skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree. I was shocked to hear that only people that present with symptoms that require hospital treatment are now being tested.
I've seen e-ink price tags in grocery stores, and it doesn't seem to be any more of a problem than someone writing over a paper price tag with a Sharpie.
SAS is furloughing 10K employees.
There are some fairly detailed review videos online. At the time it was released, the reception was mostly "too expensive for what it does".
Are engineers and other traditionally exempt status workers being compensated for these additional hours?
Ah, I missed that one; meanwhile, it has been submitted five times with this URL without anyone posting a redirect note (and without getting traction).
To me, $50 seems more realistic because of data caps. You simply cannot stream enough content nowadays without forking over more money to ISPs. Pricing would become a balancing act. It’s an interesting thought experiment to wonder how those two giants would battle out the responsibility of bandwidth.
No. But there are 1000 new web APIs that you have to implement yearly just to keep up. And Web Component specs are a part of that.

And then despite all the objections from all the other browser vendors Google releases an API in production and will not mark it as experimental. Yes, a Web Components-related API (Adopted Stylesheets).
Ventilator maker: we can ramp up production five-fold
This is pure speculation without one spec of proof:

My guess is that the regional government covered up the problem. But once the national disease authorities learned of the issue, they did the right thing because of their experience with diseases over the last decade.

I can't see the whole article. It might have some information which supports or refutes my guess.

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Edit.
From the full article:
"on January 3, the National Health Commission, China’s top medical authority, issued its own gagging orders"
What features are you talking about? It literally uses the same launcher and same jar files. It's exactly the same game.
I don't think I argue from social needs. I solely argue from individual needs and rights;
the need of the individual to food and shelter; the right to existence; the appropriation of the common good for individual property. Please let me know if I diverge from that at any point, since "social needs" are highly subjective, whereas the individual needs usually aren't.
What about all the companies that have been borrowing vast amounts of money at low interest rates to buy back shares?
When W3C's XHTML 2.0 stalled WHATWG created a new "living standard" (which is subject to constant modifications and additions) to continue HTML development. W3C attempted to create fixed standards from the document (e.g. HTML 5.1, HTML 5.2, etc) that only included things that were widely supported and that met standards for accessibility and so on. However, due to the constant churn of WHATWG's document this was difficult and WHATWG were strongly against having what they saw as competing standards.

Therefore there was some conflict between the two groups until WHATWG emerged victorious. Here's the final agreement: https://www.w3.org/2019/04/WHATWG-W3C-MOU.html

It boils down to complete capitulation by W3C.
Well, it COULD mean the end of this browser, which i would not call a big loss, as it was always outdated and the makers ripped out vital security features like sandboxing or they have been unable to implement Mozilla implemented tor based privacy fixes!

It is better that the fans are learning WHAT COULD HAPPEN - because if they would not learn the truth, they are suddenly sitting around with a dead and even more outdated browser.

This is too important than to ignore it or not to post about it.
Actual full interview, "Risky Business": https://www.startups.com/library/founder-stories/marc-andree...
Compromised where elsewhere? I control my password, so I know exactly where it goes and doesn't go. And the only place it ever goes is the little green box in my zero knowledge password extension (or native app if you prefer). I, as the user, have complete control over my own security. If my password was compromised in any way other than brute force, I can be 100% sure it was my own fault. Maybe I didn't inspect the source code well enough, maybe I talk in my sleep, but it's all on me. Saying that someone can obtain my ZKPP password through a different channel is just as nonsensical as saying that someone could get their hands on my password manager's master password if I once made an account on a pizzeria's site with the same credentials. Well, I shouldn't have.

Conversely, if an attacker obtains part of a server log from example.com, and my password is in there, they can impersonate me on example.com. It doesn't help that they can't impersonate me elsewhere because I don't reuse passwords. The damage is already done. That's because I trusted example.com to handle my credentials securely, and they didn't. I, as the user, had zero say about how secure the authentication process should be.

While I wholeheartedly agree that using different passwords, having 2FA enabled etc. is always better than not doing so, what I don't like is that these additions came about as artifacts of the crappy way we handle authentication. I want them to be a nice-to-have, an extra line of defense, not forced solutions born out of necessity.
Morally that is the right choice. Politically, there will never be a way to pick only the people who really need it. Everyone makes that more tenable.
> Legally, it is stealing

No it isn't. If I steal your bike you no longer have a bike. You no longer have the benefits of using it for transportation, society is worse off. As you explained copyright is very different from that. So, let's not call these 2 different things the same.
> ISPs have cost structures that scale with actual usage. Cables and routers have a fixed maximum capacity.

In other words, they don't scale with actual usage, they scale with maximum capacity.

When you take your monthly cable bill and divide it by what it pays for, almost all of it is going to things that don't scale with capacity. Having routers that are ten times faster doesn't require you to have ten times as many staff. They don't use ten times more electricity. They don't require ten times more office buildings or utility poles.

If you take the cost of the capacity upgrade and amortize it over total usage during peak hours, it adds a couple of bucks to the bill for the people who use the most. But that's not enough to deter usage by so much that you don't need the capacity upgrade. You need the capacity upgrade whether you charge per bit or not. At which point the upgrade is a sunk cost and charging for usage is inefficiently discouraging use of a resource that is being paid for either way.
We should totally dip into the Pentagon budget for this year, this seems like a no brainer.
> What’s the U.S. government doing about a potential shortage here? Not much, it seems.

> The ventilator industry is getting a burst of desperate orders from China and Italy.

Why don't the feds see the urgency here? Is it not predictable that the US will be in the same situation shortly?

If the feds won't take action, can state governments work around them and order directly?
This behavior reminds me of what happened with the Chernobyl power plant.
Online meetings can be better
I imagine most people will buy a case for this, as this tablet does not come cheap.

When I take my tablet (in a case) out and about, it goes into a laptop sleeve before it goes into a bag. For me, it's not bending I'm worried about, but scratches.
What reason would one have to use IBM Cloud? Honest question, what is their advantage?
A telegram channel where we post relevant Covid19 updates
It is not really possible for outsiders to tell how orders are being moved around within the party mechanism. China's message is that the regional government is at fault, but that's what they always say when there is an expression of discontent among their people. It is not "kosher" for the central government to take the blame for anything, so you can never really believe it when someone else takes the blame. Maybe the CIA knows, but anyone who isn't tapping internal communications is not likely to get beyond speculation.

In any case, a culture of honesty has to start at the top, and it is likely that the local government "knew what not to report." There are many situations where the claim that no official report was given to the central government would be true, while at the same time the central government played a role in the suppression. So as for speculation, I would say that there are many possibilities where the central government had a role to play in the suppression (even if it was played over years before), but only one possibility where the local authority went off and did something totally out of line.

Edit:

>The laboratory findings were relayed to officials in Beijing at the Centre for Disease Control (CDC). The information should have alerted national health chiefs to a looming crisis, but on January 3, the National Health Commission, China’s top medical authority, issued its own gagging orders. Laboratories were told not to release any information and to hand over or destroy the samples.

Well, it looks like the local government didn't know what not to report after all. (Thanks to makomk's comment for pointing this out.)
I've been using SoftLayer for about ... I'm actually not sure. I think I started someplace that SoftLayer bought and then IBM bought SoftLayer. So I think I've been with them for about 15 years in some form. It's been so many years I can't even be sure how many. About 5 years ago I started using AWS and so for about 5 years I've been using both. I can not believe how much better AWS has been at the most basic things. I use nothing even remotely fancy, just some "servers" (call them VPS or EC2 or Bare Metal or whatever you want) to run some websites. Nothing is balanced or behind anything special or anything at all interesting.

SoftLayer has server times (I want to say 6? More than one less than 10) just lost a server on me. Just POOF gone. The number of emails I get from them is INSANE and I can't figure out how to limit them. There's constantly a problem at a datacenter. I don't know which ones to worry about. Sometimes things go read only for no reason. The list has gone on and on. My god, that new portal at IBM is HELL to use.

Thing is, I never even knew how bad it is there until I started using AWS. It's not a daily thing, or even a monthly thing, but it's for sure been once or twice a year some serious issue has caused trouble at SL. I have had maybe one problem with AWS in 5 years?

Tried complaining, but I'm way too small to matter. Like others have said "It's that bad". Sooner than later things will be all moved over.
Spot on. We'll try to be the next one.
If this can be made thin and small enough, it'd be cool to use it to put your remaining balance and perhaps recent transactions on transit cards.
Another article on design for software that is written as if there will never be another non-browser/non-CSS app ever again.
I live in Japan and I experience mild symptoms since last Wednesday but not sure if my symptom is due to Covid-19.
In Japan, You have meet two conditions to take a CPR test.

1. the symptoms with fever of 37.5 degrees or more continue for 4 days or more (for the eldery and those with underlying disease, "4 days" becomes "2 days")

2. you have strong laxity (malaise) or breathlessness (dyspnea), or you have underlying diseases (diabetes, heart failure, respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease))

I don't meet the first condition, so I was refused to take a test, but I still have chest tightness and consistent coughing. I wonder where the number "37.5" comes from, and 4 squeal days!?
If the article in question is true, these two conditions are totally meaningless.

So why is taking a PCR test so hard in Japan? Most people believe it is due to Olympic.
The Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, still believes we can hold Olympic as planned at this point.
To that end, they want to hide the case of infection as possible. I feel strong anger towards my government since they care more about Olympic than human lives.

At this point, Olympic will be inevitably postponed. I hope my government is smart enough to loosen the conditions and let people to take PCR tests immediately…
>crunched those numbers

must be famous British sarcasm. Irish TV host "crunched" them 3 days ago on screen https://mobile.twitter.com/mattzarb/status/12387775882623385...

TLDR >250K dead at minimum
Certainly not
Please don't defend in name of humanity.
"Imposing its demands on workers without any regard for their safety"
If local store is out of stuff amazon can bring it at u but they should not be forced to bring without regard for their safety.
It could! Given enough international cooperation, we could all adopt a lightly modified version of English that's more regular and easier to teach and learn.

And then, over the coming years, it would absorb words from other languages with different rules, and evolve according to what people find easy or convenient (or just at random), and in a little while it would be irregular once again.

As you said, Turkish and Korean were changed recently. Give them time and some of that regularity will get chipped away.

(Also, of course: make substantial changes to how the language works and suddenly no one can comfortably read any of the vast quantities of existing writing unless it's translated. And some of that existing writing is really good.)
They weren't just being compared to Google. They were mostly being compared to Bing. Remember, the underlying data provider for Verizon's search results is Bing. When compared to other Bing-powered search engines, the ordering of results should be nearly identical.
The German government believes it enough that Jens Spahn, their Health Minister, is on the record as saying a US takeover of CureVac won't be allowed to happen, and CureVac removed their (American) CEO last week (following a meeting with Trump, Pence, and other American pharma industry CEOs):

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/not-for-sale-a...

The German interior minister refused to comment but also refused to deny the reports and said it would be discussed in the German government crisis committee -- if it's a made up allegation, a denial would be a cheap and easy way of defusing it. Ergo, there's fire beneath the smoke.
Why was it used at all if it's basically an old fork of Firefox? Just curious as I've never heard of it before.
In case someone else has no idea what Palemoon is:

Pale Moon is an open-source web browser with an emphasis on customizability; its motto is "Your browser, Your way". There are official releases for Microsoft Windows and Linux, an unofficial build for Mac OS, and contributed builds for various platforms. Pale Moon is a fork of Firefox with substantial divergence.

https://www.palemoon.org/
Having wants is not being entitled. Thinking that one deserves and should have everything one wants is being entitled.

The purpose of art or media is whatever the creator wants it to be. If they are an artist creating solely for the purpose of making art for be people to enjoy, then your premise is acceptable. If the artist is trying to earn money for their work, then that is their choice. If the artist wants to release their work for the world to enjoy, there are legit ways of doing that and protecting it so that other cannot prevent that free enjoyment.

I know I'm tilting at windmills with this topic on this particular website, but creating art isn't free and nobody has the right to be entertained by it just by being (either the work or the viewer) be default.
Your link is the same as this one ;)

I think the problem is the title. "In This Talk" doesn't look interesting enough, and in fact I hesitated before clicking. Now I'm glad I did, it's an amusing bunch of anecdotes.
Implied in your comment is that today's crisis is one similar to 2008 in that the economy needs "stimulus."

Today's crisis is different. The regular economy is grinding to a halt because we have to in attempts to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

What individuals and every component of the economy need are deferral and cancellation. Rubidium talked about it in another post. [0]

$1,000 to a family that is living paycheck to paycheck doesn't solve the problem. Do a search and most surveys put America at somewhere between 70-80% of workers living paycheck to paycheck.

So let's discuss giving Americans money but only to move the Overton Window. Then let's lead that discussion to solutions that address the fragility of our economic problems at their root--both in the short-term and long-term.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22604982
I'm going to link to one of my old comments and a reply from fouric - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21482394

>I think the bigger issue than paying for multiple services is duplicate licensing. If I sign up for DirecTV, Amazon Prime, and CBS how many shows am I triple licensing? If all these companies want me to sign up for multiple services, there needs to be a way for them to pass "already licensed" information to each other, and pro-rate their bills accordingly.

>ATT, Comcast, Disney, CBS already own almost all the historical content. Id rather pay a small licensing fee to those 4 and then be able to watch their content on any platform, rather than deal with multiple middlemen that have CBS, Comcast, Disney, ATT licensing costs built into their product price. IF I select DirecTV/ATT as my "licensing manager" then any time I sign up for Disney+, Peacock+, CBS All Access, I want a discount off one of the two ends (would make more sense to give all my subscription info to DirecTV and get a DirecTV discount. Then DirecTV can go to Disney and say "17% of our customers dont need to pay Disney licensing costs, weve adjusted our payment to you accordingly.)

> fouric: This is actually really important. While it's immoral to take the results of someone else's work without compensating them, it's also immoral to charge your customers multiple times for the same product.

It would really benefit the viewer to decouple "what am I licensed for" from "what app do i need to play this" and just allow my media player to access all my libraries regardless of which licensing/billing manager and video player I choose to use.. Movies Anywhere, Vudu, Roku, Apple and Amazon have made some progress on this front, but its still way too convoluted.
Startup shutting down due to effects of Coronavirus
> If it your first time WFH, the anxiety due to that will pass with time.

This is so true. Switching from being in an office (open plan or otherwise) to being in a small room on your own with only your laptop for company can for a lot of people be too jarring.

Not everyone is cut out for WFH, but currently most do not have a choice. Everyone who is not used to it, will go through an initial period of anxiety as your daily routine has been up ended.

From a work point of view, the most common initial WFH anxiety, is 'how will my boss know I'm still working?' quickly followed by 'am I working enough?' - my advice here is: Don't change your work routine. If your office hours were 9am to 6pm, then stick to that, even though you are at home. Don't be tempted to login earlier or work later. Create a division between work and home life.

Do not sit on the couch with your laptop on your lap or the coffee table - this isn't 'WFH Fridays' where barely anyone does any work. You need a proper working environment. If you can designate a desk in your home to be your 'office' then do that. Organise it as you would your real office desk. Try to position things so that you have natural light.

If you find the silence too deafening, there are plenty of 'ambient' sound channels on YouTube that emulate the hustle and bustle of coffee shops and open plan offices, or even waves on a beach and stormy rain-forests if that's your thing.

Use the newly gained free time that used to be lost to commuting on something that helps your wellbeing, i.e. at 6pm, log-off and do some exercise or have a daily bath.

If you are worried about how your work output is perceived, agree with your boss a way to provide timely updates so that he/she is always informed. Do not be afraid to set Slack/Teams/Skype to 'Do not disturb' if you need to - The downside of people not being able to 'see' you is that impromptu IMs increase and can disrupt your flow.

Try to 'get up' everyday. It's easy to just roll out of bed and sit in front of your laptop in your pyjamas, and not shower every day. Don't do this, it will make you depressed and disconnected. Get up, wash, get dressed (as if you are actually going out) - keeping to your normal healthcare routine will help keep you mentally positive.

In the UK at least, we are not currently locked in our houses, so if you can go out for a walk - even during the work-day. You didn't chain yourself to your desk for 8 hours whilst you were in the office, so why do that at home?

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I've been working from home for several years now, and although I don't follow all of my own advice, I have navigated around most of the pitfalls. That said, not everyone is cut-out for WFH, so your mileage may vary.
Fed unleashes commercial paper funding to support non-bank companies
Not yet but businesses are closed. So employees can't work and owners can't make money. Employees still have other bills to pay.

When the businesses open people could be so indebt they aren't able to start spending again quickly. The 1000 dollars won't boost the economy right now but will help recover faster when things start going back to normal.
No, you only need Puppet Bolt on your computer and SSH to the remote host.
One of the best ways to prepare for this is to reduce overcrowding in prisons by releasing most non-violent offenders and petty criminals.

Even then, it won't be enough, but it should make a significant difference by reducing the number of people in close contact in a natural breeding ground for disease.

Of course, in the current political climate it'll never happen.
Border Force staff are being (asked/forced) to work overtime specified in their contracts. Why are we so quick to hate on Amazon, who actually deliver things that we're going to need?
The assume that form that this would actually take would likely be promised 2020 or 2021 tax credits -- anything else would be logistically too slow.

This form is only useful to people who already have cash or ready credit available.

Not obvious to me that this would help the many millions who need cash to spend right now.
It is not meant to fix the underlying problem. It is meant to help those in need buy essential items like food and medicine, and possibly even pay their rent, but it probably won't be enough for even that when your family needs to eat first.

I think direct cash to individuals is only one small part of the bigger picture though. And to your point, businesses are going to need help too. It's not a matter of choosing only one or the other path, but finding a balance employing multiple strategies simultaneously.
Generally when this kind of thing happens, the private supplier is paid quite handsomely for their "IP". It's a win-win arrangement; think of it as funding open research by paying a "prize" after the fact as opposed to an ordinary "research grant". I don't generally support strict IP rights in the first place but if they're going to exist, opening them up to "shadow" suppliers should be commonplace.
Yep, and you'll be censored on HN now since you don't agree with the SJWs.
Mullvad is better
best part is it's available for all! Didn't know that at first.