skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a hard time believing Spain will have a higher peak than USA.
It seems more likely at this point that they have a low infection rate because they aren’t testing.
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> Sounds like a religion.

Well one major difference is that I don't think it has to become true, but I'm benefiting from the decaying and over leveraged status quo globally, and will continue to do so if it gets worse. If things get better, I still win, but just less so. If this framework of allocating resources (time/money/effort) now under my control is a religion, then so be it.

>The problem with this is that the people who are privileged to be able to walk in and out tend to feel entitled to the tent because they have access, but not obligated because "they can leave any time," not observing that their lifestyle still requires the tent and the people living under it.

You can't force people into obligation, there must be agreed upon terms, which are always up for negotiation despite what people may say (not saying that some/most people wont just bend over to such obligations out of some kind of perceived higher morality [at least higher signaled morality, their actions/inaction might speak otherwise])… one doesn't have to out run the bear, just the person next to them who has their hands in their ears about the possibilities and configurations the state of things can take (who may or may not have the resources to maintain [or have to spend more and more resources to maintain something falling apart]) and does nothing different.

If the tent falls down or degrades, the person who was betting on it and the implications, or positioned for it happening is going be better prepared more often then not (unless one happens to think that were all gonna die anyways, so better not do anything new that could arise from the ashes). If that is privileged, then sure. Nothing was ever fair, and let us not pretend that compelling everyone into tent and staying there indefinitely because "obligations" is fair either.
I am currently in Japan and I can tell you it's like nothing happened. Today is especially a nice sunny day and the park I'm at is crowded with people enjoying their annual Hanami picnics. I am being told that since people are wearing masks then it should be OK. Although it looks like the majority aren't wearing them, probably because they are impossible to buy now.

We will find out the results after 2 weeks I guess.
But Boyer-Moore is so pretty!

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If the 26th char isn't z, jump along 26 chars! (More complex, and more cache misses, if z is repeated in the search string).
How to spend $1,500 education stipend
I work in customer support at a startup that offers a $1,500 education stipend. I welcome ideas about how to use it to kickstart my own technical development.

Non-orthodox/bad ideas welcome as well.
I'm working off the rumors [0] that California has a massive long term problem which is generally being ignored by successive governments. I don't see how they can sustain an emergency preparedness program if they have that sort of business-as-usual preparedness problem. Step 1 to me is always be prepared for the most-likely future case, then step 2 is prepare for progressively less likely scenarios.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickgleason/2019/04/16/no-ca...
The SF Bay Area did. We are 12 days into lockdown here. In a week or so we will know if it worked.
I imagine soldering with tremors is doable with some sort of flexible arm set up to hold the soldering iron. Something like this: https://www.fullcompass.com/prod/541073-aladdin-eye-lite-cla...

I did a lot of soldering as a microwave tech, and used a setup like that just for convenience. I have to have a magnifying glass on a similar flex arm because my eyes are so bad. I suppose there are still some hard parts, like trying to use braid to remove solder, but I bet you can do it.

I have a 1991 Mitsubishi Galant VR4 that has a place in my heart that your Subaru seems to have. Cool family compact with 4WD and 500 oversized, at the wheels, turbo HP.
Stores try new products all the time. If people want 100 kinds of breakfast cereal the store will figure it out by trial and error.

Failing to do so would take a huge number of people whose job description is to do exactly that. If one tries something new that works the rest is sure to follow.

They are puzzling all the time, how much eggs to buy? how much potatoes? how much this? how much that? They never get it exactly right, they are always a few bags of apples short or have to throw them out.
I mean, it’s not like it’s because we’re going to war with them. They’re just trying to protect their people. A lot of whom are elderly.

If we were smart we would ban people from leaving and entering the US, instead of waiting for another country to ban travelers from here.
Retina: A regex-based recreational programming language
I don't know how many times this is going to come up on these page but this is unsupported by any study for the kind of masks people actually wear and for a non-clinical setting, and anyone who has spent any time here will know it's rubbish.

Just last night my wife was telling me about a conversation with her work colleagues about masks. She wears one per day, one to work and the same one for the way home - this is already going outside the bounds of any study I've read. Her colleagues told her that she must be rich to use that many masks, they use the same one for two or three days in a row.

Just one of the many anecdotes you can hear and confirm with your own experience if you're ever here. I have others, the ones about coughing and sneezing behaviour in public will make you shudder.
After that interview, Bruce Aylward has now been removed from the WHO website https://twitter.com/anangbhai/status/1243947028582993921
The US is currently testing ~100k people each day:

https://covidtracking.com/us-daily/

The failure at the beginning was not to have capacity ready. The huge US medical system and its very, very large medical industry has finally gotten pointed in the right direction in regards to testing.
Depends on what you feed farm animals in your nation. They feed cows and goats stuff here that humans can't eat - grass and grain not fit for human consumption.
> It's one thing to forgive someone for not having foresight but it's something else entirely to actively dismantle the fruits of your predecessors foresight.

A pandemic seemed about as improbable then as an alien invasion. What should the government have cut instead? School spending? Social services? How do you think the voters would have responded? Remember that the budget deficit was enormous.

It's pretty hard to defend funding pie-in-the-sky ideas like global pandemics when people have concrete, immediate problems. Just a month ago, the concept of a global pandemic that would shut down a huge portion of the economy seemed insane to 99% of voters.
What would be the minimum other equipment, chemicals, etc. needed to go with this for it to be useful?
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Can they ban Japanese citizens from entering the country? It would be against Charter rights (what people in the US may call constitutional rights) here in Canada. I would be surprised if it would be different in Japan.

Regardless, if they ban foreigners, it may become a moot point. With not enough people travelling to and from, flights get cancelled and people get stranded, unless the government provides evacuation flights.

EDIT: This was the gist of Canada's plea that everyone gets back home while they can.

> Airlines have cancelled flights. New restrictions may be imposed with little warning. Your travel plans may be severely disrupted and you may be forced to remain outside of Canada longer than expected...We recommend that Canadian travellers return to Canada via commercial means while they remain available.

https://twitter.com/FP_Champagne/status/1238876190460477442

https://globalnews.ca/news/6677983/coronavirus-canada-travel...
Hasn’t yet but yeah, I’ve had that issue before with the arcade I built. I just take an image of the card every significant change.
I have mixed feelings about him and WikiLeaks. I do think he's being unfairly persecuted by global governments (though surely he knew this was a likely risk from the start), and they have released information that was in the public interest, but at the same time, the CIA director calling them a "hostile intelligence service" doesn't seem wrong. [0]

In their leaked group chat logs (https://emma.best/2018/07/29/11000-messages-from-private-wik...), they behave exactly like a "para-intelligence agency" ("para" as in "paramilitary"). They happily use deceit, trickery, sockpuppetry, trolls, propaganda, and spreading of fear, doubt, and conspiracy theories to achieve their end goals, and their end goals seem to be to push things in a certain direction to achieve particular geopolitical results. Whether or not you agree with Assange's goals, he appears to have a strong "ends justify the means" mentality, much like the militaries and intelligence agencies he's opposing. Their tactics really seem identical to any intelligence agency's, at least from an information and non-kinetic perspective.

And note this was a semi-private group just to talk to their supporters. One can only imagine what their internal, top secret-classified chats and phone calls are like. I suspect those would make them look even worse than they already do, and, again, I bet they would look very similar to the most secretive of CIA meetings.

Maybe it's one of those "die or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" situations, or maybe Assange was always like this. I don't know. But they're very far from a journalistic organization, or a "Wiki", or a disinterested distributor of leaked information. They are highly political. Ironically, if they had more power or national backing [1], there would probably be a "WikiLeaks" trying to inform people about them. This sort of thing seems to be a phenomenon that repeats itself over and over again in history.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/14/cia-director...

[1] Some claim they work with Russian intelligence or are even backed by Russia, but I think it's more that Russian intelligence just saw them as a useful tool for a particular operation. I don't think any nation backs them.
because some people hold dual citizenship or are married / have family in both countries in which case you'd probably not want to separate them.
It is of continuous disappointment to me that there really isn't not only a good FOSS link-analysis tool, but doesn't appear to be any of any quality. I've used yED in a pinch a couple of times but it's not FOSS.
It’s probably easier than you think. I bought all plug and play stuff for the RPi, and car wiring is thick gauge and easy to handle.
'It’s a razor’s edge we’re walking'
It doesn't work that way. You're assuming. People are people, you can't assume "they'll behave". Let's use China or Russia who switched to Linux desktop for their operations, will their users be any less susceptible to social engineering just because they use linux? Look, what you have to understand is, even in the world of Linux Desktops it is a much bigger world than the echo chambers we're used to where the only other users are tech workers and enthusiasts.
The testing capacity is good now but the response to the actual pandemic is a disaster. If you have the president talk about packed churches on Easter you can soon save yourself the testing because it's going to be hard to find someone who isn't infected
No it's not the logistic function. Sigmoid is a general term of the shape, logistic specifically refers to an equation that's almost certainly not correct. It's probably close to stretched exponential, which is a reasonable approximation of the curve of an autocatalytic process that is controlled by stochastic collisions that can self-exhaust, but even that's not exactly correct.
I can’t tell whether I’m offended or proud you thought of this!
We can still believe our senses - you just can't believe "recordings" you watch.
And had many, many more failures--some quicker and some worse than others. ;-P

Thanks for the shout-out Mr Owens!
Does the virus care about those groups? Either close the border or don’t. A family member can carry the virus end just as easily as a tourist. If the reasons for closing it are to prevent the spread, then having a bunch or exceptions defeats the purpose.
In general, yes, but this is how real issues start. Look at all the bmc software written in the world. It's utter horseshit. You are supposed to use a dedicated vlan for accessing the bmc. Everyone is still fighting the bmc software and it is routinely accessed over the open internet.
So I can confirm it's possible, maybe it just requires an overworked genius?

I believe that, but unless you can find a genius and/or mass-produce their work, does it help the rest of us?
Yeah - I put this together in an afternoon.
> Guess what? Everyone dies

The unpleasant part is not solely people dying, it's the volunteering of other people dying by people who assume they won't die from it, and not for their own survival but to keep a level of personal comfort and luxury.

Assume you are in the group who would die, but economic sacrifice keeps you alive. Now, hands up if you are willing to trade that - to definitely die in April 2020, or suicide today, to prop the world GDP up for a few minutes. What, nobody?

Now assume instead that you're definitely in the group who will be unemployed and bankrupted by the economic costs, but you get to survive COVID-19 and do whatever you can to survive after. Hands up if you would prefer this to the guaranteed death situation? What is that, basically everybody with their hands up?

If you don't believe in the importance of GDP enough to die for it, only enough to support others dying for it, perhaps you really have different motives to the ones you're saying.
How long should a lockdown-relaxation cycle last?
I was due to fly to and from the UK in April with a ticket purchased months ago, I won't have been the only one.
print vs print() is what I think the parent comment was referring to.
Anecdotal but at Costco the other day all beef was sold out except the prime cuts. I ended up buying some after noticing the price wasn't much higher than what I used to pay. Now, granted, I don't remember what prime meat used to cost, so maybe it was always competitive at Costco?
It's mostly like a corona oral exam only without waiting for my answer.
Countries without "mask-wearing cultures" like Switzerland or Germany are doing exceptionally well compared to others in Europe.

But above all, there's no scientific basis to what you're saying.
Do you have a scientific or official source for this?
If you claim "these specific details aren't supported by studies" that's compelling evidence if studies have been done, or would have a reason to be done, or if there's reason to believe the other studies that support similar conclusion are sufficiently different to not be relevant.
Speaking of Japan, I told patio11 to stay in his lane and be blocked me :(((
I guarantee you, you will fall for a clever phish. You can't outsmart a good spearphish. You are wrong when you think stupidity is the vuln, the vuln is basic human psychology. But even if you're right, it's not like Linux desktop is made only for people like you right? It wouldn't be "some people are dumb" it would be "almost all people are dumb" even if being dumb was the issue.
Yes. With the 15 minute test and this being a major issues for years sans a vaccine? I imagine there will be LOTS of testing going on related to travel, work, and all sorts of things.
True, tho that's only one of many ways to get locked-in. Just to name three:

1. what if I want to switch platforms?

2. what if they switch business models?

3. what if they go away?

The only real concern is #1 with Sketch, and that's your (org's) choice so you do have some choice in the matter. Since the format is well-documented there's ways to move away if #2 and you still have access to existing software with #3 (save issues with a licensing server perhaps).

Figma is a concern with all three unfortunately. Everything I see about its capabilities is amazing, but I've resisted for this reason. Hopefully they open their format.
I remember seeing murmurings of this on reddit. Cool to see it’s a paper now, thanks for sharing.
Edit: I see the msn link was chosen because of no paywall. I wonder if there is a way we can give a h/t to the LATimes as well for the fantastic reporting though.

It would be nice to point at the source, rather than a repost on msn.com: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-27/coronavi...
Comminity version is open source/fee I think. They have several paid tiers.
Santa Clara County is hell bent on closing Reid Hillview airport — how quickly they forget that in times of serious disaster, those airports are lifelines. Watsonville was cutoff during the 1989 earthquake and it was the relief flights from GA pilots that kept that town alive during that time. Disaster preparedness is a fundamental role of the state, especially a state like California where you have the potential for huge catastrophes mixed with difficult geography and lots of people.
It's hard to avoid emitting NOx.
The swine flu pandemic ended in August 2010. If it's really the same probabilities, I'm just gonna assume the aliens are already living among us.
Well it's pretty simple. I treat news from EFF the same as I treat news from huffpo and buzzfeed. Pretty easy to draw a conclusion, I think.
Their positivity rate (5.1%) suggests otherwise.
As a nodejs developer: what is the best compiled server language to learn right now? Is it Java still, or is it better to look at go or rust?
Prefer toml over yaml. Large Yaml files are a nightmare to edit with all the special spacing. JSON might be comment unfriendly but it is easily editable.

They just need to have a version of JSON with comments: JSONC and JSON is good.
IMHO the main problem is that this ever-growing mass of random clip art needs to ship on every embedded system that renders user-generated text.

Text rendering has become a lot more complicated and memory-intensive. Glyphs used to be plain quadratic Bézier paths, but now there’s hundreds of full-color images — and if your drawings don’t look as pretty as Apple’s copyrighted emoji designs, someone will complain.
Code that compiles today would still compile if restrictions were lifted, modulo overload resolution changes that might introduce new ambiguities or name collisions.

"Can't" is a big word when applied to the ISO committee. They would want to consider the magnitude of consequences. Since all implementations would provide a "make like before" switch, consequences would be limited.
If you go to the site and click the 'Views' sort-by, you'll see the most popular titles. For some reason, #1 at the moment, by a factor of 3, is Sylvia Brown's 2008 End of Days. Go figure. Brown was 'a medium with psychic abilities.'

Yep, that's where we're at. Viewed 20 times more than 'You Can Negotiate Anything'.
I was tested this past Thursday and came back negative yesterday. Two weeks ago I was exhibiting the classic symptoms. Last week I had five days of noticeable shortness of breath, lethargy, sinus infection and a dry cough. I wanted to get tested a week ago this past Monday but did not meet the criteria. Now I am awaiting the availability of serological tests to see if I have the antibodies. I pulled the kids out of school on March 10th, ahead of our local district closing on March 13, and we have been self-quarantined since then. If I had the virus, the recent testing would likely not measure me as a positive case due to low viral expression.

The fact that the U.S. did not have widespread surveillance testing since mid-January is criminally inept. China bought us eight weeks of ramp-up time which was bungled by our Executive branch who was more worried about the economy and stock market reaction than people's lives.

Historically, this will likely go down as the largest failure of public health management in U.S. since our founding. After this passes, there needs to be large scale accountability for the CDC, FDA and the Executive branch that has brought us to the collapse of public health which will likely cost millions of U.S. lives.
As a heavy YAML user for a while (writing and maintaining Open API Spec files), YAML is also a catastrophe. I should not have to "debug" a config file because some tiny whitespace issue is off.

JSON as config isn't good, but YAML is not a silver bullet.
That’s what leadership is: being able to make hard choices and selling that to the voters. I haven’t met anyone opposed to disaster preparedness funding, but I have met plenty of people opposed to the bottomless pit spending for various causes du jour.
Do you think it's going to be viable moving forward to quarantine as standard operating procedure?
Fuck You Liberals / Covid
You have fucked our country over you fucking assholes!

I hope you rot in fucking hell you fucking liberal fucks. Go fuck yourself!
A pandemic seemed about as improbable then as an alien invasion

People have warned about a global pandemic for decades, and there were a few near misses - Ebola in 2014, SARS, MERS. Bill Gates was quite vocal. It's a 100-year event, something that people prepare against. No sane person builds in the 100-year floodplain!

Next up in California: AR1Kstorm.
Fuck You Liberals
You have fucked our country over you fucking assholes!

I hope you rot in fucking hell you fucking liberal fucks. Go fuck yourself!
> Besides, Russia has good internet only in major cities

This is just plain not true.

Thanks to not having idiotic ideas like making internet a public utilily among other things.
Playing with fire has worked out well for humanity in general
It's obvious that wearing a mask helps.

> Don't wear a mask because they don't work

> Doctors and nurses need masks because they work

> ???

If anything, it prevents/reduces asymptomatic people from spreading.
Well at the very least you would leave 24h to account for people that are in a flight on their way to Japan or in a connection.
You're describing the behavior of https://www.passwordstore.org/ almost exactly! Give it a try.
> Making small investments for the future is what economics is all about.

This isn't economics. It's politics.

How could you sell something like pandemic preparedness in 2011? How could you present a long-term picture, knowing what was known in 2011, and argue that such a thing was a budget priority compared to jobs and social services?

I can't imagine that any politician in 2011 would have been taken seriously when talking about pandemic preparedness, given the context of the massive recession that we were still climbing out of.
They could have saved $100 billion by not building a train to Bakersfield that doesn’t even go to Bakersfield. Just a rounding error would have funded emergency preparedness for a long time.
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Does anyone know how they're legally able to do this, when publishers make my local library buy a license for every concurrent copy of an ebook that someone checks out?
Any sources/links indicating that the numbers are VASTLY different than communicated on the news?
Is Navit necessary for attaining speed?? Or can one get speed with a geometric formula and GPS data?? Albeit having navit running is nice but would be nice to make a simple LED display of speed instead ;)
Okay... but why specifically the United States? Shouldn't they ban entry from just about every nation right now? Did the article just fail to mention existing travel bans for other nations?

The US has a very high number of confirmed cases, but it still pales in comparison to many other nations in terms of percent of population. Banning international travel is a reasonable precaution, but why specifically the US?

I can't help but feel like many politicians around the globe have been focusing more on political chess first and the wellbeing of their citizens second.