skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah,and the high hospitalization and ICU rates become high case fatality rates once medical infrastructure is saturated, as well as increasing the case fatality rate for every other condition that creates a critical need for inpatient care.

That's where Italy definitely is, and where it seems Iran is evn moreso (though they are less public about it.)
If there were no circuit breakers, we would have witnessed drops worse than the 1987 drop. The 1987 crash brought forth circuit breakers, limit up/down in the futures markets.
Bill Gates once talked about money no longer having a utility for him. The utility of money goes away at a certain point when you accumulate too much and there is no longer something you cannot buy. The utility would be most efficient when applied to a better use such applied as the needy, perhaps in a UBI, or some other strategy, which would free up their time to do something more productive for society.

Unfortunately people don't like to help each other in many capitalist countries, and laws are designed to not be easily changed, resulting in a great majority of the population either not heard or reluctant to voice their opinions.
This isn't necessarily true. The big symptoms of almost any infectious disease are actually the body's response to the disease rather than being caused by the disease itself. Things like fever, cough, runny nose are usually (very very often) caused by the body to help fight the infection, rather than the infection itself causing them. This means that not having these symptoms isn't necessarily indicative of not having the disease or having less of it. Sometimes the body doesn't respond right.
Does that mean 25-50% are severe? Is this a bimodal distribution?
Depending on firewall egress policy, reverse tunnel home.
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That's actually the point of the wealth tax. The reason the pay a disproportionate amount is because the own a disproportionate amount. The current system is also a redistribution of wealth, just from the bottom to the top. That's what a wealth tax is supposed to change.

Regarding the argument about companies, I'm sure the French king also employed a lot of people, we still got right of the system of absolutism.
Maybe in the end the CFR will be the same as the regular flu.
Half what democracy dollars are, but a good start. Check your state to see if you can take advantage of this. If you can, you have no reason to not donate (I didn't know until I did my taxes. But first time in this state).
If we had real wage growth, maybe I'd feel bad for them, too. When people can't afford to live on what they make, taxing them into oblivion is stupid.
Omitting the rest of my argument (so that this can be hopefully kept more specific), arguing about this with people on HN actually made me think it's also part theater, just like airport security et al.

Consider this merits aside, even if quarantine saves everyone and lack thereof kills everyone; we don't know that yet.

If you are a mayor of Podunk, Nebrahoma, you have two choices. You can join in the quarantining with everyone else, and whatever damage that causes is not your fault. If someone literally comes to a town hall 2 years later to tell you they lost their job for 2 months, were evicted, got addicted to drugs and their life is ruined now, it will still be blamed on the virus and global economy and whatnot.

Now, if you don't join, not only you won't achieve much due to the others' actions - if anything goes wrong you will be blamed for every dead grandma and your political career is over.

There's really no incentive to not max out the quarantine theater, regardless of the relative merits of the measures taken.
This service is a POC for accountless web and dns hosting using only signed messages for name and ownership verification. To get a Handshake TLD, you will need to buy one on the handshake blockchain [1].

If you lose your key, unfortunately, you will be out of luck - same as bitcoin. Luckily, there are great services like Namebase [2] that can manage this for you.

[1] https://handshake.org

[2] https://namebase.io
But, like CFR, we don’t know how high the rates are if we have no idea how many people have or had it.

Here’s a few first hand accounts of what the illness was like. These folks aren’t even that young and they describe it as being quite mild:

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/coronavirus-patient-from-diamo...

https://www.adn.com/opinions/national-opinions/2020/03/01/i-...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/don-t-panic-says-us-woman-...
Israeli Nobel Laureate: Coronavirus spread is slowing
I wonder if games had more mechanics like that whether people would become more aware of how to handle a disease outbreak.
At least asymptomatic patients wouldn’t cough around like symptomatic ones do. They’d "only" spread through talking.
Babies aside, there maybe more divorces or breakups because couples will spend most of their time together. Fighting for chores, kids responsibilities or increasing financial pressures during this outbreak.

Just a heads up, This kind of things are already happening in China. You may want to think hard and get prepared for your family.
Better still, it would make the host feel unusually social.
In Portugal, in the coming 6 days, 78 musicians will be performing concerts live from their homes on Instagram.

The event is called "I Stay Home Festival":
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9zdRVNFB2P/
This is wishful thinking, and it doesn’t take much examination of the medical literature to realize this fact.

Edit: it's super fucking irresponsible to say "this is going to be like H1N1" when there is no reputable medical literature that supports that position
> Self quarantine without a notice and hence without pay?

If you have symptoms of _any_ illness you should always get a sick leave and stay at home. It does not matter if it's covid, seasonal flu or just a common cold - sick leave and stay at home.
The tech industry has plenty of companies with laughable revenue compared to their investment capital, I'm sure those will be fine.
The only thing that matters in the end is total population mortality rate.
Anecdotes are not sufficient data
Will this kind of stuff - "social distancing" also move to social media (and news media) one day thanks to all the viral stuff that happens there?

That curve everyone keeps talking about, is it also seen in other social 'settings' (not sure what the right word is)? And how wld social distancing impact that stuff?
Weed out the shallow bullying and suppression techniques.
This. A contract is a contract. If all people around you stop respecting their contracts, where will you be ?
VIX was suppressed so long through shorting VIX futures via ETNs like $XIV, $SVXY up until Feb 5, 2018. Then the latter ETNs blew up. Lots of people made money just buying these ETNs. This was one way VIX was suppressed.
The military budget isn't the entirety of military spending. It doesn't include the VA budget, the DOE budget (maintaining those nukes), the actual cost of wars themselves, etc.

Adding up all the parts, it's pretty close to a trillion a year - about 933 billion.

https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-military-budget-components-ch...
The majority of patients who will require hospital care are already Medicare beneficiaries. And for many others, the insurers don't really bear any financial risk because they just process claims and pass the costs on to group buyers.
> "The vast majority of people infected with Covid-19, between 50 and 75%, are completely asymptomatic but represent a formidable source of contagion".

The Professor of Clinical Immunology of the University of Florence, Sergio Romagnani

> Asymptomatic infection has been reported, but the majority of the relatively rare cases who are asymptomatic on the date of identification/report went on to develop disease. The proportion of truly asymptomatic infections is unclear but appears to be relatively rare and does not appear to be a major driver of transmission.

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-chi...

> Clinical and epidemiological data from the Chinese CDC and regarding 72,314 case records (confirmed, suspected, diagnosed, and asymptomatic cases) were shared in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) (February 24, 2020), providing an important illustration of the epidemiologic curve of the Chinese outbreak. There were 62% confirmed cases, including 1% of cases that were asymptomatic, but were laboratory-positive (viral nucleic acid test).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554776/

Weird discrepancy on the order of 75x. I'd love to trust the experts, but who? I am leaning towards truly asymptomatic spread being rare, since you get infected by SARS-CoV-2, not COVID-19 (COVID-19 is the disease), the level of uncertainty of 25% is higher than for other reports, and the main reported mode of transmission is through symptomatic cough droplets.
Nah, I made it up. I've noticed a tension between two dominant programmer archetypes in my career -- one naïve and inexperienced, but well-meaning and careful (the programmer I'm supposed to be), the other more experienced, but jaded by the passing of frameworks, methodologies, and other trends, who just wants to hack things into working order (the programmer I appear to be becoming as I age). They were pretty good fits for Rick and Morty.

Quite coincidentally, the personas Microsoft used for their developer tools were called (in order of increasing experience) Mort, Elvis, and Einstein.
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HI! I’m a robotics engineer with mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, Linux and embedded programming skills, and I have 8 3D printers at home including two Prusa printers, a high resolution resin printer, and a large format printer.

I’d really like to help! But there’s no central organization for this. I think we have to quickly organize ourselves!

If anyone has any ideas please add them here in these hacker news comments, AND/OR I’ve just created a thread on my website which we can use for focused discussion:
https://reboot.love/t/coronavirus-thread/281

I’m working from home and have some freedom to delay my normal work and assist with this. What should I do? Is it ventilators that are most obviously needed?

We could 3D print the air pumps, but where do we get a vast supply of cheap motors? Or in another case hospitals just needed replacement parts for existing ventilators. How do we get in touch with hospitals and determine their needs? People have also suggested multiple people can be connected to one ventilator with some success. Could we make an adapter to help with that? How would we determine requirements?
> Wouldn't car dealers raise their prices some value up to $1k because they know anyone coming in that month to buy a car also just received a $1k check from the government?

Why would they. They just got more customers. They already have a surplus of supply. In fact, you could make the argument that they could reduce car prices because with more customers you can operate on smaller margins. This is literally operating at scale. But it is hard to say, I'm just pointing out that the exact opposite could happen.

> Netflix may raise their prices knowing everyone has a little extra cash to spend, and that people would rather pay a dollar or two more than cancel.

Or look at Netflix's strategy. It is to corner the market. The classic Silicon Valley strategy. Corner the market, hemorrhage money, and then make a profit. More customers works into their plan perfectly without raising prices. In fact, now they have more competition. If every streaming service raises prices then people will have less of them and pirate more (this is already starting to happen). Even a lot of companies outside SV run a loss in the beginning, until they reach scale.

TLDR: More customers doesn't mean prices go up. Frequently it means the opposite. Scale.
Yes they do. But important part is what organisation does about that. Does it close the eyes, does it encourages it, does it publicaly removes bad people from org to send the message?
Saline nasal irrigation and gargling for the common cold (2019)
what if the hotel CEO came and murdered your entire family right in front of you a day before the reservation? he was then prosecuted and admitted guilt in a court of law. refund yet?
Unfortunately this is not an option for many people. I don't disagree with the sentiment - avoiding the spread of disease is good - but often the reward systems in place don't optimize for the best global outcomes.
Not clear enough no. A minimal hello world with the smallest possible examples for different languages would be good.
i don't mean to be pessimistic, but my worry is that after this is "over", everyone will go on and on about how it's the best of humanity that got us through this. but in reality, it's the worst of humanity that caused this and our under-preparedness. we should really look inward and say "we can do and could have done better" and not pat ourselves on the back too much. our over-population and further encroachment on wildlife will further increase chances of zoonotic disease spread, on top of all the other problems of climate change, socioeconomic inequality, repercussions of sudden disasters both human and natural, etc.

we have got to start taking our place on this planet seriously and not as a privilege and also not over-congratulating ourselves when we scrape by once again. we cannot continue to ignore people saying, with mountains of evidence, that events will happen. and we cannot sustain growth at all costs economies and policies.

but your point is good. we gotta get through this first and maintain a sense of calm and hope. but we really have got to take a step back and re-evaluate when this passes in whatever form it does.
Does the model include costs too - not just earnings potential? like social security?

To be clear I am 100% with your priorities just think it's an interesting - albeit totally inhumane - thought experiment.
Lately I've been thinking similar thoughts about how git ought to be at the foundation of a lot more of the apps we use.

This is a nice try. Imo it doesn't offer enough functionality above git to justify wide usage. I don't think custom storage backends is a good feature since one of those backends is going to be storing it's data as a file anyway.

It would be nice if the custom merge function api was boiled down to it's essentials and implemented in a few different languages for app coders who want to write distributed version control aware apps. It's easy enough to do with git natively but everyone loves a nice api.
This advice is good on paper, but useless in practice.
Another similar video - a PBS special on AI, showing Embark's technology in action: https://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2019/11/06/pbs-front...
I don't see why the author blames capitalism in particular. The same article could be titled how humanity fights against nature or in fact how nature fights nature. There are no animals that see the winter come are think "gee, I guess nature wants me dead. I might as well just die". Rather they fight nature by preparing food and shelter (if they are smart enough). The main difference with humans is that humans are powerful enough to basically "beat" nature. If you want to blame capitalism then you should compare it to an alternative, such as communism. The USSR sure wants good for nature (unless you consider killing millions of people good for nature (yes, there are articles like that currently)). The USSR had a meltdown that made an area, the size of some counties, uninhabitable. They mined whatever they wanted, gaining fuel by burning whatever they wanted. Nowadays China is one of the major polluters in the world. This article seems like yet another "capitalism is bad, let's find proof" type of articles.
Having kids at home without an internet connection these days is something most parents would rather not experience. Right up there with lack of electricity but lower in the priority list.

I'd have thought Netflix in particular would use less bandwidth than video conf because of the amount of peering / caching tricks they can do to bring their service "closer".

Note: I'm not talking purely bits transferred - I'm referring to network boundaries. In-network congestion should be easier to manage for an ISP and I'd expect plenty of them make it so Netflix and others' traffic is effectively "in-network".
As someone who can compare Adyen and Stripe, I must say Eric is mostly right - initially I was hesitant choosing Adyen but on practice it happened to be a very robust platform allowing more fine-grained analysis of our transactions comapred to Stripe.

On the other side of the coin, as the moment we were working with Adyen it totally sucked during initial phase. It took ages till we started processing because someone on Adyen side said but didn't do, then did but didn't update, etc. I had to escalate issues to Eric :) However once it was sorted out, I couldn't complain at all. Hope you guys managed to get processes run more smoothly now.
VAT is kind of a bad tax scheme. It's regressive and discourages consumption (which, like it or not, is the engine that drives our economy).

It's better just to have income and wealth taxes.
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Nothing will come from those idiots spreading fud calling it micro$oft and using npm...

If it does micro$oft will just buy the world out from under them.
Billionaires need your country more than you think. It's just a bluff.
Also see https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-31936-y

These articles suggest saline water might actually be effective against coronaviruses and similar viruses, contrary to what WHO suggests.
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Why would giving everyone an grant a month result in inflation? That is entirely not clear, alluding to Venezuela does not make it an argument.

Essentially you seem to be saying that creating a more equal society results in higher inflation. I don't see your argument being supported by reality, I am not aware of studies showing that the North European countries have statistically higher inflation.
It's 100% factual except for the last sentence which can be argued.
> UV-C 222nm lights

Not sure if you've gone down this road, but check out animal/pet stores.
I mean, sure, if you have sick leave. The above comment is perhaps aspirational, but otherwise it is woefully ignorant of the sad, sad state of US healthcare for most of its residents.
I was reading the details on inverted index usage in Druid, but what is described seems to be bitmap indexes, not inverted indexes.

Inverted indexes map distinct values in a column to a list of document ids containing the value. Bitmap indexes map distinct values to an array of booleans the same length as the number of documents, with true for presence and false for absence. Both index types can be highly compressed, of course.

Can you clarify what Druid is using?
I think you are nitpicking this doctor's words instead of listening to what he's saying. 18 years and no SARS vaccine. 18 months for SARS 2 would be miraculous.
What do you think this is, Reddit? No silly comments allowed on Hacker News!

(kidding)
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You missed my point, Microsoft sells it as:

- Windows shop deeply invested in C++ and wants to go cross platform? => React Native (playing the role of Microsoft's QML)

- Windows shop deeply invested in .NET and wants to go cross platform? => Xamarin
If you're asymptomatic, you're not coughing droplets everywhere, which ought to make you less contagious
Just out of curiosity, what is an actionable, practical alternative to Capitalism?

Communism doesn't seem to work, and most people's idea of an alternative is an utopian world grounded in wishful thinking.
And yet they used it that way at the end of infinity war.
Toxoplasmosis.
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I don't see in that link where it shows the CFR in the U.S. changing at all, let alone dramatically.

Here's a paper from 2013 that surveyed CFR reports for H1N1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3809029/ After a long discussion about the varying definitions of the numerator and denominator, they had this to say:

> Given that estimates of the infection fatality risk are unlikely to be available early enough for decision-making in a pandemic, a more feasible solution may be to measure the case fatality risk among symptomatic cases. ... Such estimates based on symptomatic cases may provide timely but imprecise estimates of seriousness for risk assessment.

CFR is not population mortality, and is usually not even infection fatality rate--but, confusingly, sometimes is as there's no official definition. After COVID-19 passes I suspect and hope that the medical community will tighten down definitions. CFR should be restricted to symptomatic cases approximating the type of severity that consumes non-negligible medical resources. Early on in an outbreak it's the only possible practical definition for tactical management of medical resources. An ER doctor couldn't care less how many infected people are convalescing at home. IFR (infection fatality rate) should be explicitly broken out. It's an important numbers to have, but often impossible to pin down until late in the game, sometimes only after the epidemic has passed. And IFR is most useful combined with r0, which has it's own definitional problems--do you care about hypothetical r0, r0 with social distancing, etc. Population mortality rate is even more difficult pin down.

I'm not a doctor, but I feel like "CFR" is one of those terms which was never meant to be consumed by the public. Early on it was probably taken for granted by the medical and scientific community to be a "case" as understood by doctors, who would typically only diagnose a specific illness when a patient presented with moderate or severe symptoms that required intervention. But as the medical and scientific community grew more diverse (and lab tests grew increasingly cheaper) the implied assumptions behind "case" became less and less valid, and they completely fall away in public discourse. These types of definitional problems are familiar to those of us in the tech sphere.
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During crisis times wild [T-34](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-34) appears and overwhelms with numbers and firepower/versatility
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i rather have my kids play minecraft/minetest than just watch TV
> Capitalism can't provide housing, utilities, food, medical care and education for free.

> People would just quit their job if they got all that with no effort.

Citation needed. All previous experiments on ubi have shown the opposite. You are just painting a boogeyman, without evidence to back it up.
Settle down. "The worst of humanity caused this?" It's a virus and our medical system has limits. Shit happens. We react and (hopefully) come out well on the other side.

You say overpopulation is a problem? Fine. Give me a practical and ethical solution.

You say encroachment on wildlife? Ok, fine. Please provide a practical and ethical solution.

We, as people, live on this planet. By and large people are doing the best they can. Should we do more for the environment? Of course. But suggesting that disease as a result of overpopulation is our fault without offering a practical solution adds nothing to the dialog.
What killed atom was that not even with rewriting stuff in C++ they were able to match what Microsoft is able to do with pure JavaScript on Electron.

Lack of delivery killed Atom, not Microsoft.