skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look, I understand that you don't like China, but your claims are wildly exaggerated.

> They covered it up for months and silenced any medical professionals that attempted to warn the rest of the world.

Here's the timeline: https://miro.medium.com/max/3584/1*r-ddYhoUtP_se6x-NOEinA.pn... (see parent post: https://medium.com%2F@medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act...)

Dec 26: 4 unusual cases detected

Dec 31: reported to Chinese CDC, reported to WHO (confirmed by New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-timeline.html)

5 days to report the case to national authorities and to the WHO.

Okay, there are sources out there that state that the first case may be from as early as mid-November. But come on: it's a new virus. They had no idea what this is until late December. It's literally recognizing a needle in a haystack while not knowing that there's a needle. What can you reasonably expect from them?

> The press has also recently tried to float the conspiracy theory that the US government planted the virus in Wuhan back in October.

That's not what China claims.

China says this is a possibility that the virus naturally originated from the US. Huge difference from "planting". This claim is based on DNA research of the virus, as well as timing:

1. The US seems to have older generations of the virus than China. How I have no idea how they identify virus generations but supposedly it is possible to see this in the DNA. Maybe someone who is more knowledgeable can fill in.

2. The start of the virus coincided with some military games event where the US army visited Wuhan.

China is not saying the US engineered and planted the virus. It is saying the virus might naturally have started in the US, where it went undetected and brushed away as an abnormally bad flu season.

Now, this is still very much speculation and there's no hard evidence, I will give you that. But the US CDC isn't exactly doing a good job with investigating the general situation in the US population. This claim by China is easily refuted so why isn't the US doing it?

Again: I get that you dislike China, but that's no reason for throwing exaggerated or wrong accusations around.
Uber is shutting down Uber pool to “flatten the curve” of the coronavirus
Sadly OT no longer has their old gift card program, which was my baby when I worked there :<
People on HN engaging in whatboutism - can you please find a single article from the CCP state media that criticizes the CCP? I could literally go on WSJ/NYT/WaPo right now and find many articles criticizing US government.

That's what free press means. China has no tolerance for truth if it collides with the CCP image.
How about total dollar value of reduced wages across the USA?
If you terminate for cause then the employee can't get unemployment. So you "lay off" of "lose budget" then the employee can get benefits. (USA/WA interpretation)
I heard of at least one fancy restaurant that announced they're going to offer take-out and delivery soon. It's going to be the only way to survive.
Having seen it first hand, the vast majority of those 20 million people are living check to check. even missing a few shifts puts them on the brink of homelessness. this is going to be very, very bad.
What are your best work-from-home / remote work tips, suggestions and observations?
> He's willing to take that risk because he's in it for the results, not the money.

Well put. Whatever anyone has to say about the man, the most incredible thing about Elon is that he finds ways to pursue his crazy ideals while somehow staying profitable.
Opened opentable.de, they say they have 1744 restaurants in Berlin alone, 624 in Hamburg, and 1122 in Munich, plus many other cities/regions. I wonder why only Munich and Hamburg are in the Cities table, and why there's e.g a jump of 19% in Munich for Sunday March 1.

This year it was warm (for winter) and dry on that Sunday, and last year it was presumably wet and dreary.
Why is it disgusting? They gave everyone a wage increase, and they already pay above minimums.

Also, Jeff doesn't make millions an hour, he gets paid in stock. Stock is not cash, and is not a form of liquidity. In addition, $AMZN has dropped 20% in the past month, so by your math he's been "losing" money.

Get off your high horse and get real - there's about to be a recession, and they're hiring people who are out of a job AND paying them extra while they ensure people have a way to get vital goods while staying indoors and minimizing spread.

This whole "they're evil" bs is tiring and lazy.
If I had a keylogger or other spyware, even my password manager's master password wouldn't be safe, so that line of reasoning still doesn't sound convincing to me. :) Only 2FA could prevent that, and I don't mind using 2FA as much as using password managers because it actually brings in something of value, something other than a "what you know".

Honestly, I don't think this would require such a big change/re-education, but it's hard to tell. Historically, much bigger changes in IT security were implemented with success - like the widespread use of SSL/TLS itself, even though that consists of more than 7 steps as well, and aims to achieve basically the same thing as PAKE, minus the client auth being obligatory (or that can be a plus, depending on how you view it). Instead of an ideal world, I'd say 'alternative'. Hmm. So maybe SRP was all about succeeding HTTP after all...

That said, I wouldn't mind at all if a PAKE initiative started small, with a handful of websites. If they knew what they were doing, of course. That alone wouldn't eliminate the need for password managers and the like, but at least one less password I'd need to regularly check on HaveIBeenPwned. (Okay, that's a lie. I'm never checking them anyway. All talk and no action.)
So there used to be a platform that gave you all the things you needed to build an app...

It handled stuff like authentication, user management, provisioning, security, compliance, etc. It had a fantastic developer experience and was beloved by developers and at the same time loved by IT. It allowed developers to focus exclusively on product features, and it seamlessly took care of administrative needs of corporate IT.

It was called Microsoft Windows. :)

But in today's era, everything has moved to the cloud and that's made the situation fragmented. There's over a dozen IdP and even more directory systems and logging systems. There's no source of truth! In order to build an app for enterprise, you have to write all of this boilerplate integration code. And right now every company does it themselves in-house.

The goal for WorkOS is to handle all the complicated undifferentiated complexity that every workplace app needs. It runs "under the hood" and lets you focus on building unique product features. It's a standard set of interfaces and features shared across applications.

That's the role of the operating system and that's why we call it an OS. :)
So I guess the South Korean CFR of 0.7%, with by far the best testing, a relatively young population, and no overloading of hospitals, is "way under 1%"? And any suggestion that a higher percentage of people died in other circumstances is just a "false number"?
> this is basically the worst use of the money Facebook could have considered for anything with a remotely philanthropic angle

Huh, this isn't philanthropic. The $100 million they are giving to small businesses is philanthropic.

This is simply a benefit that they are providing to their employees.

Your comment is purely nonsensical. You're acting like FB sent out a press release that talked about this as how they are helping the world fight coronavirus.
"Wrong" or "worse" is usually measured as a product of the impact to the customer, measured in value: that is, when a potential conflict of interest results in a lower cost the consumer, it's usually deemed acceptable.

What is a similar measurement for information? Grocery stores only sell physical goods; they don't, for example, determine what medical information you see, or what information about political candidates you consume... those are things that search engines do.

So you see why this could be "worse" and "wrong": there isn't a good way to measure the impact and the scope of influence is much larger.
The stock market has dropped significantly and a large part of employee compensation at FAANG companies is RSU. This could be seen as making up for lost stock value.
If you're asking questions like this, you are not qualified to work on problems like this. Sorry to be blunt, but- there are a million ways this would cause more problems (some obvious some not).
Thanks for the great work you do on this site, today and every day. Moderating is never easy, and I imagine that it's only gotten harder recently.
Okay now make ones which fits over doorknobs.
Japanese man tests positive for coronavirus again
Not necessarily. Colorado's is something like 80% of your weekly compensation (I think the math looks at the average of the last 20 weeks of employment).
This is an entirely unacceptable comment. Flagged.
I wish there was a page to see just flagged stories. Many are noise, of course, but I notice that there are a number of really good submissions there as well.
That’s not useful either. What does lost hours mean? Is that 10% of your hours or 90% of your hours. One friend has lost 100% of her hours but somehow is still employed. Is she “lost hours” or “lost jobs”?
Will you be supporting HIPAA/PIPEDA as well? I'm just teeing up all of this work for a healthcare SaaS offering, non-trivial. We're presently deployed as a "per-customer" model as some require enterprise options, others not so much. Would be great to have a tool that fills those gaps simply when/as required.

Looks great, I'll definitely be going through it in more detail after work.
I hope this becomes part of the new-normal once this pandemic is over. The current design of door handles, especially in the public bathrooms defeats the purpose of hand washing altogether.
lol yeah totally different. someone sent me a pic of those last week

though maybe they should become a customer? ;)
If they are promoted results, they should be marked as such.
2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16451072

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8685971

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3227620

(Links are for the curious. Reposts are fine after about a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
If cv is very bad ( I really hope it is not ) many boomers will pass away. Who then will read newspapers? They are just utter garbage now.

This is one of many changes CV will bring, IMHO.
Unfortunately it's also very hard to verify claims of the Chinese government, we need to weigh the reports accordingly.
It is possible, but to my understanding the risk is now that two people are sharing the same air meaning any non-Covid infections have a red carpet laid out for them to the other host.

Just from what I’ve seen on Twitter/Reddit though.
The argument goes: if they thought the stock was overvalued, they would not buy it back and would let the cash sit on the BS until a more opportune time came along.
This appears pretty superficial and it gets many things wrong.

> Choose between [DynamoDB] on-demand option (no capacity management) or provisioned option (cheaper).

It's very, very easy for provisioned capacity to be more expensive than on-demand. You need to overprovision because, if you exceed the provisioned throughput, you will get throttled and your application will suffer. Scaling up and down is a slow, opaque process, and you're only allowed to do it something like 5 times per day. If your workload has any idle periods, you're just burning money.

> Avoid using S3 for static web hosting (No HTTPS)

I won't argue that S3 is ideal for static web hosting, but "avoid" is pretty strong and IMO not warranted.

> Do not use AWS Lambda as a general EC2 host

What does this mean? As general compute? This is too simplistic a judgment. Lambda is a versatile service and can be useful in many situations.

> Kinesis: unlimited consumers

No, Kinesis is an extremely limited service. 5 reads per second per shard. In my experience, if you put even two consumers on a stream, you will start to see throttling. The official solution is to fan out to multiple streams. Hacky and super expensive.

> Kinesis 30x cheaper than SQS

This is hilarious. Maybe it's true for some workloads. In my experience, Kinesis is incredibly expensive and SQS is not.
It's saying that the S&P 500 companies spent a total of 109% of their income on buybacks and dividends, intentionally and voluntarily running at a loss to increase stock prices (vs. running at a loss to grow revenues or something similar).
no doubt it's fraught with risk (including risks specific to diversifying or m&a), but all NPV-positive opportunities are at least a little risky by definition (no risk, no return).

acquisitions in general are all too often vanity projects, rather than synergistic value creators they're purported to be.
Losing 30% of retirement savings likely caused a chunk of this as well. Maybe not the bulk but I’d bet it’s a factor in people pulling back on all spending.
I like the GitHub for iOS app, but I've seen a number of things I wish were improved or were outright buggy and they unfortunately didn't seem very receptive of the feedback I sent them :(
A "few years for funds to grow" is probably the opposite of what his elderly parents have.
There are egos at the top of every superpower which don’t see themselves as equal to mostly anyone. As long as that’s the case, there will be a Cold War or something similar.
The iOS app is fully native. Not sure about the Android app.
How many tickets would you say they will be selling in the near future?
> If a company does buybacks, [...] because they aren't investing that money into R&D [...]

False choice: a company can do R&D and do buybacks (or dividends).

The capital return is for excess cash that has no internal use. AAPL spent US$ 4.2B (7.9% of revenues) on R&D and had a dividend.

Sometimes there's a limit to how much you can do: companies have a finite number of employees after all, and there are only a finite number of projects that you may be able to handle at one time.
Well, you can take a photo of them. This is not a digital device, it's based on pressure sensitive liquid crystals. Electricity is only used to clear the display.
Do we know if the virus does worse in warmer climates? I ask because I'm still amazed that the numbers in south east asia are so low, Thailand and Vietnam had huge amounts of Chinese tourists over Chinese new year and yet case wise they seem really low. Whereas europe which has a much colder climate right now is doing much worse.
COVID-19 is the term media, the CDC, etc. are using to discuss it. Being pedantic about it doesn't impress anyone.

For example, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html says "Coronavirus (COVID-19)". So does https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2....

The point: WHO has moved away from geolocated names. https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-has-a-name-the-deadl...
This doesn't make sense.

The flu figures are statistically derived. The cv2 figure is derived from literally actual test cases only, which represent a tiny tiny tiny subset.

They cannot surely be compared, unless I'm missing something
Trying to follow a link on a readme or something to another file within the github repo always results in “something went wrong” (iOS).
> Your first paragraph makes clear why freedom of the press is necessary.

Like I said in my other post: the claim that they "covered it up for months" is nonsense.

I get that freedom of speech is an important value to you, but this is a strawman argument to try to support the ideal of freedom of speech, while completely ignoring the reality. The US has had 2 months to prepare for COVID-19, and what happened in the US even though you had freedom of speech? Cover-ups, or -- a more charitable interpretation -- incompetence in information sharing.

Free speech is an important value. But don't pretend like it's some kind of panacea. You will do the ideal of freedom of speech much more justice by recognizing its limitations, because only then can you truly leverage its benefits while mitigating its weaknesses. Anything else is like driving with your eyes closed and thinking "I'll be fine".
Yep - everything in WorkOS already pipes into our Audit Log so it's quite close.

Would love to learn more about your app. Send me a note and we can chat? mg@workos.com
If you can kick the can down the road until the virus goes away, you just saved the whole economy. The ability of my local Chinese place to serve customers is undiminished, my desire to eat Chinese food is undiminished, and all that's in the way is an ultimately temporary law.
It's not about knowing how to cook, it's about not always wanting to, and maybe trying something different.

My wife is an excellent cook (I'm crap, but I can cook enough to survive), but she also loves going to restaurants or ordering delivery. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you always have to.
The greater problem is that corporations run themselves incredibly cash light. The American consumer is encouraged to keep an emergency fund, but American corporations seem to be completely panicked in every crisis, often then requiring government assistance.
Declining bus ridership is no mystery
I assume that this is exactly why Facebook gives that money to its people. The fewer childcare workers are required to help around while also spreading the virus, the better.
The GitHub app doesn't let you use Git from your mobile device; it's more about providing access to the service's "social" features.
His name is Dan Gackle, hence dan g:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
Haha, seriously? Suggesting to someone that they should be OK with a treatment that they think should be policy is breaking site guidelines? You are a funny bunch.
Lighter taxes.
A must-have resource for the work-Slack shitposter.

And don't forget https://morbotron.com/ - same thing, but for Futurama.
It's true. Would be great if JustEat and others posted similar data.
"Buyers do not buying the company for of the investors."

What? I can't understand half of this article because it is so poorly written.
To someone in the USSR at around the same time it might as well have looked that AIDS epidemic is going to put the US in serious trouble. The US authorities were not admitting it as a serious problem until many thousands had died.

I would discount much of the insinuations that the HBO series is making, it was made without any inputs from Russians/Ukrainians which should be a serious argument against its authenticity of sentiment.

A theory is that the collapse of the USSR was not any grassroots uprising or the expression of people longing for democracy, it was just mostly a few higher-ups like Yeltsin figuring out that they can hold and exercise greater power and authority by dissolving the Union than keeping it. I view the claim that Chernobyl had much to do with the end of the USSR as a naive and unrealistic analysis.
It may be tough for a company to provide bonuses directly to contractors (especially those that are earmarked for buying equipment to wfh). FB has said that they have agreements with all the contracting companies that they work with that even as people stay home they will continue to get paid their normal pay (even if they can do nearly no work from home, e.g. including food service contractors). They haven't said what that means, but you can be sure that pay isn't coming out of the contracting companies pockets.
Just a tad too slow to be a cool e-reader.
Original GP went on "they're filthy" rant. If he had said the authoritarian state obsessed with wanting to always look good lead to failure in containing the infection and let it spread from Wuhan, making things much worse all over the world, I would've nodded in agreement.
> 1. The comparable commercial tools are very expensive,

This was specially the case when blender was new and AFAIK command line driven. In those days a SGI machine alone was more expensive then the car of the average Blender user.
SF Symbols: What is it, and how to use?
There's step n pull which I've seen in bathrooms already: https://www.stepnpull.com/
Yeah, for sure, coding/hacking away is waaay better! Just stay in-doors, and code/learn/research!
Leaked video of Zuck making the decision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYHO7FRsQAA
But can you do voice chat, play music, background downloads, live streaming and game streaming (to another device), etc.? Because a console has to do it all real-time, without crapping out, and without any future possibility of upgrading the RAM.

Your comparison is like saying you can do a 305Km F1 race in a Fiesta with less fuel than an F1 car. I ran everything you listed (short of Telegram but how much can that need?) on 64MB of RAM 20 years ago. And to be fair, I can do it now in well under 500MB. But it won't run Xbox loads properly.
That's why we (US, and much of the world) have progressive tax rates for earned income. Though in the US, we then give lower tax rates for unearned income...
> Sells profitable entreprises and buys those in need of cash

That's the general idea, yeah, "buy low sell high".
New Yorkers should be prepared for a “shelter in place” order
Please tell us where your car is parked--I'm sure that you're frequently not using it.

I do think we as a society should ensure that all can be housed. But random squatting is not the answer.

(Also, for those who have never dealt with it, squatters tend to be intensely destructive of property.)
Thx for the article. I've skimmed through it. Looks like closing schools averts 30% of cases. Not bad. But interestingly, in my country, I've never heard of a school closed because of influenza...
only if everything gets stored, and there is no chance for that
I think we have have something between with a good, independent corruption watchdog.
Could do that. Took less time to change the ordering so we could get this out.
I think the person you responded to was saying was that both of those things (being laid off and having hours cut) involve not receiving some amount of pay. And that that's the reason they were grouped together.

Basically that it was answering one specific question: How many had pay impacted. But that it doesn't answer these other questions that yes would in fact be very useful, including a breakdown.
Doesn't "delay" the problem -- it exacerbates the problem.
Isn't this precisely the objective of Keynesian-style fiscal stimulus? Put money in people's hands by literally paying them.

It doesn't have to be UBI either. The USA is desperately behind on infrastructure investment. In New York alone, we could use this opportunity to: build high-speed rail between NYC and Albany, rebuild the decaying Amtrak bridge in the Bronx, extend the NYC Subway with the Triboro Line, rebuild the Amtrak tunnels under the Hudson, heavily renovate NYCHA housing, invest in downtown beautification projects across the state, overhaul the Rochester bus system, etc etc.
Not sure why they would share the same air?
Isn't "fresh" air used as input and output air from each patient goes outside?
Just a thought..
Because its the natural state of all life on earth. Its the condition every living thing has to struggle against. It can be fought individually, it can be fought collectively, but it still has to be fought and even then you are not guaranteed success.

Think of all the people in conflict areas who could live a decent life were they allowed to simply be in peace. Think of all the people who have lived good lives and then been displaced by horrific natural disasters. Its not an issue of economics. Its just a fact of reality.
I think if all command line tools outputted JSON, it would go a long way towards fixing the "ad-hoc parser problem" in scripts, and bring unixy shells around to a more PowerShell-like object-passing style. Passing plain text around is a great idea, but It's silly to restrict yourself to a single structural unit within that text (the "line"). We have better tech now.