skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know why you would bother with this instead of just buying gold coins from the US Mint

Heavy gold chains under your clothes are a lot safer when you're traveling than a bunch of coins. Moreover, the 1933 Executive Order confiscated the coins but not the chains.

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

It's harder to confiscate, especially at scale.

> If you want the stability of the Swiss Franc, it can be traded on the foreign exchange market.

What does the franc have to do with anything? This is a non sequitur.
Building simulations with a Go cellular automata framework
folks keep getting pulled into the false dichotomy of government vs corporation. the powerful and moneyed love this, as it obfuscates the real danger to liberty and freedom, which is themselves.

the truer, and more useful, dichotomy is the people vs unwieldy and overgrown institutions.

small institutions are great: your local government, your local bank, your local community center, etc. because the power disparity isn't so large that they can be kept in check and directed to do the will of the people.

large institutions, on the other hand, are irresistable to the power-hungry, and have no foolproof defense against corruption to their aims. they view people as resource to extract power from, not customers/constituents to serve.

UBI falls on the side of subjugating the people to the whims of government, reducing liberty and freedom, not extending it, as some like to argue.

(this is also why we should be against corporatism, and the favoring of capital over labor in general)
The education system failed all of us - it's left us needing to deal with these folks.
yeah, I'm familiar with those tools, and other teams at dropbox have used TLA+ for verifying their protocols, but we haven't done it for our system yet. we've spent most of our time on testing working on better randomized testing, with the idea that covering more surface area there has higher ROI. but I can definitely see value there, especially once the protocol "settles down" and sees less change over time.
Clearly you've never had delicious raw bat, fresh from the market.
The Federal Legislative Response to Coronavirus
How data scientists can work from home
I'm not really a trump fan - but at the same time, these people have to have time to do the work, they can't spend it all in press conferences.

At a practical level on the hoarding - what can the president do, declare martial law? There aren't enough police/solidiers to enforce it anyway. Far better to get to work on the source of the panic, especially if you believe it can be contained if you prioritize that.

It's clear we're behind on testing - and definitely the FDA is owed some blame. But at the same time, if the tests don't exist in quantity, they don't exist. That takes time - and be all accounts, they seem to be working hard on getting there.
There needs to be a great deal of introspection in the coming months. About what cultural practices are allowed to continue, and which are not. We need to have solutions for people that rely on dangerous ways of securing food an alternate method that's safer for everyone. We need to look closely at resource utilization and ask ourselves if we need to spend X amount of space/water for Y product, just because previously we have done so. We need to consume less, travel less, be more responsible.
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Even Bozeman, MT has closed its restaurants, cafes, and bars.
It would be nice to add the slope of the linear fit and the error. I guess it is something like -0.002+-0.005 or -0.002+-0.006, and it too close to the noise level to be meaningful.
How Soviet science magazines fantasized about life in outer space
that's the same thing. we set up tax structures to encourage long term investment precisely because we hope companies will try to invest to avoid taxes.
Sure, but the vast majority are. This is basically targeting the group that includes mostly engineers to give them more money, instead of giving the money to content moderators or other lowly paid employees.

Again, this is basically the worst use of the money Facebook could have considered for anything with a remotely philanthropic angle. It reeks of a PR grab to me, and even if not it's just a horrible decision if their goal is to help those in need.
Before the rewriting, how many SWE hours were devoted to the maintenance of this piece of code? Did the maintainer, if any, got meaningful recognition which correctly translate the importance of the work?
The thing is, there's what happens if you don't contain something and what happens when you do.

Humans are a monoculture across the planet at this point. In many ways it's surprising that there aren't more pandemics.
In reality this is the effect of trickle up economics. Ie the upper class relies on extracting wealth from the bottom mostly through labor. This is a fight for their own survival.
The symptoms you describe are very similar to those articulated by these two CoV patients who were aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship which docked in Japan.

Here is their vlog on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2E1t3yMXgE

The husband describes his experience with temperature and thermometers in the first 5 minutes. The similarity to your symptoms begins at ~ 5:00.

This whole video is worth an investment of 38 minutes. 5M+ views.
> My suspicion is that, when Pale Moon asks you not to use Web Components, they're doing so because their engine is old

Your suspicion is entirely wrong.

1: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=22270

2: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=22399
Web browsers became what operating systems were 20 years ago.
Hack the Crisis: Tech for Good Hackathon (Starts Now)
Hmm...I thought it did add the gitignore by default
Commas are required between two independent clauses. However, in this case the commas in question don't separate two independent clauses. There is only one subject in each sentence. They are not necessary (maybe even incorrect) and create distance between the subject and verb, decreasing readability. For this reason I suggested removing them.
Rapid online learning and robust recall in a neuromorphic olfactory circuit
One thing I wish was covered in these is how to go past 'hello world', especially things like error responses and serialization models. It took me a while before I got to the point where I think I can be productive in both querying the data from the front-end and getting back the shape that I wanted. Couple of lessons learned:

- Start with separating your API models and DB models out early, you'll be thankful later. You can also help yourself out by implementing From/Into for your database models to your API models. Obvious lesson from CQRS but since rust doesn't allow easily for ad-hoc structs this is a must, especially since there are a lot of examples out there that put a Serialize/Deserialize onto the database object.

- If you have deeply nested objects, look into JSON:API or Juniper. There are a couple of crates that implement the jsonapi spec and I'm hacking on one of them to make it a bit more usable for my personal pet project, but Juniper will make your life easier especially if you're starting with a React frontend.

- Understand that there's still a tracking issue for a few items such as multipart data, although there's a third party crate that integrates the multipart crate into rocket. However if you need an upload you could probably get away with just returning a signed S3 endpoint to the user, which is what I ended up doing

- If integrating with redis or some other database that's not application critical, there is no (as far as I'm aware) graceful degredation that comes out of the box with rocket_contrib, unless there was some config value I was missing. This is usually fine, since you can easily declare an ad-hoc fairing that connects to redis and falls back to an Option::None in the case where it couldn't connect.

And finally, if you want to support different error status codes yourself based off of mappings from internal errors (such as 409 conflict when inserting the same data), your best bet is an enum that's wrapped by a responder derive like so:

#[derive(Responder, Debug)]
pub enum UserApiError {
#[response(status = 500, content_type = "json")]
Unavailable(Json<UserApiErrorMessage>),
}

impl UserApiError {
fn wrap_body(message: &str) -> Json<UserApiErrorMessage> {
Json(UserApiErrorMessage {
status: "error".to_string(),
message: message.to_string(),
})
}

pub fn unavailable(message: &str) -> Self {
Self::Unavailable(Self::wrap_body(message))
}
}

Which can be called like:

Err(UserApiError::unavailable("The database is gone!"))

Most of my other lessons learned come from diesel, both are an absolute pleasure to work with and have given me incredible confidence while coding.
Matt Levine has a rebuttal to this argument today.

Also, buybacks absolutely benefit shareholders that continue to hold. The supply of shares decreases, often increasing the value of the held shares.

Levine's argument did implicitly point out to me that there are times when those who don't sell back some of their shares during buybacks are inherently taking on more forward risk than with dividend stocks; a lesson I'm learning now the hard way. One lives and learns.
Split the shares 50/50. Convert the 20k into senior debt that will be repaid on a schedule. If he believes in the vision then he will have his investment back and will have the benefit of your unpaid work.
This is similar to what Eric Reis outlines as an innovation financing model in his book "The Startup Way": https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Way-Companies-Entrepreneurial...

*No affiliation. Just thought that his innovation financing and accounting models were the most interesting part of the book.
Maybe, maybe not. Part of what makes the influenza death rate what it is is that those cases are spread over several months and hospitals can support the patients who recover. If all the influenza cases came to a head over a 3 week period, death rates would be much higher.
It's a lot easier to feel bad for its inhabitants.
Sure, I think I understand the spirit of your point and agree that a healthy economy relies upon capital circulating through the system. That said, there is a wide spectrum of people with different financial situations and risk appetites. There are lots of institutional and individual investors who are in a better position to take on the risk of putting their low-yield savings into equities and accept significant volatility. The small-time saver who is desperately trying to break out of the rent cycle is probably not going to have the stomach for that, and I don't think that is the cohort that is going to impede the free flow of capital into and out of the stock market anyway.
Facebook has always given out bonuses, that's not news. The news is giving every employee $1000, and I'm saying that's a horrible decision on Facebook's part and they should be shamed for it. They should use that money to help those in need, or just not do anything at all.

Facebook has always been known for its unethical decisions, but this is just dumb - unless their goal is to get some incredibly superficial PR for what is a very small amount of money to them (tens of millions is a rounding error compared to their quarterly revenue).
It is truly terrifying that people still use Yahoo and AOL
It's not great, but I haven't heard a decent replacement yet. One that captures "you don't have to manage servers or infrastructure" in a single word.
Seasonal flu already puts quite a strain on most hospital systems every year. If the rate of severe flu infection were doubled, I think a lot of health care systems would be pushed to the limit. And Covid-19 is worse than the flu, if not in terms of severity (although that is up for debate), it is in terms of contagiousness, as there is no one in the population with resistance from prior exposure, no vaccines, etc.

So it is plausible that Italy (and other countries) problems are a result of a double whammy of flu and Covid19 as it is due to the severity of Covid19 itself.
Then don't put long data in a horizontal scrollbar. It's the worst possible UX ever.
Thank you for the real world perspective on at least some of this... I honestly have no involvement but just see the stream of trolls and blanket patent grants and I have to assume things are rotten.
This is probably a good proxy of adherence to social distancing
For another COVID-19 challenge, see https://www.kaggle.com/allen-institute-for-ai/CORD-19-resear....
Some of their success can be explained by the tyranny of the default. Some browsers use these search engine by default in some regions, and people don’t tend to change the defaults. I don’t know for sure, but I’d be surprised if Verizon don’t set it as the default on at least some of the devices they sell. Didn’t they recently announce Yahoo! Mobile as a cellphone service too?
SARS was more lethal and more infectious than COVID-19. It was however easier to contain because there wasn't much asymptomatic transmission, and the incubation period was short. Those two things are what makes COVID-19 more dangerous in practice.
I'll argue with this. He didn't close borders early and he didn't close them well. Here's a general link about it: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/the-facts-on-trumps-travel...

Specifically as to the timing of travel restrictions, the U.S. was more or less in line with other countries at the time. A wide swath of countries started banning entry to foreign nationals from China around the end of January, beginning of February. In the U.S. travel was banned to foreign nationals from China on Feb. 2nd, around the middle-low end of the pack (although not by much, just a day or two). This was less restrictive than some other countries (which banned flights altogether), but generally in line with other countries. However, the U.S. has consistently been behind the ball when it comes to quarantining U.S. nationals from China. Long after the official announcement people were getting off the plane and not even being asked let alone compelled to at least self-quarantine in their own homes for days if not the full two weeks.

Testing has been infuriatingly slow to roll out and there has been a noticeable lack of coordination between states and the federal government about how to institute protective measures. The 1.5 million tests promised by Pence has failed to materialize as of yet. The CDC stopped counting case numbers (at least publicly) and now the best available case count is one maintained by a private institution (Johns Hopkins University). More generally, Trump has consistently downplayed the threat of the virus through February in a way that medical experts repeatedly complained was far too incautious for the situation and is now doing an abrupt about-face and claiming that he has never downplayed the risk at all and in fact was more cautious than even experts.
Yeah, sure, the fact that many journalists are consistently choosing to publish blatant lies, propaganda and click-bait garbage are all the fault of their readers, the Internet or maybe "capitalism". But not the journalists themselves.
No, I'm not sure why the gruvbox theme I use has that for code examples. Here's what my coding view looks like: https://i.imgur.com/oWFlmgB.png
I'm always surprised that e-ink readers have such good readability at low resolutions. I think an accidental by-product of how they work is a little "fuzziness" when translating from digital data to analog atoms, so the text looks more like organic newspaper ink than a pixellated screen.

Anyway, most e-readers are in the ballpark of 800x600; and I expect if the concept got traction, there's no reason it couldn't be scaled up to 8.5" x 11" at equivalent pixel densities (at the cost of hovering your phone for a few seconds longer or whatever).
If it can support all the Netflix streaming and gaming by night, I don't know why it couldn't handle the video conferencing by day.
You cannot do half those things for a year without radically changing our economy.

Just as an example, saying “no tourist travel” itself would destroy a ton of regions who depend on tourism.

It is easy to armchair quarterback how you’d deal with something like this. Especially when you can wave away “trivialities“ like “ban all non work related gatherings for a year”. LOL. Good luck with that.

Your cure is worse than the virus my friend.
They are trying to keep banks liquid to avoid a panic and closure. People are already starting to pull cash.

This is a 9/11 like event, except the impacts are nationwide, not just in the NY Metro area. Companies and people are just going to stop paying bills. I'd guess you're looking at 2-4 million people out of work in the next week. The only saving grace is that this season is a low business period for retail and other sectors anyway, but they'll start dying in the summer.
This is absurdly demanding. The headline is clear. The article is clear. But because someone can draw the wrong conclusion you blame the media? Give me a break.

And I'll take All The Downvotes -- this current trend of blaming media for everything is absolute horseshit. Yesterday I watched everyone claim the media caused the run on masks and hand sanitizer...by reporting on the shortage after the fact. And the run on grocery stores...by reporting on the runs after the fact.

People love blaming the messenger. People love believing that correlation=causation.

The media reports that the DJIA dropped = clearly the media made it drop (and not the enormous number of indicators pointing to bad times ahead).

And it would be harmless -- if incredibly stupid -- but in this spirit of blaming the media for everything there exists a vacuum in which actual liars and exploiters fill the void. See: The Trump administration. MAGA. Absolute vile human beings like Limbaugh. This is what "Hurr the media isn't saying what I want in exactly the way I want" creates.
Because then you would be taking away the employee's bonus? Not every employee might be charitable. Probably giving everyone 1k is keeping them within budget.
But there’s just so many of them. Between the hotel and restaurant industry we’re talking about more than 20 million people.
This is not a quality of healthcare issue. The interventions are relatively straightforward: oxygen, possibly antibiotics for secondary infection, and for a small percentage of patients, ventilation.

This is a quantity of healthcare issue. China was probably the best placed of any country in terms of its ability to ramp up production of hospitals and all the necessary equipment.

Some patients will get very sick with sepsis and then it becomes a quality of care issue but that's the minority.
> What they're saying is so far they've had to turn away noone; that everyone who needs treatment is getting it.

You wrote yourself a quote in another comment where it is claimed that has happened. I am confused...
China Announces That It Will Expel American Journalists
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut shutdown all Restaurants, Bars and Movie Theaters yesterday afternoon. Only takeout is allowed.
Maybe, given the financial shock, no other means are readily available. Maybe, given the lack of means to negotiate value from the economy the lose the ability to buy food or pay for their shelter. Maybe in that case they either band with other people unable to negotiate this value, abandon respect for the law, and take that value by force. Maybe they do not do this, and are forced into situations that put them in greater contact with other people and makes the pandemic worse.
We've got until mid May, then time's up.
Remarkable how quickly you were able to dehumanize the economic impact on millions of lives and yet simultaneously anthropomorphize the “economy”. A single sentence.
I actually enjoy it, more than slack.
Show me any evidence. Public statements, rumors, anything that says Trump actually meant surveillance or deterrence. Because there is heaps of statements of him talking about walls meaning walls. Walls that are high and strong and can't be tunneled under or cut through. And his attempts to seize land to build on. And his leaked phone call begging President Nieto to pay for it like he said would literally happen (https://www.univision.com/univision-news/politics/transcript...) exactly the way he described it to voters. Show me anywhere that he acknowledges what percentage of illegal immigrants actually run across the desert versus using a legal border crossing. Find me any leaked statements that show anything more than the exact same facile explanations he uses in public. All I see are the same statements with more cursing.
Not to trivialize the numbers, but people still have to eat, so these dollars are largely being re-allocated elsewhere, primarily to takeout, food delivery, and grocery stores. Other sectors that are service-based represent real net loss in GDP.
sure! the rust team has done a fantastic job with the language design, and once a programmer gets over the initial learning curve, the ergonomics of "pair programming" with the compiler are really great. they've put a lot of work into error messages, and the language definitely steers the programmer towards writing correct, efficient code.

also, a lot of the standard library APIs are really well thought out, and it's great to then use the type system to build great internal APIs as well. the ability to design APIs to make correct use easy and incorrect use difficult feels like good "ergonomics" to me :)
Show HN: KnowYourWorth – Find out if you’re being paid fairly
There's no indication how long the immunity is expected to last. It's just as likely that immunity, even if temporary, can last for a year or more, as is the case with the flu or some other viruses.
Hi,

A few months ago a friend of mine got a job in a big company from the USA. She was suspected that because she was from Uruguay and a woman she was underpaid. After talking with some colleagues they created a spreadsheet where everyone from that company could share their salaries, sector, years of experience and gender. So everyone could see if they were being paid fairly.

When she told me that I thought it was a really great idea, everyone should have that in their company, salary transparency helps all of us, to get an idea of how much earn people in similar situations than me.

A few weeks ago, the hashtag #knowyourworth wen viral. So I finally decided to build a site where everyone could easily share their salaries in an anonymous way.

I know there are some similar tools over there but there are most of them for the USA or they just have data from big companies. Sometimes they are more complex than we would like.

I hope it helps.
There's a point where:
1)traditional policy tools are ineffective because as rates get to zero, cutting them doesn't really provide any kind of incentive any more
2)interventions get more and more extreme and reach the point where they actually can increase panic rather than reduce it

It's pretty clear we're well past #1 and could be at #2.

The problem that policy-makers are facing here is the real economic impact of this crisis as unknowable but is very likely to be very large. So it's hard to incentivise lending.

For example if you're a bank in this environment it's pretty tough to have the courage to go out and lend to small businesses knowing the next few months are going to be brutal for their cashflow. The fed is going to have some difficulty convincing them to lend even in the presence of a zero reserve requirement ratio given that those banks will look at very serious potential writedowns on their loans in any downside scenario.
All that drama would not have happened with XHTML 2.0 spec which solved many of the problems WebComponents tries to solve (in a worse way). And don't get me started on ES4 vs Typescript. A lot of energy wasted for things that could have been solved once and for all 10 years ago, but were not because browser vendors and big web corporations favored the sloppiness of the status quo back then.
Ya, but the anxiety of thinking you might sick and die also has negative impacts beyond just money.