skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, Americans have much larger and more comfortable homes than Europeans. Americans have big garages to stockpile supplies, which means less trips to the store. Very few people use public transportation regularly. Most people have private back yards. Many more meals are take-out or drive-thru. More Americans use e-commerce for shopping than Europeans.

In Europe by contrast, much more of life revolves around public spaces, like the park, cafes, the city square, and public transport. Americans tend to spend little time in restaurants, whereas Europeans relax and enjoy the meal, thus increasing their exposure time.

Think of the areas in the US that seen the worst outbreaks. Seattle, the Bay Area, New York, Boston. These are the metros, where the average resident is least likely to live a typical middle-American lifestyle. San Francisco in many ways is closer to Copenhagen than it is to Jacksonville.

Overall, social distancing is probably easier for Americans because our way of life already involves a good deal of social distance to begin with.
If you're thinking of an EPP licence, that's only for a handful of specifically restricted chemicals.
Exponential Growth and Epidemics [video]
Wow that's super interesting.

Thanks for sharing.
Air freight rates skyrocketed due to fewer passenger flights between US and China. Presumably there will be similar impact to air freight rates between US and Europe https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlin...

edit: air cargo flights between US and Europe also suspended
I think the analogies have run their course.
It isn't a classic case of one person can ruin it for everyone. When I choose not to go to the bar, the guy at the bar that ignored the advice about not going out in public still doesn't infect me.

So less dramatically: individuals can (and will!) reduce their exposure to infected people that make poor choices.

Of course the more people that do the right thing the better, but it isn't a situation where the outcome is controlled just by the worst actors.
Depends on how imaginative/paranoid you are. It sure seems odd that this week has included an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, a pandemic declaration, and now the biggest disruption of international travel/commerce since WW2. https://twitter.com/RusEmbUSA/status/1237048071223160833
Honestly, I didn't open comments and simply added it to my "come back later" list, because it looks very very interesting to me, and would need to read it in detail. Great work, btw!
This website doesn't contradict anything I've said and I cannot see the relevance to the point.
I give up your right, who really gives a shit. Your correct someone new could come along and do better and then it wouldnt be unique. The truth is at the stated point in time it is unique, now if someone comes along and does better it isnt.

Fact is theres a ton of things that could allow competition to get market share, so yeah great job arguing a moot point!

Who really cares anyways I pull the wings off my bees so they dont fly away and force feed them high fructose corn syrup, sure they might suffer but I make fortune and give money to the homeless so it all balances out in the end.

Happy now?
An air-taxi would be 135 by definition. It's easier than 121 but not that much easier.

But if the taxis do not require pilots (perfectly reasonable for air travel) and electric engines do require much less maintenance, satisfying 135 regulations can become easier than satisfying 91 with normal planes.

Disruption is done by increasing the quality of your equipment. It's perfectly viable, although it has to follow a slow certification schedule.
That's true. But 2 is substantially less useful than 1 and I encountered 4 mixed with 3.
Hi,

Terusama looks like it's focused on the warehouse, factory, or DC (Distribution Centre) which I think is fantastic, we have had a lot of drivers complain about how long they can spend waiting at DCs so I believe there is a big market here, especially for large businesses. Coca-Cola, Supermarkets etc

Shameless plug, We have a DMS (Delivery Management System) https://www.subtrux.com/manage/ if you run your own fleet or want to subcontract jobs
There is a panic.
Doesn't matter if its justified (its not, imho).

But it is real and it has the potential to seriously damage the economy.

A tanked economy will harm far more people than this virus.

If the ban gives sufficient reassurance to the chicken littles to induce them not to sell their stocks and invest in toilet paper, it will be a success.
Why would a failed state like Somalia having a restrictive constitution make an an-cap unhappy?
Also doesn't make considering that Heathrow is a major hub for Europeans to travel to Europe.

Only reasoning I can see is political - UK did Brexit. For limiting the spreading this seems like a weird exception.
> Manufacturing requires logistics, capability of water/electricity and skilled labour. Those are not easily scalable across the globe.

You don't need fully-distributed manufacturing where everything is literally made everywhere. Go ahead and cross off every place without water, electricity and skilled labor, you're still left with dozens of countries. Now pick one in Asia, one in Europe and one in America. You're now on three continents. There are three more available if you ever feel like expanding.

> And manufactures do concentrate, it is easy to source parts to make stuff from the same region.

Which is fine, so do that, somewhere on each continent. Not in only one place in the world. Obvious strong candidates are China, the US and Germany.

> And in case of COVID-19, it is not the answer even, since, the disruption is almost simultaneously happening globe wise, capacity planning and shifting can't be that agile to adjust, let alone the demand will be hampered too.

It isn't really happening everywhere at once, though. It's happening everywhere at different times. We may get to the point where some countries have to use the same measures as China, but by then China may have succeeded in containing it and be ready to reopen. Even if it hasn't, you've still reduced the period you've been offline by the several months in between, and in the meantime have had notice allowing you to run 24 hour shifts in every other facility to build up a surplus in preparation for what may come there soon.

There are also implications to the countermeasures. The US just suspended travel with Europe. If you had a factory in Germany and one in the US, you're still in business in both places, making products for US customers in the US factory and for European customers in the European factory.

> But for key industry, like medical supplies, I think that is where the state should come and play, to incentivize a domestic capacity that could chime in handily when disruption happens.

The problem is, nearly everything is in that category. Nobody cares about where toilet paper comes from until you can't get any for six months.
I think you're confusing different kinds of intelligence.

Just to lower the temperature, I'll use a non-political example. My grandfather, long since departed, was a master salesman. He sold all sorts of stuff door to door, including the highly dubious Kirby vacuum cleaners, before ending up in real estate. He was an incredibly good manipulator of people, but he was a very bad planner. He once famously sold the same piece of property to two different people, just for the thrill of the sale. (My grandmother had to sort it all out after.)

Being good at manipulation and bad at planning were deeply related in him and some other scoundrels I've met. Why? Because if you don't care at all about facts or repercussions, you can devote 100% of your attention to telling other people what they want to hear, what they'll believe. And it works the other way, too. If you're very good at talking your way out of problems, you never need to learn things like being disciplined or facing facts.

So yes, it is perfectly possible that some goof bumbled his way into the most powerful office in the world. My grandfather, thank goodness, was never very ambitious, so he had a pretty small blast radius. I shudder to think what harm he could have done if he had actually applied himself.
New personal goal: Find a way to casually use the word 'chirality' in everyday conversation.
A player, Rudy Gobert, tested positive for Coronavirus today.

He recently did this, https://twitter.com/SomeonesAnIdiot/status/12379197037812940... claiming something along the lines of 'it's not a big deal'
Elections are popularity contests. There are no qualification requirements for the job.
The CCP has finally closed the wildlife markets that have spawned several dangerous diseases like this one. Finally.
> Ubuntu is a server OS.

...and a desktop OS, and a mobile OS. I don't see where it's optimized for one over the other.

> No PPAs; the AUR has everything.

I'm not fond of PPAs, but are they really that much worse than the AUR, which works by manually compiling software using unvetted scripts from strangers?
I publicly tore an AWS engineer's AWS bill apart to find savings
Don't breathe either: The research, which was carried out by scientists from the National Institutes of Health, Princeton University and UCLA, suggests it's possible for the virus to spread through the air as well as through the touching of contaminated surfaces.

"Our results indicate that aerosol and fomite transmission of HCoV-19 is plausible, as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for multiple hours and on surfaces up to days," researchers wrote in the study's abstract.

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2020/03/11/Coronavirus-can-...
Maybe they are just falling off the first page of the article's comments. Try the "more" link at the bottom.
There are plenty of atheists in AA -- and they are welcomed.
they've got a house brand, Solimo, that sells sanitizer. it's sold out like all the rest.
Safe bet, it feel almost 3.75% after hours right after the announcement.
tbh I always feel like AA people are shooting themselves in the foot with these silly examples of a "higher power", especially on forums like this one. I doubt anyone earnestly surrenders themselves to a candy bar or fire extinguisher, but I'm certainly not knocking it if it helps someone.

I think the point is that you need some sort of mind hack to escape the paradigm of will vs. desire which has been a losing battle thus far for most addicts. it is ultimately your will that prevails, but you have to trick yourself otherwise for it to work.
Estimates have said that they expect 20%-60% of people to get it (originally [1] but updated according to [2]. Something like 10-15% of those people require hospitalization [2] and something like 0.5% - 4% of people die [4]. If we use the lower bounds on all those we are talking about 6.5 million Americans hospitalized and 327,000 dead. For the sake of comparison, that is almost half the number of Americans who have ever died of HIV/AIDS [5].

[1] - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-infection-outbreak-...

[2] - https://twitter.com/mlipsitch/status/1234879949946814464?s=2...

[3] - https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/10/simple-math-alarming-ans...

[4] - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...

[5] - https://www.kff.org/hivaids/fact-sheet/the-hivaids-epidemic-...

EDIT: I originally didn't post sources, so I backfilled those in and slightly tweaked the numbers to match.

EDIT 2: I adjusted the numbers again because as a reply points out one of my sources updated their estimates.
If the economy collapses our ability to contain the virus will be severely diminished.
Generally speaking, no. But there are edge cases.
Unless you hermetically seal yourself from the outside world, you are still at risk. Yes that risk can be reduced, but as more and more people are affected, your own chances go up exponentially, no matter what measures you take.
I already have a lot of helicopters flying over our place. Unless they solve the noise problem I sincerely hope flying taxis won't take off. I really don't need more noise.
It’s an interest free loan without the hassle of doing much paperwork.
NBA Suspends Season After Player Tests Positive for Coronavirus
5 days? It’s closer to 2 or 3 in the US and some other countries.
> it may be because I need to pass a window function over millions of rows

Every major RDBMS supports window functions (even MySQL, though recent). Why would you bring remote data into a local process to do something the remote process can do with its own local data vastly more efficiently?
> Which is the goal, reduce infection rates.

There are tens of thousands of incubating cases in the United States already. How exactly is a few dozen sick passengers per day going to affect that at all? You'd have to literally be picking up and flying in planes full of active cases to even match what we have here already.

This is insanity. No one with any expertise at all recommended it. No one serious thinks this is a good idea. It's not going to do anything useful at all.
ECC should be standard and mandatory at this point.
No, it's not just eliminating the pilot, although yes electric making that easier is one aspect.

An electric aircraft can have multiple engines (to wit: an octocopter) rather than just one a turbine that is a both high tolerance technological marvel and high maintenance. They don't need to long high speed blades whirring above to achieve VTOL, they can have small propellers in cowling's. They don't have to carry lots of highly flammable fuel that is highly likely to start a fire in suburbia ifthey become ubiquitous. With luck they will have solid state batteries. They don't need spinning wings under high stress, they can have passive wings that glide naturally. They don't need a big heavy engine to generate the power needed for takeoff, as powerful electric engines are powerful yet small, light and easily redirected without a gear train.

A lot of things change. Admittedly some are way worse for electric, like flight endurance - and so it's no coincidence we are talking about taxi's here, not long haul fights. But when it comes to taxi's most things are improvements over ICE engines we have now. Thinking it is just about the presence or absence of a pilot is simplifying things way too much.
Not sure where they get their data, but where I live (Ontario, Canada) we've done 231.5 tests per million people.

Number of tests: 3395 Source: https://www.ontario.ca/page/2019-novel-coronavirus
Population: 14,659,616 (estimated for 2019-Q4 found on Wikipedia)
Would you know if the Google cloud product for hosting git projects [1] uses the same underlying code search as the internal tool?

[1] https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories
No, and they're not. It applies to foreign nationals (i.e. non citizens). They can, however, enforce a quarantine when citizen returns.
Hopefully we can still watch the rest of the XFL season.
... you might work at yahoo?
The UK is in Europe.
I think there will be an equilibrium. Again refer to the argument in my previous post: production used to be 100% local and everyone could afford clothes. Not as many as now, but enough. The only thing that's changed is we now have more automation, so domestic production should be even more efficient than before.

Maybe sweaters will be $200 and wages will rise enough to be able to afford one every year. But we won't have $3 sweaters on Alibaba. From an environmental perspective, having more clothes than we need at dirt-cheap prices isn't all that great.

Some people may call this a reduced standard of living, and they are right from a reductive viewpoint where less stuff = lower standards. But isn't there more to quality of life than filling your closets with cheap shit you don't really need?
Wow, I would not have figured governor Andrew Cuomo (Democrat) would take such an action. He would know it would expose him to criticisim-- aside from the action itself, I respect that he took strong action without regard for the blowback.
China Post has been shipping stuff and spraying it with disinfectant. I don't see why that would be a problem. Also doesn't it take more than 9 days to sail across the atlantic ocean?
I mean there was literally a guy on the post from yesterday talking about how we're all paranoid and he's going to enjoy "exploring Boston and eating out while the lines are short".
They seem to have reduced the information density and killed readability as well with the "material ui" redesign. The old code search UI was perfect, with enough contrast to allow you to quickly grep through xrefs to locate relevant entries. The page itself was lightweight as well.

Compare that to the redesign where each xref jump has me staring at a spinner for half a second, the xref bar has no visual separation between type, filename, and code snippet, all buttons visually indistinguishable with a blue on white color scheme, the "layers" dropdown is replaced with a mishmash of buttons scattered across the layout, etc.

I really hope they're not forcing this abhorrent redesign on their developers as well.
I am a dev at Sourcegraph, I'd be very open to any feedback.

You can firewall off Sourcegraph 100% for complete confidence, and aside from the first admin's email address (so we can notify them of any security updates) we only send back aggregated anonymous usage statistics which we are extremely transparent about: https://docs.sourcegraph.com/admin/pings

We sell developer tools, not user data.
The Useful Idiot is absolutely a real thing.
Why is the U.K. not included? This is so weird; it's such a mess in the UK too.
ECC is not a total solution.

https://www.vusec.net/projects/eccploit/
There's every reason to believe the number of coyotes is similar on both sides of the fence.
Have been fond of getSentry’s onboarding + team member invites with the ability to easily copy an invite link to team members.
And Rudy is positive afrer mic-touching stunt! Yeesh.
Avoid laurel sulfate based soaps. C12 is particularly well sized to make micelles that disrupt the skin. Castille soap/ stuff made from good ol' fats and lye are the most gentle, laureth/pegylated sulfates are less-bad than lauryl sulfates.
I’m not saying people shouldn’t be able to do that, just that, if society sets rules, they should be followed, and can restrict what you can and cannot do.

For example, if you buy that C4, how does it get on your land?

If you make it yourself, how do the ingredients get on your land? Is that safe for the public? Does the process produce waste (gases, liquids) that may cause damage to neighbors or the environment?

If one of your experiments doesn’t go ‘boom’, do you toss what’s left in the garbage bin, or do you think that should be regulated?

Do you make precautions so that playing kids can’t accidentally enter the area? Do you calculate how far parts of that washing machine may get thrown away, to make sure parts don’t end up in your neighbors house?
Very interesting! And I'm fascinated by doing it as a browser plugin. Could you say more about why you chose this route?
Maybe we should ring up Italy?
Only time will tell, but fairly aggressive measures are already being taken in California and Washington where the cases are only in the hundreds, and many other states are following close behind when they have few to no cases. One thing even many Americans don’t properly appreciate is the degree to which most things are actually run at the state and local level. So far the federal dysfunction has not stopped the states and cities from moving. If that stays the case, the US may be okay.

One other factor in the US favor, it’s extremely low population density compared to the rest of the world. The US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are all similarly low density and in this specific case likely to benefit from that.
Without far more serious containment measures within the United States, this is a meaningless move. A dribble of people coming in from the EU when it's already in dozens of US states isn't going to meaningfully change the numbers.
It would still be good for Firefox and Chrome to accept SPIR-V bytecode (in addition to WGSL). This way you can write some client side library, that converts SPIR-V on the fly to WGSL for crippled browsers (Apple) and use SPIR-V directly for everyone else.

I hope Mozilla and Google won't cave that way to this Apple's idiotic behavior.
Europe is a huge place and it's hard to pin it down to a single culture. The collectivism is mainly seen in northern Europe and Scandinavian countries. If you've ever been to Napoli or Sicily you wouldn't feel the same way. Feels more like Morocco sometimes.

Many parts are really not as collectivist as people seem to think. Not as collectivist as Asia at least, not even close. Individualistic tendencies are strong over there, although not as strong as in the US.
The chance right now that you will know someone you love being killed by Corona is really realistic.

I'm not sure how you think how critical it is. I personally have never had this issue and do not mind at all to lay still for a whole year to try to reduce the risk of this happening.
I would imagine anyone who can answer that question comprehensively is filling their boots on some options dealer page right now, in between sips of champagne.
John Travolta was also hospitalized for suspected COVID-19.

But doctors now confirm that it was only Saturday Night Fever, and they assure everyone that he is Staying Alive.
No. From the CDC:

> It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.

> In general, because of poor survivability of these coronaviruses on surfaces, there is likely very low risk of spread from food products or packaging that are shipped over a period of days or weeks at ambient, refrigerated, or frozen temperatures.
I would really really love this for mobile. 90% of my mindless browsing that I'd like to take control of happens on my phone.
The difference is that plastic cutting boards get cut all the time, with the knife jamming the cooties into the grooves. So they are hard to clean well. (although if you clean with bleach they are fine, and that's what you usually have to do in restaurants....wood cutting boards are discouraged by health departments)

A plastic spoon is probably pretty smooth so easy to clean.
Jesus. That’s pretty terrifying!
Costco shopping on the day of a Coronavirus pandemic
Yes, it's the value of the exponent that I am talking about. Smaller is, uh, exponentially, better than larger.

(I'm being sarcastic, but changing the exponent is (literally) what all the public health messaging about flattening the curve is about)
Indeed. It would probably be socially responsible to cancel their season too, but I'm really enjoying their games (at least the ones that air on free TV).

Here's hoping the NBA, and whatever leagues might be affected, are able to reschedule their games once this nasty bug finally dies out.
that's a fascinating historical case, first time I learned of it. Do we know how exactly Mary spread the disease? Was it unwashed hands or saliva or her breath? How is typhoid transmitted exactly?
The S&P futures dropped by 5% so far.

Oil and other commodities also took a dump.

https://m.investing.com/indices/indices-futures

https://m.investing.com/commodities/