skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is the email I am sending my Senators. Feel free to copy and modify for your own use.

Hello Senator _________.

I'm writing you today to ask you to oppose the USA Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2020. I have written in the past to ask you to oppose other extraordinary security measures that have been maintained since the aftermath of Sept. 11 2001. I repeatedly write and request this because it is my opinion that these programs are contrary to the 4th amendment protections that are unalienable to all Americans. And these programs are administered in secret. Any program maintained in secret runs the risk of operating contrary to the public interest. This is because a citizen's most significant recourse is to vote for or against representatives who authorize government action. Any secret government action is therefore unable to be valued by a voter and therefor operates entirely outside public opinion.

I understand that some programs need to be shielded from public opinion for security reasons. But that need for security must be weighed against the need for a republican form of government to be transparent with its citizens. With each passing year that the public entrusts that government with secrecy the burden to justify it should become heavier.

So I ask you to oppose this measure. At the very least I would ask that as our representatives to government you will require that these programs justify their need by releasing some specific information to the public about the benefit they have had. I know that our intelligence agencies have opposed giving specifics examples of benefit. They claim to do so would reveal important sources or techniques. But with all due respect, we have given them the benefit of the doubt for nearly two decades now. Surely there is something significant they can share from years gone by that will not be too damaging to their operations.

Thank you.
Just to clarify, I have nothing against Tesla and I wish them success. But as long as Musk is in charge, I will stay away from Tesla and their products. Musk is a brilliant entrepreneur and salesman, but he is a terrible CEO. The best thing the Tesla board could do is to throw him out.
When did you get the form? I still haven't received anything, but I thought they were sent out earlier this month.
As someone that works for an organisation that develops almost 100% desktop applications and desktop form-factor web applications, I've been somewhat terrified of the new entrants into the workforce that started on phones as opposed to computers. It seems like nobody is taking their existence and eventual assumption of purchasing decision making powers seriously and I figure we'll suffer in the long-term as an organisation because of this.

I had been trying to tell myself that people still "sit down at a desktop to do work" to make myself feel better about our inaction over this it but that github is spending on mobile form factor makes me feel like I'm lying to myself about that.

What are people's general takes on this? I sway towards "in twenty years it will start to be a massive deal" but I struggle to find a convincing platform to soapbox on this to the organisation at large.
Wasn't there a bunch of huge government intervention during WW2?

Businesses shifted to materiel production because they were told the have to, no?

So it seems fair that people are demanding leadership now too, no?
The Santa Clara(?) one that I read had some other specifics about daycare. IIRC the kids have to be in groups of 12 or fewer that aren't mixed around from day to day, and anyone in contact with one group can't be in contact with any other groups.
Thats not what it means to being a 501(c)(3). You can simply look at where their income is derived to tell if they have russian influence.

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/public-disclosure-...
Don't know why this is downvoted. Doctors can't treat the virus but only the symptoms, even for the flu.

From a public health perspective, if you have any symptoms, be it covid-19 or flu, just isolate yourself for the health of others.
Well, when you only work 50% they surely will pay you less. And that is what parents face. When eliminating private life, maybe you can work 75%.
If the government printed billions of dollars to buy bananas, it would show up in prices all around the economy as the money circulated.

At full employment -- which we were at up until a week ago -- the only thing flooding the market with money can do is cause inflation. We didn't have an inflation, and interest rates were still incredibly low.
The open-source variant does not support P2P sessions if I understand it correctly, which is weird since that is half the point of WebRTC.
Azul will provide free OpenJDK builds for Java 8 until March 2026. It's not EOL.
He talked about this in an interview.

Something to the effect of 'When I was in college, I tested how little I could live on. Turns out rice and beans are really cheap. So even if I fail, I'm not going to starve.'

Admittedly, kids and spouses change ones opinion on that, but it's a fair way to keep perspective, even after becoming rich.
> Specifically, as it impacts stock options.

Then any regulations should focus on them.

Why should I, as a 'retail investor', be punished for return on capital methods because of the chicanery of executives?

I'm just going to DRIP any dividends anyway (until retirement) since I don't need income now. I want buybacks because that way I do not have a tax event that has (tax) drag on returns.
Not a very good position though (can be hundreds of feet off), so it depends on what you want to do with that data.
Conflating poverty with multi billion dollar companies is disingenuous.

Leveraged stock buybacks are essentially a bet that the company will fail as it maximizes investor ROI to fail with as much debt as possible. That destabilizes the economy and should be flat out illegal due to moral hazard.

It’s really simple. If companies can’t issue buybacks or dividends with outstanding debt or unfounded pension liabilities society is simply better off. Compromising to say cash on hand + 1/2 the value of physical property > debt is probably fine. Notice how neither of them would change the theoretical stock price of a company and thus invested returns, yet it’s a significant difference in reality.
(1) Hold an auction. If the only person who turns up is a homeless bum with a dollar then the aircraft now costs a dollar and we have a homeless industrialist on our hands.

Ditto (4) for the software; it doesn't get deleted because the ownership changes.

(2) A sibling comment to yours suggested exactly that. We aren't protecting the business (nobody wants to fly at the moment, that is why they are about to go broke). So we can't be protecting consumers; the capital itself can't catch COVID-19 so isn't under much threat so logically a bailout is either protecting shareholders or workers.

And my position, radical as the free marketer that I am, is we should protect the workers during the process, but sack the shareholders and provide crisis support to the vulnerable insofar as they used to be shareholders.

(3) Yeah; but bailing out the airlines doesn't actually help that when you inspect it. Nobody is using the airlines; they need to be mothballed ASAP and maintained on a skeleton crew for 6 months.

A bailout of the airlines under these conditions isn't the worst idea; the bank bailouts in '08 were substantially worse because they went to the people who caused the crisis. But it is much more dangerous than it seems making decisions in a crisis, from outside the company, saying 'it can't possibly be their fault; lets give hem a boost!'. The view from the outside might be misleading and we might be rewarding reckless behavior. We have this company concept precisely because it contains the damage to a sacrificial legal entity that we can kill off.
Clinical studies complete for coronavirus drug
Outbreak
No, washing hands is effective even if you don't practice social distancing.

The problem with masks is not that they aren't 100% effective, it's that they are worse than no mask. They increase risk.

The only people who should be wearing masks are healthcare professionals are people with the illness who are self-isolating in a family home.

Here's an effective mask: https://twitter.com/missemjo/status/1239520762815488000/phot...

https://twitter.com/kimbo2205/status/1238089278565031936/pho...

Why are you pushing masks to cover the nose and mouth, and not goggles to cover the eyes? Or gloves for the hands?
For those who don't read German:

"In what follows, a series of provably false claims are listed - such as the use of breathing masks against contagion".

(Native German speakers can correct me if my translation is inexact)
Both links are for H5N1 avian flu
in germany this is already the case. there is a supreme coirt ruling from 2013 that defines internet access as a basic right, at the same level as access to water and electricity, or a landline. there was a case several years earlier, that a landline could not be terminated even if the payments have not been made. having internet as a basic right should affort it the same treatment
Try searching on google for nyt retractions sometime. For that matter, twitter and facebook manipulation also can have some very direct influences... After it's all said and done, they're all a huge cesspool of deceit.

An mobile, I'm using Brave (FF just didn't work right with ublock for me), and using uBlock and Privacy badger on desktop.

I really wish browsers were far more restricted on IFrames more than 1-layer deep... cross-origin on 2+ layers of IFrames is all ads.. if the networks really cared, they'd work around it if they were cutoff from cookies/session/localstorage etc... As it is, layer of huge JS and tracking, nope, no ad, pass to another layer, etc. 85% of overhead is often in layers of ad iframes, cut them off at the knees technically... no cookies or data access 2+ layers deep.
Not official government site.
From that website

Disclaimer: This is not an official Government of India site. Refer to this sources page.
Franco took power, and was never overthrown. There are plenty more counter-examples to your argument.
a landlord is not going to find a new tenant for that site, so their best bet is to not charge rent or charge a lesser amount and defer it. that way when things get back to normal he has a tenant who can get back into business a lot quicker otherwise he has to find a new tenant.
thanks for sharing that insight, I hate articles that only report their biased point of view and hide other relevant information.
I do not understand why that would happen. Wouldn't they inflate the earnings per share, resulting in a permanently higher share price (all else being equal)?
Are we really starting to sell forms as a service? Another data grab service.
I get your point but I'm arguing that a blog is more expressive when talking about things like project history and whatnot.
A better comparison would be Adobe Connect (https://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html).
It depends how fast you want to get. You need both skills and good keyboard. You can't type FAST with an average keyboard that doesn't register keys as fast as you can type.

With standard Qwerty touch-typing fingers position, you can build up to 85-95wpm easily. You need a lot of practice to build the muscle memory. You can learn basics in Typingclub.com and then you need a lot more practice in communities like typeracer.com.

If you want to get faster than that, you have to use advanced methods that competitive typist use which is fundamentally very similar to standard touch typing positions but slight difference to make it more efficient.

Different keyboard layouts have the same story. But you could also switch to Dvorak. It does theoretically give you speed boost while it puts less stress on your fingers.

If you don't want to become a competitive typist, better to not go above ~65wpm. You can really hurt your fingers without having proper exercises. You probably don't need more than that in regular jobs either.
Honest question: What is the point of using Rust if you have to use unsafe constructs to get performance?
They found them clean 14 days after infection and tried to re-infect them 28 days after initial infection.

So immunity lasts at least 14 days after complete recovery. In rhesus macaques who recovered in 14 days.
Lombardy is not the worst hit place so far. Wuhan is.
Rocket Lab gets NASA certification for official smallsat launches
It may not be common in the tools people here use, but it's common in the tools used by major engineering organizations.

My point isn't that it's a bad idea, it's that it's not a novel idea. PERT is another way of graphically representing activity. If you aren't concerned with the time, it's your DAG.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_evaluation_and_review_...
Given how much normal people know about these issues (nothing whatsoever, or even less than nothing, somehow) I think the shortcomings of their model, vs. full physical simulation, is of no importance. It's a fantastic intuition-builder.
Book co-author here. (Not article author.) The recommendation is based on the multi-tenant behavior of NLBs (no need to warm up the LB to handle traffic spikes). If you need any ALB features, use ALB. Otherwise, NLBs give you one less thing to worry about (and slightly cheaper and faster too.)
I am curious what would you call 9/11 then?
Same. I won't know whether I'm under the cutoff for various contributions until I finish my taxes.
FB is donating to WHO, is creating a fund to help small businesses, partnered with CNN to spread awareness and keep people safe, and the Chan-Zuckerberg foundation has been helping test people across the Bay Area.

Can they not help their employees too? I'm a FB employee and while I'm not in need, not everyone is a developer. Life is expensive here in the bay. I think some people need to chill.
And until last year, mayor of Chicago. You can guess how he’s have capitalized on this, I suppose.
I don’t want a free “workspace.” I want to generate my files and host myself.

One of the main things I like about static site generators is that they are so simple to host.

-Brian
You can only parse json easily by using json libraries. Plain text, or "field=value" pairs, you can easily cut(1) or grep(1), or sed(1) to your pleasure. This is what I mean by parseable. Parseable trivially by tools that do not understand the format. I can also sed and awk json files, and I do, but it is extremely painful; and more often than not these files are nothing more than simple lists of variables with values, for which the use of json is a ridiculous overkill.
From a dictator point of view, elections are still useful to provide citizens with false sense of democracy
After digging through my ebooks there is also this book by Maarten van Steen [1]. You may also be able to find along with ratings in the comments by searching hacker news [2].

[1]: https://www.distributed-systems.net/index.php/books/ds3/

[2]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Let's say a company trades at $100 and that they can get a loan of $1m for 2% interest (total payment due: $1m in principal plus $20k in interest.)

They use the loan to buy 10,000 shares at $100. The company does so anticipating the price of the shares will go up. Let's say the price is now $150. They sell the shares and get back $1.5m. They return the $1.02m owed for the loan and pocket the rest as profit.

If you believe the growth of your company's stock price will exceed the interest rate, you can make a profit using debt to finance a buy back.
Do Quarantine Rules Apply to Mega-Geniuses?
They deprecated the Solaris and SPARC ports, and some of the new features only exist on Linux. RIP platform diversity.
I read that the false positive rate is extremely low (below 1%).

False positives are not a huge problem when you are only testing people with symptoms. False positives would only become a problem when you are doing a large number of tests on people who have no symptoms (e.g. 1% of 1 million people when close to none have the virus).

I think your numbers are the detection rate: false negative rate is high (up to 40% for early tests).
I noticed "quietly" too. Makes me wonder what would motivate the submitter to add that word? What spin is that trying to achieve?
It’s a summary of a book.
How does that work if you're over the income limit for Roth? I imagine a decent percent of HN is over that limit if single (and an even larger for traditional).
Why a Woman Was Billed $1000 Trying to Get Tested for Coronavirus
My grandmother (before she passed) used Yahoo as her homepage and main search from there... It's what I originally put on her computer long before Yahoo got bad, and it's what she stuck with as a result. It was actually painful to see...
You don't have to. You can, however, if you want to.

I used this stack (S3, CF, R53, & ACM for SSL cert) to deploy a static site built using Hugo, which can deploy directly to an S3 bucket.

If you're crafting the site yourself without a builder, you can just use the AWS CLI to `cp` the files to the S3 bucket. You may need to invalidate the CF distribution if you want everything updated quickly worldwide.
So Boris Johnson will just have to re-infect 50% of UK citizens every 6-24 months while perfectly protecting seniors to keep his idea of herd immunity.
There are some fun type racing games online that I love playing at hackathons. I bet if you played them for a few minutes, where you’re typing text as quickly as possible to race others online, you’d improve your speed!
Sooo, if you release a thousand patients as cured based on these tests, you'll have 90 false negatives...
You may still have the same data and functions, but you don't have the same number of case/switch statements. ;)
100% protection might be important to you personally, but it does not matter on a societal scale. What does matter is to decrease as much as possible the mean number of new people infected per sick person.

If that number is above 1, the growth is logistic (exponential in early stages), if it is lower but still above 1, it is exponential but with a longer doubling time ("flattening the curve"), and if it is below 1, cases will decrease.
Ah yeah. So I wrote this comment three weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22411324

And as of earlier today, it's no longer just the way bytes are stored on Dropbox, but now every file sync too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22595782

It seems to be holding up! Still relatively early days.
That would assume you can actually do any work from home right now. Which may not be possible for technical reasons (internal tools, no communication access from outside, etc.)

Also getting fired would not give you the same reference.
> Once I realized how bad PM's security story was I gave up on supporting it, not gonna expose my development machines to that.

Fake news. Firefox had sandboxing (that was the excuse for deprecating XUL/XPCOM) before Chrom* and Electrolysis:

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Sec...

2. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Dis...

3. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Int...
Kind of sounds like allergies?
Are you going to press the rerun tests button on every project every day in perpetuity? No one does that. If you're going to automate something to deal with this (that either reruns on dependency updates or just every day), then you can make that automation ignore or update your lockfile, and then the big problems in my post stay solved. If you run into a problem with a new version of a build/test dependency, then your project stays working for developers in the meantime until it's solved.
It used too many resources for my computer. It took about 10 minutes to start a cluster and once the cluster was up and running my computer had a hard time performing any additional tasks - like having IDE open and compiling source code.

In comparison k3s takes seconds to start a cluster. Kind takes about a minute. Neither will consume resources to a point where my computer becomes unusable.

I reported my experience to Red Hat and they replied that it was to be expected.

EDIT: Found the issue https://github.com/code-ready/crc/issues/617.
I switched to Colemak and definitely noticed far less movement in my fingers when typing. When learning, switching back to Qwerty after spending time on Colemak I felt like my fingers were big flags waving around in the wind.

However, now several years after switching, I'm still not faster than I was before I switched from Qwerty. (On typeracer.com going between 100 and 120wpm.) I'm also distinctly crippled now when trying to type on someone else's Qwerty keyboard.

Still probably a good move from an RSI standpoint; just be aware before you go into it.
This does seem similar to many bad laws that were passed after 9/11, usually with support of both parties.

Even decades after 9/11 many of those bad laws are still with us. Shockingly, the very broad authorization of military force from 2001 is still the law of the land:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milit...

It's important to be diligent and not get distracted by a crisis. All emergency measures should have sunset clauses.
It doesn't really support all of the basics as exemplified in https://github.com/jdebp/terminal-tests/blob/master/PowerShe... and https://github.com/jdebp/terminal-tests/blob/master/PowerShe... yet.

https://github.com/jdebp/terminal-tests/blob/master/PowerShe... is arguable, and depends from whether one sides with old actual DEC VTs or the ECMA-48:1986 standard, which the DEC VTs didn't keep up with. There are at least two existing terminal emulators that side with the new 1986 semantics, nowadays.

It really isn't anywhere near the most capable terminal emulator right now. This is acknowledged by its developers, and they even have long to-do lists of missing stuff, both as compared to a DEC VT and compared to the likes of XTerm.
Because of LTS. I don't consider a new release every few months very stable, and updating regularly just creates churn for no realized value. Additionally, any LTS release is going to get more thoroughly attacked, vetted, and secured. Despite best efforts, minor GC and JVM quirks tend to sneak in here and there with new versions. Maybe it doesn't affect people who write Java directly, but other JVM languages tend to be impacted more directly.
Guys, don't underestimate this pandemic, wear plastic gloves, FFP3 masks and if possible protective glasses when you are going outside. Leave your shoes out of the door and wash frequently your hands.
7shifts also posted yesterday about the effects they're seeing from COVID-19. Their Seattle customers were hit extremely hard
https://www.7shifts.com/blog/covid-19-for-restaurants/
Europe Shuts Out Visitors to Slow Coronavirus
if you have a printer you can do this: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4192643
I was actually just searching for this the other day but couldn’t quite figure it out. Do you have any guides on doing just this? Thanks!
Banks only got loans in the crisis, not free money.

Let me see if I understand the thought process by this propaganda. Extra loans for unemployed people isn’t really palatable so we use the word “bailout” to make it sound like free money so we can advocate for handouts. Is that right?
I'm trying to figure out what Charter is. Can anyone hep with this? It seems charter.com redirects to spectrum.com, is this the same company?
Mine showed up yesterday in Boston
The website loads, it’s just extremely slow to do so
What about the estimated taxes that are due in April? Can they also be made late? If you don't know your 2019 taxes, you can't use the safe harbor of using 100% (or 110%) of your 2019 taxes as your 2020 estimate.
I think it's really creepy to have so many people thinking that n.s.a or c.i.a actually care about this bu"sh!t