skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another feature of the 1918 economy in most of the world was it was a lot less global, a lot more localized. There was a lot more regional self-reliance, which meant that the nature of the impact on the economy looked very different.

One of the biggest differences is the enormous growth of what is not very usefully termed "the service economy" since 1918 (really, since maybe 1960 or so). A huge percentage of the population now gets paid to do things that had no real equivalent in 1918, things that you can simply stop doing (at least for some period of time). Restaurants, hotels, therapists of many different kinds, artists, musicians, retail .... these have all exploded, emply lots and lots of people and are all inessentiall to basic living (though essential to meaning for most of us).
Reason 1 (Your pipeline should be reproducible) for avoiding jupyter doesn't make any sense. That's the whole point of jupyter. Out of order execution can happen, but you can just as easily restart the kernel and run all... I can only imagine this is a problem for someone who doesn't understand the tool they're using.

Reasons 2 and 3 for avoiding jupyter are more justified but easy enough to work around between jupytext and papermill.
I am not an expert, so I apologize if these are a dumb questions, but here goes:

1) Wouldn't natural selection result in a milder strain crowding out a more deadly strain? After shelter in place lifts, people with a mild strain will be more likely to go out and spread the virus whereas people with the deadly strain will be more likely to stay home sick.

2) Is there any consensus on whether we become immune to COVID after getting it (e.g. if we get a mild strain will we really be immune to a deadly one)? I've heard different opinions and I'm wondering what the leading hypothesis is at the moment.

Thanks!
Line crossed. Prepare for trouble.
In the situation I am thinking of, the tests that select successful modifications are, almost by definition, integration tests, because with a big ball of mud, you don't know what the proper specification for the components are, and they don't have clear interfaces.

By 'tests' I am including live failures, which are also a feature of mudballs.

A distributed system is always much more difficult to test than a functionally-equivalent localized version. That's not, of course, a reason to give up on testing, but one must be realistic about how much faith one can put in it to make up for an inadequate use of abstraction and separation of concerns.
You could work with rotating anonymous uuids.
1. You log which uuids you see.
2. When someone is tested positively, you add the list of uuids you used to a public list (run e.g. by the government)
3. Clients fetch updates to the list and compare it to the logged uuids and alert the user if there is a match.

This way the government could not identify individuals, and individuals would be in control.
As a percentage of population (and volume of dollars) then vs now: how many are negative net worth? Break even/neutral net worth?
Sure, but younger have less need of medical care in general.

Moreover, lock down all the elders and the ICU won't be so busy...
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>"The CAP and Harvard plans both foresee a digital pandemic surveillance state in which virtually every American downloads an app to their phone that geotracks their movements, so if they come into contact with anyone who later is found to have Covid-19, they can be alerted and a period of social quarantine can begin."

If this refers to the bluetooth supported apps I've seen developed by several institutions, does this not sound like a horrible idea? Let's say two people walk past each other on the street or stand close in a shop, as far as we know the risk of transmission is non-existent or extremely low. Are you just going to build a connected graph and then ping everyone if one person gets sick? You'd be pinging half the population of a dense city after one day.

Before putting these surveillance measures into place I'd like to know if they're not causing more harm and paranaoia then they help.
Great read. A lot hard earned wisdom!
Buying gear for use on multiple contracts is different from buying supplies to use executing a contract for a single customer. You can invoice the latter to the customer; you must depreciate or deduct the former on your tax return.

OTOH, some customers are willing to pay for contractors' gear even if it would be used on other customers, for example, if they require you to use upgraded equipment instead of the equipment you already own.
this doesn't make any sense. by that logic, why do recessions simply not exist since in 30+ years we'll probably have overcome whatever current problem we're facing now
"The Attention Merchants" by Tim Wu nicely covers some of Bernays' influence, in the context of advertising and other forms of attention capture from the 19th century through present day. Can't recommend the book enough.
BLE works between IOS and Android, why wouldn’t it? It’s a standard 2.4Ghz radio protocol.

The thing created here is a standard BLE characteristic that says I’M PERSON X and your phone is always looking for PEOPLE and recording when it sees them... then uploading that to Google and Apple.

You can decide for yourself if a contact recording system could ever be abused.
Dave Ramsey is a good way to be poor for your entire life, while thinking you're making slight slow progress.
We can test people who care for the elderly, so that people in that age group can be protected.

We can tests a classroom weekly with one test. If it's positive, come back in three weeks, if not hear the parents cheer.

We can let companies be responsible for having people tested, if they want people in the office.

Once scaled up, we can have restaurants, bars even festivals be full of people, that the owner/organizers tested.
What would cause it to crash down again? Seems like virus spread is slowing and were not going to see the insane number of deaths being predicted during last crash. Travel industry might be hurt for a year but most people will likely just have an even bigger vacation this winter or next summer
Where in Ohio is this? I'm not doubting, just like to read local news on it as I'm in Ohio too.

I applaud DeWine for acting quickly, but I'm concerned that maybe for rural and small city locations the shut down was too much. I wonder if we are creating a cry wolf effect for non-metro areas. All the mass effects in my area are purely from the response. Of course, one may say, what if we hadn't a shut down; but, I think that argument is going to be harder to make to the small businesses in a small city or rural area next time around.
People have been making this argument since before the lock down. But on the contrary to your prediction, the argument has seemed sillier and sillier the more we see the effects of the virus. Things are really freakin bad, and that's with a lockdown. I suspect that all but a very small minority will be able to see the sense in spending serious effort on mitigation for the foreseeable future.

Even if people somehow manage to forget the horror and deaths of the past couple of weeks, a loosened lockdown and the inevitable spread of disease that will follow would quickly remind them.
Hex-Rays throws in a fair amount of effort. (Apparently not enough, though, because IDA cracks do exist…)
I would prefer my savings to not be inflated away to preserve the valuations of the zombie businesses in your retirement portfolio... But the fed seems to disagree with me in this, and will prop both those businesses, and their valuations up with a firehouse of money.

At the expense of everyone who owns USD, of course.
Bernays' work is certainly important but I think the amount of credit he's typically given for the idea that propaganda could be wielded in peacetime is undeserved. That distinction really belongs to Walter Lippmann, who had begun formulating the idea 5-10 years earlier and articulating it in Public Opinion (1922) and The Phantom Public (1925), well before Propaganda (1928). Propaganda was really more of a formalization of something that was already understood to exist.
This is a list of articles—probably a good one, but HN is itself a list of articles, so this is too much indirection.

Lists don't make good HN submissions, because the only thing to discuss about them is the lowest common denominator of the items on the list [1], leading to generic discussion, which isn't as interesting as specific discussion [2].

It's better to pick the most interesting item from the list and submit that. You can always do it more than once, if there is more than one interesting item—but it's best to wait a while between such submissions, to let the hivemind caches clear.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I've seen a coronavirus study that estimates 90% of the economic benefit of the lockdown accrues to those over 50. (Standard quality-adjusted-life-year rates.)

I've also seen pre-coronavirus studies noting the stark disparity in wealth between baby boomers and millennials at the same point in life. Fun times indeed!

I can afford this myself, but sparks will be flying.
I know, and quality of photographic reproduction is not a criterion I would need from an eink display. My goal is subtlety. Honestly in a parallel universe I have probably built the same exact prototypes from the blog. My (defunct) startup was called Nitrogen Logic because technology should be as critical but invisible as the nitrogen in the air.

I am totally fine with an 8:1 contrast ratio if it gives me perfect integration into the ambient light :)

Photography would be displayed elsewhere, in a place that is meant to draw attention. I want eink because it shouldn't grab attention at all.
I think you're overestimating the average Linux user.
But isn't there something to be said about the kind of human experiences each of the "outdated" industries you mentioned provide? Namely schools, stores, going to movie theaters with friends, etc. People like seeing and being around other people. Some really, really don't, but most do. Moving the majority of activities indoors forever will have a negative impact on the psyche of the most people.

I agree that what most people buy is junk and that there is waste in the spaces you mentioned. But I'm not sure how "natural" is will feel for people to do all that isolated in their homes with a small amount of people indefinitely...
> That's because women don't create successful companies at the same rate

Please backup your arguments, because from what I've seen that's completely false. In fact, only 2.8% of VC dollars go to women, and that's considered an improvement:
https://fortune.com/2020/03/02/female-founders-funding-2019/

There's _complete_ bias against them and only in the last 2-3 years has that started to turn around, and are obviously still behind it. Yeah, anecdotally you've heard of a few cases of it -- because people try to draw extra attention, but look at statistics (like above), and it's _clear_ that is the exception. This is what I observed when raising my own capital (with a female co-founder) and many of my colleagues doing the same -- and men were often very biased against women.

She's _balancing_ the discrimination -- again, look at the statistics above. She'll hardly budge it -- and this is _after_ many female-only funds have been created to try to balance it in recent years. We need to over compensate for our complete and utter discrimination before talking about "equality" among men -- there is NO equality.

Also, that is _false_ that women can openly discriminate against men -- it might be true in certain areas, but many areas (such as housing, employment, etc.)

We've been doing better in board member seats (20%, up from 17%):
In the U.S., women hold about 20 percent of board seats at companies listed in the Russell 3000 stock index, up from 17 percent in 2018, according to the nonprofit 2020 Women on Boards.

But we're still hugely biased. Checkout other articles I listed to other response as well
I also have Photoshop CC and Affinity Photo, and while I use AP for the simple stuff, it can't hold a candle to the more advanced stuff you can do in Photoshop that is still on the (long-term) plan for AP.
Who the fuck knows what's happening in Wowfunhappy's screenshot. I doubt it's because of the native fullscreen because it's something that's been a part of macOS for the past 8 years. And again, Firefox is already using the native fullscreen functionality in some cases. The issue is that some of the time it's not actually a fullscreen application and is merely just pretending to be one.
> 10 — Keeping a changelog

I have thought about a changelog and inclined to like it, but I haven't come across a strategy to have a good changelog structure.
Thanks for seeing my point! :)

And yes, less lockdown for someone is already something...
Although it should be noted that many states did have adequate stockpiles and haven't had their health care systems overloaded.
Here's a minimalistic way to resolve this.

First let's observe that Option and Result types can be roughly generalized by lists. Option is just a list of length 1.

Next, make a language where each function returns a 'list of equation solutions'. This handles cases when there are no solutions as well as cases when there are multiple solutions:

sqrt(-2) -> []
sqrt(0) -> [0]
sqrt(4) -> [2, -2]
4/2 -> [2]
1/0 -> []
fibs(5) -> [0, 1, 2, 3, 5]
idx_of(0, [1, 0, 0, 1]) -> [1, 2]
webserver(reqs...) -> resps...

Instead of lists, streams of results can be produced lazily as the algorithm progresses to successively finds solutions.

What always puzzled me was the disconnect between pure functional programming and theoretical computer science, both obsessed with functions, compared to real life computing where it is all about having a 'function' which consumes some stream of inputs and produces another stream of outputs. In many cases the streams are unbounded (servers) - which is contrary to terminating functions.

I wonder why we keep implementing languages with functions as primitives when we should have iterators, generators and stream transformers as primitives somehow instead.

Also IO monad in pure functional languages feels like just a hack around functions not being able to capture streaming nature of real world problems.
Would be nice if it supported circular references.
Imagine the merge
Do you not consider it a "punishment" to lose your family members an avoidable way? How about avoidably dying when you have a car accident because the ICU is overloaded?

Do you think people over 60 (or wherever the fatality rate spikes) existed in a self-isolated bubble staying home alone before now? Have you talked to any of them recently? The ones I know are having a rough time of it, at least as much as the younger people I know.

If locking down "just the elders" was a workable solution, what do you think it would really look like?
There are actually six different "unemployment" metrics, each with different criteria about who counts.

https://www.bls.gov/lau/stalt.htm
Why there's no JS framework good at shaping text into columns and automatically flowing text around images? I understand it's not exactly trivial, but aren't the benefits obvious? It's so much more pleasant to read. Instead, we get designers praising "gorgeous" designs with a single narrow column, big fonts, etc. Why are designers missing the big picture?
I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm saying it can't be simply assumed to make an unrelated point about case fatality rate. If you want to cite me a study showing a separate, weaker strain of COVID-19 that explains how the CFR is much lower than we think you need to show me the actual science, not just assert that it exist.

Because the obvious hypothesis is that it's one disease and one outbreak and the CFR is what we measure and not something else.
Apple and Google Are Building a Virus Tracking Tool for Phones
USB-type-C-condom-USB-cybersecurity
There's not some magic involved where the virus gives up after exactly 6 feet.

6 feet was chosen as a matter of policy because it was the most you could reasonably get people to stay apart. Sidewalks, store aisles, elevators, etc, are all about 6 feet wide and so it's a good number to convince people to cross the street or wait for the aisle to clear. 100 ft would be a much safer number but that's just not really physically reasonable (and so the guidance would have been dismissed by the public).
Thanks.

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You are and always were free to be a hermit yourself. Rooting for this medical, economic, and psychological catastrophe to continue so that people are forced to adopt your preferred lifestyle is bordering on psychotic.
The problem with this is that linux is no longer the OS. The browser is. And "modern" "browsers" do one thing, they automatically run arbitrary code from random places in a virtual machine. The very thing all these mitigations protect.
This is a description of what a gallery does now, not a justification for it.

Here is a justification:

I would say that generally selling art is not the goal of artists. Yes, they want to be able to support themselves through making their art, but generally speaking their goals are likely some kind of combination of obsession with their craft and a desire to make it into the art canon and attain mass exposure via museum exhibitions/acquisitions, inclusion in biennales, inclusion in art history/theory texts, etc. Working with a good gallery helps to promote the (artistic) career of the artist and establishes their art as culturally significant.
Yes! I think many people don't realize that COVID by itself is not the problem so much as the additional burden it places on the healthcare system, which could be used to help people with other problems. We are already seeing cases of people with cancers having surgeries delayed because hospitals are trying to conserve PPE.

I was unlucky enough to fracture my ankle right before California instituted shelter-in-place and to fracture it in a way that needed corrective surgery. I was lucky that CA managed to avoid the worst of it, so that my surgery was able to proceed on schedule. Otherwise I was looking at potential long term complications in addition to being off my feet for 5-6 months instead of the 2 months they expect now.
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Matt Parker made a video that tries to explain how people keep getting this basic arithmetic completely wrong. https://youtu.be/6egeUxIEQnM
Cool, now you get to pick between "opt into being spied on by surveillance capitalism to protect your family" and "retain your privacy but ostensibly put your family at risk". Nice dilemma!
They actually managed to make context menus even _less_ native with this release. All of a sudden context menus have straight corners and higher contrast. In a few months it will actually be legal for this bug to buy booze and do jelly shots: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34572
If it feels like 'too much' it means it's working.

Rural places don't have great health care structure in a lot of places.
Not sure what that even means. Many studies over an extended period of time show that a majority of US households cannot deal with a US$400 emergency without taking on more debt.
Even dividends would be more thoughtful than stock buybacks. Such things are usually planned out for quarters at a time meaning they reflect some moderately deep portion of the business plan. Buybacks are just saying “we have this money in hand. We could use it for R&D to grow our business in some way (opening new branches, new plants, or just anything that could cost money up front for more money later), but instead we’re going to plaster this cash onto the facade of the business. We literally have no better use for it.”
Sure there are situations where a Postgres/Mongo hybrid is the best but my preferred default is Postgres only. In most cases this will work fine, is simple and straightforward. Why make things more complicated than necessary?
I think the last point is rooted in some modern ideas about what it costs to develop and deliver an education.

Our education system cost (At least in the States) is absurdly overpriced and most of that money is not going to the professors.

You don't need to pay people to take biology courses. You need to pay people UBI so that they could choose to take biology courses. Then you only need a (relatively) modest amount of money to design the course, pay the graders, and deliver the content.

While working as an adjunct I got paid maybe $5k in total? For developing and delivering a new online Bioinformatics course for two semesters. What's sad is I actually got paid a bit more than other adjuncts.

While the pay could be increased to make it better it still doesn't require turning students into a revenue stream for % of their salary over X years.
> ...but changed track quickly after seeing how ICUs were overloaded in Italy and Spain.

Are you sure it wasn't public push-back?

> I've never heard ICUs being overloaded and medical resources being stretched to their limits during the flu season... Could you explain why?

There's never a whole lot of excess medical capacity since medical capacity is, you know, expensive. The disease burden of the flu is high. The US alone sees 45,000,000 flu infections each year. Having two diseases with the burden of the flu is double high, but it's not a reason to stop the world.

> Isn't a great difference that we have flu vaccines but no known cure for COVID-19 yet?

Yep, sure is. That said, COVID has shown so far to exhibit very little mutation. Globally the delta between viruses is about 15 base pairs. This means a single vaccine (or single infection leading to immunity) may be all we need. [1] The flu mutates regularly and different strains make it out each season which is why the flu vaccine needs to be given each year and why it's different each year. Flu vaccines are much less effective (19-60% [2]) for those reasons than, for instance, an MMR vaccine.

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/low-coronavirus-muta...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/effectiveness-studies....
My favorite milblogger retired, hated having a "regular" job, joined ATAC and then died not too long later flying an old Israeli fighter. I'm glad if these companies are getting newer aircraft.
Ask HN: What market verticals are benefiting from Coronavirus?
The world is changing around us. There will be new winners and new losers created by this change. Which market verticals do you think are poised to benefit from this? To start off here are a few:

- Online marketplaces like Amazon

- Remote work tools like Zoom and Slack

- Food delivery like Instacart
This comment might come of as apathetic or dismissive or something, but I actually think there's a beautiful golden nugget of truth in what you just said.
I don't mean to rip on you, it's important to notice problems, but that seems very solvable. Just require some minimum duration of proximity before you alert.
So like, for example, the pernicious doxxing of anyone who dares to question the left-liberal doctrine and loses their job via doxxing and social shame? I'm glad to know you're on-side with preventing that kind of defamation and smear campaign.
Counterpoint. We will have less innovation and tech advancement if companies will have to spend more to prepare for disasters like this virus. If new businesses have to do that then we will have a lot tougher barrier entry meaning old fish will prevail.
More like "What if people told me to put my 401k in index funds then half the companies on the index get wiped out due to a sudden policy 180?" At this point the bailouts have already been priced in for a decade and it isn't even politically possible to say "this will be the last bailout but next time there will be bankruptcy".