skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooh details please. I've looked at the docs but haven't used actions yet. What makes it worse than circle?

The initial capabilities look similar and circle really needs a competitor with how flaky their service has recently been.
The author lives in a desktop-centric world and conveniently forgets the 10x more numerous mobile devices that do NOT have AES acceleration, and where ChaCha20-Poly1305 yields substantial battery life savings, which is why Google promotes it so widely for Android.
There haven't been masks to buy for over a month now. People literally steal them from hospitals and warehouses.
Hospitals in Italy are over capacity. People are prioritized based on chance of survival. Anyone unlucky is left to die because there is not enough equipment.
Level n nodes can have arcs to level n-m nodes provided they aren’t ancestors. In addition nodes can have multiple parents.
Not really, it will cost whatever opec and pals say it will cost. In my opinion,less has to be magnitudes lesser (>10%?) for it to affect prices at the upstream end of things.
“We estimated that fewer than 2.5% of infected persons will show symptoms within 2.2 days (CI, 1.8 to 2.9 days) of exposure, and symptom onset will occur within 11.5 days (CI, 8.2 to 15.6 days) for 97.5% of infected persons.”

From https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2762808/incubation-period...
I'm using Auth0 for the user login, and it relies on 3rd party cookies. Safari and Brave block these by default, if you enable them it should let you log in.
This is one of the bigger leftist critiques of UBI - instead of enacting meaningful change to the system, gifting the people just enough money to keep them docile and prevent upsetting the ruling class and, like you said, weaponising for further political gain
Sometimes I find it strange - in both good and bad way - that we are, in 2020, learning tools and languages designed and build in the 80s, with models and constraints of the time, with 40 years of layers of backwards compatibility, and actually going sometimes back to the 70s

I am still learning tools designed around the constraints of teleprinters

Sure, it’s the same on Windows side (and macOS side with their classic OS compatibility layers still present, like all the HFS stuff). Not bashing bash here.

Surely our computers have very different models of operation than PDP-11, yet we are sometimes pretending it doesn’t
So by your definition if you call someone an idiot and they punch you in the face for saying that, you don’t have freedom of speech?

Right. It’s freedom of consequences from a specific entity, the government, not freedom from consequences in general.
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For Kenya, it works out as 0.3 USD/tablet for HCQS
Much less visual than yours though, I also made a tool to highlight the exponential effect of social distancing.

Exponential growth is often counter-intuitive and lot of people don't seem to get it.

https://www.spreadsim.com/
I find this mainstream crass "dirtbag" culture as expressed through inordinate swearing to be really obscene and distasteful.
would be interesting to see how really dark black people with high natural sun insulation are fairing. I mean its armchair biology but you could theorize that people with very dark black skin that work in office and dont see much sunlight would be more susceptible to the coldflu seasons...

I dont remember seeing anything like that, and one of my workmates from Kenya, who has been told that her Vit D levels are too low in winter (by her GP) and that she should go for walks at lunchtime to get them up a bit, doesn't seem to get especially hammered by the cold/flu season.

That is a anecdotal data pool of (1) though :-P
I live in Japan too and just spoke with a friend who thinks government is hiding cases to keep the Olympics. Given how hard it seems to get a test (as per the press) this has some truth. People are a bit more careful than in Europe but not amazingly careful either, so the virus is probably spreading silently.
This is very concerning. At a time like this, a profanity laden website preaching to ignore virtually every established medical authority and "trust the free market" is dangerous and careless.

It is not the fault of the WHO that some national governments have had poor responses. And the supply chain that would 'flood' the market would take far longer than the incubation period to increase supply to give literally everyone on the planet a mask -- and that's ignoring the fact that normal economics are sort of suspended right now when everyone is locked in their houses and all non-essential businesses are being closed by government decree.

If you A) are sick and B) must venture outside, then yes, wear a mask. Healthy individuals should not be doing so at this time, however.
That's a good idea, I'll try to think of a nice example. I went with a tree, rather than a DAG, because I wanted to make the examples as simple as possible so as to not scare people off.
> which, like it or not, is the engine that drives our economy

no it doesnt. the US consumes a lot, but you are mistaking an accounting identity with something causal. if people decided to consume less, that means they are putting off current consumption for future consumption and saving those resources for investment to allow that to happen. don't worry - they'll consume at some point when they feel it is in their best interest (and if they don't, they basically just gave us a bunch of free labor).

all economies everywhere are driven by production. human desire is pretty much endless - you rarely have to incentive consumption. when people have the resource (ie, they produced), they will naturally consume.

the only way that long term standards of living improve is by increasing productivity (this is something virtually every economist agrees to). that is done by increasing capital stocks, machinery, technology. those are all production oriented activity.
Another good DIY mask tutorial
https://www.consumer.org.hk/ws_en/news/specials/2020/mask-di...
I am skeptical of those initiatives.

The usage priority should be to the ones that are sick and the medical professionals.

Using it indiscriminately won't help and it will harm availability to those who really need it.
They don't help
How horrible that people can be swearing in these life-threatening situations. Totally distasteful.
Italy did everything wrong.

They basically turned hospitals into covid19 infection parties.
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Chinese flexible screen maker Royole will release new foldable phone next week
Shit you are right! I think the site I was looking at was looking at MA/MI for highest.

https://www.savingtoinvest.com/maximum-weekly-unemployment-b...
that's also the thing I was wondering. All the people keep talking about asymptomatic spread, yet that should be relatively ineffective at spreading (unless it's super contagious and one cough can infect dozens). Somehow I think people are just not really honest with it I think...
No the point is that swearing doesn't make your argument stronger or better
Ehhh no. There is a huge mask shortage, leave the masks for the people that actually need them (hospital staff).

Just stay “the fuck” home .
> This doesn't add up either -- immunity per individual is expected to last 'only a few months',

There is no evidence either way. Even if it is transient it will be enough for it to die down
We've banned this account for posting unsubstantive comments and ignoring our requests to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Interesting.

I should qualify: I'm in San Francisco and have been to two different grocery and several convenience stories over the past few days.

I was in one convenience store today and I noticed the owner had stocked some shelves normally filled with cookies and snacks with different kinds of canned beans. My first thought was, "smart". My second thought was, "sigh but they're the only completely full shelves in the store".
Also the word VITAmine gives it away, doesnt it :)
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar, regardless of which nation you're for or against. It's tedious and makes threads lame.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Because testing everybody is no big deal.
Well they aren't testing symptomatic people. How would they know to want to be tested other than personal election to do so because they had been in contacted with someone else?
Shadowbanning is super effective against trolls though, which HN does get a few of from time to time. Github though should not suspend accounts with active repositories like this; if they shadowban abusive / trolling commenters then sure, but that too can be made granular, e.g. shadow their comments but don't 404 their repositories.

Self-hosting is better, I agree, but people use medium, github, twitter, youtube etc because they'll instantly have a much bigger audience. I mean a self-hosted github alternative should be easy to set up on your own servers.

Actually if you operate a JS library with things like a CDN and hosted icons, you probably should. Sure, github is free for things like that, but you - and your users who depend on you - cannot depend on them.
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I understand where the message comes from, but it's an unusual message to get when registering what seems like a "first-party" account. If it's your domain and your app, they're in the same trust domain, so you could reasonably just trust it automatically. (Google doesn't prompt when you log into YouTube using your Google account, for instance.)
Isn't that largely due to a lack of immunity? Too many people getting it at once in clusters?
> Every place on the planet needs to rethink how we handle infectious diseases. This requires both a cultural and legal shift, so that one can just not come to work when showing mild symptoms and not face any negative consequences

Do I live on another planet? Coming in sick even with mild symptoms is frowned upon at least for a decade where I live. As a tech worker I can easily work remotely, so on mild symptoms I inform my employer that I will work remotely and that's it. If I feel, that I am not capable to work productively - I get a sick leave from my doctor and that's it.

I am of course not from medieval US (though POTUS probably could easily call place where I live a "shithole" country) where sick leave is compensated to 80% of your salary (there's a cap, but it's high enough) and I am not aware of any time limits, if there is - it's a year or more. That's the reason I pay taxes! :)

So no "legal shift" required. There's a "cultural shift" needed for some employers though, where being unwell is a sign of weakness, though legally they cannot do anything to the employee.

All in all, I do not want my restaurant order to be handled by anyone who's is even mildly ill or have a runny nose. Same thing applies to doctors, nurses, grocery store staff, etc. All politicians, employers and people in general who cannot grasp this simple idea - belong to live in the dark middle ages.
There has to be a middle ground though, and it's ridiculous that the environmental impact of flying isn't factored into the price. Let's say a £30 Ryanair flight can produce as much as half a tonne of CO2 per traveller - how is that ok?
Italys transmission rate is exactly the same exponential curve as everywhere else, chinas hospitals were overwhelmed, spanish hospitals are being overwhelmed, and its currently starting in the netherlands and germany.

All year round is basically influenza infection party everywhere yet it doesn't overwhelm our medical systems.
The Italian fashion capital being led by the Chinese (2013)
I think the real question is how well it handles highDPI displays.

Personally I just buy cheap refurbished thinkpads so it’s not a problem I have but that’s been one of the main reasons other people I know don’t run FVWM.
Please don't sink to this regardless of how bad another comment is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The engineering of birds’ nests
a regular flu epidemic does between 10k to 20k over a span of two months in france alone. that's more than the total number of casualties of the covid-19 so far.My feeling so far is the problem is that most covid-19 emergencies can actually be cured if you've got a breathing machine, which requires special equipment not available at the moment.

I'd say the virus isn't more dangerous than the flu, it's just requiring a very specific set of equipment which we didn't need as much previously.

of course that will all depend on what the number evolves to over time.
This you have to install, xargs is everywhere. Also with the -P flag you can parallelize the most common cases.
Out of curiousity, as I'm thinking of looking at CodeReady for openshift, what problems did you have there?
According to Raoult, it doesn’t seem to be a technical limitation, the test is a standard procedure that labs around the country already do routinely for other viruses.
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The 'Universal' part of UBI is the key here. The problem with our current patch work of social programs is that the constituencies for each program are fractured and disorganized. A child tax credit here, a food program there, it is easy to slowly whittle down a social program in those cases. But a Universal BI means that any changes or cuts to the program will impact everyone. It is much harder to play politics when the constituency spans both political parties.

Regarding Obamacare, there were a lot of issues, but a large one was the 'keep your hands off my health care' crowd. These folks were convinced they had good health care and that the government would ruin it (ironically, many of them were on medicare). So right off the bat, the constituency was fractured. And for this same reason, I actually think Universal Health Care will be a much harder sell in the US than a UBI. Despite our health care systems very obvious issues, too many people think their current plan is good enough (and may not even be aware of their plans shortcomings) and are too worried that any sort of change could put them in a worse spot. With UBI, its a blank slate and a pretty easy sell. Gov: Hey America, here is $1000. Us: Okay!
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Yet another full population study estimates: “We estimated the asymptomatic proportion at 17.9%” - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.20.20025866v...
I assume that it means they’re spending rather than saving that discretionary income, and don’t have a buffer available of more than a single pay period (usually 2 weeks). That money may also be committed to long-term contracts with service providers and not readily available for redirection. It’s sometimes a reflection of financial priorities rather than raw income.
do you have sources for that ? i'm extremely interested in understanding why italy seems to be suffering that much compared to other countries. If it's just a matter of being the first, or if it's also something specific to them.
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Impact of interventions to reduce Covid-19 mortality and healthcare demand
Right. But how often does this actually happen in the real world ?
And most importantly, what are we, as a society, ready to bet on the fact that not enough will make the "wrong" judgement ?
I've always viewed `awk '!a[$0]++'` as superior to `sort | uniq` because it preserves order and does not have to sort the data first before deduplicating. But `sort | uniq` is much easier to remember.
Have you seen the patriot act?

Hell, it was written by the oppositions party current presidential front runner.
Governments can also mandate production. It's not like they have to sit there powerless going "aw geeze, we have to let them price gouge or they won't make more".
There's some very strong indicators that immunity will be ephemeral.

It's possible the R naught will drop below the currently assessed 2.2 over time, but there's no evidence for that -- and if both these things stay as expected, it won't be transient enough to 'die down' naturally.
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When I use the web app I get the warning:

Intention is requesting access to your dwmartin41 account.

Doesn't inspire confidence in the amount of testing done.
It's quite obviously spicy food that helps the most. Or rather its my excuse to eat everything spicy for the next month.
British Airways is totally private, the state unloaded it a long time ago. My understanding is Ryanair have a reasonable cash position. Virgin have the begging bowl out at the moment though.
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WHO lessons from Ebola (listen from 30:50)
I think tragedy of the commons will prevent this. Why should I hold back if I know that others won't?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
Not in the system where state is paid from everyone's taxes to take care both about kids and elders :(.
Not only is it very beautiful, but you made me use the browser console for the first time in my life and it feels great! Thank you.

Off to read some of my bookmarklets, quarantine-style rabbit-hole time!
The building I live in has a sitting space on the roof I’ve been working from while waiting for the internet to get installed in my apartment (I didn’t think I’d need it so I waited and now I’m regretting it.) One of the other people teleworking from up there is an accountant(?) for a major airline who has been for the past couple days trying to figure out how to keep it from going under. It’s kind of sad hearing all the phone calls he’s making sorting things out like older pilots trying to retire and so on.
His documentation in general is top-notch, especially the included PDF.
One problem is the implication behind that critique, that the poor should rather be kept poor until their anger is useful for class warfare (the political gain of the left.)

I sympathize with the left far more than the right but both sides seem perfectly happy to consider the proletariat as sheep when it serves their purpose. As far as I'm concerned, UBI would be meaningful change to the system.
That's not my experiece with kind at all. Running in a Linux VM on a 3 year old laptop and my kind clusters start in < 2 minutes.
Israel Joins Iran and China Tracking Citizens’ Smartphones to Fight Covid-19
From a sample size of two (my local supermarket, and a friend's local supermarket) people in Denmark have followed the government's appeal and stopped panic buying. I'm very impressed.

The only sold-out item in both shops is alcohol gel.

Toilet paper was on offer at the larger supermarket yesterday.

(I was also pleased to learn the Danish word for hoard: "hamstrer".)
It's not the that ruined them, but we see another classic transfer from the state (=people) to the wealthy.

The correct thing would be to nationalise them if they go bankrupt, not to bail out the investors that earned money with the explicit expectation of risk.

And I say that having lost 10k in stock value in the past month. Still my fault and my risk and I don't deserve to be bailed out for it.
> In the United States, for example, we are urging people not to be tested unless they have severe symptoms.

They should test randomly: e.g. use a hash of the person’s name.

Otherwise there is a huge risk of missing cases that matter...
Interesting overlap between crisis management & startups:

You need to react quickly. (…) You need to engage with communities deeply - community acceptance is important. You need to be coordinated. You need to be coherent. You need to look at the other sectoral impacts. (…) The lessons I’ve learned are: be fast, have no regrets. You must be the first mover. (…) One of the great things in emergency response is (…) if you need to be right before you move, you will never win. Perfection is the enemy of the good (…). Speed trumps perfection. And the problem (…) is that everyone is afraid of making a mistake, everyone is afraid of the consequence of error. But the greatest error is not to move. The greatest error is to be paralysed by the fear of failure. That’s the single biggest lesson I’ve learned in Ebola responses in the past.
That's fair. But academia is often full of BS, pardon the language, and so the radar needs to be cranked up. With, say, Medium articles, one can skim if it's good or not within seconds. Academic papers can take hours, if not weeks to discover if it's complete BS or whether I'm just not smart enough, and so I can only go off minor cues.

It's generally better to read hard things. They're hard because they have a lot of information density or a lot of gaps. But that also makes people confuse poor readability for quality. Something that has no content tries to be hard to read by stuffing it full of gobbledygook. Whereas something that is trying to communicate an idea often goes through a few revisions trying to simplify the idea. If you have great ideas, you want the user to be expending their brainpower trying to comprehend the idea, not translating it into simple English. (exception is using jargon that's common to people at the right level)
Good idea, I'd considered adding costs to the nodes but not to the edges. Do you have a particular use case in mind? I'll have a think about it and maybe add it to the roadmap, thanks!
I remember being a bit of a Unix fanboy in the early 2000s and I had seen some program on EuroNews showing NASA computers running CDE or some sort of Motif based DE.

So of course I wanted to try it. And I actually used OpenMotif for a few weeks until I switched back to Blackbox or Openbox, whatever I was using at the time.

Fun times, switching distros every month and trying new things in the Linux ecosystem.

But in practice, today, I wouldn't part with my vanilla Gnome setup on Fedora for anything.
Not to rewind. Rewind implies changing something in your own past, but nobody's past changed. Only the futures of different timelines, if that makes sense.
How does nationalising work in the real world in a scenario like this? What happens to the private facility owners?
This is not a dud, and it will prime whole generations in different countries to have respect for new diseases. If the United States just delays a little longer in its response, it will also be on the list of those countries. Don't know if one should count that as a success or not.
It refers to a special kind of use for medication that is not approved.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_access
Fudge yeah, let's use curse words to spread misguided information and make things worse. The website feels like a DHH Tweetstorm.

Masks work if the sick people use them, (that is for the standard masks). For some reason people started to hoard those masks in Germany, leading to shortages in German hospitals, effectively meaning they can't do any surgeries right now other than the most necessary (also we see hospitals being robbed [0]). Also if you wear masks to protect yourself you would also need to cover your eyes. Which of course nobody does.

Germany is mostly not dense enough or has remotely enough confirmed cases to warrant broad use of masks. Social distancing and self-quarantine, hand-washing and general hygiene are far more effective measures without threatening the medical system. It's the same for other places.

[0]: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/coronavirus-diebe-stehlen-50... (German)
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This I don’t understand.

They’re providing an important service to everyone and keeping them from going out and getting sick, I’d hope that’s profitable to do!!!

Next you’ll say hospitals are profiting off the global health crisis?
“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke
Not uniquely.

USA is famous for very high prices of essential medicines, and being an expensive country in general.
Nationalization is bringing something under public ownership.
What Spain does is bringing them under public authority, but not under public ownership.
The term “nationalization” is not correct here IMHO.