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Hi - I posted this submission to HN. Based on the comments I'm seeing, it might be helpful if I clarified why I think this news is of extreme significance.

The key facts are:

1. This is a test that directly detects SARS-Cov-2 virus. It can, if sensitive enough, tell you if you're infected even if you don't have any symptoms.

2. The detection time is very fast: 5 minutes for a positive result; 13 minutes for a negative.

3. The testing device is pretty compact. (Fits on a tabletop.)

If, in addition to the above, the following are also true:

4. The sensitivity of the test is high enough.

5. We can quickly scale manufacture of the testing platform and its reagents.

Then this development means the beginning of the end of the pandemic.* If all of the above are true, we can deploy fast testing to the entries/exits of factories, offices, etc. Folks who test positive get sent home to self-quarantine; folks who test negative can go back to work. Everyone gets ~13 minutes added to their daily commute, but they can work safely without spreading the virus.

The specificity of this test almost doesn't matter. Even if flu cases trigger a positive, those folks can still be sent to secondary testing or home quarantine. The government could pay them 100% of their salary for two weeks and it would still be a fantastic deal for the rest of us.

We can also ignore regulatory obstacles such as "this is only allowed in hospitals right now". The wider this testing regime is deployed, the higher a level of economic activity we can sustain while keeping R0 < 1. And given the scale of the stimulus efforts already underway, it's clear the government will do anything it can to revive the economy. Administrative barriers will be abolished as needed.

Obviously this scenario is conditional on all the above actually being true. But this is the most hopeful development I've heard of since mid-February.

* To be absolutely pedantic, it probably means more like a 95-98% mitigation of the pandemic within a few months.
Disagree, government interest is not be universal.
You're a tourist going to another city on vacation or other reasons. You're middle class and thus part of the problem for the lower class people of that city.
Although work from home reduces traveling to the office, transportation only accounts for about 15% of greenhouse gas emissions. A bigger contributor of global green house gas emissions is power generation, which we’re still doing plenty of.

Every bit helps, but if we want to have serious reductions in greenhouse gas emissions we’ll have to make significant infrastructure changes. Behavioral and policy changes alone will not sufficiently address climate change.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greenhouse_Gas_by_...
The idea of autoformatted code editing is intriguing.

I've been exploring that (plus instant preview/eval, but that's another story) in a home-made language with a basic editor. For smaller files/modules it's totally feasible to do on every key press, fast enough to be fairly seamless.

It took a bit of getting used to, but there's something catchy about the experience, like molding clay - if the clay was made of a "smart material" that re-formed itself to an optimal shape.

The immediacy of working with self-reshaping code (and live reload too) reduces mental friction, so I can forget about formatting or compilation altogether. I hope more languages make it a part of the developer experience, IDE, etc.
It doesn't have to be all or nothing though. A lot of companies that weren't willing to even consider the option are embracing or at least begrudgingly allowing WFH during the pandemic, even if that leads to only a 5 or 10% increase in WFH over the long term it's a net gain.
There is a large difference been "trying to export your regular office culture to fit the working from home experience" and working for a properly distributed team / company with a culture setup for doing so.

You need to give this stuff time and probably re-establish a lot of your companies culture to fit remote work, or yeah, you will probably have a pretty crap experience.

Edit: Add link to a good and very recent podcast on this topic by Sam Harris and Matt Mullenweg: https://samharris.org/podcasts/194-new-future-work/
You can launch them all at once on a sort of dispenser system. Then after they are separated they are on the exact same orbit. By increasing or decreasing that orbit height by just a tiny bit they will speed up or down and start to disperse. Over multiple days/weeks they will start to disperse across that orbit. Once they are all spaced to the position where they want them they move up/down again to the exact orbit to maintain position. Maybe later in the year I'll make an animation about it, because initially it is a bit counter intuitive but once you get it it makes a lot of sense :)
Awesome! Some good places to read up on and join the discussion are https://github.com/jonhoo/bustle/issues/2, https://github.com/jonhoo/flurry/issues/50, and https://github.com/jonhoo/flurry/issues/80. Happy to guide you further there!
There's nothing wrong with, or unusual about, the business model. Short-term revenues and long-term liabilities is how every other real estate company operates. It's also how every bank operates.
You're using the exact same definition. "It just works" for you, so you're saying it just works, and you're discounting that it doesn't just work for me and many others who don't want to install software just for fricking videoconferencing, when plenty of other apps do it well in-browser without constantly nagging you to install something thereby making you feel like a second-class user.

Of course "it just works" is a subjective, personal opinion.
Well, maybe I’ve come around after sleeping on it :) Sometimes I can’t resist an angry rant right before bed.

@mkrumm schooled me on multiple valid use cases and, I think, outlined how these things will actually be used.

They seem to allow medical professionals to be able to make rapid, urgent decisions, about specific patients or cases. Most likely in emergency situations. I doubt they can be used assembly line style to process large volumes of tests, so I’m afraid things like testing a whole plane flight or a big group of people waiting at a roadblock are not very feasible.
Typically they result in vast amounts of deaths from heat waves in larger cities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave
Now I find myself wishing Max Gladstone would feature venture capitalism in his next Craft Sequence book.
Maybe the Colorado Rocky Mountains are different, but they don’t have plane noise like that outside of the corridor the interstate follows, which the planes also mostly follow.
No I am just really enjoying mild winters instead of seeing the end of the world or worrying about processes beyond my control.
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I guess I'd rather install an open source browser plugin to do this than a closed-source proprietary application, but ideally I wouldn't have to do either!

Anyway, thanks for the link. It didn't even occur to me to look for something like that.
A recent increase of natural disasters backed by scientifically proven predictions of more to come with increasing severity adn frequency?
Successive lockdowns and easings are probably going to continue for up to two years. Anybody arguing that the stock market or the economy is going to bounce back quickly in the next two months are either bullshitting you or deluding themselves.

No “stimulus” package is going to be effective, because you can’t use spending to stimulate an economy which has been forced to stop producing goods and services. All you will accomplish is inflation as more money chases fewer goods and services.
That’s the opposite of what you’d want to do. You want to attach the antigen to a test and screen your body for immune cells with an antibody to the antigen. If you’re actively fighting the virus, you might see enough antigen to show a positive test. But that’s pretty iffy — especially if you’re trying to do this with a finger stick. There just isn’t enough blood to work with for most tests (see Theranos). The PCR tests require nasal or throat samples because that’s where the virus is most abundant (and accessible).
agree, the code example does what exactly? it looks like it imports some stuff and graphs it but without showing the input and output it doesn’t communicate usefulness.
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Thank you so much for the detailed explanation on how to recreate the bug. I found it and squashed it, the new version should be up soon. Sorry for the inconvenience, hope the app works fine for you now :)
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Not sure if that’s true but even if it is, 20 miles is a massive distance.
I hope not and if it does, I hope Kamernet goes down with it. Your company is taxing students for essentially nothing but an introduction. And it has been doing that for decades. Not that I would normally mind your existence, but I do now I hear what you are hoping and likely lobbying for.
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So NASCAR runs on enough of a variety of tracks that there are (very, very generally) three modes of running:

1) Reduce drag to the bare minimum. The cars can still grip, even when trimmed out all the way (Daytona, Talladega)

2) Downforce is king! I don't care if I'm 10MPH slower on the end of the straight if my mid-corner speed is 15 MPH higher (pretty much all "intermediate" (1-2 mile) tracks (this is the vast majority of tracks)

3) Aerodynamics are irrelevant (Short tracks like Bristol and Martinsville)

So there's not just one goal a NASCAR builder is optimizing for. You generally have to make compromises to win a championship.
How can we integrate security into DevOps pipelines?
Only for temporary worker benefits. That's not much for Airbnb like, say Uber.
As happens in every single WFH discussion, it turns from someone saying "look, more people can WFH" to the strawman that this means that everyone must work from home and that WFH is being presented as an incredible panacea with all upsides.

Not everyone should work from home. A lot of people don't like it. A lot of people need the in face connections. Working from home has lots of downsides that have been covered on here and everywhere many, many hundreds/thousands of times.

But a lot of people don't need to go into an office, at least not every working hour of every day. A lot of positions don't. A lot of people thrive fully working from home, some working part time from home and other times in the office, or a cafe, or whatever.

But how these discussions always go is the no-work-from-home crowd effectively saying that no one should work from home because they personally don't enjoy it.
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I'm sure different people have different requirements.

I for one love switching between white noise and music in my headphones and most of the time I don't need fast Internet. In fact I try to optimize my process/pipeline so I don't need it. I reject external screens as I like focus on one window at a time and don't need to do a lot of scrolling.

I have worked in all kinds of places, once I've even deployed from a taxi in SF...
> Scissors and pants are normal countable (and so, not mass) plural nouns that just happen to not have a singular form because the quantum unit is conventionally taken to be a pair. This isn't really in question anywhere.

I don't have a strong position on this, but they aren't normal countable plural nouns. "Two pants" is ungrammatical; it must be "two pairs of pants".

(Expanding a bit: it's easy to say that "one pants" is impossible because pants is plural. But pants require counting in pairs regardless of how many you're talking about; it's not just a restriction on grammatical number. Whether you think "four pants" should correspond to "four pairs of pants" or "two pairs of pants", it isn't possible to say "four pants", and this is not normal behavior for a count noun.)
Baity title - the actual article was more interesting than the sensationalist baity title suggested
Just sharing my friend experience, she had to end her exchange study early from Europe (due to recent escalation) and back to Taiwan. My friend however, wasn't a Taiwanese and require a place for her 14 days self isolation. She ended up finding an Airbnb willing to host her during the self isolation period (hotel usually have a central ventilation which isn't optimal for self isolation).
I think the part of the sentence missing in your quote ("while reducing housing availability which primarily impacts lower classes") explains his stance.

Usually businesses catering to the upper classes don't usually do so at the detriment of "the poor". For example Ferrari selling 100k+ cars doesn't prevent me from buying a cheap car. Homeowners renting to "rich people" prevents a poor person from renting the same apartment.

This could of course happen with regular rentals, but the difference is that nobody would pay above market rates for a long-term rental, which is what basically happens with Airbnb.
Nine handling a major incident in times of the coronavirus
There may be enough toilet paper somewhere but it's not where people want it: on the shelves.

People aren't rational actors, and by saying "they don't really need toilet paper", you're not solving the issue that is people seeing empty shelves for toilet paper, bread and soap and thinking that the system is failing.

You don't want the public to become nervous, ever. Nervous people make terrible decisions. And for a government to look uncaring/impotent is the way to make the population nervous.
That's a very romanticised view of expertise that doesn't match what is seen in the real world. If your view were true the replication crisis would not be happening, but it's barely even got started.
/r/Wallstreetbets just had someone put $775k, the person’s entire net worth, into options on the idea that the market will crash by 6/19. I am sure comments like yours give them hope that they are right.

Personally, I think that the economy will change significantly, but crash vs recover for markets is different. If suddenly workers got a fair wage and everyone got universal healthcare we could easily see the country doing a lot better while the markets would tank as this would undoubtedly be paid for by loss of corporate profits.
Thank you for clarifying this, and I'm sorry that I misunderstood what you were saying. I appreciate the distinction you have made between platforms, forums, subgroups, and communities. I am also interested in the social dynamics you refer to (i.e. above a certain size, sense of community does not really compute) as well. I'm going to reply to your comments where I have questions!
Haha sorry I didn't get the pun, I just had coffee. My point is that you are given a lot more freedom, what you do with it, is up to you. You can go in to an office 3 days a week and stay at home the other 2. How you organize is up to you. But with the current situation that freedom is limited.
Native Americans who lived in an
ecological balance with wildlife.

One of the competing explanations for the disappearance of the
woolly mammoth in North America about 10k years ago is that they were hunted to extinction. Other explanations make hunting a co-factor.
This was a good read. Question from a naive programmer: the writer mentions 'cute comments' in the codebase, like

// Assertion: Now we know the name of the current page

Is this style frowned upon? I've always thought it's a very clear way of communicating. There's a reason many maths papers are written like this. Do my co-workers think my comments are silly? :(
The economy is going to change, for sure. But different verticals are going to react differently to this state of intermittent lock-downs. Travel-related industries (hotels, restaurants, airlines, oil) are going downwards. Food delivery and gym@home equipment is going to sky-rocket. At the end of the day, it's a gamble to state where overall GDP or stock-market is ending, but over time increased air-born disease risks are going to facilitate new industries to come to life, and old ones to offset. Just like it always happened.

Like Warren Buffett says, "From a standing start 240 years ago, Americans have combined human ingenuity with a market system to deliver abundance beyond any dreams of our forefathers...". There is nothing to suggest this is suddenly going to stop moving forward, even as we adapt to these new realities.
Thanks for the detailed response! And sorry for breaking policy regarding contacting you about this. I strongly agree with disallowing hard-paywall articles, since many HN members are from lower-economic areas that simply can't afford US-priced subscriptions.

Regarding the "silent" down-weighting, unless I've misunderstood, I think that's a very bad idea. I think all moderation activity should be transparent to the users of the community.

> we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or its startups are involved

I think it's great that you have this as an explicit policy! Thanks for all your work moderating this community.

Aside: I found the Airbnb post interesting because I recently saw a map showing a massive rise in the number of apartments for rent as home owners move off Airbnb. I'm in the market for a new rental, and I totally didn't see this surge in supply and consequent price-drop coming. So this topic is interesting to me. But, more generally, the particularly "harsh" externalities of the pandemic on specific tech markets/startups is interesting to me, and I saw this Airbnb post as another data point to add to my mental models of how pandemics like this affect various markets. I think the fact that it got 15 points in 30 minutes is evidence that some non-trivial subset of other HN users felt this way too. In any case, transparent moderation would probably help the community to inform you of accidental bad moderation choices (not to say you should always go with the crowd's decisions, of course).
> I mean look at those nigerian scams, they nab people every day and they are the worst in terms of efficacy.

That seems like a bad example to support your point. Nigerian scammers don't strike at random like lightning. If you aren't really stupid or really greedy, there is zero chance that you'll get scammed by those guys. They target people with poor cognitive abilities and people who are greedy enough to think they can scam the scammers.

They run dragnets looking for the rare individuals who vulnerable to their scheme. They are powerless if tasked to target a specific person unless that specific person by chance happens to be the sort of person their scheme works on.
I think a lot of these answers are missing the point. I agree, AirBnB won't die, and they'll be able to grow back into a solid business when this all over.

However, AirBnB's original plan was to explode into cities before governments had a chance to react, and that once governments reacted they would have an entrenched, powerful constituency (landlords) who would help fight for them at the local level.

That advantage is now gone. All cities now have a strong opinion over whether they think AirBnB is a good thing, so as this pandemic nears completion there will be plenty of cities who will outright ban AirBnB, and any disruption that may have previously been caused by this action before coronavirus is now a moot point.
> So do modern Linux pipes work bi-directionally?

No, not modern Linux, nor Unix historically. The GNU HURD was supposed to, IIRC, have bidirectional pipes as one of its features.
WSL solving the issue on Windows is like telling a Linux user to "just use Wine".
It's a problem, among many other reasons, because warming has a set of positive feedback loops — e.g., ice-albedo feedback: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%E2%80%93albedo_feedback — so if Africa becomes uninhabitable from uncontrolled warming, it's only a matter of time before Siberia (and Antarctica) does, too, and you run out of places to move.
Worst season ever to be a skier in the northeast. Rain, rain, rain, then an early close due to COVID-19
And I think everyone is getting the crap experience, which wouldn't endear them to wanting to give wfh a go again in the future. For better or for worse (mainly for worse), this is what people will think if they they think of work from home
You start with no,and then the rest of your post describes something exactly in line with what you are denying.
AFAIK the first edition of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE), which "uses 2000 common words in the definitions to make understanding easy", was published in 1978.

https://www.ldoceonline.com/about.html
As a conflicting anecdote, I’m a consultant working for a large vendor and all of my clients are now suddenly WFH and the only people who don’t like it are the managers. All the engineers I’ve talked to have said they’re way more productive without side conversations and walk-ups constantly.

I can say my work schedule has gotten a lot busier without even taking on new projects or clients, my clients just seem to have a lot more time to work than they did before.
So it’s a “find bright spots, bloom them into circles or hexagons or some such, then make 2-4 offset less opaque circle clones and overlay them offset by position”?
I'm curious as to why you say they haven't really innovated in the last round? "Real-time tracking AF" was pretty mind-blowing at release and forced Canon and Nikon to spend the past year making firmware updates to their bodies to try to get closer. Not to mention that the Sony A7RIV debuted their 61MP sensor. In reality, the cameras available on the market today are amazing and take excellent photos in most conditions. Rather than trying to push the envelope I'd much rather see some of these companies try to refine their products to make them nicer to use.

You could definitely make the claims about lack of innovation in the latest A6XXX series and the A9II though, both of those were small iterative upgrades that ignored some very real issues with those cameras.
Ask HN: Do we take the relief money?
Local politicians are urging all entrepreneurs to start applying for aid. But we're not a local beloved coffee shop. You know the old joke that entrepreneur as a job means unemployed? That's kind of us before and now. The tech is real and we are paying local people, there just was no Stanford incubator. I don't have impostor syndrome, I just don't know what to do. I haven't even incorporated yet. It feels real and we need the relief money desperately. But would we be stealing from older more well known businesses that equally need it? What happens when hucksters start applying for aid? I know half the readership does startup, so are you applying for aid? It feels like it should go to local retail, but entrepreneurs gonna entrepreneur.
Sorry, I did not have a chance to flesh this out. The current title ('questions data in old paper') is much more reasonable to describe a set of PubPeer comments.

I'm not making any claims about the chloroquine study.
These devices are already in doctor’s offices around the country. If you’ve ever had your GP give you an in-office Flu test, if might have been this device that ran the test. Abbott acquired the device/technology when they bought Allere a few years back. The comment on 50,000 tests would refer specifically to the test kit itself, using the existing network of devices that are already available.
Banks are required to keep 10% of deposits in reserve and pay into a deposit insurance system. The FDIC can shut banks down or put them under control of another in a crisis.
I wonder if the human endling has been born yet.
>> but aren't at least one of them cash flow positive already

They're all cash flow positive if you count the constant stream of cash coming in from investors and bank loans.

But at the end of the day, anyone, doing just about anything can take $10 and turn it into $9.
Here’s an alternative point of view: If you’re cosy-conscious; then don’t travel. Many places would be much better without a constant onslaught of poor tourists.