skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a very dangerous sentiment. Incumbents often have an advantage that keeps them alive from foreign companies and leaner tech players.

If you're in a stable, single country then I would agree that letting companies fail is likely the healthiest option. But in a global world, you might find that bailing out companies is a prisoners dilemma. If you let your companies die, but your neighbor doesn't, your neighbor's companies might soon capture your market and cost your community a lot of economic activity in the long term. Or, you let your companies die, and they get replaced by a new, smarter business that employs 10% of the original workforce to get the same amount of work done.

There's upsides to both (perhaps net positive even) but the problems are potentially significant. I think framing the survival of companies as merely a favor to wealthy people's portfolios is naive.
I wonder whether taking the temperature is enough when combined with social distancing? For that, it would be interesting to know what percentage of people that are infectuous have an elevated temperature. 50% might already be enough, because that means we could cut the infection rate in half just by quarantining everyone with a slight fever.
If the individuals can’t be personally identified, yes.
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Testing when?

When you have symptoms? Too late.

330 million people testing weekly? Not possible.

There is no realistic way to mass test everyone in a meaningful way.
Recapturing the supply chain is not hard to do. Even the cheerleaders from the 90s for neoliberalism, which lead to "that great sucking sound" Ross Perot warned about, now admit they made a mistake.

Formerly, before COVID-19 and China building up outcroppings of rock into military bases, and declaring the whole of the South China Sea to be their personal property, and the genocide of the Uyghurs the details of which are far far more horrifying than the average Westerner is aware of (proof on demand), before the bellicose anouncements about the upcoming "China Century" before all that... the conventional wisdom was the growing propserity of China would lead to a burgeoning middle class, which in turn would demand their human rights causing a reform of the Communist regime. That and giving China MFN status would make them behave like other nations with respect to IP laws and pirating and currency manipulation etc. etc.

It didn't happen. Instead what we got was a blustering, expanionistic kleptocracy provably willing to murder their own people, other people's people and anything else that stands in the way of the mighty Century of China, where China takes its "rightful place" as the undisputed world leader.

So now, Plan B.
A lot of trade goes over those borders, and it only takes a few cases on the wrong side. Sure if on 1 Jan the RoW had shut borders with china things might have gone ok.
Blogspam. This is the original:

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21215494/coronavirus-plans-soc...
If you can track the detailed movements of voters and connect that to party affiliation you would have complete visibility into meetings, social networks, and up-and-coming politicians, such that you can prioritize suppression efforts on those regions. Similar as a whole to gerrymandering, but imagine key political opponents being shut down "as the data shows a cluster of CV-19 may appear here at this exact date and time".
Counterpoint, companies will learn not to overextend and we won't have to worry about job loss or bailouts the next time this happens
Also we considered adding techcrunch or even HN. Maybe could be somewhat useful for some people ))
Some proprietary compilers provide tools to explicitly instruct a block of code to be vectorized via annotations
Yes, as evidence for this web browsers sitting at an empty new tab page are generally still using at least 100-200mb to do nothing. The likelihood that most of that is not the part that's most vital and feature rich is low.
Still much less than the elders and I am not sure what your comment means.

Again, what I am saying is that the lockdown punish purple differently, the most punished are the least affected by the virus itself
Hex Rays need to take a look at how JetBrains (IntelliJ) handled the same problem.

Initially, most students and home users I knew used a cracked copy because there was no way in hell any of the students I knew had a spare $500 to pay for an IDE.

JetBrains seemed to realize this so first, they made a "self purchase" option that was half the price (or less) and belonged solely to the developer that bought it, with the caveat that they had to use their own funds. It could be used commercially too - this was the option to take if your boss couldn't be convinced to buy you a commercial license and you still wanted to use it legally.

Next, they made their tools free for people working on open source projects.

Then they made a version that had almost all the features available for free (it may have originally been only for non-commercial use but it's fine to use commercially now).

Then they worked with Google to make their free tool the default for Android development, which added many more users.

Then they switched to a monthly licensing scheme that was about $12 a month for a single product (while retaining the ability to outright buy a copy if you wanted to).

Almost everything that IntelliJ does is possible with open source competitors, but I still pay for it because of the level of polish they apply to each feature and the intuitiveness of each feature.

I think that if a $12/month copy was available initially, the number of cracked copies being used would have gone down dramatically.

EDIT: Photoshop did something similar. NO ONE I knew that used it for home use had a real license because it was so damn expensive, but I know plenty of people paying $15/month or so for access.
They always can.
You could nationalize the pension system. Considering the fact that on average the 401(k) balance is a few tens of thousands and that there is a retirement catastrophe coming, that wouldn't be the bad idea. The downside is that the stock market would be affected negatively since demand for stock would drop.
I didn't have the same result. It gave me the first standard warning, and let me download.
Identical post on apple's website: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-and-google-part...

(Except that google links to an android api reference and apple links to an ios api reference; also google links to this slideshow https://blog.google/documents/57/Overview_of_COVID-19_Contac...)
States shouldn't need federal guidance and should prefer not to receive it. Without federal oversight, states and municipalities can tailor policy to their own area
The US is a very different beast altogether. I'm a bit far away from there but as a spectator, I'd say the US had the absolutely __WORST__ reaction to this situation. Given that about 40 to 45% of all confirmed covid19 cases are in the US suggests that to put it mildly. As a matter of fact, most of the world's reaction was nothing short of appalling. But there are exceptions to the rule: as an eastern European myself, most of the countries in Europe, east of Germany have managed to contain the situation really well. It might have something to do with considerable experiences with crisis(of different nature in all 1 billion instances over the past 100 years), but let's hope that's been to our benefit for once. Again - only time will tell

I never said average Joe won't be affected by this. What I am saying is that the big players will still be big once this is over but there will be new players as well. Also China will likely lose ground in the global production lines, and companies will likely look at alternatives, even if they have to make a compromise with scale and price. Investors like safe bets and what the current situation has taught is is that China isn't a safe option. We knew that already but the nets around the foxconn factories are a bit... Out of sight, out of mind.

16 million is a horrific number and I sincerely hope they pull through without paying a heavy price. But put your mind in a different mindset - 16 million is an incredible amount of manpower. For the 16 million - that's a tragedy but for the people with deep pockets - that's a once in a lifetime opportunity if they play their cards well. And I'm more than certain that many out there will.
>We are basically pausing the life of younger people, indefinitely, to protect the elders.

No, we're pausing the life of everyone to protect everyone. If you overload the hospital systems then everyone dies. If you pause and keep things barely managable then mostly only old people die.
Well, I would think that would be met with a you-can-fuck-right-off by most people.
But what if that man who owns that company, decides he wants to change his business model?

The private part is still important. It's a legitimate fleet of military aircraft that would rival the air forces of many small countries that is directed by a man who really isn't accountable to us outside our borders.

This isn't new territory, it's just that you have to go back a few hundred years to see small groups of private individuals accumulate this much physical force. Just think about some of the disagreements that have occurred over scare resources for responding to the pandemic. Imagine how that picture can change.
I was asked to keep a close eye on the other RAAF aircraft.

They are not used for combat combat, but if you're considering buying an air-breathing stealth fighter like the WDA they could be in for an extended period.

They already had a lot to gain regarding their F-16-6A Mustang if for no other reason they would be used for any ground combat. They have no ground combat capability, but maybe one will appear soon.

Also there are the fact, I had a real discussion with a reporter on the topic: The RAAF has one of the highest capability in the world – they have this ability to intercept jets that would be in for a short time. Not much in this article.
You can always unflag!
It used to be the case, a decade or so ago, that you could get IDA Free for, well, free. This was essentially the previous [major] version of IDA Pro, with fewer processors enabled, but otherwise pretty feature-complete.

And then they changed their model so that IDA Free was a horribly gimped version that was useless: no save support, no scripting support (so you can't use it in other projects that use IDA for the disassembly parts), and it shuts itself off after a short amount of time.
You are NOT injecting some vaccine shit into my body without my consent! And you will only get it when the China controlled WHO is disbanded and the virus true origin is determined. I bet my left but that it's from China's biological weapons lab four blocks from the market...
Look how hostile just one HNer is about a tiny feature change as if they are the spokesperson of all power users. I can't think of a worse niche to target than a bunch of hostile, opinionated power users who play Chicken Little in comment sections around the internet because of any minor UI change they personally dislike.

Btw, you aren't a browser power user just because you use ctrl-L to focus the url bar. HNers like to think they're power users because they think their opinion matters the most, but it doesn't make much sense when it comes to web browsers imo.

(I like the new url bar, and I'm a power user if there's such a thing)
Which previous pandemic of this scale are you using as an example?
Yeah, turns out my fellow Americans are a lot more bark than bite about certain "inalienable rights" once when they got frightened and had some skin in the game.

Given how happy people are to report their fellow citizens for the infraction of peacefully assembling, I suspect they'll put up with a lot more are long as you tell them it'll keep the virus away.
It's not that the desktop "linux" developers don't care about security. But there's simply not enough manpower behind it. The linux kernel is only secure because that's what the cloud companies with a shit ton of money care about. They don't care about desktop.
By "apps from public health authorities", that you have to install yourself?
> A properly functioning stock market

This is not a properly functioning stock market. People are reacting to massive money injection by the government and the government picking upcoming winners and losers.

> by weighing the prior ~15 years of companies' profits

Are they also adding in the fact that 80% of the last 15 years has been due to life-support QE?

> Even a 12 month period of $0 profits should decrease the NPV of a firm's future earnings by 10%, not 50%

... maybe a 12 month period of $0 NET profits, but what about 12 months of $0 total revenue? For many, many companies that is not a 10% drop in NPV, but bankruptcy.

I agree we will return to a new normal, but what does that look like? Do we just go back to permanent QE like before where the debt market is artificially inflated forever? Or is this bad enough that the government gets to be part of larger corporate decisions now?

There is no model where the next 12 to 24 months looks "bright" for almost any company, so the fact that the stock market is mooning is not rational right now. Trying to justify it as "properly functioning" seems very, very far off base to me.
Ask HN: After becoming a parent, what perspectives changed for you?
Talking with a friend of mine I used the phrase "as a Dad...", which caught me off guard as I always had a strong negative reaction when hearing it before becoming a father.

What perspective changes have you noticed after becoming a parent?
> But for the moment, we are united by fear and have some latitude to act.

We're literally still fighting the wars that arose out of the last time we acted in a moment where we were "united by fear."
Not sure that's realistic. When companies go bankrupt, things don't just skip merrily along as if nothing is happening. Business partners start getting a lot more worried about getting paid, employees start thinking the same and moving on if they can, etc. It's like stepping in molasses--everything gets slower.

Perhaps they should just be allowed to fail, but it's far from risk-free, especially when we're diving into a deep Depression the likes of which none of us have ever seen.
How is that at all different from companies issuing dividends?

Isn't returning value to the shareholders the entire point of selling stock to investors in the first place?
Again, programming is not a profession. You might have a point with being a professional programmer (although a lot of programmers do useful things for money without much math), but programming is a skill that can be learned without a deep understanding of math, and often programming acts as a better lead into math rather than vice versa.
Health systems deal with scarcity on a daily basis. There's no room for the emotional hand-wringing you're describing. Moving scarce resources from diagnosis patients to studying the population during a pandemic will be one event in a causal chain that results in deaths. It also prevents the outbreak from spreading beyond control.

Several orders of magnitude more people have been killed by uninformed policy than would have been killed by redirecting a portion of tests. What kind of MONSTER chooses for so many more people to die?!?
VC Going Viral for Saying Government Should Let Billionaires “Get Wiped Out”
Still at much lower rate than the elders.

And what I am saying is that the lockdown punish different class of people very differently. And the most punished are the least affected by the virus itself.
Global Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 100k
As we enter summer, the question no one is asking is:

Can mosquitoes transmit this virus like they do malaria?
> If that were true, they wouldn't have released it.

I was with you until this. "Abomination and needs to die" is too colorful and dramatic for my tastes. But the new address bar's design is indeed (mildly) offensive from a design perspective. It's visually jarring and, as I said elsewhere in this thread, it simply looks broken. When a long-time Firefox user first sees it, they might think their Firefox installation has gone haywire (I certainly did). This is an off-putting feeling often coupled with a bit of dread about having to rebuild your browser profile to fix whatever caused the chrome-layout to break. Yuck!

Mozilla is not alone in releasing features or design changes that cause users to get upset. Some might even call the features abominations. Here's hoping Mozilla reads this thread and considers some reversal.
As somebody who has been tracking and interested in this story since late January, the one thing I can without qualifications is that whatever seems true now will change in a few weeks' time.

In general the outlook has gotten better as the data got better and we were able to compare notes, although there have been some setbacks, too.

I don't think we'll ever, ever get back to "normal" as this is the pandemic we've been reading about and planning for over the last century. Nobody [alive today] has ever lived through something like this and it is bound to have lasting consequences.

But I would be cautious about reading long-term plans. I know everybody wants to know how the story ends, but people who have engaged in long-range planning over the last couple of months have consistently had to re-plan. I would expect that trend to continue. We don't know exactly what small changes might have large consequences. For instance, monitoring temperatures at points of entry and exist for all businesses could have a major effect, or forms of "frontier testing"

No doubt this is a period for the history books. We'll probably have to live through it to finally figure out how it's all going to end.
No because you cannot close borders off to American citizens. Even travel bans aren't terribly effective because you can pass through other countries or be infected in other countries.
They have to, as they ship a mobile OS that a large portion of the country uses.
he runs an air combat training company, and the Air Force and Navy pay him to field a training “adversary” for the military pilots to fight in mock combat.

Ask the RAF how outsourcing flight training is working for them.

(Hint: not well at all)
Sounds like all of Agile, really. One can characterize Agile as a ball-of-mud maintenance process that scales desirably with the amount of mud.
"The Century Of The Self" by Adam Curtis is a great documentary series on Bernays and the PR industry he invented. Gets scary towards the end when you realize that mainstream political discourse is now managed using the same PR methods that took over the business world a generation before.
Not to mention few outside a small group of think tanks appear to be thinking about this. Perhaps if we had a President realistically planning for what to do next it’d be a bit easier. Regardless it’s not the President who figures these situations out, but the leaders at the CDC, FDA, and NIH. If they put out realistic plans and the press focuses on something more than the President, then we have a chance to plan for the next steps. For example it wasn’t the President who prevented the FDA from authorizing emergency testing back in January and February; it was all the FDA leadership.
Forwarding Firefox over X11 _sometimes_ works. Sometimes Firefox on the remote machine will try to join the session of your local firefox -- but fail and then complain that there's Firefox already running. Adding `--new-instance` helps if Firefox is running in a container and X11 socket file is forwarded to the container but it doesn't seem to help if X11 is forwarded over SSH.
> admittedly it’s hard to put the genie back in the bottle

On iOS, entitlements?
Conscripts to temporarily replace deceased and/or incapacitated government servants. Government service cannot be stopped completely.
>Would the Holocaust have been quite as terrible if every citizen (Jewish included) owned a gun, and it wasn’t just the bad guys backed by the government who were armed?

Maybe, maybe not. The Nazis weren't just "bad guys backed by the government who were armed," they were a political party, which included much of the German populace, who supported its anti-Semitic ideals. It's possible more guns would have ended the Holocaust sooner, but it's also possible they would have just made it more efficient.
The longer this goes on, the more traction this argument will gain.
Already under discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22834959
I have never carried a cell phone (smart of otherwise) in my life. I leave my dumb phone at home or take the battery out. I hope that these tracking bracelets which others voluntarily carry will not be forced and required in the future.
Cheer! Because with 28%, you are close enough to herd immunity that you can push R0 below 1 with social distancing.

In fact, herd immunity does not require 70% of the population to be immune. It just requires 70% of all potentially transmitting contacts being eliminated. And if those 28% who contracted the virus first are also the ones that have more contacts than average citizen (which should be the case, because that is why they probably got it before the other 72%), we might already be fine. Let's these 28% have 72% of all human contact (because human is -like almost everything - not distributed equally), then we would already be there and have reached herd immunity. There would still be sporadic local outbreaks, but nothing dramatic any more.
Linking to your own stuff is ok in relevant contexts as long as you're not doing it too much, but from https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=billions I'd say you've been hovering on doing it too much.

HN users don't like it when people use this site for promotion, and they also tire of repetition. Keep in mind that there have been dozens of Covid-19-related projects posted here, so it isn't just repetition of your own links, but repetition of the category.
Simulating a Virus Outbreak with JavaScript
Strapline: "A full economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is unlikely, and the new version of normal for work and organizations is further off than we think"

2nd paragraph: "...it is likely that full recovery of economic activity, including GDP growth, jobs, and unemployment, will take at least a year, and likely much longer."

At this point we are used to shoddy economic analysis and predictions that are so woolly as to be meaningless, but this article is in direct contradiction with itself. Surely MIT of all places could place a bit more rigor on its output.
This article should have been titled: “There is No Plan”.
For what it's worth, I tried this on my home server and load average remains at 0.00 0.00 0.00 when the machine is doing nothing. That is perhaps understandable, but before I enabled mitigations=off, it was always at some kind of a load, e.g. 0.07 or so.
Like I said earlier, why deliberately miss the point? "Make America Great Again" is a hateful slogan. You're purposely denying that to try to prove some point.
The spec pdf looks a lot like the DP-3T protocol. The DP-3T docs have more explanation and a good discussion of privacy aspects.

https://github.com/DP-3T/documents

paper: https://github.com/DP-3T/documents/blob/master/DP3T%20White%...

data protection aspects: https://github.com/DP-3T/documents/blob/master/DP3T%20-%20Da...

Here's an overview comparing that approach to some others (such as Singapore's tracetogether):
https://github.com/vteague/contactTracing
Options for Wayland are a bit less antiquated. Here’s a couple.

If you are ever using a wlroots based Wayland compositor, then wayvnc becomes an option for RDP. (Note: haven’t personally used this.)

https://github.com/any1/wayvnc

Waypipe offers network transparency to Wayland, where by you can run applications across the network. I believe this should work with roughly any compositor.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/