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Tesla needs 2500 employees to support basic minimum operations like payroll and security? That’s laughable.

I’m not sure who I’m more annoyed with, the county officials for allowing this farce, or Elon for exacerbating a public health hazard.
Unfortunately the ventilator alone is insufficient. You also need a medical team to administer it, and they may choose not to expose themselves to the liability of using a ventilator of unknown provenance.

I’m not a doctor but in this setting it seems that letting you die of a disease is much more palatable than killing you in an attempt to treat it.
Lord of Midnight was a piece of art. A game of epic scale that managed to combine army-rallying and war strategy with adventuring and sneaking behind enemy lines.

It was also a product of a time when everything was possible and single-person would do everything from graphics to programming to writing (in this case a substantial novella). It seeps nostalgia from every pore.

Unfortunately it won't sit well with today's gamers. Not just because the low resolution graphics, but because it requires much patience and learning from own mistakes. The culture has long shifted to hand-guiding and "succeed on first try" mentality.
I’m more inclined to dig into his company if his comment offers insights but when you just plug your company in, it just makes your comment feel insincere like pr speak.

Am Googler, ex-FB, Uber, want me to list my resume?
Calling Stored Procedure That Returns a Result Set via Native Query
IntelliJ is unusable on my Mac Mini hardware.
2008 was a completely different circumstance than this.

People have a tendency to call everything a bank. Lehman Brothers was an investment bank. AIG is an insurance company. They were buying and selling mortgages and credit default swaps, but they weren't savings banks or mortgage banks.

What happened in 2008 was that the mortgage banks (spurred on by government policy) were making mortgage loans to everybody. People with bad credit. Interest only payments. Because the regular banks were selling the mortgages to Lehman Brothers or buying credit default swaps from AIG, so they didn't care if people would default. This naturally caused housing prices to soar.

Then interest rates went up a little and people did start to default. Then people started to notice how uncreditworthy those borrowers were and didn't want to buy those mortgages anymore ("toxic assets"), so banks stopped making them. Which tends to cause housing prices to crash, which tends to lead to more defaults as people notice they're underwater, and so on.

If housing prices came down a lot there would be too many defaults, so the Fed responded by lowering interest rates. That gets people to borrow more and bid up housing prices again, but that's only kicking the can down the road unless they plan to leave interest rates low indefinitely... except that's just what they did.

Meanwhile they also had to do something about the companies selling these credit default swaps, which were basically insurance banks bought against having their borrowers default. If AIG went bankrupt then so would all of these actual mortgage banks who they had insured and were about to have claims to file. And if all these mortgage banks went bankrupt -- even though they were the ones being smart and buying these credit default swaps -- investors would start to view mortgage lending as a risky investment in general. That would tend to raise mortgage interest rates, because investors would demand a higher return for this newfound risk. But they needed lower interest rates to keep housing prices from crashing and causing defaults/foreclosures, so they bailed out the dumb investors and insurance companies to save the "smart" mortgage banks who didn't expect their insurance scheme to be so successful that it bankrupted the insurance company.

This time, in 2020, it isn't a question of bailing out some insurance companies. The problem right now is that nobody really wants to borrow more money, despite literally zero interest rates, because they've been so low for so long that everybody is already leveraged to the hilt. But we're also experiencing deflationary forces from this coronavirus, which generally requires some kind of inflationary force to counter it and prevent a deflationary spiral -- commonly done by lowering interest rates to increase borrowing, except that everybody's already tapped out.

So what that leaves is having the government counter deflation by creating new money, and ideally give it directly to real people and not Wall St which has no excuse whatsoever to get it this time.
There is a really simple to solution to this: the government limits prices and mandates based on how badly the regulation is skirted. Basically limit profit so it matches the dubious use-value. (Neither utility nor profit is actually linear wrt units produce, but just smart about that and know your adversary.)
One-sixth per month in VTWAX, for the next six months.
Way to Remove Parent and Child Entities via Bulk Deletions
The Leaders list notes high-karma HN contributors.

There are many notable accounts, from leaders and experts in the community, who don't make that list.

Popularity and prolificity are not measures of quality.
Agree, and to dive in a bit more to the icing, one of the most important and least remembered ingredients in that icing was the 1.8" Toshiba hard drive. That allowed for the miniaturization of the iPod relative to other, clunkier players like the Nomad that used much larger 2.5" laptop hard drives [1], or flash-based players that could store only 25-50 songs.

Combined with iTunes, they solved for the end-to-end experience: easy to use, easy to carry around, easy to manage your library. Other players only solved for the narrow experience of playing music.

To be honest, though I do like the industrial design of the first iPod, it was perhaps the weakest part of the icing. The click wheel hadn't even been invented. It was all about the three pillars of iTunes, compact size, and '1000 songs in your pocket'. Despite the subject of the post being about copying, on iPod they actually copied very little from existing products of the time, in style and substance.

[1] http://www.iretron.com/blog/posts/technology-flashback-creat...
America has been on the dark path where lives are equated to money for a long time now. It will take something quite dramatic to shock the system to the point where people are willing to re-think it from the ground up. Maybe this is that shock. If not now, then probably never.
Universal Basic Income is an affordable and feasible response to coronavirus
Your site helped me get a really nice compensation package for my current employer. I recommend it to all my friends and colleagues. Thanks! :)
That makes no sense. Try looking at logs and such at least.
The management fee is just cash for the GPs and they can do with it what they want. In theory it's to run their business until investments cash out but notice how they always force the company they are investing to pay legal fees (i.e. take it immediately out of the LP's new investment)? They just treat it as their income.
I think this is what you're looking for (though you'll need to find some discontinued hardware to run it I think):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.vr....
Maybe GM could be renting space and manpower to a ventilator manufacturer?
This makes total sense to me. Banks will sit on most money that they get. Little people will spend it. And they also actually need it.
Yep. It's like the God problem. If God created the universe, then who created God? If another God created God, then who created that God. Ad infinitum. Or you can just ignore the exhausting issue altogether by claiming it is axiomatic.

It's the same with any logical statement. You could go all the way up to the premises and question that and when given a proof of the premises, then you can question the premises of the "proof of the premises". Ad infinitum. Or you just take the axiomatic approach.

I think most of life is lived axiomatically.
https://archive.md/rx8j8
You're gonna need 20 million of them
2 seconds is definitely not enough, unless you put pressure on "rectum destroyer" level. You don't need to wash it as clean as your hands, but give it 5 seconds at the least.
It's the world's economy that is affected during this pandemic.
And a similar concept to this is that given a set of accepted axioms, two parties should always come to the same conclusion if both parties are behaving rationally. All debates are at best disagreements of accepted premises and definitions.

It's a important concept to remember for anyone who's argumentative/legalistic since understanding the oppossing sides definitions and desired conclusion is often the cause for disagreement. If there are no first principles, then there are no definitive last principles.
Yeah sure. Cause HN is full of people that can read the future.
Related from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17043954
Ask HN: Why is there no public outcry in US on coronavirus handling?
The us leadership has botched how it’s handled this situation. People with symptoms have been turned away from testing simply because they don’t meet the criteria of having travelled to a region or being in contact with somebody who has been tested positively. Rich and famous people are being tested and common people who are already burdened by the economic state are bearing more. How can a countries populous not do anything ?

The us’ ineffectiveness is exposing that American exceptionalism is nothing but the house of cards in this current time.

What can people do besides the usual “call your rep /senator”?
I worked for Pokie Magic/Ainsworth and now I work for Metro Cash and Carry.
Because this is literally what "Hacker News" should be about.
to be fair, you can adopt europe/wuhan-style total lockdown but you could also adopt developed-asia-style mass tracing.

The latter seems to have been way more effective in containing the epidemic and less impactful on the economy.

So, there was third option which saves both people and economy, but it's probably politically unfeasible.
Thanks! Wonder if one can subscribe to multiple jobs at the same time?
Broadcom sues Netflix: You’re stopping us making a fortune from set-top boxes
Except that it'd never make it through the Senate, or Trump. Although I gotta note that he has talked lots of populism.

Or did I miss the invisible /s?
Chinese 'Rolls-Royce' Hongqi H9 offers 7 color options
Same position here. Thankfully starting at a FAANG, so less likely to see layoffs than smaller more vulnerable companies. Scheduled to start on 3/30
We changed the url from http://archive.fo/RlH0d to the original source, as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
What's your central point or take away?

Every European country, Japan, China, Korea, Switzerland, UK are providing relief to their population by "printing money". It is a temporariy (3 month) stimulus that lifts the lowest and the most vulnerable population while stimulates the middle-upper class in spending (video game sales are soaring, I read somewher 70% since the start of the epidemic, you can google the relative performance of gaming stocks vs. SPY).
OK, so also fund stuff through the UN.
Margin Call is a fictional movie and the 2008 financial crisis had many companies that died before bailouts. And those bailouts were loans that were paid back in full with interest so the US taxpayers actually made money for once.

None of this has to do with capitalism. Governments exist to look after the citizenship and step in during exigent circumstances like war and pandemics. Of course we want better corporate ethics and accountability, but letting critical companies die now will only lead to further ruin. We want to avoid total societal collapse, not accelerate it.
Slot machines for Android, iOS and Facebook, but just for social gaming, no real cash.
" This is about saving what we have right now. An argument could be made that the banks are too big to fail, sure, but that doesn't change what needs to be saved, right now."

This is exactly how it sounded in 2008. You have to throw money at the banks right now or the world will go under! No time for thinking.
How did you find freelance work?
Corona-Free Useless Box
It's time to conduct code interviews directly through VSCode
Code interviews are hard enough already. The last thing we need to do is make them harder by providing IDE's that do not work.

I just attempted a coding interview. The question was extremely easy. However, I was not able to submit a passing test because of an IDE specific bug that kept throwing errors. Pasting the same code into VSCode worked perfectly fine.

We need to stop trying to make 1000 different online IDE's, each with their own specific quirks and learning curve, and instead build a centralized VSCode extension that allows for the tests to be conducted in an environment that the participant is familiar with.

Some might argue the need to track time, copy/paste, upload to a remote server to avoid cheating and for verification. Based on the fact there are VSCode extensions that already track time, others that monitor input, others that upload to remote servers, this is definitely something that could be accomplished.
Writing for money and reservation of copyright are, at bottom, the ruin of literature. No one writes anything that is worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. What an inestimable boon it would be, if in every branch of literature there were only a few books, but those excellent! This can never happen, as long as money is to be made by writing. It seems as though the money lay under a curse; for every author degenerates as soon as he begins to put pen to paper in any way for the sake of gain. The best works of the greatest men all come from the time when they had to write for nothing or for very little.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer, "On Authorship"

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_Authorship

Writing for online credit, audience, influence, and/or "imaginary internet points" may not be money, but they are all extrinsic motivators in the sense Schopenhauer references.
Byzantines were in fact well known for their diplomacy.
No chance. 5 lbs is a clunker. 5 kg better come with suitcase roller wheels.
> You have to throw money at the banks right now or the world will go under! No time for thinking.

Yes, that's exactly what you do. You fix the imminent problem now, and then introduce legislative measures later. See Dodd-Frank.
That museum is amazing!

Also amazingly, today (!!) is the thirtieth anniversary of the unsolved theft of several masterpieces from its collection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museu...

It seems less likely every year, but I'm still hoping that those works will come home to the museum someday.
Management can’t stand I have a car park at the elevator like them yet wear T-shirts and hoodies and saunter in at 11am. Those benefits are probably not long for this world, but I do enjoy them while I have them.
> At the scale of shit the world is dealing with right now, it just doesn't matter.

There are different ways to cope with adversity. The "Keep calm and carry on" method is a contrasting formula, which applied to Chrome, would see maybe one release versus three or four, even in the midst of an adversity.

As much ubiquitous suffering as there is currently, the comfort of at least a (slower than usual) browser release can be a ray of hope in an otherwise bleak horizon. Heck, if my browser won't even update, forget fixing a massively multivariate system/problem like public health, or the economy.

Your/Google's self awareness of privilege is much appreciated. But if you really want to make a difference, a slower release cadence is much more uplifting than resigning to the virus.
> Wow, this is great. It's awesome to make that much money, but it'd be pretty hard to convince yourself to work hard enough for that stock and bonus when your marginal tax rate is over 40%.

I mean, it's still a lot of money and at a FAANG you'd be working less hard than someone at a startup while making twice as much money. (This is why it's hard for startups to hire people.)
I take drugs to do interviews. Modafinil. It gets me a little bit jittery and all over the place. But programmers tend to like that nervous energy

There is just no way for me to stay on point for all of four or five hours of successive grilling. It's a lot more exhausting than thinking about anything on my own
This is definitely the highest-tech low-tech fix I’ve heard of!
Hmm. I'm an introvert, and I find I'm less likely to participate in online discussions, mostly for the reason cycloptic mentioned above: online discussions will be read by more people and require extra care (which can be emotionally exhausting, especially on a contentious topic). I generally prefer to interact with fewer people, so one-on-one communication or small groups are ideal. You may be conflating introversion with shyness?
I've learned C# before getting into Unity. Afterwise I kept learning and learned ASP.NET besides Unity stuff. There are lots of things you can't use in Unity or their usage is against Unity workflow: constructors, tasks, threads, dependency injection, unit tests.
>>Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said the company would make ventilators if there is a shortage

well, there is. Either get off Twitter or shoot a tweet to your underlings to get going. Pretty much countries will buy any ventilator that someone makes, money is no object.
Turns out the Yang plan is a better idea, and might even be cheaper.
What's do you call a loan than never has to be repaid?
Thanks!

This really helpful for me.
If so, then over the next 100 years it has killed many more than 40M.
I don't think all axioms are "merely asserted rather than defended". For example, one axiom is the existence of existence, which cannot be denied, because any question, doubt, skepticism, reason, point, or imagined counterargument is something that exists and is within existence.

Another is consciousness. To grasp that existence exists, or make any attempt to reason either way about the proof or truth of anything, is itself an expression of consciousness.

Existence exists, and so does consciousness capable of conceiving that. Start there and work down.
Assuming a very tiny 32x32 8-bit image patch, we have 256^(2^10) possible unique image patches, each needing 1024 bytes. That is more storage than available in the whole world.
Doesn't sound like a place anyone would want to work at anyway.

That's the great thing about an on-site interview, the evaluation goes both way.
It's not just you. I found a study showing that bidet use is correlated with higher rates of infection in women (in you-know-where): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30884065/?i=5&from=/21058441.... Just because bidets feel clean doesn't mean they're not blasting shit liquid all over your bits. How could they possibly not?
An astute one at that
“Under qualified for your years” is ageist bullshit. You’re either a capable L3,4,5,etc. Any coupling of those achievement brackets to age ranges (which cannot be completely detached from experience level) is discrimination.
Surprise, the clickbait headline misrepresents what the original article they were summarising said. They didn't hit it with a shovel, they used the shovel to add pressure:

> In late February, the team moved on to what Spohn calls “plan C.” They positioned the scoop above the mole’s tail and pushed it straight down into the dirt.
I'm looking into setting up an ISA fund in South Africa so I was researching the ISA market globally to help me build the business case.
Advancements in electric transportation, solar power and battery technology for a cleaner and more sustainable energy grid. Efficient access to space leading to more commercial development including cheap worldwide broadband. 2 major corporations creating thousands of jobs and billions in market value.
>>Did no one bother to actually read the article? It says that there can potentially be a shortage but that there isn't currently.

By the time we see a shortage is late, way too late. Lungs need oxygen and cannot wait for purchase orders and negotiations. You'll need MILLIONS of them, and doctors that know how to use them, like yesterday.
There is a public outcry, but since it's not safe right now for people to assemble in noisy crowds it is necessarily only happening over the internet.
What kind of info? Would love to know more.
yes filtering water along the way. I doubt you can carry six days of water in an environment that's so dry you need to carry everything
I thought it was the banks building derivatives on top of derivatives on top of derivatives and then paying off the ratings agencies.
If the cap is an extra 50%, why did this guy only get 20% extra? In fact, he had 8 chances to get the actual max, and failed every time.

That's not the point. The point is performance reviews are poorly correlated with actual job performance, they aren't designed to measure job performance.

Would you hire someone knowing nothing other than they got 120% bonus at their previous job?
Consciousness can very easily be an illusion. Existence too. Ever tried doing science while dreaming?
> Whiteboard is great for sketching out ideas and solving problems collaboratively, which is a good indicator of team fit.

Agreed.

But asking an algorithmic problem is usually not what you're going to solve on the whiteboard for the vast majority of jobs.

In most jobs, it's usually some variant of:

- We have some new feature, what's a good way to design it
- We're trying to add this feature to this existing thing, what's the lowest impact way of modifying the existing code.
- We've got an existing feature that has some problem (bug, complexity, performance), Is there a way to solve that, and perhaps the same entire class of problems across the application by implementing a known design pattern.

There's not a huge amount of novel thinking other than how to specifically glue existing libraries, design patterns and so forth, together with business specific logic.

Most whiteboard coding questions tend to be of the "Design an algorithm to solve an anagram" or "Implement a sort function" which don't relate to the job at all, and tell you nothing about the candidate's ability to do any of the things they're going to do day to day.
I think the problem here is that they're vague about what the story is. I read the paragraph more times than it deserves, and all that's clear is that they won't print a magazine this year after their Spring issue, plus maybe they will or won't do various things in the future. Given the vagueness, it's not surprising that you and kranner interpreted it differently.

I've changed the title to say "stop producing a print version" since they're at least going to stop for now, whether or not they start again.
What's the next step after those?
This has already been explained to you, over and over again. The alternative is not to close down the business. It's to make it so the business owner doesn't have to pay anything during the crisis, except supplies for himself, so that the business doesn't close permanently. The loan is a really, really stupid idea, because it burdens the business more during the recovery, which guaranteed will be less profitable than before this, so it just delays the bankruptcies. You might as well have them not pay it back at all, but then why single out just business owners for free money? Why not everyone else too? And worse, everyone else runs out of money too because debts weren't paused, because enough people are stupid enough to think that loans are the way out of this instead of realizing that the economy doesn't work when nobody's buying anything but food and toilet paper, and pause it to prevent it from destroying itself. If this doesn't get done by the end of the month we're looking at another Great Depression.