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What you said is all true, which is what makes the focus on Alphabet/Google mixup so out of touch. There are so many other problems, that focusing on a mistake about the details of Google's corporate structure seems like focusing on the alignment of the deck-chairs on the Titanic.

I will very readily admit that I've not made a huge distinction between Alphabet, Google, and Verily. And for that matter Waymo, the Google self-driving car project. Or is that the Alphabet self-driving car project. I have no idea, without checking Wikipedia, if Project Loon (Internet-via-weather-balloon) is a Project of Google or an Alphabet subsidiary, or some other legal shenanigans.

There are so many other things going wrong right now that I am severely disappointed that the Verge wasted any words talking about the distinction between Alphabet and Google, no matter how much I may, or may not, like the individual that confused the two.
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There are only a few companies the control the majority of the US food supply, and seem to rely heavily on hourly workers for logistics.

I don’t know the sick-leave policies of Kroger, Walmart, Publix, or Aldi, but there does not seem to be a high-availability, fault tolerant system to handle an entire workforce being unavailable for weeks at a time.
Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto is developing the covid19 vaccine.

I think Saskatchewan has the testing or level-4 microbiology lab. Maybe it's Manitoba with the L4 lab. My province sends all potential covid19 samples to Sask.
I personally stockpiled enough food to cover about 4 weeks of illness. It seems like people who catch this pandemic are being quarantined for 2 weeks. I live with 1 other person so I figure that 4 weeks of food is plenty for us to self-quarantine if we both get ill with poor timing.

Most of this food is reasonably long-lived (frozen meat, frozen veggies, rice, etc.) yet I plan to continue grocery shopping as normal (weekly) and only dipping in to my supply if we need to quarantine or lock-down.
Well then I guess we are going to disagree on foreign policy, while I am not 100% on board with the "America First" train, I am also opposed to Globalism and losing American Sovereignty, trade deals that favor corporations and disfavor American Citizens, I also dont like my tax money being used to Secure and police other nations.

So far there is not much Trump as done in regards to foreign policy that I disagree with
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At the same time, Germany, Norway, Denmark, and others(?) closed their borders contrary to demands from the EU itself. International cooperation can and does happen without travel.

Honestly, it should have happened a week+ ago. There were accounts of people who changed their flights from Italy to hop through London so they could skip quarantine procedures. That's irresponsible at best and dangerous and accelerated the spread at worst.
As part of a fitness program, last year I had a 3D scan made of my body. The website where I downloaded the model data had optional questions almost all about clothing brands and sizing. Sounded like they were planning to work with clothes manufacturers to create clothes custom tailored to your body. The scan cost $60 but you could get a free scan once a month for a year afterwards. Since this was for a fitness program, the main goal was to track body shape changes over time but the process was easy enough that it seems like a viable way of custom sizing clothes to the wearer.
> “ Did anyone propose that?”

In rereading your post carefully, the answer is yes. You did describe it that way and offer a reason to think it’s not so bad. Doing so is shameful.
I think Europeans don't trust this bond anymore since Make America Great Again and America First became the slogans of the US administration.
I think the point of the UK strategy is doing such a thing early doesn't help much: if you bring in such measures while the number of cases is small, you'll delay the peak but it won't reduce it much unless you can sustain it all the way through, and by increasing the time you're trying to sustain it you run the risk it won't be sustainable.
I don't disagree with the article, but the false equivalency at the beginning is pretty annoying.

>It should be obvious that this story doesn't work: Boeing would most certainly be in trouble if they had to pay their workers sufficient to afford a new jetliner.

You could go the other extreme and ask the same question about paperclips, but paperclips are a poor substitute for automobiles. The equivalent of a jetliner in Ford's day would probably be closer to the Titanic than a Model T.
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If that weren't the case, so if the Trump administration just wanted to invest and also have access to the vaccine, this wouldn't be news and just business as usual, and everybody would benefit from it. Also, that would not get the CEO fired, and the German government wouldn't engage in talks in this case. So the evidence strongly suggests that the reports from multiple sources are indeed correct.
I may be jaded and cynical but it seems to me that when people just write, "Correlation does not always imply causation" they are trying to demonstrate how smart they are and how dumb the authors are. I notice this comment come up a lot when papers by social scientists are posted on HN. It appears to me that the people who make such a comment are making a low effort attempt to discredit research by pointing out some trivial statistical fact.

I see comments of this type all the time on HN. People criticize posted research articles by pointing out some obvious reason why it might be false. As if this obvious roadblock wasn't thought of by the authors. Such people almost never read the actual article and have a tendency to believe that their non-expert opinion on a possible issue is sufficient to discredit the research article.

On HN it seems to me that most people commenting on research in the social sciences believe that their cursory understanding of a topic is on par with the knowledge of experts in the field.
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40% of Americans don't want you to apologize on their behalf [0]. From a Canadian, this type of comment is exactly what is driving your country apart and what lead to the election of Trump in the first place.

[0] - https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/...
The build file is a full Lua script, unlike Meson's limited DSL, which you might see as an upside or downside.
This so much! The technology to built such a vaccine will not be that complex, its only the information about what works and is safe that is expensive. Who ever thinks otherwise has no idea of how big pharma works and why it is expensive.
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I’d be curious to hear from online business owners if your sales have been affected and what kind of business you run. I’ve seen about a 30% dip in sales for my dev tool (divjoy.com)
Another angle: the US is acting like so many large companies that don't or can't innovate, but try to buy new things instead.
> Why are we doing this, especially to our allies?

Kissinger answered that pretty succinctly: America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
I assume that mass production of a vacine works by multiplying an initial sample, so the exponential growth can't be started in every country at the same time, there is a time constraint and is global
Do you have an example of a competent leader in Europe? I'll wait. Feel free to offer reasons why you consider them competent. Thank you.
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I don’t get it honestly and never did. On Linux-likes deps are installed by a pm, and chances are you already have python for various reasons. The same goes for Lua. On msw there is more routine, since you don’t have a pm, and have to install everything by hand (+PATH) or choose a pm and begin dealing with its nuances. The same for Lua and xmake. What’s the difference beyond non-C/++ impurity?
It's all your fault. Fix this.
I'm more amazed at how long of a period ~1,000 years where people forgot about concrete.
The major problem with passwords is reuse. Nobody's out there trying to bruteforce your passwords, unless you're a state-level threat. In reality, they'll be using your password from a database leak from a different service and programmatically try a few variants of it before moving on to the next target.

For physical access (like logging into a PC w/ SSH disabled), you only need 4 words to have sufficient entropy. Use 7 words if you want to reach a level of entropy that would literally cost decades of computing power to bruteforce.

That said, the 7 word passphrase should be generated by a computer anyways.

Also wanted to point out that the phrase "encryption is a reversible process" is hilarious. Encryption is literally about making it _as difficult as possible_ to reverse its process. Bruteforcing is not reversing the process.
It also has a social peacemaking meaning: "the fact that I'm doing risk management with you is not a reflection of how I feel about you personally."
Even if we get a vaccine, production rates for vaccines are going to be insufficient.

Let's say we get a working vaccine and have initial production of 50k doses per week, ramping up. How do you allocate those around the world? 50k per week is enough to get healthcare workers and start firebreaks in the US, but not much of an impact worldwide.
Are you saying that the quote is false?

What's the reading of "only for X" that doesn't equal "not for Y"?
How much is your startup actually worth?
If millions of their citizens' lifes are at risk, Germany will take its chances with that.
As a Dutch citizen I would prefer Americans to have control over this technology than any other country. Merkel has never really cared for German/European citizens but rather for the rest of world. Perhaps it's a trauma of WW2, and she wants to do good.

However in these times it's important that own citizens are prio 1. Trump cares for Americans and America has hardly ever let it's Western European allies down.

From my perspective it's in good hands in the U.S. and I trust anything that comes out of it will also benefit the rest of the world eventually.
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My understanding is it's about application state - cookies, mutations, etc...

If the request is "give me the profile photo of the logged-in user" - the response depends on the stateful question of who is the logged-in user.

If the request is "give me the gmail logo" - the response is identical no matter who's making the request. These can be cached on an edge node without regard to application state.
The heavy duty cotton Hanes ones seem pretty good. Although, to be honest, even without seeking them out I end up with more tech swag than I can use and I end up donating a lot of it. So I basically never buy cotton T-shirts. The heavier pre-shrunk cotton Hanes ones seem solid though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22574688

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22576225
As am American citizen, that is quite possibly the stupidest thing Germany could do. Please, for the sake of the world, keep this information confidential until after the election.

Publishing the emails, calls, and efforts Trump made to secure an exclusive virus would just play into his hands and provide a huge boost to his political campaign. As past scandals have shown, there is no such thing as bad press for him.

So deny him the press and the coverage and let this blow over quietly until Nov 4. And then go nuts publishing all the details.
That doesn't seem like what they were proposing. From what I saw the idea was to flatten the curve at the point it is steepest, instead of trying to flatten it while it's still pretty flat, which just increases the time you need to keep countermeasures in place (because delaying only helps a little: it's very unlikely you can delay until a vaccine is developed, the main benefit of a few months delay is the NHS has less of its regular winter workload to deal with, which is higher than in summer).
Just because someone works with tech it doesnt mean they are bright. Glad that now the HN lot is showing its true identity.
The articles are more statement of ambition than indication of actually "solving problems". I will follow whatever information gets out about this project with great interest.

The big challenge in making something like this actually work, are not the fancy hightech bits. Dealing with humdrum data integrations and torrential rates of change in rules and constraints, sourced from hundreds of mostly non-technical people across dozens of independent departments is where it gets hard.
“Some of you will die but that’s a risk I’m willing to take”
But the German government has not denied anything stated by their officials in the story.
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I disagree. These are classic game theory problems where what is unilaterally rational doesn’t optimize group welfare. You need rationing and market intervention. The problem is relying on capitalism for distribution based on aggregated price signals.
What is your suggestion for unifying with people who support a leader who has abused his power in broad daylight over and over again? And who has abused that power to avoid punishment for other abuses?

It seems pretty fundamental to me: It's a matter of if are you okay with a blatant authoritarian if he's in your side. I don't know how to bridge that cultural difference in how we wish our leaders to behave.
Haidt's pretty cool, but I disagree with how you explained his ideas. Best executive summary of Haidt I know of is this bar chart: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dh7OHIPVMAA-OJk.jpg Usually folks I know who lean as far left as you prefer labels like anarchist, or socialist -- since liberal is what the imf / world bank people call themselves!
MetaWare was producing a C/C++ compiler that did much the same thing, in the 1980s.
Morals are subjective.
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60% would be wishful thinking given the R0 we are seeing. More like 80-90%
IBM makes an even faster (than google or) cp optimizer

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.08247.pdf
And similarly you would say Germany (or the EU, depending on what you consider the home "country") will now have "exclusive" access?
Many countries already have laws allowing them to ignore patents (issued by that country or by other countries) for essential medications.

A COVID19 vaccine would definitely fall into that category. So unless there's something unique about the process of making the vaccine that is difficult to replicate, an "exclusive US patent" means nothing.
We don’t have capitalism, we have a mixed economy. It is often illegal to raise prices, which would limit hoarding behavior.
But when you look at the total mismanagement and incredible incompetence of US leadership on this issue, it’s rational though regrettable that people are panicking and assuming they will have to fend for themselves.
But the outbreak is not going to be over in 4 weeks. In fact, with every passing day going out becomes riskier and riskier.

Eventually, enough people will have been infected to build up immunity, and eventually there'll be treatments and vaccines, but that again is probably going to take significantly longer than 4 weeks.

It might take a year, or even two. At this point no one knows.
Also it gives us some time to think clearly about next steps and to have some control over the situation at an individual and organization level. Maybe someday we will also decided that herd immunity is the way to go but we may also decided to give the researchers a month to see if they come up with other options
> I would like to see if Gov officials apply the same 'herd immunity' tactic to themselves and their relatives as well.

The problem is not getting the virus. But, if everybody gets it at the same time. That will make hospitals collapse as queues of people wait for treatment.

If Goverment officials have access to health care, it does not matter for them what happens to the rest of the population.

Herd immunity works. And one hundred years from now what the government did is irrelevant. The problem is the suffering that may be caused to the current UK citizens.

It may work, but the price to pay if it doesn't is very high. It not only includes lives but the long term trust in the government and its institutions, that is quite eroded already.
And once improvement has been achieved, the wish for more improvement still exists.

In the end, it all leads to the curve going to 0. This article's click bait.
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Even intelligent people can become cult members. While I understand it in an intellectual capacity, it still blows my mind.
As a German living in the US I think I can see it from both sides. I totally agree that the current US administration does a ton of stupid things but before complaining too much the Europeans should beef up their defense so they can stand on their own feet.
"The quicker we stop the spread, the quicker we can all go back to our normal lives"

Actually no, it's the opposite. "flattening the curve" means spreading the period of time infection spreads to not overwhelm the medical services at any one point. So the quicker we slow down the spread, the longer it'll take to get back to normal.

The idea we can completely stop the spread at this point is unlikely, the best we can do is slow it.
Lets just hope the US wont invade some country or start a war somewhere as a result of this virus. Quite the possibility given whom the Americans chose to represent them.
Everyone is going to get coronavirus regardless (the isolation measures just slow it down, not stop it). The UK calculated it is better for its citizens to go through that now, outside normal flu season when hospitals get more busy.

And as others pointed out, the economic impact is minimized. Crashing the economy also has bad health effects.
So why didn't people do this back in 2009?

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemi...

Or back in 2014?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/1...

Why is the world taking such an extreme reaction towards a disease that's less deadly and infectious than ones from 5 and 11 years ago where there wasn't an air of extreme hostility directed towards people for not worrying?

Is it because the name is scarier? Is it because it's not a flu but a coronavirus?

Because I still remember those, those were genuinely scary, mortality rates were high for healthy people, there were millions of cases around the world, and it was highly infectious.

Yet, there was no massive global quarantine, the world didn't end, and life went on.

Why should a disease that is less bad in every conceivable way be so much more panic inducing?
It's embarrassing to see so many fellow humans falling for it in this thread.
Bullshit.

"As an American citizen" - buddy we are not known for our intelligence or our honor so I don't know what relevance you think that has.

And yes there is such a thing as bad press before an election. That's why politicians go to huge lengthsto bury stories before elections.
The one thing that I don't see mentioned is: are they actually protecting their vulnerable population while they do this, or are they just gambling at the risk of a 20% lethality rate?

Also, even if they do protect the vulnerable population, that only means they can stand a ~10x larger transmission rate. I don't think anybody knows how large it gets without some kind of action, but yeah, that would in theory make it possible to have milder actions.

That said, if they are indeed protect their population, I don't see how their plan differs from the rest of the world, that is trying to protect their vulnerable population too.
Is there a leader in the EU as blatantly criminal and kleptocratic as Trump?
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Luckily my wife does not have a job, we are a 1 wage household, obviously this situation shows one of the downsides of the two wage family that is now prevalent in Western Society. If you have kids old enough they could watch the younger kids at least part of the time, but really without an extended family the social requirement of two adults working and kids home does not function with the requirements of raising kids.
I think they meant charcoal.
The coronavirus has exposed the herdmentality of most people worldwide. Especially the hoarding of toilet paper. Major hysteria for a simple flu virus. At least we got some good memes out of it.
Evangelical: people who are so religious they are compelled to get some of it on you, too.
> Other countries have implemented free childcare for healthcare workers when schools are shut. There is no reason why the UK cannot do this for NHS staff.

Other countries haven't shown evidence that their approach is more effective. The UK solution is to not close schools.
Well... yeah, of course.

We can still aspire to do the right thing.
That's what confuses me. How particularly is the UK so different from the rest of Europe or the globe even? I get that how the UK views itself may give support for this strategy, and it agrees with how I view UK society, but why only in this location is national identity the defining factor in pandemic response?
If the Basic Summarizer is meant to convince me to sign up for the Advanced Summarizer, that's not gonna happen with the former providing unconvincing results.
Interesting. This might get Dietmar Hopp rehabilitated in the football community. Fans called him (translated ideomatically) "bastard" for the last few weeks because of his (alleged illegal) investments into his own football club.
Is this not a perfect example of why that's such a stupid dangerous mindset?
“We confirm the report in the Welt am Sonntag.” - I don't know how much clearer it can be.
> Nobody should be under the illusion that this is something that can be dodged through somehow manipulating a virus that we are only beginning to understand. This will not pass you by; this is not a tornado, it is a hurricane.

Isn't this exactly what the UK strategy amounts to? An acknowledgement that the pandemic can only mitigated at this point? It seems to me that those who are in the "shut down everything" camp are under the illusion that the virus can be stopped.
You don't need to disable the compositor. You can set its speed to "instant" and it won't do any animation.
Agreed, Europeans should do more to stand on their feet without the US. Imo thats more unity but as the EU is basically non existent in this crisis i am afraid the opposite will happen.
> but no one does and with a good reason.

What's the reason?
The problem is more than pure health issues.

By choosing these strategies, the UK assures that no other country will allow UK citizens into its borders a long time after the first wave of the virus passed.
One day youngers will be elders too, and the future youngers will apply the same rules.

Marines say "no one left behind", for a reason, because it creates a group... A society.

The UK decision smells like eugenics.
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Trust is a key commodity in times of crisis. A commodity that, sadly, has been squandered all to readily in recent years.
We had to find a solution for doctors to manage 22 different peers distributing 30 shifts a month. The schedule had to abide by each employees vacation requests and distributed undesirable shifts like weekends and holidays in some equitable manner, and be easily interpreted by staff. The solution was an excel spreadsheet with a lot of auto-fill logic and formulas to show shift and burden counts for each doctor so the person managing the sheet could move around shifts when needed and ensure equitable distribution still remained. Excel really helped where python and other tools would require a lot more code and be a lot less flexible to operator changes.