skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post is partially plugging https://tailscale.com.

With everyone looking at remote work, tons of people must be questioning their VPN strategy right now. I know we are.

I was going to complain that that's a close source product (as I don't want to use something closed source for my network access controls) but it looks like the code is on Github, just not linked in an obvious way from the website. https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale

Has anyone used this or checked out the code? I may give it a spin.
Impact of school closures and telework to mitigate COVID-19 in France [pdf]
And in the service sector, job loss isn't so clear cut... people will just have hours reduced a ton, in some ways being a defacto lay-off.
South Korea can test about 10,000 patients a day. Their total population is about 50 million. They've primarily been relying on contact tracing to target their testing, I think.
The alternative is letting it widely infect the population leading to 5%+ of symptomatic cases dying (which could be as much as 2% of the overall population) and people being unable to get critical medical attention for any ailments while this is happening. You don't think the economy would shut down in the scenario, if only from upper-middle-class and up individuals quitting their jobs and bunkering down to save their own skins?
I found vault a pain to setup and maintain. I think security solutions should be as simple as possible so people use them and understand them.

What I like about SOPs is that we still leverage AWS keystore to store our master key, but we store encrypted secrets in git. This is helpful as we have a history of rotations (great for rollbacks, audits, etc). Additionally, SOPs doesn’t encrypt yaml keys, so one can tell what a secret is but not its values.
I misread the URL and thought this was for jacobin, and not jacobian
The Most Important Media Businesses of the (Past and) Future
Gmail has 2.0 Billion users right now. Anything that's successful is going to build an Outlook integration. The reason they aren't launching with Outlook integrations is because it's hard to launch as an enterprise product without any validation for the core value prop; otherwise you'd be spending years building permission management features without knowing whether the actual core product is even useful in the first place.
If you look on amazon, lots of them are getting sold out. This might be what changes people’s view on it...
There's a good chance we see negative interest rates in the US this year.
Related from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9591460
8 minutes older with more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22586743
I think it's much better to enter a recession while employed. For starters: not everyone is fired, obviously. If you're not fired then you can just keep going on as usual. It's not easy to find a job in a contracting economy.
If anything, I think tech is protected from the effects of the coming recession. Our industry is one of the best poised to maintain business as usual. That said, the impact of the economic effects is coming.
I don't think it has all of them, but [0] is a tarball from Research Unix that has some Writer's Workbench source code.

The files are in cmd/wwb.

Other tarballs may have more Writer's Workbench code but I haven't looked at them.

[0] https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dan_Cros...
Same here. I was about to start a new job abroad two weeks from now, but now my country's borders are locked and I can't fly out (not that I'd want to if I could, in this situation). I'm hoping I can renegotiate for remote, but if that fails, I'll be burning through savings too.
It's Google; they have sufficient ML capacity to filter cases. It might require additional manpower in the short term, but it also lowers the likelihood of infrastructure failure long-term.

What might not make sense, resource-wise, to smaller companies does start to make sense at their scale.
Economic stimulus like this works if it incentivizes people to engage in more economic activity. But it won't because of the virus. In fact I'd argue it is immoral to tempt people into more economic activity right now, something which is significantly at odds with what we all need to do to minimize transmission. Insomuch as it affects the rates on existing loans and provides relief then that's a good thing, but its not well targetted for that purpose.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22584108
The Fed's move to cut to zero has been expected by everybody over the last few sessions. This is not new information.

As for why they're doing this, well, monetary stimulus is really all the Fed can do, ineffective as it is, and in the vacuum of fiscal intervention from Washington I guess they feel that someone has to do something. By cutting all the way to zero they also put the ball in the government's/congress's court so the focus is on their inaction, where it should be.
The whole versus the parts.
The human species will recover.
Some companies will not.
Anyone in academia have takes on the potential effects on graduate students (PhDs / post-docs)? What happens if a lab loses funding?
This is at odds with what anyone that is remotely looking at the numbers is thinking. It’s really a joke that so many people here are defending the suicidal choice of boris that is going to produce 1M deaths in the best scenario that I can think of unless it changes everything from YESTERDAY, not from now.
Looks really good!
Actually it's been reported very widely in Germany as well with exactly this headline.
That’s exactly the controversy in the UK government’s off-piste response to this scenario.

If it pays off, Britain will win handsomely out of this.

That’s one hell of a massive “if”.
My "high interest" savings accounts already took a recent haircut and this will accelerate that. I understand that's the idea: make investing attractive and savings unattractive. But for a regular joe like me, this is exactly the time I want to be saving more so it stings.
Flattening the curve is not an alternative to letting it widely infect the population, it is just managing the rate of infection slightly. The same number end up infected.
Linkbait.

Offers no evidence. I see no reason why the vast majority of software companies would be affected at all by this (Github, google, amazon, etc).

I especially foresee this being a huge benefit to biotech.
> my guess is that it's largely political.

Trump made a HUGE deal of being “so surprised” that the announcement by the fed was made just a few minutes into his live press conference. He kept saying over and over that he had no idea this was going to be announced at such an opportune time.

Of course it’s political.
A visual history of pandemics – World Economic Forum
I think the comment was alluding to the unpopularity of these figures within the "intelligentsia". This group has been making politicised statements masquerading as authoritative announcements quite often. This group love these interjections and the people that follow them do to. But they have sowed distrust.

The person is making a fair point, but cocking it up a bit.
No. He had to pay more than other employers to retain employees. Once all workers are paid well, he has to pay better than them. It has nothing to do with any desire to protect his own class.

The line about wanting his employees to buy cars is obvious propaganda, but hard to argue with lacking the truth it was meant to distract us from. The truth was not obvious, but required more facts, which the author supplied. So, now we are equipped to put Ford's line to bed: he had no particular desire for his workers to live well, but did need them to stay on the line.
Are you kidding me? Tech is so ridiculously inflated, just look at how many stupid "tech" startups were created recently. This will deleverage now. Not even the "big guys" are so super safe - a lot of VC money is recycled back into "tech" via AWS bills and online ads.

The only worse business right now is probably oil, especially fracking. Those guys are doomed.
The "hot" we're talking here is beyond what the machines are specced for and suggests something is wrong (in this case the rack was tilted and it was messing with the cooling system). That should never happen under normal operation, otherwise it suggests a bigger problem (either the whole building is too hot, or there's a design flaw in the cooling system).
I feel like in the domain of Software companies, this only applies to very traditional, conservative companies. Most startups and “liberal” companies will be fine having their employees WFH. In a month or so, they could even be pleasantly surprised about how worker productivity went up due to the benefits of WFH.
This sounds more like a fix for an issue that should not exist in the first place. Why is npm ignoring the lock file to begin with? Why not publish and respect it on install?
All of the sins from the results of ‘07-‘08 have brought us here. The underlying economy is sick. The nCovid-19 is just helping to expose it.

Until we as a society accept r > g and we begin to take appropriate measures things like this will become larger and larger instead of smaller. (1).

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_...
The US ventilator companies say they can already ramp up production 5x. They just need the orders. And they can probably make more basic units which might be sufficient

https://www.forbes.com/sites/baldwin/2020/03/14/ventilator-m...
> It’s looking increasingly likely that the COVID-19 pandemic will cause a recession. I’m neither an epidemiologist nor an economist

Financial markets have stability issues when the situation is calm in the short term, but it’s unknown what’s going to happen six months from now. The situation is reversed today, we’re all going through some bad mess due to our states being unprepared for this, but it’s mid to high chance this will have settled one way or another in six months.

What we had last week was a shock that came not from the financial system itself but from public health. We might have to adjust our lives to this and that might have financial implications, but there’s nothing fundamentally different in terms of financial markets between the week before and the last week.

Recessions or down cycles are normal, and that might happen - and that is finances just charting the rest of the world at large. But the 2008 crisis was a result of something going haywire in the financial system itself, which is something that is more prone to create much bigger shocks than external events. We might have a mild recession, yes. But it’s unlikely it’s going to be like 2008, since this crisis is fundamentally external.
Thanks. I have ppe that I can wear but I’m not using it yet. To be honest there is an air of hostility towards people wearing masks etc and I don’t want to get caught in that. If it gets worse I won’t have much choice though.
But at google scale, you'd think they would have something for that. At a previous company I worked at, we had a guy whose entire job was to monitor temperatures throughout all of our data centers. He built a service that collected minute by minute temperature metrics on every server in every datacenter. Once collected it would create automated tickets for data center technicians to investigate when servers and racks got too hot. He even built this cool website where you could view real time maps of each rack and their temperature in every datacenter so that operations teams could visualize the high temperature areas in the data centers.
They are far worse at it than humans. This is the difference between narrow AI and general AI. Humans can do millions of different complex tasks, and can adapt when the situation changes. Computers are terrible at updating their models automatically based on new information, as they don't have understanding of the bigger context. Worse still, software today has no way of analyzing and adjusting the assumptions it is operating off of.
How are they fine if they don’t have customers anymore?
Campaign to 'thank' Xi Jinping flatly rejected by Wuhan citizens
European airlines are already announcing layoffs.
Government funding for research should be largely unaffected. Also most grants are long-term. On the other hand, fewer people will probably go into industry in the near-term which leads to more competition for grad school / postdocs.
Sounds like a pointless hill to die on IMO, even if it is technically accurate. With language there's always plenty of context which humans are smart enough to make distinctions from.

I've never understood why people selectively allow broad context for most things, except for some pet subjects. The label programmers vs developers vs engineers is a good example, when the majority of people know what you're referring to. Making the distinction insignificant far more often than not.

Edit: Do you think Google really has 1700 "engineers" working on the coronavirus testing website? (probably not, that likely includes UX, designers, management, etc). Does it matter to the expected audience? (no).
Fed Cut Rates to Zero
We may also see some positive effects: Some companys may see the benefits of allowing homeoffice, others may see the benefits of not giving incentives to its employees to come to work ill. Perhaps a year of reduced travel and trade may also benefit the climate change...

Somewhere i have heard the phrase "Nothing is so bad that it doesn't have some good sides"...
death will follow either way, like 2008

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/25/financial-crisis...
https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5239
https://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2014/06/12/more-t...

damned if we do, damned if we don't
With so many people in lockdown, the extent to which we depend on the internet has probably never been so large, so the last thing we need is a global internet outage. A wormable vulnerability spreading through operating systems, web servers or web frameworks (to name a few) could put a serious strain on society, to put it lightly. Also less complex attacks like denial-of-service vectors in major internet software could have debilitating effects right now if targeted against critical institutions like hospitals.

Everyone who can write code can read code and find bugs. The projects that are in scope for the Google patch rewards program are a good starting point: https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/patch-rewards/
sorry to hear your bad experience.
contact me on discord and I'll try to help you work out those issues!
From direct effects, maybe. But no one is immune from the second order effects. Once our customers start going out of business because they are directly exposed, they can't buy our software anymore.
I think Front is more for external communication and Consider is more for internal communication. These are different usecases
In the case of the former, it's the virus that kills people. If deaths occurred by way of the latter, it would be only because the wealthy ruling class refused to pay their fair share (via the subversion of our democracy) to support basic necessities of food, shelter, and health care.
It was promoted as the reason, but all the evidence directly contradicts that.
Man arrested in USA for refusing to self-isolate
There have been studies showing that unemployment directly increases mortality here is just one [0].

[0] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448606/
I don't think I understand your comment, but in case my meaning wasn't clear: bringing up that quote in this context and acting like it applies to one nation more than others is flamebait. Nothing good can come of that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22586743

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22586822
Fed cuts interest rates and starts $700bn QE
What changes when the screen turned off?
If your package only works with specific versions you should put those versions in package.json - if the versions in package.json is correct then what specific versions within those bounds someone uses is ... well ... unrelated to your package.
I don't think anything has been proven yet, and it won't be unless Bitcoin is widely adopted at some point. The naysayers calling it a failure are as misguided as the fanatics who claim it's going to replace gold.

We just don't have enough data yet.
I find it offensive that the author assumes that people from older generations are necessarily ignorant or uninformed. The article could have been less patronizing.
Don't bother upvoting. All the other stories about this have been killed.
It all depends on the antenna the owner has. I’m kinda doubtful any of them are set up so they track satellites overhead full time.

The SDR’s are fully capable of receiving from satellites though. In fact you can even get the older weather satellites up there with nothing more than the rabbit ears that come out of the box in the cheap RTL-SDR kits on amazon. You just have to point them the right way and have the correct polarization and you’ll literally hear the image data they transmit as they pass overhead. Pipe the audio into decoding software and you have yourself an image.
but that's the part that only stopped going exponential after the lockdown hammer dropped right?
Muslims are prohibited to deal with interest with anyone, Jews or anyone else. So no, it was not outsourced to them. If Jews were allowed to lend money with interest to non-Muslims, that's a separate topic altogether.

Muslims still had to work in the economy and run businesses, and it was a Muslims majority land, so a few Jews lending money with interest is not going to affect the overall economy which is not based on interest.
One note... what you're describing is the IOER rate, not the fed funds rate. But other than that you're spot on.
airlines are already dumping staff, and that's the tip of the iceberg.
It may also be the software started enforcing things like limited overtime and back-to-back shifts that humans were otherwise fine scheduling.
The cruise ship industry would like a word with you.
IMHO this is a really bad idea. Let's hope they raise them slowly this time, unlike 2007-8 when they went back up quickly and triggered mayhem.
I am good at Programming and Development. But my pay is low. Hence I am constantly applying and looking out for jobs.
“To avoid overflow, counters were updated probabilistically to maintain an estimate of the logarithm of the count.”

Stuff like this really makes me love what the pioneers of CS did in the past. In the past, they were counting every byte and every register while nowadays, programmers make things without considering the impact it will have on the HW.
To anyone trying to search online for that "Schutt's Kernel language", the spelling turns out to be Shutt. At least according to the only match I got that wasn't pointing back to this thread, at https://web.wpi.edu/Pubs/ETD/Available/etd-090110-124904/
You'll never get zero on _some_ products. Retailers utilize low interest rates to provide "direct" financing to incentivize purchases at their stores. This is often provided as a "promotional"[1][2] rate with the hope that it will spur purchasing in the short term and then make money on the financing in a longer timeline. Often this is done at stores which sell "durable goods" (e.g. appliances or automobiles). The takeaway? You can absolutely get 0% as a consumer, as always though there is fine print.

[1]: https://www.mymoneyblog.com/be_careful_of_0.html
[2]: https://www.edmunds.com/car-loan/what-you-need-to-know-about...
all the other stories about this have been killed.
> tech is protected from the effects of the coming recession.

How so?

> Our industry is one of the best poised to maintain business as usual.

It may look true from a certain point of view. But things change very fast. A while ago, bankers thought they were immune to disruption in their industry.

Preparing your contingency plan never hurts.
Dollar Drops as Fed Slashes U.S. Interest Rates to Zero
This is not going to help

- It takes two years for monetary supply changes to fully propagate through the economy

- Cutting rates to 0% has not been effective in Japan or Europe

The fed does have a role to play here

- They can provide liquidity to the market

- They can serve as a backstop in a time of crisis

DC needs to get their shit together

- Eliminating Trump's tariffs would do more to increase long-term investment than cutting rates to 0%

- They should have created targeted lending program to help businesses that need short-term cash flow assistance yesterday; the next best time to do it is right f*ing now
> fast burn (where health services are overwhelmed).

To reach 'heard immunity', if it is even possible at all for sars-cov-2-- there is good reason to expect that it won't be-- without overwhelming critical care will, unfortunately, take years.

Unfortunately, too great a percentage of cases need critical care.

Even with places trying to mitigate-- with the exception of the few places where it was actually contained-- their ICUs are going to be (or are already being) overrun.

> , but I like they are having an honest grown up discussion about it

There is no evidence of this. Experts have been calling on the UK to publish their models and so far they have declined to do so. I would take a sizable bet that no such models exist which support their initial stance (which they are slowly and quietly backing away from, and moving to a position much more like other western countries).
Been using this for a while solely bc they show custom resources
He's already been exposed, many times. Made no difference to his base or to a large swath of independents.

His actions on this matter won't change anyone's mind already opposed to him, but it might get a few supporters off the couch in November.

He can always be exposed again November 5th. As the impeachment demonstrates, the threat of exposure is far more damaging to Trump than the exposure itself.
I'm not sure we need yet another build system. We pay a real price for this sort of fragmentation. If I have to pick up your cross-platform C++ codebase, I shouldn't have to learn yet another build system.

CMake/autotools/Premake/SCons/waf/Ninja/Meson/GYP/qmake/Bazel... and now xmake.

I'd rather CMake just be improved, than see endless incompatible reinventions. If you'll forgive a little snark: on the plus side, it's unlikely this new challenger will see any real uptake.
There's a few more small sectors like this. But I was thinking of the "official" s&p sectors:

https://www.tradingview.com/markets/indices/quotes-snp/
Fed effectively slashes rate to 0 and promises 700B QE
Manufacturing a hundred thousand 8-ounce bottles of hand sanitizer might be considerably easier than a hundred thousand times as difficult as getting a single one. I mean, have you tried distilling alcohol from fermented mash and mixing it with mucilage?
I don't really understand the economics of it all, but feels bit like throwing gas the flames. The downturn is inevitable. Does this soften it a little bit, I do not know.

If people just stop traveling and spending money like normally, as they are currently everywhere in Europe, there isn't really anything you can do about it. Which will sooner or later happen in US too, that's for sure. Doesn't really matter how cheap the prices are. Unless a vaccine is developed in very near-future, it's now just playing time before a large portion of population will contract Covid-19.
I'd like to warn everyone to not quit, even if you have deep savings or think a layoff is coming. Do reasonable things to stay, where reasonable depends on your support network and savings.

Even 2-3 extra months is significant cash for most of you. Not having a job during a recession is scary (even to me with no kids, no spouse, no dependents). Tech might be better off in some respects, but it also means it will be much harder to get a job in an emergency as those will be filled by many others.