skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The federal govt has even more insight than average people watching the news

We'd like to believe this, but are we sure it is true? The internet and social media have given us realtime global connectivity. Sans filtering out disinformation and accessing truly classified information, we have it all at our fingertips.

> ... and should've acted aggressively in closing borders and improving capacity.

I was laying in bed in January, laid up with the flu, and all I was reading about was this virus and what it was doing to China. I didn't call my representatives to warn them, did you? I think that we Americans should take more responsibility for our self-government than we currently do.
Maybe algolia could help?
Nintendo, Xbox Live, and Other Gaming Services Suffer Outages
Could you expand a bit on the required base materials and possible bottlenecks? Would third world countries be able to produce this, and would export restrictions on reagents/chemicals limit production for some countries?
Very interested as someone looking to work with other HN folks, ready to hire people who could onboard and start during the work from home mandate (we had an employee onboard Monday from their home).
Do you have any underlying health conditions?
This is how to respond to big challenges. There are going to be a lot of comments about how we messed up, wasted time, etc., but they miss the point.

The WWII mobilization was a shitshow when it started. Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California turned out ships at an amazing rate [1] but it didn't begin that way. I remember hearing a story many years ago of what it was like when they first started. People were wandering around trying to figure out what to do, because nobody could read a blueprint. In the end some kid who had had a couple of years of college just sat down with older guys and they figured it out. (This was on NPR, sorry don't have the source.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Shipyards
I guess people at the factory do few close contacts which can lead to virus transmission. And I guess they are supplied with hand sanitizers and handwashing is mandatory.

On the other hand, people get paid, the factory is saved from bankruptcy so people can continue working in the factory even after the end of the outbreak.

I'm not sure that closing the factory is a universally good decision for society.

Edit: English
> why GM or Ford is the one on top of list for this endeavor?

Ford and GM were massive manufacturers when WWII reared its head. That gives them a rich history of wartime production [1].

The principal cost in these sorts of shifts can be bureaucratic. Having cultural capital to call on is invaluable.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_the_U...
What’s with All the Emails?
This should be the top post.
I suspect that federal stockpiles of medical supplies were sacrificed to give money to the wealthy. Likely because there was no constituency for them.

Edit: So how are stockpiles of masks somehow not part of downsizing the federal government?
Because there have always been people trading and traveling, and getting it on as they do so. People retained enough genetic connectivity to not have any massive genetic divergence. Some cosmetic differences and slightly different disease risks are not enough to make a subspecies.
Since alcohol helps, I suspect soaking them in 70% ethyl or isopropyl alcohol and letting them dry should work for coronavirus at least. I reckon alcohol will also do less damage to the mask than bleach.

If you want to try both alcohol and bleach just don't mix alcohol and bleach at the same time as that will create chloroform.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK214356/

edit: ignore the idea of using alcohol as it will destroy the electrostatic absorption of an N95 mask.
Yelp is very much tied to the Restaurant industry. It may be an outlier with respect to this pandemic. Of all the tech dominos to fall, Yelp and Groupon (trading around 50 cents today) sound like the first to be hit.
White/Chalk board coding makes sense in a computational world that uses punch cards and has a 24 hour turnaround on output.
It's good information. Leaves me feeling hella bitter though since I'm paid less than half of that FB offer but could theoretically get the same offer. Just wish there was a more straight forward way to getting into these companies that pay so much.

Has anyone had success with mock interviews? (Done by people who actually hire - not random people) I've received endless feedback from recruiters saying it's my technical performance even when I've smashed every problem. (Guessing it's cultural but they can't write that down as I rarely receive a no during a phone interview - just no's during in person)
Well, at least thank you for the explanation!
I'm with you. A bidet alone doesn't get peanut butter out of dog fur, if you know what I mean.
The only piece of Fuchsia that's excited me so far is the Xi Editor, which seems to be developing rather slowly if not stalled out completely. https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor

(Yes, it's not part of Fuchsia anymore, but so far I haven't heard anything about the remaining parts of Fuchsia that makes me inclined to care about it until Google forces me to care.)
Fond memories. My first pure software development job was using that stack at USU circa 2005.
It's pure understanding of middle school math and exponential growth.
Animation CPU is developer friendly and should be available soon

https://animationcpu.herokuapp.com
This isn’t new. It’s called contract-to-hire and it’s great.
In fairness, this is a discussion of hypotheticals at this point. We're likely to need the ventilators. Other nations are likely to need the ventilators. We have to get as many companies as is reasonable making them to meet the need.

Detroit certainly has the engineering and manufacturing expertise to retool in a hurry. It's the sort of thing they do a lot of, so that sounds like a reasonable place to look for additional capacity.

As for the rest of the discussion? I mean, yeah, I suppose if Lincoln had not been shot, we might have never needed Martin Luther King. But, Lincoln was killed. So we did get MLK. Which is fine, no real reason to harp on how dumb it was to kill Lincoln.

Should've, would've, could've is less than useful when you're still at "need to". Save the shoulda woulda coulda for the post-mortem.
Amazing. It shows us that the power law is at work in government effectiveness.

A capable executive branch can get orders of magnitude more accomplished in a given timeframe than an inept one.

It’s likely that thousands will die who didn’t have to because many American voters forgot the importance of a baseline level of administrative competence. Hopefully this will remind them.
See also the Y2K bug
With a larger budget, they could have done both. And why was their budget so limited?
But did South Korea or Taiwan start cranking out ventilators?
We didn’t know this virus was going to be this bad, but we knew that we were overdue for one and there had been recent epidemics that targeted respiratory systems. Our respirator stockpile was in the tens of thousands—several orders of magnitude lower than would be necessary in a national emergency.
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Here's a better resource:

http://www.imcclinics.com/english/index.php/news/view?id=83

Key excerpt:

"The new coronavirus is sensitive to heat. It can effectively inactivate the new coronavirus by heating for 30 minutes at 56 degrees Celsius. Therefore, the single dry heat sterilization (70 degrees Celsius heating for 30 minutes) can effectively inactivate the virus without affecting the protective function of the mask."
If you can weather 2 years of no income, probably makes sense to take the risk.
This is something I've been hoping to see since the pandemic started.

But, I'm pretty ignorant regarding this industry and I've also wondered this:

There are numerous manufacturing plants within the US, but how easy is it switch from manufacturing knew product to another? Is the equipment and machine used generally the same?
I was literally pounding my desk asking myself why is Trump taking this as a joke. I mean ok if you don't trust China, fine... But South Korea, Japan, Italy, Taiwan, Singapore. Are our allies in on the joke too?

The writing was on the wall flashing in bright neon signs.
To everyone saying "great, but why didn't this start months ago?"

Well, sure, but the second best time to start is now.
You might get flagged for flame war comment, despite of making too much sense. I’m with you. There are certain things that I, too, want to rant about but we’ve created a soft spoken courteous society where falsehood and mediocrity prevails - some of it essential for us to be able to have free speech but sigh... there are so many things in the world that are profoundly fucked up. My guess for blaming all of this is on education. Uneducated or poorly educated people do not set a good course for the country to propel into the future.
So, how many lives will justify spending more money?

Should we spend $1 billion to save 500,000 people? Less? What's your cutoff for (most probable number of lives saved)*(money per life)?
i'm sure FB isn't going to fail but i am wondering if it logistically won't be possible. i mean menlo park is under shelter-in-place and if you asked me a couple of weeks ago i would not have imagined an intern class could be productive on WFH.
You need to invest time in Leetcode.

I made it into final round interviews with both Google and Facebook (in California), without much prep, and didn't get an offer from either.

Google asked me all algorithm problems (I told them I didn't have much system design experience), whereas Facebook did a mix of algorithms, system design, and soft/personal skills.
Isn't that similar to the bailout of GM? Which turned a profit for the gov't IIRC.
Well, the difference I see this time is the need for physical separation, so remote work can be a bit more casual dress-wise.
Maybe if your only source of news was Fox News.
There are a lot of 360 style virtual reality museums and famous travel destinations that I enjoy in my Oculus Quest. I am going to send the linked URI to friends without VR gear, it is very good stuff.
> Having cultural capital to call on is invaluable.

How similar is the culture today compared to 75+ years ago?
Tangential, but it's strange to me the sort of culture that Quora has cultivated over the years. It seems to tolerate and even encourage low quality content and contributors to the point that ignorance, misinformation and poorly researched opinionated answers thrive on a regular basis. That's not to say there aren't good contributors and content, but browse any one random topic today and you'll be forgiven for thinking you are on Yahoo Answers. Just no filter at all, extremely poor questions, offtopic comments posted as answers, people with no understanding of the subject shamelessly pretending to know what they are talking about, etc etc.

It's just all around incredibly unpleasant. I loved Quora in its early years when it was invitation only, but I don't ever want to have anything to do with it again.
> And thank goodness. This is no way to run a free country in normal times

I take it you're aware of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and virtually ALL the other developed countries on the planet who function this way every day of the year and do very well.
I'm not goofing off, I'm networking!
Doesn't Multi-Paxos already have stable leaders? My understanding was that the innovation here was to relay prepare/promise/accept/accepted across a random relay network.
The article says that whiteboard tests are about whiteboard tests.

Ultimately, pen and paper tests are about pen and paper tests. Take-home tests are about take-home tests. Algorithm tests are about algorithm tests, and chess tests are about chess tests. But among these, I would argue that the whiteboard is better at facilitating general communication.

If you have anything to say about anything, whiteboards are the most flexible way to say it. What ends up on the whiteboard doesn't have to be some toy problem, it can be about anything. It's probably one of the most flexible programming languages in the world, because you use a combination of words, arrows, and drawings to communicate however you want, and your ideas don't even have to make sense.
> How similar is the culture today compared to 75+ years ago?

Doesn’t matter. “We did this before and must do it again” is a powerful call to action. That cultural capital spins up the bureaucratic flywheel.
Considering that the virus can live for up to 9 days on metal, glass or plastic[1] I'm not sure that mandatory hand washing is going to do much in an assembly line where everyone interacts directly vehicles on the line.

[1] https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-670...
This is would be the perfect time for IBM to apply all Watson technologies and resources to develop new insight into Covid-19.
I have been using NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-c...

They update it many times a day.
I'm not convinced things would have played out much differently under any other administration to be honest.

Note that many other western countries are struggling as well.
Along those lines, Meltblown fabric used in N95 respirators is made from plastic by some incredibly high tech machines. Each costing $5m per machine (line): https://www.reicofil.com/en/pages/meltblown_lines

You’re absolutely right. When a mask is expired, it should not be used. There is a reason for the expiration date and it’s not just for profiteering or some malicious motive.

Lot of expiration dates you see in medicines is FDA regulated and should be taken seriously.
I just saw on Twitter that hospital in NY is already "double respirating" people, meaning two people share one respirator, so it seems the time to act was well before yesterday.

I don't see how people can read that and not say "Holy crap, let's not let people suffocate to death on their own phlegm" if it just means spending a few billion dollars.
Are you referring to the gold trust ETFs when you talk about this? eg IAU/GLD?
The only illogical thing to me here (in the current moment, what do we do now?) is - why are administrators doing this in such a hacky way? We have a whole country with many, many ways of producing different types of products.

Why isn't a proper manufacturing operation at a paper company,
quilt company, halloween costume company, etc etc etc producing a big volume of hacked masks to be distributed to tons of hospitals?
There's an idea of civic and social duty. The basic idea is that when one's society faces an existential crisis then those in that society with the means to help have a duty to do so. This is because the society in which they exist has provided them with a social structure that has, ideally, provided them with stability, some amount of prosperity, etc. It seems some people don't believe in this. It's sad.

This isn't about "lefts". It's about people who view their society as facing an existential crisis and believing that everyone in the society should respond to their duty. This duty may be as simple as social distancing but for those with productive means, it may mean working on vaccines, producing face masks, producing sanitary supplies, supplying food, etc.
As someone with a passion for programming language design, this is very intriguing indeed. I wonder if a more verbose and explicit language is indeed better...
Stay positive, Menlo Park in general isn’t the most social happening place on earth (the irony of the largest social network being headquartered there). Any spread there would happen at the actual Facebook offices. It’s not a hotbed and should be fine by summer.
None of the first list needs to be or what I would even call them as Apps ( Apart from Spreadsheet ) , they could be "Smart Document", or HTMl with JS sprinkle on top, or Interactive pages.

And the usage of Web Spreadsheets are not mainstream at all.
what does smashed every problem mean? are you really getting the entire solution including optimization written up each time? i find it hard to believe that you're acing the technical and bombing the rest so egregiously that you're not getting offers.
I use two of those helms every day.
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It's great if that's how you're being scored, but you never know how you're being scored. One interviewer might be happy with a conceptual approach, another one might reject you for leaving off a curly brace.
Probably in part due to the 2012 sequester
Can confirm that my Toto Washlet C200 does this as well. The water will stop about 2 seconds after you've gotten up if you did not manually stop it.
If you're trying to map app users to DB users for more than 1,000 users, you're doing it wrong. Roles at that scale tend to be more vague: admin, hr, analysis, etc. Users (and tags) go in a table. Then row-level security authorizes through the user table for individual queries.

Row-level security is absolutely not dependent upon DB roles. Table-level security on the other hand is sufficiently coarse-grained that mapping GRANT/REVOKE to applied roles should be feasible.

If you're punting all of this security to the app layer, that's your prerogative, but don't pretend that it's somehow more straightforward or secure. If it seems simpler at the app layer, you may very well be missing something.
Why do you assume that lives will be saved by redistributing resources like the ancestor proposed?

Once in fifty years it will save lives, certainly. What about the shortage of other manufactured goods the other twenty times a century that you reassign factories to diseases that turn out to be nothing?

I think it's a bad idea because it will hurt people, not because I want to save money.

EDIT: Removed a political aside.
If it meant it was 6-12 months where there were drastically reduced availability of flights until everything could be structured I don't think anyone gains from that. As much as I want them to be held accountable this is just taking it out on a bunch of innocent people.

So the whole point is you can still bail them out in terms of solvency and not ruining the entire US transportations system while making it extremely "unpretty" for everyone involved.
Fuck those people right?
I tried some of them. All of them have a horribly low UX and UI. That means they are 100% unusable. Please hire some Silicon Valley engineers and make SPEED a feature. As it's now', it is pretty much totally worthless. I'm sorry to say so. Take it as real feedback. I tried it once, horribly slow, I'll never go back.

This is a good way to "burn through" a huge audience, which will remember you as a "slow, hard, and unusable service", and never come back. It won't matter then how hard you try to push or market.
> A shorter list would be what isn't on the web platform?

> - Video games

Video games (not talking about Flash/HTML5 games) are on the web platform. https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/wiki/Porting-E...

If you count streaming in, AAA games can be played from the browser since a while ago. I'm not a Google Stadia user but I participated in Project Stream which streamed Assassin's Creed Odyssey to browsers and from my brief experience it was pretty impressive.
I'm as well a long time lurker. Whenever I contribute something, I feel that it should be helpful for many other people out there. This comment probably isn't...
Yes, we have very capable intelligence services with plenty of resources. I guarantee they knew of the first cases within days back in November.

I don't need to call the government to tell them to do their job.
When you're in the niche, it's hard to see out. I'm old enough to remember encountering the first computer magazine that didn't feature program listings (SoftTalk) and thinking who would want this thing? Programming is very much a niche activity (although I imagine that it's more a question of when rather than if that we'll see some sort of XCode for iOS).
I had a longer reply that I was going to post, but then it got longer and more nuanced than I wanted to spend the time to type out, so I discarded it instead. I do this quite frequently.

This is not directly related to your comment (although the comment I didn't post was), but it's another interesting personal observation to add to the pile.
I was speaking of higher-level abstractions than that.
For instance, do you have your API allow all possible arbitrary aggregations for your data or do you only special case the 3 or 4 that are pertinent to your business model?

Doing the former leads to basically reimplementing SQL in GraphQL. Doing the latter leads to functions like `resolve_month_over_month_profit_and_loss_segemented_by_sector`.
That's actually a good, generic way to speed up the initial app connections. You can even do it with a CDN in front of a backend on a different network, since most CDNs pool connections.

The problem is that everything useful a server side application does still requires round trips. Even for the most boring content, an 800ms delay is pretty normal if you have a spread out audience.
It's because the bulk RSU portion of the offer vests in the latter 2 years and the TC value given on the site is based on 1st year compensation.
First of all, ignore the news. Most news is there to sell ads, clicks, etc. Nobody really knows what the market will do in the next minute/hour/day. Nobody.

Also, price is always leading the news, not the other way around.

And, a lot of fund managers (who already entered the long positions) will go on TV and start suggesting their own version on how to handle the crisis and why this is an opportunity of a lifetime. Assume that everyone is talking the book.

So a bear market is lower lows/lower highs. The SP is still in this bear market. As long as this bear trend continues, do not enter.

However, there will be one day in the future when the market will reach capitulation. The news will be so bad and panic so high, that the market will fall hard, but then you would see very high volume of buyer, and the market would end positively for the day.

At that day you can start to gradually enter.
Not to mention that survival rates start to go down as the medical establishment succumbs to the strain. I'm isolating myself as much as possible and engaging in rather stringent protocols (N95 mask and gloves while out/ disrobe, wash clothes, and bathe on return), with the goal of staving off contraction until Fall if at all possible. Maybe the Chloroquine research will prove effective by then.

I'm in Kirkland/Redmond, so the risk is higher here than elsewhere at the moment.