skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the business gets a loan to last them through the crisis, they will pay it back when they earn money after the crisis. It means they are using future revenue to survive right now. The interest for this loan should be very low and if they default in the future, the govt takes the hit.

The hope is that not all businesses will default at the same time, and just like the hospital, these loans flatten the default curve, and prevent the economy from spiralling into a deep depression from these defaults.
Here are some articles that may help those wanting to create effective face masks...

Higher level view on efficacy of different home-available materials for filter masks -> https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-...

More technical 2013 article from the "Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health" on different material efficacy -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AjwLMkEufJ2SSHRYyXpp3QY9jvQ...

Lastly some sewing patterns for masks -> https://so-sew-easy.com/face-mask-sewing-patterns
Problem is, other header files you might include can have inline functions in them with returns.

Defining macros with C keyword names is not such a hot idea.
Very cool move. What does the communications tool specifically do?
Problem is the current plan will not save 57 million people. Not even close. The mortality rate will still be 3.6% and we still expect 70% of the population to get infected.

So if it was as simple as you say, then sure. Let's shut it all down. But shutting it all down is not going to save us from Covid19.
If you were laid off with an excuse related to coronavirus, I'd be willing to bet that you would've been without a job in the near term no matter what.

This is a short term issue. Once everyone returns to their normal routines in the next ~2-3 weeks, there will be a surge of spending and businesses won't be able to keep up with demand.
He walked that back later and said he was buying stocks. From his Twitter...

'Some investors have been confused by remarks. To clarify, I am confident the president will do the right thing in temporarily shutting down the country and closing the borders. If that happens, we can win the war against the virus and the markets and the economy will soar.'

' That is why we are buying stocks. These are bargains of a lifetime if we manage this crisis correctly.'
Why would "bioterrorism scale" & "pandemic scale" be different, especially if a bioterror agent was crafted to be contagious (& thus create pandemic conditions)?
Or company culture.
7.7 billion people * 0.7 * 0.02 = 108 million people

Now show me a cause of death that involves 108 million people that's not taken seriously.
Unless we intend to depend on unsustainable transportation technologies forever, dense cities are a requirement. I live in a sparsely populated city, and I have to drive 15 minutes to get anywhere. Without a car, this city would be unlivable.
Cross-platform goal tracker launched
Global warming is too abstract, hard to reason by some due to the distance of cause and effect.

Car driving fatality is fairly bounded. 124 ppm/year in USA.

Coronavirus 19 has the possibility to mutate and keep waving over the world, killing an unbounded number of people, which is downright terrifying. The best-case estimate of fatality is 5000 ppm and >50% of Americans getting it, that's 20x more deadly than cars.
I can only speak for myself, I bought an 11" iPad Pro to have something much lighter and portable than my laptop that I could carry everywhere, write long form text on, and edit photos.

Importing and editing a single photo is easy, but if I want to work on a whole batch it becomes a pain trying to manage many files using file system.

So far the best solution I've found is to pay for Adobe cloud storage, import my photos to the Lightroom app (thus not polluting my camera roll) and let Adobe sync everything to my desktop where the photos eventually live on an external hard drive.

Side note: Despite this the actual act of manipulating photos on the iPad are fantastic. I love being able to shoot an event and then start editing a couple photos for promotional purposes right then and there. Overall I love my big expensive tablet.

If other people have developed iPad / iOS photography workflows I'd love to hear them!
Thanks! This is a very cool tool. Wish you all the best.
If you turn off JS you can read it.
We're a .NET dev company (all C# coders, but most of us have a background in VB as well), I asked my team if they had to choose would they rather have to develop with:

A: C#, but with WebForms (including using code behind and the built in web controls where possible).

or

B: VB, but with MVC and WebApi.

They all chose C# WebForms even though they all hate WebForms, just not as much as they hate VB.

Personally I love VB and WebForms, I never get to do work with it nowadays (I'm not even sure we have any legacy systems that still run it), but I built my company from scratch off that stack and coming from a classic ASP background I was blown away with controls like GridView and Repeaters etc. I remember our first designer being so confused with the mess of html outputted by these controls and the hatred our purists had for viewstate that polluted their lightweight designs.

I still remember how excited I was when I first used the AjaxControlToolkit and the UpdatePanel control, it was like magic!

Now everything's pretty much all C#, RazorPages, WebApi, Angular or Vue and I'd never go back, but I do miss the old days. It's not often I see tech that seems magical any more, SignalR was probably the last big thing that blew me away in terms of just doing something that felt so different, but it's really rare now.

I would add that we just finished a prototype app for a client using Blazor WASM and coding that did seem like witchcraft and certainly brought back some of the old feelings of being amazed, maybe we'll all look back on javascript frameworks in the same way we look back on VB in a couple of years if Blazor play outs.
No. My company was already 70% remote and our customers and users are in the US healthcare system. I consider myself extremely fortunate, because my wife worked at a restaurant and lost her job.
Volition.Page is a goal tracker. It is cross-platform, supports real-time sync and has offline support.
That means you can start timing your self on your desktop computer and later stop it on a phone. And even if you have spotty internet in the gym or on a plane it will still work and sync itself when internet restores.

It is at the MVP stage so please contact me if you have any suggestions or spotted bugs. It is built by a team of one person so any feedback will help me out a great deal. Thanks!
Do you have plans to add Terraform support?
Yeah, basically if the virus spreads doesn't matter what you're holding now. And if the country is shut down now then things will eventually improve. He said he's buying even in that interview and explained this position very clearly.

Kind of an "undefined behaviour" sort of thing - one branch of the conditional "cannot" happen, so you can assume it doesn't.
Strange Times
Ontario (Canada) stockpiled a lot after the whole SARS thing. Unfortunately they never planned rotating the supply or budgeted for it. So out of the 55 million masks we stocked, 80% have expired.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada...
When did Nasdaq ever have a floor? -AQ stands for "automated quotations".
That implies having the technical competency required to copy. You can't copy another project's code when you can't even find the power button.
The US GDP is $19 trillion. If we just stopped everything, we would be missing $1.6t per month. Conceivably, the government could pump that much money into the economy by just writing checks to everyone so that they could pay their rent, their mortgage, and their landlord could pay their mortgage. We'd need to write checks to businesses too. And this is worst case. The economy hasn't shut down. Many of us are still employed and getting paid and I certainly am very grateful for that. But I'm not going to the pub every weekend so those people need cash.

If we can treat this as hitting the pause button on the economy, and find a way to fund it during this period, then we can press the play button and carry on where we left off. Of course that would require Russia, OPEC and the US to stop pumping oil. And a billion other details. But there's a lot of us, and we don't have much else to do.

This could be an economic disaster, but it doesn't need to be.

Sure, another alternative is we kill all the old people and all the doctors and nurses. Apparently some people aren't worried about the old people, but surely their self interest benefits from not killing all the doctors and nurses?
Per year.
Has anyone with a hairy butt crack had success with bidets?

My limited experience with them in Japan involved an incident that went like this:

- Did a not-so-solid poop and had poo stuck in my ass hair

- Used warm bidet water jet on max pressure for a good minute or two to clean

- Wiped with toilet paper to dry my ass only to discover that it was still far from clean

- Toilet paper disintegrated while wiping so I now had a hairy, pooey and wet butt crack with bits of toilet paper tangled in the hair and shit all over my fingers
But infection rate being so high when left unchecked means the small % of deaths could be hundreds of thousands or even millions all over the world. Also Italy almost had a death rate of 8% yesterday which is huge.

Plus when hospitals get overloaded, patients needing critical care for problems other than covid-19 will die as well.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196234/covid19-imperial-rese...
In a weird way, getting 120% of the available bonus works against you, in terms of demonstrating you're an excellent worker. Clearly, there's more "available" than the stated amount, which demonstrates the whole thing is a fiction to make people feel good. I mean, in the real world, 100% is the maximum of any thing, then there are made-up phrases like "giving 110%" or "8 days a week" or "120% of the available bonus." And of course, if you got 120%, who's to say your co-worker didn't get 150%?

Not trying to bust your balls, but it's kind of weird you felt it was necessary to randomly humblebrag about your performance bonuses.
Yes, the problem must be in software, but not that software.

IntelliJ is quite fast for me both on Windows and on Linux, no typing lag.
i'm with you, i want this to be onto something but i'm like, constitutionally ill equipped to reject the null on this evidence. Too much time in the lab during normal life, maybe. To your points:

- The twitter guy makes the peer review claim, and i think it's wrong. he is not an author of the paper or affiliated with them, he's just shilling it to elon musk for reasons.

- regionality isn't something i'd considered. I can understand the exclusion group being the control in exeptional cases, like a global pandemic.

- of more concern to me are the either confusing or cargo-culted figures at the end. what in the world is a t- and p value column doing next to age data? why are there nominal p-values per day of administration?

- there might not be coverage, but merck is shipping a boatload of the stuff anyway: https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/bayer-preps-u-s-donation...
> and more to do with the web becoming the default application platform.

I dont even see any trend to suggest that is the case. Even if you count Electron as being one. Most Apps are not web based, and dont ever intends to be.

>So developers expect native OS level API access from browsers.

Exactly. It was certain group of developers that want the Web to be the default Application platform, starting with Mozilla's Firefox OS and later Chrome OS.

I think we need to differentiate a Web Page Engine and a Web App Engine. Although I would agree that even a Web Page Engine today is far too complex.
Random sampling shows no evidence of Covid community spread in India
to prevent the 1.25 million auto deaths, we have to stop (or drastically curtail) driving forever, or until we invent reliable autonomous driving systems (quite a long time from now). the drastic measures to slow the outbreak of are only expected to be in effect for a couple months or a year at most.

people are willing to take drastic measures over a short period of time to prevent a large number of deaths. this doesn't imply they are or should be willing to take the same drastic measures indefinitely.
I'm not sure that's a good assumption. Introverted users may be more likely to participate in online discussions since they prefer it over in-person conversations.
Whiteboard exercises are a terrible way to investigate coding ability (2012)
Ransomware Gangs to Stop Attacking Health Orgs During Pandemic
I'm in the exact same situation.
If you're going to write this story, fine, but maybe wait another day so you don't have to write "nearly"?
US-Canada border to close amid virus crisis
This will blow your mind in a similar way: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127145356...
GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization
What’s wrong with WebVR?
Why would it be...? You do not shove the nozzle where it does not shine and you just rinse it the nozzle after using it the rest doesn't even get close to any unsanitary locations. Can't imagine why would it be ... contaminated?
Our plates should be fine, as long as the conditions are consistent during exposure.
While also providing proof that those statements predate China's antics. When China was accusing everyone of fear-mongering, and hints of travel restrictions were met with speeches about the holocaust and hypocritical appeals to the WHO, which US official is to blame for that? I've been watching this thing since December, the USG is pretty much the last one to the party - China's state run media has been saying crazy stuff since day one.
It's been done before. Check out "cooperative coevolution"
AI and robotics tho. Way cooler than some stupid Kubernetes that doesn't even work well on this hardware.
> lives > economy. Only one of those is a renewable resource.

Not sure I follow. Are you saying the economy is not a renewable resource? Cause I'm creating a new life as we speak.
The gatekeepers are there for a reason. Unless you already know someone who sits high in a company, this won't work. Every Bozo jobseeker does this on LinkedIn too, and they're usually worse than the ones who follow the process.
Reminds me of the good ol' days when you could download additional RAM.
It might be helpful to highlight whichever of the following are feasible:

- Remote work (even across the country, with no expectation of travel)

- Short-term work (like a few months, no expectation of staying for > 1 year)

- How long the employer roughly expects to be able to provide the job in their projection of the current economic conditions

- Rough company size, given the US Congress just passed a bill concerning sick leave that might not apply to companies with under 50 or 500 employees [1]

Also, less certain about the following, but:

- Maybe highlighting contractor possibilities would be good too? In case the additional flexibility in e.g. work hours is better for workers, or in case it's easier for companies not to have to worry about insurance, etc.

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/coronavirus-...
I think "line of experiments" lends too much forethought and connectedness to these things. It certainly exists within a context of increasing sophistication in human architecture, but it was built more than ten thousand years after the site in the article. Assuming the builders are related at all, there wouldn't even be vague cultural memory extending back that far.
It has a broad effect on the immune system and inflammation beyond it's anti-bacterial effects. Lots of changes to the production/expression of different factors and cell mechanisms. I don't think it's fully understood how it helps in situations like this but probably related to inflammation and reducing the cytokine storm.
Still they have much more area per unit of volume, so, a better way to dissipate heat.

Minis are compact bricks, with much less surface.
What about 97% healthy people. Is that sufficient for an economy?
Working from home not all great for US-based Chinese tech workers
Not everything is about dispassionate economics. In the "we do nothing" scenario, everyone with 150 friends loses 1-5 of them, and about as many will have decreased quality of life.

That is a huuuge emotional toll.
China is just lying about their numbers. Not sure you can call Italy a success just yet, their 3 biggest increases in new cases were the last 3 days.
Libre Game Night will be daily now
That's substantially less deadly than cars. 20 years of car crashes are equivalent to this virus, and we've had and will continue to have a lot more than 20 years worth of car crashes. 5000ppm by your estimate die once, and then the virus probably stops being a problem.

We can have some faith that this virus is a one time event because

- A vaccine will probably be invented before long.

- Effective treatment will probably be discovered.

- If there is no vaccine and no treatment for some reason. You probably can't catch it twice, maybe everyone gets it once, but after that only kids get it, and kids don't die from it anyways.
That would probably be ok. What kind of battery life are you getting? That's my biggest concern with the system76 machines.
Japanese flu drug appears ‘effective’ in coronavirus treatment in Chinese clinic
Trigger Warning: Insanity Makes Me Manic
There is a commercial product called Phone Soap (sold out now) that uses UV light to sterilize phones, keys, etc. you put the item inside it and I believe the UV light shines on it for 10 minutes which according to the manufacturer sterilizes it.
> I just think that health comes before economy.

I don't think we can make such a blanket assertion. The US markets have lost 10T in value over the past month. If the virus infects 70% of the US population with a 2% mortality rate, 4.2M ppl will die. It's obviously not so simple, but we're sacrificing $2.4M in market cap per life saved. At some point, the tradeoff makes no sense in light of the fact that we could invest in life saving technologies/solutions that save more lives down the road.
I chose one at random, it didn't explain an underlying mechanism why vitamin D might have such a large range of health benefits like you claim.

It is quite easy for an organisation to p-hack. It's also quite easy for an organisation to ignore correlation vs causation.

So I was wanting to know in summary (a blog is fine) what the underlying mechanism is to which vitamin D could solve so many problems.

[edit] I'll add an article critical of your way of researching - https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2017/03/vitamin-d-cancer-ho...
Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft Board
Instead of handing them $50b, the government should offer to buy $50b of newly issued shares and sell them off over some timeframe.

As part of the deal, executive comp packages would be frozen (so the execs couldn’t simply issue more shares to themselves to avoid the impact of dilution)
In both research and shipped products roboticists have been using landmarks for real-time simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM):

http://ethaneade.org/eadeICCV2007.pdf

https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/45226/Fact...
I don’t think his tweet walks back the needed actions he described earlier on CNBC. The tweet just expresses his confidence that President Trump will take those necessary actions.
Exactly. It also takes a couple of days to make plans, consult the lawyers, do the calculations and have payroll ready. This has escalated so fast it will probably take until Friday for companies to act.
Those base salaries are really not that strong in those high cost of living areas.
Do we really want businesses to hold onto cash, sitting idle, just in case a once in a century pandemic like this hits your industry particularly hard?

I don't think that makes sense. People talk about 'socialised losses' as if it's the devil's work. I think socialised losses aren't that bad when talking about such unique events. Should companies really be holding on to cash for once in a century events? Imagine a 1950s CEO had been hoarding cash for 70 years. Now imagine how much wealth has been generated, by putting that cash to use, including by paying it out as cash to investors who'll go on to finance new businesses, new jobs, new research etc.

That having been said, while I'm not opposed to socialised losses / bailouts per se, I don't really quite see yet why airlines need bailouts. Their stock valuations rose due to bailouts. Now they drop some due to the crisis. They should be high enough to sell more stock it once bought and raise new capital. In good years you buy the stock back. In bad years you sell stock. What's the problem? Yes investors take losses, it's part of the game. That's why you diversify. If you don't, that's on you.

Not sure how far the US goes, but in the Netherlands all employees have unemployment insurance if they get laid off. And those who don't, get a little over $1k in social security, plus various subsidies on rent, healthcare etc. Companies in trouble can layoff people, and they're taken care of with the insurance premiums paid out in the good years. The company sells off stock and hunkers down. The government offers cheap lines of credit. Good businesses survive, a few bad ones die off. I don't see why a big bailout is necessary.
FluPhone: Understanding Behavioural Responses to Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Not at the moment but it's certainly doable. Our CLI is written in go (github.com/superfly/flyctl) and could be ran as a go-plugin for terraform without rewriting the whole thing. I'd like that :)
A little niche site got 50k website visitors in its first 2 weeks
I would be very interest in a variant that's looking for non-fulltime. It's getting tougher as a freelancer too
Isn't the reason obvious? Healthcare in the US is an insanely profitable and powerful business. If everybody gets infected, tens of millions will need expensive treatment the rest of their lives. Healthcare will make tens of trillions dollars. Remember the anecdote that there are no laws that big capital wouldn't break for the 3x profit? Here we are talking about profits comparable with the entire world's wealth. We have an opportunity to witness this sociopathic system in its nature state: the virus needs 1-2 months to spread everywhere and during this short period, the healthcare system is going to openly block any attempts to prevent its spread. After that it's going to open the gates and let the tests, masks and vaccines flood the market.
> If it turns out

That's the kicker. We are still waiting to see. One guy did it. Now others need to try it and see if it helps.
Funnily enough, the shop I am in uses Coldfusion and Python, but CF is used on the more important, heavily trafficked apps.

Do you remember the guy teaching AOL server and placing them in jobs?

https://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/aolserver/introduction-1.ht...

After the dotcom bust, people with cash seemed to turn to real estate, but I don’t think that is an option this turn. The real of ‘physical’ is a liability.
Similar situation. DM if you want to explore a collaboration.
I don't think they will find remote work effective. So far this is a bad working from home experiment. People are stuck at home stressed. Parents need to take care of their kids all day. Very hard to focus and be productive.
Yep this definitely deserves downvote. I guess 4K must be blurry by definition
Where are the most up to date, most reliable case numbers? I'm tracking US day-by-day case growth.

These all have different numbers:

http://covid19.fyi/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_t...

https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/
https://www.businessinsider.com/malaria-pill-chloroquine-tes...