skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

But what if all dorms everywhere are struck by lightning? All at the same time? Is it still reasonable to expect the university to be able to conjure up alternative housing in the near term then?

Scale matters.

The whole reason force majeure exists as a concept is because sometimes really big, bad things happen, and when they do, it can be unreasonable to expect people to be able to do things they are able to do in normal times without breaking a sweat.
Plane tickets, conference tickets, hotel reservations (which aren't always refundable) ...

Every day delayed is more hassle for would-be attendees to deal with.
They're proxies, yes. Headcount is an easier number to come by because companies (misguidedly?) think that "we quadrupled our headcount in the last 12 months!" is something to brag about, so they're more public with these numbers than with revenue / cost numbers.

Yeah if you're okay playing game of thrones and don't particularly care that the company you work at might not be serving a viable market, headcount is a good metric to go by.
But would political leaders actual take actions regardless of the pandemic categorization? I hope they do, but the reality starts to frighten me.
I don’t agree with either of these characterizations. It is not a disease because the cure comes instantly by a decision from within. It is not a moral failing because the substance subverts moral reasoning. I am not religious, but I find the religious view to be accurate: a good soul fallen, that needs to be saved.

Source: a lifetime of addiction in my family and loved ones. Some made it out. That transformation is astonishing. Others didn’t. When you think it can’t get any worse, it can. It’s made me realize that we are all addicts. There is always some void in life that becomes deeper by the behavior used to fill it. Everybody.
This is a serverside pre-PR hook for an analyzer, as I understand it.

I was hoping this was a code review tool that allows you to modify the PR without making a commit-merge-push loop, which could have approved changes automagically pulled locally (for the loop). This would save a TON on small edits that many PRs require, including any additional comments that people might want to add to code that come up during PR...modern PRs is where context goes to die.
Some places have banned gatherings, too, which, while good guidance to give out, I think might also be illegal.

I think a lot of illegal things are going to “just happen”, and some will get sorted out in courts months or years from now. (And some never will, like the potentially impending medical treatment collapse in prisons.)

In the current moment, I think it’s just going to be a matter of “might makes right” or at least “might makes progress” until the courts untangle it way down the line.
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Oh, wow, interesting timing. I guess I'll call it a day then with my work on the demo, and head home...
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What "they" and how are they using it?

I have to assume you don't mean "The Democratic National Committee infected people with COVID-19." But I don't think I can puzzle out what you mean.
I support the closure in general as a likely good action to help prevent the spread of Coronavirus, but have to criticize the implementation of the closure as moving too fast with no notice.
It's starting to look like China will be getting back to more or less normal production much sooner than the US. 500 million people were put in lockdown, and it worked.[1] New cases in Wuhan have dropped to nearly zero, and restrictions are being lifted while surveillance continues.

The US approach is just to slow transmission down a little without impacting daily life too much. That just spreads the epidemic out over time. The US may spend a year or two in the current state, until there is a vaccine.

[1] http://archive.is/qWmFw
Unfortunately, you're right:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12370273563148697...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12370245512943820...

I'm amazed not only at these affirmations, but at the number of likes they get. Incredible.
Because I looked at the photos of the "riot": https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/photos-police-rio...

And the kids on the street generally look like entitled middle-class white kids causing a disturbance, which reminded me of my own days at the University of Dayton.

EDIT: Perhaps they're being pressured by the administration but the Twitter account for the student newspaper says it was not a protest, and that "students were treating it as a potential last party of the semester".

https://twitter.com/FlyerNews/status/1237758188943966213
There is also https://github.com/immunant/c2rust
taxes and tariffs are there to shape the market, not to make entrepreneurs poorer.
Confusing the API with its implementation may not be a common mistake among people following this case, but the people following the case are not the ones deciding it (much as I wish that were true).
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the op is asking for remote only companies. thousands of companies do partial remote work like red hat
I have a hunch that the "masks are no use anyway, don't wear them" narrative was disinformation designed to avoid panic buying, people stealing each other's masks and so on.
Because that's what happens in the aftermath of a scarcity event; all those people who were hung out to dry don't push harder for more in the future, and those who had it all decide to take less.

This strikes me as child-level naivete.
> I'm struggling to figure out how closing campus housing is legal.

> There's a huge chunk of student[s] for whom that IS their housing. Full stop.

This is addressed explicitly right up front:

> UD housing will close at 6 pm March 11. If you are approved for an extended stay or housing over spring break, you are permitted to stay.

It can't have been that much of a struggle to figure out?
How about this - every time a problem like this is found, the affected component is rewritten in Rust.

Kinda like how a bug should ideally be fixed by reproducing the issue with a unit test first - the test ensures that particular problem won't come back.

AFAIK that's possible for C - a project can be rewritten in Rust one function at a time - but I acknowledge it may not be possible or practical for C++ or other languages.

Thing is, there's going to be tons of old C in Windows that is perfectly safe. That code doesn't need to be changed - and with this model, it wouldn't be. What needs to be changed is components like SMB which has been the source of a few high profile vulnerabilities before.
Many feel the same way. There's a petition with almost 500k signers calling for the WHO Director General's resignation: https://www.change.org/p/united-nations-call-for-the-resigna...
That's ironic because the WHO supposedly doesn't use the category "pandemic" or 6-phases of pandemic anymore.

https://canoe.com/news/world/who-no-longer-uses-pandemic-cat...
If all you have is a binary blob, doesn't that prevent you from ever recompiling it for use on a new OS or kernel?
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Oh neat. I'm not familiar with the ML/AI ecosystem. So, I didn't think to look there for formats; a bit of a shame I reinvented the wheel here, but it worked great for my specific use case.

Yeah, it's all about the tradeoffs with formats. Protobuf is a good choice a lot of the time and I always think about it as one of the first/preferred options. gRPC is great too.
Where do you draw the line? Broccoli is alive, should I stop eating broccoli?
Yes, let's trust anonymous user 62726164 on github.
It turns out we actually did need "government".
>and students in the dorms started sickening (or worse, dying)

Honestly, what percentage of staff and students do you think would be post retirement age?
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...

AGE DEATH RATE(c)DEATH RATE(a)

80+ 21.9% 14.8%

70-79 - 8.0%

60-69 - 3.6%

50-59 - 1.3%

40-49 - 0.4%

30-39 - 0.2%

20-29 - 0.2%

10-19 - 0.2%

0-9 no fatalities
I thought Wales had its own government, and it had responsibility for healthcare. Are they publishing numbers?
> It is tantamount to saying "The adult voting public cannot be trusted to identify 'wrong' beliefs themselves;

The issue isn't "identify", nor "trust". It's effort. The adult voting public are the ones that should be picking (and auditing!) those that are taking on the effort, as well as drawing the line as to where the effort is worth handing off and where it is worth keeping in personal hand.

Requiring everyone to be an expert on everything in order to evaluate it is a problem. I'm not saying they CAN'T be experts, I'm saying we have the right to choose that we don't HAVE to be. As a group. And pick whom we empower to deal with that. And pick what limitations and reviews it has to go through.

Again, I'm not saying restricting speech is free of problems. It has tons. But so does unrestricted speech. That's why it is complicated and hard, and pretending that everyone is a rational and well-intentioned actor is not a good idea. (Pretending power structures don't have problems is also not a good idea, but I've already admitted that)
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The warm weather thing keeps coming up. Sure it’ll be warm where most the population is, but the other half of the world is going into winter.
Well the admin was very quick to shut down travel from China.

And the Trump did order masks from 3M early on.

I don't deny that there has been a display of incompetence to date be careful not to let partisanship blind you into denying credit where it is due.
Because they can't do interviews or ask questions? YT does have superchat which might be harnessed for that.
Seasonal flu kills 291k to 646k people each year...
Is the acquisition affecting the number of remote positions Red Hat have?
I worry about this aspect of it too. When I was in school, I was in easy driving distance (3 hours) of stable alternative housing at my parent's place. Not everybody has 'stable alternative housing', much less available to them without a huge logistical challenge.

No idea what somebody from out of the country is supposed to do when their university throws them out with a week's notice or less. (Particularly after paying tuition, housing costs, and the like.)
Also, isn't it odd that the chances of being infected with the virus seem to be around 50% if you are the health minister of an affected country?

Statistically how is that possible?
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No, but I've been thinking about it and you just inspired me to make a self-hosted Airtable like-system... See you in 2 years.
these numbers look really scary when you have them in front of you. it's easy to miss in scales and charts. the date here goes only to May which is even more alarming.
Yes. Look at the blue graph. 0.5~4%.
I feel like containment had clearly failed by at least two weeks ago, we're just only now seeing policy catch up.
I misread parent comment but this was exactly my point. A lot of people die from flu although there is vaccine and mortality rate is at least one magnitude lower than Covid-19 and hospitals are not overwhelmed.
or in Fortnite, why not :)
Assuming that this travels into the country wouldn't the same impact be observed as areas of the country with particular specializations were affected? I don't know how one could prevent supply chain disruptions, they'd just come a little later than sooner.
We are closing schools and you are saying masks ONLY help when someone sneezes right at you - TOTALLY false.

Masks are an absolutely basic viral control measure.

Seriously, a virus is on a surface, you touch a surface, then you touch your mouth. You're done. A mask reduces this risk.

"In an adjusted analysis of compliant subjects, masks as a group had protective efficacy in excess of 80% against clinical influenza-like illness." - https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(08)01008-4/ful...

If you are going to pump out lies please do it when folks are not facing something like covid. Seriously, wearing a mask has almost no downside if you are in a high risk area / are older, and some proven upsides.
> if they didn't break the housing agreement, and students in the dorms started sickening (or worse, dying)

IANAL, but I would think that would only apply if they were forcing students to stay, not leave.
To be fair the church turned out to be very special and refused to stop the mass gatherings.
Ebola would be one exception, as it is a river. But Spanish flu was not so named (if that's even a formal name) because of anything Spanish in origin; it was named that way because Spain was the only country reporting on it due to suppression of journalists around the world, including in the U.S., due to WWI. People got all their news on the flu from Spain, so it came to be called the Spanish flu.
I am an Italian and live in Bergamo, the Italian town that is so far the most affected. The impression that Italy is letting older people die is false, at least at the moment [1]; however, there are people that suggest this might be a guideline to be followed, should the virus continue spreading. I believe that the somewhat higher mortality rate in Italy could partly be due to the fact that our mean age is higher than in other European countries [2].

[1] https://www.ecodibergamo.it/stories/bergamo-citta/evitiamo-i... (Italian)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_ag...
The entire premise is communal living. Shared toilets, showers, kitchen. Quarantining a dormitory would just be leaving everyone inside to get sick and recover, which does not sound humane.
Wuhan was probably a lot further up the curve of exponential spreading before China took any action than a superficial reading of the stats would suggest. Their reported cases were basically rate-limited by how fast they could test people with the most obvious and serious symptoms at the point they locked down Wuhan. It's not clear exactly how bad it was - I don't think there's much data out there - but there's a couple of alarming numbers quietly tucked away in the WHO joint mission's report. Apparently they went back and tested samples taken from people in Wuhan with influenza-like symptoms at the start of January. 1 out of 20 samples from the first week of January tested positive and 3 out of 20 samples from the second week. That's... not good. (No numbers are given for subsequent weeks.)

There's no particular reason to assume it would take the same path in other countries took some sort of action, even if the actions weren't nearly as forceful as a complete lockdown. Especially since that lockdown was basically a blind and desperate shot in the dark based on incomplete and dubious information.
just use the official numbers from WHO or JHU and double the value every 4 days. very similar result
Maybe at this point 'startup' = 'tech company' in some people's heads.
Hypothetically, Congress should have the authority to subpoena and then disclose classified information.

To my knowledge, it has not been tried.
> All dorms where stuck by lightning.

Uninhabitable apartments have a lot of relevant case law for things like fires.

In such cases universities could pay for hotel rooms while setting up long term accommodation. The specifics get tricky, but generally it’s on them to hold up their end of a contract. The ultimate escape clause is bankruptcy, not just being expensive.
There is also a certain irony that closing down classes and housing as a way to avoid large groups of people gathering in the same places ended up being a trigger for the gathering of a large group of people to protest.
You may be correct. More so i'm just trying to understand what to believe and what is most likely to happen.
Obviously. Which is why you do the other common-sense things you should always do. Wash hands, don't touch your mouth, etc.
Don't know about Wales but as a true Scotsman I can post the Scotland numbers: https://www.gov.scot/coronavirus-covid-19/
I have written off the federal government. I am writing to state and local officials here in Oregon - the mayor and state rep and state senator - to encourage them to start putting aggressive measure in place now.

Like Paul Graham just tweeted:

"When you're dealing with exponential growth, the time to act is when it feels too early."

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1237801364023017472
Hrm, lie and obscure in the hopes that it will just go away. Sounds like a playbook we have seen used successfully many times so far.
ha, no worries :) i'm sitting across the pond with my own share of incompetencies and complacencies abound. it's just hard to ignore what the US is (not) doing because it looks to be on a whole another level.
The definitions of "outbreak", "epidemic", and "pandemic" have nothing to do with disease severity.
Is there some guarantee that containment measures which are actually too early or too aggressive are "much, much better than the alternative?" It seems to me that such a claim is ignoring that there are actual costs to containment measures instead of actually comparing the costs of containment measures with the costs of delaying them.
For reference: the western governments didn't tell us the truth about Chernobyl either.
I don't think he was actually arguing that K is domain-specific, he was just observing that it seems that way to outsiders.

If anything, the most successful applications seem to be with databases (not math), but it's also pretty great for interactive graphics:

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/tree/gh-pages/ike

I work at the same company as the author, and we use K3 for all kinds of things -- system administration, network servers, interactive web apps.

It's a pretty general purpose language. And you can even do old-school loops if you want. It's just very concise.

Also, in K, there's a whole set of one-or-two-character symbols that allow you to express other uses of loops in traditional languages.
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Always worth noting when this topic comes up that the first time a classification was used to deny revelation of documents for "state secrets" reasons in a court of law, it turns out (we know this because the document has since been declassified as its classification expired) it was to shield the military from culpability in the death of civilian contractors in a plane that crashed due to a maintenance lapse.
Oh please, Bernie has been underperforming his 2016 results consistently. And the vaunted big youth turnout has been absent.
The OP is in India. US leaders and insurance companies have issued coverage for the outbreak.
I was really hoping this would be structured as a set of assertions which would then be used to generate answers in response to queries.
No one really knows if it has any effect anyway, yet, from what I can tell.
This is very neat. I'm glad someone figured this problem out.
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This was all verifiable in real time and is consistent with the behavior of authoritarian regimes. You want to pretend China isn't interning Uigurs as well?

Hell, that doctor whistleblower who ended up dead from the virus was officially "admonished" and forced to publicaly apologize for "spreading rumors".

The world isn't the Disney movie land that most Americans grew up. Plenty of organized evil exists throughout the world.
This went by here from 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg
"Exponential growth and epidemics"

Hopefully you're correct and it won't grow out of control and infect most of the world, but for now the idea is to keep the burden on the medical systems low to prevent knock-on effects of over-running our caring capacity.
There's probably about 500 people in the massive open plan office I work in. We're just sitting ducks.
An older comparison of MySQL vs SQL Server that I dug up:

https://www.ijarcce.com/upload/2015/march-15/IJARCCE%2039.pd...
And isn't it amazing how many people neglect to get the flu vaccine (even when they can afford it - I don't look down on those who can't)?

The flu is actually quite scary - they are the frog in hot water.
It's been estimated to be between 2 and 3% for at least a month now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019#Epide...
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None of which should matter. In a time of crisis, at the very least, the administration needs to start actually taking care of the entire citizenry rather than just the portion they like.
Hey guys! Cam here (the creator of the product).

Thanks for taking the time to check out this list and for commenting about it :).

Revenue growth and profit growth would be awesome metrics to have but those aren't publicly available for most of the companies on the list.

I think employee growth is the best objective metric because it captures fundraising and/or profit growth in one combined metric (because companies that are hiring either raised money, are making money, or perhaps aren't good at running their business).

This is really just a starter metric to compare thousands of companies to each other but obviously if you were going to join one of these companies you would want to do much deeper due diligence.
It’s crazy people now think who downplayed the epidemic. I had the opposite feeling until the situation got really bad in italy too : that they cried wolf for something that looked a lot like a flu..
That’s what we’re doing with an event originally scheduled for May. We’re postponing until September and hoping for positive news over the summer.
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Sure. They're not iron lungs though. No one in the medical profession is seriously calling for the return of iron lungs.
I'm just asking a question nobody else is asking because I want to understand the likely impacts of this virus rather than the hype.
Pretty sure contravenes constitution but whatever.
Have you seen the Doom Eternal and Animal Crossing memes? They crack me up. Same release day, so the Doom community started saying they just wanted Animal Crossing as a half-joke, and it escalated from there.

https://www.polygon.com/2020/2/24/21150803/animal-crossing-i...
Are you referring to the govt or more broadly?

Because (in relation to the article) we're talking about companies and social groups making decisions, not just the govt. Notably, I think the US 1st amendment is basically based around the idea that we, collectively, will take social action above the personal level. If you remove that ability, my defense of the 1st amendment reduces notably.

I see the social discourse primarily being improved by the general awareness that it CAN be harmed. To think it's immune from harm outside of censorship is the key problem.
so you should not wash your hands?
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Possible duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22547607 . I can’t tell which one was posted first.
My dad parroted these exact talking points (not as bad as flu, not that many cases in USA) yesterday. People listen to him.
Looks like picking Clojure and Datomic has created a great deal of technical debt for them. They started adding Spec everywhere to specify their data because they were having big problems scaling their wild west code base. But now Spec is dead and there's a new Spec2.alpha version.

I don't even know how they have manage to scale datomic to that level, the support contract we had for datomic was only really used to report bugs[0] but they have more than 2000 datomic transactors? ouch.

[0] Yes, too much bugs and slow, but databases are hard so I guess this was expected for a closed-source niche DB with little users.
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