skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this act as the catalyst for American and the EU embracing communism? If we are wiping out assets, will the people want to centralize wealth into the works hands?
I own a small share of a bar and we closed yesterday. Definitely hurts financially before St. Patrick's Day. We're lucky that our rent is low and we're a pretty small operation with limited food service. I can imagine for places in downtowns where rent is bigger percentage of sales, that's going to be tough.
What's worse, stores having mass of people going in and out or a restricted set of workers they can try to keep apart?

Right now, yes those workers are at greater danger than not working (and maybe they deserve extra pay here) but I would argue that for the public good Amazon better than in person stores at the moment.
Rethinking Sick Leave
I'm cynical because I still don't see how this is helpful. It's giving more money to people that already have money, instead of spreading it around to people that don't have money. Facebook employees are about the least economically vulnerable population you can find, apart from people who inherited their wealth.

Why not actually do something useful with the money, like donate it to a charity in need that's trying to help those suffering from the epidemic?

Yes - I genuinely think this is a bad move, as in they should have not done it at all. As someone who does make a stupid amount of money, I wouldn't care about an extra $1k, but I know people that would. This is just trickle down economics.
The stories I can easily find show the doctors arriving with 30 tons of donated medical supplies and none mention China being paid for them.
Not sure what city OP is in, but every Bay Area county did that today.
Working from Home: An Honest Look at the Remote Work Lifestyle
Have you ever actually watched a busboy wipe down your table? Sometimes I swear they just use a wet rag dumped into soapy water that's been reused over and over.
Oh boy. Tin foil hats here we come.

Look up consumer price index. You can do this yourself if you really want, but I'm guessing you don't churn your own butter for the same reason you wouldn't want to do this:

Go to the super market, pick out a bunch of items, average the cost of them and chart that average over time.

There is no conspiracy here. Measuring inflation is very straight forward.
I don’t know what the deal is, but I feel like the cynicism on HN has just constantly ramped up over the past couple of years. I actively feel worse after reading the comments on a lot of articles posted on here, and it’s just not an enjoyable experience.

There was another article posted recently about a CEO raising the minimum salary of all of his employees to $70,000 and cutting his personal costs to afford it, and even with this gesture there were many negative comments and conspiracy theories about it.
Except that you're surrounded by potentially infected people on all sides. Delivery or pick up is probably the least risky option for eating.
Yes. In washington and california, which isn't surprising. Some businesses can't cope with the shutdown, some were barely getting by and have just pulled the trigger (eg The Stranger in Washington State, bakeries, restaurants, gyms, etc) to close or drastically reduce services. This will get more common, as the MONTHS drag on.
I'd wish they did a hackable A4 version
Yes, $18,000 has less purchasing power than $100,000, but a lot of people still have this conception that people making $100,000 can't possibly be living paycheck to paycheck.
That is the schtick of patents. The goal is to get the most broad concept approved to give you the most defensible area.

However, there is a distinction between the PTO and courts during infringement cases. While the PTO grants the "broadest reasonable interpretation", courts may have a more limited interpretation.

"Patented claims are not given the broadest reasonable interpretation during court proceedings involving infringement and validity"

https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2111.html
Every analysis I've seen puts that peak sometime in June.
Pre-med student creates network of volunteers
Is there a PoE to lightning adapter?

edit: $28 splitter, https://www.poetexas.com/products/af-lightning

And $100 Belkin Ethernet-PoE adapter.
So you would have the disciplined saver risk their capital in equities that are highly volatile and dropping precipitously?
> You've literally just reasoned about their behavior in a humans-arent-special way

This is simply not true. What I wrote has literally nothing to do with whether humans are special or not.

It is literally you who will flip and frame pretty much any verbal explanation of anything that way.
I'd be happy to keep paying for a legal service if I could watch movies in original language (movies are dubbed here in Italy) with English subtitles. Doesn't seem to be technically impossible so is it due to legal issues? If so, isn't that insane?
There are a lot of people who don't really understand the importance of social distancing yet.

When we told in-laws that the state (MA) had just banned dining-in starting the next day their response was "wow good thing we went out for dinner tonight then."
Yes, but confidence of detecting antigens becomes more difficult for some infections than others. And some viruses stay in your body like CMV. In the case of COVID-19, the virus does not remain, but the antigens do. The question is can the test detect them long after recovery. I'd like to know too for my own curiosity and to see if this means I am immune to it for this strain, this season.
What's their portability story? I don't want my personal knowledge store to be locked into a platform, particularly one that's not guaranteed to last. PDF exports don't cut it, my notes are living documents.

I'm really sad that nobody has adequately addressed interoperability in the digital inking space; I'd gladly switch to an iPad or reMarkable, but so far I'm still the neckbeard inking in Xournal on an old Thinkpad.
Really?! Start by this, listen to this radio (there are many more) and once you like an artist, find him in Spotify and look for similar artists.
http://www.jazzradio.fr/radio/webradio/10/jazz-manouche
So — checking accounts for businesses and consumers...?

This does not sound great. Can somebody clarify as to how this is a sensible move at all / what the intention is?
Ask HN: Hadoop or Hortonworks Data platform Users: What are you using today?
Till September 2019, it was possible to get the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) binary packages and use them free of charge.

After the merger with Cloudera, you need either a subscription or just get access to the plain source code which you need to fiddle out how to get your local HDP cluster to update.

Who of the HN readers used the Hortonworks platform or another Hadoop "distribution" without subscription and what are you using in 2020?

Are there solutions or distributions I haven't seen?
But if that's the goal, why doesn't Facebook just donate the money to an organization that can actually help these people?
Show HN: Chrome extension that hides advertised results from Google search
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Hotels do so but whether this specific hotel is guilty is another question.
This is just employer giving money to an employee, not a national charity. I’m not sure where the moral derision is coming from. Are you a FB stakeholder who thinks the money is going to waste?

Do you have a notion of who owes whom how much? Then please share.
Thanks for the response. That sure helps it make more sense. That extra bit to help make sure people like nannies are still employed but not working.
Often cohort tables start with the most recent date on the left.
Median != average
Facebook should be doing this for their contractors. (not the software development ones).. the guys who clean the office, maintain the landscape, cook the food, clean the dishes in their cafeterias, etc.
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The estimates in that first article seem oddly cavalier:

> “Around 40 million people died in 1918 Spanish flu outbreak," said Prof [of mathematical biology at ICL] Ferguson. "There are six times more people on the planet now so you could scale it up to around 200 million people probably."

As of 2014 the number of deaths is <500, although the Wikipedia article [1] is written as if bird flu is something that may yet turn much worse.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H5...
The education system failed these people.
You want... Facebook... To give 1000 dollars... To every employee of some other unnamed company...
By employees and by leadership. It absolutely does matter more what management does and how management acts then what random employees do.
It's anecdata for sure. Apparently though, at least one TV reporter contracted the virus after being in contact with Rita Wilson. Again, anecdata, but it points towards the idea that there is local transmission.
People ordering off of Amazon prevents them from having to go to brick and mortar stores where they could also spread or catch the virus. This includes the elderly who are in the highest risk groups for the disease. Most if not all Amazon warehouse workers are significantly less likely to be in high risk groups, meaning they are much more likely to have milder symptoms if they do catch it.

Sure it sucks for those who work for Amazon, ideally they should be given a choice, but people are not going to stop buying things if Amazon is way behind and orders are looking at a week or two shipment time. They'll go out in public to stores full of other people. This seems like the lesser evil of two bad options to me.
Why would they need it? They are still coming into work.

</sarcasm>
DataViz-as-a-service?
Developer Guide for Borrowing Crypto from the Compound Protocol
In France it's -100% by law, except for takeaway.

Thanks a bunch, Xi Jinping!
That is not a very practical or realistic solution. Humans are going to human - for better or worse.
You could watch Adam Curtis' HyperNormalisation documentary for further insight into this. It's about the current political elite but comoares the current situation with the one in the USSR before the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Shopify did it too, mostly it was to help with buying monitor, desk, chair, etc. to set up a home office.

Not sure if that’s the intent here, but makes sense.
Unless you go to the bathroom and touch the door handle. Or sit in the waiting area next to a sick person. Or one of the chefs is sick and doesn't have perfect cleanliness.

There are a lot more places where things can go wrong transmission-wise in a restaurant than a grocery store. Presumably you will not be touching your face during your shopping experience. But to eat in a restaurant sort of dictates putting things in your face.
How in the world does that patent not conflict with every single existing blood test glucose meter currently on the market already?
Peapod is supermarket delivery. Those services are completely overwhelmed in my area. To be fair, though, so is Amazon Fresh.
What if we created a more sanitary world, eliminated the seasonal flu too, and it was all for nothing!
Eh, imagine Facebook hired remote workers. I bet they would be fine giving them 1k upfront for tech setup
With the caveat that I’m by no means an economist...

The table at the bottom puts this in context: reserve requirements, which have never been reduced by more than $2 billion across the economy in any year prior, are suddenly reduced by $200 billion - the entire regulatory program seems to have been unwound.

Presumably this will give late banks desperately needed liquidity and ability to lend, but it also increases systemic risk. Desperate times these are indeed, but this is an unprecedented measure.
If you're saying Amazon doesn't carry the same weight, you seem to be calling me dumb.
this could be e.g. in the form of food delivery vouchers etc, speficically aimed to keep small businesses running
I thought FB was global, and doubt that all of their staff make that much?

If it doesn't help, what have we lost, other companies are doing nothing, it seems. https://about.fb.com/company-info/ says 85 locations around the World.
(Disclaimer: I work at Amazon).

We have a world class supply-chain. This is a moment when the US, and the world, 100% must have a functioning supply chain. I'm proud of the work we're doing to keep things running under unusual stress.
surprise! it also occupies both cups after consumed!
All of Oregon just started today as well
> Exclude all for profit property

Eh, a lot of low income people live in for-profit properties.
dang, this title should be updated. It's inaccurate to the point of fearmongering (probably not OP's fault, since the article has probably changed the title to a more accurate one, but I'd say this falls under "...unless it is misleading or linkbait" and should have been submitted differently)
"if you're poor, buy gold, by weight — although acid for the acid test is getting harder to come by these days, very precise electronic scales are easy"

If you were really intent on buying physical gold, I don't know why you would bother with this instead of just buying gold coins from the US Mint. I don't think you'd have to worry about getting counterfeit gold in that case.

But why own physical gold? Why not just trade in gold futures or buy gold mining shares?

Same with silver.

"if you're rich, open a Swiss bank account — no longer an option available to US citizens"

If you want the stability of the Swiss Franc, it can be traded on the foreign exchange market.
I don't see the relevance of this question
Not everybody at the company is a six figure software engineer.
Oh darn.. Yes, the reason is I'm a fruitloop! Sorry about that!
Nothing like extra cash to buy when market is low.
Right, so this is a good time for the health department to provide specific instructions on what is required (e.g. the type of disinfectant spray, how long it sits, and drying with paper towels not rags)

EDIT: HN is preventing me from replying to you so I’ll edit it in here...

Yes, of course, all of it...

- They of course should remove the salt & paper shakers. Single use packets can be provided.

- They need disposable or wiped down menus.

- There can be no self-serve dispensers for napkins or utensils, those have to be distributed one by one.

- Seating must be reorganized to keep reasonable distances.

- Chefs and waitstaff all must check temperature before their shifts and record in a logbook

These are all reasonable common sense measures we can take to keep a massive segment of the economy alive.

Restaurants can add a $10 COVID cleaning surcharge if they want to.

I mean, it’s only worth like $1 trillion dollars to the economy. There are ~15 million jobs at stake, and that’s not counting secondary effects. And the problem isn’t going away in a few days or even a couple weeks.

I saw a video of the Tesla Factory in China and the changes they’ve made to protect workers. For example, the cafeteria tables have been converted into single-person cubbies enclosed on 3 sides.

https://youtu.be/9l_4ZH3iXbw
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We should separate Uyghurs/Tibetans and other issue.

Uyghurs/Tibetans are targeted due to their religion. The PRC ideology has no room for religion that puts Entities above nation. Uyghurs themselves have long history of rebellions to the point that nobody knows who started the tit-for-tat incident: the Uyghurs? the Han?

You can have a long-winded argument but if you don't understand their history, culture, and 1 billion problems they have, then you don't "get" why their mindset is like that just like 'Murica with their guns and their "freedom of expression".
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What if Facebook gave a $1,000 to every user... Now that would be news...
> We need to start naming and shaming for this kind of trolling, anti-social behavior.

We need regulations. As I wrote before, a company is an entity having the sole purpose of making as much money as legally possible. Loose regulations = abuse, it's as simple as that.

If you tell your kid it's ok to hit people on the head with a stick you can't blame the neighbour kid when he hits you on the head with a stick.
Increased cost disincentivizes hoarding and incentivizes everyone to conserve, meaning there's more to go around.

If there are people who literally can't afford to buy hand sanitizer then that's a problem which needs to be dealt with separately, through non-market means. Artificially keeping cost low for everyone without increasing supply isn't the solution; all that does is create a situation where hand santisier is sold out everywhere and no one can get any. It also reduces the incentive for companies that manufacture hand sanitizer to increase their supply, and reduces the amount of capital they have available to increase production in the first place.
Why do you think any other country would have been able to contain this outbreak?
I think the main reason I'm personally cynical about these types of 'good deeds' - whether it's Facebook giving $1K to their already well-paid employees or Bill Gates giving billions to charities - is that, in a perfect world, these ultra wealthy do-gooders probably shouldn't have so much fun money to give away in the first place. Our system should be much more balanced, where employees and researchers and charities don't need trickle down handouts.

Bill Gates became (one of) the world's richest individuals via a monopoly and predatory capitalism, and destroyed many companies and individuals on their path to riches. Facebook's wealth derives from selling users' personal information that they should have never been allowed to obtain in the first place.

I realize someone like Gates or a company like Facebook is going to be damned if they do and damned if they don't, but it doesn't change the fact that our system is not even close to as fair as we're constantly told it is.
> wasm changes nothing here, you could always obfuscate js just as much

It is a significant change because it lowers the bar to create a blackbox. wasm offers the performance, canvas provides an opaque, flexible render target. Without either you're limited to obfuscating your JS (which indeed already happens) and obfuscating your DOM (also happening). But the DOM still leaves enough surface for adblockers and other extensions to intervene. Perhaps throw in a websocket/webrtc to channel all your data over a single connection and you basically have created a single intransparent blob which extensions cannot interact with on the behalf of the user.

You turned the user agent into the site's agent.

> "DRM will be used even for text!!1" (wrt. EME especially)

I am not aware of EME offering a data path to bring encrypted text to the screen. Without such a path these claims have no merit, wasm + canvas on the other hand offer a clear path.
Illinois and Ohio, I know at least
Well, you wrote "he" and that "he" was refused.

The article makes it sounds like a more institutional decision not to move forward, which I think is rather different than attempting to spin a refusal into good personal PR.
"Given the rapidly evolving public health concerns, we are taking additional steps to protect our teams and will be working with our partners over the course of this week to send all contract workers who perform content review home, until further notice. We’ll ensure that all workers are paid during this time."

https://about.fb.com/news/2020/03/coronavirus/#keeping-our-t...
Your Team Might Not Need Kubernetes
> Microsoft Teams (Microsofts's surprisingly better clone of Slack)

Personal experience, but I have not found a single person who likes MS Teams. Usually people around me say that Slack is ok-ish, while MS Teams is crap.
Even if he did call somebody an offensive word, this looks like gross over-reaction. Deleting the comment - and maybe banning for a day or two from commenting on issues, to get the point through - would be appropriate. Deleting all modules and locking all content other people are using, thus punishing them much more than the original author - is a completely disproportional reaction. The fact that github can and is willing cause massive amounts of breakage to people's code because somebody left mildly offensive comment is really scary.
How are those amendments passed? By state representatives and senators.

The _only_ powers the Federal Gov. has are those granted by the constitution. They cannot go claiming powers not specified therein.

That is in direct contradiction with this statement:
> powers the federal government has not claimed belong to the states

The Fed Gov. can't just claim supreme power. That's exactly what the 10th amendment is intended to address.
Smalltalk's syntax[0], presumably.

[0]: https://medium.com/@richardeng/syntax-on-a-post-card-cb6d85f...
The purpose of copyright, according to the Constitution which gives the government the right to grant it, is to promote the public domain. It's not doing that very effectively now that copyright remains in effect 70 years past the death of the artist.
Government wants to send American workers cash ‘immediately’
Ask HN: Best way to find out later if I had Covid-19?
I would be curious to know after it blows over and the testing is no longer overloaded. How long do antibodies stay in the blood? Would I have to take a blood sample now and freeze it?
It’s an old codename for Yahoo! Search’s in-house search engine. Back in the day when they still had one.
Perhaps US eat-out culture will die, and those who worked those jobs will just have to find some other means by which to negotiate value from the economy.
We can agree to disagree about following unjust laws. But we are not talking about "the laws of paying for goods", rather the much newer and specific laws restricting the copying of information. These laws are hardly immutable - rather they're continually being changed to extend their length and reach!

My problem isn't based on the overall economic system itself (which has been roughly in place for thousands of years), but rather with the colonization and locking down of cyberspace by that economic system. Just a few decades ago, we had a blank slate wherein we could invent new structures and norms. Now business keeps hammering on cyberspace to make it conform to the shape of the world it already conquered. As someone who enjoyed the frontier, and dreamed of what could be built, I cannot accept that.

The "creators" that are being paid less are the large dinosaur businesses that insist on ironclad copyright and control - indies have been rolling with the punches and adapting. From what I've seen, the main trend decompensating actual creatives in the movie industry is offshoring. The laws have been bought such that businesses can directly screw over human beings without a qualm, but yet us humans are supposed to feel bad about reducing the businesses' income, in hope the businesses might harm the humans slightly less? I don't buy it.