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Taiwan, Hong Kong.
You can even say that Italy is an outlier too.
Or, maybe you are spending a bunch of time making sure you don't break a rats' nest of dependencies and waiting for things to build.

After the n^th iteration of building an rpc server, such things may be fairly standardised, no?
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Correlation does not imply causation. Of all the science done you could have linked and you link to what is just an opinion site.
Finally, this thing won't stop if people keep on meeting each other and going outside. I guess it is hard to understand this at least fines will stop them.
Jacobin is nothing more than Fox News for the Left with a prettier skin. Really wish it were excluded here as Fox would be for the same reasons. Super politicized opinion pieces.
Here in America, we use recycled glass jars to hold bent nails and rusty screws.
Coordinate a boycott and remove them from the marketplace
And this happens every time you go over budget? So it's a constant monthly emergency credit? Or extended free tier? Is there a dollar cap on that? What happens if you go over that?

Not so simple.
Interesting idea. Maybe there are upper limits on how many of those 200 dancing figures anyone can keep track off before they feel there is too much going on on screen - you will have to do some research - http://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2121950

You can retry where "players" just see a smaller group say 4,8 etc and see if the feedback is better.
Is Russia prepared for a coronavirus outbreak?
Diabetes, high blood pressure, respiratory illnesses, etc, these are illnesses that can be managed with proper treatment and the people dying right now could easily have decades left of productive life in them.

There's also another confounder, which is that the restrictions themselves are helping to keep other diseases in check. Air pollution in large cities for example has significantly gone down. Seasonal flu infections have gone down as well.

Any kind of comparison you're trying to make right now is apples versus oranges.

Also every prediction for Covid-2019 came true and 10,000 deaths in a single month may not seem high for Italy — even if the medics and nurses crying out of exhaustion should make you think that the shit has hit the fan — but that number could easily go to 50,000 or 100,000 per month, not to mention the young that may not die, but may suffer from respiratory illness for months or years afterwards.

And as I said, mortality rate isn't everything that counts, a 10% hospitalization rate cripples the medical system and is a clusterfuck for our economy anyway.
I'm not so sure they'll be seeing the same demand boosts - I don't think they have the same masses of remote desktop and Office 365 sort of use cases. I'm sure services built on AWS are seeing big increases, but I think Microsoft's situation is probably unique.
They’ll be fine.
Anecdotal evidence - I work for a very large enterprise company and have a lot of meetings with customers and partners. The company I work for sells software to a lot of software and non-software companies. Most of these customers are large (5000+ employees) established companies.

Over the last two years: Vast majority of conferences with Skype and WebEx. Maybe one or two of our small partners use Zoom.
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Ironically there's a law against wearing masks in public in Austria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law#Austria
Shouldn't mortgage lenders have done their due diligence to ensure that the people they were lending to weren't reliant on rental income to make their mortgage payments?

This just sounds like people decided to take huge risks on rental properties and now that risk is catching up to them.
No doubt, but is CNN/MSNBC/<insert your favorite mainstream media outlet here> actually any less politicized?
Another project I'm following, which is very young is this:

https://redwoodjs.com/

It is worth looking into their discussions, issues and so on, doing the tutorial and looking at the roadmap if you are interested in this kind of thing. Very opinionated and they embrace a component based approach with React, GraphQL and so on, while providing useful code generation.

Also this CMS project does a lot of things really well too:

https://strapi.io/

Also pretty young but at a stage where you can use it for real things. Also code generation, GraphQL support and very modular.

But if we're pragmatic, there is still nothing that beats shared hosting LAMP stacks currently if you need a CMS and/or custom backend for a web-app in terms of operational overhead and cost. And it is not like the PHP community was sleeping either. For Rails specifically: It introduced a paradigm shift but both the Python and PHP world caught up very quickly. I don't see a big enough benefit of using either of those three except for the lower operational cost of PHP.

So I agree with your prediction, but we are not quite there yet, or at least not for small to medium projects.
Ulysses.

Surprised I haven't seen it mentioned yet, as it normally is in book threads on HN.

The reason that it had, and still has, such a positive influence on my life is the plethora of literary tools which it possesses. It allows for infinite play and imagination, while still being the apparent product of extreme dedication and earned mastery.

In fact, I prefer Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man as a novel, and I'm sure that the Wake is a perfect encyclopedia of language, cryptography, history, et al. But Ulysses takes it as an (humerous, profound, tricky, psychoanalytic, poetic, radical) example of the process of artistic experiment, the practically infinite range of the possible, and the unforgiving merit of deep study and eclectic knowledge.

I go back every so often to bounce my own ideas and troubling sentences off of it, more often than not just to get a little bit of validation.

Next would be Hesiod - Theogany, a 900 line 'epic' poem from the dawn of written literature. He is considered to be the first economist, though at that point of course it is simply philosophy. It explained for me the concept of emergent consciousness in a very biblical way, and let me realise the notion that religious works are just misunderstood metaphors; products of an imperfect language. It's unsurprising I suppose that something so short, that was written almost 3000 years ago, has such incredible lessons and timeless human value.
You're going too far in dismissing the value of individual scientific papers. If you read the methods and analysis yourself you can figure out how good their results are. If you read a lot of papers or read several meta-analyses you can form a opinion about what the consensus is. All of these options are more work than reading one abstract and calling it a day but that doesn't mean scientific papers are worthless.

If scientific papers did not contain any information then scientists would not read them.
The administration and logistics would be significantly more complex. In theory it's possible, but the Federal Reserve just doesn't have the manpower to buy up individual mortgages.
Bingo! This is exactly what I see happening!
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If many more people are infected with mild symptoms than currently thought, that could have large implications for how long economic shutdowns need to last.
Fb,twit,goog need to taken over and nationalized as utilities. This way they can't censor their critics the way they are now.
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Yep. And honestly, leaded solder is far more forgiving and less sensitive to technique. If someone is just barely able to solder with leaded, they're definitely NOT going to have a good experience with lead-free.

I do think hobbyists should switch to lead-free, but it will involve getting rid of marginal equipment, refining technique through practice, and following instructions. The best way to make this switch, IMHO, is simply to make leaded solder unavailable to the consumer market.
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Would you consider open sourcing this? I’d be interested in using this for some of my own projects, having dealt with similar problems to the one you’re describing.

Phoenix Live View is cool and all, but still not stable enough for my liking. Also, depending on the use case, it can be unviable.
Which is the reasonable way to do it. However, uncacheable things might remain.
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Czechia made it mandatory because government made really huge mistakes in first 2 weeks* and they are scared and panicking because health care system is underfunded for long time. There is no reason to wear mask in every public space as everything except centers of big cities is empty during lockdown. It makes sense inside but not in parks and empty streets. It just forces people to waste masks which are not in huge supply globally.

* In February prime minister forbid hospitals to buy face mask and decided that he will buy them centrally and than distribute them to hospitals. In the begining of March when coronavirus appeared in Czech republic he also sent finacial control against face mask importers to ensure that they are not selling anything. He wanted to look as savior of the country but he wasn't able to buy any masks so for 2 weeks there were only 10 000 mask from reserves for the whole country. People started to sew mask at home and partially saved situation. After that prime minister made wearing mask mandatory which in my opinion is mainly PR to make the home made masks look like his own initiative. He also spreads fake news about Germany, Austria and other west European countries saying that they are not responsible and that they just copy Czech measures when it is too late. But in reality his administrative is really struggling without any plan and his main efforts go to PR.
Most states specifically exclude price increases based on increased prices from suppliers or other increased expenses from the vendor and well as increased costs internally (e.g. having to cover increased overtime). Not saying it wouldn't be litigated, but if you can show that it costs more to provide these services when more people want them, it's a pretty clear exception and completely reasonable. But even then the general range of prohibition seems to be 15-25%. 25% is a huge jump, would they even need to increase prices that much to cover everything?
Minor point of order: They're now SDS, not MSDS. Knowing such things is a well-known hazard of being married to an environmental engineer.
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Many cable channels are using DVB-S2 8PSK at 5/6 rate. That would be 110 Mbps in 54 MHz (45 Msyms/s).
She might have been a "lead licker" who was an earlier generation soldering expert who used to literally lick the solder. This was forcibly stopped in approx 1980 here but I noticed people doing it when I was working on a line as late as 1995. They were older folk and yes they had the skin problems.

I myself have done a lot of work with leaded solder and have 20 rolls of it in the cupboard and it's most likely zero risk if you take the relevant precautions which are keep it away from eating surfaces, clean your hands afterwards properly, keep things out of your mouth and use a fume extractor.

I noticed analogue "legend" Jim Williams also used to lick the solder and had serious neurological problems when he got older and wondered if there were any links.
> "If you have terminal cancer but you die due to Corona, then it is listed as Corona that kills you [1]"

If you die because you have Covid-2019 and your lungs get filled with liquid, then it's definitely Covid-2019 that kills you, not the cancer. And how many people have terminal cancer right now?

I find this narrative particularly dangerous, because the chronic diseases that have been associated with Covid-2019 mortality, like cardiovascular disease or diabetes, are very much manageable with proper treatment. Yet the narrative is that these people are dying anyway, even if they might be having decades of productive life in them.

So the narrative is not only inhumane, it's also bullshit.
Please point out a non-ideological news resource. At least Jacobin is honest about their political leaning. Any political lean is going to be inevitable--you just don't notice it in the New York Times or Wapo because center left ideology is like air in the US.

The Fox comparison is disingenuous. Fox isn't bad because they're right wing, they're bad because they're hysterical and dishonest.
We did it sort of organically...started with just a North, South division which reduced loading issues...and then those pages slowly grew and branched into different zones. Most people only needed data from their zone. It depend I guess on what your users are looking for.

The few who needed data from all pages created and shared their own sheets with aggregation/tracking etc from all sheets.
Cities haven't been cool for astronomy for a very long time, so the telescopes go elsewhere to look up. These new satellites are in the sky where the telescopes are trying to look. It seems strange to need to point this out.
>solid state electronics is extremely reliable (and has much wider ranges of operating conditions than human brains).

You'd be surprised actually, as computers start acting super unreliable under radiation, in which humans can function fairly normally
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>In Asia people like already own masks.

A mask is a biohazard and should be one-use or sterilised and removed with gloves. If you do that then yes a mask is a help. If not you are playing Russian roulette with a Corona bomb on your face. It is amazing how much energy users on HN use on talking and discussing mask use and still don't understand why a mask used wrongly is worse than no mask. Walking around town collecting germs and bringing them home with you is the mindset you need to be in if masks should be a good idea and safe.
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Thanks, that's awfully kind of you. The third Little Brother book, Attack Surface, is out on Oct 12. We're recording the audiobook this week (fully remote - I'm in my garage, the director is in her house, and the actor, Amber Benson, is in her basement studio and we're all vtc'ed together -- Amber's amazing, but the process is...weird).

https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/13/21177769/cory-doctorow-att...

There's also a new edition of LB/Homeland coming on July 7 with an introduction by Ed Snowden.
Some of my professors would include tesla in that list haha. To each their own!
One thing everyone seems to be missing in this thread is that these tweets aren't in isolation. Last week he came on national TV to beg people to go back to work, saying the virus is just "a little flu" and, while he's a senior citizen, he would be fine because of his "athletic history" (which is interesting, since he can't do a single push up).

If you feel like the economy argument makes sense, fine, but let's not give this complete moron more credit than he's due.
Finding myself in similar positions, I have made a few observations:

- most requests aren't urgent, people are impatient

- identify common requests and solve them at the root (tooling, documentation, training, delegation, etc)

- split my day in to blocks [0]

- block an hour per day for code reviews

- a list containing little bits and pieces like updating some documentation, helping here, asking something there and do them in-between or when I feel unmotivated, etc

- unapologetically close slack/teams/email/etc when working on something that requires your attention

[0] https://doist.com/blog/time-blocking/
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It already did nominally for a brief moment there
This nice, and I like the fact that you covered everything in your terms of service including customer's data confidentiality.
THanks for these. I am interested in modeling this effort, and it is difficult to find papers that outright call R00, population logistic saturation parameters, case resolution timescale, detection probabilities (ie if you have x tests per million ppl, what is the actual number of cases), etc.

R00 that I typically use is about 2.1-2.6, however relating this to the 30-60% case increase per day is a difficult task.

If you know more information about where I could find these I would appreciate it.
Like motorcycle helmets wrong use is worse than no use.
Very exciting! Does anyone know a good howto or a tutorial about it?
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> "Just shut down everything, but don't delete existing data written to disks."

I literally just explained why this doesn't work with AWS services. You will have data loss.

And it creates a whole new class of mistakes. If people mistakenly overspend then they'll mistakenly delete their resources too. All these complaints that AWS should cover their billing will then be multiplied by complaints that AWS should recover their infrastructure. No cloud vendor wants that liability.
You should contact you local Small Business Administration office. They will be better able to direct you to both disaster assistance and Covid 19 support funds, which are low-interest loans with suspended repayments for the first year. To be eligible for funds in Indiana the business needed to be incorporated by January 31, 2020, but I don't know about other states. Your SBA will be best able to direct you. Our newly founded farm is eligible and we are making the call today.
No, I think the issue is that your lungs can’t generate enough negative pressure to respirate effectively through 20m of pipe.
The moral of the story is: Use a password manager.
Number of daily deaths for the last 3 days, as I mentioned before, was 31. The 3 days before that, 18. The 3 days before that 15. That is clearly increasing.

I know it's not from the statistics. Note I don't need to know the exact percentage of asymptomatic cases for this, or to know the correct course of action. Which was my point to start with. Perhaps you lost track of it?
This reminds me of an oldie, but goodie: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/No%2C_We_Need_a_Neural_Netwo...
probably a bad idea to quit today. focus on making your interview skills top notch and on making your finances rock solid.

then you will be in demand and safe from most all crises.

for now, when something annoying happens at your job, just smile and nod, and then forget it :)

good luck!!
That's interesting. Steinbeck researched his books extremely thoroughly, so you'd expect for something so central it'd be correct. Would be good to follow this up with experts now that we have the luxury of the internet.
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The only difference is a matter of alphabets. Is English more readable than Japanese because the words aren't as condensed?
Basically optimizations and "modelling" are the reason resource allocations are total failure in the case of rare emergencies, like ongoing.
You assume the worst "one in a 1000 years" case, multiply by 2..10, depending on your cash flow, and keep allocations up to date. Period.

And the simple truth again: you can't immediately allocate during a crisis.
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Yeah, but it isn't akin though, is it? Well, it is if you only consider the aesthetics of the sky, which is not the problem here. It's the science of astronomy being made more difficult and/or expensive. You might not think that is important, but some people do. For what it's worth, I thought the satellites looked amazing and my kids were thrilled, but I'd looked up for an ISS pass, which was until recently a rare sort of event. And so it goes.
There are two ways to make system. One is so simple that there are obviously no issues and the other is so complicated that there are no obvious issues. The former being much harder.
Thing is, we don't have rapid tests to test presence of virus. Only to test antibodies. And even those take sometime and would create a bottleneck.

Face masks for everybody is best so far. In case you're infected and didn't notice that yet (or asymptomatic at all), you don't spread it.

Problem with "test everyone" is that by the time you test the last person, you can't be sure that the first person didn't caught it. And then you have a good chunk of false-negatives.
What exactly is the historical basis that it's unintended? The origins of capitalism are hardly a display of democratic prowess.
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> That said, it makes sense that if you pull the emergency lever and request a state bailout, you should pay future dividends back to the state for at least a decent amount of time since they basically gave you a loan that no-one else would.

This sounds like it should be a similar mechanism as startups' liquidation preference schemes. Investors that provided capital when others wouldn't are in a position to request that they get paid back in priority. For startups, it's (usually) if it fails. For mature companies, it could be a tweaked form like dividend priority or payback priority. Basically a mechanism to balance out the risk.
If the government keeps bailing out large corporations, can this eventually form a pattern in which major corporations and industries may collectively and artificially engineer a crash or downturn event to game the system?

Once any pattern is formed and determined, there are always some people who will attempt to exploit it, and those people are often the ones who would eventually ruin all the good things for everybody else.
Given the occasion, could someone write a paragraph about what downstream effects are expected by wireguard existing? So far I’ve seen mostly technical arguments for it. VPNs have become a more important piece of infrastructure now. The most significant approachability increase really came from mobile based solutions and auto pilot systems like Google’s Outline.

Will WG make a marked difference in stability, speed, approachability for normal users, or what can we expect?
Hi, I'm the creator of this project. Seems like someone shared it here. This is a school project and a current work-in-progress, and I'm open to any feedback available. The usefulness of a simulator is heavily dependent on how well it approximates to reality, which I have yet to do. It is currently a baseline experiment without any reference to current research on COVID-19, but stay tuned as I'm working on it! And thanks for sharing :)
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I beg to disagree, Jef: the actual manager of the actual warehouse is having actual information to convey, and I think it's right. This does not match my experience of Fox News, where the talking heads are the ones giving information/data/whatever you want to call what they say.
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Make Twitter (and Youtube while at it) a public utility.

Can telephone company cut you off for spreading disinformation? Can a toll road refuse you if you're driving to "spread dangerous disinformation" at a rally?
I used the Stavros one: https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-to-configure-wireguard/

Great to see 1.0.0 released. I’ve been using it for a VPN to my home network and have been really impressed with how fast it is (and how fast it connects!). The corporate VPNs I’ve used in the past we’re so much slower that it feels like a completely different league, although they support many more features of course.
The article is an interview with a worker at a warehouse. I found it quite informative.

Also, Jacobin is quite upfront about its politics and is not making any pretentions toward "news".
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> also less complex.

And less interactive.