skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people you see wearing masks are wearing the wrong kind that don't actually help too much. And there's likely a massive shortage of enough masks. People probably reuse them a terrible amount too.

Don't give them a false shield that emboldens their actions. Keep them indoors.
I wouldn’t feel too bad for the hospitals. They are happy to mark up prices by an outrageous amount. My company does medical devices. One device goes for around 20k to the hospital. I have heard that the hospital often charges 80-100k for the device plus the cost for doctors and facility which is often another 50k or more.
WeWork has been screwing members who try to leave out of their security deposit. Could this be why?
This is adding nothing new over the previous BusinessInsider piece. It's just reporting (again) that this company asserted patent rights after the hospital and the 3D-printing firm requested the design in .STL format due to being unable to secure supplies in an unprecedented emergency. Which is what we knew already.
Telling people they needed masks would be far worse. Now we only have to deal with problems caused by a minority of selfish antisocials, not the majority of prosocials.
The fact that it's not "thought to be" the main way...

Says nothing about whether it's still significant and something worth trying to avoid.

Frankly, the fact that the CDC hasn't changed the guidance also means next to nothing, because we're not collecting information about anything other than the most obvious cases. I'm not saying that the guidelines shouldn't be taken into account, nor ignored: just that they seem more likely to be of the "take two aspirin and call me in the morning" variety, i.e., common rather than informed and specific advice.
People aren't in or out of a protected class. Protections for race, sex, orientation, etc apply to everyone, even straight white men. Protections for religion even apply to atheists.

The laws prohibit certain behaviors, like excluding people from nightclubs on the basis of skin color. They could easily also prohibit excluding people from nightclubs on other appearance criteria.

Of course no one can control thoughts, and some people will still feel and think hateful things, but that's true for every protected class.
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Stage 1. That's the easiest stage to get approval for, and many of these trials might not go into Stage 2 or Stage 3. Drug trials take a long time to figure out all of the possible side effects.
First, let me say this is an awesome conversation, and it really sucks to have it over comment threads. We should have a drink sometime.

This may be what people say now adays (the price going up is the reason for buy backs), but when I went to school and worked on a Convertible Notes desk, the stock price going up is not the reason to issue buy backs - it’s usually because you think your price is so cheap and you can reduce your cost of capital by removing the stock from circulation. The nouveau riche way of doing things is — well we can give you 100% of the cash back now, instead of paying a 5% dividend for x years (x because of compounding / whatever else is your assumption).

[Edit: now that I said this, it sounds a lot like packaging up seemingly derisked assets and marking them as safe (aka CDOs from The Great Financial Crisis (GFC)]

The ETFs are important to understand the full landscape of liquidity - but yes, point taken.

So to your question — in a pure free market, a corporation would tap the shareholder base (like Warren Buffetts cash, like he did in 08) rather than a TARP like agreement. The reason we did TARP was because the engine was seized up (Banks had effectively no funds to lend because a few lost all their assets) — right now it doesn’t look like the engine is seized up (no big hedge funds or banks have blown up [yet I guess]). So really, the company should issue new initial stock back to a Buffet or someone similar at a discount. But the discount is what would make everyone’s portfolio look awful.

So because the government shut everything down - we say... well we made you shut down, so we will take the hit here.

But really the nuance is that, had these airlines not financed buy backs with cheap debt, they could have weathered this storms themselves. These airlines were making so much money they were never thought to be able to lose money again! Matt Levine just put out a great piece on it [0]

So in the free market (and consequence lens), these buy backs financed with debt was a bad business decision - so the natural consequence is to just unwind the transaction, sell back into the market for 80Bn, and restart. Prices would take a serious, serious hit, but the new direct investors would be rewarded with a recovered share price. They would literally be buying the dip.

And just for added info, investors are bailing in these airline stocks because if the gov’t comes in like last time, the shareholders were wiped out first, then the company is allowed to recover. (Fannie and Freddie are still not private... the day that happens, will be a $100Bn transfer from the gov’t to the people)

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-17/the-go...
Why do we need airlines?
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They're certainly easier to clean. If you use an anti-viral cleanser on copper or SS, it would presumably be more effective than on cardboard.
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You are being downvoted for commenting on voting, which is against the HN guidelines.
I doubt that's the case in Italy.
I think this is much more of a spectrum than you're implying. And perhaps more than I've implied above.

The reality is that the vast majority of real-life situations are hybrids[0]---some things are constant, others are new. The math we do changes, but math doesn't change. Boyd's OODA period may have been shorter than that of enemy combatants, but he still had to go to training. What is training if not pre-compiled thought? And importantly: in fluid environments where novel things are likely to arise, having a solid grasp on things that are "settled" makes it easier to integrate new phenomena.
The mods there don't do much except remove personal attacks and calls for violence, they even have a couple of Trump supporters on the team. You can even submit Breitbart. If it gets dowvoted, how is that the mod's fault? They can't control voting.
> EDIT: Also the non-JS web is basically dead. People should to come and accept that even if it's not perfect.

No. I won't accept it. The JS web sucks. It's slow, bloated, provides nothing of value to me the user, and exists only to feed the maw of advertisers and platform providers who will never be satisfied with the tech we have.

HTML pages are still faster to use and 1000x easier to deploy than all this "modern" web crap that delivers less and less for more and more. Look at the site you are on!

I've never heard about this Webcomponents thing before today. I hate it already. No I'm not willing to give it a chance. I am certain, certain that it will deliver nothing but pages with 100K of actual content which need 10MB code downloads and 20s rendering times on an i5.

Web designers, developers, and especially browser developers are destroying the world wide web and replacing it with a glorified series of custom-flash apps. It's every bit as terrible as when flash was around no matter how much spin is put on these "standards". Google is the new Adobe and your website is awful again.
> That's some very essential services there.

People need food and retail workers need employment.
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> There was no enormous R&D budget required to develop the replaceable component.

Are you sure about this? Just because it is one small part of a complex device doesn't make it low cost.

> By all means let them make money on the machine

Ok...so the machine becomes (for example) $1m instead of $10k. The financial cost to use the machine remains the same.
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> The economy restructures itself to be more resilient to such events?

That's the kind of stuff that only exists in textbooks. In the real world you just get important parts of your economy be controlled by foreign corporations.

> The coronavirus is not even close to the smallpox

That's entirely irrelevant. We're talking about a disruptive event to an economy. It makes absolutely no difference if you can imagine worse events or diseases if we're discussing stuff regarding the economy.
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> Video games don't work well with this model because in most video games a) information is perfect and b) results are deterministic.

Neither of these are true in the strategy games the parent comment refers to. They mention playing "in real time", and I interpret that to mean real-time strategy games. In those games, you generally have:

1) Fog of war. You can only see the play area near where you have units. Enemy movements outside of that region are hidden from you. So you are constantly discovering new information as your unit moves around, and having to deal with where you thought the enemy was being wrong.

2) Randomized damage. Most attacks don't do a fixed amount of damage and instead do a certain amount of "rolling the dice". You know on average how much damage X will do against Y, but not the results of any single hit until after it has happened.
This. I have set this policy as the first rule of our SRE response teams to make it clear the broad extent of their power. Because it’s our written policy, it’s incorporated into our PCI and SOX compliance programs as well. The auditors don’t always love it, but we’ve always gotten them to understand.

The aviation law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.3
French business owner here. The current goal is to prevent companies from failing to avoid mass unemployment:

- If you need to suspend your workers contracts, they are covered by the state. No need to fire them.

- all tax collections have been suspended

- your credit lines with commercial banks are covered by the state, so you can suspend payments or increase them if needed

- The BPI (Public Investment Bank) has an emergency loan available for companies that could run out of cash due to the situation.

They are not talking about the aftermath yet but these efforts cost a huge amount of money. My guess is that they will recover money by raising taxes for several years.
Not being able to get stuff out of the warehouse in a timely manner would screw up the logistics big time though.

Maybe have outgoing boxes pass through some kind of ethanol misting system to sanitize them? with a catching tray to recirculate the condensed ethanol for reuse. Although the fire risks of such a solution would be somewhat worrying.
Ahhh. In that case, Google also has a version of this that writes to Google sheets: https://www.google.com/forms/about/

Our HR and accounting ppl use it regularly.
We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead
Coke cans don’t have the same regulatory hurdles and moreover there your coke can R&D is amortized over something like a trillion units. There’s a real argument for why this lawsuit is dumb, but this ain’t it.
> Their platform, their choice for what goes on.

Can you say the same about Facebook?
Ask HN: Build Your Own PaaS?
Of those that have gone all in on microservices and containerized deployments - How many are building their own PAAS (platform as a service)? So an internal Heroku that is built specifically for your development teams?

Are there any generalized solutions for this? Are there any PAAS builder as a service type things? Something to wrangle and constrain (put behind higher level abstractions) general cloud primitives (ec2 instances, load balancers, etc), k8s, orchestrators, cicd, etc and provide a way for devs to just deploy code via container images or straight from git repo.
Wait, are you saying that based on the very last data point? That is, based on the data point related to a day that hasn't finished updating?
I don't feel bad for hospitals, I feel bad for the patients in hospitals who suffer because of the greed of private companies.
I think it's already too late; we've ground the nation to a halt and it will take a while to restart. I work for a company that is often cited for knowing these kinds of things, and we were told today to operate under the assumption that the economy will be more or less shut down until May/June, with normal economic activity not resuming until the end of Q3. All that said, the companies that can keep as much of their operations going until then will be in a much better position to come out of this intact.

We're heading into the next great depression, and it's going to take a New Deal type of effort to recover. Trump is actually in a remarkably similar position to Hoover in all this too; so it's not unprecedented to be headed into something like this with a nincompoop at the helm.
In offices, managers are taller and more handsome than the average. What we reward as a society in the west is beauty, not merit and hard work, unfortunately. Study after study shows the same trend in a huge variety of ways, from believing in social mobility to thinking job performance is about job performance despite the often opposite. But I also think this level of anti-intellectualism is temporary.
Sure, but the body still isn't done building up immunity.
Doesn’t herd immunity work if reinfection isn’t possible, which is unconfirmed at best at the moment?
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I believe halfway-built residential construction, when left for a long period of time, not only becomes a total loss due to exposure to the elements, but also structurally unstable and a danger to life and limb in surroundings areas. I remember a few years back North Carolina had a windstorm and it knocked down a partially built apartment complex, because the roof beams weren't installed and it was just a bunch of trusses.
Your article [1] is more or less a review from what was known before Covid-19. It feels like a "worst case to expect".

OP's article is really about Covid-19, having been tested on some specific surfaces.
It's possible to get it from the poor kid who is cutting lettuce in the drive-through's kitchen.
Someone should really rethink the gas pump handle in light of recent events.

Make it copper? Or how about a UV light shining on it when it’s hung up.
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Why are articles behind paywalls allowed?
Looking more and more like Apple will never touch Vulkan directly. They are heavily invested in cross-device performance graphics using Metal.

The more the API situation evolves, I can see Google, Microsoft and Sony going all in all Vulkan for performance graphics. Only if MS is willing to part ways with D3D12

For cross platform I could see WebGPU + WebAssembly being the choice, where it abstracts both Metal and Vulkan.
Regarding point 1 I'm not sure it is true.

I am working from home at the moment and I am less productive than other times I have worked from home. Part of it is that my partner is also working from home, which means I currently can't have dual monitors like I usually would when working at home or in the office. I think another part of it is that I find myself checking the news far more often than I would normally (though this was also happening over the past few days I worked in the office rather than from home).
The UK blocked the export of Chloroquinine on Feb 24th without much fanfair. I believe they don't want regular people rushing out to hoard the drug when they don't need it. There is already lots of talk on Twitter about shortages for people who were already using it (ie, for Lupus).

In Canada it requires a prescription but plenty of countries have it over-the-counter.
Why not just spray it with some alcohol occasionally ?

I think at some point we need to not make this an environmental disaster from over consumption of disposable items.
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> devs want these new features

Devs wanted Flash and real-player plugins pack in the day too. They wanted ActiveX plugins too. No-one else wanted them and it was ultimately the downfall of IE.

> Microsoft sort of gave up and killed their browser engine
This will be the downfall of chrome. Google will ultimately be fined under anti-trust, chrome funding will dry up and browsers will stop supporting these absurd features. Have a nice time rewriting all your webcomponents in javascript in 5 years.
Except, that the 3D printer plastic might not hold up to the medical grade plastic and might cause system wide infections that hadn't been accounted for culminating in a brain or spinal infection that leaves a person in a coma for the rest of their painful life while the family watches. The family then Sue's malpractice, doctor's lose their medical license and hospitals lose millions which could go to treat patients. Hypotheticals can go both ways.
So why is acetaminophen still on the market?
Amusingly, my mom and grandma were both MENSA members. My mom hated it 'cause it was a meat market. My grandma loved it for the same reason.
Douyin 抖音. It's the same app though.
> And taking on debt to do it isn't inherently irresponsible. In fact, it's just a wise financial decision when interest rates are low. New revenue streams aren't required to be generated -- it's just shifting a subset of future revenue to the present.

I don't know how someone could possibly make this statement RIGHT NOW of all times? How many businesses are sitting on the edge of folding right now? Whoops! Looks like all that future revenue didn't show up! Guess who's going to suffer for these decisions? Not the investors, they sold out! How about all the employees who just had all the blood sucked out of their job security and future livelihood?

In what sense are investors in this scenario not just hostile parasites? At least if it were dividends then the investors would have any sort of remaining long-term interest in the success of the company, and not just how they can most quickly disentangle themselves from taking any responsibility for the survival of the company that they ostensibly had ownership over by gulping down revenue it didn't even generate yet? In what sense is the investor not crippling the company and leaving it weaker than they found it? It's vampirism! Just because the money is there for the taking doesn't mean you should, it doesn't mean that what you're doing isn't irresponsible and even morally reprehensible.

You create a nightmarescape of shambling zombie companies just waiting for a global pandemic to remind them that they're all already dead. Enjoy your artificially juiced stock value after it craters because our entire economy is short of legs to stand on.
Hi there, I'm Juan, main developer of Kurento Media Server. I'll try to contextualize here what is OpenVidu and where it comes from.

Kurento [1] is a WebRTC server which you deploy in your cloud and then control through another application server, of which OpenVidu is one. While Kurento tries to provide generic building blocks to allow creating multiple types of applications, OpenVidu started as a project that builds on top of those capabilities and focuses on the most commonly requested use case: videoconference rooms.

From that initial premise, the amount of tasks to do in order to achieve a professional solution seems endless: easy configuration of producers and consumers, with roles and permissions; automatic scaling when the load requires it; dynamic distribution of media flows according to the needs; recording of the sessions; compatibility with different browsers, and also why not, with apps on mobile platforms; filtering the media to apply video effects; the list goes on.

Then, problems will happen. And troubleshooting WebRTC issues is difficult, because information is all disperse and nebulous, so one is expected to have all the tools in place beforehand to inspect logs and be able to have an explanation of why something went bad.

OpenVidu aims to provide an easy to use framework that can cover all those needs and then some. Its open-source part covers all the basics, and for the last months we've been working on the Pro offering, which tackles the targets of automatic scalability, session monitoring, and automatic instantiation of Kurento Media Server nodes to handle different amounts of sessions (i.e. "elasticity"), among other things. Some of the features listed in the Pro page [2] are ready for prime time, and some are a work in progress.

We just released OpenVidu version 2.12.0 [3], which is where a new license version for the Pro tier sees the light. Our team has been for quite a long time in the game of WebRTC, working and learning together with the open-source community while developing Kurento, and now I hope you find that OpenVidu is a nice value proposition and it helps you build your dream application!

It's late here but tomorrow morning I'll be hanging around here to answer any questions. See you!

[1]: https://www.kurento.org/

[2]: https://openvidu.io/docs/openvidu-pro/

[3]: https://medium.com/@openvidu/openvidu-2-12-0-a-new-chapter-f...
You should not think of it as malloc replacement but as an GC that can work with native code that does not use fixed stack and register layout. That you can use such a thing for code generated by C compiler is side effect of that. In fact, there are various garbage collected runtimes with bespoke GC's that use similar implementation strategies.

Edit: and one notable thing on BDW GC is its non-oddballness when it comes to building and/or packaging it. Also it is almost completely written in portable-ish C (it expects sane memory layout and relies on bunch of technically unspecified, but expected behaviors).
The last line explains the full non truth of this... Big ol' lies on the landing page

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Built to work with any framework. Or none.

Hadron editors interpret files such as React, or Vue files and modify them when you design. Building new interpreters is easy, and we'll even open source it in the future so anyone can add support to another framework.

* Currently only Vanilla is supported.
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> The ability of my local Chinese place to serve customers is undiminished, my desire to eat Chinese food is undiminished, and all that's in the way is an ultimately temporary law.

Six months from now, when the quarantine ends, you aren't going to go to your local Teriyaki and Wok, and order six months wroth of Chinese food.

The restaurant will never recoup those six lost months of rent. The employees will never recoup those six lost months of wages. These loans will never be repaid.
This is the time I really miss having adults running the federal government. Individual states are flying blind while everyone at the federal level is too worried about how the boss will take it to effectively coordinate.
Sure, thank you for the question! It prompted me to add a note about Elm and Dart in a relevant section in the document.

One important difference with Svelte versus Elm is that Elm makes a clean break from web technologies, while Svelte is designed to work with future versions of the web's languages.
> 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.

STOP MAKING YOUR PAGES SO SLOW!!