skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the (globally) unique rights to things that save lives

This I don't understand. I don't have a right to nutritious food - I have to work to get that. Where do these rights come from?
that would be an epoch, not a nonce. it’s still awful
Honestly, if the company refuses to license, nearly no country will just comply and keep watching people die.

So, no not even a license is required.
Of course they can. But I'm not sure Germany wants to start a trade war.
All those poor people that accidentally decided to spend millions on a flat in Knightsbridge must be so upset because of all the sports cars they totally didn’t know would be there.
I commented on one of the other threads that I personally think this strategy is nuts. I compared it to Dr Strangelove, but really I was thinking of the beginning of “Fail Safe” when the Kissinger-like figure argues that nuclear war could be winnable for the United States.

Making a decision like this without releasing all of the data and assumptions behind the model feels unbelievably cavalier. It affects the whole world.

A couple of months into this, my lowly opinion is: give us the South Korean response, please. What I’d like to see is massive global cooperation to manufacture a billion masks, and an absurd number of tests — combined with aggressive social distancing, public education, hand sanitizer stations, etc.

It’s interesting that the UK government rode to power on a wave of populism — yet are proposing a solution that requires full faith in elites, with little transparency into the data and assumptions. A very precarious time.

[edit: obviously the South Korean model requires faith in institutions as well — but to me they’ve been fully transparent from the start.]
“using heroic volunteers,”

I assume you are one of them?
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>this might also give it more opportunities to mutate and maybe become more lethal

AFAIK viruses tend to mutate to be less lethal because killing the host is bad for reproduction.

random source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu

>This is a common occurrence with influenza viruses: there is a tendency for pathogenic viruses to become less lethal with time, as the hosts of more dangerous strains tend to die out
The comment isn't for educating the authors, it is a reminder for those reading the article not to misinterpret the authors' work.
The downvote button here has much less power here than it does on Reddit.
Paste is quite wonderful. It adds a lot of flexibility in output and should definitely be more widely known.
Once a bad actor has made it clear they are a bad actor (which Trump has - he's committed plenty of crimes in broad daylight), they lose the benefit of the doubt.

Bad actors can thrive on unbounded benefit of the doubt. At some point, they have to go bankrupt. Trump is well beyond that point.
USA doesn't have enough tests even for that. I'm proposing we at least test the cases that reach the hospital stage.
Don’t think it’s Chinese propaganda but this is the only “official” statement in the article:

> “The German government is very interested in ensuring that vaccines and active substances against the new coronavirus are also developed in Germany and Europe,” a Health Ministry spokeswoman said, confirming a quote in the newspaper.

> “In this regard, the government is in intensive exchange with the company CureVac,” she added.

All the extreme statements are attributed to unnamed sources. Sadly you need to read news articles carefully these days.
Well, if I try hard to imagine how they think, without assuming incompetence, it would be as follows:

Assumption 1: Our country will not be able to take measures that are extreme enough to stop exponential growth.
Assumption 2: Once a certain level is reached, we can drastically lower the doubling time so that the number of simultanious cases are kept below what our healthcare system can handle.
Assumption 3: If we stay below the level that the healthcare system can handle, mortality rates will be low, maybe lower than 1%.
Assumption 4: The total number of individuals that will require hospitalization is low enough that the healthcare system can treat all patients needing treatment in a few months.

If assumptions 2 is not met, the mortality rates of pations that require treatment is likely to be similar to what is seen in Italy, ie roughly 15%.

If assumption 3 is wrong, and the real mortality rate is about 3-5%, having about half the population infected, will still lead to huge numbers of dead, more than the population is likely to accept.

If assumption 4 is wrong. Italy is currently unable to handle 20000 cases. A country like the UK may be able to handle maybe 10000-20000 simultaneusly. If 10% of the population requires hospitalization, and each patient will stay there an average of 1 month, measures will have to be dragged out over several years, anyway.

Assumption 5: This only needs to be done once, meaning there will not be second or third waves or mutaded viruses that will need to spread in a similar fashion in the same time period.

At some point, I think every country will realize that they need to take drastic measures, enough to stop the spread from being exponential. Doing that after detecting 100000 cases is VERY different from doing it after detecting 1000.

The downside, of course, of preventing exponential growth, is that most measures will have to be kept in place until there is a vaccine or other cure, and that could take 2 years.
Well, yes. But I've never ridden a triple that wasn't quick. A triumph street triple has plenty of power and a good top end, a triump __speed__ triple, or MV Agusta Brutale has ludicrous power and a good top end. A triumph rocket 3 is, well, its' a cruiser, so it's never built for a top end. A Yammy MT-09 is lower on top end, sure. But it's the cheapest of the bunch and has lots of torque.

They only lack top end power compared to the 1000cc inline-4 engines which sit in track-focused supersports.

Which is like saying, "I found the Ford Focus RS lacking in power compared to a Porsche 911 Turbo S".
You're not "following" any more than Hansel and Gretel were. You go wherever the bread crumb trail leads you. Fattened up to be eaten.
Years ago I got the flu very bad when I was healthy. I thought I was going to die.

Most of the time your body will fight the flu, but when you get it bad it is very serious.

I cannot imagine why you would do this to your citizens. Depending on how bad they get it even young healthy people will die.
> if a rack's temp has raised but there's no customer error, is it an immediate problem?

Here, the problem was on a machine running a google application, so they noticed. But this is a post on the google cloud blog. This just makes me think that Google isn’t monitoring the health of the hardware they provide to customers in the cloud. It is a change you have to make when you change the layer at which you are providing services to customers. If I’m using the google maps web site, I don’t care if they are monitoring cpu temperature if layers above insulate me from impact. If I’m spinning up a virtual machine, I will be directly impacted.
From all Americans, I want to apologize for our stupid fucking leader.
It's the British way, they're a tough cynical bunch heh. Plus it's human nature to not believe something until it happens to you or your family.

I'm not gonna panic, and keep going as usual, with the recommended precautions. Ideally I don't want to get infected, but if I do, oh well, such is life.
There are a lot of reflexively partisan Trump supporters, more precisely. It's routine to find fairly reasonable partisan discussions, with facts on both sides, reasonably broad participation, etc... Yet see that one "side" is grayed out.

This is a serious problem, and while I'm sure someone will disagree, it seems almost completely asymmetric to me. There's an army of centipedes, as it were, poisoning the discourse here with vote buttons and not arguments.
> My grandparents are long long dead

er...what are you trying to say? So other people's grandparents can go f* themselves?

> I do find it amusing you believe only Trump supporters support liberty

Nope, I mentioned Trump supporters because Trump was dragging his feet on cancelling his massive rallies [1]. Thankfully they've been cancelled now.

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/11/21174945/b...
They already fixed it the free market way by ousting the CEO. The majority shareholder is German.

Beyond that they can just invoke national emergency and take control if it was needed.

The company works with Paul Ehrlich institute which means tax payer subsidies and ironclad contracts and regulation.

This isn't Deutsche Bank paying for Trumps Russian deals - German medical science is very well integrated and protected.
Same reason there are libertarians here. Not much life experience and too much Reddit.
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It's not 2%-5% of the elderly, it's 10% or more. Particularly with no supportive treatment. The UK government say they will try to preferentially isolate the elderly population, but this makes very little sense. People will spread the infection regardless, and some social contacts across generations will have to occur.
the problem is that because it takes a year or two to get a vaccine out that this will all be over unless it mutates into something completely different.
There is very little evolutionary pressure to mutate to a more lethal variant and a lot of pressure to mutate to less dangerous variant.

The ideal evolutionary strategy is to produce excess bodily fluids from sweating, coughing and sneezing, while not making people so sick that they lay down and stay home, let alone die.

Viruses don’t get bonus points for being lethal, unlike certain video games.
> There is a strong argument that closing schools will impact the NHS, even though children aren't very at risk.

This is a complete moot point. Other countries have implemented free childcare for healthcare workers when schools are shut. There is no reason why the UK cannot do this for NHS staff.

And because children are not at risk of developing serious symptoms, they can be a huge reservoir for the virus, which then infects the middle-aged and elderly.
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Did anyone propose that?

Do you believe that, in normal circumstances, we should repurpose all money typically spent on primary education and firefighting to go to elder care instead?

If you weren’t arguing for that last year then you believe in complicated trade-offs too.

The concept of trade-offs is the absolute core basis of all major public policy decisions.

It’s also the basic of many personal decisions. If you’re familiar with hospice care or a DNR order then you know that end of life questions have trade-off calculations as well, even within families or between life partners.

Pretending this is a binary decision is just nonsensical.
Trump is an outspoken supporter of Israel.

After him, Cohen, Shapiro, -Stein -Berg etc have become major red flags in my book, too.
Do people do not visit their datacenters often enough to notice a tilted rack?
>The quicker we stop the spread, the quicker we can all go back to our normal lives. All you're doing is just making it longer and more devastating.

From my understanding, this isn't really true. "Stopping the spread" is an unreasonable and incredibly difficult undertaking. Isolation is about reducing the rate of cases. It's likely that similar infection numbers will be reached over the course of the whole pandemic no matter what. Nobody is going back to "normal life" any time soon - the only question is how drastic the counter-measures will be.
Please take your conspiracy stuff somewhere else.
Let's keep the rhetoric on HN to whatever gets the point across. I am well aware of HN's etiquette. So well that I already regret engaging in this pointless conversation.
> histogram

Is this much different than `alias histogram="sort $1 | uniq -c | uniq -nr"`

Sidenote: I started https://github.com/jldugger/moarutils as a means of publishing and sharing these, but it turns out I don't even have a lot of dumb ideas. Will probably end up bookmarking this HN post for "later."
Stopped reading when he compared a commodity auto market to Boeing.
He just does what he always does. Throw money at it. Same as the pornstars.
Agreed, but why would it need to be done "exclusively" in the U.S?
Dead on, the vaccine will just be a novelty, this will be over by then after 70-90% of the population has caught it and is mostly immune to it or dead.
I agree it's hyperbolic, but the numbers are staggering and quoting the current deaths are really misleading in this respect. This will affect small percentages of everyone. A million deaths world wide, with a disease that is expected to reach 60+% of the population is not much. It's the difference in the death rate of 0.02%. In other words, if a sufficiently early intervention manages to reduce the death rate from 1% to 0.98%, that's a million lifes saved.

However, the sensitive dependence on initial conditions only applies to things that happen during exponential growth. By the time a vaccine hits (according to many reputable sources about a year from now) we will be in a very different stage of the disease anyway.
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On my federal loans yes. This relief does nothing on my 6.5% interest private student loans.
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Another facet not mentioned is unemployment. The world of pretty casual factory work (52k hires/year with 14k employees) was one in which (say) a 20% decline in work meant the average guy waited an extra 2.8 weeks before starting the next job, which he did a few times each year. It's pretty easy to save/borrow enough for a few weeks.

But in Ford's new world of more-or-less employment for life, a 20% decline meant 20% got fired, and those guys now waited on the bench until the economy recovered. This is, I think, part of why the great depression was so unpleasant, compared to 19th century recessions. (For clarity, I don't think this was anybody's intention, just a consequence of higher-skill jobs being less flexible. Nor that it was the entire story.)
People are still working everywhere. It will be interesting to see GBP/EURO this week, on Friday it tumbled doooown. I predict it will go down another 5p.
> But I fully stand by my point anyways that no country in the west did a good job

FWIW I totally agree.

> Might as well have been Germany if they wouldn't have gotten lucky in stopping the spread from their Bavaria case.

Yes, that's what Italy was hoping to do. They didn't realize how contagious this thing is.
If I'm not mistaken the Spanish flue actually mutated to become more lethal.
They probably had throttling alerts back in the Sandy Bridge days (it was common for Linux machines to hit 100% CPU usage but not actually do anything back then because of some kernel bugs), you'd think they'd have them monitored.
part of an account I heard of this somewhere else was that the turnover of employees was specifically between car manufacturers. Because they all paid more or less the same, if a worker got annoyed he would leave with no notice and go to a competitor.

Ford also refused to re-hire anyone who had previously quit, so the $5 was a great example of "Golden handcuffs". People would think twice before leaving, knowing they would be making 50% for the foreseeable future if they did.
The facts are in. The German government acknowledged reports and said it is engaged in talks. The company reacted and fired the responsible CEO on 2020-03-11, per the companies website. Before you judge reports, look at the available evidence.
With years of experience with Scons, I can say quite confidently that I don’t ever want to work with a Turing-complete build system ever again.
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Liberal?

I'm the most left leaning person I know and am involved in local politics. I'm pretty sure most of my cohort opposes forfeiting our sovereignty to financiers.

But I'd say outrage, vs fear, is my prime motivator.

FWIW I've adopted Jonathan Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory, until something better comes along. None of the personality traits are correct or incorrect. They just are. I'm just trying to understand other people better, esp those I disagree with.

Edit, TMI warning:

My SO voted for Trump. And about 1/2 my family are #MAGA. We largely have the same values, culture, upbringing. So it's fascinating to me how we reach different conclusions. I was truly surprised to learn about fear, anxiety, and so forth.

My SO's prime motivator is fear, which she proclaims openly. Whereas I have near zero fear response. That difference is the basis for most of our quarrels. And, frankly, I just didn't grok the difference, so was being quite the knucklehead.
The scenes in O'Hare last night were completely insane and the policy, beyond stupid. "Too stupid to be true" does not seem to be a valid rubric for this administration.

Some stupid and insane stories about him are certainly false, but many of them appear to be true.
> their ability to handle a lot of variable data and inputs and weigh them dynamically

I dunno. Computers are pretty good at this one too, on different kinds of variance and weights.

The largest problem I see is that everyone is discussing "either or" on this thread, while the clear winner is both.
> The article notes that famine also predicts authoritarianism, which is predominantly caused by things outside human control

Amartya Sen's work showed that famine is caused by failures of government, not agriculture. There are plenty of cases of people dying of famine when their countries were producing surplus food.

Frustratingly, i can't find a good accessible writeup of Sen's work online, but here's his original book:

https://www.prismaweb.org/nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Pove...

Wikipedia has some detail about the Ethiopian famine in the '80s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%E2%80%931985_famine_in_Et...
So most men then? Black tshirts from Marshalls, dark levi jeans, darn tough wool socks, smartwool underwear have served me well in 99% of situations for a decade without much replacement.
from the founder:

https://endpts.com/curevacs-ingmar-hoerr-tells-us-why-he-ret...
If any official source, regardless of country, recommends to abstain from ibuprofen I would simply like to know. I neither live in the US nor think that scientists and medical personnel in other country are less educated or trained.

I think it's about distinguishing important information from stuff people randomly write online because a non-peer reviewed study made a hypothesis.

The goal is for everyone around the globe to be as safe as possible and misinformation in the context of medical advice is not helpful.

Of course it's better not to take ibuprofen, in any case. But some people may rely on it or other NSAIDs.
Looks pretty similar to premake[1] but I couldn't find a comparison on the site. Could you provide a pitch or comparison? From what I can tell so far, it looks like xmake directly invokes the build tools whereas premake generates a Makefile/Xcode project/visual studio project from which you then need to use those tools to perform the final build.

[1] https://premake.github.io/
nah don't worry we might have a slight anti-american streak when it comes to global politics but I don't think I've ever seen personal sentiment against Americans as individuals (other than maybe badly behaved soldiers stationed on military bases)
"Some of you may die, but that's a risk I'm willing to take"
This is great work, but I feel like the wrong thing triggered the alert.

The temperature spike should have been the first alert. The throttling should have been the second alert. The high error count should have been third.

If you're thermal throttling, you have many problems that could give give all sorts of puzzling indications.
The fact that the company is also in Boston is also reported in the German article. That's besides the point though. The real story in this is that reportedly the US Government was/is looking to secure _exclusive_ access.
Accomplished it's mission of getting a target audience all riled up too!
CP solvers are excellent at handling side constraints, at least as long as they can be expressed as a boolean, discrete or linear relation.
The idea to social distancing is to slow the inevitable spread so health infrastructure isn't overwhelmed and death is minimized.
They weren't taking advantage of those prices in the sense of getting access to something needed they couldn't otherwise afford. They were exploiting arbitrage opportunities to inflate prices in order to decrease overall access to a universally needed resource.

That represents scarcity inducement via supply chain disruption due to supply that is generally sufficient for a particular area's needs getting diverted to parts undisclosed without the tight feedback chain created by integration of distributor's inventory/purchasing systems. Those are the important signals. Not some idiot chucking things around Willy nilly through Amazon.
It's a lower proportion than the general population so I don't know why it would be particularly surprising. You have to realize nearly half the country has a favorable opinion of him as President.
Presumably it caches copies of frequently-requested content on nodes closer to the end-user, rather than always fetching that content from an origin node which might be quite far away (especially on a P2P network). It's "stateless" because stateful requests are always sent directly to the origin node, rather than being intercepted and reproduced from the closer cache.
It’s the anti-lockdown people that are anti-math. Any reasonable person can see that the lethality of the virus is much worse when the healthcare system is saturated. If you accept this, then the only solution is to reduce the transmission rate to reduce saturation of the healthcare system, i.e. “flatten the curve”.
Moral law?
Neither of those movements were "suppressed". That's an extraordinary claim and I'd love to see some evidence. Last time I checked, OWS went on unabated until it collapsed under its own weight due to no clear direction or leadership. BLM continues to this day and performs protests all over the country, some of which have resulted in violence and rioting, yet are not touched by most cities.

There are a lot of people, myself included, that don't like Donald Trump, but it is just factually untrue to say that the US is suppressing protests. It's more accurate to say most people are more focused on waking up in the morning, getting to work, and feeding their families than whatever shenanigans are happening around them.
But lua requires a runtime and an interpreter, right?
The related join(1) and comm(1) are oft-missed and occasionally helpful.
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Odd and unusual? It matches the political climate of the US. We have a largely despised president with a small following of fanatics. This is what it looks like reflected on social media sites like HN.
The bigger problem is people coming from the UK are testing positive... They're imposing this "plan" on everyone else without a care.
How do you follow up one these “articles”. I understand that it is a hypothesis, but unfortunately these articles do create some nasty rumors, where these tend to be treated as facts instead of just a hypothesis.
I meant the patent(s) covering the vaccine. If there was a single global patent on making nutritious food, we'd have the same problem.
That's a good point. I wish more stores had implemented restrictions on purchasing volume much earlier to slow down the hoarding.
Your point obviously didn't come across so well. For next time, consider if this thread would have advanced this far had you just said "That's not what the word "exclusive" means, <it means this>."
You're intentionally ignoring what I'm saying and I'm not going to continue engaging with it.