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>> China was able to build a 645,000-square-foot medical facility in 10 days with 30 ICU units and 1000 beds. Coordinating such a feat in such a short time would not have been possible in 1918.

While its a great feat--and China is prob the only country that can do it--that's nothing if we get hundreds of millions infected with a virulent version. 30 ICU units might serve a town with 35000 people
The trouble is we are still probably a couple of months away from the peak. There has been quite a lot of debate about this in the UK. Some of the thinking seems to be if we restrict people too much early on then they will get weary of the restrictions later when they are really needed.
The lack of response by the US government is really quite alarming. I fear this virus could hit the US really hart since there are quite a few factors coming together here: labour laws that disincentives staying at home when falling ill, expensive health-care, illegal immigrants scared of visiting hospitals, very little testing, and to top it all off of, a government that looks somewhat underprepared.

Looking at the death-toll currently, I think it's pretty safe to assume that there are considerably more people infected than currently diagnosed. In the past, we were able to count on the United States to tackle such a crisis in a consolidated effort, it's really not looking like that atm. I think the next 1-2 weeks will reveal the actual scale of the outbreak when lots of those undiagnosed cases will hit the local hospitals. It's almost a little ironic to see how both the US and Iranian administration are following a similar corona strategy here: blame outside forces, ignore the threat, underreport cases (by not testing) and hope the crisis passes..
I think it's best not to overstate like the media currently has been (at least here in the USA) which is that everyone should be panicky and worried if they'll be alive next week.
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For W20 the interviews for European applicants were conducted in Paris.
Interactive modeling. I didn’t realize the expected total US infections are 100 million to 200 million.
When your main argument for not using exceptions for every kind of error handling is performance instead of architecture, then maybe it is a sign that exceptions should simply be constructed to be more performant instead of giving people advice that isn't and can't ever be consistent.

As the writer of a library (or just other utility functions), you simply cannot know whether something is an exceptional situation or not, because that is a property of the program and the environment, not the function. Being unable to parse a string to a number, or to create a socket, or to even allocate memory can all be exceptional or not exceptional depending on the context, and often you simply do not know the context this code will run in, or the code will actually run in multiple directly contradictory contexts.
Taiwan isn’t Mainland China. The first source is from Taiwan, the 2nd from China.

It’s up to you to choose which news source to believe, knowing that the former can print anything (including wild speculation) and the later will only print government approved information (including blatant obvious propaganda).
Just use https://10minutemail.com/ or some similar service
Generally, when someone makes statements like the one you're trying very hard to make fun of, the "we need to" means "our leaders should prioritize".

Not that hard to understand really.
Chelsea Manning was not jailed or fined for refusing to testify in and of itself. I also refuse to testify, for example, but I'm pretty sure no cop will come arrest me and put me in jail and no court will fine me.

Context is a thing, and it is relevant here.
It's quite tortuously contorted. He said he was proposing to launch proper clinical trials for "herbal remedies," dodging a request to give his blessing.
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Yup. Meanwhile, the New York Times has run an article about how northern Italy is "a warning to the world" with the eye-catching claim that "about 50 percent of the people who tested positive for the virus required some form of hospitalization": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/europe/12italy-coro... Between this and other reporting, I'm starting to wish they hadn't opened up their paywall for coronavirus articles.
Glad you brought this up. My day job involves finding malicious network traffic. DOH is really easy to detect because in suricata or bro/zeek you simply match new outbound connections with DNS responses. If you don't get a matching pair then you need to investigate why you have outbound traffic that is bypassing your DNS server. Note this is alpha stage code. I run this at home on all of my outbound traffic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/embh63/i_made_a_thi...

Original..
https://github.com/morsgiathatch/suricata_edits/tree/master/...

Fork..
https://github.com/1stOctet/suricata_edits/tree/master/DOCKE...
That + this post gives me an interesting idea... a local network interface for ImGui for environments where you don't have a native window, or there are no convenient bindings for ImGui.
The guardian has all their content free and aggressively asks you to subscribe. Maybe there's more to their finances that I don't know about but they seem to be doing well.
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Meh, people who create things are always going to be a subset of the population because it just takes more effort than the ring below it. And in my experience, it's definitely a thin stream.

For all sorts of reasons, no doubt, but that's what it is. I didn't even meet another developer in the wild who actually liked building things on his own until I was in my late 20s and we became co-founders. And I went to a large public university with a good comp sci department.

Not everyone is going to be a creator. Not sure what is so controversial about this. Getting hostile over the word "thin" seems a bit silly since it's also completely unquantified. And I wonder what your life circumstance is if you're encountering more of a "thick" stream. Are you a hackathon event planner or something?
Why does fragmentation have to be so bad on Android? Windows runs on millions of different hardware configurations, including custom home-built machines, and all Windows machines receive software updates at the same time.
The BBC actually exchanged messages with some of them. People on Facebook in particular use real names and have profiles on other websites, including places where they and their family work and can be contacted using real contact details. And there's some extent of life history faking that bot creators aren't going to go to just to be one of dozens of people posting 'Good job Boris' a decade after the account's first formed.

Obviously it's more difficult on Twitter when accounts tend to be anonymous, connections are one-way, a lot of activity is retweeting and very little of it is personal photos, and many real accounts have been around for a lot less time.
“ a large number of infected people are asymptomatic or show only mild symptoms and will usually not be tested”

No.

WHO, China, Italy and South Korea have all looked and the hypothesised majority of asymptomatic cases doesn’t exist.

China did 320k background tests in one province and had a 0.5% positive rate. There’s some asymptomatic cases, but no evidence suggests there are massive numbers.
I don't see what is wrong with that. It's like when someone commits a large massacre with an assault rifle. It makes sense to seize the opportunity to argue why assault weapons should be banned.

I don't understand Americans infatuation with "unity". Every time there's a major crisis "unity" shuts down all disagreements so that nothing is ever learned.
Imposing a lockdown to soon does a lot of harm and very little good. In fact it makes things worse, because after a few weeks people get fed up of the lockdown and start breaking isolation.

So if you lock down a few weeks too soon, people start breaking isolation at exactly the point it's most important the lockdown is maintained. All of this was explained in the presentation.
Ah, so ... if andyjohnson0 is not part of the human species ... the heck is andyjohnson0?

Also if andyjohnson0 wants their "leaders" to do something ... I mean ... andyjohnson0 can vote no?

And are you suggesting "our leaders" are dragging their asses or something?
"Not all of them" is a pretty odd spin on the difference of discovering Penicillin.

The antibacterial drugs we have nowadays are fundamentally different than the whole lack thereof in 1918.
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I meant "we" in the collective sense. I think that was fairly obvious.
So what will you, as a part of "we", the collective, do exactly to make it happen?
OK, let's start with a soap bar or a face mask..
yeah, but even in 1918 not every city had a refinery or blast furnace. And even back then, a lot of the basic stuff was imported (think opium, cocain (probably the top medicines back then...), rare metals...). On top of that, in 1918, a lot of the things you (and I) take for granted were not even found (for example antibiotica). And instead of random factories, each city (heck each small town) has like 10-15 CNC-machines ready to produce anything which was done in 1918 - a problem might be all things chemistry/mining related, but the real important stuff (which was known in 1918) also back then has been produced centrally (and still is)...
It doesn't change anything, many will be blocked from traveling either way.
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So the real story is he proposed doing scientifically valid testing, which could easily disprove their efficacy - and that somehow turned into "the experiments give some hope for the treatment of the novel coronavirus" ... due to a bad English translation?
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I can't relate to this environment or workflow but off the top of my head if I wanted to do something like this I'd use some kind of pub-sub and publish to it from one place and read from another - is that what this is ? Or am I missing something?
Bitrix24 is surely not "one of the best remote collaboration platforms". Had to use that service some time ago in a job and it was a convoluted experience.
My n+1 had difficulties to breath, headache and cough this morning but came "just one hour" at work for this "important meeting" ...
Chloroquine is available without prescription in many West African counties, and is used liberally anytime a child has a fever.

At this point, I would label it as dangerous as aspirin.
I'm not saying there was no international travel in the early 20th century, just that the numbers are massively higher now.
> Cough sound analysis for pneumonia detection

How realistic is this?
If you click things together yes. However, most of the real world uses infrastructure as code type approaches involving things like terraform, cloudformation, etc. They give you plenty of ways to mess that up. Running unsecured should not be an option period. It's for sure not an option on elastic cloud.
One that is often not mentioned: cache errors. When systems face scaling issues, caching is often a first line tool. Imagine a bug gets deployed with an off by one error in your cache, or the cache serves the latest entry instead of the right entry.

If you add caching (esp. to your auth-chain), you need automated tests covering every access pattern. Concurrent access, cache timeouts, cache full, cache invalidation, etc.
It also has a github:
https://github.com/dunky11/react-saas-template
My apologies. I have edited the comment after that, because I didn't feel that "It is only in the last few years" was entirely correct.

However, I feel that this tendency is getting worse. A denial of the role of expertise. The question "was Y2K real?" is a political issue now, and it's not because of Y2K specifically, it's as a comparison to more recent events.
I think this argument would be better if you had an example of an item which could be manufactured in a city in 1918 but not in a city in 2020.
Sure, but there's a risk of self-fulfilling prophecy if we're on too much of a hair trigger. In this case it wasn't as if the comment was either unrelated to the submission, or particularly inflammatory. A matter of judgement, of course.

Probably enough said on that.
The "next" already happened to a degree, quite a while ago. ARD and ZDF have online archives ("mediathek") where most content must be de-publicized (removed) after a while because the commercial competitors bitched to the politicians who make the rules for the public broadcasters. But now there is a ZDF channel on amazon prime that I can pay for again after having paid my mandatory fees (GEZ) already, yay.

The online offerings of ARD and ZDF also had and have to remove a ton of old content (articles and such), and had to discontinue a lot of services, especially interactive services such as chat platforms, that weren't directly connected to their basic information mandate.

And in 2017 some commercial newspapers successfully won a court decision against the ARD's tagesshow app (tagesschau being their flagship prime time newscast), meaning the app (and also the tagesschau website) had to remove a lot of texts that were "not directly related" to the content of their news shows[1]. Why were they successful? Because the law already prohibits the ARD and ZDF from being to "press-like".

[1] https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Urteil-gegen-Tagessc...
Ah, I seem to have have met the politically astute developer on HN.

You might like this version better

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22566315
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You can make soap at home, a factory anywhere can trivially make it. And face masks are paper plus string, again hardly difficult to manufacture in any city in 2020. (In the UK most paper was made centrally in 1918, I happen to know this because I live near the site of the former paper mills - https://www.thepapertrail.org.uk/).
A politically astute developer is able to take ideas and make them "important" while other developers look on and say "really"?
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face mask: some variation of paper cloth. Go to the local cellulose factory (I doubt every city had one back then, they were and still are near cheap energy/wood), specify the quality of the paper you want and get it (you have to pay for it, because today they are probably producing paper for $$$ bills). Some yarn: cotton/wool has always been imported in some locations, a local workshop will build a spinning machine @1918s quality in no time. The same for sewing machines (those things haven't changed a lot if you don't factor in automation (which even today noone bothers to pay for the existence of cheap slave labor in Bangladesh)).
Soap bar: we have a lot of animals around here and butcher them locally
giving you everything you need (https://www.essentialchemicalindustry.org/materials-and-appl...). You just have to find someone who is willing to do the necessary stuff 1918-style :)
Here's another freely available beginner's resource on Linux internals by u/0xAX [0]: https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/index.html

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=0xAX
Would you mind explaining the maths to me, I have a mathematics degree so you can get reasonably complex.

Issue one, I have a 85 year old to care for who I don't want to kill by getting the virus by unknown means and asymptotically giving them virus. When I know contact point there is no unknown period to self isolate for.

Issue two, while it's quite, in the minuscule change I got really sick (I am very low chance of complications) it would be better to go to hospital now than kicking out an older person in a few months time. I doubt I will be going to hospital.

Issue three, I'd like to contribute to herd immunity by getting a Claytons vaccine, I don't think other's should feel obliged but those who wish to should be allowed.

I am aware you may be able to get it twice after a unknown period, there is no evidence this is possible for most people in a short time. If that was true we are very much in trouble. I'm also aware it seems like it can become active again in some people, these seem to be misidentified as catching it twice. I'm aware vaccines are at crazy best a year away. I'm aware treatments are improving.

How would you model this?
I don't understand what any of what you said has to do with established copyright law, and are you saying that IFTTT or Zapier are not copyrighted because they're "merely an interface" (what Java does for declaration code is as complex as what they do)? What about Haskell's mtl or lens that do even less? They seem to think they're copyrighted: https://github.com/ekmett/lens/blob/master/LICENSE

Oracle sued over the act of copying of 11K lines of extremely creative code for commercial purposes and not for compatibility. Nothing of this kind and magnitude has happened in the software industry. Any claim that this is about "copyrighting APIs" in general or changing anything about copyright and fair-use are biased interpretations.
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The „funny“ thing is that they are using data provided by DWD (for free) for those.
Does anyone know the pros and cons of this vs something like Elastic search?
Sorry, I could just check my comments now. Thanks for the recommendations. I am really against sleep training though :)
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Like those “chicken pox parties” for kids, but with the intention of having better access to medical care before the system gets overloaded. Looking at the charts, like the NYTimes one I posted about earlier, it’s a pretty obvious conclusion that timing will affect outcome if you get a bad case of this.
> It's dawning on me that what China and South Korea are achieving, although impressive, leads to a lengthy stalemate that makes life impossible for millions of people.

It's not a stalemate, they're still getting new cases at a pace that allows their medical system to cope.

> In the absence of a vaccine

It's a pretty safe bet one will become available pretty soon. Meanwhile, more is being learned about how to handle infections and improve the outcome.

> the aim is to flatten the curve but still get the whole thing over and done with in about 6 months

There are 4000 ICU beds in the country in total, most of which will be in use due to other kind of cases at any one time. [1] But let's assume you can make that number available for coronavirus patients for 6 months. So you have 4k*26 = 104k ICU bed-weeks available. There's been talk of 60% of the population getting infected to build up herd immunity [2] (somehow ignoring that there seems to be a nontrivial reinfection rate [3]), so almost 40 million people. It's not very clear how many infected people end up needing intensive care. In Italy, it was 10% of the people who tested positive [4]. But only the worst cases get tested once the epidemic is widespread, so let's say maybe 0.5% of the infected people need ICU (wild guess here since no country with a large number of infections is testing people with mild symptoms, but I think I'm being conservative). 0.5% of 40 million is 200k patients. If each of them need an ICU bed for 2 weeks, that's 400k bed-weeks.

Basically we're talking about most of the 6 months period of the NHS being overwhelmed and coronavirus having a high mortality rate.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51714498

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-herd-i...

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

[4] https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/10/simple-math-alarming-ans...
> Surely development and stockpiling of anti virals is the key, Tamiflu or similar.

Tamiflu doesn't have any effect on Covid-19. There might be antivirals that are effective, and testing is happening now. I'd argue we should be trying to find ways to speed that process up for next time.

> The lead time for vaccines will also be far too long and the protection against flu like illnesses is variable over time.

Thats what I was saying: can we (humans) get better/faster at doing this?
As a library writer you can let the caller the responsibility to determine if something is worth throwing an exception for or not.

1. return an error code

2. if the caller consider the issue to require an exception, they will do it themselves

You can also have entrypoints to the library that will throw exceptions, and other versions that won't, and let the caller decide what they want to use.

Though of course that's more work.

Regarding the point of performances, that makes me think of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22483028, discussing "Low-cost Deterministic C++ Exceptions for Embedded Systems". It would definitely be very interesting to see what is now possible if exceptions are cheaper.
Indeed in other places I've read a cost of $ 200 for a single test. But maybe what's not included here is the labour and machine running time that has to also still be done.
Look, I have a lathe at home and can make an engine if I want to, thing is other people can't because they never were interested in that. And I used the simplest things possible as examples.

Realistically, where would you start with these in a typical deindustrialized town today? "A factory" is a poor answer, some towns have none really, and factories are not interchangeable anyway.
See also imdebug: http://www.billbaxter.com/projects/imdebug/
the only thing this anecdote tells us is that the legacy java code was a "pile of shite"...
This reads like amateur propaganda or conspiracy theory.

Turns out the source is exactly that. Move on.
https://bubble.io/ - for non-developers, good for prototyping and simple apps but not scalable

https://remaketheweb.com/ - seems cool, full-stack framework, not totally flexible but might be interesting for simpler apps

We are working on an open-source project for developers that would be both easy to use but also flexible and scalable.
You can see it here: https://wasp-lang.dev/ - it's still a work in progress, but would be cool to get your feedback!
NetBSD to me seemed to have the most readable codebase, even compared to other BSDs.
MFC, still alive?
In this “web” world, who still code use MFC framework?
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I do not know how south korea managed to get as many test kits as they did, but Italy (and the rest of europe, the us, everyone except south korea and singapore) simply do not have enough testkits to be able to copy them. So instead we have to limit the spread by telling people to work from home. Also Italy found out they were infected much later than south korea. people estimate the virus had been spreading for weeks when they did.
Why are you being so obtuse? I'm not saying that every person should actively work on vaccine development. That would be absurd. I'm just asserting that finding ways to speed-up vaccine development should be an international priority.

I'd vote for politicians who support this. I'd happily pay more taxes to support it. I'd support the development of international institutions in this field. Is that good enough for you?
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Is it even right to spend tax payers money for running a Weather Service, if it can be handled by private companies?
Best place? Surely not. They are not cyberpunk.
Try Pat Cadigan instead. Then Gibson. Then Sterling or Effinger.