skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with you. The average everyday person is going to bleed because of all of this.

Forget letting some massive billion-dollar company get a break. If they can't deliver what you are paying for, you should get a discount on your next bill or some kind of compensation.

I realize Netflix might not have control over the situation, but in the end, they'll be ok. While the average person will not.
I needed it. Helpful me a lot
Going Remote: Finding a Virtual Job in the Time of Coronavirus
Are people deliberately missing the point? Netflix kicked everyone down a plan tier, but continues to charge at the original plan tier.

If you get kicked down, the invoicing should match that.
"Enabling Windows users a limited Linux experience should help encourage more Linux switchers."

I really wished this was the case, however I hardly imagine Microsoft execs discussing at meetings the introduction of WSL to encourage people to switch to Linux.
The media is big business and for that reason every avenue tends to follow the preferences of the financiers. You might want to research the principles of "critical thinking", once you have some skills with that you can take news from both the left and right and make up your own mind.

In general, bad news sells, so there tends to be a lot of fear mongering. You could decide on what aspects of life, society and your community are relevant to you and filter out all the non-relevant news.
Is negative pressure ventilation any use in treating Covid-19? Iron lungs are easier to build than positive pressure ventilators. I imagine many HN readers could build something like a Both respirator[0] in their garage over a weekend. Using negative pressure ventilation might be a better option than trying to attach multiple patients to a positive pressure ventilator.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Both_respirator
Copper and Silver appear to have a protective effect vs. bacterial, viral and fungal infections, while not destroying healthy tissue.

Perhaps we've committed a mistake similar to that of the British Admiralty, who replaced scurvy-preventing lemon juice with ineffective lime juice in 1860 (https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm).

By replacing copper and silver in common use (door-knobs, hand rails, cutlery), we've inadvertently exposed our populations to increased viral and bacterial infection.
"You're using passwords wrong."
Is "ditch supervisor" a real job?
Yes, I feel the exact same way. I think it's unethical to pass those costs on to the user. At a very minimum, they should at least be given the option to decide.

E.g. 'We can give you a refund OR you can choose to support us right now. If you do we'll give you a free upgrade to XYZ some later time this year.'
Some excerpts (courtesy of Google translate):

The mean age of deceased and positive COVID-19 patients is 79.5 years (median 80.5, range 31-103, RangeInterQuartile - IQR 74.3-85.9). There are 601 women (30.0%). The figure 1 shows that the median age of patients COVID-19 positive deaths is more than 15 years higher than that of patients who contracted the infection (median age: patients who died 80.5 years - patients with infection 63 years). The Figure 2 shows the number of deaths by age group. Women who died after contracting COVID-19 infection they are older than men (median ages: women 83.7 - men 79.5)

The Figure 4 shows the therapies administered in patients who died COVID-19 positive during hospitalization. ThereAntibiotic therapy was the most widely used (83% of cases), least used antiviral (52%), most rarely steroid therapy (27%). The common use of antibiotic therapy can be explained by presence of super infections or is compatible with initiation of empirical therapy in patients with pneumonia, pending laboratory confirmation of COVID-19. In 25 cases (14.9%) all 3 therapies were used.

The figure 5 shows, for the patients who died positive COVID-19, the median time in days, who spend from onset of symptoms to death (8 days), from onset of symptoms to hospitalization (4 days) and from hospitalization to death (4 days). The time elapsed from hospitalization to death was 1 day longer in those who were transferred to resuscitation than those who did not they were transferred (5 days against 4 days).

To date (17 March), 17 COVID-19 positive patients have died under the age of 50. In particular,5 of these had fewer than 40 and were all male people aged between 31 and i39 years with serious pre-existing pathologies (cardiovascular, renal, psychiatric pathologies, diabetes, obesity).
Yes, that's a fair distinction I had considered. But personally, I'm not objecting to the measures being taken but specifically to how they're handled.

I think people should be given the option to make an informed decision. This feels like purposefully designing a choice architecture such that there's an assymetric information flow that can be taken advantage of to serve one's own need as a company. That's unethical IMO; not unlike a shady 20th century used car dealer.
The description of death that comes from consuming this stuff is nightmare material.
They've owed me money (just a few $) for several years now, in my Amazon Seller account.

And they've promised to pay me, something like 20 odd times. With a specific date each time.

Which is never paid.

And ever time I ask what happened, the customer service person says they'll look into it, and never get back to me.

Most recently, they've sent an email saying they're closing my account due to lack of activity. No word on what'll happen to the funds, my expectation is they'll just steal the money for themselves.

"Lack of activity"... yeah, no kidding.. People tend not to use a service when the other party is obviously full of shit and repeatedly lies. :(

As for "AWS never forgets", sure. That goes both ways.
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Yeah, I wouldn't mind something unobtrusive like a desktop clock that gently lets you know how much time you have until a next meeting or whatever. Thankfully I don't have many meetings nowadays, but a few years ago there would be a couple a day, ranging from daily stand-ups, interviews, all-hands presentations / demos, etc.
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What features do you think a product engineer should have?
A test with a 50% false positive rate, administered to 100 million people who aren't infected, would say 50 million people were infected.

False positive rate is a confusing term; it means the % of tests that should be negative that report a false positive.

I think the term for what you're probably thinking of (% of positive results that are false positives) is the false discovery rate.
Don't forget Silverlight!!
So if you end up in a situation where a doctor is deciding whether to put multiple people on a ventilator, is the idea that they would certainly pick you?

You don't seem to be reacting to the situations that the idea addresses, situations where there is an immediate shortage of ventilators.
It is hard to do. You can explain that what should have taken x hours, took x+y hours because of his many changes. You cannot work for such low-income. So your new rate is what is reasonable in light of the past experiences with him. If he doesn't agree then so be it. You do not need an unreasonable client who won't pay a fair price.

To make a profit in any business, you need to charge a fair price. That is, deliver good work and know the value of what you provide. Subsidising other people's businesses is not healthy.
Current up-to-date AOLserver fork is NaviServer:

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/NaviServer

Tcl has SafeTcl, that can be used to run untrusted code:

https://www.tcl.tk/software/plugin/safetcl.html

For smaller usage, there is Wapp web framework that is TCL+SQLite:

https://wapp.tcl.tk/home/doc/trunk/README.md

Importing Git repo to Fossil https://fossil-scm.org SQLite database uses much less disk space. Fossil can have Wapp etc CGI server extensions integrated:

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/serverext.wiki

For syncing between Git and Fossil:

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/inout.wiki

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/mirrortogithub.md

For packaging Tcl apps to single executeable, there is Tclkit:

https://blog.tcl.tk/52
I had no idea about that. Wikipedia entry, "Antimicrobial properties of copper" was also an eye-opener: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_co...
Ditto for gaming desktops. All I want is a really nice, subtle tower that doesn’t look like it belongs in a 13 year old’s bedroom. The Xbox Series X design looks exactly like what I’m after, just in PC form.
The early prototype of HotBot aka Inktomi was done in AOLserver (then called NaviServer). I was a grad student at UC Berkeley, Tcl was the new Perl and embedded scripting was the new CGI.

For production scaling, we rewrote it in multi-threaded C++ running on Sun hardware. This was not only pre-AWS but you had to build your own machine room, which meant severe constraints on budget and physical space: getting a world-scale service into a single rack was the difference between success and failure.

Anyway, AOLserver and Tcl rocked, other than performance, no complaints at all for this use.
What I really don't get was how even Windows 3.1 had better multitasking than MacOS. Really.

I get the multiple issues with MS and Windows, but at that time, they had the better system for Home/SME users. Ok maybe not for Graphical Designers, but still.
Price-Gouging Laws Will Do More Harm Than Good During the Coronavirus Pandemic
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Skip the middle plan, and have two plans:

- Standard: $5 per job + $0.02 per GB

- "Enterprise": 99$ per month + $0 per job + $0.005 per GB
Ask HN: What is truly the cutting edge?
I feel like every hype article I read talks about advancement in machine learning/AI, or some other buzzwordy field. While I'm not discrediting the merit in those discoveries, I often yeard to hear about what new and cutting edge technologies exist which I haven't even heard of it. Which are so cutting edge as to not have made it to the level of mainstream appeal.
In my country (NL), a lot of the backbone of both cable TV and internet on a street level has been replaced with fiber already; I can imagine that in the US, due to the scale, this process is lower. Doesn't have to be fiber-to-the-home, 20mbit should be enough for everyone for example.

I haven't had any problems with my internet (I do have fiber straight into my house, wired network on my laptop, fast.com reports 600 Mb/s), but Skype, which we use for meetings, has been pretty shit in terms of sound quality.
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But Netflix systems are totally capable of handling this surge, It is ISP who are getting their Internet Pipes getting overfilled, They have requested Netflix to reduce there bandwidth for temporary respite. If anything you should be taking that refund or discount from your ISP.
Could be. My perception wasn't so much, people being irritated due to lower quality but rather being annoyed that they still needed to pay $X while not getting what they're paying for.

I personally think most people are in the If Lower Charge Then Okay camp. From what I can tell it's specifically the feeling of injustice that rubs people the wrong way.
As mentioned in my previous comment, there are a lot of things that would have to solved and deployed in order for P2P to be 100% feasible. I didn't expect to receive a list of things to be solved right now!

But you do bring up good points, as the current infrastructure (everywhere) is not setup for P2P. In most modern countries (sans US), ISP networks are actually pretty good and cheap, and works fine P2P. Otherwise there are other ways of distributing as well, mesh networks is one way.

All these questions you are outlining are definitely solvable though, just like when these questions arised when we built our current centralized infrastructure. Problem is that P2P networks are not nearly as funded as centralized infrastructure, leading to less people working on actually solving these problems.
I read yesterday that someone managed to hack Netflix' data packets and discovered their 4K is not actually 4K either; if that is the case, they're liable for false advertising.
That works fine for non-essential goods. New mobile phone - sure. But once we're in a "rich asshole can buy out the supply of life-saving equipment by outbidding hospitals" territory, any talk of market efficiency should go out of the window. If we don't do that, we may just as well start analysing market efficiency of slave ownership - market numbers more important than people.
There are some odd quotes and grammatical mistakes in this article. For example: “You wouldn’t want to put a patient with severe bronchospasm [sudden contractions of bronchial muscles in the lungs] with a patient that does not have bronchospasm because that would.” Likewise, one of the cited authors’ names, Babcock, is misspelled in the piece as Babcok.

I’m not qualified to assess whether this risk is worth it but I am surprised that Vice’s editing is so shoddy. It certainly doesn’t engender faith in the veracity/accuracy of their reporting.
My Blogging Experiment (Updated)
Yes that's most likely a misunderstanding there - most heuristics I've used were very much deterministic. Non-determinism is evil, that I would agree - but heuristics aren't. As long as you understand they are heuristics and might fail/lead to suboptimal results.
Theoretically yes, in fact it may actually be better. We have largely abandoned negative pressure ventilatory support for a number of practical reasons. Not least is that once you have intubated a patient, they are less contagious!
Does anyone has a translated version of of this?
Need more developers:

* security engineer

* iOS engineer

* Android developer

* Dart engineers

* Flutter developers

* Engineers with health industry experience

* backend infrastructure

* backend security
> 1) Can a cable ISP even route traffic between residential customers without schlepping out to a POP?

Guess it depends on the ISPs implementation but in my experience, yes, some ISPs let you route traffic between residential customers, granted you've setup your router correctly.

> 2) Where does the upload bandwidth limitation live?

In my experience, the limitation lived further away than the residential building, as we hit our own equipment's limits before we hit any other limits.
While in principle I agree that luxuries like Netflix should be secondary to core internet services, at the same time I'm worried about the slippery slope that is net neutrality.

I mean we've had a lot of slippery slopes recently, things like the government Demanding access to location data. I never agreed to share this information with my government. I did not agree to have my ISP or Google or etc to share this data.
> No more waking up in the morning thirsty as hell.

How does this one work? Are you hooked up to the filter overnight?
Exactly; vote with your wallet, not comments on HN.
If your gym won't be able to re-open after this thing is over, it only shows the quality of management of the gym as well as of the government. It should not be your burden to bear and build a buffer for them for their mistakes. Someone higher up pocketed all the profits while things were good and is now not ready to invest that money back into it to keep it afloat and that's THEIR problem. They have the money, let them put it back into the economy.

Cancel your membership and stop giving into the bullshit that people are feeding to you. If you want to help, help people, not corporations.
Buy products that your company takes, and sell products that you make. Most B2B startups will struggle now because we dont know whats going to happen to customer funds.
This group aims to make it clear - so people can state this is what i can buy, this is what i can sell today - hopefully cutting the long sales process short.
I have to correct the number to 160.000 per week thus 23.000 per day.

Source:
https://www.zeit.de/amp/news/2020-03/18/corona-test-erforder...
Now all we need is a reliable way to identify a 'good' CEO without the benefit of hindsight.
I don't know, my father the conman used to tell me the exact same thing.
Novel Coronavirus 101
What makes you (not you specifically, you in the general sense) think you're entitled to viewing content without paying for it? I mean if you want to make a point just cancel your subscription.
Scheduling VSphere Pods
There is a big system-level difference: with 50% false positive, half of the population goes back to living regular lives. False positives stay home, and go to a hospital only if they need a ventialtor (which very few will need since they are not actually sick)
There is a summary of this by Bloomberg news: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-tho...
Possible explanations for the absence of antiviral therapy: lack of availability, reluctance to prescribe untested treatment (all antiviral treatments are currently experimental), some of the antivirals actually work really well and a lot of the people who got them are missing from this study because they recovered. I hope it's the latter.
French study finds anti-malarial/antibiotic combo could reduce Covid-19 duration
But...you do only need to type <tr>. The problem you describe only becomes an issue if you use <table>s for layout in the first place, so just don't do that. If you want to display something (which isn't semantically a table) in a grid-like layout, you use display:table or display:grid in CSS, you don't change the markup. And vice-versa if you have <table> which you don't want to display in rows and columns, you can override the default presentation in CSS without changing the markup.

The hypothetical <table-for-layout> element is just not needed in any scenario. It would have been useful back in the day before IE supported display:table, but that is at least a decade ago.
Wait, what? The (CEO of) UN New World Order is the author of this program according to the linked wikipedia page?
> Watch someone use a mobile web browser sometime. Watch the nonsense they have to deal with. The janky-ass scroll popup sluggish ad-infested dumpster fire. All of it.

Hence each website tries to create their own app. Users are drawing in apps that track every move they make and batteries do not keep their charge even to make an emergency call.
In my experience, McDonald's burgers taste noticeably different in the US and Canada. So I think it's a per-country thing (especially when, e.g. Canadian McDonald's only uses Canadian beef).
As others have said, it's a huge problem if it leads people to think they're now immune to the coronavirus.
Also the current URL for The Pirate Bay is https://tpb.party
The difference being that networks and Netflix servers don't cost a lot of money or take up space when they're idling, and/or they can sell the capacity and switch rapidly when they need it, whereas hospital capacity does.

I mean I'm all for having excess hospital capacity (and excess capacity for a lot of things), but at the same time who is going to pay for it?

This has been the problem before cloud computing; companies had to set up servers and the like for the worst case peak capacity workload, meaning that usually they'd only be operating at 10-20% of capacity.
This whole crisis is a test of healthcare systems.

Germany got hit very hard with infections, but also has a really low fatality count. Spain only got 8% more infections but over a maginitude more deaths

Edit: Spain also has only half of the population of Germany, so it's probably more like 16% more infections in relation to population.
no it isn't . there are lot of research labs that can do the test. the problem is safety, not the test itself.
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> It's prohibitively expensive for users to truly own the most basic commodities of internet infrastructure, i.e names (DNS), numbers (IP) and peers (BGP). These commodities would enable users to make the most of the protocols that we already have

If these costs are inherent to the operation of these systems and protocols, and arguably many of them are, then it sounds like Urbit is on the right track.
No, in the case of ARDS, you need positive pressure (especially "back pressure" during exhalation) in order to keep the alveoli open.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_end-expiratory_pres...
> 3: Allow individual ISPs to ignore agreements and bandwidth limit Netflix traffic from their POPs, if ISPs are having capacity issues.

This goes against net neutrality, and it's a slippery slope. We have fought to keep net neutrality (and in the US that fight was lost iirc).
uMatrix does that and also takes that to the next level, at least on Firefox.
Should we spend $1 trillion to save one life? I'll bet we agree we shouldn't spend that much money to save just one person's life.

Ultimately, there is a trade-off to be made between how much we use to save a life vs improving the quality of everyone else's life.

The EPA puts the cost of a life at $10 million [0]. Juries put it at $2.2 million, apparently [0].

But, of course, not all lives are (statistically) as valuable. A 65 year old might have 20 years of life left. A newborn has 80+ years. An 80 year old has a 4% (and rapidly increasing) chance of dying per year. [1]

Should we spend more to save an infant than an old person? I'd say we should because we're saving more units of life-years.

So to save 1 million people, we should spend how much, exactly?

If we go by the EPA, $10 trillion. If we go by juries, $2.2 trillion.

US GDP is $21.44 trillion to give a sense of the magnitude of the cost.
The EPA estimate would entail asking the US to spend the equivalent of half its output or 12.5% of the entire world's output.

If it's 1 million 65 year olds, and life expectancy is 80 years, how much should we spend? A 65-year old has lived 80% of their life. Should we spend only 20%, then?

That'd be $2 trillion under the EPA estimate.$444 billion if we go by juries.

I have no idea if we should provide that sort of discount, honestly, but it's definitely worth thinking about in an era of intense economic impact to (primarily, but not exclusively) save members of that demographic.

The stimulus packages the US government is considering are within striking distance of these discounted numbers at $1.5 trillion or so depending on what passes.

And that stimulus doesn't come close to covering the full impact, either.

The S&P 500 market cap, only a portion of the immediately measurable economic impact, has dropped by ~$2.2 trillion over the last month. [2]

That plus the stimulus is putting us at $3.7 trillion, well over the discounted value of saving a million 65 year olds.

We have other measurements to consult, and we're not even getting started.

The total US stock market cap is 109% of GDP. It was 158% a month ago. [3]

That's a $10 trillion drop. I think the market was overheated, but coronavirus is a huge portion of that drop.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-value-of-life/

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-19-26.pdf

[2] https://ycharts.com/indicators/sp_500_market_cap

[3] https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_total_market_capitalizatio...
Which is a behaviour I observed in most power users, but none in the non-power user group.

I don't think most non-power user even want to try to trim that stuff, because they don't know what can be trimmed and what can't.
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Thanks for posting your comment, it lead me down a rabbit-hole that might help fill some current downtime. I only took a brief flick through https://www.tutorialspoint.com/tcl-tk/index.htm but I found it more approachable as a total noob to TCL. As always, ymv & can't vouch for anything on there except it works/looks ok with JS disabled. Thanks, just might add TCL to the skill-set :-)
Coronavirus: Robots use light beams to zap hospital viruses