skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A subsidized loan will also put cash in their pocket, will do so more efficiently because it should only be taken out by those who need it to the extent needed. A 1000$ for the people who don't need it is basically a luxury gift in hard times.
I notice they don't mention that lawyers may be advising closure to reduce liability.
[citation needed]

That reallllllllllly depends on how we respond as a society in the coming weeks...
Dark rear tint won't help against being blinded by oncoming traffic on the other side of the street.

I'm usually driving a minivan. It's high enough that getting blinded from the rear isn't a huge issue. But I get blinded from the front -- much worse! -- all the time.
Yep, I dared the man to tell during an MS event in Vancouver in 2010 to tell when they will dump it.

The auditorium exploded in laughing.

3-4 years down the line, that "biggest thing since sliced bread in development for Windows, and WinMo" got quietly swept under the carpet.

And even after that, they tried to spin 3 or more "trendy Javascript platforms" to no avail.

So now they have 6, possibly 7 defunct Javascript platforms for Windows whose very fact of existence completely discredits them in eyes of developers.

P.S. He forgot to mention Windows script hosts!
I use Paddle for https://www.checkbot.io/. The major reason I chose them over Stripe is Paddle deal with country specific tax laws for you (like complicated EU VAT). Paddle take a bigger transaction fee though.
YouTube warns of increased video removals during Covid-19 crisis
As coronavirus spreads, 6 Bay Area counties will be ordered to shelter in place
That's not how economies of scale work in a price crunch. This will drive further consolidation of mining power since the largest players are the most efficient. It's the smaller indie miners that will be forced out.

When margins are squeezed only the largest vertically integrated players survive.
In LA, it is around 6-7 days. I placed some orders, "earliest delivery" is saturday. My other orders are still in transit...
Where do you get the idea that the worst case scenario is similar to the number of deaths from smoking? If half the US population gets the virus and 1% die, that' 1.5 million deaths. But if half the population gets the virus all at almost the same time, hospitals run out of ventilators, and maybe it will be 5% deaths. That's 7.5 million deaths.
And those digital units are not only "legit" sounding, but also much more flexible and hassle-free. Lighter, with instant preset recall, different input/output routing.

I love this tech, really, and the fact that it brings people closer to making music.
Yes, it should be $10-15k, enough to get over the projected 150 day infection cycle.
I have bunch of questions that stop me from deploying SSM into real world production scenarios.

1) Is logging for access from CLI finally supported?

2) Can I setup which shell is used?

3) Are logs readable when I switch to something else than sh?

4) Is U2F supported (awscli question)

Once all of these are fixed, then it can be possible to claim that SSM solves these issues. Otherwise it’s nothing more than for adhoc usage.
I have also been looking for an alternative. In my case I often incorporate Stripe for clients projects. Would love a solution which offers a referral commission...
Ok, everyone seems to be beating up on Microsoft per the top comment here.

I have a counter point -

Does anyone ever think what would happen if Microsoft were to disappear tomorrow? How would you get your drivers license? How would you process your mortgage? How would you go about buying tickets for anything? How would you get your groceries and food?

Are we expecting everyone to run Linux? Or shall we say, Ubuntu? Or was it Mint? Can we decide on a specific desktop OS? Can we? Can we pick up a USB wifi dongle or connect a printer and expect it to work? Are you frikkin kidding me? We'd be running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

Get over it, all of you. Frikkin grow up. We've had the thirty years since Linux came on the scene. And what have we done? You'll say - "we've got the server market". Sure. And what is that? Ubuntu, right? Give me a break. If it wasn't for Mark Shuttleworth, even that wouldn't have been there.

We want to be kids. We want to play with our toys in our corner of the room throughout our lives and we want others to clothe and feed us for free. That's what we want. We want to share, but don't want others to make money off it. And what happens? A big corporate comes around giving everything away for free, and we all grab it with both our hands. And 15 years later, we cry that the corporate has gone evil.

We keep complaining about Microsoft on Hacker News, typing on Apples and iPhones and Androids. Are you all delusional? Are you all blind? There is NOTHING free in this world, including lunches.

People pay for things that will work together seamlessly, that takes the least effort to work with. Why? Because software, programs, operating systems are not the end of the world, life is. There are more important things in life that tabs or spaces, or carriage returns and line feeds.

And the only way that can happen, when someone says I'll give $X for Y and you give him Y, rather than twiddling around with Z.

I've had battles with Microsoft by way of IE. I've also battled with Linux. Major battles. But the battles I've had with Microsoft, I got paid for. The battles with Linux? Well, maybe I got music playing on my laptop. Only on mine, mind you!

I think it's time we admitted to ourselves, that we can't decide on anything collectively. I think it's time we stopped being cranky, demanding, tantrum throwing children. We'll all die soon and everyone will be paying for software as a service and we'll all be old farts talking about the good old days, when we could download a program, modify it and run it only on our system.

I'm tired of all your hangups. Holding on to decade old grudges. Dreaming about the glorious future of software that just might have existed if everyone had just the same idea as you.

Grow up, open your eyes, get a life. Stop being so self-centered and churlish. Stop trying to see flaws everywhere except yourself. Stop trying to complain about open source everywhere and see that all kinds of software need to exist.

Go out. Do good for someone. Get paid for it. Come back home. Enjoy dinner with your family. Get a good night's sleep.
Xbox Series X eschews storage standards for proprietary expansion “card”
I can swear I saw they will be offering multi-node commercially soon. I can't find it now, apart from their cloud offering at

https://materialize.io/download/
Most NYC landlords have agreed to a 90-day hold on all evictions. So... about 90 days I guess.
Chloroquine: An Effective Treatment for Coronavirus
This trope is getting old. Wait times are long for things like hip and knee replacements. Barring a global pandemic, you are getting in ASAP if you are in critical condition. There are without a doubt cases that slip through the cracks, and everyone agrees, especially healthcare workers, that more can be done there. People are not dying in waiting rooms because they weren't seen in time after a stroke, that's a myth.
I don't see how they fail in such things. I know I have been in a cargo van that was hauling motorcycles in the back of it, so I don't really see how that's an issue either.
And from https://plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/conversational/use-must... :

Before: "The applicant shall be notified by registered mail in all cases where the permit applied for is not granted, and shall be given 30 days within which to appeal such decision."

After: "We will notify you by registered mail if we reject your application. You must file an appeal of that decision within 30 days."

That changes the meaning to make it sound like appeal is mandatory. It should be something like "If you choose to appeal that decision, you must file your appeal within 30 days."
Re: pronouns.

They suggest the use of "you", but I feel pretty good about using "we" in its place quite often.

For example: "we can now see that x is in fact greater than 10" sounds a lot less demanding than "you can now see ...".

I, the author, am also a reader.
I would say in most major cities on the west coast it doesn't get much attention at all. Theft as a crime is generally something the police will never get involved in - this is why you should always have insurance for valuables.

When I had my car stolen in Seattle - it was still given parking tickets after being reported stolen a few days prior. I had to visit the city council in person to get them written off. On top of that, the only reason it was only found was because the thieves made a bunch of noise when getting out of the car and abandoning it. So, a lady reported the car to the police for it being a nuisance. Cranky people - sometimes good for something...
As a British citizen and now also a Canadian citizen I can confirm that we don't get any special treatment and rightly so.
One broken down into smaller companies through antitrust rules.
Romney proposes giving $1K to every US adult amid coronavirus
I hope they're finding ways to help keep them safe in the process. It would be a huge benefit for people to be able to order things online, but not if the warehouses themselves become cesspools of transmission.
This is really interesting and deserves a read. Modelling for both the US and UK.

Unmitigated fatalities (no intervention) would be 0.5 million in the UK or 2.2 million in the US over just a few months.
>This is pretty common everywhere across the developed world

How much does a trip to the ER in an ambulance cost the patient in those countries?
It's quite humorous to see a picture focusing on a Microsoft engineer clearly holding up a 13", non-touchbar, MacBook Pro next to the heading "The Future of Windows Development" ;)
MFC and WTL. The latter still exists in a way, but its license may not be to your liking.
This assumes that every bitcoin ever mined stays in circulation. We know this isn't true. We know that millions of dollars of bitcoin have gone missing, never to be recovered. And if Bitcoin is the real deal (it probably isn't) then we've only just started. If this thing hangs around for decades or even centuries we will see trillions more go missing.
As someone who used to make a bunch of WPF apps, and hated the framework from day one almost 15 years ago (it was a half-baked, over-/underdesigned mess that felt dated on release day, and was never updated to take advantage of newer C# language features), did things ever improve with Metro or UWP?

At least they got rid of that buggy crash-prone Blend designer (that wasn't truly WYSIWYG) and the idea of using DI for design-time data instead of just doing hot-reloading during runtime (which I believe they finally embraced, after AmmyUI showed the way).
As a .NET dev I've settled on WPF. Win32 is too low-level, and might have problems with high DPI support.
I'm not sure how this would contradict what I wrote, I totally agree that the observation of the patients is the one thing where you can't really speed things up much. It's inherently serial, no matter how much money and manpower you shove at it, but I don't see how this is true of many of the other stages mentioned upthread. Do you?

I wonder if the downvoters fully understand that Covid-19 is a big deal. If we don't manage to eradicate it and it becomes as common as the (various strains of) cold, we will likely take a big hit to global life expectancy. It may also evolve to become more virulent and we may yet discover various unpleasant things about it. Even if it stays exactly as it is now and we just let it run it's course and get 70-80% of world population infected, before eradicating it in say two years time with a vaccine, we will eat a huge, multi-year dip in life expectancy in the developed world.

And clearly, we are not accelerating this yet in ways that are completely safe (e.g. would we have more and better volunteers faster and more regularly if we paid them more than $100 for each visit?).
Most low-income people pay 0 federal income tax already
True, but he wasn't president, nor running for it.
Safeway is also hiring in a big way.
This probably isn't the bottom. Wait a little while longer and when things start picking back up, dump in as much as you can afford.
It's a pretty detailed account on how it happened
Yes, for government services I agree, they should be paid for with taxes and we should have some semblance of a balanced budget.

QE is different though, the Fed already has mechanisms in place to decide "how much" and is already printing money not paid for by taxes. Part of the goal of QE is actually to devalue the nation's currency in order to increase exports. The question is just how to best inject this printed money into the nation's economy.

In one way, QE is an extremely efficient (and very difficult to evade) wealth tax applied proportionally and instantly to any entity that holds USD. It would be very hard to pull that off with traditional taxes.
From what I heard (5th hand info) in China, most of the restaurant workers went to work for eCommerce and food delivery jobs.
This probably means, in practical terms, to obey a police officer's request to go home unless you know you are doing something important.
I really don't quite get this nihilistic look at social media. Yeah, it can be very annoying and it has plenty of downsides. But it also provides plenty of information sources, often good ones, lets you connect to people easier. And no, I don't mean the superficial connection, I mean getting to know someone, exploring their interests and hobbies, meeting up in real life, etc.

While I don't get the appeal of sites like Foursquare or apps like Snapchat, I think the real problem with social media is data harvesting. The rest - the social aspects which many find vapid - are totally fine in moderation. It's just that people, as always, took an idea to the extreme and corrupted it.

Even Hacker News has the bones of social media but, thanks to proper moderation and good etiquette, it's not as divisive as most sites.
> we don't want to redirect them to another website

As a security consultant and user, I would prefer actually seeing whoever processes my data for a few reasons:

- I know who gets my data; it is not sent to them in the background and one can only find out through legalese (if at all, since "a payment processor" is all you're legally obliged to say)

- Payment data processed by a third party is likely more secure than an average-sized web shop (even if you just proxy it, a hack can impact that but it couldn't impact paypal's security without messing with the URL, which the user could observe (and if you say "but you're a security dude" yeah, but I also teach others to do the same and I've seen companies train their users on the concept of a domain followed by a slash, it isn't hard))

- I know what many of those companies' security reputation is

- And I may know the general reputation of the company, e.g. PayPal has a rich history of issues with both merchants and users so I would rather go back and choose another option if possible
There’s some interesting modelling on measures like this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22596594
>But then you have to program in C++ or JavaScript

qt now also supports python as a first class citizen (https://www.qt.io/qt-for-python). The documentation is still a little bit lackluster but it largely mirrors the c++ api.

I've written a few smallish projects with it and it's been a breeze.
Sure. But that doesn't answer the question.
Lights can become higher at the same bumper height when grilles become taller, as is happening with a lot of pickups and SUVs.
Good advice! Just time the market.
I mean, here in Brooklyn you literally cannot order AmazonFresh. No delivery slots no matter how far in the future you scroll. And it's been this way for at least a couple of days now.

So makes sense.
The second order annuls the first order.

Daycare will be closed--we know why.
Curfew will be imposed.
People need to prepare for 2 months of lock-down (two weeks didn't work anywhere)
Virtually everything will stop, no one will risk their life (food, pharma and essentials obviously will go on)
Most of Europe has suspended all domestic flights.

Why do you think this stupid? Why would the same not be necessary in a country of 300m people?

You're not visiting anyone outside of your state in April. Start being calm about it now.
For example Canada had first case in January, and 2 months later is only up to ~500 confirmed cases.

My niece and great nephews in Victoria, BC just turned up with symptoms for COVID. They were told to self-quarantine and were not tested.

You cannot believe the numbers from any country which does not have a robust testing regime. That emphatically includes Canada along with the USA.
So, the uk approach? Let god sort them out?
Yeah, and the PSF is worried that the possible cancellation of PyCon could send the whole foundation broke.

The fact that there's a bunch of critical infra run on a precarious volunteer shoestring is not a good thing.
But whose data was gathered and mined for the purposes of its development.
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To further reinforce this point: The DJIA closed ~13% down today, March 16th, the largest ever fall on record. 8 of the top 10 losses are all within the last 30 days.

To note here though, 4 of the top 10 largest gains on record have also occurred in this timespan too.

Still, per the wikipedia article's point, the last 7 days has been VERY bad for the DJIA. There is no sugarcoating this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_daily_changes_...
From the FAQ that was just posted: "Businesses that ship or deliver groceries, food, goods or services directly to residences" are an essential service and can continue operating.
Or why not appropriately tax them, especially the ultra high income ones who sneak out of paying with dodgy capital gains and shell company plots, then use that money to give appropriate stimulus?
I believe this is primarily a narrative that was invented to prevent a temporary shortage of masks for health care workers. This may be a noble cause, but it's still a lie. Surgical masks reduce the probability of infecting others if you have it (maybe without knowing), and correctly used N95 masks drastically reduce the risk of getting infected.

There is a reason why South Korea officially distributes masks to the public. Everybody in China and Japan wears masks, too.
https://www.de-cix.net/en/locations/germany/frankfurt/statis...
I see no reason to use this proprietary Win10-only Microsoft framework instead of HTML + JS + Electron.
Global oil use heads for steepest annual contraction
> cars. In most European countries a car is not absolutely vital

you're talking about cities, in rural places, europe is not different than the US.
Covid-19 Global Chart
And I think this is likely to be a limiting factor in more cases. If anyone reading this has good channels to companies, organizations or individuals to pitch this idea to, please do.
" If it accurately describes the situation and enables you to think about it and get ideas by transferring what we know about other markets/interactions etc, isn't that better than putting human interaction, mental health etc into a corner of "this is so special that we must not think about it in trivial terms"?"

Consider the following:
It doesn't accurately describe the situation and that is what people are arguing.
I wouldn't care to risk retirement funds until the scope of the virus is better defined.
If I understand this properly (and perhaps I don't) then many PC games run just fine on 8GB, possibly since the GPU has the textures and whatnot offloaded to it. Not many games would need much more than 8GB pure game process data in memory at once. Furthermore the bottleneck of games performance is rarely the amount of RAM, so performance went elsewhere.
> How much is too much and how little is being plainly emotionally irresponsible?

Don't have a definitive answer to this one, but perhaps callously I would say care more about the feelings of people who already reciprocates your attention. You are under no obligation to care about the feelings of people who don't care about yours. So when you are just starting out trying to make friends with someone, don't worry about their feelings at all, but you should feel more responsibility after you have established a trust relationship.

> How would you manage trying too much?

Just experience, even if you mess up a few times and come across as trying too hard it's ok. Really not the end of the world, people perceive that embarrassment to be more important than it is. Most people should like your effort, and for those that don't you can adjust. Sometimes those people even end up missing your effort when you stop trying.

> How about people that engage in social activities everyday and the social anxiety is always there?

It's possible that person did it too late? I know the mind is less malleable as we get into our 20s, training to operate fluently in society is typically done in middle school. I'm not a neuroscientist so I can't say with any authority, but the effort->effortless might not apply to people who start the process later in life.

> Even if you had such a device, would you be able to interpret what you read from someone else's mind?

I spend enough time thinking about my own feelings and understanding them that I think I would recognize the same in other people. I don't think other people have uniquely complex emotions and perspectives that I never experienced, but if I got a device I would probably be even more of an expert at recognizing other people's emotions. Sort of like how babies these days grow up with ipads and are more digital natives, if this device actually exists the next generation would be emotion-reading natives.

Hope my reply was useful.
Around $10 million per life seems to be the number used in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life#United_States
Their answer to cross-platform is react-native. react-native-windows is built on top of this.

They've also have been the ones leading the effort to add MacOS support to react-native.
> A lot of these things are low-key stigmatized in some sub-cultures.

I would actually go further and say that it is high-key stigmatized. My take on this is it has a lot to do with how individualistic & market-oriented American culture (and to an extent 'western' culture) is. I spent the formative part of my youth both in a highly individualistic culture and a more communal culture and while both have their pros and cons the lack of authentic interaction or community is very much a feature of the existing (North American) culture, it is not a bug.
This seems more like something Sony would do/has-done.
You are probably baking in assumptions like "people who need critical hospital care but do not have COVID-19 can still receive it", which are deeply under question right now given the number of expected hospitalizations from the virus.
I agree - care to elaborate?
Probably Amazon is aware that if health officials shut down their warehouses, their entire retail business goes to hell. It's in their best interest to be hypervigilant.
I am 99.999% positive you're doing something wrong.
In my area (midwest) Amazon (Prime) delivery is out to about 4 days. But it does seem to depend on the item. I ordered a tennis racquet "Prime" yesterday that was in stock and the quoted delivery isn't until Friday / Saturday.

Prime Now is now unavailable entirely. At checkout, it simply says "No delivery times available" for all stores.

Amazon Fresh also gives no available delivery windows.
I'd rather die of self inflicted bankruptcy !

-- ex trader 2021
I've worked with projects that used iframes in safari. It had some of the weirdest bugs. Some random times it didn't render changes to the DOM. Sometimes when clicking input fields it would focus the surrounding iframe element.

A webview in iOS could sometimes crash system wide. Not enough to restart the app. You'd have to restart the device.

Felt like a sitcom when I had to ask customers if they'd tried turning it off and on again.