skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla has experience with effective coronavirus prevention measures due to its experience in China: https://insideevs.com/news/404105/tesla-anti-coronavirus-gig...

IMO they should still shut down to implement these measures and figure out safe employee transport.
Supposedly, but we'd never actually know about the times where the message died with the messenger, would we? For all we know it's incredibly effective.

I don't believe this is true, I'm just pointing out we'd have no way of knowing.
Heh. "I'm just doing my job" worked great as a defense at the Hague.
Shouldn't the blockchain be the best approach to handle public goverment data?

I mean, project requirements to build infrastructures, for the private sector companies to bid. The results of those adjudications. Civil servants payroll and bonuses...

That would mean no suspicios document shredding when a new party enters the goverment. An open standard way for everybody to access the data. Even different applications on top of those databases.

Setting aside political considerations, what would be the drawbacks of this approach?
perhaps he should have offered even one example where the borrow checker forced a "more complex" design. over time, I've come to realize the types of design decisions the borrow checker guides you to make are excellent for producing robust, reliable software.
Were the six engineers taking part in the rewriting at all?
My guess is that the have very few restaurants in Germany, so it's just noise.
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No it’s not. The margin on one beer is more than two entrees put together.
Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos and his Amazon stores are selling masks that were factory packaged as 20 packs as "loosies", ruining their sanitary packaging, for prices from 10x to 100x of the original list price. Many times the descriptions don't make it clear that you're getting a single mask from a 20-pack.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETU-_paU0AIjwnK?format=jpg&name=...
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My established B2C SaaS app business is already seeing a steep drop in signups, activity, and sales this week. Feels like it's going to be a tough fight for survival, and already taking a lot of steps to begin turtle-mode.
I already have a bunch of TB3 Docks in our company, so ditching them would really be painful and a reason to stick to Intel.
I really love the ReMarkable and this was an easy preorder. The only thing I personally disliked was 1. No eraser on the pen and 2. No USB-C support. Both are resolved here
Read up on Venezuela's oil problem. They seized the oil from private entities and then royally destroyed the entire industry as the equipment fell into disrepair and production efficiency fell until nearly stopping.
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What kind of rebuttal is one that makes the same point of the original argument? The only difference is the point of view here. I hold stocks, so I'm happy they are getting bought back. That's it.
People don't realise that many of these business will be dead and wont come back after. The knock on effect will go up the supply chain. For example lobster trappers, fishers, ranchers, farmers bulk of their income comes from supplying to restaurants if restaurants are not buying prices will come down which will affect them further.
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/12/coronavirus-facebook-con...

This was in the news last week. Pretty sure I picked it up from Hacker News.
I would assume its because the number of people with similar symptoms far exceeds the capacity to test for covid-19. If the numbers in this article[1] are accurate there were around 2.23 million people who went to the doctor for flu related symptoms from January 21 to 27, 2019.

1. https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00386/japan-gripped-by...
So, wild speculation aside, what numbers did you use to base your model on, and what is your qualification to do anything like that?
Surprised to see they're launching Yahoo Mobile in the west but there actually already is a ymobile in Japan that I personally use for data/calling. I use my own phone with it but I can't imagine them being able to set yahoo as default on any iphone or android phone they sell
Typically, For every dollar a bank "keeps" in your bank account, they are allowed to loan out some fraction of the dollar. Let's say that this is usually 90 cents. The amount of cash your bank actually has on-hand is 10 cents. This process is known as fractional reserve banking. Now, with 0 reserve requirement, the bank can lend out the whole dollar.

Fractional reserve banking has produced a tremendous amount of wealth for the world over recent centuries. It encourages assets to be used in a productive manner rather than hoarded, which is essentially wasteful.

Typically, the loans get paid off to the bank over time, and the bank originates new loans to continue to make a profit. Currently, there are two systemic risks:

1. If borrowers begin to default, the bank still must cover its expenses. Under stressful circumstances, they would normally not be allowed to draw down their reserve to meet their expenses. This change allows this. Once the economy recovers, the reserve requirements will be reimposed.

2. It encourages banks to continue issuing new credit to borrowers. This keeps economic activity flowing and prevents a situation where borrowers have nowhere to turn to find money to keep their business afloat until profitable times return.
That absolutely should be happening - but that needs to be done at the state or local level, or in consumer protection agencies. That's not a job for the president at times like this.
Don't usually care about titles but surely, "What, the fsck, have you done?"
Good reminder to use pip cache.
I would have liked to see the article address the potential advantages of stock buybacks.

Are companies with greater ownership more resilient to market turbulence? Are they better positioned to focus on long term growth over short term performance?

Additionally, it is unclear if these companies were neglecting R&D or had already exhausted their viable options. If the economy does turn for the worse, would additional high risk R&D investments still yield returns?
Perhaps they were wise not to park capital in R&D

Last, buybacks allowed a large number of shareholders to cash out while the market was at an all time high.
Is this really that surprising given that states and countries are now explicitly prohibiting dine-in options and mandating restaurants to be takeout only? I'd love to see this data overlaid against the changes in takeout orders.
I truly don't understand why "expel Chinese journalists" was even considered as a reasonable course of action by the US.

It may not explicitly violate the letter of the 1st Amendment, but it certainly violates its spirit, not to mention invites reciprocal action like this that only deepens the fog of war over our most dangerous adversary power.

There are many, many legitimate ways to punish foreign governments, but the expulsion of reporters should never be among them, unless we are at war with that government.

"But China did it first!" Well, then we should highlight how outrageous and unacceptable that behavior is, and sanction them some other way. Not reciprocate.
It's good that you're attempting to provide factual information. But it's bad that you're adding flamebait like "so many white politicians and media practitioners". Please keep doing the first and stop doing the second. That sentence is a specimen of the same pathogen you're deploring. Your comment would be just fine without it.

For more explanation, see these links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22606977

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The cognitive dissonance is real, it’s a sort of inverse ‘tragedy of the commons’, or akin to years of climate change behavior played out in days.
We do. There is seldom a single messenger.
A gun is very different from a medical device. The tolerances your automobile machinists are used to working at are much wider. Ventilators have to measure fractions of a cmH20 above ambient pressure, and they have to do so accurately to deliver gas, especially smaller boluses. I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm saying that training someone who is used to the tools used to building automobile engines will be practically unskilled at building ventilators, and you need to validate your people as well as your production processes, irrespective of whether you have blueprints for equipment. You have to validate everything or you will kill people with these new ventilators.
I'm kind of more interested in the political system that the first Martian base-camp will adhere to .. and how it will be organised at a socio-economic level - are the first Martians going to have economy based on Access to Earth, etc?

I know its at least 20 - 50 years away from being any kind of reality, but surely there are smart people working on this problem. What's to stop Elons' Martian crew from mutiny and sedition .. a firm dependence on Earth?

Should we, therefore, go there before we get a chance to be independent as a colony - clearly there is as lot more work to be done on the subject of a self-sufficient colony, but how is that going to work out economically and socially, I wonder?

Doesn't seem to me to be getting enough attention. Or, are there existing structures and organisational models that would be exported to the Mars colony?

Startups on Mars? Free oxygen and access to the Starship hub for anyone who wants to colonise?
I thought the same thing. More than anything, having the data in a table without a basic time series graph makes it harder to visualize the impact (for me).
It depends on what they are making. If they are still manufacturing cars, yeah, thats bullshit. If they are keeping a light staff to manufacture replacement parts so that their current fleet can be prepared, that's more understandable.
I feel like if you think you have COVID-19, handling vials of your own blood is not the most advisable course of action.
Slowing down, really?
There's no universal guidelines for (document|query) rankings so the "bias" is always going to be very hard to find a smoking gun for. The appearance of bias in the rankings is a real issue that companies (and regulators?) should care about.
Are you having issues with your smell/taste? A german virologist talked to symptomatic patients and found that most patients were stating that they lost smell/taste for days.

"Almost all infected people we interviewed, and this applies to a good two thirds, described a loss of smell and taste lasting several days."

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/gesundheit/coronavi...
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> Thanks for the awesome write-up.

Glad you enjoyed it. :-)

> I have considered doing something totally ridiculous like setting up a Raspberry Pi with a camera and machine vision software to watch the LED displays on these devices to glean status information. Silly, but...

Ha! I actually have a PoE camera pointed at the display of my UPS. Here's what it looks like right now: https://toroid.org/misc/ups-display.jpg

Notice that horizontal blank row of dead pixels halfway down the right side of the display? The one that makes "54.6" look like "51.6"? That gap defeated my naïve five-minute attempt to use image recognition to extract the battery voltage.
And Ontario.
The flu vaccine is not a true vaccine. It's a best guess vaccine at how the virus has mutated, and is often ineffective.
He was not off.

Vitamin C is probably the only well known anti-viral agent used by basically entire planet.

I suggest anybody to take several grams of C, in divided doses (mandatory) all the time, particularly now (also inform your elders). There is no downside to this, there can only be neutral or positive effects (to anybody jumping about oxalate levels, please stop your thoughts now).

Pauling also claimed you need to take bunch of other vitamins in his books - 25K IU A, 5K D etc... so he was not mistaken. If it was only about vitamin C, he would not call his medicine orthomolecular but probably ascorbatomolecular ... His claims on C were never tested (not in the doses he used, but using x10-x100 times lower doses). What happend then was not medicine, but politics.
Yeah sure. But I believe that years of experience are useful to compare for the same level/title. For example, is not the same being a junior Backend Developer than a Senior one.
Also, a big factor influencing wages is country. I think is useless to compare your salary with another one of a different country, and that's the reason why I ask for it.
God I hate "patent speak."

One of the most egregious things about patents, is that if you _wanted_ to go implement something that was patented, the patent itself is a useless resource. So much for providing temporary monopoly in exchange for advancing the state of the art. Most patents do not disclose anything useful.
Why no `cargo run`?
Mike Pompeo on March 2nd:

“Our goal is reciprocity. As we have done in other areas of the U.S.-China relationship, we seek to establish a long-overdue level playing field,” Pompeo said in a statement to CNBC about the cap. “It is our hope that this action will spur Beijing to adopt a more fair and reciprocal approach to U.S. and other foreign press in China.”

Reciprocity = you limit our journalist we'll limit yours.

I expect a ban on those 100 remaining Chinese state media journalists.
I'm surprised they didn't start with outlawing receiving money from NED or subsidiaries first.
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Some features of the Web Components are stuff I thought should be available to the end user only, not for the web developer. This includes shadow DOM, and some of my own ideas such as "privileged CSS" and "meta-CSS" (including the ability to set more fine priorities). I also thought of the <widget> element, which provides better backward compatibility (it acts like a <span> if it is not recognized), better user customization, faster loading, and potentially ability to work even if JavaScripts (and WebAssembly) are disabled or are implemented at all. This would be better than Google WebComponents, I think.

(I also don't like that they removed <blink> but did not remove <marquee>; I don't want <marquee>, but I do want <blink>, which I have done with userChrome.css, which also allows me to program the blink rate, is good.)
It is well documented that some Nazi scientists worked on Russian rocket programs after ww2.
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Can't read the article behind a paywall, but this is China's side of the story:

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/t1...

Seems this is part of an ongoing diplomatic spat.

EDIT: FYI, couldn't read the article due to a paywall, did a search, found out some about the history. Thought this added information to the conversation. Yes, this is clearly propaganda, but I still thought it was interesting. You're all of age, you can read this sort of propaganda without being harmed.
Excerpt:

"e-Paper displays have great readability under sunlight, and only consume power when updated. But their refresh rate is limited, and most displays are fairly expensive."

I've been searching for a tiny computer / screen combination that would work under absolute minimal power; that is, if you were in deep space (or in the deep wilderness), and only had a small (say, 5W or less) solar panel for power, then what tiny computer / screen / keyboard combination would you use?

Well, this screen seems like it might be ideally suited to be the screen component of a setup like that...
In today’s world Uber eats, Grubhub, etc take 30% of the gross on an order. No way it’s more profitable than having people in house buying alcohol.
When people say "on offer", does this mean "available for sale" or "displayed prominently" or "for sale at a discount"? Sorry, googling wasn't super helpful here.
If you really want control, look at the Matrix ecosystem. The server (Synapse) can be self-hosted and you can easily turn off or limit federation if you don't want the ability to talk with other instances.

Its completely open source and very easy to setup imo. And, the entire French government trusts it and uses it for day to day work, so its not going to be abandoned any time soon.

https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed...
Coronavirus: German Big Brother cast to be told about pandemic live on TV
plesae see link and pass among your networks.
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I have heard that the reason 1918 was so bad was because, among all the soldiers in the trenches, it could be virulent and still be able to spread effectively, so it had no selection pressure to not be virulent. (If an illness is too virulent, it usually dies out before it spreads too far.)

Covid is a bit different, because it has a longer incubation time, and therefore has more time to spread before the spreader knows not to infect others, but that wasn't the issue with the 1918 influenza outbreak.

(Note well: I am not an epidemiologist.)
The problem with loans are you have to repay them. Giving out loans as a social safety net is a cruel joke. It just makes people worse off in the long run.
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Thanks for the feedback!

"Lazy work" does not mean "lazy person." And "joke" would be better stated as "this article reads suspiciously as astroturfing."

But I see how the blunt call-out of lazy work and tip-toeing around the astroturfing vibes—i.e. the way I worded my comment—could read as a personal attack, and I agree that's not a productive way to approach discourse.

I missed the edit window, but I would amend the first line: s/author/article and s/a joke/intentionally misleading.
It’s literally impossible to exhaust R&D Opportunities. The hard part is going from research to commercialization but the is an almost unlimited amount of innovation still possible.
You are referring to the examples where we found out about the message. But it's impossible to know about the times we did not find out about the message, because we never found out! This could be because it never happened, or because the message was contained.

It's theoretically impossible to know. This is just a fun thought exercise though, not trying to have a real argument.
Restaurants will shutter, and hourly workers dependent on tips will majorly suffer. Even the economic stimulus mentioned today won’t go to all the immigrant labor that runs many (most?) kitchens.
My employer, Mozilla, is reimbursing employees up to $1,000 towards equipment for working from home [0], childcare, etc. The guidance has been for employees to be reasonable and for those approving expenses to be flexible.

[0] The roughly half of the company that works from home already got to expense setting up their home office when they were hired, so this mainly helps the people who were working from a company office.
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Yeah but I'm guessing it's there in case someone has disabled it globally.
Please see the link and share among your networks.
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killall -USR1 e2fsck

or start it with -C
i don't think one can possibly say that without insider knowledge. I don't have that kind of knowledge.
You can buy isopropyl alcohol IPA and glycerine and make your own.

Funny thing, I am doing electronics at home and have a large stock of IPA and my wife has large stock of glycerine which she uses for cakes, mostly. Which means we can do our own alcohol thing without having to buy anything.
I only have a passing familiarity with Rust. I've worked through some tutorials just to try it out, but its not even close to one of my daily drivers. Coming from that perspective, it is really hard to evaluate the argument this article makes because the author provides no concrete examples of this extra complexity. Does anyone have a clear example a non-expert can look at?
The suppression of researchers who sounded the alarm and forcing all the hospitals to return their samples certainly makes sense if you consider it as a "guilty reaction", after something they weren't supposed to be doing got loose. Or the government considers it embarrassing that the handlers were incompetent and this got loose.

It could also just be the reaction of a government who is trying to downplay the virus and retain control of the narrative, however.

Sequencing shows it's 96% similar to a wild strain of coronaviruses that has been previously studied in bats though, which argues against it being engineered.
The restaurant industry is brittle and consolidating, and the the American middle class might not be strong enough to support it anymore. Recent events just magnify the weaknesses of the existing system.

We could talk about things like the expansion of government programs, or we could talk about your theory of how I'm stripping people's humanities away. You would also presume quite poorly if you thought I haven't worked in the food industry.

If you have something interesting to offer to the scenario of collapsing American restaurants, go ahead. Such as more discussion on dehumanization.
Not great, you can only officially export PDF, PNG, or SVG, though their cloud management does seem to work really well and as I understand, files are stored locally on each device once synced.

That said, it runs linux so you could conceivably backup the files yourself. You can ssh into your tablet, run sftp, w/e. But they are in some proprietary .lines format.

There's a wiki with more details (the file format stuff is further down): https://remarkablewiki.com/tech/filesystem

It may be possilbe you could hack it to run xournal, but I've no idea.
The U.S. is not under lockdown. Far from it. Any lockdowns have been entirely done at the state and local level and even those are very spotty and a far cry from the lockdowns in Italy at the moment and in China.

Direct cash stimulus is one thing I'm definitely looking forward to. The other big one is the various cash infusions into key pillars of business (e.g. airlines).

I don't think it's been an abject failure, but I think the U.S. response to the pandemic has been at best middling and full of whiplash in both rhetoric and policy pointing to a reactionary plan rather than any sort of proactive attempt to get out ahead of the curve. We didn't learn a lot of the lessons we could've from South Korea and Singapore (and at the very least why couldn't we have imported their testing).
While an unencumbered free market can exist it's not a stable equilibrium. Without strong external forces keeping it in that state a free market will quickly centralize power and enact artificial market barriers.
Article Title, "Why Stock Buybacks Are Dangerous for the Economy"

And you say

>I would have liked to see the article address the potential advantages of stock buybacks.

That's a different article. That's just 100% something entirely different than this article was ever meant to be. Why would you even make this comment?