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It seems obvious why this happens when the disease originates in CN. Especially in the case of COVID where there were "bat soup" stories. If the black plague started back up in the states, folks would be blaming the US, no?

How much of this is just population though? I'm admittedly not super knowledgeable here.
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There are liquids that are much less messy than rosin core.
How do you propose to keep it apolitical? Even Wikipedia has a political slant.

I agree with your concerns, but I don't know if what you propose can keep politics out. It is still probably worth a shot either way.
The euphemism of “Life expectancy of the whole population” is disguising that you’re saying 200k-1.7 million deaths is worth you not having to stay home for 4 months. This isn’t even factoring in the millions who will suffer severe cases needing hospitalization and suffering permanent lung damage but won’t die.

Secondly, the article you linked has several arguments against your own conclusion. For example, that many will suffer permanent lung damage, a significant multiple of the number of people who will die will be seriously ill and need hospitalization, and that this cost-benefit analysis overvalues the lives of the young over the old.
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If nothing else, the long term maintenance commitment is important for companies being willing to adopt and build on it.
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Now that half of the world population is under lock-down which extended in some countries for weeks, and that several industries are badly affected; I'm wondering how guys in HN are copping with Covid-19 and Covid-19 implications.

This is a thread to vent about your situation and how you are doing.

For me, I'm staying alone at home with around 1 month of food reserves. I occasionally go outside in the neighborhood for a walk. Close family is living in other countries and we talk semi-daily over Skype. I didn't see/talk to anyone for over a week but being an introvert it wasn't that hard to overcome.

Work-wise my productivity took a hit but getting some stuff done. Financially, I have enough savings unless inflation goes through the roof. I don't have social media accounts and barely have any idea what's going on outside. Overall it's okay for now.
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So let's sum it up - its killing you, but you don't want to/can't leave because its killing others too. At the end, you will help nobody, the least yourself, and everybody will just suffer.

Try pure logic on this problem, which doesn't seem like your current approach. Pure logic with result being improvement of your wellbeing, so you can help others. If you simply can't get those people out, then stop dreaming about getting them out, fruitlessly; solution is in some other action.

If your country is in proper lockdown/quarantine, suck it up and focus on something positive till things ease a bit. I know, easy to say, but working solutions aren't magically easy.
I have a Weller WT2M. I believe that should be sufficient? Perhaps I'll review my technique.
Mark Cuban got it right last week when he said that the way companies treat their employees over the next few months will define their brand for the next several decades. Companies insisting on this level of control are simply adding cost now and making employee retention difficult for when we end up coming out of this. If your company can't handle ground-level employees having some autonomy in their work, then your business model isn't likely to survive.

Besides, given the extraordinary circumstances I don't think it's fair to expect everyone to be equally productive to being in the office. In addition to the fact that some people just don't perform as well without the structure of an office (I'm personally one of them), we've got kids to take care of, extra chores to do, and the general anxiety coming from the media. People are not going to be 100% right now, so the need to build a work culture that can support that reality is more important now than ever.
> I tend to dislike consumer carbon taxes because I feel it tends to punish people for decisions they made previously. Like a old fart who bought the last car he's ever going to own in 2005.

This is what the dividend is for. If you bought a Toyota Camry in 2005 and now you're paying more for gas but receiving a dividend, the dividend is more than the higher gas prices -- some of the tax gets paid by oil producers (since lower demand lowers prices) but all of it goes to individuals, and some of it gets paid by carbon emissions by corporation, but once again all of it goes to individuals.

The people who would get screwed are the people who just bought a 12 MPG SUV rather than buying one fifteen years ago, expecting to keep it for a long time, because their carbon footprint is enough above average for enough time that it could exceed the dividend. But why should we have any sympathy for this behavior? The writing has been on the wall for a long time here. You bought a high-MPG gasoline-powered car in 2005 when viable electric cars weren't really available, you're fine. You buy a low-MPG one in 2020, you can't claim you didn't see this coming.
Talking and singing produce respiratory droplets and aerosols. See https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Jnq2A7A7ytgttQ5Ek/covid-tran... and the references cited therein.
Well its a good litmus to know where not to work. Better knowing with such a straight forward method.
As Steve’s sibling comment points out, this is only for the kernel. The article mentions preemptive threading for the user space as still being desirable.
My confusion leads from thinking that there are two ways to fight it. One is white blood cells murdering the virus - the "ideal way". Two is the body panicking and over-heating to kill anything that can't handle the temperature (preferably mainly the virus). I am not sure if #2 works through virus-killing cells, in conjunction with them, or purely in an unrelated fashion killing everything that it can, kind of like chemo.
So the people that hedged their risks lost and the idiots that didn’t get bailed out?
Yup, commercial airlines have started running cargo flights: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesasquith/2020/03/28/commerc...
Two things:

Productivity is going to plunge no matter what, with the possible exception of singles who don’t have roommates. There is no way that during an ad hoc and unorganized push to work remote (though necessary in this circumstance) can result in good productivity, monitoring or not. Under the best of circumstances it would take months for a mass of people to adjust and be productive.

The apex for open office design was reached and we’ll go back to something more normal. It’s funny people derided “cubicle farms” but we’re more or less okay being in a “bullpen” like setting cuz it was sold as being counter cultural and cool.
While things like masks and social distancing are more likely to be already in place in Japanese culture, there definitely seems to be a bit of a surprise regarding actual numbers vs. means put in place to prevent the spread.

The reports seem to reflect the opacity of communication of Japan's situation about the Covid-19. It's good that the author put out actionable suggestions at the end, but I'm wondering if the opacity is a result of internal issues or intended opacity. Makes me glad to see Canada's stats[1] being so clear in comparison.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/201...
Yes, this article points out that aerosols are much smaller than droplets and that health officials see this event as evidence of the aerosolization of the coronavirus. The aerosolized virus may even stay in the air for 30 minutes.

It seems we all should be wearing masks in public!
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Does Fastmail count? Otherwise, none! \o/

The main apps I use every day are: vim, terminator, hexchat, Evolution (with the EWS plugin) and ssh. All running under Cinnamon in either Fedora, Debian or Ubuntu OSes.
Yup, they're already doing that: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesasquith/2020/03/28/commerc...
Not entirely sure yet. However, that's exactly why verified, anonymous data reporting would be a good starting point. But I assume your concerns are more about [the difficulty of] neutral funding?
Below triple the price? Relatively non-crazy.
That product looks exactly like AWS Direct Connect

Also, when I go to: https://www.infrastructure.aws/

(annoyingly I can't link to the network) it says 100Gbps of WAN capacity around the AWS global network.

I did a quick search and wasn't able to find what it is for GCP -- do you have a link handy?
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Hemingway's short stories are incredible. I particularly enjoy the Nick Adams collection.
Sorry, I meant Big Brother (and yes, I back translated it from Italian). And I meant the (trash) TV show, rather than 1984.
The distinction you are making is one of radius of distribution.

Someone infected with measles shedding the virus can send it far and wide...

COVID-19 needs a carrier, a bit of water/mucus to survive in. The radius of distribution is smaller (6 feet) but these drops can linger in the air depending on ambient conditions.

EVERYONE needs to put on a mask, not to avoid catching it, but to avoid spreading it... The fact that our national policy doesn't reflect this is negligent, and in the end it will have caused unneeded deaths.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/not-wearing-masks-pr...

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/would-everyone-weari...

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/927723

https://www.fda.gov/media/136449/download
N95 masks aren't very effective either, especially when they don't seal well. When they become moist, they're useless.

What your cloth mask is doing is to effectively spread a giant fishing net to collect all the particles around you. The moisture in your breath will help keep the viruses inside intact. You'll be constantly breathing air through that, loosening some of those particles and inhaling them. The idea that the mask would protect you makes no sense.

If you're already infected, it's a different story. The mask will reduce the amount of virus you'll be spreading around.
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JWST would have been a lot cheaper if they had known they could use heavier and cheaper materials when it was designed.
To be willfully ignorant of the human cost of business decisions is intellectually dishonest and perpetuates the immoral and downright evil corporate cultures.

Business decisions cannot be amoral unless you pretend they don't impact other human beings. That in and of itself is immoral.

And regardless of what you think the purpose of a company is, they are places where friends socialize and families look out for each other. They're social collectives, and people will do social things where those form. Profit motive or not. They are also a social support system, that's what your salary and health insurance are.

And to that point, "doing what they need to do" is synonymous with hurting people for the benefit of others. Removing pay benefits across the board is not prioritizing individuals, but actively harming the people who can tolerate it the least as a group.

The reason this is bad optics is because rational and moral people look at these decisions and see them not as amoral acts like you pretend, but evil ones.
Passenger planes already take cargo as part of normal flights yes!

Now there are less passenger flights, so less capacity there! And less passengers to make the flight break even with people + cargo paying.
I like the idea of this phone (and the Fxtec Pro1 needs some competition before all of their pre-orderers die of old age), especially the clever way they keep the screen visible either in open or closed slider modes.

Part of the thing I don't get though is why these companies don't do a 'plain' slider, like that on the Photon Q or Droid series of devices? Patent encumbrances, too boring for marketing?
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I might not describe it that way either, but do medical professionals describe it that way?
I agree; the iPad would be a Fortune 500 business on its own.

But the "killer app" is the product-making application that defines the product, pulling it into ubiquity (the original example was VisiCalc and the Apple II). The iPad has yet to find one that makes people say "oh, it's an X". Instead, as you say, it's spread around on a bunch of relatively small-volume apps.
It isn't accountants. It is all the financial advice and teaching that focuses on Price to Earnings as a meaningful way to measure valuations at the exclusion of a lot of other equally meaningful metrics.
This happened to me years ago. I was put in an empty office at the opposite end from my boss, and because he couldn't walk up behind me to see me working, he secretly installed a program on my computer that took a screenshot every 30 seconds (or so?).

I quickly noticed that my computer was hitching regularly (when the screenshot was taken - this was in the late 90s BTW), and so investigated my computer on a day when he wasn't in the office.

After finding what looked like malware on my computer, I checked with other colleagues - and the other owner - and no one had any idea what it was.

So we put the office network on lockdown, halted everything and started the process of rotating all our passwords and scanning every computer in the office looking for signs of intrusion, etc..

We lost a solid day of productivity for everyone, and when we finally reached the other boss, he owned up to what he had done, and the other owner - who had spent the day in a panic - wasn't thrilled about it to say the least.

The irony was that I was probably the most productive person in that office (in my humble opinion).
I had similar a number of years ago. Did 2 things:

1) left handed mouse. Found I needed to switch the buttons for my brain to work with it. Took a few days to get used to it. Now I can switch back and forth without effort.

2) Wrist support. My wrists were hurting too. So I used a bowling wrist support and that reduced the total motion at the wrist level.
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They will also be at higher altitudes, reducing their brightness.
What struck me most with this book was the rats!

Most humans die due to a virus and cities are left 99% empty. There reaches a point where all the rats flee the city (having eaten all the food they can) and arrive in endless waves at the protagonist's home.
Exactly, state sponsored universities could create some of the same conflicts of interest we've seen with COVID-19.
With a quarter of the workforce furloughed or RIFed I’m not sure most people will have the option to be choosy.
An example of PAPR application: I know of a professional woodturner who uses one, a 3M system IIRC. Beyond potential issues with long-term exposure to wood dust, turners tend to use material with unusual provenance compared to commercial timber. That in turn often means "spalted" – i.e. it's got fungal growth in it. It produces some lovely patterning and coloration in the wood, but which you definitely do not want to be breathing. The PAPR effectively combines breathing protection with a common turner's face shield; it's a compelling combination for that kind of work.
Just launder the mask.
I imagine the cost of using passenger planes as cargo planes is at least 4x more than dedicated cargo plane.

Probably at least 70% less storage capacity. Probably can only handle smaller packages, probably not as easy to load/unload, and weight distribution without passengers might even make it so the full (available) space cannot be used.

However, it probably has similar fuel requirements (slightly reduced from less load), and still requires a pilot to transport a much less valuable trip.. making the fixed costs still very high

Just my simple guesses. I'm no expert.
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There was a discussion on the economist podcast about this.

1. Passenger jets often take a bit of cargo, but even if they rejiggered, it'd only be half full of cargo.

2. Many companies already hedged the price of fuel so the oil glut isn't really helping them any.

3. Demand is unidirectional: medical supplies are made in a handful of countries (ie China) but there isn't a huge demand for air freight the other direction. See also the container problem.

4. The airline network is a complex emergent system. Passengers from one international flight often connect into another domestic one. Cancelling an international flight has unpredictable knock-on effects for downstream flights.

5. Cancelling a flight can lead to losing your 'slot'. Similar to how google will kill non performing ads, airports have a system to allocate arrivals / departures to airlines that factors in usage. If you shift a passenger jet flying EU to US into doing cargo hauls, that slot is jeopardized.
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Thanks! Unfortunately it is currently limited to DRM-free video streams, since the app needs direct access to the video frame in order read the pixels. But in general you should be able to set the ?v= param to other sources.

Example: https://bvp.surge.sh/?v=http://commondatastorage.googleapis....
The edge of observational science is the sensor and the satellite is built to support that. Radically different sensors have radically different engineering requirements. And to an extent, there is already a bunch of re-use between missions for the bus, power, control etc. But casually comparing a 10x10cm cube sat sensor to something literally over 3,000 the area feeding to a cryogenically cooled sensor to somehow argue in favour of SpaceX's current deployments is ... hard to reason with.
"Fibreglass" type insulation is commonly used in north america and is made in part with recycled glass.

https://www.owenscorning.com/corporate/sustainability/produc...
So is this specifically for stateless event messages? I don't really understand how you would define required state or conditional message validity.
I remember a similar feeling as a kid.

As an adult I've been taking week long cruises where I force myself to almost entirely disconnect. They've been "well" timed the last few years that world seems stranger (and probably worse) almost every time I return, and I'm not sure I'd recommend that sort of strange to kid me.

One year a lot of staff at my employer (including myself) were laid off and returned to a lot of recruiter emails. Another a close relative was deeply sick. Last year included the drama of returning to hectic airports due to the 737 MAX crisis. This year we were the last ship out before Quarantine and the last ship back, FLL was even more of a mess than after the 737 MAX crisis because it was still full of spring breakers and people who had expected to leave on cruise ships with now canceled vacation plans, few places to stay, and a lot of new unplanned headaches.

We had some warning: they added temperature checks prior to departure, and we were on High levels of handwashing and sanitizing, reminiscent (if not worse) than the one year we sailed during the middle of the cruise ship Noravirus panic or the couple years of increased Zika concern. But still, you don't expect things to escalate in a week anywhere nearly as quick as they did. Not all of us take the excuse to entirely disconnect so we weren't entirely isolated from news like a submarine might be either, but even the difference between reading random NYT headlines versus your personal FB timeline is huge these days.
"Nearly three weeks later, 45 have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or ill with the symptoms, at least three have been hospitalized, and two are dead."
When you tell people who have zero experience or understanding with/of this sort of thing, you end up accidentally convincing them they can only get it through direct contact with an infected person. Without the additional context it also conflicts with the explicit guidance for staying at least 1m away from people.
Just the movement of people in my peripheral vision alone is distracting. Then there is the chatter and constant interruptions (which I welcome in a friendly way but deep down under I don't want to be interrupted).

Cubicles with a door would be great. The ceiling can be open and have sun light coming in. Maybe the walls should be white and there should be a lamp of my own (for notes).
And they are only visible briefly after sunset and before sunrise because they spend the rest of the night in earth's shadow?
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> Japanese ppl don’t like touching each other they don’t really shake hands socially but they bow when saying hello and good bye

Yet they stick to each other like sardines in a can when they take public transport every single day in Tokyo and Osaka - and we are talking about dozens of millions of people who transit every single day. That should be the primary mode of exposure especially since masks have completely run out in Japan for months.

So, unlikely to be a good explanation, sorry.
Ah, I remember reading about it like a month ago or so but I though it had already been released
I'm guessing they do a lot more pallet shipping, and your typical passenger jet isn't prepped to load / store / unload that versus luggage.
So what conclusions should we draw from such an article? What is the point?

I personally don't feel qualified to intervene in such a relationship where god knows what psychological issues are preventing abuse victims from leaving.

If they have some actionable conclusions (even if it is just "we need more social workers" or whatever), I can behind that. But I suspect it is just a note in the general theme of hating on men, which the Guardian has very eagerly participated in for a while. So the takeaway from reading the article is just "men are bad and women are victims".
Didn't most old operating systems use cooperative multitasking? I remember, at least, that classic Mac OS (i.e. pre-OSX) didn't use preemptive multitasking, either.

Anyway, this SO answer[0] explains why early Linux, much like the hobby kernel in this article, used cooperative scheduling inside the kernel, and only preempted user-space stuff.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16766562
Trello with the Planyway add-on.
What would this organization's apolitical policy be regarding Taiwan?
It's unfortunate that you don't have the source, because it would be nice to see how long after after the covid-19 patient left the chamber they tested the air for the virus.

People need to understand that there is a good possibility that this virus can stay in the air, even if it is only for 5 or 10 minutes. If using the word airborne isn't correct use of scientific jargon, it at least is correct use of common English.
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I think less than 5% of comments on open-office design, that I have ever seen, were positive. Who are the people you are describing as being “sold”?
Cargo and passengers typically cross subsidise each other, depending on the route.

Without (business and first class in particular) passengers the costs of running the planes have to met fully by the limited cargo.
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I mean, as of today, 0.018% of Italy is known to have died from COVID-19. 0.0096% of the world has tested positive so far.

So the true numbers are definitely higher than 0.0005%.
So what should be done? What should the average reader of such an article do?
Given your submissions to HN I'd say just go with whatever you're interested in, it's bound to be good. ;-)

As for myself, anything in re: compiling functional and/or stack-based languages; and DSLs for GUIs.

Cheers!