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We don't have enough masks in Europe, and those few are needed for professionals.

Besides that, I think that especially in times like this, it is important to stick to the recommendations of experts. Here in Germany, the expert recommendation is akin to the parent comment. These recommendations are crafted by people with a lot of expertise on the subject and who care for the health of people, and I think it is not productive to fundamentally questions their advice.
1% of humanity is something like 75 million people. That's plenty of people to correspond and work together with.
Percapita?

Obviously there are more American ICU beds in absolute numbers, but also there is a bigger population.
If you watch the Viking video clips from the NASA office and see the group of nerdy 70s people who got us to space... you start to appreciate that it’s not always a uniform species for
inspiration, the crossover with the lowest common denominator is less interesting in practice, or worrying. Something I dont always remember every time I come across popular threads on Twitter and want to claw my eyes out. (And yes I know you’re joking.)
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As far as I know, not everybody is getting tested. I'm assuming it's mostly those showing symptoms and seeking tests, or those who believe themselves to have been exposed seeking tests.

It's still a high number, but not the apocalypse.
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> Look, guys, I promise you the fed knows wtf they're doing. These guys live and breath to be ready to respond to these type of emergencies.

Isn't that the same thing we were told in 2008?
This is what I felt when someone pointed me to the article. I noticed people were still going to birthday parties and other social events when they really should be practicing social distancing.

Even a milder flu like in 2009 could reach 59 million and COVID-19 can be exponentially worse. That is really the only take away. We need to discuss this in the open to bring that truth to light. I agree with some of the folks here who said many could see it another way and take light view of the situation. What exactly can make them see it differently though?
For some more perspective:

Italy has 3,333 deaths from car accidents per year. Currently 0.04% of Italy has confirmed covid-19. They have 1809 deaths from it.
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I think I disagree. The reason Wikipedia worked is because of random contributors interested in sharing the knowledge. The classic form on the other hand is getting less engagement as you see with encyclopedias. You need moderation on charged topics and the results aren't that impressive. Sure, there might be vandals, but they focus on the buzzing topics, for which Wikipedia might not be the correct platform.

Articles that require intervention do mostly regress to the lowest common denominator. Only minimal content on different perspectives because it would inflame more bickering. I think a system that just slows down contribution and forces people to settle emotions would be more effective. Because moderation intervention will not be accepted by many people if it doesn't cater to their point of view.

As for institutions to regulate content, the negative outweighs the positive on most cases. Wikipedia is successful because of its lack of central authority.

The early strategy to just flag an article as controversial was the best way in my opinion. Because it informs the reader.
> Women's wages, for example, are very easily suppressed by a cultural racket that tells us the kinds of jobs they do (teacher, nurse, etc) are not very valuable.

Aren't nurses making six figures (or close) in the US?

Re: teachers - currently in many countries teaching is organized as a slacker's paradise - everybody makes the same amount of money (barring seniority etc.), there is very little accountability for results of the work, teachers are guaranteed job for life etc. This, at least in my country (Poland), more or less attracts people who are slackers or burnt-out in other jobs. As teachers, they do shit job and get paid ok amounts of money, which is a fair deal for them (as otherwise many of them would leave). Meanwhile, everyone who cares about their child actually learning something (i.e. parents who want to send child to good university with entrance tests) purchases private tutoring - this is where the real learning happens.
Be careful what you infer. The part that you asserted was 'completely wrong' was of your own inference.

Remember the HN guideline to assume the best possible intent of other people's comments.
That's extremely kind of you (I mean that genuinely).

But how many elderly people do you think have such support?
No issue? Corporate debt ...

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/03/12/c...
Is this a surprise to Americans (genuine question)?

It's plain as day that Hollywood films are strongly designed to influence the American's perception of war and their position in it/contribution to it when you watch it as a non-american.

That's before we even get into the "flag tax".

The more films you watch over the years the more cringeworthy it gets. Whether that's the whole one-man-army, or some other recipe, it feels like the viewer is being treated like an idiot.
It's not an insinuation.

Who can't see that Tr. is in politics for his own pockets is it too.

I've added a lot of pointers already. But another one is to look up the documentary about his son in law: Kusher Properties.

They are literally made for each other and not in a good way.
I nominate you to /r/ChoosingBeggars
To this date it blows my mind that people don't realize that drug prices are a result of market intervention, not the other way around. Finding holes in FDA regulations for drug monopolies is a clear cut case of too many regulations that just don't work well together, not the other way around.
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When people are working against the clock to save as many lives as possible and one guy is “visibly shaking” because he is worried about his privacy. How do you tell someone nicely that they might be a narcissist?
Then start testing people from the population to see who has had it and who is currently infected.

This is the sort of thing that confounds centralized state policy.

The UK isn't America.
Even the very first COVID-19 study [1] showed that 42% of the survivors (and _all_ of the deceased) treated in the Wuhan pulmonary hospitals experienced sepsis. Sepsis [3] causes tissue death all around the body, leading to permanent decrease in the function of the affected organs. Our ways of mitigating sepsis work only for bacterial infections, which COVID-19 isn't [2].

Sepsis aside, just plain pneumonia in adults is no laughing matter: pneumonia survivors are twice as likely to die as others in their demographic, be they rich, poor, old or young [4]. See the long term effects of SARS: if you survive, your health status and exercise capacity will be impaired for a long time, potentially for the rest of your life [5].

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[2] https://www.epmmagazine.com/news/new-drug-could-stop-sepsis-...

[3] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/sepsis

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4066634/

[5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20337995
and so started the zombie Apocalypse
Yes! Sorry, my mistake. int then char on x86 will put the padding at the end of the struct, not in the middle. I had originally written it that other way (char and then int), then edited it to be the other way (int and then char) but didn't update the other text. I edited the post to have this correction.
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It's never been easier to interview and find

Indeed. And the overwhelming majority of the interviews ask completely unrelated questions to the actual work being done. I consider that a red flag. Take home tests expected to be done in your free time. Another one. When done jumping through all the hoops people will be presented with a contract that they hope the more egregious clauses are not enforceable, and so on. All this before the first day on the job.

Will people play along? Hell yes, and if asked we love all of that.
Basically it was the first ".com" domain.
I was curious what this site did, but it just says "Unfortunately, we are unable to schedule more appointments at this time." at the end of the survey.
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There is a rather significant difference in "% of adults 65+ living with their children" across Europe, with southern and eastern Europe significantly higher than northern and western Europe.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/3433488/5579620/KS-S...
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And by "open", you mean $5/month barrier. I don't even like the social apps I get for free, I doubt many will pay for it.
And I'm certainly not going to start contributing content to make your platform successful without a cut. As much as we dislike youtube's imperfections, at the end of the day there is a reasonable attempt to pay creators for their content which makes the platform money. I don't see that here.
No, it is true. The point is that the code in the example is incompetently written, if you want to zero out a struct foo, you should memset sizeof(struct foo), not /* manually calculate what you think the size of foo will turn out to be */ ...
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Do you have source for people over 65 being rejected?

I read that there is some triage but this seems a lot more extreme than I imagined.
1% is actually now about 90 million as the world population currently approximated at around 9 Billion. And increasing by around 90-100Mil a year
Different people have different ideas on what "makes sense". The point of a standard is to not have to use common sense, which is usually not common al all. So there is no point is saying that when the standard does not say anything you should use common sense. If the standard says nothing, you should just avoid relying of that thing.

The compiler is not responsible for the quality of the source code. The programmer is. The compiler is responsible for the quality of the machine code, assuming that the source code is correct. It is good to have tools to check the quality of source code, but they are a different thing from compilers.

Personally, I am happy that the compiler optimizes the code for me when I write correct C/C++ programs. If I make a mistake and inadvertently do UB, I take the responsibility, without shifting it on the innocent compiler.
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My team just started working on a project that will work with hierarchical data. Have you looked into ltree[0] at all? Any thoughts on when that would or would not be beneficial?

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ltree.html
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Wouldn't an amateur by definition be unpaid meaning that an Airbnb host really has nothing to do on this list.

People seem to misstake being an amateur with being subpar which would be far from the truth.

Famous tennis player Björn Borg won 5 Wimbledon as an amateur for example since being paid at that time would've been forbidden.
LOL... just crash the app, and then document that it's supposed to make demons fly out of your nose and that it only works with blood sacrifice hardware installed.

"Demon summoning failed, nasal hardware not found."
An important limitation is that the reference to the recursive table is only a reference to the newly added tuples and you're only allowed to reference the single recursive table once. This forbids, for example, having a NOT IN of the recursive table besides the join you wanted to do anyways and it has some unexpected behavior (as you may think you reference the whole recursive table but you don't).

Limiting to linear recursion makes it less powerful and harder to program than Datalog, but the algorithm is sufficiently fast. Which is probably necessary as the recursive table is not indexed.

Also you're not only allowed UNION but also UNION ALL without a duplicate check. There every new result has to be strictly smaller than the last or you lose termination. Together with the strange referencing method to only the new tuples, this is quite a footgun.

But not to be a spoilsport, we still teach it at our University for some problems that would have required external programs to calculate the fixpoint. You just have to know the limitations which the article does not explore.
My first though was "oh, another covid-19 article". The human mind is funny.
It isn't any kind of "flu".

Coronaviruses are in a family that typically causes what we call the common cold. Flu is caused by influenza virus, which is a completely separate family of viruses.
I felt there are a lot of people who is looking at the data from China and thinking it will stop at around a 100k total infections in the US. There are so many articles that says life is going back to normal. Even Apple opened all their stores.

No one is disputing the higher death rates but somehow has this feeling that this won't be as bad as other flu incidents?

I felt this was a good reminder that what many fear is going to be true. That 60-70% of population is likely going to be infected. Because that is what happened in the past. It's not going to go away in a few weeks.
doesn't work for me. It says pay 16€ or 5€ :-(
SQLite also supports recursion: https://www.sqlite.org/lang_with.html

I'm not sure if MySQL does now, but about a decade ago when I did my bachelors, in the database course we switched from doing exercises in MySQL to PostgreSQL when recursion came up. Our local university has a database research group headed by a professor who has a fetish for recursion, so we spent a good chunk of time shoehorning graph and tree problems into SQL. As the story goes, thanks to his constant pestering, DB2 supports quadratic recursion.
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I don't use it so it may have become out of date without me realising.
Use it. I think you get stronger guarantees on correctness and performance.

Not every of those path queries are easily implemented using recursive CTEs.
Death % rates are wonky. Canada: 1 death, 341 cases, 8.33% death rate? Greece: 4 deaths, 331 cases, 33% death rate?
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I agree with the values you're describing here, but it's still not clear to me that a re-use workflow needs to be that different from single-use. Presumably the single-use involves tossing used pieces into a biohazard disposal container to be removed later. What's the issue with tossing the same material into a biohazard container of things to be solution-rinsed autoclaved and/or UVd the hell out of, then maybe wrapped or banded so that it's clear they're clean?

Maybe it's a labor/scale issue?
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I too suffer from allergic asthma and GERD.

If you want to manage your GERD, diet is a big driver. Ever since I lost weight and changed my eating habits, I haven't had a single GERD episode and it's been two years.

In my weight loss journey I went through keto, then paleo, now I'm doing 40 days of high carb vegan (for lent) — macro composition doesn't matter that much, what I think mattered was the weight loss itself and eating whole foods.

It's interesting because I used to get GERD episodes from kidney beans or bananas and nowadays I eat impressive amounts with no GERD in sight. I figured that if I am to survive this month on veganism, I have to eat a lot of beans, lentils, etc. I am no longer drinking carbonated beverages, no beer or sodas, so that might have something to do with it. The general idea being that some trigger foods might not be a problem in the context of a healthy diet and a body weight that's close to normal.

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I have allergic asthma and while it's been under control for years, with me requiring no treatment, when I was in my twenties I went through really rough periods, with me ending up in ICUs with difficulty breathing.

I also heard that extensive use of Ibuprofen can worsen asthma episodes and this is what happened in my twenties, however my asthma is nowadays under control, my immune system seems to be working normally and even when catching a cold, I seem to tolerate Ibuprofen quite well.

Just so we are clear, I'm now 37 and my tolerance of Ibuprofen and similar improved a lot since my twenties, so it can go in the other direction.

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For many people giving up on painkillers isn't an option. My wife gets migraines that are so bad it makes her puke.

I'm writing this to say that GERD and allergic asthma are many times manageable with the proper treatment and a lifestyle change.
This is basically a summary of most of the worst case rumors turning out to be true. This is very bad. We should be preparing to isolate ourselves from society as much as possible for a few months. Times are going to get rough.

The good news is that this may be a cleansing fire that the US is long overdue for. By now some of you have undoubtedly realized that 2019ncov is not just a virus - it is a chaotic geopolitical force. It is changing the way we live in front of our eyes.

These are exciting times. There's your silver lining.

>Health and the economy are closely linked. The correlation between per-capita GDP and health (life expectancy) is essentially perfect. If the covid-19 pandemic leads to a global economy collapse, many more lives will be lost than covid-19 would ever be able to claim

I don't agree with his derivation, I think he's mixing correlation and causation a little, but his conclusion is undoubtedly correct.
Other comment for handling a different argument.

I joined a big discussion group to see how I could convince people ( > 8000 Dutch members on Facebook).

While I took a lot of effort for 5 months to reason with the outliers of the group.

I had concluded that it was not possible to reason with outliers since they used "Whataboutisme" and the only effective way to convince other people and "shut them up" ( I know it sounds rude) was to actually be rude, handle their current arguments and point out the idiocracy of the arguments they were using ( hence the harsh term used).

My effectiveness rate went from 4-5% to almost 90% in having the "last" argument. It also seemed to greatly reduced the amount of pointless topics started by that person.

There was only once someone effective in working arround it, using "doubtful" sources.
Exhausting that reserve in one day would do nothing to curb the epidemic, and do nothing to protect the nation other than delay any onset by one day.

Reserving the masks for CDC, vaccine researchers, and national defense operators would be an example of good uses of a nation-focused 'national' reserve.

Think 'trolley problem' where one side of the track is the nation-entity that contains the citizens on the other side of the track.
https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
We're all on timeout and everything is cancelled. Makes sense.
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If you're young and healthy, I can totally see how a lock down might feel worse than the risk of getting the coronavirus.

But it's not just about you. It's about the elderly, the sick, the weak around you. Even if you end up fine after getting the disease, you're going to transmit it to other people, directly or indirectly, who may end up dying because of you. That's what R0 is about.

So yeah, a lock down will suck for you, but I hope it makes you feel better to know that it will help save someone else's life.
'Triggered', check.

Do you live in a dense urban populace? There is no room for excessive noise-makers here. Go bother the countryside if noise is your thing.
It's C++, but UB allows the compiler to call a function the programmer never called

https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2017/09/why-undefined-behavior...

I'm not sure how any compiler writer can condone this behaviour.
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The capitalism that we have rn is actually a form of socialism :)
I don't want to be that pessimistic about 3rd world war, a horrible solution to a big problem.
I think humanity has a chance to have abundance, we need to be united and don't trust governments and banks and medical institutions, I can see that a lot of people are going through a healing phase of their mental state, they giving up all of the brainwashings and taking a red pill.
Question is - will everybody use his chance on time? We will see.
Peace.
Thanks for sharing, sending good thoughts to Italy and hopefully it starts leveling off in 10 days or so. I live in Spain (but I am American). Everyone here is on the first day of lockdown and in high spirits.

In the USA the payroll tax is around 20%, so that isn't going to do as much if they pass that through to employees (esp as people employed are less a worry). Better to help on unemployment as the service industry is all going to get fired shortly if not already in the USA. The problem in the USA is unemployment is the pay is not based on your salary but maxes at 790 a week / 2800 a month. And it scales all the way down to a minimum of $188. Even worse tips don't count against insured wages.
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Even if you assume the function returns, I don't quite understand why the if can be optimised away. The function may still have side effects if it returns, which have to happen before whatever assigning to NULL does. Those side effects may include sending data over the network, or happen in the operating system which is protected against whatever the program does, so even UB cannot affect it.

I guess UB is not assumed to include time travel...?
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With all this talk about nested trees of managers and subordinates, I'm curious if it would be possible to trick a HR department into introducing a loop into the structure, effectively creating a group of people that is no longer subordinate to the CEO/Head of the Company.
> How long immunity lasts for following covid-19 infection is the biggest unknown. Comparison with other Coronaviridae suggests it may be relatively short-lived (i.e. months).

Anyone have sources for this?

I've been skeptical of the rumors about reinfection, because they seem to be based on tests coming back positive after recovery, but the tests are rt-PCR based, and your body will be shedding leftover bits of RNA as it flushes out viral remnants long after recovery, so this seems expected.

As far as I'm aware, immunity to most viruses is long-lasting or permanent, with the obvious exception being if the virus mutates enough to look different to your immune system. Is this assumption wildly off?
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I'm sure if china can shut people inside their houses to prevent spread, so can we. We just have to adopt a different attitude towards fundamental rights. Besides, medicine development seems to go rather quickly. I am sure it will be mostly dealt with in a years time.