skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hong Kong announced ~48 new confirmed COVID-19 cases today [1] (within last 24hrs) with experts predicting 300-500 in the next two weeks. Unless HK (and Taiwan who also has seen spikes) is still not considered China?

We already know most test results are days late from the actual swabbing + ~5-10 days of being asymptomatic + showing early symptoms before ending up in a hospital to be tested. Making the results we see from HK's (free) press today are up to 2 weeks old already and China's second wave could have already started.

Either way mainland China faces a similar increase by the second-wave return of citizens as people return from visiting the rest of the world - a world increasingly being ravaged by COVID. Ignoring the global travel, HK<>mainland travel is super common and a good early signal for mainland.

I personally know lots of Chinese citizens who stayed in Canada after early results from China and are waiting it out here with family.

I highly doubt the Chinese authorities can rest until the virus is shutdown globally. We live in a global economy with China as the engine. If China returns to normal before that it won't be long until super-infectors return to some of the most densely populated cities on the planet and everyone is being told to self-isolate again.

If China does end self-isolation (or the far more authoritarian measures that aren't found elsewhere) early then they also better close their borders from inbound travelers and tell their returning citizens to stay where they are.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/artic...
When was this?

I didn't have a cell phone for years after they were available and popular(I'm talking about iphone era and all) due to incarceration among other issues, I've spent more time than the average bear on a variety of phones. Pay or otherwise.

I have never had that problem on a landline. Maybe some mild static with a cordless phone but from mid 90's on what you're describing was not a big deal at all.
a. Most people in IT are not the people suddenly laid off.

b. Quote from my post today:

Some years ago, I wrote a blog post trying to encourage people on Hacker News to develop other services on the Textbroker model. It was basically ignored. Maybe this time it won't be.

And maybe I should expand on that in specific. At some point.

I didn't post it here to suggest laid off programmers should become low paid writers. The people most people are worried about are things like restaurant workers making minimum wage.
I haven’t checked recently, is Windows still available off-license?
i'm saying the diamond princess people were probably the few that were properly quarantined given the news coverage. the flight entry points during that time didn't even bother, just asked a few questions on where you were coming from.
You have my permission to use it if you like!
> socialized, well rounded, experienced, well-read and tutored, worldly person

Test prep doesn't help with any of that.
> he was always willing to bet his kids entire college tuition funds if you could show him a pill that would produce more mitochondria.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3737409/

aka

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR9009
> "To avoid a rebound in transmission, these policies will need to be maintained until large stocks of
vaccine are available to immunise the population – which could be 18 months or more"

That sounds very much like a "worst-case", afaik German CureVac are right now in the stage of selecting the last 2 candidates for a vaccine, they expect first clinical trials around June/July, I'd be surprised if they are the only ones that far along.

That's not meant to say this will be over the instant we have a vaccine, but finding one is right now the big X factor that makes all estimates veer on the rather pessimistic side.
So you just offload the annoyance to the other person who has to drop what they are doing to answer your call
Amazing to see the picture of the BEST Internet server facility .. that was certainly a pivotal and interesting company in the history of the Valley.

I worked there on contract a couple of times, got to know some of the folks - and it sure seems like it was a breeding ground of interesting Internet ideas. Matt Dillon, who has clearly proven his mettle in the time since, was developing his keen sense of social stewardship by keeping BEST's internet services up and running - I'll never forget the shock of discovering that they ran the entire thing on a database system Matt had developed himself...

I wonder what other things came from that incubator. It was a wild scene, indeed.
Not to mention it isn't really solving the virus situation in most implementations. For example, everybody is packed into the local supermarkets at the same time in my area. Not only is there higher density due to closed restaurants, but also due to reduced hours (somebody thought curfews were a good idea).

In their panic, people want "something" to be done. In a couple years, we will be talking about how 90% of policies enacted during this crisis were a net negative, and 50% of them directly made the problem worse. Not to mention the ethical concerns of legal overreach.

* Disclaimer: It's a serious situation and I do not endorse a hands-off approach. That doesn't mean we can't have a civil debate about the complexities of trying to mitigate it, though.
There are effective drugs for common flu strains; including a set of vaccines. And if the US manages to get COVID-19 related deaths down to 50k lives for 2020 that will be pretty peachy.
Thank you for responding. There's always a room for an awesome programming language. I've never used D but as a professional c++ programmer, I admire what you set out to do. (Assuming you are the creator....)

Please ignore the naysayers. HN is diverse in degree and area of knowledge and some people even think electron is the only cross platform gui framework.
Can you send someone else's prescription? I assume they don't check the strength actually matches.
Stop spreading this. Median hospitalization age is 65. 40% of patients on icu are under 50. With the rates of hospitalization in 30-39 year olds no country would have enough icu beds even for them
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've done it a lot, and we're trying for different than that here. In particular, please don't post regional flamebait to HN (or any flamebait).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Rust only proves that promotion buys mindshare. Since money buys promotion, and because of endless unscrupulous capital investment to two of Rust's most evangelical promoters: Mozilla and Cloudflare; Rust indeed has its chance. Make no mistake that is all there is to this.

Fifteen years ago Apple underwent a similar endeavor to convert all of its C++ code to Objective-C or even C. Apple isn't a leader in this decision-space; they're just a victim of this meme.
You mean, in an expanded format, with more details and more of the backstory of how this tool came to be? If that's the case, it sounds interesting, I might do it. Thanks for the suggestion!
I've often wondered if Tesla 'bit off more than it can chew' by focusing on software, autopilot, and other things outside of the strict 'electric car' concept. Cool UIs and self-driving cars really have nothing to do with reducing emissions from fossil fuels.

Personally, I would be more willing to buy a Tesla if it didn't have all of these software integrations and was simply a mechanical car with an electric engine.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22643168.
There are two main sources: used car sites and youtube. Used car sites have ads classified across make/model hierarchy already - you just need to filter away unsuitable photos - this task can be automated. And youtube is good for new models. We do some hand-classification as well, but only for rare cars, where images are not easy to find.
What? I don't understand how this is relevant at all to my post. Why do you think I am calling something out of context? What do you think we disagree about? You need to explain what you think I said, because I have no idea if it's something I actually said.

Let me summarize my point of view again, very simply:

You are allied with userbinator in saying that it is not "perfectly safe and drivable", despite the quibbles about exactly how it fails that test.

Especially because you're saying "It's safe assuming you won't keep driving it." and they're saying "If you keep driving it, it's not safe.", and both of those can easily be true at the same time.
Please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebaity comments to HN. You've done it a lot and we've warned you before. Eventually we ban accounts that keep doing this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This doesn’t seem very interesting from a scientific standpoint, and it’s also a somewhat dangerous message politically. The director of the WHO said yesterday that a significant proportion of those requiring hospitalization are under 50. In France and Sweden 50% of patients admitted to ICUs are under 65.

So the right understanding should be: if you’re young and you have access to intensive care you will survive. But making sure all have access to intensive care is not easy...
I used to have troubles with retina displays, I always got a blurred image, no matter to what trick I tried. Is there a way to fix the rendering pixel ratio to 1?
That's not a great summary of the history of the name.

Here's a better one: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/27jvdt/internet_archa...
A ton of these words have different technical definitions when used by botanists.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-an-apple-called-a-false-fruit

E.g. a strawberry is not a berry, but a pineapple or a banana is a berry. A pepper, cucumber, pumpkin, or squash is a fruit. An apple or pear is not.
Doesn't answer the obvious question .. which is why does covid-19 disproportionally affect the old compared to other influenza viruses.

Or appears to.
> Walter put his whole life into D. Can we please show a little compassion for someone's life's work?

While I appreciate the kind words, I am not looking for compassion. D must stand entirely on its own merits. D has already succeeded quite spectacularly:

1. we have a wonderful D community which has been utterly indispensible

2. D is part of the Gnu Compiler Collection

3. D has been accepted into the HOPL conference, which is quite an honor

A couple things we are particularly proud of:

4. D has been used by companies to make a LOT of money. They've told me that D is their secret weapon. :-)

5. contributing to the D community has enabled many people to advance into well paying and high status careers

6. D innovations regularly find their way into other languages
How to explain the events of 2019/2020 to the next generation – a handy guide
Yes, you a right. We think about this direction. Here is another video which shows how this can be used for 'quick cars search'

https://youtu.be/BFlaqSz0Cmo
And don’t forget: slowly deteriorating to the point where you need intensive care is not a fun experience...
Oh man, I have a PoC of something like this written up in Python. I was more targeting a OpenVPN replacement than a mesh network, but it'd literally just be changing the central server's backend with something like etcd.

Good job on open sourcing your work and best of luck.
You do not, repeat not have to preheat anything before putting your bread dough in the oven.

Starting with a cold dutch oven makes it much easier and safer to get the dough in. Just bake for an extra 20 minutes at the start. If in doubt, overcooking is better than undercooking for bread.

I’ve done this myself several times and it works great. Here’s the needed citation: https://www.kingarthurflour.com/blog/2017/07/05/baking-in-a-...

Also... I think the reason why most recipes call for preheating is very interesting! It’s all about reproducing the conditions used by professional bakers. A professional will use an oven that can inject steam to keep the bread from drying out; baking in a dutch oven simulates this. And a professional baker will keep the oven on through the whole working day; preheating simulates this, so you can use the same timings. But if you’re only baking one loaf every couple of days, rather than 200 loaves a day, you don’t necessarily have to do all this stuff.

To use a classic HN analogy, it’s like a startup using all the same technology and processes as Google. Some of them are a good idea (keeping steam in the oven), some of them are premature until you’re operating at a massive scale (preheating the oven).
My best guess: much more people have come in contact with Rust than with Ada. I have done a few hobby projects in Rust, but trying Ada hasn't even crossed my mind.
Good for Netflix. I’d like to see our biggest companies meaningfully pitch in.
more data is needed; the way that article is written is very casual and this is not a peer reviewed paper.
Interesting. Has anyone played with this yet?
Oh, I've always had plenty naysayers. If I ever paid any attention to them, I'd be a total failure.
Neil Ferguson: coronavirus expert who is working on despite symptoms
How the Coronavirus Could Take over Your Body (Before You Ever Feel It)
The problem isn't production.

It's mass automated production. Once you take the human out of the picture to get a machine to do the work you've now involved a programmer, CNC operator, roboticist. and an industrial engineer at a minimum just to get the rough task doable.

We could probably have a fully human operated production line up and going relatively quickly, but getting the machines all cut over and integrated so as to do it themselves is hard.

Look, thought experiment. You ever watch that show, "How It's Made"? They literally make entertainment out of watching the end result of the final outcome of integrating all of these stages of the fabrication process.

But if you have ever watched it, did it not strike you as interesting that they never seem to do an episode with regards to the production of the very industrial equipment automating the fabrication process?

They can't/won't because it is bloody hard, error prone, and freaking expensive. Once you've got it, you're gold, but it is by no means a short route getting there.
This comment breaks the site guidelines and you've done that elsewhere recently too. Would you please review
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here?

Personal attacks are particularly not ok.
Well, there's inventory of various essential goods in a variety of places, and all the essential services you note, as well as power, plumbing, etc.

Instead of going to a restaurant, I make a sandwich, instead of buying a new shirt, etc. GDP has indeed dropped, and some people have no cash flow (fixable), but I'm not seeing physical (excluding the abstraction of the banking system) reasons why this can't be sustained for months if necessary.
My degree is in Aerospace Engineering, not CS :-)

Though I shamefully admit my lack of academic CS knowledge shows its face now and then. I sometimes find myself reinventing the wheel.
So? You can do anything on your own given enough effort and discipline.
How to Disinfect Camera Equipment and Spaces
The average Denuvo cracking time is now only 74 days
Still not that dire? :(
Should have been titled:

How You Die From Coronavirus

A horror.
Another reason is that the time it takes for the Dutch oven to come to temperature depends on a lot of parameters (size of Dutch oven, size of oven, fan or not, power of oven) so pre-heating allows for the timings to be consistent.

But I agree on the safety concerns so I will try your method on my next loaf, now is not the time to get bad burn wounds.
There’s a big ‘yet’ there. Also that things didn’t immediately collapse isn’t the economy showing resilience. It cannot be a binary thing like that. We’re seeing the first waves of mass unemployment, of enormous businesses like Boeing collapsing, of small businesses being grossly unprepared for any kind of disruption and of individuals likewise being ill prepared. The economy we leave this emergency with will be a shadow of the one we went in with. A gross structural failure.

There are going to be trillions of dollars spent attempting to bail out the economies of the world.
It may be early to conclude that azithromycin has a complementary mechanism with HCQ, the study was too small and there are too many confounding factors. It is possible there is some synergy but also possible that there is not
Was going by your context in this post "(which I posted to HN and it got no traction)". Didn't see a related post and other intent.
Most of the security issues are mitigated if you are only running the software internally. But it would be interesting to see a hacker who managed to get into the production systems somehow figure out your RPC scheme and try to craft packets to exploit it instead of going directly for the user/password database.
I would have no trouble safely driving a car without instruments.

My only concern would be getting a speeding ticket, but I wouldn’t have trouble driving safely.
you're not really an md, are you?
> Interestingly, JavaScript also has `Array.prototype.reduceRight`, but it's not equivalent to a `foldr`. It processes the list from right-to-left, so is approximately equivalent to `reverse` followed by `foldl'`.

I don't understand how that's different in practice. Can you elaborate?
First, while I fully expect that the worst effects will hit the advertised danger demographics the hardest, at wide enough infection coverage there are going to be poster children for folks who didn't fit that profile[0]. Not just a few.

Second, I expect that the illness impacts will hit even broader, both in sheer numbers and crossing demographic expectations, resulting in people directly absent from work and consumption for weeks at a time.

Those are the first order effects. The second order effects on psychology among a large number of folks having loved ones dying and acquaintances suffering are going to produce some behavior changes. Some of them would be similar to those we're seeing with lockdown, but as I said, improvised rather than coordinated, probably combining some degree of the same impacts but with less of the benefits.

The recession might be milder if we trade a higher death toll. Might.

But the financial markets sure didn't think we were going to escape one even before US civil measures started ratcheting up.

[0] https://medium.com/@juliael84791135/this-isnt-a-normal-flu-i...
Show HN: Animated hamburger icons for React
Perhaps it's rare due to man's tendency toward corruption.

Are there reasons you see why a more robust cannot be developed? I suspect HN could easily come up with a substantial list of improvements. Limiting stock buybacks seems like a good place to start.
These are positions for which a Ph.D. is an absolute requirement. Compare Assistant or Associate Professor.

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> Education/Experience:

> Doctorate in psychometrics, educational research, educational measurement or a related field is required. New PhD level applicants will be considered, as will applicants with additional experience. A minimum of 3 years relevant experience is required for the Associate level.
So what’s your proposed solution? Let’s get back to work, let the fire burn and who dies, dies?

It’s a solution ( it wouldn’t work the way you think, but it’s an option), but at least admit it clearly and live with it.
So people in Hamptons now have - food brought from the city, new freezers, rich assholes. They just need to organize and eliminate assholes.
Some anecdata but, I suffered from very bad muscle injuries from one summer in 2014. I skateboarded hard for two days in a row. Ran 3-ish miles on both days. Two days later I was exhausted but took two ibuprofen and I went to a beach with friends anyway. Where I skated hard at a park for a few hours, then swam, then ran. A day or so later, after not getting the best sleep, on an hour drive home, I pull both quads. The day after I had to call out for a week. I was exhausted and my obliques, core, quads, and arms were beyond sore. I laid around for most of the week.

Your muscles may not get "exhausted" but it seems like there must be some breakdown in the cells that outpace recovery at some point.
Gonna need to see some actual data. Median hospitalization age of 65 and then 40% of patients in the ICU being under 50 already doesn't even make any sense.
Not true. It is possible to run mainly on fat.

Also, what else would you call heavy legs after a long run other than fatigued?
baking bread is chemistry. You really want to have an accurate kitchen scale to get the ingredient proportions correct by weight.

Scales are definitely a good idea, but I don’t think the general point (“don’t mess with the recipe!”) is quite as true as people make out, at least for bread baking. You can vary the yeast, salt, fat etc a fair amount and still get decent results.

Getting the hydration level right (ratio between water and flour) is the key bit. Too dry (below about 60%, meaning 60:100 water:flour) and it won’t rise. Too wet and it’ll be difficult to work (70% and up is hard) and if you don’t work it properly it’ll be too weak and again won’t rise. The whole business of folding and resting is about working with higher hydration dough.
Aren't mitochondria captive cells from early evolutionary times?
I googled and from nature.com
"Mitochondria and chloroplasts likely evolved from engulfed prokaryotes that once lived as independent organisms. At some point, a eukaryotic cell engulfed an aerobic prokaryote, which then formed an endosymbiotic relationship with the host eukaryote, gradually developing into a mitochondrion."
A lot of what makes Tesla models more practical electric cars comes from the software. The UI whines at you when you charge the battery too much, which extends cell life. The navigation system prevents you from forgetting to charge along the route, mitigating range anxiety. The artificial throttle is also calibrated to improve efficiency.
Purity is what drives that as much or more than laziness. Well, I guess you can say that laziness came first and drove purity, which in turn drove effects.
Wasn't China the origin of this virus?
Wasn't that Chinese people who have brought infected bats to a place with thousands of people?

Everybody clearly understands that it was not intent, but rather an occasion. However, different nations have their sins, this is yours.
The usual approach with canvas for high dpi is to increase the size of the canvas and then scale it back down afterwards: https://codepen.io/graup/pen/jOPpopR
Really fascinating work! I enjoyed reading this article.
Do you actually have tunnels between every device? Wondering, how does this scale?
I meant of the gore. There were a lot of uh, creative devices for killing lemmings.

Never got bored of the game :)
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> “I will personally be at work, but that’s just me,” he said in an email. “Totally ok if you want to stay home for any reason.”

Obviously not “totally ok” with this wording.

My office had the same message “you can work from home if you want but I’ll be in the office”, signed The Boss. Of course no one dared work from home.

A week later comes another email saying “I’ll be working from home and you should too. Send me a message if that’s not possible” and poof everyone now works from home.

The way musk statement is worded was intimidating. Of course everyone read the subtext and wouldn’t wfh.
Yes, timings will definitely vary. I timed how long my oven took to preheat with a cold dutch oven, and it was around 20 minutes, so that’s about how long I add.

But I’ve found the timing is not super critical, the main thing is not to undercook. (Note that most recipes say things like “check for doneness, and bake for another 5 minutes if the loaf doesn’t sound hollow”.)
what's local networking got to do with gmail?