skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon Musk's words-

“My frank opinion remains that the harm from the coronavirus panic far exceeds that of the virus itself. If there is a massive redirection of medical resources out of proportion to the danger, it will result in less available care to those with critical medical needs, which does not serve the greater good.”

“My best guess, for what it’s worth, based on the latest Center for Disease Control data, is that confirmed COVID-19 (this specific form of the common cold) cases will not exceed 0.1% of the US population. Moreover, I do not think when we look back on 2020, that the causes of death or serious injury will have changed much from 2017.”

No, he wasn't talking about toilet paper hoarders. He was yet another overly self-absorbed person who thought that because he knows about something, ergo he knows about everything. HN is full of those types. That the "panic" response of actual professionals who are experts in this field just didn't match his imagination of how to respond to this "form of the common cold".

As an aside - the MAGA brigade is out in heavy force lately. The type of comments that are being flagged is absolutely ludicrous. If you find a comment that's politically unpalatable, be sure to flag it.
This is why lazy Darwinian hand-waving is - let's be blunt - stupid and naive.

By the time you get to a complex human culture, everything is about second and third order effects.

We're here debating whether or not it's Darwinian that Covid-19 disproportionately affects old people, while the second and third order effects are a recession (if we're lucky and clever) and a depression (if we're neither).

Given where we are as a species right now, both of those will have a much bigger impact on long-term human viability than any immediate deaths.
Britain has been extended some visas, recognizing that it's sometimes unreasonable (person from a country with more cases) or impractical (lack of flights) for people to leave when they expected to.

The current extensions are only to 31 March, but maybe they will increase again after that.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-immigration-guidance...
It's not politically infeasible, the adminstration just fucked it up. We could have been mass testing like other countries back in early February.
What is the average age of death, and life-years lost compared to the severe economic impact? The article explicitly asks this question.
The problem with analyses like this is that they don’t factor in human psychology, whatsoever. Keeping people locked in their houses for 18 months isn’t going to happen. Trying to force it will result in economic and social unrest that dwarfs virus deaths.
Because it’s not really about the access to capital, it’s about rules designed for non-pandemics slowing them down during one.
Recognizing Ignaz Semmelweis and Handwashing
I'm wondering why they need "dual 20 core processors, 786GB of memory" to serve FTP?
WHO to launch multinational trial to jumpstart search for coronavirus drugs
Good luck to the billionaires when all your slaves are dead. Power and clean water don't just randomly exist.
Agree completely. All of us accumulate useless junk to various degrees in our lives. The extremely wealthy just tend to have junk that looks extremely nice, but no more useful than the Bluetooth shower speaker I got for Christmas that’s never been opened.
My whole group was in on Infinity for a long time.

But eventually the intricacies of Infinity rules gets to you. It is a dense DENSE ruleset that requires constant referral to the rulebook.

It is fun. It is a great setting. But I know it wears on some people due to its complexity.

After a week of work where I'm heavy on the brain-stuff, I've decided I want my games dumber than Infinity.
The Economic Rout Accelerates
i'd love to see your calculations for that. unless you're talking about a temporary uptick in grave digger openings.
Taking Materialize for a spin on NYC taxi data
I was under the impression that even Apple used linux for its production web environments.
It's also a multi-gigabyte installation full of Java, C, and Wolfram code. It is huge....so I'm sure there are some difficulties.
> “However, when end users download data from Earthdata Cloud, the agency, not the user, will be charged every time data is egressed.

Not necessarily, depending on how the users access the data. If users access the data through their own AWS accounts, NASA could leverage S3's "Requester Pays" feature [1], to let the user pay for downloading the data.

1: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/RequesterPay...
Use sagemath (sage). Runs from the command line and is python based.
There should be no shame, but in reality, there's no end to the number of people ready to take the piss out of you for "painting toy soldiers". I couldn't have a few Space Marines on my desk at work for example, like I might have Lego.
Just opened it up on my machine (2019 Macbook Pro)- 65MB with no files opened. No idea how you're getting to almost 10x that.

Edit: My bad, apparently I didn't count all processes.
Well, it'll take even longer since they will have a backlog. That would be my guess.
Your claim is dubious. People don't balk because of closed-source. They balk
because they don't know whether your SaaS is worth relinquishing their
personal data.

Until we know what it is your SaaS does, it's impossible to advise on open
sourcing. Generally, however, unless you've patented an algo, always open
source. For the last 15 years, code is cheap commodity, and getting cheaper.
The only companies capable of sustaining a proprietary model are big and old, which is
not you. You will need to feed yourself from high-touch service level agreements.
I assume the data accessed is a heavily skewed pareto distribution.

Given that, it's maybe still cheaper to build their own serving / caching layer in front to save egress costs than to have constructed the whole storage solution themselves.
If you use Svelte with Sapper, you will get the "best of both worlds".

The first page you hit has the content baked into the HTML, and all subsequent content "pages" load like a single page app.

[1] https://sapper.svelte.dev/
Per the App Store Review Guidelines:

> Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps.
P.S. I actually remembered one area where Maple is still absolutely superior, that is plotting. It doesn't require to explicitly set argument range, it tries to find features of the function and adjusts the range to include them. AFAIK, Mathematica still doesn't do this.
People generally don't say inflammatory things because they're inherently evil. They're scared, or mad, or have things going on in their life. Arguing online won't change that. Conversely, fixing those things may make trolling less appealing.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/632474-i-have-a-foreboding-...
I found something by the English philosopher Alan Watts later that was absolutely true for me:

"Imagine, too, if you were a bus driver. Bus driver is ordinarily, ordinarily considered an absolutely harassed person. You've got to watch out for all the laws, all the competing traffic. The cops, the people coming on board giving their fares and he has to give them change and if he has it in his head that this is work, it will be hell. But let's suppose he has a different thing in his head.

Supposing that he has the idea that moving this enormous conveyance through complicated traffic. It is a very, very subtle game, and he has the same feeling about it that you might have if you were playing the guitar or dancing. And so he goes through that traffic avoiding this, and avoiding that and taking the affairs like this and he makes a music of the whole thing. Well he's not going to be tired out at the end of the day. He's going to be full of energy when he gets through his job."
Related discussion: "Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People (2019)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18881827
They got a 50% deal. From the article:

"At least NASA seems to have bagged a good deal from AWS: The Register used Amazon’s cloudy cost calculator to tot up the cost of storing 247PB in the cloud giant’s S3 service. The promised pay-as-you-go price for us on the street was a staggering $5,439,526.92 per month, not taking into account the free tier discount of 12 cents. The audit, meanwhile, suggests an increased cloud spend of around $30m a year by 2025, on top of NASA’s $65m-per-year deal with AWS."
Syncstorage-rs: Sync Storage server in Rust
I don't know why I feel compelled to mention it, but 1791991 is a prime number.
Don't forget about the age of deaths here. Divide the above by life expectancy at birth, then multiply by life expectancy at death from the virus. And possibly weigh by decade, I'd probably trade another decade of my 20ies over e.g. 80ies (not that I've been there). AFAIK /the average/ age in Italy is pushing 70.
This is a common argument, and it is a form of argument by dictionary definition, which are seldom informative, and most often used to avoid the issues.

While individual scientists may hold beliefs that go beyond scientific premises, the significant difference between scientific and religious belief is that in the former case, all axioms are considered to be defeasible - and they quite often are overthrown.
Thanks for the input! I can pass that along. I'm not as connected to the user research and design teams, so I don't have any helpful insights to provide about the evolution.

We _do_ serve the video through YouTube by default, but we have a fallback video player that should kick in if YouTube isn't available.
No ... this is a glimpse of the kind of changes the world needs to make anyways to stave off destructive climate change. The world needs to learn to be together virtually ... that means remote work for knowledge workers, better local communities that let residents walk to get everything they need (groceries, restaurants, bars, etc), less flying to far flung parts of the world (at great carbon cost).

We can still greatly expand our reach beyond what many people do today through technology, without having bankers and executives commuting by plane every week.
I am guessing you are not in the 2-4 million people who get to die then?
This argument is a classic example of the vicious circle principle [1]. The self-referential nature of this interesting argument makes it somewhat meaningless (from a logical perspective).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicious_circle_principle
One year of launching NoCode into Beta-Observations, learnings and what next
Trump Sought to Expand Virus Drug Tests over FDA Objections
Agreed with your previous comment.
That was implied in the article: they once switched time to synchronize with arriving Russian ships.

Presumably they use the time that is most convenient to synchronize with some current activities.
I'm not sure what physical space has to do with a boom in education. The long term trend is that economic downturns lead to a boom in higher education. That's just a fact of life.

Schools, right now, are being forced online with all goods and services, which is uncharted territory for most of them. Whether it's old-timey faculty dragging their feet because in-person is better than online (it is, by the way), or because some classes just can't be offered online (without critically thinking about it I would argue), or because we've just done things this way forever. Whatever the reason, higher ed is being forced to think about things in ways it never has before. Institutions are desperately snatching up online resources right now like crazy.

My argument is that when the boom comes in the next six months, all colleges and universities are going to look to build resiliency and responsiveness in certain areas related to critical student facing infrastructure. This means online. This means external services.

We're big, we're slow, we're out of touch with reality, but one thing we don't do, in individual institutions in higher education, is make the same mistake twice. That, at least, we're good at.

None of this has to do with physical space?
Nationally lock down now, and once we unlock down the virus will come back from foreign countries and be just as much of an issue.

Slightly more of an issue in fact, because we will have just shot ourselves in the foot in terms of capability to deal with it via manufacturing.
> since the image is not representative to the entity.

Arguably it is.
Turning your Raspberry Pi into an edge gateway
We do, but it's not enough. National Strategic Stockpile has seomthing like tens of millions of masks. I believe need over 1 billion.

It wasn't replenished after H1N1. Hard to convince politicians to buy things we may or may not use.
The medical system works pretty much like this. After studying medicine you have a long practical education where nobody trusts you.
Where poor hygiene is everything below: always sterile.

Otherwise fine.
Yes, in WL strings are commonly used in a matter similar to enums in other languages.

The thing to keep in mind is that WL is based on symbolic replacement. You normally wouldn't define that kind of function as taking in a parameter (i.e., CreateDataStructure[x_] := ...), rather you'd define it for each case separately (i.e., CreateDataStructure["LinkedList"] := ...).
Where would one find the original kernel?
Don't mix transactions and locks. Transaction just ensures that all queries within it were run successfully and atomically. Locks are used to prevent race conditions. And in your particular example neither a transaction, nor lock would help, you need to check explicitly in UPDATE if you've got any books left.
The Imperial College report:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

Full suppression will require total shutdown for ~18 months.

Mitigation, specifically requiring the sick and elderly to self-isolate and quarantinging COIVD-19 cases and their families, will result in 2-4 million dead (depending on its effectiveness), with the situation over in 3 months.
I think you're talking about universal or isomorphic rendering, but each of these allow for it.
When a mask gets saturated from moisture of your breath, it loses its effectiveness. That's why they are rated for 4 hours.

UV light can breakdown material.
The Blogging Experiment
The reason for this, that makes sense to me, is that there's typically one lead investor negotiating terms and often many other following investors. If the lead investor was the only one who was paying, then only the lead would take the dilution.

If this is spread out among all investors, it's conceptually more fair since the lead is negotiating for all of the investors effectively. At that point, if you have a 50k legal bill, you can either say it's a 1M$ round where each investor has to chip in their share, or you say it's a 1.05M$ round and the company has to pay.
> The sun doesn't only rise and set once a year at the north Pole! Is this a joke?

> Edit: -3 for correct science. Good work HN

You have to explicitly say that you are a flat earther. Otherwise people on HN assume standard science as source of knowledge.

If you are not a flat earther, you might consider watching this video while closely observing the north pole:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLRA87TKXLM

Also Stellarium is an outstanding piece of FOSS software, you can play with your position, time of day and time of year. Please dont file a bug report because the sun does only set once per year at the north pole. Stellarium is not made for flat earthers.
No but I am in the tens of millions of Americans who will lose their job and go bankrupt if things continue this way. I could sell my possessions and move back with my elderly parents (ironically exposing them even more to the virus). Suicide is another option if the situation does not improve.

At least during a regular economic downturn, you can go to a bar, drink out your sorrows, join a construction crew. Now, during Coronavirus panic, which of these options even remain? It is completely unprecedented to have everything shut.

Those who will perish already have existing health conditions, and would have died at some point anyway:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-tho...
Gah, I'd read the FAQ but somehow missed that, thanks!
I am concerned about that as well. I may switch to mute by default as soon as I connect and whenever I'm done talking to someone. I've been using Google Meet and I wish there was a way to persistently show the muted state. Fortunately, there's a ding when someone enters so even if I've forgotten to mute, I'll likely notice if someone starts listening.
Hypocognition is a censorship tool that mutes what we can feel Ideas
"I don't care about economy" I didn't know I'd ever say this, hate these words, but this is privilege talking.

Look at life expectancy chart for Russia in the 90ies.
This was mere economic mismanagement, and it's far worse than the worst case virus scenario.
In some countries, unemployment and economic mismanagement leads to civil wars, revolutions and dictatorships.

Sure, techies in democratic/democratic-socialist first world countries will be probably fine in bad economy, if my experience in the great recession is any indication. A chance to buy cheaper stocks, too!
However, even in a mild recession hundreds of millions (at least) will suffer. I'd choose 350k deaths.

EDIT:
Come think of it, if you could completely mitigate one historical event in Europe, would you go for Spanish flu (millions of deaths!) or Great Depression (mere economy, of no consequence)?
Receivesms
I think you mean local maxima as opposed to "best possible .. designs"/global maxima
Assuming this result holds... Perhaps anti-A antibodies that may be produced by non-A blood types have some cross-reactivity with the virus?
The attitude of British police towards guns is one of the things I really like about the UK.

> I'm not sure anyone who is both sane and well informed wants a group of people trained for warfighting to be deployed in a domestic policing role.

Ironically, that’s why I have more trust in the UK armed forces than in the UK government at the moment. I don’t think the UK government is either of those things. I hope I’m wrong.
Not my work, can't take credit. Here is how the author created those: http://67ekjdzqxmmmuiv.codecalm.net/editor.html and all icons are created with a line, an arc and a circle. I found this repo linked on a polish website and figured this community can benefit from it. I also pinged the author to join and answer a few questions you guys have here.
Well 'using' Linux in production is quite different to actually contributing to the development to it.

From the FAANMG group of companies: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft and Google all have employees signing off patches under their company emails and no-one should be surprised to see no contributions from Apple to the Linux kernel anyway.
In addition to mitigating the effects of the pandemic itself, the proposed solution(s) here focus on addressing the liquidity crunch many businesses are facing now or will face shortly.

Interested to hear what people think about the proposed solutions.
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Another compound used that is also a zinc ionophore is Quercetin [1] which quite a few folks here already take for other reasons. It is easier to get online since it does not require a prescription. It also has less side effects than Chloroquine which is a plus in my book. I mention this because you have to be taking it in the first few days or prior to infection to be most effective. Doctors will be treating people that are well beyond the first few days of infection.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25050823
I think what I'll miss is having 20-year-later eyesight, so working on intricate details with artificial light will be less appealing. (By now I know what my dad would mean when he'd say things like "how can you see that in this light?") Once I've finished a more important assignment, I'll push my work-from-home hours to the mornings and evenings, leaving the afternoon free.

If the isolation should somehow continue to the winter, I'll also miss out on evening daylight, since I live 4° further north.
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There is still money, it's just at large companies now. They're not desperate though, and I'm sure they'll keep the difficult interview processes during the downturn.
SuSE invented LiveCD, AFAIR, years before Knoppix claims to be the first LiveCD Linux in the late 90s.

Yggdrasil Linux was earlier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X
1 Terabyte of hard disk cost ~50USD.

247 Petabyte ~ 247000 Terabyte > 50000 USD.

Network cards, bandwidth, electricity cost > I can't guess.

Couple of good engineers (hardware and software ones), which they definitely
have.

May be they could have built their own cloud in < ~10-15 million USD. And that won't be recurring cost.

May be they missed article about Bank of America saving ~2 Billion USD, by building their own cloud.
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/kernel/Historic/linux-0.01.tar...
There are considerably safer bets than S&P500, with similar returns, including a classic 60/40.

https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolio/portfolio-matrix/

https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolio/risk-and-return/
Whatever, but if wikipedia somehow becomes unusable without javascript, it will be a real tragedy.
https://repl.it/repls/LongHungryFolders

you are welcome!
HN will never pass up an opportunity to shit on JS or especially web frameworks, without fail. It’s actually sort of entertaining.
I struggle to see how bringing the economy (& everything around it) to a grinding halt will help.

What happens when we "press unpause"? Do people really believe the virus won't be there afterwards?
That’s unusual, will you email me or support at fly.io so I can have a look?

We use that KeyCDN test pretty frequently with different results.

Those TLS handshake times aren’t great, I think that was probably the first load from Vault on certificates. You should see most handshakes at <30ms on there.
Not sure why this is downvoted. It seems very likely considering the numbers of death. DE numbers of infected (13k) is between FR (9k) and SP (17k), but the number of death in DE (33) is 8 times less than FR (260) and 23 times less than SP (760).

Right now DE is #5 in term of cases and #11 in term of death. Either the way they count death is different or they are way better at detecting cases and FR/SP have many (100k+) undetected cases.