skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worst-case projection is 1.7 million: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-est....

If the media hadn't spent weeks fearmongering and spinning this as some killer exotic plague (rather than something that hits at-risk populations much harder but is survivable for most others). Only a few percent of younger people have needed intensive care. It won't make too much of a difference anyway; we'll still hit a peak and have a colossal shortage of everything. The doctors will have to make a choice: do we save the young person with more years and more productivity ahead of him, or do we save the eighty-year-old? Guess which will be chosen?

There is no pretty solution to this problem. A lot of people will get hurt. I wish everyone would stop staring like a hungry child at the government, begging it to "do something". The government cannot solve this problem. Stealing more money from those who remain in work won't solve anything. This is precisely the time to reduce taxes massively, completely gut every entitlement program, and strangle the bureaucracy that caused this mess until the nation has a chance to prosper.

EDIT: Replying to Slartie comment here, as HN is rate-limiting.

What is "navigating through"? The government can't arrest those who violate its un-constitutional orders, lest it risk spreading disease further. Why can the precious bureaucracy solve this? How? It'll do something, that's for sure, but that's because everyone keeps screaming to "do something".

You're looking at this absolutely the wrong way. This is the time to massively cut taxes, promote supply-side growth, and remove almost all entitlements. It is the job of each American to be responsible for his own welfare, not for Big Daddy Government to swoop in and save him. The Nanny State strikes again. Twelve-hundred-dollar hand-outs to everyone? Disgraceful. We're turning into a nation of lazy mooching welfare queens.

> Now tell me again that the "government cannot solve this problem".

> Even the anti-government Republicans currently seem to look to the government as the only instance potentially capable of solving this problem.

Who said I was a Republican, or agreed with the party, or approved of its actions? I don't. It's a disgrace.

EDIT: Replying to ss2003 here, as HN is rate-limiting.

Yes, but entitlements too. They make up most of our expenses, not military.

EDIT: Replying to jahaja here, as HN is rate-limiting.

Why do you say that? You'd really saddle the next generation with debt to pay for a shutdown that saves mostly older people? That's no more fair than a million people being killed by a virus. If you could choose that everyone looses his job or one person dies, what would you choose? Why? What about a hundred people dying? Thousand? Where's you're bright line?
race != nationality != citizenship
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Sure, I think it's possible that some policies will stick around longer than the attitudes that motivated them; I was addressing hope about perspective, not policy.
Video reveals lung damage in US coronavirus patient
Just to illustrate how absurd this number is: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUCTISVXQAcIKEb?format=png&name=...
> the US is the only country that's seriously discussing economic repercussions and debating the medical experts

The only nation with a leader that promotes a 15 day plan and says the cure can't be worse than the cure 8 days in. It demonstrates a severe lack of resolve.
"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
It will allow the owner to make money, which means the site will continue to exist.

People deserve to be paid for their effort, and unless you want to pay a monthly subscription to an entry-level job tracker, advertising or collecting emails are really the only two ways to do it in this example.
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2 weeks is less than 3 months, obviously.
Interesting take. We talk about work-ish things at lunch quite often. It seems to be more of a break from doing work vs. a moratorium on thinking/discussing work-related things. I mean, a huge number of my relationships with coworkers are solely based on working together; what other common ground do we share?
then prepare a sample from a swab and see if the cov2 segments bind with dna from the swab
Email is the most efficient way to communicate if one can communicate clearly. It is a way straight to hell if one can't. It is a tool. It can be used. Or abused.
Agree re noisy neighbours, but autoscaling depends on _requests_ rather than _limits_, so you could define requests for HPA scaling but leave out the limits and have both autoscaling and no throttling.
> CLU might be the most influential language that nobody’s ever heard of. Iterators? CLU. Abstract data types? CLU. Generics? CLU. Checked exceptions? CLU.

Well, I learned something new and I spend a lot of time reading about PL (and even teach undergrad PL!). Had never heard of CLU before.
Why do you think this is about "personal space"? Why do you think the "moderate and constructive people left, assholes are majority" is not having consequences for repo owner?

> Why can't you ignore the douchebag?

Why the "No Code Of Conduct" author could not just ignored those discussions and want to threaten bans?

Also, back to strategy, it depends on what kind of douchebag we are talking about. When douchebags are the only one who talk and are unopposed, it is douchebags who sets what the culture will be.
The AWS Secret Region is separate from GovCloud.

https://aws.amazon.com/federal/us-intelligence-community/
If you’re paywalled on NYT you’ve already viewed many articles.

You can clear your cookies or you might be interested in subscribing since you seem to enjoy their content.
I vouched for this, as I couldn't see any reason why it was both flagged and dead. Why would anyone try to suppress this sort of discussion?
It's a perfectly achievable target, we just have one political party that prioritizes private corporate profits and the interests of very wealthy citizens above all other societal needs.
It varies a lot by state. I know that here in SF, they had some clear rules (obviously high-contagion things must close; obviously vital things should stay open) with a lot of gray area. But they've been removing the gray area over time. Which I think has been a good approach, as economies are complex.
Sure, there are large slacks, but those aren't those for a lot of working groups, and announcements, and basically just being there (like IRC)? Whereas for a hackathon you would need to talk/interact with those who are on your team. And that team can just use whatever they want? (Skype, matrix/riot, hangouts, fb messenger, and of course slack too.)
The machine can only do one test at a time, so throughput = 1 / latency.
>> - Become champion supporters of an NHS they were - until recently - trying to sell bit off of

No evidence for this whatsoever, but is just the usual Labour dog-whistle claim against every Tory govenment.
Germany lost 2 World Wars and today it has greater GDP than UK by $1 trillion. It doesn't matter who is hit harder it matters whose economy is more efficient and has more innovations.
Tried to consolidate the list... (Orig: https://github.com/devrimdemiroz/contactTracing#singapore)

Singapore
tracetogether
https://www.tracetogether.gov.sg/
Opensource: Announced to be opensource but when? Related news: https://str.sg/Jfup
Almost the most pouplar, 735K users
Bluetooth based, no location information collected. As stated in their official site “The app doesn't identify “where” the exposure to COVID-19 cases may have occurred. It only seeks to establish “who” else might have been exposed to the virus.”

Israel
Hamagen (The Shield)
https://govextra.gov.il/ministry-of-health/hamagen-app/downl...
Opensource: https://github.com/MohGovIL/hamagen-react-native
Israel's Ministry of Health's COVID-19 Exposure Prevention App
Architecture: https://proferopublic.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/5f72cff6-0f...

USA
safepaths
http://safepaths.mit.edu/
Opensource: https://github.com/tripleblindmarket/
Based on Private Kit by MIT, core code is ready but still in early stages
React-native based Android and IOS clients
Location and bluetooth based
covid-watch
https://www.covid-watch.org/collaborate.html
Notihng developed so far, in organization/establishment phase

Italy
diAry
https://covid19app.uniurb.it/
Opensource: Announced to be opensource by April'20
Additional feature worth to mention is reward system

Germany
geoHealthApp
https://www.geohealthapp.de/
Opensource: NO

Czech
Smart quarantine
https://medium.com/@pabu01/covid19cz-update-bb7e12e71d9e
Opensource: NO
Based on Telco data

Turkey
coronapp
-https://coronapp.tech/

Opensource: NO
Guvendekal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3TFkT4Zmgg
Mentioned in above link, yet to be developed
coronawarner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3TFkT4Zmgg
Mentioned in above link, yet to be developed

China
Alipay
WeChat

Korea
Corona 100m (Co100)

Taiwan
There is also a video showing how it works here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOxMuexAPaQ
One of my big hopes is at the end of this mess, the Protestant Work Ethic and Prosperity Gospel go down in flames.

This event should show anyone with even a bit of sense that your 'virtue' is only a small part of your economic power.
Nice, also compatible with bit torrent.
> Also, it is work time, you have to expect to be on the ready, and answer people that needs something from you, so they can get their work done, too. It is not your leisure time.

You're lucky that you've only worked at companies with healthy cultures around interruptions and respecting people's time. This is not true for many of us.

Scheduling a meeting requires some minimal preparation and coordination with other people's schedules. Sending an e-mail is implicitly asynchronous, with an expectation that the receive will make a a best-effort attempt to answer it as quickly as possible, once they finish their current task.

Slack private messages, name tags, and @channel/@here notifications have all of the immediacy of a phone call, but with minimal effort required by the person triggering the interruption. The power balance is asymmetrically tipped toward the interrupters.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_squeaky_wheel_gets_the_gre... ) and Slack is a power tool for squeaky wheels to be as loud as possible.
A negative coronavirus test result doesn’t always mean you aren’t infected
Most, if not all (?) will lose their healthcare. Horrible situation to be in during a pandemic.
If someone has these ridciulous expectations about email I prefer (the still very annoying) follow-up email or physical visit. At least that requires some effort.

Yeah, you'll find people who oversee money have many ridiculous expectations and when your grant and the people you are helping depend on you meetings those expectations, then you damn well do everything you can to do so.

No government or grant official is going to do "physical visits". The whole point is you do not want them expending effort on you because that will end badly for you. You need to be oil on glass as far as they are concerned.
A, I'm not going to install such an app that tracks me

B, Privacy, I am not willing to give it up so liberally because of a bad flu.
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People learn through hardship. We haven't experienced hardship yet.
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.

I didn't dismiss the article. I provided additional context that might be helpful in evaluating its claims. You are free to do with that what you will.

https://www.nyse.com/publicdocs/nyse/indices/nyse_arca_globa...

"The Index tracks the price performance ..." suggests that my surmise is correct, at least for the global version of this index.
Those are not happening in the local media here.
yes, we're frugal with paper towels.
> Politics here has changed forever

Unlikely. I think we'll be back to business as usual (at least on the political side) within a year of the end of the pandemic.

I'm also afraid that this is going to be a major setback not just for Europe but globalization in general, which will leave us all worse off in the long run.
Gotcha -- specificity sounded like tightness to me. Thanks for the explanation.
Things stop all the time.

You just need to find the right event for comparison. In this case probably the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami or the 2011 East Japan Earthquake (Tsunami, Fukushima Nuke plant etc)
Already everyone I know who was going to get a preventative health diagnostic test (myself included) in the next two months has had the test rescheduled. Otherwise healthy people are likely to have some percentage of un-diagnosed issues go on an extra month or two because of this, so it's definitely not just those who are directly infected with Coronavirus.

Some places' ERs are already at capacity, and there's no way I would go to one right now unless I was almost at death's doorstep. That's not necessarily a good thing if something happens that should normally require an ER visit.
This is a great idea. Long forgotten bookmarks now has a purpose. I wish someone pitched this to all browsers out there.
this whole every-day news about rapid test dev, etc is getting frustrating.
My SO is an MD in NY. All they want to hear from any company is, we have developed method that can be used to test 10k/day with results in 1 hr and will be mass producing and provding in two days.
Instagram is working on “Links” for business accounts
It's blogspam, just repeating what the linked CNN article says, even copying their images.
> A week ago, he said he had “a good middle-class job” which paid him $35.50 an hour plus health care and retirement benefits. Now he is struggling to figure out how he’ll pay a $300 electric bill and $1,000 in rent for his townhouse. He also lost his health insurance.

You make $35.5/hour in (I suppose?) a stable job but if the work stops for a week, you struggle with a $300 bill? I know some people are living paycheck to paycheck but starting from a certain income you should build a safety net. What about your IRA? What about your credit score? What about small investments?

Looks like some people are living $ to $ without leaving any money aside. This might be what is going to make this even harder for the economy.
>> 50k people in it spread across 5 cities ... I think it makes the whole company feel connected to each other

It may help make you feel this way, but what type of connection can you have with superfulous interaction in such a large population?

Maybe you mean it helped you identify very small, niche subsets with which you have subsequently built a relationship? That makes more sense, but I'm highly akeptical that even those relationships are built in an IM network, more likely triggered by...

You side-band, async focus is not how the vast majority of organizations use slack. They explicitly adopt it as the required (i.e. everyone participates) tool for immediate, synchronous communication.
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What do these people do when their expectations are challenged? What if an intermediate SMTP server decides to hold onto the message for 2 weeks for no real reason (yes, this happens).

You have to deal with it. Had a problem with one agency (that should actually know better) getting e-mail and I worked the damn problem (on their end, but its my fault regardless) until is was solved. You learn to call people.

In the US, you get an e-mail from a grant officer. You deal and remember that this is about the people you are helping and working for a great future.

Getting mad about technical realities in a political situation is just screaming at clouds, might make you feel better but it doesn't change a thing. Hopefully the underlings that take over will be a bit more technology savy, but I doubt it.
FYI during on boarding the “use metric” toggle does not covert the value imported from HealthKit.
> in permanent overload

It won't be permanent. It will be like a forest fire and kill a lot of people and be horrible, but will eventually die down due to heard immunity.
There a lot of well paid individuals who have the job of convincing regular people that climate change is a hoax and lots of regular people believe them.
Sorry if I sound rude, but my conclusion from your article is that the problem here is you don't want to assume the costs and resources needed to build a backend and blame Apple.

Please read the HTML/Web Storage standard [0] and try to find where Apple is not honouring it.

Even before this move by Apple, you should already had to consider localStorage to be subjected to being wiped by actors not in your control.

On top of that, localStorage privacy concerns were also in the standard. See section 11.4.1 [1].

Nevertheless, I reckon Webkit should expose the option to the user.

I feel your pain, I really do, but I can't see how Apple made PWAs impossible.

[0] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webstorage.html#webst...
[1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webstorage.html#priva...
This was introduced in Mojave, not Catalina.
The box in people's home's colloquially known as a router actually commonly combines a lot of functions into one:

* router

* firewall

* NAT device

* modem

* switch

* access point

* DNS resolver

* DHCP server

And probably others I'm not thinking of :-)
How is shrinking the government to blame? It's expanded colossal ever since the new deal. Grover Norquist, the guy you're quoting, is not an elected official. He was just saying what he believes. That's pretty weak evidence for "the problem". The only nation that ended up containing it was China, because being able to tightly control what your population does is one of the perks of authoritarianism. That said, it doesn't make it a good trade-off.
> Can you use option with cmd + shift + 5 or any other modifier to just choose one part of the screen?

Yes. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208721
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How to prevent novel coronavirus infection when returning home from outside
Actually quite a dezent tool for group video calls (imho).
This tutorial is the best reference I've read in the six years I've used D3. Previously, the documentation was too esoteric for the normal person to learn. Now, this really opens it up for more people. Nice work.
> I don't want anyone who's job requires deep, introspective thought on big problems to be constanly distracted by a flashing toast that's probably a non-time sensitive, low-effort inquiry or worse.

Who says he needs to? Your company should have communication policies. They should decide which channels/rooms your junior should join. He's a junior, it is likely no one will urgently need an answer from him for some time, so his settings can reflect that. He does not even need a visible/audible notification for that @-message, he can answer when he feels like it.

Also, your last paragraph make it sound like the people in those roles cannot handle their job responsibilities AND a couple of disturbances.
I think the next couple of weeks are going to be eye opening - we're going to get a lot of reports of deaths, even of the young and healthy, which we're already seeing. That should steel the collective resolve to last a while here. People are talking of lifting the restrictions and our collective endurance and things have barely gotten going. It's really complaining about the length of the red light when it's just turned yellow.

Naturally people aren't going hole up for a year, but we have to stop acting antsy when we've been in our houses a week or two.

Edit: I'm assuming the government does its job and takes care of its people so that they can do the right thing here.
2008 took months to unravel because of the nature of the crisis. Foreclosure is a process and in some areas can take up to 6 months or more from the time you stop paying your mortgage.

Here we had state governments practically shutting down their economies overnight. Overnight, every restaurant in my state was no longer allowed to have dine in. Only maybe half in my local area stayed open for carryout, and at least 80% of those have closed in the few weeks since.

The speed at which this happened is astronomical, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to be multiple times worse than 2008. Just that the onset was very quick.
so you substitute your own private, undocumented, ever-shifting, tone-driven value system for any given discourse context's set of actually codified rules.

that's still a CoC. you've just added entitlement.
I built https://www.jrdevjobs.com

Shoot me an email if you want to chat. I can share with you how we overcame some similar challenges.
A video shows the lungs of a man who had been asymptomatic a few days earlier...

"This is not a 70, 80-year-old immunosuppressed, diabetic patient," Mortman said. "Other than high blood pressure, he has no other significant medical issues."

... it is clear that the damage isn't localized to a single area, but instead covers massive swaths of both lungs, showing how rapidly and aggressively the infection can take hold, even in younger patients ...
Isn't it meaningful that the cause of this particular unemployment is very unique, in that it wasn't caused by a weak economy, but by the government artificially closing the businesses temporarily?

Theoretically, once everything starts to open back up, won't there be a similarly sized surge in "new jobs" so to speak?
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I'm having trouble imagining a failure mode that would cause total collapse under load rather than just reduced per-user speeds. Networks have to deal with spikes in demand pretty frequently anyway, usually during the evenings when lots of people are streaming video. A sudden increase in overall demand throughout the day doesn't seem like it should be that big of a deal; and so far it seems like it isn't.
Thanks, -nographic did the trick.
"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think." -Ayn Rand

I was also raised in a family like this.
Everyone should expect the stock market to thrive off this data today...
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Ok not permanent as in years and years. But long enough that it's towards the end of the year before there's capacity.

You don't want people dying needlessly for half a year.

And while the overload is on, the economy will be affected, whatever the response is.