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Penny Pritzker was the Secretary of Commerce during the Obama admin. She was one of the co-owners of Hyatt, along with other Pritzker family members

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Pritzker
Why not just H(H(info) || H(msg)) ? That would seem to me to give you the best of all worlds.
Facebook and Google both require LegitScript (https://legitscript.com/) certification. We're in the process of going through that and we're told it may take several months.
One of my favourite observations about Python is that it's the second best language for basically everything - which makes it a fantastic default for an organization.
Bill Gates got his start at Micro-Soft coding BASIC dev stacks for the microcomputers of his day-- and Microsoft has now announced that further development on Visual Basic is to be frozen indefinitely (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22570684 - "Going forward, we do not plan to evolve Visual Basic as a language"). There's no way that this is mere coincidence.
I think they're trying to duplicate the startups in this HN post from 2 weeks ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22426063

At least the other sites have scheduling systems and calendars. This is literally paying someone 5$ to have a guy send you someone else's email address.
I've never used it, is it worse than concur?
I attended a party at his house with a group of interns. He was worshipped, but in the wrong way -- a number of people wanted to touch his clothing or get his autograph, and they were employees.

I don't think he was ever comfortable with that, and this allows him and his wife to work on interesting problems without causing political problems for MSFT.
Ask Germany.
It’s definitely one of the ugliest languages (syntax wise) that enjoys widespread usage, at least in Microsoft land.
You'd need a specific wavelength (265nm seems to be the standard) and they get pretty expensive. A UV LED from adafruit or sparkfun will probably not be sufficient.

At a glance they sell LEDs around 400nm which from my cursory reading wouldn't be effective for what you're imagining.

Not to say this would never work. Just that you would need special parts that are less common and more expensive by orders of magnitude.

I've also read that sterilizing very fast moving air doesn't work well. It seems HVAC systems use extremely intense light order to be effective in these conditions, which a small LED (or a few) wouldn't accomplish.
I'm not familiar with J but it also appears to have something similar. However the resulting code seems a bit more convoluted than the K version.
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Here in Denmark we have just shut our borders. You can no longer enter as Swede.
> You can enter Denmark, if You have work permission (even if You are Swede). Many people travel and work this way...
Board members focus on things like governance and fiduciary responsibilities, not on what the next version of Windows is going to be.

You'll find that most VCs are also not "even remotely tech people". Guess what - they also happen to sit on many tech startup boards.
Appreciate the input.

Ethical issues: I'm thinking in terms of underserved communities where tests are simply unavailable. A 60% false negative rate test is better than no information whatsoever. After all, it was good enough for China to use (along with authoritarian powers to quarantine) to help get a handle on containment, or what am I missing?

Considering the abysmal US track record serving the healthcare needs of lower socioeconomic strata, I'm not sanguine on them receiving the tests we need to even get an approximate handle on the public health situation.

So if we narrow the scope to just testing for Covid-19, are you saying it still takes several years to get to the point of just administering and evaluating the test, right?

If so, then that means testing is staffing constrained, and you're implying it is impossible in a situation like we face now to dramatically expand the testing scale/volume, and the entire US Federal plan to test orders of magnitude more is complete bullshit.

So is this one of the few areas of human endeavor that is absolutely non-automatable, or can we break down what is/is not within the realm of automation, and possibly leverage the few staff we have relative to the current need?

Or can we relax quality constraints in an emergency like this to favor false positives over false negatives to focus on flattening R0 (although everything I've read so far seems to indicate false negatives are the bigger concern)?

So please give some pointers, where do you see specific, concrete problems for starters that others with domain expertise can look into to evaluate?
> If my community has 10 beds and 2 docs what is anyone supposed to do if there are 100 positives?

Isolate those 100 people. Then use whatever methodology[1] your society uses to allocated hospital beds to the ones that will get sick enough to need them.

Just because you test positive doesn't mean you'll need a hospital bed.

Oh, and while you're at it, ban public gatherings, and close schools. Because if 100 people tested positive, there's probably another 200-300 people walking around, infecting others.

[1] First-come-first-serve, youngest-and-healthiest-first, whomever-can-pay-more are the most popular methodologies for this.
I have proposed this solution previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22429262 I am glad to see this playing out nicely in South Korea.
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With one simple gesture, he simultaneously helps a lot of people and outperforms the entire United States government.
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>lunatic who gets tested positive and runs around infecting others

It's happened. Criminal charges for assault probably work.
> He continued the war, he didn't pull out as promised.

What he promised: "my first day in office, I would give the military a new mission: ending this war". [1]

That's not the same as "pull out".

> Got involved in Syria.

"Got involved" in an already ongoing crisis, and arguably a direct result of the Iraq war, is not the same as starting the Iraq war. Not even fucking close.

Syria: 2.5k troops [2]
Iraq: ~300k troops [3], and we've been there 20 years.

Like I said, multiply Obama by 100x...

On the remaining points, I'm not claiming Obama was great on these issues. My only claim is that if you think Obama even remotely compares to Bush in terms of the amount of destructive policy the two brought about, you lack a sense of scale and perspective.

1. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/p...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_t...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War#2003:_Invasion
loads of people still claim to write new apps in VB6! and good luck to them !
They have a lot of exclusivity and pseudo-exclusivity rights. For example, nobody's typically allowed to cut side deal better than the union contract, and the union can require even employees who don't like the union to fund their collective bargaining.
> Unless he actually cares if he or Bezos is the #1 wealthiest person

He could also care about whether his actions have a negative impact on others.
I recall when I first started paying any attention to UX, there were a couple of people who asserted that a lot of UI metaphors get tested out in video games first. Then I noticed several other people suggests that algorithms sometimes follow a similar arc.

I think some convention runners might find some ideas by looking back at how Blizzcon has worked over the last half dozen years, where it has been a hybrid between a physical and virtual conference, where if you are lucky you can get admittance to the conference, and everyone else has streaming video of all of the events for a much lower price.

There are also satellite conferences which, while not quite as useful for the COVID-19 situation, does allow a degree of camaraderie without carting yourself clear across the country (or having carted yourself, relying on getting a pass that may not come your way).
The cmdlets are super useful but the language is just really weird.
> Because technology progresses faster than laws and by the time the laws catch up there are already powerful corporations established based on the lack of those laws.

I see another aspect of this. Societies have allowed tech companies to run unregulated in a trader-off between safety and technological advance.

Medical equipment, cars or planes are examples were regulations were put in place as safety failures have more dangerous consequences.

As devices are more ubiquitous and the economy and lives depend more on them, further regulation will be pushed forward.

> and now it's too late because every phone maker would lobby against it.

I agree that will take political will to regulate the tech industry. But, in the same way that phone manufacturers do not want replaceable batteries the rest of industries will see their costs reduced by such a regulation. So, there is also opposing forces that want big tech to play nicer with the rest of the industry ecosystem. And, in democratic countries, population will also push for change as their lives are disrupted by the lack of regulation.
I enjoy games like this (and also other genres, like city sims or turn-based strategy games) because I enjoy seeing what happens. It's a process of discovery and interaction.

In the case of NetHack, though, it's mostly about how much hilarious stupid stuff happens, like the time I started a dungeon, took my first step, and my kitten triggered a boulder trap and killed my instantly. Thanks, kitten.
It is the stacking social ills problem. If SF had an effective set of homeless policies/programs then they wouldn't misuse the bus.

While it is true that people respect "free" services less than paid ones, I have yet to read any reports from places that have implemented free bus service that suggested general damage/misuse due to a lack of respect. The bus service in Logan UT for example is pretty awesome.
Wondering how diffraction applies to this one. Certainly not to the equivalent aperture, because any f/555 lens would resolve essentially nothing (probably measured in mm/lp, not lp/mm; edit: not quite, about 3.5 lp/mm).
She looked like an interesting candidate. I always wonder how some candidates find no traction while others do.
A QUIC look at HTTP/3
It seems that shell scripting languages tend to be quite ugly out of necessity? I mean bash is not a looker.
Don’t know if it’s any good, and there clearly seems to be some controversy about that in this thread, but jibes well with my sentiments over the years, some of which have gathered extensive HN discussion:

https://likewise.am/2018/12/01/seven-tough-lessons-from-ten-...

https://likewise.am/2017/05/19/in-response-to-the-cult-of-re...

Edit: the point isn’t to promote my blog posts, it’s to say that I’m glad this aspect of remote work is finally being recognised in various ways — some good, some bad, but above all else, recognised.
What's wrong with how they built their offices, in your opinion?
It seems more productive to hit the room with far UVC, and there are already some products that do that, not sure about scale though.
Never thought about it that way, but it's an interesting observation.

My biggest problem though isn't which scripting language someone should use for some task. It's getting them to the idea that they should use a scripting language for some task.

People forget that HN is not the norm.
While this is true, and unfair, IMHO it's not really an appropriate thing to try to fix in isolation. Some jobs are more remotable than others. We want to isolate people physically, so remotable jobs get remoted. The fact that those jobs are distributed inequitably is bad, but not something we can fix right now. And once this is over, it's probably not going to seem like something worth fixing at all, I suspect.

And FWIW: a much bigger injustice is how many of these jobs in the service sectors are ephemeral in these situations. Wait staff and shopkeepers don't merely have to go in physically to work, they're at a much higher risk of losing their jobs entirely (or having their hours cut as, say, restaurants scale back).

That latter problem is something we can address with appropriate policy.
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> But, of course, no good thing goes untouched. Last year, statewide voters approved an initiative that guts Seattle's ability to tax ourselves for transit ("$30" car tabs, which are nothing of the sort since even that initiative doesn't reduce vehicle registration costs to $30).

This was utterly maddening. A bunch of... Politically-opinionated persons in rural Washington voted for legislature that bans Seattle from taxing its residents.
The mortality rate of Covid-19 seems higher than that.

The around 3% mortality rate is what you get by dividing the number of deaths by the number of infection (past and present) (as of today: 5359 / 140875 = 3.8%).

But this is incorrect as the number of currently infected people is quite high (half the total number of infections) and unfortunately, a few will die in the near future.

If you divide the number of deaths by (recovered + deaths), the mortality is much higher (as of today: 5359 / (70174 + 5359) = 7.1%).

Which seems actually about as high as the Spanish Flue right in between the low and high estimate (20M/500M, 50M/500M). And it's source for worries since our medical systems are 1) much more developed than in 1918, and 2) they are not yet completely overloaded.
If it were to spread rapidly and overload our health systems, the mortality rate could rise even more, let's hope it doesn't reach that level.
Regarding cables: it would be nice if it was mandated to use an internationally recognized spec from certain designated bodies, such as IEEE.

If someone such as Apple wants to use Lightning because they find existing specs to be deficient, they should get the spec standardized before theyre allowed to implement a device using it. Specifications should ideally be unencombered by patents or for a fair and reasonable license.

Additionally implementers of a spec should be required to have their implementations verified that they adhere to the spec by an independent lab, such as UL (Underwriters Lab), and be fined into nonexistence if they forge the lab's marks.

This should also cut down on the snake oil cables, such as $90 gold plated HDMI cables.
VBA is never going anywhere. As long as Excel exists, VBA will exist
It might make sense to support (or replicate) Google's DLP functionality. I think that feature is just a blacklist of certain regular expressions.

Cool product, by the way!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22570909
Thanks Tony, your support means a lot. I will email you to continue this conversation. Looking forward to hearing more.
I first learned it by myself in VB5. I didn't even understand functions, but writing those MessageBoxes with buttons and then having them create even more message boxes was so great! I remember a high school friend bringing me 5 diskettes with VB4 installer because I didn't have it on my home computer.

Then next year I enrolled in AP Comp Sci - hardcore turbo c++. Just blew my mind!
This is addressed since forever in the comp.compression faq http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/ see "9.2 The counting argument" and the link there to http://www.dogma.net/markn/FAQ.html#Q19
The author just wants you to think there is a video roulette system to pretend that there is technology behind this.

He's literally just sending you e-mail addresses and expecting you to figure it out from there.
It's hilarious this counts as "news". So the nytimes is in the prediction business? If a youtuber did this, the nytimes would have blasted them as conspiracy theorists and demanded youtube shut them down.

The news industry would be more respected if they actually reported news. Leave the "how much worse", "how much better", "could", "would", "might", etc to others.
Elon Musk underplays coronavirus, tells employees car crashes are more dangerous
While there are some regulations (both state and federal) around what we can and can't say publicly, most of our obstacles so far have been the policies of sites like Facebook, Google, Reddit and the like. Many of them have gotten into trouble before with scammy rehab programs preying on vulnerable populations, so they've made it incredibly difficult for startups like us who have something new to offer to even get the word out. We're working on it, but it's still hard.

I agree with you about getting the word out in a grassroots way, and we've definitely been to some of the hardest-hit areas out there. The problem is that 80% of opioid users aren't currently seeking treatment and are just like you and me, but living with a secret problem. Those are the people we want to reach and let them know there are options for them.
The title is misleading, it should read "how one arcade company fell apart in 1983". It took over a decade for the industry to fall apart.

In 1996 Capcom released Street Fighter 4, this game pulled in 5K per week per cabinet for the first 3 months after the vending company I worked for got it.

Golden tee golf was another extremely profitable arcade game made in the mid to late 90s.

Im pretty sure highspeed internet and connected game consoles is what caused the arcade industry to fall apart.

I have to say the arcade industry was most exciting and fun industry I ever worked in, huge profits in a cash business made for some wild and crazy after hour parties at the trade shows!!!
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This sounds an awful lot like Lytro's technology, perhaps with a different mechanism to achieve a Fresnel lens.

[edit: Wait, Wikipedia lists Horowitz and Andreesen as founders of Lytro? I thought they were just investors?]
AI can detect coronavirus from CT scans in twenty seconds
Click through to the story; this is NOT happening as described. This headline is misleading.
How would that coccooning even work? I don't think it's viable for them to isolate for months or years.
Bankers make more money, tellers make less. The inequalities were really always there...

Life and the human experience have never come with any guarantees of being fair or equal.

All that said, I fully expect bank branches to be closed just like other retail establishments will be.
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I've read the executive order and I feel comfortable saying that I'm happy to commit my properties to housing quarantined folks with four caveats.

1. That they buy out the entire hotel and do not expect my staff to work. Essentially, I'd be turning the hotel into an apartment. I will not otherwise increase the risk of exposure for my employees or my guests.

2. That I am compensated fairly for the rooms. The government per diem rates for rooms ranges between roughly $200-300 per night in the Bay Area. I don't even want those rate to be honest -- there are likely better uses for that money. But I'd need enough to make sure that I could cover the cost of payroll, utilities, etc. This would roughly be in the range of $100 per room per night.

3. That I am allowed to keep at least one property myself. We have long-term guests and contracted business that are still staying with us now. I'd consolidate all of these guests into one property so that they could still receive the services they paid for. I have an obligation to try to provide service to them.

4. That the hotel is returned to me in the same condition as they received it in.

I feel like if these four items are satisfied, I'd gladly sign any contract. As far as I'm aware, this would be a win-win-win. The state would be able to secure cheap accommodations that are fully furnished and ready to go. Patients that need a place to stay are afforded a comfortable place of residence in quarantine. I would be able to protect my staff by sending them home and continue to pay them.

Edit: Also, I'm aware that they could just "commandeer" my hotels, but I hope that doesn't happen. That would make things far tougher than they are now.
You really think they are going to bother to be open beyond 9-5 and maybe not even weekends?

Also with the air-conditioner on exhaust and the people taking swaps without protective gear, or even with, moving the virus from car to car so efficiently.

Look at this crazy photo: first guy is leaning into the car with facemask down. Totally going to happen at half the Walmarts.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/03/12/upshot/12up-healt...
Bankers Go Home, Tellers Stay: Virus Reveals That Some Jobs Are Different
As someone who has worked for a bank for years, what is a "banker"? Is it the legal team? the risk team? middle management? software developers? QA team? risk team? The execs? the cleaning staff?

And why are tellers not bankers? They perform one of the main public facing banking tasks/services.

Also how are tellers supposed to work from home? This is a rather unfair situation, but it's just the nature of the job, not some attack on the lower class.

I just find this whole article weird.
Ask HN: How can I volunteer my tech skills to help fight Covid-19?
I’m a full-stack web developer, but curious to hear ideas for other technical skill sets, as well.
The doctors and surgeons don't get to go home, but the hospital administration clerks might be able to. The doctors are higher status and make more. I wonder why that might be?

This is just cherry picking imo. Jobs that require f2f and physical interaction as a core responsibility don't get remoted? You don't say.
Ahh, I've got fond memories of VB3 thru VB6...
Not Sun but Sun Labs. Ivan's Sutherland, Sproull and Associates was bought by Sun in 1990 to become the seed of the new Sun Labs.

About register windows, overflows and underflows generated traps to the operating system, and for the combination of Sparc version 8 and SunOS that meant thousands of clock cycles. That was improved in later products.

Berkeley's RISC I to IV all had register windows but RISC-V doesn't with the argument that we have far better compilers now. Altera's NIOS processor had register windows which were dropped in NIOS II because it made the processor smaller without reducing the performance too much.

The AMD 29000 had a more flexible register window scheme and the Itanium a very complex scheme.

Computer history is often more like a spiral than a line and old ideas that have become bad might be good again in the future. With out-of-order execution and register renaming you might once again get better performance out of a binary with register windows.
What about traders operating Bloomberg terminals? Do they need to come in, or can they VPN into their terminals remotely?
I hope the CWA treats them better than they treat the SUNY grad students they represent.

All State University of New York graduate students are also represented by CWA. [1] Out of the lowly salary I earned as a grad student, I had to pay dues to them throughout the entire five years I spent in grad school. I never felt like they particularly cared about us or got to see a return on this investment.

They made a show of coming by the campus once in a while, especially when elections were happening, but other than that I can't recall a single time where I felt it was beneficial to be part of the CWA.

[1] https://cwa1104.com/apprenticeship-program
> I actually stalk you on here

Heh. I wonder if I have any other secret followers on HN.

> in hopes that someday I will understand it.

Where did I lose you? Because that really was intended to be understandable by anyone with a high school algebra background.
Social media, nature, and happiness: evidence of the biophilia hypothesis
I'd agree except I have friends in sales and almost unilaterally they were told to keep coming into the office, despite their entire job being done from phones and computers. Theres a pretty toxic culture in sales where everything is war, and you have to show how committed you are everyday.
this is an epidemiological model with sliders. to show people how epidemics work.
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