skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no downside risk. The USG and Fed will do everything in their power to keep us in a continuous state of "numbers go up." Borrowed billions of dollars to buy your own stock, and now you're underwater? Don't worry! We'll bail you out.
Quarantine doesn't work unless you know who is potentially contagious. The fact that covid-19 is contagious in asymptomatic people and we don't have good testing makes it impossible to isolate the virus without shutting down the economy.
The federal government should have enacted stay at home measures.

By leaving it up to the states, it's been bungled and the covid outbreak is lasting longer and killing more people. This leads to stay at home needing extensions and a further drain on the economy.
What makes you think so?

Especially since auto insurance is something you can get online (or via the phone, if you are old fashioned) anywhere in the country from anyone else in the country.

Alas lots of regulations that are supposedly in favour of the customer don't really do very much despite good intentions, when there's a lack of competition.

For example, British grocery shopping was priding itself on being very competitive (it wasn't), got constantly dinged by their regulator for stupid stuff; but only really woke up once Aldi and Lidl showed up on the scene and gave them a run for their money.

Similar with British retail banking. It used to be really awful. For example, they charged you extra fees if you were poor enough that occasionally you didn't have enough money for your standing orders to succeed. (Instead of just failing the standing order, they failed them and charged you.)

Their regulator told them off and fined them repeatedly. But without changing anything much.

The recent arrival of new challenger banks like Monzo seems to be making a difference, though.
This. I can't see moving my head and making gestures with my hands ever beating tiled windows and good keyboard shortcuts. I don't want a VR enabled workspace (ie I don't want my windows to move when my head moves), but I might prefer a sufficiently high resolution headset to multiple monitors if the software support was reasonably seamless.
> If you want the feds to supply masks, they have to get them from somewhere.

Just like the states, or counties or towns or households...

Except the federal government can order private businesses to manufacture whatever it needs, something no governor can do
Google beyondcorp is what you are thinking of.
Your question presumes that if we stop "trying to avoid covid-19 deaths" that we'll experience what we're seeing now.

We won't. US case load stopped growing about 5 days ago because of the mitigation effort. Prior to that, it was doubling every 3-4 days. So just in the immediately verifiable present, there are 2-3 thousand people alive today in the US who wouldn't have been had we not locked down.

That's just today. Let the virus run rampant and you get to the doomsday scenarios that everyone likes to scream about.

The point is that the mitigations are working, and because they are working we have a good measure of how much worse the pandemic could be. And it could be really, really bad.

If you have a better plan, it needs to be proposed and justified. But "let's not do this because of other causes of death" doesn't work, numerically.
I think with the lifetime+ownership rules and certain features it will be easier to maintain large projects in this language. The compiler hasn't been optimized and it's pretty fast so I suspect the compile time will be a huge win. I think people working on backend servers will be the first to use Dio. It doesn't seem like any native languages "won" backend servers and it all belongs to garbage collected languages. I would love game developers to use Dio but I doubt that will happen until the language is stable enough to rewrite the compiler in Dio.

I never heard of JoJo until 2020 and people seem to love asking if this is a JoJo reference.
Are they? Do you have some magical economic clairvoyance about asset valuation?

See, the thing about a market economy is that the value of assets is difficult to ascertain but can be "discovered" through the actions of market participants. Sometimes, a whole bunch of assets are tied up in a company that seems to be using them well enough, and might even be generating a profit (on paper), but in fact those assets could be used even more profitably in some other productive capacity.

Note that this doesn't restrict assets to PPE (property, plant and equipment). I'm pretty sure anyone who has ever been an employee can attest that human capital can be just as unproductively employed as physical capital, but still show a profit on paper.

So no, you can't make some blanket statement that all companies are worth more than the sum of their parts. Some might be, but I believe the main reason we are a capitalist society is because allowing markets to freely discover the prices of assets results in a much more productive allocation of capital than the alternatives.
Please don't take HN threads further in a generic ideological direction. That leads to the night in which all cows are black and all threads the same.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Congrats on the launch!

Interestingly, me and my team developed and launched a very similar service early last year - https://goldcanvas.com/artworks

One of our core ideas is that if the artwork gets flipped by collectors and it changes hands multiple times, the artist gets a royalty (which is often not the case in the offline world).

I like your concept of monthly payments.

From the research that we did, it was surprising to us how much the artwork marketplace works offline and how opaque this entire world of Collectors and Curators is. There's definitely space to disrupt here.
> You don't want to shut it down because once you know it exists it's a honeypot

That's supposing law enforcement has viable ways to leverage knowledge of its existence into investigation and prosecution.

In a future where we have end-to-end encryption widely deployed, this isn't a trivial ask.

Criminals are lazy, sure. But write laws for the future we want, not the easiest case scenario.
Many senators use it, apparently.

Hopefully some will switch to a surveillance platform and get outed for whatever it is senators do between screwing the country over.

grabs popcorn
How about not making the states big against each other for medical supplies?
I don’t really understand the hardline stance.

In a start-up there are nearly infinite problems to solve and one of the most important skills is to figure out the sequencing.

So, you figure out what to sell, you figure out how to sell it, then you figure out how to build it.

After you can do that a bunch, then you fiddle with the knobs and controls to grow the business.

Early on, the top priority isn’t accounting because it doesn’t apply any leverage. It’s basically a downside risk problem and you do what you need to do and focus the rest of your resources on product, eng, and growth.
IMF says 500 million people worldwide who were out of poverty will or have returned to poverty because of the recession.

IMF poverty line is < $1.90 a day so surely many of them will die from malnutrition or preventable disease as well.

Edit: it was Oxfam that published the report to inform the IMF and World Bank at their meeting next week
There is your answer:
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/volkswagen-is-burning-over-%...

VW, is burning 2bill a month in cash, just by sitting idle....
Furloughing can save maybe %20 of the costs.

A lot of the fixed recurring costs (costs and obligations that keep going even if you are not producing anything) make at least 30% of the producing value....

So, just for VW, if it sits idle for 6 months it will cost 12 Billion dollars.....

That's just one example, but there plenty of companies with the same spot. They can absorb few months of this situation, but after that all bets are off.
Not sure what you're talking about here. In Australia for example we are flattening the curve and the measures are working. And we simply passed laws to protect the interests of landlords and renters so there won't be some explosion in litigation.

And just letting hundreds of thousands of people die alone, on the streets or in the homes and with no proper burial or funeral is not something people will tolerate. It would be like dropping everyone in the middle of a war zone.
> ...and that's just a price we agree to pay for privacy, security, and liberty.

I think this is fine here, but I am compelled to point out and remind, given the amount of concurrence in the thread:

In a more rigorous discussion, I think this is a particularly dangerous line of thinking to the Stallman-level advocate and their campaign down the line.

Edit (oops. Chopped off a long version of this paragraph when I edited down the post): Privacy, security, and liberty are maintained by the advocate to be the natural rights that are paid in price for justice.

This isn't to speak of those in agreement here or myself (and not just limited to said advocate), but on the part of anyone that uses such framing, for risk of it massively normalizing, even if I find it an artistically made point.
> What specifically is worse about this proposal than the current approach?

False dichotomy. There are far better things we could try.

One proposal I've seen batted around is widespread, rapid testing. Checkpoints on the interstates and elsewhere where you get one of the 15 minute rapid tests and get a day pass to continue on your way.

We know we can get R0 down with distancing; NYC's falling new hospitalizations numbers are a clear sign of that. Testing allows us to relax restrictions without it flaring up so fast, and lets us find the flare.

Add in universal, required mask wearing. None of the wishy-washy "we recommend..." bullshit.
This scenario and similar are apparently wargamed, by some. In fact the prescience shown in link is uncanny, to what effect you may now guess.

[0] https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/11/06/event-201-health-security/
Time to look at out of the box solutions
https://www.stephenharrodbuhner.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/...
RE eyestrain: here are a couple of links showing off Simula's text quality:

https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/blob/gdwlroots-xwayland/d...
https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/blob/gdwlroots-xwayland/d...

I haven't used Windows' Virtual Desktop since the early days, but I suspect our text enhancements have improved upon the situation dramatically (when keeping hardware constant).
"What we fundamentally got wrong is that ventilators don't work in 66% - 90% of cases, so "flattening the curve" was largely pointless and distracted leaders from low-tech solutions like quarantine centers and palliative care."

It's far from pointless.

Flattening the curve means a lot fewer people get sick all at once. That buys time for treatments and vaccines to be developed.

It's also not nearly as overwhelming to the health care system.
Everyone who poses this question can’t seem to fathom that they’re arguing against something that can’t be undone. It’s not lockdown vs. reopening in terms of damage, but a competent, thorough response when this first emerged vs. mitigating the deaths and injuries from not having acted appropriately at the outset.
Does this help explain the disconnect between paper and physical gold that started about a few weeks ago?
Look at the stock market from 1930 to 1932, and you'll see a series of dramatic upswings, even while the overall trend was steep down.[1] Lots of people lost fortunes trying to jump back in when they saw the market "recovering."

I'm not making any particular prediction for this time. I'm just saying, don't get overconfident just because it's going up lately.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/2484/dow-jones-crash-1929-bear-m...
"The largest study so far to look at mortality among coronavirus patients on ventilators was done by the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre in London. It found that among 98 ventilated patients in the U.K., just 33 were discharged alive. The numbers from a study of Wuhan, China, are even grimmer. Only 3 of 22 ventilated patients survived" [0].

[0]: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/04/02/8261052...
A Swift wrapper around GTK
Markets are up because the Fed has injected about 12 trillion to capital markets. These dollars need to find a place to sit.
Help each other against high deductibles during coronavirus What do you think?
2nd Amendment has precedent given that ITAR considers encryption and secure communication and control apparatuses a form of armament.
The worst part for me is when you ask a hard question and rather than admitting they don't know the answer they decide to close it because they think they have got you on a technicality about the validity of the question.

Or a similar variation, it's a hard problem, and they don't know, so they assume you are a complete idiot and ask you to verify things that were implicit in the question. Like, you said you did X and Y, and it's almost impossible to do those things without doing A and B first, but they give you this patronizing tone saying you should have done A and B first.

Here's another one: you write a decent answer to a question. Someone with a massive score comes along behind you an hour later and takes your answer and elaborates on it a bit. They get the upvote and check, you get a zero. The reason they got the points was because they spend all day gaming Stack Overflow and are happy to take advantage of any way to steal points and so have a high reputation.

I really feel like their data science team is not trying hard enough to find the dyed-in-the-wool pathological sons of bitches that are on Stack Overflow. There are plenty of them on there.
Flattening the curve isn't just about ventilators. It is about keeping the entire system functioning. The simplest example is testing. How are you going to quarantine carriers if we don't flatten the curve, can't keep up with testing, and have no idea who has the virus?
The primary focus of most US EHRs is for billing.
I agree that opionated frameworks can reduce complexity. I was Rails for a very long time.

But moving to a new language that you can't hire for seems like an extreme reaction to "our config is complex". One good thing about a mainline technology like TS is that thinga get attention. Manual config today may be supported feature in the future.
I’m a bit confused by the article: being on nature.com it seems to be talking about…itself? Is Plan S really open access, or just something that looks like open access?
Apart from the cool story about error correction, in general detecting a signal that's weaker than background noise is something we do in statistics all the time.

If you have big enough samples, you can tell a normal distribution with mean 0.01 apart from one with mean 0, even if their standard deviation is both 1000.

Error correcting codes are in some sense a very cool and efficient way to get the equivalent of that bigger sample.

(You could also just send your signal many, many times. But simple repetition is a vastly inferior solution to the ingenious codes people came up with.)
So you want to speculate on this? All evidence is strongly against what you are proposing. It would without doubt lead to more deaths.

Why would anyone even consider the course of action you are proposing?

I've already had people close to me die. You should think some more and be able to provide a reasoned argument or be quiet until you can on this.
The interview question that best exemplifies what Neil wrote is, "Did you write it yourself, or as part of a team?"

Both answers are wrong, depending on the interviewer.

If you say "yourself", you're admitting you're a lone wolf. If you say "team", then you were along for the ride, even if only two people were on the team.
Low-investment hobbyist Rust projects don't need to be idiomatic. Rust hasn't broken backwards compatibility except for a few soundness fixes that broke hardly anyone. It sounds like your EmberJS experience was pretty different.
I'd argue that the market was really slow to crash in the first place.

It was obvious for at least a month that the pandemic would have a massive impact on the economy due to China shutting down and the near certainty that it would spread all over the rest of the world and cause massive economic damage and loss of life.

Yet the market kept on trucking until it finally crashed. If it had really priced in all that information, it would have crashed way sooner.
This line of reasoning assumes that containment is feasible at this point. Is it? Or will everyone get the virus eventually?

One ironic downside of “flattening the curve” is that it makes it longer. So, barring a vaccine or effective therapeutic treatment, we will all get the virus eventually (but in an orderly fashion, which is good for the health system), and that 75 million deaths will become a reality. Note that’s also assuming a 1% death rate which may be a vast overestimate depending on asymptomatic percentages.

That said, I tend to agree with you that we should keep social distancing in place until we are able to contain new cases, or until we have a much better understanding of the virus itself. At this point there is just too much uncertainty, so it’s better to wait it out until we can establish some clarity and have a better idea of how to approach therapeutics.
Lead sucks, don't get me wrong. But it still has valid industrial uses. I just Googled for the stats, and we apparently still sell about 100 million car batteries a year in North America alone. Which seems crazy high, but at least they almost all get recycled since the market demand still exists.

We should be doing that for electronics, too. Right now "recycling" electronics means sending it to China where some kid takes it apart with a blowtorch, so yeah, I'm sure they appreciate RoHS. That doesn't make it a net win for the electronics industry or for humanity in general.

Admittedly, you're right about reliability increasing over time, and I'll further admit that I expected a different outcome entirely. By making manufacturing more difficult and expensive, RoHS forced everyone to pay strict attention to their processes, and that tends to result in better products. The Amphenol thing is a glaring exception.
Trump has been true to form in his lying and aggrandizing at every point, but I think the public has just gotten used to it. The CDC and state governors have been mixed, but the hardest hit states (WA, NY, CA) have been pretty aggressive.
AI-Enabled Prelim Diagnosis for COVID19 from Cough Samples via App (AI4COVID-19)
I'm not sure I agree with the parent, but to give an example for a non-rectangular UI for manipulating (programming) text:
Combine structural editing[1] overlaid on some kind of 3d graph that shows how your entire codebase fits together.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnbVCNIh1NA
That "bad hires" section describes a lot of people I've know and worked with and tbh, I kind of feel sorry for them. They're often incredibly intelligent people that want to apply themselves. We hired this one guy who constantly attempts to re-architect and rewrite various systems on his own, just to have his works rejected.

At the same time, some of these guys are seniors. How on earth have you been in the industry for this long and not grasped what your job is?
Build user approval system with Laravel and Auth0
I really wish people who followed this sort of thing actually had some integrity and honesty. And by that I mean when they do have an illness or disease that they don't resort to "Western medicine" and instead relied on Gaia to get them through it.

At least then the problem would sort itself out.
Yelp basically replaced the Yellow pages and Zagat with a bit of the BBB thrown in for good measure. Its model is to sell listing services to businesses. I am guessing it is a sales heavy org.
The article is by the Nature News section. As stated in the article:

> Nature is editorially independent of its publisher, Springer Nature
I mean you're literally contributing to HN for free right now. Same thing, different motivation, different company benefiting from your free contribution.
Evan response to the bus-factor: https://youtu.be/uGlzRt-FYto?t=508
It’s not just that. Without safe harbour they are wide open to copyright infringement lawsuits, defamation lawsuits, and being charged with being accessory to, or aiding and abetting any fraud, scams or anything else illegal that takes place on their network.
Just state the facts and let the chips fall as they will. There is no point trying to second guess your interviewer.
How would putting them in a new edition help in practice?
The WHO doesn't have a CIA. They rely on member nations for their information. Taiwan's well-founded suspicions are still not proof; the NRO article you're citing alleges China lied to the WHO to conceal human-to-human transmission.
No Lungs Required: Injected Oxygen to Keep Patients Alive

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a7833/no-lun...
Agree with all points made. Especially with the first point (engineer hiring tends to be one dimensional) as well as the “your company is who you hire” point - and even the google example given for that point. Google is great at software. No one writes better software than google hands down, but what you/they learn is that it’s not always about how good you code (else GCP would be the #1 cloud platform). Great write up
This doesn't factor in QALYs saved at all though.

The average COVID-19 death in Italy is 78 years old and sick.

The average hunger death is going to be young, otherwise healthy, and in the developing world (likely somewhere in sub-saharan Africa).

You can draw your own measures, but I would not personally weight these lives saved equally. I would personally throw several 78 year olds under the COVID-bus to save the life of one young child. I think most people would draw similar lines.
Impressum/Imprint, requirement for all published material in Germany
Covid-19 has a non-negligible chance of killing a billion people. When there's risk of ruin, cost-benefit analysis doesn't make sense anymore. (Russian roulette is never worth playing, regardless of the payoff.)

Our actions to avoid covid-19 need to be judged on what could happen, not on what actually happens. You get it wrong once, and we disappear.
No, because it's unlikely that 100% of the population will get infected. What disease has ever infected 100% of the population? None. Diseases hit an inflection point in spread, before they fall off. At any rate, how many people died in the wake of the Great Depression? World War 2 was indirectly caused by it. We lost 85 million people when the population was only 2 billion. And that's not even counting the people that died in the subsequent decades when communism took over China and Mao and Stalin had their reign of terror.
All the rest of their modular homes don't include site prep so I assume you are correct.
> that's the tax we're paying (and some of that is being paid by the rest of the world

This is one of the biggest benefit of being a world hegemony, print money and then make the rest of the world pay the bill.
Cuomo has already said this iirc; most people who go on a ventilator don't come off of it alive. That doesn't make it pointless to even have ventilators though, a 40% survival rate is certainly better than a 0% survival rate for those who need a ventilator.
From what I've seen, Buffett hasn't started buying yet.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/investors-wondering-where-war...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-warren-buffett-ignoring-c...

He did however sell some airline stock.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/04/06/warren-buffett-sel...
No one I've seen make this argument seems to have any numbers to back up the "the cure is worse than the disease" argument. The do nothing case is pretty clear 1-2% of the Global population dies. Probably more because once the healthcare system is overwhelmed that percentage goes up.
I see. Effectively no one then. You just put some stuff in quotes for authority.
Damn that was absolutely beautiful