skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of these occurred on anywhere near the current spread or scale. SARS and MERS were almost entirely confined to Asia, Ebola to West Africa, and Zika to South America. The last was most widespread but was still limited to about 10,000 cases outside of South America and Cape Verde. Even then the greatest danger was to the children of pregnant women and, rarely, lasting complications. The number of “deaths from Zika” was <100 in total.

Coronavirus’ combination of “widespread prevalence and awareness” and “killing people” is quite different from previous diseases, I think. It might effect more social change.
What they say in the channel are all true, they have been traveling in China and living there for long time, they married Chinese wife. If you really look closely, you will notice that they pointed out many problems in China, which I don't think it's Sinophobia. If you point out problems in any country makes you something phobia, then there's no freedom of speech....
I'm not failing to see any distinction. They were sued over a bunch of things. Copyright is what stuck. Lawyers are going to use every tool in their belt. And since there's a lot around software licensing, copyright, and fair use that haven't been established by case law because no one really wants to find the limits of it, now the lawyers get to duke it out.

At the end of the day, Google wanted to use Java and not really be compatible with Java, so they tried to skirt around it and got called out for it. This was evident by pages they had that stilled referred to it as Java and by passages of code taken in whole. So, yes, I'll contend that Google tried to get away with something and hoped they were big enough to come out of it unscathed.

It's not like this was unforeseen. And it's not like Sun or Oracle has sued any compliant Java implementations. They could have just used OpenJDK, but didn't want to play by those rules either. If you don't like how this is shaping up in the courts, it's fair to say that it could have all been avoided by Google being a better actor.
Here's one: A conversation about whether allowing this to turn into a national emergency could allow the cancelling or postponement of elections or executive hand over.
Which will lead to an explosion of available labour, ready for hiring when things pick back up.

The issue is whether governments will step in to provide sufficient unemployment / welfare benefits to bridge the gap.
The fact that you're worried about your kids falling behind means odds are, whether you realize it or not, you'll keep them on track and doing fine.
It's about what we're saying, it's about sending a message. That we won't be bullied by the corporations and special interest groups, and we'll divert our aid to those who are in need and struggling. There is nothing radical about that.
World Health Organization declares the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic
WordPress perhaps?
Not sure most would call these measures "simple", but they do indeed seem like something we could do. It wouldn't be hard, though, for some of these simple measures to kill more people than they save, via collateral damage.

Another point to consider is that this virus is apparently "novel", meaning that humans in general have not had time to build up significant immunity. Even if measures are taken, they will likely just push the date of infection for each individual out into the future some--most people will eventually be exposed no matter what.
How to transition to remote work in a hurry
Yeah that's the alt-right propaganda you're falling for. Real experts simply said "Don't panic, be more sanitary."
It helps people not get severe cases of the flu, which means fewer healthcare resources, like hospital beds and medical personnel, being devoted to severe flu cases and more can be devoted to severe coronavirus cases.
200 million people (probably more in reality because of how overwhelmed the healthcare system would be) dying isn't bad?
I’m inclined to agree, but it seems fair to admit that there’s a survivorship bias going on here. My hypothesis is that projects that go on to require years of enhancement and maintenance have survived an initial window of people losing interest or getting distracted by another idea. Projects that demonstrate value within a very short time of their conception are likely to survive this early period.

Im not saying it’s rational to skip three days of early development for months of effort down the line, just that it happens.
Everyone's shitting on this dude but I had this exact scenario and I tie a lot of my struggles as a child student to this circumstance.

Miss 6 months of school while changing schools. Come in, I don't understand the math underlying what they're learning. I fall behind because I'm playing catchup while still trying to stay on top of new material. I have no discipline or direction from home so I don't put it any extra time or anything, I just get home and ride my bike around. This makes me hate math in general, and next year I'm still not entirely caught up or even sure of what I learned the previous year, so I'm failing harder. I don't know if there were any extra resources available or not, I was like, 13, but I was also a holy terror so I bet even if the resources existed they wouldn't have been provided to me because my poor performance was chalked up to me being a problem child in general - never mind my stellar performance in literature classes.

And so on. Throughout my entire public school career. By college I "get it" and am trying to catch up but it's already so ingrained in my personality that I'm "not a math person" that I instead pursue a useless humanities degree, then fuck around in Asia for a couple years. Then finally, at 26 years old, I genuinely get my shit together, learn what I missed 13 years prior, find out that I actually am capable of all that, and now I'm an engineer.

So, sure, do what you can to not get your kids killed, obviously, but I don't agree that it's fair to shit on this parent for worrying about what missing 6 months of school might do to their kid. I mean it sounds like they at least know more about discipline and enforcing learning on their kids than my parents did, so maybe the kid will be Just Fine, but homeschooling is no joke either, and the kid might still end up having to play catch up.
A lot of people criticized the WHO exaggerated the danger of H1N1, which is partially why they were a lot careful about raising alarms this time.
Are you posting in good faith? On the assumption that you are, China locked down at least 760 million people. Italy has locked down 60 million people. The economic consequences are going to be staggering. The virus would be almost impossible to eliminate without a vaccine, so once quarantine measures are lifted it would continue to spread quickly again.

It's pretty obvious if you separated people and kept them in their homes the virus would stop spreading. So what? The world cannot just stop forever. Life will go on, and so will this virus. It is with us now.

Unfortunately this is going to change your life and people you know are going to get very sick and die. Please tell the older people in your life to be very careful and DO NOT downplay the risks to them.
I work in government relations and this is neither news, nor anything new. Deliberations at the highest level have to be confidential at times, because the players are speaking brutally honest. They need to be able to make decisions and speak their mind without the media and the public second guessing everything. Passing legislation or making policy over time is one thing, but in a crisis like this, they have to move fast. I think the last thing we want is for policymakers to have to stop and keep justifying every single thing they do, that will just lead to paralysis.
It's also users not just developers if you read the reviews.
Part of the reason for the ridiculous corn subsidies is so if the whole rest of the world ends, the US will still have enough food. We'll have to stop eating some specific foods (like we export chicken dark meat to China and they send the breast meat to us), but in terms of overall calories the US will be fine. Domestic distribution is a bigger worry, quarantines or just plain shops shutting down.
Like Fox News. And other conservative owned stations.
How the coronavirus has affected airlines, hotels, and cruises in one chart
Yes, I would say that the government response in certain Asian countries was informed by their past experience with these outbreaks.
>H1N1 was serious and compared to this, well handled.

The current COVID-19 epidemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 is many times more fatal than the 2009 H1N1 epidemic. The current epidemic has similar a fatality rate to the 1918 Spanish Flu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic
Not viable imo. There's likely no cure coming this year. In a couple months the virus will be more disbursed and pose an even greater threat of transmission to our attendees that are old or sick and refuse to stay home.
> not every kind of therapy will be effective for everyone

That's pretty problematic though, isn't it? At some point, you're dropping below placebos, not everything works for everyone, but should we still put weight on it? Homeopathy and intense praying works for some as well, but we don't say "I guess it's not effective for everyone". Psychotherapy (not the behavior therapy kind) gets a pass for some reason.
Very soon we will beg them to sell supplies to us
Sure.

Threatening benchmarkers:

* https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2018/05/the-dewitt-clause-why-you-rarely-see-database-benchmarks/
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886333

Buy competitors then switch terms on unwitting customers:

* https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/22/oracle_shoddy_service_license_denials_aimed_to_force_adoption_of_cloud_service_lawsuit_claims/
* https://outline.com/YUFYFK

Threatening security researchers:

* https://boingboing.net/2015/08/11/oracles-cso-demands-an-end-t.html

Oh yeah they sue employees too:

* https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/26/oracle_sues_employee_undo_arbitration_loss/

There's also something that bit me personally, probably in the fine print somewhere. If you drop support, you have to pay 3x to get back into it. Something like "treble fees".
Thanks for the tip about Dark Souls! Heard of it but never tried it out. I'll take a look.
Instead thousands of innocents not in China have been condemned to danger or death. Last I checked, there are way more people not in China than in China. The classic trolley car problem would have made the call easy: seal off China.
Yeah, there was an article the other day interviewing James Dyson about his new flatiron. The first part of the article asked him about their EV, which was basically ready for production (they spent years on it), but he said there was no way to make it profitably.

That said, Tesla is still selling cars with no federal rebate. So, actually, while you're right about $13.5k (historically), that's no longer correct. (of course, they've lowered prices, so perhaps that $6k number goes up?)

I don't doubt a more efficient automaker could shave thousands off that $6k number. And people would still buy it for a couple thousand more; making up the pricing difference.

Of course, that still brings us "only" to $0 unit profit.
Sorry to say that, but Taiwan did the best to control it

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/what-taiwan-can-t...

See it yourself, not China. They hide data from the world, beat people up on street. How come that now becomes a model for the world? Taiwan is a free country, and yet they did a great job there.
If you sufficiently limit testing then the numbers will always be within your control.

Without a treatment or vaccine there is no point in testing. It will just cause panic. The US isn’t like other countries where people go to the doctor when they get sick. If people think they just have the flu they will just stay home and die instead of putting a strain on resources.

A morbid reality, but the best solution for the system we have. Transparency and testing won’t be good for anyone. What works everywhere else doesn’t always work in the US.
Besides #2, most of these would disappear after a couple generations. We've obviously forgotten a lot since the Spanish Flu, polio, and other highly infectious diseases.
I'm not. Please don't be so condescending.
I second what you said and I add that these outbreaks did not have such a massive impact on the western world
If they'd told us, I wonder if they'd have been believed? Would any country have taken action prior to the confirmations that we already got.

(FWIW I'm old enough to remember the incident.)
As for replacing the suspension/shocks, that's not a simple job, but I've done far more complex stuff. Besides, it's only on paper and I highly doubt I will ever have either the time or the workshop + tools required to pull that off.

Likely your DS originally came with the half-automatic and the manual gearbox replaced a broken half-automatic. This was done quite frequently the failure rate on the half-automatics was quite high. I still remember the sound it would make in the last few hundred kilometers before failure.

By the way, that fuel injection system is made by Bosch, the same system was used in the Volvo's of that era, on the Volvo's there are absolutely no problems with the system whereas the DS ones were frequently plagued by failure and fire. Keep an extinguisher in your car please, just in case.
> Yes, but later the article shows that "mean difference" is really mean difference divided by variance.

I would say later the article shows examples of standardized effect size, so divides by variance. Whether that means effect size can't be a difference in means (and explains the wiki intro comment) I disagree with--see my Lakens comment for why.

> If you care about units, you can talk about the expected value/difference, but that doesn't make that a meaningful effect size. What you need to do in those cases is to, at least, mention both the expected difference and the variance.

This seems like it is begging the question. If you look at the definition and rationale for effect size, both in the wikipedia and in Lakens, a claim this strong is not there. For example, a CI over difference in means is one way to capture what a standardized effect size that uses a specific variance term might be doing (what Lakens describes as the second ES viewpoint: statistical significance, distinguishing between effect and power).

In any event, thanks for discussing--it's been really helpful to think about and revisit this topic!
Highly unlikely. In fact it really can't happen as elections are defined in the constitution. They would have to suspend the constitution, or pass some monumental law that would lead to not only a monumental meltdown at the court, but chaos in the streets. Good thought, fun conspiracy theory, but really so far out there it's unlikely.
Compartmental Models in Epidemiology
It's possible to migrate C to Rust function by function, not sure if anyone has figured out something similar for C++ yet though:

https://github.com/carols10cents/rust-out-your-c-talk
See also: Y2K.

I don’t say that lightly. That was 20 years ago, so maybe you youngsters just read about it in books. But in summary, a bunch of us busted ass to make sure the predictions of ATM and power failures did not come to pass on 1/1/2000. Our reward was, “See? We got all up in arms about nothing.”

Plenty of those same short-sighted dipshits are still alive, and of those now deceased, I’m sure replacements are just reaching voting age.

That’s assuming the U. S. puts forth anything close to the effort of fixing Y2K. Which is not even remotely guaranteed.
at the expense of not hearing from the experts they need to hear from? is your IQ only room warm?
So I guess they import the beans, manufacture the tofu, then ship it back to us? Sounds inefficient, though I'm not sure how much demand there is for a large-scale domestic tofu manufacturing industry in the US.
Mine just announced that they will pack everyone into a meeting auditorium to discuss steps that might be taken in the future. (No, I'm not kidding.)
Open source list of college closings due to Covid-19 coronavirus – please update
Sooner or later and the spread will kick back up again when people return to work.
> I'd be interested to know what the justification was in that case.

I should have pointed out that this was back in the mid-1950s when regulations were probably a lot more lax than they are today.
Not sure if it makes sense worldwide given that there are a lot of 3rd world countries, but in US the flu has a mortality rate 2 orders of magnitude less than covid-19.
The scale is different, certainly. But the prep work is the same. Imagine if we did all this for the flu. We'd make pretty short work of that.
Universities are in a difficult position here. You're probably right that someone will sue them for breaking their housing agreement. On the other hand, if they didn't break the housing agreement, and students in the dorms started sickening (or worse, dying), you had better believe the lawsuits would start flying pretty quickly as well.

So, if it's not a question of whether you're going to be sued but on what grounds, you want to do whatever thing will leave you in the best position to defend yourself when the inevitable lawsuits start arriving. And given the medical consensus that social distancing is necessary to protect against coronavirus, if I were a university administrator, I'd much rather be defending myself against charges that I broke a contract than against charges that I recklessly endangered peoples' lives in order to not have to break it.
I'd be happy to answer any questions about remote work. We've published extensively about this subject https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/ and today we released a remote work emergency toolkit https://twitter.com/darrenmurph/status/1237771768020054016
I'll take your word for it, I've been to Divine Liturgy exactly once.

Do Orthodox folks not use the term "Catholic" for themselves? I just don't know very many.
The WHO's official guidance in late January was that countries should not restrict travel to fight the coronavirus. Travel restrictions "cause more harm than good by hindering info-sharing, medical supply chains and harming economies", they said.
I love this. I've been looking for something to solve this particular problem for awhile now. Thanks!
> Their wait and see approach will ultimately result in more human deaths and suffering.

I'm not sure sure that's true.

One way to "flatten the curve" is to make sure that some people catch it sooner rather than later, and thus you're able to provide care for them where you otherwise wouldn't be able.

The more you're pushing people to "later" the more you're trying to push "containment" and if you already know "containment" isn't going to work, you're just risking that the spread gets out of control at some later time... when you're less prepared.

Control means both preventing spread and causing spread.
6. Eradicate mosquitoes and bats pls
Only vaguely relevant, but the school district I grew up in had a policy of never closing for weather. The rationale was that if the school were closed and some children showed up anyway (didn't get the message or whatever), they would literally freeze to death. So, no matter how bad things were, there would be someone there to unlock the doors.
”It's not unique to the current administration. Most presidents have done this. ”

I couldn’t imagine any of the presidents of the last decades to stand up and openly contradict his experts on something like this. Maybe behind the scenes but not in the open. He doesn’t seem to understand that he can only lose doing this.
It is now yep! 32GiB was the prior max.
The US is literally doing the exact same thing right now.
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I'll gladly take trigger-happy health authorities! That's literally their primary function: to sound the alarm.

Edit: I'm looking at you, Santa Clara County Health department, for NOT doing enough.
I think most people can agree that no one country has done a stellar job (including the US) to contain and mitigate the virus but given that China was the first to be hit, it gets a larger share of the blame for letting it spread to the rest of the world. If you look at the timeline of the events that transpired in China since December [1], it shows a clear pattern of ignorance and favoring politics over public health. You know things have gone completely wrong when you decide to arrest doctors that have called out the disease. Anybody that says "China has done the best to control this disease" is either a CCP shill or massively uninformed or misled by propaganda. Remember, the only news we get out of China comes from state-sanctioned media.

[1] https://wuhanmemo.com/?page_id=230929
You lose credibility when you try to call Tesla supporters "fanboys", but then you artificially inflate the price of the car by 50%. This is not a mundane detail.
Tendies are everywhere friend.
It's fairly likely that this will no longer be "a pandemic" by November, and that nobody will even be able to raise this as a concern in any sense.

The bigger problem is really with the Democratic primary, which is happening now. A critical element of elections is that they have to not just be fair, but be seen to be fair. How is the primary going to be seen to be fair if some significant number of the delegates are elected from elections that occurred while the electing states are essentially locked down? No matter what you do, it will be seen as unfair somehow.
See also: climate change (if we contain it).
If I remember correctly, React was only part of it. Lack of support for relational databases was a big issue as well. On top of that, people realized that they didn't need real time functionality and the overhead (and scaling) of mini-mongo et al was a difficult venture. Take with a grain of salt. This was all very long ago so my memory may not be accurate.
How about they use some of that authority to stop these diseases from festering in cesspools of animal & human waste repeatedly in their country? Pivoting from allowing this to occur to saying they have an advantage or painting them in a positive light is so backwards to me. Hopefully all the dissenters being tortured in black boxes over there are safe from the virus at least.
I've heard the typical ICU/hospitalization course involves bilateral pneumonia, apparently requiring intubation and ventilation.

It appears to be survivable as long as equipment and personnel are available. And that's the problem: availability.

When health systems are overwhelmed, even people who could survive pneumonia with mechanical ventilation will die - because the equipment supply is exceeded and there are no ventilators left.

So yes, there are treatments for pneumonia, but they are limited in availability.
Ahh yes, the benefits of mass unemployment and businesses shuttering!

Always look on the bright side of life!

https://youtu.be/SJUhlRoBL8M
> local health departments in the US often literally could not test for the coronavirus, even though they had the tools and the capacity and the desire to make tests, because they didn't have federal approval

But that’s a judgement against the United States’ federal government, not the WHO. The WHO does not actively constrain governments, they just offer guidance (as far as I know!).
Wow less than 24 hour notice to get your things and get out, with Spring Break starting Friday some students may not even be around and will return to a closed campus.