skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is also bad for their landlord, because the property will be idle until things improve. A landlord is better letting the business shutter for a year and have a paying tenant again when it reopens, than to kick out the tenant and pay the costs in a years time to entice a new tenant in an environment that would be best described as a renters market. If I was the renter, I certainly wouldn't be getting a loan. Renters have a good bargaining position right now.
My heart really goes out to employees who are about to be put through the wringer, I've heard horror stories of coffee shops and restaurants laying off 90% of staff on a day's notice - I'm sure it will quickly expand.

I work at a DC startup LiveSafe and we are still hiring. We offer a communications platform for students and employees focused around safety & security - we were founded out of the need for communities to have a quicker, more direct line to campus security following our founder being shot in the Virginia Tech shooting. I have been helping lead the expansion of our offerings into Fortune 500 corporate clients.

Many of our clients have been using our software to push outbound information to their students / employees about policies around COVID-19, as well as triage and respond to employee needs, so we are fortunate in that our product fits into the response effort for most companies who purchased us. I think we will be fine for the foreseeable future - sound financials and a generous credit line secured during good times just in case.

We are hiring for a much needed Data Science position focusing on building and deploying NLP models & products to analyze the data that travels through our platforms - plus our production stack is a dream to build and deploy on. It's a small, fun, mission-driven team granted a lot of autonomy and responsibility - I'm on phone screens just about everyday and we have not slowed down filling this position. Would love to hear from any Data Science / Engineering talent may need a soft landing in all of this - very interesting text-heavy data set.

https://apply.workable.com/livesafe/j/DA0FCE14D5/
In my place in VN, the shower drain is the floor drain. No need for an extra line even. =) The whole bathroom is basically one big shower.
Even if it reduces the risk of contamination from a direct "cough in the face" from 100% to 95%, when facing a disease with exponential progression, every little bit helps.

Perfection is the enemy of the good.
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.

There is a way out of this joke. Keep your heads up and don't give up.
Not to scare anyone, but myself and many of my highly capable friends were laid off after the dotcom bubble burst in the early 2000's. It took many of us 1, 2 sometimes 3 years to get back to the same level of job we had before. Prepare for a long haul. Get over your ego immediately and take whatever job you can get now, while you continue to look for work in the software industry. I drove a city bus (surprisingly to me, I loved it.)
And now the CDC is reporting similarly to my claims above: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm?s_cid=mm...
Your "against" seems to be an actual study, your "for" links are from Jane McGonigal who's been criticized for making claims not backed up in any way and who makes money selling "betterness" through apps, TED talks, and books.
Everyone dying destroys everything. I'm not sure saving a cafe is worth thousands or millions of deaths.
Hats off, @mrkurt. This is the kind of thing HN, and YC, are all about at their very best. Absolutely love the way this idea, executed right, helps improve the deployment topography landscape, so to speak. Between service workers, Cloudflare workers, and now fly.io nodes at the edge, the degree of control over where and how your application executes across the network in relation to clients is kind of exhilarating -- at least for this 22-year veteran of web-related architecture. Bravo! And good luck!
Can Smart Thermometers Track the Spread of the Coronavirus?
This is not unheard of among FreeBSD users. Most of ZFS's features do not require (or even necessarily benefit from) multiple disks.
I've been wondering, all the kids pushing the nonsense stereotype prejudice against "boomers" -- do they all hate their grandparents?
>These seem to be the exact same cameras they've been shipping since 2011

As explained in your previous comment, the sensor in post 2018 model are different due to thinner Display Lid / Panel.
The stock-based comp portion of these are moving around incredibly quickly right now. Probably changes the calculus in lots of cases.
Can you explain more? What does "having to disable the telemetry" mean and what's the effect of that?
Boomers are too young in general.

But “Silent Generation Remover” is equally distasteful and doesn’t rhyme.
Is this something that be manufactured at scale to treat 1-4% of the world's population in the next few months?
Coronavirus Infected My Brain: Anxiety, the internet, and complex situations
Running your own bgp in multiple data centers requires some reasonable network engineering skills. Anycast, specifically, is a complex beast. If you use multiple transit providers, you have to continuously tweak things to make sure people aren’t getting weird routes. Network providers like to send people over the cheapest (in dollars) routes sometimes, which makes things slow.
That's some serious ageist hate coming from people who may get to be old themselves someday, with younger generations cheering for their death. The Golden Rule didn't get learned, I guess.
The economy will not be destroyed. It will merely change.

It will be actually "destroyed" if the virus is not stopped.

For God's sake people stop thinking about your S&P500 index funds for a second. Also, if you still want to be selfish, your index funds will go down to ~zero if the virus is not stopped.
As an 18 year old high school student, I was able to snag a free seat on a field trip to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, just a little trip to Boston from my hometown of Claremont, NH. In 1998, my high school had just lost its accreditation, I had just flunked pre-calculus for the second year in a row, and I had absolutely no direction in my life. Three months later I would be kicked out of college for a 0.6 first-semester GPA, to begin the very long, awkward journey of finding myself. This takes many more years before the first success.

But that trip to this museum, one included on this website as a virtual tour, planted a seed, deep down in my mind that would take years to spout. The museum is a Venetian palace, and at the center, draped by shadows that lurch outwards from receding hallways, lies a majestic courtyard, adorned with crenulation and dentils that mesmerize and steal the time from day. A trashy townie punk stood there aghast that beauty could render so closely, and knew there for maybe the first time that a world beyond home awaited.

I never got a chance to thank the man that let me sneak aboard that bus, but many times already I have felt the spirit of sharing to an outsider that access, and evermore will I continue for it is only during these moments that we can so easily take stock of what we've been.

Support the arts.
Really good points.

Anecdotally; this also seems to correlate roughly to my personal lurk : contribute ratio. I consume far more than I put out.
I'll second it as an awesome place to work!
I mean this in all earnesty: Musk looks like he's put on a lot of weight in that photo. What's going on there?
How many of the control group were cured?
Washington Governor Inslee announces relief for businesses, workers, renters
That’s a pretty good definition of FaaS.
That report just sources the same CDC report, but I think it gets some of its conclusions wrong.

It says:

>In contrast, among people 20 to 44, 14% to 21% of 705 cases were admitted to hospitals and 2% to 4% to ICUs; 0.1% to 0.2% died.

But the CDC report indicates that 12% total (of all cases) are known to have been hospitalized, and of that number, 20% were age 20-44. So that would mean that (0.12*.2=) 2.4% of people total were 20-44 and in the hospital. Now 29% of all cases were in that age group, so that would mean for the 20-44 age group there was a (2.4/29=)8.3% chance of hospitalization.

Maybe I misunderstood something there, but I think I'm right.
People work at that cafe and use their income to feed and house their families, and to provide them with healthcare.

Don’t be dismissive of these concerns, they are very real.
Gregory Rigano ist a LAWYER who is trying to get a patent for Hydroxychloroquinine as Covid-19 treatment. This must be a complete fraud! Obviously someone with high fever during the infection will have his temperature lowered, since this is also the purpose of the drug during a malaria attack!
Even if there is a real effect in vitro, if it doesn't work in vivo, it means nothing! The medical world is littered with unsuccessful in vivo attempts of in vitro successes!
Wouldn't SPARQL be a better choice for this? It's an actual Web standard, unlike GraphQL so a better fit to general-purpose clients with no "pre-arranged queried structure".
Another thing to remember is that the scientific medical terms are "grade deflated"

Scientific -> what a layperson would say

Mild -> sick

Moderate -> hospitalized

Severe -> deathly ill
> A lot of weaker talent, sketchy business models, and fast money investors are going to wash out and the industry will emerge stronger.

Sounds like 2002. (In other words, been there, done that, got through it by working for "boring" companies)
Kaist Researchers Develop Highly Reusable Mask Filter
How does the stock work here? Wouldn't these vest over 4 years? Or is this how much stock they get per year?
Yikes! Clearly I only know what you just told me, but I would be extremely careful about taking that job at the tiny startup. Winter is coming.
How can applying a machine learning algorithm to this data (a collection of research papers) help fight Covid? It’s possible most papers here are bogus or low quality. Garbage in, garbage out?
~57 million people die every regular year for whatever reasons

Even doubling that does not "destroy everything"
Long time lurker here.I often feel I have nothing useful to contribute.So I don't. You're welcome.
I'm experimenting with snorkel mask and n99 filters
That appears to be a YC company, possibly club-behavior?
There are two groups: (a) gold bugs; (b) those who diversified their portfolio. These two groups can't move miners or gold in the long run. They need momentum traders, or a group of people who just want to ride that gold gravy train. And that moment has come: coronavirus, interventions by central banks. However, the momentum has stalled or that many others don't want to ride that gold train. So, that's why miners gonna crash further.
Mind boggling that someone could think that a month or two months shutdown "destroys the economy", but all Americans infected and several % dead doesn't "destroy the economy".
Given that markets didn't react to this news 11 hours ago, I think it's safe to say that this doesn't have significant prospects of being a real cure.
In 2002 I realized that I wasn’t the hotshot I thought I was. I bet a lot of people will learn that soon too.
Looking at this in dispassionate economic terms...

It’s not clear to me that letting the virus run it’s coarse would hurt the economy.

Some (but certainly not most) very old people would die, but they are not in their productive years. Their assets would pass to younger people who would be more inclined to put them to use in the economy.
Isn’t Azithromycin antibiotics? (Z-pack?)

How would that help vs a virus? Or does it just help the body from having other unrelated things to also fight?
Also speaks to the nature of influence and power throughout history. Usually it's only around 1% of the human population that can reach and impact the lives of more than a few hundred others (roughly the size of a small village where you can get to know everyone) and expand their influence over countries and empires of millions. Likewise, history only records the details of the lives of far less than 1% of all people that have ever lived. If you were one of the peasant masses, your entire life is summarized by whatever tidbits of trivia historians can glean from the artifacts from the grave of the one lucky person that they happened to find. Same idea, 1% of all the graves that ever existed serve to illustrate the lives of the rest of humanity to future historians.

Really gives you a perspective on where an individual's life fits into the grand scheme of things. If you don't make it into the history books, in a 100 years once everyone who ever knew you as a person has passed it'll be as if you never existed at all.
I'm struck by how different the art in the Soviet articles is from the attempted-hyper-realism in Chesley Bonestell, Bob McCall, and Don Davis typical in the west. The Soviet art is more evocative and poetic (or alternatively, stylistically what might have appeared in advertising in the west), while the US artists I mention made me imagine I could be visiting a toroidal space station or be in orbit around Io.
If you're in NYC you can visit the holography lab -- Jason has created some truly life size stuff, the biggest I saw was about poster board sized, maybe 3 x 4 feet. They were not for sale, but he does commissions...

https://www.holographer.com/

EDIT This place advertises "analogue holograms in size of up to 1.2×0.8 meters"

http://geola.com/
The apology’s unnecessary. Keep on chugging. While I can only offer words of encouragement, know that this is the right place to ask. Ask everywhere and anywhere. No shame at all as we’re all dealing with fallout of this event. We all need to support others through this.
Yeah, that’s rude and uncalled for. Have you done anything comparable to Bob’s work on programming languages? Otherwise I’d suggest to shush.
But the death rates suggest everyone won't be dying, so we needn't ascribe too much concern to this outcome.
Which is exactly why social safety net programs exist and continue to function during these times. Not to mention the checks that will be mailed out to every taxpayer soon.

We can and should essentially shut down the country
Millions dying is pretty damaging, too. We can plan and mitigate with one strategy, nature dictates the outcome of the other.
Nip what in the bud? The article seems to indicate the fear is of the 3.5% to 11% of 80 year olds who will die
When the likelihood of something starts to drop far below "universe spontaneously stops existing at the same time you're hit by lightning while checking your winning lottery ticket" levels, it might be valid to not treat it as a real option.
Why is this a mystery?

It is just a different bin.
Sorry to detract when I'm lucky and have not been laid off but I feel it's relevant.

I just started a new gig a month ago. I feel it is stable and was a good move, but who knows in these uncharted waters.

My wife is 12 weeks pregnant. I haven't told my manager or anyone else. Should I tell them or wait? We're on her healthcare and she is a nurse so high job security. Happy to add more details and thanks for your advice.
A tweet I saw yesterday said 95% recovered on the medicine. 90% of the control group still contagious. Haven't looked up the post again, but it was something I found either on that same twitter feed or a source he was pulling from.
This is extended in the post/article "Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People" [0].

> The 1% rule is of course just another way of saying that the distribution of contributions follows a Power Law Distribution, which means that the level of inequality gets more drastic as you look at smaller subsets of users.

> Wikipedia's most active 1,000 people — 0.003% of its users — contribute about two-thirds of the site's edits. Wikipedia is thus even more skewed than blogs, with a 99.8–0.2–0.003 rule.

> 167,113 of Amazons book reviews were contributed by just a few "top-100" reviewers; the most prolific reviewer had written 12,423 reviews. How anybody can write that many reviews — let alone read that many books — is beyond me.

> YouTube power-user Justin Y. had a top comment on pretty much every video you clicked on for like a year. He says he spends 1-3 hours per day commenting on YouTube, finds videos by looking at the statistics section of the site to see which are spiking in popularity, and comments on a lot of videos without watching them.

> If you consume any content on the Internet, you're mostly consuming content created by people who for some reason spend most of their time and energy creating content on the Internet. And those people clearly differ from the general population in important ways. I don't really know what to do with this observation except to note that it seems like it's worth keeping in mind when using the Internet.

Of course, that post's author is clearly insane. With 72k reputation and 1000 posts on Stack Exchange, I'm proudly insane. And if you're about to reply with a witty comment, you might just be insane, too. ;)

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
I don't think trackpad support adds much value to the "serious" use cases of the iPad. If my work gets complex enough to require a trackpad, I get on my Mac. The trackpad looks more like a band-aid solution for those who are insistent on using the iPad as a serious computer (even though it's not), because nothing so-far-invented beats the traditional keyboard-mouse-window paradigm for productivity.

The only "serious" use cases for the iPad, which are actually better on iPad than on Mac are:

- Document review and annotation with tools like LiquidText or PDF Expert

- Sketching and drawing with apps like Paper

- Data collection and demonstration in the field (showing other people stuff, and asking them to enter info)

Anything else you "could" technically do on an iPad is just a dumbed-down version of what we already do better on a Mac. Lots of pretty marketing and very little productivity - I feel bad for the generation of college kids raised on this pretty piece of glass while being deprived of the experience of "real" computing.
this "research" is the bio version of just running a benchmark on newer hardware and validating what was already known in hopes of stealing citations.

optically blocking neurons is such a cheap shot to validate old knowledge that was painstakingly researched with older tools. and they didn't even blast other random regions as a control.
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We’ve had one week of shut down in Seattle and there’s already been a huge wave of layoffs.

Two months? It’s difficult to think what will happen.

Economies don’t have a pause button. Companies, banks, and families quickly become insolvent.
The markets are reacting to the total shutdown of the service sector. That's going to cause a lot of pain whether or not this turns out to be the answer.
The "genealogical tree" looks interesting. Unfortunately the JPEG compression applied to the image makes the names of the languages illegible.
Not all Thunderbolt 3 ports are the same. Good chance that two ports are sharing a single PCIe 3.0 4x controller. Since PCIe 3.0 is good for ~7.8Gb/sec/lane, you're looking at two 40Gb/sec Thunderbolt ports sharing about 31Gb/sec of bandwidth on the PCIe bus. Okay, probably not that big of a deal really.

The point being that a "Pro" system might have 4 individual Thunderbolt controllers, each getting their own 4x PCIe 3.0 lanes.

I think that's why the specs say "Up to 40GB/sec" on the page. It sadly doesn't say which controller it has... But I guess my whole point is really moot in practicality. Good luck saturating that much bandwidth.
I partially own, while my parents run, a cafe that's pretty fucked. I'm incredibly aware of these concerns. I just think that health comes before economy. Without healthy people, you don't have an economy.
I have a 5 stage, what is a 7 stage?

I also just purchased a whole-house UV water filter because I am concerned about viral contamination of the water supply.

We usually have about 6 boilwater advisories a year.

So, I also purchased a whole-house sediment filter.

Of course, this is all useless, when there is no water supply.
You're 1 in 100, poster.
Oh please. When this is all over, the economy is going to come roaring back. Too many people, too much pent up anticipation in all sectors. American businesses will start looking to diversify their supply chain so this won't happen again. That alone will start a ton of new business initiatives around the world.
All: a user emailed with the brilliant suggestion that HN do a "Who Is Hiring Right Now?" thread. We'll do that soon; maybe tomorrow. This will specifically be for jobs that are ready to hire, and able to onboard, quickly.

If any of you have suggestions for how to make this most helpful under current conditions, please share them. I'll check this thread later tonight.
I agree, that's a great approach given the status quo. However, I'm talking about how things could be rather than how things are. The method you outlined is profoundly inefficient. I also highly doubt there is empirical evidence which shows that leveling an implicit "networking barrier to entry" is superior to alternate methods of hiring. It makes our labor market much less dynamic.
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note that Gregory Rigano is a lawyer with no medical training who has been writing about this with a cryptotrader (James M. Todaro).

Distribution of preprint by google drive remains highly suspect, as does the fact that the nominally illustrious first author communicates by a gmail address despite google scholar listing him as having a normal educational email address https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=n8EF_6kAAAAJ...

That said, i know plenty of intensely brilliant weirdo researchers -- but i'd take this with big grains of salt. and i have no idea why a z-pak is a booster for an antiviral therapy.
If you really do that, people tend to accuse you of doing RPC and not building a "true" API, because you're creating a lot of special case functions for the remote caller's business case.
Luxury cars largely co-financed by the government :D
I think that an extra 57 million people dying is devastating, and we should do everything in our power - even if it means shutting down restaurants - to prevent 57 million needless deaths.
I work for a government contractor on a tier of clearance far below what's used in defense, and we are not even allowed to take any US Gov't issued equipment outside of the US, much less actually work from there.

No way in hell anyone in Ireland is going to be doing US Gov't contracting work, unless they are on the US Embassy grounds.

Sorry. (Government contracting is exactly what the original recommendation describes..unglamorous but steady, FWIW)
I agree, this clearly needs a govt bailout. Fed already rains liquidity into the treasuries like a madman, just wait till it buys corporates and God knows what else. Treasury should now simply guarantee salaries. The unconditional helicopter money is a good idea too. This will bridge the discrepancy between financial time (which has not stopped) and economic time (which is stopping, slowly, but has to come to a full stop).

But at any rate, lives > economy. Only one of those is a renewable resource.