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Rumors are it's about to happen in France
The most famous "cheap" European airline, RyanAir, is substantially worse than Norwegian. And personally I find Norwegian better than WizzAir, easyJet or Vueling.
I've heard very different reports from folks in British Columbia who need specialist care. As with anything that affects a large group of people, your mileage may vary! This is important to remember, as I see it.
That's a disingenuous interpretation of what I said.
Yup. In mainland China they repurposed car assembly lines to mask production (there's not much car selling anyway). Western countries need to copy at least some of those measures.
At this point, what is the gain?

The virus is already essentially everywhere. Closing borders in January might have done something but now I can't imagine there will be much of an effect.
Nobody, except the commenter I directly responded to:

> This is how we should manage the money supply, and it should be monthly.
This gets a 4x extension of our ventilator supply:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16885402

We also have thousands of small manufacturers and hobbyists who are capable of building improvised ventilators should guidance be provided.

Since we are going into spring and summer months, we can use tents to set up extra space.

Also since schools are empty, they can provide additional spaces.

We have capacity, we just need leadership and direction.
How would that analysis change if we (optimistically) assume that in 2 years, we have a vaccine that's 90% effective?

I would assume that under that scenario, the backlog would disappear shortly after the 2-year mark.
I think the honest truth is that a lot of developers see Safari similarly to IE because Firefox and Chrome are quick to jump on and ship new features and "if only Safari kept up" they could be used "everywhere". Combined with the fact that iOS is large enough that you can't just drop Safari support and tell them to use Chrome.

It's a weird world where webdevs apparently ideally just want everyone on the 6 second old version version of Chrome. I totally get it -- it's an absolutely rational stance but it feels a lot like how devs felt about IE6 at the beginning.
These kinds of engineering/science solutions to a hard problem are the bread and butter of a community like this. Where can engineers pool their resourcing and work together to assist in the fight?
Relevant portion from article:

> Having lost money each year from 2017 to 2019 and raised cash from shareholders on three occasions, the company’s debts and liabilities had grown to 82 billion Norwegian crowns ($7.9 billion) by the end of last year.
It isn't a resource that Github controls, it's a resource that the user timeshares to Github. It isn't like steel or oil or fiberoptic cable, where it's infeasible for a new entrant without Github's resources to compete for user attention without insurmountable effort.

OP could have spent their blog post informing users that the project would be hosted elsewhere, rather than going on a rant comparing Github to the Nazis, and that precious user visibility wouldn't have kept their userbase from moving elsewhere.

Oh wait, they did, at the end of their post. So... why are we even here then?
The thing with this virus, you typically don't know you are infected until it's too late and you already infected a number of others. The goal with masks is not to protect you, but to protect the general population. Any basic mask will do for that purpose.
> Everything is a market now. Every waking moment your time is on the market. Every thought you have is either contributing to "value" or worthless. Every social interaction is an exchange of value. Every relationship is "optimized." Everyone is an atomized economic actor.

You might want to check out The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi. I'm about 3/4 of the way through, and it's been eye-opening.
Yeah, the risk-to-reward ratio for that would be ... high.
Is there any serious analysis as to whether the overall economic and health impacts of these measures are likely to be better than milder measures?
This is sad to read. Why does every project have to be profitable? If NPM is useful users (companies and people) can invest time or cash to support the operations and continued development. This foundation model has been successful across open source and prevents one company from changing the direction of a project to fit their own needs at the expense of everyone else. I think this was critical to the continued growth of open source software over the last two decades. If this trend of selling out to massive corporations continues it will be a major step backwards.
Crap, and quite a few of those cases in Vancouver Island (lots of retired people, not a lot of hospital infrastructure). Announced only 1 hour ago it seems, and not yet in the Johns Hopkins tracker
Also the new Chromium Edge is making its way. This will give some leverage on the browser front too.
https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1239626809865416704
They mention non-essential workers should WFH (or not work at all), but does anyone know if that applies to delivery services as well?

I know folks (including myself) waiting on goods from Amazon/etc. to be delivered to assist through the quarantine.
Probably because "the flu" is hundreds of different viruses and the entire world is not currently dumping massive amounts of resources behind developing them.

Then again, the rapid flu test only takes about 5 to 20 more minutes than this, and doesn't really cost much more than any routine diagnostic.
WinUI, The modern native UI platform of Windows
I'm guessing it depends on what your users expect:

https://plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/audience/

IBM has some guidance on this too, as part of their design system:

https://www.carbondesignsystem.com/guidelines/content/genera...

Basically IBM's rule seems to be: there's never a need to be _formal_, but you should be less conversational on specific tasks, and more conversational on high-level docs and marketing material.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20927585
Does it stop being helpful though? I somewhat understand the idea of "you can't talk about humans like that", but in the end I don't buy it. If it accurately describes the situation and enables you to think about it and get ideas by transferring what we know about other markets/interactions etc, isn't that better than putting human interaction, mental health etc into a corner of "this is so special that we must not think about it in trivial terms"?

Of course, the usefulness depends on how well the market concept fits the situation, but I don't feel like rejecting the idea on principle is helpful. It's similar to the idea of "you can't put a price tag on a human life", when of course we're doing that and we need to do it.
The coronavirus may be driving up divorce rates in a Chinese city
Germany is close, they just announce new measures bit by bit every day. Next step not unlikely to be total quarantine.
The economic loss of a lockdown is just extraordinary. Just think about how many people and resources are idle... Literally trillions of dollars in lost economic potential (let alone the harder to quantify human+health consequences).

So it's crazy to me how little, relative to the hard economic costs of the virus, is being spent on mitigation.

I'm a totally uninformed lay-person, but the below seems reasonable:

Huge testing effort, something like 5% of the country's population gets tested every day (once every 20 days per person). Manage electronically. If positive, quarantine that person and known contacts.

Huge contact tracing and small lockdown strategy (found 10 cases in Omaha, Omaha lockdown for 2 weeks).

Seems that would be doable, cost billions and billions, but enable economic activity and minimize health+human consequences. Would be a great RoI.
Well if what people are predicting will happen, then there will be a lot of bankrupt airlines that will have planes being auctioned off.

As to your second part, search engines aren't a high profit business; advertising is.
The css has "div{overflow:scroll}".
There are definitely regulations for the range of heights headlights must be placed within. It's a fairly large range though.
Bay Area must shelter in place
An important aspect of fostering boredom is avoiding gratification like Netflix or Twitter (which I am hugely guilty of).
in as much as I love Github, putting our eggs in one basket as developers is gonna burn us soon or later. we need redundancies in the system, that if one thing goes down, the world can go on as normal. now we're centralizing github as a single failure point. we've already seen the the panic outages of Github or S3 cause.
Can anyone elaborate further on how this would be used? Is this the kind of thing you would load via an Ad? Or hijack a site and add it?
This article explicitly mentions Asian Americans, hardly your typical hillbillies.
> A lockdown isn't 'successful' it does little, except drag society into the dirt while a little time is bought to work things out.

Slowing down the spread is useful to soften the blow on medicinal infrastructure.
> Once a (presumably rich) person has been tested, what's to prevent them from 'needing' to be tested next week again?

Nothing which is why "testing mania" doesn't need to be calmed

> It seems different countries are approaching it differently. Probably a good problem for computer geeks to work on

No need for computer geeks. You will soon be able to look at countries who test early and often (s korea) and those that can't be bothered (united states)
Are you sure they are HID and not aftermarkets as mentioned in this article? I find that most HIDs seem to shine LESS light up into my eyes as oncoming traffic, because it is so well isolated down onto the road, with less being sent up higher. My old Audi's that had HIDs would adjust the height of the headlights whey you started them, to account for load in the trunk and back seats, which tend to lift the headlights up more.

ISTR that there were regulations about the amount of light headlights could put out, and HIDs were more effective largely because they eliminated light going where you didn't need it, and were able to concentrate the light more out and down than up.
We got one of these about three years ago. It saved our relationship.

The big complaint I always hear is "yeah but the pattern is random, it doesn't clean the whole floor evenly"

That is technically true, but the roomba cleans the floor for an hour, randomly, every day. This is a tremendous amount of cleaning. It pulls probably a pound of dirt off the floor every week, maybe more. Being able to have the floor cleaned - even randomly - for an hour, every day, makes a tremendous difference.

It might not get the spilled cat food for 2-3 days, but on day 4 it will get it. If you're only vacuuming once a week that is probably faster than a human would do it. It also vacuums all the weird spots, like under the sink in the bathroom, that you forget to check every week.

It also trains you to not leave stray socks, cell phone charging cables etc on the floor. Which is nice if you're not super super tidy.
The source doesn't substantiate anything you wrote in your comment.

They say "If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection."

That assumes you're doing everything else to protect yourself already, like stay away from crowded places.

It also assumes that you know that you're healthy. You could be carrying COVID-19 without knowing it!

One reason health practitioners wear masks is not to infect vulnerable patients with something they might be carrying.

> there is not much to stop viruses with coming in contact with your eyes.

Other than the goggles that you mentioned; yet, nurses in hospitals don't routinely wear goggles, yet do wear masks.

This is probably because your eyes do not suck in air the way your air passages do, and also don't spew viruses into the air.
Agree, tried to figure out how they got an rt-pcr machine that small, then realized the whole article is bullshit. I guess we are in for a lot of this nonsense.
MetaMeetup – An Experimental Virtual Meetup During Covid-19
I thought it was more, they are ineffective because most people put them on wrong.
> Epidemiologists say masks are practically useless against virus. //

Have you seen any of them cite a research paper showing that? I haven't, I'm open to suggestions if anyone has one.

Same thing with the "keeping schools open won't spread the virus" thing in the UK; lots of establishment scientists saying "trust us" but a dearth of papers detailing how the established beliefs are wrong that schools are prime transmission vectors for ARI (and closing them has helped to hinder influenza trasmissions in the past).

Not being snarky; if you've got backing for "masks don't hinder viral spread" then lets see it.
> Wait for treatment and vaccine.

Isn't this a virus? There's not a single virus that we have a treatment for - we know how to deal with bacteria but not viruses.
Need based maybe. But $10K in one shot might be hard to pay and easy to spend
Just $10k for every full time employee in the US is over 1.3 trillion dollars, so your numbers are pretty far off.
Thank you for the correction! I should have checked out the software before posting my incorrect surmises from the blog post. It sounds awesome!
I'm using it to simulate Ajax calls from HTML files that are being stored to disk and loaded via file:// URLs. Those can't normally make Ajax calls due to security measures in the browser, even in cases where they would only be making those calls back to the server where they originated.
If they're properly aligned, the only time you get flashed is when cars are cresting a hill.
If it's drawn out slow enough, the spread should nearly stop without lockdown once 20-25 percent of the population has recovered. Assuming prior infection offers immunity of course.
Having a gun in your home also increase the probability that one of your kids can find it and kill another of your kids by accident. It is a tradeoff.
You limit imported new infections and can focus on slowing community spread. Due to the exponential growth rate, this absolutely makes a difference.

In the past few days, Singapore and other countries have announced they are also adopting this strategy. Singapore too has a complex highly-interdependent border situation with neighboring Malaysia and has to make an exception there as well.
Relationships naturally form when people have common activities and goals. I think the problem is that outside of the office and family, that connective tissue just isn't there anymore. You can find it, if you seek it out (various hobby meetups for instance), but anymore nobody is just automatically included. Everyone has diverse interests, which is great, but often you find you have nothing in common with your neighbours.

I don't think the problem is people's protective layers of presentation. We need those fictions when we're learning if we can trust someone. The problem is it's incredibly hard to form a bond with someone if you don't have a clear "why", and there's rarely that context anymore. There are a lot of people I meet Id love to be friends with, but it's awkward to just organise that without a social excuse sometimes. Especially because if the relationship goes poorly, if you have a common thing its easier to pull back, whereas if its just "want to be friends?", if you pull back it seems more personal.
It’s hard to think straight while being broke.

I feel this is the mental state (whether objectively broke or otherwise) of most employees, which hinders them from starting that business they always wanted to start, or starting contracting/freelance. It's a poison as far as I can tell. Truly some of the most capable people I know cannot by pried loose from the toxic work environments and low pay they are stuck in because sick systems disrupt our ability to reason well.
Unboxed union types in Scala via the Curry-Howard isomorphism
Ask HN: How would a mortgage and rent holiday work, legally?
From what I've seen, without something like a break on rent or mortgages many businesses will have to close permanently and workers who work paycheck to paycheck could be evicted.

Is there any legal basis for doing a holiday? Given they're all individual contracts, is it possible to supercede them?
I think that if someone told me that there's a 99.8% chance I've won $5 million, I would have pretty much assumed I just became rich. And the stakes here are not money, but actually life. That cheers me up.

I am worried for the elderly, and for the poor. But this also revived my astonishment and appreciation of how magical our bodies are, in having a mechanism to fight previously unseen attacks and develop antibodies. It's really humbling.
For most businesses, Microsoft still holds a monopoly position on desktop OSs. For a lot of smaller IT departments, this bleeds into back-end servers as well.

Microsoft has the Windows Subsystem for Linux, allowing Linux binaries to run on Windows. How about the reverse? Get WINE to the point where Linux (or FreeBSD or some fully source OS) can reliably run Windows binaries.

Along the same line, provide portable libraries to allow other office suites to reliably edit MS Office files (docx, pptx, etc). Maybe Adobe or someone will come up with a commercial competitor, instead of just LibreOffice.

Make Windows and MS Office a choice, rather than a tax businesses have to pay to be compatible with everyone else. That would go a long way to establishing trust.
Same as "Why we paying for backups?! We never had to use it!"

I'm happy I don't live in The USA right now. Even the worst hits, I don't have to be afraid of medical bills or if I lost my job. Both are covered by the tax I payed before.
> We're never going to agree with everyone else's choices. We need to agree that they're entitled to those choices.

I agree with the sentiment that everyone is entitled to do as they wish, even if I don't like it. This includes the choice to do nothing.

What I do not agree with is their choice to do nothing being subsidized by myself and everyone else who works and contributes to the economy and tax revenue. You are entitled to do whatever you want, but not on someone else's dime.

No one is entitled to things merely by virtue of existing, doubly so if they are able to work or provide for themselves and choose not to.
Don't you know you get downvoted here on HN for telling the truth.

These idiots like to think they've got it all figured out. Of course there is no such thing as a 0% false positive test.
From their website [0] my guess is their test is ELISA [1] based or similar method of detecting if the human body has had an immune reaction to the virus in the amount that is detectable. Where as the more expensive test is PCR based [2] that requires the heating-cooling cycles and machines to do it.

The PCR-based test basically take the RNA of the virus converts it to DNA and then doubles the amount of DNA every heating cycle. Assuming we are talking about real-time PCR the PCR cycle of double is what takes time.

I have not seen the data on the incubation period and the immune response, to know if these immune detection tests will be able to provide early detection for asymptomatic case . It's probably for symptomatic cases and wanted to ensure it's not flu or another infection and it's COVID-19. This is not to say the test is useless. It actually great inexpensive way of testing the population with symptoms and using more expensive and timely test for early detection. Reducing the overall burden.

worth mentioning are other initiatives that are focusing on cheaper and faster PCR process (though with potential of higher false negative and positive results) [3]

[0]https://mologic.co.uk

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELISA

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_polymerase_chain_rea...

[3] https://twitter.com/JMRothberg/status/1238115465467133959
Adding 'need' criteria is likely to add bloat, expense, and hoops that people who _do_ need it will not always be able to jump through. Better to create an emergency benefit with as little bureaucracy and paperwork as possible, even if it means that some people that won't feel the impact will still benefit.

We get so caught up in keeping benefits away from the wrong people that we end up simply not providing them broadly enough. It's counterproductive.
But, there is the fact that right now stores are running out of everything. Online sales must be very strong right now as well. Sales are booming?
It keeps getting better, too! The new update makes the S5 basically the same as the newer model (except that it's louder)... I had the original RoboRock and it worked really well. We replaced the battery and gave it to my wife's grandmother, then bought the S5 thinking the mop feature would be in some way useful, but I'm still happy with how well the S5 tracks its brush/filter lifespan and the software upgrades!
They may not be dumb, but culturally, the companies are miles apart. Disney is incredibly bureaucratic and is does a very poor job of developing and deploy technology. Most of the impressive displays of tech you associate with Disney were licensed or acquired, with a Disney label slapped on them. There is a permanent cold war between VP-level execs who seek to undercut each other.

Source: former mid-level technology manager in IT at Disney Parks and Resorts who had a weekly audience with VPs and SVPs.
Fair enough, I respectfully disagree, but you raise some good points.
Personally I've been wanting to do a bulk ammo buy for a while, and realized there was going to be a run so I dumped 1000 bucks into some ammo for all the calibers I own.

I'm also in the process of building an AR-10, and have slowly been accumulating parts. Decided to pull the trigger on some of the more expensive parts this week because I caught some good deals.

It's not all panic buying.
Recession will hit the US, GDP to shrink 5%
You mean in the last 20 years? Yeh, it was super fast.
As a non-American, I’m imagining this scene playing out with armed people.

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2020/03/07/coronavi...

Far from making fun of Americans, I am scared for them. This crisis has already proven how irrational people can be, and rapidly we revert to basic tribalism, giving in to base instincts. Adding (even more) guns to this mix is a bad sign. But in an environment where trust in authority has been systematically destroyed, it is, a sadly understandable response.

Stay safe, and remember that most of the people you might be defending yourselves from are probably just as desperate (if not more so) than you.
> A positive test result for COVID-19 indicates that RNA from SARS-CoV-2 was detected, and the patient is infected with the virus

You still haven't addressed the possibility of a protocol error such as a switched sample. The lab test itself may never produce false positives, but that emphatically does not mean that if the lab test comes back positive there is a 100% guarantee that the patient is infected.
Yes. These are substantially lower than a full time pay with benefits.
San Francisco to order residents to stay home
What GitHub did wasn't shadowbanning though. They had a banner for him that said the account was flagged. Should they have sent an email? Absolutely, but that's not a shadowban.
If you restrict movement at all, you help reduce the amount of societal entropy. At a fine-grained level this is what China did, and it does work.

I'm worried about the U.S. closing state borders (land and air), and what that might mean for supply chains. I hope it doesn't come to that.
Become evil. Rule the world. Maybe drink tea first and sit down for a bit
How to watch premium sports channels online?
Hmm, I think NHS courses last longer than that. The mask makers sell a [very expensive!] testing kit you can use to check the mask is fitted too, I gather.
Shelter in place for Bay Area counties