skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I find it strange how otherwise highly creative and open-minded people don't see this. Based on other country's experiences you could get this reasonably under control with some rather draconian measures (that might cost 1%+ of GDP to hold), but far less than total shut-down. examples:

1. Remove all testing bottlenecks.

2. Mandate face mask usage in all public settings.

3. Maintain massive queryable databases of cell phone location data for everyone. Goal is to easily find all potentially infected people if you identify a new case.

4. Keep mass gatherings (sports, conferences) closed due to difficulty contact tracing. (until number is really down)

Note that because so many countries screwed up already, a short term lockdown is necessary. But the above is how you handle life after
No need to be harsh. What is moving the needle is postponing elective surgery. There are a lot of anaesthetists and they are medics who can manage patients on ventilators.
Return to travel restrictions + contact tracing, and if community spread flares up again, reinstitute social distancing. Repeat until vaccine is developed.
You can't have contact with someone with a confirmed case of Covid-19 if nobody is being tested for Covid-19.
What happens once China starts dismantling mitigations currently in place, given that the majority of the population is still naive to the virus? Is it reasonable to expect they can wait out the virus disappearing completely by tracking all active cases until they have recovered?
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This isn't a mulligan, that's the trouble. Previous contact tracing efforts had the advantage that we knew where the initial cases were coming from - China, primarily Wuhan - and could use that as a starting point. Those failed in most countries. After shrinking the epidemic down, the initial cases are basically just random people who have what looks like a cold. It'd be like searching for a few needles in a massive haystack.
WHO doesn't agree with your numbers:

https://www.who.int/immunization/sage/1.Briand_epi_7th_July_...
In italy one and the only factory of ventilators which was selling worldwide 250 units per month is now producing 500-600 per month exclusively for the italian hospitals (and past orders not yet sent abroad were blocked bt the government and redirected to italian hospitals) for the next ten months.

https://youtu.be/7Iz5tWb9f8A [hoping the english subtitles work]
One other consideration: The population of the United States is six times larger than South Korea's. Keep this in mind when comparing the total number of cases in each country.
Thanks, but not really practical for us (2 kids in school and partner with great career and tenure).

We do live frugally however which is how I was able to start the business in the first place. We traveled a lot when we were younger but now we live what many would probably call a "boring" life. We're anti-consumerist, minimalists I suppose and we're happy with that ;-)
Maybe one should note, that there are two possible Elisa based strategies. Yes, You can present some viral protein to detect antibodies produced by the body after serum conversion, as you said. This serum conversion takes at least a week to happen and you need a blood sample. On the other hand you can also immobilize antibodies specific to the viral proteins and directly detect the virus. This is possible immediately after infection and fluids like sputum or saliva can be used. Both strategies are under development for quick tests right now.
WhatsApp? Name one messenger that is not closed source and the masses use.
You're right, IE6 was amazing at the time. It made a ton of things possible that previously hadn't been, and the standards bodies were lagging behind it. Had MS actually kept updating IE6 and kept it ahead of the standards, the standards would never have mattered, and we'd never have developed this sick taste for IE. No one hated that they had a monopoly, we hated that they had a stagnant monopoly.
I'll be more than happy to step in for that void.

Amazon and Bezos should certainly be taxed their share. I for one don't want to support tax avoidance/evasion and theft from labor. They're not running a charity work or a public service disguised as Amazon marketplace (there is Amazon Smile to be fair) by any means, at least not to my knowledge.

Amazon doesn't make me feel any bit safer and no business should be capitalizing on panic buying, be it a local business or Amazon.

They're running Amazon and hiring more workers because there's a massive opportunity to further stamp out their retailer competition, solidify their foothold further, and make money... not out of the goodness of their investors hearts. It's about money/business opportunity, not your security.
There are industry-based bear markets and bear markets in other countries almost every year. They all work the same.
And the NL. Seems that Rutte (NL prime minister) is betting the farm on herd immunization and minimizing economic disruption while letting the virus spread “under control”.

If it sounds a lot like the Chernobyl script it’s because it is.
Agreed. The fallout from this, beyond loss of life and impact to day-to-day, will be really interesting and will seem obvious in hindsight.
> But then you have to program in C++ or JavaScript.

Bindings are available for Python, Go, Rust, C#, Java, Crystal, D, Haskell, Julia, Node.js, OCaml, and more besides:

https://wiki.qt.io/Language_Bindings#These_are_third_party_l... (non-exhaustive)
It's never a problem until it is all at once and you realize they hold all the keys.
To be clear, I wasn't arguing from a "green" point of view. I'm arguing driving a car as an individual solution to the outbreak is not a particularly useful solution to the community at large; this must be a community effort.

Mine wasn't an argument about pollution or the environment, but about individualist vs collective solutions.
Substantial undocumented infection facilitates rapid dissemination of SARS-CoV2
I think the poster was saying that .NET has a dev strategy, but other projects don't.

> Microsoft can’t even put coherent dev strategy outside of .NET on Azure
It is my understanding that the church is sort of a cult, and it's followers hide their membership.

This illustrates the challenge with tracing approaches: if people are not open, or not sufficiently aware of the consequences of their actions, it's very easy to miss infections.
As much as you want, whatever order makes sense, anywhere, yes, FDA says 2 hours in the danger zone, google the rest or get a legalzoom consultation if you're unsure.
> but I am not sure that's true, in Italy they are building hospital wings or re-adapting abandoned hospitals in many places. Rome has 4 planned covid hospitals as of now.

True. But those are being done after the fact. It's too late already for Italy. By comparison, the U.S. still has time now before the curve shot straight up to the max - then no amount of measures are going to be able to keep up with the viral infection rate (and death counts)
Seriously?! "Quitting for new work" when in a week or so no companies will even be doing in-person interviews?

This sounds just insane to me. "Quitting before you find a job" is bad advice even in very good economy.
The same reason why not testing for the virus doesn't stop its spread. Markets can spread psychological panic very quickly, but a lot of the short term behavior here is based on very short term bets about what other people are going to do on average. Give the market a month to integrate some information that is relevant over slightly longer timescales and we'll see where it thinks we are.
I think that's their point. It isn't a centralized service comparable to Discord that will be overwhelmed by the entire quarantined world bearing down on it at once.
Minecraft for Linux does not have the same features.
After I exited my last business, it took me 3 years to finally get up to feeling ready again. I also went to a dark place for a while. My best advice is to keep your head up and think more about the present than the future, at least for a little while. Keep yourself busy and avoid things that feel too cumbersome or dreadful. Exercise and treat your body well.

In between battling depression and anxiety over the years, I started doodling things again. Those doodles turned into thought experiments, into reading research papers, into connecting into a new field. I'm feeling more energized these days about starting something new, and more excited about working on a startup again.

I wish there was some way I could have avoided falling into the emotional abyss and spending so many years there. Maybe I should have focused on building more friendships over the years instead of being a loner. You really start to take for granted such things until the isolation of failure sinks in. Hopefully this time I will find a co-founder willing to go to felt with me. I'm not sure I can endure another solo fail.
One of the most common arguments against treating "gig economy" workers as employees that I see is that none of these "gigs" are not supposed to be primary sources of income. Unemployment insurance (in California at least) is funded by (and total payout is determined by) paycheck deductions on W-2 employees.

While I certainly support providing financial support for everyone, everyone should be paying into the system. Just like with health insurance.
In a sense, that's why I prefer Twitter. At least people have to actually reply to you if they don't like your post
>So what are you going to do when the virus is gone in your city/state/country, isolate yourself from the rest of the world

Yes, that or have 2-4% of the infected population die...
They aren’t going to profit from WinUI either. Not many devs will jump on it.
> remain in this mode for years

What's your basis for that? It seems like a vaccine will be available well before years have gone by.
> I just want to remind everyone that H1N1 in 2009 killed between 150-600k people worldwide. Between 10 and 20% of the world population caught it at some point. The fatality rate was greater than Covid-19.

This is categorically false.

According to estimates from the CDC, in the United States, H1N1 infected ~61M people and killed ~12,649 for a CFR of around 0.02%.

https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/estimates_2009_h1n1.htm

Stats for the global H1N1 pandemic estimates estimate ~1B people infected with 500,000 deaths. That's a CFR of 0.05% worldwide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic

You should stop claiming that the CFR of H1N1 is larger than COVID-19, when all current data and epidemiological estimates show that it absolutely is not.
It's also very normal for viruses to become more mild over time.

We strongly react to strong threats. It's in the viruses interest to become a weaker threat like the common cold so we tolerate it instead of actively fighting it.
Where is this second order against walking, hiking, and running in the Bay Area? Where do I find this curfew and what it is? Same for this "2 months prep".
The boat on in person interviews sailed a couple of weeks ago.
Empirically, that's plainly false. Corruption declines, on any level, when the right policies & incentives are in place.
Thanks! I might take this advice. I can certainly spend a week or two doing general maintenance in the yard and around the house.
This is probably a wave of margin calls forcing a lot of funds to liquidate. This contraction will reduce the money supply and scare this generation of investors.
Are you sure COVID-19 didn't partially prick a systemic issue that was hard to see on the rise (as many also missed the housing crisis before the fall)? For example, the amount the stock rise was attributed to stock buybacks in an unsustainable manner caused by late stage government policies (tax cuts, low rates). There has been some pretty extreme levels of corporate debt that correlates with this.
South Korea did just fine, they managed to prevent the exponential curve so far. In the USA, the government just fucked up and did nothing, even actively engaged in disinformation.
I suspected Amazon would do well in this crisis, and this development confirms it.

My elderly neighbors, for example, are now ordering their groceries online and having them dumped on their doorstep.
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It runs Windows :D
If you want to eat a banana before you singing go for it.
Things you eat or drink don't touch your vocal folds, so they aren't going to coat or otherwise mess with them.

My recommendations are drink plenty of water, avoid alcohol, and practice.
Big leap from "servers cost money" to "a package manager requires a commercial entity". How are other language ecosystems and package managers operating, many without private companies attached, when they too are serving millions of requests a day?
For individuals, small targeted groups, absolutely. Not for entire metropolitan areas.

I fear this is being used as another step towards an overpowering executive authority.
The logistics of getting goods such as food and medicine into third world countries have hardly anything to do with their manufacturing price. Even once you get them there, distribution is a nightmare. Obviously I'm not referring to countries with no actual economy to speak of.
Please don't use code blocks for regular text and quotes. Really hard to read on mobile and narrow viewports.
> I mean... git repositories can be cloned. People that depend on libraries can vendor them, or outsource that job to someone else (like Google's go module cache / checksum database). Using git does not make your project vulnerable to the whims of Github, and it doesn't make your users vulnerable to the whims of Github.

The thing is that Fossil is not just the code source, it's the issues, wiki and all the information around. Basically a self-hosted GitHub, so you can take all information with you, not just the code.
The closest outbreak to COVID-19 is probably the 1918 Spanish flu (forward-looking statement). And we are going to have 100% likelihood that this year's COVID-19 death count is going to surpass 30k people globally.
Signal?[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_%28software%29
I also got problems with Safari Books Online around lunch time.

But our Microsoft Teams meeting in the morning worked pretty well. Even that everyone was calling from home. (That is 10 connections while usually is just one meeting room and a couple of people from home or another location).

Google Photos search was also stuck for several seconds before getting results.

In general the web felt slow most of the day. I am not surprised that Discord service is suffering.
100,000 people die of old age every day.
Amazon is now the only store open. This will clearly accelerate the death of retail, to the point that I'm not even sure it will survive.

We must have a rent holiday if those businesses and their workers are to survive.
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Do you honestly think their server would ever see the same load? That's part of centralization vs decentralization - different load topology.
Thank you. I think just spending a few weeks doing some maintenance jobs around the house and yard is what I need.
What would you prefer that paragraph say?
That is industry. There’s no difference between industry and people doing stuff.
Almost any other package repository is funded by donations from companies using them or a grant from an infrastructure provider.
It is that thinking about humans as meat robots that aren't blessed with free will makes you unable to understand them, help them, make them happy, support them etc.

> My personal observation is that most people who self-identify as lonely lean heavily towards intellectualism and wanting to understand things instead of emotionality and being happy with intuition.

They are emotional too. Pretty common phenomenon about contemporary people who lean heavily towards intellectualism is that they rationalize and explain away their feelings and emotions based decisions.

What you call being happy with intuition is sometimes taking into account complexities that can not be neatly simplified.

For example, the honest truth is that they did something out of anger, fear, wish to show up, but they will go out of their way to frame action as thought out and logical. Their opinion may be actually subjective, based on sympathies and feelings, but they will spend hours constructing elaborate arguments for why the feeling was actually objective.

This makes it harder to reason about other people too and harder to understand complex reasons behind why others do what they do.
Latest UK virus advice aims to cut deaths to ‘a few thousands’
this is simply a container with a docker runtime in it, it's haeavy in that sense
Disappointed this article makes no mention accelerating development and distribution of vaccines by relaxing FDA approval processes.

Sure, that may take 9-18 months. But preventing the "second wave" is more important than reacting to it.
It'll be interesting to see how Italy (lockdown) compares with the UK (just let it infect everyone) compares with South Korea (extensive testing & contact tracing, plus social distancing) in a couple months.

My sense is that the UK will probably fold and institute a lockdown once their ICU capacity gets overwhelmed and healthy young people start dying in the streets. Either that or they'll face a revolution and then have a lot more problems. Of course, by the time it gets to either of those points it'll be too late to effectively change course.

But it's interesting to see at least one country take the position that "Hey, we're going to let this run its course, take our lumps now, and try to get back to business as usual ASAP." I could be wrong, and maybe this is a genius application of heartless logic. Time will tell.

RemindMe!2months ;-)
Looking at Europe (but the US seems to be taking the same direction). All restaurants, shops, entertainment, tourist industry are closing, and will remain closed for several months. Large businesses will fire people (see airlines now), small businesses will go bust.

If these health policies undershoot their targets in term of number of people infected, then we may have to deal with this virus again next fall/winter, so add a few more months of similar pain.

I just don't see how this will not have lasting effects. Even in Dec 2008, at the very worst of the crisis, you had deep discounts in shops, but at least you could consume. But here all malls will be basically closed.
Yes, why isn't there more focus on getting R0 < 1? Flattening the curve seems like a good idea, but R0 < 1 also seems very important.

(I've been trying to simulate this, but ended up battling matplotlib unsuccessfully to create a graph.)
I have a feeling it’s fairly subjective, but good to read up on. I’ll definitely try pineapple next time (as recommended in the article).
In Seattle some items are a few days, and some are over a week out (currently saying the 24th).
According to current numbers,the CFR in SK is closer to 9‰
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[1] https://nssac.bii.virginia.edu/covid-19/dashboard/
Even if the whole world was in sync, you more or less have to hold Re below 1 forever or accept that 1-1/Re of everyone gets the virus. That's basically a tautology. But Re can be affected a lot by testing and tracing when the infected population is tiny compared to your resources, and not so much when it is huge. Re could also be affected a lot if we had a vaccine, which will probably take years in the current regulatory regime but is something that might actually benefit from disparate international approaches.

It wouldn't be crazy to ask international travelers to pay the marginal cost of extra testing and/or the negative externality of spreading the virus between worse and better controlled regions.
you can simulate multiple nodes for example, if you want to experiment with node selectors or test having a multi-node setup, it's quite easy with kind
Because a public personal ledger of every cent you ever transacted is perfect for protecting you from an authoritarian regime willing to use force against you...
No fork is required. If you build before from the source in its main repo, there is no tracking included by default.

It’s builds released by Microsoft that have all of their specific stuff added in.
It's not even a re- infection necessarily. Second test could have been a false negative.
Marginal businesses of any size are going to fail, and the less marginal will become marginal.

Larger businesses have a proportionately larger need for money to sustain themselves. Big business doesn't mean rich business. Look what's happening to the airlines.
AFAIK, physicians in the U.S. are vexed by how many hours per day they spend dealing with insurers rather than patients.

I wonder how many clinic-hours we could add to our capacity by some kind of moratorium on that level of paperwork.
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Just like Java
Be warned, Kind is incredibly heavy weight. It wants over 8GB on my laptop just to start, and pins cores for 10 minutes.
There is no bailout here. It would be like the fed stepping in to offer title loans because the title loan companies get too scared. No debts are being forgiven here.
While the sentiment that you've expressed is possible, Mitt Romney cannot do it, as he is a senator.
That’s fine. The parent comment was recommending people increase their buying right now however. My point was this isn’t necessarily a special opportunity just because it’s off a peak.
Sounds like we will need the suggestion in this article just to ramp up mask production. And the willingness to make mask wearing mandatory by law. There are too many idiots out there who will not do it otherwise.
But they do also say that masks are difficult for people to use correctly, and if you're not using it correctly it'll increase your risk.

slowhand09 has been unfairly downvoted, because they are factually correct. Epidemiologists are telling the public not to use masks because PPE needs training.
Thanks. I do need to forget about things but I also feel I need to feel as if I've earnt a paycheck. Does that make sense? I have not "won any bread" for the last 4 years and even some casual hours doing unskilled labor, I think, might make me feel energized.
It's sort of weird to hear everyone talking about how social distancing is now the norm, when in the last few days up through today, there have been viral videos of massive crowds at airports, bars, and beaches. The governor of West Virginia just held a press conference encouraging people to go out to eat at restaurants. Several states are supposed to have democratic primary elections tomorrow. I didn't watch the debates, but apparently candidates were encouraging their supporters to go out and vote.
VSCodium say they’re not a fork.

> This is not a fork. This is a repository of scripts to automatically build Microsoft's `vscode` repository into freely-licensed binaries with a community-driven default configuration.
Something weird is up in that case

> Across the country, 76 per cent of patients received a hip replacement in 2017 within the recommended six-month wait time, down from 81 per cent in 2015.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/hip-knee-replacement-wait-tim...
If this were a Bond movie, Bezos would be cackling in his secret lair about how his viral plan was coming to fruition. Bond (played by Idris Elba) would then cough on Bezos, who would whip out his antidote, which Bond would grab, escape, and release to the world before being killed by Thanos. (Pitch Meeting, call me)
I don't think people are rejecting those ideas so much as ignoring them for the moment. It's too late for planning, we need a solution now, and mass para-quarantine is really the only tool that can be deployed.

By all means let's investigate other options once the first wave is under control. But right now the first wave is growing out of control in basically every western democracy.

#StayHome now, then work on a better plan. Make it work first before you make it work fast, basically.