skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Right -- which is why that isn't a sufficient condition for restoring normal life, where people can go to weddings, concerts, festivals, church services, sporting events, and other large gatherings. To get back to that, we need the virus to be gone, or we need herd immunity. The only way we are going to get there fast is if we fail badly and let tons of people die unnecessarily. The goal is to do it slowly so we can take care of sick people properly.
I meant follow dollars in to understand dollars out. There will be some reallocation between publishers, but follow dollars in and you'll see what will most likely happen to ecpms out. The latter is a trailing measure.

iow, you will probably get more views, but dollars will probably follow the economy.
Why publish a document as a PDF on the web? Sharing content is what HTML on the web was designed for...

Also, what is your basis for saying Zoom has the best performance?
In practice, it's hard to enforce 6 feet when standing in line and anyone who is sick if spreading viral droplets in your vicinity that are carried by wind. I would be concerned having to stand in that line with potential Covid cases.
I recently tried Jami and think it was a great user experience. I love its decentralized nature, but just have nobody to use it with. I'm now using Discord and think its new screen sharing feature is very handy for lessons. The good thing about Discord is that its very popular.
Any idea what this old IBM machine is?
I agree. It’s not great news in that it shouldn’t have to be this way. We’ve
Our company instituted a smart policy that only management need come to the office because they tend to be extroverts unlike the ordinary developers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinovirus

> They are lytic in nature and are among the smallest viruses, with diameters of about 30 nanometers. By comparison, other viruses, such as smallpox and vaccinia, are around ten times larger at about 300 nanometers; while flu viruses are around 80–120 nm.

The smaller the virus, the easier it slips through a mask's fibers.
ohh i remember those days. Was using Xsan with 2 xserves attached to infortrend eonstors. I spent so long trying to get it stabilized and reformatted the entire FS so many times. Eventually got rid of osxserver and learned how to install gentoo linux on the xservers. Tracked all the issues to a faulty riser card in one of the boxes (but had to use linux to get the low level details)! Eventually went GPFS and trashed the xserve hardware as well.
Nembro, Italy. Pop. 11000, 152 deaths. 1.38% of the population died. In March.
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There is also the massive economic costs of everyone who gets sick. With uncontrolled pandemic, something like 5-10% of people would be out sick, 20% of those in the hospital. Plus, all the people who are caring for the sick or quarantined.

Essential businesses which are in person would be more vulnerable. There is a significant risk that health care, manufacturing, transportation, or grocery stores would need to shut down because too many workers are out sick and the rest are afraid to come to work.
This is a great resource. I've had to dig through a lot of StackOverflow threads to figure these out. Great to have lots of current answers in one place.
I have been laid off yesterday. I decided three years ago to settle for a 1800€ job in a public institution, thinking that I could relax and escape the stress of freelance or small startups. For reasons too complicated to put into words right now it has been the most stressful years of my life, burnout/depression/loss of social support, that job took everything from me. There was a political/adminstrative change in the structure of that public institution and a clique of women set things up so that one of them - who has no IT skills, no coding skills, just a community manager - could get the budget that supports my role.

That budget was going to end in a year anyway. They just shotgunned me in the knees in the goddam apocalypse and we are talking public sector. Things must be savage in "the real world", right now.

I got a phone call from a local politician telling me that "It's not your performance or your skills or you it's just a budgetary reason. If I see anything that fits your profile I 'll let you know" (like... letting me keep the job I have been doing for three years ?). My job is entirely supported by a higher federal entity, I cost them 0 bucks, and I am there to carry on missions for that entity. It's truly cronyism at its finest.

And total lack of humanity.

All my close coworkers are up in arms and letters to local politicians are being written this week-end.

Today is the first day of a two week vacation (I officially am out in three weeks but the lockdown won't be very productive considering) and I was still in 2 zoom meetings talking about branding and destination management strategies at a small country level and how we can best help and support our sector to rebound later in the year. It's mind blowing. Was sending technical thingie to a coworker at 1 in the morning. They haven't even told my n+1 that I was let go.

Good thing there is a social net in my country, I am looking for to rest, find myself back. It's going to hit me real hard next week when I realize I have no social support in lockdown and all the projects I was working on are just... poof... gone.

edit: not covid19 related

edit2: so, total loss of trust in our representatives/politicians for a while

edit3: sorry for that broken english, I am running on fumes, I somehow couldn't sleep more than 2 hours last night :D
Oh, no. No. No. I vaguely recall the countless hours I've sunk playing this... Please, don't drag me into this again... Why?!

EDIT: Just to be clear, the game is awesome and the comment is made in jest ;)
I doubt the two are related. This is just the continuation of the bottom falling out of digital media publishing. Mic.com and a few other companies went bust last year.

This wasn't a sudden change, it was the result of media companies putting their faith in social networks to distribute their content instead of trying to organically build their own audiences through say, email.

Social networks de-emphasized "news" links in their feed algorithms over the past few years, so that impacted the number of impressions those posts would receive. And beyond that, users weren't interested in clicking a link and then having to come back to FB to comment on the article.
Is there any reasonable explanation for why this scheme was designed in this manner?
This was a feature of project gasbuggy (nuclear fracking):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gasbuggy
Oh that's cute, you think we don't have enough housing. No, the problem is that wealthy individuals hoard housing and refuse to allow people who need it to access it. A wealth tax would likely solve the problem entirely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IBM_products

I'm guessing something weird from this list like IBM 939: Electrostatic Address Label Printer.
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I see. My point is they'll be different, regardless of the "incorporation format". I.e. the instruments and the people will still be there.

Unless people stop going to concerts/performances, well then the equipment goes to the basement.
As long as there is some woody material at the bottom it will work most of the time. So get a couple of stems in case a few don't root.
That doesn't quite seem the same. PDSA describes two phases - Plan/Do and Study/Adjust - resulting in two sets of changes to a system. They differ in the sense of big vs little, forward looking vs. backward looking, hence four total. The methodology I described results in one set of changes to the system, with a very different distinction between measurement vs. analysis vs. planning (which in PDSA subsumes the other two in the first phase). I'd say that PDSA is very different from OODA, but that's why it shouldn't even be part of this discussion.
> I didn't expect this issue to become political until I observed it happening.

There seem to be people (on both sides) who care more about "winning" against the political "enemy" than they do about literally keeping people from dying. That frightens me, maybe more than the virus does.
A one-and-done installer for an existing browser is too sandboxed to work as he describes, afaik.

If you ran local code and added some plugins with permissions, it would be possible, maybe.
We use Webex at work and it's pretty reliable. Only issue I can think of off the top of my head is on Windows, Webex will sometimes freeze. Some colleagues have attributed that to certain bluetooth devices. I've personally not had that happen but have been in meetings where it did.

Edit: Ok, that took all of 10 seconds to get the first downvote. Seriously?
I believe there are several dangers, some more likely than others.

1. If you've enabled voice verification on a service, like your bank account, recordings of your voice or AI generated recordings (based on you saying Hello, Yes, No, etc.) could be used to attempt to access those records. Even if you don't hear a lot about that today, I believe it's coming as a threat vector and will be more frequent.

2. I have a good friend whose family was scammed out of several thousand by one of those "Your child has been kidnapped" type scams. Allowing people who aren't authorized to call you enables these types of interactions. What happens further down the line when AIs are able to imitate the voices of your loved ones?

Some would see these comments as over-reacting which I totally understand. I'm just pointing out that there are potential threats, and not assigning any probabilities to them.

I do run a spam blocking app called CallStop that can try, it might solve your problem:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/callstop-call-manager/id145589...

It requires unknown callers to send you a whitelist request or enter a PIN to call you.
What I learned in school growing up was that if I lose a bunch of money gambling at the casino with my credit card, I don't get a free bailout from the government. But maybe things have changed?
On Demand Go Binaries
How does that even remotely vindicate Zoom if it shows they bungled even the non-end-to-end encryption ?
Covid-19 and Health Care’s Digital Revolution [NEJM]
I would fully agree about their main website :)

but, yeah, its a website they use to sell stuff. Advertisements tend to work better if they don't get stale.

On the other hand, the doc.* website (its on its own sub-domain) is almost boring and just entirely functional. And that is what techies actually use.
I'm fortunate enough to say that I haven't.

I work in tech for a media and publishing company. We're classified as an essential business in Ontario. We are all working remotely--editorial teams, production, tech, everyone save some of the press operators.

We have reduced to 4-days a week, and so we had to take a 20% pay cut for a 6 week term. I think they're hoping to buffer our collective coffers in case this is extended and ad revenue falls further.

On another note, our digital readership is setting internal records.

My partner works for a Canadian SaaS firm based out of Saskatoon. About 30% of them were laid off including her.

They had a heartfelt meeting with the founder but as soon as they got the official word the machine locked her out. She still meets over video for drinks with some of her coworkers.

Being that her company works closely with the restaurant industry we're hoping it won't be too hard for them to ramp up again, but that remains to be seen.
You have to read past the first sentence

"A food desert is an area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food,[1][2][3] in contrast with an area with higher access to supermarkets or vegetable shops with fresh foods, which is called a food oasis.[4] The designation considers the type and quality of food available to the population, in addition to the accessibility of the food through the size and proximity of the food stores.[5]

In 2010, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that 23.5 million Americans live in "food deserts"
Same problem here. But luckily, on Macs it requires macOS 10.12, hence I can't run it anymore with 10.11 :-)
I'm on a Read-mostly DB. Also, I have SSD backed ARC and its recent ZFS with a lot of memory (512+GB IIRC)
getting a 404 on the list archive at https://lists.libreplanet.org/archive/html/remotecommunicati...
What is a highly leveraged worker? Is it someone that has no savings account? If so, what does letting them fail look like to you?

To me, letting an over-leveraged worker 'fail' (starve, die, become homeless, whatever it is) is categorically different than letting an over-leveraged business fail.
> As opposed to, what - exactly?

Putting profits over people. Which is what capitalism, and as a result, American corporations end up idealizing.

You really think Bezos gives a shit about some warehouse worker? Over generating more profit so he can be richer? I've got news for you bud.

> I really don't think it is helpful, nor informative

Only if you want to protect monied interests, or you're one of those temporarily embarrassed billionaires...
> I don't understand what is expected here. Nobody can get masks or sanitizer.

I'm currently in France under quarantine. Almost all supermarkets got their workers mask or protection screens, same for bakeries, same for police forces.

Amazon workers still don't have any protection at all. None of them.
Would you pay monthly if they removed it?
Lucky bastard!
I'm on a read-mostly DB. few clients, but constant loads. More inserts than updates.
Discord is nonfree. BigBlueButton is good for classes and screensharing.
The societal cost of covid19 vs social distancing depends on the time scale. Three to six months? Covid19 is almost certainly worse. Nine to twelve months? Fifteen months? Two years? Strict social distancing will be much much worse at those time scales. People will starve and segments of the logistical network necessary to sustain the medical industry will be in danger of collapsing. Not to mention the enormous strain on governments and services caring for tens if not hundreds of millions of people.

Lucky for us, South Korea has shown that this thing is beatable, even without a vaccine. Exhaustive testing, contact tracing, and enhanced hygiene measure are a great follow up for social distancing (though I have no idea what's going to happen in southeast Asia or Africa). But larger countries will require more supplies and time to manage the virus. The question I haven't heard the answer to yet is how long can the shutdown last before it effects our ability to treat covid19 and provide for basic necessities? I'd rather not we not figure that one out the hard way. We need to be looking for active solutions and this article provides some good ideas.
Doesn't work on mobile.
> I want to close by saying that many people are doing the best they can during a very hard time. This includes Zoom’s engineers, who are dealing with an unprecedented surge of users, and somehow managing to keep their service from falling over. They deserve a lot of credit for this. It seems almost unfair to criticize the company over some hypothetical security concerns right now.

I'll have all the sympathy for Zoom's employees who are probably having mandatory overtime in order to keep things running smoothly and to patch things up in response to all the (very legitimate) concerns being brought up, but at the end of the day, Zoom is a for-profit company, not a charity. A for-profit company with links to China [0] that's in a very unusual situation right now and potentially coming in contact with a lot of sensitive information as a great deal of people have come to rely on them. I don't think they deserve to be cut any slack and honestly, the more people find and use other alternatives, preferably open source ones (Jitsi Meet [1], BigBlueButton [2], Jami [3], among others) the better.

[0] https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto...

[1] https://meet.jit.si/

[2] https://bigbluebutton.org/

[3] https://jami.net/
If you like this, you'll love Transport Fever 2.

Apologies in advance.
Brand new list today. No messages. No archive.
He was not alone in literature of dreaming of a socialist utopia, enforced by a military dictatorship (Starfleet, in this instance).

The Culture novels also dive deeply here, and are IMO better literature, despite both canons carefully avoiding the sticky problems associated with scarce or finite resources (which is easy to avoid in storytelling if not philosophy, once you’ve gone post-scarcity). I think Roddenberry patched over it by not having precious metals being able to be produced by replicators, so the rest of the unwashed not-military-dictatorship can still engage in trade.

I’ve still never seen a solution to post-scarcity finite resource allocation, though. Banks dodged it wholly for the Culture. Not even Doctorow, who grazed up against it in Down and Out, has tackled it head-on. You can’t really have eg Georgism if you don’t have a system of money.
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"Clojure, currently is the most widely used Lisp dialect in the industry."

Citation needed.

I would bet money that this isn't true. There are a lot of places using proper Lisps that stay out of the public eye.
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That makes the assumption that people don’t get bored doing nothing, and that peoples only motivation for work is money.

I’ve always felt that’s a very reductive view of humanity. Boiling us down to simple automatons that only seek to eat and reproduce, nothing more. I would hope the vibrancy of human civilisation would be enough to show that isn’t true.

Unfortunately people that seem to have little faith in humanity, alway believe that they, and their peers, are special and that the rest of humanity is a lost cause. That always makes me a little sad.
They literally drill a hole into the ground and stick a nuke in it. The surrounding rock is vaporized, but eventually the pressure and heat is low enough that the surrounding earth can contain it. You're left with either a big void in the earth, or if the nuke wasn't buried deep enough the void collapses and makes a crater on the surface.

You might have thought that there was some giant underground complex, but it's really just mining equipment drilling a hole and a bunch of sensors strung out feeding data to recording devices that are a long way away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_nuclear_weapons_te...

Edit: to clarify, they don't reuse holes for repeat testing (that I'm aware of), they just drill a new one a few miles apart. So a "testing site" is just a bunch of land that the government owns and is willing to never use it for anything else.
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Welcome to message control and public relations. It's what we worry about now, and it's what we do as a society/species.

In my opinion, perception management is more important than content and substance for 99.9% of companies and executives.

This is the thing causing most problems in society today, in my personal opinion.
I think Amazon is a good indictment of capitalism in general because by capitalism's standards, they're massively successful, wealthy, and huge. But that is a direct result of how much work they've been able to get out of their workers at any externalized cost - to workers' health, to the state in welfare benefits for workers' poverty wages, to endless shipping's environmental costs, to harming the epidemic response by staying open for nonessentials.
The problem, I believe, is that until we have a vaccine there's always the risk of new infection waves popping up from asymptomatic cases in high density population centers.

That's why I'm unsure about how slow this "re-open" would have to be, and how long it would take for things to start looking "normal" again.
> There is no way that much gas at ~4 bar is safe. It would destroy all nearby buildings if it failed.

Wat?

This is a launchpad, the safety assumption at play here is that this vehicle (and in fact a much larger vehicle with this vehicle as a second stage) can be filled with liquid methane and liquid oxygen, explode (with the energy of a small nuclear bomb, a few kilotons), and no one will get hurt. The area around the launchpad is kept clear during testing by local law enforcement for this very reason.

Hours before the test that failed, in a different test, the same test article was pressurized with room temperature nitrogen, likely up to ~7 bar (based on previous tests for which we were given figures).

For comparison, this is the same location that the following test was performed at, all the additional structures you see have been added recently by SpaceX as ground support equipment and they are undoubtedly perfectly aware and ok with the idea that they might be damaged in the case of a failure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYb3bfA6_sQ

As for the rest of your post, yes, if you assume the people running the tests were incompetent then they would be incompetent. We can't fully rule out the idea of course, but it's far from the only option. Most likely the failure was not nearly so simple as "we forgot to pressurize a tank" - particularly considering that the bottom tank was clearly pressurized as it was venting.

The most reasonable suggestion for a proximate cause I've seen, for instance, is that the pressure release valve on the lower tank iced over and leaked until the pressure was no longer enough to support the above mass and it failed. This is supported by the evidence that we know they were having valve issues related to cryogenic liquids earlier in the day, and that the bottom tank was inexplicably venting for roughly 13 straight minutes before the failure. It doesn't quite line up with Elon's suggestion that this was possibly a test configuration error.
Older folks seem to be having the most polarized reactions, to be sure. My mother is terrified and letting her next-door neighbor do her shopping for her so her contact is limited to a single person. There's certainly no consensus among older people that they want to take their chances for the sake of the economy.
Hi Peter,

I'm an E2 employee currently outside the US.
My visa is expired (3 month visa) - I applied for a new one in February when visiting family - it is in Administrative processing.

I've been working remotely all this time.
Now I've been partially furloughed and asked to work 3 days a week.

In another answer about furlough (L1) you mentioned one cannot work part time.

Wanted to ask if my remote work with pending visa is OK, and if part-time work is allowed while on E2.

Thank you for doing this!
your network might not loose packets,

but somewhere between yourself and any other node in the internet, packet loss is quite common.