skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly agree with you.

One caveat though is that airborne diseases spread much more rapidly and are much more difficult to prevent than other forms of transmission.

Diseases that spread by skin to skin contact (smallpox, for instance) almost universally have visible signs before they're contagious. This makes quarantining easier.

Diseases that spread via contaminated drinking water (cholera) can almost always be stopped by boiling water or iodine tablets. And developed nations have well established ways of ensuring clean drinking water.

Diseases that spread via blood or other bodily fluids (Ebola, HIV) can be stopped by well established sanitary procedures.

Diseases that are not airborne simply don't have the potential to cause the damage covid has already caused, to say nothing of the total damage when it's all over.
What does this have to do with billionaire taxes?
Mike Novogratz: the three biggest mistakes traders make
Isn’t that misleading given the price of the Yen?
This is great, exactly what I've been trying to do but there's never enough time and now the second kid is on the way... I guess I'll have to just find that extra time somehow because you got me excited again.

One question:
What did you use for the guitar amp? I personally use Guitar rig and I keep getting lost in all those infinite guitar sounds. I'm worried my songs won't sound cohesive if I experiment too much and have a different setup (or several) for each song. Do you just pick a few sets like a clean sounding one, dirty sounding one and stick with them through the whole record (maybe add some unique effects here and there) or does it not matter?
Over 24,000 coronavirus research papers are now available in one place
Well you aren't wrong but if the person is at death's door and this has been used in several cases already for other viruses (and China is rushing it on 1000 people?!) why not?
I like the idea, very nice! Have you considered open sourcing it?
This virus is a real opportunity for the firms who faced a big reputation hit in 2008 to step in and show that they care.
What people miss is this: You don't want to be sick in America, or abroad generally. It could turn out very very expensive. There are travel insurances, but they have limits. In rare circumstances, this can happen in every country.
This could use a (2013) tag.

There's a writeup here [0], basically he's creating a voronoi diagram from friends' locations, as queried by FourSquare. With the voronoi diagram the intersections of the lines map out points equidistant from the nearest neighbors, which is what I'm guessing he's visiting in the video clips.

0: http://scottmadethis.net/interactive/hellisotherpeople/
Since it's a throwaway, which airline is that? Asking for a friend...
microsoft teams failed too today so I reverted back to email.
slack had downtime aswell.

None of these were prepared for the massive surge of users working from home.
According to census estimates, the most spoken languages in SF besides English are: Chinese (152k), Spanish (90k), and Filipino (24k): https://sfgov.org/oceia/language-diversity-data
The very fact that there are still so many people willing to "buy the dip" shows that we're just in the beginning of the process. There will be a time (a few weeks from now), when almost everyone will be screaming sell. This is just how ALL bear markets work.
The number of confirmed cases in South Korea is flattening out at around 8,200 people out of a population of 52 million (0,016 %), China is flattening out at 81,000 cases (0,006 % of the whole population). Is it really reasonable to assume the number of infected people in the the US will be 3,000 to 8,000 times higher?? If these are the calculations Wall Street are doing then I'm not surprised the stock market is falling...
It's not as easy as adding more beds. Each ICU unit has to have specific amount of staff around it, resource, which cannot be easily increased by planned economy.

There are workarounds and corners to cut, like making last year students into doctors without exams, moving doctors from other specialities to intensive care. But it's not exactly the same.
It's almost midnight in Europe, so you wouldn't have peak hours around this time. Which is not to say that people using Discord livestreaming for remote taching can't have overloaded it from other geographies.
>There are nuances when it comes to ICUs and ventilators, etc. But the bottom line is: Even in optimistic flattening the curve scenarios, the curve cannot flatten enough.

This always felt intuitively true given exponential growth - realistically flatten the curve was more platitude than practical, an desperate appeal by media in democratic countries to position a "civilized" solution in order to avoid mass panic and draconian measures. Now they're elevating Korea as the exemplar response model when the country is practically an island like Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong. It's simply not applicable to geographic realities of most countries where borders can't be simply shut and where a lack of infrastructure investment make the kind of techno-authoritarian solutions that made agile responses in those countries possible. Canada doesn't even have an official Corona dashboard, instead news media as to collate information from an updated table using data from archive.org, people paying in cash, nothing is getting wiped down, minimal mask use etc. If anything, countries without Asian Tiger advantages need to crack down harsher to make up for these deficiencies. No one is going to build enough triage hospitals and medical material to outpace any variant of this curve. No developed country is civilized enough to sacrifice this much for the greater good. This is a stick, not carrot and certainly not rhetoric situation. If Corona is as bad as the numbers project, flatten the curve is going to kill a lot of people in retrospect because politicians can't stomach "lock it down".
Surely it's better just to build as many ventilators as we can.

And then get old people to stay at home, perhaps with a family member or carer to assist them.
You picked SK and left Italy on the left.
Just tested it with 3 friends, works good, one of them had like a 5 secs delay, I couldn't screenshare with my Android 10. It is working on this remote world that we are forced right now. thanks.
For your idea to work, there still has to be an interesting change to how public infrastructure works, and not merely in the change-your-lifestyle way. Having to walk a little bit is already part of the bus/subway/train bargain unless you're pretty lucky.

But once you're on the bus there's only so much social distancing you can do. What are you going to do then? Thus, the car is the ultimate vehicle if you don't want even want a driver.

Renting a car is the lowest hanging fruit right now for dealing with this problem. If you have a low hanging fruit suggestion then put it out there, but it's not trying to socially distance yourself on a bus, right?
I am with other people that your magical skills aren’t going to wish the virus away. Listen to medical professionals and practice social distancing. If you want a related project, maybe crate a robot that allows you to further practice social distancing.
If only we had a decentralized networking protocol.
Depends where you are in the world.

H1N1, SARS and Ebola are in recent memory, but they didn't reach my neck of the woods.
Yep - we had two different conference call services, including Microsoft Teams, fail today.
Fresh doesn't seem to have stopped deliveries here (Seattle area), but it's hard to find a delivery slot -- all of the delivery slots appear to be booked up 3 days out. I have a delivery scheduled for Wednesday.

They were out of a lot of things, but still had enough for a 'normal' round of groceries, I didn't find everything I usually buy, but they had adequate substitutes. Refrigerated/frozen goods seem the hardest to find.
Could he have tried? Yes he could have tried. Again, not saying he had to, but he did set a precedent with the Thailand cave rescue that he's not only after shareholder and company interest directly. An iron lung is a metal tube and some rubber seals, it's a hair's breadth from what SpaceX makes already. They were built in the 1800s. How hard can it be to pump air in and out of a tube for a few weeks?

The difference is that Musk is a billionaire and could waste $1M a thousand times over, and barely move the needle on his net worth, and I couldn't. I reject your suggestion that Musk trying to build some air pumps and failing might leave him homeless and unable to provide for his family and leave Tesla/SpaceX in tatters.

> how long would it take to retool and retrain whatever resources are needed to be able to do that and actually start producing something?

Tesla crowed about building an "entire new general assembly line" in 3 weeks with "minimal resources" when they started building cars in a tent in 2018: https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/22/17488372/tesla-model-3-pr... Let's imagine that making ventilators is simpler than cars, so how about ... i dunno .. 2 weeks?

> At some level I don't think asking Musk or Tesla/SapceX to do this is really any different to ..

To .. the UK government asking carmakers (and other companies) to investigate whether they could produce ventilators? Because they have done that - Ford, JCB, Rolls Royce, are "looking into it". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51914490

A producer of ventilators says, in that article, "they can't they can't, woe, woe" which is what the space industry used to say about SpaceX, and the car industry about decent electric cars. ""The idea that an engineering company can quickly manufacturer medical devices, and comply with the rules, is unrealistic because of the heavy burden of standards and regulations that need to be complied with," said Penlon's Mr Thompson." - a) change the rules for an emergency situation, b) instead of making positive pressure ventilators which have to force clean air into a patient's face with all kinds of sterility problems, make negative pressure ones which the patient is inside and not otherwise touching or breathing air out of, lowering the risk of infection and other complications.

> If it's a 5% increase in CPAP machines 6 months from now, how helpful is that?

Good question. Who knows? The company in the above link makes 750 ventilators annually, so a 5% increase in those would be making 37 machines. Imagine if a billionaire made 37 machines and didn't save anyone. What folly. Everyone would laugh!(?) Have you seen any suggestions that COVID-19 will be done and dusted, worldwide, in 6 months? Can't think that I have.
You have to do it the old fashioned way, pre Internet. Restricted & spaced lines at physical stores or supply locations. Take/get a number access to shopping resupply at stores or supply zones that are cleaned frequently. You move into a real quarantine program. This sit at home and order stuff from Amazon approach, isn't anywhere near that.

It would require the US military and national guard to implement and keep functioning properly. You need someone with huge scale, federal power (overrule local bullshit), and national reach to ensure safety, supply, delivery and make hard decisions as they crop up.
That was two weeks ago. Now we have the results of two clinical studies.
One of the more worrying things to me is how this pandemic (and/or our response to it) will disproportionately affect small businesses and individuals. As Amazon hires 100k workers how many jobs are being lost by small businesses failing?
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Agencies have been strongly recommended to try and help find them shelter.
This is what centralized infrastructure does. No surprises there.

In the mean time, my IRC-servers had 100% uptime. Just saying’.
>The important thing to remember is that society definitely will return to normal. It's just a matter of time.

Many seniors will never leave their homes again.
MS’s decisions outside of everything to do with windows 10 anyhow.
Uhh, Freedom of Assembly.
You're assuming those numbers are accurate - the US has had a terrible time getting testing out so it might be less a case of "we don't have any" and more a case of "we're clueless as to what's going on". And, honestly, I'm thinking it's the second since it seems like there is widespread community transmission.
Literally everyone who isn't an American libertarian makes fun of American libertarians. For good reason.
With two I flown (Ryanair and Wizzair) I never felt pushed to buy anything. Also, I checked and both are profitable.
Because Italy has no idea how many cases they have.

The best data sets so far are South Korea and the Princess Cruise ship, because they did widespread testing. Both show a CFR of about 0.6%.
I'm sure that at least Amazon grocery delivery would be considered a vital service and wouldn't be shut down lightly.
AFAICT, minikube requires a full VM, whereas this doesn't seem to. So it should, in theory, be much more lightweight.
I wouldn't underestimate the effectiveness and ability to respond of highly developed (and small) states like Singapore, Hong Kong or Taiwan.

They have very good control of their borders and the (medical) resources to act in case of trouble. Not only that but I think they have learned a few lessons after the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak.

Anecdotal, but while in Hong Kong (2014) there were a few things that stood out:

- they had thermal screening for ALL passengers - while walking towards customs an agent asked me to take my hat off and pointed to the thermal cameras. In contrast, at Bucharest's airport they were set up 3 weeks ago. As of 2019, there were 1.2M Romanian citizens living in Italy, about 600k in the northern part.

- banners against spitting in the trash bin - coming with a big fine. More generally speaking, a general state of cleanliness which can't be found in many EU capitals.

- no toilets in the subway - might be sources of contamination. And when you finally found a public toilet, they were as clean as they can be.

I think there are better odds of finding a cure fast than for Europe to contain this. Note, the evening before the Milan area lockdown people were rushing to the train stations - Schenghen area is borderless.
There's precedent, it makes sense with our knowledge, we have seen people who are apparently reinfected, we can likely soon find evidence for or against the idea
I am concerned the Discord might not be financially viable or unable to scale to what we need during this unprecedented crisis.
"It is mandatory. This Order is a legal Order issued under the authority of California law. You are required to comply, and it is a misdemeanor crime not to follow the order (although the intent is not for anyone to get into trouble)."

What does this mean regarding enforcement? Are people going to get ticketed / jailed? Will the police be out in force to check papers?
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Here in [redacted] literally everything on Amazon.fr that I would like to order is unavailable for delivery until next Monday. In [redacted] at least.

I won't say everything is like that but I have been looking at some school supplies as my son is home and I have been unable to find anything for delivery this week.
Google should not fear audit of their internal data handling practices, and the way it communicates with data subjects about the purposes of data processing.
> Putting in place measures to conscript anyone who can be useful in this task

Go fuck yourself your authoritarian asshole. You'll shoot me before you get me into the military.
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That doesn't include dividends paid out by the companies in the NIKKEI.
Easy enough solution would be for congress to appoint Mitt Romney as speaker of the house, then impeach and remove Pence and Trump.
A surprising number of people commenting that this is an overreaction. I suggest reading this[1] and this[2] before you're so hasty to dismiss this. This is absolutely the right move (and if anything should have been done sooner).

Also luckily the comment ranking here seems to mean your peers disagree with you.

[1]: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...

[2]: https://www.flattenthecurve.com/
So what are you going to do when the virus is gone in your city/state/country, isolate yourself from the rest of the world? Because the timeline/situation will be different for many other places.
"The Immune response for MERS tapers off over a year; but we don't know what the immune response is of SARS2, it looks very different, it might be very short lived, we need more evidence"
I don't disagree with that, to be clear -- my thought is more that everyone is in this together. There's a lot of actions only a government can practically take, and others they would probably do better than private actors even if private actors could also do it. (Health insurance being a prime example.) But none of that precludes a landlord from giving businesses (and, of course, individuals and families) a rent break without waiting for the government to compel them to do so.
There's also that little problem we get new versions of the flu virus every year, why isn't that going to happen with covid-19 now? It's got billions of hosts.
> With 1 billion devices running Windows 10

Just like Java
They’re also handing out IKEA leaflets to orthopedists about how ICU and ventilators work; and sending them to production.

It’s insane. It’s trench warfare
> It is as though they have never been in bear markets before.

We haven’t. It’s been 12 years since the last bear market.

I was literally 20, in college, and with nothing to even think about investing.

How many are too young to even remember 2008?
Ask HN: Social games to play online with friends during social distancing?
Sounds like what happens when one of the criteria to get tested (which is expensive) is "having been in presence of known existing COVID-19 case".

It's a symptom of massive under-testing and would be greatly alleviated by an inexpensive test.
Compared to Discord, how many users does your IRC servers have?
I know a couple of projects that switched to gitlab. I use gitlab for my personal projects. I've abstained from moving Red Moon away from GitHub because it's still where people are, and I have some doubts about GitLab's VC-funded model (will they be able to stay as open forever?). I also want to consider other options, like SourceHut. At the same time, it is in the back of my mind and I am ready to move away at the first sign of extend/extinguish.
Like South Korea and China compared to EU?
isn't it closed-source and centralized?
Not to be snarky, but did your IRC servers have 100% uptime because no one was using them? These services are all going down because they're seeing huge surges in usage; your servers absolutely would collapse under the same load.
I think the internet as a whole is not fully prepared for this global binge/upload your dancing kids vid event.

Not that I care, I've got books.
I think the point is that you are using a commercial entity to host your code. There is a bill for the code you have hosted, and you aren't the one paying for it.
Also: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
Windows 10 Has over One Billion Users
Both — but primarily because we're their table management system.
> Reduced Work Hours

> If your employer has reduced your hours or shut down operations due to COVID-19, you can file an Unemployment Insurance (UI) claim. UI provides partial wage replacement benefit payments to workers who lose their job or have their hours reduced, through no fault of their own. Workers who are temporarily unemployed due to COVID-19 and expected to return to work with their employer within a few weeks are not required to actively seek work each week. However, they must remain able and available and ready to work during their unemployment for each week of benefits claimed and meet all other eligibility criteria. Eligible individuals can receive benefits that range from $40-$450 per week.

> The Governor’s Executive Order waives the one-week unpaid waiting period, so you can collect UI benefits for the first week you are out of work. If you are eligible, the EDD processes and issues payments within a few weeks of receiving a claim.
Five days ago, it was reported that a German biotech company had already produced 4 million tests.[0]

"The tests use what’s called the polymerase chain reaction, a diagnostic method recommended by the WHO that amplifies the virus’s genetic code so it can be detected before the onset of symptoms. The kit comes with two vials: a primer to help detect an infection, and a synthetically engineered piece of the virus, which labs use to produce a surefire positive match to ensure their machines are working correctly. A lab technician combines these ingredients with a patient’s mucus sample—usually from a throat or nasal swab—and results are usually available in a few hours."

Coincidentally, I recently discovered the burgeoning biohacking scene in which many folks are already using affordable PCR thermocyclers in their home labs to do DNA amplification and crispr-cas experiments. I do fungal sequencing for phylogeny myself.

Given the simplicity of the testing process using PCR, why does it seem like the US is moving so slowly with getting tests in peoples hands? Is it the primer or control virus synthesis? Is it the manufacturing process? Is it red tape? If so, which specifically? Is it poor communication? Is it a confluence of factors?

Why isn't every local university or lab working together to at the least, copy the Germans protocol and get to work on manufacturing ASAP? Why isn't there a line of people outside these labs ready to drop-off their sample and get the results online? Where is the American version of the aforementioned biotech startup?

This epidemic and the general response has only reinforced my belief in the future of citizen science and the widespread accessibility of indie biohacking tools and methodologies. There are just too many misaligned incentives in pharma research, leaving huge gaps in the ability to bring new tests and drugs to the market. Look no further than the antibiotic resistant drug problem.

[0]https://www.msn.com/en-us/finance/companies/a-berlin-biotech...
Maybe not now, but thats whats happening in Italy
My (low-information) understanding is that coronaviruses have much lower mutation rates than flu viruses!
I have no idea about WPF but CSS was really designed as a document styling system. It isn't very good as an app styling system: There's no scoping so it's really hard to know which bits of an app any CSS affects, and really hard to find all the CSS that affects a particular part of an app. It mixes styling (colours etc) with layout (flexbox). Etc.
One variable that is still not known and would make a huge difference is how many people are asymptomatic and with that catch this and have no symptoms. That effects infection rates and also getting a better grasp upon how many recovered as well as infected.

Not just a case of testing those for infection, that cat left the bag in every country on that end. Need to also test for those who are now immune without being aware.

Otherwise may well see spreads more than expected due to these people spreading the virus when they have no symptoms and also prevent paralysation of those who are immune, isolating when they don't even know they had it already.

So knowing that variable will become key in tackling this and currently we have no idea upon that.
> H1N1: 0.4% CFR in the US

This seems categorically false.

CDC estimates that ~61M Americans were infected with ~12,469 deaths. That would be a CFR in the US of 0.02%.

https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/estimates_2009_h1n1.htm