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Ask HN: What will the ‘new normal’ be after Covid-19?
Will we continue investing in more remote employees? What will happen to our markets and the economies we are a part of? What new businesses will be spawned from this? Will we be more prepared for the next (epi/pan)demic?
But Japan hasn't been doing really well either. They've been in a recession for like 30 years straight.
Yes, AP is college level, and SAT is high school level.
But the second lift suggests the model is showing the R-rate going up after a drop, which is what I'm asking about. The other curves -- which presumably also involve herd immunity to some degree -- are pretty much bell curves.
The damage of not minimising the spread starts with an overwhelmed medical system, and ends with too many people ill at the same time to keep the lights on and the stores stocked with essentials.

The details of managing the economics are more than a footnote, but if the worst possible peak isn't avoided everything else becomes irrelevant, because there's no surviving economy to speak of - except maybe one of local barter.

The economics are not externalities. The virus is.

The economics are a social and political choice. They don't actually require money or other symbols, although they'll probably be mediated through for reasons of comfort and familiarity.

They require enough basic provision of food and services to keep people alive, and enough provision of shelter to keep people from rioting, especially once winter comes.

The worst possible economic outcome - after a Killer Peak - is a critical mass of angry and hopeless people with nothing to lose.

Realistically, avoiding that will probably mean helicopter money and aggressive price controls to prevent gouging and profiteering. The usual rules about inflation won't apply because the alternative will be a cratering depression and mass deflation which will do far more harm to the economy than hand-outs will.

It may also mean something worse, like some form of civil conscription to get essential work done. I really hope that doesn't happen, not just because it's better to call for volunteers first, but because it's so easy to abuse politically.

But it's also true this has the potential to become the equivalent of a war time situation, and in extremis the rules may need to change to keep food+lights happening.

Shit choices. But it's a shit situation, and IMO there's no chance of business as usual returning for quite some time.
real hipsters only distill kumis...
And then the replies defending the idea of not changing it.

I am at a loss.
Thanks, makes sense. Almost all autopilot functionality is preserved during MCU problems. The attention warning indicator (pressure on steering wheel needed) being one notable exception, but that's pretty benign.
This is (2008).
Folding@Home Now Has 2X the Computing Power of World's Fastest Supercomputer
We haven't published any formal benchmarks yet. We will soon!

I'm not a regular OR-Tools user, but it allows you to call its own CP solver or external MIP solvers. I can provide a few general comments about what you'll find applying different techniques to TSP solving:

1. Nothing beats Concorde for solving pure TSPs: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/concorde.html

2. Mixed integer programming solvers do very well because you can relax the subtour elimination constraints to solve a simpler problem (such as an assignment or a 2-matching), and add them to the problem representation as they are violated in the search tree. With tight bounds the solver can fathom away most of the search space.

3. All of this breaks apart when you need to route multiple vehicles or handle side constraints (precedence, time windows, capacity). This is where CP, DDs, and Hybrid Optimization techniques start to really shine.

It's (3) that we're most interested in because realistic problems tend not follow simple, pure representations like the TSP. So when we do publish benchmarks (and their associated models) it will likely be for problems like the Li & Lim PDPTW instances (https://www.sintef.no/projectweb/top/pdptw/li-lim-benchmark/).

Another important aspect is time to find high quality solutions. Most people doing on-demand routing need good solutions that are actionable quickly. DDs have already shown a lot of promise in this area.
How much do you expect new sales bookings to change at your company in the next quarter?

(A) Up >20%, (B) Up/Down 20% (C) Down 20-30%, (D) Down 30-50%, (E) Down >50%
What a great game... spent many hours on this back in the day.

> The ultimate Lemmings 2 achievement, needless to say, is to collect gold stars across the board.

Turns out this isn't quite true... I (and many others) achieved that long ago, but a few years back I found someone had gone through the whole game without losing a lemming on any level, which is pretty astounding; in many levels that seems completely impossible. Never underestimate what dedicated gamers will achieve...
Not the GP, but "mild" probably actually means mild. Given that only (highly) symptomatic people are tested, we don't know how many people contracted the virus and only had mild cold symptoms. Developing pneumonia would already put you outside of that "mild" designation.
For sure it is unencrypted, so it is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
It's explicitly explained in the very short article. Yet somehow people lacking basic reading comprehension are en masse bemoaning the dumbing down of kids these days.
Well it reeks a bit because from the article

"Mozilla could have opted for implementing support for secure FTP in Firefox; a bug was filed 19 years ago to introduce support for SFTP in Firefox but nothing ever came out of it."
This is not entirely true. SAT scores can be used as ways to admit more privileged students, as they tend to have access to more test prep along with privileges such as extra time:

> In 2010 three College Board researchers analyzed data from more than 150,000 students who took the SAT, and they found that the demographics of the two “discrepant” groups differed substantially. The students with the inflated SAT scores were more likely to be white or Asian than the students in the deflated-SAT group, and they were much more likely to be male. Their families were also much better off. Compared with the students with the deflated SAT scores, the inflated-SAT students were more than twice as likely to have parents who earned more than $100,000 a year and more than twice as likely to have parents with graduate degrees. These were the students — the only students — who were getting an advantage in admissions from the SAT. And they were exactly the kind of students that Trinity was admitting in such large numbers in the years before Pérez arrived.

> By contrast, according to the College Board’s demographic analysis, students in the deflated-SAT group, the ones whose SAT scores were significantly lower than their high school grades would have predicted, were twice as likely to be black as students in the inflated-SAT group, nearly twice as likely to be female and almost three times as likely to be Hispanic. They were three times as likely as students in the inflated-SAT group to have parents who earned less than $30,000 a year, and they were almost three times as likely to have parents who hadn’t attended college. They were the students — the only students — whose college chances suffered when admissions offices considered the SAT in addition to high school grades.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/10/magazine/coll...

The article goes on to explain that while grade point average is relatively consistent across income level, SAT scores are skewed towards the rich. Schools have realized this, which is why many schools no longer require the SAT or ACT.
I would have changed it. That said, I get where (presumably) the reluctance to change it comes from. It means diverging from upstream and introducing patches. When upstream changes, your patches fail, the package breaks. It's introducing frailty for non-technical correctness, which is a bit harder to justify for many engineers I know than frailty for technical correctness.
> The computerized GRE goes even further... it's like a videogame, it feeds you harder questions the better you do, then reverts to easier ones when you mess up.

Isn't that one of the better ways to finely calibrate a score? Rough approximation of heapsort?
They also cleared the Pinnacle BioLabs assay. You can order a 2-pack or a 25-pack.

https://www.pblabs.com/products/pinnacle-biolabs-covid-19-no...

Mine arrived in the mail this morning.
I'm not sure you actually understand how legitimately scared we all are.
34 years too goddamn late for me. Yes I'm still angry I didn't get in, because my SATs sucked. Now I run a software company. EAT IT MIT! :)
Stomach Ache and Diarrhea May Be Among the First Signs of Covid-19 Coronavirus
Of course GPUs support 2D. It is just 3D with one less dimension.
What percent of your company’s workforce do you expect to be laid off next week?

(A) Zero, we are hiring.
(B) 0-10%
(C) 10-20%
(D) 20-30%
(E) Over 30%
This really shines a bad light on some of these Debian maintainers. Everyone spending all that time arguing about that in dozens of posts instead of just fixing it and moving on.
I think you’re missing one of the key parts of the article: be careful. Mass administration of a drug is dangerous. As you mention early in your post, you know what you’re doing, I take you at your word. But a drug with known serious side effects shouldn’t be mass distributed without clear benefit. Studies so far are encouraging but tiny and noisy sample size. We’ll get better data soon.

Even then, if it proves effective in symptomatic cases, it’s unclear prophylactic use is called for. More sensible to administer to those with current symptoms. If truly effective this would lower fatalities and keep ICUs from being overwhelmed.

Finally, the most recent French study suggests a combination with azithromycin is the actual effective treatment. We just don’t know enough yet, we will soon, let’s be responsible.
I don't undertsand how this database can be "mysterious". There are logs, accounts, playment records - a single subpoena should resolve the mystery in 10 minutes (or whatever time is required to pull the data).

Or am I totally wrong?
The only FTP I use these days is really SFTP
Coronavirus Origins: 2 Viruses Might Have Combined
I just made the switch recently; the larger volume of the new 13" and the increased mass really creates a discernible different in the moment of inertia. Subtle difference that makes me miss the 12".
Firmwares, drivers, distro isos, tarballs are traditionally distributed on (anonymous) ftp.

Given that such downloads should be authenticated using ftp is non-ideal though, I guess.
So what are you suggesting?
That's for active FTP, which basically nobody uses anymore (since it's incompatible with most firewalls).

Most clients use the passive FTP extension, in which the server sends the client a host/port pair to connect to for the data connection. Still painful, but slightly less so.
I for one am grateful for the extra scrutiny iOS apps get. I resent that desktop apps can basically reach into any part of my computer, take 20 seconds to close when I tell them to exit, prevent my computer from shutting down, hog all my resources when I'm not using them, actively steal focus if they decide, fail to run because of some "missing dependency", and do a half-assed job uninstalling themselves.
Thank you for your input. We absolutely need more dispassionate analysis right now, just like yours.

In fact, I think that this does have the potential to overwhelm the healthcare system here in the US, but I think we need to continuously re-evaluate the data and its implications. And our actions.

I also believe it's wise to err on the side of caution initially if we don't fully understand the implications of this pandemic, but it's important to always re-evaluate our reaction as a clearer picture comes in.
Bethesda never understood Fallout [video]
What do you use for form filling. During job applications last year nearly all the pdf forms were just images, or vector boxes that you couldn't fill ...
MIT requires interviews, too. But complaining that rich people have advantages is a bit of a "no shit, sherlock."
I don't think this project wants to create panic. To me it rather is trying to help and be prepared. I'd rather have too many than too few.

Plus, we don't know when the site was set up. Two weeks ago ? Four weeks ago ? Our collective knowlegde is changing every day. Could just be they have been busy and did not find the time to update it ?

And finally, blueprint for a cheap OSS FEV will always be useful. COVID or not.
Always have enjoyed this game
Seven open hardware projects working to solve Covid-19
Coronavirus Will Be Deadly to Your Liberty
I love discussions about browsers on Hacker News! They're amazing. Half the people ranting how some insanely complicated technical decision is going to ruin the world, the other half yelling at them that this is necessary, others ranting about how the vendor is evil for some reason, etc. Just lovely!
From the website: "This test has not been reviewed by the FDA"

So which is it?
See also: Gentoo bug #124595 '"quodlibet" package is useless'

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124595
One can hope that with GitHub supporting signed commits and signed tags that now that they’ve acquired npm there’ll be a way to match up a signed release with an npm release.

Signed releases on npm in general would be a start as then we could at least increase the reliability of security vulnerability notifications.

That being said, as pointed out in another comment, the amount of false positives for instance for regex vulnerabilities in libraries that are only used in the devDependencies of a repository are too high.
I think the world would be a better place if people were willing to explain why they disagree with (perceived to be) differing perspectives. The love/hate relationship we seem to have with facts and truth and these sorts of things also seems suboptimal.

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/940/counterspee...
Hey thanks for the lead, and for having a listen of the track !
The projections are ignoring a very important datapoint - there is significant evidence that COVID-19 does not have a positive R0 in warm climates. This means that in many areas, there is no need to flatten the curve - it will flatten naturally in the next month or two. On the contrary, by aggressively shutting down the spread now, we are leaving ourselves more vulnerable to winter outbreak which will be hard to stop.

Now the really terrible part is that the economic effect of the mass closure is going to grow exponentially. So layoffs start small and grow more massive week by week. And unlike COVID-19, that economic effect will not subside with the warming weather...

Here is some evidence:

Compare the slow growth in cases per day (green line) in CA and FL (warm) vs NY and WA (cold):

https://covid-19.direct/state/CA

https://covid-19.direct/state/FL

https://covid-19.direct/state/NY

https://covid-19.direct/state/WA

See for example how in Malaysia there was an outbreak due to a very large Muslim gathering with foreign travelers, that seems to diminish every day (indicated an R factor < 1) - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/malaysia/ The same is true for Qatar.

Same examples all over the world for warm countries:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Because herd immunity isn't acquired with effective quarantine, so after quarantine ends people become infected again. This doesn't happen with the two weaker options since herd immunity is effective, and I guess they assume complete elimination of the virus with a totalitarian lockdown.
What are the chances we can develop a way to stream good quality audio back and forth at acceptable latency (a few ms max) to make possible for bands to play live, each member from different locations? It would probably involve using dedicated connections plus axing a lot of security infrastructures to reduce latency, and make the remaining predictable.
How much do you expect average early stage (Series A and B) venture valuations to decrease in 2020 vs 2019?

(A) 0-10%
(B) 10-20%
(C) 20-30%
(D) 30-40%
(E) >40%
I thought that having a landline only increased exposure to spam and robocalls. How do you filter so your phone rings only from people you'd want to talk to?
>For all applicants:
We require the SAT or the ACT. We do not require the ACT writing section or the SAT optional essay.
> we still require the score because it is predictive in conjunction with other acedemic factors

So.....basically nothing has changed and the headline is extremely misleading.

Edit: so apparently this applies to the "subject" tests. I never took those and didn't know they were a thing, now I do.
Well that took some effort just to work out what they actually did. How they actually did it I have no idea. Impressive however - a sort of fill in the blanks for the bits that are missing. If our brains dont do this one would be surprised.

And we are all supposed to become AI developers this decade?!

Come back Visual Basic all is forgiven :-)
Governments Must Commit to Transparency During Covid-19 Crisis
That's not true anymore in the "diversity" era.

Harvard just had a huge lawsuit about that.
I disagree with gloves. Gloves may serve as a psychological signal, and they can be put on and taken off, but I haven't heard of hands being an infection route.

Several states fairly recently passed laws requiring food preparers to wear gloves. Then they backtracked when they realized that they actually decreased safety.
Is it? I've heard about the movement to make the SAT optional for years. The argument was that grades correlate with success much more than SAT scores. That SAT scores were how privileged were "gaming the system" because they could afford tutors, can take it multiple times, and appeal for phony disability claims allowing extra test taking time.

I'm all for objective tests, but a single test mostly shows subject knowledge, not necessarily success. When I studied and took them, I always felt like it mostly evaluated standardized test-taking skills (which is a trained skill I feel many smart and successful people lack). It doesn't show anything if people cheat or if the process is gamed.

I don't really have a strong opinion either way--this is just what I've gleaned from following the news over the past few years. Here's an article I found that mirrors what I've heard:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/03/19/is-it-fi...
Personally I feel most standardized tests, including the SAT can be gamed. If you have the right teacher or book or w/e you should be able to learn how to get a certain score. Granted a lot of people simply don't because they never learn the techniques properly.

They should still take it into consideration, but more of as a baseline aptitude level, smart enough to actually get past a certain score, but it shouldn't be a ranking system based on performance on the test. More to weed anyone out who are so incompetent they can't figure out the basics. Like everyone above 75% mark should be considered equally, but people beyond that point aren't ranked based on their test scores. As in, if someone scores a perfect score but the only thing they've done is get good grades and get good test scores and someone else scores at the 75% mark but started a small business, or did something remarkable to help with a disaster, then the latter should take precedence in my book.

After a certain point, IQ doesn't correlate with success either. Too much focus is placed on objective intelligence, when part of the objectivity is how well someone gamed it.
Website has not been updated. There's been news and press releases.

https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/20-20-bioresponse-...

The "cleared" is a bit concerning to me, it's essentially the lowest level of "okay" - there is all kinds of nonsense out there that is "cleared" but I guess this is a bit of a priority.

Mass bulk testing that is $1 a hit would be better, I thought there were machines in place that could do this and just needed reprogramming but that doesn't seem to have ever materialized and was just another empty promise in the moment.
There are some areas where FTP is still used and an easy options. Like datafeeds of affiliate platforms. Having support for accessing those in Firefox was super useful.
2008!
Consider the amount of effort collectively spent by people in that thread trying to justify not spending the time to modify a single line of code, where the fix is just to substitute in any other meaningless string placeholder. Any single person involved could have applied the fix in several orders of magnitude less time than they spent typing a reply.

I mostly skimmed the inane discussion, but I think at one point someone was trying to make the argument "if we're going to fix this, we also have to fix every occurrence of profanity within the entire Debian codebase"?

Given that was 12 years ago, it would be interesting to hear the same people's current reactions to their response at the time.
ftps? Not to be confused with SFTP.
I'm sure the majority of people that still use FTP aren't relying on a browser for access but people still use it. Why not just deprecate standard FTP and only support FTPS and SFTP?
No Gecko and no Chrome? I'm waiting for you to say we should all start using Brave. Please say it.
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The car's low-level control is still functional as normal, it's just the user interface that crashes, disabling the main display, all readouts, and all notifications. Rebooting the UI can fix the problem (it will reset itself automatically after two minutes as well). So it's a security issue, but not that serious as the title may suggest otherwise.

Still, apparently, a bad webpage with a loop of JavaScript that hangs the web browser can lead to a complete failure of the entire user interface, even disabling the speedometer, turn signal (only the notification, visual and sound, not the actual signal), and AutoPilot status. Still a red flag and not a sign of good engineering.
This came out about an hour ago https://youtu.be/hPz5KxgI_K4?t=245
Yes, it definitely is!

It does feel a little crazy, though, when suddenly all the vocab words are like, "tergiversate" and "pulchritudinous". And then when you get them all wrong it's back to "the cat sat on the mat". :P
These are the places where we got our inspiration from :) But we couldn't find any relevant attempts to implement something like this in a browser, especially for non-technical users.
I don't get this idea that "panic buying" is necessarily bad. We are moving goods from communal locations to people's homes. We aren't destroying goods. Once/if the virus does arrive in a large volume at the location we would greatly rather that people stayed at home and ate food they had stockpiled than that they then went to the grocery store. Dealing with shipping extra products now (while a very small fraction of people are infected), or just having shelves in stores be slightly bare, seems like a worthwhile tradeoff.

There are some questionable cases, like people hording years worth of toilet paper (which can cause real temporary shortages and actually significantly inconvenience people), but everyone stockpiling a months worth of food seems like a good thing.
Heh that’s pretty funny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol#Securit... lists many issues. The worst is that FTP transmits user names and passwords in cleartext.

Having said that: nowadays it isn’t uncommon to say “FTP server” for a server running SFTP, its secure replacement, so it isn’t clear to me what exactly is being removed from Firefox.