skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My reviews as a renter are high and in fact I've often left the place better than I found it. But that doesn't mean I don't feel pressure to not leave a bad review because of the reasons I stated.

Case in point, I rent a 1 bedroom apartment in Los Angeles for 4 weeks. I arrive and it's clearly a couple struggling to make in in movie production. They tell me they are expecting funding for a documentary but that it's come a week late so they are going to go stay with friends for the next week since they rented the place to me.

The place a single sofa in the living room and a king size bed with only sheets. There are no lights in the bed room except a string of christmas lights. The advertised wifi is them leaching off the neighbors which only works in a corner of the apartment and only sometimes. They say I can hang out in the lobby for free wifi but "the lobby" is just an outdoor hallway.

They leave and I debate my options since I need to be somewhere for 30 days. I ended up staying. I check the fridge. It's disgusting and sticky inside. The bathroom and shower are also gross, clearly uncleaned for many many months. So I go buy cleaning supplies, clean the entire bathroom, the entire kitchen, and pull out all the removable surfaces from the fridge and clean them in the now clean shower. I then make do with this "crash pad" for 4 weeks.

Now the question is, do I leave them a bad review? I think many might see it as my moral obligation to warn others. But I also know it's a struggling couple. Probably 24-28yrs old. IIRC I gave them 4 stars but mentioned the wifi in the review but the review was still "Jack and Jill are a very friendly couple ...." because it just feels wrong to be mean to people you know AND it also feels wrong not to warn others.

I don't know if there is a perfect solution. For example maybe I could have talked to them about the issues and asked them to pledge to do better? Maybe AirBnB could let me delay my review until the next person rents and I can ask if the issues were fixed? For example removing the "has wifi" setting.

There have been others where I never met the owners in which case bad things were more likely to get me to write a bad review but I still left the worry that if I did I'd be labeled a "user who leaves bad reviews, don't rent to them"
There's a pretty big difference between testing software with a protocol that you know and understand, and reverse-engineering the communications on a production vehicle.
If you think about diversity in terms of "races and genders", then I agree with you, there could be more of that.

If you think in terms of financial upbringing, we got a lot of diversity going. US has an insane turnover in terms of wealth, with a really high number of first gen millionaires and billionaires. Also note the fact that 70% of families losing wealth just a generation or two down the road[0]. Which is imo a very good thing, as it brings more evidence and support for the "self-made" theory.

In terms of social upbringing, just look at the numbers of top-tier CEOs and founders who are children of immigrants or immigrants themselves[1].

0. https://money.com/rich-families-lose-wealth/

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/30/us-tech-companies-founded-by...
A political overreaction does not make the severity of a disease.

I am mostly following the french news on this and the doctors interviewed (some of whom seem to have impecable credentials) are calling this an irrational panic. It is a serious disease, one of many viruses around, not a particular dangerous one either. But mostly not something that calls for these drastic measures.
For what it's worth, the author was not reinstated until after this had already been posted to Hacker News.
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I'm incredibly ignorant, can someone explain why a drug used to treat arthritis might work against a Coronavirus? I just don't understand the connection/interaction, or why this was even tried originally?

Genuinely looking to learn.
The digital nature of the work means the market is global, unlike home cleaning or massages, making a matching system more valuable.
Probably because of different alloys used, different thickness. You don't expect a commercial ship to be shot at with missiles.
Meanwhile in the US, the CDC appears to be resisting testing people...

They know something that you don't. Which is that the test has both a high false negative and a high false positive rate. Which means that its effectiveness as a decision making tool is limited.

That said, the longer you wait to start quarantine, the longer you have to keep quarantine measures in place. But on the flip side, if extreme responses are too good, then you increase the risk that on the next serious threat, people will yawn and fail to comply.

Public health has a wicked problem here. The more effective it is, the less that people feel it is needed.
Ask HN: Good sources of informative, non panicked news about Covid-19?
Any good sources for news about the virus? Reading NY times is a bit much for me. Reddit and the media are a bit sensationalized. But at the same time, WHO/CDC only has basic info in their reports every day. Any good sources with a more optimistic tone?
I'm not sure Jack is the CEO investors need, but I think he is the CEO that society deserves.
She was 5 months pregnant being threatened with termination for not complying with a performance plan she had never seen before. They were trying to get rid of her without doing the proper legwork to establish that she failed in any measuable fashion.

Depending on her other financial situations she might be facing financial disaster including uninsured, life destroying, medical bills plus the inability to get any other position while visibly pregnant.

It's highly likely that she was pretty much obliged to take the money regardless of how she felt.
And Costco can leverage that by selling mattresses for $50 more than you'd spend somewhere else. Ikea does the same thing. I'm a stupid vaper and trying to piece together a kit based off reviews by the kinds of people who vape is incredibly tedious. There's value in not having to guess.
There’s honor at stake when you give another investor discounted shares.

And if you think in 10+ year time horizons, honor is truly a more valuable asset than cash
My main computer is a 2008 Mac Pro.
I think the issue is that a lot of the money spent by VC's (collectively) in the last 5 years or so, has not been especially well-spent. Not just in the normal "lots of small bets, only a few of which will pay off" kind of way. Instead, in the "lots of really big bets, most of which have no chance of paying off at this level" kind of way.

The alleged "black swan" of Covid-19 is really just an excuse for what has been obvious for a while now, which is that a lot of recent VC money was 5-10x what it should have been, and as a result a lot of otherwise potentially reasonable business ideas have become value-destruction-machines.

So, I think it is still clear that a savvy VC could make money by investing now...in good ideas, funded at an appropriate level. The problem is that many of them are setting on 10x the amount of money that they can do that with.
East Asian countries have almost everybody wearing masks. I really don't think using these things is as complicated as you're making it out to be.
> How do you prove you didn't buy something? Or will they just accept your word? I

I'd imagine it's similar to the heuristic Amazon uses today with their A-Z Customer Guarantee.

If you request a lot of refunds for a single trip, or have a history of requesting refunds, your individual risk score goes up, and the hoops you jump through to get a refund increase.

Also for retail grocery stores now, loss prevention is already an issue.

Right now, a person can take an item off the shelve and hide it, leaving only security cameras and human personnel to watch for theft.

Adding in amazon's technology would be additional layers of defense.
How do you know that the news and videos she was publishing were real?
Color me impressed by them, then - but it's still not the kind of thing I entirely trust to an engine. Even though in this specific example we're discussing in detail, it's doing the right thing. Hard to know when it's not. The "explanation" of how it was interpreted isn't much.

I'm also biased by the fact that I'm constantly delighted by the random things I learn by consulting Wikipedia about virtually every topic I encounter.
I asked for a source where the quote is said as I was not able to find one, yet you still haven't provided one.

Again, could you provide an article (Italian or English!) where "they" are telling you the only virus is racism?
Face recognition is not really used here. It's more object detection and tracking, along with a bunch of other tricks (based on visiting the Go store in SF).
The ripple effect is already in place. Flybe airline just defaulted, I've read a post on Linkedin that a small catering firm is suffering in Hungary due to cancelled events and other companies in the food chain will probably suffer a lot more especially if they operate with a razor thin margin.

After the human factor, the virus will hit the economy hard. It's probably only a matter of time till it triggers a serious recession. I'd really like to be wrong here.
If that turns out to be true, it's remarkable how many pathologies are related to our immune systems going haywire.
Italian here: supermarkets and pharmacies will stay open. We can go to work or leave the house for emergencies.

Most of us are working from home, but I won’t call it a “lock down”
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Nope. WD-40 themselves specifically call that a myth. https://www.wd40.com/myths-legends-fun-facts/
I have never personally used Fiverr. How easy is it to get in contact with each other outside of the Fiverr ecosystem? That is a natural outcome of all the other examples in which there is some contact between provider and customer in the physical world. With Fiverr everything occurs digitally so it is probably easier to prevent people from circumventing the app.
But, and I know I'm apparently in a minority here...

I don't want an app for my grocery store.

I do my shopping spread between 4 different grocery stores depending where in the area I'm closest to, what specifically I need, etc.. and I don't want an app for any of them. I already get pestered about loyalty cards, now I'm going to get pestered about installing my local Rite-Aid's mobile app?
I made a 2D game in 3 KB of JavaScript. Not quite as impressive I suppose.
> we'd see bigger noise about grocery store loyalty programs which are basically to track purchases

You'd be surprised how few people actually ever think about the motivations behind such loyalty programs. If you asked, they'd probably say it's good for the shop as it keeps us going to the place where we get discounts though these cards instead of the competitors (hence, "loyalty"). Most of them most definitely don't know how valuable that data is and how it can be used and for what purposes.
"40% of people in the US cannot afford a $400 unexpected expense"

It's my understanding that is a bullshit statistic as I said in another comment. I can't afford an unexpected expense of $400 right now, in the sense that if I really have to pay that bill immediately, I'm going to put it on a credit card. That doesn't make me financially strained.
it reduces the immune system reaction inflammatory reaction which can be fatal
We’re testing more than any country in Europe (or the USA)
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I was not very surprised that Italy turned out to be the (first?) major hit in Europe. Considering the strong business connections, it had to be either us or Germany.

We are, as much of the world, importers from China, but many enterprises here are also, somewhat, strong exporters to China (I can see it from my dayjob as industrial automation SI), and if you factor in the small average size of Italian companies requiring many individual contacts (contrast with Germany where companies on average are bigger), you can imagine that there is a strong flow of people to and fro. Maybe the small size of companies requiring more people to establish commercial links + population being more uniformly settled across the country (no huge wildland or sparsely inhabited area left in Po Valley, except maybe some parts of Piedmont?) + a certain cultural inclination for useless quarreling hindering political action + inefficiencies in the administration + an unsolved conflict of power between central gov't and periphery possibly causing some waste of time in other quarreling + having to keep the vast group of small business owners somewhat quiet has resulted in a vast spreading of the virus.

The interesting thing is that, if you replace China with Germany in the paragraph above (wrt. the possible German origin of the outbreak in Italy), the consideration about business links would still apply.

Another interesting thing I have just noticed is that some journalists are now openly praising the Chinese handling of the crisis. Maybe this may sound strange to an American :D but there has been for some time a growing cross-partisan movement calling for stronger links to China. In fact this movement is somewhat present in European business community, so it is not so special to Italy, but nonetheless it is interesting to see these comments of open praise.
Thanks! We have definitely found we are a good fit for remote companies with employees in multiple states. If you don't mind me asking, what did you end up doing for your health insurance?
Yay! The big brother distopia I always wanted! Finally.
> The fatality rate of Italy is scary high. I read the reason is that they have such a high percentage of elderly.

And has one of the lowest fertility rates [1] in not just the EU, but in the World. Odd considering how just a generation ago having a large catholic, and poor, family was one of the most prominent qualities of Italian life.

They keep trying to monetarily incentivize increasing birth-rates, much like Japan, but its not working. I often wondered what implications all of these austerity measures and under-employment in regards to population growth would look like in the West, and it seems to be following the Japanese model quite well.

With that said, this is incredibly terrifying; the implications are looking dire.

1: https://www.thelocal.it/20160517/why-italys-facing-a-birth-r...
To speak of conveniences and "cui bono?" instead of disinterested analysis of the evidence is to be a conspiracy theorist. Of course they conspire all day, because any covert action can be called a conspiracy. It doesn't necessarily lead one to think they're conspiracies in the sense of planting child pornography on a US citizen suspect's computer.

One can't rule anything out when you're dealing with intelligence agencies, but in this case, is there a single known instance of the US government ever doing such a thing? Planting child pornography on a defendant's computer? Imagine dealing with the optics from that fallout; not only seeking out and spreading content of children being raped, but also using it to falsely imprison someone. I suspect nearly all CIA agents are far more comfortable with assassinating foreign adversaries than doing that.

Of course it could happen, but such a claim requires evidence, or at least some attempt at refuting the prosecution's claimed evidence, not just "well, you can't trust the CIA, you know".
The problem is those drivers are not maintained. And it just happen that those are proprietary. Is that what you're trying to say ?
He's acceptable to a large percentage of the population, and there is most likely a large percentage of this group that also believes in the Russian->Trump conspiracy.
This is a good way to kill your credit score...
It's a little unfortunate that the FAQ doesn't address the "hey, I didn't take that but you billed me for it!" issue. How will the store adjudicate disputes? Video replays of the item being put in the cart?
That makes a lot more sense to me. I do think both sides of the politcal spectrum are seeking to advance any parts of their agenda they can with this outbreak.

I just felt that if something that ridiculous was said (and I am a fairly liberal person!) it would have most likely made international news.
OK, fair enough. You didn't deny it was serious. You did ask how this compares to a flu, and I think I addressed that in a number of ways.

Worth noting that the stringent measures taken by Hong Kong to curtail the coronavirus have also helped reduce the spread of the flu: https://www.ft.com/content/ad7ae6b4-5eab-11ea-b0ab-339c2307b...
It would be awesome if they speced an external 12V connector on the power supply that just goes to a battery - no electronics.

Then every power supply could be its own UPS, and handle charging the battery.

It would need to be a pretty fat wire, but that's handleable.
> (Turkey, China)

I don't get why it is always authoritarian states that is pointed fingers at when history clearly shows us that it isn't authoritarian states that are the biggest problem but so-called democratic states. I get why one would dislike authoritarian states (I do too) but the smart move is to look at who history tells us not to trust - not just believing the bogyman is coming.
Italian here: not really a lockdown, we can go to work and the country discovered remote working. Supermarkets are open, pharmacies too. No shortage of goods except surgical masks
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This will destroy more adtech companies than you can imagine. Amazon will have so much of your shopping habits. They'll have even more than just one credit card company will be able to have...
Seemed fake till I saw noticed this with Amazon Go https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=16008589011
There is also regex101.com. It is my favourite personal.

It highlights individual parts of the regex and provides human explanation, e.g. https://regex101.com/r/xKG7pE/1
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I added a paragraph about that. Of course it's illegal, and I personally think from an ethical standpoint that he should face criminal consequences either way, but there may be mitigating factors, and it may not be like how the government is portraying him in the complaint (essentially like a prolific predator and distributor). This could play a big role in sentencing, if it's true that there are those mitigating factors.
Network-Bound Disk Encryption (NBDE) using something like clevis / tang can be used or a sealing the luks passowd in a TPM.
One of the client managers where I used to work (litigation support) is in fact getting a CS degree.
That and some other stuff http://en.people.cn/n3/2020/0307/c90000-9665722.html

Chloroquine remains quite promising for the early stages http://news.southcn.com/nfplus/gdjktt/content/2020-03/09/con...
The linked video has interesting explanation. Perhaps someone more versed may upload to YT to get a robotraslation to everybody's benefit?
What definition are you going on exactly? Nobody has said the phrase “fundamental algorithms” before you in the thread. Yes, I would agree that those are distinct from business logic. Nonetheless the actual definition of the word “algorithm” is not formally or universally agreed upon at all. I’m curious what definition you’re using and where it came from, if only because I now feel confused.
Thank you! You said my words better than I could have.

I probably shouldn't compose comments when I am rushing between things!
THANK YOU! Thiss, and exactly this. I will boycott any store that implements this.
And the browsers, in turn, are controlled by a few big tech companies. Is it a good idea to give those companies control over the trust architecture of the internet? What happens if you get on tech's persona non grata list? Do you not get to use the PKI?
The two doctors in the video say that it interferes with a similar auto-immune reaction that happens at pulmonary level because of the Coronavirus, so that it works.
But the flu does kill a lot of people yearly. I tried to look up the mortality rate for Italy. The best I found is estimated 68000 attributed to flu over period from 2013-2017. And you will find similar high numbers in many other countries. Perhaps we are expecting it to be worse that this?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197121...
How many cases? What are the statistics? Or could you link a few cases, anecdotally?
It’s still not optimism because it doesn’t imply direction. A low implied volatility just means lower expectation of big moves in either direction.

A stock that has gone up like a rocket ship will have a high implied volatility despite no crashes or expectations of declines.
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That tension is addressed in the Bill of Rights.

And personally the first amendment is something that I believe every US citizen should individually accept responsibility for.
So far, nothing has changed except there's less and less people in the streets. Tomorrow I'm commuting to work as usual.
If I was the owner of the Store I would put a security guy to validate that it was paíd, if not then don’t let them put of the Store. I’m a tech guy but if it was my store I would like to double check somehow. From a security perspective it’s great to only let people in with credit and also I would be able to somehow track who was trying to do something wrong.
"It's not habit forming"

Maybe not. I wasn't expressing any concern about that.
It seems like lately the technological advancements are getting ever smaller. They are just conveniences at this point.

And by the way, what happened after Amazon's announcement of drone delivery?
I think the sequence of choices is what matters most. First they ‘quarantined’ Lombardia and some surrounding provinces. This looked nonsensical, or worse, as the contagion spread was nationwide already. Not two full days after, they are extending the restrictive measures to the whole of Italy. The net result is to have scared back home a lot of people working or studying in Lombardia, thereby easing the potential burden on the collapsing regional health system.

The restrictive measures themselves are hardly enforceable, with some very important exceptions, e.g. schools. Hopefully, they would induce some change in habits.

I am from Milano, and my daily life has certainly been affected. I left the city two weeks ago. It was easy for me, though, as I can distance teach and I have a place in the mountains.
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No, just pointing out the rampant hypocrisy of the free-speech brigade.
The other thing people tend to overlook that Apple has a history of creating new categories of devices. The ipad carved out a niche for itself over time. So did the ipod back in the day.

An ipad pro with the fancy keyboard cover is basically a laptop in all but name and I know a few non technical people who insist that's all they need. The next obvious move is to bridge the gap between the two software ecosystems; which is something they started doing a few years ago by allowing IOS applications to run on Mac OS. Blurring the line further, an ipad with the keyboard attached a bit more and the ability to run Mac OS software (similar to how chrome os can run linux packages) would not be that much of a stretch.

So, an ARM macbook with a touch screen wouldn't necessarily be that different from an ipad with a keyboard. The hard part is basically all software. Imagine an ipad where you can install your favorite adobe tools, home brew, and an IDE. Probably a lot easier to sell than a macbook that doesn't run most of the software you are used to even though technically they aren't that different in terms of hardware and software.

Also, thinking beyond their current device categories; Apple has not done a lot wit VR/AR and gaming centric experiences so far. They've done a little bit via IOS and Apple TV but they've arguably held back a little bit here.
The amount of detail in that video is amazing. I noticed it can partially see through chain link gates -- neat!