skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most "asymptomatic" people will show symptoms within two weeks, so aggressive cluster/contact tracing works. South Korean local goveenment staff are following the credit card use, transit use, and other daily movements (CCTV logs) for every confirmed case, then issue two week self-isolation orders to those who shared a workplace, restaurant, cafe, church, or elevator with the confirmed case. Since most cases get a short lived fever or cough within two weeks, SK has been able to stop most transmission chains. I'm actually a bit confused about the scope of SK testing. It looks like everyone with symptoms is being tested, as well as quarantined health care workers and quarantined people from high risk groups, but I'm not sure whether asymptomatic people are tested at the end of their quarantine period.
Amid Global Pandemic, Gulf Countries Offer a Glimpse into the Future of Retail
After blood tests showed I had low vitamin D levels, I’ve been making an effort to get at least 15 minutes of direct sunshine every day.

I think the biggest problem is that wearing long sleeved shirts and trousers means you only get sunlight on your face. This is a double whammy - not only do you not get enough exposure for vitamin D, but you also increase the risk of skin cancer (or just general sun damage) on your face.

I’ve since moved to Singapore, where it’s too hot to wear anything but shorts and a T-shirt. This makes things a lot easier.

Couldn’t we do more to encourage public sunbathing, to allow greater skin exposure over the whole body (back and upper legs in particular)? I suspect we would see non-negligible improvements in public health, such as those referred to in the article.
I checked into this recently because a family member takes it for lupus. It's 10x to 30x more expensive in the US than everywhere else in the world.
It wasn't until this latest outbreak that I realised just how pervasive the ideas of pandemic are in the creative works I consume. One of my favourite books is "The Reality Dysfunction" which deals with a pandemic of possession. A favourite childhood video game is "Halo: Combat Evoloved" which centres on alien space zombies. Speaking of zombies, I really like "World War Z" (the book, not the film). And, in my efforts to have better job prospects, I am studying biostatistics which includes plenty of content on epi/pandemics.

It's bit like how nature and animals pervades all of our advertising and branding. You don't notice just how much our zeitgeist is filled with these things until someone or something points it out to you.
M4A is similar as well. I guess all big social safety nets have this problem.

UBI and M4A would encourage me (and others) to pursue less lucrative pursuits (arts, research, gamedev, entrepreneurship, etc) but it would be hard for me to quit my nice tech job salary if there's the specter of the GOP potentially killing the benefits that enable my pursuit.

And that doesn't even compare to the effect that uncertainty has on the less fortunate.
The lack of testing capacity was a choice.
On the other hand, some people (e.g. myself) keep sneezing and coughing the whole winter every winter, so I definitely wouldn’t consider those symptoms without either headache, body ache, throat pain or fever...
1$ per secret a month sounds extremely cheap considered on how much does it host to run vault
Ah, Linus Pauling was just one letter off https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C_and_the_common_cold
Random is hard to beat.
It's totally unreasonable.

There isn't enough quinine in tonic water to benefit you and the alcohol is going to leach nutrients that your body needs, lower your white blood cell count, kill good flora in your mouth, lower your body's immune response, and leave you more susceptible to catching the virus.

You shouldn't present nonsense as fact, it doesn't help anyone, and in this case is actively dangerous.
Estimating actual Covid-19 cases in an area based on deaths
Tesla appears to defy Bay Area shutdown, plans to operate Fremont factory
Your obtuse reply isn't even tangentially related to the line of discussion.
Thanks. The rest of Q#3 is actually questioning how one makes a choice to go after theory X to prove vis-a-vis theory Y. Does it have a grounding on the impact (positive) on humanity, funds, personal likes and dislikes etc.?
You sound like someone that works at a company with “unlimited pto” am I right?
> in many companies it is treated as heroic to push through.

I disagree, I see myself as weak for staying home an extra day or two, but I don't see others as weak for doing the same.

Today, I think the pressure to push through is mostly self-imposed. That's makes it no less real though.

Personally, I don't like sitting in an office with someone who is coughing. During the current virus out break, I doubt anyone will appreciate you pushing though :)
I say you set up a system where a large number of people are poor by design, you can't blame those that end up poor. You blame the system and the people implementing it.
Quinine course used to cost around 1.5 RMBs in 1998.

Managed to catch malaria in Hebei out of all places, during my first trips to China with my father.
PyPI, not PyPy. For those confused over how PyPy could cost that much.
That's not the point of inflation, and I don't think that article backs what you're saying up.
Not OP, but I imagine he's bought into the Hadoop and other big data stories. Most data processing of large data sets can probably be done with standard UNIX tools.

There is nothing new under the sun, it's all just rebranded.
Similarly, I'm not a confirmed case but I've been isolation since Friday just out of general precaution, and I developed a mild chest tightness while here. I was sure it wasn't covid because I didn't have a fever, but just a few hours ago I checked again and I have a borderline one (99.4). Then my girlfriend got an email that someone tested positive from the same floor in her office.

I don't qualify for a test and my doctor said don't bother coming in with my current symptoms and risk profile. Still waiting to hear back about whether my girlfriend qualifies, who has a closer connection to a case and an underlying health condition.

Last weekend we were very nearly at a small conference. We had zero symptoms. Even now I'm not sure if I have covid, a cold, or if I'm just stressing myself into seeing something that isn't there.

I would be a lot more stressed if I had gone to that conference, and given people there whatever it is I have.
The flip flopping between Metro / Windows 8 / UWP permanently turned me from doing anything non-win32-API on Windows again.
Do you have anymore details?
> Microsoft doesn’t do everything right but the GitHub acquisition has honestly gone better than I ever expected. Rather than forcing GitHub to adopt Microsoft centric policies, Microsoft has adopted more GitHub stuff, especially from a product POV. GitHub still runs as a separate company (different logins and health care and hiring systems) with its own policies and point of view.

That's what we said about the Skype acquisition too.

"It's different this time, it will run independently, for once Microsoft won't interfere and destroy the acquired company".

3 years later (I was there), 50% of Skype original management and developers left. All the major new projects of Skype turn out to be integration with the endless already existing Microsoft products: integration with Link, integration with microsoft ID, integration with Microsoft UI, etc...

5 years later, Skype is dead... but everyone left already.

Good job Microsoft.
>So how does the scientific community decide which are the theories that is worth spending time on to prove them and which are not?

Four primary variables:
1) Collective interest of the researchers in the topic of attack
2) Collective interest of the financiers of research on some application of the topic of attack
3) Funding for research
4) The effective tools for experiments are already invented and available (example, a microscope)
> This makes it harder to reason about other people too and harder to understand complex reasons behind why others do what they do.

You've literally just reasoned about their behavior in a humans-arent-special way, and understanding that people do things for reasons other than what they say (or even think themselves), and that those reasons are usually pretty basic enables you to react to their actions and opinions differently.

That's another thing I've noticed: almost everybody starts to think about humans in that way once they start thinking about humans and human behavior. That's similar with the "does human life have a value" idea, where even those that shriek at the thought and claim that you it's immeasurable will usually agree that you should put children (and women) into the life-boats first (which, of course, isn't possible if it's immeasurable). To me, it just looks like they don't want to acknowledge their thoughts and intuitions, like somebody not accepting their personal desires and rationalizing it with increasingly strange explanations instead of just saying "I want ice cream". I don't believe that's a healthy approach.
> I suspect the true numbers are about 10x-50x the reported confirmed cases. This is good in that it means the death rate is also off by that factor, but bad in that there will not be enough fear/incentive for the primary carriers (young adults) to adhere to adequate social distancing.

If the death rate is off by 10x-50x, isn't this approaching the death rate of seasonal influenza, in which case we didn't actually need to adhere to social distancing in the first place?
Using two mics for recording acoustic instruments (in this case, guitar) and mixing two sources later in the DAW is explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww-cH29IGeM
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Airlines are another one. The market expects domestic travel bans Soon (tm), forecast for United is revenue is down 9% this quarter and 95% next quarter.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/16/coronavirus-makes-airlines-c...

I'll be curious how this affects package delivery, personally. A lot of 2-day shipping flies on those passenger planes. If anything shipping volume will be up but there will be fewer planes to put it on.
If you do "object manipulation" e.g. columns/records/objects etc then at least Powershell offers some sanity.
how does the choice of live mixing console vs audio interface affect production?
Anyone who is caught staying in their country cottage, rather than their official residence

What's wrong with doing the quarantine in the country cottage ?!
Indeed. Another example: https://twitter.com/jawj/status/1199026735980990465
> getting a sick leave involves a visit to a doctor - which, like any visit to a healthcare facility processing sick people

Remote doctor visits are starting to become a thing, now! Still don't know how they'll check our temperature, or issue us the sick leave paperwork.

But hey! It's a start!
With any job that requires urinating into bottles to keep low tier managers' KPIs good, I somewhat doubt the attribute "much needed".
Please wear a mask.
As a slight nitpick the US government did not sink any money during this ordeal. The Federal Reserve is not the US Government; it is our somewhat government affiliated private central bank.

Bailouts, which are likely to come, will be from the US government through the Treasury, however.
Interesting, but it doesn't change the fact that health systems are overwhelmed.

If the rate of hospitalization is 15-10%, lockdowns seems the only realistic option.
> Less code, loose coupling. Do one thing and do it well. Keep the external API simple.

> It's always easier to change a small thing instead of a large thing. So make a small thing, and only make it a big thing if you absolutely have to.

this is along the lines of what i was going to suggest. i prefer to code everything such that it does just one thing that is appropriately at the level or context it sits at.

a function should just do one thing and have reliable outputs based upon inputs. a class should represent one thing. class methods should do one action. modules should collect functionality that does a thing. processes and servers should do a thing. and so one. if you build your system out of things only doing the thing they say they do, then it becomes clear when they're being changed in incorrect ways.
I feel like I’m approaching the limit of what I can take, but I doubt I’ll ever truly reach it.
> Is the README a landing page?

Well, yes? Isnt that whats it for?

Also, blogs will be lost to the sands of time, while readme will survive as long as someone has the sources.
Why should we use good air purifier in our home and bedroom for baby?
Hack-the-Crisis: 6 Lessons from Estonia’s Coronavirus Crisis Response
Thank you, learned something new - from none other than the founder of npm! :) Congratulations on the acquisition, bright future ahead for the whole ecosystem.
Oh wow I had no idea this was all out there. Thanks :)
After reading a bit more, maybe it's not such a panacea. Seems like it's standard of care, but may not help patients who have advanced symptoms; and, obviously, does not prevent infection. Therefore it may not stop us from imposing the preventative measures (quarantine, travel restrictions, the like) which are causing all the economic catastrophe. Still, seems like it would push a bit of a positive spin on things rather than allowing the economic free-fall we've witnessed.
Leadership change velocity [0] at Curevac has been interestingly high recently.

3 Mar: CureVac CEO Daniel Menichella Discusses Coronavirus Vaccine Development with U.S. President Donald Trump and Members of Coronavirus Task Force

11 Mar: Company Founder Ingmar Hoerr Succeeds Daniel Menichella as CEO of CureVac AG

16 Mar: Ingmar Hoerr, CEO of the company, will take a temporary leave of absence for medical reasons. Franz-Werner Haas, Deputy CEO to assume Hoerr’s role until his return.

Would love to have more informed ones comment in.

[0]: https://www.curevac.com/news
Bitcoin difficulty adjusts every 2016 blocks, nominally 2 weeks. Each time it can adjust by a factor of at most 4 (in either direction).
Many other cryptocurrencies adjust difficulty every single block.
Meanwhile in France the fine starts at €38 and can go as high as €135. Seems incredibly low, though if someone is convinced that they want to break the rules then a larger fine isn’t likely to persuade them not to do so.

Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/coronavirus-ce-que-vous-...
"Mean" means nothing in the context of probability distributions.

It's possible I picked it up elsewhere, and less likely that I have something else with these unique symptoms (I've never a had fever without nasal congestion or gastrointestinal symptoms before). However, I think it makes sense I would be at the lower incubation period range due to the high level of contact with said suspect and the fact that I'm an otherwise healthy young adult, which as I understand it can lead to the immune system reacting faster.
The Winnipegers coming down probably could stand to ease off on at least some of the stuff they're going down there to buy. Not that Grand Forks isn't a nice little town, but damn it seems wasteful to drive so far for usually frivolous things.

Edit: I do imagine that many smaller communities close to the border in MB need to cross into the US for necessities, and was being a bit facetious
> Sick leave is something you take when you have high fever or need surgery

No, you take it when you have a problem big enough that it impacts your ability to work OR when you have a contagious disease.

It's a lose/lose situation for a company if a single person gets half the company sick.

> there's only so much sick leave you can take, employers expect sick leave to be extremely rare and will "phase you out"

In the US sure, in Europe you can't fire someone for health reasons. In France you'll even get 66% of your salary for 3 years if you can't work at all for health related reasons.
The disease also appears to spread much faster than the flu. So even if the death rate is comparable, the infection rate is likely to be far higher.
Perhaps because Node code bases when deployed cause the package manager (npm) to consume more bandwidth in general than comparable Ruby or Python code bases due to higher dependence on third-party packages?

As at Oct. 2018, the top 12 npm packages [1] were already doing more than 0.5 billion downloads a month. Granted, popularity has waned for a few of those top packages due to deprecation or new language features, for instance.

EDIT:

NPM’s announcement about the acquisition [2] provides up-to-date numbers:

“Today, npm serves over 1.3 million packages to roughly 12 million developers, who download these things 75 billion times a month ...”

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18343604

2: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/612764866888007680/next-phase-mon...
One caveat on my previous comment - if you use any one of these in production (I guess k3s is the most likely one there) - then I think using it for dev should be fine. The biggest issue is differences between versions - we're deploying to managed k8s in azure, and need a dev environment that works similarly.
No need to go ballistic over couple of lines.
That last photo is from hurricane Harvey, it seems slate didn’t even bother doing the basic fact checking of reading the top tweet responses (where I found this: https://avocadbro.com/fact-check/vegan-food-photo-misleading... )
Unfortunately, if you take a look at figure 3 in that paper, you'll see that correlation is extremely weak and the non-zero coefficients almost entirely driven by a single outlier.
Median income in the USA in 2017 was is $31,099/year.
There’s nothing that I could have personally done to affect any of the things you’ve listed here. For the vast majority of people, this is just some that’s happened and needs to be dealt with. Occasional devastating diseases have been part of the human condition for millenia, and the global coordination put forth to fight this one is unprecedented which marks real progress. It really wasn’t that long ago that stopping a pandemic at its source became anything more than a fantasy, and it’ll take a few rounds before we get it right.
> "The vast majority of people infected with Covid-19, between 50 and 75%, are completely asymptomatic but represent a formidable source of contagion"

So long as every asymptomatic person got it from someone with symptoms, they necessarily a source of contagion. Is the conclusion based on modeling, i.e. that the rate of spread is only consistent with the asymptomatic people also trasmitting the virus?

Lots of asymptomatic infected doesn't (automatically) mean lots of transmission from asymptomatic people to uninfected people.
In this time and age I think an internet connection is a human right. There should be free internet access, although limited bandwidth, for those who cannot afford it.
https://www.jqknews.com/news/388543-The_novel_coronavirus_pn...
This is not the case of shit jobs that trap people, provided by a notoriously antisocial company engaging in illegal things. This is a case of jobs critical for the society at this moment, provided at a time where half of the country is about to become unemployed.
The Fed is a government organ. It is not a private entity. Its debts are the US government’s.
I find it interesting how often I observe someone give a disclaimer about being bad at English, followed up with the clearest explanation / documentation / answer I've seen in a good month or so.
I believe its around $30 in the US at Ralphs or Costco
The Winnipegers coming down probably could stand to ease off on at least some of the stuff they're going down there to buy. Not that Grand Forks isn't a nice little town, but damn it seems wasteful to drive so far for usually frivolous things.

Edit: I do imagine that smaller communities in MB do actually need to cross the border for a lot of things, but I think Grand Forks has recently been advertising in Winnipeg.
Trying to find a dev setup that was feature complete and as similar as possible to production, while still running locally.

As a sibling comment mentions, there are a number of differences between distributions/implementations - and especially when new to k8s it's way too easy to waste time trying to figure out why something doesn't work.
The paper explains how, these are not my figures but they do seem credible, this is the modelling team advising the uk gov and the gov has adjusted their strategy to suppression in response (the tactic in China), but the economic impact of that is pretty dire too, and it means tough choices.

The measures in China were draconian and long lasting (large cities on lockdown for months), and they managed to contain it because they were first hit and it had not spread far. It has already unfortunately spread widely in the UK and US.
I think it's an:

- invitation for countries to jointly cooperate in everything.

- Reset to zero for unproductive entities and inefficient systems.

- independence and resiliency for individual economies.
Yes, we are 3 months late. These wasted last 3 months were critical after the December outbreak in China. I don't think it is the U.S. problem, Europeans didn't move a finger until the beginning of March either. Literally everyone watched China as if they could contain it properly. They didn't even tell people until it was very late.
Because many of these small towns do not have hospitals or many staff for handling sick people.
SM 57, 58, 7b.

I love them each dearly.
Plain Text, Papers, Pandoc (2014)
That doesn't add up, if it wasn't worse than seasonal influenza, then Italys hospitals wouldn't be overwhelmed.
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Masks are not proven to slow the spread of the virus.

Stop propogating project fear
Well, that reflects inflated American prices. In India, it is about 270 INR for 90x 200mg, or about $3.65. Non-generic hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) is about 3 times the price.
I believe that this goal can be better achieved by exposing data rather than procedures. Data are much more stable and although the design depends on what you originally plan to do with them, this dependency is not rigid and there's usually many different usage scenarios. Also, data are much more comprehensible and malleable than procedures so quite a few compatibility issues can be solved automatically.

E.g. the primary goal of DTD was to validate XML against a simple grammar, but the same DTD can be used for auto-completion when editing the XML. Same data, different usage. Also, if we want to shift to a more powerful validation engine, e.g. XSD schema, we can parse DTDs and mechanically convert them into equivalent XSDs.
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> That’s not how politics works. You can’t abuse a crisis to ram something unrelated down the opposing party’s throat.

This is exactly how it works in practice in the US because the government is in terminal gridlock.

> You end up alienating everyone including the moderates.

The largest political party in the US is the non-voting party. Again, how it works in practice is that almost half of the population is already alienated.
Yes you are correct of course - my mistyping!
Not sure about any TOS but I’ve been sharing my WiFi for more than 10 years now. I live in an appartment block in an Eastern European capital.
If you use k3s in prod, you might be well off with k3s for dev.

But I still think microk8s is easier to spin up on a workstation.
Perhaps some randomness can be part of the smarter ones algorithms.
Harsh, but true...
So it is possible that we could have pursued(time and money) on things that do not turn out to be impactful or left out working on those that could have had a major impact.