skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "At this rate, the deaths from draconian government responses will far outweigh the deaths from the Corona virus across all age demographics."

> Care to elaborate?

The "current rate" assumes a large percentage of the economy being forced to shutdown by government order for an indefinite period. This rate is larger than everyone thinks because we are not just talking about restaurants, theaters and salons. There are all sorts of manufacturing, repair, and other businesses which are also shut down.

(Note that Americans have very little savings.)

The elderly largely rely on government welfare though Social Security, Medicare, and other programs to survive. With payrolls substantially contracted, this is going to cause a very serious burden on these systems. The likely result will be substantially reduced payments to care providers as well as significant delays in payment, which then likely causes some providers to stop accepting from these systems, thus overloading other providers who may follow and do the same.

Everyone needing medical care is reliant on the healthcare system receiving so much money for its services, but given that U.S. healthcare is tied to employment, a lot more people won't be able to pay their bills, so the providers will then increase rates to those who can pay, and employers will be forced to further shed employees to cover premium hikes. Even in the short term, this will reduce new investment in healthcare, such new facilities, equipment, and even equipment maintenance and repair, so the facilities will perform more poorly. Number of beds available will fall because there will be fewer beds per person.

There will also be increases in suicide from the increase in unemployment as well as the social isolation

Drug overdoses rise.

Property crime and violent crime nearly always increase during periods of economic decline.

People will consume less healthy foods and be in poorer health.

The government is now creating money and giving it directly to consumers. This will increase CPI and exacerbate pretty much everything.
I've been waiting 10 years for this feature. Now that it's here, I can finally start using that website.
For that matter, some people find asymmetry to be more aesthetically pleasing than symmetry.
We use webex at work, they probably pay a lot of money for the service, and it has been reliable enough.

Meanwhile, Zoom has a lot of press, and a lot of freeloaders. We shall see how that turns into profit in the future.
For me, eye strain, and being more of a night owl (where it gets dark outside during winter).

I favor Solarized, which has both a light and dark theme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarized_(color_scheme)
Not to take away from anything you've said, but because I badly needed to hear it once, and I'm not alone in that: men can be abused, too, and women can be abusive.

If you're a guy in a relationship that feels like it might be abusive, but you're in the habit of thinking that can't be a real feeling - think again, and talk to someone.

(If you can't think of anyone else to talk to, my email's in my profile, and I'll do my best.)
If five bucks, and a bottle of hand sanitizer is too much for them to pay, they are free to risk their lives, by doing their own shopping.

If their job is so important that you can't make do without it, pay them more, or consider doing it yourself for less.
I don't hate open offices exactly, as long as management agrees that I'm going to be 25% less productive that way. It's kind of working on a VT-100 instead of a 28" monitor. Unfortunately, in my experience, that's a condition that's lost on most managers.
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Did Yang run on health care reform? Last time I read about him he was babbling about “choice” and “market” but seemed to have no real plan other than the magic of the free market. If the health care situation doesn’t change then all of UBI will be eaten up by health care soon.
The issue with Rust is that people actually like using it. So there’s a bunch of development happening purely for enjoyment: why is that an issue? Nobody’s forcing you to keep up with the trends - just stick to the older versions of the libraries and it’ll simply work.
> We should either try to understand

Try to understand, precisely, what?
The two links seems to point to the same source, and:

> Trucks dropped off roughly 2,500 urns on Wednesday and again on Thursday local time to one of the eight local funeral homes, a driver told Chinese media outlet Caixin. The news site also published another photo showing 3,500 urns stacked inside the facility. The number of urns that arrived in that one funeral home was far greater than the city's official overall death COVID-19 toll.

Note that the numbers given are for EMPTY urns.

> Some Wuhan residents estimate that the coronavirus death toll could be 26,000, based on the amount of urns being delivered and distributed across the city. Citizens on Chinese social media have said that seven Wuhan funeral homes will likely distribute 3,500 urns per day on average from March 23 to April 4, which marks Qing Ming, the traditional tomb-sweeping festival.

Note that this is based on "some random Wuhan residents playing numbers on social network".
Adding to those other examples: European museums also have more famous art you can steal.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22725669
> Otherwise being furloughed is the worst of both worlds: employed, but unpaid.

It totally depends on how long the furlough is. A short furlough means you still have a job to go back to, and you don't have to repeat the whole job search/interviewing process.
I don't mind light-on-dark in isolation, but so much stuff doesn't have dark mode, and I find it very difficult to switch.
Personally my family and friends have stopped getting any type of carry out or drive thru food. You have no idea if the preparer has covid.. has coughed/sneezed/etc on the food.

For now and unfortunately for us it's best we prepare our own food. Wash hands, open food from grocer, wash hands again to cook it and maybe wash hands again before eating it

It might be extreme, but until we fully have a full grasp on COVID we believe this is the best way to keep it at bay for us.
They charge meetup organizers a decent fee. I paid something like $90 per 6 months to run a book club on there.
Businesses don’t have “effort”. They have costs and revenues and if costs exceed revenues they just raise revenues (aka the price to the consumer).

If you think of a business as a machine, and the person who bought the machine as a stockholder, you would understand that a machine does not suddenly work harder because the person paid more for the machine.
We have done some protectionism of other strategic industries, but those policies usually get a lot criticism when people aren't thinking that disaster is waiting around the corner.

See: farm subsidies
If you would like please consider becoming a professional member $99/year of ACM then you also get access to Safaribooksonline. Personally I think its good value for money.

https://www.acm.org/membership/membership-options
I've read this comment like 10 times in the last hour. I get what you're saying, but it misses the point, I think.

>entry-level roles.

>used to flex hours, and the ability to remotely (including WFH), that we forget that for many others, it's novel.

That's the point of management and leadership. You take new people and make sure they have what they need to get the job done. For most people, that 'what they need' is a literal statement of "I know you have access to beer, and I know you just graduated college, but don't get hammered on company time" or "I know you're 22, but flex hours means your work still gets done".

If you don't say it out loud, and assume people will pick it up via osmosis, you're a bad leader.

>bosses thrust into this new paradigm of working haven't necessarily picked up the skill sets to effectively manage remote

As someone who has never worked remotely, and manages a team very much focused on human interaction (higher ed), and who is now 100% remote, I need to know what you mean by this. Other than needing to automatically over-communicate everything (by my definition), how is remote different than in-person?
How is this different from Webflow?
>Your tortillas with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil? Yeah, it's less than 0.5g per serving so they get to say 0g.

Personal favorite: Tic Tacs are 94.5% sugar yet Tic Tacs can be marketed as a "sugar free" food.

"The Nutrition Facts for Tic Tac® mints state that there are 0 grams of sugar per serving. Does this mean that they are sugar free?

Tic Tac® mints do contain sugar as listed in the ingredient statement. However, since the amount of sugar per serving (1 mint) is less than 0.5 grams, FDA labeling requirements permit the Nutrition Facts to state that there are 0 grams of sugar per serving."

https://www.tictac.com/us/en/faq
I've been using Dark Reader for about a month or so now and though it's anecdotal it has really helped with my dry/irritated eyes.

I realize it could be other factors as well, but I notice that I can go longer without my dry eyes bugging we with it on then with normal bright pages.
https://darkreader.org/ works great for sites that dont have one.
> What is even the hypothesis here? Websites are slow because Android devices are slow?

Hypothesis is: websites are slow because developers are testing them using their high end devices where bad code performance is compensated by higher performance of devices. All of this while real world users are struggling with garbage quality end product.
And meetups cost a ton of money. I think I'm paying $90/6months for a glorified email list. I need to cancel my account today before it renews again.
Also, Stack Overflow is two words.
But it's bullshit, because non-N95 masks are effective at protecting the wearer, about half as effective as N95 masks, and if "selfish" people wear masks to protect themselves they will also protect others from themselves. The authorities are feeding the public bullshit to protect mask supply, and the public isn't stupid enough to believe it, but social norms will have to change in the US quite a bit before wearing masks everywhere all time time (even with no pandemic, as is common in many parts of Asia) will become socially acceptable.
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My understanding (at least with the iPhone) was that assembly/test is <2% of the cost, so doubling or even tripling that component isn't that significant. It's the supply chain that also needs to be aligned.
They install cameras everywhere, they have a full rootkit on your machine, they log every network interaction and email/chat and they let themselves do it through 100s of pages of policy documents that you have to sign as a condition of employment. It might as well be covert in practice.
Is the dark mode supported in Windows + some browser combo so that the web site gets that info automatically?
With so many users and groups imagine how many people need billing support, general support, or have issues with harassment.
Until they mention of it (or you hear of it), it doesn't much matter. Once they do, leave.
Pandemic-Related Unemployment and Shutdowns Are a Recipe for Social Unrest
Microsoft’s new Edge vertical tabs look ideal for 16:9 screens
>No

Yes. For example, if a rainbow table contains a match for "a" repeating 500 times, then that password's entropy is a non-factor. Therefore entropy in of itself does not necessarily mitigate rainbow table attacks. Entropy does necessarily mitigate naive brute force attacks. We can use this same logic for more reasonably sized passwords that are comprised of known patterns but would otherwise be difficult to brute force.

Obviously you could use extremely long passwords and be fairly certain that you won't end up with something that would be found in a rainbow table or dictionary. You could also just use passwords that are long enough that they can't be brute forced and remove common patterns from the set of possible passwords. Both of these solutions are valid, and both have theoretical weaknesses that are irrelevant in practice.

You've spent a significant amount of time trying to convince me that my random password generator is flawed in some way. Why don't you just demonstrate how instead of continuously trying to argue tangentially related theoretical points? I would hope that such an effort would be motivated by a practical concern and not merely the desire to bikeshed out of boredom.
Interesting, what is the difference?
That's just socialism with more steps...
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Would you feel more accepting of these projects (the more-vetted ones at least) if hospitals start explicitly asking for any and all ventilator hardware?
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Thanks for the heads-up. Changed the table fonts to Verdana, hopefully they're easier to read now.
I think 'D' only applies if (1) you work in a privileged sector, or (2) we're not expecting a 25%+ unemployment rate.
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Are Google Cloud Costs Killing Khan Academy?
If that were really the only thin preventing you from using the website, you could have just written your own CSS or leveraged the dozen or so already available through Stylish

https://userstyles.org/styles/164922/stackoverflow-neon
What MacBook Air version?
Developer statement

IMPORTANT: Android + Chrome only! (for now)

They say you can't manage what you don't measure.

This is a system to help people who feel fine but are worried about becoming infected by COVID-19 or any other dangerous virus. If this is you, now you can actively measure your risk and see a live dashboard in your Android phone's notification bar.

Your regularly refreshed dashboard shows your own risk pattern and compares it with your recent past as well as the risk patterns of other people. This makes it easier for you to manage both your behavior patterns and your mental health.

It's an early release by a single developer, extended from an existing platform. Please don't expect perfection.

Geographical awareness is an obvious next step. Infection/symptom awareness is another.

Feedback welcome!
This is changing, manufacturing is moving to Vietnam.

The reason why is because China is cheap. The CCP purposely deflated it's RMB so to attract foreign DTI. Direct trade investment. It also supported financing projects of infrastructure, factories and easy money lending in China in lieu for hiring chinese contractors to build in Chian and in turn then fuel the Capitalist West products that are made in China but "designed in USA" and then that knowledge is spread among other people in China in a copy/repeat system.

There's more, but it's mostly that, good education, focus on science, and he whole no religion thing and being a communist state meaning easy peasy to built factories, no right of way and no time consuming court system, no true intellectual property protection, and of course cheap labor.

With the emergence of good factories, also came good supply chains that were consistent within a single city so things can be deigned, built, tested and redone on scale, easily. Mini silicon valeys in a way.

Then transportation, highway, and then the Chinamail/EMS being subsidized by USPS to help offset delivery cost.

Vietnam is now the new star. :D
> seems to hold true and verified by other countries

Sure they were.
"Cooperative multitasking works fine as long as the users/developers understand the limitation."

The problem is, we basically already know that is not the case. We've got years of experience with what "cooperatively multitasked" OS looks like, and it was not a "works fine" situation. You can't understand the limitations at scale as they interact with each other far, far beyond the human mind's capacity to understand.
I'm shocked Macy's has 100k employees. I thought most of their locations closed? Or was that just Seattle.
With gigwork and independent contracting becoming a significant part of our economy, I can’t agree more. It seems archaic to bundle health insurance to my workplace. I can purchase auto, home, life, and whatever other insurance on my own, why not health?
We're absolutely sending in force to assist first responders and medical practitioners. The National Guard has been building overflow facilities across the country, and the Navy's landed in LA and New York with hospital ships.
Because they are everywhere and lots of people still use them. Or that would be my guess anyway, I'm not the author.
If you register a protest but continue to send money and enforce their European Arrest Warrants, your protestations are truly meaningless.
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3 months ago the first four cases walked into a hospital in China.

I don't want to defend the current US political powers. I'm highly discouraged about a lot of things. But it doesn't help to make unfair accusations based on bad facts. If your criticisms are based on fiction they get tossed out.

Just rebase on truth and you might have some much more supportable criticism. There's plenty to legitimately criticize. When you drown out legitimate criticism with baseless criticism, the noise to signal suppresses real criticism. It is unclear whether this is intentional.
It's in beta still, but apparently one of the opt-in choices is "system" which presumably picks up what best fits your OS
/ browser choices.

Speaking for myself, it correctly chose "Dark" and I'm using Windows 10 and Firefox with a dark theme
When I was in China, I called my mom every day. But she was still lonely.

If teleconferencing was a perfect substitute for face to face meetings, why does the world spend so much every year on office space, commuting to work, hotels, flights etc. ?

I said "and other basic human needs". The article mentioned people that can no longer escape abusive relationships. There's also children who will not see both parents during the lockdown because they are separated.

(Btw, I'm personally sticking 100% to the rules of the lockdown.

I'm just saying the lockdown is interfering with human nature and will become unenforceable)
> Why is everything made in China?

Because we don't let people migrate to the US in sufficient quantities to equalize the cost of labor. For better or worse, there's a ton of underemployed folks in China who's alternative to manufacturing is subsistence farming.

Since this is, in your own words, a national security problem, I imagine you're in favor of removing the national immigration quotas the US imposes?
Thanks for the feedback. Fixed the fonts and title, I'll spend some time tonight working on the other points you brought up.
Here is a direct link to the map --> <https://covid-19.sixfold.com/>
Message from the Minister of Health of the Czech Republic
N95 masks are just too damn uncomfortable when worn properly to become the default standard at all times. Surgical masks should be the all-the-time standard with N95 for the vulnerable or anxious. It would be great if being seen in public coughing without a surgical mask on (or even being without a mask on) becomes stigmatized.
Among Covid-19 vaccine technologies, mRNA represents faster, easier approach
It's still in beta
+1 Humanscale Freedom. Been using for years in various home offices, and still loving.

I get them from Madison Seating used, with very little (if any) visible wear. $250-350 that way.
now days hacker news is often filled non-tech related discussion, specially anything relate to China or politics; come on guys, this is Hacker news, not political news; if you are so passion about politics, go to some forum dedicate for those things;
Not into conspiracies and this as of now has been unproven. Though Wuhan is now open for business giving China a head start on restarting their economy while everyone elses is completely stopped. Do you not think that is going to boost their economy and make it stronger then almost all others???
It had for years with the "dark mode and light text" extension. But, glad to see more sites supporting the css mode.

It's funny, the text of the blog post makes it sound like it was really difficult. Non-trivial, sure, but difficult?
Without entertainment or entertainers we’d all probably be killing ourselves from deaths of despair during a quarantine like this. They are essential, just not immediately essential.
It's sociopathic that these essential workers doing critical jobs are among the lowest-paid in our society, yet we all seem to be just fine with that.

You're contemplating the use of violence to compel people to work, when those people don't like their terms of employment. The word for that is 'slavery'.
I can't remember the name now, but long time ago there was a photo sharing site competing with Flickr. It was run by a 19 year old kid, mostly by himself. He used to fix bugs almost real time! He had a large user base (and fanbase) too!
Fair enough; hopefully they'll change it once it rolls out generally.
For better or worse, your schadenfreude will only last as long as the aid package. When the money runs out, the power dynamic reverses, and the economic aftermath may well leave poorer Americans in a worse bargaining position than they were before (as economic downturns often do).
I read it as Massage from the Minister of Health.

I blame it on too much Monty Python in my misspent youth.
They’ve started containment 9th March, how is that now two weeks ago?
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Still not in Washington state. I'm routinely the only one wearing a simple surgical mask when I head to the grocery store, which I don't mind because people pro-actively avoid me because I guess they assume I'm infected instead of being precautious. Everyone should assume they are an asymptomatic carrier.