skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The defense contractor can't offshore your job. Once we normalize WFH, give it a decade and SWE salaries will be 120% of India, not 120% of Nowhereville.
Fixed. Whew that was a lot harder than I thought it would be...
Free money doesn't help if nobody is willing to borrow it. US government needs to have targeted lending programs for impacted industries ready to go.
Depends how many over-indebted companies can't survive even a temporary cut in revenue. Flybe already closed in the UK. Together with people losing jobs, it gives an increase in bad debts.
Please don't editorialize titles by cherry-picking a detail. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but please do so in a comment. Then your view is on a level playing field with everyone else's.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's simply not the point of the CA SDI fund. If you want better SDI insurance, perhaps you could have bought some for yourself.

Does Aflac cover time away for work due to COVID-19?
OK, I missed that bit.

But counting "resuspended road dust" as "emissions" seems pretty far fetched to me. Especially if that's a significant portion of the "5.8 grams per kilometer of particles", and you then push out a press release with the hyperbolic headline claim "Pollution from tire wear 1000 times worse than exhaust emissions."

And they then have the audacity to claim: "Emissions Analytics seeks to bring transparency to a confused market sector."

Pretty sure I know who's funding them now, without even bothering to google it...
Cat owners should certainly be fined for allowing their cats outdoors on continents where cats are non-native.
I’ve shared, without emotion, evidence and analysis of the topic, and you keep replying with what you wish to be true but with no backing data.

The countries that are moving away from coal are replacing it with natural gas, nuclear or imported energy/materials. Renewables in some cases but only where the country is endowed with natural energy resources and/or is already rich enough to do so. There are valid reasons why this is not immediately possible for India and China if they are to continue developing.

All of this would easy for you to find out if you cared to properly understand it and engage in constructive discussion.
Ask HN: What health features can be designed into next generation mobile phones?
The current coronavirus crisis shows a big gap between health monitoring, screening, and testing ability in many countries.

This is a gap that should be addressed in new mobile products. Some ideas:

* Adding a contactless IR thermometer lens to a phone is an obvious idea, since it is needed everywhere and is cheap to implement.

* Ultrasound scope and microscope, designed as mobile accessories, can help to provide telemedicine consultation and reduce hospital jams.

* A kind of phone-based "mobile blackbox" similar to flight blackboxes, can be used to speed up contact tracing of patients.

What other innovations can you suggest to incorporate into next year's mobile technology, to help the world deal with pandemic and health care deficit?
I work on Clang and the Linux kernel. JavaScript was the first language I feel I've mastered, before C. Of the many C books I have and have read, I only recommend 2:

Head First C by Griffiths and Griffiths

Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets by van der Linden

The first is an excellent introduction, especially if you treat it as a workbook.

The second is a great intermediate book.

Really advanced stuff comes from seeing things in the wild.
Not everyone pays the same percentage out of every paycheck. The US tax code is setup to avoid people getting six+ figures from these programs as that would create huge political blowback. Just picture a CEO who runs their company into the ground and then gets X0 million from unemployment insurance.
I have this but probably need a deeper understanding of each
Marginal costs are lower for Aramco, right?
That won’t do anything but raise prices if the economy isn’t producing.
Deceived by religion? You think it is that simple? Those "monarchs and despots" have powerful allies in Washington. Those allies provide them with the lists and the material resources necessary to remain in power. It is simple to just paint an entire population as moronic but reality is more complex. Western nations have colonized the middle east. Colonialism has evolved from direct rule by occupying forces to indirect rule through proxy dictators.
Mike Pence is praying it away. Haven’t you heard?
I have an overview but just overwhelmed by how many tools you could use.
If mostly older people go on cruises as you say then it's even better news. If less that 1% died on that ship then the general population mortality rate should be even lower.
What about the third type of programmer, who looks up libraries and then reads their source to learn how they work?
But that's all flavor is. Yes it's an obsolete sense, but we are animals not computers. We can't download a new taste program to change what we like.
Markets are already pretty frothy. They are just looking for an excuse to crash. I don't think all of the crash can be attributed to the coronavirus.
People remember SARS in Toronto from 2003. It really freaked out the whole city. I recall it took the film industry about 2 years to recover. When Covid-19 happened everyone wondered if it would be like SARS all over again. Still waiting to see how it pans out.
49 out of 50 states are "at will" states, meaning that "the employment can be terminated at any time for any reason or no reason at all".
This virus is going to expose so many institutional problems that have infested the American system as we've enjoyed decades of excessive comfort, breeding complacency and incompetence.

Take notes, the next few months will produce enough material for an encyclopedia, if you're the book writing type. The entire geopolitical stage is already being disturbed.

Hell, if all of the shit happening before the virus wasn't enough, on top of what's already going on internationally and domestically from the virus alone, oil prices just fell 30%. The world is changing, right now, and it is absolutely morbidly fascinating.
I am not arguing the "point" of the CA SDI fund. I am merely stating that it's insufficient for the use case of "pay[ing] people unable to work because of COVID-19." Do you really think every barista and service worker in California should have private SDI insurance, just in case a plague strikes?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22521035
I think #2 is the right outcome. Perhaps not give the money to people outright, but use it to manage the situation (e.g. cover lost wages for people staying at home from work, help airlines and similar businesses stay afloat, etc.).
Show HN: HideAway – An attempt at making a better VPN
Despite the claims that we would have a million test kits out by last Friday, we don’t have them.

Hell, the people in the Kirkland home that is the biggest source of deaths STILL have not all been tested - today they finally got more test kits - 45 test kits for 63 untested patients and dozens of staff.

We are being lied to.
A certain CNBC correspondent suggested as much:

> But maybe we’d be just better off if we gave it to everybody, and then in a month it would be over because the mortality rate of this probably isn’t going to be any different if we did it that way than the long-term picture, but the difference is we’re wreaking havoc on global and domestic economies

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cnbcs-rick-santelli-sugges...
Forgive my naive question, but if the host is not affected if that code is lost, then wouldn't you imagine that eventually all that code would be destroyed by random mutation? There's no selection.
It's less about 'cruelty' and more about the desolation which domestic cats have brought upon native bird populations.

Unfortunately as long as people feel entitled to let their cats outside, I'm not sure how we ever solve it.

It's really kind of sad we are so casually sponsoring such destruction, for so little purpose. The grandparent speaks truly.
For a novel that romanticizes this idea that recessions are the time to take risks, see The Driver by Garet Garrett
We've been working on making a better VPN for a few years now to address things like speed and flexibility.

Many people are interested in VPN speed/performance, so we've made that a focus.

1. Should be as fast or faster than your base internet speed. You shouldn't lose any speed.

2. Uses the same encryption as Wireguard, AEAD - ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption with 256-bit key size, 96-bit nonce size and 128-bit MAC size.

3. Server side is so efficient we can fit thousands of people on a cheap $10 VPS gigabit server without any loss in performance. Really only limited by the bandwidth of the host. CPU rarely exceeds 10%.

4. Instant connection to locations, no waiting to connect or disconnect. Plus your connection roams seamlessly between wifi, ethernet and mobile.

5. Everything resides in memory on the server, and of course there's no logging.

Coming up soon we'll be introducing custom rules, so you'll be able to redirect apps, domains, ports, cidr/subnets to different locations simultaneously. So you setup your custom rules and you won't need to manually turn on/off your VPN again. Along with redirect, there's also block and ignore. Your custom rules are stored locally on your machine, so there's no logging of these either.
For example, you could redirect your whole computer to the UK, except gmail.com stays at your location, youtube.com is in the USA, outlook.exe is in Australia, and so on.

At the moment it's Windows only, but it has been engineered with cross-platform in mind (just need to find time to interface with the Mac and Linux TCP/IP stack), plus Android version is not far off.
But who is dying matters when looking at economic impact.

Median age of death in China is 75. Median age is 81 in Italy. This is around the expected life span of these countries.

Obviously a human life cut short is always worth mourning, but from an economic perspective, dying pensioners could actually be a stimulus.
Evo had a parallel election office set up to manipulate the results of the election. And before you link the recent "MIT study", yeah please don't. That was paid by Mark Weisbrot, a Hugo Chavez paid shill.

The level of ruin the bolivarian revolution has brought to my country with the help of Cuba is just appalling. At this point we need all the help available, it's been 20 years already of mismanagement and corruption at levels never before seen in the region.
If you've never heard this before, you NEED to read it.
How is that relevant, when the article is referencing California specifically?
why would you use a neural net on a dataset with only 700 samples, smh
Any references backing these broad claims ?
Of course, because suicide means one less person spending money.

If everyone could just leave this shitshow on their own terms, whenever they wanted to, how would the people who want to tax pets get their money?

And the majority of pets worldwide are not “produced”, they’re adopted from the pool of animals who already exist.
Mind giving some examples in more detail about how you make use of lists/scores?
Almost certainly an inflection point for "we don't need any government so the government can be made ineffective". Turns out people need government sometimes.
I think this is a great point. I don’t know how the logistics of such a re-processing would work, but food waste is certainly a major problem.

I don’t mean to sound like an apologist (or even a fan) of industrial agriculture, but I think its important to acknowledge the reality that while its an imperfect system, it is also a modern marvel that enables us as a society to feed an enormous amount of people at extraordinarily low costs to the consumer.
Maybe? My last chat with a random recruiter ended when I asked about telwcommuting since the place was too far for me and I am kinda spoiled now ( don't go to the office unless I know something needs to be signed or people might forget how I look ) ended since the company in question wants warm bodies in chair.

That was 2 weeks ago. Admittedly, an eternity in market panics.

Still, I will postulate that wfh isn't for everyone. It took me a while to get used to it. And I saying that while absolutely loving the benefit of not spending my precious time in traffic ( 45min to 1 hour ).
Petty cool. Very well documented too (I only read through a few hundred lines before bookmarking it for later).
Just to be clear, you mean that the insurance company is not allowed to set a maximum lifetime (or annual, for that matter) limit beyond which they will stop paying expenses, correct?
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> If you are building a web app, use React or similar.

I disagree with this, there's no reason to use React/Vue/Angular for a web app by default. And I would urge people to try and avoid it for as long as possible and see how far you get. From personal experience I can tell you that most of the time, you don't need a frontend framework to build a web app.
I can’t see why this wouldn’t be the biggest crash for 50 years.

All the other ones were largely human caused and largely controlled by sentiment, and did not cause everyone around the world to avoid contact with everyone else.

This will last until a vaccine is developed which might take 12-18 months and in the meantime many many businesses will die around the world.

The domino effects will be huge. Remember that lots of people and companies are up to their eyeballs in debt, what if that starts to run out of control with bad debt everywhere cause businesses and people are bankrupt?

This is very long term and very damaging to all economies and there’s not really much governments can do to change people’s behaviour.

This one is caused by sentiment, but that sentiment is driven by a virus which is out of human control. Unlike for example a war, which can be controlled by politicians.

Thar’s a big one blowin in, batten down the hatches.
When I read old text I frequently note that this sort of typo seems more common in the 70s. There was likely nothing checking the spelling. And certainly no editors putting squigglies. No place to Google your spelling doubts. And annoying to correct typewriter mistakes.

Also, "undo" is a valid dictionary word.
Hasn't this been a thing for 20 years? (Source: moved from the valley to Montata 20 years ago).
If we stop making humans, wouldn't it automatically reduce the demand for pets? Think about it. That infact may just be the truly viewed as an unalloyed good.
Because everyone is complaining about the amount of the benefits in California. I want to see what other states offer in comparison.
This isn't a cherry-picked detail. It's the second major point of the article, and, arguably, the most important point.
FWIW, they were probably forced to import to meet demand due to the poor California olive crop last year.
1) China and Korea have effectively treated the virus, infections in both those areas have been declining. And Korea now is effectively the lowest fatality rate for any of the effected countries which points to excellent surveillance and treatment. I darn well intent to keep pointing to this.

2) Some article point to the main vector in Italy being patient left in a hospital for 36 hour before being diagnosed and treated. This allowed the disease to spread in the community where testing was not being done - kind of like the US.

3) The Chinese test may indeed might have had problems at various points (your first link is rather anecdotal, hardly proves the test was a "coin flip". Other posters note your links don't back your arguments). The American test had even more problems and still hasn't ramped up to strong production. Making tests is hard, it seems. The CDC's "your test has problems and we know we can do better" attitude looks misguided in retrospect.

4) It seems like you're doing a bunch of speculation with little evidence. I suggest you look at infection and mortality as a basis for thinking about what country is doing well or badly. [1]

[1] https://covid19info.live/
Thank you! The parent comment was so infuriating that I immediately replied -- but your reply strikes at the heart of the matter. In my opinion is a little orientalist in the mind of many of us who were raised in the west. We are vulnerable due to the limited exposure to those who have lived or presently live in the Middle East and this vulnerability is, unfortunately, easily exploited by many parties.
Tomorrow???

The S&P futures already stopped out limit down tonight! ("limit down” = 5% down)
Probably depends on the person, the home, and the boundaries. I have a 2.5 yr old and 11 mo old and WFH w/ a dedicated but connected office. I personally love it. I don't find putting on the noise cancelling headphones, and the distractions are honestly lower than when I used to be in office. I like trading the commute for time w/ kids, despite missing the quiet time at times.
Ahh, the times of bimetallism. Bimetallism was the Bitcoin of the times, railroads were the "tech" of the times. Robert Shiller has a very entertaining comparative research between Bitcoin and bimetallism in his book Narrative Economics: https://youtu.be/QV0JrMV5nnc
A vaccine being announced by one of the many groups researching this would be a signal.
>The idea that you should just sit back and be ok with a 20% haircut isn’t something that I will just “take” if I can help it.

You don't have to be an active trader to preserve your capital. I've been invested for years but around the 2nd week of Feb, I went 100% cash. This time I saw train and got off the tracks. My plan is to average in slowly over time as the market stabilizes and the news gets better.
The issue, at least in the United States, is that corporate debt is sky-high right now: [0]. If the recovery doesn't happen soon enough before those businesses default on their bonds, the bondholders lose a bunch of money and then we might be looking at a liquidity crisis.

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/corporate-debt-fully-joins-the-...
The difference is US or Western countries are already mature. I am sure different types of corruption existed there in 19th century when the country was still expanding.

Off course culture of people matter but systemic rot arises when existing people work in what essentially is sometimes a negative sum game. Fights between heterogeneous groups over limited resources exist and far too often much powerful foreign powers do interfere to make the best of the situation for themselves.
Except wireless internet used/uses a similar backoff trick, since a wireless channel is just like a hub. I'm not hip on the latest tech, but I think they use things like collision avoidance now.
Thanks. As I see it it is beneficial to society to avoid putting the quarantined in such desperate situations as they have no reasonable choice but to break quarantine. They need their needs taken care of to prevent them losing all they have worked for, they need regular delivered meals, they need things to prevent them going insane whether that be books or notebooks and pens or Netflix access or whatever.

Critically deprived people reasonably go insane, escape isolation, and become spreaders. Thus it is a matter of public health not to deprive people.
When 2-3 men individually decide who is too dangerous, they are the checks and balances! Checks and balances are a naturally occurring phenomenon when a society is composed of individuals who are capable to look after their own interest but have some dependency on others. It's only the "civilized" world that loses this as everyone becomes subservient to the Government or the lovla Dictator and checks and balances are needed to be artificially reintroduced.
Public transit vs fighting through traffic is a vastly different experience. Maybe if it was a relaxing drive in, but if you live around a major metro, traffic is probably horrendous and it's hard to enjoy that time.
So late last year after about 3 attempted rallies, around one of those local peaks I decided enough is enough and I basically liquidated everything so now I'm 100% cash. This was all before the coronavirus. My rationale for this was simply that we were in the longest bull market in modern history, we were likely closer to the top than the bottom and because of certain FIRE tendencies [1] I decided my time horizon had shrunk to less than 5 years, at which point I decided it was more prudent to get out of equities.

For the last several years I wondered what triggered the eventual correction. By "correction" I mean there'll eventually be a reversion to mean that will, for a time, cause the market to be oversold. Traditionally this is a good time to buy but it can be hard to get anywhere near the local bottom (this is where the term "dead cat bounce" originates).

I didn't think it would be anything like 2000. We have some tech giants around $1T market caps now but they are money generating machines the likes of which probably hasn't been seen since the era of Standard Oil and the rail barons (whereas 2000 was purely speculative). It didn't seem like real estate would be the trigger either.

I thought it might be the possibility of a trade war with China but, on further inspection, it seems China may well be more vulnerable to that than the US. Still, China has a way of thinking long term that's simply nonexistent in US politics.

Certainly when I heard about this new virus, I didn't think it would be it. AFter all, we'd had SARS. But SARS was in some ways too effective and it basically burned out really quickly so never threatened a pandemic.

But this? The problem here isn't the disease. After all, for most people, it'll likely just be a bad flu. The problem is the changing behaviour it will cause because there seems to be such a long period of being contagious while asymptomatic while being highly contagious.

Some airlines are down 40%+ this year. Some cruise lines are even worse off than that. With travel being impacted, so are hotels, restaurants, tourism, etc. Any large public gatherings are likely to be curtailed (either officially or just effectively as people stay away).

As soon as I saw there were cases in California where the source couldn't be identified I thought "well that's game over for containment". The same with the Italian cases.

Oil prices have plummeted due to lower demand so all oil-dependent economies are now at risk of recession. The Fed's attempt last week to jump start the economy with a surprise 0.5% rate cut basically did nothing and there's only so low rates can go.

So best case I think we're in for a bad 6 months, maybe as much as 18-24 months.

Personally I'm disappointed I didn't end up shorting the market in the last week, I honestly don't really know why I didn't. But it could be worse.

It'll be interesting to see how the anti-vaxxers spin this as it unfolds.

What I do know is that it's way too early to go bargain hunting on the stockmarket.

[1]: https://www.daveramsey.com/blog/what-is-the-fire-movement
Unfortunately my honey detectors is a fraud that fails to detect the fake honey whose maker paid off the honey detector maker.
ETF with ticker symbol “USL”.
Dude should be in prison.
Language barriers aren't relevant when the country you're outsourcing to has the same primary language. TZ differences are a non-issue for distributed companies already using JIRA and Slack for everything. Those two things would only even be a concern for the tiniest minority of companies.

I'm a software engineer based in Brisbane, Australia, I've worked for two US-based startups who were specifically growing their offices in Australia because it's cheaper to hire for the same roles here than in the US.
Anybody remembering the blue honey in france, coming from bees
gorging on the trash from a nearby factory producing M&Ms?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121011-blue-...

While searching that i learned about another kind of "blue honey", which is also very interesting.