skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude. This is to make up for the economy being shut down. i.e. no trade happening, no revenues. How are you going to finance UBI in those condition? No economy = no one paying for UBI. This is going to be financed by borrowing.
who cares abt you though
I find even hot water with tea bag and cold milk does not taste good. In India its usually hot water, tea powder along with milk brewed together. Drink hot.
Lemmings 2: The Tribes
Can you show me how you calculated the 3 trillion dollar cost? Are you for example counting loans to businesses as if none will be paid back? Are we talking about the economic impact or direct costs or both?

To be clear the UK has 29 million workers who make an average of 28k pounds. If 60% of them are off work and can't work from home paying 80% of that wage to 60% of them would appear to cost about 32 billion pounds per month.

The GDP in 2019 was 2.21T pounds. If we had to pay 80% of 60% of the workforce for 6 months this would cost 195B pounds or 9% of the GDP aprox.

This would be about 400k per life saved which is still a lot of money but honestly would you rather the rich have bigger mansions or your fellow vulnerable citizens be alive?

It is deceptive to claim that the only people dying are 80 year olds. Here is a local that just died in my state aged 42.

https://komonews.com/news/coronavirus/breast-cancer-survivor...
This is government. They could do on Sunday midnight if they wish.
There is no reason to expect that supplies will start to run out. The people who are not working are broadly not involved in the supply chain for essential goods.
WebARX created a cyber-threat database for Covid-19
Whether you call it a gift or not doesn't change that it's functionally a penalty on working.
Thanks for this link. If you'd like to create a GitHub issue, I'd appreciate it. My justification for linking to libjq is that it's a moving target: there are various builtins added across updates etc...
Some of the tens of millions of people under 40 who will have to cover all that debt over the next decades might beg to differ.
> It seems like there's two things where money is never an issue; war and the preservation of the status quo.

Right. The government's policy should act counter-cyclically to counteract major issues like this. It's better to reserve our spending for when we need it than to spend indiscriminately when we don't.

You want government monetary and fiscal policy to act as a counterbalance to natural instability, not as an amplification.

> This should be remembered when progressive reforms are rejected.

I agree, but for different reasons. It's important that we avoid overextending ourselves during the good times, because we need to keep our options open when we find ourselves in times like these.
An analogy is a literary device, but not all literary devices are analogies.
And eliminate legacy preference and ability for sports coaches to influence admissions.
Weed is worse per breath, you mean. That's the only thing you can say here.

Nobody is smoking 10-20 joints per day. People who smoke cigarettes are burning through a pack every few days. A pack is 20 cigarettes. Some people smoke 1-2 packs of cigarettes per day. It's not atypical to hear about people smoking a couple packs per week.

If you tried to smoke that much weed, you're going to be useless and have lots of other problems too. The lung problems will be the least of your worries.
Rentals have been a thing since people have been travelers. It's easy to point a finger at Airbnb, but a lack of affordable housing existed long before they were around. You could argue that hotels are using space that could be used for housing locals, too. Is Airbnb a factor in prices going up, yes. Is Airbnb the only factor, clearly no.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? We ban accounts that do this, and have had to ask you before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What we are seeing is an unprecedent level of supply and demand shock. What this means is that there is going to be much lesser spending and businesses making much lesser money.

If this reflexive loop kicks in people have lesser disposable income and a lot of people will get unemployed ( we can see the early signs in the hospitality and airline industry already)

If this continues, then there will be foreclosures. Asset prices are going to go down. We will enter a recession. If Banks stay alive and liquidity is pumped into the system by the Fed, then we could see a reversal, if the shock persists for longer and finding the vaccine takes more time, we could head towards a depression.

Obviously there are tons of moving parts and there is no way to predict the future, but its likely that we will have a recession. There is a low probability that this will head to a depression because the Fed has been printing loads of money, but if this stops working, they have no more tools in their arsenal to revive the economy.
These are approved drugs so the use would be "off label". Doctors are allowed to prescribe anyway they see fit.
You can make a case for a much weaker form of Goodhart's Law, that with the SAT as a well-known target, SAT scores are less informative than they would be otherwise.

But "there is no avoiding Goodhart’s law" is obviously wrong if you interpret Goodhart's Law as it's actually phrased; the SAT is doing a fine job of avoiding it today. The SAT hasn't ceased to be a good measure. It's still very informative.
You're not gonna get 2% fatality rate without serious quarantine measures. That rate assumes you can get all the serious cases to the ICU and into a ventilator. If you let it grow exponentially, we need to start imagining what is the fatality rate basically without any hospital care. Scaling hospitals will be absolutely impossible once the cases start heading into six and seven figures.
Airbnb turns housing into hotels. Typically those are zoned differently, potentially subsidizing housing for locals at the cost of driving up prices for travelers.
You're welcome. I don't have examples because I'm not in that industry. It probably makes more sense to pursue enterprise if that's your background. And even if it isn't, enterprises have money to spend and a lot of startups don't spend money on things they can do in house. Attracting startups usually means low prices and low prices make a sustainable capital structure difficult to establish. Good luck.
A lot of people, companies and countries have borrowed money in dollars and now with the downturn on stocks and other assets they have to sell their dollar denominated assets to pay back loans that come due in dollars.
There’s lots of Vitamin D in Florida. There are Seattle-level outbreaks there, too. Just a few weeks behind.
The progression to death is something like: (very rough, from memory)

Day 0: Infection

Day 5: First Symptoms

Day 11: Hospital admission/shortness of breath/oxygen

Day 14: Ventilator

Day 21: Death

If there's no ventilator on day 14, the process is tragically accelerated.
Does that take into account people dying of other treatable causes because they couldn't get care because of the surge of COVID-19 cases?
Of course it's possible. There's a money printer in every central bank, by definition of fat currency. Who says it's impossible? They may say it's a bad idea (by saying something like it will have bad economic consequences).
Germany’s coronavirus anomaly: high infection rates but few deaths
NanoHack, an open-source 3D printed mask against Covid-19
I don't agree at all. The WHO had a working test. We just needed to produce as many of them as we possibly could, and send them to labs to set up and validate.

They needed every resource they had going to the confirmed working test. Even if the CDC was better funded, they still would have needed to spend every resource on that.
Coronavirus: Hammer and the Dance
Permanent blindness typically takes many weeks / years of use.

https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-8633/chloroquine-oral/det...
> Right now what the world needs more than anything is precise, clear, accurate information.

Right: Among the things we need, good data is a biggie.

Part of that is what I've been addressing here: Test quality, especially for test results reported by the news media.
I think it is dangerously premature to call anything in China or Korea "over".
Dyalog '18: The Interpretive Advantage [video]
I can identify with that feeling! I'm going to start conducting some experiments, see where it goes. I developed a new task-labeling system and it's been really helpful...intuitively it seems like taking on scheduling next would be a good idea. Vague, intuitive, but good. :-)
> the difference between "30 days of rent at AirBnB prices" and "30 days of rent at market value".

Unfortunately this is huge - it's why rents have shot up in many cities.
It’s in effect a very low interest loan which will keep people from selling assets when the market is down. That’s a huge net positive relative to not doing this.

If it can minimize the odds of a depression, it might even be a cash flow neutral option.
How do you justify that interpretation?
> The possible side effects include permanent blindness.

Yes, but only with massive doses or when treatment lasts for more than 5 years.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. We have massive debt and our Federal Reserve is now resorting to buying treasuries again but in spite of that yields are rising! This should disturb everyone. Helicopter money won't necessarily cause hyperinflation but it will cause some inflation along with massive new debt.

Here's a reality check: MMT and related ideas are nonsensical. They cannot work. They will destroy economies where they are implemented.
IBM Supercomputer Summit Attacks Coronavirus
Admissions committees at top universities are some of the most bleeding heart do-Goode types on the planet. There is no way disclosing a learning disability would get you Scarlett lettered. If anything, it would probably help your application.
If you take it for years. Why is everyone ignoring that part?
I suppose the serious answer is it depends on (a) can businesses borrow at 0% (actually no, not even banks can, the fed rate is not 0). And (b) if they could borrow at 0% what would the term be? The fed rate is only an overnight rate so it requires constant refinancing. If AirBNB could borrow for 20 years at 0% it might make sense, but in terms of how it able to borrow in reality, probably not so much.
Ghidra specifically intends to handle arbitrary bizarre embedded systems, so does a good job.
They are both still under lockdown.
Study Claims Using CarPlay While Driving Is More Dangerous Than Texting
There are many studies, people should first read them. It's not a new idea whatsoever, yet somehow many "tech" guys think they discovered it. It's probably as old as money itself. It's even in the Bible: The Year Of Jubilee, Israelites used to do this regularly, every 50 years. It probably saved them many financial crises.

https://economicprinciples.org/downloads/MMT_%20MP3_MK.pdf
Which is precisely why this bailout will cause inflation.
> but not Climate Change, Obesity, Air Pollution,

How does Climate Change directly kills people now? In its most catastrophic failure in the future, it will. But we still have time to fix it.

Obesity is a Choice. I have never heard of people getting Obesity in third world countries where they dont even have enough food.

Air Pollution may shorten our life spans, but its origin also improves our quality of living and lengthen our life expectancy. So it really is a trade off.

I would even go as far as to say if anyone thinks we should put those money for Climate Change and not to save those elderly will be morally wrong. But that is just my personal opinion.
The 2020 MacBook Air
> COVID isn't quite as bad as cancer, but Chloroquine, especially for a short course, isn't anywhere near as bad as most chemo drugs.

For certain individuals who just happen to have a bad reaction, COVID could well be just as fatal as cancer. In terms of how fast it can kill people, in certain cases, it can be worse than a lot of cancers.
CDC published numbers on Wednesday night that 40% of hospitalizations for COVID-19 in the US are adults younger than the age of 54.

Sure they're not fatalities, but do you really want to go to an overcrowded hospital for COVID-19? (Will be worse when ventilators run out and hospitalization can't help you nearly as much)
Yep Kobe, Covid and now this!
No one in this country is mentally ready for hospitals to just not be available for an unknown amount of time. IMHO this would cause complete societal breakdown. It's one of our basic needs like food and shelter.
Maybe it can be incorporated into the design: refresh as a kind of 5m warning before your next meeting. I’ve certainly enough meetings not to exhaust ten refreshes before the next head’s up flash...
Should we change the link to point directly to ToB's blog post?

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/03/13/our-full-report-on-t...

It seems a lot more information rich.
Giving everyone money makes sense as fiscal stimulus once the economy is back to normal. It does not make sense now because people are avoiding spending and many will not need the $1000 and not spend it.

Targeted help now and then a jolt when it's over.
All heat from your electronics (CPUs&GPUs) are waste heat, you could replace your electric heater with a computer to get "free computing power".
Airbnb would be “going up” if rentals cratered, losing it doesn’t have that many second-order effects. Vacation properties are going to get slaughtered for the next 2 years because no one wants to vacation.
Yes, but the goal should not be to treat everyone fairly.
The goal should be to help people get through this crisis.
They've massively overbuilt their product, and I'm sure wasted millions in the process.

I recently booked and I had to actively avoid CTAs for things I wanted nothing to do with: tours, food offers, I don't even know. Finding a place to rent practically meant looking below the fold.

Also, pretty sure they developed their own fonts and I shudder to think what they paid for the new utero-logo.
Most of those people would not die if they got the virus, which is central to my point. That's the trade-off we face.
Oh, hi.

I'm Mike Specter, lead author on the MIT report [1], and have been involved in other voting-related research projects [2,3].

LMK if you all have any questions!

1. https://internetpolicy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Se...

2. http://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/PSNR20.pdf

3. https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/files/publi...
It seems to me that we should immediately move to massively increase production of hydroxychloroquine. If it turns out to be part of a solution, great. If not, I doubt that more than a tiny fraction of the total resources dedicated to the pandemic would have been used up by the effort. There is no time to take things slowly in our situation. In any case, from what I've read on places like r/medicine, many people who have access to hydroxychloroquine have already begun to hoard it. So one way or another, if we do not ramp up production there will be trouble.

Hydroxychloroquine has been around for decades, so it's not like we would be jumping into a total mystery about its side effects.

It seems to me that, whether hydroxychloroquine ultimately turns out to be effective or not, it is the closest thing we have right now to something that might prove to be a very helpful medicine.
use hydroxochloroquine then?
In the old days of typesetting, folks actually did use an epsilon for \in! Of course, these days with LaTeX, it would be very odd to see that.
Coronavirus Cases Strain New York City Hospitals
It's a misdirection of resources - of money, clinicians' time and study subjects. There's enough drug and patients to run a well-designed clinical study, once that is done we know if chloroquin is any good or if we need to keep looking. My guess is that we are better off looking at antivirals.
> The summary goes on to list several technical flaws, such as a lack of test coverage and documentation, infrastructure provisioned manually without the aid of infrastructure-as-code tools, vestigial features that have yet to be deleted, and nonstandard cryptographic protocols.

I’m not a security engineer, so what’s the benefit of using a nonstandard cryptographic protocol? That decision makes no sense to me.
If the state owned oil companies pay a lot to the royal family, that's kind of like you owning the company and setting your own salary to whatever you want. There's a difference on paper, but not in spirit (to me anyway).
Only because you aren't used to being housebound.

I, on the other hand, have been having a better than usual time, now that the rest of humanity is finally as concerned with germ control as I have been for nearly two decades.
> The clients do not interact with the blockchain directly, so there is no blockchain verification code in the client.

Fun. So, why even use a blockchain? Why not at least have light-clients with merkle verification? Does Fabric not have support for light clients (I haven't looked at it in a while)?
What penalty? it's the other way around, you take a 20% penalty if you stop working, and note that it's not for people who voluntarily stop working.
Probably referring to the lack of support for Andrew Yang in the primaries.
> monopoly

Aside from the fact that this is all off-topic since MIT's announcement is about the SAT subject tests, not the SAT itself, it is not a true monopoly anyway.

MIT's web site says they accept either the SAT or the ACT. ("We require the SAT or the ACT.") The SAT is from College Board, and the ACT is from ACT, Inc., which are two different organizations. Both tests are in wide use, so if anything it is a duopoly.
Consumer, Noise and Housing complaints rise as Covid-19 hits NYC (& other trends
What if you're halfway down the page but you want to click to another page on the site? How else are you to do that unless the nav menu is on the screen all the time???

Sticky headers are stupid and annoying. Easily the worst UX pattern in the last decade. I bet no one has even tested to see whether they even increase "engagement".
Because blindness is a harsh outcome, so it jumps out and causes an emotional reaction.
On top of that exam dumps are much less efficient when it comes to SAT IIs, where questions are much more diverse an subject knowledge is essential. SAT I is the one that is easy to game.
I feel lucky to be working and occupied. It has been a much more sure position, and I'm not left to dwell on the shit storm we're all going through.
I think the drug combinations are going to turn out to be as important as the single instances. One to bind to receptors. One to limit related infection risk. One to be an anti-pyretic.

This is how HIV was fought, with cocktails. Single drug treatment comes later.

Chloroquine is a powerful drug. It needs to be treated with respect. Yes it is cheap. it also has effects on the mind and we don't need a wave a psychosis to follow the corona-virus illnesses.
Slack goes down as 42000 sign up for WirVsVirus Hackathon in Germany
I think 5 months is long enough. Added.
An entrepreneur’s guide to startup resources during the Covid-19 outbreak
Can someone confirm to me why we need voting "apps" or why voting needs to be electronic at all?

Vote in person by pen & paper or vote via mail remotely. Tabulation also should be done locally and in-person with representatives of all parties present.

Anything else seems ... like a way to more easily steal elections.
Fun fact: in Brazil, "breakfast" is usually called "morning coffee" (café da manhã)
Do you mean COVID is as fatal as cancer or Chloroquine is?
If you know of a reliable way to identify CEOs who can effect the kind of turnaround that Jobs executed at Apple, then, with respect, I tend to think you may be in the wrong business :)

My point was that the rarity of that kind of turnaround is strong evidence that that level of CEO performance is not even close to being predictable.
SARS-CoV: An Agent of Emerging and Reemerging Infection (2007) [pdf]
So... Ridiculously unrealistic checks up.
Plot twist:

It was a huge mistake to ask all of humanity to focus their chi on this as that was what caused the explosion that made Krakatoa look like a piker.
SAT prep is largely a scam.

Have kids take the test, mark the score. Do absolutely nothing. Kids take test again and naturally do better.

Be a SAT prep company, do the above but insert yourself between tests and take the credit (and the money).
Drawing paralels to computer systems, It usually take 3 or more separate events to take a system down. No one thought that we would get both a pandemic, big volcano eruption, and a asteroid hit at the same time. When you roll a dice and get two sixes there is still 1/6 chance to roll a third six in a row.
On the contrary, I know it will get worse regardless of what we do. The question is does it get more worse with a long drawn out lock-down or a short and stern one?

EDIT: a word
I'd be shocked is most people on this page who are fully employed devs/techs/etc in the US do not already donate roughly 45% to the government. SS and Federal, plus state (3% for me, and almost 4% for local), now that's just on income, not anything you spend. Again, here we go. 9% sales tax in my municipality, plus individualized taxes on a variety of goods the government deems bad. This includes markups on booze, tobacco, sugary drinks, then we have car registrations, gas taxes, yearly renewal of misc fees like the license for our dog, drivers license ID renewals, then property tax, taxes on utilities like telecom, then we have run of the mill court things like speeding which are 45 tickets that balloon into 200 dollar ones when you add all the fees on top. Fees to file things you are required to file for. yes. I bet if we took a full accounting of the taxes we all actually pay in a lump sum, it's closer to 45%.
These current shutdowns are really just to buy some time for all the steps you talked about. Basically get a re-try and try to go for a more SK/Taiwan style approach.
Covid, Caldera, Locust Invasion...What a time to be alive!
Why was AirBnB never profitable? How do they even loose anything? All they seemingly do is maintaining a website a small team can maintain. Obviously they also pay for an office, hosting, legal support and ads. I can only see some millions (at most) of expenses per year here. And they are extremely popular, most of the people I meet use AirBnB regularly, they are for short-term living like what Gmail is for e-mail.
I mean, with as many psychics, and mediums, and holy people as have predicted the end of the world, eventually one will get it write.

A million monkeys with a million typewriters and all that.

Also, there's a literal Dixon Effect that's about ignoring all the bad and focusing on just the one or two correct things.
Headlines of previously respectful media have always been inching towards more drama, shock and FUD in general, so I don't think it's specific to the current mass hysteria. I'd bet COVID-19 has been a boon to all media though.
> SAT isn't perfect or perfectly objective

But it is the closest thing anybody's ever come up with.
Fair point.

We don't post pricing because we're still figuring it out (always a tricky subject for OS project). We charge a platform fee and a small per node charge (beyond 1 node) but there are many dimensions there - node size, number of nodes, etc and we haven't figured out all the combinations. The platform fee generally starts at $2k/month but we offer discounts for start ups/open source projects/non profits, etc.

Right now we more focused on growing our open-source adoptions & customers and we want to talk to our prospects to better understand this.

As a benchmark 1 node can handle ~1K events/sec.
Mandate that colleges accept scores from at least 3 different standardized tests, administered by different companies, and that the scores must be easily comparable. That may help break ETS's stranglehold over the market and test fees or test prep material might become reasonable.