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It's got a 2% fatality rate. It's going to overload medical facilities in many major cities, is already leading to medicine shortages for meds from China, and will close jobs and schools around the nation. It's not smallpox or anything, but it is major.
Well there are plenty of painful diseases without a cure or effective pain mitigation short of euthanasia.
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This is really big news, albeit about 27 years too late to matter. Miranda is the elegant sister of Haskell, a really beautiful pure functional language. When I was a student I wrote a Perl(!) script which translated Miranda source to Haskell so I could test my classwork exercises at home on my Linux/386 machine without having to go into the labs (no internet in those days!)
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From this story sounds like a moderate flu. Fever, coughing, body aches, and congestion.

It does seem like the media is click-baiting the world for profit.
The Teams UI has some huge blind spots.

Now, you can finally sort-of-almost-reliably switch between different accounts. This used to just not work, for me.

But you still can't see what account you're actually logged in with. I can only see my initials and name - and my initials and name's the same for all 4 MS accounts I have (private/family, employer, client 1, client 2).

When you press "back" from an open document, you don't go back to the folder you opened it from, but to the root of the document library.

The conferencing generally works OK-ish, but sometimes it just used another audio device that it says in the settings. The simplest solution is to reboot. Sometimes it works to switch device, re-start teams, and then switch device again.
The flu is a pretty well known illness at this point.

This is a serious issue as it has a higher mortality rate than the flu, is spreading quickly and has the potential to evolve into a strain with a much higher mortality rate.

I agree people shouldn't panic, but I don't agree this is just something to be dismissed... The pandemic of 1918 has some lessons to be learned here.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-19...
If you and your cofounder are already used to trello why is

> because it’s not worse either, you kind of get used to it.

a compelling argument to switch. The time and irritation I spend "getting used to it" could be spent learning, designing, schlepping, and re-planning my way to product-market fit in my core competency.
In many Monte-Carlo algorithms random number generation is responsible for a significant chunk of total runtime. Modern PRNGs like Xoshiro256+ implemented with AVX are much faster than any CSPRNG.
This “berniespeak” needs to go away. It’s divisive and further entrenched people into polarization. There have been plenty of people from the “bottom 90%” that entered a new income bracket thanks to technology. Let’s celebrate it instead of generalizing it to conform to a politicians ideological battle against the “wealthy”
To be fair, a lot of businesses used to run on typewriters and a really big ledger.
If the host has at least tried the conference solution before the meeting it is usually ok for us, but that quickly become a specialized task that only one person care about, when s/he is away there is a high chance of wasted time.
Said another way: Trump worked to earn votes, Clinton just felt like she deserved them.
Anecdotal. One data point shouldn't mean much to anyone.
But to dismiss all fearful articles as clickbait is erroneous.
Downplaying the seriousness of the pandemic.

First there was nothing to worry about because it was localized to Wuhan, then there was nothing to worry about because it was only spreading in China and surely would not spread to $YOUR_COUNTRY, then there was nothing to worry about because it was only a few isolated cases that were easily dealt with, and now we seem to be moving into how there's nothing to worry about because, even though the containment has completely failed and it's conceivable that most people in most countries will be infected, you still have a pretty good chance of surviving the infection.
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Reading the EKG gets billed at $200-%300 because you want a board certified cardiologist who can look at the nuances of an EKG to tell you whether your right bundle branch block is part of the 99% that is likely benign or if it's that 1 in 100 that we are going to put you under intense therapy so you don't die.
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This is a pretty dismissive thread and P.O.V. The point is the combination of all characteristics of it is bad. No one has a resistance to it because it’s novel. It looks to have an infection rate of 2 for 1 infected. It will likely reach huge numbers of people and kill orders of magnitude more than the usual flu. If it gets to a billion people we’re talking tens of millions dead.
Let me know on day 8 or 9. That’s when you find out if you’re one of the lucky ones to develop pneumonia.
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In US, I’m seeing the culture of hacking your own hardware dying. Everyone wants to use stuff that takes 5 mins setup (long term rent costs don’t matter), doesn’t need any wires or screws, or maintenance - only what is in my wallet. That applies to most startups, and now started also propagating up to larger companies (although those have more stringent controls).

In terms of developing software - it’s the same there as hardware - noone wants to deal with their own databases or servers anymore, so it’s all cloud/aws, and now they don’t want to deal with OS anymore, so it’s all dynamo/cloud functions/lambdas etc. Try developing software for all this offline, without being wired into a giant cloud company infra.
This is exactly why many grid tied inverters like the SMA Sunnyboy range won't start or auto shutdown if it doesn't detect power coming from the grid.
Sure but you can bet that CDC is caring for those few that are infected. Meaning among the best doctors in the world so it's very unlikely that he will die for inadequate care.

What will happen in a third world country? Or in the USA if million and millions are infected, overwhelming the health care system?
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This looks suspicious af
R0=2.2 and CFR=2.5% is all you need to know to realize this is not the “seasonal flu”. Look at the visualizations in this article[0] that compare the average number of people infected by each sick person and the fatality rate of various historical epidemics.

[0] https://nyti.ms/38Xc1ho
The death rate is 2-2.5% so how do you suggest that the negative cases are <1%?? At least every death is a 'negative story' and something tells me you don't want ARDS or secondary infection, so that's probably negative too.
Get rid of corporate taxes, get rid of Roth funds, and treat all capital gains as ordinary income at the time the gains are realized.

Problem solved.
The censorship is going to result in civil war.
No, the assessment is realistic. The conference is in about one month. If the coronavirus is transmitted there, which is not unlikely, then it can take several weeks until someone gets symptoms, then another month until that person is no longer a transmitter. Not showing up to events during such a long time is unfortunately not a good idea for someone who doesn't have tenure. Maybe this changes once the official evaluation of the situation has changed. Right now it is "There are no cases in Portugal". Our university hasn't even provided hand sanitizers yet, and there is no official or inofficial statement from the administration about Covid-19.
FWIW, our company used and loved Zoom for many years. We switched to Webex and it has been far more difficult to use.

I wouldn't discount the parent's post so quickly.
Yeah, and a couple of days ago LinkedIn got spammed by "Supply Chains will die" posts. Well, at least my feed. So yeah, a hell of a load of clickbait all over the place. And only minority is trying to calm things down.
SARS (the syndrome) is actually caused by the corona virus so it's not really new.

But I see my karma won't be healthy in this discussion so I guess I'll shut up :p
> I dare you to say that to your janitor or receptionist.

Whataboutism. Just because other problems exist does not make this problem not exist.
1. This decision likely comes from the top

2. HR is a big and complex space. Karen could be pushing pencils or well experienced psychiatrist with deep understanding of finance, economics, incentives and business.

Blindly belittling people based on their jobs hurts everyone. Please don't do that here
This is about 20x deadlier (rate, not absolute numbers) than the seasonal flu as of midweek (numbers may have changed a bit in last few days). It is a more apt comparison to compare to the 1918/19 Spanish flu than the seasonal flu.

edit: yes, I know the age breakdowns of deaths. But young people can still transmit the virus to their elderly loved ones etc. I don't understand why people are dismissive about the fact that "oh its just the old people dying, nbd".

I guess in general, while I understand that the death rate may come down etc, I see a far bigger risk in making people think that it isn't a big deal. I'm not suggesting we should freak out, but I just don't understand downplaying it either.
> like creating a proprietary bitcoin wallet for oneself.

What's the analogy to creating graphics pipeline for iOS/Linux/Windows? Do you want to create one for what? For numerous GPU chips? You are not forced to develop different softwares for different OS, you are saved by different OSes from developing for many orders of magnitude more hardware...
Why do we still call it "The Coronavirus", despite the fact that the common cold is caused by coronaviruses and rhinoviruses [1]? Like, with the H1N1 flu we had a more specific name.

Isn't it morally important to provide the public with nuance? i.e., "there is a bad version of the common cold this year, so watch out, especially if you are over 60".

[1] Falsey, A. R., Walsh, E. E., & Hayden, F. G. (2002). Rhinovirus and coronavirus infection-associated hospitalizations among older adults. The Journal of infectious diseases, 185(9), 1338-1341.
If you need the speed of this PRNG, you probably don't want the overhead of calling a library function. Instead you would implement it in place with AVX-512 or equivalent for the platform you're running on.
C# has

System.CommandLine https://github.com/dotnet/command-line-api

CommandLineParser https://github.com/commandlineparser/commandline

NDesk.Options https://github.com/Latency/NDesk.Options

Mono.Options https://github.com/mono/mono/tree/master/mcs/class/Mono.Opti...
Problem: How does a company find talent to work offsite, when many people who work offsite fail to meet the expectations of those companies?

Solution: Boldly.

"Where there's muck, there's brass"

(Where there's a problem, there's money to had, if you solve it...):

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/12/06/where-theres-muck-...
It can be tempting to ride the train of startups whose main innovation is being willing to sell their product at a loss, but doing so hurts other businesses who are unfortunate enough to have to make some money to keep the lights on. Lots of perfectly fine companies have gone out of business because a startup disrupted their industry by setting money on fire.

I still ride the train, but it does give me pause sometimes.
Lol. I doubt they'd be careless enough to do that. As soon as they do, you can then put names to all the people mentioned. Which is obviously not their intention otherwise they'd have done so.
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It is worthy of coverage, but it’s only interesting because it’s new. It really not the super virus they make it out to be. The news coverage does not paint a realistic picture.

The height mortality rate is mostly due to the novelty and the fact we haven’t developed drugs for it yet. Also, it is killing almost exclusively elderly people. People who don’t have fully functioning immune systems. I’m willing to be the common flu killed a similar percentage of elderly before we developed a vaccine for it.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

This is not the message the news tells us though. They would have us believe it is some unstoppable virus, killing anyone who comes in contact with it. But there really isn’t any evidence to back it up. Fear mongering certainly does drive traffic.
Pretty much. The mere existence of cdecl(1) says a lot about the simplicity of C's type declaration syntax.
What did it cost in terms of missed experiences? I always wonder if people like this thought it was worth it in the end.
Humans are bad at gauging low probabilities. I for one cannot wrap my head around the actual badness of an event that has 2 percent chance of getting me killed. Taking the "average" approach, i.e. 2% loss of my expected remaining life time doesn't seem very good.

# Yup, I know getting the virus is more than just a chance to die - you possibly infect others, get quarantined, etc.
Dr. Peter Venkman:
Ray, pretend for a moment that I don't know anything about metallurgy, engineering, or physics, and just tell me what the hell is going on.

Dr Ray Stantz:
You never studied.
It kills the elderly, the immunosuppressed, those with heart disease, any pulmonary issues. You know people being treated for complicated diseases.
He mentioned he’s participating in the clinical trial so there’s a chance he received Remdesivir treatment.
Is it more appropriate to say that Covid-19 is dangerous if you are elderly or have pre-existing conditions?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
The media has been reporting on every detail of the coronavirus for over a month now. If you have only just started noticing, that is your fault. No one is ignoring anything.
TL;DR - implementing parallel code in Python means using multiprocessing as opposed to multithreading, but it depends on if you're CPU bound or I/O bound.

The GIL prevents more than one instance of the python interpreter from running _per processor_. This effectively means you can only have one Python thread per processor running at a time, which is frustrating because that kinda defeats the point of threading. However, most python programs aren't CPU bound, but I/O bound. For those programs, using the python multithreading abstraction is fine; CPUs are fast enough to do context switches while one thread waits for data, etc. For CPU bound tasks, the solution is to write using the multiprocess module; each process spun up has its own interpreter and its own GIL. Things have changed somewhat with Python 3, where there are some more robust internal scheduling tools inside the multithreading module, but the rule of thumb still stays the same.
I think it is already here and we just don't have a real view into it because of limited testing. The community transmissions that keep popping up are indications of that. I expect we will see an exponential increase in those in the next few weeks.
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That is a terrible talking point. It paints a picture that is not inline with reality. It’s the only ‘evidence’ anyone can grasp to as to why this is any more concerning than the common flu. Meanwhile the numbers are HIGHLY skewed by age group.

It is almost exclusively killing elderly people. For anyone less than 50-60 years old, the numbers are in line with flu. And the old people will be better protected once the vaccine comes out.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
The difference is getting tested or treated in Italy won’t bankrupt you like it will in the US.
I think the content farms are improving their SEO faster than the search engines are filtering them out. So the search is better and we see more garbage.
Just to point out that this was already being well reported at least a month ago [0], and that at that point people on HN were projecting millions of deaths by yesterday [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22167157
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22167881
So, my son had a really bad cold that resulted in an infected lymph node and a course of antibiotics. They never ran a test for covid-19.

So, how do we know that we have anywhere close to the right number of total patients?

Do you have any citations for these high numbers? Some statistical skepticism is important in matters of public concern.
Your numbers aren’t matching other published statistics. For one, 81% of cases are considered mild. I don’t know how that is supposed to square with your statistic that 30% of patients need mechanical ventilation to survive.

I agree that the disease is something to take seriously, but pushing incorrect information to fear monger is just wrong.
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What do you mean by "social repercussions"?
Scott Meyers' next Effective C++ is going to be a doozy. Is it even possible to usefully categorize all the edge cases anymore?
Those numbers are skewed. It’s only more dangerous for elderly people. For most age groups below 50 is 60, the numbers are inline with common flu.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
I have the coronavirus- So far, I am dead.

-3,000 other people including many who were on the cruise ship with this guy.
> This is dangerous.

How? He is not advocating to take things likely. He is not promoting dangerous practices nor a cavalier attitude.

This is just some person sharing his first hand experience.
> LED lights are more energy-efficient, heat rooms less & are safer, smaller, turn on faster, and are brighter than incandescents or fluorescents

And they last much longer. I’ve not had to change more than one LED bulb ever, and that seemed due to a flaky controller. I even bought a light fixture with non-exchangeable LED bulbs because the half-life of the bulbs is longer than fixtures now!
They actually do.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...
All mentions of fatality rate are accompanied by caveats that it may be much lower. I predict there are >10x more cases in China than currently reported, especially if it is really so infectious.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
There's a difference between going to work when you're sick because "you have to" and going to work when you're sick because "you feel mostly fine".

This is a virus that in it's milder forms generally just causes a cold. I've never stayed home from anything because of a cold. Colds are just a fact of life. I imagine a lot of people feel similarly.
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It could also reduce the number of people that go get voluntary checkups if they believe to be infected. People tend to want to avoid quarantines.
One neat thing Rust let you do is put underscores in number literals. It's great for readibility:

0xFFFF_FFFF // easier to count than 8 Fs

And you can use that with type suffixes:

let a = 255_u8;

Although in that case, you'd probably either omit u8 entirely, letting the compiler infer the type of 'a' from usage, or use a colon to give it ane explicit type.

Type suffixes are especially useful for arguments to generic functions:

write_le(12_u32);
write_le(255_u8);
I lived in NYC for a year between 1996 and 1997. It was a great place to live then.

I had 2 roommates and we had full time internet. Through my Panix account? We had a LAN and played Diablo, Quake, etc. locally and online.

I bought a DVD player for $600 because I hated VHS.

I flew to Europe and Mexico around that time. Don’t remember flights being too expensive.

Personally, I’ve always been disappointed about how incredibly slowly the world changes.
I personally upvote rust/firefox posts/comments even if I have nothing to add :)

I would more likely say that a chunk of this website audience is Pro-Mozilla
Panicking is also dangerous and has real costs.

How about we agree to be diligent but also not overreact.
Remember when web pages linked to other web pages?
so that is why he complained about go

how much Mozilla paid for this article?
Because "journalism".
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He has already had it with symptoms for 2 weeks.
The PMs/TPMs I know travel constantly.
Thank you v much for sharing this first-hand perspective. V helpful.
Yes! Fear media is money. And for people in the public health infrastructure, this is their moment to shine! Who wants to poo poo the situation?
Well, perhaps it's because Mozilla is actually making news in that some of its recent browser innovations (especially in areas of user privacy) are not being echoed elsewhere.
IMO startups, especially small ones should use as many tools as possible, because it is way cheaper than having to develop and maintain a similar thing in house, OR hiring a new person just to cover that. $200 a month is really very small cost compared to the alternative of hiring and spending many hours on that. You can always come back and replace the vendor once the company gets funded and has more resources.
It's called "survivorship bias".
Could you elaborate how it would work with ZigZag? I looked into ZigZag quite a bit, but don't really see the utility in it.
>Said another way: Trump worked to earn votes, Clinton just felt like she deserved them.

Both candidates felt they deserved votes and deserved to win (Donald Trump no less a narcissist or elitist than Hillary Clinton) and both worked to earn their votes.

However, Donald Trump was willing to make promises to working class people he had no capacity or desire to deliver on, and Hillary Clinton more or less ignored them in favor of pandering to the upper middle class and the left. Neither candidates' strategy says anything about their relative honesty or integrity, one just happened to work better than the other.

In a different universe with slightly different conditions, Clinton might easily have won. Remember, she did literally "earn" more votes than Trump (not that it matters as far as the system is concerned.)

But yes, we get it... "Trump good, Clinton bad." Zing.
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Raise the billions to do what though? Pay for pharmaceuticals that can’t reach sick people because there aren’t enough people to work the production lines, the docks, the ships, the trains, the trucks, and the hospitals?
Please keep in mind that the 2% rate does not apply to you. Check your own risk here:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
SARS-CoV-2 is that "more specific name". I agree that it didn't help that it went without a specific name for a long period of time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
To add to this, what some people apparently don't realize is that those who get mild symptoms and ignore them or don't get tested and quarantined will almost certainly infect others who might die from it. It could be your elderly neighbor, your parents, grandparents, or an acquaintance with a compromised immune system.