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Garmine's recommendation is in line with expert opinions I've been reading for the last couple of days. There is at least one really great case study from the Spanish Flu: St Louis proactively closed schools and reduced deaths by 50%, compared to Pittsburg who closed schools relatively. It seems a decidedly good idea to get ahead of these things.
Not really. German car companies buy most of the parts from suppliers. Those suppliers often have decades of experience with electric motors and batteries, see Bosch. If a supplier only does ICE components, they are out and the car company will find a new supplier.
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They are still likely coming into contact with fewer people than if they went to school.
Cant you grab the monitor from the office and bring it home?
It's gonna be bad. It's gonna be /really/ bad in the US I fear. Not even sure we have the social cohesion or political will to do what we will need to do (furlough workers with pay, free childcare for quarantine, weeks spent mostly at home, etc) when we realize it. May just let it burn through population and keep people working. Gonna be ugly.
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> I agree, and that's precisely the sort of software I've seen using the WTFPL license. I don't think it's right to characterize this as reckless.

"Reckless" is too strong, but shortsighted or poor judgment might be more appropriate. If you're using a software license for anything, whether it's a hobby, a helpful library, or a potential business venture, that means you're distributing your work to the world.

What benefit do you gain by using a poorly understood license that is effectively the same as widely used permissive licenses?
It's safe to say that the US will likely look worse than Italy or South Korea since additionally the US also has:

- Inconvenient labour laws regarding sickness, people are and will be afraid to take sick leave

- A lack of public healthcare, the US system does not seem designed for a collective approach.

- A higher rate of diabetes compared to the rest of the developed world which seems to be affecting quite a lot the impact of the virus.
>Seems to be a prediction at the dramatic end in particular if the quick lockdowns and quarantines are kept up.

I've read several epidemiologists that said stuff among the lines that, while the objective is not to generate panic, leaders should not minimize the scale of this outbreak, and the consequences of downplaying it are severe. When politicians say stuff like "this is just another flu", then lots of people continue their lives as usual, and thus, it gets almost impossible to slow down the propagation.

Maybe it's OK to throw those numbers, as a wake up call for society. If the government ordered a full lock-down, many people that still think "it's just a flu" would get mad... but if she first announces this, then maybe the rest of society would be more open to accept the consequences of a lock-down. In the end, it's politics.
1. Those beds aren't just lying around empty. They are used at close to capacity during normal hospital operation.

2. Most of Italy's cases are in a part of it. They are not evenly distributed among the country. Hospital beds, on the other hand, are.

3. Most of those beds are not ICU beds. If you have COVID-19, and you're sick enough to need to go to the hospital, you need to go to an ICU bed.
> It's also misinformation to assume SSRI's work the same way for everyone.

the person you replied to didn't say that. the point is to defer to professionals and not your own hunches.
> how much time engineering leaders spend in meetings

Most of it, actually, if I include 1:1 meetings and job interviews too.

Regarding duration: we have an unwritten rule that default meeting for 2-4 people duration is 25 minutes. If I schedule a longer meeting - I should provide a reason.

Meeting longer than an hour and a half are counterproductive, average person just cannot keep concentrating on conversation for that long.
Yay more mass surveillance. Interesting how they avoid to mention anything regarding cameras and face recognition on this website.
Not sure if that’s even legal.

If shops adapt this, Amazon will have your name, address (credit card), a video of you and whoever you are with, and knows all the stuff you bought. Great for advertisement and law enforcement.
> Who cares if it consumes 2 years working time if you die 10 years earlier than you would have.

Your 10 years number is significantly overblown. First result in Google is:

> they found that those who did 75 minutes of moderate-intensity activity weekly lived 1.8 years longer, on average, compared with people who did no physical activity

If you believe that, it puts it into 1.25 (no exercise) vs 1.8 years, which still does not include any preparations.
There's remote work and there's remote work.. I used to work remotely for a day or two a week but now after one straight week of working from home and not having any social interaction due to the coronavirus thing, I'm climbing up the walls a bit. There is barely any traffic on the street here in the Seattle area, everyone is anxious and I personally find it very hard to focus and be productive.
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Those are total NY numbers, right? considering recent article about "Washington state authorities sent an urgent request for 233,000 respirators .. to be released from the federal", not to mention the fact Italy has 30K, and they ran out a week ago.
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I am especially worried about people in US prisons or detention centers, where density is high, sanitation is low, and medical treatment woefully substandard.

Tens of thousands of prisoners may well die in the next 60-90
days if this spreads as much as it seems it’s going to.
yep, APIs are a work of art. the API you chose would vary a lot by the individual who designed (and Acceptance tests they were required to pass) as such, there is a novelty in them. whether it is worth patenting or copyrighting is separate matter.
I think the 60–70% is a misquote.

The original is in German, but I can't say what it means exactly. They are currently at 0.0000175%.

I think it's more a warning that an "estimate".
Which is why it's important for influential institutions like universities to take the steps they are taking.

Those 100,000+ students weren't going to voluntarily stop attending classes. The universities have now forced the issue for them.
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> screwing customers with exploitive dealer networks

Haha.
My buddy just waited for Tesla to finish repairs on his Model 3 for 4 months and in the mean time had to have a rental.
The reason? They couldn't acquire certain bolts.

Give me "exploitative dealer networks" that can source parts properly to Tesla's outrageous incompetence of a service network.
In college I used to work tech support for $8/hour and we had free coffee. My mom used to work at a factory, and the factory-line workers would eat lunch at a subsidized cafeteria provided by the company.

People just hate tech workers and are looking for every reason to represent them as being entitled and out of touch.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned one of the greatest advantages of walking and talking - spatial memory.

I used to go to a therapist who would hold walking sessions along a trail or path in a park. The best thing about it, besides forcing me to get out of bed and be in nature, was that I could remember exactly what we talked about and when, based on landmarks along the trail (e.g. "we were discussing X when we walked over this bridge). Similarly, I find that if I have a phone conversation while driving, I can remember it much better because parts of the conversation correlate to locations I passed as I was driving.
Great work. Much appreciated, having all the fake news spreading regarding the outbreak.
I really don’t believe that washing your hands is the way to stay safe. I don’t touch my eyes, nose, or mouth with dirty hands. I’m not a kid that puts things in my mouth.

But yet, I have always gotten sick during the winters at work, in an office setting. Always.

The only winter where I didn’t get sick, was when I stayed home all winter, and avoided most public contact. And miraculously, I didn’t get sick that season.

So the flu virus or whatever I caught, was likely, always via airborne transmissions. Either I was in the same room as someone that sneezed or coughed, and the virus diffused through the air inside, or it got transmitted through the ventilation system.

Keeping your hands from your eyes, nose, and mouth, is important, but so is the usage of a face mask. If anything, it should at least try to stop or slow down some airborne viruses. And face masks will work better, when everyone is using it, so their germs stay localized to themselves.
Probably just misunderstood; what you said is a mixed up jumble of bits of actual facts.

C.diff is something that you always have some of (you'll never be rid of it, nobody is), but it usually gets out-competed by other bacteria. But it's exceptionally hard to kill partly because it can form tough spores that go dormant. So if you take powerful antibiotics, there's a good chance that all that'll be left is the c.diff, which gets problematic when there's a lot of it. Fungus is similar in the sense that bacteria compete with it, so killing the bacteria leaves you vulnerable to fungus as well.

This is precisely why you're supposed eat probiotics during certain kinds of treatments. People talk about "healthy gut flora" or whatever like its a new age alternative medicine, but really you just need a ton of different kinds of benign bacteria filling the space so that no particular one strain of pathogen gets enough critical mass to have an effect.
To a certain extent, I think there is truth both ways. There is a huge amount of opportunity, but it's a bit like developer training: badly needed, but basically impossible to scale effectively. What you really want are agents, rather than recruiters, really. Developers change jobs every few years and are always on the look out for either better or newer opportunities. Having an agent that is skilled at assessing those opportunities, good at negotiation and good at matching opportunities to a list of clients would be amazing. But you can't hire 20-40 sales people and bang random people off the internet into jobs at scale. It's an opportunity for an individual, or a small team, not for a VC.

And, yes. Boy would I like an agent to negotiate my next raise and find me a better job if my current employer says no....
> If APIs are indeed protected, there it is plausible argument that we will have more of them and they will be of higher quality.

Sure, but that immediately brings to mind the question of whether such fragmentation will be a hindrance to technological progress. And there's little doubt about which way the evidence tilts on that question—there's way too much mainstream software that would not have been legal without the right to reimplement an API without a license. So then it becomes a question of whether it is better for the law to promote good API design, or to promote actual useful software.
The only Chinese sites I know of that are blocked abroad are the ones that are distributing TV shows and other media without paying for the IP. I don't really think of those as the same thing, but if I were to put on my contrarian hat I suppose I would say there is no such thing as a priori illegitimate content which is universally accepted as ok to block. It is legitimate to block things which break the law, and the stuff which is blocked in either country breaks the laws of the respective regions.

Taking my hat off, I think this is a false equivalence. Every country, nay every civilization ever, has laws against stealing. Theft is universally acknowledged as an illegitimate activity.
It's not a joke at all. Google's sister company Wing can deliver fresh hot coffee by air in five minutes.

You just have to move to one of their delivery areas, such as Christiansburg, Virginia.

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Africa and India seem to be proving this.

But it does mean countries coming into Winter should be worried.

Personally I think they should have been letting is spread before hand and burning out as many paths in the network as possible while it's somewhat containable.

I wouldn't want to be going into Winter.

That graph with the two lines one peaked the other flattened does leave out the capacity of hospitals goes to very very low in flu season. It's designed that way.
There's two statistics I really want to see when it comes to car sales that never get posted.

1. Average income of buyer vs car price

2. Average loan totals vs car price

Because, I can tell you that those statistics will probably be absurdly horrifying.

Best example is I was sitting in a dealer and the sales guy was guiding a buyer through getting 3 separate loans for a Honda minivan because the credit union and Honda Fiance deemed him uncreditworthy for one direct loan. And that was one of the many really disturbing things I've directly listened in to.

Next recession is going to result in a complete implosion of the auto lending industry.
As a fellow MIT alum I still feel that this was a wrong move.

Online classes -- GREAT

Cancel social events -- GREAT

Encouraging students to go home -- GREAT

Requiring 4000 students to pack up in a span of a week, getting help from other students to dismantle lofts and home-built furniture and moving heavy boxes, sharing push-carts, sharing vehicles, renting vehicles used by god knows how many strangers, scouting nearby supermarket parking lots for grocery carts because all the dorm push-carts are gone, pushing carts full of boxes around town to storage facilities, cramming hotel rooms, travelling via flights -- BAD

I think Stanford's approach is much more reasonable -- they are letting students stay if they wish but are encouraging students to go home.
I saw that number as the usual spread of the seasonal flu pandemics. My guess is she generalized it to COVID-19.
Sounds like "industry" is as stupid as the short sellers.
The OSI isn't the arbiter of all things.
Why five years? I'm pretty sure both of those companies had offices before then
...and has paid license to Oracle/Sun for it...
the u.s. has been extremely lackadaisical regarding the virus. somehow they thought that a travel ban was an end all solution. when i came back from china in january, there wasn't any tracking, questioning, checking, or anything of the sort. it was two CDC guys standing around talking to each other, completely ignoring the masses going through customs.
They do in theory but there are countless excel spreadsheets in circulation with a full list of companies way in advance of demo day. If you're not plugged in and arrive at demo day, many VCs have reached out to companies way before you see them present.
One way to contain is to take the potential risk serious. If that fails, it's still better to slow down the spread.

Preparing a country for this potential outcome is a good thing. If it didn't end up at 60-70%, it will be in part because of a very strong response.
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My comments don’t imply that they didn’t mention it, my comments reiterate it as part of why this article reads like a puff piece.

The catch when it comes to stuff like this is always in tiny details like runouts, special tires, weirdly specific records that move the goal post from what you’d expect.

It all ends up sounding like a bunch of nits from the outside, but again, under 4 seconds separate the that F1 run from the 30+ cars that did it faster (ironically a 911 GT3 has the fastest hot lap)

Honestly to me the title alone is the biggest hint. It sounds kind of insane to say this, but there is nothing truly special about a car being faster than an F1 on that track, it’s much more about the driver, and to me that’s what would impress (but wouldn’t let you right an advertisement for Unplugged...).

In fact, you can watch the original F1 run separately and see that in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcRY15toko0

To the untrained eye sliding = pushing it, but if you look closer, you can clearly see they were not pushing it. Especially by Best Motoring standards. And who can blame them? Damp track, skinny tires, irreplaceable car, on a track with an unforgiving layout

Many other cars in the price range of their modded Model 3 could have beat that lap (for reference, their front brake kit alone is almost 10k. All their aero upgrades and body mods also cost well over 10k in total, they also have a 15k wheel package for sale...)

> And I'm pretty skeptical that the (yes rare) road version of the F1 had no differences from the track version, but your comments didn't mention any, as if there were none. Which made me think your presentation of the facts is tilted beyond what's warranted.

Also don’t know what this is supposed to be saying.

The F1 and the F1 GTR were immensely different cars, and the F1 GTR was obviously not what set that record.

I haven’t brought up the GTR (which would be the “track version”) at any point, so why would I bring up the differences?
Given life expectancies, this is true every year. For people under age 50 the stats look much better; for people over 80 yearly death rates are already in the double digits. Whether coronavirus deaths are additive for the 80+ crowd is yet to be seen.
> If it's already out, how will stopping flights and closing schools really help? How long will you stop them? At best, this will just slow the spread, not stop it.

Yes, it will.

One thing that tends to get neglected is that in a lot of diseases, most people don't pass the disease on very well (maybe infect one other person) but a small number of people (superspreaders or superinfectors) pass it on EXTREMELY effectively.

If you can block the superinfectors by quarantines, that is like putting control rods into a nuclear reactor--you slow the progress dramatically.
Amusingly, they also can't do Beerware. There is a historical incident involving IBM's lawyers asking PHK "how many beers?"
There's an interesting analogy with microprocessor architecture..

I believe the Z80 was a copy of the 8080 architecture - it used the same binary opcodes but it used an assembly language with different words.

So an API is at source level, so it uses words which seem more aligned with copyright of text.
I wonder what would happen if the api had the text "oracle" in the function names?

p.s. and amusingly when intel did the 8086, it was source level compatible with the 8080, but not binary.
> anything better than a red-black tree

Is there an equivalent data structure that has better worst-case time complexity than red-black tree?
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It seems extremely irresponsible to not give more details on where the TSA agents were working. Did they handle or inspect baggage? Were they working a checkpoint? Which terminal?

They just threw a fear grenade out into the general public and now anyone who went through that airport in the last week going to wonder if they need to get tested or self-quarantine.
This disease is fatal for people that are very old or otherwise ill. In Italy the average age of fatal infection is 81, which is older than the life expectancy for an Italian man. For 80% of people infected it's a mild cold or flu, not requiring hospitalization.

I realize HN is full of Zero Hedge gold bugs, but this doesn't strike me as the apocalypse.
I just made a map with state-by-state data about ICU beds and vulnerable (older) population. Some states have less than half the number of ICU beds per vulnerable population than others.

https://twitter.com/LechMazur/status/1237545167659253763
Wow, I never knew such thing existed. Do you have any idea what makes an airport use CAS over TSA?
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Awesome. What a joyful experience after IG or similar services. Nimble and simple.
> I am slowly coming to the realization that a quarter to a half of a percent of people who are alive on Earth today may not be in one year.

More than that percentage of the world's population die every year regardless (about 0.8% each year it seems like[1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate
This piece of news is scarier:

Sacramento County Gives Up On Automatic 14-Day Quarantines

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/10/8139909...
A company I worked at ran out of money. All my people stayed.

1 month, 2, 3 went by. I found guaranteed positions for them based solely on my recommendation for more pay then if we had money, the people still stayed.

They came in for work the same. Everything kept going. We eventually had a successful product, made money, and were able to backpay.

If I was a disorganized manager giving meaningless drudgery and absurd requirements divorced from product and purpose they would have all left.

There has to be a deeper mission, purpose, and vision that keeps people around and focused. That's the managements job.

People aren't generally in tech for the money, there's better money in real estate, sales and finance with less work. Drive the passion and you'll drive the work.

Programming is like movies, art, and music: great things rarely happen when people are just chasing dollars.
This virus is so easily transmitted that one needs a significant percentage of the population to be resistant before new epidemics won’t happen every time it is reintroduced. So 60-70%.

With a little luck there’s a still larger group of asymptotic infections, because otherwise we are going to have to put up with large numbers of ICU patients for a long time.
Thanks for sharing!

On point 1, this issue is the one to watch. https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/4518 Language server support will work for both JavaScript and TypeScript and error/type checking and editor support should be pretty comprehensive when it's ready. Svelte 3 was written with TypeScript in mind, so the idioms are fairly compatible with type checking. (a nice pit of success for design!)

This should also fix reassigning to a const mentioned in point 2.
1. Just because kids aren't dying, doesn't mean they aren't carriers.

2. When it gets bad, schools will be closed anyways, and parents will need to figure out how to handle childsitting.

3. The longer we delay closure, the worse off everyone else will be.
> Agreed. Same as Tesla (in your words: "The government did not "bail out Tesla". They lent them $465 million, and Tesla paid it all back, plus interest, ten years before it was due.")

No, not the same at all. One was a loan (which was paid back plus interest), while the other was a gift that will never be paid back.
You have a quaintly democratic notion of Kazakh society. :P

Kazakhstan is, by all accounts, an authoritarian regime. Petitioning the government would be futile at best.
See, there's the mass panic I was talking about. We're not expecting an asteroid or a tsunami, people can still buy groceries in South Korea / Italy / Wuhan / etc...

Sure you should stock up on essential medicines that you might need if you have to stay in for awhile, but I wish people would knock off the chicken little attitudes. It doesn't help, and it makes people stop listening to reasonable precautions when the sky consistently fails to fall.

Thank you for the example; please don't go spouting this stuff to your friends and family. Just tell them to wash their hands and keep their distance from others instead of advocating full-scale panic.
Forgive my ignorance but I recently saw a video of two women fighting over bathroom tissue in Australia or New Zealand. If they have infections there where summer is just ending why do people think that warmer weather will some how stop the spread?
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