skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, wait. Hold on. There was a time where people weren’t perfect?

And by perfect, I of course mean perfect judged by hindsight.

That’s just ... I mean .. people should be perfect! And prescient!

Good point.
https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19 ?
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If Yelp really did it, a page on Yelp's website wouldn't be a credible source.
Don't take investment advice from overconfident folks on HN.

Try www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets if you really need it
Open Data on the Coronavirus?
OpenTable posted some data (https://www.opentable.com/state-of-industry) on how COVID-19 is affecting business. Does anyone have any other datasets like this that show what is and isn't being affected?

Thanks
How does Windows Terminal compare to say Cmder

https://cmder.net/

I tried terminal 0.9 and it crashed almost immediately (probably related to Japanese or something) so I don't yet have confidence in Windows Terminal
I've seen the occasional rumbling about folks wanting to use grub for one reason or another- while not necessarily ideal (having the caveats of a non-loader environment), I can see the value in it if you really don't need the amenities loader offers (debugging support, kmods).
You use your bare hand?
To describe the idea of monetary policy as socialism, is not consistent with any definition of socialism that I’ve ever heard.
Some expiration dates are important. Many, perhaps most, are arbitrary, fake, or ultra-conservative – optimized to minimize liability & maximize repurchases in non-emergency situations.

An expired mask will almost certainly be better than no mask. And especially so stored well with no visible degradation – it's heat & contamination by elements that could jeopardize their essential properties.

(Some N95 masks I bought during last year's northern California fires are individually sealed in cellophane with no expiration date. Stored in a cool, dry place they'd likely be fine decades from now. If some governments bought flakier masks in more-fragile packaging with early expiration dates, that's on them.)
Banks collapsing in this crisis exacerbates confidence issues. The market operates on perceived confidence. There are already morons, sorry, my misanthropy is just peaking lately, the general public are already withdrawing cash from banks, stocking up on toilet paper. A real intellectual bunch we’re talking about here.

Whether things are solvent or not, right now everything has to look like it’s totally under control. Perception is very critical here.
Well, maybe we're (almost) all pragmatists.

I have pretty libertarian impulses. I'm pretty pleased to see a lot of pointless (or point-light) regulations get kicked to the curb, although I certainly wish the circumstances weren't necessary.

I also hate immigration restrictions of all sorts. But... okay, right now, travel restrictions make some sense. I'll take it (and then fight to undo them in 12 months).

It turns out, some of the things I really really care about, my preferences would do harm in a pandemic. Maybe that's true outside of a pandemic, too -- but it's a lot easier to recognize when the magnitude of the effect is large!

I think at the end of the day, that's part of what's driving all this pragmatism: the effect size of "getting policy right" is suddenly much larger than it usually is. Life is no longer close to being a zero-sum game, and everybody can see it. That's what "we're all in this together" means, and people are acting like they believe it.
duh, BTC. John McAfee told me so.
No I'm super healthy, 32 yr old, competitive runner.

I have a suspicion that I may have had it even longer than a week in advance and it spread more in the lungs than normal.

today is a 2.5

it kind of sucks, do your best to avoid it.
This is just my feeling from watching the markets for a while, is not financial advice, isn't necessarily the best, etc., etc.. I still think we have further to fall, but when we do, I'm looking to put money to work. It's hard to time a bottom, so maybe buy in a few lots over a while as each drop happens.

Of course you should probably buy at least some index fund at some point. I also think the tech chip stocks are being pounded: Intel is in the DJIA, and has been brought down a lot I think rather unfairly because of the index. Taiwan Semiconductor is top of class and TSMC has also been pretty pounded. Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Western Digital. All down, and all have really pretty reasonable dividends. Their moat is the IP as well as the manufacturing facilities. Tech isn't going to just stop, if anything it will end up in everything even more than now.

Be careful on the airlines. They'll get a bailout almost certainly, and maybe will merge down. Warren Buffet, who recently bought a lot of airlines was known for saying:

"Now if I get the urge to invest in airlines, I call an 800 number, and I say: 'Hello, my name is Warren, and I'm an air-o-holic,'" he has said in the past.

He got burned in US Air in 1989. He relapsed in 2016.
I still can't believe that most large companies were not offering everything they could several weeks ago.

All Army/Navy/Air Force medical personnel should already be deployed to the field with makeshift drive-in testing spots. The Army is good at creating controlled zones. They can direct traffic while someone takes a swab.

All other military personnel should be working with hospitals to do 'anything non-medically related'. Taking names, providing transportation, direction people, providing backup generators.

All labs capable of doing testing should be preparing/getting processes ready.

3D printers printing whatever they can for equipment support.

Anyone laid off should be hired immediately by the government to provide free grocery and medicine delivery to those quarantined. This would serve as an economic stimulus.

All trained medical staff in the country should be triaging based on the 'new normal': family doctors are no longer family doctors, they only treat regular patients if needed, otherwise, it's 4 days a week dealing with Corona.

A tidal wave is about to hit the nation, it's 'all hands on deck'.
Playboy Magazine Shuts Down Print Edition
A bank failure often means that a better bank steps in to buy the failed bank's assets or divisions.

Take a look at what happened to Lehman Brothers in 2008.
Looks good. I question the survivorship bias from the "0% fatality". They could have had no bad cases or just got lucky. Wouldn't a measurement of how many people it spread to at the hospital be better? The guide seems pretty legitimate though.
The question is typically between hoarders and people who need it, at least in the context of a popular figure tweeting about it.

It's available in many countries over the counter, so you can't be sure it will only be purchased with a predefined need.
I think it really is what it seems. I got a similar offer from Uber a few months before their IPO - level 5a position, base salary $200k, $710k shares of RSU's vesting over 4 years, and performance based bonus with a target of $25k (it's not guaranteed the bonus target will be the same every year, but this is an annual bonus not signing bonus). So total comp just over $400k.

I'm sure some people are inflating values on levels.fyi and some people are probably mixing up the 4-year vesting amounts of stock with per-year comp.

But this example seems legit. Salaries like this are very real (and very crazy)
Apple's new iPad Pro's Lidar scanner patented nine years ago
The need to rapidly scale up testing for a dangerous new pathogen clearly is not unprecedented, considering it happened during the previous administration. It seems pretty analogous to me, apart from the stakes turning out to be much higher this time around :-/
I wonder if the U.S is going to use these drugs or if most docs will be too conventional to use these drugs off label.

"Antiviral Treatment...
lopinavir/ritonavir (2 capsules, po q12h} combined with arbidol (200 mg po ql 2h)...chloroquine phosphate can be used on adults...
Interferon nebulization
Darunavir/cobicistat hdarunavir/ cobicistat (1 tablet qd) or favipiravir (starting dose of 1600 mg followed by 600 mg tid) is an
alternative option after the ethical review. Simultaneous use of three or more antiviral
drugs is not recommended. "
I'm not necessarily a fan of how things currently work, but I believe the FDIC is supposed to insure up to $250k on each bank account. That would seem to mean it wouldn't hurt most people, only people (and institutions?) that put much more than that into individual bank accounts. I suspect most of those would have also put lots into other types of investments, so I don't think anyone would be completely wiped out. That doesn't sound apocalyptic to me.
so the prices of goods/ services will have to adjust accordingly. No issues there.
Why would it disappear. It would be auctioned off to the lowest bidder- maybe the debtor itself.
The solution depends on the problem. The standardizing body is HL7.org, but there are multiple standards depending on what you're trying to do. Currently, the market is focused on FHIR API, which is a RESTful API.

I'm on mobile, but that should give you enough to search for.
> What was the Thresher, SeaLab 1963?

Those were what the Navy calls subsafe incidents, not nuclear incidents. There was no problem with the reactor. The problem was what one of my Navy instructors called "water in the people tank"--a flaw in the welds that seal the interior of the ship or structure against water pressure from the outside. The Navy took major steps to improve the QA on those welds as a result of these incidents; when I was in the Navy we did three different types of nondestructive tests and a single flaw, no matter how minor, meant you had to redo the entire weld.
Here's an story that is semi-related to this. I visited the Playboy Mansion about five years ago for an event, and it was easily the strangest, most surreal residence I've ever seen. Nothing about it at all symbolized class or any kind of sexiness; it was simply run-down, unkempt, and almost comically dated in basically every way. Not to mention the weirdness of having things like a personal zoo on the grounds.

Over the course of the event, two incredibly odd things happened that I'll never forget: first, every twenty minutes, a new literal busload of scantily-clad women showed up until the ratio was easily 10:1 to their favor; and two, about halfway through the night, Hef walked out on his balcony, waved to us, and then went back inside without saying a word.

It was fun for a bucket list-type thing, but man, it really popped the balloon of whatever fantastical idea I had about the Playboy Mansion and what it symbolized. Instead it was just old and tired, which is probably a metaphor for the brand and it's patriarch.
The thing is, I can do all of those things very well when I’m not standing in front of a whiteboard.

When someone asks me to do then on a whiteboard in an interview setting they might as well dismiss me immediately.
What's perhaps more interesting to me is that a company that historically is a publisher, with aspirations of becoming a primarily digital publisher, needs "Medium" as a platform to get their message out.

It's not necessarily dumb (I wonder how many of their properties are blocked by corporate content filters), but fascinating that they don't have a "corporate channel" with which to communicate this.
Weren't they the first to limit then ban travel from Wuhan / China. To say they have done nothing sounds political. Good and poor decisions were made.
US House rams through Nicaragua regime-change bill with zero opposition
Try this link:
https://www.alibabacloud.com/universal-service/pdf_reader?sp...
The appetite for bank bailouts wasn't there in 2008 either, people took issue with how banks paid massive bonuses during that time. Still it happened. We're doomed to repeat the mistake again
USPS lost $8.8 billion in fiscal year 2019.
Real-time data visualization of Covid-19 World Map
This title is so misleading!

The magazine isn't closing down. They're just not doing print editions anymore, like many other magazines and newspapers.
Algorithm Produces Every Potential Melody So No One Can Ever Sue for Copyright
While not exactly what you're after re: DYI, the WHO has published guidance on home care for patients presenting while mild symptoms in addition to their clinical care guidelines:

- Home care for patients with COVID-19 presenting with mild symptoms and management of their contacts [1]

- Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection when novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection is suspected [2]

- All WHO technical guidance [3]

[1] https://www.who.int/publications-detail/home-care-for-patien...

[2] https://www.who.int/publications-detail/clinical-management-...

[3] https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
IMO, if you are fully remote, you might look at it the other way around. The ridiculous salaries are mostly in California and one or two other places.

Those places might realize that they can get react devs for a dime a dozen out of bootcamps all over the country for a third of that in a few months once they have let people do fully remote work for a while.

The smart thing would seem to be to hire them now before the companies with bigger pockets start driving remote salaries up in the other 45 states.
News from the Future: Future Shock Is Here
cooooool!
Right, because no one has stepped up to write a check. Hospitals are businesses, they're not going to do this on their own. GM is a business, they're not donating those ventilators, they're trying to make a sale into a new market. States, most of them, can't do it because their budgets are fixed by their constitutions and they can't take a loan or write a bond without a referendum.

There's basically one entity in this country with the ability to actually make this happen, and the people trying to point out that it isn't doing anything useful are fighting downvotes here just to be dark enough to read.
INTERSURGICAL S.P.A.

https://patents.google.com/patent/EP1852137B1/en
Yeah, I just started started working at Twitch about a month ago, and while I was interviewing with them I found more accurate results when I searched for Amazon salaries instead. I think part of the problem is there aren't many data points for Twitch on levels.fyi compared to other companies.
This article, as written, is untrue. From a very quick search, "Triple-A CLO paper eligible for the Fed's PDCF" [0] would be a better term. What is "Triple A CLO paper" you might ask? Well, it's any loan(s) made to a company with triple A credit. And there are only 2 US Companies with triple A credit, again according to my very quick search: Microsoft, and Johnson & Johnson [1]. So, it's not as if these banks have a bunch of bad junk debt they can just toss of into the fed, and they're certainly not funding hedge funds.

[0] - https://www.globalcapital.com/article/b1kt9stqwx0q2q/triplea...

[1] - https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2011/what-do-aa-...

Edit:

Official source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
Public goods don’t have to break even or generate a profit. They still deliver my mail like clockwork, and we’ll cover any pension obligations with taxes if there’s a shortfall because of Congressional action (which is why USPS loses money, due to Congress having unreasonable pension funding requirements specifically for USPS).

If you require a bailout, you had your chance as a for profit concern. Entirely reasonable to run services at a loss as a government entity. Some services are simply expenses.
The only thing that makes a journalist a journalist is having sources. Any reasonable solicitation for those sources is professional and appropriate.
Anyone know if this made into a Retro gaming emulation handheld, will it perform better than a Pi4 or popular Chinese handhelds on the market?
FYI almost all of these games are usually free.
A lockdown in January was not the only option.

The fact of the matter is that the USA was in the extremely luxurious position of seeing this crisis coming from a mile away. First China, then South Korea, then Italy acting as the canary in the European coal mine, then several other European nations... every expert was raising the alarm and screaming at the top of their lungs that the USA was going to be next.

Did the administration start preparing then? Nope. Instead, the guy in charge called it a "hoax" and did everything he could to first ignore it completely, then downplay it as much as possible, then telling people it will all pass soon... all the while flatly refusing to take any responsibility whatsoever and having the audacity to rate his administrations response as a 10 out of 10.

That's not "leadership". It's sheer, unadulterated idiocy.
My gf is a management consultant, and prepped a lot for her interviews. She learned that there is such a thing as prepping too much, as your performance can come across too stilted/canned/robotic.

Have you ever filmed your performance in a practice session?

I've given tons of mock interviews, so if you want a fresh set of eyes let me know.
In many cultures, people use water and their hands to clean themselves in the toilet, and then wash their hands afterwards (with soap, obviously). I believe that's better than toilet paper where you inevitably smear feces all over your butt crack. It also addresses people's concerns that a simple jet of water alone isn't enough to clean them.

Now, people may say its disgusting to clean your anal area with your hands. But don't you do it when showering? There is undoubtedly fecal matter residue there anyways (especially if you use toiler paper). So the option is to:

1. Use TP with a 100% chance of fecal residue on your body and walk around with that caked in your crack, or

2. Use your hands and water. You are not doing anything dirtier than what you do when taking a proper shower. Cleaner down there and clean when you wash hands with soap.
Personally I’m in favor of a (partially) centrally planned emergency economy manufacturing and distributing (and possibly rationing) medical equipment, pharmaceuticals, personal protective gear, antiseptics, etc. where needed around the country; paying for medical costs of anyone who catches COVID19; directly disbursing cash to residents who are quarantined, isolated, or lose their jobs during the crisis; banning evictions, doing whatever possible to delay personal/small business expenses like rent or loan payments; directly hiring large numbers of young people without dependents to do socially necessary jobs like distributing food to quarantined people or tracing contacts of anyone infected or manning phone hotlines to call people who don’t follow mass media and to screen patients before they talk to medical personnel; forcing media outlets to play regular publicly produced informational content and shutting down media outlets spreading misinformation; and so on..

I would hardly call that libertarian, but YMMV.
Dismissing the point with sarcasm doesn’t help anyone.

At the end of the day, our (US) nation’s leader called the virus a partisan hoax, on national tv, over a month after it wrecked havoc in China. I find it hard to to imagine a scenario more antithetical to “perfect”.
It says "Among 508 (12%) patients". 508 is 12% of the whole 4226, not just the 2449 with known ages. 20% (102) of those 508 were aged 20-44.

It's not known how many of the 4226 were aged 22-44, but if it's roughly the same as the 29% of known ages, that would be 1226.

102/1226 is 8.3%.

I hate to say it, but it seems the table at the bottom is overestimating the proportion of hospitalizations by ignoring 1777 patients who have an age even if it's unknown, instead of making an estimate for them.
I have no idea how this became such a popular misconception. Fractional reserve banking allows banks to use a portion of their deposits to make loans. This doesn’t create money out of thin air. It does affect money supply, but in a completely different way. Because deposits are withdrawn from circulation, and loans allow a percentage of that to be returned to circulation. If a bank folded, it would simply have a list of debtors (loan holders), and creditors (depositors). The value of the liabilities may exceed the value of the assets (in which case it would be insolvent), but no money at all will be withdrawn from existence.
Hospitals are hamstrung by their bureaucracies and financial policies. The best thing that can be done is an independent assessment of need and start "airdropping" supplies if a shortage is apparent.
Could you point me to one of those? I have a hard time believing there are low-latency drawing e-ink tablets that run full Android and render ordinary android apps.
cool ~
I wish you well, and wish I had money to invest. When you grow enough to be looking for devops engineers, or sooner for just software engineers, look me up?
Totally agree with your assessment.

As far as I can tell, the announcement is: the print version of Playboy Magazine is being indefinitely discontinued. The Playboy brand may decide to come out with some other printed materials sometime in 2021 or later.
I misread this comment; my bad.
It was fun. But it pretty much doesn't exist in any economically viable way at this point.
For global numbers, the WHO daily situation reports:

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

The same data is also presented graphically here:

https://www.who.int/redirect-pages/page/novel-coronavirus-(c...
> We keep a MASSIVE oversupply surplus for the military at all times. If that's OK, why not do that for health related issues too?

When your military isn't strong enough, you get fire, rape, pillage, death, starvation and epidemics, and people really really don't like that.
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The author worked on the team for 8 years, including the transition to Roslyn which unified much of the expensive concerns around VB.NET and C#. It's the author's extremely strong familiarity with that engineering system that led to their claim. In the post he walks through how team sizes grew significantly smaller across the board. 15-20 people would be far larger than the current C# language/compiler team.
It’s now I got my last three role too. I always ask if I can do it that way to prove myself because I don’t have a traditional background (entirely self taught). I’ve had jobs say no, but I’ve had enough say yes that it got my career to a place where I’ve been very happy.
I’m not surprised ... happens to everything in the end.
Who is that moron that wrote the article? Byzantine art of diplomacy? Saudia Arabia never existed when the Byzantines did! Also the Byzantines weren't known for their diplomacy.

It's like saying the prussians enagaged in Catholic meditative sessions.
Behind a paywall:

Try this web archive:
https://archive.is/1QVqJ
> An update on our continuity strategy during COVID-19

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/An-update...
There was no need for national 'lock down' in January, what was needed was preparation.

Specifically with respect to testing, and the operations behind testing - this should have been sorted out.

There was no reason to 'lockdown' in January. The ACLU would not have sued, it would be irrelevant anyhow. College students would not be protesting en masse, and if they did, it wouldn't matter.

Once America has contained the virus, the rest of the world will need medical staff, beds, ventilators. There are 7 billion people out there, the surpluses will get used.

China was building hospitals over a 'few days' - this should have been a 'shocking moment' for everyone to start thinking about how to 'build hospitals in 2 days' or at least commandeer office towers or whatever as facilities. Knock out doors, widen entries, rip out the carpets, get backup generators, put in tbeds etc. carpenters can do a lot quickly.

There was a lot CEOs could have been doing 8 weeks ago.