skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That assumes the 999 person events will actually enforce the limit and not let the thousandth attendee in.

It also ignores the intention of the rule, which is to reduce unnecessary risk. If 1001 people in a single venue is dangerous, so is 999.
> The root cause of this Outbreak in North America is we have a president call it a HOAX,

Wrong. You are just repeating misinformation. He labeled some of the criticism a hoax, not the outbreak.
Spiritual is a good point. One such event in France is the reason the region I visited family roughly two weeks ago got declared high risk today. So quarantine at home until Sunday, turning our house into a co-working space with attached school and day care (my wife, our two kids and myself)!
Having to waiting for a fancy laptop to arrive is hardly "the apocalyps". It's what people used to do.
eh, the US doesn't exactly have the greatest track record on whistleblowers...
As of today, the limit in Ticino is 50 people. Schools are not closed yet - only some of them.
Sure, but the U.S. is actively discouraging/thwarting testing efforts, because ~the economy~. And our chief executive is disseminating misinformation (whether out of ignorance or ulterior motives is unclear).

I'm not saying China did a great job. But they seem to have gotten a handle on things at least, meanwhile we've yet to even really start preparing. And we have the advantage of hindsight, which they didn't have.
I'm unsure what you mean by "would have probably happened anywhere else"
University of Michigan cancels in-person classes and all large events on campus
That is a completely hollow guarantee, though.

The ECB's balance sheets are bad enough as it is, and one country's "cost sharing" is another country's forced-austerity to bail out another country's bad loans.

The Eurosystem has serious issues that are about to get even worse. The ECB is practically insolvent by their own standards, and would be technically insolvent by American standards.
You forgot to put the '/s'.
Minor correction, China REPORTS making rather good progress.

While I am neither a tinfoil hat wearer nor have anything against China, the fact that they were silencing a Wuhan doctor who was trying to alert people and authorities to the virus all the way back in December makes me skeptical of their reported status.
the average price of a house in 1959 was $10K for a disposable income o $351 (3.5%)

the average price of a house in 2020 is $270K for a disposable income of $16K (5.9%)

We have larger disposable income but the difference is not nearly as substantial as these other measures show. I do think that we earn more overall because we are more productive than back then.
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It is sad but inevitable that economic activity will be disrupted by shutdowns. But delaying the shutdown will only lead to longer shutdown down the lane.

> Till when?
For as long as the disease outbreak is contained (it is not going to be forever)

> How will people put food on the table if economic activity stops?
No idea! Maybe something like UBI will help? But the question will remain and will be more troublesome if the outbreak is not contained for sure.
How do we know that the numbers are trustworthy? They weren't for the first two months and China has clamped down on any information leakage. Meanwhile as of last week their factories were still at around 50% capacity or less (check pollution maps online) and now I'm hearing rumors that they're forcing uighurs to work the factories that migrants are refusing to go back to.

I'm not convinced yet. This would not be the first time a communist authoritarian regime lied about a bad situation - far from it, it's standard if you look at history in the Soviet Union for example. Authoritarian regimes cannot work without being respected and/or feared by the people, so they are incentivesed to lie to save face and simultaneously punish anyone who questions the lies.

Especially considering that the longer this drags on, the more likely nations and corporations alike are to pull production from China permanently.
The presentation is lacking the words electric and battery. Seems like Fiat Chrysler Automobiles did not see Tesla as competition in 2015. Another headline today report automotive industry is still in shock of Tesla's success(2020).

The innovators dilemma is real and confirmed.
The government gives food to the people. Without any money involved.
Since they are a group of people who are heavily into "personal responsibility," as you put it, then why not leverage that to make your point.

"I feel it is my personal responsibility to maintain the sanctity of our group and ensure the safety of everyone involved, especially those who are most vulnerable among us. It is important that we all understand the risks involved: should we decide to proceed, there is the possibility that our group will be directly responsible for knowingly facilitating the spread of a virus with a mortality rate estimated to be around 3%. Should this virus surface at our event, the likelihood of someone we all know succumbing to the infection is quite high.

Given the gravity of the situation and potential implications to our personal lives, are we certain that we wish to proceed?"

Good luck and stay safe.
They should auction ~900 seats (fans, players, staff < 1k) and put the money toward research / charity Covid related.
> Are you arguing that pointing out to Hachette that Woody Allen's daughter accuses him of sexual assault should render someone liable?

I'm not talking about that specific case, but about the problem of twitter mobs in general (which is what the parent comment was talking about). It may apply to that case or not, but I'm not rendering judgement on that here.

> Nobody on Twitter did anything but speech, did they?

Telling the truth is not a tort. Often the behavior of twitter mobs rises above simply "telling the truth" and may involve epithets, slander, etc. which are not protected.

EDIT: Also, saying "break your contract or else we will harass you" is probably a tort
Steps like welding doors shut [0] is not something I can see happening in the Western world.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/08/china-...
Yesterday I had this couple who do pool servicing out to look at some issues with our swimming pool. They told me their usual salt supplier has run out of salt. The salt supplier usually imports salt from China (to Australia), but the supplier has a shipping container full of salt they've ordered stuck in China and not sure when it will actually make it to Australia.

(They explained domestic Australian-made salt is still available, but it is 30% more expensive than the Chinese import salt.)
There’s never going to be a lockdown in this country. If people need stuff, they’ll go out. It simply won’t work.

I’ve seen the videos coming out of Hubei. If you tried to weld someone’s door shut in the US you stand a good chance of being shot by the resident and both their neighbors. Maybe not in the big cities, but virtually everywhere else.
There is also liability as a risk. At least for big companies. There is no money in sueing a startup, but big companies get constantly trialed. Especially, if they work in security/safety/mission-critical field.
The fallacy I can't help but point out here is that thinking because of our science we are better off and have somehow been "enlightened" when all evidence points to the contrary, at least not to the things that truly matter: the human condition, life, love, family, relationships: can't say our science and techology has made these things better on a whole, but at least we can binge watch Netflix and play Minecraft together I guess.

Sure, we can crunch numbers and test hypotheses faster, but they were doing that with far more primitive instruments, in most cases even without writing and simply using their minds, for centuries well before the so called Enlightenment period. It seems the more "enlightened" we become the worse off the condition of the human soul becomes, and the more we favor vices and all the things our fathers and mothers tried to warn us against for centuries. Our Science, which in of itself has become a religion, in my view has lead us all to cultures of indulgence, where utilitarianism is the only value to be regarded. I wish you could say at least we aren't slaughtering ourselves anymore in the name of Religion, but sure enough, human slaughtering has increased by entire factors these past two centuries, than the previous 100 combined, "Enlightenment" or not.

The notion of man gaining reason and "growing out of" religion during this period is in of itself such a hilariously cliche, Western-centric viewpoint of history but this is another issue of itself.
I used to be a recruiter. I was never good at screening designers because I didn't know what to look for. Y'all have pretty portfolios and they all look the same to me. With that in mind, if you can bypass the HR screen and get in front of someone who can truly scan your credentials, do that. That's probably good advice in general, and is likely easier said than done, but I'm just sayin' it's a heck of a lot easier for me to teach someone how to screen a developer than a designer. Or maybe hire recruiters with better design sense than myself.
I thought that sounded small, but the median church size is around 75 people (as of 2009 anyway). https://internetmonk.com/archive/michael-bell-what-is-an-ave... So the majority of churchgoers will be affected, but a minority of churches.
The issue is that this wont be contained anymore, it wont be over, we fucked up.

Lets say that a country, for example Sweden with its 500 known cases and 10M population goes into a total lockdown for. A few new cases emerge and after a few weeks of no new infections they open up everything again. But since other countries are still infected, they will be reinfected within days.

The only way to stop it would be if the whole world goes into lockdown for a month or so, but that wont happen.

We will have to live with no mass gatherings for 1-2 years, until someone comes up with a good vaccine
And people still think it's a flu, going out as normal..
You must have a very limited scope of work experience to believe this.
Re 4), this sounds way too much like what was done to Germany post World War 1, and it had massive consequences.
datomic peers can interleave N databases at query time, which is what you want right?
If the root cause of an IT outage in one place can be used to help prevent the outage from occurring elsewhere, yes.

Your personal relationship to this is entirely understandable, but not a sufficient reason to not focus on root causes where they first occurred.
Being on the spectrum of ADHD, I'm pretty certain that it's going to be absolutely impossible for me to stop touching my and suspect that small nervous habits of this sort just aren't going to be worked out of a significant portion of the population even if I could stop myself somehow.

I'm fortunate I can work remotely. Social distancing is a thousand times easier for me than stopping nervous habits, include touching my face. I suspect such actions are on the interface between conscious control and reflex actions.

I suppose the authorities should still keep telling us to stop doing but I think planners should pretty much assume this is not a barrier that's going to stop the disease.
The entire country of Denmark has just ban gatherings of more than 100 and basically shutdown the country.
Ah, unfortunately there isn't. We're 100% cloud hosted - though we call ourselves a Hybrid cloud solution because through our reverse SSH tunnel connections (where your servers SSH into ours) we also work well with on-prem data.

If security is your main reason for wanting self-hosting you may be interested to know we're also SOC2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliant.
It has already been a bad flu season and it naturally starts to taper off this time of year.
Did they look up your code because you don't know how to hide it and make their own cloned app for some reason?
quantum annealing?
By imposing a draconian lock down on all citizens (even those who havent tested positive)? I guess...
The Cost of Not Getting Tested for Coronavirus: A $10K ER Bill
Sure, if companies start thinking about their supplier base just now, well that's just too late. I can only comment on physical supply chains, so. But even there building up suppliers takes time and money. Personally, I would love to see the risk of single sources be valued higher in the equations. One can dream, right?

Edit: Now I got the cluster thing. I meant cluster in the sense of risk, meaning you have a single point of failure and high degree of risk concentration. But your point is really interesting, I never thought about these aspects of cloud computing.
Security warning page for the certificate?
At the system integrator I work for we implement and integrate SAASPASS for larger enterprises which allows them to have both a passwordless architecture and a zero trust approach.

The old perimeter has been in decline and new perimeter will be modern IAM (Identity & Access Management) that uses a passwordless MFA architecture built on a zero trust approach.

In 10 years most IAM solutions will be passwordless and zero trust, while today it is a very small fraction.
Denmark - closing schools starting Monday, but if you have the ability to keep kids home do so now (so last school day Friday) for 2 weeks.

Governmental employees unless necessary sent home from Friday for 2 weeks.

Arrangements with more than 100 people closed down.

on edit: Link to Danish news site https://nyheder.tv2.dk/2020-03-11-alle-elever-i-danmark-og-m...
Source on this please? You're right that it likely wasn't bats but scientists think it may have been in snakes or Pangolins

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51496830

But there seems to be a consensus that this bug started in their wetmarket. I don't care if it was consumption of the animal or from fecal matter. Wetmarkets should be permanently banned. Wealthy CCP cadre members didn't want to do this and it cost the world big time

Also, racism? When did I bring that up?
How does this product relate to https://www.sigmacomputing.com/? It superficially feels very similar.
> This is a real issue.

And it's solved by not giving ordinary police officers guns to carry around.
That officials at a certain level allow something does not absolve organizers of their moral duties, either.
I think they are discussing banning non-essential gatherings, not work-related.

Bars, pubs, gyms, museums, theaters, cinema and dozens of others could be stopped right away with minimal impact (except for the companies).
Can we self-host, please? Is there a standalone app? We deal in PHI (HIPAA) and we cannot have a tool like this have any access to our data store unless it's private and secure.
To a single transactor only.
Consider the sleeves of your jacket to be permanently contaminated. (Though hopefully the inside of your elbow is contaminated only by your own coughing.) Repeatedly contaminating the sleeves doesn't make them worse; just try to avoid having them touch anything else important. (Theoretically you could be worsening the doorknobs, but it seems unlikely you're adding anything they don't already have.) It may not be a perfect solution, but I think it's pretty good.

Regarding washing hands, I've found that if I do that too much then my skin (starting on the back of my hands) tends to dry out and flake off. Certain kinds of moisturizing soap are less bad at this, but I don't choose what soap is available except at home, and it has led me to find other solutions like the above.
What's up with these constant purtorting of November as the starting point of the disease? AFAIK. We have no reliable information that this is the case.

Could you give sources to that and some of the other statements in your comment?
Determining the exact number seems like interesting math.

I imagine a function using things like transmission vector diffusion rate, windspeed, incubation period, critical care percentage, number of ICU beds, and such as parameters, and outputs the maximum allowable gathering size that will keep the spread slow enough that everyone who requires hospital recovery can get admitted. Public officials could then ban public gatherings greater than 80% of that number.

Seems like a paper describing it could be worth some academia brownie points.
Assuming that immunity lasts for an extended period or indefinitely, which we have no way of knowing yet.
That's true. I've been out of the MS ecosystem for ages, but I keep forgetting about Razor Pages.

Components in Blazor actually look like Svelte, or maybe it's the other way around.
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It does when "whistleblower" means "independent person publishing data from independent sources".

The US has a crappy record on people who leak government data, but that's an entirely different thing.
Eric Ries at Long Now
That is super cool.

But as a sort of tangent / related thing:

As a visual learner I don't feel like I usually have problems visualizing SQL (that doesn't mean I wouldn't have use for this product, quite the opposite).

On the other hand I personally have been playing with Firebase and OH MAN do I have problems visualizing what is going on with document type databases, I start writing code and think of the DB and my brain starts sputter like there's sand in the gears ;)
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Keep your "commute". Every morning, wake up, get ready, then go for a walk around the block.

When the work period is over, go for a walk in the opposite direction to "commute home".

Make an effort to say yes to social events (although with coronavirus maybe not so much).

If you live with a partner make sure they know that's it "work from home" not "do chores at home". Although doing a load of laundry is actually a pretty good use of time and a good way to get a quick break every hour for a few hours.

If at all possible, put a door between you and everyone else that is at your house during working hours.
Nah, none of us are original—the amount of people working on this exact idea and execution is huge. We just got out before a lot of them.

Plus, it's all front end, so it's not hidden!
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If it can be anything, including imaginary things, then what's the point?
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I've never, ever heard globalization described that way. Globalization has always been about allowing the market to seek the lowest cost production locations and with free movement of goods this means the global (assumed to be homogeneous) consumer gets the cheapest prices possible for their basket. What you're describing is more akin to a network of bilateral trade agreements.
Lock your fridge.
Also true for the California State universities and community colleges in the bay area.
> you cannot make such a "true" health endpoint

Well, you can make such an endpoint, you already have. It's called...

Your endpoint.

The answer to the top level question is, "because it's easier, more accurate, and more maintainable to call a real endpoint than to try to maintain an endpoint whose sole purpose is to predict whether your other endpoints are actually working."

Aka: Just Ask.
Yeh, so the current system seems better, because, although it's versioned, it doesn't need to constantly communicate with some central server. Also, another drawback is fonts need to be updated, but again, I think the benefits outweigh the costs.
I believe 10's of millions might be quite an underestimate.
Seattle Times: WA State bans large gatherings; Seattle closes public schools
Denmark right now:

- events with more than 100 people forbidden

- all schools will close

- all non-critical employees must stay home.

- all private employees as much as possible.

- stay in your home.

- don't travel to [many] countries, more restricts will come.

Tomorrow they will create the law which forbids all kinds of events.

Yesterday 262 cases, today 514.

Edit: All indoor cultural institutions, libraries, leisure facilities, etc. are closed.
Give it a minute or two, after you press start. Also, try a different browser.
Doing those things right now helps absolutely no-one.
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Where is the site for noob preppers to adopt best-prep practices in anticipation for covid-19?
self hosting option?
What on earth were they doing there to infect so many?
Yes, we all know that once regulation steps in, the thing regulated is completely stopped!
There have been some quite impressive Covid-19 containment campaigns in the Middle East and Africa thanks to improvements brought on by exactly those outbreaks, so maybe.
China, Iran, and South Korea don't stamp passports. If a traveler from one of those countries wants to bypass a "closed border" they can simply connect through an unblocked country.

An interview might reveal that the traveler came from an affected region, but someone working to bypass border restrictions is probably less inclined to answer those questions honestly.

Couple that with the fact that traveling to a country with far fewer cases and is not under quarantine related lock-downs, and being sick in another country but getting treatment, even if it's expensive, might be a compelling option when people in your home country are dying because there aren't enough facilities to care for them.

It's a pretty shitty moral perspective, but it is a perfectly valid individual perspective. This is one of the reasons why the WHO pointed out early on that increased screening at borders was more effective, and why closing borders may actually accelerate the spread of the disease.

Closing the borders wasn't a strong action, it was a misguided action intended to look strong and play well with the Republican base, and was the first in a string of shitty mistakes that the US Government, and other organizations within the US have made in handling this crisis.
If your interpretation were correct then there could be no regulation of assembly at all. This is not correct and SCOTUS has already supported content-neutral time/place/manner restrictions on assembly, for more than a century iirc.

Saying "no gatherings of more than 1000" is facially legal. Plenty of protests have been told it's time to disperse before.

Furthermore, SCOTUS typically grants even wider powers in extigent circumstances. It is probably also legal to say "no gatherings at all, everyone back to your houses for the duration of this crisis". An example would be something like the boston bomber crisis, although I don't think it was litigated, that probably would have been found to be legal as well.
good question. of course I got older which helped in bringing the inhibitions down which made me more aware of myself and of my own feelings. then going after those feelings and trying to figure out what they mean I slowly discovered what was behind them.

for example, one day I was in a course and I felt miserable even before I was there. then suddenly it dawned on me that this is my aversion to the whole thing. it's not rational but irrational. once I knew what was going on the bad feeling went away quite quickly when as before I'd just suffer without end.

before I was helpless, now when a negative feeling comes I try to guess what it could mean and often I find the answer quite quickly. once the source is identified, the bad feeling dissolves and I'm back to normal.

and another important factor was that I started trying to live by the golden rule: "do unto others as you would have them do to you". the problem was that not to do this often caused
a lot of the confusion in my life and my feelings. I don't think it would have been possible to figure it out while I was in this chaos caused by not following the golden rule.

oh yeah, and the last thing that helped a lot is that I stopped going to therapists and took on responsibility, not relying on what others say about how I feel.