skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Few things businesses need to keep in mind to stop the Coronavirus
Few things businesses need to keep in mind to stop the Coronavirus:

1. The virus can be circulated through the A/C or ventilation system hence disinfectants need to be added.
2. Proper queue markers are needed to enforce social distancing. Security and staff should always advise everyone not to get close to others. If there is a public broadcasting system reminders on the need for social distancing should be broadcasted regularly.
3. The surfaces people touch need to be disinfected periodically.
4. People should be advised not to touch items in stores unless they are buying the item. Items on shelves need to be disinfected regularly. Staff should take the items and hand them over so that not everyone touches the goods. Staff and security should ensure as few people touch goods to be sold. If there is a public broadcasting system customers need to be reminded not to touch items directly unless they are buying it or request a staff member to handle or show the item whilst maintaining the required distance.
5. Credit cards, shared pens, trolls, baskets need to be disinfected from customer to customer.
6. If possible make masks and hand sanitizers available for purchase at the business premises.
7. Disinfect hands while entering and leaving. This should not only be while entering.
8. Ensure food and goods handling staff are regularly screened.
9. Advise not to eat salads and to eat only cooked food as cooking can kill germs.

Please share as much as possible for everyone's best interest.
A somewhat tangentally tech related question: Since (it seems that) all support is now done out of Indian call centers, how badly is this going to affect the ability to get support when needed?

As an example, should I expect support from, say, Cisco or Verizon (two companies that I know from recent experience are running their support orgs out of India), to simply up and cease to exist? Will it somehow get more frustratingly difficult than it is already Or should I expect business as usual?
Punjab (the state I'm in atm) Police is handing out light punishment to anyone found flouting the rules of the curfew (Punjab is one of the states which have imposed full blown curfew instead of the lockdown).

Punishments include doing situps, holding ears, rolling around in the dirt, making lines in the dirt with your nose, and light beating with batons.

While some may consider it a human rights violation, I think it's much better than burdening the poor with criminal cases. In fact, in most of the cases people prefer to get this light punishment instead of getting charged with a crime.
Previous [lack of] discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22664360
Except for every time you hit the brakes, they heat up and stop working after some time.

There are significant economic impacts of the measures countries are taking, and the reality is people will only put up with quarantine so long. I think it makes sense to spend some time looking at the evidence because shutting everything down has significant negative impacts, both economically, and potentially with the spread of the virus if people give up on quarantine too soon. Given the evidence I have seen current measures make sense (at least in Ontario) but saying that we should just follow our survival instincts seems wrong, especially when everything is so distorted by the media.
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Cloud is a high volume, low margin business.

Ads are a high margin business. When looking at FB vs AppMicroAmaGoog financials, Facebook has the highest % profit. They also make the most per employee. Plus they are the king of social networks with Insta & Whatsapp as their brands.

What works against them is Facebook doesn't have a great reputation with developers, so even if they step into cloud, it will be very hard. Plus corporations will always be worried that Facebook will peek into their usage and power their ads engine.
The thing is this is not a just a personal risk. Maybe other people who have no choice but to be outside because of their work or st else don't want to take that risk but this risk is being forced on them. Isn't it our responsibility not to increase the risk on their lives if we can stay at home?
The primary purpose of this is reducing boilerplate code. For supporting comparisons one currently has to implement a large set if functions. One for each of <, >, <=, =>, != and ==. However many times the implementation of those 6 functions is similar. Thus lots of code to write.

With operator<=> one can implement a single function and the compiler becomes the smart one. When calling
o1 < o2
or calling
o1 >= o2
the compiler will do a call to the single operator<=> and interpret the return value accordingly.

Notably less repitive typing for the type provider.
Without India and Pakistan partition i.e muslim hindu divide. The subcontinent would have still broken up but along racial and language differences. India and Pakistan needed each other for reason to exist as separate nations.
This feels like a giant game of "I can't wait to say 'I told you so!'" by many different factions. The HeadInTheSand GOP, the Apocalyptic Left, the panicked middle (/r/coronavirus). Everyone except health professionals.

Competitive Schadenfreude.
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Urbit has been popping up here and there for quite a few years now -- can someone explain what it is in terms simple to understand?
Yeah, I would rather invest my effort in “make your config files yaml, never json (because comments and ergonomics)”, which seems parallel and much more important.
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Your comment sounds quite disrespectful. I would say that they are perfectly aware of what chaotic behavior is.
This is just a slightly off-topic thought that I need to get off my chest, sorry for that.

Some time ago I read that Walt Disney (the person) was obsessed with washing his hands. He allegedly washed his hands every few minutes. I never gave this much attention, but if you consider that he was sixteen years old at the time of the Spanish Flu, and if you take a look at us now, this behavior suddenly becomes much more understandable. Let's all try to keep sane during in these strange times.
> The USPS will not deliver anything significantly heavier than the expected weight of the mail piece

Do you have a source for this? What do they do with it then?
As an active user (completely unaffiliated with Tlon), I can say that communities are truly booming on Urbit right now. Their newly released OS1 is pleasant to use and quite functional. The discourse in the many notebooks and chats I'm a part of is lively and engaging. If you're curious, boot[1] a comet[2] and message me at ~wolref-podlex—I'd be happy to set you up with a planet.

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Doesn't Japan already have a pretty high number of death for the supposed amount of cases? Sweden for example has 36 deaths for 2286 cases whereas Japan has 42 deaths for 1140 cases. And South Korea has 9037 cases and 120 deaths, so about three times as many deaths but nine times as many cases.
I guess some people actually believe this. The new orientalism?
What could possibly be considered weird about that? How could anyone consider slow killing to not be worse than sudden death? They're both death, but one is much worse. It's much more weird to be talking about suffering and slow death as though they aren't worse, and that only weird people think they are.
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Loving the term "the Apocalyptic Left"
No compelling revenue stream, to a company the size of Google. Probably seen as a fun project that got boring once the hard work (of fixing bugs) started.
I appreciate the consolidated information - but at a time where people are trying to help / donate resources for COVID-19, putting this behind a paywall seems out of place. A donation button might be easier? I'll make a website for you for free if it opens up that information, feel free to shoot me a DM.

Also I'm not sure this is covered in the book, but HHS has relaxed some of it's HIPAA rules because of COVID-19. Specifically telehealth providers (think Google Hangouts) are going to have some leeway as we get through this pandemic. https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/e...
Heat, cold, sun, snow, and humidity don't have any effect on the virus (according to WHO). It was spreading rapidly in the Southern Hemisphere when it was Summer there.
Curved swords are quite common in Persian, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese cultures. They're not exclusively Chinese.
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> Plus you get 11x9's of availability (99.999999999% availability).

Note that those 9s are for durability

From https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#How_durable_is_Amazon_S3:

"This durability level corresponds to an average annual expected loss of 0.000000001% of objects. For example, if you store 10,000,000 objects with Amazon S3, you can on average expect to incur a loss of a single object once every 10,000 years"
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If you ask me in person, I will tell you the same. I won't give up what illusion I have left of online anonymity, however. Anything else you wanted to add to the conversation?
Not sure if maybe this is a generational thing or what but...

I used paper towels, newspapers, and magazines all the time as a kid when we ran out at home and never once clogged anything as far as I can remember.

There is also the option of throwing the used paper in the trash. This is standard practice in Mexico and I assume many other places with poor water pressure.
I used https://open.nomie.app when i had to take a medicine for several months and wanted to know how my body reacted and how the symptoms changed.
RST is terrible. The idea is great, but the ball was dropped on the execution.

We switched to restructured text for fish, and I remember the insane loopholes I had to jump through to render the markdown equivalent of `followed by a trailing space ` because Sphinx absolutely insisted on eating that trailing space.. and there’s no way to actually explicitly define an inline code block so I could bypass the abstraction (whereas with Markdown I could always just insert a code element).

And don’t get me started on the inability to nest markup. What a joke. You can’t bill something as a “more legitimate documentation language” when you’re not even at feature parity with Markdown.
There's a middle ground. One wants to take advantage of the prior work supporting all these keyboards, while improving and/or making more understandable the core keystroke processing logic. Develop a user language for this logic, that translates to C code that can be included in QMK?
Exactly, we print /currency/ like crazy. Take a deeper look at what quantitative easing is if you want to really go down the rabbit hole...
That would be one of the loricaferans mentioned in the original article.
fro the article:

"deCode has published the results of a total of 5 571 tests. Those have yielded 48 positive results (0.86%)"

'deCode' is the new series that will test everyone.
Such draconian measures had to be used as many people aren't exactly serious in India. There are people who are using this situation for "family get-togethers" and other types of fun activities. The PM literally had to plead everyone to remain at their homes.
> There's really no point in his travels other than personal satisfaction.

IIUC, you're advocating hedonism as a sufficient purpose for some lives. I think for many people, the possibility of hedonism as the greatest possible good causes them existential dread.

Caveat: I've studied far less philosophy than I should have; I may be talking out my backside.
Thanks, that was interesting and illuminating.
I think you can achieve that with 2 spaces at the end
Well both Google and FB have some sort of vague bullshit mission statements. What matters at the end of day is growth and how wallstreet sees them. That's how they measure themselves. Facebook more-so than it's peers "Growth at any cost".
You do not have to persuade me to comply voluntarily. I already did.

I left NY for business 2 weeks ago. About 10 days ago, I started having faint symptoms. I was ready to go home. So I decided to start wearing a mask, and instead to drive straight to the secondary residence in the countryside as it is isolated. Due to the presence of elder relatives, I stayed in a nearby hotel room for 7 days - not even going out while I could have.

I had no laws forcing me to do that. But freedom does not mean people have no respect for other people's lives.

It may produce the same result, but there is a difference between forcing someone and letting them do the right thing by providing them truthful information. And freedom works both ways: that's also why I believe even sick people should not be forced to stay home just to protect me.

This is how in the US we often achieve better results than in other countries: more freedom!

The rise of authoritarianism for one small health crisis worries me just as much as it did on 9/11 for one minor attack. We reacted totally out of proportion, and let our feeling go in the way of reason. We permanently lost some freedoms, and ransacked the middle east (and we are still involved there almost 20 years later)

People die, it's a sad fact of life, and not a valuable reason to outweigh anyone inalienable right to life, liberty and dignity.
While I agree that this might have been a necessary step, I am skeptical about the optimism part in your response. There are millions of people (daily wage labourers, vegetable and fruit vendors, petty shop owners etc.) in India who just have enough earnings to survive for a day or two and there are quite a sizeable number who barely earn enough to feed and clothe themselves. I don't know how they are going to survive the lockdown period. The government has (or probably will) announce some remedial measures (like distributing subsidised food grains etc.) but given the corruption I am unsure all of the subsidy benefits will be well used. (Cases like flood/drought relief being misused is not unheard of). Add to it the fact that it is the whole country that is affected (unlike in past cases where a state was flooded and relief poured in from other parts of the country), and due to disastrous nature of this epidemic (need to keep the social distance) running any relief efforts in itself presents a challenge. I just pray, and hope.
I read that to mean that it saves you from writing highly redundant operator overloads for comparable classes.

You can think of two types of comparison:

* Those that return a boolean. eg. operator < returns bool, true if less than the operand, false if greater or equal.

* Those that return a 3-way value. An example of this would be strcmp(), which might return -1 if less, 0 if equal, and 1 if greater.

The insight is that if the compiler knows the latter exists, it can fill in the former category, and the programmer doesn't have to write a bunch of extra overloads.
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Is this just a rebranding of quantified self?
"Urbit is a clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century."

The best way to get an idea is to read this series https://urbit.org/understanding-urbit/. This is also a great high-level introduction that skips the more technical aspects: https://urbit.org/blog/urbit-for-normies/.

I'd try to explain more here, but I cannot do a better job at than they've already done.

Edit:
Also, it's despised by many on ideological grounds due to its creator's (who is no longer affiliated with the project in any way) political views from a decade ago. I'm not going to comment on this any further, because it's a tired case (discussed in literally every other thread on HN about Urbit) and I find it quite petty.
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This looks useful, but by "100% remote" you don't mean companies that are remote-only, do you? I ask because at least one company I saw here (Eleanor Health) that has a "remote" option isn't on your list. I'm not sure who else is missing.
Mandatory situps as a punishment sounds like a good idea honestly. I'd have no issues police offering that as an alternative to a fine in the UK for petty crimes.

Not so sure about the others though, but fair enough if it works for you guys.
How hot is Louisiana right now ? 110 will be normal for a large part of India in a month.
It seems google is better at that: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/consistency (when compared to https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Introduction...)
I keep hearing statistics like this and I yell at my TV every time. Counting up the people in the hospital is pretty easy, but it doesn't answer the more important question of how many infected 20-54 require hospitalization. Even comparing those numbers to the larger demographics would be helpful.
Indian here in the midst of things .Overall I think this is the best possible decision modi can take and the public (here in Hyderabad at least) are taking this very seriously , compared to a week ago I can hardly see a single person on the road . Police are there at almost all major signals checking for reasons why people are outside.
Don't you mean the Interpreter pattern /s
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Yes, but, my gripe is how markdown breaks standard plain text behavior, without requiring extra formatting (those two spaces). They should have required the extra formatting for the opposite case, if you want to break a line in your code for some reason but not in the final result. Confusingly those two spaces also don't work in hacker news comments while some other markdown features do.

If it was like plain text, with a few ascii symbols used for formatting (like *, _, ...), it'd have been more fantastic than now.

BBCode is better imho.
> This report is from March 3rd, so maybe our understanding has evolved.

A speech from the director-general. Not a report?

> 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.

This is the same WHO that claimed "no evidence of human to human transmission" not long ago. Regardless, iirc, the R0 for SARS-CoV-2 is estimated at 2.5 to 3.5, much higher than Influenza's, which is at 1.8. It doesn't matter if SARS-CoV-2 is spread by the infected yet not sick, because the R0 is significantly higher, plus the incubation period is too damn long and there's no therapeutic treatment nor a vaccine.

When the dust settles, and more conclusive and complete research is done to learn about the virus, we will have all the answers, but given the current state of affairs, imo, it is highly unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 is any less infectious than Influenza.
They may be at low risk of death, but not of transmitting the disease. When the economy reopens, we need real measures to reduce transmission.

For example, all businesses with more than one person or with customer contact (including not-quite-employment situations like UPS or ride sharing) should take everyone’s temperature every day. Feverish or otherwise sick employees should be sent some, with pay, and there should be very strong disincentives for managers to encourage their employees to pretend to be healthy.

For another example, everyone on public transit or otherwise in a crowded place should wear a mask. If a real surgical mask is not available, a couple of layers of fabric should still help.
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I'm thinking about viruses like herpes. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a well-known example.
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Apple just unveiled an ipad with lidar sensors. I would say Apple is poised to make the biggest impact since they can make the most phenomenal mass market hardware and well designed software to go with it.

AR/VR will still take a while to be mass market. We need a lot more compute, better algorithms and hardware.
There is no question of whether lockdown is needed or whether there was other alternatives.

But as usual with everything else, it's the poor who are going to be affected the most.

• Daily wage workers, as it implies should earn every day to feed their family. They have already faced the wrath of COVID-19 for past few weeks due to stoppage of certain work, now there will a complete halt.

•States do have public distribution schemes to distribute food ingredients at subsidised rate, certain states have announced making them free; yet there are several labourers who have travelled outside their states and they wouldn't be eligible to get it.

•Those who can stock up supplies have already did, in-spite of govt. requesting not to do so. Again, those who listened to the request (or) do not have the purchasing capacity would be the most affected in the coming days.

•Essential services personnel e.g. Garbage disposal, health workers, utilities etc. should be provided PPE; unfortunately most garbage disposal/sewage cleaners don't have gloves or masks even on normal days in most areas.

•Even if Govt. decides to send money to the poor directly, many don't have Bank Accounts.

Edit: It seems there was a need to clarify poor. For the sake of discussion, let's consider people below poverty limit($14-$17/month) as poor; i.e. 22% according to 2012 statistics but as you can see the limit itself is set very low when compared to standards of a developed country.
Moving my other comment here.

Yes, my company has used AwwApp as well with good results. I definitely recommended. The zoom in/out feature is great
None of those states make sense because they were built by colonialists drawing lines on a map without regard for native concerns. If Indians themselves sat down to divide India along actual ethno-cultural-linguistic lines we'd end up with better results. I'm not saying it's likely or even possible... just that if it were to happen, they might themselves be happier and more prosperous.

I don't know what that would look like because I don't know India that well, but I do know that the guys at work from Tamil Nadu are very different from the guys from Northern India. It's not a Texas vs California difference, it's a "we don't even have the same mother tongue" difference.
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