skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an impossibly certain statement given the evidence you have offered.

The linked article does not say that the cities locked down, only that they implemented what they call Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). They didn't say that they locked everyone inside.

The evidence offered shows that the west wasn't has hard hit as the east. I can think of all sorts of confounding variables in that situation, particularly back then when the east was much more heavily industrialized.

It is possible that if we had quarantined the at risk population and focused our efforts on reasonable NPIs such as masks and social distancing, we could have kept the economy open, leading to far less suffering and death in the long run. Hysterical black-and-white choices like we are being given are their own form of gas-lighting.
Of course it can. You can do pretty much anything you like with software as long as you have the vision. A plugin/extension architecture can certainly make modifying a compiler easy. What makes you think it can't?
> most people will (reasonably) understand that to mean that's because of reproduction

Subjective claims are fine, maybe you misunderstood the headline (although by definition anyone complaining about the wording actually didn't misunderstand it). But that's an empirical claim that could be tested. And my suspicions are that almost no one in the target audience would think for one second that the bears have reproduced enough in less than one year to quadruple in population.
And how will our lives look if we continue this quarantine for a decade -- which at our current level of infection (which has leveled off) is the minimum time it would take to gain heard immunity?
Studies show something different - https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/348138/person...
The main reason I prefer commits is because I frequently switch between computers, so I push up those commits. I also write detailed commit messages so I can come back a week or a month later.

Admittedly I haven't read that far into git stash's documentation, but commits + rebasing is far simpler in terms of cognitive load and doesn't require me to remember what I have in my stash on what computer, etc. All I need to do is push up the branch, and I can just rebase master onto the branch to pull in updates, etc.
Well, these store have to stay open, no matter what. So I guess there's nothing to be done, other than have low-risk populations ready to fill these roles.

Seems a little bit scare-mongery to me.
Is it misleading, or are they just using lay terminology in a press release aimed at lay people?

They were approved to begin emergency use without the usual steps to "FDA approval", correct?
Its because of who the primary author of the project is, and so it immediately has a fair bit of credibility.
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> how to structure a Chrome Extension

In the true spirit of JavaScript, you just structure it however you damn well please. Well, not completely, usually you have a background page, a popup page with associated scripts, an options page, optional content scripts, etc. You can learn from examples but in general they’re just structured in whatever way the author feels like.

> I find the API very difficult to grok.

That’s surprising because most APIs are really simple as long as you’re comfortable with callbacks. Sometimes there’s a bit of trial and error (messaging might be one pain point when you write your first extension), and sometimes details might slightly differ from the docs as certain features are tightened up (usually in the name of security), but I’ve never encountered anything that defies a bit of debugging.
Komodo Edit, though, is free software.

https://github.com/Komodo/KomodoEdit
I just talked to my boss, how radical are the steps the US government is taking. We have a republican President and senate majority that just agreed to the biggest stimulus ever and while Trump is giving mixed signals (seems like he is trying to appeal to investors) there is no end in sight. My boss is a republican and it also scares him, he agrees that we need to help the people but the government has access to many great minds and they know more than us.

My wife is a marketing director at large mall, and honestly I am trying to get her to switch either to digital marketing, or programming. Retail is going to suffer for a long time, and it has been suffering for years. When we start going back to normal, I expect retail traffic to be down or government may enforce rules limiting number of customers. People will have less money, less confidence and retail will be the last place where people spend money.

Plus, our world is very complex, air traffic is down, fuel usage is down, plane orders are down, manufacturing is down, freight deliveries are down then cuts are going to be made to non-essential departments across different sectors. I am a dev in manufacturing, and so far I think I'm safe. However, I have a friend in IT, they service large retailers.....he thought he was safe, his company just announced a hiring freeze as some clients are looking to get out of contracts as they are 100% not operating.

My comp sells products directly to larger manufacturers our orders March were down 25%, and April could be as much as 30-40%.
This collapse is not the result of a financial crisis. It is not even the direct result of the pandemic. The collapse is the result of a deliberate policy choice, which is itself a radical novelty.

I feel like the author needs to acknowledge that not making a choice is still making a choice. Yes, the current situation is the result of a deliberate policy choice.

The alternative, BAU because a government chooses not to shelter in place, could also result in a similar economic situation, plus healthcare being overwhelmed and an order of magnitude (base 10) or more increase in death rate.

I wouldn't be surprised if the overall economic harm from choosing to do nothing is greater than the overall economic harm from choosing to shelter in place. The worst part is, the governments that choose to do nothing can actually make the economic situation worse for everyone else because they aren't doing anything to slow the spread of the virus.
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In the world of git and cheaply available easy to use backup software, there is zero excuse to not have backups of everything to load on another machine. Even if you want to avoid the cloud and keep it local, a 128gb USB3 drive is under $50.

“A small number of machines” is not what we are talking about. We’re talking about one single consumer-grade laptop that would collapse the entire business forever.
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A person's tolerance for dying mostly seems to be relative to how attention-grabbing the cause of death is and how much attention the press gives it. I do have to wonder if some of these groups of workers are actually any more at risk from this than they would be from the flu during a typical winter, given how heavily concentrated Covid-19 deaths are in the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions. These jobs are more exposed to the flu for exactly the same reasons as they are to Covid-19, but we don't keep a count of how many grocery workers die of ther flu each year, or how many nurses and other medical staff, because it's just the flu, and there certainly aren't headlines keeping us up to date on the tally.
I believe that any payment processor should be prohibited from denying any legal business its services. Its a restraint of trade and should not be permitted.
Another point is that it's more dangerous to use deep-learning methods like this in highly regulated and sensitive environments like the healthcare industry for medical diagnosis. Medical devices involved in patient diagnosis are required to be transparent in its decision process in order to understand how it came to its decision. Despite CNNs having highly accurate results, its pretty much as useful as a black box to a doctor or medical professional if it cannot explain itself, which is one part of the hype of the deep-learning approach and is an ongoing problem in the AI research.

There are biases that can occur in CNNs which can skew some results and worst of all, debugging these CNNs or deep-learning systems around "what went wrong" will be harder given its black box nature and will be done by tweaking the hyper-parameters to get a "good enough" result which is unacceptable to professionals in mission critical industries or those dealing with human life.
A friend of mine runs a web hosting company.
Using Parallels he is able to partition his bare-metal machines and offer them as VPCs all on his own like it's 2006.
Apperantly many website builders / small businesses still use those.
The rational thing would be to pay grocery workers in risk groups (underlying diseases, age) to stay at home.

(And recruit healthy young people to temporarily replace them.)
Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging for Pidgin[1] provides this and hides the complexity from the user. Sadly, all of my Google Talk, AIM, QQ, and MSN contacts have moved to proprietary platforms like whatsapp, skype, and facebook.

I miss the days of 1 messaging platform for all my work and personal chatting. For a solid decade Gaim/Pidgin handled all of this for me.

[1] https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/
I am not sure that works as well as you think it does. People don't live far away from work and commute 2 hours a day because they're rich. They do it because they can't afford to live near their workplace. I can walk to work, but pay $2700 a month in rent. Most people do not have that luxury.

(OK, the Bay Area is different. Well-off people do commute two hours a day because there simply isn't any housing near where they work. I stayed in some corporate apartment in downtown Mountain View once and could bike to the office... but the apartment was going for something like $3500 a month for one bedroom. Just incredible.)
This is true, as I said Im an optimist longer term. And yes, we shouldn’t need to stay under the harshest restrictions permanently. We need to flatten that curve and spread it out, but can’t expect to eliminate it completely. China shows that with a tight lockdown, you can gradually ease restrictions and get back to work. The behaviours people learn during the lockdown hopefully stick and enable us to resume critical economic activity, applying fresh lockdowns tactically as local outbreaks return.
Republished Tony Hawk interview from 2007 – interesting read
Nicely done, would love to contribute some bugfixen, source code hosted anywhere?
As long as I can disable this, good. I need performance over E2EE, much like many others. We face far more threats from poor communication being distant than we do from an threat where someone gets past our VPN, Firewall, breaks TLS encryption, gets into our VPS and private server, and silently participates in our meetings.
In the SF south bay area stores have been very uneven across the board with respect to sanitizing and rate limiting customers. Some seem to be faster and started early (e.g. Trader Joe's) while others are doing little.

A few days ago was the first time I saw that most (not all) Whole Foods workers had PPE (mask, gloves). I'm hoping its a supply issue, but wouldn't be surprised if it was a corporate "don't scare people" issue.

While I strongly prefer to select my food for quality, I'd be happy for workers' sake if stores were pure pickup only (basically a local warehouse) with enough slots for everyone to get what they need; leaving delivery for those who really need it. But stores are just not equipped to handle that sort of operation.
You are correct - that is one way, but with webrtc there is also a way to give users an option to pick which audio/video source
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Plugging my brother's one-person business because he'll be too humble to post himself: https://nanagram.co

The product allows you to send pictures in the mail to your loved ones via SMS. It works great for getting fresh photos to your grandparents who might not be super savvy with a computer.

My brother started it a few years ago and makes enough now to keep it going. Probably is the classic definition of a lifestyle business, but I think that's a success even if it's unlikely to be a unicorn.

Also and more importantly, the product helps to bring hundreds of families closer together, which is especially important right now given our elders are cut off from contact.
This is just...(beyond genius)
I would share it with others if the URL was more friendly.
A digital personal trainer MVP to stay active during quarantine
You are comparing a browser to an entire operating system (and I believe Android does have those problems).

But you do have a point: it should be product driven not feature driven.
For R packages the license is specified in the DESCRIPTION file.

See
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html...
Wang soon destroyed them in the market

"Wang" sets off a lot of old memories for me.

A Wang was the first proper terminal I ever used. It was at a chemical company, and interfaced to a minicomputer that contained all of the safety information for the chemicals the company produced.

One of my responsibilities was printing labels for one-off sample drums of chemicals that went out to potential customers.

I'd use the Wang to key in the information about what was in the drum, and the minicomputer drove this incredible laser printer. It was about the size of a pizza oven, and could print the drum labels so fast that they were actually tractor feed. It's the only tractor feed laser printer I've ever seen.

The label stock was awesome. Big, long stickers about the size of a flat-screen TV with hazardous materials symbols on one end.

I also used the Wang to update the various Material Safety Data Sheets binders that were distributed around the campus. But that was much less fun.
I thought Foreign Affairs was the main output from CFR. Do they run both?
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Travel could easily be subsidized for those with a special need such as yourself. The GP is still correct.
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In the world of commercial software that’s essentially impossible.

Any immutable infrastructure lights up license keys and demo restrictions like a spotlight.

Take, for example, Apple’s desktop OS: You used to be able to drag-drop an application to install it. To uninstall you would delete it. Simple. Easy. Stateless. They talked about it a lot and so did Mac evangelizers. But it also meant you could walk in to an Apple store, connect a USB drive in your sleeve to a demo computer, drag, drop, and walk away with full versions of very expensive software.
So, the OS fell prey to the same stateful pitfalls as Windows: places to hide keys, system hooks, etc, etc, etc.

Your best bet these days is likely to manage all software config through a system management tool, keep your data backed up in Time Machine, and “reprovision” your laptop every X days or months.
I feel like knowledgeable people have always encouraged the general public to understand statistics and realize that, as dangerous as some things might seem, the risk from them is very low, i.e. “Don’t be afraid to do common activity X, because many more people perish in a year from heavy things falling on them at home, or in car crashes” etc. But now with the virus that calm and sober thinking is all going out the window and some are suggesting that it is fine for the public to fret and panic.
It does not matter in any case. The earth is just completely insignificant, extremely small grain of matter.
Amazon is a retailer, and retailers get hurt in recessions.

Yes, there's a wave of panic buying currently, but that will recede.

AWS may also surge with remote work, but enterprise budgets will be slashed in a recession. And a non-trivial amount of AWS's customers may fold completely.
funny choice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8kUJL04ELA
While articles like this always bring a smile, I'm saddened for the animals, knowing that their ecological reprieve will soon be dashed by human recklessness. I've actually begun to enjoy many aspects of the quarantine, and would like it to continue a lot longer. The planet is better off without us.
my Bluetooth headphones don't support pairing with multiple devices. The easiest way to stop them from pairing with my phone when I want them to pair with my PC is to turn Bluetooth off on my phone. functionally, I don't care whether Bluetooth is off or not, I just want my headphones to pair with my PC. this has the added bonus of being easy to undo (turning on Bluetooth pairs with my headphones again)
403 for me
I think it would be better to think about the economy in terms of actual resources and human capital rather than stock market figures, the former isn't vanishing into thin air.

Agreed. This is why I don't get all the doom and gloom, and all the people saying the bailouts/stimulus/low interest rates are going to further wreck things.

All of the actual value and technology that we've built up as a society is still there, ready and waiting to kick back into gear. I don't see how moving some numbers around in the meantime is going to create a long lasting deleterious effect. I feel pretty confident that, once the engine starts back up again, things are gonna boom.

Would love to understand why I'm wrong, but this article just pointed out a bunch of statistics that are bad right now but didn't really seem to make an argument to back up its headline which I'm going to call BS clickbait.
Not the parent poster, but you should add what's actually being built: a lot of gas plants. They're cleaner than coal, but lets be honest, still not particularly good for the environment.
> As a side note, the case perhaps most relevant to many people in this site, Google v Oracle, is one of the ones not rescheduled for argument.

Does this imply that it’s one of the easy cases? If so, which way do you think they’re going to decide?
How many of those 3 million have gotten brutally ill and had to spend many days suffering at home or hooked up to a ventilator, wondering if they would survive the week? Probably a lot more than 41 people.

How many more people are going to get very sick in the upcoming weeks and months? Probably a lot more.

Dismissing the workers' concerns with misleading statistics like you have done here is irresponsible at best.
It seems like yet another step in escalating adwars. I am very much in the anti adtech corner, but I can't help but wonder where it is going to lead us.
Most of my Amazon packages now come via Amazon's own logistics system at this point.
What We Don't Know About the Coronavirus
Gah, I got it wrong. I'll update parent.
you seem to imply that it is no longer like this? If so, why?
Show HN: HN monitor and notification via slack for subjects of interest
Code: Single click deploy

https://github.com/DevScoreInc/samples/tree/master/hacker-news-monitor

Youtube demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nEab7ALc3c&feature=

The above is a fun example of what users can do with
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One simple and specific example of such micro apps is a GitHub file monitor to notify devs when files in specific GitHub repos have been modified.

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The service architecture is an event based model which supports functions, function connectors, webhooks (GET & POST) and cron jobs. Additionally there is a file storage utility and a database to persist and access application data. It currently supports node.js and has an embedded library of functions in the runtime, that enables programatic access for much of the above.

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Shutting down registers and making the handful of regular checkers do delivery/pickup orders isn't tenable - the throughput isn't even close to similar. Putting together pickup/deliveries is very time consuming for traditional grocers. And then what happens when someone who doesn't have the ability to shop via app needs groceries? Do they call in, and take up another employee's bandwidth while they take down the list?
FYI Transferwise doesn't have NZD accounts currently, and they have no schedule for restoring them.
It's horribly verbose.
It's slow a molasses
It reminds you when looking at it that it's from the 1970s.
All the applications have ever been business. Where's the fun in that?

I learned it in High School, and had to read it on a couple jobs while we were transitioning to another language (probably RPG/III, another dead dead language)
What modern technologies and capabilities here vs. other places? Living in Denmark I see the 'success' as being fairly early with simple social distancing and closing borders.
Sometimes, it's good for people who engage in persuasive speaking to talk to each other and compare notes.

"Preaching to the choir" is known in some circles as rehearsing.

Similarly, I have owned a couple of books I got almost nothing out of, other than something I can hand to people who ask a lot of questions. They're good books to own. One is quite beat up at this point, but worth it.
I did that from 2002 until now, though I'm shutting down. It was a decent source of income, I could've made WAY more and probably made a good living, but I never charged people enough because many of them couldn't afford to go anywhere else. It was a great hobby and it got me my current day job. It was interesting work, but the internet has become too dangerous, it's impossible for one person to keep up with all the attacks.
Maybe for backups, or sneakernet. I know one place I worked (the chemical factory I mention in another comment), the administrative offices weren't on the same network as the labs. I think it was a geographic limitation because the two buildings were separated by a 20-foot-tall earthen berm, to protect the admin building in case the lab building blew up.
Since my move to nixos I've considered to reinstall my system every morning - since the entire system config is a few .nix files (+ home-manager). Haven't quite found the determinism yet. Perhaps I should do it tomorrow morning. :)

edit: If I get three more upvotes I'll do tomorrow.

edit: two more.

edit: one more.

edit: all filled up, it's going to happen!

edit: Some more context. Although I have a laptop (a 13" 2015 mbp) I don't bring it to work anymore, but have two desktops, one at home and one for work. All three run the same nix configuration, shared through a git repo. Whenever I discover there is some program I need I add it to the config and after switching machines run `sudo nixos-rebuild switch` - so the thing I added becomes available on the current machine there, too. All this just works (tm) and I'm fairly confident the re-install will be painless.
emphasis on "at least", do you honestly think there is solid public data of the exact occupational breakdown of all 22K people who have died in the US so far?
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