skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah. Most people are going to forgive debts in the interrim. It only makes sense.

> like how a small increase in mortgage default rates did with synthetic collateralized debt obligations in 2007-2008.

What you fail to mention is that most mortgages in 07 and 08 were perfectly fine and you could find alternate home owners willing to actually pay. This is completely different. The government has shut down the economy. It's not like there are a lot of people you could sell a home too. Most debt collectors are going to let the debt go and not demand it, realising they cannot find any alternative.

> * That we can actually restore everything to normal by June with the development of a cheap and easy to administer vaccine, which seems extremely unlikely to materialize in only 2 months.

Unlikely that there is a vaccine, but we won't need it. The country has gone through much worse pandemics, and they typically do not cause great economic harm. In fact, they often lead to boom timse.
I would have to say one positive concerning people having to work from home is that folks will be far more prone to question the legitimacy of not being offered the option to work from home. Kind of like the Microsoft rep noted, this could be a massive inflection point for the way we work.
California's state site let it's HTTPS cert expire
The article specifically states not to buy/wear N95 masks for that reason and because most people don't know how to wear them properly.
Who’s going to need to buy a ventilator after this is over? There might be a small market for technical advancements.
It's not a joke, what WHO did was clearly on purpuse, there's enough evidence now. ,,joke'' would mean incompetency, but what's happening is much worse, and closer to cold war.
You should not let people in planes in a pandemic, face mask or not; even with a mask the risk is simply too high for spreading the disease during all the touches during boarding, seating, opening/closing storage bins etc. Even with gloves it is not safe enough.

A full bio-hazard suit is too expensive and quite impractical, less than that is not safe.
Sometimes you have the luxury of multiple trustworthy parties having already each done a large sample size peer reviewed double blind study on just the question you want to know the answer to and have all come to the same conclusion.

Other times that hasn't happened yet and you still need to make a decision about what to do today, not after six months of further study.
Non, the CDC already had a policy of advising against masks before this pandemic. https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/masks.htm
All-cap indices (eg. VB) have seen similar rebounds, although they did rebound less than the large cap companies (SPY).
Like the defective ones that were returned back by Holland?
https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-netherlands-recalls-defect...
Lets go ahead and save the mask supply for medical personnel.

Also this blog is Monday morning arm chair medical advice from a blogger, a respectable blogger, but a blogger nonetheless.
Good job. You solved the riddle. Let's stop production now.
Speaking of wifi, I have seen it used to check when people come to work, go on break, etc... (tracking mobile phones).
Link for making a mask is broken. Anyone have a good link how to make your own?
Even worse, the US Surgeon General claimed that masks are "NOT effective" for the general public. https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12337257852839321...
> Invite discussion with your language by using words like “I think” and “maybe”. (I call this conversational style: "Maybe you should talk more like a woman?")

Aside from the fact that I did not understand that "talk like a woman" thing, is the author
advising us to stop the long-running advice of "speak precisely" with "say anything, even if you are not sure' with the only caveat being to let people know when you aren't certain of something?

That's like a public speaker telling me to say "uuhh..." in between my phrases!
And if you can't wear a mask for some reason, you should still be covering your face with something. Even a bandana is a lot better than wearing nothing at all.
> 33% of Americans dined out every day at least once

My guess is that most of those meals are people going out for lunch while they're working, and most of those people are grabbing a sandwich and bringing it back to their desks, which generates no income for waiters.
You should probably consider covering your mouth and nose because:

- you don't know if you're infected

- if you are infected, even a terrible mask like a handkerchief reduces the risk that you'll spread to someone else

You should probably not try to obtain and wear a medical-grade mask if those are in short supply in your region.

Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762694

>There are 2 main types of masks used to prevent respiratory infection: surgical masks, sometimes referred to as face masks, and respirators. These masks differ by the type and size of infectious particles they are able to filter. Face masks are used more commonly for respiratory viruses that spread via droplets, which travel short distances and are transmitted by cough or sneeze. Face masks often fit loosely, and prevent the wearer from spreading large sprays and droplets, as well as preventing hand-to-face contact. N95 respirators block 95% of airborne particles. They are tight fitting and prevent inhalation of smaller infectious particles that can spread through the air over long distances after an infected person coughs or sneezes

The difference right now is that everyone might be carrying a lethal pathogen that we have no treatments for.
I don’t know anything about you but I really struggle to understand that you’ve got some insight into the literature that the professionals at the WHO are missing.

Seems to me that the biggest problem we have is lay people thinking they know better from reading random isolated papers without context and doing their own thing against advice designed to make everyone safer.
There are also people who feel safe and continue to go out without a mask.
I think you're getting downvoted because the post mentions the "codebase undergoing a quick security audit", which... I grant isn't the most in-depth and reassuring thing they could say, but certainly beats the previous "nobody has audited this, don't use it" (paraphrasing, but that's loosely what their front page used to say).
This is an economic shock unlike what any current unemployment infrastructure in the US is designed for. What we want, as much as possible, is a total economic pause. Paying companies to keep their employees on payroll would come closer to accomplishing that than mass layoffs. With mass layoffs, there is no un-pause. We will start out in the middle of a depression.
It looks like they failed miserably on capacity planning. I thought that those three major clouds are that ridiculously expensive (egress cost, huh?!) just because of guarantees of the capacity and service availability but that seems to be wrong at least for Azure.
It is unfortunate that the design of these controls give you no clues whatsoever as to how to interact with them -- or whether you can interact with them at all. Compare this to NeXTSTEP from the late 1980s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#/media/File:NeXTSTEP_...

Flat is broken [1], Flat 2.0 is much better [2].

[1] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-ui-less-attention-caus...

[2] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-design/
On the bright side, I learned the term "sealioning" today, so thanks for that! :D
Not just US authorities, but WHO[1].

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-r...
Um no. Pension funds rely on interest from banks (collected from mortgages and other debt-based securities) to pay out senior pensions. People rely on interest from banks to pay their annuities. Banks rely on mortgage payments to be able to have cash on hand to give to customers withdrawing money.

I don't disagree that we will have to figure out how to make all this works without collecting 100% of mortgages, but the idea that it's so easy is crazy.
Is it okay if I use masks that I bought years ago? (N95 in my case.) As far as I'm aware there's no way a healthcare worker could get access to the masks I already have.
Unfortunately, by the time you catch him, the money has vanished into off-shore banks and the painting has moved from one mega-yacht to the next as collateral for trafficking arms, drugs, or flesh.
if this were to happen I'm sure Macy's lawyers are smart enough to have a non-hire clause for these employees for a year or so.
Well obviously not those
I've been considering knitting my own mask(s), but haven't been able to find anything on whether it would actually work - like, would it be too porous to do anything? (Plan was 1-1 ribbing wide enough to not stretch, so the layers would kinda double-up on their own)
> what Jesus actually said

Really hard to find an objective source on this, isn't it?
As it notes in the article, wearing a mask can be bad if it causes you to touch your face more. Though at the moment there has not been a single documented case of "smear" (person to object to person) transmission. And there was a 2.5 hour choir rehearsal with minimal touching that caused 75% of the attendees to become infected. So I have an old N100 respirator from wildfires a couple years ago that I am wearing when out.

One of the interesting side effects is that you can smell the ambient ozone when you take it off, since the respirator has been removing it. Don't be fooled, a typical suburban area reeks of ozone, but it's not perceptible because your nose ignores it as background.
Yes. Consider, for example, any reason why Las Vegas should continue to exist.
Every comment I see and make asking the question of what the appropriate measure of response should be is grey.

It seems as if the HN community feels very strongly that either this should not be questioned or that the only acceptable response is nobody should die from a virus, no matter the cost.
We already have a shortage of masks, though... all the incentives to make more masks are there, but we aren't making them fast enough.
In other words: pointing out a problem is easy. Finding a solution (and being able to actually get it done), much harder.
A depression in which everyone is going to be rehired the moment business is allowed to operate? Of course there's an un-pause. Companies know who they fired. They'll just call people up and rehire.
Do you feel that if someone has an old construction mask in their garage from years ago that it is not ethical to wear it?
Covid-19 Japan Web API: Web API to get Covid-19 info of each prefecture in Japan
>I thought the expert advice from the WHO is to not wear a mask?

From what I gathered from their guidance the basically say masks are not effective enough to protect you & people do not know how to use them.

Well, the problem is that how well the mask protects you is at this point int time actually a secondary concern. The biggest issue is protecting others from you when you are infected and do not know that yet, which is a very big problem for covid-19 due to many asymptomatic carriers.

Even a piece of cloth covering your mount and nose can reduce the amount of infected droplets you generate be sneezing and breathing significantly if not totally stop transmission barring really close physical contact, so there is really no good reason for everyone not to wear a mask.

That WHO is totally neglecting this aspect of the mask protecting others is almost criminal negligence.
The song is here:

https://youtu.be/j3X7vhvqi_E
“ There are numerous places accepting mask donations right now.” Honestly asking where? I haven’t heard of that.
Catalina dropping 32 bit support screams to me the next MacOS will support ARM with a Rosetta like amd64 translation layer.
Yes, I agree with healthcare. FMLA doesn't make sense. If you're unemployed, you don't need to ask for time off. Plus, this is paid leave.

> "Rehiring" can also be slow because it forces employers HR departments to screen candidates all over again.

No it doesn't. Just call your old employees and give them a job back.
Don't see it linked in this thread yet, but it's worth noting Slate Star Codex looked at the literature and decided on a weak "yes" [0], assuming your use of a face mask isn't depriving a medical worker of one.

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/23/face-masks-much-more-t...
interdicted?
However overused, the phrase 10x developer does have a fairly specific meaning, and this isn't it.
Illustrating Python Packaging with Examples
It's not that easy to sell counterfeit artwork. Anyone who's paying millions for an artwork will have the painting examined by a specialized consultant. The easiest way to spot a fake is to examine the pigments and whether a particular one was available by the time the artist lived. This is how the Rosales scandal was exposed in 2013.
Loo roll manufacturers are going to have several thin months while consumers work through their backlog. Demand will be wiped out.
Without fairly expensive calibration machines you're not going to be able to tell the difference between KN95 compliant and not.
Self-isolation reduces the risk by the largest factor, maybe up to the 99-99.5% level. Guess who cant self-isolate? Doctors.

Wearing a mask, if the entire population is infected, provides a benefit because you are surrounded by infection. Guess which person spends 8 hours a day in a highly infected population? Doctors, especially in the intensive care unit.

If you were worth as much to humanity as a doctor, as an ordinary person, your logic would save fewer lives. However it would increase your chance of being saved.
I think average frame (which I assume this is) is much less useful than minimum, 0.1%, and 1% frame times. As a human, I'm more sensitive to instantaneous gameplay experience, not average. It would be very interesting to see graphs that show these more telling numbers.
“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.”
> At the same time, adult questions get longer and longer. Most of this length isn’t important for the question, it is meant to prevent the audience from thinking the questioner is stupid.

On the contrary, I do it to prevent people from wasting the first 5 minutes of their explanation with basics that I already know, or simplistic models that don't fully explain my observations.

My dad once told me "Education is the process of lying less and less". Kids are OK with a kid-level model because it explains everything they see. I need to preempt answers with 3 or 4 observations I have which aren't explained by the kid-level model.
They could learn how to right ?
> It is time to make dividends, rather than capital gains, tax advantaged.

So this is another example of the US being unable to find solutions to problems only it has.

This came up with the whole passthrough preferential treatment. The argument for it was that dividends were essentially double-taxed. So you end up creating a whole new set of complexity (eg what qualifies for it) when the solution is remarkable simple.

In Australia, dividends issued by companies come with franking credits. That means you get credit for any taxes already paid. The vast majority of dividends are fully-franked, meaning all funds have paid the 30% tax rate. Much less common are unfranked (no taxes paid) or partially-franked.

To give you an example. Say a company makes a profit of $10,000 and wants to pay it as a dividend. It pays 30% tax on it ($3000) and disburses $7000. Alice owns 10% of the company so she receives $700 (10% of $7000, being $10000 - the $3000 tax) and $300 in franking credits. If Alice's marginal tax rate is 30% she has paid all her taxes. If it's 40% then she owes 40% x $1000 = $400 - $300 in franking credits = $100 in extra taxes. If her marginal tax rate is 15% she gets a refund ($1000 x 15% = $150 is her liability so her refund is $300 - $150 = $150).

So no double taxation and all the recipients pay their marginal rates of tax on the income. Easy.

This is also a far cleaner way to deal with foreign withholding taxes. Let's say the dividend recipient is a foreign corporation, should they pay taxes on the income? Well, they already have. it's a policy decision as to whether they should get the taxes back or not. But again, it's handled by that system without having to create a foreign withholding taxes regime.

> Capital gains should be taxed at windfall rates, say income + 10%.

Yeah so you lose me here. I don't see the justification for this. Investment is typically in already-taxed dollars.
Really nice landing page. Going to borrow style for some projects. :)
I think the path forward is clear (if there was enough supplies to go around): 1) Stay at home or 2) wear a face mask. If there was enough supply, I don't think we should argue with this. It's for everyone's safety. So let's ramp up supply and do either 1) or 2)
Yes. It’s ok for you to use the one you bought yesterday too. But first do what you can to help your neighbors and medical personal.
Okay, but what does this project add that the current HTML5 components can't offer? Is the goal of the project to standardize the style? Or is the project's goal to get HTML5 UI elements extended to support more features? The website isn't very clear on that and doesn't mention already existing HTML5 UI components.
Airbnb will pay hosts $250M to help cover cancellations due to Covid-19
Zero sum thinking here.
Conterfeit and defective items are very general problems throughout all industries. Standard is standard. Importer should do the due diligence to test it and ask for certificates.

I just don't see anything wrong with the standard itself.
Dividends are charged at 0%, 15% or 20% depending on capital gains tax brackets. (https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/taxes/dividend-tax-rate/)

The reason that stock repurchases are better than dividends for most tax purposes is that the owner can elect to sell or not sell their stock rather than rely on the forced timing of a dividend.
Here is a writeup on the topic that I prefer, from my friend Matt Bell who has been a constant stream of COVID-19 insight on his facebook wall: https://medium.com/@llebttam_45762/masks-work-wear-them-b450...

It includes a variety of evidence for masks, including for impromptu masks and their quality.

Some key points from my linked article:

* You should (like many doctors and care staff) re-use your good quality masks, and the article explains how. (e.g. put it in a breathable bag, like paper, date it, and wait four days)

* If you have a good mask, like an N95, wear a lower quality mask over it, to preserve re-use of the good quality mask.

* For good fit, the mask should not touch the lips.
This is a wrong and dangerous message and it needs to be stopped. Both things are true: a) health workers need masks and b) people should wear masks when they go out.

There are no masks available to the public now. Realistically if you don't already have a mask your only option is to make one, which is not hard. Go to YouTube and find a video. A couple layers of cotton can work and is much better than nothing, at stopping your droplets from spreading if you sneeze or cough.

If you already have a mask wear it when you go out. No health care worker wants your mask. Wear goggles too.

And yes masks help prevent respiratory infection which is why health care workers wear them.

Stop with the "you shouldn't be wearing one" nonsense. It is false and dangerous.
I think we underestimate how many of these things are actually floating around. Tons of people have some for painting, sanding, wildfires, construction, etc. They're used extensively in all kinds of jobs. Just 3M, before the crisis, was making 50 million masks a month.

People need to dig around in their garage and get these things out, and then start wearing them. Even the disposable ones can be reused many times, particularly for someone that is just at the grocery store and not intubating COVID patients or something.

I'm sympathetic to the argument that healthcare workers need them, but healthcare workers also need people to wear them so that they don't get sick and show up at the hospital!
Exactly. How many people could this support? My guess it would be a small proportion of an urban population.

> no active refreshing/polling

Maybe not twitter specifically, but the paper mentions a centralised message board like twitter, so we can assume some sort of interactive service would be suggested.

My main point is this that for such a specific bearer (bandwidth, channel plan, duty cycle, range etc) it is important to model the capabilities. I’m not sure how well this would support a crisis (notably free of central management) when there is the potential for large numbers of nodes.
You missed my point again, and your tangent on randomness is unnecessary; I have no misconceptions of how randomness works, and it is precisely that understanding that has lead me to these decisions - a pure random password generator produces every word in the English language. That's not a good thing!

The point remains that if your password generator produces passwords such as "aaaaaaa" then it is a bad algorithm, end of discussion. It doesn't matter if the passwords it produces are completely random. That's not the goal and is completely irrelevant. The goal is to produce unique, unpredictable passwords that utilize randomness. We're not producing fixed-length keys. In the average case for web-based logins, uniqueness is far more important than entropy.

So, I'll say it once more. If you can demonstrate how passwords generated by the algorithm I wrote are predictable or otherwise insecure in a real-world setting as you claim, then do it. If you cannot, then any further responses are in vain.
Coronavirus: The good that can come out of an upside-down world
The CDC is recommending KN95 for healthcare workers and I know firsthand of multiple people selling them to hospitals. (I'm bringing some in myself to resell, am very familiar with the market.)
Prior (flagged) discussion on a similar topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706216
Why should there be a blanket ban on stock repurchases? If a company has excess cash, you're advocating they can't put that cash to work "betting" on their future performance?

I however do agree if a company takes a recent government "bailout" they should be restricted from buybacks until they payback the loan/bailout.
It's one of many very sophisticated product lines. The companies will shift their focus and still innovate. From what I've read largest manufacturer is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr%C3%A4gerwerk
The only thing the Defense Production Act is going to help, is placing the federal government at the front of the queue. You can’t spin up a factory that makes X into one that makes Y without months or years of retooling.

By the time more mask factories are up, the capacity will no longer be needed. Same goes for ventilators. Too little too late; shouldn’t have outsourced manufacturing to China a generation ago.
Everyone can actually contribute to both GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions. This query will actually show you a partial list of Community Contributions to EE that have already been merged: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests?scope=...

The Enterprise Edition is under a different license but the source code is open and available to everyone.
They likely won't be rehired; some of those business will not exist. Some companies will not try to hire everyone back. And with so many people out of work, there will be less economic activity, period. If the government had funded companies to keep their employees on payroll, we could have an un-pause scenario. We are unlikely to have that after the mass layoffs. The economy is a system, and will be in a state with much less employment and money flowing.