skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. What the fuck ever happened to forbearance for hardship in federal student loans?! When my wife and I were at university ('94-97, transfer from paying our way through community college) we both had Stafford government subsidized loans through Sallie Mae. When we graduated and I got a job as a software developer & her as a teacher, I then got hit with the layoffs after the dot-com bust all of three years later and was unemployed for 6 months (e.g April - October). During that time, both my wife and I waere able to take advantage of what is known as "forbearance" on both our student loans because I was out of work - deferring payments, but still accruing interest on about $500 perm month in 2000's money for our $40k worth of loans combined. It made the difference between keeping & loosing our car and apartment in Seattle between her meager paycheck as a teacher and my unemployment checks. Why in the HELL isn't this still an option? Why the hell should Trump or any politician be crooning about simply cutting the goddamned interest alone that students today are getting soaked for when they could simply put all the payments on "pause" for the weeks it will take for this to blow over?
Also partial classes, if you have too many of these functions and want to import all of them with a single line.
> If you need to lock up 1.5 USD for 1 USD, you may as well go get 1 USD. It's a dumb idea to use 1.5 USD to get 1 USD.

DAI locks up 1.5 USD of ETH, not 1.5 USD. There is an important difference. The main benefit/use of DAI is that it effectively lets you increase your leverage when you are betting long on ETH. The trick is that when you lock ETH in the contract you can then use the resulting DAI to purchase more ETH, lock up that ETH/etc. The end result is about 3X leverage for relatively minimal fees.
The feeling I have is like being tied to the railway line and watching the train coming around the bend.

Nobody has started to blame me for the situation, but plenty laughed at me at the time when I tried to warn them what is coming. They have stopped laughing.
Don't believe the hype. Facebook isn't influential enough to destroy the fabric of society. Think critically on this as you walk around the streets and talk to people. Don't just believe what someone at the NY Times tells you. If you hang out with NY Times journalists, you'll see they aren't some special species from outer space embued with magic insights that we don't have.
Deferment and/or income-based-repayment plans already exist. Presumably, you'd take advantage of it in conjunction with one of those existing programs.

https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/lower-payments/get-tempo...

Think of this announcement as an amendment to the section titled "Be Aware That Interest Might Accrue During Deferment"
Uff... It's in London... When will they move to europe?
They don't mention how, but this is from the job description:

"Our biggest and the most challenging project is evolving Erlang into a modern statically typed programming language.

Our work is motivated by extremely successful and large-scale application of Erlang at WhatsApp."
Chloroquine, a drug mostly used against malaria, was shown in the 2000s to have some effect on SARS-CoV; in cell-culture studies it both reduces the virus’s ability to get into cells and its ability to reproduce once inside them, possibly by altering the acidity of the Golgi apparatus http://archive.vn/yfAWD
It isn't the million muslims imprisoned in modern concentration camps that they should be held accountable for? That is actually something the government is actively doing, not just something that originated inside of china.
Well, the related question though is not whether it was possible, but would happen (one metric being can you consistently estimate probabilities better).

Would most of the people who predicted COVID-19 escaping also have been able to predict SARS would have minimal effect outside of Asia?

(Don't forget that China had pretty aggressive lockdowns going on during SARS -- schools closed, gatherings limited, etc. -- though not to the level Wuhan got to).
I am, I have some at 0.65%

I got a discount after 48 months of payments, a discount for autopay, and some of the loans are from 2003-2005
This is great feedback. I would love to talk more about this. If you’re open to it, send me an email at zack@meetophelia.com.
Why haven’t management of this company not gone into mass ramp up on their own? If anyone can see the need it would have to be them.
To be fair, you're right that China embargoed virus samples from leaving the country. That did put other countries at a disadvantage from creating functional test kits.

They also covered it up until the whistleblower came along.
So they should probably stay away from restaurants?

All scenarios that support your line of thinking halt all human physical contact and presence in shared spaces. Does that sound feasible to you?
how many small and medium businesses can meet obligations with basically 0 revenue for a month? The ripple effects will be huge.

I don't think many of us will be in lock down mode continuously until fall 2020 -- we don't have the will for that.
All sporting events in the US have been suspended (read: effectively cancelled) or outright cancelled, multiple states are enacting bans on congregations larger than 100/200/etc. people, many colleges and public schools are going on 2-3 week breaks, tech employers are starting to roll out mandatory work from home policies, etc. This is about as extreme as its ever been in recent memory.

> I think there’s more the US should be doing.

If you want more to be done, then politicians need to be honest about what we’re dealing with. Everyone, and I’m not talking about just Trump here, has been giving a lot of wishy-washy “well it’s not really bad, but it kinda is, but not really, we just want to prevent the spread of disease is all” answers but the actions we’re seeing seem to imply that this is some super-virus that’s gonna wipe out 20% of the population. And maybe that’s the case, but if you want people to treat it that way, we need to hear that.

All I’ve been hearing from foreign and domestic leaders is “this is basically a really nasty flu.” Well guess what, the flu is background noise to everyone. Yeah it kills people but it’s just not perceived as some massive ongoing threat. Meanwhile you’ve got entire countries locking themselves down like it’s 28 Days Later over this particular virus. But again, nothing but “eh nothing to worry about, just like, quarantine yourself for the next couple weeks” talk from our leaders, how is anyone supposed to take this seriously if no one will admit that this virus is “something different this time”?
Plenty of other governments have made mistakes in dealing with this outbreak, but that does not absolve the CPC from responsibility.

The CPC knew about this virus for over a month before they took any action to contain it. In fact, they arrested people who were sounding the alarm. Xi is claimed to have been steering the ship for weeks before any lockdowns were put into place in Hubei province. The CPC own this global crisis. If it was not for their epic mismanagement, there would not be a pandemic.
I wish this administration would do something like zero interest SBA crisis loans for this situation. I've already seen two of my favorite places where I live shut down indefinitely (I personally know one of the chefs at one of them). These places really do operate on razor thin margins and count on major holidays like St. Patrick's Day, and the summer in general, to make it through the year. The Fed's $1.5T "injection of liquidity" falls on deaf ears to these people.
Forbearance is still an option but limited in the number of total months it’s available. That’s always been the case. This seems in addition to that option.
FWIW, "banker" doesn't seem to be a direct BLS job description. However, it seems that at least some bankers will describe themselves as a "banker" in the US Census, as there is a mapping from the census job title "banker" to the Occupational Classification System (OCS) term 'B007 FINANCIAL MANAGERS'.

See https://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/ocsm/comba-be.htm which links the census term to https://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/ocsm/comB007.htm .

> B007 FINANCIAL MANAGERS Management and management related occupations in the financial field of banking, trust companies, credit agencies, investment agencies etc. Workers in this occupation are concerned with the management of financial affairs. Include the following occupations:

> Bank Cashier, Branch Manager, Comptroller, Credit Union Manager, Controller, Treasurer, Financial Director, Investment Manager, Accounting Department Manager, Accounts Supervisor, Auditing Department Manager

"Bank teller" has its own OCS entry, "D383 BANK TELLERS", at https://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/ocsm/comd383.htm :

> Exclude Cashiers (C276).

> Receive and pay out money and keep records of money and negotiable instruments involved in various bank transactions

Lawyers, software developers, and cleaning staff have their own OCS classifications and likely rarely call themselves a "banker" in the census.

The financial industry uses the term "banker" along the lines described at https://financialcareeroptions.com/financial-careers/financi... :

> A banker is an employee of a bank or financial institution who services the financial needs of clients. These clients can be individuals or institutions, both with different needs. A banker tries to maximize the profit of a bank while maintaining appropriate risk levels.

> Essentially, bankers raise capital to make loans and investments. They charge interest and fees for the services and seek profit on the investments

A teller, for example, does not do those tasks.
>>VB6 was one nice thing - build 'a program' as you understand them in Windows. Why the fuck is it so hard nowadays? VS isn't intuitive - it's a firehouse of information and I feel like you need training to use it. That is a bummer.<<

Great question. And I agree with the sentiment.

My opinion for "why is it so hard today": it has to do with the way .NET evolved right after its birth. .NET was a response to Java by Microsoft. What Microsoft did in effect was attempt to smother the Java juggernaut by introducing their own Java with J++ (Anders' team) but only available on Windows (their attempt to prevent the allure of Java's platform independence).

By all accounts that attempt was an astounding achievement from Redmond. It boasted interactive tools to create GUI drag and drop features users were accustomed to in VB6 but glaringly missing in the Java world. This was with Visual Studio 97. Then the lawsuits with Sun came. The aftermath of the J++/Microsoft Java debacle was the beginning of .NET. A "Java" for Windows with attendant crazies of the Java world. This is the reason why it is hard. Java was "hard" compared to VB6, therefore .NET had to be hard in the same way.

All analogous complexities associated with the Java world: build tools, runtime versioning tools and intermediate code compilers etc were forever required, keeping this huge katamari ball of technical debt alive for over 20 years.

Now we have .NET Core. So we've just reset the clocks and in one swoop gone right back to 1998 with a new Microsoft Java but this time it is cross platform!

22 years of a meandering path that ends up right where we started!

I am, quite frankly, exhausted.
That feels like a bargain. Before I knew how software worked I thought TLDs were sacred.
They are comparing this new method to an Air Paint Atomizer.

The vast majority of spray painting today is with airless paint atomizers, where the paint itself is compressed and sprayed without the use of air.
I mean it's very state by state right now and in disarray. In NYC they've tried to ban public events and large gatherings; no public schools are being shut down and it's pretty much whatever each entity decides. It's a hard choice to make in a city like this, but I feel we are on the "not doing enough" side of things. I think for the US they are definitely trying to weigh the economic cost so that's just competing with the heath cost. I guess time will tell.
>We have had a fair opportunity to deal with it and prepare. We knew how contagious and dangerous it was. We could have screened all people coming into the United States internationally<

How? Keep them at the airport for two days while the test results were out? Temperature screening here proved ineffective.
No snowflake in an avalanche feels responsible. That's okay, because they're snowflakes, not people. People should have enough respect for their fellow humans (and for themselves!) not to attend any large events at this time.

Source: haven't interacted in-person with another human in the last ~30 hours precisely because staying home is the right thing to do for our fellow humans at this time. Leading by example is one of the most powerful ways to lead.
Yes. I initially thought it was another SARS until I saw the R0 numbers. As soon as I saw that I knew that only the most aggressive containment policies would prevent this getting out of control.

At this point the only issue is how much we can delay the peak and minimise the time we are above the capacity of the medical system.
It doesn't have to be. Mail the keys.
its a cool idea, but seriously this seems like another privacy nightmare in the making.
Like, cycle through 4 questions that are repeated every month? I guess you can set it up as 4 separate series, but then managing them becomes a pain.
What do you know about the universe's economic viewpoint?
By they, I meant official Chinese diplomatic messaging - elements have started to post bellicose and post-truthy rhetoric in tit-for-tat response to current official US messaging. China is letting loose their own Pompeos and hawkish voices, mostly for domestic Chinese audiences as well. See how western MSM has manufactured anti Chinese consent over the last few years - understand that China hasn't let anti-US sentiments devolve that far via domestic censorship controls. Well signs indicate that's about to stop. It's looking like China is positioning itself to go full Trump which is dangerous as hell.
Also, while you're at home, you can call them up and purchase a gift certificate. It is interest-free financing for the restaurant at a time when free cash-flow is desperately needed, and it shows them that you care.
It sounds like Elixir ;)
>Digital assets are digital. Humans are the arbitrageurs. Humans are emotional. DAI is trying to create stability on top of Ethereum volatility. It's kinda like building a stable house on a shaky foundation.

And yet it works. Dai has practical results; it has weathered massive volatility in the price of Ether over the past 2 years.

>If you need to lock up 1.5 USD for 1 USD, you may as well go get 1 USD. It's a dumb idea to use 1.5 USD to get 1 USD.

If it's such a stupid idea then nobody would do it. Yet, there is now 350 million dollars worth of collateral people have put up of their own volition just to generate some Dai for themselves in this fashion. stats: https://defipulse.com/maker

>DAI has a lot of jargon and technology. These things make it look sophisticated and fool people.

Or you just don't understand how it works. Dai is a complicated solution to a complicated problem, but its not some trick.
I agree that security holes can have externalized costs. But I also think labels can make a difference, especially scary ones with words like "security".

Look at anti-virus software. While some of it is legit, a lot of it is garbage that doesn't do anything. But people will happily buy (or subscribe) because it promises to improve security. And fear sells.

I don't know specifically what the label is going to look like. But let's suppose that the government set 5 years of security updates as the minimum standard. And suppose that if a company only promised to provide 3 years, their product would have to bear a label saying, "WARNING: Does not meet minimum required government computer security standards. May lack software updates that protect from hacking." I think that would discourage a lot of people from buying it.

And conversely, if meeting certain security standards allowed the manufacturer to label their product as officially scoring "Very Good" or "Excellent", they'd want to put that on their label. Manufacturers always like to maximize the number of good-sounding things on the box. To the point that they'll invent useless bullet items to fill the space if they can't think of anything else to say.
Wait does Erlang not have type soundness?
Unfortunately, not many of them appear to be in the US government.
Bugs are fixed by human brains, not some files. Those plots only work in movies.
Could use this research towards further improvement of steadycam systems
Different major cities are likely to experience different outcomes, by chance and by actions taken. Maybe we’ll hear of overwhelmed hospitals in some areas of the country. But I’m hopeful that the US has enacted social distancing measures at an earlier stage of the spread than did Italy.
Compared with the type checker in Haskell elm rust, dialyzer isn’t that good, we tried it two or three years ago in our project, I wouldn’t even call it useful.
The media tends to align on certain topics because their audience does: make no mistake, media doesn’t bias their audience, it is most definitely the other way around! Where they differ is almost universally where their audiences differ.

China is played in western media because that is the perception that their audiences want to see. It isn’t universally negative either, it just is what it is. Media reports negative stories about everyone (not just China), because negative news sells more than positive news and unlike CCTV, they have to pay the bills.
The way he didn't mention crypto currency that must have effected their future economy already sounds sketchy. See they still using paper bills everywhere?
>So now it just needs a little help from miners to actively exclude all other bidders.

A mining cartel that censors transactions is indeed a real risk. Fortunately, ethereum is switching to PoS where even an average person with a smartphone could realistically generate several blocks a day, as opposed to multiple megawatt (or even giga) mining farms, so it's only a temporary issue.

>My understanding is that in this case there were other bidders but they were drowned out by the winning bidder paying much more gas.

Most likely lack of liquidity and/or gas pricing misconfiguration. Even at an ultra-high 600 gwei (during the peak congestion, the market rate was ~200 gwei) the total fee was less than $10. Simply put: not enough people running liquidation bots.

Example:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x239cc6ba8f28b7a3b66cd5e1b558b0c735...
> English has all three forms: cha or char (both pronounced /ˈtʃɑː/), attested from the late 16th century; tea, from the 17th; and chai, from the 20th.

I've never, ever encountered "cha" or "char" in my English speaking country (US) - is this something commonly encountered in England?
Curiosity got the best of me so I have to ask...why Trent Lott? Without an explanation I find the seemingly pure randomness amusing.

edit - I'm guessing whoever downvoted doesn't know who Trent Lott is.
In this case does typescript fit into modern static type system?
In this context microgrids implys many small grids, and decentralized implies no centralized organization of energy transmission.

You can have a decentralized macro grid much like the internet is a decentralized network. You can have a centralized micro-grid which would be many small grids using a single authority.
It's hard to defend fb right now.
And accusing everyone of xenophobia is despicable.

Where did the virus come from? China.

Where does "Chinese shit" come from? China.

I didn't say "French shit" or "Swiss shit". I said "Chinese shit". Which, I don't know, I think that, by definition, comes from CHINA.

Wow, so "Chinese shit" isn't made in China then? It must be made in Australia and we call it "Chinese shit" 'cause we like the Aussies? Brilliant. But, even though it is made in Australia, if you call it "Chinese shit" you are xenophobic. Heavy stuff dude.

Or are you going to tell me that when you buy a piece of crap product on Amazon it is far more likely to come from France, Germany, the UK, Switzerland than China?

C'mon. Stop using insults to stomp down reality.

People who say stuff like that have never even tried to manufacture anything in China. Some of us have DECADES of experience with China and know very well where things can lead without oversight.

What, nobody remembers the TOYS PAINTED WITH LEAD PAINT?!!!

Or, how about the DOG FOOD FROM CHINA THAT WAS CONTAMINATED????

Are you f-ing kidding me? There's a list like that miles long.

Get real.

Hey, if you have EVIDENCE the virus came from somewhere else, say, the moon or mars, I'm all ears. I'm sure lots of people would like to see that evidence.

If you have EVIDENCE that "Chinese shit" like iPhone chargers that burn down your house, toys painted with lead paint, contaminated dog food, etc. do not come from China, again, I am sure many people would be interested in your amazing investigative research.

Until then...stop using words you obviously don't know how to apply.
Oh, that's not exactly have C# in the same script.
Predicting Effects of Covid 19 on US Healthcare Capacity
How does something like this work at the density of a town or city, with people living in apartment blocks?
And people were wondering recently when you would ever use week numbers.
The 2020 iPhones are rumored to have hardware AV1 decoders.
I'd say Vue is a good stepping stone to other frameworks as well. I feel more productive using Vue than pure Javascript.
Goldmine for bird lovers: Pictures of Unusual Birds
The encoding still isn't ready for user driven content sites. It's still too slow, even with the 16% savings shown with the new improvements this article talks about. For Netflix it's great as they have a significant amount of time before content goes live (weeks if not months), but for sites like youtube/vimeo/instagram/etc, it just isn't quite there yet. The turnaround time is simply too long.

That's just the UX bottleneck, but there's another elephant in the room: it's cost prohibitive. Encoding time is so slow that we're still measuring in frames per minute for most software encoders. If I want to move my whole video encoding pipeline to AV1 from h264, I need around 100x the horsepower to encode. That's 100x the server costs, and as someone who's looking heavily at using AV1 for the video site I'm working on now, it's simply cost prohibitive.

Don't get me wrong, the steps that Netflix are taking with SVT-AV1 are amazing. We're seeing a huge improvement from the 500x vs h264 it was showing last year, but it still needs a huge amount of effort before it's ready for prime time. I'm really hoping we see some early hardware encoding/decoding implementations for AV1 given the number of companies who are in support of it.
The real thing to note here is China is a country that has a track record of squashing outbreaks before they get out. Even with all that experience, this sars-cov-2 got out in a major way. This one is different. And many countries didn't take advantage of a 3 month warning. Now it is even more of an issue because the world didn't prepare and is not acting properly yet.
The last time I used my Yahoo account was about fourteen years ago and the only reason I was using it back then was because of a girl who was using it. I nudged her to switch to Messenger (msn).

I think many people in academia still use their Yahoo account.

Interested to hear others' thoughts...

Do you you, or people you know, still use Yahoo? Why or why not?
Grocery stores in Germany are 1/2-1/3 the price of the US. I could see Walmart botching a German operation.
Well, I mean...

Chrome does ship with a Google Docs "app" that lets the site access the clipboard for right-click pasting.