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I have a theory that in a democracy, a status quo that takes $10 from every citizen to give $100,000 to a much smaller fixed subset of citizens will never be changed.

Because the small subset have a lot of motivation to advocate for the status quo, and each individual outside the subset has only a small motivation to advocate against it.
Xamarin Forms is another brilliant option. Out of the box it can target Android, iOS and Windows. If you use catalyst then the iOS app can be ported to MacOS. C# is a nice language to use too.
> Onions are good lung support.

Out of curiosity, what in onions is good for the lungs? I know a lot of people have been talking about red onions due to their quercetin content, which in vitro works similarly to chloroquine in terms of helping cells absorb zinc.
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Why wouldn't they?
This sounds like something we could really use in the U.S., too.
This is a crazy decision on a day when most of our cases came from the US.
I use google and don’t even want them to use my last search query when answering my next one. I have no idea if they do or where I’d change it, but I’d like that to be the default. If they use e.g content of a gmail email or something I did on another site as a clue for what and to show in my search result then I don’t just want a better option and default, I’d like to see them fined.
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Losing 2 months of global GDP because of a virus which would reduce the earnings of most companies directly and indirectly seems like a pretty solid foundation for a reduction in market cap.

It's like saying we believe that the market was overheated due to zero interest rates, but we were hoping to have the market head into a recession on it's own, rather than have an outside event cause the global GDP to stop for 2 months. But since that is so obvious, we won't accept it.

How many households have two months of savings. How many businesses can go for 2-3 months with 80% reduction in revenue and if they have the savings to cover that.

I think this event is much larger than a simple recession that would have occurred as a result of speculation and low interest rates.

This is literally stopping the world economy for 2 months and seeing how many households and businesses have enough savings to counter balance that while stress testing the governments ability to intervene, not at the top end, by providing funding to banks, but at the bottom end, of figuring out how to get all of the people who work as waiters and waitresses to go without revenue for 2-3 months and not get evicted or rack up debt that they can never escape from.

I think you are underestimating the impact of this.
Too low rates actually started around 1311

I highly recommend: "Eight centuries of global real interest rates, R-G, and the ‘suprasecular’ decline, 1311–2018." https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3485734

Related to the paper:

- Visualizing the 700-Year Fall of Interest Rates https://www.visualcapitalist.com/700-year-decline-of-interes...

- Macro Musing podcast with author: https://soundcloud.com/macro-musings/paul-schmelzing-on-the
How do you work from home as a janitor?
Surely either replacing a coal plant with a nuclear one, or capturing the concentrated carbon dioxide right out of the smokestack, would help the environment with no reduction in economic activity.
With all the european countries closing their borders on a small continent, it's pretty easy to guess that the european airlines will be hit worst. They don't have much domestic traffic to fall back to.
And they are welcome to not use GOOG-411, Google's voice recognition, or any of the applications derived thereof.

Me personally, I'd been waiting for the breakthrough that Google hit upon to get reliable voice recognition for a couple of decades.
If you can prove it will save more people than it will kill, yes. That's difficult when you have to prove a safety margin of 99.9%. Proving a safety margin of 97% is much faster.
Does severity of Covid-19 depend on viral dose?
Possibly the severity of Covid-19 is worse if the initial exposure is to a larger number of viral particles. These could infect more cells, causing more rapid proliferation, and more easily overwhelm the immune response. Other factors may be which tissues are infected first, innate immunity, and the vigor of the immune system.

On the other hand, perhaps the multiplier in viral replication is so great that the number of initial viral particles is not much of a factor.
The US seems to have a lot of community cases, so if they don't close that border as well it won't make much of a difference.
The problem with closing the US border is that it can't be a simple blanket ban - a very large amount of our food and other supplies comes from there. Closing that border must be a much more complex situation and needs more resources and planning.
The US is our biggest trading partner. If they are also barred from entering the country, it would effectively grind the economy to a crawl.
> You make it sound as if it is the guy's fault.

It's not the guy's fault that Github behaved poorly, yes.

It is the guy's fault that he relied on an untrustworthy third party to host his code that lots of other people were using in production, meaning they lost access to it when that third party screwed him.

> now you are blaming him for the fact that he was not also paying extra for being able to share his work.

No, I'm blaming him for using an untrustworthy third party to provide production code to other people who were depending on him. If he can find a way to provide his code to others for free without doing that, that's fine.

Btw, I probably should make clear that all of those others who are using his code are also to blame if they don't have a plan in place to deal with this situation.

Also, "paying extra for being able to share his work" is not correct. If he's willing to share his work with the explicit disclaimer that he doesn't control the access to the shared hosting where the work is available, so he makes no guarantee that others will always be able to find it and access it, that's fine too. But clearly he didn't intend to share his work with that disclaimer. And the only way to be sure others can access your work is to host it yourself, so you control access.
My point (in the other thread, but this is going the same way) was that yes, if someone says let's have 100 people of all ages play Russian roulette (only the gun has 30-50 capacity, and also loaded guns mostly go to much older people), that is very bad.

But if the alternative is, we will instead take those 100 people and make them really miserable, make a few homeless and/or drug addicted, maybe have one commit suicide, starve a few of them, get a few divorced, and ruin a few lives completely - disproportionately affecting the young and children - let them play Russian roulette.
I am not convinced, but at this point to me it's looking more and more like that's the case.

Politicians (in NZ) are already saying it's going to be worse than 2008.
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The cost of the Soviet union collapsing (a purely economic disaster I can really relate to, even though I do think Soviet union disappearing was a great thing as such) in Russia was 3-5 years of life expectancy, over a decade, for EVERYONE. How many lives is that? Not counting the missing births and the knock-on effects of both, as well as the total waste of life that the 90ies in Russia were for many people.
Tbf Microsoft have won back a lot of good faith with developers due to projects like VS Code and TypeScript, even for those of us who remember their past.

And we're yet to hear of any negative impact of their Github acquisition (afaik - correct me if wrong).
My god, it's full of scroll bars. https://imgur.com/a/KcV6v5W
They may not on an ordinary day, with our agreements being what they are; but I'm pretty sure in this circumstance we have the ability. It just won't really matter, since our borders need to be porous in practice, especially when we need supplies.
They also signed a contract pegging fuel prices for the foreseeable future when oil price was $70. Several unlucky breaks in a row, I don’t really think it will be saved. SAS might though.
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A lot of launch-abandonment churn is to be expected from an R&D-heavy institution.
Not censorship. Not revisionism.

People can still buy the book.

Independent researchers can get their copy from a library, or any other bookseller.

Amazon is not determining what information is available to the public.
I mean, they definitely could in a legal sense, but then the reaction from the US would likely be extreme and putative, it would likely cause a huge shock to the Canadian economy, and it would risk a sharp decline in the legitimacy of the canadian government.
Yes, we (internally) call this a "Bill of Health" and believe that all packages should have this kind of diff-able information available. Understanding what's happening at the source level is key to being able to trust any package published.
Worst?!

This is way inaccurate, I can count several worse ones beyond the absolute champion of all crappy airlines, the Ryanair.
They've also been "gearing" their business a lot using massive amounts of debt. They were extremely sensitive to changes in income.
"The assassination caused a military fight that wouldn’t have happened otherwise, but the conflicting alliances and leaders itching to use their new military power would have caused a major war anyway."

1) Europe was a powder keg. The assassination was a single item is a list of reasons a war happened.

2) The escalation of war to involve multiple countries happened only after multiple attempts at de-escalation. Saying generally that leaders wanted to go to war is a massive oversimplification of the start of the war
One issue with this in the northeast USA is the increasing prevalence and danger of ticks and tick-borne illnesses like Lyme disease (which I had once and do not want again). I haven't yet figured out how to reconcile my respect for that danger with my hatred of green lawns.
If there was absolute certainty that the disruption would only be 6 weeks then a business could take the hit and recover over time; this may be a longer term drop in demand such that they have to make drastic cuts immediately.
>Am I way out of band or does that seem like a comically small amount of money for the average American?

I take home $465.62 a week so it would be a little over 2 weeks of take home pay for me. I could absolutely use that.
Agreed. This crash is very obviously due to the virus. All the other factors may have contributed to it, but were not the leading cause. Had the outbreak not occurred, we may have eventually had a crash, but we don't know for sure.

This seems to be people who were skeptical about the market attempting to prove themselves right by piggybacking their favorite reason-the-market-will-crash onto this event.
What's your source?

According to https://goldprice.org/ it's +16.57% on the year

Also, it's still doing WAY better than stocks.
Tourism, certainly, but that's already in the toilet regardless of who our border is open to. Even for overseas countries, we imposed no restrictions on trade or commerce, only visitors. I doubt this accounts for a non-trivial fraction of our economy, especially with public spaces already shutting down.
It's an RNA virus, so you start by isolating RNA and then using a reverse transcription reaction to make cDNA from the RNA. Then you use viral-specific primers in a traditional PCR. Most of the tests that I've seen presented have then be real-time qPCR tests as opposed to gels, but for the most part, you're not far off. Also, restriction digests aren't required.

Note: I haven't seen any of the protocols, just what I've been able to learn from press reports.

Edit: Here's a link to the CDC's panel protocol: https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download

And to add Wikipedia's page on real-time PCR (not to be confused with RT-PCR, which is also used here): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_polymerase_chain_rea... . However, the crux of it is that the reaction contains a chemical that fluoresces in the presence of double-stranded DNA. As the PCR reaction progresses, if there is a valid template in the original mixture (i.e. if there is virus present), then there will be a detectable amount of DNA present after a number of PCR cycles. The lower the number of PCR cycles required to detect this fluorescence, the more viral RNA was present in the initial sample.
Good point. As long as the costs to do business in Europe can be quantified and managed, even if those costs were legal penalties, I agree. I was imagining the scenario where Europe went as far as "cease and desist mixing and aggregating all user data or we'll start throwing people in prison."
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I don't have any specific opinion on if the proposed action would be a good or a bad thing (I'm not an economist or policy-wonk type), but it seems silly to me to dismiss actions taken in a crisis just because they don't solve the systemic problems that caused the situation.

Sometimes you need to stem the bleeding to buy yourself enough time to fix the underlying problem.
This article is good, but it misses out a few more essential features about the device which make it a little bit more intelligent than they've discovered so far:

- It has infrared proximity sensors spread around the bumper which allow it to slow down before hitting a wall or other large flat surface, avoid it entirely (for example to turn around and shoot off in another direction), or do quite precise edge cleaning without relying on the bumper. This works best on walls or skirting boards.

- The base station has an infrared beacon which the robot uses to find id. Furthermore, the robot can judge whether it is on or off-axis relative to the base station (i.e. whether it is lined up straight or not). The robot doesn't just dive in from any angle: it tries to line up first.

- It has some level of stall detection for its motors: if the brushes or wheels get stuck on something, it will stop. The internet-connected versions of these vacuums will send out a notification when this happens.
> HN and others have repeatedly pointed out numerous factors in the market that definitely were not corona, that would have caused this crash eventually. untenable levels of credit card debt, automobile debt

None of these were factors in the current crash, that's just fairy tales, magic thinking and posturing by self-proclaimed experts and ideologists who were preaching against capitalism. This crash was caused by a) dropping oil prices and b) the fears and uncertainty (well, increasingly certain negative outcome) around the impact of Cov-19 on the economy.
That part of my comment refers to the well known issue that China often builds things quickly while taking shortcuts in building standards (either because they don't exist or due to corruption).
Well, now I do.
Not no one, but few. That's what the National Bureau of Economic Research concluded:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w15421

"Only about one-fifth of respondents in the Reuters/University of Michigan survey report that the 2008 tax rebates led them to mostly increase spending, while over half said it would lead them to mostly pay off debt... [T]he results imply that the rebates provided only a modest stimulus to spending per dollar of rebate."
I do t know if you made a mistake but you have got your characterization completely backwards vis a vis those countries respective responses
Software and services are not the same thing.

For some examples: RMS being a douchebag has nothing to do with the usefulness of gdb, nor can that circumstance affect the utility in any imaginable scenario.

Microsoft setting censorship policies (aka ToS) on a website they own and control directly affects the utility of npm/yarn/clients. Their website, their rules.
Trudeau mentioned it is just for people, trading and "deliveries" continue as usual.
"Knowing the right people" isn't exactly pure luck either. People do have a certain amount of influence over the social connections they (or their family) choose to cultivate.
That is a good consideration, but I think the US also has demonstrated some terrible handling of the situation - it's not super clear just how dire the situation in the US is because they have such a poor handle on tracking disease progress.
U. S. citizens get turned away at the Canadian border every day. Are you suggesting that Canada has lost its sovereignty?
Grateful for the wikipedia contributors putting this together so fast and well.

As a side note. I know a significant amount of people (relatives and friends) that truly think this event is a big "liberal conspiracy" to stop Trumps reelection. We've had to take my grandfathers keys because his favorite news station is telling people this and he believes it so was continuing to go out.
you should mention the difference in effects. Just saying "No." isn't useful or educational.
Neat, thanks - it's amazing how quickly sequencing technologies have evolved.
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You do realize Canada is a first world country just like the US is right? They have strong relations but they still are separate countries.
I know you're joking but as I remember they said they did it unintentionally several times but when they tried to do it on purpose it never worked.
Another issue is that there are many families that span both sides of the border.
Speaking as a Canadian: the current US government being angry at us would only increase the legitimacy of our government in my eyes.
Yeah from my understanding the automobile industry parts pipeline knows no borders. Closing the border could essentially mean shutting down all the car factories.
> Presumably the same is true for LLVM IR

I think it depends on the flags the multiplication operation is emitted with; namely, the nsw and nuw (no signed/unsigned wrap) would denote whether the optimization LLVM does is correct. If rust emits those flags then that would be a Rust bug; if Rust does not, then it might be an LLVM bug (I'm not sure what LLVM's semantics are for regular imul without flags).
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I bet having to pay for COVID-19 treatment will cost them more than a paycheck though
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Shipping and trade was specifically exempted from this restriction. I'm not certain if that might really complicate truck-carried goods but in theory goods moving is unrestricted.
Hopefully that's what ends up happening.
Why is this downvoted. bunch of my friends are already trolling for cheap flights.
I'm sure there are many Americans for whom this would be insufficient. However, for my partner and I, and our immediate family this amount would allow all of us to keep our heads above water without catastrophic financial fallout, until society has restarted. I may be laid off this week. If I am, and if unemployment is less than 50% my expected take home, and lasts more than two months, then I am going to have to make decisions that will adversely effect my credit through no fault of my own, except not having a sufficient emergency fund built up. 1000/mo, even just for my entire household would allow us to stave off entering arrears indefinitely.
Giant shoulders mean this usually happens by the highway without trouble.
Hey HN, it is getting to be pretty isolating these days and perhaps more to come.

I wanted to connect with other like-minded people and have lunch virtually together.

Since I couldn't find something, I built this myself over the weekend.

Let me know your thoughts :)
I've written and shipped complex web frontends since the ~IE6 days, and I've written and shipped native macOS applications in that time too.

I vastly, vastly prefer the native approach.
IntelliJ (the platform, with other names for each language) can actually do this with many languages:

* Java
* Kotlin
* Groovy
* Dart
* Go
* Elm

These are the ones I've tried myself and can attest to. There are probably others (maybe Rust - but last I tried it, it was still lagging far behind, though Jetbrains seems to be investing heavily on it).
Yes I see this similarly to the way that we talk about how a forest fire was "caused" by PG&E, or an improperly extinguished camp fire or errant lit cigarette. It's the years of accumulation of dry timber and brush that makes the fire even possible, it could have been any number of things that starts it burning, one just happened to come first.
>Too little too late.

I agree. Our government didn't take any apparent action up to this point, except express platitudes of "business as usual".

Why not overreact early and buy some time to get sorted? How do people whose jobs it is to deal with these things go from, "we're fine" to "close everything down" in a matter of days? We've had months to get ready for this.
> While git version control itself makes sure that you don’t lose your code when GitHub, Inc. decides to block you, the same isn’t true for all your other intellectual property in the form of numerous comments you’ve posted in issues/pull-requests/commits/etc (including your employer’s paid repos).

Companies that pay for GitHub and have remote workers that may trip up the detection system should take note of this situation. They could lose their employees work in an instant.
I did not comment on the voting on a comment. I commented on the content of a comment.
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What is enabling them to be the only people able to develop this far better test? Is the rest of the world unaware how home pregnancy and malaria tests work?

If this was worth reporting on, there should be some kind of data showing how effective and cheap the test is when compared to the competition. I wonder what led Bloimberg and other financial news to pick this story up.
Sort of. There are now reagents that can fluoresce as the strand is elongated allowing instantaneous reading.

Also, for an RNA virus, it starts with reverse transcriptase.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_polymerase_chain_r...
They sabotaged their own money laundering filters: they edited e.g. "Pablo Escobar" to "Pablo Escobar-", so that that activity wouldn't get flagged. What are your optics of that?
A barrel of gunpowder sitting around is a danger, but as long as there is no ignition source nothing will happen. Coronavirus definitely is that ignition source, as the measures to fight it are a massive impact to the economy (freedom of movement lost, workforce dying / unable to work due to quarantine).
I think you hit the mark. The government will need to allow American truckers, air freight and rail crews to cross no matter what.
Runaway inflation is coming. Mass unemployment is coming.
We wasted the decade of growth on pumping up the equity markets to make the rich richer and ignored schools, hospitals and infrastructure. All this was an inevitable consequence of giving away unlimited free money to the wealthy.
Github announced the Github packages feature a while back, but without npm it didn't quite make sense. Acquiring npm means github not only hosts source code, but packages as well. With Github Actions, they want to be the one stop shop for code lifecycle and be at the forefront of javascript ecosystem.

If developers love Github, they love the cloud. Microsoft is betting big on the cloud, they lost the Mobile war but they definitely want to be the developer and cloud darlings.
Assuming tests aren't available -- is there nay prescribed care one can provide to others or do for ones-self if they contract the virus? I realize some conditions may worsen to the point that you'd require medical attention --- but what's the best course of action assuming that professional care is unavailable?
Perhaps they will do the right thing and shut it down
You meant higher pressurization?