skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You cannot mitigate economic damage with fiscal or monetary means in any serious way.

You kind of can. In a situation like this, you have a lot of people who can't work because they're at home (or have no customers because their customers are at home), which causes two types of economic damage. One, the thing they were making is not being made. Two, they're not getting paid, so they're not buying what they would have bought with the money, and then that isn't getting made and so on down the line.

The second problem is actually bigger (because of "and so on down the line") but can be addressed entirely via fiscal means. Give people money to replace what they're not making.

And it even helps some with the first by increasing general demand. The things that are still open (e.g. because they're work from home) will then see increased business, have to hire more people to fill the demand and provide jobs for the people who can't do their normal jobs so they're still being productive.

Doing that is not going to eliminate the entire cost, but it is going to make it a lot smaller.

> It’s like trying to claim your company is growing because share buybacks made your per-share price go up, yet your market cap in an efficient market has been unchanged.

Buybacks actually reduce the market cap because there are fewer outstanding shares and the company has fewer total assets (in the amount of the cash used for the buyback which the company no longer has because it is now in the hands of the shareholders who sold their shares).

And doing that does tend to cause the overall economy to grow because it moves cash from a company that apparently had no need for it to investors who are incentivized to find somewhere else to put it to productive use.

This isn't to say that your overall conclusion is necessarily wrong. Even 10% of the cost of shutting down the whole world is large. But if you want to compare the numbers they should be the right numbers.
You know 7,600 people die every day in the US right? 2.8M a year. We don't shut anything down for those.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

Im not saying COVID isn't a big deal. I'm saying the response was an overreaction. We need perspective on the actual severity. If the serological studies coming out are accurate, the total number of deaths is likely ~250k max. That's an alzheimers + suicides. National policy needs to be driven by statistics not emotion.
Would you speak like this to me in real life?
you underestimate the boom that vacuums can create. It can give new companies, entrepreneurs, or employees the opportunity to fill the void, often more creatively than before.
There's some math content on youtube that's great, and wouldn't have been possible 30-odd years ago. I'm mostly thinking of 3blue1brown, but I'm sure there are other examples.
Starbase Orion was a pretty good homage when I played it a few years back. The multiplayer even worked reasonably well.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/starbase-orion/id438375580
Just another Pearl Harbor/9-11 for the US. They could have responded early and mitigated this like Australia/NZ/Taiwan but now there is massive community spread there is no right answer. You open things up and more people die. You close them down and people likely die from poverty related things. The only sane solution was to act early and prevent this.

Why even have intelligence services, scientific expertise, governments, infectious disease agencies and emergency plans if they are all ignored until it is too late. I don't understand how so many countries messed this up.
Depends. In the conditions where coronavirus killed strictly only the old and weak and it had 2 percent death rate it would on average kill people around 2 years before their actual deaths. Let's just say everyone who would have died at 88 will now die at 86 instead.

This means that any costs are just advanced 2 years.

But since those 86 year olds do not provide value to the economy at this point, only consume resources, it will probably offset that by some margin. 2 years worth of resources and care.

Very simplistic way to look at this, but it could also make sense even if not only the elderies die.
There is a possibility it is a net positive for the economy.
Community spread of zero is not the goal. The goal is to get the transmission rate below 1. A transmission rate of 1 means no average 1 person infects 1 other person. You need a transmission rate below 1 to start reducing the rate of new infections. Above 1, you have exponential growth. Right now we are hovering around 0.9. To reopen we need a rate of about 0.75. For comparison the lockdowns in Wuhan achieved a rate of 0.3.
The cost in applications really does add up.

"Profiling a warehouse-scale computer" (by S. Kanev, et. al.) showed several % of CPU usage allocating and deallocating memory. While a malloc and free does have some data dependencies, the indirect jump (by dynamically linking) is an avoidable cost on the critical path by statically linking.
There was also an absurd amount of selection bias in their population. They recruited people for a COVID-19 antibody screening, and there were emails encouraging people who suspected they had recovered from the disease to get screened. If the researchers knew about the email, it's actionable research misconduct.

If they didn't know (a coauthor's wife sent the email), then it's just very very bad work.
JSX is 99% map/filter and boolean expressions. It's written between curly braces to be evaluated as a JavaScript expression. I don't understand how it's different from regular JavaScript.
Hmm.

"Depending on the content in tabs". Might be interesting to graph the leak rate (in KB/min or MB/min) and maybe either record the screen or limit to one or two websites at a time to narrow down what causes the most issues. Besides video playback, CSS animations come to mind as a potential source of GLX acceleration caused by random/mainstream websites.

Now I'm wondering what would happen if you fired up multiple tabs with stuff from https://www.shadertoy.com/, https://experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/chrome, https://webglsamples.org/, etc >:)

Virtual context creation+release could indeed be the problem. FWIW https://github.com/cyrus-and/chrome-remote-interface makes using Chrome's remote debug protocol (to open and close tabs) utterly trivial; or you could just run multiple concurrent browsers with --user-data-dir=somewhere (probably actually much easier to work with).

Chromium aside, another potentially useful trigger may be Unity games - the last(/first/only) time I tried to fire one up my laptop (i5-3360M + HD Graphics 3000) I was scrambling for ^C^C^C while everything slowed to a crawl and the system climbed (impressively quickly) past 97°C ;) (thankfully(!) nothing froze - thanks for the Intel lockup reference), so perhaps that could be a very effective trigger.

I'll keep your email address in mind; email is a bit of a long-term sore point due to Gmail constantly slowing everything to a crawl, and I'm currently using 8GB of swap (need to close some tabs) so I replied here so I could respond in a timely manner.
I use it as part of my daily flow.

One example: I work on a feature, which necessitates some refactoring, maybe upgrading a dependency, and oh, while I'm in the middle of it I notice some other, unrelated things, that need changing. In order to not have to break my flow and think too much about which changes are required for what, I just commit it all on the same local branch.

This then gets broken up into different branches in individual PRs.
perhaps maybe in a large tank of a thermally dense fluid.
We are still figuring that out. When I wrote that post, uring was not yet working with sockets. Things have changed. We are exploring the space.
You can get IPA from chemical suppliers. I bought from these guys https://www.stellarchemicalcorp.com/product-page/isopropyl-a... They shipped to my place in the East bay.

Price has unsurprisingly gone up a bit since I bought Mar 22.
nice! would be nice if you can share the source code :)
Can I suggest you remove the personal attacks from your comments in here? It's hard to read your argument in good faith when it's full of insults.
There hasn't been substantial evidence for many drugs having serious problems before market in the last few decades. Then post-marketing people die left and right and the FDA steps in to put in "black-box" warnings and then the drugs use eventually gets more limited. Even then, maybe not.
There is a higher chance of pigs flying.
You'd probably need a large house and a small pool in Florida for that to be the case.

Pools are typically uninsulated and also experience a decent amount of evaporative cooling. It is not uncommon for swimming pools to have heaters with double the output capacity of the furnace in the home they're attached to.
> About six weeks ago the media decided blanket lockdowns were the only reasonable solution.

I think the big psychological driver was the situation in Italy and Spain: The overwhelmed hospitals, the localized rationing of certain medical care, and front-line medical workers who were getting sick (and sometimes dying). I guess it turns out that nobody wants to watch their medical system collapse?

> Any public health official who suggested maybe just the most vulnerable be isolated was met with scorn

So how would you imagine this working? Healthy people in their 70s who live in standalone homes might be able to self-isolate. (I know a handful of highly-disciplined people who are planning to remain isolated until we get a vaccine, even if it takes until the fall 2021.) But people who live in multi-generational homes, or who rely on assistance, or who live in apartment buildings probably can't self-isolate. And how would we handle people in assisted living? Do the caregivers "live in" for a month-long shift?

The death rates in the over-70 group are pretty bad (and even healthy people of that age usually have some pre-existing conditions), and the death rates in the over-80 group are ugly. For the population at large, it looks like ~0.2% of NYC is already dead, and ~20% of the population has antibodies. So we'd be looking at something like a 1% fatality rate, which would work out to over 2 million dead nationwide before we reached herd immunity. And that's not counting any long-term damage to survivors from blood clots, oxygen deprivation, or kidney damage (Wuhan is allegedly seeing an uptick in dialysis patients). I don't know how common or serious these complications are at a population level.

> It will be clear in several more months that the Sweden strategy is the only way to minimize total harm and navigate this crisis.

I wish I had a crystal ball, so that I could actually know what worked the best. You seem very certain that Sweden's on the right track. Some Asian countries seem to be focusing on minimizing gatherings, masking, contact tracing and isolation of the infected, which allows them to have a partially functioning economy.

All of these solutions are awful in different ways. I'm just not convinced that the right answer is as clear as you make it out to be, certainly not without a lot more detail about how to successfully isolate people over 70 from an airborne virus.
> Well, serving high-definition video isn't free. If you watch a lot of YouTube, have an adblocker, and don't pay for Premium, that would make you a freeloader.

The serving part is likely almost free since YouTube doesn't pay much for bandwidth. [0]

[0] https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/19/yout...
no one wants to go first.
There is a book by some political scientists have the opposite starting point: Why Nations Fail. For the record, they've also got other material which I think is some of the most brilliant research we've got on why politics/societies are the way they are. Very obvious but conceptually simple, with multiple case studies of countries like your post, but (no offense) with a lot more data backing up their claims. Check it out!

RE: depression. Being someone that's dealt with it, I'm sensitive to it being characterized as irrational - there is more than a little research that suggests that depression is perfectly rational, that it reflects reality. I know personally that what I find irrational is individuals/orgs/societies that are driven by the abuse of others, by obsession with material wealth and status by people that have done nothing other than be social climbers, to be part of a species that after thousands of years of history makes the same mistakes (see above discussion).

Just saying. Have a little understanding for where your friend is coming from. For you to call it irrational may only lead them further into it, were you to say as much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Nations_Fail

https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Origins-Dictatorship-Democra...

Thank you for your post, though.
It would probably be more efficient to pump the warm air from the server closet into the water heater room.
A Firebase killer is on the way
When shopping for a new computer recently, prices were the same across the board for the most part. If you qualify for the educational discount, Apple was significantly cheaper. If you didn't there were some sites that tended to have credit card portals or gift card reseller sites that offered more of a discount. Even when a portal says certain products are excluded they tend to still come through with the automated discount.

Also depending on your credit card you could get a better deal through buying your own gift cards. I currently have five percent off on grocery store purchases, so effectively any gift cards the grocery store sells are five percent discounts to the merchant. Best buy, target, Amazon are nearly always there. ITunes usually is but I don't ever recall seeing apple.
And let's not forget sex tapes. "Attention is the new currency."
> Sure there is. It's called mass unemployment and closure of non-essential businesses. Why would people fly to branch offices if they're closed?

Sweden didn't "lock down" (as people often point out), but travel is down 90% from normal [1]:

> "The biggest myth and misconception is that life goes on as normal in Sweden," she said. "It absolutely does not."

> "We have seen Easter travel decrease by 90 percent, we have businesses going bankrupt, a record number of temporary layoffs, and a lot of unemployed people."

I agree that lockdowns seem to have limited or no impact, but not for the reason you think. Where I am, restaurants and retail shops were already in dire straits before the lockdowns came into force. I think the lock downs have limited impact because they aren't very different from the way most people would be behaving anyways, given the information they have.

1. https://www.thelocal.se/20200424/interview-isabella-lovin-co...
Apache Pinot 0.3.0
That's what's supposed to be happening in CA right now. The 2nd shelter-in-place order stated that, even if you are an essential business, you were not allowed to operate non-essential components of your business.
A digital diorama of the house from PARASITE (2019)
Shouldn't they simply curb the (alleged) tax evasions then?
Frustrating advocates such as the nytimes
I do think you are missing out on how well Amazon has handled the online purchasing. Not discussing their ethics, just the service of interacting with them.

I make a purchase and it normally shows up the next day. That's unreal (I'm near a distribution center, so that's not the normal 2 days stateside).

I need to make a return, I just click a button and bring the open box and item to any UPS store (there are 3 within 3 miles). They will package it for me and ship it. I just show them the UPC code on my phone with a ripped open box and an item.

They have a good system. This may be US only, but it's easy to understand why they are so popular.

I have separated myself from Google for privacy reasons (except a few things...) and try to avoid Amazon where I can and support local shops. So this isn't advocating Amazon, just pointing out that their competitors usually can't compete on returns and shipping time.
Oh haha, this has to be that Zoom feature where you save meeting transcripts and where host<->anyone transcripts are available to anyone who can view transcripts. Always found it weird that that was an automatic setting instead of a manual one. I get the use-case but defaulting to it is probably confusing.

Either FatShamer1 or FatShamer2 must have been the host and victim must have been a person with access to transcripts (which is every participant in case of the default Zoom cloud settings?). If neither FS1 nor FS2 were host then this wouldn't have happened.
Found here: https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/g9by4a/i_made_a_dig...
You have my vote for the best criticism of hooks in comments.
>> This is why I don't pay merchants for any sort of expedited delivery.

That depends on the difference between ground vs. air delivery. I usually pay expedited shipping if I expect it to convert a 2-3 week ground delivery into a 1-3 day delivery by air.

Yes, some companies offer "normal" vs. "expedited", with either choice being shipped by ground. In that case, I agree that shipping expedited ground–especially if it's within state–is designed to rip off those who don't known any better.
I know that for my oklahoma college friends they often had rent around 250/month for a room in the oklahoma city metro area (norman specifically). 200/month in some small oklahoma town is probably doable for a room.
Since Twilio was mentioned for commercial SMS, lets give a shout-out to Plivo too:

https://www.plivo.com/
Flowers aren't consumed for survival, i.e. "essential". I'm not sure how intervals of time has any effect on that.
Data can be fake or manipulated though. And in the case of covid-19, a lot of the data is highly questionable.

"The figures are questionable
Angelo Borrelli, the head of Civil Protection, who announces the latest figures every day at 6 p.m., said Saturday night that the 793 new deaths have been caused “by and with” the coronavirus. “We count all the dead, we make no distinction between with and by the coronavirus.” However, one wonders whether these daily figures reflect the situation correctly. The dead are said to have almost all had one or more other diseases, which leaves a question mark as to exactly how deadly the coronavirus is. At the same time, it has become clear that a large number of people who die at home (which is often a retirement home) do not undergo a coronavirus test."
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/03/22/als-italie-het-voorland...
$4-6 per run. They do a minimum of 3 runs a day. It cost them $12-18 a day in coffee. 5 days a week was $60-90 a week. Approximately $240-360 a month. That is a brand new car payment.
Dynamic linking requires calling through the PLT to get to the implementation, so there's a data dependency on determining where the code for it is.

Independent of inlining (with LTO, since the C++ language rules requires inhibit optimizing out "operator new"), the static call is far simpler.
We are seeing them, they're just in early phases; e.g. Italy has already announced its plans, and CA/OR/WA are talking about very specific goals before opening back up (https://abc7news.com/when-is-california-opening-up-reopening...)
Can't answer all your questions, I'm a hobbyist here, not a professional, but I can offer a bit of insight on a few of them

1) The Linux kernel would be a good one to start. There are a lot of good resources out there for getting started with that. Work on similar nix kernels could be helpful too. I've done a little work on the FreeBSD kernel which has decent document, and NetBSD, which has poorer documentation, but a bit better code quality and a helpful community.

2) A good bit of companies hire people to do direct work on the kernel. Redhat is the first that comes to mind. I imagine most if not all of the Big N* companies have teams working on doing kernel work. Many hardware and silicon companies also have kernel work available. Not sure about companies in your specific market, unfortunately.

3) C mostly. I imagine having solid C++ knowledge, but I don't think there's much, if any, C++ directly in the Linux kernel. Knowing other languages never hurts, I see a lot of relevant job postings mentions Python / Perl, I assume mostly for automation. For more specialized roles I imagine there are some other languages that could be useful.

I can't give much information on the other questions, as I'm just a hobbyist. If I said anything that's flat out wrong, please feel free to correct me.
people always think it's easy to give food away. at household portions, yes definitely. but when you have warehouses of them it's a logistical nightmare and sadly food goes in the bin.
Yikes. While I think it's indicative of poor character to say unconstructive, cruel things about someone to their face or behind their back, I don't know if I believe they should be punished when there was a reasonable expectation that the target could never receive these remarks. Still, maybe it's for the best that cruel people sometimes lose in unfair ways.
I thought only the DTKs are uploaded? That is, you can censor your activity on a day-to-day basis but not on an hourly basis.
The bailouts were loans and equity stakes which got paid back, not grants.
You can still get a benefit from sized delete, even without inlining.
Trying to label someone without engaging in critical thinking that involves understanding what you memorized is being dishonest to yourself. I will say it again. A theory is just a theory.. just the most accepted story.

Gravity is a theory (an explaination) of an observable phenonmenon. It is the accepted story until a more compelling story comes around.

Some popular theories that were disproven:

Fleischmann–Pons’s Nuclear Fusion

Phrenology

The Blank Slate

Luminiferous Aether

To your other point. Data is constantly being re-examined. How accurate is the Data is. What the data is really examining are extremely important and change.
Hunting a Linux Kernel Bug
This is definitely not the case. I’ve seen enough class components with complicated componentDidUpdate methods. The method would then be broken up into multiple other smaller methods (or to re-use some logic in didMount and didUpdate)

A few iterations later and you have setState peppered throughout your component.

More often then not though I’ve seen a lot of class components that would just fail to update when certain props change. It’s much harder to miss these cases with hooks.
well planes keep flying, the logistic chain will keep going. apart from time there's no reason not to put packages on the next flight back, no matter how small.
The nutrition scientists all agree we could do fine with much less meat, and is some ways better.

On the other hand, the nutcases, back up by the meat industry, say present meat consumption rates are just fine.
Gopher was how I first got on the internet! Oh memories!

Poking through the posted site... I still remember when I discovered this[1] circa 1993-ish. It was the funniest thing ever back then.

http://www.textfiles.com/humor/final-ex.txt
celullar replication and virus code insertion
That seems incorrect based on a couple of important points. A job is an ongoing relationship that can yield years of income and marketable experience. A fraction of a year of unemployment is not really comparable. Jobs and careers are anything but simple math. Furthermore the recent Pew study indicates that only 29% of unemployed in March collected benefits, largely because systems for distributing benefits are slow and typically service numbers several orders of magnitude smaller. Even in the best of times unemployment insurance has a failure rate of around 15% give or take depending on the state. If a system for distributing benefits is slow, significantly dysfunctional, and prone to cutting people off for a range of reasons then it is unlikely to compete with employment as a source of money, satisfaction, or resume enhancement.