skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh. The ALB/ELB/NLB section is off the mark for failing to consider inter-AZ costs, perplexingly indicates NLB has something to do with TLS, even more perplexingly suggests NLB as the default choice. Dynamo isn't something I'd suggest at all unless one has well studied the costs and benefits. Kinesis is not much like SQS, and new users might be more interested in EventBridge...
I wish their web experience was improved on mobile. I have no interest in downloading apps of 90% of the websites I visit on my mobile browser. Right now the rare times I need to use github on mobile, I almost always have to switch to the desktop view because their mobile offering is so lacking in critical features.
I doubt anyone was confused on that point, but for what its worth: One of the earliest carbon dating tests was carried out on November 14, 1950. This was on a piece of linen from Qumran Cave 1, the resulting date range being 167 BCE – 233 CE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dating_the_Dead_Sea_Scr...
Interest-free loans of up to 10 million for corporations!
Knocking $1000 off a student loan or mortgage is a nontrivial benefit.
Thanks, I wasn't familiar with section 108. The restrictions look pretty tight on redistribution, though. I guess it all comes down to who the "allowed users" are in your original comment as to whether they're compliant.
While Teams isn't as good as Slack IMO, it is better than the experience of using Skype (Lync) For Business by a country mile.

I've the misfortune of being forced to use Skype and I would kill to have it replaced with Teams at my workplace.
Didn't Libre stem from StarOffice, a commercial product?
I suspect that for many employees, the important thing isn't even the income aspect of the 'exceeds' rating, it's the fact that they don't need to be stressed about maintaining high performance when they are dealing with a lot of challenges related to newly working from home and being near quarantined and possibly having kids doing kid things all day.
Same here in Maryland (since yesterday).
Stock Buybacks Make You Poorer
ok well I can understand not wanting json when all you need is something simpler, but I'm not sure if I understand unparseable - I mean if it is JSON then it is parseable.
Not sure about above poster, but I can confirm Dallas did this yesterday.
> That is done via dividends or buybacks.

Nope, dividends (and buybacks) are irrelevant: only total return matters:

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/the-irrelevance-of-dividends-stil...
I can do basic cooking, but when I checked the grocers there isn’t any food to buy. So if I hadn’t already had a stock to last at least a week or two more, it would be eating restaurant food (delivery) or starve.
> What would France stand to gain if these companhias are forced to shut down due to a "force of nature" event, or worse be bought out by a foreign investor due to the restructuring you're advocating?

The economy restructures itself to be more resilient to such events? The coronavirus is not even close to the smallpox which has been circulating for much of humans history. Companies/Economy should be able to withstand such events.
White House&Partners Launch Covid-19 AI Open Research Dataset Kaggle Challenge
It may matter quite a bit for tax purposes.
How many victims?
My understanding of it is that we basically outsourced our inflation from the 2008 QE rounds to other countries. This seems to be a feature of being the reserve currency of the world. Presumably that would be the same thing that prevents hyperinflation this time around.
I've heard they aren't really testing, from a Malaysian who has been following it. And most of the cases verified there are expats. Haven't done my own research though, so grain of salt.
> Have you ever considered that you have terminal America Brain and that your particular economic theories haven't exactly proven robust or even helpful for the past century?

I certainly don't since America has bailed out companies many times in the past and is considering bailing them again this time.
Yeah, "nationalization" is ambiguous ... I think in this case, it's not nationalization as in "stealing" like Saudi Arabia nationalized Aramco or what happened in Venezuela, but as in "rescuing" after a bancrupcy (instead of "bailing out" - giving loans - i.e. rewarding investors into failed companies with really cheap credit).
> Avoid using S3 for static web hosting (No HTTPS)

Ya, "avoid" is a strong word. I use S3 for tons of static web hosting, because it is exceptionally cheap and I don't have to worry about patching CentOS/Apache/MySQL/PHP and all the other binaries/daemons that I used to. I know how to, I just would rather not when S3 is a couple pence per GB.
Bruno Le Maire is the current minister of economy of a G8 country, a post he holds after a career in which he has been minister of agriculture, secretary of state for European Affairs and chief of staff of the prime minister. I will surmise than he has both an idea and hand on experience with how a market based economy works.

You might argue that he is mostly a good politican but considering it's pretty hard to do better as a student in France (ENS, received first at aggregation, ENA), I might hazard that he is probably not a complete idiot either.

And I'm telling you that despite completely disagreeing with the political opinion of the man.
Keep a routine. One of the biggest challenges of working from home is maintaining a routine. Include things like tea breaks in your routine. Make sure you're going to bed at the same time, showering at the same time, etc. Most important: schedule when you're going to tune into the news. You don't need to keep hearing the same news over and over and over again all day long. That'll drive you nuts.

Outside of work find something to occupy your mind so you're not just fretting. My thing is guitar. I like having something that's not computer-related I can do. Maybe yours is computer-related like learning a new language or framework. Pick something you enjoy doing and takes a little bit of concentration so you can take your mind off of things.
As far as I can tell, they are included.
And it doesn't work for housing and about a million other goods and services that have been subject to price controls.

Just look at California's water shortage issues. Water prices are basically fixed so huge farms suck up all the water to irrigate a desert while ordinary people are told to stop bathing. Seems like an externality of price regulation, no?
From what I've seen, yes that should work. It'll wear off much faster than either a solid metal piece or electroplating simply because it'll be a thinner coat but it would otherwise work.
Especially when you have people who already have 4 weeks of food going out and buying another 2 months worth.
Came here to say this. I've been playing with doing some development on one, but the kernel must be really old now. Do you happen to know whether there's a way to update it?
>When companies do these buybacks, they deprive themselves of the liquidity that might help them cope when sales and profits decline in an economic downturn.

No one is depriving themselves of needed liquidity. Liquidity-need is forecasted, as is the expected IRR for the cash on hand if it were re-invested into the company. Ultimately, companies decided share holders got the best return with buybacks.
Unless of course the HIV medicines and chloroquine do work to cure COVID-19.

India is after all the generics manufacturing capital of the world. We can churn this stuff out by the billions.

Fingers crossed.
There are reports from Switzerland that the government considers to block video streaming as the Swisscom infrastructure is overly taxed.

I have only been able to find German language sources (I'd suggest to try DeepL translator or similar) like this one https://www.nzz.ch/technologie/die-kommunikationsnetze-sind-...
Perhaps, but the data is merged and too much information is lost.

Did I prick my finger or lose 4 pints of blood! == Less overtime or fired.
The article summary contradicts the article:

"Ordinarily, individual income taxpayers must submit their 2019 tax returns and pay amounts owed by April 15."

In fact, it says that if you are owed a refund you shouldn't delay filing. The whole point is that you don't have to file or pay for another 90 days.

EDIT: No it doesn't. Missed the "Ordinarily"
I'm on the side of this community, whose values are expressed at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Among other things, that includes no nationalistic attacks. Or personal attacks.
There would have been no need to insinuate had you stopped to check that his username is an abbreviation of his name and surname.

I take it that you consider moderation in the thread as an attempt at appeasement of the Chinese government?

I'm not sure if you share my opinion, but I've felt that this thread, even though it was about a great article, had very destructive and misinforming discussion. I too am incensed at the contents of the article, but discussing it calmer would be preferable and lead to more useful insight.
I’ve been wanting a ReMarkable since the preorder. If I could afford it I’d buy one in a heartbeat - and the v2 looks like an fantastic improvement.

Came close to buying one last year, but went for an iPad Air instead as they are cheaper and more versatile.

While I’d still love an e-ink display, I found a screen protector for the iPad that has a paper-like texture and makes it significantly nicer to draw on.
NYC Should Prepare to ‘Shelter in Place’ from Coronavirus, Mayor Warns
You alluded to this, but in reality effective tax rates in the US are actually flat or even regressive due to the favorable tax treatment of investment income as well as the massive deductions for property ownership:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w20625
Probably not (possibly giving bonuses skirts the contractor-employee line, idk). But they are still getting paid even if they are sitting at home all day when the cafeteria shuts down and the shuttles stop running.
Yup, that's about as far as my knowledge of ventilators goes. Hopefully someone with more comes in here!
That probably varies by state. In California your UI payout is determined by your average W2 income over the past six(?) months. Front of house workers would be covered, but may be at a disadvantage due to tips.
The issue with this is that you (most of the time) don't want your image representations to be immune to geometric transformation.

A rotated p should be recognized as a d. In nature pictures you want to recognize blue at the top as sky and blue at the bottom as water.
Ask HN: Sterilizing used N95 respirators with UVC light?
I've heard about the shortages in many countries of disposable N95 respirator masks.

Specifically, many hospitals are being forced to or will be forced to reuse their respirator masks. They're not designed for this, but it happens anyway due to limited supply.

I'm working on building something similar to

https://www.amazon.com/Light-Clean-Ozone-minutes-Capacity/dp/B07KWCQBKX/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=uvc+sterilizer&qid=1584471270&sr=8-4

but for less money, using

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FB140TU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

(basically an aquarium sterilizer bulb, which should have fairly good inventory).

I believe putting a respirator in such a sterilizer for 30m would be preferable to trying to sterilize it with liquid (which would likely ruin the mask) or to not sterilizing it at all (which apparently runs a good risk of reinfection).

My question: assuming this or a similar UVC-based sterilizer was cheap and readily available to health care facilities, would it be a good idea?

Disclaimer: I am a software engineer and definitely not a healthcare professional. I have a little bit of biotech lab experience, and have not seen UVC light used in a biotech context for this sort of thing.
Obviously, which is why I'm guessing it will be centrally enforced (laws by governments). Not for companies like Uber or Netflix, but whatever is consider "essential" (medicine, energy, food, raw metals, ...).
I was in Cuba for a couple weeks at the beginning of January. Our tour included a visit to the Bay of Pigs Invasion Museum which was pretty interesting. They didn't really have a reason to spin who won, but the ideology behind the conflict was vastly different than what I had learned in a US school.

I've been convinced for a few years (and I'm older than most here), that we really need to do a lot more to understand both sides of any situation. We probably still won't agree but it will cut down on the unconditional dismissal of alternate opinions. At a minimum we might learn something.
I liked the book, but it fell apart when it got to cloudformation. It hand waved a ton of the actual IaaC part, so instead you end up copying from book, which had some differences from the git repo they shared. Good to get the basics of what to do and best practices for architecting, but incredibly frustrating on actually following and building with cloudformation.
Not negligible but not huge either. ~10k people at Fremont.
Don't we want people who do too much stock buybacks to lose their businesses to be replaced by people who are more sensible? Putting all these guardrails on would just make sure insufficiently conservative CEOs never lose their jobs.
NY virus to peak in 45 days, taxing hospitals, Cuomo says
> Failing to sue someone is not cause for cancellation of registered marks.

Not quite. Thermos, escalator, and cellophane became generic terms, free for anyone to use, because everyone started using them and the trademark owners didn't try to stop them. [0] That's why Xerox famously advertised that we should say that we made a Xerox copy of a document, not that we xeroxed it.

(Aspirin also became generic, and thus free for anyone to use, in the U.S., but that's because the trademark was seized from its German owner, Bayer AG, as part of reparations after World War I. [1] Aspirin is still a trademark of Bayer in most of the rest of the world.)

[0] https://www.inta.org/INTABulletin/Pages/ASPIRINBrandorAspiri...

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-13-fi-38019-...
Assuming the curve represents the amount of people needing hospitalization; realistically, right now, even flattened, the peak will go above that capacity limit line, and everything inside the curve but above that line are the people who need the hospital but won't get it, so... dead people?

But hey, without the flattening, the number of dead will be a shitton, and they will come fast. Probably causing social panic. With the flattening (but still not enough capacity), there will be a few deaths a day but no "Holy fuck a whole Titanic's worth of people died today"...
It's under "Apps We Love Right Now" in the iPhone's App Store, but doesn't appear in search results for "github" at all...
>Loosing a fully paying job is never preferable to unemployment in the US.

Is that what I said? No, it's not.
On the bright side, I've never received better dine-in service than I have in the past few days.
food delivery will boom. all the restaurants in the NY tri state area are closed but all are allowed to do take out and delivery so that's going to be a big thing.
Or toggle reader view in your browser
Definitely recommend installing the app by clicking on the link in the blog. The App Store’s search is so terrible that it’s basically impossible to find this by searching for “GitHub”.
Both iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) are fully native
I use the main site on mobile. My browser, Opera, automatically makes the site "responsive" when I zoom in. The main Github repo view is very well designed.
How many people are reeling from dividend taxable events, and do we really need to look after them? Can't they just plan ahead? I'd bin buybacks and let these guys plan ahead.
When performing a search you are implicitly asking to see the "best" (most on-topic) results according to an impartial computer algorithm.

That's the user expectation.

A corporation inserting its own pages into organic results means it's not a search engine anymore. It's "a paid directory service augmented by a search engine".
Your argument can be extended infinitely. It's pretty easy to understand that Tesla (and any other assembly plants that fit in this window) is simply getting special treatment here.

The factory that makes hydraulic fluid for Tesla's presses that stamp out car parts is also part of the transportation supply chain, As is the oil refinery that supplies feedstock to the hydraulic oil vendor.
Since 2008, most of the jobs created have been service jobs. The low unemployment everyone keeps on about is covering up the fact that the people who got employed got shittier jobs.

This thing is going to be a bloodbath in the US. We'll probably see a Democratic wave in November.
> What's preventing hyperinflation at this point?

Crashing money velocity and vanishing credit. Inflation is a function of money supply and money velocity. Money supply is central bank money plus private money (e.g. checking account deposits) plus credit.

Demand destruction, like what we're seeing now, causes money velocity to plummet. That affects lending, which causes credit to plummet. (If we got into a credit crisis, it would cause private money to plummet.)

The increase in central bank money simply paled, even in 2008, compared to the destruction of credit and reduction of money velocity. As such, we actually experienced deflation while the central-bank money supply expanded. Because the total money supply, relative to the economy, contracted.
> And at a cost of €40 per pair it's a no-no

What the...

It probably cost less than a dollar to print these.

EDIT: Yep. Just added one to the slicer. $1 if you are paying about $25 per filament, which is on the expensive side. It would cost me about half as much.
Sure, if you don't care at all about the employees and customers affected by industry-wide collapses of companies all doing the same "goose the stock" tactic.

Are there any examples of companies using "we can pay our employees for six months" as a competitive advantage on Wall Street you can point to? Industry self-regulation in this regard has a pretty dismal track record.
"If you shut down Jimmy's Bar and Grill for 1 month, it can be reopened 1 month later."

Actually, it can't. To reopen, it will have to replace spoiled supplies and hire new employees. And that is assuming Jimmy hasn't gone bankrupt in the meantime, which is hardly out of the question.

If you shut down every bar and grill in the city, you affect every distributor and supplier, including equipment manufacturers, maintenance, and delivery, and all of their other customers if they are forced out of business.

Yes, the only thing you would need for any of this is some money, but that's true for everything.
Hey! No, it did not cross my mind - where do you release Creative Commons music? As a goal I wanted to have my friends listening and sharing the music where they usually listen to it. If you want to chat about it contact me (see last line of post for contacts)
I also use one of these as my quick-grab sketch/note pad.

The huge downside is being unable to erase any part of the screen without erasing the entire screen - so by the end of a long brainstorming session I have lots of scribbled out parts and lines directing the eye to follow my flow.

I desperately want something like the remarkable2, but I just can't bring myself to spending $800CDN (for the package) as a replacement for paper or the "Boogie Board"!
It does look like they support some kind of left-hand mode in the settings, but it's practically impossible to find this on their website or what it actually means in practice. Very disappointing given about 10% of people are left-handed (including me).
> "But China did it first!" Well, then we should highlight how outrageous and unacceptable that behavior is, and sanction them some other way. Not reciprocate.

You're falling squarely into the trap that I believe China plays so frequently: the belief that every other group of people shares a compatible value system and culture and any disagreement can be resolved with diplomacy, but never force.

To be frank, the Chinese view us as dumb by setting restrictions on ourselves, in an effort to inspire them to do similar self-restraint measures.

This methodology is flawed and outdated, the Chinese are not the Russians.
I don't understand what sort of person jumps to this response. Would you be similarly negative if FB decided to give their employees 6 months of parental leave?
I don't work for Facebook but here's my thinking:

not everyone is making a software engineer salary at Facebook.

personally, i never had a proper work from home setup so i would spend it on an ergonomic chair, keyboard, mouse, noise cancelling headphone, dual monitor etc.
Pandemania: Day Three
Ray Tracing in Vulkan
I couldn't find this by googling. Can you post a link?
> What's preventing hyperinflation at this point?

To get technical:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_lower_bound

* https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/opinion/the-case-for-perm...

* https://archive.is/Z2TMK
First line of the post: “At Universe, we announced GitHub for mobile as a fully-native GitHub experience on iOS and Android.”
Reference counting requires extra syntax, though.
I've been using betas for the Android app, but in my experience there's still a lot of paper cuts here.

For example, I do quite a few code reviews on my Pixel 2, but what drives me crazy is that the lines in the diffs wrap! On top of that, the code font it uses is pretty large, so wrapping happens often and makes reviewing much harder.

The support for per-commit code review (which is only so-so in the desktop web experience) is even harder to use on mobile.

The main activity feed from / is nowhere to be seen, even though this is something I use daily on my laptops (long-standing pet peeve, since this is also non-existent in the mobile web view).

If you follow a link to particular issue comment (for example, from the bottom of a notification email), the Android app will just land you at the top of the issue.

So, having the app is an improvement over the mobile web experience (particularly since the PR review approval button was impossible to hit in the mobile web view without zooming), but IMO there's still a lot to be done here, and I hope they keep executing on it.
Not within their own nation, for sure. But there is definitely a line somewhere between journalism and information warfare. The information age has brought with it a golden era of information warfare, and while the lines are blurring, they are still there. The dissemination of falsehood or misrepresentation directed by a government for the purposes of geopolitical influence is not journalism.
Agreed, rebuttal isn't quite the right word.

A broader question -- can a company that allocates that much capital to preparedness be expected to survive during normal times?

I don't think there is a re-insurer big enough to handle viable pandemic insurance. Such an entity/industry would need to hold >$1T in pure cash right now.
Right, the swine flu pandemic of 2009 was basically a descendant of Spanish Flu. It continues to circulate, particularly in the last couple years - a majority of flu cases this last couple months have been the H1N1 strain that descends from Spanish Flu. We don't hear about it because newer and more deadly pathogens like COVID-19 have cropped up since.

I think most people in this thread are talking about 1918-1919, though, since that time period's a little more relevant for predicting what COVID-19 will do.
It's probable that the virus transmits less readily in warmer and wetter places. By how much however, is a key question. Unless the R0 becomes less than zero, then countries still should take precautions to control their outbreaks, especially in densely populated cities.
Take note that your state of residence may or may not have done the same.
My guess is that the comment you were responding to was sarcastic.
GitLab needs an official app now too
That needed to be done in January to be on the upside of this