skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually posted a thing about how this is impacting the homeless in the US less than 24 hours ago. It got no real traction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22580519

I don't have solutions. I live in a hundred year old building and nothing is square anymore and there was a really terrible storm one night some weeks back with both rain and high winds. The curtains and window sill inside my unit got soaked and the curtains molded.

I planned to remedy that quickly, but new policies delayed my tax refund by like an entire month. So that was dealt with about 10 days ago and I'm still running a fever and coughing up phlegm.

This is likely a large part of why I personally feel hopeless. I'm not getting much of anything done at the moment. I expect that to change in a few days.

But I really, really wish the US would stop it's nutty housing policies and begin building SROs and Missing Middle Housing and stop objecting to how "But those are tenements and that's a bad thing!" when that de facto means people are homeless because of it.

And I've studied the history of housing in the US for a long time. It's why I had a class in Homelessness and Public Policy. I wanted to be an urban planner and I was pursuing an environmental studies degree with a concentration in Housing as preparation.

So I know just a whole lot about housing and I never know how to succinctly and compellingly make my points. It's a source of personal frustration.

I'm quite confident that an updated version of the SRO with some modern amenities would go a long ways towards remedying a lot of problems in the US. And I have absolutely no idea how to get there from here.

I hope you and your family are well. They are closing the Walmart at night now here. It was open 24 hours and we were shopping there in the middle of the night to avoid the crowds and I'm starting to feel like the pandemic is doing more than being a minor inconvenience for me at this point.

But I very seriously doubt me or my sons will get sick from it. We are too careful about germ control as a matter of course because two of us have CF and the other is a carrier.
It was a bit of both. I don't think they had the infrastructure to support everyone, I think they had major growing pains as they tried to scale, and I don't think they had the experience to identify sources of partial-failure proactively which resulted in 40-360 minute effective outages that weren't as easy to fix as with AWS where we can shift the stack to a new AZ in minutes.

DO had no cross-"AZ" networking. We tried to form a tunnel but it was so unreliable they admitted they needed their own backbone to support that use-case but even when that did come out we'd still have to use public IPs...no VPC peer type thing. Our only option to switch "AZ"s was to have downtime and that wasn't acceptable.

We were able to increase capacity 300-500% on AWS for the same cost so there's a lot going on in the equation for us. We needed better capability to dynamically resize and more options for low-cpu high-memory. We needed better flexibility with disks especially by network like EBS but given their network issues I understand why they don't have that.
This is such a ridiculous, outrageous take.

Hospitals don't just need doctors, they also need plumbers, electricians and janitors. If you think programmers can't put their skills to use against this, you're not a good programmer.
It's funny, the page, as it's loading, shows "free trial" button, and when it finishes loading, the button text changes to "free".
Confused — the article starts off with the reasonable point that we don’t know the true number of covid infections (likely only the most severe ones) so calculations of death rates are flawed. But then they address this by instead computing # deaths that day/# infected 14 days prior? How does this solve the initial problem?
One historical item that inspires me here are the Liberty Ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_ship

Designed to be easy to manufacture, the US built more than 1 per day during WWII. It strikes me as a classic example of the design-to-tools approach.

And although I obviously don't recommend going just now, you may enjoy visiting the still-functioning one in the Bay Area. Try to get a tour of the engine room if you can. https://www.ssjeremiahobrien.org/
It's 5 in Australia
Moderators: Here is the direct (non-paywalled) announcement from CDC:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/large-ev...
Some banks have “no penalty” CDs that allow you to close them in the event that you need the money without taking a hit on any accrued interest. And this can happen as early as 7 days after opening the account. So the risk is very low. They’re slightly less yield than regular CDs, but not much.

A really good option during this time. My bank actually sent an email prior to the last interest rate drop, and I moved most of my savings (that I didn’t think I’d need to touch for a year) into an 11-month CD before the rates dropped.
Why would you waste time doing that when you don't even know there's a problem?
maybe one good thing that comes out of this is that more people become conscious of how important it is to have access to high quality cultural goods.

With the virus circulating around now everyone is affected, but the overwhelming majority of people never has physical access to this sort of content. Some countries have well financed public broadcasters, but it would probably be worth expanding this stuff across national borders.
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Or maybe in Musk’s view if we did at least as much for pandemics as we do for vehicle safety there wouldn’t be an issue?

In a car you drive safely and wear a seatbelt. The government mandates certain standards for designs including braking capacity and passenger safety.

For diseases you can socially isolate and wash your hands. The government can properly fund disease research and control.
I published more effective code for solving this crucial need.

See issue number 1 for the semantic web, social network Radiojade:

https://github.com/foundpatterns

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_Handling_Rules

I need your help with finishing it though. Contact me on LinkedIn
You'd rather they not say it all?
Why the choice of DNS over HTTPS server needs to be automatic (a sysadmin view)
Ventilators on AliBaba aren't necessarily suitable for keeping human beings alive. It would be better to source them from FDA-approved manufacturers' stocks before wasting lives on untested, untried crap that might not even be real products.
dang removed it because it was a "generic tangent". See the first comment under the comment, which was detached from the rest of the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22585528
Only thing we can do now is stop people from leaving their house for the next 4 weeks. We don't even have any testing capacity, nation should be shutting down till we have the means to constrain the virus.
This is incredible work, well done.
I feel you're grossly exaggerating the current state of affairs.

From your list alone, cmake is the de-facto standard. All others are either defunct, abandoned, or dropped out of favour, or never had any expressive adoption. For instance autotools is largely a relic of back in the days where C++ was C with classes, and Qmake was already dropped by their makers in favour of cmake.

Additionally, some of your entries don't make much sense. For example, ninja is at most a low level alternative to raw makefiles, and in fact tools like cmake are able to generate either makefiles or ninja files, and GYP is just a high-level format designed to generate other build system project files, specially IDE-specific projects such as XCode and Visual Studio project files.
The US could do it with one emergency bill. Mockery is better than "widespread ventilator shortages."

I hope public identifying information isn't strictly necessary for the South Korean model but let's keep this in perspective. The alternatives to SK's privacy invasions are total lockdown, or mass unnecessary death.
> Better-paid employees are less stressed, healthier, less busy at home (because they can afford domestic help)

Again, that isn’t always true. It is true when comparing $40k to $100k but less true when comparing $200k to $400k. When looking at that argument in terms of scale it is an argument of diminishing value that does not guarantee the increased individual productivity the argument would promise. The reason why that argument can suggest but not promise increased individual productivity is that increased wages alone does not directly correlate to better leadership or a more valuable team.
I realized you're Polish, after I responded. What's up with us Poles being into geopolitics? :)

I'll reach out to you soon either way because your blog is great!
Zero Trust Network is now used by every other security vendor that want to rebrand themselves as hip.
Us people are doing that to her name because us people generally use first and last name when referring to individuals and ignore the middle name.

For example:

Melanie Trump

Elizabeth Warren

Steve Jobs

Bill Gates

...
What’s the point of reproducibility in your team but not with your users (which is by definition the most common use case)?

Libraries should skip lockfiles because they are ignored by the end user and therefore any testing you do based on them helps no one.

I’ve had lockfiles being broken for no reason* so if you can avoid them, do.

* For example, multiple versions of the same package were installed after several install/updates, but nuking the lock would avoid this issue and solve the problems it caused.
Did you mean Austria?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-15/austria-c...
The CDC web site is not behind a paywall.
I want those in leadership positions to stop saying “should” and start saying “must”.
Haven’t read it but remembered this paper being mentioned in Guy Steele’s fabulous “Growing a language” talk [0].

I don’t want to give anything away about the talk (which is one of my absolute favorites), but Steele says about the title of this paper: “... the truth is that Dick Gabriel knew how to choose words with punch“

0: https://youtu.be/_ahvzDzKdB0
> What industries will be unaffected? Most big tech, media, healthcare.

Healthcare will be completely shot everywhere in the Western world. Quite possibly everywhere on the planet, period. Some media industries seem to be affected already - video production is cancelled to protect actors and staff, trade shows no longer happen. A lot of tech is just a component or service to meatspace-based operations, so I expect our industry will feel the damage too.

That said, tech and media may indeed be some of the least affected sectors.

I agree that this may be the catalyst for a much stronger push for switching some physical goods and services into digital. But can we start using this to re-employ people laid off from exclusively meatspace businesses?

On a somewhat related note, seeing as most of Europe just went into lockdown and is going to face huge unemployment problem a month or two from now, I wonder if this isn't the time to bite the bullet and introduce UBI.
They didn't use them before because it would have been illegal. The Fed has mandated a 10% liquidity for all major banks.

See:
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
I've found my 5.11 pants to last a lot longer than Carhart did. I was really disappointed in the later. Another brand that suppressed me was undrarmor. I avoided them because they were expensive and popular. Then I got a deal on a hoodie and it outlasted many other goodies. Since then I've picked up a few more on eBay and have been just as happy. I want quality that will last for a decade (or more).
After responding to a few other posts, I came across an important number -- about 50M Americans work for businesses that are 99 people or less in size. That's a lot. Even if a small percentage of these businesses go under during this entire crisis, that'll lead to a big shock to the financial/economic system.
*Austria. Australia is 500.
Anyone know where Peter Thiel's virus bunker is so we can concrete up the entrances?
Good point.

If you assume like 50-75% underreporting, the mortality rate get cut in half/by a quarter
Hard pass.

They say they're trying to save emails because emails are a unique form of communication that Slack doesn't address. But it doesn't feel like they're actually thinking about email as a platform, they're just blindly stapling features to it. It's not clear how those features interact with existing email features (do inline conversations work with HTML/CSS styling).

And the features don't seem to have much to do with the parts of email they praised. They spend a paragraph talking about how they love email because it doesn't have notifications, because it has subject lines, and because it's an open platform everyone can use. And then they spend a long time talking about how they're going to add a bunch of chat and forum/wiki crap, on a closed platform that not everybody can use. What does any of that crap have to do with asynchronous, thoughtful communication?

If (and that's a really big if) there's an email 2.0, it's probably going to be people settling on Matrix or building something new on top of ActivityPub. I mean, what are the real problems with email? Spam, over-complicated protocols, bad encryption flows, the difficulty of self-hosting (largely because of spam), bad message-signing flows and verification of contents, wildly outdated clients which make it difficult to use modern CSS.

But congrats, I can add emoji reactions now. Which is apparently an acceptable tradeoff for giving up the ability to communicate with anyone on Gmail.

I don't want to be too negative, but I'm kind of irritated that this made the front page at all, and I suspect the reason is likely purely because it mentions email in the title. My uncharitable analysis is that there's nothing worthwhile to see here. It's just another VC spending a bunch of other people's money to desperately try and solve a problem that doesn't exist by throwing engineers at a web app.
Well Clinton did preside over the dot com boom, leaving Bush to clean that up. He was the first democrat to be president since Carter. Not sure your thesis is very strong there as it depends upon an arbitrary duration, a nebulous criteria and an implication that democrat admins have behaved differently (based on same nebulous criteria). In reality, policies of presidents can be very loosely coupled to outcomes during their time in office. Clinton’s policies, for instance, are not insignificantly indicted by the mortgage crisis as well, but just because the chickens didn’t come home to roost before he left office doesn’t prevent us from seeing that. There’s a long tail to policy decisions for better and worse.
What facts on the ground does usage of "flu" reflect? It's not influenza and nobody seriously calls it flu. Even those least interested in the specifics know it as as unqualified "coronavirus" or Wuhan virus. To call it flu is to deliberately downplay its significance, make a joke out of it. Whatever the reality of the situation.
Honest question because I’ve seen a few comments stating this without totally clarifying: What does “lock everything down” mean? Are you suggesting people be locked up in their homes for weeks or a month? Or just shutting down non-essential businesses and buildings? Domestic travel restrictions? I legitimately am asking not to be snarky or confrontational, I’m just trying to get some clarity on what people mean when they say this.
Ventilators aren't just cobbling together random parts from a Home Depot shop vac in wishful thoughts and prayers that lifesaving devices can be made miraculously usable in weeks. This ain't the movies.
It's called helicopter money. Australia and Hong Kong already announced going down this route.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_money

It is very last measure as in that point you are basically admitting that capitalism has failed.
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Possibly.

The question I ask when I see these graphs indicating “days behind Italy” is why is Italy ahead? As if cities like NYC didn’t have anyone from Wuhan enter while sick?

We all had essentially the same “day 0”. We are moving much slower than Italy. There are other reasons (and not Italian incompetence) why they are in a greater crisis than others in the West.

Most countries are well ahead of them in this regard. The UK strategy is sound in that you don’t need testing - the hospital numbers indicate and can be extrapolated.
Afaik making a minecraft bot that can survive long term in a hostile minecraft world like 2b2t, unaided by a human and for extensive amounts of time is somewhere between very hard and an open problem in AI.
You can, and I've done it some since migrating to iOS until I feel like I'll use it enough to pay for the app (I suck at sticking with flashcards; they're so boring).
> Yes indeed, I really like this almost twenty year old article.

Heads up, this was written in 1991 and we have 2020 now!
Allowing banks to draw down their reserves in their entirety isn’t going to change their behavior is my point. You need something like the US Gov’s SBA loan program or similar, to lend directly to businesses that are in jeopardy of default or failure. This is beyond the risk profile of traditional retail bank lending (although you’re probably near junk bond or hedge fund territory; at this scale though, those venues are inadequate). The Fed is attempting to inject liquidity in the wrong spot of the economy.

If you’re shooting for something like “TARP for Main Street”, this is a suboptimal path based on the incentives and historical behaviors of these regulated entities. Get the money velocity back up to speed ASAP.

Edit: We could’ve had the infra in place to plug into banking, credit, and IRS data for companies, to enable rapid analysis, decisioning, and funding of operating accounts in times of crisis as part of the US Treasury Dept. Perhaps next time.
It works roughly like this: Patient number #xxx, diagnosed today. Last Monday, he used a taxi (11:30-12:00) to visit McDonalds next to Hongdae station (12:00-12:50) and then walked to Woori bank nearby (1:30-2:00) and used another taxi to go home. Next Tuesday... blah blah...

And then you find out the taxi drivers, all the McDonalds workers, and everybody who used McDonalds and the bank at the same time, and tell them to go self-quarantine for two weeks. And also test them. The idea is basically catch all the virus before it has a chance to run into more people.

It does help that Koreans carry cell phones and use credit cards everywhere. (And, yes it does raise the question about privacy - which is something we should revisit once the emergency is over.)
What you're saying here is that there was no crisis.

The fact that people worked on date issues for a decade does not mean the public scare campaign in the late 90s was justified.

You could equally claim airplanes would crash if they weren't refuelled, or people would die if garbage wasn't collected. In those cases, the media is educated enough to know the claims are pointless.

In the case of y2k, they had little understanding of how enterprise IT worked, and lots of businesses who were happy to encourage that ignorance.
I would love, love, love to learn more about whether and how China is rebooting and how that is going. Haven’t seen much reporting on it. Aside from Apple’s plans to reopen their stores there.
And how many of them are real products, already manufactured and FDA-approved?
I don’t think you understand the term conspiracy theory nor do you understand how the burden of proof works.

I have already given many credible sources showing why your claim is false, the hacker news mods have removed these articles multiple times (including this very post). You have provided an unsubstantiated claim with no evidence. An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence.
Grocery stores? Pharmacies?
Ever heard of The Celibacy Pattern? It promises to be a singleton
JavaScript can be thought of as training wheels for Java: Old NYTimes article
Air travel in crammed tiny metal and composite tubes for long periods that need to be turned around in a jiffy thus may be subject to deficient cleaning is most def a vector. For the long term it would great to design airplanes that have a inner tube component that can be pulled with the nose moved up. Basically a bus without an engine. Cheap, can be driven around the unending concourses, can be sterilized properly because an extra one can be used. I think it may even end up being a time and money saver, boarding is a non compressible and long part that could be a lot faster from the sides.Not sure it'a 10X...
As a big fan of Medieval and Renaissance music, it's always disappointing to me that almost all music sources don't split my sub-sub genre out from Classical. It's not all the same.
> Maybe as part of first run it ought to set a default useful based on current performance.

Given how NVIDIA drivers are installed, the first run may not be representative. First run for each new xorg config maybe. But that could lead to random changes in behaviour as well on updates.
Original source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
At first I was happy to see this. But now I am not happy to see this, because it's making me realize that this is the only action that's going to be put in place over the next few days.

Too little, too late. This type of regulation made sense 2 weeks ago, combined with a halting of all international travel and an advisory against interstate travel.

The virus got out of control though. We don't know how many are infected, but we know our ground zero is 10-100x worse than the ground zero of nations that managed to get things under control.

People need to brace for impact. The US medical system is going to be overwhelmed by people in critical condition. The government has been too slow to respond.
> Your CI system isn't going to re-run your tests when your dependencies or sub-dependencies get updates.

Yes and no. Your CI system runs when you want it to. If you want to check the latest dependencies,

- with a lockfile you have to delete it, create a new one and commit it;

- without a lock you just press the “rerun tests” on your CI
I'm from berlin and didn't know about this, thanks!

I just saw https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/204 and it sounds and even looks amazing. Truly a treasure trove.
> Sorry, I'm merely a lowly sysadmin and not a godly Google SRE

Don't really like how this is framed - plenty of Google SREs are born and bred sysadmins.
Not exactly what you mean but operacast lists opera streaming broadcasts from around the world:

operacast.com

It's pretty old-school but I've found the schedule pretty up-to-date. I've also noticed that some of the programs aren't opera per se but "opera adjacent", like choral music or instrumental music by opera composers. My impression is that there are some programs that regularly stream operas but at any given week might offer something else.

My sense is that there's a lot of opportunity for a well-done classical streaming service. A lot of the traditional channels don't quite work because their catalogue isn't deep enough or their metadata structures are weird and unhelpful (for example, it's impossible to sort by composer alone).
It's foolish because it's literally impossible to avoid a heavy recession or depression when people are told to stay inside and do nothing.

The odds of this action working out well now are slim to none. Then when it's actually needed they will have to do it again. You'll end up with the same non recovery recovery where people are barely getting by but certain asset classes are inflated to the moon.
http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html
Standing tickets (no seats) are still just 10€. (80 min before begin at the Stehplatzkasse in Operngasse).