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Honestly you're coming off far more extremist than OP is.

OP's just arguing that in times of strife, we could potentially suffer because of a lack of self-reliance. He has a valid point, and should another even worse and longer lasting zoonotic(or any kind) disease spur up again, do you honestly think it's a good idea to make no steps towards developing emergency self-reliance systems in case of catastrophe? What about in times of war even, or other conflicts from upstream suppliers?

You're kinda putting words in OP's mouth and coming off as somewhat naive.

EDIT: Wow you really changed the tone and content of your comment. I'm glad you recognized the flaws in what you were saying and adjusted it, but I'm also semi concerned your original comment is your actual opinion on the matter.
”Vice President Pence said Tuesday that a group of major health insurance companies”

Assuming that one is insured to begin with, and your insurance company was one of those at the White House, yeah, you could be covered. So “probably still have coverage” is a pretty wishful statement.
Crazy line of thinking:

I keep reading that because of how insanely transmissible covid is, this doesn't end until enough people have already had it that there just aren't that many people around you to infect anymore. It's been described as "trying to stop the wind". We can maybe slow it down but not stop it, and in the US since our response has been so weak, we especially shouldn't hope to stop it unless we're willing to totally isolate our entire families.

At the same time we're hearing that Italian hospitals are completely overwhelmed to where they are having to "choose who to let die" vs providing acute treatment.

So... (1) is it fair to say that focusing on prevention is pointless and we should just focus on survival which is largely about staying healthy and receiving care and therefore (2) (this is the crazy part) does it actually make sense to get it now before hospitals are overwhelmed and you might be unlucky enough to be sick with something else. Basically choose the most opportune survivable situation to get it versus letting the virus and bad luck pick when you have to fight this battle?

My gut tells me a bunch of people are going to crap all over this question but I'm not coming up with good counter-arguments off the top of my head.

(one other point, I live in SF, a large dense city, and I have two little kids that get everything so I'm maybe more fatalistic about the idea that I and my family will eventually get it either way)
I can't speak to their motives, but here's a WONTFIX bug for it: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/80379228
Cynicism is the most authentic character that one can take in these circumstances
Shhh, you're ruining the "corporations are evil" narrative.
Stops in May because the planetary population is less than the next doubling.

This model indicates a few percent drop in the worlds population by summer.
There wasn't an international dorm at your University? My University had a dorm for international / special circumstances kids that never closed over breaks. I assumed that was normal.
Yale follows MIT, Harvard in asking students not to return after spring break
My favorite, most elegant SO answer I've ever gotten was to a question about Pandas.

The question was "How do I create a column where each row's value is the mean of another column's values starting at that row?" The answer was:

df.loc[::-1, 'col_1'].expanding().mean()[::-1]
Have you even once stopped to consider how your actions might affect people other than yourself?

Even if you're not in the groups with high mortality rates, you can still be a carrier.
A friend just said "This Contravirus thing is an attempt to make the President look bad for the election. It's nonsense."

Yikes.
The point of state secrets isn't to allow elected officials to say embarrassing things.
Thread unrolled -

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1237784291872030721.html

It's a pretty damning testimony of the current incompetence in the FDA, CDC and WH.
I wonder if they'll receive some type of financial consideration given the loss in revenue. They aren't as good this year as in previous years but it looks like there are at least 1,000 spectators at the games most nights.
This device runs Android, which is based on Linux. Other Surface devices have a varying degree of support for Linux. IIRC none of them work perfectly, but most of them do work (Pro, Go, Laptop, etc.). The Surface Studio, I have no idea about.
Isn't nubank adding 50k users per day? Founded in 2013, with seven years later a $10B valuation? They don't seem to have a technical debt problem

I was at the talk, they don't use spec they use prismatic schema iirc while waiting for spec2 to stabilize.
Sergio was way ahead of his time, I miss him.

Huge FCA fan, really looking forward to all of their upcoming product.
Well, with the whole push for more environmentally friendly transportation, a bigger car will need more energy to be taken places.

Unfortunately, I can't comfortably sit in my current D-segment vehicle because I am taller than average (and there is no room in the back behind me), and any seating in buses or trains is even worse (not to mention airplanes).

So while I'd love to get the smallest car possible, I am a bit restricted if I want to actually fit my family in.

I want a small electric car for city driving though! My back will manage for short rides (I hope)!
The epidemic will be over by the time you're in front of a judge. The argument is academic.
The short-term goal is limiting the case-load entering advanced medical care. The long-term goal is limiting the number of people who die from COVID-19.
The metaphorical "lizard hindbrain" of common law, the basis of US law, has a lot of powers the governments can enact in cases of public health, both de facto and de jure. While they are not allowed to extend it past that point, they have a lot of existing power in this space.

And... honestly... not a lot of sensible people are going to complain. Only the very fringes are going to object. The vast "middle" majority, in this case 98%+, is going to agree, conform, and be upset at the people objecting to the quarantine and who break it, not at the government. That counts for a lot too, in practice.
Yes but by then the whole population of THE WORLD is projected as infected.

It's a tiny bit silly, this is not what happened in China, it's not what will happen in many places. It may be what happens in the US thou...
with everyone washing their hands like crazy now, I wonder what the percentage of normal/everyday colds/flus will be like this year, vs other years.
This is one of the most disgusting and repulsive comments I've ever read on HN.

These are people - my parents, my in-laws, and my sister-in-law are all in this age group, as I'm sure a lot of posters here are as well.

These are human beings like you are I. Please have a little more respect.
All mosquitoes could be bad. We just need to eradicate the mosquitoes that feed off humans. Last I heard, they don't fill any particular important ecological niche which can't be filled by the other mosquitoes.
Why do banking institutions or related fintech use functional languages? Is there some more guarantee than OOP flavored languages?
Being semi-serious for a moment, I'm genuinely unsure which strategy is best. On the one hand, why not unlock all of your brain's potential? On the other hand, would it make sense to consciously choose which type of thinking to enable? Basically open only the door that leads to the path you want to take.
That exponential growth. It is amazing to think that the numbers have grown so much that even the most pessimistic number of 10k hidden cases in the US (since we don't test) -- using that number only pushes us out a day globally and not even much locally.

For all intents and purposes then, globally we're on a very aggressive path that's going to be almost impossible to stop.

But if you've been following Wuhan, Italy, Iran -- you already know this.
Hopefully not here (or there): https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/merkel-coronavir...
Was there some ninja edit that occurred here? I’m looking at both your comments fresh, with OPs only 5 minutes old, and I don’t see the word ‘nationalist’ anywhere.
Austin has done the same, but for 2500 people https://www.kxan.com/news/coronavirus/large-gatherings-banne...
The usage of violence is already illegal.
I'll back you on your wording. Made perfect sense to me and I'm right at Ground Zero (Redmond, WA) of the US outbreak and in the high risk cohort (old, fat, diabetic). These decisions have to be made as you've phrased it.
The end goal is to mitigate and delay mass infection. It ends when the virus dies down and/or a vaccine is developed and mass produced.
https://www.flattenthecurve.com/
You're being patronising and he aswell as others , did not understand your point.
Michigan State University is banning all meetings of over a hundred. Today they joined most universities in Michigan to go totally remote with no in person classes. The stated reason was because the first two coronavirus cases in the state were discovered last night.
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Sure, so the current US admin used it's "higher power" to force the EPA to remove all references to climate change.

It legally can not use that power for non-government entities, including those mirroring that content.

And you're suggesting it should be able to?

> Except that the toxic people drive the others away

And who gets to decide who is toxic? I've seen a user have a meltdown because someone compared democratic socialism to communism, and claimed everyone who disagreed with them was toxic. Should they get to be the judge?

> threats can made sufficiently arguable to be legal, but still clear enough to threaten.

Let's be clear - a threat in and of itself is _not_ illegal. A threat must be a direct, actionable call to violence to be illegal. Someone telling you they're going to make fun of you, post embaressing things or otherwise "threaten" you isn't illegal.

> Putting the burden on each individual to filter everyone

Is a recognition that humans are free agents and get to make their own choices in life. No man or woman is fit to play the censor.

> they will have inflicted their harm upon a lot of people.

What harm? Mean words on the internet? That pales in comparison for a regulatory agency, say the NSC, to suppress true information, say about a major pandemic, by abusing it's powers of censorship.
Yes, I noticed too that Taiwan did an amazing job at protecting its citizens. It’s even more remarkable because of how close geographically, culturally and economically it is to China.
Thank god!
I'd like to think that if there is a recession, there are still the same number of people, and there are still the same number of hospital beds.

Hospitals will just reduce their prices, because it's preferable to do that than leave beds empty.
Ah, I didn't consider that.
> One salient example would be that Christian mega-churches and really large Roman Catholic parishes couldn't meet as before.

This is one scenario where I wouldn't be surprised if there are groups that refuse to uphold the order and file lawsuits over it infringing on their right to practice their religion (and assemble, of course).
I was thinking of this the other day. Perhaps this pandemic will help reshape our global economy away from its current monolithic structure into self-sustainable micro-service economies where all regions can self-sustain to a large level.

(Apologies for the nerdy analogy but this is Hacker News...)
Ahh this explains it: https://danielmendel.github.io/blog/2013/04/07/benchmarkers-...
HP did exactly this
Any 2FA is inherently susceptible to losing one of the factors. It's designed to deny access when only one factor is present, so this is kind of a feature not a bug, and part of the security-vs-convenience tradeoff. Do you have any specific reason to think SMS 2FA in particular is a terrible idea?
So, a possibility of "never"?
It's a simple process conceptually but involves a lot of technology, some of which is patented, all of which involves access to a lot of lithium and other scarce materials and there's only so much of it on the market that isn't already locked up in contracts with people that got in early. And that's just the hardware; it involves software too. So no, it's neither simple nor a commodity.

It's still doable but just not in a hurry. Five years is not a lot of time to build this up from nothing. It took Tesla a decade plus to get where they are now.

A lot of manufacturers don't have the know-how, technology, factories, or access to raw material and are competing for contracts with the same sets of suppliers who are already shipping as fast as they can. The result is a lot of compliance and concept cars that were never even meant to be profitable and definitely not shipping in meaningful numbers because the manufacturer never planned to ship meaningful numbers and does not have the ability to fix that.
A friend helped me figure it out: https://danielmendel.github.io/blog/2013/04/07/benchmarkers-...
Months ago? The first cases were identified in Hubei on 29 December. The first cases of COVID-19 outside of China were identified on January 13 in Thailand and on January 16 in Japan.
Not exactly.

Looking at Italy as a case study we need to limit the spread of this virus only for the reason of reducing stress on the medical industry at any given single moment while accepting everyone is likely to encounter this thing eventually. Aside from slowing the rate of transmission the guidance, from the medical experts, says to treat this no differently than the flu.
The reality is that this virus will be everywhere because it is at least as transmissible as the flu but with more benign symptoms and a longer incubation period. The incubation period for the flu is generally 5-7 days but the early data from China was suggesting an incubation period of 10-14 days for corvid19. Both of those numbers are variable upon a given snapshot and environmental factors.

On the other hand the earlier people encounter this thing means the earlier a population can build the necessary mass immunity resistance.
Hey HN, in light of the current situation and the potential ordeal in the coming weeks, may I ask you instead of blaming whoever, let's find some solutions to help people?

As a Chinese, I read first hand materials from Chinese social media and friends on what life is like in a lockdown area. People there depends on deliveries for groceries and medicine, and occasionally restaurants take-outs. All those services, and a bunch of other services for small businesses are possible because of Wechat. Wechat is obviously not a popular option here in N.A. Is there something we can do to help both the people buy whatever they need via delivery and help local businesses?

In Wuhan when the entire family had to be isolated, no one was left to take care of family pets. I heard there's volunteer groups to take them but their capacities were very limited due to the short notice for them to take on such responsibilities. Can we be more prepared and maybe find a technology(-assisted) solution to this before it becomes a huge issue? I feel this will be an issue sooner rather than later because in N.A. it appears the current policy for mild cases is self-isolating, which will very likely infect the entire family.

Also in Wuhan during the lockdown many people felt so lonely, especially the older generation who can't use the internet effectively to stay connected to their families/rest of the world. Can we find ways to help people prepare for it psychologically? A lot of people will break medical suggested self-isolation because of the eagerness to stay connected to certain people/group. Instead of blaming them, can we help them find ways to stay connected yet in isolation?

I'm sure there are more things the mighty HN crowd can do to help others overcome this difficult time. Let's give it a try?
“Likely to be revised downward”

This is the most dangerous misinformation I’ve heard spread about this disease, and it’s getting repeated everywhere.

There is no mountain of undiagnosed asymptomatic cases. It doesn’t exist.

WHO has looked.
China has looked.
South Korea has looked.

It’s not there. The mortality rate is presently 6.01% and fluctuating, making this virus about twice as deadly as the Spanish Flu
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> 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.

I've heard people argue that that's exactly what happened with the Trump win. People voted against the party who brought on "well he's an -ist" [racist, mysogist, etc]
So then the process is working. Don’t get me wrong, you’re probably an amazing candidate, but so are 20 others that they have to find in the sea of 280 applicants.

Who am I kidding? It’s probably 750.
> Staffers without security clearances, including government experts, were excluded from the interagency meetings

> “We had some very critical people who did not have security clearances who could not go,”

So... is there any justification for this? It sounds entirely political
So no more hourly spam from shady orgs trying to sell me a list of attendees? Nooooo...
Nobody is going to be able to afford to compensate people for everything that's going to happen. Even insurance won't be able to, which is why they have the "Act of God" clauses, which I'm sure are already getting stretched and warmed up now and will be running many ultra-marathons in the months to come.
They seem to be getting things under control. [0]

[0] https://mackuba.eu/corona/#south_korea
That's crazy. March is much too early to try to ruin a November election.
The mortality rate is presently 6.01% and fluctuating, making this virus about twice as deadly as the Spanish Flu.
When the number of active cases drops to zero, when basically everyone is tested and contact tracing has resolved all current active cases, when a large fraction of the population (25%-75%) already has had it, or when a vaccine or extremely good antiviral is developed and massively deployed.

I can't see any of these happening for months. To do any of them requires massive mobilization that isn't happening in the US.

Eventually COVID-19 will probably just be endemic like the seasonal flu. Hopefully it's also mutated by that point to be much less dangerous.
> the warriors will play tomorrow night with no fans in attendance.

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.

Edit: Geez it was just a joke about how poorly the Warriors are doing.

> Also is there something significant about a limit of 1000 people? Why that number?

It's arbitrary. It's a "big" number.
> If people could understand what computing was about, the iPhone would not be a bad thing. But because people don’t understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that Guitar Hero is the same as a real guitar.

-- Alan Kay

Direct your complaints to the source of your problem, namely the shitty browsers on mobile. Even suggesting to let HN fix their abysmal stylesheet would be wrong. Go to the source -- and if it turns out they don't care about requests to provide actual tools, tell them off.
> Unfortunately, all of that technology comes with a licensing cost...

Yes, so in the end it doesn't decrease TCO—it decreases OpEx but increases CapEx.

(Or, to put that another way: anything one SQL Server instance can do, five-to-ten Postgres read-replicas can do for the same price.)

Low-hanging fruit is "low-hanging" (i.e. tempting to pluck) because it'd be high-positive-ROI to solve these problems. Switching to an RDBMS that has already solved these problems, but has a licensing cost, is more likely just ROI-neutral.
Where do you work? because in every developer/engineer job I've worked over the past 12 years, in corproate, academic, small business and startup environments, hostility, foul language, heated arguments and even implications of violence run amok. When/if it is appropriate is a delicate and tricky balancing act that requires careful judgement (which is sometimes misplaced), and the nuances are such that no policy (or lack of policy) can adequately accommodate them.

I'm not an expert on government and law, but it is my understanding that due process is rooted in the recognition that circumstances are often more nuanced than laws can accommodate, and so evaluation of the circumstances are necessary for every case.

I'm not saying OSI actions should follow the same due process as criminal courts, but my point is no, saying the things he said at countless companies, corporations, environments, under some context or another, would not result in firing.
100%, OP completely changed the tone and contents of their comment. Like night and day.
About 240x as fatal.

The mortality rate is presently 6.01% and fluctuating, making this virus about twice as deadly as the Spanish Flu.
Nintendo has been doing that for years.
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Sounds incredibly inefficient
> It’s not like every local organization can marshal expertise on every issue.

In order to be efficient decision makers, local organizations should be concerned with acquiring expertise related to local issues, and then, through cooperation, global expertise becomes an emergent property. It's not like every central institution can marshal expertise on every local issue.

One reason you want to avoid centralization is due to the fact that decision making occurs under imperfect and incomplete knowledge, or bounded-rationality as Herbert Simon called it.

By decentralizing the process of decision making, you mitigate the risks, since you are allowing entities to tackle a problem in parallel, and if one of them turns out to be wrong, the fallout is localized. Whereas in a centralized system, one bad decision can spell trouble for everyone.
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> I’d love to see a running tally of the cost of buffer overflows.

It's probably a lot lower than the cost of never implementing the software in the first place.
Norway now ranks near the top (around 4th) among countries in the number of infected people per total population. This happened rather suddenly over the past few days, and I tell you, the government has upgraded its response radically! For example, all events gathering more than 500 people are cancelled, and that limit may well be lowered in the coming days.

Most cases so far have been traced back to people coming back from a vacation trip to Northern Italy and Austria (ski resorts also popular among Italians), but now cases are popping up where health authorities are unable to trace the source of infection, and this, rather than raw numbers, is what has prompted the heightened alert level.
Preliminary injunctions can happen pretty quickly...
> Mobile web is not a niche use case in 2020.

That's the problem, not the solution.
Updated: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/irs-high-deductible-plans-ca...
Airport retailer OTG will use Amazon’s cashierless technology starting next week
Hey I'll take it. We all fly off the handle now and then. :)
There was always this possibility that china communist party was overreacting for fear of alienating its population, after having denied the virus itself for months.