skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can of course use a health check in addition to the normal endpoint in your circuit breaker, but then its just a fail-faster for the scenarios that the health endpoint covers.

Er, yes, that was the thing I was trying to suggest. You want to fail fast (or, more precisely, keep the system in the "circuit open, degraded functionality code-path" state) so your users don't experience mysterious latency spikes when their request becomes the guinea-pig for the circuit-breaker. That'll still happen, but not as often if a health check can tell the service there's not even a chance the service is worth checking via user-request.
I only know of hollofication from Bleach. Does the idea crop up elsewhere, e.g. in Elden Ring?
I suspect they have also run numbers and concluded that this is probably within parameters for a normal bad year. We know 80% of those who get it will have mild symptoms, and we also know not everybody will get it (they probably have good numbers). As such the goodwill from accepting a bad year is worth more long term than the savings from not covering it. They may have also factored in future bailouts which they expect to get if things get bad enough.

Insurance companies are all about numbers and are very good at running them. they are not always right, but they are right often enough for their purposes.
Tell me again how Google is not the Microsoft of 20 years ago?
Vietnam has done similarly well too. China deserves some blame for not having investigated complaints seriously and allowing it to have spread at least for a month before the alarm bells were rung.
Living in Iceland, we have a decent size cat population and the majority of cats are outdoor cats. It's often even seen as cruel to keep your pets locked indoors at all times.

I've only known one person personally who doesn't let their cat out.

I've never seen cat poop in public, despite there being all sorts of random cats wandering the streets.

I've never even heard this concern come up before. Killing birds on the other hand .. that certainly is a debate topic.
> Another buffer overflow bug.

time to shill ATS
Ruby is already in beta, stable release in the next 3-4 weeks. Next up is JavaScript. Rust, Java, and PHP are further down the line.
I waited a whole month for a Macbook Pro with 256 RAM. Before the "crisis". The apocalypse is near.
No one claimed the opposite; someone merely asked for evidence for an assertion.

Since that assertion is important to a larger argument, it's reasonable to ask why we should believe it.
It's not selfish to treat something like the flu. This means I wash my hands, get vaccinated yearly, and take other common-sense precautions. That's not "being an ass", it's being rational.
Unfortunately the California government seems to support the Trump administrations' coronavirus response.

https://www.newsweek.com/californias-democrat-governor-prais...
I realise that it's a completely different country (Ireland) but I remember back when I was in university and found out that most tenants in student accommodation aren't in fact tenants but rather are licencees. Basically means that most of them pesky tenant protections don't apply. It means that they could get away with so many things that landlords of actual tenants wouldn't.
In theory, it's only for things that can "cause harm to national security"
This is a lot of media. Bizarrely no skepticism, just writing articles matter of factly using dubious (or at the very least opaque/unverifiable) figures from foreign governments.
Was it? Maybe my perception is skewed from being in one of the earliest countries hit, but my memory of H1N1 is that we pretty much gave up everything but vaccine development once we realized it was uncontainable.
Some VPN apps and ad blockers have been spying on users' phones
In the spirit of the principle of charity, it isn't that hard to believe that part of the discussion is the impact the virus will have on classified activities, including but not limited to intelligence activities, military activities, or may have included information considered sensitive (like, just by way of example, proof that the virus was gene engineered, which may cause an undesirable international stink if publicized; I mention this just as an example of something that they might classify, not as a claim that it is engineered).

I'd expect "the President" did not literally decide or not decide to classify this; it was probably driven by rules.

What's in the classified briefings isn't really the question; it's what's in the unclassified briefings and actions that are the question. That classified briefings are taking place is to be expected, as it will certainly be impacting classified things, along with all the other "pretty much everything" it will be impacting. I'm sure all the other countries are having classified briefings as well.
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Can't name the Provider but the country is India.
WA Gov. Inslee issues emergency proclamation that limits large events
What was the difference between the handling of this and H1N1?
It's one thing to make a political critique of the WHO, it's another to suggest "The WHO Belongs to Communist China." The YouTube channel they linked to is full of similar racist bullshit like "The West is Becoming Like China - And We Do Nothing."
Coming from Python, Rust feels like C++ with a stricter compiler. It depends on how you look at it.
As long as ISPs don't get caught with an unplanned capacity crunch.
I'm not concerned about the food supply, I am a bit concerned about logistical problems of getting food to grocers if we have massive infection rates. This would hopefully be short lived though, as workers out could be back at work within 2-3 weeks. We'd just have to hope they don't all get it at once. I hope grocers are taking measures to prevent vendors from interacting with each other, and making sure their loading docks are sterile as can be.
You assume exponential growth will just continue, which I am claiming is false with China as an example. If simple proper measures are taken, (which they will be once more people are infected) like shutting the majority of businesses down, restricted travel, people washing their hands and not going out of their way to concerts and big meetings, you don't have the exponential growth.
This is exactly right. Disease response can be very paradoxical.

An extreme and early response, can turn a disease into a trivial event. Which raises questions about whether such an aggressive response is necessary.

It can be, in many ways, like using an umbrella in a rainstorm. You get to the destination, and you're totally dry, so what was the point of the umbrella?

With these disease outbreaks, there's no counterfactual we can run to see what would have happened if we didn't respond early.
No, it wasn’t. It had pretty much the same mortality rate as the normal flu.
In this case, the interpreter is included for analysis of JS code and was seemingly custom made for that purpose, not to leverage JS developers, so your point doesn't apply here specifically.
I’ve found it effective to develop circuit breaker mechanisms. It took a while and it seems to help long term.

When I see myself slipping into a depressive episode, I circuit break it before it gets bad. Remind myself that overall life is pretty good, distract myself with work, take a break, or whatever else seems like it might help.

And most of all: dont follow the spiral. Jump out while I still can.
Real-world anecdote: They almost never are, unless you're at one of the best universities in the country/world. Most often their experience is dated, they've been tenured for a long time and the quality of their work is pretty poor.
Yeah, now world environment goona change. All people need to care about COVID-9. In some country can't find surgical masks but suddenly I can find it from a website. They sale at a cheap rate, if you need then you can buy your mask from here https://cutt.ly/StsiWK8
Sooner or later would an easily transmissible virus with both influenza and pneumonia characteristics arise.
This has been updated today: https://imgur.com/a/UUWnX3p
(it's in Italian, but probably it can be understood easily)
From my non-specialist understanding:

Those examples (China, Italy) have taken drastic measures to keep people from socializing, in order to slow the spread of the disease in order to not overwhelm the health system.

That's the killer - once you reach maximal hospital capacity, people die because of not only the severe virus infections, but because they can't get the required treatment for their other unrelated ailments as well (e.g. a stroke, or a car accident etc...). Italian doctors already have to make really hard decisions with regards to who they will admit into ICU since there are not enough beds for everyone.

So if only 1% of the country gets severe symptoms requiring hospitalization in the US, that's 3 million people needing intensive care unit beds, on top of the normal load.

Measures in Italy and China won't prevent 80% of the country to be infected (mostly, people will not need hospitalization - only a small fraction will), it only tries to reduce the number of people needing intensive care at the same time, in order to not overload the health system and save as many of them as possible (since they can't make enough ICU beds and equipment appear out of thin air)

EDIT: and of course, buy time until a vaccine or other treatment method is available...
>None of the local Verizon stores had any phones (11 Pro Max) in stock (they explicitly said it was due to China supply chain)

That may be true...but it may be just as likely they are minimizing their own inventory to keep their own costs down/cash on hand, which is not something they would freely tell their own employees or customers.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20496011
H1N1 was not successfully contained at all, it infected 15-20% of the world's population and ended up just being a bad flu strain, not a world ending pandemic as only 575k people died (for a mortality rate of around .05%)
I'm currently reading a book on the Chernobyl reactor meltdown. Following the accident, the Soviet government clamped down on any reports coming from the site. They didn't notify either the locals or other nations that something catastrophic had occurred and that people were at risk. Trump, in all his paranoia and psychoses, is becoming more and more like that regime. This is not going to end well.
So we should, instead, condemn the rest of the world? How many lives could have been saved if travel to China was stopped months ago?
Even if the President has to have a good reason to do something, that has no practical effect on whether the President will do something. There will be no consequence to the President, and in most cases to his order followers, beyond "you shouldn't have done that" and much harumphing in Congress.

Social constructs are shared illusions that only work when we decide to adhere to them.
You mean Mexico. He wanted to shut the border with MEXICO, for no apparent practical reason, and refused at first to let Americans off a cruise ship, because he wanted to "keep the numbers low".
That article is from 2008. A lot has changed since.

The first thing that I would draw your attention to is that social shifts have moved the "silent generation" from being evenly split Democrat/Republican in 2004 to going for Trump by a 13 point margin in 2016. This is the group that will suffer the vast majority of fatalities. See https://www.people-press.org/2016/09/13/2-party-affiliation-... for verification.

Secondly, women lean Democratic, men Republican. (The same link verifies that.) Most casualties will be men. See https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se... for verification.

Third, the upcoming generations through that 12 years are overwhelmingly Democratic and will have almost no deaths from this disease. Both previous links verify that.

The result is that, a well researched article from a dozen years ago notwithstanding, the impact of COVID-19 are likely to disproportionately hit Republicans over Democrats.

(Not necessarily. The one trend that Republicans can hope for is that diseases spread through urban areas and urban areas are overwhelmingly Democratic. I don't think that this offsets the other phenomena though.)
I really don’t understand why the guy can’t keep quiet and let people who obviously know more about the topic do their job.

What, and let someone else “hog” the attention and the spotlight? I’ve been reading about 45 since the 80s (most of the time, not by choice). “All eyes on me” seems to be far more important to the sitting president than “do the right thing”. I’m not saying “do <what he thinks is> the right thing” isn’t on the list, it’s just way down that list.
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Proclamation full text: https://www.governor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/20-07%20Coro...

Gist: "Gatherings of 250 people or more for social, spiritual and recreational activities including, but not limited to, community, civic, public, leisure, faith-based, or sporting events; parades; concerts; festivals; conventions; fundraisers; and similar activities"

… in the 3-county area including Seattle, initially through March 31.
Where to get the free open source code for Uber-Like App?
> Why is this needed? Can’t you imply the necessary analyzers from my codebase?

Sure. We can probably infer the languages used in the repository. But we need metadata like test glob patterns, exclude patterns, runtime versions (Python 2, Python 3) to improve the accuracy of issues. For ex: Usage of assert statement in application logic is discouraged as it is removed when compiling to optimised byte code (python -o producing *.pyo files). Ideally, assert statement should be used only in tests. Also, we haven’t found a way to infer Python 2 vs Python 3 accurately. Can you think of a way? That would be helpful.

> There is no support for Javascript, Typescript, PHP, Java or C#. No HTML or CSS support. Is there a roadmap?

We strongly believe in starting out with a few languages and add as many issues as we can (with the ability to autofix most of them) -- before we go broad. That said, we released Ruby in beta couple weeks back and are currently working on the stable release. We’ve also started working on JavaScript (with TypeScript support) a month back and we should release the beta version of JavaScript analyzer in approx a month from now.

> Also, the name implies use if Deep Networks and AI. Am I mistaken? If not, what kind of AI is used here? Seems like just an automatic runner of static analysis tools.

It’s just the name :) We do not use Machine Learning or AI at the moment — the reason being we’re optimizing for high accuracy, and a rules engine that uses AST parsing helps us do that reliably. We do plan to use learning in the future to capture data around which issues are being fixed the most and which are not, and then show issues in the most relevant order to users depending on their context.
https://www.flatcar-linux.org/
This appears to be an attempt to criminalize the dissemination of some critical healthcare information.

Even if state and local officials are briefed by federal officials, they may not be able to talk about what they know or face possible legal repercussions.
No, the Hammock District.
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> Notably, the Church of Greece has announced that "the virus cannot be spread through Communion" (where everyone drinks wine from the same cup).

Catholics in Greece are overwhelmingly Orthodox. The Orthodox Catholic church distributes holy communion differently, with a spoon (there is a particular term for it, but I don't know it) that doesn't touch the communicant's mouth. So, they're not drinking from a communal cup.

It's entirely possible for the communicant to exhale / cough / sneeze on the spoon. I don't know what the priest would do if this were to happen.

As an aside, it's widespread right now (but maybe not universal) in Catholic dioceses to not even provide the cup to the congregation during Communion (which is perfectly fine according to Catholic theology btw). edit: additionally, I recently heard about a dispensation in at least one diocese for people who are in any of the COVID-19 risk categories that they don't need to receive Communion for now. I don't know whether this also dispenses them from attending Mass on Sundays (which is otherwise an obligation for all Catholics).
What's Sinophobic about this?
This is where most of the fear should actually be directed. There are huge losses in productivity, income, and general enjoyment of life.
Come on. In theory, with "unlimited" legal resources, you can take such matters to trial and onward to a victory...
So you mean like a week ago
> The president rarely says anything that makes sense. Hopefully most people have learnt not to listen to him by now.

Many people in this country still absolutely listen to him, and trust him more than the media when the messaging conflicts.

Sadly, in this case it puts the people who put the most faith in him at even more risk.
It's a mechanic through all of the Dark Souls games, where when you die you go "hollow" until you restore your humanity
There's a third option, postpone it a couple months.
I suppose one could argue knowing or perceiving incompetence could lead to a national security issue.
> I've always wanted to hit SXSW so I'd be pretty heartbroken, myself.

Save your heartache. SXSW lost its "soul" many years ago.
Why do you say that about WHO?
Basecamp
https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/search?q=remote&unscope...
> Suburbs are the best place to be.

I'm pretty sure I'd rather be homesteading off-grid in a remote wilderness or on a sailboat than in an average American suburb through all this.
Look at the YouTube channel they linked.
What are you talking about? One billion people were infected by H1N1. It wasn't handled at all.
We really need to get our factories out of China. This is a country that hid the coronavirus case for 2-3 weeks, let 5 million Wuhan residents leave the city, doctored numbers, then most recently had government press try to spin the disease as if it didn’t come out of Wuhan, but rather somewhere other countries!! And they are actively funneling uigher population into crippled factories in eastern China to replace migrants who aren’t coming back.

If anything, South Korea and Italy should be furious that their country is sabotaged by China. And the rest of the world should be wary of this bad actor in the world.
Dude what? The US media has been criticizing the US government with significantly more fire than they gave to China.

Take your purposely misleading half truths post them on Twitter.
Once again HN Civility disease strikes, if you blame anyone specific in politics for anything, expect heavy down voting because somehow that's not "civil", no matter how true it is.
> Giving me (the user) the ability to sculpt my own mirror or museum for the world's news with powerful categories might be more helpful.

Ultimately you can. I only curate 2 pages (main one and one about Portugal[0]) but I accept pull requests creating/updating other specific pages - if you are really interested and will handle the burden of building them directly in HTML. For now that's my filter to accept them.

[0] https://www.slowernews.com/portugal
> HHS has SCIFs because theoretically it would play a major role in biowarfare or chemical attacks.

Maybe public health isn't the only thing being discussed in these meetings?
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“We had some very critical people who did not have security clearances who could not go,” one official said. “These should not be classified meetings. It was unnecessary.”
just recently I shared a blog post which I think has done a good job in sharing both the technical and non-technical part https://medium.com/dsaid-govtech/using-robust-optimization-a...
[Dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22547607
E3 was for the longest time just an industry show and it did that pretty well there's a lot of interesting stuff that happens just because you have so much of the games industry in the same place. One of my favorites are the couch interviews put on by Giantbomb. They get all sorts of names big and small to come and chat every night. That's the kind of thing a purely digital media strategy can't really replicate.
5b is a lot.

A large quantity of imports will be used to make US domestic food as well.

The exported good is not the same as the imported one.
Did you even read what you linked?

“Earlier in the epidemic, there was hope that 3.5 percent was grossly overestimated, however as evidence continues to emerge, there is dwindling support for that hope.”
Perhaps we should base our judgments about the issues under discussion by the plausibility of the claims being made, the evidence supporting them, the likely consequences of different possible courses of action, and our values, rather than whether the proponents of one or another point of view hail from the upper class or the lower class.
Huh? I’ve known plenty of AA members who found the program very helpful and didn’t believe in anything even resembling a mainstream deity.
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I'm not a lawyer, but I don't know that such a categorization exists in US law. If you pay money to live somewhere for a short period, you generally fall under hotel regulations. If you pay money to live somewhere for a longer period, you're a tenant. Generally 30 days is the max for "short" period.

There isn't a "sure, you live here, but you don't have rights" designation because historically such designations were abused.
In a corporate blog yesterday, Oracle attacked 83 computer scientists
Common sense precautions here are much more stringent than the flu. Nobody is immune. There is no vaccination. Herd immunity is nil. And it's very infectious.

This is a new thing and you should treat it as a new thing. There has not in living memory been one this bad, against which we had no defense except to avoid catching it and spreading it.
Not quite. It is standard policy not to name virus after specific places, as a courtesy, regardless of where those places are.
Do you mean "Christians"? There are very few Catholics here.

The spoon very much touches the communicant's mouth, and the priest dips it back in the cup afterwards. You're getting spoon-fed wine, essentially, with a whole lot of contact.
> however, it's important not to spread irrational fear, which words like "terrified" tend to do, particularly when overblown. the state of being "terrified" leads to immobilization, panic, and irrationality, so it should literally be avoided like the plague.

Very good point. Thank you for calling it out. I am not at all intending to spread irrational fear and realize I should have chosen my word there a bit more carefully. I am definitely anxious about it, but that anxiety is driving a desire to figure out a plan and not causing paralysis on my part, which I agree is what the word "terrified" implies.
Hard to feel concerned here, as these functions shouldn't be built into TVs in the first place - consumers will be best served if we have dumb displays, plug in smart streaming devices (FireSticks / Google Chrome etc) and the competition happens with those items. That also offers a much more logical upgrade path owing to the different obsolescence cycles of the screen and streaming tech.
This isn't unusual for schools. Last year my kid had so many days off school for bad weather that he had to go an extra week at the end of the year. Maybe your July plans will be messed up because your kid is still in school, but otherwise the school will give your kid enough school.

There is some worry if your kid is hospitalized for a month while the rest of the school goes on (presumably this means containment worked well except for your kid), but even here schools have to deal with kids who are out for months for medical reasons and they provide extra tutoring to catch those kids up. (I'm familiar with this because my cousin missed a month of school his senior year - he still graduated with his class even though he had to go back the next year to finish some classes)