skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stuff like that is even more confusing because your performance analysis at moderate load tells you absolutely nothing about how the system will behave under high load (people who complain about GC often mention this as one of their grievances)

Turns out this causes a lot of issues when working with large diverse teams in particular. If you have a team of 4 you can socialize the idea of avoiding situations like this.
Yes, it is. Parent never asked for WHO definition in the first place, I wonder if there is any at all, probably a commercial secret. Pandemic in WHO definition is when Director General of WHO declares it a pandemic, probably after confirming with member states who contribute, they were criticized in 2009 for declaring too early too, so criteria might have changed.
What you're saying is close to the standard line -- "flatten the curve". By trying to prevent infection, you slow the process down, so that hospitals are not overwhelmed. An overwhelmed medical system means that every aspect is made worse; people are not contained so the spread accelerates, we don't do backtracing with the same effect, medical personnel get infected, people with easily treatable conditions are not treated, etc.

The end state is that almost everyone will be exposed to it, most likely to mutated less deadly variants (because those have higher survivability in viral terms), but if the rate of exposure is slow enough then we can mitigate a disaster.
The difference is, here we're allowed to speak up, even the CDC to some extent, counter the President's opinion. The facts are still available

No one has that opportunity in China when it comes to Xi Xinping's message, if they do, they're censored or get a visit to their home by the police.

I see Trump to some extent trying to negate a mass panic amongst the populace by downplaying it while the real decision makers look to the CDC to make decisions about what actions to take. At least the optimistic side of me believes that's how its working. Problem is its now backfiring and people are saying its just another flu, which curtails any advice the CDC has on cancelling events, limiting contact, etc.
Hmm, do you have evidence of the threat being downplayed?

The initial advice against the travel ban was quite political, but it's the classic case of a nonprofit needing to appease its donors. At any rate, I recall them saying that travel bans are ineffective against stopping viral spread (which has clearly been proven true). Their utility on slowing transmission is less clear, though I've read that travel controls have indeed proven helpful.
>To be fair, after being the first team in the NBA to be eliminated from playoff contention last night, they probably weren't going to draw very large crowds anyway.

it would be shocking if several thousand people at the least weren't going to show up. the warriors are insanely popular even during this down period.

you ever catch a knicks game on TV? they've been terrible for like an entire decade and there are definitely plenty of people in the seats...
I bet this same post in r/nba would be a joke based on this very detail.
It's likely that once the virus becomes endemic, it'll also be mutated to a less lethal form. Eventually, basically everyone will have had it and built up some level of (probably incomplete) immunity, so community gathering restrictions will no longer be needed to reduce load on hospitals.

As far as timeframe, probably 20-75% of the population will have had it by the end of the year. Certainly by 12 months from now. Or a vaccine or anti-viral will have been deployed.
LGR had a great Y2K video where he presented what the problem was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm5OiB3CPxg

In short, it was massively overblown and misunderstood - people expected their own computers to blow up and even made shelters - and some scammers even took advantage of those fears. It made perfect sense for someone who didn't knew what was going on and was fed on doom and destruction to see things continuing without any hitch and wonder what was the fuss all about.
I imagine a fair number of people would voluntarily agree to do that if it really came down to it. That said, I imagine nation guard, etc would be mobilized first.
Yes. The original comment was dismissive and rude. I'm not sure how it wasn't down-voted to oblivion.
They did not. They have been saying it is likely to become a pandemic from very early on.

They didn't suddenly radically redefine “pandemic” to mean “likely near future pandemic”, but they didn't miss it. They were ignored by lots of governments, but that's the involved governments’ failure.
I have had trouble finding one as well (the parent comment).
Kind of a half measure. Why not ban all public events? Or do we expect events with less than 1000 people to not have any infected attendees ?
No, Chesterton's Fence says for you to leave and think about why someone put it up originally, and figure out what was good about the fence. What you should instead do is look at the fence and the dangers on the other side and see if it seems worth it.

A lot of 'fences' in engineering are there for no good reason at all, so blocking until you can come up with some good reason for the fence is a waste of time.

Chesterton would have you believe that the ancients had great wisdom, and that you should try to find that wisdom before you make changes to anything. The reality is, the ancients knew even less than you do, reasoned worse about problems, and used inferior systems for generating solutions. Progress! It's real!

To remind what Chesterton said:
"The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."
You're right. Here's how I see the remote landscape:

* Well-run 100% remote companies - Extremely high application rate, not only because the pool of candidates is much wider (people all over the country and in some cases all over the world) but also because it's a dream job for many of them. In order to deal with that extremely high application rate, the companies need to figure out a way to turn away the vast majority of them as quickly as possible. In many cases, that involves up-front hurdles, like passing tests before you even get a preliminary call with an actual person. But because there is no coordination between companies, you have to jump through the same hurdles for every single application, which makes these opportunities infeasible for a lot of people who just need a job right now. There are a few services, such as Triplebyte, that are seeking to reduce the friction by letting you apply once and qualify for multiple companies, but their support for remote positions is still in its infancy.

* Well-run companies with some remote positions - These positions tend to be those that can't be filled locally because they are too highly specialized. It is uncommon for traditional companies with mostly in-office workers to be looking for remote generalists unless they're growing so rapidly that they can't even find them in their own market. Instead, for these remote positions, you need to have a rare set of hyper-specific skills. Chances are that at any given time, a job seeker will only match those skills for a handful of companies, so it's better if you're just passively looking for new opportunities, rather than actively looking for a new job.

* Poorly run companies or those paying below-market salaries - These constitute the vast majority of remote positions I've seen advertised. They're hoping that the pool of potential candidates is large enough that at least a few will be dumb enough or desperate enough to apply.
And let the layoffs of event staff begin
> how does that know to give me an object with a Date type instead of a Number

Ah, thanks, that makes sense; I'd forgotten that Javascript had a built-in Date type. (Strictly speaking, then, you ought to be able to write something like `{"time":new Date(...)}`, but that obviously doesn't work in practice.)
Most people have little interest in operating their motor vehicles safely, even though doing so would be trivially easy, and not doing so kills a staggering number each year.

So no, not optimistic on this.
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Mega-churches broadcast their sermons on TV already. They're better prepared for this than almost any other group.
I can imagine worse things
Congrats on the launch! What's the minimum number of support agents do companies need to have before you're a good fit for them? Or how do you think about what a qualified customer looks like?
Anyone who says there's a shortage of great software engineers is lying.
I also was around for this but my favourite thing about it wasn't the resignation of "it wasn't a big deal" from the public but the mockery of people at the time talking about 2038 as alarmist nutjobs. It was not going to be a issue in 2038 because we'd all be running 64 bit quantum computers by then.

18 years away now and an absolute ton of affected systems are still out there and mission critical.

These type pf issues, from Corona to 2038 to climate change, always remind me of that Homer Simpson quote.

"Pfft, that's a problem for future Homer. Man I don't envy that guy."
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NIH director quoted 10x as fatal today.

Data from the China CDC suggests 20x as fatal: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-compared-to-flu-...
> in the (old) past they where not only "sloppy" but some (view?) where even malicious in _creating_ a virus which only theire program could handle (but which also didn't do much damage besides annoying the user).

You know what, I don't even care if this is made up, it's a great story anyway. It would be a great plot for a movie.

Ivan Vladimirovich is a Soviet computer hacker who creates computer viruses on behalf of AntivirusCorp. One day, he gets a mission that will come to change his life forever...
> COVID-19 currently has a 3.4% case fatality ratio according to the WHO last week -

This number will likely go down to below 1% because:

- S. Korea have implemented large scale tests on asymptomatic cases and their death rate is 0.77%

- the "Princess Diamond" cruise, which can be considered a closed experiment, has had a 1% death rate for people that were not ventilated

- in China if you exclude the Hubei province, the mortality rate is 0.88%

In Italy the mortality rate is 6% but the explanation is quite simple — they stopped testing asymptomatic cases, even people with fever are sent home without a test and instructed to return in case the fever doesn't go away in a few days and they are overwhelmed. At this point they are only admitting people that have trouble breathing.

And northern Italy has really good hospitals, so the only reasonable explanation for the huge disparity is that they have more than 10 times the reported total cases.

In other words, the virus has infected many more people than official numbers.

Remember that those "total cases" are cases that have been discovered via tests, it does not include people that stayed at home and weren't tested, either because the symptoms were too mild or because they were sent home.
> How would you e.g. uphold the integrity of file that stores the state of a autoincrementing field if you didn't use a singleton writer?

I mean, you wouldn't get write-concurrency for that field. And in fact you'd avoid serial PKs in general in a write-concurrent design, in favor of e.g. client-generated UUIDs.

Where you'd get wins is when 1000 different clients are each opening a transaction and upserting 1000 rows, with, say, 50% of them being duplicates of other clients' rows. Rather than linearizing+deduping all of those right away, you can just write down all 1000 individual MVCC-world-state WAL log fragments concurrently, as 1000 queued write-batches. This lets you take actual advantage of all those write IOPS that RAIDed NVMe gets you.
I guess it depends on who you follow on Twitter.
"It's better to be in a bad deal with good people, then a good deal with bad people"

China MFG was/is not a deal with the Chinese people. It's a deal with the CCP. Those of us who always understood this aren't surprised by any of this. We never expected China to be able to manage domestic risk well and we watched helplessly as they exported that risk abroad in the form of pollution, SARS, contaminated products and more. You may not be a citizen of China, but you're almost as impacted by their decisions. This is worth pondering.
The WHO's entire purpose is to act as health diplomats and coordinators. They have been ringing the alarm bell for weeks now, saying that countries need to take things seriously.

Whether the WHO uses the term "pandemic" is honestly just semantics. You should direct the majority of your criticism at short-sighted governments who have prioritized the economy (or, even worse, markets) over health.

It was incumbent on local authorities to take the WHO's message seriously, especially after their expedition to China released its report.
Also, what's hard to remember is that we already had (or were very close) to a vaccine candidate for H1N1 by the time it was declared a pandemic in April 2009. Even before the U.S. declared a national state of emergency, more than 11M+ vaccine doses had been produced for the U.S alone: https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination/updates/101609.htm

AFAIK, scientists are still trying to develop a covid-19 vaccine candidate. And after they have one, there will be many months before millions of doses can be produced and distributed.
What is a public event? Is me meeting up with my friend in a park a public event?

Also, banning all public events is much more likely to be found unconstitutional.
Very rational.

I am in Romania. We have about 40 cases as of today country-wide. About a week ago we were all told to stay home at the slighest symptons or having travelled.

A big conference set to take place was cancelled already about two weeks ago and all business travel has been suspended for the last two weeks.

Yesterday we were all told to not come to the office unless absolutely necessary. So, we're all working from home until we hear otherwise.

Not a big deal for most of us. The local branch is relatively small (<100 people) and consists of mostly software engineers. We communicate daily with other branches around the world, so working remotely has never really been a problem.

Company also pays for private healthcare and we all received flu shots two months ago on company costs. Not that those help against COVID-19, but hey, it's something.
I cannot up vote this enough. I wish there were a government or social agency in place to better consider these issues.
Trying to write comprehensive policies would end up interesting only the sorts of users who like policies, including the sort who will raise objections no matter what we do. The more policy we produce, the more objections and meta concerns they will raise, so to go down that road would be to perform a DoS attack on ourselves. It would suck limited resources away from things we can do to improve HN for the community as a whole, instead of just a vocal, litigious few. Since we're going to get criticized from this angle no matter what we do, we may as well take our lumps up front. If that sounds harsh, I'm sorry—it's mostly because policy-writing is the last thing my soul cares to do, and the bureaucratic parts of this job make me grumpy.

HN has always been curated, and that involves human judgment and interpretation—there's no way around that, no way to spell it out, and certainly no way to formalize it. As far as I can tell, the community is somewhere between fine-with-that and prefers-it-that-way. HN has always been a spirit-of-the-law, not a letter-of-the-law place, and we want it to stay so.

But we're fully open to answering questions. I spend hours each day doing that, in threads and by email. There's basically nothing people ask about HN that we don't answer. Before someone objects to "basically", I'm throwing that in because there are always corner cases (e.g., a question we can't answer because it would compromise some other user). You can't run a site this complicated without inconsistency. But the principles we practice are deeply about openness and satisfying curiosity. Even though we don't publish a full moderation log.

As for stories "jumping hundreds of spots", if you mean jumping up, that's the second-chance pool (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380). If you mean jumping down, it's some combination of software penalties and/or user flags and/or moderation downweights. Most often it's user flags.
As someone who thinks both parent comments have a point, I don’t really think they’re putting words in OP’s mouth at all. I think the interpretation that OP really seemed to suggest that we should bring it all home is a valid one. And I get it. I agree with you. There’s probably some things we should make here that we don’t. It’s becoming very clear that wholly interdependent Globalism isn’t a cure all, utopian destination for the future. But at the same time, I think the above post has at least some credence to it. There’s a reason people chose this. Perhaps it’s just the tone that makes it so off putting?

Edit: it’s been pointed out to me that the above comment was thoroughly edited after posting, which puts this into better context. Sorry about the confusion
>I doubt China was the only superpower on the planet that used political force on the WHO to change their messaging

China is the only superpower who prioritizes "saving face" over world health. Nobody else would be stupid enough to falsify health data in the face of a pandemic to make themselves look better.

Otherwise, yeah, you have a point about having data about a new disease. But if we can't trust China to provide accurate data anyway, what did we gain? Arguably, the entire reason we saw such a delayed international response to the outbreak outside of China was their "only 300 infected! whoops it's actually 5k lol" campaign.
Thanks this is a good case study to present to the board. It's one I was unaware of that closely mimics our conference.
> You can’t close schools in the US.

I don't know what you mean by this - we've had "snow days" for a very long time.
I envy the broadcasters who have to bleep out all the cursing that normally is drowned out by crowd noise and arena music.
Washington State has done the same in 3 counties for events of 250+ people.
I've heard the "you can't escape it" argument too, but I'm not too sure if I believe it. Shouldn't we have to avoid it only until the vaccines are ready?
I check out every simple task board I can find—because eventually every Trello becomes a Jira. That said, I found this one's usage very non-obvious. It wasn't clear to me there are multiple columns. At first I tried to find a checkbox or whatever to complete tasks, which obviously doesn't work because you're expected to drag it to the invisible columns to the right. I only discovered this by accident by dragging a task down and slightly sideways. Scrolling horizontally does not work except by dragging a task. Doing that doesn't move it to the next row except after waiting a very long time if you drag from the right side.
Ask HN: Hacker News for blockchain and related technologies?
I saw some older submissions that reference crypto.study but it seems that one is dead. Is something like this out there?
All the dorms I've lived in or seen have no where near the kitchen facilities to actually cook for the whole dorm inside the dorm they were all fairly regular sized kitchens for a 2-3 bedroom apartment at best and didn't have a set of communal pots etc. in the rare case you wanted or needed to cook you provided everything.
Lawyers can and do refuse to represent people who have behaved badly towards them. The rules for criminal defense lawyers are usually much stricter on who they can refuse, but it can still happen. In particular, misconduct towards your lawyer will get you dropped.
The problem isn't admittance or treatment the problem is the bill that comes in the mail 6 months later, as well as massive decline in spending, decline in social interactions, decline in nutritional choices, and the injection of the 2020 political circus towards the end of the year (in the US).
It's at times like this that a well funded employment-insurance fund would be pretty useful.
Why would the WHO try to please China? It's an international organization. It's not a charity. It doesn't rely on donation. Its membership were to countries, it's operations were maintained based on membership dues. I find it revolting as the OP seems to be insinuating there were financial interest for WHO to please China, which is bizarre and outrageous based on how it's organized.
I've heard that part of the motivation for the escalation of opiate strength (fentanyl and carfentanil) is because so many people have begun seeing success with these new therapies. The illegal marketplace has probably been losing profits.

Maybe replacement therapy isn't perfect, but I've seen it help a lot of people who are in a bad place. I wish there was more motivation for finding exit strategies, but there doesn't seem to be any profit in that.
Parts of Seattle/WA just did this for 250 people or more: https://mobile.twitter.com/govinslee/status/1237791115782131...
I love it. Especially the video with Isabelle walking into gamestop and buying doom eternal while the doomguy buys animal crossing.
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Classifying deliberations allows people to speak freely. The last thing you want is to have someone afraid to speak up.
They've been bad all season, there's no reason for the attendance numbers to change now. The more interesting thing is that they're the top team in the league for revenue per home game.
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This. What is urgently needed is to flatten the curve. Maybe we can't reduce the total number of people who get it, but if we can spread out the infection over a longer time period, we may be able to avoid overwhelming the health care system, to the benefit of all.
Seattle bans events of 250 people
If they don't want to ban all public activity, they have to pick some number. I suppose they don't want to shut a small concerts at bars with 50 people or a local comedy club (yet).

Banning large conferences or sport events with people likely coming from further away seems like a good start.
Something like Owncloud?