skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should not worry since it is a global event and not only your child is affected but everyone is. If it was only one child or insignificant portion of being affected and education of others continued along then your worries would be well founded. As it stands studies will continue as soon as circumstances allow it, maybe your school switches to online learning for some time, or there will be effective drug found that resolves the situation.
Oooh, oh, are you kidding me?! This is the meanest and most hilarious thing anyone has ever said to me on HN! Two words and I got accused of being a spam bot making a "not constructive" and/or "unhelpful" comment!

Destroyed!

I tip my hat to you good sir. I have been roasted, but well.
I think you are underestimating how irrational people are. Only yesterday I was speaking to someone who is hoping to get some discounted flights / hotels for a cheap holiday while this is all going on, as everyone else will be scared to travel...

Hell, I heard someone say that if we stay home and change how we live then the "virus has won.". I don't even know what I'm supposed to say to that.
Airline from Italy are arriving US without travelers being screened for Covid-19
Thunberg urges '#DigitalStrike' rather than big crowds amid coronavirus outbreak
Indeed, that was the first XKCD I felt strong negative reaction to.

It's sad because it engages in two fallacies:

- The equivocation of the 1st Amendment with free speech

- The assumption that all people being de-platformed are trolls
Oh, I'm not applauding the state of affairs - it's insanely depressing (especially when coupled with the recent primary developments). But, yea, politics is a thing. There have been other petty administrations in the past and this is, sadly, how they tend to function.
This may be a regional thing. I haven't seen anything like that in Ireland except from true crackpots (the actual insane people seem divided on whether COVID19 is imaginary or a bioweapon). Certainly not on any respectable news source.
Hm, I think the "insurable interest" check is more of a standard practice to protect against being exploited by criminals and less of an "oh man, we'd love to do that but for those pesky regulations". Still, if I had to guess, I'd say it's that they don't look too closely if it's a close-enough family member that has a job.
TL;DR: Cats are very effective at hunting mice.

Why do these articles insist on talking about "small mammals"? Cats don't kill fluffy bunnies; they kill mice, rats, voles. They basically exterminate vermin around human settlements. That's exactly why we domesticated them in the first place! How is that a bad thing?!
The Republican talking points right now are that coronavirus doesn't really matter, and it's being blown up as a democratic attempt to have an election year topic.

When all my Republican family is spouting the same BS, that means it's being pushed hard in the soft right wing information channels.

EDIT: Even NBC news is hinting that government policies are getting in the way of determining real corona virus infection rates. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/n-y-gov-cuomo-questions...

The number of tested individuals are only about 2x the number of confirmed cases. Not a great margin of error.
Little known fact:

Bill Wilson[1], co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, believed LSD could help alcoholics achieve a "spiritual experience" that was crucial to them attaining sobriety[2] (incidentally, that a spiritual experience could help alcoholics was an idea he got from Carl Jung[3]). Wilson's own experiences with LSD are discussed in detail here: [4]

In the 50's and 60's there was research in to using LSD to treat alcoholism, with promising results:

"Osmond treated more than 700 chronically alcoholic patients with LSD and ended up with around a 50 percent overall success rate. One of Osmond's most compelling studies took place in the late 1950s with a cohort of subjects from the group Alcoholics Anonymous. This cohort was comprised of individuals that had failed the famous 12-step program, and again Osmond hit his 50 percent success rate, this time with a 12-month follow-up period."[5]

In 2012 a meta-analysis of studies with a total of 536 participants found "evidence for a beneficial effect of LSD on alcohol misuse".[6]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_W.

[2] - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/aug/23/lsd-help-alc...

[3] - http://barefootsworld.org/wilsonletter.html

[4] - https://aaagnostica.org/2015/05/10/bill-wilsons-experience-w...

[5] -
[6] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22406913
Actually it is somewhat similar as both find the model, and obliviously fits the data to that model in the process. My use was finding a parameterization that could be reused through regular regression fitting.
> I don't know if the public getting access to minutes

It's not a matter of the public getting access. That these meetings are classified means that important subject matter experts are being excluded.
That's kind of the purpose, if its standards were too low, it would be triggerred too many times that we won't have any of it left to do anything honestly. The World Bank's Program is always suppose to be an emergency backup we hope never to use instead of substitute for a proper government planning in times of pandemic.
Ok, the WHO has to wait until it's a pandemic to declare it a pandemic. But if it's already a pandemic how does that help?

Wouldn't it be better if the WHO actually helped prevent the pandemic in the first place?
That Wiki link would serve as a citation.

The table in the "comparisons to other pandemics and epidemics" section gives a point estimate for the case fatality rate of 0.03%. If we assume that the final rate for covid-19 is somewhere in the 1-2% range that's what I last heard, that would mean that "10X as fatal" is an understatement - more like 30-70x as fatal.
What is the “wash your hands meme”?
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> but I think it's pretty likely they'll try and cast doubt on the results if it goes against them.

That is certainly true whether or not there is a pandemic. I don't think that inevitability really has anything to do with pandemics; they'd blame it on the phase of the moon if nothing else came to mind.
In Africa there is still natural selection. That means any adult is most likely much more stronger with better immune system than those in Western world without such process. It could possibly actually mean that for the majority of population in the underdeveloped African countries Coronavirus is not as bad as it is for the weak populace in for example Europe.

Edit: not sure what's with the down votes. This isn't to disparage African people but it's common knowledge many states are underdeveloped. People don't have access to health care or sanitation or clean drinking water. Dysentery diarrhea and malaise are normal. Any person who reached adulthood in such conditions is obviously a survivor. Don't you agree?
If high level meetings are not classified it would be hard to brainstorm about the potential impacts on military readiness, quarantines, shutdowns, lockouts, etc.

Otherwise, meetings would have to be compartmentalized which would limit their usefulness.
$0.00 to $177.00 MRR in 6 weeks
Other option is given that less time to cancel could mean higher losses is to come to an agreement with the insurer to agree to cover prior to government authorities cancelling based on likely possibility of that happening.
remote-first cultures, tooling, mindsets and processes are difficult. aspects such as zero trust networking and zero trust info are of course important, but the people side is the difference between success and failure.

from the perspective of the founder of a remote-first startup, NetFoundry, who was amongst the first to offer zero trust networking as a service.
This is probably not going to be a popular thing to say but total abstinence isn't necessarily the goal that everyone who has a drinking problem is aiming for.

Just as those who over eat want to control their appetite for food rather than simply stop eating so do some who have a drink or drugs problem. In many cases the drink is a symptom not a cause. Remove the cause and for some people at least the drink problem will subside.

I worry also that the AA members are also a subset of those who have a drinking problem, are we sure that they are a comparable subset to those who took other paths? How do the studies account for people who drop out of either AA or some other program and did the studies follow up years later to find out if people had fallen back into addiction?

The article was a bit light on details.

And lastly the article mentions relative efficacy but doesn't say anything about how efficacious any of the programs were leaving me wondering if any of them are worthwhile.
This is the cruel and predictable result of a society that has meticulously and senselessly offshored/outsourced most its industrial capacity. If your country can't manufacture, from raw materials, all the electrical/electronic/mechanical components, the tooling, the equipment, and the chemicals (industrial and pharmaceutical alike) it needs to keep everything running, you're dependent on these hyper-fragile and convoluted supply chains that are optimized for cost above everything.

This isn't a "China vs US" thing; i bear zero ill will towards China and their massive gain of industrial capacity, my ire is solely focused towards those in power (government and industry alike) who presided over the suicidal deindustrialization of the United States and Europe.

The net result is that it's China who's able to send medical aid (ventilators, masks, respirators, test kits, etc) to Italy, and not the US, if only because the US is incapable of meeting its own needs: https://twitter.com/VKJudit/status/1237448125800988675
Lots of universities have dorm rooms that are shared by multiple students, and many dorm rooms do not provide any type of kitchen or cooking facilities. I don't think that's a remotely feasible solution.
This is a very good point that deserves discussion. That said, this isn't an either-or situation. Universities could easily arrange temporary off-campus housing for students displaced by the crisis.
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Why not just re-do the year you half missed instead of trying to play a catch-up game that obviously isn't going to work? Starting to work 1 year later is really not a problem.
... Eh?

No; what we call the flu is caused by the influenza virus. What we call the common cold is sometimes caused by a coronavirus (about 25% of cases). And while actual mortality rates are unclear, even the most optimistic figures (South Korea, for instance), are far more than 200% normal seasonal flu rates.
Right, I'm sort of stacking the deck in favor of the WFH maximalist argument by taking for granted that motivation and focus aren't an issue, even though, for many people (or in many circumstances), they are.
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> There is no way this is happening

Sorry, but I stopped reading after that.
Fun anecdote: I flew from FL to CA in 2000 for E3 when it was a press-only event. That was the first and last time I've had to have a doctor come to my hotel room (on Day 2 of the show) to give me a shot in the ass for some sort of strep/flu. I forget what it was, or what the shot was, but 18-year-old me sprung back into action the next day... and probably passed whatever I had to every hand I shook.
Covid-19 is being hyped up causing worldwide hysteria while most people recover from it just like any other flu. Seems to me like someone wants to benefit.
I think you're referring to a Twitter thread where a doctor relayed descriptions of hospital conditions from another doctor in Lombardy. It was a horrifying story (and scared me, I admit), but I would suggest caution.

Unless there's information that's not making it out of Italy, the death statistics reported today don't seem to align with the picture painted by those tweets.
If you haven't seen Joe Barnard's BPS.space videos, give them a try! He's doing a lot of fun control systems engineering on rockets and electric vehicles. The production value of his videos is really standout among other similar RC project channels (For example, see his recent TVC test project, Sprite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VvCIbDdbKg). His channel feels like a real space program, which makes it a lot of fun to watch.

The last 10 years has seen a huge influx in powerful, cheap RC components: better/smaller receivers, brushless motors, autopilot systems like ArduPilot, etc. It's more accessible than ever to experiment with control systems in RC craft, which is really exciting.
Pretty sure the downvotes are for ignoring the elephant in the room, if we have a prolonged recession a lot of people in the US are completely fucked from losing healthcare and from losing the paycheck that they depend on. Most Americans do not have an emergency fund.
It's very difficult for these events to refund people. Unless they have some big industry sponsors, a lot is based on ticket sales. Deposits on venues are usually made with the profit left over from last year.

E3 is different because the big companies can choose to eat or write off the loss, or give money more starting capital to organizers for next year. For smaller events like say, a dance weekend or puppet festival, a lot of those are labour of love type events that have been built up slowly over the years. Those will be the groups hardest hit.
In South Korea, it was 1 person. Patient #31. She went to church...
https://gist.github.com/62726164/a501e13ae9bec8ac8a3b5a440d9...

This is the predictive infection rate vs the actual CDC daily report.
Testing is a furiously oversubscribed service. Capacity last week was 800 tests/day, and half that the week before. Nationally. You can't test everybody.

If you're sent home and told to self-isolate, you're essentially being told you're likely to have it. Go home and don't give it to anybody else.

UK hospitals have 160k beds, already 90% full of sick people. They can't admit people who present with a cough, risking existing patients and staff for somebody who doesn't need support.

The hospital did the right thing here.

The patient would have been admitted if and when they got to the point where they needed support. I'm not sure what you think they would have gained by being admitted before that point. But hey-ho. Instead she flew halfway across the world, exposing who-knows how many more people on her travels. Great!
Even scarier, a lot of the people who believe him have been paying close attention the whole time. Trump sounds more like what they expect the truth to sound like than any competent person who is trying to do their job possibly could.
In English law I think that this kind of clause has to be explicit and something that all parties sign up to - because the principle in English law is that parties can contract freely in any form that suits them. In other systems (and I think in the US - please correct me anyone who knows more!) you don't need an explicit clause to argue force majeure, you just need to get the court to agree that you are in extraordinary times.
Good idea, but that would mean the game journalists wouldn't have anything to do.
My understanding is that it isn't the death rate that makes this different but how long it incubates for, allowing it to spread much further. The death rate could have been much higher and we'd probably still end up with a pandemic.
A bit off-topic, but does anyone know of a good lightweight self-hosted CMS for small teams? Very basic spreadsheet/database, file hosting, shared document editing.

Privacy considerations mean cloud-hosted options are out. Open source or dirt cheap is better as it's for a non-profit with only a shoestring budget and voluntary contributors. Thanks.
I felt the same. I almost never watch product videos, and I watched this one all the way through... very well done.
Our friends cat does kill fluffy bunnies, very regularly. Luckily they are a pest where they are, unfortunatrly he can be quite messy about it.
Your situation is very different and irrelevant because while you did miss classes your peers didn't and continued along, in a current situation everyone will stop as a group and continue studies as a group, which is very different from your experience.
In the US, if enough people over 65 die it could fix a lot of things economically—Social Security, Medicare, high housing costs, etc.

Even if only a million die, the boom that comes after would be huge.
Don't parents generally just hand them an ipad?
> Ask yourself if that's a risk you're welling to take having been associated with that conference.

This seems to be as if making a choice between what actually might be good and how something might impact you personally (psychologically or otherwise).

It's the difference between thinking 'I could never live with myself if that carnival amusement ride killed a child' vs. 'I'd hate to have a child killed on that carnival ride'.

Not criticism of what you are saying - just pointing this out.
> no one country has done a stellar job

Taiwan have done a stellar job. Pre-prepared, acted quickly (starting on 31st of Dec), and have got the results to show they were doing it right. For more information, see: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762689

Edit: This also shows up the lie that China’s suppression of information was the critical factor in delaying everyone’s actions: Taiwan had the information and acted, it is just that other countries chose not to act on the information they had. Li Wenliang (one of the whistleblower doctors) on 30 December he “sent a message to fellow doctors in a chat group warning them to wear protective clothing to avoid infection.
Four days later he was summoned to the Public Security Bureau where he was told to sign a letter.”
i wasn't aware these were a thing:

https://www.amazon.com/IPEVO-Definition-Document-Camera-5-88...

might be a nice way to aim a camera at your desk.
It'd be like Snow Crash and Ready Player One in real life.
No brochures for the dead my friend.

No brochures for them.
Me, a 13 years old kid who was experimenting with QBASIC in 1999, thought that it was just switching from LEFT$(x, 2) to LEFT$(x, 4) when parsing dates. I still chuckle when I think how massively I had underestimated that problem.

Meanwhile, the industry still doesn't know how to deal with dates and times correctly: https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...
> "Putting the burden on each individual to filter everyone is NOT taking "no" stance, it's taking the stance that those most willing to "speak" (which includes expressive actions) are given power. When the talking is for good things, that's great. But the people least willing to consider other people, the people lacking empathy, will have no restraint on what they say (or do, expressively) unless imposed. Long before they suffer any personal social repercussions they care about, they will have inflicted their harm upon a lot of people."

While phrased as being benevolent, this is incredibly Orwellian. It is tantamount to saying "The adult voting public cannot be trusted to identify 'wrong' beliefs themselves; they must be protected from hearing these dangerous thoughts and only permitted to hear 'correct' beliefs (which conveniently happen to coincide with my own)."

"Beware of those who would deny you access to information for, in their hearts, they dream themselves your masters." Though this quote's origin is in fiction, it turned out to be terrifyingly prescient.
The point isn't that they have anything to gain. You're looking at it from the wrong angle.

They genuinely believe that it's a non-issue. That it will go away and that it's simply a trivial virus that isn't worth worrying about.
It's an abstract concept. It's nothing more than a given point in time.

How you represent it doesn't change the definition. It could be stored as the number of seconds since some arbitrary point in time, such as Unix timestamp, or a Julian timestamp.

Or, it could be a given time and date combination with some fixed point of reference, such as UTC. I'm sure we all have favourite ways of representing timestamps.
They downplayed the threat in the beginning and strongly advised against travel ban.
For the modern SXSW experience, just go to the local supermarket when it's ultra busy and the parking lot is full. Park your car among the rest and just sit in it.
More concisely: https://nabshow.com/2020/

> An Update On 2020 NAB Show

> NAB Show will not take place this April in Las Vegas

For a media event they really need to work on their messaging.
It will also lead to less CO2 emissions.
He's a narcissist. This approach gets him far more press (very, very bad press, of course, but he seems broadly okay with that), so it's the obvious route, from that point of view.
A really exiting small molecule drug has just been described, which, if this holds up in human trials, could treat the root cause of Huntington’s disease. Rather unexpected how this works, even in postmitotic tissue, like the brain.

https://www.sickkids.ca/aboutsickkids/newsroom/past-news/202...

https://resou.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/research/2020/20200215_1

Review: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-020-0577-6

Publication: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-019-0575-8

(To read paywalled papers, sci-hub.tw is your friend, if substituted for doi.org)
He is all over these threads downplaying the seriousness of this virus, best to just ignore him.
It isn’t China’s fault that this disease happened to emerge in the country. And judging by what we see from other countries, their handling of it seems to be at least as good as mosts’, not even taking into account that countries like
US had two months extra to prepare.

So maybe chill on the nationalism (and the exclamation marks)
OP is not from USA so this doesn't apply to them
First of all "there is still natural selection" in literally all life, so I think you're meaning something else. But to what your point actually is, do you have any source on that?
Because it is not about who says it, but about the truth value of it - and the simple fact is that you probably do know some old people you would like to keep alive.
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I was curious about how you would reliably spoon-feed someone without the spoon touching their mouth, so I looked it up online, and from what I've seen [1] it doesn't look like they avoid touching the mouth.

[1] https://youtu.be/WPj7z72VgT0?t=130
I for one wouldn't visit a hospital unless i really needed to, considering it is the most high risk place of catching it from. People going to the hospital "presumably" sick only to come out of it with the virus is a popular tale out of wuhan.
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I'm well aware of the difference between IFR and CFR. CFR is nowhere in the range you quoted. Being consistent with incorrect studies is nothing to brag about.

Re South Korea: You are presenting a hypothesis as fact. For lots of reasons the hypothesis appears unlikely. Time will tell, but I'm confident you'll be proven wrong again, if I see another comment by you then I'll gladly point it out.

Why are you doing this? I think that's a question for yourself...
If they wanna support the economy just send money to the entities that they can't go to. That restaurant you were going to dine out at, instead you're not microwaving a Lean Cuisine? Send them $10. Otherwise they are doing it for the shills.
> The android app more-or-less does it as well.

Emphasis on less. The Android implementation of the Hub is gimped compared to BB10. On BB10, tapping a conversation would open it directly in a sub-view, while on Android it acts more like an incomplete list of links, where clicking the link opens the app and breaks the back button. It's such a sub-par experience that I only use it for e-mail these days, where it excels (I haven't found anything better for email).