skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California is somewhere near steady-state (R=1) right now, but that's not a "stable" point, in the dynamical systems sense. A small decrease below R=1 would lead to falling rates, but a small increase above R=1 can make them skyrocket.

I'm not sure if there's good data on the length of hospital stays, but an early preprint from China reported a median stay of 19 days. That's not much help here: On day 20, the intake is 60% larger than the initial cohort--and only half of them (b/c median) will be discharged.

People with more data and expertise!) have worked up full SIR and utilization models, but the general point is that exponential growth is manageable, even boring, until suddenly it suddenly isn't.
Ah, the metric at which Venezuela was beating half of Europe in 2016. Seems like it didn't work out well...
How about Airbnb's?
> Everyone is shy. Other people are waiting for you to introduce yourself to them, they are waiting for you to send them an email, they are waiting for you to ask them on a date. Go ahead.

Maybe take this one with a grain of salt.
New York Covid-19 frontline doctor commits suicide
Net Impact Calculator for products and companies
That strikes me as a nitpick. They gave away the code for what was previously a fully managed service. A smooth install process wasn't originally a goal. No sense biting the hand that feeds.

If the world had wanted Wave, it would have lived on, rather than Apache eventually retiring it.
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream.

But does anyone remember City Light Books? :hmm:
Wish more software would do that. Often we don't need it after all.
The publisher/platform distinction that you think exists in US law does not. The CDA does not say what you think it does. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/no-section-230-does-no...
dang, does it ever make you feel sad that so many HN users will apparently defend Nazis, KKK members, and other white supremacists regardless of the circumstances or severity of their crimes? Like, do you ever kind of throw up your hands and wonder why you’re spending so much effort maintaining “civil discourse” as users cheerfully spout Stormfront forum talking points right in front of you?
I'm using Here Maps[1] since 2013, both on PC and mobile.

[1] https://wego.here.com/
> And he might still be right.

The US already has over 1M cases, so 0.3%?
I love this article.

My most recent bizarre bug: a coworker came to me with a bug where no matter what he tried, he could not get an if some_var is null to be true. The debugger would show the value was null. The logger showed the value was null, but the if statement would not work. After a morning of trying to fix it, he asked if I would take a look. I told him to put the null in quotes in the if. It worked. Turned out a JavaScript library had a bug where it would use the string "null" instead of null.
Off topic, but the yellow border on the page kept drawing my eyes away from the text to the edge of the screen.
Having spent 5 mins debugging it... it looks like the audio and video buffers are occasionally not exactly the same lengths, and it causes a glitch in the audio whenever the audio buffer is slightly longer.

It doesn't seem to happen when not CPU capped though, which I haven't quite figured out...
I loved the idea of Wave. Especially the idea that a company like Google was creating a new technology that wasn't a walled garden.
Wow he really likes his money. But not so much, people.
Suddenly every big tech company wants a piece of the zoom pie.

I quite like Google hangouts (now meet?), it's simple to use and comes packaged free with g-suite.

I run a small business so for just myself it's less than $100.

Amazing value.
Sometimes Windows will release a stuck file if you kill explorer and restart it from task manager. I found it mostly happens while working with files in a program while the folder is open in explorer.
Turn message reactions into upvotes on Slack
An example would be probably make your case stronger.
not really true anymore with systemd portable services. or package managers.
Your fallacy is "Fake Debate"; you are giving science deniers extra room to justify their beliefs by insinuating that scientists do not already discuss potential problems in their theories.
This seems exactly opposite of what we see in the world. As countries get richer, they expand protection of wildlife and the environment.

"Economic poverty is incompatible with biodiversity conservation" is a much more believable title.
Of course the citizens will like that its "free" but that doesn't make the costs of operating the financial networks also suddenly free.

Nor is it guaranteed the loans will be feasible enough business to cover expenses for the primary financial networks... Let alone covering any sort of customer service, help fighting fraud and theft, or to invest in expansion to new markets, or improving their software products, cover their own banking fees and insurance risks, pay their workers a decent salary, etc, etc.

The government basically limited access to a potentially massive marketplace that would do wonders for the wider economy, increasing efficacy and benefiting local business (India's economy is terribly inefficient and littered with rules that change every region), and instead of charging for the actual service they are providing they will be forced to push a bunch of debt onto the communities that they don't need (or some other shady monetization strategy like selling data and advertisements or other stuff that may even hurt the original business).

This will also likely further limit the market to a monopoly as it requires massive scale to get the <1% who might have loans, so they can get good enough deals with the banks to lower their own fees to have survivable margins. On top of the main business expenses.

Monopolies are famous for being extremely anti-consumer but still surviving with little competition because they are the only ones big enough to navigate the countless legal, regulatory, and technical hoops required.

Destroying the most basic business model... Even before the companies get off the ground (article says the gov still
only granted access to a million customers) sounds like a terrible idea.

Who knows how much the fees could have declined from competition alone? Or whether anyone will even continue investing in it if no model exists.

Just saying the government can write even more rules around the debt will make all problems go away is very naive. Unless your end game is gambling all the pieces will come together before it all crashes or the government running it themselves and/or let taxpayers cover the losses?
There's a great political cartoon I saw once (we've probably all seen it) where a guy in a tattered suit is sitting at a campfire with some other people and he says, "yes the planet was destroyed but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders." It may be weird to say but that single cartoon did more to influence my view of my place in the world than anything else. I had aspirations of working in finance that have since completely and happily abandoned.

I don't think the point in the title of this post is even arguable anymore. Now we just have to decide what we want to do about it and what kind of future we want. I commend organizations that are trying to tackle the problem because they're really up against a lot.
New privacy threat combines device identification with biometric information
If you read the link to the article about the Elgin marbles I posted in response to the original Brit-bashing comment that launched this thread, you'll see it does; at least in the sense that speaking authoritatively of rights and wrongs - as though the case is proven - is unwise.
As a native windows user I don't really understand this grief - if the file is open we're kind of assuming we need it, aren't we? What happens if the system tries to read the file on disc and it's been replaced or removed? Why shouldn't that end in an earth-shattering kaboom?

Isn't the problem actually not being able to effectively close it to then replace it?
Free for Everyone until they decide to pull the plug and charge for it.
The obvious flaw is that we know people can be asymptomatic carriers. That means they can put others at risk which violates the personal rights of those individuals.

This also can’t be done without significant testing which still isn’t available 9 weeks after declaring a public health emergency.
But you could also be "that hotel that helped catch a criminal", no?
Yes, you can very much take a credit card and use.

There's a free tier [1] which gives you an initial $300 credit for the first 30 days, then if you don't convert to a pay as you go model (absolutely your choice) will drop you to an "always free" tier that gives you a bunch of resources at no cost (2 small VMs, 2 autonomous DBs, 100GB of storage etc.)

For committed spending there is a universal credits model (which comes with a 30% discount by default).

Doesn't cost your soul either - have a look at the price list [2] or run through the cost estimator [3]. Also, some resources are always free (e.g. first 10TB of egress, cloud shell, kubernetes cluster, developer cloud services etc.)

(disclaimer, I work at Oracle)

[1] https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
[2] https://www.oracle.com/cloud/ucpricing.html
[3] https://www.oracle.com/cloud/cost-estimator.html
I've been considering the jump into TS, but I don't want to end up in a coffeescript situation (i.e. language is dead, but code lingers on and has to be converted back to JS at some point, rather painfully). Do you think it's worth it?
Fk-Covid: A Kubernetes Bundle for Inferencing Covid X-Rays with Machine Learning
> Sure, but it's uncommon that I want more than 100 items on a screen in a webapp. Infinite scroll is not an antipattern, but it is something that people should be a little bit cautious of.

Having ~100-200 items, I'd damn love to have them all on the screen. It seems like the best option out of the trio of render all, pagination or infinite scroll. Pagination is faster than infinite scroll, infinite scroll is more convenient than pagination, but both make it hard to reliably display data in sequence (as the whole data set isn't loaded immediately anymore) - and more importantly, both break search. However bad and bare-bones searching is in the browser, it's still better than search reimplementations in web apps, because the latter aren't any more sophisticated, and also have limited scope.

That's just my opinion, and a point of annoyance with modern SPAs. Most of the time when I have to scroll a lot, or traverse a bunch of pages, all I really want is to be able to CTRL+F for the thing I'm looking for without changing the state of the application.
Awesome! Looks similar to a short-cut driven note taking tool I'm building - https://mmap.it

Major difference is mine is focused on longer form documentation and comes with an inline markdown editor. Congrats on the launch!
> ... only person around with enough knowledge in the areas of [x, y and z] to combine them effectively

This is a good interpretation of "only" that made it click for me as a jack of all trades-type of person! Thanks!
? ?

If parents don't send kids to school in the US, that's truancy. It's a crime.

Here's the law in California as an example:

https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/ai/tr/
I did not count but I guess he is counting each bullet point as one bit.
The “micro” in “microservices” implies “excessive factoring”. Otherwise they’d be services.
Your fallacies are "Fake Analogy", "Misrepresentation", and "Persecuted Victim"; you saw two five-letter acronyms and decided that they must be related, and moreover that the relation is that critics must be silenced.
You understand that they're at home too? Just look at the unemployment stats.

Most of American production is automated. Its middle-level folk keeping America running. Cherry-picked examples notwithstanding.
I appreciate the relationship between anger and depression. I was a very angry child - but angry young boys are not tolerated. I became a depressed young boy instead, and the world seemed much happier with that.

Recognizing that you're saturated in an emotion is definitely important. It is difficult to even notice, but stepping back from it an analyzing it (through therapy, meditation, counseling, friendship) is really all we have. It's a constant task to have moments of self-awareness that the emotion has taken control. That in itself can breed resentment.

I haven't really found a cure for these things, but strangely they are not all negative. I think people who can manage some distance from these types of emotions are extraordinarily empathetic.
In early January, I broke my ankle and worked from home for something like 5 weeks. My job is software development and support for a manufacturing company, so I normally spend a fair amount of time on the production floor dealing with issues. That month, without kids at home during the day, things were way different than the last month. January was super productive, but I was also couch-bound for the most part.

Lately I've been working a couple hours in the morning, then a lot more after the kids go to bed a few nights per week.

We started the first week of the stay-at-home order here with a 6 hour/day schedule for the kids (including reading time, neighborhood walk, etc), but that fell apart after about 4 days.

At this point, we try to have them do something fairly educational in the morning for an hour or two, and then just let them play. We've only barely touched the surface of what the teachers are sending us. Obviously this isn't going to put them behind, being 5 and 7 years old. The Zoom meetings with their teachers are mostly just to stay connected to their friends, and I think that is completely fine.

This morning, my 7 year old learned about calculating area by figuring out how many pieces of yarn she'd need for a "latch kit" rug thing. She didn't even know she was learning math!
I got rid of cable tv. Was spending $80 a month ($960/year) for something that’s mostly previously taped.

Best decision ever!

The problem, is that during a pandemic or crisis, you sorta miss the cable news. Local TV broadcasts are not as sufficient, but at least I can get some good digital signal coverage for a few channels.
Interestingly, it is mostly affluent countries who even care about biodiversity.
Because often the salary isn't decided when they make the job opening, the salary is decided when they make the offer.

At my company, for instance, there are a number of us who were hired at the same time under the same position. But we have varying levels of skill/experience, and our salaries can reflect that even though our title may not
As soon as you start having you own server/network rooms, yes.

You will have to monitor your HVAC systems, your fire extinguisher systems, your alarm systems (for smoke and water leak detection), your electrical systems... You will need to make decisions about which type of system to install. You will have to set up maintenance and repair of these systems and interact with the specialized technicians who come to service them.

Not saying you have to become an HVAC expert, but you will definitely learn some stuff outside of computing/networking.
Are you implying that the out group is them? But that will mean that there is no out group, everyone is in the in group and thus we should listen to everyone's opinion and give it credence.
As someone with Aphantasia I am TriGgeReD! ;)
> Research shows biodiversity suffers at the hands of economic growth due to increased resource consumption and pollution

I don't think that's entirely clear. There's a concept in economics called dematerialization. From wikipedia: Dematerialization refers to the absolute or relative reduction in the quantity of materials required to serve economic functions in society.

The idea is that as a country becomes more developed and prosperous, the less resources are required to serve the needs of the people. For instance: Between 1977 and 2001, the amount of material required to meet all needs of Americans fell from 1.18 trillion pounds to 1.08 trillion pounds. The incredible thing is that this seems to be a reduction in absolute resources not resources per populace. Much of that reduction is due to technology (e.g. a cell phone replaced plastic from camcorder, camera, computer etc). The other is due to production efficiencies and migration to cities . A similar trend can be seen with carbon reduction in developed parts of the world.

I'm not 100% convinced by this idea, but it's enough for me to question the premise that economic growth leads to more resource consumption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dematerialization_(economics)

[Edit] There's a great interview with Andrew McAfee on this concept at EconTalk. Its based on the McAffe's book More from Less that explores the topics. He mentions a few limitations of the idea including environmental concerns

https://www.econtalk.org/andrew-mcafee-on-more-from-less/
The title should be prefixed with "Show HN" if this is something you created and want to show off
The tinkering doesn't have to be invasive or risky. I share your worry and am rather scared of breaking anything because of the amount of work I put into the configuration. My solution is to root very early on, just after testing everything and making sure I don't want to make sure of my 14 day return right, so if something goes wrong there I don't lose data. After that, I use root for all sorts of things, but after configuring everything I don't do invasive things like installing different ROMs or removing system apps or so.
> Auth is obviously a "service" but phone number formatting as a service seems extreme.

You clearly haven't finished drinking your Kool-Aid yet.
I feel like there’s so much self owning by Haskell and Lisps in making multiline statements such a chore.

Why does introducing let add indentation? I know why but it’s not useful! I’m just trying to provide a name for an expression, and my pseudo code wouldn’t have an indentation

Do notation is an out, but it’s its own special thing. So you get people writing nomadic interfaces because it’s the most syntactically convenient.
Written English—especially the formal register—is a different language than the spoken English of a native speaker.
As someone who did that for my mum, it will go reassuringly fine until she tries to do something not permitted like watch CraveTV. Or install something her friends have.

But hang in there man, youre fighting the good fight! I had my mum and dad on Linux from 2005-2014 when a gift from my sister (garmin running watch) exposed my lie!
I have a handful of friends who I chat with daily via Hangouts. Text only, though (though I did once do a video call with one while I was strolling through Disneyland, back when we could still stroll through Disneyland).

It's a great solution, and it'll be a shame if Google ever really gets rid of it.
Is there a similar feature in Google Podcasts? I know that they are transcribing them automatically in the same way captions are generated for YouTube videos. I think it mostly blew over but I remember Google caught some flak for that in the same way they did for Google Books v Authors Guild fiasco. This is why we can’t have nice things.
This is a ridiculous paper and a ridiculous headline.

Firstly, the paper directly states the opposite of the title of this post:

"The first European cases sampled on January 24, 2020 (IDF0372 and IDF0373 from Île-de-France, described in (Lescure, Bouadma et al. 2020) were direct imports from Hubei, China, and the genomes fall accordingly near the base of the tree, within clade V, according to GISAID nomenclature (Figure 2, Figure 3A)"

The rest of the paper is supposition that COVID strains evolved simultaneously (not sequentially from the first infections imported from Wuhan) based on genetic sequencing, implying that COVID had already been in the French population before that first diagnosed case from Wuhan.

Since the Chinese government has yet be transparent about when the virus started spreading in China, and destroyed all early samples of the virus, we have no real clue as to what the evolutionary history of this virus is.
1M confirmed cases; actual cases are many times higher than that.
Not to mention that Jio, the mobile data network, is owned by the richest man in India (1).

The investment was a strategic one too, Facebook could leverage this relationship with Jio (reliance) to keep mining data.

Edit: here's a fantastic thread on the relationship between FB and Jio.

https://twitter.com/iramneek/status/1253305972233105409

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukesh_Ambani
Covid-19 shrouds Otileâ€ s final shot at Uganda Open
I tried a 100 times but then used the shortened version of north and drive (ie N and Dr). And it worked. Shame on me for using the address spelled out on a letter from the IRS.
Ooh, I've not seen wiktor-k/openpgp-proofs before. Too bad it doesn't have more adoption, as I like it's solution to keybase's centralization.

Sadly neither project has an elegant solution to private accounts or services. IRC usernames and Signal are examples of the second. For private accounts, both solutions need specific tool integration, cooperation between services, or more manual interaction by the user. Ideally, a new internet standard would be created and adopted, but I really don't see that happening.

As someone who's put thought into this, I'm wondering what your thoughts on this are?
> Teaching yourself English from YouTube works for some, but it's not the norm. Education matters.

I've really come to hate the term education. It's so.. convoluted. Subjective. Self serving. Masturbatory in nature.

The worst is when someone claims to be educated. As if it's a binary. "I've endured the rituals of learning therefore my state is enlightened".

To my original point, every single person you listed probably has an involved parent. I say that because many people think education is a function of dollars spent, and that's just not reality. You'll probably disagree with me - so let's look up the parental situation of everyone you just listed.

Equating learning with online resources to "youtube" is peak boomer mentality lol
Every time I encounter a site that disables pasting something, I just disable JavaScript, paste it, and then re-enable. Obviously not a solution for non-technical users, though.
Yeah, Airbnb is an interesting case. I've used some nicely built apartments in peoples backyards and i've stayed in apartment buildings where there are full-time resident neighbors, but the apartment itself is purely Airbnb.

The latter I find odd because I can only imagine the impact on local renters, I also assume the ones that draw up the leases are the ones renting this our via airbnb. I bet everyone else has a no sublet clause.
You're missing the point. Disagreement with a view isn't a reason to prevent others from reading it.
Its the old "yelling fire in a crowded theatre" issue. Certainly epidemics qualify as a reasonable cause for asking people to stay home.
Nonsense. You can migrate a back end developer to the front end in far less time than it takes to train a new front end developer from scratch. The domain knowledge of front end specific tasks must be learned, sure, but the core fundamentals of how to program remain. You don’t suddenly forget how to actually program once you pick up JS, all jokes notwithstanding.
"If you’re an existing user of Merchant Center and Shopping ads, you don’t have to do anything to take advantage of the free listings, and for new users of Merchant Center, we’ll continue working to streamline the onboarding process over the coming weeks and months"

So tell me that Google will not demand you provide your credit card upfront in the process . . .
At least here in Morocco a lot of people make up transliterations into the Latin alphabet on the spot and those are read RTL.
You're using VS Code instead of Open Source IDEs? No sympathy whatsoever. None.