skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For how long? A week? A month? If widespread infection is successfully avoided in a particular region, there's no herd immunity if it circles back again, so you'd have to cancel again and again and again. How long are you willing to keep kids out of school? They could easily lose half the school year or more.

Considering that serious complications seem to be confined to older adults and the elderly (as opposed to seasonal influenza, which is also dangerous for very small kids), perhaps it's better to let it burn through the population as quickly as possible. It might be easier to keep the vulnerable population confined for a short period during the burn; once there's herd immunity (assuming infection provides immunity, of course) they should be safe.

Stanford students can just do distance learning. The infrastructure for primary and secondary schools just isn't in place to provide that, so they're forced to make more difficult decisions about the needs of their students and the curriculum on the one hand, and the risks to students' families and the wider population on the other hand.
I’ve had way too many abysmal experiences with Airbnb. To the point where I’ll only stay at hotels or actual BnBs. It’s not that much more expensive. Airbnb prices aren’t what they used to be especially with all the taxes, fees, tips, and other BS hidden charges added and I’d rather pay 10–20% more for a no hassle vacation than spend two days sorting out Airbnb’s shit.
> not to mention actually _downloading_ of the data from the Sia network will take that $1.50/TB/mth to $70/TB/mth

You really need to back that math up.

Here's my math: 10mbps is over 3TB per month at max utilization, so let's say it's good enough for either 2TB throughput with semi-even use, or 1TB throughput if the use is really focused on part of the day.

When buying transit in bulk in the US, Google tells me that 10mbps was very roughly $8.50 a month in 2017, $4.50 a month in 2018, and $2.50 a month in 2019.

Are you expecting the data to be rebuilt every single day or something?
You are correct, in my country in europe only ones who wear masks are medical professionals and even then not all of them. Nobody wears one when they get cold or flu and still decide to go out. So in my country there is no buffer at all and I assume that people watched tv saw chinese wearing them and heard that china made it mandatory to wear when going out which led to panic buying of face masks. Because local press and tv say it doesn't protect a healthy person, which is true.

I can see how it can be effective when every single person wears these masks outside, like china did, since it would prevent people without symptoms spreading disease as much, but in a situation when we can't supply everyone it is better to leave them for use by medical staff and people in need only.
Not really. Regarding insulin, that's what _the lack of capitalism_ does to generics. You can't import insulin into the US, and that's why it's so expensive here.

Daraprim wasn't generic until literally 5 days ago: https://www.biospace.com/article/fda-approves-first-generic-...
> You do not set up legal systems to restrict everyone's liberty because some people have accidents.

We have building codes for this reason. You can't just throw up a house wherever and however you want.

We have driver's licenses for this reason. You will wear your glasses if you need them, for example, or you will get a ticket.

We have food safety inspectors and food laws (including those around food trucks that blew up) for this reason.
If the price will have collapsed, that means demand is expected to fall, meaning whatever's causing the current demand isn't a real problem. Is that the case?
Once a vaccine is created, couldn't the people the most at danger get vaccinated and everyone else too, created herd immunity?
It remains to be seen if it's an overreaction.

There is not enough data to say it isn't.
> We're trying to stop people from dying - we can't bring people back after they're gone.

All of the coronavirus deaths have been people that were going to die anyway. (Edited to clarify: we all do, at least currently.)

The vast majority of them have been people that were going to die soon, if not of coronavirus then of something else.

Is the mass panic really sensible in the face of this?
Propably would have to get license from the government for it, which would invite a ton more surveillance on you
Maybe if you have a very big apple. 1 nM is the force of 1 Newton (1kg on Earth) at 1 meter.
Because generally speaking kids don't get COVID-19.
This sort of thing leads me to think Linux is well down the path to irrelevance. Io_uring, for all its baroque elaboration, saves millions or billions of system calls. Bloating the kernel to save two of three system calls on filesystem operations seems nothing short of foolish.

I would welcome being proved wrong.
what valuation do you impute from a $53m Series C? (i have no knowledge, but am curious)
Please put the invisible hands of the market over your ears and wait for the drugs to trickle down.

Jokes aside - while people are justifiably pointing out the community healthcare angle, arguably this problem is exacerbated by the American FDA drug approval model, ie no corporation will fund clinical trials unless they're guaranteed a profit monopoly.
Coronavirus: Illinois Tech waves test requirement for the fall 2020
But their parents and caretakers do
I work out of UW, one of the theories going around was that other schools would be watching to see when UW would close, since we probably have it the worst right now (i.e. "UW isn't even closed yet so how could we close?"). I'm in one of the coworking spaces here and it was pretty empty yesterday and today. I expect it'll be even emptier next week - I won't know since my team has also decided to go remote for the rest of the month.

UW is on a quarter system so finals were supposed to be in two weeks, now professors are mostly making the exams online and some are just cancelling the finals entirely.

Two nearby community colleges also closed yesterday, Bellevue College and Everett Community College.
I don't think regular seasonal visitor has been called yet. In that article the CDC director is simply stating the one-off amount of time he expects the virus to be around for, not that it will recur every season.
How do you unbrick the ones already in “recycling” mode? Or is it too late for these and they’re now landfill fodder?
Cell type is much more relevant to curability than location.
You're not wrong. But the people in charge of the retail stores are not being irrational about this. They know what will cause their reputation to take a hit, and what won't.
You can follow that headline with "...say 'experts' in China."
You're right. I would stake a large amount of money on it, though, if there were a good way to.
Paring with Ping Pong TDD works really well. Improves paring with frequent driver/navigator switches and improves TDD by having the navigator thinking ahead. Been doing it almost exclusively for 14 years.

Hiring for pairing is important. It's not for everyone, although not everyone has been in an environment where it's done well. I make sure to let people know they will be pairing full time on my teams and ask if they are comfortable with that. Also won't hire anyone that would be significantly slow to work with (can't touch type, slow thought process)
What a pile of sensationalist rubbish.

In 2018 we had an estimated 400k people dying of Malaria [1] & around 600k (est.) people dying of cancer in the US alone. [2] Compare that to the 3110 deaths that have happened in the last 3 or so months for COVID-19. [3]

I think a little perspective would go a long way here.

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/world-m...

[2] https://www.cancer.org/research/cancer-facts-statistics/all-...

[3] https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...
Stupid question, but realistically what would happen if you tried to manually turn that last gear? Would nothing move? What if you put a lot of force, what would happened / which part would break?
> Their functions are also limited to triggers relating only to Netlify events

to be clear the functions are also exposed to the public internet as http endpoints so you can ping them from anywhere else, including, for example, your frontend app, or Zapier [1], or GitHub Actions or cron service of your choice

(i work at netlify)

1: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2018/11/07/automate-your-netlif...
Given the reaction of equity markets that seems like one option for you to "put your money where your mouth is" so to speak.
Buy a bunch of $SPY puts.
Now put a shaft connecting the last gear to the first.
> Considering that serious complications seem to be confined to older adults and the elderly

This is misinformation.
Its just way more likely to kill the elderly them the young. The same applies to the influenza however, and the preliminary numbers make this strain more deadly than influenza in both elderly and adults.

But nevertheless: we just don't know with the virus just taking hold outside of China. Give it 3 more weeks and realistic estimates are possible.
> "It's generally disingenuous to act like if poor people just give up a few small luxuries, they, too, can invest their way to being millionaires. This is generally not true."

I read some of your arguments but I am not convinced, at all. You can't just say "This is generally not true" without substantiating your argument. Its a bold claim to say "Keep enjoying your $120/month coffee" when your condition is dire and you're trying to lift yourself from poverty.

> My POS older car was not reliable and was potentially going to cost me the job.

That's twisting the argument at hand. I didn't say buy a $2000 honda civic that's gonna leave you astray for your job interview.

I've lived and pulled myself out of poverty - just FYI.
I'd actually be curious. Is it the type of thing where a vaccine ends it? Or will it be like the flu where it's always mutating and so the vaccine helps but it's still always out there in some form.
when you say "shift in this direction" do you reckon your client would adopt a managed solution like Netlify/Zeit, or to build some custom solution in-house like PayPal[1] did?

1: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/jamstack-enterprise/
There are only 535 members of congress. If you're good enough to be top 500~ in the country at something you could _probably_ make more money (lobbying/extra curricular excluded...) doing something else.
The real cost there is data usage, and just keeping the SIM live. Even with large volume discounts, that's not gonna be cheap. (Wireless carriers don't price machine uses cases the same way they do retail phone SIM cards.)

I don't buy this. Here in the Netherlands, every house is fitted with a smart electricity/gas meter, that connects over cellular. The Kindle 3G has worldwide connectivity.

If Samsung or Sony goes to a major carrier to get a low-data rate 3G or 4G connection to send viewing habits, etc., times a gazillion units, they will get it. Such analytics are worth a lot, so I guess the cost is easy to offset.
Your argument against caution would have worked just as "well" in China after the first 14 cases, but if you had made that argument then, think how stupid it would sound now with what has already happened in Wuhan.

None of the annual death counts you cite are exponential processes (with unknown growth rates) at the beginning of the growth curve. So either you don't understand exponential growth or you are being intellectually dishonest in acting as if these numbers are in any way comparable.

In the face of a pandemic that may kill an unknown percentage of the population the precautionary principle absolutely applies, and even if the total cases in the US never goes over 1000, the measures now being taken will have been the right choice because the risk of uncontrolled spread is unacceptable.
Isn't it only if an effective vaccine is created?

For instance, what if it becomes like the flu? Vaccine exists, but flu still does the rounds.

Additionally, with some reinfections happening, what does that mean? Why didn't the people who had covid-19 a first time have immunity?
Use on a research & competition robot: robot has some predetermined knowledge of the environment, like which object types are related to which storage locations. Robot then goes around finding objects and putting them in the right place based on the object type, storage type and their locations.
Probably a much smaller graph than sibling comments are working with though
A search in Bing for "cult of the dead cow" seems to give me some localized (Japan) results, while DDG has a bunch of American Beto O'Rourke politics news pieces added.
Stanford is smart. Closing up before cases appear is the very definition of a precaution.

Source: I work at UW, was very perturbed that classes/operations hadn't been cancelled when it was quite clear that a case would eventually appear.
Worksnaps Feature: Privacy
Just search for the Movie Overgames on YouTube. It shows how the psychology was used in gameshows of the 50ies to reeducate Germans. TV was thought of as means to heal.

I think series like 24 were no accident. They pushed the limit farther. Today even kid movies like Pets is more than slapstick comedy. Even there you see torture as valid means.
Most devops I’ve run into aren’t doing devops. Devops, against sysadmin, build and manage the systems that manage the systems, hopefully as automations or infra-as-a-service or software defined infra. When you think you’re devops but you’re barely sysadmin you’re probably just an interrupt driven ops person who gets to sysadmin during build-outs or maintenance.
> 403 Error: Access Forbidden
> We’re sorry, but you don’t have access to this page.

Could be because of GDPR :/
For me, it's a pretty interesting article on a topic I very much enjoy and they did some very impressive work, but it's ruined by some pretty bad UX.

Reading this felt like a chore. I would greatly prefer a PDF file or flat website with the text and a separate viewer.
"All of the coronavirus deaths have been people that were going to die anyway."

Life is a terminal condition, Jack Handey.
In my experience, a decades ago, many sys admins never wrote programs, not even scripts to automate their work. This was more the case with IBM and similar mainframes and minis. In those environments the networking and various subsystems were complicated enough to require a team just to make sure things worked well. Many enterprise Windows deployments were also like that.

As programmers were increasingly required to administer the machines and networks they worked with, they also started automating their work a lot more than was possible with the rigid enterprise systems. Hence the emergence of the fusion of development and operations in certain cases. I think that the term "devops" can mean different things depending upon the technologies being used at a given site.
That’d be great, unfortunately real people aren’t like that.
What you're describing sounds similar to a Craniocervical Instability (CCI).[1] It can be confused with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I learned about the condition through Jeff Wood's blog posts.[2]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniocervical_instability

2: https://www.mechanicalbasis.org/
These days you need to go on the amount of reviews not the star rating.

Declining to give a review is your only weapon against poor service - particularly if you live in a parochial area where everybody knows everybody else. And I suspect social pressure will soon start to target that as well (refusing to deal with people who won’t haven’t got a history of glowing reviews).

The way the social dynamics works against the economic reason for reviews is fascinating.
These numbers put the expected mortality rate at 5%. However, the WHO estimates it at 3.5%. Either way, it appears to be significantly higher than the flu
The problem is determining for how long people will continue to overreact.

We're still at the point where a single confirmed case in a country that didn't have any before is international news and triggers more panic, as if the virus somehow cared about political constructs like country borders. You could easily have a long tail of these that can easily be spun into news about the continuing spread of the virus.
The counter-prediction is irresponsible wishful thinking. China just did the most extreme and largest-scale social shutdown in modern history.

I sincerely hope you are right though.
What a shame it would be if this led to the realization that I person was always a waste of time.
that’s (at best) a gross oversimplification of the process, idealizing the past while ignoring how expectation for the kernel have increased (I e. security & privacy), all colored by a layer of bad faith that, to be frank, seems to originate with some non-specific grievances.
Of course! Covid-19 panic is not going to last forever either way.
Professors hate the idea of earning it.
They do meaningless job in age of YouTube and want government (actually, the public through taxation) to sustain their life style.
Shall we close everything up then, just in case? Maybe then we should keep everything closed, as a precaution against other infectious diseases, including as-yet-unknown future ones?
Is there any reason to believe we wouldn't have a vaccine in the next 12-18 months? Multiple vaccine candidates are already entering clinical trials. [0]

If there's a vaccine and a large sample of cases studies on treatment with antivirals, I'd assume its fatality rate would fall down to regular flu levels or somewhere near that. Therefore the spread wouldn't be treated like a pandemic as it is now.

0: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-06/moderna-s...
The travel sector has been hit the hardest, so you should buy into ETF's like XTN that track the consumer travel industry.
Exactly, although I suspect the sentence may be being read to mean something else by the downvoters...
It’s not so simple to say “closing before a case is smart.” It’s always before a case.
What I am hearing here is “oh, my job is about to disappear!!! What I am going to do?!”
I've seen the following from pairing Junior and Senior engineers:

* Really talented junior engineers blossom extremely quickly. They will easily be a multiple better after a year vs not pairing.

* Middle of the road junior engineers can be stunted and continually depend on the decisions / skill of the more senior pair. Pairing them more frequently with same level or lower helps. Sometimes this doesn't happen because this lower quality pair goes significantly slower and the result may need some code review/cleanup cycles, but it's a worthwhile investment.
A Brief History of Knowledge Graph's Main Ideas
> All of the coronavirus deaths have been people that were going to die anyway.

Yes, all the doctors in China in their 20s, 30s, and 40s who died were just gonna die anyways, so who cares? For that matter, everyone's going to die, so it really doesn't matter, right? I'm hoping my sarcasm is apparent in my tone here, but if not; your argument is both counter-factual and full of fallacy.

> The vast majority of them have been people that were going to die soon, if not of coronavirus then of something else.

Again, this is BS.

> Is the mass panic really sensible in the face of this?

Panic isn't, but taking quick, decisive, and committed action is the only way that a crisis can be averted. If you don't understand this, I imagine you haven't had to deal with life or death decisions before. This all may blow over, but the facts DO NOT support that outlook. They all point to a bend in the hockey stick, and if we don't have a strong plan of action to mitigate this, people you know, and people I know, will die.
Any suggestions on what that library/language could be?
For me the differences are:

Google is better at dealing with topics that are trending and providing data right on the SERP without having to click through. If I want to look up the latest Corona Virus stats, I'd do so on google. As the article states, things like Google's stock panel are just superior to other options.

But DDG is better at historical searches. It's like they try to 'understand' you less and want to provide you with all possible things you could be looking for. Like Google used to do and like I prefer. I've looked up old articles I had read and wanted to reference when writing an article. On Google and they just don't come up. No matter what I do: use the date tool, use quotes, etc, it's like Google thinks it's too old/irrelevant for me, so no matter what I search, it won't give it to me. But on DDG, they are there and will come up with the right set of keywords.
No, it's not twisting anything.

People make decisions in the context of their actual lives. People trapped in poverty usually need something more than "one cool investing tip" or so-called self discipline.
I don't believe in these mathematical greater evil arguments. I assume you would not kill a baby even if it was guaranteed to prevent a plane crash killing a hundred people.

One should not make relativistic moral calculations with fundamentally unacceptable acts.
Credits toward a future flight are not refunds and most people can't treat them that way.
Slack is hard to leave. I work on a 100% remote team- it is our office. Few of us have met in person, there just isn't budget for travel. Therefore all of our emotional connections with each, all of our work-life are built atop the Slack (and Zoom) UI. That's a hard thing to replatform.

Slack also almost never falls down. Its remarkably fast, the search is fast and faceted, and they manage cross-device notification state better than... well Apple for one. That truly 'instant' messaging experience across devices is why they are superior to IRC and decentralized alternatives. 'Instant' editing and deleting your malformed message is a killer app.

Its a safe social network. I'd much rather post memes in Slack than on Facebook or Twitter, which is a persistent battlefield. If I slip up in front of my colleagues, it happens in context and can be sorted out among the tribe, but if I do so on a public social network, it could invite angry mobs or end my career, now or years into the future.

That said, I don't love Slack. I hate how it dominates my day. I hate how I find myself checking it in the car. I hate how I get into it while I'm running a build, post something funny and suck everybody's attention. I truly despise how their DM and notification read system means that have to check everything at all times to feel up to date. I'm in a half dozen public channels, and the blue alert in my tray shows that I have something to look at.

I want control of the UI. Its my workplace, but Slack can change it to their liking, not me to mine. Sometimes if we're lucky we'll get a feature flag, otherwise, its all up to them. There are a million Hacker News clients, but only one for Slack.

I want more nuanced prioritization.

I want my life back.
In response to Covid-19: How Microsoft can help with Crisis Communication
I would love for someone who knows more about physics to explain what effect a single rotation of the front gear actually has on the last one.

Naively you would assume that every rotation of the first gear rotates the last by one googolth. But (I assume) that can't be true in the real world, since that distance is significantly smaller than a planck length.

I have some educated guesses as to how the rotation is actually being "stored" if it's not physically moving the final gear, but I'm probably more ignorant than I think - for example I'm not totally sure I understand what a "planck length" is.
Here's the histogram from their AMA: https://i.imgur.com/iVEuwUT.jpg

About a third of the users are under 100GB.

Another third is under 500GB.

13% from 500GB to 1TB.

9% from 1TB to 2TB.

8% from 2TB to 5TB.

5% above that.

And they cited raw costs of over $3.50 per TB. But of course that's with real datacenters and non-shoddy equipment.