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I am concerned that efforts to mitigate the damage from Covid-19 might open a window for African Swine Flu to spread to the US. China has culled 40% of their 440M pig population fighting the virus. There are promising vaccines in the works, but until they come to market a domestic pork viral outbreak could easily get out of hand while we are focused on C19.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00742-w
I'm really sorry you don't approve the name.
> There's nothing much that's CISC-like about ARM,

I struggle to think that ARM can really be called reduced-instruction after neon or so.
Not so; there was a short-lived initiative to work towards some kind of open release, but it came to nothing. The article mentions that.
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Is there anyone that uses something like this in a home/personal setting?
That idea of flu season seems a distinctly North American notion. Flu season in Thailand is June to October, which coincides with rainy season when it is hot and very wet.
Saw some map showing Montana min wage is $4. Even if you use your phone 8hrs a day (a ton of people do for work), you own it for 24. So that's $24 a day.

It all a bit pointless math for HN crowd, but it does give some perspective - there are places where pay is very low and you don't even need to look far. People do actual work on their phones there.
I think a reasonable somewhat pessimistic (but not worst-case) assumption is that immunity is similar to common-cold coronaviruses; lifelong partial protection, total protection for 24-36 months, some degree of cross-strain reactivity.

Kissler et al published a really good analysis of kinematics and transmission dynamics in Science based on what we know about human coronaviruses, cross-immunity, etc. (Now that we are beginning to believe infection rates are even higher in comparison to case counts than we believed before, it looks pessimistic in various ways).

The research I've read on SARS-COV-1 shows a slower fall in antibody titers than other human coronaviruses. Though, unfortunately, I'm unaware of any study that followed patients past 3 years.

I believe that if you took one of the existing common cold coronaviruses, and introduced it to an immunologically naive population, you'd get a huge incident wave and a whole lot of excess death.
Interesting... In that situation how is the licence determined? According to the platform policy?
Stickiness; hysteresis.

I'm thinking of how you have something like a powder or gravel, and you shake the container and it levels out like liquid.
I think this is what VLIW exposed. Real world optima are a union of hardware, microarch, compiler, and software optima.

Even a global optimum for one is unlikely to be an efficient solution for all.
Not an immunologist, but one claim that contradicts other published work stands out to me — fn 7 and the assertion that ACE2 isn’t expressed in lung tissue.

ACE2 has been shown as the target site for SARS-CoV [1] and expressed in particular lung epithelial cells [2] and an important factor in infections with the first SARS-CoV [3].

I wonder whether this nicotinic hypothesis is more important for understanding the transmission and infection modes of the virus, rather than its involvement in acute disease.

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6485/1444

[2] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v2

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1287568/
Do you think your reaction is professional ?
The last 150 years have absolutely seen huge increases in leisure time. Notice that in the Bible, there is only one day of Sabbath, the rest of the week is work. A 6.5 day work week was standard for millennia. This idea of a relaxed bucolic existence like a Monet painting was always a myth.

"Less stress" isn't defined enough to discuss, but I for one will say I don't stress about finding food over winter. My ancestors did at that time though.
Zoom has fundamental problems that makes them not able to support E2E easily. They only recently started sending video over WebRTC data channels. Before they were sending over websockets. They're not even using the browser's native media streaming APIs. So E2E is a huge problem for them to implement.
Okay, you said "Hospitals here are laying off workers because they aren't allowed to do anything except wait for a crash of Covid-19 patients that so far hasn't come." You're in Iowa, yet the first link is an extremely small hospital in Tennessee. The second link refers to a Unitypoint Health which has operations in several states.

Hospitals are losing revenue for elective surgery. UP Health is cutting doctors pay 15%, and furloughing some other employees. Not sure if those are medical providers or administrative staff.

And saying that we're waiting for "a crash of Covid-19 patients that so far hasn't come." is not factually accurate, even in the Midwest. I can name several hospitals in Nebraska that are so full, they're using the ER for non-COVID patients since the COVID patients have filled entire wings.

Here's an article about Grand Island, one of Nebraska's hotspots. The article is 8 days old, and the situation has become worse.

https://www.omaha.com/livewellnebraska/our-resources-are-bei...

For Omaha/Bellevue, Bellevue Medical Center is using the ER due to a lack of rooms.
But if you have 16,000 of anything, why are you using a static site? Surely the access patterns are long tail and you need to build more often than most pages are even accessed.
We shut down flights from China in February for that reason, and China is a masssive source of tourism for us - we also had the plague ship Royal Princess dock here and spawn a cluster, all of our largest clusters came from overseas contact - either from tourists or returning Kiwis.
> Denmark has ~2.5x the per-capita covid-19 mortality of Finland

...and ~35% the per capita mortality of Sweden. Denmark is pretty much in the middle of the pack. That's clearly less reason for panic than if they were already in the top third and rising fast. And you accuse others of cherry-picking?

> Sweden vs. all of Europe paints a completely different picture

No, it really doesn't. Thanks for proving that this kind of jingoism isn't limited to the US.
Not to worry, three years later it was succeeded by a SAINT :-p

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAINT_(software)
I appreciate this comment and the child comments below. Thinking about it, this was poor phrasing on my part. I smashed together three points:

1. Sam is a leader in SV
2. Sam has done a lot to invest/donate in biotech and nonprofits working on COVID
3. Many biotech companies have pivoted to COVID

The error was mine, not his. Thanks for the feedback.
Well predicting some companies will do something can't be wrong.

But working from home will expose a lot of stuff that can be done from home, a lot of employees who turn out to prefer working from home, and a lot of CEOs and accountants and so on will realize a lot of money can be saved on real estate. People are being quoted in the news along these lines, you don't have to anticipate it.
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Looks like I’ll be doing a lot of fishing this summer...
Super interesting, thanks. Do you know if anyone has graphed the excess mortality on a month by month basis? That data would be invaluable in understand the timelines of actual spikes in excess mortality, irrespective of covid-19 testing and diagnosis. For example, did it spike up in March in NYC compared to Jan or Feb?
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The device mapper framework is open source. You could just extend it with additional ECC modes if those would be useful to you, and then these would become usable in both RAID and unRAID setups.
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https://cloud.google.com/anthos/docs/concepts/overview

https://github.com/istio/istio
I do want to go down /mnt, /home and /var.
> I'm not a religious person, but the thing that the anti-religion movements have failed spectacularly at is providing a universal, teachable framework for basic morality.

Because no such framework exists? If we remove totalitarian pressure to enforce one coherent moral framework (either religious or secular) to all, we end up with pluralistic society in which various persons have fundamentally different moral intuitions, and therefore it needs extensive formal system for cooperation and conflict solving.
> is it really the case that there's no continuous settlement there until European colonisation?

Settlement yes, city no.
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Wordpress in particular is not “just fine”. During this crisis, every government site based on WordPress ends up crashing under the load. Yes, you can avoid this with a good cache plugin and a CDN. But you can also avoid it by using a tool that is designed to not crash under load in he first place.
If you remove the write-protection from the read-only flash on Chromebooks, you can replace the verification keys and re-enable security based on your own root of trust.
Then you can add them explicitly. And what about /proc and /dev? And /sys? And /run?

You usually know which mounts you want to go into, but don't have a list of every single one you want to stay out of. Most people want a whitelist here, not a blacklist.
Have you seen the Tilt Five?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tiltfive/holographic-ta...
Doesn't look like the code is freely available, although the author states they'll provide a copy of the app for research purposes if asked: https://eclecticlight.co/2020/04/19/last-week-on-my-mac-vand...
I'm so happy. Just got back to my side project and Phoenix 1.5 is released.

Thank you Chris and Jose and all those who were and are involve with Phoenix.
This might be a clue, given the potential uses of such a tool.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Okay, so, to tweak it based on that, our most vulnerable populaton is 30% the size of Sweden's most vulnerable population, and we have 0.72% the deaths.
Not hacker news. Why's it here?
There's plenty of meat. Bloomberg is fake news.
In fact most news is fake. They're just click bait farms like Bloomberg and CNN.
Platform != product

If there was even 1 amazing game, they'd be ok. Think halo->xbox, sonic->sega, mario->nintendo+gameboy, ... .

But apparently not. Nothing people want to buy.
Something sort of similar exists for iOS. BGTaskScheduler (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/backgroundtasks/bg...) is the public interface, but the internal interface allows for more subtle calculations about how long you can wait until this job is complete and what the optimal physical condition of the phone is (e.g. battery charging, user not using phone, wireless network connection). One of the important features is that when you run a job you have to check in fairly often (every second or so) to see if your job can still run, and if it can't, stop the job. This stops your two hour ML training session from burning battery for a while if the user wakes up at 2am and decides to go on a walk.
Stop naming your Python modules “utils”
The Dems haven't had a veto proof majority in House and Senate since the the 111th (2009 to 2011) and before that the 95th ( 1977 to 1979). I'm not going to go into the 95th too much because it was a very long time ago. Our country is very different. Obama spent basically all his political capital getting ObamaCare Dodd-Frank and CFPB passed. All of which were MASSIVE steps to dramatically increase access to health care and for the first time in decades bend the cost curve, dramatically reign in the banks, and give consumers actual protection from predatory big business. So, I don't really understand what you are talking about.
I'm going to throw in a counterpoint to many of the people saying it's the worst time to do it. In my view, it's the best time to do it.

When times are good, it's hard to take yourself out of a job market where you can waltz into offers and get big raises every year by job hopping. The opportunity cost is high.

When times are bad, you don't have the fear of missing out of a big opportunity. Honestly, I've been trying to take a gap year for a while and I could never pull the trigger because it felt silly. Now it feels much more palatable to do so.

This does depend on your timeline and runway of course. If you're only looking for a couple months off as a hard cap, maybe not a great time. If you're looking for (or fine with) a year or so and have the financial flexibility to do so, then it seems like a perfect opportunity.
Author here. You're right, this was an initial attempt at criticism. Shane Parrish of Farnam Street reached out to me a few weeks after I published this, and then I spent the next year as a member of Farnam Street's learning community, executing a research program around this criticism so as to make it more constructive. A crisp version of that series may be found here: https://commoncog.com/blog/the-mental-model-faq/

The core of this series stems from the observation that all expertise is tacit. Polanyi and Papert has the best articulated expression of these ideas, and they match up to my experience in actually pursuing expertise.
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Thank you. Searching for anthos and istio got me the info I needed. Istio, when finally configured, is pretty fantastic. Leveraging it for multi cloud clusters is already possible so a service that streamlines that feels like a natural step.

Terrible blog post. Had no clue what I was being sold until you pointed it out.
Part of it is because the “Medicare for All” proposal outlaws private insurance.
Protein from those sources are not as bioavailable, and are therefore not “extremely excellent sources of protein”. Also, forks over knives has been disproven a hundred times over. Not saying everything in that doc is wrong, but it has enough wrong that it is not a credible source of information.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Makes more sense.
What I meant by "people who previously hadn't eaten plant substitutes" was people who just haven't decided to try it because they just preferred to stick to meat, I should have phrased that better.
Does not scale in the way that the day has limited hours, extra work might be okay for a few courses, but not for more because you simply run out of time. There's also the issue that that extra work is given the same grade in the end, but you've spent more time. And no, knowledge doesn't make things take zero time.

Plus, the extra work is still about the same course material - instead of one hello world you write two. It's not hard, it becomes depressing and demoralizing.
My fascination with automation basically is how I discovered the art of programming... programming is automation in it's most distilled form.

The path I took to programming was long but a relatively common path:

- Lego

- Which led to Lego mechanics

- Which led to mechanical engineering

- Which led to manufacturing

- Which led to automation

- Which led to programming (about 22 years old)
It's quite weird that a Google blog post about a highly technical product doesn't include a link to the actual technical details: https://cloud.google.com/anthos/docs/concepts/overview
They admit thus in the article, when they say there’s no point closing the schools. The time when doing that would have made a difference was a month ago and they didn’t do it, so the damage was done.
> Instead we won't even talk about it until May 4th, and I worry we'll either take too much of a step at once or make a tiny movement much later than we should have tried it.

The problem is we STILL don't have enough equipment for healthcare workers if that ICU starts filling up.

Part of the reason for the lockdown was to give time for all the equipment industries to spin up. Unfortunately, the US federal government squandered that.

Until the hospitals can deal with a New York scenario and not have the healthcare workers contracting it due to lack of equipment, we shouldn't relax.
Joe Armstrong, RIP, also stated they tried to add type to Erlang later on but gave up.
Not saying you're wrong, but I'm having a hard time finding GCP products that had paying enterprise customers at the link you provided, at least none with Greek names.
New Contact Tracing App from University of Washington
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

https://euromomo.eu/
Disclaimer: I work for GOOG and my opinions are my own

My understanding is that Anthos is a multi cloud platform which essentially enables you to run managed Kubernetes on-prem, in GCP, and other public clouds. You can then run other Google Cloud services, such as Cloud Run, on your own hardware or in other clouds in addition to GCP
Author here. A crisper version of the criticism may be found here: https://commoncog.com/blog/the-mental-model-faq/

It is, in turn, a summary of a 30k word series on 'putting mental models to practice' https://commoncog.com/blog/a-framework-for-putting-mental-mo... — originally published in Farnam Street's Learning Community. To his credit, Shane Parrish of Farnam Street invited me to share my criticisms in his members-only forum, so I reciprocated by putting in the work to back up the ideas in this piece.
It sounds like you're mostly backend and struggle with the blending of backend/frontend with liveview?
> That's the key. ORMs get a bad name but most of the time you just want to display a list of things, or one thing in more depth or maybe create a new thing.

If you just need to display a list of things then there's nothing much simpler than:

var result = exec_query("select * from things")
foreach (var row in result) {
//output html or something here
}

The problem is we decided this was bad and had to add more layers, abstractions, translations and complications in between the database and the output, then we needed tools like ORMs to help with that.
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Why? NEON operates on registers, so the load-store principle is still fully in effect. And it maps directly to special-purpose hardware.
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The IMF predicts that Sweden's GDP is going to shrink 6.8% this year. Denmark, Norway and Finland are predicted to shrink only 6.5%, 6.3% and 6.0% respectively, despite locking down more aggressively than Sweden.

https://www.imf.org/en/Countries/SWE

https://www.imf.org/en/Countries/DNK

https://www.imf.org/en/Countries/NOR

https://www.imf.org/en/Countries/FIN
I made a create-react-app like command line tool to make a react flask app
https://github.com/greysonevins/makeflaskreact

I work a lot with creating flask and react apps and have hated that the flask setup is annoying and tedious. So, I made an all-in-one command-line tool to do create a quick flask react project.

Hopefully, it will save you all time building web apps with python too!

use pip install makeflaskreact
So very tired of Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Firefox, and Apple release articles.

It's not that I don't understand they're important to a lot of developers and totally belong here. Time to search for a content filter though.

Edit: I mean look at it! It's basically an advertisement. It feels like Kardashians of coding.
Is comparing the per capita cost of healthcare to that of U.S. really fair, especially when advocating adopting certain elements of the "Amish system"? The U.S. is pretty the worst example of keeping costs down; other first world healthcare systems cost much less than the U.S.'s with similar or better outcomes. I suppose it's reasonable because the Amish live in the U.S. but I guess the question is do the Amish do particularly well or does the U.S. just generally do particularly poorly?

I do think there are some interesting insights in the article though.

Edit: another observation is that the author is probably not putting enough emphasis on the additional cost of end-of-life care (though he does mention it), especially if he's correct that the Amish tend not to spend as much on prolonging the life of older people.
We don't even know if "time to develop" in that way is even a thing in reality.
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I loved his complaints about genservers (and his complaints about nomenclature), and it made me settle on my own genserver structure. I think the hard thing about dave thomas' component is that it just doesn't have enough buyin in the community to make it "its own thing". I wish it did though. But on the other hand, if elixir had diverged too much from erlang it would have made people angry...
The Twitter thread you linked was specifically about Canadian milk. Canada is well known for mandating a specific price for their milk.

In the US, we have a free market that has resulted in the cost of milk production falling below the break even price for a lot of small dairy farms: https://www.jsonline.com/in-depth/news/special-reports/dairy...
Recursion lol.

Erlang does it too.

If you want to have state you do recursion and call itself with the updated value.

fn me(iter) -> me(iter+1) end
Ideo has a pretty bad insight score (41):
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

First paint: 4.1 Seconds.
Time to interactive: 11.5 Seconds.

I wouldn't say that's very fast.

Edit: I didn't check the other three.
I’m not arguing that laws are made without basis. A lack of parking is a problem, and a legal remedy isn’t on its face absurd.

I’m arguing that lawmakers don’t give enough consideration to the second and third order effects of laws. Minimum parking requirements solve one problem, but they create many others. I have attended many city council meetings and my impression of city councilors by and large is that they don’t rely enough on the work of economists, urban planners, and other domain experts.
Anthos is a multi-cloud software delivery system, i.e. it ships Google Cloud softwares to everywhere including VMware and AWS. Istio is just its traffic/proxy layer across clouds.
Not an accurate depiction? Perhaps you should read up on how Lombardy's health care system fared for Italy. Or travel to Bellevue Nebraska, and ask why non-COVID patients are being kept in ER (hint: it's because all the non-ER beds are full of COVID patients).

Also, you're idea of how herd immunity functions is not accurate.

We'll have the virus here in 6 months; no doubt in my mind. We'll have it combined with the annual flu. We won't have a vaccine either, though perhaps some therapeutic treatment if we're lucky.

No, we won't reach herd immunity for at least a year at this rate. And the political pressure to "open up" the economy will become too great since we don't have a real welfare net in America.

So my estimate at the end of the year is that we'll have about 40% of the population infected or recovered. We'll have roughly 19M hospitalized during the next 8 months, and 1.4M deaths. This will cripple our country, our economy, and our people. Yeah, I'm a pessimist. Everything I've seen about how this country is reacting confirms my priors.

How can we avoid this? Keep things shut down to a bare minimum of true essential services. Protect the employees doing essential services to the max. Implement a social safety net so workers don't lose everything. Do the same for businesses, since demand is drying up fast. Listen to scientists instead of firing them for disagreeing with the POTUS about hydrochloroquine. Develop reliable serological tests so that immune people can safely work.

Most importantly, be lucky. The US has been lucky for a long long time; for most of its history. Hopefully that will continue, and rub off on the rest of the world that is in far dire straits.
New York’s hospitals being overwhelmed, and a massive spike in excess mortality in the city isn’t an estimate. Those are real people sick and dying right now. The same with Spain and northern Italy.

Those regions got hit hard too soon for lockdowns to prevent disaster. Fortunately those disasters gave us a wake up call to lock down early enough elsewhere. If we hadn’t it’s pretty clear every city or region would eventually look like them.