skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of pivoting to support the needs of Americans, we're shoveling money into massive corporations. Obviously it's not the American labourer who needs help. No, it's the shareholders and execs who run big companies. I love this country!
They purposely lied to us under the belief that the lie stopped people from hoarding masks and thereby left them available for medical personnel.
As long as we're discussing fictional works about WWI, two great movies are La Grande Illusion and Paths of Glory.
I don't mean to suggest that this won't be worse than the flu when all is done, but you're comparing global COVID-19 deaths to US-only flu deaths (US COVID deaths are about 3,000 right now, not 37,000).
I do think they should exist (and be publicized).
A group of men have to react instantly in order to survive. This is the point of your training. You learn to follow orders, instantly. There is no time to discuss the issue. It is a case of kill or be killed.
Hindsight is 20/20. Our “leaders” were encouraging people to go to crowded Chinese New Year celebrations just one month ago!

Do you think they were ready to stop airplanes and require people to wear mask back then?
I've often thought about Einstein's thought experiments for this very reason.

Why not think about rays of light as if you were traveling next to them in a train? It seems so simple, but no one else had asked that question before.
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Ugh, this is just going to feed the pessimists.

Look, I get it. All extremes are bad.

Myself - I trend more negative than positive. But I have a couple of friends that are positive bundles of joy and optimism. I find them invigorating and inspiring to be around and they push me to have a more pleasant outlook.

They are not posiopaths.

But my partner (who has long-term struggles with clinical depression) is positively nauseated by them. If she read this article, she'd probably start naming these people as posiopaths, even though they don't reflect the antipatterns described.

A part of me wants to send this article to her to show what TRUE positive-only attitudes look like, but I suspect she'll just map it directly to those whose positivity makes her feel worse about her own negativity, and consider the matter closed.
BTW, the St. Louis Fed has one of the biggest blessings for your "I can't afford neither Bloomberg nor Refinitiv" amateur economist. The amount of time series and the basic ability to do pointwise arithmetic operations is great!

All series sorted by popularity:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/tags/series

I wish other central banks (in other countries) stepped up to this amazing level.
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The “hide hypocrisy and privilege” paragraph is a very deft and succinct summation of why people really hate a certain element of Silicon Valley culture.
Why Taiwan has become a problem for WHO
Far from it in fact.
Stop promoting this. [1] Masks protect other people from you spreading the disease if _you_ are sick. [2] Doctors and nurses need that mask.

Even now the risk of contracting the virus, if you are following isolation protocols, is extremely low.

People who interact with individuals who are sick and need treatment are putting themselves and their families at risk because of you.
> Imagine being a hair dresser with a stack of bills from the shutdown

Presumably all of those bill are owed to other businesses, who are run by people. People with empathy. People who realize that keep a good customer is better than losing them, even if it means cutting them a break.

I think people will surprise others with how this pain will spread through the entire supply chain so it does't kill any one business. I think all the businesses in the supply chain know that killing everyone at the end of the chain isn't a good idea.
A tangent of this can be found in more serious efforts at suicide prevention. You are strongly exhorted in these situations to avoid saying things like "it gets better"-- because you don't know that it will, and saying this can make things worse for the suffering. [I've argued with moderators about how much this rule need be enforced in more casual forums open to the public, but the answer is definitely more than zero.]

People who are ready to end their lives sometimes just want to voice their grievances and not much else, at least initially. There are many parallels between this and other kinds of critical situations faced by individuals or institutions.
> Solo plan

> Log in with your Gmail account

HHNNNNNNGNNGNGNGNGNGNNGNNN ....

> look around a bit more

> no mention of license

is this proprietary software? lol no thanks, keep it.
Very good idea for those things you need to go out for (like groceries) though. And as the OP says, if it came from the top that everyone should be doing this, using homemade masks if necessary, the social norm could be turned around overnight, just like it was with social distancing.
Once 30% of your population is completely broke, demand will be down, no matter how many yuppies want a night out.

What you’re saying makes sense only if these lockdowns are very short.
Using snooping software for recording of all command lines, including arguments, is common practice at many companies.

Also when network connections are recorded it does not stop at a list of ips, surveillance software commonly also provide easy-to-consume search facilities and cross reference capabilities, dashboards including comprehensive history and supplied annotation, i.e can tell when and how often you visited facebook.com, what you looked at, how much time you have spent at non-essential sites, and of course it also does this when you're at home using your employer's laptop for WFH or anything else.

The same is true when using a company phone when travelling, it can not only tell your employer where you're staying currently, but also where you usually stay at your holidays.

One such software is ms atp, if you have "Advanced Threat Protection" installed, it does occur. I would be surprised if it holds up in any EU court, because when I worked with development of similar software, long before gdpr, it did not.
Like Pike Place Market in Seattle?
He’s likely talking about how autocomplete=“off” is now ignored, and Chrome will “helpfully” display its own autocomplete on any textbox that look like address fields, which results in Chrome’s autocomplete being shown on top of the site’s own autocomplete. Progress.
> who still have jobs

Nice caveat!

It will come down to the collective confidence.

Confidence to lend people money, to employ people, to spend money instead of overpaying on the mortgage to reduce the chance of default.

If there is a recession it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Also, wear a set of goggles at all times. Please prevent the particles from being contracted in your eyes.

http://www.virology.ws/2018/03/01/influenza-virus-in-the-eye...
Yes, face masks are common sense measure to prevent respiratory illness from spreading. Yet, U.S. CDC kept saying don't wear masks even till this date, kept giving Americans the lies of "false security" of wearing mask. I get the intention of preventing a run on precious N95/surgical masks that hurt healthcare workers - but come on, we should have use Defense Production Act to compel factories to make masks and increase productions as wells as impose strict purchase limits and regulate the market on the masks instead of telling people masks are unnecessary. This is to me the 2nd biggest failure of CDC leadership after screwing up with the COVID-19 testing kits.

By the way, we learned that a century ago during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic - wearing masks help, even with non-N95 masks. Influenza could also caused by corona viruses, also transmitted via droplets primarily, just like the SARS-CoV-2
Yes, see my comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22727995

It's bewildering the US and European guidance on this.

Edit: read this carefully: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843947/
It will apply to SARS-CoV-2
The reason why this plan doesn’t work is because 20% of people who get this disease (regardless of age bracket I believe) require hospitalization and a good number of them require an ICU bed. There simply aren’t enough beds or health care workers to address the demand shock that would happen without social distancing, which means people dying at home waiting for a bed.
My brother who does not make much (works at a gym) eats out each day. Many, many Americans do.
I've failed several CoderPad interviews in a row, it's to the point where if a job listing specifically mentions CoderPad, I won't apply :\
One of the most powerful modifications I made in university was that every screenshot automatically got uploaded to a service and my clipboard was populated with a link. I used it constantly.

I also used the hotkey Combo to zoom my entire screen in. Any time I did any reading I'd really quickly and fluidly zoom to fill the column into the screen.
> Do you know better than the WHO?

Apparently.

The one thing I learned from this pandemic is to distrust scientists at the WHO and the CDC and to read the primary literature directly. These folks are far too involved in politics.
Honestly, disallowing Halloween masks in businesses isn't a generally bad stance - there aren't legitimately good reasons to allow them.
When even the investment grade (look up LQD; was recently bailed out by the Fed) gets beaten up like that you know that your money isn't safe anywhere. Not in any money market fund, not in your bank, not in any CD, not as "cash" in your brokerage account. I bet that most financial institutions are technically insolvent right now (or at least were, a week or two ago).

Also, there's only so much the Fed can do, it really is just a bank that deals exclusively with other large players by sending pieces of paper around (or these days - data packets). That's it. The rest is up to the Congress, the Fed has already printed the money for them, and will surely print more if needed.

Ultimately it's a medical emergency, not a financial one. It's up to the doctors and people in charge to help fix this mess. The "money people" are merely dancing to the spectacle.
I'll dig it up
T-shirt fabric was found to be 75% effective at stopping droplets from spreading in a study[1]. That’s pretty remarkable considering and 95 masks are 95%! I guess that makes them N75 masks?

1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_t...
> What WHO does is intergovernmental public health coordination

I'm afraid that's a normative and oversimplistic statement.

Have you seen, at least, the WHO Twitter/FB feeds? It's acting as a teacher for the global public. So "intergovernmental public health coordination" is definitely not its only job, which it doesn't seem to be doing well. There's no disagreement that it's inherently political but in any case, that wasn't a function I proposed to replace in the first place.

> The decentralized version is just local public health authorities acting without the WHO.

That actually goes with the original proposition and that's the way to go. But the early warning system for these authorities is broken - they got their intel too late.
Makeup of housing in the UK somewhat different to your vision alas.

Don't get me wrong, I've done things and had some success.

Was entire ground floor of the 6 flats all junkies, one I managed to re-educate, another I socially engineered away.

2 corrupt coppers removed.

4 Gangs removed

Numerous habitual junkies - removed from area.

2 gangs removed from area via blackmail.

Probably missing few.

But I've not been idle and had some positive results, albeit using craft tricks, so bit grey legally but morally just.

However the real issue does seem to be a police informer, did have some limited success last year, managed to socially engineer two gangs and with that, they ended up taking each other out and also saw the downstairs issue beaten up. That managed to give me a break but they always get back to the same old same and with that, the only way is to out them and the police handler for the shite they have caused.

But for closure - I need them and the police handler publicly outed in a way that they can't cover and with that, need publicity to deal with them and in a way that sends a message to the police so they don't do it again.

So yeah, messy, but need to end-game this for my own health and see it thru for closure and for my health overall.

Hence, best solution would be a reporter I can trust and is respectable to traction this. That simple.
This cartoon I found on the Colombia subreddit describes this inequality: https://i.redd.it/vpdqwhnawmo41.jpg
There's not enough pressure on politicians in both parties to ensure a solid and fast as possible recovery.

It could end up that members of mostly one party in the Senate end up blocking most of these bare minimum measures.

Look at what some European countries are doing as the minimum: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/business/nordic-way-econo...

Here are some (for the most part) good ideas that should be considered: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/opinion/coronavirus-econo...
Ask the the front line ICU doctors and nurses, they know better.
Masks largely protect other people if you are sick, yes. Even if you don't know you are sick. They do also provide some protection for you against others. And finally, it doesn't need to be an N95 mask, or even a surgical mask. A scarf or piece of t-shirt still blocks a lot of droplets. All the actual studies I've seen suggest that masks are indeed effective. I suspect that the reason it's been suggested they aren't is due to fear of the shortages you mention. So yes, people shouldn't be hoarding masks. While there's a shortage, non-medical professionals should use homemade masks when they have to go out for essentials.
Bills are owed to: employees, banks (loans), and landlords. Employees need to eat, banks have no empathy, and most landlords don't either.
It's hard to find data, but in mid 2018 a survey found that 33% of Americans dined out every day at least once. In 2019 a few surveys found that people who eat out at least once a week tend to do it at least 3 times a week, and 10% ate out 5-6 times a week.

So before all this, quite a lot of people dined out a lot.
Still, having any features that are propritary and thus off-limits to contributors does not create a good community atmosphere.

Say as an example that Debian, which has a big user of GitLab wanted this feature, so the Debian project contributors create all the patches & submit them for inclusion in the open source part of GitLab. Normally, a project would welcome any (presumably) well written patches like this. But with open core project this creates an instant conflict of interest.

Either GitLab takes such patches, loosing their proprietary edition exclusive feature & possibly even compatibility with their closed source implementation of it. Or they reject the patches, presumably loosing a lot of goodwill with the community and forcing Debian to maintain those patches for ever in their own fork of GitLab.

All in all, I don't see open core companies like something to invest ones contributor time to due to this & more importantly like something to use and make you open source project to depend on.
Yes, it's absolutely essential in these uncertain times that we do not allow ourselves to be led astray by our own best judgement or common sense, but instead rely upon the expert guidance of organizations such as the WHO.

https://mobile.twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
To be fair if you were working remotely, and on a permanent (well, at least 1 year or more) basis, it would probably be easier to afford a place where you can convert a bedroom to an office and to set up your office so that it's easy to focus.

This time of indefinite, could be one month, could be three WFH is kind of a bad demonstration of WFH to a lot of people because it's not worth it to spend too much investing in a good setup.
Are a lot of your friends the same people that think the shelter-in-place will end soon? Given the situation, even when the shelter-in-place ends (let's say May 1st). No way in hell am I going to go back eating in a crowded restaurant or going to crowded places. No, the recovery of this will take months and by that time, fall is ending and winter is here and the next round of flu/Coronavirus season is starting. I know this is a more pessimistic case but it just doesn't make sense to even think the economy will recover in a couple of months. There is going to be over 100,000+ deaths. You don't just recover within a quarter or two.
The Brits had that plan for a while but gave up after a few days. I think they realized that the numbers don’t work.
Why do you think the WHO disagree with you on the facts? It doesn’t seem likely to me that they’re just less informed than you are.
True, but I think there's more metrics to a recession than peak unemployment. It took years for unemployment to dip below 8% after 2008, but only time will tell what the recovery looks like here.
Before reading TFA, I was expecting more anti-RTFM advice. So I was surprised by the focus on asking childlike questions.

I tend to ask childlike questions, but I follow up with explanation of what I've tried, and RTFM evidence.
I think the change in habit will have catastrophic impacts in the short term. Landlords seem totally willing to let prime restaurant real estate sit open. In my neighborhood several storefronts have sat vacant for years waiting for a tenant that can survive more than a few months. Rents continually increase. This drives up food prices and landlords have become accustomed to those rates. Post-virus the new demand will not support those prices.

I am enjoying spending less money to eat but restaurants will not be able to reduce price to meet the lesser demand because their rents will not go down any time soon. The current restaurants will have to fail and that property will have to sit for potentially years before rent is reduced.

We need a penalty (additional property tax?) on vacant real estate to drive prices back down with shifting demand.
>give you partial rent for a while until they can pay you back

And this is the happy choice! Existing businesses will be saddled with the debt of operating through the crisis. New businesses without that debt will have an advantage.

When bankruptcy is logistically more advantageous than debt service, bankruptcy naturally follows.

The world will look different after the crisis.
this was reported on by Gurman and Guber. But both had it slightly wrong, codename was right tho
And of course, if you discourage mask buying you're discourage mask manufacturing. The Noble Lie from the High Modernist civil servant versus the free market and a world that's far too complicated for him to understand.
That's been my experience.

I often make ciabatta with 95% hydration, of which 1/3rd comes from a water roux. Without tangzhong the dough is much sticker and harder to handle, which makes it harder to both form the loaves nicely, and to keep the large bubbles in the bread. The final product is very similar, though, but the process is easier.

The approach I take is similar to this one http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/2984/jasons-quick-coccodril... with 30g of flour and 150g of water pre-cooked together before the dough (batter?) is kneaded.

It also helps a lot in sticky doughs. If you like spiced fruit buns around Easter time, check out King Arthur's milk bread recipe (https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/japanese-milk-bread-...) and spice and fruit to taste. Best hot cross buns I've eaten.
It is a moral thing for people like that. They want to see 8+ hours of work a day. There is not much thought given to what was accomplished in those 8 hours as opposed to what could have been accomplished in a culture that prioritized results over the appearance of busyness.
I doubt it. June, 2021, maybe? No way things are back to normal by this June. This is just beginning.
Too bad we dumped trillions on 20 years of perpetual war.
Of course demand will be down. But we really have no prior data to even guess how quickly it will pick up again.
HN has featured multiple studies on the effects of wearing a cloth isolation masks. They all found it reduced the chances of catching it by over 50%. That's well worth it in my opinion.
If we had prepared this response is fine.

However we didnt, so stop promoting ordinary people wearing masks.

[1] Masks protect other people from you spreading the disease if _you_ are sick. This is true, unless you spend your day around covid-19 infected individuals all day long for your job.
[2] Doctors and nurses need that mask. They are the ones who spend their day, risking their lives and their families health to treat these people.

Even now the risk of contracting the virus, if you are following isolation protocols, is extremely low.
What N64 had multicore?
Let's see how well this translates into refunds to customers. My girlfriend and her friends have a $1400 stay that thus far the host isn't interested in discussing any form of refund or cancellation (in a state with a state-wide stay-at-home order).
A sect that emphasizes damnation along with salvation is less posiopathic. But the cudgel of damnation exacerbates other pathologies. Fewer lotus eaters but more obedient crusaders.
"There's no reason to walk around wearing a mask." - Dr. Fauci

1m27s video -- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/preventing-coronavirus-facemask...
Went to the UW* ER, not for corona, wearing a mask. Doctor came in, gave us funny look, "Why are you wearing those?" Doctors and nurses weren't wearing masks within the ER area. They said that if you have corona, or symptoms, they give you a mask, so when he came in the room and saw us in masks, was worried there had been a mix-up.

* University of Washington, in Seattle.
> if you discourage mask buying you're discourage mask manufacturing

how is this true?
I'm not saying that you're wrong, but e.g. im my case the priorities are different (screen quality, keyboard, battery, touchpad/clickpad/trackpoint, weight, etc... and CPU&GPU performance would be last but potentially weighted against watt consumption) => can become complicated => I don't think that a "universal" method of getting the "ultimate" sorted list is feasible => I'd definitely love a site that would allow to set my own priorities and get as result the "perfect" laptop/notebook that matches at most the expectations/priorities :)

Some retailers have such sites, but maybe not reviewer-sites? (I do use that https://www.notebookcheck.net whenever I want to buy something, but their selection criteria is limited)

In my case price has never been a direct primary selection criteria - I always bought the gadget that met all my minimum requirements but which didn't exceed the budget that I had available.
> I thought the expert advice from the WHO is to not wear a mask?

IIRC the CDC recommended against early on, I don't know about WHO or where CDC stands on it now. But interviews like:

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

from other experts give reasons why it is effective:

Q: What mistakes are other countries making?

A: The big mistake in the U.S. and Europe, in my opinion, is that people aren’t wearing masks. This virus is transmitted by droplets and close contact. Droplets play a very important role—you’ve got to wear a mask, because when you speak, there are always droplets coming out of your mouth. Many people have asymptomatic or presymptomatic infections. If they are wearing face masks, it can prevent droplets that carry the virus from escaping and infecting others."

// end of interview comment.

Could it be that CDC knew knew masks worked, but didn't want people to stockpile them? Or could it be that most people won't wear them effectively? No idea which, or both.

I believe the right thing to do is to ramp up mask production and try to get a very small number per capita (after healthcare workers have sufficient) to the sick and general population, especially around areas like NYC. Then educate people on how to wear them.