skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the answer is, we wont know for sure until it's over.

But you can lessen the impact on economy help with bring it back, western countries produce more than enough food to make sure nobody starves (if they want) If you leave covid 19 unchecked it will overwhelm your medical system anyway so even more people would loose access to medical care.

So the choice comes down to, hope that worst case (italy++) wont happen and carry on, or try to do something. And you cant get away with bulshit pretending that you are doing something when you are not, because people suddenly listen to scientist and doctors, when their ass is on the line.

Unsurprisingly we choose to do something.

Additionally given that in west most politicians are elected, and that most reliable voters and donors for political campaigns are from age group most affected by this virus, decision is even more obvious.
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They probably need to test against multiple versions of PowerShell, so it could be that's just the version she was testing against at the time.
https://covid.observer/#speed
Even if the US had real-time data about every citizen movement, what would they do with it, they cannot move huge populations of people like China can
The US is in the enviable position of being able to print money, and it should.

Taxes are not about revenue collection, they're about controlling inflation. Print lots of money, distribute it evenly to everyone, and make a one time levy on all bank deposits to remove the same amount from the economy. You can call it stock buyback buybacks if you like ;)

There may still be some initial inflation, as this action just released a lot of purchasing power to the masses. But people are tightening the purse, and long term things should level out.
Ask HN: What are you reading during the Covid slow down? and why?
It exists. Its not that people "don't allow" non-authoritarian institutions/solutions. Its that they have their own limitations in dealing with complexity. Rationality is Bounded. Know what the bounds are. Read some Herbert Simon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing

Look at the EU. There is no dearth of cockups there, even though their instinct at everything is non-authoritarian.
She can use zoom to do that with the benefit of students seeing your wife. Otherwise if she is using _PowerPoint_ she can record her presentation with voice (only) in PowerPoint (slide show > record slide show)
I'm afraid that on the long term, the social unrest and the economic consequences will far outweigh the damage done by the virus. There is no plan on how long you can shut down whole countries. Europe, for example is not like China, you are just locking down everything, you don't have any other regions to support you. Sure, some people can work from home now, but by having the economy run at minimum level, work will go down, there will be no more projects even for IT people. How many people are losing their jobs already, what will happen if we need to quarantine ourselves for another 6 months to flatten the curve, if jobs are cut after just 2 weeks? I might have enough saved to be able to live not working for a couple of years, but I don't think that will help me if the entire social order is collapsing.
> The depletion of America's industrial base has created a massive skills gap that would take decades to remedy

All the more reason to get started immediately.
In light of everyone WFH, I've made my productivity app free until May
This is what you're looking for. Windows Terminal is very good and very rapidly improving.
I would suspect that the entire world economy not collapsing even further than it did would make up for that last 0.9%.
I probably would too. Sadly the best use case I have come up with to date is lining up my pi boards neatly in my cupboard.
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Are the data available in more detail? I would like to see the finer substructures of the data such as food types and changes in preference. My business focuses on providing and building such models. If anyone here is from OpenTable and is interested, feel free to reply to this comment.
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We have this in Romania too: https://cadou.ialoc.ro/ :)
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https://www.jamiebriant.com/ actually exists; it's just using an "invalid" CloudFront wildcard cert. That site needs to use Certificate Manager.
What is the value of a human life in the West?

My figure is $2 million.

Then a billion $ is 500 lives.

A trillion $ is 500,000 lives.

This is how I rate it. What is your figure on a life?

And how would you relate loss and gain of $ to buying / destroying lives?

The discussion changes when you leave the West, so start there.
The US is so far behind on testing that the SK approach is not currently an option. The hope is that better options will present themselves in the coming weeks and months.
Replying to the sibling comment,

We invented mathematics because practical thinking leaves us without answers at some points. You are free to axiomatically choose "all([]) = false", but then you'll find out that many mathematical equivalences won't hold as they all assume only the ZF axioms.
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> ... video conferencing doesn’t work at the best of times with IT worker meetings.

As recently as three years ago I would have agreed, but video chat is now quite reliable in my experience.
Ask HN: Are there any video conference tools suited for debating/discussions?
Ideally, the software should have the following capabilities:

* Allow for a moderator with 'muting' rights

* Creation of agendas

* Giving each speaker an allotted amount of time (microphone is muted after)

* Allowing people to sign up for 'replies', which will give them a given amount of minutes to reply to what has been said

* Allowing people to sign up for 'comments', which will give them another given amount of minutes to comment

* Total amount of comments per 'case' is set, as well as the total amount of minutes for the case as a whole.
I think that you are not listening to the briefings or decisions from the UK gov but instead reading the press - they have never said that they would let it spread unhindered; but wanted to do (2) flattern the curve. Now they are moving to 3 but are trying to time the move in such a way that childcare can be managed for the emergency services. Apparently 1/3 of nurses have school aged kids, the concern is that if they are out of school then they will be with grandparents - thus precipitating the kind of disaster the model shows could come.

I think that the hope that the government has is that they can build out a bigger surge capacity in a few weeks/months and then be able to mitigate the measures that they have in place. I think that this is wishful thinking at the moment - but I really hope I am wrong.
So, was the book written that way?
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In a less principled way, there's also 'Antichamber' and 'Tea for God'.

Both use Escher-like spaces that are locally Euclidean but don't connect in proper ways. Eg if you go 360 degrees around a column, you might arrive at a different place in the level from where you started.

In Antichamber it's an interesting gimmick. In 'Tea For God' the mechanic is actually useful, because it's a way to fold a big level into the small boundaries of the VR space you defined on the Oculus Quest in your living room.
Are you suggesting the four stage strategy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak
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It's amazing how much regulation is there that should have never been. And there still is so much more remaining.
Your telco knows which tower you're connecting to, yes, otherwise the system would never work.

As the title makes clear, this is about the government gaining access to that information.
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Yes.

The scientific consensus is that the observable universe is vastly bigger than (oldest visible object's age * c * 2 * star's distance from us).

See eg "We know that the Universe has been around for 13.8 billion years, but we also know we can see for 46 billion light-years. How is this possible?" at https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/how-is-the-universe-bi...

(And plenty of similar article when you Google 'size vs age of universe.)

Inflation isn't even necessary for this effect, but might amplify it.

Inflation is not necessary, because the cosmic background radiation is the furthest thing we can 'see'. And that background radiation stems from when the universe was 379,000 years old. Wikipedia says that inflation lasted at most until 10^−32 seconds after the big bang.

Yet, the background radiation seems to come from much further away than your simple calculation would suggest.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background

Size of observable universe is 93.016 billion light years. The age of the universe is estimated at 13.8 billion years.

Observing gravitational waves might let us peek behind the curtain of the cosmic background radiation. Very exciting.
AP and FSD are both arguably referable to as “glorified lane assist” considering how well they work. Both are incredibly misleading names at the very least, which speaks to the “irresponsible” thesis.
Remember to double check you closed all incognito windows. You know what I mean.
Actually, shakti is now k9 (it was originally k7 but k7 is now abandoned)
Top of the piramide is for narcissists, some just have learned better to play the sympathetic character. Since recent the most efficient modus is to not be bothered by that thin layer of veneer.
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I believe it also recommends the addition of a surfactant to make small crystals and a more even coating
NBA? Football? Hollywood? And as I said, model agencies?

Many physical attributes are absolutely relevant for a given context.

What we should do, is getting rid of irrelevant and abhorrent discrimination, such as racial selection.
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Absolutely. There is little reason to trust anything that comes out of the US administration, and the ongoing reporting of leadership dysfunction at the highest levels of the country does not lend credibility to containment efforts.

There are also accounts of blatant disregard by US citizens in certain areas of the country of social distancing measures, such as reports [1] that thousands of people are flocking to beaches in Florida, which understandably causes concern among Canadians.

1 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-thousands-florida-b...
The Chinese government is allowing unsafe let alone inhumane practices at markets that could well have caused this outbreak. If this turns out ťo be the case isn't it a given the Chinese government should expect some sort of punishment unless they somehow redeem themselves in the meantime. I understand many governments in the world allow said practices but you're only guilty if you get caught. Hopefully the consequences will dissuade other governments from continuing to allow the practices.
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Sure. When the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, then this works.
How does this compare with the ipad and the apple pencil? Is it worth it to get even when you already own an ipad and an apple pencil?
It's still a horrible inhuman thing to do. If the responsible CEO of the company were not a sociopath, he would have

1. provided the STL files for the plastic valve when the hobbyist 3D printer asked for them

2. granted a no-cost patent licence.

That way the requirement by law to defend the patent does not arise in the first place.
What about the ugly bunnies? Don't be so heartless!
(Sorry for the weirdness of replying in two different places...)

If I understand what you are doing correctly, in Zoom you will either select the camera with the VM window in it (which OBS is creating a virtual camera for), or you select the real camera. So the attendees for the session either see you, or they see the content: but not both at the same time.

Is that right?

Unless you run OBS in the virtual machine, and join the Zoom session from the virtual machine too, in which case OBS is unnecessary.

And if you do that then I'm not sure what that's gaining over just sharing one window of your desktop (the VM window) in Zoom.
It boils down to the position that side-effects are actually totally fine when they allow you to write a simpler, more straightforward program, where state is easy to observe and debug.

Such code is less likely to contain obfuscated logical errors arising from an attempt to not break "functional purity". It has a chance to be practically more safe.

Another aspect is the way most functional languages treat memory. If you need a garbage collector, you effectively have to throw out hard realtime constraints. Latency and memory usage can be safety concerns. Most functional languages do not let you reason about that.
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If you really want diversity & protection of minorities suffering workplace prejudice, stop chromo-categorizing -- that fake unempirical business.

Hire unattractive people. They are the one suffering the most, & deprived of attention." [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1231359316147478528
Being devil's advocate a bit here, but efficiency helps prevent boom and bust cycles, or at least reduces their magnitude.

Supporting "worthy virtues" is all well and good, except that it's subjective and not always well thought out, leading to unfortunate consequences.

I'm sure plenty of people thought it great to help Sally Struthers feed the 3 million starving African children in the 80's...until the result was 10 million starving African children.
Wow. I downloaded and launched this, and immediately wanted to change the font size. Took me a good minute to find the settings button (cmd and Powershell both have a right click menu on the title bar, this one does not), and clicking on it opens a JSON config file with Visual Studio. Guess it's far from 
ready for everyday use
 release quality at the moment.

Disclaimer: I'm primarily a Mac user developing on macOS and Linux. Swears by iTerm 2.
That's completely insignificant compared to having the dollar as the global currency in the oil trade. Countries that sell oil for dollar can only spend those dollars on American products. It's as if the USA produced all the oil in the world and sold it for profit. Meanwhile Germany's unfair advantage is that it's prices on products are slightly lower than they should be.
Communism is not a race and Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China are responsible and should be held accountable.
Not everyones wisdom grows by age that's a privilege. A lot of people plateau on a level before they are twenty, its not just young people doing this.
ye, possibly. Perhaps when everyone starts out on phone/tablet then desktops will be seen as old and archaic.
I mean its a silly example but I never see people in sci-fi sit down with a mouse and keyboard. Perhaps new generations will force in new ergonomic standards?
Somehow that whole incognito meme never caught on with me.

It is really so much safer to watch pr0n in incognito tabs?
Google being scummy Google (my Covid-19 statistics app widget was denied)
Weird, I love the font size and the font in general. I use it everyday and it's way, way better than the normal powershell terminal.
If your area has been declared to be in a state of emergency, you might qualify for a small business loan set up just for the purpose of helping businesses such as yours survive this:

https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela/
What I meant is that changing any setting at all is a great pain at the moment.
Agreed, even though they use a model from Fast.ai, the name is very misleading. With that title you'd expect an official release with a rubber stamp at the bottom.
But the data already exists. Google has it.

The smallest step up from that is running an open-source algorithm on Google's servers, for corona detection.

From that situation, maybe we could figure out a way that people would trust, enough ?
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So what can we do as a nation to change that? Should we even try at this point?
You can. Open settings file and add one entry for mintty.
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it seems like this is the response from most people everywhere about until their region hits the knee of the exponential curve. this pattern played out in Italy, Spain, France, and now the US.

the Imperial College paper estimates 2 million dead in the US with no response and ~1 million dead with a limited response that doesn’t involve a full shutdown. That paper explicitly doesn’t consider the very severe economic impacts but it’s hard to imagine that deaths on that scale aren’t worse than whatever they might be.
You've got some insight there. But what can we do if humans just like to see and interact with beautiful people and avoid the ugly? It makes things a bit bleak for me personally, but I guess people want what they want :B
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> Nearly all government leaders' first reaction is try to downplay disasters.. after all they are politicians, not science experts.

There is a difference between the capacity of US and EU to suppress information and the capacity of authoritarian Chinese State to do this. The media in US and EU does not take direction from the Government.

> The US government did the exact same thing even after China had already come to its senses.

Did the US govt allow wet markets with live wild animals to operate in China for the political gain of Xi Jinping and China? Did the US govt downplaying this change the reporting of the media? Did the US order samples destroyed and ordered laboratories to not release information? No?

Stop running cover for Xi Jinping.
Which EU countries? I have not heard this before.
Don't take this the wrong way please, as I'm sorry this has happened to you...but Yelp being in trouble pleases me greatly.
There is no need to track everyone's location, even for a limited time.

South Korea only tracks the locations of people who were confirmed to have been infected, and cross-checks their location data with CCTV footage as well as credit card records. That's a lot of data, but only for certain people. For each case outside of the Daegu area, local governments are tasked with publishing a list of locations and timestamps -- easily visualized on a map -- to help others figure out if they were in the same place at the same time as an infected person. There is no need to track the other people, as they would show up at testing centers on their own. Also, the people in charge of doing all the tracking have no obvious ties to law enforcement. The government is not a monolithic institution; there are both legal and technical barriers to sharing data among the various agencies. The police in S.K. only gets involved when known-infected people refuse to cooperate, since it's a crime to interfere with an epidemiological investigation.

I'm not sure who "the feds" referred to in the article are, but if they have any ties to law enforcement or are asking for data about an unnecessarily large number of people, beware!
It's not clear that South Korea does have the pandemic under control - their new cases actually went up slightly in the last day, and there's been worrying talk of small clusters that have the authorities there concerned. The reason they're a problem is that smaller clusters are incredibly hard to find with testing and tracking, so if they're finding some there are probably more undetected ones out there multiplying.
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And you DIDN'T finish your pitch with "Ask me about LOOM"?
If wearing masks increase risk, why are they recommending healthcare professionals and those with symptoms to wear a mask? I don't see how you can explain that masks reduce risk for healthcare professionals but increase risk if you are not. The virus is unlikely to distinguish whether you are a healthcare professional or not.

If the argument is that training is needed to use mask effectively, then simply put out a video on how to properly wear mask. This is how they push out hand washing. They have posters and videos to show how to do it properly.

Goggles to cover eyes can decrease risk, just like mask. Gloves for the hands will prevent your bare hands getting dirty but won't help the spread of of the virus onto other surfaces as you touch things throughout the day.
I mean, quite a few apps aimed at developers do this. Sublime Text for example. I can't imagine many people who aren't comfortable editing a text file would be using a terminal.
Tried Terminal Preview and Hyper and Alacritty to get a decent working terminal, finally ended up using SSH and PuTTY that actually looks okay and works okay. Still has problems with some unicode characters. But PuTTY is mature and had support for mouse since when? 10, 15 years ago?
You can't use it to record into seperate files. However, you can use it to make the necessary editing while recording the presentation.

In OBS you can create Scenes with multiple video sources. The scene will be the output you see in the video file. You can add the video sources as layers into the scene, scale and move them around. So you could create a scene where the main focus is on the PowerPoint slides and the webcam is just in the corner. The other scene would be the other way around. Then, while recording, you can switch between the scenes to show the powerpoint or the webcam.

This does not allow for as much flexibility in post, but it would save a lot of time since you don't have to edit the video afterwards. Also, the audio should be in sync as well.
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It would be so useful if I got a notification if I happen to have crossed paths with a person who later turned out to be infected so I can get tested too. This will preempt so many asymptotic transmissions.

Such apps are already deployed in china: https://youtu.be/YfsdJGj3-jM?t=303

We don't trust the government but what if it's just a private company who does it? Google already has your location info: https://www.google.com/maps/timeline
They are definitely already using the information in aggregate to provide traffic jam info. Hell I am sure facebook already does this for suggesting friends too. On the balance of privacy vs social good, I don't think there's even much slippery slope left to protect.
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You're mistaken. The last slide is, like I said, the result of the experiment, the second to last is the bibliography.
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Yeah Volkswagen halted production as well.
Your comment on the device being dev friendly and the fact that you wrote your own utilities is really making me consider to preorder RM2. I saw all these comments and wish I can somehow integrate my own workflow into it.