skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that my narrow perspective is a sample size of the large group at issue and is more accurate. Its the sample size that matters.

I also gave recommendations for a much broader sample size in the book that spans multiple industries and geographies.

Finally, I posited a specific theory as to why 78% of Americans are living pay check to pay check...the basic social mechanisms of survival, Health, Education and Housing, have risen at a rate far exceeding inflation and have actually exceeded average income levels. These rises are due to governmental policy and not some failing of individual citizen consumers.

I would argue that if a person can't afford basics like Health, Education and Housing, the are poor. In fact, they report feeling poor; their bodies and minds exhibit the stress and anxiety of being poor. We can and should create companies and governmental policies to work to reduce this reality, rather than blaming people for their condition.

If we as a society determine that it is necessary to have a car or cell phone to contribute in a productive manner we should ensure that as many people as possible have the tools to be productive. That's just a rational policy to boost GDP, the tax base, the total size of the Market for goods and services, and trade with other countries. You know, capitalism.
Nice! Is it stable enough for production? Or at least as stable as PostgREST?
So what did they actually pass? The article is short on details.
All of those people on Twitter were way ahead of Buzzfeed.
Is there any /solid/ data on that?

I've seen the short Lancet piece which speculates about co-morbidities and an ACE-related mechanism, but the text is explicitly very speculative.
No worries! I'm sorry to hear you were laid off, but am glad you aren't taking it personally and understand the reasoning behind what was certainly a difficult and painful decision. There's a lot of uncertainty right now –– for everyone –– but I think people who are resourceful, stay positive, and take initiative (like posting this on HN to generate discussion) are gonna be A-okay.

Btw, I don't know your email, but feel free to reply to my next newsletter (goes out on Thursdays) if you have specific questions or feedback on how I can be more helpful. I sometimes feel powerless because I don't know what I can do to help during these trying times –– I'm not a healthcare professional, I'm not rich, I'm not a political leader, I'm not famous –– but I can at least (a) connect individuals and companies who can help each other, and (b) do my part to inform anyone I know about COVID-19, the job market, and/or what I'm doing/thinking. It's not a lot, but hey, it's at least a start!
My local whole foods is sold out of the cauliflower crust frozen pizza I like. End times my friend.
with very little information of what this new bill actually does, and no links for further information. dissapointed.
Depends on what's hitting the filter. All "wear" will enlarge pores by definition, otherwise it's not wear.

And in your example, if pores are 0.1-0.3micron, and you have uniform 0.2micron particles hitting it, yes. But reality isn't usually so uniform.

Shards of glass will create more problems for the filter media than shredded N95 mask dust :)

A mask covered in saw dust will slow down and make a particle hit against the filter more turbulent = less chance of forcing its way through.
The chip has a CCPI (Cache Coherent Processor Interface) with 24 lanes @ 25Gb/s for 2-socket NUMA interconnect.

This technology came from Cavium (who bought the Raza, then NetLogic, then Broadcom, and very briefly Avago XLS/XLR/XLP/Vulcan designs from Avago before being bought themselves by Marvell). I don't recall it being in their MIPS64-based Octeon II or III designs, and I thought the XLP had some minimal-glue NUMA support, but I can't find anything with a quick search.

Minimal info at Wikichip: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/cavium/ccpi
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I'm not an epidemiologist, but... isn't it a little early to say "H1N1 ended up not being as fatal as SARSCoV2"?
> A very large portion of my circles was aware that COVID was about to explode (...)

Your circles seem to be the exception then. There are a lot of factors that affect personal perception of such matters, like proximity to inflicted areas, professional background (ex: medical), experiencing similar events in the past, etc.

In hindsight it seems obvious that the world wasn't paying attention. But it took until February for western countries to realize the epidemic was already out of control, and the markets reacted.

> prevention measures would either drastically slow the economy or not be taken and the impact would be worse

Anyone that knew this last month without a doubt could've made tons of money shorting positions in the stock market.
Advice On Rapidly Adopting Remote Work (when Covid-19 gives you no other option)
> ... up to ... may have ...

Now, that's some hard facts you have there!
>> traveling out of country.

not to be glib, but this would be a one-way trip for the near to mid future. Any rquirement to leave and return to the country is also a non starter
Of all the specifications, words, and complexity this article mentions there are only 3 really costly areas that the web browsers devoted a good portion of their net worth to solve:

* Presentation (generally and CSS specifically)

* JavaScript JIT (and other performance pipelines, DOM efficiency, caching architecture, and so forth)

* and accessibility

I know there is much more to the web than that and notice that I did not mention security. Those 3 things took years and lots of research and failure to get to today's status quo. Everything else is comparatively trivial when compared on the basis of man hours and money spent.
If you can really nail those three quickly and cheaply then everything else is trivial from a perspective of money and time.
Promoting simple do-it-yourself masks – intervention for Covid-19 mitigation
It probably has to do with whom you talk to and what sites you frequent. I've seen lots of conspiracy theories about how this was engineered by China in order to crash Western economies with China getting back on its feet first so it could take advantage of the West while we are down. Seriously. I've heard many people saying that social isolation is going to be permanent going forward. I've heard that the government is going to use this to enforce martial law. I've heard that Trump is going to use this to cancel the upcoming election and invoke something or other to put himself into power permanently, a la Putin. Etc. That's just the tip of the iceburg. There are tons of conspiracy theories. I know people who are starting to stockpile guns and ammunition (and probably TP) in insane amounts. I know people who are pulling all of their money out of the banks. I know others that are buying gold. A lot of gold. In my view, people are verging into extreme unreasonableness.

On the other hand, there is the other side of not being reasonable. Yesterday a friend was at the park with her kids. Another mom was on her phone talking to her doctor about her kid's fever and cough. The same kid that she had brought to the public park!

I know people who are planning trips to Hawaii while the kids are on this extended vacation.

There are a lot of people who are not taking this at all seriously.
> This is false and not aligned to the current guidelines[^1] put out for triage of cases.

"Every time a bed comes free, two anaesthesiologists consult with a specialist in resuscitation and an internal medicine physician to decide who will occupy it.

Age and pre-existing medical conditions are important factors. So is having a family.

“We have to take into account whether older patients have families who can take care of them once they leave the ICU, because they will need help,” says Marco Resta, deputy head of Policlinico San Donato’s Intensive Care Unit."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-...

What is the false bit?

I'm talking about what is happening, not the guidelines.
Inspecting the source , it seems it's https://docsearch.algolia.com/
The number of death from air pollution alone is much higher (4.6m/year https://www.google.com/search?q=number+of+death+from+polluti...) than from those viruses

With quarantines and traffic, activity, consumption slowdown, the air quality is getting much better, did we just discover the solution for global warming indirectly? which is a much more important problem than those human viruses by the way
I've been trying to do that, and spent a great deal of time Monday trying to engage such conversation, always very carefully checking my own sources and also ones cited at me. I didn't get nearly as much engagement as speculation (possible cures) and dangerous misinformation.

And yesterday most of the Covid threads here were terrible, full of racism, conspiracies, and so on. Another programmer-based forum I frequent has banned Covid topics altogether.

I don't have good solutions here, other than to try to be very careful in choosing only high quality information sources. Getting the word out will be a key part of the response, and I see serious problems in that.
Editorialized title, agree it should be changed
Sorry, yes - I don't mean to imply that's what you think.

And I do actually think that's a coherent system, and I personally think that it is in some ways more humane than our current one, so I don't even mean that such a system is negative. I also don't think such a system needs to deny people leisure time and retirement: I did specifically suggest that such a system would involve retirement, just no early retirement. Since the vast majority of people in our current society have that option closed off to them in practice, this doesn't strike me as unjust.

As a straw man, let's say minimum wage is N, and taxes cause your net earnings to approach 1.2N asymptotically as you make more and more income. You can apply for government support if you make less than N for good reason, or if you hit retirement age. That puts strong pressure on housing and healthcare to be reasonably priced, because people can't pay more than a certain amount - nobody has it. But it also ensures that everyone, rich and poor alike, must work to eat. (That is, in this system there's no UBI; there should still be some sort of social safety net for people who can't work, but no support is provided for people who can work but won't, until retirement age.) At most, you can take a sabbatical every 6 years, in theory; in practice it'd be less than that. Such a system will strongly incentivize the richest among us to support generous labor conditions (vacations, leave for childcare, etc.) because problems will apply to them just about as much as to anyone else.

There are a bunch of practical flaws with this straw man proposal, but I would argue that if we genuinely value the link between how much money you have and your labor, we should be thinking about systems that more closely resemble it than the ones we have now. I'm just genuinely undecided on the value of that link, because I don't have enough information - we don't have a good idea of what a society looks like when you can set up that link and you have copious amounts of "free money" to go around.
Many Twitter sources were also saying that it's nothing or a hoax or whatever right up until a week or two ago (and probably some still are).
When backpacking around Vietnam some years ago, the minimum was a bucket of water and a small jug.

Naturally, I discovered this at the most inconvenient time.
> The over-complication is recursive

The phrase "fractal of bad design" comes to mind.. Although it was originally used for PHP, this anti-design-pattern seems to rear its head almost inevitably with popular and long-lived languages/systems (which I suppose includes C++, though I'm not qualified to judge).

I've heard people pinning hopes on WebAssembly. It does seem possible that eventually it could allow new languages to replace CSS and JS, maybe even support the development of new kinds of applications that replace (the current paradigm of) the browser as a cross-platform VM.
I'm sorry, are you psychic? I didn't say anything about a political bias, nor anything to even hint at one. You're making up stuff that you think you know about me, with no basis.

To the data: I agree that there are fluctuations there. But average inflation for the decade of the 1960s was 2.45%. For the 1950s, it was 1.82%. The inflation rate even for 1972 was above the average rate for the 1950s and 1960s. 1976, the bottom of the next trough, was higher than 1972. And then you look at 1974 and 1979, in the context of the 1950s and 1960s, and yes, it sure does look like inflation is increasing. Yes, there are decreases (business cycle), but each cycle is higher than the last one.
I still use toilet paper even through i own one myself, just not as much... you gotta dry afterwards :)
I read that the president ordered US hospital ships to be ready near the east and west coasts.

I would argue that getting the military exposed to the virus early during peacetime in a staggered way is exactly what we should do. There can’t be many elderly or immunocompromised stationed on those ships and if the entire ship is exposed once, the ship is more resilient in the future. In a few months, the sailors are then much less likely to suffer from infection in a time of active crisis.

Now the uncertainty is around whether there is the possibility for re-infection or if there are multiple strains which can infect a person who was recently infected with another strain.
This is a textbook example of confirmation bias.

(And that's assuming the paracetamol thing is even correct.)
Show HN: A containment model for the coronavirus outbreak [pdf]
New iPad Pro
With encryption support?
Sensible, the situation should leave room for such a paradigm shift.
You must have some really selective curation going on :) At least one of the prominent people I follow on Twitter has been flirting with conspiracy theories, not actively promoting them but saying it's a question that should be asked. And it's way, way worse out there in unfiltered Twitter.

ETA: check elsewhere in this thread, though there's a good chance it'll be quickly downvoted.
Fujifilm Shares Skyrocket as China Says Its Flu Medicine Works for Coronavirus
NYSE to close trading floor after employee, trader test positive for coronavirus
It does in fact include cannabis dispensaries.

https://www.kron4.com/news/san-francisco-cannabis-deemed-as-...
Yeah you're right, I'm coming from a developer perspective. I think I would make an exception if your work benefits from a good touchscreen.
Where do you even find this info? Even on the Tech Specs page for the macbook air on apple.com it says "3.0GHz 6-core Intel Core i5 Turbo Boost up to 4.1GHz 9MB shared L3 cache" and doesn't give the model number.
I've been laid off yesterday. One of the biggest networking HW/SW vendors, SF area.

This thread is soothing. I owe you, OP. We all do.
Indeed, funding is going to be frozen for a while.
> but I certainly wouldn't argue it shouldn't exist.

Nobody has argued that.
When I go to a place where people are working--an office, a university library, a coffee shop--I see a sea of laptops and no iPads. Even in places such as Stanford libraries, where it is a sea of MacBooks, the people who provably buy lots of expensive Apple products don't buy iPads for work.

And iPads have been outselling Macs on a unit basis for a decade, so even people who buy iPads don't seem to find them suitable for general office/school-type work (as opposed to use as specialty terminals carried by inspectors or mounted on fast food counters).

Some combination of form factor and iOS's "you'll only hurt yourself with tools, so we've replaced them with lots of fun ways to buy entertainment" design ethos has so far failed to make iPad the computer replacement that Apple always claims it is. Instead, it's more of a personal entertainment center.
Mark Handley, UCL is very clear: he doesn't do interviews and he doesn't do analysis 'what does it mean' he just published charts and sticks to his knitting.

Wise man.

http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mjh/covid19/

Q: You aren't an epidemiologist. Why should I listen to you?

You probably shouldn't. I'm a computer scientist and I've spend decades analysing data, but you should talk to a real epidemiologist if you want to understand the underlying causes. Computer scientists do know a lot about exponential growth though.

Q: I'm a journalist. Will you appear on my TV show?

No. You should have a real epidemiologist on your TV show.

Mark Handley, UCL.
Sketchy looking crypto site, be warned
Well, the thing about this approach, I think, is that your code itself essentially becomes something like an image of your syntax tree (a la recursive descent parsing). That's fine if you want a sort of "toy" interpreter or interpreter that doesn't care about speed much.

But you're also using bytecode, which involves more caring about speed, so you've got a bit of a mismatch - as your code tries to match the multiple layers you're skipping, your code will get more complicated or your VM gets more arbitrary, so of the situation you have here.
I could see IoT device 'acceleration' to be a significant potential use-case. Something with a tiny bill of materials for the device itself, offloading any non-trivial processing to a virtual device on the closest 'real' infrastructure you can get. Especially for something human-interactive, you would want to be very aggressive about minimizing latency.

Also, depending on how tight the limits are for VM lifetime / bandwidth / outbound connections, I could see using these as a kind of virtual NIC / service mesh type thing for consumer-grade internet connections, to restore the inbound routing capabilities precluded by carrier-grade NAT and avoid their traffic discrimination, as well as potentially on-boarding to higher-quality transit as early as possible for use when accessing latency-sensitive services further 'interior' to the cloud.
> Did you mean homogeneous?

Yes

> Also, Raft doesn't assume the network is homogeneous.

Raft assumes that if the leader dies, that quick and orderly election relies on all members doing their 'duty' and putting themselves forward as the new leader if some counter says they are next. That means it assumes that any server can be leader.

What is implicit in this state of affairs is that all cluster members are equipped to perform the duties of the leader, which includes rebroadcasting all state changes - directly - to all other members. So every single machine has to have enough bandwidth to every other machine to comfortably ferry all of that data across.

That is a huge assumption, both historically speaking, and with geographical distribution of servers.
They don't advertise their memory models or disk manufacturer either. Probably typical customer does not care. Wait for teardowns if you're interested in those details.
I develop enterprise applications in C#/.Net Core/.NET MVC5 it is a bit boring but should be pretty stable.
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In my city a couple of students build a local website doing the same. Well, the advertised the app with signs in supermarkets and you can also call in (not everybody is internet-savy). They have 500 volunteers now and almost nobody needing help (so far). Amazing response.
Roughly. In a scenario where revenue is 0 and opex is fixed
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I've switched entirely to Dbeaver for postgres management/exploration and writing SQL.

https://dbeaver.io/

Really well-built tool.
We're working on this!
Thanks for the clarifying question. I was talking about case fatality rate, or the number of people that die from the disease out of total cases.

It's certainly possible that SARSCoV2 will have fewer total deaths than H1N1.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22615692
Trumpian rhetoric aside, it's really unfair giving the histrionic media a pass on this. The toilet paper outages were stoked by the media. Instead of seeing op-eds with "stop raiding stores for toilet paper," all we saw (and still see) is "this president is incompetent."

Just this morning, CNN was frothing at the mouth at Trump calling it the "China virus" -- I mean, yeah, it's a virus that came from China -- and they have an op-ed on how this term is stoking xenophobia.
SARS doesn't even come close to the infectiousness of COVID-19. China only registered like 8k patients by the end of it, even you times that by 10, that still dwarfed by the COVID-19 on global scale, and it is only the beginning.

The reason COVID-19 get singled out might not be the mortality rate alone (it looks edging close to 10% right now in Italy, which is alarmingly scary), but more on its impact on paralyzing our health care system with a swarm of people requires hospitalization. And it achieves all this in record time.

I don't agree this is a perception problem, the threat is real. Social media can panic, but you can't really tell people it is OK when patients are lying/dying on the floor of hospitals.
It would have been great to have range-partitioned PG12 in as part of the mix here. I don’t think it would have fared too badly.

(cue someone from TimescaleDB chiming in)
Even “rule of law” in peacetime allows for commandeering of property with Due Process and in times of national security allows for extraordinary measures that are not legal during peacetime.

You may be right if it were peacetime, but the president just announced a War on the Virus and is using the law as if we are at war.
That was the initial approach, we're bringing in some people to highlight projects.
Did we ever run out of ventilators during the 2009 pandemic? 5% of untreated cases (e.g: no ventilator) end up being fatal -- if you look at the numbers in Iran.
Certainly not. We had enough languages by then and nobody thought a new one would add any more value.

It is also when the relevant xkcd came out, spurring people to stop creating languages.
> http://ttleadx.wpengine.com/freelancer/

Sites that fade and pan in content as I scroll down the page can die in the hottest of hellfires. I do appreciate there are less harmful "modern" design cues I can take for the new version of my site, though.

> Good ways to find gigs as a freelancer are toptal, moonlight, yunojuno, bark, stack overflow (get a good score by answering questions).

I recall trying Moonlight a couple years ago and finding they could do absolutely nothing for me. Perhaps it's time to give them another look. I do have a SO presence, but their job board doesn't let me filter by contract positions. I will check out those other sites, though.

> Bit of advice a friend gave and I have yet to try out: If you want to find local clients go to meetups, networking stuff where you would likely be the only software developer and people will likely be interested (obviously one for after this crisis has passed).

That's a good tip. I used to be active in a couple groups around here but it got disrupted by some family stuff. I should get back into it again once this all blows over.
is VBA the same as VB.Net? I thought there were differences?
I've been following this. It was mentioned by Anthony Fauci in his JAMA interview this morning. The WHO is recommending against ibuprofen, but primarily out of caution. There is weak empirical support for the caution, but it doesn't look like a big deal; there are vastly more important things to worry about right now, but this is one of those things that spreads really fast through social media, probably largely because it's easy to understand.

Good survey I found: https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-report...
So this is a scumbag move by the employer then? They don't want to lose the employee, they don't want to pay them, and they don't want to pay for unemployment?
Chalk it up to over reaction without sufficient consideration
Seems like hindsight bias at play. Would be interesting to see the overall sentiment of tweets about this in Jan.