skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do not fear.

1. All evidence shows children have very low risk of severe illness. It can happen but is very very unlikely.

2. Immunity for corona viruses lasts months or years. Why should it be different for this one? Opposing news stories are mixtures of early discharges from hospitals and false negatives test results.

Studies that test also asymptotic cases from Italy and Heinsberg (Germany) (e.g. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/gesundheit/coronavi...) indicate a R0 much higher than 2 or 3 (more between 5 and 10). We do not know infected people(!!!). We just know cases. My belief and hope is that virus is so infectious live can return to normal in weeks not months because almost everybody already has or had it (in areas with community spreading). Don't panic. Distance and wait.
the rational way to live is to live in a big enough domicile that you can have reliably stocked up with 3 weeks of what you need of any item at all times.

but maybe our world is not structured for maximal rationality.
You usually don't need to debug the DOM API calls themselves, but the code close to that, causing the API calls to be made.

The more convoluted and lossy the transformation between that code and the final code that runs, the harder things are to debug.
I have never had a video call that had less friction then sitting together with someone. In my experience this mostly comes down to UX: almost everyone working is trained on how to behave in an on-site meeting, but not everyone knows how to behave in a remote meeting (e. g. muting and unmuting etiquette).
In my experience there is also a bunch of jobs in the technical field that in principal could be done remotely, but suffer due to lack of technical knowledge of the person you are interacting with. An example I think everyone can relate to is tech support for your parents. In my experience that is a lot easier when standing next to them. And a lot of tech jobs are about explaining technology to people who don't have experience with that specific tech yet.
That's a bit unfair, when you fly somehwere you sleep there, you eat there, you spend there. Whereas on a cruise ship the tourist is spending 99% of their money on the ship, and 1% in the city that they're flooding
The part about AWS is false.
Show HN: I wrote a song about being laid due to coronavius
The main disadvantage of lock-free techniques is that you have to write code without any critical sections, that is, you have to properly manage arbitrary interleaving of actions. It's hard enough to manage staleness/inconsistency of data at high (business logic) level, never mind the low level where the code is not even executed in the written order.
If it's accurate, then it's not surprising. How on earth would they have herd immunity by now?
I went on a cruise ship once. Was very bored. I was so bored I tried to wangle a tour of the engine room (after all, I'm an engineer) but no way said the captain. The food was nice. The captain avoided a big storm. I figured if I ever went on a cruise again it would be an a much smaller boat. After all, who doesn't want an oar thrust in their hands and have someone yell "ramming speed!" at them? "We keep you alive to serve this ship! Row well, and live!" and all. Much more fun than the gift shops and roulette wheels.

When I was a kid we crossed the Atlantic in the SS United States. For a kid, that was a blast, especially when we steamed through a huge storm. Wowsa! I'm sad to see the rusty hulk it has become.
What's the summary of the article? I don't have the time to read it but am curious about the answer...
> The broader economy would suffer badly if they were to fail

Why? The planes are not going anywhere. If airlines fail, someone will be able to buy them at a discount. They will need to hire pilots and cabin crews. Shareholders in airlines will be hit - as it should be.
For me it is a lot harder to hold presentations for groups remote than in person as almost all feedback is gone. Due to muting I don't even hear whether people are laughing at my bad jokes.
Few people fly in and flood the streets of tourist hotspot cities for just a couple of hours and then disappear again without spending any money on hotels, and often not even restaurants.

You can do that as a plane tourist too, but it's far less common.

As soon as you stay even one night you are NOT like cruise tourists. You probably had at least one dinner and one hotel stay. Good tourist.
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The thing is, they don't actually send that much. Most of the money is captured by the ship itself. They only leave the scraps of daily excursions etc to the natives
Are there really critical raw materials and food coming from, say, Caribbean islands that we couldn't get somewhere else?

Even if there are, if their economy were hurt by the lack of cruises, why would they hurt it further by refusing to sell anything?
Don't forget the time pressure. It's a real balance act. The ideal panacea would be an already approved drug that is easy to manufacture, scale and distribute.

If fighting covid means we need new drugs then we look at a long development time that will likely stretch the availability of a therapeutic behind the availability of a vaccine.

Obviously everyone knows that these things are needed NOW, all bureaucratic road blocks are removed save the really important and necessary ones. You cannot just hand out a drug to millions of people or inject them with vaccines without thoroughly testing their safety first.

Imagine if the "cure" to covid was long term harmful in a broad population, e.g. it affects 5% of the people negatively. The health, societal and economic impact could wipe the floor with covid.
Spain is an inherently dysfunctional country. A ridiculous ghost of an old evil empire. Its territory must be split and given to neighboring countries and new countries that are created.
A market based solution would be investors buying struggling companies at a discount, or companies using their reserves that they have built based on normal risk management.

Bailout money should be used to help people during unemployment.
> Getting downvoted on this so I'll provide some citations

That's what usually happens here on HN when you say "this is wrong" to the crowd doing that wrong thing.
I don't agree with the assumptions baked into the tool (eg env vars over config, new vs edit, no deletion), yet I like it being opinionated. Keep coding :)
We tried Jitsi recently and it works really well

https://twitter.com/vibhoothi/status/1241645013299167232
> are your students paying attention?

Good question. I have no idea. I no longer have any way to tell. (My software tells me if they're logged on, but not if they're actually paying attention.) Students have been asking questions, so at least some students are paying attention.

> How is the overall experience of elearning

Another good question, and again one I don't have an answer to.

In response to campus closures, many instructors have decided to radically change what they're doing. If they're teaching a foreign language or a laboratory science, or if their class relies on a huge amount of student-to-student interaction, then they have no choice.

I'm teaching a math lecture course and I've chosen to stick, more or less, to my original plans. And although I've repeatedly encouraged students to be in communication with me, for the most part I still don't have a good sense of how things are going from their angle.

My guess is that some students will finish strong, and that some will fall apart -- especially if the virus reaches their friends or relatives. The challenge for me will be to help out students who are going through an incredibly diverse set of challenges.
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I’ve always been curious about that, why do cruise ships always get hit with gastro? I rarely hear about it but when I do it’s on a cruise ship.
But prove that this matters. How many people are in that group? Is it not possible to quarantine the workers?
You absolutely can do secure attention key with just another program. If your account does not have /dev/input permissions, only your display server has keyboard access (unless you run stuff as root lol), and handle key combos that force some secure thing to happen.
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If the company is on the brink of bankruptcy, its stock is going to be close to worthless anyway.
In the case of Mathematica, 1-based indexing also makes sense in the context of it being a lisp-like language where everything is an expression that can be represented as a tree.

So in the case of

exp = x + y + z

this is syntactic sugar for

exp = Plus[x, y, z]

As expected with 1-based indexing exp[[1]] returns x, but the zero index can also be used to access the head of the expression, so exp[[0]] returns Plus.

Another nice property of 1-based indexing in Mathematica's case is that by using negative indices you can access elements in the reverse direction, so exp[[-1]] would return z, and exp[[-3]] would return x.
Have you tried getting hold of isopropyl alcohol (or similar) recently? Impossible :(
I noted exactly that in my comment. Yes, not all the population can go on a cruise. No, it's not like it's only the healthiest 20% of the population that can. If I randomly sampled the population I'd expect the majority to be capable of a cruise. What do you think cruises are like?
I think this is a case of pure product market fit. Where you make money despite how poor the experience is as long as the product fulfils a need.

There is a problem, you fill that problem and people are willing to pay to have that problem solved.

"Quality of experience" really starts playing a role with competitors.
Working on a marketplace that shows you all kinds of subscription services/tools with free trials in one place, combining it with automatic reminders so you can hop through hundreds of trials for free without forgetting to cancel.

Also made a Chrome Extension that automatically detects trials on websites and makes adding reminders pretty much just one click.

https://www.getbluefox.com

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Flattenthecurve (Covid-19 Simulation)
-I used to live in a small town (Aalesund, Norway, pop. of town centre - 10,000 or so).

It is a popular port for cruise ships doing the Norwegian coast. I assure you, during summer season one could have 2-4 vessels in port - effectively a DoS attack on town.

Getting from A to B on foot was nearly impossible, forget any shopping or café visits - a town built for 10,000 suddenly had twice as many people in the streets. Go figure.

While the cruise tourists leave a little cash behind, it is much less per head than, say, camper van tourists do.

I didn't mind all that much - but I can see valid reasons for not wishing to have a cruise entourage come crashing down on your hometown on a regular basis.
Nit: tables are part of github-flavored markdown, not John Gruber's original Markdown.PL, and there's also another table extension syntax for markdown. Apart from that, the point of markdown is that you can drop to plain inline HTML/markup or markup blocks when markdown short syntax is insufficient, such as for complex table layouts. Regular markdown syntax really is made for plain text editing. As such, it would probably make more sense that a visual editor, cool as it looks, targets robust markup serialization (HTML-in-markdown) rather than producing markup shortform syntax IMO (but then again, the plethora of markdown editors may prove me wrong on this one).
Are the regular capital markets closed to the airlines? Even after all the turmoil Delta’s market cap is more than $14B. Just as they bought back shares in good times, now that they have a need for cash on hand they can sell new shares.
On a related note, your comments are pretty bad.
What do you use to clean yourself down there in the shower?
Kafka topic creation with Scala and Gradle
> a total of 10k (by say the end of the year)

Two weeks ago Italy had 463 deaths, and it now has 6000. I'm not convinced the US containment measures have been quick enough or effective enough to be significantly better than Italy, so I'd expect 10k deaths in under 3 weeks.
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That's true. But the number of upvotes are evidence that I'm not the only person experiencing this.

I love to travel, but I try to stay at least 10 days on any place I go to and learn a bit of the local language and customs.

For that I really need the airlines to work, but if they get more expensive, I understand, and will just make longer vacations at less places.
I miss the toilets with the spray in Japan so much. Never feels fully clean with just paper.
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Yeah, I do agree. That was not a critic of Svelte, just a comment about that there is a difference between compilation (Svelte) and transpilation (Babel).
I do use Svelte in every day job myself and prefer it to React (which is also great) just because writing Svelte "feels" like what Javascript has intended to be.
Maybe delete your comment? You aren't doing yourself any favors by saying that kind of stuff.
It's been almost ready for a year now.
You are some several decades in the past. The fact that everyone on Earth is not in the same reference frame affects your everyday life nowadays, because it affects Atomic Time and that in turn affects everything that is based upon Atomic Time.

Since the 1970s, TAI construction has had to compensate for the differences between the physical locations of the atomic clocks in laboratories around the world and an ideal surface of equal gravitational potential around the world.

Nowadays, BIPM and other laboratories routinely talk about general relativistic corrections across the width of the measuring devices. To quote Appendix 2 of the SI Brochure:

> In 2013, the best of these primary standards produces the SI second with a relative standard uncertainty of some parts in 10^16. Note that at such a level of accuracy the effect of the non-uniformity of the gravitational field over the size of the device cannot be ignored. The standard should then be considered in the framework of general relativity in order to provide the proper time at a specified point, for instance a connector.

-- https://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/
I used org-mode tables to tabulate student grades for a course I was teaching last semester. Summing single columns was okay. But I needed to drop selected assignments (had a column with 1s and 0s). And then had to figure out the percentage marks each student had in the assignment component.

It was honestly a huge pain. I could have written the formulas for this in under 15 min on a regular spreadsheet software. With org-mode I spent hours trying to figure it out. In the end I had a hacky solution that I don't want to use again.
Project management challenges nobody talks about
Spanish police reported targeted ransomware attacks to hospitals and clinics. The lure are emails pretending to be updated covid medical information. It is very sad somebody out there is willing to try this right now.
At least in my country a big chunk of grandma and grandpa's retirement is subsidized by government programs, if not directly provided by government programs. The same way we provide disability coverage for people who end up out of work through no mistake of their own due to on-the-job injury, etc. You might have your own 401k you deposited salary into or have extra private disability insurance but a big chunk of your safety net here is a government program that you pay into while you're able-bodied and working and then draw out of when you're disabled and/or retired.

It's not as if a disease mitigation shutdown is the only thing that's going to crater grandpa's 401k. His stock holdings took a big hit during the 2008 crash too (as did mine).

Acting to preserve the economy first and foremost will not help those people. You have to keep them alive first while coming up with effective strategies to look after them later in the event that their retirement funds somehow evaporated. What good is protecting their retirement funds if the retiree isn't around to spend them?
Man, I hate how people have all kinds of "reasons" why industry X shouldn't be bailed out. Uh, no. Nobody should be bailed out, as a general principle.
I like it! Reminds me a bit of comma separated trees:

https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/comma-separated-tree
-Thousands of passengers from all over the world, (comparatively) cramped quarters, HVAC systems push air from cabin to cabin without sterilisation, buffets where hundreds handle the same serving utensils...
Not true. Cruise passengers practically run the economy of many cities around the world including US. For example, a lot of towns in Alaska basically live off of cruise ship docking there. If they stop, many of them flat out collapse. I don't have actual data but my anecdata from several cruise ship regulars is that they spend at least as much on "excursions" and touring the ports as on cruise ship ticket.
Amazon Suspends Almost 4k Seller Accounts over Price Gouging
AWS Serverless Application Repository is trying to be something like this I think.
My local shop seems to have had the presence of mind to order extra beforehand, they had a pallet of TP out and they had it on sale as well - but it was the smaller packet, so not the most economic anyway. Anyway that shop hasn't had a shortage as far as I know.

But yeah same, I would've expected things to have calmed down by now - how much toilet paper can people hoard? That's not even the main issue, we're still having problems finding fresh produce and meat and the like. I mean sure, some (like bread) can be explained by more people working from home (we like our lunch sandwiches), but people should still be eating dinner as normal.

The statistics are that grocery shops are seeing 35% more revenue, bigger even than around christmas.

But again, I hope things settle down a bit once people realize they can't physically cram more supplies into their house. After this I think we'll see a big decline in e.g. toilet paper because people have stocked up on so much.
What ruins families more, a breadwinner losing their job due to a shutdown or spending a month in the hospital?

P.S. You're probably not getting paid wages during that month in the hospital. Have fun paying off those ICU medical bills when you get back if you still have a job somehow and weren't replaced by someone who wasn't on a ventilator.

Unemployed parents are at least around to look after the kids. A parent sick in the hospital with COVID-19 isn't working or looking after anyone.
This site maybe? It's from that time and still exists https://www.amazing1.com
The pay no taxes.

Carnival Corp and Norwegian both posted negative income tax expenses — that is, they received more in refunds or deductions than they paid or set aside for taxes — with Carnival reporting an income tax expense of $71 million and Norwegian reporting an $18.9 million tax benefit.

They don’t contribute to the public fisc in good times, they should have no call on it when times are tough.
I just shared my balanced opinion in a civilized way. I honestly think the dismantling of the country would be in the best interest of most of its inhabitants (except for a tiny minority who is directly benefited by the francoist clique).
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> why do cruise ships always get hit with gastro?

Everybody uses the same touch points, all day long. Most get their food from the same buffet line, touch the same food, the same drink dispensers, sit down at the same tables (which aren't cleaned often enough), sit on the same deck chairs at the pool, hold on to the same railings on the stairways (especially since the boat is moving), etc., etc.

They're all packed into the same space, making the same movements every day (room, to the stairs/elevator, to the buffet, to the stairs/elevator again, to the pool, to the stairs/elevator, etc.) Any virus that makes it to any common touch point is going to infect everybody in a matter of hours.
Not the first time the CCP has doctored statistics.
Having a buffer is fine, but only starting to build up your buffer when everybody else does so as well is not. Everyone could've kept a month's supply of toilet paper on hand already. We've had an emergency supply of food and water (should last about a week?) for a couple of months now. I mean a few years ago we had months of drought, the tap never stopped but in some areas pressure was reduced, so it can happen to anyone.
Can +1 this. I have it set to run periodically, and it sets up the identities for my "work" projects and personal projects.
CDC: Coronavirus survived in cruise ship cabins up to 17 days p passengers left
Are we supposed to only say popular stuff?

All ideas are worth discusding, even if only to explain why they are not going to be implemented.
Man dies after ingesting chloroquine in attempt to ward off Covid-19
Total demand in the long run may be inelastic, but when it's on discount there are certain people who will stock up on it.

Toilet paper right now effectively is at a very steep discount relative to its true market value. Hoarding could be stopped, or at least mitigated, by price increases. Shortages could be avoided that way.

However, the prospect that toilet paper prices might rise is more worrisome to regulators than there not being any toilet paper to buy at all.
>>Spain is an inherently dysfunctional country.

That's not a balanced opinion. That's just throwing shit into the crowd to see a reaction. If you really believe the stuff that you said, then explain why you think it's disfunctional and then we can have a discussion about it - maybe we'll even agree on some points! But otherwise you're just noise at best and provocator at worst.
In a bind, you can cobble an emergency bidet / ass wash together from a bottle of water with a hole in the cap.
If there are differences in principle they don't have much practical effect. Here's a graph of the Netherlands together with its neighbours Germany and Belgium (and for comparison Italy): http://www.casualhacker.net/covid19/#act;rel;log;DEU;ITA;NLD...
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Rant/Opinion: Your biggest problem right now is denial