skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hong kong already giving out $1,200 to each resident:
https://fortune.com/2020/02/26/hong-kong-economy-stimulus-ca...
> Google's size gives them a big advantage that they never figure out how to use it.

Good for us consumers, isn't it?
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Job interviews: Catering to the evaluator backfires frequently
So Much Cooking by Naomi Kritzer
I've been interested in what the incentive is to avoid panicking people. What does panic actually look like and why are people so against it? People buying groceries and staying home? If panic looks like getting ready for a snow storm or hurricane, staying at home watching a movie instead of going to the bar, or washing my hands more frequently, I'm not sure what the downside is. It seems like the outcomes are worse if you wait.
I don't assume that, actually. I think that (of course) one can do all those things well and the startup still fails.

I'm thinking we're slightly talking past each other:

1. I had a look at your HN profile, and notice that you've founded First Principle, and "We Start, Help & Fund Fantastic Businesses". This indicates to me that "all day long", you spend time with startups that do close to perfect execution of their startup ideas and businesses.

Still, some of them fail, others don't. And, then, from your perspective — it's mostly luck, who will succeed and who won't. Since everything else is done really well / close to the best possible approach.

2. Then there's my perspective: I was recently in StartupSchool, and the people there and I too, can be pretty clueless about how to build startups. In our cases, I'd think it's often doing-things-in-the-wrong-&-clueless-ways that kills a startup. Or not talking with possible customers, pursuing the wrong ideas, building things no one wants.

\* * *

I'm more used to startups failing because of not-so-good execution.

Whilst you're used to "perfect" execution, and startups instead succeeding / failing because of things they cannot control, Luck.

\* * *

With this in mind, now what you wrote, makes sense to me.
95% of the migration effort is trivial (I say this as someone who has migrated 100k+ loc myself as part of a much larger migration effort).

There's things that are tricky, don't get me wrong: unicode handling can be tricky, though six.ensure_str/bytes usually allows you to defer that problem. Futurize and 2to3 do so much of the work that in my experience the majority of files can be migrated by automation, unicode warts included.

The hard stuff is when you have extension modules or weird metaprogramming stuff (there's also one particular case I had to deal with around code generation). That takes effort to migrate, but it's the long tail.

If you need to rewrite your code to enable the py3 transition, the issue isn't python, it's your coding choices, and you should rewrite your code anyway.
I’ve used a Tumi aluminum suitcase, ultralight, no flex. A Dell 24” 4K monitor and other dev gear fits perfectly. Since it doesn’t flex you don’t need to pack very well, just a few clothes to stop movement. Example photos:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jjxctk02nvb5wmy/AADnscpr1HQCFZeiO...
> You’re asserting that negative one times X is itself negative which is in fact what the article is attempting to prove in the first place

Absolutely not. The article explicitly postulates this:

> We also take for granted the fact that the product of a positive real number and a negative real number is a negative real number

You're right that that's the interesting part of the question, but as far as the article is concerned, it's just an uninteresting assumption.
I would guess a lot of what you want to preserve is wisdom. You keep that by retaining the older folks that have it, and have them work alongside the younger people that dont. I've learned so much from other people's war stories. More than from any lessons learned database. Documentation is nice too, but writing it and reading it take time and it doesnt always cover the things that didnt work.

Optimizing things (and organizations) tends to make them efficient but brittle. This is another area where that's true.
"Actor" architecture is supposed to enable high developer productivity but it's been a decade since the article so I wonder how it's working out? The most prominent project of which I am aware is FoundationDB.
(To be clear, I personally don't think the fed will be able to get themselves out of this one. I'm just stating most market participants think they can.)

I certainly agree w/ you that it will take a fatal failure to kill this meme, and I think that failure might be coming up.
CDC Updates Japan’s Level 2 Travel Alert Coronavirus
Dell (IIRC) used to have a portable workstation that when closed was basically a briefcase, with the hinge as the handle...

After a bit of digging, the XPS M2010 20" entertainment 'laptop' released in 2006.
This is a good question and I would like to learn the answer too.

According to some napkin calculations, the CPU is $5000 and will be kept in service, I guess, 5 years.

The US average price is 13 cents / kWh so this 225 watts CPU will cost $1280 in electricity over those 5 years.

Colocation price is probably low, let's say $50 / 1U server / month. So that's another $3000.

Why is electricity the most important here? I guess because you can't lower the other 2 costs very much? But isn't the CPU price itself based on the power savings it does provide?
Overloaded Healthcare systems are the main concern with Covid-19
A lot of TVs already support DIAL, unfortunately about the only streaming services that support it are Netflix and YouTube.
I’ve been focusing on blue chips that were already in the dog house, e.g. IBM, GE.
I used to think this but I realized I needed glasses. :) Still I couldn't use 13 inch screens all day.
> Do they really split a single photon or just absorb one and generate 3 new one?

I think that there is no meaningful difference between these two descriptions. (IANAP.)
I think that this, although it is fiction, provides a fantastic look at a life under quarantine.
Network/agglomeration effects are a natural thing for many industries, especially creative/information workers. And while remote tools are improving, it's still hard to beat on-site collaboration for coordinating teams.

If Google or Amazon or whoever could get enough skilled people to move to random other cities, they would, because that would obviously save them a lot of money, both in salaries and office rent. The fact that, for the most part, they stubbornly stick to pricey tech hubs is itself quite telling.
Any IMAP over REST API should just implement JMAP (RFC 8620 and 8621).
Just a little clarification. These renin-angiotensin terms are totally confusing (due to how similar they all are!) and from my correspondence with physicians, many of them even get them mixed up!

Virus binds to and downregulates ACE2. ACE2 converts Ang II to Ang 1-7. Ang II binds to AT1R and AT2R receptors:

https://twitter.com/__philipn__/status/1229607854232850432?s...

Pic for clarity.

When there’s less ACE2, and in general due to immune response, there will be more Ang II to bind to AT1R. This AT1R binding may create the lung injury seen with the virus.

The idea is that by blocking AT1R with an ARB type drug you don’t stop the virus from entering a cell, but you instead stop the body’s pathological response to the virus. After all, most viruses don’t kill us, and our immune system - if it doesn’t over react - will usually kill a thing if it has enough time and the virus isn’t “special” like HIV or herpes (that’s my general, non expert understanding!)

While it seems smart to try and inhibit ACE2 directly, there are a couple problems with this I see:

1. It may be pathological. More Ang II to bind to AT1R, you might end up way worse off. ACE2 is the “good” ACE, and all the evidence we have seems to suggest that a reduction in the ACE2:ACE ratio will make tissue fibrosis, death, etc worse. This happens in the heart and lungs in mouse models.

2. Small molecule ACE2 inhibitors bind to the C shaped area of the ACE2 enzyme, while the virus attaches to the back. So they likely may not inhibit cell entry:

https://twitter.com/robertlkruse/status/1230577662751641601?...

The best silver bullet bet here is ACE2-fc, which isn’t a small molecule.

This is a soluble form of the ACE2 protein along with an fc. this gives it a longer half life in the body.

This would likely:

1. Stop virus cell entry by neutralizing the virus- virus binds to ACE2-fc instead of the cell ACE2.

2. Stop potential lung damage from AT1R activation.

Both 1 and 2 have been shown in some models.

It is now being tested in vitro. Next animals.

Chinese are testing non-fc form, ACE2 directly, but requires IV drip. Testing now directly in humans! 7 day trial.

See twitter for more on this:

https://twitter.com/__philipn__

If you’re a funder, VC and you’re reading this: The scientist at John Hopkins who’s developing ACE2-fc is looking for funding. He’s working with Chinese biotech firms now to do the testing. Please comment here and I will connect you.
The first time I learned about the VIP services was through a post on reddit, which at the time was the most gilded in reddit's history.

Fair warning the post is extremely sad and heartwarming in what people are capable.

https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5h7gq8/i_was_goofy_at_...
Since you are comparing the amount of particulates in the air to a volcanic eruption ...

How is your HEPA filter in the corner going to handle that? Not well, at all.
Discovery and development of angiotensin receptor blockers
> All: if you notice fishy things like this, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com

What would we have noticed, in this case?
Unless you're doing low-level stuff no developer is going to be aware that this even exists, much less capable enough to use it. There are more 'programmers' than 'engineers'...
When I tried this a few years ago (shortly after getting my Vive), the text resolution and comfort just wasn't good enough for long periods of time. I'm curious if anyone has had more success with newer VR headsets
We pushed federation caches over the signalling channel of ISDN2 as late as 2007. ISDN is the most commonly misunderstood and under appreciated communications standard. During the early nineties ISSN acquired a horrible reputation for incompatibility, but the very nature and value proposition of ISDN remains the most adaptable and capable L0/1/2 communications standard that was intentionally designed to adapt to and enable legacy protocols and future transition requirements. This is why the D channel is capable of transfer of user defined packet payloads up to 16kbps. Commonly dismissed as the signalling channel, why was it designated as "D channel " and the commonly presumed data channels, "B channels"?

The myriad problems and factors that assailed practical IDDN adoption in the early days when a working ISDN interface was a genuine wonder not of miracles in configuration but the capability delivered (we ran applications in advertising that had financial trading style requirements for transactions and the fact that advertising copy was delivered via ISDN was the kind of integration that was envisioned originally)

Everyone is confusing me with their apparent over reaction to the connection of cloud to remote sites. This was what CICS was written for fifty years ago. I feel like I'm discussing state secrets every time I mention CICS. Can anyone recall the killer feature of NT3.1? MTS, if you must have it. MTS is why SQLserver was so easily portable to Linux. I suspect about everyone who reads HN might have a ball with some of the desperately not trendy things we are involved in. Like my uncle dusting his suit vests, smiling he only had to wait thirty years for them to return to fashion. This is a universal interval someone who can explain it will deserve a Nobel I'm sure...
That Gondry video for Star Guitar is fantastic.
If you’re good at some niche in software, and maybe a little lucky you can start freelancing.
Panic looks like cheap hotel rooms and plane tickets :)
I feel this article makes some excellent points that I haven't seen elsewhere and urge everyone to read through.
I did change the title, but am very open to better title suggestions.
Thanks. I am not looking to jailbreak yet, so I will have to forgo acquiring these stats for now. I have Lirium Lite, which also does not show the internal stats past iOS 10, due to restricted API.
What does she watch with it? YouTube?
The thing is where is the balance in response to this? I too agree that it's going to just be one of those things we deal with every year like the flu, but the difference between it being manageable vs. out of control relies on everyone collectively having a set of standards.

If everyone uses some common sense, washes hands, is on top of their symptoms and goes to the hospital, etc. everything will be fine.

If everyone just acts like nothing is wrong you could have cluster outbreaks and seriously affect pockets of people. The fear factor plays in here.

The fact that we haven't tested nearly as many in the USA and are acting as more of a passive observer gives me concern.
JPEG compression works in two phases:

1. Discrete Cosine Transform, discarding insignificant information.

2. Compression of bitstream.

Step 1 is lossy in practice because it throws away things that seem insignificant. The "quality" control determines what counts as insignificant. Step 2 is lossless, and just tries to make the data coming out of Step 1 take up as little space as possible.

A repacker redoes Step 2 better: it makes the file smaller without reducing the quality, by changing how the data is compressed, not changing which parts are kept.
Depends what you mean. The uninsured person is still technically liable for the price of care, which is why so many people in the US go bankrupt for healthcare reasons (you get a fat bill in the mail that you have absolutely no hope of paying). If they are completely unable to pay, the hospital foots whatever portion of the bill the person was unable to pay.
I think the author wants to say that it’s like at the opposite of frameworks like Adonisjs, Sailsjs or Rails.
The person would be billed, but if they can’t pay it, the hospital sicks debt collectors on them and maybe eats it down the road. Hospitals are pretty good at wrecking people’s lives to get their due though.

There have been cases of them putting liens on people’s houses while their still hospitalized if the expected cost of treatment is expensive enough.
Probably because it doesn't really answer the question, or add to the discussion
> Could a US person explain who pays for the test/on going healthcare if an uninsured person rocks up to the ER with relevant history and flu like symptoms?

> Does the government step in to fund care? or is it left to the hospital to foot the bill?

AFAIK, currently it'd be just like if someone uninsured came in with any other illness: the hospital gives the care, the patient gets a bill they can't pay. The hospital essentially extends credit to the patient.
Last time they dropped it from 5.25% to 0, and still had to print ~$3.7T. With only 1.5% to cut and GDP 50% larger than it was back then, how much QE will they attempt this round?
Hospitals in the US with emergency rooms are not allowed to turn away patients who are sick. Ultimately it's the taxpayers who foot the bill. (Federal, State and Local Governments pay for it I believe.) This also explains why so many private hospitals have shut down their emergency rooms. I also believe that many private hospitals will transfer patients who cant pay to public hospitals.
I switched to VS Code with the PlatformIO extension. A little bit of conversion is required, 'ino' to 'cpp' and some shuffling between directories.
This reads like really weird blogspam.

I also wonder why they misspell the number "10":

> "With Disney’s VIP Tour Services, you and your loved ones (up to 1o guests)"

The only time I see a typo like this is when a shady website is trying to get around some sort of content detection mechanism, but I can't figure out if that's the case here – or why.
Not the OP, but I have bought a Sensirion particulates sensor which I have used to measure the number of particles coming out of two air purifiers. It showed all 0 in the case of one purifier and very low values compared to ambient in the case of the other.

Here's what it shows in my bedroom:

measured values:
0.88 pm1.0
0.93 pm2.5
0.93 pm4.0
0.93 pm10.0
5.87 nc0.5
6.95 nc1.0
7.00 nc2.5
7.00 nc4.5
7.00 nc10.0
0.52 typical particle size
From my understanding of the viral testing, the CDC distributes the tests to local healthcare professionals, however they don't seem providing enough to get in front of the issue. That is why there is an article floating around that the govn't of British Columbia (Canada) has tested more patients for COVID than the entire USA.

I'm not super informed on the issue, take this with a grain of salt.
I've found your comment compelling. I'm assuming you have some unit economics implied here, I'm very curious to learn from your experience.

What would you say, in a team of 6 devs, if a pm just walked up and said "If we can get 6 different tasks done in a week versus 3, guess which one I'm gonna pick?"
Interesting. I guess both can make a location uninhabitable for native species. This one is ironic because the plant being both cultivated and harmed by the agriculture could be the native species itself.

Another difference is that with most farming there's an incentive to add things back to the soil and rotate crops, since you want the soil to keep working for you. In this case, there's no incentive to add nickel back to the soil, since extracting that element is the goal. And nature's ability to replenish the nickel is limited.
> It wouldn’t make it a synonym with existence, only an aspect of it.

It would make "unconscious" a synonym for "non-existent".

> If a fertilized egg is not conscious, when precisely does it emerge, and what does that transition entail?

No one knows the answer to that. But it's pretty clear to me that consciousness supervenes on brains, so having a brain (or functional equivalent) is a necessary (though not sufficient) condition for being conscious.
I think industry certifications are a mostly pointless idea. If I'm looking at learning something, my criteria is "will this information still be relevant 10 years from now?" If the answer is no, I either don't bother with it, or I invest the minimum necessary effort to learn what I need to do to solve the problem at hand.

Technologies that certifications focus on tend to have a limited lifespan. I place far more value on more general, conceptual knowledge that will be applicable to a multitude of implementations, mixed with some practical hands-on stuff. I've gotten far more out of learning about things like relational databases, compilers, multi-threaded and message passing programming, distributed systems, and experience with a range of different programming paradigms than I believe could ever be gained from certifications. Focusing on generic topics like this is going to be far more valuable to your career in the long run.

If I see a company specifically looking for someone with a certification or experience with a particular library/framework, I take that as a sign that they don't fully appreciate the value that a well-rounded engineer can bring to the table. Furthermore, certifications have the effect of tying your advertised skill set to a specific vendor's products, and expect you to keep up to date every three years or so as they change the specifics of their training and certification requirements.

My company, a contracting firm, recently ran some AWS training sessions and offered to cover the costs of the exams for employee who wanted to do them. I went along to a couple of sessions but ultimately concluded it wasn't a good use of my time, relative to other things I could be doing to advance my career. While I'm fortunate to mostly work for clients who understand that, I wish there were a wider appreciation of general knowledge rather than people investing themselves so heavily into skills that have a short lifespan and are tied so heavily to specific vendors and the current flavor of the month.
This source is old, but maybe someone else will answer with a better one: taxpayers [1]. We just do so at a larger cost because we're willing to publicly fund emergencies but not preventative care.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK221653/#_ddd00055_
GDPR is a huge one every user of this site should know.
Maybe Sheet2Site will be a good start.
With the way quantum mechanics works it might not be possible to meaningfully distinguish between the two. Any attempt to verify which of the two is happening is likely to change the result.
Judging by Alphabet's stock price and their years of shuttering services at the cost of their reputation, it seems shareholders disagree with you.
>too low rates

Define "too low". The world is awash in capital, no one is going to borrow from you at 5%+. Or are you one of those "we should raise rates so we can lower them later" people?

>you're trusting a bunch of bureaucrats that know no better than to follow what the bond market

The Fed are confined to monetary mechanisms. The rest falls on politicians. But the powers-that-be seem to have decided that they will not allow us to have a deflationary bust again, so they are going to print money and deal with the inflationary consequences down the road.
When the first cases were reported in China, there was panic-buying of face masks predominantly by Asian and Caucasians Americans at a Walgreens pharmacy/hypermart in Palo Alto, California.
Well it's still comparatively low. I've yet to see a Tesla ad on TV, news papers or billboards and they still sell like hot cakes in my country.

If we count the full 70 million for tesla spend in marketing against an annual average of about 6 billion for Vw, Tesla comes out at $140/car and Vw comes out at $600/car or about 4 times as much pr car.

The main point I was trying to make was that for me ads are a negative towards a brand not a positive as I will suspect the quality of the product if they have to advertise.
Nickel is not really needed in any large amount for the growth of plants, I assume even these plants don't need it in more than a trace amount to grow.

The hydroponic fertilizer I use doesn't even list it on the label and I assume that the only way my plants get it is from impurities in the other minerals.

https://www.jacksnutrients.com/online-store/5-12-26-Part-A-p...
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