skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Letting it sweep through uncontrollably quickly by pretending it's business-as-normal out there will lead to many times more deaths due to hospital overutilization.

Our current actions are focused on the goal of leveling the curve, not putting up a wall. There aren't armed guards outside our homes preventing us from leaving. The grocery stores are open. We can come into contact with others to order just about all goods we've always been able to order. We can go to parks and trails and beaches. This will cause more infections, and we all know it; but thanks to these measures, ER visits in our city are down over 20%, allowing healthcare some capacity to deal with the influx infected people, and our daily growth of infections doesn't look exponential anymore.

This thing hospitalizes many young (under 40 years of age) people as well, and in our state that has been on lockdown for longer than many others, medical fellows and residents from unrelated specialties are being asked to help with COVID-19 cases. In a week or two at most it's expected they'll be required to help. If our government wasn't taking these defensive measures, we'd already need more space to store the bodies.
A simple web-server only does that: serving a website.
With a proper webpack setup, you get imports/exports, (node) module bundling, live reloading which all massively improve your development speed.

However I wouldn't recommend anyone to build their own webpack config if you don't know exactly what you're doing. Just use parcel: https://parceljs.org/
Is this sort of framing not a perfect example of cutting off your nose to spite your face?
So you worked 100% more/harder and still made less...what a perverse system.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22758227
Usually the only thing required to get a device on the supported list is an active maintainer that can support that device and do the work for the build files, etc.

And I'd say usually when a device is removed like this, it's not usually technical- it's because the maintainer(s) got a new phone / new job / new whatever and can't maintain the build target any longer.

Basically, what I'm saying is if it matters that much to you, step up and be a maintainer. If not, don't. I know it sucks, but there's not really much of an alternative here.
Look in the mirror to see how this became a partisan issue. The president made absolutely no partisan statements when mentioning his hope for the drug. It was those looking through dirt colored glasses that took things down that path.
From just glancing at a few articles, this site is a treasure trove of references to highly readable explanations on a variety of fairly advanced topics. In fact, just the links to Wilczek's grand unification overview [1], and Klauber's Student Friendly QFT book [2,3] made this site worth visiting for me.

Resources that explain physics in (relatively) simple language without requiring books worth of prior knowledge seem to always be targeted at school-level physics; this one is different.

Of course, this is no substitute for a university curriculum, but as a way to plug holes in one's understanding, the site seems genuinely high quality.

[1] http://frankwilczek.com/Wilczek_Easy_Pieces/172_Unification_...

[2] https://www.quantumfieldtheory.info/

[3] ftp://srdconsulting.com/USB_BackUp/Data/Articles/QFT/StudentFriendlyQFT/
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He heard something about these two drugs, and without any scientific evidence he announced it, causing a panic-grab for the drugs. Unfortunately even the CDC was saying we don't have evidence supporting it.
main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22758227
Unions negotiated great Cadillac plans for their members. I can’t believe MSFT doesn’t have a platinum plan with a $300 deductible, every tech company has great medical insurance benefits to be competitive in the employment market.
If you want accurate testing data, look to Germany or SK
The floating "Accessibility" button that perfectly covers the "Next" button on every page of the job application process is a really nice touch.
"I expect this loophole will be closed soon" What makes you think that?
I don't think frameworks make any difference in this regard. The most important thing to remember is that developers are people. Most everyone benefits from direction and guidance without regard for their seniority. Some of that guidance can be automated by applying appropriate limits or certain safeguards to the process, but is generally not something that can be outsourced directly to a tool. I think of that as something akin to letting a television parent your child.
Vereniging Van Vlaamse Vliegfissers aka Association of Flemish Fly Fishermen

I wasn't expecting that. ;)

But seriously, I was expecting some kind of explanation or corporate mission statement, but all I got was visual repetitions of VVVV showing up in various designs and architecture.

It's kind of cool.
Some of the papers being shared on r/COVID19 seem to be indicating that perhaps it has little effect once the disease has gotten severe, but if taken early, may reduce potential severity and time to recovery. Still early, but it seems like, if the results end up being true, it could be helpful in stemming the tide of the disease.
It seems likely that it’ll be a V-shaped recession, sharp drop followed by sharp recovery, unless there’s a complete mess made of economic policy like when the Fed turned a normal economic contraction into the Great Depression. Lots of people getting temporarily sick and permanently dead doesn’t destroy much physical capital and the casualties are disproportionately borne by those least engaged in the workforce.

> The 1957 Asian Flu Pandemic killed around 70 to 100 thousand people in the United States (the 57 flu was not as infectious or deadly as COVID-19). In the last quarter of 1957 the growth rate (on an annualized basis) was -4% and in the first quarter of 1958, -10%, the largest such decline in post WWII history, bigger even than in the financial crisis. By the third and fourth quarters of 1958, however, the growth rate had surged back up to nearly 10% and for the year as a whole GDP declined by less than 1%–a bad recession, 3rd worst by depth in post WWII history, but not unprecedented.

https://marginalrevolution.com/?s=1957+flu
That’s a enterprise integration, you can view participants’ LinkedIn profile which is very helpful if implemented right.

https://marketplace.zoom.us/apps/ex1KIG08R3-ctKCi65YePA
This is off topic. The OP is not about transferring a copy. It is about making multiple copies and distributing them simultaneously, a flagrant violation of copyright by any possible interpretation.
It's semi significant because some companies are curtailing their internship programs right now.
> It'll pay my mortgage, utilities, and keep me out of jail for driving without car insurance. That's about it.

That's the point.

It's not intended to replace your job. It's there to keep you afloat until you find your next job.
No you don't, that's not how webpack works. You can use webpack's live reloading during development, but that's it. It's just a module bundler
The problem with frameworks like React is that the version you’re using and its API will become outdated in no time. We started using React in 2014 and their approach to state management changed at least three times since then. Not to mention build systems, tooling and libraries. In my experience that leads to a large fraction of developer time (10-30 percent I’d say) just going into often pointless refactoring that is necessary to keep up with the framework ecosystem, because you don’t want to run “legacy code”. Most large organizations seem to accept that but for smaller ones it can be quite a burden.

The beauty of the native JS APIs is that they are relatively stable: things that worked 10 years ago still work today, and can be done in the same way. Also, standard adherence in browsers has become much better so if you do not need to support legacy browsers like IE you can get away with writing pure JS without any polyfills or frameworks.
"What am I missing?" American citizenship?
Tapioca is an open-source [1] slack bot aimed at helping teams overcome the challenges created by social distancing.

It works inside of Slack. Once installed, Tapioca automatically creates chat groups between employees and suggests conversation topics to help break the ice.

To be eligible for a group, all a user needs to do is join the Tapioca channel. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Tapioca will randomly group teammates and invite them to chat.

We developed Tapioca to help facilitate communication across our company and help our team to overcome the social barriers of isolation. We hope it can help other startups too.

1- https://github.com/yuca-live/tapioca
That's valid criticism, but it has nothing to do with partisanship.
Things are going to be bad until people can go back to work, that much is certain. Whether there is a speedy bounce back after things are back to normal, or if we experience economic stagnation, is anyones guess. The metric to watch is m2, the federal reserve's measure of the velocity of money. Basically, a healthy economy in our system is one where money changes hands quickly. Saving money is bad for the economy, which is why the federal reserve has the mandate of maintaining steady positive inflation. Unfortunately, this availability of this measure is lagged a month or two. It could be that when people go back to work, they go on a spending spree after being cooped up for months, or it could be that pandemic scares people into being more fiscally conservative.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-rally-re...
You best start believing in recessions.

You're in one.
One option you have right now is to use the external API and embed it on a page.

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/api.md

I've done this and created a UI for adding rooms, which is in my control.
> It's sad to see scientific method destroyed by politics and social networks.

If there were such a thing as phase 5 trials with at least a million participants, it would be completely insane to use anything that had only undergone phase 3 clinical trials. People should make rational decisions based on the best evidence that's available at the time. Whether or not it's rational to take HCQ, there's nothing magical about phase 3 studies.

Antiviral drugs only really work in the first couple days of the illness, and with this disease you usually don't get symptoms until at least day 5. And in the current environment, no one is getting put on prescription antivirals until at least day 10, and usually even later. To me this raises the question of whether clinical trials are really even possible right now in the first place, or whether making decisions based off in vitro data is the best we can do for right now.
It's mentioned in the US Constitution, Copyright Clause.
Surely as this comes from the FB lib zoom are not an outlier here? Why the sudden pearl clutching at zoom when everyone is using facebook, google and any other site that has facebook tracking built in?
That's not really the case. Many complex, obsolete or not timing critical instructions are microcoded, but the large majority of instructions executed by the cpu are not. They are translated to microops, but that's a different thing, normally there is a single microop that executes the bulk of the instruction.
Yes

1) The immediate impact is the retail and entertainment sectors, which employ a large amount of the population. The loss of incomes and consumer confidence from those people will cascade. They'll buy less cars and appliances. Car companies will in turn buy less [everything else]; anecdotally one of the world's largest automakers has called a worldwide stop to new purchases - of anything. This cascade will affect a majority of the economy. What made the 2001 tech crash bad was that all the startups that had other startups as their customers saw their revenues evaporate. Think about the 1000 variants of MarTech tools today.

2) More 1930s than 2008 unless governments act in a hyper competent manner. Ray Dalio has been writing about how the next recession will not be solvable through QE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raydalio/detail/recent-activity/...

3) No one knows

4) Currently: print money and worry about the consequences later. It's novel to see them "helicopter drop" cash directly to consumers. It's much more fair than just buying financial assets, which enriches investors first. (They're still doing lots of that, just not exclusively)
The president called his alleged mishandling of the situation a "Democratic hoax". He didn't call COVID-19 a hoax or the treatment we're discussing
Copy all. Yes it is missing the breakout rooms. That is indeed a really excellent feature on Zoom.
Not to mention all the assets that would be freed up for younger generations.
There are many writers who deserved the Nobel prize but never received it. Joyce, Kafka, Borges, Proust, Tolstoy, to name a few. The prize has been so consistently politicized over the years that it's hard to see it as a measure of much of anything other than how much a bunch of Swedish academics happen to like that author.

If it were up to me I might pick Thomas Pynchon or Cormac McCarthy over DeLillo for a Nobel prize, but there are many other worthy non-American candidates
Yes... but in one case the software is entirely FOSS and readily deployable via a docker image. The Zoom server is not FOSS, or even accessible through their GitHub.

https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet
To use a very celtic phrase, it's a shame Trump is such a gobshite he couldn't help himself but to promote this as a miracle cure before the science was settled.
I'm using far more ridiculous, buzzwordy and complex tools in my non-commercial projects though. (In fact, that's usually the point of those projects.)
I am very eager to see the number of handsets supported increase. Right now only my Galaxy S4 is supported; I would like to put this on my Nokia 3.1 Plus!
Uh, I can't believe that their answer is "yes.....and our server has access to them."

Which is it Jitsi team? You can't have your users' cake and eat it, too.
> "We want to start by apologizing for the confusion we have caused by incorrectly suggesting that Zoom meetings were capable of using end-to-end encryption. Zoom has always strived to use encryption to protect content in as many scenarios as possible, and in that spirit, we used the term end-to-end encryption."

Excerpt from their previous release above, only a few hours earlier.

Glad to hear they are starting to make improvements but waiting for public backlash to fix issues is a bad sign.
> when we hire somebody familiar with React, they can hit the ground running and start contributing immediately

This is one of the selling points, but never really realizable in a large scale project. I've seen people become productive with an in-house template system, vanilla javascript + custom libraries even faster than on a "standard" React project.

As they emphasize in their own docs, React is not a framework. The amount of moving pieces you need around it for a working project ends up being more complex than your cut-to-size custom framework. There are many other positives to adopting standard tools, but this one is a red herring.
I had the exact same experience with DeLillo. The opening scenes with the boy travelling in trains with his face glued to the window as the train "smashed through the darkness" got me since I used to travel by suburban trains a lot. From there, a portrait of a man emerges that's the opposite of the usual biography. Biographies tend to be portraits drawn with a strong hand, dark pencil, clearly outlined, full of details and colors and leave no ambiguity. If intimate moments are at one end of the spectrum and their consequences are the far other end, DeLillo moves between the two like only a true craftsman can.

Of course, there is a gimmick in the book. I didn't realize that at first. I don't remember at what point and like usual gimmicks it hits you and you react as you realize whose story this is.

As an engineer, I live in a world full of definitions and determinate actions and consequences. Literature is what I have access to that constantly reminds me that there is more that meets the eye and truths are relative. Don DeLillo's literature ranks right up there.
with emphasis on "should". Most people started to argue with the low number of deaths, when there were 5. Now there are at least 10 and about 100 people unaccounted in statistics...
The President shouldn't be recommending unproven drugs, he should be communicating what we know and what to do now.
Facts about Covid-19 by an Anonymous Swiss Doctor
Everybody knows, recession is coming if not here already. Doubling the money supply will only exacerbate the problem long term, leading to greater unemployment when the dollar needs to be reigned in again like in the 1970's to avoid runaway inflation.

The FED's balance sheet now hold almost every asset imaginabe, interest rates are 0% and they are out of tools.

1. Globally? China's growth rate was faked for at least a decade, so if that comes out that the 6.8% rate was fake, that instantly drags the World's second largest economy down. [1]

2. It is already BY FAR worse than the 2008 recession in every way. This is a health, economic and societal issue.

3. Inflation is ugly and usually avoided at all costs. The world is diving head first into the shallow end of the pool by printing unlimited money. Over the next year prices will sky rocket and many will starve. E.g. Egg prices are at record levels [2].

4. Stop printing money to help the short term. Build hospitals, NOW and Return to a sane monetary policy (will never happen).

[1] https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/new-study-shin...

[2] https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/pybshellegg.pdf
Hi Matt,

This is unrelated, but can you please get rid of hCaptcha? It is an awful experience and it feels like there is a conflict of interest with including it vs captcha. You are now incentivized to push more users towards fraudulent vs non-fraudulent to make more money. I'm not saying that's what is happening, but it is a slippery slope.

I already dislike Captcha, but hCaptcha is somehow much worse.
In addition, how long will there be a trickle effect of people too afraid of a Covid comeback to return to the workforce.
Why refactor if you don't see any value in it? There is no reason you have to refactor.
how about:

CNCF's Cortex v1.0: scalable, fast Prometheus API implementation ready for prod (grafana.com)

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Software Fault Prevention by Language Choice: Why C Is Not My Favorite Language [pdf]
I don't mean to be overly snarky, but removing authentication from all computers and servers would also help everyone (if only just a little bit) be more effective. It's still a bad idea, crisis or not.
Let's not jump the gun yet - not even been peer-reviewed.
But there will be a lot more job openings for those that can.
Singapore's coronavirus struggle shows colossal task of global containment
Same, self-employed and the rates were so extreme I went without health insurance.

We need Medicare for all, desperately. Health insurance should not be tied to employment.

I even had to skip COBRA during one period because that was out of reach.
Disclaimer: Thoroughly unqualified to answer this question

That said, no one knows what's going to happen so allow me to toss in my speculations

Bearish:

1), 2) It'll be worse than 2008 because a lot of people cannot work, and we run a consumption-based economy. People spend less during economic uncertainty (falling rates is an attempt to minimize this effect).

3) Cascading effects could be very bad (think 2+ months out).
Everything was green and good and many businesses took on cheap debt to finance operations. When people aren't buying your products/services businesses will resort to layoff to minimize costs and when that doesn't magically go away because we're still quarantined and spending less, they'll have to slowly liquidate assets or default on their loans.

We've already seen a few corporate bonds downgraded and there will be more to come. Retail, Food, and Hospitality are going to have a very bad time lenders overexposed to those sectors will likely need a bailout and some consolidation.

4) Governments will keep printing money and will pass bills to provide hobbled safety nets for people all over the world. Many people will fight systems that attempt to provide financial safety nets the reduce the incentive to work so we'll end up with some crappy versions and a lot of QE. Federal reserves will buy some more corporate bonds because banks will be reluctant to touch them for a while. Long term effect of that is anyone's guess but expect some currency wonkiness

5) 2nd wave of this virus hits us shortly after we declare "everything is fine" and people freak out again

Bullish:
We get very lucky and 1) Find a cure soon, and/or 2) It dies out after some herd immunity similar to SARS
Yes, you're right, there's a possible third category of leader by necessity but it could be argued that this is a subtype of leader by title which is why I didn't understand your comment on first read.

Maybe leader by "position" or "circumstance" is a better term as it covers the situations like "most experienced in a team" even if that experience is only a few months more than the person they're helping and even if they don't have the title to match.

I still agree with the parent commenter that distinguished between _true_ leaders and those who've been placed or defaulted into the role.
Despite all the rhetoric, no country manufactures like the USA, and the USA was said to have been in 'manufacturing recessing' well before The Current Mess started. Now the price of oil has tanked (ha ha), real estate markets are beginning to groan as open houses are empty and purchase-money mortgages are down 24% from year-ago quarter, and of course an enormous percentage of Americans are unemployed, lacking both work and healthcare. Yes, yes there already is a sudden and deep recession, the scale of which seems likely to exceed 2008 in both speed of onset and depth of bottom.

I don't see government responses as being much different from 2008, ie bail out the large institutions and markets and leave average people in debt, and solutions like that tend to make for very gradual recoveries, barring a sudden attack of common sense, the window for which is already closing. I would therefore submit that we may expect the economic climate to take a year or more before government officials are able to lie believably about seeing promise on the horizon.
Yeah, I think it's not quite correct to say he made it partisan but he absolutely politicised the science here.
In today's times its difficult to speak out freely without being verbally and even physically attacked by others, Switzerland is not much different in it. Even though, I do not agree on all details, many points are not highlighted by the mainstream media shown in this aggregation of 'facts'. Potentially all on purpose because media thrives on panic events?

One of the major critics recently was an open letter questioning the imbalances of scientific discourse and socio-economic consequences leading to legal regulations, for any further details read it up on: https://swprs.org/open-letter-from-professor-sucharit-bhakdi...