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The ban is on travellers, not trade. There will still be goods imported and exported all over the world, just not humans.

There is already a huge shock to the global economy.

American opinions of the Canadian government matter very little as they can't vote in our elections.
Best guess is "yes". That's speculated to be why several young, healthy doctors have passed away from it - they're not in the danger zone by age or pre-existing condition, but they're exposed to so much virus that it overwhelms their immune system regardless.
Yes, you're right. For the economy, it would make perfect sense to simply let it kill a few weak and old people until we find a cure, while hoping it isn't too dangerous for the workforce. Destroying all airlines, restaurants, hotels, tourism etc. will have a disastrous effect on the economy, potentially causing political turmoil and war like in the 30's.
Living outside SV, but working for institutions that subscribe to several SaaS products, I can tell you it's going to hurt, and soon.

The first things on the chopping block, as we consider where to trim expenses, are those "expensive", useful, but not critical software systems with terms ending soon.

Except Zoom. That baby is keeping us rolling.
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> This is NOT an estimate based on mathematical model, this is the estimate based on clinical data so far and virus's exponential growth rate.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but an exponential growth rate is a mathematical model. We’re extrapolating the current curve into the future, that’s a model.
> most of our cases came from the US.

Source?
This article is an autistic pondering that completely misses the point.

Love people first and you’ll receive love in return.
None of those are primary events. Covid-19 is responsible for causing all of those changes. Compare that to 2008 where the sub prime mortgage crisis was the primary event.
Several countries are taking an approach like that. Denmark closed its borders to non-nationals, but the list of exceptions includes truck drivers doing cross-border deliveries.
Many countries have companies that are strategic assets that will be protected in crisis, auto manufacturers, farming, airlines, banks etc. This means that they are some times shielded from the full force of market competition. I would be curious about British Airways posture.
If there are about 100k infected in the US today and this number grows 10x per week, we are 1 month from the entire country being infected. With 20% requiring hospitalization, it will be a blood bath. There will be nobody to benefit from this vaccine.
this won't help the stock market, that's hopeless now. people are only going to spend money on essentials until the crisis is over.
Airlines Seek $50B in Government Aid Amid Coronavirus Crisis
I'm mildly surprised that wouldn't invoke undefined behavior if there was padding between the fields of the struct due to writing over only part of the second field, but then again I'm not as intimately familiar with the C standard as I should be.
qPCR doesn't use a gel, and you get specificity by using primers to the viral dna (which are what tell you the part you start and end amplification at), not restriction enzymes, but yes conceptually similar sort of idea. You set up reaction conditions so that at the end of the run, if there was any viral dna at the start, there's now a lot more for you to detect, while if there wasn't, you just see the background since nothing else should have been replicated. I believe the reagent issue with the original run of tests from the CDC had to do with the controls you set up to show that nothing amplifies if you don't have any virus (since you can't just run one tube and see if there's a signal, you've got to run a few for reundancy and run samples where you should and should not see signals to make sure you are seeing signals where you should, and the reaction worked, so your signal from the patient samples are accurate)
SP500 rose over 10% in the 6 months preceding the corona outbreak - how is that struggling?
> Stop teasing and finish the next part already! ...

Next week, I actually need to write the damn piece ;-)

And thanks for your feedback btw.
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Same here (40). I was with Ballmer singing “developer developer developer”... i think his legacy is not that bad. The company was not ready to grasp the idea of open source at these times, but the principle holds.
Why? What, exactly, do you predict is going to happen economically once the spike would have passed esp. given the age distribution of the deaths?

I honestly tried to think about it and the only tangential thing I could definitely predict is LOTS of people from the city councils all the way to the white house not being re-elected. Which, obviously, made me even more cynical.
>We don't have enough masks in Europe, and those few are needed for professionals.

That is the only valid argument I could possibly understand. Although I would argue we could have ramp up production line. And Medicals get priority with Mask.

>I think it is not productive to fundamentally questions their advice.

I dont know, but Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, ( We exclude China for comparison ) 200M+ Population together has far fewer death than just Italy with a population of 60M. Let alone Europe. And people are dying.

But hey, I guess as long as the people in Germany and Italy and UK are happy with what is being done then that is fine.
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yes, I totally understand that. While they are separate countries, their economies and supply chains are extremely closely tied together and closing the border to US people would cause an extreme econ shock in both countries. Retaliation from the US would probably be stupid, out of scale, and make the situation much worse. My whole point is I don't think Canada would risk it.
Isn’t that true of almost every business? Unless you’re all-remote and have only gig workers, you have to pay for the rent and upkeep of your facilities and resources.
Both ESR and RMS have warned against such "ethical" licenses.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed...

Bruce Perens has as well: https://perens.com/2019/10/12/invasion-of-the-ethical-licens...
>GitHub has monopolized open source development.

Github has done nothing of the sort - they're popular, but being popular is not the same as having a monopoly.

> The likelihood of your software being discovered, used or contributed to goes to zero as soon as you host it anywhere but GitHub.

Untrue. It's less likely, because again Github is more popular, but not zero, because popularity isn't monopoly. Active projects do exist elsewhere, people still use projects hosted on Sourceforge FFS.

Unless Github can forcibly prevent competitors from arising by leveraging their control over resources or a legal advantage granted them by the government, they don't have a monopoly.
This comment is very weird to me.

The hypothetical group of stoned gamers being discussed are certainly entitled to choose to spend their time smoking weed and playing games. I don't see how it follows that they're entitled to me subsidizing their choices with my tax dollars. I think people who are capable of holding a job / productively contributing to society but choose not to are indeed losers, and I will continue to think that way because it seems to me to be an obvious truth. I truly hope that does not change.

Can you explain why I should think otherwise? I'm genuinely curious. I realize this is just a hypothetical but I can't imagine anyone having any sympathy for those people. There's also an argument to be made that enabling them is hurting more than helping, but I'm leaving that aside entirely for the moment.

People have choices, and choices have consequences.
> If you want to compile away the virtual DOM, then the compiler has to be aware of how data changes propagate through your model

That makes the assumption that a virtual DOM is needed for efficiency because the model exposed by a framework instance would be doing extra work otherwise. That is a red herring for two reasons:

1. You don't need any framework, whether MVC or otherwise, to have a fully expressive application written in JavaScript. If there is no framework and no model there is nothing superficial to be aware of or propagate through. Perhaps the vDOM provides performance improvements compared with other framework techniques. The compiler doesn't need to be smart when unnecessarily complex considerations are taken off the table.

2. There are only two classes of APIs exposed by the browser to JavaScript: The Web APIs and the DOM. Regardless of how clever or organized any framework is it still ultimately interacts with the page using the same basic set of instructions as everything else. For example a JavaScript framework isn't exposing new access points to hardware, memory, or markup artifacts that aren't already available as web standards. The performance benefit of bypassing a virtual DOM is simply due to executing fewer instructions, which means not executing a giant framework in addition to bypassing its virtual DOM.

As an analogy I don't need to blow up a dam and change the course of a river to put out a camp fire, but if I were going to put out a campfire by diverting a river I now have many additional performance factors to consider.
Are there recessions that didn’t have excessive debt as a fundamental cause? Genuinely curious.
I moved my savings which were mostly in index funds into 2/3 index funds and 1/3 bear ETF with 2x leverage 3 weeks ago. Seems to keep it all at 0 for now.
Since Disney’s ceo recently stepped down, anyone thinks an Apple exec will fill the role?
I don’t think the risk is centered around (typically young) software teams.

Closing borders, flights, events, bars, and restaurants has way more impact.
"NTNU strongly recommends that all NTNU students who are outside Norway return home. This applies especially if you are staying in a country with poorly developed health services and infrastructure and/or collective infrastructure, for example the USA."

In one way, it is stating the obvious, since HN submissions about the US health care have been aplenty; in another way, this seems to be a genuine show of care for the students stuck in the US; in yet another, political shots have been fired, and USA starts being perceived as the third world country that it is with regard to its public health care services. (Unless you happen to be rich, which you likely don't.)
Whatever floats your boat.

I'm pretty lonely sometimes, and I wish I was nicer sometimes, and I wish people spoke my language more often. These things are harder when the culture is larger, as funny as it sounds.

Keeping up, is just so damn hard. Staying in requires trust, and empathy.

There's a sad paradox of our times. We both need to slow down and get to know each other, and we need to race to address the problems we all see plain as day.

Sadly, we're DISTRACTED. And the more distracted we are, the less we address the underlying issues.

</rant>
I feel like a question like this is better served doing a Google search and finding results from reputable sources...rather than asking a question on HN.

Having said that, Coronavirus is consider a repository illness...so you'd probably perform the same home treatment as any other respiratory illness.
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Not buying.

More to the point, there are many, many different drugs with many unrelated modes of action and very different side effects, all labeled "anti-depressants". You can complain about side effects of one of them, or even a related family of them, but pretending all are alike identifies a crank.
While I agree with your point in general, Norwegian is done. They've got a heavy debt burden that's due soon. They will either go bankrupt and be restructured, or have to do a wipeout-level stock offering (unlikely in the current risk climate).
I don't necessarily agree with the assessment that Covid was just a spark.

Certainly there are many underlying factors, but a massive change in consumer behavior with a somewhat open-ended timeline is itself much worse than many of the other issues in the economy.
I wonder if more people will look into adopting Deno[1], the new node alternative by one of the creators of Node. It does not use NPM, you pull in packages Go-style (via URLs[2]). It's supposed to be more secure because you have to explicitly give it access to anything (i.e. network, file system, etc).

[1] https://deno.land/

[2] example import in Deno:

import { serve } from "https://deno.land/std@v0.36.0/http/server.ts";

Previous HN about Deno: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22102656
I hear you and I think that's part of the reason US folks are still being allowed up - but honestly, there's a pandemic on, Canada shouldn't be held responsible for making sure Trump doesn't look bad and end up flipping out unreasonably - that's America's problem.
Previously, I saw discussion around a similar bug where the community accepted that it is not legal for compilers to optimize with the assumption that a function never returns [1]. Obviously, if a compiler can prove a function always returns, it is a perfectly reasonable optimization.

Unfortunately, one of the folks who filed a bug report against GCC submitted an obviously incorrect reproduction procedure [2]. The GCC folks closed the false bug report and the developers worked around the true bug. Some time later, a developer attempted to reproduce the bug with GCC 4.4 and succeeded, but could not reproduce it with versions 4.6 or 4.8 [3]. In my mind, this fact strongly supports the community's conclusion that the optimization is incorrect.

Finally, the intuition described in the stack overflow discussion is pretty sound: it must be possible to use control flow to avoid undefined behavior.

[1]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20059532/are-all-functio...
[2]https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29968
[3]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=616180
(Wishful thinking ...) Does this mean the next release of npm will be yarn v2 and that typescript will implement support for the pnp spec so we can converge the javascript packaging space to a sane place?
It does but it only gets enforced for new vehicles. See the rear bumper mods that were required for the Mercedes G-Wagen 4x4 Squared. Note that federal regs prevented the activation of the LED aux lights for these as well.

https://youtu.be/kgcAA4HUxuE?t=229
https://youtu.be/kgcAA4HUxuE?t=388
Worst case scenario: several airliners go out of business. the remaining ones get a bailout from the gov. 1 to 2 years later, these few carriers will have a massive monopoly and incredible pricing power. Flights costs for consumers will go up and up and up every single year like clockwork, not all at once. But gradually, little by little they will become increasingly profitable like we've never seen before (because in the past we always had competition, that's what keeps prices low). Without competition, flight costs can continue to rise to really high levels.

The most important thing in a market economy (aka economies that are not communist), is competition. Competition is the primary thing that keeps costs low. Without it, we (consumers) are all toast - however it'd be great for the stocks of those few remaining airlines (with enormous upside potential). Flying in airplanes is a mostly ineclastic good. this means, people can't just stop flying. All this is extremely bullish for the remaining airlines, in the long run (2 years+).
Because it was the right tool at the right time when the web was new and growing rapidly. VB-Classic was similar: it allowed building GUI's with a small learning curve when the alternatives were esoteric and muddled, and thus spread like wild-fire.
I think you would be shocked by how little this power would be used.

Most of us drastically over-estimate how much other people are thinking about us.

I think 99% of the time you used this power you would find that people, know who you are, think of you as generally ok, with a slight positive association just for remembering your name, but no other significant opinions about you one way or the other.

By the time people actually develop strong opinions about you as a person, your superpower would no longer be necessary to learn what those opinions are.

Maybe a few times a year you would catch a hardcore "faker" though. So that is kind of cool.
I know it is politically correct nowadays to diss US healthcare system. But in the current pandemic, it is more about government preparedness. If you let an exponentially infectious pandemic run wild without any curtailing mechanism, no matter how sophisticated the healthcare system is, it is bound to get overwhelmed.
I'm not really sure how to fix this outside of just prohibiting high ride heights altogether (probably a non-starter). it's an inherent geometric problem.

suppose on a normal height vehicle, the lowbeams are aimed so the center of the beam hits position x on the pavement ahead of the vehicle. after lifting it, you readjust them so they're still centered at x. at any position between x and the emitting vehicle, the center of the beam is still higher than it was before. if you overcompensate so the center hits the ground before x, you are illuminating less of the ground ahead which is less safe in its own way.

don't get me wrong, I am very sympathetic to this issue. I drive a pretty low car and I get blinded any time there's a pickup behind me at night.
I don't know if that has much to do with democracy. In many historical countries, it was seen as the God-given right of aristocrats to take $10 from every citizen so they can have $100,000.
Everclear is probably your best bet. It depends on where you live. Where I live your only bet is the local Naval Exchange.

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They are, but trucks/SUVs sit higher, and their headlights are higher - trucks behind me, for example, are completely blinding because their lights shine directly into my car and mirrors.
Except that it's exactly what allows that to happen.

If MegaCorp says they sell widgets wholesale for $7 and you must sell them retail for $10, everybody sells them retail for $10 and makes $3. Meanwhile BigCorp does the same thing for for the widgets they make and all the widgets retail for $10. Nobody can lower their prices except the manufacturers who are few enough to be secretly colluding, so no price competition commences.

Without this, BoxCo starts buying widgets for $7 and retailing them for $9. Which, immediately, is a lower price for the consumer. Then another shop without BoxCo's scale starts pressuring MegaCorp to give them widgets for $6.50 instead of $7 so they can compete with BoxCo's $9, which the manufacturer wants because they don't want BoxCo to have a retail monopoly on their goods. So now more retailers are selling for $9 retail to the benefit of the customer.

Then BigCorp has to lower their wholesale prices so their retailers can compete with MegaCorp retailers selling for $9, and so on.

Price fixing is enabled by fixing prices.

Or to put it another way, enforced MSRP is a conspiracy to fix prices on the part of the retailers coordinated through the manufacturer.
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I bought a Neato XV 21 something like 6 or 7 years ago. Still doing great, I've only changed the filters and battery pack once. we moved to a house a few months ago and it still manages to vacuum the entire upper floor (~800sqft) with 1.5 passes.
Good. Let fiscally irresponsible companies fold. There should never be government bailouts for anyone.
A large part of crisis management is being able to effectively communicate immediate and longer-term plans to help avoid panic. A technocratic manager can fail abysmally at this task (this is a large factor in giving Herbert Hoover poor marks for his handling of the Great Depression; he wasn't).

The problem with Trump is that he neither has the technocratic ability to manage this crisis, nor the charismatic ability to reassure the public. The crash on Thursday was driven in substantial part by Trump's absolute botching of the announcement of new restrictions, and probably part of today's crash is a reaction to the news over the weekend of the extra screening in US airports probably being counterproductive.

The image that the public is getting from Trump right now makes Hoover look good by comparison: it feels like Trump is trying to project an image of good handling of the crisis, and (belatedly) announcing measures to stem the crisis, but failing to actually follow through and ensure that the measures are actually being effective.
They don't.

Some have debt, most of the ones where I am do not though. You have depreciation, which is non-cash. Even staff costs have a variable component based on hours flown, although (where I am) they still have to pay a base salary.

(Btw, just generally...most airlines are run very efficiently. They are huge enterprises deploying these big expensive assets, and they run with very little capital. Obviously, this does vary by strategy but the low-cost airlines usually turn their capital more than once...just looking at $LUV...134m passengers, 747 planes, $22bn revenue on invested capital of $10-12bn...just based on a quick calc)

Unsurprisingly, if you are an airline company and you stop running flights then you don't have many costs.

The issue airlines have is labour law. I think we will see countries like the Nordics manage this better (SAS appears to have been able to furlough 90% of their staff) because it is easier to lay off staff temporarily (I believe this is in sector-wide bargaining agreements). In the UK, as a counter-example, it is much harder because there are no sector-wide agreements so temporary lay-off needs to be in your contract. Maybe airlines have this, I don't know but it seems like some don't see what the option is between bailout to pay staff their base salary or layoffs (and btw, airlines could just sack everyone which would end up being massively costly to the rest of us). We aren't bailing out the airlines, we are bailing out the staff.
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And how does that supposedly work? Why do shareholders go along with it?

And what is stopping people from creating businesses that don't do that?

It sounds much like a conspiracy theory to me. The mysterious world of finance that everybody just know to be evil.

I don't doubt that shady things happen. But there has to be a better explanation than "evil businessmen extract value". And how is it "extracting", when people get actual services in return? If I buy an apple at a supermarket, has the supermarket extracted money from me?
"What is enabling them to be the only people able to develop this far better test?"

They're far from the only ones who've developed a far better test.

Without specifically looking for them, since the outbreak began I've seen 4 or 5 reports of different companies developing far better tests.

Unfortunately, I don't know if any of them have actually been put in to use, or what the obstacles to doing so are.
It's totally the smart thing to do. Github needs a ton of cloud compute with github actions, Azure powers it. Github brings a very strong brand that developers love, which gives Microsoft a good rep amongst technical folks.

This is as good as Google acquiring Youtube because Youtube needs an insane amount bandwidth and it was a perfect fit for Google's infrastructure and ad platform.

It's just sad to see Google not playing the Developers game well.