skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Italy is 60 millions of people in a country 116,000sq miles.

The US is 328 millions of people in a country 3.8 million square miles.

For different reasons, its playing out similarly?
In the Netherlands we now have a law where ISPs must allow your own choice of network equipment. This means they must give you the required information on how to connect your own device with their network.

I have a fiber connection, which I connected directly to a Ubiquity router through a suitable SFP module. My ISP supplied the information on the fiber type and which VLAN ID's to setup for internet, TV and telephony.

This way I have my own equipment, that I control myself. The 'modem' [0] which my ISP supplied is still in its original, unopened box.
I’m not sure about this. China is, rightfully, being blamed for the initial outbreak of the virus and their failure to contain it. I think when the dust settles, we’re going to see a rapid decoupling from China as countries look inward to strengthen their domestic supply chains.

I have a hard time seeing China emerging as a winner from this crisis.
Out of curiosity: What did Drepper do? A quick DDG/Google search didn't turn up anything.

EDIT: Actually, searching for "Ulrich Drepper asshole" did turn up some stuff. I'd still be interested, as the stuff I found was rather general.
> Sadly they went out of business as it was a fairly niche product and pretty expensive.

However, their Android app is still on Google Play, and you can find used models on eBay. There's also a cottage industry making replacement headbands (which wear out).

At least there was 3-4 years ago when I last used mine. I haven't tried it since.
Should 1000 people go unemployed to save one person?
First, the rate is not very low in the US, relative to places like Germany.

Second, the 'death rate' is not a matter of deaths/cases, because the # of cases is very much dependent on testing. More testing is more likely to yield the cases that are not aggressive. So we'll have to do a lot more testing everywhere to get a real picture.

Third, there's a delay in all of these numbers, they eventually converge, but if there's a period where there's 'big change' in whatever measure, it will take a few weeks at least to even crudely converge. The US is just starting now to get hit with a lot of hospitalizations, so the death rate will probably spike a little bit.

Long term, it may be due to things like average age, the quality of care, how hard the hospitals were hit (i.e. if some people were turned away because of overflow) death rates will be higher.

Of course, the overall death rate/capita (not deaths/infected) will likely to be due to how hard the nation was able to adapt, shut down etc. and how bad the inherent r0 was in the first place as there is evidence that it's slower moving in warmer climates.
Slightly off-topic: I'd really like to run screenfetch on my router (Asus RT-N66U), but it doesn't have enough free space to sftp the script to it [1]. Piping the script just freezes up. Does anyone know a good workaround? Has anyone ever tried this?

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/510947/how-can-i-ru...
>and "how to learn"

Honestly I see that as something that isn't taught enough / we have a very structured system that is "here is how you're going to learn it... good luck" that doesn't provide a lot of options.

I do agree with the idea that your traditional 4 year college education system is poorly equipped to help redirect existing workers.
> reconcile "most influential" with "nobody's ever heard of"

We ignore the past. I've worked with people who hadn't heard of Alan Kay. I worked with a guy tasked to revamp an expert system who had never heard of Prolog.
Pretty much 2) is saying "you're not allowed to do it because you shouldn't"...
First of all the "millions of deaths" comes from one model. There are many others and we haven't tested enough to know the true spread or lethality of the virus in a general population. It's quite possible that many people have already had covid-19 and were completely asymptomatic, which would make the death rate look much less scary. Anyone who tells you with certainty that "millions will die" is going off incomplete data like everyone else at the moment.

And if we locked down the global economy for a year or two until a vaccine is developed, yes it's not out of the realm of possibility that millions worldwide would die a result of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th order consequences of that decision. Look how many stress fractures are occurring after just a few weeks. You think they'll get better with time and continued stress?

Honestly I think the UK had the best original strategy of locking down the people most at risk, make sure they're taken care of as much as possible, and letting everyone else get herd immunity as quick as possible. But people weren't/aren't willing to accept that, and likely still won't for at least the next few weeks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic it's well known enough to be a common phrase, with it's own wiki entry.
Most hospitals in the U.S. are only starting to reach the point of ICU overcapacity, staff shortages, and ventilators. Italy and Spain are about 1-2 weeks ahead of the U.S.
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It's not scalable even if it does help.

Not to mention the whole scams around it these days and ridiculous high price tags. I'm not surprised if all of these are coming from people that are making money out of it right now.
A bunch of armchair developers seem to have been summoned to tell the Federal government how to handle form submissions for an extremely security and privacy intense application using their fancy modern techniques.

You are talking about comparing a basic web form with an application for unemployment benefits which must go into a federal tax database and be processed using a what I assume is a garbage mainframe system.

It not only needs to be validated, it needs to securely store records, be able to compare them, and hook up to the system that handles payments, etc.

They can't just circumvent it and dump it into some silly Amazon or MySQL database and call it a day. That would require the employees to basically copy and paste that data into the actual warehouse and considering they have 3+ million to go through as it is making it easy for them to process is just as important as allowing people to submit.

For the time being the correct response is a queue gate.

Stop being silly.
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I agree with your main point. That said, if we're okay with subjecting ourselves to propaganda that reduces the spread of covid19, these anecdotes might serve a useful role.
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You're confusing wealth with income
The musl community is one of my favorite things on the internet. It's obvious that many members of it could be making a generous salary at any number of companies but they're just hanging out on IRC because they don't give a shit and they love software.

I don't get the sense that they think they are infallible, just that they are right far more often than not. You can't achieve the sort of spartan aesthetic that you see in the musl codebase by handling things like everyone else. The ability to distill things to their essence betrays a very high level of understanding.

As they say in the streets, the dope sells itself.
Yup. I feels you.

A few years into my dev career, I adapted to make maintainable stuff. Because I learned that in 6 months I'd have to fix my own bugs.

Now it seems most code is throwaway, one-off, write only.

I haven't been able to "let it go". I still obsess over making my code correct. No one else seems to care. They get rewarded for fixing their own bugs ("velocity!") which I mostly avoid. So my KPIs look terrible by comparison.
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At this point introducing a new company could cause more problems than it solves, and I think it's understandable to not be prepared for a volume of jobless claims that is almost an order of magnitude more than at any point in US history.
It's kinda hard to get "hard data" in the middle of a shitshow. This comment sounds like someone watching a school shooting live and asking "yeah but what's the % of kids that got shot".

Show some humanity dude.
How is it a bad example of something which maintains the popularity of C++ when you acknowledge that C++ has been in use in the time period I mentioned, for that industry?

A few years after the Playstation gained prominence would be around 1999; and shortly thereafter Unreal Engine took the industry by storm.

EASTL is how old, now?

I still remember Carmack's comments of his initial forays into using C++ for idtech.

I don't think it's fair to shrug us off.
As a semi-counter:

Slack, Skype, and Zoom video calls don't work in Firefox, even though WebRTC is an open standard. But Google Hangouts works perfectly.

I'm loath to give Google credit for something that ought to be standard practice, but of the major (key word) free video conferencing options, they seem to be the only one that's Firefox-compatible.
It's our collective karma playing out, so to speak...

I eat meat occasionally, but I still think meat should become a luxury food by imposing very high taxes.
HRK is for learning physics, feynman is for feeling like you're learning physics when you aren't, and ll is for feeling like you're understanding nothing.

LL and Feynman are definitely nice to look back upon though.
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Can this be implemented in Go?
USA is starting to do a lot of tests.
Same for Germany.

So virtually keeping the death rate low.

Other countries are testing only people already sick with a lot of symptoms (==hospitalized).
If we were testing "everyone", dead rate would be lower in Italy,...,...
I went to my local 7-11 a couple of weeks ago to get some cash at the ATM. Next to it was a garbage bin for throwing away your receipt.

Out of curiosity, I went through about a dozen and not a single one had a balance above $1,000. Most were below $500.

There is little financial literacy in this country. Basic lessons about opening a bank account, the difference between checkings and savings, etc. is not something that is taught in K-12 nor in College. Let alone more "advanced" topics like 401Ks and IRAs and investing in the stock market.
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They are useful to know, but they have one fundamental problem: they erode trust. Though it is up for debate on how much trust in the political system and mass media there is left in the US.
actually much easier than you'd think

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/how-to-build-your-ow...
As an Italian (albeit one living abroad) I was expecting this, and hoping to be wrong. So much advantage, squandered.
Very interesting article.

What about that precompiled .ssh/authorized_keys with user z00163152@HUAWEI-627FB9A3 mentioned in Part 3?

Any reason why a router firmware would permit root access to anyone at all? Definitely sounds like a backdoor to me.
If you run the whole thing (app + k8s) then I do agree with you that it's more complex and you're likely be better off without it.

But, k8s offers a very good way to split the responsibility of managing the infrastructure and managing the applications that run on top. Many people work in medium to big corporations that have a bunch of people that are in charge of managing the compute infrastructure.

I certainly prefer k8s as an API between me and the infrastructure, as opposed to filing tickets and/or using some ad-hoc and often in-house automation that lets me deploy my stuff in a way that is acceptable for the "infrastructure guys".
I see a lot of people recommending Halliday and Resnick, but I used Serway- Physics for Scientists and Engineers in college and that textbook was one of the best I felt I ever read. Its been quite some time since I was in college though, maybe its fallen out of favor?
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Doctors have passed from the illness, too. Even young, healthy ones. Stress and lack of sleep hurt the immune system.
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Phrased differently, are you willing to die to give employment to 1000 people?
Ask HN: Is it better to quit or get laid off?
This is in consideration of people who may be displaced due to COVID-19's impact on jobs.
81 people died of the virus in NYC yesterday. I think the large number approach of pandemics can almost sanitize the numbers of their humanity.

Imagine 81 people died in a bus accident, or a fire, or a mass shooting. This is very serious and we're still at the beginning of it.
Not a problem for LLVM since it's linker is always a cross-linker so if you're targetting a new (or only use the older platform as a compile target) then the initial cross-compile will be able to produce the binaries. If the older system can't support the LLVM toolchain memory wise or otherwise then it's not really a problem either.

https://lld.llvm.org/
The only hard data we have are death numbers. They're awful enough: https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest

Other hard data takes time to collect and will only be reliable once the disaster has swept through.
As someone who hasn’t followed this space too closely, is there a good tl;dr explanation of how intel lost their lead? It doesn’t seem like an “innovator’s dilemma” situation since they seem to be getting beat at their core competency of laptop, desktop and server cpus.
> You want me to . . . hand-calculate market-weighted total return of an index? Without access to the underlying financials? That's a big ask for an internet comment.

Here’s a handy tool to do just that! Unfortunately only goes back to 2007, so not useful in present case of airline stocks. But a very useful tool.

https://dqydj.com/stock-return-calculator/
You can look at pictures on twitter
I don't think you need a black magic/AI/fancy algorithm to tell whether there is a recession or not
Better to quit, because then you are in control of your destiny.
Another example is to look at South Korea, which got a handle on things with lots of testing (and tracing) . I think this is actually a better example than china, considering that it is a democracy. Lots of testing is btw also the WHO recommendation.
shrug we provided liquidity last time and can do so again. Money printing doesn't kill people, viruses do. The banks are intermediaries. The essential businesses are not affected provided we do not let the banks fail randomly, and there is no need to do that.
So basically a lawyer view of software engineering.

It is very good to adhere to specs when possible, but not always.
I agree. It's easy to fall in the trap of "human life above all else", but there comes a time where tradeoffs become reasonable.

Society already does this with the automobile. 36,000 people die every year for the convenience of driving, which I feel is a completely reasonable tradeoff, and this is not a controversy, at least in the united states.
Speed is, however, an important factor in the severity of the impact.
No good reward goes unpunished
Germany hasn’t reached health system overwhelm. When systems overwhelm, the death rate spikes. Both from corona and also from other causes that now can’t be treated.
I live in the US, I would prefer being anywhere else in the world right now. Even Italy is currently in a good position since they peaked and will likely recover in April. In the US, sky is the limit. There are almost 0 precautions to limit the spread. Even states that pretend to do something, actually does nothing. I live in MA, which has a shelter-in-place order, but all the businesses that I know of are classified as "essential" so all my friends are working business as usual. We're talking about people who work in random mailrooms, in random thrift shops etc. Businesses can do however they please because there is no regulation. And I think it's pretty clear US will likely experience millions of deaths by the end of April.

My point is, there is a huge spectrum between "China level authoritarianism" and "making government fit your bathtub". It's really frustrating to explain this again and again. We should not allow government to invade our private lives, but we also should have government regulating businesses, especially in time like this.
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Can you elaborate on how they (the anecdotes, I assume) erode trust?
> Why? I don't know. I thought it was funny

This is the profit.

While job searching I went on an interview where I got asked why I did a side gig listed on my resumee. "For friend or for money?" It was neither and I said "I don't know, because programming is fun?"

I got hired.
I know Turing (which is pascal packed up with a graphics library and manual and editor all in one exe) was in use in Ontario Schools as late as 2010.
They're bad, but if you put it into the context of normal daily life it's not that crazy. Check out the CDC stats[1] yourself. On average there are about ~1700 deaths per day from heart disease alone in the US, according to the CDC data.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
The American people are at the mercy of a rudderless death cult, and have increasingly been so over the past decade. It's coming to a head now.

Oh, it seems I've been flagged.
It's been more common for DSL too, but I haven't heard of anyone using their own DOCSIS modem for Ziggo though. Have you?
The 2017-2018 flu season also overwhelmed US hospitals:

https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2017-2018.ht...

My point isn't that we should take Coronavirus any less seriously this year. Healthcare workers have no vaccine for it. It's on top of the flu. Etc.

My point is that we should take the flu more seriously every year. Everyone gets their flu shot, right?
I'm not too worried about alcohol poisoning RE: home stills. It's people who don't toss the heads and tails that have a bad time: methanol poisoning sucks, and is the cause of most home distilling dangers (blindness, kidney failure, etc).
or just enable do not disturb mode, that's what the big alarm bell looking button is for
On the website it says that they figured out the autoplay feature on those sites.

I imagine when the countdown ends, it enables the autoplay and the movie starts.
The hard data we have may be incomplete.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/coronaviru...

> And two of the hardest-hit areas in the nation — New York City and Los Angeles County — released guidance earlier this week encouraging doctors not to test patients unless they think the test will significantly change their course of treatment. That means that potentially more people in both places could be admitted to hospitals with severe respiratory symptoms and recover — or die — and not be registered as a coronavirus case.
Last time we had nowhere near the need for liquidity. There were bad mortgages, but they were the minority.

Currency inflation kills. Look at venezuela. You cannot shrug this off. At least consider the effects.
I know several studios local to Vancouver that are making heavy use of Go, Swift or Rust. And of course, a few that are deep into HTML5. There are games being shipped written in mruby.

I'm not in agreement with your assessment that the industry is conservative; it is largely responsible for pushing graphics into programmable pipelines, for instance, and the vendor-preffered language lock-in for consoles hasn't really been a factor since the Indie revolution took the industry by storm.
Thanks for the link. let me quickly check it out
The subtext is that the Romans weren't beating on each other with clubs.
There's also a strong argument to be made that people shouldn't have to care about ecosystems that are so delicate that a proof of concept in a previous version "hurts the overall [ecosystem]."

"How dare you use a hammer! We're all using Hammer 2 now! I don't care that it was 'Only one nail," put it down and pick up Hammer 2! Your hammer is what, ten years old? That's ancient! It's not even compatible with my Hammer 2! What do you mean, 'They hit the same fucking nails!' That's not the point! I can't track how many nails you're hitting per-minute now, or even take advantage of the nails you've hit! It's barbaric!"

Can you imagine?
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I also completely agree with this sentiment. A gov't form could be an unsightly complex beast that can't be re-architected, sometimes, ever.
Looking at yesterday misses the point. Look at tomorrow!

Don't look at the lit fuse. Look at the bomb it leads to.

NYC death numbers double in under 2 days now.
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None of those other numbers are doubling every three days.
If heart disease deaths were contagious and increasing by 33% daily, that'd be a great point.
I've now seen a similar case multiple times in the wild - if a process has a thread in uninterruptible sleep (e.g., blocked on a bad disk or a stuck network filesystem) and you kill it, the process dies, but the kernel waits forever for that thread before informing the parent process. The parent doesn't get SIGCHLD, and wait() doesn't return. (So, for example, your favorite init/supervisor won't restart the process or even realize the process has died and raise an alert.) If the thread wasn't the first thread, then the process looks like it's gone and stops having most information in /proc/$pid, but it's still got the thread in /proc/$pid/tasks/.

I've taken to calling such a process a "lich," because it's not quite a zombie - the parent can reap a zombie by calling wait(), but the lich has used magic to avoid true death.
No, but it's nice to have some confirmation :)
>none of that disproves anything I said

i love people like you. gets presented with evidence to the contrary and just completely dismisses it. have you ever considered that you might let it roll around in your head before you make the call that none of it disproves anything you said? have you really done the due diligence on the examples i've furnished?
I agree, this event has also opened my eyes to how important the flu shot is
Stock market up, Trump says churches will be full of people in two weeks. I'm watching a movie it seems
It is unbelievable how childish companies can act.
> ...which then turned out to work fine in every other browser if they just pretended to be Chrome through the user agent.

Which is probably why Google wants to phase out the user agent.

For sure whatever Google invents to replace it will not be so easily circumvented.
I personally don’t like people talking when watching a movie or a TV show. It’s fine if they exclaim or laugh or gasp depending on the situation (and not being too loud), but anything that’s some kind of speech or commentary makes me lose bits of what I’m watching and want to focus on.

With streaming video, I can pause, rewind and then continue. But in this case, that would no longer be in sync with where the others are. The biggest advantage of streaming is being able to take breaks and continue at any point in time. I’m not sure how well this platform would work if there are many people and each one decides to take a break at a separate time (making others wait if they wish to be somewhat in sync).

This may work better if participants pre-decide how many breaks will be taken and approximately at what times or points.
Or it's a much simpler problem that they didn't make it semi-fast because it didn't need to be semi-fast.

When "hundreds of times the usual level" is still only 50 page loads per second, and 10 milliseconds of CPU per page would be extreme overkill for anything written in a reasonable way, it actually is straightforward.
In Bergamo and surrounding areas the death rate is 5-10x higher than it was at this time last year.
Judging by the history of most pandemics, I am currently more worried about the capacity of morgues than hospitals. Maybe this one will be different though.
If the number of heart disease deaths doubled every 3 days I would take heart disease much more seriously than I do now.