skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It too a nursing home in Seattle losing thirteen residents for them to test. So, there's more than just a few. And again, my hypothesis is that it isn't just elderly, but more exposed lung damage. Which, simple age is a good indicator for poorer lung health.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-nu...
Why would you be surprised? Massive surges in disease aren't new -- my grandmother told me stories about being quarantined in Philly in the 1930s.

And that's back when things like Polio was raving populations, and could cripple you for life even if you made it through.

Point is, we've had to deal with this before... just not much recently.
Your counter-examples (thanks for providing them, by the way) don't quite work. Sure, they work grammatically, but not contextually. Both the right to bear arms and the right to religlious freedom are immaterial rights. There's not necessity to bear arms for my survival, there's no necessity for religlious freedom for my survival. There's however the necessity of food and shelter for my survival. As soon as you take these away by assuming property rights, you take on the burden of supporting everyone that might have used said assumed property for their own survival.

Since we all started out as nomadic hunter/gatherers, this assumption of the "commons" being a wasteland does not quite hold, don't you think?
I know that China relied heavily on deliveries for food and essential goods in Wuhan, but also seemed to be having people doing deliveries kitted in protective gear.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/08/8129257...

Not sure how this affected transmission, but doubt the same protections will be in place for delivery workers in the US because of shortages masks, gloves, etc.
"Refund my money or I will expose you and your guests to a deadly virus"
Fellow Soulseeker here. The compensation copyright tax ended in 2011:

Cancellation of the fee

On March 24, 2011, the National Court annulled the order that regulates the rates applicable to the various devices and supports recorded with the digital canon. The reason is that, because it is a regulation, it needed procedures related to supporting and economic reports that were not carried out.

On July 12, 2011, the Congress of Deputies voted favorably on a non-law proposal that urges the Government to abolish said canon and replace it with another compensation formula for authors and content owners that is more suited to copies and uses actually made.

On December 31, 2011 the canon was definitively repealed by the newly constituted new Congress of Deputies, being replaced by a new payment this time by the State whose procedure is about to be developed.

Source (in spanish): https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_por_copia_privada_(Espa%...

I join the clapping, sorry for the nitpick!
> What you're saying is that your personal "principle" is more important that facts.

What uk_programmer's original argument was that even if it worked, even if we could afford it, it would be wrong to make uk_programmer work for $5000/mo. and then take $1000/mo. of their money and give it to someone else.

Having a factual discussion about the implementation may be interesting, and may be worth discussing, but the argument has already been laid out on moral grounds. If you're going to continue answering the "How?" question and ignoring the "Why?" question, you're going to keep finding that you're talking across purposes from the GP.

(BTW, I think your "factual" case is severely flawed as well, but that's a story for another time.)
Really? You don’t think prison with tons of other hardcore criminals would be worse?
You’re trying to twist words by saying “so good people are stealing it” and using lobby to encompass literally every type of lobbying, which is ridiculous.

Good or bad, people will steal it because they feel entitled to it.

They lobby for things like DCMA enforcement and DRM because people steal it.

If people didn’t steal it, there would be other things to lobby about, is that your point?

I don’t think that wasn't obvious but sure.

My point is the things stealing leads them to lobby about things related to stealing, which are things that end up not being great for anyone.

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I mean to be clear, the cat is out of the bag and this line of thought is more of a thought experiment than anything.

People steal, DRM exists and DCMA exist, the status quo is set.
How is that anywhere close to stealing? The only person who loses anything in this situation is the person that chose not to pirate the content that was not available to them.
Theoretically, you lower interest rates to encourage investment, not the hoarding of cash.
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Sincerely curious, how do you square this with the CFR in Italy at this time? That the initial impact to primarily elderly people and a low count of cases compared to a much larger undiagnosed quantity (still mostly undiagnosed cases) are creating a high death rate statistic? Or do you think some other factors are at work there?
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With all of the measures in place for Coronavirus, I've shifted to a full-time remote schedule for the first time in my career. Our company supports remote pretty well, but this is the first time we've been mostly remote. Doing this for more than a few days starts to highlight our weak spots.

So I'm curious, what is your remote working kit? What are you using for email, chat, white boarding, file storage, video conferencing, etc, and how well is it working?
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I don’t see how it would reduce the power of landlords. If more people want to live in an area than housing can support, rents will increase to whatever level they can sustain to find the equilibrium where fewer people can afford it. If fewer people want to live in an area than housing supports, rents will fall.
Then you should go after the doctor for malpractice because malaria in East Africa is hydrochloroquine-resistant.
28 year old male, USA. Same exact thing with sore throat. Funny enough, I noticed the weird breathing coming on while running a couple days before symptoms showed as well.
If the OP comment was the second half yours there wouldn't be an issue, but it wasn't, it was a simple racist screed scrawled upon a forum that I go to for useful information and substantive opinions.
Same boat, I haven't torrented a movie in years because Netflix gave me a good way to pay for them.

But now I have two streaming subscriptions and the catalog between them is still too sparse. I think I'd need 4 or 5 separate subscriptions to stop losing the "is this somewhere that I can watch it?" game.

Plus I have a VPN account that my phone and tablet are connected through almost all the time. I don't like having to leave that turned off when I want to watch something, often I'm multitasking and it means whatever else I'm doing is now connecting from my home IP address.
We don't have a full lockdown. We have "work from home if you at all can, try not to socialise, etc." It's certainly not "you may only go out if you're going to the supermarket, pharmacy, hospital or you risk fines." Many shops are still open, for example.

This said, I also wouldn't say it's really crowded, I took the tram in to the office this morning to pick some stuff up (last day that'll be possible for a few weeks) and it was very quiet.
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CHANGELOG.md's last entry is

0.3.10 Beta - Popcorn Is Love - 31 October 2016

No info anywhere. Did it actually change?
Yeah it’s hard to knock the man for failure when he did shoot for the stars and landed on Mars instead.
Ok, I missed that.
Google essentially has the same role Microsoft did at the height of the browser wars...majority market share and lazy developers. So new shiny things tend to be Chrome-only.

Webcomponents exist as a loose set of standards that are marginally cross-browser, but Google has the biggest/most popular framework using web components.
If it's just a gateway (no transfer to PP), the consumer won't know the difference.
> My inference is that government employees are considered to be lazy and/or like children, that you can't trust them in general to work on their own.

From my observation, this is just what a certain school of manager things of all employees/subordinates.

It's horribly toxic, especially when said manager is seeking to polish their own credentials with their higher-ups by taking on more work in their department. Any time their subordinates tell them, "We're already at full capacity. We can't take on anything more," that's seen as meaningless whining.

So the workload doubles, with no increase in overtime or staffing. You can guess what that does to the people having to do the work.
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I used to be big into XHTML, but that ship has long sailed.

Also if Web Development is now becoming a synonym to "ChromeOS", Chrome did not reach that state magically, rather thanks to the crowd that kept bashing IE and FF thorough the last decade.
This kind of leads to an interesting question which I have been vaguely pondering for a few months.

What happens if you choose an irrational base for your number system, rather than an integer or even a rational base. For example, if you chose to express a (positive) number as a_1 e + a_2 e^2 + a_3 e^3 + ... where 0 < a_i < e

Obviously you could chose e, or pi, or whatever as your base.

Can anyone of with more mathematical chops comment?
The specific question I asked was about the test case you mentioned since I couldn't find it with a quick search.
Also, I haven't really seen anyone saying it's the end of days, but more to use the US as an example, we're trying to reduce the likely death toll of millions (330M). It's heartening that it looks there's evidence that's some natural maximum coming out of China, but some US hospitals are already close to their capacity so we're trying to avoid a medical system breakdown here.

From another comment, you said why "aren’t all dead" in existing regions, when literally no one has ever said they'd all die. The most pessimistic studies I see are like, 50% of population gets it and ~5% die after the hospitals run out of capacity (and another 10% have a really, really scary few weeks), so 2.5% of the population
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1. Realize and accept that you have no control over some things.
2. Enjoy the pleasures of remote work.
And because their legacy service had more features (like multiple languages)...

Docsify needs maintainers btw. It's a worthwhile project! https://github.com/docsifyjs/docsify
Musk is probably right. I seriously doubt the UK would be considering just infecting all the youth with nCoV if he weren’t.
Because USSR was doing a huge land war.

British empire did war mostly on the sea, so US and British Empire were much better at producing ships, aircrafts, and also radio, radars and other electronics.

Tanks is good but it is much less important than strategy, logistics, food, drugs and saving human lives.

USSR killed a huge number of own citizens (including execution of so called deserters). Well, good for the rest of allies.
I have been there too and I think the content massively changed in the last years. I don't even disagree politically on the points they make, but it has got to levels beyond what I call reasonably sane. Not that this wouldn't be true for their most prominent detractors too, perhaps they just adapted. Perhaps it is due to a change in userbase, but the morosity certainly changed.
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Basically every other generation before you in history faced a much greater threat with far less resources, technology, and desire to cooperate. Cold War, WW2, WW1, American Civil War, Chinese Civil War, Napoleonic Wars, French Revolution, Black Death, Mongol Invasions, etc. since the beginning of time.

I personally find it comforting to know that no matter how bad this virus gets, it’s essentially nothing when placed within the context of human history.
Creator here. As a developer, I worked on ledgers of many types at different companies. I never understood why were people splitting financial systems, from accounting systems, from billing systems, and so on. Why can't they all be the same? Is not all of them just storing transactions?

I heard many times that maintaining an updated balance is the single biggest issue with these systems, so most people design them use relational databases to make sure "anything touching money is ACID".

SAP built Hana due to scalability issues on their general ledger, main problem being keeping the balance while transacting. I spoke with a lot of friends in the industry having trouble with relational databases going down by queries during the billing process.

I thought a lot about the issue and decided to build a system breaking all of these misconceptions (in my opinion). It uses DynamoDB (NoSQL), it uses the double-entry accounting system (the best way to make sure money is not lost), and it scales to >100K transactions per second (it actually can go further, that's only the free tier of loader.io).

Here are the docs: http://ledgersight.docs.stoplight.io

I took a lot of inspiration from the Ledger CLI, I believe companies will benefit a lot from getting access the simplicity and powerfulness of the Ledger CLI on an API.

Hit me up if you want an API Key to play around. Any feedback will be much appreciated.
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But it wouldn't take an act of Congress to change that. Your link says it's up to the FDA, which could easily choose to allow importation to combat the pandemic.
I've used some of that $10k per seat software (AutoCAD and Revit). While that is expensive, businesses pay it because 10k is the revenue from one project using it. A very small project at that. It is also much easier to track down and sue a business compared to someone watching a movie alone in their room.

Companies that sell that software like Autodesk and Adobe also have the sense not to worry too much about individuals pirating it because more people who know how to use it means more customers later.

DRM will always fail because the content has to get decrypted at some point if anyone is going to see it.
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When did they ever?

I got off of Facebook in 2008 and even then there was no ambiguity that FB, Google, etc. were going to data mine the hell out of you.

They have utility -- like opiates, or guillotines -- but only in very specific use cases.
> All I see are people snapping up perishables; nobody's baskets are full of canned foods. How are people going to eat more perishables than they normally do? Are they all using this opportunity to improve their diet?

my guess is that people are actually buying more non-perishables than perishables, but the supply chain has a much deeper buffer of non-perishables, so it appears the opposite is happening.
We've been near a post-scarcity economy in the West for some time now and it always seems at the tipping point of being for everyone or for just a consolidated few. I haven't seen a lot of people posting things like, "It's your fault you work in a job that is shut down and can't pay for groceries. Pick yourself up your bootstraps." Nice not seeing that and perhaps anecdotally it says something more positive about society than previously assumed.
When I'm anxious or feeling down, I make a mental "gratitude inventory" in my mind for as long as I can, remembering all my blessings past and present. Does wonders for perspective.
Not necessarily. My contention is that in places with many severe cases, there are also tons of mild cases. In particular, I see no reason to think the young population is not getting it. Toddlers and pre teens. Especially in areas with higher family residence.

So, my hypothesis centers around trying to give an explanation for why that population isn't impacted by severe cases. Going off how bad it hit me, if that is what hit me, best I have is lung health. And I don't have unhealthy lungs, all told. I do, however, have a distant history of asthma, and I find it plausible it did damage my lungs long ago.

To flip it some. They say even if you survive, you may have lasting lung scarring. What if that preceded the covid?
It’s almost like when ancient Rome had a pause in winter and life resumed in springtime. The calendar ended in December (October) and resumed two months later in March.

Alas, the modern world has no time for pauses and is obliged to march on.
> Are those free and first come first served?

No. There's a Vickrey auction for the name. The amount paid is burned.

> If I forget the key, is the TLD lost forever?

No. If the owner doesn't extend after two years I think, the name is put back up for auction.
I don’t understand why people with more money should have such outrageous levels of power over those with less. That’s all capitalism is. Coercion through artificial constraint.
English is Unicode. Pretending otherwise would be quite naïve. https://www.azabani.com/pages/gbu/#slide4
And to quote from that very essay, "Professor Hogben... while disapproving of the everyday phrase put up with, is unwilling to look egregious up in the dictionary and see what it means".

That is, "egregious" used to mean—even as recent as in Orwell's time—"blatant, obvious, unconcealed, glaring". But apparently all such words also gain a secondary shade of meaning "bad" and come to mean "baltantly, openly bad, and proud of it".

All the more reasons to use smaller, shorter words.
It hits close to home.
Here here. Been saying this for years as a satisfied Popcorn time users. Been paying for Spotify already for years too. If a legal Popcorn Time existed, I'd signup directly.
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You are talking about a small percentage of the homeless, plenty of poor people would be helped by this and saved from becoming homeless. They could afford to stay in their rural hometown instead of making their way to the cities where they can currently get help.
FWIW this looks like her current summary of the situation:

https://where.coraline.codes/blog/ethical-source-osi-electio...
Pro-tip: You can now digitally rent basically every movie from Youtube or Amazon.

Services like https://www.justwatch.com/ make it easy to not break the law. I used to use Popcorn time all the time, but honestly it kinda feels good to not steal /shrug
This is about treatment by government and in the process, not in prison from other inmates.
You sound like someone ... [insert boring and repetitive, possible derogatorive epithet that doesn't provide anything useful to the conversation and end with a snarky, rhetorical question].
'... it's hard to decide if that new movie just out is worth spending $15 on. Might be crap.'

As well a restaurant might be crap too, or a website or mason work... look up reviews before buying.
The Vietnam War lasted for almost 20 years, killed over a million people, wounded millions more, and involved 7+ countries.

The Cold War lasted 40 years, almost resulted in world-wide nuclear war on multiple occasions, and dictates the US's extremely consequential foreign policy decisions (and the bedrock of US culture) even to this day. It is hard to overstate how influential the Cold War was and is to the US, Russia, China, and many Latin American countries.

HIV killed millions of people per year as recently as 2005, and it started out as a completely unknown infection with no known transmission mechanism that primarily attacked communities at extremely high social risk.

This pandemic will be an economic catastrophe for years that we'll feel a decade from now and it will kill many people until a vaccine is in widespread use, but it sure as hell is not "more stressful" than those events combined.
thanks, good info!
Yes, we all started out as hunter/gatherers millennia ago. We are not now. We have been mostly improving the wastelands ever since. (I say mostly because occasionally we re-waste them again but thankfully less and less often these days.)
Anyone knows what is the difference between this project and https://getpopcorntime.is ?
If people are moving to areas that lack jobs and economic prospects, because they can survive on UBI, you’ve just burdened a bunch of small towns with people who aren’t interested in making more money.

Towns need tax revenue, which doesn’t come in sufficient quantity from people happily volunteering on a UBI wage.
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That claim is circulated about but I don't think it's true as an overall cost, but only as a cost-for-value. A few ER visits is cheaper than actually providing lifelong preventive care and chronic disease management before they die. O
If you don't have a high risks of dying for your condition at the ER, you don't cost money while you sit in the lobby.
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That's two conversations mixed up in one: one about what is, as in, a prediction of what we can expect people to do, without any value judgements, and another about what ought to be, as in, what's our moral and ethical opinion of this behavior. And while the second one is a very tempting rabbit hole of flame wars, the first one is very clear cut: if you give people access to everything (or almost everything) for a reasonable subscription price, they won't pirate stuff anymore.
Could you cite me a research paper showing face masks don't reduce transmission?
I think this is exactly right.

High fidelity collaboration between product, eng, design, and all other stakeholders is EXACTLY what's missing from today's tooling.

Figma has great multiplayer support, and we've worked hard to add it to MintData as well (bias[1]: founder here), and I think this is just the start.

In general, we need better integration of this tooling with CI/CD systems and the human workflows that naturally occur today in any org of > 50 people in technical roles.

[1] https://mintdata.com
Public post on Medium congrats to the Cofounders that copied and point out that they copied the best and mix your pitch in and in addition get their mailing address and send them a white wreath of roses with a note saying we are watching you(for those who are not old enough the first president of Apple did this)
That could be a reason...
> The lady with the coffee bar on the corner, the flower grower, the independent haulier, the self-employed person.

> But even national icons like KLM are feeling the strain.
> But putting markets in charge of producing everything has points of failure too

No it doesn’t. As soon as governments clearly states that they want to purchase a hundred billion masks and ventilators, market will react very quickly.

They government did not post that request yet.
"you" == "a few wealthy people"
If you can't do something about a situation, don't worry. If you can, then do, and don't worry.

Things I can do: wash hands, try not to touch my face, limit contact with the more at risk population and teach my kids to do the same. Things I can't do? Anything else related to covid-19. I can also limit my intake of negative news.
I'd at least like to see what a more fair & open content market would look like. So far it's just anti-competitive, anti-consumer bullshit for TV & Movies. I haven't pirated a game after Steam got big. I haven't pirated any music after Spotify came around. Clearly the model works.
I guess it's only technically illegal if the two positions are "incompatible".
"In a national survey, 60 percent of homeless women and 41 percent of homeless men had at least one minor child, but only 39 percent of women and 3 percent of men lived with any children (Burt et al., 1999)" [1]

Most homeless people have had children, they just get taken away from them.

[1]https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/homeless-children-update-researc...