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Now we're talking about the internet. When you get online, you're entering a public space. Being physically inside your house at the time is irrelevant IMO. You don't have to buy smart appliances either. Or apps to control your lights. Use light switches. You CAN still choose to be private in your home. Regarding the drone example, even if technically legal, I seriously doubt a person parking their drone like that would get away with it for long. It would be a scandal. "Local man parks his camera drone over people's houses! Insists it's legal!"
Doesn't seem unreasonable; the "W" in WHO stands for World. They aren't here to report on city states and islands. Even if those city states and islands are well run politically independent entities.
The article states that beligum is not taking any measures at all. So the gov is handling the threat by inaction?
After the last elections on 26 May 2019, the winnings parties have been unable to form a coalition, so there is no real cabinet at the moment which has the power to do the things that need to be done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6eSPWaUsgY
I know that there is even the Facebook group of such people who make walking meeting and they post there their opinion and share their thoughts. Also, I know that they use dictophones to record everything they were talking bout, then download it to the software that converts audio to text, they check it in https://essaytoolbox.com/spell-checker and that's very convinient.
So to you would consider what’s been done so far by the US federal government not theater?
As someone who drank the PWA koolaid, I think this understates one significant problem: IOS. Apple, as the article points out is lagging behind. This is an understatement to say the least. More accurately, Apple has an enormous amount of money to lose if people stop using the App Store, so there are "anomalies" in how things work which in the end made it impractical to build an equivalent experience. I gave up and haven't worked on this for a while, but the problem I ran into were from PWA's running in different sandbox from Safari. Have a cookie or local storage? - they are different and can't communicate.

The bottom line is that if you need IOS support, then before you jump on this bandwagon, make sure you can solve your problems of opening URLS (linking) and authenticating users.
Why is everyone talking about the still vaporware Apple goggles when Microsoft is actually selling Hololens (a direct competitor to Magic Leap) for longer than ML is even on the market.

Yeah, I do get it, Apple and all, but this is ignoring the elephant in the room.
If you have hundreds of members, why not ask each for a couple of dollars to cover slack costs? Or use a different platform. Or self host something else. Not to be overly dismissive, but my first impression is that you have a bunch of devs finding something interesting and wanting to follow along rather than a key cohort of people who will "disrupt covid-19." I don't see why Slack should pay for a bunch of people to use their platform. They are in the business of making money, and offer reduced costs for non-profits. If that doesn't work for you, use something else.

What is wrong with a subreddit for this, for example. Or a mailing list. Or just self host a chat app.
A progressive web app also includes a manifest.json file to define how the app launches when it's installed, a service worker for background operations, app icons for the user's device homescreen, etc. An HTML5 app and a PWA are similar but really they're not the same. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest
I think that it is possible to make own polygonal mirror (cut polygonal mirror holder at CNC, attach flat mirrors and balance it). Also it may be found in stationary barcode reader.
But you will lose field of view with polygonal mirror.
Not aimed at you, but, I am disgusted at even a mention of these kind of 'calculations'.

And yes, I am prepared to take a hit in my earnings, paying higher taxes if needed after this if that is what it takes for at least one person more to live.
No it's not. It's just one guy making up random shit on a blog and is pretending that governments think like him.

The reality is probably closer to the fact that there isn't anything governments can do about it. They can try to shut down the borders of the country, but that is going to a lot worse and probably won't stop it anyways.

Just because governments can do something and do do something doesn't mean that that something is meaningful or will have a positive impact.

Many things are just outside of their control.
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> eugenics

That word doesn't work when describing people who are no longer part of the reproducing population.
Hundreds of thousands die from flu every year in a relatively compressed period.

Only people who need to be in hospitals are those who need intubation.

Everyone will get sick no matter what you try to do. So the government needs to spin up more intubation servers, not block IPs...
This article describes how to approach the problem to minimize economic cost by keeping under control the number of deaths.

Which would be how a company think, I'm pretty sure governments don't think like that

Most presidents want to be elected at the next election and this is probably the main thing they are trying to optimize right now
Exactly! From what i have seen, the governments are acting, even in my country with only 3 confirmed cases, the schools are already shut down. It is media that amplify the panic so that no matter what governments do it seems not enough.
I'm guessing the benefit is the ability to not have to bring up an IDE and download the code in cases where that isn't a quick option.
> There is always the slowest country to act, and its citizens would feel entitled to the kind of far-fetched speculation the author posted.

Sounds about right. Belgium and the Netherlands aren't doing very much yet.

One interesting fact I discovered when discussing with my wife last night that I think does shape the discussion here: In the Netherlands, seasonal influenza has ~1% mortality rate -- in the U.S. it's more like 0.1%. This leads to different framings of the comparative severity of Coronavirus in the Netherlands.
My Ikea Bekant sit-stand desk is still sturdy, although I don't sit/lean on it, and don't weigh much even if I did.

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> I doubt anyone earnestly surrenders themselves to a candy bar or fire extinguisher, but I'm certainly not knocking it if it helps someone.

No, of course, noone does, that's the point. Possibly, some people somehow think that they do (and even that seems a bit unlikely to me), but it just is a nonsense concept: You can, as a matter of semantics, not surrender to something that doesn't exercise power. You might as well be saying that you need to wash yourself, but you can also do so by looking at a horse. Looking at a horse makes you washed as much as following instructions of a candy bar makes you do anything, for lack of any washing effect in one case, for lack of any instructions in the other.

> I think the point is that you need some sort of mind hack to escape the paradigm of will vs. desire which has been a losing battle thus far for most addicts. it is ultimately your will that prevails, but you have to trick yourself otherwise for it to work.

That might well be the case, yep. And I see two big problems with not clearly stating that that is what's (likely) going on: In more than one place, it seems to cause harrassment of atheists, and I am not so sure it's actually helpful for mental health when people externalize the credit for the work that they have done themselves. And also, even if that's a hack that is needed in the "therapeutic context", a discussion about the scientific evidence of the efficacy certainly is not a place for such intentionally onfuscating language.
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I think HN should enact stronger Coronavirus-related moderation like Reddit has. This is a bad post from a software engineer (not a health professional) and it offers an amateur analysis without even providing a real suggestion. What benefit does this provide in a crisis?
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>their POV may be that the virus will have a net positive effect on the economy and also accommodation affordability for the younger generation.

Stressing systems like that is far more damaging/costly than managing the situation with care. Even if the death toll for the elderly explodes, there will be far more more old people requiring intensive care over time. Don't look at the death tool only, the coronavirus does not "kill clean".
Their problem hasn't been timing. Microsoft's Hololens has been on the market even earlier, with worse specs - and was flying off the shelves in the industry, because they have targeted it well and provided reasonable support for it.

ML problems was hype, hype and more HYPE. And then under-delivering, the device was in many ways actually worse than the first gen Hololens, despite costing more and coming to the market later.

Oh and also the confused messages straight from the top - is ML a hardware company? A software platform? Services platform? Marketing to professionals? (then why those game demos and not some more pro oriented?) Marketing to retail? (then that price is a non-starter). Etc etc etc ...
Add the "hl=en" param to the URL, works for almost all Google services:

https://cs.opensource.google/?hl=en
They don’t act because they don’t care. It’s people dying, and their eyes are focused on purely economic metrics, not the well-being of the population or its survival. In the particular case of Europe, this is not the first thread that is totally discarded by the ruling elite, it’s the usual way of acting. It’s more visible with the virus because the timescale is shorter, but fundamentally there is no difference with how some other important threats are handled (for instance, see how the current acts of war from Turkey against Greece are handled by France and Germany).
I've noticed someone changed the submission title on HN to the headline on the page. Which is fine with me, but somehow misses the point why I've shared it here. Which is sharing our company handbook for those who are "forced" now to work from home, rather than making a claim about a grand vision. Again, I don't mind much, just wanted to clarify and explain myself.
This is absolutely the case. About a year ago I was looking for new work and, having previously enjoyed managing a GitLab installation, was very keen to interview with them.

It felt like it would be a perfect fit, based on our shared cultural values regarding remote work, transparency, open source and other technology choices.

After seeing the calculator, I decided not to interview at all, and had another remote job a few days later with more pay than I had in Boston and New York. I live in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Vietnam is still in containment phase, so tests per million capita is not what I would look at. Rather, about 2400 tests against about 40 confirmed cases is a factor of 60 tests per confirmed cases (this should cover F1, F2). Italy on the other hand is about 60000 tests against 12000 confirmed cases, a factor of only 5. Hong Kong's number is impressive, 120. South Korea's 30.
Yes, that's what I meant, it doesn't have to be exposed to the user, I just want to execute a query and get the results. If needed then maybe I should be able to create a cursor to go through the results. It's just that other database access APIs don't expose and force the developers using the API to use a cursor, so it's mildly annoying in Python.
Belgium is famous for not having a government many times, and if it has one, it's often not able to act.

Belgium has a pretty divided population (Wallonia/Flanders) and no winner-takes-all election system, and so there's often a stalemate where no majorities can be reached for any votes, including for electing the government officials).
Yes, multiple news media reports the ban going into effect on 11:59 pm Friday. Some (e.g., "The Sun") report it as 12:00 am Friday. Unless they give an official answer from the White House, I would not consider either report from news as reliable. "Midnight Friday" can be interpreted both ways until they clarify.
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This is just so completely wrong.

He just relabelled the curves for no apparent reason!

To make it clear: The vertical axis should not be number of deaths. While the number infected remains below the health system capacity the number of deaths should remain relatively low. But once it hits capacity there is a step function that ratchets it up.

And the horizontal axis isn't cost at all. The green line shows something that is within the normal capacity of the health system. There aren't additional costs and so should be relatively cheap.

And the green curve is great - everyone would like that - that's the normal Flu. The Blue curve is the maximum we can sustain without overwhelming the health system.
This looks like false conclusions from oversimplifying the death ratio above health care saturation.

You can't just change the axis labels because the death ratio depends non-linearly on infection ratio above the threshold.

Are we willing to take the risk when we don't know the consequences?
It's part of the headline newsspeak bingo game. My personnal dislike is to "this SLAMS that". It's one of the many many reason why news sites lose value and identity, everything is instant, everything is a big news, everything is written in a way that shocks to get clics and views, and the actual information comes second place.
> you are rich if your household equivalised disposable income is ≥150% of the median of the country

Sounds sensible, thanks.
I think it's a different reason. Let's analyze the outcomes from game theory perspective, along two dimensions: virus becomes pandemic or not, and governments do something or nothing.

1) no pandemic, no action -> government was "right", avoided wasting money -> reelected

2) no pandemic, action -> government was "wrong", wasted a lot of money, damaged the economy, inconvenienced the lives of the population -> voted out

3) pandemic, no action -> government was "wrong", caused loss of lives and damaged the economy -> voted out

4) pandemic, action - this is the trickiest scenario, so let's consider two options:

4a) pandemic, action, it works -> government was "right", saved lives, spared the economy -> reelected

4b) pandemic, action, doesn't work -> government was "wrong", their actions failed, they're incompetent -> voted out

There's two winning scenarios, (1) and (4a), but the problem is that (4a) has vanishingly small probability of success... with little information available about the virus, and rampant globalization, it's hard to know what action makes sense, is correct and viable... Case in point is Italy, which did act in time (they banned flights from China 2 weeks before the outbreak), but still failed (i.e. their action was "correct" but not "correct enough") because their neighboring countries (e.g. Germany - not technically a neighbor but within Schengen Zone) failed to act.

So, politicians choose (1), no action, as the most likely winning scenario.
This may explain why sexually-transmitted diseases get so much attention. They're probably the only kind of diseases that hit younger population much harder than senior citizens. THOSE are the diseases that make the rich earn less money.

From an ethical point of view, governments owe seniors the money and care, because they had worked for state prosperity. Also, if young people had more foresight, they would realize the way seniors are treated today will be more less the way they themselves will be treated. But old age and death is a depressing topic and no one likes to dwell on it.
There must be a mod for that, flipping the polarising filter already does wonders.
Just a little thought experiment:
If the current wisdom is actually that almost everyone will be infected eventually, wouldn't it (ignoring any ethical issues) be wiser to deliberately infect medical personnel as soon as possible, so the 5-10% of infected that need IC treatment can actually get it, before the medical system is overrun by the infected general population. In a few weeks, all doctors are immune (or deceased) so that they are much better prepared when the number of cases in the general public explodes
You assume that the government cares about expenditures. Old people vote. So it would be in your best interest to keep the people that voted you into office alive.
Yes, but with other database access APIs I can just get a connection and execute a statement on it. Other APIs don't have an additional abstraction between the connection and the execute() method.

It's especially useless when executing anything besides SELECT. An UPDATE or INSERT shouldn't need a cursor.
>In the Netherlands, seasonal influenza has ~1% mortality rate -- in the U.S. it's more like 0.1%.

(I'm not a healthcare professional nor actuarian; the following is freehand speculation)

There are two key factors. Firstly, USA is much less densely populated, with various additional compounding aspects: social stratification, with many segments of society living mostly in their own areas, and lesser dependence on mass transport. Modern technology and abundance of land allows maintaining a degree of isolation when needed.

Secondly, the healthcare system in USA vs Netherlands is tale of semi-private vs nationalized system. The former has more incentives to be proactive and minimize costs, vs the later having incentives to make a good showing, with payments being assured anyway.
Except $500M barely register for a company the size of NBCUniversal; it is not "quite a large sum of money" for them at all. Their yearly revenue are above 30 Billions.
Denmark did close every school and most administrations. France did not.

Many decisions can be taken, but are not (for various reasons). Most experts recommend to limit contacts rather than closing down borders, and no one is pretending to stop the virus but they all should try to flatten the curve. You don't seem to pay attention to the current situation.
Then you aren't looking hard enough. Our company has more projects than we can take on, all for professional VR applications. Procedure training, safety training, risk assessment, ergonomics, medical applications ...

There are ton of applications both in use and being developed. That you don't see it hyped on TV doesn't mean it is not there. Industrial applications are not advertised and marketed the same way as video games.
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"Before users can use your app you need to get them to download it first. So you will need them to:
- go to the App Store/Play Store
- search for your app
- click to install
- accept permissions
- wait for it to download
In each of these steps you can lose 20% of your potential users."

True.

Then again, when users have installed the app they need to:

1) Open it by a single tap

<Automatic face id authentication>

2) Enjoy

With a web app:

1) Open Browser

2) Type in the URL or...

2) Open settings/options menu of the browser

3) Select favorites

4) Scroll through the list until you find your web site

5) Open the website

6) Realize you are not authenticated

7) Tap login

8) enter username

9) WTF was the password

10) Close the browser

11) Open lastpass etc

<Automatic face id authentication>

12) Search for the website and open it in lastpass

13) Copy password

14) Close lastpass

15) Open browser again

16) Paste password

17) Tap login

18) Enjoy...?

Not to even mention high performance 1:1 user experience vs laggy and slowly loading websites, safety of app store, privacy protection by "Sign in with Apple" etc.

From developers' perspective:

Mobile apps:

- High performance

- 100% access to local SDKs, features, hardware (not exactly 100%, but only limited by the OS)

- Elegant, fast and safe languages with static typing such Swift and Kotlin

Web apps:

- Slow

- Limited access or no access

- JS

Of course if you are developing software for media outlet etc. (app for reading news) then it's probably not worth the effort to build native app vs mobile first website.
Yeah, no. Nice hyperactive imagination to find any plausible justification for inaction.

The intuitive impulse is there (trade off hospitals getting "creamed" vs. shutting down economy), but the implementation isn't realistic, so with the incubation period and lag in testing, all governments act too late. It's an impossible control problem.

On the other hand, maybe the right time to act is to watch your stock market. It's a forward predictor. When it starts to tank, go all out.
> Why aren’t we going for green though, that seems even better?

Because we want to avoid Covid-19 becoming a recurrent winter illness like other coughs and colds and flu. Those already cause considerable pressure on healthcare systems, and adding annual covid-19 season on top would be pretty rough.
Try this: https://kparc.github.io/ref/
I agree looking at your phone is embarrassing and can feel dangerous in places.

But the same as car navigating it should be fine talking in your ear.

But you might want to walk or jog on an unknown route and listen to music, so ok this is a use case.

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I am planning on adding functionality like this to ripgrep. If folks have opinions on how it should work, I'd love to hear from you! https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/1497
What? There is tons of stuff governments can do to flatten the curve. Educating people, closing schools, people gatherings, obligatory masks for all (or DIY bandanas), testing more.
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More likely. People will see the government is ineffective. This raises questions on why have one at all. Some citizens stop paying taxes because of it. This turns into an actual movement because of compelling arguments now with evidence. Government becomes insolvent and wipes out the bond market. Inflation spirals and a full panic begins.
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