skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think github should priorize the author's case given their contribution to the community

I think GitHub should prioritize the case regardless of the authors contributions to the community, or how popular their Medium post gets.
Apache Druid – Looker Documentation
A Modern Debt Jubilee
> Synthetic jet fuel made out of atmospheric carbon.

What's your energy source?

And once you've specified your energy source why are you using that source to make jet fuel instead of directly powering things like the electric grid?

Once the world is 85%+ on alternative energy we can worry about Jet airplanes.
Most important question: Will you still be able to see user-submitted phrases explaining the npm acronym? (See upper left-hand corner of https://www.npmjs.com/)
Just like GitHub this is a cloud play to make Azure more appealing by meeting developers where they're at, increase dev mindshare/reach, hosting their packages, CI Scripts/Actions then making it seamless to deploy to Azure.

Smart, have no idea where AWS or GCP's control team are at when these strategic plays are going down.
If you don't want to fly on a nickel and dime airline, don't buy tickets at nickel and dime prices.
How do you guys think this will affect the software job market?
it was default going out of business so yes this saved it from death
In case you’re sincere...

I think you should take a look at what’s happening in Italy right now, and understand a lot of countries are going to experience the same thing.

The basic issue is that as the virus spreads exponentially we’ll quickly run out of intensive care beds and ventilators. At that point, the mortality rate of Coronavirus goes way up and so does the mortality rate of many, many kinds of acute illnesses. Because there will be people in need of immediate care and there will literally be none available.

The economic crash will be softer, shallower, and rebound quicker depending on how disruptive the Coronavirus ends up being. Strong, facts-based actions early will have a massive disproportionate effect for the better.

I agree the US is screwed, but it’s because we have not and still are not taking this seriously. We’re still taking basic steps to ramp up testing capability when we should be desperately building out emergency ICU capacity.
Is there a non Twitter source for this? Twitter is not working (for me) today.
IANAL but it's not illegal to communicate with an OFAC-sanctioned entity, but rather to have business dealings with them. If you look at the case history usually companies like Paypal are fined for facilitating a transaction to an entity that then transacted with an OFAC-sanctioned entity, or companies offering travel to OFAC-sanctioned countries. AFAIK it would be unprecedented for the U.S. gov to hold someone liable for an OFAC violation without money changing hands with the sanctioned entity.
Another difference would be that QE, as practiced by Fed in 2008-2014, would pay a basic income of around $150/month. Now, consider what inflationary impact would QE have if it was 6 times larger, and perpetuated indefinitely. Then remember that because of the way QE was structured, it had much smaller inflationary impact than directly printing that money and handing it over to government or people.

While I'd like for it to be possible to pull $12k/year for every American out of thin air, there's simply no way.
uk speculates at 80%. I've read 85% (for another country) but I don't have time to dig it up.

https://youtu.be/VNqfElehhKc?t=1765 29:25

Obviously very uncertain numbers no matter who you ask.
Given that it's unlikely that we're going to reform those various debt issues, there's a sense in which it will really be the "corona crisis". They should push the market down even further, and they'll continue to lurk as a kind of price support for another decade or more until they finally cause another, different crash.

There are even more issues going on, including the oil price war and an overheated market in general, so simplifying it down to "corona" will still be incorrect. But even as the downturn accurately reflects some realities, it's still only a partial correction.
>Companies can also be sued for keeping too much cash on hand, as for example, is the case with apple.

Sounds like there should be a new law to prevent this kind of thing. As the other poster pointed out, Japanese companies that have been around for eons don't seem to have this problem, so it's quite likely they keep lots of cash in savings to weather major downturns in business.
Airlines have large fixed costs and debt to pay. They will not bounce back quickly, or at all. That's why they're asking for a bailout.
Just to clarify, RubyCentral http://rubycentral.org is running the RubyGems registry.
This is just the word of one analyst without any inside knowledge of neither Apple nor Disney. They're just mentioning them because those two brands draw eyeballs.

If this was actually Apple's content strategy, you would imagine they would have bought Netflix or HBO ages ago when they first decided they wanted to get into streaming.
Heh, I called this 10 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19838122

Somebody replied "Microsoft won't acquire npm for sure."
Well, it helped me a lot. To better ground my concerns about possible health damage this virus can impose after recovery. In fact it matters to me more than the risk of death, after which there would be nobody to care about it anyway. Yet death is the outcome everyone focus on while others are neglected.

Your comment, in turn, just wasted 10 seconds of my time to read it.
This is a really interesting idea and I like it.

It naturally reminds me of reserve requirements for banks.

Couple of major considerations come into my mind, some of which I think you touched on:
- Would have to rethink private business financial reporting because private businesses (in the US, anyway) have to share much less of their financials to the public & government.
- I'm assuming there'd have to be gradients of how this is applied. I mean, big companies like Uber and Tesla operate at a huge loss for years after their startup phase, intentionally, to grow their capital and tech, in the hope of being a profit-center eventually.
- To your point, maybe such rules would apply primarily to mission-critical industries: airlines, hospitals, telecom/internet, fuel/utilities/water/electric.
- Maybe you get an exemption up to X employees, and it doesn't kick in until Y years after opening. Like, if you can't find profitability after 15 years, then something, something happens?

I don't know, cool thought.
I want Google to use my data in a "free for all." They have done incredible and useful things with it and in my opinion have been extremely responsible about it. If Google had a waiver I could sign allowing my data to be used for future developments I would sign it.

I hope they continue doing more cool stuff and measures like these don't end up limiting any future developments.

If anything I just wish I could more easily see what internal data all the advertising companies have on me. I'm sure they know more about me than I know about myself.
> Letting the airlines fall apart because of a 6-month drop in sales seems like a senseless destruction of value

airlines do bankrupt very often

https://simpleflying.com/bankrupt-airlines-2019/

They are hardly too big to fail (the ones who consider themselves essential can increase fees)
Executive Summary: A Modern Jubilee would create fiat money in the same way as with Quantitative Easing, but would direct that money to the bank accounts of the public with the requirement that the first use of this money would be to reduce debt.
> small women especially like them because it makes them feel more powerful

[citation needed]
> point I keep hearing from knowledgable people is that rapid spread is inevitable at this point.

The point I keep hearing from every reputable epidemiologist, virologist, and public health expert around the world is that people need to stay the fuck at home because this virus is extremely dangerous and if left unchecked will completely overwhelm every hospital system in the world.

Some public officials didn’t believe it when it was just Hubei, but after seeing the same happen in Lombardy, a rich region in Europe with a strong healthcare system, the situation became clearer.

Edit: here’s a nice summary written by a Bay Area marketing executive (based on work by epidemiologists and others) https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...
What I am saying is that more money should be given to people who really need it and no money to people like me (and a lot of HN readers) who don’t need it.
If you compare Italy and South Korea, I think you can see why governments are going for the quarantine approach.

In Italy they initially took a relatively light approach to restrictions and the result was the Northern Italy's hospitals were quickly overwhelmed by cases. This has the effect of not just meaning increased mortality amongst covid-19 sufferers but also all the other patients who would usually be using those hospital facilities.

In south Korea they seem to have had a much more draconian response (after the initial surge of cases) and as a result have got the rate of increase under control, allowing the more serious cases to be better treated.

The difference in mortality rate between these two countries is stark, and whilst there are other factors (demographic ones) in play, it seems fair to say that gov. response plays a role.

The other argument for a stronger response is the longer this goes the more likely effective treatments will be developed/validated, reducing mortality.
Firefox is a terrible browser to use if you want to draw conclusions from microbenchmarks; it's extremely aggressive at eliminating code. In my laptop, `document.getElementById("canvas")` runs at 1b ops/s (roughly the same ops/s as not running any code at all), which should tell you something fishy is going on. For context, in Chrome, I get 200M ops/s for the DOM calls, vs 1b ops/s for doing nothing.

Also worth noting that benchmark.js (the underlying benchmarking library in jsbench) hasn't really aged very well. It doesn't account, for example, for JIT warmup (i.e. if you try to graph time measurements of a payload over time, you should see orders of magnitude changes in numbers between the first few, first few hundreds and fully warmed up calls in a modern js engine.)
Show HN: Social distancing recommendation in 100 languages
well now I do ;)
It's going to be the financial crisis all over again.

Ppl default on loans because they lack cash flow

banks didn't account for this with lax lending standards

banks go bankrupt but TARP style program bails out banks

hopefully people stay in their homes ...somehow. (some kind of mortgage payment moratorium?)
The only fundamental concern is corporate debt. Repayment of that implies healthy levels of demand. Coronavirus is wiping demand, but not supply. Lower revenues might make corporate debt go belly up, which would have cascading effects on markets.
Writing a RISC-V OS in Rust: Starting a Process
Are your ready to work from home? (Use This Guide)
Important to note that the Norwegian government will pay full salary for 20 days of the first.

Does that include the crews who are typically based in foreign countries to skirt Norwegian labor laws?
Show HN: [Boost].μt – C++20 Unit Testing Framework – v1.1.7 released ⬆️
> This data is easily available: ~20% of people who get the virus are in life-threatening condition. Thats a 1/5 chance.

No, it's not "easily available". There's data flying around everywhere from different countries as this situation rapidly evolves and you can torture it to tell any story you want. If the data is so easily available, couldn't you have at least linked your source?

> Experts disagree with you. Maybe you should ask yourself why?

The "experts" in this case have never dealt with a global pandemic of this scale before. So they are inexperienced experts giving it their best guess based on what they know about disease transmission and math. But they clearly did not factor in the effects of shutting down the global economy for 3-6 months in their quest to optimize for a single variable. I'm sure we'll have a lot of "lessons learned" after this is all over and the experts will be much more experienced the next time around...
Ask HN: What is difficult about submitting reviews today?
Hey HN!

I'm doing some research in to current review systems (i.e. restaurants, bars, activities, etc), and I was hoping that some of you might take a few minutes of your precious time to answer a short questionnaire below regarding pain points when it comes to reviewing things online?

1. Where do you submit reviews today?
2. What is difficult today about submitting reviews?
3. When in the past would you have liked to submit a review and didn't? Why?
4. What is difficult today about using reviews to make decisions?

There's also an online anonymous version if that's preferred :) - https://exploras.typeform.com/to/ohA5cU

Thanks!
This is pretty great. NPM was struggling to monetize and is a critical part of the JavaScript ecosystem.
Coronavirus Is the Health of the State
that bit was a really disappointing piece from the UK Gov. Did they really not realise until just now that they might need more ventilators.

They've had at least a month of knowing this was coming...
Yep. The NY Times is running an op-ed calling for a pound of flesh from the airlines before any bailout (due to customer treatment).
I honestly think that Google cloud platform will be shut down within a couple years. It seems like it’s losing the war very badly.
For another novel detection method which may be suitable for low-cost implementation see this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22592173
Especially the budget carriers, which tend to lease (not own) their planes. They are gonna be hemorrhaging an unfathomable amount of money if they can't get a several month pause on lease payments on their planes.
Indeed, deaths get reported that's why the death count is the most reliable.

Deaths are a lagging indicator of total infection cases because it takes time for an infection to cause death. Thus if you want to derive infections from deaths you can, but not a current estimate.

The US has vastly under tested, so if you want to derive an estimate of current totals you can only go based on lagging indicators.

Likewise you need to then forward project an exponential. None of this suggest accuracy, but it will be closer to the ground truth than testing derived numbers are now.
Consumers: buying tickets at rock bottom prices and then expecting first class accommodations
>Keeping money lying around does not spur the economy, which means fewer jobs, fewer products, and a stagnating economy.

This isn't true. If you personally "keep money lying around", that usually means putting it the bank, in a savings account, or maybe a CD. That money isn't doing nothing: it's being reinvested by the bank, earning them a return on their investment, and they're giving a little back to you in the form of interest. (Hopefully you're smart enough to put your main savings in a bank that actually gives you interest...)

It would be the same with any company. Saving money in low-risk investments would be the equivalent. That money is still being invested somewhere in the economy, just not in more volatile places.
It doesn't have to be either/or. It can be both/and. Things were unsustainable; eventually something would push it over the edge. And the something was enormous and unprecedented, something that could have pushed even a stable market into a recession.
Which event came close to this? 9/11 lasted days. The 2008 recession? Sure people slowed down their flights but it was not a complete closure. The stocks took a massive hit, but flights continued.

Judging by what's happening around the world, we are going to see flight volume dropping by 90%, for months.
It seems crazy that it doesn't apply to civilian vehicles too
EU, sure. They make about ~$50B of a total $161B in annual revenue from Europe. It'd hurt their stock price - at least temporarily - but there's nothing fundamental about the service they're offering worldwide that'd disappear if they no longer did business in Europe. They'd treat it as a simple economic decision: when the cost of operating in Europe exceeds the revenue generated from it, it's time to pull out of Europe.

I also suspect that Project Dragonfly (Google's re-entry into China) might've been partially to blunt the effect of a European exit - Europe hasn't really liked Google since about 2010, and the regulatory climate keeps getting worse for them, so at some point it'll become not worth it for them to continue. They already pulled Google News out of several European countries when regulations made it too much trouble to continue offering the service, and then reinstated it when the regulations were rescinded because local publishers realized how much traffic they'd lose if Google News no longer featured their articles.

California is trickier because many key employees work at their Mountain View, San Francisco, and Santa Monica offices. I suspect that that's changing - they've been expanding rapidly in offices in other locations, perhaps as insurance against this (and the rising cost of living in California), and there's probably less of a concept of a "key employee" now that the main services are written, not really innovating, and mostly in maintenance mode.
TxDOT has a similar program:
https://www.txdot.gov/inside-txdot/division/maintenance/wild...
huge fan of anything silly and pretty especially if it contains a kernel of novelty and progress.

very interesting I've been toying with the idea of doing a project with haikus, (something along the lines of the markov chain project you mentioned in this very thread). I'm not much of an poet though and am quite lost as to the best way to approach it programmatically. Would you be interested in being contacted regarding this and in that case what would the best way be?
Yep, I'm on a team that's not a profit center and I fully expect most of my team and I to be laid off at the earliest moment that my employer thinks it won't take a PR hit from doing so. Anyone else feel the same?
Java and intellij does all that.
Especially ibuprofen as it can cause water retention exacerbating pneumonia
Most of Norwegian's employees are not in Norway. Their staff in Norway will have extensive employee protections. Their staff at their UK and US hubs are in far weaker positions.
Really? In my experience, they were the best "cheap" airline, by far. Their airplanes were pretty comfortable, compared to United, Alaska, or Spirit, to name a few.
Remember how somebody wanted to reduce air pollution, close factories and end air travel? This is what it looks like.
That's not really how video codecs work. Below is a gross oversimplification to bootstrap the parent's knowledge.

Video is usually both temporally compressed (across frames), and over frequency domain (ala jpeg) in the frame itself.

Transcoding is essentially what you're asking for, it downscales the video. It's the cheapest currently or we'd be using something else.

If you just dropped data you'd get that blocky square thing that you get when watching tv or satellite and the signal goes lossy.
yarn v1+ or yarn v2/berry?

Switching to berry has been a huge PITA over here, but I don't want to give up workspaces
20 days of full pay during the temporary lay-off. Then unemployment benefits for up to two years with 62% of full salary (cut off at about 30000 NOK per month)
Furlough would've been a more accurate word.
absolutely, although it's a balancing act. there's also a mental health component to isolation/quarantine, and how do you measure that? it's a tough and complex call in any case, and i'm glad i don't have to make the call.
There's a much narrower range in reporting rate variation for deaths than for infection->test results, but (a) it lags considerably, and (b) there are many other things that conflate this data as well, including healthcare systems getting better at preventing Covid-19 deaths over time (learning from earlier cases, hopefully starting to see positive results from remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine). I am still comfortable with what I said elsethread, the best way to get your head around doubling time is to look at data from countries with very good test coverage, such as South Korea.
The idea of Google pulling out of Europe is a fantasy, the libertarian equivalent of hoping for famine in the Sowjet Republic ca 1975.

As long as Google doesn't have to pay their lawyers more than what they are earning in the EU, Google will happily continue doing business in the EU. And if I had to guess, lawyers make up 0% of their costs in Europe and anywhere else, when rounding to the next integer.

I see suggestions of various companies leaving the EU far more often these days than suggestions to leave China. It seems people on HN consider GDPR a more serious danger to justice than, say, "reeducation" camps for unliked minorities. Go figure..
NIMBY Rails – A Development Retrospective
I suspect you're still using the npm repository though? That's the actual 'valuable' thing that NPM (the company) makes.
If you prioritize everything, you prioritize nothing.

A case regarding a popular contributor should be prioritized over someone who has contributed nothing, as it'll have an impact on those who rely on those contributions.
If their build-system depends on external URLs they had that coming.
Think of your tests as a consumer of the software you create. You will know it's easy to test if your component does not take much setup. If you have to create all kinds of different objects to get a test to pass, you've built a coupled component.

Said another way: Making an easy to understand interface to your software should be your top priority. Make the interfaces within your public interface as easy to understand, etc., all the way down.

Easy to test: Easy to understand. That makes it easy to change.
Compiler sanitizers and tools like Valgrind can go a long way to help developers understand why a program is broken.
> Also, since when was "just a flu" okay? The flu is really fucking bad.

Bad enough to merit shutting down nations, bankrupting companies, and causing a global recession?
They could fork it, the core of the runtimework is moving to WebAssembly anyway which is a much more tractable problem. Sure this is a boatload of JS work to do at the interface boundary but the amount of hard compiler and jit work that needs to be focused on by main runtime is much lower.

Someone at MS knows strategic and tactics. When MS and Windows bootstrap themselves into the cloud, they will have some software to land on.
Banks are fine now dude, it's nothing like 08.
South Korea is not forcing at-home quarantine for everyone. Italy is.

South Korea's success is all about their widespread testing.

The difference in mortality rate is because South Korea knows how many people have it, and Italy has no clue. Which, again, is because of testing, not quarantine.
> The provenance of a company has nothing to do about the market regulation of the buyer country of residence.

I agree, it shouldn't. The question at hand is whether it does , despite this.
Yarn is majorly only a CLI. It still uses NPM as the source for most packages.

The product Github is probably most interested in is NPM as a repository for packages, not its CLI.
I had roughly ten minutes of downtime to due a certificate error between Heroku and Cloudflare. The issue resolved itself.