skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was clear from the start. In typical authoritarian communist fashion, China clamped down on the spread of information both internally and externally. Here's probably the best known example[0], but the most egregious manipulation came in the form of outbreak numbers, which are allegedly at least 10x underreported[1]. This was a deliberate combination of lack of testing, lockdown preventing citizens from seeking treatment at hospitals, misreporting cause of death by listing E.G. pneumonia, and other issues. When an authoritarian dictatorship orders no new cases, the people report no new cases.

I don't understand how people are so shocked to hear of China's manipulation. There's evidence for this kind of trickery from every major socialist state, especially the Soviet Union, which formed the mold the the initial CCP.

An authoritarian state can only exist so long as the people are too respectful and/or afraid to revolt. This creates perverse incentives to save face by, say, controlling information or spreading disinformation even at the cost of citizens' lives. And speaking of perverse incentives, like any massive bureaucracy, they are pervasive in states like China. For example, factor output is measured by the government by tracking electricity production. So if the government orders factories to come back online, but you don't have goods or employees to produce anything, you run the machines empty to run up the numbers.

0. https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/06/asia/china-li-wenliang-whistl...

1. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.07.20021154v...
It would have to have nowhere even close to 1%+ mortality rates in order for it to escape detection.
The signaling serves a purpose though.
It would likely be >1% mortality rate even with adequate healthcare. If it hit 40-70% of the population though, people would be basically on their own, so mortality rate would be 5-10%. Tens of millions of deaths.

Of course, this would never happen, since we as a society would enact major policies to slow the spread long before it got anywhere near that bad, just as Italy is doing for example. It just doesn't make any sense to wait for things to get worse to start enacting policies to slow its spread; if we're going to have to do it at some point, might as well do it early and reduce the spread.
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UK is already a hotspot. 100 confirmed cases in London (as of 11 Mar) means we should expect 10x that in practice. They just started later than some other countries.
Does this mean with a round trip, you could be allowed to fly to Europe and be trapped there?

Edit: apparently not, looks like it just applies to foreign nationals https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/03/11/homeland-security-acting...
Funny how he is blaming europe for spreading the virus
So, other people are a Zagnut bar?

The point here is that there is no "higher power" involved. It's other people or you yourself, or possibly both, neither of which in any meaningful sense qualifies as a "higher power", and either of which has a completely unambiguous, non-confusing term to refer to it: "Other people" and "yourself". The point is that it is dishonest to then pretend that somehow a Zagnut bar could plausibly be an agent helping you instead of simply saying the obvious: It's most certainly not the Zagnut bar, so what's left is you yourself and/or other people.
It's more about slowing the progress to spread out the number of infected over time.
I don't agree with you that C++ is superior to Rust
Given how bad our plan for the coronavirus is, Trump may yet succeed in getting Mexico to build a wall and pay for it.
> Nearly every day there are headlines that focus on Trump's persona rather than the substance (or lack thereof) of his policies, and the paper seems to prefer to publish stories that appeal to its in-group rather than stories that report what happened and contextualize it over time.

This!

I just assume Trump can't talk, but apparently his supporters think he's talking off the cuff so he's just being authentic even if they wish he'd not do it so much or be so crass, which I guess to them is him being genuine or honest. Trump will openly admit the only reason we sell arms to Saudi Arabia is because of oil, where as every other President made excuses, that's weirdly more transparent. His misspellings etc on Twitter are people seeing someone tweet stream of conscious, not even taking the time to spell check or reword it, which is terrible for public office but things have gotten so bad with politics they see him as telling you exactly what he thinks even if its terrible.

I don't give him that much credit as far as tactics, I know he likes to troll the media, the media reacts predictably, and some of his supporters love to see the predictable reaction. The media has become addicted to it, and the ratings, the DNC listen and pander to fringe voices on Twitter mistaking them for average people. They've started focusing so hard on Trump they've gotten nothing done, their talking points are losing moderates. People remember Bush being called Hitler, now everyone is numb to it. People just expect news organizations who live in their own Twitter bubble and major blue cities who pretend to be impartial to shit all over the GOP and never give credit, and over look the same behavior when committed by their own side. People with center right positions on the political compass positions even Bernie Sanders supported, are called alt-right, people have just turned off to it. They routinely misrepresent their position, or setup a strawman in the headline and clarify in the bottom paragraph if at all. Nothing was learned from the last election. They pushed a man to the front of the line who wasn't polling well is just as bad with words but for different reasons, and cusses out union workers on the factory floor when they accurately describe his position he explained in a news interview.
This awfully sounds like politically motivated than medically motivated.

Edit: Apparently it’s limited to Schengen Zone: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/03/11/homeland-security-acting...
The difference in age demographics isn't nearly enough to account for the differences in outcomes, unless you believe the proportion of people in Italy >70 years old is 5-10x that of South Korea. (Spoiler alert: it's not).

The issue has to do with preparedness and healthcare capacity. South Korea has 3x the number of hospital beds per capita than Italy.
And the UK is already the most popular destination in Europe for Americans. ~50% greater than #2 France.

I've no idea why other than language.

https://www.statista.com/chart/18742/most-popular-destinatio...
> 70% of the country will get infected. No matter what we do.

That's not really true. South Korea and China have proven that this thing can be stopped and R0 can be driven below 1. It just requires decisive action by the state (either heavy quarantining or mass testing coupled with behavioral changes by the population).
US suspends all travel from Europe for 30 days, excluding UK
Generally it is about slowing the cows.
Congrats on the launch! I've been (casually) looking into this space lately and it's seemed crazy to me how legacy everything is. Seems like there's a lot of potential here.

Are there any plans to handle truck tracking before they reach the warehouse? I know that's a huge lift, but I would imagine that could make a major difference in scheduling.

Good luck!
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Hi Cotter,

I'm interesting to explore further your products. Can we set time to have discussion with you? Thanks.
> This rationale ad absurdum would suggest you should be able to keep a nuclear bomb without proving anything to the state - an equally terrifying prospect.

This is precisely what other states do. Remember for a moment that nations are fictions, and jurisdictions are fairy tales. How is johnny down the road with a nuclear weapon any different than some other person unknown to you in military of the next country over with a nuclear weapon?

Your regulation can not extend to the whole planet, and therefore someone you don’t know and don’t regulate will always have access to the highest levels of destructive technology you can’t keep a total secret, which is why the Teller-Ulam work is still classified.

I just don’t see the distinction. If others who ignore your proposed restrictions and regulations having nuclear weapons is such an existential threat, should we be trying to kick people out of the nuclear club?

I just don’t think the risk is as much as you seem to think it is. Humans don’t somehow suddenly become calmer, smarter, or more rational simply because they are wearing uniforms.
> People owned fewer pieces of clothing overall, but everyone could still afford to be clothed.

Note that owning fewer pieces of clothing overall doesn't significantly affect your yearly cost of clothing, it just affects your initial cost to fill out your wardrobe.

What drives up yearly costs is that most new low-cost clothing doesn't last for many wears - it either wears out quickly due to being of relatively low quality, or is eventually donated/thrown out after languishing in a closet for years.
Regardless of the ability of people to travel to the UK or Canada and get here (which people have done for a long time with other nations we don't take kindly to) it's absolutely going to reduce the number of people who will travel across the pond. Which is the goal, reduce infection rates.

My concern is how economies are going to respond to the US being cut off from Continental ports for a month, which as far as I can tell hasn't happened since U boats were in open waters.

Can anyone comment on supply chains that rely on Europe to source goods? I know medical grade steel comes from over there, but I don't know what else.

Edit: apparently the president misspoke.
I know the Constitution is already pretty much dead, but I'm still saddened that nobody in these threads is bringing up the potentially disturbing precedent of this sort of thing yet. This is literally abridging the right of the people to peacefully assemble.

It's not during times of crisis that we should be more willing to accept abridging of our civil rights. It's during times of crisis where the state's ability to continue respecting the civil rights of its citizens is most important. Pandemic or not, we need to hold politicians accountable when they erode civil rights like this.
You realize both countries can screw up, right? And the fact that the NSA belongs to a country that screwed up doesn't prevent them criticizing other responses?

Moreover, the Chinese government has still to my knowledge not cleanly released true figures for lethality, R0, total infection count, etc, as would have been responsible. Instead the world has had to rely on side channels like whatever publications from Chinese scientists made it past censorship. If other world powers were relying on official government numbers, like the WHO, they can't entirely be faulted for the slow response, though I'd like to think government agencies were competent enough to pick up on everything legit and unofficial that started flooding Reddit and 4chan in early January.

The CCP in typical fashion put the CCP first, and that will cost the world many lives.
Fraidycat doesn't have a central server - so even if I do get knocked off by Facebook Mafia, the software will still function just fine. Can't compare to Feedly, don't know anything about it.
I would argue that's true of virtually all publicly-traded for-profit companies. They just vary widely in how much they "can get away with".
that's a great point. thanks for the corrective.
Do you know the names of the people in your own country who have nuclear weapons? Do you have access to the information about what they intend to do with them?

Is it, perhaps, illegal for them to even tell you?
I think a global option in the filtering menu would be just fine.
I am aware of that study -- my experience with a wooden Facespoon is that it can actually absorb some facial oil, at which time I suspect the wood is more problematic.
Follow-up from the American College of Radiology: https://www.acr.org/Advocacy-and-Economics/ACR-Position-Stat...

"CT should not be used to screen for or as a first-line test to diagnose COVID-19"
How so? This will undoubtedly push the world into recession, how does that help Trump?
It’s just that the sanction in Singapore are much more harsh than in the West. When I visited I noticed that fines are about 10 times higher than in Canada for the same offense. And there is no caning as well.
Bringing up kythe from scratch is very daunting. First thing I did when I left google, of course, but still really hard.
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Italy, Hubei, and South Korea all happen to have around ~60M people.

When talking about China's coronavirus response, the numbers really have to be split up into Hubei and non-Hubei.
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Anyone smart enough to help me understand why UK would be exempt?
The situation in Europe will be much worse a month from now than it is today, unfortunately. I'd bet on this ban lasting closer to 90 days than 30.
Even if it is closed people can still cross easily from the southern border, there is no way to hermetically closing everything, you can only slow things down a bit and control the pace. Turns out that controlling the borders is not such an insane and "racist" idea, but that's also a bit too late.
yea I'm guessing the market will be all red again tomorrow.
I know people will try to come up with all sorts of edge cases to figure out how to get from Europe to the US, but the fact is if you lie about where you’ve been you will likely end up in federal prison. Don’t try it, wait 30 days.
> I think most people using the word "disposable income" would use the term the way I stated.

That's "discretionary income" you're thinking of.
Japan isn't really doing much and many suspect that they are deliberately looking away from the coronavirus outbreak because of the 2020 Olympics later this year. IMO, the gov't willful neglect and concealment is exactly what enabled the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China and I fear this might come back to bite them later.
They are self-consistent if “unthinkable totalitarian measures” didn’t work, and the Chinese government has switched to a mitigation strategy without informing the populace.
Sourcegraph CEO here. This is the same underlying code search offered for a while by Google Cloud Source Repositories for private code, and it’s cool to see this usable for Google’s own open-source code, too.

If you want to get universal code search for your own (private) code on any/all code hosts, Sourcegraph is easy to set up internally (self-hosted Docker install) at https://docs.sourcegraph.com/. Or you can get code search for all OSS projects at https://sourcegraph.com/search. More general info at https://about.sourcegraph.com.

Lots of Xooglers and current Googlers use Sourcegraph, too. Just mentioning Sourcegraph because I’ve seen several other folks mention us in the comments (thanks!).
Just because he can’t anticipate the repercussions doesn’t mean it wasn’t politically motivated
And yet Wal-Mart still sells homeopathic remedies and tons of other low-quality products.
This is insane. What are the chances of this happening for Asia? I'm currently in Asia and it would be unfortunate to not be able to return home.
> We find that polarization has increased the most among the groups least likely to use the Internet and social media.

This could imply dominant second-order effects. Traditional media has changed its content & form radically in response to the Internet.
If you want to deprive someone of their access to phosphorus, you need to deprive them of either their access to urine, or their ability to boil liquid.

I don't know what that endgame looks like, but I'm not a fan of it.
Ports are basically already at a standstill.

I personally feel this policy will get altered as the markets tank further.
I found this on github in Google's org : https://github.com/google/codesearch
Off topic:

The comments system on the site is awesome, can't believe I haven't seen it before!

https://utteranc.es/
How are you planning to travel to UK by land? It's an island!
I don't know about the actual economy but finance seems to hate this. Most open market indicators dropped by like 3%...
This is in the plan. https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/9

Just wanted to ensure the concept was solid before venturing into it. Also concerned about storage of credentials.
Fuck u bit-*CH
Canada will go $$$!
Im one of those users, and I tend to use HeidiSQL or DBeaver for exploring.
Yeah, pretty much my thought. The real question is "how many bombers were arrested ahead of time due to this law", which is a bit harder to answer though.
While I have most of the annoyances for potentially switching from MacOS to Linux as a daily driver, the inconsistent system shortcuts are the big killer. Even with emacs-style shortcuts enabled at the system level, there are no guarantees. ctrl-n may go down one line, or it may open a new window. It's even inconsistent within a single app: ctrl-w will close your browser tab unless you're in a text field, in which case it will delete backwards one word... maybe (in firefox, even some text fields fail to intercept ctrl-w, and you still end up closing the tab).

macOS does a great job of supporting Emacs navigation keys at the system level, while using the super key for things like copy/paste, close tab, quit application, etc. This leaves the ctrl key free for those system-level emacs bindings.

I started down the path of attempting to customize my Linux machine to use super like in MacOS, but gave up due to inconsistencies in whether or not an app recognizes the super key or if it even allows you to customize your bindings (e.g. make super-w close a tab).
Fwiw, make sure you're using a newish python version. They weren't always sorted by default.
Not at all, it was demonstrated as taking 5 minutes on a production Model S. They also built one swap station.

Some say it was all done for show and they never had any intention of following through. From the interviews with Musk at the time, I got the impression that it was more of a defensive move in case the concept started to gain traction.

Either way, though, the vehicle was built for it and it literally took the same time as a gas fillup. I'm sure the demonstration videos are still on Youtube if you are interested.
Haven't seen any official details yet so just speculating at this point, but the China travel ban applies to "any foreign national who was in China during the last 14 days" (except green card holders/diplomats). It'll likely be a similar definition with the EU.

Edit: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/03/11/homeland-security-acting... confirmed this (countries in Schengen area)
Great product. Used it extensively at Uber.
Do you really think some moron bumbled his way into the most powerful office in the world? Have you stopped to think about how unlikely something like that is?

You may not agree with his style (I don't) or his personality (hate it) but the guy has to be minimally intelligent to make it as far as he has. At the very least he knows how to work a crowd and spot opportunity.
Tom Hanks says he and Rita Wilson tested positive for coronavirus
The sky is mostly empty space when, and only when, there are not flying taxis at sufficient scale for society to bat an eye
Invisible woman to life of the party- Data science changed my perceived value
You can walk from France to the UK through the Chunnel, technically.
Chunnel notwithstanding, Northern Ireland is part of the UK.
That seems to be the news.

I suspect that Monday will shortly be the second largest drop in absolute terms after tomorrow. We might even see tomorrow crack the top 10 in percentage terms.
They had no screening for incoming travelers at airports just a couple of days ago - no health questions or temperature checks, nothing. And now a 30 day ban? This won't solve the problem, but it will vastly exacerbate the economic disruption.
Short term pain may lead to long term political gains. This all plays into the narrative, the story that certain political fractions push.

It’s not like it will change too much anyway(EU and USA will be like Italy in few weeks, they already have the infection spreading). Besides, it was “just a flu” few days ago according to him.
Yes, it's strange that a lot of articles don't seem to be mentioning that. Here's the relevant section of the address: https://youtu.be/pdO2HEtv92c?t=105

> And these prohibitions will not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo, but various other things as we get approval. Anything coming from Europe to the United States is what we are discussing.
This seems like a bad attitude. Perhaps you could constructively ask for a sourcegraph-lite that does less, in return for less deps / networking complexity?
Thank you! Any complaints/requests/other feedback? How could we make it better?
More like closing the gate so the coyotes don't keep attacking your cows.
1. Rem does not need a fallback [1]

2. Rem works awesome for making default font sizing. (like a normalize in a way) [2]

3. Rem allows us to use a sort of centralized sorta relative sizing that percentage and em just do not fulfill.

Rem is awesome, I think this guy just can't get passed the "it's new and so I don't like it" problem.

[1] https://caniuse.com/#search=rem

[2] https://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/font-size-with-rem
That's why I mentioned beacons for collision avoidance. They wouldn't be expensive. If we're about to build this industry from the ground up I would expect to see something like that done anyway.
The reason the UK is behind continental Europe is the lack of testing. Their numbers are no worse than continental Europe (excluding Italy, of course). The US, on the other hand, are lightyears behind Europe on testing, the real number of infections is closer to 5000 than to 1250, again bringing it in line with the rest of Europe.
Uranium-238 is just an element as well. However that is very highly regulated and I think is a very good thing for it be.
Forget markets: we make drugs here they need there and vice versa.
> Can anyone comment on supply chains that rely on Europe to source goods? I know medical grade steel comes from over there, but I don't know what else.

I don't see why commercial sea-shipping would be restricted.

Mariners may not be allowed to leave their ship while in port though.
I think what would happen is the hordes of people who are not remotely qualified, e.g. folks looking to move on from receptionist positions, tech support people from less prosperous nations looking for visa sponsors, etc, would continue to shotgun their applications. And qualified people wouldn't bother.
In a plane you have some space to react before you can take control of but on roads you're bound to other interacting factors as well like other drivers on road. If the FSD isn't 100% self capable then you're basically playing a calculated risk with an array of sensors and data.
I think the scale of global impact is different. I’m now turn into a person who religiously wash my hand, and care about hygiene and stuff much, much more often than before, all thanks to this COVID-19.
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If you think that people being locked up in their apartments for a month would result in the same transmission rates as people going about their lives freely, I don't know what to tell you: apart from all the other fantastic properties people have imagined SARS-CoV-2 to have, it also apparently can magically infect people who don't have contact with it.
People will probably invest on research on how to contain and react to new types of diseases.

Both those 4... 3 of them are against human nature, the other one is expensive, just forget about it.
I think we are saying basically the same thing - this works only on short runs and the fixed costs are similar. So where are the putative gains? 2x I can see, maybe. But it's a big maybe. 10x seem to be fantasy land. So that means no disruption.