when you actually need them.... it ain’t funny to have absolutely nothing to do but sit around and obsess about this virus.
> That we shouldn't implement something because we currently don't have regulations for it? Why would we? We haven't implemented it. I mean with that kind of attitude we can't get anything done.

I think before implementing UBI, we have to address the broader issue of anticompetitive behavior in American business, due largely to decades of ill-advised deregulation, coupled with regulatory bodies who refuse to prevent anticompetitive mergers. Once we have undone the damage of deregulation, then I believe it's prudent to start putting UBI proposals on the table, but not before. Otherwise we risk making the situation worse for consumers and better for rent seekers.
>I remember the shareware versions that I downloaded from my friendly neighborhood BBS offered the source code for a fee; a large fee, if memory serves.

None of the BBS releases for ZZT we found have such a statement; though I do think there exist some pieces of software which did.
If they just added a way to assign/reassign on mobile web. I have to switch to desktop sooo many times for this.
This is exactly why low to zero interest rates are always a terrible idea. It incentivizes reckless borrowing, doing dumb things with the money like buy backs, then when money dries up, we have a major problem. All entirely predictable. All these companies should go bankrupt. No more 0% rates.
> If they die, they will be replaced by new, better managed companies who won't make the same mistake (because nobody will want to own their stock otherwise).

Is there much evidence to support this?

I'm not saying I've studied the data, but just thinking about what has happened over time it seems reasonable to suspect there are companies that have gone bust, only to be replaced by new companies that then also go bust. This is true of natural selection too: it doesn't necessarily produce organisms that are immune to unexpected shocks.

Edit: I also want to add: if the airline hadn't done the share buy back, wouldn't it still be suffering from the unexpected economic shock?
DO NOT QUIT.

The world economy is in a severe recession, about to be a depression.
That sounds pretty good! I hope it's true. I was worried it might be much shorter than that.
> Printing money will reduce the value of USD

That's really good. The fed has been trying to spur inflation to hit their 3% inflation target for many many years now. However thanks to the great economy, we haven't seen that. Printing money would sure help create much needed inflation.
Nreal's plan to beat everyone else to mainstream AR glasses
That's bad enough, but they also put the month on the left (3/16 instead of 16/3). Odd for an international app to treat a date like that when only one country of note records dates in that silly way.
This "dangerous surveillance bill" is the status quo. Not to say that it is acceptable, but please realize that there's no new powers being granted, just old ones being renewed that expired this week.

Also, are we really allowing articles from Common Dreams now?
> Remove the Concurrent Mark Sweep (CMS) Garbage Collector

pour one out for the legend
I was with you until that last bit. Its not fair to describe Tesla's buyers as only buyers of "luxury electric sports cars" at this point.
So, the vote was supposed to be last night. Did it happen? Did it pass?
Hard to tell where market is heading! It is a roller coaster for now :(
Where does it says it's open source?
Sure, for non-knowledge (or communication) bound work wfh is probably reasonable. But if a major blocker for the job is communication between employees, wfh is less efficient.
You can't say 1 is absolutely true if your dataset only consists of remote work during a pandemic.

It would be like starting a remote work policy right before Christmas and declaring it doesn't work because things slowed down; things are going to slow down whether or not you're working from an office.
>In a healthy democracy, there are appropriate mechanisms that hold censors accountable than the average layman, so that they do not abuse their office. For this reason they are granted a louder voice.

The majority of the world does not live under healthy democracies. That the west is copying this failed model is concerning.
LCDs still flicker
Typingclub.com
Why is it bothering you so much that other people are getting a thousand dollar bonus? I'm happy for them, and I'd love for it to happen to me too.

Facebook is not short of money. I'm glad they're doing something extra for their employees in these times.
> We have clinics and hospitals pretty much everywhere except for remotest of villages.

What kind of loose argument is this? It is well known that India has as much as 6 times lesser number of hospital beds per capita than Italy, which is in serious trouble.

> Coronavirus is not something that can go undetected for a long time (incubation period is 5 days from what I have read).

5 to 14 days, and some are asymptomatic which worsens the situation even further. 5 days is still a high enough number. Besides, it's R0 one must pay attention to, which is absurdly high at ~2.5.

> India is a democracy and not an authoritarian regime like China. You can't hide something as serious as this for long.

What? Democracy has nothing to do with hiding information. Case in point: Aftermath of repealing Article 370, or lack of transparency on the Pulwama attack, or conscripted proof of current PM's educational qualifications. The list goes on.

> If you want to believe propaganda that is a different story altogether.

Uh huh. How about we stop passing non-expert opinions as facts starting with this thread right here?

> We have had cases of Japanese Encephalitis blowing up just a few years ago in Uttar Pradesh.

Non sequitur, my friend. The diseases are different. The agent is different. This whole thing is different to anything the world has seen since the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic.

> Can India handle this epidemic? Absolutely yes.

That's your opinion. Speaking of which, the doctors on the frontlines don't seem to be as optimistic as you are: https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/fk649f/hi_im_dr_rosh...
You can argue that the coronavirus is an unforeseeable event, and I would agree. However, in economic terms, this virus will likely translate to a 2-3 quarter demand shock (softening of demand). Any well-managed business should have a plan in place for weathering a 2-3 quarter demand shock.
Being terminated can be looked on less favorably than quitting when applying to another job.
I got a lot better and faster at typing when I switched to a das keyboard without key labels. It forced me to learn and not rely on looking down at the keys.

10/10 would recommend.. also it stops noobs from using your box.
I'd be happy with just taking a screenshot of the recipe and scanning it on to the e-ink - this will save my phone quite a few run ins with oily/dirty hands while cooking.
type more, get the basics right and then practice.
Let me rephrase your comment for you: "I don't have kids."
Math problems from Good Will Hunting [pdf]
When are the Alpine builds getting GA status? The last release of Java to include a build for Alpine was Java 8. Ever since then the Alpine builds have been restricted to early access releases. In the meantime Microsoft has started providing officially supported Alpine builds for .NET Core.
On Linux you can use progress¹ for many of these use cases. By default it scans for running processes that you might want to know about, but you can also ask it tell you about a PID with -p. It supports a -m[onitor] mode to report status until the command exits, and features some basic filtering options to ignore certain files.

You can also manually dig about in /proc/$pid/fd{,info}/ if you want something more fancy, like using gdbar² to display a graphical progress through files for a given process.

1. https://github.com/Xfennec/progress

2. https://github.com/robm/dzen
being a newbie to HN, TIL what (who) makes this a forum to look forward to.

respect
Don't know current situation, here's from a couple months ago, from a maintainer (not the original author):

> Performance remains the key reason for the unsafe blocks. As per the safety dance charter, changing std Rust so as to eliminate the need for unsafe seems like the best course of action, but this work is beyond my comprehension.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/efk7n7/actixweb_v20_r...
It looks like RBAC isn't out yet, any timeline on that? This seems like a very useful product!
What you re missing?
Ask HN: Help. Covid case at work; remote work is being denied. EU region.
Hello HN.

I'm working at a place where, according to a very credible and personally-detailed report, has had a known positive Covid-19 case. It was later denied. It seems pretty clear what's going on.

I'm now seeing my teammates become sick, and still it has been decided that we must not work from home, despite that being possible.

It's hard to understand why critical human resources are being put at risk.

It's hard to understand why I'm putting up with this.

It's hard to understand why I feel like I'm cannot share more details about the situation.

I really feel like I need to talk with someone about it.

Anyone else?

Thank you.
It's a good point though that silver is often more practical. Silver is also a hell of a bargain today (relative to gold).
I think they meant 'so the current fleet can be repaired'. Which has some degree of criticality; although, my understanding is Tesla repair was already a lengthy waiting process; if you had a critical need for transportation, it would be wise to have a vehicle with a more ready supply of parts than a Tesla.
Its been awhile since I used BBB, but I found issues with it when there were over ~20 participants. Anyone know how well BBB scales these days?
Third Derivative
So one either lives like you would or they are an evil monster. Makes sense.
> Yet, on the other side, you have high level Chinese government officials spreading completely unfounded theories that the virus originated in the U.S.

I see very prominent American political figures giving interviews on national Cable news channels spreading the theory about the virus escaping from a Chinese lab.

> If the Chinese government continues to act this aggressively, it will stir up absolute rage in the minds of the American public against China, where now there is virtually none.

Most of the messaging the Chinese government puts out, especially in English, could not in any way be characterized as "aggressive." They've been putting out some interesting documentaries about the fight against the epidemic in Wuhan, as well as feel-good reports about the aid they're sending to foreign countries. I do see a lot of "aggressive" American rhetoric going in the other direction, however. Case in point: the way that high-ranking members of the Trump administration insist on referring to CoVID-19 as a "Chinese virus."

Beyond that, there's been a crazy amount of anti-Chinese sentiment stirred up in the US, ever since the beginning of the trade war.
Your CPU draws spectacular transient currents across inductors and capacitors inside your laptop, and these components are or can be microphonic, to varying degrees depending on design and manufacturing variance. Sometimes you can make it stop by disabling all the power saving and performance-boosting features so your CPU runs at the same speed and power all the time. This has a major cost in terms of battery life.
typeracer.com has done wonders for my typing speed.
Don't forget about the corporate welfare. 2008 resulting in 2 bailouts totaling nearly $2T for the banks.

At a time when American's are staying home and not being paid, Trump is continuing to focus on the stock market. He will soon pass a nearly $1T bailout for businesses...American workers will be lucky to see a single check in the next 2-4 weeks.
Yeah, although depending on what you’re working on, you’d probably be interested mainly in the LTS releases.

We’re bundling an OpenJDK 11 with our product and while I’ll definitely play around with v14, I think we’ll only upgrade once v17 LTS is out.
Alternative Egyptology and archaeology were born on the Giza Plateau
A few times in my career, I have been in a meeting that I didn't want to be in. One of the meeting-runners hinted that the meeting could be shorter than scheduled. Failure to deliver on that was not well received.

If you're going to say anything, you're better off overestimate how long it's going to be.
If I have a search engine and I create some other services that I believe are better than competitors' services, shouldn't I be putting my other services at the top of search results?
we still have to check every file on startup, since we use the `ReadDirectoryChangesW` call on windows, but it should be less expensive on nucleus. but, now that we've rolled out nucleus, we can start exploring going beyond sync engine classic feature parity, like using the USN journal on windows.
Note that I am not an M.D.
But, consider getting a pulse oximeter. You can use it to assess your respiratory function (more) objectively. Anxiety and panic attacks can impact your oxygen saturation, but unlikely to do so to dangerous levels.

Again, I'm not an MD. Maybe someone from the field of medicine can add their thoughts here.
it is completely useless! waste of resources and energy! I can bet the man who took the decision of manufacturing it has nothing to do with engineering!
and pay 40 EURs on that! WTF?! are we stupid?
Market cap is a psychological construct. It will not help you when you're already bleeding cash and your cash flow suddenly goes sharply negative. It's entirely possible that this calamity will kill off some very large companies (by any metric) that have been operating in the margin.
Moving to VIM worked for me.
The original author has handed it off to some of the other maintainers.
Honestly, your point is valid except for the part about special treatment. From what I've heard, window tint shops are staying open too based upon the same exemption. Its a confusing time and the regulators haven't fully thought this exemption through.

(Just to be clear, I'm not defending Tesla here. They have the choice to shutdown regardless of government order or exemptions)
> routes!(...)

> routes_with_openapi!(...)

Macros, macros everywhere. I understand their use in basic functions like println!(), but I'm worried too much macros in client code will lead to problems (unreadable, clashes that will need custom names). If there are no problems with macros, why not making every function a macro then?
The Coronavirus crisis is a perfect opportunity for governments to take totalitarian leaps forward.

Look what happened this week in Israel. At 1:00AM when citizens were sleeping:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/03/14/coronavir...

Edit:
I would also want to point out the prime minister trial supposed to begin today(!) and was delayed to May because the courts were closed as "non crucial" service. He has been indicted for bribe, fraud and breach of trust.
The CEO and the board usually negotiate the golden parachute on the way in. Sometimes, the board can convince a CEO to waive the parachute on the way out.
They instead extended it for 77 days due to COVID-19. Basically punting for now
If the government invests that much money they should receive shares in turn. Then distribute those shares to taxpayers. Same for any subsidy or bailout. Otherwise you are just giving money to existing shareholders who benefitted from stock buybacks that led to the problem.
Intel's own version of their USB4 controller might not support it either.

Absolutely nobody I know has been able to get a straight answer out of anyone; not Intel, not the USB IF, not other members of the USB IF, on if existing Thunderbolt 3 devices will work on USB4 hosts.

And it will be a complete and absolute shitshow if it doesn't, because Type-C has swindled us into thinking Type-C is just Type-C.