skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm maybe I can give some advice here. The key is to just not care whether or not people are just pretending to like you. "Just don't give a fuck" sounds really trite but I really think caring too much about other people's feelings is an anti-super power. I find what really helps me is just assuming that the other person doesn't like me, and then making a conscious decision to make the effort to make them like me. This is almost the opposite of what people say, "just be confident". I think being attractive (personality) and likable is a trainable social skill, and once you do it often enough the effort becomes effortless. Of course a mind reading device to skip the presentation stuff would also be nice.
I listened to Trump yesterday and I couldn't believe he was stupid enough to encourage people with no basis! There's no higher demand after crisis as people have no money and most of this hoarding is debt at high interest of credit cards. Many were expecting the crash since last year, the pandemic just gave no reason to wait more!
But the payment doesnt go down, it just applies more to principal.

It will benefit people more in the long run, but it's not short term relief.
Assuming this was an acceptable exit: I'm impressed that NPM pulled this off. They were basically doing the "no revenue model to speak of, hope we'll get acquired by a bigco" startup play that was starting to go out of vogue already when they were founded.

I wonder to what extent they've had influence over their own success at all though. Basically they had to hope that JS stayed popular (it did), that Node stayed relevant (it did) and that the entire JS ecosystem would move over to NPM (it did, but I'd say rather despite NPM than because of it) (I mean, otherwise Yarn wouldn't even exist, right?).

So basically their bet was:

- Turn NPM into a startup

- Keep the lights on

I bet I'm missing all kinds of key behind-the-scenes stuff, but still, I don't know many startups that manange to successfully exit by "just" keeping the lights on. In a weird cringey way, it's motivating.
I think one can make an argument that left-leaning media is certainly elevating arguments that Trump is the one individual that is most to blame for the spread of the virus and the economic impact. Partisan paranoia runs deep on both sides of the aisle anytime we have these crisis.
You think that planning/sales/etc doesn't impact current operations?
My experience, from the 2000-2002 downturn:
One-trick ponies will suffer.

ColdFusion was a popular language, easy to learn, and as a result, led to a lot of folks getting really high paying jobs during the dot com boom. When work dried up, they didn't have the flexibility to do other jobs, because ColdFusion is all they knew.

In today's world, I think the front-end dev who just knows their favorite framework of choice will suffer. Not just the one-trick pony thing, but on a lot of apps these days, complex front-ends are a "nice to have". Tighter budgets and needs will force a refocusing of development priorities.

Arguably much the same (in my opinion, to a much lesser degree) could be said about frameworks like Ruby on Rails, if that's all you know. Flexibility is key.

However, in a downturn, software can be a powerful tool for streamlining. If you know at least one backend language and are devops-capable, you'll be better positioned. The jobs will be boring jobs, in boring companies, on boring infrastructure, but that's OK.
Microsoft could have handled the situation much better. Silently 404ing all repos while providing no communication and explanations is not a legal requirement.
What does a trustworthy Microsoft look like to you?
Many in the US have no healthcare insurance, or watered-down plans, recently permitted by GOP.
Ask HN: What kind of bussines is 'antifragile' during these times?
These companies don't need to profit off of acquisitions. If they're going to, it doesn't have to be direct either, it can be a method of growing their sales funnel if nothing else, or even just acquiring talent.
Have you any clinical evidence that any of this actually works?
Correct.

A complete suspension of commerce in the service sector due to a sudden, unprecedented change in consumer behavior is a massive economic shock that I've never witnessed in my lifetime.

The good news is that this isn't a case where there is a lack of capital available (like 2008), and many businesses will be able to weather it. However, we need to be very aggressive about bailing out the businesses that are too small or constrained to weather the storm.
The US is the only country we share a land border with and at the very least at this time of year 35million people will starve without trains and trucks over the border.

So, yeah, the first logisitical barrier I can think of inside of 30 seconds.
This is an inflammatory headline for no reason. The USA does not have “poor healthcare”, it has expensive healthcare.

A true poor healthcare nation would be somewhere where no amount of money could buy you any effective treatment.

We cannot allow people to think that shitty but cheap and freely available healthcare somehow qualifies as a nation with “good healthcare”.
They aren't turning on high beam. Their dip beam is not aimed correctly.
That's not remotely true lmao, but if you really do think that, then appreciate your privilege.
* In progressive (semi socialist?) western countries

Don't forget that asterisk. USA unemployment benefits (even in liberal states, like California) are just truly awful. Losing my job "temporarily" for 2 months would cut my income drastically with no recourse (other than finding other employment), and say goodbye to affordable medical care (COBRA costs are outrageous)

This is why we need social safety nets people! I pay 47% of my income to the government and I am 100% fine with raising taxes to pay for Medicare For All and a real social safety net.
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> I think the inability to find a price here also has to do with value. To develop a relationship with someone requires that you offer value in the form of conversation, entertainment, etc.

I think part of the problem here is forcing everything to be viewed through the lens of market economics and trying to make every human activity a kind of market exchange. Markets are a powerful paradigm in some contexts, but they're not the end-all-be-all of human behavior.

Loneliness may be a product of marketization of social relationships, so market-thinking won't offer a path out.
Norwegian has been near death for a couple years.[1]

Which is a shame as I had a great experience when I flew and the cost can't be beat ($500 return from SFO to Barcelona).

[1]https://www.cntraveler.com/story/norwegian-air-is-taking-las...
It won't go very far in replacing income, but it could push a lot of people from a high risk category into a low risk category.

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

– David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
PHP was in the right place at the right time back in the mid-1990s. It exploited the nascent web and gained a first-starter advantage. In other words, PHP lucked out.

Most languages need some luck to make it to the top. JavaScript lucked out with the explosive growth of SPA, circa 2010. Python lucked out with the explosive growth of data science and machine learning in the past decade.

Ruby lucked out with the Rails framework.

Java and C# were heavily marketed by Sun Microsystems and Microsoft, respectively. Objective-C and Swift were heavily marketed by Apple. Dart and Go were heavily marketed by Google. Rust had Mozilla. Kotlin had JetBrains.
Or two chrome tabs
There is no license fees for streaming HEVC content online.

License fees are only paid to Blu-Ray / disc and Encoder / Decoder per Unit.
They're not just concerned about health care, they're concerned about the whole infrastructure in the US. They just formulated the wording a bit strange. Collective infrastructure for instance is probably "public transportation" since "kollektivtransport" in Norwegian is public transportation.

I'm not taking any sides here but personally I know where I'd like to be if I become sick. I might actually be already, I've started to have chest pains and slime balls and a slight fever last few days.
Even if my mirrors are set to "optimal", I am still blinded. So my mirrors are a bit further out.
You could — if you thought that would slow things done enough to prevent overwhelming the healthcare system. At the moment it looks like we probably haven’t done enough, seems crazy to consider doing less.

It’s not like younger people are a self-contained sub-population. Increased rate of transmission among younger people means an increased rate of transmission to older people too.
big companies are for simps, real men are independent.
Yes, this is what a tragedy of the commons is.
I had irc and reddit in mind, not social networks with images though
resnet-50 pipeline to detect Covid-19 from x-rays and cat scans. We need to perform 60k to 100k tests per day to make social distancing viable. To help perform all these tests computer vision can help.
Welp, if we're gonna do the same tired arguments (Electron, etc), I guess I'll go ahead and inject another HN-meme into this thread. Let's talk about Rust.

I, like many, want to write the same code across platforms. I do not want to use the JS toolchain (the modern one, Webpack & co). I don't want to use C, because writing C feels contrarian outside of certain cases given the options available today. I want something that's fast, safe and mostly cross-platform.

So I started porting AppKit to Rust. There's an example you can see here - it's meant to feel similar to writing native UI in Swift.

https://twitter.com/ryanmcgrath/status/1238285152771440640

I plan to put this in a longer blog post, but effectively I don't think write-once-run-anywhere UI works for the class of products I want to build. I don't mind rebuilding the app UI using GTK, AppKit, or what have you... provided I'm not running some ridiculous setup just to get code shared across platforms. Rust and Cargo do incredibly well with this.

I'm building my next product in this as a way to dogofood and force the functionality in. If you're interested in following along, you can check out the repo below - note that it's still experimental, the example app (Subatomic) has not been updated for recent changes yet, and the main repo doesn't have docs being built just yet (though I'll probably have this later this week).

Anyway, that's my bit - wondering if there's a better way to achieve cross platform code without the headache, so consider this another foray into getting there.

https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/appkit-rs
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There already is a Yarn v2: https://dev.to/arcanis/introducing-yarn-2-4eh1
She wasn't fired. Rather, her term came to an end, and Trump chose to appoint Powell as chair rather than reappoint Yellen. Yellen would still have been on the board until 2024, but she chose to resign instead. Firing implies her term ended prematurely, which isn't the case.
Reminds me of the line from Margin Call when the boss says he doesn't hear anything anymore, so the music must have stopped.
You may have misheard the MD. The current tests have a very low false positive rate. That means if the test says you have Coronavirus, you have it. There's no "burden".

Where the tests are "not very accurate" is the false negative. The false negative rate can be as high as 50-60%, depending on tests and how it's administered. Sometimes they will conduct the test twice to improve accuracy.

The Roche ones recently approved have a lower negative test rate (10%?)

Edit: I removed my mention of 0% false positive rate because nothing in life is absolute.
His gaslighting is not helping. It's causing a deeper distrust of institutions and the market does not like it. His historical tweet from 2014 about the then-elected president's fitness to serve "causing" a 1000pt drop is apropos.
Playset makers probably. I'm considering buying one to keep my kid engaged. They can't share with the neighbors.
> I think Windows will eventually become a presentation and slowly-phased-out compatibility layer on top of Linux.

I think this is unlikely. In many ways the NT kernel is superior to the Linux kernel. I just wish it were open source and didn't have the rest of windows around it.
My point is no matter whether you have insurance or not, if hospitals are overloaded, you will not be treated. Just look at situation in Italy.
Rest assured that the end of the month is near and with it all due bills and rent. Most people will beg to start working.
Before someone else comes along and writes a monologue, the biggest downside might be how it handled (didn't break) its contract with ICE[0]. If the acquisition didn't happen, old GitHub might've dropped the contract immediately upon enough employees speaking about it.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21412600
Right in the article:

"Trudeau said the new border controls will not apply to trade and commerce in order to keep Canada's supply chain open."
(2) is the usual standard in computing. It's not like there aren't any performance or hw support compromises in current C.
The Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. Two weeks of air disruptions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_eruptions_of_Eyjafjalla...

The current crisis is going to be worse. I'd say one month bare minimum. We have a flight scheduled a month from now, probably getting cancelled. Ryanair has currently grounded its fleet.
"Little did we know that the concentration of talent in Bay Area, Seattle, NYC and maybe London and Vancouver would be the trigger."

Really?

This is an incredibly self-centered and myopic view of things.

Bro, the software industry isn't the center of the universe, or the global economy.

Restaurants are closed, travel is at a standstill, events are getting cancelled, and you're over here talking about engineers getting sick..... wow.
School is closed, but class isn't. Classrooms and play-from-home groups urgently need a solution for parents/teachers. What I'm looking for is a solution for classrooms or other activities for tweens (think 4th graders). I need to be able to limit the users to only those who are authorized, but leave the rooms open for joining/exiting much like a chat server. Jitsi itself is great for that except there is no white-list authorization and that I'd have to host it myself (the free host is overburdened). I think you're targeting a different use case, but schools and parents everwhere need a classroom solution urgently.
Safari doesn’t have the market share that IE6 had, though. Chrome has.
It might. (Buy now!) But I think (Buy now!) one can certainly (Buy now!) feel (Buy now!) differently. (Buy now!)
> Look, guys, I promise you the fed knows wtf they're doing. These guys live and breath to be ready to respond to these type of emergencies.

There's no possible way this could go wrong.
Seems you're putting twitter above a country's health authority. That seems odd. Not necessarily wrong, just odd.
We need to pass legislation that includes 14 days of paid sick leave, waive all medical bills related to coronavirus, postpone all student loan payments. This is to minimize the impact to working members of society and to help ensure a swift recovery.

Republicans are currently blocking this.

If this continues to be blocked, we can expect to see 7% declines until such legislation is passed and the market sees that there is a path to recovery. Who knows maybe we’ll get another depression too.
I would encourage folks to go outside run, bike, hike, etc. There's plenty of healthy options that won't put you at risk from contracting the virus.
The decline in legitimacy would come from the devastating effects of shutting down trade with Canada.
Then saying "GitHub is acquiring NPM" would've been a more accurate way to say this.
Agree, What would you say would have been a better outcome? Google? Facebook? Microsoft has changed quite a lot, and in a good way.
My first reaction was ... “so Microsoft”. I’m with you on the positive path Microsoft have been on with OSS but also recall the not-so-recent history. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.
Repos have been able to provide artifacts since forever ago; they just don’t sit in the tree. While you can commit from an action, I’m not sure that’s a great idea.
Until it all runs out, I'd rather start with a situation where I have health insurances versus a situation where I don't.

In other words, I'd rather try to escape the encroaching fire in a Toyota than a Yugo.
I have found it to be the exact opposite, my parents are scared shitless and I am pretty indifferent.
I mean sure. If commit to spending even an hour a day on some sort of self-improvement activity, whether it's getting in shape or teaching yourself some new skill or whatever, you'll come out of this way better than you went in.
This isn't sequencing... you'd use sequencing to identify novel mutations or strains of the virus. This is a set of known PCR primers that amplify the virus's RNA. You could (in theory) also use a similar approach to identify specific strains of the virus, but this shouldn't be the priority at the moment.

While you could have an assay that used sequencing, it wouldn't be nearly as fast or cost efficient.
> I'm excited about the work that they're doing

Sounds like it won't be shielded from the cult-like MS mentality, then.
> Current installed solar capacity is like 650GW world wide

Synthetic fuel is derived from hydrocarbons assembled from atmospheric C02. It can be powered by anything. Installed solar is irrelevant.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/st...

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/ca...
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At least if I'm thinking of the same bug the code was this [0]:

static unsigned int tun_chr_poll(struct file *file, poll_table * wait)
{
struct tun_file *tfile = file->private_data;
struct tun_struct *tun = __tun_get(tfile);
struct sock *sk = tun->sk; // Dereference before null check!
unsigned int mask = 0;

if (!tun)
return POLLERR;

I haven't been able to find Linus's rant, so I'm not totally convinced that I have the right thing.

[0]: https://lwn.net/Articles/342330/
Healthcare that is not accessible without falling into debt and/or prison is poor healthcare, period.

To a sick person, it doesn't matter if they can't get themselves treated because the infrastructure doesn't exist or because the infrastructure exists but is out of their reach; they're dead either way in the long run.
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Do you think they're going to try and push us towards azure more, or force us into using Microsoft logins?
With these changes, I wonder how much this impacts gas purchases. If people are not going out for work, not going out to eat or shop, there has to be a massive reduction in gas purchases.
> The USA does not have “poor healthcare”, it has expensive healthcare.

So... it does not have healthcare for the poor? That's not good healthcare, is it?

> We cannot allow people to think that shitty but cheap and freely available healthcare somehow qualifies as a nation with “good healthcare”.

For some people, it is a choice between shitty healthcare, vs no healthcare.
That must make you nervous over at GitLab, no? GitLab's integrated workflow is one of its main selling points (I love it), and GitHub now seems to be well underway to cross that moat.
There seems to be a second virus in the west: DMTMW - dont mention the M word - M like mask.
Purely looking at the data, the doubling of the infection rate in western countries is between 2-3 days.

Looking at Asian countries:

Japan: 8-9 days - many people wearing masks

Thailand: 10+days - most people wearing masks

China: negative values - all people wearing masks (not just in Wuhan) and handsanitizer everywhere

Cost for masks: 0.2$/person per day.

Let's hope that China can ramp up the mask and hand sanitizer production to supply the rest of the world asap, because the west doesn't have the capability.
> A true poor healthcare nation would be somewhere where no amount of money could buy you any effective treatment.

That's precisely the worry here! If we don't keep COVID-19 spread low enough to stay within hospital capacity, no amount of money will be able to buy you treatment. Non-critical surgeries are already being postponed everywhere, even surgeries for earlier-stage cancers [1] – no matter how much you're willing to pay. Granted, not the normal case, but I'd consider ability to respond to pandemics part of the quality of a nation's healthcare system.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/us/coronavirus-covid-surg...
>Flying in airplanes is a mostly ineclastic good.

The last couple weeks have shown this to be quite untrue.
Re: The USA does not have “poor healthcare”, it has expensive healthcare.

It has both. We pay a lot and get less for it on average than other nations. It's done a few things better, like allowing newer cancer treatments, but that's an exception.
Who cares about Case Fatality Rate (the % diagnosed that die), it depends on how many cases are measured. What you need to base yourself on is estimated Infected Fatality Rate (the % infected that die) which is what the CDC states is about 0.1% for the seasonal flu in the US. In Korea the CFR is closing on the IFR as they're testing thousands of asymptomatic people, currently at 0.6% AFAIK.

Infected Fatality Rate will likely end up at 0.3% taking the diamond princess cruise ship as a model (this assumes access to quality care and a PCR false negative rate of 29% adjusted for the higher average age on the cruise).

Worst case: 327 million people * 0.6 (a worst case nr) * 0.005 = 981 000 dead.

More likely 30% gets infected, we figure out what treatment options are optimal and we end up with something like 30% infected and a 0.2% IFR = 196 000 dead.
Google doesn't index a lot of smaller Github repositories, or most of the code on Github for that matter.
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This is a marketing piece.
Eeehhh, this kind of comment erases a lot of the default things you get with Cocoa/AppKit (document handling, system integration, etc). These concepts aren't as widely understood as the concepts in web-dev-land because they're implementation specific, but they're pretty well designed and genuinely very powerful once you use them.

Xcode just hides them away from you, is all.
Reading between the lines I get the feeling we can't close the border and we're all in it together. There are towns where the border runs through the middle of town. Indian tribes that run through both. It would be extremely difficult to close the entire border.
I took a job at a small startup for a year. It was healthy for a number of reasons
-stable pay, rebuild savings
-catching up on new tech I had missed while being heads down
-larger teams, more socialization I had missed
-time and space to decompress and process what I have learned
You say these things like you know something about the field. In fact, we're talking about a technology for vaccination that is far less likely to work than many tried and true ones. It has never been FDA approved for anything.
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Can't Norway bail them out? It's not like they lack the capital, and they're the country largest airline.
Most of them? There's a world of difference between "we're competitors", or even "we think we're better"/"we deserve to win" vs "our competitors are Bad and should be the target of legal action".
Thanks the burning question I had was how it finds the base station again after roaming.