skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just testing, but treatment. There are a half dozen existing anti-viral drugs currently in testing which can be rapidly deployed if they turn out to be effective because they're already approved and manufactured for other usage.

There are also several new anti-viral compounds and the potential for clonal antibody treatments whos approval might get fast-tracked if they prove highly effective.

Even absent better treatment strong measures taken swiftly will do more than just delay the inevitable. But reducing our critical care saturation we'll save lives. But there is also a very realistic prospect of improved meaningfully treatment in the coming weeks/months.
So that weird laptop stand that holds your laptop up at an angle... more cooling from below, but maybe the heat pipes aren’t as happy?
The company CureVac only denied rumours that it will be bought, it did nor deny claims that the Trump administration approached them and tried to buy exclusive access to the vaccine.
I wear a similar minimalist wardrobe in a place with -40° winters. My winter outfit is the same as summer, plus thermal undergarments and a good coat/gloves/hat. It’s surprising how well layering works.
> K8s isn't made to fix Docker...

OP probably knows. my impression was that they picked docker to represent the group...
Wow not giving ECMO to BMI 25+ is really something.

I am fairly skinny and it wouldn't take much for me to reach 25.

They should consider revising the cutoff especially since Chinese people can be of thinner frames. 25 may be slightly overweight for them but normal for others.
To be honest at first I found it suspiciously low, but now that the Scandinavian countries are very low as well it would require quite the conspiracy to keep this up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

US is spending more on health per capita than any other country in the world. That money would be far enough to have a health system that may be not perfect, but similar to other developed countries that take care of all people (and produce a higher lifespen).
So what does that mean in the long run? After virtual lockdown is lifted? A resurgence in winter?
Because you need high throughput machine or it is a very slow manual process. Such machine like the FilmArray from Biomérieux or the GeneXpert from Cepheid will only have their covid 19 add-on at the end of march, for the Cobas from Roche only now. When Korean had the homegrown Seegene one very quickly
There’s no objective to make 60% population ill. This is a lie by the media and commenters on HN who read that media instead of original statement by the UK government. Rather, it is the statement of the fact: 60% of population eventually will get infected (unless quarantine stays forever).

Maybe other countries should do travel ban. But the tone of the commenter above (my country, they) is very counterproductive. People of UK are not enemies.
Not sure there will be - I've been scared of this since the New Year, and even I'm all too aware that I'm trading off _having a life_ so people over 70 with pre-existing conditions don't have a couple of years shaved off. Right now, like literally starting this weekend, it turned hip to say you're staying home. We'll see how that looks in 6 weeks, when there's no end in sight and mass layoffs

Please, for the love of God, give me the benefit of the doubt on this comment folks. I'm not saying it's right, only that I doubt this sedate state will persist, given the effects of said state.
For people who are curious what living in China feels like now (video uploaded Mar 14th), from a Japanese director living in Nanjing, China:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfsdJGj3-jM

Things are getting back to normal, with tons of precautions.
You got some really weird replies. As interest rates go down, people move their money away from treasuries into other assets such as stocks, real estate, etc. Stocks and real estate at least can provide a return, therefore, it's preferred over negative treasuries and cash.

Negative rate treasuries can be preferred over cash because it's owed by the US gov't which has less credit risk than having your cash sitting at some savings & loans credit union in small town in Utah.

Edit: for the other replies: cash in this context does not mean physical paper money.
Encryption allows you to change the master password without forcing you to change all site passwords. To illustrate:

Scenario A: keyfile is encrypted with master password, site passwords are generated from plaintext keyfile. If the master password needs to be changed, the keyfile is simply encrypted again. The plaintext keyfile remains the same, which means all generated passwords remain the same. No need to change site passwords.

Scenario B: keyfile is not encrypted, both keyfile and master password are used as inputs to generate passwords. In this scenario, any change to the master password causes all generated passwords to change. This would obviously be undesirable.
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A depression can kill a lot more people than COVID-19. This is why the state of California just told young, healthy people to continue to visit restaurants for now as long as tables are six feet apart.

This is not just an idea from thin air: they're doing lots of projections on models of what is actually going to do more harm.

Think of it this way: if the economy shrinks by 30%, that means we have to spend 30% less on everything. That's 30% less funding for wellness, hospitals & emergency services. 30% less that people spend on self-care like gym memberships. 30% less on gasoline to get to outdoor activities. If your food budget drops by 30%, there's a good chance you're going to eat less healthy foods. If people are going out 30% less often, you will see increases in both physical and mental illness ,as we know that social contact improves health.

This is why the Twitter meme of "everybody panic and go home and stay there for three weeks" may actually do a lot more harm than good even if it helps slow the spread of COVID-19.

Unless you think your state and county leadership is incompetent, follow their advice, as they are best informed about the local conditions.
But the tests have a high false negative rate. Let them through and it can all re occur.
I have a form of cystic fibrosis. I was homeless for nearly six years while openly participating here.

I'm probably the highest ranked woman on here in terms of karma accrued. I'm probably the only woman to have ever spent time on the leader board and I can't get any real traction on any of my projects and I get routinely attacked and dismissed for trying to talk about anything health related.

I'm drug free and have been for years. If you have any idea what CF is, that should say enough right there.

I'm not actually interested in discussing it further here on HN. It's always drama and I get really amazingly shitty replies from a lot of people.

I chose to post it here because it's going to get a lot more exposure here than via any of my blogs and I think there are people here who do remember me and do know what I'm talking about.

My hope is that people who are in a position to understand what I'm saying and act on it will read it and it will somehow make a difference. If you have no idea what on earth I'm talking about, that is probably not you.

I don't actually expect it to make a difference. I already said that. But I feel obligated to try, though I'm quite sure it's absolutely pointless and there's nothing at all I can do about that. I'm the wrong gender and don't have enough money and so forth.

Call it a desperate act due to being surrounded by the current insanity of the world and move on.

Thank you.
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People presuming that there’s a difference in viral behavior between countries and that’s why some countries, in these early days, are showing statistical differences.

But this is folly. There is no evidence that some “peoples” fare better and that some countries have “better” health systems. Evidence out of Seattle indicates that the illness rate and death rate from China are showing up here as well.

Don’t kid yourself that your area will be less hit and that’s why you can keep on living a normal life.
Surely then it would make sense to only embargo people in identified vulnerable groups? Let the rest of the nation go about their business given they are very very unlikely to have anything bad happen and then, presumably they will stop being infectious even if the virus does get into their system again

And what does it mean to quarantine people? How are they fed? Can they go outside?

You can't get the virus walking down the street past an infected person.
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It's interesting to contrast the UK approach to -everyone else's approach.
Everyone else is asking _infected_ people to do the socially responsible thing
and self-isolate to protect those around them. The UK is asking (or will be
asking) the _vulnerable_ people to self-isolate to protect themselves.

It is very hard to avoid thinking of it this way but: what happens if a
vulnerable person fails to isolate, for whatever reason (stupidity, ignorance,
accident, etc)? Is the blame on them? They were told to protect themselves and
they failed, so it's their fault?

if I think of it this way it very much sounds like the UK government is
planning to just er, wash its hands of vulnerable people and refuse to take
any responsibility for their fate.
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Users didft "loan" their lost ETH, they traded the ETH in as collateral and took out a loan in DAI.

This collateral trade was made with full awareness that if the loan became under collateralized the ETH would be liquidated and sold at auction
> Why haven't they [gotten orders]?

Seems hard to believe... Ventilator factories worldwide are operating at full capacity, turning down orders or raising prices, but meanwhile US ventilator companies aren't getting orders?
But SK also published that location data online for all to see, something the US cannot do because HIPPA. People would make fun of those with the virus, such as one man who was tracked to a hotel associated with prostitution.
Where we can do better than Italy is learning from your experience and taking measures earlier: we aren't first.

Even measures less aggressive than your lockdowns would be more effective if they were simply taken earlier.

This isn't a criticism of Italy. Getting the political will to shut things down when there are few cases and no deaths is extremely hard. But the experience of Italy is showing all of us what our unwillingness to do so will cause.
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There's still no quick and easy way to set up an IRC server for a company.

There are plenty of ways to easily set up email.
Conspiracy not needed.

It’s winter. Old people die from the flu. Viral pneumonia. Without RNA tests the causes of death aren’t entire trustable.

Consider the US: the numbers are low because we are under testing people. Significantly under counting.
Good point, and that's why you can't simply lift every restriction overnight. But the 1918 flu pandemic was literally over 100 years ago, I'd like to think we have learned something in the meantime about how to control disease outbreaks.
>while other countries are not counting them if other conditions where already present.

Any source please?
I don't know, maybe the bits that keep the population fed and the lights on. That seems a start.
Not to downplay the importance of containment efforts I think there is something uniquely bad about Italy's mortality rates and something really good that the Germans are doing.

Based on the Johns Hopkins CSSE data for March 13

On March 13 Germany had 3675 confirmed cases and only 7 deaths.
Adjusted for respective populations Italy was at this stage 9 days before with 3089 confirmed cases, by which time it has already seen 107 deaths.
This projects 21x COVID19 mortality rate for Italy over Germany - what gives ?

Italy's outbreak is concentrated in Lombardy so maybe weighing for the population of that area rather than the entire country is more appropriate which means Germany is currently 16 rather than 9 days behind Italy but with mortality in Italy still being 13 times higher than Germany.

Possible explanations:

Italy's 3089 confirmed cases 9 days before are selected for severity - only people who arrived with acute symptoms were tested, whereas Germany's 3675 are the results of more proactive testing and are dominated by mild or non-symptomatic cases that would have passed undetected in Italy.

Italy squandered some of its hospital capacity on first-diagnosed-first-hospitalized basis regardless of severity and began triage too late wheres Germany does better job prioritizing hospital vs home treatment from the start.

9 days before Lombardy's hospitals were already over capacity with 3089 confirmed cases while Germany's still aren't today.
Germany has 2.5x the hospital beds per population than Italy, let's assume this holds for ICU beds as well.
If capacity is the sole/dominant factor in this and we say that 9 days before Italy was already over capacity with 3089 cases than Germany will have reached a similar over-capacity at around 10k confirmed cases in a few days and then its mortality rate will begin to climb.
I completely disagree with this piece. Sharing it here because it's a good example of the dangers of half truth and this decision could have a horrible impact on our industry for exactly the opposite reason the author states.

For those who didn't follow the trial or first appellate ruling Google copied the spec and then clean roomed their own implementation.

If organizations can copyright a spec (an API) then one organization gets to own a protocol (ex. Samba use now requires licensing from Microsoft, etc.).
Especially considering people are already not so keen on classical music
According to that thread, Seattle has only 12 ECMO machines in total.
I'd imagine the OP wasn't expressing frustration about not having Outlook integration along with Gmail integration. But instead that it doesn't work with the email protocol, thus working with any standards compliant servers.
Do you have a source for 80-90% collapse in China? That sounds way high.

Also 3000 confirmed cases does not mean 3000 actual infections. Depending on the model, the expected number is orders of magnitude higher.
Italy last is a special case - not that everyone else doesn’t need to take exceptional action. To be sure social distancing, closures of places of congregation is in order, and safety practices like washing hands often are necessary. But Italy is a special case...

- Italian leather manufacturing is by and large run by Chinese ownership today.

- Many of the employees in these shops are from China as they will work for much less.

- Italian population skews very old - a very vulnerable population.

- Italian culture has close families that meet near daily, have generational family living together, and populations are proximal.

- The wide Chinese population in north Italy went back and forth to infected areas of China during the Chinese New Year.

- When they came back there were many “patient 0’s” in the region.

- Because of this, numerous exponential functions were set off at the same time.

- Because of the closeness of Italian culture the virus had the necessary engine to propagate.

It’s not Italy’s fault. They got a perfect storm here. They are managing the best they can.
No. Only the people who see no problem in The things OP mentioned are eager to switch to slack.
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This won’t work. The virus is in over 100 countries, some sufferers are asymptomatic and many have symptoms comparable to a cold. To make matters worse there’s already community transmission in every Western country I’m aware of. It’s too late for contact tracing to be a long term solution. The last time that was possible was when the virus was confined to Wuhan. This is going to infect 60-70% of the population in every country unless they adopt Israel style two week quarantine for all international travelers or North Korea style killing everyone who gets the virus, or just close the borders completely.
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I agree that the effectiveness is quite surprising, given the simplicity of the analysis. It can go very wrong, however, if a significant negation is overlooked, as in cautionary tales:

... So, don't do what the late Thag Simmons did...

Maybe final paragraphs should be more highly weighted? That's often where the conclusion is.
Sorry what I mean, is for people (most of whom are gamer demographic at the moment).

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I came across this about 13 years ago. Just noticed (2006) so that fits. I happen to have quite a lot of IT at home. A quick (lol) emerge of squid in a VM, a fiddle with the DNS server to create wpad.example.co.uk and a copy n paste of a wpad.dat from a customer site etc and my wife's browser went a bit odd.

The following April 1st, I did it to my entire company. The PHB can also be a BOFH!
Whatever the cause, you wouldn't expect the hospitals in Germany to get in trouble soon while they're still seeing way fewer fatalities.

Of course this being an exponential growth that only buys them time, it won't stop the outbreak.
>> Presumably their statistical model indicated they won't be able to contain the spread which is why the current stated aim is to delay the spread[0].

What statistical model? They're talking of "careful modelling". In the article you link, they don't mention anything about statistics, or, say, a simulation etc. You're assuming too much when you're assuming a statistical model, or anything based on data, or any concrete sort of model at all. "Modelling" can just mean a bunch of officials sitting around having tea and brainstorming potential scenarios.
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It reduces the R0 factor sufficiently to give time to get a proper treatment plan in place.

Meaning antivirals that won’t require millions of people being placed in ICUs which the healthcare system currently cannot support neither in infrastructure nor manpower.
China had people dying in the streets, but we're now at the point where the quarantine has had effect, so it's successful mitigation. They also initially quarantined only the area of the initial outbreak (Wuhan), and only later expanded lockdown measures to most of the country (covering 800 million people at the peak, IIRC). And of course the quarantine leaked enough that the infection spread to the entire world.

But sure, thank you CPC, a model response from a model government.
That's wishful thinking in some ways though

Virus has spread initially because it got into hospitals and family members visiting brought it around

Italy should have locked down hospitals first, but it's kinda impractical

As for the "stay home" mantra, of course it helps, but radically changing people habits make them also less predictable, so instead of people going to work, we had people who ran away from orange areas and even red, because they could, or gathering for not staying alone, spreading it even more

Sometimes the perfect measure on paper doesn't work the way people imagine

Of course if we talk about military personnel patrolling the streets that could work, but it's a little bit against what a democracy exists for...
This update is interesting:

https://twitter.com/scott_mintzer/status/1239330209247215617

"Scott Mintzer
Brain
@scott_mintzer
UPDATE: I have been contacted by a couple of people who say that this thread doesn’t not entirely paint an accurate picture of the whole Seattle area situation.

I do not want to delete and leave no trail, but anyone there other info should by all means report what’s going on."
To be honest, at the start of this epidemic it wasn't that clear how dangerous the virus was or how easily it would spread. First it happened to Wuhan and we all thought that it wouldn't happen to us, then it happened in Italy and we still thought that we would be fine.

Thinking that it won't happen to you won't make it go away unfortunately, your country isn't special, if no drastic measures are being taken like full quarantine this will happen to you too.

My country is in full lockdown and still a lot of people don't see the gravity of the situation. People dismissing it as less dangerous than influenza are misinformed.
Well it's not how I'm behaving on an individual level for sure, I'm concerned about unknown long-term effect and don't want it.

But I can see how it might make sense on a wider societal level, assuming everyone doesn't behave like me. (Which they don't, I've observed plenty of people complaining about how it's just 'media scaremongering' and 'just like Brexit'.)

I definitely think we're (almost every country is, save maybe Singapore) past containing it; so I can see how a relatively controlled exposure might actually be a good policy as far as managing resources, economy, and next season...
How did that help, and was it necessary?
Real estate in NYC is already dipping 30%, you could have definitely timed this one a bit better, but if you are in it for the long-haul, then you’re fine.
> Surely then it would make sense to only embargo people in identified vulnerable groups? Let the rest of the nation go about their business given they are very very unlikely to have anything bad happen and then, presumably they will stop being infectious even if the virus does get into their system again

Vulnerable or not, the rest of the nation is a transmission vector. Also, not all deaths happen among the identified vulnerable groups: "they are very very unlikely to have anything bad happen" is completely false.
That's the idea behind what UK is trying to do, I believe.
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As long as one does not go with gmail. Which is, sadly, what most people think IS email :(
Helicopter drops are needed, imo
> No gun == no gun

Re guns, sure. Generally, no.
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> But Italy is a special case...

That's trivially disproved by simply taking JHU daily data of Italy and other countries, and plotting it as date x log(cases). You can see that most Western countries follow the exact same path.
Yet he nonetheless does have the "NERD disease".
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Repost from another topic:
"The professor of intensive care medicine, who himself heads the ICU of the Rotterdam Erasmus MC, emphasizes that it is not only the elderly who are affected by the corona virus. 'What has mainly made the news is that older people die faster. This is about 2.5% of the entire population, while about 15% of the elderly die. But _more_than_half_ of those patients are under fifty years old. It also includes young people."

sources:
1. https://seekingalpha.com/news/3551823-just-seniors-not-clear

2. [original] https://www.ad.nl/dossier-coronavirus/40-a-50-nederlandse-co...
No it should not. People are a bit tricksy over this thing and a lynch mob is not out of the question. That way lies murder.
Yes, but I don’t think this is what quarantine achieves.
Earlier discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22584108
I don't understand, you want the virus to not kill people with >25 BMI to accommodate US standards?

I don't think they chose these criteria because they just hate fat people.
> Because of this, numerous exponential functions were set off at the same time.

This doesn't make much difference, other than complicating contact tracing, etc. Italy doesn't appear to be too different from other countries based on the data so far.
It's progress by any reasonable use of language. Your definition of progress is worthless.
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