skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're welcome.

If you live, remember to vote progressively on housing and other things that your generation has a death grip on.

If you pass, my condolences: It wasn't personal, merely generational.

With some remaining respect,

Young People
The thing about exponential growth is that it is slow growing (relatively) in the beginning. This means if we cycled between lockdown and business as usual we can keep things contained quite easily. Not sure what would be most efficient, but something like 1 week lockdown every 2 or 3 weeks would keep the spread minimal until a long-term solution is found. Obviously travel etc. gum up this plan but instead of containment or mitigation we can move to "time gap" reset policy that predicts continous growth/halt of the virus instead of pointlessly trying to eradicate it.
Cystic fibrosis accounts for about a third of all adult lung transplants in the US and about half of all pediatric lung transplants. At the time that I was diagnosed with a relatively mild form of it, life expectancy in the US was 36.

So I have a quite serious lung condition and I used to own and use (and sterilize at home) various forms of mechanical intervention. I no longer use mechanical intervention, in part because I'm better off when I can find effective alternatives.

I'm describing things I know from first-hand experience to work well in the face of lung problems that are supposed to have long ago killed me.

I'm doing my best to be very careful and conservative in what I say. I feel it's actively irresponsible to not share such thoughts, in part because a lot of places are de facto rationing health care because there simply aren't enough supplies to go around.

If you can't get to a hospital or are denied entry because of overwhelming demand, having the option to puke up a lung in the shower is better than having no alternatives to a ventilator.

And perhaps doctors will see my remarks, realize this is a valid criticism and decide to develop some best practices to try to reduce the use of ventilators overall.

Worst case scenario if I speak up and no one agrees: I get downvoted to hell. Hardly a novel experience.

Worst case scenario if I say nothing: Lots of people die who might not have.

So it's an easy decision on my part. When weighing the personal pain of people downvoting me and calling me crazy versus death for others, it's a no brainer. I'll take my lumps, thanks.
You don't need compassionate use for Chloroquine. It's FDA approved, so it's just off-label, which doesn't require any hoops, just a prescription from a doctor.
Think back to Wuhan. Imagine the hospitals have closed their doors because they are already backed up. Your grandparent is dying in the room next door because no doctor is available to treat them.

Who the hell cares if you build a ventilator and try it then? They're going to die anyways. You are doing nothing except increasing their chance of survival by acting instead of waiting.

Should you use this while hospital beds are still available? Obviously not. But any care is better than no care and being treated by a Wikipedia doctor is better than being treated by no doctor when you're already on your deathbed.
The thing about exponential growth is that it is slow growing (relatively) in the beginning. This means if we cycled between lockdown and business as usual we can keep things contained quite easily. Not sure what would be most efficient, but something like 1 week lockdown every 2 or 3 weeks would keep the spread minimal until a long-term solution is found.

Obviously travel etc. gum up this plan but instead of containment or mitigation we can move to a "time gapped reset" policy that predicts a continuous growth/halt cycle for the virus instead of pointlessly trying to eradicate it completely.
I can't understand this point of view. It's more important than ever to put out good, accurate data and to help the public understand what is going on.

Also - what happens if something changes and now literally 20% of people do require ventilation? You won't be able to get that message across now because that's what they already think and the message won't be any change to readers!
>famous entrepreneurial spirit is kicking in.

I'm sure it will but there will be huge coordination mismatch and resource waste because WH is not up to the task of coordinating. Some places have millions of face masks, some have none. Hospitals with wealthy donors and patients will be stacked to the roof when there is opportunity to by stuff.

- There will be too much some things, too little some others. When there is enough some resource, it will not be efficiently distributed according to need.

- Mitigation efforts will be optimal because states respond differently different times. If state borders can't be closed like country borders people just come in and spread the disease again.

States should consider creating a 'shadow government' to coordinate the efforts and hire those people that Trump let go to run it.
A serious problem with outrage culture is exhaustion. The latest outrage is always an 11 on a scale of 10. For a couple of years that's ok. But apathy is the normal end result of constant outrage.
Is there sufficient evidence in favor of rejecting the null hypothesis, that 57% of patients in the HCQ study group would have gone on to spontaneously recover without HCQ? Because that's the really interesting question. It's not a question of the study group versus control group, it's a question of whether the study group and control group had enough characteristics in common to make them statistically equivalent samples of a population that vary only in whether they were given HCQ. And I think the consensus among people who are clear on that is that the populations have too little in common.
Thanks for sharing this! I find these kind of articles very interesting, as they go really deep into the analysis behind product development.
As for the feature itself, as other people have already mentioned, I think it depends on whether your users are more accustomed to GUIs or CLIs. Personally, I prefer the latter so I'm definitely biased.
This looks pretty cool, but given I don't know much about natural language processing, what is it useful for?
I sure hope so. Thanks for your effort educating people.
This sounds pretty awesome. Anyone have any sample queries demonstrating this lying around?
I’m sorry but I strongly disagree with your opinion.(yes, it’s true... I’m Italian and I wrote from the worst-hit city).
Your link was of 12 days ago when emergency wasn’t so clear (at that date we had as much infected people as US had last week) and your link refers to a small minority of people.

In my first hand experience, in my city lockdown is quite complete and when you go out (to buy food or drugs) you are checked by police.
Surely there weren’t crowded places in the last 2 weeks in my region.
Sky resorts were closed on 9th March too.
People with either cushy office jobs or enough savings to be long-term unemployed are coping. The millions of service industry employees either aren’t, or soon won’t be.
Here is what I wrote to my governor and local newspaper. Feel free to adapt and forward if anyone agrees:

Universal Mask Wearing Is the Quickest Way to Restart the California Economy

We urgently need universal mask wearing to slow down the spread of COVID-19 and restore our economy.

This is CDC's advice on how healthcare providers can protect themselves if they suspect that a patient has COVID-19:

" Assess and triage these patients with acute respiratory symptoms and risk factors for COVID-19 to minimize chances of exposure, including placing a facemask on the patient and placing them in an examination room with the door closed." (What Healthcare Personnel Should Know about Caring for Patients with Confirmed or Possible COVID-19 Infection https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/caring-for-pat...)

If a facemask on a patient can protect the doctor in close proximity, it surely can also protect the general public. Yet the message from our nation's leadership is that mask wearing is ineffective for the general public (Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-...). Yes, it is not 100% effective in protecting an individual from others, but it is absolutely effective in protecting the general public from a potential patient. This is the herd immunity we can quickly achieve without waiting for a vaccine:

"An 80% compliance rate essentially eliminated the influenza outbreak. " (Modeling the Effectiveness of Respiratory Protective Devices in Reducing Influenza Outbreak https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30229968)

California is in a unique place to lead the nation and restore its own economy. We have a large Asian population that are receptive to mask wearing but are wary of being singled out. We have technology companies that can come up with solutions for mask making. We have idled workers that can be quickly retrained to jumpstart mask manufacturing. China was able to ramp up production 12 times in February alone. We can do it too.

What we need to do is to legally require people to wear masks in public and in the workplace to protect each other. We don't need to wear N95 respirators that are hard to use and that should rightly be reserved for medical workers; we can wear masks that are much more breathable to protect others from our own droplets. By making it a legal requirement, companies like Tesla will be motivated to either quickly secure masks from suppliers or, better yet, start making and supplying masks for their own employees and for the public. Asian countries have shown that universal mask wearing can prevent large outbreaks and slow down the spread of the disease without shutting down their economy. Let's learn from their experience. Governor Newsom should immediately work on this with the state legislature in order to lead us to a speedy recovery.
Yes, technically, but I was replacing a (superior) older MBP that got water damage and that was what they had available. I was abroad, needed a replacement for some contract work and didn't have time to dick around setting up a new Linux environment.

These days it's purely a question of whether the convenience of the Apple walled garden is sufficient to offset their hardware choices.
Stop making shit up, you have no idea what you're talking about.
FDA just cleared a $20 Covid-19 antibody test
How could you possibly isolate 10s of millions of people who are thoroughly mixed in with the rest of society? Many of them live with or are dependent on the younger healthier people. Even if the isolation were possible, letting the virus spread like that would overwhelm the health system and push the death rate way up.
But we know we're creating more artificial problems for ourselves!

There was no actual food supply issue. But people have panicked due to unchecked bad information and now we do have a real food supply issue, at the very worst time to have one!

Maybe if someone had said to people 'hang on that's not quite right there's plenty of food being supplied' we'd have one less problem.
Ask HN: Should I create a COVID-19 impact survey?
I thought it would be good to survey the HN community each week as COVID-19 plays out to track sentiment as we all face new challenges from COVID-19. To that end, I was hoping to recruit the community to develop a list of questions. Please respond with questions (must be multiple choice) that you would like included and upvote the best ones. I’ll provide a few examples shortly, though anything is fair game.

If people think this is a good idea, please upvote the thread and add questions. If this gets traction, I will post a survey with the highest ranked questions each Monday for several weeks to collect feedback.

If anybody has a good tech for hosting the survey, please send me a note on Twitter (@matthodan). Otherwise, I’ll likely just use Google Forms.
I've given quite a few disclaimers already.

To repeat a few:

I'm not a doctor.

I don't have studies to cite.

I'm speaking from first-hand experience.

I don't really expect to be taken seriously.

If you are taking care of someone who could die, the most legally defensible choice is to follow medically recommended procedures. But if the medical establishment is giving you an emoji shrug and you could die because of it, that's when it might make sense to take advice from internet strangers.
Or in recent years, as recently as the current year, where you can find Gruber frequently criticizing Apple products, software, services, and design.
Sadly, many Berlin clubs were close to closing even prior to C19. Griessmuehle, one of the clubs hosting this event, was facing imminent closure as late as January. Hopefully this scene will thrive in the post-pandemic world of reinvigorated rent prices.
tmux-conf: tmux configuration files with annotations
I guess it really comes down to whether or not someone actually needed it, which is a very difficult thing to determine.
I completely agree, and as much as I hate CollegeBoard hope they've done more to reinvent their tests, as I do think objective measurement of some kind does have a place in admissions, even though perhaps as not the end-all-be-all it used to be.

I used to be semi-adjacent to that sphere, but I do not know anything about the current format of the tests other than what is published.
Don't forget the under 55 group are still consuming precious ICU resources. No, they don't typically die, but yes they're tying up needed resources and as such are contributing to the overall number of deaths.
And yet, it's probably the top medium for flirting and establishing romantic relationships...
This seems to be treating number of positives test results and number of hospitalizations as the same thing? That seems...wrong...
Does the css need to be inlined?
You are right, I created a ticket for this to be fixed in the next release!
This sounds nice. As a quantum optics programmer, I really like the idea of a generic polynomial and matrix library that is careful not to assume products are commutative.
I think Cuomo understands that it's not actually possible to lock down NYC. There aren't enough cops, courtrooms, or jail cells to enforce anything. That is why he's focusing on fining businesses for staying open, and is not sending cops up to make sure everyone stays 6 feet apart. One thing is possible, the other is just an authoritarian pipe dream.

"Shelter in place" is a meaningless term when you can leave the shelter to go for a walk, go out and buy groceries, go to work as one of the many essential services, etc. Cuomo said as much. This isn't a natural disaster that destroyed infrastructure; all that needs to be done is keep the rate of hospitalizations under the number of available hospital beds.
I don't believe that autopilot stopped functioning. In my experience autopilot functions fine even if the MCU crashes or reboots. And there's clearly an autopilot disengagement chime after the MCU freezes, probably caused by him manually disengaging autopilot.
I was really counting on launching a startup this year. It's R&D heavy, and the timing is (was) just right for product/market fit.

I bought a lot of equipment last year and started writing the software. I want to hire folks and do fundraising, but this seems like a really bad time for VC investment.

Could I get a small business loan in this environment? Are there any subsidies?
Ask HN: What are the best blogging platforms for developers in 2020?
Now that I'm stuck home due to the corona virus, I want to pick up blogging.

I'm curious what blogging platforms out there do you consider to be the best. Features like Markdown and syntax highlighting would help.

In the past I used Ghost, WordPress, and I even built my own blogging engine. I don't want to spend a month creating a new one so I'm looking for a complete solution.

Which blogging platform do you prefer?
Additionally, Superhuman seems to be doubling down on this approach for their productivity inbox and VS Code has this type of input/UI available with Cmd-P. Spacemacs kind of does this when helping you navigate emacs modes.

It's a fantastic marriage of traditional search box feature discovery and keyboard shortcuts.
Are there security issues with FTP, or do people just not use it enough because HTTP supplants it? I haven't used FTP in a while to download files.
I struggle with phone calls. I find them quite anxiety inducing with anyone who I don't know well. I think because I find it hard to read tone of voice accurately, and to control my tone of voice to accurately convey my emotions.

I generally much prefer in person contact. And messaging to arrange it.

Also: not sure if you are young enough to be in the MSN generation? But a good chunk of my generation (I'm 26), grew up spending every evening conversing via text for a chunk of our teenage years. We got pretty good at conveying emotion through text (using longggg words... elipsis for pauses, emojis, and idioms (lol, lmao, AF), etc)
I'm curious as to how many people use FTP in the browser?
Sounds of Silence: When writer’s block strikes
I think he corrects himself in the disclosure.

> Important Note: I stated in the video that this disables the autopilot functionality, but that is incorrect. This will only disable the notification to place pressure on the wheel. If you keep pressure on the wheel, AP will continue to function.
The article indicates that it is insecure....

"The main reason why FTP is being removed is that it is considered insecure but Google's decision to remove support from Chrome certainly played a role in Mozilla's decision to remove support as well."
I see a lot of rumbling in this thread about how we need to ask ourselves if the costs of a shutdown is worth it, or what happens after a shutdown?

My question is this: what would you propose we do? If we don’t lock everything down, we’ll overwhelm the hospitals and the death rate will skyrocket. And then the deaths will be less skewed towards the elderly, because virtually all causes of mortality will shoot up when we no longer have a functioning medical system to treat anyone for anything except this.

Are you really proposing we just let hundreds of millions of people all over the world die over the next 6-12 months? So we’ll all just go back to work and to restaurants and on vacation while 5% of the population is gasping their last breaths in a hospital somewhere? We’ll just say goodbye to a huge chunk of our parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles and coworkers? Because the economic cost is just too high?

It’s easy to complain about this course of action. It sucks. But unless you can lay out a plausible alternative, this still seems like the best one to me.
Once the pandemic is over, we will return to a different airline industry
Don't Expect Millions to Die from Coronavirus, Says Richard Epstein
Please write to your political and opinion leaders to advocate this. If you need supporting evidence please consider my letter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22641943
Or via Styx/9p2000. Could you imagine an online store that mounted directly into your operating system? There would be a whole market of GUIs.

[edit]

Perhaps provided on a 9p.mydomain.tld subdomain?

Or would it just be something like nttp instead of http?

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Aliexpress increases ebay listings (and Amazon).

Facebook Marketplace competes with kijiji/craigslist. Doesn't really compete with ebay.

Amazon, Wallmart take brand name product sales. Ebay is left with what is rare. Ebay's problem is shipping.
California police to use drones to patrol coronavirus lockdown
So how does the rollout for Tesla updates work? Are there specific updates that are marked mandatory before you can drive the car? Wondering how these disclosures are avoided from being exploited when not all of the cars have the patch.
Charisma that can come off in a 1 hour meeting, vs. ability to communicate and work with a team towards a goal.
Damn. I should be downvoted, that's pretty blantant i-didnt-read-the-article. Thanks for the clarification.
We are trying to present GUI users with good arguments for a switch. Our tests with people that are unfamiliar with CLIs showed they were up to speed after a short amount of time.
I tend to cross check both Amazon and eBay and can often find items lower on eBay (with FREE shipping!). Glowing seller reviews like "SUPER FAST DELIVERY" typically indicates drop shippers. So I'll take a chance and often, a day or two later, the expected arrives - an Amazon Prime box!

But it makes me think -- Are they taking a hit on the sale to offer the item lower on eBay? I canceled Prime a few years back, but with a list of known eBay dropshippers, I can take advantage of Amazon Prime like prices at-cost (or lower) when compared to Amazon.com. And all without paying the Amazon Prime fee (obviously, I don't get the other benefits, but it's the 2 day shipping I'm primarily after!)
Plaintext passwords over the net. Also, it's somewhat painful for NAT because it opens up a second port that isn't a named one, the client sends that port number to the server, then the server opens a connection to the client.
I clicked on the link thinking it would be someone being offended over nothing as tends to be my stance. But no, that is too far. I wonder what the culture is like such that anyone thought committing that, with your name on the commit, was a good idea.
It's inevitable, the very core nature of markets will inevitably lead to either one single player or an oligarchy of players using shared strategies
The virus seems to have triggered the pending recession, so if it does blow - yep, seems like it.
We are trading economic output in exchange for lowering the transmission rate of the disease. By lowering the transmission rate, we are lowering the peak use of medical resources, lowering the loss of life. Your second paragraph acknowledges this, and I think pretty much everyone is on the same page here at this point.

But the question in your third paragraph "what is being done with the time we're buying" could be restated as "what are we getting for our loss in economic output _in terms of economic output_?' That's not what we are doing, we are giving up economic output, not getting it. Of course any schemes/inventions/techniques that increase the coefficient of return of this trade off would be welcome, but doesn't change the fundamental direction of the tradeoff.

And that's not to say we are doing nothing at all with that time. Maybe we have "more time to develop a vaccine", or "time to make ventillators."? But those _are_ economic outputs. Those actions trade back lives (via increased transmission rates) for production of utilities that we believe will save lives in an equation that nets a positive. And it's not to say that people won't do some productive things during this (like the memes of inventing calculus in isolation or whatever), but for sure society is reducing it's overall economic output.

So from this point on the questions (and threats of defection) you raise kinda presuppose that trading economic production for saving lives is not worth it (at whatever ratio you're expecting). Potentially this is because you expect higher economic costs/lower life savings than the generally accepted projections, or because you value life less, or you believe the economic loss will lead to greater loss of life long term. I think the burden then is on you to either produce better projections, or promote candidates into government/leadership positions that share your moral outlook, or formulate and promulgate a model that shows the dramatic effects you expect due to the economic loss.

To put it another way, a simplified answer to 'what are we doing with the time' could be 'approximately nothing', and our society at large seems to be on board with that trade. If you're not, change my/our mind.
I use it from time to time to download ISOs or source tarballs. It's handy not to have to use an external program for that.
The SAT is intended to test aptitude, not knowledge. It's right there in the name.
One more reason not to use firefox. Firefox became the younger brother of Chrome. Why they can't be independent and think for themselves ?