skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great advice--looking at it from that angle. To add to your advice, consider looking into the private sector for any potential help--interest forgiveness, loan consolidation, or even refinancing a home mortgage (get rid of the PMI, etc.). The private and public sector are two sides of the same coin for small biz entrepreneurs.
What really increases your score is having a good night's sleep and a healthy breakfast before school every day of your life prior to taking the test. The test doesn't really measure aptitude because it can't control for those inputs.
That use is indeed exactly what inspired the question!
In "proper" mathematics, the symbols are defined precisely in their context. This does not mean that the symbols' meanings are universal. I think this is what GP meant.

The lack of universality of meanings of symbols is a feature, not a bug, of math notation.
The half life is 2 months. Any bad reaction will linger.

Compared to antibiotics with a 8 hour half life.

Lets stay home instead.
because it doesn't generate enough offense. most online arguments seems to be attempts at creating the maximum possible offense to create "engagement"

the fact you need to have 1 kilogram of chloroquine during years of treatment is an inconvenient complicated fact, while the emotional appeal of blindness scores more indignation.
Good, we desperately need some of that.
Denuvo likely costs vastly more than 100k, and the difference in samples are unlikely to hit 80k. Using 2 million for the software and 20k net sales I hit a net loss of 1.1 million.

Yep, those numbers where picked from thin air, but ”As of August 2018, the company employs 1,000 people“, so that math only works if their licenses are freaking expensive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denuvo
Well you probably don’t need a whole 10% to murder the other 90%.
In Germany they also only test people who have specific symptoms AND contact to high risk people/places.
Was 97% a hypothetical? I have heard much lower figures for ventilator success rates.
Most landlords face personal bankruptcy if they don't get the rent. This doesn't just apply to the landlords who are still paying mortgages on their properties. Insurance, maintenance, and taxes are all large expenses.

A lot of people in San Francisco seem to think landlords are evil, but they provide the majority of the housing.

Any law that protects tenants from eviction but does not protect landlords from their expenses is going to set people against each other in a struggle for survival.
All it takes is wiping out humanity! Who knew?
Ask HN: How can I help as a programmer? (Covid-19)
Programmers are problem solvers. We have a problem. It's called COVID-19. Unfortunately, a lot of this problem is outside our domain expertise to solve as most programmers are not health professionals.

Nevertheless, are there important problems that we programmers should solve regarding the COVID-19 outbreak?

I suspect that we have some qualified people or people with amazing sources to give (at least partially) an answer to this.
What "newfound" powers? Did they pass any new laws for these powers? Seems like they always had them, so your scenario doesn't make sense.
Seattle area is much sparser than NYC or SF. I still go out for walks and stuff and don't really see very many people and I'm only 20 minutes north of downtown. Keeping a 20ft distance is very easy.
Nat Geo was purchased by 21st Century Fox a while back.
It's not about breaking even financially. It's about knowing you're never going to end up homeless or starving when your luck turns bad.
There are only so many possibilities for the housing market.

One possibility would have been to take advantage of the boom times and strong economy over the past decade, and build lots of housing to support the huge influx of new jobs created in big cities. Make our prosperous cities actually feel prosperous, and accessible to anyone who wants access to opportunities. Creating this world would inherently mean that housing is not nearly as good of a capital investment for individuals. That would make property owners less vulnerable in an economic downturn. Low risk for low (financial) reward. But the public has and continues to overwhelming reject this option.

Another possibility, is that we could have gone a very long time without a downturn, and let our housing values just increasingly get more and more expensive with no upper limit. This is clearly the path most homeowners were hoping for. It creates a more and more stratified society, where only the very wealthy and the very few lucky subsidized-housing lottery winners can live in or near prosperous cities. We're already there in many places, and it certainly would only keep getting more and more extreme if unchecked.

And then there's the new scenario you suggest and that we may be approaching - a major crash that will lower prices that have grown unchecked for a long time.

I would have really, really liked to see the first option. Maybe one day we will. But since that's off the table for the foreseeable future and the only remaining possibilities are the 2nd or 3rd options, it seems like a major correction in the housing market is the preferable one. Obviously the coronavirus outbreak itself where many people might get sick or die is terrible, and I really hope that the shelter in place measures will be effective to stop the spread. And I feel for people that are losing their jobs at this time. But as far as just the impact on the housing market, this correction may turn out to be a good thing for the majority of the population who are not wealthy homeowners. It could transfer a lot wealth from the older generations to the younger ones, whereas our society has been doing the extreme opposite for a long time now.
Probably because many (most?) people don't take or know about the subject tests.

I thought I had never heard of them, but after looking at wikipedia, it looks like they were called the SAT II when I was in high school. I remember that existing, but never knew why you would take them and never knew anybody that did.

It's not a stretch to imagine people being confused.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT_Subject_Tests
And, though Walmart is likely to have a higher number of customers present, the concentration of people can be much lower in a 150,000 sq ft warehouse store then a 300 sq ft Gamestop (provided people are following proper social distancing).
> The only reason it's not characterized by these "modern addiction specialists", whatever that is

As a sort of meta point, every time I use the phrase "modern addiction specialist" in a thread somebody responds expressing skepticism that such a thing exists or that the definition of addiction I've provided reflects consensus opinion. This is...weird. The American Psychiatric Association leads their "What is Addiction?" page with the following text:

"Addiction is a complex condition, a brain disease that is manifested by compulsive substance use despite harmful consequence."

https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/addiction/what-...
Try this one: https://got-paper.com
> It's better to reserve our spending for when we need it than to spend indiscriminately when we don't.

To save money in a large pile is not a proactive thing to do. It's reactive. The proactive thing is to have a far reaching social safety net and a stable social institutions.
Excerpts:

"So the only requirement for the victim is to install the library browser-redirect and add it to Express app, like a regular middleware:"

[...]

"I [Article Author] just published the malicious package to npm using npm install browser-redirect@1.0.2. However, in Github you can’t see the malicious code — see Master Branch and release 1.0.2. The reason for this is because npm does not check against Github or any other source control repository."

Security Perspective Takeaways:

1) Downloading and building source code, where authentication is performed between the downloaded source and the exact GitHub branch (rather than downloading a pre-built package or even source code where this branch authentication is not performed) would at least guarantee that the source code could be matched to the source on github, and could be subsequently audited...

2) The broader class of this attack (which includes such things as Windows Update, software auto-updaters, installers and package managers - both Windows and Linux) is basically: download malicious code - inside of a (user) believed non-malicious binary or library...

3) There are some very strong arguments here towards:

a) Always use open source for whatever you can;

b) Always download and compile the source for whatever you can;

c) Always audit source that you've downloaded...

I know; easier said than done...
There are papers out there that qualify chloroquine and derivates as effective in case of viral infections with viruses related to covid-19 [0] and try to explain what the mechanism could be :

« The exact mechanism of antiviral intervention by chloroquine is not yet elucidated but is possibly a multitarget mechanism, depending on the time point at which the drug is added »

[0] https://aac.asm.org/content/53/8/3416
Agreed. Api, business logic, and normalized DB all have different requirements. Smashing them together works great for prototyping but in the long run it leads to pain.
The messed up thing is that the math notation of computer science is in the same mess. It doesn't even have a name.

(There's a talk about it but I can't find the link right now.)
I mean, that's kind of what HIV was up until the mid-late 90s anyway. No symptoms for years and then nearly 100% mortality.

It's killed millions but still hasn't wiped out civilization.
On the life critical note, do we need to have a conversation about amateurs repairing medical things?

First, of course, thanks to iFixit and others for defending right-to-repair for consumer gear. If I bork my phone trying to fix it, it's really my fault and my problem.

Ordinarily, the official repair channel would have access to calibration and acceptance test procedures. Part of their obscene cost also includes FDA certification and liability.

So in an emergency such as this, the question is not how nerds on the ground can get the gear fixed, but how to take care of the other chores, like avoiding the worst case: making a sick person worse. The cert and legal stuff issues could be erased by some emergency good samaritan legislation.
The half life is 2 months. That's crazy.
https://archive.md/fm9ep
> it's the fairest admissions criterion

I have yet to see an "abolish standardized tests" type suggest a workable alternative (or even an unworkable one).
What does the government getting involved in education have anything to do with the monopoly power of ETS? MIT is private, ETS's owner is a company. The problem is that MIT accepts only SAT scores - they should be forced to accept other standardized test scores too. That would create an actual market for standardized testing, along with competition and lower prices.
I didn't see any such explanation on the CDC page either, and I thought I was pretty thorough in searching for it. I did know that they were developed concurrently, but I'm unaware of any information about why they couldn't at any point pivot and use the WHO test, for example. Why is this information so hard to find?
I can assure you if tomorrow we woke up and the world was 2 degrees hotter and people were dying left right and centre from it, the same thing would have happened with climate change.

> Average age lets say 79 as the virus progresses

No idea what you're on about. Most people in the UK don't even make it to 79 as is, nevermind with a highly contagious and dangerous virus floating about.

> Instead the Uk seems to be willing to throw its entire GDP at this problem, 3 trillion pounds

Again, what are you on about? The British government has definitely invested (invested, think about that word) a huge sum of our GDP at this problem, but everyone I've spoken to here has been more than happy with this decision even though we're all the fortunate ones that have managed to keep our jobs.

Thousands of people are already dying from this in one small concentrated area in Italy, in a matter of weeks. Shall we just say fuck it and let thousands more die here too? Should the whole world say the same thing? Shall we let the entire economy hit the sort of fucked levels we haven't seen since like WW2?

There are many problems in the world, sure. Not so many of them are as simple as a deadly virus plaguing the planet. You think we can just spend 15% of our GDP in a single year and solve obesity, climate change, and air pollution?

Also shouldn't you be celebrating since this has massively cut down on CO2 emissions and is already changing many people's commuting/working habits, possibly permanently?

> Is it just because Coronavirus does it spectacularly in 3 months and all of those other things take decades?

Yeah something that can fuck humanity in 3 months is definitely worth putting some more thought in to than something that won't be felt for decades away. How can you write a sentence like that and not understand it at the same time?
I'd tell you to just buy Svedka if you want something cheap but quality. Haven't had it in years but I know we had at least one long cabin weekend and that was the drink of choice - pretty smooth and no headaches.
Exactly. People don't talk about class enough in this topic. The kind of people that college interviewers appreciate (in terms of behavior) will almost always be upper middle class people and those who know enough to behave like upper middle class people.
For marketing.
Woman in ICU warns of Covid-19 dangers: 'Don't take any chances'
A "close pass" here means "it may even be visible from Earth in a normal observatory sized telescope!"
There are problems with falsificationism, as well. You don't really reject theories based on a single falsifying data point. Sometimes you reject the data point as fake or misinterpreted. Sometimes you modify your theory and replace it, but it's unclear that that's different from the goalpost-moving of astrologers and homeopaths.

Falsification is a good stake in the ground that allows scientists to work, but it's unclear if it's actually a step towards the epistemology represented by the Munchausen trilemma. Scientists have a notion that it allows them to work "toward" Truth-with-a-capital-T, a notion which both feels right and has produced high standards of living. Those may be better goals than Truth-with-a-capital-T, which may be unavailable.
Developer experience in React is orders of magnitude better than in Vue. Also, the React community settles on great conventions and patterns to help you be really productive early on. This is great because you end up with projects that are a pleasure to code in and easy to maintain. Debugging experience is far superior in React, finding the root cause of an issue is much quicker than with vuejs. Working in a vuejs project, I continuously wish we could just abandon it and rewrite everything in React.
Managing State in Django Models
Why is it odd? Idiots can fill their lofts and garages with loo roll but there's only so much fresh produce that people can stockpile. Although I have no doubt that the same idiots are trying and most of it will go to waste.
What does a pound or a dollar even represent anymore? They are being printed and given out with little consideration to the impact.

I think we are going to see hyperinflation at some point, particularly if this is dragged on for the 18 months necessary for a vaccine.

Why would I go in to work and stack shelves when the Government will just give me money to sit at home? Why would I even go into the hospital to operate a Ventilator?

The point is that the UK (and many other countries) are essentially 100% oriented around COVID-19, to the extent that the entire resources of the country and its people are dedicated or impacted by it.

Lets reiterate the death rates, from Imperial College's own report:

0-9: 1 in 50,000

10-19: 1 in 16,667

20-29: 1 in 3,333

30-39: 1 in 1,250

40-49: 1 in 667

50-59: 1 in 167

60-69: 1 in 45

70-79: 1 in 20

80+: 1 in 11

The above is slightly less than the risk of death from any cause.
"As for the children of prominent campus donors, [former MIT director of undergraduate admissions] Crowley said a college's development office might reach out to the dean of admissions to say, "Hey, just so you know, Lisa's dad has been very generous to us in the past, or something."
My personal audit went like this: "It's called Voatz, with a Z."
Every day? I only found 3 previous links to this story, and one link to the explainer video.

Do you have links?
to the best of my knowledge, there has been no randomized study against placebo of several important things - like parachutes.

Next time I am in a burning plane, I'll make sure to refuse a parachute, as the lack of studies means anecdotal evidence tells us basically nothing.
I have heard of people putting cheap vodkas through a carbon filter (like Brita) a few times to improve smoothness. I haven't tried it myself, but I am skeptical, because if the fix is that easy then it seems like the producer would have done it. MythBusters did a double-blind taste test[0] in which only the "vodka expert" was able to correctly rank the samples, and they found that the chemical composition of the cheap vodka was the same before and after filtering. Based on that, I would say the answer is most likely "no" and you should spend a few more bucks.

[0]: http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2006/04/episode_50_bullets_fired_...
It’s interesting where the “technical limitations” set in on computers. We can’t have symbolic math accurately represented because “how would you even do that with keyboard input, and how would you encode it?!” Yet we have poop emojis because that’s an absolute essential part of written communication these days.
Page 1 of the report:

>>> "While the introduction of Internet voting in the U.S. is relatively new, the history surrounding electronic only voting is not. In the wake of counting errors, recount discrepancies, and uninterpretable ballots wreaking havoc during the 2000 U.S. Presidential race, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) [49], a bill targeted toward helping states move away from outdated and problematic punchard-based systems."
The only reason to use nonstandard crypto is that you think you are smarter than the entire crypto industry. ProTip: you are never smarter than the entire crypto industry.
Eh its all easily game-able. The SAT (and ACT) is a joke. So are the subject tests. The only subject test that wasn't laughable are the language ones (since you can't "intuit" spanish as easily as math or physics or chemistry). Its not bad if you are a good test taker (a dumb skill but a useful one) or wealthy. My friends were tutored idiots and did well (2200+ SAT, 700+ subject tests) and i was a good test taker (same scores). Its all garbage
Airbnb takes approximately 15% off every booking.

What are they doing as an intermediary that 15% on each booking isn't enough to pay salaries, rent and server costs?
I don't disagree, but we seem to be approaching that end in little stages anyway all the while extending the financial losses felt by households across the nation. I'm saying if we're heading to that outcome, might as well make it quick short and stern.
>Lets stay home instead.

For a couple of weeks, fine. However on the other end of this spectrum is "Millions starve".

At some point we need to ask is that fair to the youth? (note: I'm an old fart)
Critical staff live onsite. Everyone else goes home and doesn’t work.
Most CEOs run their companies successfully. The ones that don't get the boot and are not likely to be recruited for another CEO position. After all, would you?
Sure, they are certainly capable of doing it themselves, but why should they?

For what AWS provides, the DIY approach would be insanely expensive and wasteful. Not to mention, it would take years to build a basic MVP. They'd have to scope out the project, hire people just to design it, and then pay for several contractors just to stand up the first iteration of a working system (which will still not compare to AWS in terms of resiliency, redundancy, and accessibility), and then maintain it....forever. Also, many people already know how to interact with AWS. NASA would also need to design and maintain user-access methods to the data, on top of just plugging in thousands of hard drives and making them all work nicely together.

Why reinvent the wheel when there is a perfectly good wheel manufacturer that has already proven extremely successful at what they do?
I agree with both you and parent. I have been working from home 2-3 days a week for the last year and its amazing how productive and refreshing it is to work in my home in silence.

Since schools, daycares and our offices have been shutdown last Friday, both my wife and I have been struggling to get any work done at home with a 3 & 6 year old around the house. The best we can do is have them play outside for an hour or two (if we're lucky) but they get tired of each other real quick. We're all a bit clueless about how to juggle this new situation. Keeping the kids occupied is key.
I mean this is America, a country where the poor are extremely marginalized and have no avenue for representation and public opinion. This is absolutely helping those with less resources.
Bitcoin Will Emerge as a Response to the Crisis
>> The promises of mobile voting are attractive—better accessibility for differently abled people, streamlined absentee voting, and speed and convenience for all voters. If a mobile platform could guarantee secure voting, it would revolutionize the process. It’s a fantastic goal—but there’s still work to do.
This isn't winter kill thinning the herd though, it's more like the mass extinction of American Buffalo during the push to the west.

Companies with good fundamentals are laying people off en masse and burning their cash reserves rapidly. It's not just the VC backed companies, or the low marging/highly leveraged mom-and-pop, big box retail, airline, whatever.

I'm terrified what's going to happen on May 1 when rent checks and mortgage payments bounce.
I disagree that it's artificial. There's only so much time in a day. A programmer who can do a task in one hour will in the long run outsprint one who needs two.

Yes, you can (like many, many others) spend an extra couple hours at work every day, but it'll all come back to center eventually. Sometimes, or even much of the time, you won't even have that option. These are times when people seriously depend on you to perform.

It's not personal. I get that it can be stressful and I've been there but I don't kid myself that I'm as good as the people who can work quickly and under pressure.
Bridgewater: Monetary Policy 3 (what to do after QE) [pdf]