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It's bad either way - keeping the lockdown in place for too long or relaxing it too early.

The goal is to find the right balance - the least worst option.
I'm probably different from most laptop users but my policy is to buy as good a machine as I can afford and then keep it for years. Maybe I will do minor upgrades but that's about it. My purchasing policy is generally along the lines of the old adage "Buy twice as good, and buy half as many."

Normally I use a good Desktop, and the laptop is for travelling and other 'out of the office' use.

My current laptop is a ThinkPad T410S which I bought at 'high cost for the time' (= $2500) back in late 2010, just before I went to France for 8 months. So it's now about 10 years old, but still very usable, and has roughly cost me only $250 bucks a year. (pretty much - a bit more, actually, because I decided to upgrade the hard drive.)

It had a good screen resolution for back then (1440 x 900) which is still very usable for my developing, though it's now starting to feel a bit cramped. The CPU was 'upmarket for the era' and is an i5, 2 core. My only upgrade has been to increase my hdd from 500 megabytes to 2000 megabytes.

Compile times for my work are still good. But, mind you, I can still remember compile times of 30-40 minutes for the Linux kernel way back in the past, so everything is relative.
> Now we are watching capitalism fail because of unchecked social freedom and an economy that can only function on infinite growth.

We’re watching the rest of the free world persevere through yet another catastrophe of authoritarian communism.
There is one wrinkle to that idea - compliance.

Even if we did give everyone protective suits, I can guaranteed a not insignificant percentage of the country wouldn't play along.
Just because people are out and about doesn't mean we have to go back to the old value of R. In order to make easing lockdown viable, we need to reduce R for people outside, in every way we can afford. Masks for everyone, of the highest quality we can manage without hurting healthcare. Continue distancing. Constant surface cleaning and air filtration. Mass antibody tests, so we know who has already had it. With all of this, and lockdown for critical outbreak areas, we should be able to keep the curve under control.
This is a good point. I have been an Apple developer for 34 years.

If you know what that means, it means that I am a scarred, grizzled vet, with an eyepatch and a trick knee.
I still remember those days when I would sit down at my Amiga after coming home, fiddle around with my floppy disks before settling with a game to play. This course brings back fond memories of the Commodore era.
I'm actually trying to free myself from the habit of organizing/structuring/planning. It gets in the way. Still obviously experimenting.

I'll usually just start putting things into Daily Notes, but if a connected set of notes gets too long, I'll make a separate page and add a [[]] link in the Daily Note.
2 things, why do people want to know what bill gates thinks about viruses, and why is his take so non innovative?
Watch thunderf00t's videos and Paul Beckwith's.

Without a vaccine and pervasive testing, isolation resets the clock on the pandemic curve and it starts like Groundhog Day all over again, but at a potentially lower level. It will keep happening over and over again, especially spreading N <--> S hemispheres with the seasons. It will keep happening until either everyone is infected, resulting in hundreds of millions of cumulative deaths, indefinite isolation, or a vaccine is widely-deployed.

That is reality.
> It is amazing (and absolutely terrifying) as to how belligerent Americans are to any sense of being told what to do. A good % of them will purposely do the opposite just to exercise their freedoms.

"Small government" is part of many TV stations indoctrination. The idea that any government initiative, except for war, should not be taken seriously and should be defunded is hammered on the American public.

So, there is no balance between what should be run for the good of the community and personal freedoms.

> To be very honest it fully deserves what occurs as so many are poking this in the eye asking for her vengeance.

Sadly many people are as much victims as executors. Many American citizens have learned to hate the common good and bring people to power with the same mindset. For me it is hard to think that people that never got a chance, that never got proper education, that is only following what other taught them is deserving of such suffering.

I hope that the reality of this situation may help to break that cycle. I do not expect this overnight, but, it may come as a change in the long run.
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Sure, but the longer the lockdown, the worse it is for the economy. And it's economy that pays for healthcare, food, housing, etc.

It's not an ideal situation when we eradicate the virus but have millions of people jobless and homeless in the US.
The problem is, if that competent manager existed, Americans would never elect them or trust them. Americans have been taught to trust in the benevolence and competence of corporations, and that government is incapable of anything but cruelty and incompetence.

You can never have a truly functional government in a country with an amendment to their Constitution that guarantees its people the opportunity to shoot it dead if they want. As soon as it even began to coalesce, Americans would hamstring it, strip it down and try to starve it to the point that it could be drowned in a bathtub.
What do you expect after three years of #Resistance, Russia-related conspiracies, the Mueller mess, and worse in this country? Frankly I am surprised that we have any shred of compliance anywhere at all. The state briefing here in Ohio today said we're expecting things to hit the multiples thousands per day in late April for diagnoses so this situation can still accelerate yet.
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You don't have to bypass the current powers, you just have to dilute them sufficiently. Currency is just a coupon you spend to redeem on human productive output (goods and services). Since the wealthy have most of the currency, they decide to "spend" human productive output on making them wealthier.

Billionaires shouldn't unilaterally decide how society spends its human productive output, that should be a decision society as a whole gets to make. How do you accomplish this? Universal basic income would dilute billionaire's ability to control how human productive output is spent, and instead, society as a whole would get to make that decision.

Inflation caused by UBI only hurts one class of people -- billionaires. Everyone else ends up better off, and has more of a say on the direction of human civilization.
Some of this seems just human nature to me. Normalcy bias and reluctance to the social fallout of telling people "things are different" combined with that rebellious itch.

But: in the states for a looong time it's seemed to me there's been a cultural spread of a privilege that could be roughly paraphrased as "my opinion & rights are as good as anyone's arguments or expert direction."

I don't think this is just a cultural accident. There's some indication that phrases like "coastal elite" are deliberate fronts in a war to Other expertise, and reason to believe there are people who decided decades ago that affirming and spreading this stance was likely to increase their chances of having political power wielded towards their goals.

Many Americans have long had the privilege of thinking this way if they want to, without many noticeably singular consequences to have to face. Some are going to try to hold on to this. Maybe some minority will even come through this without having been directly impacted and will continue to live comfortably inside that privilege.

The difficult part is that there are many people who don't think this way who don't deserve the poke in the eye, but the behavior of others can bring it anyway.
Seems histogram is a fork of patience. What do you prefer about it?
"Yet virtually nobody seems to be talking about this -- about herd immunity, about how there's zero chance of a lockdown eradicating the virus, about coming to terms with what "flattening the curve" really means and when we decide it's been flattened enough."

To me this seems like what everyone is talking about all the time.
As far as I know, the 3d graphics in the first slaves to armok was a big reason why Tarn switched to focussing on dwarf fortress as it was. I vaguely recall reading sometime that it was too much work for just the two of them and they weren't really making great progress and preferred to focus on working on the simulation and game systems without needing to worry about a graphics engine. Even the switch to sdl was done with help from the community if I remember right.
>"Basically, enough testing so that new cases can be immediately identified and quarantined."

Does anyone have a reliable source for the current state of testing? Is this still possible with current rate of infection and the speed at which testing is being ramped up?
Yea it’s pretty clear he’s saying the Democrats/media, not the virus, is the hoax, here. He already sees them propagandizing it, so he’s saying, “watch out here we go again, another thing they’ll try and twist”.

Which is funny - because you’re literally trying to twist it right here.

The “hoax” is just him saying they’re smearing him either for things he didn’t do or did wrong, even refers to it in the next sentence when he defends his early action containing the virus. He never suggests the virus itself is a hoax. That’s just plainly obvious. If you aren’t catching that, I think you’re seeing things through a very narrow liberal lense.

The border was closed to China in January. That’s a pretty early response, a lot faster than many other countries.

Sure, hes made mistakes. But your quote doesn’t make him look bad like you think it does.
> So incrementally transforming data works well, applying that transformation elsewhere not really. That bothered me more than the size limitation, which I think is not limiting most use cases with real “messy” data anyway. Maybe processing large volume event / log data would still need something else.

Agreed, this would be the one feature I would really need. Would be nice to be able to setup (and refine over time) pipelines to automatically clean up new data.
Great visualization and one is a population normalized graph:

http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
So facebook sent me a cease and desist threat for revealing that they were tracking all vehicles driving by their campus and then telling the city of menlo park of this.

So facebook, i want you to cease and desist in tracking anything and everything about me or anyone who wants nothing to do with your leviathan of bullshit tracking or pay out the ass and prove all my data has been deleted, and provide me a manner with which i can audit you for having no data on me.

If not, lets reveal all the other things you track on people who want nothing to do with you.
The public sector also has a fixed pay scale for seniority that tops out around 160k a year salary.

We could pay government employees more, but then voters would complain.
PPE isn't perfect or a magical panacea. Ask Craig Spencer, the NY ER doc who worked with Ebola in Africa, how he got it despite being careful.
I agree with the last two paragraphs, but would quibble with the first.

> The reason those medical professionals aren't paid better is because the money we spend on healthcare is going to pharmaceutical companies and hospitals, which eventually ends up in the hands of the private equity companies that own them.

That's the result, but I think a big part of the reason that this is the case is because society (including the medical professionals themselves) absolutely refuses to let people use human life as leverage for bargaining. If workers cannot use the fruits of their labour as leverage, of course capital wins.
My family and I went on a walk and everyone was social distancing, then some guy jogged right past us like he didn’t care at all. Pretty annoying.
Also, there are other solutions like serological testing, aggressively developing ways to manage the illness, testing vaccines, etc. It's not just quarantines, folks

It's almost as if the US government does not have a coherent plan. /s
50k Microsoft employees are currently replying all to a company-wide email
This is, far and away, one of the best bits of submarine marketing I've ever read.

Every sentence is carefully crafted to hypnotize the reader into believing that a) they have already had the new Kraft dinner b) it tastes identical c) people who think it tastes different are wrong d) everything is okay, it's all going to be ok.

Know what? It worked. Stuff tastes the same as it did when I was a kid.
Wow great project. I think you’re onto something getting everything down to facts.

Is the site open for use? I might try it out next time I have a discussion. Are you and the other person both supposed to work on the same page?
I've never once heard that lockdowns cure us from the virus.

The stated goal by my State's (Ohio) government is "widen the curve", meaning to spread out the peak of the infection rate to a longer period of time so hospitals don't get overwhelmed.
React was released in 2013...
The Korean model is test a lot, and quarantine those found infected.

But that is just the beginning.

The real effective tool is tracking down where the infected person had been by examining cell records, credit card records, interviews and determine where the infected person had been at for a few days before infection was confirmed.

Once the recent movements of an infected person is compiled, the list of location/time is blasted out via app and also main stream media.

This public disclosure is important as infected person might have visited a mall or a theater, making it impossible to contact each of possible contacts individually. Big malls/theaters have closed for a few days after a visit by an infected person is found. After deep cleaning of a few days, it reopens.

Some articles that explain better are below.

How Korea got a fast start with testing for coronavirus:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-testin...

Extensive contact tracing has slowed viral spread in Korea:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00740-y

But all of above is possible only with a lot of testing, free when ordered by a doctor due to possible exposure.
Personally, I'm not going to eat at a restaurant if I have to do it in a protective suit. It's more pleasant at that point to just stay home.
> last-femtocentury

You nerd-sniped me. I couldn't resist calculating it. A femtocentury is about 3.16 microseconds.
FWIW, it's possible to use OAuth login without importing the SDK.

I did it on my last company's apps and webapps when we had to optimise for performance, and removed some dependencies.

Of course, now that I'm gone the SDK is back because one of the developers was bullish on using the SDKs at all costs (the webapp, for example, now loads FB, Google and Linkedin SDKs on launch).

This is a problem that we developers are creating.
Lockdown is entirely about trying desperately to not overwhelm the healthcare system.

Do not confuse it with eradication of the virus.

If the healthcare system gets overwhelmed you end up with a much higher mortality rate and secondary deaths because treatments for things that would not have been life threatening are no longer are available.
Should scientists infect healthy people with the coronavirus to test vaccines?
what are these files that you speak of ? :))

seriously, even with trusty old emacs and ag(1), the declaration of the called function is a fraction of a second away, no matter where it lives.
This looks great and would love to go through it.

I wish someone would do an Atari 8bit course as well! I didn't get heavy enough into Atari asm as a kid.
I have no doubt things will get better. But it’s not just going to go back to the way things were.

You aren’t going to see the fall of capitalism, but the kind of late stage, cut throat, everyone for themselves capitalism is falling apart. Before it’s even really begun we are already calling for a return to work because that’s all we know.
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Maybe I am missing the sarcasm, but what makes you say that? Most research on the topic seams to indicate that this is not the case.

> The OECD has compiled data on dozens of outcomes and process measures. Across a number of these measures, the U.S. lags behind similarly wealthy OECD countries (those that are similarly large and wealthy based on GDP and GDP per capita). In some cases, such as the rates of all-cause mortality, premature death, death amenable to healthcare, and disease burden, the U.S. is also not improving as quickly as other countries, which means the gap is growing.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality...
Having been in a few failing businesses I can tell you that marketing and sales are _the_ core reason tech (maybe also non-tech) businesses fail. Fundamentally you can do without code, but you can't do without sales.

I have a lot of respect for sales people and people who can market themselves. One of my favorite videos about this is by a bodybuilder/powerlifter Stan Efferding [1] - he is some sort of marketing savant, with a product that I think is kind of silly, but he can market the hell out of it.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjFhe8yHKdY
Other responses (different replies to grandparent) have examples.

More realisticly, if you pass a reference to a different thread and return there is no way when to know when the original goes out of scope. Don't do that.
In case you aren't making a joke, Apple does not have to "EARN" anything as they don't host the VPN service (excluding Apple internal VPNs intended for employees).
Based on reports from different parts of USA, it’s been here since February and spreading and we just didn’t test patients/corpses until it was community spread. It’s still hard to get tested unless you are sick enough to be admitted to a hospital except in New York. Medical personnel in New Orleans think their outbreak started around Mardi Gras. Reports from airports had people only being screened minimally right up until they shutdown eu ingress. There was widespread (different states) proclamation that life should go on as normal and there are cases on both coasts where one international traveler spread it at a party and then gives it someone who goes to another party and exposes hundreds of people. It’s the same story as what happened in Northern Italy but all over the USA.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-24/coronavi...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/coronavirus-westport-c...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/26/new-orleans-...

Just based on the news reports alone this seemed inevitable with the president calling it a hoax early on.
That's a few more doubling periods away.
I live near a bunch of "tough guy rancher" states, and that mentality is just absurd. I want to just scream at these folks sometimes, "the virus doesn't care how tough you are!!! If you infect your wife/parents/child and somebody dies, what do you have left to say? 'oh, well I'm a tough guy?". I recognize this is a strawman, but I watched one of these fine specimens sneeze all over a bunch of bags of tortilla chips at the grocery store yesterday. All I could say was... "I KNEW I should have stayed home".
This is very misleading. According to the citations, it is based on and R0 of around 2.3, while the latest indication from Imperial College is an R0 of > 3 according to https://www.newscientist.com/article/2238578-uk-has-enough-i.... The fatality rate is also most like lower considering that high of R0 (to account for observed fatalities in countries like Italy).
IIRC Apple made all device identifiers different between apps so it isn’t possible to do that.
I think the problem is not the ASCII. It is the UX. I've been playing DF for years and what made the game for me from horrifying (not the complexity, but the UX!) to bearable is DFHack! It fixes a lot of the UX issues (not all of them of course) and obviates the need to use 3rd party tools like Dwarf Therapist. I also enabled TWBT and added a nice color theme. Take a look [here](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/469471886598995968/55...). I think the graphical tileset is kinda...empty and it doesn't hold that much information as the ASCII.
Ask HN: Would the economy be better off with $18,126.88 per person
Tomorrow the government will likely pass a stimulus bill that could pay each person in the US (based on a pop. of 331M) $18,126.88 each.

Some taxpayers will receive direct payments, up to $1,200, and the rest is going to businesses and the Fed.

Would the economy not sort itself out quicker and it be more equitable for law makers to give people to funds?
Honestly, I think US officials are NOT asking people to wear masks because they are afraid that it will cause supply to dry up, preventing medical staff from acquiring them.

All nations that have had better result of slowing covid-19 are all in places where wearing face mask in public is the norm.
More importantly than anything else: it is profoundly unethical.

Are people really okay with abandoning millions of our most vulnerable people to death, abandoning millions more to complications from this illness, just to save some abstract notion of "the economy"?

I flatly reject that reality, and everyone should too.

Not only do the vulnerable members of our society deserve to be treated humanely, so do our nurses and other medical workers, these genuine heroes, who are subjecting themselves to this illness to reduce other people's suffering.

And yes, the economy will suffer no matter what we do, like you mention. But even if it didn't, it is still profoundly unethical. Arguably on the level of genocide.
The nice thing is, assuming the suits work correctly, it doesn't matter if other people comply. As long as you wear a suit, you'll be safe.
Even in Italy the death numbers may be signficantly under-counted.

https://www.corriere.it/politica/20_marzo_26/the-real-death-...
Sure, okay, but I think it's pretty darn clear that we're far away from needing to consider that.

When the number of new cases starts going down we can begin having this conversation.
I was told not to buy masks because healthcare providers needed them... We were getting clearly contradictory messaging (don't buy masks because it won't help you and also doctors need them) but for me the main takeaway was to leave the masks for those who really needed them.
>If Iceland with its extensive tests has concluded that 1% of their population is currently infected

People really need to stop parroting this. Please see the article this claim came from (https://nordiclifescience.org/covid-19-first-results-of-the-...). Note how it says voluntary screening, not randomly-selected screening? Since it is voluntary, there is likely a significant selection bias. It is much more probable that the actual population infected rate at the time of that screening was much less than 1%.
Does anyone know of any good resources to learn about data streams in general? Some weeks ago I had to implemnt some streams (in nodejs) to upload a file to s3 "on the fly", without storing the file locally and then uploading it, but I culdn't wrap my head about the data stream concept.
>PPE isn't perfect or a magical panacea.

Maybe if we invested a trillion dollars (which is an absurd amount of money) into developing and improving it, it would be.
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