skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, by definition there's only one doctor in the world that first raised the issue. Other countries have done similar things.

Ex. USA

- silenced one of the NIH's director of infectious disease only allowing him to say what the government wanted

- released propaganda and misinformation from the highest levels downplaying the severity

- prohibited doctors from testing people to keep the confirmed numbers low

idk, i'm sure you could find more. I'd describe the US' response more critically than the chinese. The US already knew how bad it was, and the poor behavior was from the top of government, not just some local body.
Looking at this data, prior to asking people to isolate, I wonder if the day to day variation is based on a weekly pattern - people culturally may eat out more on weekends or weekdays, so the same calendar day may not be directly comparable to the one in the previous year.
Not sure how, but definitely wouldn't lie about it. Plenty of 80 year-olds would have a chance of making it, so they wouldn't be turned away according to that declaration.
I make less than everyone around me because all that extra money goes to my agency. This is the the main entryway for the poor man to get into a company these days. After a year or 6 months I'm eligible for becoming a real employee if the bosses feel like it and maybe then I can get health insurance too!
Even losing 15% will cause you to cut spending.
Is anyone surprised? Elon is notorious for burning through people to achieve his vision.
There's a lot of valid discussion to be had about this, but which is impossible on this website. HN isn't meant for in-depth discussions, it's simply a very poor platform for such a thing. Though I still love HN; it has its place.
Lets underline what is happening here.

When they get nervous, people want to see centralised control protecting them. I'm the same. But we have pretty solid evidence that distributed market systems can react much more quickly and comprehensively than a centralised body. Parellelise the response, essentially.

In this case, there was a crisis. Control was centralised into a system that statistically has to be supremely fault tolerant to work. The system wasn't especially fault tolerant and didn't work. There is no need to centralise control in a crisis, centralising information is what matters. If the CDC had a register of which tests it supported and let the market be a little bit confused then the situation in the US would be substantially better now.

Turns out a bit of nervousness was warranted. Extremely sarcastic well done to the people at the CDC who successfully kept everyone going on with their lives as normal while they found their feet.
Process as Code
Suppose it was possible to describe a software development process as code.

A programmable platform that works as a combination of Github, Jira and Mechanical Turk. A programming language on one side and a standard interface on the other.

Would you want such a thing to exist?

What would it look like?

Does it exist already?
But the competitors who kept production domestic went out of business several decades ago. So where does that leave us in practice?
Learn to play the piano
Predicting Magic: The Gathering's Modern Metagame with K-Means Clustering
For a single data point it’s not that accurate but over time things change. How many people are within 500 feet of you for 4+ hours a day. In that mindset, building a model to track say every person on a tour bus seems rather straightforward. Even locating people likely to be having an affair seems doable if you have some basic biographic info on the general population.
My understanding is that they still struggle from a finance and ops perspective. Doesn't matter how good your product is if you can't keep the doors open...
Eh? An estimated 40-100 million people died in this outbreak.
Sonos S2 update is a bitter pill that is necessary for the future of streaming
Fake news. Firefox had sandboxing (that was the excuse for deprecating XUL/XPCOM) before Chrom* and Electrolysis:

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Sec...

2. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Dis...

3. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Int...
Did you even read the article? The article points out that identifying those infected and isolating them from those who are not reduces infection and also increases the number of those that get better.
Nearly 1 in 5 Households Have Lost Work Because of Pandemic
It's still fairly common to use in conjunction with

#[macro_use]

for when you want to easily import all of the macros from a crate across your entire project. But yes, you could do

use rocket::{get, routes};

instead.
Can they not already just sign into the website on their personal phones?
> But with great security sandboxing by default, with multiple interoperable open-source implementations, built on open standards, and cross-platform and not bound to any specific machine architecture.

All that applies to operating systems and has been like that for decades.

> You'd get so many viruses (and just broken software that breaks or slows down your system) doing that.

That is simply false, and if you can prove it, there is recognition/money waiting for you.

> But now we can do that safely in browsers with (web) apps.

No, bugs are still a thing the same way they are for operating systems.
It effectively acts as an interest free loan to the business.
If stock price was actually based on pure fundamental analysis, sure. That is not at all reality though.
Compatibility with some tools is really the only reason I can think of. For another example, Checker Framework does not yet support 13.
Been looking forward to this day for a long time! Congrats to the GitHub iOS team on a job well done on this first release!
I don't say lonely, but I do say alientated.

It's a path that doesn't make a lot of sense unless you've gone down it. So I have a harder time connecting about work to careerist friends. But there are other things to connect on.

It's also lonely because you can't tell staff everything. If you are planning to fire someone, or you actually do, you have a responsibility to keep the reasons to yourself. It feels dishonest every time.

For connection on the topic of work I'm in an entrepreneur's group. We meet about every two months, about 8 of us at each meeting.

What you learn from hearing other people's real problems is that your own shitty problems aren't unique. In fact they're probably the norm.
Yes. CNN, MSNBC, and Washington Post were supportive of Congress removing RT’s press credentials and gallery access.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/362540-rt-fires-back-afte...
Yes. The USB interface works well on the reMarkable 1, you just plug it in and go to http://10.11.99.1 in a browser. The cloud service is the default, but it is optional [1]:

>Our cloud service is a service we provide to our customers. You are more than welcome to use your reMarkable offline and store your documents in local storage if you prefer.

Aside: I have setup (via SSH) rclone to sync files to my own cloud storage, but that's not something that is officially supported.

[1] https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000264829...
In 1893, a Swedish Playwright Thought He’d Captured the Stars
I found this on his Github: https://github.com/hassenc/svgAnimator
* Tory Bruno[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory_Bruno
CDC appears to be lying about masks since there aren't enough for everyone. This is harmful guidance as many already have masks (eg for sanding/painting)
No mention of Route53? Either I am missing out on something big or the author is.

Route53 is probably the biggest value-add on top of raw compute & storage that exists in Amazon's entire cloud product portfolio.

Who else remembers requiring 3 different vendors to run 1 https website?
It says "without a media node", when you hover over the info or "i" icon next to P2P.
There's another man who tested negative and then again got symptoms and tested positive again: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200315_13/
It's not clear at all.

The article could be read in a way that supports automatic extension of the filing deadline, but the announcement was very specific that it applies to the payment deadline:

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday said that individuals will be able to defer up to $1 million in tax payments to the IRS for 90 days in light of the coronavirus outbreak.

Without interest and penalties, filing late is probably meaningless, but still it would have been nice if they clearly stated that the filing deadline was postponed as well.

Of course, it would have been nice if they'd have planned this out in their contingency planning weeks ago and had a detailed announcement ready to post on irs.gov, but no one in government knew that a pandemic could turn into a bad thing. Aside from the government epidemiologists who have been warning about this all along, but they're just scientists, so what do they know!?
I see a lot of upvotes -- has anyone read this? Is it actually good?
Would think the architecture & design of software applications are the natural place to manage complexity, whatever the programming language is. It is simple an illusion to rely on programming language alone to manage complexity.
Correct, but it still passed a chamber of the legislature headed by the opposition party. Hell, it was sponsored by a legislator that is so convinced the current head of state is a criminal that he led an impeachment investigation against him. It indicates a severe lack of integrity when one sponsors a bill meant to give rather extreme authoritarian powers to someone you have decided is a criminal.
> It feels something is terribly wrong with the world and the basic laws of capitalism

But this is the basic law of free markets at work. If you can run on a leaner supply chain, you'll outcompete those that can't. It's regular market competition that makes systems extremely fragile - all redundancy is considered as waste, fat to be cut off.
I would say that the people demand action of some kind, not necessarily action that violates civil rights. A wise leader would know how to satisfy the populace without sacrificing liberty in the process.
From a quick search, here are similar discussions:

https://www.instructables.com/id/The-Pandemic-Ventilator/
which links to: https://panvent.blogspot.com/

https://www.projectopenair.org/

https://github.com/jcl5m1/ventilator
HN discussion --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22599415

Learning about Ventilators:
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000458.htm

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/fgmsrh/open_sourc...
Congress removed RT’s press credentials and gallery access. The move to limit their information gathering was supported by major US media outlets.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/362540-rt-fires-back-afte...
I immediately found myself asking "why" too. It's curious, and to an outsider borderline nonsensical. Of course we all know that Facebook didn't get to where it is by committing random acts of kindness, so it's worth thinking it over and trying to understand what might be behind this decision.

It's reasonable to question the actions of one of the most powerful surveillance apparatuses the world has ever known.
Ask HN: Stupid question: Why not just order people to wear masks in public?
... and give masks to people free of charge.

Wouldn't that prevent most infections and allow us to keep the economy going?

And wouldn't that be orders of magnitude cheaper than the > $1T being spent globally on bailouts, stimulus and QE (which, of course, still doesn't address the underlying pandemic problem).
I wrote my favorite restaurants on social media asking them where I can purchase myself gift cards.

It not a lot, but if enough people do it, it could help them actually reopen.
> Problem is, that rarely happened because govs are generally bad (not skilled / trained) at running businesses

These are businesses that have been run so poorly they're begging the government to force citizens to donate them money. I don't think there's any reason to believe the private sector has any particular genius here.
Probably a mathematical model of human societies accurate enough to predict how they react to carefully tailored messages inserted into popular media and how to use this to control their behaviors. The world's most advanced militaries are useless when their societies refuse to use them or turn them on themselves in civil wars. As individuals, the effects of such a weapon would be almost invisible as it targets the behavior of humans when they interact as a group. Even if you consciously knew this is going on, society as a whole would still unconsciously follow the playbook planted for it.
This has nothing to do with how investors feel. Sufficiently strong competitive pressure will create the same situation again. The market fundamentally can't handle low probability events, even if they're absurdly high-impact (i.e. the so-called black swans).
The OODA loop reminds me of how a search engine works.

Observe - gather in trillions of web pages from every possible source.

Orient - filter those web pages until you get a small number that are related to a query.

Decide - analyze your top possibilities more deeply to get a ranked list of possibilities.

Act - render a web page with all the user interface conveniences to show to the users.
I mean, the scale of pacman is miniscule compared to NPM. PyPI is hosted by AWS and Google.

Not sure how APT works in the linux community can really work for anyone else, but definitely worth a shot for sure.
I would strongly advocate that Aurora RDS be added here. Easy to manage, SQL data storage. Not cheap, but cheaper than a DBA for sure.
After I wrote that, it occurred to me that there is another counterargument. If cash-on-hand decreases along with the inflation of earnings-per-share, the business value doesn't really increase.

I have always assumed that shareholders wouldn't take this into account, but maybe they deserve more credit than I've been giving them.
You can do this with the Auth0 APIs as well, no? By hitting the `/authorize` endpoint for saml-typed Auth0 connections? In that case Auth0 then acts as a SAML-to-OpenID Connect translation layer.
I feel like pointing out cause and effect isn't a threat unless you're trying to play victim to it.

* "If you run around the pool, you may slip and fall."

* "If you charge me for this stay, I will use it, and that may expose your guests to a virus."
This is what we need to fight against. The alternative of just isolating those aged 70+ is much more effective and dramatically less costly.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/2020-03/04/c_1125660473.htm
> Reserved capacity will beat on-demand pretty handily, even with massive overprovisioning. Assuming a 50% target and a 16 hour daily duty cycle, reserved provisioned is 20% the cost of running on-demand.

I don't have the math on hand at the moment.. but switching to on-demand for us resulted in HUGE savings. We weren't overprovisioned either, but we were kind of spiky (in fact we were underprovisioned for a lot of the day).
I mentioned something similar in another comment. But I'm confused why everything is becoming an "or" conversation. We're a pretty rich nation, we can have more than one cake. There's lots of talk about regulation, we don't have to focus on only one topic at a time.
Most of them were originally national companies, like BNP Paribas or Renault. Those two were privatised in the nineties. It's the same thing in Spain, and I reckon all around Europe. A shame, if you ask me, that many of them were providing essential public resources (telecommunications, energy, food, banking, etcetera) and eventually underwent a very sketchy privatisation process.
Did any countries that handled it better do so via a distributed market response?
Firefox did not have process-level sandboxing till Quantum. Exploit a JS bug in the renderer and you had code execution on the host OS.

"Fake news" accusations aren't welcome on HN, people here prefer to disagree amicably.
Opportunities for startups to learn and act on Covid-19
I am worried this could be a precursor to a bank run and possible wide-scale insolvency of banks.

I assume that someone will explain why I am an idiot and have no reason to worry.
6 in the 70-79 bracket and one in 80-89, but 70-79 was also the biggest group. https://cmmid.github.io/topics/covid19/severity/diamond_crui...
Let's be real here, Amazon, the online shop, is not "absolutely critical". If they closed today for 15 days, a lot of people will not even notice. Unless you are a shopping, in which case, well that would be a great time for a desintox and expand your world view :-)
> Wouldn't that prevent most infections

I don't think it would. People would intentionally or unintentionally take off their mask, sneeze on their hands and then touch surfaces, shake hands, prepare food, etc.
Vox Messenger {Secure}
I too, prefer to know how the sausage is made.
Triaging notifications will be my main use for it - doing so on mobile before wasn’t great, and the new UI is even worse on mobile.

Tried the app for this and it seems great!
How Remote Work Can Impact Our Fight Against Climate Change
That’s nice.
>Sufficiently strong competitive pressure will create the same situation again.

What if nobody is willing to invest in an insane business? Then they will all have more difficulty accessing capital than sane businesses.
Indeed. What's more shocking is that the president of the united states (the one to whom the powers are being given) wants there to be more regulation of this power to prevent abuses, but that the law does not include them.
Could it lead to insolvency of banks and a potential bank run?
I've often used it, but just checked and now it doesn't work.They have improved the UX, pray they do not improve it any further.

I don't want to have an account (because they want email), so it looks like this is the end of github for me.

EDIT: in android firefox, I found the "Request Desktop Site" works (on a code page) e.g. https://github.com/termux/termux-app There is also a desktop link in the footer, but it doesn't work.

WARNING: If I try the desktop link and then "Request Desktop Site", I get to https://github.com/site/mobile_preference (a 404). Starting fresh and just doing "Request Desktop Site" works.
Show HN: Mask.link – Share a Link Discreetly
Made my call
The barrier to entry is the massive amount of capital to enter the market. If I can buy an airliner for pennies on the dollar, it does not mean that I have to be against or ignore safety regulations. The cost of safety regulations is minor compared to the cost of airplanes, pilots, airport fees and other infrastructure costs.
I too use the feed or homepage. Mostly for discovery of repos from people I follow and getting notifications about who starred which of my repositories. I do miss that in the app. Otherwise I love it so far.
Study ranks the privacy of major browsers. Here are the findings
There is a tremendous amount of incorrect and misleading information on this post.

The first sentence re: Dynamo discusses the inability to do filtering or sorting which is flat out wrong:

“DynamoDB requires data operations (aggregations, filtering, sorting ..) to be done by your application. → All data needs to be sent over the network.”
Beanstalk & CodeDeploy & X-Ray if you need to level up your deployment & webapp management.
Eventually you do learn where they all are. That did take noticeably longer than anything else.
As much as I appreciate the Silicon Valley reference, I don't think that this is a place for it...
That combined with hyper-aggressive tracing and testing is what has has allowed e.g. SG/TW/SK to win [in the initial response].

It's too late for that in EU/US though. All of our governments screwed up the initial response in January.

SG/TW/SK learned from SARS 17 years ago, we didn't.
Proper touch typing technique. Go slow at first and just practice and practice to build up speed. Like practicing the guitar, slow focused practice will pay dividends later. Good web site for touch typing is typingclub.com.
This is great for people who want to improve their speed but also already know how to touch type.

In the past three months, I've used these typing game websites and increased my average typing speed from around 80 WPM to 100 WPM.

Some other typing games are 10fastfingers [0] and typerush
[1].

If you don't already know how to touch type (i.e. you currently use two fingers to chicken peck), it's best to break that habit by learning to touch type.

[0]: https://10fastfingers.com/

[1]: https://www.typerush.com/
Why are you against them using an app for something they are authorized doing in a browser?
Add a “set -e” unless you want to publish a failed build.
The flip side is that in times of crisis, poor and vulnerable populations are literally priced out of essential goods.
The vaccination is not expected for 12-18 months.
YouTube uses WebComponents, and its pages are unviewable with Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20200317150441/https://www.youtub...
But the news never said "take up to 90 extra days to file", at least I haven't been able to find a definitive statement that the filing deadline is extended.

A lot of people are assuming it, but Mnuchin only mentioned the payment deadline in his statement.
HN is not US-only.

In Europe, losing your job does not mean losing your health nor your finances.
Take an Implicit Association Test (Assess Your Racial/Gender/Religious Bias)
It's downvoted because it's dangerous and uninformed medical advice.

You can treat flu (influenza) with osetalmivir.
People with mild symptoms can still be at risk, further testing is needed [1]

Please just phone your emergency line if you suspect you may have it.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22610265
Meta: I have to say some of these comments aren’t deserving of a ban... Mods should relook at this thread when the smoke clears and reassess. It’s a heated topic.
Also Netlify doesn't scale in pricing as well. 3 developers is $45 a month, but 4 developers is $1000 a month. There's also no SLA until the $1000 a month tier. They charge almost double for extra bandwidth. It's great for small teams, but they're not objectively better.
Not only was he never overthrown (the only reason Spain is not a dictatorship today is because he died), there's still tons of Spaniards who revere him.
>But a lot are being downvoted because they express arguments that are disagreed with.

In my experience, that's always going to happen with voting mechanisms on comment sections. I tend to have disagreeable or extreme views on most subjects, and while I try to be considerate and not show any rudeness in my comments, I still get a lot of downvotes from time to time.
I love the way this tutorial was written. I can't explain what exactly, but I found the entire experience to be very didactic. Congrats, and thank you! Wish we had more of this.
Think India
I dunno. I googled "south korea test kit production" and found:

> On January 16, Chun Jong-yoon, the chief executive and founder of molecular biotech company Seegene, told his team it was time to start focusing on coronavirus.

> "Even if nobody is asking us to, we are a molecular diagnosis company. We have to prepare in advance," he remembered thinking at the time.

> Seegene is one of four domestic companies providing coronavirus test kits in South Korea.

> But the company is also facing international demand from about 30 countries -- including Italy and Germany -- some of which are using Seegene's products on patients, Chun said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/12/asia/coronavirus-south-ko...

These people exist. Let them do their thing.

I'm sure the government can help; but there is a role for them. But the CDC didn't fill its role and that is a serious risk that is inherent centralised systems.