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Ask HN: What can programmers do to help with the coronavirus?
Apart from helping getting groceries or medicine for the quarantined, what can programmers do to help in this health crisis? How can we use our skills to aid the effort to prevent spreading of the virus, effort to help the affected or the effort to put the economy back on track when we're through this?
"The temperature is on a trajectory to breach the machine's operating limit in N minutes" seems pretty actionable.

I follow Google's symptom-based alerting philosophy in general, but will make an exception when there's a chance to catch something getting dangerously close to an unambiguous hard-failure limit (e.g. 90% quota utilization).
The exponential growth-to-the-whole-population makes a major assumption: everyone is susceptible. Given the virulence of COVID-19, and the surprising lack of total population penetration in Hubei (now that we know just how late the quarantining efforts were given the apparent latency between carrier status and symptoms) one wonders if there isn't, say, a genetic factor which makes one more susceptible than others, for starters, and if COVID-19 simply has/will burn itself out in many places.
In my experience the breakfix team has no shortage of work to be done relative to staffing. But they have no insight into the relative priorities of things. That's where your customer metrics and in depth investigation helps.

It's entirely possible a server overheating ticket was in the queue so to speak, and the investigation ends up re-prioritizing an alarm that recovered before anyone was on site to fix it.
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"Some people cannot, or will not, practice social distancing for a variety of reasons and will continue to spread the virus to many people. So everyone else must start today."

I.E. Trumpettes who believe this is all just a conspiracy against the president.
I mean this is standard - almost every viral disease has a period where you’re contagious (viral particles sloughing off), but Aren’t yet showing any symptoms.
"Paracetamol" a.k.a. "acetaminophen", common brand: Tylenol.
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Can you cite your experience in these matters and the data from which you have come to this conclusion.. or is this just your feelings from consuming to much main stream media?

But really, I'd love to hear your opinion on how the trajectory shoud be shifted.
I have no idea what this comment is trying to say.
Interesting one. Like the correlation between recession and Corona search.
Interesting. Is there a good living in such a operation?
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Yep, 100% agree. No reason to go rob-a-hand-sanitizer-factory crazy. But as you said, everyone one of us should be worried enough to go prep and do our part to slow the spread (WFH if possible etc).
Any information on cough suppressants? Whether they're a good or bad for people with COVID-19?

I've had my doctor recommend against cough suppressants in the past. But I've had trouble sleeping with a bad cough, and so if cough suppressants make sleep possible, it seems like a net-win. Is there any data yet?
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A common forgotten point is that they spend that money partially because they had to it else they could not have guaranteed that Europe would not align with communism. At the same time doing so saved the USA from a economical crash caused by overproduction. Lastly it allowed them to gain deep tried economical influence.

While the USA might sometimes to present it as a selfless act it wasn't selfless at all. It was what allowed them to become the most powerful country in the word, at least for a view years.

Lastly Trump didn't just want to buy right on the potential vaccines he wanted to get exclusive rights. It was never even a question before that if the EU finds a vaccine then the USA will get it, too. But now he did an action which completely destroy the trust between the EU and the USA when it comes to fighting this pandemic together.
> That's why I see hordes of young people trying to reverse the "damage" the old generation has infliced upon the world.

This, but unironically.
Nope, and I’m pretty sure that I have/had both 3and 2 installed, both in PATH. 3 for experiments and 2 as part if node-gyp toolchain. I can think of why this hell exists — some program calling python.exe gets an incompatible version — but that’s an issue with that program. Linux also had issues with /usr[/local]/bin/python pointing randomly, iirc, didn’t it?
The people involved in the negotiation, except for whoever leaked it, thought it was permissible by the baseline human standards.
How do they address causation in these studies? At first glance, it seems like authoritarianism would be predictive of parasite presence rather than the other way around.
Netflix keynotes described how entire AWS AZs can and will go offline, and how to induce failures to exercise recovery paths, so why is the evaluation criteria for GCP 'my single point of failure VM cannot ever go down?'
As a Russian, it’s puzzling to me that grani.ru was thought to be worthy of commemoration. The website is a hysterical tabloid offering predictable, biased hot takes on Russian politics. Its only questionable merit is that it was illegally blocked by the authorities.
Do hierarchies lead to a stronger society?
Does this have any support on the corporate level? E.g, companies like Mozilla?
It takes years to recover, IF you recover that lost capacity (that's why it's "might improve").

Also, there's reported cases of people relapsing after being "recovered". Some of them even died, increasing suspicion that this virus might be biphasic:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-reinfection-...

We simply don't know a lot about this virus yet.
I think no matter how you allocate limited vaccine doses there are going to be a lot of people and nations upset. And I'm guessing the country where it is developed has a disproportionate degree of control of these decisions.
Can they host it on ipfs,that can help with censorhsip a bit
True, but it's nice for JS land that NPM got it right the first time. Ruby gems sucked before bundler (and last I checked, bundler still isn't cross-platform, it's nuts), I lost count of how many Go package managers get published. For at least a decade all of Java land downloaded JARs and put them into the CLASSPATH.

It really took quite a while for programming communities to accept that that local packages are a good thing, and NPM was early to the party.

And NPM does this recursively, which I think it what greggman is primarily getting at. I don't think many other package managers do this. I mean, the fact that a package's dependencies are local to it too is fundamental. You simply can't get dependency version conflicts (except if package authors do terrible global state hacks, and fortunately this is pretty unheard of). Instead, you just pull in 5 different versions of some logging library or some http client wrapper, and you don't even notice. That's not without its own downsides, but I prefer it to the steaming pile of `override` directives in our Elixir codebase has day.
Hmm, I wouldn’t call them confusing per se, they’re just not useful, and I don’t think any compiler has really solved this problem (but then again, generation of compiler error messages is not something I’m an expert in). Let’s say I forgot to put a “*” in front of something: the compiler’s error might be something like “xyz does not implement SomeTrait, here is a page explaining what traits are”. I’d be more than happy to file bugs for things like these but I have generally refrained from doing so because I am unsure if this is something that is possible to fix. If you’d like, I could file issues for things like this, but I’m genuinely curious to hear if there’s any strategies on improving these or work done in this area.
Could argue diseased as a noun works (to refer to them, as “the diseased”)
Here is the link to the Nobel prize:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1903/summary/

The distribution of the prize is interesting:
- 1/2 went to Becquerel (who's that?)
- 1/4 went to Pierre Curie
- 1/4 went to Marie Curie
Technically, yes, there is an R0 above which a virus is self sustaining. But if something has R0 of 1.25 the herd immunity threshold is about 20%, whereas if it's 18, the HIT is nearly 95%. Additionally, R0 isn't an absolute property of the pathogen, so even assuming there is this absolute HIT, if R0 is around 1, some people will be above 1 and some below 1.

As herd immunity increases, the R0 decreases. A disease with a low R0 spreads more slowly (hence the logistic curve) and is therefore easier to track and trace manually, and has a lower peak and total infection count.

I don't think this is binary at all, or even _that_ stark of a threshold. Transmission doesn't continue at the same exponential rate until it hits around 60% and then suddenly disappear. It doesn't even come close to approximating that behaviour.
If you wind up in the ICU, it may be 2-4 weeks before you can be released, regular hospital beds don't count. You also have to assume how many assisted breathing systems (respirators/ventilators etc) are available. You can't simply assume the number of beds are available either since people may already have some other serious issue and be in one. In China they constructed massive hospitals out of large spaces on the fly, something I can't see happening in our for profit system, so the capacity is not likely to be very flexible at expanding quickly enough.
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All the bars and restaurants are still open, and people are still allowed to visit friends and family. Most nCoV transmission is in small groups with close contact, not stadiums. Closing offices and schools is a good first step, but as long as bars and restaurants are still open and food delivery services are carrying it all over town, it’s a drop in a bucket.
It's unnecessary if your needs are covered.
Thanks. I would like to clarify though that although I do see myself as a socialist, I'm not at all a bolshevik (or any variety of Marxist-Leninism). Because I agree with you on the inevitable degeneration into authoritarianism and/or state-capitalism.

The British philosopher, and socialist, Bertrand Russell visited Russia just a few years after the revolution and summarized his thoughts regarding the bolsheviks in his "The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism"[0], 1920, in which he basically summarizes his thoughts like this:

"I am compelled to reject Bolshevism for two reasons: First, because
the price mankind must pay to achieve Communism by Bolshevik methods
is too terrible; and secondly because, even after paying the price, I
do not believe the result would be what the Bolsheviks profess to
desire."

It's an interesting historical document of a turbulent time, and not socialist theory heavy, so recommended reading for the curious. It's also an example of how socialism is a broad topic, both then and now, not just another word for Bolshevism.

[0] http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17350/pg17350.txt
Thank you for your interesting explanation. That reminds me of the deferred acceptance algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale%E2%80%93Shapley_algorithm
I've been thinking of volunteering my consulting services at a local lab or hospital. But I'm not sure how to go about it even. Once Monday rolls in I'll try to make some calls.

(If anyone knows a place in need, feel free to email me. Brussels, BE)
I don't think the OP math is sensible. (At the absolute most basic, if you're trying to be "conservative" about modeling the effects of social distancing on exponential growth, you should cut the growth rate rather than cutting the absolute number by some percentage.) However, that said: it makes more sense to model growth as exponential once you've documented community transmission as the primary driver. When the US had 5 cases, they were all imported from China and basically contained.
Harvard epidemiologist: my colleagues assumed UK coronavirus plan “was satire”
I didn't find egrep surprising - I use it quite often. The thing I didn't know about it was that it was Al Aho's creation. I only knew about him from awk.
Yeah, "widely known". What is less widely known is that that isn't as true as you think.

Case study: https://mothership.sg/2019/12/news-china-protests-wenlou-hua...
People in Guangdong province -- closely Hong Kong -- protested against the building of a crematorium. They also complained that the government didn't consult them before proceeding with the plans. Some even rioted, similarly to Hong Kongers. Did the government put them in jail forever? Nope: peaceful protesters were unharmed, rioters got jailed but were released later and forgiven. The government scrapped the plans and gave citizens what they wanted.

How is this possible in an authoritarian country? There is only one answer: your image of what China is, is wrong.

There is a core of truth of all the claims about authoritarianism and human rights abuse, but it's just that: a core. That core has been exaggerated beyond all reason.

Like someone else posted: china has good aspects and bad aspects. Just like the US. Just like other countries. Time to stop viewing it as a caricature and start treating it for what it really is.
I remember reading this as a young person and being impressed by how intellectual it sounded. Reading it as an adult, it now sounds like a dressed-up rant from your uncle who spends far too much time watching a certain cable news network.
For how long? Give me liberty or give me death.
Maybe a more ideal strategy would be to have the ship carry progressively dirtier and dirtier loads, so that the cleaning can be postponed to the last cycle to get it back to "clean". Instead of having to wash and alternate clean-dirty-clean-dirty.
Consider: Email 2.0
Ycombinator funds several startups whose success depends on Medicare for All not happening.
> If any official source, regardless of country, recommends to abstain from ibuprofen I would simply like to know.

It's headline news at the moment. You could just check. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/anti-inflammat...
Italy has both universal health coverage and sick leave policies, but is still reeling with a 7% mortality rate [1] and crisis. Neither replaces good leadership and policy/decision making by public health officials, and certainly has ZERO effect on pandemics.

FYI, countries routinely provide free health care [2] during pandemics because it typically is an existential crisis for it's civil society and economy.

[1]: https://www.ccn.com/coronavirus-death-rate-soars-to-7-in-ita...

[2] : announcement about US COVID-19 testing and treatment:

For USA -

Where to get COVID-19 test?

Enter your zip code to find out the nearest COVID-19 test site. (from US HRSA.gov website)
https://findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov/

1. Go to clinics instead of crowded large facilities.

2. Fees: Testing and Treatments are free.

If confirmed, home isolation for 14 days, please help stop spreading COVID-19.
Proactive screening to stop the spreads.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/?...
I don't think people responsible for making those decisions are always adept at calculating what those costs are, and they aren't always empowered to make the fiscally sound choice.
It's cool to see them track down the errors like this, but I'd like to point out some weird things along the way:

* why do the racks have wheels at all? Doesn't seem like a standard build, and turns out the be risky

* there should be at least daily checks on the data center, including a visual inspection of cooling systems and the likes. I don't know if daily visual inspection of racks is also a thing, but should find that pretty quickly.

* monitoring temperatures in a data center is pretty essential, though I must admit I don't know enough if rack-level temperature monitoring would have caused overheating of CPUs in the rack.
Let us determine if it's possible or not. The person who currently works on errors is of the opinion that any time the error isn't useful, it's a bug.

> I’m genuinely curious to hear if there’s any strategies on improving these or work done in this area.

It's just a ton of work. You look at what the compiler produces, look at what information you can have at that point, see if you can craft something better, and then ship. And then look at the next error.
Another very rough way to estimate this: If COVID-19 requires 10x more hospitalizations than influenza, and peak influenza maxes out hospital resources, then we need at least 10x more capacity.

Because there are so many variables, no one knows yet what the numbers will work out to be. The only safe thing to do is to expand capacity as much as possible by taking extreme measures.
It's too bad the thumbnails of those videos instantly scream clickbait to me. I'll try watching a few though.
The mechanism of respiratory failure is different in COPD vs ARDS (in the case of COVID), hypercarbic vs hypoxemic. There is minimal human research in the use of NPV/iron lungs with ARDS. As far as I’m aware the technology does not even exist for many of the ventilation modes we use today with NPV which was designed for people with polio and paralyzed breathing muscles rather than “fluid in their lungs” causing the respiratory failure.
I'm posting this because of the narrative on this site that all experts agree with the UK's plan. To the extent that there is a consensus, it's a consensus against it.
your link does not support what you wrote. You wrote

> "Ibuprofen is an anti-inflammation drug, which means it weakens somewhat your immune system"

The article says

> anti-inflammatory drugs are known to be a risk for those with infectious illnesses because they tend to diminish the response of the body’s immune system.

weakens the immune system != weakens the response of the immune system

As for ibuprofen vs tylonol there's this

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/505/use-only-as-directed

ibuprofen may or may not be worse for you if you catch covid-19 but tylonol has never worked for me personally.
Anything that you can do in any other language. Rust doesn't force you to do anything special, only prove that what you're doing has defined behavior. No tools are forbidden.
I vastly prefer text. Sometimes I need to extract information out of someone who doesn't do a great job of communicating via text and voice helps. Sometimes it's clear that there's a tone-based misunderstanding and that the easiest solution is to switch to voice and make it clear that the tone behind comments isn't sarcastic, dismissive, or whatever.
Smith and Marx are interesting but they're two sides of the same coin. Capitalism, communism, what does it all serve? Greasing the wheels of progress. Everyone supports progress. But how do we define it? Computation! We need more neurons, transistors, etc. so we can tackle more complex problems. Look at how far we've come, compared to microbial goo. It is our manifest destiny to embark on a long march through the galaxy to harvest and reorganize all its matter/energy into a singular united planck scale computer. We're going to need an authoritarian galatic empire to get us there. Are you with us comrade?
The dynamic in the Bay Area might be different from that in Europe, because of no public transportation.
> Staffers at power grids, intelligence agencies, and more often don’t have the option to work from home

Yeah I'm good with that.
You can rehost it anywhere, so while it isn't a silver bullet of a solution, they thought it out more than you're making it out to be.

"I hear you're doing X! Have you considered [basic and trivial thing to consider that took me five seconds to think of]? Ha! Try again next time!"

It's such a ridiculous thing to me when people do this on the internet. People put thousands of hours of effort into this; do you really think they wouldn't have thought of such a basic thing?

It even says in the original link, but it's not like anyone who said the same thing in that thread had looked at the link, either:

https://uncensoredlibrary.com/

The entire point is that individual game maps are incredibly difficult to censor, especially when they're maps for the most popular game in the world; one server gets blocked, two more get thrown up.
Ooh, I like the sound of Dave’s Law. :P

More seriously, I love the idea of the curse of dimensionality for errors. Random tangent, but phrasing it that way totally reminds me of the phrase ‘flaw of averages’ and the story about US jet fighters.

I wasn’t thinking the author was being intentionally deceptive. It can feel like accounting for more things makes something more accurate. Sometimes it’s actually true, sometimes failing to account for all the relevant inputs is a real problem. It’s legitimately difficult to know when you’ve accounted for too little or too much, right? I guess this is just one of those times when each piece being accounted for is making the result less accurate rather than more accurate, because the data truly does have a false precision, like you said.

Didn’t Google go on work-from-home a week ago? I did mid-week last week and I’m feeling stir-crazy already, but starting to wonder if the most responsible thing to do wouldn’t be to catch the virus right now and quarantine myself; guarantee I don’t spread it around.
In the modern age of efficient transit, the deaths caused by famine are becoming more and more a result of bad state/world governance. The famines still usually have a nonhuman cause that originally caused that assistance to be necessary.

There are exceptions of course, like Yemen.
If cheap improvised medical equipment turns out to be feasible, I hope government will provide adequate legal cover for those willing/able to do R&D, manufacture, and distribution.
There is no vaccine, and won't be for many years (if at all).
Social Distance: a Covid-19 club, est. 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver
Defaults matter.
He worked with the Curies on their research into radioactivity and is the namesake for the
becquerel, a unit of radioactivity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Becquerel. (Other units happen to be “rutherfords” and “curies”.)
FDA has emergency approval process and it'll be used when shit hits the vent.

In fact it was just used like two days ago.
5%? That's like 15-20 million people. Doubt it. We, the United States, have a lot of problems. We're greedy. We're arrogant. While we can't prevent all deaths, we're not going to let 15-20 million people die to a virus in this modern age of technology and healthcare.
Most rackmount switches are not really designed to be used in datacenter rack as they do not have front-to-back airflow (and even if they would have, networking hardware tends to have all connectors on wrong side of the box). But almost everyone routinely does that which then necessitates knowing that installing all air baffles would lead to exactly this issue.
Health insurance companies have already said they will cover COVID without copay/deductibles. I am sure that there will be free/low cost options for people without any insurance.

The people who profit from the current system know that there is a presidential election in November. They can't afford to let public opinion go against them. Ironically, I think that this event will cement the current system more.
Ask HN: Social Distance App – count unique Bluetooth mac addresses
Should we scramble and get live in app store (and play store) a simple app that counts the number of unique bluetooth mac addresses your phone sees each day? i.e. the lower number, the better you are doing at social distancing. And then make it social and like a game, leader boards etc. This app can save lives?
1) applause for idea and realization

2) slight scepticism, how is this information curated ? can someone infect the pool by injecting bogus news ?

3) the idea of video game players crawling through virtual worlds to acquire real knowledge.. is the most poetic idea in game I heard in 10 years