skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In whhat way a web app is better in this regards?

Most app that need to push updates to the client do it by having a background service talking to the update server or polling for updates

You can even do it via HTTP(S) if every other protocol is blocked by a firewall or a corporate proxy
"how do we prepare for some event we can't even think of?" this question is much better phrased & where my intention for this thread lies.
Indeed, I've also seen some scary declarations. I was thinking if it wouldn't have been better to be more upfront about the planning fe.:

Guys, we either let things run as usual and wait for the virus to spread - and it will spread and damage the economy + the health system to an unknown degree - or we do our best for a while to delay things until we get better prepared to handle the ills.

Emphasise on 'our best' because if we don't then the lockdown will be both bad and useless.

We got your back through fiscal stimulus during this time. As soon as we see that the lockdown causes more harm than it solves we will obviously lift it and try other measures.

EDIT

What I meant with Real Life™ is that I believe it cannot be shut down, it can only be changed. Sure, as we speak, people can't have 3$ Starbucks drinks but will still go to the park (groups of 2 max) and have a chat while walking/running.
Some thoughts:

- Short term we need government to step in and avoid a large-scale meltdown of businesses that would be more catastrophic than the virus itself. This will likely involve taking equity stakes in airlines etc. Warren Buffet might also be willing to help here again, he has 128 billion USD saved up for times like these :)

- Stock market likely hasn't seen the bottom yet. There will be more deleveraging and panic selling. Long term (10+ years) it's still a good point to buy (perhaps with one third of the capital you do not need anyway)

- Western countries might lose some civil rights that are necessary to quickly control new outbreaks (e.g. analysis of cell movement data to
locate all places an infected person visited)

- There will be long-term impact with regards to stricter controls necessary to quickly contain new outbreaks. This will increase costs for a few, potentially a lot of industries (everything travel, potentially logistics)

- I have some fear that some countries which are simply not able to get the virus under control will be disconnected from the rest of the world economy, since no one wants to risk importing the virus from them again.

I hope most of the countries go the way China went in Hubei: Take the most radical measures immediately - i.e. total lockdown, government backs the economy. This will make it possible to lift them after a very short time and affect the economy the least while controlling the spread of the virus.
Yeah... Lets not forget that you actually need to get fitted for those masks.

Simply producing a mass market variant that allows for gaps in the masks' coverage, air seepage? Defeats the purpose.
Over a thousand comments? My project is gonna be lost in the conversation! But here goes anyway ...

I've been recoding my HTML5 <canvas> library from scratch[1]. Most of the work is done - I'm now onto the fun documentation bit[2].

Something I'm particularly proud of achieving in the recode? Dynamically responsive bendy images in the web browser - with added animation capability![3]

[1] Scrawl-canvas v8 code base - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/tree/v8-alpha
[2] Scrawl-canvas v8 code documentation (incomplete) - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/tree/v8-alpha/do...
[3] Youtube video showing dynamically responsive bendy images in the web browser - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LebxNhVWyOQ&t=3s
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-tho...

Not ‘may’ have underlying problems. No less than 99% have other health problems. Around half of the deaths had 3 underlying problems. But we still credit the virus? Not the fact many of these folks have serious health issues?

”As of March 17, 17 people under 50 had died from the disease. All of Italy’s victims under 40 have been males with serious existing medical conditions.”

I have an eyebrow raised.
I'm writing about helping cats run a farm by building a website. The goal is to teach kids and whimsical adults some basic web development skills using Ruby on Rails. I hope to compile and expand the blog posts into a book. https://rubycat.farm/
How much LOC did u guys have at the moment, and how much data are u monitoring?
For smaller problems Julia was working perfect for us.
In your jobs. On the projects you are involved in. Do you have a disaster recovery plan? Have you tested that plan? No. Why not? Oh, lack of funding and people ressources. Something was deemed more important? Same goes for hospitals i guess, especially in countries where people don't like taxes and where the tax money goes to the military. USA for example.
I read a paper recently on the Chinese outbreak of COVID-19 that found approximately 80% of the positive test results on people without symptoms were false positives.
Everywhere else? Germany is the only country at or below 1% for top countries with the outbreak. China only had 4% Spain has 6% Italy 9% the US climbed to 1.3 this morning and will probably climb.
Just a heads up - @ninepoints let me know he got rate limited and will answer as soon as allowed again ;)
Show HN: A WP plugin saves media storage and crops thumbnails w/ face detection
For English-speakers unfamiliar with famous Germans, I mildly recommend The German Genius. This book was written in 2010. It covers the last 200-300 years of famous Germans and their contributions to science, the arts and politics.

While it's an awesome book and a really good introduction to Germany, I can only "mildly" recommend it because it's 800 pages of short biographies. It took me 6 months to finish. It's a bit of a slog.
The "don't touch the edges, just the corners" had me a little worried. Visitors don't always pay attention. I wonder how hot the parts you weren't supposed to touch were.
What Wormholes Would Look Like According to Physics (VR/360)
There are also lots of MealMaster recipes available online at sites like this: http://thehoseys.org/buster/recipes.html
The Fed could drop a bag with a million freshly-printed FRNs in it on my doorstep, and I'd simply take the bag and put it in my bedroom. A significant number of people aren't going to spend the money no matter how much it is.
Funny How many caught the flu? and is testing positive for Corona the same as having Ebola or Leprosy ? or will you be sick for a week and recover like we normally do from the flu>? Keep in mind more people have died in the U.S. from seasonal, common flu than has died World Wide from this 'epidemic'. (Which started in the most populous country so listening to the pundits it should have had 100s' of millions deaths!) How is that possible?
That seems to be correct. Oh well, I hope that the link helped.
There's also the non-technical aspect that Google, Facebook or some other advertising giant would probably co-opt the technology immediately to stuff it with ads. That alone turns me off the concept completely. It's a sad state of affairs. With Google Glass on one hand and Facebook's Oculus on the other it's pretty clear that they're aware of the potential of such technologies.
It's natural that you'll get publicity and curious onlookers when doing new releases -- might be worth considering that natural audience, too, when writing the NEWS file.
Reminds me of this:

https://jezebel.com/stories-about-my-brother-1835651181

Author's brother died from am embolism resulting from height extension surgery.
>run them as a hotel

Unlicensed hotels, mind you.

>What toxic waste, exactly, do Airbnb listing dump on their neighbours?

There was a massive issue in my town where students would rent airbnbs and party, keeping neighbors up when they had to go to work the next day. Police were having to attend to more and more incidents.
The story just continues to be corrupt. The last thing I remember was that Twitter blocked WikiLeaks' account for no reason and without any justification or answer after being prompted for comment.
Hello! I'm just a medical student myself, but here's my take on this:

Your lungs operate on the principle of differential pressure. During normal breathing, hen the pressure inside your lungs becomes less than that of the surrounding atmosphere, air rushes in to normalize and fill it until they are again equal pressures. Gradually increasing or decreasing the pressure of the atmosphere around you (as on a plane or while diving) does not change the physical difficulty of breathing. It may slightly alter the diffusion coefficients of gasses passing through the membranes in your lungs, but this effect is mild at the pressures you could attain in an aircraft hull (and toxic at higher pressures! [0]).

For this reason, you'll notice in images of people in iron lungs, their heads are outside of the device. This allows those who cannot create negative pressure (due to damaged or paralyzed diaphragms or ribcage muscles) to follow a different path. The pressure outside of their chest becomes lower than that experienced in their lungs, forcing an expansion; in order to breath out, the pressure in the chamber is increased. In an aircraft hull a person's lungs/trachea/mouth would be exposed to the same pressure as their chests.

This of course does bring up the very valid question: What happened to all of the iron lungs after the decline of Polio?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_narcosis

EDIT: Oh I realize I didn't fully discuss the possibility of using a plane as a hyperbaric chamber [1]. The constraints around this concept also rule it somewhere outside of what I would consider feasible. Aircraft typically use bottled oxygen (I believe the 737M does) or a chemical generator, neither of which can produce continuous oxygen or fill the entire plane with it to high levels [2]. If you were able to outfit patients with individual tanks (which would also have to accommodate for increased pressure), the gains seem mild at best compared to 100% O2 in a hospital setting. Fick's Law for the membranes in your lungs is roughly

Rate of diffusion = (Area * Solubility of gas * concentration gradient) / (membrane thickness * sqrt(molecular weight of solute))

The factor that increasing pressure would modify is the solubility of the gas, which according to Henry's Law [4] is
directly proportional to pressure. At absolute best (100% O2 on the plane at 2atm), you could expect to get 2x improvement in blood oxygen saturation. Unfortunately I don't believe the breathing issues that are being described can be overcome by this strategy. It's an incredibly creative concept though!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbaric_medicine

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_oxygen_system

[3] https://clinicalgate.com/gas-exchange-between-air-and-blood-...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%27s_law
Completely agree with everything you said - great advice.
Or education? Especially in the US, it's unreasonable to pay for most universities without loans.
This is good advice for people who make a living wage. But for many people, an emergency fund is a luxury. I remember not too long ago when I had to decide between paying utilities and buying food. Every single month. Saving just wasn't an option. Many of my friends and family are still in this position, and they've all lost their jobs simultaneously.

I'm not surprised that people are scared right now, because they're used to the anxiety of being one paycheck away from homeless for their entire lives. And now they don't have a paycheck.
Correct. Similarly, even though space is terribly cold, you could be exposed to it briefly without getting cold. Low pressure however is the real danger...
I’m going out on a limb here. One possibility would be mandatory blood donations at “re-education” camps and prisons.
This seems like a misunderstanding of how supply and demand acts in the real world. I didn't say people weren't buying premium products at all - they very much so are. They're just not selling out at the insane rate everything else is. If anything this suggests that the inexpensive products would (assuming we were operating an idealised free market, which we're kind of not because stores are now attempting to limit purchases) become more expensive to match the premium products - but then of course the premium products would sell more (more utility for the same money) so things would balance out again.

Retail pricing logic suggests that brands would rather price relative to the baseline pricing anyway. It's more likely to be generally inflationary unless of course suppliers manage to meet the current demand and even if they do there's a big risk that demand will crash suddenly at some point which could cost the suppliers or retailers greatly as well as they overproduce items that never get bought and cost money to store. It's a big mess, really.
I currently have disproportionately short legs, so I may be the ideal candidate for this. However, there’s no way I would put myself through this painful surgery just to end up having to explain why I’m suddenly taller to everybody. It would make something I’m insecure about a conversation starter for the next year.
Could be, but I don't believe in Google's ability to create a category-defining consumer product. They're an enterprise company that thinks they're a consumer company, there's a lack of understanding humans in everything they do, and they never put enough wood behind each arrow.
I got that demo in Mississippi. They must have had a huge outreach program.
Hmm, I don't get it.

Looks like a way to build your own networks with whatever physical layer you want with a goal of avoiding 3rd parties that may monitor traffic.

But what problem is it actually solving? If you can make your own devices and setup your own physical network, this doesn't seem like it adds value over existing approaches, like using encrypted network tunnels.

The video shows someone in a far future, automated house who watches a rocket put a satellite into space. Huh?

The homepage could probably use some work.
It also has been torn-apart by numerous people with way more credibility. e.g. https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1241522140559503360
Well, that's a good point.

If you don't have the tests, you don't have the tests. I get that.

But then just say, "Sorry guys, we can only test critical cases and emergency personnel right now because we don't have the tests."

What's concerning is that it's possible to reach a point where a person presenting with pneumonia, is not a critical case.
the biggest issue is fresh eggs that have chicken guano on them. the bacteria can move through the pores of the shell and produce toxins in the egg, the egg itself has enzymes [lysozymes] that attack bacteria, but not perfectly
Infection rates are the same. Symptoms are just mild in most cases.

That's exactly and clearly what he meant, isn't it?
There is another comment explaining it; in short, "boots first and has low level control of the SoC".

Defining "main processor" is certainly arguable, as there isn't a unique way of viewing the architecture, but on the other hand, the idea that ARM boards are "very custom" still stands.

Some informations:

- https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/10489/how-do...

- https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/14862/why-do...
There is a great podcast from an Italian doctor summarizing the best practices for hospitals dealing with COVID-19 https://www.stemlynsblog.org/covid-19-podcast-from-italy-wit...

The first point being "Divide your department into resp patients and non-resp patients."
Millions of Americans who are gig workers are not be eligible for any unemployment benefits.
This reminds me of the Honeywell Kitchen Computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316#Kitchen_Computer
Doesn't Venice have "clean water" because all the silt that was suspended in the water due to gondola traffic has now settled on the bottom of the canals?
Just like users "used" the toolbar API back in the Internet Explorer 6 days? Used as in they got the toolbar foisted on them while installing some crapware.

The notifications API is the same. How many of those "uses" are legitimate uses that users consciously want, and how many of them are misclicks or just clicking yes to dismiss the prompt so they can access the content they wanted in the first place?

In my case there's only one website I can think of where I want notifications from my browser: Slack. I can understand that some people might want them for e-mails, social networks, etc but even then that's only like a dozen or so websites. In contrast there more websites than that which use notifications for spammy/annoying/unnecessary purposes, and sadly some people do fall for them and then get their time wasted by these notifications.

In a perfect world where nobody would try to take advantage of people I would totally want web notifications to be a thing because there's basically no downside (websites won't try to use them for spam) and potential upsides.

In a world where it's not only legal but morally acceptable to take advantage of people, waste their time, stalk them, etc (there's a whole industry around this called "martech") I would happily sacrifice the few legitimate uses of web notifications if it means non-technical users can't accidentally opt-into crap and then have their time wasted by spam because they don't know how to opt-out.
My high school math teacher introduced exponential growth by asking the class if we'd take $1M now or $0.01 doubled daily for a month. We, as most people do, wanted the $1M, but the penny turns into more than $5M.

Had to explain this to someone yesterday. They literally wouldn't believe me until I screenshotted an Excel spreadsheet of the daily doublings, despite a finance degree.
I don't really understand why that's an argument against it. We do permanent things all the freaking time. Holes in earlobes and tattoos. We remove - and sometimes install - teeth! We patch folks up with metal, install breast and butt implants, install electronics to help hearts and brains. We suck away fat! Not all of these are minor cosmetic surgeries - some are major surgeries and optional!

And besides, if it weren't permanent, why would one go through the pain of the surgery in the first place? I'd actually argue that if the permanence is something that bothers you, this is certainly not something you would personally consider, but it certainly isn't really an argument against it being available for the wider population.
They are also far more population dense than the US. Viruses love close contact.

Like I said earlier, I support slowing it down. But there is a balance.
Germany does the same. I’m under the impression that there is a big selection bias because I know a lot of friends who have symptoms but can’t get testing because they don’t fit the criteria. And the criteria is having contact with a known corona patient or traveled to a risk area.
As coronavirus fears soar, Europe moves to ban wasteful “ghost flights”
Separating the entangled states or creating entanglement over that distance requires a time longer than the distance / speed of light. So whatever information that went from point A to point B did not break the speed of light barrier.
The best i have seen is the economist style guide - http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/sty...

the US Army writing style guide for leadership is also pretty good - https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/iss_process/...

The examples here are very very good.
It's all the data that's not census data and the fact that it's joined with census data. Why is this data joined with tax information, calls to fire departments, and bike share information?
I get what you're saying. Makes it seem like people are less responsible than they actually are, i.e. Like putting all their business out on social media for everyone to see
TLDR: Redesign the product until its description makes sense.

I've done some technical writing. It's hard work. One open source tool I made, I spent more time on the docs than on the actual code.

Press releases, manuals, installation instructions, etc can be great QA/QC tools. If something is hard to communicate, then the subject itself is probably too complicated. Or just badly designed. Go back and simplify.

One stretch, I was also the engineering manager for a handful of products. So I had the juice to compel improvement.

The manuals and installation instructions were, um, challenging. I made the teams reengineer installers, UIs, workflows, whatever until the technical writing made sense. Other benefits included greatly reducing defects and technical support calls.

--

I also put the QA Test team members in charge of our releases. To great effect. Which I haven't seen any one else do before and since. But that's another story.

I only mention it to acknowledge that most orgs treat writers and testers like crap. Like you experienced. Which is unfortunate, wasteful, and rude.
Started this course based on your recommendation, and agree that it's very good. A lot of mysterious stuff (repo, LIBOR, fractional reserve banking) is making a lot more sense to me now.
I like being able to see new daily cases in line (not cumulative) chart. I couldn't figure out how to choose which countries are displayed. Numerically large ones make the shapes of newly growing ones hard to see.

Edit: that was easy--comma separated country names in the 'Filter:' box
Problem is that in war, you can still go outside in your home country and do work.
Ahh, indeed. Unlike the meritocratic private insurance industry, which definitely doesn't benefit from and encourage corruption, "centralized control of public health" would be a total waste of taxpayer money! It's not as if every country with a system like that is exponentially more functional and livable than those without!
The article explains - in the US, the eggs are washed, which removes a protective layer from the eggs. They are therefore less safe when kept at room temperature than in other countries.
Planarian
Ask HN: How remote is your job? What is missing for 100%?
A software developer can easily perform 100% of his tasks remote. A retail employee can perform 0% remotely.

I am interested in the 70-99% remote spectrum. What do you need to achieve 100%?
i guess he means -- either use an Android (google) phone, or use an Apple iOS phone. but is apple better than google in this sense (data collection)?
CANBUS is an example of that.
Depending on what you think your kids would be interested, looking through a few university courses might be a good call.

Most top CS schools (Stanford, MIT, CMU) have some sort of online lectures. There's also always Udacity/edx as well.
Market prices keep items on the shelf, and also incentivizes increased production, and redirecting supplies to where demand is highest.

Price fixing incentivizes hoarding and empty shelves.
I'm looking for a solution to a problem, and I don't think Library Thing is quite it (or maybe it is?), but I figure the folks in this conversation will have some suggestions on how to move forward on it.

My dad has over 10,000 books. He's a retired professor, and he just … loves books. He's older, and is trying to figure out what to do with his books. Most of them aren't in great shape, so most general-purpose libraries aren't interested. The topics span just about every topic you could think of — philosophy, watercolor technique, Civil War history, chess strategy, ethics, business, fiction — so it's not like there's a topic-specific library or school that would be interested in them.

He'd love to get them to people who will really find value in them, whether that's through a donation or through selling them, but he's not extremely tech-savvy, and he lives across the country from me, so my ability to help coordinate is fairly limited. I thought perhaps some sort of "catalog them, then send to Amazon to sell on the secondary market" approach might work, but that could also be a disaster.

Any ideas? Have any of you handled something similar?