skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I understand by trying to "read the signs between the lines" (which means it can be somewhat off) one of the reasons Germany is reporting much less deaths is some attitude there that only those who didn't have other illnesses and died now are to be reported as Covid-19 deaths (there is even some critique of Italy for reporting their immense surge of deaths as due to Covid-19!).

Of course, the number of deaths that they can't report so will nevertheless go up there too, but they will claim that they are so superior compared to those Europeans southern from them, and they could propaganda their own population that "it's not so dangerous" (by misreporting those with "other illnesses" like hypertension etc) to go back to work as their country and health infrastructure is so superior.

The German main advantage is most of their cities being relatively small, so everything is "spread" more than in many countries, less chance for news like in Spain or Italy where the army had to carry corpses because there are too many. It will be more "a few here" and "a few there" etc.

I can't quote you some specific news, except some articles in French writing about German view, that I remember reading recently (but haven't saved the links) but at least, as one additional example, if I understood correctly, something I've got delivered from somebody I know, there's some German doctor for which is claimed that he is "epidemiologist" who gets more media presence just recently, claiming that "it's not worse than flu" and that the number of deaths in Italy and Spain is only "because they have bad hygiene." Of course he ignores the fact that there was already a peak of flu season in Italy around two months before, and that now there are there 50 times more deaths per week than then, and hygiene certainly didn't get worse 50 times in so short time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Is_COVID-19_like_a_flu%3F...

So stay tuned, if I get more info, and there's some possibility to comment, I will... Or maybe some other person who reads the European news more carefully (best more than one language) will be able to write more. But as this whole topic is already flagged here, don't expect too much here.
Dog Breeds That Hardly Ever Bark
And...flagged off the front page with amazing speed! Nothing to see here!
If you don't want to deal with certs yourself (and you're ok with a *.netlify.com URL), you could always use Netlify and get HTTPS for free.
5,000-year-old sword discovered by archaeology student at a Venetian monastery
As does Israel, as does Norway.
The “imperative” part only applies to selections. I encourage you to read the tutorial to get a better sense of the other declarative parts of D3 (d3-scale, d3-shape), and how you can use these parts with whatever UI library you prefer. Selections aren’t even mentioned until near the end of the tutorial.
We do know though that the curve for number of infections is a logistic curve. And since we haven't hit the inflection point yet we know at a minimum (regardless of how many hidden/untested cases exist) we'll have twice the number of hospital cases than today (assuming action isn't taken to prevent it the current trajectory). Also the current strain is already a "massive wave" in locations hit by the virus longer. It's just that that massive wave is going to get worse https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-...
This is not true, and is why the markets are crap. Everyone is buying much less. This means there is less demand still. Thus the economy contracts like dominos. This is literally how every recession in history has worked.
Peculiar world view this. A good chair costs $300, and is tax-deductible. And you can pick one that fits you perfectly.
Why are you under the delusion that your co-workers are there to service your query queue ? Figure out how to help yourself. Avoiding interrupting pesky colleagues is a major reason working from home is such a pleasure.

People defend this self-serving behaviour in the name of 'teamwork' and it needs to be called out.
tl;dr Kicking out the non-experts won't solve the current problems and is likely to introduce new ones. It's a tooling issue, not a platform one.

This is a difficult problem. In trying to reduce the noise by choosing who gets to speak, you immediately encounter a number of issues related to gatekeeping. Moreover, filtering by source doesn't directly address what I see as the underlying problem of presenting relevant information to the user.

Competent and aggressive moderation seems to work fairly well for setting a standard of discourse without excluding anyone (HN is a good example here) but it's time consuming. And it doesn't do much of anything to address the problem of filtering for relevant information.

I think conversations themselves (ie actual back-and-forth with meaningful input from all sides) ultimately just don't scale well beyond a small group. Topic specific mailing lists seem to be the least-worst solution to date, and a Facebook group or subreddit is essentially the same thing implemented using a proprietary platform.

It seems like we still lack the models and tooling to address these problems on a fundamental level. Plenty of academic research exists surrounding knowledge graphs, ontologies, and relationships, but in practice all the mainstream tooling that "just works" is restricted to hierarchical folders (and tags if you're lucky). Zotero is very much a least-worst reference management solution in my opinion (I detailed my thoughts in an HN comment sometime within the past year if you're curious). On the literature front we have things like Arxiv Sanity Preserver and Semantic Scholar, but we're still proverbially drowning in new publications. Tools like Memex (https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex) and Contextualise (https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise) look promising, but aren't (yet?) a complete solution.
Four apps will help you survive social distancing in the age of Covid-19
Everyone having a high quality of life is inefficient, market-wise. Creating efficiencies involves taking away quality of life for many, and turning it into profits for the few.
You seem to be trying to suggest that COVID-19 is no worse than previous influenza epidemics. That does not seem to align with the facts on the ground. We are seeing historically high hospitalizations in many different countries, and certainly historically high rates of deaths. If your hypothesis were correct, we would have also seen this many times in the past.
Own and rent are two side of the same coin.

We have no slaves today because renting turned out to be cheaper than owning with advancement of infrastructure and technology.

We still use convicts as slaves. It's worth it only if someone else (in case of convicts, the government) covers the cost of ownership.
I could care less about your right to 'congregate' if you are putting my life at risk by doing so.

The reason this is not 'Orwellian' as you suggest, is because there's a very real and legit threat right now.

For god's sake, we're confined to our homes - that alone should be shocking enough.

If the Ontario Gov. is watching people 'congregate' during regular times, for whatever reason, then this is bad.

If they are using said powers to try to extend government reach so they can do nasty things after the threat ha passed, then this is bad.

But I doubt both.

The action is in the range of proportional and responsible, though I doubt it's having any effect.

The next step is that they will require you to have a tracker app on your phone - or an ankle bracelet - merely because you've identified as having COVID-19. Again - scary but legit and proportional, given the situation.

It's in these times we come pretty face to face with the results of individual actions with the community.

Instead of thinking in classical liberal terms, or even staunch collectivism, just consider what's the appropriate action for people and governments to take, within the context. It's not that hard to consider, and from this more communitarian perspective, our governments are mostly doing the right thing.
I understand this argument, but the logical fallacy of emotional appeal is too strong on this one. It can't be the case where millions are better off dying. It feels so unjust. Even if the rest of us are slightly worse off, the lockdown means more life lived for all. I'm nowhere near crossing the bridge, but I imagine the last weeks or months of lives greatly matter to those who know their time is short.
Show HN: I Made an Event Countdown App in React Native
I recently created an Events Countdown app for iOS.
Basically, user can create event like Birthday, Anniversary, ... and the app will show a countdown time until or since the event.
User can also add reminder days, weeks, months before or after the event.

It's not shown in the video but the user can choose different display mode like: List, Grid or Carousel and sizes,...

This is my first time trying this business model my apps. It's free to use. You can create unlimited number of events, reminders, you can switch between dark/light theme... All the core features of an Event Countdown apps are free. But there are interstitial ads after the user created an event once in a while. (using facebook audience network and google admob).

Some premium features like layouts, online gallery, cloud syncing,... are unlocked through a subscription monthly or yearly.

I created the project with [typescript-react-native-starter](https://github.com/NewBieBR/typescript-react-native-starter).

I also tried to contribute some open-source components like:

- [react-native-easy-icon](https://github.com/NewBieBR/react-native-easy-icon): wrapper component of react-native-vector-icons to use icon easily

- [react-native-unsplash](https://github.com/NewBieBR/react-native-unsplash): The online gallery feature that you see from the video use directly this component. It's basically a photos browser using the unsplash api.

- [react-native-store-rate](https://github.com/NewBieBR/react-native-store-rate): I'm still testing this so I don't recommend you to use

All of my components above are written in typescript so it's kinda self-documented, I didn't have the time to update the documentation so PRs are welcome.

You can download it here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/timecount-day-counter/id1497946231

I would love to hear feedbacks. Thanks.
I have an app on the App Store that uses WKWebView, should I be worried?
I'm simply have deep knowledge of JS and it's easy to use for me, so I prefer tools that support it.

But thanks for the suggestions!
The idea is to pay the workers out of the profits that would otherwise go to the business owner. This doesn't increase the cost structure of the operation.

There's nothing non-capitalist or non-free-market about a worker collective. There are no laws against it. Nobody will try to stop you. You don't need a change in the government.

What are you waiting for?
It's a really rough estimate, but I mean something like the largest bounty rolls with normal density.
Judging from SIGGRAPH videos/presentations, it's pretty common for graphics researchers who are non-native speakers to use text-to-speech or a native-speaking acquaintance for narration. I think it's done explicitly to help comprehension, although I think self-consciousness or fear of public speaking plays a role, too.
https://github.com/alta3/kubernetes-the-alta3-way ansible playbooks based on "the hard way" but without being dependent on Google cloud
I’m so sorry you had a bad experience. We’re trying really hard to make it great! Our entire reason for being is to make it easier for people to tinker with and share examples.

One of the least obvious things of Observable is that it’s not actually JavaScript—it’s a reactive extension of the language. We’re making that more apparent by making the dataflow visible, and we’d love to hear any more feedback or suggestions you’re willing to share.

https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/observables-not-javas...

https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/introducing-visual-da...
Around this time, Sun Microsystems Labs was developing Self, a child of Smalltalk that ditched classes for prototypes. Work on improving the VM's performance using a JIT and generational GC helped when developing Java's VM a few years later.
Thanks for repeating what I already said. I responded to the question asked. OP asked if there are simpler alternatives. These are simpler alternatives to Kubernetes.

I don't know which part you're not getting, but it appears that this person's intention is not to learn Kubernetes or deal with nodes in the first place.
Unfortunate, stuff like the flue is believed to live in some/few/enough humans which do not show symptoms but are able to spread it.

It would be interesting to see a list or to survive it to see a documentary about its effects.
Coronavirus vaccine researchers just delivered some great news
Are you an Apple employee? If not, as a consumer or developer why are you not talking from the consumer's point of view? I don't want to install each and every native app. As a developer, I don't want to write and maintain completely separate native apps.
You don't need Istio if your application is simple. I think Istio makes more sense when your application makes heavy use of peer-to-peer pod connections. If you can get away with a simple queue as a bus, it should remain simple. I think!
The PCR test will only catch active infections. An antibody test would reveal if a person has ever been infected. I suspect that number in South Korea is much much higher.
Suffice to say that the author of this blog post should have spent less time congratulating themselves and more time clearly explaining the impact of this change, to avoid scaring off developers and users.
Does swift have a cycle collector? With the whole dance in the language manual of "unowned" and "weak" references, I couldn't figure out if the cycle detection (a) happens at all if all references are strong, and (b) happens deterministically if all references are unowned.
We don't know what the mortality rate is because we don't know how many people have been infected.
Graphene Solar Thermal Film Could Be a New Way to Harvest Renewable Energy
Breathing in causes systolic pressure to drop slightly. The negative pressure in the chest cavity decreases the amount of blood that fills the heart prior to contracting ("preload"). The drop is small (<10mmHg), and generally your heart rate doesn't bother compensating for it to any significant extent. In theory you can detect breaths by looking at the R-R interval (the time between the beats), but it's a very subtle signal and in my experience it's useless in any real world setting.

More advanced ECGs can measure the impedance of the chest (which changes as you breath). This is more complicated to implement, but much more reliable.

In either case, it's not something you'd be able to measure without several stickers on your chest, with wires running to some central box. I think the CPAP would be less obtrusive. If you don't need a full fledged CPAP, you could use something like nasal capnography, that just measures exhaled CO2.
Oh... I misread you then. I thought you were saying that this was new information since Monday.
Everyone uses either cases per 100000 or cases per million. Of course it's a messy number due to unequal access to testing, but eventually it will even out.
Does anyone know if they account for their user base presumably being mismatched with actual demographics?

ie. I assume their users are going to correlate with tech-savvy people, in turn correlating with people able to work from home, giving a severely skewed sample
OP, thanks for this! was a pleasant retreat in between meetings today.
From the fine article:

> IMPORTANT NOTICE

> Do not use anything in your home to disinfect contaminated

> equipment. Please do not heat your masks in a home oven!
Since labor laws are meant to protect workers, what are you concerned about?
I'm disappointed in this flagging - there are very vocal calls from some politicians and business folk to "get folks back to work". If we could flag and mute those politicians for spreading dangerous misinformation using unsupported claims that'd be great, but their words are out there and could drastically effect all of our well being.
A couple of years ago, I was learning PDP-11 assembly on 2.11 BSD and enjoying it, but then the old textbook got to the point of system calls. I couldn't get anything working properly, so eventually I found something else to do. I did very much like it though.

Also, TIS-100 from Zachtronics (the assembly language game you never asked for!) I think made assembly type programming less intimidating.
Money is just a way of taking note of how much of our civilization output each person has the right to.

Billionaires just used people to convince other people that they have right to exorbitant share of what we all make in total. Some good things might have been side effect of that process. Some bad too.
There’s Something New in the (MacBook) Air
How did you calculate that 20%?
In 2017 Italy had 25,000 deaths attributable to flu. And in the case of Covid-19, if a patient tests positive and they die it counts as a Covid-19 death regardless of whether or not Covid-19 is the actual cause of death. The majority of deaths in Italy right now are among the elderly with 3 or more comorbidities.
Researchers demonstrate the missing link for a quantum internet
Moving from Deliveroo to Uber isn't an improvement, is it? You'll get shafted either way, but you can choose the colour of the shaft!
I wonder whether my irritation over this is strong enough to App up JustAnotherIOSWebKitBrowser with an extra API just for per site storage explicitly controlled by user. Literally to run a notepad and some kind of extension thing.

Its likely blocked by app store rules. Supporting extensions is probably forbidden.

Anyone care to be more authoritative based on their AppStore knowledge/experience?
Maybe I can offer an experience that made me 'see the light' (well, some light) accidentally on how sales (re)negotiations work. I'm going to be vague because this is going to make me seem petty.

I had a colleague once who was an 'office rival', you know the type of person you can't stand and are always one-upping (told you this was going to be petty, but in my defense, he started it). So one day we were moving offices and we needed something for the new office. (Sane companies would have had one person doing this but let's say we were a caricature of 'scrappy startup where everybody wears every hat'). There was one item that is basically like a 'staple' for office furnishing - let's say it was perfectly standardized desks. Or plants to put in the hallways, something even more mundane than desks.

Anyway this other guy had me beat on price from every supplier (everyone in the office was basically one-upping everyone else on how cheap they could get things, to the point where I spend days making my own cat5 cables). But I got the same quotes (within a few percent) from at least 5 suppliers, using just the standard 'what's your best price' beginner negotiation playbook. After that I thought screw this, I'll just lay it out. (let's say this general price was I got around 12k, and the 'other guy' got it for 11k).

So I went to a 6th supplier, let them do their sales spiel in their showroom, and said (pretty much as blunt as I put it here) "Listen, you probably have a great product but I don't care, I'm buying on price. Everyone else like supplier X, Y and Z have given me these and these prices" (I showed him the offers I got). "There is another guy at my office who got prices around 11k. I want to beat this other guy, and you want to sell. The only way you will sell to me is if you can come in with a price below 10k. Let's not do a sales dance here. Can you do this?".

The guy got a bit of a deer-in-the-headlights look, went "to the office to discuss with his boss" (like a car salesman but this time for real I guess) and then came back with a price a hair under 10k.

I got my petty win, then a few months later the company almost went under and the guy who gave me the deep discount called me daily for a month when he was going to be paid until a miracle happened and he got his money, but that's another story.

Anyway, what I took away from this (this was before I had had any sales training or really thought about sales) was that usually, the key to a (hard) discount is to convince the other party that it's better for them to take a smaller profit than no profit at all. And also, that it's better to make it seem that you are not the decision maker or that there is some sort of external price anchor. Not saying this is always the best global strategy; personally I value lasting relationships with good personal rapport over squeezing out every last penny, but in crisis mode it's sometimes just necessary.
Hey, I'm reading that too. Definitely making me really rethink leaving my job as a teacher, where at least I'm doing something useful and not just making someone else richer, and which would give me the money for a modest house. The level of inequality is a disgrace, and I wish everyone would read that book.
Wonderfully large article, I often dig in history of CS and science but there was a lot to learn about connection between different research fields.

Thanks a lot
You can have a similar experience with a private tracker and a seedbox. The content is curated (no malware), there's a larger selection, the quality is sometimes higher, and peers generally have better connections.

After you pick your torrent, it takes the seedbox a few seconds to download the content. Then you can stream your download using emby, vlc over http, or whatever you prefer.
Ask HN: How can I video chat using my TV
I want to what people’s setups are today to video chat with family and friends using their tv - FaceTime, WhatsApp etc service dosnt matter.

It seems like one needs to buy a Mac mini or similar computer and hook it up to the tv to do this. Wondering if there is a better way
I really liked the web when it was just documents.

> you didn't build an app, you built a web page

"Progressive web apps use modern web APIs"

The word application is there twice. I don't have to like it.

> they are just web pages that exist in a web browser for the lifetime of the tab they're in

Evidently not. My opinion doesn't matter.

> They shouldn't expect to have any persistent storage

2016 "With Chrome 52, we're introducing the ability to make storage persistent"

> ...a clear lifecycle of installation and deletion that the user has complete control over.

I've never asked for 7 days

> it will never be as good as native apps

I don't develop anything for walled gardens. I cant wait for my linux phone.

> it creates an expectation that every browser will expand its functionality until it is effectively a full operating system.

This already happened. Again, I don't have to like it.

> I think the only reasonable case for the web-as-app model, is things that get installed to the home screen, in the sense that the user is then again given control of the lifecycle

But the user isn't given control over the life cycle. It's 7 days. No one asked for 7 days. It's just about short enough to be completely worthless?

I propose an interface where the pwa provides a picture of a cartoon animal, have fire at the bottom of the screen and each creature tumbling down at its chosen speed. Some 1 day, some 30, some 6 months. The user can opt to drag it up to save it. Notify the user with a soft screaming sound.

This is how it should work!
What does it enable compared to ECS?
Some people are interested in the sales pitch, especially if they can ask questions directly afterwards.

For me, a lot of times I go to conferences about subjects I already have expertise in, so it’s hit or miss if I can learn anything. So having a talk about someone’s product or personal experience can be better than a lecture over knowledge I already have.
it's really confusing
Argh I got to 8 hosts but didn’t realize you can then force the other three? Not sure hi I just mindlessly click every combination