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Everything I’m buying on Amazon now has delivery dates four days or more out, whereas in normal times it’s one or two days. Maybe they are quarantining packages. Or they could just be backed up due to increased demand.
It's not legal in most places, but being temporarily legalized in some. Washington, DC is passing a bill this afternoon [1] allowing takeout places to deliver beer/wine if ordered with at least one food item. I'm guessing other cities will pass something similar.

[1] edit: See section 203 photographed here: https://twitter.com/mitchryals/status/1239938801839099905
How about something a bit more targeted? Do we really need to give software engineers working from home extra cash?
As the article states, India is currently doing 500 tests per day. Germany is doing 160.000 tests per day.
I’ve seen brand new apps take up to 48 hours to show up in search results.
What was the different consensus you reference? Was there a universal campaign to get the government to label a journalist as propaganda?
Excerpt:

"The Poqet PC is powered by two AA-size batteries. Through the use of aggressive power management, which includes stopping the CPU between keystrokes, the batteries are able to power the computer for anywhere between a couple of weeks and a couple of months, depending on usage."

Anyone know of a more energy-efficient portable PC?

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They made a big deal out of it in the movie, that the stones had to be returned to the exact time they were taken from, or else they would be changing the future of the old "head".
Probably a good step but it won't have much effect. Lending today is primarily limited by lack of credit-worthy borrowers, not by reserve requirements.
That is not what they signal: buybacks say "we have this cash that we can't find an internal use for, so we're returning it to the owners of the company".

They are a form of returning capital, no different than dividends.

If a company cannot figure out a way to use all the cash it has available internally (e.g., not enough R&D for all the cash), then why shouldn't it be allowed to return the cash to the owner of the company? How many years did AMZN produce 'zero profit' because they were funneling every penny back into the company? Was that a bad decision?
Or perhaps some tongs with two melon ballers on the ends so you can grab round door knobs?
Well is there an official source to decide on this matter? However, culturally I'm pretty sure my answer is what the majority of Chinese think. If you happen to have Chinese friends you can ask them as an informal poll.
> Well, we know that COVID-19 can survive up to 24 hours on cardboard

Do you have a source for that? Nicholas Christakis (John Hopkins MD, infectious disease specialist) said on most surfaces, SARS-cov2 (the virus, COVID-19 is the disease) can survive an hour. He did mention it depends on the environment (it would only survive a few minutes on copper surfaces for example), so is cardboard able to hold the virus along longer? Is there data on this?
Sites that use WebComponents are sites that I will be unable to use. Not that whether or not I can use a site matters to web devs, of course.
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Shopify did the same. Supposedly to help employees to buy stuff they need for working from home. It's really a pair of decent monitors + a good usb hub.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569457 (without #close appended to the URL)
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Personally, I just use this to print stuff from whatever app and send it to the remarkable:
https://github.com/juruen/rmapi/blob/master/docs/tutorial-pr...

Works well, I'm guessing for other platforms, similar things exist using remarkable's api.
Probably because the buildings aren't going anywhere. Landlords will lose money, but they're less likely to lay off tons of people.

Restaurants employ ~10% of working Americans. A lot of people are going to lose jobs.
It is not delaying the inevitable. There will be many profitable restaurant businesses who find their business lacking liquid cash over the next few months. Being thrown a credit lifeline means that they can make it through this period of time and come out on the other side as a profitable business again. Paying down the debt is a common business practice that people do all the time.

Throwing out a credit lifeline can be a practice that benefits everyone in times of crisis.
Open 3D printed ventilator parts
income from RSUs will be down 30%
Yes, authoritarian intervention like this?

"“There is enough for everybody,” German Agriculture Minister Julia Kloeckner said, castigating people for spreading panic by posting fake reports that supermarkets would be closing. “

https://apnews.com/15b99013e674de9ea83a707342e8ffe5

When free speech causes panic (like shouting fire in a theater) or results in people actually dying, that's a problem for government to help solve. Writing some sort of op-ed is one thing. Actually working to undermine a country through the veil of journalism is another, especially if those people work for a disgusting dictatorship, like China.

Or do we let people have "personal responsibility" and vote for more Brexit?
Signal numbers are a non-renewable resource, perhaps they think it'll cut into their valuable reserves ;)
Shining a light on international energy inequality
Stock buybucks and dividends are OK. But when company needs money it is up to shareholders, bondholders, credit markets to re-capitalize the company (if they think it makes business sense).
Proud to work here. Confused by the all downvotes.
Going for speed: The load-busting, lag-limiting tech of the Xbox Series X
We did it because we've got quite a few days in there, and would prefer not to have people scroll when we update the data on a daily basis.
I didn't expect to actually need those FDIC protections to guarantee that I'd be able to withdrw money but here we are...
You may have read about the 31st patient in South Korea? He didn't have any symptoms himself and infected thousands of people, so they got a giant clump around him.

You may have one or a few people like that.

https://www.repubblica.it/salute/medicina-e-ricerca/2020/03/... BTW.
This is the younger crowd speaking. The crowd who want everything served on a plate. As the new younger generations raise up it's going to end up more slacked to the point where you have dumb-robots for humans.

Frameworks have their purpose but we rely on such pseudo nonsense that the internet is so generic, over saturated and choked. To prove this, install something like uMatrix & disable everything apart the home-site. And I highly suspect the site will fail to load. The fact that everything is so interlaced is ridiculous, why should I have to spend my bandwidth on accessing fonts from google? But of course I am forced to.

With any remote library; if you are going to use it, host it yourself. To add, we now also live in a pathetic upvote/downvote generation ever since the likes of the Facebook Like button the internet has turned to garbage. Reddit, HN, Twitter are all the same.
We are trying to keep it going and so far, no worries.

We all have various contingencies planned, and I can see the backbone operators de-prioritizing non-essential traffic if it came to that.
It's backbreaking work. Most people still complain, but work because they have to. It's not a choice for many.
Isn't it the opposite? Money goes from government into the economy through spending, and thus through debt. More debt results in more household savings, not less.
reMarkable official page: https://remarkable.com
Should the same be applied to other governments dragging their feet with measures or trying to buy up exclusive rights to the vaccine?
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Grouping related things together isn't necessarily conflating.

I don't think the article is trying to say "18% of workers have basically lost their jobs!!!", but rather to give a sense of how many people's incomes are impacted.
fwiw, after taxes, looking at $600-$800 depending on tax category.
What's the tech? Fully native, React Native or something else?
But it could be a temporary thing. Service workers can be laid off temporarily and hired back. Essentially offloading them from the company's payroll and adding them to the states'. Instead, if there's an option for states to provide unemployment without actually getting fired - disability? - for anyone affected not just those with the virus could also help in these times.

There are a ton of businesses that operate on thin margins - restaurant and service industry in general - and it makes sense for the government to step in.
US hospital uses five months' worth of supplies in six days as shortages hit
Not everyone is capable of going without babysitters though. I see nothing wrong with it for exceptional cases.
Fellow Indian here who's been tracking this since Feb.

Highlights of what I think are the biggest risk: The number of tests being performed in India are 20x less than most other countries, though it has ramped up in the past few weeks, there was a free flow of international travel till then.

My fear is that because the virus is asymptomatic, there are a lot of active carriers freely moving around. Most companies in India also find WFH an alien concept, even in tech, so it seems like most people still have to go to work.

I believe that the urban density in India is too high to stop something like this even from a lockdown. Also the lockdown would only help the middle class, there is a large section of urban poor that depend on daily wage that can't stop working. They depend on this money for food and shelter.

Overall, the avalanche is imminent, and I believe that the situation could be dire in the cities.

As tests ramp up the true impact will be seen but I fear that we'll always be behind the curve on this because of the difficulty of mobilizing testing at such scales.

The only way we can avoid large scale impact is if the virus finds it hard to survive in the heat, now that summer is in. Temperatures are rising but there is no consensus on whether that hinders the spread.
As someone who can somewhat cook, and has been holed up for a week plus with another person who used to be a chef: ordering delivery once every few days definitely breaks things up nicely and gives us something to look forward to with everything else being both monotonous + stressful.
Well, I'd imagine the logic would be the same as it's been with things like vscode -- winning over developer mindshare and goodwill has a lot of immaterial benefits.
“Survive” “viable”. Do these terms means if you touch a box and then touch your face you’re done, or only that the rna found was not degraded to the point that it was recognizable?
Any npm alternative yet ?
I wish people would stop using 'OS' when naming things, when it's not an Operating System.
https://archive.vn/N2AqW
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>that's only limited by how you define the industry you're in.

I have seen a lot of great companies acquired and destroyed by parent companies in another industry.

It certainly can and is often done well, but is not trivial or risk free.
Agreed, losing a job is very different than getting hours cut. Both suck, one sucks much much more.
Filesystem Uniformity ChecK isn't a huge reach…
There is a fair point here that always gets brushed under the rug when discussing Rust vs X: Not having a GC means Rust forces you to think about memory allocation throughout your program's logic & structure. That's a cost and many programs don't benefit from it at all.

I had a Rust vs Haskell debate with a VPE at a company (he wanted to move to Rust.) He refused to acknowledge that the fact that Haskell has a GC is a big advantage over Rust for many applications (ours included.) It didn't help that he (somewhat arrogantly) fashioned himself a "systems engineer" and would've chosen C++ if he could've.

It wasn't the crux of the argument (there's a lot more to those languages) and this VPE clearly wanted to move away from Haskell from day 1, but nonetheless - a very frustrating discussion to have.

I'm not a Rust expert though so please correct me if there's a way to right large Rust programs without worrying about memory management.
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Are the contractors who serve food or drive the employee shuttles also receiving this?
Because insider trading laws in the United States have nothing to do with "fairness" (note that this isn't true in other countries).

In the US insider trading laws are about misappropriation of information and the victim is the company. The company cannot commit "insider trading" against itself. Insider trading laws in the US are all about "you were entrusted with this information and by using it for your benefit you harmed the company."

For example if you know of a coming acquisition and you buy a bunch of short-dated out of the money call options then you're going to push up the price of the acquisition target and cost the company money. The crime you committed (in the view of the US government) is not "unfair trading" it "theft" in that you gained at the expense of the company.

That said, I don't think share buybacks would be considered any kind of insider trading anywhere in the world.
? They were way off last week. If that is your definition of optimistic, I don't want to see pessimistic.
> if he exercised any financial influence here

Pretty much a certainty given politics in the US.
We're currently in the middle of our SOC-2 Type 2 observation period and should have that certification in Q2.

The company is barely 1 year old and the process of certification can be a bit slow. Other attestations including ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, and 27018 will come later.

We also have a lot of internal practices and policy for how we secure WorkOS while still allowing our engineering team to ship code incredibly fast. It involves separation of duties, hardware security keys (YubiKey), and lots of automation with alerting.

Hopefully we can write something public about it later this year. Many of the ideas came from Stripe's security team. (Thanks Angie! <3)
I don't get the Amazon love on here either. I stopped shopping off Amazon in 2016 (I stopped shopping at Wal-Mart in 2009) and only use AWS because I have to for work.

I don't really think Amazon, or even AWS for that matter, has been a collective good for society or tech. It's just locked people into using them for the default. Easy/frictionless goods and web service infrastructure might seem like a step up, but it locks you in as well.
There's evidence that lack of exposure to sunlight increases risk of myopia. But emissive displays are typically dimmer than sunlit objects, even at full brightness. If insufficient brightness is a concern, you're better off using reflective displays outdoors.
Right. This isn't charity, this is just another perk/bonus like free food or bean bag chairs.
I see teams who are investing in "design systems" approaching this operation model. They're codifying the design language, teaching their applications to consume this language, and then making changes to subsections of the design system iteratively.

The design function (designers, product) can make changes widely, or isolate them to specific components, and test these changes at each step rather than the "all in one go" we're used to.
Our country's state of emergency declaration says government can take ownership of anything it wants (eg hotels to use as hospitals, factories to make disinfectant).

Why doesn't the same apply to patents and drugs?
> I'm always a little surprised that so many people never picked up the ability to even do basic cooking.

I'm not, unfortunately. For years now, cooking has been marketed as a waste of time and effort like hand-washing clothes (think fast food advertising).

Just like anything else, cooking takes time, patience and structure to learn, which many people don't ever have naturally. I was lucky to grow up in a household that enjoyed cooking and I learned when I was kid and boy does it pay off in adulthood, but I also see why so many of my peers don't do it. Everything in our world is optimized for time now, and cooking takes time.
I tried out the beta version of GitHub's iOS app. I didn't find a single bug in it, and I really enjoyed using it for casually browsing code on my phone.

I would highly recommend downloading it if you sometimes take a look at GitHub repos when on your phone, which I think is most programmers.

Unfortunately I didn't use it for about fourteen days or something so my beta access was taken away :(
I disagree. Inflation is only low because we don't measure it right. https://www.cornerstonewm.com/downloads/measuring-inflation....

Inflation is much closer to whats listed here for many americans. https://chapwoodindex.com/
Gut instinct:

- More likely to strictly adhere to the lockdown
- Post recovery / quarantine period, if (big IF) you now have immunity and aren’t risking infecting others anymore, you could be more productive in the world.

- Helping others with their food/supplies/whatever. Heck, even spending more money on take out food which helps the economy.

The idea of building up a herd immunity seems to me to require knowing who has the immunity so we know when we have enough.
Then you either have people whose situation worsens due to coronavirus illness or people whose situation worsens since they can't earn money and instead need to focus on child care. Pick your poison.
To clarify, the Dead Sea Scrolls are not forgeries. These specific (what were though to be) copies/additional fragments that this one museum bought are forgeries, but the Dead Sea Scrolls are real.
I cook a fair amount, but enjoy a variety of foods whose ingredients I don't use often enough, and lack sufficient storage space for, to make on my own. Eating out / take out foods are a great way to get a little something different now and then, especially if a dish requires long prep times to be done "properly".

That being said, I am also not in a position where i would go hungry or eat poorly if restaurants near me completely closed down... I do recall someone in college asking me how to boil water for spaghetti noodles, so I have no doubt plenty will be learning how to cook the hard way soon enough
The employees should be able to apply for unemployment payments from the state. Which can a problem on its own, to be sure, but an employer doesn't have to bear the weight of lives all by him or herself.
> Start with separating your API models and DB models out early, you'll be thankful later. You can also help yourself out by implementing From/Into for your database models to your API models. Obvious lesson from CQRS but since rust doesn't allow easily for ad-hoc structs this is a must,

Can you explain why? This advice doesn't make intuitive sense for me.
wife's job is "firing" people so they can collect unemployment, and will rehire them later. I don't know the legalities around this, it's definitely odd. and you have to take the business' word for it...
I think we just don't know yet. The WHO has this to say:

"It is not certain how long the virus that causes COVID-19 survives on surfaces, but it seems to behave like other coronaviruses. Studies suggest that coronaviruses (including preliminary information on the COVID-19 virus) may persist on surfaces for a few hours or up to several days. This may vary under different conditions (e.g. type of surface, temperature or humidity of the environment).

If you think a surface may be infected, clean it with simple disinfectant to kill the virus and protect yourself and others. Clean your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or wash them with soap and water. Avoid touching your eyes, mouth, or nose."

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses
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aka Tylenol (acetaminophen) in the USA. Consult your doctor. Not sure what this means for children, but this directive against NSAIDs is a really important development in treatment protocols for COVID-19.
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Why are you being down-voted? Your post is informative and fair.
Without commenting on whether it is sound, the logic seems to be that transportation (particularly private transportation) is essential. Thus, auto repair and supply businesses have been exempted as "essential businesses" (they are specifically called out in all 6 Bay Area county orders).

Taking this one step further, auto repair businesses can't very well repair cars if there are no parts available, and those parts come from Fremont. Therefore, the Tesla factory would (at least in part) theoretically already qualify for an exemption under the existing order.

One could also make the argument that (given that private transportation has been deemed an "essential" service) replacing worn out or destroyed cars is essential, and thus manufacturing finished cars qualifies for an exemption.
Wearing a mask is to protect others from your own droplets. This is CDC protocol: if a doctor suspects covid, the patient is given a mask to put on. If that is enough to protect the doctor in close proximity, it is good enough to protect the general public. Like herd immunity if we all wear masks in public, the chance of droplet exchange is greatly reduced. The quality of mask and the manner of mask wearing become irrelevant. This is why we need universal mask wearing. It is the fastest and cheapest way to get the economy back on its foot again.
As per this article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronaviru...

Amazon is suspending shipment of all products except daily staples and medicines.
Where did I critique why dining rooms are closed? I didn't address that at all; I only addressed eating food prepared in a restaurant by low-wage cooks who could be infected.
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Thanks, I always open this on my mobile phone or vertical monitor, and on the previous version (the google sheet direct link), always had to scroll right, which was annoying.
Ooh, sounds cool! What does that workflow look like?
OSS (MIT license)

In short: The goal is to create a webworkers driven UI framework. Most parts of the framework as well as all apps you create run within the App thread. There is a data & a vdom worker in place as well. Having an idle main thread ensures that all UI related animations run as smooth as possible.

The main difference to other frameworks is, that you describe the component tree as well as the virtual dom tree via JSON. This enables us to combine and manipulate those with a very high performance plus it creates clean code.

One major design goal is to have all ES8+ classes / JS modules running inside the browser without any JS related builds. Right now this only works for the dev mode in Chrome 80+, for other browsers & dist versions there are webpack based build processes in place.

The dev mode results in a very smooth debugging experience, since you don't need source-maps and debug the real code 1:1.

On the roadmap are (e.g.)
1. Mobile Support
2. A buffered Grid
3. Drag & Drop
4. Data Package v2

(and a lot more => vision file)

Online Demos (Desktop!) are here:
https://neomjs.github.io/pages/

Short demo video on the helix component:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iztv8YxWYUU
If they weren't trying to conflate them the headline would have been "Coronavirus: 18% of U.S. workers have reduced our or lost jobs"
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