skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The restrictions are simultaneously overly broad and yet narrowly tailored. I can't find any sensible justification for it.

If you're trying to draw a cordon sanitaire, then why leave out the busiest hub in the region? I don't see any indication that there's any intention to prevent people from the Europe getting to the US via indirect means (which includes Canada, Iceland, and it seems even the Azores).

And if you're not trying to draw a cordon sanitaire, why go to such an extreme measure? Banning entry of people who have visited afflicted regions in the recent past (as was done for China) is possible, so why not do that instead? Why ban cargo in addition, given that the coronavirus is thought to be unable to survive the week-long voyage without live hosts?

Furthermore, why include Ireland (an island nation so far relatively unaffected by coronavirus) in the ban, but not the UK (an island nation with greater connections to continental Europe, including a connecting tunnel, that is more heavily affected)?
Great; thanks! I'll poke at this some more. I'd been working under the assumption that the calls to `emacsclient` were somehow injecting `spacehammer.el` (and I don't really know how to debug elisp).
No. We need internal controls and a national emergency declared.
I don't think the problem is when working from home. When you are out and about and touching various things is the real problem.
This is problematic because as I point out without an __IMPARTIAL__ __witness__ that I can trust to relay the truth, no matter how horrid, all I (we) have to go on is the hearsay of others.

For example, the source you link may have just attempted to reconstruct the message based on what can be seen in the reply. However the chain of authenticity has been extended to contain those who may have motive to unfaithfully reproduce or even fake a/the message. We can't know as the transparency of the archive is now also in question.

Edit:

Under the assumption the reproduction is faithful, my own personal OPINIONs...

Calling someone a loonytoon is uncouth, deserving a brief lecture for attacking someone rather than debating the ideals they happen to believe in at the current time (or in the past if it's a clear reference to such). (Edit 2:) Also in that paragraph, there's a term I'd hesitate to Google for not knowing it's meaning offhand... I'm not sure how good/bad it might actually be.

The vividly disgusting and offensive description (which could very easily have been added in the quoted reply) of rat* (censored) is something that a rational adult just shouldn't use on such a forum. If that's what OSI acted on, they really should be more transparent about it as well as their decision process.

Most of the version you linked on TechRights is otherwise speech that should be protected and encouraged. It is a protest and valid expression of feelings; save for some charged language.
> Unfortunately rems are not supported on certain (older) browsers.

Poor argument, especially since IE9 supports them, and IE shouldn't be supported anyway. I suppose people needed to back in 2013.

> With the rem unit we have a problem though. Since all font-sizes are relative to the root element, the font-size: 90%; rule is completely ignored. We now have to recalculate and override every font-declaration in the aside to get the same result. Spaghetti is wonderful as lunch or dinner, but not as code.

At this point, I question whether it's even necessary to use percentages for font sizes deeper in the DOM than the root element. Unless the font is going to change at any given viewport width, it's easier to just write the font sizes for every screen breakpoint you have. I don't know why developers/designers make things unnecessarily difficult. Most web designs don't necessitate this kind of complexity.

> The rem unit is buggy

This was fixed years ago. Try it yourself in today's Chrome.

> Another reason why some people prefer rem over em is because inheritance is hard. I always tell these people they’re doing it wrong.

No they're not. They're using rem to properly support the user's right to set the font size in their browser preferences and have it actually work on a webpage. They're not using em because they probably don't need it. If they didn't care about the user's font preferences, they'd probably use px because it's easier for everyone to understand.

> The inheritance problem occurs when we nest a p in a li. The p will now be 1.2 × 1.2 = 14.4 pixels. This is too big. To make sure that a p in a li is 12 pixels too we now have to write extra, increasingly complex code:

So don't do that. Write your font sizes explicitly for each element, whether it's px or rem.

Even better if you use a preprocessor like SCSS that supports variables and mixins, which makes it even simpler to implement "flexible" font sizes without the insanity of making font sizes in elements relative to other parent elements. Even CSS variables that are now becoming ubiquitous help solve these problems.

Despite those things, I still insist it's possible to avoid these headaches by just not going the em route. They're rarely necessary.
Thats probably the attitude that spreads it, yes. But that doesn't change a massivie amount of Americans don't live in these hotspots.
Important updates:

a) This does not apply to US citizens or their family members[1].

b) This does not apply to cargo[2].

It appears that the President misspoke regarding point 2.

[1] https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/03/11/homeland-security-acting....

[2] https://twitter.com/AnaSwanson/status/1237921160500830208
Yeah some people are going to take advantage of cheap flights and small crowds. The thinner crowds is the point though. it still achieves the objective of lowering the R value.
It's security theater, just like airport security screening. The politicians need to be seen doing something.
Equities markets don't like it.

The last couple of weeks have been very profitable for "finance".
Disinfectants, toilet paper, and paper towels are out of stock, but, otherwise, things look normal for now...
There were just 2 cases detected at the gym down the street from me. I'm in a medium town of about 40k in upstate NY. Not podunk, but hardly bustling.

I'm considering the USA fully seeded at this point.
This is interesting. I follow girls who code but it seems like nothing but bootcamps
NBA suspends remainder of season as coronavirus spreads
US is closer in blood to Europe and it shut down travel form Europe. Asia would be an easy/quick call for this administration.
What's the endgame for the pandemic? Assume all governments act more-or-less correctly; people self quarantine, companies switch to remote work, etc. When does the world get back to normal? In two years after a vaccine is developed? This summer? Ever?
Italy criticises EU for being slow to help over coronavirus epidemic
Dow futures drop 1k points as Trump speech disappoints investors
Maybe they don't want a coffee machine for some reason? May not have the space, may prefer espresso, etc.
Deaths are also much lower in the US.
China started from day zero with a small cluster of cases. Over all they've been moving mountains to squash this.

Meanwhile US three months in doesn't have anywhere near enough testing kits available. The first community aquired case was found by a hospital going around the CDC by developing their own in house tests. At the leadership level the US is still acting like the problem is with outsiders. Senator Lamar just blocked emergency relief for workers impacted by the virus.

The CCP quickly got on top of things. Meanwhile in the US at the leadership level it's all failure. Every State, City, Hospital, and Business is having to fend from themselves.

So yeah no one but people like you are buying this.
2 common methods of RNA extraction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_guanidinium_thiocyanate-p...

https://sci-hub.se/10.1038/nprot.2006.83

the other methodology is quick to perform, but requires silica columns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_column-based_nucleic_acid...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC269651/

The problem is outlined here:

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/emergency-situations-med...
Not me. I had a whole bunch of girls lined up in high school.

To get me to help them with their math homework.
The WHO among other bodies have visited and done their own data gathering.
I’m planning on watching the F1 Australian GP this weekend (on tv, not in Australia). So far China is the only race on the calendar that they’ve “rescheduled”. There was news yesterday that 3 F1 team members (not drivers) were in isolation pending test results. But they say everything is going ahead.
Let me just explain this to my broker, see if they will unwind after my stops hit...
Your first sentence does not even make sense -- what are you trying to say?

Why are you flagging -- it is not clear at all.
but it won't limit the amount of infected people in the USA on its own

I never said it would. By stopping flights, you're removing one potential source of new infections.
What’s the code licensed under? It’s not clear from your site at first glance.
> the right time to ban travel from Europe (including the UK) was last week.

The US had active uncontained clusters, and was known to have them, two weeks ago. Once that's true, there's no way that mere travel numbers are going to move that needles significantly.

Again: we banned travel from China and it was too late already. This does not work. And I'm horrified at the number of people on this site that don't see that.
APL != Apple Public License

APL != American Power & Light

etc.

It is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)

For those of you who were ignorant like I was.
FOR CLARITY - I'm not saying that there isn't a need to take measures to protect people.

However, I do believe that a lot of inaccurate information is being presented. The public attention on this subject is enormous, making it a ripe topic for the media to profit from alarmist headlines.

[0]The source of the 40%-70% figure has since dramatically altered their estimates, and added several qualifiers.

[0]https://twitter.com/mlipsitch/status/1234879949946814464?s=2...
Sometimes I just want a kick, and sometimes I want to really appreciate the flavor or get some sort of specialty drink. Most coffee I've had from coffee machines doesn't taste great, even with good beans, and if you want good espresso you need to spend a lot of money and effort... or you can get it from a place that does it for you.

But, yes, if you're looking purely for the caffeine and nothing else, a cheap coffee machine is the way to go.
The track is less than 50 metres from my window, can confirm it is very much in full swing.
Kinda useless as people can fly to Mexico sneak in thru San Diego. I can't believe in 2020 we still don't have a simple and effective reusable respirator, which evaporates all aerosols and turns them into safe to breathe vapors. I also think the ban now is good, but 30 days will not be enough as things are exponentially getting worse. Even if we reach the infliction point, this is not gonna end in 30, 60, or even 90 days.
Gabrage article. This needs to be removed.

First, the games tonight are still planned to continue and start, unlike what the article says. The tweet it links says suspension happens starting tomorrow.

Edit: Refs just left the court in Sacramento. Game will be actually postponed, so I suppose that article is correct about that now.

Gobert is the guy who was tested positive, and as shown in a different comment, did the ridiculous joke of touching mics and recorders after press conference.

The part about what happened is correct, but more interesting than their brief statement. Starters were on the middle of the court maybe 10 seconds before tip off, when a medical staff "rushed" onto the court, https://streamable.com/g4evt, talked to the refs, and the players were taken off. Currently, possibly still, they're in the locker rooms waiting to be tested since Gobert was already tested.

I find this whole thing incredibly interesting because I follow so many sports. The way it was broadcast on ESPN during their first Wednesday game where they cut away to interviews, the way /r/nba reacted with the tweets from Woj, and also what this'll mean for other sports.
Between this and Tom Hanks, it may feel a lot more real to a lot of people tomorrow.
NBA suspends season after player tests positive for coronavirus
Trade should not be affected. According to the BBC:
The US president said his travel ban did not include Americans who had undergone appropriate screenings - or "the tremendous amount of trade and cargo".
He lowered it from 40-70% to 20-60%, hardly a qualitative change. The fact is that under essentially any epidemiological model, if you have R0 > 1 and no countermeasures, it's going to hit a sizable fraction of the world population, because the exponential growth only gets stopped by running out of victims.
How is it a "bright side" that when something bad happens people try to avoid it happening again in the future? That's just circular.
Minimum wage coughing worker. I'm just figuring it's lower risk than going to a store with numerous coughing/breathing customers and employees everywhere. I believe the risk is higher when you're directly exposed to another person, compared to the virus being on an object's surface.
I just wanted to drop the name Gitlab.

More than blogs, they are doing pretty much everything open.
that's a 26km tunnel frequented by bullet trains, take some water and a helmet.
They walked back the cargo restrictions: https://twitter.com/AnaSwanson/status/1237921160500830208
The administration could reassure investors by showing Trump wearing a ballgag while a secret service agent smashes his smart phone with a hammer.
> Americans have big garages to stockpile supplies

No they don't. No one in NYC, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, ... have big garages to stockpile supplies and most of the US lives in those big cities with apartments without garages.

In the suburbs they do but that's a minority of the population.
Honestly given how long a cargo ship takes from the EU to the USA and given that the crew of ships has basically no contact with the cargo crates this makes no sense at all...

The only think I can come up with is that this will allow Trump to show how bad it is that the USA is so much international dependent for certain goods and use that then to push through regulations to enforce more local production. But if it's really that it's quite crazy.

A normal travel ban on the other side will slow/reduce/eliminate cross infection between the EU and the USA which can be helpful to slow the spread. But then from all what I can tell it might be at a point where the slowing of the spread caused by EU/USA cross infection doesn't matter due to many more local sources of infection... Well we will see. At least during the ban he can't really put the blame of any increase onto the EU anymore as travel was cut.
The payroll tax holiday idea is bonkers. The people most in need of help here are hourly or gig workers who are told to stay home from work or who get sick and can't work. Paying less taxes on nonexistent wages doesn't help. It seems like the administration is more interested in propping up the markets than actually addressing the health crisis and its human costs.

Also, eliminating copays on coronavirus treatment is nice, but it's hard not to notice the glaring omission of anything to help the 9% of Americans who are uninsured.
Don't put this on "The Politicians". There is exactly one politician in the world that sees closing the borders as the solution to all their problems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
fairly aggressive measures are already being taken in California and Washington

Such as??

I'm living California, outside a major city. I don't see anything.
Fair enough. I will update my numbers. If you have other sources to show that any of my other numbers are off, I am open to adjusting them. I have a feeling the totals at the end will still be alarming.
>I get that they excluded the UK for diplomatic reasons

No, Ireland is also exempt. In other words, the US is banning travel from the Schengen Zone.
Excluding the UK hints that this is, at least in part, politically motivated. In terms of risk the UK is no different to other European countries. We are certainly not immune to coronavirus, and there are currently no restrictions on travel between the UK and the continent.
Banning travel isn't a magic cure-all that guarantees zero cases, it just lowers the initial caseload. That's extremely important because exponential growth is extremely slow in the beginning -- it takes as long to go from 1 to 100 as 100 to 10,000. If banning travel reduces 100 starter cases to 1, you double the time you have.
Not sure the CDC is the most credible source at this point
Ask HN: How do you quickly prototype a webapp in 2020?
What's your development stack? What tools or no code tools do you use to get off the ground faster? How long do you typically take to process prototype ideas?
My brother is stuck in Europe
I like the "git recent" alias best. "vi ~/.gitconfig" I come!
This is late, but still necessary. But still not enough. Travel WITHIN the US must be restricted as well. Overly strict measures now can still help bend the curve -- the economy will recover.
Predict the Spreading of Coronavirus
We just watched Trump completely change our immigration situation in a series of moves that were far from popular. We saw him change leadership in the DOJ until he got the outcomes he wanted regarding investigations. Those Supreme Court appointments are going to be with us for decades. By what criteria do you suggest that the healthcare system would be immune to this?

Once the CDC "allowed" private clinics to develop COVID tests it took a private Cleveland clinic 9 days to create a test that takes 8 hours, as opposed to the previously used test which took 2-3 days. The Cleveland hospitals are developing drive-thru testing. The best thing the CDC did was get out of the way and stop prohibiting the private clinics from developing tests. The private systems are more agile and more capable of adjusting to demand.

One thing I see often is people are unwilling or unable to freely state the trade-offs. Things like immigration or socialized medicine are discussed as either wholly good or wholly bad. The truth is that there are costs and benefits. I freely admit by advocating for a free market, a much more free market than we have currently in medicine, I'm making a trade. I'm trading short term universality for two benefits: short term agility and long term technological progress. I recognize that in the short term some treatments might be unavailable to the poor, but in the long term more and better treatments will be available at commodity pricing. I'm sacrificing some today for a better tomorrow. What do you believe are the real costs vs benefit analysis for single payer?
It's also on message. America First. You stop coming here. You're the problem, I alone can protect you from the bad hombres/virus people...

Don't look into yourself and see what can be fixed, always blame the other.
Only vs. China, Iran and Italy. We're within a factor of two (that is, about 5-6 days) of everyone else. A 5-6 day head start is not enough window to save ourselves with a travel ban.

And just like Italy went from "contained" to a country-wide lockdown in the space of a week, so will we at this point. Those tens of thousands of cases are incubating right now and will emerge in the coming days.

This travel ban does nothing.
Dstomic is an immutable log (kind of like git). the only operation is append. there is a head pointer stored pointing to “latest”, this is the point of mutation you’re looking for, and it’s the only point.
I hope our over-pressured Bay Area children get a month respite from their usual schedule to just be children, and not anything else.
Ease of installation and the ability to sync between browsers without folks needing to trust whether I can keep the service running or not.
As someone who has been struggling while freelancing remotely for about three years now, I'm having many of the same problems getting noticed. I've only been able to land two long-term clients, and the one that's left is starting to fizzle out on me. With 13 years of professional experience, I don't think it's a lack of skill, but just for whatever reason I'll get to the interview stage maybe once for every 50 applications or proposals I send out there, and then almost never get anywhere past that. I can only imagine that even with my qualifications, the sheer number of applicants these listings get (perhaps combined with my unwillingness to work for a rate that's too much below market value) is working against me.
As jobs are downgraded and health care costs spiral, more Americans die early
NBA Suspends Season
Trump likes Boris Johnson.

I’m honestly not sure there’s anything more to it than that.
Crazy Startup Ideas That Succeeded
For the pets there are already various pet care platforms that probably tout themselves as "The Uber/AirBnb for pets!". People can take your pet to their home or visit yours for feeding/walking/yard time.

So if this may be an issue for you it might be good to start looking around to get connections. I assume the issue is that the entire family was moved out of the home? I'd be a little leery of visiting such a home without training if there's a chance the fixtures (doorknobs, fridge handles) can be carrying the virus. In particular if there's any reason to be opening the fridge for pet food because lower temperatures of 4c apparently drastically increase virus survival time to a few weeks, so handling items in the fridge may be a major risk.
Please read the entire source.

> Summary: Should have said 40-70% of adults in a situation without effective controls.

There's an enormous difference between 40-70% of everyone and 20-60% of adults - specifically if no countermeasures are deployed.
In Flew Enza: Remembering the Plague Year in Berkeley
Why haven't they done it in Asia yet then since Coronavirus originated from and is more severe there?
I am beginning to strongly suspect that supply chain disruption caused by government decisions is going to cause way more damage to the world than this virus ever could have on its own. I think more people making these decisions could benefit from a good deep reading of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations".
Chaos After Colleges Tell Students to Stay Away
That is correct, but most people dont live in cities here. As of 2010, the top 10 cities had 24MM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_populous_cities_i...

People in the suburbs do have big garages (think long island vs manhattan)
The lack of testing must be depressing the death numbers here too.
Antibiotics cause super viruses. By killing bacteria? Umm, no.

This virus came from a wildlife market filled with multiple species stacked on top of each other. Let's not act like this is equivalent in danger to chicken/beef production.
>most credible source

Which would you say is the most credible source then?
Question for Googlers or others: What do you think is the most well-written piece of software produced by Google? I would like to study how the world's best engineers write code. (Preferably C++, as it's the language i'm most familiar with)
Because the President said so during his address, which is why I commented. Apparently he misspoke when he said cargo would be included.
This is huge for me too. You can follow progress here: https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/31
They don't. Ignorant statement from parent.
IMO the only reason we aren't reporting large numbers of new cases is because of the lack of widespread testing currently being done compared to other countries at this moment (other countries are performing magnitudes higher tests a day).

Even if you think you have it, there's still not enough test kits available yet - even if you're swabbed it can be days for a result(Saying this from west michigan).
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