skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For most small businesses, disaster planning is going the full Dave Ramsey. Be debt free in your personal life. Have a 6 month emergency fund. Don't hire in your business until it hurts and is impossible without the additional help. Build up 3-6 months of cash cushion in the business. For most businesses, this take a decade or more of delaying self gratification but the end result is stability. You're much better off if you don't owe a bunch of bills and have a little cash in an emergency.
I don't think this is a very simple solution at all.

It's really just a different vaccine approach and this isn't the first person to suggest it. It's been talked about online since February if not before.

Not to say I don't think it's a viable idea and I do think it needs more visibility. As the author states this has worked for other diseases.
Is it? ffmpeg as a library can decode about anything you want and put it in a buffer in less than 100 lines. Is that not for free? It's a self contained shared library.

Electron apps have the slowest interfaces on anything I've seen, lots of times each click of a button or menu has lag on a very solid computer. Who wants to have a program doing video embedded in a painfully slow interface?
IDGAF right now :- ( too busy trying to figure out rent otherwise this would up my alley.
Can you explain why this is dangerous?
Is it because there could be executable code in what's returned?
> The claims about shopping are...unsupported and go contrary to an enormous volume of evidence (namely the high R0).

Honestly? An R0 of 2-3 is frankly not that high.

If grocery shopping were a huge risk, and people spread the disease before being symptomatic, you’d expect a single sick individual to infect way more than just 2-3 people on average.

Compare with measles’ 12-18 R0. That’s high.
While I love the clarity from of the technology, the ergonomics of reading while standing isn’t great, let alone contortions I used to go they on the Tube to do it.
Interesting. Fractal antennas are pure black magic, so I don't dare to speculate either way.
This UI assumes I have infinite screen real estate. Slack is usually relegated to a sliver of my screen on the side and gets out of the way for easy app switching. This seems like it always needs the full space to work well given the older style docked gChat/FB message design?
Exactly, this a whole new ballgame in terms of what kind of businesses are going to be viable.

The restaurant and bar industry might be toast and that's going to have big social and cultural impacts.
repeat after me - "there are no isolation boundaries with containers" "containers are insecure"

Containers are broken by default because they share a kernel. If you want to use a container to have a replicable build environment fine - but for operational use in the context of "being secure" - no no no no.
A high percentage of COVID-19 infected people are asymptomatic.

How would temperature and subjective screening prevent these asymptomatic patients from infecting many others?
Thanks for the input! I'm also looking at supporting Mermaid diagramming https://mermaid-js.github.io/ I'd love to hear if people have other good use cases for this model, e.g., of having a plain text file you edit in a text editor accompanied by a rendered web document view of the same file.
Improper user of "begs the question" is like nails on chalkboard for me. Still, this has to be the best counterargument I've read. Well done.
...and here's the URL that includes the time of where you probably want to start: https://youtu.be/tbPISOM6p60?t=1366
Ha, that's funny.

Starting your day with a shot of endorphins is a better way to go. Check out the book 'Convict Conditioning' by Paul Wade.
@mentions could include groups/teams, I guess. Not sure about Braid but they are a thing in slack.

I think a conversation-first comms platform is a brilliant idea (though not sure this fits Braid). Instead of channels that can languish and/or have multiple conversations all jumbled up, you get a new window for a new conversation, even if it's the same group of people. With easy searching and archiving I think it could be great. If it isn't a thing in Braid or wherever else maybe I should shut my mouth and start a product
Oh, I'm totally fine with Ok(123). The current syntax with Result is explicit and flexible even if slightly verbose. It's especially nice that Result is an enum like any other.
How does the error case break the monadic model? All of the monad rules still apply, I think.
That slow saying that California is "in" the US, and it's "dependent" on the US so it's "independent".

And anyway Californians have no group identity beyond the political connection to the state government. They aren't an ethnic group or a religious group or bound by a common culture regardless of the political border. That's the main distinction between a (non-government) "nation" and a (government) "state".
"Pandemic insurance could exist ..."

Pandemic insurance does exist:

https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/breaking-news/w...

"Meanwhile The Times as well as The Guardian reported the estimated payout for the cancelation to be in excess of £100 million (around $123.7 million). AELTC is said to be in the process of putting together the claim."
I work for Red Hat Consulting helping customers with their Red Hat products (especially OpenShift) and I can confirm we often help customers who are using products that aren't ours, or even are competitors with ours. Just yesterday I was helping diagnose a problem with Hashicorp Vault. I've written code for this customer to integrate one of our solutions with it as well. My team has helped with Spring Boot issues (a "competitor" to us) and Liberty, and more.
We try to help with everything.

I can't speak on whether that will change or not since I don't know the future, but it wouldn't be an easy thing to move. It's deeply embedded in our culture.
Yeah I can see this working up to a certain team size but not beyond. Maybe around 60 people? At some point #hashtag_x is going to be an overloaded tag for to many teams essentially.
To someone just hearing about SIMD, anyone care to give an experience infused introduction? Is it worth the hassle only in rare cases?
To add to your question, what would the mass of virus actually appear like in terms of physical/optical properties?
My theory is that since the settlement with Hachette, they don't see any way to make money in the space. E-books are ridiculously over-priced at the moment, and Amazon is not allowed to discount, so it makes it difficult to build up the kinds of volume Amazon needs to really push the market. Their direct publishing arm has lost a lot of momentum as publishers have really stepped up their game in acquiring authors because of the influx of cash they get through this system.

As a side note, the Oasis is for me the pinnacle so far of the Kindle family -- the physical buttons and the asymmetric design make in an excellent device. It suffers from some usability in the touch screen, and the shopping experience is super shitty, but the device itself when you're reading a book is excellent.

Amazon with their devices tends to push their own content, rather than the Apple model of having "apps" -- if Amazon would just make their own content second-class (by providing an API and an "amazon reader app" for the device, and allowing other bookstores and reader apps) then it would really be quite phenomenal.
The author doesn't address how widespread the testing would need to be to accomplish this. What sample size is needed? Does it need to be geographically diverse? Does the human population tested need to be genetically diverse?

Also: Why is this faster than other methods of vaccine development already underway? Once developed, wide-scale manufacture & deployment is an enormous logistical challenge completely separate from R&D. Can this use existing vaccine manufacture & distribution channels?

It's difficult to really assess the viability of this plan without it taking into account many of these details. To my moderately-informed-outsider thinking (which lets face it, is the crowd the author was targeting by posting here on HN) it may suffer from the "ideas are easy, execution is hard" problem, because execution details apart from the actual R&D side are lacking. I'd like to hear more from the author on the topic though.
Vue.js is my personal favorite, especially for personal projects because of its clarity and lightweight feel. However, during my recent job search, it seemed like React was the most in demand.

Angular seems the "safe" choice of big corporate shops while React is used by the cool kids at design-focused shops, IMO.
> could have taken action as early as January

At the exact same time China and the WHO were lying that this wasn't person-to-person transmissible?

December 30: Dr. Li Wenliang sent a message to a group of other doctors warning them about a possible outbreak of an illness that resembled severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), urging them to take protective measures against infection.

December 31: The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission declares, “The investigation so far has not found any obvious human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infection.” This is the opposite of the belief of the doctors working on patients in Wuhan, and two doctors were already suspected of contracting the virus.

January 2: One study of patients in Wuhan can only connect 27 of 41 infected patients to exposure to the Huanan seafood market — indicating human-to-human transmission away from the market. A report written later that month concludes, “evidence so far indicates human transmission for 2019-nCoV. We are concerned that 2019-nCoV could have acquired the ability for efficient human transmission.” Also on this day, the Wuhan Institute of Virology completed mapped the genome of the virus. The Chinese government would not announce that breakthrough for another week. [1]

January 3: China’s National Health Commission, ordered institutions not to publish any information related to the unknown disease, and ordered labs to transfer any samples they had to designated testing institutions, or to destroy them. Also on this day, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission released another statement, repeating, “As of now, preliminary investigations have shown no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infections.” [2]

January 8: Chinese medical authorities claim and Western media continue to repeat, “there is no evidence that the new virus is readily spread by humans, which would make it particularly dangerous, and it has not been tied to any deaths.” [3]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-it-all-started-chinas-early...
[2] https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-early-signs-...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/health/china-pneumonia-ou...
The CDC is now estimating the R0 at 5.7, which is really high, and seems much more likely given the extremely rapid spread in areas like NYC.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article
Coronavirus – A Tale of Two Coasts
JVM generates SIMD to certain extent, i wish other runtimes like V8 (Browser/NodeJS), Go, BEAM (Elixir/Erlang) etc did the same.
Private insurance, or a federal pool, should be able to cover businesses for 8 weeks. The market can deliver that.

Though, what the government wants right now is more than direct losses paid. The purpose of covering business payrolls is to keep money velocity up.

It is astounding that the US can’t even seem to get helicopter money right.
The population and economy and role in world travel of New Zealand is hardly comparable to the United States.
Same! In mid-February I went to a party. A couple of my friends were getting over "a really weird cold" that "everyone in the office had". A few days later, I was sick with the same symptoms, mostly a dry cough. I thought nothing of it except that it was very unusual for the kinds of colds that I usually get (I am a sore throat and aches guy, so I was thrown off by not aching and having a cough). I had this for a couple weeks.

I wasn't working at the time, but it was minor enough that I would have gone to work. That is also very rare for me, usually I am out of commission for a week when I get a cold.

Was it Coronavirus? I have no way of knowing. But looking back, it seems very suspicious. An extra-infectious cold with the same symptoms of Coronavirus going around the New York office populated by people that travel internationally extensively? You have to wonder.

I kind of assume that Coronavirus cases are massively underreported. Given that 20% of cases are people without symptoms, what would prompt them to get tested? And all the advice I've read is along the lines of "if you think you have it, don't get tested, just stay home and get over it". With that advice, I have to assume that many cases are not accounted for in the official data. It does seem strange to me that if Coronavirus was circulating in New York in mid-February that it didn't show up at all until early March "officially", though. It's unlikely that not one person would have severe symptoms. For that reason, I assume I'm not immune and am self-isolating like everyone else... but if I can get an antibody test, I would love one. I am very curious as to what happened there.
That’s probably true to an extent, but I have had many conversations with hiring folks. University never once came up. Anyway, my point is that anecdotal evidence is all I see in this discussion, so who knows what reality is?
Surprised Apache Arrow isn't on this list.

https://arrow.apache.org/
> Apache Arrow™ enables execution engines to take advantage of the latest SIMD (Single instruction, multiple data) operations included in modern processors, for native vectorized optimization of analytical data processing.
You'd have to sample many thousands of people who either have no symptoms or got sick. If the strain only exists in people with no symptoms then there's a good chance it's not deadly or at least less deadly than the other strains.

Of course you might find the best strain you can find exists in 100% of asymptomatics and 20% of the dead. That would indicate your strain has some non-zero death rate.
But that's the point. The community close to the core team is toxic, according to this post. So, there are incentives for the rest of the community to fork the project and have it their own way. There is no need to be in good terms with the core team.
The Nigerian email scam has evolved into malware attacks on corporations
I agree. For most small businesses, going the Dave Ramsey way is best. Be debt free, build a cash cushion, and as you say grow slow and methodically with cash not cash you think you might have next month.
>You need a significant infection which triggers a strong immune system response to build long term immunity.

I don't think this is true. I get the flu shot every year and have never had a strong immune response to it, yet I'm still immune to the major flu strains each year.

Point being, it's possible for your body to create long term immunity to a virus without suffering from a severe infection.
Given that the virus doesn't mutate very quickly, it would be extremely unusual to not become immune for a time being after infection.

If, however, it's the absolute worst case scenario that we don't get any immunity after infection and thus a vaccine is useless, then basically there's nothing we can do except build more hospitals and research treatments that prevent death. We would probably have to live a very different life going forward, ie. wearing masks all the time and other changes.

In such a worst case scenario, at some point I would think our ability to detect the virus would become almost instantaneous, so we can have scanners/detectors at every entrance to allow for immediate detection and immediate quarantine. That would probably help keep the spread down immensely.
I wonder if reduced air traffic contributed to the success? I.e. could it be that favorite conditions are not that rare if not due to disturbance from all the flights?
One of the things the press seems to have had trouble grasping is that there are no good options, and quite possibly never were. (Short of stopping the virus from spreading out of Wuhan in the first place, which might barely have been possible if the world acted fast enough - but that was never going to happen.)
> And then it turns out similar to "Ethics"

Perhaps, but that's Star Trek. It wasn't always obvious how the episode would end.

> Pretty wild to count Enterprise as "real Trek", but not Discovery.

Why? TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT, together with movies from TMP to NEM, form a certain coherent whole - both artistically, with themes, styles, pacing, and story-wise with a shared universe. Both Discovery and Picard, as well as JJ's movies, depart from that significantly. The style is different, the pacing is different, the stories and ethics are different (arguably much more shallow).

The Orville, though it was meant as a TNG-era Star Trek parody, seems much closer in pacing, style and ethics to that core TNG-era trek than Discovery.

> TNG was seminal and I loved it growing up too, but let's be real, it's showing its age quite badly these days

How so? Remastered version holds up pretty well today, I'd say.
Logic says this too.

Deadly, contagious virus with no vaccine, which takes roughly 18 months. There aren't too many options. I've heard chatter that big co's started telling their employees they're planning 18 months WFH.
I think people are picturing chapter 11 bankruptcy, not 7 or 13. The firms stay intact, but the shareholders lose everything and the bond holders come to a new agreement.
Maybe the Chinese government shouldn't have been hiding information and silencing doctors, or the Taiwanese, or the WHO providing bad guidance even back in January.
I bought a mac with 32gb in 2013, figuring this would be good for a long while... these days with mem usage constantly hanging around 28-30gb, I'm now choosing between 64 and 128 for the next machine (with 128+ only being available in apple's 'pro' line...).
Except that M4A was actually a very popular idea even before coronavirus. There's more nuance / agendas at play here then basic demand / popularity.
This meme in the media is the real negligence. This is the biggest blurred distinction they've used to sensationalize headlines. It's like digging up a graveyard and using it as proof that humans can survive for 300 years underground.
Pubmed is littered with similar authors in peer-reviewed journals. He's not the only one.

This shows the problem right now. If you're not an expert, you don't know what you don't know, and have to yield to some kind of authority. Noise is greater than it has ever been, and trust is low. This will get worse before it gets better....
Note/Tangent: A quick search shows the black plague killed an estimated 25 million people over a century. Less than Spanish Flu, but a much higher percentage of the population at the time. Up to 95% of Native Americans died from diseases introduced from Europe. That's the largest percentage of a population to ever die from disease that I've heard of, and is the primary reason Native Americans are not the dominant population in the Americas today. Whether there's potential for an unprecedented amount of deaths really depends on how you measure things.
I don't think so.

It's not like somewhere like China got to lower numbers now because most of them got it and are immune. As percentage of population the number that got it is quite small. They got control of the situation because the people who had it didn't spread and they recovered. Now they are vulnerable to it being reintroduced. But they don't need full lockdown.

So another scenario is that active cases subside and we don't travel or amass in large groups for a while. This is short of your two year quarantine (which by the way you didn't spell correctly, a hint for how to spell it is that it derives from Italian 'quaranta', meaning 40, for a 40 day isolation).
The author proposes it as "quick & cheap" and leaves out nearly all logistical considerations. To my thinking, that is an overly-simple proposal.
I think all of this is achievable in Python. I'd be interested in a linter that checks for unnecessary assignment statements.
It's unlikely. Coronaviruses are well-known and well-studied, so we can be pretty confident that the disease will just be a single respiratory tract infection rather than anything weirder.
That reminds me of the newspaper walls they have (or had?) in China. Basically, it’s a place outside where the newspaper is pinned up so people can come by and read it while standing, kind of like a bulletin board (probably was like this everywhere before newspapers became cheap).
If that were true, they wouldn't have released it. I don't understand why you are so eager to defend that choice of words. I don't think it is too much to ask that conversations remain cordial, even when people disagree.
> No politician wants to say it, but the plan regardless was to quarentine until a vaccine comes out in 1 or 2 years.

This is unfeasible for most of the population, and a vaccine may not work at all (people assume it will, but there's no guarantee). If they work, drugs are what will be needed to turn the tide short-term.
People do lots of stuff sick. That is why we have pandemics. Do airlines refund your ticket because you're feeling a little under the weather? Nope. So you infect the entire plane-load of people. Do bosses or customers like it when you're gone for two weeks because of a cold? Nope. So you go to work sick and a week later, everyone in your office is sick. The incentives are always aligned towards loading yourself up on cold medicine and going about your day. No company is willing to take the financial hit for public health.

If people disappeared into self-isolation whenever they had a sniffle, many diseases would be completely eradicated. They don't, so they aren't. (Yes, I know the flu can jump between humans and birds and back, so isolation wouldn't eradicate the flu. But a lot of other diseases would be completely gone.)
Exactly. This is the furthest thing from a black swan. A global pandemic was always a matter of when, not if (still is). That, by definition, is not a black swan. Plus, we in EU/NA had plenty of notice since January to prepare, and we chose to bury our head in the sand instead.

Prominent people call this a black swan just to deflect responsibility, and perhaps to get a bit of bailout money on the side.
I like to play with array languages in my free time. I have a doubt regarding readability:

For me, it's easier to read APL with the symbols than to read J/K. Does it get better if you work a lot with J/K?
The crisis has changed people's online behavior, and the shallow culture of other sites is becoming normalized on HN. Please flag where appropriate.
Absolutely, I also had a strange flu that could have been it in early to mid February. First I dismissed Covid,but later I did find a one hop link with someone who was tested positive. But until I can get tested (or my intermediary) its just guesswork.
https://twitter.com/kenjilopezalt/status/1242285123652825089

> Saying that live virus is there because viral RNA was found is like saying I must be holding a meatball sub because there's a marinara stain on my pants.
Mostly a question of euphemism drift (or rhetorical drift, if that's a thing) -- "really" and "very" are former terms that meant "without exaggeration or inaccuracy" but slowly drifted towards a rhetoric use.
I've been dissatisfied with Slack for a long while, and feel something more like a threaded forum that supports but does not require synchronous communication would fit my mindset better.

I've been curious about Zulip (https://zulipchat.com/) for a while, but have yet to use it for anything.

The fact that Braid explicitly calls itself an "email/mailing-list/web-forum/chatroom hybrid" sounds promising to me. That's roughly what I'm wishing for, and is how I've described what I want before.

Does anyone here have hands-on experience with Braid?

More generally, are there other tools you've used or heard of that might fall into that category?