skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that US COVID19 fatalities are 1,031 today.

Assuming 0.5% death rate after 3 weeks, then 3 weeks ago there were 200000 infected.

Assuming cases double every 5 days, then multiply that by 2^4, therefore:

The US has 3.2 million infected.
Covid-19: Investment Strategy for Automation in Logistics
We did the same. We normally have "office days" on Monday and Friday, for team meetings etc. and the other days are for everyone to decide what works for them. Most have one or two fixed WFH days.

Due to Covid-19 we changed it first to "optional WFH" (but with a hint that it may be a good idea) on all days, then "please WFH", and now "mandatory WFH, unless absolutely impossible"
> On Windows, I don't need to use Docker in order to run a program in a reproducible way. I just download a program, and in 90% of cases it "just works" whether I'm running Windows 10, Windows 8, or the decade-old Windows 7.

One program? How nice. How about 10 or 20 programs running at the same time, and communicating between themselves over a network? And is your program configured? Can you roll back changes not only in which versions if the programs are currently running but also how they are configured?

> This ability is what I really miss when I try to switch to desktop Linux. I don't want to set up Docker containers for random desktop apps,

You're showing some ignorance and confusion. You're somehow confusing application packages and the natural consequence of backward compatibility with containers. In Linux, deploying an application is a solved problem, unlike windows. Moreover, docker is not used to run desktop applications at all. At most, tools like Canonical's Snappy are used, which enable you to run containerized applications in a completely transparent way, from installation to running.
> Sanders proposes a wealth tax as well. Not knowing that

This is my point. They propose a radical new tax that requires measuring people's entire net worth, instead of fixing what's broken using our existing infrastructure which measures forms of income and money flow, because they are clueless, and it's good politics right now. The guy is a self proclaimed socialist, and that means socializing things [0].

I'm not interested in getting deep into another Sanders argument; looks like he is done. Of course, I'd like to see an inventive, creative, data-driven leader -- think Elon Musk, but without a social media presence. But that'll never happen.

[0] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-wa...
Modern cryptography libraries make sure that the execution path (and memory access patterns) do not depend on sensitive data. Usually this is what is meant with 'constant-time'.

If a debugger can read out registers or memory you can just read out the sensitive material of course.
It also gives security engineers who are looking for bugs in your code more reason to hate you, and heaven forbid that they have less perseverance than a determined attacker. Also, what’s so special about your slow and buggy libc and statically linked in crypto?
I hate Slack ("you'll never go back to email" wtf?) but this was a great thread, really ties in all the stuff you have to worry about as a CEO
Twitter's "PWA" is crap. It has an unending stream of glaring UX/UI errors that only get worse over time.

I'm just gonna link to a small subset of failures we've documented: https://www.google.se/search?q=twitter+site:grumpy.website
Not answering your question, but I found a way to mass delete tweets without creating an app: https://jlelse.blog/posts/mass-delete-tweets/
> Right now is not a good time to do something like volunteer in a homeless shelter to get perspective,

Maybe it's the right time because the need is certainly there. Not everything has to be done by egotistic motives.
There is probably some selection bias - it’s 4.9% of people using the thermometers, which would skew towards people that are thinking they have a fever.
That's wishful thinking. We haven't had a pandemic in recent years.
Have you tried Hangouts lately? Google needs to kill that whole product line.
I plugged in “software engineer” and mostly got back intern positions. I’m not sure that really counts as “entry-level”?
Have you verified that it's a virus and not actually allergies? Runny nose can be confused for allergies, school might e.g. have mold or dust which your son is reacting badly to.
How did you come to the .5% death rate after 3 weeks assumption?
The difficulty of getting compliance even in the face of a scary new threat should give a good deal of indication of how hard it'd be.

And the speed with which it spreads in a population that has little immunity against the current strain should be a good indication of how little you'd save.
Agreed, but I don’t see that happening unless things get a lot worse, sadly.
And then Lars Bak left, I guess desilusioned with out things turned out for Dart, and is now doing "Dart for IoT" back in Denmark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPna6D21Eqg
Besides that I consider this discussion mostly theoretical as I doubt that one would get large enough parts of the population to agree - they are not even agreeing to erradicate diseases we could easily erradicate, like the measels - a planned limited shut down wouldn't be very disruptive.

Here it Europe, it is quite common for businesses to shut entirely down for a few weeks every year. The reason is managing employee vacations. It is easier managing this by shutting down entirely. Even the big car companies have two weeks every year, where the production is mostly shut down. And even many US companies have mandatory shut-downs on thanksgiving or christmas.
You actually want the opposite, as little artificial camera motion as possible. The VR SDKs feed you the camera transform and settings against a reference point so you don’t need to do anything special except render a view from that. The organic platform comes with all the motion smoothing built in. If you watch VR footage you’ll get a feeling for how wobbly people’s heads actually are.

In terms of level design VR has a looot more fidelity of input so the interaction design is richer and consequently there is more to setup. Game spaces tend to be less cluttered and have some slightly distorted dimensions. Both are more noticeable in VR. Games tend to have more fixed sight lines, the player is stood, crouched and maybe prone at most. In VR people will stick their heads everywhere.
And then we would get an pandemic of another influenza type virus rushing through the population like wildfire because nobody is immune. It's very difficult to completely eliminate infections (even polio is still around despite extensive immunisation), especially if it mutates as much as influenza.

A little known fact btw, most of the influenza virii are descendents of the Spanish flu which have mutated to be less deadly.
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I have a list of resources [1] I found to be helpful when I was doing my physics undergrad. I can highly recommend MIT's courses.

Learning physics can be tough at times if you're doing it alone as it's common to get stuck on a hard problem and need to talk it through with someone else. If you ever want to discuss any problems feel free to reach out to me (see the contact page on my website).

[1] https://cameronperot.com/resources/
On a personal note, a neighbor working for a food services company, serving FAANG size companies was converted from a full time to contractor, and then furloughed.

By his own admission, his employer didn't have enough cash for for other alternatives. There are sometimes no easy ways to deal with running out of cash, especially during a crisis such as this.

In industries reliant on just in time delivery, including that of cash, back inventory and cash piles are non existent. This crisis should be a reason to explore contingencies for such companies/industries

Edit: from another trending HN article [1]: "companies need buffers to face uncertainty –not debt (an inverse buffer), but buffers."

[1]: https://medium.com/incerto/corporate-socialism-the-governmen...
> This current situation had me wondering how hard it would be to coordinate a regular -- maybe not yearly -- global self-isolation for say 2-3 weeks at a time.

Very hard. We can’t even properly do it in the face of this pandemic.
This is really in response to the irresponsible use of APIs for trackers. Evercookie is a stunning example of how far it can go... From their repo:

- Standard HTTP Cookies
- Flash Local Shared Objects
- Silverlight Isolated Storage
- CSS History Knocking
- Storing cookies in HTTP ETags (Backend server required)
- Storing cookies in Web cache (Backend server required)
- HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) Pinning (works in Incognito mode)
- window.name caching
- Internet Explorer userData storage
- HTML5 Session Storage
- HTML5 Local Storage
- HTML5 Global Storage
- HTML5 Database Storage via SQLite
- HTML5 Canvas - Cookie values stored in RGB data of auto-generated, force-cached PNG images (Backend server required)
- HTML5 IndexedDB
- Java JNLP PersistenceService
- Java exploit CVE-2013-0422 - Attempts to escape the applet sandbox and write cookie data directly to the user's hard drive.

https://github.com/samyk/evercookie

In short, everything and more can be used for tracking, and that has really killed the party for the many people who have created responsible, useful applications of these browser APIs.
Python, Django top frameworks and it's comparison
I would guess a better manufacturing process and smaller components lead to better energy efficiency and less heat dissipation.
You could try to host a ssh/shadowsocks/v2ray tunneling server on your own Openwrt home router. However you need a static public IP address for your home router. And you can control all or specific traffic aboard through this tunnel.

> Running an VPN on an Azure/AWS/Digital Ocean instance is not viable because the whole ip range is blocked by automated services like cloudflare, even if it's static.

I am not sure about that. Since I host my tunneling server on an VPS instance for 5 years. My IP packages have never been blocked by any website or CDN even once. However I don't use internet banking, so no idea about that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681370
Netflix doesn’t have most stuff.
That trope was old before but is even more irrelevant in these turbulent times when people are forced to work from home. What are you suggesting as an alternative?
One important distinction is that C# and UnityScript and Boo are build-time compiled languages, not interpreted (or JITted) at runtime like JavaScript typically is.

You can't dynamically download and interpret UnityScript code at runtime, or include it in downloadable asset packages.

If you make any changes to your app, you have to release a new version of it, and convince users to upgrade, and you can't just push an update out over the web, like you can with JavaScript.

This comes into play on the Apple app store.

Even if you implemented, say, a Scheme interpreter in C# that could interpret s-expressions at runtime, Apple would not let you publish an iOS app on their app store that downloaded Scheme code and interpreted it. It's not impossible or hard to do, but it's simply against their rules.

On Apple's app store, the ONLY language you're allowed to do that with is JavaScript, running in Apple's own Safari web browser's JavaScript engine.

That is a hard non-technical constraint that there is no way of programming or negotiating your way out of, and it's not going to change any time soon.

The old version of the iOS Safari component, UIWebView, runs in-process, and allows you to call back and forth with native code (it has a nice native Objective C bridge), but it did not have a JIT so it was slow. (Sandboxed iOS apps developed outside of Apple aren't allowed to write to code memory, so JIT compilers are prohibited.)

https://steamclock.com/blog/2013/05/apple-objective-c-javasc...

But the new iOS Safari component, WKWebView, runs in a separate process that Apple trusts, and it has the JIT enabled, so its JavaScript engine is extremely fast and robust, and fully compatible with most modern JavaScript libraries.

But you can't call native code, because it's running in another process, and doesn't support an Objective C bridge.

But you can send messages back and forth (tell it to execute JavaScript code, receive JSON or text messages back from JavaScript, but no directly passing pointers or calling functions).

So instead of using a platform specific Objective C <=> JavaScript bridge like the one Apple deprecated, UnityJS has a cross platform C# <=> JavaScript bridge with a JSON protocol, so it works fine with WKWebKit, without breaking Apple's app store rules.
Kubernetes? No thanks.
Economically you need to take into account that a lot of people barely get sick from flu. Certainly not two weeks a year.
You can take your Nordic feminist radical views and shove them up your ass. Do well to remember that.
Laying people off is always a large burden. Laying off multiple flights of people with latency and inducing stress (e.g. "will I be next?") is probably worse.

Alternatively:

If the business goes under, all employees will suffer. If some are laid off and the business continues to survive, those that make it will be spared.

So from a harm reduction point of view, laying nobody off is probably worse than laying some people off.

Even if you reduce pay, people may not be able to afford housing even though they're still working for you (e.g. in the bay area). And health benefits still cost the same even if you reduce other employee associated costs.

Things are not as simple as (I'm interpreting) you're implying they are. It's not black and white, and the decision needs to be made on a case by case basis.
Thank you for your feedback! Yes, for most industries intern positions are considered "entry-level". Most internships require that an individual is a current student, graduate, bootcamp, or have less than 3 years of experience.
I'm director at a tech startup in the real estate space. We have about 8 contributors working full time or part time and everyone (directors included) is only getting paid with our own blockchain cryptocurrency. We haven't launched yet and have been running that way for months.

You don't need fiat money to run a company anymore. You can make your own cryptocurrency and it works as both money and company shares. I was quite surprised initially by how willing people were to accept it as payment for their work but now it seems totally normal.
It syncs the start time. As it works without a browser extension I can not sync the actual movie as I do not get the information.

What I am planing to do is to allow a later join into the movie night by calculating how much time has passed since the movie night start and then send the late attendee to that time code in the movie. Not supported by all services tough :/
Well, that's really an organizational failure as much as an engineering one. Same as telling the sales manager, "You're responsible for sales, but you can't hire any sales persons."

I'm in Silicon Valley and I see a lot of strange things, but I've never seen a business fail because of product performance or wrong choice of computer language or framework, but:

- Friendster did have significant site performance issues that may have contributed to it getting marginalized.

- Twitter routinely showed the "fail whale" until they got their act together.

- eBay was 30 days late in doing their Japanese version, which allowed Yahoo Auctions to dominate that country. (Their whole i18n situation was a fiasco with parallel US and non-US code bases and url-based locale setting.)

- Real Media sold their real5 streaming server to most US radio stations, yet could never get G2 server to work reliably.

- I've talked to startups with a 50,000 LOC web product and 200,000 lines of test code. I'm curious how that worked out.
So do we just keep sending them the same benefits when they can’t find work because the businesses failed?
As written ion the page, it would be able to support any website on the internet, as it does a simple redirect to the website on countdown 0.

What I want to provide is an auto start and a jump to timecode 0. All platforms that allow that via query parameters can be supported by binge together :D
> It makes no sense to quota your cpu with the exception of very specific cases (like metered usage).

This is not true at all. Autoscaling depends on CPU quotas. More importantly, if you want to keep your application running well without getting chatty neighbors or getting your containers redeployed around for no apparent reason, you need to cover all resources with quotas.
I have a feeling that a lot of people will have happy memories from this time, except for those that have lost loved ones or facing the hell of trying to save those that are infected. I was talking about this today on a midday walk with my wife (which would have never been possible in other circumstances). With enough fond memories and fears of a repeat, an annual social distancing tradition may actually have the possibility of traction.
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Source which explains this in more detail?
.NET (redone as Core) was a much worse choice 20 years ago than it is now of course. If they would fully open up the debugger, I would prefer it over the JVM. OCaml is more open (for .NET Core, there is still no good open debugger and the JVM suffers from Oracle keeping closed performance enhancements which, in my experience, do make big difference) than either of them, but not many people like programming it so it is hard to find people.
You might enjoy ruby as well then!
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Awesome! I love the "start after X people joined" idea.

What you are currently seeing is the MVP. I plan to integrate websockets for the communication between clients. So you just can hit "start now" and it would start (or after X people joined the websocket channel). This will take some time, as it is a lot harded to get scalable as the current (static solution is.

Yes, the youtube ads will be a problem that sadly can not be circumvented with my tech stack.
To be fair, i spent 1500€/m for 1gbit fiber in the center of Frankfurt, which was considered cheap at the time.

You can get 1g down, 50mbit up for less than a tenth of that with cable for example. We used that line heavily and I loved it, but I'm still unsure if I should rather have spent the money differently.

We've moved now to a WeWork Style Location ( Studio from Tishman Speyer ) and are down to 100/100, have put our vpn equipment in a datacenter for 70€/m and nobody complains.
> Honestly getting a cluster running is the easiest part. It’s all the add one like istio that make it complicated.

That's like saying running windows is the easy part, it's all the add-ons like Microsoft office that make it complicated.
Would love that as well, but it is really hard to support even only chromecast with my tech stack.

For now I do not plan to support TV applications with Binge Together.
An analysis of how NYC compared to Hubei – the center of the COVID19 epidemic
Use different HTML that renders the same everywhere relevant
But who is going to go to a doctor/hospital for the flu when they are scared of catching sars2 there?
But to be clear, it's not affiliated with openfoodfacts, right? So there is still room for a true open source solution that's based on OFF?
It seems like in this case, there was a vague description that didn't align with her acute knowledge of a very specific/esoteric subject. Her father was an archival researcher at the monastery. So to get better at this, a good path would probably be to develop general critical observation skills, as well as a deep understanding of particular subjects that you'd be exposed to.
if you want to go to the source of that story:

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...
Fascinating that there's so much metal used in the handle rather than using a tang inside a wooden handle.
Suggest HN: No April Fools this year
As you get near April Fools, and need to deploy your prank pages, perhaps reconsider doing it. As a general rule April Fools has become less popular on the web the more widespread it has become, and some people might take levity badly given the current world situation - I myself am among the party of people who think everything is open to mockery, but only if the jokes are good. Most April Fools pranks are tedious.

Obviously you may not have the ultimate say in what pranks are to be played at your company on the world, but perhaps you can push back on them and point out they might not be as well received as in years past.
I disagree, Slack became the online equivalent of "butts in seats" and in those turbulent times it has more potential than ever to be wrongly used.

I think it's partially the company culture that should make it clear that no substantial discussion or decisions should be made on the IM tool (Slack or something else). The issue is that Slack (the product) goes against creating such a culture.

Email is still a way better tool for long complex asynchronous opinionated discussions.

What I find the most damaging is the expectation that you should always be online watching all your channels in order to not miss some bit of information (or show that you are online, busy, doing work).
Yes. Everyone needs to have an account and to be signed in.
Interviews with People Working Remotely
From other comment: Stack is quite simple: Frontend: Bulma.css, Vanilla Javascript, HTML Backend: PHP, MariaDB

It works by redirecting in the right moment to the streaming sites, via a JavaScript redirect.

The voice chat is done via https://meet.jit.si/

To handle potential big load, I force cloudflare to cache all sites under url /p/* thereby after the creation of the watch party, no request hits my server anymore :D
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Glad to see a mention of CLU; it pioneered a lot of ideas. Reading Joe Duffy's blogs about the Midori project (greenfield language/system design at Microsoft), he mentions CLU as an inspiration a number of times.
I get the feeling OP is the one being interviewed.

Mortgage rates change frequently.

The bank likely deals with this exact scenario on a regular basis and should have an established procedure in place.
Or negotiate features of lowering your rate.
The one about works with local files. For my purposes it's much better than YouTube.
New York hospitals treating coronavirus patients with vitamin C
Fantastic. Thank you Chrome team! Especially for those who dont execute arb JS, this is a huge +.

Personally, I would like to drop the line completely and not send the key at all, but it's a start.
Awesome idea! I plan to implement that today :D

Just calculating from the start time at what point in the movie everyone should be. e.g. You are half an hour late, so the others are around minute 30 (Y)

No need to start a new watch party (Y)
We're working on those things, but we agree the debugging, performance, and iteration time are not in a great place for web today. We have plans for how to fix them, though, and are working on several of them currently. These are mostly under the umbrella of Project Tiny (the team I'm on), whose forum you can find here: https://forum.unity.com/forums/project-tiny.151/

It's very experimental still, and iteration times for web are still not amazing, but we do think we have a way to get them to be actually good, while still letting you write and debug C# as you would expect.
What's your advice to protect personal machines ?
Native apps ostensibly go through review so that Apple can flag malfeasant behavior that is nonetheless allowed by the sandbox. Think things like a $999 purchase request that pops up on app launch (Yes, I know Apple isn’t that great at this. But that’s the argument that they use for review.)
Higher prices encourage more supply to spring up, and economizing on use.

Your remark is right for things like land that's in fixed supply.