skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It fits with everything we know about Trump, especially his xenophobic politics.

Worse, given his tendencies to punish his perceived political enemies, if such a vaccine were available before November 2020, it is very likely he would have restricted the drug to his supporters (i.e., political officials, donors, and Red states) in a blatant attempt to control the outcome of the election.
From your own link, H1N1 seems to have a mortality of 0.017% for the entire US population. No matter how you slice and dice the current numbers, the mortality is an order of magnitude higher if not multiples. And perhaps you don't have any not-doing-well old people in your life or you don't care much for them, but for folks who have such people, it's doubly scary because clearly the mortality is in the single digits percentage for those people.
Good summary, althoughI would be more forceful about aspirin- don't use it for children under 12 without a medical professional recommending it. While Reyes syndrome is rare, acetaminophen and ibuprofen are equally effective, available, and do not carry the risk.
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Google's alerting philosophy biases toward paging people only for user-visible symptoms, not potential causes, but there are still often lower priority ticket-based alerts for stuff like stuff getting too hot.

For rationale, see:

- https://docs.google.com/document/d/199PqyG3UsyXlwieHaqbGiWVa...

- https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/monitoring-...
The transmission numbers for this disease seem to be much higher than for H1N1. I don’t think it’s yet known whether that’s because it takes less exposure or because more people are susceptible.

Also, this virus may be as deadly in Africa as H1N1... but Southeast Asia seems to have learned good lessons from 2009 and been better prepared.

People are locking down to AVOID a 2009 rerun.
When we are getting close to the peak of the epidemic, the growth will no longer be exponential, but close to linear. A logistic curve looks exponential for about the first 3rd, close to linear for the second third, and then approaching the asymptote with a negative exponential growth for the last third.

Increasing social distancing will naturally lower the exponential growth rate, but unless the growth becomes linear, there is no reason to believe that herd immunity is anywhere close.

In the asian countries, we more or less know that they have been able to contain the virus, instead of waiting for herd immunity. That meanst that they must have found most of the infected cases (or at least quaranteened them). This gives a good indication of how many deaths are caused by a given number of infected. The numbers are not different enough from Italy to think that more than (at most) a couple of hundred thousand in Italy have reached immunity. If so, it means that we have about 2 more orders of magnitude of growth before herd immunity can be reached. That would be hundreds of thousands of dead, if not millions, just in Italy.
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>when the Kissinger-like figure argues that nuclear war could be winnable for the United States.

Minor nit: It was at least widely assumed that Groeteschele in Fail Safe (as well as Dr. Strangelove in Dr. Strangelove) was deliberately modeled on RAND Corporation military strategist Herman Kahn.
Would pharmaceutical companies be able to protect any IP for a vaccine? I
mean wouldn’t governments just require a company that discovers a vaccine to quickly distribute the findings so every pharmaceutical company in the world can help manufacture it?
The article from "Die Welt" including these quotes has meanwhile been confirmed by the German government (e.g. https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/curevac-u...).

I suppose the apology you would expect according to your tone in case of misinformation and wrong speculation is not one you would give yourself. Hurray ...
Yes to both, since the case numbers will continue to increase exponentially.
How is the progress of subsurfaces clipping bug in the Wayland session? It takes a really long time.

Is there any public info on the progress?
Quite interesting. At my old place I bought an attachment for my toilet that essentially turns it into a Japanese like toilet. The spout hides behind a small enclosure and running the water reveals the spout and water flows. Cos me some $50 dollars if I'm not mistaken, and has been a great purchase. Easy to install and I find it keeps you more hygienic in general.
Just show the world how dumb Trump really is, instead of showing/suggesting how he is getting money in a corrupt way.

That's how you convince people who don't like/hate the traditional system.
This happened to me too. The more I learn about alternative programming methods, the more my brain constructs elegant solutions that completely go around the problem at hand, or even the conditions which led to the context of the problem. I've reached the point where I mainly do data-driven and declarative programming with low-code or no-code in spreadsheets or GUIs. I feel almost physical pain now when I have to write traditional imperative or object-oriented code, because 95% of it feels like a waste of time to me. As in, most of the effort expended by a programmer is in initial setup, remembering mutable state, poorly-architected class hierarchies/interfaces, and rapidly breaking dependencies that only last a few months at most now. Less than 5% of what I do is the "real work" of solving the actual problem.

Not really sure where to go with this, but I found that getting away from programming for 6 months or so this last year has really helped my psyche.
Wake up people. The fatality in Italy borders 8% average! For that age group it's > 10%

UK seems to be playing a very dangerous game.
So they didn't monitor temperature of all systems by default to catch cooling problems?

Sounds more embarrassing to me.

That's fairly basic mistakes.
China imprisons people who criticized the covid19 effort, they arrested doctors. Did you know that docs or researchers put the covid19 sequence on the web (it was used by the seattle flu study to identify cv here), then arrested them.

The us doesn't do that kind of thing (trump would no doubt like to do that, with his talk of making cv numbers an official secret). China was very effective stopping the virus apparently, after screwing it up at the start. They just kidnapped a critical billionaire.
Could you elaborate a bit on what got you to that conclusion? That's not meant as a challenge - just curious to get more perspective on your conclusion.
I believe xmake doesn't "require" Lua. Instead, xmake embeds Lua. Specifically it embeds LuaJIT 2.1, based on what I could tell in their repo source. So, when you run xmake, you're actually running a a full-blown Lua implementation that is self-contained in the xmake binary, that has some automatic imports for the xmake embedded build DSL. If you want to run arbitrary Lua using xmake, there is a built-in "lua" plugin, shorthand "xmake l", described here:

https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake/blob/master/README.md#run-...

So, it would be a bit like if you built a build language atop Python, but rather than depending on Python, you made your whole build tool embed the entire CPython interpreter, pinned to some version. Lua is used in this way more commonly than Python is, of course.

So: xmake itself is just a C program with large submodules written in Lua, running inside that embedded Lua context. The upside here is that xmake's releases are just plain platform-specific native binaries that bundle everything you need, and that make no assumptions about your base system. This is a nice benefit in a build tool, as it aids in reproducible builds.
> No, it doesn't. I'd say it was due to age and fragmentation; most of the more recent languages have, in effect, a single "vendor" who can coordinate something like that.

This is a widely held meme, but I think its flat wrong. The reality is that most C++ project's have a very wide spectrum of types of dependencies and build steps. The history of competing vendors certainly adds to the non-homogeneity, but it isn't the only portion. Even if all of our C and C++ dependencies were built and installed by a common package manager, we would still have dependencies on a variety of packages in Fortran, Python, Bash, Tcl, Verilator, NGSPICE, Octave, and so on. Running the compiler and linker represents only a handful of the many steps in the process.

C++'s niche lies at an intersection of performance and complexity. If the project wasn't demanding enough for C++, folks wouldn't pick it in the first place.
please consider not using a pie chart.
Curious, where are you?
Don't forget containment failed.
This is an entirely different situation. MERS & SARS were never spreading at an exponential rate in almost every country of the world (which Covid-19 currently is), and even the countries of origin were able to contain the outbreaks rather quickly.

Corona will probably never "go away" again unless we want to fundamentally change the way we live (which I think won't happen), so the only option right now is to slow the spread until more research has be done and the infrastructure has been built up to deal with severe cases.
The first wave of the Spanish Flu mostly killed the elderly. The second wave mutated and killed young, normally healthy people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Deadly_second_wave
Please do not use this site for nationalistic, political, or partisan flamewar. That's not what it's for, and your comments in this thread have gone significantly over the line.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22584285.
That I like. From the photos it's also obvious the rack is tipping.
I'm curious why someone isn't doing a regular walkthrough.
There could also be sounds of some hardware failures.

A remote SRE shouldn't need to monitor the hardware health, an on-site person should have caught this sooner.

I wonder how the person responsible for fixing/replacing the wheels felt about the follow-up
Herd immunity isn't the strategy, it's more like an inevitable consequence that there's probably no way for European countries to avoid hitting at this point. The strategy is about how to try and minimize the deaths and destruction caused in the process of getting there.
1) find your sizing in a few quality brands that fit you well, 2) only buy those brands; use eBay, go to thrift stores that sort by size and then skip everything that’s not one of “your” brands, shop sales online (when they’re actually sales and not bullshit)
> we will also decided that herd immunity

Or more critically, if we learn that lasting native immunity is even possible.

For the coronaviruses which cause the cold (such as CoV-OC43) the adaptive immune response is not particularly strong and immunity lasts only months. -- not due to mutation, but because of behaviors in the immune system which we don't yet understand. This has contributed to the difficulty in creating a vaccine for the prior sars virus.

As a result, the whole "get people immune for next season" idea may be a largely pointless goal. The best comparisons we have so far suggest that it is, though we just don't have enough information yet.
In case you only read the headline (which seems to be about every comment in here):

Responding to the report, a U.S. official said: “This story is wildly overplayed. The U.S. government has spoken with many (more than 25) companies that claim they can help with a vaccine. Most of these companies already received seed funding from U.S. investors.”

“We will continue to talk to any company that claims to be able to help. And any solution found would be shared with the world,” the U.S. official added.

A German Health Ministry spokeswoman, confirming a quote in the newspaper, said: “The German government is very interested in ensuring that vaccines and active substances against the new coronavirus are also developed in Germany and Europe.”

Welt am Sonntag quoted an unidentified German government source as saying Trump was trying to secure the scientists’ work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, “but only for the United States.”
But it will pass. It might take 4 more years the worst, but the us isn't becoming a nationalist authoritarian country. I hope. Sadly, I don't joke.
Deaths in the elderly is precisely what the UK strategy is aiming to avoid. Isolate elderly and other at risk groups until there is herd immunity in the rest of the population.
"like nothing is going on" - Most people assume they'll be fine. And they're right. Even those that get it, the vast majority will survive it, like they survive most illnesses. It's just not that scary unless you're in an at-risk category. I say this as a British male in my 30's.

I'm not changing anything unless I get ill. And then, it will only be to stay away from at-risk people and large gatherings. If I worked in an office, I'd work from home, but I work from home already. I'm certainly not going to barracade myself in my house for weeks/months.

That's just my perspective, and one which may explain why you're seeing this behaviour from other Brits.

[edit] Yeah, I thought this comment might be controversial. General response seems to be that I should be more scared than I am, and that I should do more than I am to stop the spread of the disease. I'm still not scared, and I still feel my response is proprotionate at this time.
Ask HN: What is the best food replenishment strategy?
What is the best and safest strategy for replenishing food during our social distancing?

Limits:
1. Every day you wait, the exponential rise goes against you and you risk greater exposure.
2. Every trip you take increases risk by definition as you mingle with other people.
3. Every day you wait, you risk the supplies running down and/or the supply chain stopping entirely.
4. Every day you wait, your own supplies are depleted further.
5. You can only store so much fresh milk, vegetables, fruit.

Questions:
1. Where do you go?
2. What do you buy?
3. What time of day do you go?
4. How often do you go?
5. How much do you buy?

Goals:
1. Minimize exposure.
2. Maximize food rations.
3. Help immediate community.

Thoughts:
- I know there are as many special cases as there are people. For example, many people get their
Rx filled monthly at the local pharmacy. They have to go out for that.

- Hoarding and panic buying don't help. Our whole social fabric has to survive.

- In my community, people are offerinig to help seniors and house-bound folks with shopping when
they go on their own trips.

- Collate multiple trips - to both reduce number of people out and about and help your community.

- Be kind to retail workers. We're all part of a community, your health depends on their health.
GNU bc isn't though they share the bignum code, I am not surprised that the BSDs are following the older implementation more closely!
the only ones spitting venom are trump and his trolls. suck up and get used to being a pariah country.
Trump is more worried about the stock market and the economy. Two more weeks of blood in the stock market can crush his chances of being reelected. That's why, I think, he must be trying to get a few weeks advantage.
I think the odd and unusual thing was that for a long time comments were mostly against the president and those comments were mostly being downvoted but now comments and votes look more correlated.

It might be that people genuinely dislike discussion of politics on here even on a thread that is about politics or that Trump's supporters here are more likely to have downvote buttons.
Many calling conventions apparently use a method for returning structs which is inherently non-thread-safe.

Also from that link:

> 32-bit cdecl calling convention

> For return values of structure or class type, there is wide incompatibility amongst compilers. Some make the return thread-safe, by breaking compatibility with the 16-bit cdecl calling convention. Some retain compatibility, at the expense of their 32-bit cdecl calling convention not being thread-safe. The ones that break compatibility don't all agree with one another on how to do so.
To anyone either naive or cynical about global governance and wondering why we don't all cooperate, I recommend this book: "Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to Present" by Mark Mazower https://books.google.com/books/about/Governing_the_World.htm...

These behaviors are not new. The attitude the current American administration has towards the idea of global governance is an old attitude, and will prevent cooperation. This will not be the last time you see something similar in the news, and there will be no change unless the administration fundamentally changes its beliefs (read: the administration changes).
Have you lived in Germany under Angela Merkel's rule or you're out here naming people who aren't Trump? I've lived in Germany for 2 years, left for Ireland because of poor government, who due to their inability to take care of their own people, have resuscitated a right wing that will stop at nothing. If that's what you call a competent leader then you need recalibration. I'm from an African country which has seen crazy high numbers for visa applications to the US as well as overstays because their economy is doing. I haven't lived under Trump's administration so I can make a call here (even though I've started investing heavily in US companies and reaping amazing results). So call Trump incompetent, but when you have to come up with an example of competence please dig deeper. That said, ask the Nigerians and other West Africans whose relatives are sold into slavery via Libya about what they think of Obama. Just to be circumspect.
Dang, can you please look at this account, spewing extremely rude comments. Flagged.
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Why is South Korea missing from the stats?
Check out DDDS' documentation, that's what you want: https://vector-of-bool.github.io/docs/dds/index.html

It took me a few minutes following the tutorial to get my project to build on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Let's say side A is a logger, with each log entry being timestamped. We want to be helpful so we provide way to convert data into MM-DD-YYYY string. These logs are transmitted to side B and stored to disk.

Few months later we decide to add another converter, one that gives out YYYY-MM-DD format. New logs can interpret themselves better than old ones, and side B needs to be careful what it can ask of dit file. If there are multiple log sources, then depending on source we have more or less powerful interpretation of _same_ data type, until they are all updated.

To me the code should be stored and managed separately from data. The side B should be responsible for parsing raw data from A. The interpretation shouldn't be bundled with data because same data can be interpreted better in future. The cleanest way I've seen it done is Clojure's spec library for describing and validating data.
""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."

Speaking as an American citizen, that cracks me up.
One area--perhaps the only one--where the Scientologists are right:

Damian R. Murray
AFFILIATION Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mark Schaller
AFFILIATION Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Peter Suedfeld
AFFILIATION Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
When does this myth die? 70 years, is this version still taught where you went to school (US?)?

"hundreds of billions of dollars"

Germany received $14B (in 2020 $). Most of the money was loans and Germany made the last debt payment in 1971.

The Marshall plan had three goals: 1.) Start the US peace time economy and help transition companies from wartime production to consumer goods 2.) Prevent communist influence in Europe by preventing starving Europeans 3.) Open European markets to US companies by reducing barriers and regulations.

"The Marshall Plan aid was mostly used for the purchase of goods from the United States." --Wikipedia

"Its role in the rapid recovery has been debated. The Marshall Plan's accounting reflects that aid accounted for about 3% of the combined national income of the recipient countries between 1948 and 1951, which means an increase in GDP growth of less than half a percent." --Wikipedia
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>Herd immunity isn't a binary thing.

Moreso than you'd think. The effect of some percentage of the population being immune is to reduce the effective R0 (transmission ratio). At an R0 of less than 1, the disease cannot sustain community transmission and dies out. Above 1, you get exponential growth. This is a stark threshold. Usually you need a population that's 60-80% immune to achieve this threshold.
If you want not to contribute to mob behavior, please provide corrective information without adding inflammatory rhetoric of your own. Otherwise it's just a game of hot potato.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> In this case it seems Ford was helping to decide that the workers would be skilled labourers

When given a choice, employers would far prefer to commoditize their employees. It gives them far more power in the relationship and lowers their costs. Skilled workers are treated as such, not because employers want it, but because the circumstances don't give them a better choice.

> there'd be a training cost (what the article calls "a costly break-in period") and high enough wages to reduce turnover so as to amortise that cost.

This is exactly what the article says as well. Ford paid his employees very well to reduce turnover and its associated costs. Not because he was trying to create additional demand for his cars.
So you expect some mechanism to prevent the exponential growth then? Which?
I like it. There are some scrolling issues on touch devices conflicting with the interactive charts.
Coming from maven I can say the opposite.
Taking a step back from the impact on patients, if you subscribe to conservative economic thinking, this would be a good thing in the long run. Of course the impact would be blunt but relatively short and in conservative thinking a quick swallow of a bitter pill for future benefits is a perfect idea.

The future benefit being get the state out of medicine.

I don’t subscribe to this view at all but having read Rees-Mogg’s daddy’s book, the Soverign Individual i will happily stake my house on the above being very close to the victorian geezer’s view on this.
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There are a lot of optimization software tools available. One of my favorite is GLPK which is a free software implementation of AMPL. I created a employee scheduling framework for GLPK. It's listed as one of the examples in the download.

https://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/