skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_majeure

I think "Necessity" is more applicable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_(criminal_law)

In italian: "Stato di necessità" https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stato_di_necessit%C3%A0

Rough translation: Cannot punish someone for something if he did it to save himself or others from a grave damage, due to a danger he did not cause voluntarily, and not avoidable in other ways, if the thing done is proportional to the danger

(IANAL)
if (wages+tips) < minimum_wage then
wages = minimum_wages
end
How is this any different than having an algorithm do it for you? If human moderators use these rules, it probably means the content it lets through is correlated with high engagement. What’s the material difference to an algorithm that just favors high engagement as well?
> So next time, we might not be so lucky. You can have a virus where people feel well enough while they're infectious that they get on a plane or they go to a market. The source of the virus could be a natural epidemic like Ebola, or it could be bioterrorism.

> There's no need to panic. We don't have to hoard cans of spaghetti or go down into the basement. But we need to get going, because time is not on our side.

Spot on. That's the novel coronavirus. We are not ready and that's why everyone is panicking.
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Hmmm.. OK, I wonder if that is a change in the law from some years ago?
Are you in contact with people from the plant or do you use separate toilets, cafes, and supermarkets?

Shelter in place is about preventing person-to-person spread of the disease through direct contact or via intermediary such as a bench, chair or physical currency.

COVID-19 is not going to spread from the plant to your house without some kind of transmission mechanism.
look at the last 4 or 5 days, the midpoint is about flat.
Most file systems aren’t trees, most are some more flexible graph. You can get away thinking of them like trees as long as you’re not writing a correct program. (see also: links, bind mounts)

Trees have a formal definition that precludes this, that’s why we call them trees and not graphs.
I'll take any opportunity to mention John Browne's "The Bug Count Also Rises"[1], which contains the line "The RAID is huge with bugs", referring to Microsoft's bug tracker. It was previously submitted to HN[2].

[1]: http://www.workpump.com/bugcount/bugcount.html
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2740452
Toilet paper makers already make large amounts of it - the limiting factor is how often supermarkets can restock shelves.
Connecting Biological and Artificial Neurons
The golf pro shop near me uses a laser printer and colorful paper. The actual liability is recorded in a ledger. You could do this with email and a spreadsheet.
How is this different from Hollywood filtering actors and actresses for good looks?
Would we be upset if they told the moderators "try to promote things that will be shared/upvoted a lot", and tied their earnings to how good they did at picking winners? Even if the effect was precisely the same?

Basically, what seems to have happened is someone worded it crassly, but they were just telling them to think like marketing people, and use common sense. Also, the word "suppression" implies censorship and heavy handedness, while "promote" seems harmless. But they can really be describing the same process.
So do you think the current administration statistics are actually true or do you think it's like the USA has very few Covid-19 cases right now because there are no tests/statistics?

What if the current number is actually ten times higher, how would you know?

He's reached into so many agencies and tampered with them. Why would ICE be any different?
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/022416/why-b...

Banks (like everybody) use double entry accounting. When they make a loan, there are two entries. One is a credit to your account for the amount of the loan, the other is a debit representing the debt you now owe to the bank. You borrowed $5000, so you owe the bank $5000 (the loan) and they owe you $5000 (it's in your checking account), which cancel out. Notice that the amount of cash in their vault hasn't changed at all.

Banks have reserve ratios. They're required to keep a certain amount of their deposits on hand in case somebody actually wants to withdraw them. (Those just got set to zero, but they're normally something like 10%.) But as long as they've satisfied their reserve requirements, they create money from nothing when they make a loan.

When you pay back the loan, the debt of the loan and the credit in your deposit account cancel each other out again, they both disappear and the money that was created is destroyed along with your debt.
How long and how severe will the next recession be?

Will it also be accompanied by a sudden and unexpected shock like a global pandemic?

I agree with your point about executives being paid too much while the company and staff suffer, but that's a separate issue.
They said they would print them for free for any hospital that needed them, I assume they would also send the drawings if asked by a hospital
Ask HN: Moratorium on pandemic posts?
I can't be the only one who's hiding all the stories about the pandemic, right?

I think at this point we all understand that it's a terrible situation, we should all wash our hands, and working from home has its pros and cons.

There's about five new "here's something i threw together in JS that grabs some covid data from some gov't data feed" links every day, and there are multiple threads daily on the topic of "how can we, as hackers, help?" (or a variation thereof).

And that's not to speak of the tedious click-baity junk of non-primary news sites just parroting whatever news just came out of $govagency$

Yay/Nay?
This is a dangerous understatement. Please think twice before spreading false information, especially in the current circumstances where misinformation kills for real. Be safe, ciao from Italy
And if you have disks in RAID a bug in it kills your data instead. ;-)
Fun fact: Apple's internal bug tracking tool, Radar, traces its origins to a pen-and-paper tracking system from the very early days.

In a similar fashion to RAID from the article, it's use expanded way beyond the original use case and is now used by nearly every team at Apple, from hardware, to test, to marketing, retail, and everything in between.

It's often the butt of a lot of jokes as most people hate its dated and confusing UI :).

edit: Though to be fair, the team maintaining it has made massive strides recently to completely revamp the UX which is no small feat given such a wide range of business critical use cases.
I could manufacture a mask right now using my dirty underpants. It might not be N95 rated and suitable for use by health workers in an infection ward, but it would certainly reduce my exposure when I need to go shopping.

Over here, existing manufactures are tripling production (3 shifts instead of 1). I've heard very high numbers, but useless since the delivery time frames were not mentioned.
I speak Italian, can confirm
You are setting a false dichotomy. Most people that care about privacy are angry at _both_ ISP stalkers _and_ BigTech stalkers.

That being said, BigTech has developed significant stronger capabilities for aggregating and exploiting the data at scale, and using it for manipulating mass behavior. It's their business model: serve ads and curate content for maximum $$$ and engagement. For better or worse, ISPs just pass bits around on behalf of their customers, without deciding which bits to show and which to hide. Given the death of net neutrality things may change, but for now ISPs have a lot of ground to cover to become as noxious as BigTech.
This book is about writing software at scale. E.g. in an org with thousands of people, who might be using your APIs or systems across multiple revisions for years to decades.

I feel like it's more geared for people that have worked in software for at least a decade and need to break bottlenecks in their org. Either as guidance, or as a sales pitch to show executive management "See Google does it."
To the dead comment below, it's already happened.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/10/unhinged-woman-slugs-asian-lad...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/05/uk/coronavirus-racist-attack-...
AFAIU not since 2010 at the most recent:

(July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 811; Pub. L. 98–417, title II, § 202, Sept. 24, 1984, 98 Stat. 1603; Pub. L. 98–622, title I, § 101(a), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3383; Pub. L. 100–418, title IX, § 9003, Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1563; Pub. L. 100–670, title II, § 201(i), Nov. 16, 1988, 102 Stat. 3988; Pub. L. 100–703, title II, § 201, Nov. 19, 1988, 102 Stat. 4676; Pub. L. 102–560, § 2(a)(1), Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 4230; Pub. L. 103–465, title V, § 533(a), Dec. 8, 1994, 108 Stat. 4988; Pub. L. 108–173, title XI, § 1101(d), Dec. 8, 2003, 117 Stat. 2457; Pub. L. 111–148, title VII, § 7002(c)(1), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 815.)
It's the TSLA version of a Trump fanboy - anything that is not 100% supportive is trashed as 100% in opposition to whatever you hold dear. Room for nuance is quickly trolled away because it might leave room for people to think, "hey, that's not right...".
The restaurant counter was one of the first civil rights issues. Not that different from a nightclub. What's the real difference here? That effectively segregating ugly people is more acceptable than segregating by skin color?

The ignorance here is among those who don't understand that people are suffering from this discrimation, and the offense is coming from people who justify and defend it.

Nightclubs and TikTok aren't the most important examples of this, but for people who faced discrimination their entire lives, any victory would make life a little easier.
When we are whole brain emulations in the cloud, we can experiment with upgrades to our hippocampus to work with alternate geometries. There's no particular reason to assume that our current one is optimal for thinking. Maybe different geometries are better for different tasks. We could match the dimensionality of the workspace to the problem space. Want to visualize 7 dimensional data? Project it in 7 dimensional space with your brain adjusted to make it feel natural.
Beveridge curve
The Ethical Way to Ration Coronavirus Hospital Care
I think you mean cold. Flu is caused by various influenza viruses. Covid-19 is a coronavirus. Coronaviruses belong to a family of viruses that along with other families cause the common cold.
I wanted to put the R5 230 in my "home server" to use for it

Apparently the card is basically an 11 year old design die-shrunk though, it's simply too old to have OpenCL support in its drivers and the open source "Mesa" drivers don't yet have it
> with the obvious implication that you're calling the person stupid because they're American and hold some view you view as stereotypically American

Actually I'm accusing them of having their brains poisoned by American free market dogma.
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As far as I can tell, most teams think Radar is the best bug tracking tool ever. Externally, it's extremely frustrating to interact with, even more so through Feedback Assistant.
I'm surprised that people are surprised. The rules don't apply to wealthy people and organizations:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/coronav...
Anticipate an amendment to the health order to clarify one way or another.
The Linux userland is there. A terminal would expose it.

Utility afforded is immense. Termux on Android, crippled as it is, is the one thing on the platform that does not completely and abjectly suck.
Gave it some thought, and the best case I can think of is that this'll burn itself out if everyone can keep the proper distance for long enough. Basically, the track, test, and isolate route that South Korea did.
he's probably jewish and writes it for the shock factor
$1.2T Isn't Enough to Fix Coronavirus Economic Damage
Amazon roughly fits this profile, with their habit of investing money in expanding markets instead of keeping profits.

SpaceX is the only company which returns first stage after flight, in workable condition. In today's launch industry it's like a license to print money. It's really hard not to consider them profitable, even if they are private and don't show financial results.
It's the scale, purpose and effectiveness that is worrying rather than the similarity. Actually, I wouldn't call them very similar beyond their intent - to keep people coming and making money but everything else is wildly different and doesn't make sense to compare.

Many night clubs want users to have "fun" so they pay for a membership. TikTok wants users to stay so they can collect enough data to give it to advertisers or government to target them better.

A single night club won't have more than 100 people at any given time. But tiktok boasts 1.5 billion+ users and millions of them are active at any given time.

Few people going to night clubs won't decide the future of your country but millions on tiktok or other US centric social media might - facebook? instagram?

This too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22611404

Other comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22612589
"To help manage the shortage, the authorities sent a message that made them untrustworthy."

Indeed. Oh these scientists/doctors/authorities are willing lie. What else are they lying about?

People who say masks work are similar to antivaxx, who don't trust authorities. Now I understand how antivaxx people feel like.
CDC has updated its guidance for healthcare workers to allow for surgical masks in absence of respirators protect the wearer from splashes and sprays (as referenced in the article): https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/infection-control/...
It's actually "Add a Restaurant" in the top right.
I think that's unfair.

He's providing valuable knowledge, and sharing his extensive experience, during a time when it's beginning to be really rather quite important. Affiliate links are a perfectly acceptable norm and, frankly, don't disadvantage you in the slightest (in fact they give you an advantage in some cases: discounts, free months of services, and more.)
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I'm not really surprised how this is considered a huge deal once again, but, in fact, this is what the users generally want. TikTok is a quite specific platform, it's not there to share opinions and whatnot. It's to film and binge-watch hundreds of short stupid gimmicky music videos depicting what the general audience of the platform finds appealing (which turns out to be uncannily specific thing: I'm afraid by now it must be millions of hours of the same music, moves and facial expressions by 14-year old girls with awfully similar clothes and hairstyle).

Videos TikTok moderators are suppressing here get to be watched and liked too, but not in some unassuming liberal manner SJWs are hoping to promote: you can find hundreds of so called "TikTok cringe compilations" on youtube. It's not what TikTok's "normal" audience wants to see in their feeds. So TikTok is doing them a service supressing this stuff. And it absolutely doesn't matter if they do it "algorithmically" or with manual labor. Essentially this is the same process, they differ only by cost and efficacy.
That’s now clear to me that recommending people to buy the Librem 5, a 700$ phone that cannot pass a call after 3 years of development, isn’t a good idea. Do you think it’ll eventually be fixed?
lol if a massive number of people die due to HN misinformation it was probably good that they went
> And big companies take advantage of their position as the only ones who can navigate such a system to justify their sky high prices, and then they lobby to maintain that position.

This is something most people don't comprehend. People tend to think that it's the government putting in place these regulations and the companies are against them, but more often than not the regulations exist at the behest of the incumbents to constrain competition.
But those are easily recognised as Google properties, allowing you to easily scroll past if you want to avoid them.

That's vastly different from selling "organic" rankings, or boosting your own products.

As an analogy: Google's approach is like The New York Times printing full-page ads for "NYT Caribbean Cruises" or whatever their side businesses are, while what Verizon is doing is as if The Washington Post ran "12 Great Products Now on Amazon" articles indistinguishable from their articles.

To give an idea of how strict the latter would break with tradition: I once designed a full-page ad in the New York Times for a non-profit event. They made us change the design because ads are not allowed to use a 4(?)-column layout. Their own design is also 4-column and they want ads to stand out. The same applies to fonts, colours, etc.
> How is this different from nightclubs having a high bar to entry?

Nightclubs tell you if they think you're not up to their standard. This is far more manipulative and cruel. You could even call it gas-lighting to simply encourage these people to post content!
As the story goes, Musk, interested in space, approaches the Russians and asks to buy an ICBM. The Russians laughed him out of the room. A year later, SpaceX was founded. 17 years later, here we are!

https://www.inverse.com/article/34976-spacex-ceo-elon-musk-t...
https://www.fastcompany.com/3006829/spacex-founder-elon-musk...
One possible reason: Cardboard absorbs moist, which is neccesary for the virus to stay active. Non-porous surfaces don't.

In addition, it was a lab experiment and from what I read, neither is it known how big the droplets were they tested with nor does anybody know how many virus particles are present in real droplets and how many might be transfered by smiring. Drying of droplets might happen faster or slower in practice, based on the environmental conditions.

And before quarantining your next package for days, just remember: Washing your hands will get rid of the virus, it doesn't travel through the skin - you would have to rub it in eyes, nose or mouth.
It's a weird, nice feeling watching your software in use well beyond it's planned - or more frequently, assumed - obsolescence.
> But they have an app for desktop/phone so you can download and backup.

Can I just... connect a USB cable and transfer files? Why do I want an app at all?

The apparent requirement to transfer files through an app was the reason I didn't get a remarkable 1.
> For better or worse, ISPs just pass bits around on behalf of their customers, without deciding which bits to show and which to hide

Comcast does DPI and will inject "warnings" into your port 80 traffic if they see you downloading bits they disapprove of. They've also been caught blocking sites multiple times; it is always a "mistake", but somehow also always something like this:

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/03/07/comcast-xfinity-...

You're also forgetting Verizon's magic headers, various carriers' zero rating, mining DNS requests, AT&T's Room 641A, and about 50 years of other charming behavior.
I am by no means an antivaxxer, but I have to admit that the obvious doublespeak about masks made me slightly skeptical about the rest of the messaging coming from authorities on Covid-19.

Lying in an era of unlimited information is a dangerous thing.
I think maybe you're getting the wrong impression about the tone I intend (my fault, I am not putting a lot of effort into tone or careful writing). I realize that what I wrote can be read very passive aggressively. I meant it more
just as acknowledging that I made a dumb mistake and chiding myself for it. In person, that would have been clearer.

This week has been busy and stressful and I wrote both comments quickly and off the cuff. It's not that I can't tell that acknowledged is a passive participle, it's just that I didn't even look at it because I was pattern matching against common mistakes I've seen people make. It was only afterwards that I noticed that the parent comment specifically pointed to the word "acknowledged."

> I find this attitude troubling in combination with the argument made all over this thread that you can tell the people who say not to use passives are full of it because they can't even identify a passive when they're looking at one. (And you're at least flirting with that argument in your comment above.)

This is not what I'm saying, and it's not the argument I would make if I were actually making an argument. I said very few words, and not very carefully chosen ones, and you're putting words into my mouth. I made no case for or against passive voice. I just thought I saw a mistake briefly and I was trying to point it out.
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Is there a way to search just for things that are actually downloadable? My first 20 choices are not and it's getting a bit boring.
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I hang around both camps and they are exactly the same in that regard. One dismisses all negative commentary and the other dismisses all positive.

The truth is more complicated than either group seems to want to believe.

I did read some of the comments in response to that tweet and they were horrible.
You're not "changing" your own OODA loop. I think you are misunderstanding OODA. Your understanding of it is precisely what that article was saying is ... oversimplistic at best. One of the ways to beat someone with a faster OODA loop is to change conditions in a way where small divergances with what is observed and what is actual will start to stack on top of each other. Once the opponent starts panicking and flailing, you can lead him around pretty easily.

Col. Boyd wasn't just talking about fighter pilots. Much of what he was talking about have a lot of relevance to fighting in general. I find a lot of skilled martial artists breaking someone's tempo. Musashi and Sun Tzu have talked about it in each in their own way.

Put it this way. I have a friend who regularly beats people on first person shooters. He does not have fast reflexes. He just knows how people think and react and can manipulate them.

But I don't really care. It isn't as if I were going to go out fighting someone seriously anytime soon. And if I were, I wouldn't want to teach my adversary how to use OODA properly.
Google's counterpart is called Buganizer. I've seen bugs in it dating back a decade or more. I don't know what, if anything, was in place before Buganizer. They might be exposing some version of it externally as well now: https://issuetracker.google.com/, although the UI bears little resemblance with the internal version I used years ago, so it's probably a separate product.

What Raymond's article does not mention (or at least I don't think he does, I have only skimmed the article) is that at MS each team had _its own_ bug database. As a result, even filing a bug in another product was an ordeal, let alone fixing bugs across products. What this friction means in practice is nobody would bother unless they really couldn't live without a fix. I think you can easily see the results of that in Microsoft products today.

At Google, _everyone_ uses the same bug DB. If a BigTable bug affects something in Ads, you can create a bug for BigTable and reference it in a bug under Ads, which is, IMO, the way it should be. Moreover, you don't need to get bug database permissions for BigTable, because you already have them.
The Single Most Important Lesson from the 1918 Influenza
It could plausibly spread between workers at the plant, whether while working, while commuting, while on break, while passing through doors, or via touch surfaces such as doorknobs.
Thank you for speaking the truth
Are we sure that the economic damage of the shutdown of the world economy out weighs the heath risks of the virus. Are we in group think here? A major recession/depression means a lot of people go hungry, lose access to medical care etc. Does anyone know of studies or research that looks at the health impacts of a shutdown vs. the health risk of the virus ? Just asking questions.