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How can a billionaire stay rich if we don't go back to work?

Money doesn't grow on trees. It comes from our bodies.
Who says other countries are facing the exact same issues? Other countries have centralised response teams and have taken swift and decisive action.

The US's refusal to take up the advice of exports for the ego of its sociopathic president is something only seen in banana republics.
Maybe this will be the moment when we realize that we actually don’t need billionaires or the whole rentier class at all? That we could all be working half the hours for the same standard of living without them? That we are effectively just serfs toiling at their pleasure?
Without a proper PM it’s hard to know, when a 20 something footballer died in Italy it was initially without pre-existing conditions then some results came back and they found he had a undiagnosed leukemia.

However even without pre-existing conditions there is still a non-zero chance of complications that could result in a fatality regardless of how low the chances are.

This both means that people shouldn’t be careless but it also doesn’t mean that the news should abuse this to spread irrational fear.

Comments like this:

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"Clinicians who care for adults should be aware that COVID-19 can result in severe disease among persons of all ages," said the report, published on 18 March.

Serve little to no clinical value, clinicians understand very well that there is always a chance; however it is quite clear that currently the likelihood of younger patients to die is still extremely slim compared to the current high risk groups which includes pretty much anyone over 60.

The number of deaths in the 18-24 group specifically is still a rounding error.
I think what matters for 3D maps is that Singapore is new. Pretty much everything was built in the last few decades. Anything older than that is now treasured heritage, and would have been studied to within an inch of its life. And the buildings are big; no doubt some architecture firm still has the Autocad files for half of them.

This would be harder in a city where lots of things date back to the 19th Century, and architects were rarely involved in building them.
We have a remote worker who's been doing it for 10 years now.

We hire an office in a building with other remote workers and small companies. So he goes to lunch etc with those people rather than us, but at least he gets a clear work/home boundary and social interaction when he feels like.
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Note that 1GB/sec is all of a 10 gigabit ethernet line. You probably have, at most, 1Gb between your phone and your NAS if you are using 802.11AC. So 100MB/sec or one tenth that speed for you, maybe much less.

That said, if your NAS had a UFS slot you could 'sneakernet' the chip from the phone to the NAS and clone it then pull it out and put it back in your phone. That could conceivably happen in just a few minutes if your NAS CPU and IO system could keep up.

No word on their write endurance that I saw.
This comment made my day, thanks.
Any person or group in the US can start a worker cooperative and run it as they see fit.
That's funny. Individually we don't have a lot of power, but when we work together we have lots of power. If only we had some mechanism to bargain collectively for our interests.
One very useful metric would be the percentage of cases in each county. That's missing from most every map you find.
Then I'm living your dream - my office is right-next-to-my-house. I use the door in my garden to cross over. More often I take the main front yard door just so I get to walk a bit (<100m door to door).

Right now, nobody is coming in, everyone's remote. I prefer to go to the office now. Tho it's only six of us developers (company is 17 people) sharing a pretty nice office in a modern building owned by the company, I prefer to work over the wire. Unusual, huh? I realized for me it's about flexibility, not distance.

I wish you get to live the way you want. Good luck, sir.
They are really going mask off now. Take all their money.
Awesome and well, simply, done.
I enjoyed it @mr-ron! In that time of confinement, I had a great time trying it.
Only the fortunate who have nest eggs saved up can say 'I'm not sure I'm ready to go back yet.' They quoted 1 server like he speaks for everyone.

tell that to the people who have families and been furloughed for 2 months or more. Here in Vegas I dont know one person who doesnt want work to start tomorrow.

this article reeks of so much privilege its insane. The billionaires will still be billionaires if nothing happened for over a year.

The rest of us without the opportunity to have nest eggs will be in poverty.
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Shame on any company too stuck in 1950 not to embrace WFH in this time for work not abdolutely requiring physical presence.
Most of the development you'd do for Oculus is 90% the same with what you'd do for any other game, so I'd say yes, but you'll need to supplement with tutorials specifically for Oculus/Unity.
Nothing is independent from the economy, but somethings are less elastic. Apple might also be doing better than others right now because they have a ridiculously large cash reserve and can probably wait this out.
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I see a number of serfs driving around my town partaking in the "gig" economy.
So even that workaround is being phased out with this UA support change?
Its not a zero sum game. Many billionaires - including the ones referenced in the article - got that way by executing on ideas/products that improve society. Think of all the ways companies created by billionaires progressed our quality of life (yes even Bezos, Larry/Sergy, Gates, Musk, Zuckerberg, not to mention industries like food, pharma, agriculture, construction, transportation). The way we get to version of society where everyone can have a high quality of life (with socialism, UBI or whatever mechanism necessary) is to first let the current system create these efficiencies.
> If productivity turns out to be similar (or better) despite this handicap, I'd be genuinely curious to see how companies respond!

It won't. That's the problem. Being forced to do WFH unprepaerd + kids suddenly home + being in an actual pandemic, worried about the future, your family and yourself = productivity disaster. And it unfortunately will end up emotionally associated with WFH.
So the dead piling up in Spain and Italy are apparently not compelling enough? I can't recall a common cold overwhelming medical facilities and emptying nursing homes like this. The thing that seems to elude the "it's just a cold" school of thought is that this is a cold for which there exists zero population immunity, unlike the existing coronavirus strains or even the flu.
I would first focus on the overall design of the web application (so, look for React tutorials etc.). Treat D3 as a modular, low-level component within that application. You could start by creating static visualizations, say just using d3-array, d3-scale and d3-shape, and only opt-in to d3-selection and d3-transition when you add animation or interaction, if at all.
So basically they will charge me once more for a compatibility fix.
Certainly not independent but given the option of supporting people in a time of need and pushing them back to work and stressing the healthcare capacity of the county we certainly seem to be trending towards the latter.
The solution to this I propose to anyone who cares about hardware choice, privacy and software independence is to buy a phone supported by LineageOS and install that on it.

You won't have any issues with a lack of updates for a long time, as they're automatically built in the CI for the model and shipped to you via OTA updates.

Here's the list of viable phones (anything not on this list I wouldn't consider, in the Android world, anyway): https://download.lineageos.org/
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In Italy on average there are about 2000 deaths a day. Yesterday, there were 683 deaths attributed to Coronovirus.
It cuts both ways though. Mortality rates from unemployment are no joke.
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Including CEO's, boards and companies themselves. Once we get it down to a science we will just do it ourselves and not need a company to provide that service in the first place. Refrigeration put many companies that gathered ice from the Artic or Antarctic out of business. Interesting the Queen still gets her water this way.
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So is tracking their agents and their marks. It's a double whammy.
A good post, and I am surprised that somebody of Gross' insight has just now become aware of the elephant in the room, considering the signs of "corporate socialism" have been written all over the wall since the 1980s financial crises.
Here is a piece by Slate sounding more or less the same tone.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/coronavirus-tsa-...
Upvoted.

I'm trying to light my teeny, tiny little candle rather than curse the dark

Thanks for that. It's apparently frowned upon in the tech community to have a positive attitude, but I really hate negativity. Find the good in the situation and work with it.
Billionaires also know that work does some damage to the workers. So working during pandemic is not qualitative difference for them, just quantitative.
> Is assembly an abstraction ?

Yes, assembly is an (mostly fairly thin, on non-microcoded hardware) abstraction over machine code.
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We make 3D virtual world maps for outdoor sports, and our API is built into a few different sports tracking apps, so I can give a bit of insight across a spectrum of different brands (without giving any details about who may be down more than others).

This is normally a high-growth time of year for us and February had started out REALLY well for us. We started to see a bit of a flattening of growth, and then March hit.

We're down 30% week on week for the past two weeks. This is amalgamated across visitors to our own site as well as the our API customers users. Everyone is being hit.

Most users come from the USA and Europe (France, Spain, UK, and Italy in particular).

A bunch of race events also use our tech, and of course, that has all disappeared.
I really enjoyed this! As others have said, reminds me of a streamlined Uplink in terms of UI, which is no bad thing. I'd love to see more, though I'm not sure how much more complexity you could add to the core gameplay loop to keep it interesting. Perhaps some more puzzles, maybe attacks where you have to gain footholds in other networks?
I was hoping for this, lets do social distancing a tradition for every winter
I was just wondering about this yesterday. Neat, thanks for sharing.
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Are they competitive if they don't exploit their workers like companies do?
No labor laws apply to worker co-operatives? That's surprising.
Bonus: There is a version of LineageOS that works with apps usually requiring proprietary Google binaries without them actually being installed: https://lineage.microg.org/

Have been a happy user for a few months.
Ask HN: How to change network route on Mac OS when using VPN?
Hi all,

As I'm working from home, I often need to connect to my $WORK network via VPN. All's fine most of the time, but the speed is pretty bad and IT won't do anything about it.

The question is how would one change the default route and only use the VPN only for connecting to my $WORK network.

I'm using FortiClient if it matters and it routes everything via $WORK network.

Thanks
It is free for the time being. But you point out a good reason why we built dgit to support other storage backends.
> we would be running out of hospital beds in normal scenarios as well.

You don't get a hospital bed just because you ask for it, you get one if a Doctor thinks you need one.

So your premise is inaccurate.
Sure. There's lots of cases where you are controlling for timing attacks elsewhere, or where a timing attack isn't a concern. This can particularly be true for a case where you are writing data to block storage with the idea that a potential attacker won't be accessing it until much later... at which point all timing information would be gone.
Haha oh god, in one fell swoop you’re acting like writing Android apps is just knowing how to write Java and writing Java is just like writing any Algol-like.

A: I've written a couple.

B: Anyone who knows any ALGOL (exception: 68), Pascal, Oberon, so forth, will get Java in minutes.

You have no idea what Android is if you think it’s development process vs Java (which Java? Embedded Java, desktop with JavaFX? Server side?) is like FreeBSD vs NetBSD.

Maybe more like FreeBSD vs Windows and you’re trying to write a UI application, but technically you can use C on both platforms so it’s the same right?

You're demonstrating reasoning flaws, alongside misinterpreting my words. Writing an application for, say, NeXT, back in the day, isn't different at all from writing a modern Mac application. What you do carries over. It's the same basic steps every time. Write a desktop Linux application, write a desktop Windows application, write a Mac application, write an iOS application, write an Android application. You'll have to use a few different wrappers or libraries, but it's not a new skillset.

You claimed that learning a new language is giving yourself a new skillset. It's not with the majority of languages, especially languages like Java, which introduce little compared to their immediate predecessors outside of syntax changes.

By the way do you actually think syntactic differences are all that separate languages so once you know the general syntax you pretty much know the language, or are you pretending to not know how programming in multiple languages actually works to prove a point?

This is a frankly ridiculous comment. ALGOL-derivatives grab more from ALGOL than syntax, and some don't borrow syntax at all. Any Pascal programmer can go from writing Pascal to Oberon to Java to ALGOL to Go with ten minutes per language, in any order, despite the differences in syntax. The languages are not differentiated strongly enough to matter; that C programmers could go to writing Java in the span of a day was a major selling point that Sun used, and C and Java are more different (though again, not that different) than any of the previously-listed languages.

Any J programmer can go from J to APL to K to Nial trivially as well, despite vast differences in syntax. Knowing one or the other doesn't mean you have a differing skillset.

The same is true for most Lisps (Connection Machine Lisp being an exception, as a counter-example; despite that, knowing any of these isn't a new skillset).

Just because something requires you doing something slightly and superficially different than what you were already doing doesn't mean it's magically a new skillset. Defining finding new libraries as "new skillsets" is just silly, and erodes the meaning of the term.
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The calculations in the article I posted suggest "that if there’s a recession as bad as the last one, it could be even worse for well-being than tens of millions of deaths."
I was thinking if we go all in on this stay-in-place and we get it working around the world, could we eliminate measles? Chicken pox? Any other human-virus disease that relies on human-to-human contact to spread?
Everything is possible but it’s work. I’m not planning on rewriting d3-axis to be DOM-agnostic (especially because d3-axis also supports transitions). As the tutorial shows, you can use d3-axis with Observable’s hypertext literal without selections because you’re allowed to embed arbitrary DOM elements in expressions. There are ways to inject arbitrary DOM content when using Vue or React, too, but perhaps not as convenient as hypertext literal.
This comment makes no sense.

There is AWS Fargate for Kubernetes, AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine etc.

All of which are on the cloud and all of which don't require you to configure host OS etc. Some offer full control over node configuration e.g. EKS whilst others manage that for you e.g. Fargate.
Good point. I was thinking about that and will plan to add it in. You think something like cases per 100,000 would be a good metric?
That's what I'm trying to get across, its not a good "theory" its a model factory. Forget the "theory" in string theory, its not predictive yet, but it will be once we have established the parameters of our low energy world well enough. What it does do, is define what a theory of everything probably looks like and that helps theorists agree on what proper measurements even look like.
It's not a criticism of choosing the canvas element, that is completely reasonable. All I'm saying is, there could be better tooling for inspecting them and how they work.
#1 is also very weak. "'.gov' means it's official".

Somehow who doesn't know what's going on will interpret that as "if this substring appears anywhere, it's safe".

So, the hijacker just needs to create a URL like "https: // united.stat.es/census2020.gov/yourcensus" and fool a loooot of people.
Please cite your sources. I'm not sure that historical analysis of the data supports your opinion. For instance: https://www.pnas.org/content/106/41/17290
Uplink (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510/Uplink/) is probably the closest; it's a lot like this, with a good deal more complexity. Endgame Singularity (http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/) is similar, though it has more of that incremental/clicker-ish feeling.
That's so plainly a much, much smaller cause of death. I'd encourage you to examine evidence more in the future. Besides, mortality rates actually tend to decline during recessions. While the causes of this are still debated, it has been observed for a century [0].

Besides, as I was saying, we don't have a choice between deaths and collapse. You get collapse and fewer deaths or collapse and more deaths. We are choosing the former.

[0] https://fortune.com/2019/01/25/economic-downturn-mortality-r...
Recession in what? You can have recession in yaht and dog stylist industries without many ill effects.

Many businesses will be booming in pandemic. Just not the usual ones and that pains the owners of usual ones greatly.
But the thing they all share in common is that at some point, they either have screwed over people or acted against the best interests of the general public.
I don't understand why this is flagged. I've been thinking about this conflict since Trump said Easter.
If privacy really is the thing, why can't I have an extension on ios to let me expire various cookies/storages on a per domain name basis, eg so I can write my extension to limit some cookies/storages to minutes or even seconds depending on how hostile or blacklisted such things are.

Other domains I'd actually prefer to be indefinite. I've got a notepad thing that uses local storage and doesn't store its data on the server. There's no excuse for deleting its data since its user data. Apple therefore has no permission to delete that data. Do I have a non-cloud workaround for that?
There is going to be an economic recession regardless of whether you lock things down or not. Nobody is going to buy plane tickets, go on a cruise, or eat at restaurants when their neighbors are dropping like flies around them.

This choice between "lockdown and recession" and "no lockdown and no recession" is a false dichotomy.
Probably. I've never measured them specifically. But since I can 'just' type them without looking or frequent mistakes, I'm probably faster since I never have to stop and look.
looks interesting, is this similar to jitsi project as far as functions go?
So you think that even tens of millions of deaths would not be associated with a depression? That is incredibly preposterous.
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The Cloud Reader isn't a PWA. It's only available as a website and a Chrome OS app. Its UI is miles behind the Kindle apps on Android and iOS, which have better footnote support and font settings.
Great video, bonus I learned how spectrometry works!
Yup. You can almost imagine the pandemic being interpreted as worker churn rate going up on some spreadsheet.
Yeah, an App. They’re kneecapping the PWA to make apps more appealing.
In a past life I was an academic researcher. My objections are nothing specific, I just never had any obvious uses for it and I'm deeply dissatisfied with the centralized Facebook model so to speak.

ResearchGate seems to blend Facebook with LinkedIn and arXiv. That's great for finding and applying to open positions, but not so much for casual discourse. There's an entire conversational continuum, ranging from things I want to openly share with a prospective employer to crazy ideas discussed with one or two coworkers.

For small semi-private conversations, we have email (and dozens of other services and protocols, each with various pros and cons). For large group communications, we have mailing lists and forums of various sorts. For LinkedIn, why wouldn't I just use LinkedIn itself? There's also ORCID, among other things.
Thanks for the link. The presentation looks very nice, I'm going to give the course a try, especially since it's free (I've been considering a subscription to either Linux Academy or A Cloud Guru).

EDIT: Upon further investigation, I see that there's not much technical content provided here. So it goes. Thanks anyways.