skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think our main contention is that you seem to be operating from a perspective in which you ASSUME, and therefore act, everyone wants their data/information to be gathered, so you use the most linear approach to said goal: in this case, weight. When it was was clearly stated that some people felt uncomfortable divulging that information when asked.

Whereas I'm coming form a position in which a middle ground can be met by all participants given the parameters; gathering what is deemed 'useful information' while understanding that it can and has been misused continuously to create a vastly dystopic industry that relies on such practices.

So to counteract said potential problem do so with the least amount of identifiable variables in the equation and have privacy an absolute.

Again, you can discount the need for privacy all you want; the FAANG types usually do and make billions from it: that's the playbook until you're sitting a testimony in front of congress (mainly for theatrics) and another billion dollar fine for misuse of private information.

> Use blockchain to solve problems that have requirements around the value it provides.

Agreed, which is why I referenced the voting usecase and how that would be a more apt use of this solution.

To put this into context, I think of your argument as: Why are you asking for these silly seatbelts and these overly complicated airbag balloons into this design, we were just asked for a box with 4 wheels!
Tl:dr also take over the economy and conscript people to make hospital beds
So Weird, reading your comment reminded me of how this is similar to how the immune system of an infected host can react with such ferocity that it kills the host. Like a Cytokine storm or a persistently high fever.

Imagine if our reaction to this disease, to prevent human death and suffering... will cause so much poverty, hardship, and social instability that the outcome is more human death and suffering, than if we had just let the virus run its course and had just gone about our daily lives accepting the losses.

I sure hope we are doing the right thing. Makes you wonder.
Github is not just git hosting. It's issues, pull requests, wikis, CI/CD, actions, etc. All of which are lock-in points that would prevent most people from leaving.

I'm not blaming Github for this, I'm just pointing out that this is a serious problem. Even if you're a 100% benevolent company today, there's no telling what will happen in the arbitrary future.
I wouldn’t necessarily think that Best Buy or Office Max were essential, but they seem to be exempted as essential because they sell equipment to enable working from home
You may be missing one of the more fundamental reason to rebalance your portfolio at predetermined points in time to a predetermined balance. That it takes emotion out of the equation. By rebalancing, say, every time you put money into your IRA, you're always "selling high and buying low" without the risk that you'll let emotion overturn a generally good investing strategy.

While you may actually be in a position to time the market, my understanding is that empirical evidence suggests that the vast majority would be better off not trying to time the market. And that people who mechanically follow rebalancing procedures will tend to outperform those who rebalance based on some kind of intuition or market calculation.
What if i'm walking or bicycling? I still don't want to be blinded.
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What about gig economy workers/contractors who don't get unemployment?
If you feel like we’re not overreacting, we’re underreacting.
I think you'd be best seeing how far you can get with your current laptops before upgrading. On the software front Reaper would be an excellent choice on Windows, very cheap and CPU efficient.

Cheap audio interfaces have come a very long way, I'd look at what's being sold second hand in your area. Something with a Hi-Z input if you're wanting to record your guitars directly though the interface.
History shows that whenever you ask "what kind of jackass would do this?", a number of such jackasses tend to present themselves.

Don't underestimate contrarianism and people's willingness to fight tooth and nail for what they believe in, no matter how ridiculous it may seem to you.
"Give me a break, the legal reason in the first column. To me obvious reason this is a 60 page PDF is because they hope people don't open it and discover that they are full of shit."

No, this is unreasonable, essentially false.

It's a very comprehensive recording of the specific issues relevant to all of the Google properties that they could find.

It's perfectly reasonable that there are 'empty columns', it's a table of data, not a 'communications document'. Data won't apply in many cases.

Far from being 'full of shit' - it's the complete opposite.

What the data demonstrates very specifically is that there are literally a thousand different places users are supposedly informed of their rights while being acquiesced, that it's all very opaque, that it's obviously not comprehensive for any person, and essentially hostile to reasonable user experience.
Send big checks to everyone who filed a tax form, give employers money conditional on not laying everyone off.
There are many institutional investors such as pension funds and insurance companies (whatever they call their holdings) that rely on returns from things like stocks.

Since they wouldn't be able to sell stocks, they would start selling everything else they've invested in.

Same would go for anyone else requiring cash.

Then everyone holding the other stuff that is liquid, will sell it because why hold onto a plummeting asset when the only reason to own it is the value?
If you think someone is mistaken, correct them. Personal attacks are neither polite nor likely to convince anyone.
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The article says expanding capacity has not been approached by any government but I am not sure that's true, in Italy they are building hospital wings or re-adapting abandoned hospitals in many places. Rome has 4 planned covid hospitals as of now.

Also, the Italian government plans to hire a ton of medical and paramedical staff, money has been earmarked.

I am quite sure other governments are doing the same.
Not sure about the legal validity here, but you can be sure somebody would find time and energy to take this to court. I don't think however, that any court would rule to swifty declare this illegal and then be deemed somewhat responsible for the consequences.
So this is 1-2 years out.
If you repost, please update here :)

Thanks for the detailed info--looking at doing this myself.
Yeah, sure. I know I'll be downvoted for this into oblivion, but hell, the collective stupidity of mankind really surpasses the probability of the universe being infinite.

Einstein was right :)

Just one small thing to consider: if even one person of google was a federal agent (of an offending country). Fill the missing parts of the sentence.

And yes, as much as I despise the EU in its current form, that's the intention of GDPR: to prevent spilling personal data into a pool of people with potentially malignant actors, and, if this happens, to be responsible to full disclosure.

@dantheman: I guess you still won't be considered to be hired by google for this post.
The government can compel you to take up arms and risk death on a battle field. I think you'll find the constitution is entirely up to the whims of the courts which makes it far less absolute than one imagines.
Given what we've already seen worldwide, it's irresponsible to say that. Especially since this has proven to be statistically much less fatal to younger ages, youthful hubris is dangerous. It might not kill you, but transmission is just as dangerous to older populations.
Total quarantine in Puerto Rico as well since 9pm on March 15th.
I mean, it's no secret that foreign banks absolutely did help Nazi Germany in many ways, including transacting assets seized from Jews in Germany. We also have no shortage of stories about large transaction companies like PayPal closing or freezing people's accounts due to unspecified (but apparently political) reasons.

I wouldn't say "GTFO" quite yet. Not without some more explanation for why you think it's so improbable.
Gig workers in California are hurting for other reasons: A lot of them can't adequately support themselves because of recent legislation impacting gig workers in California. This was true before we had a pandemic on our hands.
A lot of the companies won't survive.

A lot of the companies that do survive, will take a huge beating by the government, forcing them to be more resilient (to supply chain problems, short-term lack of labour, ...), reducing expected profits.

I 100% expect made in USA (or made locally for other countries) to be the selling point of both Trump and the Democratic candidate the next election. Most certainly after a shock like this.
So that's great, but there are a Billion people on Twitter, it's used universally worldwide, which is why they use it.

It 'won't work' for me because I hate twitter and don't use it, it 'won't work for you' because you use Mastodon, but that's fine, 'Twitter' is the ideal, broadly convenient choice.
Screen addiction and various dopamine hits from social media have produced a catastrophic collapse of various IRL social institutions that traditionally facilitated opportunities to meet new people.

The book "Bowling Alone" documented this collapse and was written between 1995-2000, well before the advent of smartphones and social media.

While I'm not convinced a technology solution is necessarily the right approach, what you're suggesting is straight up waldenponding.
Can we not infer from other nations, or is the US exceptional, precisely because of the kinds of people who want to bury their heads in the sand and not take action to make us exceptional, until it's too late?
I don't know we can count on that at this stage: https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...
Maybe not if they're seasonal, but if they're part-time or full-time hires, then yes.
You could take the absolute worst case scenario if you want, I guess, but every other peak in the history of world markets has come back faster than that... Besides, that's not even fair. Why are you assuming the parent is talking about holding stocks bought at the peak? The kind of people that hold their stocks for years tend to be the kind of people who don't buy at a peak. Long-termers tend to be more of the Buffett persuasion; he has said that he wouldn't care if the market completely closed for 10 years, because he buys businesses that grow in good times and bad, and he collects dividends in good times and bad. All the while the employees of the companies are spending their efforts in making his stock more valuable.
On top of those things you have, I spent about $300 on a condenser mic and preamp and about $150 on an audio interface.

I lack quality studio monitors or monitoring headphones with a flat response, they're kind of pricey, but necessary to make professional sounding music. Any speakers or headphones you play your tracks through will add their own sound that makes it difficult to mix or master properly. The tracks might sound great through the speakers or headphones you're using, but like garbage through other ones. With flat monitors, what you hear is only the sounds of your tracks.

For software I use the vast array of audio production tools on linux through kxstudio and elsewhere.

My workflow tends to be, hydrogen for drums, rosegarden patched through various plugins for midi, all routed into ardour alongside any audio input tracks. I'll usually record track by track. I use ardour to mix everything, then I take my mixed down track and master it using jamin.
Unfortunately that information isn't available due to the lack of testing.
Past Influenza Pandemics
One of my dads friends just went through the first set of rounds of Chemo for lymphoma. They are having trouble figuring out when he can do his second set.
9/11 happened during the dotcom crash, which likely had a much greater effect on the economy as a whole.
Someone who is prosecuted for violating this will fight it, as they will have the most firm standing.
Tell HN: Just keep building cool things
I don't know about you, but it feels like Coronavirus is becoming all-consuming. Between the anxiety caused by the shutdowns and panic buying around us, to direct fears of the virus and its potential impact on our health and population, to refreshing the John Hopkins map or reading the myriad of articles on HN or Reddit about it, to watching your stocks/savings plummet - it's easy to get caught up in it.

The truth is, beyond sharing the most poignant articles with our friends and encouraging (and practicing) self-isolation, we can't really do anything about it directly (unless you're in healthcare, obviously). That's not meant to be defeatist, but recognize that this situation isn't asking for much of you or me - just minimize/eliminate public outings, and wash your hands.

So what can we do? JUST KEEP BUILDING STUFF!

While we're all quarantined at home anyway, stop scrolling through all the fear mongering and just get back to writing code. Finish that side project, launch that blog, learn something new. Focus on what you can do.

And, some of that might even turn into something bigger after the chaos settles - a better job from the exposure or new learnings, a startup that buds from a side project, a promotion at work from what you shipped in the meantime. All of which are good for you, _and_ good for a recovering economy that will be in dire need of any help it can get over the next little while.

We as developers/designers/hustlers/hackers/whatever-you-call-yourself-in-tech are incredibly fortunate that we can be hugely productive while isolated at home. We don't (usually) need to go into a special facility needing expensive equipment or support staff or infrastructure to work. We can produce a ton of value from nothing but some gibberish written on a screen and connections made online.

Take advantage of that: it'll be less excruciating and anxiety-inducing than following the media frenzy on this.
This stuff drives me crazy. I know the author of this (and of the linked Washington Post article) are trying to help people gain clarity, but it worries me that it only serves to accelerate fear and panic.

These articles are making it sound as if the exponential part of the curve will just continue on forever until it consumes the whole population. The (self-admittedly) overly simplified simulations aren't helping either.

Front this article >

And here's the kicker: even if we manage to "flatten the curve" enough to meaningfully space out the case load, we're still positioned to lose millions and millions of lives.

From the WaPo article >

This so-called exponential curve has experts worried. If the number of cases were to continue to double every three days, there would be about a hundred million cases in the United States by May.

Still, without any measures to slow it down, covid-19 will continue to spread exponentially for months. To understand why, it is instructive to simulate the spread of a fake disease through a population.

It will continue to spread exponentially for months!? Millions & millions of cases & or deaths? These are really sloppy and dangerous ideas to put in peoples head. They are just plain wrong, and not how pandemics play out in reality.

Here is what the CDC says about how pandemics spread (Under the 'COVID-19 Now a Pandemic' heading) https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/summ...

Pandemics of respiratory disease follow a certain progression outlined in a “Pandemic Intervals Framework.” Pandemics begin with an investigation phase, followed by recognition, initiation, and acceleration phases. The peak of illnesses occurs at the end of the acceleration phase, which is followed by a deceleration phase, during which there is a decrease in illnesses. Different countries can be in different phases of the pandemic at any point in time and different parts of the same country can also be in different phases of a pandemic.

Different parts of the country are seeing different levels of COVID-19 activity. The United States nationally is currently in the initiation phases, but states where community spread is occurring are in the acceleration phase. The duration and severity of each phase can vary depending on the characteristics of the virus and the public health response.

So no, it will NOT continue exponentially for months. Especially given the amount of isolation/ quarantine measures and canceling of large events taking place. I think it is reasonable to expect these measures will help us progress through to the deceleration phase faster.

Further-more, there is more and more evidence coming out suggesting the in China where it started, they have already entered the deceleration phase. This should be encouraging news for us in USA where it is just beginning.

https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/newsfeed/2020/03/big-dr...
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You are completely right! US will sacrifice big comparing to China that we laugh about.
Upvote. Let's support our small businesses!
I find the statement "the rest of the world makes fun of Americans for" to be a bit disingenuous. For one thing, the world is a very big place, and the alleged people making fun of the U.S. are no doubt a part of a certain demographic, who's views align with a certain demographic within the United States. That demographic is one of many demographics in both the US and elsewhere, and thus, it feels very intellectually dishonest to generalize that an entire world population of 8Billion+ "makes fun" of any one thing.

A better statement would be: "... that the rest of the [insert demographic] of the World make fun of Americans for"
People don't care though, because they can make their own choices but they're clearly still sharing and reading on medium. You're asking for HN to arbitrarily enforce your wishes on top of what users are doing.
I think this is a very important area with applications to legal issues; in the computer systems domain, a close application I can think of is troubleshooting / root-cause analysis.

In legal situations and troubleshooting alike, one is often interested not in the "general" causes of why things happen (e.g., an increase in load will contribute an increase in latency), but causes that explain specific cases (e.g., the increase in latency on this incident was because of an increase in file system latency at the backend.)

These concepts are quite interesting; one linked article discusses many variations and refinements in detail: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-law/. I found these useful mental models to organize my thoughts when troubleshooting systems and doing root-cause analysis:

- But-for cause: We can say that A is the actual cause of B when the following holds: If not for A, not B. To avoid pathologies like "If not for big bang, this B wouldn't have happened", we have ...

- Proximal cause: In the causal chain of explanations: If not for A1, not A2; if not for A2, not A3, ..., the proximal cause of A(k) is the closest, i.e., A(k-1).

- Necessary element of a sufficient set (NESS criterion): Things get interesting here if we need a conjunction of many events to happen simultaneously for a desired effect. For simplicity, assume that events are boolean, and causal relationships can be defined using boolean formulae. Here, A is a cause of B in the NESS sense, when B = (A and C1) OR (C2 and C3) OR ... A here is "necessary" in the sufficient set {A, C1} for B to happen.
Monday S&P 500 down 11% - doesn't look done yet
I don't plan on selling, but if things don't get better in a couple weeks, I'll be doing some tax loss harvesting by selling some VT and VTI and buying VOO or the equivalent.
Is not bad to sell, the problem with most people selling is they won’t get back in till things go way up, trying to time the bottom and missing the run waiting for it to come back angry that they missed the gains.
Bitcoin needs a highly reliable network to work properly. Without block propagation, you cannot do anything with it.

Thinking that there would be a network when even the slightest disruption to civilization happens is simply naïve. The internet would probably be the first thing to go. Even before electric cars.
> If the economy doesn't recover soon, people are going to grow increasingly hungry and desperate without radical federal measures.

This might not entirely be a bad thing [1]. Things will need to get worse so they can get better.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal
Debugging and replacing is far more time consuming and costly, both in hardware money and engineer money.
I don’t know that this even fits the simple 5 why questions of root cause analysis. I’m not savvy enough to understand the financial underpinnings of the economy but this sounds like we just stopped at the first “why”, meaning it’s more likely a proximate cause. Removing a proximate cause may just mean another precipitating event could have led to a similar outcome eventually
That's what they did in Italy and Spain, wait "to see if it's really bad" and then get hit full force with no preparation.

I'm very impressed that some countries think they're above others.
I noticed my Amazon orders earlier today were scheduled way out(I've been practically next day on everything Amazon Prime recently) and it didn't even occur to me that it was tied the panic buying.
Armchair civil libertarians pontificating about whether or not it is technically legal are doing nothing other than distracting. I want and need the full force of the government in a time like this to see us through this, as do a lot of people. Right now we are seeing a severe under-reaction. At this moment to argue about whether or not the government can do something it should do for the greater good doesn’t help us.
I agree, this is an over-reaction, but good luck saying that on HN without inciting an angry mob. People are at peak panic mode right now, and it shows.

I just want to remind everyone that H1N1 in 2009 killed between 150-600k people worldwide. Between 10 and 20% of the world population caught it at some point. The fatality rate was greater than Covid-19.

And yet, we got through it without panicking. People don't even give it a second thought today, and it was just 10 years ago.
This is similar to the Twitter/Facebook problem. Yes, they're not true monopolies, no one is forcing you to use Facebook. You can use whatever geeky federated project is in vogue, and talk to the three other people who also use it.

But if you want to talk to your grandparents, you need to use Facebook.
Both actually.
In the interest of hijacking this into a productive discussion: Does anyone know if it's possible to use BTC ASICs for anything else? It's just a lot of sha256 hardware, right? Can we use it for arbitrary checksumming?
The issue is not prediction, is expectation. The market moves on expected outcomes, not on reality. The reality may change down the road, but the expectation is to go down a lot more.
We should all be very happy this is finally happening, even if it is a huge inconvenience.

The important thing to remember is that society definitely will return to normal. It's just a matter of time.

The math tells us that ~95% people will get through this with a week or two of downtime, rendering them immunized against this virus, and then they'll be right back to work.

These extreme measures are to ensure as many people as possible survive hospitalization. We're all saving lives by staying home.
Lots of big tech firms are government contractors, and as we've seen most of them are unwilling to drop government contracts (ICE, DARPA, etc). So this problem would arise with almost any large benefactor. I would've liked to see GitHub drop ICE though, personally.