skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VS Code is also spyware; I am not sure that this argument furthers your intended point.

The fact that it is open source and popular is not sufficient on its own. It had to be forked (vscodium) to show basic respect for the user’s privacy and system resources.
okay, that's a pretty obvious solution that I missed. I guess it might not be acceptable for a "work" or "offroad" vehicle to have delicate components placed so low, but it would certainly be okay for most of what these vehicles actually get used for.
First of all, thank you very much for reasoning instead of downvote, swear & deny. I really do appreciate it.

I do - over the last 10 years of extensive money printing companies seemed to be healthy, but gathered structural problems, which were not only not solved, but deepened by expanding regulations and such. Just before the crisis started most of the investment grade instruments were BBB (one slight blow away from junk).[0]

In December there was a presentation by the local Mieses Institute where a hypotetical scenario similar to what is happening right now (it was a war near EU + another migrant wave leading to in-EU border closures and state of emergency in multiple countries) was played out. What was predicted is extremely similar to what is playing out right now, though the initial shock was supposed to be weaker. I am really sorry the presentation was not in English, it really had all my thoughts put together in a very coherent way.

Keep in mind that the 30% drop is just market panic. There have been no bankrupcies, defaults and layoffs yet. This is when the fun is going to start.

Another thing that was predicted exactly was that if you look deeper, beyond the indexes, at how the first tranche of the $1.5 trillion package was spent you'd see that hot companies like MSFT restored their value, while troubled ones like UAL received almost nothing. So the bankrupcies, defaults and layoffs have not yet begun and we are already 30% down. What is going to remain after they're done?

0. OECD - "Figure 8. Composition of the investment and non-investment grade categories" https://www.oecd.org/corporate/Corporate-Bond-Markets-in-a-T...

P.S. The rest of the OECD report makes for a very very interesting reading in a time like these. But what you're looking for in it is how at year 2000 most common investment grade is A followed by AA and BBB about even, while now it is a total clusterfuck (with apologies).
As much as I love public transport, universal lack of it accompanied by having nearly 1 car per person on average during pandemic is good.
I just don't see how these closures aren't going to ripple through the global economy. The market is down 25% YTD after two desperate stimulus measures - $1.5T injection and interest rates cut to zero.

What are you going to prop up when world travel and trade is shut down? And domestic regions are locked down too?

The kicker is that we had been seeing negative long term indicators for a while before this - inverted yield curve, and long overdue for the approximately 7 year recession cycle, among other indicators.

I would love to be convinced otherwise but, regardless of the outcome of the 2019ncov situation, this is shaping up to be a trigger for a global recession, possibly a depression. Modern society cannot sustain itself indoors without radical measures. The vast majority of people probably work at jobs that cannot be performed remotely.
Sorry but the idea that Disney's execs would dumb down Apple is just ridiculous. I'd thoroughly recommend you look up what analysts think of Disney's performance as a company. They kick butt. Just because they run theme parks and make movies instead of producing little blocks of aluminium and glass doesn't make them stupid.
The solution to the problem you are describing is to stop tailgating.
Agreed. Had the same experience after getting dropped from my own company by the board politically, although the business was booming. Though tried to join few corporate as a entrepreneur in house, but didn't work out. Its better to recover with small group of folks rather than big ones. It bring back the morality.
This isn't because we are bad at it but rather because of politics and some being idiots.
You don't need a separate blockchain (for the actual code stored in the repo). Git already provides hashing. How do you propose to deal with merges across half a dozen different repositories, though?
I would say it does a lot better than just cancer treatments. However, cost and accessibility is probably the biggest problem. Health care is also just one those things that don't follow a normal supply and demand graph.

Like in the extreme if you need a certain drug or procedure to survive you will pay whatever you can. You're basically held hostage. Like take a look the costs for the latest hepatitis C treatments. It's basically extortion in my opinion.
This happens all the time, to famous and non-famous people. US citizens have no rights to enter Canada. Also the right to refuse people actually further legitimizes the Canadian Government.
> 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

Because we need planes. Or, to put it more simply, countries that fly will outperform those that don't.

Hydrocarbons are a great energy store. And we have a global fleet that burns them. For cars, we can go electric. But for weight-sensitive uses, it doesn't make sense to go battery.

There will always be Luddites who advocate a permanent quarantine. But if that's the only solution, we'll stick with the status quo. And the status quo is untenable.
New record set for integer factorization
Trump has absolutely no credibility or talent for handling it

You say there are other people who can but this ignores the general corruption and lack of talent in this administration as well as the fact that Trump frequently gets in the way of the few people who are talented and trying to take helpful steps
There are lots of cases of diseases spreading from one plane passenger to another.

That's part of the reason the airline requires you to sit in allocated seats - so they can notify the people sitting in neighbouring seats if you have a notifiable disease.

My personal hypothesis is the low pressure ultra-low humidity air in planes dries out mucus membranes in the nose and throat making it more likely for airborne things to get in.
I am new to HN. If you down-vote me, please let me know why.

I'd like to understand what drives decisions around these parts.
? This is regular PR speak.
For those who can afford US healthcare.
I agree the commodification of social relations definitely results in bad outcomes for mental health. Terms like the "sexual marketplace" are particularly abhorrent.
So, because they have a shared underlying cause they don't count?

There seems to be this weird idea floating around that because this financial crisis was triggered by events in the real economy (instead of a financial crisis blowing up the real economy, like normal) it somehow doesn't count or it's overblown or something. Just look at the rest of the sentence I quoted: "and I think we know roughly how bad this can and will get and it is not financial crisis worthy."

Airline stocks have tanked because way less people are flying. Movie theater stocks have tanked because way less people are going to movies. This financial crisis seems to be firmly rooted in real world events. These companies are truly worth a lot less than they were a month ago.
These are students, they don't have cars.. At least not here maybe they buy one when they get to the US :)
> If we collectively want to create and share data that will be accessible to older and younger generations, and build applications which stand the test of time, it'd help if the foundations we're building on (i.e. native SDKs, APIs, file formats, and platforms) stop shifting every few years.

Except everything requires a remote server nowadays which likely won't be there to "stand the test of time", so that point is moot..
Sure, and perhaps a solution for America would include work and study permits alongside permanent residence in the category of exceptions.
After the shock, ad industry grimly prepares for a prolonged downturn
"Why do I need to download a PDF to read what is ‘Inside the Black Box’?

This is a little disingenuous to the point of almost gaslighting.

You need to 'click on a PDF' because it's 60 full pages of dense data in a spreadsheet.

It's 100% reasonable to provide a link to that data, it's exactly the right thing to do.

It's also fully reasonable to provide links to tweeting about specific issues, that's how information is shared in 2020.

Though on a level it's 'marketing' - the claims are that Google is in existential violation the law, this is not Walmart proclaiming they have 'lower prices and better service than Target'.
The irony is that airlines because they are running such a tight rope profitability wise has to make 'extras & service' cost money to be profitable. And the definition of extras is ambiguous to say the least.

As an industry they provide an exceptional service, but it's rarely that they as comapnies are profitable over time.
Masks don’t help for catching the virus (materially) - better to wash hands.
Masks do help with curbing transmission from infected, and are also needed for healthcare workers.

Please don’t waste masks when you could get significantly better benefit by regularly washing your hands and not putting your fingers in your mouth
Don’t jump into startups right away. Find a company to work for, preferably one which is interesting and positive (not just any stable BigCo but not someone else’s 4 people startup either). Do that without imposing any time limit - when you’re mentally ready, the startup bug will bite. That time you’ll be better all around.
Im really hoping the Premiers now start closing businesses and shut stuff down.
Well to his point the headline doesn’t say “poor healthcare system” it says poor healthcare.
A 0% false positive rate is not possible. What if they switch your sample with someone else's while it's being handled by a human?

Edit:

>That means if the test says you have Coronavirus, you have it.

This line implies the parent comment is talking about the false positive rate of the entire testing process that results in you being told you're infected, not PCR as a platonic ideal, theoretical process.
How big does a display have to be for 8k to be meaningful? It seems like you hit a point of diminishing returns with resolution: in terms of resource requirements (GPU, VRAM etc.) the cost goes up parabolically, and beyond a certain point it seems really hard to tell the difference.
In your .bashrc (or whatever config file is run whenever you open up a new terminal).

fortune | cowsay

And voilà, you have a little quote running in your cow friend whenever you open up your terminal.

Also: Does anyone have any more good fortune files? I only have the fortunes that came preinstalled on Ubuntu but would love to have more.
>'It’s a fact, I mused to myself, that in societies like ours sex truly represents a second system of differentiation, completely independent of money; and as a system of differentiation it functions just as mercilessly. The effects of these two systems are, furthermore, strictly equivalent. Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women, others with none. It’s what’s known as ” the law of the market”. In an economic system where unfair dismissal is prohibited, every person more or less manages to find their place. In a sexual system where adultery is prohibited, every person more or less manages to find their bed mate. In a totally liberal economic system certain people accumulate considerable fortunes; others stagnate in unemployment and misery. In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.'
All are treated regardless.
> They only thing anyone has lost here is momentary convenience.

No, what we all lost here all the other meta-information which is not code, but is still part of the project.
If you are a company that wants to sell a test, you will definitely say it's a "far better test". Whether it actually is a better test is a much different story.
Li-Fi Scrubs into the Operating Room
Work a job as normal and boring as you can find. Boring is, boring. But boredom is a good way to build up energy for a future run at a startup.

Also, one thing you lose working in a startup for a long period of time is perspective on what "normal" problems are. Which is why so many startups look like they only target other startups. The best ideas come from working in an industry long enough to understand the specifics about a problem, how to solve it, and who would buy it.
If nuclear is on the table, then okay maybe but it would take decades and many billions of $ to ramp up capacity. Solar was just an example, but all of the renewables will have the same problems I mentioned, there is no way you are going to get that scale of renewable capacity installed and running just for the aviation industry any time soon. And as for fossil fuels... what? I don't even understand, why would you use fossil fuels to extract CO2 out of the air, that makes no sense...
Use the search, 90% of them don't get voted up. I've worked for years on things in the dustbin of popularity
Except nobody I know who uses C holds that view. I'm sure they exist, but without a unifying view there is no cult.
C is a well established and widely known language with many uses. It's certainly not right for everything.
Who is the one with extreme views here?
Starting a brand-new business to compete with an established monopoly/duopoly/oligopoly that's capital intensive doesn't seem like a thing that's likely to happen.

If people decided to enter markets purely based on profits then shouldn't there be a bunch of competitors for Google's search engine biz?
It's not clear to me that Apple made any money directly in the (alleged) price fixing scheme. All the items sold to consumers were ultimately manufactured by Apple, and I don't think it's disputed that Apple can set the prices it charges distributors (or the prices it charges consumers for items sold through the Apple Store itself).

What Apple is NOT allowed to do is tell distributors how much to charge THEIR customers. But that does not directly affect their bottom line; if anything, it's more of a long term effect of price stability or a certain structure of distributor networks.
Why are flu tests so much slower and more expensive?
> Using technology from home pregnancy and malaria tests, its saliva and finger-prick kit could be ready for sale by June for less than $1 apiece.

Based on this, I'd guess they are talking about an antibody based test. There are point of care Influenza tests that work on the same principle. Probably not as sensitive as a PCR test, but definitely cheaper and faster -- if you can get a good antibody.
Surely the US is the last place you want to accept people from (from a health point of view)
Gov is handing out money like the printing presses are fired up, everyone will be asking. The major US carriers are not in terrible shape unlike Norwegian.
You can bar people but still allow trade. The economy is going to grind to a halt regardless.
> It's actually quite easy to self-quarantine everyone over 70, since they're receiving government assistance anyway (Social Security). But now there are already thousands of job losses from young, healthy, productive people that have almost zero chance of dying from this disease.

Your suggestion is indistinguishable from no quarantine at all (not to mention being incredibly ageist, as there are millions of economically productive 70+ year olds). You forgot the part where even a 'healthy' 25 year-old can spread the disease to others, even if mild or no symptoms appear.
The endgame is to figure out the least cost sustainable measures of getting R0<1 until we have a vaccine or treatment safe enough for people in high risk groups to take.
I’ve been there. It was incredibly stressful and tiring, especially towards the end. I could not focus on anything for weeks after, let alone think about starting something new.

Give yourself some time. Eat, sleep, work out, live - chances are you might not have done much of that lately. I would suggest travel, but maybe not right now :)

Look after yourself first, allow yourself to be bored again, the creativity and the itch will come back. But you can’t force it if you’re running on empty.
this is such a great answer. thank you, i'll really think about this!
Isn't SfB (neé Lync) still available as self-hosted ("on-prem") solution? Of course it's not necessarily exactly "good" but it exists and can work
True, kind, and necessary. Ideally all three, but try for at least two.
To be fair if Republican Senators had simply done their jobs and removed him from office we would at least be in a somewhat better position today
I changed the URL from https://plainlanguage.gov/resources/ to the item on the list that has the most information.

Lists tend not to make great HN submissions because there isn't much to discuss beyond the lowest commmon denominator of the items on the list. That leads to generic discussions and specific discussions are better.

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Funny article my coworker shared about everyone being home: https://babylonbee.com/news/nations-nerds-wake-up-in-utopia-...
Can you give any examples in the last 10-15 years?
Microsoft Teams went down for two hours as Europe logged in
Change WiFi name to stop coronavirus spread
The thought that's going into Deno about permissions and upstream package issues have me considering it where I've generally rejected node.js for anything serious (also recognizing that it's probably early for production use).
Like that's good to hear. That's an order magnitude more, but still pandemic could easily overwhelm what is available.
My partner is a k-12 teacher who has been told to wfh. This is relatively uncharted territory. I don't envy her. She's trying to figure out how to support students in households without internet, with parents who are technologically illiterate, in households with very high risk individuals, etc. These are hard problems in a functioning society. I might get laid off this week too. I don't look forward to being cooped up inside for weeks to months. I guess I can keep trying to learn web dev to keep my mind busy, at least until we get evicted from our home.
> I just don't see how these closures aren't going to ripple through the global economy.

I can see it not rippling if (a) a vaccine comes out in time, or (b) people just give up and work anyway, accepting coronavirus as a risk of life. Unlike sacrificing everything for the sake of not getting coronavirus, that can actually go on indefinitely.
You're right, US healthcare treats everyone as equals.
For context, the US has 330M people. So $1k per person is a $330B expense.

The Fed, which has no legislative oversight on this kind of thing, lowered interest rates to 0% and is buying $700B of treasuries to stabilize the banks. So you know, only twice that much authorized to make things marginally better for banks and the stock market.

So I think maybe pretend that it was actually $2k per person. Other than losing your job this seems like a reasonable amount to hunker down and not eat out or go to events for 6 weeks. But if you lose your job long term... I think the effect is going to be much longer than a few weeks of people working from home.
So when things go south, you go north?
Workers at largest US companies are not covered under coronavirus aid package
> it would take decades and many billions of $ to ramp up capacity.

As would re-tooling (a) the economy to be less reliant on travel or (b) the entire aviation fleet to be e.g. battery-electric. Change is expensive. We're comparing costs, and when I've done that, synethetic fuel is the best near-term, i.e. within 50 years, solution.

> why would you use fossil fuels to extract CO2 out of the air

Big plants (can) burn much cleaner than jet engines. (Also, it's an interim step.)
Twilio just released a (mostly) full featured client for their Programmable Video service: https://github.com/twilio/twilio-video-app-react

We decided to roll this out to our users as a free service for 6 months. Our users are small business owners in the physical meat-world and don't typically have a Zoom subscription already.

I made a couple tweaks to the app- namely to be able to embed as an iFrame into our web application (and pass the room+user name in as GET parameters).

It works great! We've deployed it to Twilio's infrastructure so we didn't have worry about any of that. Will be rolling out to users today.
Well, this comparison seems to be close enough. What about VSCode and Github itself?
To post the other side, my truck's stock headlights were dangerously dark. At night I could see about 20ft in front of me and couldn't distinguish the difference between wet pavement and a puddle, even with my high beams on.

There are a limited selection of aftermarket lights available. I bought LED replacements and aimed them as well as I could. They're about 3ft above the ground (stock height) so there's not much I can do about them shining into other cars. It's the height that makes them bad. If they had positioned them lower it would be much better.
It depends on what the alternative is. When NPM starts running out of money to run the service what would happen? More VC, but only to a point and the firms would be increasingly be influencing NPM to make money by any means(probably not good for anyone but the firms). Alternatively a cash strapped NPM fails to invest in security and availability of the service leading to widespread outages or worse a large scale supply chain attack facilitated via the registry.
"masks and test kits". Epidemiologists say masks are practically useless against virus. The one that is effective with special training is useless without.
Very cool!

Noticed first Death and Peak also appear to be sliders, a bit unclear how these are supposed to be used.
> until we get evicted from our home.

Sheriffs in a few places are not evicting due to risk of infection...
But not millions of kids, not here, they are running around the neighborhood screaming their lungs out unsupervised. Bringing that virus home to their parents. At night the teenagers hang out in the parking lot and drink/smoke. People just do not get it or more likely just do not care. It's one big holiday for the carefree.

You can do everything right, be responsible for yourself and family but your town is as screwed as the weakest link which are the thoughtless who do not give a darn and no-one can stop them.
Resume work after countries have the capacity to test everyone who has a fever. Maintain strong hygiene and social distance if possible. Firefight clusters of outbreaks where they occur. Wait for treatment and vaccine.
Now this is a comment worthy of being pinned.
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Next in line is Canonical.
That was because CI/CD costs, if you can get without, the hosting will cost small fraction.
A tall profile is pretty much inevitable for vehicles that carry cargo. Even places with strict pedestrian safety standards haven't solved that.
What makes you think that things are so much better in Canada? There are so many problems here.. the grass is always greener.
Uh, if they don’t use it then the cost/benefit ratio is even more balanced over to the cost. The point is that the cost was never consulted in the first place when the benefit was sought.
People don’t get laid off.
And you don't see any problem with extensions being prohibited?