skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you think the death toll of shutting down the economy is going to be? I'm willing to bet that it turns out to higher than 10s of millions long term.

Nearly 10 million people die every year from hunger [0]. How much progress are we going to lose on that by putting the economy into a recession?

Global warming is an incoming emergency that threatens global stability. What are the odds that it leads to widespread war, widespread famine, or both? How much are we increasing those odds by starting a recession instead of continuing our R&D work at full speed hoping to find a (actually implementable) solution?

How many lives will be lost due to less funding for medical care and research? Both in the US where poor people can't afford it, and the rest of the world where less wealth means less taxes means less funding for the health care system? What if the next virus that comes along is more akin to the one that wiped out the American Chestnut trees (100% death toll) instead of just doubling your chance of dying when you get it?

[0] https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/people-and-poverty...
Similarly, shutting down non-essential jobs for a couple of months does not destroy everything.
> Bailout money should go to PEOPLE who need to eat. Corporations can renegotiate contracts, delay payments, raise prices afterwards, etc.

This x100. Let corporations fail and pay unemployment to the staff until new business can take it's place. You can't look me in the face and tell me if all the major US air carriers go under people in America will stop flying.
True, I guess I just live in a small place and the thought of having to maintain a shitty rag basket next to the toilet isn't very appealing. But I probably shouldn't talk without experience in either (bidets included).
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"should expect 1/5th news atleast then"

Maybe the attitude toward markets of the general public is different. I was curious about investing directly in other countries (than the US) a year or two ago and spent some time Googling stuff. I noticed some distinct differences from the norm in the US. For example, funds and stuff generally don't seem to expect or want foreigners, particularly Americans, to invest money. And if you want information on stocks, the exchanges don't provide a friendly source of data. And I wasn't able to find anything comparable to the SEC website for other countries.

I have the vague impression this is because in developed countries other than the US, the stock market is mostly seen as a technical, specialized, risky area that rich people pay experts to deal with. And the non-US people that do want to take risks in the market tend to invest with US companies, whereas the US people who want to invest outside the US also do it via US companies.

I think you also have to remember than a large proportion of successful companies outside the US list in the US. Asking why doesn't country X Y or Z get its fair share of press may be kind of like asking why companies incorporated in Nevada don't get the same coverage as those incorporated in Delaware. It's not reflective of the states or the numbers of companies, but of the fact that all the major ones tend to be in Delaware and the rest are mostly the dregs. But it doesn't mean the economy is all in Delaware.
Don’t 98%+ recover already?
This thinking actually causes me to post more, and get into more flamewars, because it bothers me when something obviously wrong is going to be seen by hundreds of people.
The loans support the supply & infrastructure -type bills the business must pay. It helps them more than the business.
> In any case, do you really think a book (series) like Landau and Lifshitz or The Feynman Lectures (which is actually freshman physics)

If you think that's the bible, it's on you to recommend it. What isn't okay is saying that books written by "real physicists" are the correct ones, when Tipler and Llewellyn (and the other authors I didn't mention) are that. It's dipping into the No True Scotsman territory. Graduate studies is not the world in general; of course people who are studying a topic in their graduate degree program are going to be using textbooks of a higher calibre, but also at the cost of being inaccessible. HN isn't that audience, and neither are 99% of audiences.
We don't have a safety net that can feed the whole country. Some people still have to work to actually grow the food, do the distribution, and feed everyone. How is that going to happen if everyone sits at home for 2 months?
count me in too !
What is it about the Mac that makes these doings more efficient?

Is that just a certain comfort about being able to more closely approach the OS abstractions like file and command?
If we're going to be frank, I doubt 70+ year olds are contributing to the economy in a huge way.
It's pretty easy. Doing anything is a skill that you can hone by repeating it. There are lots of people who haven't posted anything and they are inexperienced at posting comments. Once you have posted a few hundred comments you've become comfortable with posting regularly. Then it suddenly becomes obvious that you cannot be super skilled at everything. Maybe you are a frequent HN user but not someone who answers questions on Stackoverflow.
The key travel has absolutely nothing to do with the thickness of the current MacBook as proven by many other vendors. It was a compromise / invention for the MacBook 12" which was light weight and thin.

And the despite the small difference, Magic Keyboard felt the same as the Butterfly keyboard. It is similar enough to group them in the same Category while the old Scissors keyboard being a different one.
The thing about C is that it's portable assembly; decompiling to C is a good way to end up with reasonably portable code with little undue effort.
How do you politely refuse your friend's 'million dollars app idea'?
Given the demographics, is the 0.8% likely due to HN posters/readers being more at the introverted end of spectrum so slightly less inclined to engage?
There are a lot of things about this pandemic that have left me depressed.

But the fact that as the world's richest country, we don't even have the administrative ability to keep a national emergency stockpile of essential medical supplies like face masks to get to hospitals immediately is just... I can't even.

By sheer coincidence, I happened to spend a week in Mexico City the day swine flu hit it, a decade ago. For the next several days, there were policemen everywhere distributing masks to the public. Instant response, zero shortage.

I am genuinely curious what the root cause is here, if you did a "five whys" analysis. Not a knee-jerk thing, but the real answer.

Is it that political squabbling has left things unfunded? Unappointed administrators have left things undone, unmaintained, or backlogged? Was it a conscious decision to decentralize and expect each hospital to be responsible for maintaining its own emergency supply? A belief that supply chains would handle it and stockpiling not needed? Is there a stockpile somewhere that isn't being released?

I'm really looking forward to a newspaper exposé on this one, because it's a true scandal.
Seeing the replies, it seems that most people agree that it is worth it.

But in the last few weeks I keep wondering if our reaction to covid-19 is consistent with our reactions to other causes of mortality. For example:

- 1.25 million people die in road crashes every year, yet we have collectively decided that abandoning cars is too large a sacrifice to make.

- global warming has the potential to cause huge devastations and millions of death, yet we fail to make the adequate sacrifices to limit our emissions.

So, is there something different about covid-19 that warrants these differences? Is the fatality rate higher, for example?

Or could it be a difference of game theory? For example for global warming, everybody has to participate in order to see gains.

Or maybe humans have a natural fear of germs and react stronger to contagious diseases than to other risks? I remember reading that argument in Factfulness.
That's a good point. A common example is how a bar doesn't need to know your birthday, let alone your home address or driver license number, but right now it's common to hand over your entire id. All they need is a yes/no answer to "is this person 21+ today?"
I'm no industrial chemist, but from a glance at the chemical formula [1], I'm going to guess that it could be produced by the trainload (provided that you shoot the FDA first, which we should have done on the first day of the epidemic judging by their track record so far)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxychloroquine
We live in a deflationary environment (just look at what are the interest rates doing, world-wide). There's no supply problem, there's a demand problem. "Killing Boomers" will actually make things worse.
TL;DR: In response to world wide #StayAtHome, Chaosium presented[0] FREE coloring book in form of downloadable PDF[1] & launched Call of Cthuhu Coloring Competition[2]

P.S.: H.P. Lovecraft’s Classic Horror Stories Free Online: Download Audio Books, eBooks & More (2014)[3]

[0] https://www.chaosium.com/blogstaying-in-color-in-at-home-wit...

[1] https://www.chaosium.com/content/FreePDFs/Cthuliana/CHA5116%...

[2] https://www.chaosium.com/blogtake-part-in-our-call-of-cthulh...

[3] http://www.openculture.com/2014/10/h-p-lovecrafts-classic-ho...
For sure. I really worry about the one-trick ponies that know one front-end framework and have had no shortage of opportunities. (In the early 2000s, I knew a lot of ColdFusion devs who honestly weren't cut out to be programmers, but the ease of the language enabled them to earn king's ransoms ... until the jobs dried up and it became a buyer's market)
This is how I see it too. We are not going to able to stop the virus, it's everywhere already. Shutting down the country may delay this a bit which is good for hospitals but terrible for everything else.

The difference in death toll would be minimal, but the difference in the economic recovery will be substantial.
How are bidets different in this regard? It'd probably be easier to clean this one than a stationary bidet? Note: I haven't owned either.
How is it “full peer reviewed” when it’s explicitly an early release draft? Just saying it’s peer reviewed when it clearly isn’t sounds the scam alarms. A Covid Forsythia.

The study itself is interesting, I’m sure, to people in the field (though reading about the study is a bit odd. Of their test group they simply remove six from consideration for reasons like “they died”), but is irrelevant to a layman.

We are undoubtedly going to have hundreds of “this is the cure” claims that aren’t the cure. The way this is presented has significant indicators of not being credible.

Google Drive, some guy claiming that something that isn't peer reviewed at all is "full peer reviewed", pimped on Twitter. Is HN this gullible? How is this nonsense at the top?
Top Factors Causing Stress to Buildup in Your Body
It sounds like you've gotten enough positive feedback to know you're not an imposter. Sounds like it's your interview skills or first impression?
Sling's interspersal of free and paid-only content works. It's the same setup that a lot of streaming services end up with, because at some point, if you keep the free user, they end up saying "Why not?" because they're comfortable with your service.

But you need to give them that level of comfort first for the tactic to work, otherwise they get irritated and leave.

---

Shameless side of things follows.

I considered interspersal when I was putting together the free access part of my own streaming service [0], but though I know the tactic works, it doesn't fit with everything else I was doing. (Reduced cognitive load, no DRM, etc.)

I ended up with a place which is clearly free [1], and then everything else in its normal places. It isn't as effective. I don't get as many conversions as I would, otherwise.

But I do know that the customers I do have, feel like they're still people to me, and that they feel free to reach out to me to talk about aspects of the site. Ideas, movies they would like to see, offers for help in translating subtitles, etc.

I would rather have customers willing to have a relationship, then endless numbers of unknown that I need to manipulate into staying with varying tactics that must continually change.

[0] https://sixteenmm.org

[1] https://sixteenmm.org/category/free
I really want this study to be legit, but there are a few more weird things:

1. the evidence-free claim of “full peer review”, 2. the fact that patients who refused or met “exclusion criteria” for the drug served as a portion of the control group, and were the only members of the control group from the same region as the experimental group, 3. the removal of people from the experiment group because they went to the ICU or died (only three of first and one of second, but a rather bizarre thing to happen before claiming 100% cure), 4. the lack of coverage from any major news source, despite this being reported about a day ago.
Met Jason many years ago when the Museum of Holography was shutting down. Amazing that he is still there, although I think he was in a different location when we met.

Our 3D Hologram Printer is working to bring hologram-making like this to everyone!
I completely agree. I've posted about this before in discussions about Hasura, but I feel that all these "expose your DB as a GraphQL endpoint" are setting themselves up for a world of hurt down the road.

GraphQL is a fantastic tool to enable an API that maps extremely closely to the front end (check the spec, that is exactly what it was intended to do); instead building it so it exactly matches your DB schema is a huge mistake IMO.
> For someone making $400k, a whatever fee they have to offer wouldn't be worth 15 minutes of time.

It's worth it if you can pull up the median, improving the chances of getting a better offer down the road.
I’m a Doctor in Britain. We’re Heading into the Abyss
It looks like this is being used more as an educational tool for the authors daughter than it is being used for a production workload.

Kube is basically fancy systemd built to run on multiple machines. If you wanted to you could use this for anything you could use one bigger machine and systemd to do.
From the paper, "At day6 post-inclusion, 70% of hydroxychloroquine-treated patients were
virologicaly cured comparing with 12.5% in the control group"

Sample size is only 36. 20 treated patients. 16 control.
Probably is especially as effective drug therapies may be available in the short term.
>It is. The quarantines/border-restrictions are not permanent measures, and acting swiftly is the correct way to nip it in the bud.

It's wayyyyyy to late for that.
Not yet but I'm terrified.

Most of last year was me trying to land this job, my first as a dev. So far this year my company has had a massive layoff, that resulted in the team I started on disappearing six weeks after I joined it. I was shuffled from full stack web work to seo data pipeline work. I have no idea what I'm doing or least that is how it feels. I didn't know PHP before starting, with most of my past experience being in React. Now I'm supposed to be doing SQL, Hadoop, and all these other things. I am trying my hardest but...

Our stock price went down like a rock after the layoffs, after the earnings call, and now with all this mess. I'm worried that my inexperience puts me in a position where if another layoff were to happen I worry I would be a target.

I know I should be thankful that I still have a job. That I am a citizen of the country I'm in. But I'm scared, and don't know what will happen if the job ends.
On that note: https://www.escardio.org/Councils/Council-on-Hypertension-(C...

Some threads on the internet say to stop taking ACE inhibitors because they boost ACE2, the gate that the virus uses to get into our cells. However, other threads on the internet says that while ACE inhibitors boost ACE2, they also cause them to be blocked (bound) by ATR-1, so you're good. Unless you stop, in which case now you have twice as many ACE2 and they're all unblocked.

So I'm listening to what the doctors say and not the internet.
Preserving (more of) the history of logic programming and Prolog
https://hackaday.com/2020/02/12/hacked-protective-gear-keeps...

Positive pressure DIY mask.
You got your numbers wrong.

In 2016 in the US 37k people died in car crashes.

At 2% fatality rate and 70% infection rate the virus will kill 4.6M Americans.

That's over a 100x difference.
If it turns out that there’s a cheap, widely available, already-studied treatment that achieves something even close to the 100% cure rate observed in the paper, the timeline for total shutdown looks much shorter, no?
IIRC in JavaScript every method of a class has a [[HomeObject]] property in it, referencing the class it was defined in to solve this problem
The US had a stockpile, but it was for bioterrorism scale and not pandemic scale.
There were 5.7 million american prescriptions for Hydroxychloroquine in 2017, and the wholesale price quoted on wikipedia is 5 dollars for a months worth of pills.

I don't know how difficult scaling up production is, but the above numbers make me hopeful.
Hydroxychloroquinine is the drug that my father received during World WarII to treat Malaria tropica. The high dose worked so well on him, that he never again had a malaria attack. But unfortunately he developed severe liver damage as a consequence of the high dose, from which he never completely recovered.
Trump had no backup plan for when, not if, a case went undetected in the US. He didn't start stockpiling masks and ventilators until much later.
From the doc [0]: "At day6 post-inclusion, 100% of patients treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin combination were virologicaly cured comparing with 57.1% in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine only, and 12.5% in the control group (p<0.001)."

[0]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/186Bel9RqfsmEx55FDum4xY_IlWS...
There's one thing I'd like to mention to everyone who says it is impossible to build a new browser: while that may be true today, I would just like to point out that the ancestor of the dominant browser engines of today, Blink and WebKit, is KHTML from the Konqueror web browser.

While KDE has had some contributions from large corporations, it would be a gross exaggeration to call KDE (or any Linux desktop) a popular success. It more closely resembles a hobbyist project than a commercial juggernaut.

While it may be true that KHTML/Konqueror was not as polished as WebKit/Safari or Blink/Chrome before those forks poured massive amounts of corporate development effort into those browsers, the fact is that it was a solid enough foundation for those later corporate contributors to leverage into world domination.

In other words: Today's small scrappy upstart browser that only hobbyists use may be the embryo of tomorrow's near-monopoly. Please don't abandon your ideas for new browsers+engines, give them a shot. Even if you do not directly benefit from its future success, at least you may give the web a gift that everyone will someday enjoy. The new boss Chrome is an unqualified improvement for the web over Internet Explorer, if only in standards support and open source code. I only hope that someday we can replace it with something better than a new corporate overlord.
The sad part is that most of the ideas my friends come to me with actually are great ideas that could make tons of money. I have to explain to them that the hard part of business is in the business part, not the product part.
You don't think the markets would skyrocket if a real cure that is easily manufactured was discovered today? Sure, there's still a lot of pain to follow but the markets have priced in a lot of really bad scenarios where the virus kills large numbers and shutdowns last a long time.
Yeah, I was certainly expecting more than the $4 per plate implied by the prices I saw on your site. That's not much more than low quantity 40nm grain plates from hobbyist sites.

How do your plates handle humidity and temperature changes? I have no A/C so when I was last into holography I had to wait for the weather was just right before doing it.
I recommend Shopify's Checkout

Disclaimer: I work for Shopify (But I also use it for my side hustles)

The biggest benefit is that with the Shopify checkout you can support credit cards, Paypal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Crypto and more with ONE integration.

You also get discounts codes and logic out of the box (buy one get one, X percentage off, fixed amount off, etc)

And all you have to do is listen to the order completion web hook and do whatever you want on your side.

You can use the JavaScript SDK to send your users to the checkout. https://shopify.github.io/js-buy-sdk/

Hope that helps!
Yes, I do, and I cannot believe they took every step of the life cycle into account, else the number would be 3-4 times higher.

That's why I was hoping for more details. But obviously this is not something we like to talk about, and it's so easy to sweep it under the carpet, so why bother?
Any info on K5-K8? All I want is lexical scoping, will I get it in k9?
So many people in both national media and social media parroting the info that masks which are not perfect or not perfectly fitted are worthless, when in reality a smaller viral load (such as a partially blocked cough or a percentage of droplets being blocked) can actually lead to lower mortality.
The late 2019 iPad Pro is faster and more powerful than the late 2019 Macbook Air. I bought both and tested. It made me wish for an iPad Pro hardware based Macbook Air but ultimately I sold the iPad Pro 4 weeks later since I never used it. My workflow is decidedly not tablet oriented.
Have no source, only heard the story that in Italy (or Spain, or both) deceased who have not been testet for Covid-19 before their death, are being tested afterwards. This is not being done in Germany. Thus the difference in reported deaths from Covid-19.

Not sure whether this is true. Would be grateful to get a reference to an actual source to verify or falsify this.
Petition: US Physicians/Healthcare Workers for Protective Equipment
Just because 99% of people lurk doesn’t mean they will see YOUR contribution. I mean, the popularity of authors or posts is not uniform either.
This virus roughly doubles your chances of dying this year, if you catch it. It's not the bubonic plague. It will not by itself stop the economy or cause us all to starve to death.
The 1.25 million is worldwide.
because bigger isn't better for portability
Clickable link:

https://imgur.com/a/kZz6Hfw
Have you noticed that China has stopped it? And that new cases stopped growing in Italy? Unless you assume the US will be especially bad at handling the problem it seems like there is a solution - do what other countries did.
That is exactly what GraphQL is designed to do. Taken straight from the spec:

> Product‐centric: GraphQL is unapologetically driven by the requirements of views and the front‐end engineers that write them. GraphQL starts with their way of thinking and requirements and builds the language and runtime necessary to enable that.

The whole point of GraphQL is that since each client asks for exactly the fields they want, having those "special case functions" is not a problem because other clients don't need to ask for those fields.
Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe they have more IP addresses.
Hydroxychloroquine working well against Covid-19
600 mg HCQ per day after 6 days, 90% of patients tested COVID-19 negative. 96% of control group tested positive after 6 days. https://twitter.com/RiganoESQ/status/1239780304082124800
This is awesome, thanks for sharing. What are some other similar resources to be able to explore the world virtually?