skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty sure the internet isn't the problem but the services you depend on being able to scale properly. The service that does the streaming needs to be able to handle the extra traffic on their servers or else everything will just crash. This is also why IT / Infrastructure people are valuable assets to an organization even though they're viewed as an expense generally.
Somebody has to if you want companies to be able to raise capital and carry on forming new businesses and employing people etc. It's your choice whether you prefer that or the moths and rust.

Hard times aren't as safe as good times, all around.
I think the comment you are responding to was being cheeky :)
Most restaurants moved to take out and delivery mode. Obv no one is doing online reservations these days. I don't understand what's OpenTable trying to say here.
This is cool. But it seems to me that this person's setup could benefit from a way for the computers to be notified that battery power would run out soon so that they could shut down cleanly. I have that going at home through a USB connection to a UPS...it would be harder to set it up with a central battery but they seem to be up to fun challenges :)
Google is being flexible about letting employees not use their PTO while school is out, which IMO is a far better thing to give.
If you can't get ahead, why even try? Easier to fall back to simpler ways of living - and in the end that certainly doesn't keep rich folks in private jets etc.
If Facebook actually wanted to help, they would instead give every employee a $1,000 donation budget. Pick a charity and Facebook will donate on your behalf.

Why give an extra $1,000 to someone who is still making their salary? Or you know at least cut it off at people making over $100,000 or something.
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Well, we do know that the local government was suppressing things, because both sides claim that.
I'm pretty sure the Spanish flu did become less deadly over time. I'm sure the virus didn't go away after the second wave, however humanity started developing an immunity to it.
"By definition, don't all contractors have to generally not work from an office?"

At Facebook or in general?

I don't know FB's specific policies but in general, no, being a contractor does not automatically imply that you can work remotely.
I would like this relief to be tied to "keep paying people and maintain cleanliness at your stores".

To use the term, "trickle down" but with requirements for the trickle part.
> Are there countries who conduct serologic tests? PCR tests (widely used?) wouldn't catch people who got the infection, developed antibodies with no or mild symptoms, but didn't transmit the virus around at the moment test is taken.

Not that I know of. On the most recent "This Week in Virology" podcast, they mentioned that China has recently said they won't be doing serologic testing, which lead them to think that China has reason to believe the disease is far more widespread than their official numbers show. This may be in line with the idea that most infections are asymptomatic.
> So how do I protect myself?

Pretty sure this will get downvoted, but just 5% Bitcoin + 95% cash has historically beaten equities with less risk.
Houston, like many cities, banned dine-in, though takeout and delivery are still options. Obviously Open Table's data won't reflect those sales.
SBA will be distributing low-interest, long term loans, if it helps any.

https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/disaster-assistance
That's interesting. Fascinating that this is such a problem. I was watching a video of George Hotz about comma.ai tech where he was essentially saying that no one will bother hacking into your car if it's self-driving. Makes me wonder if that's actually the case. Probably depends on the difficulty but this is above my paygrade.
There is a difference between discussing something and the fascist haters of customization these days.

It is a fact that most people are either using Firefox OR Chrome and sharing such a toxic opinion. And that is not what the right-wing side is spreading, this opinion you can find majority-wise at the left-winger audience.

Therefor Lestat is right and this has to be mentioned, as there is zero reason that such disgusting fascism just should not be ignored.
The much bigger news here is that they're suspending performance reviews for this half and giving everyone an "exceeds expectation" rating. This is huge for working parents who are having to give up family responsibilities just to grind for their employer.
If you don't want to be banned on HN, please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22606977 and do not post any more flamewar comments.
They have not enough ICU beds.

That is pretty much the definition of running out of capacity.
1. That was shopify

2. It's an expenses budget for home working equipment, not just cash in their paychecks, and not with max performance rating for max bonus
These are sealed-beam. The problem is that they're so high off the ground that they are about eye level with most drivers, meaning they'll shine in their eyes more than other lights.
If it becomes very long then the data you lose to the scrollbar is the least relevant.
I don't see how it's low-risk to have an infected person preparing your food in the kitchen.

At least with a grocery store, you can wash off the produce before you use it. With a restaurant, there's nothing covering the food at all.

And remember, the chefs in the kitchen are paid peanuts, and have no safety net whatsoever, so there's zero incentive for them to get tested or to stay out of work if they get sick. This is also the case during normal times. Eating out is a good way to catch something in a country where we think it's a great idea to fire cooks and other low-wage workers when they call in sick.
> Touch the handle going to the bathroom.

Wash your hands and use a paper towel on the way out, like you should always do.

> Sit in the waiting area next to a sick person.

No queuing.

> One of the chefs is sick.

But takeout and delivery is allowed. So this isn’t any different.

The point isn’t that it’s “zero risk” (there’s no such thing).

We’re going to have to live with some element of risk in our lives as long as COVID exists without a vaccine. This is totally normal and to be expected.

We lived with Measles for decades and it is much more virulent and about equally as deadly as SARS-CoV-2. In the 1980s there were still about 2 million people a year dying from Measles.

EDIT: You’re right, we’ve been living with Measles for millennia in fact. And as recently as the 1800s there are populations that have been decimated by it. Measles absolutely did consume a massive percentage of hospital resources, although it’s fair to say that hospitals were acclimated to the demand.

The “flatten the curve” graphic is extremely misleading. The axis have no scale and the two curves themselves are not to any scale. The actual ICU capacity is like 4 pixels off the y-axis.

But that’s besides the point. We should absolutely be taking common sense and appropriate actions to reduce the spread of this virus (and several other diseases come to mind which are more deadly). When possible we should do this in a way that doesn’t destroy people’s livelihood.

That means a rational and scientific approach, not the emotional reaction which is so prevalent and actually damaging. Restaurants cannot stay closed indefinitely, particularly when we have reasonable approaches which can make them safe.
disclaimer: was on the team, but didn't write the article / don't work on this anymore

Rust was adopted at Dropbox for some serving infrastructure use cases more than a year before the sync rewrite was started, which was about four years ago. I'd say we solidly predated the "rewrite it in Rust" meme.

I believe that this rewrite was only successful because of Rust's ability to both interact safely/efficiently with underlying OS APIs (they're pretty much all C-like) and to encode complex concepts into the type system and the compiler. Rust isn't the only language with these properties, but it is one of the few -- and it's one that we really enjoyed using.
We need new staged financing models for projects like this.

$500mm for x project, released upon these pre agreed milestones. Like the way it works in large scale infrastructure or some construction financing.
Here's where you are wrong, also: it wasn't illegal (at least at the time - now I don't know since I don't download stuff).
So, being that the case, all your profound, simple, philosophical or vague attempts to find this illegal, and therefore wrong, are useless, I'm afraid.
As pointed by someone also, you seem to argue that illegal follows wrong but that's not granted. Legality is an attempt to out in practice a certain amount of ideas about what right and wrong is by a certain society at a given time in history, that's all.
Knowing how many people rely on Amazon for their purchases, it seems like they're doing the right thing to keep everyone moving during this craziness.
we actually extensively use structured concurrency patterns with futures in rust.

it's easy to have "nested" futures in rust, where one top-level future (our control thread) owns its subcomponents (like a protocol component, scheduler component, and so on), and the `poll` method for the top-level future then `poll`s all of its subcomponents. in this case we manually write our own `poll` implementations, but it's also easy to express these patterns with combinators like `FuturesUnordered`.

then, we have really good cancellation properties in our system. if we decide to cancel a file, we just drop its future, and we can be sure that all of the resources held by its "subtree" of futures will be released.
Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22606977 and do not post any more nationalistic flamebait, or other flamebait, to HN.
Honestly... it is always pathetic how people say leftists are called that, right-wingers are called that... The only right term to call out people of EVERY fascist opinion is - Nazi - as that is what fascists/racists are - no matter of left or right.

And compared to Mozilla's community of disgusting radicals - Every other browser developer has a rather civilized and sophisticated usergroup. And as can be seen here or Reddit... Mozilla has the most fanatical Nazis. I rather would use something like Vivaldi or Brave before i would touch Mozilla, as that would make me a followers or worse - an accomplice!
Are the massive layoffs there in tourism and travel? In Sweden travel companies and hotels have so far sent notices about 14000 jobs.
By some strange coincidence maintaining a working web browser became a task that only Google can do "properly". Microsoft gave up. Firefox is struggling. Doing something from scratch is insanity.

So here we are. A website choke-full of people who constantly post about modulariy, protocols and advanced type systems, yet sheepishly accept that a browser with its zillion unrelated features is a giant, tightly coupled blob that cannot be tackled by anyone except an ubercorp like Google.
Louisiana closed all bars and limited restaurants to takeout, delivery, or drive-thru service only.
Take out and delivery is still allowed. So I don’t see how this is a valid critique of why dining rooms are closed.
Yeah, that's what I'm getting at.

What I see at the moment on HN and elsewhere is a lot of people who seem to believe that in Italy the hospitals are already overrun and people are being turned away in large numbers because all the beds are gone already days ago.

But this doesn't match what is actually happening there, according to the Italian government. What they're saying is so far they've had to turn away noone; that everyone who needs treatment is getting it.

I think this mismatch is coming from a couple of places. One is mis-interpreting doctors switching off life support for patients who can theoretically be kept alive using e.g. ECMO but for whom their lungs are destroyed and they wouldn't really have a life afterwards. That's terribly sad but isn't the same thing as patients who are in the middle of making a full recovery being switched off, or people who could be saved being denied beds because there just aren't enough. Another is a confusion between "we're about to run out of beds" and "we think we're about to run out of beds".

I'm not trying to downplay the seriousness of the situation here, but we have also have to keep our heads and double check things being claimed about that seriousness, as it's always tempting in times of crisis to lose our heads and go full sandwich-board. Maybe by tomorrow Italy will actually be there, but as of yesterday at least, it seems they aren't.
> would it be possible to predict which company would flourish?

I'd say both have good chances. I'm actually surprised BO doesn't have better achievements by now.

> Both looked like jokes at the time to my aerospace colleagues.

I assume some aerospace professionals still consider them jokes, which weights on definition of professional. But SpaceX really does things differently - the pioneers of space era (like von Braun, Korolev) could, I'm sure, understand Musk, but aerospace professionals of 1990-2000 were trained in rather different world.
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I don't understand what you don't understand. That quote is literally saying they are over capacity.
So you are expecting to go thru a crisis and things to run by themselves? Essential parts of supply chain and healthcare are working overtime for the sake of us all.
Except I didn't what-about anything. Nor do I have any relation to the CCP.
The surface of the table is just one thing out of dozens:

Are they going to spray down the salt and pepper shakers, the menus, the hot sauce, the napkin dispenser, the chair seat and back? For self-serve places, how often are the trash cans disinfected, or the ketchup and mustard dispensers (or packet piles)?

All that not to mention the other patrons in close proximity while you dine.

We don't realize how many communal surfaces we touch in a normal day.
I worded it as an adversarial way but it was a serious question. I'm glad to hear they don't.
There sure does seem to be a vacuum of guidance.
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> .. for no apparent reason by the WireGuard developers...

It's a very weird assertion that the Wireguard devs just threw the software together at random, choosing parameters for "no apparent reason".

> What if in a few months ChaCha20 gets proven insecure due to collisions found or easy factorisation? What can WireGuard offer to mitigate that? Shouldn't then also browsers implement only TLS1.3 and ed25519 ciphers because they are currently the most secure?

TLS is famously susceptible to downgrade attacks. (https://blog.ivanristic.com/2013/09/is-beast-still-a-threat.... etc.)

Ultimately, it's a value judgement. You can either have resistance to downgrade attacks (which have themselves proven to be quite problematic), or you have interoperability across multiple versions and configurations of endpoints. Increase the configurability of the protocol, and you massively increase the complexity. Increased complexity means increased testing burden and ultimately increased risk.

If Wireguard needs to be fixed in a backwards-incompatible way, then we'll find ourselves with a new version of Wireguard that doesn't work with the old version.
During coronavirus pandemic, we are making decisions without reliable data
So:

- If those with AGI above $250k paid 51.6% of all individual income taxes, what did they each pay per year in individual income tax?

- What did those with AGI above $2,500k pay? What percentage of annual revenue is that compared with someone on a decent professional wage, or on minimum wage?
Surely the amount of symptomatic but untested people in Italy is high. If you're sick but readily able to manage the symptoms, and you're already under lockdown because the health system is overloaded, you're not going to bother going in to get tested - you're going to let the doctors work on the people who need it.
For context, McDonald's Corp buys the land (and building?) for each location. Franchisees then rent those from the McDonald's Corp in addition to their other franchise costs. Not all restaurant franchises work this way, as far as I know.
Sure, I agree with removing capital gains taxes. Remove corporate income tax too. That would eliminate a lot of the discrepancy and tax loopholes.

But tax rates are meaningless otherwise. The top 1% pay as much as the bottom 90% combined, and the bottom 40% pay nothing at all.
Show HN: An API that scrapes state sites for transparent COVID19 data
Yup, this is what I do. Battery lasts forever. Since I get most of the books off Project Gutenberg, there wouldn't be any slick wifi transfers for me anyway.
The government has talked about bailouts for various industries from airlines, to cruise ships, to shale companies. But almost every sector of the US economy is going to be hit by this and I have no idea how we are going to react. Will there be a restaurant bailout? What would that even look like? It is much easier to work on bailing out a handful of airlines but how do you handle it for literally thousands of small businesses?
I use https://zenkit.com/ to create a mind map and then turn it into tasks.
They may have screwed up at first but then they reacted drastically and made huge efforts, which are paying off. I'm not convinced that others would have managed it better overall. The Chinese are now helping others.

Experts have been warning us for years than something like this coronavirus was coming, and we got several alerts (SARS, MERS, etc). The Chinese cannot be blamed for the global spread of the virus and for the lack of readiness of other countries.

Let's focus on defeating this virus through global cooperation instead of pointing fingers. Once this pandemic is behind us then hopefully everyone will reflect and learn what can be learned from it.
Top talent leaves on their own, bottom talent gets fired.
SBA just announced a program for loans up to $2M at 3.75% to make payroll
What will help you coach your teams better?
TL;DR I want to write a free ebook about coaching skills for technical leaders. What would you need to learn about coaching to coach your teams better?

Hi all,
My name is Alex. I'm an Engineering Manager and a certified coach. I've finished my first coaching course more than 5 years ago, around the time I was transitioning from an IC to a team lead role. And also during the last 2.5 years, I've been teaching others coaching skills.

Having coaching skills helped me a lot during my transition. Firstly, being a geeky developed I was, it was much easier to break through the discomfort of my first one-to-one conversations. Secondly, I was not the most technically gifted developer in the team, and with coaching skills, it was much easier to leverage other's expertise and guide them to own their decisions.

To cut to the chase, nowadays, as many of us, I have some spare time and I want to spend some of it sharing my coaching experience. I'm thinking about writing a short free ebook about coaching skills for tech leads and tech managers.

So I wonder how interesting this topic can be to folks here? And if it is interesting, what questions do you have about coaching? Or maybe you have some practical cases where you don't know how to use coaching and need some help with them?

Looking forward to your answers.

P.S. Sometimes there is confusion about what coaching is. I'm using the International Coach Federation definition of coaching which is aligned with all other major coaching professional bodies. Basically, it is a non-directive way of helping others find their own solutions.
Ready to ship and April are much different than the countries who have been, and continue to test, upwards of 10Ks+ folks a day. As of today, the CDC is reporting only N=4225 completed tests in CDC labs and N=20907 in other US labs.
For the original one at least, yes. The official stuff is at https://remarkable.engineering/ and there are a few Rust projects built around libremarkable https://github.com/canselcik/libremarkable
I'm surprised this came from the HBR. They said only 43% of companies record R&D expense but almost all buy back stock.

But that's not true. The 43% number is just companies that capitalize R&D on the balance sheet. All companies must disclose buybacks, but only some capitalize R&D, (even though they all spend on R&D), so of course it skews the data.

That's just a poor comparison on HBRs part.
Other countries don't have those filthy wet markets. They ARE absolutely filthy. They're on the same hygiene levels as the bushmeat markets in the poorest African countries. You know, Ebola?

Isn't it amazing that poorer, even denser countries like India or Bangladesh haven't originated the same deadly pandemics?

The PRC deserves the blame for this. Scientists have known about the issues with those markets for a long time, at least since SARS. They only just prohibited the trade of wild animals. Why not before?

(Of course some people will call this racism, but other ethnic Chinese countries like HK, Taiwan or Singapore have world-leading hygiene standards. This one is on the Chinese dictatorship, not the Chinese people.)
E-ink shelf labels are quite common here. NFC in that case seems like a much worse option than longer distance radio communication powered by a small battery lasting a few years.

As the article notes, this is probably best for information that needs to be updated relatively infrequently, if you're doing it so often that labor cost is at all much of a concern. Updating displays one by one manually using NFC seems like it would be nearly as labor intensive as swapping paper labels.
Oh wow, that one is so close! Just needs some more memory...

edit: at first I read that this would have 8 GB RAM, but now I'm reading that you can get up to 16 GB, which I think would be adequate for some basic multimedia work.

edit 2: wait I'm confused, according to the announcement, the AMD version is set at 8 GB of RAM.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/coming-soon/IdeaPad-Slim-7-14AR...
And Colorado as well.
High-quality and low-quality journalism have always existed, regardless of business model.

The difference is, when told to put their money where their mouths are, people on the internet like to pretend that high-quality journalism doesn't still exist so they can keep their wallets closed.
it will be absolutely great for the economy, rocket fuel, for about 5 years. Eventually will lead to some insane fundamental that will require a bail out.
It worked exactly as it is supposed to: it incentivized long tern investment where amazon lost a lot of money because they invested so much.

if you want to tax them on those losses that they rolled forward, you would basically have far less investment.

make up your mind - do you want them to invest and take losses or not invest and pay taxes - you can't do both.
as you should be.
It really bothers me to see comments like this get buried. The comment asks a perfectly valid, well articulated question.

How long can these lockdowns continue before their costs outweigh their befits?

It should be safe and okay to question and criticize the actions society is taking right now. Groupthink is its own form of a virus and can be just as destructive, if not more destructive than a physical virus.
It's a systemic problem with capitalism and markets.

Any system based on brutal winner-takes-all competition and monopolistic domination is unable to deal intelligently or rationally with a significant external challenge.

Gameify certain activities by all means, but everyone needs to get real about the incredible fragility and poor long-term survival prospects of a system that thinks of mutual aid and cooperation as weaknesses that can be exploited.