skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I'd be the first guy to take a crap on Amazon, but you're right about this. We need a functioning supply chain or we'll have civil unrest soon and having a company taking care of that at a time when nearly everything else is closing is good. I also really appreciate the few stories of them cracking down on profiteers since resource scarcity is a big part of why people feel stressed out right now.
> 320,000 people without symptoms in China

Wuhan (the city, not even the entire province of Hubei) has 11 million people. Given what we know now about how virulently and covertly COVID-19 spreads and how (relatively late) Wuhan went into lockdown, how do you feel about that number?
"It helps to understand that the dollar has two layers:

The first layer is central bank money (reserves) and payments are ultimately settled in reserves. Reserves can either be cash (notes) or account balances that banks have with the Fed. This first layer money never leaves the banking system and only banks with access to the Fed can have it.

The second layer is money that banks can create themselves out of thin air. When they grant you a loan they create a claim against you on the left side of their balance sheed and they create your deposits on the right side of their balance sheet.

When you wire transfer your deposits to another bank you instruct them to transfer reserves to the other bank, since that is what payments are settled with. Therefore banks can create as many loans as they want and are only limited by their ability to generate reserves.

This is where central banks come in. In order to get reserves, banks participate in Repo auctions and can get reserves against collateral. It used to be that collateral needed to be really good, but the quality has decreased a lot lately so that the Fed even accepts CDOs or regular bank loans that they just created.

Since shadow banks (which is really just a fancy word for Asset Managers, Dealers/Brokers and SPVs or foreign banks) do not have access to the Fed, they rely on other banks that DO have access to the Fed to lend them reserves. This used to be the case in the unsecured LIBOR market overnight, and if there was any doubt that a player was not solvent, simply nobody would lend to them overnight. In order to stabilize this, the Fed was running QE in order to channel reserves into the shadow banking system by buying assets (CDOs, bonds, etc.). Nowdays, the secured Repo market has replaced the unsecured interbank market by a larger extent since the need for trust is lower.

In a crisis just like today even the interbank repo market is drying out a bit since the value of collateral in foreign markets is questioned and US banks are protecting their reserves. Therefore the Fed is jumping in to establish trust in market liquidity again by pumping reserves into the market and show their lender of last resort function (today also dealer of last resort)."

https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/objects/58159/the-eurodoll...

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/fezfqi/the_...
Maybe the demand is also caused by people who have returned from traveling in the past two weeks and are self quarantining somewhere where they have no cooking equipment?
I agree with most of what you said, but I don't think you blatantly ban my account and all other involved just for the comment is fair. I didn't know my comment would be considered as flamewar in the first place.
People are already not adopting Web Components ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I generally agree, and I'm very much in favor of market based economies. There is nothing wrong with France doing what is necessary toward production, during such an extreme event.

The US extending massive credit to businesses, bailing out the airlines (coming), bailing out Boeing (coming), and the 407 other bailouts yet to come, are all variations of immense state intervention into the economy, due to a force of nature event. They're also necessary, as the alternative is a much harder reboot with dramatically more damage. You can let a few companies fail in a normal recession, if we let everything go here, the unnecessary economic damage will be measured in the $10 trillion type range. And some of it we may never get back (eg letting Boeing fall down now, they might never get back up, given China is absolutely coming online in the next 10-20 years with competitive planes).
Because we are side open. They want us to keep it that way so they can keep infiltrating our open society without consequence. Rest assured that they are working really hard in all the social sites including this one.
This is a big hit for journalism about China. A lot of very good quality reporting on (among others) Xinjiang came from these people. We will all be much less informed about China in the future.

The subtle shift in confidence that this action implies is that China is confident in itself after "beating" the virus while the west is struggling.

A "media war" between China and the US might be worse than a trade war. While a trade war is just about numbers, this will be about ideology and there will be no middle ground.
From an article written 4 days ago:

Elon Musk sent a memo to SpaceX employees on Friday underplaying the dangers of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, which is now considered a pandemic, according to a report from BuzzFeed News.

Musk's email, sent earlier today, told employees of the space transport company that they were far more likely to die from a car crash than COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. He also said that, based on the evidence he had seen about COVID-19, he doesn't think it's "within the top 100 health risks in the United States."

The email follows a tweet Musk sent last week saying "the coronavirus panic is dumb."

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21179291/elon-musk-corona...
Those who downvote should comment so that we hear your argument as well. In the end all this thread is more or less about freedom of speech.
one option is to bail them out but with strings attached. Demand concessions that are good for labor and for the consumer public in exchange for the bailout. Don't just let them put all savings into pockets of executives and shareholders (while promoting "ration and save/pull yourself by bootstraps" ideology to the poor, of course) then run crying to the taxpayers because they're too big to fail.
I prefer bisque to teal.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17173197
A lot of people are just gonna hit the liquor store on their way.
I agree with you on the "radioactive waste" aspect, but I put "big tech" in quotes to suggest the sense in which lay people tend to interpret the phrase. I'm fine if there is an angry public response to all of it, but if we've going to be selective (only angry at the sexy companies with consumer-facing products) then IMO our selection to date has been suboptimal wrt. effective protection of consumers.
Not GP, but banning short sales is known to be absurd by pretty much any economist or financial expert out there. Distorting true price always leads to negative effects.

Now people investing in french companies will pay unfairly high prices for their shares.

Switching to nationalization, it’s pretty clear that that removes the incentive to take on risk and found a company since you are always at risk of the government stealing your assets.

Sorry I didn’t include citations but I would really encourage you to read about rational pricing and healthy market dynamics. Those that think you can just artificially decide the price of a security rather than let the price discovery mechanism play out are doomed to repeat the same problem we see in communist countries: you can buy bread for a “fair” price, but there’s no bread to buy because the price was too low.
Something like "you have to have 6 months worth of payroll in a fund before you can do stock buybacks" would be a nice bit of regulation.
Actually, it may have been DoorDash I used, now that you mention it. Seemed like a really gross way to price delivery, giving fake, higher prices on every single menu item. And then still a delivery fee on top of that! I seriously had to shop around several of their restaurants and several menu combos to find one where I wasn't still paying above-menu even with the fairly "generous" coupon.
It was about quickness not just raw speed. It's both about the rapidity of announcements and also their variety.

(e.g. the example of drones in Saudi)

The author figures this out by himself, which is great, but the "faster is better" (quote from the article) thing was a watering down of Boyd not the actual message. All things being equal, yeah, speed is better, but again that's not what Boyd was really saying.
Ask HN: Given sudden increase in WFH are service providers in change freeze?
Bail out the customers.
In related news, 90% have either coughed or died suddenly.

Losing hours and losing jobs are two very different things, conflating statistics like this is counterproductive to understanding.
Why not _offer_ helicopter money to everyone instead of giving it? Allow people to accept it, but don't oblige them to.

Keep it universal and simple, but optimise for cost:

- A/B test the messaging.

- Make it opt out for lower incomes and opt in for higher incomes.

- (?) Offer opt out-ers the possibility to dedicate part of their helicopter money to specific budgets (culture, army, police, medical care, ...)
Why is "extreme poverty" the appropriate metric? I'd be curious to see the same graph but for the number of people living in "poverty".
> ...innately superior people seem inferior...

Pot? Kettle, black.

Flagged.
>but don't assume you will be protected from coronavirus 100%.

Washing hands does not protects you 100% so why bother?
I'll tell you one thing it does better: audio/video conferencing. We went full WFH and the usual suspects couldn't support us, but we discovered that teams is a thing we pay for and operates like a champ, haha.
'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible Are All Forgeries
Owner of Vidiot, west Seattle, owner against females beware
I am writing this to inform. A dear friend of mine was rapped when leaving the bar in West Seattle in July. When she had told the owner she was told she was being dramatic, and spreading the news will ruin his reputation. After coming forward to a few local women's groups, more women came forward with stories of assault at this location. Zak is known for lying to the women that owned the bar and gaslighting. Please beware if you do hire him. The bar scenes can be scary enough without him playing down the assault. Please be careful.
Yes UBI would not "fix" homelessness or poverty, but it dramatically improves things.

> People that have the tendency be homeless are people that don't find their place in society, the lack of order actually brings them relief.

What an insulting generalization of homeless people. Is that how you rationalize it in your head - these people find "relief" in sleeping on the sidewalk because they couldn't find their place in society?

Did you ask those homeless people why they didn't want to go to the shelter? I remember speaking with a 60+ year old homeless woman in NYC once who told me she refused to go to the shelter because it was filled with crazy people. Also you have to check out of the shelter every day, and if you don't check back in by a certain time, then they can't let you in. It shouldn't come as a surprise that many would prefer to sleep on the streets than deal with that.

> Best solution so far is a social one where people help them find a new sense of achievement and a place in society.

This is why I'm a proponent of a jobs guarantee. Anyone who wants to work should not be denied the opportunity to do so.

> Drugs is also a big problem and probably where all the money from universal income would go to.

Yes, because all homeless people are drug addicts right? /s
That's probably only possible in places like New Orleans. I was surprised to learn about the notion of the "to-go cup" a few years back. It has significant explanatory power in some parts of the city.
That’s not my understanding. Child care professionals are considered ‘essential’.
(connectivity, applications, b2b, any level of the stack.)
Banks don't print money. They give out depositors' money to borrowers. If those depositors all demand their money back, then the FDIC covers it, so the borrowers owe the governemnt (taxpayers) money. If they pay back, crisis averted. If they don't, then it's a wealth transfer from taxpayers to the people who borrowed the money and spent it on consmption or waste.
This problem is older than economics itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
Reciprocity at the expense of principles is a loss for the US.
Exactly. I used to run a Quake 2/3 clan back in the day, and was on a clan for RTCW Enemy Territory. I jumped on Quake Live server last year with some folks used to controller pay, I crushed them, and I'm out of practice. These kids may be great at Halo multiplayer on consoles, but you're going to lose to a keyboard and mouse.
If all nations sequence the genes from their Corona virus patients, and the mapping points all cases back to China[0], China can do the same internally (if they haven't yet) and trace all the way back to patient 0.

Will that happen?

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/ge...
Whats up with the "[f]" in your grep command?

grep '[f]sck'
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;...
These are sometimes sold under the "Boogie Board" brand name. They don't have any storage whatsoever, just a stateful LCD display. When you erase the page it's gone for good. There are probably apps you could use to take pictures before erasing, but ultimately these are just "infinite scratchpaper" devices. Still fun, though - I use mine for doodling.
@dang, please ban all accounts involved in this thread.
I find it cheap. For $400 even if I could use it for reading and writing and assuming that those are the only functionality provided, I am fine with it. If I didn't had an ipad pro with apple pencil($800 + $100) I would have bought it, as those are the only thing I bought the ipad for, not for having some fancy apps.
It's kind of racist to describe the chinese response as suppressing and censoring and then for others its, "well woops, we were a little slow on response".
SIGINFO is awesome, I've no idea why the linux world refuses to copy its semantics.
Elon Musk is a scumbag for pushing for an exception, putting his workers at risk of death or disability for no reason other than his own profit. It clearly shows the type of person he is, one that does not care about anything else, but like to pretend like he's doing good for the world. Please. Of course, this is to be expected of a CEO of a large company, but in no way excuses it. What is infuriating are people who think he's some kind of hero. Yeah, a hero who is about to get people killed. That's called a murderer. But it's ok because he got an exception. Fuck him.
While at that price point, many other, more feature complete devices become available, the ePaper devices do have their own niche.

I tried to use iPad Pro as a full-time note-taking device and found that after writing on it for up 3-4 hours during the day, my eyes get very tired by the evening. I tried various things to mitigate it, such as using dark background, changing brightness etc, and nothing seems to help enough to make iPad a notebook replacement.

I absolutely love the functionality offered by iPad-like device such as reading Kindle, browse web, notes taking, PDF annotation, scanner apps etc. I absolutely want to be able to use it as single device to hold all my hand-notes and downloaded or scanned documents. But can't avoid the eye strain.

Devices like reMarkable etc can be used at length if your ask is just to carry around all your notes. I have misplaced all my notes from grad school days. I would love an easy way to be able to write and archive for posterity all my notes.

I personally settled for Onyx Boox Max 3. It is at way higher price point, but is more functional - has Kindle, OReilly apps etc and quite functional note taking app.

I tried the earlier version of reMarkable ran into a limitation that limited its usability for me. It did not allow copying a section of text and pasting it into a new document. I might be mis-remembering, but I think it did not even allow pasting a copied section of a note into a new page in the same notebook. All this severely limited what I could use it for. It was just a paper replacement, and not much more.

Boox Max 3 did not have these limitations. Whats great about iPad-like devices is that you don't even expect that you will run into these corner cases.

I hope this update to reMarkable add such small features that increase the usability. I absolutely hope that these kind of devices succeed. They are a solution to the problem of keeping and carrying with you a separate set of notes on varied topics where no single paper notebook would do justice, and they are usable for very long stretches of time with no more eye strain than with using paper.
We typically assume that loans are taken for some immediate use (rather than just having cash on hand). Thus you get the following scenario:

Bank loans $money to person A. Person A uses the $money to buy from person B. Person B deposits $money into the Bank. Bank now has $money (less reserve requirements) available to lend.
https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/ tries to list many such projects.
Did you forget an extra zero or are they really this cheap?
Court cases that sound like the weirdest fights
> don't think it's that clear for a line.

Which is why liberal societies are on the side of individual responsibility, not authoritarian intervention.
> For context, "sick man of Asia" is up there with the n-word and drawing pictures of Mohammad in terms of its ability to offend a group of people.

And it's one of those things that requires a lot of culture-specific sensitivity. The phrase really pushes Chinese buttons, but most of the world is not similarly sensitive to it.

Similarly, blackface is highly offensive in the US, but a skit in on one of China's state-run TV networks featured it a few years ago in it's very prominent New Year's gala program:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43081218
Amazon's delivery network is almost to the point of being a public utility.

It's not going anywhere.
You are my spirit animal.

I just got a polar/readwise/orgmode/Anki setup together and I'd love to use this.
Yeah, that type of handle is already a lever that you can use with your forearm. The motion is a little awkward, but it's free.
I’m an Asian American. And if I were attacked by any of these racist terrorist in the next few days, remember your spreading of calling it Chinese Virus contributes to the attack. Don’t pretend calling yourselves hackers make you any different from the racists in Reddits.
Treasury and IRS to delay tax season deadline by 90 days
Ask HN: New job, having some anxiety, am I in over my head?
I just started a new job as a fullstack .net developer last week, I have about 2.5 years of experience. Most of the stuff I've worked on has been .net core APIs, occasional front-end and manual sql queries. When I interviewed, I was told that they have an angular/.net core app. But few days after I started there, I found that there's another old MVC app that's been de-prioritized, and they want my help to deciding if it could be updated or completely redone.

Our team is small, just 1 principal engineer, 1 senior, and 2 devs, and me. They are all working on the main app, and I've been tasked to look at the old app and tell them whether it should be updated or remake from scratch. It's making me a little anxious because I don't have any experience in designing app this complex, and I feel like they are expecting a lot from me even though I only 2.5 years of experience. I asked to have permission to see the code base, but they only gave me access to the old app, and finally gave me the access to see the frontend code of the main app. Every standup I feel left out because they're all working on the main app, and I just say I'm poking around the code of the old app and trying to familiarize myself with it.

I've emphasized that my strength is in working with .net core APIs but they haven't give me access to the repo. I feel like they just really want me to work on the old app. If that's the case, I feel like it's a great opportunity for me to take charge of this, but also a lot of responsibility. I'm not sure where to start, they say the product manager is designing a new flow for the app, and I feel like I can't really make any meaningful decision before knowing what the new flow is. If the new flow has complicated UI, then the app should be remake to something like angular/.net core. What are some things I can prepare myself with? Start drawing database table relationship diagrams to get a better understanding what entities I'll need in the future?
> The ability to source some js and then add a <custom-element> wherever you want just like it was a built in element is one of the best things to ever happen to web design.

Web design is the worst thing that ever happened to the web.
For many, losing a job maybe preferable so they can collect unemployment.

Edit for what I thought was obvious context:

If you had a full-time job and where forced to go to meager part-time hours, it might be better to just get laid off and collect. I had a friend in this situation. It would have been better for him to have been laid off.