skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually don't know if that's really a huge concern - if the WHO burned their public trust they could always be publicly dismantled and replaced with a new committee[1] - these outbreaks happen rarely enough that public memory isn't going to sustain that well across multiple failures.

Good behavior induced by fear is a real asset in pandemics so we need to not be hesitant to use it.

1. A.k.a. "The Blackwater Approach"
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This also got cancelled it seems.
I'm not sure that this is why students are rioting, but the University of Dayton men's basketball team is currently experiencing unprecedented success (ranked third nationally), and the "March Madness" NCAA men's basketball tournament starts in a couple of weeks.

I wonder how much of this is truly about students having nowhere to go vs students being upset that they're going to miss out on a chance for wild partying.

I also wonder if the administration erred on the side of caution here as a means to avoid dealing with over-exuberant partying.
I thought the comment was trying to get factories out of China and more manufacturing happening domestically (especially now that we're seeing the downsides to globalism with medical supply issues, etc). That's more or less been the whole point of the trade war. This is also good for the environment, people cut down trees in Canada, ship them to china, that get made into things, to get sold in the US, the carbon footprint on all that transport must be enormous, especially when you factor in the environmentally lax conditions in overseas manufacturing that effects the whole world.
The vast majority of the relief effort has been apolitical. Dem house and GOP senate got an $8B bill through in two weeks- that's pretty nuts in terms of bipartisan effort.
I edited my comment to remove the 10x claim. The fact is that the numbers are fluid right now and it's wrong to pull a figure out like that.

COVID-19 currently has a 3.4% case fatality ratio according to the WHO last week -

https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...

But this is in the middle of the pandemic and is likely to be revised downward as many cases are undiagnosed.

The 2009 H1N1 outbreak had a inital case fatality ratio of 0.4%, but revised downwards to 0.026% afterwards due to new evidence of more spread than thought -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8406723.stm
>Revenue growth is a better metric to use for figuring out where to apply to.

Perhaps revenue-growth and headcount-growth are proxies for different aspects of the company?

For example, revenue-growth might signal how long the positions are likely to last, and maybe something about chances of the company being acquired.

Whereas headcount-growth may be a better signal regarding how much the organizational / management structures will need to change, and what the odds are for carving out your own role amidst the chaos.
There are directories. I just haven't needed them - but then I'm mostly a dev on some lists of products.
There is no global chat room though, but there are optional "ask for help here" lists where all the team leads are likely to be paying attention.

Communication protocols are one of those good things to be sorting out too, from management perspective.
I've had this job for a few years now, and am pretty happy.
They could, but would such housing be appreciably better at protecting from coronavirus transmission than the dorms? They'd likely be just as densely populated, if not moreso. If the university buys a couple of buildings and moves the residents of five dorms into those buildings, they haven't made things better, they've made them worse.

The reason to close the dorms isn't because the dorms themselves are bad in this scenario, it's that packing people closely together is bad in this scenario. The virtue of closing the dorms is that it sends most of the students back home, spreading them out among the general population. Density is the enemy.
Correct. They are using this to again snuff Bernie.
What would exponential growth of Covid-19 in the UK look like?
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Republic of China (Taiwan) is ironically very lucky to be excluded from WHO. They acted on their own accord on made all the right decisions.
>Make one /health/a endpoint and one /health/b endpoint. Client-service A uses /health/a to check if the service is "healthy in terms of A's ability to use it." Client-service B likewise pings /health/b.

I've done exactly this, and it worked well in my case were the # of related services was pretty small. Each endpoint would return an HTTP status code indicating overall health with additional details stating exactly which checks succeeded or not.
I keep joking "Yes it's just like the flu... We're all going to get it!". Nobody laughs.
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They can be, though aren't always, easier for two reasons. The first is that companies use the phone screen as a way to ensure a candidate reaches a basic threshold before spending the time and money to bring them onsite. So, in that vain it's more preponderance of the evidence that the candidate is good rather than beyond a reasonable doubt (which is the standard of the onsite).

The second is that the phone screen format isn't ideal for either the interviewer or interviewee and the questions themselves are sometimes a bit easier as a result.
It's not even a "meal". It's a show. You still need to eat something before/after if you're hungry.
Easily? How? 8500 students finding alternative housing literally overnight?
Fast forward a month from now and imagine that there are 100+ kids at the college infected.

Now what? Sending the rest of the kids home would be irresponsible, you're spreading the disease. Students in dorms can't isolate or quarantine.
I'd say not even all kinds of mosquitoes. I remember reading about a debate about how total lack of mosquitoes would disrupt many natural food chains.

I don't know what I'm talking about but I hope we have someone reading this who does.
As a US citizen very familiar with the US healthcare system, I'm very glad to be living in Canada during this epidemic where everyone has a Go To The Doctor Free card, literally. At times I am a bit surprised how readily Canadians will go to the doctor because they "woke up with a headache/back is hurting/eyes are red and itchy." Coming from the US it would never occur to me to go to the doctor for such "minor" complaints (to be honest, in the US I didn't go to the doc unless I was worried about immediate mortal peril or had an extremely long-running complaint, it's just too much trouble & they rarely help).

In this scenario, I think it's fantastic that Canadians are so quick to go to the doctor, and that everyone can do it on-demand. It means we're more likely here to catch more cases early & hopefully slow the spread. In the US, who is going to go to the doctor just because they have flu-like symptoms? And pay the 20, 50, 75, ?? dollar copay, wait in the line, then spend hours fighting with insurance later when they refuse to cover it? Yeah right. "May as well stay home," and this is going to cause tons more cases to go undetected & spread.

Canada is not perfectly prepared & is definitely making missteps (parade is still on in Toronto this weekend) but I predict the universal healthcare system will make the impact night & day different from USA.
And which vaccine were you considering getting for this, precisely?

That's part of the problem; even if it was "just like the flu" (it is not; in particular the percentage of cases requiring advanced medical treatment is much higher, which will lead to a rise in mortality as that treatment is oversubscribed), the flu would be pretty scary if the annual vaccine didn't exist.
Something doesn't have to have 25% death rates to be dangerous. Your way of thinking is quite frankly not only flawed but also incredibly harmful to the actual dangers of the coronavirus.

Which is that entire communities can be infected in a very short amount of time, overwhelming local medical infrastructure and resulting in deaths and harm because the doctors simply can't keep up. What was originally something that could be treated then becomes life threatening.
The US on a federal level 'has done nothing and is all out of ideas' as the memes go, except perhaps suppressing states to do their own testing. This is in a way inverse of what happened in China and arguably worse because in China when the federal-level authority caught wind of the scale of the problem they dropped the hammer so hard the whole world is still ringing. The US on the other hand knows there's an epidemic in progress and the CDC flip-flops from 'haven't been to china, won't get tested' to 'the virus is endemic, won't get tested' in 48h.
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How did China "sabotage" Italy & South Korea? Italy & South Korea had ample time to ban travel to & from China, given how China was handling Coronavirus.

They chose not to.

China is free to make decisions handing an epidemic. We are free to criticize how they handle it. We were free to implement travel restrictions. We chose not to.

China didn't strike us with a bioweapon. We did nothing to stop a novel virus from spreading, and it spread. That's what happens.
Conversely, the Catholics I know prefer (if they have a preference, many don't) the bare term "Catholic" rather than "Catholic Christian". This is likely because I live in the US.
I'm wondering what that entails precisely to have a measurable impact. Social media and refraining from certain purchases? Organizing for future direct actions in a few months?
What part?

“This is a country that hid the coronavirus case for 2-3 weeks”

That’s the same as the USA refusing to test everyone in sufficient quantities right? South Korea is testing 10k per day, has the US completed even 10k tests yet?

“let 5 million Wuhan residents leave the city”

That’s every state apart from perhaps 1 section on NY city and small parts of Seattle.

“doctored numbers”

Thats the refusing to test thing again right? There’s states with reportedly zero cases. Yeah right.

“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”

That’s the current right wing press stating this is all baloney from the dems for their benefit.

I’ve given a point by point refutation to the best of my ability, care to respond thoughtfully?
Fundamentally it's the idea that you should not tolerate the intolerant.

This idea is what many people believe who justify the use of this kind of censorship Vs freedom of expression.
I'm talking about neutral perceptions, not thoughts. An example would be something like the visual perception of a sidewalk. Presumably you don't get an emotional reaction about the sidewalk one way or the other, it's just a sidewalk.

The majority of your sensory experience is neutral perceptions like that. Once you notice them, negativity seems small in terms of proportion of sensory experience. What actually happens is that negativity occupies the majority of attention, meaning that your mind is latching onto things you perceive as negative. Broadening the scope of awareness to include neutrality means that definitionally the mind is not as latched-onto the negative, therefore negative things seem smaller, therefore they are slightly more tractable to deal with.
According to the CDC, "between 291,000 and 646,000 people worldwide die from seasonal influenza-related respiratory illnesses each year" [1].

This is likely exacerbated by many countries not having ready access to flu vaccines and/or proper hospitalization for those that need it.

Compare this to America-specific numbers, where 34,000,000 – 49,000,000 Americans catch a flu-related illness each year, yet only 20,000 – 52,000 result in death [2].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p1213-flu-death-esti...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...
This reads like 'Yellow Peril' nonsense.
Wow, what is the source of this outrageous claim??

If anything, African states are going to be hit the hardest. South Africa for example, a country I am in, has the world's highest HIV cases. Pneumonia is a death sentence for HIV patients. Also, our infrastructure to manage a spike in infected arriving at state hospitals is abysmal. Right now, we sit with 7 infected (officially) but these are all index based with vectors from recent visits to Italy. If this changes to non-index based vectors, and this disease spreads to the townships, we are done for. If anything, COVID-19 is likely going to hammer Africa the hardest.
I was a professor at ND. I left happily for all these reasons. Hopefully the idea that some people who were parts of the problem left gives you some solace.
> an exercise in NIH syndrome

Don't fall into the trap of thinking the entire world is like what you can see from where you're standing. It's not really "not-invented-here", it's "not-invented-there", where "there" is wherever you're used to being. There aren't many unprecedented ideas in Rust.
So if both parties are being relieved of their obligations, does that mean students get their money back for tuition, room and board?

If you sign up for in person instructions, and then are told they are switching you to a YouTube video, you should be offered a choice to continue on the new terms or to terminate the agreement.

If you are asked to leave your housing for part of the semester, you should be compensated for relocation expenses.

If lightning struck one small campus dorm, the student would expect the university to immediately provide alternative housing or pay for a reasonable alternative and moving expenses. The same should hold if the whole campus was closed.
3% of people who catch a highly infectious disease dying of it is _ridiculously_ bad.
Better to just do nothing then, since the alternate isn't perfect.
Yeah, it's like we're trying to find the correct balance between nonchalance and action.

I for one lean towards nipping things in the bud and have been experiencing ever-increasing anxiety since I started watching Covid-19 in late January.
> In particular, it is often difficult to make the (important) decisions about the organisation of the argument, and selection of good notation, until a large part of the paper is already written

This is very true. When writing a blog post in China during the earlier parts of coronavirus [1], I had drafted an initial version where I just went through my experiences in chronological order. Only after writing it all down did themes emerge in how I finally structured the article.

This really speaks to the power of interdisciplinary concepts though. Writing an essay by writing an outline first and then filling in the details probably predates rapid prototyping by eons. It's cool that it all circles back to writing academic papers only through this leap!

[1] https://wanderlog.com/blog/2020/01/29/coronavirus-observatio...
I guess it's time for news outlets to dust off the old reliable "the protest turned violent".
A lot of hate is deserved. You have to have a huge ego to think that a list of articles you found on the internet is worthy of anyone's attention. There is next to no value here.
This is part of the thinking behind tarriffs - make that resiliency more competitive.
They aren't scared right now because they are downplaying the idea that they could contract the virus, but once they start seeing more cases of people in their area / other travellers, they will change their mind. Very few people want to roll a dice with 5 / 6 sides giving you Coronavirus, they just aren't seeing the odds yet.
They just tweeted it about 20 minutes ago [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/NABShow/status/1237801294246694912
Totally fair, I went back and forth on the wording a few times, and never felt like I got it quite right.

I didn't want to come across as saying "You will have blood on your wants if you do this", but I think there is a risk that there will be blood on the hands of event organizers.

I guess I didn't know how to frame it other than "are you willing to risk this outcome?"
We were crunching to get some core features done for a demo at what for us would have been a huge deal conference, and then last week they cancelled it.

It was both a feeling of relief and disappointment
Verizon will hold inventory for priority customers once the parts are constrained upstream. Your state/local .gov and some medical users will get priority access to inventory.
Maybe this is the media equivalent of having half a dozen CS PhDs standing around a computer trying to get the projector working.
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There were delays and suppression of vital news, but overall their response has been far more robust than our own. As for blame of the emergence, one has wonder, were it not for China's open market trade of wild animals, would this virus be with us now?
I started working from home yesterday.

But traveling to conference is worse than just going to your office.
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I have followed ADVChina for quite some time. The creators provide a unique lens into Chinese culture that is hard to find elsewhere. They are very open about talking about Chinese culture and why it is the way it is. They talk about what they like and don't like about the culture but not in a racist way. The titles of their Youtube videos are click-baity, but the content is informative.
Even if it is possible, there's no evidence that shows that asymptomatic transmission is common enough to be a significant factor.
> The virus was being downplayed all of January and February by the media

That's not been my impression at all. But then, I don't live in the US. Maybe it's an American media thing?
Or more likely, the poor of Africa who live in close, unsanitary conditions will be hit incredibly hard because their healthcare system cannot cope
https://outschool.com <- Fantastic, paid

https://www.khanacademy.org <- requires a bit more self-direction but quite good.

Homeschooling is not rocket science. I've done it for years and I barely know what I'm doing. Just make resources available, sign up for a couple out school classes, and be willing to help them pursue stuff when they're interested in it. You can do it!
I didn't know about this requirement either. I'm reminded of what Jakob Nielsen has written on the subject:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/photos-as-web-content/

> Summary: Users pay close attention to photos and other images that contain relevant information but ignore fluffy pictures used to "jazz up" web pages.
Why is this kind of comment allowed on HN? I see no difference between this and a comment a person paid by some government/organisation hostile to China would write.

This person is spewing nationalistic hate without any sources and arguments. Almost nothing in the comment is falsifiable.

Can dang elaborate on this issue? Are comments of this kind usually removed or not? I'm thinking of writing a browser extension which would remove those from new and problematic users. I come to HN to avoid this stuff.
I'm just asking a question with my current point of view in mind. Believe what you want to believe, and for whatever reason you want to believe it.
Now that you mention it, I've only heard them called "Catholics" here as well, not "Catholic Christian", so it's "Orthodox" or "Orthodox Christian" and "Catholic", you're right.
That's a pretty good set of things to visualize if you want to feel defeated before you even get started.

I write K for a living, and J for fun. J is WAY crazier, and I learned it specifically because it was so weird and crazy. I kinda wanted to remember what it was like to be a beginner again.

In all these languages, you can always fall back to doing things the "old way"... They all pretty much support structured and functional programming with loops and functions and whatnot. It's just there are lots and lots of shortcuts, and you get used to them over time.

(Also for what it's worth, the communities around vector languages do tend to be pretty friendly and welcoming...)
There's no reason Samba can't be user-mode and written in C#/.net. Even safer!
Edit: today I noticed a bug where SMS was not being sent to US numbers because they were being sent from alphanumeric "number" which is not supported. If you tried to register, please try logging in again and you should receive the SMS token.
San Francisco bans public events holding more than 1,000 people
my apologies
Students are being kicked out of their dorms and are upset/rioting due to this sudden eviction. Why on earth would your immediate suspicion be to accuse students of rioting because of missed potential parties?
What about the West Nile Virus, Zika virus, Spanish flu, etc.?
They get to excuse their government’s new Katrina. They also tend to be distrustful of science, and of our ability to change anything through centralized action.
It seems like you're arguing we shouldn't take it seriously because by the time it's serious, people will stop interacting each other.
They need access because they need the data.

Suppose the WHO did recommend a zero travel ban from/to China, what do you think would happen?

Nothing would have changed. It's still in the hands of the politicians in those countries to enact it. And let's be fair, in each country there's at least one politician in the parliament, congress,... that mocked the current, mild, response to the outbreak. Some said they would, or did in fact, defy quarantine rules to stop spreading the disease.

Countries are also running out of reagents to test for this virus so analysis of the situation is already going to be complex. If China is being dishonest, they'll see it in the data. If country X or Y are dishonest in reporting figures about infection, mortality rates and what not, they will also see it.

To summarize and put it bluntly:

1) I doubt China was the only superpower on the planet that used political force on the WHO to change their messaging.

2) The virus is new and currently raw data in any form is more important than issuing a medical recommendation that will be ignored because of country specific politics.
Agreed, probably (hopefully) some combination of: drug therapies succeeding; mitigation measures succeeding; seasonal variability; accumulating immunity; normalization of risk of disease impact, will eventually get us to a new normal steady state.

e.g. we happily accept some risk of being killed in an airplane or road traffic accident even though those things could almost certainly be made less risky than they are now. We're ok with some non-zero risk, provided it's reasonably constant and known.
There are already many forms of speech that have limited or no protection in the United State: perjury, defamation, incitement, threats, obsceneties, fighting words, commercial speech, and copy-written works.

I have yet to see a proposal for additional classes of unprotected speech that materially benefit the social discourse.
For an example of how this plays out, look at the proliferation of desktop GUIs in the late 80s and into the 90s. Everybody was throwing in gratuitous differences in the hopes of making their look and feel "different enough" to avoid a lawsuit. So we ended up with a mess: swapping the location of "OK" and "Cancel" buttons, every platform's scroll bars behaved differently, "Trash" vs "Recycle", and so on. There was some well-intentioned experimentation to see if the status quo could be improved, but those good ideas couldn't spread and become universal.