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> I also understand there are situations where despite its shortcomings it is the right choice.

Would you say the reason for choosing it are not inherent to the lang itself but to things like: experience of the team, availability of libraries/ecosystem, need for mature/fast compilers?
Bro it's cause women smoke less. Women also abuse alcohol less prolifically than men, but for coronavirus it's the smoking rate which is important

If men treated themselves well than women wouldn't have better life expectancy

You want equality of outcome? Tobbaco bans!
Cancer Urology Surgeon friend of mine (UK) was down in X ray chatting to one of the radiologist over lunch. 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
My "bounce rate" for having to install a package from a third party repository is close to 100%.

It's just too much administrative overhead in the long run. I don't run just one machine. This is not laziness, it's a mode of operation.

Also, it's a red flag. If you can't get into official repos, what else is wrong with you? Perhaps nothing, perhaps those gatekeepers are gatekeeping too hard. Still, I'm not going to invest my resources to figure it out.
The 510k deaths figure assumes 80% get infected (upper bound given by models and no mitigation whatsoever) and 1% mortality. The actual mortality is almost certainly significantly lower - the Oxford's CBM estimates 0.2% [1], so twice as bad as flu.

Let's even assume incorrectly that all COVID deaths are on top of the 600k normal deaths. So in 2020 85% more people die of natural causes than normally. Almost exclusively very old and already ill people. It's just not a big deal and it's crazy that people think it is.

Now let's say that the death rate is 0.2% as the Oxford institute estimates, 20% of COVID casualties would have died anyway, and that isolating the at-risk people further reduces the casualties by half. We end up with 40,000 extra deaths, 7% more deaths than normally. A non-event.

If you think that the death toll of the lockdowns will be lower than that, then I hope you are right. I expect not.

[1] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-...
I've long been fascinated by watching the translation over the last generation of consoles to jobified systems. The folks at Guerilla Games (Killzone, Horizon: Zero Dawn) hasve a great document on how they jobified their gameplay loop for the last Killzone title [0]. The transition to multithreading systems which greedily take in jobs has enabled exceptionally complex and dynamic worlds, but depending on the implementation can easily come at the cost of determinism - which is honestly a pretty niche requirement for modern single-player titles.

Game engines are like supercars, and occupy a rare space in software outside of academia where individual developers are continuously innovating on an architectural level, integrating knowledge from multiple fields, and enthusiastically sharing their work with their peers.

That kind of development is often too 'in the weeds' to be economic for most development houses, but I think there's a lot of transferable knowledge waiting to be picked up on by other developers willing to keep an eye on the space.

[0] https://www.guerrilla-games.com/read/killzone-shadow-fall-th...
If you 'supervise' your iPhone you can also configure an adblocker with a proxy auto-config. Less fiddly than a VPN but harder to customise! Supervising requires a wipe too.
https://github.com/essandess/easylist-pac-privoxy
Not GP, but for most programs I write myself I cannot find all the call sites of a certain function because of using first class functions a bunch. When I worked in nginx I had a smaller amount of similar trouble, since nginx frequently but not pervasively uses function pointers to decide what to do next.
I think that was a poor choice of phrase by me - what I meant was, how did the Scots (who definitely have historical roots in Ireland) get this idea from?

NB Scots in the sense of Dál Riata Scots, who eventually became the most powerful grouping in what became Scotland in the 9th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1l_Riata
Why your being downvoted I will never know. Hacker news is embarrassing to be a member of sometimes.

The OP you responded to was absolutely lazy with the phrasing and hardly made an argument. You did the opposite and they downvoted you more. What the hell guys?
Apologies for the vaguely-NSFW submitted subreddit. I debated submitting this r/hiddenpolicy link instead, as it's how I found out about this admin action, but I didn't want to start a chain of indirect sources:

https://old.reddit.com/r/HiddenPolicy/comments/fpf5gc/reddit...
Correct. South Korea had to trace only a very small number of chains/events. Now they have many cases and it will become very hard to trace all of them. They cannot be everywhere. Additionally they had more staff to do this, other countries cannot easily copy that strategy.
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You wouldn't have to look for them in these situations (the context of these nations), it would show up in your intensive care system and swamp your hospitals with thousands upon thousands of ICU-level cases.

That effect even showed up somewhat in Russia, in heightened pneumonia cases (they're now admitting it's likely far more widespread than the positive case results would imply). It's not easy to hide or disregard if you have high figures, which one would expect of poorer, very vulnerable nations with huge populations so close to China - unless there's another explanation. These nations didn't implement the type of disciplined system (matched with mass testing) that South Korea followed, and there's no sign of crushed healthcare systems with many thousands dead from pneumonia.
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Automobile accidents are order of magnitude smaller risk.

In the US automobiles kill roughly the same amount of people annually as year in the Vietnam war. Something like 30k+ annually. You can actually subtract some car deaths from covid deaths because there is less traffic.

9/11 or terrorism in general so low risks that it's quite clear that responding for terrorism with conventional war and trillions of dollars is insane.
Hm, do you know of any tool/framework for capturing and then re-running (mocking) syscall responses? Could be interesting to keep in a toolbox for future...
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I usually scroll down the main document and use the Tab key to tab between each field to enter data - that way, I don't need to keep scrolling back up and down.
It looks to me like the video isn't "trapped" in their app - in fact it's intended to be uploaded elsewhere? So once you've used it, you only need to continue paying if you're continuing to use it.

That's the opposite of rent-seeking, that's .. charging money for a service.
It's a small sample, but it's a comprehensive one as everyone was tested. On the Diamond Pricess, it only reached 20% of the people on board, and of those 60% had no medical symptoms. Overall 1% of people catching it died.

As a cruise ship the passengers tend to be older, but the crew tend to be younger.

Doesn't matter if you test 1 million people or 10,000 people, if you aren't doing statistically significant tests, it's meaningless to draw conclusions.
As if it's binary definition - technical and non technical, unless they're amish I don't see why it can't be reported in plain terms
Mid-February was already weeks after the epidemic starts to be on the news. They also repatriated businessmen from China. Given business and cultural ties between the two countries, I find hard to believe that less Chinese traveled between them than between China and Italia.
Depends on the processor. The selling point of ARM is an ability to design your own chips.
Again another article that doesn't even mention the use of masks and hand sanitizer.

The cost of the epidemic now goes into the trillions, self-made cotton masks are cheap compared to the economic damage. They can be disinfected in boiling water and if everybody uses them they will help to stop the spreading of the virus.

In all the countries mentioned in the article people wear masks when in public, often just against pollution (i.e. Thailand).

The moment we open our mouth we spread germs, even more so when we speak. And when we touch our nose or mouth, we have them on our hands.

Thus entering a supermarket without a mask and without first disinfecting the hands should be forbidden.

Social distancing is one thing, stopping the virus at the source is another and seemingly very effective measure.
If you put in 'some' or even 'most' you might be right. Not saying I agree but it's theoretically possible. But it's too deep a theory to fit all cases of such a broad category because it is not consistent with diagnostic criteria. I for example definitely have a theory of mind. But my diagnosis merely says that I do not have the same level of social success as others of my level of general development. And that's absolutely correct.
Caution is certainly called for. There will probably be recurring outbreaks.

But, the benefits of widespread testing are there for every nation, at any stage of the pandemic, to access if they have the will and competency in leadership to do it.
An initiative from the scientific community for the fight against Covid-19
Also there was MERS in South Korea (2015), people remember what happened 5 years ago much better than what happened 17 years ago (SARS).
Why science must always be done for free, and all the other non scientific stuff, including things dificult to explain logically, are gladly and generously overpaid?

Universities take an economic profit from this volunteer work. They can just share some and hire a few students to do it. And if there is a scarcity of more volunteers, maybe they should think about if repeatedly firing, whimsically dismantling expert teams, and cut the funds to scientists at the slighest opportunity really pays at long term.
I agree with your final point, if the Royal they that are making these distributions could settle on a common standard or some least common denominator, then the small software shops of the world could Target Linux without having to do 12 hours of research on how many flavors of desktop environments there are and how many flavors of compositors on top of them there are, and how many flavors of distributions have what desktop environments.

The current state has the effect of so much fragmenting what you can deploy to where that most people throw their hands up in frustration and say they are not deploying to Linux at all, Linux can deal with a web interface.

only the biggest software companies can afford to write a gtk / QT UI and ship as a RPM / Deb / apt package / tar.gz

The wild part is no one seems to care that this great app fragmentation occurs. There is no equivalent of an EXE on Lenox, as the elf file is treated differently depending on the distribution.

The flat pack vs snap war indicates that app distribution also hasn't been solved. Windows has wix installer or install shield, Mac has .DMG, but Linux does not have a unified strategy for the common user tasks of installing software, running software, or managing your installed software.
Another one is Hong Kong. They are tightly packed in a small geographic space, have an active border with China (not sure about it now), and a highly trafficked airport.
> But "it is a mass noun" has its own problems. It isn't possible to use "poor" in that sense without using the full phrase the poor.

Sure, there's a very broad class of syntactically plural mass nouns without singular countable forms for which that is the case — interestingly, countable nouns with a similar relation to adjectives can become mass noun when their plural form is used with “the”.
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usually vps are blocked because they use bot to scrape data etc creating useless problems.

Update: By vps i mean ip from digitalocean,linode, vultr etc.
Cat confirmed infected and symptomatic with Covid19 by officials in Belgium/EU
The response to coronavirus also nearly eliminates automobile fatalities. Try again
A physician from Korea recently did an AMA on Reddit and said:
'It is hard for anyone to predict what will happen in the future in this volatile situation. However, South Korean experts think that if the situation doesn't get better within the month, it will last up to 6 months. If the situation exacerbates within 6 months, it's apparent that this will become a much more difficult scenario than previously imagined. There would be a high chance of economic repercussions of this outbreak. Moreover, the resources of medical personnel may be entirely exhausted in this situation, which would lead to more deaths. In South Korea alone, 300,000 deaths would be a fair prediction from such a scenario.'[0]

Seems too early to conclude this has been contained yet.

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fo4pj4/im_joon...
It's not the population that's in quarantine, it's just the few thousand affected people.

There's another thing these countries have in common: Masks are worn by the majority of the people. They may work better than advertised.
It's a consideration. However, where is the million dead people that should be happening between these nations given the 440 million people? The virus would be destroying them at this point. We've seen what it can do in Italy, the US, Germany, France, etc. in terms of spreading and hitting ICU units, killing people. It has a 10% mortality rate despite Italy's best efforts, and a 5.7% mortality rate in France (among positive tests). France has an elite healthcare system. So with no testing, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines - they should be falling over and buried in dead people by now. China was being ravaged by it and had to implement extreme measures rapidly.
> An FFI is when you use only ArkScript to make calls against other languages that don't know about ArkScript's API

I should definitly rename this part as stated in another comment, since the "FFI" isn't a real one, I messed up with the vocabulary
Isn't eval part of the cause of many security holes in other languages, e.g. Javascript? That is, not eval alone but combined with an unintended path from unvalidated user input to the snippet that gets eval'ed.

Is there anything special Lisp does to prevent user input from getting into eval'ed data-code? Or any sandboxing provided by Lisp's eval?
On a per-capita basis, other countries are now getting up there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing
“Recently, the veterinary medicine faculty in Liège reported that a coronavirus infection has been diagnosed in a cat. The cat lived with her owner, who started showing symptoms of the virus a week before the cat did,” said Van Gucht.

“We want to stress that this is an isolated case. Additionally, in this case, we are talking about a human-to-animal transmission, not the other way around. The risk of animal-to-human transmission, is very small,” he added.

Edit (update): https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/1030...

"The animal lived in close contact with its owner, and started showing symptoms a week after the woman did. “The cat had diarrhoea, kept vomiting and had breathing difficulties. The researchers found the virus in the cat’s faeces,” he added."
I think it is an interesting case. It seems that shutting everything down and locking everybody in their homes is still the fastest method.

But if you look at the outcome and impact on entire country investing in aggressive testing and tracking cases seems better return on investment even with higher number of cases.

One potential problem I see with this is locking everything is easier to implement and has less risk that it won't work at all. With a week delay between your actions and the results, not restraining your population and instead hunting cases might put you in a situation where you suddenly learn your actions had no effect and now it is too late for drastic lockdown to rein in the cases.
The trouble is, the mortality rate is highly dependent on the degree to which health services are overwhelmed, because the health services are playing such a critical role in keeping people alive for a few weeks until they get better.

To the extent that mortality rate may depend more on transmission rate, health service dynamics and availability of people and equipment than on the disease itself.

This is very different from the mortality rate in a non-pandemic situation.
I think the precautionary measures being taken will probably also help reduce flu cases going forward so this isn’t covid-19 only, can apply to other diseases too.
Even broader look on this is which run-time properties the resulting _typical_ code has.

Most languages tend to produce a distinct behavior patterns and properties, such as (in no particular order):

- multi-threaded / single-threaded / multi-process

- frequency of memory safety bugs

- broken locale / unicode handling

- broken or non-standard network settings handling

- only synchronous I/O calls (or in contrast only async I/O)

- releasing memory back to OS (or not)

- fragmenting heap over time (or not)

- fast / slow text processing

- fast / slow binary codecs
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If anything, containing a pandemic in a large city is much harder than doing so in the countryside.
We do, but modern smartphones (if you are not talking about regular phones with no ability to run third-party software) are so complex that it would require a Linux-level _centralized_ effort to pull off. And it's really hard to imagine any centralized effort in this field given the current competition.
The NHS is notorious for having little to no connected IT systems. It's not that the data doesn't exist but it's so siloed that even within Health Boards it is hard to access.
It's the same if your Maybe<Foo>=Just<Foo>|Nothing, and in fact in that case I often prefer the nullable version, unless there's a dedicated, terse syntax for Maybe-checking built in to the language, the equivalent of null coalescing (Kotlin's ?: (Elvis operator), Typescript's ??), along with optional chaining calls (?.).

If you made a Maybe with a Nothing<String> that comes with a reason why nothing was returned, or any more complicated structure like that, then it's better[1] to use that instead of approximating it with exceptions, null, callbacks with an optional error argument, etc.

[1] In most cases. There's always exceptions, no pun intended.
It was in a press conference with the German minister of health and the RKI. The British chief medical advisor estimated 20x in Britain. Of course nobody really knows at this point. In Germany, a large-scale study using antibody tests is starting next week to estimate the true numbers.
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We have face mask mandatory now in Czech Republic, Italy scared us and goverment reacted quickly. Its not over yet but we are on the right track.

https://news.expats.cz/health-medical/breaking-face-covering...
Small changes. If possible, pick a bit of logic and extract it into a (unit) testable function. Release it, see if anyone shouts. Repeat.

Even then, it is often hard to justify this work/find the time. It depends on how long you think you'll be working with the codebase really.

Edit: the above assumes you have something like CD/fast release cycle. If not, then it's not really viable unfortunately.
I think you should send this as feedback to Apple, specifically the Apple Watch team. Sometimes even emailing the top people at Apple might be able to help.

You can also post this in the iOSprogramming subreddit.

I think this should be possible using the sensors on the watch similar to how watches have the auto screen on when hand is raised.
330 Mio US citizens

x 70% of them getting infected until herd immunity

x 1% mortality

= 2.31 Mio deaths in the USA

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if the virus spreads uninhibited the mortality will be way higher.
>The actual mortality is almost certainly significantly lower - the Oxford's CBM estimates 0.2% [1], so twice as bad as flu.

The Oxford CEBM estimate is an extreme outlier, and I have not seen a pre-print of any rigorous work that was used to produce those estimates. That, for lack of a better word, blog post you linked to is full of spurious analyses like the following:

>Therefore, to estimate the IFR, we used the estimate from Germany’s current data 22nd March (93 deaths 23129) cases); CFR 0.51%

So they essentially just took the current cases and produced a naive case fatality rate, despite the fact that many cases are still ongoing? By the way the number of deaths is 281 now and Germany's nCFR is climbing quickly, yet they have not revised their estimate higher. Why is that?

I'll also note that they conveniently exclude South Korea from their analysis. Why are they only choosing countries that favorably support their "low IFR" hypothesis?

>The results of screenings have suggested 0.5% are infected; the true figure is likely higher due to asymptomatic and as a result of many not seeking testing: estimates suggest the real number infected is 1%. Iceland is currently reporting two deaths in 737 patients, CFR. 0.27%; if 1% of the population (364,000) is infected then the corresponding IFR would be 0.05%.

They neglect to include in their analysis that the 1% infected ratio for Iceland came from a voluntary screening study, meaning that it was not a random population sample but most likely enriched for infected cases. They then naively back this out to a ridiculous IFR of 0.05%. Honestly, are these people even actual researchers?

>Let's even assume incorrectly that all COVID deaths are on top of the 600k normal deaths. So in 2020 85% more people die of natural causes than normally. Almost exclusively very old and already ill people. It's just not a big deal and it's crazy that people think it is.

This ghoulish statement is all that I really need to know about you.
If you look at the shape of causes of death in Russia, heart disease and pneumonia are unusually high, and life expectancy is low, even compared to China. There is a plausible way for coronavirus to sneak up on Russia until the hospitals fill up with extra pneumonia cases.
Weird.. It even found my hometown, which is a random town of 15k people in Germany.
There are lots of ingenious ways to accidentally hide where a variable is used. Start passing some pointers around and storing them off under different names.

And of course with a race condition in a multithreaded context knowing where a variable is accessed is about 1% of the battle.
Hong Kong is legally part of China, not a separate country, and its coronavirus strategy has been overseen by the same top Chinese officials as in mainland China.
I've read repeatedly (and heard on the radio several times) that wearing a mask if YOU are infected will help protect other people, but if you are not infected then it has no known protective effect ie. is not thought to be any more protective than not wearing one.

Do you have any evidence to back up you talk of masks?

(And if YOU are infected you should not be out anyway)

Edit: I was thinking of non-medical situations. @j7ake below, clearly pointed out they work in medical situations, something I was not contesting at all but did not make clear. The original post talked of "wearing masks in public" which was clearly not in medical situations and I was following through that.
Google Covid by Latitude. Lot of papers. It's doesn't look like its effecting tropics much.

This one had a table with the major cities hit and their avg temp/humidity every month since Nov https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339852916_Temperatu...
i don't understand why they are banning memes and why is it wrong to create memes what harm would it do if anyone laughs. I know people say we have to take this seriously, obviously, everyone is taking it seriously or is it necessary for the citizens of world to remain panicked, doesn't make any sense to me