skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More susceptible to deaths I understand, but is an older population more susceptible to spreading of the virus? Is probability of "infection given exposure" (as opposed to being a carrier) also greater with age? (I know that's true for kids, but hadn't heard if that trend continues across all age ranges.)
Trump in the Age of Coronavirus: Why the Supporter vs. Cultist Debate Matters
Believe it or not, the vast majority of student athletes are not elite athletes that will go on to play professionally. There are only sixty players drafted to the NBA each year, even at powerhouse schools like Duke, most players on the team know that they're not going to play professionally.
Hydroxychloroquine found to be more potent than chloroquine to inhibit SARSCoV2
I’m wondering what fraction of little kids already have it and are serving as essentially asymptotic vectors. Once a large enough fraction of little kids are immune or resistant, r0 may be permanently reduced.
i remember reading about this technology being developed in scientific american, mid 80s. there was an uproar as the suggestion was that fruit or vegetables could be engineered to carry a vaccine, it was about 2002 when i first heard serious consideration of such a product from a small laboratory in southern ontario. It was a wild ride.
> People don't choose mango flavour to stop smoking.

What an absurd assertion to make.

Flavoured juice is a major reason I quit smoking cigarettes at 27. I know many, many people with similar stories.
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It's not really a church. They're a secretive society of church corrupters spreading false teachings.
Probably wouldn't be many who would take advantage of such an offer. Basketball players are much more likely to enter the NBA draft before graduation than football players are. The coaches of those that aren't good enough to be drafted likely are ready to use that scholarship slot for someone new. There may be a small number of players who are better than any recruit but not good enough to be drafted but not enough to make a policy around.
Is there a reliability/availability report that covers multiple months (VM uptime, PaaS services, etc)?

I've personally seen the reliability differences of services in Azure vs AWS for example.
I'm not trying to make any "whataboutist" argument, it's just that the best way to judge the performance of the US or any country is to compare it to their peers. I'm not even arguing about who's better here, I'm saying that even with an incompetent administration the US seems to fare okay, which seems to indicate it's a lot more complex to deal with or to prevent than people seem to think?

Especially since comments and news about this seem to always highlight how bad the US is dealing with this and how efficient and proactive the EU is when facts prove the opposite? There is a lot of things the rest of the world can blame the US gov for, but this?
>For starters, Amazon derives most of its profits from AWS.

Amazon has over $200B of revenue from e-commerce, $1 Profits. AWS Generate ~$25B revenue, $1M Profits.

Here is the headline. AWS ( Its Cloud Division ) Generating 1 Million times more profits than Amazon Retail!.

Or AWS Generate more profits than all of other Amazon Department combined!

What this mean is that Amazon is a vertically integrated Retail company ( Where Retail here includes Online ), with logistics, and transportation. Amazon is mostly software / AWS is a Silicon Valley / I.T / Tech view bubble.

Forgot to mention AWS is actually lots of hardware, land cost for DC, etc. i.e Not Software.
InfiniCache: Distributed Cache on Top of AWS Lambda
I agree. An influx of tv show quotes without any additional thoughts or insights would make this site feel too much like the worst parts of Reddit.
I think Schmidt was the real wartime CEO here, when the war could have extinguished Google. e,g. Microsoft changing the default search engine on IE when it had > 80% share could have hurt google a lot more than Facebook or social ever could. Chrome was probably Google's "Manhattan Project" in that regard.

By contrast, when Larry came to power, Google was more like the USA today. Rich, with very good resources, and playing the role of world superpower.
Media Paywalls Dropped for Covid-19 Crisis Coverage
I think we have different definitions of mild. Something that kills 1% of healthy middle aged people is quite scary.
That's a bad way of looking at it. First of all, sports are entertaining. There's a reason why people like it. Second, no one gets there without hard work. For every kid that makes it to college basketball, there are probably hundreds of others that didn't make it even high school basketball from the under 10s.
>The real answer is simply that the number of tests is not equal to the number of cases.

Ye olde "3.6 roentgens. Not great but not terrible" factor.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg5HOnq7zD0
I think that’s fair - and so AA probably doesn’t fit your personality as well as it does others.
> I'm disappointed a community like HN would be so happy to promote it

If you're not interested in a specific shared link, I'd recommend not commenting on it. If links like this became the norm, maybe, but it certainly isn't.

Was it a marketing stunt, yes. Is it also a fun one that I'd argue will benefit some people during a time of distress, also yes. I know if I were in Italy, I'd use it.
It's not just the deaths now, but the trajectory. Korea has this under control, Italy won't for another 1-2 weeks.
You could use that argument to prove Earth is about to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. I mean sure, there is actual evidence that global warming is real whereas Vogons are not, but if you want to make a case, you need to point to the actual evidence, not just handwave about survivorship bias.
I mean, I don't know the OP's intention here but I think they're probably right, all of these actions will have an economic impact. It's not a statement about whether or not we should or shouldn't do something, I think we need to take lots of big proactive measures, but big proactive measures have lots of collateral damage that isn't negligible. Economic impact will be felt by everyone, from the top to the bottom of the income ladder, so that's also a legitimate pain point...

> suspending evictions, delaying mortgage payments, nationalizing healthcare

I mean sure, I don't think I would disagree with any of that at all (good luck with the last part though, we've been trying that for 40 years), but to say that this wouldn't have a detrimental impact on the economy is a bit confusing to me...it will and that will hurt, but the idea is that it will hurt less than something like COVID running rampant or without measures to protect workers who will be hurt most by the economic fallout.
https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/...

The CDC themselves were involved in the study that says you're wrong.

If someone is able to find the source for this info I'd really appreciate it. Just spent like 10 minutes trying to find the paper they're citing but I can't find it and I don't have time to keep looking now. Maybe it isn't published?

It might be this one, actually. This one suggests it can live up to 72 hours on certain surfaces. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...

I'd love to have some more data on this if anyone can provide.
I didn't ask them to criticize, just if they feel the same about every similar brand. I guess it all depends on how you define hypocrisy.
I think all the current measures are for the purpose of curve flattening. The volume under the curve (infected people) will be the same but it will be spread over a longer time period and hopefully avoid a spike of cases that will crush health care systems.
Interfaces are good though.
I agree, but corruption doesn't necessarily imply illegal. A lot of these people could be involved in setting the rules that they then place themselves above of. That's corruption, but not illegal.
"But if there were ever a time for us not to be partisan and tribal, it's now" - Completely agree. I think GOP should ask Trump to step down and have someone responsible in charge.
I'd still be concerned about further mutation. With something as virulent as HCoV-19, even a minor increase in morbidity rates could be catastrophic.

Even without high morbidity rates, a survival rate of 85% without treatment is still horrific in scenarios where local healthcare systems become overwhelmed. Reading accounts of just that happening in Italy is chilling.
Good list is available here:https://pages.etflogic.io/?pg=cocroi

Note that there are no ETFs that actually hold barrels of oil. USO holds front month futures. So you're also paying a role yield.

Consider equity ETFs like XLE which can provide a beta to crude if you're looking to catch a falling knife
I would normally agree with you, but whatever the intentions were, the market pointedly shrugged it off. I might even suggest that this FED move along with last week cut is part of the reason for the panic..
There are reports, that plenty of those "80%" mild cases have pneumonia and permanent lung scaring (aka, you will never be able to play intense sports), even though they don't end up in a tube/forced oxygenation....

Sorry, I'd rather take a 2 months economy hit, than a long term burn.... which will cause a longer term economic problem as well.
How about we start by reserving the word "exploitation" for situations people cannot easily get up and walk away from? And not situations that people dream of, and struggle very hard to achieve?
I agree with the GP's general claim that Juuls were designed to attract teenagers. But I don't agree with this one. Adults like flavored products too. Why wouldn't they?
No one is looking deeply or focusing on China right now. Due to their level of control they can easily hide the problem. But you're a fool if you think that in the last few days across the WHOLE of China that they had a handful of cases? Even with PERFECT lockdown of literally every person you would expect more than like 20 cases across 1.4B people.
The compensation model for college athletics is problematic but the entire system is voluntary. You diminish the evilness of slavery by trivializing it by equating it to college students playing a game of their own free will.
Agreed. Too much capitalism and workers suffer. Too much socialism and workers suffer. Both mostly because of greed. The ideal economic system system seems to be one based on capitalism but with socialist support to protect the citizens. Imo.
Fragile systems are generally built using single points of failure. Centrally planned solutions are generally rife with them. I will trust the robustness of a system made up of 327.7M individual plans then the command solutions you are suggesting. We will fair much better than Italy even if the disease is more widespread here.
Giving Person A a "good deal" on loans so they can loan that money to Person B at a great profit isn't so different from just giving money to Person A.
The day it became obvious that streaming was the future, Netflix was immediately at war, because at some point, in a streaming world, there is no reason not for d2c streaming, and Netflix owned zero content.
Write a code that endures endless business requirements:Designing Software
A large number of South Korea infections are even younger due to how it spread.

Italy:
Above 80: 1,532 (18.4)% vs age 20-29: 296 (0.0)%

South Korea:
Above 80: 243 (3.1)% age 20-29: 2,261 (28.7)%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_S...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_I...

Of note, neither country has had anyone under 30 die. Deaths in the 80+ age range are 8.23% in South Korea and 13.2% in Italy.

PS: South Korea saw 2 deaths under age 50 where Italy has seen 1. So this age is by far the largest factor.
it kills a low percentage but it infects a high percentage. So total deaths + seriously ill MAY be equal to a more lethal disease that is less infectious.
I know, but there is not much time left and you have to start from somewhere. I do not expect to succeed but doing nothing is also not an option for me.

It is hard problem to solve for sure.
Can someone with patent law domain expertise please describe the "novel" patent criteria to laypeople here for software patents?

To my simple lay mind, I apply a "not-novel" test criteria to patents. If I can describe a software patent in non-software terms, and apply a "...then a light-speed fast homunculus does this all...", then I'm already skeptical of the novelty of the software patent. In this specific instance, change "interactive service" to "newspaper, fetched from a vast library...by a very, very fast homunculus", and "advertisement" to "advertisement cut out and replaced by another advertisement fetched from a vast library...by a very, very fast homunculus".

So obviously my lay understanding is way off, and I'm seeking to rectify that flawed understanding.
Why not instead cancel the live audience, but keep the tournament? Play the games in empty stadiums, but televise them. And test the players before each game starts.

Everything is going virtual now anyway, sports might as well too. That also maintains at least some of the ad revenue and other economic activity while still greatly minimizing risk of spreading the outbreak.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21804939
Google engineers have superfast high end desktops and laptops, and 10 gbit internet connections. They don't tend to optimise their internal tools for low spec machines or internet connections.
Except if the increased rate of death is from the medical system being over capacity.... this still wouldn't be a good test of quality of their responses, but more just revealing the capacity of their medical system.
> It isn't like one of the outbreaks that kills 10%, 20%, 50% of the infected.

That's true, but it has one characteristic that makes it very nasty: it is highly contagious before you show any symptoms. That makes it very hard to contain. So we only have two options: either try to contain it despite the difficulty, or just give up, let it spread, and essentially sacrifice 1% of the world's population. 1% is better than 10% of course, but that's still 70 million people.
It sometimes happens that any steady paycheck is a win.

Hope it never happens to you! But yes, it can happen.
People should not handle any package for at least 3 days after reception assuming this paper is correct (unless they manually disinfect it).

EDIT: actually the paper doesn't seem to conclude that 3 days is enough, and instead than an unknown number of days, but at least 3, is required, at least relative to their detection method
Is that what you do at mLogica?
An earlier draft did have a chunk on Neuromancer, Gibson's hunt and peck typing approach and his new book but I had to take it out as I was at the length limit. I might do something more on some of the characters in Neuromancer when I do a piece on hackers, fact and fiction.
There's permissive and then there's exploitable. People who benefit (financially) from being able use other people's work without contributing their own changes would prefer us to call it "permissive" instead of "exploitive".

It's sad that the movement which originally democratized computing (by placing development tools into the hands of ordinary users) is slowly being changed into a pyramid scheme that fleeces volunteers.

So, to echo other comments in this thread; GCC keeps the corporate BSD crowd honest, and postpones the day when they lock up their code.
>> And test the players before each game starts.

There are apparently no synchronous tests (e.g. antibody tests) in the US currently. Asynchronous tests (PCR) are hard to come by, and take 3 hours to run with a 2-3 day lead time at best.
Nonsense. Dose is titrated via usage. You don’t have to sit there and puff on a vape for 5 minutes straight like a cigarette.
I was not very clear in how I stated it. The originality of invention is unimportant.

What is important is this likely politically astute developer saw an in with this and made it a thing.

You've seen it often enough, I'm sure.
Recurse Center switches to online-only until at least May
They spent all their money on a tunnel under Boston so their infrastructure has 30ish years of deferred upgrades.
Interesting but a lot of medical jargon. It would be very interesting to see this translated into "plain English."
Microsoft should open-source Visual Basic. I'm sure a community would quickly form and take care of keeping it up-to-date.
Superdeterminism in general is a pretty absurd idea. It basically says the measurement settings you choose were predetermined. But you can use a random source from another galaxy to select them. So something like the configuration of stars in another galaxy must be conspiring to help you choose just the correct settings to fake the results QM predicts, instead of QM being actually true.
You can go if you wish. At moderately worst, you'll be sick for a week or two. At best, you'll die and you won't have to worry about bills or taxes anymore. But if you don't get sick at all, you'll have a good time.

I see a lot of my friends are still traveling. Cases are still relatively low in the mountain and desert regions. Just be sure to wash your hands, keep some hand sanitizer on you at all times, and probably some Lysol bleach wipes to wipe down all areas that you are about to touch. Don't touch handles, doorknobs, and if you're renting a car, of course -- wipe everything down. Same thing with your stay at a hotel.. probably the least wiped area are the door knobs, the remote control to the television, and even the faucets and handles in the bathroom. Use your sleeve when using a public rest room to not touch the door knob (been doing this... forever so...) At the casinos... not much you can do about the cards, but if you are pulling the slots, just wipe the handles down, the seats, etc.

It's unfortunate that the virus has wiped out about 5,000 people, but its nature keeping humans in check and also... chances are, you'll probably live. It's a bit worse than the flu but you may not even experience any symptoms, or it could just be mild, which leaves you with a runny nose, a cough, and extreme exhaustion.

While the virus is extremely contagious, the media has reported on it over a billion times, more times than any other virus in history. So while it's not wise to just "write it off", it is probably best not to think of it like the end of your life. Still got to live :)
Were her prayers accepted?
Typo: In the list of "things you don't do" it lists Web Application Firewalls and I thought there's an amusing asterisk for the claim that they "don't work at all"†

But sadly there isn't - that asterisk is supposed to be the next bullet point for Endpoint Protection and AV.

† So many missed opportunities. These things are so awful.
I remember having to go into work at 4:00 AM to replace the shift that spent the night in the operations support center.

Fortunately, the guys that spent the previous year sweating the details got it right. We had one system that printed year 100 in its log which was only used by humans.

Unfortunately, I missed the party and cash the night shift got.
I dont understand one thing though in my life time I am in my late 30s. Us has done well economically under Democrats compared to Republicans. But Republicans are considered pro business and Democrats anti business. Republicans talk about fiscal conservation but run up huge bills. Democrats talk about spending on healthcare etc but actually improve the deficit.
Where do the custom HTML tags (sea,beach etc) come from?

I do not see any preprocessor in codepen.io settings.

I thought that in order to use something like https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html you'd need Javascript.
FWIW, the teen usage as the root cause that made it impossible for you to buy your preferred flavor legally. The more scolds are downstream.
14,000 domain names were registered related to Corona in the last two months
unfortunately, this has caused some in the circle i know (mid-sized midwest city) to double down on stupid. that this is evidence of the hysteria and (not to get too political) some type of ploy to destabilize the economy and election. lol. what fun times we live in...
Single point of data:

All the years I lived in cities and did what an average urban dweller does: packed in an office, packed in public transportation or even packed on the pavement, packed in shops, packed in bars, packed in elevators, packed on the terraces or in a concert hall; I was getting a flu (or something very similar putting me in bed for 3 days) at least twice a year, sometimes thrice.

In the last 7 years, I have been living in the country and not taking part in almost any social activity. I got my first major flu on January this year. First time in seven years for something that previously happened to me every year. Brought by family members who had gone to some gathering... in the city (and who had been vaccinated against flu as obedient citizens, but that vaccine is notoriously crappy). We all got sick. In all those years, I only got 2 or 3 minor episodes, and all of them immediately followed one my very rare and short stays in the city, or a close family member who brought me that 'gift' from the same place.
Loans to companies to buy back their own stock. XD
How far fetched would nation states performing this at airports be?
So I'm totally not a vaping expert, I just know that in every case that I read about of someone being hospitalized because of vaping, it was because of such oils. My understanding is that the "juices" these devices are designed for and most of the mainstream ones from the "official" sources are water-based fluids with a small amount of drug and flavoring added. I believe vaping oil is quite problematic, regardless of the source. No idea if "black market" oils have actually been adding bad things to the oils, or what. Like I said, not an expert myself.
Don't you think that is all part of what they had in mind with "cascading economic impact"? It's certainly how I read it.
It doesn't though.

Here's a distribution of Italian deaths: https://external-preview.redd.it/nOYqCT3-3vzX6aPnaHk3Jb6LSvS...

Note that over half the deaths are over the average age of life expectancy of an Italian.
You are right. Unfortunately we need good strong leadership focused on protecting not just numbers on a candlestick chart but actual real people. Our current president has proven completely incapable of that and should immediately step aside. I am no fan of Pence but he at least likely capable of listening to experts and following their recommendations. The markets reaction to last night Oval office speech is reason enough to prove the nation has lost confidence in its current occupant.
Ditto with the the other Java EE API’s GP mentioned, their interfaces are available on Maven Central instead of being bundled in the JDK - which makes sense as Java EE is not actually a thing anymore and the Eclipse Foundation took over as Shepard.
I was in Minneapolis for Y2K... working release management/build engineering for a commercial ERP vendor, surrounded by Cray veterans (including my direct manager). The brainpower we put to Y2K was huge, but then again, we'd been selling product for a few years at that point as a "solution" to Y2K... just buy a new ERP system, and abandon your old in-house stuff rather than trying to fix it.

What a lot of Silicon Valley people don't get is that there are people just as smart as them everywhere.
You cut out the very next sentence which describes the element that I am claiming is unsubstantiated.

Though you do understand the further elaboration of why I too feel it is __extremely__ important that there is a clause about why this power is reserved to Congress and a described intent / limit within which that power is to be used.
Chelsea Manning ordered to be released [pdf]
Not at all surprising. Citylab is anti-car propaganda.