skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The paper also covers a theory of why bats can be long-term carriers of coronaviruses without showing symptoms of disease

Specifically, citation 77: Xie, J.; Li, Y.; Shen, X.; Goh, G.; Zhu, Y.; Cui, J.; Wang, L.F.; Shi, Z.L.; Zhou, P. Dampened STING-Dependent Interferon Activation in Bats. Cell Host Microbe 2018, 23, 297–301

My reading is: the STING protein activates type I interferon which in turn activate the immune system which hones in on viruses and infected cells. In bats either the production of STING or the type I interferon response is dampened so unless the virus is specifically harmful to bat biology, the immune system will largely keep it in check or ignore the virus (possibly) without causing problems with homeostasis (fever, etc) and inflammatory/autoimmune responses.

That raises an interesting question: are bats a keystone species for many zoonotic viruses w.r.t. human civilization? Lots of viruses like ebola and nipah virus are too deadly or not infectious enough to spread very far outside of metropolitan areas and most of the rest don't mutate as fast as the flu so we can stamp them out with vaccinations and modern public health institutions. What if bats are the species keeping those viruses alive and mutating, causing outbreaks across species and continents?

Other studies have shown that viruses spread very fast in bats like, for example, rabies which can be found in anywhere from 15% to 50% of the bat population depending on the continent. This holds for many viruses that effect many species so if they're basically immune, what if bats are in a symbiotic evolutionary relationship with viruses? All the zoonotic viruses that don't target bats outcompete the viruses in bats that do and "in return" the bats immune system ignores them, shedding their viral load all over the place, causing outbreaks even with diseases that would have naturally wiped themselves out.
will it be "7 days of non-use" for regular websites that use localStorage?

You can't really have "seven days of application use without visiting the site".
What a gorgeous example of false analysis - typically lists like this fail (especially if they weigh all items equally).

There are multiple Asian countries that are handling this wayyyy better (no economic shutdown, virus transmission under better control) and the US somehow should overtake them and be “the best”?

I predict that even China will do better than the US, and they had the least forewarning of all countries.

I think at some point soon the US will need to bring out the military to lock down road travel (prevent epicentres from spreading), along with other tracking measures. How everyone reacts to that will be interesting...

Unless someone comes up with a miracle cure within the next month or so!
Wow! Thank you. I had restarted 3 times thinking I was just screwing up somehow.
No it won't, because it doesn't have the GUI tooling at the same level, an optimizing AOT compiler for .NET, ability to write engine pipeline stages in .NET (DOTS), the quantity of items in the asset store, the sponsorship from Nintendo/Google/Microsoft and most important, it isn't part of the curriculum of many top level schools in games design.

It is still a nice engine for small teams though.
I've found my Samsung Galaxy Watch Active2 to be hilariously incorrect with estimating sleep tracking, and I miss my Fitbits for getting that measurement.

Example: on Sunday, I woke up, drove 20 minutes to a trailhead, proceeded to strenuously hike for an hour, drove 20 minutes back. When I checked the sleep log later that day, the watch had automatically assumed I had been sleeping through the entire hike.

I like most other things about this watch, but sleep tracking is not one of them.
I have a Garmin Vivoactive 4. I love it and it beats my Fitbit Versa in all ways. It's nice since it tracks pulse ox and respiration on top of wrist movement. Though I am not entirely sure how it would work for restless legs.
I would stress the out-of-the-box support for blue-green deployments in a system that is fully versioned, thus supports rollbacks like a champ.
Investigating DNS lookup failures in Kubernetes
This feels like 4-5 random ideas that don't really fit together, combined into one post.

DNS and good source IPs are mentioned and it starts off as if it's going to be fairly technical, but then talks about ideal cadences, and some guy called Gareth. Then markdown and Hugo?

Good writing, but I would suggest more thinking about what your point is and then making it.
Name some of these "credible" voices. Thus far, most of the skeptical analyses seem to come from non-specialists and/or make some ridiculous assumptions that do not hold water.
I recommend adding an archive of the past emails so I can review the content before signing up. You also get web visitors that way, people that would rather read websites or via RSS.
Here in Safari, Gmail is not only 10x buggier than it used to be before the redesign, it also uses at least 10x more client-side resources (CPU, network, ...). A handful of open Gmail tabs single-handedly use more CPU over here than hundreds of other web pages open simultaneously, including plenty of heavyweight app-style pages.

It’s hard to escape the conclusion that Google’s front-end development process is completely incompetent and has no respect for customers’ battery or bandwidth.
It has been horribly fascinating watching the (coordinated?) campaign to downplay either the fatality rate or just write off a percentage off the population dying as the "cost of doing business".
I've also had enough with various wikis. And at some point we didn't find a decent tool for documenting our projects. We decided to build our own tool https://nots.io (yay NIH syndrome).
The main idea is to make possible to link any type of doc like plain or markdown text, files, google docs right with the code. To give all docs a clear scope. And make it easy to discover what code is documented from the site or IDE.
We also track the relevance of each added document. When new commits come in and the code behind the doc changes, we decrease its relevance factor (we call it the fresh rate), and let you know if the document is obsolete now.

We have a demo (https://nots.io/demo). Check it out, I'd love to get feedback.
If anything it shows how over subscribed the lines are by the providers. I'm sure they'll use it as an argument for gov. investment. :/
You are, and if you're in a big channel that brings a lot of attention and Discord notices it they'll probably shut it down. Same reason people don't just usually stream movies from Twitch. I've seen some Twitch channels that do, like the popular Bob Ross channel, but that's with approval of the rights owners who get a cut of the revenue.

Keep it small and intimate in Discord and it will probably be okay.
I don't think Apple uses UFS storage on a iPhone. They do their own thing.
Sounds awesome! Thank you for the recommendations and the great game!
doh. tank you!
It certainly looks exponential until mitigation/suppression measures are put in place or you reach herd immunity. Guess which of the two will result in more deaths?
Can't have metal w/o electrons. :)
I think if you shot someone who happened to be impervious to bullets it would still be attempted murder. Or if you just shot your gun willy-nilly and happened to hit no one, that would at least be criminal negligence, right?
Silicon Valley can’t jump the line when it comes to coronavirus testing
Just an idea, but looking back on internships from years past, three things they give you are experience/learning, networking/relationships, and a resume item.

Perhaps you could proactively address #3 now by using their sympathy to get them to write you a short 'recommendation' or vouch for the fact that they accepted you for their internship program, so that in the future on your LinkedIn you can note the summer of 2020 as the headline 'Internship at ______ - canceled due to Corona - instead I taught myself _____', and then in the body of that entry, start with their quote they gave about what impressed them about you, and then write the rest of the entry about what other stuff you learned / did instead.
Try your luck now to get a gift from pizza hut
I don't see why people are obsessing over this. The pandemic is just beginning so we know we don't have the data we need yet to believe in firm numbers. It's just mental masturbation.
I feel like my Oura is pretty accurate. The fact it's a ring makes it very comfortable for sleeping, no issues at all.

FWIW, my sleep doctor says Oura rings are not accurate at all, but anecdotally I don't agree with him.

I do find the Oura is terrible at tracking activity like exercising, it's just wildly wrong. But for sleep it seems very accurate.
> [...] is not a bad thing for your clients

Except when you have to pass some of the 30% Apple fee on to your clients.
I don't have the link, but there was a study of the SARS outbreak that indicated that something like 20% of the victims were unable to return to their prior professions.

It's a different, though related virus, but there is some reason to believe that at least some victims will have lasting effects.
Italy has over larger fatality rate over identified cases then China had.
The FAQ explains how this differs from the like of gogs, gitea, phabricator, gitlab, and github.

It aims to provide a limited subset of the features they provide. More similar to cgit.
When you recover from a virus, antibodies are in your body. These can be detected, Once you're recovered, you can no longer spread the disease. Problem is, people with mild symptoms believe they don't have it, or have recovered.

I'm one of the many, many people who has been ill for a while during the past weeks, and would like to know if I had it. If I can know for sure that I had it, and no longer have it, then I can "move on with my life" indeed. As in, I no longer have to worry about getting this disease, spreading this disease, or getting organ damage from this disease. Most important, I'll know that when I visit my mother (nearly 70, and risk group) that I won't spread the disease to her. Same for my mother in law.
Thanks; Fargate was what i was anticipating, or Heroku, hadn't looked at Cloud Run but definitely will.
I believe this entire statement is wrong in 2020. There are literally OSes now that are just browsers.
HashiCorp Nomad 0.11 Beta
Pick up the phone or send an email. State clearly that you need to cut the costs to a specific target. Ask if there is any specific path they can assist you with such as removing features or moving to an alternate plan. Say that you are doing this now with all vendors. Don’t threaten to leave, try to be collaborative and explain that you are doing this to be able to maintain the service in the short term and long term. If they push back hard ask what they want in order to make concessions. The truth is many of your vendors will be fielding these types of requests while at the same time seeing a ton of cancellations and customers going out of business. They may view it as better to cut your bill and thereby preserve the revenue they collect that watch your account go to $0.
If you're not shedding viruses, you can't spread it.
Elasticsearch is easier than mongo in some ways and harder in others.

I run a few 10TiB ES clusters (which, is not much to be fair) but infrequently find that I have to reindex or reshard the cluster because I can’t just add another node. There’s something to be said for understanding the index rotation too, and access patterns.

It’s easy to make an ES cluster, it’s difficult to maintain one, it’s nearly impossible to debug one.

- if you consider that “it’s slow” is what you have to debug.
From other comment:
Stack is quite simple: Frontend: Bulma.css, Vanilla Javascript, HTML Backend: PHP, MariaDB

It works by redirecting in the right moment to the streaming sites, via a JavaScript redirect.

The voice chat is done via https://meet.jit.si/

To handle potential big load, I force cloudflare to cache all sites under url /p/* thereby after the creation of the watch party, no request hits my server anymore :D

Currently I have no plan to open sourcing it
Oh wow. I used that in the past and it worked great. I didn’t realize Google broke it only to force us to use their app.

What a bunch of turds.

Thank you for the Nintendo Switch pro-tip.
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Heh. I use gnu screen daily. Saw this and immediate downloaded it (I missed screenhero so much) and got coworkers to use it with me, and never considered the name collision. I'm surprised by the number of comments about it.
The demographic with the highest percentage of people who voted for Trump is older white men. Older men are also the demographic with the highest risk of death from COVID-19. The worse that the Trump administration does at managing the outbreak, the more of their voters will die before they can vote in November.

Considering Trump's slim vote margin of victory in 2016, this could matter.

Talk of re-opening the economy early instead serves a different constituency: the people who fund much of the recent Republican political program. These are mostly rich individuals who can make idiosyncratic, self-centered decisions. The result is a Republican political machine that pursues the interests of these individuals, even when it means coming into conflict with the interests of their voters.

The reason politicians want to make these funders happy is that, if the politician loses office, these funders are the same people who can set them up with a well-paid gig in the broader political machine. See for example Sarah Palin, who made this work so well that she quit her political job early.
(Looks at home screen)
Slack, Jira, LastPass, and Netflix. All Native apps that are free via the App Store, and all with the subscription model that I pay for. And for most of those I can’t even buy the subscription from inside of the native app, so Apple gets no money from these
I would highly recommend learning Dreams for PS4. This is going to change the way video games are made. It provides an accessible way to get into game creation in a fun and accessible way. I would have killed to have Dreams when I was 12 years old.

Look up all the amazing things that can be made with this engine. It's incredible!
> They have a good point about missing data, but they're glossing over the fact the fatality rate goes up drastically if the medical system fails.

If the medical system starts to fail it's not just COVID-19 you get to worry about, if the incapacity rate is high enough you get to start worrying about things like: how long will it take for my electricity to get fixed, how long will my heat be out for, where's the food for the local supermarket, when will my pharmacy get my prescriptions in stock, etc. Second order effects start getting noticeable quick in a society as connected and just in timed as ours.
Check out Dreams for PS4. It's perfect to create games with kids.
I second the concrete ask. Be specific about what you need and ask how to get there. Explaining why helps the rep feel empathy and also be creative. Ultimately they want to preserve revenue too.
The 6809 was a joy to program in assembly language. I enjoyed some aspects of Z80, and loved the puzzle of getting things done with 1802 and 6502, but 6809 was, for me, the sweet spot.
Not really.

I think that happens, but from observation it's a downstream event usually in reaction to shortages one of the friends is having.
Not in Italy. Or Spain. Or the United States.
> Consider for example, saving a job search website as an app, and being able to search and save jobs without having to make an account. An account could be offered if you want cross device syncing, but is not required just to save jobs. Which is great because some users prefer to remain anonymous, and PWA's open the door to that type of thing (as a singular example).

Consider the use-cased of this example. If I am actively job-searching, I will probably be using the site at least once per week, and the data will be saved throughout the process. When I stop using the site, I want that data to disappear for my own privacy/security; and if users want to save the data indefinitely without signing up for an account, then offering an export (e.g. CSV) seems like a reasonable way to address that.

Furthermore, non-Apple user agents may retain data as long as they like, and PWA's (as well as web trackers) are free to utilize that. It's not like this move implements any additional vendor lock-in; people who don't like it will switch to non-Apple platforms.

> Moreover, the outcome of this will be more "native" apps that are actually just wrappers around web apps, that exist purely because some basic functionality is being actively blocked by Apple.

This doesn't seem problematic. It's great if you can reuse some code between your web and native apps. Obviously truly-native UIs will be more efficient in many cases, but perfect needn't be the enemy of good.
You have vendor lock-in with all of these though
I've been developing UnityJS for scripting and integrating Unity3D with JavaScript, which works not only very well with the WebGL platform, but also on iOS, Android, and desktop. It's a work in progress, so it's low on tooling and documentation right now, but I've been using it successfully for quite some time for a lot of different things, and making a lot of progress towards modularizing it, documenting it, and making it easier for other people to use. Please contact me if you're interested!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19804242

Email: don@donhopkins.com

Goals:

Developing and applying UnityJS, an open source Unity3D C#/JavaScript bridge for rapidly developing and deploying dynamically extensible cross platform Unity3D apps programmed in JavaScript, and efficiently integrating Unity3D with off-the-shelf and bespoke web technologies and services.

Seeking to collaborate with people who can see and benefit from the obvious and subtle applications to rapid prototyping, exploratory iterative development, interactive debugging, live programming, deeply integrating web technologies and JSON with Unity3D, scriptable VR and AR platforms, and delivering open-ended extensible 3D browser-like applications on WebGL, mobile and desktop platforms.

I've been developing and supporting the open source UnityJS core by integrating both popular free Unity and JavaScript libraries (i.e. JSONDotNet, LeanTween, TextMesh Pro, UnityGLTF, SocketIO networking, Ace code editor, d3 visualization library, etc) and proprietary libraries and extensions (i.e. JauntVR SDK, MapBox SDK, your own SDK, or bespoke code that I develop), so they can all be easily and efficiently scripted and orchestrated together in JavaScript.

So far I've applied UnityJS to JauntVR's panoramic VR video player on Android, WovenAR's scriptable AR platform on iOS, and ReasonStreet's interactive financial data driven visualization system on WebGL, and I'm looking for other interesting people to work with on exciting and fitting applications for UnityJS!

https://github.com/SimHacker/UnityJS

https://github.com/SimHacker/UnityJS/blob/master/doc/Anatomy...

Here are some other things I've written about it on HN (in chronological order):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17309132

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17384078

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18171571

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18860467

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19748582

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20313751

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20744552

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21932462

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21932984
>Freedom from Mac hardware dependency.

I view this as positive and negative.

It resonates with me because users should have the freedom. I ran Boston Sketch meetups https://www.meetup.com/Sketch-Design-Boston/ for two years and several users couldn’t participate because they were using windows.

I see it as a problem because designing on windows puts you in a different state of mind and atmosphere...and one way or another we are products of our environment.

I found out that the environment of windows reflects negatively on design.

I worked at TBWA advertising, I had a startup, and I recruit many freelancers all the time...

When I look at designers portfolios I can immediately know whether they are/were using Windows or Mac.

For design Mac is the winner.

For crunching numbers nothing beats Windows excel.
I'm posting pseudonymously here, so please forgive me for not citing personal examples, but the normal web apps for accessing quite a few popular services are now PWAs. Spotify famously started looking into using a PWA after some issues with Apple regarding the cut taken with a native app. Uber is another well-known example.
Show HN: SimpleScript, an Interpreted Basic-Like Programming Language
Ah okay. So that button is to dominant Open the movie and check for autostart." is just the preperation to check if the video starts correctly e.g. if in firefox autoplay is allowed.

The actually watch party starts when the countdown hits zero, by redirecting everyone in the same moment to the video.

"Open the movie directly and ask in the voice chat what time you should jump to" is when you missed the start.

Syncing works via starting everyone at the same time in the beginning of the movie
the problem with that approach is that treats everyone as equally susceptible

most likely those more susceptible get it first

it is not clear what percentage of the population would either not get it or if they do get not get noticeably affected
People should care about the facts, whatever they may be. If the fatality rate really is lower than what was previously reported, it's a disservice to the public to not report that. These are objective data and statistics, if they're accurate and put in the proper context (e.g. grouped by ages and pre-existing conditions).

The exchanging deaths vs. economic health thing is a subjective policy position, which is different, and doesn't necessarily change even if the fatality rate is lower than reported. If it still appears to be more contagious and more fatal than the flu, I think most people will continue to support the lockdowns.
I wonder why the peak went up from sept to oct. I don't remember anything interesting happening back then.
And for most of those I can’t even buy the subscription from inside of the native app, so Apple gets no money from these

This is where things get pretty shady with Apple's terms for native apps and the App Store. Take a look at Spotify's experience for a different version of the story.
What number of deaths is substantial for a pandemic? In orders of magnitude? one thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand?
It is actually not stupid. Nothing stops them except a liability for a hefty fine if they are cought. In same manner as nothing stops criminal from stealing your car. But there might be a jail sentance that deters him from doing it. Some cars will be stolen, some criminals cought and jailed.
Sure, car has locks. It is preventive measure. Same as not uploading your personal data/pictures/... to "public" servers.
Not necessary. People who die before being tested are not tested in many places.
I definitely mean at Archive.org. No links yet.
Sure, I'm not asserting that the economic effects will lead to more deaths. I think this is something that needs to be researched and discussed publicly though, because it's really not something we have a good answer to. I imagine that whatever the final outcome of this situation is will directly determine our responses to future threats of disease.

In terms of the first article, it seems to only analyze the effects on longevity in the short-term, whereas I think most of the effects observed as a result of recessions take a few decades to really show up. No idea if that's really the case though.