skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally, it's allowed one day a week, but not at all for new employees, and not without advance approval.

One answer to why it's this way would be that's what the union contract was negotiated to be.

My inference is that government employees are considered to be lazy and/or like children, that you can't trust them in general to work on their own.

But I really wished people to understand it's neither a perk nor an entitlement now. It can't be an individual decision, because whether one person goes in depends on what other people do. Telling people they can stay home if they want makes it into a prisoner's dilemma situation. People (leadership and rank and file) are trapped by their individualistic thought patterns when the only solution is to both do what you are told and be told to do what is in the collective interest.

People sometimes talk about how other cultures don't prioritize the individual as much but they never sound like it actually makes sense, it's just kind of patronizing. Right now, it's making sense to me, but a lot of people (e.g. on my Facebook feed) seem to just be writhing in misery over trying to choose the best thing for themselves and guilt over other people not necessarily being able to do the same thing.
Professor Scott Galloway needs to comment on this.
This is not a time to be pedantic.
Even if it were the release, there is a lot of cash that needs somewhere to go right now. The market has volatility without the returns, whereas you can get nX yield for the same perceived risk in venture funds. This could be a very good time to be in VC or doing a startup.

Liquid capital needs productive assets, and fed-backed crazy town might not be the place for it.

Hashicorp also has awesome and sticky products, and they have earned whatever they got. With Vault, they got people to adopt their defacto HSM, without the friction of selling hardware, and all the benefits of being the root of trust in each enterprise. Everything about that company is f'ing brilliant, imo.
Back in college, when I was studying Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI), I was working on an 8-bit adder. There definitely interesting art to it. It just looked beautiful. We were doing layouts by hand (on the computer, I mean we weren't relying upon an automated layout). I don't know how many iterations I went through trying to minimize latency and area. I remember it being at least a dozen. We had a sort of informal competition (mostly for bragging rights) for the least latency and area. IIRC, I think we were using Cadence to hand-draw the layouts. Lab time was definitely at a premium.
From official post:

It is OK to go outside for walks if you are not in a group.

I don't think they'll be shooting or arresting anyone.

And the other linked article said they'll be lax enforcement the first few days to give people time to adjust.
Yea, my habits are very tuned to living in a dense city[1], and all those habits are suddenly very maladaptive...dense urban living is, in general, has a lot of dependencies on the "thrive" part of the thrive/survive spectrum, and as such is not great in times of chaos.

[1] Not stocking up on things since I constantly pass stores that contain necessities, locating myself where I can access a dozen parks (and a million activities) instead of having lots of personal living or yard space, not owning a car since I can easily (and cheaply) rent or take the subway...etc
Ohio Govenor's Response to Corona Virus a Model for the Nation
Even before the 1.5T, the fed has been pumping imaginary money, especially to the repo market hoping they'd get it back.

I disagree that this isn't the biggest recessionary event. Never in my lifetime, or even my parents, has EVERYTHING shut down at the same time. This is economically bad. We're promising to help the affected industries, which is more cash printing. The USG cannot support the entire economy for months. Either the market or the government has to break, and I feel it's gonna be the former.
So how do you protect against attacks on your MNOs?

Sure, you can make porting difficult. That doesn’t get you very far.
No, it really doesn't. It's a hold-over from a time when the government could be trusted. Perceptions lag reality.
UK government sends ventilator blueprints to major manufacturers
I use my mousewheel the vast majority of the time, but it is not uncommon for me to use a scrollbar. In fact, I had to earlier today and remember being frustrated that I couldn't see it at first and that it was so small it was hard to click on.

It comes in quite useful when I need to move over a lot of space to find what I'm after. I'd be using the wheel on my mouse for quite some time otherwise.
Incremental is not a proportional response to exponential. Compared to a lock down, you're not saving incrementally more lives but allowing for exponentially more death. The only rationale for it is to slowly acclimatize the population to embrace more drastic action, i.e. panic management. Even stringent, well organized quarantines in Chinese provinces with less infection is running 6+ weeks with full compliance. Partial compliance means those who adhere will be stuck inside for a long time, it's not tenable even assuming the curve can be flattened in a sensible time frame in first place, which I don't believe it is. Basically we're dragging past the point where shutdown is a viable option with half measures, which will only leave to excess fatalities. Obviously I'm not an expert and hope I'm wrong.
It’s been a while since that was true. Democrats have had a several percentage point lead for years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/24/o...

PS: It’s also irrelevant as many people identify as independents while actually voting overwhelmingly for a single party. Further, political power has nothing to do with the national popular vote let alone what the non voting public believes. For example Trump won with 46.1% of the popular vote and votes from about 19.5% of the total population. That’s simply how the system works and what shapes politics.
Tailscale seems to be trying to provide exactly this: https://tailscale.com/
How does this work? I don’t understand how adding an additional party between me and my vendor could add security.
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Good. Now all of America needs to do this at the same time for about 3 weeks.

Then we need to have infrastructure to trace, track down, and quarantine any remaining cases like Korea.
Poor analogy, I'm afraid. Swinging a fist is a willful act, while sneezing is not. And this law doesn't apply only to people who are sneezing.
Another half-baked framework that will torture the unfortunate developers. There is no reason to use these mess except if you're writing a software for MS-specific niche platforms such as HoloLens, XBox and alike.

For UIs that can be achievable by web browser, we use web browser.
For video games, we use dedicated libraries.
For native utility programs, we use cross platform libraries or maybe native libraries.

They added yet another half-baked library that only works on MS products and the only developer who has a misfortune to use WinUI will be the one who has to support very narrow platform(one specific model of MS hardware) with the demand of very narrow customer(just one company asking a utility tool and specify the exact UI library it use).

Everyone should read the xkcd 927 before inventing their own yet another library.
https://xkcd.com/927/
Or just don’t touch your face and wash your hands
It's rare to impossible to do this to a regular bank account, and if they did, the bank would be liable. Crypto is a great solution for some stuff, but it's not a pancea to solve every problem.
Would it not be constructive dismissal even with the letter of resignation? He was forced to resign only due to pressure and due to the danger to himself.
Knowledge Transfer
I was reading the thread on knowledge capture and transfer. Sometimes the experts do not know why they do what they do and they rarely have had to articulate it. The power of the skilled interview is a key to capturing explicit and tacit knowledge. Documenting will capture what can documented (most are too busy doing what they need to do to document) but the real juice for performance is their tacit knowledge, the know-how they have learned over years...and how to get it down on paper, usually for the first time ever. I work for a company that does this and after having spent years trying to capture the know-how of the expert/high performers with other organisations the value of external skilled interviewing is a key. And skilled reporting/visualising so the knowledge can be retained and most importantly re-used. High-performing organisations do this so they maximise the expertise in the room, particularly when it leaves the room!
I'm not going to sit here and defend the US government's approach to this situation. Not producing test kits, not investing in additional medical supplies earlier, etc. Those were the wrong decision.

That said. Italy basically denied having a problem until they couldn't anymore. China's safety net health system did everything they could to cover up the crisis until it exploded in their face. Other countries haven't been doing much more to prepare than the US.

People like to hate on it, but the US government still functions are a comparatively high level while maintaining a degree of individual freedom that other countries do not.
Not in our case where we go through 11 step process. In addition to this our staff is highly trained and everytime a request is made, we assume it's an attack
Because Electron does not run on mobile and it doesn't interface with the native UI.
Just use ionic and electron, it is trivial.

Running your app in an entire browser (one of the most complex pieces of software w/ millions of lines of code) is of course going to be less performant and eat more resources.
You think you can draw conclusions from such a weak heuristic?
One could argue that browsers are the software that had the most investment in optimizations. E.g chromium has the state of the art of 2D rendering performance (best skia integration).
It's really sad to see that the myth that browser are slower than native uis is not challenged anywhere, It seems like people here locally disable their critical thinking, because of a blind spot.
You don't add the private keys to both sides: you add each node's private key and the other node's public key on each side.
There is so much information available online on you which is sufficient for any one to hack you
Western? Isn't this literally what China did back in January?
No, op was calling for disobedience to make some civics point. The case could be made that you should go out because you don't believe the disease is as bad as stated, or that you should stay home because it is. The case op made was "you should go out becase @/^$ the police, this is America, I can do what I want" which is of zero value, contributes nothing to the discourse and potentially harms both sides.

It's the HN debate version of rolling coal. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal#/media/File:F-450...
You guys are missing the point. It will be very difficult to access healthcare for the next 3 months because the system is going to be so overwhelmed by COVID-19 cases. There will be no available hospital beds.
I also have puts. The cost to get into puts it extremely expensive, I am going to have to pay 125% of my gains into premiums to get any decent downside protection for my main assets. That can easily go to 0 and came close when we had that spike on Friday. Shorting index funds is far less risky. Has any index every set off the tripwire for an upward swing? If spy wasn’t hard to borrow, Id be exclusively shorting. Want to see crazy premiums look at puts on the JNK etf.
Go for it! Just keep in mind that the benefit there is pretty minimal. Probably not quite zero, but we're talking way less than hand washing. And if you touch your face more as a result of wearing the mask...

That's not to say do or don't do it, just be careful. Handwashing and not touching your face are the single most important things to do.
In my case, I work for the (a) government that was just telling everyone else in the private sector to work from home several days earlier...
Can you be more specific with your question ?
All the port out are blocked by default & no have access to your account # + our UI & our system is in different silos . Finally we've a $5M insurance policy
in my area (bay area) you have to place the order at midnight. that is when the next time slots open up.
People on parole have very little in the way of 4th Amendment rights, to cite one distinction.
I'm in the same boat (as is the person who is moving out of the place I'm going to move into).

I was planning to do the move myself, with a rental truck. I'm not confident that rental trucks will be available. I'm not sure I'd want to be in one anyway -- even before the pandemic the sanitary condition of rental trucks was dubious at best.

I'm hoping that moving will be considered essential travel, although tonight is just before the start of the new policy. If a lot of people ignore the "shelter in place" during the next week, the enforcement will probably get stricter.

I don't have an answer for you but it's a real problem. Paying double rent (or rent plus a mortgage) involves a huge amount of money in the Bay Area.

I'm probably going to try to contact the county government tomorrow and get an answer but I'm sure I'll be the millionth person on hold on the phone.

(Also, guess who needs a smog check to register his car and might not be able to get one?)
That’s not as true as you might think
Considering the Seattle Flu Study had to violate the law[1] to get the first few confirmed cases in WA I don't have a lot of high hopes.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/seattle-flu-study-coronaviru...
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Why? This demand contraction is sector specific and largely due to a temporary shock. Tons of companies are doing fine, and local, state, and fed have programs to stop-gap a lot of these issues (interest-free loans, tax cuts, loan freezes, QE, etc). Why do you think these aren't enough for the next 2 months or so?
Explicitly dangerous behavior? Going out to a burger joint or a bookstore or anywhere a free person wants to go and was able to go to yesterday is suddenly explicitly dangerous behavior?

Governments using times of crisis to stifle civil rights is far more dangerous in my opinion. Let's wait and see how many permanent new laws and regulations get created because of all this.
There will be farm work available in the coming months.
But what percentage are pre-symptomatic? If cases are doubling every 5 days, and it takes 5 days for symptoms to show, might that explain result?

However the Italian study appears to agree with this preprint about another complete population study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20031773v...

That paper shows that the effect is age related: People over ~50 have a ~50% chance of being asymptomatic, under 50 years is ~10% asymptomatic.
Well, it does, because asymptomatic people are obviously spreading the disease and due to a lack of adequate testing, we don't know who is in which bucket and are acting out of an abundance of caution. Like that take or not (I'm setting my personal views aside), that's the case being made. Going out is that willful act.
If the system is out of ventilators and you keep from infecting a person who’d need a ventilator, that’s one death prevented. If everybody is going to catch it, you want to maximize ventilator-hours, i.e. delay as much as possible or flatten the curve. This makes it beneficial conduct to avoid social contact whether other people are doing it or not.
It's a hybrid of MVNO and reseller & I can challenge that we can protect. Happy to give you a bounty if you're able to break into the system.
max $1800/mo isn't much, but maybe helpful for some.
https://edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019.htm

If your employer has reduced your hours or shut down operations due to COVID-19, you can file an Unemployment Insurance (UI) claim. UI provides partial wage replacement benefit payments to workers who lose their job or have their hours reduced, through no fault of their own. Workers who are temporarily unemployed due to COVID-19 and expected to return to work with their employer within a few weeks are not required to actively seek work each week. However, they must remain able and available and ready to work during their unemployment for each week of benefits claimed and meet all other eligibility criteria. Eligible individuals can receive benefits that range from $40-$450 per week.

The Governor’s Executive Order waives the one-week unpaid waiting period, so you can collect UI benefits for the first week you are out of work. If you are eligible, the EDD processes and issues payments within a few weeks of receiving a claim.
No actual guide on how to protect yourself. In fact, none of the carriers listed seem to do anything remotely effective.

Seems like the best answer is to not reuse passwords, use complex passwords and avoid giving "real" answers to security questions.

And if course, don't keep your life savings in an account that can be withdrawn entirely on a moments notice...
yes it could be interesting if he wanted his job back badly enough.
Their outbreaks started earlier.

If we get off easy it will be because warmer temperatures or mutation play a part.

Delayed testing, a disbanded pandemic response team, a president in denial for the first part of the outbreak, people not going to hospitals because they can't afford it... Do you sincerely think these things put the US on equal footing with the rest of the world in terms of responding to this?
My partner’s work has been talking contradictory circles around how they’re (all of a sudden) doing work from home. People need to come in for “critical business functions” (undefined), but must be “staggered” (no explanation of how or to what extent), and of course “only if they feel safe.”

I get that everyone is just trying to get a handle on the situation, but trying to project authority or control through these vagaries mostly has the opposite effect.
“ChaCha20 is a stream cipher which are easier to implement in software. They encrypt one bit at a time. Block ciphers like AES encrypt a block of 128 bits at a time. That would need many more transistors when implemented in hardware, so larger processors come with AES-NI - an instruction set extension that performs some tasks of the encryption process to speed it up.”

This entire paragraph is nonsense—that isn’t what a stream cipher means. ChaCha20 encrypts 512 bits at a time.

The rest of that section goes on to describe how AES-NI is available everywhere except where it isn’t, and ChaCha20 can’t take advantage of hardware acceleration except where it can—then makes a blanket conclusion that AES will “outperform ChaCha20 in every single scenario” with all those exceptions conveniently ignored.

(Are there correct, nuanced arguments to be made here one way or the other? Of course. But this article isn’t one of them.)
When people want to speak broadly about taking rights away, it's a perfect time to be pedantic.
hope is not an effective strategy. ordering at all is actually likely to defeat your hope. ironic, isn’t it.
I think if the rate of new cases doesn’t slow down by mid April, no state will go back to business as usual. Given the state of things, it’s best to just do the national shut down instead of dragging this out past mid April.

Our economy can’t survive this kind of pause for 3 months, who are we kidding here?
This probably should have gone on the thread about flattening the curve not being enough. But.

Where is the core team of 12 people plus 108 collaborators that should have been assembled a month and a half ago to figure out how to retune US manufacturing to start producing stripped down ICU beds and the supplies needed to keep them operational?

This game is easy. The parameters are well understood. You could assign the basic problem to a middle schooler. Getting realistic numbers? Well it doesn't matter, no matter what those number are, every single fully functional ICU bed that can be brought online in the next 2 weeks is probably going to save 2 lives. According to some of the other economic analysis that has been posted here today suggesting that we let people die, that is 18 million dollars in human lives.

How many fully stocked ICU beds can you make for 18 million dollars? There's your startup idea for the next 2 weeks.

Not ignoring the fact that you need a team to staff it and work it, but guess what, you ALSO have two weeks to train as many people as you can to run these things.

WHERE IS THIS TEAM?
Implement Follower Read with 26 lines of Rust code for an HTAP database
Name and shame. It is the only way to move forward.
You'll get lost in a morass of defining what is and what is not "too much".

If I buy a salt shaker, it's going to last me months -- do I need to buy individual serving size packets?

I usually buy a dozen eggs at a time that will last me for weeks, am I relegated to only buying 6 (or 3?) at a time? Making everyone buy small serving sizes may make things worse since it's more packaging to fill and deliver.

If I buy 12 jars of spaghetti sauce, maybe that's hording. Or maybe I'm making a double batch of pasta every night this week to feed my large family.
Except local and state Govs have thought of that. Many localities and states have rolled out rent-freezes and interest-free loans to stop-gap those issues.
Violating this order is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to 6 months in county jail and/or $1,000 fine. So while you're indeed at risk of imprisonment you're still quite a ways away from "getting shot" unless you're doing something else IN ADDITION TO violating the order.
Heres what drugs.com say about the drug in question.

https://www.drugs.com/hydroxychloroquine.html

Maybe it is being used? Is it possible this might be one of the drugs the media is currently refering to as anti-viral?
Please let me know if you get any answers about relief from the government.

You should be okay on the smog check, because auto repair shops are considered essential in the order.
You're absolutely right and this is what most of the "buy the dip" idiots don't understand.
Because we control the # at that time. We disassociate your personal information from your # and then mask every information that's required to do a port-out
There are so many apartments in SF that used to have Murphy beds in them but instead are now awkwardly-laid out "closets" or doorless "nooks." When I was looking for a place I would have appreciated a murphy bed.
You'll be surprised how many people bank accounts get drained.
How is this not an infringement on the right to assemble?
There is plenty of precedent for enforced rationing. e.g. during WWII.
I find Frederick Eberhardt’s writing on causality to be particularly clear and instructive.
Very cool. Second die down is a pretty neat UWB transceiver that is build for real-time location services using multiple strategies (TDoA, ToF, etc). Looks like a little of that rf black magic on the right.
With, you know, public health law.

CALIFORNIA HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
DIVISION 105. COMMUNICABLE DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayexpand...
Per the SF mayor's press conference, I think it means giving people walking around outside a talking-to, up to and including a misdemeanor (though they stressed that they don't want to just start handing out tickets, and would prefer to start with "education").

They're obviously not being hardasses about it, as doing so is precluded by the "essential activities" loophole; if you're on your way to something frivolous, you can just tell a cop you're going to the grocery store or pharmacy. But it prevents people from doing things that are obviously non-essential, like hanging out with each other in the park (or going to destinations like gyms that are now effectively required to be closed).