skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an important distinction. You may never have had the flu in the first place.

In that case, it would be like saying "my reaction to the vaccine was worse than any infection I never had".

That is equivalent to "my reaction to the vaccine was worse than my reaction to nothing", or more simply "I had a negative reaction to the vaccine". Fair enough, there's no questioning that.

Now, if you had ever had an actual Influenza infection, my guess would be that you would prefer the vaccine. If you react that strongly to just the vaccine, why should you react less strongly to the actual virus? To be on the safer side, why not just assume that the actual virus would completely overwhelm you?

> I am very reluctant to intentionally make myself sick for a few days every year.

That's the tradeoff. Feel miserable for a few days per year versus taking the risk of contracting a severe infection and potentially being dead for the remaining years of your life.

To complicate the matter, flu vaccines are only about 50% effective, though I'm told they help even with actual infections.

I'm not telling you what to do, except to re-evaluate your thinking on the matter.
Perhaps it will be useful to have an air quality meter and see what it says about the quality of air in your bedroom when you sleep. The one I used is "IQAir AirVisual Pro" and it helped me identify and fix some problems which helped me wake up feeling healthier than before fixing those issues.
It might feel like that but you have to learn how to see the matrix. You have 256 characters and 256 colors to encode each and every entity in DF using only CP437 characters. That's more than enough to be able to tell all the things apart with a single glance.
Informed investors setting the price is an important signal, it helps with allocation of resources. (See all the benchmark indices based on various exchanges, markets, sectors, industries, regions, etc.)

Dumb mistakes don't help with this.

And finally, we can discuss about how much value that signal has, and how much it helps resource allocation - because I have no data/studies on it, but the current status quo seems to pretty much support that it indeed does provide some added value.
... however i'm afraid that 99% of all users (the non-techies) would just be annoyed by the popup and click "OK"
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I’ve used https://worldtimebuddy.com for this purpose for years.
This bug reminds me of the plot of the 1996 Japanese crime story "Subete ga F ni Naru" (The Perfect Insider).
Is it any less reasonable than accusing somebody of valuing their own leisure more than human lives? The only difference between banning private cars to save lives and quarantining everybody to save lives is quantitative. Banning private cars saves fewer lives, but also causes much less economic damage. Opposing either implies some unwilligness to save life at all costs, some preference for economics/convenience over human lives.
What's the best way to get started becoming a C# developer? What kinds of C# programmers are there? I know fullstack web stuff and some Python, but no idea where to start with more proper languages.
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You are right. According to the Robert-Koch-Institut, even in Germany, where there is a lot of testing being done, the number of actual cases is probably a lot higher than the number of confirmed cases. We are talking about 10x or higher.
Had a briefing with our company lawyer a while back and any information can be considered PII when paired with other information. Eg that you bought 7 foo’s is not PII, but that you bought 7 foo’s on Tuesday might be if that can then be looked up in the purchase history and you were the only one who bought 7 on Tuesday.
RIP.

> Economic Revitalization Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura is in charge of the nation's coronavirus-response law. He said it was unnecessary to declare a state of emergency at this stage.

They are ever more reluctant than the USA.
For me it reduces my life expectancy from a decade or two, to a year or two.
Please cite your sources, preferably a paper pre-print
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Yes, though the affine texture mapping is not the only solution, just the easiest/ best conceptually at the time.

There's a port of Quake II to the Atari Falcon which has an interesting take on this lack of FP. See if interested:

http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=26775&sid=78...
Korea's population followed strict quarantine, and they had testing at a massive scale, matched only by China to this day.
https://openai.com/blog/evolution-strategies/
When young I use to ask myself while coding "how would the Borg do this?" This blog post [for me] maps our boring world on similar interesting visuals. I cant remember subscribing by email to anything. I had almost forgotten how not caring for clicks combines with self promotion.
Yes, with a leaky valve on the locked down people, perhaps ordered by job criticality/working-from-home possibility. The valve is then adjusted to ensure hospitals are maxed out all the time.

Is there any other exit path? Even a vaccine would need to be handled like that.
Some examples here https://www.investopedia.com/trading/options-strategies/

(the basic one without safety nets is the "naked call")
I think comparing Singapore, a tiny, highly urbanized island nation, with the US, a continent size country with a vast number of points of entry, is a little bit apples to oranges.

Don't get me wrong, I do think that some Asian countries took great measures to contain the virus, and some western countries failed to do so, but I doubt the same measures would be equally as effective everywhere. This is relevant because the spread of the virus is a multifaceted and complex issue, and reductionist explanations might take us down the wrong path if not careful.
My point is that web applications have their place. The absurdity is the dismissal of Javascript in a conversation about building web applications with Javascript.
Question, about this part of the letter: "I have four day nurses and five night nurses (female) a ward-master, and four orderlies".

Does anyone know why it was important to point out they were female? Were army nurses typically male?

Anyways, I'm reading about the 1918 flu a lot lately and came upon parts of this text multiple times. I'm still not sure if it's making me more or less paranoid about Covid-19, but it's definitely fascinating.
S. Korea wasted no time and the population has shown great ability to cooperate with the state to control the outbreak.

It’s too late for the rest of us. Extreme measures are now the only option.
The following page from ORF has great information going back to February and is updated twice a day.

https://orf.at/corona/stories/3157533
I find that Minecraft always works, for all kind of people!
> Sure, but it also means these deaths are piled up on top of everything else. It's not like people will stop dying of other causes.

You're misunderstanding: the people who die of COVID-19 will stop dying of other causes, because they've died of COVID-19. There will be a decrease in other-cause mortality...

>In a sense this is a tautology. Of course, if we keep deaths to a low number there won't be an impact on mortality rates.

...thus what it means is that if the COVID-19 deaths are kept to people who are ill enough that they would have died within the year anyway, those deaths won't be extra mortality across the year. If on the other hand COVID-19 spreads a lot and kills people who wouldn't have otherwise died, there will be extra mortality.
>> By the end of the summer, the pandemic will have directly killed 2.2 million Americans, notwithstanding those who will indirectly die as hospitals are unable to care for the usual slew of heart attacks, strokes, and car accidents.

Where does the "2.2 million" number come from? Does anyone know? It follows from the citing of the Imperial College report but it does not seem to be atttributed to the report itself.
Hey Ivan, what's the deal with pixlr pro (https://pixlr.com/pro/).

It looks exactly like photopea - not just the same idea - but like someone copied and pasted the site.
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There are plenty of technical people overseeing HIPAA.
>If one side behaves stupidly and the other has power and motivation to stop it, then parent-child dynamics is unavoidable.

It's not as simple as stupid. Humans have different values and risk preferences, and all values are ultimately arbitrary so there's no objective way to say some values are better than others (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regress_argument). In that case people have highly conflicting values in terms of weighing up loss of life against destruction of peoples' standards of living. People also have conflicting estimates about how much economic damage the shutdowns will cause, so even if they did have the same values they wouldn't necessarily agree.

>And government will never be your humble servants no matter how much literature you will produce on the subject. They have tanks, you do not. Shepard is never a servant of the sheep. Even though he feeds them and keeps them safe and healthy.

This isn't exactly an argument that governments aren't behaving in an authoritarian way..
So far. I suspect there is a lot of premature celebration when this is contained.
So have Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia (440 million people).

They've all had fewer cases than Luxembourg so far.

I've yet to see a good explanation for it, other than maybe the premise about seasonal temps and humidity (northern vs southern hemisphere). There's no evidence they're massively lying about their numbers (which would show up in the form of a demolished hospital system and thousands dead of pneumonia). Vietnam has also done incredibly well overall, showing no indications of being crushed by cases, despite their proximity to China.

Mexico is also not being crushed at all by the virus, despite being right next to the US as Vietnam is right next to China. Mexico shares enormous trade and traffic with the US. They should be buried in pneumonia cases given their overall context (population size, economy, testing rate, healthcare system). They have just over half the cases of Finland (obviously Mexico isn't testing at a high rate, I'm sure it's more than just 600). If many thousands of people were dying of Covid in Mexico right now, it would be showing up blatantly. Latin America's case load has largely been low vs population sizes (with only a few exceptions), as with the rest of the southern hemisphere. Mexico is technically northern hemisphere, and I wonder if they don't have some of the southern hemisphere benefit (as perhaps India does), limiting the rate of infection vs nations that are further north. And will that flip at all in the coming months.

https://i.imgur.com/EH8OkTd.png

It'd be very interesting to see a comparison of avg temps and humidity among nations most affected (or least) during the outbreak timeframe. Including looking at locations such as Italy, France, Germany, Spain, NYC, Texas, Southern California, Seattle, South Korea, parts of Mexico, Thailand, and so on.

Basically, due to seasonal temps and humidity, is South Korea's task made far easier than Italy's task? Does that considerably alter the infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 in South Korea vs Italy? Is their equation half the effort they've put in (and credit on that), and half good luck of location. Mexico sure as hell isn't avoiding being overrun by it due to maximum testing.

I spent many hours last night doing a deep dive on the latest research on the impact of humidity on viruses, infectiousness and the respiratory system. It's fascinating stuff.
Note website is non-english.
Another effing article that completely ignores Taiwan... I’m no taiwanophile, but why is it that a first-world democracy with a successful strategy against Covid is being completely ignored by media?

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762689

Taiwan has huge flows of Chinese people, yet no outbreak. Maybe it’s a good thing they are not recognised by the WHO?
We did an online pub quizz yesterday, actually worked well!

- One general hangout, where everybody's muted except the quizz master
- One hangout per team to chat
- Google doc to fill in the answers (make sure everybody starts from a template, to easily count points)
- Google slide for the questions

Lots of fun! I think the quizz master role is more lonely, as you don't really hear anybody (we had 2 masters, I think it helped)
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Until the UBI arrives I still have to work for money.
It's absolutely less reasonable. Since you want to make it quantitative, let's go ahead and do that:

If everybody drives cars for the next year in the US: 35,000 human lives lost

If no quarantine is in place for the next 2-3 months in the US: 2,200,000 human lives lost
That's a shame, you hear this a lot about lisp code and I think the problem is that the people who really grok lisp and write 'genius' code can be a bit blase about documenting their code.

Simple documentation for standard function definitions is fine but macros definitely need special attention. Some say macros are over-used but I think it's more of a case they're under-documented.
Even if the name of the macro gives you a fair idea, documenting how it works and what is generates with examples goes a long way to deciphering them for maintenance.
cheers.
But, the software that performs the transfer runs on the PC, and it is the one receiving data. Even Wikipedia defines "downloading" as "receiving data"...
They took proactive measurements when the rest of the world was still looking at how things would develop.

Making tests well before they had their first case.

When my country got its first cases they were still saying it isn't that contagious and everything is fine.
There is a great deal of fallacy to be gleaned by the comparison between the two states - but quite a bit of truth, though, too.

The American cavalier "invincibility" attribute seems to be truly at play here - witness the kids in Florida - whereas in South Korea, a state composed, traditionally, of an enslaved population: the obedience bit has been key.

It's an uncomfortable thought, but it is rugged American hubris which is propagating the virus right now throughout the country. And it was Korean humility and selflessness which brought it down to controllable levels. This article is a flowery way of pointing that out, imho ...
That makes good sense. ASD is a catch all term for those with certain symptoms that are unexplained by other factors. Schizophrenia and anxiety disorders would be some of those other factors. Not sure about ADHD.
The thing is, South Korea (and many other Asian countries cited as having handled COVID19 relatively well, such as Taiwan, HK, Singapore, Japan) have all learned from the 2003 SARS epidemic and others, while the Western countries did not. This is not just in terms of politics/preparation to disasters, but also in the civilization - in Asia even the most radical and extreme measures are accepted by the population as everyone there knows what a pandemic can cause, while in Germany people are having "corona parties" and there have been numerous incidents of people spitting or coughing at other people.

Additionally, in many Western countries healthcare systems have been wrecked by neoliberalism profit-first ideology (Germany, UK), by austerity following the 2008 financial crisis (Italy, Spain, Greece) or by decades of incompetency (USA), combined with the end of stockpiling of critical assets such as face masks, gloves and other PPE after the end of the Cold War.

The key point of "shutting down" is to avoid overloading the healthcare systems, or at least to try to limit the overloading.
Or maybe it tells you that a lot of the marketing around this has been total nonsense
>My point was that equating quarantines with totalitarianism is the kind of superficial and querulous comparison that a child might make about timeouts.

My point is that it's generally accepted that children have less rights than adults. E.g. it's accepted for parents to lock their kid in a room for hours for swearing, but it's not accepted for the government to do the same thing. The fact that it's socially accepted to treat a child a certain way doesn't mean it's socially accepted for the government to treat adults the same way.
> they’re trying the shove our throats down all the time

Ironic that you say this, yet you've clearly not actually listened to women's rights activists, because men's disproportionate deaths due to mental health/suicide is a major feminist talking point.
American exceptionalism is a hell of a drug.
> something i like about go is it shepards you to write code any other go programmer can follow easily

Sure, the syntax and indentation levels are all the same, but that's not really the difficult parts of programming. The difficulty comes from abstractions, indirections and other abstract things that Go, just as any language, let's you do however you want.

There are of course codebases made in Go where the indirections makes no sense and are hard to follow, just as in any language.

What Go shepards you into is to make really verbose code (well, compared to most languages except Java I guess), where everything is explicit, unless hidden by indirection. This is both a blessing and a curse.
Testing more thoroughly would also provide us with a better understanding of the virus' properties, like the distribution of symptoms, severities, and mortality rate. I think one of the main reason for general fear and panic has been the alleged high mortality rate, with numbers up to 5% being mentioned. But there's a strong selection bias in those statistics (people with severe cases get tested more often), so the actual number is likely much lower.
You'd have thought they already had something that does this?
I doubt you would get 99% accuracy with humans, either.
Yeah, it was hard to pick something at random. But I figure it was better than, say, Brazil or US.
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My story exactly. Played around with Amos, was interested in assembler but it wasn't practical to get into it. I went to the library and could only find one manual about game programming tricks (not the basics) in 68000 asm, but it was too advanced for me and I didn't even have an assembler. You just had whatever software your friends happened to have or what was included on coverdisks that came with magazines.

Also like your story, later I realized that I could actually have had access to the software and information, since I was going every year to the Assembly demoscene event and could have surely found the tools and information there if I had just tried harder.

It's incredible how now you can just get any software and such wonderful tutorials for anything imaginable that you could want to learn. What a time to be alive.
At least initially I read that Philippines didn’t even have testing capability and had to send samples to Australia to be tested. You don’t find what you don’t look for.
Those accidents are no basically longer happening because there are so few cars on the road. Our response to this also solved auto accidents. You should be asking "how does this compare to causes of death related to poverty"
Absolutely. In fact I am writing a library in Elixir currently (for internal company usage) that mandates generating boilerplate to help a user project. It's a really fine balance to (a) not being too clever by making the macro code still readable and (b) documenting the intent of the macro, its input and output, and why it is actually useful.

Many people are like "I'll document it later" and it just almost never happens. Which is, as you said, a shame.
This stuff is the double edged sword behind why the year of the Linux desktop will either never arrive, or be WSL, depending on your definition.

For all the commendable work in the kernel on not breaking user space, Linux does not have a viable unified stable userland api like win32 or cocoa.

I say the above thinking my statement is rather blunt, but not too controversial, and hoping someone will refute it effectively with some desktop app sdk that will work on 90% of the distributions.
They're enabling a lot of people to do something they couldn't do otherwise. And they've convinced those people to give them money to do it for them. The most core form of a specialised business.
>I'm hoping the technology will advance enough so that we eventually get one language that can navigate both side of the spectrum. Giving you the ease of Python/Ruby scripting, data analysis, and agility for medium projects, but letting you transition to Haskell/Rust safety nets and perfs with strict typing + memory safety without GC + good I/O hygiene in a progressive way. Something that can scale up, and scale down.

[...]

>Now you could argue that we can't have it all: choose the right tool for the right job. But I disagree. I think we will eventually have it all.

The idea of One Language that covers everything (or even most scenarios) is a seductive goal but it's not mathematically possible to create because the finite characters we use to design a language's syntax forces us to make certain concepts more inconvenient than others. This inevitably leads to multiple languages that emphasize different techniques. Previous comments about why this is unavoidable:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15483141

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19974887

(One could argue that the lowest level of binary 0s and 1s is already the "One Programming Language For Everything" because it's the ancestor of all subsequent languages but that's just an academic distinction. Working in pure 0s and 1s is not a realistic language for working programmers and they'd inevitably find the syntax too inconvenient and thus invent new languages on top of it such as assembly code, Lisp, etc.)
So you simply disagree with the concept of quarantines in general? Based on what, exactly? Like, specifically cite some case law that demonstrates that quarantines are unconstitutional.
Hard to say, but the issue (the one OP talked about) is BEFORE counting deaths.

Right now the same source (for Germany):

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

Has 23 "Serious or critical" people out of 41,324 cases (and the remaining 41,301 are in "Mild condition").

In Italy:

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

3,612 critical out of 62,013 total (6%).

In Spain:

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

3,166 critical out of 46,406 total (7%).

In France (seemingly much worse than Italy or Spain):

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

3,375 critical out of 22,511 total (15%).

Now France's anomaly (compared to Italy and Spain) could be an undercounting (by 2x) of total cases, but the anomaly in Germany could only be explained if the actual number of cases in Spain and Italy are undercounted by 100x!

There must be something else.
I was following Thailand (due to now cancelled trip) and it seemed they used the "turn off monitoring in production" approach to solving this crisis.

Meaning - they don't have cases because they weren't testing them and weren't reporting them truthfully.
Just to be clear, Taiwan did not have huge flows of mainland Chinese soon after the outbreak though. They closed the border to all travelers with PRC passports in mid-February. They did take some drastic measures that have worked.
Cancer Urology Surgeon friend of mine was down in X ray chatting to one of the radiologist over lunch yesterday.

Apparently they’ve noticed that on scans they’ve been doing on people for other (i.e. non lung) reasons -

They’ve noted that virtually EVERYONE young and old, have lung fibrosis

Even if they’ve been asymptomatic...
Oh my! GCP is on fire?
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That's pretty tiny revenue. It's about the turnover of a restaurant (pre-coronavirus).