skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fed has been acting extraordinarily aggressively - which on one hand good news they're acting aggressively, but on the other hand a lot of people are taken aback by just how aggressive the response is since the fed is kind of signalling that they think this is as bad as 2008 or 1929 and are taking action, which is worse than many were originally thinking it was.
I have used the original, you can choose pen modes with varying degrees of pressure sensitivity. This allows you to take notes easily with whatever level of pressure you want, but also switch to a different pen if you want to draw a textured picture.

The lightest of touches are registered by device. I suppose if you choose the wrong pen mode for the immediate task you might have to push hard?
>I am also tempted to tell you that you might want to revise you usage of the words morally and ethically and that these are probably more profound than to be applied to a kid wanting to buy an album but failed to find it. Having said this, have a good day.

Don't make it profound. Make it simple. The kid couldn't find the album so he DLed it illegally. The kid is aware of this illegality at some level.

That awareness is how simple the situation actually is. The profoundness arises when someone tries to justify the situation. I use the word ethics and morals as one would use it in common english parlance about discussions of such matters, I am not asking for a philosophical definition of said terms.
Oh. Someone criticized China. And then someone rapidly turned around and said "But what about the US!"

Where have I possibly seen this before?
OTOH the same authoritarian government quarantined a city the size of New York and built field hospitals for thousands of people on very short notice when the situation truly got out of hand.
> That's two conversations mixed up in one: one about what is, as in, a prediction of what we can expect people to do, without any value judgements, and another about what ought to be, as in, what's our moral and ethical opinion of this behavior.

Economists are careful to distinguish between 'positive' and 'normative' economics, where positive economics is what's observed to happen and normative economics is what someone things ought to happen, morally, for precisely that reason. There are always the people who can't or won't make that distinction, however, including the people who refuse to distinguish between describing something and expressing approval of it. This has a particular relevance in any online community with a downvote function: If enough people are offended by a description of a state of affairs, any discussion of it will be downvoted to oblivion and will be impossible to hold in that forum, especially if downvotes are tied to how much you can participate in that forum in some fashion.
Sure, but - all in all - it is not that the batteries will make a difference, if you have to change them - say - once every 1 to 5 years.

Comparable "normal" e-ink labels cost much less than these (like 50-60%) AFAIK.
WebComponents might make sense for complex Applications as opposed to web sites.

Not everything done on the web is a "web site". Or blog.

There are untold numbers of Boring Business Applications that make the world go around. (like it or not...) These applications are increasingly built to run in web browsers. (not necessarily over the public internet)

These types of applications may be large and complex. They might have hundreds of forms, thousands of reports, etc.

Web Components, and other various web technologies might be great for this type of use. This isn't a web site where you want to "save" a "page". The application isn't organized as "pages". The browser is more like a remote smart terminal with a rich set of technologies available.

Next time you check out a library book, or a nurse draws your blood for lab work, or you get your oil changed, look at the application they are using. Is it running in a web browser?
Awesome-coronavirus: Useful projects and resources for Covid-19
As soon as I saw a posting critical of China, I was scanning HN for the first whataboutism message. Was not disappointed!
Midway through HBO’s Chernobyl it struck me: this was the start of the fall of the USSR. I guess that’s obvious, but the dominant narrative growing up was that the US outspent them militarily and it bankrupted them.

But it was so eloquently shown in the miniseries that it was really about the facade coming down — the illusion of the all-knowing regime crumbling into that vast, hellish pit at the center of the reactor.
My university replaced some room reservation tablets with pieces of paper on a clipboard.
>> In WW2 Roosevelt commandeered the car factories to build planes and tanks.

They also built things like machine guns.

The problem now, is the car factories have so much automation. The lines are specifically built to build one thing, the robots are designed to do one thing. You can't run a tank down a Ford Focus paint line.
He was forced by the police to come to the police station and not allowed to leave until he admitted to disrupting the social order[1]. Call that whatever you want, but I think arrested accurately portrays the situation.

Second, no one is defending the US’ actions, but you’re clearly trying to minimize China’s.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/07/c...
Or Amazon has an important role in the new Virus Economy, and is stepping up to do its part.
This was/is a failure of pedagogy. I was taught abstraction as a virtue, embraced it, learned this lesson, and then noticed that the experienced programmers (not the pedagogists and professional authors) had been saying all along that until you had seen three distinct cases of something in the wild you were in no position to create an abstraction for it.
China reported the disease to WHO on 31 Dec 2019. The article is short on first hand information and long on speculation. I think articles like this are only going to add to confusion and misinformation.
> These folks aren’t even that young and they describe it as being quite mild...

Take that with a grain of salt. The people for whom it's not mild aren't going to be giving interviews.
I work in medical devices which is similar and I think they will make a lot of money. They probably can’t push it as far as they tend to do with some cancer drugs but they certainly won’t suffer.
> WHO knew about a new virus/disease by 31st Dec/1st Jan and the market in question was closed.

China knew about the disease in mid to late November. That's quite a lag time.
How is this different from CDC banning Washington to do their own test??
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I've never met any of them but the culture just seems fantastic from the outside. Glad to see it isn't a facade.
Definition of work and productivity is arbitrary. You can think of these people taking the monthly UBI, shopping for groceries and eating it as meaningful work in quest for continuation of human race. I wouldn't see that as completely zero value add.

As long as others work more than basic subsistence we'll be fine.
With the caveats that I don't know more than the basics of investing and have a few years for funds to grow, I found the audiobook "The Simple Path to Wealth: Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life" by JL Collins to be very useful.

I don't think it'll touch strongly on saving your money being a bad idea, and I really don't remember anything about negative interest rates, but it does make investing seem much less scary.
It depends. A lot of them start out with a couple of restaurants and then work their way up. At least that was the way it worked years ago. But you’re somewhat correct at least, they’re picky about who they give franchises too. They’re also somewhat unique amongst the big restaurant franchises in that they limit the number of restaurants you can own. They want hands-on owners, and they actually require the owners to be trained on every function in the restaurant.

Source: I worked for a local franchisee about 30 years ago, and still know them casually.
The parent comment argued nothing of the sort. It said simply:

> "The Chinese Government is squarely to blame for this situation. Could it have been prevented if they had acted responsibly? I don't know"

The parent comment made no statements about how it could never happen in another country. It was specifically about the Chinese government's mishandling -- it was you who injected the bit about the US.
>They are not smart. Just stop telling yourself this about those people and stop respecting them. Stop it.

lol is this the "any alien civilization far in advance of us will be peaceful" assumption? there are hordes of very very smart people (by any metric - iq, success, wealth) that either lack empathy or are straight up antipathetic. how about we stop valorizing smart people and start valorizing empathetic people instead?
Being a remorseless psychopath works in business.
For non French speakers, Youtube will translate the subtitles to the language of your choice if you click settings a bit
Yeah, I guess a few more changes to push you to select to receive promotional emails. Other than that, it's pretty alright.

I like that they don't have 30 day retention policy when you want to delete something (repos, account) which is what everyone else does to keep you on the site. Really hate that.
to some extent it's probably a vicious cycle: previously paying eyeballs get drawn away to sensationalism (innately more interesting) over time, journalism funding goes down, less resources to put out journalism, more efforts at sensationalism to get a cut of the eyeballs, to where we are now.

OTOH FT/economist haven't shut down as far as i'm aware. not sure they're bastions of accuracy (or journalism) but pay to play may work for high quality content.
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Does anybody seriously believe that the US would have done a better job controlling the outbreak? Just look at how we did handle it when it made it over here!
There’s API for it, which I’m sure the Dropbox team is aware of. There’s probably another reason why it didn’t sync immediately.
What does that mean ? Are you saying that the climate change issue is going to be fixed if we slow down emission rampup over the next year ? Mind sharing that analysis ?

I don't think you realise how bad things are going to get as this panic drags on, think unemployment and poverty waves 2008 levels.

I'm not saying climate change is irrelevant - I'm saying proposing to slow down economic activity to reduce emissions has no quantifiable or tangible benefit - it's basically wishful thinking - and the downsides are going to be very harsh
Well they are also built to be modular and support changes in cars over the years. So I don't think it would be that bad.
Or it could be like the 1918 Spanish flu - a bad first wave that was most dangerous to the elderly, and a second wave that mutated and killed mostly young adults.
Stock buybacks are dangerous for the economy
This is my problem with Keynesian economics. It is obviously correct, but it cannot be done in practise.

Two issues:

- How do we identify good times? EU would for sure said we have not had them since the last crisis.

- How do we get humans to save in good times. Not regular people but politicians that wants to get reelected more than anything else
Anyone know what the hero image is supposed to be?
The way things work in governments around the world, that detail doesn't really tell us anything. The interpretation of "unsecured condition/facility" would be completely up to what the local government thought the central government was implying.
Say a farmer notices they accidentally dropped their rat poisson into the milk. Should they still sell it?

Assume it comes with the warning "this will kill you", printed large enough to inform exactly the same fraction of customers as PaleMoon users who have the competence and information to make an informed judgement regarding its security.

Also: this has absolutely nothing to do with "leftism" and "dictatorship", and "conformity". Except in the sense that those terms have apparently become synonyms for "not doing stupid things that will harm you" to people prone to use all-caps.
We don’t have sufficient data because we are, in our infinite wisdom, not testing every person with a pulse. Or at least testing from as random of a population subset as we can manage. At least in the US. Other countries mileage may vary.

But even then it is my understanding that there currently is no way to test if you already had it.
getting larger and the ads displayed in store windows could eventually be replaced. it would be a much better way to display pricing and menus in restaurants than the current fad of large monitors.

there are all sorts of places where information does not need real time updates that this type of technology could eventually satisfy. the best part is reduced energy use and even paper use
Killed 20 million too in the great revolution.
That only applies for long-term recession projections where the company is seen as doing a poor job, not now where stock is down because there's a pandemic shutting everything down and market volatility is going batshit. As long as the company has enough cash on hand to ride the pandemic out they'd want to retain everyone so they can ramp up again as fast as possible
It is perfectly serviceable for reading, though it may lack some of the reading oriented features of other eink devices. I love the large size for some of my documents, which are unpleasant to read on smaller devices.
Aggressive testing helps Italian town cut new coronavirus cases to zero
How much time did you use to write the app? Is it possible to just burn the code and forget about the project?

As other comment said, get everything in written. Get a layer to read the agreement before signing.
This. It works with some discipline, but our current politicians (and by reflection ourselves) lack that discipline. We should have been raising rates and even taxes during the last boom, to slow it down so it would last longer, and to build a reserve for the next bust. A bust is a great time to hire and build, a boom is a not so great time to do that, and I’m not just referring to that from a stimulus perspective.
All that may be true. But the rest of world has no excuse for not reacting.
There is plenty of housing available, just not west-coast 3000 sqft 4/3 new construction. High housing prices are a localized issue.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/12810-Leeila-Ave-Clevelan...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/302-Purdy-St-Buffalo-NY-1...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/405-Gimber-Ct-Indianapoli...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5720-Pepperbush-Dr-Fayett...
Public Petition to Guarantee Food Supply During Coronavirus Crisis
> An infection control experiment that was rolled out in a small Italian community at the start of Europe’s coronavirus crisis has stopped all new infections in the town that was at the centre of the country’s outbreak.

> Through testing and retesting of all 3,300 inhabitants of the town of Vo’, near Venice, regardless of whether they were exhibiting symptoms, and rigorous quarantining of their contacts once infection was confirmed, health authorities have been able to completely stop the spread of the illness there.

[..]

> Importantly, however, this second round identified at least six individuals who had the virus but no symptoms, meaning they could be quarantined. “If they hadn’t been identified, the infection would have resumed,” explained Prof Crisanti.

> In Veneto, the authorities plan to expand the aggressive testing regime in the whole region and are seeking to take at least 11,000 swabs a day. “If someone calls the [virus] hotline and says they are sick then everyone in the family, all their friends and the whole building get tested,” said Prof Crisanti.

[..]

> “In the UK, there are a whole lot of infections that are completely ignored,” Prof Crisanti told the Financial Times. “We were able to contain the outbreak here because we identified and eliminated the ‘submerged’ infections and isolated them,” he said of the Vo’ approach. “That is what makes the difference.”

> The success underscores the importance of testing and isolating otherwise healthy carriers, an approach that has been strongly endorsed by the World Health Organization. The WHO this week urged all countries to test aggressively, noting that South Korea and Taiwan were having success in limiting infections by doing so. “Our key message is: test, test, test,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO chief, said on Monday.

> Prof Crisanti said the unusual — and in some ways accidental — testing experiment in Vo’ allowed researchers to obtain a full “epidemiological picture” of the disease.
OMG, that's really horrible! 90-100 hours a week equates to 7 days a week, 13-14 hours a day with commute not included during entire (or bigger part of) Q4.
Doctors "Give Up" on people all the time. If you have advanced pancreatic cancer, are 85 and a heavy smoker, most doctors are going to suggest you go home and spend your last few days with loved ones.
Show HN: Chatbot for sending free postcards duiring COIVID-19 quarantine
Rent doesn’t seem to have gotten cheaper. Food too. And education and health care. How exactly is inflation at record lows, because the BLS said so?
It is not stealing. It may be illegal, but it isn't stealing nor robbery. You may be violating the copyright law, but nobody is taken away any object and there is no threat of violence. When people get access to copyrighted works, then at first, it is good for people. Only then the idea is that the creators can't make a living by producing those works. We can solve that differently, without using copyright. Copyright is a weirdly anti-market and authoritarian concept where the government artificially makes something scarce by punishing supply. In any case, distributing stuff is not stealing. /rant
The virus was first identified on Dec 27th.

The first case was on Nov 17th. But that was found retroactively.
Ask HN: Will so many people working at home cause the internet to collapse?
I set up a video chat with a group of friends last night and someone posed the excellent question -- if 50x as many people are streaming video calls all the sudden, is the internet backbone actually capable of handling it?

Once the university I work for starts doing all virtual classes, will students be unable to connect due to internet outages in their locality or be unable to understand the lecturer?

Our conclusion was "probably if people's video is degraded a bit and people mostly just use voice and text" but I'm curious if HN people at places like Zoom have a better grasp on how scalable video chat is.

What best practices would be helpful to make sure that students can access online courses being streamed live, especially ones where students and teaching assistants are having a Q&A based on lecture material?
Switzerland here. There hasn't been a reason to keep a savings account in a long time. My retired parents have mid six figures in cash doing nothing.
Why did you delete most of wilsonpaige's posts? All he did is put two things together and come up with an idea that will apparently work. So he's kinda in Neils Bohr's situation with the hydrogen atom: it works, it only works here, I don't know why it works, but it works! Isn't that the essence of creativity?

Why the dunning and shunning? If the women in reasonable shoes on this bbs had any creativity we wouldn't be in a jam with Covid.

Is wilsonpaige so different in this regard from Elon Musk? Musk posts re quinone and is praised and his ideas spread. Wilsonpaige at first doubts the quinone solution, then within hours finds confirming studies, adds to it his experience with zinc antivirals and comes up with a better solution (albeit one w/o an underlying mechanism). Now you've torn his posts up and thrown them away.

Shame!
If not prevented, severely curtailed. I'd almost give them the benefit of ignorance if their actions weren't so clearly malicious.
Sure, but they closed the barn gates after the horses had already bolted.

Edit: Oof, the truth hurts don't it?
This unfortunately is par for the course.
Most power users have left Firefox. Once 23% market share, these days 7.xx market share.

All because Mozilla got greedy and removed features from Firefox to appeal to Chrome users as Mozillas dream-goal is to become number one market share wise.

Nonetheless - leftist feature and customization haters are mindless Nazi, and i despise Nazi of no matter for which color they may have and under which political side they may hide.

And no, Mozilla is only caring for market share, money, Chrome users. That is the only reason they even tried to find alternative ways to bring customization back these days.

That you can have a multi-process engine AND features shows Vivaldi - with their App UI on top of Chromium. Which basically Australis with CTR delivered too in some kind of ways. But to please disgusting leftist anti-feature pro-simplicity Nazis which are using Chrome (as Mozilla wanted their users so badly all at once) - something like that is NOT/no-longer available in Firefox.
You're barking at the wrong tree. Patent trolling is not innovation by any stretch.
"R0 is not a biological constant for a pathogen as it is also affected by other factors such as environmental conditions and the behaviour of the infected population." [0]

If we hold R0 down long enough through change of behavior then we can absolutely flatten the curve.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number
What happens after isolation ends will depend on a bunch of things.

If testing capacity and health department capacity is available to do contact tracing on new cases, we would see (significantly) reduced spread as unknown carriers could be tracked down.

If the virus has reduced viability in warm weather (as has been suggested) and isolation ends during warmer weather, that will reduce the rate of new infections vs today without isolation.

If many people with undiagnosed cases heal during isolation, they may not transmit to anyone, and they may emerge with some immunity afterwards, reducing spread when isolation ends.

There's certainly a chance none of this works well. There's also a real chance that the (mostly longer term) negative health effects from isolation outweighs the (mostly shorter term) negative health effects from an uncontrolled epidemic.

I think it's pretty unlikely that the peak after isolation will be as high as the peak without isolation, and there's hope that with isolation, the health system won't be overwhelmed with this to the exclusion of other urgent needs. The economy is going to be a big mess with either isolation or an uncontrolled epidemic.
That’s only fair if the economy was run responsibly. Is the government going to bail out retail “savers” who invest in equities after the next disastrous credit bubble?
It's enabled in the `make` package on Arch Linux.

My Guile is around 40MB; my Python is around 80MB--both gargantuan compared to the 1.5MB Make.
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I've got to give it to them. You have to be a special brand of riffraff to use such an "opportune" moment to settle monetary grievances. Doesn't the Legal system in the US(Especially the Bar) have any punitive measures for unethical lawyers?
OTOH preventing unsecured facilities from holding such samples seems a valid thing to do.

The point the being the highly charged political divide on this issue makes it impossible to trust sources on either side of this and similar matters.