skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is absolutely the key - unless we rapidly deploy a safety net we're going to see hourly workers across many sectors lose their income. A sudden spike in not being able to pay rents, buy food, take care of their children.

Unless we do something, we're going to see a rise in evictions, suicides, and civil unrest.
I find this situation very different from the bail outs of 2008. In 2008, the economy was too focused on housing and lending, and so real substantive changes needed to occur to refocus. People need to change jobs, etc. I was annoyed by the bailout then, though in the long term I came to see parts of it as wise.

In this situation, many many business which are fundamentally viable (great restaurants, cruise lines) are going to be threatened by a temporary dislocation (everyone social distancing). It's not clear to me that we need a fundamental reallocation of resources in the long term (we don't have too many restaurants, or vacation destinations).

In addition, I don't think its economically sensible to ask every business (say restaurant) to plan for a 2 year pandemic. It would just be inefficient. I think its right to handle that risk at the gov't level. It's all of our problem.

So, in this case, I am hoping for effective gov't action to preserve much of the economy. I don't think I benefit if in 2 years, all my favorite restaurants are gone, and all the big vacation operators are bankrupt.
New Jersey has had a trial program for several years now. In fact, you can buy the seed mix that the Garden State Parkway uses.

https://www.gspwildflowers.com/shop
> Also, the stock market becoming cheaper actually reduces inequality since it allows new savers to get in at a lower price. And the same thing for housing.

I'm sure all the hospitality workers getting fired/laid off are just itching to get into this rocky market right now.
Ask HN: What tool do you wish existed?
I am looking for ideas for a next project, and I'd really like to make something people really need and are willing to pay for. What is your need that can be fulfilled with a piece of software (or maybe with something else)?
UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy 2011 [pdf]
We are quickly reaching the point of no return because of the fear overshoot. We don't JUST have a virus problem, global financial markets are seizing up.

They should not have closed bars, restaurants, Vegas, etc. It was a panic move that just puts tens of thousands of people out of work.

I'm not even concerned with my losses now, I'm now concerned with the dollar itself. We need people going to work and doing the important things they do and that requires they get paid with dollars that have some kind of intrinsic value/buying power. If we hyper-inflate, people will just say "fuck it" and not go to work. You can't pay bills with worthless money. We're headed into "worthless money" really fast here, though.
Bottom-up stimulus money helps us "socially distance" faster and to a greater degree, and bounce back quicker... we don't want to exit this disaster with bankrupt small businesses and unemployed/broke/homeless individuals.
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The Next Recession Won’t Be Like 2008
Ah, I see I could have been clearer. By "go there" I mean let's not go further into nastiness. I don't mean let's not debate—quite the opposite. Nobody's killing the story or the discussion. The point is to discuss it in a way that doesn't destroy the container, which is our ability to keep discussing things in the future.
A headline that suggests an Apple-dominated world, but there are vice apps that unite platforms.
I work in computational drug discovery. With current hardware, we are basically limited to simulating single proteins for microseconds of time, and even that requires a lot of simplifying assumptions. So we can only simulate a small part of any given process. We can't develop high confidence about a complex cascading process this way.

Quantum computing would definitely help if we had it. And researchers are using deep learning in many parts of the process now.
Maybe there is no rational explanation, maybe it's just time to buy.
I get:

Websites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox
does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that
is not valid for cutvid.io. The certificate is only valid
for lattefx.com.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN
As the coronavirus spreads, remdesivir is given a second shot
I'm not sure what the situation is on Haskell. In Scala there are at least 3 such libraries.

I feel your objection is making the great the enemy of the good. These libraries are vastly better than the default way of working in imperative languages (I know from experience with both!) and we should try to make the innovations more widely known rather than nitpicking.
> Stock prices are supposed to include estimates of all futures earnings of a company

The difference between theory and practice is bigger in practice.

Meaning it's supposed to include it in theory, but in practice it's only an incomplete description. Humans are irrational and information in a market is never perfect.
iRobot is a great company. They'll sell you parts to repair your robot. The take refurbished units and sell them for educational purposes [https://www.irobot.com/about-irobot/stem/create-2], with a fully open and documented platform [https://www.irobot.lv/uploaded_files/File/iRobot_Roomba_500_...]. It's so obviously a company that started as somebody's grad school project, and remains so to this day, and I mean that in the best possible way.

As usual, a bunch of ripoff Chinese competitors will sell you a cheaper piece of shit that you'll find yourself throwing away in three years. Resist the temptation.
Ya, I agree but it doesn’t seem sane or advantageous at all.
Please don't tell people to do a search. If you're going to provide information provide sources, otherwise you're no better than Russian disinformation bots. This is exactly the kind of tactic they use. If you have a claim, provide a source. You are currently spreading unhelpful misinformation.
Credibility isn’t the same as perceived independence.
Mouse and keyboard works in games that support it today: https://beta.support.xbox.com/help/Hardware-Network/accessor...
I suppose I should be honest with myself and admit it's as much about the excuse of getting the Fenix as it is lack of utility in the Forerunner.

I am confident I could replace the battery, less so that I could do so non-destructively and make it waterproof when I reinstall everything - it's not designed to be particularly repairable, you can see they had to cut the plastic to get into the strap in that video. It would be fun to try to write new firmware for the watch and add some of the Fenix features to the Forerunner.
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DOM already has a "batching" interface: construct an arbitrary complex new node off-screen, then use eg. replaceChild() on the live DOM (possibly using importNode()/adoptNode()) to attach it as the last step of your event handler.
Something like that is being attempted with https://github.com/hecrj/iced
Would it be possible to make or print parts to enable a single ventilator support multiple patients?

A few studies suggest it could be done:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18164798
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16885402

Could be faster than building new ventilators.
If you have a cash buffer sit tight. The market will eventually find a relatively constant level to price in the disruption
There is good reasons compilers don't warn about most undefined behavior: there is so much might be but really isn't undefined behavior in the world.

I often write code that won't divide by zero, something I can prove because I know my whole program while the compiler only knows the file/library it is working with at the moment. As such I didn't put in a if divisor is zero check, and now want the compiler to waste my time on a warning that is wrong.
This is a bit wishy washy but generally scans true.
For a newbie 2 and 6 are what I'd consider the main points.

2. You will not get as much help as you need
- Because you're the new kid and they are dropping you on a legacy configuration job. Welcome to support baby. This ain't FAANG. You're not getting help because no body knows how to deal with what you looking after.

6. You won't understand everything you're doing
And truthfully neither will your peers. Someone will understand saml, they will do the saml and you'll try not to mess it up. Someone will understand the pipeline well, and you'll try not to mess it u. Some will understand the container system etc.

My own hard truth:
8. If you write doco it will be something you can show you boss that will set you apart. Writing is hard. Expressing technical ideas in writing is very hard.
Ask HN: [bio] How does drug/enzyme matching work? (COVID-19)
I'm looking for people that understand the process of matching drugs (inhibitors) to known enzyme preferences . The context is this recent and highly current discovery for COVID-19: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.07.981928v1.full

The paper describes a profile of key enzymes enabling virus activity. Interestingly, these enzymes are not known to be present in humans meaning that disabling their activity would kill the virus without affecting humans' biology.

I listened to Marcin Drąg's (one of the authors) press conference yesterday where he said the most promising short-term path to put this discovery into work is searching for existing already approved drugs that might inhibit this enzyme. In other words: retarget an existing drug to work against COVID-19 which would have a tremendous medical and economic impact if worked.

Does anyone understand what are the key challenges in matching a drug to enzyme profile? I wonder if a small team of software people could help? I've read a bit about people using deep learning approaches for both discovering and matching drugs but I lack domain specific knowledge to understand if it's relevant here.
There are .deb packages for Ubuntu and Debian available. I installed it on a freshly provisioned VM running Debian 10 in about 15 minutes. They even provide a shell script to obtain an let's encrypt SSL certificate.

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/quick-in...
They are different and it doesn’t matter. You shouldn’t be extending a car loan just to put a $100 or so a month into a mutual fund.
The difference being no other president in at least the past 3 decades has publicly tried to influence the Fed.

I’m sure every president has done so privately. Doing it publicly is not the same thing.

There’s also the fact that no other president did so during a boom cycle. That was new as well.

It’s possible Obama and Bush tried to influence Bernanke and Greenspan. But it’s definite Trump did so. I only need to look at his twitter history to confirm that.
Covid-19: List of Austin tech companies not sending workers home
"I might be mildly inconvenienced so it's 100% necessary for me to support a company that abuses its workers, sorry guys :/"
Elderly might not be able to take the vaccine, which will make it much more important for everyone else to be vaccinated. Vaccines provide immunity in aggregate as well as in person.
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French authority hits Apple with €1.1B antitrust fine
I can even join Prime and then save $24, bringing it to a total of $39 in discount. And all I'd need to do is join the Amazon ecosystem and I'd probably even be one of the customers that Amazon would make a net loss on, to my gain!

Honestly, that just trips my too-good-to-be-true alarm bells. The times I'd need Amazon I can usually find a similarly priced competitor, where buying is more of a breeze and bliss than Amazon, having to work through the special conditions of coupons, terms, etc.

There was only one case in my experience, in 2013 or -14, where Amazon was the "only choice", when I "want-needed" a cheap China-made USB microscope, and Amazon had it, but not a single merchant on eBay. The device was quite fresh on the market, and about half a year later was also available on eBay. I waited.
Very cool! I hesitate to self-link, but this is too related -- I have long had a similar but way smaller, less featureful (just a time-clock), and shoddily written design on my homepage: https://wcarss.ca
I don't think the model is going to be shared.

The people printing the valve have already technically committed copyright infringement.

Sharing the model with other hospitals that need to get them printed might be still borderline but still (I hope) tolerated.

But going further and sharing the model to the public could degenerate into a serious lawsuit.
Covid-19 is not half as dangerous as the response of government with quasi-marshall law.
In my opinion, the iRobot support and parts availability are worth the premium. Our 2013 model 650 is still running great. All we’ve had to do is periodically replace worn out brushes and spinners and at some point we replaced the main battery. This is all easily done with a screwdriver.
Yes it is. Science advances one funeral at a time. The most scientifically reasonable thing can still be wrong. If an authority forces everyone to do the same, then everyone would be wrong. And this is all assuming that there is zero corruption at play, which is unlikely.

Everyone should do the scientifically proven swab test every morning. The test has very strict requirements that were created by politicians and industry professionals working together! As it happens, only one company creates a rigorous enough test to fit the criteria. Thus every test is bought from said company. Is the test actually any good? Of course! Who has ever heard about bs being published as science before?
Why have you linked to the comments rather than the article? Is there a reason?
UK's sewage system 'in danger of gridlock from toilet paper substitutes'
Wouldn't the more effective point be to provide critical capital for smaller companies that might not be able to afford operating expenses while revenue is short?

I guess zero interest loans could cover parts of this but defaulting over a slow restart would still be a risk. I'm not enough of a money person to know what could be done there.
Fiscal not monetary. Fiscal stimulus is writing checks to people and companies affected.
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I didn't get that from the article. As a 15-year engineer who turned manager I would say the list sounds pretty reasonable. The biggest problem, which the article mentioned, I see with junior engineers is the inability to see the "product" over the "code". They want to "correct" the code and the stack but fail to weigh whether that actually improves the product.
Would be cool to replace the years with "Year in Decade", "Decade in Century", "Century in Millennium".....
I examined memes to find out how the coronavirus is impact­ing social media
1) I'm not sure about that. I think any pre-market activity influences the price it trades at during the day. For example, if a stock goes up 10% up pre-market because it beats earnings, it usually stays at that price level during the day. Just because people see the price up in pre-market. Same if it goes down. It acts as some sort of marker. It would be interesting to see how prices would be impacted if there were absolutely zero pre-market activity. For instance, if $SPY didn't drop 10% pre-market, and nobody put in any bids/sells yet, would $SPY open at 10% down? If it goes down even more, then so be it. At least, that's what the market wants. Not on an arbitrary marker price they see in pre-market and is stuck in their mind.

2) I think short selling helps misprice stocks in both directions. It creates artificial price increases simply b/c of shorts covering as well. Let stocks go up because more people want to buy it than they want to sell. And let stocks go down because more people want to sell than they want to buy. That's what a market is for other assets - whether it's ebay, amazon, groceries, etc. Don't let other technicalities affect the price.
That's... not what I said at all. The argument was against premature mass-application of a new vaccine before it's been fully tested.
Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead

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and did not continue to www.youtube.com. If
you visit this site, attackers could try to
steal information like your passwords, emails,
or credit card details.

What can you do about it?

The issue is most likely with the web site, and
there is nothing you can do to resolve it.
I think the real sentiment I see in the comments about "using web tech instead of native is selfish/unethical/etc" is:

why isn't there a desktop technology that can compete with the ease of development as using web technology?

I feel this very much. I'm building a reeealy simple app and I'm looking at Svelte Native (Svelte + Nativescript) to get things going. But even that's not quite native. But Android and iOS development are also a mess.
Especially painful for anyone relying on tips. They're very often under the table to avoid taxes, which has the downside of not being recognized re: unemployment / paid leave benefits.
It's definitely possible but the Scratch Blocks [1] wiki [2] is indeed a little sparse. VEXcode Blocks [3] seem to be a successful product, so somebody must have figured it out.

[1] https://github.com/llk

[2] https://github.com/LLK/scratch-blocks/wiki

[3] https://www.vexrobotics.com/vexcode-blocks
> there is no underlying financial issue

As someone with an economics degree I can assure you that a complete and utter collapse of aggregate demand is an underlying financial issue.
There is also the silly solution: Empty it while holding the nozzle of a vacuum cleaner nearby.
Here is a list of Snap! extensions if they are of any use to you as references: https://snap.berkeley.edu/extensions

Scratch 3 runs on a modified version of Blockly.
> How about a rent break or something drastic like that?

How is a stimulus going to work if people don't have a place to spend the money?
Setup a spreadsheet to show how many months it takes to payback the refi costs at today's rates. Then see how much lower the rates would have to go for the payback to be a reasonable number of months again. If you don't think the second one is going to happen, maybe wait for a bit lower before doing a refi, but who knows if it'll go lower.

Other things to consider right now. If your job goes away, and it's hard to pay your mortgage, it might be better to be on an existing loan and not a new loan.
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The mid-to-long term issue will be demand contraction.

Small businesses under stress, service workers not paid or let go completely, workers in general laid off, etc. All this will lead to the average person being under financial duress with rent/mortgage still due, potential medical bills, and so on and so on.

If you can get money into people's pockets (Congress has to do this) instead of cheap loans to banks (Fed does this), then you have a fighting chance of actually smoothing out the major demand contraction that is coming.
I think the social signal part has second order effects that make it work out not as you would expect.

If ONLY sick people tend to wear masks then masks will make you a more visible target of fear and hate, which would lead people who are sick to not wear masks.

It's a much better idea to destigmatize the act of mask wearing so we can get larger coverage of sick people with mask s.
While it certainly works for me and serves as the basis for all of my apps, I don’t know yet if it will work well for others the way my PHP framework has over the years.

It will definitely work better for people if the source code isn't all tagged "All rights reserved", in conflict with the MIT license. :)
This is true of all disastrous leaders, the provide no real leadership apart from publicly courting their acolytes.

The actual leadership they should be providing (giving clear direction to those who will be acting on their wishes) is so lacking that all the decision makers below them have to make up their own mind what the "leader" actually wants. And so ensues chaos.
>Are these Amazon-financed articles?

I mean...duh? Have you been living under a rock? Amazon affiliate has been a great passive income strategy for over a decade.
Both Xbox One[1] and Playstation 4 [2] support keyboard an mouse input. However, irrc the games have to choose to support it, so there does not appear that there'd default mappings for the keyboard (which kind of makes sense).

I think there are some games on both platforms giving you the option to use keyboard and mouse, most don't. But with the arrival of the new generation, maybe more developers decide to implent this feature.

[1] https://beta.support.xbox.com/help/Hardware-Network/accessor...
[2] https://support.playstation.com/s/article/Use-Keyboard-and-M...
By tiding people over who would otherwise lose it all if the national economy shut down for a protracted amount of time, which seems to be happening as we speak.
I definitely assumed this would contain clever tips about how to handle it when coworkers don't respond to your emails, don't accomplish things they promised, or don't follow-through. Maybe some automation methods to handle those situations.
The social function of markets in a capitalist system isn't to make prices go up indefinitely, it's to establish "true" prices for capital and various types of goods. This is "true" in the sense that the price reflects the consensus of all the opinions available (good and bad) where people are prepared to put their money where their mouth is.

In both of the cases you mentioned, futures and short selling, if they are prohibited, what would happen is the resulting price would only reflect the opinion of people who were positive and the market would not reflect all the available opinion, and therefore would be less value in determining the clearing price of capital.
1. does it work with hardware tokens ?

we have some regulatory requirements that require us to use hardware tokens for 2FA access to servers.

2. what about SSH tunnels ?
Right, my idea was to just suspend a bag from the mask.
>How would fiscal stimulus help a market that is seizing up due to reducing supply side (factories close) and reducing demand side (pubs to be closed, airlines crashing because of border closures, & more) and a disease that is likely to stress many countries medical provisions to breaking point, and then beyond.

If we literally hand money to people, they can pay their bills on time while we work through this thing.

I'm not sure what else will work at this point.

It's not feasible to simply have "rent holidays" or some such, as the OP suggests, as that rent expense is someone else's income.
> I thought Linus' rant was about NULL checks that came after a dereference had already happened. In that case it at least makes sense that the compiler would assume the NULL check would be superfluous.

IIRC it was an early return from the function rather than an exit function, something like.

SOMETHING settings = *p;
if(p == null)
return;
do_dangerous_stuff();

And the compiler produced something that unconditionally did the dangerous stuff.
How does the auction process work? It's not obvious to me.
Coronavirus quarantine has serious mental health implications
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Well, for instance, most airlines will probably go bankrupt. It's not just a case of "we can't sell to these dead people"; everything is kinda broken right now.
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If markets fall another 20-30%, it won’t have obviously been a good time to buy today. These aren’t normal times.

In the depression, stocks fell for about three years. Also, your dollar argument makes no sense: the stocks are valued in dollars, and are falling faster than the dollar.

It’s great to buy at the bottom, but who knows if that’s it.