skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2 weeks tops. Calling it now. 2 months of this will result in rioting and all kinds of crazy shit. And for what? The data based in SK and Singapore doesn’t suggest this virus is worth risking compete societal collapse. Testing there is showing a >1% death rate and because of how those tests work, it is provably about a half to a full order of magnitude lower.

Sorry doomsayers, you better have some good evidence to suggest a 2 month lockup is worth the massive damage to our society. Better also outline what “lockup” means. Is that in big cities? The whole country? The planet?

What is your exit criteria? Who will have to go out into the world to keep shelves stocked and your Uber eats meals delivered? Who is going to be manufacturing your heart medicine? Who will clean that plugged drain? Who will repair that drain unplugger persons tool when it breaks?

2 weeks tops. Perhaps slightly longer for very small isolated hotspot areas. Any more than that and shit is gonna go down.
It doesn't work that way. Technology almost always can be used for more than one purpose. WebAssembly will grow the web a lot. Sure, it might replace some existing parts, but that's not because WebAssembly is "evil" or "closed", but because some publishers/sites/folks want to go into that direction. They are probably already doing a lot of "closed" stuff. DRM? IP restriction? Continuous connection checking or the site stops working? Idiotic session timer? Restricting registration to certain users for no real legal reason at all? Obfuscated HTTP API? The list goes on.

Worrying about dumb technology is irrelevant. (If you want to worry about tech, worry about AI, that has the potential to really cause problems.)
Doctor says lung scans for young Covid-19 patients ‘nothing short of terrifying’
New coronavirus can persist in air for hours and on surfaces for days: study
The asymmetry of outcomes here is sickening.

If things work out for Tesla and they don't have a Covid-19 outbreak among their employees, a small number of people stand to benefit greatly (Elon Musk especially).

If things go south for Tesla, not only do Tesla employees have to deal with the fallout, but also their families and their communities.
The availability is the same, though. If you manage to prevent reselling, then the choice is rather easy:

* 100 rolls of toilet paper sold to whoever comes first

* 100 rolls of toiler paper sold to whoever bids highest
I don't disagree that segregation is still important, but it really depends on specific environment technical details and threat models.

Firewalling AD networks, for instance, really won't help if the administrative security model is flawed (network admins using privileged account to maintain endpoints, privileged local administrative/maintenance credentials being reused on critical infrastructure, etc). The communication protocols for administration and general use are iirc pretty much require bidirectional traffic to work.

If you don't trust the host you develop on then everything produced on that host must be audited by a trusted host. Maybe that works in environments where cost is not an issue, but I would be somewhat skeptical of any environment which attempts that without the appropriate resources. It also doesn't help in situations where source code disclosure is an issue (eg a dev posting too much to pastebin/stackoverflow/inadvertently searching google for paste buffer full of data etc).
From the article

Paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTi-g18ftNZUMRAj...

Video(not in English): https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/coronavirus-diagnosti...
Huh? Antivirals just eliminate the virus before the immune system gets a chance to step in and build up immunity. How about that?
I think measures like the CPI are a woefully incomplete view of inflation. I'm not sure what would be a good alternative metric, but it seems clear from the stock market average that stock prices have been growing much faster than the historical average for the past 5 years. Unless we have good reason to believe actual growth/productivity has accelerated significantly in that time span, this suggests that things are becoming increasingly overvalued, which only ends in reversion to the mean. Maybe another way of looking at this is that inflation is affecting stocks but not consumer goods for one reason or another.
Loans may already be super cheap and expanding that option further will extend the current run but lead to a bigger crash once those loans come due given the economy continues to flat line after the pandemic ends.
Uber drivers say earnings are falling, and many have no other income
The New Yorker is usually a little more accurate. This woman hasn't received a bill yet.....

Still it's an interesting story about how people get the run-around.
Coronavirus Outrage Spurs China’s Internet Police to Action
Thank you! Posted at the same time as my edit! I forgot about the impact of reduced shares as well!
I sympathize. Shelter in place is a death warrant for many. Businesses can't always be paused. They say 2 weeks, but this will be months. This isn't a Hollywood film where we must do whatever we can, no matter the cost.

What we need are improvements on existing models [1] that take into account cost/benefit of the spread among non-vulnerable. If the vulnerable are locked down, there may be benefits from the increase in immunity. For instance, if I got infected now, I could go help my mother in a month. Otherwise, it could literally be years before it would be safe to see her.

[1] https://colab.sandbox.google.com/drive/1HDYojyKvxHtKzkViorO-...
You are being downvoted for being snarky, which is against the HN guidelines.
TikTok told moderators to suppress posts by “ugly” people and the poor
The problem is patients only get this at the point that they require hospitalization.

It should be as easy to get a short-term dose of this (unlikely to cause severe side effects) as it is to get a seasonal flu shot, and people should be advised to take it for two weeks (or whatever) at the onset of symptoms, or even as a prophylactic if they know they were exposed.
How many good web "working" browsers has there ever been at one time? I submit it has pretty much always been one. That is there has always been a single browser that could browse the web really well and everything else has kind of sucked because it was poorly supported by content producers and has suffered technical limitations.

Since I've been using the web it has been: Mosaic, then Netscape Navigator then still netscape for me but a lot of the web shifted to IE, then Mozilla or ie depending on platform, then Chrome

...there hasn't failed to be competition (ie people have tried) but they have failed to get traction.

Meanwhile the complexity of the web and its underlying protocols has increased a lot, user expectations have shifted from static page viewing to running all manner of apps in the browser, and necessarily browsers have become more and more complex.
I was not clear. Give mandatory breaks to all renters in for profit apartments. Give breaks on primary residences up to the median home value less the top 10% of homes. No breaks for people holding vacant, second, vacation, rental, speculative, or comical I commercial for profit properties. If they can't weather the storm they don't deserve to keep the properties.
That's right. Although I tried to setup self hosted both BBB and Jitsi Meet, and was not rally satisfied. Both had quite some problems with audio and video streams, which either didn't start or froze later. I think that both software are better than I could setup, because I've seen them working pretty good, but I'm not sure what is the secret ingredient.
Sharing One Ventilator Among Four Patients
Privatization has in some cases created even larger, multi-national of course, conglomerates, which are more inefficient still. It's not just monopolization that makes companies inefficient, but size, even if the two go hand in hand.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22610276
Is Blockchain the new Cloud?

Sure, you can save money by running business applications in the Cloud; but, if so, this merely means you have lots of inefficiencies, and could as well save money by merely using any other of the available approaches as well (leasing turn-key dedicated servers and using virtualisation etc).
Does intent matter when the US government actively resists investigations into war crimes perpetrated its fighters?

Does intent matter when the US leadership pardons convicted war criminals?
It does not look similar:

https://newint.org/sites/default/files/u354/LongreadFig2%2C3...

It's worth noting that the Our World in Data plot is misleading in the pre-1980 part. What it is actually showing is neither poverty, but some relationship of GDP to poverty, nor the population of the world, instead it is almost entirely the Western world.

The World Bank, UN and the IMF use extreme poverty as a measure and define it as having the purchasing power of $1.90 (in the US in 2011 for the OWiD plot) a day. But that's very low and pretty arbitrary. €6.70 a day is needed for decent nutrition, $7.40 for typical life expectancy, $8 a day to reduce infant mortality rate. The US poverty line in 2015 was $30 a day.

Pinkner has a lot to say about the reduction in violence that I agree we should be optimistic about. And there's much to be said about improvements in technology, access to education (especially for girls), increases in vaccination globally. But that OWiD plot is used to jump on the New Optimism bandwagon to say a lot more than anything you should conclude from a such an arbitrary set of data.
> If companies can’t issue buybacks or dividends with outstanding debt or unfounded pension liabilities society is simply better off.

This is just the sort of fun financial engineering challenge that will not end the way the rulemaker intended...
Forex Reviews
Needs multiple account support IMO. A lot of us have a separate "work" and "personal" accounts.
Testing homemade masks: would they protect in an influenza pandemic? [PDF, 2013]
I have never heard of that news source, Connexion France. The language is all over the place. I’d be highly skeptical of that source. The hospital quoted isn’t one of the main institute that would have a direct mandate from the government: Institut Pasteur (in spite of being private) would the reference research center for infectious diseases.
Old towels is a good tip. Scrap carpet works too.
Ask HN: Good sci-fis about post-pandemic futures?
What books would you recommend that dealt with similar hypothetical scenarios? Looking for some clues on what the societal impacts might be like.
Typical fake news directly from the Chinese source.
Less germs, more broken arms.
Typhoid Mary's tragic tale exposed the health impacts of 'super-spreaders'
You could have the choice to refuse the UBI and end up in a similar position to homeless today, though most homeless did not make a choice not to work.
Previous thread on the Chinese study https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22601196
Deutsche Bahn is in fact 100% state owned, but the crucial thing is that it is run as an independent company.
Yup! I don't think that structure is a coincidence.
For those that enjoy these explorations, I'm currently reading the humanistic side of CS: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/software-arts

There is navel gazing and equivocation in some of initial reading, but probably worth the read. I'm on the first chapter and intrigued to read more.
> A better way would be to suspend all debt collection and rent collection for x months.

I know this would help for people I personally know in this industry.

Dine in has been reduced almost entirely but takeaway orders hasn't deviated too much from the standard.

The reality here is that a lot of small hospitality businesses don't actually make much profit at all so it's unlikely that they'd survive too long with this forced reduced business. And it's always unhelpful to hear (in general not from you) comments like "maybe they should have saved up more earlier" or "they shouldn't be opening up a restaurant then" because a lot of times they can't work in any other industry - this is all they know.

Imagine having reduced business through no fault of your own yet you're still liable for paying the commercial rent of $1.2k per week. You can't sell the business because no one is buying. You can't sell it because you lose all the goodwill which is bad especially if you've spent any money renovating the place up to standard.
This is a bit surprising since it doesn't treat information as a totally human concept. It discusses 'semantic interpretation' but for some reason concerns itself with implementation, which I think should be irrelevant.

I discovered this independently and soon after found it echoed in an important textbook (Datalogi, Hans Lunell) around these parts, around 20 years ago.

In short; only data exists in the machine. The patterns we coax out of the machine are only meaningful to us, as humans, after we have interpreted the data and turned it into information. A computer never processes information; only data.

If one deeply desires a deeper structure to data one can look at processes of convergence, which naturally leads one to study artificial neural networks for their working examples. Implementation however must be irrelevant to information because they are not in a bijective relationship.
Form what I read the UK has already stopped all export of this drug.
An avoidable tragedy.

The main tangible thing that gave the label it's public power.

And at the same time, did everyone expect an entire geopolitical region to just sit there and let themselves be curb-stomped by various international superpowers without at least trying to retaliate? And in lieu of making a dent on the military front, and noting the impact of curb-stomping on civilian life, where else would you expect the response to be aimed?
Note sure, but doesn't AMP have "custom elements" which are not just CustomElement+Shadow DOM but google pseudo-proprietary "pre-loaded/created" elements?

Anyway it's nevertheless troublesome that google has so much influence that they can just push new web features without much discussion of other developers/browser vendors. Due to differences in internal design some features can be simple to implement for google but hard for everyone else (or the other way around, in which case google can just reject them by simply not implementing them).

EDIT: Also the non-JS web is basically dead. People should to come and accept that even if it's not perfect.
Stop throwing accusations like that and devoid the word of its meaning. It's really tasteless.

Many governments messed up. They didn't have the logistics ready for broad testing and failed to act. Now they have to resort to strong actions too. It's factual.
> Note and file syncing between reMarkable tablet and reMarkable apps for MacOS, Windows 7 and newer, iOS, and Android

I would very much like to order it, but it doesn't support linux :( Please, please add linux support!
U.S. Seeks to Send Checks to Americans as Part of $850B Stimulus Package
That's hydroxychloroquine right?

Same drug they use to treat lupus so it's well tested?

edit: oh wait, maybe not https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32150618

Hydroxychloroquine was found to be more potent than chloroquine to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 in vitro.

If so, goodrx shows it's $20, hopefully it will spare some deaths.

https://www.goodrx.com/hydroxychloroquine
November 2015 | A SARS-like coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence
While there might be situations where the math works out as you suggest, it seems awkward to assume both that the volume purchased by the company significantly increases the price of the stock, while at the same time assuming that the company can purchase and sell all the shares at a set price. If we assume a ramp up in price as the company purchases shares, and an equal ramp down as they sell, they end up even, rather than with a giant profit. At the least, we should probably assume that the sale at the end results in the same drop as the purchase at the beginning.
Thanks for your helpfulness, and many people other than investors will also read this as well
Previous previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22500063
It sounds like he's being a shrewd businessman who has discovered cheap convexity. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Delta.Chat fixes this
Land/property prices have boomed in the UK, usually the tenant is rich and can wait for the profits, years, perhaps decades. This in part is why our high-street is empty but shop rental prices are not deflated seemingly at all; the rent is gravy, they've doubled their investments already.

How about any property left vacant for 1 month gets a windfall tax of 10% the market valuation [this is obviously not a fleshed out proposal] ... that should incentivise landlord's to act to prevent losing tenants.
This is the presentation Raoult gave yesterday, publication is coming next week.
https://youtu.be/n4J8kydOvbc
Link to the powerpoint.
Please don't kill the IHU's servers though: it's all in french.
https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/20...
No, that was a network, but it was very much not the Internet. Different technologies.

Per Wikipedia, "The Internet (portmanteau of interconnected network) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide."

The network of UUCP-connected machines (also called UUCPNET) did not use TCP/IP and had no inbuilt notion of how to get packets from one place to another. One had to specifically list a set of instructions, a path, from source to destination hosts. UUCPNET was entirely store-and-forward, and sent entire messages, not packets. And it was in wide use throughout the 80's before the Internet became a thing (which happened once researchers started interconnecting networks that used TCP/IP).

To say that UUCPNET was the Internet just without the web, is like saying that radio _is_ TV, just without the pictures.
Researchers created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus related to the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that is capable of infecting human airway cells. The virus is not the first bat coronavirus known to be capable of binding to key receptors on human airway cells, but the results suggest that bat coronaviruses may be more of a danger to humans than previously believed. In 2014, the US asked researchers to suspend “gain-of-function” research making certain viruses more deadly or transmissible while the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity and the National Research Council assess the risks. The bat coronavirus research had already started and was allowed to continue when the moratorium was called. Critics of gain-of-function research worry that what we learn from it does not justify the risk of creating dangerous new viruses. Rutgers molecular biologist Richard Ebright told Nature that in his opinion “the only impact of this work is the creation, in a lab, of a new, non-natural risk”.
That sounds like it would be covered under item 10d:

> For purposes of this Order, individuals may leave their residence to provide any services or perform any work necessary to the operations and maintenance of “Essential Infrastructure,” including,but not limited to, public works construction, construction of housing (in particular affordable housing or housing for individuals experiencing homelessness), airport operations, water, sewer, gas, electrical, oil refining, roads and highways, public transportation, solid waste collection and removal, internet, and telecommunications systems(including the provision of essential global, national, and local infrastructure for computing services, business infrastructure, communications, and web-based services), provided that they carry out those services or that work in compliance with Social Distancing Requirements as defined this Section, to the extent possible.

Source: http://acphd.org/media/559658/health-officer-order-shelter-i...
Show HN: COVID19 images customizable to your brand for social media
Chiming in here to agree with the others. In particular, finding simple, understandable solutions to complex problems is highly valued at Google. Complex solutions are an anti-pattern.

And the comment about readability and testability is so far different from my experience that I have to wonder where the poster is getting their information. Google code reviews have to be among the most nit-picky I've ever seen in a 30+ year career, with serious attention to detail all the way down to punctuation in comments.
Not really, a sunset clause on the debt ceiling would mean after sunset there would be no ceiling, as it is a completely artificial invention anyway. Most countries don't have a debt ceiling.
Me too! I spent an entire summer when I was 11 making a weird adventure game in ZZT using the scripting tools. It was pretty fun!
Ventilator Maker: We Can Ramp Up Production Five-Fold
Try this: https://vrland.io/app

What's awesome about is that it works in VR, but doesn't require it and works in 3D via any web browser :D
At least, Azul provides Alpine builds.
Maybe other OpenJDK distribs too, i don't know ?
Cambridge University Press make their books free until May
"Harvard-trained" is a really weird way to say you did your postdoc at Harvard.
Thank you - this clears stuff up. I see now how lifetimes provide a tool to solve a very important class of problems.

I know Haskell is trying to get Linear Types for those purposes (with a paper + working ghc branch) but even those are going to take time to get nice imo.
You know, I'm almost sold on it. I still think it's a bad idea to use it in the browser, but for native apps/games, some of the pros could be really nice (particularly client-side hashing).

ZKPP's

Pros

- You can make sure the server won't mishandle the password.

- You can let the client do the hashing, which helps alleviate server strain. You can set the number of hash iterations to a much higher amount than you'd typical use on a server.

- You've got a secure connection for client/server communication now; this in particular can likely find a revolutionary use-case, perhaps in gaming.

Cons

- Your developers have to learn how to go through the 7+ steps properly, until frameworks for it crop up.

- Less battle-tested: there may be more bugs and exploits in whichever protocol you choose due to how many less eyes are on it.

- Developers may choose a really weak hashing algorithm.

It would be pretty sweet for browsers to have one of the ZKPP's built-in, where the javascript can't touch the user's password or the code for generating the keys & initiating the handshake.
I'm sure it's mg. There is a similar experiment from Melbourne that cites similar dosage. I'll try to find it.

Also, it looks like there is a US clinical trial of chloriquine to start in May: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04303507
I assumed that this was due to more products dropping vanity versioning in favor of semantic versioning. Is that not what's happening here?