skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked at two really great remote companies (including my last company), and over the years probably interviewed with over a dozen.

Part of the reason I got the response was due to having remote experience as a consultant, and highlighting that I had that.

Incidentally I'm actually looking for an office gig now. I really miss the social aspects of being in an office, my main grievance are terrible commutes.
Hi, I just wrote this last night- I even posted it here at HN. Feel free to ask my any questions:

https://miscdotgeek.com/working-from-home-how-to-survive/

In short: Keep a routine, keep work an home separate as much as possible, wear pants. There's more to it than that of course.
Italy forces all shops to close except supermarkets, pharmacies and drugstores for at least two weeks.
Rstaurants have to close also if they can't provide 1m space between patrons.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/11/italy-faces-ca...
If my facebook feed is indicative of the general US population, there are still a lot of people who think the media is just trying to scare us. Some of them are your typical nutjobs for Trump, but even my 60-something year old hippie liberal jazz musician friend is on that train. There were women replying to her that the media focuses on Covid-19 because "it's killing old men" who run the world, and the media should instead be focusing on women's issues... I think I'm finally ready to give up facebook after seeing my the thoughts of most of my 'friends'.
Patriot Act and Afghanistan Invasion probably not, but the Second Iraq War was definitely feasible even without 9/11.
UK tests per million: 387

USA tests per million: 26

Not really the same.
I wouldn't write for that company's blog; unless there was some huge internal incentive to do so.
Well, the way I put it is how it works :)

Extreme political correctness is not something people are born with, it's conditioning via media and from observing how people who dare to question anything are treated.
This is why I like KDE neon: solid Ubuntu LTS base (still a bit newer than Debian usually) with the latest KDE apps on top.
There's not too many open source apps that aren't covered by KDE, with the exception of GIMP. Then I just install proprietary stuff as needed (Skype, InteliJ, etc).
https://archive.md/pRD7w
FYI: the best meetings are the speaker meetings. Less drama, higher quality of people who want to get sober. Also most of the groups goes out to coffee or dinner after the meeting.
Yeah, there's just no way there was a huge COVID-19 cluster here in the US in December, and then everyone just got better and it never turned identifiable. We know how insanely contagious this disease is. It couldn't have been circulating for months in a given area without sending enough people to the hospital/morgue to draw scrutiny.
The number of active cases is down from the peak China. If it continued like this without imported cases the virus would die out as each new infection infects fewer than 1 other person.
Amazon has not done anything to combat counterfeit items on their website before now, I don't expect much from them now.
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Who trust Amazon and its marketplace on general goods nowaday? The only thing I can trust from Amazon is used foreign books.
> Many politicians have tried to rally support for border security by describing illegal immigration as a source of violent crime. Trump mentioned "rapists" in his remarks as a way of communicating that same narrative, albeit a bit more colorfully.

It is true that the subset of illegal aliens entering over the border (rather than overstaying visas) is very high in criminals. This subset is desperate, motivated, willing to break the law by definition; and most importantly, a large proportion of them enter this way because they don't qualify even to enter as tourists, because they have a criminal record of relevant offenses.

> If you don't view them as deliberate word salad bombs, then they are gaffes, but there have now been way too many of them for it to be accidental. Trump understands how to speak both in text and subtext for maximum emotional impact.

I agree that they are designed to be misinterpreted by some people, but the interpretation that manifests in the President's actions seems to be more the plain language one, rather than the "nefarious subtext" one. If the nefarious subtext were intended to be read by supporters rather than opposition, then it probably would be.

Because the nefarious subtext seems designed to enrage the opposition, or especially because some of it seems designed to make the President look bad, I sorta assume it was meant to be read by opposition, to enhance the team sport aspect of politics and give supporters a sense of camaraderie against the people who are controlled by the President's reverse-psychology.
What does it mean there's no online sync for the binaries?
I don't see how #1 solves anything. The biggest issue which leads to all the cascading effects is the hospitals can charge a ridiculous amount for goods and services, with some hospitals charging more than 1000% more than what the government thinks they should (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/06/hospitals...).

I had a colonoscopy done a year ago and the prices pre-insurance ranged anywhere from $7000-$16000 depending on the location, all within network. I ended up paying just $1300 because of my insurance with a couple hundred covered by my HSA account. Why is there such a drastic price difference between places? Why are hospitals and other care providers that have a monopoly over an area able to act like a monopoly and have complete control over pricing?

Everything else is just a 2nd order effect.
For feed sharing, here's where I'm putting ideas: https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/issues/6

Thank you for the nice words.
This is an old article but it seems really apropos of what all is happening with the corona virus:

"We're bad at accurately assessing risk; we tend to exaggerate spectacular, strange, and rare events, and downplay ordinary, familiar, and common ones."
> I write K for a living, and J for fun.

Do you have a clear preference for either? If you could choose J at work, would you? Would you write K for fun?

> (Also for what it's worth, the communities around vector languages do tend to be pretty friendly and welcoming...)

If you've got a site / mailing list / IRC channel in mind, I'd like to know about it.
You're missing the point. The freedom may make the virus less likely to spread as information about it is easier to come by. The more people know and the sooner, the better off we all are.
Why in the world would you tempt yourself like that?
For example, some years ago on holiday to Edinburgh I had terrible diarrhoea. Probably norovirus infection. Fine, holiday spoiled but I can sit in a hotel room, stay hydrated and watch Netflix in the calmer moments. Then I began shitting blood. OK, that definitely might /not/ be fine, need somebody to check.

So I call NHS Direct, they agree that unexpected blood is potentially urgent and I arrange a taxi in the middle of the night to go to the closest Urgent Care clinic. Taxi driver did completely fail to find the right entrance to the hospital, but I was just sick not stupid so I followed the signs he'd ignored and went to Urgent Care. I was the only adult, every other patient was a sick child whose parents were probably worrying too much. A doctor takes a look, goes yup, just what you'd expect, not serious but thanks for checking, disapproves of my "Crisps and full fat Coke = Salt + Sugar + Water = acceptable rehydration" approach and hands me nasty tasting rehydration powder. Boo but since I'm the one who just dyed a toilet bowl red with their own blood I vow to follow their instructions. Taxi back to the hotel. All better in time for the trip home. Still have the last sachet of rehydration powder somewhere actually, it's probably expired but can't taste worse now than it did then.

NHS Direct is really handy, because it's often tricky to judge the correct amount of urgency or know how best to access the service you need, especially when far from home. But I don't see how you could build a trustworthy service like that under the US system.
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But he did call it a hoax.

Only later when he was called out on how stupid the comment was he back-pedalled and said their criticism was a hoax. That doesn’t make sense.

They weren’t really criticising him? Or they were trying to make him think they were criticising him?

The sentence doesn’t make any sense, so it’s clearly not what he meant.
I am 7 years sober via the AA path after trying just about everything else.

I really, really didn't want to go into an AA room the first time and even when I mustered the courage to try it I almost drove out of the parking lot :).

The decision to walk into the room changed my life.

There are many paths to recovery but if you are at a point or have questions you would like to ask privately please reach out to me anonymously.

I set up an email recoveredtoday@mail.com to go with this anon account.
Perhaps Amazon should manufacture masks/sanitizer/etc via its house brand, and churn them out by the billion.
or a combination of the two: Verizon keeps less stock on hand in general, and they ran out of theirs, while Best Buy had a larger backstock and so could still sell theirs.
You are not parsing the original post you replied to very well, you should read it a few times more and ask questions to the person who wrote it instead of going off the rails with hasty conclusions
Just like Italy started doing now, and everybody else will in the coming weeks.
These actions will kill 10x or more as many people as covid would even if no action was taken.
Ok, changed from https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/coronavirus....
I think Seth Kenlon has made a huge job on slackermedia - "documentation providing the information a user needs to create a full multimedia studio running on Slackware Linux". Way broader and deeper, in my opinion.

http://slackermedia.info/about/
Buick is alive because it sold well in China (and still does).
22 months in jail for making "damp firework" level explosives. What a travesty.
Emotibit(biosensor beta shipping and GitHub)
Hey Everyone,

I just wanted to share a few links and do a general call for collabs. We're a small biosensor tech startup from Bk. Our unit Emotibit (https://www.emotibit.com) is able to sense over 16 physiological signals from the body and we've worked with artists, researchers, and biohackers. I wanted to put out another call to the community to see if anyone is working on relevant projects. You can send an email via the linked URL and our GitHub is https://github.com/EmotiBit You can also email us directly at info@emotibit.com
"Unavoidable" was probably a poor word choice, "Unintended" would likely have been better.

That all said, the system is broken, the reasons it is broken are pretty clear to me sitting where I am and I think the comment above lays out just why this system is terrible in a clear and relatively neutral tone which I consider to be the most productive manner in which to highlight just how terrible the system is and open up a discussion on how these issues effect us and might be addressed.
Or I Breaka Ya Face

And if Ya Cougha ina Public,

I Beata Ya to Deatha ina Alley.

Poe's law disclaimer: ;-P
The extensions will sync your list of follows between computers. So if you are logged in to Chrome on your work computer and you subscribe to dezz.ie, it'll show up when you log in to Chrome at home.
I tapered off of my Suboxone prescription gradually over a long period of time. By the end of it, I was taking very tiny pieces of the film. They were small enough that at some point, it was probably more mental than anything.

I wish you all the best! After getting off of it, the hardest part for me was still maintaining a clean lifestyle while avoiding the types of people and behaviors that lead to scoring or abusing other drugs (alcohol included) as well.
A single postgres daemon- a unit of scaling- can support many datomic transactors

yes

,each talking to a named "database" hosted by that one daemon.

No. That would imply distributed writes and break the single write serializability property of datomic. Think about it, transactors don't sync with each other(only one for HA but that's orthogonal).

To put it simply, multiple transactors can share the same storage but only one can write to a single database at a time.
I leave this here for future reference: if we paint a worst case scenario, by the end of summer 2020, we may have 1M+ casualties in Germany alone.

It's hard to assess the global consequences of hundreds of thousands of flats getting vacant (increasing real estate supply in an overvalued market), labor shortages (which is high even today) and economic output reduction and the all the societal costs.

The only positive thing I see is an event, that unites the whole world - you will be able to relate to strangers - and this is actually a very good thing.
Tinder Has Become a News Service About Coronavirus
The American healthcare system is the main reason I'd not want to move there.
Definitionally a person who can spend 20K on a car when something serviceable is available for 2K is wealthy by some description. They have a good amount of disposable income.

I don't mean to claim that anyone who buys a new car is financially independent.
To put it in perspective, I broke my ankle 3 years ago, and in the end, I paid, from my own pocket, 45EUR. For 1 ER visit, x-rays, cast, a few follow-up consultations and renting crutches for a few weeks.
What technology does tile use? Bluetooth? How will airtags work?
Ask HN: In lieu of CoV – whats the best solution to run classes from home?
I run a smallish workshop once a week with classes for 20-30 people and different lecturers - and I'd like to do the responsible thing and move this online/remote for the following few weeks.

I haven't been keeping up with the video conferencing tools lately so I'd thought to ask here - any recommendations for something like this?

Ideally something that could take up to 30 people participating and/or asking questions without major hiccups (even for people without blazing connections), a few admin controls (like presenter mode), share screen or window (a presentation), maybe a doodle mode, possibly some sort of chat/room, possibly the ability to save the stream for later, stuff like that.

Any ideas are much appreciated!
Are you implying that a single peer can be configured to use multiple transactors at the same time?
If the host cancels on you do you get the same luxury?
There is a critical flaw in this thinking.

Other countries will catch the virus at some point too.

Without stringent measures, it will take more time for other countries to come back from it. In other words, China becomes safer after this.
There’s some evidence that some of the ‘bad flu’ cases were actually covid-19, present in both the US and Italy as far back as November. Just ask if these bad flu people regained their fitness.
i didn't. i didn't mention a single other country. it's an historic fact that the u.s. has not dealt with the same level of disturbances other countries have dealt with. and the u.s. quite clearly struggles with these emotional issues.

any "nationalistic flamewar" is an interpretation by others.
Tile uses bluetooth. (at least the versions I used a few years ago did)
Buy in during the fire sale at the bottom
That is not stopping. Extrapolating your trend to infinity suggests stopping is plausible. Latest data I see is 134 new cases per day in China. Let's take those numbers at face value and believe them (no sarcasm intended). However, these are just known cases. China is not testing everyone. As managing the spread becomes more successful it becomes cost and manpower prohibitive to test enough people to catch them before they spread significantly.
> Build something people want

Selling to developers is a bit harder then that.
You need to offer something they already know they want. (or you will need a good sales team, and or sell to their boss). And something that can't easily build themselves. And something they can't already get for free (or you will have to also give it away for free).
Yeah “tell, don’t ask” is good advice for both OO design and office communication. If you ask, a manager will always consider whether they will need to ask someone else about it.
The Labour party is having a leadership election in which Rebecca Long Bailey is an outspoken proponent of trans rights and issues. The statement you're trying (and failing) to disprove said "are not allowed to acknowledge positively in any political campaign" but she's clearly both allowed to positively acknowledge trans rights in a political campaign and is actually doing so. Thus your attempted counter-example is wrong, and I think you knew that.

As for straight white men, I'm trying to remember the last time the leader of a political party or writer of a newspaper column went to bat for those people's rights. Can't actually recall one.
Looking at the docs at 4:37 (https://youtu.be/idyfHs3DWmc?t=277), I'd suggest they add Elixir and Rust as options!
The This Week in Virology podcast was discussing some anecdotal stats from doctors HK who reported lower incidents in many common seasonal disease due to better hygiene. I don't believe they have population wide compulsory quarantine, so it might just be a case of mask usage + hand washing. Would be interesting if on the whole, less people died this year due to elevated vigilance as side affect of corona response.
Different country, but pointing out some reported data on actual costs:

https://www.stjohn.org.nz/news--info/news-articles/st-john-a...

In New Zealand one of the major ambulance services reports costs of around $615 including taxes per callout.

However, the charge passed onto the customer is set at $98 for medical emergencies. This is waived for accidents (covered by the government).

A $4000 ambulance bill is offensive and I don't think justifiable in any way.
it's a wrong assumption. i've had enough exposure to know that the u.s. government is not equipped, logistically at a minimum, to deal with these things. and people are not equipped either.
> And yet it's either monolithically "healthy" or "unhealthy"; "ready" or "not ready" to run. That is clearly ridiculous, right?

That's my point. If your editor cannot create new articles that's a problem that needs to be resolved.

I probably wouldn't want all my editors smashing the submit button until it worked, leading to additional overload problems. So I open the "circuit breaker" for submission by sending an email to all the editors to please stop submitting while wordpress is broken.

But shutting down the complete website would make the problem much worse because readers wouldn't see anything.

Conclusion: It's neither 100% healthy nor 100% unhealthy. Healthiness cannot be captured by a single boolean.
It was on the frontpage, twice. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22550623

The news cycle is saturated ("If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
I typed in a basic text query to "count reps per account". Then I clicked the visualize button ... no re-visualization. This is an extremely basic feature in every visual query tool the past 20 years (at least the ones worth paying for). You would be limiting yourself to their canned charts and "demo magic".
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That is sad. I'm so sorry.
So the agile world of data we're looking to bring about is one where your DAO or marts, are still regular schemas - not just flat tables or cubes. So the developer teams would be creating these mart schemas, and then business users could be doing much of their own self-serve exploration and visualization with Visual SQL. I wrote about some of these modern architecture approaches here https://chartio.com/blog/cloud-data-management-book-launch/
Italy?

Sodium Oxybate (ie: incredibly expensive GHB) is on the market elsewhere, but not indicated for alcohol abuse and usually heavily controlled (ie: special doctors and pharmacies only).

The heavy control always surprised me while other powerful sedatives flow freely with little control.
We don't know why so few Covid-19 cases have been reported in Africa
> When I moved, the meetings I encountered were extremely hostile to atheists.

That's unfortunate, and mostly in line with other experiences I've heard from friends, etc. AA seems like just another bullshit Christian recruitment/retention facility, that sometimes accidentally helps people who buy into it recover from addiction. Too bad.
Isn't U-235 an element?
>"please do not use our $20k autopilot as an autopilot"

I don't know where you buy your autopilot, but even with the recent price increase, autopilot is just $7k.
Great news.

I wonder if already there will be a selection bias to recession-friendly and revenue-producing startups
how do you go from literally not even monitoring people to banning all travel (and then continue to not monitor)? that isn't "normal". it isn't logical.
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Why would hundreds of thousands of flats be vacant? 1M+ infections won't translate to hundreds and thousands of deaths.
To clarify, Washington the US state, not DC.
The smell?
Who trust Amazon and its marketplace on general goods nowaday?

About 95% of the people in the world who are not on HN.

Average Joe Lunchbucket assumes that the products he buys through Amazon are vetted by Amazon, like at his local store. He has no idea that the stuff he buys are from a thousand different randos.
Is this something you would want as a global option? Or would you do it on a case-by-case? I'm tempted to just add a "Show Reposts" in the filtering menu. That seems perhaps more useful (to me) than having to manage individual settings.
Yep. Bafflingly, you'd think an older version of the DE would be more stable and bug-free than newer versions, but this wasn't my anecdotal experience: on Kubuntu, I had to reset KDE all the time. And Baloo segfaulted all the time. Two years on Manjaro, and I've never either problem once. Have you had the same experience on Neon?

You still have the problem of being stuck with an LTS package list (and dealing with PPAs) though.

Also, out of scope of this convo, but this is about what is

>a standard ... desktop for general users

but what a modern desktop should look like for general users is a subjective or moving target. If it's something like Windows 10X[0] (sandbox containerize all the things), which I think it should be, then no Linux distro currently suffices at all. :D

0: https://www.howtogeek.com/442767/what-is-windows-10x-and-how...
Don't try to give meaning to his words or understand them. That way lies madness.
It is kind of crazy that declaring martial law and forcibly quarantining people is still a more politically acceptable move that the more organized, scientific, and transparent approach of South Korea.
Honestly, all I need is a string.
> the medical industry

Somehow that term to me is more dystopian than “pandemic”.
South Korea's infection rate falls without citywide lockdowns like China, Italy
The dependency comes from pushing the physical limits until the abstraction leaks. Older memory technologies were not vulnerable to rowhammer. But they were also a lot slower.
This is blocked by my employer's OpenDNS profile as a security threat. I'd chalk it up to a false positive but I've not seen that happen in years. Be careful.