skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ohio tenant laws specifically address the circumstances under which a student tenant can be evicted and this would violate them. However the governor has declared a state of emergency which does grant the executive branches powers they normally would not have. It may be within the power of the Ohio Department of Health under the state of emergency to force the university to take such an action. I don't know that it is but is would not be totally surprising if it was.
Unbelievably, apparently the best numbers available are from a volunteer effort, in a google docs spreadsheet.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/coronavir...

The spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRwAqp96T9sY...

It's not clear to me if this includes numbers from private labs. My kid's pediatrician now has access to a test from Quest Diagnostics and they can make their own determination as to whether testing is needed. They said that they can't use the local health department testing "for many reasons". I'm glad to hear that the private tests are rolling out, still concerned that it's so hard to get testing through public health labs.
If on-campus housing is the only housing available to you, then either (most likely) you already have the approval, or (not at all likely) you're in the same crisis now that you would have been in in four days. Neither of those is really an exceptional hardship.

"I need to shift my flight up four days" is not a difficulty to be described as "that IS their housing, full stop".
Agreed. You could probably accomplish the same thing by strongly encouraging students to go home to their parents or some other location if they can (dorm occupancy would probably drop by 1/2 or more) while allowing those that can't to stay.
> Only if you assume they aren't actually important to this crises, which they are.

You feel that converting a pandemic crisis into a political message is what people should be doing?

How does that help?
> Folks should not underestimate the benefits of having a single primary common language everywhere.

Indeed, that's why I'm getting past my static HTML comfort zone and trying out the SAFE template for F# development on both client and server via .NET Core. Super new at it, but excited to learn.

Apparently there is this thing out there called Fable that lets you use the same domain types on both client and server, now THAT sounds like fun to me.
The outbreak attributed to a Biogen meeting in Boston had just 175 participants. 70 out of 92 confirmed cases in Massachusetts are now connected to that meeting: https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/03/11/biogen-cor...

I believe 8 have been hospitalized.
https://www.cdc.gov/tb/programs/TBLawPolicyHandbook.pdf

> Some jurisdictions have resolved this tension through compromise: TB patients cannot be forced to undergo treatment, but they may be isolated or detained if they refuse treatment.
Alternatively, when a vaccine becomes available and we can establish herd immunity (for everyone but the anti-vaxxers of course).
I didn’t say embarrassing, but if you’re talking about a mass casualty event and how many body bags are going to need, and limitations that are in the system, and where resources are going to be diverted, how many might die, etc etc the last thing you would want is the public questioning every single thing. Because they will. If they don’t, the opposition party certainly will.
I thought I read something the other day that said Chase Center was at least partially owned/operated by the City/County, but I could be mistaken. I might have mixed it up with Moscone Center.
Digital transformation and Fighting corruption in Lebanon
Exactly. In my life I've always hoped to live in a world where everybody used "do the most irresponsible thing legally allowed" as their lodestar.

If there is a buck to be made, who am I to not make it??? "Common sense"? I got bills to pay!
I don’t understand how even the people who might agree with you aren’t bored of seeing formulaic offtopic Trump bashing that could be produced by a script polluting every discussion they view on the web.
> you're dependent on these hyper-fragile and convoluted supply chains that are optimized for cost above everything.

I'd argue that this is a feature. Economic codependence is a much safer and effective deterrent to war than mutually assured destruction.
Every programming language capable of expressing arbitrary recursion or looping is unsafe.

Doesn't matter what kinds of checks you put in. It might matter what kind of runtime you have, but a runtime isn't a language, is it? We're talking about the language, and any language sufficiently expressive to allow you to say "loop until you are done" instead of "loop precisely 20 times" is inherently unsafe.
Agreed, and specifically a vaccine will likely take much more than a few months so that's unlikely to be a short term fix
I WFH full time and have been for a while. Here are a couple things I do to stay sane:

- Make part of your home your office. This may sound obvious but do not work in any other part. Do not take your laptop upstairs to sit on the couch for a little. This will make sure that when you are relaxing later, you still don't feel like you are at work.

- Take breaks from time to time. Whether you need to make another cup of coffee or just stretch, don't sit or stand for too long. I always try to get outside and walk too. It's easy to forget to go out and get some fresh air.

- Remember to take time for lunch. I take an hour to eat and attend to any small chores I need to tackle.

- Buy a decent set of headphones to have some white noise or music on if there are distractions around the house.

I hope this helps!
It wasn't going to be happening anyways. Those types of programs need to come from Congress, and there was zero coalition built to make them actually happen.
I've heard that new Apple employees aren't getting any equipment because they don't have any to give.

I ordered an Apple watch on March 3rd and it won't arrive until March 24th.

I'm pretty sure they are having serious supply chain issues.
Why do people point to the China response as being a model response, as though that is easily seen. China has had an order of magnitude more deaths and instances than any other country. While you can point to many factors showing why it is disingenuous to look at those raw numbers without context, it seems to me that the burden of proof is on the other side, to show that the China model is actually effective, because naively it looks like it didn't work out too well.
The way capitalism works is that it ignores borders with some friction. And it is indeed more efficient. To a point where you suspect those borders don't exist, but they do. And that's the problem. Neither you or the OP are wrong. There is just no perfect way of doing it, but what we can decide is that if those damage that those extreme cases could do were worth the cost of upkeeping those industries when there were no such cases. Would people be willing to pay 300% taxes for everything everyday, I'm pretty sure then they would be damning the government for doing that.
A "bluecollar salary" in Europe is enough to qualify as "wealthy"; that's why a significant number of people from my country have moved to Europe to work as waiters and kindergarten teachers and whatnot. There are lots of cars on the road here but they all belong to wealthy people or taxi drivers. And this is a middle-income country; in poor countries access to cars is even more limited.
No, the U.S. government is not arresting you for taking this seriously.
I would echo the Nextcloud suggestion! Their latest "Nextcloud Hub" [1] setup seems to offer exactly what you are looking for (including shared document editing via OnlyOffice).

1. https://nextcloud.com/hub/
That’s on the attendees. Random events happen. It’s no different than a sudden earthquake ruining plans. Doesn’t mean the conference is at fault.
That's true ... my in-laws believe everything he says (or that's reported on Fox News) and they truly believe it's just the flu. They're 78 and 80 so they're in the high-mortality population - the logical reaction would be to take steps that might lead to self-preservation.
This concern applies to every process that a CxO inserts themself into.

You have 200 employees and only one person you trust to publish communications to the public? Why not put a little trust in your teammates?
Hopefully this will lead to the realization that most labour is in fact useless, and a normalization of that fact would be an incredible step forward, which will enable us to increase our quality of life by working less while sparing the environment.

It probably won't happen.
The first usage of militant atheist out there is in quotes.

Which clearly indicates that the author doesn’t actually believe that’s an appropriate term, but is rather saying that if what is described by some as militant atheism (an adjective the author doesn’t agree with, hence the quotes) then all scientists should be atheistic enough to be described as militant by those people.
"Never" what? You're aware that the world has had past pandemics, including one that killed 50 million people, and yet society returned to normal?
its a very believable "conspiracy theory", given the circumstances.
It's easy to trick by just having your hand anywhere in front of your face, even a foot away. Is this something current image classifier architecture could address with more data? It seems like it'd be hard to tell whether a hand is large and on a face, or small and far away from the face unless there is some sort of depth estimation going on (based on cues like shadows).
So wouldn't the answer to this also be to just move the industrial base to various other developing countries? If we split our manufacturing between more of South East Asia, South America, and Africa, wouldn't that have the same effect?
2-3% of confirmed cases or total estimated cases, including mild and asymptomatic cases that aren't reported?
Trump closed the borders at the end of January when we first got word of the virus. That's a pretty strong action imo
Why limit developers freedom? If it were so simple with no negative consequences, people would be using Rust already.
One alternative would be for you to follow the prescription, "find out why the fence was put there, then I may allow you to remove it". Investigate what's on the other side of the fence, without tearing it down (this might involve experimentally re-discovering the theory of radiation, depending on the current state of mankind's knowledge). Then go back to the authority and report that the fence seems to be there to contain radioactive waste with a million-year half-life. Armed with this information, the authority will be in a better position to determine whether or not to allow you to tear down the fence.
Cynically I wonder if all of these cancellations are due to perceived (or actual) liability for holding huge gatherings that could be traced as the transmission site for infections that led to fatalities.

Are they doing the right thing because they're worried about the public's wellbeing or they're worried about backlash? Ultimately I suppose it doesn't matter why.
The optimization from a hypothetical $400 sweater to $40 is completely blind to growing unaddressed externalities both in number and scale. Claiming this is the most prosperity for humans ignores the backsliding in prosperity for Americans - especially outside of financially quantified measures.
High correlation, yes. Poor kids don't know how. I didn't grow up poor but nobody in my circle knew how.
See the second paragraph "If people around me can get decent jobs because of local manufacturing", and I'm not making that up. People used to buy $300 snickers (or loafer? I forgot) back in the late 80s.
>The basis of the argument is that China is authoritarian regime that we should not be doing business with

I don't think anybody is saying that. What I'm saying is that criticism of the Chinese response/government is neither sinophobia nor nationalism.
A 10% death rate?
Most of the press coverage about China in the US focuses on pollution, sewage, labor practices, authoritarianism, etc. It's not surprising that many have such a one-sided view and forget how easy it would be to present the US in similar (or worse) light to an unbiased audience.
SketchDeck's Y Combinator W14 application
Difference between pandemic, epidemic and outbreak
Santa Clara did the same, so, I guess that's the nail in the coffin for WWDC.
How is the story you linked anything like arresting people for taking this seriously? Not having adequate testing early on is not the same as arresting good samaritans.
This is uninformed speculation.

Why isn't Africa innately resistant to HIV then?
Here in Canada we had nation-wide disruptions for weeks due to rail service being blocked by First Nations (American Indian) people protesting a pipeline. The covid-19 virus just compounded that problem. I'm in an isolated rural town and even Walmart has bare shelves.
The thing to focus on is that social distancing and other measures slow the growth rate of the infection, and will limit the peak load on our medical resources.

Once we run out of ventilators (and we will if we don't start canceling everything _right now_) the fatality rate will increase substantially.
"WA Gov. Inslee" is Washington Governor Inslee. Not part of TFA's title, but useful context if you don't recognize the last name or the URL.
I would certainly be up for it, at least.
I suspect that if it looks like a crowd close to a thousand the police will shut it down - additionally you need to count those who aren't being admitted, because everyone gathering outside of the dude with the clicker (and the dude themselves) will be in close contact as a result of the event.

The clicker is effective for fire code issues (since you want to make sure X people aren't in the building) but for disease related issues you don't want those people gathering anywhere, and now 1000+ people will have been gathering (at various times of the night) just outside the venue because of the event.
Well... I did met violent militant atheists, so they DO exist.

Thankfully that was many, many years ago, but stuff that happened to me:

1. Atheist stealing my bible then proceeding to play "soccer" using it as ball.

2. And Atheist + Vegan being physically threatening because I was eating meat and was christian.

3. I got hit on the back of my head with a chain, in middle of a university class, completely out of the blue, some time after an atheist classmate found out I was christian (he waited until I was busy reading something to attack me).

4. Had a group of atheists constantly bully me (for example stealing stuff, damaging my property, graffiti, etc...)

All of that happened near "highly educated" people, for example inside school, academia, white-collar workplaces...

After I started to interact with "normal" people (the average person of my country, that doesn't have college education, have blue collar work, or work in service industry directly in contact with people, etc...) this all stopped.
I think people here (USA) see the news out of China/Italy and think it's not that bad here, without realizing we're 1-4 weeks away from starting to see how bad it will actually get.
Possible evidence of hundreds of cases of Covid-19 in NY before Mar 1
I saw Basecamp brag on Twitter that they received 1,200+ applications for an open role.

To me, that's not something to brag about.

If you get 1,200+ applicants for a single position, you're doing it wrong. You've just wasted SO many people's time.

Instead, companies advertising open remote roles should be more frank about qualifications (to deter unqualified people) and about demand (to save the time of qualified candidates for whom it's still a long shot).

If I knew there were 1,199 other people who had applied for a position before me, I would likely not waste my time, even if the application process only takes a few minutes.
I don’t see why they should not attain that capability as well and I also don’t see why we should shed our capability to mfg either.
My experience (target is small teams)

– Be up front about pricing and terms (depends on target business size though)

– Easy to understand but detailed feature lists, tier comparisons, screenshots, videos

– Public, well organized documentation that goes in depth and is easy to search/navigate, also acts as good SEO

– Plenty of samples in documentation so you can paste and
go

– Quick support that can get technical enough

– Offer yearly and monthly subscriptions

Developers usually spend a few minutes scanning each solution they're comparing, so within very short time and clicks, they should be able to decide why you should be a pick and not the next one. There's usually a hard criteria. They need to solve a problem. Investigate what kinds of features your users picked you for.

Also, trials: If you don't offer trials, you'll get higher quality customers. (But still offer refunds just in case.) They'll be the type who can spend the first monthly fee to check out your site, and have realistic expectations.
How Big Is a Neutron Star?
In that case they are just vacation days with a different name.
I'd argue it is currently assuring interlinked global mutual assured destruction in the form of climate change (while yes maybe it reduces the chance of mutual destruction in the form of nuclear war, at least at the moment while the exponential effects of climate change are still in the lower order distruptiveness)
This is true, but knowing China well I think the same would probably have happened anywhere else. It's a direct result of the system of controls and incentives imposed by the party.
> UK government aren't issuing any numbers for Wales (and Scotland,

Are you confusing the UK Government with PHE (Public Health England)? Scottish and Welsh NHS organisations are separate.

e.g. this site is from PHE

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/f94c3c9...
What area is more likely to have low turn outs due to a pandemic, densely populated areas or rural areas? How think about how each area tends to vote. This is probably moot because many states would likely go to mail in ballots. In Georgia you can already request an absentee ballot without being required to give a reason. States with more restrictive absentee rules would be under heavy pressure to change them.
250 people is a pretty large church draw. Most will be smaller than that anyway with some people self-isolating.
What prosperity does work off-shored to 3rd world sweatshops deliver? Greater profit for a tiny fraction of the population, and increased financial insecurity for the rest? Creating a tshirt doesn't take any extra effort in the US, the offshoring just adds overhead such as transportation of the goods and raw materials. Yes, labour costs and labour protection is higher in the US, but sidestepping these things does not create prosperity for US workers.
Schools are being kept open, despite being prime vectors for spreading the virus, thanks to diversity and inclusion!

>(Q)Why isn’t the district providing online learning?

>(A)Seattle Public Schools serves a diverse community with varied access to technology. We are committed to providing high-quality learning for all our students, including those who do not have access to technology or internet at home. Teachers have been asked to prepare up to 14 days of lessons in the event of a student or teacher absence. As the largest district in Washington state, this is the most equitable and fair way to ensure everyone receives the support they need and deserve.

Pandemics are neither equitable nor fair. If kids don't have access to technology to watch the online materials, get them cheap Chromebooks. If they don't have internet at home, then help them get subsidized low income internet like Comcast essentials or whatever, it's like $10 a month. But no, instead, in the name of diversity and equality let's spread some disease!
Trick question! Everyone is remote now.
If that's what they're trying, it's failing; and I'm not sure that's an accurate idea of what they're trying either.
Probably too late for that. Italy outbreak was only like 19 days ago, so I imagine US will be there in about 2 weeks.

I would guess it takes at least a couple weeks from exposure to get into critical condition and treated.
Congrats on the HN launch guys :) Excited to see Javascript being added to the list of supported languages soon.
I'm not really understanding your point. The US media has been rightfully critical of both China and US governments for their response to the pandemic.
That would require strategic thinking and execution. Those people had their budgets cut two years ago and left. Only the sycophants remain.
That sounds mildly better than letting N attendees in and then shutting the doors (as happened in my country)
It has been fine for our use case. We have a few hundred users on it, but we only use it over our corporate network. We're running it in kubernetes and it scales up and down as needed.
You're right, it's not urgent—and neither is it important (as far as they know, not having read it.) So people will just scroll right by your hard-to-view comment†. And if that's the case, why bother writing it?

Would you post a comment here in a language only you speak? No, because the point of commenting is communication, and that comment wouldn't be communicating, right?

† Many people only view HN on mobile. It's a time-killing social news app; I don't want it anywhere near my workstation!
Well, look at this chart which speaks volume about how successful China is in containing the outbreak, with new cases per day decreasing dramatically since February: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESywcEKUwAADhcQ?format=png&name=... And look in particular how cases in other countries are starting to explode since the last week or so.

Or look at cumulative deaths (outside China): https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESyyxfiUMAEwMVa?format=png&name=... The growth follows a perfect exponential curve, which suggests other countries have so far been completely unable to even bend the epidemic curve a little bit. It is obvious given this data that we will see 10k deaths outside China by March 20. I have a perfect track record at making such predictions in the past: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Azorinaq%20%23PredictionW... (short-term predictions are easy to make, long-term not so much)
Chinese netizens use Hex, Base64, Klingon, Elvish, etc. to circumvent censorship
This site should say what it is, right up front.
Not nearly enough. Some are resisting for no apparent reason. (no technical reason)

Which puts you, the employee, in the position of deciding whether you are going to defy them, or not.
Are they the sole food source for some species? Could their niche be filled by something else? As other commenters pointed out, not all species of mosquito are harmful to humans so it could be a more targeted eradication.
I agree and disagree at the same time. Let me tell you why.

Extreme measures without a plan and a data basis will certainly make matters worse. We need a plan, which Western countries have. What is somewhat lacking is the basis to implement it. Aggressive testing of everybody would provide this basis, like South Korea does.

Which increases my critique points of the response to a total of two, a viable social media campaign to inform people and prevent panic reactions, which could totally provided and carried by tech companies. So, Google, Twitter, Facebook, if you are listening do something good with your social power! And the aggressive testing of people, everyone, starting with contact persons, people having traveled to risk areas and ultimately everyone.

Other than that I am quite satisfied, in Europe at least. The US seem to be a different story.
After years of Google Chrome, Firefox was a pleasant surprise
Explaining away the majority of life's existential questions (surrender to higher power) and then surrounding yourself with a community that supports you (weekly groups), is a pretty tried and true method for happiness.

That assumes happiness/contentment/stability is the goal.