skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“If the economic system breaks...”

No, this is people breaking. Peoples lives and livelihoods break due to this kind of economic and social strain.

And the quarantine effects everyone severely, not just 14% of people.
Nowhere have you seen numbers that remotely approach 1-3%.

You’ve seen the critical, largely elderly population get tested and from that you get that number that’s freaking people out.

Stop spreading panic. With those kinds of numbers China alone would have 10M+ dead. In Japan, Singapore, surrounding nations more millions dead.

Use a bit more common sense. We know we haven’t tested enough in the US, yet we don’t have bodies piling up on the street. You don’t have families of 4 where 2 suddenly die. This has been going on for greater than 3 months now.

Stop spreading fear. The only thing to fear is the terrible consequences of those stuck inside the fear bubble
Due to GHC's fusion, they're often not even created. They're used more like control flow constructs than arrays.
PythonAnywhere is now all remote
I didn’t say it was the only reason, and you ignored my question. Would dividends be OK?
The alternative is total economic destruction.
After touching store doors.
Cases are lagging apparently, peaking at two weeks after the initiation of a lockdown.
A lot of people won’t like this. I personally really enjoy some of the local restaurants in my area. The uniqueness of their food and aesthetic is something you can’t get anywhere else. Even close approximations aren’t the same.

So, with loss of small business, we lose access to certain unique perspectives of how those kinds of businesses should be run. We lose the character that those businesses add to our cities and towns. Furthermore, there is an economic cost to the loss of those businesses for our cities and towns.

If it’s better for tech, it doesn’t mean that it’s better for humanity.
Maybe one guy's goal isn't the same as 100% corporate buy-in.
I think I know what you mean. There is a step in the logic that, in a staircase metaphor, is uneven, it's a larger gap than the other steps, and also like a real staircase, you either make that step or you don't. I have yet to find a way to explain it. Personally, I can't always understand it, and don't know how I know it, and can't put my finger on what the leap is.
Well worth noting:

If everyone is tested, the disease can be controlled:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/scientists-say...
BTW France declared war officially.
Doubtful.

People often romanticize the "mom & pop" places, but there's a reason that most consumer-facing companies are very large, and those reasons were enumerated by the OP.

Also, there's a good deal of selection bias going on. If you had a successful business, why wouldn't you look to expand it to multiple locations? Running a single store makes your business vulnerable and usually requires a lot of time.
maybe the answer is NO, there is nothing new.

If we take a deep look at machine learning, it's just some combination of linear algebra / information theory / neuron network, and it's been there for more than a decade.

All those called "cutting edge" things are based on something already exist. We rarely create / discover new things.
The mention of the shadow file is in the README:

> S-Cache is an SUID-root executable that works by storing the secret in a file that is owned by root and only readable by root. Its security is thus comparable to the security of shadow passwords.
If you split secrets across NICs such that compromise of one NIC would only compromise a portion of internal datacenter traffic, then that would make sense. Again, as you noted, it depends on the threat model.

But from just the bandwidth and latency perspective, a custom ASIC makes more sense to me.
I did a fair amount of that, but there was a lack of interest because it's just a sorting algorithm. Sorting is considered dead as a field, it's basically solved.
Business does not have to be structured as a Corporation with limited liability. That is a privilege allowed by the sovereign power of the people through an elected government. If companies don’t behave responsibly they should lose that privilege and the owners could be held liable for debt and these kinds of mistakes personally. The fetishized obligation to shareholders and ONLY shareholders is not some holy pronouncement from on high. It was made up by a professor at University of Chicago and ran contrary to the history of business and limited liability company structures. If we, as a society, determine that such a practice is harmful based on the evidence we can and should end it.
> If the economic system breaks because of one pandemic that will last less than a year maybe that economic system needs to die and be replaced by something more solid and useful for most.

Out of curiosity, why do you think it's likely that something more solid and useful to most is likely to come out of an economic collapse? Economic collapses have happened before - are there any instances of a solid and useful system coming out of them (maybe the new deal after the great depression? That one is arguable though).
One could argue that the airline CEOs acted rationally and strategically—they know the airline industry’s importance to the US economy gives them great odds of a bailout if a black swan event were to occur, so there was more value to shareholders generated by stock buybacks than reserving cash for a worst-case event.
Is there anyone, at all, who has a Tesla but not a mobile phone? The decision to include a browser is baffling.
Nobody tried what, generative design? https://www.autodesk.com/solutions/generative-design/manufac...

Or did you mean the way the model is specified?
Yes. Way easier and way faster. call your representative and senator.
"Though it’s theoretically possible, there is no evidence..."

Article is a lot more ambiguous than headline. But I'm getting tired of this kind of argument, especially now with coronavirus, where obviously we aren't going to have the definitive answers yet. Applying human intelligence to an uncertain situation (i.e. using theory instead of experiment) says we should be extra careful. Oh but "what about people who...", so let's ignore intelligent thinking and tell people to continue taking extra risks.
It takes two weeks for symptoms to show up.
An apple is definitely a fruit.
Test everyone at onset of cold symptoms or a fever. Taking hypochondria into account it should come out to once a month. So 10 million tests per day.
FOSSASIA is still taking place this weekend: https://blog.fossasia.org/fossasia-summit-2020-takes-places-...
I think it's fair to compare. Excluding Apple's recent scissor switch keyboard, they've both been reliable and serviceable. They've both had a following over many years. Aesthetically, I've preferred Apple's keyboards and I'm sure many people feel conversely.
The issue is basically that haskell is a lazy language which ends up leaking memory left and right.
Most people that I have talked to about it seem to agree that haskell would be a trillion times better if it was a strict language. At least we now have Idris.
Only 30 days ago I was pondering the thought - will this virus be the catalyst that causes a global financial recession: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22363059

Interesting how trains of thought have quickly changed in such a short time.
1) Pretty sure you're misinformed on this point. The hedge fund sector that has gotten attention and partial blame for this meltdown is the risk-parity segment of hedge funds. These funds target a specific range of volatility, so when the market becomes wildly volatile they are forced to reduce their overall holdings. The entire risk-parity segment of the market is at most $400bn and they are levered 2-3x on average. In the grand scheme of things, this is pennies when compared to broader money flow.

2) Stock buybacks are simply a more tax-efficient way of distributing profits to shareholders. Redistribution of profit to shareholders is a fundamental trait of capitalism, so you can't really blame the CEO for doing this. You seem to be blaming CEO's for not preparing for a black swan event. If CEO's are forced to prepare for every possible black swan event, their companies would go nowhere.
China would have had those numbers if they didn’t quarantine a whole region for 3 months.

They may still have those numbers after they lift the quarantine.
You’re suggesting letting the virus spread, uncontrolled. That means a million dead in the US, assuming everyone had access to good care. Of course, not everyone has access to good care on the best of days in the US. Once the healthcare system is overloaded few will get good care and the mortality rate from Coronavirus and everything else, for everyone will be much higher. And, as people die in the streets, the economy will shut down anyway.
Here are the issues from my paper napkin analysis:

* large businesses not being able to pay for maintenance of tools.

* small businesses not being able to pay employees, rent, services, etc.

* people not being able to pay for rent and food.

What are possible solutions for a long-term lockdown?

* for large businesses: bail out.

* for small businesses: rent should be free.

* for people: rent should be free, food should be distributed like in times of war.
Universal will let you skip the theater to see the latest movies
PostScript is built-in to high-end printing hardware and PDF does a good job at encapsulating PostScript which gives you high reliability that the thing on the screen is going to print out the same way that it appears on the screen. Adobe has traditionally had a dominant role in both font (Type 1, OTF) technology and licensing and creative tools (Illustrator - a .ai file is a PDF) and so both the creation and consumption sides of the ecosystem have coalesced around a common format whose semantics carry through predictably (though not simply!) from one end to another.

What makes PDF particularly challenging is that there are so many broken PDFs out there which must be tolerated and so many legacy fonts, images and formats which have accumulated in the format over time - JPEG 2000 anybody?

Most complaints I see about PDF though are usually “why can’t it just wrap lines” and the answer is that there’s a zillion ways to do that and we’re supposed to be representing the output of that process as a visual artifact, not the input, as HTML does, because the use case is printing and stability of the output is non-negotiable.
Thanks so much for this great, novel explanation.
A potato is not a pome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pome
Yeah, the shopping cart performance has gotten so slow lately, I've gone days without being able to complete checkout. Or some items would complete and others would still be sitting there, lather rinse repeat, and some simply vanish without actually being purchased. Some get purchased twice...

If I were buying anything expensive, I'd care, but it's still better than Amazon for many things.
People can be contagious before symptoms. And that’s also a very different strategy than testing everyone before they go into work each day. You’ll miss the vast majority of people if you just test people with symptoms.
the test kits would be positive when it's too late to stop this highly contagious virus. PCR tests are needed, which means, every day submitting a spit sample in some collection space, and get the result at night. It's not impossible, with a lot of automation and scaling of PCR machines and huge mobilization. It could become a routine for a long time if automated.
We might have enough food etc stockpiled, but the servicing of debt (upon which everything is built) drives a certain modest urgency through the whole system.
That's not exactly how that works. I buy stuff from the company you mention (MGP). It's grain neutral spirits (GNS) and it comes in at 193 proof.

You still have to have a distiller's license to buy it from them. Distillers can transfer products between themselves in bond. Bond is a process that exists mainly to make sure the excessive excise taxes levied on distilled spirits get paid. It's basically an audit trail for the TTB. You don't cut out a middle man, you actually add one, yourself. You just have two manufacturers, a distributor, and a retailer in the chain.

The TTB requires you to pass it through your own still one time to call it your vodka. (I do canned cocktails so I'm not 100% clear on how exactly that works, the copacker I use is a distiller too and makes their own vodka from MGP stock and told me about this. I think the TTB added the requirement after the whole Tito's debacle.)

I'm not sure which outsourcing company you're referring to. No liquor company makes 1,000 different brands. MGP makes a good array of products (and they have competitors) so there are a lot of whiskies, vodkas, gins, etc. on the market that come from their distilled spirits. They don't make any of the brands. (I mean, they do have a few of their own brands now, but not many.)

Probably the vast majority of distilleries are buying at least some stuff from MGP, Signature Spirits, and the other bulk wholesalers. Even the guys who mostly make their own might supplement with that. If you make apple brandy with apples from your orchard, and the weather kills the apple crop, you're going to be supplementing.

Also, food-grade ethanol is much more expensive to produce than the stuff that ends up in hand sanitizer or fuel typically. The non-edible ethanol uses yeast that ferment fast and hard but would taste like garbage in liquor, and the equipment is much cheaper than food-grade stuff, which always adds significant cost. I have to think even now liquor fetches much higher prices, so I doubt they're rushing to sell it to Gojo (other than as a marketing ploy). Also drinking is way up now, all my friends in all 3 tiers are telling me they can't keep up with demand. But with fuel demand being seriously curtailed and gas prices at a several year low, I bet fuel ethanol is going to hand sanitizer factories right now.

I know some distilleries are making their own hand sanitizer, and it's probably a combination of marketing and capitalizing on a very brief trend, but I bet the bulk is coming from fuel ethanol. Speculation on my part there.
There is a gross difference between "quarantine" and "limit your physical contact, especially with the young and old, while we sort this out".
Arguably not. Rust has a lot of things that C doesn't, like classes, lifetimes, and the borrow checker, which can be jarring to deal with for programmers used to other languages.

And, unlike most other languages I've seen, you can't just sit down and write a "bad" Rust program and then refine your abilities; the compiler won't let you do the "bad" things, so you have to get everything write from the word go.
>Custom search engines...

Firefox has had this feature for many many years.

I press ctrl+L (keyboard focus to location bar) type "w aviation" and press enter.

It's built in already as a default feature. To add a custom search to Firefox, right click on the search field and click "Add keyword for this search". I chose "w" for Wikipedia like you have.
Ok, so where are the cases from 2 weeks ago?
Why is it so important to you that we get our COVID-19 news here? There is no shortage of other outlets / sites covering it in excruciating detail. For example, https://covid19.reddit.com

Do we really need the HN frontpage to look like a mirror of /r/covid19?

Not to mention that, for people who use Facebook / Twitter / etc., our feeds are pretty much jammed full of COVID-19 talk all day long.

I'd kinda like to come here and find a nice story about implementing LISP on Plan-9 running on MIPS using an XFS filesystem, or something else to get my mind off of the virus stuff. It's important, but I don't find that it's so important to warrant thinking about it to the exclusion of everything else.
They are in this format: Year.Week.Patch
> Stock buybacks are simply a more tax-efficient way of distributing profits to shareholders

This is:

1. irresponsible, due to so called black swan events

2. price manipulation, don't forget this
The Calico EBPF Dataplane
4 dead and 3 more in critical condition from a single family:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-shatters-ne...

26 dead at the washington nursing home, 50 tested positive: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-deaths-washingto...

Death rates by preexisting condition: https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2020-03/13/2...

America has 42% obesity rate and a huge population with diabetes and heart issues, the numbers for 30-60 year olds might end up looking a lot worse than in Asia and Europe.
Dividends that leave the business effectively insolvent in an emergency or financial downturn are irresponsible and should be disallowed. It should be remembered that direct stock by backs were illegal until recently as they were seen as a violation of insider trading and presented conflicts of interest. Further stock based compensation for executives is also relatively new. So we now have a situation that the incentives are clearly aligned for executives to pump stock prices to boost their own compensation through a previously illegal means of stock buy backs. Just look at the ratio of dividends to stock by backs in the last few years. You will see the result of those incentives.
For what it's worth, I used to be big on C, and grew to very dislike C++ (because it's simple insane). Rust is my language of choice for years now.

IMO, Rust shares the same inner-simplicity that C has, but combined with ability to build and use bulletproof higher-level abstractions. The same way I roughly knew what machine instructions (roughly) my C code produces, I know what machine instructions my Rust code produces.
yeah we're pattern seeking machines... its no surprise that we lump events together like that.
Own Kubernetes controller – Laying out the work
Ask HN: Career shift to a biomedical interdisciplinary field?
Like many of you out there, I imagine this period of social distancing and self-quarantine has produced a fair bit of reflection. Perhaps the worst part of watching the crisis unfold is feeling like I have nothing to contribute apart from an order to sit on my couch and not infect others. I've become addicted to the excellent MedCram videos put out by Dr. Seheult on the ongoing pandemic and find myself excited about a new and important frontier of knowledge that I haven't felt in a long time. If only we'd all listened to Bill Gates years ago.

For the fullstack developers, data engineers and devops specialists among us, with perhaps a computer science or engineering background, where are some of the most promising areas in the biomedical sciences that we could realistically transition to mid-career? What would the employment prospects be? What (online) courses would you enroll in to start getting the necessary background?
If you're basing your sample throughput calculations on instrument throughput (1000/day), you're implicitly assuming that instrument run time is the limiting factor, and the rest of the operations can match it.

I'm also confused by your apparent assumption that bench space is a universal constant that cannot be changed, even under a global pandemic, while lab personnel can be scaled up effortlessly.

> Regarding serial numbers and labeling, it is indeed trivial. You can literally keep a list on paper and label tubes by hand (I did this for years in an academic lab). This step is fast compared to overall sample prep time.

Scientists don't keep records on scraps paper for a reason, and I'm shocked your PI didn't read you the Riot Act for shoddy record-keeping.

With thousands of samples coming in, this is how you end up completely losing track of your samples. Once again: it's not trivial, particularly at this scale.

> I have no idea where you got the idea of a barcode migration from.

> Why keep such detailed records? Barcode it on the way in, run the test, and report the result - forget demographic data and any other paperwork
D has never had a price tag on it.
Yeah, this is no time to criticize grifting.

Previous commenter has nailed it directly: opportunists see a mountain of money heading out from government to the public and they want to insert themselves in the middle and grab a big chunk of it.

I mean, these businesses file tax returns and the government has an address and even a bank account on file for them. Government could... write them a check. I've just provided all the value Womply provides in getting money to small businesses, pay me.
“Freeze rent” as in not increasing the monthly payment?

Waive late fees as in, expect to be paid for all months back rent in the first place?

Gosh, that’s cute. Small businesses forced to shut down aren’t going to be gritting their teeth and paying back rent when the government decides they’re allowed to re-open.

I would guess most businesses forced to close at least 6 weeks will be write-offs. Walk away from the debt and start again if you can / dare. Unless someone else (govt) is picking up the tab.
Design is not just about how a thing looks or what kind of shape it has, but the intelligence that goes into how it works.
The Coronavirus Killed the Progressive Left
Migrating from Helm v2 to v3
On an O/B system? I think it's a good idea, otherwise I would not have implemented it.
if we can trust the imperial college of london, the next 12-18 months will have 2/3rd of their time in lockdown.
The 1-3% is an average among all age groups. You clearly have not looked at the data. For example, in Italy the CFR is somewhere around 14% for elderly. Everyone else is lower such that the nominal death rate, being an average among all groups,.has been consistently running around 8%.

Obviously when this matures that rate will go lower because the denominator will grow but the denominator that people care about is the one we have now: who is sick enough to need a test because if I get sick, and thus become part of that denominator, the current rate gives me a good picture of my chances. Was the parent comment slightly hyperbolic, maybe. But you are way underselling the seriousness of this disease and the rationality of being scared of it.
this assumes the existence of magical economic systems with infinite reserves in other planets. The economy is people, its a dynamic system, it doesn't actually have reserves
I'm surprised they had to cancel, given that they had already announced the move to an online-only conference. Perhaps they didn't have enough time to get the remote sessions prepared in time.

That said, I'm looking forward to Apple's online WWDC, and hope that it doesn't meet a similar fate!

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/
Is this true for anybody under the age of say, 40? I don't know a single person between the age of 15 and 40 who can't touch type at least 50 WPM.

I think the main hindrance for most people is not lack of touch typing skills, but more lack of ability or desire to memorize key bindings or the names of commands.
Fear now is better than horror when the healthcare system collapses.
Do you really think that would ever happen in this system? That they would willingly let go of the opportunity to know everything about you?

The bigger problem is the power it gives the state, all it takes to stop you from being able to do anything in a cashless society is tapping a key.
There is no evidence connecting IQ to hereditary traits. This has been demonstrably proven false multiple times. What you are arguing is eugenics and that is patently false.
I put a reply on your YouTube. Siri identifies this as "Automatic" by Funkerman and Shermanology. I listened on Spotify and it sounds similar to me.
Its 1-3% of confirmed infected, not of the population as a whole or the quarantined area. That 1-3% varies in terms of age and other comorbid factors.