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The GoFundMe model of health insurance and welfare doesn’t work. It’s my government’s job. It’s why we have social security and medicare and Medicaid and TANF, etc, in the first place. I can’t do it alone.

Promoting the general welfare is right in the preamble of our constitution:

> We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

And in the letter of transmittal, Washington wrote:

> Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved.
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Mortgage rates have moved surprisingly little. They usually trade at around a 2% premium over the 10-year government bonds for a 30-year fixed. Right now that would mean about 2.8% but my local bank quotes 3.5%. My guess is that spread is going to shrink over time but who knows. I'm waiting...
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It's just not a healthy or grounded (or accurate) approach to encourage hero worship.
Yes, I think Jax is indeed the nail for tensorflow. It's not there yet, but the part of the research community that did not go to pytorch is going to jax now.

And jax is made by the autograd people.
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>it's because he was expecting to have his hand held alot more which is something I've never assumed

If anything I've found I feel more supported at work than I ever did at university. Hand helping? No. But I can ask questions if I've spent a while on something and am totally stuck, we're generally all working towards common goals on projects so we'll collaborate and try to help each other. I also get regular feedback at code review time.

Huge contrast to my time at university where for some courses lecturers wouldn't turn up to their own office hours, or answer emails. Useful feedback was generally scarce, occasionally not provided at all and it was difficult to remedy failure.
What's the alternative? Let it pass without sufficient test and possibly kill some people?
No, they're about having a more personal interaction absent an in-person meeting. Body language, facial expressions and even some inflection is lost on phone and completely absent in text.

My company is remote and all of our meetings internal and with clients are done by video conference. I wouldnt dream of ditching the video just for a call bridge.
No matter good the test coverage in germany is, the growth is still exponential so the currect prevention measures are insufficient.
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I disregard this as partisan flaming. I have no partisan preference. There is a mentally disabled person in charge of the most powerful country in the western society.

How on Earth can this not be on-topic on this site of highly intelligent people in such a crisis as this?
Pointing out extreme economic inequity is no more partisan than pointing out scientifically measured global temperature increases.

Just because one side makes claims at odds with reality doesn't mean it's partisan to point out the absurdity of those claims.
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Regardless of the cause (if it's that "one word" or not), the behaviors are crazy-making and there's a trend of more aggressively exploiting UB for optimizations.
It does, which is what happened today, and once (or twice? I can’t remember now, which is a bad sign...) in the last couple of weeks. The circuit breaker still breaks, it just breaks with the price down 8% or whatever.
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The Fed lost a lot of credibility in the 2000s. I still remember how Bernanke constantly claimed that things were ok right until they blew up in 2008. Since then they seemed to be mainly a tool of the political and financial classes that easily gets intimidated by pressure from people like Trump .

They probably lost credibility even earlier when they allowed the hero worship around Greenspan who turned out to be just a hack.
What would be really, really nice is if after the crisis passes the world's best institutions and minds continue to get a significant amount of funding to apply those remarkable science and engineering capabilities for the sake of humanity.

IMHO that is the real issue. We didn't need to be in this crisis in the first place : /.
I love how some market-watchers suddenly retreat into abstract economic pronouncements in the face of meltdowns. There was a fair bit of this in 2008 and 1989, too.

Nobody is lost or vanishing due to Covid-19, it's just a change in their respiratory rate.
Right, the actual number of cases is almost certainly over 1. The parent comment just said Idaho had no reported cases which is factually incorrect. The first reported case was on Friday.
This is relevant to the spread of pathogens and digital malware, since you may "shake hands" or have them on your contacts.
> Stock prices are supposed to include estimates of all futures earnings of a company, discounted for distance in the future, right?

This is the theory in a finance textbook. I worked as a hedge fund manager for several years, and there are plenty of people who do not try to project the earnings of companies in order to value them. It's not that easy to do with any certainty.

What you get is more ordinary concerns driving investment:

- Customers have allocated some money with my firm. I need to buy something. (Or the reverse!)

- I don't know what to buy, I'll just buy the index

- This has gone up for a while, better get on the bandwagon

And a whole lot more.
Also to change them (and/or wash your hands) if you touch your face anyway, or forget and sneeze/cough into your hands, etc. They're often brightly colored to reinforce this "reminder" function. They certainly don't have to be. Pretty sure their natural color would be off-white or grey.
Price fixing at the scale Apple operates. Apple made $267B in revenue (not profit) last year. This fine is 0.44% of that amount. Assuming this price fixing had gone on for multiple years, it would be shocking if they didn't make much more than 1.2T on it.
Slack calls... Ibuse Firefox (because privacy) and Linux (because I do). Guess what doesn't work but people keep trying anyway? Slack calls.

No thank, I don't want to install your desktop client and no I won't be taking "calls" on my five year old mobile. Why can't it Just Work like everything else does? Probably for the same reason they can't fix their text input bugs that they were able to confirm a year ago.

Slack is mediocre software.
I don't know your particular setup, of course—but personally I quickly stopped worrying that the floor is occupied by something—unless it's small enough to be gobbled by the vac. The reason being, even if it's there today, I'll probably move it tomorrow or in a few days, and the robot will clean the spot after that. I guess someone could even split out a corner for toys with those infrared divisors, and occasionally let the robot loose in there manually.

Might be an application for more advanced computer vision in vacuums—to figure out which things are not to be sucked up. Though it smells of generic AI.
I agree. Everyone looks to the captain of a ship (Jobbs, Bezos, Obama, Armstrong, Trump) and they forget about the hundreds or thousands of people who all worked to actually make and implemented the things to make their voyage possible.
Instead of circuit breakers, why not:

1) Forbid any trading of stock futures. To me, reading about stock futures reaching circuit breakers would invoke panic and the need to sell as soon as the market opens. Let the market open at 9:30 EST, to whatever price the market feels is appropriate at that time. Do not give them a clue as to what it can be. Let the market decide for itself.

2) Forbid short selling. I feel most of the selling is done by long-term holders, but short selling does excacerbate the situation. I'm in favor of forbidding short selling forever, let alone in a crisis, as it's an artificial technicality of the market. You can't short sell houses, or your possessions, right? So why can we short sell stocks (if you want to hedge, go buy put options)? I sure as heck didn't give anyone the right to borrow my stocks and sell it. It's mine - I own it.
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> "Will I have to register an account? Will I have to take time unsubscribing from the email lists they sign me up for?"

Registering an account would shoo me away too, but with PayPal and a study that showed this'll scare 75% of potential customers away, that mostly seems to be a thing of the past. Subscription lists in the EU have been greatly reduced by GDPR. Some still offend this, granted, but they are occuring less and less.

> "Will the checkout form work? Will it be secure? Will it be a single page, or will there be separate pages of shipping info, billing info, payment method, confirmation of sale, and receipt?"

The bureaucratic things you mention are governed by law here in Germany, so I needn't bother with that, for their (prolonged) existence presumes compliance. The technical security details are legit concerns in my opinion, too. OTOH, sticking to one merchant brings with it the risks of mono-cultures.

> "Will any of those pages be broken, forcing me to start over?"

Come on.

> "When will it show up? I'm not even so impatient that I need the "two day thing" (I usually pick a later date for a $1 Amazon digital credit anyway), but, when? There are nearly never estimates, and about half the remaining MIGHT send a tracking number later."

I usually can plan such purchases in advance, that a delay of even a week doesn't bother me. Parcel delivery services in Germany rarely require more than 5 working days for national shipments.

> "Other things crop up, but basically there's countless little things that can go wrong and you if you pick Amazon they _all_ go away. "

For this, I appear to have eBay. I feel they grant more autonomy to the merchant, which I believe to be actually better for the customer in the long-run. Amazon feels closer to the customer, but such a customer strategy runs the risk of a bait-and-switch to the disadvantage of the customer, once their monopoly solidifies.
I don't understand the reasoning behind halting trade after significant drops in index value. If people significantly devalue a stock (or stocks), why would halting trade change that? Halting trade could contribute to devaluation, since it could encourage capital flight to exchanges that aren't halted or have predictable trading hours. If I knew I might not be able to trade tomorrow that's a new incentive to sell now and trade elsewhere.
Yes. It would. It doesn't not because of sacred privacy, just because technology is not there. Currently tracking is too much of a burden to do at test level and introducing it would harm usage.

But when you go to the doctor to confirm pregnancy you can be sure you'll be tracked, because it's easy and it's reasonable thing to do.
Since the government response is a LAGGING indicator (I.e. people are already the steps to contain the virus before the government), we probably saw pick virus.

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.
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Yup, and a substantial number of people will handle that by going "I'm taking allllll my money out".
This is why we need fiscal policy not monetary. People are begging for T-bills and we could create positive GDP for years with it. Unfortunately with a partisan government it is a non starter.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22589926.
I'd love to learn how you're using Session Manager or what other features/integrations you'd like to see us explore. Also if the terraform module packaging is useful. There are additional Session Manager features like port forwarding that I plan to write about soon.
Sane people don't communicate this way. Even people who perform poorly when publicly speaking (such as a GW Bush, who was famous for verbal stumbling) don't begin to express themselves so chaotically with spoken words.

It's exceedingly difficult to understand this man, and I daresay that anyone who claims to really understand what he's saying (meaning) is choosing to live a fantasy.
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>since the President has maintained a sustained and public campaign to pressure them.

Has the President done anything other than verbally push them around? Can he do anything else?
> How would you know if their hands are dirty? You can't visually see whether they washed their hands when they went to the bathroom.

You probably won't be able to know that, but I think being able to see the kitchen will add confidence.

Agree about "open" kitchens. I actually love this idea, and I've also seen it a couple of times.

About "wanting to obsess about hygene" - this may change IMHO.

A while back, I've actually visited South America + Asia, and ate all the awesome foods they have and not cared about how they prepared it at all. But now, I would pay waay more attention as to how food is prepared.
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Contrary to what this article and other news sources seem to think, the purpose of "circuit breakers" (usually called intraday volatility breaks actually) is not to stop anyone from losing money or even to stop price falls from happening. It's to get to a functioning market with a market price that is reflective of the consensus opinion on available information as efficiently as possible without too much thrashing around.

So what they actually do is not "suspend trading" as is often stated, but suspend order matching. Orders can be placed in the book and are matched at the end of the suspension via an auction process (all the buys and sells that have price limits such that they can be matched off) are matched at the end of the suspension (usually at a single auction price print) and then continuous trading resumes.

This is essentially the exchange pausing "exchange time" so everyone can position and then resuming it again, and is exactly the same matching process that happens at the beginning and end of each trading day (and iirc after lunch in Japan) to help the market price reflect the consensus of opinion of the information that came out overnight while markets where closed.

There is a reasonable line of thinking that continuous trading is somewhat overrated and some research advocates for matching to be done entirely through auctions. So say for instance you have 1 auction per minute throughout the day.
I think so, yes. But I imagine at least part of what happens is people have stop losses in place, which trigger instantly at the opening bell due to the new lower price, plummeting the prices more. Since they would not trigger after hours. But I am actually curious what is happening, where is most of this volume coming from? I can't imagine people had chances to make any decisions in the 1 second between opening and halt. Which I think is the purpose of the pauses, right? Giving humans a chance to make decisions instead of the algorithms?
I found 5 trials, four of which are recruiting:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=Corona+Virus+Inf...
Joe Rogan interviewed Michael Osterholm (an American public-health scientist and a biosecurity and infectious-disease expert). he mentioned that he can create a vaccine within 24 hours for the coronavirus. The issue is not creating a vaccine, its creating one that won't hurt the humans who have to take the vaccine. So it's vaccine-able in a general sense. We just have to make it consumable for human usage. Just pointing out this little nugget of information, not trying to start an argument.
For a low number of people in the room, WebRTC will work well in a fully P2P way. There's no need for a centralized server unless you have more than 10 users connected.

Also, in practice for a big number of users you won't need to encode the videos streams more than 10 times because most people have the same kind of characteristics (you'll have up to three level of network connectivity, and most of your users will have h264 support so you will have few codecs to support).

For instance, you could go for 720p h264, 480p h264, 240p h264, and audio only for people with too little bandwidth or no h264 support, and you'll be good for most use cases.
Also related is the recent three-part Netflix documentary Don't Fk with Cats on the Internet https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81031373
Never said it did...

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QE was a combination of asset purchases and loans. It couldn't have gone to individual people.
Are there many CDSs floating about for any of those companies (the highly leveraged companies and whoever made the loans)?
Evolution doesn't care directly about spreading. Just about survival and this virus is currently at no danger of being eradicated by measures in effect.
For me: libraries not available or are just wrappers on a C library anyway, inflexible memory management, bad support for OS features, etc... A lot of it is just maturity. C is ancient.
I believe this was in regards to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's feet.
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What should it say instead?
I disagree that this is being done for optics. Conspiracy theories rely on people being much better at keeping secrets than we know they are.

There does seem to be some evidence that other Coronaviruses may exhibit ADE but it's important to note that ADE is not well understood and that many viruses seem to display it in-vitro but non in-vivo.

In particular, vaccines and monoclonal antibodies targeted at SARS spike proteins seemed to cause ADE in some experiments but not in others.

There has also been at least one paper that speculated that the virus was deadlier in China than South Korea due to pre-existing exposure of the population so similar Coronaviruses and ADE cross-over from them. This was before the big spikes in mortality in Iran and Italy which would be pretty strong counter-evidence to this hypothesis.

I think it is best for us to treat our both our species-level understanding and our personal understanding of immunology and epidemiology (assuming that like me, you are reading papers but have not spent significant pre-existing time studying this field) with an appropriate level of epistemic skepticism. I would be careful of making statements like "a vaccine is unlikely to work" unless you have a high degree of confidence in your own understanding of the state-of-the-art.

(I haven't downvoted you and would encourage others not to do so as that mechanism is intended to remove noise and not to signal disagreement)
"Come on" what? It happens all the time.

You just countered my list with a list of "this usually doesn't happen" responses. But sometimes they do, and it adds up. And don't get me started on eBay, where about 15% of stuff I've bought has gotten lost somewhere in the void.
IDK, but you can short them with options (by buying puts).
If these first trials succeed, yes, we might get a vaccine mass-produced fast. But you're not looking at the downside risk: if these trials fail, and the next trials fail. This is research; by definition we don't know what will happen. It could turn out to be really hard to make a vaccine for this particular virus. In that case, even with well-funded efforts trying everything, it could take many years.
It's unfortunate that it's easier to deploy the latest nuclear technologies on battlefield than in civilian use. Maybe this will change once they are (literally) battle-tested.
I'm glad my compiler searches for those situations and removes the unneeded if. I write a lot of generic code - often I need the if only in some situations and write it trusting the compiler will figure out the situations I don't need it and remove the if. Without this I'd have to spend a lot of effort maintaining hundreds of almost the same copies of my code different only where there is a might or might not be needed if. Not to mention all the likely bugs when someone doesn't select the right version of my code to use.
> Certainly people will protest if fiscal stimulus means just handing money to people and companies who aren't in dire straights.

How is it not the opposite? Bailing out only the people who have lived beyond their means or made poor decisions is a big moral hazard. Moreover, it doesn't do everything you want -- if you give money to people who are in debt, they use it to make their loan payments and pay rent. Which is better than defaults and evictions, but you also want some of the money to go to people who will actually spend it and stimulate new demand.

You also have to worry about some kind of emergency "dire straights" metric being off by a significant amount in one direction or another and as a result you either end up paying most of the money to whoever is most willing to play accounting tricks or lie on forms, or it doesn't go where it's supposed to and you still get the defaults and evictions, or both.

As a result it seems like the best option is to distribute money evenly, to everybody.
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This looks nice but actually doesn't adress the actual challenges of scheduling.

It's rather easy to generate a schedule and most of the feasible variants are available online already (there aren't infinite possibilities on how to schedule shifts) - you fit it to a 7 day or a 28 day (or a multiple of 7) cycle and then copy paste.

The scheduling challenges occur when people need to take unexpected vacations or during vacation period when staffing is low.

Another challenge is the skill level of the individual employees which is usually not binary - can do work / cannot do work - since employees come to work to perform tasks and they don't always learn all of the tasks the first day.
I'm not sure why loss of life would be particularly relevant since almost everyone dying was out of the work force anyway.
> All: the debate about economic effects vs. health effects is turning nasty in places and could get a lot worse. Let's not go there.

I disagree. I don't think the fact that a subject is a launchpad for abuse in some threads is sufficient grounds for suppressing it elsewhere. Those are frequently the subjects that need the most, and most non-nasty discussion. Yes, very much, please, head the advice to steel-man your debate opponents relentlessly. That's the proper response, not banning the whole conversation. dang, I love you man, but your tendency to preemptively kill stories on controversial topics, not so much. I can see that it makes moderation easier, but the cost is high.