skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a recent article from FB about the performance improvements of going native:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22466462. I don't know what they were using before and I don't write React Native apps so I don't know how these two pieces of information intersect. But, if they were using React Native before and saw such big gains from moving away is it worth moving away from Electron to something that is still less performant than fully native?
Since I work in the biopharma industry, I've had a lot of people ask "This company is making [vaccine, test, treatment] for Coronavirus. They'll probably make a lot of money, right?".

My answer is "probably not". This is too big a public health issue. Any company that slows down the process in the name of business is going to find themselves in a PR storm and likely government action will make them give up any control they might have.
Isn't that the same as the OG Kindle? If so, you can fit approx half an A4 / Letter page at adequate readability.
Nobody knows. Anybody that cites numbers is pulling them from a very biased sample. With the exception of a few countries, most of the testing is done on a very self-selected set of people. Those with symptoms who were ill enough to get tested and willing deal with a with a 14 day quarantine if they turned up positive.

Even counties with good, pervasive testing can’t test for how many people already had it and are carrying antibodies.

We are flying very blind here. Treat all numbers with a huge grain of salt.
The WHO named it COVID-19 specifically to change that fact, as it leads to things like Asian-Americans being beat up despite having nothing to do with the virus.
So none of those great welfare countries gives a duck? Only the despicable USA cares those useless customer goods innovation. Good explanation.
It's funny how much people can be influenced by the media and other people without any actual facts. Who cares what rich people do with the money? And not everyone is poor because they are drug addicts. "If we just give everyone money what incentive is their to work?" That's another one of my favorites.
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For the "self-interest produces efficiency" people:

Here is a payout diagram for the two-player antisocial/prosocial game:
(A,A)=(6,6)
(A,P)=(15,5)
(P,A)=(5,15)
(P,P)=(12.5, 12.5)

The unique Nash equilibrium is (A,A). That is the United States right now. Please carefully read Adam Smith [1] before making arguments about incentives and efficiency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments
They still have the right to exist and users have the right to use them.
War time measures like taking over private factories to produce armaments is a significant ask, especially when factoring in timelines of a few months turn around (at best). It’s a fair question.

I personally don’t see how filling up small companies orderbooks with a giant federal order makes sense when other countries like Italy and Germany have a real and active shortage today, while the US still has capacity. Ramping up production as we face a second wave is going to be happening regardless. There’s more than enough demand globally and from the various hospitals already. Adding more orders on top of it doesn’t exactly make things run more smoothly, there should be plenty of capital readily available for them to expand.

Supporting the hospitals/industry in their purchasing and production efforts and clearing red tape is something that could help now. Which I believe is what the giant stimulus and relief packages include already?

I guess people won’t be happy unless they buy it all up themselves first then donate it to the most needy, or hoard it more efficiently than others?
"Either put the capital to use in the real economy, or moths and rust will destroy your hoard."

I'd like to explain this to my elderly parents, who have cash sitting around in savings accounts and don't invest, but don't think trying to scare them with "moths and rust" is going to be very convincing.

What's a more convincing way to explain this?

Also, are money market accounts also going to be hit hard by negative interest rates, or would that be considered investing?
There is a degree to which people who make more need more in cases like this, i.e. if one person makes $80,000 and another makes $40,000 and they both have their hours cut and lose half their income, the one who "makes more" just had their income reduced by a larger amount and is likely to have higher recurring expenses to carry.

On the other hand, the person who had been making more has had more opportunity to save. So it goes both ways, and giving people the same amount of money is a middle ground that also has the advantage of being much administratively simpler.
Slip some benjamins in with the census mailers?
I had one of my team members recently introduce me to document.designMode="on"

For the better part of...15 years? I've been using various inspectors and dev tools. Like a chump.
I would take these as minimums, still wipe down outside material with bleach/windex/soap water.
"I'm just doing my job!"

The deflection of personal responsibility for damaging behaviour as part of a job is a cultural problem.
Regardless of the status of the patents, what they actually carried out was massive fraud. Misrepresentation of actual results and sliding the reports of internal progress until they couldn't withstand the total failure and physical impossibility of what they were doing is a straight up scam.

Even if the overly broad, ridiculous patent was somehow 'invented', what Holmes and crew did was reprehensible all by itself.
Dude make everything you can. If they don't trust your word, try to show them news pieces that explain the nature of the exponential function. NYT on others are doing some work on it.

Believe me, I went through 2008 and it was hard here in Spain, but this is something different. You're nervous not only for your economical future but for your health and the health of your loved ones, and it's an invisible enemy.

The government is saying that this is a huge crisis, but a temporal one. Society is closing down and pretty much everyone agrees that this is bad and is going to be for long.

Those of you who know what's coming, you should make your best effort. I regret I didn't go way more vocal of fears of being dismissed as an alarmist.
Ah sorry - given your comment above I assumed you were one of the folks reselling supplies.
> Social isolation and a declared national emergency have had an immediate impact on industries that cluster people; conferences, trade shows, airlines/cruise ships and all types of travel, the hospitability industry, sporting events, theater and movies, restaurants and schools. Large companies are sending employees to work at home. Large retail chains are shutting down their stores. While the impact on small businesses and workers in the “gig-economy” hasn’t made the news, it will be worse for them. They have fewer cash reserves and less margin of error for managing sudden downturns. The ripple and feedback effect of all of these closures will have a major impact on our economy, as each industry that gets impacted puts people out of work, and those laid off workers don’t buy products and services.

> It’s no longer business as usual for the rest of the economy. In fact, shutting down the economy for a pandemic has never happened. Millions of jobs may be lost in the next few months, as entire industries get devastated, something not seen since the Great Depression of 1929-39. I hope that I’m very wrong, but the impact of this virus social and economic effects are likely to be profound, and will change how we shop, travel and work for years.

I too hope Blank is wrong, but it's hard to disagree with his logic.

Unless governments worldwide act aggressively now to keep businesses -- and families -- afloat, a scarily large number of them look likely to face ruin in the near future. Consider the vast mass of families who have no savings and would suddenly lose their income.

If you're running or working for a startup, please read the entire post.
Yes, I have seen your frothing Reddit posts, you don't have to repeat them here. "Leftist fascist"--can I give you a bit of free advice? If you have to modify "fascist", everyone and their dog knows it's because you have to modify your slur to make the mirror a little more palatable. Maybe find some new ones.

But I reject the square-peg premise you're trying to jam into that round hole anyway, as it's not a democracy, either. Your choices impact your neighbors without their consent. It's not about fucking over power users or whatever the weird little epistemic enclosure you come from wants to insist it is, it's about addressing technical debt both in terms of performance and security--and the latter matters quite a lot in terms of not enabling people who think they're power users to 1) blow their own leg off, and 2) blow the legs off the people next to them. That's why those "leftist fascist" evil scary Firefox people decided "hey, let's patch some of these up."

Customization, in and of itself, is fine (modulo the combinatoric explosion that leads to security holes). Few enough people would disagree with that, though I understand that the aforementioned epistemic closure holds as axiomatic that everybody just hates the tweaker types. On the other hand, customization at the expense of competent security development, which is what you get with Pale Moon, is not. And seeing as how there certainly doesn't seem to be much in the way of developer competence, to the point where "don't use the stuff that upstream has working just fine because we can't figure it out" is a legitimate attempt at "discussion", it ought to be dumpstered.

Somehow, this "power user" (god, I hate that term) gets by just fine with poor, benighted Firefox--having switched to it from Chrome/Safari after Quantum because it finally felt as pleasant to use as back in The Day. Clearly, though, that just makes me a radical-left SJW hater or something. But that's fine. Modern Firefox is heckin' great.
My point is the suppliers ie the actual manufacturers of toilet paper aren't seeing the increased prices so in an econ101 model they're not increasing supply capacity prices are just going up for consumers.
Well the Federal courts are suspended so the suit is currently meaningless. If the test works and saves lives, sour grapes.
This i just saw a clip of a few days ago about my Minister of Health being in a debate with the bigger opposition party leader.
He asked the minister if he was familiar with how Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan are handling the corona situation.
And he was not informed about those nations approach to their local epidemic.
He rather look in countries within Europe, instead of nations that have been where we are going too.
I wonder if you could somehow get this to work with some form of passive wifi, maybe slowly harvest energy from available radio signal to trigger a screen update. Maybe someone knows if this is theoretically possible?
All I said was things don't add up. If anything we agree in some regards?
With such limited power budget, is there any security circuits for authentication and encryption?

If not, it would be super easy hack.
Yet nothing that isn't paid for, can get done at any scale.

That doesn't mean it has to be privately funded with an arbitrarily large profit margin, though. In much of the world, we publicly fund some research, we fund quite a lot of medical research through charitable organisations as well, and we operate largely centralised public or at least semi-public healthcare services that buy the end results of the successful research at reasonable rates because of their huge negotiating power.

I think a lot of people from the US who have never been abroad for an extended period might not even realise how far behind normal standards the US really is in terms of how it manages its medical research and healthcare provision. People in much of the world really would assume you were joking if you said someone could go bankrupt just because they were unlucky and got sick, or that vital treatments that could save many lives might be withheld just because of profits.

Ironically, this is one of the main issues that torpedoed a US-EU trade deal not that long ago after many years of negotiations, probably at considerable economic cost to both parties. The general issue of excessive patent rights, and some national issues in member states such as the NHS being the "third rail" of UK politics, turned out to be deal-breakers.
And the three-point seat belt.
Both. Folk medicine is extremely common in China and the idea is that certain body parts from certain animals cure ailments/improve performance. Total backwards voodoo bullshit - like suppliments and crystals and homeopathy in the west, except animals are literally tortured over it.

There's a reason you can find so many videos online of Chinese people torturing animals. There is a belief in China (and to a lesser extent in other nations like Korea and I believe Vietnam) that making animals suffer pre slaughter makes the meat tastier. And honestly it isn't a stretch that adrenal hormones released just before death can influence the flavor or texture of meat, but I don't know if that justifies cruelty...
This is a situation where much of the global economy is going down if this doesn't stop in 60 to 90 days.

The sick leave programs, either public or corporate, will all fail in a short amount of time when strained by 90 or more days of hyper low economic activity. The US and EU can't afford $2 trillion in sick leave programs every 90 days; especially when the future is unknown as to whether that will continue indefinitely (meaning there is weak production to support the huge costs), the entire financial system collapses if that keeps going.

Sometime in the next few months a decision will have to be made, about going forward, going back to normal life, and accepting the deaths that will occur. This will have to be made by essentially all nations in unison, and or the smaller nations will get pulled along into the decision by the larger nations regardless.

First we need to know how common the virus is among the population, in terms of how many people are walking around with few or no symptoms. Some large nations need to be doing massive randomized testing for Covid, to compare positive results versus how many are walking around with it and don't know it. This is data we absolutely must have immediately.

If there are really 10x or 20x the cases and the mortality rate is that much lower accordingly, then we do two things: we go back to work, and we do quarantine and care for the most vulnerable and most ill simultaneously. We ramp up medical supply production further to focus on those people, who will saturate our ICU systems. Everyone else goes back to routine, to keep the global economy functioning. If that all shuts down, far more people will die, and far worse chaos may ensue, including potentially war as tensions rise globally.
(aside: I haven't seen a PHPBB forum in aggges! Amazing to know they're still going)
>I personally don’t see how filling up small companies orderbooks with a giant federal order makes sense when other countries like Italy and Germany have a real and active shortage today

But, the federal government doesn't order ventilators. That's not how the US system works, we don't have an NHS like the UK.
It isn't stealing. After you torrent something, someone else doesn't have less.

It also isn't treated as stealing by (most countries'?) legal frameworks. It's copyright infringement - and not even commercial infringement (where you are making money by infringing). Non-commercial copyright infringement isn't even criminal - it's a civil matter.
Seems that Taiwan, Korea and Japan haven’t had such a hard time with it.
The state of the restaurant industry
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to Hacker News? We're trying for different than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
https://elpais.com/economia/2020-03-16/las-empresas-inician-...

Just look for ERTEs. Not to mention that most SMEs are not prepared to deal with an almost 100% income down.
Some random doctor from a country with 6 confirmed cases must know better than studies in China.
Is it racist to call food in a style that originated from China "Chinese food"?
gloves, mask, goggles. done.
If the timeline in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO5EXjFKE7U are true, doesn't seem like the information was suppressed. WHO knew about a new virus/disease by 31st Dec/1st Jan and the market in question was closed.

What they didn't know was if these were one off cases from eating bad meat or is it spreading human to human. Also, Li Wenliang circulated SARS info on WeChat on 30th/31st and public broadcast in Wuhan/Hubei was on 31st.

Possible the source is biased and info. is missing but doesn't look any info is false.
We have already seen the efficacy of "social distancing" in Codogno, Lodi, Italy; which was locked down earlier than the rest of the country. Cases are still increasing, but slower than they are in the surrounding areas.

https://twitter.com/drjenndowd/status/1239150231498956806

https://apnews.com/d7fe9900bc1a5ed201f2e49b74df78a4

https://www.wsj.com/articles/lockdown-of-recovering-italian-...
The dichotomy is the same people who complain a lot about paywalls on HN are also blocking all ads and JS. Paywalls are the offered alternative to ads already.
> Things change when tens or hundreds of millions of lives are on the line.

Is it Ok when it’s just tens of thousands, thousands, hundreds? At which number it becomes acceptable to abuse patents to sell overpriced medicines for the sick?

The system needs improvements. The pandemic is temporal. The injustice have been there for many years.
They can also do this without worrying about profit in the short term. The essentials may have lower margins but higher benefit to society. Amazon can take that financial hit over the next couple months and not go bankrupt
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"other people should have to give me their shit because I said so"

What absolute fucking worthless communist fuckwits you morons are
Ah yes, what this comment section really needed was a healthy dose of whataboutism /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Combine a handout with negative interest rates, and you almost guarantee it will all be spent, as it loses value sitting in a savings account.
Look, do you think the 4 links I posted (which are in turn a small selection of many more) indicate credible opposition or not?
Blue Origin was founded two years before SpaceX. Knowing only what was public around that time, would it be possible to predict which company would flourish? SpaceX seemed riskier, Musk was all-in and he had a string of spectacular launch failures. BO had the Amazon warchest at its disposal, SpaceX just Musk's personal funds. Both looked like jokes at the time to my aerospace colleagues.
GNU Make's Guile integration is such a cool feature.

The one hiccup with it is that isn't included in the default GNU Make package on any system I've ever used (although it can be installed as make-guile in a few distros).

I'm guessing it's because Guile is around the same installed size as Python, and it needs a lot of external dependencies - one of which (the garbage-collection library) is a little oddball. A tool as foundational as Make probably doesn't want to pull in a huge dependency tree if avoidable.

If we want to see Guile support added to Make by default, we'll need to reduce or eliminate Guile's external dependencies and slim down the install.
This calls for an equivalent for the GPL: Feel free to use our samples, but everything you develop based on it is licensed for free to everyone else.
I think we're in a window where we know enough to detect it quickly and monitor the spread, but vaccine production is slow.

This looks completely different if, in 10 years, we can produce vaccines in months, not years.
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One of my favorite BSD features is SIGINFO, which is intended for applications to give some sort of information about what they’re currently doing. If you’re on macOS, I know some of the copying commands (such as dd) implement it, and a ^T in your terminal will tell you how far along it is.
Meanwhile China has mostly contained this virus and the West is at the brink of despair?

If the virus started in USA, it would be even worse...
Yes we agree. I’m just elaborating even more :-)
Ask HN: Is drawing a friendly face or picture on my N95 masks safe?
I figure it might make me less intimidating to have a smile or kitty cat whiskers on my masks.

Is this a bad idea? Will it lessen the effectiveness of the masks?
Labrador is owned by Softbank. How about everyone boycott Softbank's sweet VC money?
> racism

China is a country, not a race.
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You could consider high yield bonds, some of those pay out 4% to 5%. But, they are EXTREMELY risky. As, you can see from the huge equity drop in the last few days. In times of great stress, any kind of fixed income above 3% yield, will drop down 15% to 25% (at least in the latest example). Not, quite as huge of a drop as equities but still enough to make you worry.
He was neither arrested nor jailed. Speaks the amount of misinformation going around.
> Covid-19 is 99.9999% survivable for those under 70 with no pre-existing conditions.

No, your six 9s are wrong. So far, the best quality evidence we have says: https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1239693272311828483/...

If you are aged

10-19 you have a 0.006% chance of death
20-29 0.03%
30-39 0.08%
40-49 0.15%
50-59 0.60%
60-69 2.20%

> If you have scientific evidence supporting mass isolation for a pandemic like covid-19 please share.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...
Why 4.0 in title when it's actually v0.4.0?

https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/releases...
This heroic doctor can no longer speak for himself and did not write his wikipedia page. I really doubt that if he were alive right now that he'd be focusing on the stupidity of the initial reaction to his reports.
I'm on mobile so I don't have time to collate a bunch of sources for something you could search for online, so here's a link to a summary.

NOTE: before you dismiss the source, notice that it is merely a commentary on a collection of individual sources that you can verify yourself. Now I do not agree with the conclusion in the link below, that this is a deliberate bioweapon, but there is ample circumstantial evidence here to at least presume that the virus could have leaked from the only level 4 biolab in China, which happens to be less than 10 miles from Wuhan. It's likely they were conducting legitimate research, all I'm pointing out is that the evidence for this actually coming from China is pretty good.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/did-china-steal-coron...
I find it hard to imagine that the current CDC would have done better if the pandemic had started in the US. Sure, they would have been more honest, but they haven’t been demonstrating much competence recently.
AWS here. This varies wildly by team and doesn't match my experience at all. I've been on 3 teams over 6 years in 3 locations (though none in US so maybe this is why? #AmericaNo) on aws and retail.

I don't know anyone that works 60 hours regularly. 50, maybe - you know including lunch.

Oncall for the vast majority of teams isn't extra hours, just strange hours. But if you get paged at night people cover for you the next day.

I didn't work on a Q4 peak team but your math is psychotic. 100 hours is 14 hours a day 7 days a week? If you went through that I'm sorry, I suspected our Ops org is psychotic, but that is too much. Still, i really have to wonder if you are exaggerating since the other 2 numbers were dramatically. Or you got an Outlier team.

My org crunches for reinvent, sure, but what company wouldn't with a massive yearly conference where/when most of the products are launched.