skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the extent that users benefit from desired violations of their own privacy, they can consent to it. To the extent that other users benefit from violation of my privacy, they have no right to it.
> $4T a year, required to pay for monthly basic income of $1k to all Americans is much wilder...

"one-time payment of $1,000 to every adult who is a U.S. citizen or a taxpaying U.S. resident, and $500 to every child who meets the same criteria."

You're arguing against something nobody proposed. Please compare the numbers with whats actually being proposed.
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default values are the best guesses for the parameters of the novel coronavirus based on my reading of the literature
Have they run out of shit to rub on door handles, y'know they're looking to get Asshole Of The Year by doing the least societally responsible things possible.

Sorry to be crude, but it beggars belief that people can afford flights, realise why they're discounted, and yet be so short sighted.
Ok now Microsoft just needs to acquire what remains of Docker and their Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers collection will be complete.
The vaccine will take like 1 year to test and be sure that it is effective and that it is safe and cause no nasty side effects. So for 2020, let's ignore (a).
If Google wanted to be aggressive about it, they could make future features closed source, and Brave wouldn't have the financial ability to pay people to keep up with new standards.
Looking only at state ownership, the Swedish and Danish governments own about the same share of SAS (~14%) and 1/3rd of the company stock is privately owned.[1]

[1]: https://www.sasgroup.net/annualreports/2018/assets/pdf/eng/S...
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"What does a trustworthy Microsoft look like to you?"

An oxymoron?
Once it's bad enough, it's too late. It's like putting on a seat belt after the crash.
Pretty sure they're trying to say:

> It would be fine to leave it up to the states if the states were competent enough to deal with it; however, the states are not.
> Taking a strictly biological view of relationship formation is just as valid.

What would that look like?
It's pretty easy to see data "leakage" from other services when it happens. Maybe google is just better at hiding this, but I doubt it.
I hope you vitriolically react with "you're a f@#$^!n dick, man" or some other kind of pressure to get him to get the message: "endangering others is bad and you're losing respect/status by doing so."

My truck driver friends improved fairly quickly after I sat shotgun a couple times
Microsoftie here — throwaway for obvious reasons.

Microsoft doesn’t do everything right but the GitHub acquisition has honestly gone better than I ever expected. Rather than forcing GitHub to adopt Microsoft centric policies, Microsoft has adopted more GitHub stuff, especially from a product POV. GitHub still runs as a separate company (different logins and health care and hiring systems) with its own policies and point of view.

The reality is npm was in a bad place and in a land of not good options, this strikes me as the best possibility. I’d rather have GitHub control this and be able to give the resources to npm than a company like Oracle or Amazon or even Google or Facebook to own it. In a perfect world, some independent entity could fund npm out of gratitude but at the same time, consider how poorly npm as a company was run for YEARS and the general lack of direction.

So yeah, I’m cautiously optimistic this won’t be fucked up by GitHub — but I understand the concern.

As for those worried about Microsoft embracing, extending, and extinguishing. Lol. Even if that was the goal (and I truly don’t think that’s the ethos at all any more), Microsoft is laughably incompetent at achieving that sort of strategy. Google and Amazon have the EEE under lock right now (Facebook too — let’s be glad Zuck didn’t buy this after we saw what happened to yarn), but Microsoft can’t even put coherent dev strategy outside of .NET on Azure.
Open Source copyright licenses exists exactly to make the extinguish part impossible. MS cannot put the genie back in the bottle when it puts out open source software.
Huh? On 2019 December 31, gold closed at USD 1519.50. Just now (3:15 pm), it was at 1503. Too bad, because just a couple of days ago it was a great hedge against falling stock prices.

I guess you're talking about the 1-year price change.

Source: goldprice.org
That’s a protocol fault and has nothing to do with the accuracy of the test
Good advice!
Although there are situations were the passive is best, using simpler, more direct words makes the text much clearer.
And those who don't understand, or need a refresher on, exponential growth should watch this great video by 3Blue1Brown.

Exponential growth and epidemics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg
What a weird reaction. How could you correct something like that? Better parenting?

I'm thinking of flashing my high beams whenever I pass drivers with lights too bright. Maybe they're just not aware. I flash my highs at drivers with their headlights off at night because it's dangerous. No reason to not do the same when it's dangerous on the other end of the spectrum.
A lot of media trying to push this as hillbillies/rednecks wanting to defend their hoard of toilet paper are short-sighted.

Panic & fear cause people to make unpredictable poor decisions, and you never know if that could affect you and your family. In the USA, you have a right to defend yourself and these people are just choosing to do that. Please don't demonize them for just wanting to protect themselves and their families.

Be safe and watch out for each other.
what I mean is that droplets produced in the lung are not necessary saliva, and droplets produced in the nose, .... all have varying viscosities depending on flu or cold, dry cough or not, ...

think about what you are saying, how could what you say be true, and some diseases be more air borne than others? if a pathogen can trigger specific immune responses that result in runny noses, or blocked noses it has some control over the viscosity of different types of mucous our body produces...

so has this droplet size distribution been measured for covid-19?
Well why the hell are all our major service providers not trustworthy? In absolutely any other context this would be unacceptable. Coca-Cola can't just slip sawdust into their product without getting reamed by the law. Why do tech companies get to do whatever they want? Why is the closest thing we get to collective action retweeted blog posts?
Some people have given solid advice here on financial restrictions, so will focus on the 'fire for building' part.

Recently listened to a podcast of Tim Ferris, where he interviewed Tony Fadell - who built the iPod, iPhone and Nest. In it, he makes a serious case for getting bored. He explains how he uses it to drive new ideas, such as how it helped him get the clarity of mind to get the idea of Nest, and how afterwards he's done the research for his current problem - one of plastics.

"Get the time to get bored. Spend three, six months if you can, or at least two or three weeks outside of that. Get bored. Just put away all of your things. Maybe go clean up the garage or whatever it is. Right? Through that, you’re going to start to think differently. You’re going to act slightly differently and your mind might open up to other sources of inspiration, other problems, other things where you start to go, “Oh, now I see differently.” I’m not just going to go run to the competitor because I understand the space and run to the competitor and go work for them because they’re going to give me a better job. But I want to go do a whole different thing that I want to learn about that’s going to challenge me so I’m not just checking in every day and doing my work, but I’m actually growing through that."

Listen to it here: https://tim.blog/2019/12/23/tony-fadell/
Exactly. There's no "panic" about it, it's just people being reasonable and taking prudent precautions.
It's not waste of time. I think if helped progress in the hardware. It educated people on blockchain. Now there may be rigs our there for sale, which can be reused for more important things, scientific research, etc.
Sightly off topic, but relevant to your question.

Recently I installed win10 pro and was appalled at the way I had you jump through hoops to NOT have a m$ account, not to mention the blatant adware. And this was win10 professional.

It certainly reminded me that m$ is a long long way away from where it was in the 90s and early naughties.

So, a good start would be a stable and private os without all the adware and telemetry.

PS: I use gitea instead of GitHub these days. Nor do I use vscode, but sublime text, for the same reasons: too much telemetry that cant be disabled permanently.
This makes sense, but in this case I'd guess that from economical point of view Medium is tied to author more than GitHub is (provided author does not pay either of them directly): I assume Medium is receiving some revenue that could be quite clearly derived from concrete article (author's work, i.e. value that in this hypothetical case originates from work of OFAC-sanctioned entity). In GitHub case I see no such clear money/value flow.
This is where effective anti-trust enforcement is important and valuable.

Until we come up with better trusted federation protocols there will be natural monopolies, but that doesn't mean they get unchecked power. We have laws for that.
and spain
Bitcoin is fundamentally not a cash alternative. Which means definitionally the alternative to holding onto $100 BTC is NOT holding onto $100 cash. In fact cash is intentionally inflationary and BTC is intentionally deflationary (over long enough time scales) so yeah, you'd win your silly bet if there's no major crash. Doesn't mean you'll come out ahead of other strategies.
You quarantine at home.
Yeah this is good for cells in a blood stream, not humans. Also humans interact with other humans unevenly: you see your family and coworkers more often and for more time than a random barista. Except the barista where you always get your coffee on your lunch break. And then you have social mavens who interact with loads of people. If you work in an office with 15 other people, your social circle is likely on the order of like 100-200 people. If you do public speaking for a living, your social circle is in the thousands. Would be better to simulate it that way.
"It's been done before" is not an argument.
Yes ... it used the current percentage of those who get it and require hospital stays and those who need the IC along with the average number of days that they stay. Unfortunately, 70% of our capacity was full before the Coronavirus arrived so there's simply not that much capacity.
For me, getting dark rear tint alleviated this problem to a high degree.
It is close to happening in El Salvador
I'm just starting to look into robotic lawn mower as a project. Do you have any recommended reading?
What happens when two different hosts merge at the same time?

...I guess that's what the blockchain is for - to mediate conflicts. Feels gross to me, though.
Intermittently 404.
Regarding immunity, there is evidence that such immunity (if it exists) is short-lived, and after a little while recovered individuals are susceptible to being infected again.
There's costs to refine (requiring lots of energy input) and to transport the gas, too.
Are you scared that others will also get money, just like you? Any noble status to lose or something??

What is this comment? I seriously don't get it. Government money is money by the people for the people.
Also, to add, TCP Syn Cookies, if any.
As far as I know, SSH over SSM doesn't do anything regarding user management. It just establishes an SSH connection. Management of users on the host, authorized SSH keys, etc. is totally out of scope for SSM.

So if you already have access control setup on your host, then SSM doesn't do anything to undermine it. If you don't have it, you'll still need to add it.
It should be noted that anybody coming into Canada now from a foreign country, no matter their citizenship, is being told to self-quarantine for 14 days.

This isn't mandatory or enforced (yet) but it's not exactly a red carpet for folks to come visit for tourism or business meetings.
Just so long as it doesn't involve touching public objects with your hands. Playgrounds, gyms, maybe even outdoor rock climbing are out.
Thanks for sharing. I'm a sucker for anything advancing causal reasoning amongst technical folks :)
That's not what he said. He didn't say, "give everyone $1000 towards their rent or mortgage". He said, temporarily suspend all rent and mortgage payments. As in, nobody pays any of it. Recurring expenses are what's going to destroy the economy so thoroughly that the great depression will look like a minor downtown. If nobody gets kicked out because they can't pay rent, or their mortgage, or the lease on their business, things might actually be able to resume once there's a handle on this.
Unless the lockdowns are extremely effective, a large part of those who will get sick will already have been and thus immune. They can also be extended beyond April 7th.
I'm very happy to expand on my thought process. By "epi Twitter" I mean specifically experts I follow, over a wide range of specialties including disaster preparedness, epidemiology, public health, and related topics. These are among the best people in the field, and are kind enough to share with each other and the rest of us their expertise and thoughts through Twitter. It is awe-inspiring to see.

At the same time on Twitter, and at much higher volume, is a torrent of bullshit, with apparently some seeding from active disinformation sources. I try to be very careful to filter this out, though it's not always easy (I find my curation much more effective on desktop web than mobile).

Public health sources are sometimes wrong. For example, Ohio's chief public health doctor put out an estimate of 100k cases on 3/12, propagated through official channels including a tweet from the Governor [1], and which #epi Twitter very quickly criticized. Work out for yourself which to trust; among other things, with the CFR we're seeing, if the public health official is right we'd be seeing approximately 1k excess deaths in OH, with a timeframe that would certainly have started emerging by now.

This particular thing (ibuprofen) is in the category of "emerging research which could be very important if and when it checks out."

So basically I'm trying to be very careful to vet the information I transmit. The pipeline from that to actionable advice can sometimes be infuriatingly slow, which no doubt explains why certain things (especially with an easy-to-understand narrative) jump the queue. I will definitely put this in my resource list as soon as I see trustworthy confirmation. And I am confident that if it actually was valid and important, at least one of the experts I follow would have mentioned it by now.

[1]: https://twitter.com/GovMikeDeWine/status/1238177953126604801
Getting storage engines ready for fast storage devices
You may want to stop waving that "Whatever care I need, whenever I need it" flag.

The average wait time from a GP's referral to seeing a specialist in Canada was 8.7 weeks in 2018. Meanwhile, this USA-an doesn't need a referral to see a specialist. I can just pick up the phone and make an appointment.

"Specialist physicians surveyed report a median waiting time of 19.8 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment"

That goes up to almost a year (45.1 weeks) to wait in New Brunswick for treatment.

Source: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wa...
There is also the tiny peak in Minnesota which is only accessible by boat or Canadian road.
Let new ventures find you instead.

Take some time to refresh your mind. After grinding your idea for four years you most likely lost some experience in other fields.

Have fun, read fiction books. When you'll find a new idea, you most likely neglect this parts of the life again for several yers. Good luck!
I thought Gen-x are what's between millennials and boomers
Many people recommend against seeing the corners of your vehicle in your side mirrors at all. The argument goes: Those are for seeing your blind spots, not for seeing behind you, and moving them way out will dramatically reduce your blind spot. Use the rear view mirror for, you know, the rear view.

It's taken me a long time to get used to, but it seems to work. I had to break myself of the habit of using just the side view mirror for changing lanes, to ensure there is no fast moving traffic overtaking. The biggest problem there is if someone is close up on you, like in stop and go. But I can lean over a bit to adjust the side angle then or when backing into parking.

https://www.cartalk.com/content/avoiding-blind-spot-5
A test for $1 can be afforded by anyone.
This is the curse of globalist behemoths. Small companies is where it's at. Localism.
We are royally screwed if this thing hasn't played out by June.
Partner up with somebody :)
Vote and rank systems are fairly crude. Delight often takes precedence over depth, it's why you don't see academic papers or open access books on the front page often...

I'm open to more nuanced and sophisticated rules, I've even built a few systems and tried to gain traction. However the crude single vote implements seem to be the only ones with staying power.

I dunno, every day is a new context we could simply try again. Things can fail a dozen times and then something changes and makes it work. (For instance, on demand video, or YouTube, only took off when people had broadband and speedy enough computers to watch the video, it was probably the 20th company that tried this idea and the first to not eat shit)
Uh, does "I can get whatever care I need, whenever I need it, for free" work for you?

As a Canadian, I can agree with the "free" part, but not the other two. There are things that aren't covered and if you're not dying, the wait can be long.
If you won't lose your job over it, this is something to push the line on. Maybe just work from home anyway; we're talking about your basic health. Worst case, use PTO if you have it.
While I appreciate what you're going for, this wouldn't fly for countries imposing sanctions and the next immediate question from said countries to the repos would be "so how do you plan to stop this replication or penalize persons engaging in it?"

Sanctions aren't really logical when you get down to it -- at face value they're supposed to put a specific stress to either motivate a population for change or impact the bottom line of targets enough to frustrate them into cooperation.

In reality, the targets of sanctions typically are not affected, and those who are affected lack the ability to make meaningful change in the near future or even an extended future.

Basically, even if you do something like this and replicate using a system outside of the intended mechanism, the sanction-ers' response is simply "why aren't you just banning them?"

Call me cynical, but if the cost is bad publicity vs favor with the US government, it's not hard to see why a given company would choose favor.

(I don't condone this, but I've lived in Russia for 6-ish years now as an ex-patriate -- it's...pretty clear that the sanctions affect no one they're intended to, and it's not like Russians haven't tried to change the status quo (they really have). But really, nothing has changed since the sanctions were imposed except a readjustment of prices and salaries)
What makes sense about relying on the "largest possible" variant of anything, when you can make small and portable ones, and bring them with you anywhere you need them?
From the FDA itself. Note how firm they are in regards to a positive, vs how cautious they are in regards to a negative. If you have COVID-19 RNA in your body...you have the virus.

What does it mean if the specimen tests positive for the virus that causes COVID-19? A positive test result for COVID-19 indicates that RNA from SARS-CoV-2 was detected, and the patient is infected with the virus and presumed to be contagious

What does it mean if the specimen tests negative for the virus that causes COVID-19? A negative test result for this test means that SARSCoV-2 RNA was not present in the specimen above the limit of detection. However, a negative result does not rule out COVID-19 and should not be used as the sole basis for treatment or patient management decisions. A negative result does not exclude the possibility of COVID-19.

https://www.fda.gov/media/135662/download
It takes you 5 min to learn how to put on and take off a n95 mask correctly. Even if you do it wrong you are still protecting other people against your potential infection.
Can you explain why I should think otherwise? I'm genuinely curious.

Others have made the case far better than I could here. I wasn't actually trying to argue for or against it, just noting that 1) social perception of "freeloaders" is indeed a barrier to acceptance of UBI (as you succinctly demonstrate); but 2) relatively small shifts in perception could open a path for it, anyway.
There's one of those in Washington too.
How so ? Care to elaborate ?
Closed shouldn't be a problem, every Quest can be developed on and sideloaded to.
Chrome is pushing version 80, I'm not sure why that website is using a version from seven years ago…
I can't change anything about that. I need to pick my battles. I am doing my part exactly as I should, now the politicians need to do theirs. These things are already unlawful - what can I do to fix it? The administration nor the justice is an elected body.
What if businesses realize that they can do without a lot of business travel? Won't that have a permanent impact on airlines at least?
I'd say "will still be active". Look at MERS, SARS, H1N1, ..., active for much longer than I'd imagined; AFAICT in those cases the crises left the news long before they stopped being a widescale medical issue that needed special interventions.

MERS peaked in 2014 (and 2015, 2016, ...), but there are still cases.
There are, but they are not widely used.