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I think it's because they are seen as innovators and ahead of the curve, so people look to them for direction.

When it's not found people have to reset their worldview and realize that they were never the priority.
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I know a few people that were in the far east during the SARS-COV1 outbreak it scared the living shit out them. Those countries including China reacted swiftly and forcibly once they were aware of what they were up against.

Meanwhile in the Trump Administration was actively blocking attempts to perform surveillance by public health authorities as recently as Feb 27th.
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support means many other things.
Look at italy: military medical staff in support of civilian hospitals, military personnel helping with ventilator production, military trucks moving dead bodies from city to city where crematoriums are saturated, extra checks on the roads for people who should stay at home.

No riots nor looting.
We bail them out at gunpoint, though, which doesn't meet any sane person's definition of "insurance."
it's a hazing ritual

if too many make it to be doctors, the pay won't be as good.
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One thing I would like to see is #upvotes/story and #comments/story, both over time. Those might say something about the ‘liveliness’ of the community.
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> the Trump Administration was actively blocking attempts to perform surveillance by public health authorities as recently as Feb 27th.

[citation needed]
Heard the same... we will see how it is.

Thinking here is Abe/Japan do not want to delay the Olympics, so aren't testing...
> One new alternative is GraphQL which is a query language and server that is able to combine REST endpoints into a single result - making the query a first class object.

I think it would be more correct to just say that GraphQL encourages queries as first class object as it exposes the entire schema and allows for granular querying.

Implementing it by composing REST APIs is, well, an implementation detail. There are other ways to do it too.
Very short guide: Put a mouthpiece on the patient, connect the mouthpiece to the tube from the ventilator, turn the ventilator on.

Longer guide: Read the manual for the specific ventilator and have fun adjusting air mixture, pump frequency, pressure, volume and other stuff. Choose one of several different models of mouthpiece, with or without tubes, depending on patient needs. Learn about different failure modes and associated alarms. Learn how to operate the pump manually in case of electronics failure. Learn how to properly clean the machine.

It isn't nothing, there are some things you can do wrong if you don't know what you are doing. But a trained medical professional should get up to speed with a crash course.
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I am a researcher, and I fail to find detailed data, please help! In all datasets we see cumulative confirmed, recovered and death numbers organized by day. We would need culumative confirmed by onset time (first symptoms), and confirmed by test time (the current value). We would also need recovered and death by onset time and confirmation time. Where are these numbers?
> But the fact that as the world's richest country...

It's at times like these you should question whether it really is the "world's richest country". I'm sure you can find certain metrics where it is, but that's irrelevant if the country is unable to respond to disasters like a hurricane or an epidemic.
That's just... your opinion. The wage gap between CEO and leaf in the tech industry is not better than Walmart.
You could provide an "Export Data" function, and even supply them with regular, scheduled exports.

Also - you can still license your product with a closed source license, but allow your customers to run "On-Premise" ... i.e. they can still run your product for themselves, and own their data, but are also paying you a license fee for the pleasure.

It's a different revenue model, but can work - afterall, this is how business was done with software, pre SAAS.

Often, companies who license in this way offer $xxx.xx per year - getting them support and upgrades for the year. Then, if they cancel after the year is up, they get to keep it - with no upgrades. It's important that your pricing model reflects this scenario.

One of the upsides of this model is that you have zero infrastructure costs.
Patient Zero was already in the United States.

There are 100,000 flights daily around the world.

Even after the US had a travel ban with China, flights were still leaving China headed for America.
The military will.
> Can they also manufacturer anesthesiologists and acute care nurses?

There's a lot of smart and talented people currently sitting home, doing nothing right now. It may not be medical school but four weeks on Khan Academy can get you up to speed on routine tasks. Then you work under the supervision of a real medical practitioner handles corner cases. This is how medics are trained in wartime.

> Medical beds? Hospitals?

Tons of hotels are sitting empty. Their beds could easily be retrofitted into field hospitals.

> Effective PPE

Apparel companies. H&M and other fast fashion outlets can boot a new design pattern in as little as six days.

> What about safe, medical grade oxygen?

Tons of Scuba shops have gas compressor capacity, which is obviously safe for human consumption. Most of those shops are sitting empty, because of the current collapse in tourism.
Bankrupt the fracking companies in America and deprive Russia of money so they can’t effectuate greater sphere of influence in the Middle East through Syria/Iran.

It’s a temporary measure for sure but obviously they felt it necessary,
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Neither any of the comments nor the article explains what TfL stands for; it is "Transport For London", basically their public transport authority.
Hi Reid.

Already on it, thanks. Posted something in freelance and jobs channels yesterday, going to try again today.
What are the consequences? Have you ever experienced them yourself?
My s.o. just got a dev role in January, first job she hopes to keep, first job in the west, to start 2 March. We moved across the country for it. A few other hires were due to start a bit later in the month.

I was a bit nervous looking for a place to live in an incipient pandemic (cases were already reported in the wild here at that time).

But from the coronavirus, the two hires due to start later in the month got canceled - only my s.o. got taken on. I really hope they hadn't quit jobs in far off lands to relocate :/
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It's also used in several important big Linux programs so it's unlikely to be going away. There have been efforts to get the mechanism added to the next C standard too.
MacbookAir always seemed like a tablet with keyboard to me. I have seen ordinary people complaining that they can't multitask apps there, that they have to run one app at the time. I think Air is not supposed and never was to be used as a development or video processing machine.
Mathematica is an amazing tool, but it has one huge downside: reproducibility.

It is a closed monolith, and - especially when you start to use advanced features - you derive results from it that can't be independently verified because of the closed source nature of the monolith.
I wonder how having the amount of posts you made (like forums do) influences this number. And subsequently how others on the platform respond (since it's in their best interest to be as kind as possible to new posters to make the community grow?)
Yes true. That's a real issue.

Bearing in practically all those tested will have had symptoms of the disease
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Of course it is normal that you will handle preexisting code when joining a company that has been developing software for some years.

It is understandable that processes are being deployed to ensure data integrity and safety while increasing code complexity.

For me personally it is quiet a surprise to what extend this can grow.

I wonder how many developers think that the software they are developing/fixing at work is overly complicated, clunky, (unnecessarily?) heavily abstracted to the point where it is always time consuming to make changes or even just smaller fixes.
A lot of this seems to be "I told you so". And yet, I have a hard time believing anybody could have foreseen an almost complete shutdown of the global economy over this. A lot of the "we saw that coming" can be boiled down to "it will be bad".

But even if you saw it coming, how does this help now? Right, it doesn't.

That someone's circles saw it coming doesn't help. Wht you can do now helps. Unfortunately a lot of these folks are lacking in that department IMHO.
It's a stupid move, because the tech and reserves won't go away. As soon as prices rise again to levels needed by Saudi Arabia the reserves will be exploited again. Probably they hope that banks give less money and hedges to shale companies, but that won't work long-term.

Saudi Arabia may see civil unrest soon as the house of Saud need all the money they can to spend on social welfare to stay in power.
Thanks that was an interesting read. If the heat sink begins to dissipate are any structural risks to the network?
Copenhagen can do this as the metro trains are automatic (no drivers, just some controllers with oversight in an office somewhere) and the stations are often not staffed.

London has to have train drivers, and most stations aren't as safe as a fairly new system.
Which 0% bailouts are you referring to that gave billions to a single company? Sounds a bit like a straw man to me.
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Japan confirmed it's first case January 15th.

what was Trump doing for the past two months?

would an extra month's notice have done anything? I get the sense Obama could have told him exactly when it would happen, and he'd have still done nothing until American deaths started ramping up
When I had the chance to try it, I didn't find it that easy to use due to the interface which felt clunky: the way the command line works: no feature to repeat previous comnand with up arrow, have to edit previous existing one, requiring more mouse usage, weird forms of cursor placement, weird default enter key behavior.

In ipython, matlab and octave it's much easier to repeat and modify last commands, which is something you seem to need all the time when experimenting with math.

What was I missing, usability/interactivity/rapid development wise?
Yup.

In a normal environment, when given a tough problem to solve, a whiteboard is like a scratch pad for ideas.

Out of that amalgamation of insights, comes the final solution.

When given a whiteboard, the interviewer ought to assess the thought process the interviewee is going through. Even if the outcome is wrong, if the thought process in acceptable, the solution will present itself eventually.

As an interviewer, I would also ask to list out the many ways one can solve a problem.

To me this is utmost important because in the real world, choosing one of the many ways to solve a problem is an important skill. The theoretically correct solution is not always the practical / implementable / cost-effective solution.
This can all be true and it's still worth nothing to talk about this problem as if it we can wash our hands of blame and assign it all to China.

The US government is not responsible for the emergence of the epidemic. The US government is definitely responsible for the policy responses in the US that have shaped the course of its emergence here.

And we can see that several governments that are not China have handled a threat that emerged outside their borders and about which they presumably had no better access to information about... much better than we have.

Maybe there's blame to cast on China, but it's a lot more productive for citizens of each country to hold their own governments to account.
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Maxima is also an amazing tool for symbolic maths, and is free software. I especially recommend the wxMaxima interface which is close in spirit to jupyter notebook
I’m not assuming, this is based on my experience at Google. People that focused on punctuation rarely provided anything more than the superficial review.
This could drive a lot of interest. I just wanted to highlight the importance of mentioning the geographical location of where the employer will be recruiting from (remote global, remote US, remote EU, etc.), because I’ve seen many companies ignore this detail and it’s a complete waste of time to write personalized résumés and letters of application, only to be told that they can’t hire outside the USA, despite the fact that I’ve incorporated myself as the equivalent of an LLC in order to make it easier for them to complete the process.
We adopted Vue for the same reason. We had a large ASP.NET + jQuery code base which we were able to enhance with Vue.js over time. Eventually we built an SPA code base and porting over our existing components was a breeze.

I’ve used React extensively but I agree with their assessment that the API is a moving target, which ends up being horrific DX when you’re using third party libraries.
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Heard of that! How is your experience with the conversations? What are the common topics you talk about?
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Regarding the self-care document, I'd never heard of acetaminophen before so had to look it up but perhaps medical people know the term? I'd half guesses by seeing the precautions though.

In the UK it's generally called Paracetamol and is in a lot of over-the-counter medicine.
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Hardly making a dent here !
If you can separate call sites somehow, can't you just lazily fetch attributes as required and also remember which attributes were needed for next time? Ie. teach the ActiveRecord library to "learn" its usecase automatically, while appearing trivial to the user.

A similar pattern could be done for on-demand joins, though you might need macro magic (or a dynamic language that lets you, say, subtype 'string') to derive joins from attribute values. For instance, if you have a sufficiently advanced typesystem, you may return instead of a string something like a `SqlSourcedType(string, "tablename", "attributename", originalCallSiteId)` that acts interchangeable with a string. Then later on when passing such a type to a load on another table, the framework would know that you were using a join idiom, and could load the joined tables directly in the first query the next time around. Basically JIT SQL.
>> There are a lot of people who resent their staff flexiworking

But that demographic is more at risk of dying from covid-19. The irony is that they are more protected by everyone working from home and that their younger colleagues will have more career opportunities if everyone comes into the office and spreads it.
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I thought this was going to be about how they keep their data center operations running. But no, it’s actually mass censorship run by robots!

They say that in order to fight disinformation they’ll delete tweets that don’t fully go along with talking points from public health officials. But with so many public officials giving conflicting or politically-motivated information, this is clearly problematic to enforce at scale. It will certainly end up as more arbitrary and capricious account deletions over ideology, per usual.

Twitter chose to respond to the crisis with authoritarianism and mass censorship. But they are in no position to even take an authoritative position. If they’re this concerned about disinformation a more ethical approach would be to shut down.
My point being, if you use A to demonstrate B, then B is not axiomatic in the sense of Münchhausen's trilemma. In the sense of Münchhausen's trilemma, an axiom is a belief accepted as true without being justified on the basis of some more basic belief. When you use A to demonstrate B, B ceases to be a belief accepted as true without being justified on the basis of some more basic belief, since you are justifying it on the basis of A.
Redundant as in anything that comes out of it will be nothing more than unsolicited help. In 3 key points:

1. Building something no one has asked for(the people trying to fight the virus).

2. Unlikely for someone to use whatever comes out of it.

3. It's a build-a-portfolio type of challenge at best.
preemptively stating that asking China to apologize is NOT racist.
At $30/barrel they’re selling oil at a loss, not building up wealth to invest elsewhere.
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London is already a ghost town. I went in for the last time a few days ago to ensure some colleagues could work from home. Normally the City (financial district) is packed with people, no seats to be had, streets full. Monday felt like a Sunday afternoon. I think people are starting to get the message.
it's as racist as Spanish flu was racist.
The NY Times has some great charts showing the number of new cases each day for many nations.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/19/world/coronav...

The only countries that appear to have handled it better are South Korea and Japan.

If I mixed up the charts for the US and other nations except those and Italy (which is much worse), you wouldn't be able to tell which is which.

So when you say:

> The US government is definitely responsible for the policy responses in the US that have shaped the course of its emergence here.

I wonder what you mean. The shape of its emergence here is exactly like the shape of its emergence in a dozen other countries.
Especially as I've seen plenty of goats on their hind legs. Excellent climbers.

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You are just not used to it.

> the way the command line works: no feature to repeat previous comnand with up arrow, have to edit previous existing one, requiring more mouse usage, weird forms of cursor placement, weird default enter key behavior.

It's not a command line. It's an interactive notebook. It's an entirely different experience. Repeating and modifying last commands can still be done with arrow keys, then Shift-Enter. Also, when you are doing math, you spend way more time thinking than typing and manipulating; the time needed to move your hands to the mouse is minuscule by comparison.
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FWIW, I don't like the statement "KSA needs 80USD per barrel to break even". It's too blunt, and obscures lots of variables, including their bond market, their megaprojects that aren't really being paid for (yet) as they haven't started at full scale, fluctuations of external work forces, the operations in Yemen, etc etc ... were these parameters included or not? Were they compensated for in any way? I don't know the answer to those questions, although a lot of people must do. In any case, those parameters have undisputably changed since this claim was first made. And I really doubt "the Saudis" (... all 30 million of them ...) would agree to the 80USD per barrel figure.

Also, it most probably means that AT CURRENT PRODUCTION VOLUMES, ie. artificially low, they would need x USD per barrels. With more production, whatever that figure was, it will now be lower.
This applies to real life as well.
I'd replace "lurker" with passive, "contributor" with active, and "creator" with changer.
I thought he only got in trouble for rioting and looting when he was in the Bullingdon club?

Also, I get the impression that the UK armed forces genuinely don’t want to be used as an emergency police force, especially after their experience becoming one in NI. (That might just be wishful thinking on my part, but it is my impression).
My algorithm:

1) Decide which software engineering related role you want to work on (e.g. web frontends)

2) Enumerate the top skills that are relevant to that role by visiting job postings in companies you would like to work for. e.g.: React.

3) Enumerate the subset of those skills that you have. Those are your strenghts. Work in acquiring the skills you do not yet have. Those are your weaknesses (for now).

4) Visit Linkedin profiles for random employed people in such roles in various companies you would like to work for. Compare that to your own Linkedin profile.

5) In your profile, emphasize your strengths, deemphasize your weaknesses, while working on them in your spare time.
And most importantly, list your skills using the skills feature. Recruiters use that to find people.

Personally I think you should leave out all mentions to "looking for a job" and such. That is a red flag. You do not want to tell recruiters that your skills are in low demand.

Also try to keep your job descriptions consistent and relevant to your target role. Rather than "role 1/role 2/role 3", just pick the most favorable/relevant description for role and stick with that.

It usually takes me 1 month to find a job.
the people that are most likely to need the ventilators aren't exactly hospitals' profit centres either.

are those businesses really going to want to fill all their space with Medicare patients? with fewer ventilators, I imagine they can decline care to more people?
Again you're begging the question.

People who focus on punctuation do so at the expense of everything else, sure. But people who give thorough reviews give thorough reviews, including nitpicky comments.

I've given and received thousands of reviews at Google (in multiple languages, across multiple teams), and can say that my experience has been fairly consistent: code review is high quality and detail oriented, including, but not at all limited to, small things like grammar and comment formatting.
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Lots of businesses could survive an 80-90% reduction in revenue for an extended period if they shut down 80-99% of their operations.

It's not like travel demand won't come back.
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> Also got to see the Red Arrows do a full formation takeoff with 9 planes at high speed around the same time

I saw Blue Impulse (Japan's military aerobatics team) last year. One of the most incredible things I've ever seen. Probably not too many airshows happening at the moment, but if anyone ever gets a chance to go to one, don't pass it up.
Mathematica Notebooks have some REPL-like aspects, but they really should be uses like a script editor that shows the script output inline. You can jump between script segments and execute them out of order, which is useful in some cases. But notebooks are at their best when you have some discipline when editing, so that they stay in a state where you can open them, select execute notebook from the menu and everything works on the first try.