skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not too long ago, I read that one can see her notebooks yourself! You can sign up and be on a list to do so! If you visit Paris... And sign a waiver... And wear some protective clothing...

Because her notebooks are still radioactive and will be for quite some time to come.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/02/27/marie-curie/

(I still chuckle - nervously - whenever I am reminded about this fact!)
The Light Show on CN Tower Is a Subliminal Photo Slideshow
The first cases of what we now call COVID-19 were identified at the end of November 2019. By mid-December, medical professionals in Wuhan were aware of the virus. The government did not begin the massive lockdowns till mid-January. This was partly a result of the regional party's incompetence (as is mentioned in the article), and partly a result of pressure from Beijing to ensure that lunar new year celebrations went on without a hitch. (My personal mental model for China is that the state wishes to portray the country as Disney World while actually running it like an ultra-dysfunctional Jurassic Park.) Dr Li Wenliang was even harassed by police and made to sign a confession for "disrupting the peace" by daring to tell the truth about the illness on the Internet; for his trouble, he himself succumbed to the disease.

The mass mobilization was a show meant to distract the Chinese people and the world from the fact that this crisis was actively covered up and allowed to fester for 40 days for purely political reasons.

So, no, I don't think this proves anything about the "superiority" of the Chinese model. South Korea has a very different model, and they have had a much better response. Even the US response hasn't been too bad. And the US and other countries have been actively harmed by the Chinese cover-ups and censorship of information, along with the concomitant spread of disinformation.

I place the blame for this becoming a pandemic firmly at the hands of the Chinese Communist government at every layer.
> closer to 7 days (10% growth in cases per day) than to 3 days (41% growth in cases per day).

A doubling time of 3 days corresponds to 26% growth per day (not 41%), because 1.26^3 ≈ 2.
A Reuters article is flagged? Can we have some context as to why?
If you use the government to force people to stay home, when they economically cannot sustain it, what happens?
I read your post 4 times. I still have no clue what you are talking about.
Start thinking in terms of years from now, this isn't going to be papered over like last time in 2008. Don't execute any business plan without revenue in sight immediately. Shun all forms of debt. Raise capital. Protect what is close to you. Be safe out there.
From my experience all of the clothes I buy, whether they were expensive clothes from a place with a stellar reputation for longevity, or cheap clothes from Walmart, nothing lasts more than a few years.

I buy a $20-40 dress shirt. After about 2 years the cuff splits or an elbow spontaneously explodes. I could patch it, but the surrounding fabric is still threadbare and it will just rip again.

I buy a $100+ dress shirt, it wears out just as fast, it just looks nicer until it does.

I bought some $450 Allen Edmonds shoes based on numerous people talking about how they had a pair for decades and it looked brand new. I got them for far less than that, but the quality wasn't even close to worth it.

The first time a single drop of water gets on the leather for longer than 2 seconds, that part of the surface is permanently damaged and puffs up, ruining your ability to even shine them again properly.

After about 6 months of only wearing them to walk from a parking lot to my office job and then back into my house when I got home, the heels started falling off of the shoe. I thought surely something must be wrong and I contacted Allen Edmonds. They wanted me to send my shoes back for an extensive investigation before giving me a refund or a new pair. So much for their reputation for amazing quality and customer service. They also recommend I wear them only once or twice a week instead of 4-5 days. So presumably I'm supposed to have $1300 of shoes on rotation even though I'm not even putting a mile on them a day.

Probably the only thing I have had last longer than a couple years would be some cheap underwear that lasted probably 7 or 8, and some cheap T-shirts most likely from walmart or kmart.

Anyone got a source for high quality clothes that actually last?
She doesn't cover that in particular, but:

1. Here are videos on how to mend jeans: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=patch+jeans&oq=...

2. The bigger picture is that when you force yourself to live by a value, you learn all these things. When I first challenged myself to avoid buying packaged food for a week, I had no idea I'd go from emptying my garbage weekly to less than once per year. Looking back, it seems inevitable, but when I started 5 years ago, I barely knew about farmers markets, CSAs, fermenting vegetables, etc.
Covid-19, why not happening an experience sharing world wide
Why don't we use from other countries experiences? They don't share? ️ ️
the “background” says that “ Currently, there is no evidence to support the use of hydroxychloroquine in SARS-CoV-2 infection.” but the results and conclusion are :

RESULTS:
Hydroxychloroquine (EC50=0.72 μM) was found to be more potent than chloroquine (EC50=5.47 μM) in vitro. Based on PBPK models results, a loading dose of 400 mg twice daily of hydroxychloroquine sulfate given orally, followed by a maintenance dose of 200 mg given twice daily for 4 days is recommended for SARS-CoV-2 infection, as it reached three times the potency of chloroquine phosphate when given 500 mg twice daily 5 days in advance.

CONCLUSIONS:
Hydroxychloroquine was found to be more potent than chloroquine to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 in vitro.“

can someone make sense of this?
I wonder what endgames these other countries are hoping for.

I only see:

1. Eliminate virus entirely. Without a vaccine, almost impossible.

2. Infect 1-1/R of the population, relying on the fact that people who have already had the virus will provide herd immunity.

3. Give a vaccine to 1-1/R of the population.

4. Virus control measures of lockdowns stay in place forever.

As far as I can see, the UK is choosing option 2, while most of the rest of the world seem to be attempting 1, which is probably impossible, therefore will end up doing 4.
Or rather: one small US ventilator company says it can ramp up production by 5x in 3 to 4 months.

From your link:

“We could increase production five-fold in a 90- to 120-day period,” says Chris Kiple, chief executive of Ventec Life Systems ... The seven-year-old, 135-employee Ventec is a fairly small player in a market dominated by Medtronic (under the Puritan Bennett brand), GE Healthcare and Allied Healthcare in the U.S.

Not to mention that there's a big difference between producing ventilators at 5x the current rate and having 5x as many total ventilators available.
> What you are describing is caused based alerting, which is strongly discouraged by SRE. SREs prefer symptom based alerting (e.i are users seeing errors) because you only get alerted when you know that there is a problem that effects your business.

The truth, of course, is somewhere is the middle. Symptom-based alerting is extremely tricky to get right in the first place. What is a “within budget” for a service, can be total outage for a customer. Real example from the past: we paged GCS “error rate within this bucket is high, snapshot restore timeouts”, reply is “it is within our SLO”.

Another situation is when problems in background jobs will cause massive outages later. Again, real examples from the past: zone out of quota and, on another instance, multi-million bill due to GC not being monitored correctly.
They could be paid to close.
Thank you, interesting link. I had for a long time thought symbolics.com was the first "modern style" domain to have been registered, but it looks like it was actually nordu.net, even if the intention was to use it for a root server.
This is correct. Truck drivers are still working in Italy as far as I can tell. There's food, and TP.
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Seattle Hospitals don't have enough ECMO machines. One of the criteria they use for deciding who gets access is BMI. People with BMI > 25 don't get it. (Mine is 23. Phew!)

https://twitter.com/scott_mintzer/status/1239290389963714562

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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1239290389963714562.html
Came here to reply with the same thing. Not sure who is downvoting me but my guess is people who weren't around back in '08 or are significantly out of touch with US economic policy (or general econ policy, that is).

If you've downvoted me then you probably need to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0.

This is a wet band-aid.
Remember, the general goal is to flatten the contagion curve, so hospitals can better respond to the demand. It is not a long term pause (hopefully), and the economy will recover - but maybe it will also change somehow...
> I think this is a very localized view of behavior. There are many large regions, pockets, demographic slices of the country where life is going on roughly as it was a few weeks ago.

Check out the Nashville music and party scene... It's hopping right now. I think #NashvilleUndefeated is their slogan. In Portland OR, I've observed a slight decrease in activity, but only by 5-10% from what I normally see.
People are now panicking about the panic and subsequent overreaction.

I must say in Seattle it’s a little alarming to go to the store and to literally see no meat, no bread, no milk, no soap. And I’ve already had friends in hospitality lose their jobs.

I think the UK’s keep calm and carry on approach is the right way - but it’s hard to turn back from a panic.
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Even if 222nm has its purposes, the market is crying out for inexpensive and plentiful UV-C 253nm LED's.

You can get UV LED's in different wavelengths, but 253nm is the very effective for disinfection (even though it does suffer from the other UV damage that you mentioned). It's slightly wider wavelength might make it more possible to make using existing LED manufacturing techniques.

This would open up a lot of possible germicidal sanitation technologies from integrated germicidal LED's on door handles, bulbs used with home automation to disinfect a whole home once everyone has left for the day, to Roomba-like devices that disinfect floors.
On the contrary, this article has a lot of useful advice for anyone in uncertain times. Predictions of who may or may not be affected are not the interesting part. Any of us may be affected by events beyond our control, and the article has plenty of tips that may be helpful for anyone.
I'd like to ask you to not make comments like the one you did — confident assertions about things you know nothing about, that you haven't made even the most trivial effort to verify, whether that's the population of Taiwan or the general relationship between country size and testing kits per capita. Regardless of how politely you make them, statements unconnected to any concern for truthfulness lower the signal to noise ratio, and they add nothing of value to the discussion. On the contrary, calling out such recklessly false statements does add something of value to the discussion.

Instead of criticizing my tone, which was in fact fairly restrained, you should thank me for taking the time to correct you. For instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22580049 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22529609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22505631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22504690 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22370446

It is true that the UK does not have sufficient resources to cope with a widespread, uncontrolled outbreak, lacking for example one to two orders of magnitude in ventilator capacity; but, as should be obvious, this is not a result of the UK being a large country — the UK is much smaller than China, slightly smaller than Japan, the same size as South Korea, and slightly larger than Taiwan. But this conversation would be of higher quality if, instead of containing such your obviously false assertion and also fact-based rebuttals such as these, you had not posted the assertion in the first place (perhaps because you had read enough to see that it was false), so no rebuttal would be necessary.
Scroll down to the bottom of the front page to see the Highlighted Explorables. My favorite is the standing waves simulation.

I'd love someone to critique my explanation of quantum mechanics at the start of the quantum section. I worked hard on it, but QM is hard, and I may have got some details wrong.
People like truck drivers who perform an essential role have to continue working, but change their behavior so they have as little contact as possible with others. They should also be tested frequently once we're able to expand test capacity, and be given masks if we're ever able to overcome the mask shortage.

This is why it's so important to stay home if you don't have to go out to keep society functioning. No country can enforce a 100% lockdown because many folks have to go out there and do their jobs if we all want to stay alive. Staying home if it's at all possible for you to do so helps to reduce the risk for these people who don't have the option.
What does game over mean in this context?
Stock futures hit ‘limit down’ even as Fed slashes rates; Dow futures off 1k
> However, just because we are getting rid of the package-lock.json doesn't mean we won't have the ability to pin the dependencies and child dependencies we have. There is another file we can use called npm-shrinkwrap.json.

> It's basically the same file as package-lock.json and is produced by npm shrinkwrap and actually packaged and published to the npm registry.

> So by adding npm shrinkwrap to your npm scripts as a prepack script or even a git commit hook, you can make sure that the same versions of dependencies are used in your dev environment, with your users and in your CI.

So you are still pinning for dev and CI, even though your actual users will not be pinned.

Why is this preferable to just using the yarn.lock or package-lock.json, that would appear to do the same thing? Whats the difference that makes using npm shrinkwrap preferable?

It can be confusing that you are pinning in dev/CI, but your downstream users will be using different versions. It seems to be the lesser evil though, neither trying to pin all users to exact versions of every dependency in the tree, nor refraining from pinning at all for dev/CI -- are really feasible.

I don't understand why the OP is suggesting `npm shrinkwrap` is a better solution than a checked-in yarn.lock or package-lock.json that are excluded from the npm module publish.
I come from a country where bidets are very popular, and I of course own one: you still need toilet paper. Think when you wash your hands, how do you dry them? ;)
>Even at a 2 - 4% mortality rate, the sheer panic over this is nonsense

The fear is that if the health system collapses the mortality rate could be even higher.
And somehow there is a very aggressive group trying to stifle any debate on the topic. Making a similar case in a friendly gathering early this week got me labeled as an anti-vaxer and trump fan (I am neither). It is "with us or against us", not a topic for discussion:(.
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Email 2.0 will probably never come, because too many people are already using emails.

Due to this, fixing email has to be done on the client side.

What are the problems of emails (as a user):

* not encrypted by default

* spam

What I think would make a good email client to combat spam is a plugin for browsers: generate a random per-domain email every time you sign up for something. This makes unsubscribing very easy, and this allows you to see when a service your registered with shared your email with someone else.

Do you need anything else? I'm thinking of at least two other use cases:

* work. But you probably already have a separate work email.

* friends. But your friends are already probably on facebook, or whatsapp, or ... I have zero friends using email to reach out to me these days.
I've created a bot to check new cases of Covid-19
Op might be thinking about drivers voluntarily stopping driving due to flu fears, either of getting it or spreading it? But yeah, even then I doubt many would be willing to put their business/livelihood on the line. They may reason that it's just a flu; most won't die and many won't have any symptoms at all--and it's hard to blame them for that.
Does anyone here understand how negative interest rates would work?

Why would anyone buy a negative-rate treasury bond instead of just hanging on to their cash?
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I've been thinking about this a lot and will be writing a blog post soon in terms of thinking about risk post-COVID-19. Thanks for asking the question because it's an important one -- it's easy to lose sight of the longer-term implications, given that we DO need to focus on saving lives in the short run.

There are a few things I'd say...

(1) COVID-19 is destroying international trust. The EU nations are closing their borders to each other, there is hoarding of supplies between countries, and stories are coming out now that countries might want to have exclusivity to vaccines. This is NOT supposed to happen with allies, and I think countries will have major trust issues and collaboration issues post-COVID-19.

(2) A lot of the economic stimuli will lead to significant increases in debt, but also NEW monetary and financial strategies. Countries are discussing encouraging central banks to buy stocks, mortgage-backed security, nationalize factories, and more. This means government debt will increase significantly, and corporate debt will be an issue as well. As earnings announcements are made for Q1, Q2, etc... we'll see just how bad this has gotten.

(3) Small businesses will be shutting down. Even if there are debt forgiveness programs driven by government debt (i.e., #2 above), the stress and short-term cashflow issues of many small businesses will likely cause many to shut down.

I can go on and on... I can also provide citations for any part you'd like to see.

Having said all of that, I think a few things are important:

(1) Promote social cohesion. People are scared, nervous, unsure what to do -- organize online events, reach out to people, etc.

(2) When it's safe, SPEND MONEY with SMALL BUSINESSES. I think this will be critical.

(3) Encourage your governments to work with other governments, and speak out against the politicians/governors/MPs/whatever that specifically were irresponsible during this period. Don't let them get re-elected.

... I can go on and on... Just let me know. :-)
the french health minister recommendation is to not take ibuprofene against covid 19 as it hinders the inflammation response of the body against the disease:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/anti-inflammat...
for any of sam's startup ideas to have an impact on the current Covid-19 pandemic, they need to:

0. raise a lot of money because vaccine/therapeutic development is $$$. it's probably not seed funding.

1. be successful in researching and developing an approach that works with a novel, unproven approach

2. get that approach certified

3. scale the manufacturing of the novel approach

4. deliver the drugs to patients who need it

5. do it all in a timeframe that is faster than what existing companies can do, and within the budget of the money that you've raised.

i don't think novel vaccines and therapeutics made by startups are likely to work in time to have an impact on this coronavirus.

but, sam's funding can help out if he suggests different problems: logistics planning, increasing care capacity, and increased political pressure.

- in the open letter to mike pence (https://medium.com/@maxinedexter/open-letter-to-vice-preside...) they call for call centers to "coordinate transfers of patients to areas with higher levels or greater capacity for delivering care." if it doesn't exist, software should power this.

- same letter: "A tracking method at the state level for people self quarantined must be instituted for public health surveillance and follow up."

- cities need additional mobile quarantine facilities. build them out of box shipping containers or something.

for this pandemic, we're already behind the 8 ball so i suggest picking simpler projects. if you want to fund novel approaches that require r&d, that's probably more likely to help with the next pandemic.
Those are two extremes.

For me, when a machine reports as abnormal it will decommission itself and file a ticket to be looked at, we have enough extra capacity that it’s ok to do this for 5% of compute before we have issues, and we have an alert if it gets close to that.

If you’re doing anything other than that then either your machines are abnormal and functioning, which is scary because they’re now in an unknown state- or you’re able to just throw out anything that seems weird, which might also hide issues with the environment.
In California?
Yes, I remember that. They told to do so because otherwise economy will be hurt and people get tired of self-isolation. Not to intentionally create herd immunity.
While I'm absolutely supporting extensive lockdowns (and am happy my government enacted them earlier this week), here's a problem: the lockdowns will realistically have to last many months, and most people in the affected industries don't have enough savings to last that long, if they have any (a lot of people live paycheck-to-paycheck).

Given the sheer amount of disrupted sectors, I wonder if it wouldn't be best if government doing lockdowns simply bit the bullet and enacted UBI.
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They could be, but since we live in a capitalist dystopia it's unlikely.
There are 200 Viruses, vaccines only exist for 20 or so. For some you can hardly build immunity (e.g. Dengue fever).

"Sure, those who survived the disease will be immune afterwards."
There have been reports of re-infections in China and Japan. This may be mistakes - the never were cured - but this could also point to something more severe. Proceed with caution.
It would be beneficial for the government to define how it was going to support the businesses it was forcing to close, given forcing them to close has the potential to put them out of business.
Almost 10,000 people died in Wuhan and many more would have died had they not locked it down.

I don't know of any studies but I can't imagine anywhere near that much dieing from the economy slowing down.
How the US CDC is trying to forecast coronavirus’s spread
I would recommend military surplus and outdoor/workwear. Not the fashion clothes from workwear brands, the actual chunky workwear.

Obviously you will be a little challenged on the aesthetics, but that is sometimes the price you pay for durability.
UK approach is suicide, their health care system is going to break down magnificently under the pressure of swarm of sick people, or they are going to ask people to stay at home and pray once sick.

I don't see that works, people will riot.
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It is clear cut and the government does not necessarily disagree with me.

Handling that many cases over that short period is simply mathematically impossible considering the health care resources available. That is not an opinion, even the Health Secretary acknowledged that today.

They took the course they took knowing that.
The EU is printing more EUR, helping everyone.
The USA is lowering the interest, helping the ultra rich.
Not enough to make a difference. The government can't afford it.
In Silicon Valley, no less.
Long term is entirely relative. A month pause is a long term pause for many many businesses.