skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you viewing it from an office network? Cause I believe that is a MITM https proxy used by a Cisco a/v appliance.
CLI tool to track Covid-19 cases in New York state
Why not just let people discuss it in more depth if they want? It's a big community, and I don't see why enjoyment and deeper consideration need to be treated as mutually exclusive outcomes given a population of deep thinkers.
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> Suicide or destitution maybe.

Well, that's a relief. I was concerned they might leave their homes!
It's hard to say, but I'm feeling somewhat negative about this article too.

A more neutral way to tell it might be: "Some of our servers were overheating. We took them out of service, then discovered they were overheating because of an issue where the rack hardware had failed and tiled the rack. We eliminated this problem from this and all other racks."

The way it's currently written seems to try to set Google apart, but I'm not sure why it wouldn't work this way at any organization. Maybe I have missed the point.
They think the virus enters the cell via Ace2 receptors. The hypothesis is these drugs increase ace2 receptor expression which makes the cells more likely to get infected. Your lung, heart and kidney cells express this receptor.
Why were you downvoted. There’s nothing controversial in what you wrote.
Organizations that have high value assets would deploy multiple layers of these, not just one, basically depending on value of assets.
Maybe. But unless he tries we won’t know. We need lots of smart people trying things with 1-3% chance of success.
Although it also makes the times they are open more crowded.
Italy seems to have been a bit blindsided by the fact that it's home to a rather large semi-legal Chinese population [0], to a point where there were direct flights between Rome and Wuhan prior to the Italian government shutting down air-travel to China [1].

The German response has been rather decent, freeing up lab capacities and using private labs to scale up already solid diagnostics capabilities, which helps prevent cases from going terminal. [2]

As somebody working in German healthcare, outpatient care to be specific, we've already seen hospitals free up beds, by releasing non-priority patients to ambulative home-care around 2 weeks ago.

Starting this week schools will remain closed, Germany is going into lock-down with limited border travel and offering companies "unlimited loans" [3] to get through the resulting economic downturn.

[0] https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/news-analysis/fir...

[1] https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/italy-suspends-visa-is...

[2] https://apnews.com/ad9a6af47c3b55fd83080c9168afaaf4

[3] https://www.businessinsider.de/international/coronavirus-ger...
> We are very likely on the brink of a collapse of the ability of our health care system to take care of the most vulnerable, with a death toll that will dwarf in American casualties any war the US has been in and the direst of economic consequences if the pandemic is not slowed to a manageable level.

This seems over the top.

I thought the death rates are insignificant for those younger than 60, and those who succumb to it already have pre-existing health/respiratory issues. Doesn't influenza cause thousands of deaths per year?

I am mostly playing devil's advocate, I am genuinely curious to hear why you have so much fear.
Looks like China had something like this over 42 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22218495

But there was not widespread interest here at the time.

Edit: Who likes drones anyway?
Is this act actually constitutional? It's not interstate commerce, and I'm having trouble recalling relevant emergency provisions in the constitution that would expand federal authority to local issues. I can imagine the Supreme Court ruling that it's a common-sense provision if someone tries to legally challenge it, but I'm not aware of the history.
I suspect they are worried about backlash related to freedom of assembly or freedom of religion.
One of these is not like the others
Freedom of assembly to petition the government for redress of grievances. I believe that is the only freedom of assembly we are guaranteed.
This looks like an awesome product. Buy the rights and open the source code so we can have hundreds of eyeballs on it. I am sure lots of improvements can be built around it including better regression testing, monitoring, finding existing bugs, etc.
This feels like the end of an era - an era that ran from the fall of the Berlin Wall up to the appearance of Covid-19. A global era, a largely peaceful era, a profligate era, and an era of growing inequality. Who knows what comes next...
Would it though ? It implies a significant number of misdiagnosed hospital deaths during a time period where COVID19 was aggressively looked for in people with the symptoms.
Italy has stopped providing respirators for 60+ year old people. They let them die. They give priority to the younger. Source in English: https://twitter.com/damienrieu/status/1238759988329418752
Sunday evening and stock market futures are limit down 5%
That, however, has nothing to do with the subject of the article.
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Okay, but why would you want to put up with drying your shoes with newspaper?
Exactly, endpoints should not be listening on the network for instance (its not just about outbound connectivity).

Company laptops often have RDP or SSH open - and newly added software might expose a remote endpoint in future (or a 0 day, like EternalBlue).

And here it comes: then an employee works from home or a coffeeshop and anyone there can attack and try to login! Locking down these things is critical to securing the endpoint.
Early clojure reflected a bit early macro-enabled compiled lisps where macros were heavily used due to (perceived) cost of function call.
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I think you missed the "and to petition":

> or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Here's somone running for public office in Clark County, Nevada trying to score points against AOC: https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/c...

That's kind of problematic. The population in New York City is much denser than in Las Vegas and the number of infected much higher, consequently you might need a lockdown in NYC while in suburban Las Vegas everyone can just retreat into their McMansion on Cobblestone Court Road and watch Foxnews for two weeks.

As a politician you can angle for votes by mocking the healthcare system in Lombardy, one of the best in the world, because your local hospital won't be hit quite as hard, while the healthcare personnel on the frontlines risks infection with coronavirus. The free-rider problem in politics in unsolved, it seems.
It will be used to monetise government debt. You will see targeted fiscal action announced tomorrow, to the tune of perhaps a hundred billion or more, aiming to help the businesses (and employees of those businesses) that are (and will be) decimated by the freeze in economic activity, and the crash in demand.

From the announcement on Friday it sounded like the financial aid to companies that need it will be distributed through IRS as tax credits, or directly as cash to those companies with cash flow issues. I don't know how they aim to decide which companies qualify for the aid.

There will be several similar fiscal stimulus measures announced over the coming weeks, perhaps even bailouts.
I wish a fraction of the employers right now asking people to work from home realized "shit, people could work from home all of the time, not just during a global pandemic"
You need always need multiple layers of security. Using the network itself as one was never necessary, although it has been convenient.

Nowadays U2F based 2fa authentication and need to know based authorization are usually superior.
Yes. The US is 13 days behind Italy right now and headed in the same direction. [1]

California's governor just ordered all bars, nightclubs, etc, to close, and restricted restaurant to 50% capacity.

[1] http://archive.is/a1nkq
Does that mean you shouldn’t gather on, oh say an airplane?
so... long SPY? 12-18 month recovery has to be right around the corner. at the worst, 60 months
I'm not convinced the current economic situation is entirely due to the coronavirus. The yield curve has been inverted for about six months now, which has been a sure fire predictor of recessions for as long as it's been measured.

Maybe coronavirus popped the bubble early. But a popped bubble is a popped bubble. It doesn't matter whether high oil prices or a pandemic is the needle doing the popping.
Alberta did this with a surplus once. It was great. It doesn’t need to be a last resort at all
this is an in vitro [in glassware] study of prophylaxis of cultured monkey kidney cells

>RESULTS: Hydroxychloroquine (EC50=0.72 μM) was found to be more potent than chloroquine (EC50=5.47 μM) in vitro.<

EC50 is the effective concentration 50%, this means the dose that yields the desired effect in 50% of the subjects/individuals, cells,etc

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>Based on PBPK models results, a loading dose of 400 mg twice daily of hydroxychloroquine sulfate given orally, followed by a maintenance dose of 200 mg given twice daily for 4 days is recommended for SARS-CoV-2 infection, as it reached three times the potency of chloroquine phosphate when given 500 mg twice daily 5 days in advance.<

this is saying that comparing the EC50 to a pharmaco-kinetic model suggests an oral dosage regime that will produce the EC in blood plasma that was observed to be effective

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>CONCLUSIONS: Hydroxychloroquine was found to be more potent than chloroquine to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 in vitro.“<

the lower EC50 of Hydroxychloroquine leads to a 3fold increase of effect vs a larger dosage of chloroquine, in the cultured cell model

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Yes, it helps. China had Hubei province on lockdown for the last couple months and that's a big reason that they have been able to control the spread.

Italy should not be looked to as a model of how to handle this.
Poe's law entered the chat

I'm not worried about a hypothetical, I'm worried more about the lack of a sense of humor. I just hope stress kills more humorless people who take everything way too literally.
Please fund mass manufacture of personal protective gear used by first responders and medical personnel i.e N95/eye-protection/PPE and PAPR. These are in dire short supply.
Assuming that tax isn’t a failure of capitalism, how is a negative tax a failure of capitalism?
I just shake my hands or dry them in my pants :) . More seriously, you still need tp, but you need a lot less.
While the true mortality of COVID-19 will take some time to fully understand, the data we have so far indicate that the crude mortality ratio (the number of reported deaths divided by the reported cases) is between 3-4%, the infection mortality rate (the number of reported deaths divided by the number of infections) will be lower.

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...
You can't deduct it with the new larger standard personal deduction, only if you itemize. The Trump tax bill was a reform made the mortgage deduction moot for about 20 million taxpayers.
> The truth, of course, is somewhere is the middle.

I agree, as I have stated in other comments, cause based signals should not alert, they should file a ticket, or be displayed along side a symptom based alert if there is a correlation. You should be monitoring as much as possible so you can observe your service in realtime.

> Symptom-based alerting is extremely tricky to get right in the first place.

Depends on the service. If you operating a HTTP API, a simple SLI would just be the error ratio of 500s to total requests. Its not perfect but it is much better than alerting based on CPU percentage or ram usage for a particular machine. Things can get more complex if your API is k8s style or you are operating a data plane that is serving customer traffic.

> What is a “within budget” for a service, can be total outage for a customer.

Now you are getting into SLO territory, which is similar to, but separate from symptom based alerting. Yes, defining good SLOs is very hard and varies greatly by the type of service you are running

> another situation is when problems in background jobs will cause massive outages later.

How do you know what signals to alert with? If you knew what causes/signals to alert, then wouldn't you design your backend jobs to not do the things that would cause an outage? Hindsight is always 20/20. If you are worried that a caused based signal from your backend _could_ be telling you that there _might_ be a problem in the future but your customers are not seeing errors, it is not business critical and you can just file a ticket and someone can look into it later.
No incumbent President has lost reelection in wartime, and this crisis has many similarities. Trump has also shown a remarkable ability to overcome crisis after crisis, and his Republican supporters don't seem to show any sign that they are losing confidence in him.

Furthermore, it's densely populated cities which are the most likely to suffer casualties, and cities tend to vote more Democratic. On the other hand, Florida (a key battleground state) has a lot of older people and tends to lean Republican, as do older people on the whole.

Trump also doesn't seem to have the most inspiring Democratic opponent in the form of Biden. On the other hand Trump has himself been abysmally unpopular.

Something else to consider is that all the Presidential candidates and the President himself are old enough to be in the high risk category for succumbing to this illness, so it's quite possible that one or more of them won't even make it to November, which would throw the election in to chaos.

On the balance, both parties have their work cut out for them if they want to win in November. It could go either way.
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Same but due to bad sales. Mine is postponed until people go back to work.

Hopefully 9 months of mortgage is enough to survive this.
On high-end-ish switches that are truly designed for this application. And having switchable fans will not help you with device that has left-to-right (or even more weird) airflow.
MA just announced a ban on all gatherings over 25 people. Restaurants are all now take-out only. Health clubs closed. All shows and schools canceled. Etc.. Currently this is through April 7th.

I hope the government is also planning to pay people’s rent, mortgage, electric, water, groceries, credit card interest, etc.

A friend of mine runs a small local restaurant. Not sure how he will pay rent. All of his servers are now temporarily unemployed and have no way to buy food or pay rent.

Another friend of mine is a personal trainer. Not sure how he will buy groceries next week.

The vast majority of the people most directly impacted by all this are essentially at zero risk of dying from COVID. And on April 7th it’s not like COVID will cease to exist...

“Locking everything down” is an incredibly damaging and nonsensical action for the vast majority of the population.
There's only 2^8 days until Black Friday, where people can get back to murdering each other for cheap TVs.
The "law" you are proposing is a bad one, based on either faulty observations or a value system so out of keeping with my own that it might as well belong to the Ayatollah Khamenei.
Quantitative easing is NOT helicopter money. HK is the first country that actually tried something like Helicopter money. 1500 US$ for each citizen.

All the quantitative easing has just brought us a giant bubble via asset price inflation. All I know, the bigger the bubble, the louder the blob. If central banks should do something, than finance entrepreneurship and start-ups, bring money to the people.

"It is very last measure as in that point you are basically admitting that capitalism has failed."

No, it has not. The boom-bust cycle is a feature of capitalism. Capitalism, call it a ponzi driven debt scheme, will only fail, if no further economic growth is possible anymore. This may be caused by energy limitations (wealth and growth are linked to Energy available) or other limiting things. Trust me, you don't want to go there. Some people call it seneca cliff.
That's kind of outside of the topic of finance though. Subsidized car loans are just as relevant to the financial markets as free samples at Costco are relevant to agriculture prices.
As a creator I love Maven for that same reason, I appreciate having a defined structure for my project that makes it easy for anybody on a team to pick it up without needing to navigate a build script of arbitrary complexity.
A lot of people seem confused... granted it's the Guardian, but how did so many hear the same thing incorrectly?

The idea that a "second wave" can even be avoided or that infection prevents reinfection is not known.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/epidem...
Oh, I've been on this. I've now watched the demise of three similar structures: 480 Cypress (Oakland), Alaska Viaduct (Seattle). I think all the places are better for it.
Wow they pretty much thought of and solved every case where human contact could be possible. The elevator transportation in particular is pretty clever. Those Chinese cities are incredibly mobile. I can't even imagine how long it would take any US city to get to that point if ever.
Not sure about UUCP specifically, but a persistent problem until the introduction of DNS seems to have been that various places in the network sometimes had different names for a single host. Check out the discussion referenced from RFC 298, “What we hope is an official list of host names”: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc289.html
This study lists some combinations of material and viruses
https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-670...
This will become the new normal. A two week quarantine won't fix anything, and the virus will spread all over again once the quarantine is lifted and a bunch of not immune carries venture out in public again. Then we will go into another lockdown and the cycle will repeat.
"Denied?" There aren't enough ICU beds or staff to worry about using a Home Depot shop vac as a ventilator yet. A million more beds are needed in US but they won't be built because the ACoE doesn't have a mandate, manpower or the resources to get it done in a few weeks.
This is a legitimate question IMO. You’re in much tighter quarters for far longer while flying most domestic routes.
Stripe Atlas advertises as a way for non American companies to incorporate, but I had trouble finding more information about what complications to expect as a foreigner who owns an American company
> I'd rather not.

Every other nation would rather not too but, as soon as every single hospital collapses due to the sheer volume of cases (it's really that bad)... oh, you'd all rather yep, just like we did. It doesn't look like the US is going the South Korean way.

And when I say "the hospital collapses" I really mean it cannot even take care of other emergencies. There are not enough ICU beds nor ventilators. Period. Normal operation is mostly halted too (I know this from first hand).

The worst is I know you won't listen, just like nobody else listened until it was too late. Quote me on that.
Germany tries to halt U.S. interest in firm working on coronavirus vaccine
It's weird to frame lispers as optimistic, possibly a bit insulting since the typical lisper is far from new to programming

Lispers also have features and methods that mean they sleep peacefully at night too

In a modern lisp like Clojure a type checking tooling is a helpful but small aspect of that
It's easy to send aid and researchers, but those are minor investments in a relationship and at worst, actually just tokenistic actions. The WHO has specific guidelines for pandemics[1] and these include things like NOT closing borders, NOT preventing exports of medical supplies, and reporting transparently on infection rates. All of these things are not being done.

Don't get me wrong -- it's great that researchers are collaborating, but it's precisely the sort of small gestures that enable a state to build an argumentative defence around actions that aren't conducive to solving the problem properly (or the way we all said it should be solved).
I think it would be cool if you made an organized list of other similar data pages. Local ones for example.

This is NL: https://www.rivm.nl/coronavirus-kaart-van-nederland
Spaniard here. I'm not looking forward to the >2 months I expect of lockdown but it is what it is. Why is everyone so cocky? It will happen to your country too, just like it happened to us other countries.
This. I live in China and while it is great that my city has only seen a handful of new infections over the past month, there are still fences up around neighborhoods, checkpoints everywhere, nervous cops doing "stop and frisk" to confirm people have valid travel passes etc. When I look at Taiwan, South Korea and other countries that have managed this outbreak without an extensive lockdown, I know what I'd prefer.
Many of the deaths (especially the first ones) were linked to covid after testing the cadaver and had many other health issues (as in very advanced cancer, and/or very old age). I don't know if other countries are testing cadavers
Even the best-case estimates right now have US deaths at 2 million. i.e. 70% of people infected (230mil), 1% of those people die (2.3mil).

1% death rate is extremely low, it will more likely be 3 or 4 or 5.

It's very possible 10 million people in the US are going to die (5% of infected).
no you quarantine to slow the spread so you slowly infect everyone and the hospital system keeps up. then you release quarantine and boom herd immunity saves you. or a vaccine.
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I loved in Atlanta and I noticed the prime guarantee delivery for most of prime purchase is now 4 days. Anyone knows why it might be the case?
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I think the main reason for the difference is that probably different country don't measure the cause of death in the same way.
For example in Italy right now any person that dies that resulted positive to covid-19 test before or after death is considered a victim of covid-19, regardless if there were other preconditions. This may be different in other countries.

If one excludes people with preconditions, the number of deaths in Italy becomes much smaller (don't remember the exact amount, but I think it was in the tens).

Also, while Italy started late with testing, at the moment it has performed 80000+ tests for COVID-19, which is behind only to China and South Korea (see for example [1], altough a 3 days old).
I couldn't find any official number about tests performed in Germany, though, but unless germany tested at S.K. level I don't think that the number of tests explains the difference

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-testing
> The government didn't do that. It loaned $1.5T over a very short term to banks. It was not targeted at the stock market and had no impact there.

But if the free market should be allowed to run unimpeded, why did the government need to intervene here, when apparently in the provision of basic necessities you are arguing this is going too far?
How is UBI supposed to work without major price controls?