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In Poland Aero won its licence on preferential terms with obligation to provide free mobile internet for everyone who wants it.

It is limited and many people will rather choose commercial providers (faster, more flexible plans) but it is working and is free.

PS. Germany has toll-free highways, Polish are quite expensive..
There are not a lot of other choices. The Netherlands is doing the same as other countries but our prime minister is more fair/ open about the virus.

Yes most people will get the virus anyway, anywhere. All measures are there to "flatten the curve". https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/13/8155022...

Netherlands has all the policies in place to flatten the curve. Work from home, schools closed, no big events. etc.

Its only fair that the prime minister says: everybody will get it. heck 50% to 75% of the cases are asymptomatic.
People still work in countries with free medical care and education.

I think the effect on motivation is the central issue of UBI. There might need to be an adjustment. I know for myself, it can be helpful to be compelled to do something that I've been putting off. Sometimes, people don't feel they have a reason to act, but having to go to work can help. It prevents inactivity and isolation.

Perhaps a focus on mental health and intrinsic motivation will be the answer.

But I think most will naturally aim at higher goals than survival... as they do now.
> But yeah, I could see a class of people who would use UBI to permanently slack off whereas they would be highly productive otherwise.

If you're highly productive, willing to live on a minimal payout, and highly prioritize time away from work, then by all rights you should already be on sabbatical eight months a year or something.
thanks for your insights,

> The winners were the veterinarians, outperforming the other specialties in performance (go figure).

1) Veterinarians deal with animals, which aren't as domesticated, civilized, intellectual, ... in some sense. So as opposed to humans they will not understand the reason why they are undergoing treatment, nor have blind faith in this human they don't know. So when an animal experiences higher or lower levels of comfort it will be more "honest" in it's body language in response to the way it is handled, or what it is feeling physically during treatment. Also the veterinarian doesn't need to model abstract conscious thought of the subject, while with humans this is inevitable and can be distracting. Could this explain the higher performance of veterinarians? After treating cows, horses, dogs, cats, ... they view the human in a way as just another animal, and pay more attention to the intuitive body language than to abstract social cues?

>CV19 patients needing hospitalization have pneumonia symptoms and need to be at a constant ~30% incline

this is with heads up, or feet up?

I read a (news, not journal) article with pictures of the Italian patients on their belly, because it allows the mucous to flow from the finely branched areas to flow into the more accessible pathways, so the mucous would collect there where it was easier to remove.

2) IF hospitals get overrun locally, and people are left to their own devices, would it be possible to disinfect a plastic tube, attach a digital endoscopic camera, disinfect both, and introduce it oneself to suck out any accumulating puddles? what would be the maximum tolerable cross section to get it to the point of collecting the mucous?

3) instead of ventilation which is very hard to DIY because of volutrauma and barotrauma, could circulating air work? I envision a double tube brought deep into the common pathway (without obstructing passage of air for breathing, or alternatively a third tube to atmosphere), and simply introducing the same volume as air as being removed by the other tube, so a significant fraction of air will directly exit again through the second tube, but some of the air will mix with the local ambient air in the lungs before exiting through the second tube. i.e. the setup does not replace nor displace breathing, but simply circulates air. This might inadvertently cool the lungs, so there should be proper temperature control on the high flow rate air.
The main reason is they're easier to market. I've tried to advertise web apps before, and had very little success. People seem to much prefer mobile apps over web apps, even if they have exactly the same functionality. At a guess, I'd say it's because they're more familiar, and there's a sense of security in downloading them from the app store.
Here’s my personal take:

1. I don’t trust news by default, when I saw something that might affects me, just then I started digging the facts across multiple sources.

2. I don’t share news, even if that could help others, unless I am 100% sure its a factual news.

3. Focus on what I can control, e.g government trying to hide something? Its not like I have the power to uncover the facts and I am not sure either if they’re trying to hide something.

4. Think positively, judge what is in front of you, stay safe by default. Government saying no one is infected with corona yet? Think positively and believe them, and stay safe by self social distancing. Unless you have the knowledge and resources to do research, its gonna waste a lot of your time while you can use it to prepare for your safety and those around you.

5. As for WFH, changes are always hard. Make sure to keep communicating and clarifying things that aren’t clear. Keep notes of anything important. Get enough sunlight, exercise, stay clean, drink enough water.

6. Whatever happens, happens. Remove all negative thoughts, for every hardship, there’s ease and comfort at the end ~ like how its always been (think about a hard problem from the past, and how it can be solved and there we are, still here and strong and learned something).

Best wishes! TLDR; Ignore news by default, stay positive!
I mean compared to development costs of GPU-hardware, this probably isn't even worth mentioning regarding development costs.

I can still remember the days when everyone said you should grab an nVidia instead of an AMD/ATI card because of driver problems.

With technologies like Vulkan, there is an increased chance that gamers will just use Linux while Windows becomes less important.
I'm a university professor and since classes are suspended for now, I'm taking the chance to fix some things in my house that were on my todo list. I've just finished putting some cement in some of my bathroom tiles.

Regarding news, I try not to watch too much news on the TV. I also think I'm relatively informed regarding this new virus, and as I'm not in (too much) risk, I try now to worry too much..
I made this, which should be fairly easy to tweak to your desired look (the svg is generated by the script): https://jsfiddle.net/4e6kw8Ls/ (click to toggle zoom)
I've been catching up with a ton of friends who I should really have been chatting with more often all along
There's a good argument, I think, for allowing the low risk to get infected. They have a low chance of needing hospital care, so best to get them through this (and not propagating the disease) as quickly as possible.
Love this! Had a similar idea a while ago but never executed on it - DAGs make so much sense for goals/todos, but the existing todo apps make it sorta fiddly to organise things in such a way. Will be sure to check this out
I tend to work much more on my side-projects than before the crisis hit. Currently this is 20-things.com, and this helps me keep my focus off bad news. It can't get much worse than this, right? Right?
Live humbly on UBI, grow vegetables in your yard and invent a better method of automation in your garage. If you succeed at the latter, who knows? To me the point of UBI+Automation is that we unlock the potential of more people following a muse without needing to spend too much time surviving.
Thanks! Will update it to credit their inspirations:)
It would absolutely happen. When I was in the military, the town I lived in had to pass laws preventing landlords from changing your rent based on your rank because everyone's pay information was public. It's naive to think dealerships would try to undercut each other instead of colluding to all get more money.
It's a lot more complicated to modulate the pressure. You need to titrate the pressure to each patient/setup, and often inhale vs exhale. Motor with ESC? Easy. Solenoid valve has only on/off, so you have to manually tune a pressure valve for each level. Also the pilot kind like those in sprinkler systems don't work well with low pressure air.
Latticework of Mental Models
Thank you, did not know about this one!
And, I'm still waiting for Sketch killer from Bjango... it's 5 or 6 years now. ;)
Biggest U.S. airlines spent bulk of free cash flow on stock repurchases
ah that makes sense. That's disappointing for sure but I assumed they meant something more specific to Microsoft. These profit oriented changes are pretty standard after the acquisition of any website. If anything they feel mild considering how much potential there is for Microsoft to really exploit the freemium experience for more sales.

On the other hand, GitHub had a reputation for offering a first class freemium experience and this does chip away at that a bit.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses their job, it's a depression when you lose yours.
Word of unsolicited advice from someone who smoked weed daily for a number of years. If you already have some anxiety, prolonged consumption will worsen it.
> There are more young voters than elderly voters

By most measures used by political scientists, that isn't really true.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/03/millennials...
I second this recommendation. I'm currently playing through Pathologic 2 for the first time. Playing through the game in the wider context of a pandemic makes for a very powerful experience.
Once one person decides to do something and it’s seen as okay, more people will do it.

Companies are just the same, suddenly the entire society will fall into line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect
I don't watch or trust the news in any way shape or form. Its absolute fear mongering. I've been news free for years and I'm much happier.
I'm not sales or technical support. I'm talking back-end engineering and their software teams.
I never stress about things i cannot influence, so Im mostly focusing on préventing my parents from visiting me...
I think you used fireworks for that, wasnt that also from adobe?
> How is dependence on the government any more dangerous than being dependent on a corporation?

Changing your employer is much simpler than changing your government.
The internet was created by governments, much of its technical infrastructure through open source projects, and I’m pretty sure most of those billionaire companies had at least some employees (many of whom I assume were also educated in public schools and state universities).

So, yes, quite obviously, they made it on the “backs of society.”
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And they are even worse at telling you when you're "all clear" (if they can do it at all, many antibody tests are a "once positive, always positive" deal).
People would say that but most firewalls block _incoming_ port 80 connections so that logic never held much weight.
Words of wisdom. Thank you. The human level doesn't get so much consideration here on HN -- and yet it matters more than any other thing.

Protect yourself, your family, and simply do good for others as much as you can.
The us economy is a house of cards
I am having workaround for moths. I am not using techcrunch any more. If there are some relevant news, they will be soon on some other site, that is not anti-users oriented. Vote with you "wallet" or soon all the sites will be like this.
Exercise and fresh air, listening to good music, avoid excessive drinking. Watch cool science fiction movies while eating ice cream, read good books. Bake cookies, learn how to cook interesting dishes, call your parents and other distant loved ones. Read Hacker News which is pleasantly free of the hysteria infecting many other news feeds. Don't worry; we'll get through this.
That is: a bad signal-to-noise ratio is inevitable with people.

A raw feed plus a moderated feed with the option to toggle between them is welcome.

The notion of an Edenic situation where enlightened moderation can squelch the noise is bunk, and a cure worse than the disease.
Yes, Fireworks was originally made by Macromedia who Adobe acquired in 2005 (mainly for Flash).
Just treat it as more validation of your idea. Don't get too involved and focus on your own business.
So it would be logical if shareholders re-capitalize airlines now. Or let them fall if shareholders see no point in keeping airlines alive.
One thing CDE did well was remind you of your multiple desktops. Gnome tends to hide this fact. The downside of CDE was that the dock took up real estate. I was a CDE user for several years, and an Xt/Motif programmer in various jobs.
This is also my thinking. There will be a lot of short term pain - can't get around it. But if we look long term, the more I think about it, the more optimistic I get.

3 months ago, in many rich countries, a lot of young talented people were doing "bullshit" jobs that had 0.000001% impact on the results of their company. I don't even mention the fact that many were working on completely useless stuff. This will be a quick adjustement for every company - keep only people you really need. Sure - short term economic choc and governements absolutely need to step in and help people adjust. But long term - this is a great news. It's a brand new world right there - you have a good, idea (not a bullshit app nobody cares about) - go out, there will be plenty of opportunities once the dust settles and governements will help and fund this.

I actually think, this is the perfect time for European Union (and most countries for that matter) to launch huge scale projects - high speed rail in whole Europe, this kind of things. We will have quite a lot of competent workers available, interest rates are 0% for any foreseable future and the benefits for the future would be huge.

Concerning climate - this is the best, by a huge margin, news we've ever heard. I'm eager to see what big cities will look like with 0 traffic.

We already start to see the best in people - young offering help for elders (that they barely noticed until 2 weeks ago). No doubt we will see some of the worst too, but I believe it will be hugely outweighted by the good.

So yeah, this situation is very hard, but as most hard things in live, it definitely can end up as a huge net postive. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
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> Netherlands has all the policies in place to flatten the curve. Work from home, schools closed, no big events. etc.

This is not nearly enough, unfortunately; we know this because other countries tried it initially and failed to keep the outbreak contained. You should stay at home as much as possible, and minimize your interactions with others if you must go out for whatever reason. Also, you should definitely be wearing protective equipment when outside the home. If only to protect others who might be vulnerable.
I've always wanted the ability to just save my HTML/CSS changes in Chrome Dev Tools to the source files ("Future #3"). Why has that not been done yet? Would save a ton of time.
Agreed that everyone deserves a basic standard of living as a human right but disagree that UBI is the path to that.

Giving money to people instantly creates a class of beggars. Beggars with voting rights will vote for people who give them more and more and more for no more work. It's the road to ruin.

My suggestion is a set of hospitals, schools and housing that is super basic but sufficient to give people dignity and opportunity. These would be free for anyone, paid for via taxes on capital gains.
Thankfully, just few weeks ago, I managed to score a nice set of dumbbells off the craigslist, plus I have set of plates and a bar, other dumbbells, ab wheel + equipment for training arms for rock climbing, that allows me to exercise from my place. For the first time ever, me and my younger brother had a workout session over the Facebook video call.

In last few days, all of the sudden, my girlfriend decided to get in shape, so I'm helping her out.
The other choice is to implement strict social distancing for a few months, close the border and then require a 14 day isolation for international arrivals until a vaccine is available. This is what China is doing and it's working. This isn't an illness you can "let" people have because of the effect on hospitals.
We all pay taxes and benefit from "society". There's nothing special about it, and you too have the freedom to start your own company.
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34 year old healthy male, non smoker and no relevant medical conditions. Not tested [govt policy] but it's a completely unfamiliar infection of the lungs picked up in London where it's very much present, with mild breathing-related symptoms associated with COVID-19 and no regular flu/cold symptoms.

No proper fever [temperature may have very slightly elevated, but not noticeably so, and sleep fitful but I've had much more pronounced fevers before], I've coughed only a literal handful of times and not painfully, so clearly sufficiently mild to miss those characteristic immune responses, no headache or body ache either and only occasional feelings of fatigue and a bit more sleep than usual. Just inflamed lungs which were more uncomfortable than painful or restrictive, and this seems to have largely subsided exactly in line with the reported fifth day in which Coronavirus symptoms usually start to clear or occasionally turn for the worse.

Back when I felt completely healthy last Wednesday and went for a 3k outdoor run (no more uncomfortable or slower than I'd have expected considering I haven't run much this year) I obviously felt like I was breathing a bit too shallowly and breathing deoxygenated air at the end. The infection felt like basically that same feeling coming back the following day, except with a normal breathing rate [and heart rate]; most noticeable when lying down. No actual difficulties taking deeper breaths when I wanted [rapid breathing might have been difficult], but just breathing just felt a little uncomfortable and I can imagine how it can cause much more serious problems for people with more severe symptoms, pre-existing lung conditions or immune system issues.

Steady from last Thursday through to Monday evening, at which point breathing became much easier but I felt what was like surges of adrenalin which I assume was an immune response kicking in. Made sleep difficult but feel better today regardless.
Headspace - Andy's voice and just 10 minutes a day.

Also using screen time to block Safari on my phone and removed social media apps.

Also using /etc/hosts to block news websites.

Only news I get now is through the radio when I'm chilling out listening to Chris Country. That's more manageable than a wall of bad news and horror stories.
My memories might be blurry. But I think it was photoshop, and there was this slice tool where you can define the segments of the design and export it to HTML. But Fireworks might also have the same feature, I personally never used it so I can’t say for sure.

Oh also remember Dreamweaver :)
So then they won’t mind trading stock to the government for cash, right? Hah... never met a corporate executive who didn’t magically become a socialist when the chips were down.
DIY Face Mask
Regeneron to have coronavirus antibody treatment ready for testing by summer
Wiki says:

> free cash flow to firm (FCFF) is a way of looking at a business's cash flow to see what is available for distribution among all the securities holders of a corporate entity. [0]

What do people expect them to do with free cash flow? The point of free cash flow is to get the money back to shareholders. These aren't high-growth industries.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_cash_flow
I actually like humans and prefer that tens or hundreds of millions don't suffer (homeless, starving, stressed, sick, etc.).

I mean, may as well have a small nuclear war and kill 30% of
humanity as well if the goal is slowing climate change at all costs.

edit: Btw, your proposal is exactly the sort of thinking that got us in this climate mess in the first place. You're putting your desire (climate change in this case) higher than the overall well being of people. Republicans put their desire (money and business) higher than the overall well being of people (including future people impacted by climate change). Lack of empathy is not something to admire and generally results in everyone being worse off.
I suggest learning from history. The doing better has already happened. The 1960s terminal I/O model evolved into the console I/O model during the 1980s; from firmware-mediated access to CGA, through the VIO+KBD+MOU subsystems of OS/2, to Windows NT console objects.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/tui-console-and-terminal-paradigms.html

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17238350
Just in Time (2016)
Looks really good!

Here is an open-source version I made called TaskGraph [1], a fork from uber/react-digraph[2]. I made it for my startup [3] because I didn't really like Jira in the context of 3 people.

We have been using it for a couple of months and it works really well. Apologies in advance for the lack of documentation. If you have any questions by all means.

TaskGraph has:

- Task status (todo/in-progress/done)

- Task completion estimation (admittedly it assumes you can work perfectly in parallel which is a bit of a stretch.)

[1] https://github.com/openquery-io/taskgraph/

[2] https://github.com/uber/react-digraph

[3] https://www.openquery.io/
I think Asian countries took the estimates pretty seriously. I think both would have been worse if they didn't, especially SARS.
Pay employees more, increase benefits, better service for customers, put money away for a rainy day? There are lots of ways to spend money that are good for the long term rather than making the rich richer.
Employers in the U.S. can fire anyone at any time for practically any reason, cutting off one's livelihood. That feels more likely than a government doing the equivalent of cutting off someone's social security. A company's goal is to maximize profits, not provide charity to people it no longer deems useful to its bottom line.
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This is specifically to the OP, but also others that have generalized anxiety. Counseling can be very helpful and hopefully many can support remote sessions.
From personally speaking, what I also have found has helped:

- trying to be helpful to others - this single mental attitude can improve overall mood, make one feel more connected, and has a positive effect on the world

- have hobbies and activities that are engaging and that you look forward to. For me this is boardgaming, which has been a bit of a challenge given the social distancing, but fortunately there are online options that are helpful

- reminding myself that this is temporary. Although I haven't quite been through anything exactly the same, I have been through difficult experiences in the past and have grown due to them.
They tried to buy US exclusivity for the vaccine candidate. I really hope they don't try anything similar with ventilators.
https://youtu.be/5dlYh_eHr4Y
Of course they prioritized sending money to investors, the incentives align to promote that outcome. They know they're a thin margin industry and that if anything serious happens they go tits up. Looking stupid for not saving money in the bankruptcy hearing is free. Having assets that you saved for tough times spent in order to delay the bankruptcy cost you those assets.