skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone with a bit more knowledge, but isn't this basically correct, despite how moronic it sounds. Yesterday I was looking at California's critical sector list[1] and it seems stores like GameStop would be covered as critical infrastructure at a first glance.

And it listed the following:

Retail (e.g., retail centers and districts, shopping malls).[2]

[1] https://www.cisa.gov/critical-infrastructure-sectors

[2] https://www.cisa.gov/commercial-facilities-sector
I think this will open the door for NYC to fully "shelter in place" lockdown, however.
This is misleading and parts of it aren't true. Comparing GraphQL to REST is apples to oranges and misses most of the advantages.

GraphQL is a way to dynamically generate API endpoints[0] from A) a schema describing a graph, B) a query describing the endpoint, and C) functions which fetch objects from the graph defined in A.

Why would this be useful? Can't you just write endpoints or use a single RESTful endpoint per model? Well, on some large projects, you have a very large number of endpoints supporting a slightly different set of views that are all based on the same data, and most of those endpoints load more data than they need. GraphQL allows you to replace an entire suite of presentation layers with a declarative schema that's smaller and more easily reasoned about, and which only loads what you actually need.

You also get some other things for free - n+1 queries happen within the data centre and are therefore faster, you can avoid opening a lot of HTTP1 connections, etc. - but these things are only side benefits. The core benefit is making your big procedural presentation layer smaller and more declarative.

[0] This is not strictly true, a GraphQL query isn't an endpoint, but for me they occupy the same conceptual space.
> “Even though the in-person event isn’t happening in 2020, our staff and volunteers are already planning to deliver several PyCon US components remotely throughout April.”

I hope the remote paradigm will stay even after the crisis, in addition to normal attending. It's great to be able to stream conferences, but even more interactivity would be great.

I recently watched an impressive TED talk about volumetric video¹. I can see us moving fast into a hybrid reality with such "UX".

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[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwUkbi4_wWo
There is always a struggle whether macroeconomic really exist or it is an aggregative only, except for Money Supply. You can have all your ISLM model but it assumed equilibrium for it to work. But real work never have that (and hence you have money which does not need in a global perfect equilibrium model).
Everyone can get a filing extension in a normal year, so keeping the filing deadline the same is fine (IMO).

Form 4868.
I agree... it doesn't make sense to just throw a blanket lock down over the whole county indiscriminately. Same goes for state governors to throw these blanket shutdowns of bars a restaurants over the whole state at once.

I don't understand why we can't take a more localize approach to this. Maybe only implement the lock downs in the worst areas, or areas entering acceleration phase. Can't we be smarter about this?

We don't even know if it will snuff the infection out. It might just be kicking the can down the road. In my area, it is still very low risk. Meanwhile, businesses are already beginning to shut down, and people's are loosing their livelihoods.
I don't think you understand the point of this DRM. If one week of protection means that you sell 80,000 more copies of your game to people that are too impatient to wait for piratable version, it's worth it. Your analogy doesn't work.
Which is really odd. Germany was completely wrecked after WW2, relying largely on US aid for much of the period leading up to the Berlin Wall coming down. She was only a child for much of that period, and arguably wasn't around for the worst of it.

Yeah, this rapidly spreading disease is a royal pain, but it'll most likely be resolved within the year, with the worst of it probably ending within the next couple months. In fact, they could probably do absolutely nothing to fatten the curve and have a lower mortality rate than Cold War Germany.

Yes, this coronavirus is nasty, but it's definitely not worse than the Cold War.
U.S. policymakers worry about China 'weaponizing' drug exports
I've seen this posted under different titles for Show HN for the past 3 days. Mind not spamming?
Thanks for linking this. Glad to see the scope of this is rather wide. We have a single confirmed non-resident case in this county.

It felt like the scope of the whole state was too wide considering the lack of cases near us. And without any definite financial assistance in place. Hoping something more definite comes soon as I know multiple people who are affected by this order.
It will be impossible for us to permanently stop the spread with half measures. As viral spread continues due to half hearted social distancing, when will we be able to return to normalcy? Given the characteristics of this virus even a few cases floating around seem to be enough to reignite contagion.

So we persist in stasis for a month or a year with no end in sight while the economy begins to collapse, which will also destroy lives and lead to humanitarian disaster?

And all of that on shoddy evidence which probably is not counting the true case fatality rate due to woeful ignorance of the total number of infected people?

This article from a Stanford Professor makes the case that COVID-19 mortality is not as high as initial reports make it seem:

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...

We also have potential treatments emerging that could alleviate much of the strain on the healthcare system.

We need to make rational and strategic decisions here, not decisions based out of fear.

Massive and systematic society wide testing is the first step, the second step is the bulk manufacture of demonstrated COVID-19 treatments. The third is ramping up hospital capacity.

All of this is so that we can reopen society in a reasonable amount of time prepared to deal with the inevitable spread of this virus.
Call of Duty: Warzone has 30M players ‘working from home’
You can't have a lockdown for more than a few months, otherwise the economy grinds to a halt and you get something akin to or worse than the great depression.
Looks like a bootleg re-upload of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cBHmu_cNww ; please don't promote stolen content.
There was a nice big (5.7) earthquake in Utah recently. It closed an Amazon warehouse.
Yes I have been doing things similar to what I enjoy doing for my most of my career. I'd be doing more interesting or riskier things if I had financial independence (or investment with favorable terms) but I think that's true of a lot of people
And these people's actions are a potential death sentence for many others.
We believe redesigning everyday products to focus on hygiene and sustainability will be a huge opportunity and a net positive for humans and the environment.
Thank god. My parents have a smallish accounting firm, and were so worried about still having to file. Things need to hold for that as well. The worry about employees coming in to the office and clients as well. They want to just close the office for two weeks and hold up with this all, as is the case everywhere.

Still though, they're both very worried about clients calling in and still expecting their taxes to be filed which cases like this have happened in the past. For example, one didn't want to come to their office, and said they should FedEx the filing already, which means someone is going to have to stand in line with others at a FedEx store, which is absolutely not something to be doing now, no matter how spaced out the line is.

This leaves the question of what they're supposed to do, because I'm sure there are clients with the attitude of this virus being overblown. And won't be happy if my parents come off as weak for not working. Obviously they should, but how much the client comes first is constantly an issue, especially now.
When Kumis is not enough
>World

The whole article is really US centric, a lot of these things won't really apply to Europe, especially Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Africa etc.
Instagram Business Pages That Prove Quality Wins over Quantity
Show HN: SplitCSS API for reducing unused CSS is now open (free)
Scott Sumner (an economist who specialized in the Great Depression) talks about bit more about Hoover versus FDR.

https://www.econlib.org/scott-alexander-on-herbert-hoover/
I'm re-reading these classics:

1. SICP(The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs)

2. The Art and Craft of Problem Solving by Paul Zeitz

3. Tribe of Hackers: Cybersecurity Advice from the Best Hackers in the World

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[1]https://github.com/allenleein/knowledge-base/blob/gh-pages/C...

[2]https://github.com/allenleein/knowledge-base/blob/gh-pages/C...

[3]https://github.com/allenleein/knowledge-base/blob/gh-pages/C...
There is also family to take into account. If you shut everything down today, you will see cases like this

1. X incubates for a week

2. X gets symptoms and infects spouse

3. X's spouse incubates for a week

4. X's spouse worsens for a few weeks

5. X's spouse dies
Covid-19 and Data and Visualization Collection
Artificial intelligence helps prevent disruptions in fusion devices
Yeah, they're boiling the frog. Each incremental step is normalized over a few days, and then there's a new, stricter mandate.
Mostly just obfuscation, but obfuscation via injecting more code rather than just symbol mangling. It's designed to ram tamper checks & other validation all over the place, making it hard to identify & remove.

And if you're thinking "but surely all that injected overhead would slow the game down?" then yes that's absolutely correct, it does: https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/282924-denuvo-really-does...
The penalties and interest for underpaying are quite reasonable and proportional, IMO (and the penalties are often waivable, making for only interest charges, which are very reasonable.)

If it’s a choice between eating and keeping your car/house and paying your taxes on time, choose the former every time!
I don't see the people in the chemistry department saying, "We don't teach students to stir shit in test tubes we teach fundamentals!". I get it, they're not there to teach job skills but it's also not an excuse to completely ignore it. If you want to do gas chromatography you're going to have to learn to use the machine. You don't just say, "Hey get some trade school person to do it" and it isn't just a "foregone conslusion" from fundamentals.
Squishy, shape-changing bot roams untethered
Guy from GitHub suggested the same, but how would you really see such workflow in action? all I have in mind seems so complicated that easier would be to write and host dedicated bot really. Supporting PR on Issue level sounds strange
I've seen videos of NYPD going in and telling people in restaurants to clear out (from days ago). I wouldn't be surprised to see NYPD telling people to clear out for this too.
Habeas corpus isn’t the issue here. It’s 1st / 5th / 14th amendment issues:

- 1st: Right to peacefully assemble

- 14th “nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”

5th has similar text to 14th.

To be clear: I’m not arguing that the various govts. can’t impose quarantines or isolation orders, I’m just outlining which parts of the constitution are relevant to the legal questions.
Hm, I think that I understand this issue to be something different than what the parent is asking for, but maybe I misunderstand one or the other! (As you can see, I commented in that issue, hehe)
> Perhaps Washingtonians are taking the recommendations more seriously

I doubt that. I'm in a mid sized city in WA and I've seen a notable increase in traffic in the last week. People are leaving their homes more now. Most of the offices are empty so I'm not entirely sure where they're going, but they're going somewhere.
We could contact trace and quarantine like SK is now.
Airbnb Racks Up Hundreds of Millions in Losses Due to Coronavirus
Conference organizers are liable for cancelled contracts, unless the cancellation is due to a larger force.

Did you read the March 12th blog post? https://pycon.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-12-update-on-covid-...
This is accurate. Also, most folks that do go to the Hospital with Covid-19 are staying much longer than people who have pneumonia. That means hospital beds that can't be recycled as quickly to get to the next wave of individuals.
>remote Russian developers access to potentially sensitive or valuable US code bases

What do you mean by this exactly?
If your point is that many people are hypocritically and uncritically vilifying many drugs just because they they are called drugs - that's very true.

Otherwise, why does it matter if the category of "drugs" includes coffee?
At this point wouldn't it be better to just implement a Chinese-style martial law lock-down? The damage to the economy is already here. Might as well shut things down for 3-4 weeks and slowly open up sections of a city. That seems better to me then dragging this thing out for 3 months or longer. I feel like these "stages" of lock-down are doing nothing but delaying the inevitable which will cause more damage in the long run.
Without out adequate testing, we can't know where to localize the lockdowns to.
I liked the original title of the story for what it is worth.

As Chris MacAskill wrote:

In 1995 the ebola virus had its second major outbreak, 19 years from its first, and I discovered a fascinating website about it called eBay. It turns out Pierre owned it and wrote the ebola information. The traffic it drew would help his new auction site get off the ground.
Countries are finding out that most government institutions for viral disaster preparedness were completely unprepared for this pandemic. Little to supplies stored, no plans ready before it hit, extremely slow responses.
I still doubt it's as big of a challenge as rebuilding post-WW2. Mortality rate stayed above 20 for decades after WW2, and there was always the threat of USSR hostilities.

This coronavirus is certainly causing problems, but this type of statement cheapens what Germans after WW2 went through.
Bigger scales typically include an implicit amount of wiggle within the lower scales. People understand that when you say a car cost "25 thousand", that it's not exactly 25,000, but that it's closer to 25,000 than 24,000 or 26,000.

Moving to a bigger scale, and then back down to a smaller scale maintains that implicit wiggle room.
Who ever is in responsible on or for the team that made this mistake twice should be fired. Doing the same hugely expensive mistake twice in a row is ridiculous.
School children spam homework app with bad reviews (to try) to knock it offline
Maybe outdoors? Maybe fleeing cities, or going to be with family in other parts of the country since it's clear this is going to last for months?
This is happening in my area right now. The number of cases is little to none, but the governor threw a blanket lock down on bars and restaurants, etc, over the whole state. It was too early for my area for sure. So in the meantime, businesses and people's livelihoods are already being destroyed.
The market, the miners, the developers, the merchants and the users - they all disagree with you.

There’s been plenty of time for “the flippening”, and yet it seems that more conservative system is valued more than rushed in non-solutions led by conmen.

The BCH split is in fact a perfect demonstration of how checks and balances prevent any constituency from taking over the system. Miners own the hashrate but they don’t own the protocol. Miners mine and get rewarded for it. Nothing more, nothing less.
They are client side, not server side.

They have a very, very limited scope.

They don't have to deal with the DB, the authentication, the permissions, the deployment, the creation of a REST API, the migration, the mix of several run times, uploads, logging, sending emails, session management, etc.

And yet.

Their support for i18n, validation, routing, caching, pagination, data formating and presentation - what they should be good at - is abysmal compared to what you can do with django/ror.

The only thing they are better at is templating and creating a hierarchy of components. Which is the least they can do given they are literally there to render the UI.
Anyone can study the SAT prep books for free at a bookstore a few hours at a time daily.

If your offended by that, what about professors or HS teachers who teach certain sections of the textbook because it's going to be on the exam.

One can self-study the SAT prep book or self-study their biology book and in both cases can potentially be more knowledgeable than those who attended a formal university class or prep workshop. Most students aren't driven to do that though.

This goes to the fundamental problem, that our university system at present is really just a credentialing and signaling system.
That's true, but at the same time it's a standardized test so anyone can replicate those prep courses. There's tons of prep books with practice questions, tips, etc.

It's a matter of awareness and taking it seriously (obviously a simplification, but hope you get my point).
Compilation of COVID19 Data Sources, Visualisations and Tools
By all accounts I've heard, the organizers have wanted to cancel the event for a while now, but for liability and financial reasons, couldn't afford to until they were "forced" to. Eg, venue contracts, sponsorship agreements, etc, generally stipulate that if the conference cancels without good reason, they owe large fees or penalties to the venue, sponsors, etc. The PSF does not have the operational budget to absorb these penalties while also refunding the money for everyone who was planning to attend.

So they had to act as if everything was going ahead as normal while also hoping and planning for any contingency that would allow them to cancel the event without suffering financial ruin.
Exactly. All this talk of "flattening the curve" is counterproductive if the curve remains flattened right at capacity for an extended period of time, which is what these measures will cause, rather than spiking for a short period.
The first sentence of GP was, but the second statement was fact, and the third a description of a plausible possibility.
> Arrest them?

Why not? Couldn't you postpone the prison time for a later point in time? Or make them pay fees right away (and a high fee).
The more usual expression would be "packed to the gills", but in the context of American parks, perhaps "grills" is an appropriate word after all!
How often do you experience remote connectivity issues with this setup? (EG: Packet loss, high latency, extreme jitter, low throughput).

Thanks!
> In the presence of price gouging laws perhaps, but not in general. I of course acknowledge the overhead cost of retrofitting existing manufacturing setups to produce masks,

Price gouging laws do not change the underlying facts of how long it takes to spin up new production lines. In an emergency, suppliers cannot respond quickly enough, by definition. The problem to be solved is how best to allocate existing stocks and production output, not how to incentivize new producers.
I was a tiny tiny competitor to eBay some 20 years ago and the pez story was pure BS.

The reality is that eBay (that is AuctionWeb) got its initial traction from spamming Usenet as the story correctly states.

Very quickly they moved from spamming themselves to letting their users spam Usenet.

This is the "growth hacking" model still followed today by many. The question is there any moral middle ground?

If you can search Usenet archives you can find remnants of that AuctionWeb spam and people complaining. Soon others tried to copy them but it was too late.

This was in mid 90s after the first mass spam from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie... .
It takes time to criminalize freedom. For some, it can't happen fast enough.
Microsoft can filter out the sound of you eating chips on a conference call
It seems that they are asking whether, due to global warming, some other countries much further north may be able to grow coffee at the appropriate height (while it is now impossible because they are too cold). For instance, in advanced stages of global warming it may be possible to grow coffee in northern Italy.
2020 is already shit, of course it's going to erupt, block out the sun and cause a nuclear winter. Why the hell not?
Snuffing the virus out is not an option at this point. Perhaps they could have done that in Wuhan in December, but it is not an choice we can make for the United States in March. And no, we aren't waiting for a vaccine. We will build herd immunity as people contract the virus, develop antibodies and recover from it. The goal now is to moderate the rate at which people acquire the disease so that the critical cases do not overflow health care capacity.
Now, this is technology we can use!
If it’s free then sure, but your numbers are unlikely to be accurate and this stuff both directly and indirectly expensive. So, it’s easy for it to slightly increase sales and still be a net loss.
No, the law just limited state and local tax deductions to $10,000, it didn't eliminate them.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22638558, which was posted a bit later but which has a non-paywalled article and possibly a bit more info.
I love this project, but the ergonomics look kinda bad.

All the crappiness of holding a piece of misshaped plastic to your ear, plus the crappiness of manual dialing, and you can't slam it down to end a call!
For me, it’s a combination of many many convenient built-in functions, and high level constructs for functional and rule-based programming. I recently played with the language to get functionality similar to what R’s dplyr provides - it can give a sense of what kind of advanced “meta-programming” is possible.

https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/1901462
38 / 5715 = 0.007 = 0.7%. Which is roughly what we expect.

Edit: originally post I replied to said 0.007%
It would sure be nice if we remember that convenience store workers, bus drivers, and grocery store clerks are considered "essential". These jobs are commonly paid at or near the minimum wage, but they're out today exposing themselves to the public. Even if they're given hazard pay today (and many probably won't be), when all is said and done they'll be back out there during the next flu season.

At least in New York they'll be earning $15 an hour for it. That's $30,000 a year, if they can get the hours -- and many won't be given 40 hours per week in order to avoid having to give them health care insurance. How many of these people will end up becoming sick, and then have to pay for any care they get out of that $30k?

I'm skeptical that anybody will in fact remember this. People will go back to trying to push the stock market higher and fight minimum wage increases to ensure higher profits. But I hope somebody starts printing up "Essential" buttons to hand out to these workers -- and then wear them on the job for the future so that people remember.