skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd need to ask someone who thinks it's a good idea to keep a massive oversupply for the military. (Note that I'm not American, so I have no skin in that game.)

I don't, though, disagree with keeping a large stockpile of goods.* I just disagree with constantly kneejerk reassigning production to it.

* I still don't know that it can work, but only because I think people too quickly forget that it's important. If people could be convinced otherwise in the long term, I think it's a great idea.
I highly doubt the shelter-in-place order will be lifted before mid-May.
I agree. I am willing to set up a NNTP to discuss it, in case you want to discuss it on the same NNTP that I can discuss it, and then other people can also use this NNTP for the discussion of this same thing too, I suppose.
>>> Background
A recent well controlled clinical study conducted by Didier Raoult M.D/Ph.D, et. al in France has shown that 100% of patients that received a combination of HCQ and Azithromycin tested negative and were virologically cured within 6 days of treatment.

In addition, recent guidelines from South Korea and China report that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are effective antiviral therapeutic treatments for novel coronavirus.
Yep. I always break down the solutions I purpose and ask them if they want me to code it up. I walk them through the solution. I give them trade offs between different solutions (if there is an alternative that has the same time/space complexity). Everything... :/

EDIT: But - really - I'm not looking for feedback or critiques in this format. I've done this endlessly with people online. Instead - it would be useful to me to recommend services or experiences with mock interview services. I'm having a hard time believing anyone can give me real insight here that I haven't corrected myself. (But that insight could exist through mock interviews)
keep crying, libturd. adults aren't paying attention.
Wow, there's a press release that's so desperately spinning so many claims of so many kinds (social, business, health, educational, tech, ethical...) that it's almost impossible for me to figure out what they are even announcing. I didn't expect I would care, whatever they did, but I thought it might be some sort of "end of an era" historical thing. I didn't expect an announcement hidden so deep in the poo that I'm not sure I ever found it.
I organically discovered this many years ago when attempting to learn my first recursive algorithm by writing out its final result step-by-step on a whiteboard. Definitely went through more than one marker.
It is hard to end up with an internship, let alone at Yelp. Having an internship has many advantages for a student:
- Converting it to a full time
- Money
- Experience

Things get much harder for students on an F1 visa. Most often, a student may need to look out for themselves than the company's policies.
As the owner of a fully remote, revenue-funded, and profitable startup that wants to hire, my concern is one that won't be particularly well received. I don't want to hire people, yet, because they're still thinking that https://levels.fyi is realistic. I'd rather wait a few rough months, have the pool of talent grow rapidly and people will start realizing that maybe paying $350k to a green React dev isn't very sustainable.

We're going headlong into a recession and I imagine an overwhelming number of firms are going to take the same stance.
>which US official is to blame for that?

Though it does not excuse many of China's initial actions, and I doubt this is the only reason for those actions, I can understand wanting to downplay something like this while you're in the middle of negotiations to stop a trade war. It's not hard to imagine the US calling for an immediate closing of the borders and shelving of the trade deal.
I also had similar ideas. Note, however, that doing styling on the browser side under user control is already possible (although due to how CSS works, it doesn't work in the ideal way). Furthermore, what you mention is a subset of existing specifications and can be done easily if you are writing the web page. (I generally do this too when writing my own web pages, although often I will just write plain text instead anyways.)

However, there are some features missing from HTML unfortunately; I had a different idea for how icons should have been displayed instead (I posted before on Hacker News), and that there should be a special tag for footnotes, but there isn't. Still, it is probably good enough.
> Programming on a projector is the stuff nightmares are made of... but it still beats a whiteboard.

It depends.

I recently had an onsite interview where I was handed a laptop to write code on, which was great. What was not great was that the interviewer was shadowed by 2 other developers and had to write the code while screensharing to the meeting room's screen. It was basically a meeting where people were looking at me go. It was by far the weirdest experience ever (and I've been doing this for decades). I kind of missed the 1:1 with the interviewer and a whiteboard.
I wonder about moving from disposable to cleanable masks/shields. Not sure if that would help this specific situation, though.
Best so far is 1 gigajoule per ton of CO2: http://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-engineers-develop-new-way-remov...

Which is pretty much only going to happen if you invest a lot of money into nuclear facilities dedicated to this. 1GJ is about 280 kilowatt-hours.
Time to consider suspending property and income tax?
Open interest on the ES futures is in the trillions. A thousand times more than a month ago.

The market is too liquid now and the governments are all hosed no matter what they do. They may as well stop the downward spiral and suspend property and income tax for a year or until economy recovers.
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> the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF) [...] the cash-for-trash facility, where Wall Street’s toxic waste from a decade of irresponsible trading and lending, will be purged from the balance sheets of the Wall Street firms and handed over to the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve

Yay let's subsidize Wall Street using public funds! "We can't afford universal healthcare", but we can totally - yet unnaturally - bail out (mostly rentier) capitalist businesses that have been reckless and parasitical.

Why not just let them die?

Has anyone watched the movie Margin Call?
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> What they need is approval and guidance from the government

I actually think these companies need orders from the governments, not just approval and guidance.

People compared coronavirus with war in this thread. AFAIK private companies made tanks and guns for money, not for free during WW2 (except for USSR).
What was the Thresher, SeaLab 1963? Rickover couldn’t throw everyone else under the bus fast enough after.
I only learned there was an H1N1 epidemic in 2009 after this whole thing blew up. And I was definitely old enough to have remembered it, and I followed the news back then. I guess that's a reflection on how competently it was handled.
I think you are a bit confused about the position the country is in right now.

Regulations and regulators can and will be damned in an emergency.

Of course, all reasonable precautions should be taken when producing medical equipment. But if someone needs a ventilator, they are going to die without it. It doesn't matter that there is a small chance that complications arise or some flaw in the ventilator causes it not to work correctly. They would have died without the ventilator in nearly 100% of cases.

Like many regulations right now, they will be temporarily suspended within reason.
You can achieve constant write throughput and read latency and linearly scalable read throughput (at the cost of write latency) with LCR, a criminally unknown uniform total order broadcast protocol.
If any of them have half a brain, they are maintaining their regular prices and ramping up production and stockpiling them for the inevitable demand in a few more weeks.
In my experience some interviewers were not happy that I worked on a brute force solution first, with the aim to optimize it after I got it working. They wanted to see the efficient, optimized solution first. That is counter to everything I read before doing these interviews, and it was, I think, a bit unreasonable.
This is a reasonable take. Let’s Encrypt is amazing and we don’t want to diminish their importance at all.

We charge for certificates because the infrastructure to make SSL work (even when the certificates themselves are free) is complicated.

Managing certificate creation can be tricky, we have to deal with all kinds of edge cases (like mismatched A and AAAA records breaking validation). We also generate both RSA and ECDSA certificates, have infrastructure for ALPN validation, and a whole setup for DNS challenges.

And then we have to actually use them. We run a global Vault cluster to store certificates securely, and then cache them in memory in each of our router processes.

The developers who use the certificates the most love paying us to manage certs, and one person who posted in the comments here was able to replace an entire Kubernetes cluster they were using to manage certificates for their customers.

When Let’s Encrypt invalidated millions of certificates a few weeks ago, none of our customers even noticed. That’s what they’re paying us for.
I would welcome a handbook like this for individual or family use at home if hospitals become overwelmed and can no longer accommodate even seriously ill patients. The featured handbook looks very useful, but it's written for medical professionals in a hospital setting. I'm thinking about a handbook with instructions on how to do life critical procedures as best as possible with the resources one might have at home. Off the top of my head, one topic could be about the use of a bag valve mask[1] (as a "ventilator"), how to make one at home, when should it be used, things like that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag_valve_mask
Oh, this is cool! We'll need to check out this plugin mechanism as a thought for bectl -- it's fairly inflexible at the moment.

libze_util_temporary_mount would be a good candidate for using (or being replaced by?) the recently-introduced zfs_mount_at in libzfs once that's widely available enough. That was a fairly trivial addition to libzfs that was initially made to support libbe's be_mount(), which previously used the effectively non-portable amount() [post-mortem: should read zmount, but autocorrect is alwayscorrect]
It’s about as logical as dealing with a health issue by plunging everyone into poverty and destroying all small businesses.
I walked out of an interview before thinking I nailed one of the big questions. I answered it so well and in such an orderly fashion they asked if I had seen it before, which I hadn't. I received feedback that they would pass and one reason is that I wouldn't admit that I had seen that question before.

I guess I wasn't prepared for having my integrity (literally) questioned.

No loss for me. It was really off putting how suspicious they were of someone who knew the answer better than they did; like it just wasn't possible. Instead of disbelieving me, they should have just moved on to some other questions for confirmation, even if it meant calling me back in.
Salaries are a bit misleading on this page.

Let's take LYFT's example - on landing page - salary is $420k but on inside page - it's $396k. What's the vesting period on those stocks? I'm almost sure it's not 1 year. And, that salary is for the first year. They will not be giving you $200k worth of shares every year or do they?
Maybe I’m not the target market but I think it’s refreshing. No marketing BS. Just facts and some personality.
oh yes. "inside job", on similar lines is excellent as well.
Just the playbook I think we need...
I do disable scripts. I find that some web pages will still work if you delete or hide an element that covers up everything else (and the script would presumably hide or delete), or unhide an element that is normally hidden (that the script would normally unhide). This doesn't always work, but sometimes it does.
I know, personally I think in the midst of the largest world crisis of the past fifty years, the prudent thing to do is let the banks all fail, which will really teach them a lesson about not properly preparing for the totally-predictable near-halting of global commerce.
See Cheap Paxos.
It can work if both participants have styluses with their tablets (iPad Pro is best) and they use something like google Jamboard. For coding exercises, use alongside code road running on your laptop.
Link for those interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22465475
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I'm glad info from China is filtering over onto the rest of the internet. So much vital information, especially about how to keep safe as an individual, is only available on WeChat in Mandarin.
There are to many variables to consider.

It's too early
Even though the Multi Scale Modeling video is extremely impressive - it is still an MD simulation that uses classical mechanics. A full atomistic quantum simulation of such a large system is out of reach for even the largest super computers. We barely know anything about biology.
Actually that's not correct. The CDC study has a lot of null data and there's some very inconsistent excluding of data while calculating these numbers. I had to work with it in Excel for awhile to reconstruct the approximate raw numbers.

Out of 4226 cases

2449 have known ages

705 were 20 to 44

~488 of that age have a known age and hospitalization status

~101 of that age were hospitalized

~14 of that age went to ICU

(14.3% of the known # of cases for that age and 20.8% of the known # of cases for that age with a known hospitalization status were hospitalized)

Check this against Figure 2 in the CDC study and you will see where the StatNews article is pulling its data from.

This is very sobering information. Please stay safe!
Good to see even NASA makes use of percussive maintenance with their equipment.
Well then we would at least finally get a massive inheritance in the form of the formerly corporate-owned patents!
Notably compared to the 2008 program, this time around they allow dealer banks to take out cash loans using... equities.. as collateral.

Dealer goes bust, market takes a huge hit, and the collateral value shrinks in correspondence to that hit. Madness. And still the markets have barely even sniffed at these announcements.

I expect before this is all over, POTUS will be making those daily coronavirus livestreams wearing fancy dress and cracking jokes just to keep people interested, because they've already spent every last drop of substance in the opening weeks of what promises to be a 6+ month journey.
New coronavirus cases in US jails heighten concerns about an unprepared system
The electrical and structural design do account for marginal BOM costs but are hardly useful for some evil obsolescence plan. If only because nobody actually 'upgrades' their systems anymore. The mass market hasn't done that for 10+ years.

People often claim a ton of things but then actually don't have any background in the industry (either the engineering side or the high level planning side). Apply Hanlon's Razor instead of making everything that doesn't suit your context automatically be some evil plan.

Of course a company that stands to make a ton of money with a choice between to options that only marginally affect users will choose the ton of money option. It's just that in this case there is no ton of money.
Because they are more important than the goverment. If the big banks die the entire US economy dies with them.

Why Americans would let a few bankers wield such power and be accountable to no one is another question.
Recreating the command line tool uniq in Python
Has any of this been collected anywhere?
These are loans not bail outs. Low interest sure, but not outright handouts. Additionally, a lot of the customers these companies lend to are about to default. Those low interest loans will not save a company if they can't also survive those defaults.

Not saying companies weren't irresponsible or that it's "unfair", but it isn't the worst proposal.
I think the absolute risk must be low for surface transmission. Otherwise we'd just be getting our coronavirus from the grocery store and deliveries?
I don't get it.

At home I just step into the tub and wash my butthole with soap and water. Dry with a towel no different than having taken a shower, then get on with my life all nice and fresh down there. No need for TP or more consumer garbage to maintain and wear out that doesn't even clean as effectively as proper bathing w/soap and hands.
Laid off since 2002. Became disabled in 2003. Nobody wants to hire me because of my disabilities.

Since then I've been working on getting better, but tech has passed me by to where my skills are all retro and legacy tech. I kept up with Windows and Office but did not learn C# and Python yet. I know the foundations and fundamentals of programming. Just that I am 51 now and ageism sets in.
Should != Must
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/world/coronavirus-news.ht...
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have you heard of interviewing.io?
Perhaps “die” is the wrong word. I prefer “nationalized and converted to financial utilities”. Shareholders? Gone! Existing management? Gone! Put adults in charge and have a relationship similar to the USPS or the Fed. Require an open platform so the APIs and underlying back office are solid but innovators can still get access to innovate (Europe mandated this via PSD2).
For me, the reason is simplicity, although I prefer public domain.
No, wasting time is retrospective.

In technical terms, wasted time is a conclusion of the signals derived from waiting for those time.
The root issue you are describing never gets the public’s attention during normal times. It’s an emergency right now, so we have to do it, but look - fuck the average person, they don’t give a fuck when things are fine. They don’t vote on real issues, and when shit hits the fan, I honestly don’t know anymore. It’s a seriously undereducated and literally unconscious public. We’ll forget about the underlying issues by summer.
What about by city?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroquine

For coronaviruses chloroquine works by increasing endosomal pH and interfere with terminal glycosylation of the cellular receptor.[42][43] In late January 2020 during the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak, Chinese medical researchers stated that exploratory research into chloroquine and two other medications, remdesivir and lopinavir/ritonavir, seemed to have "fairly good inhibitory effects" on the 2019 novel coronavirus. Requests to start clinical testing were submitted.[44][45][46] Chloroquine phosphate had been also proposed as a treatment for SARS-CoV with in vitro tests successfully inhibiting the virus.[47]

On 19 February 2020, preliminary results found that chloroquine may be effective and safe in treating COVID-19 associated pneumonia.[48][49] There is evidence to indicate the efficacy of chloroquine phosphate against SARS-CoV-2 in vitro, on Vero cells.[50] The Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology and the Guangdong Provincial Health and Health Commission issued a report stating that chloroquine phosphate "improves the success rate of treatment and shortens the length of patient’s hospital stay" and recommended it for patients diagnosed with mild, moderate and severe cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia.[51]

Chloroquine have been recommended by Chinese, South Korean and Italian health authorities for the treatment of COVID-19 [52][53][54], however they have noted the important contraindications for people with certain heart conditions, diabetes, etc.[55][56] In February 2020, both drugs were shown to effectively inhibit COVID-19 in vitro [57], however a further study concluded that hydroxychloroquine was more potent than chloroquine, with a more tolerable safety profile. [58] Preliminary results from a multicentric trial, announced in a press conference suggested that chloroquine is effective and safe in treating COVID-19 associated pneumonia, "improving lung imaging findings, promoting a virus-negative conversion, and shortening the disease course".[59]

On 16 March 2020, advisor to the French Government on COVID-19, Professor Didier Raoult, announced that a trial involving 24 patients from the south east of France supported the claim that chloroquine was an effective treatment for COVID-19.[60] 600mg of hydroxychloroquine was administered to these patients every day for 10 days. The drug appeared to be responsible for a "rapid and effective speeding up of their healing process, and a sharp decrease in the amount of time they remained contagious".[61] The study also suggested that taking chloroquine in combination with the antibiotic azithromycin - which is known to be effective against complications from bacterial lung disease - led to even better outcomes. Professor Raoult said the results showed there was "a spectacular reduction in the number of positive cases" with the combination therapy.[62] At 6 days, among patients given combination therapy, the percentage of cases still carrying SRAS-CoV-2 was no more than 5%.[63]
I accepted an offer with a pharma tech company last week am am super nervous about putting my notice in this week at my current job. I have verified that everything is good to go multiple times and am now being shipped my machine to begin remotely. This has to be the most nerve wracking decision I've made in my adult life (solely due to timing). I've been told over and over by people close to me not to worry about it, but I can't help but worry.
What does that even mean? Placing an order doesn't magically solve production shortages.
I initially found the article’s attitude against the Fed’s noted actions surprising, but slowly a bias from the author surfaced, particularly after I started seeing phrases like “toxic waste” and “a secret from the American people”. I am not saying Wall St. and/or/nor the Fed’s actions (or lack thereof) were correct for the time (2008), but this seemingly personal vendetta does not make for a valuable, objective piece of journalism. The author even notes herself as “an outspoken critic“ on the About page [1].

[1]: https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/
I feel great, make about half of what these companies offer but I don't have to work at places everyone loves to hate now.
Asus RT-AX89X consumer router has 10G Base-T and 10G SFP+ interfaces
As much of a cesspool of anonymous gossip as places like Glassdoor might be, reporting this sort of bad behavior might be useful, if to at least force companies that engage in unreasonable behavior to grapple with these poor policies. Or to warn other candidates of what they’re in for.