skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We should probably look for mitigations that are not economically harmful and keep them in place. Mask wearing seems to be one of them. Then we can use the time that gives us to look for treatments and maybe even a vaccine.

Absolutely.

> I wonder if you are giving any consideration of the economic consequences of the virus? Those are going to happen regardless of imposed lockdowns. There's a tweet about reservations at restaurants in Seattle declining 60% prior to the lockdown. That's plenty.

Yes, I have given consideration to that, and I think your point is an important one. Basically, I draw a distinction between unavoidable economic impact due to covid itself (your example with restaurant reservations) versus self-inflicted economic damage (forcing closures rather than letting businesses decide for themselves, discouraging elective surgery in areas without a huge outbreak which has led to incredible job loss/furloughs in the medical sector)

> BTW, New York is nowhere near herd immunity. If you assume 1000 cases per death, they would have ~1 million people that have been infected. For a virus this contagious, you want 50-60% for herd immunity, not ~12%.

Right, hitting the "herd immunity" threshold is great, but the important point is that any marginal increase in recovered cases leads to reduced transmission, even if it does not lead to containment the way "full" herd immunity does.

Per your point, if we stick with that 1000:1 estimate (which honestly I think is within an order of magnitude of the true number), that implies we're only 2, maybe 3 "doublings" away from herd immunity in New York. (Let me know if you see an issue with that logic).

By comparison, in my home state of California, we currently have 1000 deaths which we would expand to 1 million cases using that same 1000:1 ratio, whereas our population is about 40 million, so we have an implied 2.5% herd immunity
Yes, it would generate a huge amount of data to sift through.

Based on what we know about the proposal, the hardware platform doesn't yet exist. Even if the full design was already complete, how long would it take to tool up a factory to produce 5,000,000 units and the distribution infrastructure to ensure everyone had a unit? It just doesn't make any sense.

There's been a disturbing trend where businesses are approaching government agencies (without even an RFP being issued) trying to get them to endorse/fund their app or device or technology. It just stinks of an attempt to profit from the disaster as opposed to a genuine desire to help enhance our contact tracing infrastructure.
Bread...? Tartine, Acme, Semifreddi’s are all fantastic and highly available in SF. The Bay Area, kicked off by Chez Panisse unsurprisingly, has developed a great bread culture
I am currently getting help with ADD and this is a similar situation to me as well. However, I was diagnosed because I'm trying to get help for insomnia. Specifically, I have a lot of trouble falling asleep. I'm just adding another data point in case anyone is relating to OP, the comment I replied to, AND has difficulty falling asleep. It's always good to have a clear picture of what your mental health is like.
Is this butter is one of those things like really high quality olive oil where its only worth it for eating in its natural state because cooking with it destroys the fine qualities that make it worth it? I love butter but haven’t managed to find anything mind blowing so went back to commodity butter because 90% of the time I cook with it.
Facts about the Coronavirus
> Not to be chastized and offended.

I didn't mean to offend you, but to help you understand why you were downvoted. This is from my own experiences as you can see from my post history. I'm not popular. This forum has a very specific...expectation (as well as some strong biases) for even the most casual comments.
I don't think my superiors are going to open our source code. Thanks for letting me know about your project
The Bay Area is a mixed bag for tap water. Some of the East Bay has great tap water, while head down to San Jose and you can only get worse by driving much farther south.
True. All this has made me want to read a book-length treatment of the 1918-1919 pandemic. The lived experience of a fast moving global pandemic had completely receded from our own understanding until this came along.
This isn't like riding a motorcycle without a helmet. I personally don't care if they want to go kill themselves, but these people are also at the grocery store, or walking in neighborhoods, or at the gas station -- infecting and possibly killing others.
That's true if you update often.

If you're like me and only played occasionally the updates would build up and take very long.
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Actually if you've been an observer through the years/decades REIF has always been that way. The name renaissance has is from the Medallion fund which is the one to watch.

There isnt a reason to weigh the collective returns as the best one, Medallion, is closed off for outside investment.
Makes sense. Will give these a try
Ask HN: What Is an “Water Tower Ad” Equivalent on the Web?
That is to say, an ad that has permanence to it?
what sort of argument is that?

large companies disappear all the time, or are swallowed by by others that outcompete them

"9 of every 10 Fortune 500 companies in 1955 are gone": https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/fortune-500-firms-1955-v-2017...
The public taxpayer ends up paying for their housing, their food stamps, their bus fare, healthcare, etc. As I indicated, it's multi-generational. However, this is because their behavior is degenerate. They spend all day being paranoid of people coming to take what little they have and lack any sort of trust in each other or themselves. Drugs are involved (including pot) across the board, excepting the little kids who are raised around it.

As an aside, my best friend (prescribed adderall) has always been affected by "the curse of the gifted". When lower grade school is easy. After high school, real intellectual competition breaks that paradigm of "if it isn't easy for me, it's too hard" resulting in similar lazy adult behavior...although he does work. He's never been stable and still hovers just over minimum wage and cannot care for his kids. These problems that have similar outcome (like homelessness) which are often conflated.
Why Do FM Frequencies End in an Odd Decimal? (2015)
What Viral Evolution Can Teach Us About the Coronavirus Pandemic
> (also "free money for surfers"? wtf)

I was curious about the surfers as well. It's a reference to something John Rawls wrote in 1988:

"[...] those who surf all day off Malibu must find a way to support themselves and would not be entitled to public funds." [1] provides context.

In 1991, Philippe van Parijs wrote "Why surfers should be fed: The liberal case for an Unconditional Basic Income", which instead supports Rawls's surfers. [2]

[1] https://rawlsbasicincome.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/chapter-tw...
[2] https://www.uclouvain.be/cps/ucl/doc/etes/documents/1991l.Su...
Emacs has a unique feature as well, it can become the entire gui for anything you are trying to do; web browser, email client, IRC client, etc. all converted into plain text.

I even had it setup a few years ago to send and read tweets.
Many people regard SF as above average in water and bread. Water comes from Hetch Hetchy [1] and many of the regions best bakers are in SF, such as Acme [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Public_Utilities...

[2] http://acmebread.com/
The plausible interpretation is that the commenter got excited about screen readers because they unexpectedly connected to something he was already interested in, and it made him curious. Not only is that a perfectly decent thing, it's an example of the curious conversation that HN exists for.

Meanwhile, snarking and putting down other users, which unfortunately are what you did, are examples of what HN very much does not exist for.

It's really easy to interpret other people's internet comments in ways that add things that weren't necessarily there. We have only tiny blobs of text to go by. We don't know each other, and we don't even have the cues that come from voice, body language, and the like. As I read the GP comment, it seems to me that it was you who introduced the notions that it was somehow about the commenter puffing himself up, or that he was somehow lacking in compassion towards the original poster.

In a thread of 200 comments, there will inevitably be rivulets of conversation that aren't about the main theme. Such tangents are only bad if they're somehow generic and predictable. This one was interesting, still very much in the orbit of the main topic, and I really don't think there was any meanness in it. I'm pretty trained to pattern-match meanness after years of trying to get people to be kind to each other on HN, and I'm afraid it was your comment that was the mean one.
It doesn't just affect them. People who would otherwise not have been infected will likely contract the virus (and possibly due) due to increased community spread from those who do not respect public health guidelines.
Estimating Rt of Covid-19 in real time
I appreciate that you took the time to look at the code. I like the app itself well enough, but I especially like that it's just 100 lines of HTML/CSS/JS.

Thanks for sharing excalidraw as well. That looks great.
Out of curiosity what is the reputation of Lurpak like in Denmark? It's top shelf butter in most mainstream supermarkets in the UK and Australia.
I highly recommend checking out this thread about stimulant medications:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16033574

As someone who has ADHD and has taken stimulant medications for a long time, I would like to share my experience. There is a very faustian aspect of taking these medications. Don't think that you can change your brain chemistry and not change who you are.

I would not have the career I have today without it. Before I started getting treated, I was barely supporting myself financially, and struggling to get through community college. I felt so powerless, while my peers rocketed ahead of me. After I started taking medication, I was able to take control of my life, and do things I had previously ruled out doing. I did great academically, and then made more money than I ever thought I would. It was such an amazing feeling to feel like I had been given a second chance at life.

However, it changed me, and I lost something. I wonder what could have been. I remember the moment I noticed I was changed. For a year before I started taking it, I had been dating someone for over a year, and not once had we ever had a fight. But a month after I started taking adderall, I screamed at her when I got frustrated because she changed plans we had made. I was so horrified, and I wanted to stop taking it that day, when I still could. Our relationship didn't last three more months. I gradually lost touch with my old friends.

I was only supposed to take it to get through college, but the choices I made on adderall were such that I chose a lifestyle that required it. I pushed myself really hard for years and I was able to prove that I wasn't a slacker or stupid; I got a fancy .edu email and coauthored scholarly papers and presented at conferences.

I miss who I was before I started taking it. Things just didn't annoy me. I was so cool with stuff. I think I was much more emotionally resilient, and much better able to read people. Stimulant medications make me more "autistic", for lack of a better word. I think I have really regressed emotionally.

I would strongly advise anyone who starts taking these medications to not lose touch with yourself. See a therapist, even if it does not seem necessary. Try to maintain relationships and keep yourself emotionally anchored. Give your soul room to breathe. Take emotional sabbaticals where you are able to ruminate on important decisions. Consider not taking your meds on the weekends. Listen to music and play video games, even if they don't seem to entertain you as much. I have a theory that your "right brain" still likes these things, but that your impulses for entertainment are just suppressed.

As for me, I am seriously considering trying to live without these medications, or at least severely cut them back. Besides the problems that I talked about, there is also evidence that stimulant medications can reduce brain mass over the decades. I don't want to discourage anyone from doing the best for themselves, but everything has a cost. If you want to do well in college and build your career in your 20s, that is understandable. But keep yourself grounded.
Which do you prefer, screen-readers or braille readers? Also, how long did it take you to be able to feel the braille effectively?
> For a virus this contagious, you want 50-60% for herd immunity, not ~12%.

We also don't know the degree or duration of immunity previous infection provides; we have both analytical reasons to expect and early expiremental evidence that prior infection provides some immunity in the near term, but one quote I've seen is that the level of information we have isn't enough to give us confidence beyond that it probably usually provides some degree of immunity for some period between 6 months and 60 years after infection, without knowing either the degree of protection or where in that range the usual duration falls.
What makes you the most excited about next gen consoles (PS5 / XSX)?
>I recently heard they are now considering to move their code base from svn to git, and write some test code to stabilize the firmware that goes into the ssd products.

>I don't think I can explain in short how a mediocre developer who never actually coded something into reality got a degree, and got a job in allegedly the biggest company in south korea... All I can say it is a complex korean thing that requires some cultural understanding of our society.

Are you sure it's a Korean thing, and not just a hardware-company thing? Even in the west, hardware companies are notorious for having terrible software development practices / UX. Perhaps the sole exception is Apple, and this has allowed them to dominate (compare iOS to the crapware OEMs like Samsung bundle with phones).
He didn't say that he can listen two times faster than the average person. He said that he can listen to podcasts at twice their recorded speed. There is nothing superhuman about this. Many people do so. People naturally speak slower than their listeners can understand, and practiced public speakers are trained to speak even slower than that.
most of us don't care a lick about corporate earnings. we risk our lives every day just by waking up and doing anything, to the tune of 8000 american deaths a day (for example). should we just remain socially isolated for the rest of our lives instead?

life is risk, and so risk is not a reason to forgo life.
It's really just the popular distros that are following redhat. If you build an OS from scratch or use something like alpine or gentoo it's not so bad.
I recognise it from Mac OS 9 days, and downloaded it to try it again now.

Something I miss from Safari on Mac OS 10.9 was seeing full names in the tab bar. iCab, Chrome, and Firefox all shrink tabs down to their favicon.

Old versions of Safari would show the whole name, and if there wasn't space, it would overflow into a dropdown list on the right.

Yes, you probably can accuse me of opening too many tabs, but I have an amusing anecdote about how I recovered some front-end dev work from tab source when our DigitalOcean server crashed a few weeks ago.
Do apple hire CS majors who never did a project in any language? Probably not..
That’s 2.5 alerts a day...something is wrong with your setup if you’re getting that many alerts/day
Try considering what the authors of the paper mean.
Yes, this is typically butter that you eat directly for its own qualities. Like very good olive oil.
I'm half way through "The Great Influenza - The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History" it's excellent.
Over my career I've noted that the 'knee' on the mass production curve gets lower and lower. The NRE for design, molds and tooling keeps dropping. Out of my keester 30 years ago you needed 100,000 units to justify a set of injection molds. Every ten years after cut that number by 10.

Now if you want a 1000 plastic parts, not too complex, NRE is a couple bucks each.
The difference is that I can overcome it with will power. A person with ADHD cannot.
> * How did this project get started? What problem is it trying to solve?

OrbitDB got started because we wanted to build serverless applications, especially for the web (ie. applications that run in the browser.) Serverless meaning "no server" and no central authority, ie. something that can't be shut down.

OrbitDB gives tools to build systems and applications where the user owns their data, that is, the data that is not controlled by a service. As a way of simple example, imagine Twitter that doesn't have one massive database for all tweets, but rather you'd have one database for each user.
What workflow could you have that your dev work on a DO server would be lost if you didn’t have the html in your browser? Are you direct editing apps on a DO server with no source control?
If the authors of the paper are using a term that already has a specific meaning in the area they are working in, but meaning something different from that then they are making a mistake.
Is there any evidence of this common claim that obscure languages "may contain some of the most critical solutions to the problems we face as humans"? What kind of problems is he talking about there? Has it ever happened before?

So what that a monkey is a "lice hunter"? In English, an anteater is an anteater and a wood splitter is a wood splitter. It's not a very special way of naming things. Maybe this language has no value to anyone except its own users, but they already speak it, so no effort is needed.

These activists always have a dark intention in their ideas that they want some poor indigenous people to be burdened with the work of learning and using a dying language. If young Ojibwe people are choosing not to use it, then maybe it's because they don't want or need it. I also didn't learn much Morse code as a kid despite older people wanting me to. Turns out it's no longer as useful as it was back in their day.

"Language, Treuer says, defines nations, connects generations and allows a culture to express its perspective on the world." Yes, and English does that job much better because you can actually communicate with the world and multiple generations. Different cultures do alter it with local slang or styles of speech and it's still intelligible while also defining their identity.
It's Time to Act – A Response to Marc Andreessen
That is a fair point, however, not all phone numbers are capable of receiving text messages (landline numbers typically are not able to receive text messages), so texting would only work for those numbers that are capable of receiving texts.

But if the number is capable of receiving texts, the caller should also send a text message to the number as well.
Having spent my teens and early adult life with undiagnosed ADHD, it can manifest itself as depression and anxiety from constantly feel frustrated with yourself from not being able to focus or achieve your goals. Getting treated for ADHD may solve other problems.

And ADHD-like symptoms of difficulty focusing can themselves be comorbid with depression, and a non-stimulant medication like strattera may be able to help.

I shared some of my experiences with ADHD medication earlier in this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22920962

There are just a lot of things that I wish I had known.
Isn't the smell of ghee (especially when making at home) too strong?

I remember someone in the house making it and I couldn't breathe in the kitchen when it was there.
Really? Often they say things like "he prefers...", etc. in some sense speaking for their character not hypothetically but as if they were close to a real person that "does" things rather than "would do".

However pretending to be personally acquainted with the character is a step higher, I feel. How common is that?
WebM is Matroška, and it can contain H.264 as far as I'm aware. Not sure precisely what browsers decide to do here, but apparently it's something.
Norway and the A-ha moment that made electric cars the answer
Blockchain + version control for news?
Week in Review: Facebook hardware finds pandemic market fit
Some on this site seem to be ruthlessly selfish. They do not care about those who are at risk - and would rather rush back to the way things were.

It's ethically vile, and deserves nothing but spit.

That anyone will die should be reason enough to slow down and do the right thing. Covid-19 has revealed how thin some margins are for businesses we need to survive. Condemning the sick to die and going back to normal isn't just cruel and evil - it's shortsighted and foolish.

We need to change.
Try and read Borges’ essay on blindness.

Some excerpts:

There were the books, but I had to ask my friends the titles of them. I remembered a sentence from Rudolf Steiner, in his books on anthroposo­ phy, which was the name he gave to his theosophy. He said that when some­ thing ends, we must think that something begins. His advice is salutary, but the execution is difficult, for we only know what we have lost, not what we will gain. We have a very precise image-an image at times shameless-of what we have lost, but we are ignorant ofwhat may follow or replace it.

I made a decision. I said to myself: since I have lost the beloved world of appearances, I must create something else. At the time I was a professor of English at the university. What could I do to teach that almost infinite lit­ erature, that literature which exceeds the life of a man, and even generations of men? What could I do in four Argentine months of national holidays and strikes? I did what I could to teach the love of that literature, and I refrained as much as possible from dates and names.

https://www.gwern.net/docs/borges/1977-borges-blindness.pdf
> LWW is nomenclature for an alternative to CRDTs

I think you're still stepping on rakes...
As long as these social media companies follow Chinese law, they will be allowed.
>>> Not doing work is neither depression nor alcoholism.

It definitely can be as a result of depression. I don't think we have enough information to rule out things like depression.
Also Android has much higher memory requirements than iOS due to the Java implementation, that’s why Android phones have typically had a lot more RAM than iPhones. That may not be an issue depending what you need to do with it.
It's snarky but I don't think it's unwarranted.

I'm not part of the anti-pg crowd. I'm aware of where I am, I've read Hackers and painters and his blog ("essays"). But I prefer to think of him as a famous Lisp hacker and venture capitalist, not Peter Gregory from the Silicon Valley show.

It's not sound to build a cult around anyone.
Tpb is definitely blocked, I didn’t notice for ages but turns out I was always overriding my ISP DNS and using google dns which for some reason doesn’t block it, I’ve since moved to cloudflare who are in the same boat.
I deal with duty to accommodate and I can tell from experience some of the tools that our employees that are blind currently use. They are:

1. JAWS screen reader. They all say this is the best
2. Programmable keys, such as https://xkeys.com/xk16.html
3. ABBY Finereader - to digitize images so they can be read by JAWS.
4. Large specialized monitors (I forget which model) that could help.

And yes, like someone already mentioned, you will be listening to your screen reader at lightning speed.

All the best!