skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'll have to agree to disagree.

You're right that there's a tension between present and future. But that's always true. My statements aren't contradictory in isolation, they just reflect this underlying tension. You have to navigate it no matter what point you choose on the spectrum.

> If we don't provide means for making systems where it is easy to validate their backwards compatibility...

This begs the question of why you need to validate backwards compatibility. What benefits do you get? If we have a list of benefits we can start working through them and figure out if something else may substitute for compatibility.

> This is how biological evolution became a great success, not by "starting from scratch" every time but by making sure that new individuals were always more or less "backwards compatible".

This analogy isn't helpful, because evolution is constantly testing lots of different approaches all at once, extremophiles and bacteria and cheetahs. While many lessons are shared between simple and complex life forms, there is also a lot of branching where different organisms come up with disjoint solutions to the same problems. Human supply chains are not nearly so redundant. Lessons from evolution don't always apply to something that's 'intelligently' designed.

> ..the idea of reusability, which is very closely related to the idea of "compatibility"..

It's worth separating these two ideas. You can have reuse without compatibility (reworking an existing codebase to fit an entirely new interface) and compatibility without reuse (cleanroom implementations of protocols).

Reuse is a difficult word to wrap my head around because it encompasses so much:

a) Calling a function at a new call-site.

b) Selecting a library for a use case it was designed for.

c) Mangling a library to support a use case it was not designed for.

d) Deploying copies of an AMI.

e) ... and much more

I'm very supportive of post-deployment reuse (e.g. d above) which is usually entirely automated. But I'm suspicious of large-scale reuse during the development process. We've been trying to make it work for decades now, and it just hasn't panned out. At what point do we reframe a goal as a delusion? I think we're way past it in this case.
I think the reason for the two mechanisms for signaling is to differentiate between "this person is being a jerk/is misinformed", and "Nuke this comment from orbit with extreme prejudice". That way, the flag function's significance for spam/malevolence/badness doesn't get diluted by people who would be content to downvote.
I’m not sure I see the point of bailing out airlines in the US. What is it?

I would think the key thing for the government to consider is 1) protecting the assets of any failing airline so they can be reused when it comes time to reboot the domestic market. 2) taking care of all the workers that are going to be laid off. Because regardless of bailout the airlines will lay them off anyway.

In a lot of smaller countries bailouts make sense because they have tiny markets and there is only one airline, or they have a strategic need for a national carrier.
And a short presentation:

https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

See the last slide, combination with Azythromycin seems to help (they say). Azythromycin is the widely known Zithromax, less than 7€ to get a box of 500mg doses.
does higher viral load mean worse symptoms?
Because that interferes with my ability to get better service?

This is a very broad question, applicable in many situations. For example, signing non-compete agreements may get you better employment deals, but some legislations decided it's better to forbid such practices.

In this particular case I'm not sure what would be a good approach :) .
The problem isn't unique to this industry, yeah. But it's still a shame considering that Uber and Lyft drivers are already not having the easiest time.

Also, am I wrong to think that the recovery won't be too swift even after the quarantine is lifted? For one, the economy will be hit hard so fewer people will take taxi rides. Plus, many people will likely keep fearing social interaction and being locked in a car with a person that drives strangers around all day could put people off. Our (modern) society hasn't dealt with this type of thing before so there's not really an easy path to recovery.
" So why did it not prevent spreading to Italy, a foreign country with a border, who even saw it coming 2 months in advance?"

Italy didn't ban travel early enough and their medical system couldn't keep up with the amount of people that ended up sick. The result is way more deaths and infections.

"If Italy (or the US) evidently could not prevent it despite freedom of speech and being a much higher barrier for spreading than internal China, then why do you still claim that freedom of speech could have prevented the spread in China?"

You need to actually do something when you are warned.

Italy didn't, the US did. Keeping things closed/no freedom of speech will only hurt everyone in the long run.

"Your image of China is a caricature, not reality."

Have you lived in China for long periods of time? Do you know anyone born in China? It's both for me. Most people don't truly know how evil the Chinese government is.
??? Not only does Uber not limit the hours you can do, it explicitly encourages you to do more in the form of quotas you need to meet to get bonuses
I feel obliged to mention that this assumes a correlation between surveillance and protection.
Yet Volkswagen is doing it: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/business/volkswagen-plants-eu....

I don't think "it would be complex" is a reasonable excuse.
If you know someone who needs temporary housing, a person in need of alternative private workspace, or a traveler that requires last-minute accommodations, please let them know Sonder is here to help. We have clean, safe spaces available in over 30 cities.
Yes, Canadian hospitals will bill you if you're foreign, but the amount they bill is about 20× to 50× less than what US hospitals bill for the same services.
Adventures in Self Driving Car Safety
For anyone curious, BurningFrog has over 10k karma but wants things he doesn't understand banned. That's HN in a nutshell these days.
Ok, we've changed the URL to that from https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/16/senate-leaders....
It's well documented that Joe Biden's administration deported far more than the current.

https://www.axios.com/immigration-ice-deportation-trump-obam...

https://thehill.com/latino/470900-deportations-lower-under-t...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-trump-has-deported-fewer-im...

https://www.cato.org/blog/deportation-rates-historical-persp...
Yes, that is the main difference. To which my response is basically, yeah -- that's just a detail of how the compensation package got structured. I completely fail to see how that's problematic in any way.

Some executives are compensated with RSU's. Some with options. If you're negotiating compensation and it's options, you'll take into account whether the company does buybacks or dividends when comparing offers.

In the end the total package is the total package. So I just don't see anything "wrong" here.
I think the sarcasm is just highlighting the 'oh just do something else' refrain is not as easy as just saying it.

It may be that easy single in your 20s and with a bit of savings (or the ability to search while still employed) but no one should really be saying it as throwaway line as it diminishes the hardship involved and how people really behave.
"Moral hazard is real"

On my next tshirt
After initial configuration it's literally one command using the AWS cli to upload your site to s3.

I don't understand the eagerness to trade-off $/user instead of $/bandwidth (which is far, far cheaper in nearly every case) just to save a day or two of learning how to use a tool.
After two patches led by Oracle, there's a call for volunteers to see if anyone is interested in continuing an Updates Project. But the original version itself is not written with that intent (nor is it known in advance whether anyone will step up). You will find no mention of 11 being in itself special in any way here, https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/11/ and anyone can start an Updates Project for any version.
No. 1 liter of commercial tonic water has about 83 mg of quinine, and the typical dose for malaria treatment is 648 mg three times a day. You'd have to drink 23.4 liters of tonic water a day to get that amount of quinine, and you'd probably poison yourself from that amount of water and sugar.
You obviously know the ins and outs of critical theory much better than I do. You've also cited two ideological movements of which I am completely unaware. Thanks for your time.
Feb 2nd: US designates 5 Chinese media companies as outlets as government entities.

It's widely believed the expelling of the three WSJ report was retaliation to that.
(This subthread was originally a child of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22606894)
> They’re often cheaper because the store increases the price of the competitors’ wares to make their own store-product more appealing

Maybe irrelevant to the point, but in my experience that is very wrong. They're cheaper because:

* they have approximately zero marketing costs other than the cost of the shelf space, which they have better insight to sizing than their competitors

* They didn't have to spend as much testing and refining to develop a quality product, because they already have a good sense of what the market is after because they're copying something people want

* They don't have to maintain a staff of salespeople working to negotiate their products into stores. They know exactly where their product is destined to go, and how much to produce to satisfy market demands.

* Because they have split-tested the price against which users see their value brand as enough of a bargain to switch from Fruit Loops to Fruity-Ohs or whatever.

Yes, there is a portion of that component that has to do with the margins applied against the name brands, but stores aren't marking up their competitors' prices beyond the normal markup, and just as an aside, if Fruity-Ohs were selling better at a price than Fruit Loops, the store would increase their pricing. TLDR, if the market agreed, it would be very possible for the generic brands to cost more than the name brands, but due to point 1 (marketing) that is extremely unlikely to happen.
Book Review: Hoover
Where did you see that this is for terminal conditions? Raoult suggested even patients with mild symptoms be treated with those molecules to reduce the contagion.
if by survive you mean remain solvent by RIFing most of their staff, i guess i'm with you. however i don't think that's how it's going to shake out.

we're in a big ol' interconnected world, where the way things are going a fairly large sector (tourism/travel/food industry is a little less than 15% of GDP [or was 2017]) is likely going to get decimated. 1 in 100 of those firms will not be able to survive for 3 months the way things are going, much less 9. that's no fault of their own, it's just that most businesses can't be expected to plan for disaster-level events within their wheelhouse - a great many have trouble hitting payroll every 2 weeks.
U.S. Precipitation 1901-2019: A Decade-by-Decade Look
So can I use other cloud providers to sync? Say OneDrive, GDrive, Dropbox or Box?

How can I import pdf files & export them to a cloud solution?
It was a problem in Perl, it isn't in Raku.

Part of the problem is that Perl doesn't have as strong of a type system.
(Is is an int or a string, or is is both? The runtime certainly doesn't know.)

It was also symmetric in 5.10 (changed in 5.10.1), which didn't help.

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The major mistake was not making it experimental from the start.

(The smartmatch feature is why marking things as experimental is now a thing.)

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If it is carefully designed, it should prove to be useful just like it has in Raku.
Please don't respond to a bad comment with another bad comment. That only makes the thread even worse. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Drawing conclusions before evidence can be obtained is very scientific and rational.
I used to support Tesla but can’t help but think recent successes (including the astronomical rise in stock price) got to Elon Musk. I hate to say it but they’re 2-3 quarters away from possibly filing if the virus continues at current pace in US and EU.
Based on the U.S. Department of Labor's release a couple days ago, it sounds like states are responsible for creating laws to pay benefits where workers aren't working due to the coronavirus [0]. Importantly, "federal law does not require an employee to quit in order to receive benefits due to the impact of COVID-19".

I wish federal laws were put in place to protect people's income during the outbreak. I wonder whether Trump is passing the buck to states to avoid backlash against himself.

[0] https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/eta/eta20200312-0
I believe the author meant that Rocket provides helpers to make unit testing easy. The tests are written using the ordinary "#[test]" Rust annotation and run by the standard Rust test runner.
question about viral load[0]: do masks reduce it ?

[0] IIUC viral load means amount of viruses getting in your system
Using Raspberry Pi Like a Chromecast? Open-Source NymphCast Makes It Happen
Uber has been bleeding money for awhile now. What has kept them afloat is the fact that people keep using them and their fleet of drivers. But if people stop doing that, it's going to get real hairy for Uber and Lyft.
Since this is becoming a recurring theme, of "too big to fail". I think, from now on, any company that is "too big to fail", should have to pay a "too big to fail" insurance tax to the government (perhaps a certain percentage of their revenue). they can't just keep getting free bail outs, without paying the insurance premium. If I opt to not get drivers insurance and then crash into someone, i can't just ask for insurance coverage after the fact.
Show HN: Create calendar invites by forwarding emails
Sorry, I don't know the answer to that specific question. I do want to point out that CloudFront is just a CDN, you would use it in conjunction with something like S3.
Yes I'm a co-founder. Can you email me the company at hello <at> levels <dot> fyi? FWIW we take accuracy very seriously. We just released an email list for receiving verified salaries: https://www.levels.fyi/verified/
Scott Adams on how coronavirus could impact the economy, election, & healthcare
a company with long history

To be fair, Sony are a company with a long history of absolutely amazing hardware crippled by comically bad software. The DPT series doesn't even show you the PDF table of contents, last I looked.
> But, I have this one friend I can almost never photograph (again, when not posing) because it seems we are on the same "beat". He blinks or moves at exactly the same time when I press the shutter. It's really strange because it's the only person I know with whom this happens.

Wait, did your uncle inherit you a black leather belt with silver buckle?
If it's known that restaurants will get paid eventually, it makes it easier to finance. I guess it's still not gonna be easy to stay afloat. The staff will need a handout. Either special law or they get unemployment. Not sure.
On the Front Lines with Covid-19: What can we learn from each other?
> sponsored by Adam Schiff

I'd be against any surveillance bill sponsored by Mr. "Russia is out to get us" Schiff, before even reading it.

It's interesting how Congress has in many ways come full circle since the 1950s.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7X2j8HAkWdmMoS8PE/disputing-...

You can deduce that the order of some data implies it's likely information.

A person can also have a small amount of data be information even if it would be hard to deduce otherwise.

Seems like arguing about this is just arguing about the definition of a word.
FWIW studies have seen 0-24 days incubation period (though typically 2-7 days, still long) - https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-incuba....

This study (https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020200370, small cohort of 21) had a symptoms-to-discharge period of 19+/-4 days (17+/-4 days in hospital).

Assuming you have a perfect lock down now. People will continue for 7 days to get infected from asymptomatic cases (much longer for some). At the end of that week it will be one week until most symptoms have appeared (but again much longer for some). Now you have hospitalisations of the infected, or home care (as hospitals won't be able to cope). In UK you have to test negative from 3 tests on two subsequent days in order to be cleared for release (report on BBC Radio 4 from an infected patient); assuming a similar standard then we're looking at 7+7+17 days, 31 days until people are starting to be safe to associate with ...

I don't share your "2 weeks top" blind faith.

>Testing there is showing a >1% death rate and because of how those tests work, it is provably about a half to a full order of magnitude lower.

Could you source the proof of this please?
libxo is doing a good job for FreeBSD. It would be nice if Linux also adapts that, or something similar, one day.

Eg I have a script that needs output from netstat, and `netstat -bin --libxo json | jq ...` is a great way to get that info instead of scraping the human-readable output.
There has to be a place for flexible/on-demand work these days along with a fair way to restrict it so an intentionally unreliable job doesn't become the one thing many people rely on for a paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle.

Maybe it's something along the lines of getting "employee" protections once you do a certain amount of work which will result in it being much more difficult/competitive to get those "employee positions" and people who work less will be in higher demand / be paid more.

The real problem, I think, is how much money is being sucked away from nearly everyone for real estate which is ending up being owned by banks earning mortgage payments or investment groups earning rent. There's no particularly strong reason why this should be allowed to happen, but it is.

I pay far more for rent than I do for taxes, and the former group only "deserves" all of this money because they "own". They do and have done very little in the way of actual useful work.
cargocult?
the unit price per mile of use is much lower and will have a lower magnitude of impact on the economy, similarly the impacts on the producers will be smaller and buffered by home electric use (which probably goes up in a case like this)
That's great for elective consumption, but when there's a public health crisis it puts lives at risk. Cornering the market on candy bars or novelty items, make a million bucks, that's great and has my blessing. Trying to do it during a disease outbreak makes someone a PoS.
What a bizarre interpretation of 'minimum wage' and 'tip'! This means that the restaurant owner essentially collects (part of) the tips?

So you could employ a restaurant worker at $0/h and then bump them to minimum wage, because the tips will never cut it? Basically, you'd be collecting all the tips? This cannot seriously be legal!?
Yeah, I guess I should have qualified that: They won at how they handled the the initial response. It will be a long journey.
Here's their pricing page: https://www.netlify.com/pricing/

Looks like you can add extra developers on the lower tiers for $15/user/month, but they're still charging way more per GB than AWS does.
There's a good cop?
> Regional companies encouraged to lay duplicate fibre cables, duplicate power delivery or duplicate water or sewer systems, are not efficient.

That’s never the case. Power is separated into producers, transmitters and retailers (you only deal with retailers who compete in service and negotiate with producers.

Telco’s lease line from national company, negotiate peering and retail to you.

Exception is cell telcos... these pay so much in spectrum auctions that almost undoubtedly few millions end up in polichickens pockets.
It's not just you. At times it feels people downvote out of spite, to reciprocate how they feel they've been treated. It's annoying since instead of having a discussion or even replies that would make you see "aha, I might have been wrong", you just get a series of downvotes.

Of course it's not like that always. But I do see a lot more reasonable comments that aren't inherently inane/flame-wary get downvotes for no apparent reason. Perhaps there should be a mechanism in place to reduce its use eg having to pay downvotes with your own karma.
Go to nasa.gov with javascript off. Tell me how much text you can read. It doesn't have to be DRM. It just has to be ever more complex JS standards and engine implementations that only a handful of companies can actually make.

Once it's an application instead of a document the text just isn't there.
Helpful database of of 400+ VC firms with direct contact details (Google Doc)
Oh, the first version of the text read differently, there is a correction at the bottom.
As someone who leans heavily free markets, even I buy the argument that it's not wise to let every airline in the country fail simultaneously, regardless of fault.

Here's the thing, there is nothing unfree market about demanding terms for those bailouts, it should be a negotiation, not an ultimatum from the airline industry. So for example, if you enforced all bonuses to be canceled for the next three years and retroactively fined for the last three years, set executive pay at a max of $50k for the next three years (and banned any new stock incentives during that time), fined the executives equal to 125% of capital gains they made on stock incentives, during the stock buyback period, and made all bailouts loans not grants at above market rates, you could ostensibly let them decide how much bailout they wanted without continuing this endless cycle of letting them run at losses knowing the public will foot the bill. And if they don't take it, then let them die.

Basically the end result of the bailout has to be drastically net negative over the last 3-5 years for every airline executive for this not to create moral hazard. I think that is achievable.

Unfortunately well probably just hand them $50 billion and make poor people pay for it.
Tinder UI idea is very smart - that’s a great idea!
Your analogy is flawed.

Google's value proposition is to provide the most useful/accurate results for your query. Period. That's Google search's "raison d'etre".

Kroger makes no such (equivalent) claim.
But in the case of rent payments McDonalds is the bank. Whether or not McDonalds decides to defer rent the number of franchisees who can afford to remit payment is going to decline. A handful of franchisees unable to pay is a problem for those franchisees. A majority of franchisees unable to pay is a problem for McDonalds. It's better for McDonalds to address the issue/uncertainty now.
>You certainly didn't misapprehend the narrative this article is trying to push. //

Were the arrests made in any way affected by the state of emergency?

One photo says "David A. Marin, a director of enforcement and removal operations with ICE. ICE officers are being joined by U.S. Customs & Border Protection agents in the last few weeks, as more resources are deployed in sanctuary cities. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)".

Was this normal operation, or have the activities against "sanctuary cities" been stepped up; and is that related to State of Emergency powers?
Great question. You will never know what is done with the data if you're using servers you don't control. That's why I thought the intro was fake at first. That's the literal exact opposite of what I want. I only clicked there link because it said "functional". I'm a little disappointed.
https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12337257852839321...

Makes me sick