skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people have periods in their life where they're feeling down or anxious, and proper exercise and diet, or a change in life circumstances tends to make it go away.

But there is a percentage of the population that, even with correct diet, exercise, and general mental hygiene, are incapable of surmounting their mental health problems.

Everybody is different, and you can't really apply your personal anecdote to everyone who's suffered from depressive bouts or other mental health issues.

It's incredibly frustrating when people tell me I just need to eat right, or do yoga, or align my chakras and all my mental health problems will go away. It's borderline accusing me of being lazy or stupid for feeling and functioning the way I do.
wharton published a "Coronavirus Policy Response Simulator" on may 1st [1].

Their analysis comes to the conclusion that fully reopening ("States immediately lift all orders listed above as well as restrictions on the operation of businesses and restaurants.") would lead to 500k lost jobs from May first and 350k deaths until end of june 2020, while partially reopening ("States immediately lift emergency declarations, stay-at-home orders, and school closures.") would result in -11.3 Million jobs lost and 162k deaths. Both assuming, that each individual maintains their current social distancing practice.
Year-Over-Year GDP change % would be almost identical, -10.1 vs. -10.7.

So fully reopening, compared to partially, would save ~11 million jobs, but lead to roughly 190k more deaths.

Considering the $10 million as the current value of a human life, a job would be $~172k for the comparison fully vs partially reopening while maintaining current social distancing measures.

[1] https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2020/5/1/corona...
not to get too offtopic but performance in Linux for Vulkan routinely beats native windows video performance.
https://www.protondb.com/

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=dota2-ma...

at present there are about 6500 working games in Linux that take advantage of advanced 3d graphics. These include the latest Doom, Fallout 76, and Borderlands 3. Im currently running a Radeon RX 470 and playing everything from Aragami to P.A.M.E.L.A. and Wolfenstein New Colossus at 60fps or higher.
There's still a real possibility that there might actually be a full recovery - what's closing is small businesses, not megacorporations. The rich seem to do just fine even now. Even if most individual restaurants close, some will open back up, and more chains will move back in.

In every scenario I can imagine, one thing seems inevitable - most people in this world are going to get poorer and suffer more. But I'm not convinced that the economy itself will sputter; we might just be ushering in a new economy that's far more unequal.

In that case, the stocks might never go down again and people who have held off from investing are never gonna get back in.
Unrelated to the "walled-garden" debate Valve has invested heavily into their Linux game compatibility tools and invested in the upstream projects that make them happen. That allows people who game on PC to break out of the pending Windows walled garden dystopia that the original commenter fears.
How do you know there will be a time after Corona? In all likelihood, it is here to stay like influenza and rhinovirus and other respiratory illnesses. The only way we recover the economy is by gaining herd immunity such that 25-50k yearly die, not 200k. That comes with vaccine and with wide scale exposure, which I'd wager is by 2021 summer. But even then, old folks will still die by the thousands each year due to covid 19.
It's not just likely, I worry you won't even get out of the first wave. With everyone pulling in literally 50 different directions and and no leadership from the top this might just bounce between states like the proverbial hot potato.

I feel bad for you guys watching from the north here.
I joined a company that had their application on about a dozen environments in Elastic Beanstalk that would fail for no reason during deployments. When everything went find it took about an hour to deploy, when stuff goes wrong - say goodbye to half your day (at a minimum). The general solution to most deployment issues was to just terminate every instance but 1, deploy to 1 instance and let the scaling policies kick in to replace the terminated instances. EB is absolute trash.
>> How Much Is a Human Life Worth?

Which life? The reality is that we do not value all lives equally. Wealth, location, legal status, and less acknowledged factors like age, sex and race, all result in some lives being more valuable than others. That is the world in which we live.

So when we look at covid-19 one must first ask: who is it killing? Is it killing the more or less valuable members? Or, rather than face that horrible question, are we willing to take the hard road and value all lives equally? That road leads to dangerous areas such as universal health care and government-sponsored wellness.
It's called ALT text. If you don't paste the same source in the alt attribute, that's the problem. Not having a nice image for sighted folks.
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Quantity times velocity equals GDP times price level. Velocity just went way down.
As a counter point, the AUD, KRW, and NZD all buy fewer USD today than they did on 2020-01-01.

The three currencies have risen from the big drops on 2020-03-18, but are still worth less than earlier in the year.
Take flying lessons.
do you mean vs code has low latency?
People don’t realize in 2008 on the verge of financial collapse the government passed two bailouts totaling $1.8T leading to the longest bull market in history.

We have already passed bailouts totaling close to $7T...no matter what happens the market will rocket, basically WW3 has been priced in so as long as that doesn’t happen it’s to the moon.
Yes, that's a clbuttic.

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Clbuttic-Mistake-
Decomposing Professional Composer
> would you ever actually do that?

I take it as no more than just a bit of typeface fun.
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1). I believe that Musk is treating this as it should be. The problem is that nearly everyone is over-reacting. A year from now, I believe that the world will realize that this was one giant over-reaction.

2). Is there really a need to over-analyze a photo shoot like that? High ranking officials usually don't wear masks (See Trump or Trudeau when they are talking to the press).
> Is calling your mother several times per week typical on your country?

Yes :-)

My family is half European half South American. I call them almost every other day. On a busy week, perhaps I'll only call during the weekend.

My Taiwanese wife calls her mom every day.
Why are stocks inaccessible to so many Americans? There are fractional shares, and you do not have to be an accredited investor.
Frankly, what keeps me on Windows are just games, if I would be able to play all the AAA titles on Linux, it would be my desktop. I can't think of any other thing that keeps me on Windows.
MOSFETs are simpler than bipolar transistors. Putting it very crudely, MOSFETs are based on the same space charge principles as vacuum valves, except they happen to use doped silicon instead of free electrons.

Bipolar transistors are more complex, but they still work by controlling the bulk geometry of moving charge.

None of this requires QM, except in the very simple sense that you need to know what a bandgap is and how doping changes it. Beyond that, the "mechanical" details of the charge dynamics are just calculus - even more crudely, very very small plumbing.

QM effects are only relevant when the simple space charge models start to break down at very small geometries. Your "mechanical" space charge model becomes soft, noisy, and more complicated. Essentially the plumbing develops waves and ripples that depend on the geometry, and the edges of the pools and pipes can start to leak. And that's where QM finally starts to make a real difference.
lol. In my experience, in the enterprise world, yes people liked Java/spring, but also where comfortable giving it a ribbing. Everyone loved python but didn't get to use it for main-business code, and the Go and Scala projects have been very conflicted with both lovers and haters. In my ~20 person division, 1 person quit and another transferred with the main reason being their dislike of Scala!
If you look at the history of consoles, many are sold at very thin margins, or even at a loss, not even including R&D, distribution, etc. just purely from a component cost standpoint. They recoup these costs using revenue from the game sales and the online play features. It’s not a squeezing money kind of thing. For example, the next gen of consoles is probably going to be in the $500 range, and includes pcie4 speed 1tb SSDs. I bought one of these for my new machine and it was about $200 alone. Add in the processor, ram, motherboard, case, optical drive, etc. and these systems are not making tons of profit.
Photoshop is the main reason I still have a Windows boot on my home desktop. I wish Linux had a comparable alternative to Photoshop (for which I would gladly pay a sum comparable to what I paid Adobe). Any time I tried Gimp or something similar I really missed the clean visual UI of CS, ability to accurately work with at least 16-bit color and support for printing large files (say, 17x40" panoramas) without killing my workstation.
The raw io_uring interface, once you ignore the boilerplate initialization code, is actually a super-simple interface to use. liburing is itself only a very thin wrapper on top of io_uring. I feel that if you ever used io_uring, after a while you'll end up with a bunch of convenience functions. liburing looks more like a collection of those functions to me today.

One place where a slightly high-level interface is provided by liburing is in the function io_uring_submit(). It determines among other things if there is a need to call the io_uring_enter() system call depending on whether you are in polling mode or not, for example. You can read more about it here:

https://unixism.net/loti/tutorial/sq_poll.html

Otherwise, at least at this time, liburing is a simple wrapper.
Pick one randomly and get to work. You can't tell which ideas in life will be most profitable, so you may as well do ANY of them now instead of hurting your mental health waffling between them.
Could it be that despite everyone freaking out, the wisdom of the crowd (the market) is pretty sure everything is going to be OK? It's possible that the market is the only thing acting rational right now.
Yeah, there seems to be a lot of interesting areas in, for example, condensed matter physics[1] such as topological insulators[2] which appear have a lot higher chance of having a measurable impact on our lives.

That said, there's a lot of know-how in building the complex parts that make up the accelerators and detectors, reducing the HEP investments could erode that know-how.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensed_matter_physics

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_insulator#Properti...
I can find no Congressional record of Al Franken saying this.

What I did find were quotes from his book and a lot of people saying that he was being sarcastic and if you read the next few sentences you can see that.

(I still think it was obviously an inside job though without even knowing about Al Franken.)
Don't think so because all the smaller shops have rent arrears and salary arrears. The lockdown coming to and end doesn't alleviate that.

The only way for the owners to stop the bleeding and move on with their life is to close shop and go into bankruptcy. Thus shops die and jobs disappear, permanently.

They maybe could have survived if the lockdown only lasted one month, it's tough on cash flow but restaurants have always been a rough business. Unfortunately it's been almost 2 months now and there are still no plan to end the lockdown. Losses are staggering and continue to accrue day by day, there is nothing that can make up for it.
And forget her next mother day.
Get a notepad. Either physical or digital, whichever way you're more comfortable noting things down. You will interact with a lot of new people and you'll have to remember who does what, where to get information, etc. A simple note to track all of that information as it's thrown at you through the day will do wonders.

As a general guide, ask questions like your life depends on it. As an intern, no one expects you to know what to do nor how to do it, at least not right off the bat. It is your duty to make the effort to reach both of those though, and asking questions is by far the best tool to do that.

When I occasionally interface with interns, questions are my number one metric. If someone asks a lot of questions and at least some of them are in the right direction, they're already a keeper in my book. If the intern doesn't ask any questions I won't know how to help them on either and that's a bad sign.

Best of luck and don't forget to have fun.
1. The economy is not that bad for many companies in the stock market. Why would Proctor and Gamble be that negatively impacted during this? It lost 20% of its value though. Same with a stock I hold. It was slaughtered for being an airline stock, but it mostly does flights to remote communities, which are a government-funded necessity so they can eat and have medical care. P&G should not have meaningfully fallen and this other stock should have lost maybe 20%. It lost 70%. Now it is only down 40%. So the market didn't know what to do and overreacted in many places. Same with all sorts of natural gas stocks which got slaughtered along with oil. Much of the initial drop was unjustified.

2. The stock market will walk away with a larger share of the economy than it had before. Vast amounts of shopping moved to Amazon and online venues. The large publicly traded restaurants will survive or just buy out flailing franchisees at a discount. So less pie, but a greater share for public investors.
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If nothing else it's bad timing. What we need right now is a giant global investment in pandemic vaccination factories and distribution systems.
People buy into a rally because they don't want to miss out, they expect it to keep on rallying. It's herding behaviour, and leads to so-called dead-cat bounces. At least in the short term, there's no reason to expect any intelligent price discovery from the markets. Come back in six to twelve months and then we will see.
>boggles my mind that people think they should be telling anyone to call anyone on a site like this.

It's a nice reminder, don't see the OP post as "reconnect with your abusive parent" more like "today might be a good day to call your mother"
Here is a handful of blogs I follow on Design/UX/Product:
- https://spotify.design/
- https://thedsgnblog.com/
- https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/
- https://www.creativereview.co.uk/
- https://alistapart.com/ - One of the favs.
At first, I thought Nir Eyal is a partial anagram/pseudonym of Dan Ariely.
again it comes down to options. name something that:

1. the government eats the loses.

2. liquid

3. better returns.
I've always typed poweroff. I guess that's because of my time at Sun, since that is the fastest way to shutdown a Solaris machine.

I was always under the impression that shutdown -h ran more shutdown scripts?
Why isn't there an option to download the assets? How much space are we talking about here?
Wow, I hadn't seen this. This is quite cool. So clearly somebody else at Cloudflare saw the same concern I do and came up with a creative solution. Interesting that AWS isn't playing though.
Damore was both asked for feedback and fired by Google. Sure, it was different individuals at Google who did each, whoever presented the diversity the diversity conference asked for feedback and the decision to fire Damore was made, I believe, by Pichai.

I never said it was the same individual though, I said it was Google. I think it's splitting hairs to take what I wrote "Google asked for feedback and fired him" read it as a claim that it's somehow the same individual firing him, and then try to dispute the unintended interpretation you just invented.

Regarding sharing it broadly being Damore's idea - true. He shared it first as feedback and then tried to develop the ideas further by sharing within the company. For opinions not verboten by Google, this is common at the company.

This does not mean that it was irrelevant he was asked. Google talked to Damore about diversity and asked for his opinions. He was working to provide it and fired by Google for it.

Your construction seems to imply that Damore was fired for sharing his diversity feedback more broadly. I don't think that's true. Damore wasn't fired or censured when he gave the original opinion and not when he shared internally. He was only fired when social media began brewing an outrage mob. The point is, it shows Damore wasn't doing anything objectively wrong. He wasn't punished until popular subjective opinion went against him. He wasn't fired for his opinion or for sharing it internally, he was fired because people were tweeting about it and Google lacks the intellectual and moral integrity to stand behind their people against mean tweets.
WHO's piece on their visit to Wuhan and saying that human-to-human transmission is likely taking place, dated 22nd January:

https://www.who.int/china/news/detail/22-01-2020-field-visit...

Whatever Xi Jinping might have discussed with WHO's head on the 21st it made no difference to anything and is spun for political purposes.

As for declaring a "pandemic", well the definition of the term requires global spread of infections, so this is something that should become self-apparent and that cannot be hidden.
I had a relatively good relationship with my mother but in my 20's and 30's I had a bad habit of being too busy for her. Either working or playing I was off doing things and not returning her calls. I lost her about 18 months ago and now I beat myself up for it.

I'm posting this here because this site caters to a crowd of people who tend to be workaholics. I've read comments here from people saying their mothers came to see them but they were too busy working to spend any time with them. At the end of your time on this planet it won't be the code you wrote or the marketing materials you worked on that you will remember. It will be the family and friends you spent time with.
This one is true. And quite often, before seeing the result, you will wish it to be one of the option. (In this case, you know what you need)
Great question. Writing skill is generally underdeveloped in engineers, and it's absolutely worth getting good at.

Based on your other comments, you're already starting with drafting, which is great. The next step is to learn to revise well so you feel more comfortable with your early attempts and don't need to toss them out.

The book _Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace_ by Williams and Bizup is about how to rework a draft into something more coherent. They talk about revising sentences, and paragraphs, and then whole structures to be as coherent as possible.

Once you have a mental model for how people read, and what makes reading easier or harder, it's easier to get into the habit of writing and revising. Then you get stuff out of your head and revise it until it's in a form you're happy with. Rinse and repeat.
Recursive Language Revolution 70k Years Ago the Romulus and Remus Hypotheses
The real issue is the timeline and structure of work "until it is time to reopen".

Let's be clear, it will be time to fully reopen once we reach near-herd immunity or we have a vaccine with fairly widespread deployment — say 12 months out?

Until then, restaurant and bar demand seems like it will be weird: takeout should recover, social distancing and masks heavily affecting dine-in, and zero major social gatherings (crowded bars, concerts, festivals, sporting events, etc.).

So the question is: can the state support the workers serving the latter end of the food and drink service spectrum for 12 months? I think it's going to be ugly.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/health/mysterious-coronav...
> a condition for OP’s question

that being:

> If we remove our "selves" from our bodies, are we still us?

But answering this is now a straightforward thought experiment. You just approach it incrementally.

If you replace your limbs with prosthetics, are you still you?

If you get a heart-lung transplant, are you still you?

If you get an artificial heart, are you still you?

etc.

> a somehow unique, identifiable self which ... is how most people view themselves

Well, yeah, but that's a limit of our present technology, not necessarily a fundamental aspect of what it means to be human. Technology redefines the answer to that question all the time.
Show HN: UseLess, a Collection of Useless Hooks
https://www.thetricontinental.org/studies-2-coronavirus/
You know that the alternative is that the workers lose their jobs, and can't pay rent and feed their kids.

A lot of people in USA are living paycheck to paycheck, and it's reasonable to say blue collar workers are more likely to be in this category.

I would say that forcing people to stay home and not make money (and thus not being able to pay for rent and food) is an abuse of America's fundamental human rights.
I was able to predict how simulation would go when i saw the program that i wrote. When i saw the simulation confirm my prediction it was so much more convincing then any other method. If the logic was to complex for me to understand then i would only see the behavior and not much more.
This reminds me of a piece of this: https://chomsky.info/19960413/

Specifically, near the end

> Meaning, setting up a picture — it’s called anti-politics — the picture — but a very specific kind of anti-politics — you have to establish the image, you know, get into people’s heads, that the Government is the enemy- the Federal Government. State Governments are okay, because they can be sort of controlled by business anyway, so it doesn’t matter. But the Federal Government is sometimes a little too big to be pushed around, so it’s the enemy. And it cannot be, nobody can dream of the possibility, that the Government is of, by, and for the people. That’s impossible. It’s an enemy to be hated and feared.

While I don't necessarily disagree with it being the state's role to decide when and how to open back up, it does have its drawbacks. Companies can and (if Tesla is any indication) will use their influence with these states to open back up. The only thing left giving them pause is public opinion.
All indicators point to MSFS2020 blowing X-Plane out of the water in every metric.
We know that in the vast majority of cases, the body clears the virus, and there's protection against re-infection for at least some time.

We know the infection fatality rate is well below 1%.

We know that people under 65 are at far lower risk of suffering severe symptoms and death.

And we know it's a virus, so will spread and evolve according to the same evolutionary principles as other viruses.

There are of course unknowns, but everything in the world has unknowns. We have to make educated guesses, and decide on a strategy based on them.