skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Italy has said that if you knowingly break quarantine without a good reason you could be charged later with murder. That seems like a much more effective approach than making arrests, from the standpoint of both deterrence and practicality.
SARS, swine flu, bird flu, ebola - just in the past couple of decades these all caused considerable concern of pandemic. We're talking about what we knew of COVID19 in January here, which was basically nothing.

Hindsight justification for which ones were a real problem isn't useful.
This is correct.

I live in Tucson and am quite familiar with Raytheon (having been recruited and know numerous employees as they are the biggest employer here). They are not going to be hiring remote developers from Ireland. In all likelihood, they will not be hiring any remote developers anywhere, unless those people will be relocating to Tucson and being on premise once this calms down.
Giant futuristic 'Tesla Towers' in abandoned woods near Moscow
Let's Encrypt was introduced so that money will never be a barrier/excuse for https. In these days it must be a default feature. Pocketing half for something generated for free is not a good signal for me. Yes other half is donated but, isn't that supposed to be optional? Let's Encrypt is supported by huge organizations. And on fly.io, The customer is already paying for compute.
Let's be clear: many folks today are directly exposing their databases through REST. The API protocol really doesn't matter. CRUD has no affinity for any one technology or methodology.

GraphQL is no more vulnerable to crawlers than any REST server with OpenAPI on it. And yes, introspection can be disabled.

It's not like tools like Hasura, Prisma, or Postgraphile have no security baked into their products, often via a cryptographically signed JWT.

Query cost analysis.
Query depth limits.
Query pattern allow lists.

And that's all assuming the GraphQL server has a public IP, which is far from a certainty (just like REST).
I think you can take this analogy too far. If I were to do so, I'd say that the OP is suggesting that Pearl Harbor was attacked, the President said it was no big deal, just one Japanese plane, and the country collectively twiddled their thumbs while the enemy advanced.
Onpassive – Thank you so much Mr. Ash Mufareh
Everyone will be minimizing expenses, so cash velocity is going to dramatically decrease. A recession to affect all sectors unless a miracle cure comes out this week. On that basis I expect real estate values to fall and stocks to continue to fall. Companies that are not profitable and rely on investor money to keep going will fail.
We are not at war. We are +T two months since the first confirmed case in the USA and had warning nearly a month prior to that, and the Federal government has done almost nothing of substance other than reject tests and advice from nations who have been fighting this far better than we have, because they have functional health services.
The disease spreads exponentially, not linearly. Bed increases (and staff, buildings, ventilators...) would have to also be exponential to meet it head-on.
Tragic, yet inevitable?
Popular reference managers, e.g., Mendeley, EndNote, don't support them.
I hope companies step up and create surgical masks. It's such a basic item, but we don't have enough. Forget about guns, it's like asking troops to fight without shoes.
I’m not. This shit is putting me over the edge. Fear I’m going to breakdown.
Though I saw it coming, I was laid off recently (last week). The layoff was unrelated to COVID-19, but laid off none the less. Luckily I have enough saved to not be too burdened by it. I have an interview tomorrow and Friday, but I see it more as an opportunity for something else. In my spare time I have been working very hard to build a startup in the Insurance Tech space. Though I have been looking for jobs, part of me keeps wanting to see this as an opportunity to do what I really want which is to start my own business. Having thought about it, I think I will be looking for freelance/contract work instead of another full-time gig so that I can focus more on my company.

With that being said, the job market is going to become much more brutal very soon, which slightly terrifies me... but I'd probably regret not at least taking a chance working towards my dream, even during these uncertain times. I did panic a bit when I got the news that I'd be losing my job, which lead to the frantic job applications and reaching out to my network. After I took a step back and thought about it though I was able to see this as an opportunity.

To anyone else out there who recently lost a job and is panicking, try to take a step back and evaluate your current situation. It might actually be setting yourself up for something better. If nothing else, take the time that you have to sharpen your skills or learn some new ones. Make the most of a bad situation.
2% to 4% is the number of hospitalized people that die IF they get care.

If the health system is overrun, and there are zero ICU beds or ventilators available, that number will go up quickly. THAT is the problem we are trying to avoid.
Yup. Once you do a ton of these, they get easy.
If only there was some kind of chain of command or responsibility we could use to hold people accountable for the actions of a firm.
Scan the World - 3D printable cultural artifacts: https://www.myminifactory.com/scantheworld/

Collection of public domain cultural heritage 3D models on Sketchfab: https://sketchfab.com/nebulousflynn/collections/cc0
384 Thread or vCPU in a single socket or 768 vCPU per 1U in Dual Socket. That is ~$4K per month revenue for Cloud Vendor.

Unfortunately DRAM, NAND and Bandwidth unit cost hasn't drop a bit compared to vCPU unit cost. Along with baseline price of Rent and Electricity which means Cloud Vendors unit cost aren't that much better.

I expect this would only come to 10 to 20% price drop.
He also literally said "The coronavirus panic is dumb":

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1236029449042198528
But isn't Yelp that company that extorts businesses into buying their advertising and punishes them with bad reviews if they don't? Any student would might have contributed to that racket deserves to miss out.
Every country that can should ramp up their mask production to the maximum. There will be a global shortage for (likely 6-12+) months to come.

They can make and save the handsome profit to retrofit their factories to manufacture other things later.
The federal government has placed an order for 500 million N95 masks.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/trump-say...
They make adaptors that let you replace the optical drive with another SATA drive. But my FreeBSD laptop has one disk and it's fine. You don't have redundancy, but you still get all the other features (snapshots, clones, compression), and even if it can't correct errors it will still catch data errors which is more than most other filesystems will do.
Get a beard trimmer, set to lowest height and cut back the thatch. Only takes a few minutes, once or twice a week.
My take on this is that programming may be niche now, but it shouldn't be. Simple scripting is useful and lets you easily perform tasks that would otherwise be repetitive.

I'm not saying everyone should be able to build a large application, but you shouldn't be stopped from building things on it, otherwise how will you even get started?

Computers that stop you from inspecting them and learning how they work build a moat between the users and developers of the system. That's the opposite of what I think we should be encouraging.
Does it even mean anything. The economic discontinuity that the virus will introduce is likely to alter all of these numbers in ways we can't predict. Most likely push salaries much lower after the layoffs hit on a wide scale.
Fair enough. But you move towards the target by having leadership that says "This is serious. We need to start doing this now. I am not going to invoke war-like power to force us all to do this (yet), but we've got to understand the seriousness of the risk and start social distancing now while there's still time".

Instead, we got 2 months of "it's nothing".

One of the roles of leadership is to persuade a significant percentage of the population that threats are real and cooperate. The current US leadership utterly failed at this.
How should we take it if we have 60%+ of users creating content, and very few lurkers? Is that a good thing? Or under-optimized?
especially for some thing that is free
True.

Not sure why everything is always compared to a war in any case? We have a war on this, a war on that. You can compare anything to a war, but that doesn't mean you're going to get useful insights out of the exercise.

I mean, yeah, I suppose it's Pearl Harbor is attacked and we twiddled our thumbs, but what insights useful right now in dealing with this virus does that comparison uncover? It's kind of just noise at this point. Save it for the post-mortem and the history books. It's not terribly useful right now. And it's certainly not useful to tell Americans at this point that it's necessary and common that many of them will need to die unnecessarily because, "that's always the way".
Yeah it's a bit tough for some small businesses. Anything related to style (cake decorating, floral arrangements, graphic design, sign writing, etc) or other subjective tastes will often have a brand which has value with current customers but will easily lose it if someone else takes over. Even if the work is still solid, it can alienate existing customers.
> Thank your luck, for you were born at a better place in better times

I spend a good amount of time thinking about how fortunate I am and how grateful and thankful I am to have the job and resources that I do. I find that it helps with stress to experience and express that.
I don't know how great this is to share, although I am curious about the numbers, as I'm sure it will depress some people. A lot of pay is based off personal intelligence and interviewing skills, which cannot be shown with quantitative numbers like years of experience.
This is absolutely fantastic. I feel that it’s a really good way to judge the progression in each country, putting a more context to the numbers we hear on the news.
Yeah, that's not a helpful thing to say, but the comment I'm referring to was his own direct reply to his tweet about Chloroquine (see linked tweets above).

Regarding that tweet, the only pass it was from March 6 (maybe, but probably not, best not to say anything early on). Even our Canadian gov spent the last month or so saying "there's no scientific evidence supporting border closure" [1], including in comments by our health minister a few days before they indeed closed all of Canada's borders. Nearly every person getting diagnosed w/ COVID-19 in Ontario has traveled recently, even the cases from today [2].

Nothing wrong with being wrong and later being educated on the seriousness - Elon seems to have changed his tune recently which is good. A concept that is frequently lost in our social media outrage machine. Not everyone is wise enough to not make public statements with such certainty, even our well-educated health ministers... meanwhile panic buying TP didn't do anyone any good either.

[1] https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2020/03/12/after-tr...

[2] https://www.ontario.ca/page/2019-novel-coronavirus#section-0 (note: how travel + country name is next to almost every case, even well into March 18th)
You don't need a bidet! I just sit on the edge of the bath tub and clean my self with the shower head as needed. Takes 10 seconds tops and costs 0.
In my experience interviewers are looking for a detailed thought process with a comparison of solutions that demonstrates your communication, not just an optimal solution. Do you provide that as well?
More generally, the Budget Control Act of 2011.
Title ("Playboy magazine is closing down") is misleading. They are stopping the print version of the magazine, not digital.

> With all of this in mind, we have decided that our Spring 2020 Issue, which arrives on U.S. newsstands and as a digital download this week, will be our final printed publication for the year in the U.S. We will move to a digital-first publishing schedule for all of our content including the Playboy Interview, 20Q, the Playboy Advisor and of course our Playmate pictorials. In 2021, alongside our digital content offerings and new consumer product launches, we will bring back fresh and innovative printed offerings in a variety of new forms–through special editions, partnerships with the most provocative creators, timely collections and much more. Print is how we began and print will always be a part of who we are.
Nonetheless ramping up supply still solves the problem by driving prices down
https://www.yelp.com/extortion

Lot of misinformation out there.
Manufacture of medical devices has specific regulation around Good Manufacturing Processes [1] (GMP, one of many GxPs). This requires a Quality Management System [2] (QMS) and very specific training for everyone involved. Pretty much any manufacturer that is not already manufacturing in accordance with 21 CFR Part 820 [3] and related regulations will have a ton of work to establish a suitable QMS.

I'd like to think that at least some auto workers already have some taste of working under the eye of regulators and auditors and as such their adjustment to GMP has the potential to be smooth. The days of leaving empty beverage containers in the hollow of a door are long past, right?

Management that is not experienced in FDA regulations will try to ignore or short-cut them. In the best of cases, this turns into fines and manufacturing delays. In the worst of cases, it turns into deaths due to defective product or manufacturing delays. Every level of management needs to be experienced in GxP.

The most reasonable path to getting a QMS in place and having compliant manufacturing would seem to be to have the manufacturing capacity be leant to an established manufacturer that has a solid QMS, the expertise to adapt it to the new reality, and a solid relationship with the FDA. That is, the auto manufacturer's management would need to be out of the picture or 100% subservient to the experienced medical device manufacturer.

Once that is worked out, I suspect that manufacture of the devices is comparatively easy. Put another way, it's probably easier to switch from sedans to tanks than it is to switch from SUVs to almost any medical gizmo.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_manufacturing_practice
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_management_system
3. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFR...
You're right, Elon has no inherent responsibility to solve this (he's not Batman to call on whenever we need). Many large companies are already open to helping. There's no shortage of willing capacity.

What they need is approval and guidance from the government, that's where the failure is. Notice there's still no reply taking up GM on their offer.
I am glad I don’t bathe in your tub.
wasn't that Chrome upon its introduction? compared to familiar IE and FF -- no title bar, no menu bar, no row of buttons, single Omnibar instead of address bar + search bar, separate memory process per tab
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?
I guess it will spread it significantly slower than an office, a train or a restaurant. Probably R0 < 1 in the factory.
Now... we're crossing a line. This is one area of the economy that needs to be facilitated, not hindered.

Yes, truckers can transport the virus from one community to another. Yes, there is risk. But in the case of the supply chain, the downsides of losing cargo transport far overwhelm the potential negatives of that transport.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istra_High_Voltage_Research_Ce...
You could check out Stripe, they are hiring for both Remote and they have a Dublin office.

https://stripe.com/jobs/search?t=engineering%2Cproduct-and-t...

Disclaimer: Just started at Stripe.
Anything where they try to stuff a large amount of data over the lightning connector has been finicky, there are a lot of complaints about the HDMI adapters too.

Wish they’d just change everything to USB-C, but with them releasing new accessories regularly that charge with lightning, it doesn’t feel likely. Most recently PowerBeats 4 a couple of days ago.
Chloroquine is already on the WHO list of 'essential medicines', and can be made very cheaply as a generic. Any shortages would be quite temporary indeed; the last thing you want to do in such circumstances is suppress latent demand for it and repeat the whole masks/respirators/hand sanitizer fiasco.
Maybe a proposal is to loosen FDA requirements during emergencies, and allow these ventilators to be sold on the free market after minimal testing (and sold with the understanding that they are as-is).

Seeing how inefficient and slow our health-care system is, I think the free-market approach may actually be better here.
Actually, this "JS based on a small number of vetted packages" is similar to my <widget> idea, so that could be how it is implemented. However, another feature I want (which you did not mention) is better user customization, and it would allow that, too.

As an example:

<script widgettype="http://example.org/ns/widget/unitconv" src="unitconv.js"></script>
...more stuff in between...
<li><widget widgettype="http://example.org/ns/widget/unitconv" a-unit="cups:236.5882365mL">4 cups</widget> of water

(Although not used above (due to being unneeded in this case), the widgettype attribute is also allowed for <noscript>.)

It has the following benefits:

- You can host all of the files yourself if you want to; no need for a separate package manager.

- Full backward compatibility.

- Works with browsers that don't implement <script> or <widget>, as well as browsers that implement one or the other, or both. (However, it needs to implement either <script> or the "unitconv" widget, and one or the other has to be enabled, in order for automatic unit conversion to work.)

- The user can disable features they don't want, or customize them.

- If <widget> is implemented and enabled, then the script need not be downloaded, even if <script> is implemented and enabled.

There are other possibilities too. For example, autocomplete could use wrapping a <input> inside of a <widget>.
I have not found it in the FAQ/guidelines, but anyway, I have removed these notes. Thanks!
> It's kind of just noise at this point. Save it for the post-mortem and the history books. It's not terribly useful right now.

If we were serving in the White House right now I'd agree with you. But we're just people shooting the shit online, I don't really see what harm it does to discuss the things that are on our minds. Nothing we’re talking about here is really all that useful in terms of tackling the issue in front of us all.
>optimal solution in less than a minute

you're interviewing wrong and i'm surprised that you haven't figured it out given 200 attempts. put yourself in the shoes of the interviewer - interviews aren't their main focus in the company and hence they're not invested in being excellent interviewers. they're most likely trying to do a good enough job such that it counts towards promotion and simultaneously not have a horrible time during the interview. so they have roughly a script that they'll follow

1. give the imprecise problem statement

2. give the opportunity for clarifying questions (points added or subtracted from interviewee for asking relevant/irrelevant/interesting/mundane question)

3. give the opportunity for naive solution (points added or subtracted for facility in implementing and runtime discussion)

4. introduce challenge portion (optimization or constraint or whatever)

5. give another opportunity for clarifying questions

6. give opportunity for talking through a solution

7. give opportunity for writing solution

assuming you make it this far

8. give the opportunity for discussion of trade-offs in time/space/code complexity/latency/etc.

that's 6 opportunities to demonstrate that you're smart, fastidious, affable, etc but only 2 of them are really technical. if you're aiming for writing the best/most optimal solution as fast as possible then you're aiming for the wrong thing - it's not a standardized test but an interview (i.e. two people are involved). you should be aiming to impress the interviewer! those aren't the same (the first is a component of the second).

if you'd you should put your contact info either here in a response or in your profile and i'll reach and we can chat about interviewing (i'm not a coach or a business but i do interview well so maybe i can help you a little).
It’s quite common for people to think they nailed a question when actually they did poorly, in the eyes of the interviewer. Even if you are getting the “correct solution”, the interviewer will usually have some followup discussion designed to make sure you really understand the solution well. Often this catches out people who practice so much they’ve seen the answer before. This is my guess for what’s happening, at least.
Morbid curiosity led me to reading comments in this thread, and now I don’t want to eat lunch.

You’ve been warned, dear reader!
Academia.edu is still conducting interviews (now remotely) and hiring at full speed. It's on solid footing financially, it's adapted well to remote work, and for the last three and a half years I've found it to be a really fun workplace. I can't recommend it enough without sounding like a recruiter. Here are the openings: https://www.academia.edu/hiring
Being good at coding can be predicted by IQ.

Being good at white boarding puzzles require IQ.

-----> White board puzzles filter for good coders.

Its not perfect, but its the best way to scale it. Sorry everyone, this isn't going away
I'm an anomaly. I like whiteboard algorithm tests. I do still think it is kinda a waste of time doing Leetcode over and over like what I'm doing right now, but hear me out.

An even more waste of time is actually learning framework A, B, C, D, database A, B, C, D, bundler A, B, C, D.

The more and more I think about it, as a fullstack developer, I continuously forget documentations and how a specific technology works, but I was always able to solve problems using those in the past. I did Angular, Vue, jQuery, React, Webpack 1, 2, 3, 4, Grunt, Gulp. I did MongoDB, MySQL, S3, DynamoDB, Go, Python. Those things change all the time and I always forget how they worked. Because I genuinely like fullstack development I always switch back and forth between different technologies and I can't remember them all.

Whenever a company interview me, I'd really appreciate it if they just ask whiteboard algorithm questions instead, at the very least I don't have to scramble brushing up X if I got interviewed as an X developer. At least whiteboard algorithm and data structures questions make me stronger fundamentally as an all around developer and I just need to grind those. And after a while, grinding those aren't that difficult anymore.

P.S. I still failed FAANG interview, but I still keep grinding Leetcode. I am definitely a believer in whiteboard algorithm and data structure questions. It is simple, to the point, saves everyone time. If I were an interviewer I would also ask data structures and algorithm questions instead of nitty bitty of React hooks or Javascript promises or Golang's concurrency pattern. Those things can be learned easily if you are a decent all around developer.

I'm an average developer. I don't have the creative capability or the insights that 10x programmer has. Those people are not only good with programming, but also at mentoring, at business, at finance, at swimming, at hunting bears, at predicting the future, etc. So, in my resume I often don't have those quantitative accomplishment "implement X in Y minutes that resulted in Z performance and A savings for the company". So, whiteboard algorithm questions fits me better.
Name of startup? This sounds fun.
Uber may suspend accounts of drivers and riders who get coronavirus