skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First paragraph (and headline):

> Some 18% of adults reported that they had been laid off or that their work hours had been cut
Could be, and obviously some people can't cook for reasons other than lack of willingness to learn. I get that, I'm also disabled and cooking is sometimes too hard. But I bet it looks a lot different next Saturday than it did last Saturday just from 46% of the country suddenly hearing from the only source they trust that this is, indeed, a big deal.

I'm thankful for this, though I wish we hadn't spent the last month trying to convince that same 46% of the country (who trend significantly towards the elderly end of the spectrum) that it was an overblown conspiracy against the incumbent president.
It’s somewhat hard to believe that a country with a population of almost 1.4 billion, has only 137 cases and 3 deaths. It’s more likely they have not been diagnosing and tracking the actual cases out there.
BLS data is going to look crazy. Surely, there’ll be a jobs report where unemployment jumps from <4% to >10%. And then in a few months, it’ll jump back down again.
Funerals move to live-streaming
The number of non-tech articles with social/political slant on HN is increasing.
I did the same with a Sun Blade 150 (gave it to a friend). They are pretty expensive to pick up now. Solaris 8 (maybe 9) was on there and I think I ended up running on of the BSDs on there. The machine wasn't fast (not compared to an Athlon XP 2500+) but it was a nice unique unix workstation that ran solidly.
This. Me too.
Work is underway on speccing out declarative shadow doms, which would remove the need for that JS: https://github.com/mfreed7/declarative-shadow-dom
I've always figured that fsck is called that because they couldn't come up with an acronym with u.
A big help would be reforming local land use codes: https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/zoning-lan...:

This study reviews evidence on the effects of zoning and land-use regulation in three related areas: housing supply, housing affordability, and economic growth. The academic research on property regulation indicates that increased regulation is associated with a decline in supply, affordability, and growth. The literature indicates the effects are large, with a recent study suggesting that—because of regulation—economic growth declined by 50 percent and economic output declined by 8.9 percent between 1964 and 2009.

Imagine having everyone's usable income rise between 8.9% and as much as 50%! That's a huge benefit. We are seeing some efforts in that direction: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/585765/golden-gates... but not as much as we should.
I feel for the industry, but I'm having a hard time seeing myself buying gift cards at a moment when I'm wondering if I will have a job or food for my family.
They should remove that "choice" from them and make them pay their taxes on dividends.
> For context, "sick man of Asia" is up there with the n-word and drawing pictures of Mohammad in terms of its ability to offend a group of people.

Yikes I'm sorry, no that's simply not true at all. When you can't even type the other word out you are referring to it's not in the same realm of conversation. What is this fascination of trying to control people's speech?

And I'm sorry, people should be able to draw Mohammad as they please. Someone's religion should have no bearing on someone's freedom of expression. Religion has become a cancer to our society.
In Utah it was 11 PM yesterday. Or at least in Salt Lake City.
Ah yeah I'm talking about two different things. The docs for getting SAML config would be on a separate public site.

WorkOS.js is for the IT admin to configure their SSO/SAML integration.

With both of these things, you can make SAML fully self-serve and include it in your base tier, which drives adoption and retention in bigger companies.
Amazon Suspending Shipments to Warehouses Other Than Medical and Household Goods
He has this idea that he knows better than everyone else about anything and so other opinions don't matter. Ego and publicity and political/financial/image clout.
Use a PoE to USB (female USB-A or USB-C) adapter - variety of models e.g. I saw one for $10 on Alibaba.
List of Mass Hysteria Cases
Price regulation works effectively for water and car insurance and hasn’t led to black markets (at least that I’m aware of).
> That is the ultimate goal of modern cut-throat capitalism

True, but the only way they can achieve that is by using the government to outlaw competition and/or regulate them out of existence.

Their attempts to do it result in prosperity, high standards of living, longevity, etc.

(it has nothing to do with being "modern")
What I mean is that we were having an interesting discussion about energy meaning agency and how that agency might also have trade-offs and then you were like:

> DAE left and right?

and its just completely unnecessary. I'm sure you enjoy using that frame to approach issues but appreciate it can have a negative impact on discussion, especially somewhere like here where we all appreciate agency and doing stuff and solving problems.

The reason environmentalists who campaign for environmental issues don't campaign for nuclear power is that many of them are also not fans of nuclear energy as they are concerned about nuclear waste. I don't feel like that particular outcome is that surprising given the history of that movement.
If you're looking for consistency there maybe they should be more into battery tech to handle green power downtimes?
Stop worrying about it. Continue to poke at the old code and learn how it works. Do what you can do and be honest about what you can't do. If things aren't looking better in a couple of months, then you might start looking for another job, but give this one a fair shot first.
> order to manage memory the way the borrow checker wants, the programmer is at best tempted, and at worst forced, to add complexity to the program

Dubious claim; in fact, the opposite seems true, since simpler code passes the borrow checker more easily
One of the key challenges for India will also be to fight the spread of misinformation through WhatsApp and Facebook. There is false information and unproven remedies being circulated on WhatsApp and people blindly believe what gets forwarded to them giving them a false sense of security.
Maybe, but earning $300K a year really tells us little about someone's financial situation. I'm sure you can imagine a world in which many things - eg: Mortgage, medical costs, loan payments, family needs - can make $300K gross income disappear very quickly.

Also remember that that 300k really translates to $130-$180 (guestimate numbers) base and the rest if stock which has also been falling
I will do my best adjust my tone in the future. Sorry about this.
welcome to the land of authority and threat
Show HN: Warmupz – A big ol' stack of meeting warm-UPS for your team
I disagree. It is clearer to use separate shapes (or different colours, or something to indicate the difference) for each case, I think, rather than merely the words used.
Your first paragraph makes clear why freedom of the press is necessary.

Expelling journalists is a strike against freedom of the press.
It's going to be wiped out far beyond June. Based on the recent models run by UK, the same models that prompted the White House to warn against gatherings of greater than 10 people, the curve doesn't end even without intervention until August. With intervention what we are going through right now could last well into 2021.
All of this looks good, except one statement that I'm willing to bet is false:

>Once the economy recovers, the reserve requirements will be reimposed.

I bet they aren't, until something awful happens, again.
"... whose press credentials end in 2020" is a significant part of the headline missing from the HN title.
A friend of mine spoke to someone today who was not aware of COVID-19 at all. Literally had not heard the term.
Even the most basic xor "encryption" would use virtually no power. Define a key and xor all data coming in with it. Given the slow refresh rate of these things, it would provide sufficient security against a bruteforce.
> Put a land value tax in place

We already have that. I pay huge property taxes every year and so does everyone else who owns land.
I only believe in the one true Morty
:) Including yours? Buy why?
Seriously, I don't know why people are trying so hard to find the negative here in a thousand bucks bonus to all employees. The top ranked comment in this entire thread is currently "But why? [...] What do they need the extra money for?" Talk about crab mentality. If your employer gives you extra money, you take it! Good on Facebook for redistributing some vanishingly tiny fraction of their cash to their employees in this time of crisis.
How far will it jump back down?

A lot of small and medium sized businesses are pretty marginally profitable and exist because of legacy momentum. I'm starting to think that a lot of these businesses will never re-start after the pandemic ends.
Yes, botnet operators would love that.
Slightly off-topic complaint: I really wish these features weren't considered "Enterprise" by so many people. Do you have a company that uses third party tools and has employees that leave? Congrats, you're an "enterprise" and need the "enterprise" plan.

I dream of the day that these features (SSO, Sync/SCIM, auditing) are considered table stakes.

I hope WorkOS takes off and drives that.

P.S. RIP Nylus
You're comparing buybacks to everything else. The person you were replying to was just answering why buybacks are now more popular than issuing dividends. The overwhelming reason is taxes.
Java 14 GA
There is believable evidence that the Spanish flu originated in the US.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-1...

https://www.livescience.com/spanish-flu.html

Was the name racist? Not sure, considering that likely it was incorrect. What do you think?
Having to update all clients at the same time when deploying a Wireguard with different ciphers is solvable with just deploying another Wireguard server alongside the new one, right?

I mean it's debatable whether one likes this approach better than more complex cipher negotiation protocols -- clearly these things should not be thought about in absolutes or "best practices", but as tradeoffs with different pros and cons. Wireguard seems to prioritize protocol complexity above upgradeability, that's not to say one is better than the other.
https://twitter.com/mulligan/status/1239774408173969413
Since this is enterprise tool, what's your security posture like? Are you compliant/certified with framework's like ISO27001?
Simply put, I prefer balanced and educational articles to opinion pieces.

I am receptive and interested in their premise, but don't feel like a robust case was made because no counterclaims were addressed.

I wrote this comment in hopes of discussing the topic with other posters so perhaps we could all expand our understanding of the world we live in.
OK, Airlines, here are your bailout terms
SF is currently under lockdown, and i've been working on this project since summer. I had a previous startup called Let's Robot, and Remo is more of a v2.

It allows for real time control of video streaming robots w/ pretty low latency. You can setup a public or private server to share with anyone you want. Public servers are added to the public directory than anyone visiting remo can access.

I designed the structure to be a bit more like slack or discord.

This is somewhere between an MVP and a scalable v1. Currently you have to sign up for an account to access anything.

My goal is to make a general purpose open source tele-robotics platform that is targeted towards every day people to use, not just engineers.

You can customize the interface for your robot using a JSON file. The source code for the controller is on the site's front page ( if you wanna add a robot ), and the source for the entire platform is also linked there.

Happy to answer any questions anyone has. I'm currently on lockdown and streaming robots from my house off and on during the quarantine.

Direct link to my robot server:
https://remo.tv/join/ay4l4ea
I don't know whether it would or wouldn't. I was just replying to the parent comment which said this:

> But what Yang doesn't do here or in his book is make a powerful case to fiscal conservative spelling out just how universal income will avoid demolishing the economy through inflation. Until this happens, UBI is going nowhere.
To add to this the UP govt is planning an "Ayodhya Ram Navami Mela"(1) where millons of people will be gathering soon. They plan to tackle this by using 100k masks, 4,000 litres of sanitiser.

(1) https://theprint.in/india/governance/despite-coronavirus-lak...
Anyone not seeing the app on the Apple app store? The link in the blog post works, but I can't find it from search on my phone.

EDIT: I was able to open the app store link on my phone, and it worked then. Apple's indexes not updated I guess?
I looked over some of the amazon reviews, and they seem to be talking mostly about issues in older versions (2018) of the software, which I don't have direct experience with, but the software has gotten better, even in the time I've owned it (they just released version 2.x of the SW).

That being said, there is still room for improvement, particularly with reading (vs writing, which this device is very good at).

I mostly use it this to replace stacks of notebooks (my brain thinks better with pen and paper in hand, but with all the digital conveniences in hand. This device is the best that I've tried for writing (and I've tried many, including an ipad pro)

Cons: historically, the price. No blacklight. Clearly the device has been optimized for writing, not reading, although supposedly 3rd party ebook readers like Apollo are good (the device is not locked down and has a hacker community).
Yes of course ! Lemme go right ahead and deploy this closed source system developed by an unknown company on all of my organizations computers. In fact I'll surprise my CSO with it - he'd be so relieved to no longer have to worry about having our data go through third parties like Slack and Microsoft.
I've owned mine for nearly two years and barely used it, although your comments about the improved software are making me reconsider. I do also like the sturdiness of the first generation device, especially compared with my experiences with Kindles
It's most likely CPC brigading. The only group on earth who sees anti-CPC rehtoric as being synonymous with racism against the chinease are the CPC themselves.

It's like when someone calls you an anti-semite for supporting BDS movements. I just assume they're isreali Nationals or shills when they say that crap. It's all dog whistling because the alternative is that evil organizations would have to admit that they do bad things.
It's custom, built on Next.js and MDX.

https://github.com/zeit/next.js/

https://github.com/mdx-js/mdx
Thanks for clarifying. While reading this I was under the impression that they were referring to specific web components created and hosted by Google, and I further assumed that Google denied crawlers access to the web component modules (hence closed). Thanks for making it clear that is not the case.
Given the properties of the virus--droplet aerosol borne, long incubation period, asymptomatic contagion, high infection rate, many asymptomatic carriers--I don't think there is any reasonable (or unreasonable) government policy that would have kept it from becoming a global pandemic.

Better containment would have given countries some extra time to bring any mothballed reserve healthcare capacity to ready status, but I think this was essentially unpreventable. Absent any evidence of actual intent to spread a virulent disease worldwide, other countries don't really have any grounds to be angry at China, just for having 1/5 of all possible first-infected people, and getting the unlucky draw this time.

This one likely came from one bat contacting one human in Wuhan. The next one could come from Chennai, or Kinshasa, or Lagos, or London, or Dubai, or Chicago--any place that has humans living in it. Unfortunately, scapegoat culture exists worldwide. Bad news historically has had an abysmal track record with respect to retaliation against messengers, whistle-blowers, and bystanders. As long as someone can get punished for a disaster happening on their watch, the containable screw-ups will continue to be covered up. If the cover-up fails, the person organizing it probably would have been punished anyway.

Did someone in China attempt a cover-up? Maybe. Is that all of China's fault, as a nation? Only insofar as China's government, like many other governments with worldwide political influence, has a secrecy culture within it that punishes uncontrolled release of information that is damaging, or even just embarrassing, to the state.

Let's throw this revelation onto the pile for the post-mortem analysis, after the pandemic threat has lessened, to learn a lesson from it. That will likely take the form of a UN resolution, that will probably be vetoed. None of the major powers will want to reduce their ability to crack down on leakers and whistle-blowers. There is no solution I can formulate now that is compatible with large nationalistic governments existing on this planet.
Calculate your actual toilet paper needs
Lessons from South Korea’s Covid-19 Outbreak
From the same government that were selling Aéroports de Paris few months ago... Sells profitable entreprises and buys those in need of cash, then complains about debt and rises taxes. The aftermath will be salty for citizens, which are already amongst the most taxed in the world.
It's the rampant moral relativism and whataboutism.

It's why comments are frequently getting killed for pointing out China's early actions caused this global disaster, while simultaneously hundreds of comments are allowed to praise China (while they refuse to take any responsibility as a nation, even denying that it originated in China, and aggressively campaign with propaganda to blame the US for invading Wuhan with the US army to apparently launch a war against China and to attack China with a bioweapon and blah blah fucking blah).
i'm sympathetic to the original indictment that capital holders (like many hbs grads) realized, and then moved to solidify, this tilting of the board in their favor by supporting inflationary policy.

i'm not sure that the liberal economic polity is a distinct class from those same capital holders (but i generally disfavor left-right political framing anyways).
“FedEx, ups, and USPS aren't beholden to Amazon”

You might have missed the memo there.
Yes. Bailouts have moral hazard in them, nationalization does not.

Bailout The government rescues stock holders and industry with cheap loans. In bailouts government shares the risk with owners but not the profits.

Nationalization Government rescues the industry and stock holders lose their assets. Government can later arrange IPO and get rid of the companies and recoup at least part of the profits, sometimes making profit. In nationalization owners have risk and profits, when company goes belly up, government takes the risk and profits. It's clean cut.

Matt Levine has good article related to the issue
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-17/the-go...
Not really. Unless it is delivering food IMO. Maybe in the US but in EU, it is not.
Many of the grocery stores in my area actually use e-ink labels[0] on the shelves.

[0]: https://www.displaydata.com/
What would you change if you take the test and come positive?
VW is doing it [0]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-results-2019/v...
Nice viz. the 102% increase in New Orleans on feb 25 could be explained due to the ball game between Pelicans vs Lakers
> Sick Man of Asia though was mainly referring to the opioid addicted Chinese population at that time.

Was it? I thought that it mainly referred to the weakness and dysfunction of the Imperial Chinese government, which was a major contributing factor to that.
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Man, not fan of company toward public. But these acts are changing my view and their work to improve mis-spread of information.

I feel like they are becoming a new company (growth from teenage years I guess).
Why is extreme poverty still an issue to begin with?
Last I checked for someone getting $0, vs they now get $1k every month, that is a pretty big deal. Even if it by no means covers all expenses. It is the difference of being absolutely fucked, vs being kinda fucked, but you now have a much better chance of transitioning or making things work. Also if it is 1k for every adult, then a household with 2 adults (a spouse or significant other), now is getting (as a unit) $2k a month, that is not insignificant and can easily cover mortgage/rent and then some for most Americans.
Another source:

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/3/17/21183310/amazon-coronav...
If the government is competent the nationalization can be good. French govt already took control of their face mask supply. Ensuring at least more face masks to healthcare providers. It’s hard to argue this specific action hurts the French society. People need to analyze whether specific actions by the government are good or bad for society not if it fits into your ideological narrative
Thanks for listing these. Hopefully the makers listen. Glad it's not hardware.

I'd also love an open Kindle alternative. This is too much for my budget, but hope prices will come down in 1 year.
Printing money and giving it to everyone essentially taxes every dollar by the same amount. That's not necessarily the best solution here.
Given their threat this week to withhold ingredients for pharmaceuticals, we should be seriously reconsidering the amount and kind of trade we do with China. We'll see whether they continue in this, but it has a whiff of Faustian bargain at the moment.
Many grocery stores have major shortages, short-term grocery deliveries are fully booked, and where I am, normally 1-2 day Amazon food/medicine mail-order deliveries are presently at 5+ days.

I stocked up a month ago when everything was still running to ensure my household has food 12 weeks (I always have 30 days, but wanted to be on the safe side), but I know many people did not, and it’s going to be a while before all of those people can be properly supplied.
It’s not necessarily an act of charity. China has a vested interest in looking like the country capable of leading the world out of the pandemic, especially as Trump continues to stumble and alienate the rest of the world - it’s the same game of politics that all countries play all the time.

Crises are how rising powers become dominant powers - WW2 was the crisis that propelled America past UK to become the worlds dominant power.
Many service workers are getting a lot less money per hour worked than before because they're tip-based.

A lot of employees also just lost their childcare as schools and day-cares closed. Getting half-pay and being free to take care of your children could be preferable to getting half- or even 80%-pay while having to find and pay a babysitter for the time you're still working.

Also, to add to your point, most service workers don't get sick leave, so it's not just the risk of being infected -- if you get sick, you don't get paid. Unemployment still pays sick people.
Have they really embraced it though? Or this is an undocumented debugging port which may go away in a future software update?
Same. My guess is some manner of caching, or that it being new makes it drastically less popular than all of the existing results?
The WSJ Editorial Board has suggested that the Fed create a new facility that gives very cheap loans to businesses that need them. These loans will not need to be repaid right away and should sustain any business that needs it during this period. It sounded workable.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/financing-an-economic-shutdown-...
Very impressed with how the documentation looks. Similar to ReadMe.io, but a little bit more simple. Would love to know as well!