skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> engaging in prepper fetishes

That's exactly how I feel about stuff like that. I had only heard a quarantine's amount, but given the amount of made up stuff going around, I was hoping there'd be some sort of expert explaining the logic, and for it not to be just prepper fever.
Interesting - your response makes sense. Thanks again for the information.
> Socialization would see the government forcibly taking control of these corporations.

That's not what Socialism is.
> Employees usually receive shares as comp, don't they?

Very rarely do employees receive equity as compensation.
And don't forget "let 9 fail to find 1 unicorn" VCs!
> Employees usually receive shares as comp, don't they?

Non-voting shares, yes. Voting shares are usually only given to very senior people, if ever, and not nearly enough to form anything close to a controlling ownership of the company.

> I will say that the horror stories and bad press coming out of the video gaming industry will possibly have a chilling effect for new grads who would otherwise jump straight into it. Eventually management will run out of non-union workers to hire. Or the non-union workers themselves will demand better treatment.

Decades of game development suggests otherwise. Like acting, it's people's dream job. And when the supply of labor exceeds the demand workers do not have leverage.
Airbnb updates Extenuating Circumstance policy with Covid-19
SARS was highly invective several days after first symptoms.
SARS stooped because people who had it could be contained.
There is no evidence that warmer months helped in any way. It's one of these modern myths or however we call them.
Who Should We Blame for Coronavirus?
Yes, I agree on the last part. Thats why my OP stated a "nice setup". I think people should be comfortable when they work. Otherwise they will find reasons to not work, specially when un(der)supervised. Thus I think people should have higher quality monitors, decent chairs, adjustable height desks etc. I work fully remote, so a printer/scanner is a must, as i have no office to go to. I just look around my office and see lots of expenses... keyboard + mouse was $200.
I wonder if custom domain names are supported on the private APIs now with HTTP.
Torra has asked for it, but that doesn’t mean it has taken effect. With the mistrust between the Catalan and central government, let’s see what happens.
During a local non-profit board election I once voted in, one of the candidates' position statements was a single sentence: I may not have a lot skills, but I'm really good at writing checks.
Wh0am1's Memex
> You had every expert in the world talking about the potential dangers for months?

Experts have been also talking about dangers of climate change for years, yet Trump manages to win election while calling climate change a hoax. So not sure his base cares about expert advice.

>while Trump kept talking about how it was just a flu that would magically go away on its own, and that there wasn't anything to be concerned with.

You should read trump's tweets, there is a shockingly large number of people agreeing with him on this like everything.

As long as trump can manage to limit the damage to the US, he will have strong arguments for a re-election.
"Sorry, your pin can't be used because someone else already used it"

https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-a...
The annoying thing is not being able to get tested.

I'm in self-isolation, have a bunch of symptoms that might be coranavirus, or just the usual cold/flu.

If I could get tested then I could get back on with stuff once it's cleared, help cover for people who haven't got it yet etc
Kind of odd, being an employee there, I've never heard of eleven of the twelve board members before.
Seriously, I'd like to see more about your Lisp DSLs controlling C, C++ code generation. I'm intrigued.
I wonder if companies are going to shuffle the books a bit to push losses to this quarter and the next so they can blame the virus?
I can't speak for them, but I'd imagine an international hotel chain would have some unique views on things like travel trends.
Interesting! I was wondering why KangarooTwelve[1] did something different and appends the customization string instead of prepending it.

I thought it was a bit annoying because it doesn't allow you to pre-compute the customization string, but I hadn't think of your usecase.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-cfrg-kangarootwelve-0...
Very astute. You'd think it took a Bill Gates to know that the market is closed for the weekend.
I noticed a code the Forest Service used on some gates in Colorado: 1776.
Other than for statistics and tracking the spread are tests really needed at this point? Is there an advantage to seeing a positive/negative test result for a patient.

As there isn't a treatment plan and it seems like recommendations are for anyone with cold symptoms to self quarantine for 2 weeks+.

I feel like it's so wide spread now we just have to ride it out, use social distancing, avoiding events/meetings to try to minimize/stretch out the peak number of cases.

Maybe save the test kits for when we do have a reliable treatment. Or better yet if the treatment is safe and inexpensive hand it out like candy.
For decades there was no interest nor action towards unionizing in game development. Greater scrutiny into the industry from modern game journalism, and perhaps worsening experiences as the industry heads towards Hollywood-like AAA titles produced by monolithic studios, is surely causing something to change.
So some of these graphs remind me of benford’s law, something you see in a lot of number sets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law
Yeah candidate vaccines are easy, proven, safe, working ones hard.

However the Chinese seem prepared to cut corners on the testing and that:

"Coronavirus vaccine could be ready by April, Chinese officials say" https://nypost.com/2020/03/10/coronavirus-vaccine-could-be-r...
It's not a bad idea to conjecture about, but it's not very useful as far as implementations go. Brainstorming possible ways in which users might be offended by software and trying to mitigate said hypotheticals is not very productive. Furthermore, there are consequences of trying to avoid offending people. If this automated email wasn't sent, this blog author would suddenly gotten a roommate with no warning. Would that have been a better situation?

A lot of these things cannot feasibly be thought of in advance, and the offense is often more due to ignorance of the automated nature of the system. E.g. at a coding summer camp people received passwords with two random words and two random numbers. Profanity was blacklisted as well as some number combinations (69, 88, maybe more). One class had someone take offense at the password "bloodyunhappy12" - thinking this was a derogatory reference to menstruation. Are we really going to try and think of every pair of words that might cause offense? Letting people pick their own passwords meant a lot of people had insecure passwords, so this random words + numbers was the best approach. Similarly an airline got in trouble for generating a confirmation code "H8GAYS": https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adriancarrasquillo/delt...
Some Cloudflare IPs not reachable
I was thinking about Second Life the other day, and how it seems to be in a position to be useful in this situation. Looks like they think so, too.
That does not work.

Given the looooooooong history of people on the internet not believing that, I preemptively invite you to implement it. If you could make it work there's big money to be made.

More constructively and with less effort, while https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/42464/are-there-any-c... on the surface doesn't seem to address your scene, if you think about it for long enough, you'll find it does.
Because Bob puts others at risk by using an insecure device.
This exists for dating, eg Happn. Doable.
DE is how you finally get rid of them. You need a bed that has posts and doesn't touch a wall, under each bed post you place a 'bed bug trap' (see YouTube, can make yourself with a glue gun and two metal pieces that fit inside each other). Dust the bug trap with DE. Have a pro exterminator spray your baseboards and lightly dust them with DE too. If you buy a new mattress get a bed bug cover for it and your pillows. The washer doesn't kill them but a dryer on reg heat setting does. All else fails you call a company that specializes in high heat extermination (prob expensive).

You have to repeat this for months redusting traps (and dusting baby powder on inside of traps so they can't climb out). Eventually the DE kills them all or they move to sucking your neighbor's blood.
Please move your medium blog to your own blog. I cannot the read the blog without signing in and when I do sign in, it shows paywall.
Also it seems like the sort of proposal that 45 would be willing to consider.
It seems like he's laser-focused on global health at the B&MGF with some occasional videos about books, tech and trends. Corporate governance may seem to him less interesting at this stage.
I used to be big into Second Life... a long time ago. Its not "bad" because it's old, but it never really took off beyond the initial craze of "this is going to be the next internet!". I remember visiting the Reuters "office" in SL ( https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/reuters-opens-virtual... )... that closed down just a couple years later ( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2008/nov/23/reut... ).

Last time I checked it out, it was a very different world. Fairly stagnant overall. Except for the furries and adult content. Not that there is anything wrong with those things, but do you want to be taking your school kids on a virtual field trip with that?
RIP Yahoo Mail!

It would be nice to have that history, but easy come easy go.

Excited to see what Basecamp/37 signals does with Hey.com.
Can US citizens be denied entry to the US?
> It definitely has a lot of potential but nobody is going to re-assign a bunch of engineers to code up a solution to their immediate need for massive teleconferencing capabilities today

No, but I bet a lot of places are (like the big enterprise shop I'm in) both scaling out their existing solutions for things like conferencing and VDI that were initially chosen to support more limited use and starting to consider long-term solutions to support more comprehensive at-need remote work.
How I run one-on-ones as a remote manager
I remember when it was fiery hot, but I haven't heard it mentioned once in the last decade.
Much better when you have a pandemic going on. A friend of mine who is a CFO told me this sort of thing is used by CFOs in all companies to "clean the balance sheets" of bad news. Basically writing off things and taking losses with the excuse "the <name> disaster has really hit us hard but we expect to emerge stronger than ever."

The reason for this strategy is that it is difficult for an aggravated shareholder to prove that the thing they are writing off was their fault. It is a giant get out of jail free card for contradicting any previous guidance or other statements simply "because disaster."

As a result, the statements from companies on their Q1 results will be a lot of "we've been hit hard by this disaster" and they will dump a lot of things off their balance sheets that they should have dumped off prior to this, take a hit in their stock price but no one will be "guilty" of causing the stock price hit, "because disaster."
> It doesn't. No one is actually worshipping modern superheroes. No one believes superheroes actually exist, or ever existed, and can intercede on their behalf they way they might angels or other deities.

I'm not sure the latter was something that the ancient people thought possible. If somebody you worship actually exists or existed, is of little importance to the impact they have on the lives of humans.

Fans build shrines for their favorite characters, take them as rolemodels, draw strength from their stories, discuss them as if they were real persons.

Fictional characters often influence people much more than real people.
You are right. My apologies for the mixup and thanks for the clarification.
Ah neat. That's cool. I like that. It could also be like fixed below usage and per GB above to mirror the costs. Essentially, small enough that a normal consumer won't see a problem but your torrent 24x7 guy is paying his dues.

I have gigabit fibre here in SF and if I ran at full tilt I'm doing 100 MB/s × 3600 s/hr × 0.01 cents / GB × 0.01 GB / MB = 36 cents / hr. And that's $260 on traffic per month. I think it's fine to pay that in overages if you're using at full tilt.

I totally get the advantage of not worrying about that. I prefer my unlimited which just has a soft limit but I'd prefer to pay for what I use without subsidizing the 0.01 percentile customer.

I'm also a big fan of traffic shaping for wireless because honestly my WhatsApp message is probably more important than my YouTube video. Pause the latter to send the former. Every time. The real tragedy is that we don't have the attention (physically) to be able to auction instantaneous spectrum bandwidth.
Comfortable employees are more productive employees. Here in Washington, this time will be at least 6 weeks(schools closed for 6 weeks). Thats a long time to sit hunched in an uncomfortable position. Id rather spend the extra cash on a nice chair/desk/monitor setup that will last a decade, then pinch pennies to save a few bucks now and then drop that dough at the chiropractor later.

But i guess the opinion of having a comfortable setup is unpopular here, since i got downvoted. lol.
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Trump didn't win a wide margin in 2016, he won by 70k votes in 3 states. Biden is curretnly overperforming in every demographic that Clinton lost in 2016. Democratic turnout is up in these primary's. The POTUS is historically disliked especially by suburban white women who went for Trump in 2016. Arizona has a very popular Democratic challenger for the Senate. Arizona, Georgia, Texas, and North Carolina are being added to the traditional battleground states.

Biden might be washed up, but it might not matter. Bloomberg is about to drop $2 Billion in advertising and infrastructure in support of the Democratic party.

I'm not saying Trump is going to lose, but if he wins, it's going to be by a narrow margin in which he loses the popular vote by more than 6 million.
Demographics structure. E.g. in Nigeria 65+ old constitute ~3% of population, in Italy ~22%. Now compare that with COVID-19 severity and mortality age breakdown.

Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
Somewhat diverse by race and gender. Completely non-diverse in terms of socioeconomic status, which may have been
jayzalowitz's point. (Or may not. Maybe there wasn't a point except some drive-by snark. It's hard to tell with a post like that.)
Ask HN: Stanford students asking, how to help out with the coronavirus response?
Hi HN,

My friend and I are Stanford CS students pursuing biocomp and AI. We are terrified at the thought of hospitals being overwhelmed soon and we want to do whatever it takes to help save lives from Coronavirus in the US.

We have some thoughts on how to proceed, but we are still reaching out to people in the field (gov, hospitals, etc.)

How should we best contribute in terms of problems we should solve? Is there anyone we should talk to?
You are right, it was a request, he does not have the authority to enforce it, my bad
Window's viruses.
Bill Gates Leaves Microsoft, Berkshire Hathaway Boards
I would submit that those who enjoy the genre most are probably those who largely attempt to uncover the "winning moves checklist" for themselves.
I doubt it has anything to do with travel trends anymore than GSk being there has anything to do with pharma. These are business executives whose specific domain of expertise is business, not travel or pharma or banking, etc.
Same problem. The amount of information that you need to specify a compressible offset plus the compressibility of said offset adds up to at least the amount of information you were trying to encode, and no compression happens.

If you ignore either half of the information problem, you can get what looks like compression but really isn't.

See https://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.php for a fun story about "data hiding" to show exactly how sneaky the data hiding can be.
1. Bill Gates is extremely competitive, he's a bulldog, he fights and wants to win against whatever. He built Microsoft into a Monopoly and is fighting hard (and doing a great job) against diseases.

2. Bill Gates looks at problems logically, finds missing links, and solves those links. Whether that is refrigeration for vaccines, getting useful data for diseases, etc.

3. Bill Gates knows a ton about diseases, epidemics, etc. He's super curious and doesn't stop learning.

Who could be more qualified for the job?
Does this let Bill sell stock without needing to file SEC disclosures?
Also I think Homeland, where some online mideival knights game for ps2 was used.
opensimulator is free/open source substitute with exactly the same mechanics.
Why you’re more likely to see a physician assistant than a doctor
...which are immediately relevant to the interests of Microsoft because...?
Busses are very very slow. Unless you're in a very dense urban area, the extra time to take the bus is unpalatable. The segment of the population that doesn't have a car but can afford Uber Pool will take it because it's about 3x faster and more reliable.
Usually you don't. The board is not something that directly affects employees lives.
Well I've been WFH since last week and my kids schools have shut down through the end of April. Our family vacation in April is also likely not going to happen. We are doing better than Italy, worst than other countries. I think you are underestimating the work of our State and Local governments despite the fact that the Federal government has bumbled this.
This 100%

Given first 500 digits:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971
6939937510582097494459230781640628620899
8628034825342117067982148086513282306647
0938446095505822317253594081284811174502
8410270193852110555964462294895493038196
4428810975665933446128475648233786783165
2712019091456485669234603486104543266482
1339360726024914127372458700660631558817
4881520920962829254091715364367892590360
0113305305488204665213841469519415116094
3305727036575959195309218611738193261179
3105118548074462379962749567351885752724
89122793818301194912

Let's encode: 10,72,7

//index, length

48,2|139,2|13,1

Even with a fixed length we run into the same issue.
Here is a link to my fork of the repo shared by the OP:

https://github.com/crtr0/twilio-video-app-react

You can try it out at:

https://video-app-7758-dev.twil.io?passcode=7020447758

Just enter your name and the room "HN".
If you aren't doing code review then no design principles will save you.
Speaking Freely: Ada Palmer
Did you have a strong (10+ character, alphanumeric) password on the device they were able to get into?
"Yeah, we’re very conscious of the consequences of censorship during the short term, within our lifetimes. But censorship sort of poisons the historical record for centuries after it by making this tool by which people can invalidate things."
They're generic usage scenarios and clearly intended as such. I can see how someone might find this off-putting or unappealing but calling it 'shady' is a bit overwrought. There's no intent to deceive here.
Our Future Is Endangered. And Not Due to Coronapocalypse
I wonder how this affects teams at Apple. From what I heard before, some teams are already on crunch time before WWDC to bring whatever they’re working on into a state that you can ship as a beta.
I propose a new cocktail consisting of one part gin, three parts tonic, 200 mg hydroxychloroquine plus ice and a slice. Call it a Corona Cocktail maybe. Job done.
Maybe they will win but I still think the choice of democratic candidates in 2016 and 2020 is pathetic.
> Part of emotional maturity is learning to cope with "cosmic indifference."

Well said.

If anything, the email should be simplified: "The system will be assigning you a new roommate within the week."

Not made to sound like a human wrote it. Not branched into some insincere if(prevUserHasDeceased){comfortCurrentUser()} template.

Just a matter of fact from an indifferent computer doing its job.

Not because the world doesn't need empathy, but to keep it in a mode in which we don't expect it. Just like you don't get mad at your dog when it waits for your deceased partner to get home, nor at their cellphone's low-battery chime for not knowing it won't be needing a recharge, nor at the stoplight for not knowing you're late to the wake.
They can also represent the enterprise software needs for those industries.
That's always what it means—"hot" means "on"/"operating".

Hot-swapping a battery works by replacing a battery while the device operates from a secondary power source (e.g. charger or secondary battery).
Having tried to battle GN configs... I don't agree.

I was working on a big source tree and got frustrated that it kept rebuilding files that hasn't changed just because I switched git branches to look at one file, and then suddenly "Yay, another 18 hour full rebuild!".

I tried to fix it and found there is no option to ignore file timestamps, and some guy has tried to patch it to do that[1]... But the patch requires putting an option in GN files which seems to break them wherever I put it... I tried to patch GN, but it wouldn't ever seem to pass that option through... Ended up patching Ninja to always have the option on, but then random other operations broke (like simple file copies).

A day wasted, and problem not solved. Maybe my use case isn't common, or a bad workman blames his tools, but for me at least it wasn't a nice experience.

[1]: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/issues/1459
Adding text chat to this would also be quite handy
Nothing. It's a way for the C-class to give each other more money.
Boards serve in part to guide networking and policy for executives, and some are required to be external. It makes complete sense to have executives from other large corporations like Marriott.

Marriott doesn't seem to stand out as any further away from software than any of the other board members, so maybe I'm not understanding your question; what about Marriott specifically caught your eye?
> barrier to entry against creeps,

If they just put this sentence on their homepage the reaction on this thread would be totally different.
Maybe someone with a medical degree?

Gates can certainly bring some unique skills to the table if he was invited, but it seems like we should have an actual doctor leading the charge.
>This means you can't stop the spread.
This was certain since many weeks.

Stopping was probably never possible anyway. But certainly there is no scenario where the whole world gets it but USA doesn't. And even places like Wuhan where it seems stooped it's highly questionable what happens if they go back to normal. Chances are high it will just start again. The 80k immune there are nowhere near enough to stop a second wave. Herd immunity needs probably around 60-80%.
I'm not sure I follow. Suppose that actual genuineness is a lower priority than having something exciting to display while not getting caught with fakes. In that case a murky acquisition pipeline is still a benefit, in that the obscurity makes it harder to prove the fraud.

This is of course a pretty common behavior in corporate America. Look at the number of executives during the financial crisis who suddenly went from, "We are financial geniuses, deserving of great power and greater compensation," to, "We were innocent victims who could not possibly have known what was going on in the companies we control utterly." Plausible deniability lets the powerful claim credit for the successes and deny responsibility for the failures.
less risk there I think but you could wipe them down a bleach solution. Wish your vegetables with soap and water etc...