skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that's what we do in science - after 5 sigma in physics, it's discovered. But remember, an experimental error is a thing, measurement error is a thing. We've been caught on that before, and while something like "this thing exists" is not as likely to be overturned (though things we were very sure existed have been overturned as new instruments and tools became available), our understanding of what that thing does and how it interacts with other things leave room for compounding uncertainty. The great thing is, we have tools in statistics to put a number to that likelihood and allow people to make the subjective calls of what they're willing to treat as an axiom and move on regarding.
I kid ofc what’s actually going to happen is

a. Everyone will start ignoring it

b. Actual bread riots

c. All of the above
To be fair, 5 years ago (2015) Hef was 89 years old. Can't really expect his house to be in tip-top physical shape, he probably rarely left his bedroom. It was probably pretty cool back in the 70's.
A collaborative guide to COVID-19 care

https://covid-at-home.info/
Thank you! I hadn't seen
So, if a couple of banks collapse and many people lose confidence, then exactly who gets hurt and how? If a bunch of "morons" go pull their money out of a bank, that might ruin the bank, but FDIC insurance is supposed to protect against the worst of that. What's the path that leads to the "entire US economy dying"?
I think OSs in general just eat a portion of whatever memory you give them. Right now I'm puttering around with a dozen tabs in firefox, in fact my biggest memory hogs right now are firefox with 3.5gb and apple mail with ~500mb, not really doing anything else, and somehow 12GB/16GB are in use. Better for the ux to keep things open in memory if you have it to spare, I suppose.

When you are memory constrained, you can definitely tell. Everything comes to a halt and you just twiddle your thumbs between commands. This 16GB machine I have shipped with 4GB which was painful even 8 years ago when it was released, and I upgraded myself to 8GB 6 months into ownership. A few years later when javascript became more pervasive on the web, I hit memory constraint on 8GB a lot just from having tabs open in chrome, back when it was perhaps more of a memory hog, so I opted for 16gb and haven't had issues since.

I think at 16gb you should be set for at least 5 years. Most people, even a lot of devs on company issued equipment, are working with 8gb complaining about it right here in this very thread.

If you have larger requirements, a lightweight, thin laptop with a teensy fan isn't for you. Even if it had the hardware specs, the physics of heat dissipation don't work for you and you are better off spending the same money for more hardware sitting in a box under your desk. Me and my sore back are eyeing this up, all my computing is done on a cluster anyway.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Philanthropy is philanthropy, and i don't see anything wrong with appreciating when someone does something good.
The US govt lost $11.2 billion on the GM bailout.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-gm-treasury-idusbre...
It already does a lot of inflexible manufacturing, often by outsourcing overseas, but I'd love to see part of the US military converted to a rapid-response, highly flexible, fully-domestic manufacturing system. LOTS of very flexible automation, so they could take a wide range of designs and raw materials and rapidly switch from making one thing to making another and the ability to hugely ramp up production on demand without having to retrain people or recertify facilities. The people involved would be trained to set up for a different product every couple of weeks or so.

The system could be kept almost constantly humming, making one thing, switching and certifying, making another, switching and certifying, keeping them pre-trained, tested, and certified. The military itself has an ongoing need to rapidly adapt to new situations, but things are needed domestically for planned infrastructure, sudden large-scale destruction from earthquake/fire/flood/tornado disasters, sudden economic changes (ex: some sort of trade cutoff), strategic domestication (ex: immediately end reliance on some import), round-robin top-off of local emergency prep supplies, individual citizen preparedness supplies, etc.
Bank bailouts weren’t the problem. Massive amount of fraud the banks allowed was the problem. They allowed people to borrow massive amounts of cash with little to no income. None of the senior execs were prosecuted.
Absolutely.

We did cloth diapering with our three kids.

Poop is really not that scary after you get over the initial ick factor.
My bet: remote-only for most companies won't last. If there's one thing I've learned over the past 8 years running this company, is most people really struggle at remote. They don't have the dedicated work space, they lack the necessary self-discipline, and many people really start to falter without face time and social interaction. I suspect once this virus is solved, we'll see a flood back to in-person jobs.

React was just a glib example anyway, I purposefully stay far away from anything trendy. I'm hiring people who are data smart, can think in SQL, and fully understand that AI/ML/NLP is smoke and mirrors bullshit in the vast majority of contemporary applications.

Anyway, I guess my broader point is: When every single PE/VC is battening down the hatches, firms are preemptively laying off people by the thousands before their clients even start missing payments, and a large number tech employees are in mortgages/leases they cannot sustain without those aforementioned salaries? We're about to see a tech bust and housing crash far worse than dot-com. Things are going to get really bad. Programmers are about to be competing head-to-head with front-of-house restaurant employees for gig-economy jobs. Thus, I can afford to wait a bit to find the right people.
Your model still assumes that people will not change their behavior due to the price increase, despite having powerful incentives to.
To be clear, the fraud was banks packaging up subprime loans as prime and then dumping them on the secondary market to unsuspecting investors who thought they were getting quality mortgage bonds (I gloss over the nuance of tranches and CDOs for brevity).

This of course hurt homeowners who had loans made that never should’ve been made, but the root cause was investors not getting what they thought they were buying, and the resulting collapse in confidence. Homeowners were collateral damage, and as you mention, prosecutions were underwhelming (only 1 person was prosecuted).
Education Shouldn’t Miss a Beat, Holberton Goes Online
> Unless I'm missing something it's like unavoidable to get droplets on your hand/spreayer for the manual types?

Yes, you use your hand along with the water to clean! It sounds disgusting but actually feels super clean and hygienic once you are used to it.

Your hand will not smell afterwards and it is heavenly for the butt, feels so nice and clean. Also IME feces will lose some of their disgustingness, just because everything around it is so much cleaner now. I lived "western style" until 30 y/o and with a "bum gun" since two years, one of the best life improvements for me.
We bought and installed a full bidet toilet (Toto Neorest 700H) in September last year. No regrets.

It does not eliminate toilet paper for us. But most of it goes towards drying off quickly. If you're patient you can use the built-in blow-dryer, but it's much slower than patting down.

Really eliminates 95-99% of wiping, in my experience. The temperature-controlled seat and water are very nice in winter (Seattle, where another commenter noted that tap water is somewhere in the 40°s Fahrenheit).
I disagree with your comment and stand by my own.
Are they still required to set aside 50-75 years of retirement funds for every employee?
Absolutely. If you're really hairy down there and not using a bidet then assuming you're clean after is very wishful thinking. Just make sure you're not using 1ply garbage tp, and understand that you may need a second wipe or second pass.
Umm...

1. How often do you shit? If I'm shitting more than once in a day, I'm sick, so, exceptional.

2. I just remove my pants and underwear. There's a hand-held sprayer in the tub. My shoes are already removed if I'm indoors, and I don't usually wear socks indoors. It's a trivial matter to step out of my lower half and into the tub, spray my bottom without getting my shirt wet.

3. When I'm at home I'm generally just wearing boxer shorts anyways, pants are for work.

I'm surprised this needs further clarification.
I also developed a dashboard and you can also see the same growth with the worldwide cases.
https://coronavirus.gg/
The philanthropy is certainly admirable and appreciated, though, it shouldn't immediately discount intent for those whose job it is to worry about stuff like that.

But personally, I do think it's pretty clearly well intentioned on it's face. And I'm very thankful this is out and I hope it saves lives.
I agree that we are in a unprecedented situation but I am not sure that the regulations will just be “damned”.
> You use your bare hand?

What do you bathe using?

It doesn't matter when you have running water and soap on the ready. Obviously after your ass is clean you ensure your hands are washed too before shutting off the water.

The water spray knocks off the bulk before hands get involved anyways.
Houston, we have a problem:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/face-masks-in-...

Does skeleton in closet beat imaginary strawman?
While posting this link was thinking, if this book can be done in restructured text with pdf generated using sphinx and subsequently extend it for country specific conditions and language with the help of local medical staff. It can become a very helpful knowledge base which can be referred to by practitioners and will be very useful for developing countries and clinics in remote areas.
Project Elevate – Hyundai
> The tankette, which would weigh not more than a few hundred pounds and would be radio controlled from the earth, would explore the surface of the moon and report its findings back to earth. Information so obtained would make possible the next stage-the mastery of the Moon by man in the next 5 to 10 years.

Unlike Khlebtsevich, most people behind the manned Soviet space program weren't so fond of the Moon back in 50s, though. Korolyov, Mishin etc believed that a manned Moon mission would be a mistake. They bet on the Venus or Mars flyby mission as the first step in the Solar System exploration, because the deep space missions clearly needed the ability to build large spaceships in orbit, and single launch missions would have taught them very little. In fact, N-1 was originally planned and optimized for assembling a LEO manned space station/spaceship (MPK/TMK) to be sent to Venus. AFAIK it was the JFK speech that made Politburo switch the target, at the worst time possible.
If a place makes plastic parts of similar size, switching just means changing out the dies/molds that form the plastic. Auto part suppliers, often not the actual auto companies, should have no problem with this.
I bought an online issue of a magazine recently for $5.99. I can only view it while online, or using their special app.

Essentially, no thanks.
>I wonder if the U.S is going to use these drugs or if most docs will be too conventional to use these drugs off label.

Domestic therapeutic recommendations from a number of European countries (e.g. France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium) includes use of these medications, so I think it likely they will.

e.g. Belgium:

https://epidemio.wiv-isp.be/ID/Documents/Covid19/COVID-19_In...
wow

print money for every american

debt relief all over

suspension of commercial rents

no stock buy backs or dividends

It's amazing what you can achieve with the combination of infinite printed money and total political will.
I currently have 2 Senior Software Engineer job offers (both businesses are B2B and are less fragile to the situation). I did have 1 onsite get cancelled however because of the situation ( they sold event tickets).
I work on F# for a living, and the total number of contributors to the F# compiler (not counting trivial changes) is a very tiny fraction of a percent of our measurable user count. I imagine that fraction gets smaller for the real user count, since F# is used a lot in finance and other analytical domains where machines tend to be locked down and product telemetry is turned off. I can't comment on figures like 25% or 5-10%. Once the sheer number of users involved is too big to conceptualize (I can only picture about 1 thousand people in my head before it turns into nonsense) numbers like that don't really hold much meaning to me.

The F# compiler codebase is smaller than that of the C# compiler, but only in line count. F# code is massively more compact than C#, which is another way of saying that the concepts are dense too. There are some unique aspects of F# - custom metadata format for things not representable in C# or VB but must be carried over across F# projects, type inference and the massive number of rules for typechecking, a core library acting as a de facto replacement for a subset of the .NET libraries, custom IL reader/writer (this predates System.Reflection.Metadata), and many more - that lead to an enormous concept count that is anything but simple. Luckily, the codebase is quite maintainable and despite countless qualms I personally have with how things are organized, it's proven to be an excellent foundation for continually adding new features over the years.
I get that the government has to do something, but what sucks about these bailouts designed to help America out are all the people that this won’t help. It’s the nature of the deal in this case.

Of course the executives at the banks and trade groups asking for these bailouts are trying to get the best possible deal for themselves, and once the money arrives those executives are the ones to decide how the compensation flows down the ladder - starting with themselves and shareholders.

No promise from these banks that “don’t worry, all this money will trickle down and save us!” can be trusted. Honestly, I hope the US government remembers 2008 and doesn’t just bend over to the banking industry to only have this same thing happen again in 10 years. It’s such a ruse by the banking industry at this point.

I don’t have an answer on what to do... that is something the American people need to push for. At least a starting point with figuring out the unknown is determining what not to do.

The government can’t keep acting like trust fund parents to the banking industry and other industry lobbying groups to enable executives and shareholders to live in a world where business consequences don’t affect them.
I would make a basic assumption that most users have either at minimum two IP addresses or three they use for HN. One would be work, another home and at the minimum one would be mobile although I think mobile IP changes as you travel if I am not mistaken and not guaranteed to be static. So potentially more than three but these could be shared among HN users so maybe 2 at a minimum at the very least.
I wouldn't expect a man of his age and wealth to do the house chores himself... although I suppose the ability to effectively managing his employees might go out the window too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j1nHdURKgE
I think it was other news organizations than the ones you listed that were the primary culprits in screaming "it's just the flu"
It’s getting incredibly frustrating seeing people make this tired point.

Yeah, we SHOULD have started a month ago, but we didn’t, and wasting time at a press conference trying to write some gotcha story about it helps nobody.
This one's a bit interesting, because everybody is staying home. Disproportionately many people, who still have jobs waiting for them when this is over but aren't doing them right now, so right now they have time to organize.

That hasn't really happened since the internet has existed.
As a local, I don't know the exact differences in culture today compared to 75 years ago. Though after hearing enough ranting from workers, line bosses, and industrial engineers about exciting topics like quality control, line efficiency, production planning since I was young... I personally think the culture is pretty valuable, especially given the size of the manufacturing workforce.

I think a more pressing question is if any workers will want to come in if GM and Ford commit to this.
> Third, and this is rarer, some funds have made loans or real estate investments using their management fee income as a way to boost the salary returns of the general partners.

They what?!?
now we need to do this with pixels
If you haven't already done so, you could invest some of that in your local food bank.
It sounds like you're threatening your interviewers' egos.
There are legal barriers, but no, they're not illegal. GE uses one. The NFL uses one. McKinsey uses one.
I can see two sources of inflation:

Moving the same stuff for more money.

Moving less stuff for the same amount of money.

It's seems like a bunch of free with supply side scarcity of the basics due to hording could cause inflation... Maybe?

I have hardly any background in economics, so feel free to point out the holes. These are just my thoughts after reading your comment.
They do change, and quite a lot, which means users often have many mobile IP addresses. However, those same IP addresses often show up for many users, so it's hard to know how the counts shake out.
Please give some examples where this has worked out well.
That's a hell of a "just," considering just 5 years of that could be close to enough to live the rest of your life in Iowa/Missouri without working another day.
I thought so too, I’m working on this. If anyone wants to collaborate please let me know how I can get in touch email, Twitter.
Geology.com isn't scientific literature. It's a SEO spam site.

You can tell because (a) the way the page is covered in ads, (b) the simple language used to improve search engine traffic and (c) the lack of references.
FWIW Yelp's page specifically says "but don't just take our word for it" and links to independent reporting: http://www.buzzfeed.com/sandraeallen/is-yelp-evil-or-just-mi...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
Privatization means surplus gets extracted to investors, rather than saved for good times.

Pervasive managerial culture causes oversight to become opaque, phrasing it in terms of vague financials instead of specific structure by domain experts.

Economic annealing makes margins thinner and thinner ("cost cutting"), leaving no slack for any change in conditions.

These trends are happening to individual private institutions, as well as at the government level. Stockpiling masks is impossible if it's no longer in your vocabulary.

As soon as a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric. The market is a large part of our national religion, appointing metrics supreme in a circular fashion.
> "Taking a lot of time" is not synonymous with "taking forever".

It can be, when you have a moving target.
To be fair, Phil Greenspun also ran photo.net and produced a absolutely beautiful coffee-table book along the way.
Yes. This is seriously useful information. This is how supportive treatment to get patients though the illness is done, from people who have done it. It's a very complex process. There are drugs and treatments which help, but only when accompanied by elaborate testing and monitoring. This hospital has worked out how to do this for a large number of patients. They have a dedicated facility that does only this. That's needed.
You seem to be misreading the parent comment. It isn't complaining about small businesses getting loans, it's complaining about them having to pay a higher interest rate than large corporations. (Presumably the reasons for that are a combination of the corporations being "too big to fail" and their loans being collateralized.)
I hope that, like the world war II manufacturing effort, this puts a lot of out of work people back to work.

I'm already hearing about service industry people getting laid off all around.
Home quarantine for two weeks or until I can finally hear the news that 0 cases for Covid-19. I am keeping the house clean and so as myself.
Facebook Community Substandards – A weak stance on hate speech
I don't mind explaining algorithms on a whiteboard.

I do mind having to recall arbitrary algorithms on the spot.

Even then, you can avoid asking trickier algorithms as an interviewer.

But as soon as you have to write in an actual language it just becomes too painful.

Which is what most interviewers expect.
One could also call that a positive, since short-term work to bring in immediate money is what a lot of people are needing right now.
Please, even if you pay 5k for rent that still leaves you with >100k cash in the bank.
Just to clarify, I'm the original author of the article.

The article is based on my recent experience with Facebook's review policies.
That's how it's an emergency when regulations are ignored. If everyone's following regulations and life is as usual -- it's not an emergency
Not laid off, but I quit my job several years back to go to grad school. Finished up my degree, did a bit of followup research, and now have been in the job market for several months.

The job search has been seriously demoralizing.

There have been three separate companies who have department heads saying they want to hire me, one from the R&D department of a large conglomerate even. After several rounds of discussion and a code test each, they express enthusiasm to work together, at which point the discussion pretty much stagnates.

This has happened three times, and atop the background gruel of cold application submissions, I am lost at what I must be doing wrong. Everyone I talk to in person reflects back very positive sounding impressions: clear communicator, keen analytical skills, impressive knowledge, blah blah. However, since this never materializes into anything, I am beginning to wonder if those are just polite ways of brushing someone off.

I just want to find a good (remote) team to work with and add value to. This job search stint is making life bleaker by the day.

Anyway, enough whining, I guess. Many of us are in similar boats it sounds like. Feel free to PM if you just want someone to talk to.

Cheers,