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"Even with an excessive lockdown, it seems that just on this issue alone, China's numbers look really quite wrong."

So you are saying that countries and regions that are under-testing relative to Iceland all have numbers that are wrong?

"That there was a breakout in other parts of the country and almost no deaths look very suspicious."

That is what you don't get, there was never an outbreak in the rest of the country outside of Hubei. The number of cases never exceeded 3,000 in any other province.
COBRA is so intractably expensive that the only responsible thing to do is assume COBRA doesn’t exist and base policies and assistance around that reality.

Any analysis / estimate / policy that starts from any assumption of the existence or usage of COBRA is therefore so unrealistic and inaccurate as to be completely ignored.
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Actually the wouldn't...the point would be to always have them on from the minute you walk in the door.
YMMV, but I was able to get https://archlinuxarm.org/ running on my pis without too much head-scratching.

arch is on 5.5.6 as of 3/1/2020 (https://www.archlinux.org/download/), and it seems like the ARM porters are pretty good about keeping their project in sync (two day delay): http://de3.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/os/rpi/.

My best guess is that by April or May, Arch will do the minor version bump, and then a couple days later Arch ARM will get it.

It doesn't have the same hardware/software synergy that you like, but it might be a fun weekend experiment.
The US suspended those rules on March 11:

https://thepointsguy.com/news/coronavirus-slot-restriction-s...
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>Because every place I've worked (including corporations) I've had local admin on my box and could see the entire process tree.

That's assuming that the spyware isn't some sort of rootkit that tries to hide its presence. If you're on windows, it's also very easy to hide behind some generic looking executables like svchost.exe
Replace your current namespace with a mock object? You can eval or exec code with any dictionary-flavored object, and mocks can imitate dicts.

edit: no, you can't in Python 3..

I'll try to have a closer look later today.
As another person mentioned, the main thing keeping me from Crystal is proper editor support, and more specifically proper debugger support.

I really like the experience working in python in pycharm, mainly for the integrated debugger.

It would be great to see an open source editor for Crystal with proper Debugger support and code reference lookup.
“Instacart Workers Shouldn’t Be Risking Our Lives for $7”
I know the plugins for VS Code can parse them and find errors prior to building.
The confirmed cases number is effectively useless without models for extrapolating into an estimated infection count. Presumptive cases aren't bothering to be tested, asymptomatic cases rarely tested, lack or abundance of supplies differ by country and region, etc... We have very little idea of the prevalence in any given country - confirmed case count is just a floor.
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Ideally we automate as many of those jobs as possible so that as few people as possible are put in harms way and contribute to ongoing spread of the virus.
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I'm paying most of my team as remote contractors. Seems most of this only applies to W2 employees correct?
Amazing initiative. When did you guys start this whole thing? How do I join?
I can infer some useful information about you from this thread. It is that you actually don't give a damn but you love arguing, the more the merrier and no matter whether or not you stray far off-topic, you'll be happy because that gives you yet another thing you can argue about.

If there is relevance to this conversation in the 10,000 or so words that you have spent on this thread then I fail to see it, so I really don't know what this particular comment is trying to achieve other than that it has me considering whether I shouldn't just plain give up on HN.

Don Hopkins has it right, sealioning is the perfect term to describe what you are doing and it is a destructive thing on something as fragile as this forum because it narrowly fits the guidelines and yet makes it impossible to have a normal conversation. It's the online version of passive aggressive belligerence with a veneer of sincerity on top.
"The government is also planning to close all restaurants and bars until 31 May."
I'd bet that there's usually at least a reporting of "the latest sports scores", etc, to keep people somewhat entertained with the world above.

I'd think that the staff would question "all sports are cancelled, everywhere" without follow-up questions. UNLESS someone is just making up scores for an imaginary league that's being played.

That'd be an elegant solution ... and a FASCINATING story to uncover someday (or write up, as fiction)
According to this Reddit post, Amazon Prime Now plays the same shenanigans with the tip:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/9ji1af/p...

"Amazon will never disclose any information about specific deliveries beyond what you see in the app before and after the delivery. They will not tell you who tipped or how much. The only ways to tell if a customer tipped are cash tips and blocks with only one order completed, including instant offers, for which the earnings exceed the initial offer."

"If an offer shows a pay range, the base rate is never more than the low end of that range. For example, if you accept an offer for a 2 hour block with pay of $36-50, anything you earn for that block beyond $36 is from tips."

"Amazon does not technically steal tips, but the end result is the same as if they did. They call it variable base pay. They state in the contract that 100% of tips are passed on to the driver. This is true. However, they often lower the base rate enough so the net earnings is the minimum stated in the block offer. Think of it like a piece of string. The entire length of the string is your earnings. The right side of the string is tips and the left side is base pay. They promise never to cut the right side of the string. They cut the left side instead. It still results in a shorter piece of string."

"If the base pay plus tips ends up being more than the offered pay for the block, you will get paid the full amount. So if you accept a 2 hour block for $36-50 and get $55 in tips, you will be paid at least $55. They don't lower the base rate on every block and they don't always lower it the same amount. They say it's based on demand. For a 2 hour block, after tips, you might be paid $36 or you might be paid $80. It just depends."

"I'm not sure how Amazon determines the suggested tip for orders that include tips. I just played around in the Prime Now app and it seems like the suggested tip is a percentage of the total item cost, before shipping and tax, but is a minimum of $5. Customers can, of course, change it to whatever they want."
Wasn't the Great Depression as much a product of the time it took to overcome as the unemployment rate? We have a greater ability to deploy resources today, and geography is less of an issue for many industries, so perhaps that will be a mitigating factor. The Great Repression?
> An extension and expansion of pay for workers impacted by COVID-19 — anyone who has a doctor’s note for either a preexisting condition that’s a known risk factor or requiring a self-quarantine.

This should be done by the government. It feels unfair to pass this on to consumers, but there should be some sort of "voluntary unemployment" for people with pre-existing conditions right now.
I'd be interested in just the organic search results returned in API format.
>"they have only one source of income! they could lose it at any time!" these people are a much bigger risk than some landlord trying to get a mortgage for their nth rental property.

Fairly certain source of income isn't the only variable. What about rainy day fund? Aren't individuals encouraged to have 3-6 months worth of expenses in cash for emergencies? Shouldn't the lender assure that this is the case before lending?
Coronavirus: Amazon workers threaten strikes over virus protection
There is a ventilator concept(with pressure booster double acting) that's fully mechanical and very simple that can be plugged into an air supply or water supply to power the ventilator. It sould easily be made and used anywhere in the world at home, ICUs and ambulances. The ventilator could operate without any power source at all. It can be powered by water (even by any tape) You can easily add adjusting stroke length & volume of breath, cadence, ratio of inhale/exhale, connecting many ventilators to one system etc.. Let me know and feel free to develop the idea further !
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> Sometimes even this fails, what can I say.

Not blaming you :D
I'm looking at https://theinitiative.site/ (in your profile) and that is about vaccine development. Is the ventilator help approach another website/newsletter to connect people? I guess I'm just surprised somebody works on both.
Penultimate means the second last thing in a set. In the alphabet, 'y' is the penultimate letter.
Workers can only demand what the market will bear, and considering there are a lot of people looking for any sort of work right now, and training up to become one of these workers doesn't take long, these workers aren't in a position to demand much.

Hazard pay is moot for workers who have already caught COVID-19 too, which I would guess is a reasonably chunk of delivery workers by now.
directly from the source :

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And include data on which ones have been tested for safety.
My understanding is that squeezing the bag would have a high risk of covid infection. The only way this solution would help the curve is if covid survivors were doing the squeeze.
Also children with abusive parents. Normally one of the factors that can limit abuse is that a teacher or school employee might notice an injury. Some schools are trying their best with "remote visual inspections" (I wish I was making this up) but it's surely not as effective.

And a shocking number of people are trying to rationalize this tragedy as "not that bad", wow.
> For comparison, a quick Google shows the unemployment rate in the US during the Great Depression was around 25% and during the 2008 recession was around 10%.

> If this situation lasts too long, we'll all be saying hello to Great Depression v2.0.

The most troubling is that there is no analysis being performed to determine what a proportionate response is, and I tend to think most people do not understand how interconnected the economy actually is.

At this rate, the deaths from draconian government responses will far outweigh the deaths from the Corona virus across all age demographics.
Ask HN: Is anyone updating the YC S20 application with recent progress?
Like, plenty of new stuff in the last 2 weeks, so should we update the application?
"The giant bureaucracy" isn't the problem, in itself.

The current administration in the white house, however, is.

A lot of factors came together, hampering the response. Trump has fired lots of experts, many others left for other reasons and Trump has problems hiring Replacements. He disbanded that office in the White House. On top of that he didn't take the issue seriously at all.

I would say that in early January it wasn't yet clear this would become a serious respiratory pandemic. Maybe not even to US intelligence services or the Chinese government. But late January and early February it dawned on most people (including me).
The problem of N95 is sourcing the plastic mesh with static charge - the major filtration portion.

As odd as this my sound, but at the moment you might have a larger bottle neck in N95 production than you have on ventilators (taking into account the disposable nature of N95 masks and the sheer volume required for usage, I'm not trying to compare ventilators to N95 in terms of complexity or their production lines).

Of all of this, I think an effective treatment seems to be the fastest solution (though there's none available yet), where you'd deploy treatment only to those in intensive care and ICU.
Ya totally normal tagging that baby pic #chickenlovers.

Nothing odd at all about the "49th most powerful person in DC" tagging an infant #hotard.

People should review the full archive, and his comments.

RE distraction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21057230
> the workers that are filling in for the strikers are scabs

This skips a step. Who gave the strikers the right to choose this for the entire workforce? If my coworker says "I strike" and I stay at my desk, does that make me a "scab"? The article gives no information about who the workers are, how many of their fellow workers they represent, how long they've been doing the job. I'm not sure what would qualify them to speak for everybody, but it's got to be more than giving a quote to NPR, and surely it depends how many of them there are, relative to their coworkers.
IT was because of the GD, that the government began to spend money to aid the economy in the first place. A new Works Project Administration could do a lot to rebuild infrastructure that we need anyway.
Thanks. For those of us living outside the State, it increasingly looks more like ( to us ) US is like EU where every member state is a country of its own.
We've anecdotally seen a huge increase in spot market flakiness, but basic functionality and reserved instances have been solid.
One of my philosophy professors told me once, "Remember: you can't edit nothing, but you can edit shit". Advice that's valuable beyond writing.
Funny that a lot of my Chinese friends and relatives in mainland China, now believe that US and many western government deliberately not carrying out tests to manipulate the numbers. They believe US etc are heading to a much worse situations than China's because of the government's incompetence, and intention to not appear incompetent.
Bullard has always been extremely bearish, and is consistently a dissenter in FOMC meetings FYI. While his number is very high, I would take it with a grain of salt. It will be high, but not that high
What about people who aren't women or children? They don't deserve help? Have we collectively decided to just let them rot?
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> If you know it's a fake then it takes away from the mystique.

On the other hand, if you can only tell the difference between the real and the fake with a microscope, then "mystique" seems to be a simple placebo effect.

It's about time we stopped holding original-yet-mediocre works like the Mona Lisa on such a high pedestal just to create some kind of "mental high" that people are deriving from the placebo effect.
Having worked in one of these, we found those sorts of "team offices" hurt collaboration and innovation even more than open floor plans. Unless the company is pretty small, the random conversations between people from different teams is often the key to innovation and getting problems solved early. A team room means that to ask a co-worker on another team a simple question or to just see what they are working on becomes a big deal because you are now entering that other team's space and interrupting a dozen people. Unless you really know the other person well, we found people just are hesitant to do it.

In big companies, there usually isn't a problem with communicating within a team - the problems occur when teams aren't communicating with people in other teams. These team rooms ruin any informal inter-team collaboration and communication.
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Wouldn't it be a better idea to pressure the state Govt to pass laws or executive orders to mandate that Companies provide benefits such as Hazard Pay, PPE for workers, Paid Sick Leave instead of striking and attempting to pressure Instacart / Amazon ?

There's a record number of unemployed people right now [1] and, if some workers strike, wouldn't it be easier for companies to just hire more people ?

[1]:https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-long-run-of-american-job-gr...
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We need:

- Non-technical talent (project managers etc)

- Experienced problem formulators & solvers, we are severely understaffed with people who can take unstructured information and transform it into the actionable task

- People with experience in medical domains (virology, epidemics, biology)

- Cross-discipline operators (people that work on the intersection of different subject domains like technology + medicine)

- Researchers & principal investigators, traditional academic background that are familiar with the process

- Marketers & Communicators (we, as a group, need to more effectively spread our core message and mission to organizations that can help us)

- Data engineers (there is a lot of data and we need to preprocess and enrich it)

- Developers (we still need to build traditional non-AI systems to help ML pipeline)
Every news article I've read (even articles published this morning) says that they "plan to walk out" on Monday, but have they actually started to do that? Instacart is still letting me place orders (estimated delivery Thurs of course)

Mercury news article from 11:15am says:

"It’s not clear when the strike would start Monday or how many workers would participate."
> I could care less about actual case counts - few countries are close to having the capacity to test everyone so who cares.

Indeed, the total positive test count tells you more about changes in your testing capacity and testing criteria than it tells you about the infected population. I suppose it’s helpful in establishing the lower bound, but with no error bars on the possible upper bound.

Testing a statistically valid random sample of the population would be neither difficult or expensive. Running these tests every few days across every major metropolitan areas would be extremely useful data to report the current active infection rates.

This is useful even without an antibody test, but of course much more useful with an antibody test, because then you know not just active infection percentages but total infected percentages.

I can’t begin to speculate why this data is either not being collected or not being made available.

Death rate is somewhat useful but very lagging and also limited by not knowing the true IFR.

The only other proxy we have for guessing the total infection rate in a population is the percentage of positive tests. In NY there are districts which have 50% of tests coming back positive, which is so high as to be almost unbelievable. If that data is correct and at all indicative of the general population, it is, counter-intuitively, extremely good news.

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-d...
Two months earlier means two months earlier, even if it's "not in time" to prevent all shortages.
> I think people keep discouraging mask use due to the shortage, but if people are misinforming the public due to a shortage that's still not cool

I haven't seen ant misinformation discouraging mask use.

I have seen people point out:
(1) it is most critical that healthcare workers have masks,
(2) masks are not particularly effective for protecting the wearer, but they are very helpful for protecting others from the
wearer.

#2 is enough to discourage use from the selfish who are unconcerned with social consequences, #1 tends to discourage those who are concerned with social consequences, given the supply shortage.
Can anyone who isn't part of the über elite in tech actually provide a point of view on this? It is very easy for the well-off to always comment with "Not paid enough and so i always add a 25% tip on top".

Let's get this straight, out of the possible jobs that exist that require no experience, no education, very little mental or physical risk or exhaustion, this one ranks probably near the very top.

There are very many jobs that have the same requirements that don't pay as well or are very demanding physically, mentally or both. Why are some of the other jobs that have to exist quickly forgotten? Is it because of the exposure to the healthy and wealthier techie crowd?
More small/medium sized businesses should be on board with this too. No one likes dealing with insurance companies/plans.
it's still technically discounted as those are group rates. Without it the same plan would cost even more for individuals.
Except that no contract can override the law, at last not where I live.
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This is one of his best known early works, it is in no way obscure, neither is his change in style.
"During a CNBC interview last week, Bullard said the jobless number “will be unparalleled, but don’t get discouraged. This is a special quarter, and once the virus goes away and if we play our cards right and keep everything intact, then everyone will go back to work and everything will be fine.”

Nothing is going back to business-as-usual after this event.

1. Companies that successfully transition to work form home will shed tens of millions of commercial real estate square footage.

2. The online shopping/home delivery will accelerate the collapse of the retail shopping environment. The U.S. has too much already, see https://www.statista.com/statistics/1058852/retail-space-per...

3. This will accelerate online learning, especially in higher-ed. We are already planning our summer courses to be fully taught online as of this point in time.

4. Tying healthcare to employment in the U.S. will likely become unthinkable as a public health hazard.

EDIT: spelling
It was just your basic job shop, we had 8 C/C++ developers.

Everything was okay for a few years until we hired a "professional" sales guy who wrecked our project pipeline.

We handed sales over to him. He lied about prospects for eight weeks then quit to go somewhere else. We were doing okay before him, but we naively thought hiring a pro would help us grow.

We were bootstrapped so when profit/revenue looked like it was going dry up we shut down rather than go into deep debt and went back to real jobs.