skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't commute, but use my automobile to retrieve groceries and potable water every week or two.

I don't see this as a poor solution to my particular needs, but I do look forward to it being electric and charged from solar panels on my roof.
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I'm curious how much of this applies to non-American English writing as well. It is no secret the style in American English is to be causal and direct. But has this trend come to prominence in other parts of the Anglosohere?
> I mean getting to know someone, exploring their interests and hobbies

That might have been true of the first decade of the new millennium, when Last.fm was in its heyday, Goodreads was more popular, and Facebook had a very different algorithm for its feed. But today, Facebook's interface does not really highlight that kind of depth in your peers, and much of the younger generation has moved to Instagram which is centered around the uploaded photo and so misses out on those interests in life that are not so photographable.
Really helpful article !
Yes, we are. We are watching it very carefully. What do you want to know?
Are your options also today, tomorrow, day after; or can you see beyond that?
It's not much effort to wrap Win32 in any language, which is more than you can say for something like QT.
Even when they're illegal, how often does something like that get enforced?
Worst drop ever for the Nasdaq Index today: -12%. These aren't 1, 2 or 3 standard-deviation events... these are more like 6 or 7 standard-deviations from the mean...
Basically zero.
I'm quite surprised by this because it was my understanding that companies were doing us a favor by employing most people. That they were forestalling replacing us with robots by paying us near subsistence wages.

I'm very confused. On the one hand I have all the things I've been reading in the papers about workers being superfluous.

But yet on the other hand when I just look at the evidence, it seems like companies really, really need workers.

I wonder what will happen when this is over...
Bay Area sees another spike in coronavirus cases
When Microsoft switched to Flat UI it lost all ability to control the native UI platform of Windows. Thanks to Flat UI, native apps are indistinguishable from Web apps. If ordinary users can't tell a native app from a Web app why invest in native app, which only a subset of potential users can use? If you use Electron then you can use web technologies, and everyone can use your app including Windows users, Mac users, Linux users, mobile users and web users.

Yes, Electron requires more resources than native apps, but that's only a problem if you're making a trivial app such as a calculator. If you're building a substantial app then the fact that Electron apps require more memory is usually not a problem. And that's the reason Microsoft themselves uses Electron for Teams, VSCode etc.
headlights shouldnt be a performance upgrade. are seatbelts? that said, i am routinely temporarily blinded at night from the light of oncoming traffic and wonder when it will result in a crash :/
WinUI is basically just another name for the UI framework from UWP, just decoupled from the OS and with the namespaces changed from Windows.* to Microsoft.
Asking where your home is and which grocery store you're going to would be an effective way to find out.
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the investor who buys in just before a vaccine is announced will make some scratch
I'm a fan of Plague Inc on iOS and have unlocked all the pathogens...what's the difference between Plague Inc and Plague Inc Evolved?

Is the latter worth buying and playing?

Also: if there's a design doc out there for Plague Inc or a similar game, I'd love to see it.
The most maddening part about working from home: video conferences
Of course they should. Aren't Americans democratically electing their government every now and then? Does the US foreign policy ever change in any significant way during the last 40+ years?
Will these workers get paid sick leave and health care?
The markets are assumed to be trying to factor in the losses that they think these companies will suffer in the long term. There is real damage occurring in real time. Everything is still in flux, which is why it is ringing around trying to find a position. Calling off the markets may not be outside of our future yet, but it is not likely at this point. People want to get out of companies they think are going under and put their money in other areas like bonds or mattresses. This should be considered rational.
All of the return-seeking money that pushed up asset prices in the first place is still out there, because stock market crashes don't destroy money (they just redistribute it). I wonder who has it now, and I also wonder when it will end up back in the market.
Unless the job is in a pharmacy, grocery store or hospital, your start date may have just moved right by at least a month
Or at least you won't be going into the office.
They seem to be putting a lot of effort on React Native for Windows and Mac (https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows). If you don't want to go full Electron, I think React Native ticks a lot of boxes (cross-plat, accessible for entry level/JS developers, native performance for the most part).

The thing that was missing before was a nice UI framework to go along with it; hopefully this WinUI thing addresses that.
It's summer in Australia and South Africa. They're still seeing spread. I wouldn't count on that.
Dying is a charitable word...you'll be left to essentially drown fully aware. Have you read the stories from Italian docs? Old and/or those with diabetes and heart issues are left alone, not by choice. Triage.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-italy-...

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-italian-doctor-says-f...
This was my gut feeling as well, but apparently it is not the case.

https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin...
To put it into perspective, the last time the market behaved like (multiple drops of this magnitude) this was 90 years ago, in 1929, and it was at the start of the Great Depression. Today was the second largest percentage drop for US Markets in history.

Now is not a good time to sell your stock holdings (at least not anymore). This smells of a panic right now.

I think a severe recession is all but guaranteed at this point. Let's hope we get through this with no more than that.
The three things you just named are pretty up in the air on whether they're "bad."
I thought it was 1 million dead absolutely best case scenario, and 11 million dead worst case.
This one may have had the swiftest official deprecation timeline of them all.
Big +1 here from my side, and here's a bit of scientific background: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201407...

Some of my anecdotal evidence: Left an exploded and then imploded startup (where I was one of the first employees), completely burned out and was approached by a guy for a startup.

Sounded good, but my creative energy was gone and my wife told me to go to hell if I wanted to start a company with a newborn on the way.

Went to a super boring corporate job instead that had three big benefits:

1) Nice and cushy 9 to 5 with great money to lick my wounds

2) As OP said: Energy came back and I realigned with normal people and normal problems

3) I left after 11 months with a nice bore-out and so many great examples of what not to do in a company that it had my fire lighted and ready to go.

Turned out the guy who wanted me for the startup had waited for me and together we built the largest streaming search engine worldwide over the past 5 years.

That in turn was a serious roller coaster ride with its own story again, but that wasn't your question, right? :)
Wait until the rest of the world catches up with you, else they'll reinfect you as soon as lockdown ends.
$1k per American seems laughably small. Imagine how many people we would save if we gave $100k to every American?
Maybe it's because I'm not a native English speaker, but I fail to grasp how "blistering performance" is supposed to sound like something good.
You should try Windows 10 Enterprise
I don’t think it’s possible to tell the difference between volatility and things picking back up. Somebody trying to follow this advice might have bought on Friday when the market went up.
Marc Bellemare's Metrics Mondays posts are pretty good: http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/metrics-mondays

Lots of practical tips for causal inference on real data.
I'm on my second Roomba, and they've been great. What impressed me was how strong the suction was. My initial thoughts were "How can something that small ever pick up as much dirt as my regular vacuum?" But it actually does better than the upright - it picks up far more dirt/cat-hair, even when the upright is on a fresh filter. Which is important with a long-haired cat - I get cat-hair tumbleweeds on the stairs. I sweep them manually down to the next floor, and hit the start button and leave for work. I return to a freshly vacuumed floor.

Ob. cat tax: https://imgur.com/a/JHBue4Y
US Politicians Want to Ban End-to-End Encryption on Messaging Services
Too much winning!
But some people using their cars is a solution (for those people). After all, not everyone has the luxury of a job that can be worked from home.
Could this help with building Spintronics?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spintronics
Consumer spending is kind of the foundation of the economy, and as of today in the US it's about to go into freefall. Especially services.

This fall is pricing in the inevitable waves of bankruptcies in the service industry.
If your new job is in an affected county as you said, then this order appears to require the new company not to allow you to enter its offices.
you can chat with devs on IRC if you go to freenode and the #stripe channel. it's proven to be an invaluable resource on some issues.
Underrated comment. Those things are great, but when your minds' entertainment comes from outside, you never rebuild the creative muscle.
Worst advice ever. Do not try to buy the dip in this market. Most likely it will lead to loosing money.
That's not so impossible for the stock market whose distribution has a big, long negative tail. (If you plot the daily delta of the logarithm of the S&P you will see that it looks like a normal distribution, except with a fat long tail of very bad days.) It goes up little by little except on the days it goes down by a lot.
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Me neither.

If the restrictions prove unreasonable in practice, it's a question that I'm sure those companies will revisit.
A state of emergency does weird things to executive power. Last time habeus corpus was suspended, Lincoln did it during the Civil War via executive order in April and it wasn't struck down by a Court until June. Everyone preceded to ignore the ruling anyway, until Congress could pass the bill that made the suspension legal two years later (due to partisan bickering, surprise!). By then, Lincoln had arrested a Congressman and a significant fraction of Maryland's state legislature.

The legitimacy of the courts really took some big hits in the last few decades. Will the judicial branch even have the power to stop the other branches before this is all over? Only time will tell.
Who still has Foursquare installed on their phone?
Most CIX do have a statistics website. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_exchange_poin...
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet-Knoten#Tabelle_intern...
The trouble is the existing laws require lights to be certified. Plenty of people do responsible headlight upgrades that do not increase glare, but those are also formally illegal; if they aren't certified, they're not legal even if they fulfill the functional requirements.

Just because there are asshats driving around blinding everyone I don't think it's a reasonable response to go back to a situation where people whose cars were manufactured with shitty halogen headlights have no recourse except buy a new car.
Trust me, you want your police and fire (and doctors and nurses) to be "going into the office."
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The it has become an abandonware to an even bigger extend? Is this their signalling?
If Amazon even meets a bump on the road in terms of its logistical performance, and merely due to acts of chance and nothing they could have anticipated, then the whole nation would be put on edge. How would lockdown even make sense without Amazon's logistics reassuring the population?
Yes, the new version of React Native for Windows is built on top of WinUI
Color me skeptical with the absolute necessity of this.

More and more I’m beginning to feel like these measures are being done to destroy small businesses while the local governments know they can simply beg for money from federal after the smoke clears.

The timing and severity of these measures seems all too convenient in light of the huge money grab federal bill moving through the senate at this point.
Northeast, also looking at 4 days out for prime deliveries depending on the item. Anything not in their regional hub is 4 days, things stocked regionally are still two days for new. I expect this to change soon.
Mad Cow is still active in it's research. We cannot yet rule out that salivary contact is a transmitter of prions, though I agree that it is very unlikely.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
I think there are two different levels for this.

First, I think that we should obey lockdown orders that are in line with many (though, as you say, not all) medical experts. Few policies are supported unanimously and, given the stakes, noting that it isn't unanimously supported seems like a very weak critique.

Second, if you want to critique the policy, you should probably be providing information on how some experts disagree with this policy and why. If ever there was a time to err on the side of caution this is it, and erring on the side of caution includes being cautious with how we critique health policy. We all have the right (and obligation) to talk about what approach would be best, but in doing that we must not undermine the current, unavoidably imperfect, approach.
you can use Win32 + C++ + WinUI, or you can use C# + UWP + WinUI and get something reasonably consistent.

Wow. This reminds me of the stupid prediction I made in another thread today about Microsoft eventually abstracting Windows away so that it's a shell that can run on top of Linux. Or perhaps any other kernel.
People lose business and need cash to get through the crisis.
Who predicted it 5 month ago? hmm?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21031266

I also predicted a few more controversial things but if you think it terms of ecosystem and cloud market strategy, then it makes perfect sense.
Update:

Department of Homeland Security sources say the site never crashed or seemingly was in any danger of doing so. https://twitter.com/nakashimae/status/1239569102831857665

According to Bloomberg, officials don’t yet know who is responsible but are assuming it’s a “hostile foreign actor.”
In the UK, we have an annual vehicle inspection (called the MOT test) for basic safety things (e.g. are tyres ok, is there too much structural rust, do all the lights work, are the brakes ok etc). If your vehicle fails, you cannot drive the car again until it is fixed.

I believe that it is an instant fail if you have aftermarket LED lights if the vehicle was fitted with halogen originally. Does not stop you just switching out the bulbs for the tests, but it is certainly will at least catch those who are unaware.
Amazon seems pretty constrained by supply to me right now. Everything I have looked for to stock up on from them due to the current conditions (alcohol wipes, nonperishable food, etc) is sold out. But maybe they have scaled up supply more than I realize and workers are becoming more of a bottleneck than inventory.

Even if everything was in stock I'd expect my overall online purchases to decline in the next few months. I'm not really worried about new clothes if I'm not going outside, and a lot of things like toys and gadgets I usually waste money on seem a lot less important with a worldwide pandemic growing exponentially outside. I'm probably an outlier though in terms of how much I spend/waste on online shopping discretionary spending in normal circumstances (and a lot of that discretionary spending like clothes is not going to amazon anyway).
Yeah they do this to enforce noise regulations, I don't see why they can't just stop people with outrageously blinding headlights and fine them, as well.
Demand, I think.

I wanted to order a few necessities and an extra thing (pizza pan). The pizza pan quite likely wouldn't be highly in demand during this (or I'm quite wrong, I don't know) but even with Prime it won't arrive for 4 days.
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Housing needs to follow. For people looking to get into the market like me, these prices are a barrier.
My experience with my customers is that we hardly need to see each other. Chat all the time, voice calls when they save time, screen sharing about 50% of the time we're in a call, video almost only by misclicks on camera icons.
Do you mean an actual assault rifle, or just a "scary black gun" that is functionally equivalent to any other modern semi-automatic hunting rifle (and shoots lower powered rounds than many common hunting rifles)?

If it's the former, there's nothing low-friction about it. You have to fill out more forms, pay more money, get more background checks, etc. etc., yadda yadda, and you can't buy any such weapon manufactured after 1986.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/its-still-legal-to-own-a-...
You only lose money if you sell :-)
I'm not really a big bitcoin guy (own a few hundred dollars worth), but this seems like a straw man.

I really doubt that anyone is buying bitcoin for the collapse of industrial civilization. The more prepper-case for bitcoin comes from either very high inflation, financial instability, and/or severe capital controls. It's not implausible that these conditions coexist with the continued existence of industrial civilization.

It's not implausible because it's happened many times before in history. For example, if you were a Jew in Germany circa 1936, Bitcoin would have been very very valuable to you. In much the same that diamonds were valuable to those in that time and place, because of the ease by which they could be hidden and smuggled against the authorities' wishes.
PSA: The Dow Jones industrial average is a terrible measure of the stock market. It tracks just 30 stocks, some which have an outsized influence on the measure.

This is not to say the stock market is not in freefall, but there are much better indexes to track general market movement.
These are recommendations for Federal government agencies on an official U.S. government Web site, so it seems a reach to suggest that they're intended for authors of romantic letters.
I think the core problem is that it assumes you know what part of the software will need to be changed. But you often don't so you end up with code that is too rigid in places that you need to be flexible and too flexible (i.e. complex) in places that don't need it.
There is a Microsoft UI toolkit that can't run in latest Windows version?
Not parent comment, but I was able to look at next week, but there were no open slots there either.
Banks are our friends, the government is like our dad, the media is like our mom, let's hug them and meet the brave new world!!!
I even have this problem with bikes. Not motor bikes, just bikes. Some of them have a front light that just blinds me. I can't determine their speed anymore, not the direction they're moving in, nor if there is something else between them and me. Once I even confused someone on their bike with a random street light, and almost crashed into them, because the angle and speed at which we were moving made it appear immobile. I often feel like a powerful light is far more dangerous than no light at all.
Yeah, in Denmark yesterday simple math says that 18% of people tested was infected.

That's not to suggest that 18% of the population is infected. Merely suggests that positive tests is a useless metric because people are not tested.

Number of people admitted to hospital might be a better indicator -- though this has a lot of delay.
Trump threatened Powell's job in order to force him to reduce interest rate and start printing money [1]. Our economy is being micromanaged by Trump who is not an expert in monetory policy and only has disdain for experts of all kinds (virus/economy/climate). Trump says he is qualified to do that because his uncle went to MIT [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/business/economy/trump-po...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/12/truth-abou...
Are you in the US and were denied a Covid-19 test?
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but...

I intend to break any sort of mandatory lockdown/curfew, without putting myself or anyone else at risk (e.x. going for a walk in a non-crowded outdoor area). I'm not comfortable with the government telling me when and where I can be on such a broad and open-ended basis.

To be clear, I'm not being reckless like people still going on vacations or eating at crowded Red Robins or whatever (https://brobible.com/culture/article/miss-nevada-katie-willi...). I've already been social distancing for a week and am now in full self-imposed lockdown (excluding mentioned outdoor walks and picking up essential supplies)
San Francisco and Bay Area will shelter in place to slow coronavirus spread
Paypal if you want me looking for alternative places to purchase your goods
Interesting.

I never use annotations in my own tools, I add first class abstractions for whatever database features I need and free form records to shuffle data. So there will be something called a Table, with Columns and Keys. It's not so much reinventing as bridging, an FFI doesn't reinvent the library it imports.

And yes, that means you can't modify the database from the bottom any more. But you're not losing any power, since any random programming language is more flexible and convenient.

Most databases come with some kind of built-in DD, I've used them in Firebird & Postgres to read primary- and foreign keys while I was still investigating the approach.

But it never really clicks for me, because the database is not the software, it's where the software stores its data. Tying application logic and presentation to the relational structure of the data just doesn't make any sense to me.
"Maybe this is the time Microsoft gets it right"

Windows GUI was done right long time ago by Delphi and now Lazarus. Now it is also multiplatform. When it comes to UI with Delphi approach I could concentrate on what I am doing instead of how. And it's been available for 25 years.
Housing is unlikely to follow unless more old people die of covid than expected. Rates are so low and big money will be looking to diversify into alternate asset classes.
do canadian hospitals not send foreigners a bill?

It may have changed, but it used to be standard not to.

I remember a news article from about 15 years ago where doctors at a Vancouver hospital were unhappy about it. Not because they were treating the sick traveler for free, but because some stupid regulation meant that he had to remain in an ER bed rather than moving him to a normal hospital bed and freeing the space for anyone else who might need it.
I'm in Miami and its 4 days Prime now. I live 20 miles or less from 2 distribution centers.
Tech isn't really their core business, their core business is making movies and theme parks. It may be true that they don't develop or use innovative technology (it may not be true as well, I've truly got no idea). If that doesn't translate into negative impacts on their core business, then it doesn't translate to any legitimate criticisms of their executives.
Companies need consumers more than they need workers.