skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting argument. In the "loser pays" system lawyers are encouraged to take on cases even if the defendant can't afford the legal fees. From the perspective of a lawyer an innocent defendant is basically a cash cow.
For a emergency DIY purposes you could buy manual resuscitators and build a device that presses them at right intervals (they are self-inflating).
I don't want to downplay the financial concerns but in the US we expect every hospital bed to be full by mid May. Many of those beds lack proper isolation for infectious disease, and we'll have run out of proper PPE supplies for healthcare workers, meaning many of those workers will cycle out of commission. Unfortunately every country is in a similar situation. People are going to go without appropriate care regardless of copays. Helping people cover out of pocket expenses is the easy problem to solve.

https://twitter.com/LizSpecht/status/1236095180459003909?s=2...
MITMing DNS would be a problem, and DNS queries can still be revealing (and SNI in the case of DNS over HTTPS)
This article has a little more insight: https://techstartups.com/2020/03/06/german-researchers-ident...
> 700 line init ... written about 1200 more lines

"happily using vanilla Emacs" indeed.
On the other hand, allowing people to migrate from marriage to marriage lets them create lifelong bonds that actually help them when their first partner turns out to be callous and uncaring. And there's nothing forcing people to migrate if they're happy with their current community.

It's true that the old system was better for some people - e.g., callous and uncaring partners got to have someone obligated to keep taking care of them. I suppose it's a tradeoff.
Ultimately the kind which imports a library becomes react developers or django developers or other framework developers, while the kind who learns how to implement things on their own become generic software engineers. So you can see which kind a company hires based on their job ads, if it lists a lot of frameworks and libraries then they expect you to have spent most of your time importing and using libraries. While if the ad just lists domain specific knowledge and some generic coding bits they will mostly have people who likes doing things on their own.
When living and working in Canada I was surprised that taxes were pretty much the same as what I’d pay in California.

OECD data seems to back that up.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffingtonpost.ca/amp/2018/05...
I feel that events like this are the "time to pay the piper" moments with what's wrong with American society. But don't expect to see the price paid. I expect to see a bail out in one form or another to kick the can down the road.

It also reminds me that "Canada is like America put through a low pass filter." We have pretty much the same situation, but with milder extremes. When I worked in a kitchen I did see injuries and sickness get handled more properly because a doctors visit is free and employment insurance is a thing, so they still got paid for being off work. But I also saw the same issues with "you don't get paid if you don't show up" so people worked through short term illnesses. I saw someone step in a pot of scalding chicken broth/fat because they were so fatigued and the idiot who placed it on the floor was sick and fatigued and was skipping steps.

To each their own opinion but as I get older (and indeed pay a crap ton more taxes) I'm becoming increasingly convinced that we need more socialism. This twitter thread is a great example of how we can all suffer when the most vulnerable of us suffers. I say socialism because I believe we need a baseline safety net where, "if you're not conributing, at the very least you're not doing harm." I've met a lot of people where I think "honestly I would rather you just stay out of the way." I think that's the hardest part. We have a culture of absolutely despising the idea of free lunches and free loaders.
Essentially much stronger anti-trust laws which break up large institutions, and distribute large concentrations of wealth. It's the only way to spread power.
Also, being somewhat skilled in many things can give you enough knowledge to know which to use and when to learn more.
This was posted here a few days ago, and there were plenty of criticisms of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22499152
When you're health insurance is tied to your work, if you lost the ability to work, you are screwed. You will stop earning money, your savings will evaporate, then your health insurance will evaporate, and then you get destroyed by medical bills. This happened in me in 2006 after a bad bicycle accident.

And all of this is assuming the health insurance company doesn't weasel out of paying for your bills while you have insurance because of a clerical error you made when applying for health insurance in the first place.
Working in a tire shop I do get the feeling that the wear is highest when new.
I am a highly motivated person, yet if I could keep my home and health without working I would stop working day 1. I would target my motivation at things I personally care about that don't help the economy in the least. My art, woodworking, finishing my stack of books. I am certainly not alone.

This is why I think there needs to be some level of threat of destitution to keep society functional. Without it, this all falls apart.
This is beyond simply getting a hospital bed, really. If people can't even stay at home because they're forced to make money, or they cant afford proper medication, well you get the idea.
This is how authoritarian socialism/communism pits people against each other. Imagine a massively broad and deep bureaucracy which controls every aspect of your life. Where so many things are illegal that practically everyone is breaking some law - and the government (or your personal enemies) just need a reason to get you reprimanded - piss off the wrong boss and your life is turned upside down.

Our system in the West isn't perfect but at least your mistakes (real and otherwise) typically don't follow you for the rest of your life, excluding extreme cases.
Knowing only React, or one programming language doesn't make you a specialist. It just means you have very little knowledge and/or experience. What's next? "if statement developer"?

Software engineering as a whole, is one specialization. Maaaybe backend vs fronted could be made into two meaningful specializations. Or "distributed systems", "game development", "financial systems" etc areas. But not one framework/ PL. Come on. :D

I don't want to bash on people who actually only know one language/framework. It's OK, it can pay your bills, etc. Maybe you also have great skills and interests in non-software areas. But just don't fool yourself thinking "I'm a React specialist".
The 3D printers you were using probably cost in the $100k-250k range. I think you can get tiny bench-top mills like that for something like $200.
I can definitely believe tire wear is a significant contributor... but is Emissions Analytics a reputable source?

It feels like someone grabbed a domain and wrote a post with minimal experimental rigor.
Yes, but the position of libertarians with this attitude is inconsistent, because in a capitalist society, having a large concentration of wealth implies a concentration of power. To be a consistent libertarian you must oppose disproportionate concentrations of power in all forms.
Presumably it's already made it through many stages of clinical trials if we're calling it an existing drug, which means we can skip straight to human trials on infected patients.
Looks Awesome great job. What is your background ? and how many hours did you spend per day while learning
Business logic changes and grows more complex over time, how to invert a matrix doesn't. Trust me, I implement algorithms for a large library for a living, they very rarely change or grow.
That’s a good thread.

The obvious concern is low income families. However, the calculus is whether they’ll be more devastated by the short term closures — or a much longer, much deeper recession if the virus spreads unchecked in the West.
I don't like the requirement. It actually makes work for my clients (and thus me), and it's not work that I would otherwise choose to prioritize. I'm just saying that it looks very unlikely to be an antitrust vector.
I would love a guide to design patterns in dynamic languages that doesn't presuppose a familiarity with design patterns in static languages. Most of the design pattern guides I've read, it tried to read, follow this same assumption.

I suppose a workaround would be to learn a static language well enough to understand the need for the full set of design patterns, and then read a guide like this, but it seems like there should be a more elegant way.
Yet the cost of living is just as high in certain areas (Toronto and Vancouver) and the pay is abysmal.

The offers I would get in Toronto and Vancouver would often be 25-30% of the ones I’d get in NYC and SF.
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You could also get extra of the critical utensils. The price of, say, a second or third spatula might be covered by the time saved by a dishwasher.
Uber, DoorDash and Others Discuss Fund for Drivers Affected by Coronavirus
The problem with this geofencing approach is that it gives too much and too little information at the same time. A list with contact details of many people but no way to find the perpetrator.
They make portable dishwashers that hook into your faucet. You could have had one for a few hundred bucks and also lived where you wanted.
Actually no. Under Stallman's model it is perfectly okay to demand and earn payment for your work, but results still would be free, quote, as in "free speech", not "free beer", unquote. Did you see bounty offers in open source repos' issues?
DNSSEC is not a solution to snooping or tampering in this setting. Ironically, against link-layer attacks like this, DoH does address both.
I don't think the death rate is what would collapse the world economy. Even if the drug ended up killing more people it would still potentially help the economy. Especially if the side effects weren't know for years. Obviously I'm not advocating for this though.
I drive on one of the routes used by lorries servicing the UK's largest container port. The roads are visibly buckled in the lanes the lorries use. You can feel your car uncomfortably slotting into the grooves. It seems insane to me to use the roads for that. A railway seems like a complete no brainer, especially considering these are containers and easily loaded.

But at least the weight of a lorry consists of mostly the goods being transported. The more pertinent comparison is a bicycle vs single-occupant "SUV". Unlike lorries, those things are tearing up smaller roads in town centres making the roads barely usable by smaller cars, let alone bicycles, despite the fact that cyclists contribute equally to road maintenance.

Those SUVs also require larger brakes which is a major non-exhaust emission. It's high time to start taxing these vehicles heavily and I think using the fourth power of axle load seems like a sensible way to do it.
That's an engineer extrapolating from an assumed doubling time.

It's not an absurd scenario, the doubling time is from studies of other countries, but there's also no accounting for public health measures and individual behavior. Things like reducing time spent in groups (school, church, events) have a considerable impact on infection rates. The small number of cases in Hong Kong provides good evidence that such measure work.
My rule of thumb is to not take anything that’s been on the market for less then ten years. After ten years everyone figures out the real drawbacks and side effects.
When you use a geofence you have a witness list of mostly innocent people. You can't rule out anyone because that information requires a warrant. The end result? Warrants on random people and most of them are innocent. The entire system is broken and was never going to work.
Fake news. Smaller particles from exhaust are way worse for you than larger particles from tires. Within a category like PM2.5, mass is a terrible metric. A given mass of fuel exhaust will contain orders of magnitude more particles because they are tinier. Smaller particles can penetrate deeper into your lungs and can go into your bloodstream.
Took me a while, but i see what you did there ;)
What sort of things would you target your motivation towards? Would they be valuable for humanity? Is "the economy" really the right barometer? (edit: I see you added this - I think those are valuable for humanity! I wish you could spend your time on art and woodworking!)

Personally, I spend a lot of my time keeping a hedge fund's computers working, because they pay me well for it (and I want to not only avoid destitution now, I want savings to avoid destitution in the future). I spend about zero time on any of my open-source projects, which would be more valuable for humanity as a whole, but I can't figure out how to get paid the same amount (or really anything) working on them. And I know my projects are valuable to the economy too - I arrived at this job to find that another team was doing a big migration onto a project I maintain (and haven't had much time for). I didn't know this in advance, and they didn't know I was joining their company.

Besides - it's okay if many people lose their motivation to work, as long as enough people still work from intrinsic motivation. And you'd still have the motivation of needing to earn money for luxuries. Once you finish your stack of books, the survival stipend wouldn't cover buying any more books.
How did submitter conclude that "I did spend 9 years as a manager at a pizza place” is a relevant excerpt that could be used as the title?

The thread is about concerns about health care policy and food service labor practices encourage the spread of viruses, if you want a heads-up.
I'll add to this—I feel like 80-year-old me is just going to be pissed off that he's old. He might make various statements to rationalize his discontent, but those won't be the core issue.
My point here is, there's a lot of ways to cut down on mundane tasks, and it's really worth prioritizing that effort over other concerns.

This is exactly the reason why we went and bought a Roomba. It doesn't clean as thoroughly as a human would, but it does it every day, and each time with the same robotic determination.

I currently have a more polished apartment than I ever cared for and at the same time am dedicating less time to keep it that way. What's not to love about that?
> ”Because every minute spent doing something other than what you love most today is a minute you’re more likely to regret when you’re 80.”

You can learn to love what you do, no matter the task. You can foster love and appreciation with anything.

Learn first to love what you do, no matter the task.
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The IPCC has good information on the climate effects. The growing amount of air travel looks quite worrying.
I have turned down multiple opportunities to work in the USA for these reasons.

A friend told me her story years ago and it made me never want to work there.

She was a single mother in her early 30s. Her husband/father of her child died in a traffic accident when the child was very young (around 2yo). When her son was around 6 he developed a chronic medical condition. Not curable but manageable without awful impact to his life. However it was expensive to manage. She had decent insurance where she worked so it wasn't a massive issue (I think she paid around $200/month for medication).

However she was being sexual harassed and bullied by the company owner. She tried for years to change jobs but couldn't. Many times she was offered a job but the insurance package wasn't as good and so she could not afford the medication her son needed with the changes.

She was effectively held hostage with a boss who used to make her life miserable because of a healthcare plan. She was scared to go to work but she had no choice. No family support, etc.

It took her over four years to finally be free of that place when she moved country for a better life for her and her son (which is how we met and became friends).

She is a wonderful person who is doing amazing now. Last we spoke she was happily married. Not spoken in a while but think I will give her a call tonight to catch up. Thanks for the indirect reminder to do so.
From the OP on reddit:

"No parameters to the speed increase. The longer I hold it, the faster it goes, but I’ve only held it for a second because I don’t know what, if any, damage I may be causing."
The incentives really are not in place. He's just scratching the surface of the rabbit hole. If quarantines become compulsory, the situation will be even worse. Imagine people actively covering up their symptoms and lying to doctors. It would be complete pandemonium.

The title is not great. I would suggest "I spent 9 years at a pizza place, and I'm terrified of COVID-19."
> Heat pumps (assuming the facilities are designed for this) can work both ways, can't they?

Yes. But electrical heating with heat pumps is currently not common in the US.
It’s in the best interest of restaurant owners to keep their customers safe and to monitor employees of sickness. Unfortunately I doubt they have the foresight to do this, because they’re probably living on the edge as well.

But one incidence of coronavirus at their restaurant and their traffic will go to 0 immediately. The owner will go bankrupt almost overnight. Word travels extremely fast these days, especially over social media.

For example I just heard that Stanford hospital has a dozen confirmed coronavirus patients there. If a restaurant has a worker diagnosed no one will go there immediately.

A lot of restaurants are going to go bankrupt over the next 2-3 months unfortunately.
Reminds me of CS Lewis: “The sort of thrill a boy has at the first idea of flying will not go on when he has joined the R.A.F. and is really learning to fly. The thrill you feel on first seeing some delightful place dies away when you really go to live there. Does this mean it would be better not to learn to fly and not to live in the beautiful place? By no means. In both cases, if you go through with it, the dying away of the first thrill will be compensated for by a quieter and more lasting kind of interest. What is more (and I can hardly find words to tell you how important I think this), it is just the people who are ready to submit to the loss of the thrill and settle down to the sober interest, who are then most likely to meet new thrills in some quite different direction. The man who has learned to fly and becomes a good pilot will suddenly discover music; the man who has settled down to live in the beauty spot will discover gardening.”
>Of course a career change at 40 is totally doable but wouldn't it be better if we had been working 15-20 years towards that goal instead of starting from scratch at 40?

I'm almost 40 changing careers and can confirm, in spite of how doable may or may not be I can't stop thinking how things would have been different if my father said "yes" to purchasing a personal computer when I was fawning over them through computer magazines as a kid.
If it's a drug that blocks entry of the virus into human cells, wouldn't it be ineffective on already infected human beings?
X-ray fragment based drug discovery experiment on the SARS-CoV-2 main protease
You could see it was tiny sticky pieces of rubber.
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> Moreover, their study suggests that antibody responses raised against SARS-CoV could at least partially protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Interesting idea. Infect everyone with the “mild” version of SARS to protect against the severe one.
Well, you're right, it's not so vanilla anymore. :)

But that has accumulated over the course of about 10 years, so its really not a lot. And the possibility of having everything just the way I like is what drew me to Emacs in the first place! A shorter config would be an indication that either (1) I happened to like everything exactly the way it was by default, or (2) annoyances can't actually be fixed. I don't think any software could fall into (1) (right?, there's always something you wish were slightly different, or something you want to automate) and Emacs, unlike most programs, does not fall into (2).

Also if you saw my configuration and compared it people who use Doom or Spacemacs, or even just Helm or Ivy, you'd think my Emacs is very vanilla.
The problem of human transport of thirdhand tobacco smoke
does not sound like 'micro' dosing to me
Yeah, you need to just go ahead and run the dishwasher.

You're not being wasteful: when the dishwasher is full, it doesn't work as well. Which means you need to pre-rinse dishes, which wastes water versus just running the dishwasher more often.
I am literally tripping balls... who spells tire like this?
If it works it will block infection of new cells. Already infected cells will die and be shed.
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” turns 42
It depends whether you want to know if it actually works.
No, it's in the best interest of restaurant owners that there are no documented incidences of coronavirus at their restaurant.

To spell it out: if a manager knows someone has the virus, they will fire them. Therefore, the infected will try to cover it up. This will be the case even if healthcare is free.
I have to agree about the “risk is low” comment. It’s based on a snapshot in time. And besides the hand-waving about an evolving situation — well, it’s the evolving situation part that’s the risk.
All of this also assumes that you have thousands of dollars to pay for deductibles before your health insurance kicks in at all.
Wireguard + pi-hole is the solution I'm moving to.
My ex liked to point out, “Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.”
No no no.. translating is to put them in the 'headlights' of transparency of accountability. It's quite an angry comment.
I wouldn't use Underdog to describe Intel, they were never one in their x86 history. Always the TopDog.

Intel in the P4 era is a lot different to now. P4 was an engineering mistake. And it wasn't Cornoe that saved that, it was Pat Gelsinger's Pentium M or Banias / Dothan.

The current ( or past ) Intel issues isn't engineering, they have amazing engineers. It is lying. Blatant lies that were fed from Sales and Marketing all the way to their C-Level. That is what happen when a successful company were driven by Sales and Marketing people.
Laravel Airlock
> I switched companies (FANG) to my family software company

> After I joined and learned about the horrors of VSS, I switched our company immediately to git (there was some initial resistance)

Be careful with changes in these situations. "Some hotshot coming from FAANG and telling us how we should do things" doesn't always play well.
You are a specialist if that's the only thing you're doing. And such a word becomes meaningful once you're doing it +3 to +5 years, IMO. I've seen a modicum of posts on HN that was something along the lines of "I've been a C++ developer for the past 12 years, how do I become a web developer?" So I guess there's something to it.

At least in some of the cases.
I'll say the same thing as I always do; what if you're depressed?

A kid drops out of high school, plays video games instead. Two years have passed, now he has a two year career gap. "Eh, I'll just stay home and figure something out." Now he has a four year career gap...
fair statements.

The point I was going to is there is a balance. The incorporated areas need to understand they need the unincorporated areas and folks need to have a symbiotic relationship.

Too many times people try to overlay what works in one area to one it doesnt.

Laws try to be global and that simply cannot work. Let the local govts manage their areas and get the federal govt out of managing states.

How much of NM is owned by BLM ? In AZ its ridiculous amount.