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Ask HN: How are you going to cope living in the time of a pandemic?
I'm curious how you are going to adapt in the next week, month, six months, and year?
https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/blob/master/LICEN... says: "LICENSE.apache (Apache License) applies to all files in this repository, except for those in the enterprise/ and web/src/enterprise/ directories, which are covered by LICENSE.enterprise."

Thus, Apache 2.0 and some custom license requiring you to accept the terms, have a correct number of seats, and does not allow you to "copy, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell the Software."

I am not sure what all of this means, though. Better check out the licenses yourself :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22552902
Oh man I used to post on there, but I'm not sure I'd call it unusually intellectually curious.... but hey why not.
Exactly. And blanket policies are almost always terrible. Local communities have different constraints and different environments. There's no reason to believe that Fargo, North Dakota should have to respond to this in the same way that New York City does.
Futures are already way down. I am almost debating staying home tomorrow just to trade. But as other posters pointed out, he seems to have mispoken.
Ask HN: I am going to Vegas on Friday, how should I think about my risks
My wife and I have been planning this trip for a while now and I can’t figure out whether I am an idiot for going or an idiot for cancelling.
The point is, you find a power greater than yourself that you can surrender your will to. That "higher power" is different to everybody. A lot of people let them selves get hung up on the higher power bit because they can't abstract the idea of surrendering to a non quantifiable or tangible thing (hence the Zagnut bar for those who can't surrender to the idea of love or the ideas of forces of nature). Believe me, I was one of those people for a long time. But my suffering got so great that I eventually had to admit to myself that I cannot do it on my own and I need to find something I hold sacred and dear. And if a Zagnut bar is that higher power for you...then so be it. It's better to believe a Zagnut bar could restore me to sanity, then to continue to kill myself with alcohol and drugs.

Again, the point is surrender. I am in no way saying the Zagnut bar is doing anything but inspiring hope in the alcoholic. And you are 100% correct that the work comes from inside, not a candy bar. But without the surrender of self-will, nothing else is possible. Steps 1, 2, 3 are saying I am powerless over alcohol, that I cannot stop on my own, and need to have faith in a higher power of my own understanding to make it through this thing alive.
Does open source have this issue? Serious question I’m trying to think of examples but coming up short.
Colds make people more social I've heard, so doing that would be plausible.
When did you stop? It seems like 2007 was the point of no return for most of the users posting the really meaty content.
Death is not the only thing that coronavirus can do to you.

You can spend weeks or months in therapy before you are recovered, or you can get scarring in your lungs - or worse - that leaves you with a permanent disability. Not to mention damage to other organs.

I think many are discounting, or are unaware of, these other nasty possibilities. We don’t know enough yet of the prevalence of these effects, but we do know they happen.
The Azores is part of Portugal, which is on the travel ban list.
One big difference between F1 and the NBA is that in the NBA, players are routinely within 2m of each other. If that happens to F1 drivers during the race, they have problems other than coronavirus to be concerned about.
Dangerous assumption -- most domestic and international flights are the cheapest I have ever seen them.
Magic the Gathering Online Exchange isn't, lol.
NBA gets people seated in front of their TV's. I worry that this suspension means would be viewers go outside more.
You realize mild means “didn’t require hospitalization”, right? Many “mild” cases are taking weeks to recover.
Or it's possible that's where he contracted it.
I honestly don't remember why.

I don't think there was any sort of trigger.
https://www.reddit.com/r/2ALiberals/comments/fgvw64/the_medi...

This is exactly what I mean.
You were incorrect both times you replaced the widely reported information with your feelings. Misinformation is problematic, maybe slow down and check more sources before going that route again?
Ask HN: Why isn’t SV tackling fully autonomous Ag?
While everyone is congratulating AMZN and GOOG and FAANGs taking work remote, why aren’t we looking at our Ag.

1. Most of our food comes from outside USA.
2. Mid west grows corn and soy and not for human consumption.
3. We can’t live on lettuce and strawberries.
4. We need grains and rice and pulses and lentils grown here for food security.
5. We can’t grow a lot of stuff indoors.
6. With semi autonomous indoor systems, the inputs, plastic, lights, operations need maint and people. And not by anyone but by those who are trained specifically for growing indoors.
7. Compare this with outdoor Ag or hoop house natural farming where anyone can drop a seed, water or harvest or play a bot like a game to do the same. It’s a closed circle.

What we need is small local mostly autonomous universal tool carrying platforms that use minimal input and even less manual labour. We need to rely on physics now to replace manual labour and not chemistry for inputs or math to collect data.

This isn’t possible on large scale and can be easily done as small swarms of Ag bots to grow food, not commodities.

Every acre can feed 20-40 people of nutrient and calorie dense food if it grows vegetables, fruits, honey, greens and some small grains . Not including oil or wheat/rice etc. rice can also be grown indoors, but it’s a tad involved.

During an emergency: honey, eggs, dairy, fruits, greens, vegetables, seeds/pulses/lentils/small grains and commodities like rice/wheat etc should be easy to grow.

And then there is vat grown protein and algae/yeast based foods. I am probably getting carried away here. Anyways: TL:DR; small farms can produce a lot of food in small spaces if we have swarmable general purpose Ag bots to automate soil Ag. But we don’t have any. Can have get some please? Signed, small acreage food farmer.
> It seems like the administration is more interested in propping up the markets than actually addressing the health crisis and its human costs.

Pretty much. Trump is openly obsessed with the Dow.

And then we have the CDC, saying they're being told to wait on Jared Kushner "doing some research".

As far as I can tell the only research he could or would be realistically doing is determining which companies stand most to profit from measures, and make sure that family and friends positions in those companies are thoroughly set up.
See also http://donttouchyourface.net/ from a few days ago. This could actually be an interesting case study in different implementations of the same tool.
This seems not fully worked out. Assuming total travel is constrained, selectively limiting travel to particular areas concentrates travel in the remaining areas, which increases the average number of contacts between travelers, which violates your “reducing exposure to other people is best” rule of thumb.

By your model, some reductions in travel ought to have a negative effect. Is that a fair corollary?
> So suppliers can book a time with your facility, and they can enter details about the delivery, e.g truck type, number of pallets, number of lifts?

Correct!

> Does the software limit them to particular docks that are compatible with their truck, e.g side unload with a forklift vs rear unload with a pallet rider?

This would work. A 'dock' in Terusama has a type. Right now, everyone on our platform fits nice and neatly into 'van', and 'flatbed'. When assigning docks, we take into account what type of dock the appointment needs, and which docks are available to service that appointment.

> Does it take into account resource availability as well as dock availability, e.g a double trailer still takes one dock but can take much longer to unload?

This problem is the worst, and I don't have quite a good solution in mind yet. Right now we have the concept of, 'appointment types', and an appointment type can have a slot count. So, you could have a, 'double-wide' appointment-type, which would take up two slots on your schedule. So if your standard appointment is an hour, double-wide appointments would take two hours.

This gets messy when the warehouse wants longer appointments based on who the customer is, or who scheduled the load. I want to build some sort of rules engine, but can't justify the complexity just yet.

> Also a warehouse might be limited to how much work per hour they can process during certain times of the day, e.g morning vs afternoon and during lunch breaks or shift changes.

We handle this! Will build it more out in the future, but I just allow you to block off docks for certain times of the day. So a lunch break, would just be blocking off every dock at a certain time of day, and setting that block to repeat, daily.
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I have high hopes for System76 and their endeavors on laptops. While I’ve heard mixed things regarding some of their older laptops, I think there’s a lot of room to at least offer truly unique products. I actually considered buying the Thelio, just because it would look nice in the living room as an alternative to my current HTPC setup. (Not exactly rational, but it really does look nice.)

I know support for AMD Zen in Coreboot is currently pretty limited, but for example I’d love to see a mid to high end Ryzen laptop with Coreboot. Though even if it happened, I’d be kind of sad to leave Lenovo and their TrackPoint pointing stick...
Article implies that the average person had a 2% chance of drowning in a given year. If that was true, 64% of people would down by the agree of 50. Basic math doesn't add up. A 2% annual risk of death is catastrophic compared to normal life risks:
I was expecting the Curb Your Enthusiasm credits by the end there.
That guy did a little joke which turned into shutting down the whole league. What the hell
For some reason I read 'Viral SQL', these days...
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I suspect that in practice, decreasing the culture of meat consumption would have more of an impact on the emergence of zoonotic diseases than increasing the culture of food safety.

In particular, zoonotic influenza spreads by contact with infected farmed animals, not by insufficient cooking, and E. coli spreads by animal farming contaminating plants that don't normally call for cooking.

Plus, cooking doesn't kill prions, and prions are horrifying.
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Because they dont inconvenience people with Temperature checks on arrival- even from Milan.
I simply don't get that philosophy. That's maybe the only thing that I can't comprehend from them.

It doesn't bother me at all, I can handle all the Operating systems "natively"
It’s not only over 80s. It’s anyone with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, morbid obesity, and some others, which collectively describes large swaths of the US population.
Flights seem like fertile grounds for spread of the virus, so that may be reasonable. Obviously disruptive, but keeping people out of airports and planes should help flatten the curve to some extent
But which cup is it in?
Yea, it should prevent usable bitflips from hapoening. Instead you'd get complete corruption of a block
So when the ICU's are all full, and more people are coming in and a space in the ICU is freed up - who gets the slot? A randomly chosen person? Triage? First come first served? Or someone who can pay extra for VIP access? Because one person will get that space, and the next ten people are going to die in the hallway before the next ICU space opens up.

The reason why it's going to go this way is because we won't have the capacity for everyone who needs critical care. And the reason we won't have the capacity is a) lack of proper investments imagining this scenario, where in Japan and South Korea they have this capacity because they've had this experience and know better; and b) lack of discipline to weld ourselves into our homes or even voluntarily self-quarantine in order to slow things down and effectively give us more critical care capacity.

I spoke to 1/2 dozen people today who are traveling. Three think they have this thing, and have 3 of 3 symptoms. I told them not to travel. They said "Oh well" and are traveling anyway. That's what we're dealing with. A total lack of personal responsibility, upon which both the free market and our democratic government is based - and so far this is about as far as we've come.

The European flights being cancelled, seems sane to me. It's not about 1 or 10 people being sick per plane. It's reasonable to assume after a 6-12 hour flight, that everyone on board is infected if there was even 1 person infected at the start of the flight. I don't know the exact number of incoming European flights per day, I think it's about 80-110K passengers? That's what this stops.

Stopping all domestic travel would be better. Short term pain translates into tens of thousands fewer deaths over the next 3 months. China got a handle on this for now because they welded people in their homes. We aren't doing that which means we haven't slowed it down that much let alone stopped it.

Stopping cargo, if that turns out to be accurate reporting, I think is an overreaction.
Doesn't mean it's not still partly political, to be clear.
All players need to be tested. Thankfully they are young and healthy so the risk is low personally. Think about how many players lick their hands before a free throw and then pass it around, the refs touch the ball for tip off, etc. Damn a pandemic really makes you aware about how many microbes are out there.
SO $1 will buy you a chair...
Please do not spread disinformation: Italy banned direct flights from China pretty quickly too.

It did not matter, because patient-0 in Europe was a German. It’s now accepted that the virus arrived by crossing the Alps in some sort of Euro-business trip, not directly from China.
The ban is on the Schengen area, which does include the Azores.
Very cool. It reminds me of Netvibes and why I loved it so much when it first hit the scene circa 2006.
Singapore did a top job containing it but it's a small country, one airport..., countries like the US or Italy on the other hand will have a different outcome.
The kparc.io site has a surprising amount of nice content on it, presented very nicely.

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Joe Rogan has a guess on his podcast recently that is an expert. This virus spreads through air very easily. Huge numbers of the virus develop in the throat before symptoms appear. A person sitting at the front of the bus, can infect people many rows back.

The takeaway. Avoid all crowded places. Buses, Stores, Metro. And places that recirculate air, such as cruise ships, airplanes.

It will come like a wave, many many people will get infected at once, quickly. 1-3% will die. Eventually virus will run out of people not already immune to it, and the spread will subside.
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> ...real estate...

Sales.

> ...finance...

You make the real money here as an IB analyst (100+ hours a week in the office — definitely NOT less work than the average SWE job), or as a financial advisor, i.e. sales.

So, yeah, if you go into sales, sales, or sales, you can make more money that way than in tech as a SWE. But, honestly, do you think the average engineer would do well in sales?
Ask HN: Can US networks handle the coming increase in remote work and school?
I was watching the game, and they hadn't canceled it when this was posted, and the article said that it already was. Clearly the article was incorrect which is why I was responding, so people didn't read the misinformation. As soon as it was canceled I updated the comments with the edit.
I wonder. UK has Assange and 5G cards to play. I am willing to agree that move was more political than virus-based.
This is false. Studies done in Wuhan show that people with CVD have well over a 10% mortality rate. In addition, COVID-19 has the potential to cause permanent disability if it does not kill you first.
In Boston, at least, I'm seeing significant cultural changes. It's gotten much, much quieter, and meetings are all going online.
sidebar question - Anyone know how they've made the interaction/animation on this page [1] ? Feel like it is a great way to show lot of info in a concise way.

[1] - https://opensource.google/projects/explore/featured
Why can't you believe it? It will spread until so many are immune that it stops spreading. That requires it infect a good fraction of the population.
Yeah, doing ETL everyone wants me to use their data and perform magic with it, but I really want to see their stored procedures and queries running on top of it before I can understand the best way to "auto dashboard" anything.

Finding out the distinct set of values in any column helps a lot, referential integrity helps a lot, but without those queries its pretty dang hard.
The Oculus Quest has pretty much gone mainstream at this point, they even had supply shortages during Xmas that has yet to be recovered from (but mostly thanks to Corona).
> even if congress were to pass a law banning such gatherings, there would be first amendment implications

Isn't there an obvious compelling state interest?
Here in Washington Governor Inslee declared a State of Emergency, which gives him the power to, among other things, mobilize the National Guard and State militias to establish field hospitals. This is essentially the same reaction China had with regard to building temporary hospitals, but at the state level instead of the federal level. We don't need federal powers, just competent state leadership.
Looks like they backtracked on that one
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12379246581854699...
Interesting, coming from physics rather than an ML background what does it mean "practically" to learn a symmetry of a system? Is it the quantity <=> Noether's theorem being constant?
I dunno, where was your cruise and were there lots of mainland Chinese people on it? Sadly the symptoms for CoVid-19 are pretty common across a variety of diseases, so “flu-like but not flu” doesn’t necessarily point to this. At that time during the outbreak, it seems likely you would have needed to have people from Wuhan on-board.
I really lost heart when Trump addressed the cruise ship incident with "I don't want my numbers to go up." Just manipulation of the numbers to reduce fear/keep stocks up. But if the virus is a threat, it will become undeniable.

I don't normally say this, but I hope Trump's right about the whole thing. Wash your hands and you'll be fine, right? We'll see in a month. Maybe a week.
Sun and Google shook hands and decided Java was a super awesome standard that everyone should be able to adopt for free. Yay!

Sure, Sun sold Java (and the farm) to Oracle, but what if IBM sold SQL to Google? Do the same takesie-backsies apply?
Yes, the E-mini S&P 500 Futures March contract (ESH0) did hit a Velocity Logic circuit breaker at 9:13:12 PM ET, soon after Trump announced the travel restrictions. The halt lasted for 10 seconds and then trading resumed. It's down 4.4% now and is getting close to the low price limit for the day, which could halt trading completely until the CME lowers the limit at 9:30 AM ET.
Your stat does nothing to counter the OPs argument.
That's very amusing - I originally intended Fraidycat to be "closed" except for a brief window between 7 PM and 7:10 PM - we must be on the same biorhythm. It does update throughout the day - but perhaps there is another extension that can block Fraidycat when you don't want the distractions.

Thank you for the encouragement!
You have your math wrong.

Unless none of the people you love are over 70, that sentence is completely true.
My Bellevue daycare told me today that they probably won’t close unless a worker, kid, or family member gets the virus or...the state shuts them down. Fun times.
Maybe I misinterpreted what you meant. Your quote from the CDC said that the virus has poor survivability on surfaces, but the study I linked concluded it can survive for 2-3 days.
It’s more precise to say you don’t know whether you have 1000 deaths yet, as you are not testing even dead people at the same rate as elsewhere. Washington state got “lucky” by having a pretty obvious cluster that could not be brushed under the carpet, but there are likely hundreds of other pneumonia-related deaths going on right now who might well be undiagnosed covid19.
https://www.reddit.com/r/covid19 ...pretty well curated. Mostly scientific articles, stats, etc.
What is there to sell? What’s the product?
Also Industrial Light and Magic was/is? very successful.
Specifically, the new version is at https://source.chromium.org/, and the Android counterpart is https://cs.android.com/.
Our "market-base" healthcare system is totally unfit for pandemic containment.

Oh you have the disease, and you're part of the legions of people that 1) don't have insurance or 2) have skyhigh catastrophic coverage insurance.

You're first question isn't "should I get treatment", it is:

WHO WILL PAY FOR MY QUARANTINE.

And people will avoid the billing-happy US healthcare system, and large percentages of people stay in circulation.
This study [1] says it can last on surfaces for 2-3 days.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...
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The company isn’t just magically worth billions because they want it to be and want to exit. That may have worked years ago but those days are over.

They’re worth something relative to the revenues they’ve been able to generate. The IP is also worth something but given the cold shoulder from the FAANGs of the world probably not as much as they’d like.

At some level these sales start to look like a stubborn buyer that’s asking far too much for their house. It will sell but a painful reset of valuation expectations is clearly required if one wants a sale to close.
thanks for the laugh man. needed it today
Is it possible he could be sued over this if any of the reporters contract it?
Thanks for giving some context. I really believe that if you are banning someone you should explain your rationale. Personal attacks are not good and if that email is to be believed then it certainly seems like a justified decision. Hopefully the moderators will be able to improve on the optics of their decisions in the future.
Well calculated hit in an economic sense. As a side effect I suppose you could argue that some economic losses can lead to deaths... but that's certainly not the goal.
I strongly believe the freight industry is just too big. Like, it's just so big, I don't know if a single system could integrate everything.

But I would love to be proven wrong.
Part of the issue with VR/AR is that smartphones are already ubiquitous. Yes, I could wear your dorky looking headset and look like a complete fucken nerd, or I could just pull my phone out of my pocket like everyone else and get a lot of the same functionality.
It's about whether you've been to Europe at all in the 14 days preceding, not about whether your immediate origin was European.
>it certainly helps, it’s easier to control, and has a smaller impact on most people’s lives

it has quite a lot of significant costs, in particular on the airline industry and business travel which is smaller in number but pretty important. And given that community spread is going to be a far bigger issue this ban is nonsensical.
In some places this is relevant, in other places such as Scandinavia and Germany, other than public transportation it is not.
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