skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is still up in the air. The WHO says that, while there are documented cases of pre-symptomatic transmission, it is not the main driver of infection like with the flu, see: https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...

"First, COVID-19 does not transmit as efficiently as influenza, from the data we have so far.

With influenza, people who are infected but not yet sick are major drivers of transmission, which does not appear to be the case for COVID-19.

Evidence from China is that only 1% of reported cases do not have symptoms, and most of those cases develop symptoms within 2 days."

This report is from March 3rd, so maybe our understanding has evolved.
This article feels like what you get when you feel obligated to write something, drawing grand meanings out of disjointed realities.

Taiwan was relatively recently an autocracy. It still can resort to its historical behavior overnight. In the West the sort of actions that Taiwan took absent an emergency are politically unpalatable.

This is a political/ideological reality. Comparing that with empires that have lost their way is intellectually devoid of any basis and just seems incredibly lazy.

From a purely functional perspective it's worth noting that much of the West has a much closer intertwining with China than Taiwan does. This seems counter-intuitive -- China is right beside it, after all -- but multiples more Chinese nationals live in Canada than Taiwan. There were magnitudes more flights between the US and China (purely from a flight # perspective, and certainly much larger from a passenger perspective) than between China and Taiwan. That Taiwan has been somewhat spared thus far is partly explained by this reality.
> the relevant information does seem to be all there

The key piece of information is absent.

> it seems to do as good a job as a short marketing page probably could

It could have done better in a single short sentence by stating the key piece of information, rather than leaving it to be inferred laboriously from a pile of details.

> It's not a place where they can reasonably address every common misconception

No, but it could have addressed the single largest misconception. It chose not to.
I must not have been clear. I wasn't saying that the iPad can't be used by hacker news readers. I was saying that we're not the target audience. I have an iPad that I use a lot myself.
Great question... I don't know. The USSR did figure something out, so there's that.
Will never happen. Trump is too enamored with the market to do anything like that. He'll just let people die of the virus.
And they can't even train in their country
It usually takes a week or two after infection for people to get so bad they need to seek help. So them not overloading hospitals yet doesn't tell you very much of the situation today. They could very well be completely overrun in two weeks, which is what happened in Italy.
I've been thinking a bit about solving this same problem, but I feel there is too much overhead to log things manually.

What we need is better interfacing with computers so that we can just think "log my weight is 190 lbs" or "log I ate 1 small chicken breast and a cup of brocolli". Voice control and my phone are not sufficient for my needs so far. I also want to be able to have full control over my own logs in plaintext.

I want to be a cyborg already...
I guess Taiwan's inherent mistrust of China helped in making the right decisions - while the thoughts of politicians in the West were something along the lines of "China is saying it has things under control, the WHO is saying the same, so there is no need for drastic actions right now - and if it turns out later that we were wrong, we can shift the blame to China and the WHO".
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>As an Indian why do I believe community transmission has not started or rampant: Because our hospitals are not overrun with people with breathing issues

Labourer travelling in train (usually it's general class, cheapest ticket) have contracted COVID-19 a week back[1].

Person who has not travelled much outside his home and has no known contact with anyone from foreign travel has contracted COVID-19[2].

How many poor people in India visit doctor for systems similar to common cold/flu? Even if they visit Govt. hospital and die from it, How many deaths of people with such symptoms in Govt. hospitals published?

>Is this the right thing to do? Well, we don't have the capacity to treat the entire population, this we need to "cut the curve" rather than flatten it. Will this work? Your guess is as good as mine.

Yes, should have done 2 weeks back. Unfortunately with any poor country with large inequality; it's the poorest who would be affected by this as well.

>3. Will people obey the curfew: I really hope so

It is lockdown, no curfew. Curfew (144) in India denies people not to gather in groups; now during lockdown every single person outside their house is liable to be questioned by the authorities.

>4. Should we test more?

Yes. But I'm not sure how many would take the effort to visit testing center. Again, it's poor who would not have the mechanism to even get tested.

[1]https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

[2]https://www.deccanherald.com/national/south/tamil-nadu-man-w...
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> As an Indian why do I believe community transmission has not started or rampant

Oh stop it! There have been confirmed cases of folks who do not have travel history but are infected with SARS-CoV-2 [0]. Plus, we aren't even testing enough to know the extent of the spread.

> Is this the right thing to do?

It is absolutely the right thing to do. Should have happened sooner.

> ...we can't test someone once and be done with it, constant testing will be needed, and at our size, we can't do it

This is not even a good excuse. The only way to get out of a quarantine or lockdown before a vaccine is ready is to extensively test anyone that wants to be tested, and if positive, contact-trace everyone else and have them tested too. There's no other way anyone is getting ahead of the spread otherwise. Repeat after me: Testing isn't sufficient by all in itself, but it is absolutely necessary.

> I really hope we can get to some scale in temperature surveillance at scale

Temperature surveillance? Jesus Christ, you do not think tests are enough but want checks for symptoms that close to 80% infected people do not display for days on end, if ever?

[0] https://hindustantimes.com/india-news/coronavirus-is-tamil-n...
Thank you, let them know about the false positive alarm.
I would love to know what's your perspective on this like what else the govt should be doing?
I have no idea how to figure this out. But my thought process is:

What % of people in a given region in a given month travel outside:

a) Their city

b) Their state/providence

c) Their country?

and then compare it to other countries. I suspect there are many places it could have started with way more international travel.. which would have made the first wave hit more places at once.
Iryna Bekeshkina[0,1,2], the chief sociologist of Ukraine, passed away on March 21st.

She was 69 years old.

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[1] https://dif.org.ua/en/article/who-is-iryna-bekeshkina

[2] https://dif.org.ua/en/team/bekeshkina
I had the insightful realisation a few years ago that I can't think without a marker in my hand, but almost no-one else benefits from my boxes-and-arrows. And it's rare that anyone grabs the marker from me and joins in.

So I switched to using a notebook. I buy big Visual Diaries in lovely thick cartridge paper that begs to be scribbled on. I carry a set of B, HB and 2B pencils, a decent eraser, and a pencil sharpener. And I scribble during meetings and when rubber-ducking.

Very occasionally I'll show someone else my scribbles. Even more occasionally, seeing the scribbles will help them understand wtf I'm trying to say.

But mostly it just helps me keep up with my intuition.
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Quoted verbatim actually. This post is by the police, not the government
The warning was for governments. If the US had spare ICU capacity, and a national reserve of PPE and critical care supplies like we had before 2009, we'd be miles better off.

Experts knew it was "all but airborne if not airborne" and that masks were the best way to stop it from day one, but discouraged Americans from buying them as the hospitals would desperately need them far more. So many more people will be infected and die because they didn't have a $.50 mask. And this is all because we didn't spend a tiny pittance getting ready.
I've been using the same account for both work and personal repos, without much issue due to the existence of github organizations.

What sorts of separation are beneficial for you? I'm wondering if I should switch, but I don't fully understand.
As Markdown is available in a plethora of dialects, it's likely any given converter doesn't work 100% correct with the dialect at hand.

Granted, that's only a weak argument against Markdown. I rarely encountered converters that would work 100% correct for any given textual format.
If I understand correctly, the type of data that's contained in the files is much more important the format. As a starting point, is there anything that's stopping you from reading the files in Python (pandas) for example and doing some simple outlier detection (interquartile ranges, standard deviations)?
billfruit says> "In general though the government and police in India are acting with too blunt a force in this issue."

That is OK. After a few days police and government staff will begin to fall ill as a consequence of their actions. They will, as a group, realize how foolish it is to constantly interdict people. Police interdiction numbers will be reduced due to both illness and to "street smarts".
My work laptop is owned by my company. All company work goes on there. (And since it's a company-owned resource anything made using it is something they could claim rights to.)

My personal computer is owned by me. Nothing company owned touches it.

This makes domain separation easier.
My fellow Wikipedia says Spinoloricus Cinziae was found first.

Here's the source BBC article, from 2010: https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8609246.stm, the headline is "First oxygen-free animals found"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinoloricus_cinziae
A nanomachine swimming around your veins will signal back to your Apple Watch 10 what new viruses you got ;-)
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Chinese style technocratic authoritarianism might excel in the face of pandemic, but one need look no farther than Brazil to see that old-fashioned grievance-based reactionary authoritarianism falls flat on its face when it needs to deal with any problem that can’t be swept under the rug by blaming it on a group of “Others”
That's not infantilizing.

Asian countries have a very ingrained sense of "face" and honor. Face in China and honor in Japan are very very important.
Heck, even groff_mdoc works very well.

Whatever you use, document!
I don't really like hidden files myself, but my point was more to get you to see the lack of clean hierarchy in just dumping things in $HOME.
New pip resolver to roll out this year
It would be interesting if you could unpack why you believe this formula?

What is the underlying mechanism that makes it so?
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darkpuma> cmdrtaco is wrongly maligned, the ipod would
not become massively successful until further
revisions were released.

cmdrtaco> Thank you for setting the record straight!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19447152
Based on my attempts to add local businesses, I'd say it can take quite a while, and some additions seem to just get "lost". Check back in a month or two--and that's assuming the addition includes sufficient photographic evidence. That's easy enough for businesses, but I don't know how they handle geographic features. They might just reject it.
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process_record_user()

Reading the documentation is a good start, but one needs to experiment. Search the code base. The project also contains hundreds of calls to this routine; one can see what others did.

In my youth I coauthored a computer algebra system, but my contributions were all core code, inner loops, not close to the user interface. Yet many people managed to hack our system successfully. I had no meaningful advantage over them when I needed to do this myself, but their example spurred me to learn.

Same with flunking my quals, first semester of my PhD program. The older students would tear through the questions in five minutes, at tea after each miserable day of testing. With this experience in mind, I doubled my scores the next semester.

One really has to just dive into the code, and others do this.
It's also much easier for authoritarian regimes to give off such impressions when they can lock up and execute whistle-blowers and critics without with access to any semblance of a just legal system.
Feeling cranky today, lockdown and everything. This is an elementary interpreter, clumsily implemented because of all the object oriented cruft.
This sounds like official Indian English complete with phonetic misspellings
> How does it spread without symptoms?

People cough and sneeze all the time even if they are healthy. Also, when you talk, you expel droplets of saliva when you make sounds like "P" or "B" or "K". The virus travels in those droplets. They float through the air, someone else breathes them in, and voila.
Recently, I switched from iOS to Android. And I was missing Apple's Continuity feature. Where I could easily make or receive phone calls on Mac, get access OTPs, messages quickly on my Mac.
I noticed I was ending up landing social media or hacker-news :D spending hours every-time I picked up my phone for a call(there're a lot in this work from home situation).

And then after spending a day, going through a lot of spam! I noticed this app on App Store called "Connecton". I'm surprised why was it hard to find it.

Putting out loud, so that I can save someone's time who needs this.
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It seems to be the final degeneration in Orientalism[0] not only to say that the Japanese aren't aware of their responsibility, but to say they need to be given a pat on the back and reassured, like you would a child.

[0] Orientalist thinking is not necessarily racist; I'm saying this now before someone accuses me of accusing GP of being a racist.
I saw your other comment as well. I don't know what to say, you're correct, RST is deficient here.
I started switching from markdown to asciidoc for my code project documentation, and it was much easier than I expected. For simple docs it's almost exactly like Markdown, and its IntelliJ plugin is better, too.
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I think Emacs has been shielding me from dotfiles. I usually start a shell in the directory of the file I'm looking at. I hardly ever see $HOME. I also have dired (Emacs' built-in file explorer) show me hidden files by default, but there aren't that many (basically just .git and .gitignore) outside of $HOME.
"Murder machine" ... Imagine the joy this thing would be on a gravel road.
I could see aggregate investment in tech go down, but relative investment no way. Automating all processes with technology gives benefit in all industries. Our skills will be lucrative (relatively speaking) until they figure out how to automate the building of somewhat complex systems.
I think there is a missing /s
The problem with statements like "politicians are corrupt" is that it makes it possible for people to see what Trump is doing as just more of the status quo. It needs to be possible for some politicians to not be corrupt in order for the allegation of corruption towards Trump to carry any meaning.
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> it is not the main driver

That may well be, but "not the main driver" != "not a driver". Do you really want to roll those dice?
It is infantilizing when we say that the concept of saving face prevents them from seeing the results of their actions, and that they need to be "reassured" by the global community that things aren't as bad as they think - "if only they could see past saving face".
Common fallacy. The USPS will not deliver anything significantly heavier than the expected weight of the mail piece.
Wouldn't you just get a proxy buffer state like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria? Doesn't sound like an improvement to the status quo.
You have to jump through hoops to make buckets public and even then you get a clear label saying “public”.
I need to get started on croissants, or better yet pain au chocolat. What recipe do you use?
> with the current far right government with its "one nation" policy

This is just false. Every government since independence has fought tooth and nail to keep Union of India united a.k.a "one nation" policy. They have, regardless of political orientation, largely made the same moves wrt Kashmir, Naxalism, insurgencies in eastern India etc. Remember who started the unification process in 1947? The current government, right wing and divisive as they may be, isn't doing anything drastically different than any other government in the past. Seems like this is just a cheap shot against a government you don't like.
So not the case of "People roaming in open areas by themselves or with people they cohabitate with" on any aspect is it ?
The general government has no right to perform such actions. State governments do and have done so where they think it makes sense.

Also, making statements like millions of Americans will die is causing more harm than good. The country with the highest per capita infections in San Marino with 553 infections/100K pop [1]. San Marino is a small city state. Switzerland has the highest per capita cases of "real" countries and is still 5x lower at 107/100k pop. Since the United States is a much larger country with a much lower population density, the infection rate of San Marino likely wouldn't translate. However, even if we do so that would give a total number of cases in the US of 1.8 million. That means there wouldn't even but millions infected let alone dead.

[1] https://direkte.vg.no/coronaviruset/news/5e63e839d2df520011e...
The S3 console now makes it quite apparent, in my opinion when things are left public. Public is no longer the default, and theres big scary warnings whenever you make something public.
> Evidence from China is that only 1% of reported cases do not have symptoms

I may be missing something here, but this seems like selection bias. If they're not showing symptoms, they're much less likely to get tested and, as such, reported.
Empirically means supported by evidence. Do you have evidence to suggest that most HN posts titled "Study suggests ..." refers to flawed studies?
It looks to me like no actual rule was broken per se, but GP is aware he was breaking more like a thing of etiquette. It's kind of an "apologies in advance, as I know this is sort of rude, but I'm going to say it anyway because I'm saying something nice" that wasn't phrased optimally.

HN generally discourages lightweight chit chat to protect the signal to noise ratio. They more strongly discourage it in these Hiring posts and it seems to me that's the correct way to handle it because this is intended as a free advertising space, not a discussion space.

In part for purposes of making advertisers comfortable posting here so they will post at all, HN more strictly forbids attacks against the advertisers because that would drive away a lot of advertisers and harm the utility of these posts. But, also, these posts have a lot of little ads and it's already a huge pile of info to sort through if you are job hunting, even without chit chat and ugly, long tangents thrown in.

HN likely doesn't have the manpower to lock these threads and institute a pre approval process as the mechanism that protects these posts as 99% (free) ads. So they rely on certain social expectations to make this work.

Since the membership very much values these posts, the membership generally does a good job of respecting certain expectations.

There are spaces on the internet where the meme is "This is why we can't have nice things" and it typically gets stated as a way to say "It's not the fault of incompetent moderation. No, the members are just assholes who won't behave." (Often stated by the mods, who are incompetent and prone to putting out the fire with gasoline.)

HN has both competent moderation and members who more or less try hard to behave. This is why we can have nice things around here, like the Who is Hiring threads, which are a free service benefiting both businesses in need of staff and people in need of employment.
(I'm going to assume you're Indian by your username)

My parents are from India, but I was born & raised in Canada. I haven't been back to India since I was 10 years old, so nearly 25 years ago. But we did several trips, and I remember my sister and I hated using the latrines in the outhouses. We lived in the village, so squatting while doing our business, and using a lota of well water to wash up was so foreign and bizarre to us. When we returned to Canada, my 4 year old sister ran to the bathroom and hugged the toilet.

With the wisdom of age (if you can call me wise at 35), I now realize that toilet paper is inferior in all ways. It's wasteful, and it doesn't accomplish it's purpose. Now that I've had a child, we wash him with soap and water on every messy diaper change. We joke that he has the cleanest bum in the house.

You're not wrong, but it's completely cultural. I've experienced both sides of the culture, and I agree with you completely.

But we haven't installed a bidet. We're still a TP household. I was considering one before the current crisis. I think this year I might get one.
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If you listen to the Rubinstein interview, the iPod and iTunes were part of a group of peripherals designed to bring users into the Macintosh ecosystem, not let them out.
Can someone explain the purpose of "Three-way comparison (“spaceship”) and defaulted comparisons"

>>>The value of the expression a <=> b describes which one of a < b, a == b, and a > b is true.

A key part of this feature is that classes that provide this operator can have all of the six traditional, binary relational operators defined implicitly.
Everything I do is open source, so all my code is readable by all users. If you don't, see cvwright's answer.

> Also all my editor configs

My editor and shell configs are in /etc. Again, it may not work for everyone, as you may have to share the computer.

> bookmarks, browser logins for Github are all there. If I'd have to switch between users for each project that sounds really cumbersome.

Sorry, I was unclear. I don't logout/login every time I change project. I have a main user, and use sudo to run commands as other users (it even works with graphical apps, provided you whitelist them)