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> Whichever leads to better outcomes is what we ought to do.

The question is: better for ... the shareholders? The tax payers? The environment? The pilots? The passengers? The airline managers?

You'll find that "better" is often at odds for different groups.
That's not what they're saying at all. Imagine if there was a line of blenders called Raspberry Pi, and a furniture line called Raspberry Pi, shoes branded as Raspberry Pi, a laptop model called Raspberry Pi (unrelated to Raspberry Pi or Raspberry Pi), etc. It's just confusing.
Much thanks for this.
We're not solving db latency yet. A good place to start is aggressively caching at the edge. We offer an in-memory redis cache for this that can replicate commands globally. Beyond that you'd need read replicas which will be possible once we launch persistent storage. That said, latency between data centers on the same continent is often less than I would have thought!
> But the amount of the additional damages should be reduced because individual circumstances of the evacuees should not be taken into account

I wonder what is the reasoning behind this.
Oh, ok, these are anecdotal bugs and not something systemic and real, like, say the redesign of the file system or memory managers or the driver system.

I've had 3 macs over a decade and they've all been flawless. My 2013 MBP is still my trusty workhorse, my Mac Mini handles the living room.

Only issue ever was Catalina when my chinese 32-bit Alfa drivers stopped working, but I had two OSes worth of warnings. And my new iPhone 7 sometimes cannot make calls because the phone app crashes and I have to reboot (bahahahah wtf apple... YOU HAD ONE JOB!!!). SO there's that.

I've got dozens of anecdotal issues with windows though: I still have to sit and wait 60 seconds to see what is in my recycle bin (or any folder with large # files) for Explorer while it does a bunch of bloatware internet checks behind the scenes to tell me things I don't need to know. Or my system randomly grinding to a halt due to upgrades. Or the spontaneous 100% network usage associated with services that require me to get a coffee while they finish (because rebooting will kill an hour). Or the Device Manager that hasn't changed since Win2000. Oh, and I love the advertisements for games in my start menu. Or being able to actually stop windows updates (twist: even dinking with the registry still is undone).

Battle of opinions here, obviously: but the Candy Crush showing up my start menu really sealed the coffin on Windows being a serious platform.
What a time to be releasing new devices. The sales will be an embarrassment.
A stimulus plan can't work.

We're intentionally stopping the economy from producing goods and services.

Stimulus is intended to get the economy to _start_ making goods and services.

If you throw more money at less goods and services, all you will get is inflation.
You're not wrong. I need to put more time in with F#. It feels so elegant when I use it, I just have a bad habit of defaulting back to C# when writing .NET code as that's what I know best.
In what way would laziness come into play for telehealth?
One of my bucket list items is a visit to
Holographic Studios [1] in NYC to get a custom portrait.

[1] https://www.holographer.com/
There is no commercial Boeing. They've outsourced. Let them go bust, someone that has a clue can buy the company and run it.
How will you access your money if the internet goes down? How will you buy food if your credit card isn't accepted, either because their connection or power is out or worse?

A society built on top of perpetual growth is about to grind to a halt for 2-6 months, after already showing signs of poor economic health. This doesn't even get into the potential political mess that awaits us.
I agree with this 100%. People in South Africa are panic buying. So these people think you are taking the groceries to your cave. Get a sign and people can read for themselves.
Go creates an AST and uses an SSA intermediate representation [0].

[0] https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2019/go-compiler-internals-add...
Russian media ‘spreading Covid-19 disinformation’
The mission of the Raspberry Pi foundation is to provide cost-effective computers for use in education. I suspect the foundation's non-profit status or at least community goodwill would be threatened if they decided to design and market hardware to industry.

Moreover, Raspberry Pis were never intended to be used in industry, and obviously are not designed as such. They _happen_ to work in many use cases, yes, but they lack so much: reliability engineering, failure testing, ruggedness requirements, industry certifications, QA, I could go on.

And, do you really want to be the guy who gets the call because failure of a $35 part stopped the production line at 2 a.m.?

There is no lack of industrial computing gear on the market, even stuff that runs Linux. It will cost an order of magnitude more for the same computing power, but it is more rugged, integrates well with existing systems, and is sold by a vendor that you can actually get on the phone and hold accountable for some things. And most importantly, putting it into production probably won't get you fired.
>This is confusing to me too. The best explanation I've heard is that the market is expecting a future increase in bond supply (gov bond issuance to fund coronavirus mitigation measures), which would drive prices down and yields up. This future price pressure is being priced into bonds today.

Interesting! If so, maybe we could see an end to the financial markets' seemingly insatiable demand for Treasurys?
>I never got the logic behind living in the perpetual cocktail party/high school that is a big city.

I'm really struggling to interpret that charitably but I'll try -

Some reasons to live in a big city: (1) It's where your friends and (perhaps elderly) parents live. (2) It's where your job is. (3) You can't afford, (or don't want to own) a car. (4) You're single (especially true if you are LGBTQ). (5) You like the cultural opportunities it affords. (6) You have access to specialized medical treatment. (7) You run a business. (8) You're getting an education. (9) You're too poor to move. (10) You don't like narrow minded, holier-than-though attitudes that tend to be more common (IMHO) in smaller towns.
This laptop is very good but not for everyone Because it's so expensive. Can buy the best laptop even with the same power but the lower price.
At the risk of sounding naive, help me figure out what I'm missing then. I had the opportunity to use a built in style bidet when I visited Japan, and after a few days of trying, I could not figure out how to clean myself with it. There was always some residue left that had to be toilet papered off.

Are you expected to use your hand to clean like you would in the shower? Because that's never been made clear to me and what I've read online says to just let the water splash on you then dry it off with a towel, which doesn't seem sanitary at all to me.

Edit: Reading through the thread has been helpful. I've always had bidets pitched to me as a toilet paper replacement, but the comments here indicate it's something to be used after wiping, not in lieu of.
Me neither. The hardware they offer is absolutely fantastic. And some of the software (from e.g. Panic or OmniGroup).

But even running a decent terminal requires purchasing an app and setting up mosh on the other side. There's no Esc in their keyboards. There are too many roadblocks and glitches.

I wish I could buy an iPad and simply open a terminal and ssh to my machine of choice.

Right now, it's much easier to buy a Surface Go / Pro. And these run Linux natively really well.
Except the US has already kind of done that before. Ex the treasury stake in GM.
You can improve this substantially on MacOS using docker-sync (the issues with Docker performance on Mac are primarily related to the file system)

I wrote a little about this; it's for Rails but the same ideas apply:

https://medium.com/@bdcravens/fixing-docker-for-mac-and-rail...
Ask HN: Options for running a digital conference with paid attendance?
I've been helping organise a conference but we're looking for alternatives in light of Coronavirus.

We would like to do the conference digitally potentially with multiple tracks, engagement tools and paid tickets.

Any ideas?
AV1 Encoding Now Available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert
The canals of Venice are now “clear and full of fish” hoax
I mean I could imagine some contract where party A agreed to continue to accept/transport/"deal with" all the oil party B produces, and is required to continue even if they are losing money on the deal.

I'm not sure why anyone would have signed such a contract, which is why I called it weird, but it does seem plausible.
There are dozens of financial instruments they could have used to hedge their position without having to save decades of cashflow. That's what those instruments are ostensibly for. At the scale of companies like airlines that have a history of bailouts, the OTC markets offer plenty of options (no pun intended) with premiums a tiny fraction of $20 billion.
Politically, I don't disagree.

I do find this nomenclature helpful when trying to convince people.
Very flawed analogy. You're talking about qualitatively-different decisions in the same "game". I wasn't, since I was critizising him based on his decisions regarding public health (handling covid-19, to be precise); I explicitly acknowledged his seemingly outstanding competence with regards to other matters (what you would refer to as "chess" in your analogy).

If he made a decision that appears to be wrong or stupid regarding Tesla cars or SpaceX, I'd be more cautious to call him out. But my comment wasn't even close to be about that. I hope you can understand what I'm saying here.
It is when you use it as an insult.
Show HN: Watch as coronavirus's spread empties airports
If you read beyond two words from the title, you'll see the full title is "Introducing a simpler, more organized Slack" which includes "organized", so probably not related to performance or stability in any way.

Subtitle is "We’re releasing a series of improvements that make working in Slack easier for everyone" which also implies this is all UX work.

Your whole comment feels off-topic in regards to this, and could have been made to any Slack submission to HN. Maybe there should be a different channel for general complaints?
It's very helpful, because as soon as someone has symptoms or tests positive, you automatically know everyone they've come into contact or close proximity with, and can have those people isolate. You can also better determine whom to test, since there is nowhere near the testing infrastructure to blanket test everywhere.

In China they also have an app where anyone can see locations where an infected person has been, and how recently, both so they can avoid those places, but also so they can feel more confident being out in society otherwise (in areas without significant current outbreaks). This video demonstrates how it works in one Chinese city: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=YfsdJGj3-jM&...

I agree with many of the problems pointed out, but it does appear that the benefits during the pandemic would be significant.
It's not a cost issue. It's supply & capacity issue. You cannot create instant supply immediately, even with a trillion dollars.
They shoot in one direction, you aim your body at them/seat hover.

Wait a few seconds to let the dripping stop then use regular Toilet Paper to dab dry. Don't use a re-usable towel like the other commentator suggested, gross.
Cheapest alternative maybe the teapot looking device from Indian sub-continent, known as a: lota.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lota_(vessel)
Sorry, but there's no government on earth, including China's, that's able to do reliable contact tracing of people potentially going to massive gatherings. Heck, they don't even need to do that - have you ever been in the Shanghai Metro? You'll have "contact" with thousands of anonymous people if you just commute to work and back again. Trace that!

The only thing I agree to is "it will take weeks for the disease to become out of control again". Yes, it will, and that is part of the problem - it'll be at least half a month until it's even possible for you to notice that you're getting the same problem all over again.
Yes, this is how I feel about it as well, but apparently it's a norm. Individuals will have their own unshared bidet towel in the bathroom that they'll use afterwards.
How is this better than serverless?
Thanks for the suggestion. I was willing to wait a bit more to see that standoff: What will get me more bang out of the processor, the "super" architecture of Zen 2, or the coveted AVX512?

The P1 comes with a 9th gen i7, I assume they'd eventually get a gen 3 with 10th gen i7 and then I'll be able to compare.
Publicity from their factory becoming a Coronavirus locus... priceless.

There's a _huge_ negative publicity risk here, depending on how things unfold.
That how I view it too. Especially with the idea of smaller and more reactors somebody somewhere somewhen will screw up big time.
Oh, this compare is It not good at al good because the android studio is an ide but vs code only a code editor.
your point is well taken, but i doubt the wealthy here in the US have the wherewithal to take it to bloodshed when their high status depends on mollified underclasses (diversification globally notwithstanding).

but yes, power corrupts. the more widely distributed it is, the more stable societies are. that's the aim.
Well, at least on the downside. The gains are privatized, the losses socialized - a private good when times are good, a public good when they are not.
> There will always be corruption, war and fraud. To be pro-nuclear, you have to guarantee political stability for 100+ years, and I don't think many places could guarantee that.

Indeed. This is the crux of it. Nuclear run by the US military? Very safe. Nuclear (as a power source, not talking munitions) run by the rest of the world as a commercial operation? Fraught with peril. I'm not anti-nuclear; I'm anti-humans-running-nuclear-for-profit.

It's time to move to renewables, batteries, and transmission networks, full steam ahead.

https://pvbuzz.com/renewables-capacity-overwhelms-coal-gas-o... (US: Over the next three years, renewables will add nearly 50,000-MW of new capacity and be more than a quarter of total, while gas, coal, oil, and nuclear will drop by 4,200-MW)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/12/wind-and... (Wind and solar plants will soon be cheaper than coal in all big markets around world, analysis finds)
IPad Pro. Oxymoron?

Apple make beautiful high end consumer electronics. This is the kind of gadget that every IT manager wastes their time accomodating for flash execs. If Apple made professional equipment it would work properly with AD and Azure AD.
Actually, I wondered why this article was news. I was under the impression that it was common knowledge that tiktok was doing that kinda stuff.
I've been saying for years that a company whose main "asset" is actually a bunch of liabilities (commercial leases) is a disaster waiting to happen in a recession. My concern is what happens when WeWork fails, not if. Best case, we see a temporary/short term downturn in commercial real estate in places like NYC and SF where they probably have a lot of presence. But, I don't see how a real estate downturn accompanied by a recession is going to be short term. It reminds me a lot of some of the companies in the dot com bust that were being kept afloat by either online ads or selling to other startups in that I expect the blast radius to be far, far larger than one single company.
So happy to hear this! I just dropped CAD~800 to have the logic board on my late-2014 MBP replaced. I figured "it still works, why spend 3k on a new one?" Plus the new ones with those stupid bar things (I have one for work I never open because I always use workstation).
Once you know someone was infected, you need to go back and see where they've been up to that point. That's only possible if you're tracking everyone. Of course you don't need to keep the tracking data on everyone for more than ~14 days.

Yes, there are other ways to do this tracking and contact tracing, but they are much more labor-intensive and imperfect. Governments can and should still do this, but once a certain percentage of the population becomes infected, it's no longer feasible. Also the more contacts that are missed through these tracking measures, the more potential avenues for spread. Hence the attractiveness of a system that would both be more comprehensive and require much more manual work.
Italics/strikethrough and TUI programs aren't in my use case at all. I'm on windows I'm using my terminal for my shell and not for UI programs.

> It's the best terminal I've used so far on windows and Linux.

Again its the best that I'VE used for MY use cases.
Can tell you don't have much experience of bankruptcy. Okay, airlines go bankrupt...presumably, airports go bankrupt too...simple, the various assets are "reassigned"...true.

One big problem: if an airline is bankrupt, what airport is going to give them a slot? I can tell you: no airport, because they will lose that money in bankruptcy. Likewise: what airline will land at a bankrupt airport? Again, no airline.

What you are saying is that we should stop all flights into and out and within the US for a period of months (probably years) whilst these cases go through court (and it will probably take years)...is that realistic? Likewise, you appear not to realise how difficult it will be to fire millions of staff and rehire them at other companies. Bankruptcy is neutral in terms of assets, it is not neutral in terms of cost...it is very very very costly.

This isn't a hard problem. You are completely wrong that bailouts "keep things in the hands of the same people". This is what largely happened in the US...because the US led insolvent companies go bankrupt (mostly but not always i.e. Fannie/Freddie) most of the companies that were "bailed out" weren't insolvent. But, irregardless, it is very easy to create a package that forces losses...very very easy.

I agree with you. Companies that gorged on debt should be punished. It is very easy to do this with new equity issues, preferred issues, etc. without bankruptcy. This should only be, however, for companies that have substantial net debt positions (where I am, one or two airlines were buying back shares but they had/have net cash positions...the issue isn't repurchasing shares, that is just a tax-efficient return of capital, it is being under-capitalised and expecting someone else to capitalise you for free).
We're actually running a ventilator plan, rather than a stimulus plan. We're going to spend $2 trillion, most likely, trying to keep businesses and people alive over a few months, until the realization hits like a truck that this can't go on for very long (60-90 days max), at which point mental capitulation will happen. The next step then is everybody is going back to work, regardless of the virus, regardles of the risk. We'll quarantine the old and most vulnerable, while we pursue a vaccine and ramp up medical supplies and try to handle the ICU load.

Mass shutdown and quarantine will be viewed as a horrible mistake of available choices, but only in convenient hindsight. It will turn out we unnecessarily destroyed trillions and trillions of dollars in wealth and capital, because our understanding of the situation was very poor (how wide spread the virus actually is).
Can you add a link to https://github.com/adriel/awesome-hacker-news ?
You can always use a towel!
for young people, it's less deadly than the flu.
5G is the next piece of the puzzle in the surveillance dystopia. Consider how much money has been spent to erect it. Who is paying the bill? Telecom companies are freely able to sell the data they accrue - that was the first step. 5G connects to every IoT device you own. It can make 3D representations of its surroundings https://www.here.com/en/company/newsroom/press-releases/2020... . It maps out the insides of buildings. It knows where people are located, by Verizon's own admission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmYk-yk0FXw . This is not about giving people faster internet speeds, or miraculous rescues after natural disasters.

Of course, the range of the transmitters is lower because the signals get absorbed by materials in the way. Trees and buildings absorb the radiation, and attenuate it, and thus, to be effective requires the installation of untold numbers of transmitters covering the world. If trees and buildings absorb the radiation, you can bet that your body and brain absorb them as well. We used to keep cell towers far away from people's homes; now we are putting higher frequency transmitters right in front of them. 5G is for surveillance and control. It is a weapon and this weapon is being pointed into people's bedrooms.
Out of curiosity, how do you measure its idle power?
With AIDS attacking the immune system, this is an patently bad example.
An empirical guide to the behavior and use of scalable persistent memory
This is why my build systems will only use release tarballs that can be cached. I built HashCache [0][1] to handle caching of these tarballs by their SHA-256, then the build system can fetch from there first to ensure a local mirror is available. My download process sometimes also caches into my home directory (into ~/.local/cache/by-hash/sha256/...) to avoid hitting the network at all if possible.

Also, some tools try to download things from the internet as part of the BUILD process. I also disable that using another tool [2].

Combined this really helps in being able to build my software when upstream goes away.

[0] http://hashcache.rkeene.org/
[1] https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/hashcache/
[2] https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/bash-drop-netwo...
I make sure I walk at least 30 minutes a day, five days a week and get sunlight. Anything that is five miles away or less, I try and get to by bicycle. The more physical activity you have, the more your cognitive stresses will ease.
Ask HN: How do you handle internal tech support in a lock down scenario
We recently switched to fully remote work as precautionary measure and I would like to get some input how to prepare for technical issues, especially hardware related ones, in case people cannot get around easily anymore.

We have a couple of backups laptops that could be deployed via couriers, but beyond that I'm not sure what to do, since it is quite different to normal remote work.
The reasoning is probably that individuals have individual problems that are in addition to being evacuees from the disaster.

Problem is, you can't separate that from the disaster. Problems combine. If you have two problems A and B in your life, the impact isn't simply A + B. It could be as much as A x B.

If B is the fault of someone who caused an accident, there should be some room to go after more than just B-sized compensation.

But, anyway, this seems to illustrate the court system at work. It's not simply the case that one side gets everything that they want. That's why you have to sue for more than you're willing to settle for; ask for a pie in the sky, settle for a muffin.
> Has that ever happened to you?

Yes, and it flooded three floors of my house and required months of renovations. Thanks for asking about it. I briefly considered giving up on indoor plumbing altogether.
Foreign airlines are not allowed to provide domestic routes.
Ask HN: What do you think of BTC relative strength
Although BTC dropped 50%, it isn't unusual for Bitcoin to see major movements like that. Now, the stock market dropped 30% in one month, an historic drop and might not have seen the bottom yet... I don't think we can say BTC is a safe haven yet, but it didn't perform that bad considering the historic moves in the stock market.
What about on MacOS? The trackbar escape key is super flaky...
Great if it works for them. From the operations point of view every additional layer and every new dependency hurts.

[OK, I'm going back to my cave now...]