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The part of the economy that is responsible for electricity, clean running water, food and emergency services absolutely is sacred. The rest of it can maybe be put on hold for a few months; but it will be very painful for many, many people.

What isn't sacred are the people who own all that. They are as disposable as are any other parts of the economic machine. Replacing them is probably a good idea.
Because I’ve been to multiple universities myself and I know it to not be true from my own eyes.

You can also just go to any university website yourself and compare their syllabi and see how different they are.
That was never the case AFAIK. “Discount for cash” was prevalent before the rule change in January 2013 which allowed surcharges on credit card transactions.

https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/merchants/get-support/mercha...
Ah, that might be, it's unclear to me. Thanks for trying to clarify!
And to add to your comment, spelling it out in case it isn't obvious: you can also decouple pollution from energy production using photovoltaics, wind or hydro - and suddenly most of your power chain is clean (what remains dirty is manufacturing the power generator and power storage).
> Sales tax is on top of course, but social security and state provided pension is included in the 40% to 52% here (the percentage depends on total yearly income)

Likely depends on the country. It's not in Germany, and 45% is the highest tax bracket which few people will reach, but 43% is very achievable and you'll find plenty of knowledge workers in that bracket as it starts at ~55k €. Add ~20% sales tax, very high taxes on power and fuel etc.

The social net has a very high price, we need to stop prancing around the facts. I still think it's largely worth it (although it does contain very strong moral hazards), but I don't believe in hiding the truth so people don't come to different conclusions.
Well if it no one else is there your boss now has no excuse to not be in as he can't catch the virus in and empty officr.
I think that the apparent death rates depend very much on timing, population density, general health and fitness, access to intensive care facilities, and the details of how cases and deaths are counted.

Compare for instance the UK and Norway. Norway has about 1500 confirmed cases with seven deaths, average age of those dying is over eighty.

The UK with about three and half thousand confirmed cases has nearly two hundred deaths.

So on this basis the UK has a bit over twice the number of cases but twenty five times the number of deaths.

This suggests that several of the factors I mentioned have a substantial effect on the reported likelihood of dying in the two countries; but which ones and is the likelihood really as different as it seems?
It’s only supported on Ubuntu, not Linux in general, and it still lacks. The corporate backing is missing, and IBM going away from the Server-side Swift deal doesn’t spread confidence. The whole ecosystem just isn’t there (yet?).

This rewrite isn’t only related to the current situation on Linux, but also to Swift’s current performance characteristics. Lack of full Linux support is just another hindrance, before you can consider Swift for this type of work at all.
Delaying the pandemic buys time. Time is the most critically short resource.

Time means more ICUs, more ventilators. It means industrial capacity can shift from making consumer goods to medical supplies like masks. It means medical personnel get training and experience with the disease instead of shooting in the dark. It means labs and research teams can give more informed treatment advice.

It means small businesses and industries can try to reallocate resources and jobs and maybe save part of the economy. It means more time to educate the population to avoid high risk activities, wear masks, wash hands and so forth.

In every way it’s better if we delay the pandemic now that we know about it than if we just let it peak exponentially and kill the maximum number of people.
muse comes in waves. writers block is interesting because it indicates the author is desperately trying to produce content but lacks enough inner dialogue/creativity/ideas to say anything meaningful. the right way to combat it is to just wait. this is a problem that exists when you have an "industry" behind it or when writers are writing mostly for money or fame. Also a good example of why most books that have been written in the past 50 years will never survive the test of time, or why the top 100 new books section in a bookstore aren't worth the e-/paper they're written on.
Depends on the dialect. I learned lisp via clojure (in before all the "clojure is not a real lisp!" haters come in, please skip that) and first book I used was Clojure for the Brave and True which is a good introduction, fun to read, practical and is available for free to read online. Highly recommended! https://www.braveclojure.com/
On average this is true but all of those in that age group who have died in Norway so far had worse than average health to begin with. At least here there are many octogenarians who are really quite fit, physically active, and healthy.
Never seek after "firsts" too avidly. I've seen people claim the rock is the first computer, and an IBM mainframe running VM/CMS is the first personal computer. (You get your own personal CMS instance running on the massive, institutional big iron, see?)
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> Or appears to.

I think you have a very good point.
Man, this is the best explanation of net neutrality that I've read. Thank you.
Sure, especially for the models you pointed out. But other models...

On the other hand with PC laptops it's so common that a part at the display's hinge falls off or even a key for that matter. Recently a MacBook Pro fell from 1 meter or so, and the was just a tiny ditch, everything else was still working.
I think the interesting question (that we don't know yet) is how much of these actions are political because they want to show themselves strong and the public demand some kind of action. And how many of these actions are needed to flatten the curve, prepare the healthcare system and to work on cures/vaccines? For example shutting down schools have a huge effect on society but does it have a similar huge effect on the spread of disease?

How long can you just shut down industries, keep kids out of school and will it make a significant dent in the total mortality? It could be that a couple of weeks of social distancing will be enough but can it be months and what are the comparable effects.

I know it is more dangerous than the normal flu and I will not downplay that but take Italy (that yes, would be worse of without shutdowns) you have 4k deaths so far; mostly old people while a couple of seasons ago they had 24k deaths attributed to a bad flu season.

The social distancing and shutting down society needs to work reasonably fast otherwise I wonder if it is worth it, at least in countries where you already have widespread disease.
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> Can you restate tour claim. Cause I'm not even sure what it was at this point.

Gold has uses.
The heart does get tired eventually. Poor blood circulation will do terrible things.

This is a pretty cool technology.

https://billionsinchange.in/en/solutions/renew/

It squeezes the legs to help the heart pump blood.
As it seems to be widely agreed that copper or copper alloy surfaces are a good idea does anyone have any suggestions for methods of applying copper to existing surfaces such as keyboards, mice, mobile phone cases, gloves, door handles, etc.

Could powdered copper suspended in some kind of water based lacquer work for instance?
flour is still easy to find where I live, but yeast has completely run out.

I don't even understand why, if you buy a packet of 50g fresh yeast and use a couple grams a day it would last you a month, I think we need to educate people to have slow leavening!
>Current situation in Geneva, Switzerland - 2 critical male patients, one 27, one 29, no prior comorbidities at all. Not sure they will make it. Wife is a doctor and just checked this in their information system.

I don't know about the law in Switzerland but unless you are lying that is something she could be fired for in many countries.
And some people chronically defect, hence why tit-for-tat works.
Absolutely this. Someday we need to have interest rates somewhat sticky at ~5% (or whatever the sensible figure is), and lean more on fiscal policy to control the economy. Whether there is a viable path to that point is unclear. Perhaps the money printing required to cushion the economy will spike inflation, and once we get back on our feet we hike rates to control it?
We teach our kids to save and manage money with physical currency and make them hand it over to buy their toy or candy or whatever for exactly this reason.

Sometimes we’re out and they’ve not brought money with them, so we get clear agreement for them to pay us as soon as we get home. That results in much more anguish and tears (at home) than the former case, I guess because they’re now giving over cash for “nothing” (that they don’t already have).

It’s fascinating to watch.
Terminology nit: the vulnerability is the improper process separation. That JS snippet is a PoC demonstrating the vulnerability.
Ask HN: Remote Work Culture Tips
What are your best tips for making remote teams succeed? Especially across time zones?

Our non-remote team suddenly became remote due to the pandemic.

Even worse, due to border closures we ended up with a dev in a timezone 10 hours off from us who can no longer re-enter the country indefinitely. But will keep working with us remotely.
Direct link to GitHub project: https://github.com/74hc595/Amethyst
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I'm really surprised that the Macbook Air is the most popular. I had this idea that it was a niche product for people who wanted portability above everything. I guess it's a really good thing because presumably it has lower power consumption than higher performance machines. There was a time when the standard PC that your grandma would buy from Dell came with a top of the line Pentium 4. It's good that this is no longer the case.
I dunno, I’m not sure you can attribute either the industrialization of bread production, or the artisanal bread movement, to any one invention or person.

For example, you could tell exactly the same story about the electric mixer leading to faster bread making, leading to large-scale production of low-quality bread; and Raymond Carvel reviving artisanal French bread with his popularization of autolysis (mixing the flour and water and resting it before adding yeast).
The article asks some legitimate questions that beg for answers:

If we succeed in slowing the spread of coronavirus from torrent to trickle, then when does the society-wide disruption end? When will it be safe for healthy children and younger teachers to return to school, much less older teachers and teachers with chronic illnesses? When will it be safe for the work force to repopulate the workplace, given that some are in the at-risk group for severe infection?

When would it be safe to visit loved ones in nursing homes or hospitals? When once again might grandparents pick up their grandchildren?

There are many possible answers, but the most likely one is: We just don’t know. We could wait until there’s an effective treatment, a vaccine or transmission rates fall to undetectable levels. But what if those are a year or more away? Then we suffer the full extent of societal disruption the virus might cause for all those months. The costs, not just in money, are staggering to contemplate.
Since I'm mostly into ML/DL, I would like to share an article that I wrote one year ago, maybe some of you may appreciate it: https://blog.floydhub.com/best-deep-learning-courses-updated... (planning to refresh the content in a couple of months).
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> My main goal is to make clear the urgency of this situation.

It’s not ok to deliberately over-estimate numbers in order to achieve this goal. That was my original point at the top of this thread.

You may think it’s ok because the ends justify the means, but it’s still wrong and dangerous.
We'll add a /help command showing general usage and a list of all keys and what they do :)
Yes! It’s usually still delicious, I guess is my point. Although if you experiment a lot you do find some pretty extreme failure cases. :)
That explains why I'm so confused to learn that the Air is the most popular Macbook. I distinctly remember the Air being about portability over everything. It was a niche product.

So it's more true to say Macbook Air is their most popular brand because the product is not the same at all.
You avoid cash in fear of disease transmission of previous holders, yet you still touch other things others touch. AKA Security theatre.
The reason to preheat the oven is to brown it quickly without drying out the outside and overcooking inside.

The same exact reason you put steak on a hot pan, not cold. If you put it on cold pan it would be cooked through before you get any browning on the outside.

If you take too long baking bread the outside will be dried out, not crisped. Not everybody sees the difference but at least for me it is pretty significant.

Consumer ovens are pitifully underpowered for the most part and will take forever to bring oven to temperature with a large wet mass inside. Even if the oven is preheated the temperature instantly dips very significantly when you put your dough in.

The reason they do it in professional setting is because they don't have time to cool it down and then get it back up to temperature. Another reason is you want repeatable results and not depending on starting temperature.

As to the safety, as long as you are not super clumsy just general common sense is enough to prevent any burns. Don't touch the oven. Use oven mittens. Use extra long mittens if you don't feel safe. Do not operate on the dough while it is inside the oven (tray out, then do whatever you want, tray in). If you use steam to bake (which I do) make sure you understand where the steam goes so you avoid the areas where the hot 200C steam will be when you open oven door so you don't burn your face and hands (the answer: it goes up). Keep your small kids occupied somewhere else so they don't feel the need to have fun with hot oven while baking and after while it is still hot.
That’s what I meant about “folding and resting” at the end there, yeah.

It does work but I find kneading just as easy and a lot faster, personally.
> A combo of taking temp and testing those with fever,

You can have, and spread, covid-19 for several days before you develop a temperature.
I didn't really get the game idea, but cool demo and maybe a fun challenge would be to find a car worth a certain amount of money...
Wouldn't that increase mean arterial pressure? Would the heart reduce its output as a response to the external pressure? And what's with their claims of it clearing "trash" from your brain?
The comment you’re replying to makes the case that location matters. It’s arguing against your comparison of total CO2 emissions before you even made that point, and you’re not responding to it, but attacking some imaginary bad argument nobody made.

Your argument is also entirely generic. There is nothing that isn’t “irrelevant in comparison to industry and electrical generation”. Of note, “industry” can be split into arbitrary parts that would all fail your standard of significance. Meat production produces “only a fraction of CO2”. Residential heating, likewise, “produces a fraction of CO2”, and so do lighting, consumer goods, or the entire shipping industry.

Following your logic, nothing really matters, nor can anything be done.
Did not know this ETL that produce GIFs by using Prefect calls:
https://examples.dask.org/applications/prefect-etl.html

-> https://www.prefect.io/about/company
This is published by the ANSSI[1], National Cybersecurity Agency of France. They do quite a good job at publishing security guide.

[1] https://www.ssi.gouv.fr/en/
> It’s unlike any mouse cursor you’ve used before.

Ok sounds cool.

> The pointer will only appear when you need it.

Like a windows pc with a touch screen or any Android device.

> The pointer is a little circular dot.

Why not, it doesn't seem very precise but it's probably because UIs on iOs are not and shouldn't designed to be used with a precise pointer.

> It can change shape based on what it’s pointing at.

As they say, nothing new there.

> It supports some navigation gestures.

Like on a 20 years old Mac indeed.

I'm a bit disappointed.
A more relevant question for me is What is Tailscale? Didn't get that from either the article or really from the start page. Is it a VPN with "networking features"?
The foundational axioms of scientific practice are generally not considered to be defeasible at all. The axioms of any particular theory or field may also be considered entirely beyond reproach.

This is also not a semantic argument at all. It is strictly a logical one.
This is short and informative, thanks!
Well a few people moved some of the goods to their homes and today when my wife went to do the shopping she phoned me in tears saying the entire vegetable section was empty. Same with the canned goods section. Same with the bread.

So... We couldn't get any of those to our home. That's kind of a problem.

People just need to chill.
Yeah... "Anyone truly afraid of the virus can use eBay to purchase a hazmat suit of their own."
https://fortune.com/2014/10/16/ebay-started-as-a-website-abo...
How does a significant reduction in wages count as "works pretty good"???
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The way the website is setting the title is weird. On my Debian XFCE4 toolbar, the title is showing in two lines.

https://imgur.com/ADhL9Aj.png
I own just about one of every single Apple products, I'm completely invested in the ecosystem. Except for one thing, the iPad. I've never once had the need for one or even the want for one. I use my MacBook Pro or my iPhone, not sure why I need a bigger iPhone, so to speak.

But this... this might convince me to actually get my first iPad.
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I can understand that it is prudent to take a worst case scenario here but it depends on how widespread this thing already is without us knowing it.

So Sweden has right now 1,639 confirmed cases with 16 deaths so far. There are some young people treated in critical care but so far it has been older people who has passed away, often with other diseases as well. Sweden currently only tests older people, people with severe symptoms, healthcare workers and similar personal and those who can work from home these days and travel is discouraged.

One expert estimated that we have around 100k infected in total right now and discussed that some things like shutting down schools for younger kids will have a large effect on society but not do that much on the spread of the virus. Instead you should focus on protecting vulnerable groups, stay home if you feel any symptoms of cold etc.

100k out of 10 million population would fit roughly with Iceland who did random sampling and found 1% of their population affected.

Of course he acknowledged that there is no way to know and taking extreme measures are better than taking too small but emotional/political reactions vs practical is really a discussion to be had.
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A tip.

When you make bread regularly (as in quarantine), reserve piece of the dough to add it to the dough the next day.

This is guaranteed, absolutely the easiest way to have sourdough bread regularly without having to tinker with the starter. The dough is less hydration than typical starter, it is also already salted. This makes it more stable than typical 100% hydration starter.

Also, it has the hydration and salt content of your final dough which has the fantastic property that it does not change your basic proportions regardless of how much you add it. This makes all calculations extremely easy.
> But this... this might convince me to actually get my first iPad.

Any you'll get a MacBook Air where you're not allowed to run a significant part of productivity/development software and absolutely nothing that wasn't approved by some californian.
Ask HN: Impact of Covid-19 on pre-seed SaaS?
I have read over a few comments that were like "We are receiving X time more attention from VC.

Is it true?

Is it because investors are not willing to invest in any "hard" businesses?
Ask HN: If I've already taught myself to code, should I still get my CS degree?
I'm roughly 2 years into my CS degree, which basically means I've just completely all of the mandatory prerequisite courses. At this point, I can write software in multiple languages, across multiple platforms. I've taught myself everything I've needed to know about Software Engineering, and if it didn't feel so mandatory to get a job then I would drop out of school right now.

Fortunately, I do have a full scholarship, so I'm not going in debt. But I still dont know if this is even worth 2 more years of my time.
> You can do lung clearance easily on your own in the shower by standing with your feet shoulder-width apart or a bit wider, bending over as far as you can and coughing hard.

Adding to that -- as someone with a lifetime of lung issues: physiotherapists can help you cough up fluid/phlegm from your lungs. These are called "Airway Clearance Techniques" (ACTs). Depending on where the buildup is, we may be talking breathing techniques (e.g. deep inhale, hold, huff out), percussion etc. The goal is to bring up the gunk to the upper airway so it can be coughed out. Some of these techniques are easy to learn and perform on your own.

I don't know how useful or safe these are during viral infections, but I suspect "better out than in" applies equally well to all kinds of fluid in your lungs?
The context that I was missing at first:

> The Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information (ANSSI; English: National Cybersecurity Agency of France) is a French service created on 7 July 2009 with responsibility for computer security [1].

I didn't know about "cargo-outdated". I liked having "npm outdated" within the JavaScript ecosystem, so I'll give this a try.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agence_nationale_de_la_s%C3%A9...
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I think I’ve seen several of these now for python, seems very useful.

I hope a good one will be made soon for javascript/typescript.

Or maybe it’s needed less there because of typescripts type interference?
There's nothing better than for a user, especially one who relies on visuals, to visually see a "tree" of the possible actions they can do. And not tree in a literal or CS sense, but rather, buckets of activities with sub activities, not in a hierarchy but in an intuitive and context-creating way.
A friend of mine, an 8-bit enthusiast, calls usage of ATMEGA chips "cheating" :) "True" 8bitter relies solely on component base of the 80s.
The more accurate curve is a Logistic Curve. You have to factor in that eventually people become immune or die, and there's a total population ceiling. Obviously, the number of confirmed cases cannot exceed this limit!

There are other fudge-factors as well. There is evidence that the very early stages are not exponential, but possibly quadratic or some other curve, but this doesn't matter very much in the grand scope of things.

If you want to be really pedantic, you have to do Monte Carlo simulations using census and geospatial data for each area, factoring in things like school days, work hours, mass transit usage, and tourism.

However, it turns out that after all that effort you end up pretty much with a logistic curve, the first half of which is barely distinguishable from an exponential curve.

All previous pandemics and plagues have followed curves like this.

There is no magic math formula that will dispel this plague. Sorry.
Curious about this new breed of mice you mentioned - what's special about it.