skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"buying crap" is a wild exaggeration. The Fed is injecting liquidity into markets where credit ratings are creating second and third order effects that will result in liquidity crunches.

To make this clear with an example...many bond funds, active or passive (E.g., ETF, mutual fund, etc.), have strict covenants guiding their investments.
In a simplified system of:
Investment grade: A, B
non-investment grade: C, D

the funds may only be able to purchase A and B rated bonds. Additionally, they may be forced to sell a bond which has a rating change from B to C or below.

Since many ratings agencies are revising ratings lower across the board, there is mass selling of these bonds, just as the companies attempt to raise money to finance their operations. It's also very typical for ratings agencies to essentially trail the capital markets. So as a bond decreases in value, the probability of a credit rating change increases.

This alone could cause manufacturing, energy, or any capital intensive business to fail as their interest payments skyrocket and they lose access to financing.

The probability of default for these companies skyrockets in this scenario. If the fed props these markets up temporarily, it's extremely likely the defaults will be far less severe.
What team? We were on that alliance too.
ironically the gains made by globalization has made the world more resilient than in the 1930's
Sorry you are misinformed.
> They own/lease super expensive machines that need to be in the air filled with paying customers to make the economics of being an airline viable.

Do you operate an airline? Do you have some crystal ball that reveals the true economic costs of capitalizing and operating an airline?

Capitalism is premised on the notion that the aggregation of economic decisions made by individuals, with full freedom of choice, leads to the most productive and equitable allocation of capital for the economy as a whole. It's also premised on "skin in the game"--those who risk their capital in a venture both reap the rewards and bear the risk of losing that capital if things go poorly.

Here's the bottom line: no matter which way you slice it, capital is being destroyed when airlines can't operate for six months. Who should pay for that? If your answer is anyone other than the investors who put their capital at risk in financing the airline, then we have stepped outside of capitalism already and we might as well just nationalize the airlines to accomplish whatever your goal is.
> And language is simple, my wife started writing it

...not sure what you're implying about your wife there.
> We were also quite late on shutting down businesses

Hell, there are still eight states that haven't, per the map at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-stay....
I think we should also view lockdown costs in life time lost.
Hundreds of millions of people now lost a month or more of their lives
Beware: AT&T Considers TV a “Non-Essential Service” During the Pandemic
Define "major."

There have been a number of articles in newspapers about this, including in a city where I lived recently. They set up entire self-contained communities.
> Who are the strong and who are the weak?

The states with more population have more votes in the House, meaning they are the strong. The Senate stops Florida and California from eating Rhode Island for dinner.

It's not more complicated than that.
Well yes, and precisely because the places for 2nd best continues to belongs to python in many areas which is the problem. It is not clear whether Swift is trying to compete with the best or the 2nd best. It seems to be to have wrong sets of trade offs.
Testing, if they had spun up testing in January and mandated testing of every International traveler that had been to a country with an outbreak in the past two weeks they probably could ahve avoided a total shut down like we have now. The bungled testing is the original sin that got us to where we are now. The ventilator thing is a bit of a side show because by time you have a problem big enough to need a ton of ventilators it is already out of control.
If you don't need refresh, a drawing board can be suitable. You can use this. https://m.aliexpress.com/item/4000550295706.html?pid=808_000...
OLED can work very well and I have used it for night reading over the eink display Kindle use. You may be interested in reflective LCDs like epaper too. A window outside is better for weather and writing a todo list is a better reminder.
If you change your goal from remembering to do things and knowing how the outdoors is, you'll see that a large eink screen is not at all a productive use of money nor will it be the most optimal for knowing the weather or reminding you to do things. Writing notes in class helps you remember more than typing it, which in turn is better than taking a picture of the whiteboard.
Famous tech enterprisers such as bill Gates and Steve jobs did not allow electronics to be used as learning tools for their children because they deemed them too distracting.
On the second part, it's a negotiated transition to open access, with a period allowing for open access articles in not fully open access ("hybrid") journals. The second half of the article is fairly clear. More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_S
Perhaps they should write a proper protocol specification, so that different implementations are interoperable and can be used with different kind of devices.
You're right. Mortality for the virus would significantly increase if emergency rooms are overcrowded. No beds/ventilators = patients that would have survived dying. Last I've heard, around 15% of infected need to be hospitalized.
Here in New Zealand we are hoping you are correct and seeing signs that you are.
It seems odd to link to reddit graphs - but they are quite good and are up to date.

https://i.redd.it/a5gqmi5q5qr41.png
Ok, so not just masks.

I don't know Taiwan's details but it sounds like they followed a test and trace strategy which is vastly different.

Thanks for clarifying.
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They exist. They still cost more than color displays. Larger sizes are still "call for quotation". The current sales pitch seems to be "you don't have to wire AC power to the sign", for bus stops and such.
Covid-19 fallout is also saving lives with regards to traffic deaths and air pollution.
Did you actually complete all assignments?
It seems unlikely that the current Supreme Court would countenance such a blatant violation of the 1st and 4th Amendments regardless of the potential public health benefits. If you're going to propose an alternative then it needs to be something that could actually be implemented in the real world.

More widespread voluntary testing is certainly needed but it's going to take a while to scale up capacity.
There's lots of things that affect albedo (volcanos, large meteor strikes, glaciation) and also sunspots.

The Great Lakes basins were caused by glaciers. They're not called Great for no reason - they're huge, and some are deep. They "contain 21% of the world's surface fresh water by volume."

It's hard to imagine Earth being covered by ice down to 42 degrees latitude. The more ice, the more reflection of solar rays (albedo.)
Can I scale up and down my sharding on demand though?

Edit: I guess it's not always important to have all the writes happen in real time, so you'd get away even with a growing queue
100 weaker is not yet a limit by far. GPS can be 10000000 times below the noise floor, and some advanced system may take it even further
I wonder why such panic then.
An iPad-sized, Kindle-like reader would be a godsend.
More than 1000 employees.
That's broadly true I'm sure.

In this context about anything in particular?
I wonder how that works? Those at risk of death from air pollution are surely in a risk group that wouldn’t do well with covid.
Is it actually an IQ test? Can you practice for an iq test like you can for an interview? I don't see it being that difficult to just grind on leetcode enough to snag a FAANG job.
I think the issue people have with these names is that their English meanings (as you described) make sense when the positive class is not as prevalent as the negative class. If they are equally probable (or worse, if it's the opposite), then the English meanings quickly become out-of-context
epidemics, learning how to learn, algorithms 1 & 2
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/circuitbreaker/2020/1/...

There's going to be a big display revolution soon. Microled will probably outclass everything until we're at cheap retinal laser displays.
If they prepared, why wouldn't they be hired? Unless there is rampant ageism.
Milling parts in FRC meetings were some of my best high school experiences. Taught me how much I loved building complex things.
Your article is 2 weeks old, since which VW have furloughed many staff (also worth noting it's $2bn per _week_). Where do you get your minimum baseline on staff cuts only saving 20% from?
I don’t understand the obsession with testing. Ok, if we are doing random samples or antibody tests, then I agree it’s important so we can understand the true prevalence and mortality rate. But that’s not what we are doing right now.

Otherwise, it just seems like a political exercise to boost the numbers and cause panic. If you’re symptomatic, is the best course of action really to leave your house for a test? It seems like it would be better to call the hospital and let them know your condition (so they can estimate upcoming hospitalizations). Then, stay at home and only go to the hospital when your symptoms worsen. Get tested when you go to the hospital.
To the best of my knowledge, my workplace uses a fairly traditional hiring process that's the same for hiring a programmer or a machinist: Resume screen, phone screen, on-site, offer.

I have to say we do really darn well, especially given we're located in the Midwest and supposedly the brightest programmers have fled to the hot markets. One thing I like is that we get a range of ages, which is heartwarming given that I'm over 50 myself.

The thing to do is look around at your colleagues and ask if the hiring process is really broken. It may be that we've all been driven into a panic about hiring, by the hiring industry.
The Mars Yard Overshoe [0] at 03:00 minutes in?

More seriously though, you know how a good question can sometimes offer more insight than even a clear explanation? Art can do the same. Some films, most blockbuster films, are like declarative statements. They operate within a clear, familiar framework and are easy to reduce to a verbal narrative---often to great effect!

However, some film, like the "Paradox Bullets" here, is more like a keen interrogative. It is 23 minutes of juxtaposing contradictory aphorisms, each overlayed on scenes that, individually, seem to clearly justify the aphorism's value. How do these contradictions weave together into a complete, non-contradictory whole? How often do you have pithy "truths" that operate in your life? How often are these contradictory?

More meta-level, but it says something that you gave up on this after just a few minutes simply because you didn't "get it." It's up to you to determine what that "something" is, but at the very least there are lots of people who find value and meaning in films and art like this. Isn't that intriguing?

[0]:https://news.nike.com/news/tom-sachs-mars-yard-overshoe
Netflix doesn’t need or want to segment the market. Most consumers will stick with one streaming service that is good enough. Apple needs transactions. Netflix needs subscriptions. Amazon takes both but really only wants prime members. Amazon is actually useful though because you can consolidate HBO, showtime etc.. under a single login. It can work under Apple but it’s a lot harder to switch between devices.
> something no governor can do

The idea the governor of a $222 billion budget can't get some masks made is a bit absurd.
So that's the current state of available stuff - The ESP32 stuff is quite interesting because it's all you need for an IoT module and in the right version it even has enough RAM for full screen updates.

I don't know specifics about the voltage conversion yet (these screens need about -20V - 20V), but I reckon that if you're really frugal you could make a battery powered wall display for under 60€ with this stuff - and that's part 1 of what I'm thinking of doing.

Part 2 would be to stick in a Pine64 SOPINE System On a Module [6], put on a capacitive touch layer [7] and run a mainline Linux with KOReader and maybe even a Wayland compositor to be able to run any Linux app (the high contrast GTK theme seems perfect for this application).

All hopefully for under 200€, which is a lot less expensive than other e-readers if that size and a whole lot cooler.

Any tips?

[6]: https://store.pine64.org/?product=sopine-a64

[7]: https://aliexpress.com/item/32984143128.html

[8]: https://github.com/koreader/koreader
There are a lot of steps before martial law.

Hell, have the President do a public address from the Oval calling on the states to issue a coordinated stay-at-home order. Lay out the reasoning, the benefits.

Would've helped in Florida, apparently.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-p...

> “I’m in contact with [the White House task force] and I’ve said, ‘Are you recommending this?’ ” DeSantis said. “The task force has not recommended that to me. If they do, obviously that would be something that carries a lot of weight with me. If any of those task force folks tell me that we should do X, Y or Z, of course we’re going to consider it. But nobody has said that to me thus far.”
Hey, here's a thing: I was on 10mg for a year, and it did almost nothing, and I went up to 15mg and literally everything changed overnight (which breaks my mental model for how that works, but fine). I was doing frequent mood check-ins and there's a dramatic effect from the day after I went to 15mg. Could be placebo, but I was super skeptical when the doctor suggested increasing the dose. Now I'm on 20mg 4 years later and it's perfect.
What about a trans reflective display? I don't know about them being high refresh though.
> get them exposed to real, messy data

This times 1,000.

The biggest surprise to me when I got out of school was how messy things were - data, systems, management, priorities...everything.

When I went back to grad school, we had arguments about the assumptions. It was a total 180 from undergrad, and much more useful. So when I came out of grad school, I was able to deal with the ambiguities - maybe even thrived because I understood them.
It's worse then that, we all live in a socialist society, it's just a corporate socialism. A free market would be a fantastic start. There is a real lack of competition and innovation in our socialist model.
>Half the engineers working for FB, Google etc would not get hired today.

I thought people jump around a lot these days.
Just hearing Powell, members of the Fed and the talking heads in CNBC makes me think they live in some sort of crazy bubble. To think we can bounce back immediately is absolutely bonkers. Half my tenants can’t pay the rent the next few months, some have lost their jobs, layoffs are now happening in non-consumer industries and software spend is mostly halted. Everyone will be cautious in traveling to public venues, let alone spending a lot on frivolous goods for the rest of the year.

There just won’t be a quick bounce back.

But I guess if you live in the Hamptons and have a nice comfy job interacting with the rich all day, you probably are unaware of all this..
Good luck. Sweden is a country which in large has an overwhelming trust in it's government and its intents. There is no part or cultural aspect of Sweden, which inherently believes it needs to arm itself to protect itself from its own government, and even less so as part of its constitution (grundlag)[1]. When told to behave in a certain way, Swedes will follow suit.

Separately Sweden is also a country with an extensive social safety net, where every citizen has the right to free healthcare and every employee will receive 80% of their salary for two weeks without a doctor's note at no cost for the employer[2].

Time will tell if the Swedish approach was the right one and even if so the Swedish case will end up being dependant on rather unique constraints that simply will not map to the US, at least not on a national level.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United...
[2] https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1130&langId=en&in...
I predicted this 2 weeks ago;
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22699657

Addendum; With the Fed printing money like there is no tomorrow the US dollar could lose reserve currency status and if that happens then it will make the '29 crash look like a cake walk. Overnight the US standard of living will drop 20-30% and slowly grind even lower over the next decade.

Silver lining? It will finally put an end to the parasitic Military Industrial Complex and endless "regime change wars" (as Tulsi Gabbert would say) but also end the welfare state overnight. There will no longer be Magic Monetary Theory money to fight over for either political party.

Losing reserve currency status is not a fait accompli at this point so watch the dollar/bond market and price of gold as this will tell the tale. Because there is no real alternative to the dollar at this point, they could still pull a rabbit out of their hat and save the system. Beware that your precious 401K/IRA money is not your money and is the only pile of cash that the politicians can use to slow a dollar sell off. Look for bank bail-ins and mandatory 401K/IRA purchases of US Bonds as cover for Fed bond buying.
The best way I see it, is to have this guy to work for a while, say a few weeks or a few months as a contractor, then either ends it or converts to a permanent job. This is the best interview approach.
I think every life is worth saving. Your argument is a slippery slope.
People of old age have contributed to society their entire life and the real perversion is that we should not be at a point where such thoughts make it into public discourse.
> Unlike healthcare, if I go to a body shop or mechanic, they tell me how much it's going to cost me and even write it down on the work order, before they start working.

It might be hard to believe, but that's largely how healthcare pricing works in Singapore. Especially for routine treatments and surgeries.
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I end up needing a lot of screen real estate whenever I work on some EE project --- datasheets, schematic, PCB editor, calculator, notes. Additionally, being able to e.g. manipulate the enclosure and PCB to do a test fit and immediately edit things would be super cool.
I did a coding test the other day.

To be fair they said don’t put more than 2 to 4 hours in. However I’m not someone who can fail to meet the requirements so I spent 8 hours building it to meet the requirements exactly.

Heard nothing at all back.

Silence.
I think designing on whiteboard helps if not coding. Designing shows the big picture they have in mind for solving the problem.
They have these but the contrast is so poor that it's hard to read for the resolution it claims to have. Try the mobile reader forums. There's large Chinese ebook readers.
Maintaining your own custom fork of Postgres is a pretty good reason.
Yes. In Singapore, to give one example, it's the norm to get either a fixed price up-front for your healthcare needs or a good estimate.

Prices for common procedures are publicly posted at your doctor's practice.
It's not that difficult for people smart enough to get a FAANG job. Personally, I've heard anecdotes from people who can't understand leetcode problems even when given the solution. Professionally, I've seen multiple people who were clearly trying to recite a memorized solution for an interview problem, but just weren't clever enough to do it properly or talk about how it works.
It being political doesn't mean you can't criticize it. Get enough people to agree with you, and you can get change. But that's politics - not reason, logic, or science.
>What’s so strange to me is how much trust is being placed in these test results

This is meme by this point but: it's possible that uncertainty has already been priced in by the markets. I don't think any trader actually thinks the infection rate is exactly what the official numbers are.
> If there's a proposal that Nevada should be the nuclear dump site of the nation, how would the structure of the house or senate stop that kind of thing? What if Nevada is just a trading item between two powerful parties? What does the constitution even say about this?

> What Gavin Newsom is implying here, IMO, is that there's responsibility (and thus power) being left on the table. Due to this vacuum, even Jeff Bezos or Jack Ma could step in. What about the structure of congress speaks to this?

And how do the delineations of American states align to the delineations of the most salient lines of power in the US, such as money? How does it provide balance?
Aren’t there many proprietary blobs starting at the SIM card level, which are black boxes that could contain malicious code? I can’t trust Android phones “completely” because I’m not sure just how much of it is truly open source - so iPhone is a more convenient alternative of the same thing with at least lip service to privacy and security...
I knew nothing about Elm or Luke or Evan before this, but I'm always curious about social relationships in the developer community. That said, I read Luke's article, then watched Evan's video "What is Success?" then I went back and read a couple more of Luke's articles. I am reminded of "Scala War Stories with Paul Phillips," which to me is kind of a classic of the genre of a great developer with huge passion and incredible work ethic almost driven to a nervous breakdown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1wrWQcqLpo I was really impressed with Evan's thought process. I liked his thoughts and feelings about design simplicity and getting it right. I was also really impressed with Luke. He has a practical bent I appreciate and was really excited about his i18n solution, rightly so...and then the clash... I'm really sad about this. There are no winners here. No one is wrong. It's a loss all around. I'm sorry.
Besides being much more elegant, Elm's tooling is very limited when compared to JavaScript and React. When working with the js+react+redux combo, you have access to specialized browser extensions that allow exploring the application structure and events.
It's sad because the language precedes Redux, but the centralization from its owner made it lose the boat.
The fact that the Elm blog has a new post only once a year does not help, either.
Technical interviews were once seen as a breath of fresh air.

You can be a nobody without connections or degrees and if you can prove you have skills during an interview process you may be hired.

Contrast this with other hiring processes which are more irrational, like med residency match, investment banks favoring "target school graduates", law firms favoring "top 14 graduates", etc.

I think whiteboarding is dumb and I'm increasingly unwilling to go through with it. That's a hurdle.

But in many careers the hiring processes are walls, as in there is 0% chance you'll get hired. Because you don't know someone, because you didn't go to the right school. The barriers have little correlation with ability to do the job, and more importantly after some milestone has been crossed it's impossible for you to improve your chances.
You are arguing against a straw man, literally no one is suggesting that masks by themselves are a magic cure all. If masks don't have efficacy then why do hospital staff wear them? The CDC's own guidance for air travel says that people in close proximity with sick passengers should wear masks. In an environment when anyone you encounter is likely to be sick wearing a mask makes sense as part of the overall strategy.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/air/managing-sick-travelers/c...