skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's assuming:

* The correlated decline in productivity, the gaps in mortgage and rent payments, and so on do not result in our financial system breaking in surprising ways, like how a small increase in mortgage default rates did with synthetic collateralized debt obligations in 2007-2008. An increase in fixed rate mortgage defaults from 5% to 10% contributed significantly to the largest recession in nearly a century. I don't think anyone can say with certainty that nothing like this lurks in our financial system, this is like a bug in a program which requires dozens of different code paths to all enter into an invalid state simultaneously, and only then do you see the result.

* 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.
I don't think we should just give up to the fact that it's normal to have errors coming from these big Orgs operating at such a sensitive front. Look what some small errors and delays are doing.

If an organisation gets too big to keep its act together, perhaps it's time to make it more decentralized and dynamic (the original proposition).

I also honestly don't think working as a volunteer would really get you to understand how something like the WHO is being actually run.

I'm not an expert (would never say otherwise). But the world is full of experts locked in dogmas and lacks those couragious enough to break free, look stupid and try new things.
Nobody is debating that, but if it’s between healthcare professionals and everybody else, it’s obvious who should receive priority.
Before we do this, we have to establish a culture of wearing masks during flu season so that there is always enough stock when people "must" wear masks for public health reasons. Right now may not be the best time to tell people they must because that siphons masks from the first responders.
Awesome, thank you!

(You still might want to align Quiver Quantitative's baseline with the rest. It's the smallest nit of them all, but it's jarring ;)
you sound like a maximalist capitalist.
I think in your rush to appear superior, you missed the much simpler explanation. Your first comment was easy to misunderstand:

> print vs print() is what I think the parent comment was referring to.

as another person mentioned is likely what you meant, but it was easy to take your comment as meaning that you had mismatched parens somewhere, which would imply broken python2, as well as 3.

> * given a tool that promises to cease functioning 'correctly' at any future moment based on its own whim, preferences, industry fashions and styles, in an ecosystem where many similar such tools exist that explicitly promise not to cease functioning over the same time period, it is a fool's errand to pick the tool that promises to externalize additional costs on the user when alternatives exist that avoid any such cost.

This is clearly a falsehood, if the tool provides additional value. To bring things back to the topic at hand, if C++ were allowed to break ABI compatibility in very specific ways, it could be faster. stl container types are slower than many third party ones (absl, for example).

Which is to say that if you want "the best" that C++ has to offer, you have to be willing to have your libraries make backwards incompatible changes.

To jump back to python,

> given tool designers who externalize almost frivolously minor technical costs on to every user, where each 'minor' change is amplified perhaps 10000 times over and directly translates into expensive engineering time

I disagree that this happened. The examples you give are trivially fixable with 2to3. There are harder problems that 2to3 doesn't solve, but it sounds like you don't have any, so the frivolously minor technical costs are frivolously minor, and translates into running `2to3 my_code/` one time, to fix all the missing parens and most of the moved functinos.

> bash that continue functioning to the present day

I have yet to encounter a 20 year old program written in bash that functions to this day. It might be syntactically valid, but it won't do what it intended to do.
Yes, and this is the correct decision. How many people do you know that are physically ill with COVID-19 that you have to be around for 8hrs a day?

I know 0, and my self-isolation prevents me from being near anyone who is asymptomatic.

By wearing a n95 mask you are giving doctors the middle finger.
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Is there an application for containers? E.g. a way to set up an encrypted tunneling interface between containers that would allow you to avoid using TLS between the containers?
Well, strictly you could use the userspace implementations on Linux (which I looked at because I wanted to try running it in a Docker container, which does work with openconnect).
I'm pretty sure everyone who can manufacture masks are doing so. Markets can only adjust so fast and we don't have time to wait.
I really want to see solid numbers of this comparing cultures/countries with mask wearing to those without.

I'm not convinced masks help either way.
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The use case zoom is targeting is not encrypted private conversations that focuses on user privacy.

It is conferencing -> generally public / group meetings.

The permissions are VERY loose by default - anyone can join your personal meeting room if you don't put a password based on a simple set of digits after a URL. People can join with NO account, no login. My own experience trying to do a lot more lockdown - people don't like it, they WANT this free and open approach.

If you want private conversations - lots of apps out there support that. But many apps targeting business have a corporate / compliance / discovery API option. For example, slack is very popular, and admins can get corporate export turned on or discovery API which allows exports of your PRIVATE direct messaging conversations by the company. So if you think zoom letting a user see their OWN messages is bad, slack (often a popular programmer system) let's admins get everything you ever typed.

The one I hate the most are the SSL middleware boxes and decrypt everything.
You can easily make a mask at home.

see: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/czechs-get-to-...
Not to pick on a typo, but, since it can appear to change meaning: I'm pretty sure you mean that they're a scarce resource, not a scare resource.
so stop promoting ordinary people wearing masks.

Stop lying to people that masks aren't effective. Not only does that put people in immediate danger, it makes it more difficult to walk back that advice in a few months, when we're definitely going to want everyone to wear masks when in public.

Doctors and nurses need that mask

So make your own. Even half of a t-shirt is much better than nothing.
Plenty of people anticipated this given the many near misses we've had since the 1918 pandemic. But there's no money in preparing for pandemics.
Yes. The moment this quarantine lifts, I'm going to go to a proper barber, get a great haircut, and likely pay for extra things like shampoo and shaves which I don't normally. I'm so sick of having to do everything at home, including my haircuts, that I really just want to spend my money.
Maybe that’s what the data supported at the time?

Shouldn’t we be going with data rather than ‘common sense’?
You're right, we don't but we should lean towards realistic-pessimistic. Anything otherwise we should consider ourselves lucky.
You’re not the average employee-computer user!
Using native control implementations in a browser isn't really an option. They make a lot of assumptions about how rendering works and how input events are routed which don't hold up inside a browser.
They’re also infrequent if you hold off on updating immediately after a release. Just wait for distro/package managers to check things and release it to you!
I think the factor you're missing here is the hospital bed ratio. When folks, even healthy folks, get Covid-19, it can go badly - so all this social distancing is to let it spread really slowly through the populace - maybe so slow we get a vaccine, but probably not... And while it is spreading we'll ideally have enough healthy people to actually care for the sick ones because if you and everyone around you is bed-bound then people can die from pretty trivial complications of the disease including just starving to death.
> Right, and as a result of this, the companies that have capital can always beat out the ones that don't.

If your idea requires capital to execute and you don't have any then you can't execute it. How do you propose to change that?

> Who gets to decide which companies get capital? VCs. So that means that it's not the market that decides who wins and loses, it's VCs.

Who gets to decide which companies get capital? Venture capitalists. In other words, people with capital are the ones who decide which companies get capital. This is almost tautologically true.

But that is the market. The VCs fund the companies they think have the most promise. If you have a good idea but not capital then you convince some people with capital to fund you so you can execute it. That's what VC is.

What are you proposing as an alternative? One where raising capital is impossible and so you were either born with it or you're stuck working hand to mouth at a McJob forever because your idea takes more funding to execute that you can save in a lifetime as a wage slave?
A system with more potential energy will have more mass [1]. For example, a compressed spring has more mass than a spring at rest, and will take more energy, from an external force, to get to the same velocity. Same with a spinning disk. So unless there's a nice balancing act, with no potential energy change from moving electrons around within the drive, the mass of the drive will change, negligibly, from the potential energy change of the gates. So, the real mass loss of a USB drive is electrons out in addition to potential energy loss from the floating gates. So it's, the world smallest double whammy!

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/274329/does-pote...
> To be fair the article does suggest making your own and then helpfully links to this [1] dead website.

It's been hugged to death.

Here is a cached copy:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oC-tOJ...

and here is a direct link to the embedded video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY-29VBkGmw
Most businesses have said they will rehire the moment they are allowed to operate again. Why do you think people will be out of work?
KN95 masks are available from China. Those are an excellent choice for the general population and do not affect the supply of N95 masks to medical personnel. More people need to step and and distribute.
The interview with the head of the WHO is surreal. The WHO needs to be dismantled. It has been corrupted.
>I don't know why americans are so afraid of 'mass unemployment'.

In the United States, health insurance is provided by your employer. To purchase it without their leverage is prohibitively expensive without a sizable, reliable income.
This is a common misconception. The Fed doesn't care about the S&P500 (the president does, though, judging by his tweets ...). You may be projecting because you care about it.

Fed cares about the credit market, not the stock market. It's amazing how many people don't even know that the credit market is much bigger than the stock market. Since these days everything is an ETF you can look up $LQD (investment grade corporate bonds) and $HYG (low grade/junk corporate bonds) to see "what's really going on". You can also look up spreads for each rating grade on FRED.
Except this unemployment is mandated by the government, whereas during the great depression, the government was trying to do everything to stop it, and could not.
Employment guarantees may include benefits (FMLA/Healthcare), which you definitely will not have with unemployment. The American system of tying healthcare to employment is showing it's huge weakness right now - when Americans need healthcare the most, they lose it.

"Rehiring" can also be slow because it forces employers HR departments to screen candidates all over again. If employees stay on the payroll, they can all report back to work once the crisis has passed. Instead, businesses that survive have to spend their first weeks "hiring" back employees if they can, instead of making profits. This delay will hurt the recovery further.
Is it hindsight if you’re warned weeks or months ahead?
>There's not enough pressure on politicians in both parties to ensure a solid and fast as possible recovery.

Oh I disagree, I think there is plenty. Every politician knows that incumbents are more likely to lose in a down economy. That's why they just passed an unprecedented stimulus bill
That’s far from average practice. I couldn’t care less for the obviously non-abusive cases. They’ll never number significantly.
> The whole reason for social distancing and #flattenthecurve is to delay mass infections long enough for the scientific/medical establishment to develop a vaccine or, failing that, effective treatments.

This is extremely unlikely unfortunately, most flattened curves end up overtaking the populace at large - the more crucial element to control is the proportion of the population that's sick at any given time to avoid overwhelming healthcare or logistic resources.
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That says people are doing it because the government forced them to, not that it is easy or that they are doing it right. In fact the only tip seems to be to make it out of cotton so you can wash it.
When better to establish that long term behavior when there is an immediate, credible threat? Even if it does slightly increase pressure on the medical mask supply (who will be prioritized with the certified masks, regardless), how many lives will this save in the next pandemic? Or every flu season, for that matter. It seems unrealistic to think Americans will start wearing masks everywhere after this has all blown over if they were not previously conditioned to do so.
Kaiser is accepting donations of homemade masks

https://lookinside.kaiserpermanente.org/donate-ppe/
Our government just initiated massive federal unemployment benefits, grants to small businesses who keep their payroll going, a moratorium on foreclosures for federally backed home loans, and temporary UBI. The primary focus of any complaints I see are about the bailouts of the investor class.
Has anyone listened to Dune as an audiobook and would you recommend it?
> Why is an 'employment guarantee' any better than what is happening in most of America -- layoffs with an explicit promise to rehire once the business is allowed to operate?

Unless those promises are binding (they aren't), then they're worthless. A lot of people who have been laid off because of coronavirus will discover in the coming months that their job is actually gone, because businesses will be conservative and not rehire as many people as they had prior to entering the throes of the recession. Also, not all businesses will return to employment at the same time, so there's going to be massive turnover as people who were out of a job for awhile change employers and take the first job that becomes available, not necessarily the job that they already had.

And keep in mind, the layoffs Americans are facing now are real. They're losing their benefits, their health insurance, their vacation days. There's a real friction in both firing and hiring someone and we'll be paying it on both sides.

All told we're going to be seeing massive disruption in the US labor market, which would've been avoided had everyone just had a temporary government-paid furlough while maintaining their job and benefits.
I mean, it's also true of SQLite3.
Seconded. I (think? don't remember) I did Fed Challenge back in the day, and the econ resources I trusted most was Bloomberg/Economics, CNBC/Economics, and FRED by far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Fed_Challenge
Yes. aka: Proper laboratory safety procedures.
>Unfortunately it's a message that really needs to come from the highest levels. The politicians, news casters, etc.. on TV need to be giving announcements with masks to get the point across.

This is how it happened here in Czech Republic - one day as part of the emergency measure face masks (including home made ones) have been made mandatory in public, fullstop. Don't wear one & the police will request you to put on one or face a fine.

This we we went from you in public getting weird looks if you have a mask to anyone not wearing a mask getting weird looks in about two days.

Since then the neighboring country of Slovakia to the east adapted the same rules for mask wearing in public and most recently Austria to the south adapted mandatory mask wearing in shops.
Well of course it is. The market will rarely screw itself over so much that businesses are forced to stop at once.

If anything, this 'recession' shows the scary power of the government, and of authoritarianism. With the stroke of a pen, the government of the United States and its states can inflict economic damage worse than any market-based recession. That is truly scary.

Of course, in this case, this temporary suspension is probably worth it, but it is an easy counter argument the next time someone attempts to explain why government economic control would lead to fewer recessions and depressions than the market.
My wife was a nurse in Japan (a big mask-wearing culture) and I was always skeptical of it but from reading some articles of late, I've changed my stance on it and do believe that masks help. Here's some articles I've read lately that discuss this topic:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/23/face-masks-much-more-t...

> Some people with swine flu travelled on a plane from New York to China, and many fellow passengers got infected. Some researchers looked at whether passengers who wore masks throughout the flight stayed healthier. The answer was very much yes. They were able to track down 9 people who got sick on the flight and 32 who didn’t. 0% of the sick passengers wore masks, compared to 47% of the healthy passengers. Another way to look at that is that 0% of mask-wearers got sick, but 35% of non-wearers did.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762689

> ...the vice president of Taiwan, a prominent epidemiologist, gave regular public service announcements... These announcements included when and where to wear a mask, the importance of handwashing, and the danger of hoarding masks to prevent them from becoming unavailable to frontline health workers.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_t...

https://www.maskssavelives.org/
Of all things, VB.Net actually has a string reverse that handles unicode cases. I'm not quite sure how to view it in referencesource, but it is on Github. [1] The result is less than 100 lines of VB so I don't think it's -that- hard. There's certainly some clever index manipulation going on but nothing that looks too crazy.

[1] - https://github.com/microsoft/referencesource/blob/master/Mic...
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Nope. Most people will say screw it and let everyone die by the end of May. I don't think it's necessarily right, but most people have no discipline. We already see it in China and Italy.
Disclaimer: you will have a beet colored wall, which will not be a joy to clean up. Also your mouth will taste like beet juice.
Ask HN: Won’t emergency ventilator production destroy the ventilator business?
I don't believe the concept of some 'natural order' the book seemed happy to worship. Nature is always in a state of flux, and species will always compete and alter their environments. Limited resources means all species are 'takers'. I would argue that it is even more 'unnatural' for a dominant species to deliberately cede dominance.

There is plenty of evidence suggesting we are currently on an unsustainable path with regard to the continuation of our own current lifestyle. I doubt it will lead to the end of life on Earth, and (regarding the book) I'm not quite convinced that a return to hunter gatherer societies is the proper solution.
you are assuming the bottleneck is network. But there could be other factors that are the bottlenecks.

for example, cost, might be one reason. The bandwidth cost you money. The more people use it, the more money you spend. Like running a gym, you want everybody to have a membership, but You don't want them to actually come to the gym to avoid paying for utilities.

Similarly, recently zoom said their quarterly income will be lower, because they need to invest into infrastructures due to increased usage. You would assume, the more users they have, the more money they make. not necessarily.
This. If you're wearing a mask, then there's a healthcare worker somewhere who you're preventing from wearing a mask. That healthcare worker is taking care of patients who definitely have the Cornavirus, and is getting up close to them while they're coughing. They need that mask more than you do.

And I don't mean this in an abstract way. There are numerous places accepting mask donations right now. If you have a mask, you should donate it. Stat.
A friend of mine is setting up a manufacturing line for masks here in NL. They're sourcing raw materials from abroad, where masks are interdicted but materials are not, and then go on to make the actual masks locally. Super interesting project and I'm proud of him for getting off his butt and making an actual difference here.
Awesome, reminds me of https://www.screenomex.com/record-recall.
Thanks for the link!

I don't understand why this would be different for a Rust based OS..
There are a few reasons I want this outside of file syncing.

1) It somewhat feels like it could be less wasteful. It may only be on the appearance level, but I end up with a new phone about every 2 years, a new computer about every 3, a new monitor...much less often. If my phone was a smart client for these other input devices, I feel like I would be upgrading my phone about the same, but wouldn't be upgrading a laptop as often.

2) It "feels" like the same device. Though I have file sharing, I don't have desktop sharing. The file I stuck on my desktop on my laptop isn't in the same space on my phone. It feels like they are synced, rather than just being my workspace.

3) I have to duplicate my apps on each device, and that is not always possible, so I end up with a comparable app, or having to switch devices. This is becoming less common, but still, do I need to have multiple versions of the same software on each different device and different OS?

4) Notifications everywhere. When I'm being summoned on multiple messaging apps, I'm getting notifications on at least 3 devices! Yes, I could turn notifications off, but obviously, I need some notifications. If I had only one device, acting as the smart hub to other input devices, in theory, it would know which device I'm active on, and just ring that.

At the same time, we work a bunch with graphics, so I don't think I'm getting decent developer capable graphics card in a mobile device anytime soon, but I think other users could move to this sort of paradigm fairly easily.
Awesome video and process, we've been talking about this at work since it showed up here and have a few questions if you don't mind:

How far do you think you'd be from making a simple 8-bit CPU like a 6502?

Have you thought about illuminating the initial film exposure as well as the substrate exposure (on the slide glass) using monochromatic light sources like a mercury UV lamp?

Instead of a vacuum pump to flatten the film during exposure, how about electrostatic charges?
You are surely trolling.