skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. If our immune system didn't get better at fighting something, you would remain infected forever or die from it. Reference HIV as an example of a virus our immune system could not fight.

If anyone is getting better (and 98%+ of people are) it's because the immune system can effectively fight it.
the models already account for this. eg in compartmental models both SIS or SIRS have this assumption.
What is the HN policy about posting redirecting URLs to other pages in general? If there isn't one I think there should be clear rules on that. To be clear, I'm not talking about moved pages and links that change after submission.
Don’t forget the additional bonuses that will come in Q3 due to all employees receiving “exceeds” on their 6 month review
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Many of us risk our health on a daily basis with long commutes, stress from unreasonable deadlines, lack of sleep, and of course the usual co-working with people who won't stay home when they're infectious (even with non-COVID). Unfortunately, we can't just quit our jobs "fullstop" whenever our health is at risk, or we'd have a much bigger problem of no income at all.

It is not easy to change jobs, and with COVID now it seems likely that engineer is out-of-work for a significant amount of time. I guess he made the right decision for himself (and getting press for it might actually make a difference), but really it's not about him individually, it's about all of society at this point. He personally could have taken the chance and "probably" been okay, but as he points out, it is completely irresponsible and pathological for Charter to behave as they are.

Honestly at this point I'm wondering if we shouldn't have roving bands of coughers going anywhere they see people and making a big scene of coughing into their hands and touching everything. Until people realize that you can't arrest or shoot a virus, and instead need to change the behavior of its potential hosts.
Couldn't tell but is BPA toxic on skin contact. All the worry I was hearing was based on ingestion.
Far, far, far better. In fact, it's the only thing that might actually work. All this talk of loans is just people refusing to admit that a capitalist system (I hate saying that word) simply doesn't function under these conditions. The economy needs to be paused.
How about giving out some masks which are more effective than just money? We can't even find any masks to buy in the Bay Area, and we are at risk.
Maybe I came off too hard, and lacking details didn't help either. My point is, this is a situation without precedent, unlikely to repeat very often, and not all private industry is being nationalised. Same goes for banning short sales. It won't last forever.

That is why I think you oversimplified. This is not a communist takeover of France.

Note: I did not, and wouldn't have downvoted you for your comment. Yours is a fair opinion to have.
Because Pandas makes the Baby Jesus cry.
> crazy ideals while somehow staying profitable

His main ideal, making humanity multi-planetary, requires a great deal of profitability, because it's almost nobody else's goal.

My opinion is that he will, when the time is right, sell his holdings in Tesla and dump all of that right back into SpaceX or whatever entity is pushing the ball forward.
As I understand it, "Spanish Flu" was so named because it started during WWI. Spain was the first non-belligerent to be hit by the disease. Since news media in all of the belligerent nations was highly censored, it was Spanish media that was first to report heavily on the effects. Thus, the belief at the time that the disease originated there.
Interesting! I was thinking that GitHub had moved away from native mobile apps. Source code for the old GitHub Android native app: https://github.com/github/android
Subtle. But quite possibly true for some of those reading this.
Yeah but the author admits to that in a humerous & transparent manner by stating he pays for his own service.
I have no need to cope, I just see things as they are.
I have no wishful thinking, no unfulfilled expectation.
I just have moral strength.
Yes, the only possible explanation here is corruption of the local Democrat government, that openly hates Elon/Theil.

Also, since Elon, Theil et al. don't kowtow the leftist political line, they're demonstrably lacking ethics, presumed to favor profit over pandemic, unless proven otherwise. Guilty until proven innocent FTW
Just curious, do you have it set up with any sort of CI/CD?
If I ever run an Internet company in the future, we will always have an old-fashioned customer support telephone line, where you will always be able to talk to a live human being, where they will actually try to assist you, not give you B.S. answers nor hide behind corporate policy nor give you the run-around.

Even if an account is ever closed due to a terms of service or policy violation and the issue could not be resolved through customer service channels (exceedingly unlikely but possible) -- you and every other user would still be able to download YOUR DATA from YOUR ACCOUNT, even if the account was closed or suspended...

It's amazing what passes for both "customer service" and software "usability" these days...
This is fantastic. Tangentially, I did not know the source code was lost:

"Please don't ask for the source; if I had it, I'd release it, but I lost it in a crash a long time ago." -Tim Sweeney

https://web.archive.org/web/19991010013339/http://www.epicga...

I find the whole thing interesting, because I remember the shareware versions that I downloaded from my friendly neighborhood BBS offered the source code for a fee; a large fee, if memory serves. I wonder if any of the purchasers of said source code might still have it sitting around on their floppies somewhere.
No, it’s closed source.
Quaranteam: A space to talk about self-quarantine, or anything else Covid-19
Interesting that they post an update/correction late in the article, but retain the misleading title, which was a weasel word anyway. Classy.
SARS (including this new Coronavirus) does not mutate nearly as fast as the flu and other viruses though. It has built in error correction, and this is good news for us:

> But SARS has a molecular proofreading system that reduces its mutation rate, and the new coronavirus’s similarity to SARS at the genomic level suggests it does, too. “That makes the mutation rate much, much lower than for flu or HIV,” Farzan said. That lowers the chance that the virus will evolve in some catastrophic way to, say, become significantly more lethal.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/04/two-scenarios-if-new-cor...
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It's also unfortunately completely incorrect.
Because this is Reddit v2
> Haskell vs Rust is probably a question of much more than a GC or not though.

Oh yes 100%

My issue was that the discussion was disingenuous. GC was used to knock Haskell, but the cost of Rust's memory management model was not listed at all, thus painting an unbalanced pro/con picture (the scales were unbalanced!)
You can get to-go beer (6-packs, growlers, etc.) at any restaurant with a liquor license (provided they sell it that way). You can also get beer AND wine from a large number of grocery stores (Giant, Wegmans, etc.). Only liquor is sold by the state-run stores.

There are also all the local micro-breweries...
Here we have full-blown quarantine, so all restaurants, cafes, and bars are closed. Those offering take-outs cintinue to operate. The report yesterday (first day of the quarantine) said "despite empty tables kitchen staff is busy as never before".
Of course, far from every dining place offers take-outs.
> Unless you are in a risk group, the test doesn’t really make a difference.

If the test is positive, you can self-quarantine and notify everyone you've been in contact with that they need testing. Then any one of those people that tests positive can do the same thing, etc. etc.

If you don't do any testing, you end up with a bunch of positive but asymptomatic carriers wandering around unknowingly infecting other people.

South Korea is taking this approach and they seem to be doing a lot better than most other countries.
I agree. Most bathrooms could at least be built with door opening from the inside out, like my work does, which makes it really easy to just push it open with a shoe.

The other option is what I've seen at some Home Depots & Hospitals - button for a door opening, which is for physically disabled people primarily but also great for opening the door then washing hands.
Dow Rebound 1049 as Trump ask for 1T in fiscal stimulus
It’s apparently closed-source.
This is the big difference: people doing their part to help instead of, say, panic-hoarding or obstreperously insisting on going on as if nothing were happening.
I'd agree with a few of the other comments here. I read it and can't say that I found it particularly helpful. I've deployed a lot of Node.js apps to Heroku and Digital Ocean, and was looking for something to help me "level up" to AWS. I was left thinking that maybe I should just stick to Heroku.
Where Charter is really rolling the dice is that will happen. If the virus gets "close enough", people will leave.

One of the basic rules of leadership they don't teach you in normal schools is: "Never give an order that won't be obeyed." There's a few things that will erode your authority faster, but it's a short list. Charter leadership is putting themselves in an entirely forseeably dangerous position, legally, morally, and with their authority.
No but preliminary evidence is that it might speed up recovery. I'm not sure if that applies in elderly if they're already getting sever lung issues though. At that point maybe the damage is already done?
https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_ABX...

> Preliminary evidence suggests two strains of SARS-2-CoV circulating: one associated with milder illness (~30%), the other with severe illness (70%).
I also think the "virus originated from US" is far-fetched given the available evidence (though I still think "virus didn't originate in China" is at least still plausible -- and even important to research for the sake of public health).

However, you're saying that the US media "seldomly" mentions that the virus originated close to the Wuhan virus lab? I see the "virus escaped from Wuhan lab" speculation being thrown on the US social media all over the place. There's even a senator that spared no effort to spread this "news".

I'm absolutely not saying that the Chinese speculation of the virus originating from the US is any better. But let's not pretend that the US is the "better man" here.
I could list plenty done by US govt deem not acceptable, from meddling with our Civil War.

But what's the point? By claiming moral high ground the argument goes nowhere. the question really is, do we fear/hate each other more than we need each other?
You borrow money to AWS and get a discount for their services.
And how is this different than Google?
You're just proving my point. You clearly have not had a real discussion with anyone who disagrees with your presumptions about the relative importance of emissions control. Your opponent is not a real person, it's a conservative stereotype (about a completely unrelated topic, no less).
Anyone can write an open letter. Whether somone acts on that is another matter.
There's an app called Blind - Anonymous. Post in there, there's people willing to help each other in similar situations.
I hope all ya'lls VPNs to work are secure. It would be unfortunate if, thanks to a misguided government requirement to not be, your only way to work remotely were compromised.
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corroborated here

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tesla-...
But with great security sandboxing by default, with multiple interoperable open-source implementations, built on open standards, and cross-platform and not bound to any specific machine architecture.

Imagine downloading dozens of different unsandboxed apps every single day on a classic operating system. You'd get so many viruses (and just broken software that breaks or slows down your system) doing that. But now we can do that safely in browsers with (web) apps. That's amazing.
I think a lot of projects in Rust take a hybrid approach with async, where they have some ambient "runtime" (like tokio, for example) and allow forking off futures to its executor. this is similar to the `go` statement referenced in https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g... for trio. but looking at the pieces that don't rely on this ambient executor should be pretty close to how we structure our async code.

in my understanding, the pure futures approach in rust goes even further than the nursery approach in trio, where there isn't even a "local" notion of forking off a task in the background. if a future wants to do an operation in the background, it's responsible for `join`ing on it itself or finding some other way to ensure it gets `poll`ed. this setup is a good fit for rust since the parent future maintains ownership over its child, and dropping the parent future immediately cancels the background tasks.

but, for what it's worth, I think there's lots of tradeoffs in this space, and we have yet to find really good patterns for structuring async code. so it's good to see so much experimentation.
FYI You're not alone in observing the echo chamber effect. Those of us who agree with you that some skepticism of the cost/benefit of the intervention is merited have largely avoided posting on our main accounts because of the massive backlash against anything counter-panic-dogma, or our posts have been flagged/deaded with worrying rapidity.

There were posts threatening _physical harm_ to individuals questioning the level of intervention (I believe the words were "I want to throttle the next person who says this isn't a catastrophe") and from typically well-respected users as well.

It's stunning to me to watch this community devolve in this fashion. I take it as a sign of the times, in terms of groupthink and fear-as-contagion, downvote-if-you-don't-agree behavior on the internet, and a broader eternal september effect on this forum.

I only wish individuals showed this much concern surrounding the massive cost in human life we incurred far more willfully via the opioid epidemic, the wars in the middle east, our prison system, etc; I'd go so far as to say I would be more willing to go along with the current overreaction if we didn't seem so hypocritical and self-serving in where and how we assign value to human life.
Israeli Spyware Firm Wants to Track Data to Stop Coronavirus Spreading
This is exactly my stack. S3 + CloudFront + Route 53.
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Alameda granted Tesla an exemption
I had the same doubletake at first reading, but I suspect GP meant the majority of the folks s/he talked to.
Yep.

I actually used it, we had two of them, one myself and one my wife, and though it was not comparable to anything you might think of today, but the syncing with a desktop (there was a serial cable if I recall correctly) wasn't that bad and to write a letter or do some basic spreadsheet work it was just fine, remembering that it is not like (at the time) Lotus 1-2-3 and Dbase (or Wordperfect) in DOS were that much "easy" or "powerful".

To give you a term of comparison, in those years I had a Toshiba 3100:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T3100

to be exact a 3100 e/40, one of the models that had not a battery (i.e. it was a "portable" but you needed mains to operate).

It took a couple years before I upgraded to what (still today) I remember as the "perfect" portable computer, the lesser known (but exceptional for the times) Compaq Concerto (a notebook/tablet with pen input):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Concerto
Those poor conspiracy nuts, they'll find a way to spin it. Nature is in the pay of 'them'.
The problem of SIGUSR is it has no defined semantics and defaults to terminating the application, so you can't just throw SIGUSRs at random process, you need to know somehow that the process does something useful. Furthermore I don't think sigusrs have a control code.

SIGINFO is ignored by default, and pretty clearly an info-dump trigger, so you can throw ^T at any random utility you're running, worst case scenario is you'll just get a time-type dump.
Let's give it a shot. Let's let all the investors get wiped out this time and see how they feel about this risk next time.
You're basically arguing that these jobs are government jobs, as without government bailouts, these jobs would not exist.

Let them fail. Others will come in because people will need air travel. Competition will come back, and more jobs will be created.

Times will be tough. People will struggle. But these things will happen either way. We can't keep sugar-coating society. If we keep bailing companies out, eventually the US government and its people will be unable to pay.
I get what you're saying, but does every program benefit from tracking & managing lifetime of every object? It is clearly beneficial for plenty of programs (Rust is clearly best-in-class imo for non-GC programming) but is it for all?

And Haskell's types aren't necessarily what you want either (I still write bash and python and go for a reason!), but I'm guessing they're more generally applicable than lifetimes. I would love to be wrong & learn more though :)
I am sorry to say that I agree and, to be effective, capitalism needs to work much like natural selection.

Weak companies (such as the airlines during the COVID-19 outbreak) need to be allowed to die. If we rescue these poorly managed companies, they will continue to be poorly managed and will need to be rescued again. If they die, they will be replaced by new, better managed companies who won't make the same mistake (because nobody will want to own their stock otherwise).

This virus will likely turn out to be a 2-3 quarter demand shock, something that any well-managed company should be prepared to survive.
Coronavirus Entry Point
"ACE2 has been shown to be the entry point into human cells for some coronaviruses, including the SARS virus. A number of studies have identified that the entry point is the same for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

This might lead some to suggest that decreasing the levels of ACE2, in cells, might help in fighting the infection, but that conflates ACE2 with the ACE2 receptor. More interestingly, ACE2 has been shown to have a protective effect against virus-induced lung injury by increasing the production of the vasodilator angiotensin 1–7. In fact, the interaction of the spike protein of the virus with the ACE2 induces a drop in the levels of ACE2 in cells, possibly inducing lung damage. Claims that the available (AT1R) blockers (Angiotensin II receptor blocker) such as losartan, can help in curing COVID-19 need to be tested by datamining of clinical patient records. Suggestions that high dosage of Vitamin D, which has been shown to increase expression of ACE2 in cells, could be effective in fighting the infection should be studied.[according to whom?] A possible way of combating the infection could be the injection of soluble ACE2 into the blood stream which will have the twofold effect of competing with cellular ACE2, preventing the attachment of the virus to non-infected cells and replenishing ACE2 in infected cells. (...)"

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiotensin-converting_enzyme_2
We don’t have enough data or understanding to project anything. Many countries stupidly aren’t doing pervasive testing.

Places that do have pervasive testing (some town in Italy, South Korea, and Singapore) suggest this virus is widespread and has a >1% death rate. But this data is early and subject to change.

Suggesting we are going to be locked for months or years is irresponsible fear mongering at best.
As someone else stated above, the individuals in content moderation working at the office are not contractors but employees of Accenture, the real contractor.
I used to work at this office as a consultant for Charter.

When our contract began, we (the consultants) all did our work remotely, we were highly productive, and making real changes in their organization.

Then we were required to come in once a week... fine. The commute is brutal but we're getting paid. The thing was though... we didn't typically interact with anyone there. We had a few consultants that did, but they were in that office anyway. Then they wanted us there every day. No empty seats, WFH discouraged. I quit. They wanted engineers literally to fill extra seats they had to make the office "look busy" for when execs came to town. Productivity dropped, turnover increased (it was already bad), and now this happens.

I hope the companies that enforce these rules face hard challenges ahead with acquiring a solid workforce. Employees are not the enemy, they are the company, let them work as they work best.
Well. The debt that financed the buy backs was created by a central planning authority with a massive control over the economy, so let's don't call centrally-planned collectivist policies capitalism, because they have nothing to do with it. Also, the pressure for the buybacks comes from institutional investors and centralised authorities.

Btw this sort of state-run "capitalism" isn't really socialism either, to me it is more reminescent of the 1930s in Southern Europe.
You might wonder if the path to leadership is especially enticing to people with overinflated egos that enjoy the high they get from ordering others around.
Here is the actual shutdown order for Alameda county where the Tesla factory is located[1].

[1]http://acphd.org/media/559658/health-officer-order-shelter-i...
MongoDB CTO and Co-Founder, Eliot Horowitz Leaves
I’ve no idea how generations of politicians managed to convince so many people that rules of the game are in their favor when in fact they’re rigged mostly against them.
The government has a history of taking advantage of panic and fear to pass egregious legislation. Another famous example is the Patriot act, passed during the height of "terrorism" hysteria.
Copy-Left Left Behind
Is it possible that some FB employees have problems that can be solved with cash, but not with N95 filters? And where is FB going to get these mask, and how would they distribute them to their employees working from home?
What Austrians fail to grasp is that human behavior is quite predictable at the population level, or for large groups in general. This is the entire basis of game theory, marketing, sociology, etc. Unsurprisingly, Austrians refuse to acknowledge that economics is subject to science and do not recognize entire fields such as statistics.

It's true that the actions of single individuals cannot be fully predicted, but that's not necessary. Any level of insight is enough to form the basis of a scientific theory. In other words, mainstream economists do not claim that they can perfectly model human behavior, but they do (rightly) claim that they can make educated guesses which are correct more often than not.
I have been buying fewer Staples and more perishables - because no staples are left on store shelves, and meat and produce are the only food left to buy.
Careful, things may not go back to normal and we may have a lasting recession. This is especially so if we don't do things to help the rest of the economic ecosystem alive during this period of little to no commerce in some sectors.

At the same time, I hope Tesla is going as far as they can to protect their workers... and that will probably be the real story at the end of all of this, "What companies did to protect their workers and the economy around them."