skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of paying everyone, or at least every adult, as that it's a lot easier to check for double-dipping (especially later when people know you will pursue them after finding out), than to spend weeks or months checking for all the zillions of corner cases and rules and demanding complex proof needed in ordinary benefits / social security schemes.

In the UK it is known, by government studies, that a huge amount of money that people are entitled to in benefits is never claimed because people either don't know about it or are put off by bureaucratic hurdles. Government officials generally don't draw people's attention to what they are entitled too, and often make mistakes, occasionally fatal (people have starved to death). And some people get what they are entitled to only by appealing bad decisions, with the appeal success rate being rather high.

Right now, especially for people such as those who are self-employed or with complex finances (savings and debt at the same time, etc), proving elegibility to benefits is very difficult, especially if done from scratch when they don't have well organised documentation to hand. (Normally it's a once-a-year thing, to file taxes.)

But the need for urgent finance in the current crisis is the same for everyone without enough cash.

Some self-employed or gig economy people are panicking about affording food right now, and retaining shelter; let alone bills, and that's a terrible situation to suddenly happen, especially to large numbers of people.

What I would advocate for, in a crisis such as this, is helicopter money to everyone at first, and then gradually introduce more nuanced systems that take a bit longer, and give people time to plan for. So that at least nearly everyone can be safe with regards to food and shelter in the short term.
If you work in tech writing software or building hardware this has no impact on you at all. You can still do the exact same stuff, you just can't have 'Engineer' in your title. This stuff only really comes into play for say civil engineers signing off on the final design of a project or a chemical engineer doing the same for some plant.
> a perfectly safe

Unless, for but one example, it's raining, heavily.

Because the wipers freeze.
If this was done from the start then we could have recovered from it much easier. We should have never waited when we saw this was the road every other country was clearly going down and they handling the situation better than the US before the shut downs.
> CEOs of large corporations used cash to buy back their stock,

Not only that, but they also use borrowed money with corporate debt to buy back stocks.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-08/companies...
You're right about the financials but wrong about the direct economic impact. It's a 3 month hit that people are accepting, with the underlying fear that it will be a year-long hit, and the sickening feeling that recovery from this will take at least 5 years.
>. It simply isn't possible to shut down the economy and then pay people, businesses to sit idle for an undetermined amount of time.

We need to develop that capability. Imagine the next pandemic was worse, spread more asymptomatically and/or required a longer isolation time to get over without spreading combined with higher fatality rate, or fatalities in a younger demographic.

This could also help us learn how to deal with more tangentially related things like grid disruptions (hopefully we don't eliminate cash in response though as that might hurt in that scenario).
It's gone from about ten thousand during the 1990s to about twenty thousand now:

https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/english/census96/data/profiles/R...

https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hl...

http://municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/documents/msb/2016_Munici...

(It's nice to see that all North American countries are as bad at making websites; practically a tradition at this point!)
And you may find yourself

Living in a shotgun shack

And you may find yourself

In another part of the world

And you may find yourself

folding an operator with short-circuiting behavior left-associatedly over a list

Let the data go by....
The math on this doesn't add up if you were to scale it. If this works, it's only because "vodka made from milk" is a neat marketing ploy that's bringing in premium prices. If several people did this, it would end quickly.

My math:

Milk is about 5% sugar. Typically for distilling you want to get a wash of at least 10% sugar. So for this to add up milk would have to be half the price of 10 brix simple syrup, and it definitely is not. A gallon of 10 brix simple syrup would cost about 40 cents and that's if you're just buying the sugar at a grocery store. Average price of milk is over $3/gallon.

Also, you can buy enough bulk neutral spirits from MGP to fill a bottle of vodka for about 40 cents. It would take 1.6 gallons of milk to end up with that same amount vodka, and that's if your distillery ran at 100%, which it doesn't, so it'd be close to 2 gallons. (I'm comparing retail to retail prices. I don't know
> It simply isn't possible to shut down the economy and then pay people, businesses to sit idle for an undetermined amount of time.

Is that actually true though? What resource are we low on? Do we not have enough nonperishable goods or public funds to pay for utilities and basic infrastructure?
Is that true for literally any degree from a top 5 university?
The stock market is collapsing because the population is increasingly unable to go anywhere or do anything. As a result whole sectors of the economy are almost completely unable to function. They're predicting 25% GDP contraction and 25% unemployment which about the same as the peak of the Great Depression in 1933. And we don't know when that's going to end and it will probably take most of a year at least.
I Started AI-Based Writing Assistant – Story of Linguix
Does that actually accomplish the desired goal? Encrypting across data centers is one thing, but encrypting within a data center only makes sense if the threat model includes the datacenter's internal network being compromised – I suppose either physically or by hacking a router or something. I can't judge how much that threat model makes sense. But to the extent it does, a centralized router doesn't protect against it; in fact, if you're going to trust the router(s), there's no point encrypting the data at all. On the other hand, a per-server smart NIC would achieve equivalent protection, but maybe that's more expensive?
Regarding restaurants. I live in Massachusetts where sit in is not allowed as of last week. I'm sure many restaurants are hit hard. But I also see many cafes and restaurants that adjusted quickly to take out and delivery and seem pretty busy. Some adjusted their menus and selling soup in bulk etc. Bars got hit harder.

Many sport studios quickly moved to online classes. Not everyone can of course. The climbing gym near my house is closed and who knows if they ever reopen. I'm not saying that we're not in a middle of a small businesses catastrophe, just that many small businesses find ways to survive. But obv they won't be able to for too long.
So the sarcastic response to that is: What does that even mean?

What I tried and failed to get at in my other comment is that massive resources are already being marshaled to produce more tests and find treatments and find a vaccine and so on. Federal leadership appears to be…poor, but that isn't stopping people from stepping forward.

So when you step past the slogan, what does Congress write in their declaration?
> we would needlessly quarantine 12.5 million people

As opposed to needlessly quarantining 300 million people?
What's your opinion on it? Good idea? Bad idea?
I mean the total number of people sick at any given time, not the total number of people who have ever been infected.
My personal belief on why this is not a good argument: our phones are pretty dirty too.
> Businesses exist to make a profit for their shareholders.

It is an insidious and morally bankrupt myth that this is the only purpose of a company.
Get IDT or (other nucleotide synthesis company) to start mass producing the detection primers, and ship them to their whole active customer catalog, they all have thermal cyclers. Then figure out the other reagents needed to locally produce tests that trade off false positive rate for the lowest false negative rate you can get. How to get swabs to the closest lab with a thermal cycler, no idea, but we have phones with gps. Rate limiting step here is probably the step from swab to sample ready for amplification. I kind of wonder if it makes sense to tell people to start swabbing now and keep the swabs in the freezer until testing comes online so that we can start filling in the missing data.
Yep, I am not totally sure what you do about it (stuff like testing people at work is going to be tricky legally) but I came to this conclusion the other day too.

The issue really isn't the virus but the fact that people who end up spreading it, don't know they have it. Shutting down the economy is a backwards way of solving this...it is assuming that everyone has it.

I am not sure how exactly we get to that point and you are kind of hoping that people who have it isolate...but testing really should be priority. My govt is ramping up but the numbers they are talking about are still ludicrously small...total tested is 0.1% of population, and they are saying it is a resource issue (whilst they are spending literally hundreds of billions on stuff that is being caused by their testing strategy).
In California, you have a code on your mail in ballet you can use to check if your vote has been counted.
Wasn't buybacks banned for a longtime in the century? Perhaps you consider this to be socialism and that's why it was unbanned, but given the perverse incentives politicians seemed to have had for the past few decades, I don't see an unbiased argument why it was in the interest of the public to unban stock buyback.

Clearly the past year has proven why it should have stayed banned.
Having read some of the comments here, I want to say that I think I fall in the "cynical" portion of the population. Then again, my family is Russian, and we all typically think we're all gonna be screwed somehow.

The most optimistic outcome, for me, is that remote work becomes a bigger possibility when companies realize they're wasting tons of money on too much office space.

People already know that we can live with less. _Businesses_, however, do not realize this. I hope businesses ( especially big ones ) realize this.

Shortcomings in our economy and health care ( not just America, but world-wide ) will be realized and fixed.

However, I do not think any of the above will become true. Humans have short memories. I think once the crisis is over, business as usual will resume and we will have made no progress. Other than another vaccine.
They should be charged and prosecuted for putting others in danger.
Are you writing a “Black Mirror” episode?
Worth discussing, but it would take months to deploy the level of testing required. You’d need to test a significant fraction of the entire US population every day. Say 30%, which is probably too low. So we need 100 million tests per day? That’s many months away, as is the miraculous (and privacy issue laden) database you’re talking about. By then, this will all be over and millions dead if we just let it run unchecked. We’re buying time to be able to actually implement something like that. It can’t happen in a matter of days or weeks.
Doctors: "you need to wait for FDA approval!"

also doctors:

https://twitter.com/ml_barnett/status/1241172371404357633

https://twitter.com/JeffreyLowMD/status/1241172812762468353

https://twitter.com/amberwvzz/status/1241196003425992704
This is a project based in Ireland. For a similar US-based project, see https://www.projectopenair.org/
But at least only you touch it.
XPS is wonderful but it arrived 20 years too late.
Discord Incident Report (March 16 Outage)
> It simply isn't possible to shut down the economy and then pay people, businesses to sit idle for an undetermined amount of time.

Why not? This is a matter of survival. If the economic system breaks because of one pandemic that will last less than a year maybe that economic system needs to die and be replaced by something more solid and useful for most.
In a scary way, that's almost steampunk.
It could be because the application of medical care is skewed towards the young, such that they survive and those older or with less chance of surviving die.
If you can reduce the demand on hospital services, then you might have enough resources to treat those high mortality cases, and under those circumstances they may survive.
Cashless is the authoritarian and banker dream. They are pushing hard for it worldwide.
Nations should always circulate physical cash. Cash is a national security requirement for the function of society during disasters, man made and otherwise. Your card will not work. Cash is a human rights issue for those who are underbanked, unbanked, or value their privacy.
I disagree. A raffle system, while inevitable in some cases (H-1B lottery comes to mind), is totally inappropriate when applied to a standardized test. Quite on the contrary, a standardized test aims to measure capability (however abstract it is), not luck.
I'm not sure how you got to this post after reading the OP.

Company leadership should focus on returning capital when appropriate. They should not be repurchasing shares at obviously inflated prices as a last-ditch effort to further raise share prices so they can cash out their bonuses. They should be using that money to improve the business.

Basically, leadership needs to think about long-term health, instead of making poor business decisions to improve executive bonuses.
They never said you can't design a paper ballot system that can be corrupted... they just said that you CAN design one (fairly easily) that can't be corrupted and can be verified by most people (no special technical knowledge required)
Also on server editions of windows, the system (by default) will ask for an "unplanned shutdown" reason, which is another modal you have to go through before it actually shuts down.
The things that keep me from liking tablets are the software-enforced limitations that do not need to be there.

Why, for instance, do apps insist on controlling the size and layout of everything? There are so many times when a simple pinch-zoom, pane-resize or font-increase setting would make everything easier. It’s certainly possible to do, it’s just that software won’t allow it. That is a huge strike against productivity on tablets; I refuse to be fiddling away in the arbitrary regions of the screen that you have rationed for me, while you waste screen space on things like gigantic sidebars I rarely use.

Similarly, only the system gets to decide what “tasks” I may move between, or even see at once. That has never made sense, and decades of bouncing between overlapping windows with complete freedom should not have been thrown out so easily. Worse still, one is usually punished in some way for having the audacity to switch tasks at all! When you switch back, the app might have been killed. If by some miracle the app wasn’t killed, it’s certain to at least lose your focus, fail to save the last thing you typed, or enter any number of other unsatisfying half-states (none of which are “exactly where I left off 10 seconds ago”).
Letting the data go by...

;)
I'm a little confused here. The author compares S-Cache to 'sudo'. 'sudo' is a command that lets an unprivileged user run a privileged command. S-Cache lets a process access a secret without having to manage it. The process (in a sense) is not _privileged_ enough to see the secret but rather delegates this to S-Cache.
The author (as far as I can tell) does not mention the shadow passwords file. Can you explain more?
Ask HN: What job that is not UI centric?
I'm experienced programmer. But recently I'm tired of writing User Interface related code.

Most of my time I think I am dealing with to satisfy someones objected need in beauty design and functional requirement. But not really doing anything "programming".

I found the user never able to make sure what they really need. Always changing what the want, the only thing they are sure is THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE IN SOME TIME. We have representative guy / PM, but after all, he is just a walking transmission line just deliver message from one end to another end.

I'm tired, and not sure which kind of job I should seek of. Since in current job market, most of jobs are UI centric.
I find this really funny, because Stoli is literally short for “table vodka” (“stol” is table.) In Russia, it was a super cheap shit vodka.

I wonder if they’ve gotten better - or if just their marketing has.
Your logic is off. In the absence of data there is more fear because you have no idea who might possibly be sick. Once you start testing you can bring epidemiological tools online and alert people to possible exposures. If you don't do that the only sure thing is to quarantine everyone because you have no data, that will tank the economy for sure.
10 Tbps is not a scary number? I am honestly still in awe of how such a small box can route an entire city’s worth of traffic. Different perspectives I suppose.

Regarding your points: I am not sure I completely follow.

Firstly, as far as I know, Google does not make its own switching or routing ASICs.

Secondly, virtually all switching and routing ASICs are highly programmable. So if you need a custom protocol, you can implement it using the vendor’s microcode (e.g., P4). In other words, you are not limited to the protocols that the vendor has implemented.

Given the above, I don’t see what kind of technical requirements Google has that would disqualify the use of routing ASICs.
Residential landlords are looking at a rent freeze until June: https://caanet.org/caa-unveils-safe-at-home-guidelines-in-re...

Commercial landlords are likely thinking about it. the solution is to figure out who else rents from the same landlord/other small businesses in proximity, team up in solidarity and demand a rent freeze. The alternative is owning capital in either a ghost town or Bartertown (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max_Beyond_Thunderdome).

For the skeptical, think back to the Occupy movement of around 2011, which mostly took over public space. With so much private space sitting empty, the outcome would be very very different this time.
> People voted, had spring break, celebrated st. Patrick’s day

Sounds a lot like Philly' Spanish flu parade,[1] as compared to St. Louis' lockdown during the same.[2]

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chart-1918-spanish-flu-shows-...

[2] https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/quartz.com/df26ee36f79f85f57ad...
I feel this. Every time I go out (to the park) I’m amazed at how many people are out. I start thinking about how we’re doomed, because people obviously aren’t taking this seriously. I mean, they’re at the park instead of huddled in their apartment!

Then I remember I’m at the park too...
The gist talks about disabling telemetry, not spoofing it, and reading the prefs it sets makes it clear that it is actually disabling it.

The github search reports a single repository last updated three years ago, and doesn't appear to even be related to Firefox telemetry at all, as the telemetry appears to be spacecraft telemetry.
> ...we would needlessly quarantine 12.5 million people, and fail to quarantine an equal number of infected carriers.

Well, the failure the quarantine would be the false negative rate times the infection prevalence. A significantly smaller number than the false quarantine rate, until the whole gadonkun no longer matters.
NASA's Mars Curiosity Takes a Selfie
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Had an idea for a remote hackathon, so I created and launched one a couple days ago.

It takes place tomorrow at 10am PST. So far just have a handful of friends joining to hack with. Might become more of a weekly meetup on Discord to just continually work on ideas.

If anyone is interested please join! Could be a nice way to meet new people, work on your projects/startup ideas, and have others to get feedback from.
The False Crisis Comparison
That's great to know. I'll to check it out. D is a great language and it's good to see it's getting even better.
This is not a black swan event. How many times are we going to have to go over this?
I suspect most people here are forgetting that the average person types slower and finds keys slower than they can point-and-click, because they can't touch type. Keyboard-first user interface is definitely not an improvement if the same thing can't be done with a mouse in a reasonable time.
They were repurchasing shares for years and years. If shareholders were unhappy about that, they had every opportunity to replace the board. Or if they are a minority, they can sell. If you’re not a shareholder, you’re free to mind your own business.
I'm more sanguine. I live on a busy Brooklyn street which is normally packed with people shoulder to shoulder during the day, and I will see maybe 5-10 people on the block at what should be the busiest time. I think it's like a 90%-95% reduction which is certainly substantial enough to quench the spread enough to reduce the shock hospitals are receiving.

Doing my part (I have asthma), I haven't left the apartment since Sunday :^)
Hey man don't forget about Google Stadia! It was a fully featured and complete product when it released last year!
At least weeks, at most years?
Linked lists stink as a manifested in-memory data structure. However, if what your linked list is is "{concrete value} : {code to generate the rest of the list}" and you walk it once, never having the whole thing at once, it isn't necessarily bad. That is the point cryptonector is making. The memory inefficiency of a linked list doesn't matter if you never really have it "in memory".

That said, the ready availability of linked lists in Haskell does mean that you end up with rather more strictly-manifested linked lists than you might like, since any of them can be manifested as actual linked lists. If you're using Haskell though, while you haven't exactly completely given up on that sort of performance, it must not be foremost on your mind.
It's articles like this that really make me facepalm, shake my head and say "this isn't about whether America could survive this". America is the last of our concern. Almost ALL of the other countries on planet Earth have orders of magnitude LESS resources (in every sense of the word) than we do. Think about how likely those countries aren't going to fall into chaos. Their governments aren't equipped to deal with this sort of thing.
> As a human of color, don't think I could live in this town

Are you saying it's a racist town, or yourself objecting to its current demographic?
Money has evolved from gold/silver coins to forms of brass, copper, other mixes for coins and banknotes been mostly paper and recently moved towards plastic.

Which made me wonder - do bacteria and viruses live longer upon modern money than money of old.
I disagree that nothing one could have done beforehand could fix that. The argument is not that there would not be a decline in share prices at all but the magnitude of it.

You need to have enough saved to survive 6 months w/o income is preached a lot in personal finance and somehow this is not practiced for businesses.It is understandable that cash-strapped startups can't afford to do this but the companies buying back shares to increase their stock price certainly could.
We don’t have a vaccine for the common cold, not for lack of trying. AFAIK we’ve never made a vaccine for a coronavirus. This isn’t the time to be relying on silver bullets.
Should dividends be banned? Would you be equally upset if these companies paid out their profits in dividends?

Or maybe you’re suggesting we should have liquidity requirements for all businesses like we do for banks? That’s actually not the worst idea in a world where we’re going to be bailing companies out. If you want a bailout, you have to have a rainy day fund to make it less likely you’ll need one.
I’m shocked