skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. This sounds astonishing, and really explains the expansion we see in Italy and other countries.

I live in Hungary, where health care workers don't get (enough) protective wear, the health care system is neglected since decades, and government is not willing to communicate clearly. Also, most of the people who should be tested are not tested, because of the "protocol".

I fear this, and the rate of asymptomatic cases will lead to a deadly mixture here.
its coming soon was the idea.
How dangerous is random medical advice from an internet forum? Over the counter drugs can potentially kill people, too, if used improperly.
From what I'm seeing: Grocery Health and Beauty way up; everything else way down. If I were a RA person I'd be buying buying children's games from Walmart and hope the input warehouse can handle the influx of shipments. RA is still alive and well for the hustlers. I'm rooting for them!
The point is that he's implying to the hotel that he is carrying the virus, and therefore they don't want him there, so they refunded his original booking.
Then you have two new problems, because a lot of investments (e.g. real estate, small businesses) aren't liquid, and you don't necessarily know the value at any given time.

If you own a restaurant and a sports stadium opens next door which causes the value of the land to double overnight, you'd suddenly owe $50,000 in capital gains tax, but what if you don't have $50,000 in cash? You'd have to sell your restaurant to pay the tax on it.

If you write some software for your small business and start to license it to people for $50 each, how much is your corporation which owns the copyright now worth? Ten thousand dollars? Ten billion dollars? It depends how many copies you expect to sell. But the government would have to appraise it. What do you do if they appraise it as worth tens of millions of dollars? You'd immediately owe more than a million dollars in capital gains tax, but it's on the appraised value of an asset that may not turn into that much revenue for years -- or at all. And with no guarantee you could even find anyone willing to pay you that much for the business.

There are good reasons not to collect the tax until the investment is converted to cash.
Part of the problem with that, is that it's single-provider fiber.

If you don't like AT&T's offerings, you can't go with another ISP.

In a lot of buildings - there's exclusivity arrangements so that no other provider can install fiber.

This is why Australia's NBN was a good idea - the fiber is rolled out by a single body, all the ISPs have equal access.

My apartment has NBN Fiber, I have an ONT provided by NBN, and off that ONT there's four 1Gbit ethernet ports - I can call up my choice of ISP(s) and ask for service from any of them.

The idea for having four data ports was that you could have multiple different network conections.

Perhaps your employer wants you to have a 1Gbit connection direct into their network - no worries, they can provision directly onto one of those ports, and then it doesn't matter what malware might be on my home network, it won't impact the work device.

Perhaps you need some kind of remote-monitored medical gear - well having that on the public internet is a bad idea, so your healthcare provider could provision a port for that, too.

It also means that if I want to switch ISPs, I call up the new ISP and ask for a connection, and when they get around to setting it up - I switch over to their port. Not working? No worries, switch back to the old ISP and continue using that until the new ISP figures it out.
> Did we forget so soon that the Snowden slides are PowerPoint?

what does that mean? That Microsoft works for the NSA or something?
WilsonPaige is right (if not always for the "right" reason):

"Coronavirus Chloroquine & Zinc Treatment":

https://citycourier.org/news/coronavirus-chloroquine-zinc-tr...
We recently used Kind for a k8s workshop. We provisioned a beefy cloud server and ran 15 3-node Kind clusters on it, so everyone had it's own k8s instance without having to install anything locally. It worked absolutely great for this purpose.

I wrote some scripting around it so people can claim their own cluster via SSH. I'm planning to write a post about it soon and make the code available.
I'm just looping in the auth flow when using Github to sign in.
I went to college with Armon and highly enjoyed working with him. I've never been associated with Hashicorp and can't speak to his leadership there, but as a human being he's fantastic. And it seems like Hashicorp is doing well.
Do they, in real terms? Like, in terms of percent-of-net-worth-per-annum rather than dollars-per-individual? Because I highly, highly doubt that.
When I was on hypertension meds, I was on S1 scheduled meds which required a script (in Australia). I visited an Asian city and bought them over the counter without a script.

These medicines are not something you should take if you do not need them. "how dangerous can it really be" is pretty much why rule one exists. Not the least of which is, antibiotics are available over-the-counter in some countries, and this contributes to why antibiotics are not as potent as they used to be.
Its cause it's completely accurate trust me I've been playing it. Also the Corrupted Blood virus from world of warcraft.
When you see the police, you will be arrested unless you begin jogging and sign an affidavit that you were getting mad. Then it's OK.
I’m not seeing how DAGs are distinct from forests (sets of trees) or outlines. They seem topologically equivalent.
> This order is in effect until April 7.

What happens after that?

And when will we extend this to the whole country?
Correct. Not a single child fatality worldwide.

This is very different than Spanish Flu and even the regular flu.
If everyone will get it as you say, the elders will too.
Unfortunately that's not necessarily the case. I don't have the reference, but I read somewhere that asymptomatic patients may have even larger amounts of the virus, compared to symptomatic people.
Is there anything special that needs to be configured to get this to work on private subnets?

Currently I have an EKS cluster accessible only on private subnets. It would be wonderful to to be able to access this without OpenVPN in the mix.
besides the French president just announced "we are at war".
Name specific countries, to the best of my knowledge, it's no longer in use because malaria has become resistant to Chloroquine.

And I was glad to see it go out of use cos it caused crazy itching in many people.

Touching water was like pouring fuel on fire.

Anyway, even though I hated it, Chloroquine really worked while it worked.
Omg. Never thought to check you too. Thank you!
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Don't forget the limes.
It might already be too late for UK. Italy missed the mark by a week and it's a disaster in parts of the country. I'm from Slovenia and we implemented a total shutdown of public life. Now we are now waiting to see if it'll work. We went from 1 confirmed case to a shutdown in 10 days. And it's far from guaranteed that shutdown will work as it might be a few days too late.
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> ... has a cumulative dose of more than 1000 grams. ...

woowza a Kg worth of drug !!! this doesn't look correct to me !
New data, new policy: why UK's coronavirus strategy changed
Theoretically, yes, but only if the HV meters are ideal resistors. In practice, voltage ratings cannot be added for good reasons.

The safe and legal way is building a separate HV probe for the meter, internally, it can use a resistor divider. The individual resistors will have a much lower voltage rating, and still, they cannot be added, you don't get a new rating by connecting them in series. But you can test and certify the unit as a whole, so the probe itself gets a new input and output voltage rating.

Another example is oscilloscopes. Almost all scopes are only rated for CAT II measurements, which meant it's only safe to use the scope to measure the voltage inside an appliance plugged in an outlet that is far away from the electricity entry panel (even when the working voltage rating is the same, different Categories [0] have different overvoltage handling ratings for unexpected transients, the closer to the entry, the higher it needs to be). Technically, you cannot even use an oscilloscope to measure the AC lines directly - it requires CAT III certification (yeah, most people keep breaking this rule). However, what you can do is building a standalone, differential, active HV probe as your "input front-end", and design and certify the probe to handle the hazardous voltage, in this case the oscilloscope only samples its safe output and acts as a data acquisition and analysis system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_category
I’m not worried about the Internet.

I’m much more concerned about the corporate VPN solutions which have probably been designed for maybe 1% usage suddenly getting hit with 50-90% usage.

You can’t get much useful work done if the corporate VPN solution is toast and everything is locked down to being either on-site or on VPN.
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This is the time to resort to drastic measures to prevent drastic consequences. Have you seen this from 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg "Exponential growth and epidemics" ?
Many things but most obvious now would be drugs and drug compounds. China being able to refuse to sell us drugs is a national security issue. We didn't learn from the oil embargo of the 70s apparently.
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So do you think the current system is working well?
> Do you think gun shops will close?

You mean forever? Hopefully.
Also there are blood tests that are dirt cheap and get you the results in 15 mins, but they are only 80% accurate
Yet they somehow beat the US to space. And for some reason the US is still buying rocket engines from Russia.
You mean every permanent resident should get free health care, and it should be a human right.
Mid-January in San Diego. Fever and head congestion. Extreme fatigue some days. Laid me out for a week and used my first sick time in years. Wife and daughter had less severe form exactly five days after my onset. It was unlike anything we had experienced before.

I worked at a large international company at the time and we had dozens of developers return form India and China after the holidays. It really makes me wonder if we had it.
I think the "financialization of our economy" => higher house prices is at best a part of the story. The other part is absurd zoning laws and restrictions on the supply of housing. This couples with people's expectations that house prices should always be going up and that housing is an investment.
Correct! Though making that template isn't that difficult either, you can order the DNA version and generate the RNA from that.
That means 1-2 million deaths in the US according to the latest modelling from Imperial Collage London, so it’s likely all countries will proceed to full lockdown for months at some point soon.
Surprisingly yes. There are also townhouse and apartment complexes. Most homes are on bigger lots but I was surprised by the diversity of housing choices out here.
Uganda sent aid to China as well. So what.

Literally anyone can send aid to anyone, often for political gains.
Glad I clicked this. It’s been a rough ride for many and its getting rougher for many more. We’re gonna need all the best of humanity we can get.
DAGs can have things that would form cycles if they weren't directed, like diamond shapes.
Do you brush your teeth? Have you ever looked into why brushing your teeth is good scientifically? How many people do you think have done that? Yet we all brush our teeth or at least believe it's good for us. We're not basing our decision to brush teeth on science. We're basing it on the word of other people.

Other people can also say the craziest things and pass it off as science. Should we believe them too, because they claim it's science? You can't verify every single thing whether it's "based on science" or not. You need to use heuristics and sometimes those heuristics lead people to do something different that ends up being the better way to do things than what science at the time entails. Taking away people's choice means that this happens a lot less.

As an aside, I would like to contest the idea that science is the only way we know things. Most science that ends up in practical use has a lot of handwaving of details in it. We describe some parts of it, but everything else is filled in by our instincts and knowledge. Few sciences are as pure as mathematics, where you can reason over things on paper without needing an extra assumed context. In most cases when science says we "know" something it is meant in a narrow context. We extrapolate based on that into other contexts and most of the time it works fine, but we often don't know.
The US medical system is only great to those that don't have to go through great struggles to afford it. It is the worlds worst and most dystopian to everyone else (the majority).

Financial status deciding who gets health care is the ultimate death panel.

The US health care system is awful in all ways.
Is the README a landing page? I prefer a separate blog post with all that, to keep the README as concise as possible.
Like this: https://telegra.ph/Announcing-atbswp-a-minimalist-keyboard-m...
Disclaimer: I wrote that.
I think that’s the reason many countries rely on harsh measures that hit everyone, not only those who are apparently ill.
Regardless of whether it happened or not, my point is still true. I made a chart for you with domestic stocks, emerging market stocks, gold, bonds, Bitcoin, treasuries and real estate: https://ibb.co/1LnG5Dv.

They all fell.
You just convinced me to move to Greenland.
Bear in mind, we already engage in significant wealth redistribution. There's an argument that it's more efficient to do by writing checks, rather than through complex federal bureaucracies. It's the reason that Milton Friedman favored a negative income tax, and that GiveDirectly.org is considered by the Effective Altruism community to be one of the best charities.
I wonder if this will be like H1N1.

At first we only identified extreme cases and we had these terrifying reported fatality rates.

Then we identify more and more mild or asymptomatic cases and the rates drop and drop.

We’ve already seen how CFR was reported as 3 or 4%. Then on the cruise ship full of people over 60 it’s 0.7%. If there are lots of mild or asymptomatic cases it will likely be much lower.

H1N1 was identified as having a scary 0.4% CFR early on and was later found to be much lower, but we didn’t know until after the fact.

An example report from 2009:

https://www.who.int/immunization/sage/1.Briand_epi_7th_July_...

In the end it may have killed over half a million people in 2009 - but for some reason people barely noticed. (Tangent: I wonder if it’s partly the changing media landscape from 2009 to 2020.)
I personally only have hope for incompetence at this point. If the virus can get totally out of control, perhaps it will become obvious that shutting down the economy and plunging the world into a recession/depression is misguided. I think it will do far more harm in life-years wasted as it is, but if it's also shown to be useless perhaps the current approach would be stopped.
I'm kind of skeptical of the number. It also doesn't really gel that well with his 50% can't afford a $400 bill. It seems to be based on survey data from CareerBuilder which could be misleading for whole hosts of reasons.
I guess I don't know the doses involved, but it's not that bad on it's face. I took it as an antimalarial for a few months.

Worst part is that it gives you weird dreams that puts you into a weird, almost bad trip head space.
Great video, thanks for sharing!
As far as i understand a lot of people are working on this.
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You're certainly not wrong, and I've seen a number of instances where landlords are being lenient with rent to tenants which is certainly commendable.
ahh you are talking about taking all samples and combining them, this would destroy the ability to trace transmission across reported contacts. i takes ~3hours to run the test if your very familiar with the procedures the problem with centralized testing is the delay if samples are shipped and handled from distributed locations.

the process involves a proceedure that is very sensative to initial sample frequencies. if there is a lot of negative samples mixed with a small number of positive samples there is a pretty good chance that when you remove an aliquot you will sample a population of samples and have artefact.

the chance of amplifying non targeted RNA [human] is increased in this way thus increasing chance of false negatives.

cross over is about handling series of samples.
the more samples on the bench at once the more chance to incidentally combine them, from things like "tip drip" or spatter.
My favourite cruise ship fiasco this week has been the newly imposed rule in New Zealand - they can’t dock, go away. So hours before the ban was imposed one docked and dumped all it’s passengers in the capital. https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/120298962/...
I live in a town w/ 3 grocery stores and a lot of rural suburbs w/out any. (Cedar City, UT)... when there's panics, even a snowstorm, the supply chain breaks down fast.

This is epic levels... I like to have some 'easy' comfort food like instant oatmeal, and had to go to all 3 stores to find some and it wasn't my go to quaker oats maple/brown sugar but I took 2 weeks worth anyways. Canned goods were gone... I can't find dinty moore anywhere after 5 different attempts over a week, I gave up.

I got plenty of junk food, some stuff to last me till my wife gets back in town to cook us food, and we have lots of meat stocked up from her parent's hunt last year. We won't starve, but w/ restaurants closing, this will hurt a lot who eat out a lot. It's not like they even get the benefit of 'saving money' since they now are likely temporarily laid off without income...

I know for a fact the supplies were replenished, but then unplenished at least 1-2 times in past week. Small town problems, at least social distancing is easier when there's not a lot to do that isn't four wheeling or hunting, or fishing which is already pretty seclusive.
Madagascar closed their ports to cruise ships a while ago.
People taking 400 mg of hydroxychloroquine or less per day generally have a negligible risk of macular toxicity

400mg/day for 5 years is 730 grams.
I had to laugh at that bit, only an epidemiologist would think it was practical to adopt a stop and start strategy for 18 months, opening and closing schools and adjusting lockdowns etc. every few weeks. I suspect governments will proceed to full lock down instead for as long as it takes (6-8 months?).

Economically this is going to hit very hard, and lead to a global depression and a lot of bankrupt companies. I almost fear the treatment might kill more than the disease after all the global economic impacts are accounted for.
Car accidents don't kill an exponentially increasing number of people once set in motion.
There is one 14 year old who sadly died, but yes, it is close to zero.
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I think you're conflating what the general public believes with what those in control believe.

It is in the public's best interest for the general public to only worry about what is within their control (so as to avoid panic). Therefore, the general public is being led to believe that all is going to be OK after a couple months of social distancing.

I guarantee you behind the scenes, those in control are scrambling to take immediate and drastic action to ramp up our medical treatment capacity.
We exchange value based on price discovery; but prices are determined by leverage, which is heavily tilted by pre-existing capital. One doesn't notice this at a micro-transaction level (how many shoes for how many chickens), but once one zooms out to the balance of power between labor and capital, one clearly holds all the cards ~90% of the time.
CFR, whatever it is, isn’t the most significant detail. What is “terrifying” is its high contagiousness combined with its high hospitalisation and ICU rates.
A kg isn't necessarily that much over a lifetime. I'm over that with at least one drug.
I really, really hope so.

My hope is it is way more widespread than we think, and while that means it's going to be near impossible to contain, the denominator is so large that the CFR ends up being much lower than expected.
Are those free and first come first served? If I forget the key, is the TLD lost forever?
While I think both countries' ISPs like to compete for a yearly "silliest restriction and worst customer experience" award, the NBN in Australia is a government screwup mostly due to the actions of vested interests and vested politicians.

An entire political party decided that the internet was just for "movies and entertainment", "You don't need fast internet" and similar comments. This guided them towards penny pinching as a strategy which meant they succeeded in seizing defeat from the jaws of victory.

"Penny wise, pound stupid" is the old term for it.
The first source I could find puts 2008 crisis programs at 5.7% of GDP (it says output I assume gdp), and New Deal at 40%. [1]

Call it 130MM households in the US. Exclude top 5% ~123M.

For 6 months stimulus 1k/house = 738B.

Doesn't sound like enough really for what we're facing. Less than 2008 stimulus. only ~3.6% of GDP.

This interview with Jason Furman has some other good comparisons+context and other back of napkin maths [2]

If we're talking permanent UBI lowering or even cutting benefits programs (to be replaced by UBI) could get it somewhat close to budget neutral - if you cut a lot [3]. But IMHO would never be able to cut social security etc enough to make a difference, gross tax revenue would have to be raised somehow - but not by a shocking amount.

1 https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2017/may/which-big...
2 https://www.vox.com/2020/3/13/21177850/coronavirus-covid-19-...
3 https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/14/budget-neutral-universal-bas...
He has no source. In another comment I pointed out the stock asian market only decreased 20% at the max.
Not in this thread it is not. Stock market threads on Hacker News are about the same level as your doctor uncle trying to explain monads to your artist sister, I'm sorry to say. Words have specific meanings, and this just serves to confuse your average Robinhood or E-trade investor.
A little suggestion for the authors, they mentioned xargs, I think [GNU parallel](https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/) might work a mention too, since it is a kind of modern successor that can use many computers to run tasks.
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> You can just buy it over-the-counter in some countries, right? How dangerous can it really be?

That's absolutely meaningless, some countries are nuts. Just about anything gets sold over the counter somewhere. There's even countries where guns are sold over the counter.
All taxation and spending is wealth redistribution.
If you want something more reputable, how about Imperial College London’s epidemiologists:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...
A collection of promising Covid-19 developments
You make a good case why UBI might not affect rent in high-rent areas, but what makes you think there would be a place where housing costs are $300 a month when everyone has UBI? Why wouldn't the floor immediately become $1000 everywhere?
And you know this because?
Lol, i meant in the name "OS X", but i like that the joke works both ways.
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