skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked from home full-time from 1996-2000, part-time from 2000-2005. My main advice would be, "Learn how to go home at night." In other words, if you have an actual home office, close the office door and "commute" home, and leave work behind you. If you don't have a home office, close the laptop instead, again thinking, "I am now commuting home." After reveling in the fact you now have a two-second commute, go do what you do every evening after you get home (presuming you don't just drudge away some more after you get home).

Whatever you do, especially if you work for a global company like I did, don't check email right before bed! Otherwise you will get sucked into this - https://www.xkcd.com/386/ - and won't be able to go to sleep.

In fact, it was after one of those episodes, bored with TV so casually checking email and exclaiming, "How could those engineers in [some city six time zones away] be so dumb?!?! I must stop them before we lose all of tomorrow cleaning up what they're doing!!!", that I instituted the "commute home and leave it behind you" rule. Because it was fine - they weren't dumb, I was misunderstanding something, but the resulting email flurry back and forth got me worked up to the point of not being able to sleep. So I lost all the next day due to bad productivity anyway.
Sysmgr – A Simplistic System-Supervisor
The article should've shed light on what govts can do better, not what individuals can. That's where the blame lies.
Hi
I am the author of the above essay. I think spreadsheets are a highly underrated software that has made us all productive. This essay is a paean to the spreadsheet.
For staying productive as a team, we take advantage of various online team collaboration tools (for example; Miro, TeamSuccess.io, Notion, Zoom...)

Also, we keep regular remote retrospective on how to improve our processes, and daily check-ins on how people are feeling.
Also this is in Newsweek, which as far as I know is mainly read by older, not so critical media consumers. This is sort of a playing to the home crowd piece.
to be fair, you paid a doctor to administer you a crutch and ibuprofen, I'm certain that's not the raw material cost.
it won't be mandated by the federal government nation wide but you'll see it (and it's already started in some places) at the county level and maybe state level.
Yep, it read like an Onion article and they made it the cover of their magazine.
I can't agree with this enough. The media seems willing to be alarmist about everything _but_ the most important crisis my generation will ever face.
> I've set up a designated space at home to work from with some proper ergonomics

Stick to this place. Don't, for example, move to the living room and work on your lap with the TV going. Once you walk into your "office spot" you should be "at work."
This is not ageist nonsense. This is aimed directly at the rampant discourse of " only the elderly dies, why should I bother" ?
I'm the #1 fan of Fraidycat, keep up the good work!
Dr. Michael Osterholm was on Joe Rogan's podcast explaining in detail how this virus spreads [1]

- Washing hands and not touching face is inconclusive but it makes sense to keep up the hygiene. That's not the primary means of how this virus spreads.

- Virus primarily spreads via airborne means, simply by breathing (not even coughing or sneezing) is enough. It stays suspended in air (you can imagine the negligible weight of a 0.1um particle compared to the fluid mechanical forces from circulating air).

- N95 masks (contrarily to the popular myth) are the most effective means of stopping the spread. Shortage of masks for hospital workers is an orthogonal issue.

I urge everyone of you to watch this interview and to be more informed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3URhJx0NSw
In what way were China's statistics severely misleading. For a long time, they reported lab-confirmed cases and were upfront that this was limited by the amount of tests they could perform. In addition, they reported how many people were tested and how many tests were still being processed.

Today in the US, the US is reporting only lab-confirmed cases. They are also upfront that this is limited by the amount of tests they can perform. Unlike China, the US is __not__ reporting how many people are tested or how many tests are being processed. They are also not upfront about the fact that testing is severely limited by a very strict policy on who to test.
Yawn. The financier CEO of the automaker in one of the worst financial positions, with the lowest R&D spending, oldest product line, and nonexistent EV strategy complains that auto R&D is too expensive and argues the solution is that someone should buy his company. Not impressed.
I was in this camp for many many years, especially when I was single I didn't have notion of work and life. When I was in mood I work like crazy, then I might slack a bit or maybe went swimming at 1pm because there were no people. It started to change when I start living with my, now, wife and then it all get serious when we had kids.

They might be tiny, but they do require some structure and habits. I dont know how they do that, but there is going to be some serious door banging at 16:02 by our 16 months old signaling my allotted office time is over.
0.5% lethal according to the latest stats — or 99.5% non-lethal for you optimists out there.
"young people in particular are killing other people"

I don't think that's the point. The point is that people are looking at the mortality curve of this illness, and it looks like it most severely affects the elderly. I've heard this point repeated all over the place as a "don't panic" qualifier, it's not so bad since you are not likely to be severely effected unless you are elderly.

But if you aren't in that severely effected part of the age curve, your actions still can significantly affect the spread and effect of this illness on others and the strained medical system as a whole.

It's not "young people are to blame" but "Just because you're young doesn't mean you shouldn't care about this"
Meanwhile, I got a doctor consultation and referral, X-rays, a temporary ankle brace, and two crutches, all for $240 from an urgent care clinic (no insurance help). That's an actually fair cost. Hospitals tend to be huge ripoffs but maybe not urgent care clinics.
Yes. The PM made clear that the two weeks were for now, and might be extended, modified, or amended with further restrictions.
Back in 1961 Burroughs introduced an OS, nowadays still sold by Unisys.

Guess what, their system language ESPOL, an Algol derivative later replaced by NEWP, already had unsafe code blocks.

Binaries that made use of unsafe were tainted and required that the admin would given them permission to execute.

This almost 10 years before C was created.
> but it seems like the best data we have puts the most pessimistic CFR at about 0.6% if you look at the South Korean data

Check your stats. 0.77% of South Koreans who tested positive for the virus have died already, and more of them will die in the future. The CFR is likely to be above 1%.
Newsweek's main audience is older folks. I think they wouldn't necessarily like to bite the hand that feeds them.

But I agree, and I hope you don't get downvoted to oblivion.
Thanks to everyone for these very helpful replies.
At this point more than enough data exists to show the population will suffer ~1% losses. We shouldn't need 10% to freak out. Not to mention long-tail fatalities that might arise if it becomes an annual virus like the flu. When all that had to happen was people treat it seriously to begin with rather than saying "But the flu is way worse".
there's a line item in the bill of $750 for "1mL iodine"
All the “rich media” on that website makes me cringe. And I think I just blew past my monthly mobile data limit just to read this article. Horrible.
This is not blaming young people, though admittedly it's keeping its context implicit, which isn't helpful. This is a reaction to _way_ too many articles and posts that went "don't worry, coronavirus ain't so bad, only people who already aren't healthy are at any real risk," which a) not true, and b) is kinda scary in how it dismisses the less-than-healthy-people.
For now, AI is working as a good deflection in front of the workforce. I think that will continue and get a lot better over time, but will likely still just be a combination of deflection in the front, as well as enablement for agents by giving some good summary resources that may make responding faster.

Neither of those removes the workforce at scale in my opinion.

Also, AI is real far away from replacing more advanced support teams doing "tier 2" and "tier 3" support which require a lot more work outside of the email/chat thread.
Here you go: https://immutouch.com/
They, and almost every other European country, have already made that mistake. This decision is comparable to what Italy did on February 29th when they had 10% of the cases they have today. But Denmark is (if you correct for the smaller population) already at 60% of the cases that Italy has.

Switzerland and Norway are in that same boat. Spain is getting there, it's the country whose numbers are growing the fastest. France has elections on the 15th, 'nuff said.

Only Germany is comparable to that 10%, and they aren't doing anything either. They do have more ICU beds than others, but it isn't a great consolation.
About time... They might be able to reduce R0 < 1 and be done with the pandemics in 3-4 weeks. On the other hand, Spain and Germany are going to blow up next week, Italy-style.
I saw the Joe Rogan clip[1] and I agree that Michael Osterholm's analysis of this seems correct when it comes to the United States.

Denmark however has a completely different structure socially. All private sector employees who can work from home are urged to work from home. All public sector employees who are not working in any matter-of-life-and-death function are forced to stay at home. The public sector employees will still get paid despite not working. Practically this means very, very few cases of health care workers with children needs to be home supervising the children.

[1]: https://youtu.be/cZFhjMQrVts
CFR changes dramatically depending on whether people can get hospital care.
> Keeping kids home certainly restricts what parents can do. Some of whom may be needed to do other things.

Nope, not in Denmark: if they're needed then they are exempt.
ACM 6.0[0] is a heavily extended fork made by Umberto Salsi[1] (since 2008 and maintained until now) from original ACM 5.0 developed by Riley Rainey.

> Riley Rainey founded Web Simulations in August 1997.

> Back in 1991, Riley released the first free multiplayer air combat simulation for UNIX systems, ACM. He enhanced the program over time -- in 1996 it was integrated with the U.S. Department of Defense sponsored Distributed Interactive Simulation protocol (DIS). Integration with DIS allows ACM to interact with simulations written by a variety of defense contractors.

> Now Web Simulations is bringing this technology to the rest of the world.

Original ACM 5.0 developed until 2000: firstly as commercial software (binary and source code) for Windows, but later released as FLOSS app for UNIX (where source code was rewritten from Visual C++ to pure C).[2,3]

FTR, Linux packages build from original ACM 5.0 source still included in all popular Linux distributions.[4]

P.S. There is also GNU ACM 5.1 - another fork made by GNU/FSF devs from original ACM 5.0, but it was never included as package in Linux distributions and not updated since 2011.[5,6]

[0] http://www.icosaedro.it/acm/manual/acmdoc-basic.htm

[1] http://www.icosaedro.it/en-index.html

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/19981206125848/http://www.websimu...

[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20130113053006/http://www.websimu...

[4] https://repology.org/project/acm/versions

[5] https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Acm

[6] https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/acm/
That's not fair, because the doctor no-doubt billed separately.
You're exploiting an ambiguity in the word 'unavoidable'. Of course any individual manager (hospital or insurance industry) could 'avoid' predatory pricing. But the system of capitalism is designed to prevent people who would practise such avoidance doing so - either by excluding them from management roles (the sewage farm metaphor), or forcing them to conform to the ideology of greed.

An unmitigated exploitative capitalist system cannot 'avoid' overcharging, because it would be counter to its deepest nisus.
> the article does nothing to support the thesis that young people in particular are killing other people.

It is very simple: from the pool of "all people" in any big enough area (e.g. a small city) those who will catch the virus, be able to spread it to others and will not develop significant symptoms, most of them will be very young. The older one is, more chance is that he will have strong symptoms (like not being able to breathe).

So any young person which doesn't "feel" being ill who continues to live "normally" -- meaning contacting other people like always, as in "going out" at the evening or whatever -- is a strong transmitter of the same virus that is actively killing older people.

Which all doesn't mean that older people who also behave like "nothing is happening" aren't also spreading the virus... and also, effectively, killing people.

The biggest point is: please don't behave like "it's nothing."
It's an ageist and offensive narrative to say that young people are saying that phrase and acting it out like they don't care about killing their elders.
I was making a related comment to my coworkers earlier this week: if the stock market is this freaked about covid19, just wait til investors realize climate change is real and it will be hard to make money while NYC is flooded and nobody wants to buy oil anymore.
Young people aren't afraid because it poses no unusual risk to healthy people under 65.

Airfare and hotels are at all time lows. It's a great time to travel if you aren't at risk and don't care about others. You can roundtrip to Hawaii for around $200 from some places.
My daughter had an allergic reaction to food last year, which required us to give an epipen. We were told when this happened that we needed to call 911 and have her taken to the emergency room for observation and potentially for further treatment. We did, the ambulance came and took her to the hospital, which is under a mile away. We then had a similar experience to yours - spent about 2 hours in the hospital being observed, then were dismissed. We eventually got a $2k bill from the ER, which our insurance paid, and a $4k bill from the ambulance company, which our insurance didn't pay.
Children seem to have natural instinct for things like that. Unless homework is involved, that is!
Feel free to downvote, but the results of this meta-analysis of 145 scientists and 10,080 participants speaks for itself. Sometimes the outcome doesn't match your worldview and that should be okay.
> Maybe something like UBI will help?

How will that help the people who don't have your magical ability to derive sustenance directly from bank balances?

UBI is not a substitute for economic activity. Goods still need to be produced. We need to deal with the outbreak without shutting the system down.
There's plenty of evidence that single payer polls better than Sanders. Maybe a candidate without his baggage can get it done.
As an individual, not that often. Collectively, a lot.

Not counting the 2 outdoor amphitheatres, I can name 8 theatres in my area with capacity >1000. Several more in the 800-999 range, and I'm not sure if these thresholds would apply to "audience in the house" or "total souls in the building".

Seattle's gathering limit is much lower (250) than SF's, and includes "social distancing" and other limitations, which essentially shuts down all concerts, plays, musicals, conventions, and lectures.

For example, I see the 5th Avenue Theatre here (capacity: 2100) just cancelled their entire run of a show that opens this Friday (8 performances/week for 3 weeks). That would have potentially been >50,000 people.

I estimate bans like this will prevent the intermingling of at least several hundred thousand people each month, in each metropolitan area which enacts it. I'm no expert on the spread of disease but that seems pretty significant.
28 yr old here, I work in the valley, havent been to work since last monday. And starting this monday, have only gone out one time, for a jog at the local track, where social distancing I guess more or less upholds itself amidst maybe 10 - 15 people max, spread out while walking or running the track.
It would be worth mentioning in the article that in the US your sick off days usually are deducted from your vacation days. This makes many people reluctant to stay home if they cannot work remotely.
Ah yes, the magic government food supply that doesn’t depend on economic activity like farming/harvesting/transportation/preparation/delivery.
Lots of reacting to the title here. Which, granted, is sensationalist.

I think this nicely sums up the article's point:

"It's the civic and moral duty of every person, everywhere, to take part in the global effort to reduce this threat to humanity. To postpone any movement or travel that are not vitally essential, and to spread the disease as little as possible. Have your fun in June, July and August when this—hopefully—is over. Stay safe. Good luck."

In other words, it's not "this is young people's fault" but "just because you are young doesn't mean you should ignore this"
It's been well-established for some millennia that young people think they're indestructible. Here's some anecdata for you [1] including the following illustrative Twitter quote from a 27-year-old:

> Okay I know the world is in a state of panic but flights are cheap AF. I definitely just booked a flight to see my grams for her birthday.

(Her grams is 71 and well into the COVID danger zone.)

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/young-people-capitalize...
It's not a "worse case scenario", it's successful containment through quite strict quarantine measures. Since neither USA nor Italy are taking measures remotely comparable to what Hubei or Henan did when they had a similar amount of spread, we should expect these countries to have a much larger spread than Hubei did, it's really not reasonable to assume that they would be able to limit this to "around 0.1% of their population were diagnosed with covid" - it's plausible that more than half of the population could get it, and leaders of many western countries have acknowledged that.
Huh? She wasn't tested. Whatever the ER charges, outrageous or not, why would you assume there's any correlation at all to the cost of a test that wasn't administered?
The risk increases as the fraction of infected people increases. For example, if you have 200 people on an airplane from SFO today, there is a good chance that nobody will be infected. Next week, when there are many more cases, a gathering of 100 people might be as risky as one of 200 today.

So it plausibly makes sense to reduce the limits over time. I don't know how much science is actually going into determining these limits, though.
A ‘New Normal’ for Hospitals on the Front Lines Fighting Coronavirus
People who complain about the Rodeo being in cancelled in Houston should read that first, but the problem is precisely that they aren't reading things like that and complaining on social media as if their perspective were valid.
Stuck at home alone with your kids during COVID-19 Don't freak out..
https://medium.com/@manisharoses/schools-kids-and-covid-19-3...
i work for a tech company in the fortune 500 top 25... i would assume the best insurance possible, still killing us (paid nearly $7000 out of pocket last year + the actual premium costs of several thousand more). i've got three small kids including one with a heart condition, so it's particularly bad right now.
No other such candidate exists at this time. EDIT: We're going to have to keep waiting for older politicians and voters to age out of the system before meaningful policy progress can be made. Sanders is the best candidate if you value single payer.

"You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after exhausting all other options." -- Churchill
When I lived in the states I was on a medication I needed to get filled every month (Methylphenidate for the curious) due to life situation my cost to do so varied in this manner over the span of half a year:

30$ (1$/pill) while on uni insurance

0$ on state healthcare while unemployed (Green Mountain Care)

270$ (9$/pill) while employed and not qualifying for employer healthcare

120$ (4$/pill) while employed with my brand name uncovered (but discounted due to an Aetna preferred rate)

3$ (10c/pill) while employed after switching to the generic

Healthcare costs in the US are unpredictable, arbitrary and cruel.
It's my understanding that the UK's reserved response so far is because a 'shut down' is not sustainable for a long time, and we feel that it's not the right time to start yet.
It's almost certainly happening.
Indeed, this was a key misconception my professors and I all shared: we thought there was a broad consensus in American society that democracy is a good thing. It turns out there are a lot of Americans, disproportionately gathered on one side of the ideological spectrum, who care less about democracy than they do about their team winning.
Maybe, or maybe not. Let’s say it’s 0.5% fatal and largely only to folks who are older and have comorbid conditions. Instead we panic 100% of people, leading to mass hysteria, loss of livelihood, global recession, military zombie apocalypse lockdowns and so on. What if our response causes more harm? It might well.

Proportionality of response matters and so do second and third order effects. What if all the above causes more than 5000 suicides? Did we win?
Data centers don't use ATX12V though.
Does anyone have advice if you live in a small living space? I live in a small studio apartment and don't have the luxury of having a separate room (or even a section of the room) that can exist solely as an office. I have problems with distractions when working at home because of this. Going out to work at a cafe or public place is "ok" normally, but kind of defeats the purpose of not coming into contact with a lot of people.
These are iniatives to spare the old and the weak. How little regard do you have for these people? Their mortality rate is way higher than 0.5%
I missed that part of the article body text, can you quote it?
NCAA tournament will be played without fans
There are, they just aren't specific yet. The important part is the shut down, then they have time to work on the package
> If your supply chain encompasses two countries then a disruption in either country will take you offline. If you keep everything in-house you only have to worry about one country.

Yeah but you'd also have all your eggs in one basket.
And if goods aren't flowing there really isn't VAT incurred for that time is there?
I wonder if anyone is trying to weaponize this to reach the GOP. Get infected, go to a Trump event, shake hands with and cough on as many people as possible.
Wait, how would this prevent health care workers with children from needing to be home? Who is going to be watching those kids while the parents are working at a hospital?
We're just not wired to think about things at that scale and over long periods of time. IMO the reason we're taking climate change as seriously as we are now is because of the visceral evidence provided by the hurricanes of the last couple of years.

We collectively need things to be observably happening right now in order to believe they are true.