skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a similar vision as yours. I wish we had a computing environment today that was a refinement of the Smalltalk and Lisp machine environments of the 1980s, where there was no distinction between user and programmer and where everything is built up from objects. I dream of component-based software as opposed to monolithic applications. I dream of the day where personal computing is once again about the user having complete control and flexibility over the computing environment.

I also agree with you regarding the funding landscape. Building even a clone of Symbolics' Genera operating system from the 1980s will be a major engineering effort. Academia might not the best venue since academia promotes research, not product building, though I could foresee a professor taking inspiration from Andrew Tanenbaum's Minix project and creating a Lisp- or Smalltalk-based operating system for teaching purposes and to encourage the study of non-Unix operating system designs, as systems research currently (e.g., ACM SIGOPS, USENIX) is heavily Unix-dominated and has been for decades. Regarding startups, the last VC-backed operating system-based startup that I could think of is Be, Inc. from the 1990s, which failed to be a commercial success since Be lost against NeXT during Apple's quest for a classic Mac OS replacement in 1996, and since Be faced major hurdles with getting OEMs to ship PCs with BeOS preinstalled due to agreements Microsoft made with top-selling PC companies to encourage the proliferation of Windows. Every other built-from-the-ground-up OS built since then has either been a research project (Microsoft Research's Singularity, the L4 microkernel) or backed by a large company with huge pockets (Google's Fuchsia). Interestingly enough, while I believe the FOSS community would benefit the most from a Smalltalk- or Lisp-based operating system since I believe component-based software design is more amenable to the economics of FOSS development than the development of large applications, I also agree with you regarding why the FOSS community gravitated around Unix; RMS after all was a Lisp hacker who worked at MIT yet decided to embark on GNU instead of creating a free Lisp OS.

It's a hard question, and a question I'm interested in since I'd love to work on such an operating system and I feel there's a need for it, but I have bills to pay.
I am extremely bearish on this whole global situation, but given the gravity of the situation, we're going to see the world's best institutions and minds working on vaccines and treatments with essentially unlimited funding and top priority.

Even during our darkest times, we're going to see the most remarkable science and engineering capabilities exposed in the coming weeks and months, for the sake of humanity.
In financial markets, there's a formula that banks use to determine interest rates:

Interest Rate = Real Risk Free Rate + Expected Inflation + Default Risk Premium + Liquidity Premium + Maturity Premium

Fed bond rates are what determine the 'risk-free' rate. A bank can have the fed hold on to their cash and it is really safe there. Safe enough, that financial markets consider it 'risk free'. This is why all of your loans are dependent on this number.

Banks add on a premium for inflation -- they want the dollars they get paid back in to be worth the same in real value, not nominal.

They also add a premium for default risk. This is the obvious one -- the riskier the loan, the more the bank will have to charge to break even over a large number of loans, where some of them won't be paid back.

The liquidity premium is kind of like a charge for FOMO. If it is hard for the bank to sell (or liquidate) your loan, they might be stuck with a your loan contract in a filing cabinet when they really need some cash. If they can sell your loan on the open market, then they'll give you a better rate here.

And finally, the maturity premium is a charge for uncertainty. A bank can be pretty certain that they know what the financial markets will look like in the short term. But for a 30 year loan? The financial market could be a much different beast in 30 years. This is a lot of risk on a bank that has their cash tied up for that long of a period.
After the first death the company would be sued out of
business
Esseentially same question to 6 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22585768
I'd be very surprised if Germany excludes people with preconditions, also would expect the WHO to have a strict guideline that this goes against ?
The rationale against mass inoculation with an untested vaccine stems partially from the botched 1976 Fort Dix swine flu H1N1 outbreak and vaccine. The volunteers of successive regular clinical trial phases play Russian roulette on our behalf, and this takes time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbreak
>A reanimation device consists of a reanimation bag which is placed on the chest of the patient and which has a tube connected to the lungs of the patient, e.g. by a mouthpiece. When the bag is compressed heart massage may be effected through the bag by the operator. Thus, a single person may carry out resuscitation and heart massage alternately.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3882860A/en

Just something I found on google, not sure if this is 100 percent accurate, but it sounds like a manual, limited use heart/lung machine.
I have no idea, but lets just say this works 98% of the time.

It sounds like a good idea to give people a choice of nothing or something that works 98% of the time. How do you pre-plan for this and accept 98%? I have had this discussion with medical device QA people and they could not acknowledge such a choice like this could ever happen.
The political parties can almost do whatever they want. The DNC fought for this in court after 2016. They can legally cancel all of the remaining contests and crown Jamie Dimon as the nominee if they so choose because they are a private organization, albeit one which has burrowed itself into the state and federal government.
It maybe works for mortgage as government deals with banks regularly.

But what if you rented from an individual owner who needs your rent? Liberalized (without proving that you are looking for a job for let us say next 3 months) unemployment insurance may be a better solution that keeps the economy churning.
I personally don't think UBI works. Period.

But some kind of financial relief may be in order to try to prevent worse things. Having no money easily creates situations where "the battle was lost because the nail was lost."
They have the strategic vision to do zero trust with whatever ships out of box, but not more.

Like we use GSuites and have MFA, all our problems are solved because we now are BeyondCorp. That's marketing speak.
1-) Kypass for phone.

2-) Sftp = not cloud, dedicated non-public server which you can also setup in your home environment such as a nas drive which only and only you have access to.

3-) I am convinced it is the safest, because no 3rd party is involved in my perfectly synced password system.
There's a billion people in India and so far the mortality and spread rates there aren't similar to other countries. There is a theory that humid and warm places will not have these mortality rates (as validated by our common sense that summer time flu is less common). I don't think we have enough information about the virus to generalize to the whole world yet.
There are lots of service workers who are about to be in trouble. In places where white-collar workers are staying home, baristas and waiters and Uber drivers are still at it. If they aren't sick enough to be hospitalized, they're probably still at work, because they can't afford not to be.

What opportunities might there be for "Uber for X" that people can do from home? Amazon's Mechanical Turk comes to mind, but I can't think of any others. And usually when the only present solution is a catch-all, there's space for more niche solutions that can thrive by specializing around specific sub-markets.
I don't think that cadavers would skew this much, only if a country is cheating by counting say a diabetic patient who died of covid19 as a diabetes death and not covid19 death.
> Allowing banks to draw down their reserves in their entirety isn’t going to change their behavior is my point.

If you are a bank in fractional reserve banking, who had a 10% capital requirement that is now lifted, you just got 10% more money to use to make money when it is getting increasingly hard for everyone to make money. And you think banks are gonna say, "nah, we wanna stay safe, we'll just sit on our hands"?

I agree with you that monetary policy is not enough, we also need fiscal policy. That said we can't say the Fed isn't trying to do their part.
> Zero Trust networking means treating the internal network just like an external network: authenticate every connection, encrypt all traffic, log everything. Plan as if every machine (virtual or otherwise) as if it is sitting on a public IP address.

Everyone knows that's the ideal network, but in practice it takes a lot of resources, that's why people prioritize internet exposed things. I mean, outside of tech companies (even then..) Most companies don't even fix critical security vulns internally fast enough. Behold exemptions galore!

My problem is this term is used way beyond netwoking to mean so many different things. What the author describes is not what half security vendors think zero trust means.

I don't dislike the term because it's a jargon but because the ambiguity leaves too much room to turn it into another box people check to have a false sense of security.

Something like "AAA resource access" (Authentication,Authorization,Auditing is an very old networking concept from cisco land) might be a better term. You gotta be unambiguous so it's easier to say "No, you have not implemented that".
quarantine slows the spread to a level the hospitals can deal with
The issue is that infections are not going to be evenly distributed inline with ICU beds. For example, NYC has 3,000 ICU beds, of which 80% are already occupied (65 by coronavirus patients based on the latest numbers). Meaning there are 600 ICU beds open right now. With a 10% ICU rate, that's only 6,000 confirmed infections in a city of 8.6M for the hospitals to be overwhelmed.
The mortality rate explodes when there is a shortage of medical equipment
Things look very different when you have as much hardware as Google does.

(Disclosure: I work for Google)
How common is it to use metal swords, as opposed to foam or cardboard?
This is blatantly untrue. Worst case scenario is currently believed to be 1.7 million deaths.

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/487652-fauci-...
An option not talked about much yet is cancelling debts. The Romans did it quite a few times. An effective redistribution of wealth from people who own things to people who do things.
Can we just put lots of fans in buildings instead of social distancing? Would that help or hurt?

Also, an app so that shop owners could close their doors, list their products online, and quickly turn their cashiers into delivery drivers. Bonus is you probably get their business after the crisis.
well the epidemiologists do think they can predict the course and make useful suggestions. South Korea basically beat this thing already. Meanwhile non-scientific beliefs that "things are different this time" are usually wrong.
The cache has state, but it's caching stateless requests.
Keepass automatically syncs. Kypass (mobile) automatically syncs. All it takes is to enter sftp credentials to KeePass, and the rest is automatic. Not sure why you couldn't figure it out, but it works for the last 5+ years flawlessly. I didn't touch a single button to do anything extra, all I need is my SFTP credentials (once while setting up) and master password to open in my local machine.
This makes sense if you assume that tens of millions of people suddenly dying will have no effect on the economies in which they do so.

That's quite an assumption!
Ok, I'll be that guy...
I think this recession will hit bigger companies rather than smaller one, small means resiliency.
Online consumer companies like Amazon wins because of their ability to cut prices, what if:
Sending goods will be more expensive than having a retail shop?
If manufacturing goods will be cheaper in your home country?
I think we will see local industries flourish at expense of multinational who will be not able to change that fast.
Any tech business that is able to support local business with their daily troubles and help them cutting costs will build the future.
There's numerous open source ventilator attempts going on. It'll be cool if only one is successful.

Two have been on the HN homepage this weekend. Check them out.
United hides cheapest flights from passengers affected by Coronavirus
The fed is there to stabilize markets and banking, monetary policy absolutely can alleviate stress on people which makes them more sane and predictable. Top reasons for divorce: money (economics) and cheating.
Man who stockpiled hand sanitizer donates it all ahead of investigation
You have to create an account, but you don't need to sign up for a subscription, so yes, it's free.
No.

That would implies 100% infection, at a base reproduction rate 15 (close to measles), and a mortality of 30% (close to Ebola).

If left unchecked covid-19 would infect 100-250 millions Americans. The R0 is 2.5-3. The average mortality rate is said to probably be closer to 1% rather the 3.4% previously advanced, so 1-2.5 millions deaths, which we will hopefully never reach if people follow the current social distancing and self-quarantine guidance.
This post (it's parents)!

The US already moving that way in baby steps but things will certainly get there. That it isn't there already is already bad but I can't see this taking more than a few more days.
Older Republicans are the ones spewing and buying into this crap, which is not surprising, since that's where a lot of the "you'll pry my liberty from my cold dead fingers" attitude resides.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/14/older-ame...
Call for Volunteers – NECSI’s Distributed Ventilator Project
Over the past decade, the animal-agriculture industry has been behind the introduction of "ag-gag" bills in more than half of all state legislatures across the country.

https://www.aspca.org/animal-protection/public-policy/what-a...

If the problem was just trespassing then existing trespassing laws would be sufficient.
Here's a similar example except the victim didn't survive: https://youzicha.tumblr.com/post/137883089259
No.

That would imply 100% infection, at a base reproduction rate of 15 (close to measles), and a mortality rate of 30% (close to Ebola).

If left unchecked covid-19 would infect 100-250 millions Americans. The R0 is 2.5-3. The average mortality rate is said to probably be closer to 1% rather the 3.4% previously advanced, so 1-2.5 millions deaths, which we will hopefully never reach if people follow the current social distancing and self-quarantine guidance.
Yeah, so, I think you are reading in something I never said. It sounds to me like you are hearing some doomsday prediction I never made.

All I said was "I don't think we can predict where this goes." That's it. That's my entire point.

And I don't know why you have such a problem with that.
I wonder how this'll play out longer term. I'm betting the company who designed/manufactures the ones they're copying isn't super happy about the implications for this...

I wonder if there ought to be a 3D printed copyright license scheme kind of like the one that exists for music (APRA here in .au) where you can pay for a blanket licence to print copyrighted designs, and the licensing organisation redistributes copyright payments based on usage, so you don't need to ask for specific permission for each use?
Anybody have a link to the STL?

I have a large format 3d printer (.5m x .5m x .5m) and am in Indiana.
So it's functionally equivalent to `kill` with PID of -1, which is what we used to use back in the old days anyway. `kill -9 -1` should only kill your user processes if you're not root.
I think that you're missing the point that younger people are still at risk of infection. They're far less likely to die, and so make great carriers.
The vast majority of 25-45 year olds will never have to miss an entire month of work due to an illness.

Now with this action, an entire segment of the economy is being wiped out for at least a month, and it happens to correspond to a segment which is extremely unlikely to have any PTO or sick time policy.

Most 25-35 year olds are not prepared to lose a month of income without suffering serious financial hardship. That’s reality. Not an “abdication of personal responsibility” at all.

The people taking it on the chin here are simply not the people at risk from this virus. Do I think they will literally starve? No, likely not. But they will be suffering serious financial hardship as a result of these actions, when they are in fact extremely unlikely to suffer health consequences from COVID.
i understand what you are trying to say.

but people aren't concerned with young folks being at risk. they are concerned that they will spread it. that's why schools are closed. they wanna "plateau the curve" or whatever they call it.

curious, can't personal training happen online? via i dunno, skype or slack?

if not, well, someone needs to make it happen.
Of course, following the loan analogy, there's a risk of default. If your local taqueria goes under before things return to normal, all of those burrito bucks you bought are effectively worthless.
I've been using ZeroTier for a small collection of two devices plus two servers. Honestly, the main pain points I have are UX: Android and Dashboard. Other than that, I have no complaints.
The people in at-risk groups are people too. You're acting like their lost lives don't matter.
I remember having fun with my roommates in college with this.
Yes, good luck explaining things to people who can't understand basic instructions via text. You might use it for "records" to protect yourself, but getting things done is easier. When I ask someone 'do you understand', in text it might sound very aggressive and sometimes offensive. Via phone or video, it is much more relaxed. If you are concerned about recording, just use screen capture and save it somewhere for a while. Even text cannot be used as a clear evidence, the other person simply says 'I didn't understand that sentence that way'.
People are eager to give the government power when they're scared. You can feel the panic in the HN threads -- at the end of the day, most people are herding animals. A free society can't effectively force a quarantine, outside of the voluntary recommendations already being provided for social distancing. That seems like a trade-off many would find reasonable if the plague wasn't currently on their minds (2% chance of dying in a plague every century in exchange for having civil liberties the rest of the time).

What a free society could do is massively incentivize and subsidize new drug research, while lowering the barrier to entry for human trials. Right now this is only being done manually in the US with a few drugs and major players, such as Remdesivir, instead of allowing a systematic approach for non-major players to skip the line, too (e.g. university research labs).
Sidestepping the issue of how much a human life is worth you are also missing that the death rate would skyrocket if everyone gets sick and needed treatment at the same time.
Do we know what were the bottom 30-year fixed rates were after 2008, and how long it took to get there?
I work in financial services (although that doesn’t mean you should trust my opinion any more than you otherwise might; I also do not work at a bank). I am absolutely telling you, based on my research, banks will sit on that cash and not lend it out in an appreciable amount. Did banks lend more in negative interest rate policy environments? It does not appear so based on reports from the very central banks who put those policies into place [1].

Banks want (mostly) safe returns. “Borrow at 3, lend at 6, at the golf course by 3”, as the saying goes. You need action by an institution that prioritizes rapid injections of cash to accelerate monetary velocity over conservative lending practices, and where saving the economy (and we are clearly at the precipice as indicated by how fast the Fed is moving) takes precedence over appeasing shareholders.

Disclaimer: My opinions are my own, and in no way, shape, or form that of any employer past, present, or future.

[1] https://www.pnc.com/insights/corporate-institutional/gain-ma...
Ask HN: What is the best coronavirus map?
I haven't found a truly comprehensive map in which you can find/sort/filter all relevant data (daily moves, filter by country/region/city

- JH coronavirus was a good first-mover, but filter is bad, not optimized for mobile. Bubble map is not necessarily good with so many overlapping regions

- Bloomberg, NYTimes and many other are static figures with little to improve and allow for deep dives.

- Kudos to the nextstrain community for providing a awesome epidemiologic tree
There was a thread about this that unfortunately didn’t get much traction:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22233032

Link to paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-21058-w/
> I'm sort of surprised they didn't try to push the issue from the bottom.

I think American finance would rather we end the world right now than give money directly to those who need it without Wall Street getting a cut.
Totally different scale, but this reminds me of Jesse Livermore, possibly the best speculator of all times.

> Following the end of World War I, Livermore secretly cornered the market in cotton. It was only interception by President Woodrow Wilson, prompted by a call from the United States Secretary of Agriculture, who asked him to the White House for a discussion that stopped his move. He agreed to sell back the cotton at break-even, thus preventing a troublesome rise in the price of cotton. When asked why he had cornered the cotton market, Livermore replied, "To see if I could, Mr. President."

A true hacker of the markets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Lauriston_Livermore
Your savings account will not drop 25% in one week unless you withdraw from it.
it was a very good thing that someone was quick on their feet and made this happen but 3d printing is no solution to the systematic lack of these supplies.

The problem here, and I think this will be much worse in the weeks to come in the US and the UK, is the institutional decline of manufacturing capacity and the reliance on long supply chains from countries which are themselves at max capacity.

Every country should be able to, in crisis, quickly switch to mass production of vital goods that guarantee the physical safety of their citizens. Globalisation and post-industrial societies might have created nice margins for some subset of the population for a while but I doubt the corona virus will be swayed by management consultants.
I'm betting the company is really happy that their clients have been able to keep patients alive.
There is substantial Supreme Court precedent regarding this, Americans have a Constitutional right to freedom of travel on par with freedom of speech. Exceptions are extremely narrow and limited. I don't think people here realize how many times this has been reviewed by the court in cases the government deemed exceptional. This is not new territory legally.

The interstate commerce clause is fundamentally restricted in scope such that it does not violate fundamental individual rights i.e. you cannot use the commerce clause to restrict free speech.
Ask HN: Why are banks not closing?
Cash is one of the most contaminated substances passed between individuals. Banks have the infrastructure to run drive-thru only branches. Why are banks not closing?

I understand that there are those out there who rely on cash, but since when does big finance care about those people over their credit card holders?