skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I will throw in my two cents. This shutdown needs to end immediately. This is absolutely crushing the middle class and the economy. I'd bet that many of the small shops and restaurants I used to go to will never reopen. These low-margin businesses cannot cope with a week long closure, let alone four. We are already looking at waves of rent/debt defaults followed by massive layoffs and then a deep recession if not a depression. And if the government's response is unlimited money creation (for the banks or for individuals, it does not matter) then we are looking at a potential monetary or dollar crisis.

This decision to shutdown the economy has been made on the misguided assumption that you can save the healthcare system in isolation from the rest of the system of production in which it resides. It is also assuming that saving lives supersedes any other consideration, especially money or economics. We are hearing this now from the media who already pre-attacking Trump for hinting he wants to end the shutdown -- that he is valuing billionaires or dollars over lives. This is shear non-sense and ignores the fact that people are not ghosts, we need to work in order to stay alive and live. I am reading on many forums about people who are about to lose their business that they spent 20 years building or their homes if they cannot get back to work soon. This is not just narrowly about lives lost to the virus but living for everyone. Of course we will do everything reasonable to help the afflicted but shutting down the economy should not be one of them.

If you want to still hold to the assumption that only lives matter in this decision then think about this. Think of how many alcoholics will be created or relapse from spending days on end with nothing to do, bored in their home. How many of those will eventually die of alcoholism or kill people with their car? What about anorexics who recover but under quarantine and the anxiety of virus scaremongering relapse and ultimately starve to death? If the economy goes into a recession or depression (a fait accompli in my view) then how many people are going commit suicide which always goes up in bad times? How many people will die in just these three examples 100K, 200K, 1M people?

These are not fantasy deaths, it will really happen but they will never be blamed on the shutdown. It is a real hidden cost, as real as those who die from CV19. There are real life-and-death altering consequences beyond just those unfortunate to get this virus.
Does anyone know how to maintain permanent chats in mumble?

It's wonderful software for audio but for text it's rather useless. A quick disconnection means losing everything.
I have known people who homeschooled to make life easier. I was one of them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681334

Takeout is allowed. Food delivery is allowed. Amazon and grocery stores are hiring. Those are not white collar jobs.

I've been dirt poor for years. I do remote work. I'm a freelance writer, not a programmer.

It helped me establish an income and pay down debt while homeless.

If you think remote work is only for the privileged few, that's your bias showing, not mine.

I have been promoting remote work and gig work as a solution for homeless people for years. I run several websites and a few reddits supporting that model.

I've never gotten traction. Maybe I will never get traction. But I've absolutely done all of the above and not because I have some privileged upper class life.

Quite the opposite. I've done it to accommodate my health problems and the needs of two special needs kids.
The wealthy's assets require hired labor to keep and increase their value. Their wealth is derived from those assets.
>Food has a global supply chain that requires your currency to have value.

Not true for all food.

> When the government prints money, it makes it harder for it to borrow money in the future.

What causes it to be harder to borrow is the faith of people willing to hold government debt. The American government has never reneged on its debt. "Printing money" has very little to do with the government's ability to borrow.

>Eventually, your dollar buys less on the global markets, meaning farmers cannot acquire fertilizer and other needed things to grow your crops.

We produce these things locally. Every nation-state with a half-decent national security apparatus does.

>People will lose their jobs as exports dry up and American dollars buy less and less foreign currency.

This is one of the most glaring cognitive dissonances in this thought process. Currency is relative. When the American dollar is strong, it means foreign currency buys fewer tangible American goods, and we actually export less. When the American dollar is weak, foreign currency goes farther and we export more.

>When the government bails you out and gives you money, you slowly by slowly become unable to eat, unable to have roofs over your head.

As Alan Greenspan put it when Paul Ryan brought this fanciful line of thinking up in Congress: inflation happens when there are too many dollars chasing too few goods. There are two sides to this equation. Given the difficulty the Fed has had meeting inflation targets, it is far more likely we are constrained by the allocation of dollars either because we are not able to get them where they need to be in the economy, or because there's just too little circulating.
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We’re back to the core problem of this virus: it’s not that you have a very high chance of dying from it, it’s that our system isn’t scoped to handle the high hospitalization rates.

I can wear a suit, but I’m still impacted if our hospitals are overwhelmed and FEMA runs out of ice trucks for the bodies.
I'll say it then. "lock downs CAN cure us from the virus".

Note that can doesn't mean it will. If everybody in the world stuck to their own small family house (not extended family) for four weeks it would be gone, either your family had it (with some deaths because of lack of medical care),kicked it, and everything on surfaces died; or it wasn't in your family and you were safe. Of course few people can do that. You need not only stored food, but also there will be nobody running the power plants (and it will take them two weeks to restart them afterwards), not to mention hospitals won't be there for other emergencies.
Covid-19 needs a Manhattan Project
It actually works, which sadly makes it way above average.

I've had to switch off between WebEx, Zoom and Hangouts for the last month and Zoom is head and shoulders above the other two in terms of usability and call quality. And there's whatever Cisco's previous craptastic offering was (jabber?) which is far, far worse than any of those three.
And I didn’t say or imply I downvoted you. Do you think people downvote for fun? It’s not like your question was rhetorical right

(Sorry I’m going to stop being obnoxious now, hope you understand why it’s easy to read your comment as such!)
I don't know if it's the fonts, the icons, the controls, the monochromaticity, the blocky resolution, the tinkerability, or even just stupid nostalgia, but there's just something so darned cute about classic Mac OS.

macOS today is attractive and useful and colorful, but it feels so serious.
This is politization of a crises by the party with majority while the minority party understands that and thinks something for the masses is better than nothing. This is all about doing whatever the majority party can to pump up the economy in time for re-election. If anybody says anything other than that is blatantly lying. The imbecile himself twitted how the lamestream media is preventing him from opening the economy as he thinks that they think it will be detrimental to his re-election. The reality is he exposed himself with that tweet. All he had to do is be a good leader by listening to the experts but he can’t do that. Economy will take care of itself like it has for the last 300 years if you have a healthy and able populous. One can’t have a economy without people participating in it. Thus health comes first and then economic stimulus. This govt has only focused on economic stimulus and not on the needs for health (hospital equipment and personal protective gear). Make no mistake this is all about re-election first and then everything else.
> The Philippines, The United States, The Great Lakes

See saithound's reply.

> it's not a definite group of people

Yes it is. It's a specific subset of people (the poor) that can be picked apart from the rest (the non-poor).

> E.g., "I met those refugees on the road, so I asked the poor [refugees] a few questions."

Again, I see nothing weird with this (?)

You seem to have a problem with ellipsis (and yes, that's hard!) not articles.
Keen to learn their post mortem.
To paraphrase Clausewitz economic sanctions is war by other means. We shall when and if this will turn into a real world in our lifetime.

It will further accelerate Chinese investments and reduce their reliance on US controlled supply chains, creating new competitors to high value added US exporters.
yeah, not great, but the same thing has happened to many businesses. When they stop making money they can't meet their obligations (e.g. wages) and need a bailout a week later.
We frequently delete or redact posts that users are worried about, and have other tricks to help out as well. The only thing we don't do is delete entire account histories wholesale, because that would not be fair to the other users who participated in the same threads.
> Italy currently has a death figure roughly 40 times higher per capita than the US.

You're off by an order of magnitude. The US has 260/million and Italy has 1275/million. That's 4.9 times higher, not 40.

US cases are currently doubling every 4 days. New cases in Italy have dropped, and they are no longer experiencing exponential growth. If that continues, we'll catch them in about a week.
Ah, the socialization argument. Such an old saw. It was openly mocked and derided on homeschooling lists when I was a homeschooling parent.

That was before the argument was "We absolutely need to risk the lives of people in the face of a plague. Think of the social needs of the children!"

Edit in response to your deleted comment:

Particularly, socialization research confirms that young people can grow up more mature and poised than their age-peers if they avoid the age segregation characteristic of almost all schools.

https://learninfreedom.org/

The author was a school teacher and he's the founder of some education organization or other. You can probably find a lot more info under his hn handle of tokenadult.

I don't plan to continue this argument.
1. They have the virus go from like 5% infected to 70% in two weeks in that scenario. Given what we know about the incubation period and they assume about the infectious period, more than half the population has to be infected (and probably even infectious) somewhere along that curve.

2. Their model predicts that the peak of the epidemic in Italy should have been before March 5th (first death on February 22nd + 14 days, at which point easily more than half the population is infected). There should have been a sharp drop in new cases about a week later, as the virus burnt itself down. But here we are three weeks later, and it's still not entirely clear that the peak has been found.

Italy did not institute significant nation-wide measures until March 9th, so the "slowdown from measures" explanation makes no sense.

3. Agreed. But their entire model is predicated on treating the entire country as a single unit. That's probably a part of the reason why the results are so absurd. I don't think it's fair to excuse the model for regional differences, but require any criticism of the model to take them into account.

4. The difference between the model's prediction and apparent reality is likely to be about a factor of 200. Even assuming everybody on the ship was actually infected, that only cuts it to a factor of 40 difference.

And it's really not just that single case. Consider that infamous Washington state nursing home. 120 residents, 35 dead from Covid to date. Even if we assume that every single one of the 120 was infected despite not testing positive, that still an IFR of 30%. Sure, it's a high-risk segment. But it's also a large enough segment a 30% IFT for them makes it quite impossible for the population-wide IFR to be 0.01%.

(Re: your last point, they had two parameters. One for being at risk of becoming a serious case, and another of dying if serious. The two need to be multiplied to get their predicted IFR. They assumed that 0.1% of population were at risk to become severe cases, and 15% of the severe cases died. So about 0.01%).
:shrug: I’m not a GDPR lawyer and further most of it doesn’t have precedent yet so we aren’t sure how its going to fall out.

I did work on a GDPR compliance effort in an industry where it is big important (real time bidding ads) and our lawyers, while hedging, were not at all worried about random lawsuits. Their opinion was that we would easily be able to submit to the courts that the complaints needed to go through the authorities first.
The lag time between that much money turning into a country-size amount of equipment that can be used by ordinary people without error might well be longer than the quarantine period.

I've seen some manufacturing miracles, but that's a really tall order.
Usability of diffs, to do actual useful tasks, is an excellent research topic. But a very difficult area.

To add my subjective expt: I just compared myers vs histogram on my latest commit.

- myers presented a function I'd 90% gutted as the the same function, edited (the rest was moved in the file, so no LCS algo could find it), like word-diff often does. I thought this was clever.

- histogram presented it as one function deleted, and a completely new function added. This was cleaner.

But I'm not even sure which is more usable. Might even vary with the specific task, e.g. function evolution vs function readability. Difficult area!
There is one routing table but it can have multiple default gateways:

fenrir:~ $ uname -a
Darwin fenrir 18.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 18.7.0: Tue Aug 20 16:57:14 PDT 2019; root:xnu-4903.271.2~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

fenrir:~ $ netstat -rn |head
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
default 172.16.22.254 UGSc 85 732 en0
default 192.168.88.1 UGScI 2 49 en2
127 127.0.0.1 UCS 0 0 lo0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 1 3806 lo0
169.254 link#6 UCS 2 0 en0 !
169.254 link#8 UCSI 0 0 en2 !

If you bind to a specific interface it will use that default gateway:

fenrir:~ $ traceroute -ni en0 google.com
traceroute to google.com (216.58.194.142), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 172.16.22.254 0.565 ms 0.340 ms 0.300 ms
2 172.16.25.60 0.893 ms 0.727 ms 0.721 ms
3 172.16.25.0 0.954 ms 0.819 ms 0.815 ms
4 108.218.244.1 7.422 ms 1.908 ms 3.617 ms
5 *^C
fenrir:~ $ traceroute -ni en2 google.com
traceroute to google.com (216.58.194.142), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.88.1 12.399 ms 3.768 ms 0.811 ms
2 192.168.80.1 1.950 ms 8.322 ms 1.702 ms
3 172.26.96.161 30.448 ms 393.449 ms 46.537 ms
4 107.72.199.60 182.826 ms
107.72.199.36 34.835 ms
107.72.199.60 50.557 ms
5 12.83.186.101 52.178 ms 32.536 ms 33.431 ms
6 12.83.186.85 38.516 ms 51.138 ms 61.687 ms
7 12.122.5.190 48.626 ms 251.733 ms 38.487 ms
8 12.122.2.197 58.184 ms 82.183 ms^C

You can also also do this do this by IP address

fenrir:~ $ traceroute -ns 192.168.88.243 google.com
traceroute to google.com (216.58.194.142) from 192.168.88.243, 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.88.1 4.658 ms 10.498 ms 3.633 ms
2 192.168.80.1 4.264 ms 58.660 ms 7.153 ms
3 172.26.96.161 105.557 ms 41.207 ms 32.243 ms
4 107.72.199.60 66.562 ms

Which interface is used when IP address / interface is not specified is selected by the Service Order setting in the Network control panel.
it's called outbound sales. there's no "big break" there. literally everyone does it.
Or just dry milk. I remember getting that stuff as a kid because I had issues with normal cows milk. Not the best, but if your desperate it will work.
There's lots of hired labor around the world, no one needs to live in the united states. That is not actually a requirement to be rich.
I am a huge Elm fan, and I have used it in many contexts. It is fair to say that in the last 10 years React has most influenced the way we write our UI and Elm has most influenced the way we manage our state on the frontend.
I don't understand how someone arrives at this position without starting off with an axe to grind and looking for facts that fit.

Do you think that a liberal capitalist country would have managed to contain this? How, in that case, do you explain the utter failure of most liberal capitalist countries to actually contain it?

Do you think that if China had their act together they would have been able to squash it in the crib and prevent it spreading anywhere else? How do you reconcile that with the fact that Seattle imported its first case on January 15, on a flight from Wuhan, and that this person must have been infected days before that? Japan got it on January 3. The first case in Thailand was hospitalised on January 8.

Do you think that Wuhan should have been sealed off that early? Do you think that the failure to do that is a failure of authoritarian communism to which liberal capitalism is immune? Evidence from the "free world's" response to this suggests otherwise, and that they are even more hesitant than China to put significant containment measures in place.

You may respond that China suppressed information about the outbreak, and it appears that they did. What difference did it make in the end though? The cat was already out of the bag.
That stimulus bill is going to cause hyperinflation.
America needs phosphate and imports it currently. We cannot produce enough locally. This is needed to produce enough food. I'm not sure how you get around this in your magical world.

> What causes it to be harder to borrow is the faith of people willing to hold government debt. The American government has never reneged on its debt. "Printing money" has very little to do with the government's ability to borrow.

Yeah, making up money and having people sit at home (thus not paying taxes) is really going to inspire people to hold American debt!
Why Was It So Hard to Raise the Alarm on the Coronavirus?
The psychologist exploring unconscious bias–and its consequences for society
I can't help but draw a parallel to how machine learning and A.I. automation is supposed to disrupt a majority of blue collar jobs and if this is a taste of what is to come when we crack the code and people's skills are rendered obsolete to specialized sophisticated machinery that outperforms us in every metric and runs autonomously 24/7.

I also think about universal basic income and what life would feel like if I suddenly was left to my own devices and had the luxury to learn any subject I wanted, pursue new hobbies and crafts without dragging myself into work with stop and go traffic both ways, zapping my creative energy and making me a more jaded person day by day and the week progresses.
Singapore is basically run like a business though, isn't it? Also, it's more of a city-state than a nation, in my mind. Same for Taiwan and Hong Kong.
several of those examples about once great entities (?) were destroyed in part if not wholly by foreign armies - so i'm not sure that rhetoric is (or at least those examples are) really appropriate here.
Yes, I think that would be a much more equitable way to stimulate the economy. That, or loan/debt forgiveness programs, would benefit poor and working people over large corporations and their boards.

Matt Stoller has covered this legislation on his blog, and has much more detail on how this bill is a massive coup for many large corporations: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/stop-the-6-trillion-coron...
For this reason I went back to C and have been experimenting with Rust.

It’s a shame, because there are some places where C++ is a strict improvement over C, but you have to accept so much more baggage.
Why not? In fact shared_ptr even has an aliasing constructor that allows you to refer an pointer whose lifetime is tied to an unrelated shared_ptr.

Of course the only sane use case is that that unrelated shared_ptr will definitely outlive that other pointer. But you get the idea, shared_ptr is incredibly flexible.
What do you use for back-office things, like accounting, inventory, etc?
Ironic use of the term "democratized" there!
Ask HN: How are you building work from home dev environments?
As a developer, how are you working remotely?

This is a new scenario for lots of people, and I think people are struggling to create good development environments using their home computers.

Started accessing office network via VPN and using my work machine with VNC. But, latency is a bit high for typing and its not productive.

Next, tried using Visual Studio Code in my home machine, and Remote SSH Extension for loading source code and development tools (linting, compilers, interpreters, etc) on my work machine. This made things a bit easier, but latency for saving files and waiting for VSCode Git Extension scan changes is a bit high, bothering me.

Made a separate Firefox profile too, syncing with my work machine, and it's great.

I am not keen of copying company source code on my home computer, and starting mixing personal and work files. I like to compartmentalize things.

How do you do?

Separate VM? Separate Linux user? systemd nspawn container? Separate OS installation? Separate computer? How do you avoid mixing things and making a mess?

PS - Don't have company issued laptop - very small company
PS - Running exclusively on Linux
PS - Databases (production/development) and data stays at company network
Why are you equating loans with cash?
Only time will tell if these differences are meaningful. FWIW I'm in BC and have found little fault with the provincial health agency's response and, for the most part, have been impressed with the level of compliance from the public. Is it enough? Time will tell, but so far the numbers could be a lot worse.
Have you reviewed data-intensive architectures? I've found that book quite useful.

I'm just talking out my butt right now but I think fundamentally, a stream is just a chunk of data lifted from persist into memory. I imagine a cursor process traversing some bytes in a file, and then lifting some of those bytes into memory, and sending that memory over network.
Apples and oranges comparison.

While individual citizens are getting "free cash," businesses are getting low interest loans that need to be repaid. A lot of the rest is going to emergency agencies, hospitals, and states.

So if the question is: "Instead of loaning businesses money to stay afloat, funding emergency agencies, hospitals, and states we just give each citizen tons of free money while ignoring everything else?" My answer is an easy "no." That makes no sense.

The only way this question makes sense is if you know nothing about the stimulus bill.
This doesn’t make any sense; if you print 14 trillion dollars, in doesn’t matter whose hands you put that money in, you get the exact same level of inflation.
But that would still have nothing to do with "a piece of cloth" vs "the piece of cloth" which is still a meaningful difference :/

I'm more confused now.
But it’s not just going to go back to the way things were.

People said the exact same thing in 2008. And it turned out things did go back to the way things were.
Why would they (or him) delete this comment?

"HOLY MOTHER OF GOD - the new coronavirus is a 3.8!!! How bad is that reproductive R0 value? It is thermonuclear pandemic level bad - never seen an actual virality coefficient outside of Twitter in my entire career. I’m not exaggerating... #WuhanCoronovirus #CoronavirusOutbreak"

Jan. 25, 2020
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Ah, yes, thank you!