skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canadian living in the US here.

It is amazing (and absolutely terrifying) as to how belligerent Americans are to any sense of being told what to do. A good % of them will purposely do the opposite just to exercise their freedoms.

So in a situation of lock-downs, shelter in places, and generally strong advice to socially distance you have:

- Neighbor's continually inviting us to BBQ's and dinner parties

- Bars are closed so people are having tailgate parties outside of the local liquor stores with friends

- Nobody respecting 2m distancing at groceries, even with tape lines to indicate safe spacing

- Assholes purposely coughing and as they do so muttering "corona" in public places treating it like a joke

- Young people on tiktok and other social media doing things like spitting, licking, or coughing on others/foods.

Unfortunately this is not selective in that those acting like idiots are not the only impacting themselves, but they are helping the spread and impacting others.
I worded that poorly. How about this: If you don't own, manage, solicit or control any servers having access to PHI or PII you don't have any risk of being liable.

Put all of that on the client, do your best to protect it but ultimately make it the clients responsibility.

I still haven't seen any lawsuits or regulation targeting software in that sense, apart from DRM.
Vulnerability reporting is still dysfunctional, but let's acknowledge that it's a lot less dysfunctional than it used to be. At the very least, none of the companies initiated criminal proceedings against the researchers for disclosing the vulnerabilities that they did.
The US is currently experiencing the root of the wave, the face of it is yet to come, then comes the crest. Only then can you start to see what comes after it... the US and almost everyone else is a looooong stretch (exponentially speaking) away from getting in front of anything here.

Your administration speaking of "open churches for Easter" is entirely and utterly delusional.
This is flat out wrong. There is no revision at all. To quote [Neil Ferguson himself](https://twitter.com/neil_ferguson/status/1243294815200124928):

I think it would be helpful if I cleared up some confusion that has emerged in recent days. Some have interpreted my evidence to a UK parliamentary committee as indicating we have substantially revised our assessments of the potential mortality impact of COVID-19

This is not the case. Indeed, if anything, our latest estimates suggest that the virus is slightly more transmissible than we previously thought. Our lethality estimates remain unchanged.

My evidence to Parliament referred to the deaths we assess might occur in the UK in the presence of the very intensive social distancing and other public health interventions now in place.

Without those controls, our assessment remains that the UK would see the scale of deaths reported in our study (namely, up to approximately 500 thousand).
That's a perfectly reasonable position. If you have considered the pros and cons and decided one outweighs out the other, that's fine.

My parent was not doing that, and instead flippantly remarked that you should just store data correctly and everything is fine.

My point is that it is important to consider the implications of government action, because they are always numerous.
Use what you know.
It's because Apple is one of the largest companies in the world and can survive a "backlash" much to the chagrin of small developers already subject to their mercurial policies. So the idea that that's what's stopping them doesn't really mesh with the reality that if it was, it would be stopping them from doing half the things they already do.
I'd throw Buc-ee's into that list. Texas Monthly also had an article about them a while back: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/buc-ees-the-path-to-wo...
Maybe if you live in the US they are fine, but annoying as hell for most people outside of that as usually Remote ends up meaning "oh remote for US only, I guess that wasn't clear"
Same in New Zealand.

There's a Huawei ONT fixed to the wall in the cupboard under the stairs, which is owned by the fibre network company.

I have a short length of cat6 connecting that to my own router, and the fibre network company patched the far end to my choice of ISP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-Fast_Broadband#Technolog...
The NYT published a simulator yesterday that shows infections/deaths over time according to lockdown lengths:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/25/opinion/coron...

The first two graphs show the incredibly dramatic reduction in infections and deaths if we lock down for 2 months as opposed to just 2 weeks.

But what scares me is the sudden uptick at the end of the period shown. And the article addresses it:

> A skeptic will note that these measures don’t seem to prevent a surge in infections so much as delay them (in some cases so that the impact is pushed beyond the period that this model tracks). There’s something to that: We may see a resurgence whenever we let up, at least until we have a vaccine or herd immunity.

But this is what scares me. Whenever the lockdown ends, it's almost like we're back to square one.

Yes, of course we have time to manufacture more ventilators and masks and everything else. But I don't think anyone's contemplating a year-long lockdown until a vaccine might be ready.

So somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't developing herd immunity seems like the only realistic scenario here? Which basically means just enough lockdown to "flatten the curve" but then essentially give the virus free reign -- accepting that people will die, but still saving many more lives than right now (because enough ventilators, etc.).

Yet virtually nobody seems to be talking about this -- about herd immunity, about how there's zero chance of a lockdown eradicating the virus, about coming to terms with what "flattening the curve" really means and when we decide it's been flattened enough.

I suppose that's where the national conversation will have to go in the next couple weeks/months... but it seems better to be having it up-front.
While I agree with you, I'm far less concerned for my family/friends/colleagues about a sandbox escape compared to accidentally putting information in to a malicious site
I will admit, I was one of the people railing against "hoarders" based on some of the imagery I was seeing (and in-person examples - like one person loading their cart with dozens of bottles of ketchup). I'm also happy to admit that I was wrong if it really is a matter of lots of people just buying a little more than they used to and that's what's causing some of the in-store shortages. Based on the article that seems to be the case, so I'll say it now: I was wrong.

> there is a good chance that if the small percentage of crazy buyers does not increase and the majority of shoppers who have been stocking up, go back towards a replenishment of their higher stocks, we should see the problem gradually subside in the coming days and weeks

I'm really hoping that's the case. I've been monitoring a few items online to see whether they're gradually coming back or not. We're pretty well stocked on some staples and other things, but the kid in me who grew up poor in a large family still has some anxiety about the whole food situation.
How exactly does the Korean model work? They aggressively test people... and then just quarantine individuals? Isn't one of the supposed problems with this virus that it spreads rapidly before symptoms show?
I think this is a situation where you need training in best practices and checklists etc. rather than asking questions on HN.

Marginally I don't think it's a problem but given that most people don't treat slack too carefully I wouldn't trust it regularly (Not slack itself but people gaining access).
Death numbers may be a better proxy for how widespread it is, but they suffer from even larger lag than infection numbers and less clear counting rules (see: Russia, and various other countries, not counting deaths of COVID-19 infected, if they had {any, some} prior illness).
Effective monitoring. Prometheus is free and open source. There are other paid options.
We can’t afford not to have lockdowns. The forcing function will become more and more evident...
They're already getting hammered by "apocalyptic" conditions in New York. We can not "accommodate" it at all.
> Keep the lockdown too long and the impact to the economy will only get worse, requiring massive gov't bailouts/support. The longer we're locked down, the longer it's going to take for the economy to recover.

It's bad for the economy if a million more people than necessary die because our healthcare system was overwhelmed.

Yes, the economy is going to suffer no matter what we do. But ending the lockdown too early will make the situation worse, not better.
Clean the fans. If they are dirty they are out of balance, inefficient about moving air, and hard on their bearings. There is one fan under the machine and there might be another one inside, between the freezer and the frig. Really quiet machines use solid-state Peltier devices. They are slow to cool, cheap to run, but very expensive. You might have someone check the coolant; if it is low on coolant it is going to run longer to reach proper temperature. Note: In the interest of keeping your fingers unplug the machine before you fool with the fans.
The Canadian government took it seriously from the beginning and the US didn't.

I suspect culture has something to do with it too. People are more likely to seek treatment or call public health authorities when they don't worry it will bankrupt them.
That's why the results are in relative terms. A city or state that is slow to react will do worst than a faster or more effective one in relative terms.

About shutting down everything, yes. If absolutely no one works, then who drives the trucks. But that's not what is happening today either.
> Also, it doesn't help that our leadership has completely failed to act on this situation

If we're being honest here, we as Americans have failed to act.

The Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, Koreans and Singaporeans all have no issues with all wearing facemasks in public for example. Go to any supermarket in America right now. Almost no one will be wearing masks. That's just one example of everyone doing their part. What every individual is doing in those countries contributes to their success in keeping things under control.

If anything blaming leadership instead of each and every one of us acknowledging how we could do better is part of the problem. It's always easier to blame others than to take responsibility.
That's your government's work for you.
Similar things appear to be happening in Italy: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-...

Ultimately, comparing year-over-year deaths may be a more accurate estimate than deaths of tested people.
> I'm amazed that it's spreading so fast in US.

That speed is an attribute of exponential growth. It has happened in all countries. One day there is one death a couple of weeks latter a hundred, the lock down comes shortly after. In four months there are at least 500,000 infected from just one case. That is fast.

> why it's faster than other countries.

My guess is that it is not faster, it is just a lack of testing that was hiding the real numbers.

Deaths have a more tragic impact that infections and are easier to count. The number of deaths is an indicator of the real number of infections the country had two weeks to three weeks ago. As, the number of currently infected will result in deaths two to three weeks from now.

That is why a lock down of three weeks is the bare minimum amount to have any kind of impact, even that is not enough to really keep it under check.
The world is changing. There is no going back. Some governments are better able to adapt than others. It’s going to be hard here in the US.

We watched communism fail on TV 30 years ago from a government that essentially socially and economically suffocated its people. Now we are watching capitalism fail because of unchecked social freedom and an economy that can only function on infinite growth.

We are in the thick of it now. As the President said, “Our country wasn’t built to shut down.” He’s absolutely right, and that may end up being a defining quote in the history books.
I estimate 1in5 meals were prepared out-of-home: schools/restaurants/vacations/fast-food.

So that’s a 25% increase on demand for retail sales.

While there’s some commonality of sourcing (restaurants buying from Costco), a lot isn’t. There’s probably a surplus of 10# cans of beans in a warehouse, but a shortage of 1# cans.

But I also believe caloric need is down 5-10% as we all become more sedentary (don’t have to go to work, but less unnecessary bullshit in general - e.g. driver’s licenses automatically extended another year).
$76k/mo sounds like quite a lot to me!
As long as it takes to get ahead.
Really? I don't think I've seen that before. Where is that?
Asian Americans report over 650 racist acts over last week, new data says
Stanford researcher investigates how squid communicate in the dark
Pent up demand for what? I’m being half facetious here, but something of this magnitude and rare will likely cause a shift in our world-views. This whole talk of “pent up demand” in Econ 101 really leads me to believe this system is guided by shibboleths and buzz phrases.

Let’s be real for a second: this pandemic will fundamentally change consumption as we recalibrate just how much we “need” that new shiny thing.
The virus lives for days on surfaces. Packages and mail can carry it. I'm guessing we are shipping the virus nonstop, worldwide. I'm surprised it isn't spreading faster.
Unsure if RimWorld is getting multiplayer or if they're planning on developing a new multi-player game, but they're advertising for a role that inc's multi-player experience at the moment.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/fpe522/tynan_is_l...
Augmented Reality for the Visualization of the global spread of Covid-19 [video]
I’m sure, but there’s still, I’d wager, an order of magnitude difference between the paperwork rejected now and that if users were unable to receive immediate feedback in order to correct their input.
Yeah I think that's right. LL is now something I look back upon frequently for reference... but you have to have been introduced properly.
Even our government can't be bothered to keep someone on staff to plan for contingencies, apparently.
Visual Debugger for Notebooks
you cant measure what you cant see. tests allow you to see the virus and then you can backtrack all the interactions a positive person had.
They're not 'locked down' in the NY sense, freedom of movement is not restricted, although business closures have occurred to various degrees depending on the province and freedom of assembly is restricted also.

I drive a taxi in the GTA. Was driving an essential worker home to Toronto last night and there were still lots of people on the streets, although not as many as before obviously.

I recall Vancouver having great nightlife when I was there a few years ago. I hope it returns soon (after this). :)
The reason those medical professionals aren't paid better is because the money we spend on healthcare is going to pharmaceutical companies and hospitals, which eventually ends up in the hands of the private equity companies that own them. We've built a system that rewards those who accumulate the most wealth. Since we reward them, their wealth grants them more power (and more wealth) with a feedback loop. We've reached the point where there isn't a single transaction that occurs in this country where PE (aka billionaires) aren't granted a slice.

The reason the wealthy get wealthier in this country is because they can spend their wealth to motivate society to help them accumulate more wealth. Money is just a coupon that you can redeem by spending it on some form of human productive output. If we give all of the coupons to people who love accumulating wealth, they eventually redeem them all to channel all of human productive output into building more wealth for them.

A true capitalistic system can only work with some form of UBI, to break this feedback loop, and to allow society as a whole to decide where to spend human productive output, rather than just a select group of billionaires.
>lockdowns don't solve anything

Of course they don't kill the virus, but they absolutely do work if your definition of success isn't sufficiently pedantic to mean "this strategy eliminated the virus completely". They reduce the dr/dt of infections, giving you time to prep and actually save people's lives when they do get infected. "Lockdowns don't solve anything" should be lumped into the same category of advice as "masks don't solve anything". Both statements are true IFF your definition of "solve" is "virus is over with this one neat trick".
The Polygons of Doom: PSX
Google Cloud Platform – Multiple services reporting issues
No, I think it was intended as sarcasm; 126 million is also not much less than 330 million.
They test everyone that might have had contact whether they have symptoms or not. Though they haven't been able to squash it they've able to keep the growth rate linear instead of exponential like it is everywhere else, which might be the best you can hope for.
Yeah, it's amazing how much of a difference that often makes. Being guided by people instead of a number.
Piketty is full of crap.

People are equal in natural rights, not abilities.

> The algebraic essence of this argument was symbolized by the inequality r > g, which says that, historically, the rate of return on capital is larger than the rate of economic growth.

Why that shouldn't be the case? The capitalist risks his capital. "Economic growth" risks nothing.
I think NYC might of solved it with the antibodies test. They plan on letting people with the antibodies go back to work. Plus the test is easier to make that the test for the virus.
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Automatic backlinks + all blocks can be referenced or embedded. It allows you to remix your thoughts effortlessly. It's like an idea blender.
I meant I know he's doing research, I don't personally know him. I'd try his public email, bj@bjfogg.com.
> I'm still wondering why webassembly is not used more

Largely because the majority of the problems that I have as a web developer are not solved by manipulating 32/64-bit ints/floats at native speeds.

While I'm sure there are many exceptional uses for wasm that are related to computational pipelines, machine learning, and canvas rendering none of that really helps me add a text node to a DOM element that let's my user know they entered an invalid username/password combination.
S Korea was able to sort this by stellar tracking of individuals social graph when they got sick while lifting lockdowns. Something hardly anyone is talking about now.
it would...only... be about one million
This article has a nice solution: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/opinion/coronavirus-depre... . Take some of the trillions of dollars that will be spent on bailout, and spend it on building a never-before-seen amount of protective equipment. Once we have enough for everybody to wear a new heavy-duty protective suit every day, people could go back to work. It might be expensive, but still way cheaper than shutting the economy down an extra month or two.
The goal: Allow a uniform execution context (compile target) in the browser via a standard byte code. That means executing an application written in any language, provided a corresponding compiler, as an island in a web page.

In practical terms the language of the browser is JavaScript, but what if JavaScript doesn't do what you need, or it isn't fast enough, or you simply don't like JavaScript. Instead you want to write some application in Rust (just using that as an example). The language of the web is still JavaScript and not Rust so your new application will not run directly in a web page. That's unfortunate, because the web is a fantastic distribution platform because things that run in web pages do not require a separate installation step or a separate download step, since web page assets are downloaded automatically as called by the web page. If you compile your Rust application to WASM it can run in a web browser.

To be clear though WASM isn't replacing JavaScript or even in any way competing with JavaScript, because that is certainly what it sounds like. WASM is a separate and isolated execution instance in the browser, even from the page that contains it. JavaScript, on the other hand, executes directly in the context of the page that requests it.

You might hear some discussion of wanting WASM to replace JavaScript, but that is clearly stated by the WASM project as not a design goal. You might also hear that if only the containing page's DOM were available to WASM it would replace JavaScript, but that isn't a design goal either. That part about the DOM is the confluence of a misunderstanding about the DOM and about WASM's security goals of a separate execution context. There is work, however, on providing some Web API capabilities to WASM so that a WASM instance may have some awareness of its execution context or to allow some manner of external interaction of the WASM instance from the surrounding page. I don't know the status of that work though.

* WASM project site - https://webassembly.org/

* Web APIs, a list of de facto standards for interacting with web browsers from JavaScript - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API

* DOM specification, the DOM is a language agnostic dynamic tree model that represents markup and containing content - https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/
> The longer we're locked down, the longer it's going to take for the economy to recover.

The economy would take a serious hit if suddenly millions of people overwhelm the medical system, people collapse in the streets and bodies pile up in and outside of morgues.

There's a weird false dichotomy I keep encountering where people insinuate that we either quarantine and hurt the economy, or we don't quarantine because of the damage it would do to the economy. The economy is going to take a hit no matter what.
I thought this. It seemed only to prevent the public from panicking I heard in NYC and italy it made things worse because young people got stuck inside with old people and made them sick.
This is hysteria. I don’t have any sources but that’s apparently the name of the game in this thread, so here we are.

Times are tough. It will get worse before it gets better. But it will get better.

Pin this post and watch the situation unfold. If we really see the fall of capitalism, I will personally come visit you wherever you are, and we can ritually burn a portrait of Keynes together. To keep warm.
They test any contact, even if you don’t show symptoms. And everyone wears masks.

We do neither of these.
Like Brave Browser, but offline
My only problem with the default ASCII is the tile size. The 8x16 is just not that great for a game with as much information on the screen as dwarf fortress. My favourite are 16x16 mostly ASCII symbols. I think it's the guybrush tiles from the dwarf fortress wiki.

I've never liked any of the full graphical tilesets. I find it a lot harder to keep track of everything on the screen, even when I figure out what the different tiles are supposed to be. The black background with clear discernible symbols of the ASCII and mostly ASCII tiles make it a lot easier to get information from a screen at a quick glance while you're scrolling around the map.

That being said, I do like firing up stonesense and taking a look at the fortress from that perspective just because it's awesome and I still hope for the day some enterprising miracle worker creates a real time 3d renderer for dwarf fortress.
Discovered myself that android has issues.

Start wifi tethering. Connect your VPN, assume traffic is going over it.... nope.

There is a shadow APN configured for your network provider that you can't edit, and all tethered traffic goes over that, not the VPN'd connection.

The VPN only protects traffic originating from the phone.