FirstToKnow: April 2020

New best story on Hacker News: Redis 6.0 GA

Redis 6.0 GA
577 by ingve | 175 comments on Hacker News.

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Trump says he's seen evidence suggesting coronavirus emerged from Wuhan lab, compares WHO to PR agency

04/30/20 3:59 PM

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Dozens of protesters, some armed, enter Michigan Capitol as tensions over coronavirus restrictions escalate

04/30/20 2:38 PM

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Strzok had stopped FBI from ending Flynn probe despite lack of 'derogatory' evidence, documents show

04/30/20 12:36 PM

New best story on Hacker News: Rules of thumb for a 1x developer

Rules of thumb for a 1x developer
524 by ingve | 333 comments on Hacker News.

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Intel boss confirms investigation into coronavirus, ‘accident’ at Wuhan lab

04/30/20 8:25 AM

New best story on Hacker News: Bringing a decade old vector editor back to life

Bringing a decade old vector editor back to life
455 by 2StepsOutOfLine | 61 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers

SSH hacks – a little sanity for remote workers
456 by mxfurman | 137 comments on Hacker News.

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EXCLUSIVE: Biden has long-standing, close ties to University of Delaware trustees controlling the Senate papers his critics want

04/30/20 3:04 AM

New best story on Hacker News: WebWormHole: Send files quickly using WebRTC

WebWormHole: Send files quickly using WebRTC
444 by pvsukale3 | 132 comments on Hacker News.

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Newsom to close all California beaches in crackdown: report

04/29/20 9:32 PM

New best story on Hacker News: Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more

Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more
563 by organicfigs | 495 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Recession

U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Recession
435 by chollida1 | 779 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith

Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
545 by BerislavLopac | 291 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube

With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube
440 by minimaxir | 199 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Uber discusses plan to lay off about 20% of employees

Uber discusses plan to lay off about 20% of employees
443 by ceohockey60 | 416 comments on Hacker News.

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FBI considered interviewing Michael Flynn 'to get him to lie' and 'get him fired,' handwritten notes show

04/29/20 4:12 PM

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WATCH LIVE: Trump meets with CEOs of major businesses on jump-starting America's economy

04/29/20 1:20 PM

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GOP senators have new warning about jobless benefit change

04/29/20 10:24 AM

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Watch: America Copes Together: A Virtual Town Hall with Harris Faulkner at 1 pm ET on Fox News Channel

04/29/20 9:59 AM

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NYT: Biden camp's talking points 'inaccurately' describe Reade reporting

04/29/20 9:43 AM

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THAT WAS THEN: What Biden's possible running mates said about Kavanaugh case and what they are saying about Tara Reade's claims

04/29/20 7:00 AM

New best story on Hacker News: British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free

British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free
553 by edward | 124 comments on Hacker News.

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Irrfan Khan, actor in ‘Slumdog Millionaire,’ dead at 53

04/29/20 1:40 AM

New best story on Hacker News: The Anti-Amazon Alliance

The Anti-Amazon Alliance
508 by kaboro | 314 comments on Hacker News.

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EXCLUSIVE: Tara Reade criticizes Hillary Clinton after Biden endorsement

04/28/20 1:25 PM

New best story on Hacker News: “Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”

“Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”
473 by hippich | 115 comments on Hacker News.

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Biden accuser Tara Reade calls for release of his Senate records

04/28/20 11:51 AM

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US coronavirus cases surpass 1 million

04/28/20 11:22 AM

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Clinton teases she'll be at Biden town hall, endorsement expected

04/28/20 11:17 AM

New best story on Hacker News: Tmux for Mere Mortals

Tmux for Mere Mortals
429 by swalladge | 138 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020

Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020
430 by guiambros | 73 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping

How to avoid Amazon: guide to online shopping
399 by Aaronmacaron | 205 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year

I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year
389 by Torwald | 265 comments on Hacker News.

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Biden silent on Tara Reade sexual assault allegation, as denials come from campaign

04/27/20 3:42 PM

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WATCH LIVE: Trump holds White House news conference on response to coronavirus outbreak

04/27/20 2:40 PM

New best story on Hacker News: Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use

Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use
426 by slg | 156 comments on Hacker News.

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Neighbor, colleague reportedly back Biden accuser Tara Reade's claims

04/27/20 12:51 PM

New best story on Hacker News: Rust-analyzer – an “IDE backend” for Rust

Rust-analyzer – an “IDE backend” for Rust
458 by steveklabnik | 78 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: textfiles.com

textfiles.com
451 by jhabdas | 136 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Lamest Edit Wars

Lamest Edit Wars
414 by ag8 | 291 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies

Japan to subsidize 100% of salaries at small companies
415 by yoquan | 239 comments on Hacker News.

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New York cancels Democratic presidential primary set for June 23 amid coronavirus pandemic

04/27/20 9:44 AM

New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?

Ask HN: What scientific phenomenon do you wish someone would explain better?
454 by qqqqquinnnnn | 631 comments on Hacker News.
I've been studying viruses lately, and have found that the line between virus/exosome/self is much more blurry than I realized. But, given the niche interest in the subject, most articles are not written with an overview in mind. What sorts of topics make you feel this way?

New best story on Hacker News: A Third Solution

A Third Solution
666 by rafaelc | 510 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04

Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04
588 by temeritatis | 417 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die

Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die
601 by prepperpotts | 463 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops

Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops
440 by caution | 230 comments on Hacker News.

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PROGRAMMING ALERT: Pete Hegseth hosts 'America Together' special, 10 pm ET on Fox News

04/26/20 6:54 PM

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin tells ‘Fox News Sunday’ when he thinks economy will bounce back

04/26/20 7:42 AM

New best story on Hacker News: In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms

In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms
722 by throwaway888abc | 539 comments on Hacker News.

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Watch Sunday Mass from St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC live at 10:15 a.m. ET on FoxNews.com

04/26/20 7:14 AM

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EXCLUSIVE: Biden accuser blasts CNN's Cooper, others over 'blatant bias'

04/25/20 8:40 PM

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Liberal CNN FINALLY covers Larry King clip after development in Biden sexual assault claim

04/25/20 1:14 PM

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Global coronavirus death toll passes 200,000

04/25/20 12:33 PM

New best story on Hacker News: Seinfeld Adventure

Seinfeld Adventure
583 by tosh | 131 comments on Hacker News.

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Footage from a decades-old TV interview offers new clue about a former Joe Biden aide's claim the then-senator sexually assaulte

04/24/20 5:48 PM

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President Trump and the White House coronavirus task force are holding their daily briefing. Watch now on Fox News Channel and F

04/24/20 2:41 PM

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Disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti released from New York jail

04/24/20 12:08 PM

New best story on Hacker News: Career advice for people with bad luck

Career advice for people with bad luck
566 by Reedx | 292 comments on Hacker News.

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Trump signs nearly $500 billion emergency interim coronavirus relief package

04/24/20 9:39 AM

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US coronavirus death toll passes 50,000

04/24/20 7:52 AM

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Media erupt over Trump comments on disinfectant and sunlight to cure coronavirus: Here's what he said

04/24/20 6:54 AM

New best story on Hacker News: When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back

When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back
541 by todsacerdoti | 271 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice

YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
543 by topoftheforts | 678 comments on Hacker News.

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Cincinnati Bengals select Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow as first pick in NFL Draft

04/23/20 5:28 PM

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House passes $484B coronavirus small business relief bill, sends to Trump

04/23/20 3:18 PM

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WATCH LIVE: President Trump, coronavirus task force hold daily briefing

04/23/20 2:50 PM

New best story on Hacker News: If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right

If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right
494 by gkop | 280 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products

Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch competing products
491 by benryon | 293 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
485 by dragonsh | 306 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5

Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5
422 by chrismccord | 177 comments on Hacker News.

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Tornadoes rip through Texas, Oklahoma: reports

04/22/20 9:13 PM

New best story on Hacker News: Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans

Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans
395 by _pius | 302 comments on Hacker News.

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WATCH LIVE: Trump gives updates on coronavirus with White House task force

04/22/20 3:13 PM

New best story on Hacker News: Small business rescue earned banks $10B in fees

Small business rescue earned banks $10B in fees
440 by gnrlbzik | 263 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: JPMorgan’s small business loans instead went to its biggest customers

JPMorgan’s small business loans instead went to its biggest customers
382 by JumpCrisscross | 174 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)

Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)
443 by _ttg | 141 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Things I wished more developers knew about databases

Things I wished more developers knew about databases
471 by zdw | 244 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing

Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing
478 by dkthehuman | 134 comments on Hacker News.

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Harvard won't 'seek or accept' federal stimulus money after calls from Trump to return cash

04/22/20 12:56 PM

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Pelosi sidelines plan for proxy voting amid coronavirus

04/22/20 9:33 AM

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Trump instructs Navy to 'destroy' Iranian gunboats harassing US ships

04/22/20 5:31 AM

New best story on Hacker News: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
523 by bennettfeely | 122 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)

Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)
494 by webdva | 394 comments on Hacker News.

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Iran launches its first military satellite, report says

04/21/20 11:45 PM

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Trump says 60-day immigration suspension meant to 'help put unemployed Americans first in line for jobs'

04/21/20 3:45 PM

New best story on Hacker News: A possible new back end for Rust

A possible new back end for Rust
430 by obl | 164 comments on Hacker News.

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WATCH LIVE: Trump, White House coronavirus task force hold daily briefing

04/21/20 2:49 PM

New best story on Hacker News: Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites

Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites
400 by mtlynch | 160 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Kick the Shit Out of Procrastination

Kick the Shit Out of Procrastination
422 by davzie | 155 comments on Hacker News.

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FDA authorizes first at-home coronavirus test

04/21/20 7:19 AM

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Trump announces he'll temporarily 'suspend immigration' into US by executive order amid coronavirus

04/20/20 7:29 PM

New best story on Hacker News: Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?

Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?
511 by feross | 275 comments on Hacker News.

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WATCH LIVE: Trump holds White House briefing with coronavirus task force

04/20/20 2:42 PM

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At least 2 states announce plans to reopen businesses, wind down stay-at-home orders

04/20/20 2:12 PM

New best story on Hacker News: Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending

Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending
430 by adventured | 394 comments on Hacker News.

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Dow drops nearly 600 points as US oil prices make historic plunge below zero

04/20/20 1:07 PM

New best story on Hacker News: Shirt Without Stripes

Shirt Without Stripes
468 by elsamuko | 204 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far
457 by ekianjo | 150 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens

Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens
543 by sebazzz | 215 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness?

Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness?
477 by fickleycurious | 225 comments on Hacker News.
I have realized that I easily give up when I face a hard problem. This is hurting my career prospects. I have been thinking and it may have become an issue because I grew up in a high pressure environment, where a lot is expected from you. How do I change myself ? I have observed that a lot of times I have a vague idea of a problem I am trying to solve but I don't put in the effort to nail it down. This affects my confidence and I don't want to lead whenever I get an opportunity. How do I get out of this habit ?

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Bipartisan House group unveils 'Back to Work' plan for reopening economy with emphasis on mass testing.

04/20/20 4:06 AM

New best story on Hacker News: OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover

OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover
419 by tambourine_man | 143 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?

Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
518 by zachrip | 86 comments on Hacker News.
I'm a 24 y/o full stack engineer (I know some of you are rolling your eyes right now, just highlighting that I have experience on frontend apps as well as backend architecture). I've been working professionally for ~7 years building mostly javascript projects but also some PHP. Two years ago I was diagnosed with a condition called "Usher's Syndrome" - characterized by hearing loss, balance issues, and progressive vision loss. I know there are blind software engineers out there. My main questions are: - Are there blind frontend engineers? - What kinds of software engineering lend themselves to someone with limited vision? Backend only? - Besides a screen reader, what are some of the best tools for building software with limited vision? - Does your company employ blind engineers? How well does it work? What kind of engineer are they? I'm really trying to get ahead of this thing and prepare myself as my vision is degrading rather quickly. I'm not sure what I can do if I can't do SE as I don't have any formal education in anything. I've worked really hard to get to where I am and don't want it to go to waste. Thank you for any input, and stay safe out there! Edit: Thank you all for your links, suggestions, and moral support, I really appreciate it. Since my diagnosis I've slowly developed a crippling anxiety centered around a feeling that I need to figure out the rest of my life before it's too late. I know I shouldn't think this way but it is hard not to. I'm very independent and I feel a pressure to "show up." I will look into these opportunities mentioned and try to get in touch with some more members of the blind engineering community.

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WATCH LIVE: Trump, coronavirus task force hold briefing on response to outbreak

04/19/20 3:30 PM

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Watch Cardinal Timothy Dolan celebrate Mass live at 10:15 am ET at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on FoxNews.com

04/19/20 7:15 AM

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Speaker Pelosi rips Trump as ‘weak leader,’ tells ‘Fox News Sunday’ he’s failed on coronavirus response

04/19/20 6:01 AM

New best story on Hacker News: Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant

Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant
389 by dutzi_ | 134 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management
441 by bottle2 | 157 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: I've been writing TILs for 5 years

I've been writing TILs for 5 years
425 by jbranchaud | 102 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: X410 – X Server for Windows 10

X410 – X Server for Windows 10
388 by zdw | 213 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Is BGP Safe Yet?

Is BGP Safe Yet?
479 by eastdakota | 97 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: ICANN delays .org selloff after California’s attorney general intervenes

ICANN delays .org selloff after California’s attorney general intervenes
522 by sohkamyung | 136 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Phoenix LiveDashboard

Phoenix LiveDashboard
408 by feross | 91 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: It’s Time to Build

It’s Time to Build
664 by jger15 | 432 comments on Hacker News.

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WATCH LIVE: President Trump is speaking at the daily White House coronavirus briefing

04/18/20 2:10 PM

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Paul O'Neill, former Bush-era Treasury Secretary, dies age 84

04/18/20 8:26 AM

New best story on Hacker News: Learning to See in the Dark (2018)

Learning to See in the Dark (2018)
599 by ksaxena | 160 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: The Decline of Usability

The Decline of Usability
617 by arexxbifs | 438 comments on Hacker News.

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]

Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]
596 by swighton | 95 comments on Hacker News.

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Vice President Pence on Friday said states 'have enough' coronavirus tests to start phase one of reopening plan.

04/17/20 5:48 PM

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Michael Loftus welcomes Fox Nation into his home for quarantined comedy. 'Fox Nation Presents Friday Night Live with Michael Lof

04/17/20 4:59 PM

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President Trump holds coronavirus briefing at the White House after rolling out guidelines to reopen the economy. Watch on Fox N

04/17/20 3:21 PM

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EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: US mounts probe to determine if coronavirus escaped Wuhan facility

04/17/20 11:28 AM

New world news from Time: What Trump’s WHO Funding Freeze Means for the Most Vulnerable Countries

On April 14, the first batch of World Health Organization medical supplies arrived in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. From there, around one million masks, goggles, gloves and gowns for healthcare workers and ventilators for patients will be dispatched to key locations across the continent.

They are badly needed as countries across Africa brace for surges in outbreaks of the novel coronavirus that has infected at least 2.1 million people around the globe. Many are ill-prepared for a respiratory disease with no cure and no proven treatment; in Burkina Faso as of April 9, there were just 11 ventilators for a population of 20.9 million people. Sierra Leone has around 13 ventilators for a population of 7.9 million, and the Central African Republic has just three for a population of 4.8 million. For them, the supplies will come as a relief — and perhaps some welcome good news.

But on the very same day, there was bad news for the body that supplied that equipment. President Donald Trump, having blamed the WHO for failing to check the spread of the coronavirus, announced he would freeze U.S. funding for the organization for 60 to 90 days, pending an investigation. From his home in Boston, Richard Wamai watched Trump’s daily briefing with growing dread. Wamai, a Kenyan expert on public health who leads a center for global health and disease research at Northeastern University, told TIME that Trump’s move could not have come at a worse time for public health in the global south.

One of the programs Wamai runs in east Africa has already been put on hold because of COVID-19, he says. It is aimed at checking the advance of Leishmaniasis, a neglected and horribly disfiguring disease that afflicts some of the world’s poorest people, and receives support from the WHO. “With this defunding, we can expect that these neglected diseases will become even more severely neglected,” he said in a telephone interview on April 15.

It’s not yet clear exactly how Trump’s decision will play out, in practical terms. But epidemiologists, NGO workers, and public health experts across Africa warn that any threat to WHO funding not only harms the ability of countries with weak healthcare systems to fend off COVID-19, but is also detrimental to the fight against other infectious diseases with the potential to become pandemics.

Crippling the ability of the WHO to do its job, says Heather Teixera, Health Policy and Communications Advisor at the International Rescue Committee, “will devastate the response capability of countries who are already least prepared to respond to Covid-19, hasten the speed of the outbreak in these countries, and ultimately perpetuate the pandemic,” she tells TIME.

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The WHO is no stranger to criticism from the U.S. and other governments. In 2010, it was criticized by the British Medical Journal and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe over its handling of the 2009 H1N1 swine flu outbreak, which it declared a pandemic despite the outbreak being relatively mild. When the Ebola epidemic devastated Africa in 2014, the UN body was widely condemned for its belated response. In a study published in The Lancet the following year, an independent panel of global health experts determined that the slow international response and a failure of leadership were to blame for “needless suffering and death.”

Questions also hang over the WHO’s handling of the coronavirus, especially in its confused messaging over the severity of the outbreak. But experts say the time to address those questions is after, not during, the pandemic. “Every minute, every hour, every bit of bandwidth dedicated to a diplomatic argument is time taken away from doing what we need to do to combat this virus on a global scale, from getting out the right information, to testing and getting the right equipment to the places that need it most,” says Gayle Smith, CEO of the non-partisan anti-poverty and global health organization, the ONE Campaign. Cutting funding to the WHO now, Smith adds, is “a dangerous and costly move.”

It’s hard to parse the immediate impact of the 60-90 day funding freeze announced by Trump. Since the coronavirus outbreak, the WHO had already secured commitments amounting to 94% of its $450 million COVID-19 funding target for this year, so it’s unlikely to impede its work in the short term. It’s also not clear whether the freeze will extend to voluntary contributions from the U.S., or apply only to its membership dues. Only hours after Bill Gates denounced Trump’s move to cut funding in the midst of the pandemic as “as dangerous as it sounds” his foundation announced it would donate an additional $150 million toward coronavirus relief efforts around the world.

But in the longer term, cuts in funding to will undoubtedly be felt. The U.S. contributed over $400 million to the WHO in 2019, roughly 15% of its overall budget. Currently, the U.S. accounts for 27% of polio eradication activities, 23% of health emergency preparedness and response, 19% of vaccine-preventable diseases like tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and malaria, according to J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “All of those, potentially, are on the block,” he said in a media briefing on April 16.

Many believe the freeze will augur a broader withdrawal of U.S. funding of global health organizations under the cover of the proposed review of the WHO. As early as Feb. 7, the White House mulled halving the U.S. contribution to the WHO as part of $3billion in cuts to U.S. global health funding across the board. Even before April 14, the U.S. owed almost $100 million in membership dues.

The impact of such a move would be felt largely in the global south, especially in Africa. The continent receives more than double the budget allocation of any of the five other regions the WHO administers globally, and about 60% of that budget focuses on limiting the spread of infectious diseases.

Asked in an April 16 press briefing about the decision, WHO regional director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti acknowledged that halting U.S. funds would have broad repercussions. It will be “quite significant in areas such as Polio eradication… as well as other priority programs that address communicable diseases such as HIV, and malaria,” she said.

Ebola is among the most high profile of these communicable diseases. Since resurfacing in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2018, more than 3,000 people have contracted the virus. On April 10, just three days before the DRC’s largest-ever Ebola outbreak was expected to be declared over, a new case was reported in Beni.

Although the WHO was criticized for its response to the far more severe Ebola outbreak in 2014, there is no other organization equipped to handle these kinds of public health issues. “When it comes to cholera outbreaks, Ebola, TB and other diseases, the WHO is at the forefront of monitoring and surveillance,” says Lisa Bos, World Vision’s Director of Government relations. “Only the WHO can align the global community around critical health issues.”

Right now, the WHO’s ability to tackle those issues has been impeded as countries rush to slow the spread of the coronavirus. “Already, because of COVID-19, we were seeing a stoppage of mass immunization campaigns for measles and polio, as well as projects combatting yellow fever and cholera,” says Wamai.

His concern now is that a shortfall in funding will mean these infectious diseases stop contracting and start expanding. “This is absolutely the worst thing that could have happened, at the worst time,” he says. “We have been doing great work bringing down infectious disease in Africa, and now it has just become harder.”

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New world news from Time: ‘A Crime Against Humanity.’ Why Trump’s WHO Funding Freeze Benefits Nobody

Public health experts have savaged President Donald Trump’s decision to cut U.S. funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), which he says failed in its “basic duty” during the coronavirus pandemic by promoting “disinformation” from China.

“Today I’m instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess [its] role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus,” Trump said at an April 14 briefing.

The move represents another stunning turnaround for Trump, who in late February praised the WHO for “working hard and very smart,” before souring on the world body in recent days as the U.S. death toll soared. Still, it remains in line with his longstanding distrust of multilateral institutions more generally.

Critics have accused the President of attempting to shift blame away from his own torpid response to the pandemic. The WHO declared a public health emergency on Jan. 30, after which Trump continued to speak at rallies and belittle COVID-19 as “the flu.”

Trump’s funding announcement has already drawn condemnation from all quarters. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said in a statement that this is “not the time to reduce the resources for the operations of the [WHO] or any other humanitarian organization in the fight against the virus.”

Richard Horton, the editor-in-chief of the Lancet medical journal, wrote that Trump’s decision was “a crime against humanity. Every scientist, every health worker, every citizen must resist and rebel against this appalling betrayal of global solidarity.”

Critics agree the WHO’s response suffered missteps at the outset of the coronavirus outbreak. There was a focus on government information rather than non-official sources, such as whistleblowers like Dr. Li Wenliang. Officials could have investigated how many healthcare workers had become infected, which was clear evidence of human-to-human transmission before official confirmation came Jan. 23. It advised nations not to close borders.

“The WHO could have been more diligent in determining the nature of the outbreak and how serious the problem was,” says Dr. Yanzhong Huang, a global health expert at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Trump’s scapegoating of the WHO comes after he spent two months ignoring warnings about a disease that has now killed more than 26,000 people in the U.S., the highest national death toll. In late January, influential White House economic advisor Peter Navarro wrote a memo to Trump that warned COVID-19 had the potential to claim hundreds of thousands of American lives and derail the national economy unless immediate and sweeping containment efforts were implemented.

Trump’s sluggish response stands out against the examples of other nations. South Korea, for one, confirmed its first case of COVID-19 just one day before the U.S. Yet a robust public health response that tested three times as many citizens per capita has kept reported cases under 11,000 compared to more than 600,000 in the U.S., which also has a triple the fatality rate.

“President Trump is trying to rewrite history to divert criticism from his own administration’s failures,” Adam Kamradt-Scott, associate professor specializing in global health security at the University of Sydney, tells TIME. “Lives will be lost as a result.”

Yet most public health professionals agree that the WHO is desperately in need of reform. It has been for a very long time. Despite a sprawling global mandate, the U.N. agency, which was founded in 1949, has an annual budget of just $2.2 billion—smaller than the largest American hospitals and a fraction of the $11.9 billion allocated to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

The U.S. is the largest single donor to the WHO, contributing over $400 million in 2019 including both assessed (mandatory) contributions and voluntary top-up donations from government and private sources (Though, in fact, the U.S. is currently $200 million in arrears.)

The WHO’s shoestring budget is largely because assessed contributions were frozen in the early 1980s amid the Reagan Administration’s outrage that U.N. bodies—particularly UNESCO—appeared to be tilting toward Moscow as more Kremlin-aligned third-world states joined up. As a result, assessed contributions have not risen in real terms since then and continue to be based on a combination of GDP and population. The U.S. today still provides around twice the assessed contributions of second place China.

But assessed contributions only account for $246.8 million in 2020, meaning over 80% of the WHO’s total budget comes from voluntary contributions. The U.S. comes top again while China’s voluntary contributions are negligible. But the greater problem with voluntary funds is that they are ringfenced for specific purposes and so cannot be diverted to address sudden crises, such as Ebola or COVID-19.

Ultimately, the WHO has little freedom to decide for itself where to spend its meagre resources; those decisions are made by the donors, whether government or charitable entities like the Gates Foundation. This is why 27% of the WHO’s total budget is spent towards polio eradication despite just dozens of cases annually. “The funding structure is unpredictable and allows donors to dictate the agenda,” says Huang.

This lack of resources contributes to various missteps. In 2009, the WHO was criticized for declaring a pandemic for H1N1 flu too early and for a virus that wasn’t sufficiently virulent. During the 2014 West Africa Ebola Outbreak, it was condemned for delaying the declaration of a public health emergency.

The irony of Trump’s funding cut is that, by its own questionable record, the WHO’s COVID-19 response was “fairly good,” says Kamradt-Scott.

In turns of accountability, the WHO does now livestream its World Health Assembly meetings every year to boost transparency. But the lack of criticism—and fulsome praise—of China’s COVID-19 response despite obvious problems with the reported numbers of infected and dead has galvanized suspicions of politicization. WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised China’s “extraordinary” efforts against COVID-19 that were “setting a new standard for outbreak response.”

There is unquestionably an effort to avoid an adversarial culture within the WHO’s 194 member states. It has consistently sought to try and cajole and co-opt countries into doing the right thing as opposed to publicly naming and shaming.

The notable exception was in 2003-04, when various WHO officials criticized China for downplaying the SARS outbreak. “It would have been much better if the Chinese government had been more open in the early stages,” said WHO director-general Gro Harlem Brundtland said at the time.

In the review that followed that crisis it was decided that the WHO should in future take a less confrontational approach when dealing with member states. The U.S. was party to that conversation and has, arguably, been a key beneficiary over the years. The periodic rolling back of family planning provisions in the U.S. during conservative administrations has escaped censure from the WHO despite a documented deleterious impact on the health and wellbeing of women and children. The same could be said about the lack of comprehensive universal healthcare like that enjoyed in so many other developed nations.

Ultimately, of course, it’s not strictly up to Trump whether to keep funding the WHO. The White House is not technically allowed to block funding of international institutions mandated by Congress, though the administration has found creative ways around constitutional hurdles through the application of sanctions or diverting funds by other means.

Still, the very threat of slashing funding has the potential to turn Trump’s specious claims about a “China-centric” WHO into a reality. Beijing has steadily been increasing its influence and putting nationals into key posts in nearly all multinational institutions—from the U.N. and Interpol, to the IMF. As Trump orients the U.S. away from the world stage, a presumptive superpower like China stands poised to fill the gap. Says Kamradt-Scott: “It would seem that Trump has just given China an opportunity on a silver platter.”

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Hi HN, We are members of the C Standard Committee and associated C experts, who have collaborated on a new book called Effective C, which was discussed recently here: https://ift.tt/39mgZnS . After that thread, dang invited me to do an AMA and I invited my colleagues so we upgraded it to an AUA. Ask us about C programming, the C Standard or C standardization, undefined Behavior, and anything C-related! The book is still forthcoming, but it's available for pre-order and early access from No Starch Press: https://ift.tt/3aqVqny . Here's who we are: rseacord - Robert C. Seacord is a Technical Director at NCC Group, and author of the new book by No Starch Press “Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming” and C Standards Committee (WG14) Expert. AaronBallman - Aaron Ballman is a compiler frontend engineer for GrammaTech, Inc. and works primarily on the static analysis tool, CodeSonar. He is also a frontend maintainer for Clang, a popular open source compiler for C, C++, and other languages. Aaron is an expert for the JTC1/SC22/WG14 C programming language and JTC1/SC22/WG21 C++ programming language standards committees and is a chapter author for Effective C. msebor - Martin Sebor is Principal Engineer at Red Hat and expert for the JTC1/SC22/WG14 C programming language and JTC1/SC22/WG21 C++ programming language standards committees and the official Technical Reviewer for Effective C. DougGwyn - Douglas Gwyn is Emeritus at US Army Research Laboratory and Member Emeritus for the JTC1/SC22/WG14 C programming language and a major contributor to Effective C. pascal_cuoq - Pascal Cuoq is the Chief Scientist at TrustInSoft and co-inventor of the Frama-C technology. Pascal was a reviewer for Effective C and author of a foreword part. NickDunn - Nick Dunn is a Principal Security Consultant at NCC Group, ethical hacker, software security tester, code reviewer, and major contributor to Effective C. Fire away with your questions and comments about C!

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My university just provided us with free Coursera accounts until the end of summer. However, there's so many courses to choose from that I don't know where to start! Please recommend me a course that you liked, preferably from the following areas: - UX design - bioinformatics - statistics for data science - mathematical analysis - algebra or category theory But of course, you don't need to stick to those categories, I'd love to learn about anything new!

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490 by corecoder | 303 comments on Hacker News.
I'm a web developer and DevOps engineer. I know a few languages and frameworks very well, I can find my way around with a good deal of other languages and frameworks, and I'd like to learn a lot more. My problem is that I cannot seem to be able to pick a project (any project) and stick with it long enough to do any meaningful progress, let alone finishing it. It's been several years since I've managed to work on a side project for more than two days continually. I sit before the computer thinking: I know! I'll write a roguelike in X! Five minutes later, I'm thinking: fuck roguelikes! I'll write a graphical solitar card game with Y! Five minutes later, I don't care for it anymore, and would rather write an isomorphic strategy game in Z. The same thing happens with tools I might need, applications I think about, experimental stuff, etc. Has anyone else experienced this, and, more importantly, found their way out? How?

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487 by blululu | 556 comments on Hacker News.
What are you learning right now? My last side project was recently derailed and I am curious to hear what other people are spending their time studying/learning about.

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429 by sureklix | 123 comments on Hacker News.
Since low-coding is super trendy these days, I was wondering if there are actually useful apps not only for non-devs but also for lazy-devs? I tried couple of no-code apps, but found them inflexible –not really giving you the opportunity to dive-in and customize.

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New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: An eBook with hundreds of GNU Awk one-liners

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483 by asicsp | 43 comments on Hacker News.
Hi, I recently published my ebook on GNU awk one-liners [1]. It starts from the basics of awk syntax and then discusses one-liner examples. There's a chapter on regular expressions as well. The github repo has the details on how to get the PDF version, all the example files and code snippets used in the book, sample chapters as well the markdown source used to generate the PDF. I made all my ebooks [2] free last month amidst the pandemic fears. These include GNU grep & ripgrep, GNU sed and three books on regular expressions (Python, Ruby, JavaScript). I'd appreciate your feedback and hope the books are useful. Happy learning :) [1] https://ift.tt/3bOKoIP [2] https://ift.tt/389FB3W