skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a purely economic standpoint, most of those deaths are not significantly reducing GDP.

As others have said, with a virus more contagious than influenza, the only real choice is for lots of people to get it. I'm all for a partial quarantine of the old and at-risk that lasts for a year, but it just isn't possible to shut down the whole world for that long. People don't understand how interconnected the global supply chain is. If this goes on, it will start with some simple things like your favorite deodorant brand and snacks disappearing from store shelves. Hopefully, people notice and pull back restrictions before it gets worse.
Yeah this. We have a Synology NAS and it's been running for four years trouble-free. It's a little sketchy for use cases other than its core purpose, but if you only try to use it as a smart reliable RAID disk with an Ethernet port you are going to have a great time.

Their Synology Drive app is a drop-in Dropbox/GDrive replacement too. Works great on Mac at least. Haven't tried Windows yet.

We maintain an official ZeroTier package for it too, so it works anywhere.
Sure, I was commenting on the HN title being inappropriate out of context.
DataGrip is a bit intimidating at first, but much more powerful.
It's no different from lining up at the supermarket.

In theory everyone's supposed to be lining up 6 feet apart.

In practice... well, NYC grocery store aisles are some of the narrowest corridors you'll ever encounter in your life, and there often isn't even space to line up for a cashier.

So social distancing in supermarkets is a total joke. But the alternative is starving to death, since the grocery delivery services are all sold-out. So people line up for food wherever they go.
Peter, have you ever seen small companies (15 employees) getting approved for L1A visa ? The company has a foreign subsidiary where some team members work even though overall we are a small firm. Does the size matter when requesting visa such as L1A ? Not a consulting firm but a SAAS product based company if that matters.
This may appear as off-topic compared to other questions here. I am interested to know what software you use as part of your daily work. So, what software do you use and what piece of software is missing for attorneys ?
> Top U.S. banks have threatened to give the federal government’s small-business rescue program a miss on concerns about taking on too much financial and legal risk, five people with direct knowledge of industry discussions told Reuters…

> Their main concern is that the Treasury Department has said it expects lenders to verify borrower eligibility, and take steps to prevent fraud, money laundering and protect customer information under the Bank Secrecy Act, sources said. Banks are worried they could face regulatory penalties or legal costs down the line if things go awry in the haste to get money out the door, or get blamed for not moving funds fast enough if they perform due diligence the way they would in ordinary times, the sources said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-stimul...

Another example of our crisis response failing us.
There are terrible hold/wait times calling USCIS in particular so there might be a market (but I'm an awful judge of these things).
The point is that 20% or 3.3%, the amount of hospitalizations would far exceed the capacity. We shouldn’t get there in the first place. So the proposed idea of opening things up is a non starter.

I’ve already edited my comment to concede on 20%. Why get so combative in responding? I’m not trying to spread false information and willing to concede when new factual information is reported. Jeez.
The economics of scooters really suffers from being dockless. I can see the appeal from a VC-funded startup perspective, because you can get a lot of them out there quickly without having to build any infrastructure, but the ongoing daily costs of charging them all (and replacing losses) makes them expensive to operate, hence the high cost. A dockless model would allow them to be much more affordable; in NYC, for example, you can do unlimited rides on docked rideshare for an annualized cost of under 50 cents per day. There's no reason in principle that a docked scooter system, with scooters charging from docks and prevented from theft while not in use, couldn't have costs come down to a roughly similar amount.
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> as I do not wish to draw sad conclusions that appear evident

The sad conclusion that appears evident would seem to be that you didn't do the research.

Any commercial kitchen can, without significant difficulty, produce halal food. The same certainly isn't true of kosher food. Here's an account of making a (fairly simple) food factory kosher: https://www.star-k.org/articles/articles/getting-certified/c... . For a commercial kitchen, you likely have worse problems; beyond the initial setup, you'd at a minimum need segregated areas, utensils and appliances for milk, meat and neither. You'd also need a lot of training.

There's no reason to think there's any anti-semitism here; it's just an issue of practicality.
I grew up rural bet you didn’t.
Where does the food come from if nobody is picking it, transporting it, processing it or selling it?
Largely building microservices with the stdlib. Generating html frontends with htmlgen. Using karax for more dynamic frontends.
If the US Embassy has closed, what would you recommend?
I tell you: whenever they offer you a Mac laptop to work with, refuse it and choose a Linux one, where you and only you have the control.

This the worst fuck up ever
I have an E1 visa. Live in Canada, run a business online with customers mostly in the US.

Haven’t really used it. I still meet the criteria. Has renewal gotten harder? I’ve heard it has. The first time I got it the embassy wanted all kinds of reporting to prove my income was from US sources.

Don’t care too much about having it, but would renew if renewal isn’t too hard.
Yes but not via a land-crossing, only via air (and sea).
Hi,

My work authorization on L1 runs out on may 22nd. I do have an approved H1B consular notify petition, but due to covid I'm unable to get a consulate appointment or travel to activate it, and there's no premium processing to change status while I'm here. Do I have any options to extend my work auth given the current situation? I don't have any time left on my L1 to recapture.
I think the fear some people have is that if everyone has free food and shelter, we'll lose a massive portion of the labor force because they would have no need to work.

It is not clear at all to me that it would be objectively good or bad, but some people appear to have picked the other side because they think we'd lose a lot of our nice things.
I want to help other people I donate a decent chunk of my paycheck to humanitarian and other charitable efforts. I hate seeing people hungry, I grew up in a difficult situation and I hate seeing children go hungry.

My problem isn't that I am against people getting free food and shelter I am opposed to being forced into charity at the point of gun by the state, and my liberties being eroded by moral busiebodies that fail to understand the very things that led us have a society that even has the capability of eliminating hunger are the very things they are trying to destroy.

Every advancement, every push for "just a little bit more welfare", or "think of the children" has behind it the unspoken assumption that the government can do a better job with my means to help people than I could. This same government with a 13% approval rating and that is universally despised in most everything they try and do.

Every inch of additional power that the government gets is an advancement that is set in stone and can only be rewound with great effort.

So please don't paint me as an amoral monster, I do care, but I also recognize that sometimes emotionally driven responses that are executed without much thought and planning, like California banning plastic bags, can cause a lot more harm than good, especially in the long run.
>But do they really deserve any part in a bailout?

Do any of these companies?

The whole concept of bailouts create bad incentives - to me that's more the crux of the issue. But if you're gonna do them anyway then I see little justification for including/excl some just because they're listed vs private.

Plus it makes way more sense to "save" the economy at grass roots level anyway. I'd prefer more of a suddenly expanded social safety net type situation. Similar to what the US is doing with corona checks and what Germany is doing with blanket guarantees tp try and prevent layoffs.
This has nothing to do with autism.
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Were the emails normally being sent manually through some provider, but now going from a mail program on the server?

If so, you might consider using SendGrid or something like that with their API. https://sendgrid.com/docs/API_Reference/Web_API_v3/Mail/inde...

If not using a service, would be interested to hear what configuration (DKIM or whatever) was necessary to add to your existing mail setup to get it to work.

Although I am just totally speculating on what you were talking about.
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You can send a single stream with E2E, just as your can send a PGP message to multiple recipients. Each packet/bundle/whatever has the decrypt key encrypted against each of the recipient keys.
What advantage does it bring that Kotlin hasn't?
> The driver knows which types it can parse, but it doesn't know what types a given query will return. [...] Postgres could know the data types, but that means that the driver would need to first prepare the query (which is sometimes a good idea anyway, but other times the round trip isn't worth it).

We return the types of the result set separately even when not preparing. The harder part is doing it without adding roundtrips.

I've argued before that we should allow the client to specify which types it wants as binary, unless explicitly specified. IMO that's the only way to solve this incrementally from where we currently are.

> Do pipelined queries help at all here?

We really need to get the libpq support for pipelining merged :(
mid-March? Be aware that while some studies say you still virus-shed for two weeks after, some say as long as five weeks it can still be detected.

Just because your fever broke doesn't mean the virus is gone, just means your body is fighting it and "winning".
I'd like to see an economist stand on the podium next to the president and Dr. Fauci and talk about the other side of the trade-off the government has decided to make.
SAML is a middle tier between the endpoint (user app) and directory (ADFS, LDAP, etc.) and not a single solution on it's own, it doesn't store data - it provides a means for leveraging that data defined by the schema (e.g. posixAccount and groupMember). It's generally equivalent to pam_sss, nss-pam-ldap and friends at the systems layer of your average Linux. They are complementary, not replacements for each other.
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Yes, as a general rule (although there are variations among Consulates), it's tougher now to get an E-1 or E-2 visa and that applies to renewals as well.
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Hey Peter! I am an international student in Canada hoping to immigrate to the US on an H1-B.

Do you think there will be less competition in the lottery for 2021 because of the economic downturn?

Because I have the option of graduating earlier and make that deadline or graduate normally and apply in 2022.

Thanks.
Also how competitive is the lottery nowadays?
Not Amazon specific, but I believe the general concern is that once a worker has something the others don't, they'll all demand it, even if it's something that's not company provided. That's also happening in some hospitals, with doctors and nurses being forbidden from using their own PPE.

The obvious solution would be for the employer to provide it, but with the current shortage it's probably not happening.
Of course there is. It's called the National Guard. It's called the US Army, Airforce, and Navy. It's called FEMA. I'm sure there are plenty of other centralized systems with tons of funding ready to do this on a moment's notice. What we don't have is leadership, with an idiot leading this country who said the pandemic is a "hoax."
However long it takes to make a vaccine and distribute it widely
(1) Yep, to the H-1B employer.

(2) Yeah it's probably not a super useful question, just confirming AC-21 clock starts when the I-485 is filed and in spite of office closures / delays en route (my biometrics appointment just got cancelled) that remains unchanged.
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Hate to break it to you, but hospitals are going to be overrun either way. 70-year-olds outnumber ICU beds 1,000 to one in many counties, some counties have no ICUs, some counties have no hospitals! [1]

Because hospitals will be overwhelmed by a factor of 10 or so, social-distancing to slow things down by 50% is not going to change that.

The numbers paint a pretty clear picture, for those who bother to look at them.

1. https://khn.org/news/as-coronavirus-spreads-widely-millions-...
Maybe am just cynical, but the West has done all of the same things. Worse, every time someone in the developing world was trying to help their people, the U.S./UK swept in to overthrow them. So spare me.

I do not like China's domestic policies, but I've came to see them as just another cynical player in "the game", trying to survive. Just another (yes, often evil), empire.

The only way to progress is to stop building empires. But that goes for all the players, not just China.
Spread covid, not panic?
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Actually game theory is probably the better place to look. Though the concept of natural selection already tends to cover the big picture. Organisms need resources to reproduce. Those that can obtain more resources (or use what they have more efficiently) reproduce more and eventually drown out those who cannot reproduce as much. Taking from another organism (whether by hunting, parasitism, etc) is just one way of obtaining more resources.
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Microsoft Store in Windows 10 has the Python 3.7 and 3.8 packages (prepared by PSF itself) with some limitations, which shouldn't matter for beginner users. So it's basically one click install.

The issues has to do with the way Microsoft Store apps are sandboxed within the environment, to quote:

Because of restrictions on Microsoft Store apps, Python scripts may not have full write access to shared locations such as TEMP and the registry. Instead, it will write to a private copy. If your scripts must modify the shared locations, you will need to install the full installer.

https://docs.python.org/3.8/using/windows.html#known-issues
So its just like tinder?
Cool cool. Are you talking like Nike shoes free for everyone? Because, I would be ashamed to show up at the mall in some ratty sneakers. Definitely should have government pay for that so I am without shame in my sneaks.
Office file server isn't going anywhere as long as there are places where internet isn't at least dozens of Mb/s in each direction, and I assure you there are still many, many such places.
There's a guy who's a convicted felon in the US for misrepresenting conventional as organic:

https://thecounter.org/organic-food-fraud-usda-doj-randy-con...
10% salary cut. Other people at my company (large civil engineering firm) who can't work remotely have been transitioned to on-call, and about 1000 were laid off. Salaries for highly billable employees are currently unaffected.
Hi Peter,

My cofounder and I were meant to start the O-1 application, however given the current pandemic how do you see it affecting such applications? Does it make sense to still start it now given that it's unclear how long this will last for?

Thank you!
I feel that at least 80% of Mac Mini sales are for server.

Why would people buy that over the iMac for daily use?
ad views aren't important. Look at dollars in. Over time, net dollars in must exceed net dollars paid to publishers.

I have a cxx role at a startup. We slashed our ad budget for the next 45-60 days until we figure out how deep our economic collapse is going to be; I suspect we're far from the only company.

The other thing about ecpms is most advertisers have a daily frequency cap for cookies. More browsing plus more ad slots does not necessarily equal that much more filled ad slots.

We're going to see a lot more ad-supported content companies fail as we destroy the ability to do cross-site targeting. (I'm not saying increasing privacy is bad; merely that this is an entirely-foreseeable outcome). Some sites will transition to paywalls; others will die.

Premier sites -- NYT, wapo, gawker family, etc -- will be able to do direct deals with advertisers. That takes both a dedicated salesforce, a draw, and frequent users. Mid-market sites like this will almost certainly not be able to do so.

See also Josh at Talking Points Memo's writing about transitioning to a mostly subscriber-supported model.
`.entries()` returns an iterator one can use directly in for-of loops:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NodeList/en...
It's substantially more than two weeks for people who get a worse case of it, by the way. I had a mild case and was off for two weeks. If you get a more severe case, and especially if you need hospitalization, you're looking at at least a month of recovery. This virus attacks your lungs, which take a lot longer to recover from than your typical cold or even flu. The best comparison as to how long you're out of commission for is pneumonia.
I read an article on NPR [1] this morning about a guy giving his doctoral dissertation over Zoom. It was broken into by someone putting porn up on the screen and then a few racial epithets as well. I don’t think it’s unfair to criticize them if this is allowed to happen on their service. Yes we need to keep it civil and yes acknowledge that they are working on fixing it but, given the type of service they offer, I think things like security should have had more focus before they launched rather than dealing with it after the fact.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/04/03/826129520/a-must-for-millions...
The Rust documentation was not the reason I started with Rust but it was an important reason why I stuck with it and it was what helped me over the initial bump. The chapter about ownership and borrowing in the Rust Book was particularly helpful and it was
nice to see it evolve and improve over time.
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Yes but really only when the employee manages employees now and will manage employees in the US (the US company should already have employees) or the employee possesses truly advanced and proprietary technical or scientific knowledge.
I don't agree with this. Right now we're locking down to get R0 well under 1.0. With its super strict lockdown, Wuhan got it down to supposedly 0.3. That means number of cases goes down by 70% or so roughly every five days. The goal is to get the case count down to in the range of dozens. The better job we do of stopping transmission, the quicker we get out of this phase.

Once the case count is sufficiently low, we just need R0 to be less than 1. 0.9 is sufficient. That means that each case infects 0.9 people on average. To do that, we're going to need everyone to wear masks, stop having big gatherings, aggressive rapid testing, and electronic and human contact tracing.

The low case count we're going for with the lockdown does two things. First, it stops mass death and hospital overload. Second, with fewer cases, you can actually allocate the manpower to trace all of them thoroughly.
are you envisioning some mechanism to prevent people from having filet mignon and caviar every night for dinner? I'm not poor, but my grocery purchases would change a lot if I didn't have to pay for it myself.
> While “3D CG” anime is becoming more popular — shows like Saint Seiya and Ultraman that are generated entirely on computers by 3D artists — most anime titles are still hand drawn.

Why are these the only two options, anyway?

"2D CG" (i.e. creating libraries of 2D "paper doll" parts for each visible angle + keyframe, rigging them together using tools like Flash, and getting automatic tweening out) is apparently a relatively inexpensive process, used by shoestring-budget-per-title Western media companies like Hasbro Studios.

I think a 2DCG process may have been used a few times as a stylistic choice by Gainax (or they may have been fudging it using "2D-rotoscoped 3DCG"; not sure), but it doesn't seem like any studio has looked into it as a budget-saving technique.
Former SRE in Hamburg, Germany, laid off on the 27th of March. :(

Looking for data engineering roles

email at alex at alexandarnarayan dot com
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Interesting, thank you for sharing that. It reminds me of this approach called "PIRL" by Facebook AI. They framed the problem to learn invariant representations. You might find it interesting.

https://amitness.com/2020/03/illustrated-pirl/
Whether it is dangerous or not depends entirely on implementation details. There are ways to do runtime patching safely.

Obviously code that ends up in production kernel would never use unsafe methods.
Your post seems a little over the top.

Millions are still using Zoom. Its shares are still trading at an enormous premium.

The technical discussion is something altogether different, and people are allowed to have that, regardless of your consternation. And hopefully a better product comes out of it.

"if you use the definition of e2e in the article, nothing apple does is e2e either"

This bit of sad whataboutism is technical nonsense, though. No, Apple, and a number of other vendors, actually do this right.

I honestly think Zoom's engineers, who have made a number of rudimentary serious technical blunders, thought "end-to-end encryption" meant "it's encrypted during every stage of transport". I've seen a number of companies make this mistake.
>We'd be so much better off as a society if we could at least keep our people fed.

this is not a statement you can make without qualifying. it is either a useless tautology (society would be better if society were better), or an actual argument about policy and procedures (if wealthier people paid more taxes, we could feed poorer people and society would be better).

of course, no one says the second thing when that's what they mean because it is not self-evidently true. the core issue is complex and then the second- and third- order consequences are even more complex. this is to say nothing about which morals you presuppose about what a "better" society would be.

> I wish could out last this virus.

I have been wishing the opposite. my greatest fear is that the virus and soon-to-be depression will be used to push through some extreme political policy that will reshape America in a near-uncontrolled way.
Lockdown requires an eventual vaccine to really save lives, and at minimum universal testing to be effective, to prevent a second wave. Otherwise, once lockdown ends, we go exponential again.
>No, the worst case scenario is much worse than that

It's really not. People just don't seem to grasp that the rates for positive cases are drastically different than the rates for people infected. We aren't doing nearly enough testing to catch even all the symptomatic cases let alone the asymptomatic and mild ones.

The infection fatality rate is almost certainly under 1% and not everyone will get infected even in the worst case.

>Not to mention 1/100 is enough for a lot of people to result in at least one person they know dying.

Only if we use a very broad definition of what "know" means.