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What's the issue about global dependencies that you're trying to solve? For my production system, we manage version changes by way of Manifest.toml so that we don't get any surprises.

I agree that an opinionated file system structure is nice. Julia already wants you to put source code inside `src` but then underneath you are free to do whatever you want. We generally manage this via coding convention since people can never agree on a standard.
https://elpais.com/sociedad/2020/03/20/actualidad/1584729408...
Pretty much half the retail that doesn't sell food is closed where I live. The local mall is entirely closed, and many businesses that are open are reducing hours or doing "curbside service" meaning a lot of the staff is probably furloughed. My own business is either shut down for 10 more days, or 32 days at least, depending on whether we're under nonessential services.

This is not sustainable in the least man. Eventually all you guys working from home are going to feel it too, because a lot of the businesses you sell your software to are not earning revenue to pay you or to hire consultants.
Adding to this: learn the basics of ham radio. Not only is the theory fun if you're the math/science type, it's also a lifeline service if cellphone or satellite communications are down. You can learn enough in a weekend to get an amateur license and buy $20 radios that will let you talk across the state or further.
They do have them on F1 steering wheels (3 rotating dials for each thumb - on upper and two inside) - see https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iO-QwuFqzgI/maxresdefault.jpg
Speaking about social behavior, I'm in contact with Italian people; they're pretty scared and they're respecting the rules (that is, staying home).

I can definitely tell you that up to around a week ago, there was a certain anarchy, that is people carelessly meeting in crowded places (Italy has a mix of both strongly social behavior, and cultural aversion to rules), but things changed drastically.

Until people is scared, they'll honor the rules (of course, one will always find exceptions); I think that it's not about acceptance, but fear.

If this is true, then while the epidemic is (sadly) going strong, people will do what's necessary in an acceptable manner.
Those goalposts gave me whiplash.
A family can use 200 pounds of flour up before it spoils. Hard to freeze that much bread.

And then there are lots of people where a $100 hedge is a pretty simple choice.

(I bought 5 pounds of flour, about on the normal schedule)
You and the parent poster are probably thinking of heterojunction SiGe bipolar transistors.

SiGe bipolar transistors are fabricated on top of old CMOS processes and are relatively cheap from a fixed-cost perspective but not highly integrated and only cost/power-efficient for niche PHY layer applications.
But if they closed down the class because of that all parents should have been aware that their kids could possibly be infected.
“CDC/NIOSH believes the following products, despite being past their manufacturer-designated shelf life, should provide the expected level of protection…

“3M 1860; 3M 1870; 3M 8210; 3M 9010; 3M 8000; Gerson 1730; Medline/Alpha Protech NON27501; Moldex 1512; Moldex 2201.”

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/release-stockpiled...
Tesseract Rendering Pipeline in Detail
Full article in English with the video embedded and where they say they have supposedly patented it even though it's a branded snorkeling mask from Decathlon: https://www.isinnova.it/easy-covid19-eng/
2d later, not that anyone still sees this. But: I know from a friend that their university lab is making plans to have their PCR-cabable equipment and staff on standby to run corona tests.
I’m still half convinced that Apple's AR wearable won’t need any optical breakthroughs, because it won't use optical compositing.

If there’s one thing Apple's mobile engineering is uniquely good at, it’s building a low-latency pipeline. I think they could get the camera-to-screen latency low enough that they could build an AR wearable that is essentially a VR headset with wide-angle cameras on the front: This would enable the high-fidelity compositing that you already see on iPads and iPhones, basically leapfrogging everything else in the AR space without having to invent novel optical solutions.
Revisiting Coronavirus Data Analysis
In many cases, people aren't available; they're sheltering at home, social distancing. Even for those who can work remotely, the disruption to routine is going to reduce productivity. And worse, many assets are going to be destroyed- for instance, restaurants that go under while distancing is taking place are just going to be gone, and while the brute equipment can be reused later, the "organizational capital" (the habits and knowledge of how to run that particular business in that particular context most effectively) vanishes.

Various governmental interventions (stimulus, rent freezes, etc) can ameliorate this, but I'm not confident (and the financial sector isn't confident, I think) that the government is presently competent enough to get too much mileage out of implementing these; stimulus needs to be done correctly and promptly to have much effect.

If you're in (or your customers are in) an industry that can hunker down and "weather the downturn," the eventual return to normal will be priced in and you'll likely be fine. If you're in (or ditto) an industry that will suffer attrition, the uncertainty will be priced in and you're liable to suffer. Give some thought as to where you stand.
Virologist Drosten, co-discoverer of the first SARS virus, said that there is no scientific data that curfews are effective.

Banning groups obviously is effective.

> Sure you can, careful on what you touch, virus lives for three days on steel and plastic.

This route of transmission is also highly disputed among virologists. We should have data by now that supermarket workers have a higher rate of infection. I don't think they have.

Some people have self control, don't touch anything apart from their bicycle, don't touch their face etc.

It is amusing to see politicians clamoring for a curfew while in close contact with other people and constantly rubbing their faces. So perhaps they extrapolate from their own stupidity.
https://archive.md/tp9HA
That's weird. It looks okay on my iPhone.
Single port as in single 16 pin connector that all of these LED panels use as a defacto standard.
True but the patent is in good faith:

> We clarify that the patent will remain free to use, because it is in our intention that all hospitals in need could use it if necessary.

> We clarify that our initiative is totally non-profit, we will not obtain any royalties on the idea of the link, nor on the sales of Decathlon masks.
Highly depends on where/when/who.
Yes, but perhaps not in the way that you might think.

There were a number of structural factors that led to the great depression: gold standard currency and restrictive monetary policy at the Fed, overly restrictive tariff laws, simultaneous drought that destroyed a lot of farmland, rampant financial fraud, lack of deposit insurance at banks causing numerous bank runs and failures.

Basically all of the above is different now. The modern Fed is organized around preventing the monetary mistakes made during the depression. We are on purely fiat currency now, not the volatile gold standard. Food security is hugely increased, and restrictive tariffs have not impacted the ag industry of Canada and Mexico, which are key supports of the US's food supply chain. We have the FDIC for deposit insurance and increased post-Great Recession capital controls on systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs).

We have also learned from the Roosevelt interventions of the 1930's that it requires both a strong monetary and fiscal policy to address a systemic shock to the economy. So it might take some time for stimulus to arrive, but it should be incoming.

Finally, we have the internet. Not to oversell it, but it's a significant asset that can ensure a degree of continuity of supplies, services and employment in an event such as this. Yes - it's not perfect and many necessary jobs can not be done over the internet. But it's better than the alternative.

So, my feeling is that we are heading into the most significant non-wartime economic event since the great depression, but if cards are played properly we should be able to mitigate the terrible effects to a much better degree than was possible in the 1930's.
Well, in Scala with default predef it would depend on the order or the arguments. If first one is a string it would just append string representation of the second one. One could use a random generator to guess what would happen in JavaScript. I do not know what Python does in these cases
Most stuff related to the pandemic like testing is not centrally organized in Germany, this is all on the state or local level. So I can easily imagine that there are very large differences depending on where exactly you are.
I agree with what you're saying but then there's the other example of Asian countries that are not China, who have flattened the exponential curve without forced lockdowns. Governments in the west should just speedup mass production of masks because this is IMO the key to this flattening (and even if they still prefer forced lockdown, masks would be a good measure for when the lockdown is lifted).
I don't think people working in fields are being told to not go to work. Food production is critical work and is still allowed. It is the service industry (bars, restaurants, hotels, travel, sports, concerts, etc.) that is taking the hit, but it also has lots of low wage jobs.

If a carbon tax was applied to whole countries and the funds collected given back as a per person dividend instead of going into the general budget, I think most people would support that. There are ways forward. We just have to support ways that work with the system we have instead of using climate change as a crisis to implement the utopian ideas of a few.
Has anyone looked into using CPAP machines for ventilation for covid-19 cases? They are lower pressure and only one pressure, but seems like would still be quite useful if one didn't have a full ventilator?

I don't know how many CPAP machines there are in the US but I know three people who each have one.
helpful mnemonic for remembering the difference between "log in" and "login": "I'm going to log in on the login page"
One issue with both digital and printed maps are missing details. I went on a scout hike in the Adirondacks last summer with an experienced guide whose day job was an instructor with the U.S. Army Mountain Warfare School. We had good printed topographical maps of the areas to the south of Tupper Lake in St. Lawrence county, and on rare occasions could get a one or two bars for phone maps.

However, on one 20-mile segment, we were really thrown off by unmarked and unmapped roads peeling off through the forest from mapped roads, created by logging companies and private landowners. In one case one of those unmarked roads proved to be a time-saving shortcut when we got lost, but at other times we had to backtrack when we realized we had taken the wrong branch.

The other really helpful map we encountered were marked snowmobile trails. Snowmobilers in rural parts of the state are very well organized, and have created a network of trails stretching from western NY to the Adirondacks in the northeast part of the state. Besides trail markers, they have erected trail maps at intersections showing trails at the county level, which were very helpful.
The thing is, money is not in short supply, access to gear is. So how did they get access? Is the question.

Edit: I missed the answer due to not being able to read the full article, I withdraw the question, unfortunately, I cannot delete it.
According to

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

the NY numbers have more than doubled today (from ~10k to ~22k). What is happening? Are some belated test results coming in?

EDIT: Numbers were just corrected, are now at total ~16k with ~5k new cases. Still high growth, but more reasonable.
"We're publishing this and now it is prior art" is more costly to defend in the US courts compared to having a patent.
> I'm in the U.S.---we have gigantic hospital ships in the ports of two of our largest cities right now

Not true. The west coast one is deploying soon, but the east coast one was undergoing repairs at the time and is weeks away from deployment.
I think it could be very useful if, say, we get a vaccine, but don't have near enough supply to vaccinate everyone. By knowing who is at most risk, we could target a limited supply to who is most at risk.

This would be the opposite of normal thinking, which is to vaccinate the healthy people so that the unhealthiest don't have to get vaccinated, since any vaccine has some small chance of being problematic if you've already got issues. But, in this case, if we cannot produce enough vaccine fast enough, it could be that targeting those most at risk would be the right call.
I don’t know if you noticed, but large portions of our federal government have not been functioning for awhile. For example spending months on impeachment proceedings that were guaranteed to go nowhere just for the sake of political posturing, right as covid19 was getting started.
There are more explanations.
Karneval/Fasching/Fasnacht celebrations are hugely popular in the South and West and virtually inexistent in the North and East.
The east is generally poorer (so easterners travel less) and has less popular tourist destinations - except Berlin, which has been hit badly enough.
"people will not like it but it does not matter"

It does matter what the people like and not. The problem in this case is just, that most people do not at all understand the implications of breaking encryption. Actually most barley know what encryption is at all. Thats why there is no outrage.
This is the part that is not so reassuring:

Does Zoom sell Personal Data?

No part of that paragraph makes me feel better, and it ends with this...

" If you opt out of “sale” of your info, your Personal Data that may have been used for these activities will no longer be shared with third parties."
Well yes, but they also almost certainly have it the worst.

Their testing rate is not even particularly high - Washington State has tested more per capita and has a drastically lower positive rate

https://covid-19.direct/state/NY

(If anything Washington, which is facing roughly linear case growth without a shelter in place in effect, is arguably handling the best of anywhere in the US. But I recognize NYC being so dense is intrinsically in a bad spot in a pandemic)
That's messed up. Our zoom usage at the company has skyrocketed these past few weeks. I was marveling at how smooth and seamless the process was. Though I was a bit peeved zoom always steers you to the installed app instead of keeping it in the browser. Now I know why...
There's a period of days between exposure and symptomatic infection. The social distancing started ~a week ago Friday (and ramped up over the next several days).

We are only beginning to see the impact from that, and it will be quite a few more days until we see the full impact (and with some states taking longer to put the measures in place, even longer).
>undestand one's "rights" doesn't always apply

It's funny, movies got it wrong, you don't need mass deaths, zombies or giant deadly global disasters to have people accept their rights being suspended and acquiesce to being herded like sheep under strict authoritarian rules under threat of monetary punishment or even incarnation....you just need to make them scared of being sick...
As I've said, it sounds weird to me but apparently not to you so let's leave it at that.
responding the most is not the same as responding the best. Time will tell. But given that many if not most people want to limit shutdowns, the above is a technocratic opinion, not a democratic one.
The official opinion on mask wearing is absolutely pathetic in Germany. The should declare that there is a shortage, medical staff must have priority, others should use DIY masks.
There was this analysis of bills passed and who supported them a while back by someone at Princeton. Turns out public opinion has a near negligible impact.
https://act.represent.us/sign/the-problem/
Love the idea of visual feedback for debugging! Maybe this can be super helpful for people who are trying to learn data structures? Or maybe for going through project euler.
For multi-hour and day hikes I usually use the combination of maps.me, park pamphlet, and photos of large posters near the trailhead. Works reasonably well, although I realize that may not work in a multi-day backcountry, mainly due to the battery and reliability issues. Haven’t done those in a while but that totally would be a trip where I would pack ye olde compass, paper map, additional external phone battery and would check phone or GPS only once in a while to make sure I am not off route.
Releasing at JuliaCon was always the communicated goal, though admittedly with a bit of a hedge that we may not manage to get it done. As for the 1.0RC business, 0.7 and 1.0 are the same release except that 0.7 includes additional depreciation earnings that are not in 1.0. This decision was made to keep with our communicated policy of having at least one versions where deprecations would produce a warning. There were a number of 0.7 release candidates in the months leading up to the release. Since the changes in 1.0 were minimal over 0.7, it didn't need extensive validation and the one day was enough to make sure it worked. Would a bit more time have been better? Sure, but in retrospect it was totally fine. 1.0 was a fairly solid release and has gotten more solid with the LTS patch releases that many people still use. The big problem was packages in the ecosystem needing 2-3 months to catch up, but I'm not sure that could have been avoided. One of the learnings we have is that most people won't upgrade their software until the new version is released and upgrading is absolutely necessary.
I have no actual idea, but would venture to guess that all dorms in NY are old buildings with HVAC/Electrical/Elevators/Hallway sizes that aren't good enough for medical care.
We have plenty of space (churches, meeting halls, school and university dormitories) to use for temporary hospitals w/o the Army building temporary buildings that will cost a fortune and later be torn down all on the taxpayers' dime. Charitable organizations, universities and institutions should be willing to donate those resources.

I don't want to pay the army for building: I want their doctors doing research on a cure/fix for Covid-19 and I want their soldiers alert and ready. It would be cheaper to hire immigrant Mexicans to build temporary hospitals.

Using the army to build hospitals when better space is already is a waste of time, a waste of money and little more than a boondoggle for the suppliers who are chosen.

And isn't this possibly a violation of the posse comitatus Act?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
You'd be murdering people. That's an un-ethical medical experiment. About as unethical as what already happened to those on the Diamond Princess. 8 of them are dead now, there are still another 15 in critical with some of those expected to eventually die.
Please don't take HN threads into political or nationalistic or ideological flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The President, with unlimited access to the best public health advice in the world, has zero excuses.
Red Dead 2 is my favourite game of all time. It was an incredibly game to play.

I couldn't get into Horizon. The normal difficultly was just insanely hard. I think I got 4 ~ 5 hours in and never ended up finishing it :(
Wasn’t it allegory of Nazi occupation? That’s how I understood it, might be off
Pandemics: Risks, Impacts, and Mitigation (2017)
Indeed, a 20% return would be more than fair, wouldn’t it? So, pay off their development costs + 20%.
What are the main benefits of Elixir compared to Clojure?
Julia is definitely trickier to control because it's an extremely powerful language. After all you can write even programs that can rewrite itself in it (like Cassette/Zygote, which is more than simply AST manipulation but full IR manipulation), there is no limit to how clever your program can be. But that level of introspection in the future could bring amazing linter capability to the language, that could detect all kind of bad practices as you type (for example type piracy, type instabilities, and possibly enforce customizable policies) which will become important tools as more people aim to use the language in production environments.

And until then the best practices for larger project using Julia's paradigm (Multiple Dispatch, which is by itself not as well understood as OOP or functional) will probably become more largely known. I feel like Julia projects should not grow large not because it's not suitable for large scale projects, but because even large scale Julia projects should emerge from the composition of many small and maintainable Julia projects.
It might be a cool cultural thing for someone to post a threadreaderapp link if available the way someone always posts an archive link.
> We could had made a coronavirus vaccine that could had potentially worked now, years ago.

That isn't really true. Some viruses are more susceptible to vaccination than others but all have one thing in common: about 12-18 months between the first confirmed sighting of a virus and the time to make a vaccine if one is possible. And for plenty of Viruses we have not been able to make a vaccine and some of those are coronaviruses.
Well, the flu doesn't infect 100 million Americans in the same quarter. Just to mention one way in which Covid-19 is clearly worse than the flu.
She "caused" it by being there. The other driver was at fault, swerving onto the opposite direction lane and hitting her.

She shouldn't have been outside, but your version of the story is preposterously wrong.
More discussion from another thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22656443
The shape of social graphs is likely very different across countries, but I don’t know of studies checking this. However, there are anecdata aplenty. My hometown in Spain has a lot of part timers in senior living facilities, so you will find, for instance, physical therapists working 2 or 3 facilities over the course of a week. We have confirmed examples of one therapist who contracted the virus somewhere, and now it’s on every facility he visited: Over a hundred people tested positive with him as the only link.

There is also how common it is for adult children to live with their parents, who might be retired already. Different networks do seniors and millennials that go to different places and have different links, but help the infection travel fast.

Given the low ICU capacity, a single case like this can overwhelm a local hospital system, with predictable results.
And the response is to tell people "don't worry! Masks don't help. They only work for doctors!"

See: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-...
Are you trying to suggest that Zuse's computer didn't work because the NVA was not out yet?
That Babbage would machine (also NVA) wouldn't have worked bc Neumann wasn't born yet?
The owner may take certain costs out of your deposit, and what they can and can't bill you for depends on the jurisdiction, but it is certainly illegal to keep your deposit without giving you an invoice for the costs. If this is what happened in your case, you could take your landlord to small-claims court to get it back. As general advice, anyone who is leaving a rental property would be well advised to take pictures of the whole place on the day they vacate, in case they have to debunk damage claims by the landlord.