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You realize your hospitals are going to be swamped by coronavirus cases and people are going to start dying from other treatable conditions - the exact thing you're worried about. Your logic appears to be backwards.
> roughly half of them survive, the remainder will have a good chance of lung issues for the rest of their lives.

Luckily they will not have to live with those issues for very long.

(Sorry, with all the bad news I had a need to lighten up the mood)
I think this is probably understated.

I can’t imagine being dosed with that much LSD while people are yelling at you and trying to scare you (this went on for years?) Doesn’t surprise me that that could break a person.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#Harvard_Colleg...
Although I am in favour of them printing what they want, let's keep their poison away from children, unless Minecraft has age restrictions in their library.
It is quite plausible that cruel psychological experiments, that were carried out on Ted Kaczynski, turned him into a terrorist: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard...
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for reference, at this moment there are 21,157 (according to john hopkins map) confirmed cases in Italy, which probably translates to anything between 50k-500k infections total. lombardy healthcare is near collapse and there's 1.5k people dead already. multiplying by 80-800 (best-worst case to get to 40M) left as an exercise to the reader. at that point the government might not only buy all ventilators on the market but also all diggers.
>2) slight scepticism, how is this information curated ? can someone infect the pool by injecting bogus news ?

I think your skepticism is genuine but it just makes me think about how long it will be until this library get's banned, cancelled, and censored because they found some small percentage of fake information that could've been planted by literally anyone for fun or by state actors who have the incentive.

This library was created for a reason.
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Intent shouldn't matter here, if you swindle money from a consumer (as in they don't get what they paid for), consumer protection laws should be written and enforced to protect these folks.

Also, in addition to consumer protection laws this is also public health and national security so I can't imagine a judge who wouldn't take that into consideration.

These charlatans are in the same boat as those who are gouging prices on face masks and hand sanitizer. Unethical to the point of criminality and damaging to our economy and markets.
>This already does exist: Conan, for example. And cppget for build2.

But is there consensus that conan.io or cppget have become industry-wide Schelling Points?

For example, I searched both repos and neither have popular dependencies like Qt nor ffmpeg. Therefore, "conan install ffmpeg/4.2.2" isn't going to work. Thus, large non-trivial projects would only be able to use a package manger like Conan/cppget for some dependencies but not all.

In Javascript land, npm is so pervasive that it can be "one-stop shopping" for fetching all js dependencies. Likewise, not only is someone paying the light bills for "crates.io", it also has instant canonical status within the Rust community. Conan doesn't have comparable mindshare in the C++ ecosystem. This is a common interpretation of the question "Why doesn't C++ have a package manager?"
I'm going to get down voted but this is rational CEO speak.
Testing is the biggest variable.

More testing = lower mortality rate.

The alarming mortality statistics from Wuhan and Italy turned out to be extremely high due to lack of available testing and mild cases that were never reported.

Statistically there are likely already thousands of unreported cases in Seattle, but nobody can get tested. If you have a fever, people are being asked to stay home and not go to the hospital at all. So they’re not even counted in the official numbers.
His manifesto is remarkably close to the blue smurfs’ position in the movie Avatar.
The main issue with the UK's approach is approximately 10% of young people need acute medical care (e.g., ventilator access). There aren't enough hospital beds in the NHS system to meet that demand.
> on-call SRE and someone from the edge networking team wasted their time diagnosing the hardware problem

I highly doubt that the edge oncaller who was paged debugged this issue down to the hardware. The post even said that they worked with other teams to figure this out. Once the SRE figured out it wasn't their problem, the likely moved onto something else
Not to be "that guy" but I've always felt like Minecraft is largely a waste of creative energy and time that could be spent toward more tangible artistic creations like music or real life sculpting. Anyway, the point here being that I'm really blown away by this project and it has definitely given me a completely new way of looking at Minecraft to revise my old opinions.
The Atlantic has an effort to break this tracking down on a state-by-state basis (https://covidtracking.com/data/) which definitely has some interesting nuggets and gives some color on how they arrive at their numbers on a per-state basis.
And overwhelmingly voted for Brexit
Germany is not at the point where the dying start. That will, most likely, take us 2-3 more days.
Ibuprofen is OTOH much riskier and disadvised for many groups of patients, like those with gastric problems (Ulcertativ Colitis, Crohn's etc.)

The problem is often due to people overdosing, often due to mixing different pills that each contain paracetamol. Each cure becomes poison after a threshold.
maybe im getting old, but this reads like very well-written marketing for drodio.com.

the long-winded introduction, use of caps and sense of urgency it piggybacks on top of and the obvious straw man. i mean if you don't know how to do the math, then following the steps as presented in the article (ie. "add this, then times it by that.." etc) you're not actually reaching your own conclusions; that's just hand waving credence to the conclusion that the reader cannot fairly evaluate.

EDIT: writing my originally short comment i noticed many other subtle cues as well. for example:

the author's prediction of the article going viral (establishing trust because they've been "right" before)

the open invitation to criticize the article (suggesting that what you're reading is essentially the result of consensus)

the claim that it's being written despite any criticism it might receive because the subject is so important (moral authority)

all of these points are presupposed by the author, and not actually derived from the work. the more i think about it the more subtle and manipulative it appears. i hope im wrong, poke holes in it! but given the subject we're discussing it's really rather unsettling. we are indeed in a crisis, drodio be damned.
To summarize, Ted's main point is that man has been alienated from our "true nature" as a result of industrialization, and this is making us sad. He argues that we should leave the harmful industrialized world, and return to nature, which is exactly what he did in a cabin in Montana.

This specific style of anti-modernity (industrialization leads to alienation) is at least as old as Rilke[1], who wrote about it extensively in his 1910 book, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge[2], and I get a chuckle thinking to myself that this is the most viable path to a truly "post-modern" world devoid of modernity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke
[2] https://archive.org/stream/TheNotebooksOfMalteLauridsBrigge/...
There are a lot of mom and pop stores and restaurants that will suffer and may go out of business. If there is a secure, convenient website to set up gift card purchases, it might keep these places afloat.
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Exactly. Of all people I would expect him to understand what an exponential growth rate means. He clearly does, which means he has his head up his ass on this one.
> Why would young and healthy patients be taking "massive amounts of NSAIDs" if they didn't have co-morbidities? This doesn't really make any sense.

There are enough people who have no idea that hang-over + pop-2-advil is a deadly combination in this situation.

Also a lot of the "new year, new body" resolution folks start too hard at the gym & then push through with NSAIDs.

Young people, particularly the fit, do go through a lot of NSAIDs out of OTC convenience.
Works for me if you can find a suitably remote cabin and a stock of food etc :-)
Can you explain this further? I looked at the charts for both of those countries and I still see an exponential rise in cases.

Do you mean that the limiting factor is e.g. ventilators and that these countries haven’t exhausted their capacity yet?
You can use GC languages. One of them is Go. WASM support is pretty good though direct dom access or some well tested wrappers would make it even better.
i'm quite sure there are folks in the high risk group that are insulted by your writing and people deploying this policy either put their parents in bunkers or don't have them anymore. this is the biggest gamble i've ever seen in my life.
I think "herd immunity" is a euphemism for: This virus will see community spread of around 30% to 70% and it is long impossible to contain. The U.S. is preparing for 30%, The Netherlands for 50%, and Germany for 70%.

Herd immunity will be hard, since antibodies for coronaviruses last only about 4 months.

Even the strictest quarantines possible in the West don't compare to the mild quarantines in the East. The laws don't allow for contact tracing with GPS coordinates and credit card purchases, like they do in Singapore.

Quarantine methods put selective pressure on the strain types that are more infective and severe, since such mutations and recombinations are the only ones able to escape quarantines.

So the plan seems to be to turn this into a community virus, much like herpes or HIV. Then the selective pressure is for the mortality rate to drop and the disease becomes manageable. It would seem silly to damage your economy with heavy quarantine methods when local community cluster spread continues to pop up.

Of course, the UK government can not come out and straight up say this, but they seem one of the few governments that is realistic about facing this virus and its impossible to contain infection rate. I am guessing they ran the numbers from the Italy quarantines and based their decision on that.
You can find the same logic among a lot of extremists. My take is that they start with an outcome they're excited about and reason toward it, choosing facts to fit. For those who have dealt with narcissists and abusers, it's common there, too.

For those who haven't seen it up close but want to understand it, I strongly recommend this long dive into the forums for "estranged parents": http://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/

The gist is that plenty of kids with narcissistic or abusive parents grow up and eventually cut off contact with their parents. For some, I'm sure, this forces a reckoning: they really look at what they've done and try to get better. But many do what they've done their whole lives: find ways to explain why they are still right.

Dashiell Hammett in The Thin Man gives a good description of what it's like dealing with people like this: "Most people [...] get discouraged after you’ve caught them in the third or fourth straight lie and fall back on either truth or silence, but not Mimi. She keeps trying and you’ve got to be careful or you’ll find yourself believing her, not because she seems to be telling the truth, but simply because you’re tired of disbelieving her." A description more familiar to people these days, I'm sure.
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Policies like that are well intentioned but in many places there can be a pattern of knocking it all down & rebuilding every 30-50 years. In other words, just as the trees start to get large, you cut them all down once more.
For anyone who is new to assembly and has $10 to spare, I would recommend getting Human Resource Machine on steam. It's essentially a game that teaches you basic assembly programming. It's a lot of fun, and very hackable since you can import and export between the game and your favorite text editor.
Look at the “serious cases”. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Might be region locked? I get a free option in the US (NY-State)
> * why do the racks have wheels at all? Doesn't seem like a standard build, and turns out the be risky

They probably aren't "standard" in any kind of common sense. Google and the other big tech firms design their own hardware and likely have it assembled remotely and delivered as a complete rack. Wheels make positioning it easier. It's also not uncommon to need to move racks of machines around (say, during a cluster refit or to change capacity in different DC halls). Not having wheels is likely more of a pain than the potential gains of omitting them.

> * there should be at least daily checks on the data center, including a visual inspection of cooling systems and the likes. I don't know if daily visual inspection of racks is also a thing, but should find that pretty quickly.

Google has millions of machines and dozens of datacenters. Its techs are likely already 100% busy replacing HDDs and other routine stuff. Noticing a single rack failing (within error budget) isn't going to be a priority so it's unlikely someone is employed to do that. Cooling/power systems are definitely monitored on a more macro level.

> * monitoring temperatures in a data center is pretty essential, though I must admit I don't know enough if rack-level temperature monitoring would have caused overheating of CPUs in the rack.

There's likely DC-level temperature monitoring. Again, systems are designed to cope with some amount of failure so it's not important to monitor everything and alert someone every time anything changes. When dealing with millions of things you need to look at aggregations.
> since antibodies for coronaviruses last only about 4 months.

Sources? And if so why?
I wonder how much home pneumonia treatment options like humidifiers, steam, and drinking tons of fluids can impact the hospitalization rate? Quitting/taking a break from smoking has to be a big one too. Can we find ways to encourage more people to do these things, like some kind of viral science-based "Lower Your Covid Risk" website or app? It could promote social distancing too.

One of the biggest problems so far imo is lack of clear, unambiguous guidance from authority figures. People in the general population still have wildly misinformed views. Finding creative ways to inject this kind of crucial information into the collective consciousness could have a big impact.
Do you have a source for the 10% of young people needing ventilators?
Everyone has seen the "flatten the curve" graphs. I'm not disputing those. Will the healthcare system become saturated if we only self isolate the high risk groups?
>the virus will go away probably between 3 to 6 months

It took 3 weeks to fuck up Italy in a royal way, so "3 to 6 month" does not instill confidence, tbh
> This is the right point of view. If you start building hospitals now, you might have a chance when the wave hits.

Probably not unless you have popup / prefab hospitals.

> Have a look at the state of capacity in Italy: it's closed to maxed out with lots of improvised wards.

Italy is not "close to maxed out", it's way overcapacity. It might seem like it's at capacity if you count the total number of ICU beds in the entire country, but most of the cases for now are in the north, so the actual radio is way higher. Lombardia was at ~200% capacity circa wednesday.
A small thread from 2008 ("Dude, that's like 2 years old"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=337638

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=116728
It depends on how fast corona virus goes away.
>The entire point is that individual game maps are incredibly difficult to censor, especially when they're maps for the most popular game in the world; one server gets blocked, two more get thrown up.

I don't see how that's any different than putting text files in a git repository which can then be cloned and hosted anywhere. In some ways, it's worse, because it depends on Minecraft which is a closed source product owned by Microsoft, and its map format is proprietary. Is this format done simply because it appeals to young activists? Or is it because the appearance of playing a game gives better cover to journalists? Both those could be good reasons, but they are notably not technical reasons and would not make the maps more difficult to censor. In any case it would seem a little less suspect if these were instead importable into a FOSS replacement like Minetest [0].

[0]: https://www.minetest.net/
Some of them have privacy as a core part of their marketing strategy.
> Quarantine methods put selective pressure on the strain types that are more infective and severe, since such mutations and recombinations are the only ones able to escape quarantines.

Mind sourcing this? This seems the exact opposite of what I'd expect. I'd expect quarantines to s left for milder strains that are harder to detect.
Elon is right in his assessment. Why do you have to badmouth him?
It’s dangerous when cult leaders take sides in these things. He is anti-public transportation with reasons including being dangerous since you might be traveling with a serial killer and people should use insulated pods that he wants to make but the same people should not be afraid of a virus and keep working together.

I admire Elon in many ways but I am terrified of his tendencies of psychopathy.

According to Musk, We should use individual cars because there’s a risk to have a serial killer in the metro train but it’s statistically safe to gather with people when a deadly virus is spreading. Cult follower would buy that and amplify the message.

It’s scary stuff, let’s hope the guy doesn’t turn into an anti-vaxxer or something like that(because “we need as spicies to evolve through natural selection so we can live in exoplanets” maybe?).
ACE != ACE2.

ACE inhibitors have no effect on ACE2.

https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/10.1139/y02-021
i would heavily recommend a soap-based solution:

"why does soap work so well on sars cov-2?"

* https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1236549305189597189.html
I think you're mixing up a few things here: ability to reason, empathy for other people, and a well-balanced mind. There are plenty of terrible people who are perfectly rational. They come to conclusions the rest of us find obscene not because they're bad at reasoning, but because they have different values and priorities.
UK government behavioral psychologist: Telling people to social distance won't work for the long term because they'll get tired of it.

Also UK: People won't react negatively when hundreds of thousands of people die. Keep Calm and Carry On.
The number of cases is exponential, like any infectious virus. I’m focused on the denominator, which is increasing with testing. The numerator doesn’t change because deaths are deaths, testing doesn’t change that.
Look on the bright side- leaf cleanup and tree pruning is ongoing economic activity that can't be outsourced. Mining coal or natural gas and manufacturing A/C units, on the other hand, definitely will be.
Can you elaborate on how this is rational? I'm almost always strongly in agreement with Musk, but I think he's so far off here I can't even understand it. It's ridiculous to use the current fatality numbers, the question is the potential.

Does he really think cars are more dangerous in Northern Italy right now than COVID? COVID has killed about 1000 people in Lombardy (pop 10 million) in a week. That's twice the number of fatalities Lombardy generally sees from cars in a year and it's getting worse daily, despite the aggressive countermeasures.

I don't see any reason why the rest of the world won't look like Lombardy unless measures are taken.
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I thought 10% of the general population required hospitalization. With a smaller number of people needing ventilators and a even smaller % of young people needing ventilators.
There are books that can be placed on pedestals and read. Unless something has changed, the upload still requires manual entry, and according to the Minecraft wiki, you are limited to 12,800 characters (still quite a lot). As for reading, everyone is reading the same "page" at a time, so if someone turns the page, everyone is forced to change the page (pages being about 300 characters).
So, the U.K. plan is survival of the fittest. I’ve been reading reports that high severity cases cause lung scarring even in young people who survive. Given that high severity cases seem to have the same incident rate in young people, this seems insane.
The exclusivity bit is what I was referring to. The only reason [1] to make it US-exclusive is to boost reelection prospects.

[1] There are other, way dumber possible reasons but I guess I'm trying to be charitable. He might not be able to wrap his head around positive-sum problems in general, or he might think that the US gains some advantage from all its trading partners having their economies destroyed.
Exactly, IBM consultants will still wrap an engagement today with unencrypted telnet listening on all interfaces of your "AS400".

"It's not open to the world" is quite often justification for some really poor security decisions.
I've used Kubuntu as a normal every day desktop for some time and there are two simple annoyances that popup in my mind:

- when I get a notification in the systray that there is an update I click on it but nothing happens. Then I have to click on the Update Manager which also presents itself in the systray as having an update to start the actual update process. Why can't the program giving the notification be started directly from the notification popup window?

- the restart/shutdown dialog is infuriating!. When I click on restart or shutdown I get presented with a full screen overlay in which I have to click again on restart or shutdown. Ok: I understand the need for a confirmation. But the click area is very sensitive and I you accidentally just outside of the icon area you will be dropped back to the desktop. ARGH! Why do UI designers always think that everyone has some sort of FPS aiming capability with the mouse and can repeatedly click with pixel accuracy?
Because "good" doesn't mean "infinite capacity", and the sheer number of COVID cases needing IC beds will overtake the number of IC beds in the country if the growth is not checked fast and early.
Yes, and I am sure that they were monitoring this, but is a single rack having issues worth paging someone? Do you think they should immediately send someone out to investigate when temperature anomaly is detected? Like I said elsewhere, this was likely add to a queue of lower priority bugs
CureVac focuses on a coronavirus vaccine to protect people worldwide
Interestingly, the button changed from “Start trial” to “Free” after a couple of seconds for me.
Yeah, I think there is a place for software to support local groups.
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Holy wow. I had never heard of this. That's monstrous. It's a recipe for lasting trauma.
We can prevent the next pandemic
Interesting how even in an anti-consumerist comment like yours, every item mentioned comes with a brand.
I really like the fact you don't need to signup to use it.
I think you're drawing a pretty bizarre comparison here. Murray's work is still available on Amazon, as well as in most other book stores and libraries. Woody Allen has previously written books that are still available on Amazon, and he recently wrote another book, but does not have a publisher and isn't willing to self-publish, which still puts him ahead of roughly 90% of writers. Harvey Weinstein is a film producer who was recently convicted of multiple counts of rape, not a writer at all.