skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have to agree with this. Normally it would not be a good decision to use this or even advertise how to make it. These are however not normal times; more like we are at war and using combat medicine if the health system gets over run. This device needs improving and there is a fair degree of risk that it could be harmful, but a more advanced version made from easy to source parts could save many lives.
They are open in Southern California, but running out of basics fast. I noticed a complete lack of certain produce, milk, eggs, bread, as well as the oft meme'd paper products.

Every morning I go to the grocery store in my neighborhood looking for toilet paper and every morning there is some new staple nearly out of stock. I still have a few rolls left, and amazon seems to have a few remaining in stock, so things aren't dire yet, but they are getting concerning.

This is also a city where not too long ago the social contract evaporated after hearing a verdict, requiring military intervention to restore order. An armed militia formerly stood on the roof of the store I scoured today for toilet paper. I'm fearful of what will happen when everyone realizes they can no longer wipe their ass or buy rice and the working class starts getting laid off en masse, and when this virus starts ravaging the 150k+ homeless in southern california.
Couldn't you just have independent entities not obliged to each other or a central authority that choose to replicate the others content.

Each entity can easy be forced not to replicate content from a sister jurisdiction or allow connections from within that jurisdiction but how are they supposed to keep entities from pulling data through a proxy they themselves are not appraised of or a client pulling data from multiple centers to get the complete picture.

Censorship in that case merely makes service slower not nonexistent.
Korea's mortality rate is about 1%, and that is primarily due to a relatively youthful population and the healthcare system not being saturated. I'll also note that 1% is still 10x deadlier than the flu.

It sounds like you may be interested in reading this paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.04.20031104v...

>I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of us have already had it. There’s a decent shot this all amounts to a big ol nothing burger.

Unsupported by any evidence and complete wishful thinking. Please stop with the irresponsible speculation.
Is anybody else wondering about authoritarian power grabs?

It's all so surreal, I can just imagine it. (In the US, I think some primary elections are under discussion for delays.)

I'm not worried, just wondering how to best disarm it from a distance.
> Old and BSD.

That is a bit interesting; the BSDs are still permissively licensed, so maybe Apple just doesn't see enough benefit to justify the effort of pulling in new features? (Or implementing features themselves, depending on how diverged the codebases are)
How do you stay 10 feet from other people? No gathering of more than 10 people, too?
> Sometimes, even one sentence paragraphs are ok.

They're more than ok -- they're a great attention management device! Don't worry about stuffy rules of prose when writing an email.
About a month ago my Hong Kong mobile service provider offered subscribers a free local data package. Not unlimited, but a nice gesture.
Think of it as putting someone in a medically induced coma. It's not really a terrible idea. Anyone working in finance could enjoy the downtime and use their time to help local city/hospital/neighbors etc. US bails out finance, finance in turn pitches in. Could be a nice win-win.
The man pages are often out-of-date, though :(
A thousand times this!

The viral growth is not the only exponential thing here, the costs of bringing down R0 are also highly non-linear, and it works both for and against us.

Against: it is going to be much more expensive to get R0 from 1.5 to 1 than from 4 to 3.5. A plausible assumption may be that a constant percentage reduction carries a fixed cost. Also: the more infected you have the more expensive it becomes.

For: As you said, once it's brought under control, cheaper measures that don't work at scale can be be used it to keep it from flaring up again [1]. That's what China is trying to do and so far it seems to work well. The whole herd immunity insanity seems to be predicated on the idea that social distancing does not work and the second wave will kill you later. But evidence so far suggests the opposite, although this may change.

In terms of war-style production: It seems criminally stupid that so far no Western country has embraced readily available trivial and ridiculously low cost means to significantly reduce spread. Like getting everyone to wear face masks, all the time. There seems to be excellent evidence it is very effective for bringing R0 down massively, both from academic studies on influenza[2] and SARS and also from circumstantial evidence like just comparing case growth between face mask using countries and non-using countries for the current outbreak[3]. Of course that requires actually producing a lot of face masks – but how hard can that be? As far as I am aware the current state is that even terrible face masks would help massively with preventing carriers from infecting others.

[1] This argument is also made here:

https://arguablywrong.home.blog/2020/03/12/epidemiological-m...

The cost per live is somewhere on the humanitarian end of the spectrum, but I think this argument is worth engaging with. If there is any realistic chance of eradicating covid-19 rather than just mitigating it, clearly is is what we must do and will pay enormous dividends even in the fairly short term.

[2] e.g. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1539-6924....

[3] https://twitter.com/epsilon3141/status/1238838106440241152
I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the guideline! — and proper title/link.
LitCovid: New Hub for 2019 Novel Coronavirus Scientific Literature
It doesn’t need that much memory is only that consumes less memory for fast development of Kubernetes and extensions/CRD/controllers
This is the modelling informing the UK's policies. Apparently some assumptions were revised during the weekend causing a pretty huge change in policy from Boris' last speech on Thursday to today's on Monday.

All the models in table 4 show 10-20k+ less deaths if schools are closed, so we'll hopefully find out soon why they haven't announced any school closures. Not sure why table 3 says the opposite either.
> I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of us have already had it.

The death count math and growth rate doesn't check out. If that were true (i.e that the total infection rate was already non-negligible) then the disease must have either been growing for months without detection and without spreading from Hubei, or it must in some crazy way be spreading much faster among the asymptomatic than among the serious cases.

The article argues for a roughly 6x undercount. That's still much lower than saturation, meaning that we have a lot of headroom to grow out of control still.

Stay. At. Home.
It seems like there's no ex-Apple weighing in. I worked there ~5+ years ago now & the OS-bundled versions were such a pain that even internally we were avoiding them. I'm not 100% sure but IIRC the issue with having python bundled is the OS is that the specific version then became required to ship meaning we were stuck on ancient versions of Python2/Python3 internally (& same for Ruby probably) to make sure that externally people relying on specific behaviours stayed functional. Additionally having them (or at least Python) installed at the system level caused all sorts of havoc in terms of interplay with other Python versions installed via homebrew if you weren't super-careful with how your paths resolved (& sometimes even then). Finally, externally most Python shops would end up installing Python via other means (e.g. homebrew) to make sure they're using the latest version & using virtualenvs which are best-practices & what we ended doing internally for our scripts too. The title & article is pure FUD - there may be reasons to worry about whether macOS remains UNIX (I'm personally not too worried) but "they're no longer pre-installing scripting languages by default" is so far from that it's laughable.

NOTE: All of this is my own personal opinion & viewpoint and in no way should be construed to represent any secret internal knowledge of Apple's internal reasonings & whatnot (I have none)
Oh, horsefeathers. That's only true if you think C is the One True Language. The amount of system glue that was written in Perl (and later Python) through the late 90s and early 00s is one of the reasons the *nixes did so well.
I ported pacman to OS X more than 10 years ago. I’ve been handling it by myself for my own usage since then as Arch OS X, then ArchMac. I had a couple of Darwin specific patches, and I started ramping up to build stuff on Catalina first since that’s current and what free CI for FOSS are moving to. It feels like I’m close to a release compatible with Catalina but I keep on hitting strange weird bugs that did not happen when building on previous macOS versions, and keep having to work around stuff. What was a stable enough platform is now a significant pain even for trivial stuff. The last one is an obscure bug where a file existence test seems to return bogus results (there is no file in the package cache dir, yet pacman does not go through the download step when such a file is missing, and fails with a NULL pointer assertion as the later state is inconsistent. Same source code works with flying colors when built on a previous darwin). With some time I could probably add yet another patch to fix that, but I’m left wondering if it’s really worth it now, as if the trend continues as it did for the last three versions darwin20 will be even more painful to support, if at all.

ArchMac is not the only one impacted, e.g

- nix found a workaround to install on /nix but it’s a pain involving APFS volumes and synthetic.conf

- homebrew relies on ruby which will be removed in a future version

- with the impending Damocles sword of notarized binaries it will be a serious pain to do package management

And that’s just the most structural ones. Death by a thousand cuts isn’t far off.

The X of Mac OS X has been dropped for some time now for branding reasons, but reality seems to come to terms with that symbolic move.
If you wrote the comment you can always see the score (0 now, FWIW). At least I've always been able to; hidden comment scores arrived a while after I'd already amassed a pretty high karma level.
Ah, you imply that the underreporting rate fell over time and the headline number is from before the travel ban.
The real problem is the concentration of number of cases in a big peak in a narrow space of time, so many people that should not die will die anyway by exhaustion of resources. Physicians will need to decide who to let die and who is treated and lives. This is what they are trying to improve when asking people not to go out for a couple of weeks
What's "local" mean here?
I'm not sure Solaris really counts as "living" any more. AIX seems healthier, notwithstanding the tradition distaste for it in a lot of the Unix world.
Deno truly seems interesting. Especially native TypeScript ability.

Who is backing the project in this point?
I'm interpreting my own asthma as lung damage. So, including all forms.