skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguably it's in the interest of the landlords to make this work. If WeWork goes under there will be a ton of void commercial space. It's a question of how many lease payments to forgive before it makes sense (and is actually viable) to repossess the buildings and replacement tenants.
Researchers Will Deploy AI to Better Understand Coronavirus
DuckDuckGo tracks you and shares your info with the FBI CIA and NSA
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22608668
turbo pascal went straight from text to machine code. no ast or manipulations.
SoftBank is finished as a VC investor. You'd have to be an idiot or have no other option (adverse selection) to take their money.
I was talking about the list of Socialistic welfare handouts the parent said should be free, not UBI.
Excellent summary!
They may have not kept records specifically because it was meant for a potential resistance movement. If there were records, then the Nazis could just read them after an invasion.
They are "required to", but this is rarely enforced, so they very frequently don't actually do this.
I heard this before, but how does that knowledge help with dealing with BPA exposure now?
"In the stability study the two viruses behaved similarly, which unfortunately fails to explain why COVID-19 has become a much larger outbreak."

I am hoping that the similarity extends to SARS v1's sensitivity to temperature.
Reducing the total cost of updates is one of the main goals of the new model. The new feature releases are just slightly more disruptive than the old feature releases, and the major releases are gone altogether. No more testing is needed for the feature releases now than was necessary for the feature releases under the old model, but in general, people were doing testing under some very wrong assumptions. Full regressions tests are necessary for a release of any kind -- including patches (in fact, the most disruptive releases in the last 2 years was 11.0.2 and 8u202). If you were lucky to get by with less testing, the change in how the feature versions are named shouldn't change matters for you. Overall, the effort required is reduced.
> Don't get me wrong, cooking at home can be cheaper than eating out

cost of raw materials in restaurants are a very small portion of the overall bill the customer pays. A large portion is rent, and an even larger portion is labour/wages. I hear the margins are razor thin at around 5-10% (which is low considering the risks). Not to mention capital expenditure (of which the value, i guess, isn't gonna disappear overnight, so there's that).

Cooking at home also tends to be food that you get in season and/or on discount. You don't have a menu at home, and hence, costs at home are both lower in raw materials, and labour costs are zero (assuming you don't pay yourself, and your time isn't able to be spent productively anyway so zero opportunity cost).
> forced to use these days due to a lack of alternatives.

The alternatives were barebones HTML, CSS, and javascript.

They were forced, in 2013, by Google who used their monopoly search position to enforce 'responsive' design (i.e. frameworks) otherwise your page got delisted. This company is ripe for anti-trust.
>I also doubt Amazon employs many elderly or high-risk individuals as warehouse workers.

Amazon employs lots of elderly individuals in their warehouses, if over 40 counts as elderly. I've seen people at the warehouse where I work who look over 50.

>I also doubt Amazon employs many elderly or high-risk individuals as warehouse workers.

Amazon all but takes pride in refusing to make exceptions for anyone unless there is a doctor's form involved or the law requires them to.
That's a pretty inflammatory statement by the Governor. Everyone being alive doesn't do much good if we're all unemployed, bankrupt, and starving because supply lines broke down.

Just maybe, somewhere in the middle, Rhyme and Reason can come back home from the Mountain of Ignorance and devise a plan that keeps people safe without cratering the economy.

I'm not sure how big a role testing actually plays. Even South Korea is only testing a fraction of a percent of its populace. And many cases are asymptomatic but apparently can also still spread. So I think what we need to be doing, regardless of testing, is seriously teaching extreme personal hygiene.

As in, shuttered restaurants need to be undergoing emergency training right now on how they can re-open and provide a safe environment.
So when are his pronouncements, especially when self-serving fraud or reckless? $420 funding secured definitely seems to be. As does the Solar Roof rollout precisely in the middle of a merger that he had multiple entanglements. His auto-pilot predictions and statements have been extraordinarily reckless and have endangered many on the road.
Those are different mechanisms with different purposes. If that’s the bar to be considered a bailout, Tesla was bailed out as well.

Whether or not they met the conditions of the loan is a different story.

And while technically true that the mustang is the remaining US car, it obfuscates the fact that the name is being more of a brand moniker than a model, and will include plans for an electric version of the “mustang”

https://www.energy.gov/lpo/tesla

https://www.ford.com/suvs/mach-e/2021/
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How Long Will Coronavirus Live on Surfaces or in the Air Around You?
what do you mean by "over"? i don't see the ability to do quarantine style lockdown for >3 months myself, if that's what you meant.

there are a lot of 2nd (or >1th) order effects that i suspect will mean that people give up the ghost on flattening the curve. here are some i'm imagining myself; others probably know way more than me:

- the local restaurants are probably well on their way to having shut down. the commercial real estate they rented or owned has way lower prospects of getting picked up. so commercial landlords are hurting.

- ditto above for tourism towns, whose commercial real estate value blows up as those businesses default after 3 months of no traffic and the land sits idle. with these jobs gone, residential real estate also loses huge value. what happens to e.g. Las Vegas?

- anyone who's levered up on commercial real estate basically gets annihilated as all of that value is going to plummet.

- those who were employed and don't make enough via unemployment are going to have to split unemployment between car payments, rent, and food. landlords may be amenable to 3 month non-eviction. we will see their resolve once month 3 ends. and best of good luck getting your new job without a car in most of the US. now residential landlords are /also/ hurting.

- above makes consumerism much more difficult for a large fraction of the population; retail down. shops close; commercial real estate is still less attractive, and now residential is hurting because people (still) can't make rent.

- general market malaise means that previously in-trouble pensions (e.g. Illinois) are going to be even worse off. add up lost tax revenue + increased spending on services and you're looking at some serious trouble if those states don't get some attention from .gov.

so, really, absent some pretty intense government intervention, i just don't see this lasting much longer than 3 months. in fact, i don't even know if you'll see the layered effects start to really show up until you're a few months in.
Experience. A great deal of computing has trended towards locking out user control. Hopefully this is an exception, but I understand why people are pessimistic.
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Umbrellas work fairly well in steady rain, but they're not too useful on sunny days when you might happen to pass a lawn sprinkler once in a while.

Health care takes place in steady rain. The goal is to reduce exposure below the viral load required for infectivity.

If you walk around with an umbrella on a sunny day, you are bound to get careless.

By the time a member of the public has a rare high-risk interaction, a mask is not going to seal around your nose, or it will be open at the sides, or moisture from your breath will have compromised it, or it will be incompetent due to being long past the very short mandatory replacement time.
How I Teach Classes Remotely
Took bites from the best podcast episodes of the week and compiled into a single 30 min episode! This one is all about coronavirus - from its origin, to why CDC testing was delayed, potential impact on the economy when compared to 2008, and a fun little segment at the end about rude london babies :)

This is a fun experiment that my friends and I are running while quarantined - there are TOO many podcast episodes, and so we’re picking bites from the best ones. Now you can sample new episodes, learn something new, and if you like a specific one, go and listen to the whole episode!

Would love thoughts on the format, and if interested in future ones, sign up here - https://forms.gle/8gUEgTugUt4Gfw6L9
I doubt it will come to that. I'd be shocked if Tesla even wants to make cars. Who is buying $50,000 cars now?
There's a separate "tipped employee" minimum wage, which must be paid by the employer regardless of tip income. Last I'd checked, though, it was only about $2/hr.
The point is that it's designed to work with native code in a language that wasn't designed to use garbage collection. That's going to result in a semantic gap no matter what, and it invariably does.

Every system I've ever seen using Boehm GC has issues as a result, except in certain special circumstances where the limitations are mitigated by the nature of the system. That's not an indictment of the GC itself, it's simply a consequence of trying to shoehorn automatic GC into a language that doesn't support it.
I seriously doubt any critical medical part can be made for $1. If that part fails, there are likely serious consequences for the patient. Sure the plastic is cheap, but the manufacturer will likely do several expensive steps to reduce the failure rate:

Each part is traceable from all raw materials to finished product

Each part is manually tested/calibrated

Each part may be tested with non-destructive testing (x-ray, ultrasound, dye crack inspection etc)

For every lot of parts, several parts will be tested destructively

Each part comes with liability, so the manufacturer will likely purchase liability insurance

Also, the regulatory costs are paid years in advance of a single unit being sold. Once the device is approved (that is, if it's approved at all), the units are sold slowly over years. So the regulatory costs must be financed.
>How is this different from nightclubs having a high bar to entry?

The nightclub lets you know where you stand at the door. I took a read of tik-tok's about page, and it gives me the impression that they're here for everyone. Just a platform to share short videos. The author of one of the featured videos on that page looks like someone who may have been filtered out.

I don't think the analogy is completely off base, but we can judge tik-tok for being deceptive.
Why dodge the question?
How is the contrast? Videos I've seen of it I can barely see the writing.
It’s disingenuous for you to argue it was a bailout for Tesla when they have something to show for it (over a million EVs sold, 400k/year of manufacturing capacity, a Supercharger network) and Ford has zero, and Tesla paid their loan back while Ford did not.
Do you know why it is like this?

Hint, it's not the reason you have. Lots of people have tried to build something better without understanding the real problem or what it will take to solve it.
"Let's say the regulatory costs add up to $100,000,000 and the valve has a marginal cost of $1.00 to make and distribute."

That's two numbers relating to the cost of production. The second is the cost that a 3D printer doing one off prints actually costs (it's in the article, as a rough estimate.) The first number is a deliberately chosen "insane" example figure to show the absurdity of an $11,000 part. A medical test n license for a single part of a device does not cost anything like $100M.

Now as to the market for these things - the third number. Nearly 8,000 people have died so far. I can't be arsed to extrapolate further but I recall reading that these are single use devices.
I'm reminded of Siag (http://siag.nu/siag/, Scheme In A Grid).
I'm not sure what their current policy is, but they also had community standards [1] which they defined and enacted.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/heres-what-facebook-wont-let-you...
As I recall, this was investigated at one point on Sync Engine Classic and is definitely a thing that folks were thinking about for Nucleus, for pretty much exactly this reason.

The biggest challenges with this kind of work (not specific to the USN journal) are in the lack of reliable cross-platform support for features which can be shimmed to look similar. The more unique the code path, the harder it is to test en masse.

It's also the case that the execution environment on Windows machines tends to be very diverse due to a long history of backwards compatibility and the ability to set complex domain policies -- Dropbox strives for a good user experience, and "go talk to IT to have them change this setting" is rarely one of those.

disclaimer: worked on sync at Dropbox; don't work on it anymore; don't have current context
You must not use any business software because that's where JS is making a killing. People rain on JS because it's abused on content sites who don't need it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have massive utility for solving complex software problems requiring a high degree of interactivity which a static HTML form could never provide.
Sounds like you want an iPad...
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Government: cough into your elbow

Also Government: elbow bump instead of handshake

There seems to be a lot of contradicting stuff out there (and perhaps some "feel like you're doing something" stuff too). It'll take a lot of time before a consensus is actually reached.
> Chrome is so popular because it has been the best browser for years. Whether that's still true is open for debate. But I remember when it came out, finally an answer to the godawful shite that was IE. We may dislike it now, but it saved us from Microsoft's disaster.

That wasn't Chrome at all. It was Firefox. Where is this history re-write coming from.
Firefox lost market-share when they went to Australis and became followers of Chrome instead of leaders (helped in part no doubt by funding from Google).
Thing is, while WebRTC per-se is a nice standard for p2p, the actual limitations of technology (i.e. bandwidth) in the real world mean that sessions with 4 or more participants become unusable very quickly as the number of people increments.

So, 99% of "serious" use cases end up requiring a centralized relay, anyway.

Tsahi Levent-Levi covered this topic: https://bloggeek.me/how-many-users-webrtc-call/
Miniscule amount of pathogen in the vaccine can give you full immunity. I think when you have fever your immune system was already exposed to enough of the virus to build full immunity for the future. Now it's just the case of whether you survive to enjoy your future immunity. And anti-virals just help you with that part.
I can assure you that most gay people don't want to be gay either. There is nothing substantial that differentiates these attributes. It's just two features -- some have it, some don't and some have both. It is not "natural" for one of the features to be negative but not the other.
> But how can you objectively establish that somebody is unattractive?

It's difficult to prove individual cases of discrimination. Evidence can take the form of written commentary about a person's looks, or a documented policy about hiring practices. That is to say, you don't need to prove that somebody's unattractive; only that damage was done on the basis of that perception / judgement.
He still has a wave pool.
Dead link :(
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Those are not opposites. An engineered virus can escape via incompetence. A non-engineered virus can be intentionally released.

We can't prove that the virus was or was not engineered unless somebody finds a copyright message in the RNA. We do however know that the Wuhan lab had engineered similar viruses, slightly modifying bat coronaviruses so that they would be much more active against human cell lines.
Original article here:

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...
The very likely overpriced. The healthcare industry made over $100 billion in the US only in 2018. I've experienced it first hand, UCSF tried to force me into buying a ($174) kneebrace for over $2400...

And the fact that they are threatening to sue for something they couldn't sell is disgusting.
Thanks a ton!!
What is an appropriately sized war chest?

Say you're a business that has razor thing margins but huge turnover, like airlines for example.

Do you need to save for 14 rainy days, or 1400? When your war chest is exhausted do you then go looking for bailouts?

I suppose one answer is to allow government bureaucrats and industry interests to nut out some regulations, but that's different to what you're suggesting.
Even after we start to recover; how many companies are going to keep as much floor space as they had before? Remote work is here to stay.

This is going to turn into a global commercial real estate crash in 6 months, no doubt.
I’m not spreading misinformation. On the contrary, your link validates what I said.

Countering misinformation is good, but please don’t call it misinformation if you don’t understand what the text you link says.

Prices need to be able to increase beyond just any cost increases from the TP manufacturer. Without freedom to set prices as desired, we will continue to have shortages.
Java has had the six-monthly feature releases (which were called "limited update" releases, as opposed to major and patch releases) for many years, with names like 7u4 or 8u20. They also had a support period of 6 months. For example, the 8u20 feature release got two patches, names 8u25 and 8u31, and then 8u40 came out and 8u20 no longer got patches. But people are confused by the choice to give those releases a new integer name now that major releases are gone.

It is an extreme misunderstanding to think that Java does not have "backward compatibility guarantees of any kind." Backward compatibility is of the utmost importance (Java has never made breaking changes as big as Python or .NET have), but it is not absolute. It's never been absolute; it's just that while breaking changes were mostly accidental before (or to implementation details), Java now admits some changes to the spec. But note that those aren't the changes that people have noticed (the biggest ones were removing methods that no one used). The breaking changes that people notice are implementation changes that some libraries, due to technical debt, relied on. As more investment is being put into the JDK and it's changing more quickly, that technical debt is showing, but it's not because of breaking spec changes.
The meat-eating ducks of South Georgia
Depends which side you're on. If you're a Democrat, Dems are the 'adults in the room.' Reps are psychomaniacs tearing it all down.

If you are a Republican, Reps are the party of the real Americans, not the elitists trying to prevent you from succeeding. Democrats are a bunch of stuck up snobs that are too book smart to know how to effectively run a government.

Pick a side.
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> Insufficient knowledge

and whenever there's a knowledge gap, the "market" exploits it for arbitrage. But eventually (which may be a long time), this exploit would stop working as more people try to exploit it causing the profits from it to go down, or the lack of knowledge for which this exploits exist starts to disappear.

There's no rule to say that the market is super efficient at all times - just that it tends towards efficiency.
In the US yes, thanks god not every country has 3rd world healthcare.
The definition of “essential business” is extremely broad. It even includes cannabis stores. Tesla is a whole lot more important to our country and our economy than keeping the cannabis stores open.
Ah I didn't understand that a "no carbon grid" meant using electricity for transportation and was just thinking in terms of reduced demand for electricity regardless of whether the source was renewable or not.
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You don't get to, "not buy the argument," because R&D costs are constrained by layers of unimaginably complex legislation and compliance. The company had to jump through ridiculous hoops for every component of said machine. Until you pull out the book and say, "Nope, see here Section 93...they did not have to do X, it's needless," you don't really have a good counterpoint because this is the case for all medical equipment. You can't just out of the blue say, "Yeah but not this one!" The entire medical regulatory and compliance system is overly complex. You're making the $10000 toilet seat argument...yeah, well the toilet seat needed to be delivered to a highly regulated aircraft. Ironically those $10,000 toilet seats are now $300 because they are 3d printed.
”If, despite our help, you fail, we will sell your airplanes and recoup 100 cents on our dollars before any of your other lenders get a penny.”

Which airlines actually own their own planes as collateral? I thought they all were leased now.
i trust that you're aware the soap is more effective and efficient at destroying the virus than alchohol at the concentrations found in e.g. Purell ?
I don't own any of them, but it seems like from my Amazon search there are some with partial erase. Press a button, put pressure over the areas you want to erase..and it erases.
Thank you! Very nice, and appreciated.

Nit: some of the text displayed overlaps other text (I'm using Chrome) especially when displaying math, making it hard to read.
Ask HN: How is the CoronaVirus global shutdown impacting your business?
For our business (New Zealand), while our customers are still active and are all primary industry/government type customers, our supply chain from various Asian countries is a mess. A friend of mines IT contracting firm is having lots of upcoming projects cancelled.
json is fast, according to https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/blob/master/README.md... "I considered binary formats, but the actual improvement in performance would be completely in the noise. Using JSON considerably lowers friction for developing plug-ins, as it’s available out of the box for most modern languages, and there are plenty of the libraries available for the other ones."

It doesn't have to be a one size fits all solution, there are edge cases where json wouldn't be the right choice, but for many and most things i could think of that i use daily I'd be happy with json. If it's small binary data i guess it could be base64 encoded.

Querying network interfaces, directories, process information, systemd daemons or anything else, i see these things could do great if they just outputted json and my shell could treat it as an object. If a script is performance critical, maybe it's time to rewrite it in another language anyways?
It would sure be nice to know whether you’ve had it though.

If I thought I’d already recovered from a mild COVID-19 - assuming I’d then have immunity for a decent chunk of time - I might think I could now move from the sidelines and into the fight and help others.

But if I was wrong and I never did actually have it, then I’d be making things worse.

Widespread testing could obv illuminate much.
You missed the point. I don’t consider either a bailout. They were investments to spur a particular industrial goal. If Ford doesn’t meet the intent, I just hope the government was smart enough in the way they formed the contract
Absolutely. Why would it be any different?