skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it frustrating that the subheading says “less expensive.” No, it’s FREE. Absolutely free. Donations optional.

To me, it sounded like the editor of the piece didn’t want it to sound promotional, which made it less true.
I'm just gonna leave this here:
https://killedbygoogle.com/
> On #4, the FAA actually has multiple levels of safety.

No, you're misinformed. From an operating standpoint, when you carry more than 10 pax, all operators are treated like an airline. There are different Parts but the end effect is the same for 121 and 135:

https://www.avweb.com/features/full-text-of-the-faas-new-one...

"One level of safety" is an FAA term, and describes their philosophy when there are paying passengers.
I'm seeing more indications of people taking things seriously. The first cases were announced in my state (Michigan) today, and already most universities have cancelled in-person learning, various gatherings are being cancelled, etc. It sounds like my church—on the west side of the state (the two confirmed cases are on the east side)—will be altering plans, perhaps even cancelling services as early as this Sunday. The concept of "social distancing" is rapidly gaining steam.
Better link: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-make-pri...
To be clear we're talking about the state of the world around two years ago. I'm not a bottleneck for this anymore. :)

Also, this is a bit of an uncharitable read. The calculus at the time wasn't about trust per se, and more about the fact that the relationship between quality of blog content and the content's reach is nonlinear. That means it's worth taking the time to get it right, even if the people best suited to make that happen aren't super available, because the difference between getting on the front page of HN vs not is multiple orders of magnitude. (But I think we get the best of both worlds now.)
At a good company, a dispatcher will immediately back off when a driver expresses fatigue or illness. Of course, such can have consequences. What bothers me more than a tyrannical dispatcher, is the bad side of regulations. For example, if I start my day at, say 03:00 (with a 30min pre-trip inspection) and arrive at loc at 06:00, but it takes 8 hours to load/unload, during which I sleep, my 14 hours is still penalized, despite adequate rest. I now have 3 hours to find food, or parking and progress to my next destination, and I'll probably not sleep for a while after I stop. But dispatch wants me to optimize off-duty time by resuming immediately after my available hours refresh. So I sleep 4 hours and the federal government and dispatch are happy, because the numbers look good and my schedule is tidy. I always said bureaucracy and biology was a tough mix. A minor quibble, but it bothered me.
no that isn't required for the travel ban to reduce the extent of the damage
I discovered that bodyweight workouts at home are surprisingly good. It's not a replacement for a gym workout but it's much better than doing nothing.
That is bizarre. As of today, the UK has 459 cases and the US has 1311. The UK population is approximately 20% of the US population so on a per capita basis coronavirus is more prevalent in the UK than in the US. The optics on this are horrible and will be construed as showing more of a concern with political theater than evidence based decision making.
"it's well beyond containment IMHO"

This depends on how you're defining containment. Grounding aircraft may not decrease the current case count, you're right, but it may help not adding to it, or adding as much, or as fast. Because of this, it may still be worth doing.

The notion that we're going to abandon containment measures in favor of mitigation, which I've seen in many places (not in your comment though of course), is wrong. We're going to be doing both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcsZjfs2cB4
Those are not allowed to be used in commercial operations.
Not sure why I can’t reply to the commenter below. Anyway, here’s a link backing up the parent’s claim, contrary to whatever CDC is saying: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...
They aren't eliminating copays on treatment. Only testing.

https://twitter.com/owermohle/status/1237922717699014658
Politically, it's not in the EU, but geographically/physically it's still in Europe.
You're also eliminating one potential source of infected people leaving the country before symptoms show. Assuming prevalence is equal in the US and Europe, you gain exactly nothing.

(Op already said as much. Your answer reminds me of my Grandmother: "I know God doesn't exist, but it can't hurt to go to church.")
it is interesting to consider because it enables a constellation architecture, where writes and reads are sharded independently. you could imagine a distributed computation like a social network where each person owns their own transactor but you can still query across the parts of the social graph you care about.
It stops new vectors. At this point the world is not trying to stop it spreading anymore, but slowing the rate of spread to not overwhelm healthcare.
For all their faults my smaller company is very forward thinking on this. They have banned all non-essential visits to sites by clients or contractors, and travel between offices by staff - even within the same metro area. So you can't just pop into the other office on Friday if you feel like it.

You're also asked to work from home for a while if any travelling family member from overseas visits, and if you have no reason to be in the office they won't say no if you just want to work at home and avoid public transport.

Hoping it doesn't cause a big hit to productivity because it's the right thing to do.
I've never really been into sports, but this year I've become an XFL fan. I hope the league manages through this okay.
sure; it's a little bit heavier if you have customers but still - where is the savings for an electric VTOL?
That's not true, they at least postponed/canceled the Jazz/Thunder game.
My 2 cents.

All reductions in (non-essential) travel are good in a pandemic. That doesn't mean it's sufficient, but it's something positive.

I think we would all like to see stronger social distancing rules domestically (in the US), but here the US has a problem as it granted the President broad discretionary powers to suspend international travel but not domestic gatherings, which can't be banned via executive order and even if congress were to pass a law banning such gatherings, there would be first amendment implications as well as federalism issues.

It's not easy to pass a law giving the President this type of power and I suspect many in congress already rue passing the laws that gave the president power to suspend international travel. That's one of the prices of living in a federal government with separation of powers and a bill of rights guaranteeing right to assembly rather than in a place like China.

For example, the CDC has issued social distancing guidelines but they are only guidelines not laws: Santa Clara county has said "no thank you we'll follow our own guidelines" instead, when the CDC asked to ban meetings of more than 250 but Santa Clara banned meetings of more than 1000, and just refused to change their target to the CDC recommendation.

So the US simply lacks the tools that would allow the President to go on the air and announce "I'm declaring that the MLB season needs to be delayed and Disneyland must close." He can try to exert pressure, or rather have the CDC exert pressure, but these types of declarations are not going to happen in America.
We'll tweet about it at https://twitter.com/deepsourcehq
Gonna guess that at large speeds they are quieter than a car...
standard procedure is to just have cargo sit in quarantine for 14 days or whatever. it's a lot less of a hassle than trying to quarantine people
This might hit those airlines the greatest, we might see some of them file for bankruptcy besides flybe
https://www.flattenthecurve.com/#This_is_Not_Normal_Flu_-_No...
Percentage graph at the link from Chinese CDC, though

Korea CDC has raw numbers it looks like.
https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a30402000000&bid=00...
But the point of this thread is discussing why countermeasures are justified. I'm saying that you should expect a disaster if no countermeasures are deployed -- which is exactly what you're saying too.
Yes, because that was the game where Gobert was in, and the only game postponed today. The game next on ESPN, Pelicans Kings is still going to be played. The article claims that all other games today will be canceled, which is incorrect.

Edit: Now it's suspended. Refs and players off the court with the last game tonight.
To reiterate what others said, it is long past containment in the United States. In Canada early on the cases were people who came from known hot spots. Now it is almost entirely people coming from the United States, from places with no known cases.

Clearly there are clusters throughout the United States. Unconfirmed, unrecognized clusters. And with the adversity of many to utilizing health care, it seems impossible to deal with now.

It's also worth noting that this flight ban applies only to non-Americans, just as the Wuhan restriction before did. During the prior travel restriction dozens of flights a day were going to and from Wuhan -- they just had Americans on them, who apparently aren't susceptible to the foreign virus. This new restriction is identical, allowing Americans to march the globe with their COVID-19, but at least they kept out the foreigners.

Instead of any actual efforts it is again mere security theater. And again Trump will pat himself on the back for his very-close-to-useless theatrics.
Does this mean we need a more robust domestic response to contain coronavirus, instead of or in addition to restricting travel to the US?

Akin to how securing a network is more than setting up a firewall at the perimeter.
That has nothing to do with the question.

Travel to and from doesn't lower the number of infections in the US, assuming prevalence is about equal on the two continents.
that’s right - don't ban the uk where many people have traveled from italy and the rest of the world unhindered. because the virus cares about politics and trump’s shenanigans. folks in the us - i really hope everyone poor and rich gets treatment when necessary, for free.
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yes, the case count is about to sky rocket because wide spread testing is coming online but hopefully the fatality count doesn't. I think the authorities need to do a better job communicating that a steep rise in cases detected doesn't mean a steep rise in severe or lethal cases.
There's no "they". That's one guy, making a paid appearance to the media.

We don't know enough about the virus to predict almost anything about it and are learning more every day.

I feel like people have already made up their mind about this by reading some extremely poor sources rather than bodies like the WHO so are going to panic no matter what people say.

The best option here would be for me to come back in a month and we'll reexamine the comment. 625,000 is literally insane.
It's a data issue as well as a code issue. Think about what happens if a date of birth with 2 digits is stored in a database or file and read back. You have to change the code and all occurrences of the data, or change the code to detect and repair the data on the fly.

This is also why y2k problems happening on Jan 1st was a bit misleading for many use cases. Things like insurance renewals and investment projections look ahead to future dates and so problems will start showing up earlier and get fixed well before.
I don't understand your contention then, as this was a response to a very specific scenario that does not happen in practice.
If I would have my tin foiled hat on I would say something else is going.
> Can anyone comment on supply chains that rely on Europe to source goods?

You know all of the stuff that's made in China? The machines that make that stuff are made in Europe. Well, not literally the ones that make the stuff in China, but the ones that US companies would buy if they were trying to manufacture more stuff domestically to replace the stuff they can no longer buy from China.
There was an AMA on Reddit, yesterday I think, with a guy whose employer is manufacturing the tests. He said one of the challenges was some of the materials had to come from Belgium and it was taking much longer to get the supplies in the needed quantities. I'd assume such materials would be exempt if his statement is correct.
Too little, too late.

Most of Australia's external cases seem to be coming from the US (e.g. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson), which indicates tens of thousands of undiagnosed incidences there (even accounting for selection bias).

Urgent social distancing seems to be the best approach to maintaining a functional health system now.
Excluding China (which they wisely banned early) and South Korea (one city daegu is the center and majority of infection) there is only japan with 639 cases. Europe has close to 20,000 cases.

But if an Asian country’s cases quickly spikes, pretty sure Asia will be shut down in travel to US
Majority of US population lives in the suburbs. Roughly 30% live in urban areas and many of them would have garages or basements. For example, my town is considered urban and all the houses have garages.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/11/data-most-american-neig...

https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/05/22/demographic-and-e...
ESPN is a little more reliable
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28887560/nba-suspends-se...
There are more Americans in suburbs and rural area than in "small apartment urban" areas. https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/05/22/demographic-and-e...

> About 46 million Americans live in the nation’s rural counties, 175 million in its suburbs and small metros and about 98 million in its urban core counties.

> As a group, the population in rural counties grew 3% since 2000, less than their 8% growth in the 1990s. Urban county population rose 13% since 2000 and the population in suburban and small metro counties went up 16%, growth rates somewhat higher than in the 1990s.

It's hidden in plain sight: you mention "Boston, San Fransisco, and Seattle" in the same breath as NYC, but numbers-wise those are all pretty small and you're leaving out not only their suburbs but also the LA, Chicago, DFW and Houston areas which all have considerable amounts of suburbs and single family living, and hold almost 40M people alone...
I'm certain most government knows the economic consequences will be pretty severe. However, given the panic this has already created in public, and much higher mortality rate than seasonal flu, they cannot simply ride it out.

I'm sure they have weighed their options, and have opted to take more certain shorter term hit vs gamble with uncertain longer term hit.
NJ's first Covid-19 patient begging for help in state's #1 hospital
Good to see Amazon doing this but ultimately this should be a government driven initiative. E.g. Japan has put a fine and up to 1 year jail sentence for profiteering on masks and similar.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/03/10/national/japan-...
1. Limit the infection rate as much as possible for the next 1-2 years.

2. Develop a cure (vaccine or therapy).

3. Return to our normal way of life.

4. Massively revamp our preparations for the next one.
It isn't just the travel ban that spooks markets. It's the feeling that there are no functioning adults in charge of the response for something that requires real leadership.

Each and every time Trump has spoken to this, as he attempts a mulligan for his last catastrophic bungling of it [1], his raw and profound unsuitability is laid bare (it is incredible that this point is even remotely contentious, as some people clutch onto denial with such vigor. For someone to still be a believer in Trump requires some serious mental gymnastics and/or impairment).

[1] - It was a hoax. The flu. An overreaction. 15 patients soon would be 0. A vaccine in a month. Contained.

His sole desperate need was to try to buoy the market -- it is literally the single and only thing he has going for him -- but unfortunately reality is ready to make its presence known the next day, not concerned with his chronic lying and bluster. Having an egocentric narcissist liar/grifter as POTUS turns out to not be a great thing. But I hear that Jared Kushner is putting together a response so everything should be great. He has the qualification of being married to Trump's daughter.
I can't believe the 40-70% number. Looking it up, this underscores just how horribly the internet is set up to have these kinds of conversations. If you backsource it, you discover he said "there's a chance" it will hit 40-70%, and then only if no countermeasures are taken. That's very different than what is represented in the cbs transcript.

I saw another seemingly reputable estimate today - some disease person on Joe Rogan's podcast, who was saying that 96 million people could get it, of which 48 million would need to be hospitalized. This makes no sense unless you are predicting a virus mutation. We're not even close to seeing 50% hospitalization rates.
alcohol has a pretty distinctive scent, and is not expensive to make. I wouldn't worry too much about counterfeit hand sanitizer fulfilled by Amazon.
Yeah, it impacts mostly the evangelical megachurches and less typical protestant or catholic churches.
Thankfully it was just a small error...
Also looks like it won't affect outbound flights either?
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson diagnosed with coronavirus
She was a cook who did not wash her hands thoroughly after defecating. Salmonella typhi bacteria causes typhoid and is excreted in feces. She transferred it into cold food--e.g. salads, peach ice cream--that she prepared (cooking kills the bacteria). The doctors of the time theorized that the Salmonella typhi had colonized her gallbladder. There were many asymptomatic carriers detected at the time but few if any persisted as cooks or preparing food once they had been warned.
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https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/03/11/homeland-security-acting...
You mean economic suicide?
It's not just about containment, which signs point to being past us. If we slow the infection and spread it out over time, we do a couple things. Slowing it gives us time to develop tests and treatment and processes and systems to deal with it. Spreading it out over time means that at any given moment fewer people need medical care. Like, if everyone needs care tomorrow, obviously the system can't handle it, but if a few people need it tomorrow, and a few the day after and so on, spreading it out over time, the system can handle a few at a time.

https://www.flattenthecurve.com/
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It cannot be contained. That’s what the pandemic declaration means (even though the WHO should have done this weeks ago).

At this point, the only rational thing to do is to try to slow the spread. The good news is that this is a very mild virus, and the vast majority of infected people will have minor symptoms. The fatality rate in Korea is currently 0.6%, and becuase of the comprehensive nature of their testing, this should be considered the upper bound on CFR.
Is there a list of the open source static analysis tools that you are using? Do you have any proprietary tools you have written?
Those are virus strain identifier names, not disease common names. IN that case the disease is called influenza.

The WHO advice applies to the common usage:

As these best practices only apply to disease names for common usage, they also do not affect the work of existing international authoritative bodies responsible for scientific taxonomy and nomenclature of microorganisms.

https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2015/naming-new-d...
> The chance right now that you will know someone you love being killed by Corona is really realistic.

Unless all the people you love are over 80 (in which case the chance of them dying before Corona hit was not much less realistic than it is now) that sentance is just completely false.

Why spread such fear and misinformation?
Yes, its dangerous and illegal but it's been done!

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/22/sudanese-ref...
No we're not. That's absolutely absurd to claim. It might -- MIGHT -- kill 2-3% of people who are highly susceptible to it, people who are in their 70s+, people with cardiac and respiratory disease. Maybe. We don't even know that will happen, because we can probably save a huge percentage of that population as well.

You're fearmongering, and it's bullshit.
OP's point wasn't "this is only going to have very limited effect", to which your reply "better than nothing" would be appropriate.

Their point is that there's absolutely no effect of banning travel between two areas with similar prevalence, based on rather simple logic.

Take two bags with mostly white and a similar number of red balls in them. Then, twenty times, grab one hand from each bag and empty it in the other. What's the expected change in number of red balls?
Yes, I am sure, and the article you quote confirms this:

> "It may become necessary to establish an age limit for access to intensive care." [Emphasis mine]
UK (and Ireland) are outside Schengen.

Even if they don't restrict it to British passport holders travelling to the USA, it's still arguably easier to screen for the virus through one departure point than, say, 30.
None of these are common-usage disease names, which the WHO advice applies to:

As these best practices only apply to disease names for common usage, they also do not affect the work of existing international authoritative bodies responsible for scientific taxonomy and nomenclature of microorganisms.

https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2015/naming-new-d...
It sounds like you've never been outside of a city in Europe and never been to a city in the US? Urban population in the EU in 2018 is 76% while 82% for the same year in the US according to The World Bank.
They need to start making zones of quiet/loud at this point. I travel the country and I can't believe the number of places where you just hear airplanes, __all__ day long, including after 1am. Sometimes it's a helicopter. It gets really aggravating that the helicopter (on flight radar) turns out to just be a private owner, at 1 am.

Basically having their fun at your expense and about 2000 - 20000 other people that have to hear it.

It's getting worse. I feel like the flight school things is extremely out of control. It used to be a few flights a day at specific airports. Now flight schools are operating out of pretty much any city with greater than about 15000 people, and what is worse they flight right over the town, and then up to 200 miles out. Then they reach their loop area and just loop. You end up hearing them pass over about 30 times an hour when they do this.

So I just cringe when I see comments in here about how the sky is mostly unused space, why don't we just cram it full of noisy shit.
For me the issue basically boils down to getting hung up on a certain way of doing something or implementing some feature/subsystem.

An example is reinventing the wheel in a (what is in hind sight) pretty janky way of handling dependency injection because I for whatever reason was hung up on minimising dependencies. It was in C++ and within a month I had realised my mistake but the damage to the code was already done.

I should note that the overall principle of my design/decision I still think has value but it was implemented poorly due to entirely pointless self-imposed constraints.

I've gotten better about this but I still occasionally see myself getting hung up on what are ultimately pointless details and self imposed constraints.

One of the problems for me has been finding where to draw the line on my self imposed constraints since a lot of them help me write better, more maintainable code but when taken to extremes they can occasionally negatively impact my work and cause long-standing technical debt.
I could see them closing the borders completely if things continue to progress.