skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Until today no one knows who started Marne counter offensive. What matters is that someone did."

Good point. It's the actions and deeds that count rather than the person.
If more workplaces allowed that, I'd probably be less preoccupied with UBI.
That would involve selling shares at a low price after buying them at a high price. This would make management look stupid.
People are focusing on the ventilators because in Italy there aren't enough to go around, and they have had to triage them.

The UK government just put out a plea to manufacturers to make ventilators for the same reason.

There are also lots of unstable regions of the world that won't be able to get ventilators at scale. In those places being able to build one with off the shelf parts will save lives.
For the battle against Covid, the US needs a wartime mobilization
Why would the shareholders do that if they think the government may step in and bail them out?
1. This, too, shall pass.

2. We're all gonna die. But for most, not today, and not from this.
They could hold on to some, just in case there was a disturbance that caused cashflow to stop for a while.
I look at it from a selfish perspective. These "lowlifes" actually drag society down. It benefits me if they are helped.
I don't think HN is the best place to ask for the moment. Speaking bad about the corona virus panic and the people creating it will get you many downvotes.

During the current crisis HN felt like a text-only Facebook.
Is there a reason (or am I wrong about it) that the most common and most liked tools for developers are mostly Open Source, while there are almost no Open Source tools aimed for designers making it big?
Save it as a buffer against changes in conditions?
Maybe management is stupid?
Shorting the market. If the world's going down the drain, might as well profit from it.
mullvad.net is fantastic. They do not have a dedicated IP, but you could use DNS on top.

More detailed review at thatoneprivacysite.net

Good luck
> mAb114 and REGN-EB3 have shown success with lowering the mortality rate from ~70% to about 34%;

That's a claim in NYT. The papers are far more cautious because there is not enough data.

ZMapp, for example, showed around 40-50% decrease, was well tolerated during the West Africa outbreak but was still canceled because after more data was crunched it was not possible to attribute that decrease in mortality to ZMapp in a statistically significant way.

> they are cures.

Not as of now. They are promising regiments that might be developed into cures but as of now there are no cures for Ebola.

> Sure, we don't have a cure for COVID, but this has nothing to do we the fact that we have cures for totally unrelated virus-caused diseases.

That has been a long promised but it is not the case as of now. I believe the last cure was supposed to come out of DRACO but it even though the studies were initially promising (2011 press was ga-ga over the coming cure for nearly all viral diseases based on DRACO derived therapy) it failed to demonstrate enough viability to secure funding for further studies).

It is why the vaccinations are super-important. It is vaccinations and prevention that controls nasty viral diseases, not treatment. Ebola will be controlled and eradicated via vaccine, not cured.

We have been extremely lucky the most of diseases caused by the common viruses are relatively banal ( even if unpleasant ) i.e. the likes of common flu, herpes and HPV or extremely nasty i.e. polio and Ebola because at the present time we do not have a way to significantly affect the outcomes.
> Changing your employer is much simpler than changing your government.

Making changes at your place of employment is often impossible. We get direct chances to change our government every X years. And changing to a different employer often isn't that easy for many folks.
Your asking about modular code where modules can be changed or swapped.

The functional paradigm is the most modular style I've seen. Modularity is a side effect of immuteability.
Basic eeverse engineering with Linux tools and gdb:)
Can attest to wireguard being simple once you know it but horrible to get working the first time.

I did, however, make it harder for myself by setting it up on a Unifi gateway. Where every push of an invalid config would put the gateway in a boot loop, bricking my internet connection for a few minutes.

For the interested: https://github.com/Lochnair/vyatta-wireguard
I accepted all the worst scenarios. Cried multiple times.

Now I can focus on prepping and survival.

To me doing nothing makes me much more nervous than catching up with latest news and trying to save myself and my family.

This is the time to work hard for everyone, it's not the time to go watching netflix and wait for "others" to do the hard work.

You can also try to help with the research projects which are trying to find a drug.
Yes, it is needed. The online group that seems to be making the most progress you can read about here:

https://medium.com/@brucefenton/we-need-ventilators-we-need-...
Then why all the angst among US military and government about being unable for so long to produce their own rockets?
This would result in the board being sacked for sitting on spare cash and not maximising shareholder return.
>Then on the cruise ship full of people over 60 it’s 0.7%. If there are lots of mild or asymptomatic cases it will likely be much lower.

Here is a comedy show lambasting Donald Trump for saying he had a hunch this was the case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNfmTMdoao0

Donald Trump's gut probably saved thousands of Americans through closing the borders early (this is a talking point he repeats again and again and I haven't seen anyone argue with this - so I accept that if any other President had been in office that President wouldn't have closed the borders from highly hit areas so early - an unprecedented action - and hundreds, or thousands of Americans would be dead. Since it is unrefuted I accept Trump's assertion that U.S. has a huge number of tourists and ordinarily would have been harder-hit.)

However: not sure how I feel about being led by a gut rather than experts.

I debated whether to submit this but I will do this to judge for myself HN replies and voting on my comment.
If we're going to update, I think we should stop using C for /s/ and /k/ noises (we already have characters for those). It can exclusively represent /tʃ/, as in "China" would become "Cina". We don't need X either for much the same reason, which is all the better because we'll need a character for /ʃ/. "Delicious" will become "delixious", "shadow" will become "xadow", "nation" will become "naxion".

I know this sounds diffikult but migraxion to a new system is always diffikult. We're talking about a pretty serious rewrite here so everyone's kooperation will be nesessary. It's not an easy desixion but if you cek into it we can use other languages as a model. Spelling reforms are not a new konsept.
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For example paying down debt instead of loading up like American Airlines did.
So far so good. Thanks for asking tho. How about yourself?
Then the money would probably not be free cash. It would be held under some sort of actuarial title for dealing with risk. Maybe amortization? I'm not an accountant.

If the business needs it to sustain operations then it probably isn't free cash flow.
I think he’s talking about the paradigms as raster and vector editors, which I would still categorize Sketch and Figma as. They’re vector editors with some specialized features for UI/UX. They’re still largely in the mold of what Photoshop and Illustrator have done for over 30 years.

What I always find interesting about these pieces, is they always seem to be saying “they’re old now and need to be replaced” rather than marveling at the durability of original approach, which has been astounding. Same can be said for plain text, Unix shell tools, spreadsheets, NLE editors, the DAW. These should be celebrated for how successful their designs have been, instead of lamenting how many “old tools” we're using.
Crowdbreaks is a health trend tracking system
Golang OOP: Go, the Object-Oriented Way – Toptal
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It is interesting that you frame it as 'leftist critique' instead of 'far-leftist critique'. As historically, exactly that kind of arguments were used by far left (communists) aginst moderate left (social democrats) and was a major reason for their split in 1910s.
General fears are hard to handle. Anxiety is an urgent energy, but without an actionable object. Do something specific and definite, that is actionable, to direct that energy, and regain a sense of agency.

I've been buying things that will be helpful during a lockdown (that I've been putting off from well before WWC: new phone etc), while the risk is still low.
> stress hormone

Cortisol? :D

I agree with all your points. I uh after checking twitter (I never checked twitter before as much especially local news), I am panicking more about the fact that we have so many people who actually believes in some seriously messed up stuff.

Even if twitter is not representative of total population, seeing only that on my screen made me anxious and I realised why we are becoming a surveillance state worse than China for quite some time.
Hmmmm.. isn't the market about finding truth and moving accordingly?
Worth noting that this will be the 3rd industry which Warren Buffett has been both invested in and bailed out of during a crisis.
i’ve been at three companies that acquired small shops. that 5y horizon to the kill-decision lines up with my experience. most recently i worked with a company (mid size) that had been acquired two years prior by a very large international organization. “its great, they let us do what we do best and are excited to adopt some of our practices”. Two weeks later the senior leadership was shuffled and the mothership was changing things to better match their process, etc.
O(n log n) for the x axis (time samples) and
O(n) for the y axis (frequencies).

But you can downsample the signal in frequency domain, meaning you will pay mostly for the output resolution.
Did Apple board got sacked?
I feel like even civilian airlines have some national defense / security aspect to them since they’re so critical to our infrastructure (e.g. troop transports). I don’t want to return to the days before deregulation, but I think there should be federally enforced rules around remaining operational even during times of severe economic crisis.

That being said, nobody expects a 100 year event, and it would be irresponsible to ask shareholders to offer $100 plane tickets that don’t likely don’t even cover the cost of a seat while also maintaining an emergency budget. I’ve heard airlines have razor thin margins for at least economy class seats, and I’d rather support a one time bailout than have to pay business fare going forward.
These companies have gutted their research and development costs to increase free cash flow. For example, Boeing’s share repurchase program also accelerated as BA reached all time highs and became an extremely risky asset after the second MAX crash and endless FAA investigations. That’s a senseless use of capital yet they’re asking tax payers for bailouts.
I am trying to remain rational, maybe over-rational. My age group has a low risk, my children almost no risks. Mostly elderly people die, which is sad, but they have lived. There are 4000 cases in my country which is still a pretty low chance of encountering one ... especially since we are almost quarantined. If we follow South Korea methods, we should see the same effects in 2 to 3 weeks.

Second thing is that it has nothing to see with the crises of the XX century, and probably much less serious than what is going to happen towards and after 2050 (huge number of people fleeing their unlivable lands).
so it must be have been a British conspiracy. I knew it all along.
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Call your friends and family and make sure they're ok. Talking to others helps you both be less anxious.

Also, see yourself as an observer of the times, not so much an actor. Don't worry about powerlessness, just be glad you can see how things are going.
I expect we'll soon find out an awful lot of businesses have done the same or close to the same that are about to ask for bailout money (casinos, hotels, etc.). I've long been worried about the strength of the market in the U.S. because prices have seemed to mainly be because of buybacks and financial maneuvering rather than because of strong fundamentals, increased productivity/innovation, etc. I hope the gov lets a few of these businesses fail or put absolutely draconian repayment terms on them if only to show that companies can't depend on the government to bail them out every time something bad happens they weren't prepared for.
Me and my colleagues have just kept working full steam ahead (from home of course) without much to say about Coronavirus whatsoever.
Well hang on, not necessarily. The donations could be to a sovereign wealth fund of some kind, so long as invested money produces a somewhat reliable income, it could be seen as an investment in the eventual utopia UBI fans envision happening once the fund's large enough. Not a terrible way to implement it privately if the state doesn't get around to it now I think of it.
This presumes that societies are run and tax so as to provide equal benefits to all. This is disproven by, I dunno, the history of every society.
I have bin spending time with my 5 kids. We have bin in the yard planting veggys and doing some cooking. It's good but hard to keep your mind of things.
Yes, but was that justified? Any examples for that? Especially on the topic of war a free press was the reason people started to get to know the darker side of war instead of the usual heroic depictions propaganda often proclaimed.

We are not talking about war related strategic information here, so I don't understand your position. I still don't know about any examples. There should be at least some if it is dismissed as necessary.
Open source projects are run by developers, why would you expect developers to make great tools for any field except development?
We’re talking about airlines, not Boeing. How much R&D should they be doing?
You are describing the Dutch policy...
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My reaction to the news is largely disappointment. This didn't have to happen the way it did.

I'm a bit uneasy and quite pessimistic about the whole thing. The possibility it's going to get bad beyond what anyone can currently imagine isn't zero. One month ago we wouldn't have imagined where we are today.

That said, the majority of my life up until now has consisted of considerable real life social isolation, so the social distancing as of late is basically business as usual.
No, you can run thousands of gen_servers in one VM instance.

This is like calling unix processes that listen on ports "servers", which is pretty common.
Btw most of these shareholders have been smart enough to sell immediately when the markets began falling so they will buy these stocks at the bottom and get bailed out all over again by the taxpayer and watch the capital multiply.

I'm all for getting rich but pump and dumps should be (are?) illegal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
Firefox can do this for the css files, which I use quite often. Never thought about the HTML side as that is in templates anyway.
You can find the Kubernetes deploy here:

https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-helm

I can't share the Ansible stuff because it isn't public.
Its a prescription drug in the US, and pharmacists get paid a bunch. Most developing countries you can buy OTC.
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Exercise every day. Get some sleep. Work, particularly if there are some tedious type tasks that you can plow through without thinking too much. Keep perspective. Yes, this is absolutely a rough period, but in time it will pass.

I also play 'worst case scenario' with myself. My wife and I are relatively young, so the odds of us being seriously impacted health-wise are very low. But, worst case would be my wife and/or my parents die. Next level terrible, but it's also a reminder to be talking and present with them every day. It's not making light of it, but accepting this is a worst case from a health stand point.

From an economic standpoint, my company could be forced to close. I could be forced to eventually use all my savings, sell my house, etc... Would that suck? Absolutely. Is it the end of the world? Nah, and it's infinitely better than something happening to the people around me. I started with very little, and would just start again.
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"Serverless" is the new "Cloud"
Yarn's new version does a bunch of weird, complex to reason about stuff that's closer to a bundler than it is to a module manager: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/6953
> Moreover, without massive changes elsewhere in society, UBI would decrease social mobility and lead to a two-class society that keeps the poor even poorer than now.

Could you elaborate on that a bit? How and why would it do that?

What's your opinion on Negative Income Tax?

> The current systems in most countries are horrible, because they are designed to punish people who are creative and try to make money on the side

Agreed. The number of people applying for some program while trying to hide some of their income would go down a lot if the eligibility and payout were gradual. Plus the truly heinous criminal cases would be still there to prosecute. (Eg. if someone sits on a pile of gold and lies about it on some application.)
Freenode has netsplits relatively often :D
You made very good points and I think we probably agree on the need for both good entry and exit plans. The larger point I was trying to highlight is how much of each side is based on conjecture, not data driven evidence. Which makes good planning that much more necessary
I was trying to think of parallels with the programming world, and perhaps this analogy might make sense to some people.

Sometimes, the software we maintain accumulates so much tech debt that it becomes very difficult to make any headway. By setting aside some development time to address these issues, we enable developers to gain velocity again.

In a similar way, sometimes we see poor people make illogical economic choices, simply because of a cash crunch. When people are poor, they have too many competing priorities that require urgent attention, and they find themselves caught in a series of wicked choices. A Harvard study suggests that poverty causes 13 point drop in IQ.

The right level of UBI may actually improve the way energy and capital is deployed. It also protects a lot of small employers from economic shocks by smoothing out the velocity of money.

Many readers are rightly concerned about the moral hazard introduced through redistribution of wealth. However, seen through the lens of tech debt and investment, UBI is relatively straight forward way of investing in the future.
> craving for a catastrophic scenario like that to unfold so they can feel part of something greater than themselves

This reminds me of a recent piece in the NYT about despair[1]. I thought that a discussion of meaning was conspicuously absent. I think that religion and civic life has so utterly failed to provide any substantive meaning of life for most people in a manifestly secular world, that is isn't the least bit surprising to me that a growing number of people are experiencing existential despair.

A genuine catastrophic scenario can easily be seen as a source of richness, excitement, and meaning that many deeply crave, even if they don't realize it consciously. We humans are starved for such meaning.

[1] http://archive.ph/Qhjyn
Not familiar with afrinik, but this has been reported in The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/health-experts...
This is really nice. Great work!
Fortunately, that's not all of it, it's a circle:

markets optimize production and take from workers

workers enjoy what markets provide and optimize the production and specifically production value of human work, taking from those who are producing

production optimizes what markets will sell and take from them.

And in practice it's 100000x more complex than this, mostly because such complexity is necessary.
I would say he is not entitled to any such thing, as he doesn't own the language.
Even with that they're probably a still running windows
Interesting. It looks like you can buy PH votes online if you search for relevant terms. I guess this is common tactic.
It's possible to implement the concept in asyncio as well, just not enforce it for dependancies due to ensure_future().

See ayo for a very rougth draft of the idea: https://github.com/Tygs/ayo
... and pretty much all of those were addressed, outwith Unix, by the evolution of the 1960s terminal I/O model into the console I/O model during the 1980s.

You even forgot to mention one of the things that was addressed: input. Terminal I/O input, done properly, requires a full ECMA-48 decoder state machine, with bodges to accommodate non-conformant warts from the Linux KVT, SCO Console, and RXVT. This is all too often not done properly, because people do not realize that there is ECMA-48 in both directions; and is a mess, just looking at function keys alone and not even accounting for keypad application/normal modes and a mouse/locator. Console I/O evolved into uniform input event records for HIDs that did not require state machines to decode.

Note that the lack of a layout system is only applicable to character-mode terminals. Block-mode terminals are a quite different kettle of fish.
Changing your employment is individual and allows different offerings from different employers, matching the wants and needs of different people. Changing your government needs a majority consensus and at least some people will be in the minority who doesn't get what they want.

I don't think tying employment to healthcare is a good thing, but I don't think your argument gives a good reason, either.
What about some equity in return for a bail out..
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You've recognized your anxiety, so congrats on being conscious about it. Think of it as the first step of a solution.

Unfortunately, what's happening in the world is out of our control. We need info and we need to share good info, but don't constipate on bad news. Recognize that fear in the past, often was about nothing, or it's worse to think about it. Learn to not give a F.

You have some control, how you react (not how you feel), and getting into some work or play will relieve the stress. We need to move our bodies, sing and dance if you can, however best you can release your energy. Build from there.

Some things we can change, other things we can't. Use this time to reconnect with yourself, investigate stuff that interests you, let the bad news fly by as pure informational data and realize you are in your own cockpit. A good distraction is focusing on someone else and what they need.

Good luck! There will be bad feelings, but the worst of them is just thinking too much. Let the feelings come if they need to, just don't indulge in fear or paranoia, and accept that negative reactions will come up.

Slow, deep breaths into stomach. Relax.
It's been dropping like a rock for the last week in a lot of places. A friend of mine in the midwest says the price at the station near his house just hit $1.49.
I like this video from Philip Bloom who has two vacuum cleaners running at night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdR0JT652T4

I won't spoil what happens with them :) But the interesting thing happens at about 1:10 into the video.
Not a native speaker, but refutation to me translates to disputed… anyways edited for clarity.
My understanding is Chrome Workspaces[0] already do this. But the problem here is how do you make this work with asset pipelines for SASS, HTML template to languages, etc...?

[0]: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/work...