skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ll tell you what we do. We don’t shut down the country and destroy millions of lives and future generations. We definitely don’t do it if there’s already overwhelming evidence this impacts the 70+ year old crowd.

We can talk dream scenarios if this actually impacted the youth. Because in that case then there’s actual risk to future societies.

Have you seen an actuarial table for a 70 year old? Go ahead and tell me those numbers and how they compare to the sub 1% CFR seen in Germany, SG, South Korea and Japan.
This is yc, not zerohedge.
> Maybe the no-contact thermometers could be a scalable approach. Go to the bank? Forehead scan to get in. Go to the grocery store? Same.

This is the reality in China. Literally every single public place have a remote thermometer they scan on your forehead. supermarket? scanned. subway? scanned. restaurant? scanned. If you have a fever you'll go into quarantine in no time.
Do you have any data to indicate that obese young people are significantly more at risk of dying than healthier individuals?
This is an article about small businesses, which make up the backbone of the economy. It makes 0 financial sense to save up 6 months of savings for any company, big or small. This is literally a once-a-century event.
That is the question -- it might legitimately be harder to adjust marginal tax rates than to add an income limit, even if the outcomes would be identical either way.
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It definitely requires a ton of virtual memory, and yes, you can't do 32-bit word sorting on 32-bit machines. There's actually a use case involving 24-bit words where the number of occurrences of each word doesn't matter, and where they necessarily start to cluster after each iteration. So there is a use case (I might add it's tailor-made for this use-case). But you can still e.g. sort database keys which might only have a 26-bit maximum, and it'll take advantage of any clustering that exists in the data, like if in a log you get some customers appearing more often than others, or more frequently in streaks. It also works great when your data is in ranges and you don't want to manually account for this: this will skip that entire empty range in logarithmic time. (Example, all your keys are between 1000-1100 and 5000-6000. The empty range 1100-4999 will be traversed in like 12 steps.)
>Once hospitals start overflowing with this, you're not going to have a functioning economy anyway.

Is this true though? I'm not trying to be insensitive, but according to reports, ~15% of the infected need hospitalization, and the distribution of those people are mostly over 60[0]. Is having these people hospitalized on a large scale more detrimental to the economy than shutting everything down? Serious question.

0. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm
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> Your logic is off. In the absence of data there is more fear because you have no idea who might possibly be sick.

There is a massive gap between "test everybody!" and "test nobody!"

We have a finite capacity to test. Tests have accuracy limitations. We can work within both of those limits to mitigate risk as much as possible.

Drastic times require effective measures.
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> First, we pause all fixed financial obligations, which are what’s crushing our economy right now. Right now, we’re in a crunch: people can’t work, and so they can’t make payments on mortgages and rents.

Totally agree, it is insane that some families are under the threat of eviction because they live paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford to pay rent now. Same for small businesses who cannot afford to pay rent.

I'm sure some landlords will do the right thing, but we can't trust all landlords to do the right thing. Something has to be done at the federal level, and it's now or never.

UBI would be another way to get around this BTW.
If you are rich enough, you should be thinking about which small businesses you rely on and pull-in your purchases. My car mechanic just sent me an e-mail out of the blue advertising that they were still open. I will definitely be getting my car serviced early next week, even though it's a few months early. At work, I'm pulling in some of my "nice to have" projects to keep my favorite vendors (who haven't been shut down) busy.
It's not about abstract "economic system".

Let me put it in simple word: you'll loose your job. Your friends and family will loose their jobs.

As a result, when your savings run out, you'll loose your appartement. And so will your friends and family.

You won't be able to afford food without government assistance.

And even if shutdown lasts only 30 days, it'll wreck the economy for a long time. Once a restaurant defaults and closes, it won't just re-open. Those jobs will be lost for a long time.

Now, maybe you're one of the lucky ones with enough savings to ride this out and this won't affect you. But it'll affect millions of others.
I feel like the practical effect of this is that you're just subsidizing all those people that use credit cards to get frequent flyer miles. Stores raise their prices because most people use credit cards, so you're paying for that no matter what. Might as well get some frequent flyer miles.

Having said that, I'm shocked that you don't get monthly statements from your health insurance company that say "hey you bought a lot of potato chips and ice cream, pay us a dollar extra a month." It's coming, though, I'm sure.
It's not like obesity isn't a problem in Europe, too. 25% is lower than 42%, sure, but it's still a lot.
Is there any official stated reasoning for this? At least some feign that it makes the sale safer in some way?
But employees won't have to touch your phone.
I’m sure a lot of people have their opinions about what the best introductory lisp text is. I won’t add to that list since a google search will give results from reviewers far more eloquent than I am.

What I would like to suggest is that once you basically “get” how the prefix syntax works, and how to process lists, Doug Hoyte’s Let Over Lambda (https://letoverlambda.com/textmode.cl/guest/toc) is a book that can really help you -learn- lisp, to fundamentally understand what makes lisp so powerful compared to other languages. Incredibly perspective-expanding content when I first read it, and largely references many of the “great” lisp texts that helped build the language and its community into what they are today.
It is good to see the one of the better ideas from ZeroHedge show up on "yc" :)
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Brazil is not seeing any slowdown due to high temperatures. Looking at your cities on very different climates, temperature seems to not be a factor at all.

City density, by its turn, is huge.
I can't access the article at the moment. I tried. I'm on my phone. It didn't open for me.

I'm not sure I care.

The world is suddenly embracing a lot of practices I've pursued for years because of my medical condition. I've spent a lot of years trying to develop alternate mental models and an alternate lifestyle to avoid germs so I can stay off all the drugs doctors think I should take.

I run r/GigWorks and r/ClothingStartups. Neither has much traction.

I have long wanted to actively foster the development of small independent business. The founding fathers of the US believed small business and entrepreneurship was critical to a healthy democracy. You can't speak your mind or vote your heart if you have to live in terror of being fired for it and unable to get a new job.

I can run my big fat mouth as much as I do in part because I work for an online writing service. If everyone absolutely hated me on every forum and in the small town where I live, I can keep earning an income anonymously online through the writing service.

I am only one person. I've long been a loser and social outcast. As such, I've been failing to get traction.

But you are all invited to check out GigWorks and ClothingStartups and try to be part of the solution.

The old guard never goes quietly. They go kicking and screaming. Things usually don't really change until a bunch of people die.

We've been here before. We survived as a species.

I think the most important question right now is "What kind of future would you like to see rise from the ashes?"

Answer that question and then actually do it. Don't just leave it as a mental exercise.

For me, that means continuing to try to find ways to foster small and micro business success via the Internet to give stability to a top heavy economy that is sucking the air out of the room politically for reasons foreseen by our founding fathers.
I think we're learning that while the manifestation & exact timing is unpredictable, looking at the big picture one black swan or another seems to show up with surprising regularity. 1973, 1987, 2001, 2008, 2020...
Dividends are fundamentally different than stock buy backs. They are the distribution of profit to owners of a business. No nonpublic information involved. No misaligned incentives.

Yes, liquidity requirements and add personal liability for executives if their firm goes through bankruptcy, or restructuring. Goldman Sachs was a partnership until the 90s with each banker personally liable for the firms debts. They took risk much more seriously then.
Holy cow. Notice how everyone literally says “there’s not enough testing” but yet you’re able to rationalize the CFR as valid.

What you see going to the hospital and getting tested CLEARLY is the most critical number of cases. It’s possible that for every person tested, there are 100 or more that are asymptomatic. Run some numbers on this “highly contagious” disease.

Another point why we are in a fear bubble is that everyone parrots the same fear gospel and there’s very few dissenters.

Bring on the downvotes you scared folks
Not everyone is driven to become the CEO of a mega-corporation.

Some people are content with what they have, or find running one location stressful enough, or whatever reason.
Well, in California:

I got my groceries from people wearing masks. Everybody in the store kept 6 feet distance.

I've been working from home for 2 weeks and will continue to do so for at least 3 more. Company wide mandate.

Almost every business other than groceries/other essentials (where some are surprisingly "essential", granted) are closed so people have no reason to break quarantine except to perform essential tasks. So overall, I'd say we are doing exactly what we need to be doing. Hopefully the rest of the country follows suit
We already have a bunch of 50 year old diabetics who passed away in the states.

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2020-03/13/2...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/health/coronavirus-midlif...
China's Red Cross supposedly advised Italy yesterday that 'total economic shutdown'[1] is the only way to contain the COVID-19 situation in the country now.

It all comes to what part of the curve the country is now, the choice being total lockdown incl. economic shutdown vs aggressive testing.

Considering US lapsed on aggressive measures in the beginning and that proper test kits are just being flown in from Italy[2]; total economic shutdown seems to be the only option left.

P.S. There are still high-risk countries which hasn't gone into lockdown neither doing aggressive testing as of now, claiming the number of cases are low although the day-to-day delta is increasing exponentially.

[1]Italy correspondent of Aljazeera gave this information multiple times on live, couldn't find static link to it as of writing.

[2]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/air-force-flew-500000-coro...
I'm reminded of the old armour-where-the-bullets-aren't story [0]. The most important things to watch out for are places where symptoms don't show up at all.

One interesting challenge that the people doing studies must be facing is that by the time symptoms get bad the virus is probably to some degree irrelevant. If someone's lungs have given out then whether or not there are virus particles in their body probably doesn't matter so much; the damage is done. Raw viral load isn't putting people in hospital as much as that important parts of their body have been dissolved.

For a drug to be effective against the virus maybe it needs to be cheap & administered very early before symptoms become too obvious. That'd be hard to study.

[0] https://medium.com/@penguinpress/an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-...
Or if they used the same standard shopping protocol, that anyone could implement or use (like they use e-mail for communication with customers almost universally). You'd add your favorite e-shop URL to your favorite desktop shopping app, and you'd see products from various shops in one interface.

The app could have customer centric functionality, since it would be a "user agent". So you'd have stuff like price tracking, availability tracking, feature comparison, independent reviews, saveable shopping cart, global wishlist, consistent user interface that never changes unless you want it to, and is configurable by you, etc.

Seller would implement the protocol for their side and buyers would choose UI app to discover and order stuff, be it CLI or GUI, or scripted.
Masks and gloves are ineffective for people who don't know how to use them -- wearing a mask? Great. Now you just felt hot and pulled the mask down onto your chin. Congratulations, the outside of the mask is no longer sterile. You're wearing gloves? Fabulous. Now you're out shopping pushing a cart and you just scratched your nose with your gloves. Cart handle is now contaminated or visa versa and gloves didn't change anything. PPE is only effective under very controlled environments, and the general population doesn't understand this.

The economy will recover, especially since EVERY country is taking a hit, I don't think it will take very long for the capitalist engine to roar back to life. That's the beauty about capitalism -- you're turning the ingenuity of humans loose to be productive. As humans we're great at figuring out how to be productive.
Shareholders are not the ones who lose the most when the ravens come to roost.
Helicopter money won't help businesses in the service industry where people literally can't spend their newfound helicopter dollars. With the incompetence of the SBA I'm not sure what a total solution would look like, but helicopter money can only be part of a larger plan if we want to save America's small businesses.
Considering that people generally go to work even when they're sick in the US, and that people are scared to go to the doctor because of the hidden cost, I don't think your solution is valid.

On the other hand, we cannot pause the economy for too long. The damages are already done but what is going to happen if we wait too much?

I cannot imagine the level of stress the people working at the government must be under now... Whatever solution they come up with could be the collapse of the US as we know of now.
Sure, they could do it through unemployment claims as well.
Massive publicly traded companies are not the companies that are collapsing. It's mostly small business that aren't publicly traded let alone doing buybacks.
Perhaps Coronavirus and Covid-19 specifically are not transmitted this way. There are plenty of contiguous diseases which are. From a retail worker safety perspective it is the right way to go
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What do the doors have to do with this? "There is more than one point of contact in a store, therefore you might as well not even try to reduce their number." is the same kind of defeatist, just-give-up argument from the headline.
I agree, CEOs that bought back stock should not have the option of a bailout. That was a self-enrichment strategy built upon cheap debt, and now it is time to pay the bill.

Generally speaking, Boeing and others should not be bailed out. Capital should flow to the small businesses to keep their doors open, their people employed.

I'd also argue strongly against bailing out companies that shifted their work overseas. There needs to be a price to their actions. This is a just price IMO.
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I'm not even that old and this is the 3rd black swan event in the last 2 decades: terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001, financial meltdown in 2008-2009, and this 2020 global pandemic.

There were also 3 other localized outbreaks (SARS in 2003, Swine Flu in 2009, MERS in 2012) so that to me sounds like we were 3 viral mutations away from this being the 4th global pandemic in 20 years.

If we're structuring business and our economies such that they fall over or require ~1 trillion dollars for bailouts, every 4-7 years on average, then something is vastly, massively, completely, extremely wrong with our approach.

I don't care how many economics nobel prizes are racked up by theorists; or about efficient market theory and blah blah blah. These systems are failing in the real world and that's the only existence proof needed.

Running a just-in-time razor-thin-margins all-profits-reinvested-no-savings business is great in theory but apparently the wind blowing from the wrong direction destroys it all. It has the feeling of the economics/finance version of a physicist assuming a spherical car in a perfect vacuum with a point source of gravity when designing a system that has to survive actual usage.
Doesn't mean it will be a century until the next one.
There are other reasons to require business to have emergency funds... Weather comes to mind
They would unquestionably have more cash on hand though. That matters. There is also a lot of research showing that management does buy backs at exactly the wrong time. How wasteful is it in retrospect that companies did buy backs over the last two years at the peak of the market. Now they might have to sell stock to raise money at the bottom (assuming we find it soon). Mean while warren buffet was sitting on cash and building his reserves. Watch him swoop in now and just pick up businesses for pennies on the dollar.
All of the things you're saying are the direct result of the market incentives created by low interest rates. Companies borrowed money and used it to buy their own shares for the same reason everybody was borrowing money to buy shares with it -- it's what people do when it's cheap to borrow money.

If your competitors are all borrowing money at low interest, you do the same or you're not competitive.

The problem is we lowered interest rates in response to the housing crisis and then left them there. Because doing so inflated (really reinflated) such a ginormous credit bubble that it would take more than an entire market cycle for real economic growth to catch up to it, and (absent printing money) you can only raise interest rates to the extent that borrowing demand from real economic growth exceeds the reduction in credit caused by the higher interest rates, or you cause deflation and an economic downturn.

This is also why the rate of inflation has been below historic norms since the housing crisis -- reduced to that level just by raising rates the tiny bit that they did. And now even that's gone and interest rates are at zero.

This is what the fallout of long-term low interest rates looks like. The only way out of it within our lifetimes would be mass defaults (which would cause a depression) or enough inflation to devalue the outstanding debts.

Considering that we're also now facing deflationary forces from these quarantines, maybe it's time to start printing some money. Certainly countering the deflation by encouraging even more borrowing would just be trying to dig our way out of a hole.
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I am not sure you're going to successfully nationalize all commercial property, but temporarily freezing interest on debt & suspending payments is interesting to ponder. For example, most mortgages are held by the Fed, so they have the ability to do that. Similarly for t-bills. I'm sure a real economist can tell me why it wouldn't work, of course. But in general, rent must be collected because debt must be paid, so if debt were frozen then rents actually could be deferred.
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Exactly. It's just as equivalent as having to memorize where some hypothetical share button is on a webpage. I've had this experience trying to change my settings in iOS; I often forget where I'm supposed to click to get to certain settings.
Very true. Mine was a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation based on a highly charitable scenario.
I've found a lot of value in running unit tests on target hardware. For one thing, it means you can actually include peripheral drivers in the test. Also, as you said, embedded compilers tend to be more buggy than host compilers. I've actually found compiler bugs through embedded unit testing.
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I'm sorry, Gopher?

Has anything outside of some incredibly archaic library system even used Gopher in the last 20 years? To me its one of those protocols that I only remember because I hope to use it to answer some trivia question someday. Right up there with Archie and Veronica.
I think that model assumes everyone goes right back to 'normal' as soon as lockdown is lifted. China and South Korea are both using regulations and surveillance to try to keep r0 below 1 while out of lockdown.
I will be interested to take a look as soon as the ElasticSearch integration is launched. We did look into Segment a while back, but $$$.
Uh, there's an entire software engineering program at the University of Waterloo: https://uwaterloo.ca/future-students/programs/software-engin...
You cannot imagine an economic system where the default state of a human being is to become destitute?
Rust does not have classes.
In Michigan (where I live and so am paying attention), there were 80 positive tests reported as of Wednesday and there are now 549 positive tests reported.

The cases from 2 weeks ago are seeking medical care.

I'm slightly optimistic, testing has ramped up the last few days with a large spike instead of an unimaginable one, and we will get a clearer picture as they start broadening the criteria.
I gotta say I really don't like Zoom, at all. I think their software is buggy, unstable, and completely unfit for a developer team. I'm guessing their windows version sucks less than MacOS or Linux.

Skype has not really let me down, ever.

At a previous job I had good experiences with Bluejeans as well and it never gave us trouble. Best A/V quality as well.
Business cashflows aren't collapsing, not yet. Big businesses aren't corner shops, they don't get paid one small transaction at a time. They typically have contracts that are quarterly or yearly. Give it a few quarters though and they'll be hurting
But for how long? The stricter the quarantine the longer we have to quarantine to reduce spread. That's the problem. Best estimate is we can reduce daily interactions by 70%, for the next 12-18 months.
Wanted: News feed without Covid-19
Would somebody please develop news and content content aggregator without any coverage on COVID-19 .

Had enough of COVID-19 media and would like read something, anything else.
Question for OP: does this data change your mind? If not, what would?
Part of the benefit of living in America is the fact America will put it's citizens first, no? I fail to see how putting the rest of the world before our own countrymen could at all work. To many, that would be viewed as betraying countrymen if we didn't handle it here first. I'd even posit that an America that's contained and controlled COVID-19 is better for the world than one that's not.

I'm _not_ saying we shouldn't help the rest of the world. That's the very next thing. I'm saying, let's make sure we're not drowning before trying to help others not drown.

This is a really weird line of reasoning because I don't think it even holds in the case of a broader unity.
It isn't about landlords doing the "right thing". Landlords have debt to pay, generally aren't sitting on mountains of free cash, and foreclosure of the property you are renting is functionally similar to eviction.