skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has happened to my company and a few others I know. We have about $15K of packaging stuck in China.

If this is doing anything (to me personally), it's making me reconsider shifting more of the supply-chain to the US. In many cases, the prices aren't really that different.
We will be teleconferencing. Perhaps I will advertise that option more.
I specifically mentioned that

> Yes, outbreak of zootonic diseases is still possible through widely consumed firm animals (chickens, pigs, or cows). But we can dramatically reduce the risk of next pandemic if we stop eating exotic wild animals like bats, which is not hard to give up.

Washing your hands is not going to stop every single disease on the earth, but it'll reduce the risk. What exactly is the unsound part here?
I am very skeptical about that containment part, as Italy case shows you miss just 2-3 cases and it sneaks up on you.
There's literally a poll elsewhere in this thread showing exactly this kind of effect.

I mean, fine, it's a partisan point. But... I mean, seriously: at what point does it become OK to point out that Fox News and the Republican leadership[1] just plain fucked up the response to COVID-19 really badly? And that they seemingly did so out of a combination of both ignorance and partisan desire to minimize the problem?

Is that not OK? Because it's a real point, and one that needs to be made (and heard by republican voters), even if it's "partisan".

[1] And specifically Fox News and the Republican leaders, and not the "MSM" or Democratic leadership, who were saying opposite things and in hindsight were clearly correct.
I'm impressed by academic institutions' response in Seattle, although I think they should've have gone even further.

It's still incredible to me that local labs discovered community transmission and federal officials told them to immediately stop testing and effectively did nothing to further intervene:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...
You know the flu shot is not going to help right? Different virus.
Pretty sure that ship has sailed years ago.
My interpretation is that the Trump administration maximized the effect the virus outbreak had in a trade and propaganda war against China but in return sacrificed America's internal preparation for a potential outbreak.
Leaving aside the merits/legality, I think the actual concern is students broadly traveling over the about to occur spring break, and then turning entire campuses into active outbreak clusters when everyone we returns within the incubation/transmission period.
No it's not. As of now the show is on so they're selling valid tickets. If they do cancel then they'll refund the cost.
As an Asian American, let's not try to speak on behalf of a minority of 18+ million.

Especially to downplay a possibly valid concern of an individual of your supposed group
Any day now, any day now, we shall be released.
> "We're tryinjg to maintain the relationship between individuals and their healthcare providers." ...

... because drive-throughs and their lines and problems are visible to everyone, but visits and phone calls to doctors aren't so easy to see by the general public.
Also, college becomes less useful as more people don't take it seriously. Peer pressure is a thing. I actually wish that my peers in college were more studious as I'm certain it would have made me work harder and focus more on becoming educated.
I would assume there are many insurance plans that include force majeure clauses. "Force majeure – or vis major – meaning "superior force", also known as cas fortuit or casus fortuitus "chance occurrence, unavoidable accident", is a common clause in contracts that essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the control of the parties, such as a war, strike, riot, crime, or an event described by the legal term act of God, prevents one or both parties from fulfilling their obligations under the contract"

TLDR: If the event affecting you gets big enough/outrageous enough the insurance companies consider it an act of god and you aren't covered.
Reminds me of Moody's after Lehman. Very timely warning!
true to have a blog post to strike a balance between technical and non-technical is tedious but have to say this blog post I shared recently has hit a sweet spot https://medium.com/dsaid-govtech/using-robust-optimization-a...
Meego OS had it too.
I'm hoping for a ruling that can be basically summed up as "The merger doctrine is evaluated at the time the copying takes place, therefore we reverse the federal circuit and don't have to decide the rest of this nonsense".

Explanation: The merger doctrine is the doctrine that if there is only one way to write something it isn't copyrightable/copyright infringement. Alsup (the original judge) interpreted this as being interpreted at the time Google copied the API, at which point in time there was only one way to write an API compatible with existing java programs, thereby killing Oracle's case. The federal circuit reversed based on the idea that it should be interpreted at the time of the creation of the copyrighted work, at which time there was no reason to favor calling something "java.lang.String" instead of "java.std.String" and so on.

Fair use is a lot more complicated to deal with than the merger doctrine. Ruling based on it will almost certainly result in a lot more pointless court cases as people debate whether or not this instance is fair use.
There are people who have gotten “Jedi” on the official lists of religion. I would presume that one of them going through AA would simply surrender to the Force. Seriously or ha-ha-only-seriously, it doesn’t matter.

Sure, you can surrender to the top name of whatever religion dominates your surroundings. Or you can surrender to the top name of the one your parents raised you in counter to the surroundings, or the top name of the one you found yourself drawn to as you grown up.

Or you could surrender to the Invisible Pink Unicorn, blessed be Her invisible mane. Or the Flying Spaghetti Monster or anything else made up to mock the idea of religion. I wouldn’t recommend surrendering to Cthulhu for healing via the AA but if you think that sounds like a good idea then go for it.

Whichever deity works. If all you know is the default for your culture and you’re not down with that one, then it’s time to do some research.
I don't know about you, but I lived in dorms as a college student for four years, and in my experience they were an absolute breeding ground for illness. Waves of cold and flu would periodically rumble through them, and everybody you knew would just be sick for a couple of weeks. It was so common that you just got used to it.

And those were just your ordinary everyday illnesses! Now imagine how widely a virus that's two to five times as transmissible as flu would circulate through a dorm environment. It ain't pretty. And while those infected dorm residents themselves might be young and healthy enough to not have the infection be life-threatening, they could then carry it out of the dorms to all the other non-students they interact with every day, lots of whom aren't so demographically fortunate.

Closing the dorms is the right thing to do.
It's not clear that it's an overreaction; the paradox is, assuming this truly is a pandemic (seems likely), and every nation on earth had taken drastic action early enough, it could have actually been contained; in which case we wouldn't have seen the pandemic manifest, and the public would be left scratching their heads, going "why did we do all that again?", and provoking inquiries into false-flag/etc.

I lean a little tinfoil-hatty; but I get the impression that for all the bullshit self-serving narratives proffered by elites (both economic and political), this is one that they actually seem to believe themselves, privately as well as publicly. If anything, they're more spooked than they're signaling openly.
That, and the "can't have confirmed infections if we don't test!"
Are we allowed to flag a comment because it contains advice that could result in harm or death?
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People often harp on this point, but plagues travelled the globe long before globalization. They just moved a bit slower from area to area. But they were quite devastating in less connected ages.
Anecdote: Our caterer in silicon valley said there was a supply issue for tofu.
And thus it begins: Mother Nature cleansing the world of the human virus. All we do is rape the planet—what did people expect? COVID19 is just the beginning.
Yeah, ideally it'd be a fully featured version control system for other sorts of files.

Aka: git diff, status, merge all would work for these other files!
Most countries outside of China can't and won't take the measures China did.
Given that for the most part, our food supply chain is not composed entirely of 70+ year old people who will all simultaneously get the virus, while it's certainly not just "another day at the office" to keep food supplies running, it's not necessarily going to be as hard as your intuition may say, either. Especially if social distancing works and slows the infection rate, even the worst case scenario here is far from the metaphorical bodies in the streets and everyone lying at home in their beds, sick. On a day-to-day basis, it's more like a really bad flu season than "one day, the entire town just died".

The non-essential economy is looking at a kick in the face, but I'm not too worried about the essential economy. In the long run, I think we're going to individually remember this as an annoyance, not a catastrophe. There are some other social changes that may occur, but they're mostly going to be accounted as "social changes that were pretty much on track to happen anyhow, the Coronavirus just precipitated them a bit earlier and more suddenly".
H1N1 was declared a pandemic but was not handled at at all and a huge amount of people got it, but luckily it was a joke of virus with 2 orders of magnitude less deaths than covid-19.
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Dont go hollow skeleton! Yeah it's an idea from dark souls, another fromsoft game that you hopefully have heard of and spent 100s of hours playing.
I don't see any evidence that he violated the rules; he described Coraline Ada Ehmke as a "toxic loonytoon" as part of his opposition to her ethical beliefs. Whether or not he is correct about that, I don't see how it's a violation of the rules to say so — it's not as if he used a slur against women, white people, or transgender people. Even when he railed against "Marxism" (it's not clear to me whether Ehmke is a Marxist, but certainly some of her supporters are) he didn't use slurs like "commie" or "tankie", despite the bitter hatred of Marxism that his life is oriented around.
I watched the HBO Chernobyl mini-series which tells a similar story about the clamping down of information. The "party" was most concerned about protecting itself and saving face rather than letting on to the seriousness of the issue and taking actions to protect the people. They only started admitting a problem after other countries picked up elevated radiation levels and were able to determine the isotopes involved would most likely come from a meltdown.
China has also silenced those who detected it in early stages. China should pay a dear price for doing so as that is the main reason it got out of control. Stay safe folks!
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> I don’t know what “media” you’re referring to, put the idea that it’s being dismissed as “just the flu” by anyone except the US government and their alt-right propaganda channels strikes me as blatantly wrong.

Are you sure you've been paying attention longer than a week or two? The virus was being downplayed all of January and February by the media and other people not named Trump as "not a big deal" because "the common flu kills way more people."
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This is a net good effect in terms of resiliency, in the long term, and may also result in moving some manufacturing jobs back to the US. As the standard of living rises in China, labour costs will increase until eventually the only way it will really be cheaper to do things over there is because of either better logistics, or lax environmental/labour laws that enable shortcuts we can't/won't take here. The latter is something we could reasonably tariff or tax (considering how popular the idea of a carbon tax is amongst progressive folks, this shouldn't be too hard of a sell).
Perhaps. They did tell me they could get me one as fast as Fedex could get it to me (probably a couple of days). If there is constrained stock, centralizing inventory probably makes the most sense.

Alternate theory: I spoke to someone who works at a Cricket. They never keep higher end phones in stock, as they are frequent robbery targets (though I often see armed security at larger carrier stores).
> Anyone following the social media and the news would’ve called the pandemic weeks ago.

I would not trust the unstoppable gushing torrent of dubious information that is Twitter over whoever may be giving the World Health Organization its information.
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How now? Where are you lovers of democracy transparency and accountability? If this happened in China we would hear all of the failures of authoritarian government. Where are those wise men now?
There are dogmatic differences such as the Filioque, where one Church says that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father only, whereas the other claims that it also proceeds from the son.

It's kind of like the systemd rageforks, only for sillier (unless you're religious, I guess) reasons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism
Copyright and patents apply to different works. In the case of software in the US, patents apply to algorithms or protocols (more precisely, to their implementations on computers) while copyright covers code.
They failed to do anything in the early stages! They should have declared pandemic weeks ago, instead of today.
in Germany in January people talked about:
- well, it's China, you know, they don't have nice hospitals there
- the flu is killing people too and you're not vaccinated!
- our democratic society will be much better at containing that, people are mord open
- the methods in China are soooo stoneage, we are good at contact tracing.

So: no, there was no objective reason to think it would not go global, but it was faaaar away...
> We are what we think China is.

This sort of analysis always gets downvoted on HN, but it's true. In many ways we are further along in the direction of having an obedient population (compared to China) but we still have our own great firewall and social credit score systems in place to help keep everyone under control.

China is more overtly authoritarian than the modern US, which is actually an advantage* in fighting a pandemic. So ironically most of the criticisms of China (as hypocritical as they may be) give China a leg up in this kind of crisis.

* Note that I am not condoning authoritarian rule, just noting that it is in some cases effective.
> it was causing (inadvertently) massive slowdowns periodically due to a naive approach to scanning a system for installed applications.

> Turns out, it's running a node.js server and the whole UI is rendered in HTML/CSS/JS, but because of that it was so non-performant that the UI would effectively not render at all if it couldn't slam your CPU.

So was it the naive approach to system scanning, or the web-based UI that was the problem? Because there are some performant desktop applications using web rendering, like VS Code. Though I'm not sure how VSCode would behave if limited to 10% of CPU, because that's kind of a weird scenario.
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> "I don’t know what the hell is happening but I don’t understand how people who support the ACLU and every other 90s liberal who supported free speech unencumbered can now get on board with this censorship which shamelessly hides behind “private cos are not the gov, so it’s not real censorship."

What makes you think old-school liberals are on board with any of this? I would guess that they, like myself, are lying low to avoid being libeled, harassed, and/or "cancelled" by those who favor those things but they don't support such values.

For those old-school liberals and the rest of the political spectrum out there, just remember that one thing that can't ever be "cancelled" is your vote in primaries and on Election Day. Please go out and vote for what you believe in.
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Oh yes, make american great again.
Not in the land if the free it seems, and certainly not the poor. Let ‘em die. ‘murica yeah!
> Yes, the press has reported that a market in Wuhan sold exotic animals, but it seems this is uncorroborated, and after asking an acquaintance in Wuhan about it, I was told it's fake news, and that said market sells farmed animals as far as she's ever seen.

Fake news, seriously? There's an entire wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huanan_Seafood_Wholesale_Marke.... Please verify your own news source before spreading more fake news/
We really need to get our factories out of China. This is a country that hid the coronavirus case for 2-3 weeks, let 5 million Wuhan residents leave the city, doctored numbers, then most recently had government press try to spin the disease as if it didn’t come out of Wuhan, but rather somewhere other countries!! And they are actively Forcing uigher population into crippled factories in eastern China to replace migrants who aren’t coming back. And China hasn’t even apologized yet!

If anything, South Korea and Italy should be furious that their country is sabotaged by China. And the rest of the world should be wary of this bad actor in the world. Many people I know will not buy from China again unless they absolutely have to
This is going to throw fuel on the fire of various COVID-19 conspiracy theories.
>One of my family members had a friend who was apparently a crazy driver. He drove a delivery truck so a bunch of the driver's friend (including my family member) took out a life insurance policy on him (driver). I didn't even realize you could do this but apparently you can.

It's generally restricted, since it can incentivize killing them to collect the money. To life-insure anybody you have to convince the insurer that you have an "insurable interest" in their life. That's easy if they're a breadwinner/caretaker in your family, and you could also show it if they were e.g. critical to your business (edit: or had lent them money). I'd be interested to know what the justification was in that case.

Insurers really try to make sure that the payout isn't so high that you want the insured event to happen ("moral hazard").
I don't understand what you think is to be saved by inciting panic. There's plenty of coverage, all this classification does is open up money from the IMF I believe. A Pandemic classification doesn't change most people's behaviors, but it does cause toilet paper/hand sanitizer shortages.
I think it's pretty clear that he means cardiac arrest.
Thanks! What we do for remote brainstorming is using indentation in Google Docs. We find that most ideas can be represented by a tree structure. We use indentation to indicate what is connected. You can't easily do arrows between different ideas but I've seen it work on almost every case.

BTW We're trying to bring real-time collaboration to GitLab issues so you can do the same in GitLab. I spend some time on that this weekend https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/21473#note_301...
Probably not, but if you're worried derive your work from the OpenJDK implementation that has a valid GPL + linking exception license granted by Oracle, and comply with the license (which basically just means licensing your course project GPL + linking exception and supplying source code whenever you supply a binary).
I am hoping, hope being the operative word here, that Governor Newsom is trying to telegraph to us that behind the scenes, he is having somewhat productive conversations with the Vice President.
Allianz in the EU also has clauses where they won't cover pandemics, wars, and other large-scale disasters.
Just look at how China was condemned at the start of this crisis - "they're not being open about the numbers", etc..

Meanwhile, UK government aren't issuing any numbers for Wales (and Scotland, NI?) but they're giving details for Italy, Vietnam, etc.. I'm getting more information about the crisis in other countries from UK gov than I'm getting about areas of my own country. At this stage in the proceedings that seems worse than what China was accused of.

We still haven't instigated checks on flights arriving from infected areas.

Madly incompetent.
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Said an official who may or may not have been in there; it wasn't clear from the article.

I assure you that these are hardly the only meetings taking place.
There isn't a vaccine yet.
I really don’t understand why the guy can’t keep quiet and let people who obviously know more about the topic do their job.

Because he judges how well he does his job on the performance of the stock market. He speaks to sooth the jitters of Wall Street.

It's not unique to the current administration. Most presidents have done this. It was even a recurring theme in the TV series West Wing.
Thanks! Yep with the premium version, any site you upload is automatically archived upon expiry so you never lose it. You can download archives whenever you want.
Honestly, in a worst-case scenario, I would hope for the government to be rounding up able-bodied people who aren't sick and draft them into the Grocery Corps or similar to keep things moving. I really don't think it's going to come to that, but I pray that if it does, the people in charge are ready for that kind of task.

Damn knows I'll happily stop coding and go work wherever I am told to help with this.
Of course, that is the explanation for the exponential growth in the early stages. US citizens don't care right now. Once the virus grows, people will start being more careful, whether they have symptoms or not, because they don't want to get the virus. This along with some government intervention and businesses closing shop will destroy the exponential growth, as we see with China and will soon see with Italy.
In their defense, apparently they got trigger-happy in H1N1 days and got burned for calling pandemic too early.
US universities switch to online courses due to coronavirus
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China exports honey (real or fake), snacks, garlic and farmed shrimps etc.
Arguably this is true. However if Apple was leaning on auto makers to not include Android Auto in order to have Car Play compatibility, the pitchfork army would out in force, even among those who never used those features.
People who are so "sinophobic" that they spent their best years in china, learning the language, marrying locals, and creating multiple documentaries about Chinese culture, and only left China because the recent xenophobia of China has become too much for them to continue living there.
But the maximum is 64GB RAM? https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/
Given that current measures in the US don't come close to Italy/SK/China, that seems highly unlikely.