skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Roussel et al., “SARS-CoV-2: fear versus data.”, Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2020 Mar 19:105947,

“Under these conditions, there does not seem to be a significant difference between the mortality rate of SARS-CoV-2 in OECD countries and that of common coronaviruses (χ2 test, P=0.11). Of course, the major flaw in this study is that the percentage of deaths attributable to the virus is not determined, but this is the case for all studies reporting respiratory virus infections, including SARS-CoV-2.”

“Under these conditions, and all other things being equal, SARS-CoV-2 infection cannot be described as being statistically more severe than infection with other coronaviruses in common circulation.”

“Finally, in OECD countries, SARS-CoV-2 does not seem to be deadlier than other circulating viruses.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32201354
Wow thanks! We might take you up on that, very much appreciated.
Hyperfiddle: Make low-code database apps out of just database queries
I try to avoid having my phone linked to accounts as much as I can. When the web sites say, "add your phone" I say "no."
> OP/ED's on the news

What the stance of opinion pieces. ppl seem to say opinion articles cannot be judged because they are opinions by definition. I find that infuriating but i have to bite by lip and agree.

eg:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22697313
The confusing thing for me here is why you would assume you would be able to receive any mail addressed to your old corporate address, in order to forward it. Or did I just misunderstand what you meant?

The corporation owns the email server, so their choice when you leave for whatever reason, is either to disable the account entirely (or give a bounce message) or keep it active.

Is your question really on the legality of the latter case, i.e. once you've left a company can they keep your email address live and perhaps even respond from it?
> + Lack of clarity of 'the next thing to do'

This hits home with me.
Coronavirus: Why Dutch [intelligent] lockdown may be a high-risk strategy
IBM taps former Bank of America CTO to oversee cloud business
> please kindly explain to me how you forgot there are other shops.

I will provide one anecdata. Often times the first place I look for the existence of an item is Amazon. That is if I want a certain cable, I do not open and search 5-10 different places (overstock, target, bestbuy et al). I just go to amazon and choose from what they have. There may be better, there may be cheaper, but unlikely with a sufficient margin to compensate for the overhead of searching more places, learning more nuances (return policy, shipping) etc.
Lunch Money Episode #5 – Current events with humor
Anecdotal but I've cancelled a TON of orders and haven't been banned. Returns I can see, but definitely not cancelled orders.
Salary Below Which You Earn More on Unemployment in Each State
The term “chrome” is older than web browsers:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/chrome.html
Flip side is sometimes something that could ship fast ends up being delayed so they can group it with something that comes from a further away warehouse.
We played https://skribbl.io which was really fun!
I second this recommendation. Sweetwater is great and their sales reps know what they are talking about.
To be fair, the in-person shopping experience at Home Depot is exactly the same. They're staying true to their ethos. ;)
> In the background global warming is a much greater threat to human life

Before making such a confident statement, I would recommend re-reading this particular statement in pg's essay...

"These people constantly make false predictions, and get away with it, because the things they make predictions about either have mushy enough outcomes that they can bluster their way out of trouble, or happen so far in the future that few remember what they said."

...and consider how it applies to all the people who have made confident predictions over the years regarding global warming.
Last year I tried setting up a subscription for some pet food from a mid-sized pet store chain.

The first order went through fine.

3.5 weeks later I get an email saying my next order is about to be processed, now is the last chance for cancellations, etc. I ignore it, as I want the order to be processed.

A few days later I get an email saying they're out of stock and they'll retry again later. I get these emails every day for 2 weeks, and then my order is automatically cancelled.

This happens for 2 or 3 months before I get fed up and cancel the subscription.

If I put in an order effectively a month in advance you'd think they could make sure they had enough stock for that upcoming order.

(And it wasn't a complicated order, just multiple boxes of a single SKU.)
Have you considered buying from stores that normally target commercial businesses? They generally have a lot more slack right now with restaurants not running. The minimum order size is kind of high, but if you buy non-perishables it might be good? https://www.webstaurantstore.com is what I've used.
Changed from "Supply Chain vs. Supply Networks".

Submitters: if you want to say what an article is about, the best way to do that is via a comment in the thread. Then you can both follow the site guideline ("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize") while giving helpful context to other readers. Also, then you have more than 80 chars to say what the article is about!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I agree. My issue is with Tesla demand uncritical adulation for a PR project that is being designed without any input from actual users (like the cave submarine that was completely unusable for its stated purpose) on a timeframe that basically ignores the ongoing crisis.

We have sufficient manufacturers of ventilators to build up spare capacity after the crisis is over. It is not praise worthy for Tesla to build a luxury ventilator that won't be ready until months or years after this crisis is over (assuming they actually take it to production).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes
No thanks.

Remove phone nr from signature and hit send
I second looking into your diet. I have over the months worked out that a low histamine diet works for me... but it could be anything for you.

Really easy to test — follow a strict elimination diet for a few days. Nothing but rice, potatoes, chicken and water. At least with me I felt like a different human within 3 days.
Show HN: Email blacklist to fight spam from 'whoishiring' posts
When I have received variations on a number of these, I've just interpreted as, "it's a wall of text without the thing I want." The details are unnecessary. The more you talk/write, the less responsibility you are taking, which means the less value you have to offer, and the more vulnerable you are to leverage.

Saying no "up," and saying no, "down," are very different things. Receiving a "no," from above or below are very different as well. Responding with an open ended question or a direct question are also the next moves.

Down: "Thank you, this is not a priority for me/us, I will get in touch if that changes."

Up: "Absolutely agree! In terms of priority, would you prefer it in this unacceptable state, this unacceptable timeframe, or for me to use this new unacceptable authority over these resources?"
Chinese Apps Handled Covid-19
They are shipping "priority items" quickly. Who knows how they determine what are "priority items".

When I ordered hygiene items (shampoo, soap, etc.) they shipped the next day. But my order of kitchen equipment has expected delivery in May (which I'm totally fine with).
Missing this one: (how to say no to a friend in need)
"Hey! I’m so glad that you reached out. I’m actually at capacity/helping someone else who’s in crisis/dealing with some personal stuff right now, and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. Could we connect [later date or time] instead/Do you have someone else you could reach out to?"

https://twitter.com/fyeahmfabello/status/1196581296564256768
>Quite a few

Convenient.

Where do they suggest a rigorous definition of a support group in that article?
These are nice though they were last updated in 2014.
Does it support timers / timeouts?

Thanks for the article, it's very appealing to start to play around with this.
That style of quotation renders terribly on mobile. Preserving line width isn't helpful for non-code quotes. You can use ">" and wrap the quoted text with italicizing asterisks.
Senior Engineer [video]
Yes, but I think successful entrepreneurs know when to move on, when to pivot and when to stick with it and PERSIST. I have quote framed at my desk that goes something like this:

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men[women] with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone will bring success."
When Good Design Isn’t Enough
Ever since I got a CO2 sensor, I've noticed a direct correlation between "foggy brain" and above average CO2 concentrations
Yes, if you click "log scale" on any of the many graph sites for almost any region, you see a line that's better straight than I could draw freehand.
This happened over a longer timescale with the Iraq War too. Pretty much everyone who was right remained marginal. Those who were prominently wrong became more prominent.
> (the dumbbells were shipped separately for some reason)

USPS limits packages to 70 LBs. There's probably some special option to get around this, but for the "normal" shipping, that's the limit.
If you have small kids, I think this experience is pretty normal. If you cannot find any explanation for it maybe get a blood analysis and let them check for deficiencies (e.g. iron). Good luck.
I cancelled my prime for the time being and it automatically refunded the 12.99
How crazy is it that at one point there were 5 or 6 check-in apps, it was all the rage and now there is essentially 1 (which itself is neglected). There were startups that were getting serious funding with the hopes of being 3rd place in the check-in category.
All of those things are true. If you want to check out Datalog-using DBs in Clojure that are open source, here are two alternatives:

* Datahike (similar to Datomic but similar): https://github.com/replikativ/datahike

* Crux (a bitemporal graph database): https://opencrux.com
https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-tls-1-3-isnt-in-browsers-yet...

https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-camwinget-tls-use-cases-03.h...

https://www.nccgroup.trust/uk/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...

Let's agree to disagree.
That's why you're now tracked without ever formally checking in.
All of the jackbox games should work. My friends and I played Drawful 2 (which is free right now [0]) over Zoom and it worked great.

[0] https://www.jackboxgames.com/
Then it should not surprise you to know that phishing attempts have spiked in recent months. The pandemic has sewn much chaos, and bad actors are taking advantage. :(

What really concerns me is that these phishing attempts are just the attacks we're observing. Many more will go unnoticed given how ad-hoc current work environments have become with so many organizations going full-time remote overnight without the IT/security systems and processes in place to safely support it.
Check out this online implementation of Codenames I made with a friend:

http://gamecraft.live/
We built a no code API integrator for Google Sheets. It supports GET and POST requests for JSON and CSV APIs in Google Sheets. Works with most APIs. https://apipheny.io
Firefox stable releases now available on Flathub
But for the average 'worker', there are still way too many who's only computer is the 'work laptop' and who's only email address is 'the work email address'

As recently as 10 years ago I would have agreed but now smartphones and tablets are so common I think more people have an email-capable personal device, and probably a “free” email address.
Indeed, and we pay for an organization whose purpose it is to do exactly that. We should be asking why that org (WHO) failed, instead of asking why we didn't fund yet another organization with the exact same mission.

The question is why the US should have a unilateral office dedicated to pandemics in China when we have another multilateral one. We should have one or the other, for sure -- monitoring pandemics is important for national security -- but why should we have two?
My wife has tried that but so far she's run into the 'must be a restaurant' wall. We'll try https://www.webstaurantstore.com , many thanks.
Why is there no preview of what we're signing up for? I literally have to get 4 people to join just to see what we're dealing with.
Some carriers have security questions they are supposed to ask before making changes to an account. Not sure how well these actually work in practice.
If you can't even get a meeting with the guy, that's a pretty bad sign. Communication requires two folks and if he won't even sit down with you, there's not much hope.

You're right that there's probabbly not much choice but to move on.

CYA in the meantime, be the model employee. If he does feel threatened by you, you do not want to get into a conflict with him considering you're already having a hard time with it.

Work on where you might want to go and start applying. Look forward to finding a new / better place with cool things to do and good people.
The 3*2^3 Counter-Assumptions of Routing, Allocation and Scheduling
Best Buy is great, especially for delivery.

Apple, CostCo, Ashley Home Funiture, Wayfair, Wal-Mart, and some minor players, have all performed well in my usage and those who I know also use them. Now with two I had a damaged item they did not want any part of returned, apparently this is common with free shipping deals as the return shipping for larger items can be ridiculous.

Home Depot I have to agree with assessments others have made, lost an item off their own dock and when recreating the order after two weeks of back and forth; UPS was getting annoyed too, they wanted to remake the order and charge full shipping again. Just really bad customer service. They really do act like all screw ups are yours.
Those are not two different things. They are one and the same, in a regular currency.

Bitcoin implements only half of it, and pretends this is just as good. It is not. It is just gambling.
There should be an explicit lock like there is for credit agencies.
Disclosure: I work for AWS.

I am personally unaware of any such "formal system for anonymous denunciations," or that there ever has been. I am in a position where I would know if such a thing had existed within the last 10 years, and I know how to engage with the the appropriate owner if one ever came into being (as all Amazonians are encouraged to do if they have a concern).

[edit written at 2020-04-06T19:50:00Z in response to parent edit]

Forte, and Anytime Feedback before it, is not anonymous, nor is it "effectively anonymous". Just like an email to someone's manager, when you submit feedback your contact information is known to the manager receiving the feedback for one of their reports. It is the responsibility of a manager to take the feedback in context, along with any other information they have or can obtain, and decide what, if any, message should be conveyed to their report. Within my (very large) organization, it is our intentional practice at the highest levels to reinforce that managers must "own their feedback" for their reports. That's to say: you take in all the information and signals that help you grow and develop your report, and you don't say "one of the pieces of feedback that I received is _____."

Currently Forte feedback is provided verbatim to employees without any information about who provided a piece of feedback (both positive feedback and growth areas). This may be why you characterize the feedback as "anonymous." However, 1) only feedback that you request from your colleagues, or your manager explicitly requests on their report's behalf, is included in the Forte annual process. It does not provide any mechanism for someone to provide "unsolicited" feedback (though constructive feedback is encouraged at Amazon, either direct or via a manager). 2) Feedback provided in the Forte annual process is only provided to their report at the discretion of the manager.

From your comments it's pretty clear to me that you didn't have a good experience at Amazon. I'm sorry for that, especially if there was a manager who didn't live up to our high expectations with regard to how to manage performance and develop their reports.
I totally agree with your "wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy" - this is probably the worst pneumonia-flu-like sickness I went (still going?) through. I am now convinced that if I will catch it (or some mutated off-spring of this) again, I might not make it.

Looks like I got it too about 3 or 4 weeks ago. No cough, no fewer, just a growing chest pain. Went to doctor back then, he prescribed antibiotics against pneumonia, and send me home. Thing that really scared me was (is) constant mild trouble breathing. It is hard to walk any distance and you have to catch wind after walking upstairs - never happened to me before. As you described "ups" and "downs" - you kind of feel ok for a day or so, and then boom, feeling like walking dead again. Worst part (to me) is that I cannot for the life of me (no pun intended) to explain this to my SO - she thinks once you got sick and got better, everything else is bs and "you just don't want to leave the house" etc. Better is forever, right?

I would like to wish you (and all of us) best of luck and as much recovery as you can get. Take care.
I haven't been to the Westside since they imposed Safer at Home, but east of the 405 at least half of the people are wearing masks, and in some neighborhoods almost everyone is.
> Because a health problem in China, or anywhere in the world, presents a RISK to the the United Stated

Correct. This is why we are the primary fund-provider to WHO. We should be asking why that org failed us, not why we didn't have yet another org for the same purpose.

And after investigating the failure, we should consider whether or not continuing with that org makes sense, or if we should set up another organization and sever ties with the old one, in the interest of not duplicating effort.
DO NOT order from Home Depot online. I made that mistake once and found out that they reuse SKUs for different product models. They will pull the wrong product off the shelf because the SKU is all they go off of. Support refuses to do anything about items delivered from a local store. The store employee won't be able to readily exchange the item.
Founders? That's because women don't create successful companies at the same rate, but there's no bias stopping them creating firms. That's really one of the few areas you can say for sure, there's no bias. Quite the opposite. It's well known that VC firms fall over themselves at the chance to give a female founder money, it even happens that men take on women as 'co-founders' specifically to make it easier to raise money (I've encountered more than one story like that).

She is being criticised, rightfully, because what she's doing is sexism against men. Where's the consistency? Things like this show very bad double standards: women are allowed to openly discriminate against men, without consequences. That's just not right.
Red Hat free courses due to Covid-19 emergency
Don't know about the psychology behind it but I'll add a data point in support of this.

Whenever I do any kind of creative work (programming, music, etc.) I always stall out if I reveal what I'm doing to other people before it's in a near-completed state. Something about the knowledge that other people may be observing causes me to think about a project in terms of how it will be perceived by others as opposed to precisely what I want it to be. The sad thing is that usually probably no one is observing and I'm entirely psyching myself out, but this realization has definitely led me to be more disciplined about secrecy when working on anything.
It is still the case.
Yeah, as a business they've been amazingly resilient. I just wish the product was still fun/worthwhile.
That is a good thing. Those condos should never have been converted to unregistered hotel rooms, and I'm sure the other people living in those developments will be glad that the parade of strangers will no longer be invading their buildings.
I don't have this, but I would suggest on brain fog days you might want to try eating a salad with a lot of leafy greens and getting some exercise in (a twenty minute walk should be sufficient). Also, take Omega-3 pills and vitamin D supplements.

I'm not claiming this will fix your problem, but it could rule out dietary problems or give you a tool to fight the fog.

I wonder also if maybe some nights you aren't sleeping as well and just aren't aware of it. It might be worth monitoring your sleep with some kind of wearable too.
Kaiser California was part of an attempted $39 million scam related to masks and other medical equipment just a week ago.
Luckily they did their due diligence and no money changed hands, but there are a lot of scammers out there claiming to have masks who can't actually back up their claims.

If the OP actually has those masks, and can prove he owns the inventory and that they are what he claims they are, he wouldn't be having any issues selling them right now.
Links for the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22115542

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10612723

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10458071

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7249492

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6035054
Not native JavaScript, but the closest thing we have is PureScript (still in progress):

https://github.com/MonoidMusician/dhall-purescript

PureScript corresponds pretty closely to JavaScript in terms of the code it generates, so once we have a PureScript binding it shouldn't be hard to generate lean JavaScript bindings from that. Also, more people requested the PureScript bindings over the JavaScript bindings anyway in our most recent yearly survey:

http://www.haskellforall.com/2020/02/dhall-survey-results-20...
This appears paywalled, what did they say? (Is it the "half of UK" which is rubbish?)
> Convenient.

So wait, let me get this straight

'I want an example of a study with data'

'here you go'

'well, well, well isn't that just convenient'

From here it feels like you're not approaching this argument in good faith.

> Where do they suggest a rigorous definition of a support group in that article?

They cover their methodology pretty clearly.
I created a working app recently for Classic Mafia (Werewolf is a variant of that) card shuffle - for whoever is interested - https://mafia.brolia.com
do it for someone not for yourself. you can reach out to domain experts over a non-technical topic you are interested in. offer them your time and a final project in exchange for their guidance.

Be intentional about setting up meetings. don't let the relationship fall into the graduate student advisor communication patterns, treated like a professional relationship and ask them to the same.
It would be nice to get a full list. Just phone apps?
I'm working (at home!) at the moment, so I can't reply properly right now, but thank you for all of this!
I recognize all of the games, I have played their IRL/tabletop versions but I would also like to see a video or a demo of how this works as well

Also have we hugged it to death because Codenames is 404-ing?
https://netgames.io/codenames/

edit: ok when I registered my name I stopped getting the 404, not sure if that was intentional or just timing
In some industries it looks more like this. You aren't allowed the IRC access, and where E2E is required for business function it is routinely MITM and logged. This is a legal requirement, as I understand it (think financial fraud).
Setup web-page screenshots within a minute