skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the Fed loses this fight, game over.

Only in the sense that the fate of the world rests in inflated asset prices. That's not to say actions of the Fed cannot stabilize the markets, which is very important. But if the world is scared and scared for a long time (demand shock), there's not much the Fed can do. Then it will come down to whether or not the USG can become the "consumer of last resort" via fiscal stimulus.
> but there’s nothing fundamentally different in terms of finances between the week before and the last week

This is not true for many households. People with young schoolchildren, people who work for tips or in the service industry, people who can't work remotely but are forced to stay home. There are many people whose finances have fundamentally changed in the last week.
Ask HN: Why is Google creating a Covid-19 questionnaire for US Gov?
For a recession to start something fundamental has to change irreversibly. E.g. cornerstone companies implode. A class of securities evaporates.

What does the virus pandemic change irreversibly?
I hope the number of available hospital beds in the UK matches their statistics model.
Can't recommend this enough. It's an exponential increase in difficulty/time spent on the exercises, but it's really worth it, you end up learning both how to read assembly and different low-level security issues, countermeasures (NX, ASLR, stack canaries, safer programming paradigms) and bypasses to said countermeasures.
If you use an ad-blocker you could add their logos to the blocking lists and then take the site for a test run before showing the kids.
Does this interest rate transfer to lower mortgage rates? Is now a good time to refinance loans?
In case scraping doesn't work for a certain link, you could have a "limited" update feature: Download website html, compress and hash it and store locally; each update cycle, download it, compress, hash and compare to local copy. If it has changed, then simply light it up in the UI. For me, simply seeing that there's something new on the site I want tracked is enough information so I can visit it and check out the new article myself.

Of course, false positives are a downside. Someone fixing a typo shouldn't count as an update. I'm sure the community can think of settings for the "update sensitivity" where level 0 requires at least a new tag to appear on the page, level 1 requires a change of at least N characters, and level 2 notifies on even a change of one character.

I love this extension already and am willing to help out with PRs :-)
k9s is an excellent CLI alternative.

https://github.com/derailed/k9s
It was flagged and thereby removed from the front page. I don't want to speculate why it was flagged.
As a problem, classroom scheduling is very interesting. The kids and the teachers were well aware of challenges anyone doing the scheduling hadv and very much doubt any software at the time could handle non standard situations. Interestingly enough,just last year I was trying to find off the shelve software that could do scheduling and have a calendar feature for one our suppliers. After considering 10 or so options I ended up with a conclusion that unless someone would do custom solution, they'd have to continue using Excel for it.
Link to an established authority saying not to occasionally visit friends or you are spreading panic.
Would someone be able to negotiate a 0% loan with a bank you think?
Is there any technical detail on how these features are implemented?

I would like to support improved email but at least some of this has to be implemented at the protocol level, otherwise it’s just another walled garden that will wither and die out in a few years.
Right, the german government confirmed that the US was trying to secure an interest in a german company, not that they were trying to get exclusive access. The reuters report even says as I quoted before:

> The U.S. government has spoken with many (more than 25) companies that claim they can help with a vaccine. Most of these companies already received seed funding from U.S. investors... any solution found would be shared with the world

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-german...
No. This is a rate for banks only. You get the rate banks pass on to consumers, which is obviously higher, because they need to make money.
I misspoke - it generates straight yaml not helm https://www.pulumi.com/blog/kubernetes-yaml-generation/
This does seem to be a worthwhile effort and I have no doubt some good will come of it. But I'm not sure targeting COVID is the best idea. Projects can certainly help with that, but they need to scale, fast. Plus any sort of physical requirements like manufacturing is out of the question. What I'd be worried about is the next COVID. I don't mean this in a literal, disease based fashion. We should be asking about the next global disaster. How can our infrastructure break down? What can we do to strengthen it? Who is vulnerable?

Also I'm a little concerned about medical projects that are created in an emergency and attempting to do fast track research. Immediate solutions may sound great but we don't want to do more damage in our hastiness. Urgency can lead to wishful thinking which can lead to disaster.
Any cache should have this property
Do you have examples of breaches you'd attribute to imitating "BeyondCorp"? What you describe does not sound like that.
Holocaust involved death of 1-11 million people (depending on sources and who you want to count). Not a fan of government's current approach, but Boris shouldn't grow a pencil moustache just yet.
> The business about "character requirements" and visiting the employees' homes also looks like a conscious attempt to control where the workers fit in the class system.

I won't say that wasn't part of it. But I see a stronger connection to risk management. Reducing turnover means making sure you hire people who won't suddenly be arrested, hospitalized, or forget because they're too drunk. And the language requirement makes sure everyone in the factory can communicate with everyone else. The rules for women are likely just sexism though.
Nobody thinks it’s a good idea. It’s just nonsense. There is no debate.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/epidem...
Presumably there is a maximum precision or otherwise a seemingly innocuous calculation could run you out of memory.
It's poorly worded. Obviously the content storage itself is state by definition, but it means non-dynamic (or at least cacheable / "stateless") resources.
California just announced all bars are to close, and restaurants limited to half normal capacity.
That's interesting, sad, and makes intuitive sense.

But I'm not sure we can take it back and say "we need to allow more people to die from coronavirus so that fewer die from unemployment". Ideally we would want to minimize both.
Adding some further nuance to this point:

- Many other rates in existing contracts are tied to the fed funds rate so things like existing mortgage and student loan payments may get smaller as a result of this action

- This will only work for new contracts insofar as credit risk does not materially increase (which it will in an economic downturn); banks will increase consumer spreads against the fed funds rate on a go-forward basis
Direct purchases of shares will do little to alleviate this crisis.

The treasury purchases will fund the government to help industries which are badly affected from going under, companies with cash flow issues, and employees who need to take time off - which they already announced on Friday. I think $500b will be the beginning, will likely be much more needed
> a "gratitude education campaign," under which Wuhan citizens would be taught to express their thanks to Xi and the party for their efforts in tackling the illness.

Man you're not just expected to thank him, you're going to be "taught" to do so too ... ?
Presumably the answers to these are:

- Until a vaccine is developed.

- Yes

- Until a vaccine is developed.
Unfortunately, I was unable to get the .separator command to accept the control characters. It always threw an error stating that multi-character separators are not allowed. Since those characters are in the regular ASCII table, I wouldn't have thought they were multi-character/byte characters, but maybe sqlite just doesn't allow the use of non-printing characters.
It will, but not just yet. There’s too many people trying to refi right now and supply can’t keep up with demand, so rates are higher than they should be. Give it another 3-6 months and I wouldn’t be surprised if mortgage rates fell by another 1%.
It's a consequence of modularization, and it's not at all unique to Node.js. (Although Node.js has hyper-modularization, so the situation is more pronounced.)

Ruby gem has lock files, Python pip has lock files. I wish everyday that apt/dpkg had lock files.

The balance is between permissive versions (small install size) and pinned versions (reproducibility).

Some situations call for one, some call for the other.
italian and spanish prime ministers good enough for you? don't have better at hand, sorry
Basecamp are also working on a new Web based Email. We went from little to no competition in the space to having two launches within same time frame?

I guess this is a sign that people are generally not happy with Gmail?
The Airport Chaos Is the Product of Negligence
The rate of rule breaking comments was high. The other threads may give an impression, if you show dead comments.

Some are spreading the conspiracy theory that either the broadcasters and news outlets conspired to produced incorrect but matching reports, or that the German government intentionally spreads the lie that the Trump administration tried to secure exclusive access to the vaccine. It seems to me that Trump supporters want to shield his administration from reports that make it look bad.
Please don't make comments like this on HN. They lower the tone and add nothing of value to the discussion.

We have explored a little whether the population of Taiwan being somewhat closer to the UK's than the other two named countries was significant in a sibling thread.

In addition, in the UK, which is the subject of this discussion, it is certainly the case that we do not currently have sufficient resources to cope with a widespread, uncontrolled outbreak. There have been a number of further announcements today regarding how the government is hoping to acquire new space for treatments, acquire essential equipment like ventilators on a much larger scale than is currently available, and bring in more trained staff to make use of these resources to help treat coronavirus patients. Even if these plans work out as is hoped, all of them will require at least several weeks to make a large difference. This isn't my opinion, it's coming straight from senior government figures and their senior medical and scientific advisors.
This is a good point on social aspect: no software can go to a couple of teachers and say: look, there's an overlap and we've only got one classroom,how about you do x,y,z and then next time you get x,y,z.
Each day people don't take action against the virus costs ~20% more lives.

Wuhan knows this.

Lombardy knows this.
Just to clarify: I was not defending the idiotic choice of the UK government. Was helping lay out numbers to show how stupid that decision is.
Sooner or later, it comes down to total employee costs vs what value the employee contributes becomes the opportunity cost of money, usually around 15%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

Supply & demand forces will always be pushing things toward this value.
Does that matter? CPython comes preinstalled on basically every Linux distribution as a dependency for some other program these days.
Fair enough, so why was that particular article flagged on HN?
Anytime a game from another country has a Chinese version, you can generally expect changes to include content censorship (blood and skeletons are common), isolated servers run by a Chinese company (NetEase in this case), and so forth.

Any Chinese game is de-facto censored compared to the versions released outside of the country.
Antivirals != vaccine.

Antivirals for sars-cov-2 seem MUCH more likely to arrive quickly than a vaccine, and I wouldn't be surprised to find that several of the things currently being tested (some of which are already approved for the treatment of other conditions) are effective.
Type Juggling and MySQL: A Dangerous Combination
Not unless it's bundled into some other set of services with profit for the bank attached.
Ask HN: Android app for reading online books?
Some authors publish their books online as website. But I found that reading such books is bit painful, because browser doesn't allow to track progress or customize font or style.
Federal Reserve Cuts Rates to Zero
15k but you're right otherwise. they've done many other things for this to work. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/13/8154410...
> is because the cold evolves

The coronaviruses that cause colds (such as CoV-OC43) don't mutate much. Immunity to them doesn't last long for reasons that aren't well understood.

Some other viruses that cause colds escape immunity through mutation, other non-CoV cold causing viruses escape are like CoV and also just have short immunity periods without mutation.
> I claim Worstall is wrong about the former.

He'd be right. It's not possible to run a successful business by paying people to buy your product. The numbers don't add up.
Yeah... not a good sign.
The measures taken have a delay until you notice their effect. Since we only see confirmed cases (delayed by the incubation period and probably mostly those who show severe symptoms) and deaths (delayed further by the time it takes to die) there's a lot of people out there who don't (yet) show any symptoms but can still infect others. With the lockdown measures in places we should see an effect in reduced confirmed cases in the next few days, hopefully.
Asset purchases will help to stabilize markets

- The fed became a huge driver of liquidity from from 2016-2018

- There was a noticeable increase in market toxicity when they started letting assets roll of their balance sheet in 2018

I'm more optimistic about the impacts of their role as a liquidity provider than I am about their role holding down the effective overnight borrowing rate.
Assuming you can get someone highly competent to do scheduling, which isn't all that likely. More likely you'll get someone who both produces mediocre results, and favors their friends.

Even if you can get competence, you may want to automate it anyways. I'm currently working in health, and I recently visited a radiology center that claimed it took a full year to get front desk staff fully up to speed. Understanding the full scheduling requirements for all scans, some medicare rules that influence scheduling, and how to handle all the various problems, takes a long time. They live in terror of having front desk staff leave, because a quick replacement is impossible.
In my opinion your comment is the one offending.
They obviously should quarantine every country that has the brilliant objective to make 60% of the population ill.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22586743
It's a grand system. As long as you're Xi.
I think more everyday people in China would be ready to thank him if he would share just some of that delicious Hunny he keeps all to himself.
> If it is an email client, does it have mobile apps?

It says on the website:

Consider is built for Web, Mac, iOS, and Android.
Haha, that was funny.

Though obviously misguided. The C64 was superior. Commodorian 4ever here!
Yeah, so there is an unsubstantiated german government source and then the very next sentence the company denies it themselves:

>CureVac issued a statement on Sunday, in which it said: “The company rejects current rumors of an acquisition”.

Finally they give a quote from a US rep:

> The U.S. government has spoken with many (more than 25) companies that claim they can help with a vaccine. Most of these companies already received seed funding from U.S. investors... any solution found would be shared with the world
oh ok, yes I was a child of the 80's and it was popular here to, something I'd been curious about, ta
Fortunately it doesn't work that way and Presidents don't have that level of control. If they did, it would've gone to zero a long time ago.
Show me some other country in the world that has the declared objective to infect 60% of its population, please.
Imagine if Trump had tried as hard to contain coronavirus as he’s trying to pump markets rn
> Tons of exposed s3 buckets and other assets keep showing that.

Would firewall rules help alleviate that though? I can only speak for GCS (GCP's s3 equivalent), but firewall rules don't apply to GCS buckets.

Like a sibling commentator said, I would like to know more instances of companies getting breached specifically for adopting a zero trust networking philosophy.
This is the kind of argument I see from people who say things like "busses, you invented busses".

Use tech skills to help people setup video conferencing so that more people can be less emotionally isolated, while still be physically isolated.

Create a crud app where you can "trade grandmas" - I help bring groceries to your relatives nearby me, you help to bring some to my relatives near you.

This situation is serious we can no longer afford nihilists.
I imagine because 1) discussion was propagating false information and 2) devolving into political infighting which is not allowed here.
That's impressive. My car has a 4 liter V6 gasoline engine making 264hp, but fuel consumption is more like 17mpg.
Reminiscent of the Jean Michel-Jarre concerts in China. "Ladies and Gentlemen, the artist has finished. Please applaud."
Why gold? Anyone can choose any commodity for comparison. Re-do it using copper--or potatoes--and you'll get different answers.
It’s disingenuous for another reason—outside of the extremely rare private jet, airplanes aren’t intended for consumers. Seats on an airplane are.

So the good-faith version of the argument would be: people who work at Boeing should be payed enough to afford going on vacation by airplane.

(I’m not saying I agree with that statement, as it’s an odd benchmark for other reasons. But it isn’t ludicrous.)
People are still out here downvoting me for suggesting that China is an authoritarian propaganda infested shithole.

This is how things work in a communist inspired regime. It was the same bullshit in the Soviet Union. You are told what to think and who to like and what to report by the government. You either tow the line or are admonished and/or disappeared. Especially in times of crisis.

Such governments prioritize optics above all else because without respect and/or fear from the people, they cannot rule. Nothing out of China right now can be trusted - and we have a mountain of evidence that much of the official narrative is false, despite the government's best efforts at damage control.

This virus should be a wake-up call to the millions of Americans who think life around the world is anything like the relative freedom and comfort that we enjoy here.

You people need to understand something. China is a third world country which has modernized in less than a generation. The vast majority of rural Chinese are living in poverty with little to no education. It takes decades to bring a country with a billion people into the first world. These are people who do not know freedom of speech and most of them don't even use the internet. This is a totally different world and their government is taking full advantage of the ignorance of the commons. You all read about these things in history books - they exist in modern day in North Korea and to a slightly lesser extent in China.

For fuck's sake this is a regime that has imprisoned more than a million ethnic muslims on a whim. Wake up.

This is not a statement against the Chinese people, and your visceral, oversocialized reaction, that gut instinct to dismiss me as "racist" or "xenophobic" is inappropriate and dangerously counterproductive. Differences in culture cannot be overstated. The Soviet Union only broke up some 30 years ago - none of this is far-fetched.
What an article full of generalisations. Is this author really talking for 11 million Wuhan citizens? Over what, social media posts?
How long for and does this include workers too or just tourists?

This isn’t really tenable if you want a functioning economy, and cases will slip through.
It is a completely separate community, and is incompatible with other Minecraft. In PRC, I'm pretty sure actual Minecraft is not available.
The New York Times has a story delving into the different levels of commitment that's been reported for Google (in a story last updated on Sunday):

"With Google executives eager to show they are working with the president, the company [Verily] is racing to meet the promise even as they acknowledge that the debut of the website will be far more limited than Mr. Trump has suggested..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/us/politics/trump-google-...

"Mr. Trump’s comments caught Google completely off guard and executives rushed to issue a statement on Friday afternoon to temper expectations, making it clear that the website is an effort led by Verily, not Google itself... Since then, Google executives have scrambled to coordinate with the White House in an effort to do as much as possible to make the president’s vision for the website a reality."
Why haven't they? There's a worldwide shortage of ventilators and prices are through the roof.
Do you have a source for this?

That doesn't appear to be the case at least according to the Fed's website (https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm ), which shows the most recent change to the requirements being in January - setting it at 3% for large banks.
The first Bitcoin wallet to sign and encrypt messages forever in the blockchain
right now healthcare should really be considered critical infra too.
To clone UNIX, in whatever form they had to have had access to it in first place.

Which was with the tapes that flown out of Bell Labs into several universities and the commercial licenses that were almost gratis, given the price difference to other OSes.

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/licenses.html

People keep reinventing history as if UNIX won based on merit, when it was licensing that made all the difference.

Like the fairy tale that before C no one ever did a high level systems programming language.
As someone said before, I think this is more about sending a message, as in "we're going to do whatever it takes". To be honest I don't know what the future will hold from a financial/economics point of view, but imho this is an once-in-a-century crisis.
Basecamp's entry: https://hey.com/
I fully agree. The more fragmented cross platform build tools become the less useful they are. Cmake is really pretty good and has some support from Microsoft in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
don't know about you but that sounds like way over designed capacity...
Thanks for the links you've been posting, @throwaway_7718! All great material that will be tried in due time :)
+1 - pgrep and pkill should be more widely 'taught' for this reason
Ask HN: What can programmers do to help with the covoid crisis?
I can't help but think that somewhere in all the logistics going on, there must be a process or two that could be improved via software. Communication, coordination, data processing, something. On top of that, many have found themselves with extra free time.

But without being a part of one of the relevant organizations, how can most of us help?
Don't know why this is downvoted. Cutting interest only benefits the wall street in the next couple months. Basically this admin only knows two things: 1, Cut interest rate 2, Cut tax And it doesn't care if the world explodes after they step down.
You're lucky he's not just parking his cars and playing loud bass music for hours. That'd be 100x worse.
If someone in authority "encourages" you to work from the office, that isn't a positive motivation. It's a "polite" order.