skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By and large, both the general public and organizations were caught by surprise. If most people knew, the stocks would have tanked in January, not these past few days.

Which brings an interesting question: how many of all the people you know who knew, yourself included, put their skin in the game and are now rich from the options they bought in January? If it is not many, I would argue it is better to say people suspected or feared, not that they knew.
I know it's a novel concept that not many know about, but: Everyone has their own interests and curiosities.
the correct response should look like an overreaction in hindsight. But it's tough to explain the cost of the overreaction if said overreaction prevented all of these problems.

I make the analogy with an engineer receiving accolades for fixing bugs and outages with heroic effort. But the engineer that creates trouble free code, that never has any problems, but takes a long time to create code that's bug free seems to be over-cautious or over-engineering a solution. They get reprimanded for taking too long or using too much resources during development. But they never receive the praise for the non-events like no outages or no errors/issues.
Binding mechanism of Remdesivir to SARS-CoV-2 RNA dependent RNA polymerase
I think a lot of people would like things to work differently, but trusting the American government, which has repeatedly proved itself unworthy of trust, doesn't seem like a good first step to effecting change.
I like generalpass's answer, "Not based on information obtained here." And yet I'm going to give a genuine answer.

I'd use [dollar cost averaging](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging) and invest in a index funds. I would personally try to wait out the freefall so you can start investing closer to the bottom, but you will never know when the bottom is, only when the bottom was, so I wouldn't get too fancy with waiting.
Nope. The bone beds at the base of "Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump" are meters thick. 13 I want to say? The plains tribes of the area were running huge herds off there for a very very long time.

>The buffalo jump was used for 5,500 years by the indigenous peoples of the plains to kill buffalo by driving them off the 11 metre (36 foot) high cliff.

Further...

>The cliff itself is about 300 metres (1000 feet) long, and at its highest point drops 10 metres (33 ft) into the valley below. The site was in use at least 6,000 years ago, and the bone deposits are 12 metres (39 feet) deep.

Big damn herds, for a damn long time.
Xi Jinping enacted severe measures in China on Jan 21.

That's not your retool date, but it's a later "take a long hard look at things" date for people doing public health planning at the national level.
The thing is, back when KHTML was made, it supported pretty much everything you needed to browse the web. Even the version in KDE1 (which is only a handful of KLOCs) supported almost everything you'd see online.
Would you share what company that is. Interested to learn more.
I don't see the problem with whiteboard as long as its emphasized that you are looking for an algorithmic solution, not a perfectly running code snippet in a specific language. Whiteboard is great for sketching out ideas and solving problems collaboratively, which is a good indicator of team fit.
Completely agree. Instruction sets are very inflexible. If a language has a new keyword or instruction, developers will spend a lot of time avoiding it at all costs and hiding it behind methods.

The new keyword requires a concrete class to instantiate. Abstractions such as interfaces cannot be used with new. The resulting instruction will directly reference that concrete class which makes it part of the software's binary interface. Its behavior can't be overridden: a constructor will always return an instance of the constructed class, never a subtype.

The factory design pattern was invented to solve these problems. Replacing new with normal method calls pretty much takes care of everything. The author himself has written about this on his blog:

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2010/09/18/futureproofing-...

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2010/12/14/the-trouble-wit...
Got to wonder if simply saying "don't take a bunch of cash out of the bank" will end up putting the idea into more people's heads than if they said nothing at all.
We cancelled international travel plans in mid-January because of the expanding virus within China and the first cases in other countries. It was clear by then that there was no containment and the spread was underway.

The federal govt has even more insight than average people watching the news and should've acted aggressively in closing borders and improving capacity. US (and EU) have reacted terribly late to all of this.
SARS happened less than 20 years ago. We should have been well aware what happens with these types of coronaviruses.
My strat is this: (not baked on historical testing so take a free strat for what it is, free) I am buying stocks again hat are at half or less of their 52 week highs and only large cap companies. I’m in Boeing now and United Airlines and Ally bank to name a few. The thesis is: this will pass and large core companies that make up a big portion of the economy will come back and will either be acquired or buy up smaller players (remember these larger companies with large bank reserves...).

My time horizon is the same as yours.
You can't insert/update/delete data in views in all cases, and they can make debugging performance more challenging, but otherwise nothing. I think they are underused.

I rarely see people using views at all, let alone using them as a test aid (composing big queries from smaller more easily tested views), or using them to define interfaces to an internal data model.
We should already have the ventilator in stock beforehand.
It's ok to be scared, but you have to work.

Or become like the airline industry with total layoffs.

We've sent men to die in war by force. Conscription was in both WW2 and WW2. They were scared to.

For almost all people working age this is just the flu. We have gone to far in the wrong direction on this

You will get it.

Yes you might be scared for the elderly, or you have issues at home, but they will be worse jobless.
I was hoping this covered how to sanitize them (I had a couple N95s in storage that I've been reusing when out shopping. I live in Redmond/Kirkland, the initial epicenter). I've heard some hospitals are lightly bleaching, and I'm curious if my Everclear sprays would degrade the barriers.

What a crazy time to be living.
Tell that to South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan who mobilized immediately (South Korea had their first case on the same day we did, Jan 8)

Also, for H1N1 (which ended up being much less deadly) Obama had a million tests made in the first 2 weeks from the first US case. We're now 2 months from the first US case with less than 20k tests done.
This is awesome work. What I'd like to see is some support for higher-level structures, i.e. autoscaling, stateful sets, service to service communication, persistent volumes, etc.
On January 23rd China quarantined an entire city of 11 million people. Nobody does that for a minor respiratory virus.
> Guess the "decades run from 1 to 10, not 0 to 9" people won that argument.

Like: the twenties run from 2021 to 2030, not from 2020 to 2029.

Because the year after 1 BC is 1 AD. There is no year zero. This is one of the weird things of our calendar. More about that see Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero.

So, the first millennium is from 1 to 1000, the second from 1001 to 2000 and the third from 2001 to 3000. And the twenties being the third decade start with the year 2021, and so on.

The comment is just snarky, because people have a mess with dates. Usually people start counting with one, even if mathematically starting with zero would make more sense. But hey, they make an exception for millennia, centuries and decades. They start with zero. Bravo!

In a sense this is funny. People don't usually start counting with zero. Of all things they do this for decades, however for once this is not ... applicable? useful? right?
You are correct and the lack of plan is petty obvious.

We lack the people to run the ventilators too. How and who is coming up with a way to train people to be respiratory therapists in mass? How are you going to attract people to a high stress temp gig where your exit will be coming down with the virus?
I don’t see the lecturing and patronization that you referenced in your original comment with some of the examples you provided. That’s the part of your post that I disagree with.

In your Iraq war example I don’t recall bureaucratic experts being involved in support of it. General Shinseki famously thought Rumsfeld’s predictions were wrong and Hans Blicks (spelling?) was famously skeptical of Bush administration claims.

I’ll certainly agree that we’ve had crappy political leadership in the U.S. but I won’t agree that bureaucrats have let the nation down in matters of science. Experts get it wrong and consensus expert opinion is sometimes wrong. There will continue to be examples of where consensus expert opinion is wrong.

You can find individual experts who are patronizing and lecturing as you put it. It’s been rare in my experience that consensus expert opinions that aren’t motivated by money, greed, power, or fame are condescending or lecturing.
Elon Musk does not owe people anything. If he decides to produce them, that's fine, but he doesn't have to.

But the governments should buy these ventilators from private companies, so private companies like Tesla or GM were incentivized to produce these ventilators.

Edit: added and then removed a comment about downvotes
Investing is a very personal matter. A financial advisor is the best person to discuss this with. If I were pursuing this for myself I would build a Permanent Portfolio [1]. If I was looking for a financial advisor I would talk to Andrew Horowitz [2]. I would also recommend you look a small allocation in something such as Bitcoin, Zcash or Ethereum as they have a lot of upside potential still.

Permanent Portfolio Allocation:
25% Cash
25% Long Term Bonds
25% Stocks
25% Gold

[1]: https://assetbuilder.com/knowledge-center/articles/the-world...
[2]: http://thedisciplinedinvestor.com/blog/dhunplugged/
I was doing drone control software (RPi based) for a startup that ran out of funding last November. They told me that they were going to keep looking for investors/funding and if they got money they'd call me back to work immediately. And there were some promising signs in December/January that they might get some funding. So, since I liked them, they liked me, and the gig was fun I figured I'd put off looking for other work until later in the Spring just to see if they get the funding. Welp, now I really doubt they're going to get that funding.
Exactly. For equal investment dollars and resulting real generating capacity, compare the time each will take to reach that goal, as against the very real climate threat. Real-world investors made their decision long ago.

Even neglecting the never-resolved waste problem, it's a no-brainer. Until the Sun quits, renewables are safe, clean, and unlikely to create any more disasters.
this thing is causing me a lot of anxiety lately. i finally landed a FB summer internship in menlo park and now i can't tell if it'll actually happen. recruiter is saying everything is still on track but i'm sure there's no way they can predict whether that'll change soon.

i know google is doing virtual onboarding and wfh for incoming interns according to the whether the team that hosts is still game. does anyone have any idea about FB?
I've been wearing gloves... more as a reminder not to touch my face and to strongly scrub them when taking off said gloves before doing anything else.
The market will rebound and a few years from now we will be wishing we had invested. We will see stocks that doubled or tripled. The big problem is that there's really no way to know now what those winners will be.

The best advice is to pick a broad index, S&P 500, and invest the money over a period of time, maybe 6 months. You won't hit a homerun but you'll do better than most.
My Surface works perfect for this. I just take the keyboard off and it's a tablet, with a lovely pen you can use to highlight.
You won't find an easy answer and that is the point of liberalism. Divy up the responsibility of absolute power so that nobody really knows who to blame.
Ventec Life Systems. Here's an NPR interview with their CEO.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/18/817934608/ceo-of-ventilator-m...
Mark Cuban has no surviving companies. Celebrity is not expertise.
There was a story published earlier in the week. At that point, no orders had been placed for ventilators.

Presumably the defense procurement authorization will result in that purchase being made. Hopefully it’s not another family grift.
Should banks / governments take steps now to prevent people withdrawing excessive amounts of cash?
The fact that Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns, and Washington Mutual no longer exist somewhat refutes that narrative.
The point is not whether or not Musk owes it to anyone. But that some people claim to be making the world a better place, and others batten down and actually do make the world a better place. And usually the latter is a lot less glamorous than the former.
This is not advice and I am not a financial advisor.

That said, I noticed that put options for Delta airlines with a strike price of 18 were trading at $4.10 which is $410 per contract, so I wrote (sold) 10 of them. That means that either I’m going to get to keep $4100 in a month or I’m going to get 1000 shares at an effective price of $13.90 per share. If that happens I’ll sell for a profit if I can or otherwise hold for a couple years and hope to profit off the bailout. Worst case is a net loss of $13900, which I can absorb if need be.
The old Slashdot moderation system had a variant of this. You could assigns comment score and a reason for that score. It worked pretty well until users inevitably learned how to abuse it.
Ah, yeah, you are correct. Still going to be a lot more expensive than shore power thought.
Forgive me, but is this a joke? You have an 8K monitor? If yes, would you mind if I asked why and how you use this? What makes it worth it?

I’m in the market for a new monitor. I’m coming from the first “nice” monitor I’ve ever had: a ~$300 27 inch LG HDR 4K. I thought it would be perfect, but to be honest it leaves a lot to be desired. It’s not even bright enough to beat the light coming through my office windows. What am I really paying for at these higher price tiers? Is it possible to meet somewhere in the middle? I do graphic, but not video, work.
Incentivize businesses to store cash.
https://archive.is/QckEZ
What makes Macbook Pros good for developers versus PC laptops?

(I'm not a programmer)
> If you are using a relational database to its full extent, there is nothing as secure as built in row level security. You wouldn't dream of doing integrity checks outside the database, why do security?

This isn’t exactly PostgreSQL’s fault, but mapping application users to database roles is not as easy in pretty much any framework I’ve worked compared to implementing basic post-retrieval filters.

I absolutely think bringing security into the database is good, but it’s also not straightforward to integrate in even assuming you know how to define the necessary database elements.
I messaged my buddy to restart the server, but in not really involved anymore.
Is it strange that I would enjoy these far more if they were embedded in a walkable version of the museum running in a game engine? Like "virtually visit a museum" is a lot more appealing than "look at pictures of things that are in museums".
No one is saying Musk owes people or has to do it. No one.
Making the ventilators is not the only way to make world a better place.

I consider my daytime job making the world a better place even in these dark days. But I don't work at ventilators factoy (or in hospital, or in anything directly related to coronavirus).

(Edit: clarification; cleanup)
Fox Breaks Ranks with Cable News on Streaming Access Amid Virus Crisis
In reality? It's totally nebulous, the terms aren't standardized, the distinctions aren't agreed upon, and people use these words -- developer, engineer, programmer -- interchangeably and/or inconsistently. You can't actually tell anything about someone by which term they use.

But in practice, as you'll see in this thread, some people have very strong (and totally arbitrary) opinions about those words, for reasons I cannot fathom. Knowing this exists is important, I guess, because some people will (maybe silently) judge you for using the wrong one in the wrong context, and you should at least be aware that can happen.
Defer and errdefer in zig are pretty awesome, so I'm not convinced c couldn't use it, but zig has a very different error return model from C, and I tend to disapprove of hacky solutions.
> Those things the ipad can't do are largely niche

Software development doesn't feel niche to me. It feels like it should be possible to publish a usable, high quality iPad app using nothing but an iPad.
Usually they specify the stock part in dollars, it doesn't turn into a concrete number of shares until after you start.
Bloom+Hybrid+Coupon+25%+Off+Awesome+Night+Sleep
Presumably it would be like FreeBSD's GELI, where early boot stuff would need to detect that it's looking at an encrypted root and know to prompt. In theory, this is relatively straightforward- with boot environments, the zpool bootfs property indicates the root dataset, so I wouldn't think you need to look too far.

[edit: this is done in our loader, so presumably you'd use grub?]
Visualization map of seasonal illness/fever from smart thermometers
If you don’t what?
This is great. Companies share these numbers with each other, good to see more visibility for employees.
Pesticide seed coatings are common yet underreported
It has a 2 year old processor!
Yeah, I'm as big of a Tesla fan as you'll find but the lack of closing the factory in one of the epicenters has really lowered my opinion of his leadership.

While I understand he's one to zig when everyone zags I feel like this will be a case where it will become clear that it was a bad call.
LOL and you make comments about virtue signaling what a joke.
One of the N95 respirator stockpiling bills?
Requests for people with firsthand accounts are things I see from reputable sources like the Economist, and the New York Times. So I don't think it's particularly unprofessional - maybe asking for "tips" is less professional than "we welcome hearing your accounts of the events".

That said, I don't hold Tech Crunch in very high regard. I take most of their reporting with a grain of salt, and assume most articles are exaggerated to attract more attention.
my family used gold to escape china when the communists took over. Lots of jews used gold to escape germany.

During those periods cash was not accepted.

Even during the venezuela collapse gold is still good.

gold is the ultimate hedge to escape conflict areas. In the future I can see crypto currency as a store of wealth for when you arrive at your destination, but gold is going to get you out
> if you decided to downvote, please at least explain why. Because I don't believe lefts conquered the HN.

I downvoted because you assumed it was the “lefts” who were downvoting you.
Neat idea and the ease of use is certainly attractive! I have a question though...

Couldn't one simply use a traditional CDN where ever their customers are which would then allow the inbound network requests to jump on private interface routing to where ever the app truly lives quicker - essentially making for a more responsive "business logic" app feel? If all infrastructure was on the same cloud provider, say AWS.

I understand this approach is less dynamic in nature but would have been a solution for the Ars Technica problem presented I feel. If not, what am I missing? Thanks!
Jacuzzi left the washlet market about a decade ago and I was able to get one of their closeout models. It was one of my best buys of my life. Sadly it died about five years ago and I've been living in rental houses since around that time and haven't bothered to ask any of the landlords if they'd be willing to install a power outlet behind the toilet.
Jeans company in Mississippi to start manufacturing protective masks
MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons
Musk thinks it’s hype
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1239756900255903744
Imperial College report on Covid-19 that led to the extreme measures in US
So, I am sure there are few of us that have lived through the dotcom and 9/11 bust.

That being said, if history repeats itself, there is a decent chance some of these jobs will be short-lived, then move on to the next, which also will not last, and a cooling off period.

I am not trying to be negative, I just think it is wise to consider not just the job, but the industry, its customers, and how it handles its cashflow, and how that relates to limited physical contact for the foreseeable future.
How Singapore's national rice stockpile works
This is definitely great and uplifting news but I am not sure why GM or Ford is the one on top of list for this endeavor? There are a bunch of second source assembly houses that build medical equipment for the big players. Seems like it would make more sense for them to build it with some sort of FDA fast pass.

Discretion, I work for a carmaker company but my opinion is of my own only.
Yes, it probably will look like an overreaction, but that doesn't provide carte-blanche to overreact every time there's a new virus.

As GP mentioned, this happens every few years. Most of the time, it fizzles out. We can't transition all production to hospital equipment every few years, even if it is the right call twice a century.

I have often reprimanded (and have in turn been reprimanded) for overengineering a solution to a problem which just needed a quick fix, because it's not often appropriate to dedicate a lot of resources to ensuring that there are no possible errors. If it is, I'll ask for that specifically.
If you don't have product market fit
How to Find Profitable Business Ideas
I don't know the problems there, but would the following avoid the abuse?

Only accept pre-defined labels everyone agreed on + references to existing answers?

Alternatively only allow a refutation format which is simple to validate.

And make it clear that votes are only a show of sentiment since this is not a democracy we are talking about.
Have a product-market fit
That's an overstatement of what he said. He had been posting about possible medical treatments [1], which is why the tweet you linked to starts with "That said" before talking about panicking and redirecting medical resources away from people who need it.

Do you know why? The drug he was posting about before that tweet, `chloroquine`, is already facing shortages around the globe for people already on it for non-COVID-19 treatments, including people suffering from Lupus [2].

He probably got attacked for promoting it in previous tweets, which is the likely context of the one you linked to, and is regardless a very valid concern for a popular figure tweeting about possible treatments. I've seen others telling people to be cautious promoting it, as we don't need people also needlessly hoarding a critical drug which is quickly becoming a frontline treatment for Coronavirus.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1239776019856461824

[2] https://twitter.com/search?q=lupus%20shortage