skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't know the "rate of spread". We only started mass-testing 5 days ago. What you're seeing now is more accurately called "rate of improvement in testing".

WA (the former epicenter) has stabilized the situation and it gets constant (and decreasing) number of daily cases at the moment. So has CA, it looks like. The United States will behave more or less like 50 different states, save for some closely bunched up states on the East Coast.

Here's an excellent visualization that shows what I'm talking about: https://www.politico.com/interactives/2020/coronavirus-testi...
It’s a little different because those have negative feedback loops for punishing you for being wrong.

There is little punishment for being a steadfast communist/capitalist/whatever for your entire life.
Don't use markdown for documentation (2018)
By default or by design, debt forgiveness will occur.

David Graeber's book Debt: The First 5000 Years details the cyclic history of such things.

Some of the more savvy Haves, like Mitt Romney, recognize the current threat to the status quo and have made their opening bids on negotiating an armistice with the Have-Nots.

Others, on both sides, are less willing to haggle.
That's standard boilerplate language that I put in every book. I used the same book template for this project.

In this book, the information is the most up-to-date and on point. I'm following the U.S. federal government (specifically, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services) for updates about HIPAA.
> Maybe this is a naive question, but... why can't we temporarily just stop the whole chain of debt instead of forcing individuals and small businesses to bear the brunt of losses?

It's not a naive question. Unfortunately I don't think the answer is going to be palatable.
Would the cases be rising unabated if effective social distancing was being practiced?

Not sure if the particulars of the federal government matter at this time/context; i.e. historians point to Americans from both sides of the aisle losing faith in the federal government since Vietnam. It’s been downhill since then.
Is Dr. Fauci an expert in economics? Can he accurately measure the harm of his suggestions?
How do you differentiate yourself with places like https://www.knowbe4.com/ which offer free services against phishing.
You act like being unable to buy food and pay rent has no human cost.
"Not as good" is still tastier than what is available from restaurants in my experience. Well, with practice anyway.

The idea of pre-cut veggies and pre-minced garlic isn't to make things as tasty as possible. No... the idea is to make the joy of cooking far easier.

Give me a pint of leftover rice, a jar of pre-minced garlic, a can of corn, 2 eggs, and an onion and I'll cook you some fried rice in less than 10 minutes. The longest part of the job is waiting the 5 minutes for my cast-iron skillet to heat up.

1. Heat cast iron skillet (~3 to 5 minutes)

2. Simultaneously, cut the onion. One half the onion is for this meal, save the other half for tomorrow.

3. Pour oil into the pan, wait for it to smoke lightly (shouldn't be long if its hot enough).

4. Mix rice, pre-minced garlic, corn, eggs, and cut onion into the skillet.

5. Mix around for a few minutes.

6. Eat. Add salt and pepper to taste.

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Mincing garlic so that its fresh will taste better. But that's not "daily eating" IMO.

Cooking quickly and cheaply is a major skill. The corn is pre-kerneled, the garlic is pre-minced. The only thing I have to do is cut the onion, heat up the pan and fry everything.

I eat fast food because it is easy. Making cooking easier than fast food is important, because then I self-cook instead of eat fast food. As long as it tastes better than a McDonald's Big Mac... and as long as it takes less effort than driving to McDonalds, I'll be cooking at home.
> if "a billion people" say it's true, it must be true.

Religion is a great example of this. I have yet to see proof of a god.
This implies a false binary between shutting down the economy and millions of deaths by not isolating.

Look at other countries like Germany, Denmark, and Ireland who are moving to cover wages and providing paid sick leave. Germany is offering companies unlimited loans to prevent them from collapsing.

I am not an expert in economics, but it does seem like competent technocrats are finding paths to maintain the economy while maintaining public health, and it's only in the US where you have a president who doesn't have a strong grasp of economics, or the experts to advise him, who only sees an option of trying to force back the old system, despite all the experts (economic and health!) who are advising the exact opposite.
Not looking for a job either but likewise I did always really like their designer posting: https://www.notion.so/Designer-Who-Can-Code-Notion-bfd327660...

Comes off as very authentic, nice to see photos of the team/office, and a good elaboration on the role and product. Just seems very down to earth. Well done folks!
The title of the article is "Facing covid-19 reality: A national lockdown is no cure"
It seems that the US is on the the path of no mitigation approach https://neherlab.org/covid19/?%7B%22population%22%3A%7B%22po...
So you're not welcoming guests with Android phones? Will you be placing their mobile phones in a Faraday cage?

Or will not not be visiting anyone who has a Homepod/Echo at home?
I don't doubt that there are residuals in recycled paper, I'm doubting that they outweigh the downsides of using fresh wood. It just seems like a convenient thing to tell yourself to calm your conscience when buying extra-fluffy TP.
i totally feel this pain -- great post
Do you refer to Erlang excelling in distributed concurrency, due to how its built to rely on the actor model? Or Erlang also excels in concurrency on a single machine?

Btw, what are some of those other things hampering Haskell's performance with parallel computing? Wouldn't the garbage collector mainly produce pauses instead of really destroying parallel performance? Although a concurrent garbage collector has recently been merged to the nightly GHC.
What app/lib can be built in 21 days?
Sure!

It’s built on a private fork of Electron, but the UI is all web-based. Electron handles most of our native needs, and where it doesn’t, we have a node module to connect into the OS. A lot of our secret sauce is on the native side, but honestly, there’s a lot of complexity across the product.

If you have any specific questions, ask away!
It’s 10 days old and has far fewer comments

By marking it as a duplicate, you just killed this new thread.
Wow! Happy to have shared a similar experience on Isle Royal in the summer of 2010. One of the highlights of the trip for sure!
1. There's a human cost to not industrializing a country, too. The surviving Soviet citizens got to take advantage of things like electricity, running water, universal education, a functioning industrial base. [1] Yet, for some reason, industrializing a country, while causing a famine is condemned as butchery... Yet preserving stock valuations, while causing an epidemic is laudable?

2. Then change the distribution systems. It's an emergency. Treat it like one.

[1] And eventually luxuries like radios and private apartments!
I actually started coding in 2000 trying to hack my brother, so I can relate: phishing has been a never-ending story.

It's still worth trying though!
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A simple example with React would be anything using the rebass library (https://rebassjs.org). You can extend its Box/Flex components or do a pass-through (e.g. `({a, b, ...rest}) => <Box {...rest}>{... your stuff here ...}</Box>`), at which point when using your own component you can do `<MyComponentHere marginLeft="0.5em"/>` and have native CSS margins without embedding them into the component or into stylesheets for the component.
Barnes & Noble also allows you to self-publish: https://press.barnesandnoble.com/
How do avoid spam filters when sending your fake phishing emails?
It's bullshit anyway, we're seeing "a very large acceleration in cases in the U.S" because there was a very large increase in testing
Some places it is illegal to cover your face. (Banks, Government Buildings, etc...) I would probably put a "Hi my name is BLANK" sticker on my shirt to kinda offset that.
Unfortunately, per https://blog.gruntwork.io/how-we-hire-at-gruntwork-42193d583..., we don't hire any "later" than Helsinki, Finland, and even then we'd prefer to keep it no later than Berlin, Germany if possible. Otherwise, collaborating together winds up requiring someone to get up really early or stay up really late.
In the US a prosperous economy is only good for the rich, minimum wage and workers’ right haven’t really improved over the years while the stock market skyrocketed.

In Europe this might be more true though.
Honestly this was the first thing I thought when I read the headline. No one using enterprise cloud services is going to trust Facebook with their data and mission critical systems.
I am continually seeing headlines from the WHO that seem to be, well, not only obvious, but delayed and unhelpful. Yesterday I saw that they said 'the Pandemic is accelerating'. I recall many wonderful tweets that have been not only helpful, but possibly significantly harmful, as anyone is happy to cite the WHO when they say things like normal people do not need masks, stigma is worse than the virus, and so on (For example: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152 https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1234095938555260929 https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1233418231261646849 ), and I'm honestly wondering if they have even been a net-positive for this situation overall. Am I missing something here?
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We don't help with relocation because we're 100% remote!
It seems that the US is on the the path of no mitigation Fast/South approach https://neherlab.org/covid19/?%7B%22population%22%3A%7B%22po...

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1242242633050861568/ph...
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I have no source for that, and it was a guess/suggestion for your original question, that maybe because preventive measures were already in place in the culture, they may have slowed the spread before proactive measures were taken.
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New garbage collection algorithm makes manual memory management obsolete! Kernel devs hate it!
It’s not a binary decision with no alternatives: for example, what most countries in Europe are doing where they give people money for necessities.
Real talk, tho. I'd sell a kidney and pay whatever you ask if it could suport pen pressure from the Windows Ink API.
The problem is that they are not right.
When there is an ongoing epidemic, it is not about "oh, lets reopen quickly."

Reopening quickly NOW would mean:
- The collapse of the hospital systems of ANY country currently on earth (save a few that are actually working for the people, not to make profit)
- The endangering of many, if not all medical professionals
- A huge reduction of workforce realistically, because there will be many people sick for multiple weaks, prepare to lose 5-10 percent of your FULL workforce if the hospitals are overloaded.

So if the shutdown is not implemented, and not followed through, the economy will STILL collapse, and the consequences will be 3-4 times more deadly to the whole population.

The only upside to the global epidemic is that finally the neoliberal haegemony is ending, and libertarian dreamers who were not facing tough situations before can actually see where their favorite policies lead in the actual real world.

And we all will see it, because the inertia in the system will keep forcing politicians all over the world to ignore basic rules of society in favor of chasing a dream (some GDP growth preservation).

We can all see it clearly if we take the time to think it through. You have a bellyache. You want to eat cake. You can either not eat it, or you can eat it, vomit it out, go to the hospital, and still not feel well. Oh, and the hospitals are overloaded with COVID-patients.
That's not my intention at all. I'm simply pointing out that both quality of life and quantity of life are valuable to most people.
The NHS is looking for up to 250k volunteers
One of the main audiences he's pitching this to is developers (for pair programming etc.) so it's more of an issue than it would be for a pure consumer tool.
I fear this could create website silos. Where certain webpages can only be accessed by a given browser because visits from that browser could be more profitable than running ads. But this is probably a long shot...
> I will alert you to the issue of deep inefficiencies in SSH/SFTP over long WAN links

Good to know, thanks!

> This is true - and by design. There will never be anonymous / non-credentialed access to rsync.net accounts and no rsync.net storage array will ever run an httpd. Our nmap results will always be one line long: TCP22/sshd.

Makes sense from a security standpoint. But I think there's a business opportunity for having cloud storage that allows you to host your files over HTTP. Imagine if google drive was your CMS. Just drag your static site over and it's live. Edit HTML files in-place. Set permissions based on path.
IMO the US president is doing this to test the waters.
We use ours many times a day. Maybe it's because I have young kids who don't read yet but can talk. It's insanely useful to me. Thing's we've used it for in the last 24 hours:

1) Drop in (that's where you can set up a two way channel between two Echos). My kids know how to activate it, and it's way better than yelling down the hall.

2) Announcements. Sometimes when one of needs help with something but don't know where the other person is, we use the announcement feature, which covers the whole house between the various echos. The kids know how to use this too.

3) Timers. Hands free timers when cooking are a godsend. During meal prep we often have two or three going at once.

4) Streaming music. The kids know how to make their favorite songs start playing. And so do I. :) I have one in my office connected to my sound bar, and it's streaming the radio from LA all day long (I live in SF but grew up in LA, nostalgia factor). I can also tell it to play music for the whole house while we get ready in the morning.

5) Light control. I just recently upgraded to smart switches. At night I just say "Alexa goodnight" and it turns off all the lights in the house, saving me the effort of walking around (I know first world problem). But more importantly, when I'm reading to the kids and it's time for bed, it's nice to just say "goodnight" without having to get up and disturb them as they are getting sleepy.

Also for the lights, my daughter loves the fact that she can change the color and brightness of her room light with her voice. I doubt she could manage the app, since you need to be able to read.

So yeah, insanely useful for my family.
Depending on your email provider (most of the time it's Google), you need to whitelist the IP address I use to send the emails. It takes probably no more than 4 minutes to do.
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I have one and unplugged it recently because I'm working form home these days. As useless as these devices are, I miss having a voice assistant around.
Being able to ask about the weather and the time of day whenever you want is kind of nice. Consider that people used to wind up clocks every day and check on thermometers and barometers to glean a vague idea of the climate. Having a much better version of all these instruments at hand is pretty nice.
In some ways, it already is. If New York State were a country with it's 26k+ cases, it would rank #6 in total cases, ahead of Iran and behind Germany. And I'm assuming that of those cases, the vast majority are in the New York City metropolitan area, which covers a tiny fraction of the state by area.

The city is on track to surpass Wuhan in just a few days and we're still lagging behind in our ability to test.
I can't think of anything that is not a textbook. That said, I would recommend[0]. You will encounter a lot of vocabulary, just use Wikipedia and look on YouTube for animations/explanations etc. I think this will give you the most bang for your buck.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780123737410/viruses-and...

Edit: https://www.amazon.com/Planet-Viruses-Second-Carl-Zimmer/dp/... might be good, haven't read it though
That's why there are right wing governments in the US, the UK and many other countries.

Stay off the political drugs. They're not good for you.
It saddens me that even in a crisis like this, people are being political and taking sides!
Real developers use a cms?
Well that is the opinion of a large part of the us voters, otherwise the US would have affordable healthcare for everyone by now.
Are you seeing experts estimating the number of deaths caused by the economic damage? Because the rate of suicide does tick up when there's economic downturn. I would not be surprised if, at the tail end of this, the downturn causes more deaths in the sub-50 y.o. group due to suicide than due to the virus.

Besides, are experts estimating whether or not it will be easier to deal with the epidemic with an economy that functions or the one that's almost totally shut down, causing supply chain disruption and delays worldwide, and (in a month or two) shortages of goods?
> it seems that some well-regarded people really didn't do their due diligence.

That is not rare at all. Lots of scammers try to milk investors. Usually unsuccessfully but sometimes they score, and sometimes they score big too.
In a nutshell, yes, it kinda is a sort of butterfly effect.

But look, you go to school and they drill into you until the cows come home that quantum mechanics is time-reversible, and gravity is time-reversible, and you just assume this is always true.

But turns out, all that's needed is a bit of small-scale fuzziness due to QM effects, and then particle ensembles of 3 or more are suddenly not time-reversible anymore, though each of the basic laws still are.

For someone like me this was a small shock.
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That analogy doesn't hold. People aren't saying that you should just use GNU Screen instead, they're saying that the name creates confusion. Totally different.
Yes, they have to file, but it does matter:

> In general, under Section 883 of the Internal Revenue Code, certain non-U.S. corporations (such as our North American
cruise ship businesses) are not subject to U.S. federal income tax or branch profits tax on U.S. source income derived from,
or incidental to, the international operation of a ship or ships

From https://www.carnivalcorp.com/financial-information/annual-re...
I expect legislation that will require CDC and DHHS to establish surveillance programs. We will be sequencing. This will be academic labs and clinic labs most likely. There might be a national sequencing center established.
If we work together with China we might leverage their massive sequencing capacity.
Tl;dr: "Good documentation is all about the semantic markup."

Well, ok, I'll buy that.

"What to use instead: LaTeX. [Just kidding.] A better answer is reStructuredText or RST. [Or AsciiDoc.]"

Er, well, ... RST does have extension syntax that allows you some flexibility to use semantic markup, but then the tools all have to understand the extensions you use. LaTeX at least has the ability to define the meaning of your extensions in its own syntax, but that is not all that much fun.

Conclusion: Everything sucks. Sorry.
Except it's not the rich who have been impacted by the freeze on the economy.
Nobody seems to be talking about the elephant in the room: the president's raging conflict of interest. He owns a major equity stake in a business that is being harmed by the public health response to the pandemic, and his actions are what you'd expect from someone who prioritizes that business over the interests of public health.

This is exactly why previous presidents have put their assets in a blind trust. We shouldn't have to question whether the White House is more concerned with their personal bottom line than the public interest, but here we are.
Sounds like a lot of hardware expense for something that could very well disappear.
Propaganda flying in both directions.
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I'm not sure it's a valid claim, but the author implies there is a significant difference in the quality of the evidence:

>In fact, scientists have already proposed that one such group of animals called loriciferans can do that, and had some evidence that this was the case, although not as much or as detailed as for Henneguya.

On the other hand, this might just be a justification for low key sensationalism.
I would say that a critical skill in good cooking is the knowledge of what you can buy prepared and what you might rather prepare yourself.

Soaking and cooking raw, dry beans is time consuming and there are actually food safety concerns (dry kidney beans are toxic). So, getting canned beans will save you a significant amount of prep. I prefer the taste of beans that I’ve made myself but it’s rarely worth the high effort.

On the other hand, it doesn’t take much time to mince garlic, and it tastes a lot better than the stuff in jars.

Tubes of cookie dough and bags of “pie crust” mix are nearly as good as preparing everything at home, so there’s little benefit to making them yourself unless you’re going to change the recipe. Jars of spice mixes are great if you don’t want to deal with a full spice rack.

On the other hand, if you want juice, fresh squeezed is far better than the jugs or cartons of juice at the store, or the concentrate. The flavors in a fruit don’t last long when exposed to air, so the juice companies generally add scents to the juice—basically, perfume—and they have a clever trick to keep it off the ingredients list: they make it from the fruit.

The idea is to do the work that has the highest impact on the food quality, and then outsource everything else to industry.
I don't like those "days since 100 cases" graphs either, with the steep slope for the US (for growth of confirmed cases). I'm betting that our "actual/confirmed" ratio at that point of 100 confirmed cases was ridiculously high compared to other countries.
yes WHO woefully mishandled the situation, from underestimating the gravity of the situation and arguing against closing borders in january, to delays declaring a pandemic. Thankfully , countries acted independently
There's no easy solution to a once in-a-century pandemic. The most important issue is economic continuity.

It's better to prop up companies and industry for the short term if it means thousands of people continue receiving a paycheck and can afford to live.

Suddenly laying off all those people while companies and vendors collapse will lead to major cascading effects that can be far more disastrous.
or Windows, right? :P
Because it is not bigger than a cat duh!
This is exactly right. The evidence is not an any academic journal but in the way power and money led to the demise of major political parties and other institutions. The trend led to a shoddy papering over of the last financial crisis, which led to even more "creative" ways to blow bubbles, and further deteriorating checks and balances in both public and private sectors. Does the scientific community know about this? More importantly do they care? Granted, the virus is a serious matter. However the response is basically a different problem. Those in power know the financial system is strained beyond repair, and have a very strong incentive to use HC Healthcare Crisis to avert the blame and prepare new world order. Something like that.