skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not all, but if you're trying to convey complex ideas you probably want to save the readers mental bandwidth for the substance. Kentucky's healthcare exchange website targeted a 6th grade level and did well.
it would be intersting to kludge this all the way out to a wearable feedback device. Would it be a better thing or would it cause the choice maker in our brains to atrophy in some way?
From https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/diy-homemade-mask-protec...

> Data shows that homemade masks made with a single layer of cotton clothing, or a tea towel can remove around 50-60% of virus-sized particles.
I wouldn't discount it outright. Definitely plausible - extending your stay during this time period is weird for sure. Or you could just simply slip in the detail specifically.
CFR can't be used to determine population mortality rate. It in no way reflects r0, and only tangentially at best hints at percentage of asymptomatic infections (and that's recent as there was never drive-by testing for any previous epidemic). Those two dimensions add unfathomable complexity to the equation. In many ways it's better to leave those dimensions out to improve the utility of CFR. A doctor doing triage or health department coming up with orders wants a simple, basic number, not a panoply of options that require data they won't have at hand.

We by all means should collect more data, just don't shoehorn it into such a very primitive yet very essential statistic. Give them new names and new, more appropriate semantics. I suspect that after this is over they're going to tighten the criteria around CFR, and in particular exclude by definition asymptomatic cases and possibly non-hospitalized cases. They never had to do that before as "cases" usually implied someone sick enough to be given a diagnosis, which in turn implied someone at least moderately sick--e.g. actual or suspected case of pneumonia.
> Like 9/11? Don't see many Republicans clamoring to revoke the powers granted as a result of 9/11.

Yes, exactly. Thanks for reminding me of the similarities. A crisis happens and everyone clamors for the government to do something to make them feel better and now we have the TSA and the Patriot Act. Why aren't more people concerned the same thing is about to happen again? Have they forgotten already?
This needs heavy citation.
I understand your sentiment, but disagree with the gist of it. I've been working from home for 20 years, and it IS fairly normal in tech. I mean, why should a 'cloud architect' have to go into an office to work on the 'cloud'?

I realize this isn't the case for all careers, but this always makes me wonder, should hourly employees feel special they get overtime pay because some people don't? Its just different norms for different positions...
Can investors invoke so-called force majeure clauses to get out deals?
https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/world/article240726...

https://nypost.com/2020/03/14/hong-kong-dog-with-coronavirus...

I'd say it's likely that dogs can be carriers although it sounds unlikely that they'll come down with full on COVID-19. They found the virus in the dog's sinuses but later blood tests came back negative.
Actually, COVID-19 has lower infection rate than flu, according to WTO.
The quote at the end is classic:

"Q: You aren't an epidemiologist. Why should I listen to you?

You probably shouldn't. I'm a computer scientist and I've spend decades analysing data, but you should talk to a real epidemiologist if you want to understand the underlying causes. Computer scientists do know a lot about exponential growth though."
In the story.

“Ain’t no problem, bruh!”, — I thought. You know, we developers should stand for each other. Only that I’m more used to GitHub so I’ve posted a (now deleted) issue rather than a tweet. The issue was titled “You’re a [funny-word]” where [funny-word] was a set of latin characters reminding a transliterated Russian half-offensive word for “gay”, while not being equal to that specific word. Think of something like “mother-lucker” or “mother-trucker”.
>"apt to" -- presented in the hopes it is useful.

"apt get" -- automatically update your Debian machine.
The person who you are responding to is one.
It’s because back in the day we actually did rely on our friends hosting servers when we used programs like ventrillo.
I checked on Rockler to see what size kits they have. Sure enough they only go up to queen size.
> While I agree with your last sentiment, the scientific facts don't care about what you believe. Arguing against the considered advice of medical experts is counterproductive and absolutely dangerous.

There isn't enough data out there to have an authoritative source of truth on what's happening. That will come in time. Until then, there's opinions from many sources coming at it from all angles -- we saw a paper posted that indicated the mortality rate could be one sixth of the CFR.

There's a few things we do know: CFR decreases over time towards fatality rate, so no matter what, any numbers you see going by now are higher than the final answer will be. TBD how much. We know that so far in Korea the CFR under 29 is 0%. We also know old folks are hit way harder than young folks. We also know the disease is very contageous.

It's not out of the realm of possiblity that we've already seen mass spread of the disease and what we're seeing now in terms of exponential increase is measuring the availability of tests, not spread of disease.

We won't know anything for sure, for a while.
(Note: this explanation only makes sense if you're looking at the diagram in the Z-80 article [1]).

> How does A being high connect the yellow to ground exactly if it doesn't cross the yellow strip?

The transistor gates are the green lines. Line A (polysilicon) is colored both pink and green; it's green where it is a gate and pink where it's just a wire. A signal can only cross the green line (gate) if the transistor is on. So if A is on, the yellow dot is connected to ground (via transistor 1). If B is on, the yellow dot is connected to ground (transistor 2), and so on. The yellow dot is a connection between the silicon and the metal strip (yellow) on top.

The yellow metal strip ties together the three yellow dots, so it will be grounded if A or B or C is high.

But that's only part of the gate. The output (where the resistor is) will be connected to the yellow metal strip if transistor 4 (D) or transistor 5 (E) is on. So the final logic function ends up being rather complex. The point is that MOS gates let you build complex AND/OR functions just as easily as a simple gate.

> Is the yellow metal line much much shorter than all the other vertical lines then?

Yes. The yellow metal strip is just internal wiring for the gate. The other vertical metal strips are long-distance routing from one part of the chip to another. For instance, the blue (ground) metal line goes all through the chip.

> Why does input line "A" not cross the yellow metal line but the other 3 do?

That's really just coincidence. A, B, and C are polysilicon wires, and they are separated from the metal layer by an insulating oxide layer. Think of the metal layer as an overpass above A, B, and C. On the other hand, if polysilicon crosses doped silicon (cyan), you end up with a transistor, so those crossings are very important. I indicate those crossings by changing the line color to green.

It's hard to keep track of what's happening in the different layers. I probably should have made the explanation a bit more detailed.

[1]: http://www.righto.com/2013/09/understanding-z-80-processor-o...
> Imagine you have a VPN server with 200 road warrior clients somewhere out there in the world - which is a very normal use-case. If you were to change the cipher you are using from one day to the next one, you would need to upgrade your WireGuard software on all those laptops, phones, etc. at the same time. That is literally impossible. Administrators who have tried this needed months to deploy configuration changes. Sometimes even middle-sized companies need years to conduce a process like this.

In a world where Mario Kart Tour can get millions of people on all sorts of smartphones to update within a day of release, there is no actual reason why anyone else should be unable to.

All of these businesses have painted themselves into a corner - they've said that they don't care about being able to update software within a year, and they've built processes around that, and now they whine that they can't update software within a year. Tough. Design things from day one with the assumption that updates will happen.

Then you can patch software vulnerabilities in a timely fashion and not get attacked via well-known VPN software flaws like Travelex did. If you genuinely care about your business, you'll already want to figure this out.

(Which is the other problem with this article: "secure" isn't really about cryptographic algorithms, these days. There are tons of good cryptographic algorithms. Just don't use the bad ones. "Secure" is about whether you're using them right, whether you've got memory safety vulnerabilities, whether you've got logic flaws, etc. Every piece of complexity in your software - including cryptographic agility - imperils "secure," and the best defense is being able to confidently apply patches to your software wherever it's being run.)
Okay, so this is going to be a contraversial question but... How is any of that not obvious to someone who is investigating the cause of something?
Come on, Oracle was always predatory. You always knew exactly what would happen to anything they acquire.
We're also getting another classic part of any Pandemic play through cruise ships forever circling the ocean looking for a place to dock.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/cruise-transatlantic-coro...
He did. He's op, he works for a government.
Sm57 all the way for me. $150 condenser mic I got at Guitar Center was terrible.

As a back in the day old time recording engineer, I had access to Neumanns and AKG mics worth thousands of dollars. But 60% of the time, a sure 57 ended up sounding better.
If it improves people's lives beyond just the lives saved, then I agree. I don't see that implied in what was written.
FDA Approves the First Commercial Coronavirus Tests in the US
Thank you for a cohesive answer. Yes, but if this is true and the number dead is not enough to even catch our attention when compared to flu dead, it would seem these economic and societal measures being undertaken are way out of proportion. In reality, if America were suffering a major pneumonia outbreak like Italy, we would be out of ventilators and deciding who dies. That is clearly not the case here, so we can rest assured that we are certainly behind Italy.
But 100% agree on the pop filter. We used to use pantyhose over a wire hanger shaped like a disc. Now you can get one for 25 bucks
Your e906 is designed primarily to be stuck in front of guitar amps, I'm not surprised that a Rode LDC would beat it. That does not mean that everyone recording in their bedroom will do better with a condenser microphone vs a good dynamic.
The article is obviously a promotional piece for ipfire and so exists to promote a certain angle on the topic. Even understanding this, though, it's strikes me as pretty questionable.

The section discussing dynamic IP addresses seems to be based on a misunderstanding of Wireguard. The IP addresses that must be statically established in Wireguard are the addresses used inside of the tunnel, and are independent of the public (internet) IPs of the machines involved. The wg-dynamic daemon mentioned is a system for dynamically allocating IP addresses in the tunnel, and has so far not been completed, at least in part because it's not very obvious why you would want to do this (although in general the development of an in-band configuration standard for Wireguard has useful implications).

Wireguard allows you to identify the endpoint using a DNS name, which means you can handle a 'server' with a dynamic IP address by dynamically updating the DNS record - a common approach that is no doubt exactly what ipfire supports doing for ipsec.

In the end, though, the article just suffers from being an apples-to-oranges comparison. Wireguard is a VPN tunnel protocol implementation, ipfire is some sort of GUI frontend for managing a bunch of network tools. Of course ipfire has quite a few more features than wireguard.
It's obvious. It requires the type of collaboration you can only get in person to figure out how to sell home phone, oversell data, mess up billing, charge people for devices they don't have, constantly spam customers, and most importantly, escape legal action.
A friend's fiance literally can't come to the states to join him because she's from Wuhan (though she lived in Shenzen). I imagine a lot of people are having their major plans disrupted like this.

That being said this post was hilarious and I sent it to everyone :D
If coronavirus has already hit America then that is a huge vote of confidence for the American medical system, which, in this hypothetical, has managed to deal with a major pneumonia pandemic without so much as calling in extra nursing shifts. That would suggest that America's medical system is ahead of Italy, which is suffering heavily due to running out of hospital space.
The Perks of Being a Weirdo
Or, in my case, I was short (and on margin!) Boeing just before the market crashed.

I just don't tell people that I chickened out and covered on the first rally...

(or that I then put it all into GLD...)
> max $1800/mo isn't much

This is rent for a one bedroom apartment, sans utilities, food, etc, in south San Jose.
Totally off topic but this is my favorite article to come across when looking around at various networking related things.

It always sends me down a rabbit hole of watching and listening to recordings of people shouting perkele. I always trying to think of a similar word in US English but never can think of anything.
Yup you could definitely add it in "special requests" asking whether it's okay if you did this.
Just Don't. Unix-style text stream processing was super cool in 80s-90s but is born tech-debt today.
This is the equivalent of hoarding toilet paper, except in this case the toilet paper is a patent.
Think Cheating in Baseball Is Bad? Try Chess
> WHERE IS THIS TEAM?

Now they're all sheltering in place in their homes.

It's amazing how big a difference you can make in the world if you can just get started... a month ago.
People pet dogs. The virus may have a nontrivial lifetime on a dog's fur. Fido could become a vector.
> Once those three weeks pass, the pause button is released.

I haven't been assuming that. I think this step is needed, but nobody has really defined precisely what success looks like. In 3 weeks I assume they re-assess and could very well leave restrictions in place.
Wait, is Comcast Comcast again? I thought they were Xfinity now (to run away from precisely that bad rap).
Ah, I saw his follow-up post.
"Even" Beijing didn't ban bike riding? Who's more likely to ban bike riding: the place where bikes are a vital form of everyday transportation, or the place where they're a weird recreational activity?
This is a little tone deaf honestly, and not for the reasons people might think.

Amazon factory workers can’t dial it in. Nor can restaurant workers, or grocery shelf stockers, or gas station attendants, or truck mechanics, or of course almost everyone in the medical/police/fire profession.

Sure, people who can work from home effectively should. But there are also 300 million people desperately depending on supply lines staying up, and shelves staying stocked, manufacturing of basic goods, and food supply continuing.

Despite any “shelter in place” orders, there’s probably a solid 30% of the employed population which one way or the other are doing mission critical work. Charter is providing mission critical services, and while a small percentage of their workforce probably could dial it in, I wouldn’t be surprised if the vast majority of people there actually need to be on-site to do their job.

Maybe most of those people have to commute in to the Bay Area though...
Yeah, yarnv2 is a BIG change and one that came out without much noise. There is no node_modules now by default. Pnp is forced (which was released in yarn as an experiment back in 2018 without much adoption).

I have been wondering the same thing. I left node for 8 months and I come back to see a lot of things have been abandoned in favor of yet another wheel implemented a bit differently. I wish changes were more visible and subtle. Rewriting seems like a plaque to js ecosystem except no one rewrites some really old unmaintained dependency we have hidden in every new shiny project.
Worked for Carrier. They paid a one time fee of $2.75 million for the naming right to the Carrier Dome in perpetuity. That was over 40 years ago. Not sure how much extra business it has brought their way but surely enough brand awareness to cover the initial $2.75 million.
According to below (and I don't know enough about the Bay Area geography to know if this covers your use-case), you cannot without leaving the area "for good" (until the order is lifted):

> Am I allowed to leave the areas covered by this Order to travel to/from a vacation home outside the Bay Area?

> No, except to the extent that you leave the Bay Area and do not travel back or are leaving for a permitted purpose. That kind of travel runs the risk of spreading the virus around the state or elsewhere, and that puts others at risk. Stay put and don’t risk exposing yourself or others.

https://sf.gov/stay-home-except-essential-needs#main-content

(sorry, there's no anchor for the FAQ elements, you'll have to search for the text).
I read that the video game industry thrived during the 2008 recession. I think this time, the streaming companies will come out alright
Outside of a few small urban areas everyone already drives their cars every day. It's not causing any additional problems during this emergency.
This article refers to research in favor of vaccination as "propaganda". I have a hard time taking such an article seriously.

Skimming the important bits, one of the headers reads:

> Vitamin D Works Better Than Flu Vaccine If Your Levels Are Low

The important part: "if your levels are low". Presumably, getting vaccinated and fixing your vitamin deficiency would be the best course of action.

This is a highly misleading article.

Edit: Furthermore, the OP appears to be posting multiple articles with the same propaganda and conspiracy theories, many of which are flagged/dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ColanR
Your grandparents fought in a world war, and you ... need to stay at home for a few weeks. Some things are bigger than you, sheesh.
I assume people will name and shame Elon Musk too: still way over his head - thinking he is smarter than the scientists.
Ask HN: My mom is a pediatrician. Best temporary remote consultation ideas?
Due to coronavirus my mom wants to avoid kids and their parents coming to her office. The current situation is hopefully temporary, so I don't want to commit to a long term product. Her consultations are usually 20 minutes, sometimes longer.

She obviously won't be able to diagnose a lot of conditions without being close and in contact with her patients, but I believe a lot can still be done remotely. For some children, she might have to give prescriptions, which she currently does on a piece of paper only.

She has a secretary that can help juggling the video conferences.

Any ideas how she can handle her daily work?

Here's my current approach:

- 2 links that open distinct Zoom calls.
- Secretary calls patient, somehow asks them to load a webpage (a short url service or sms or email)
- Patient joins one of the links, consultation starts
- Meanwhile, secretary calls next patient, asks them to load second link and wait
- Once the first consultation is over, my mom joins the second link one, and secretary is calling for the next patient in line
- Prescriptions are written and either mailed or parents can pick up at her office (maybe on a plastic bag?)

I use Zoom at work but I know how to setup things. Her clients would probably rely on their mobile apps. If it matters, she's from Brazil and we need clients localized to pt-BR.

Thanks for any insights!
>We're much better off right now with the government seizing the means of production

You don't know how happy I am to see you say that.
Almost every word of this is a lie, misleading or poor framing.
Being outside when you don't need to and sneezing is a willful and unnecessary act. The analogy is fine.
At this point I'd only be using ovpn for tcp state caching which is amazing on poor mobile links. You can have your ovpn link resetting every 30 seconds and the tcp connections just continue like nothing happened, and I'd still use it on top of WireGuard.
> Even if you take it to be only 3x and compare per passenger-hour rather than per passenger-mile, which nobody ever does

But driver-hours (definitely not passenger-hours) are the correct metric if you're considering biking as a substitute for driving. People take longer trips in cars than they do on bikes because they can. If the mode of transportation shifts, trips to the store won't get longer to adjust -- the stores will become more dense to accommodate the reality that people need closer stores.
Probably because he just asked for a refund, now he's asking for an extension
One thing I believe is not mentioned in the article is your monitoring and mixing set up. I didn't see any reference to headphones, speakers Etc

This makes a pretty big difference in the mixing and mastering phases.
That would be the idea of making them wear a mask when they go out in public.
> The government has enacted a sweeping lockdown (unprecedented loss of freedom AFAIK^) that overwhelming hurts people of working age for the benefits of high-risk older people.

Be sure to tell grandma how much you care, junior.

> But where is the help for those that now can't pay their rent or buy enough food?

Folks in California are eligible for up to $1800/month in unemployment benefits.

> That situation inherently breeds resentment at a time where resentment is already a mainstream topic.

Response to a disaster should breed solidarity.
On Chloroquine phosphate:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550

DIY on zinc - There is an entire industry of antiviral zinc sprays, lozenges and pills. Zinc stops viral replication deader than your prefrontal lobes:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=zinc+halts+viral+replication&t=ope...

Like I said, we have herein a safe treatment that is cheap, available, and free of risk, namely

1. immediate zinc lozenge/spray/pill dissolved in mouth to be applied early (preferably first 3 days) of illness, and possibly every day thereafter +

2.Chloroquine phosphate (up to 500 mg/day).
Haha, how do you end up on people shouting perkele from this article?!
i met my non-refundable hotel half way and just asked for credits for a future stay there. they were happy to do that and gave me a 2 year expiration.
Which company do you work for?

(I’m on T-Mobile and this has happened to me 3 times)
I had 3 days of tired/weakness from 7-10 Jan, and a severe dry cough for about two weeks after that.

I strongly suspect I caught it from a friend that had travelled all over Europe and back the previous weekend and we were in close contact.

Unfortunately no way to rule out if I indeed had it or not. Would be super interested when an antibody test comes out to see though.
One more question. Did you consider possibly releasing this material under a Creative Commons rather than a commercial license?
That’s not what was said either.

They said that .NET and Azure, two separate things, are very well managed. OP did not imply any correlation between the two of them.
Payfirma
I got a few e-mails from various companies (not my employer but companies I am/was a customer of) that went from "here are some small changes we're making" to "here are some big changes" to "we're closed". One company in particular sent 2 of these e-mails in the same day!
Finally a good news