skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you clarify what you mean by "pay a fair tax"? I would assume that Amazon (like most publicly traded companies) pays all the taxes that it's required to by law.

> “Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.”

-- Judge Learned Hand (1872-1961), Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals
> but until then, we show solidarity and wait for cooler heads to prevail.

I know many people that live paycheck to paycheck, with the expenses of the bay area. For some people, this isn't a simple "lets stay at home", it's "I'm not going to be able to afford rent or groceries". I think it's a privilege to have a cool head right now.
Excellent post! I've never heard of readable.com before. What a fantastic resource.
If you are implying that you can 100% trust each and every politician that gets elected during various election cycles to be genuinely sincere and not corrupt, then yes, limited government involvement is bad!
The FAQ seems well thought out, lots of answers and reasonable ones too (can I walk my dog? -- yes if you keep 6 ft from other people).
It's usually a slower process that results in failure.

Companies who lose employees will hire someone to replace them. The more desperate they are, the lower quality the employees will be.
To misread a scientific paper you have to actually read it. Data analysis is a difficult field, and there are a number of studies where the data presented tells a completely different story than the scientists presenting it. Science is political and scientists are fallible. Confirmation bias isn't a plebian problem. Reading for your own understanding and asking questions is a necessary part of both scientific accountability and personal growth!

And, hearteningly, we see that OP has edited his comment to reflect the knowledge you passed along and has a better understanding of the situation. Inquiry at work.
I'm from the Netherlands, I think what he means is supermarket. Because distribution centers deliver food to the super market itself instead of the customers. Otherwise I'm not sure what he/she is talking about.

We have a full lockdown, yet everyone is outside and it's really crowded. There aren't people that give a (...) About the situation, especially in this city, because most of the people are higher educated.
But if they're going to be restructured - if they're solid enough for that to be possible - would the bank fail? If I understand correctly, the bank becomes insolvent when the loans are written off. (Note well: I am not a banker.)
I would guess mentions of enterprise and businesses all over with a contact sales button.
Some old pages are enterprisey and didn't know they pushed a desktop app for so long lol.

I loved that they explained how the name github came to be in one of the older landing pages.

2020 - https://github.com

2019 - http://web.archive.org/web/20190317031034/https://github.com...

2018 - http://web.archive.org/web/20180317031034/https://github.com...

2017 - http://web.archive.org/web/20170317031034/https://github.com...

2016 - http://web.archive.org/web/20160317164519/https://github.com...

2015 - http://web.archive.org/web/20150317031034/https://github.com...

2012 - http://web.archive.org/web/20120317031034/https://github.com...

2008 - http://web.archive.org/web/20081211021557/http://github.com/
Also, this sentiment will actually help nobody: if some isp decides to stop taking money for internet, they will do it without suggestion by ripe. That original post was virtue signaling, noise with no practical outcome.

On the other hang people who actually spend resources (for example those isp who continue to provide the internet to those who lost jobs) actually make change, and we are thankful to them.
Eh, I think they chose it because of the history of Minecraft, CS:GO, WOW, etc servers. Remember that Discord is intended for gaming.
> Or to look at this from another angle: 'extremely' bad is inherently relative. And taken relative to other common ailments people that old content with, I don't think 15% chance of death qualifies as 'extreme'. If 15% is 'extreme' then what adjective would you use for a cancer with a 50% mortality rate? "Super-dooper-uber extreme"?

You're missing the time frame. Getting cancer is a threat that many old people face but that's spread over decades.

With COVID-19, we face 70%-80% of the population being infected within a much shorter time, possibly a year or less (depending on how well or bad the delay measures are).

Yes, people die at that age for many reasons. But here, we have a potential death threat that is avertable and, most importantly, that affects the whole of society, not only old people.

Don't think that only old people get it and need medical attention. Lots of young people also need medical attention, even if they don't die from it. Ignoring long term effects from having caught it (as we don't know them yet), this alone would disrupt society. And then the secondary effects of people with other medical conditions not being treated as they are triaged.

Modern society doesn't need a lot to be disrupted. Look at how disruptive 9/11 was.
There's a fairly noticeable difference in scale here for a start, but everyone benefits from you not needing outside assistance in your old age.
I think your last point is perhaps most important. The way the fed is printing cash, I feel the dollar would have absolutely tanked were it not the dominant world currency.
vaccine take a year more more to develop people should stop saying this. Whats gonna happen is the same thing that will happen with chickenpox. Everyone will get it and you'll be ok unless you have a underlining condition
Yes:

@5:40 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yszygk1cpEc
To save others like myself the time, here are some figures corroborating this on statista: https://www.statista.com/chart/15676/cmo-toilet-paper-consum...
It's been awhile since I looked at these stats but as of like 2008 more people identified as Republican than Democrat.
And how do they expect to legally & constitutionally enforce this?

Not that SF isn't already a ghost town tho.
People like you are hurting us all. Stop with the ad hominems.
Is 20% of that worth 80% of the benefit?

When costs are not priced in the benefits are weighed against nothing.
Have happened to people having a bank account as well
Hi. catamphetamine knows exactly what he did, and he knows he deserves to be banned. He has made continuous disgusting sexual comments harassing people who open tickets on his open source projects. The fact he didn't mention this in his blog post is also disgusting. By the way I'm not related to any of this, I just happen to remember seeing his terrible comments, and like an idiot, public under his name, on his own open source projects.
The common idiom in America is "your right to swing your fist where you like ends where my nose begins". It might be helpful in to think about this in the context of a virus (and remember this is temporary!): "your right to sneeze water droplets wherever you like ends where my inhalation begins".
edit: Ok, enough downvotes for taking his statement statement literally, without observing its context.
Viruses aren't curable
It is not reductive at all. The virus is the cause of the shutdowns, the lack of revenue, and any defaults expected to happen. Take one company, Royal Caribbean Cruises, which lost 22 billion in value because of specifically the virus. They are literally forcibly getting shut down and this is not dissimilar from the hotels, airline, and other travel industries. Events over 50 people are not allowed due to the virus, think about the effect of that on the economy with sporting events, conferences, and all the revenue that comes from that. Study the effect of holding an effect on an economy like say a UFC event coming to town. One event alone feeds millions and millions into the economy. Not having those events taking place loses again all hotel, airline, restaurant, event venue, city taxes, and shopping revenue. Events are such a huge part of the economy and removing them due to the virus is literally the cause.
SIM companies could prevent a lot of cases by trying to call or text the phone that is currently active on the SIM. If AT&T would have called the number then it’s likely this could have been prevented.
It has the force of discretion and common sense behind it. The aspiration of a society isn't for it to be run by the force of law at every turn. It's to educate and motivate people to make good decisions on their own where the force of law leaves off.
Fast, easy and standardized product suite with a CLI, runtime and registry that led to massive industry-wide cross-platform usage and spin-off projects like Kubernetes compared to basically nothing for the decade before.

You don't have to invent new tech. Better UX counts as innovation, enough to be worth billions. Your reply reminds of the infamous Dropbox HN comment that said it was nothing more than FTP with SVN.
> Apps like Uber that ... follow the strategy of running faster than laws are also a good example of something that is damaging our society.

Re just the part about running faster than the laws: As best as I can tell, app based taxis exist solely because Uber ignored the laws - and good (in some cases) that they did as the laws were designed to protect the entrenched businesses that had no incentive to change regardless of how well they were working. Anecdotally, I've seen a huge increase in people taking Uber or Lyft to or from a happy hour when 10 years ago those same people would likely have decided to drive because calling a traditional Taxi was so much of a pain. Ignoring the laws is a weak criticism when sometimes that is the only way to achieve progress.

No comment on how they treat their employees - that is its own complicated issue that I won't comment on here.
We are able to work from home, but a higher-level person I work with made multiple statements last week to the effect that working from home was "like a vacation".
similar to the virus or with any sort of lotka/voltera
dynamics you cant take so much of a targets budget that it cant survive, that means if you subsist off others like animals do [consumers] those others[producers] must have enough "stuff" left to stay afloat or everyone goes down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equatio...

there is a basis for mutual coexistence, it is a maladaptation for anyone to destroy the basis of your existence.

in particular the idea of ransoming or disrupting connectivity and integrity of critical data, info ,services
or creating compounding issues. If someone makes thier living doing that, now is not the time for thier own sake as well.
Keep code Simple and Unified.

Keep data and logic separate, data-driven development.

Adhere to the "standardized data interface specification" and use pipeline-functions to manipulate data from the initial state to the final state.

Pipeline-functions conforming to standardized data interfaces are easy to change, replace, and insert extensions.

In the web model, It can be easily replaced as long as the components that conform to the http data specification. For example, Clojure web application model:

- product standard (data interface): the req-map and resp-map of the ring

- warehouse: the ring

- workshop: the pipe functions on both sides of the C/S, and Raw materials (hash-map) are transferred to each other through warehouses through interactions.

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
What does identifying as a Republican have to do with small government anymore?
The minimum amount a vaccine has ever been made is over a year. A vaccine just gives you the virus but in a damaged state.
How Plants Express Danger
Again, not really what some of us grew up with.

Back when I _did_ play CS, servers didn't rely on any online component. Many gaming places had their own local servers, and continued to run just fine when the internet was down.
It should be a "misdemeanor" for people to buy more product than they need for, say, a week.
If you can’t work from home (factory worker, nurse, spy, whatever) then clearly none of these messages or discussions are relevant to you so why bring it up?
I get that individual treatment effects are useful as well as average treatment effects. I just don't get how how that requires a new conceptual type of causality.
Police and heavy social pressure?

Laws are a social construct. I doubt any judge (which are elected by the populace in California) is going to issue an injunction against this.
Public market valuations for tech companies are generally 10x-100x forward earnings or higher (often much much higher. Zoom is over 1000 at the moment).

So a $550M annual run rate would mean the VCs make money at a 10x valuation in a normal market.

At 100x it is $55M.

Microsoft trades at 27, Atlassian at 127, Zoom at 1100 (!)

(I assume you realise that VC money isn't a loan and you don't "payback" the money you take. They expect a return when the company has a liquidity event, ie floats or is bought)
do we really need to be putting all our writing down to grade 5 level
Right?? 1.5T as a knee-jerk reaction to a market dip? Did they even consult Congress w.r.t. liquidity injection via fiscal policy? We should have rolled back QE years ago and suffered the pain of a small or medium recession, but nobody wanted to go for it because recession bad. Now we have a big recession looming and risk running out of tools, and I don't think this is the biggest recessionary event possible.
When running out of hospital beds the fatality rate increases a lot though.
i am grateful i work in a field where i can work from home. for some people around me, not going to work is synonymous to not working and not getting paid.

some people are laid off.

working from home is okay for some of us. but maybe we should not be taking it for granted...
Sea level rise will accelerate. Either you are being deliberately obtuse, or you are completely uninformed.
Grocery stores in my part of northern New Jersey are not keeping up, at the moment. On Saturday I was unable to buy fresh meat (of any kind), sausage (without cheese in it), flour, pasta, or canned beans. Produce pickings were slim, and most items were sold out. Ditto canned soup and bread. That's just the things I was actually looking for; there were plenty of other bare shelves throughout the store.
Yeah it sucks, and what's worse is that there's no near-future course correction by the policy makers. This is going to come back and bite us in some very uncomfortable places.

Kudos for the multi-gigabit fibre, when we can only imagine of a gigabit lottery.
Used kind + skaffold for 6 months and it was pretty solid. However, eventually switched to k3d and tilt and feeling like this combo is amazing. Cluster takes 2 seconds to create now.
I think what they are saying is that in the banking system is nearly impossible to steal someone's life savings via a hack and get away with it, or at least if you do they have insurance at the brokerage to cover it.
Wel this happening guys corna un a
Through Efani.com we do take responsibility which is backed by $5M insurance policy.
You're on the exurban fringe and you're at .125 acre lots?
I’m not sure how you made out Microsoft to be anything but a benevolent ruler here, “throw away for obvious reasons” seems like a weird thing to say
>In a regular year, influenza in Italy kills 400-500 people

Data is literally one query away.

>We estimated excess deaths of 7,027, 20,259, 15,801 and 24,981 attributable to influenza epidemics in the 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17, respectively, using the Goldstein index.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197121...
You seem to be missing both the growth rate curve and the time lag. If anything the US still has its head in the sand and is heading for 5-40 million deaths due to just swamping the hospital capacity for critical care.
The “wall”. The money was only partially needed for building physical wall. The rest was electronic surveillance and deterrence. But dumbed down to the people as “the wall”. It’s been his M.O. his whole presidency
China also has a wider set of options to violate the liberties of her citizens. That does come in handy some times, but we've decided we don't do that here. Japan is very, very different culturally, so it's quite hard to compare; she's also a small archipelago whereas America is a large landmass.

It will also be interesting to see the court cases that come from what American governments have done so far; there's a serious case to be made for violations of our right to freely assemble. Even the time, place, and manner standard (which is still contested but is current precedent) may not cover such drastic curtailment of all public gatherings.

Sadly, these things usually happen and get fought out in court later (see Japanese internment camps) when in some sort of crisis state, so I doubt constitutionality has any bearing on the pencil-pushers latest and greatest idea.

Friendly reminder that, while I don't see any malicious intent in the current actions, these directives specifically sound disturbingly close to those issued by many an authoritarian government:

> You cannot engage in group activities in person with others.

> You cannot have dinner parties. You cannot invite friends over to your home to hang out.

The precedent set today could be abused in the future, particularly precedent that looks like this.
The economy is pretty easy to restart with cash injections as you mentioned with infrastructure projects - be it trump or biden, one of them will do it.
"It’s pointless to say one has an good outcome when it’s only now beginning to grow."

It's also pointless to say that we have a bad outcome when it's only now beginning to grow. We don't know how this is going to turn out, but the US is not in a worse position to deal with this than most other countries.

Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, etc. responded well because they already had to deal with SARS. They had infrastructure in place to respond to an outbreak exactly like this one. The US didn't have that experience, but we're catching up.

Moreover, we still don't know if China has actually weathered this storm. It is very possible that this could tick back up once they start going back to work. If that happens then all of this effort could end up as nothing more than a stall on the inevitable.
I can't even place an Amazon Fresh order right now, and the earliest Peapod delivery date I can get is 28MAR.
Because that manufacturer is not a monopoly, if they won’t produces, other will.

Also, government is much less effective at producing things than private companies.
He handed in a resignation letter. Probably a bad idea to quit any job while this happens.
The other takeaway from that game was that stealth symptoms with low fatality does the best out of any pandemic.
A joint industry statement on Covid-19
Has this story been noticed by any other media outlets? If this is all true, the parties involved deserve to be shamed into oblivion, but will need more attention for that to happen.
$175 is round E, not the valuation nor the total money raised. 10x forward earnings would mean a $500M run rate to just equal this valuation and breakeven to these latest investors.

EDIT: Since you've changed your comment, I'll re-ask my original question: How many checks will it take to get to $500M run rate? It's a high goal for infrastructure companies.
Counter-Strike predates Steam by at least a few years. There was a time that game servers were fully independent and you could use third-party game browsers or even just go port scanning to find 'em.
Roche started shipping tests to US
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_power_(United_States_co...
Look at Russia, people there have high trust in government.
Not only that, but holding it in a way that they can get to it. If I had a million bucks in crypto, I'd have a few geographically separate offline laptops with the codes on them, fully encrypted, as cold storage.
There is always jubilee.

This essay is a little bonkers but also has a kernel of wisdom in it.

https://mailchi.mp/4c8646c6a609/crypto-trader-digest-1307893...

I am a big fan of Arthur. He’s a little hard for people to stomach but super smart.
Define "need". Are you going to start fining obese people for over-eating?
k3s author here. With user namespace and rootless support it is getting closer to k3s running in crostini, but nobody is really working on this. I was a big fan of crostini when it came out but the insistence on lxc and user namespaces makes it too limited and wouldn't recommend it if you work with containers.
A generalization about a group of people affecting another group of people is ad hominem?

OP was condoning and calling for explicitly dangerous behavior. People whose attitude is similar to that absolutely will get infected, be asymptomatic for around a week and in turn infect many, many more.

I stand by my statement.
Oh, I agree. My point was that a request by a company to its employees is eons away in terms of severity and consequence than the government dictating the consequences under which you may leave your home.

A city just more or less put its entire population in parole.
As a monopoly provider of substandard internet to most of its customers, I would not give Charter the benefit of the doubt.
People are generally lazy and it has happened to non-crypto folks too where other information was stolen
ATT is built around selling you cheap plans and the SOPs are not that strong. There are 1000s of ports every days so they want to make it simple for their employees
Yeah and honestly it’s one of the most refreshing things an old-guard newspaper has done. Using journalism chops to actually provide consumers with valuable information that affects their daily lives.

I would love if they stated doing more in-depth pieces about different niche markets.
Healthcare is National Defense, and should be funded as such. Full stop.
Why isn't hydroxychloroquine aggressively used off-label in Covid patients?
It's already FDA-approved for arthritis inflammation. It's been shown repeatedly to treat coronavirus in humans in China (400mg twice a day the first day, 200mg twice a day for the next four days,) as well as treating SARS in newborn mice and petri dishes of lung cells.

Why would Italy allow patients to die anyway instead of just trying hydrochloroquine?

Do we have any figures on infection and fatality rates for patients who take hydrochloroquine for arthritis or malaria prophylaxis in Central America compared to the general population?
i've yet to meet a single person with it either first hand or through friends and family. even coworkers, not one.
How is this supposed to work? Efani seems to just be a MVNO, there’s no way they can protect you against attacks on the carriers they resell.

The language on the page is downright hilarious “11-Layer of Military Grade Authentication”.
Look at Norway, people there have a high trust in government. The problem isn't trust in government, it's the quality of the government.