skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I read some advice that said, only check the news on e.g. 2 set moments in the day.

This is really healthy advice. My approach has been to establish some routine for checking news. At first it was whenever possible, to figure out what to do in a country that was being misguided by its own government (US). Then, when our family made its decisions about how to respond (isolate), we read news off and on throughout the day, and spent much of our time contacting people we have decent relationships with, trying to help them understand to take things seriously. Now that we're mostly in our own house and just waiting it out, we're starting to just check things a couple times a day. I've found it's healthy for me to not check news just before bed. Check in the evening, then have time to digest what's happening and let go of it enough to get a good night's sleep and try to stay healthy.

Reminder for everyone in an area where peak caseload is still in front of you, we want to stay healthy and uninjured not just to avoid coronavirus, but also because an overwhelmed health care system won't respond well to any other injuries or illnesses either. So now, 9yo son, you can't build a tower to the ceiling and climb up on it because there's a small chance you'll fall and break your arm and we don't want you trying to mend a broken arm in an entirely stressed health care situation. I am normally a much bigger fan of natural consequences than I am right now.

Stay safe everyone, and give yourself space to let go when you can.
Exclude all for profit property, and all second homes. All of America is suffering right now. If we protect the land owners we're only lengthening the noose around all of necks.
It weights about 400g, so about what a paper pad does I guess? In any case, it has a textured surface, and assuming it's similar to the reMarkable 1 it is not slippery.
A genuine inquiry should get a genuine answer. Let me try to provide one.

Copyright law with its duration of 95 years after the authors death is practically universally seen as the result of money being transfer from large companies into the control of politicians that voted in favor of the law. Normally when laws get written as the result of money changing hand we call it corruption, but as the supreme court have show, that is not always so.

Some people have tried to fix the problem from within, but the US political system makes third-party initiatives like that rather hard. Internationally, the result of the corrupt process spread through international trade agreements where nations has to either implement the same laws or risk getting trade sanctions from the US, and thus internationally nations has accepted the same corrupt law in exchange for getting through trade deals.

There is no moral ground for following current copyright law except blind following. Instead what we get is individual moral decisions where for example a person might feel it being acceptable to view 95 minus 1 year after the authors death old video on youtube, but find it wrong to view a recently released cinematic movie. Each person uniquely define when, where and how they feel copyrights exclusive monopoly is morally defensible and when it is not. The result is that you get about as many different moral view on the issue as there is people.
It still sounds as if it has the original's killer negative: everything you write is sync'ed to their servers, which is a huge no-no for work use without IT approval, at least at my workplace, or anything regulated by privacy laws like HIPPA. I'd love one of these things if it was able to function purely offline even if I had to sacrifice cloud features.
How does direct cash help the underlying problem? People can’t go outside and do stuff. We need loans for businesses and relief for companies to weather a pause (so layoffs and closings are mitigated).
Seems like something is going on in Dallas.
Packaging doesn't strike me as a particularly person-to-person type of thing where you need to touch other people.

I'd imagine gloves, masks, and safety glasses are probably fine.
I know I'm being too literal, but I got a chuckle when I read:

> reMarkable’s virtually instant response and texturized surface make for an unprecedented writing experience.

There is indeed a precedent for having literally instant response with a texturized surface: pencil and paper.
Last global pandemic of most compare - the Spanish Flu, we had a society that was savings conscious.

Past few decades have seen a turn towards interest rates so low that borrowing over saving has prevailed.

So whilst this may help a little and more so for some, it will do nothing for many who are debt rolling from one payday until another. That without intervention upon loans and debt repayments over this period will cause more chaos and impact.

Though most will need fuel, food and essentials in this time, might be better if you had those delivered to those who are stuck and in direct need.

Otherwise, I wouldn't be supprised if ration books become norm for a period soon. Certainly for toilet roll.
Federal Reserve will restart a financial crisis-era program to help US companies
Exactly, and bank deposits are the source of loanable funds so they are still very much a critical part of the living economy. This isn't the 1920's where people literally had wads of cash completely removed from the banking system, nobody does that shit anymore.
They... don't work great.

They cannot be serialized, they break accessibility, they break screen readers (AFAIR), they are not lazy loaded, they do not participate in form events, they...
I don't know why you're downvoted, but unemployment is a state-level program. This is a national problem and merits a federal response.
One alternative to a camera set up might be, tabletop simulator. It's a board game software remote play app on Steam. It has a ton of games set up for it and has low system requirements. It's not hard to set up either though everyone would need to be comfortable installing software.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/Tabletop_Simulator...
"Google has nothing to gain from hurting the open web ecosystem."

I really want to believe this. But how does AMP fit into this? I feel it is quite counter to the idea of an open web. Please do not take this as an attack or criticism, I would like to, in fact, learn some better arguments in favour of why Google would support, rather than suppress an open web ecosystem.
It's also impossible. How many millions would I have to pay you for you to take a skiing trip to Italy right now (flight, hotel, ski lifts, ...)? No matter the size of the economic stimulus, some parts of the economy will grind to a halt (demand shock), whereas others will be overstressed (supply shock - food, toilet paper, medical services). I think any stimulus should be targeted at those parts specifically, otherwise you're just wasting resources.
Feels a bit like this is a "pass it on" type deal- killing the worries for the people in the middle probably relieves a lot of stress for people at the bottom- if I'm not worried about making rent, I'm probably not going to be pushing hours quite as hard, nor am I going to be as strict about people coming in. (Personally, I'd be ensuring that all my workers still had places to live and good food to eat, even if it cost me personally to do so.)
agree. some interesting points about being VERY clear about expectations on technical qs.
This is a massive question: how do we nearly shut down an economy and still meet people's basic needs?

Today's crisis is not 2008's crisis.

The economic changes seem more akin to WWII when there was rationing and production shifted to war efforts. Now we are shifting efforts to healthcare, and the logistics of maintaining basic consumer goods to the populace.

Both in WWII and today we want the ability to spin things back up once (fingers crossed) the virus abates without having made the situation worse by displacing or further indebting huge amounts of people.

When surveys show somewhere between 70-80% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck the potential consequences of the economy grinding to a halt would be devastating.

Talk of $1,000 payments to people help move the Overton Window, but don't solve the problem.
That's less of a surprise, IMO -- pf is a BSD utility and was originally developed for OpenBSD. It's right in the front of the name so there's no question what you're getting (as opposed to OSX, where there is a base there, but no one would know it unless they're Unixy types).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PF_(firewall)
Amazon is an extremely distributed company.

Just because it's one company doesn't mean it's centralized.
Also wonder about security of the pen if used with the book folio. Exactly how strong is that magnetic attachment?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22604866
When you decouple income from output or wages from work, you're essentially devaluing work and incentivizing people to work less or (more destructively) work worse.

It's not an absurd thought at all, it's a very natural solution to propose in environments like we have today. It's also been tried in many different countries in many different time periods. Leads to failure every single time.
Discussed last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537216
It is interesting to think about how such a counterproductive attitude could develop. I imagine that the Party saw a problem, suppressed some people who were impacted by it, and saw the problem go away (at least for them). The they saw another problem, suppressed some people, and saw that problem go away too. After doing this for several decades, their default reflex upon seeing a problem was to suppress whoever was complaining about it. This strategy worked for small problems that would stay about the same size over time, because they could tell the sufferers to suck it up and at most a few people would become discontent. Eventually the strategy became a habit, and the habit became an integral cultural component of their way of governing.

Then, one day, they saw a problem, suppressed some people... and discovered that the small problem would not stay small and suppressible after all.
S.korea, taiwan, singapore...are not "locked down" either eh?
The point is that that one month's rent may buy enough time for the economy to stabilize.

Make no mistake, unless everything picks back up nearly instantly (aka "when pigs fly") people will lose jobs and miss payments and be evicted and all sorts of other bad things just like in every other downturn. The point of the $1k (or whatever amount) is to buy a month for the COVID19 situation to stabilize thereby minimizing the downturn, or at least that's how it works in theory.
The ones that I have done were through BASP [1], the focus was on what was needed for outdoor pursuits but there were people from a wide range of sports, they were not organized by the sporting body itself.

[1] https://www.basp.org.uk/
Stock prices are leading indicators of future revenue. Not perfect indicators obviously, but the stock prices reflect lower sales/profits/etc due to reduced mobility, supply-chains etc.
> Definition: API: For the purposes of these metrics, an “API” is an interface name + attribute or operation pair.

So there aren’t 1000 new Web Component specs coming out each year, no. And fewer make it into W3C/WHATWG specs.
Covid-19 Spreading in Italy
Of course you're some newly created sock-puppet account too afraid to post under your real handle.

COVID-19 will absolutely cause the death of millions in the US alone if proper steps aren't taken to reduce R0. If not from the disease itself, then from hospitals being completely overloaded.

Edit: Let's be real: lockdown/isolation is going to have to persist for at least a month or more to have a real chance of preventing the spread to most of the population in the US. 2 weeks is not going to cut it.
Has anyone used this product? and how does it compare to like an IPad Pro?

I have an IPad Pro, but I'm not in love with the writing experience or reading an eBook.
Well, on the other hand, it seems like because Amazon is so centralized, they had a lot of capacity which they can now re-purpose. Previously they were shipping both non-essential stuff (books, vinyl records, etc) and essential (food, medicines), and now all those resources can go into essential things.

If the vinyl record shops had a completely separate fulfillment system, there would be no easy way to repurpose it to ship essential items, so we would be in a worse position.
I have used this in one of my projects, but in the end had to abandon it: the problem is that Guile itself requires GNU make during build, which creates a circular dependency, and thus building it with e.g. FreeBSD ports required manual intervention every time you updated it. This combined with the fact that this integration is only available since GNU make 4.0, and some Linux distributions still have older make, made it a hassle to setup. This should improve over time, of course.

Still a great feature though. Without it there are e.g. manipulations on the file paths that you can not do at all, or can do but only as a hack. Case in point: "GNU Make Standard Library" (https://gmsl.sourceforge.io/) is a collections of such hacks; here's its definition of 'strlen':

strlen = $(call assert_no_dollar,$0,$1)$(strip $(eval __temp := $(subst $(__gmsl_space),x,$1))$(foreach a,$(__gmsl_characters),$(eval __temp := $$(subst $$a,x,$(__temp))))$(eval __temp := $(subst x,x ,$(__temp)))$(words $(__temp)))
> Anyone ever got money back from Amazon/Apple/whoever because a movie they sold you sucked?

IDK, I'll find out within 72 hours. I just asked Microsoft to give me my money back for Dynasty Warriors 9 (I'd call it broke as fuck, but it's probably subjective).

I did once get a refund request for a Toy Story 4 ticket because the director and I happen to share some names.
It's far better than a paper sign or label. It'd be much easier to just put a sticker on top of the screen if you wanted to deface it.
Because if the stock price is tanking, there's an incentive to figure out how to either a) increase profits or b) decrease spending.

Since the market is tanking, there's a likelihood that people will be spending less, thus leading to less profits for my company; as a result, the only easy way to keep investors happy is to reduce costs, and the easiest way to do that is to start doing layoffs.
Honest question, not an economist. How would giving everyone money impact inflation? Is giving money the same thing as “printing money?”
Taxation is not stealing. In the ECHR for example your right to property is completely superseded by anything the government decides is in the best interest of society:

>(1) Every natural or legal person is entitled to the peaceful enjoyment of his possessions. No one shall be deprived of his possessions except in the public interest and subject to the conditions provided for by law and by the general principles of international law.

>(2) The preceding provisions shall not, however, in any way impair the right of a state to enforce such laws as it deems necessary to control the use of property in accordance with the general interest or to secure the payment of taxes or other contributions or penalties.
Where I live, it is illegal for utility companies to cut power during winters, for obvious reasons. Same should be for internet.

In fact, I'd go as far aa saying thar internet today is an absolute necessity, on par with water and electricity.
I was IBM’s “corporate webmaster” in the 1990s. Pretty much the only way I could get support to solve problems was for the web site to crash (and then it would be all hands and executives on deck, which was almost just as bad). e.g. we were mandated to use IBM’s rebadged CERN webserver (variously Lotus Go, Domino Go, Domino, etc) in 1995, but it couldn't handle the load and didn't have any of the fixes/enhancements I’d added to our build of NCSA. We finally cut over to it some time in early 1998. Two months later IBM killed it for an IBM build of Apache (which also didn't have any of the fixes or enhancements we'd made to NCSA and I was prohibited by corporate politics from adding them).

I couldn't use DB2 for www.ibm.com for years because of internal accounting rules requiring commercial licenses, while other accounting rules prohibited giving our group the budget for said licenses.

I'm sure everything is much better now that the cloud has descended.
That’s just a UBI with a different mechanism. The problem here is most proposals for negative income tax pay out annually rather than monthly (you specifically do not), and fail to account for people who do not work but otherwise provide useful input into the economy like stay at home parents and adults taking care of elderly family.
The gov has to set parameters and then they can go by payroll data/IRS data. I’m sure there’s lots to think about if you want, but the important data is quite available.
It was vixy. Started at $20.85 on feb 28 and held onto it till this morning when I traded it around $47 for tvix at $590 or so. Holding on until something more certain comes up.

I am looking for a general spending plan by the central government that will support the lower part of the economy and small business backbone life support line. The cost would be something like $1000 per adult one time (we can do this again later if we have to) and a negotiable short term life line to small businesses. A bureaucracy can price that per business in a reverse auction or whatever. The total cost on this exercise is around a trillion dollars. We can easily finance this at these low rates on the national debt so certainly we can survive it financially.

Then and only then will I sell. At least for about the same amount of time 2008's crash lasted.
I see at least one good use for the smaller one: Price tags at a supermarket.

Instead of a team of clerks changing the labels for three hours at night, you can have one guy do the whole store in that time. The savings in labor would quickly make up for the initial expense.
That's an interesting definition I knew not about. Thanks for sharing!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wasteland

In the previous discussion, I was mainly focused on the 'barren' and 'barely inhabitable' aspects. If your sentiment was about cultivation; yeah, you're probably right. Hunter/gatherer societies usually do very little cultivation.

(There's some indication that the Amazonas river fronts were heavily cultivated in pre-columbian times, as the presence of terra preta implies, though)

In that case however we'll run into the discussion about 'improving the land', since arguably cutting down woods to make room for agriculturalists is not improving the land for hunter/gatherers.
So, believe it or not. The Government is a lot better as a procurer than a manager in the long run. Private industry is much more free to morph the way they do things than the government is, and a lot of the government is already specialized around the logistics of outsourcing to private industry vs. doing any of the work themselves.

The arrangement does actually work fairly well in a crisis; you just need the sense of urgency to get everyone in the private sector all cranking on the same problem.

Or at least it has worked well before. Things like the F-22, F35, and Littoral Combat Ship aside... There is a point where stuff turns into a nightmare. The medical equipment needed though isn't really a problem where you should run into the sort of slog those projects ran into though.
You might try sorting the countries in your select input. They appear to be in some random order and I almost gave up looking for the country I was interested in.
Even if that reddit post is 100% correct, the author's behavior strikes me as the epitome of trolling. So I'm not inclined to take their words particularly seriously.

The author basically walked into a community of Pale Moon enthusiasts and shouted: "Hey Palemoon fans! Y'know that thing you love? It's going to die! Sorry!".

The legitimately-concerned version of this post would go something like: "If Palemoon can't implement web components, does the browser have a future?"
1 - graph view. Maybe have something to flip the graph only.

2 - yeah, I grasped that you can just rename it, but it's a bit annoying because I might also have to manually delete a bunch of nodes below.
This is cool but your hospital beds figure needs to be reduced dramatically because I believe you have taken the number of total hospital beds, not intensive care beds for the critically ill. In my country, the number of total beds is about 48 times the number of intensive care beds.
From remarkable website:

Does the reMarkable adapt to left-handed people? If you're left-handed, don't worry. A few of our colleagues are also left-handed. They want to make sure all lefties have an excellent experience with their reMarkable device.
You'll be able to set up your reMarkable to left-handed mode when you first set up your device. We've also made it easy to switch between right-handed and left-handed modes in the main settings.
"The dangers of overcentralization of shopping"

Another perspective: An advantage of supply chain efficiency to get life sustaining goods to people during a global health crisis.
Especially from lets say bali eh? Why haven't large numbers of tourists in bali been stricken with covid 19?

As of 5 feb there were supposed to have been 5000 chinese tourists trapped on bali after flights were halted..
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-to-stop-...
A coronavirus outbreak in jails or prisons could turn into a nightmare
I feel we need to do something along these lines for the immediate, but at the same time wonder if it's practically possible to give enough money to actually matter.

To me it seems this crisis is exposing several fallacies underlying our civilization. 1) The idea that infinite debt based economic growth is workable long term. 2) The notion that somehow we can beat natural evolution and selection long term with science.

Both of these ideas work very well in the narrow slice of human history we have lived in, but longer term maybe are just fallacies.
Your first example shows that government is terribly inefficient so a single program that just writes checks should be better than many programs with complex requirements and giant overhead.

As for the second, just because some labor unions are notoriously rent seeking doesn't mean we don't have mass changes in govt organizations. Programs are shutdown all the time. I doubt those labor unions would have a good argument against this anyway. What are they going to say? We're keeping our jobs so we can keep you from getting paid?
I think the point is that if you “WireGuard-ify” IPSec and just fix all those parameters (e.g. take the vendor defaults) then you’re left with 5 pieces of information.

If the value of WG is just that it forces all these parameters to be static then the best thing we could do is come up with the “WireGuard” IPSec profile call it a day.
Build Crypto Wallets Using APIs
>Traditional Chinese medicine

aka eating tiger penises. Its a political scam, doesnt work just like Traditional Chinese Martial Arts.

>The evaluation system for the TCM could be “futile or invalid”, because it has a different philosophy or evaluation system for efficacy from western medicine, he added.

mmmhmm
Yep. Trying to carve out one group or another is exactly how we end up with a convoluted tax system and subsidies.
Touching something someone else just touched after wiping their cough spray off their lips is definitely a risk booster.
That's true, however the new standards are often poorly designed and require Google level resources to keep up with the pace of change.

They've basically ensured that another Netscape/Chrome cannot happen, they've pushed the complexity of the web so quickly that only the biggest most well funded companies can afford to keep up.
It wasn't even that long ago that I remember being constantly irritated by accidentally pretty Ctrl-E instead of Ctrl-W in some ancestor of Firefox, and finding myself editing the page. I was actually somewhat glad when this was removed.