skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comparatively small. Estimates are that cost about $5.7b USD over the course of 5 years[0]. Conservative estimates are that it's going to cost $2.7t USD, and that was from before it was labeled a pandemic. [1]

[0] https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/37404/11780_ld...
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-coronavirus-pandemic...
Over generalizing. Small businesses may own all of the same asset types as large corps, just on a different scale.
Maybe in the mandatory spending of the budget, social security is a big part of it, but looking at the discretionary spending which is 50% defense, it sure is a big part of the budget in the US.

And sure, US spends a lot on social security, but how effective is it really? "Safety net" is a lot larger than just social security. For everyone to be able to go to the hospital for free is one thing that contributes to a safety net that the US does not have.
This disease is overwhelming hospitals. If hospitals are overwhelmed then patients with any disease or trauma have higher mortality and morbidity. The mortality rate of COVID19 is not the problem, the problem is the hospitalisation rate.
I agree remote work is the right way to go, but the affordable housing crisis can't be fixed through any other method than "build more housing". Every other thing that people propose is designed to protect property value by not building more housing. We simply have to make housing less scarce and yes, that will drive down property value. That's kind of the point.
Really sorry for everyone affected.

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Thanks! Genesis had already occurred. I take it there was already a culture that could handle exploiting a rich type system.
Google Play Store app publishing is delayed as well. Currently the message says:

"Due to adjusted work schedules at this time, we are currently experiencing longer than usual review times.
Please expect review times of 7 days or longer."
How to correctly use a computer – Apple
Ah, so nobody is doing any research on older non-european cultures then? No archeological or linguistic or other kinds of research? Nothing on african, asian, american cultures?
This. It is always A12, then A12X, A13, then A13X.

But they got A12z this time round.
I've been toying with the idea of writing my own browser for a while, too, because I can't find a modern browser that makes me happy.

> A lot of features should be omitted

Since I actively don't want the vast majority of functionality that is included in modern browsers, I think that this is a very doable project. Very large, certainly, but I don't see a showstopper yet.
>1. Hiring in tech has definitely not gone to zero, even for the junior-level roles we skew towards.

This always makes me curious. Why do companies look for junior levels instead of senior ?

It seems to me that with the choice you would want experience if it was an option.

Disclaimer : am employed not looking for work simply perspective
You can avoid stoking the flames and creating scapegoats. Just for reference when the Nazi party initially started to scapegoat Jewish and Romani people they used disease and hygiene concerns as an early way to paint people poorly and it's hellishly effective - blaming "mexicans taking jobs" is a pretty weak (relatively) scapegoating when compared to "mexican rapists" and trying to play to actors that may be causing a more personal harm. Painting the disease as being Chinese/Jewish/Romani is sort of the ultimate scapegoating - people feel personal pain from seeing sickness in their community and have no direct way to see that the attribution of that sickness to a people group is entirely bullsh.

Dogwhistling for racism isn't an innocent action and deserves no understanding, it is hate filled and driven out of self-interest by those doing it.
Seattle checking in. Just used a questionably accurate meat thermometer to check the water coming out of our tap. It looks to be about 6C / 42F.

Brisk!
The business may no longer be profitable because it is now servicing a large debt it didn't previously have. And unlike regular business debt, the money wasn't invested into something productive. This could go very wrong.

Then again, if the business is going bankrupt anyway, who cares how much it ends up owing?
That's valid, it's just a minority view. Most societies aren't willing to interfere with recent graves without good cause, but few have any great concern for exhuming very old graves.
Just about anything not Kubernetes related. I'm currently building a cat toy which combines object detection and reverse kinematics to play with my cat using a laser pointer when she steps into view of the camera.
Can you avoid using a dog-whistle to describe Covid-19?
I really feel this. My partner just got a great opportunity so we jumped on it but I had to leave my job. Now I'm worried it'll be a few months before this settles down enough for hiring depts to want me and by then who knows what the market will look like...
> The primary value of a business is their assets, brands and expertise. All of those things will be just as valuable after the pandemic as they were before.

this doesn't seem true to me. at least the brand loses value over the pandemic, and there's likely complications from cashflow that eat into other assets.
To get points users should be doing the self-care tasks that fall by the wayside with depression. e.g. shower, brush teeth, laundry, cleaning your home/apt/room/car, grocery shopping, etc. Social interaction also. Things like watching online videos and playing mobile games isn't going to pull anyone out of that hole.
Yeah, they're not great in general :(
WTF? I would not expect large businesses to start lay offs immediately. These are troubling times indeed. All the best of luck to you.
I had a hyphema of my retina. Each time I visit a new doctor and they check my pupil dilation, I can tell they are disturbed when they move to that eye and it does not react. I've had doctors express alarm and tell me they were going to run tests on my head.

Now I just tell them before they inspect me and avoid the whole thing altogether.
I disagree with you. Not everything is so black and white that it must be one thing or another. Socialism doesn't have to be "Total state control of the means of production", it can be piecemeal and applied to some parts of a society or economy and not others.

Heathcare for all is not "welfare". It's the government taking tax dollars and then paying for things for all citizens. It's how the USA currently pays for Police and Prisons and the Military and corn subsidies and elementary school teachers among a million other things that are not welfare.

What I'm saying is the US is adopting more socialist ideas, and it's spreading the tax dollars around to more and more citizens in more types of ways, like the rest of the developed world has been doing for decades very successfully.

As I said, I'll be fascinated to see the reaction if and when it's taken back after COVID-19.
I'm not familiar enough with Ubuntu's installer capabilities, but Fedora's has made huge advances in the past 5 years. I went in to the setup fearing the worst (that is, the struggle that was doing a secure boot, UEFI Windows 8 + Fedora 20 setup in 2014), but was shocked at how good Fedora 31's install routine was.

I shrank the 1TB SSD partition in Windows, disabled the proprietary fake-RAID, then booted Fedora's XFCE spin from a USB key. The installer handled everything else--no having to manually tinker with the UEFI partition. Post-install, the XPS's UEFI correctly booted to GRUB, which had successfully detected the Windows bootloader (again, no tinkering like with FC20) and can boot either OS.

Disabling hibernate in Windows and figuring out how to mount the encrypted Windows partition in Fedora was all that remained.

The Linux Kernel 5.5 has a bunch of improvements for the i7-9750H (and other Coffee Lake processors), which is another reason to consider giving Fedora 31 a spin. :)

I had this pleasant experience the same time I was trying to figure out how to dual-boot FC31 on a touch bar MacBook Pro. The short answer is: 80% of the MBP's hardware doesn't work in Linux. Broadcom won't release drivers that are compatible with Linux and blame FCC rules for their reason. Insane. https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux
Remote right now but we are onsite company during non-pandemics.
You seem to be conflating some Bezos-level corp. owner with a poor guy cooking Raman down the street.
Talk to a lawyer ASAP and see if you can get out of the contract.

https://www.justia.com/consumer/consumer-protection-law/canc...
I was in the midst of several interview processes and things were looking optimistic. Everything changed literally overnight. Interviews were cancelled, postponed indefinitely, or I'd be plain 100% ghosted by a company. I'm extremely distraught because I've been looking for employment for a while now and I don't know how I'll support myself. Even my remote opportunities seem to have vanished as uncertainty increases.
I am a scientist, with extensive training in biochemistry and cell and molecular biology, and I can tell you that the commentary here has been abysmal. Factual information with citations (often, multiple) is routinely grayed out due to herd downvoting, while wild speculation and opinion are at the top of threads.

Folks here know about enough science and math to be persuasive when extrapolating, but not enough to truly understand what they're reading, and that's dangerous.
Regarding the small business loans, I think a better incentive would be at the state level, to comp prorated property taxes on all commercial property for the next few months, but only if the owners also comp rent for all renters on the property during this time.

You may think that the landlords would be making more money by not accepting the comp, since the rent will have some premium on top of property tax, but the ones with some foresight may realize that they will lose more money if their tenants go out of business and they have vacancy periods, possibly only to find new renters at a lower price in the event of recession.
Why do you think there is no "social net" in the US? The US directs over a trillion dollars per year to poverty programs. Certainly it could be better organized, but the starting point for any conversation about this shouldn't be that there is no safety net.

The public discourse on this is based on a complete misunderstanding of what is going on. In particular the official "poverty" statistics exclude huge portions of assistance. So much so that many programs could double or triple their benefits and not make a dent in the "poverty" level for the simple fact that metric doesn't measure what everyone thinks it measures.

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2018-10-14-nice-to-...
Ask HN: What industries are moving to Slack/Zoom for the first time?
Lots of companies and industries are presumably transitioning to tools like Slack and Zoom for the first time. Is anyone currently experiencing this right now or aware of folks who are?
> I don't know what else anyone would consider adequate

I'd consider opt-in rather than opt-out to be adequate.
The volume control keys are also pretty universal.
Basically I think it slowly invades your lungs but finally your immune system figures it out and goes all-in. What triggered it was some vigorous excersize which wiped me out. I call that day 1 but it was after over a week of the cough. Day 1-2 occasionnaly had a 99.0F fever but often lower/normal. Had two nights where I felt congestion developing in lungs and then third day got to 100.8F at 5pm... that night-BAM-woke up at 4am with cold sweats and a strong even burning in both lungs (probably immune system working on it). Lungs felt raw breathing in air. Turned on the shower to get some humidity and the burning subsided but then lungs started swelling up and breathing difficulties began. Luckily I took a bunch of benedryl and was able to breathe more after an hour of calm, but was close to calling ambulance. After that I've now had one OK night with a lot of localizing immune activity but at a lower level. On a scale from feeling lousy (1) to dead (10) the progression each night was 1,2,5,2.. (and hopefully continuing down..).
Conversely, I went from a MBP 2015 to the 16" model, and I think the "fixed" keyboard is still terrible. I've used all sorts of keyboard, and it's the first one where I regularly have doubled or missing letters when typing. Maybe I'm not hammering the keys hard enough?
A closed beta is nonsensical for a VPN provider. The purpose of using a VPN is to mask yourself. A provider should be disinterested in their customers' identities, not encouraging them to set up some persistent "relationship" to get perks.

Also this focus on proprietary VPN apps is weird. They just seem like a way to sell into the snake oil market (eg people that pay for a VPN with their credit card). There is no way I'd run a blob just to make a few bits of configuration quicker.
Scientists say mass tests in Italian town have halted Covid-19 there
People accumulate gold as a hedge against society collapsing sometime in the future. But if society collapsed, then gangs of young men with guns would hunt down all the people with stores of gold, and take it away, and shoot them while they were at it. Seems like you would be safer if you didn't have a bunch of gold.
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Unironically the one thought that completely allows me to relax is that I will die at some point and it all doesn't matter.

For me, this doesn't bring me down but it removes all the stakes.

Einmal ist keinmal, basically.
> it will still kill less people than your fossil fuel plant that does not blow up.

given how concentrated energy output from nuclear power plants is there are significant other considerations like terrorism, or sabotage, in particular in regions like Africa and Asia which is really the only place where massive expansion of nuclear energy still makes potential sense.

There's also the economic costs in case of catastrophy. Depending on the source Fukushima has costed Japan several tens but more likely several hundreds of billions, devalued private property and land or has made it unusable, and so forth.
That's like saying 'not better than being an angel investor in <a now huge company founded around 2010>' though.
I guess I was being overly broad. I'm not an immunologist or anything.

I was thinking more of the kind of immunity one gets for something like chicken pox, where one childhood infection basically protects you for life, vs something like the seasonal flu which you can get again and again.

Now I don't know if the reason you keep getting the flu is because it mutates more rapidly than the chicken pox virus and you still remain immune to the particular strain you got infected with or if that initial immunity weakens over time.

Maybe someone better informed can chime in.
Your tone suggests that "small business owners" suggest that they're all better off financially than the average salaried employee. Well, as a former restaurant owner, I can tell you that in good times, the margins across the industry is 5% if you're doing above average. That means, a $2MM restaurant (which isn't an easy feat, even in NYC) will only net the owner $100K.

Loans were, and always will be, a false promise. There's too many variables in the equation that make it not appealing.

TLDR; Small business owners don't have "wealth." Get that out of your head and be sympathetic to what small business owners that you frequent have to deal with.
Experience costs $$$, and there is always some more basic or straight-forward work to do in addition to the cutting-edge stuff. If a junior-level engineer can work with the senior, they can do those lesser tasks for less money and let the higher-payed people tackle the harder tasks (and get some experience!)
As a general thought, this kind of power supply seems like what the author was first looking for but couldn't source at the time:

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Switching-Power-Supply-DC-5V-12V...

It's a 5V, 20Amp one (thus 100W). There seem to be several of them on Ebay from various vendors.

Using that would mean the 12V laptop power supply, and buck converter to change the 12V to 5V wouldn't be needed. Would probably bring down the cost a little bit too.
Reading this thread I think you're mostly right, but there are stories here of people in established companies in hard hit industries (event planning, hospitality, etc) that are also getting laid off.
Their new models are reverting that design.
> More people were in Baltimore shootings last week than died in Santa Clara Country from Wuhan virus

And over again.
I suppose both are cannibals from a certain point of view
Unfortunately not. For better or worse, it didn't, and doesn't, concern me. That said, I don't recall there being any particular assurances about this matter during the process.
Right, but until you have the ability to upzone or “build more”, it’s a moot point.

If you don’t own the land, and you can’t push through upzoning legislation, you’re not building more housing.
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I'm sure it'll help a lot with trust. His name has a typo in the article though ;)
Why does the brand lose value? My favorite restaurant is still a place where I want to eat when this is all over. My favorite brand of toothpaste is still the one I want to buy. How does the brand lose value?
what’s special about friday in particular? i know it’s the end of the quarter but aren’t the earnings announcements etc spread out over a few weeks?
make sure you buy your gold bullion and store it in your new zealand end of the world bunker
Senior engineer at a tech company pays 350-700k. Thats plenty of money to retire by 45...
Yeah, but the people I am talking about were never ever doomers and preppers before. They were just ordinary people who never had any interest in that sort of stuff. Why is it different this time? I have no idea.
1% rule
VBA is a dialect that sits roughly between VBScript and VB6, both defunct technologies.
I really want an iPad Pro purely for the on-screen writing experience, which hasn't been as good on a Surface (in my experience)
From giving aide during a crisis? Never?
Working in a fortune 500 company. Am on a team that was developing a new product for them. Had been doing that for little over a year. Had our product killed just before going public with it. I speculate it was because of the falling stocks in the company (which got worse amidst fears of COVID-19).

Nobody in my team has been laid off so far. However we have nothing to work on, and we most of us believe it is only a matter of time. We are sort of stuck in a limbo at the moment.
Bonds, perhaps corporate ones(yielding 3+% currently), are always a decent choice. Its trivial to make money with 0% loans.
Google has their search, ads, and pending browser monopoly to fund their endeavors. Most companies don't.
Who else do you think should win?
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Yes, I was part of the massive Expedia Group lay-off last month. I’m finding out that a lot of the managers I reported to are becoming individual contributors again as they wind up the department.

I’m a DevOps/Linux Systems Engineer/SRE with 20 years in industry, about 5 as a developer and the rest as operations. Looking for anything remote, or possibly in Austin, TX. I have worked remote before. Besides AWS and Linux, I’ve got experience implementing incident management practices, agile/scrum for infrastructure teams, and have worked remote for over a quarter of my career.
Same boat. Don't panic. From my end, I'm due to start a new gig on monday and everyone at my new client/employer currently has out of office replies when I email them about the procedure for the first day....

Which is brilliant... :/

Fortunately they're rather a hitech company so I hope we can just work remotely.

Still have to go and collect laptop and rsa certs and such though...
I was laid off in 2018 because I took a generous 5-month paternity leave. 2 months after my leave, I was given the pink slip. Contacted a lawyer and was pretty much told "you have no proof it was BECAUSE you took the leave." Based on my conversation with my boss, I know for a fact that's why. His quote: "H1B's are cheap and loyal. The mere fact that you committed to taking the full 5 months showed 0 loyalty." This was a DJIA credit card company.
Reddit is that way.
I was referring to reading a stock certificate. Stock is a nuanced and highly specific legal claim on a sliver of the capital structure of an artificial entity. I was referring to reading the terms, conditions and property embodied in the stock. I'm very diligent about such things and I personally never have read that, nor has anyone ever suggested I should ... because ... well ... I'm not sure momentum investors really care 99% of the time about the intrinsic value of whatever they're spending money on.

Gold is a natural element with scientific properties I'm generally aware of, even if I've never personally audited them.

[p.s. - I was also was referring to the historical value of the dollar. A "dollar" literally was at the time of adoption in the U.S. a fixed amount of precious metal.]
Agree, I had to lay off 40% of staff during the .com crash, that was terrible. In 2008 we did not suffer much as our hiring was super conservative by then (I had learned).

Everybody should be terrified and cut expenses RIGHT NOW: don't buy a fancy car, pull the kids out of private school, cancel vacations, don't buy a house, don't enter into any kind of commercial lease (you'll find plenty of cheap leases).

If you are into consulting (front end, back end, ML, devops, ML) offer to cut your rate 50% if you can get a 12 month contract, right now.

Don't blame the virus. Sure it does not help but a lot of startups were barely viable businesses under oxygen (=VC rounds, always looking for dumb money for the last rounds).
Don’t be picky (I don’t like the office culture, the market you are in, etc)

As they say get a mortgage, you’ll start enjoying your job better. Get several kids and you’ll start enjoying your boss/the founders/the market your startup is in as well.
Get well soon, and thank you for sharing!
I am experienced and biased because of that obviously but I have seen so many train wrecks created with this method.

The amount of waste in corporate american and startups is insane. IMO

There are solutions experienced folks know that save so much money when you look at the big picture it always baffles me when I see that..

The other thing that baffles me is when a CIO makes choices based off of things he has read online instead of taking the business need and finding the most economical solution

If you are interested in making money finding technical solutions with known failures is the key. Experience always knows those.

Just a perspective and comment to an opposing. Not arguing.
Also, side note, if you already signed paperwork with the new employer, press as hard as you think you can get away with, as soon and frequently as you can.

Squeaky wheel gets the grease. Sometimes, there's nothing they can do (hiring freeze from the C-level); but other times, they need to turn 10 hires into 3. Those 3 typically end up being the ones who push for it.

Would definitely push on both fronts. Good luck!
There’s also the situations where the pandemic makes already mad situations even worse.

My parents run a cafe/restaurant in rural Australia that was already not doing too great, and they were looking to sell. Now, they’re truly fucked.
The phone today software wise is vastly different than five months ago. It runs faster, cooler, and is compatible with a lot more things. I think they are well on their way of making this a daily driver by mass production.