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No, I'm trying to point out everything you're ignoring, which fundamentally affects the meaning of the message coming across. Like right now when you just ignored the rest of my comment. I'm not gonna put more effort into this though, since it's clear you're not going to see what you don't intend to see.
> We are doing this because there are O(10^6) preventable deaths

That doesn't appear to be true. Almost everybody who goes on a ventilator dies. Corona virus will infect as many people as any other flu or cold.

So it's a valid question - why do we still have a lockdown?
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> But it literally is a strain of flu.

No, it literally is not. The flu is caused by influenza. Covid19 is caused by sars-cov-2, a relative of SARS-CoV which caused SARS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr... ). It is also a (more distant) relative of HCoV-OC43 which is one of the many viruses that cause the cold.

The problems that influenza and sars-cov-2 cause for us are pretty different: Influenza mutates fairly quickly so we're not able to stop it completely with our otherwise highly effective vaccines, while even though they mutate comparatively much slower we don't have any effective drug treatments for coronaviruses: Some are not dangerous enough to have been economically interesting to develop treatments for while others were stopped by non-drug interventions (like the sick people dying too quickly and the detection of fever before the virus was highly communicable).
I fully agree. For me, it's not the performance of the switch that is the problem. It's the build quality and the software quality.

For example, my joy cons have problem with losing their connection or having input lag when reception is lacking. I've seen this on other switches too, so it's not only mine. Compare this to my Xbox 360 controllers, I can walk to a different room and still play without this issue. This is just bad/cheap design.

Games are forced to use vsync, even when it ruins the game. Rocket League has much more input lag, compared to other hardware due to this. Actually lots of Switch games have more input lag than for other systems. Nintendo could care about what quality other developers are allowed to publish, but they don't.

The build quality of the switch itself is also so-so. The screen has low contrast, the wifi doesn't have great reception. Let's not even get started on the usb design.

All this would be okay, if the hardware and software was really cheap, but it isn't.
> This is what people who say it's just flu++ are missing, and I am trying to be sympathetic to their lack of knowledge

This is very condescending. There are still a lot of unknowns, and there are smart people (for instance [1]) out there who think the cure may be worth than the disease. We urgently need more data.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUvWaxuurzQ
Lyrics are notoriously hard to find on Google. I assume it's in part due to copyright issues, but it's also not how Google works. Searches are based on key words, not exact matches of several words in order.
Not enough to remember. The shit we have seen must end careers and throw to jail.

We could be more tolerant if said "predictions" were in late December or early January. Persisting mid March? That's a threat to national security, endangering the health and economy of a nation. This should be up there considering the scale of the misinformation encouraging people to be a danger.

Terrorism is the use of violence to instore a climate of fear, sap morale, and win especially when inferior in number and means.

This is symmetrical: the use of words to instore a climate of confidence, boost morale and conduct to imprudence by using vastly superior media means to shape the behavior of people.

Someone should count all the damage this has done in terms of lives, of livelihoods, of GDP, of wasted resources, and make them pay. People get to pull this shit because there are no consequences for a catch phrase on Fox news, and all the braggadocio and tough guy talk must be accounted for.

One of the cases where being or feigning to be an idiot shouldn't save someone.
+1; for me, this comment sums up my feelings on the entire (worthwhile) thread.
Italy’s death rates are up 20% when comparing this year’s average to a typical year’s whole average. This way of comparing averages may skew the information. In America, we have more average daily deaths in the beginning of the year than in the middle and end until December. The average of January through March will always be higher than the yearly average.
Similar ideas come out of the NuPRL project ( http://nuprl.org/Intro/intro.html )

> Starting with the slogan "proofs-as-programs," we now talk about "theories-as-systems."

But if you rewind history, you could also see the parallels to Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory building"

Or more recently: Luciano Floridi's "The Logic of Information: A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design"

Different descriptions of the same thing. You could probably relate most of these ideas all the way back to the Greek classics. Democritus. Aristotle. Socrates. Plato.

Our tools are finally catching up...
It should be noted that Reach does not own the Daily Mail, despite what the article states. The Daily Mail and General Trust still owns that title.
> people will continue to ignore an exponential trend

Every cold and flu grow exponentially.

Not sure what the fixation of HN readers is on the work exponential. Although true, using it doesn't add anything to analysis of corona virus specifically.

I'd rather talk about the false hope in ventilators, and the futility and destruction to our economy by lockdown.
Curious: what are you basing this on? Do you have some statistical data that shows hospitalization rates of young people _because of_ (instead of just _with_) corona virus?

I myself haven't yet seen any data that would make this virus any worse than the flu (which means it's still dangerous, just maybe not "everybody-hide-under-the-rock" dangerous). Even data from Italy doesn't show mortality any higher than previous years.

Do you have links to data that supports what you wrote?

I agree it is a communication disaster though. If I see another chart with red line, logarithmic scale, not starting from zero or with some approximated (red) curve that doesn't specify the formula... :-/
In Japan, 8.46M homes lie empty
You can keep saying it, until you provide an argument. ALL CAPS is not an argument, you're just stating your opinion louder.
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Maybe game literacy is a thing. After all, can't enjoy a book if you don't know how to read. But if you don't know how to read, that's hardly the fault of the book.
True, it's great for prototypes, but remember that their incentive is for you to remain on the platform as your project gets bigger.

Therefore you're likely to have extreme difficulty in moving off the platform as your system grows. Which means either a complete rebuild off the platform, or the easier option... Stay on the platform.

So the ultimate options are; either choose open-source flexible solutions, or remain shackled to the proprietary platforms...
Ask HN: Covid-19 Map by Temperature?
Has anyone created a Covid-19 map by average current temperature in the country?

The Johns Hopkins map seems to show this hitting the northern hemisphere (exiting winter currently) worse than the southern hemisphere (exiting summer). I am curious if the temperature plays a role here.

I know the virus has a lipid layer protecting it, and that is sensitive to heat. I am wondering if warmer temperatures are going to help out here in the northern hemisphere, and if so, my thoughts is this is going to be become seasonal like the flu.
Same with lack of hints. We're not talking about simple queries which can be expected to just work. These were previously found to be badly optimised by the first engine, so we're in unknown territory either way.
Why this C code doesn't do what the book says it should?
There are 3.5M unoccupied residences in Japan – not up for sale or rent
Some of the first party titles are polished, some isn't. Most third party isn't. It's a sad state of semi-decent hardware with low quality software overall.

If you're only going to play a selected few Nintendo Games, such as Zelda, Mario and Mariokart, sure. But to be honest here, Zelda and Mario isn't very nice to play portable. Doing boss fights portable is certainly possible, but also so much harder.

I really wanted to like my switch, I really wanted to like the portable experience, but in the end I realized that portable works best for slow indie games and docked works best for a few first party games.

I probably would have enjoyed a cheap Xbox One and a used Playstation Vita more.
This is not going to end well. Is the plan to get bought out by Kodak or Atari?
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The FDA recently said they would not block import of KN95s, and also issued an EUA on April 3rd that allows approved KN95s to be used in medical applications.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/the-fda-no...

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/personal-protective-equi...
To be fair, people-- even experts (checkout the first 538 survey of experts) and authorities-- have happily pretended covid19's behavior was linear even when the linear fit was many sigma away from the measurements...

I agree that it's worthwhile intuition in many cases, but really not here and even people equipt with both the data and the mathematical expertise to use it there have also made many bad calls on this.
When WHO relayed the Chinese belief/hope of "no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission" (Jan 14) there were only 40 identified cases, mostly with plausible links to the presumed origin at the market. It should be read as "widespread action not yet justified" rather than "no need to worry at all, ever"
What production software are you trying? I bought a seinberg audio interface that came with cubase ai, so I've been playing with that. Cubase has come a long way - I remember when it was new software.

Even before Cubase I remember playing with trackers like fast tracker 2, so I also bought a copy of Renoise. If you are a programmer you might like making music with a tracker over a traditional DAW.
Interesting. Why do you think that content creators wouldn't see `protein content brussels sprouts` in "keyword analysis tools"? Why do you think they wouldn't create millions of blog posts containing words `protein content brussels sprouts` or countless variations thereof?
The artwork and everything has been found to improve patient outcomes. Gardens and paintings aren't that expensive compared to other costs at a hospital.
I'm learning how to make tacos starting with the tortilla. I'm originally from San Diego and have always missed Mexican food whenever I moved abroad. On a recent trip back to San Diego, I went to over a dozen Mexican shops to find particular flours to create tortillas from. I also went to Mexico twice just to find a specific brand of soft wheat flour. In total I think I experimented with atleast 5-6 different flours thus far. Since then I've made over 150 tortillas, learning things like the importance of the ratio of fat/water/flour, the proper heat, feel, and cook time. Rolling it with flour and without, hand patting vs mechanical tortilla presses. Simple mistakes are like the difference between making a cracker and a tortilla. There's also things like the elasticity of the dough the longer it sits so things like heated tortilla presses become important to help it keep its shape, since the heat slightly cooks the tortilla as it's being pressed into shape. Compared to pure mechanical ones where the tortilla will retract back due to no heat forcing it to sit in place. I'm still hoping to invest in a heated press once I return to the States since I can't find them in Amsterdam.

Overall I'm enjoying the craft of it all and will be soon moving towards learning the details that go into making sauces and carne asada.
The number of things wrong with this makes me despair.

1. Africa is a continent, not a country.
2. Some countries in Africa DO have 5G deployments, including my home country of South Africa. In the news recently is a possible link between BCG vaccinations and reduced fatality rates from Covid-19. South Africa has fairly high BCG vaccination rates due to the prevalence of TB
3. Iran has a severe problem with Covid-19, but no 5G deployments.

But as you say, this comes from the same type of crowd that believes in all the other bullshit (flat earth, vaccinations give you autism, etc.) so you can hardly expect an informed response to this.
What strikes me is so many people's sense of entitlement to high availability of public download servers for open source software. This is not something to take for granted. We learn over and over, because this kind of outage happens every day for big and small projects.

For me this blew up when an official GitHub Action stopped working: https://github.com/actions/setup-node
To slow down the spread and ultimately reduce the number of people that will get to go in ICUs, go on a ventilator and/or die.

Because those _are_ preventable, if they don't get infected.

That, in turn, buys time to medical research & practice to mitigate and cure the disease, so that, later, when someone vulnerable is infected, we'll know better how to take care of them.
> Just goes to show that people will continue to ignore an exponential trend until it eats their lunch personally.

Non-math/cs people typically haven't been directly exposed to exponential growth. Which, to be fair, can be an intuitively hard concept until someone sits down and thinks it through. The classic lily pad example is my usual go-to way of explaining exponential growth to someone.

I also think a large part of this problem is societies overall rejection of science, but that's a different discussion.
I committed the cardinal sin of starting the Unity "Create with Code" course last week and not progressing beyond the first module. Hopefully you are better at sticking to things than I am.
I think this particular query has a problem with the with the unfortunate name "why" which is probably causing the confusion. I don't think search engines did a better job before, nor this has anything to do with Seo. Change the "Why" with another obscure band with a distinct name, you would get results, could Gogle do better, sure, is it worse than before, I reaaly don't think so.
I guess technically it's not different, but if used in a visually consistent way and followed widely, it could help critical thinking and add awareness to the fact that there are interested parties and spinsters behind most published material, rather than invite a habit of passive consumption/believing text just because it appears on shiny digital or printed media.
Absolutely. I’m painfully aware that I didn’t offer any solution either, because it is a balance that everyone must find for themselves. The main thing I was trying to get across is that sacrificing now for a reward in the possibly distant (relatively speaking) future is too risky for me since I don’t know what the future holds (and given how many people I know who have died young makes me reluctant to take for granted that I would reach retirement age (even early))
Comparing Denmark vs Sweden, it looks like we're beginning to see the difference in outcome on the death toll and hospitalization rates. Denmarks death toll is stabilizing (or at the very least only growing linearly) and the amount of people in hospitals with covid-19 has been stable for a week [0] (and no not because the hospitals are packed)

While Sweden is seemingly continuing the exponential trend in both over the past 4-5 days

[0] https://www.sst.dk/da/corona/tal-og-overvaagning the chart say "Indlagte patienter med bekræftet COVID-19 pr. dag "
While not perfect (we could have definitely acted sooner) the Czech system of handling PPE distribution seems to have worked so far:
- banned export of sanitizer and drugs early on

- banned sale of FFP3 class respirators to anyone else than healthcare providers and the state

- required everyone to wear masks in public of any type (this is rather important as it both prevents asymptomatic carriers from spreading the infection & remove the mask stigma by everyone having one)

- this triggered a huge wave of basically everyone with a sewing machine & some fabric making masks, by now (~third week of masks) basically everyone is stocked and is quite easy to buy a had made mask online or get it from your local administration (there are now even some mask vending machines)

- started an air bridge from China (various aircraft - from the government, chartered & NATO leased An-124s, planes appropriated from various airlines), so far 500+ tons of PPE and medical supplies have been acquired

- material distribution is handled by the state (army, firefighters & sometimes even the police) to all the hospitals, care homes, for police, social workers, etc.
sideeffects are sudden heart stop (dont know the english word).

they say they suspect some patients may have died because of the sideeffects and not the coronavirus in Sweden.
"Business rugged" Toughbooks have been my Linux platform of choice for over a decade. They are fantastic; the hardware support is great. Posting this right now from one running Arch.
There were enough actual data and evidence out there to conclude this was actually a pandemic. Whole cities and countries were being shutdown and ICUs under strain when these people were going on TV encouraging people to travel.
It is well known that some of this host work for a channel which is biased towards the president and that seem to have affected how they covered the news rather than based on available evidence.
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This would work if we had only one problem to solve. Real people getting unemployment checks is an important problem for sure, but not the only one.

It's better to direct our limited resources to better porjects with a higher success rate and/or impact.
Ok, so just call with a different phone.
Haha, thank you. This one is hilarious!
this x1000! By pandering to the algorithm of google, a lot of great content has become watered down, softened, or impacted in other ways. Titles have to be worded a certain way, article length has to be a certain length...

hoping someone else chimes in with other thoughts because I used to know more about this, and SEO cheapening quality content was one of the key takeaways I had.
Amazon Confronts Coronavirus and Unions: One a Real Threat, the Other Overblown
the dash character would also work.

▷ echo 'echo "this is a -test"' > ~/bin/-test
▷ chmod +x ~/bin/-test
▷ -test
this is a -test
For every reasoned answer you give them an avalanche of utter bullshit flows forth. This might be one of those rare occasions where the solution to bad speech is not more speech. The mind of the conspiracy believers is just too darned efficient at justifying bad reasoning.
I just went to Whole Foods (hopefully for the last time in quite a while.) everyone there was wearing a mask (customers and employees) fear of shame be damned.

Also hearing “Shiny Happy People” while everyone is literally up to their eyeballs in PPE afraid to be near each other is a weird experience.
This wouldn't have worked in the shared appartment I lived in years ago. One person in particular seemed to not do his own share of washing dishes. So everyone else should do his dishes rather than complain? Seems a bit backwards.
Like soylent green the economy is made of people.

If people are doing well, the economy will likely catch up-- weak businesses will fail, new ones will be created. It may hurt, may hurt for a while-- but from a purely economic perspective this might turn out to be a useful reboot. There are going to be a lot of phenomenal opportunities in the coming year.

But the economy cannot do well if the people are not.

For a thought experiment, imagine for a moment that we didn't need to keep delivering food and power and whatnot. It would be possible to simply pause the entire economy-- just like contracts that don't consider weekends business days-- in this fictional world we could freeze all accounts and all debts and whatnot for a year and then do "2020" over again. We can't do this because we need to keep a lot of people working to keep food and medical care flowing-- but I think the crazy idea is a useful illumination that the economy is a shared delusion. Whats going on now is only as devastating as we allow it to be, but the deaths of millions would be devastating (economically and otherwise) regardless of what we otherwise want.
Isn't it more a fork of android with some loose inheritance from 3DS?

But anyway, the problems of software and online-service in japan are old, very old. To some degree it originates in their late adaption of PCs with broader parts of society, to some other degree their early adaption of online-services in the age of featurephones including all the horrible patterns.

Japans society developed quite different in those areas, and you see it all the time with their software, culture and decisions. Nintendo is not really special there.
The people doing the discrimination are the groups that choose Discord as their communications tool.

They are excluding all users who can’t get Discord accounts, such as those who can’t agree to the Discord TOS, for example. Free software projects and other public benefit groups should not be discriminatory.

They’re also banning political cartoons within their group’s
communications, by implicit inclusion of the Discord TOS which bans several common, normal, reasonable types of communication.

I’m a paying member of a local nonprofit organization; they use Discord exclusively to communicate. I am excluded from all of the discussions as a result of my not being able to safely get a Discord account. That’s discrimination whether you like to acknowledge it or not.
Why you need an internship? Tell me there are a lot of websites available that provide free tools.
https://freecodezilla.com/anywhere-elementor-pro-nulled/
Zoombombing is a crime, not a prank, prosecutors warn
Tesla engineers show ventilator prototype on YouTube
Cardiac arrest is probably what you are looking for.
Isn’t all flu growth exponential over the season then dies down? Apparently Australia had a bad flu season last year:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7148553/Horror-grap...
It may be a bit early to say. Social distancing delays the infections. It's possible that it kills the virus, but unlikely, so people will be infected and possibly die later if they aren't immune already. Sweden is not able to stop infections at all, their health system is guaranteed to be overwhelmed, but survivors will most likely be immune and it will be over quickly, one way or another, when everyone has been exposed to the virus.
You can add eslint to the things that allow scripts as config files, just like webpack. I found this very useful because I just started a full-stack javascript project, and I need most of the linting config to be the same (tab-width, syntax, etc.) but then node and browsers don't have the same syntax for imports, don't have the same globals, etc. so I want to reuse a part of the config. And because you can write the config in js, it's trivial to import the result of the common config file (which is also used for isomorphic code, which should have no client/server specific code) and just add or remove what I need from that to return a different config for linting client and server files.
The sorts of incentives for organized conspiracy would naturally be bigger than the incentives for competence in executing ordinary matters of government. However the rareness of uncovering organized conspiracies suggests they are rarely attempted more than it suggests some hypercompetent class of conspirators.