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Climate change should be treated as an emergency, we are already on an unavoidable course for misery. It cant be mitigated any more.
If you read IPCC report, it assumes massive negative emissions, larger in cost than the entire oil industry we have today.

Preventing climate change is a fantasy. Sont take it from me, watch Bill Gates discuss the topic.
The Coronavirus Explained and What You Should Do - Kurzgesagt
As Coronavirus Looms, a Hospital Begins Sterilizing Masks for Reuse
If that 3 months risks a bankruptcy, that might be right. Long-run valuation for shareholders doesn’t matter if the bond-holders end up with the company.

I suspect this is a 12-24 month economic event, maybe longer before it fully rolls through.
No, they are simply aggressively censoring stories that trend. It appears to be a manual process.

The front page would be filled with little else if they did not.

The censorship appears to extend even to adjacent news, like CA municipalities adjusting liquor regulations, et c. The story about a letter from the CA governor to the president was censored, as well.

Set up a script to diff the front page every 5 mins to see what I mean.

Their site, their rules. It still sucks, though. :(

Examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22643306

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22633570
There used to be a protocol for this: Oh hey, cool person I like and would like to talk to if I wasn’t in the middle of something! I’m in the middle of (thing), can I call you back in like ten minutes?
Fellow lover of the 2013 air. I maxed it out on everything but storage when I bought it (core i7, 8 GB ram) and I'm glad I did, since a computer I planned to own for a couple years and then swap upwards has put in 7 years of hard labour. The battery capacity is down to 70% (plus in the last couple months shuts down below 50% when it's cold) and I'm on my third charger due to cable fray, but this remains the best computer I have ever owned. When the retina macbook pro arrived in 2015 I assumed it wouldn't be too long before high res screens trickled down to the whole lineup. I'm not sure I've ever been more wrong about product direction. I have been waiting for years for Apple to release something that hit the size, performance, versatility, and value I have gotten from my air.

I was tempted by the 2016 macbook pro non-touch bar, but it was so expensive for what you got I just couldn't justify replacing my air.

I was incredibly disappointed by the 2019 retina air. Finally a retina display the air had been needing for years, but the performance wasn't great. That would be forgivable, but the price was just too high (plus the keyboard they saddled it with really didn't seem pleasant to type on).

This time they seem to have gotten the 2013 air recipe right. I wouldn't turn down a couple USB-A ports to avoid dongle hell, but otherwise this seems as close to the 2013 successor we're going to get. I have an order in for the 2020 air with the core i5 upgrade and in case it winds up needing to serve another 7 years I got 16 gb of ram. We'll see if I miss my air enough to return it and switch back or not.

I'm really hoping apple announces arm macs in the next year or 2 as I'd love to have the ipad pro guts inside a roughly air sized form factor. I use the console and other general purpose computing things far, far too much to make the leap entirely to iOS, but mac os running on the ipad pro would be a great spiritual successor to the macbook air line.
Covid-19 has exposed our financial fragility
yes, but you need to have time. It's quite time consuming.

the first chapter will introduce you some usage of lisp.
Rest of the book will introduce some programming concept.
1. Recursive (tail recursive!)
2. Abstraction
3. State and Concurrency (Lisp has concurrency! what a surprise!)
4. Streams (if you have read this, reactive programming will be piece of cake for you)
5. REPL (read eval print loop)
6. Logic Programming
7. A simple virtual machine
8. and lots more........these are what I remember for now

It will improve your knowledge on programming. WAY BETTER THAN THOSE BOOKS JUST TELL YOU HOW TO USE A SPECIFIC LANGUAGE.
I agree with the spirit, but theme parks specifically should probably stay cancelled until the virus is completely and universally suppressed. Temperature checks in smaller public accommodations, absolutely.
> but if your company cannot continue operating because its shut/slowed down for 2 weeks then it’s likely that your business was running on a knifes edge and /any/ shock would have killed it.

Nearly all businesses in reasonably competitive markets have thin margins. You buy a widget and sell it for 30% more, but then most of that 30% goes to rent and utilities and salaries etc. Your actual net profit margin is more like 2%.

The result is that most businesses do fail if they're hit with any kind of major shock. Which happens all the time. It's supposed to. Mistakes have consequences. A business failing here and there is reasonable and expected.

But it's a completely different kind of problem when it happens to everybody all at once.
1) Hedge funds didn’t crash the market. There’s just no evidence for that. The market crashed because there’s enormous uncertainty and people would rather be liquid while they wait to see what happens vs losing a huge percentage of their wealth.

2) Businesses exist to make a profit for their shareholders. Yes, they should have some retained earnings as a rainy day fund, but some of these companies are losing 75-100% of their revenue (airlines, cruises) and it doesn’t make sense to try and self-insure for the most extreme tail risk ever. So they return profit to shareholders. And for various reasons, buybacks are often preferred to dividends.

Would you be this up in arms if they had never done a buyback but had been paying a regular dividend to return those profits?
It really doesn't matter. If 20% of the economy is zeroed out because it's not safe under current conditions, the stock market will crash. Nothing you could have done beforehand, and no hobby-horse you've ridden for no matter how long, can fix that.
Where are you getting this 0.4% number from? Korea is testing extensively, so CFR is very close to IFR, and CFR is above 1%.
I really think we should stop conflating bad economic decisions with the current pandemic. Yes, maybe stock buybacks are bad.

But even if they were banned, these companies wouldn't just have piles of cash reserves sitting around. To remain competitive, they would've had it invested in resources like additional personnel that would've gotten the axe either way when the belt has to be tightened.

There needs to be better financial planning and regulations - a lot of them.

But the best thing that could've helped here is better planning for national emergencies like a pandemic. Bill Gates and others have been clamoring for a long time about these dangers and we should've taken them more seriously.
CS 140 (hope I remembered the course number right) where you write an operating system mostly from scratch is notoriously time consuming and rewarding, at least back when I was there.

Edit: http://www.scs.stanford.edu/20wi-cs140/notes/
I'm not 100% sure about the rest of Canada, but in Quebec: If you pay a yearly fee to be a member of the professional order of engineers, you can call yourself an engineer.

Sure, you have to have minimum a bachelor's from an accredited Canadian university, pass an ethics exam, and have supervised experience (or prove that you obtained the equivalent) to join in the first place, but if you don't pay the yearly fee you can only call yourself a "holder of an engineering degree".
Until recently there were sites selling contact lenses (like visiondirect.co.uk) that would flaunt this rule, but visiondirect was recently being investigated for it so YMMV.
They've only showed it working with static content - they'll need to do it with video (multiple synchronised cameras) and in real time for ant robotics application.
While I mostly agree with #1 and #2 - not sure what this has to do with the crises we're in.

The core of the current financial crisis is that demand has evaporated over the course of a week or two and / or businesses can't operate; both due to COVID-19. As a result many small business won't survive. By extension many people are impacted, won't make rent, won't make lease payments, won't make credit card payments.

The stock market dropping is reflecting the above reality unwinding. And yes prices were inflated, and still are (QE is trying to hold them, we'll see how long that lasts...).

Unlike the 2008 crises that had synthetic derivatives, and shitty rating agencies to blame - this isn't the case here.

Though don't get me wrong I still think there are many sketchy things that go on, and many people who need to answer for them. Let's starts with the politicians that sold their shares given insider information, followed by others who curry favor with wall st.
I manage my team using todoist. So satisfied.
Thank you for this resource. Incredibly well researched and presented.
The latter (ie I don't think the moderators are removing them, although many are being flagged). . There's also an element of glibertarianism that colors which stories get attention.
I’m honestly looking forward to a new economy served by large corporations. Large companies are more consistent in their user experience across multiple locations, and are better buyers of tech. They are always looking for new ways to automate their operations and frequently turn to tech companies to solve their problems at scale.

So in a way, it’s good for the valley if more of the economy becomes more corporate.
Because all of your numbers are wrong and assume that the person gets the best intensive care possible. In a pandemic like Italy, the healthcare system is overwhelmed and you cant get care an ventilator. Then death rates go up 20x, and yound people start dying too.

You would do those things because collective survival of organised civilisation depends on it
How long do we expect shelter in place to last?
It would likely take longer to develop and roll out a system like that than for social distancing to run its course
It’s insane to think that Boeing will just return to normal in 3 months. This could depress air travel for years.
Elevation in Chloroquine Poisonings in Nigeria
SAT IIs are pretty obscure, and I don't think there's any benefit to taking them over AP tests, since APs can sometimes be translated into college credits and have much more support in public schools.

One of the points of metrics is to reduce the relevance of how savvy your parents are. But you have to have pretty savvy parents to take the SAT IIs.

Metrics get a lot of heat from people who don't realize what the alternative is, but I know a guy who got into Harvard because his grandparents go to the same synagogue as some admissions people and called in a favor. _That's_ the alternative to metrics.
No; many hit the top ten of the front page quickly, within minutes. It appears that they are being manually censored periodically, or perhaps by a keyword cronjob that runs at a greater than 5 minute interval.

Source: I load HN way too much.
Businesses that rely on walk-in customers will have to go for what looks like more than a month with little to no income. Same thing with travel related industries, surely over-leveraged portfolios exacerbated the problem but there are many other factors at play.
I'm sure this is just referring to various 'extension headers' in IPSec, which is how the protocol was designed.

Sure, poor implementations can lead to problems, but the same holds true for just about anything.
10tb sounds like a big scary number but when you think about it that's only 100 100gb ports. It should be no surprise to you that a company making their own switches and NICs, where every RPC is individually authenticated and possibly also encrypted with session keys specific to the peer has no need of vendor "acceleration".

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/google-clo...

https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-in-transit/appl...
Unfortunately the tests can’t be replicated and distributed at anywhere near the rate that the virus can be.
Can we make millions of the tests rapidly available? I am still reading about test shortages on both coasts, even under the restricted testing regime we have been in so far.

Maybe the no-contact thermometers could be a scalable approach. Go to the bank? Forehead scan to get in. Go to the grocery store? Same. At least until--and maybe even after--we can scale the RNA testing.
I pay cash for all my in-person purchases to attempt to prevent companies from data-mining my spending habits. I'll switch to cashless if it's just as private.
They make a barebones car, put a custom Linux tablet on top of it, and wire all interior controls to that tablet. The tablet is an all inclusive deal from security to dashboard display to navigation to Netflix while parking, such that it incentivizes users to adhere to that tablet ecosystem. That would be a compelling reason why.
42% of Americans are obese, this will hit us a lot harder than Europe.
That sounds horrifying. What information leads you to believe that the United States will be having so many automobile deaths in the coming weeks?
I have a lot, but my favorites are the Time-Life Enchanted World series. I don't think I have the whole set, though.
Agreed. Chiropractors are not helpful; better to go to an actual hospital and get a real expert for back problems.
This argument again? Every damn time...
Every use of conduit in production that I have witnessed has been a mistake.
Should companies not return profits to their shareholders? CEO's should be in jail for doing so? Be serious.
Stardew valley is a bit of harmless fun that can be safely ignored if you don't want to play. A web browser is obviously a can of worms that opens you up to security issues...

Seriously, what is the use case? YouTube and Netflix ought to have a native app. Do I desperately want to browse HN but I don't have a phone on me? I don't understand.
It should take quite a while (several weeks) to see the effects of any actions. Anyone who just caught it has a bit of time Before it gets severe.
That's a ridiculous false choice fallacy. First of all, the 5% doesn't make sense and is demonstrably false. You are cherry picking the data that fits you and assuming everyone infected got tested. Also, if you go by your logic, why do you think killing 5% of the population better than killing even more people by completely wrecking the supply chains that allow us to treat enough people?

Also, you've literally ignored all of my argument that addressed what would be better and why it would be better. You also shifted back to a rhetorical question to avoid talking about whatever you said about dead people in the streets. It's absurd to move the goalposts like this.

But even if you are clearly being dishonest here, I'll say it again. The best option would be to not lock down the vast majority of the population because it will only mean less resources to help the sick and fight against the disease itself. It will also only lead to a breaking point where people will simply not be able to afford to stay on lockdown no matter how bad it gets. That will make the whole thing much more deadly because people will simply not follow any measure if they are hungry or completely broke.
If more banks follow suite with deferring mortgage/loan payments... All the stops are being pulled. If the governments can get their shit together over the next 2-3 months we could actually hit play after this pause and have a real shot at rebounding.

Other countries, and developing countries, may.. Will not be so lucky.
A Plan for Coronavirus: Pause, Retool, and Eliminate the Curve
> ...which we like, although a lot of apps (especially node apps) are slow to start.

Surprising since NodeJS routinely comes up as the fastest runtime in Lambda benchmarks, especially for cold-starts: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/aws-lambda-cold-start-langu...
I don't know the details for Canada specifically, but I doubt not having a degree precludes you from registration - generally having one just expedites it.

I'd encourage you not to discount professional bodies as irrelevant, or incapable of becoming more relevant, our industry could benefit from it in many ways - perhaps most frequently on-topic on HN is the ethical and whistle-blowing aspect. Also plenty of professional development and networking, and that only improves as more people that get involved from different (or rather one's own specific) areas.
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This is REALLY cool, but kinda makes sense as well. Neural networks are very good at interpolation, given the right prior.
> Well, I know that everybody's digestive system is different, but I have read that only one #2 per day is unusual for a lot of people and may be a sign of constipation. I think a lot of people go after most major meals.

My impression is that most people with normal, regular digestion, ideally go #2 once in the morning after their laxative^Wcoffee and before bathing.

In the distant past I had digestive problems which generally required a #2 shortly after any substantial meal. That was not what I'd consider ideal nor healthy. It was a nuisance and often resulted in an urgent need to use toilets away from home in restaurants and such, unhygienic to say the least.

Learning how to eat the right things to keep regular with a #2 per morning, even without stimulants like coffee, for me was a major part of becoming an adult. I don't think this is that unusual based on convos I've had with close enough friends to speak freely on the subject.
Leisurely family walks are fine.

Generally, clusters are OK for people that live together anyway.
Got to love hackernews, in a discussion of tools to fight global pandemic, the top comment nitpicks an number that everyone knows is imprecise, and offers nothing constructive.
The brain emits a pain response when spending physical currency, something very useful for controlling spending.
I have a genetic disorder. So, yes, I'm unusually sensitive to a lot of things.

I used to know a guy online who swore he had zero allergies. He started every day with boatloads of coffee and ended everyday with boatloads of wine.

Uppers in the morning -- like caffeine -- and downers at night so they can sleep -- like alcohol -- is a standard treatment for allergies. I suspect he had undiagnosed allergies and maybe could have acted like less of an alcoholic if the allergies were identified and properly treated, starting with the standard practice of trying to avoid triggers as much as possible.

The older I get, the more skeptical I am that other people are as different from me as they claim and as the world claims. I don't think it's actually good for anyone to be around rotting trash, etc.

But, certainly, when someone is especially vulnerable, we should make an effort to be more careful about such things. As I get healthier, I'm more able to tolerate "normal" things.

Meanwhile, the entire world is very suddenly embracing practices I have long pursued while everyone pointed and laughed and called me crazy. It seems the world's cavalier attitude about how such things don't matter if you aren't defective like me is catching up to it and there's hell to pay.
Why should anyone be punished for failing to plan for a black swan event?

Black swan events are unpredictable and outside of what is normally expected.
Something that amused me the other day was was an NPR reporter saying, "I went to the park yesterday and I was surprised at all the people just out in the park" as if they didn't also make the choice to go to the park.
Having an app for Netflix or YouTube is very compelling. I don't understand the use case of legit browsing the web on my car...
I'm sure this is for the sake of "diversity" yet this only harms those kids who can't do any extracurricular activities or similar and had to rely on standardized tests to have a chance. I should know, I was one of them.

So this can only backfire (if the goal really is to get more people from different backgrounds in), as these initiatives always do.
I don't think the options are have a lockdown vs have a functioning economy and a bunch of sick people. Once hospitals start overflowing with this, you're not going to have a functioning economy anyway.

If hospitals can get the supplies they need, and testing and health department capacity is there to do contact tracing, the lockdowns can loosen, and our economy can start back up. Bonus points if the warmer weather in the coming months helps fight the virus.
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> The solution is aggressive, continuous testing so that people can feel safe going back out.

I disagree, and strongly.

This would be a knee-jerk, hyberbolic, and woefully ineffective over-response.

Typical for the times.

The only thing this might achieve is creating an even greater climate of fear and loathing.

There will be false positives. And false negatives.

There are with every medical test.

Back-of-the-envelope calculation: Assuming we "test everybody", and assuming both a 5% rate for both false positives and false negatives -- which is better than we currently do with influenza testing![1] -- we would needlessly quarantine 12.5 million people, and fail to quarantine an equal number of infected carriers.

Not to mention, the data about COVID-19 is all over the map. We still know very, very little about this disease. Understanding it well enough to calculate the appropriate response will take time.

Testing is part of the solution, yes. But the economic and social impact of "test everybody, every day" would be catastrophic.

Until then, in the short term, there are things we can, and should, be doing, as individuals:

(1) Limit your physical contact with others.

(1a) Especially at-risk individuals. The elderly, young children, etc.

(2) Support your local businesses through delivery, online ordering, and gift certificates.

(3) DON'T HOARD SUPPLIES! You do not need a decade's worth of toilet paper. Three months' worth is fine.

(4) Related to the above, maybe use this as an opportunity to live a bit more sustainably.

I'm down to four sheets per wipe -- certainly fascinating, relevant, and not at all disgusting to all of our readers -- which means that a single CostCo-sized pack of TP might keep my household going for well over six months.

On that note, I'm learning to garden. Let's see if I can manage to actually grow a fucking potato this year, all I got last year was a big leafy plant with zero tubers.

A discussion on government policy in response to this is a big ball of... things that require four sheets of Kirkland Signature, so I'm so not going there.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/diagnosis/rapidlab.htm
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