skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You simplify too much.

Hospitalisation rate (and in particular admission to ICU) + mortality rate are strongly dependendent on age and health - no children have yet died of Coronavirus. The Italians have one of the most elderly populations in the world; in the UK all of the deaths have involved people who are elderly and / or infirm.

You seem to think the simple answer is blanket lockdown + quarantine. This can only delay (not stop) infection. And how long do you think your lockdown is sustainable when millions of people are going to be thrown out of work / unable to pay their bills and entire economies go into meltdown? Two months? Three at the most? What happens after that?
Don't worry, the banks will just get bailed out if that happens, as seen in 2008.
Personally I like parallel better because of the `--bar` option and `{}`, `{.}`, `{/}` and `{/.}`. And I usually just use it with `-P 1` anyway.
Should we be moving money from the banks into another value store? Gold? Investments?
> Share buybacks, in theory, signal to the market that management (who possesses inside knowledge)

For this reason alone I struggle to understand why stock buybacks are allowed.
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They're doing something like that here: https://www.facebook.com/business/boost/grants
Very minor, really, but did you consider tiers something like Developer/Startup/Corporate, rather than Free/Developer/Corporate?

I just think surely every user (of yours) is a de facto developer, and really if that's all they are they only need the 'Free' tier until they start selling something (i.e. it's a business of some kind) and need the support.

Other words: (for free) MVP, Prototype, Concept; (for middle tier) Business, Starter.

But it looks nice, bookmarked as a 'solution I'd like to have the problem for' ;)
The Fed has been obsessed with liquidity since this crisis has hit. From a high level, I understand why but this coupled with the repo market issues we've been having on and off for the past six months or so, the mortgage markets gumming up (avg 30Y mortgage rate went _up_ after the Fed cut rates), potential strain on dollars in the currency markets (lots of demand from foreign countries, no supply? Unsure about this one) make me think that something else is afoot that we're missing here.

Of course it could be as they say, and there are a bunch of overlevered businesses that need cheap capital or they'll go bust and cutting interest rates and injecting liquidity is the only way to save them.
Well, yes and no.

For the assets, such as the physical aircraft, if left unattended for long, they will slowly degrade.

And if a company fails, it's not that easy to recreate the same one from scratch, all the organizational structures of the company, the partnerships, the contracts with suppliers, etc, need to be reestablished. Not impossible, but at the same time, not that easy.

And it's only seeing it from the narrow view of one company failing. If the whole economy has a significant portion of companies failing, it will mess-up things a lot more.
I'm just in the process of adding SSO to our iOS app and scratching my head trying to figure where to start....
I don’t even remember the MIT essays actually. I do know that they shouldn’t be treated better than me though.
Ask HN: Share your anti-viral protocol
It would great to see what people in this commune do to minimize chances of getting sick by the well known virus.

Its interesting to see how engineers approach this kind of problem.

Please do not consider this thread as medical advice but sharing healthy ideas, tips, etc.
> charities don't need trickle down handouts.

How do you define a charity?
Good to know. Techcrunch needs better writers...
Stock that is bought back is called "Treasury stock", and it can either be retired or held for resale in the market

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/treasurystock.asp
FYI, I tried to comment on the thread you linked, but it does not allow me to make a new user and then comment. Using Chrome on a Mac.
I had one of these back in the mid-90s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poqet_PC

It did a lot of trickery, like suspending the CPU between keystrokes, to get a weeks “work” (I was 12) out of it running on two AA batteries.
A propagandist for a country is a prize winning journalist for another. Freedom of speech should work for all.
I’m making a direct appeal to the people receiving this money — people who frequent this very website — to consider the people who work for their households.

I’m not making a policy argument, nor am I a proponent of trickle down economics.

This is about a specific, local situation in the midst of a crisis.
Fair enough, I agree states aren't sovereign. The wiki link you posted states this:

> However, federal statutes and treaties are supreme only if they do not contravene the Constitution.

That's the exact point I was trying to make
Kill it. I don't read any articles there, because it puts up a wall of dark patterns that pretend to be GDPR-compliant, and I'm never clicking "agree" on that mess.
People save web pages?
They can issue new shares if they want.

Also, how come they’re in trouble if everybody paid for their tickets, and they’re not flying?
Here is my protocol (male, ~95KG, 40es):

1. Vitamin C, at least 3x1g (or more, up to 3x4g, powder form)

2. Retynol, 10-25K IU - essential for respiratory and muccous diseses

3. Mg-Citrate, 2x200mg (activates C SVCT receptors) and good on its own

4. D3, at least 5000 IU or more (no more then 50k)

5. Fish oil, 3/4 tbsp (moleculary distiled, highly concentrated) - for more vitamin A, as CoX inhibitor and genral immune booster

6. Zinc, 10-50mg - in combination with C its known anti-flue agent

7. Some good probiotic - you know what fights viruses like a champ ?

8. CoQ10, K2 - for energy

There is no downsides to this, if you don't count money lost.

NOTE: I am not a doctor but software engineer who doesn't think outsourcing something as essential as your own health is reasonable, and hence learns medicine daily for more then decade. Do reserch on your own.
The board of directors of any joint stock company can create new shares out of thin air by majority vote.
Indeed, Rust is "a systems programming language".
>Pale Moo

So no chocolate milk?
I've commented about my situation elsewhere, but I'm in a very similar situation. I've spent quite a bit of money I can't really afford right now to allow me to not need to leave my home for a couple of months if need be. I've also had to buy extra cleaning supplies and ppe as my employer either can't acquire or afford ppe for all their staff. I hope I don't get sick before I get laid off, but I have to leave my house to work in a very high traffic area. My employer also isn't making any statements about being paid while at home on leave. It'd probably kill the business. The owners taken on loads of debt and spent it rather frivolously over the past few years.
I can’t tell if you’re being serious...
I think it's telling that the piece that started this whole episode was a WSJ opinion piece - I agree with you that the opinion sections of all three of these papers are pretty bad and that the WaPo opinion section in particular is a US military propaganda outlet by any reasonable definition. It's unfortunate that this is affecting their legitimate news gathering arms.
This would be my take on it as well. However, a pile of government printed paper may not be worth much anyway in a worst case scenario.
I ended up discovering mozilla hubs! It's exactly what i'm looking for! WOW
But so what if it creates a taxable event? Let's put aside what is good for you in the short-term, for a second.

If a company does buybacks, and even borrows money for them, it might boost their stock in the short term, but it doesn't make their company better long-term, because they aren't investing that money into R&D, and it puts them in a possible cash crunch in the future (ie airlines today).

As a thought experiment, what if instead of the company buying back stock, it's the US government. What if they decide to spent $500 billion buying 10% of every stock out there, instead of giving $1000 to every American citizen b/c of the virus. The first benefits people in the short-term, and doesn't create a taxable event. The second benefits people in the long-term, but might be a taxable event.
I would think it depends on how much you trust your bank to maintain solvency through the downturn. For what its worth I'm staying with who I was banking with in the last downturn, because they were one of several banks that remained solvent and healthy through the downturn. They did this by making conservative financial decisions, which they continue to do, so I'm not worried about them.
Under U.S. GAAP most R&D has to be expensed, not capitalized

IFRS is a different beast but even then not every R&D can be capitalized
What's irrelevant tho? Like memory layout might seem irrelevant on one hand, on the other if you care about perf you need to know this.
I'd like to see similar data for real estate, though I recognize that the data is much more proprietary and there's a much longer lead time for some events (like closings) but for things like showings, open houses, etc. it would be nice to see.
For the US:

Pump money into Amazon/FedEx/PostMates delivery services.

Keep restaurants open and tap them into the food supply chain.

Close all stores except to delivery services.

UBI and universal health care starts now.
People read from left to right so it makes sense that the latest information would be on the left side for a time series table that keeps on growing.
I use Rust both professionally for parsing large datasets and image processing, and on most of my personal projects. I'm probably a little biased, since I both aesthetically like how Rust "feels" and that a lot of how it deals with the complexity of computers fits well with my own mental map of how computers work. Whether that's a chicken or the egg situation is up for debate...

That said, I think a counter argument here comes back to they complexity budget. I don't feel like language design and borrow checker are inherently more complex, but rather that they explicitly pull out that complexity, but in a way that feels manageable. I know that that since writing more Rust, my code written in other languages like C++ or even Python have started started having patterns that I picked up from my work in Rust, and that I qualitatively feel like that has raised my code quality in those languages. I'm also definitely more aware of some of the hidden complexity in certain tasks like dealing with system paths.

So at least in some degree of summary: no. I like the level of abstraction and complexity Rust has, and the mechanisms in place for dealing with that complexity have largely seemed both well thought-out and implemented such that they are accessible to a mainstream audience.
Sorry for the late reply: I don't see how it would prevent infection. It could be useful post-infection, to prevent complications and inflammation. Compared that with the standard of care right now which is simply observing the patient during their recovering.

There are a fair amount of studies who took the initial in vitro results (i.e. cell culture) suggesting non-specific antiviral activity (at that level coca-cola is also an antiviral, antimicrobial, and antitumoral, by the way), into animal or human, and they just did not pan out, because it isn't an antiviral.
This is so amazingly cool! I'm trying to get my team to adopt it while we are are all on lockdown due to SARS-CoV-2
What other way is there? Japan and Europe is a preview, but there are few paths available as your structural demographics change and your economy tilts towards services instead of manufacturing.

Civilization matures, the foundational economics change, this is the result. Past performance does not guarantee future returns [1]. We can't rip the bandaid off because there are still too many people desperately clinging to a model of growth and wealth that is running out of runway. The bandaid will be ripped off for us. How many of those over 55 are likely to keep their jobs through this economic contraction [2] [3]? 48% of those folks (55 years old and older) in the US have zero retirement savings [4], and will rely entirely on Social Security (which will exhaust its trust fund in 2035 [5], reducing benefits to 75%; Social Security keeps 15 million seniors out of poverty at current entitlement levels [6], not to mention over 1 million children). 10k people a day turn 65 in the US. This, fortunately, entitles them to Medicare, but their consumption pattern will be reduced for the remainder of their lives and our Medicare costs are going to skyrocket.

You need leadership, political and monetary, that will attempt bold changes to accommodate these realities. The longer we wait, the more radical the measures will need to be when the time for implementation is at hand. Change happens slowly, and then all of a sudden.

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/700-year-decline-of-interes...

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2017/03/30/disabled-o...

[3] https://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/05/these-people-are-on-the-verg...

[5] https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/policy-basics-...

[6] https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/social-securit...
During the US coronavirus task force briefing just an hour ago, one of the heads of the HHS suggested (without outright saying) that one of the reasons (just one of them) the US is lagging on testing is because they're concerned about the efficacy of tests other countries are running. High false-positive and false-negative rates were both mentioned, in "tens of thousands of tests" distributed to other countries.

There's an underlying truth to this disease that no one has a grasp on right now, and the only way we get to it is the widespread execution of accurate tests. That doesn't happen quickly. Just think about that the next time you feel mad about our testing situation; a core doctrine of medicine (at least in our country) is First, Do No Harm. Telling someone they're infected, when they're not, is doing harm. Telling someone they're clear, when they're not, is doing harm. Enacting policy based on numbers derived from a bad test is doing harm.

And, most importantly, the single thing that represents the entire point of the doctrine: doing nothing is not doing harm.
Startup Funding to get through downturn
Not sure about the rest of Canada, but they have a significant share of restaurants in the GTA and most of Ontario.
I've had one of these for a few months, and its pretty awesome to be honest:

https://thingpulse.com/product/espaper-plus-kit-wifi-epaper-...
I fully appreciate how difficult this is to do, but I think it would be immensely useful if WorkOS provided the docs that I (the SAML SP, your customer) provide to my customers who are setting up SAML (as an IdP) on their end.

One of the biggest pain points I've experienced with SAML is that people come to me asking for help, but only understanding their IdP; the only IdP I know how to use is Okta, and I don't have access to their IdP to test with.

I'd love it if WorkOS could give me documentation that I can give to my customers about how they can set up Okta/Azure ADFS/whatever with my product. I can edit those docs to account for idiosyncratic stuff my product does (e.g. requiring a particular SAML user attribute or format for user IDs).

Aside: the support burden of SAML is a big part of why the sso.tax exists. Nobody on the SP or IdP end knows how to set this stuff up!
"Literally can't afford" is a very murky line though. What if they can afford it but only if they forgo some other necessity? Does that solve the problem perhaps?
This is awesome. Is there a resource for someone just beginning with rust (but with many years on flask and rails).
Currently, we have 7 total reported deaths from the cruise ship and 696 confirmed cases. Seeing that it's been a long while since the outbreak, let's assume all current cases will survive; this puts us to 1% CFR. But note that Cruise Ship had a higher average age than public, so assuming you'll receive all the medical care you need, ~1% CFR seems to be a good approximate upper-bound estimate.
Alternate non-paywall: https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/202003163693/anot...

I find it interesting that it seems to be corporations scrambling for cash instead of actual people; and cash from credit lines no less.

Isn't this exactly what everyone is told not to do? I feel like I'm missing or misunderstanding something here.
For starters could you please point out where exactly this "reputable journalists" vs "CCP propagandist" topic has been defined?

On a subject "CCP Propagandists" were still officially a journalists. You might not like them and they might as well be a propagandists but there are agreements and written and unwritten rules in international politics and diplomacy. When said rules are broken you get tit for tat reaction.
The use of saturation of the background of the cell to indicate the severity makes it a combination of heatmap and table. Given the number of series in the data, this is actually probably a superior view of the data than trying to plot all the time series in a single line graph (it's dangerous to push beyond 6, IMHO), or devoting a single line graph to each comparison point.

Tables are a vastly underrated means of conveying data.
This is a far, far better response to bankruptcy of essential industry than the bailout of 2008.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22606977 and don't do this. We need senior HN users like you to exemplify the community, not lead it to destruction.
Do we care about free speech or intelligence against our “adversary”? The original comment talks about both and muddies the waters by trying to appeal to both cynics and idealists.

Cynics invited into the discussion absolutely prefer cracking down on propagandists in the US, and keeping “good” journalists in China.
Is a company with cash on hand and low debt at risk of a leveraged buyout, leading (if it happens) to high debt and a low reserve anyway?
Its curious that you are being down-voted. Almost as if the folks here are not interested in hearing the other side of this story.
Is babysitting even legal with the shelter in place order?
>> Those companies have to be run completely differently because the stakes are so much higher.

I can't dismiss Elons drive, ability to get his hands dirty, and many other characteristics. But the primary difference I see in this comparison is simply risk aversion. YC and their VCs are in it to make money by placing a number of small bets, knowing some will be losers. To go big like SpaceX requires you to be all in. Elon nearly went broke a couple times. He's willing to take that risk because he's in it for the results, not the money.

I used to wonder if it was just hype for employees and investors to say that SpaceX goal was to make humanity multi planetary. The last couple years have convinced me he's for real. The man could retire now. SpaceX could just own the launch industry by cutting cost for a while, or sit back and enjoy higher profits from reusability. But starship and mass production of it? Nonsense unless the stated mission is for real.

People can do so much more if it's about the mission and not the money, and that includes investors.
This is an information war. The US is also banning Chinese journalists. In the end, everybody is losing and I don't see anyone here doing the right thing.
Anytime a company overextends itself financially, it's dangerous for the company and if lots of companies do it, the economy as a whole. Look at PG&E underinvesting in infrastructure while paying large dividends, it's the exact same problem. Companies have become micro-focused on short term returns for shareholders and lost track of longer term planning and building anti-fragilility into the company infrastructure.

Buybacks are one of the bigger ways businesses are doing this because buybacks have significant tax advantages versus dividends. (

So long as management can rely on low interest rates and government bailouts for big businesses, it's hard to argue it's even a management failure. It's a failure of our government to set the correct expectations and fiscal policy.
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Testing and understanding the past is not the same as predicting the future. Our physical world has been extensively tested, which how we learned about it. If you want to treat gravity stopping in the future as a probability you can, but once but the more you understand the more you would realize that it is astronomically low.

This is not the same as saying that from some technical extreme semantic definition that something can be improved without testing results. In a complex system you need to know your results to inform your path forward. Trying to come up with some super narrow, reductive, irrelevant definition on your own is worthless in this context.
What job security? If a drawn out recession develops and is truly “rough,” warehouse workers will simply be let go. There are few jobs with less job security than warehouse work.
>Facebook should be doing this for their contractors. (not the software development ones).. the guys who clean the office, maintain the landscape, cook the food, clean the dishes in their cafeterias, etc.

AFAIK, the company is continuing to pay these folks, even when the offices are closed.
> Seems like a lender wouldn't want inflation to actually increase because that would cause their current lower-interest loans to be less valuable?

If the alternative is -10% GDP growth in Q2 2020 and God knows what later in the year, a little inflation won't kill banks
What happened in Nebraska in feb 22nd?
No, from what I’ve read the second wave was the deadliest by far. The first wave being mild. There is anecdotal evidence that sick soldiers spread a virus that became stronger with soldier to soldier spread and then infected more venerable people when returning home. How this would extrapolate to the current outcome I’m not sure.
Ubiquitous surveillance and facial recognition seems to be the tech innovation from this one. I wouldn't be so hopeful about "ambitious big tech".
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop. Someone else posting a bad comment doesn't make that ok.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes of course, he/they want to "make it rain". Printing money will reduce the value of USD, but people would be filled by the cash-at-hand. In the long run that doesn't help. It may help to win elections though.
> Past black swan events are not necessarily good indicators for future black swan events

SARS also originated from Chinese wet markets [1]. If you're trying to engineer a plague, crowding different species with one another's effluence is the traditional way to do it.

> there is certainly some risk in industrial farming too

Some. But not comparable to wet markets. The latter's only comparison is with medieval European cities, where people, sewage and livestock had constant and close proximity to one another.

The tragic thing is, the products of these wet markets are unaffordable for most Chinese. The entire world is put at risk because a narrow sliver of Beijing's elite want exotic wild game.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14738798
The 'exceeds' performance review will have a much bigger impact on income.

Not until mid-September bonus payout, though.
Just wanna emphasize that there's historical contest with the words Sick Man of Asia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Asia

The phrase reminds any Chinese about China's darkest history in 500 years.