skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And quarantine restricts unexposed confinees to locations having these single-digit percentages which are overwhelmingly higher than the least-affected areas.

It is expected that even with thorough reliable testing and rapid clearance of the non-contagious from confinement, the spread among previously unexposed confinees would be vastly greater than among the unconfined, or further the _isolated clean_.
Not really bearish. More like a president who has undue and unprecedented influence over the Federal reserve and happens to be in an election year.
Italy has 24,747 reported cases and 60 million people. That's 0.04% of Italy's population. If we conservatively(?) assume that there are x10 actual patients, then it's still 0.4%.

If, without intervention, 40% of all people may contact coronavirus, then each country is going to be hit x100 worse than where Italy stands now. I doubt there would be a "global economy" to speak of after that.

Flattening the curve is our only hope.
#2: we'll see about that; the UK is betting that China's strategy, even if it could be applied in the West (which it can't be) will be ineffective in the medium to long term

#3: there is: if 60-70 percent of people are equipped to kill the virus, it's the best "quarantine" imaginable for people who are at risk

#4: those who have comorbidities could also self-isolate; it's still much better than telling _everyone_ to self-isolate - that's simply not going to happen unless you weld people's doors shut
Glycerin is not a very good thickening agent for this purpose, but if it's the only one you're using, you're going to need more than 1.45% of it.
Two boxes 13 years apart – (orig) iPhone 2007 vs. 2020
I think that depends.

Netflix will be in great shape.

Amazon will be hurt by falling consumer spending but benefit greatly from people transitioning the rest of the retail activity to online shopping.

Apple will probably not sell too many premium goods to people who have just been laid off.

Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, being B2B companies, are subject to the rest of the economy.

Transportation is in big trouble, although food delivery is poised to take off.
As Mike Tyson once said, "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth".

These cool (and callous) calculations will be forgotten the second the hospitals get overwhelmed and there is chaos everywhere. When the country is on fire, the government will be pissing on fires.
Someone should look at Sterilray and Ushio 222nm KrCl excimer lamps. Light at that frequency is extremely effective at destroying viruses but probably does not cause much skin cancer or eye damage like other UV because it is absorbed so fast it doesn't make it through the dead layer of skin etc. There are at least some studies but no FDA approval or mass production. If they work these might make a big difference in transmission in public spaces, especially via surfaces.
For one thing, containers, the space between them, and the extra space inside them would take up a not-insignificant amount of space. They're great when you are dealing with a lot of smallish shipments, but if you're loading full of bauxite, gravel, or garbanzo beans, they're inefficient.

The crane scoop thingy at about 1m11s looks to be about the size of a 20ft cargo container. Some ships and many ports have conveyor-belt doo-dads to unload bulk cargo.

[Edit] These are "regular cargo ships". Container ships are the new kid on the block, dating from after the 1950s, IIRC.
All the stories about this have been killed by HN.
I want to second the sentiments here - as a one-person Saas biz, Atlas made it a breeze for me to setup my LLC. Seeing the Visa card with my company name on it inspires me every day (yes I’m still wet behind the ears). I highly recommend Stripe and Atlas.
Note that this one is not a crash imposed by market forces overextending themselves(the usual dynamic of recession), so much as a reset button suddenly pushed. An economy under quarantine is not just a depressed economy, it's a different economy, as demonstrated by the abrupt mass adoption of WFH and sudden political will for sick leave. The game took a time-out and the rules changed. When we resume business as usual, it won't move the clock backwards.

So there is a silver lining in that opportunities going forward will change, but that still means "no opportunities" in the near term while everyone sorts out what to make of it.
You can't think of a single person besides his parents who would have named him?
It can blow up your bundle size if everyone has patch version mismatch . That's probably the only reason I can think of.

In theory semver should help with this, but humans decide the semver version and it's not always possible to know the effects of a change so they may mark it as patch, but it breaks something and you get this sceanrion
Same as in the EU where the ECB has a deposit rate of -0.5%. The deposits of banks at the central bank (aka "reserves") shrink over time according to the negative rate.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/ke...
It just doesn't make sense to pay your employees more in hopes that they will spend more and you'll get the revenue back.

Not even if their marginal propensity to consume is high?
In wuhan it was eradicated, in South Korea it is well under control, in Italy it’s still exploding as of today even if they locked down everything last week, but in about 1 week we should see the effects of the containment. Uk was two weeks behind Italy, they already could see the future and they decided to throw away that fundamental advantage that they had by not doing anything at all.
Many central banks around the world have policies that have set rates below zero. Germany and Japan are the most high profile examples.

With negative rates, depositors pay to have money stored at a bank.
Ironically, much of the tax advantage of owning vs renting is embodied in the mortgage interest tax deduction. If there were no interest, obviously it would be a good deal, but would not have the additional benefit of tax avoidance that it does at present.
Doesn't seem to be free on the Apple TV app.
Show HN: APId now has an interactive playground page!
This verbal diarrhea helps no one or anything to do with the situation, it's just more main stream media styled hysteria inducting fuckwittery. You are making utterly pointless arbitrary links .. it's embarrassing to see this as the top comment on a HN submission in these times.
A company that's overstaffed will axe people, especially the expensive ones.
Hey all, the co-founder of APId here. Today we've launched a new page on our website specifically targeting new users. The page is a playground to test your suites and is powered by our cloud.

This is mainly to help new users onboard faster and let them experiment without any setup needed on their part!

Thanks!
It's called Wiggle.
I don't really care what happened in a work of fiction.

As for paragraph two, it's not a myth. It's been the last 4 years of reality. One more minor scandal won't make a difference compared to the things he's already gotten away with, and in this respect we disagree on whether it's actually a scandal for him (which you believe) or it's pandering to his base (which I believe).

It's not about making the past off-limits, it's about taking away a campaign point from Trump. What Trump tried to do is not a scandal to him. It is not a bad thing to his supporters. THEY WANT HIM TO DO STUFF LIKE THIS. And publicizing that is just giving him free publicity that will make his supporters more motivated to show up to re-elect him in November. Is that what you want?
This planet has two hemispheres!
Another important thing to consider: reduce liabilities ASAP. I'm writing an article on this currently, but I see way too many friends and co-workers who have over-leveraged themselves: large mortgages, car loans, student loans, etc.

In good times it is a good idea to reduce leverage (pay down your debts) so you have less monthly burn.

If you are in a highly leveraged position right now, here's my advice: get a 6 month (or 1 year) emergency fund in place ASAP, pay off any debt using the debt snowball method (smallest debts first) to free up cash flow, and DON'T TAKE ON ANY MORE LOANS!

The difference between having a monthly burn rate of 3k (with no debt) and 8k (with debt) is massive and will dramatically impact your life: anxiety, stress, emergency fund, etc.

Now's the time to derisk yourself as much as possible.
Using tech skills specifically? Not a lot comes to mind right this minute. Maybe if you're a licensed ham radio operator, join ARES[1] or RACES[2].

Outside of that, one way to help very directly, depending on where you live, is to join a volunteer fire department / EMS squad. But not all areas are covered by volunteer departments, and there's a lot of latency in terms of training time to do a lot of things (eg, you can't just become an EMT overnight). But there are always people needed around the station to do maintenance on equipment, clean, help with paperwork, etc.

[1]: http://www.arrl.org/ares

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Amateur_Civil_Emergency_...
The entire "BeyondCorp" strategy from Google has probably done more harm then good. Tons of smaller companies and well known startup paid their prices with breaches left and right.

Removing or not deploying basic firewall controls to lock down traffic is ill advised. Tons of exposed s3 buckets and other assets keep showing that.

Zero Trust is correct strategy of course, but it doesn't mean you have to open up your network to the entire world- it's in addition to already established best practices. Better to continue those traditional practices and be more thorough via micro-segmenation for instance, and identity on top of it.
On the contrary, this makes even more important to upvote this one
Ask HN: Economy after coronavirus – what can we do?
As all of us are acutely aware, the current pandemic is dismantling the economy worldwide. With luck, few months from now the world will either recover or adapt to the new reality, but we'll still end up with seriously damaged national economies. Particularly hurt are all the people whose livelihood is tied to physical workspaces - gastronomy, services sector, manufacturing, etc.

My question is a call for ideas and analyses. What can we do to help our economies recover faster? That is, to help those badly hurt by present disruptions recover? What do you think the needs will be? What market opportunities?

Don't be reluctant to share your best ideas - after all, execution is king, and in the post-pandemic world, there will be plenty of space for competing approaches.
I moved some of my high yield savings account into a 12 month CD recently to maintain a more tolerable interest rate for the next 12 months while the savings account interest rate inevitably tanks. That means I can't touch it for 12 months if I want the interest, but I was careful with the amount I put in the CD so that I will most likely not have to touch it.

This should in no way be construed to be advice because I'm unqualified to give it. It's just an option.
Please, try to tell this to uk general public when pretty much 1 people over 2 or 3 has one of their parents killed by the Coronavirus because of boris inaction.
I think what will happen to you will not be a pretty sight.
The Fed can, and will do much, much more. The signal here should be read as "whatever it takes to avoid a depression."

Among other steps, this is likely to mean:

- Negative-yielding long-term treasuries

- Direct purchase of stocks or ETFs, which would require congressional approval. Expect the discussions to start soon.

The steps already taken and the ones to be taken will create financial manipulation on a scale never before seen.

If the Fed loses this fight, game over.
Why upvote or why the story is getting killed?
Does the Fourteenth Amendment Prohibit Abortion? (2017)
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The previous one got more than 200 upvotes and then was removed...
please distinguish between surgical masks and N95 masks.

N95 masks, fitted properly, do help prevent catching the virus. For a mask to be called N95 it has to be approved by the CDC. It’s specifically designed to block >95% of airborne particles. That’s why they’re recommended for caretakers at hospitals and frontline workers dealing with infected patients. Replaced every ~3 hours and worn in combination with goggles and ear protection, they minimize the risk of infection through mucosal membranes. They have also been in short supply.

Surgical masks do not prevent catching the virus, but they help sick people not to spread it due to the mask catching some of the spray droplets when they cough / sneeze
This simple fact has low penetration into the HN well-to-do bubble. A lot of people here could just stop working for six months or more and assuming that people outside the bubble continue to come to work to stock the grocery store shelves (and make the stuff that's on the shelves), they'd be just fine. The vast majority of the population has to work to make that happen though, and you can't stop it all every time someone in China eats something they probably shouldn't have.
I just got laid off but there is a lot of defacto legalization of discrimination. Anyone who isn't in the majority like women and people of color are going to be hit extremely hard in this new round of layoffs that began last week. For those who remain you'll be asked to do "shared sacrifice" and either take pay cuts do even more unpaid overtime or both.
California Governor calls for home isolation for seniors, bars to close, etc
If you Google "summarizer", you will find dozens of similar services for free. A couple a years ago I built one from scratch in about 2 hours, then I accidentally deleted it and rewrote it in 15 minutes. Rank each word based on how many times it appears in the text.
> They've pulled back a bit from it because they've seen the vehement public reaction to it.

They did not.

I watched an hour long full press conference by PM and two adisors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRadMzCKnCU

I also watched an hour long Chris Witty Q&A for MP following day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfJcwDaZrsA

Both of these talks were about flattening the curve because of NHS capacity etc etc.

The scientists mentioned herd immunity couple times, but not like they are intentionally trying to create it. It was rather like: herd immunity will happen in several months.

> Cummings may well be evil, but he's not stupid.

Likely he got his information from dishonest journalist articles and started self-promotion.

But it's a shame that smart people on HN continue to retransmit this fake.
previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22582721

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22584108

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22584227
That is because it is a completely unsubstantiated piece of news 'leaked' to appeal to European prejudices and thus increase CoreVac's negotiating power.

The idea that Donald Trump would be the person making an offer to the CEO of a tiny startup for a non-existent, as yet, vaccine should trigger alarm bells, as that's not how these negotiations work, at all.

If you want to understand how these things actually work, read this article:

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/fda-grants-roche-coron...

Additionally, US government officials are on the record stating that any discoveries would be shared with the world. Plenty of governments are providing funding to labs all over the world, this is not unusual behavior.

> 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... any solution found would be shared with the world

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-german...
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There is no in-depth analysis in that video or website.

It's literally just pictures of animals being slaughtered in (primarily) overseas food facilities, at least one of which appears to be an open-air fish market. So, not representative of the claims about factory farming.
Any idea why was it removed? I saw many comments criticizing US being downvoted. It is not an baseless story now. There has been statements from German side.
> Now imagine getting a page telling you that the tempurature [sic] in a rack where your job is running is hot. What are you supposed to do?

Go and take a look at the rack? You'd have found and fixed the problem immediately in this case.
You mean you actually saw naked people?
A model has nothing to do with the underlying data. If they thought that the model was good enough to justify the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people they should release it right now, so we all can take a look at that abomination and decide for ourselves if they should be prosecuted for mass murder in a couple of months.
it's not fake news. Please read the updated article from the link you posted above:

> Welt am Sonntag also 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.”
I'm not trying to downplay the crisis - I'm under no illusions that that is not where we are, but a quick look at that article seems to show stuff already revealed in the news conference the other day, and some misstatements.

Just an observation on your Guardian link, not the numbers you've derived.
Of course the number of customers will wane. However, the economy is not something that can easily be halted. For example, businesses really on other businesses to function. This means that B2B products won’t be as severely impacted when compared to the local cafe.
Is there a website or channel or radio , which plays these classsics from various websites randomly ? like a FM radio.
Possibily because the most obvious place her name is written is on the image of the front cover, where it's written as "Madame M. Curie". I'd not heard heard her referred to as Marie Sklodowska Curie before - TIL.
just heard this on
https://peterattiamd.com/peterhotez/

apparently Dr.Hotez has a Sars-1 candidate vaccine antigen which could be repurposed for Covid-19,

https://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R01-AI098775-03S1

but they don't have funding to move it to clinical trials ..
The hypothetical did not specify that we also live in a fantasy wonderland where any problem one cares to raise is magically already solved.
I've read multiple reports online that truvada and descocy (HIV medication sold as a prophylactic, largely to LGBT individuals) may offer some resistance to COVID-19. I think it's largely bunk speculation, but research into whether existing, mass-produced pharmaceuticals would help could be incredibly valuable.
Eh, well, Handymax bulk ships (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handymax) are 200m long with 5 holds, so that's ~40m long holds, ~30m wide, and at a guess 20m deep. Contaminants picked up around the sides are likely below tolerable levels. (Heck, your bakery is probably schlepping around flour on conveyor belts exposed to greases, oils, etc. Ain't none of this stuff sterile.)
> The second link that google offers, wiktionary, has an entry for μῆδος. It is the "hypothetical nominative/accusative/vocative singular of μήδεα (mḗdea) (both etymologies)" but "Both senses of μήδεα (mḗdea) occur only in the plural"

Why use google? You can check the standard dictionaries at Perseus. Autenrieth (the dictionary for Homeric Greek) says this:

> μῆδος (2), εος: pl., privy parts. (Od.)

The (2) is because there is an identical -- also plural-only -- word meaning "plans, counsels".

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

So full agreement with wiktionary. The wiktionary entries are pretty likely taken from one of the dictionaries Perseus offers access to.

> apparently that must be wrong, if you are correct

Why? The -ής ending you see in the epithets is not a singular case ending for μῆδος. It's singular because it describes Aphrodite, who is only one god. My Smyth Greek Grammar notes:

> 888. A noun forming the last part of a compound often changes its final syllable.

> 888.b. -ης, -ες: form compound adjectives from nouns of the first and third declensions, and from many verb stems: [...] εὐ-ειδής beautiful in form (εἶδος)

That derivation of "beautiful in form" looks identical to a hypothetical φιλομ-μηδής loving male genitals from μῆδος, at least as to the -ής ending. (The reduplicated μ is harder to justify, but could be helpful in fitting a poetic meter.)

If you're worried that I cited the form μῆδος even though it doesn't exist, I should point out that the form μειδάω doesn't exist either. These are reference forms which exist to make it easier to find the word you want in a dictionary, or (in the case of μειδάω) to provide enough information in a single form to let you know how to produce other correct forms. Even then, μειδάω is more nonexistent than usual, being attested only in the third person singular.
> he science isn't unsound

In this case the science is flat out unsound: There are several coronaviruses known to infect humans. None are known to result in lasting immunity, and some are known to not result in lasting immunity. This is one of the challenges in making a vaccine.

Given the observed hospitalization rates, many millions in the UK will require hospitalization due to corona. At the moment, their hospitals could support merely thousands. We know from other cities that the mortality rate (particularly among younger people) is dramatically higher when adequate medical care is not available.

Under the UK's argument, the worst outcome of aggressive mitigation is that you are actually successful at it and achieve containment which just shifts the infection later in time at a high economic cost. Given the existing known infection rates in the UK that seems unlikely at that point, but even if it were to happen it would provide time to ready treatment facilities and allow for the discovery of more effective and/or scalable treatment techniques.

Fortunately, the UK has been backing off from its initial position and has now been recontextualizing their position as 'mitigate as much as possible'-- which is what pretty much all of the west is doing.
Yeah maybe. Certainly some kind of issue with feedback, self-awareness, or inappropriate expression and emotional response.

He also shows some striking abilities in focus, synthesis, organization, and what I perceive to be fearlessness. Put together, this all seems familiar to me from my experience with high-function autistics.
I think you have the wrong article. The one I was talking about was from reuters and was officially confirmed by the german government.
By scanning users, we have the ability to determine your exact measurement. That being said, we don't keep (or have access) to any pictures that people use to get scanned.

We tried asking for measurements in the past but very few people know this info (or want to take the time to get it).

By clarifying that we don't store photos, would you use the app?
Not only that but they've removed the reserve requirements entirely for "thousands" of banks. There are only ~4500 commercial banks in the USA total. So that's at least a good fraction of them. These banks can now create money out of nothing as much as they want.
He’s the Secretary of the DoE. He has no weapons.

Even if he were the Secretary of Defense, he would have no weapons. They merely command people who command other people who have such weapons.

You don’t know the names, plans, or motivations of any of those people.
Fights over TP should disappear soon. It's just a supply shock, but unlike with PPE, the coronavirus doesn't affect the rate at which people go through TP, so it should be one time. People who hoarded will just take more time to buy again.
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