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This makes so much sense. I've stopped doing in-depth technical interviews for precisely this reason. Instead, I take the developer out for lunch and spend an afternoon discussing our software stack and business with them. It always gives be better results. There is no stress. I don't want to see their code, but I do want to understand how they think and work.
It's called bankruptcy protection. Companies can still operate under bankruptcy protection, while the ownership issues are sorted out. Yes it's disruptive, but it doesn't blow up the company like you're implying.
With the updated estimates of R0 it would take until around 80%+ to develop herd immunity.
My dad worked at DeKa for a few years. There are a collection of things, such as compulsory gifts that employees need to work on in their personal time for Dean, that make me think “douche” is an acceptable descriptor. However, I helped start an FRC team over a decade ago and my family is still active in mentoring. It’s a great program with great results.
You sorta evaluate the soft skills while evaluating the hard skills - how they approach a question, how they solve the problem, etc. Our general rule hiring was hire sharp people, but no assholes - at least nobody more of an asshole than I am ;)

I think the biggest problem is actually whiteboard coding problems - nobody does that in real life.
There is an official controller that all robots need to use per the rules. It's (or at least was ~5 years ago when I last competed) a National Instruments cRIO.
I think this decision was made based on NI giving a large cost break on the units.
Supported languages for the cRIO include LabView and Java, making those two the prominent languages that teams use.
It's true that the preferred idiomatic approach to implementing error types hasn't stabilized. However, that "churn" has all been in third-party crates, so

> a lot of this churn could have happened "in userspace": different approaches to async or error handling would be library changes rather than language changes.

is exactly what has been happening, for error handling.
Disney+ is more than just a revenue stream. It is a sales channel for their brand. If you have Disney+ you are going to watch more Disney content... and if you watch more content you are going to buy more merchandise (0). Modern Disney is a brand company making money from selling merchandise (1).

Even more importantly Disney+ is a platform. Most little girls in western countries (3) already dream of being a princess. So if you provide a channel which parents can subscribe to put their kids in front of the TV... that is a tremendous value proposition for both sides. Parents because kids are out of their hair while watching family friendly shows and disney because see my previous point.

0. In my humble opinion. I have not done any research, but having disney+ -> watching more disney -> becoming a fan and buying their stuff makes sense to me.

1. $54.7bn from merchandise in 2019 with next highest revenue source bringing in $24.8bn - https://www.statista.com/topics/1824/disney/

3. Like every single 5 yo girl I've met... which is actually not a big number, so maybe not most little girls, but still a pretty sizeable portion.
IMF says 500 million people worldwide who were out of poverty will or have returned to poverty because of the recession.

It's a relevant perspective, but I can't seem to find any source for IMF claiming that. Do you have one or are you referring to research publicized by Oxfam[1]?

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52211206
I mean you could go work for them? McDonalds is highly optimized fast food but they have a quality issue. Breakfast and chicken nuggets are about the only thing they do well. Walmart is getting better with e-commerce and online groceries. I think that’s the future. If in were Bezos, I’d be worried about Walmart. Target needs to step up their game too especially around grocery delivery and pickup.
This is an emotionally charged political comment. If you only watch CNN and read the NYT, you might think this.

But if you look at the curve, and per-capita death numbers, the US seems to be doing a good job managing the crisis relative to its size.

Has anyone in the US died because they didn’t have a ventilator? Not that I’m aware of. Washington State is already on the downslope.

The history books will be very kind to Trump for his response, much to the chagrin of an inexplicably biased literati class rooting against him.
It seems you’re presenting a False dilemma. Doing nothing isn’t the only alternative. Sweden is one example of a different approach.
Yet, “you get what you pay for” is still true...
Amazon is building its own Coronavirus testing lab
It requires Matlab for instance.
Shelter in place orders likely caused a chunk of that.
They're on the edge of what they can do with that and not kick off an inflationary spiral.
It’s has a fatality rate of 1/7? Be reasonable man.
Taiwan seems to have done it.

Compare NYC and Taipai public transit during virus it's stark:

https://i.redd.it/ufezdm2hjul41.jpg

https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/commute...
There’s evidence the lockdowns are actually REDUCING other deaths, such as from car accidents, air pollution or violent crimes:

https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/smart-cities...

https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/03/15/2024248/will-corona...
That's true but that seems to be an inevitable consequence of the Rust ownership model. Which means this is just another example of where the "one big innovation" in Rust just isn't orthogonal to other language design issues, as you suggested it should be.
> when a developer is hired, it is incredible the extent to which the process will ignore the human being and focus exclusively on algorithmic/technical aspects. It's a disguised IQ test, and we all know it.

> What's crazy is most people hiring will even throw away your ability to learn and adapt!

These conflict. At the very least, the second quote illustrates that the hiring people are not aware that the interview is meant to be a disguised IQ test.
cisco is not from China.
Zoom is from China.
End of story.
> The default mode network (DMN) is an internally directed system that correlates with consciousness of self, and the dorsal attention network (DAT) is an externally directed system that correlates with consciousness of the environment

DMN : self awareness :: DAT : non-self awareness. The distinction is at least partly hard wired. If there's a self, there's a "my".

Another name for consciousness is self-awareness, which requires a self. And what else could a "self" be but a neural construct? This article is a theory of its construction.
But when do you open up again? We can't keep the lockdown until there are no cases.
Schneier's essay follow-up on a post-9/11 world really crystalized my thinking on what's happening here [1]. I think this quote was particularly poignant:

"We're bad at accurately assessing risk; we tend to exaggerate spectacular, strange, and rare events, and downplay ordinary, familiar, and common ones. This leads us to believe that violence against police, school shootings, and terrorist attacks are more common and more deadly than they actually are—and that the costs, dangers, and risks of a militarized police, a school system without flexibility, and a surveillance state without privacy are less than they really are."

Or in this case, that COVID is much more fatal, devastating and terrifying than it really is, while the flu is much more tame and approachable -- and that we should spare literally no expense in the world to prevent it. Even though of course the flu kills 650,000 people each and every year, year after year. We're just used to it so we pay it no mind.

What we're seeing is less a pandemic (although of course it is one) and more a bug in human psychology on a massive never-before-seen scale.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2013/08/our_decreas...
> We were talking about simply letting those businesses fail, and seeing what happens on the other side of this.

Yes, that is what happens in a capitalist society. If we are no longer a capitalist society, well... we should probably state that up front.
This isn't perfectly within your search criteria, but you may still find it interesting. Just today I researched the available solutions for driving a ED097OC1 (compatible) display, which was built into the Kindle DX, has a diagonale of 9,7" and can be obtained for about 30€ [0].

There are some projects dedicated to driving the screen with an ESP32, which already has WiFi built in, has good low power modes and is pretty cheap as well [1] [2].

There's also a project driving e-ink displays with an stm32 [3] and one to do it with an FPGA [4].

Beyond 13" things get really expensive and hard to find - best I can do is 12,48" for 150€ [5].

[0]: https://aliexpress.com/item/32983492389.html

[1]: https://github.com/dqydj/PaperBack_EPaper_Display

[2]: https://hackaday.io/project/168193-976-e-paper-controller-ki...

[3]: https://hackaday.io/project/11537-nekocal-an-e-ink-calendar

[4]: https://github.com/vd-rd/project_rorschach

[5]: https://aliexpress.com/i/32929629021.html
"No one writes better software than google hands down"

When was the last time you worked within Google?
This actually used to be the default behavior in Simula a few months ago, and worked really well. There's a few use cases where it imposes a tradeoff though (specifically: it makes it hard hold windows in a specific orientation in space when you might accidentally look at them), so we now use a key binding to do this instead.
(This subthread was originally a child of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22825957)
I don't think this is true, is it? Most mathematical models I've seen definitely have a much lower number of total infected when the curve is flattened significantly.
one iPhone built with 63/37 eutectic lead solder would contain less lead than about 20,000 car batteries

Sheesh, I'd hope so. Make that 20000 phones ~= one car battery. Must be all that lead getting to me.
You are correct, I apologize, it says that Oxfam published the report ahead of an upcoming IMF meeting.
Back in February, there were a handful of cases popping up here and there. And then growing in each hotspot from 5 to 10 to 20, etc. It didn't take long for things to get out of control.

Without some major game-changer in the next two months, its hard to see a reason why the same thing won't just happen again. Hopefully over the summer it's not as contagious due to hot weather.
Ask HN: How would you design a system with spikes in writes?
Spikes in reads are more or less handled with cascading levels of caching, but what about writes? Horizontally scaling a database is not something that is done easily without integrity problems, but you don't want to overpay for your cluster when you have low traffic.
Universal mask wearing is part of the approach they have taken in South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore and it seems to have largely worked in those places.

The whole "masks don't work" line being pushed by the US government and the media seems to be about keeping people from buying masks that are needed in the hospitals. In the process they are sort of lying to people about the effectiveness of mask wearing as a piece of overall strategy.
Trump spent very little in his first election campaign, mainly relying on saying outrageous things and tweeting (one estimate was that he added $2 billion to the value of the Twitter brand.)

How little? Enough that all the Silicon Valley advertising companies missed their quarter, either unaware or wilfully ignorant that he wasn't spending money.
Flattening the curve is justified to not overwhelm medical facilities, but the new coronavirus is so infectious I doubt we'll develop a vaccine before we achieve herd immunity.

A lockdown until we develop a vaccine is economically impossible, as it's estimated to take at least a year. A vaccine will be useful for next year's coronavirus.

Thankfully the actual death rate is lower than what the models projected. Antibody testing will do a lot to dispel the fog of war surrounding this issue.
This sounds pretty similar to the display on the Pebble Time. It was a color LCD, sometimes marketed as a low power LCD or reflective LCD. For the majority of the time the display didn't use the backlight. They don't seem to be widely manufactured in my attempts to look for them... I should check again!
"Some programming concepts that were mostly theoretical 20 years ago have since made it to mainstream including many functional programming paradigms like immutability, tail recursion, lazily evaluated collections, pattern matching, first class functions and looking down upon anyone who don’t use them." This is true, although some programmers might have used tail recursion before it was common, as you can do this in assembly language in instruction sets older than twenty years.

"A pixel is no longer a relevant unit of measurement." I don't believe that; I use it a lot.

"A desktop software now means a web page bundled with a browser." While this is very common, it is not true of all software (and I don't use any "web page bundled with a browser" except the browser itself, and I would like to have more stuff you can just use a command-line (e.g. curl or nc) or telnet and don't need the web browser).

"Running your code locally is something you rarely do." Are you sure?

"Storing passwords in plaintext is now frowned upon, but we do it anyway." I think some people do use hashed passwords; I have not seen much of storing passwords in plain text.

"Documentation is always online and it’s called Google. No such thing as offline documentation anymore. Even if there is, nobody knows about it." There are man pages, plain text files (what I generally use to write documentation), ZIP files of HTML, and PDF. But unfortunately some programs don't have a documentation you can store on your own computer.
Are you sure? We aren't in the world of USB 1.1 latency any more. Things have improved vastly since then.
Of course, I missed that part…:/
Citation please.

That has certainly not been true of China, S.Korea, NZ, Germany, Australia or other countries that have successfully followed a suppression strategy.
Competent would have been starting production of masks and ventilators in January, and closing borders at the same time, and mandating mask wearing in public in early February.
If untreated, the fatality rate goes up. I imagine OPs figure is assuming widespread contagion and the average 20% hospitalization needed, which would translate to A LOT more dead people. We won’t know the actual death rate after the fact, of course, or how it compares in places where health care is saturated vs not. But that figure isn’t/wasn’t entirely impossible?
1. 20% require hospitalization. Hospital capacity is limited.

2. It's questionable whether we can become immune to it. We might keep getting re-infected.

3. It causes permanent lung damage in some patients. Makes re-infection even more lethal.

4. There's a chance that animals can catch it and become a reservoir for it. Imagine if every dog, cat, and pigeon in the world is infected with it, but doesn't die from it.

Yes, it's low probability. But it's not zero. And it's not negligible either.
Yes indeed yours is an emotionally charged political comment, thanks for prefacing it with the warning.

NY has started splitting ventilators.
She’s basically a moderate republican:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/

She used to vote with Trump more than any other Democrat. Now she’s number 2 (and she is much further right wing than many republican senators).

I don’t understand how she keeps winning in places like SF. Even a California republican would probably be further to the left than she is.
> Perhaps quarantine brain is boiling over into my comment style.

Or you’re channeling Dostoevsky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor
I know of a case study where one consumer sales company turned their google campaigns off for a day and got almost no calls.

So that's one way to find out.
Schema.org Ontology Visualization – WebVOWL
I mean a candidate should be able to distinguish their contribution to a project in some more fine grained way than this. If they come from freelance and say "I wrote the code on my own" that's fine but maybe you could mention how you communicated with the client to establish requirements and milestones and get to a successful delivery.

If you worked in a team you should be even more able to explain your individual contribution & the context in which you worked.

This is not a trick question. A good answer is "I did x, y, and z tasks, which required a, b, and c interactions with the world around me to make sure I was doing the right work and meeting expectations".
There is a lot of demand for online media right now. Quibi could work if it captures the attention of a certain market. It all depends on the content. If they get a show like Game of Thrones, that could be a winning formula.

I'm honestly tired of Netflix, their new content is a bit meh nowadays.

So Quibi could take off, who knows, if it has real good high quality shows.
Quest would be amazing because it would truly demonstrate a completely untethered, self contained portable full desktop system that you could take anywhere.

Having said that, getting even a standard desktop setup on Android to work well is iffy so doing it in VR does seem like a pretty immense challenge. But it would be a breakthrough in what it could demonstrate in terms of the concept.
Or at least some kind of world health authority, e.g. a WHO with teeth. Don't have to have the whole world government part.
Would you please stop posting snark and flamebait to HN? You've been doing it for a long time, unfortunately. It breaks the site guidelines and destroys the intended spirit of this place, which is curious conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I feel like this explains the needless product abandonment and reinventing at Google.
Love this idea, going to steal it for the next time I'm hiring someone.
I don’t use Elm. But I have watched several of the founder’s talks about different subjects. That is to say, I have a half decent idea as to what the ‘native modules’ issue means. I think Luke’s issue is that under the newest release Elm is requiring that no code contain any ‘raw’ JS or it won’t compile. It seems like this was an option prior to the current version so is this basically like if the Rust team said as of the new release no code, other than that code coming from the Rust team may use ‘unsafe’?

— This is an honest question I’ve been holding in all afternoon, and seeing this still on the front page, I just decided to ask.
We have a key binding that automatically orients the active window towards the user's gaze. If you're interested, I could make a launch flag that leaves this feature on by default, so that any window you look at automatically orients itself toward your gaze. This actually used to be the default behavior in Simula a few iterations ago, and worked nicely in most contexts.
Ask HN: Favourite Alternatives to Wunderlist?
I've been using Wunderlist as my go-to todo app for a few years now, but the team sold to Microsoft and on May 6th there will be a forced switch to Microsoft To Do. What are your favourite alternative todo apps?

* Needs to work on Android btw.
If the US had does as well as South Korea it would have 1,300 deaths and ~200 new infections per day. Instead we have 10x as many deaths per capita and at least 150x as many new infections per capita today.

50m people, 208 deaths, 27 new infections yesterday. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_S...

330m people, 14,696 deaths (cdc), 32,039 new infections yesterday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_t...

They are a poorer country with a higher population density, yet somehow we failed.
1. I think it's fair to say every day is a bad pollution day in Beijing haha. I've seen the PM counts. With that in mind, of course, I've no reason to doubt you.

2. Sure, it varies.

I didn't mean to imply it was back to 100%, just that it was pointed in the right direction again.
If you use China as a guide they were shut for ~8 weeks and then opened up slowly over the course of a month.
A Team Exploited the Coronavirus Pandemic to Set a 26-Hour 38-Minute Record
Asynchronous communication--Slack, Discord, Teams, etc.--beats this every time. Why wait an entire day to bring up important topics? And then, if you aren't waiting an entire day, why have the artificial morning ceremony?
Pro-tip: this happened when EDGE, 3G, and 4G were released and in all of the above cases, were debunked.
The implication of your assertions is that the market is irrational right now. You could make a lot of money buying some puts in July.

(And I hoped you’d appreciate the ambiguity in the opening sentence :-) Ultimately we’re all in this together and we all want what’s best for the country and world.)
The worst part about hiring is once you're into the "elite circles" it becomes less work. Work for a FAANG? Getting a much becomes far easier and sometimes with less difficult questions.

Whether you agree with the IQ test or not, it's not even a level playing field or merit based. It's about an elite club keeping things elite.

Half the engineers working for FB, Google etc would not get hired today. Yet they still ask questions that they would not be able to answer as a form of gate keeping.
Citation for what?

Taiwan has similar population as Australia, is higher density than Sydney AUS, and has a fraction of the cases and deaths. They didn't close everything down they did targeted tracking/testing and isolation of individuals, mandatory masks on transit, fever checks in public etc.
This is incredible. The humble little meteor icon does motion-tracking!

How is that even possible in the browser?!
Sharding your DB works if you can figure out how to segment your customers. Then you just need queue(s) and worker nodes.
> Higher frequencies don't benefit from these effects, and generally don't propagate beyond direct line-of-sight.

Interestingly, and perhaps you already know this, but the distance radio waves travel is actually a bit farther than line of sight (even at higher frequencies like UHF):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-of-sight_propagation#The_...
the day before all non essential store (precious metal brokers) closed here I went to two and the asking price for silver was double the online spot for physical 1 ounce coins (not a high grade collectors coin just silver rounds)
It would be better if it was just that...
Only with other controls. It's ridiculous and will certainly lead to more deaths to suggest that only wearing certain types of masks is in any way a valid solution of any type.

This sort of misdirected conversation will kill people. Please stop it. It is highly irresponsible.

If you disagree please cite a credible source.

Please do not include anything relating to any of Trump's briefing as those are all discredited and fake news.
I usually agree 100% with this sentiment, but archive.md links are implicilty just a cached, free, no-ad version of the original link, and that's what it is in this case, and so doesn't need a summary (well, any more than any submission does).
I really think martial law at the federal level would have been the end of our democracy. I don’t think it’s a good trade off. The current measures aren’t doing so bad in the realm of possible outcomes.
A lot of people covering heavy short positions.