skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment I was referring to was pretty explicit in saying they don't grow beans, meaning they've likely got a big chunk of their coffee economy involved in selling "stale" coffee. It's probably relatively fresh within the EU, but I've definitely seen more than my fair share of European roasted coffee thousands of miles and many shipping weeks away from the roaster.
I promise that I have never asked for a notification or a pop-up. They 'work' from the point of view of web sites and browser vendors, maybe more so than from the perspective of users.
I do agree that people have a bad tendency to trust any numbers they can get over logic and common sense. And in this case the numbers are obviously a lower bound creating a big bias towards underestimating things.

But information on testing numbers is also lagging and incomplete. The CDC was doing over 5k tests per day a week ago when the number of new cases was around 500 per day. And the number of tests were exponentially increasing too. Does anyone have any better info about how much we have ramped up testing since then? It's a big country, and there's huge "publication bias" in the media where stories about a location or person running into testing issues get the attention and stories where things are working do not. I really don't trust anyone's ability to assess the situation at the resolution of 24 hours and make anything like an accurate prediction. I would like to see them just do full-on statistical sampling by testing people at random in different cities.
I guess you're trying to be sarcastic, but it's not working
That is a no then, as the MIT does not contain an explicit patent grant.

So Microsoft could very well sue anyone using Powershell, using patents. We don't know if they would win, as there might (or might not) be some protection in a "implicit" grant that a copyright license give. But it would be a fight most organizations would not be willing to take, and would settle out of - a win for Microsoft in practical terms. It is not long ago since they did this with FAT32 against practically all Android manufacturers.

Apache 2.0 would be the permissive license to go for if desiring to guarantee safety from patent issues.
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Patent_clauses_in_software_licences
I do believe the OP meant "to prepare for drinking", not "to prepare into the sellable product".
This reminds me of Matt Levine's column from 16 March [0]

"Is the coronavirus securities fraud?

I wrote on Friday that, because everything is securities fraud, the novel coronavirus is securities fraud"

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-16/market...
Beyond Xiaomi many of the products you use were manufactured or assembled in China.
Yes. That doesn't make it a substitute for the real thing. I either use a full ceramic burr grinder and Aeropress setup with some recently-roasted single-origin beans OR instant coffee if I only have a few minutes before I have to leave the house in the morning, in which case I do the full brew later in the day. I don't see them as sustainable substitutes any more than tea and coffee are substitutes.
Here at RhodeCode we strongly believe in self-hosting, this is why we started as an on-premise product for source code management.

You should check out RhodeCode too for self-hosting your own code, with extra security features to make sure it's well protected
As i understand they couldn't just charge less or change your plan because of bureacracy and all legal things. What they can do is give free month to all who was affected by this change. Or you could cancel your subscription if you can't live without 4k
Is the figure from before or after the Yemen offensive winded down?
Develop the Corona Dashboard in a Day
I think Bill is answering in such a way to be politically neutral. Other questions he has in his post here read as if they are politically biased and well to be honest, in this global pandemic there shouldn't really be any political tension.
Support the artists you listen to on Spotify by buying their music on Bandcamp
World's fastest computer find chemicals that can stop Coronavirus from spreading
> There's no limit on how much profit that can be made from a user in a given month

There are only so many minutes in a month
Paper: https://chemrxiv.org/articles/Repurposing_Therapeutics_for_t...
A false positive in the case of corona virus shouldn't be a problem since you shouldn't seek medical treatment unless the symptoms become severe.
Probably. Sorry, my English is failing me when it comes to more technical words
Funding for a SARS vaccine dried up, after SARS died off. The researchers have picked up where they left off with SARS for the covid vaccine.
Looks like a satisfying project! Also, website design is nice - plenty of negative space and contrasting font weights creates an elegant, easy to read site. When I redo my blog, I would love to shoot for something similar.
Yes, plenty of them.

Hence why stuff like homebrew came to be, due to people developing OS X, but deploying into GNU/Linux.

Many having the same reasoning as Miguel de Icaza:

"What Killed the Linux Desktop"

https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html

To the point that it just feels ironic walking around FOSDEM corridors and seeing the majority carrying macbooks.
The virus mutates at a slower rate than the flu, of which we make a new vaccine for every year. So maybe we have a new corona vaccine every few years.
That is a really cool approach! Is the kobo still usable as an e-reader after the config change? I own one but I have so little time to read lately that it is mostly taking the dust. Being able to use it as some kind of always on display, while being able to pick it up to read when desired sounds really attractive to me.
I built this last year but reposting it today as Bandcamp are giving 100% of sale revenue to artists/labels today, so it’s a great chance to support especially smaller artists who’s livelihoods are affected by gig cancellations etc. due to COVID-19.

It’s a bit basic as it was just a quick hack, and Bandcamp have no API so there’s no way to know if a given song/artist is on there without opening the search results, but hopefully it’s useful regardless.

The source code is at https://github.com/tomduncalf/supportify, it’s all done client side with no tracking so hopefully no privacy concerns.
Node Version Management
All of these locations are still cooler northern climates. I agree that they're not exactly cold.
1. Too many principles equals no principles, for example: Don't exceed 10 principles.

2. Simplicity and Unity must be parallel. Pure piping systems meet this principle.

3. Principle should be specific and executable.

4. Principle should not affect flexibility.

5. Principle should be consistent with mainstream modern industrial production principles.

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
> The Law of Leaky Abstractions is a lie; abstract airtightly

This one... Our entire computing world is a pie of terrible abstractions held together by duct-tape and billions of man-hours spent working fixing those leaks.
Process Workflows in Ruby with Pallets
The problem is, lots of GPs and teachers are in the 'high risk' category.

For teachers in OECD countries I found this chart: https://4cdn.hu/kraken/image/upload/s--n8f4dn-h--/c_limit,w_...

For GPs in Hungary I found this:
https://4cdn.hu/kraken/image/upload/s--HqWJo4dH--/7Qfxe7y7fM...
You do know that EU begged them to do it right ? So they will be thanking them not suing them.

They are doing EU a favor, with this one.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-in-talks-with-netfl...

[2] https://www.engadget.com/2020/03/19/eu-netflix-sd-streaming-...
Favipiravir seems effective against Covid-19
> What matters is doing the right thing after the mistake is discovered.

They didn't. They only did "the right thing" after it went viral on HN.

They did the same thing a few days ago to another developer, and only after it went viral on HN did they do the right thing. They were very aware that a) their flagging process is broken and b) their support process is non-existant unless you make your complaint go viral. The canned response is part of their strategy to filter out everyone that isn't large enough and they'll just ignore those complaints.

> This is required by US law for anyone doing business in the US.

It's required to do it automatically and wrong? I have some serious doubts.
YouTube to reduce streaming quality in Europe due to coronavirus
No, it is not, see the numbers compared by the Italian National Biotechnology Association:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Is_COVID-19_like_a_flu%3F...

Each bar is one week.

Flu has totally different speed of increase and the amount of people needing treatment and dying.

We know what is the cause of the increase, the scenario repeats in many countries across the world, it's not one isolated setup.
BitTorrent, Usenet, and more.
True. But that unpredictable change in tasting notes is the enemy of commercial packaged coffee: your box of illy, carte noir, maxwell house, nescafe, nespresso MUST taste the same every time, and MUST have a stable cost of raw material (apart from baseline coffee prices fluctuations). The same happens for chocolate and tea (lipton's and twining's teabags can be a mix of 20-30 tea varieties that change continuously)
CSS Zen Garden is from a time when people still used tables and font tags to design their pages, and as such it was a pretty powerfull way to convince people there are better and more efficient ways to do things.

I think the important part here is "efficient". It is more efficient to go to a style sheet and change a color instead of 1000 font tags, but in other ways it's just more efficient and easier to adjust your template-generated html and be done with it. Or write it from scratch.

The thing that I think doesn't work very well with this way is reusability. Rarely do you have this one thing you've made, and that you can use in the completely same way in another place. So you end up adjusting the style through CSS for a specific case, which eventually results in having rules like .foo > .bar:not(.baz) :first-child and making a change there results in playing whack-a-mole: you change something, break it in another place, fix it there, now it breaks in the third place etc. This is even worse if you have multiple people doing quick fixes.

There are other reasons too, but in general all of that is fine if you want to do a one-off thing to see if it could be done. Especially if you're a designer writing the code yourself. But getting a finished design from somebody who doesn't care about code is different because you cannot really predict what people will think of -- and I've actually never seen anybody do a redesign like this.
This seems very possible given the State Department’s unusually stark language: “U.S. citizens who live in the United States should arrange for immediate return to the United States, unless they are prepared to remain abroad for an indefinite period.”

A HN comment from a few days ago [1] drew a similar conclusion based on the way Prime Minister Trudeau announced Canada’s first round of border restrictions: “Canadian travelers should return to Canada [via] commercial means while it is still possible to do so. Let me be clear: If you are abroad, it’s time to come home.”

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22596009

[2]: https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/16/justin-trudea...
Sonarr handles TV shows and Radarr handles movies.
Problem with looking at case numbers is, you need to know how many tests have been executed. If they doubled the number of tests within those 3 days, then you measure the increase in tests, not an increase in cases.
this one works with no battery https://www.amazon.com/Endi-ENDi-E-Ink-NFC-Display/dp/B07JMT...
Today Is International Day of Happiness
I don't even have a problem with Netflix not reducing the price. It think they should take the hit in place of their customers, but whatever, if your problem right now is that you're paying for 4k and not getting it, suck it up.

But really the praise for Netflix is a bit off tone - they're not making any sacrifice at all.
OS constantly execute untrusted code as well.

Many game engines do it as well, just think about DOOM mods

I think the point is that browsers are not as good as an OS as an application platform (given the limitations) but are as complex as an OS and have more bugs

The fact that mobile apps are terrible is not an excuse for having a terrible document protocol used for applications

Apple invented mobile apps as we know them today,but native apps in general have served people well for ages

We are at a point where a native app with some API is more maintainable than a browser app

Not even talking about the ecosystem and its fiascos, like npm corrupted libs used by millions without even looking at a single line of source code or the famous leftpad incident

It doesn't really matter where the weakness is, if it is exploitable

As Alan Kay once said "the web was made by amateurs at best"
Ok, a lot of these features requires the site to ask the user for permission to use them. What is the percentage of users giving permission for the usage? In my experience not that great even when asking for something that will definitely improve the user experience in that context of the site they are on.

If users don't really give you permissions to use these things it implies to me that users don't really want them.
The Data You Don‘t Need: Removing Redundant Samples
> Share API isn't needed for sharing content, copy and paste worked better than share api and it was around decades ago.

Most big websites have different URLs for the same content. When you're sharing a link, you want the canonical URL, which is neutral and universal, not the URL you're currently on, which might have a session ID, user preferences, scroll anchors, etc appended to it. The share button in your browser uses the canonical URL of the site (if provided), which looks nicer and works better.
"Risky hack" is not something I want to apply during a sanitary emergency
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Joan has been around for a while now, and E-Ink is our main technology platform. It's a meeting room booking system, but works as a desktop calendar as well: https://getjoan.com
Thank you.

I think the general issue with my post is that the moderators want this to be a "place of ideas". So that tends towards the appearance of decorum being more important here than actually treating people better in the current crisis.
hmm, how many false negatives is it giving?
Thank you for sharing the documentary and shining a light on the insane measures taken out. I can't imagine the fear and uncertainty of getting sick and avoiding detection in China right now to say the least.
Cabin Fever
Not mandatory, but I know a lot of construction jobs have “smoko”, which is a short break before and after lunch for a smoke or coffee
Second times the charm. It's there now.
Guru Meditation :)
This is a classic false sense of security

People identities are stolen constantly by web apps, they just don't know

An app like Excel could steal my data, yes, but it is my willingness to give away all my connections to Facebook and let them spy my interactions that gave away my identity and also the identity of people that do not use Facebook, but are mentioned by me or my other contacts (for example my parents)

That's the real danger
Since I have been at home I practically live in MS Teams, with constant video chats. Yesterday I did a presentation with 140 people connecting watching my ppt and camera. That's got to be unusual. I imagine most of my colleagues going through this routine daily.
That is not the point. It is what it is right now, and we need solutions that will work right now.
Doesn't really matter why, we need solutions now.

After the pandemic, we can discuss the whys, and ,make sure it doesn't happen in the future.
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Can't you also get an extension to disable JS to stop the subscription prompt?
Sounds of Sorting Algorithms
The most used feature in Microsoft Office is the Paste button in the toolbar:

> What we didn't know until we analyzed the data was that even though so many people do use CTRL+V and do use "Paste" on the context menu, the toolbar button for Paste still gets clicked more than any other button. The command is so incredibly popular that even though there are more efficient ways of using it, many people do prefer to click the toolbar button.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/jensenh/no-di...

You and I use Ctrl-V, but the vast majority of users want something a lot more visual.
I like jq for simple stuff which is what I mostly use it for. Whenever I have to dive into the documentation to do something complicated I die a bit on the inside.

Give something like this a go if you know javascript: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsling
Dude there's a global pandemic. From the bottom of my heart, fuck you.
Yeah, that's the one. Thanks for sharing it.
Not capitalizing words in titles would be more helpful than commas to avoid that misunderstanding.
It's the rate of actual negatives that are perceived as positives.

I make that mistake myself all the time, What helps me avoid it is this: you want a number that is a property of the test method alone, independent of case distributions. A ratio between misidentified positives and identified positives (or true positives) would depend on sample distribution.
Was going to ask the same question and scrolled through the comments to happily find yours.
The answers basically seem to explain why there's no robotaxi business model NOW though... I still don't buy the argument that there wouldn't be one with suitable (relatively low marginal cost, eg Tesla system) self driving tech. Yes, uber drivers work for less than min wage, but that's still expensive compared to cost of capital for a (speculative commercial) self drive unit as an add on.
Right, until we either go extinct as a species or natural selection affords us the ability to fight it off and that new impervious population survives and thrives, thus passing on the immunity to new generations of humans.
Any business-customer agreements can be overridden by government mandates in an emergency. So no, this is no bs.
Similar aesthetic: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html
A Local Guide to the Coronavirus
With a 50% false positive rate, most of your positives are false positive. You might as well just tell everyone who asks for a test that they're infected.
That also means reducing the wages of employees, people not whinig is the only shimmer of hope we have at keeping the economy the same when we emerge from this. Sure, I can't go to my gym, but if we all cancel now, there won't be a gym when I am allowed to go again.
At the same time my income might, at some point, also be affect. But, as it is now it is not (yet), so I'll keep it going.

I have to admit I did cancel my 360 euros/month public transport subscription. Their service is also reduce by a lot. So who am I to judge.
If you put in an order for the primers by noon, you can have enough of them in your lab by the morning to run a thousand tests, maybe 10,000.
You're applying conventional knowledge to an unusual situation where it doesn't apply. The current test in my country is something like "was sitting within 4 rows of a known patient on a plane". That's obviously got a massive false positive rate but we do it anyway. The action you take when officially tested positive is the same as you take when learning you had contact with a patient - isolate yourself at home. There's no wasted drugs because there's no treatment for it! At worst, you might do an official test, but if those are in short supply, they're not going to be given to anyone who just walks in with a home-made result.
I looked at this and the problem in practice is allegedly that residue from touching creates a film that cancels the effect. So aside from needing to polish it, you still have to clean it after just a few hours for the effect to work. It also doesn't kill germs immediately, it needs a few minutes to work. It still helps though.
Push notifications are good for messaging apps (including chat support, etc.). They're 100% opt-in and harmless.

Web Share is barely a thing. It's literally just a call to an already existing browser function and deprecates all the vendor-specific embeds in most sites (each FB, Twitter, etc. share button you see either uses this single-function API, or loads their huge blob of JavaScript on every page that has it - which do you prefer?).

As a user of Web messaging apps, I also like the Visibility API, because it allows the apps I use to stop rendering while in background and just queue up messages to render when I look at them. This allows the process running those tabs to basically go to sleep (even swapping sometimes) which increases battery life and performance.

The rest of the ones you listed, I agree, really shouldn't be in Web browsers.
It is easy. S. Korea did it in about a week. The only reason it hasn't happened in the U.S. is incompetence and lack of leadership.
The video's here, in Italy, show the ventilators used with a bag over the patient's head to create a bubble of positive pressure (and quarantine off their head).

So presumably in a scenario like this it's less of a problem about 'triggering own breath'.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-they-call-it-the-apoc...
I am buying a used RT-PCR machine for that, will get it home in the next few days. I have an account at Sigma-Aldrich as a hobbyist researcher, so I can order primers and other reagents.
I was curious about the possible mix up of flu and covid by the testing kit since they are similar, I am not denying that covid exists, just that if the tests are mixing the two up.
Proof that a good CEO is worth the money.
Much of this is BS. Sorry, but all you need to address many of the strawman problems you invent is a barcoding system. Generate barcode, slap it on tube, have drive through visitor spit in tube, ask them to take a pic of barcode with phone using app, send sample tube with barcode for testing. None of the verify label etc. etc. BS is required.
Are you sure the tests can detect the virus two days after exposure? One reason the CDC advises quarantine and waiting for symptoms before testing is because they aren't sure it can be detected before symptoms start.

Though I guess whenever you are producing enough virus to be contagious you would probably test positive at that point too.
Wait what ? Why is emulating a redis server (and to whom ?) is even a thing ?
You're technially right but conceptually he did show that the bitrate isn't in the normal 4k ballpark.

There's likely little or no benefit on using a 4k resolution at this bitrate.

In his experiment the Chroomecast on wifi gets a ~6 Mbps stream for 4k, which is about 20% of an average quality Handbrake encoded 4k stream. The surprise was that in his experiment Apple TV got so much higher bitrate. Market segmentation?
I don't see a place to put commas that would help. "The Doctor, Who Helped Defeat Smallpox, Explains..." would refer to a subject already introduced, and there's no other way to separate "Doctor" and "Who" that I can see.
Ironically, behind a paywall.