skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The state tax rate in NY has nothing to do with this response (that seems quite good) to the COVID-19 pandemic. The labs that will be performing these extra tests are private labs, not labs funded by NY state taxes. I wish people could separate their criticism of the different governmental responses to this pandemic from their preferred stance on domestic tax policy.
The problem is that the majority of masks manufactures are in China because that’s where the population regularly wears them for the simple flu.

Understandably the Chinese government would be unwilling to contract their strategic supply of manufacturing out when they need it for themselves.
It definitely would not work, they can do nothing except a partial SHA256 hash- not even a complete one.
This is the most common attribution, yes.
Dosage for food is like a 1000 Gy, for therapy on people its more like 1-10. A medical 60Co source could still reproduce the same effect by putting the masks right against the aperture and increasing exposure time. No idea if this would destroy viruses, though.
Curious, what would you choose?

For whatever reason, the cross-platform UI story seems dire as ever if you don’t count web.
Who says you have to use batteries for everything? For trains you electrify the tracks. For container ships you install a nuclear reactor on the ship the same as a submarine, or burn wood pellets or some other biomass in a steam boiler like the old days. For aircraft you use biofuels, or just buy offsets if that's cheaper (and aircraft are only a small percentage of fossil fuel use).

This doesn't require alien technology, it just requires carbon to be priced so that it isn't artificially cheaper than existing alternatives.
> progressively enable offline-support w/ Service Worker

I'm a bit confused about this point. If it's a basic static site why would this be needed?
The the Apple II version the game is actually very playable with the keyboard (easier than using a joystick) but it would be hard to figure out without some guidance.

At the title screen, hit the space bar to start the game.

After the game starts, hit Control+K to enable keyboard controls.

It uses the standard I,J,K,L + U,O layout for up, down, left, right and jumping. Note that you can't press two of these keys at the same time, but you can hold one of them down.

The Option/Alt key modifies the behavior of these keys, and you will use it often:

- Option+J/L: step slowly rather than run. Use this to safely walk up to the edge of a ledge.

- Option+I: Jump up and hang on to a ledge. Hold 'I' to climb up the ledge.

- Option+K: Drop down and hang on to a ledge. Release Option to let yourself drop.

Use 'U' and 'O' to leap left or right over a ledge. This can be done while running or from a standstill.

Use 'Option' to pick up objects and drink potions.

Use the space bar to see how much time you have left.

There is a lot of trial and error at first, as you discover what things can kill you. When you die you can back to the start of the current level. Some tips:

- You can only safely fall one story. Falling two stories will reduce your life. Falling more will kill you.

- You can safely step into spikes that have popped out of the ground. If you run into them you will die.

- You can jump straight up to see which floor and roof tiles are loose. Run over floor tiles that are loose. Jump up underneath a loose ceiling tile to reveal hidden areas.
Other commenters mentioned SARS, but specifically for Korea, they faced a MERS outbreak in 2015 that resulted in deliberate policy changes that made their response to COVID-19 rapid and effective.
My parents are still going out and about, at least us closing all bars and restaurants might help a bit.

There argument is everyone else is still going out and living normally, And so they aren't going to stop going out if no one else is... I dont know how to he through to them.
What is Vulcan and how is their elaborate signup/info requirement justified?
Sorry for being cryptic, the point was that I prefer appenders being explicitly documented in types or method signatures instead of some built-in magic
And Then There Were None
I imagine the first is because there's no masks which to wear. I only have face mask (well, two masks) because I have a pollen allergy.

Haven't heard really anyone talking about disposable gloves, so I'm not exactly surprised that people are not wearing them.
Chrome sends location and WiFi name to Google for web geolocation calls
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it does.
Keep us up to date, would be interesting to hear if you eventually get tested if this was indeed covid.
there's one on the front page: https://audacious-media-player.org/
Were you tested for regular bacterial pneumonia?

If not you most likely have the corona.
Ask HN: What are the most underrated AI applications outside of self driving?
I strongly disagree. You make a great argument for why stagnation in physics is to be expected, but advances in physics were a minority factor in the technological advances of the 20th century. Advances in chemistry were by far the primary driver, followed by biology, and then by physics. (I love physics, I minored in it in undergrad, and didn't minor or major in chemistry, lest you think I'm biased.)

Chemistry brought us:

- the Haber-Bosch process, artificial nitrogen fixation that revolutionized food production

- the Bessemer process, modern steel production, necessary not just for modern buildings but also engines, modern guns, cars/boats/planes, modern supply chain via shipping and trucks, industrial factory and farm equipment, etc

- modern plastics. Seriously, look around your room, wherever you are. How many things don't have some amount of plastic in them? Less than half, probably?

- petroleum extraction and processing, which powers those steel engines, powers most of our electricity, and is the raw materials for plastic

- modern explosives, especially smokeless gunpowder (did you know that people totally built Gatling-style rotary machine guns in the Victorian Era? The were useless because black powder creates too much smoke for you to be able to aim a black powder-powered machine gun)

Biology brought us germ theory and modern medicine, and of course these fields are all interrelated because engines required thermodynamics and electricity is mostly physics, but none of that required relativity or quantum mechanics.

Quantum mechanics is the foundation for the physical chemistry subfield of chemistry, is crucial to modern silicon integrated circuit manufacturing, and of course—the atomic age. But none of those have had the impact on society as oil alone, for example.

As mentioned, I love physics, but the fact is, details about the fundamental laws of nature just did not have the impact on society that higher-level, less fundamental scientific advancements have had. The Wright brothers created aviation without any quantitative understanding of aerodynamics; and 100% of the societally impactful advancements in aerodynamics since then has had no relation to relativity or quantum mechanics.
This fella goes to town on the nonsense in the GP : https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1241549349999411201
Yes, I know. I've actually been around this block before.

I have a form of cystic fibrosis, as does my 32 year old son who still lives with me. I left all the CF lists years ago because people with CF live in terror and mostly don't want to take chances on trying anything not prescribed by a doctor, even though they are facing certain death.

Doctors don't know how to fix them. When I was diagnosed in 2001, life expectancy in the US was age 36.

Like anyone who has CF or who has a loved one with CF, I know quite a lot about germ control and daily home management of potentially deadly lung problems. Unlike most people with CF, I'm currently drug free. My condition is managed with diet and lifestyle.

I think it's outright irresponsible to say nothing at all in cases where I know a thing and no one else is speaking up, even though I surely an not the only person who knows X. I've mostly spoken up to say, essentially, "If there aren't enough ventilators to go around, airway clearance techniques have been around forever and some of them are non invasive and don't require mechanical intervention. You may still have options, even if the worst comes to pass, the medical system is overloaded and you are trying to survive a deadline epidemic while locked down at home."

If you want to see my past remarks, I've added the link to that discussion to my profile. I'm disinclined to do too much cage rattling on HN in discussion.

I'm currently working on developing a blog in hopes of putting together useful information about best practices for simply avoiding germs in day-to-day life.

I think I know a lot of useful information. I don't think I'm behaving irresponsibly.

I'm still trying to sort out for myself what I think works going forward. I don't think there's anyone on the planet who can tell me what that is.
Everything augments the chances you get cancer. Your chances are higher reading this now than when you had originally posted your comment. So, yes but also, who cares...
BBC Synthetic Voices Study: Artificial Announcer Accents
I would say it's the people listening to the scientists and staying home.
Niche perhaps, but crucial to the success of the hardware. Nobody would buy ipads if there wasn't software for them.
Buying time does get you better drugs, better testing, better data as to how much distancing is needed (there are a range of options), ability to tailor response to outbreaks in specific areas, and ultimately the vaccine. All this information is useful for future outbreaks which will potentially be worse. Alternatively if everyone gets sick at once there will be a massive percentage of people either too sick to work or out of work caring for others.
Why hasn't this become the modern Right to Bear Arms? The root of the second amendment was trying to ensure that one class of citizenry did not have tools at their hands to force another class of citizenry to comply. It maintained a balance. The right to encrypt and keep your data private should be a modern equivalent of the right to bear arms.
World's fastest supercomputer identified chemicals that could stop coronavirus
Lot of people tend to have respiratory failure before situation gets worrisome and breath exercises are a definite way to help your body do what a ventilator does

In yoga asanas, there are few breathing exercises that existed in ancient India and I myself can attest to it that I was able to overcome lot of allergies practising it,

Here is a resource to follow along. https://youtu.be/iUKjuni-6l8 starts at 9 mins and goes on for 15 mins or so

And yes everyone breathes the wrong way, we pull in stomach when inhaling which is supposed to be otherway round, I know it's surprising to hear that we are breathing wrong. if you want the proof just notice a child breathing that's the most natural form of breathing

If you are looking for keywords to look up, the are anuloma viloma & kapalabathi.

Stay safe, stay healthy.
Is this source trustworthy? Edit: to clarify, CBC says that the Canadian government is warning about a lot of Russian “disinformation” going around, so it’s nice when news sources are familiar or vetted
I get it if it's done for strangers, but if it's a couple who lives together then that seems a bit extreme doesn't it?
I've driven on tracks on touring days, so not exactly a race driver, but still. the lack of proper feedback from g forces make harder on sims to understand what the car is doing. a good wheel can help since you get back part of the wheel loading/unloading and at least you know how to navigate the last 20 meters of corner entry properly, giving enough warning of when the front is letting to, but for what the rear is going to do you're just left guessing.

that feeling of the center of rotation shifting is extremely helpful when loading the car, and sure you can just go by track memory on sims, but it's not the same thing.
That's the trouble right there. Boeing are a lobbying organization that can't build functional airplanes but market incentives are aligned so that they receive bailouts anyway and can continue without serious internal reforms. You should lose your shirt over Boeing. It's not that the engineering expertise were lost if Boeing went belly-up, new companies would form. Consider Space X - Elon Musk built a rocketry company from nothing. The market needs to learn where the limits are.
While anecdotal, I pretty much exclusively use the web version and haven’t noticed degraded video quality when on a good internet connection. (I work on a 2015 MacBook Pro.)
What Are Spomeniks?
> AIDS does not meet those definitions, unless you restrict “given population” to mean male homosexuals or recipients of blood transfusions.

All the heterosexual people worldwide who were infected with HIV by their partners might beg to differ.
Hahaha racing on an empty track in a car that’s built to handle like a go cart is nothing like the stress of a circuit race with other cars.

I used to race my modified turbo 500hp and I can tell you that game racing is nada to real life racing. Even knowing that taking a risk can cost you $$$ or your life is stressful enough.

With other cars on the track it’s many more variables to calculate and consider.

So let’s not kid ourselves. The delta is larger than one can anticipate without even factoring the physical stresses.
I feel like few people even know about static site generators, and use general purpose solutions what anything that includes word "site" in it, whether it's dynamic social portal or single page static content.

Like, from the practical perspective, if you have a blog with content that is requested 1000 times per minute, but updates once per month (23 microtimes per minute), why on earth would you setup a database (with geo-redundant replica, of course) and run overly complex code to render the same HTML over and over every single time it's requested? The only possible answer here is being oblivious of other available options, and I believe author of the post is trying to raise awareness that there is another option.
This is the third personal attack in a row that you've posted and the fifth in the last day. We ban accounts that post like that. Please step away.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So web-based Zoom cannot detect if Zoom window is not active?
A doctor-lawyer’s guide to all things Covid-19
I worked as a Haskell developer for a year and a half. The best productivity boost I had was switching to compiling on an EC2 instance. I saved battery, sped up compiles with greater parallelism than my XPS had cores for, and didn’t have to worry about cleaning up ~/.stack
Malaria medicine.
China offered us lower prices, and the lower prices were great. But right now China isn’t selling us those low priced masks. And we do not need China to produce masks.

We know from basic economic theory that there are manufacturers who would either ramp up production or go into production if the demand increased. With China seemingly out of the US mask business for who knows how long there are also fewer available suppliers — another motivator.

Domestic manufacturers should be happy to take our money — it’s simply a matter of timing. We knew of the mask shortage at least by January. I know this, because I was following the news around then, and went to the local stores and saw with my own eyes that they were out of stock. I could only get them at Home Depot. Not Walgreens, not Target, not Wal Mart. Had we been contracting manufacturers to produce masks starting then, we wouldn’t be experiencing as many shortages as we are today, assuming it doesn’t take 2 months for pre-existing manufacturers to ramp up production.

The botched timing in ramping up domestic production in response to a known shortage is the biggest issue, not the fact that China hasn’t been taking new orders for going on 3 months.
If 3% test positive and 0.5% are infected, then most of the positives are false, right?
For Apple using its own CPUs might mean less money spent for hardware, more control and greater user lock in.

But I don't see what's in for the users and software developers? Transition to another architecture might mean more money spent for end-users and more money and time spent for software developers.

Why is everybody so excited?
“ we can firmly determine that SARS-CoV-2 originated through natural processes”

All that means is that they didn’t use a gene editor.

In all likelihood, they were experimenting with something in animals in a lab and it accidentally got released.

If you were trying to research transmissibility, then this is probably the most likely scenario.

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EDIT - if you downvoted me, please explain why. I ascribe no malice in my post, and if I am misunderstanding the process, then correct me before downvoting me.
Complete Data Science Bootcamp – Ian Gould – Medium
Or order direct from the manufacturer. We’d love that!
In general I don’t mind ordering direct philosophically, but here are the practical things that you (as a generalized direct seller) can do to make that more attractive:

1. Make it not cost more to me. I don’t care what your costs are, but I do care what mine are. If I find my way to your shop and have my wallet open, that’s the time to be cost-competitive, not to tack on a $7.95 shipping and processing fee (unless your product price is $8 less).

2. Give reasonable assurance that customer care, if needed, will be about as accommodating as A2Z.

3. Give reasonable payment options. Some people want PayPal. Others hate them. Personally, in part because of #2, I often use them.
macbook air is a good computer. put it in a drawer. it might still come in handy one day.

shitting it up and wearing it down with kubernetes is a guaranteed wrong move.
Somethings up with your code indentation, you might want to fix it.
One of the things that was making me less productive was - ending up scrolling social media every-time I was taking a call on phone(android).
What I did to boost it? I used an app that let me make/receive phone calls on my Mac. :D (the app I use is called "Connecton")
Before I'd actually done any real driving, I thought Gran Turismo 4 with a Logitech wheel and pedals was the real deal.

Then I started driving and realized it's not quite there. It certainly taught me about proper corner entry, but not the visceral parts of it.

Even good simulators are like those "virtual rollercoasters". Not quite the same.

And like you said, it's very much the "I can't feel it in the seat, I can't feel the vibration difference in the pedals, frame and wheels".

If you're paying attention when driving on snow and ice, you can "feel" when the back of the car is "light" without actually kicking it out. You don't get that in these sims.
I used to run minikube on my MBA till last year (Was running Arch). It was very underpowered to run a cluster, as I guess they'll soon find out. This was a MBA 2015, so the OP's 2012 MBA is even less powerful.

The fans would start whirring, and the device was immediately unusable for anything else. I switched to using microk8s, which is slightly better, but still makes the device crawls. The MBA also only has 4GB RAM, which is very low on what you might count as k8s-ready.
To put it into perspective, Coronavirus would just fit in 25 transistors long at this scale! However, to be fair, it has 30 kilobases where each base is 2.5nm X 0.3nm. So we still have some way to go...
Did you just read the list of side-effects without checking how often they happen? With that mindset any over the counter medicine will read like description of Zyklon B.
Someone doesn't want you to see this
This keeps getting removed from HN.

Protect freedom of speech.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2258702/

I think it would be good to use this thread going forward:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22662981
> It's been over 10 years since I last worked with C++ every day, and I'm nowhere near being a competent C++ programmer anymore. Part of that is because C++ has evolved, which is a very good thing. Part of it is because C++ is huge. From a decade away, it seems hard to be a competent part-time C++ programmer: you need to be fully immersed, or you'll never fit the whole thing in your head.

This is really true. I have worked with C++ for 15/20 years, reading and studying everything I could.

I've reached a good competence but every time I stopped for a while I immediately fell behind.

C++ is a difficult beast.
When people say "targeted ads" these days, that's not what they're talking about. Perhaps it's a poor term. "Targeted ads" means ads that are targeted to a specific user, as opposed to a publication.
Federal Reserve makes open-ended asset purchase commitment
It's not socialism if the poor unwashed people don't get anything for free. /s
What problems do we tackle if everything is just "a small percentage" of the big issue?

Also, would you give up 2.5% of your net worth?
> This is another scenario given our medical capabilities, well trained healthcare workers, and cultural outlook we are not yet talking about.

In the UK the ethics boards are working on policies for triage
One difference is that the government is planning to give money to citizens, but not to undocumented immigrants.
This is my opinion too, and I see the value. Having at least one part of your life that seems "steady" helps when the rest is upended. It can come across callous if that is not communicated though.
Data loss prevention – complete guide
Using a website in emergency which have any dependency is just retarded.
Lessons from Gitlab–A $1B Business with 700 Remote Employees
More information about the project (I’m unaffiliated, just wanted to learn more!) https://blog.excalidraw.com/reflections-on-excalidraw/
The fact that we functioned without something doesn't imply that we're better off with it.
> We have to keep in mind that this is unlike a anything anyone alive has seen.

Pedantically not quite true:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/22/be-careful-spa...
Have you tried DeaDBeeF Player? It was supposedly created as an alternative to Foobar2000

https://github.com/DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef
upvoted: it’s repost of a repost of a 2 year old article, but still great article. original from 2018 :https://medium.com/content-uneditable/implementing-single-fi...
It baffles me how everyone in China has a mask but we can’t even fulfill masks in the US for doctors and nurses. Something is seriously wrong here.
Or just use whereby.com

No plugin needed.
> Sweden has gone from 2 years of supplies to about 16 days, i.e. whatever is in the distributor's warehouses and on the road at the moment.

Funny thing is, some people call this lean market-based optimization "efficient".

Nature happens to have a different definition. If you can only survive and operate at peak capacity during regular conditions, and are destroyed during a crisis, there's nothing efficient about that.
Indeed. They could all be 45-to-55 year olds.

Or patients with other co-morbid issues or who are immuno-compromised.

Or of under-60 group most of them are homeless and haven't eaten much the past few months (plus sleeping rough in the winter).
The only other practical idea I've ever heard of is serving a dynamic page to a CDN.

Which means it was made into a static page. On the CDN. Wooo, progress!
question for HN: do single-file components _actually_ work better for you than having the script, markup, and styling in three separate files?

i've been doing a little Vue and a little WPF/XAML lately. with Vue SFCs, i find myself constantly scrolling up and back down in long files. with WPF, i'm switching between the XAML markup in one editor tab and the code-behind in another. i find the WPF workflow is better for me, because i lose my place less often.
I've found that the call quality drops after about 20 minutes when using the Zoom web app on Chrome with participants from London/US. Also, the memory usage of the Chrome tab goes sky high. Doesn't happen with hangouts though - that actually feels quite smooth in comparison.