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Choice quotes:

> “I will personally be at work, but that’s just me,”

-Elon

> Thousands of workers streamed into the factory Tuesday, many arriving by bus.

-LA Times

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I've already canceled my Tesla order (RN112815329) for how grossly Elon has personally mismanaged this by passive-aggressively driving people into offices and factories by simply saying he himself would still show up.
Gary Neville has closed his hotels and he will hand them over to the NHS
Hospitals rely on 100% outside. Meaning they don't recycle existing air already circulated. Pretty sure hotels don't have that kind of HVAC.
>I have a policy of "bread and circus." That means keep people fed and keep them entertained and harmlessly occupied.

Maybe instead of my normal reading and television tonight I'll throw myself into a favorite NES title from my childhood, something I don't have to think about and can just enjoy like Supe Mario 1/3 or Tetris/Dr. Mario. Thanks!
Why not? It's just giving some context to people who may think .2% is a "low" mortality rate.

Thanks for the age specific number. That shows my point even more.
Paywalled but judging by the headline, it's honestly an interesting and great idea. Pay the hotels so they can survive, create a conversion plan with certain standards (Changing all filters to MERV-13 or something), and start auditing the process.
Why don't browsers add playback controls for .gif animations as well? It's kind of hard to rewind a .gif because of its layering structure, but rewinding video is similarly hard due to B/P-frames
Sounds like they could bail them out along the way by reimbursing them later
So what you're saying is because you've never actually tried simply pushing a button, you know that people who do try just pushing a button are going to do so incorrectly with your complete lack of personal experience?
Hah! I'm not sure what the situation is like for the current 15" MPB. The specs are quite different compared to the 13" one. It may not be as severe as my experience. I think I'd try to hold on to that 2015 model just in case.

Good luck!
Our leadership announced the possibility of paycuts in the near future. The company I work for had some pretty aggressive hiring targets for Q1 and I'm one of those hired, so naturally I expect that, should things get worse, they will follow a FILO staff-reduction strategy.
I hear NYU and Columbia's dorms are empty.
I wouldn’t want to pay for a prison stay either... the system has all the wrong incentives.
You could look at becoming a project manager. Study up for the PMP and certify. I have no idea how insecure software project managers will be a weakened economy though.

Likely more secure positions will be network engineers or security engineers. Which way to go depends on your current income level. If you are deep into your career and earning a high income you are better off with the security path. Security engineers cap much lower than top network engineers, but pay well starting out. For security study up and take the CISSP test.

Network engineering will kind of feel liking starting over in your career. You will want to start with an entry level certification like the CCENT and work towards the beginner CCNA certification. Years later once you can pass the CCNP certification you might well be making more in networking than in software. Then if you stick around long enough to become an expert you can attain a CCIE which provides excellent job security at high pay, especially if you have extensive software scripting experience.
Imagine how the poor Fortan and Cobol devs feel.
I don't know what Google use, but a friend worked on a system some years ago that used a robotic "finger" to press on a phone touchscreen, for testing. This was for a mobile phone company (pre-Android/iPhone) to check their OS worked.

I wouldn't be surprised if even the best of those systems requires some human supervision.
They did that when they actually started fixing it[0].

[0] https://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-macbook-keyboard-service-...
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At Google (in google3) there are automatic linters that run on every change and if they fail then your change simply will not be approved for style. There's no debate about it. This is one of the great things about gofmt: either your Go program passed through it, or it did not and won;'t be accepted. Arguments about the formatting need to be in the form of a changelist against gofmt itself.
Seems the downward pressure from Elon has been successful.

> Thousands of workers streamed into the factory Tuesday, many arriving by bus.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-03-18/coronaviru...
I think the accurate readings would come when you're at rest sleeping, not hiking in freezing cold. The motion sense capability of these wearables would take that into affect. Garmin has a O2 sensor that comes on only when you sleep, it would make sense this would maybe do the same.

It looks like this tech does exist in rudimentary form, for females, and it's specifically tied for fertility tracking.
Thank you so much! I'll pass this along to some of the members of the programming team at my company who just became available, and I'll also be submitting an application myself.

It's fantastic to see some of the responses here indicating that companies are still hiring. Even though though the retail and entertainment industry have been hit hard, it seems some portions of the job market are still going strong.
All preparing us for the asteroid hit next month... Hotels are now hospitals, Walmart parking lots are make-shift triage centers, military and national guard in every corner, people at home, kids out of school, no flights, empty air fields, workplaces are fully distributed with no central offices... I would do exactly that if I knew an asteroid was coming. People can relate to a "flu", not a direct hit...

https://www.newsweek.com/image-biggest-asteroid-earth-year-p...

"Passing by"... hmm I wonder
Median is 5 days¹, and they've maintained <1.5% growth for more than a week.

¹ https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2762808/incubation-period...
Except when they move the launch bar from here to there or hide scrollbars or make any of a million other changes that cause your screen to no longer resemble the screenshot you're trying to learn from.
While we are asking for slack features, can we PLEASE have an option to notify once, and only once on mobile for group messages?

I have several co-workers who will chat me while i'm driving, or otherwise unable to respond, and having my phone binging every few seconds is incredibly annoying.
Pretty sure we're not going to find perfect solutions, only usable ones.

Perhaps filters can be jury-rigged on the vents. Maybe you only staff them with people who've already survived. Maybe you turn off the HVAC and open up the windows. Maybe it's the last resort option.
I suffer from several of the conditions listed in the target group, and have done impulse purchases online when the lows get low.

Definitely a bad coping mechanism - not helpful for feeling better (tend to feel worse when the product arrives), and definitely a waste of money.
Every team I've been on at Google has presubmits that enforce this, along with command line tools to "fix" it. There's no arguments about spacing. Nobody really cares about extra lines, but if you use tabs instead of spaces you're just wrong and your CL can't be submitted.

It's actually nice. I disagree with some of the rules and would like them to change. I think that if your if-block has a single statement and there's no else, and it all fits in a line then it's fine to inline it.

if (theAnswerIsKnown) return theAnswer;

But I'm wrong. Because the linter doesn't allow it. So I moved on and I don't bother fighting that fight.

Edit: To be clear, I might be right, and this might be better, but I'm "wrong" in the sense that it's not linter compliant.
I like the spirit of the idea (keeping them away from others), but other than that, it's not a wise idea:

>Keeping all the passengers on board instead of letting them disembark on land is a strategy that can backfire, however, according to experts, because the ventilation systems and close quarters of cruise ships make them ideal places for illness to jump from one person to the next.

>“They’re not designed as quarantine facilities, to put it mildly,” said Don Milton, an epidemiologist with the University of Maryland.

>Milton, who studies the spread of virus particles in the air, said recirculating air on a cruise ship’s ventilation system, along with people living in close quarters and in communal settings, make the vessels vulnerable to the spread of infection.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2020/03/07/cor...
Not to be picky, but those stats may be different for people that get intoxicated on a regular basis. Much like OP suggests.
The dominos are already falling. It just takes a while for your domino to fall (your business's customers are hurt, then your business is hurt, then you're laid off).
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Mindless, familiar games that remind you of a positive time in your life are almost always a good choice when stress is high.
Possible! If you make a 3D hologram of a 2D plane, it will still be 2D, but at a particular depth location.

This makes my head hurt to think about, though.
Developing on windows has gotten much better recently. VSCode is my favorite IDE, and with wsl its easy to hop onto bash when I want to. Now that its easy to mount onto wsl there isn't much more I'd ask for.
That sounds like a good idea.

I hope one thing comes out of this pandemic: that our governments, local and federal, stockpile portable tent hospitals and equipment that can be put in place quickly for future problems. I doubt this will happen in the USA, but that is what I hope happens. I think health infrastructure is part of national security and should receive appropriate resources.
Remote friendly?
Haha, why? If you have enough channels to need that feature, you should probably already be paying (in terms of how much value you are getting out of the platform). This seems like a subtle nudge to push some over that threshold.
How turn this thing on and off without the power button?
"59 Watts, That’s well above the power supplied by any AC mains to 5V DC external power supply I could find"

MeanWell has their RS-75-5, which is 60 Watts. Usually around $20.
I wonder if NYC hotels can do this but a lot newer HVAC system allow changing the percentage of outside air. Its advantageous for varies reasons (energy consumption, etc) to use partial recycle air but I wouldn't be surprised if certain builds have 100% outside air capabilities.
2008 was a whole lot worse? The market is already down 35% from its peak barely a month ago and we're clearly at the beginning of the crisis. It took the market more than a year to drop ~50% from its peak in late 2007. The bond markets are also kind of in a weird place right now. IMO 2008 doesn't look a whole lot worse right now, and might end up looking a whole lot better by the time we hit the next peek after the current crisis is over.
Interesting daydream, but why would any of that matter with an asteroid hitting the earth? It doesn't make sense.
Couldn't it have been built out of bones from a long period of subsistence hunting and killing?
That's... not really guaranteed, but you'd have to keep up the same level of vigilance indefinitely.
Why do all American laws have such stupid names?
Awesome! However I am still awaiting the animated and 'floating' in mid-air holograms ... as a HUD in my flying car!
I didn't realize that. Man, we're so fucked. Batten the hatches.
I think his dismay was that they chose VB.Net over C# for their rewrite.
Microsoft to Accelerate AI on Windows 10 with WinML API
Crypto seems like the replacement for casinos gambling away your life savings at a desperate time.

I don't have a beef with you but the whole crypto crapto markets really need to calm down and stop stealing money from naive people especially at this sensitive time. Lack of regulation helps launder money even easier.
> They offer some additional security for the non-tech user (maybe? It's questionable)

It’s not questionable at all, the App Store has been a cornerstone of the iOS security model for years. You can look at how many millions of Android users are constantly infected because it turns out that most people have zero concept of when to trust a third party or not.

Either way Apple does let you run your own apps if you jump through some hoops with MDM and Xcode and whatnot. So it’s not completely locked down either.

It’s locked down enough that I feel comfortable that the average user would be secure and taken care of when using iOS.
When people say bidet, they don't mean hand sprayer. They mean a Toto which is setup to spray a jet with a diameter of like a couple millemeters at a fairly low pressure at just the anus. If it misses the anus you now have a slight bit of water on your butt cheek.

It's gentle enough that there's not much of a splash. If you're sitting correctly the black water won't run 'down' your body it will fall straight down into the bowl.

There really isn't a learning curve.
Same <1/day 'issue' here. Perfectly regular, just nicely consolidated~ ;)

The answer is yes, and since I always buy in bulk, I literally go years without purchasing more. I was running lowish, but even the few I have remaining should let me weather this storm.
Some of the wording in this article is confusing.

"The Tokyo High Court on Tuesday ordered ¥1 million in additional damages be paid each to some 300 evacuees from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, down by two-thirds from the amount awarded by a lower court ruling."

"Additional damages" vs "down by two-thirds"

If it's down by two-thirds, it's not additional, its a reduction.
I'm the founder of Key Values, which helps software engineers find teams that share their values. Not only do I live in the Bay Area and have many founder friends, but it is also my full-time job to connect tech startups that are hiring w/ devs looking for new roles, so I think I have a good view on this.

I'm still gathering information on how coronavirus is impacting the job market, but what I know now is that many companies have laid team members off in the last week, and I suspect many more will soon. Most early-stage startups that did not recently fundraise and do not yet have significant revenue will struggle during this pandemic. If they were planning to fundraise this summer, fall, or winter, their investors and advisors have already told them start cutting costs in order to survive. Hence, a rise in layoffs.

More stable startups may have slowed their hiring efforts (i.e. "we planned to hire 40 engineers by 2021, but after adjusting our budget, we're now looking to hire ~20"), but they've also explicitly told me that filling certain roles are more urgent than ever.

While this all sounds bleak, some companies will endure, and a smaller number will actually thrive during these times.

Several folks who have recently been laid off have reached out to me. I know that getting laid off can give you the impression that every company is laying people off, but it isn't true. Companies who need to hire in order to keep up w/ unprecedented demand are ramping up and are excited to capture talented folks who were recently let go. So stay positive, put yourself out there, and keep looking!

I'm currently reaching out to all of the companies I work w/ in order to stay on top of their hiring plans, and I hope to message what I learn in my upcoming newsletters. It is the easiest way for me to keep folks up to date on what I'm seeing, and I absolutely will not take offense if people unsubscribe. Key Values: https://www.keyvalues.com
Madrid, Spain just announced 40 hospitals will be turned to hospital rooms. 9,000 beds.
Yeah but renting just one of those dorm rooms would use up more than half of the stimulus budget
My understanding (I’m a former H1B myself) is that if you lose your current job and sponsor you have some time (don’t remember exactly how many months) to find a new sponsor otherwise you need to leave. Didn’t happen with me, but I had a couple of coworkers that came to work for the same company and were let go and had to leave the country because they didn’t find another sponsor.
I think the parent meant using them as mobile quarantine/treatment centers for confirmed cases.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22462241.
I just googled that H1N1 had a fatality rate of 0.02% . Current estimates are that covid is 50x more deadly.
Hi, cool service!

I have some questions about the pricing.

Say I want to use micro-1x with hard_limit/soft_limit = 20 and I get 40 concurrent request for one hour, would it cost $2.67 (micro-1 price) * 2? ($5.34) (monthly cost)
If that is the case, can I set a limit on how many instances I want to run at most?

Another question: is the price calculated per second or is it there just to compare it with other services? If it's per second, since you don't fully scale to zero, should I consider having always at least one vm active full time?
I've been using a glyphless keyboard for about 2 weeks now (accidentally) and I have definitely gone up in accuracy. Now I can hit $&% in the second try
I’ve been let go on Thursday, of a DevOps job that had started on Wednesday. I’m a contractor so I can’t really complain, that’s how the game is played. The job was in the car rental industry, they are suffering heavily so of course the contractors are the first to go. It was my first job after coming back to my home country, and that move have let me pretty dry money wise. Eh… At least they’ll employ me ’till the end of the month, that leaves me with a little something !
They’ve never solved the sanitation problem. But perhaps small changes could be made to future ship designs, to allow them to be re-purposed
I remember observing when the iPad first came out one of its big selling points was is was a few hundred dollars cheaper than everyone expected and it kneecapped the competition who all had offerings in the pipeline that were sorta similar, not Apple and cost more.

How times change.
It absolutely would be a betrayal of the people you'd be giving up on to not do everything we can to help them while we still can. You can advocate for or against taking strong action but you can't tell people you're allowing to die to not be upset about it.
Sure they can. They are called minefields.
> hospitals will be turned to hospital rooms

There is a logical mistake in this sentence.
I would be quite surprised if this doesn't turn into a depression. The Fed has essentially already exhausted their options, and we're only a week in to this. Fiscal policy is the only real policy remedy, and capitalists hate that.
Click bate: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/asteroid-warning-april-202...
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Coronavirus Is Putting Businesses to the Test. Three Strategies for Survival
Chernobyl is not the gold standard for comparison, it was a completely different design (far more dangerous, honestly) from the BWR/PWRs that were built everywhere else.
public school gymnasiums?
I wonder why the air aboard cruise ships has to recirculate so much—it seems like cruise ships are usually about 1/2 surrounded by breathable air at normal atmospheric pressure. Is it about heating and cooling, like, passengers would feel very uncomfortable if the air in their cabins had a lot of fresh sea air mixed into it? Do they do something to filter out the salt from the air intake?
It will depend entirely upon your employer and their relative proximity to a critical portion of financial infrastructure. An entire large financial firm can go completely belly up if you remember Lehman Brothers from just a decade ago. If you work in banking where the bank in question provides significant financial infrastructure you will probably be just fine if you remember AIG from the same period.
Ah, I wasn't sure what point you were trying to make, but I thought the all-age figure understates how much more deadly COVID-19 is compared to influenza.
that only disables the UI, it's still slow.
Virus spread shouldn’t be a huge issue if you only put confirmed cases on the ship.
Glad to hear :)

You're exactly right about the Heroku deploy. We convert your app's slug to a Docker image and launch the web process in it. DB & other dynos still run on Heroku.

We don't have any hard connection limits on the redis cache. It's usually not an issue anyway since apps are often distributed across many regions and many redis servers.
Totally agree but not to be pedant, but state governments should have some sort of emergency provisions as well. Some people forget we're the United States for a reason. Each state is actually it's own "functional" government. Maybe we should start training state troopers as well for some of these possibilities.
I think earning rewards, in general, is kind of an awkward thing in an app like this.
If you start programming by installing Visual Studio, you are presented with an overwhelming number of choices about what to install! Would a beginner know what choices to make?
Elon Musk has some nice technology ideas but man is he a huge douche-bag. He's even telling his employees that the risks are overblown.
The point about the recirculating air means that whoever is caring for the sick is also going to get sick.
That still doesn't mean the power is going out or the water is going to stop running. Another depression is in no way a good thing, but it's not the apocalypse. Zombies are not going to take over the water treatment plants. No one is going to nuke the power stations.

Yes, life will get hard. Yes, this really sucks if you were planning on retiring soon. But life will go on. Calm the fuck down.
Fossil fuels produce an estimated > 4 million deaths per year [1]. This isn't even considering the hundreds of millions or more that are at risk of displacement due to climate change, and the conflict that will likely be associated with this displacement.

Also, can you substantiate your claim of several thousand extra deaths per year? I'm reading an estimated 5,000 additional cases of cancer (not all of them fatal) in all of Europe over the span of 20 years [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Cancer_asse...
Yes, agreed!

Although I tell people that what we are doing currently with the Hologram Kits is helping to create the next generation of hologram engineers. So they can build what we dreamed of!

And a 3D Hologram Printer will get us one step closer.
I'm lucky to have development access to a small slice of a very large vmware cluster.

I'm surprised no one else operates this way.

The performance gains are immense.
The coronavirus containment stories in South Korea and Singapore are being brought up a lot, but both are essentially completely irrelevant to the situation in North America or Europe. South Korea has 9 international airports and a single literally impassable land border; Singapore has one airport and one tightly controlled border crossing bridge. Containment under these circumstances is a somewhat tractable problem. It's comparable to, say, Hawaii, which currently has 13 cases despite the widely incompetent American government response.

Europe has hundreds of international airports and uncountable open border crossings. Containment was never really a possibility in Europe. Containment in mainland North America was even less likely. Even if governments wanted to close borders between states/provinces, there's no mechanism to do so.
They created the most optimal situation to respond in the aftermath.
> This is why I don't understand how there's even a market for the iPad Pro (outside the Apple superfans).

Quite simply, a lot of the software I want/need is only on iOS. And while, yes, it's more expensive, the cost difference is a drop in the bucket.

If I was still a starving college student, I'd care. But as a professional, I care more about time than saving literally penny I can.