skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently I read few covid-related threads on Twitter and from my perspective it is insane how utterly useless it is as informative medium, it thrives on bubbling up most controversial sensationalist messages.
Reddit on the other hand does pretty good job at crowdsourcing important informations.
Hopefully some of these aren't re-inventing the wheel. For instance, currently the first one is helping build APIs for getting healthcare data. This is potentially a solved problem; indeed, interoperability is rather a large market in the healthcare world (I speak as someone who does this for a living).
That is basically how the 2008 auto bailout worked. Taxpayers profited off that too.
Seems like Slack is focusing a lot on making the app more accessible for enterprises with email-like message composer or "no-fancy-shortcuts" navigation. While some of these improvements are nice, I feel like Slack has been going downhill ux-wise for some time now:

- new input box, obviously, which messes up the message even when turned off (edited message with code block will often be different than what I just sent)

- people with message drafts moving on the list, as many people mentioned here already

- often an action I did by mistake can't be undone by pressing escape: drafting a post, opening image. I can't reproduce this always so it seems like a bug

- I now sometimes can't see person's details by clicking their image for some reason? I need to click their name, but even that not always works. Also not reproducible 100% of the time, so looks like a bug

- notifications on Android are broken: they don't disappear when I read a message elsewhere, sometimes I get mobile notifications _for a conversation I'm having on the desktop_.

- when I write someone with notifications off/snoozed, I'm immediately pinged about this. And every single time I'm thinking that person maybe is online and replied, but it's always Slack pinging me, with notification and all, that it's actually the opposite

- I often see people working while appearing offline, myself included, because apparently Slack decided to stop asking if I want to go online after I decline it once or twice (the night before)

Basically Slack is less and less friendly. I used to advocate for it as it was a huge step up from HipChat that we used, but if it was up to me now, I'd be looking for alternatives.
Not quite. Stock market has real value. People buy things, consume goods, sell tangible useful things. The market is a reflection of that.

Crypto crapto is the reflection of a giant random number generator that is operated by both VCs and nefarious entities at the same time. It's a competition to see who wins this random number generator...
The official position of the european cardiology association is that claims that BP medicine can increase suceptibility and worsen symptoms is basically FUD:
https://www.escardio.org/Councils/Council-on-Hypertension-(C...

It is strongly suggested to keep taking your BP medication.

A bonus also lies in that link: there is evidence from studies in animals suggesting that these medications might be rather protective against serious lung complications in patients with COVID-19 infection, but to date there is no data in humans.

The mechanism of protective action is explained by this comment on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22505537

While the theory of ACE inhibitors/blockers making covid-19 worse is basically based upon the presumption that due to inhibition/blocking of angiotensin receptors, the body upregulates by creating more ACE receptors, to which the virus can bind.
This. I flip between both languages all the time and without issue but I have to say in VB.Net I never have to go looking for that random missing brace that is throwing the entire structure off. I spent enough time doing that in my LISP days. :)

As for the complaints of something being verbose, I see people constantly adding comments to close braces to indicate what it was they closed.
Twitch viewership is up because of global coronavirus lockdowns
Does anybody know if the devices storage is encrypted at rest?
I don't know anything about your situation, but unless you have 9+ months of living expenses saved up, joining a startup sounds like it might be a bad idea. If you _do_ have that kind of runway for yourself, there might be other opportunities with that cash that come up as the market tanks. As always in a downturn, cash is king.
Surely they can just start selling those shares? that's where their current investments are.

Of course they likely wont get as much as they paid for them, but that's just a poor investment decision on their part, not something the government should bail out
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> More to the point, what we do know pretty conclusively is that app stores on their own are not a magic bullet. We can look at Windows, Chrome, and Android and see that app stores don't automatically improve security.

I've yet to see evidence that those stores actively review apps in the way that Apple does. You never see articles like "my app was rejected from the Chrome store". It's less about having a store and more about having a decent review process.

In any case, there are no silver bullets in security. Not one.
> diabetes mellitus significantly increases the risk of recurrent hospitalisations for heart failure

I hadn't heard this - good to know!

However, the studies you cited do not seem to support your earlier statement:

> Heart disease is undiagnosed diabetes

Perhaps a qualification would fit better: deaths from heart disease may have been caused by undiagnosed diabetes.
This is tricky since every app has different performance and budget constraints. We try to minimize footguns by starting with sensible defaults. Over time we'll provide more options so you can tune scaling and placement yourself. We're also happy to help if you need!
> Well, no, the "interest on that loan" is the return on the investment.

Exactly as I said. The "return on the investment", for saving money in a deflationary economy, is the increase in the amount of stuff you can buy with that money. Which is exactly what I referred to earlier as the "interest on that loan".

> I lent the money to company A, they bought some tools to improve productivity, and they paid me back part of the increased value they produced. That's my reward for consuming less - I got my $1 back, plus some.

Except you didn't literally loan the money to company A, you (in effect) loaned the value of the money to everyone—including companies B through Z in your example—by temporarily taking it out of circulation. You could have bought $1 worth of stuff for yourself with that money but chose not to, so that stuff was available for others to buy, and their prices were a bit lower since you weren't bidding against them.

Money is just a stand-in for other goods. It's not a consumable end product, an intermediate material, or a capital good which can be used to produce other goods more efficiently. If it helps, think of that $1 in savings as one share of ownership in the entire economy—a claim to a little bit of everything being produced. Or an extremely broad index fund. As the amount of goods being produced changes, the value of your share also changes, the same as any other equity investment. When you eventually trade your share in the economy for an equivalent fraction of the available goods, if your investment in the economy helped it to grow (along with others' investments, of course) then one share's worth of goods will be a bit more than it would have been before you invested.

Do you have an issue with the idea that a person can buy shares of IPO stock in a company, funding the company's growth, and then be rewarded later by selling those shares a higher price? If so, I probably can't help you; otherwise, this is essentially the same thing but for the entire economy rather than one company.
So it's hard to find tech-specs, but iSight was branding between 2005 and 2010. The branding changed in 2011 and forward to "FaceTime HD." At that time resolution did get bumped up to 720p, but since a camera's quality can depend on many other things like lens and sensor noise I hate to say for sure but I'm pretty sure 2011 and 2019 laptops all have the same camera. After getting a newer gen MacBook Pro and being instantly disappointed I went back to my 2011 and saw very similar performance and image quality.

In 2017 they did start shipping a 1080p camera on iMac Pros, but that hasn't made it to portables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISight#Built-in_iSight
Fair enough, I guess we’re holey toruses ;)
Isn't this obvious?
Survive yes. But half the patients in intensive care in Holland and France are in the 30 to 60 age bracket. And we don’t know yet what the longterm damage is after you survive.
If it's a solved problem, is it easy to link to the solution here?
> Ok. How should they communicate this? "We've gone back to where we were three years ago after a mistake, sorry."

Yes. We expect adults to own up to their mistakes, so why don't we hold corporations to the same standard and instead just accept corporate bullshit from them?
I was thinking more of the kingdoms of Kongo[0] and Benin[1] that are geographically closer to present day Gabon.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kongo#First_Kongo-P...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Ashanti_wars
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What games have you made?
how do u know when ur running clear if u know what i mean? I've never used one before
I am posting this while sitting in my NYU dorm room. They are kicking students out and will likely become a temporary hospital according to some emails we received.
Two and a half month of draconian quarantine may work, but unless all travel is also shutdown reinfection is a huge risk.

A middle ground between doubling every 3 days and total shutdown looks really appealing in that context.
You severely underestimate JetBrains IDE.
I still wonder how much of China's reports are true. We still have to factor in that they still want to look good on paper.
Curious why you can't hire world-wide for remote workers.
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I've got both the Surface Pro and an iPad Pro 10.5. They excel at different things but that is to be expected, they are converging on something else and that was unexpected. When I travel I bring both.

I am a heavy user of Cellular connectivity with my iPad Pro. It is my go to device on the road and while travelling, open it up and it just works. It runs a long time on a charge and it has apps that respond quickly for movies, reading, browsing, mapping, and note taking (all things I do while traveling).

The Surface Pro is where I do development (generally in WSL2 these days) once I've arrived somewhere that there is free WiFi and access to AC power. I will typically use it with a USB device or two as well (such as flash drives, wireless connections, and embedded development boards) Its ability to drive a couple of 2K screens and give me a "full up" developer experience is appreciated.

I sketch more on my iPad even though I like the drawing "feel" of the Surface Pro better. The SP feels "clunky" when I try to use it in tablet mode.

When I use them together its generally the iPad for reference materials and background music while I'm writing code on the SP.
Interesting. I think the opposite. Just the fact that we've spent tens of billions on Yucca mountain alone to have it go nowhere makes me think differently.

If I was a contractor faced with solving the coal ash problem or the nuclear waste problem, I'd avoid the latter like the plague even if just for the political difficulties, notwithstanding the engineering part of the problem.
Perhaps “dead Italians” isn’t the greatest example data to be using at this moment.
> this can't go on for very long (60-90 days max)

If we can do it for even just 30 days, it drastically reduces the surge load on the medical system.
When you have a layoff, the former employee can file for unemployment. Which is money that comes from the company (through a circuitous route). So it's cheaper to go "mandatory unpaid leave".
> From the Wikipedia entry on gold.

> "Only 10% of the world consumption of new gold produced goes to industry"

> Gold does have some industrial use and probably would have more if it weren't so expensive due to people valuing it as a reserve currency.

You aren't presenting a scientific argument. My entire point was that gold is useful and actually has more uses than any other element.

Whatever else it is used for or the reasons the price is high do not present anything against my claim.

It is so weird to just state scientific findings and be hated for it.
> You don't see a way to save it, but it doesn't mean Google doesn't keep the record. What prevents that from happening on calls on amounts which didn't sign HIPAA contracts?

Google's regular G Suite already has terms of service and a privacy policy that appear to me to rule out any obviously HIPAA-violating use of data. If they collect anything from Hangouts Meet, the terms are clear that you still own the data and Google can only use it as necessary to provide the service to you. Absent any evidence to the contrary, it seems reasonable to take Google's legal documents at face value and conclude that there's no functional difference for G Suite core services whether or not you sign a HIPAA agreement with them. It certainly strains credulity to suggest that Google would offer stronger privacy guarantees to HIPAA covered entities than to ordinary enterprise customers, and not even advertise as such.

It's fine to say you don't trust Google. It's not reasonable to insinuate that they violate their published terms of service and privacy policies. It's absurd to suggest that the extra penalties associated with HIPAA would be the deciding factor for them to refrain from committing those crimes only against that narrow slice of their customers.
60-70% drop meaning if it was 100 roles last month it's 30-40 this month?
nah they are saying shave ur butthole, hit the gym, and eat healthier
I was trying to get back into the job market and was scheduled for my 3rd and final interview tomorrow. They canceled it and apologized. Told me hopefully they'll call me back in a month... I doubt they will.
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As a person with anxiety and depression, its easy to come up with dep/anx fueled narratives about how this could go wrong:

1) The app might stress me out and make it worse

2) I might become obsessed with the app and not do stuff I should be doing

3) My employer might get the data somehow and fire me

4) A future employer might get the data and use it as a reason to not hire me

5) Google might get the data and add it my shadow profile, which will then be sold to advertisers. I won't even know and won't be able to delete it.

6) A health insurer will use this as a reason to deny me insurance or charge a premium.

Those are just off the type of my head. Don't want to think about what my brain would come up with at 3AM.
> But in February, there wasn't any sign of an economic downturn. Everyone was enjoying the bull market.

First: I’m super sorry about what you’re going through and I hope things work out with your new employer.

Second: I worry that “nobody could have known” will be the narrative. A very large portion of my circles was aware that COVID was about to explode and that the prevention measures would either drastically slow the economy or not be taken and the impact would be worse. Super uncontroversial. And like, I’m just a guy.

On an individual level, that excuse is unfortunate, but the individual level doesn’t matter much (except for the individual, of course). On an institutional and a governance level, we’re likely to excuse the failures of our leaders because we ourselves weren’t paying attention.
My understanding is that even cheap masks keep more of your own germs in (by catching your exhaled liquids) That seems like a valid reason to wear them even if they don’t keep other germs out.

I agree this seems like something that should be enacted to reduce the spread
Paper I saw on homemade masks compared to N95 masks. Said ones made out of tee shirt material were not as good but not useless. The authors also pointed out they also work by preventing the wearer from touching their mouth and nose.

Frankly I see no downside to people wearing homemade masks.

Edit: More friendly article that references the paper I'm talking about.

https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-...
So it's a technical interview for your body?
Probably FIFO :(
Why did you leave Windows?
Just found yesterday out that I'm being laid off at the end of the month.

Sadly, I wholeheartedly believe that the owners are using the coronavirus as an excuse to close their already-failing company. The company has been in slow-motion dissolution for the better part of a year, and now they're blaming the entire thing on the virus outbreak so that they have a narrative to tell that covers up some of the mismanagement that makes the closure of their company look bad. Now they have an effective smokescreen that shows that the closure was "outside of their control".

I have no doubt that many other companies will take advantage of this opportunity to close without the shame or stigma of having closed a failing company. There is almost no downside to using this as a guilt-free chance to rapidly shut down at a time where employees need stability more than ever.

All of that said, the company was conscientious enough to give us all two weeks' notice, pay out our PTO plans (that might just be required by law, though), and additionally pay out any pending bonuses to employees that had been agreed upon. They certainly didn't have to do all of that (even if some parts are just them following the law), and I appreciate them for taking those particular steps to help all of us transition to new positions.

Luckily, I started looking for jobs nearly a month ago and had begun preparing my resume and materials back in December, so I've already had a good number of interviews and am waiting to hear back about two positions in particular.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed and doing a lot of email refreshing, but if I'm being really honest it seems grim. I've already heard that many other companies are implementing a hiring freeze with the virus outbreak, etc. I can't help but shake the feeling that I should have started applying about a month earlier.
> SaaS businesses with predictable revenue streams and some degree of economic insulation from the "meatspace" economy

Those are most likely lagging by a few weeks or a month. Monthly subscriptions are arguably the easiest to cut and companies are looking to cut non-essential services.
IIUC, the goal has generally been to make browsers standards-compliant, not balkanize the space into multiple incompatible browsers.
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It does, I mentioned FAT because that's probably what a camera's memory card uses.

It's pretty similar to Mac; I believe the supported systems are HFS+, APFS, FAT, and exFAT.

But NTFS is not supported at all (macOS can read but not write) and encrypted drives aren't supported (macOS supports read/write).
In a perfect world where everyone reacts rationally sure. However, the actual reaction to this information is that individuals deem themselves not a risk and go about their daily lives. Unfortunately they are endangering everyone who is at risk in the process.
Traded gold for awhile now and I can say the gold market broke in 2011. It’s not a hedge for anything because it’s correlated to equities (and other risk assets such as crude). It’s really a speculation asset (think bitcoin). In fact, a lot of energy behind gold came out of the 2011 peak and the bust that followed and into crypto currencies.

Having said that, with crypto now all but finished, and with roughly $2-3T in stimulus about to hit US and EU economies, I believe gold will see a rise in the next year or so. Especially if you buy it against the euro.
Well, that depends. On the one hand, maybe it means that they are expecting to be able to survive long enough to bring everyone back and are wanting to cover insurance benefits a bit longer. Or perhaps it means that they are trying to use the current bank account balance (presumably a few months worth) to stay solvent a bit longer, hanging on to the point where they have absolutely no money left-- when of course everyone's unused PTO would disappear.
I don't know if that changed recently. I gave up on it a year ago. I went through all this (though with Ubuntu not Fedora), switched modes, disabled secure boot, read every web page I could find. Nothing worked. I'm kinda tempted to see if I can get it working now, but honestly, also kinda traumatised by the whole experience and never want to touch it again.
If you are on H1 then once you lose your job you'll be immediately out of status. Now being out of status is not a very big deal, but it does mean you'll need to find a new employer willing to sponsor you as soon as possible. USCIS is generally forgiving if your out of status period is not too long (they might require you to leave and then re-enter the country to get back to status though). Also living out of status is not fun - in addition to loss of income you'll have difficulty with things like renewing driver license or traveling out of country.
Well, my two primary tools are Xcode and Eclipse. Xcode is native but Eclipse is much, much faster. I doubt appliction performance has much to do with the language they're written in.
This is not only interesting but also extremely important given th fact that a large part of population has bp higher than normal, and some of these people regularly take ACE inhibitors. So far some doctors ask patients to switch to another type of bp-lowering medicine:

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanres/PIIS2213-2600...

whereas others do not:

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/926838

Many hospitals in China and Italy have already enough data to make a better judgement on this.
I thought this was going to be an article explaining why the UI is so bad...
Wow, the "Virus Economy". Is that the term emerging now? It's still sinking in with me...that this is our new reality.
Hitting the gym usually comes with a diet has accomplishes the polar opposite of what you're aiming for here
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I wish they'd do something about battery discharge when off. I had an older model iPad, and it could be left alone for a week and it'd still have charge. Previous gen Pro is pretty much dead after a couple of days. I know it's not fully "off" when it's off, but come on, throw on some more lithium or something. At that price I shouldn't worry about charge when I'm about to get onto my stationary bike and would like to watch a movie.
> Two and a half month of draconian quarantine may work

That will probably be insufficient in duration:

”We [...] show that policy strategies which aim to mitigate the epidemic might halve deaths and reduce peak healthcare demand by two-thirds, but that this will not be enough to prevent health systems being overwhelmed. More intensive, and socially disruptive interventions will therefore be required to suppress transmission to low levels. It is likely such measures – most notably, large scale social distancing – will need to be in place for many months, perhaps until a vaccine becomes available.”

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196234/covid19-imperial-rese...

> A middle ground between doubling every 3 days and total shutdown looks really appealing in that context.

A middle ground between “do nothing” and “don’t do enough to stop the healthcare system from collapsing” sounds really appealing?