skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fully-cooked food (~160 degree F temp) is sanitary as of the time it's done cooking. For takeout food, the lowest risk is items with relatively little post-processing after being cooked - Thai food, for example, where the cook basically dumps it from a wok into a container.

The worst case is probably dishes where many people interact with raw ingredients to create a high-touch item. Compared to physical contact with people, it's still considered a relatively small transmission risk, but in relative terms, it's higher than something that's boxed up right after it's cooked.

More: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/03/11/coronavirus-..., https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/coronavir..., https://www.fdacs.gov/News-Events/Press-Releases/2020-Press-..., https://www.insider.com/what-temperature-kills-germs
Retail can't deliver... What is the primary non-deliverable thing you get from retail?
What about solvency, and the knock on effect to creditors. They can't pay the booze supplier and they go out of business etc. This could go on for months. Most businesses don't make those sweet SaaS margins. Same for airlines.
Addendum: y'all like to list the one or two items that have sentimental value, but have you considered the vast graveyard of junk that you've left behind that has zero value to you sentimental or otherwise? Your hoard of long-term personally-significant items is probably fewer than you can count on one hand. Where's that old t-shirt you bought five years ago? How many USB-chargers have you lost track of?
Sure, it was not acquired by some super-evil corp but it was created and owned by one instead. That seems even worse (especially when considering that google was not evil in its early days, or at it was not widely known).

It is also willing to lock you out of your account and keep begging for your phone number (even if you haven't entered it previously) in order to unlock it.
Illinois:
https://twitter.com/GovPritzker/status/1239387572884905988

https://www2.illinois.gov/Pages/news-item.aspx?ReleaseID=212...

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-il...
>people use "dd" a lot when all they need is "cat".

Well, GNU dd has nice things like 'status=progress' and options for direct-I/O :)
I'm with you on this. One of the not-so-physical wonders of the world we have is a lot of scientific, capable minds paired with high technology and rapid feedback on their efforts. The timing, though it could have been better, is on our side.

My one concern is once this whole thing is over there will be a long pause followed by a blame game.

There are already conspiracies floating out there being pushed forward by officials in various countries.
You're being selfish. Everything isn't just about you.
That was a recommendation rather than a requirement, so I thought we wouldn't include it. But you're right, it's substantially the same story. I'll add it above.
I’m probably in the minority but I lean towards the UK model. My suspicion is that the mortality rate is lower due to inadequate testing.

Call me a cynic but after 9/11 I’m weary of temporary measures that become permanent in one way or another.
I hear you absolutely that there needs to be economic assistance for the people affected here. They are going to be impacted well beyond the actual sicknesses. What I hope to convince you of though is that simply doing nothing and pretending people should continue to go out and about, could very well be like asking for good swimmers to stay back and keep shops open when there is flooding.

> The vast majority of the people most directly impacted by all this are essentially at zero risk of dying from COVID. And on April 7th it’s not like COVID will cease to exist...
“Locking everything down” is an incredibly damaging and nonsensical action for the vast majority of the population.

Maybe, they are young and healthy. But unless they don't ever meet anyone with any comorbidities or advanced age, they will spread the virus to someone who isn't. Even if they are young and healthy and aren't aware of any risk factors, their immune system could overreact to the virus and kill them - its happened in china[0]. People who are afraid about the virus will not visit their establishment, or take classes from them, etc. This economic hit is not entirely artificial, it's coming for these people whether or not we close down service industry.

I think we have to take these drastic measures and also ensure the government treats this like the natural disaster it is, ready to restart the economy after the downturn by injecting cash and forgiving debt.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/13/world/asia/co...
DC: https://twitter.com/MayorBowser/status/1239247668347633664
Think your decimal is off. 327 million * 85% * 0.06% is 166 thousand, not 1.66 million.
>so its not others will start getting mental illnesses if its celebrated

If you celebrate mental illness itself, fetishise it, blast out images of good-looking successful people with SHE'S BIPOLAR next to it, people will emulate it. It's fashion. It's what we do with everything.

The way mental illnesses are 'discovered' and grouped, as best as I can tell from what I've heard psychologists talk about it, is by a duck method. If it looks, talks, walks like depression, we'll call it that. The actual underlying causal networks are yet mostly mysterious, so they're not the basis of the defintions. The way they're defined is basically behavioural.
I looked for "HIPAA" and didn't find it anywhere. Nor the ability to request that data be deleted. I wish they would take privacy for this more seriously than Google's baseline level of privacy.
Help me understand this logic... it's not OK for customers to be a few feet away from other people in the dining area of a restaurant, but it's OK for low-paid (and often undocumented) line cooks and chefs, etc, to be right next to each other, interacting, sweating and toiling away in a hot kitchen? These people are heroes if they choose to show up for work, especially since takeout orders hardly tip.
Keep in mind that this is all subject to change on a daily basis. A serious recommendation: if you don't have it already, make sure you have at least some easy to prepare canned/dry food (i.e ramen/soup/veggies/crackers/whatever) that you can store/prepare (along with some bottled water) in the event that you are unable to get takeout for a period of time. This is a good idea in general, more so right now.
They announced $50 billion in SBA loans (up to $2 million per business) for small and medium businesses. Interest rate is 3.75%. These kind of funds will help a lot of businesses float through:

https://www.sba.gov/about-sba/sba-newsroom/press-releases-me...
> People go into teaching and nursing out of altruism,

I heard many claims of that, but haven't seen any evidence. I've often heard people say they teach/nurse in order to pay the bills.

> People preserve historic collections because they love them.

True, but such collections are not remotely dominant in an economy. Often they exist only because the government pays for them, which is not free market.

> Nepotism is rife in many organisations

If that means an incompetent is running the show, that fits under "poorly run businesses" I mentioned.

> half of Russia's GDP is in corruption, and so are most countries in the world

Corruption is not free market.

> In most markets consumers don't actually understand the product they are buying, whether that's technology or consultancy, and cannot competently compare two products and tell which one is better.

They don't have to. They use advisers who do, there's a thriving industry of people doing reviews, and lastly imperfect information is called "risk" and is priced in to most everything. For example, a used car bought from a dealer will fetch a higher price than one bought through Craigslist, because the latter is riskier. There's nothing not-free-market about risk pricing.
If you're thinking of the gun free school zone law, I don't think it quite supports your point. I believe the Commerce Clause was used to justify federal regulation of gun purchases/ownership, as opposed to it having to be a state law. It was not used (I believe) in any way to abrogate the rights afforded by the Second Amendment. I could be wrong — I never practiced law in this area — but I can't remember ever hearing about the Commerce Clause being used as a limitation on the Second Amendment. That is effectively what would be required here.
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This is a low-quality article. The article begins their argument by saying that the TSA's increase of hand-sanitizer carry limits shows that the rule was arbitrary all along. There's likely good arguments to support that conclusion, but this is not one of them; a more reasonable conclusion is a balance of risks.
AIUI, SARS did cause permanent damage because many people were treated with strong anti-inflammatory drugs that suppress the immune system, despite the ongoing viral infection. These will probably be used against COVID-19 as well, especially given ICU shortages. Hopefully we will gain a better understanding over time of how to properly balance the avoidance of life-threatening damage from the immune response (e.g. due to CRS) with still countering the virus effectively.
> I'm not even buying fresh fruit and veggies at the store right now.

Just cook it.
I am currently participating in another accelerator that is being conducted remotely due the virus.

There are some benefits to the remote format. The most noticeable is that you can network a lot more than you could in real life. Scheduling Zoom calls with your peers is easy enough and you can quickly switch back to working afterwards.

The greatest downside is that I came to SF just for this accelerator and (as it became a remote event) I have been mostly just working from my bedroom.

It is definetely not as fun as meeting people in person though. Having video calls VS working together, brainstorming and going for meals just doesn't create the same relationships. Overall, the experience feels lonely and not much different than participating in entrepreneur Slack community.
IMAP exists.
> Austria has banned gatherings of more than five people.

It's going to be awkward when they realize some families have more than 3 kids...
Could you clarify which elements of the response were botched?
As someone who works in the industry, you pretty much covered it.

If you dose people with a new vaccine, you’ll need to monitor them 6 months at a minimum. 12 months would be better.

It takes 3 months to nail down the protocol and for all the sites to be ready. Then you start recruiting and for a vaccine, you’d want a large population (reflects usage). So assume 6 months to recruit 1000 people. They don’t all start at the same time, so if you’re tracking for 6 months, it will probably take 9 monthsfor the last person to finish the trial.

Then you need to analyze all the data you collected, so another 3 months. Then the FDA takes 3 months to review and approve.

There is a TON of work that goes into running a clinical trial.
So definitely no salads. Check.
Seems like the two are a bit mutually exclusive no? I mean lock down implies limiting movement, which limits civil liberties. I don't really see how you can have a lock down without limiting civil liberties.
> I didn't want to take any chances to I picked up a 5 pack of 32GIG high quality SD Cards. [link to Amazon]

The lesson: never ever buy SD cards or USB sticks from Amazon. Buy them from a reputable company.
Ohio https://twitter.com/GovMikeDeWine/status/1239275883560648705...
>The Strategic National Stockpile does store an inventory of masks. 13,000,000 of them.

That's like 1/10th of 1 day's needs...

>they have plans to get another half billion

Each week until the virus is contained, I hope.
Yes, that's what I said, and no additional clarification from you is required. You may find the following updates to be of interest, including confirmation from the german interior minister:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-german...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/germany-coronavi...
In Canada, the communication I've been seeing is basically that they are only interested in testing you if you might need treatment. Since people under 18 are at such low medical risk from this virus, they're probably very low priority to test. Combine that with the fact that laws probably exist that make it inconvenient to provide this service for them, and it likely makes sense to just blanket exclude them from the program.
If I'm not mistakes door handles were copper for that reason. Anything electrical we want to avoid conductive materials such as a copper.
Other countries are doing loan payment, rent, and interest moratoriums, etc.

We've built everything with growth as an underlying assumption with no ability to pause things and focus on essential services for a month or two and then start back up.
Germans to discuss reported U.S. attempt to buy CureVac Covid-19 vaccine rights
True. Can't you test on non-humans?

Also, the vaccine was halted due to lack of funding, not ethical reasons.
We’re going to find out which can work remotely. The “I can haz cheeseburger”s will survive while every arts organization goes under.
Guess we’ll have to do something drastic about our billionaire load if we want to get rid of Trump.
To be fair, that was a week ago, at a time when there were no confirmed cases in Austin. The mayor has completely changed his tune: https://www.kxan.com/news/coronavirus/full-interview-mayor-a...

You may say stupid has no party, but the hallmark of stupid is trying to pretend reality doesn't exist so that it fits whatever you said (sharpie'ing out the exponential growth curves won't cut it this time), instead of admitting you were wrong and changing as the facts require.
That only means the federal government can pass a law about it. It doesn't mean they can pass a law that abrogates other constitutionally-protected rights.
The point is to maintain availability and accessibility. In our current economic environment, it's not out of the realm of possibility that there are people who couldn't afford the price things would stabilize on. The proper response is not unconstrained prices, but rationing and responsible consumption. The rationing/purchasing limits prevents the type of arbitrage schemes this gentleman was attempting, and keeps life moving forward at a reasonable pace while the supply chain marshals itself to meet the higher demand.

The logistics work, and will scale as long as you keep the economy from doing anything terminally stupid in the meantime. Unfortunately, that can be like herding cats in the land of the free.
Really promising and excellent video. I hope chloroquine (or hydroxychloroquine) proves to be effective in emergency clinical trials. And that it can be readily sourced for upcoming patients if so.

All researchers, doctors should see this video & cited papers to evaluate potential.
Also if the healthcare system is overloaded it is also overloaded for young people that get another disease or have an accident.
You don’t have an accurate sample size if you don’t measure. Based on the growth rates over time in every other country, the US should have way more cases. There are only a few thousand because we aren’t measuring.

FYI the governor of Ohio estimates 100,000 people in Ohio are infected. So there is that.
Ah, I see what you're saying.

This suggests a wide availability of alternative, reasonable-risk passive investments with 15% yield, which seems unusually high. What is this investment, usually? Stock buybacks?
Workers at Brigham and Women's, Mass. Eye and Ear Test Positive for Coronavirus
Is this uncommon? Did you design a difficult to manufacture part? Is your manufacturing team incompetent? Or are you just unlucky?

(No offense meant but there has to be a reason, though I'm not familiar with the space)
Sure, obviously, there's much more to it than this. But consider the HR manager who's looking at the latest CDC numbers showing a few cases in state and wondering why people like me are getting so worked up and begging executives to transition our offices to remote work as soon as possible.

For someone like that, I'm hoping this flips a switch and they get a glimpse of a troubling and increasingly dangerous future that's only a week or two away.

I'm reminded of the Daniel Kahnemann quote:

an algorithm that is constructed on the back of an envelope is often good enough to compete with an optimally weighted formula, and certainly good enough to outdo expert judgment

Unfortunately, the expert judgment in some cases may be from a decision-maker who takes their cue on current affairs from sports radio or, god help us, the President of the United States himself.
When talking about economic damage it is also worth thinking about what we are trying to avoid in the US- if SARS-Cov2 gets to 60% of the population, then at a 2% case fatality rate we are looking at 4 million excess deaths. Most importantly, that is a humanitarian tragedy that we must avoid. However, having numbers also let’s us put an economic value out there for what we are trying to save.

A 1% reduction in the case fatality rate saves roughly 2M people. Let’s assume that each would live another 10 years and that each person year is worth $100k. That means a 1% reduction in the case fatality rate is worth 2 trillion dollars. That’s roughly 10% of GDP. You can play with the numbers a bit, it’s hard not to end up in the “taking a multi year recession might be worth it” territory. Obviously, there are decreasing marginal returns to various actions, but the it’s important to keep in mind the scale of what we are trying to avoid.
> With Go I can create a single binary, produce a DEB or RPM and deploy it using Ansible. If I need to update the software I make a change and push it through the CI/CD stack, resulting in another binary, then another DEB/RPM, then an updated set of servers. I then restart a service... so hard /s

What's so hard about sticking the binary in a container? That way you don't need to worry about installing it or generating debs/rpms, everything it needs is in the image.

> If I need to run micro services, then, you know, just run them? They're all statically linked, singular binaries on disk. If I need to run 500 of them, then I just run them. Each gets whatever port it can find and registers its self with (something like) Consul and just like that, I'm DNS query or an API call away from knowing what services I have, where they are and what port to talk to them on.

So finding a free port and registering itself with Consul would need to be built into every service you run. Just run them in containers and let k8s handle the service discovery.

I see what you are saying, but k8s really makes the pattern you are describing easier. It also standardizes it so every company is not managing home-grown ansible and consul mash-ups.
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part of neoliberalism is a theory that everything is a market, in some "natural state" and it's only our human meddling that keeps it from being "free" ... there's been a century of Economic Anthropology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_anthropology) that shows this simply does not exist, there is no "natural state" and the definition of "free market" is constantly re-framed.

It's a contemporary human social construct and a set of rather arbitrarily defined cultural rules. Market fundamentalism is a form of political convenience, not based on any empirical study of reality.
Would you sacrifice members of your family? A million is easier to justify when it's some nameless mass of people.
Not if the disease doesn’t infect non-humans, or affects non-humans in a different way
I downvoted you because I think you have some factual mistakes:

"only much older people have to worry about it"

That's false. There are a number of comorbidities that don't have anything to do with age. Immuno-compromised individuals, or individuals with pulminary conditions, are at risk regardless of their age.

Further, while the risk does go down for younger populations, only children seem to be fairly risk-free. Healthy individuals of all ages have died of this (at rates significantly higher than that of the flu).

Finally, younger people (even children) still get infected by the disease, still incubate it, and still spread it even if they have no or low symptoms. This means low-risk people can easily spread it to high-risk people without being aware of it.

"the cure already exists in washing yourself"

That's false. Handwashing is not a cure. Handwashing is a preventative measure. They are totally different things.

Once infected, handwashing will do nothing to protect you (though can still help protect others, so ill people should continue to handwash). There are no cures for COVID-19. There is no vaccine for COVID-19. There are no widespread treatments for COVID-19 (though some human trials underway). The only care we can currently provide care for people with COVID-19 is to treat the symptoms.

"This common flu is here to stay"

That's false. Coronavirus is not influenza. It is a type of coronavirus, and is closely related to SARS. The CFR of influenza is around 0.1%, while the Coronavirus is estimated to be around 1% (or higher if medical care becomes saturated).

"the absolute risk to vast majority of people is extremely insignificant."

That's unknown, but disagrees with pretty much all of the expert opinion on the topic. The infections disease expert in the US federal government (Anthony Fauci) thinks it's possible that a million people in the US will die of Coronavirus.
This. I've been very very angry with the official response until last week because this is not really hard to estimate and the numbers were there already. I'm quite happy with the recent tough measures, they make sense and I expect/hope they're going to work. I don't think we have much of a choice here, it's either this or a toll that's simply unacceptable if you have the means to avoid it. And you have them: don't ignore common sense because of political choices or the excitement of gambling. Sometimes the obvious thing to do is the right thing to do. Don't try to be clever with this, this is a ruthless chain reaction headed to kill/maim millions, and not in the abstract way doing what needs to be done might or might not result in.

I've also been getting some too scarily close fitting done (not sharing that, it'd be irresponsible, this is not my job and I'm nowhere close to being an epidemiologist). I think the number of confirmed cases in Spain is going to grow appallingly this week and morale is going to be hit hard. Tiny in comparison of what we'd get if we did nothing about it, though. I also think (and hope) it'll start getting much better after that if we're effectively quenching contagion. I hope the authorities share their models with the public in order to give them a fuller picture. That might help psychologically.

At any rate, you don't have to wait for anything, you can start implementing social distancing and careful personal hygiene practices right now.
This is a pedantic word splitting argument. The relevant measure is number of people infected no the number we happen to know for sure because we finally got around to testing. If we had South Korea’s level of testing then maybe your argument would warrant breath behind words, under the current circumstances save your breath.
Sorry to be that person, but citation needed? Where is a reputible source for this information?
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I am curious if this device needs to be leak-proof - to save oxygen or prevent the release of virus -???

The parts I print on my MakerBot are very porous...
Cancer can get cancer; parasites can get parasites.
Soap kills the virus, so raw fruit and vegetables are probably fine if you wash them with soap first.

Heat also kills the virus so cooked vegetables should be fine (and cooked fruit too if you're into that I guess).