skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing with regards the good of society in or about capitalism.

> Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

I don't know why you get downvoted. You made a silly argument but it's not as if that's a reason to downvote anybody.
Wouldn't it be great news if so many are asymptomatic or mild? It might explain why China seems to have so few current cases given its population. Maybe many people have already caught it and now have some form of immunity.
I'm hearing that companies are facing sudden cash flow problems, where due to the outbreak orders are cancelled last minute en masse. these companies guarantee 50-100% refunds no matter when you cancel, so orders are sitting on loading docks that have been paid for with no one to go, and the revenue has suddenly turned into costs.

I have no idea why markets turned higher today. Shit is hitting the fan. Work is being stopped, layoffs are going on across small margin businesses, and people are not going to have money to pay their rent or mortgage in two weeks. And the only thing I've seen from the Government is talk - zero policy, zero decisions.

And this isn't just your neighborhood cafes laying people off. It's companies up and down the supply chains and B2B manufacturers that don't operate on high margins and don't have vast reserves of cash.

When the quarantines and shutdowns half, it's going to be a bloodbath of consolidation.
Ah, thanks, I should have known. Now that you mention that, my niece has a similar, albeit significantly smaller, device.
Tanking commodities prices.
That'd be a problem if anybody ever used them
It's pretty nice, but is missing one of my favorite features, the /commits/branch browser for a repo e.g. https://github.com/rails/rails/commits/master

I use this all the time for the repos I work with to review recent work by my colleagues.
WHO recommends ‘airborne precautions’ after coronavirus found to survive in air
I mean the FEd is currently considering what will amount to a near $1T aid Package as well, so I don't know how much the fed has on hand bit it really can't be much much more than 2T or so. So maybe.
if you're home all day long one of the main spurs for going out to eat is gone, at the end of the day you're no longer too tired to make food, you're not getting home too late to make it at a good time, you don't need to save time.
Thus the only spur left to wanting to order food is eating something tasty you can't make at home easily - I admit that is good but given that the delivery is also a potential virus delivery I expect that it won't be the replacement.
This is a major major change though. How do we know this isn't some kind of Klein-esque "Shock Doctrine" type of change to start undoing banking regulation as a whole?
I was hoping for progressive trance...
I was under the impression that one typically becomes immune to diseases like this, but apparently that's not the case? Does anyone have any reliable information here? Is this particular instance what we would typically expect, or can it be explained by test inaccuracy, something unusual about this person, etc.?
> So the information doesn’t really matter.

It would matter to me. If I know I have it, I would stay at home and have somebody else do shopping and leave stuff in front of the door. If I dont know that, I do shopping by myself.

Having it or not is also difference between whether one can join one of those programs where young people shop for elderly and leave stuff in front of the door. Of course the caution must be taken with everyone, but also those with confirmed case are out.

It makes difference for people who still have to go to work.

Even official expectations on people with corronavirus are different then on others.
People sometimes talk about the OODA loop like it is a framework for action that you should adopt.

Another way to think about it is that the OODA loop is just the de facto framework of action.

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You could also view this from the flip side: Is there a time when you might be vulnerable and you do not wish to be?

A trivial example: When I walk through a blind doorway or walk past a blind corner, I take a half step instead of a full step. I don't want to run into someone, and I don't want to anyone to run into me, so I step my back foot up to my front foot, but not past it. This gives me half a beat to evaluate the situation.

I do something similar at stoplights: I try to slow down as I go through an intersection, to allow more time for reaction.
> The ability of my local Chinese place to serve customers is undiminished, my desire to eat Chinese food is undiminished, and all that's in the way is an ultimately temporary law.

Agreed on this. But the rent paid out during the period of reduced revenue coming in creates a delta that this loan is filling in. The loan still needs to be paid back (even assuming 0% interest). That extra money needs to come from somewhere: increased prices, increased traffic, or decreased expenditures.
"...so the virus is probably spreading silently"

And harmlessly? Because the outbreaks in Iran and Italy show that the virus, if not contained, will spread rapidly and start killing hundreds every day.

Why exactly is this not occurring in Japan? How do we reconcile the idea that Japan is doing little-to-nothing about the virus with the fact that the virus is not causing nearly the same level of illness or disruption as in other countries?
Banks have more to lose from a decline in economic activity with higher-interest, commercial loans being defaulted on, than from slightly above average inflation if that ever occurs. In my opinion, it's more important to focus on the factors causing inflation, rather than using inflation-as-a-metric by itself; e.g. banks would benefit from economic growth which leads to inflation.
It's always been that way. Most notably, the launch of Dropbox.
But the measures are decreasing the base of exponentiation. If it can be pushed below one, the spread can be stopped - until a second wave or until there is medication or enough testing capacity to test eryone with a cold. With an estimated 2.5 people infected by every person absent any measures, it seems possible to reduce it to < 1.
Yeah I had to do a double take. It's less than $80 before shipping.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000748950835.html
My employer and university have had these on conference/lefture rooms for years. They're ridiculously expensive from what I remember (700€ for the ones at work, I think, the uni ones are larger and older, so probably even more expensive), but compared with not getting the information as easily as they provide it makes them worth it.
What is the most effective policy response to the new coronavirus pandemic?
> If anything now is the time to print a bunch of new money to counteract the existing deflationary forces caused by the coronavirus

It's time to let everyone reckless go bankrupt, and idiots who "could not see this coming" lose their money and jobs.

The business etc. will go bankrupt, restructured and purchased by people who know how to preserve the capital.

The reason why this keeps happening is because of moral hazard. We keep rescuing reckless behavior at all levels of society. Until there's no way to rescue anything, or the rescue package is going to kill the dollar due to its size.
Here is why:

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

Why did they choose $1,000? Why not $2,000, $6,000 on any other number for that matter? They are piggy backing on the good will Andrew Yang and Mitt Romney generated.
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It's not about industry, it's about the people.

We handle this like any other shuttered or suffering business though no fault of their own, with safety nets for the people.

Problem is those safety nets have been destroyed in this country and people voted for that to happen on purpose because darn if they are going to let one single migrant get assistance. This is the result. People feeling they must go into work sick because "no other choice".
"Quietly" was added by the submitter. It was big news on HackerNews that day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22570909
I'm not clear on the details, is this a 90 extension on the filing due date, or is the filing due date still 4/15 with a 90 day extension on taxes due?
It appears sort has a --stable flag for order preservation. I actually thought sort was stable by default already, but now I know.
I saw it before and like it this way better.

Anyway graphs would be nice eventually but the heatmap works pretty well.

Thanks for doing this. It's a very interesting perspective into the impact this is having.
It's pretty obvious: big tech companies like Facebook and Google have done a ton of horrible shit over the past decade, and have burned all the optimism and good will amongst the general public.
Anyone with the "all data is the same!" mindset hasn't worked in a carrier-scale network. QoS with packet prioritization is an absolute must from an ops standpoint; otherwise your DNS queries would be prioritized at the same rate as someone streaming Netflix. Drop Netflix packets and the video quality degrades a little; drop DNS packets and you effectively have a total outage and customers are burning up your phone lines. DNS and SYN/ACK are probably the highest priority, but there are other tiers for things like VoIP, online games, etc. that have good reasons to go above "bulk" traffic.

It's more about latency sensitivity than anything; but with asymmetric connections (which many ISPs, particularly cable, are forced into for very good technical reasons) Torrents in particular can have a disproportionate impact on available upstream bandwidth. For that reason, most ISPs will crush Torrent downstream to limit upstream data rates (which they can't QoS as easily). I can't say it's the wrong call; and it has nothing to do with the legality of whatever people are downloading.
It's Forbes Tech Council crap. People pay Forbes an annual fee to become a contributing editor, and put up crap articles under the Forbes brand. All the resulting articles are click bait. Surprised this wasn't from Ewan Spencer.
There were no stock or supply issues when I stocked up; plenty for everyone who wished to buy at that time and for some
weeks after. Stores had multiple restockings following when I did so. I flattened the curve in a different way: I have not been to the store at all in the last 2 weeks of peak demand.

You will also note that I was following the guidance that the national military provides to its own staff under these circumstances:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/nsa-corona...
The Wilder vs Fury fight? :p
Not sure where they came up with that SQS pricing? It is free for first million requests per month. I have been using SQS as a message queue in my app and based on AWS Cost Explorer I have never reached that in a month .. always a $0 charge. Looking at Cloudwatch I never even got to 100K requests in a month and the app is moderately active. It does not generate a ton of messages, maybe hundreds a day and the workers receiving the messages use long poll. Anyway, the costs in the doc seem way off.
Driving for Uber and Lyft during Covid-19 pandemic is a bad idea
the cynicism on HN has just constantly ramped up over the past couple of years

People are waking up to how oppressed and abused they are by their governments and employers. They are frustrated and upset, and they are venting those frustrations on HN (among other places on the internet).

Instead of bemoaning how it makes you feel bad (you poor thing!), why not take a look at what they're actually saying?
> For years now, cooking has been marketed as a waste of time and effort like hand-washing clothes (think fast food advertising).

Maybe that's the marketing message that hits some demographics, but there's also plenty of marketing push in the other direction: All the food channels on cable & youtube, amateur cooking competitions, prosumer kitchen renovations, gourmet grocery stores, dozens of cooking magazines and thousands of cookbooks. Not to mention emphasis that cooking skills are desirable for those in the dating scene.

(Now I'm looking forward to a competitive clothes-washing show... no, that's too absurd. Maybe competitive tailoring.)
This is US-specific. Some companies like Just Eat (UK, Canada, Mexico and others) specifically say that the price has to be the same. To avoid the situation where you use their service as a convenient menu/opening time check, and then call the restaurant directly.

Restaurants lose margin on those orders with the expectation that it's made up by more people ordering.

https://www.just-eat.co.uk/pricepromise
The underappreciated risk is Russia. They claim only 63 cases, all "imported only". That number has been very slow to rise.

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...

It is very hard to believe that there is no local transmission, and very easy to believe that any covid-19 news there is suppressed.
https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-survive-plastic-cardboa...

> and can survive on cardboard for a day—up to 24 hours—post-contamination.

And the actual paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...
My wife an I opened a nail and wax salon 6 months ago. Really don't know what to do, so far they haven't asked us to shutdown. Business had been steadily growing and we are about break-even. No idea how this will play-out, what if anything the building owner can do to help out, or how the federal help might work for a small business like ours.

The rent and payroll are our biggest expenses naturally, we can of course cut hours and even close entirely; no idea what our staff will do with no income.

If this lasts more than 3-4 weeks (which is likely), yeah it's hard to say how any business is going to survive.

Only good thing is I have a full time job for a major health company and our mobile app usage this week has sky rocketed... so my day job is quite secure at least.
Immunity seems to last only for a short period (few months) but there is not enough evidence to conclude anything yet really.

This man might just not have recovered entirely at all though.
Hard to know: pensions, trusts (private or for foundations), you indirectly by holding an index fund (the fund handles it on your behalf, but it can still create a drag on returns).
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Wait till you hear about the health care system in the United States...
Far more likely that it's due to Mardi Gras (Feb 25, 2020)
I know the owner of a restaurant who stopped delivery after the apps took over.

It literally wasn't worth it, and his drivers all switched over. He tried to find other folks to deliver, but, well, delivery folks aren't exactly known for being long-term employees and most of them deliver for the apps.

I still don't understand what a multinational adds to local pizza delivery. Prices went up, pizza doesn't taste any better or get here faster, and my local restaurant makes less. Do not want.
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this whole covid19 business would be a lot easier to deal with if blockbattle.net were up and running :-) (not sure of a better way to notify on outages, would love to discuss)
>There will be many profitable restaurant businesses who find their business lacking liquid cash over the next few months

Like I said in my earlier comment, the best hope for these businesses is to return to normal revenue numbers. They aren't going to make up for the business they are currently losing. They don't have a liquidity problem. They have a lost revenue problem. They are still accruing costs without accruing revenue. Delaying those costs doesn't fix that disconnect.

>Paying down the debt is a common business practice that people do all the time.

Taking on debt to allow you to make investments and improve future outlook is a smart business decision. Taking on debt in order to meet recurring operating costs rarely works out when there is no hope of future growth.
EU Closes Borders Due to Coronavirus
Trouble is that in order to remain competitive all companies have to take the same risk as the lowest common denominator. If there is a regulation, then there is no market pressure to take the risk.
Mercedes and VW are shutting factories down on Friday, currently ramping down.
Stated another way: this is a $45m PR investment.
The UI is globally configurable via .Xdefaults. This lets you do things like add scroll wheel support to 30 year old Athena apps that never envisioned such magic. Motif respects it too.
All reporters must renew visas every year so it is inconsequential. It's a blanket ban.
I've wondered the same, given the early Chinese resistance to outside help [1]. However, the Party will always prefer to downplay problems that threaten its grip on power, and this qualifies regardless of any possible lab involvement.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/health/cdc-coronavirus-ch...
Yeah I know victimhood is popular these days but dial it down a few levels. No one is going to attack you. Fueling generalized hyperbole, on both sides, is stupid. If anything, people will avoid you if they really think you "have something".
Utterly shameless. I think Silicon Valley would do well to stop glorifying hyper aggression as a way of business and a way of life.
Marin county resident here. The details of the lockdown permit essential businesses and services. Automobile repair, parts, and services fall under that category.
The "$1" in a $1 test has very little to do with manufacturing costs, too.
It let me sign in without 2factor, which is definitely enabled across our org.

-edit

It does use 2fa, I retried signing out of the browser and app, and then it prompted. It was using the browser token.
Is that the one that seemingly a U turn under the pretence of "new data"? [1]

Because the government already knew that rapid herd immunity would cause a huge number of deaths.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/new-data-new-p...
Damn! It is beautiful. If I were to become a manager, where my greatest contribution will be sending the best damn meeting-minutes I can, I am buying this.

But I already have Onyx Boox for my note-scribbling-on-e-ink needs, and if push comes to shove, I can run termux from there :D
>I take it that you consider moderation in the thread as an attempt at appeasement of the Chinese government?

There's some god-awful xenophobic comments in this thread, for sure.

[snip for guidelines]

But it's no secret that there's a Chinese propaganda machine out there, fighting to control the media narrative. This article (and the expulsion of US journalists) are just the latest evidence.
Those countries have never been where we are going. They handled this way earlier in their outbreaks.
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As far as I can tell, this view is impossible to find on mobile, both on the website and through the app (yes, you can switch to the desktop website, but would it really be that hard to have one link to it on the mobile site?). It's maddening!
> this is a defacto reduction in capital requirements no, if reserve requirements are lowered?

Nope, though that's a reasonable assumption.

Reserve requirements regulate the fraction of deposits banks must hold at the central bank. Reserve requirements focus on liquidity.

Capital requirements regulate the fraction of assets banks must hold as equity (or other tiers of risk-absorbing capital). Capital reserves aren't held in a vault, and are more of an accounting fiction than reserves. Capital requirements focus on solvency.

Put another way, if half a bank's mortgages turn out to be shit, its total reserves won't change. It's total capital will.

So reducing reserve requirements could reduce banks' capital, if the freed reserves are dumped into risk assets. Or it could leave them virtually unchanged, if the freed reserves are dumped into safer assets. Systemically, if the freed reserves support a continuation of orderly payment systems, they could increase banks' capital by defending the value of their assets. (Bank balance sheets have a confusing circularity about them.)
What's your mobile app please? :)
The CEO gets to use the entire staff as cannon fodder first. Even CEOs that are forced out for disappointing the investors are usually given a golden parachute on the way out.
I'd want to check this before committing, but my understanding is that e-ink is cheap power-wise because it doesn't require power to maintain the image - actually changing the image, though, is more expensive than LCDs or OLEDs, so if you try to, say, watch a video on an e-ink screen, you're going to get worse energy draw than an LCD display.
> An anesthesiologist at a hospital in Bergamo, one of the cities with the most cases of Covid-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, told the paper that the intensive care unit was already at capacity, and doctors were being forced to start making difficult triage decisions, admitting people who desperately need mechanical ventilation based on age, life expectancy, and other factors. Just like in wartime.

> The hospital in Bergamo was not the only hospital in the area dealing with a lack of capacity and rationing of care. The same day, I heard from a manager in the Lombardy health care system, among the most advanced and well-funded in Europe, that he saw anesthesiologists weeping in the hospital hallways because of the choices they are going to have to make.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/13/opinion/coronavirus-c...
Async and stable support are both coming soon. I'd estimate within 3-6 months.
> Do not use AWS Lambda as a general EC2 host.

It seems like they're saying "Don't use this for generic services, only use it as an integration with other AWS services" to which I would say, "What?"

If I recall, https://acloud.guru for example is hosted entirely using Lambda, API GW, S3 and some other AWS services.
See Figure 3: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551767

It is clear that humidity has an influence, and temperature may have an influence.

I am hopeful that the tropical nations of the world will be spared the worst of this particular disease, but only time will tell.
The actual paper[1] talks in terms of half-lives, so it would be gradually less chance of any spread over that 24-hour period.

[1]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...
See also: Tempo timing, tactics and strategy in narrative-driven decision-making by Venkatesh Rao.
That seems oddly tax inefficient. If you're buying equipment for work it should be expensed through the business. You shouldn't be paying income tax on it.
If they were actually functional, that would be a bigger problem.
I wish they showed the full readme by default on mobile repository pages. If I'm on my phone, there's a good chance I'm only there to look at the readme, anyway. Just let the readme extend down without needing to expand it. Or at least, don't make expanding it a new page load.
THIS! I too was taken aback by the comparison of SQS and Kinesis. In my experience kinesis is significantly more expensive and significantly harder to scale. The only reason you should use it is if you need the throughput and delivery guarantees.
Way to think outside the box!

I think it is a reasonable question to ask, I'm not sure it would work given the legal ramifications and CMA policies hospitals have.

Pay no attention to the bottom comment, I rarely click that button but I believe you asked a fair question and recieved an unfair answer.

Keep thinking on it and who knows, desperate times call for desperate measures.
Edit: Is this lousy testing? Or mutation? It'll be interesting to see how this develops.
The Chinese say their are two distinct strains in circulation.

Tests are not perfect.

Plenty of explanations. Most of them quite uncomfortable.
It's an e-reader so yes. The new Kindle oasis starts from $250 and it has a smaller screen and you can't write on it. If it were a regular tablet then yeah it would be pricey.