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With hospitals shutting down, and doctors and nurses being furloughed for lack of patients...
I am interpreting, however, "not statistically significant" as: "looking without calculating it appears it is faster, once it's calculated it turns out that appearance could be just a noise, not a real signal."
What the NAISD study and Fauci were talking about is that it accelerates time to recover (seemingly among those who were going to recover anyways), which is a big deal as that increases the hospital throughput.
Not when the FED is printing so much money. That money has to go somewhere, and a lot of it ends up funding new startups and new corporate debt.
A few different articles this week about spinning up a wireguard container/jail/VM ...

But it's far, far easier to just fire up an sshd somewhere and 'sshuttle' makes it possible to turn any ssh server that you have a login on into a VPN endpoint:

https://sshuttle.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

You don't even need to be a privileged user - just any old user login, over ssh, and you need python to exist on the remote system.
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I don't think they're strictly saying holding dollars is bad right now, just that it could be if inflation became a thing, which is not happening because as said by someone else, almost all other currencies are in the same boat. Plus everything is based on the dollar in the world economy. To answer your question though, if we were in a place where keeping cash was becoming a problem, that's where assets come in like stocks, bonds, real estate.
I mean, it does provide no evidence for the specific hypothesis.

It may provide evidence of other hypotheses.

So you're right, but you're also wrong, without making yourself more clear.

Poor precision in the use of language around clinical data has been a major problem in all of this, in the press especially, where for the most part they clearly don't give a damn and just have an agenda to spin in most cases. Because of this, scientists publishing ought to try to use language that ensures their work cannot be misinterpreted. The notes in the results section here about non-statistically significant aspects to the data fail that test, since an average reader would likely walk away with a false mental model of what the data is showing.

edit: my comment is wrong, i'm tired and haven't had enough coffee. the criticisms below are valid. i do have a point, but won't jam it in here.
The problem comes with families who aren't "poor" but aren't rich enough to afford spending an extra $20k/year ($11.k for UT Austin plus $10k for living expenses) for four years, for each kid. If you have three kids it's like buying an extra house, which isn't that affordable for most families.
Some work on verifying QUIC packet encryption using F* is happening at Microsoft Research: https://github.com/project-everest/everquic-crypto
A renter does not get anything of inherent, transferable value out of the exchange.

Does "I didn't have to find a contractor to tear out the kitchen wall when a leak on the third floor got all the way down to my first floor apartment, nor did I have to pay for them to do this, and could just keep on going to work as normal" count as value?

Any decent landlord provides the service of "medium-sized repairs happen without any more work on your part than a message".
One thing that I think the business world has finally learned during the COVID-19 social distancing is that business travel isn't nearly so important as we had imagined. And attending conferences was always fun but it's been amazing to watch how fast conferences have switched to an on-line format (well ... the technical ones that I would attend).

So it's my opinion that the airlines, hotels, conference centers and taxi/ride-share companies are in for a rude awakening. Tourism might increase when this isolation ends, but I think there's going to continue to be a serious contraction in the market segments that support business traveling. And when you combine it with the financial damage done to businesses during the pandemic, they've got two fiscal reasons for eliminating business travel.
No effect when given in late stage severe cases. Unsure effect when given earlier in disease progression but a reduction in “days to improve” in the early administration cohort merits additional research.

This happens a lot with covid drug research. Many times treatments given too late have no effect on improving outcomes. That is, if you give it too late, it cannot save you. However, there does appear to be some drugs that improve outcomes when given early in disease progression. Think of it like tamiflu. If you take it 2-3 days post onset, it works. If you take it past that timeframe, it does not work.
If you are trying to make money and ship a product, then I have seen far worse than just a Front end and a Firebase. Go for it. Get your product in front of paying people as quickly as possible, then sell sell sell. You'll probably fail (the default state of a start up is failure), but you'll learn a lot along the way.

If your hope is to learn how to write code for other peoples products and have them pay you, it would benefit you to get a more full stack education. Node would be good. Rails is nice. Django is nice. .Net works well. Java is good.

It just depends on what your goals really are.
If we don't destroy it by the pause.

Look, I think the pause was necessary. But economies don't come with pause buttons. We had to do something that nobody has ever done before, and the second- and third-order effects are going to include some surprises.

I'm hopeful that you're right, that we can have a quick and relatively clean recovery, back to (mostly) where we were. But I'm also nervous that it won't work...
If an average person were laid off today and couldn't find a job for 1-2 months, would they go bankrupt? I think most people would be able to survive on their savings for a month or two. Companies should also be held to the same standard. They should have enough savings to survive this sort of disruption, just like a person would.

So yeah, if your company can't survive a month without revenue, it is a crappier than average business.
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For two decades, I've mostly been self-employed, a contractor, or a freelancer, but I've been fortunate enough during this lockdown to land a full time gig that starts soon.

Working in a corporate environment is a little foreign to me, so I'd like to ask those with much more experience: what do you do to onboard yourself when you join a new company? There's the stuff the company does, but I'm interested in the things that you do to ensure success with the new company/new role in the first day/week/month that you join the company.
> and the remdesivir drug trial seems to have been a success,

it's what now? I haven't seen any data, including the report today, that it made a significant impact.
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Lyft SWE here. Can confirm. My Lyft offer was significantly greater than Google, Uber etc. That said, with 20/20 hindsight, Google would have been a safer choice.
The German media does not have this story (yet?).

The best I can find that the German govt made an offer for a EUR 9B bailout, which would be (in large part) a credit which would lead to a commitment of EUR 500M per year in repayments (which the Lufthansa doesn't want), and the govt wants two board sets (which the Lufthansa doesn't want).

It is also reported that the Lufthansa is looking into opening a "Schutzschirmverfahren" (special case of bankruptcy law, which you can file when you're not yet insolvent but soon might be, aimed at allowing a company to become viable again mostly by itself), has EUR 4.4B in the bank, and wants to have a final decision by end of May. (from a story published less than 1h ago in SZ).

Maybe BI knows something everybody else doesn't...
What are some ways you get people to use more complex structures and phrasing? I'm a native English speaker learning Spanish and I struggle to get beyond small talk when talking to native Spanish speakers
> Ideally there would be a single place we could go that would show everything for all of our kids on one page with what they should be doing that day and the links.

Fucking exactly this. Even before this, schools had a communication problem. There'd be frequent emails, most of them without relevant or useful content, texts to tell me there was an email I should go read (WTF, just put the part that matters in the text!) and then an app with notifications which may or may not also generate an email directing me to the app, and most of which were also not helpful.

They communicate way, way too much, and the wrong things, and in the wrong ways. I've gained a lot of sympathy for parents in my partner's classes who say they missed an email or whatever—the schools spam parents with irrelevant crap. Bring back fliers in backpacks, a message notebook that always comes home, and calls when things are really important. Ditching the tech entirely would be an improvement. Even with the Covid thing I'm not sure the tech's all that helpful. Bus-delivered weekly physical materials (they're out delivering meals anyway) and regular ol' books would be easier to manage.
It is, but paradoxically it also seems easier to control. Perhaps because while it is infectious through the air, it is maybe not infectious over the same distance - but not as infectious inside a close distance.

I'm just guessing really. People say flu can't be controlled in the same manner. But we also haven't done that experiment like we're doing now. So maybe the people who say that are just wrong.
No it’s not. The fed printed so much money and dropped rates so low, there’s a massive excess of capital looking for business opportunities. Monetary policy is what is driving the economy, and it’s making this bubble bigger than ever. You can’t ignore economics and cheap money. We will have ten more we work like companies.
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I've searched around some of the testimonials images down that page, like a dozen so far, and all of them are either AI generated faces, stock images, people on other sites unrelated to the pandemic, even a painting!
It's clearly a fraud, so what can be done to end it?
The other thing to remember is that nobody actually loses anything when stock prices go down. Everyone still owns the same stocks, in the aggregate, and no actual material property is lost. Just the valuation changes. To insist that valuations cannot be allowed to go down as a matter of government policy is totally bonkers.
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There’s been plenty of strikes at Amazon, instacart, and others. Hell, there’s a growing movement for a rent strike in May as well.

Just go figure the only widely covered protests are the right wing astroturfed ones...
>I came from a blue collar family. Both parents work long hours to provide for our family. I was working when I was 12. I didn't own anything of value through HS or college. I worked several jobs to pay my way through college. I have lived a big chunk of my life below the poverty line. I didn't graduate in four years like most of my friends, but I was still able to get myself out of college, get a job and have been able to build a career out of almost nothing.

That's completely anecdotal, but I experienced nearly the same. I agree with the above poster that opportunity is limited and unequally distributed, and I would say you and I experienced a good bit of luck....not to minimize your struggles.

USA has a very low class & income mobility [1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/aparnamathur/2018/07/16/the-u-s...
The OpenOffice people will probably still tell you the project is not dead. However, they have been almost incapable of making releases for the past few years. If you look at their code repo, there are an order of magnitude more commits going into LibreOffice (maybe multiple orders). I admire their tenacity but at some point the right thing to do was to hand over the Open Office name over to LibreOffice. The war has been over for years and LibreOffice won.
This is another situation where an industry deemed "essential", and unaffected directly by lockdown directives, is still impacted.

While there's some ambiguity, nothing in the state-level lockdowns prevents travel in a meaningful way (it's just a jurisdictional thing). But no one is travelling anyway, because no one is willing to sit in an airplane right now.

And Boeing sees that, and knows the recovery will be slow no matter when the official "end" of the lockdowns arrives.
I was referring to this part:

>The rumor is that it had planned the downsizing for a while, wanted the employees to be in the office to hear about it in person, and didn’t care how much risk it had to expose the soon-to-be-ex-employees to in order to make it happen.

i.e. making them come in to the office for the layoff notice, after it was known the public needs to social-distance and minimize gatherings.

That part is still bad, and it's not retracted, nor does Triplebyte dispute making them come in to the office to be informed of the layoffs.

In any case, it would be nice if he updated the original post with a link to the retraction, otherwise people won't see any unringing of the bell when they go back to that link.
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Terminology matters: let's stop calling it a “sprint”
TBH i expected this to happen some time. I wonder how much funding agencies like NIH , ERC etc spent on travel grants per year. From my experience it s a lot
> Irrationals have a unique decimal representation in the mathematical sense

Not all of them do. Actually, so many don't that mathematically, the number of them that do is zero.

Sure, there are exceptions like sqrt(2) and sqrt(3), but there is an uncountable infinity of irrationals between these two numbers that just don't have a representation.
There are a lot of libraries to it more readable:

https://blog.bloomca.me/2019/02/23/alternatives-to-jsx.html

If you don't want to use any of them, convention is to use:

const h = React.createElement;

I don't know of anyone who actually uses `React.createElement` directly.

Personally, with all the other things needing a transpile step (TypeScript, and support for older browsers), I've just gotten used to having one in every project nowadays.
Why not have an issue tracking it? The author will likely close the issue themselves when they open source it.
And while neither effect was found to be stat sig, the “treat earlier” group was close to stat sig (eyeballing it, it probably would have been stat sig at 90% confidence) so that’s good enough reason to try again with a larger sample size. If the effect stayed roughly similar, a larger N would lead to a smaller confidence interval that would not include a non-effect if an odds ratio of 1, and therefore be stat sig evidence of benefit.

Edit: Also it looks like they didn’t find an effect overall, but if they slice the data to just those who were treated early, they’re closer to having something stat sig. Hopefully that was a pre-planned cut of the data, but either way the interpretation is still probably “Somewhat promising but needs more data.”
No one banned you. Your comment was affected by user flags and software. Rightly so, as you've been trolling up a storm (or trying to), and using multiple accounts to do it.

Obviously, though, if you keep posting like this then we will have to ban you. If we don't, people will complain about us privileging you, as we ban other accounts for less and you're breaking the site guidelines badly: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Comments such as "dang -the enabler of right-wing asshats", "HN is a cesspool of anti-intellectual MAGA blowhards" (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hn_check), "only far-right anti-science, anti-intellectual noise" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23014140) are helpful in a way. They go nicely with "The mods here are radical liberals", "left-wing propaganda", "dang is an SJW cunt", etc. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22920602) and are handy for balancing the binary tree (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22784216).
I've found it most helpful to think in terms of deployments: Each (micro)service effectively gets deployed independently.

One implication of this is you need to ensure your APIs are backwards compatible with any other services - even if it's only one service that your team also manages. This also includes databases, if shared by multiple services (which I won't get into, suffice to say congrats, your database schema is now also a crappy API).

As soon as you start having concurrent deployment dependencies -- that is, the updates for service a + b both have to be deployed at the same time or things are broken -- you've effectively built a monolith anyway, just with an annoying code layout (eg, spread across multiple repositories).

You can use orchestration to tie these deployments together, but this means you're effectively building a monolith with a microservice architecture. Is that really what you want?
Interesting points, did you read the study? Have they adressed those points?
Tests to prove effectiveness in FDA terms takes years. This virus is 6 months old.

So, by definition, we will only have unproven drugs to use for the foreseeable future.
but they get the connections with the charity. That's why any vaguely defined charity that organize "events" for donors should be under a lot of scrutiny. people should check if the charityPR and lobbying dpt is working for the charity, the founder, or both.
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I have reported the commentator above if it helps. Last thing we need is virtue signaling jerks on this site, they can head over to their favorite poltical echo chamber forum instead.
One of the major features Service Station advertises is "Open Terminal by right-clicking the Finder!", but isn't this functionality already available in macOS via System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > checking "New Terminal at Folder" under "Files and Folders"?

A feature that might make Service Station even more useful would be adding "New Text File" and "Rich Text Document" options, similar to the app "New File Menu"[0].

This is the second time today[1] I've seen a closed source project hosted at GitHub[2]; I had mistakenly assumed GitHub was for open source projects (like SourceForge).

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/new-file-menu/id1064959555?mt=...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23020258

[2] https://github.com/knurling/ServiceStation/
I suspect a ton of the psychological illnesses/problems we see today are the result of radical divergence from the behaviors we had in our ancestral evolutionary environments. It would be remarkable if the brain didn't make a bunch of assumptions on the structure of our environment when tuning stimulus sensitivity, neurotransmitter production, etc.

Some examples that seem obviously concerning to me are changes in child-rearing patterns (later and fewer), changes in diet (less fat and protein, more stuff that didn't exist in the evolutionary environment at all), changes in stress exposure (mental, physical, and immune [especially parasitic]).
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Just a pedantic note - I have most of my 401K money in Certificates of Deposit, so you do not have to pump the market.

However (thanks, Federal Reserve!), you get punished with interest rates below inflation, so people, increasingly desperate to protect their savings from inflation, put their money in risky investments (not just the stock market, also overpriced real-estate, etc).
I want to add that hate speech is a different thing, but where one draws the line there is also a slippery slope.

Look at deplatforming of people like Steven Pinker or Jordan Peterson to see how actually quite moderate, well reasoned, well spoken people are getting censored. That's a disturbing trend.
If this is really a factor in the stock price, then that company is toast.

When an employee is hired, the assumption is that that employee's all-in hiring cost is less than the increase in value for all shareholders. That means if you pay an employee $250K a year, including stock, the shareholders better be getting more than $250K back in value.

By your reasoning, the shareholders are losing more by dilution than they gain back by enterprise value. If that's the case they should fire everyone and close their doors, since there's no RSU dilution at all with zero employees.

On the other hand, if employees were hired with the assumption that they were worth the price, then any layoffs should rationally reduce the stock value - because even though you get the RSUs back, the employees must have been worth more than those RSUs or it was a mistake to hire them in the first place.
> 2) They are pretty much full-on Dwight-mode, calling for no social distancing and not wearing masks (in attempt to boost one's immune system).

As a software engineer with very little knowledge of immunology, can someone with more insight explain whether there's any merit to the concept of "boosting" one's immune system like that?
Well, a country with a decent population size and a decent economy has to rely on air transport. Just now many countries flew out their citizens for example.

As far as I know, Lufthansa, like some other airlines, have a government owned golden share. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_share

In fact, if I remember right, an EU based airline is not even allowed to be owned by more than 50% of non EU share holders.
The GND with its extensive use of private contractors is basically neoliberal like our current DoD. It is structured almost exactly the same as DoD and with a vague never-ending mission would likely take as much resources to fight an enemy that may honestly always exist. A better policy would be focused upon global trade policies to globally incentivize all countries to choose cleaner infrastructure. This sobering reality is one I certainly found refreshing from the Yang climate worldview than the climate alarmist view that civilization ends if we don't go carbon neutral in 8 years aggressively pushing the GND as a gold standard policy.
But it doesn't mean that drug doesn't work -- it means that the sample was too small to say that it works. If the sample were 100,000, then that would mean that it doesn't work. This was around 225, which isn't tiny, but given that we are well-endowed with people dying of COVID who would rather not, it makes sense to do more testing. Which they call for.
it always outputs broken specs for me
The fact that the shutdowns are government-enforced is where the "it's capitalism" argument breaks down. The market's no longer free due to the government, so it makes sense that they would then try to offset the corresponding economic damage.
>Literally, I could list all of the ways the US left has helped improved the quality of living

Yes, please list the ways the left has helped improve the quality of living for the US. I'd prefer the list only be things that occurred this century. Lip service doesn't count either. Sanders is the only one I can think of that's done anything, and The Party shut him out twice.
Thanks for fitting "Das Lieben der Anderen" into a comment thread! One of my favorite movies of all time. I think the Stasi would be thrilled with the amount of power they could have nowadays. May all FB and gov employees be the Good Man.
> I mean, it does provide no evidence for the specific hypothesis.

Again, this is incorrect. It provides weak evidence, not no evidence. You talk about precise language here but you are conflating “not statistically significant” with “no evidence”. You can’t just handwave the difference between these two things.