skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I understand your comment, so if my reply is off the mark, that's why.

I am not engaging in apologia. I'm looking at what we can practically expect right now.
In the $7.95 transaction, the buyer spent a higher percentage of their wealth buying the sweater than the $80 transaction today. By keeping the inflation adjusted price the same but boosting a buyer's disposable income, free trade has allowed the buyer to spend more of their income on other things within the domestic economy.

Multiply this scenario across every buyer (i.e. everyone) in the domestic economy, the increased productivity has allowed for more consumption and economic growth.

Let's consider the scenario in reverse, if keeping $7.95 locally is the best policy, would you advocate someone in California to not buy goods made in Missouri? After all, labor is much cheaper in Missouri. How about someone in San Francisco not buying goods from someone in Central Valley?

An average person could build a house themselves and keep the money they would spend in their "domestic" wallet economy instead of paying some contractor. Why do we hire contractors who might live in a far away town then? It's because it's mutually beneficial. I get a house that's better constructed faster than I could ever build it, the contractor gets compensated for their money. The time and productivity I saved in that transaction far outweighs the cost paid to the contractor.
Can you add your email address? In HN profiles the email field is hidden, the 'about' field is what other users can see.
It seems like an arbitrary threshold. It’s not like magically the market as soon as it crosses this arbitrarily defined line, we can now officially call it a “Bear market”.

On Monday, the market plunged but just shy of the bear market line. Today, it crosses it. I would have said it’s a bear market already because we can see somewhat into the future what’s gonna happen.

Does anyone know what heuristics go into determining this threshold?
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I first want to say I think companies should be paid for their services.

Everybody's first complaint is that history isn't preserved with Slack's free tier, but in practice it tends to enforce that those things should be in something more permanent and organized than chat.
The whole waiting months thing is so shameful, since it is a major talking point from people arguing in favor of the status quo. They point to wait times in Canada, which are entirely misinterpreted and never point to the fact that it can take months to see a specialist in your network in the US. Heck, the number of times I've been told "this Dr. is not taking any new patients" or some version of that, is astronomical.
Awesome, thanks for the info! I will gladly forward this up the chain to my boss, the first chance I get. I think this tool would be great for us, just had to be certain about that. I would love a self-hosting option, but I understand that your core business model might not allow for such an option.
That seems to be a cheerful economics standpoint that treats accounting as having primacy over physical supply of goods. It is good if they have a neat legal mechanism to stop companies going bankrupt but the economy is going to tank if everyone stays home and does nothing (or less than normal; in some roles that can work from home). Any economy that doesn't report that it is tanking is an economy built of lies and chicanery.

The economy isn't a GDP or stock market index; it is a complicated process for getting people what they want and need based on an estimate of how much we can afford to give them. It can't weather everyone parking up in any meaningful sense no matter what numbers are published in the ledgers.
Discord Increases Max Go Live Viewers to 50
I agree, it sucks. All I was saying is I think Google is also at fault for setting the stage for this. It looks like their gambit was litigation would be cheaper than licensing and now we all get to deal with the blowback from that.
CloudWatch Synthetics how to they compare to industry offerings
Several of my teams are looking at Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics. Who's using CloudWatch Synthetics today? How do they compare with industry offerings like Catchpoint?
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/01/amazon-cloudwatch-synthetics-available-13-additional-regions/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfKbCYzXPOY
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. We're all on approximately the same exponential trend as Italy, just a few days behind. The US, for example, is looking to be 11 days behind. Do nothing and we'll end up where they are now.

https://twitter.com/EcolEpig/status/1237430984678703104
To the author:
Can you please include a location column as well?
The non-remote companies don't have a location column and I'd like to skim past to see if any of them are near me.
You’ll be happy to know my runny nose has gone away!
The Wuhan authorities tried to silence her. There's no real reason to disbelieve their numbers now, beyond the problems of getting good numbers in a large country.

Read the WHO/China report. Or look at South Korea.
Interested to hear about real world usage.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/e1nu74/aws_silently_in...
The reason for these actions are that they can no longer track the infections.
> Maybe the best way to become a home owner in SF in the near future is to run around infecting everyone there ASAP.

Maybe this outbreak is the first of more to come and that this is actually a wake-up call that we shouldn't be glorifying or desiring residence in such densely populated areas like we have been.
one can wonder when Uber would get into the ambulance market.
Arthur Ganson’s “Machine with Concrete” (2012)
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Won't do what?
Crazy government
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/112...
Not having shoes on is my biggest perk of WFH. I do visit HQ few times a year and spending whole day with shoes indoor is something I can't stand.

It might be subconscious but having some of my 20 years old ripped punk t-shirt, sweatpants and not wearing socks is something that puts me into zone.
The old make it very difficult to own a home for the young. Maybe it’s time a large part died off?
It's drastic for authorities to make such a recommendation.
I would love to be involved with that book. I'm a data engineer myself and I have built SQLBucket, a python library I have been told is similar to getdbt.com (although I'm not familiar with DBT, the similarities have been mentioned to me on various occasions).

Shameless plug: http://github.com/socialpoint-labs/sqlbucket
Everything becomes politically feasible once the public appetite is changed by events. All the post 9/11 events in the US (Patriot act, Iraq war) would not have been politically feasible pre 9/11.
See this is what worries me. Software developers have long left security and privacy concerns to IT. But they can't produce force shields that magically protect apps or the data they can access. Developers will eventually have to take action and the longer that can is kicked, the more painful it will be.
Blackstone, Carlyle Urge Portfolio Companies to Tap Credit
And to expand on this.

This is a wildfire. Shutting things down slows the fire's movement which buys time to fully track it and isolate only the affected individuals.

Specific to Italy, their hospitals are already past the breaking point in many areas. So people that would be easy to treat with medical resources are dying because the resources are exhausted. By stopping the immediate spread by isolating everyone their hospitals can get to a stable point in a few weeks.
Contractors often buy some of their supplies in stores...

And depending on how badly something broke you do replace it. How many people do you know with 50 year old fridges?
As someone not from the EU, this is something totally insane and crazy. Once, after my country got out of the Soviet Union, the US was seen as the dreamland of everyone. Now.. I don't think so, when getting sick with something easily treatable will ruin your whole life. That's just not a place I'd like to live in.

Once I was on a date with a younger girl and she was going on about how she'd like to live in the US, and I, being kind of a nerd had a Sheldon type of moment told her how awful it is, and she said "thanks, you ruined my dream". And she was talking about how she spent a summer as a barmaid there, got tonsilitis, visited a doctor who made her take a test for tonsilitis and got billed for it. Here where I live.. you can see that when someone has 1) a high fever 2) inflammation in their tonsils 3) has a swollen throat and white stuff there because of it then they have tonsilitis and you don't need to make additional lab tests, because it's 100% obvious, you don't need to waste time and money on useless stuff.
> Then who are you talking about?

This question is so strange I don't know where to begin. Should I look up the percentage of the population that are scientists? Should I pull up an Amazon list of books popular in the 70s and 80s dealing with climate change? Should I start listing various forms of dysfunction in the 4th estate? Should we talk about the culture of activists?

Disseminating scientific knowledge correctly is a challenge in our society.
Amazon battles counterfeit masks, $400 hand sanitizer amid virus panic
To echo other comments, I've found this works for creative/fiction writing as well.

I forget where, but I once heard that writer's block is what happens when you try to create a final draft on the first try.
I live in Denmark and have been following this way too closely. I think we will be Italy within the next two weeks. Until today people have been completely unconcerned. But in the last three days the number of detected cases has jumped from 37 to 92 to 264 to 516. Nobody was taking this seriously until today, and there's just no way this hasn't already spread across the country undetected.
Italy should leave the EU now, before it’s too late.
I'm in a similar situation. I have a very large number of physical tics (classified as "tic disorder" and not "Tourette's" because mine are all nonverbal), and on top of that I have a massive number of sensory processing issues that make me react very strongly to any sensation on my body so I'm constantly addressing them, and I've long since decided I'd rather get the coronavirus than not touch my face. The coronavirus cause me less discomfort than not touching my face, by multiple orders of magnitude.
I guess we all had the same idea. My wife and I built https://www.donttouchface.com
There's a big difference between putting 500 kids in a building for eight hours a day and a bunch of small, clustered groups of kids forming for playdates.
When you say things like this, you come across as uninformed. Not smart.

Seriously, https://riskfinder.climatecentral.org/place/new-york.ny.us?c... shows you the worst projected flood in the next 30 years. As you can see, there is substantial damage, but the vast majority of New York will be fine.

And mitigation of that particular risk is available at a relatively cheap price of building dykes. Which is well-understood technology. In fact there is a country (the Netherlands) that in large part consists of reclaimed seabed kept dry through dykes.

About oil, oil isn't most of our economy. Believe it or not, people realize this and it won't actually change our economic system as much as you seem to think it will.

So yes, climate change is a real problem. But "OMG, NEW YORK IS ABOUT TO BE FLOODED AND OUR ECONOMY WILL END WITH OIL" is not supported by the evidence.
In this case, you’d refresh more often.
I like that you have a style for your UI that (at least looking at your other projects) is completely yours. I think more developers that release small projects all the time should do this.
> Well, they have seemingly largely recovered and move their way back to normalcy, as other countries started catching fire.

It's not time to start popping champagne bottles in China quite yet. They have a tiger by the tail. The country is shut down, and as they start rolling back travel restrictions it could easily blow up again. They still have well over a billion people who are vulnerable.

They just tried rolling back travel restrictions two days ago and immediately reversed course[1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-...
Ah yeah, you do have to signup to try it out (though it does start you off with demo data). We wanted to offer a non-login version but it makes things more complicated for a company that obviously needs to prioritize security highly.

This video is maybe the closest you can get without trying yourself - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBXMTipHGfQ
Do whatever it takes to get you in the working mood. All tips aim to solve this abstract problem. I used to move all the furniture in our NYC apartment and set up all my monitors, then take them all down and move it all back at the end of the day. Snacking was a problem so I had to meal prep. The funny thing is I don't even meal prep while at the office, but at home I needed to add that structure. Simply put, identify the many dimensions along which you suck at and implement robust rules, blockers, systems or penalties to save you.
Even if you match their level of polish (which is nearly impossible due to manpower), why would someone use an unknown service over theirs?

I think this follows the other reply: you should offer something different that's attractive enough for a client to pick your service over theirs. Something you enable or focus on that Stripe can't.

Usually this happens because they'd have to sacrifice the experience of a much larger group of clients or your niche is too small to be worth it for a team at a bigger company.

The bet is that serving this new group/need will help you a)end up with a profitable group of customers that grows and/or b)end up developing a user-base/feature-set that makes it easy for you to expand to other users/products and steal market from the bigger competitor.
even that is just silly. it is true only when the idea devolves into that kind of tautology.

I would obviously let it slide if I needed this kind of thing, but it is clearly cruft.
> i would assume the best insurance possible

That's usually not a good assumption to make, not even among the FANG. There is extreme variability even with the same insurance company, depending on the negotiation between the company and the provider. And very few companies actually have any incentive to even provide the best 'possible' coverage.
This is a brilliant concept. Hosts could keep a feed of their appearances, but it would be interesting for someone to make a site that tracked this sort of thing (using user-submitted links I suppose).
$13.95:

https://www.amazon.com/Free-Live-Womens-Cardigan-Sweater/dp/...

You're also both times looking at sources direct from China, which are taking advantage of that Universal Postal Union treaty situation that makes it cheaper to ship from China to the US than to ship within the US. If they were paying market rates for shipping the shipping from China would itself be more than $2.90. Notice how similar sweaters on Amazon end up being closer to the price of the made in USA one (or more) even when they're made in China, because then they're being shipped from within the US. (This is also why comparing wholesale prices is more relevant; the "free shipping" that gets incorporated into the price is less of the total.)

And it's difficult to even find non-boutique apparel made in the US at this point, because most of the ones that try to compete on price rather than status then lose to China on price by a small percentage and go out of business. But the boutique prices don't represent what it actually costs to manufacture in the US, they're just the ones who can stay in business in the US.
I get that it's just an example but there would be much lower priced locally manufactured goods if they didn't have to compete directly with imports in that market segment.
Related Italy thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22545430
The provider was paid 3,000 by the payor - that's how insurance billing works. It absolutely is a rats nest when it comes to finding out pricing information but the number on the bill is what ended up changing hands (less, possibly, any amount not covered and defaulted on by the patient).

I believe you're thinking of the provider's chargemaster and the pricing discrepancies there - this procedure was billable as 10,000 to a patient without insurance with the 7,000 discount being the payor's preferred rate - that 10k is the BS number that (mostly[1]) no one ever pays, while this 3k is the actual amount changing hands - for the patient the out of pocket cost is the most visible portion, but that bill was fully paid.

1. Mostly everyone except for the uninsured or out of network - those folks will get stuck with that BS price 7k price, which is there since payors always want to feel like they're paying discount prices.

(edit - corrected numbers to be in line with the actual bill)
Fewer people means less carbon emissions. More people means more carbon emissions.

On the other hand, fewer people means lower oil prices, which increases carbon emissions.

Hard to say what the net effect will be.
Happy to answer questions about remote as well!

Loads of guides in the links Sid mentioned.

Plenty to watch in our Remote Work playlist at GitLab Unfiltered: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL05JrBw4t0Kq7QUX-Ux5f...

We're doing a webinar on Friday (2020-03-13) and would be happy to answer Qs there as well: https://gitlab.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hSUtLvcSTsqQ7ftNb...
Better that companies are putting dollars to creating tutorials, education, helping people directly instead of more banner ads.
Actually, it is completely legal to yell fire in a crowded theater. What you are not allowed to I am not sure why people continue to use this tired excuse. What is illegal is wanting to harm people by yelling fire in a crowded theater that is not actually on fire, although it is also illegal to knowingly hide that the theater is on fire.

Nevertheless the reference itself comes from a really terrible case where the supreme court wrongly infringed on the rights of a war dissenter. It is not a concept that ought to be continued to be parroted.
Yes. That happens routinely, usually but not always, if society deems your free will is a threat to it.
Unfortunately, it looks like any interface is a potential for a side channel…
Is this a lot different for a kid moving into a school that's six months or more ahead in terms of the things taught?
=/ As a COBOL dev I have a great time incoming. Hoooraaaayyyy...
Insphpect – Code review tool that scans PHP code for poor OO design
I would love to see hardware startups attempting a remote model. I think that there is a lot that could be done remotely even in the hardware space. New web-based tools like Onshape enable easy remote collaboration. I could imagine services that do all assembly/prototyping/debugging so engineers don't need to have labs in their homes.
> I'm sure someone said something dumb

Yes, just one person.

Edit: I try not to engage with people who use this kind of rhetorical technique. If anyone else is honestly ignorant of and curious about the damaging effects that decades of climate alarmism has had on some people's trust, you need only Google. For example: "bad climate change predictions"

In my opinion, the problem still exists and it is important to be honest about the elements (activists, journalists, politicians) who are on the 'right side' of the discussion but do a poor job of representing the data.
My friend made this newsletter, the "Work From Home Times" if you're interested: https://wfhtimes.substack.com/, which has lots of good ideas and will be updated daily!
Are you really arguing that shutting down schools does not set students back educationally?

The prevention measures obviously do hurt the youth the most. Maybe you calculate on the balance it's worth doing, but there's really no question that the shutdown does impact students more than retirees.
I've definitely heard this several times that "a higher power in AA can be anything, it can be the fire extinguisher on the wall!".

But if that were really the intent of the program then why do they have a prayer where they ask capital-G-God for help every meeting?
wow. Five years ago? the thunder on the horizon was all the way back in 2002 when Japanese automotive manufacturers began ripping apart the luxury market with Lexus/etc...

Lee Iacocca tried to help and really did in a lot of ways, by consolidating Chryslers various drivetrain and option specifications into tighter platforms...i believe at the time his strategy was likened to Taco Bell's toppings. Its exactly what Japanese automakers pioneered for their dive into Luxury. Take an existing platform and powertrain, and "goose" it with a few luxury features. Then, break the bank on marketing (which is all luxury brands really are anyway these days.) switches and buttons for seat options came prewired into the base models, but were built out in the luxury models, so this saved a lot of time and money. regular shocks, coilovers, struts, etc...were swapped for primo, and the seat design was slapped up with leather instead of cloth. you can do this and it does work.

Fast forward to 2015 and the auto industry learned bupkis from their crow dinner at congress begging for handouts in 2008. Chrysler basically blocked the memory out entirely, dove hard off the deep end and came out with garbage like the hellcat. Its not even in the top 20 fastest cars, and most importantly its a loss leader with custom engine work, custom drivetrain, custom paint, etc...that is shared by no model. people want reliable cars with good gas mileage and good performance like the Ford Focus and its ST counterpart which were well executed. Ford of course then immediately turned around and wiped out their car divisions entirely under the assumption all americans will drive SUV's and trucks forever. maybe so, but the electric mustang crossover is dead on arrival at sixty grand if its still getting its doors blown off by a used model S with a 'baby on board' sticker.

Bureaucrats didnt help this capital addiction either. You could argue this 'ignore the real problems' stuff started in 2008 when boomers in congress shook their fists and demanded Pontiac die, and Buick get to live, when Pontiac was clearly a stronger company with a better offering for customers than Buick who at the time was living off fumes from the Lucerne and Lacross, two virtually indistinguishable cars which were getting creamed by Cadillacs CTS and V platforms that targeted a younger and hipper trend. Pontiac basically prayed at the altar of Iacocca with the G6, the G8, and the Solstice, and their willingness to damn the consequences and innovate was already on display with the Aztek...whereas Buick was still hucking 80's designs around their Lucerne. Look at a 2008 Honda dashboard, then look at a 2008 lucerne dashboard. Buick is alive solely thanks to geriatric politicians.
We changed the URL from https://www.forexlive.com/news/!/coronavirus-italy-has-order... to one that seems to have more information.
Actually this was dicouraged by a doctor. Grandparents usually belongs to the extract group who's exposure we're trying to limit