skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I've worked in industries where OT was celebrated by employees and a lack of it was actually seen as a huge problem."

The only way this makes sense to me is if employees are directly or indirectly compensated for working overtime.

If they're not, then that kind of attitude is pathological.
Again, the associated risks of overtime are not comparable between the two jobs in this period, and it was insulting that they were compared.
Dire new report forces U.S. and U.K. to change course on coronavirus strategy
Wow that's really cool, thanks for sharing
LightSaber: Efficient Multi-Core Window-Based Stream Processing Engine
If that was the point why did they write “commercially run”? That is explicitly about management, not hosting or single points of failure.
> I suggest applying for airline roles first you qualify for (if you prefer unemployment to working a suboptimal job at Amazon), at least until they're nationalized in the next 8 weeks.

Did I miss a news article about this? Or are you just speculating?

Moreover, airline roles are going to be the last to open up. It's going to take a long time for airlines to return to their former capacity, and their employees who were furloughed or laid off are going to be recalled first.
In italy its so bad they are triaging to the point of not even treating the worst/most elderly cases. In extreme circumstances projects like this could save lives, regulations be damned.
> Having wants is not being entitled. Thinking that one deserves and should have everything one wants is being entitled.

U.S. of A would like to have a word with you.

> The purpose of art or media is whatever the creator wants it to be.

The purpose of art and media is to generate revenue. People who create just for art are an insignificant minority.
The main issue is that when this art does not generate revenue it is thrown away. Then it is no more art. It becomes (like) garbage.
With the cars, I've come to the realization that most people just don't realize how hard it is or how many people have tried. I'm a big fan of the car industry and have looked at many of the past attempts (eg, Tucker, Bricklin, Delorean, Fisker, and now Tesla).

I can only think of one that topped 20,000 units, and they've hit 1 million. Being the only company since WWII to startup and do that is not a small feat.

Sure, I could listen to all of his hype and crazy rosy projections. I could also listen to the things his worst detractors say sometimes. Both sets are just as wrong, though, so I prefer to pay attention to what his businesses are actually doing.
"We were only trying to be a regular patent troll, we swear!"
I think its reasonable to expect the gov to step in here, and order the ventalators or at least enter in to contracts to pay for them if they are not used.
Two Things You Should Know about Reinforcement Learning
I finally got a coronavirus test
Amazon’s actions to help customers, communities, employees affected by Covid-19
I take the dimmer view: this is not even a real emergency, and we're not doing very well. I'm not down-playing the seriousness of the pandemic, by "real" I mean it's not a dirty nuke, a large-scale bio-chemical act of terrorism, a virus like ebola where death is faster and more graphic, geographical disaster of continental proportion, or an alien invasion (could happen - we think about it, write about it, make lots of movies). The guidance had been generally: stay home for two weeks. There's not a disruption in the manufacturing of toilet paper, 90% of which is made in the US. Yet we have panic buying of everything, markets down in historic marker, everybody acts like they can't make the next payment (not sure if true, everybody acts like it though). We are so under-prepared for anything really serious.
Maybe, maybe not. I predict we're not gonna take any lessons from this either; 10 years from now people are gonna write comments like this saying "2020 COVID19 was the wake up call, now we get the real thing, that has improved and evolved".
Ask HN: How likely is it that we develop a vaccine for Covid-19?
Are vaccines for Coronaviruses generally doable if enough time and money is put behind them?

Do we have examples of Coronaviruses we have not developed a vaccine for?

What would the probably distribution of a vaccine being developed over the next 3 years look like? Would it add up to 0.9? 0.2? Less?
Upside-Down World of Negative Rates Is Coming for U.S. Savers
It’s a fairly technical paper, but there is a nice movie trailer for it: https://youtu.be/baKHSXeIIaI
From the article:

> If there is a risk of a surge in need, and if it takes three months to boost part deliveries, somebody ought to be placing orders right now. But a hospital might well hesitate, given the perhaps equal risk that the extra machines will never be used. Who would eat the cost? That explains why the German order came from the government.
“Just Begin” [video]
They were paid extra for OT.
I am generally against the death penalty.

I am OK with it in this case. And for having all relatives of the people who were involved in making this decision being tattooed with signs saying things like, "My uncle's coverup caused COVID-19 to go worldwide."

And for having all Chinese officials to have regular reminders that this is the punishment for covering up health crises.

Penalizing family members for life is admittedly unfair. However Chinese society places a premium on the importance of family. And we want a penalty that will deter officials. I cannot think of a better deterrent in that society than knowing that their wives, children, siblings and parents will forever bear the mark of shame should they screw up.
You are still going to need these in 90-120 days. There is the potential for a horrible situation soon, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't make an effort. I would only argue against, if the effort was somehow detrimental to the next 15-30 days.
The comment sank to personal attack and name-calling. We want thoughtful, curious discussion here. The online calling-out and shaming culture doesn't fit with that, so please don't practice those internet arts on HN.

Your previous comment was similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22538238. That's another example of what not to do on HN. Your more recent comment, though, is great: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22605788. That's simple and factual.
I honestly don't believe people that aren't disabled that don't work or do anything should receive free money in the form of a handout. I.e. you don't get a refund if you aren't paying taxes.

I'm all for reduced taxes though in some regards. So we agree in some areas and not others.
I disagree, I develop SingleFile for 10 years. That's the first time I need to include a script in the saved page in order to display it properly. Until the existence of Web Components, JavaScript was not needed to display a saved page.

Edit: to be clear, saved pages are HTML snapshots, not full web apps stored in a page.
Cite for that? While the PRC trying to suppress evidence of an outbreak is totally plausible, a 1M undercount of COVID-19 cases in one month just doesn't match the data on the ground. Something like that would have run rampant across asia by now. Where are they hiding all the bodies?

Sorry, but this sounds like a mixed up fact, or a conspiracy rumor.
It’s not just you. Everybody is reading the news more because of coronavirus
I'm going to be honest with all of you. You all are doing something that is ethically and morally wrong and statements like this are only way too human attempts to justify the actions of things you know are clearly wrong. You can't find legal sources of swing manouche just like you can't find legal sources of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da vinci. What are you going to do? make a counterfeit copy of the Mona Lisa then buy tickets to the art museum to absolve you of all crimes?

That being said I use popcorn time and stremio and torrents regularly. The difference is, I don't justify my crimes. I'm aware of what I'm doing, I don't need to live in a universe that is a self created moral illusion. I likely will do something unethical if I could hide it and it made economic sense. I am human and, morally, I am imperfect, but unlike most of you, morally, I am aware of my imperfections and I don't try to construct logical scaffolding to lie to myself and others. I can pirate because most people pay for the things I pirate, such a model is only sustainable if most people don't do what I do. Things like popcorn time threaten to change the balance.

If you want to save the world or do better for the world, do not assume that the world is as described by our parent poster pachico. It's not intelligent to assume that people are going to use popcorn time then purchase Netflix to offset some of that guilt (still a crime btw). Assume the world is made out of people who are as pachico really is.. people who are morally grey but make up lies and illusions to comfort themselves into thinking they are justified in their crimes.

I stopped pirating games 10 years ago when my salary crossed a threshold where it wasn't worth my time anymore to pirate a game vs. the convenience to buy it from steam. The way to combat piracy is to create systems that appeal to the previous aforementioned logic.

Spotify was a step in the right direction but it eliminated much of the huge profits made by the music industry. Perhaps those profits were ludicrously too large anyway. Either way, the way forward isn't trying to justify your crimes. It's admitting that hey, we are victims of the tragedy of the commons, we use popcorn time because it's free and easy to use... to combat this situation you either need to take steps to destroy this product or come up with something way better.
At the risk of sounding like a rube...

Why don't we have people upside down when stuff like lung fluid drainage is a concern?

I do it at home when I've got bronchial issues going on and while not pretty, gravity does a great job at assisting fluid expulsion as long as you can keep the swelling to a reasonable level.

Yes, you look silly, and your head can get a bit stuffy; but in the long run I've found it an invaluable practice when I've already tapped out everything else I have to throw at the problem for myself At home.

Inversion tables aren't exactly difficult to manufucture either; even if you do need to make sure you have someone else around for safety sake.
Google Now Says It Will Build a Nationwide Coronavirus Testing Website
I just measured the A4 one I got, for which the reMarkable would be a replacement, and it is 391g. So pretty close in my view.
Many companies do, but many companies are going to realize they run even leaner now that they are forced too, and why would they rehire if things are running ok as they are.

Kind of unrelated, but:

> As the owner of a small company that has a hard time finding good help
> My company doesn't wait for economic downturns to shed the staff that it didn't really need.

I hope that you're not saying you shed the good help when you don't need them.
I wonder if the same app will allow updating those.
Or just have both sides pick the lowest/highest proposed lifetime with a fixed minimum/maximum. Or just don’t have lifetime be configurable, because what is the point?
We are going to need the ventilators by 2020-03-22 - 2020-04-10. We also need to distribute oxygen tanks and regulators in the community.
> concern about the new specs would be the thickness, or rather the sturdiness

There has been an FCC leak: https://fccid.io/2AMK2-RM110 showing a machined aluminum back, which the motherboard is affixed to. To me this looks good.

Disclaimer, I pre-ordered V2 today and am an owner of V1.
If you don’t care about silly things like high availability and reliability. Hashicorp even recommends a cluster of three.

https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/concepts/ha/

And what business at scale is optimizing over 0.25 per secret and doesn’t care about HA?
I think this AND the payroll tax elimination for a period of time is a one-two punch combo. The first directly helps the people, the second keeps them employed.
Who says that these need to be human workers? Robots can help fulfill Amazon orders, and they are not vulnerable to the same viruses as humans.
Convention centers and empty hotels, they should be getting proactively turned into field hospitals very soon.
The company that they supposedly tried to buy it from has said that was a lie spread by others.
> existing homeowners have the majority of their net worth tied to their home

Then they should sell it while they can!
As a dev: I don't know. It's a well written article and this stuff can be handy in a pinch, but I've yet to see many real world scenarios where a complicated shell script is a good idea. Most of these examples, I would probably rather write a five line python script to ingest the data into sqlite and then use actual queries.
And there may be a second bump in the fall. There’s no reason not to build out our healthcare infrastructure.
Fortunately you have medication on hand to deal with the stress of unsolicited advice!
better known as swapping to disk
Guile integration in Make is super useful. I've used it on Windows to replace expensive shell calls with Guile functions and achieved tremendous speed-up. Building Make with Guile-support on Windows seems to be pretty complicated, but luckily ezwinports provides a native build, and it works great.
Whatever pushes progress in the low-power, reflective technology of epaper displays should be celebrated, I think.

One could imagine hacking something like this tablet to have a true interactive Squeak like environment on it. Or, better yet, a Squeak-like environment designed from the ground up specifically for epaper displays...
Setting up the bureaucracy to manage indirect funding would take significantly more time than we have.

People are losing their jobs as we speak, and weeks-long quarantines are happening right now too. I have a couple of friends who have literally no idea how they’re going to stay housed and fed.
Great question. The seller FAQ (marketplace account required) clarifies that this applies to the US and EU marketplaces.
So we should charge people more for hand sanitizer, thereby meaning the poor get less of it?
Canned salmon and pickles seem to be unpopular too. Sure, pickles aren't a necessity, but if people are buying up canned tuna, sardines, mackerel, clams, and mussels, what gives with canned salmon? More for me, I guess.
But not even China has 100,000 people infected, and their rate of new infections is slowing down. Italy still has <30,000 cases. And in both cases, the number of people requiring ventilators is obviously much lower.

Where are you getting this "hundreds of thousands more people infected than you have ventilators" idea? We've already had a couple months of the virus spreading at this point, maybe it's time to start making more realistic estimates?
we don't have a functioning nation-wide social safety net. Some say it's the price we pay for innovation and market driven prosperity. That's fine, I guess. But I'd rather pay for this in the future than having to deal with rioters and looters now. Not to mention living in a healthy and civil society where people don't have to worry about the first level in Maslow's pyramid of needs. There was a quote about being X meals away from anarchy.
Here's the real article:

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-early-signs-...
Anytime someone questions a healthcare investment, from now on, it must be met with “this will happen again”.
I am not a lawyer, but I wonder if laws against hoarding physical goods like hand sanitizer during an emergency also apply to so called intellectual property.
Well, it's not the government that vends those things. So that's much much harder to administrate than stuffing and mailing millions of plain old paper checks, or even dealing with direct deposit. (Granted that checks have their own problems -- thousands of people don't have banks.)
It's called a stimulus package!
I agree a temporary reprieve of infections from isolation will happen and based on the type of pandemic isolations can be an appropriate response.

What I haven't found is good evidence of what happens after isolation ends? Why won't a peak happen soon after? Any scientific sources you can point me to?

Also, the economic affect of isolations must be taken into account when implementing NPIs. The paper from the CDC states the economic disaster of isolations outweighs its general usefulness. This seems especially poignant for covid-19.
This was 20 years ago, my friend. The world wasn't as connected as it is now.
I actually struggled to find out the record label!
Lab Animals Will Help Fight Coronavirus
This is where emergency government powers to temporarily take over industry and direct production would be appropriate.
Royalty free? Well, pardon my French, but fuck them. They are not in a position to license anything, that would be admitting they had a case to begin with.
> The purpose of art or media is whatever the creator wants it to be.

Your argument is complicated by the fact that a lot of media, and especially for old out-of-print works, the copyright holder is not the person who actually created the work. At best it is a descendant family member, at worst it is a person or corporation who came into the copyright without the knowledge and consent of the artist.
Yes, an antibody test (a blood test) can do it. A swab test looking for the virus in your saliva probably wouldn't find any.
I believe most ISPs don't care if the file you download is "good" or "bad". What they probably do, and IMHO should care about, is prioritizing interactive applications over bulk downloads.
There are several alternative news-links beyond TC on Duck Duck Go: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remarkable2&t=ffab&iar=news&ia=new...
I've spent many, many hours telling HN commenters not to cross into nationalistic hostility, especially about China in recent years. But it's important to be precise with language if you're going to argue for tolerance. If you call a comment like the GP one racist, you'll only alienate readers who read the comment and don't see racism there. The comment contains plenty of other material that makes it a bad comment for HN.

Internet commenters are much too quick to factor into camps and tribes and then use extra-intense labels ("racism" in this case) to denounce each other. This appeals only to the side that already agrees with you, and leads to a downward spiral in which each side keeps escalating and the rest of the audience just feels alienated and starts wishing for some other place. That path leads to HN no longer being a forum for useful information and substantive comments, so we all need to take a different path.
Reflective or iridescent, the nature of light that falls into your eyes doesn't change. Low-power is definitely an attribute that I can get behind but modern batteries are good enough to not go underpowered when it comes to books.

Downvoters: yes, you deserve the truth! :-)
Dec 2017 - 700k - http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-01/29/c_136933793.htm

Dec 2018 - 712k - http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/27/c_137778435.htm

Dec 2019 - 1.71m - http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-02/01/c_138748020.htm
We had plenty of calls, just nobody woke up.
Even if the US had a magical force field that kept the virus out, it would still do a considerable amount of damage.

The supply disruptions that hit China are now moving to the rest of the world.

The largest companies in the US do a large amount of foreign business - I’ve heard up to 40% or so of the revenue of the S&P 500 comes from outside of the US.
> The middle class already pays most of the taxes

I'm not so sure about that. The top 1% pays 37% of federal income taxes. Meanwhile, the bottom 50% paid only 3% and 44% of paid nothing at all. Depending on the source you use the middle class in America is typically considered to top out at incomes between 100k and 122k. In either case the middle class pays less than half of income taxes. Then looking at the bigger picture we see income taxes only account for 60% of all taxes.

Sources:
https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...
https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-irs-data-book
China took aggressive and far earlier steps to contain spread.

We're far behind on mitigation, and we should expect a much larger spike in cases.
This is why I really do believe that family (or the opportunity to have a fam) is all we have.
Check out the work of the MetaCurrency Project

http://MetaCurrency.org
I'm confused - what economic effect outweighs "1,000,000 dead"?
Probably. AIUI, LMDB is the backend for Arakoon, another distributed DB written in ocaml.
I've been building this site over the last year. An autoencoder reduces user-submitted images ("peaple") down to 3KB and reconstructs them at 128x128 using pixel loss, then they are sent through a series of GAN-trained upscaling enhancers to generate pics at higher resolutions.

On the site you can browse existing peaple, upload new peaple, generate new ones from random input, blend peaple with each other, explore their infinite virtual family trees, and apply styling effects.

Excited to hear your feedback!
AWS Aurora is not “proprietary”. It’s basically a fork of Mysql/Postgres with a more performant storage layer.
24 hrs on cardboard, up to 72 hrs on plastic/stainless steel (smooth surfaces).
Just empirically, browser security has improved dramatically over the last decade or so. When did a browser exploit last cause actual real-world damages? I remember network infrastructure compromises, social engineering, fake gmail logins, etc, but the weekly flash or PDF worm is gone, and JS seems to be holding up remarkably well given its size and complexity. Aluminium Centrifuges seem to also be more vulnerable these days than Chromium Browsers.

Somebody seems to be doing something right.
I worked there as a Software Development Engineer (SDE) from 2007 to 2013.

At that time, SDEs were paid on a salary basis with additional compensation in restricted stock units (RSUs) that vested in the future based on how long you stayed with the company a.k.a "golden handcuffs".

SDEs worked about 50 to 60 hours during most of the year, 70 to 90 hours during an oncall / pager duty week, and 70 to 100 hours during Q4, the holiday season leading up to Christmas.

The pay was really good, the people I worked with were brilliant and amazing, and it was exciting to build awesome systems and see them make a difference in the company's operations and capabilities. At the same time, it starts to wear on you and your family after a few years. I am glad I did it, but it's not the type of job most people can do for more than a few years due to how much it requires and impacts your life.
Virus Survival Strategy for Startups
Do you really want to set a precedent that (intellectual) property rights are suspended in times of crisis? Maybe I have a great idea for curing coronavirus infections, but now I don't want to pour money into to r&d for it because I know that the government won't uphold my patents next time a coronavirus epidemic rolls around.
Things might be slowed down while quarantines are in force. The big question at the moment is what happens when those quarantines become unsustainable if, as seems very likely, we don't yet have mass vaccinations available.
No, you want the next generation, for the same reason: Thunderbolt is now officially dead, it has been absorbed into the official USB4 standard.

There is very unclear support for existing Thunderbolt-over-Type-C devices under USB4, and it is likely your devices will stop working.

Please wait until USB4 and USB4-based solutions start shipping before you start adopting it, else you're going to be stuck with a bunch of devices that are no longer being supported, or cannot be cross-supported across Thunderbolt 3 and USB4 variants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/coronavirus-fatality-r...

> 2.2 million people in the United States could die.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/14/8156756...

> The latest study available estimates there are about 62,000 ventilators in hospitals nationwide.