skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who are high risk or are adjacent to high risk individuals (maybe everyone?) cannot take those chances. The panic from lack of information can be just as bad as the panic from being informed.
From a BI article, "In general, because of poor survivability of these coronaviruses on surfaces, there is likely very low risk of spread from products or packaging that are shipped over a period of days or weeks at ambient temperatures," the CDC said on its website.
There are a lot of folks on here asserting facts that are not supported by evidence.

The actual facts are this: we don't know what the CFR (case fatality rate) is. CFR is very difficult to accurately calculate, and varies widely with age, location, health conditions and even biological sex (so far, this seems to affect men a bit worse than women). The "2-3%" mortality rate that's being tossed around as fact, is most likely wildly inaccurate.

We don't know what the mutation rate is. Viruses tend to become less lethal over time, because the fatal strains kill the host and don't spread as well, which puts evolutionary pressure on the virus to become milder. Will that happen in this case? We don't know.

We don't know what the appropriate government response is. It's somewhere between welding people into their houses and doing nothing. Which is to say, who knows? Go overboard and everyone criticizes the government for crying wolf and wasting funds. Too little, and everyone criticizes the government for standing by and letting people die. It's a very difficult balance to strike, and I have a lot of sympathy for the folks who are in the position of making these decisions. They'll invariably get some wrong. Hopefully not too many.

IMHO, the best resource to learn about what we do know is the comprehensive Ars Technica article[1], which is frequently updated.

I would like to suggest
a) that folks stop claiming mortality rates in a panicky tone - because we don't know. and
b) that everyone who is reading folks claiming mortality rates and the upcoming apocalypse - reserve judgement until we have more information.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-compr...
Hows South Korea doing? I saw they did a lot of tests compared to the rest of us.
>> Anecdotally, I've known someone who used to be stressed out and controlling. Last time I saw him he was not so stressed. He said his life changed once he surrendered and accepted his destiny. He didn't go religious or anything, just 'accepted' his fate.

The stoics called this "Amor Fati" - Love of Fate (which admittedly is a maybe a step beyond your friend): https://dailystoic.com/amor-fati-love-of-fate/
> What I am saying is that this design is made by or for people who are seeking to run JS as part of the business logic

Nope, you've fundamentally misunderstood the issue at hand. The JS is not Avast's business logic. Rather, the program is attempting to analyze and detect malware in JS that the user encounters, similar to how an AV engine might inspect Microsoft Office files for malware. "Low-effort JS developers" had nothing to do with this. "C/C++ engineers" (and/or those above them) made this decision.
They updated it now.
That’s problematic. Who decides what’s tolerable and not? Twenty years ago this posture would go contra liberal thought.

Do the accused soon not deserve representation because they’re intolerable?

It’s like show trials are wanting to show their face right around the corner any day soon.
I am having a hard time understanding the benefit of taking thousands of students who have been mixing in close contact all month and mostly likely are already infected and forcing them to disperse to their various home towns across the country.
It has, it just takes time. We're still waiting on the court decision about declassifying the Mueller report (the subpoena was just upheld at the appeals court level, we can assume that the Trump administration will appeal to the Supreme Court to try to keep the report secret).
> It's really not that difficult to replace an in-person meeting with Webex voice call and/or screensharing. I go onsite once every 3 months for a couple of hours and it's all that's needed.

This is very much not my experience. I don't know what field you're in or the structure of your company, so I don't want to hazard a guess as to the difference. But the majority of the time I call a meeting, it's to have a fairly complex, dynamic conversation for which the communication bandwidth of Slack/email/GDoc is too low (otherwise we'd stick with async/chat). This means that few meetings consist of conversations that're fairly predictable. Which means the person running the meeting needs to know when to cut a conversation off or let it continue, what direction to take the conversation, pick up on silent hesitancy or disagreement from any of the ten people in the room, etc etc etc. I can go on and on about the techniques I've seen people use to run extremely effective meetings, as well as how poorly-run meetings don't use them. As mentioned, these rely on visual and timing cues that humans use to communicate, sometimes unconsciously. (I'm keenly aware of good and bad meetings because I hate meetings)
As a former international student, even regular breaks when school would close the dorms were tough. Winter/Spring break especially. Back then there was no AirBnb and no one would do short term rentals. I do not envy those students with nowhere to go. Plane tickets while cheap-ish due to the outbreak may still be out of the reach of college students.
Google’s Parent Trap
> A good blog won't just happen if you get out of the way.

true, but if you get in the way, you have a lifeless/corporate-feeling blog, which is (subjectively) worse.

as someone who has worked in the blogging trenches, i can say that overzealous/overconservative processes can really stifle blogging flow and the primary alternative you're competing against is the engineer writing for their personal blog, which they know has long term career value as well. usually not all participants in the review chain are equally bought in to growing the blog and you eventually get your best writers self selecting out if you aren't careful

i do like the buddy system you propose, that seems like a nice solve!

what are your thoughts on having dedicated content writers - like technical writers or developer advocates - working on/owning the blog, vs "all engineers are explicitly encouraged to blog"?
I see that this is heavily downvoted, but I have to say that the Chernobyl analogy is feeling more and more accurate to me.

The administration's lying about the availability of tests, and subsequent bragging about the low number of cases makes things feel more and more deliberate.

Combined with the CDC restricting and preventing the testing done by the Seattle Flu Study, I just...I've completely lost faith in the political apparatus of the CDC.
Seems like the best course of action if you can swing it.
Hey guys! I created the product so I can answer this one.

You're right that Elastic and Github (and Stripe and Twilio) aren't startups. The list is really just the fastest-growing companies (not necessarily just startups).

This is good feedback. I might clarify this in the text before the table itself.

Even though these companies are big, they're growing fast and I thought it would be helpful to add them.
Regarding just "bad feelings is ok" part. I have a similar belief currently with one difference - bad feeling resulting from something bad happened is normal in my opinion - just like physical pain it helps the body to identify problem and adjust. Chronic bad feelings are not normal - just like chronic pain or inflammation.
Actually MERS was far more scary with a death rate around 34% (from WHO). It just didn't transmit so well.
My experience is that it's extremely hard to even get to the interview stage with most well-known remote companies, I assume due to the sheer volume of applications they get.

At the same time, the initial application form for a lot of them keeps growing so for myself it just seems no longer worth spending the time to craft responses to these questions for a very small response rate.
As a side note, those two links at the end are certainly interesting - I must admit I was on the filter bubble bandwagon but this is pretty compelling: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/truth...

also on polarization: https://www.pnas.org/content/114/40/10612

The conclusion: "Many authors point to the Internet in general and social media in particular as possible drivers of political polarization. We find that polarization has increased the most among the groups least likely to use the Internet and social media. Under appropriate assumptions, these facts can be shown to imply a limited role for the Internet and social media in explaining the recent rise in measured political polarization."
I've come to appreciate the lists and details from privacytools.io on tools related to user privacy.
I'm pretty sure WHO is involved early on along with the Chinese authories when they first spotted it. They are already helping.

WHO is merely declaring matter of fact about the virus's spreading. Which is kind of it's primary function, to declare things and publish reports so the governments can act on them. They can't really do much beyond that.
They all got kicked out of where they live, and paid to live. It's not entitlement to be upset about that. I think the main problem is that you are not making any attempt whatsoever to empathize, instead just bringing out knee-jerk canards about no-good lazy young people.
This reminds me of MSN Messenger. Back then people abused the nickname feature to write a status message.
Where else did they expect them to 'take'? If I don't have any place to go besides my dorm, I likely don't have a car either.
Thankfully, the tickets are on sale now for dates throughout the year, and the village is so small and old I'd be shocked if anyone really comes or goes from there as it is. :)
> but the sense of awe after giving sufficient consideration is difficult to differentiate from feeling god

Do you think that, in a universe with a proven-real, interventionist diety—picture, say, the Architect in the Matrix—that "feeling god" would really be a feeling of awe?

I'd personally expect it to be mostly a feeling of fear, at how insignificant and easy-to-accidentally-kill you are.

Imagine the feeling of being made aware of an entire galaxy, one containing quadrillions of lifeforms, getting sucked into a black hole.

Imagine the feeling of knowing that if you ask a question, a million consciousnesses might be created and then destroyed in order to answer it.

In short, imagine the feeling of someone else having an omnipotent magical genie.

Feeling at one with the flow of the universe is, to me, the exact opposite of "feeling god." It's feeling that we're operating in a system with a static set of rules; a feeling that nobody has the capacity to declare humanity forfeit by fiat (but instead has to "work for it" through regular physics, in a way that we might be able to defend against through other physics); etc. It's a feeling that the universe is a fair game rather than a rigged one, at least on the quantum-chromodynamics level.
Yes, but symbolic differentiation is straight forward. There are simple rules to apply to differentiate any expression: the chain rule, the product rule, the quotient rule, derivatives of known single argument functions, etc.

Integration is a completely different ball game. Given an arbitrary expression, most likely it's not symbolically integrable, i.e. it's integral can't be expressed as a combination of known functions. That's why there are lots of functions defined as "the integral of blah."

Even given an expression that's known to be symbolically integrable, it's quite the puzzle to figure out what the integral is. There's no straight forward algorithm, as with differentiation. It boils down to "try integration by parts; try this; try that; maybe do some clever algebraic manipulation to get it into a form where you can try one of those things; look it up in a book of integrals to see if it's there, or something similar is there; if all else fails, guess and check."
The difference is that in the US all of this is due to incompetence, but given the nature of our laws and society people are free to point out the shortcomings of the response.

In China you are publicly admonished and/or disappeared for going against the official government narrative. That is a stark difference between not just Western/Chinese government, but culture, and cannot be underestimated. It leads to a totally different society and hopefully because of freedom of speech people will be more likely to take protective measures sooner as they realize that the government is responding poorly.

Also you're much less likely to keep the majority of the population ignorant of an outbreak when you don't have a legal and judicial speech suppression machine. Yes, their authoritarian measures were effective in containing the spread (allegedly, all sources afaik from China have gone silent), but they did spend at least a month hiding the outbreak and keeping people from talking about it, for reasons I won't go into.

Not all governments are created equal. Not all cultures are the same. That's pure fantasy brought about by decades of indoctrination in the west.

Note that this isn't just blind nationalism. I fully recognize that under these circumstances the extreme authoritarianism in China may prove to be the best containment measure out of any other country short of North Korea. Good luck convincing 360MM Americans to stay home for a month.
> Bread takes about 10 minutes

I've been using the newbie friendly NYT no knead bread[1] for years, and it's that easy. The only gotcha is that you have to prepare it the night before, but that isn't really a big deal in practice. Bread is surprisingly difficult to ruin, and fresh daily bread has been a huge boon for me in these new WFH times.

I highly recommend it.

[1] https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/11376-no-knead-bread
The point is that credit cards are just lines of credit. Which typically have the high costs that you pointed out. But there's nothing special about the 16.99% interest rate and many people have cards with special intro rates at 0% lasting for 6-12 months.

I don't see a lot of reasons why we can't eventually have pre-approved 30-yr mortgage credit cards accepted by companies like OpenDoor focused on selling houses.
Why border control will not stop coronavirus
This is gross economy-over-people type thinking. Please focus on humans first, and then the rest.
A Tesla Model S is almost 2 meters wide. That's wildly impractical everywhere in Europe.
Yes, when you peacefully gather in 2020 to express your disapproval of something, the police will show up in riot gear and shoot you with pepper balls.

Welcome to the future, citizen.
That is word for word copy/paste from Wikipedia, not the WHO. What is the criteria the WHO uses to determine a pandemic?
That assumes that the judge isn't crooked. Judges are locally elected, and they may not wish to go against the largest employer/donor in town.
Using WASM with Rust
Might as well try?
Show HN: AWS VPC Studio
More likely it was to prevent disruption of supply for first responders or medical folks. That ship has sailed.
How is the performance so far? As MeteorJS, which rocketchat based on, has it’s own protocol for two-way communication.
Congratulation on the launch!

I sit in a monthly "metrics review" meeting where we mostly speculate about why the dashboards are broken, and what the data team will have to do to fix it.

If our TPM was able to self-service this through an intuitive interface it would be a massive productivity win.
But if most industrialized countries had retained their mfg expertise some factories would be active while some idle and there could be some kind of staggered affect as the interruption courses it’s way in and out.
America is so polarized politically it depends on which side you're on. If you're a fan of the current administration then they're doing their best and handling things in a realistic pragmatic fashion. If you're not, then the admin is doing everything wrong at every turn. Also, the media is everyone's bogey man because some media sides with the administration and some doesn't.
The US did not just sleep-walk, they actively suppressed the warnings of doctors and health professionals.

Today they are saying they do not plan to mobilize drive-thru/mass testing because they don't want to get in the way of the relationship between a patient and provider, the same bullshit private-insurance talking point, now applied to an even more intense and immediate public health crisis.

edit to clarify:

1. I agree there are shades of grey here, but the US' shade regarding suppression of information is closer to China's than is being widely reported.

2. The US' patchwork, profit-driven health system and purposely-underfunded government agencies are completely incapable of mobilizing at the necessary scale, even if it somehow found the motivation for any greater good beyond the profits of the private insurance industry and the asset managers that are buying up and gutting hospital systems.

This is incompetence by design over many decades.
If high level meetings are classified, important SMEs are unable to participate. This is not about protecting the deliberation process, this is more the typical Trumpian attempt to prevent embarrassing information from being revealed.
+1 for that Ars Technica article, been following the updates as well.
Thank you for sharing! I'll check this out after work.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency_(engineering)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_(computing)

Here's some information on terms you're clearly unfamiliar with that I used in the part you quoted. In the future I suggest you try and understand the words you're reading _before_ making a fool of yourself, but you do you. Hope that helps!
From your source: “Correction: This article and headline has been updated to clarify that Governor Newsom was specifically referring to the support from the White House regarding the docking of the Grand Princess cruise ship.”

There is no endorsement of the federal policy beyond the handling of that specific task.
I actually agree with you. Aside from apps that don't offer anything other than SMS 2FA, I always opt for TOTP-based 2FA. However, one compromise I've made is with Authy: they back up your saved config, but you must SMS verify (or have it installed on a 2nd device to verify a new device)
throwaway account obviously. this got long but here's my (five) cents.

I'm an addict in recovery. In the past alcohol and then switched to opiates (sadly all to common story of getting pills from MD unnecessarily). I haven't faced many consequences and have been still successful in tech. still not 'out' about opiates to work or friends, just my peers in recovery.

I have found the underlying hypothesis of this - group support - has been a really big help for me. I found a group for those in recovery that participate in sports (the Phoenix) which has a double punch of great community and also physical activity which is super beneficial.

For me, I think this has been the second biggest contributor to success.

But my #1 - with opiates in particular - is medicine replacement therapy. I tried so many times to get off myself. I finally got on buprenorphine which has been a lifesaver and successful to date on first try [one year!]. There are also some drugs now for alcoholism but unfortunately stimulants seem to not have great options.

It seems a shockingly low amount of rehabs use replacement therapy [1] [2] or even know about it (or even as a short term withdrawal taper tool). There are also a scary amount of overdoses from relapse post rehab.

I think the science is pretty convincing - there are studies showing even if relapse after maintenance therapy the period of abstinence before relapse is longer [3] - and also just seems like MUCH higher success rate [4].

BUT this is still an opiate! My doctor has patients who have been on for years. A lot struggle to get off. I personally don't have a problem with very long term use - personally I see parallels with SSRIs/SNRIs where many users report problems getting off and withdrawal, but obviously who would say you should get off something like prozac - a mind altering drug that has clear benefit?

The most FU part of this for me - it still takes a special license to dispense buprenorphine replacement therapy, patient numbers are capped per MD, and there is a ton of stigma all around even at pharmacies who dont blink twice doling out opiates. Pisses me off when looking at how most MDs can dole out opiates with far less training/license requirements. also pharma definitely profits - though there are now generics. i've found at least for the strips it's basically the same price. The pills without naloxone are cheaper - but for addicts struggling that gets rid of the back stop and overdose preventer.

Plus having only a few Drs in many states (or none) that charge cash or medicare only makes it in-accesible for many of the downest and out addicts. It should be free (or covered by the worst pharma co s) and FAR more MDs should be able to write script.

[1] https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/N-SSATS%20Rp...

[2] https://www.rehabs.com/pro-talk/opioid-addiction-treatment-w...

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30094695

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2874458/
It's not a Medium requirement. I've published plenty of articles without images, and the site just adds a blank box as a placeholder.

However, a lot of 'become popular on Medium' guides recommend you use an image, and an image likely looks better than a blank box does, hence all the images.
Trying to claim that the United States has some moral high ground above China is laughable. China has certainly committed plenty of human rights violations, but so have plenty of Western nations.
Agreed, this is a picture that exemplifies what you said pretty well.

https://twitter.com/Journo_Christal/status/12378061673484369...
given the majority of coworkers are now remote due to coronavirus, I hate it. I miss just grabbing someone to my computer and have a chat about my problem. now I'll have to arrange a meeting, share screen and all, do you see it, do you hear me?

plus in meetings remote workers rarely get the chance to speak. otherwise opinionated colleagues are now silent.
> I have no idea what Shakti's doing, but they, too, are probably making a substantial amount of money.

I'd think AW would be more concerned about legacy and impact than just $$$ at this point -- tradetech has long stopped being a significant source of innovation in computer science as it's essentially iterating on the same problemset from the 00s.

OTOH I suppose having a small cult has its benefits, as opposed to actually giving something to the larger world, O/S isn't exactly a cakewalk.
Governments have a lot more power in the immediate moment than we like to confront; it isn’t until weeks or months later that courts (sometimes) get around to stopping them.
Yeah, I am still in high school, so I do not have a job yet, but I did home school for a time, and I really don't have the ability to work anywhere near maximum capacity when I'm at home for a good week or two until I can get into the groove of actually working at home. after that though I feel more comfortable both with work and just in general and I get more productive.