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I wrote a comment elsewhere about death rates in the US. 81 people per day is not an astronomical number for the most densely populated part of the country, in fact it's well within the normal number of deaths according to CDC data. In fact, just compared to heart disease alone, it might be slightly on the lower end.
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The doctor who blew the whistle on the virus is dead now.
If you were writing a good guide on how to scare off a beginner from physics, congratulations.
The difference is Pareto efficiency on the (time,quality) axes. Circles and then epicycles were the best model ever known until superseded later by ellipses. String Theory is not the "latest and greatest" , it's latest and less good than it's predecessor, making it useless as physics.
I think it is arguable the other way around.

China's own population may be additionally disenchanted with a government unable to handle the situation without iron/hamfisted attempts to clamp down after ignoring the problem / sources for a long time.
syphilis was also caused by globalization!

i hope many travel restrictions become permanent. ban cruises, make tourism difficult and expensive, cut off travel totally between the hemispheres. nature is being completely destroyed by human activity, this is an opportunity to reverse it.
Natural Language Principles in Perl (by Larry Wall):
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More than anything right now people are going to have a very strong appetite for financial security. It's about time we reconsider 'working for 50 weeks to pay for 52' as a viable means to have that security.
I have been so disappointed with my ubiquiti hardware. That UI is gorgeous, but lacks some real functionality that I need. I can’t block BitTorrent (see forums). And I can’t see a detailed traffic log; only the categories. Plus, those pretty graphs that tell you how much data you’ve used doesn’t give a time frame. I have no idea if it’s a week or a month.

I think pfSense will be my next too.
Distros that use musl make my life quantifiably worse for this reason.

It actually bit me on the ass a couple weeks ago when installing a rust binary instead of using cargo --install because it shaved ~10 minutes off running a CI pipeline. Had to fall back because the rust bin wasn't linked against musl libc when it was compiled for unknown Linux targets, and the authors don't distribute a musl compatible binary.
I honestly don't even understand what I'm reading anymore. Either on HN and Reddit, or sites like the BBC, NY Times, and CNN.

Half the things I read still reflect fantasies of Asian-style containment in the West.

The other half acknowledge that this is too late. That we're heading up an exponential curve now, and will be on the other side in 3-6 months (depending on measures taken).

I'm no expert. But knowing what I know about my nation's government, and the likelihood of its people fully cooperating with any measures, I suspect that the second half is more realistic.

Meaning that testing and contact tracing is really only going to become relevant later this year. To snuff out any minor flare-ups that occur after most of society has gotten over the curve and built up herd immunity.
I've told this story before. In the early 1990s I worked for Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond's record label, back when they were dominating the UK and European pop charts as The KLF (https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/07/20/537708922/...).

One day we received in the mail a cassette tape and a letter from a law firm representing a composer or publisher (I can't remember which) of a famous Broadway soundtrack from the 1960s. The letter accused the KLF of infringement. The cassette contained one of the songs on the Broadway soundtrack, an instrumental section of which repeated a three note riff that sounded a lot like the same three-note sequence from one of the KLFs biggest hits. The rhythms and song structures were otherwise nothing alike.

It didn't seem like an obvious example of copying, and it was quite possible it was a coincidence or some obscure influence on The KLF or their core musical collaborators, who would have been youths when the Broadway soundtrack was released.

"Are you going to fight this?" I asked the label's president.

Her answer: "No."

From The KLF's perspective, it wasn't worth a long, expensive legal fight they might lose. I think a lot of it related to the problems it encountered with the "1987" album you mentioned, which had been partly done to ridicule the record industry but really took a lot of energy to deal with when the legal troubles emerged.

Also, the label president didn't say it, but potential bad press could have also been on her mind. At the time, the KLF had the British music press eating out of their hands, and a public legal fight could change the narrative of the KLF as being brilliant pop iconoclasts to something less favorable.
Data on coronavirus deaths in India with focus on patients' past medical history
we're programmers, anything can be done with enough time or money
Not absurd so much as a major reason why the piratebay exists.
Wha? That's a take.

Here's mine: ES6 classes are wildly smart. They provide the benefits of prototypical inheritance--you can just reach into the thing and do what you want to do!--while making it way easier for many developers to read and parse in short order, while reducing the difficulty spike in moving to JavaScript (or, today, TypeScript).

"Pandering". Right.

I can write old-style object prototypes. It makes my eyes bleed and makes me make more mistakes. So I'm just not gonna do that anymore.
We criticize bad things people do before bad things people aren't doing.
It wouldn't surprise me if all of these languages were alive in some way or other. There are MLs and APLs and Pascals alive and well.
Thank you. Too often this comparison is made to establish the ridiculous inverse argument: We don't take the flu very seriously, so we shouldn't take Corona very seriously.
> the seriousness of the virus itself seems questionable.

Half of the world’s population are or have been under some kind if restriction due to this virus. I don’t governments do that if they are uncertain.

> I don't think we'll really know what's actually going on for a few more weeks or months

I don’t think it is going to happen, but if the US does what Trump wants and ”lets it rip”, that will answer the question about the seriousness.
"How many people are we willing to kill to keep the economy moving?"
Got my flu shot last year, still ended up with severe flu in February. The flu shot is not completely effective.
It's "armchair" to say "you get what you deserve if your entire system depends on garbage"?

...okay, whatever you say.
Who cares if it's 5x the flu? I understand that you don't want to be proactive, but can you at least be reactive? Hospitals are already overwhelmed by COVID, and we're barely starting. It simply doesn't matter if it's 5x the flu, or 0.5x the flu. If it infects millions of people in a matter of weeks, since no one has immunity to this disease (unlike flu), it's gonna collapse the health system. Once the health system collapses, deaths will follow.
Do you even know the average effectiveness of flu shots on any given year? Get your head out of your ass, COVID-19 is NOT COMPARABLE TO THE FLU.
As you can see from the sentence before the one you quoted, I didn't forget about it.

I agree there's a lot of complexity there. But it's still a relatively small slice of the population. A friend is a farmer; she's just carrying ahead farming. Compared with urban life, she's been "socially distancing" for years. For the more dense parts of the chain, we need to take other infection-prevention measures. But food production is already pretty good at keeping things clean, and the rest we can work on.
There's no reason that state health departments shouldn't be reporting hospitalization to the best of their ability. Hospitals already send information to them on a daily basis.
I think there could be latency because of the buffering.

A solution could be to stop the movie for everyone, get the timecode. Send everyone the new timecode and start the movie from there after the countdown.

(heck, this could even be a sync/break feature. If someone’s internet connection gets disrupted everyone can stop and sync.
Or if they want a movie break, they can do it like this.)
Now, try to imagine how we’re going to de-grow the economy to deal with climate change without some form of de facto communism. I never would have said this a month ago but I think there’s no other way the future can go.
It was discovered because no one really knew what it was before this.
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Is anybody else mildly annoyed by the proliferation of meaningful or instructive gifs. Videos have been supported on by all major browsers for almost a decade now. And videos are both smaller in size and provide better interaction for viewers. Why are we still recording gifs?
Yes, I do. Helps that I live with a Nurse Practitioner. However, the number of people I know who are convinced that getting the flu shot makes them sick or gives them the flu and thus refuse to get the shot is shocking.

Some things I've actually heard:

"I get sick every time!" No, you don't.

"It's a LIVE VIRUS! Everybody knows this!" No, it's not. You're just an idiot hanging around with idiots.
Well, that’s some fear mongering.

The article is all anecdotes. Most of the nurses and doctors they talked to are anonymous sources.

According to the AHA[1], there are 6,146 hospitals in the US. There are 68,000 confirmed covid-19 cases in the US, and 33,000 of those cases are all in New York—almost 10x more than the next states (4.4k NJ, 3.2k CA)[2].

I don’t know the rate of hospitalization for the infected, but symptoms are mild enough for home recovery for at least 80%.

So this is bad in NY. But even the next most affected state, NJ, we’re looking at a worst case of ~880 covid-19 patients across 70+ hospitals[3].

Bad situation in NY. No need to say it’s like that across the whole US.

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[1] https://www.aha.org/statistics/fast-facts-us-hospitals

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/mar/26...

[3] http://www.njha.com/media/316774/2014EconomicImpactReportFIN...
True, but if everyone that _could_ get their shot did, it would be a lot less impactful to everyone.
> 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.

Clickbait-style "everyone in New York is dead!" bad-faith hysteria would erode my trust.

"We saw a terrible situation, and communicated the situation as clearly as we could at the time, even though our information was incomplete. Since then we have more facts, and are striving to communicate them to you" enhances my trust, not erodes it.
I like humor, it's just especially rare to see it here. We put up with plenty of other stuff that I consider spam but is clearly of interest to others here.
Nobody is saying it is completely effective.
And now that number is going to go up because medical care is less available.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Exponential growth of cases and deaths translate into many horrible anecdotes.

It would be interesting to see geographic case density vs. geographic ventilator capacity.
Repurpose the day for poking fun at King Donald, ordering the tide of Covid-19 to recede! You're fired!

https://twitter.com/SatiriaNews/status/961271656705613824/ph...
Fantastic write up from a hacking point of view. I did wonder about this statement though:

"This is very invasive and unacceptable. It may seem necessary to apply security patches published by your ISP but the user should be able to disable it whenever she wants."

Legally, at least in countries where I've lived, the ISP still owns the router. This surprised me a bit when I first found out, but then I got used to the idea, but you should treat any ISP or telecom gear in your house as something that's "rented but still owned and controlled by someone else".
You can use the same argument for flu deaths, heart disease deaths, diabetes deaths, etc. The numbers that you pay attention to are dependent on what is popular right now.
> if Github goes down, gets blocked, blocks your team, etc; your team can still push to the "centralized" repo, etc etc.

But as others have pointed out, I can set up such a backup anywhere. What is the advantage of this particular way of doing it?
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Pages with links to reliable sources, fact-checking:

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- "More COVID-19 Resources for Journalists": https://www.sciline.org/covid/resources

On Twitter have been following:

- @AdamJKucharski - Mathematician/epidemiologist at @LSHTM
https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski

- Kai Kupferschmidt - science journalist & molecular biologist reporting on COVID-19 for Science Magazine
https://twitter.com/kakape
This great news, thanks a lot!
Links to the source are at https://www.reddit.com/r/bangalore/comments/fp9vy6/data_on_c...

Until yesterday there were 13 coronavirus deaths in India.

I was wondering if they already had any serious medical history. Unsurprisingly, most of them had it.

If a patient has existing chronic conditions, their immune system can be impaired. An immunocompromised host may not have the ability to respond normally to an infection.
Obviously right? Clearly temporary unemployment of any number of people seems less important than death of thousands, if not millions of people.
I think that's a bit of an overreaction. The way I read that comment was very similar to your response to it: it's hard to get hard data in the middle of a crisis. The difference is that the commenter was also expressing the very natural, human response of frustration at this fact. A lot of people are feeling that way.
It's not up to us to validate their idea and "allow the owner to make money" by disabling ad-blockers. This site is just another shitty rent-seeking middleman among middlemen, and hopefully it dies a quick painful death that encourages the owner to make something original.
What about this event makes the flu shot more important than otherwise?
How did users find your app?
If there is a silver lining out of SARS-CoV-2, hopefully it's that we become more careful in general about infectious diseases, and we don't quickly just revert to the previous behavior.

There are so many axis (axes) on which we can improve.

Rethink doors with pull handles and common surfaces in trafficked areas (Union Station in Toronto has these all over the place. Hundreds of thousands of people and you're pulling common surfaces constantly).

People wearing masks when they aren't feeling well or even if just that they're a bit worried, without it being a social wrong. Despite the social pressure on masks, I have noticed a huge uptick in people wearing masks here in Ontario.

People staying home when they're sick. People having appropriate behavior when they are (even with a "cold").

And most contentious, we as a people just don't need to travel nearly as much. Aside from the environmental cost, many Western countries are particularly susceptible to these outbreaks because everyone is travelling everywhere constantly. For that meeting that could as easily have been an email. Etc.
basically intel took too long getting to the next die shrink. they also failed to appreciate the advantage of amd's chiplet design (or couldn't pivot fast enough to do something similar). both of these allow amd to make more viable parts out of a single wafer, which means they can profitably sell more powerful CPUs at the same price.

it's worth noting that Intel still has faster individual cores (but only because they can clock higher). amd can sell you many more (slightly slower) cores for the money.
It has always been important.
Doubling every 3 days.
You will be down voted to oblivion for even suggesting this is a deep cultural and political problem with America.

Because suggesting such a thing is uncivil here on HN.
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Ask HN: What's Missing from Covid19 Reporting?
What questions do you have about covid19 that seem important but aren't being asked/answered in public forums?

(I'll post my own below)
I hate to be that guy, but have you given it a try?
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I'm an Engineering Leader, i manage a team of about 50 engineers.
I'm planning to conduct reviews, and give actionable feedback after the reviews. I could personally conduct the review myself, but i'm thinking about crowdsourcing the reviews among all the engineers.

How useful will an anonymous employee review?

Has anyone had any previous experience conducting anonymous reviews among engineers? How did it go? What tools did you use if any?

Thanks.
But of course heart disease isn't contagious and rapidly increasing. I think if it were, it would be far more concerning, wouldn't you agree?

The problem is, as bad as the current numbers are, without significant changes, they are inevitably going to get considerably worse quickly, as you can see from the graphs.

Imagine what'll happen if 60% of the US population gets this quickly (over the next 3 months say) and then 2% of those people die with another 8% in hospital...
It doesn't need to be completely effective on an individual level if enough people get it on a societal level.
On second thought: I understand that VPNs are jsut companies and they need to do proper marketing, testing, UX/UI improvements, etc.

but there's always such in-house/first party trackers like Piwik that i'm pretty sure these "good" VPNs in the list at the bottom with only 0/1 trackers are using
I'm sure it will be a great comfort of them to not be able to use their computer for useful things for a bit longer before they have to plug it in. :-)
Wonder what it would have been like _without_ the shot.
Its not mindblowing, if you listened to experts 3 fucking months ago. If you paid attention to abysmal quality of medical care in the US, you would have KNOWN this was INEVITABLE.

This is NOT surprising!

This is what anyone with half a brain and one eye open should have expected many months ago. Even years ago it was obvious we were not prepared for a sufficiently contagious viral outbreak.
Not sure whether this is serious, or some sarcastic comment, hinting at all the "blablabla implemented in Go" posts.

EDIT: Aaaand there is the crew!
Ah, I wasn't aware. Does it support HA as well?
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If you have taken your flu shot and get flu like symptoms there is now a larger chance that you are experiencing a mild Coronavirus. For you it's not that important a statistic, but if everyone had flu shots it would be beneficial.
> Even rich and established people are scared and trying to sell off assets to cover cash flow

Having less vastly excess wealrg than before? That's a massive stretch for "world of hurt".
People who do stuff like this remind me of the Beethoven quote: "Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine."

Why are you learning how to create linux processes with no memory? Why are you hacking overloading into Python? Why are you writing programs for fun? To dig unnecessarily deep and force your way into programming's secrets.
Flu is so common that people don't realise simple things like washing your hands and getting the shot would reduce the cost massively.

With Covid19 we can all see the cost, upfront and at the same time.

I'm wondering if we could actually kill the flu by sitting still for a bit. Say we stopped the world, which apparently is a possibility now. Would that get rid of it? And if it would, would it be worth it?
Like Geico.
It existed, but was definitely not in wide use. I worked for several early internet providers during that period (mid to late 90's.) Most folks had public addresses on their desktops. No customer we ever set up wanted NAT. Most didn't even have firewalls, sadly! Some of these were small companies, some of these were large corporations or universities.

And I'd argue NAT actually is necessary if you want IPv4 for home use. We'd be out of addresses otherwise.
> "I get sick every time!" No, you don't.

This is possible theoretically . yes?

There is no guarantee that you get lucky from flu shot at-least once.
One of the huge failures of the government is that we still don't have any push for ubiquitous testing. South Korea's aggressive testing for the virus is a key factor in their success in suppressing the epidemic.
Even easier setup:

https://github.com/pivpn/pivpn

Wireguard is faster & easier to set up for mobile devices.
There are different strains of the flu and doctors sort of guess each year which strain to vaccinate for, seems like they guessed wrong in your case.
I've heard that high blood pressure is a risk factor for the severity of a covid19 infection. But does that mean...

(a) People who have actual, uncontrolled high BP?

(b) People who would have high BP, but don't because it's controlled by medication?

(c) People who are taking specific BP-controlling meds?

(d) Some combo of (a), (b), (c)?
"I'd suggest not actually trying to simulate physical systems on a computer" I cannot disagree enough with this statement. I am double major in Physics and CS.

There are two kinds of physics, Math and Physics. Most of what you learn in uni physics is Math. But the Math is only one (outdated) description of the nature of physical law.

Leonard Susskind himself has said on multiple occasions that the equations of physics are at most highschool math however the solutions are sometimes phd+ level.

To me Physics is the study of the relationship between state. Mostly this state is finite and the laws governing its evolution are simple and local. A computer is the best tool to discover the solutions to this evolving state.
Where I live it has been public policy to only recommend the flu shot to at risk groups.

Never really gave it much thought before. Now I strongly disagree with the policy
Is "death cult" just a fancy way of insulting people nowadays? Or is the US administration literally associated with a religious movement that worships death or the dead?
https://xkcd.com/2278/
Chrome is the new IE in the embrace-and-extend sense (the early IE that won the browser war).

Safari is the new IE in the stagnating, not supporting new functionality, not fixing long-standing bugs sense (that same early IE several years later).

Neither of these is a good thing or to be encouraged.

Please don't get me started on the oxymoron that is "living standards". I think that idea is responsible for a great deal of what has gone wrong with the web ecosystem in recent years.
HN is a business (YC marketing site), not a charity
Dang, that's correct. Man that sucks.

Still able to deduct those in Canada tho: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/individ...
Literally nobody said it's completely effective.

In fact, if you read the experts, you'll see the the flu shot is generally a cocktail against the most prevalent strains. Since strains are left out, it's absolutely known that the flu shot will not protect you against all influenza strains.

See this page for information on how strains are selected: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/vaccine-selection.htm

The flu shot is not a magical guarantee that you personally won't get the flu. What it does do is lower the rate of transmission for the flu significantly, by improving the herd immunity.

People need to understand that getting the flu shot is less about helping yourself, and more about helping your community. Think of it like giving blood. It's an altruistic action that you can take to help others around you.
Maybe you didn't get the flu. Flu like symptoms are very common in a huge variety of ailments.

Vaccinations are very effective protective measures. Just not at protecting against stuff that isn't in their narrow scope.