skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> as the median compensation for a Facebook employee is $228,651

Meanwhile in silicon valley people making an average of $228k a year get a $1,000 for no reason. They are on salary already and $1,000 doesn’t move the needle for them. This is absurd.
I don’t work at FB, but I’ve definitely spent a few hundred these past couple of weeks preparing for the current situation.
cf Marburgvirus
arent local businesses closing?
FWIW you can basically leave a Kindle in airplane mode all the time and copy books over USB. Plus it extends the already great battery life.
Yes, but in the Bay Area it's not uncommon to have household workers – cleaners, nannies, etc. Something like this would allow people to continue to pay those folks who are not working now, and have no other form of income or assistance. It would help the FB workers, because they're going to be doing that work on top of their normal jobs.

Not saying that's what people will use the money for, but it ups the odds at least.

If you're a tech worker and you have savings to weather a crisis: consider your plans for all the people who rely on you, who are waiting for something and not sure when and if its coming.
Huh, AFAIK on linux dd responds to SIGUSR1.
Yes, people are blaming the Chinese government, because there's evidence that they actually tried to cover it up and botched the response. Sometimes blame is rightly placed.
Without judgment I find it amusing that these arguments rapidly converge to ones used by the participants on subreddits for shoplifting and stealing.

I'm not saying the acts are equivalent, just that the positions are.

It also feels like statistically I should have read at least one comment where someone is convinced by argument that their copyright infringement is wrong but over twenty years on the Internet, I actually haven't. Very interesting.

It's also pretty easy for me to not judge since I've done things of dubious ethicality myself: I've never paid for a full copy of a textbook. Either I've bought the Asian copy or I've been part of a pool-and-photocopy group. Even now I use scihub preferentially.

Interestingly, the scihub usage is more acceptable online than the pool-and-photocopy but in real life no one has given me any grief for either.

To be honest, I don't feel very guilty either. And I'd do it again. If I attempt to see it as something shameful, convincing arguments defending myself pop out. I suspect it's something in the shape of the elephant and the mahout - the justification comes because I've already decided what I'll do. What I'll do is not rationally justified - that's coming after.

I'd speculate (idly) that this is the same mechanism in other pirates.
We ordered Peapod but the first availability was one week out. We were able to get Amazon to deliver Whole Foods within a few hours. Yes, we can substitute any retailer for Amazon, but people like to pick on Amazon much more than other retailers, so I felt the need to back them because they continue to execute at a high level even now.
Ah, citation bruh?
So is shutting down the entire worlds economy. That has massive, very real impacts well beyond just money.
So just to be clear, since you're mostly just quoting sources: those data do not corroborate a 1M infection undercount in China in December. They match what we're seeing, probably with a much more moderate (e.g. 6x) undercount of active infections.
Is CFR in doubt? As I understand this, CFR means "number of people dead from this disease, in the hospital" / "number of people entering the medical system with this disease". Defined that way, there is really no room for the figure to be wrong.

I think we're looking for a different measure (IFR?) which is "how likely is it on average for someone in the population to die from this?". That's the number we don't know because we don't know the number of infected people.

What we do know is that in the places where the disease has gotten out of hand, the medical system becomes overloaded. That's the real, immediate, present problem and whether it's a problem or not doesn't depend on the CFR. Note that most of the existing hospitalized cases in Italy are _still_ on ventilation. So although they don't show up in the CFR, they're still taking up medical resources and some number of them will eventually not make it. (Source: watch the many videos on Youtube from the Drs working in the Red Zones).
Does that data indicate that seated reservations are only presently down 56% YOY in the US ? That's pretty discouraging if that many people are still ignoring standard guidance.
That fiscal stimulus should be counter-cyclical isn't "Keynesian economics". It is just macroeconomics.
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And in late responses... It occurs to me I was put on a nebulizer. Which is a respirator...
They are smart. Street-smart.

They are not wise.
> How do we identify good times

By looking at the employment rate, not the meaningless unemployment rate numbers. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employment-rate

> How do we get humans to save in good times.

By electing people that save responsibility. Post WWII the US paid down huge amounts of debt. Now it seems like Republicans want to loot the place whenever they get power and Democrats are willing to trade spending for more spending.
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I think the problem comes in when you know you are going to get a bailout if something catastrophic happens. If the Airlines had to pay into a mandatory insurance for this sort of thing it would be different, or if they were just going to be allowed to fail. But the Airlines want the best of both worlds.
But what are they afraid of?

I can run Firefox or whatever for modern websites, and Pale Moon or 10 year old sites running deprecated technology.

No one will ever build a website using WebComponents and NPAPI, so what's the problem?

The only possible explanation I see is that Pale Moon team desires and thinks that Pale Moo can become more popular than Firefox or Chrome simply by hoarding their discarded old tech. It's delusional, like selling computers with parallel ports and VGA cables and begging people not to use DislayPort monitors.
> They are already making hundred of billions

My point is they would make hundred of billions MORE. Some will still illegally download, but most would flock to such a service.

We're not all criminals because it's fun. We just hate the inconvenience of trying to watch a movie legally in 2020, especially if you're outside of US, or worse yet, outside of the Western world.
From the article, yes:

> I spoke with Verizon about the usage. They said it's getting categorized as audio and video streaming, but only because it's using network ports normally associated with those types of services.
You rewrite because it has to be done, despite the fact that it is no doubt the inferior solution both in terms of technical complexity and economic benefits, as Joel articulated well many years ago (and many others even earlier as well).

The code goes into this state because no one appreciates piece size enhancement. And those enhancement has no "impact". Everyone is waiting for the point that everyone's suffering from the bitrotten code is beyond most people's tolerance. And everyone knows well that some really bad things happen during the process, and they'll wisely refrain from doing anything meaningful.

That's basically one fact of how software engineering is done in practice.

Poor humans.

And this phenomenon is well known even in ancient time in other areas of society. Like even in Qin dynasty cicra 300BC, a Chinese physician Bian Que once claimed that his brothers are better than him [1], because they prevent illness before they occur.

And of course, everyone only knows Bian Que.
Nooo, because the server would be your reader! What kind of primitive stack are you promoting?
I think you misunderstand. OP was saying if China had acted better, maybe COVID-19 wouldn't have spread in the first place. Maybe they could have contained it before it reached other countries or Chinese provinces.

I doubt that could have happened, but it could have significantly slowed COVID-19's spread.
Its unfortunate that everybody's rewriting stuff with futures only to realize five years from now that structured concurrency is much safer and easier.
I don't agree with this logic. Startups need to pivot. This creates opportunity. If we all go into recession groupthink, that's what will happen.

Big companies aren't serving the current needs and market well. Startups can go in, and serve new markets better. There are a million open beachhead markets right now.

We need to re-ramp our economy as in WWII, not shut it down.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Are you saying an unencumbered free market system is impossible, or just that it's not what our current system is right now?

If the latter, I agree; that was sort of the whole point of my comment. Amazon controls a large portion of the shipping market, therefore what we have here is closer to a monopsony than an unencumbered free market.

If the former, I mostly disagree. Obviously a perfectly idealized free market system is impossible in the real world: all idealized systems are. There's no such thing as a frictionless surface or a perfect sphere either. That doesn't mean however that we couldn't be a lot closer to that ideal than where we are now, or that idealized systems aren't useful tools for modeling the behavior of similar, non-idealized systems in the real world.
As an also-not-a-dev:

Speed. Portability. Muscle memory. I've spent ten years troubleshooting UNIX applications, so most of these commands are fairly well-ingrained into my mode of thinking when I have data that I've got to parse.

To boot, these shell utilities were written by people way smarter than me. I have far more confidence that they will handle edge cases in the data stream infinitely better than whatever dinky little Python script I might try to hash out.
...so you think they shouldn't be able to buy it by themselves without it going through federal distribution channels first? Ignoring whether they can or not today.
Technically, those are not examples of racism. The later is intolerance to a (specific?) religion. Not sure about the former.
The fact that it's a positive feedback cycle doesn't mean you're not partially responsible for making it worse by not paying for news, even if it didn't necessarily start with you. Sometimes you have to pay for it even if it isn't perfect, if you want any hope of making it better.
> only available since GNU make 4.0, and some Linux distributions still have older make, made it a hassle to setup. This should improve over time, of course.

That feels like an outdated statement, make 4.0 came out in 2013. The only non-EOL system I can think of off the top of my head that isn't shipping >=4.0 is macOS (because they won't upgrade to anything GPLv3).

However, unfortunately there's a popular CI system (cough CircleCI cough) that's still using Ubuntu 14.04 by default, which has been EOL for almost a year now. (And others, such as Travis-CI, used it by default right up until it was EOL).

Oh, if you appreciate gmsl, you might also appreciate a book by the same author ('jgrahamc), The GNU Make Book. Some of the things in gmsl are certainly hacks, but a lot of it is quite reasonable if you start reading Make macros as "lisp, but with a bunch of extra dollar-signs and commas".
Household savings would be lower if governments take on more debt, but they insist on running surpluses. Germany in particular has kept wages for workers depressed as part of their "economic model". Germany should be cutting taxes for workers significantly and investing in infrastructure, defense, and social programs.

In fact a lot of the rich EU members should be doing that, but they all have a misguided notion of "fiscal prudence". As if the government's budget is the same as a household's budget.
I am curious of those examples. The big outbreaks in the past the WHO has focused on include MERS, Ebola and H1N1. There's a really good Wendover video on the WHO Ebola response and it's pretty impressive.

That said, Ebola got people sick quickly (compared to SARS-cov2) and it started in areas that weren't as globally connected, limiting the spread.

Still, there was a lot of hype of H1N1 that never really panned out. Still this is a totally new virus, from a family of viruses that has historically never been bad (a quarter of colds are caused coronaviruses).

If it's May 1st and there are <50k dead in the US with the patient rates going down, I think people are going to start to seriously question anything the WHO says going into the future. The alternative is that by May we'll be hearing news reports of how 90% of hospital in <insert big city .. London, Brussels, Atlanta> are at capacity with people being shipped to suburbs and individual 3D printing ventilator parts.

Honestly, I will be surprised either way.
I'm cautiously optimistic that most of us will get through this crisis successfully, at least here in Scandinavia where solidarity is still a thing (however imperfectly).

What I do worry a little about is the knock on effects; the amplification of existing trends that reduce physical commerce in town centres, driving shops, cafés, etc., out of business.

If we want to have places to shop other than supermarkets and online and a reason to maintain and develop town centres someone is going to have to figure out how to change various tax regimes to make it easier for such places to survive.

In most towns that I visit there has already in the last forty years been a dramatic reduction in the range of goods available and of course this just drives even more people to shop online further reducing the turnover of the local shops.

Of course it could be that we should just let them go out of business and find an alternative way of living.

Other than that, as keiferski says we live in much better times, even with this crisis, than pretty much ever before.
That's about to completely crater. My city issued guidance just yesterday (3/16) that all dining room service is to stop. Drive through, delivery, and curbside only.
Both, anything, everything. They're an ancient outdated (==insecure) fork of Firefox and they can't implement any new feature themselves.
I was thinking the same thing. There are a lot of people who would gladly take this work right now.
Not cross-platform, but cross-computer. It isn't available everywhere, and is quite a fuzz to enable elsewhere.
That is no longer the case as of 2015. Place names are no longer used because of the stigmatization issues:

https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2015/naming-new-d...
The EU via the EMF have been doing aggressive QE upon the Euro for years now, just to keep the EUro competitive for exports as well as imports. A high euro value makes imports cheap, but kills exports as they come more expensive export wise. A low currency makes imports expensive, but makes exports cheap.

So they have been interjecting to keep the balance right.

Before QE you had country interest rates, but with many of those low, the new tool on the block is negative interest rates.

Sadly all these have produced two decades of fiscal responsibility that has seen saver mentality die and buy today, pay tomorrow increase. Which i'm sure looks great on some balance sheet and allows politicians and accountants to say hey, look at the growth, ain't we doing well and the market perception just nods and agree.

Any dent in that perception and a whole raft of cards quickly start to fall and with that in mind, interesting times ahead and let us see what happens.
Kind of hard to know what exactly is an “essential” item.

Last week the condensate pump for my furnace stopped working. A condensing furnace produces about a gallon of water an hour while it’s running.

I rigged up a storage bin to catch the water and would dump it out manually a few times a day. The size of the bin is limited because the furnace drain is only a few inches off the ground.

Keeping my house heated basically depends on that condensate pump. I ordered one on March 12 and it was delivered March 14.

There’s probably a very long tail of strange things which are actually relatively crucial components that people depend on being able to order (rather than having spare parts on hand).
All: please do not post nationalistic or ideological flamewar comments to HN. Commenters doing this have ruined this thread, and more of it would ruin the site. We won't let that happen, a.k.a. we ban accounts that do this, so please stop now and don't start again.

If you want to bash each other's countries, tribes, parties, and ideologies, there are other places on the internet. This place is for curious, thoughtful conversation. That's what the majority of the community comes here for, and HN being a public forum does not entitle you to wreck it for them. The commons is delicate. Posting is a privilege. Using this place as a battlefield will lose you that privilege. Normally we'd bury any thread this wretched, but I'm leaving this one up in the hope that people will learn from the examples below.

Viruses are not the only thing that's spreading right now. If you're commenting here, you are responsible for containing your share of the stress, fear, and rage of the moment, and finding capacity for curiosity in yourself—which includes respect for other commenters. If you can't do that, that's understandable and fine, but then please self-isolate until you can.

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So the classic argument of 'trickle down economics'. I"d wager that that $1k will just go into their bank account, like their bonus would.
Perhaps you have a keylogger on your computer. Or a malicious app was able to access your clipboard. Or a third-party script on the site hijacked the form submission (Magecart, which is still an issue to this day). Or perhaps you're using a native app that isn't open-source, and they send your credentials to their servers to create their own list of passwords for credential stuffing elsewhere. There are many possible channels to be compromised. Sure, these are "user errors," but people have to use proprietary apps and websites for their day-to-day life. And people still get phished.

And so, users shouldn't trust websites. That's why the browser is sandboxed. They shouldn't trust proprietary apps either, but now Mac/Windows users are accustomed to letting apps elevate their privileges upon installation. Assume they won't handle your credentials securely, and you'll be better off when security does inevitably break somewhere down the line.

You're wanting an ideal world where every service everywhere is using some sort of ZKPP for authentication, both the client and server are open source with reproducible builds, have security audits, and their users don't reuse passwords. I would love this too, but it's not reasonable. There's a huge educational and governmental gap for society to get there.

We'll always need password managers and 2FA; globally-enforced ZKPP's still won't stop that. Perhaps there's a use-case for them elsewhere that will be revolutionary, like end-to-end encryption with messaging apps. But for authentication? Just send it over HTTPS.
In Orlando its 50% capacity, but no sales of booze except to go.
Not sure why there are so many negative comments. This is a win and sets a great example that hopefully other companies can follow.

Yes, software engineers at FB have probably no (or very little) problem working from home and get their $200k salary, but this is a win regardless.
It looks like they are paying for the extra hours, at least.
So now it is groupthink? Curious. I was being downvoted to hell a month ago when I was telling people we should enable measures.

You can definitely do things like:

• stop all tourist and non-essential travel, giving airlines the option to freeze their accounts
• enable work from home for all public employees
• force private companies to do so too for jobs that can be
• close all educational institutions and let them give lessons remotely if they want
• ban non-work related gatherings
• ramp up production of masks and other basic stuff
• ban people from buying too much of 1 given item per day

for even 1 year if necessary, without destroying the economy.

That alone would have flattened the curve so much it is not even funny.
> in applications that don’t require maximum resource efficiency and memory safety, adopting Rust in 2020 is irrational at best

which applications don't require memory safety?
Not as densely populated as China though, and they're richer countries, as per capita GDP.
That’s certainly a valid opinion. Nonetheless, giving the bonus to everyone does no harm, looks better in terms of PR, doesn’t foster an “us and them” mentality, and is probably easier to administer than just giving it to select employees. The difference on the bottom line is a rounding error.
My employer uses Roomz (https://roomz.io/) which does exactly that.

It has some trade-offs like being very laggy if a meeting is spontaneously cancelled, and it doesn't show double bookings, but besides that, it's pretty attractive.
Citation on that?
If you think that's bad, think of all the people doing medical work that is physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting right now.
If you read the article you will see they are also giving every essentially a full bonus irrespective of performance. Depending on individual agreements that could be a significant sum so it's definitely not a fraction of a percent of anybody's annual pay.
>does such a device exist?

That is the goal of this device. The original Remarkable was superior to the surface and the iPad, and according to their marketing the next one will be twice as fast.
I can't understand why would somebody think that putting latest data on the left is a good idea.
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They're also great for blogs too.

Remember how everyone was adding stuff like lightboxes to their pages with jQuery Plugins? Well now that kind of thing is much cleaner and doesn't require writing a line of JS.