skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, except there is a new spur right now: empty grocery store shelves.
This is an interesting and informative guide to a subject I would otherwise not have bothered to learn about. :)

It’s incredibly thorough and very well-written.

As an intermediate/senior iOS developer, articles like these are interesting - if, let’s say, the bank I work at decides they want to implement this feature on their bank cards, (unlikely but an example) I can at least say I’ve got a fundamental understanding of the subject and a solid resource for more information, and can look into it further.

Thanks to everyone who takes the time to share knowledge like this.

I’ve long wanted to make a YouTube series on audio production in Logic but haven’t gotten around to it yet. This is inspiration.
To be fair, price gouging laws prevent companies from increasing prices of goods like, say, toiletpaper, such that they remain in supply. Thus the shortages.

In other words, we already have “soft” price-fixing.
it's easier to write songs when you have control of your voice.
I imagine the WSJ Editorial Board is focusing on a solution to keep businesses surviving, not employment. They may have other ideas to help with that later. Without businesses, there will be no employment.
Lot of Americans are in dire straits and the customer base on the margins can probably no longer afford non-essential things such as Netflix.
Cost isn’t zero though. Have a lot of people with mild symptoms come in puts strain on health care, and increases the risk that important health care workers get the affliction.

If the test could be done yourself, at home, then I would agree with you.
Facebook had mandated that some work had to be done from an office.

>A Facebook spokesperson told The Intercept that “for both our full-time employees and contingent workforce there is some work that cannot be done from home…for content reviewers, some of this work must be done from the office for safety, privacy and legal reasons,” adding that “we’re exploring work from home options on a temporary basis, and have already enabled it in some locations.”
Thank you. That is fixed.
Well I think it wouldn't be an 'inactivated' or 'attenuated' vaccine, but we have other vaccine types designed to trick the body into developing the readiness for an immune response. I don't know if they could work for this type of disease.

Edit: I glanced at vaccines on Wikipedia, read the following on conjugate vaccines. Maybe we will develop a new technology to do something similar with viruses, training the immune system to recognize the virus by linking it to a toxin?

>Conjugate—certain bacteria have polysaccharide outer coats that are poorly immunogenic. By linking these outer coats to proteins (e.g., toxins), the immune system can be led to recognize the polysaccharide as if it were a protein antigen. This approach is used in the Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccine.[41]
100% agree with you, but would also supplement "test the most severe" to be "test the most severe and healthcare workers".

Getting healthcare workers out of quarantine if they aren't infected is also super important.

Both of those come as a priority before surveillance.
You say "and yet, here we are" as if you've proven something, when you have no evidence to back up your statement and rely on passive aggressive pseudo-insults to imply that I don't know what I'm talking about.
> They manipulate their currency, we let ours float.

Are you calling for us to manipulate our currency? We know they manipulate their currency, but that is not "letting them walk all over us". Economically, we let them get away with things as long as US corporations get very rich.
What’s the point in quitting in that case? Wouldn’t it be more effective to say “I’m working from home whether you like it or not, you can do what you want” and then let them fire you if they want to? You are merely exercising your right to refuse to work in a hazardous environment.
> The Apple Maps service doesn’t have a web presence

It kind of has: https://maps.apple.com/place?address=San%20Francisco
Haha, those two things are not the same. Generally governments pay a premium for companies that they could probably pick up out of bankruptcy and then later they sell them off via a set of bankers who take a massive cut and undervalue the sale. A Great British example was Royal Mail, IPO'd at 330p per share, by the end of the day it was trading at 458p. It jumped 38% on the first day and eventually peaked at 87% over the original IPO price in the next few months.
Didn't know about this render.com, very nice hosting. Thanks for this.
I agree it was stupid of them to placate people by making promises they don't intend to keep.
Acting out of fear of lawsuits is also how the adult world works.
>I frankly think it's crazy to be so ready to lynch others for working within robust systems //

And I think it's crazy to excuse people for abject immorality simply because they can lawyer their way around legal claims.

Moral consensus might get us bad decisions: I'd be interested to know how many lawyers private life would be deleteriously effected if the bar upheld a standard that accorded with the overwhelming moral tide of society at the time. Sure the tide moves, but the deleterious effect of that tide beyond the deleterious effect of the laws those people make would seem to be naturally curtailed.

In short if the overwhelming majority found something to be immoral then it would seem a reasonable standard to apply now. Of course in the fullness of time we might reject those moral standards, but equally we might reject legislation - or conversely begrudge not having been more stringent in our moral arbitration of the deleterious actions of rogue elements in society.

In short your argument is impotent, and swings both ways in its impotency.

The main problem is defining what is abjectly immoral, what amounts to an overwhelming majority, etc.. If we pushed a high moral standard at each lawyer's bar, and excluded those who actually had some moral probity (false negatives for taking actions "highly contrary to public morality") then would it be too much cost if we then removed for more people whose actions were shocking to public moral mores?
It is new data - the assumptions that were in the model showed that the surge capacity of ICU could cope in a social distancing scenario, but once they factored in the rates from Lombardy they got a different result. The horrible truth is that this thing is going to cause a huge number of deaths, I wish it weren't so.
From HN’s guidelines:

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

In what way am I seriously oversimplifying reality?
^THIS. The system of lowering interest rates and 'printing money' only helps banks. Back in the day, banks made money by lending money and that WAS their job. The whole Keynesian move to 'pump money into the economy' was to encourage banks to loan money so businesses and houses could get loans.TODAY, since the repeal of Glass Steagall and other regs, banks are make their money by speculating and financial engineering. The larger public is out of the circuit (or at best only a small, ignorable part). There are essentially two economies- the one where the financial sector operates and the real one where people work. The financial sector trades trillions every day-orders of magnitude more than the flesh, blood, sweat and tears of humanity on this planet. When interest rates are falling and especially when the fall is perceived to be accelerating, the speculative instruments of the financial sector start to fail because the conditions on which their profits are predicated have changed. To prevent the collapse of these modern day robber barons, we have to pump money into the system- The government does this through the Fed who purchase bonds that are created to underwrite the financial sector.

What we need is a way for the Govt to get money into the hands of the people who will spend it on real stuff that will stimulate our factories and housing industry. Although helicopter money is a phrase I hear more frequently, the method of execution so that it doesnt appear as an entitlement is obscure. Personally, I think the Fed should print money with a half life. This 'Fed coin' should be issued to every taxpayer and the value of that bequest should gradually fade away until it is spent. At which point it enters the economy and it's value is fixed.
It's a useless industry, it's a disposable luxury. I feel for the workers, but as a whole, less disposable luxuries sounds good for fiscal responsibility and productivity.
yes a while ago -- didn't stick with it long enough to really learn the tools, so am uncomortable drawing conclusions.
Tangent for those who are unfamiliar with the Indian number system - “lakh” means 100 thousand. “Crore” means 100 lakh (what we call “10 million” in the West).

This illustrates why naive number-formatting code that doesn’t take locale into account is wrong. The same number is written 20,000,000 in the US, 20.000.000 in most of continental Europe, and 2,00,00,000 in India.

I formerly worked on a now-defunct Indian e-commerce site, and many of my fellow developers (and me) were Westerners with little exposure to Indian culture. It was relatively common for new employees to file a “bug” pointing out that the site was formatting large numbers “wrong”, not realizing that it was correct for India.
The economy may be very well on its way to collapse, but I don't think it's because of the repo operations.
My only wish is for multiple account support, figured that would be a feature. I have a personal and work account.
" Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible."
On that note... The remarkable sipposidly allows access for writing software (I think their dev documentation leaves something to desired..). Might also be an option.

Ed: https://remarkable.engineering/
The risk is for cumulative (not accumulated) dose:

has a cumulative dose of more than 1000 grams

And the calculator they link out to gives the same number I calculated.
Some younger googlers have never cooked for themselves in years, so this will be an interesting challenge for them. (Source: 2nd year googler friend)
Yep, and async support is causing a shakeout of the existing ecosystem too - could take years before the dust settles.

It'd be so nice if a major vendor picked up the language and built an ecosystem on it :)
Yeah I wish we would explore the ethics of computer science in a deep and provocative way.
Of course the economy would suffer a lot, but comparing it to having a pandemic with a million deaths and breaking the already stretched health system... it is a win.
What a story. Thanks for sharing
Years ago when I used Dropbox on Windows, if would poll every single file on startup, which in the days of spinning disks rendered the machine unusable for several minutes - does Dropbox on Windows still do this?

Also, after the startup phase, IIRC Dropbox used the `FindFirstChangeNotification` Windows API function, which can miss changes under heavy load - do you still use this method, or have you moved to something else, such as using the NTFS USN journal, or a file system minifilter driver?
Boom -> boon?
Another alternative to immunity at scale would be to have sufficiently strict measures to reduce R0 to below 1, so the virus dies out. China appears to have managed this. If it could be done near globally, it's possible the remaining outbreaks could be contained.
A commenter on Reddit claimed that rebound effects are known among patients that have been treated with antiviral medications, and that that could also be a possible explanation: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fjuj24/5075_of...
Perhaps the submission form should have a caution:

"If this URL looks like an ad or a press release, please consider finding an original source for the information."
Yes, that is exactly what it means.
I did the online version and it was exceedingly easy.
This issue is now officially resolved. There will be no Pale Moon browser, official or not. The port has been removed. Farewell, petulant children.

Beautiful response.
Why do CDC and WHO discourage widespread mask usage? They suggest it only in a hospital setting or if caring for someone who has the virus. Is it because they are ineffective, or because they do not want to cause shortages?
New features already discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22477629, but now it's GA.
Backstage.io – open-source developer portal from Spotify
Good question, but that has happened here enough that the cops don’t enforce certain things.
Spartan opinion: maybe it's time people again learn it, the hard way, that it's usually strict science that prolongues their lives.
Ft. Worth cut capacity in half. No ones coming in anyway. The city is probably just trying to buy a couple weeks before going all in.
Rare Gabon burial cave sheds light on little known period in African history
I run an online mobile ordering app for restaurants as a side project and have never seen this many sign ups in one day. I have a full time job so had to bring my gf on to help with customer support.
I don't get why you're being down voted for this. Frankly you'd be helping out your local restaurants that are trying to minimize their red ink.
I'm wondering if this is regulatory capture in play?
Not 2 but 1/2. You did the division backwards and got the reciprocal. It is 0.5 tablespoons per person. What you got is 2 persons per tablespoon.

Google states that for: "(4000 litres / 500000) in tablespoons": the result is "0.541024363 US tablespoons"
Same here. It was the shortest Census form I can remember.
No job is worth risking your health, or your family's health for. Fullstop.

Companies that don't act swiftly to protect their employees health are going to have a rude awakening.
In America, this is the problem that has to be addressed before we can consider rolling out projects like UBI. I agree with you that regulations have to exist for this to work, and we simply don't have the regulations in place right now to enable it widely.
Nano machines! Buy a proprietary immune system and let a single corporation control your health for the rest of your life!
We're talking about foreign agents working for a communist government's state-controlled media. So yes, the federal government should "be in the business of" managing this.
> AVOID using S3 for static web hosting (No HTTPS).

I would absolutely recommend S3 for static web hosting. Just add CloudFront on top if you need HTTPS, it takes like 2 clicks.

If anyone interested, I answered on StackOverflow how to deploy a front end app (React, Vue, etc) to S3: https://stackoverflow.com/q/41250087/652669
Tylenol / acetaminophen is not an NSAID.
For that one paper you showed me you’ll find another dozen research papers that say something entirely different.

Until we know how many people have this or had it, suggesting multi-month lockdowns is ill informed, dangerous doomsday nonsense.

PS: while bitching about downvotes is lame, it is quite disappointing to see HN devolve into yet another panic fueled echo chamber where only “rooting for” the worst case scenario is tolerated.

Don’t let this place turn into an echo chamber people. There are plenty of subreddits and social media groups where you can get your fill of doomsday scenarios. This place bills itself as full of rational thinking people, let’s put on our critical thinking caps and consider the problem from all angles.

Ps: /r/corvid19 seems to be one of the few places on the internet where people are discussing this stuff rationally and not immediately jumping to the worst case scenario.
First detected case in Italy was January 31st, in Japan it was January 16th and/or 10th (quick Japanese and English Wikipedia check, correct me if you have a better source).
Facebook could give me a million dollars (i dont work for them) and I would still hate them they make people miserable.
Considering that the only way HN knows anything about this is because some jerk leaked an internal post from Mark, this has nothing to do with PR.
Ridiculous. We do not need to be manufacturing luxury cars right now.

Elon is murdering people for his own ego.
'Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.'
This is very true. Google goes off cowboy coding and says "well we're the big dogs now, and what we say goes" and think everyone has to follow. They don't care about standards, they care about being the last person standing because then they can do what they want to your browser and what goes in your eyeholes.
I get frustrated with answers like this. It sets up an __OR__ question when one didn't exist. I mean the discussion is about Andrew Yang's UBI. He also supported single payer. Why is this an __OR__ discussion? We don't have to fight when we're on the same side.
But they are not 100% sure.
No, it's a giveaway to Elon because he's a billionaire.

He's killing people.
We run almost all of our UIs on S3 static hosting behind CloudFront. Works like a champ.

I'm a bit stumped on why they say to avoid using local indices in DynamoDB, though.
Price regulation of water has resulted in rationing and shortages. Car insurance prices aren't regulated around here.
Ok, but according to the article the man tested positive on Feb 14, then got cleared on March 2 (in Tokyo), returned home and relapsed very few days later. If there are no mistakes in the resting (or reporting), that's not even a few months of immunity...
The entire theory of the solution to coronavirus hinges on an assumption that it will eventually pass once a critical mass of people have been infected and developed immunity. The handful of stories like this trickling out might imply that the immunity assumption could be incorrect.

What would be the ramifications of this? Could corona just bounce around the population for the rest of time, putting everyone at a high percentage chance of dying or requiring hospitalization multiple times a year? Could it be the kind of thing that comes back as a novel form every year like the flu? Could we be seeing covid-20, covid-21, etc ad infinitum, with high mortality/low life expectancy just being a new reality of life?

EDIT: If this were the case, and immunity is very shortlived after the virus is gone, maybe it could be contained through giving everyone an extremely frequent regimen of vaccines until this particular strain is out of circulation?
> shareholders may have justifiably been upset at the lack of dividend.

Then they priced their purchase of stock wrong. Maybe they should "un-stock buyback" instead of asking the gov't for money?
I'm guessing no
> The first quote doesn't actually say they've run out of beds.

It does. It literally says people without much chances to live had not been treated.

If you had 25% chance of living, and are told you will be dead anyway, I am sure you would understand the quote perfectly at that moment.

And you are not even taking into account the amount of psychological stress to health professionals (and the families of victims) that have to tell people that or, worse, that they will disconnect someone even if it still had chances to live. There are nurses breaking down, and I expect a wave of PTSD cases in health professionals when this is over.
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Transportation is a whole other problem, but with fewer people riding and higher-risk people staying home for a longer period, it seems that the actual risk to human life can be reduced.

I really believe that at some point long before this is over we are going to have to start exposing certain people to some quantifiably small risk, even knowing that they may spread it to others. The alternative (total economic shutdown for 12-18 months) really just isn't feasible. We are in for harm no matter what, but at some point we will have to pick our poison.

Mortality rate in a situation without ICU care shortage is apparently around 1%, and that will likely go down even further as we get better at treating it. If it's primarily younger people being exposed, that number shrinks by an order of magnitude or more. Widespread acquired immunity ought to reduce its ability to spread, assuming that's how it works (I believe the consensus is that yes, this is likely). Targeted contact tracing within high-risk communities can be used to manage that risk, once things are better understood. So really I think things are not as dire as they may appear, as long as we take decisive action now and only proceed when the situation is stable and we have data in hand.

We will probably be overwhelmed to some degree within the next few weeks, but people should refrain from panicking and keep their eyes on the ball. If we can just manage to come up for air after the initial wave, I think chances are we can get through it without a total collapse.
Opentable could help their "restaurant partners" by charging them smaller amount.
I find that it's nice to review pull requests or just browse through repositories/code on your phone if you don't have access to your laptop.
We don't have enough evidence to say conclusively.

MERS, which is related to COVID, is endemic in the Middle East, doesn't seem to be seasonal.

People shouldn't make preparations based on the idea that this will go away in the summer.
Senate leadership pushing a surveillance bill as Americans focused on Covid-19
I reckon that things would change only if a mass refusal to come to work happened. Other threads have echoed similar sentiments but this is a time where people and businesses need to be a "good citizen" and not think about business as usual/the bottom line.
I hear this line a lot "Countering bad propaganda", but I don't see the bad propaganda anywhere.

For example, it is extremely seldom mentioned in the U.S. media that the virus emerged at a location very close to a lab that was researching hybridized SARS viruses, and the true origin of the virus is still unknown. It is known that the origin was not the seafood market.

Yet, on the other side, you have high level Chinese government officials spreading completely unfounded theories that the virus originated in the U.S., and threatening to withhold pharmaceuticals unless the U.S. apologizes to and thanks China.

Honestly I think that this strategy will backfire for China. 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.
> What do you have to be thinking to come to the conclusion that "screw everybody, we'll just spread the illness" is your decision?

Give the guy the benefit of the doubt: then the question becomes “why would a sensible person act that way towards authority?”... Perhaps someone local could answer whether he was acting sensibly, or whether most local people would act the same way?
160k a day? No way. Citation needed. So far total tests in UK are ~30k.