skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Track your time, automatically. It is very easy to follow a rabbit hole. In a typical office, there is social pressure not to + even if you do so, it is likely that your rabbit hole journey gets interrupted.

For that, there is obviously RescueTime (I use it with Custom New Tab URL Chrome plugin so that with each new tab I have an overview of the last hours), Qbserve (if you have macOS and prefer more privacy), and for open-source: https://activitywatch.net/.

At the same - book some hours without Slack or anything similar (unless you commit these hours to Slack, not deep work).

(I am a freelancer. I mostly work from home. Sometimes I work from an office, and there is a stark difference of the pros and cons of both places.)
If you are working on a separate computer (e.g. I got a work laptop and a personal laptop), keep the personal laptop switched off, connect the work laptop to the monitor (s), and keep your personal phone 5 meters away.

Have water/bathroom/coffee/tea/snack breaks every 1 hour.

Unplug PS4, TV, Atari.

If you cannot suffer the silence search for a classic music/instrumental music (whatever soft "elevator" music you may tolerate/like) on Spotify/etc. Find something with 20h total duration, hit the random button, set it on 5-15% volume and let it play.

Edit: I LOVED the "walk around the block idea, I am making it happen!!

Also in the Edit: change clothes, don't wear suit and tie, but don't stay with pyjamas (especially when walking around the block). Wear proper clothes, or at least tracksuit, something other than sleepwear.

Also in the Edit: make sure you check what your camera "sees" in the background, and clean that up.. wall=OK, pile of laundry 3 weeks old= NOT ok
If you assume a random person has a probability of carrying the virus at 0.001, here's the probability of someone in a crowd of N people being sick -

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+%281-%280.999%29%...

At around the 700 mark, the probability is > 0.5. So if you are in a crowd of 700+ people, someone's likely sick. Of course, you need to have some reasonable estimate of how many are carrying the virus in a given population to do this calculation.
It is, I do not like the way CJK is being doubt with. Not to mention fonts dont include All the CJK variants of the fonts when I use the same word but need a JK variant because that is how it was suppose to be used.

Even the "C" has traditional and simplified variant.

Fortunately I think Unicode is pretty much done for Alphabetical languages. Someday if CJK design Unicode isn't good enough breaking it off to something better isn't entire impossible.
Extreme measures is to slow down the first wave of cases so the number of patients needing medical attention is under the local capacity. Death rate is between 0.6% to 8% depending on how you can treat the patients and that requires that you have enough capacity to handle it. Over time we will have better medicines to reduce the need of ICUs and vaccines and then containment will not be necessary but we will continue to handle it as a seasonal disease.
14 years of working from home under my belt. Tried many things during those years and this is whats working best for me:

- my office is separate room that I visit just when I am at work. Kids were born into this situation and understand that this room is off limits.

- Good external monitor, mouse and ergonomic keyboard + good chair. I also like to use headphones when working even when nobody is around.

- I do keep regular schedule: work day starts at 8:00 with 15 minutes walk as my commute to clear my head from life stuff. lunch is at 12:00, I eat it with my wife and kid at the kitchen or we might go out to one of our local bistros just outside our house. I am not required to work like that, but it is just easy to keep in rhythm.

- no video games, no movies, no distraction when working. I might leave for bathroom or to make some green tea, but no procrastinating on my way, no playing with child or talking to my wife is allowed.

- when the day is over, I stand up, go for 15 minutes walk in nearby park (my commute to clean my head after work) and then I am back home.

- when I am done I am done. I might check Slack or emails, but the office is closed and no work is allowed.

It might seen strict, but working this way is actually best for me and my family. Years ago I was not that disciplined, worked a bit here and there, maybe watch a movie mid day and then work till 10pm. Now I just know when I am working and when I am allowed to just turn off.
Ask HN: How do you start a company that can last 100 years?
With pretty much all focus and resources for startups that are meant to grow quickly, make as much money as possible etc. I wonder how one would go about the thinking process of starting something that can last 100+ years?
What is your source? I can't see anything visible in the Hopkins data, and all news stories seem to be about continued stability in China.
1. Do what you do normally for work. If you shower and put on a button up shirt, keep doing that. Resist the temptation to wear pajamas all day.

2. Have a designated working area (to the extent possible) and designated working hours. When that clock hits 5pm, stop working and put away the working area.

3. Take your lunch and any snacks away from your working area, just like you would in the office

4. Outside of working hours, turn off your work apps and any notifications for them (in Android, leverage your Work profile)

5. Limit non-work tasks during work hours. Avoid watching Netflix or starting that home repair project. At the same time, don't guilt yourself if you put in a load of laundry - in the same way you don't guilt yourself if you go to the coffee shop down the street. There's a balance, find it.

6. Use a good chair. If you don't have a fancy office chair, a regular hardback dining room chair is actually a decent replacement for most people.
Probably not, but I'm not sure sure. There are explicit exceptions for things like public transport.

I think long distance train operators should put measures into place to avoid walking between railcars (like, shut down the restaurant car).
We could conceivably stop the spread in the US: Cancel school, declare a national quarantine, provide temporary basic income to workers without WFH ability, start mass testing, deploy the military, and more.

It would require very drastic measures but would undoubtedly save a huge number of lives. Amazingly, leaders in all democratic countries seem to be too cowardly, too dumb, or too short-sighted to take the action required.

They want to exchange lives for money. And it might not even be a good trade. Letting 70% of a country get infected, even over time, might end up costing more lives and more money.
> In many cases, the prices aren't really that different.

What industry are you in? If you mean China isn't that different than [Vietnam/India/Mexico/etc] then I can see it. I used to work in Medical Devices for 5 years, and the cost of manufacturing something abroad (one company had several plans in Mexico) was astronomically lower than manufacturing in the USA.
I'm surprised when I did a search in comments that The Ghetto didn't show up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Dayton_Ghetto

UD student housing for upperclassmen are blocks of university owned houses next to campus. On the weekends the entire neighborhood becomes one big party. Larger, more boisterous gatherings for special events like Homecoming and St. Patrick's day have lead to "riot" like stories over the years.

- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/university-of-dayton-st-patri...

- https://www.blackburnreview.com/2018/03/29/something-stinks-...

- https://ecommons.udayton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=103...
What happens if you just tell them you’re doing it, rather than ask for permission?
From the 3rd question of the FAQ:

> Why does it open in a new tab with a different URL?

> Setting up websites is hard and I got frustrated and you're not paying anything, so...
I think LINQPad does something similar?

https://www.linqpad.net/
Why doesn't GitHub support the fast-forward merge strategy?
That's great you're compliant with those! For HIPAA, do you enter into a BAA with prospective customers who deal in HIPAA data (PHI)?

EDIT>> The implication being that you may not be HIPAA compliant if you don't enter into a BAA. IANAL, so I defer to the experts, but I figured I'd ask the original question anyway. If you are above board on all of this, I will definitely take this tool to my boss.
Why do you need a private equity firm? That's basically what FCA has been doing since their inception. They've brought a bunch of brands under one roof, shit canned the products that don't make money (or shoehorned it onto a platform that does make money) and focused on optimizing the money making things for more money while reducing duplication of effort.

In the short term it's worked well for them. Whether it's sustainable time will tell.
Why live in a place where you don't know your neighbors, then? Isn't that depressing in and of itself? In an ideal world, your friends would become your neighbors and people would move closer to the people they love, to make "love your neighbor" easier.
Ask HN: In what sense cookie warnings work?
Now if they don't really work for anyone, shouldn't we just stop showing them, saving everyones time and resources?
I have addressed this issue with a simple hardware innovation: the Facespoon.

Find a clean object with a well-defined handle. Use the non-handle end of the object to touch/scratch/adjust/manipulate your face. Clean the object regularly.

Working from home, I've designated a kitchen cooking spoon on my desk for this dedicated task. Plastic appears to better than wood, as it is more-readily cleaned and does not absorb facial oils.
To be clear - this isn't about making visualizations from SQL results (though that does happen). This was us making a visual query language. It's a very flexible interface that writes SQL for you - and has been proven to be intuitive enough for 80% of business users, so they can write SQL now too.

The interface right now only works for structured data sources and my brain also starts to sputter when I think about making a visual language for anything not structured :).
I had problems receiving ios push notifications with their free version. Ended up switching back to slack.
As a Canadian who has also lived in America, I am consistently mortified by the costs of health care in the states.

Are they intentionally designed to force the lower class into even more poverty (I’ve seen $50 being charged for a pill of Advil - first hand) - or is it just an unintended side effect?

I find it harder to believe it’s accidental than intentional.

EDIT: Due to jiveturkey’s pathetic and wholly inaccurate defense of this system, and my inability to post in this thread further, I need to specify I was changed $740 to see the doctor and identify the issue. The pill itself cost $50. Please don’t defend this pathetic slavery of the lower class, guys, unless you’re a part of it. I’ve actually got a photograph of this bill somewhere on my backup drive I’d love to share.

EDIT 2: And before any of you say this isn’t intentional, please look up Martin Shkreli. The only difference between him and the other guys at the top of the industry is that he got caught.

Get real, guys. Please. Most of the comments here are beyond sad - I’m glad this has so many upvotes from people who silently disagree.
I imagine that was done on some doors not all, just to better funnel people to the remaining open exits where they had their manned check points.
This is not my original idea, it requires some discipline, but I’ve done it at a previous gig and loved the idea:

Assuming you use Slack (or similar) create your own personal (but public) “rubber ducking” channel. Use it to you talk to yourself about everything you’re doing. This helps keeps you accountable to yourself and others, and keeps others in the loop, and provides excellent context for anything you might need to discuss in depth.
Definitely need to start cracking down on predatory hospital billing. 10K billed just for stepping into the ER Room without even getting tested is absolutely insane. AT point do we decide this is criminal and start taking actions against these guys? Normally, I would never be in favor of price ceilings but this is one industry that desperatly needs it.
I guess elegance is in the eye of the beholder.

Separately, I find it upsetting there are at least 6 ways of reversing a dataframe. It suggests some API smell.
Well, it is the Orioles.

Aside: How close will Astros road games be to empty this year?
Yes, one that was _extremely_ effective.

Personally, I wouldn't want to sacrifice my liberties to a PRC-style quarantine, but to insinuate it wasn't an astoundingly effective way to control the spread is false.
If WHO doesn't want to please China, could you explain they follow China's will and block Taiwan all the time?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/22/china-health-coronaviru...

Yeah, right? why would they, hmmmmm, I am wondering
It inflected early in China because of the lockdown. People are hardly allowed to leave their house. Not even for work unless you're essential personnel.

The US is not prepared for those methods. Not culturally or legally. For better or for worse, it's the sort of thing that can only happen in an authoritarian dictatorship.

I fully expect the US to inflect much, much later than China did.
For sure that is a big problem. I blogged about it in 2016 https://sytse.com/2016/12/28/adyen-for-payrolling.html and I'm excited to be an investor in Remote.com that tries to solve that problem. It is started by our old VP of Product Job van der Voort.
There are no immediate promises of such measures being made. Edit: Since this is being downvoted could someone provide a source for such immediate promises? I must have missed it.
I've worked at home for almost 30 years now - I have 2 rules:
- you must get out of your bathrobe by lunch time
- you must leave the house every day (maybe not so much during a pandemic)
Same for Lake Washington School District. (Redmond/MSFT area). https://www.lwsd.org/
And China is reportedly sending equipment to Italy - not something they would do if the infections were still growing. Their actions seem to align with their message.
In my experience the risk of working longer hours is huge. Especially after dinner. You came from the office, have dinner and you're done for the day. WFH, well, you are still somehow at work. Used to be, and still is, the hardest part for me.

Had WFH at least one day per week for close to two years at Amazon and full time since October at my own company.

Funny thing is, I switch workplaces. From the dedicated desk to the dinner table to the living room and back at no particular intervals. Seems to be an outlier, so.
I liked the way yours worked a little better than the dtyaface version. I like that yours allowed recording of samples since I have a three monitor setup and my laptop with camera is at a side angle. Your app handled side view face touching alerts quite well.
I think they're doing it just because they can. there are some long winded explanations about this being about the negotation process between the hospitals and insurance companies but that's no exucuse. at the end of the day, it's just unmitigated greed on the part of the hospitals.
Austria has taken similar measures as well.
Poland is closing too from Monday.
The world health organization changed its guidelines in 2015:

https://www.who.int/topics/infectious_diseases/naming-new-di...

Of course older diseases would not likely have their names changed.
drv.tw is a "Google Drive to web" proxy. It lets you stick an html file on google drive and have it on the internet.

I'm not sure how it pays for itself - after all, every byte served has to go through their servers, and running a service like this I can imagine a lot of illicit content gets posted too (requiring a lot of admin time).

Why not just use github/lab pages?
"Right" can have different definitions. For the end users, it should mean a secure and reliable platform. For the intelligence community (not just the US), it might mean some easily exploitable back doors that provide a foothold for exfiltration activities.

What makes this latest SMB problem even more interesting is that it is apparently new to Windows, being present in 10, but not in the previous versions.
The number of cases in China was been steady for around a week. If we extrapolate from Hubei that should give a decent picture. Around 0.1% of their population were diagnosed with covid and of those diagnosed around 4% died. If we apply the same rates to the United States (328 million * .001 * .04) we get 12,960 deaths. Keep in mind that is somewhat of a worse case scenario. In Henan province the fatality rate is less than half of what it was in Hubei, 1.6%.
Datomic scales horizontally for reads but doesn't for writes, but then natively mysql doesn't scale for reads or writes, most people looking to scale mysql up use a clustered approach with many readers and one writer using a third party or enterprise solution

I don't know of a reliable multi write system for mysql that doesn't make significant trade offs

At work we use multiple mysql servers to handle "scaling" so it's not a surprise to me that Nubank are using multiple Datomic servers

Unless you start getting into eventual consistency territory I don't think distributed writes are a trivial problem and targeting Datomic for this is a bit odd
I think once the dust has settled from COVID-19 the entire health system in America will be totally changed.
It's just harsh restrictive measures are also not free. Sending economy into hard recession, disrupting supply chains etc will cause people to lose jobs, get under poverty line or not get above it etc. I think it would be a good idea to get more research on how to approach it, finding right balance. South Korea seems have curbed exponential spread and without much panic/hard disruption of everyday life, at least according to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZqgMIrjKOQ
I've seen a lot of products similar to this, and it looks like one of the nicer ones. But the use case in the video and screenshots make me immediately think it wouldn't be viable in any of the organizations I've written SQL for in the past 10 years.

At least 95% of the challenge in querying data doesn't come from the difficulty of writing SQL statements IMO, but from the complexity/brokenness of the data itself. Especially with the move to unstructured data streams, most data warehouses seem to have become pretty bad when it comes to extracting truth out of the information within. Many business users know some SQL but blanch at creating coherent reports from what's available to them. What BI people are paid for seems to be having knowledge about the problems particular to a domain.

If your data is relatively clean and follows a good model, this would be a great way to help someone join, group, and aggregate their data without knowing SQL. I think a lot of people would use Tableau for this if it didn't also have a steep learning curve / high expense. However as soon as you get into data where you're writing case statements, coalescing null fields, matching on different data types, decoding, partitioning over streaming data etc., it doesn't help someone without knowledge of the caveats within the data sources themselves. Show me someone who doesn't know SQL using this to produce insight out of compromised data and I will be impressed.
Ask HN: Platform to stream and record classes for free?
Hi! I'm a high school student. Schools in our country have just been closed and I and my classmates (not the whole school, just under 35 people) would like to attend classes online.

The only thing we need is a FREE service to stream and record classes (we can store then on Google Drive). It would also be great if it was like a conference call so that we can talk but a live chat is enough.

Our school doesn't have a G Suite account and I'm not sure if we can create a throwaway account. Getting our headmaster's approval might take days or weeks as they're not really into tech, so there's might be now way to create an official school account. Every day counts as we have our final exams in May.

Which platform would you recommend?
It's politics as well. The Democratic candidate campaigning on maintaining the status quo is leading against the candidate who is campaigning on single payer. There's not much left to do when larger cohorts of voters prefer an inefficient, wasteful system (or a candidate who supports such a system). What we currently have is what people are voting for.

I've tried to make everything stated above objective in keeping with forum guidelines. Personally, I find the situation incredibly demoralizing. Perhaps the outcome of COVID-19 is a demonstration as to why healthcare needs to be fixed.
That kind of thinking made sense twenty years ago where you could assume Moore's law was going to hold into the next decades.
> When I said we didn't touch this post, I meant we did nothing to affect its rank.

Ok, that's clear and unambiguous.

> If that sounds scandalous

It sounds like you are following through on exactly what you said you were doing on the search you linked elsewhere. I read some of those and it clearly stated "less intervention". So for you to apply "less intervention" here is you being consistent.

> flags

For the record I didn't flag the submission. It didn't appear, to me, to violate any guidelines.

> If you're going to imagine that sort of interpretation

Sounds like I have violated the guidelines:
Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
I appear to have escaped censure at this juncture, perhaps due to the lesser moderation applied in this thread.
One thing a friend of mine found he had to do to be productive at home was dressing for work.

He'd worked in an office for 20+ years, and switched to remote. At work he wore a shirt and tie every day for those 20+ years. That was his uniform. Everyone will have a different ritual that switches them from home mode to work mode, but find yours. It will make a major difference for you.
A New Hampshirite will tell you otherwise.
As a fellow person with ADHD, I naturally socially distance myself!
yes, the specifics aren't out yet but a package is being put together right now by the government. We don't know yet how much, but the numbers are in the billions.

The government is aware that this is a dificult situation financially for a lot of companies and are working to resolve it. A lot of it will be through delayed payment of taxes and VAT to keep cashflow.
The detail and comparisons are incredible here.

However couldn't you basically apply this to any industry with substantial fixed costs? In this situation you can always save by consolidating so that fixed cost is amortized over more units.

What is the "right" level of R&D spend for auto-industry? This analysis assumes it's unreasonably high, but the flip side of this is just that he's pointing a path to higher profit.

Although this deck says it's not about "Putting FCA up for sale", this reads to me like it's trying justify consolidation without just saying that it will make more money, so that it can avoid competition-regulation scrutiny.
I would suggest everyone grab their significant other, head to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this whole thing to blow over.
I wonder if the US will see a similar shutdown in the coming weeks.
Why not ban events holding more than 10 people? Or even 5? Setting the bar at 1000 seems like a massive lapse of judgement in preventing exponential growth.
I don't think it requires any more than an indifference towards the welfare of others from those who believe they can afford any kind of healthcare they would ever need while simultaneously pursuing a minimal tax bill.
Rather scary how massive apartment buildings in China, where most people live, are able to be turned into prisons so quickly.