skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I'm this person.) It so happens that the solar inverter I'm using right now doesn't provide a data connection that I could use to shut down the computers cleanly.

But I should also clarify that my long-running fsck isn't always the result of an unclean shutdown. There's something about my combination of iSCSI+crypttab+NFS that causes fsck to be run too often—even if I shut down the machine cleanly while the NAS is running, it usually decides to fsck when it comes back up.

Something to investigate next winter, perhaps.
What's the writing resolution like? My problem has always been that I write really small, so most tablets feel pudgy.

I've long thought about getting one of these, but don't want to shell out $500 if I can't comfortably write on it.
The point about executive compensation is probably the most poignant.

If you pay an exec team with fixed price stock options, they can run the company into the ground with debt to issue stock buybacks and do absolutely nothing to improve the business and increase the value of their stock.

Stock buybacks do have a place though. When you issue stocks, you're doing so to raise money for the company. You can think of issued stocks as a kind of debt you've issued that continuously pay interest over time, except the interest isn't cash or dividends, it's equity in your company as it grows.

If you know your company is in a good place and the stock is undervalued, you could convert that debt so instead of having to pay equity as interest, you pay a dollar amount to a bank. But that tool could also be used to artificially inflate the value of fixed price stock options that may be issued to execs.
How does that quote contradict the parent? If you were a doctor, and you wanted to communicate the concept of triage without baldly stating that people are being left to die, how would you phrase it?
> There’s no pull yourself up by your bootstraps talk right now and there shouldn’t be.

Joint statement by conservatives Stephen Moore, Art Laffer, Steve Forbes: "Don’t expand welfare and other income redistribution benefits like paid leave and unemployment benefits that will inhibit growth and discourage work" [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1239938361231585286
If only optimism could kill viruses.
That's up to you, but the drawing experience feels wayyyy better on the remarkable than on the smooth glass of the iPad, from my own experience. It's also far lighter and really does feel paper-y.
It's a very good idea for time-series data which has a "freshness" aspect. If you started with the beginning of the dataset, February 18, you'd be adding significant weight to values which are comparative to, but no longer representative of, the current state of things on March 16.

Not to mention, if it was first-to-last displayed left to right, you may miss the scroll bar and not understand the value of the data being displayed.
Prove prior art that isn't disclosed in the patent application, and the patent is deader than Theranos.
Loans don't solve this. It isn't like once this is over restaurant patronage will jump up to 200% of normal. This is business these companies will never get back. Giving them a loan that they can't repay is just delaying the problem.
I like that it shows the latest data without having to scroll.
Yikes, this is kind of scary. This could magnify the losses dramatically as lenders start to implode due to the cascade of defaults. If anything, they should increase the reserve requirements to prevent instability and encourage a flight from risky assets. Yes, this will make the stocks go down now, but it would probably result in fewer people getting laid off and going broke in the future.

I'd rather see highly leveraged companies go under quickly, rather than postponing it. A small bang now is less bad than a massive explosion later.
Yes, absolutely. The lack of testing capacity was a total failure of the government.

After the acute phase of the crisis, we should investigate what happened in great detail.

But the advice about who should get a test is based on the testing capacity we have now. If we hadn't failed at testing capacity, we would be recommending more users get tested.

So, if the critique is: "we failed to produce adequate testing capacity", then I absolutely agree. If the critique is instead: "The recommendation of who gets a test is bad", then I disagree. The recommendation is correct given the test capacity failing.

The solution is not to recommend everyone gets tests, because they can't! Those tests are being rationed. The solution is to rapidly improve out testing capacity.
Replaced with what? Attempt to replace the economy generally just end with a different few controlling things (the new dictator, the party leaders, the rich, etc.). Saying "tear it all down and replace it with magic pixie dust" just ends in mass death.
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It could be true (and frankly I certainly can believe it!) but an article from someone who didn't buy a company could also be a post hoc justification for why they didn't get the deal.

Like VCs who try to invest in a company but lose the deal (or never get to see it at all): "Oh FooBbarApp? Yeah, we passed"
They're down from an all-time high of 200, so they're considered pretty much toast.
They can make clear, well publicized examples of people hoarding goods for resale. They make well publicized examples of people getting arrested in stores who are loading their carts up with every hand sanitizer bottle on the shelf.

It doesn’t take more than a few very visible examples to clamp down on that kind of behavior.
"the fact that many journalists are consistently choosing to publish blatant lies, propaganda and click-bait garbage"

They aren't, of course. You're apparently just incredibly gullible to people's last-ditch-defense of claiming it's all fake news. The Trump administration, and its many absolutely cretinous hanger-ons, are quite the abusers of this. "Fake news!" Only in every case it ends up being completely accurate.
Ah, how the scientific sausage is made, eh? You'd have to ask a real scientist, sorry. :-)
Thanks for keeping things civil, dang.
I would say that the airline industry regrets spending 96% of their free cash over the ~last decade buybacks, but it looks like they are probably going to get bailed out...
Coronavirus Updates (Live) – Spain Outbreak
Based on the CDC's numbers for the US[1], less than 2% of seasonal flu cases require hospitalization at all. This disease is at about 20% (based on detected infections). Even if 75% of infections are really undetected and asymptomatic, we're still looking at about 3 times the number of hospitalizations as seasonal flu.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...
I have a remarkable and use it for reading academic paper PDFs all the time. The software has gotten far better over time.
This article on hacker news a couple of days ago could explain a lot of this. There is a possibility that a very large number of the asymptomatic positive tests are in fact false-positives. This could be good news for the world, but I'm not betting on that yet. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32133832.
At this point, what good is "seated diners" data when every restaurant is takeout and delivery only?
Definitely agree, but at a certain point, WHO is going to be seen as crying wolf. They've already taken a large credibility hit in this crisis. They can't afford to ignore their perception in the age of populism and social media.
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This is not an ethical question, again, this is, at most, a legal question.
Sounds like the government is correctly rationing tests.

My sense is that the vast majority of the healthy population shouldn't get tested even if they might have the virus because the infrastructure doesn't support widespread testing (anywhere -- as far as I know). They should act as if they have the virus and stay home, rest, drink a lot of water, and take NSAIDs if the pain gets out of hand.

I've been sick since last week (much improved yesterday and today) and it could definitely be covid-19. But there's no point in trying to get tested. If I felt the symptoms were serious (significant difficulty breathing) then I'd go to an ER or call 911.

Also, 37.5 is a fairly low fever.
Note that they are also banning from working in Hong Kong and Macau.
> What they're saying is so far they've had to turn away noone; that everyone who needs treatment is getting it.

> all patients with a reasonable chance of recovering and living an acceptable quality of life had been treated.

These two quotes from you are mutually contradictory.
Even delivered groceries are significantly cheaper than eating out. That difference is mostly the income of restaurant workers.
Developper here :

We decided to give away for free our first VR game launched a year ago. It allows cross multiplayer with both VR and non-VR players, was aimed at motion-sickness free VR gamers and weighs less than a GB.

Hope we can lighten an evening or two in those depressing times :)
Thalpius
> but in order to manage memory the way the borrow checker wants, the programmer is at best tempted, and at worst forced, to add complexity to the program.

This is a problem for newcomers because they have to adapt their way of thinking into Rust way of thinking. Once one develops a set of patterns and principles this is not an issue.

Companies who have large codebases in Rust tend to have praise for it enabling solutions that are much easier to reason with and work on then if they were developed in C++.

It is obvious the author has little to no experience in developing production software in Rust.
SIR model for Covid-19 outbreaks across the world
> If the numbers get close to flu numbers people will want to know why we don't shut the economy down every year for the flu.

My initial guess would be the existence of a flu vaccine.
High corporate debt isn't caused by buybacks, it's caused by low interest rates. Low interest rates cause buybacks because it becomes more attractive to raise capital through borrowing than selling shares.

It's the same reason both consumer and government debt are also high. But anybody who thinks now is the time for higher interest rates is a bit confused.

If anything now is the time to print a bunch of new money to counteract the existing deflationary forces caused by the coronavirus, which in the long term is what allows interest rates to rise, since once the deflationary forces wane the printed money would start to cause inflation which could be counteracted by at that point raising interest rates.
If you don't want to be banned on HN, please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22606977 and post no more flamewar comments.
I don't work at Amazon, but I'm incredibly grateful for its existence right now and the work it is doing. I can't help but think that almost everyone in the American populace feels likewise, except some politically motivated grousing from certain groups.
> We lived with Measles for decades and it is much more virulent and about equally as deadly as SARS-CoV-2.

We lived with measles for more than just decades, but it wasn't a sudden outbreak that was overwhelming medical facilities.

The key here is hospital beds. We need to flatten the infective curve right now so that the medical system isn't overwhelmed. Then we can go back to "just being cautious."

https://medium.com/@yishan/its-the-rate-of-hospitalizations-...

> In the 1980s there were still about 2 million people a year dying from Measles.

Again, irrelevant. It wasn't overwhelming the medical system because the infections were spread out. Also we had a vaccine by then.
People don't jerk off to magazines anymore.
Just have a cron job restart the service daily to fix all the memory leaks /s
The cloud sync/storage is pretty rudimentary, no versions or anything like that. But they have an app for desktop/phone so you can download and backup. There are unofficial client libraries for the cloud API as well, so it can be automated.
Yes from the research/understanding perspective but a lot of the testing is also to provide healthcare to those most in need. You test the most severe to make sure you can treat them effectively.
Perhaps he was one of the few people, who really had insight into how far the depravity of government and censorship really goes. So perhaps he knew or could have known.
Ask HN: Economical solution for static IP address?
The rural ISP I use originally set my fiber connection up to include a static IP address and ostensibly "business service". Yet, in the last couple of years they have redone their infrastructure and after some working with them, the IP is more stable than previously, it's still no longer static. Renting/purchasing an IP from my current ISP isn't an option as they have a limited number.

What are the options for having a static IP that isn't tied to the ISP? I have a machine I am hosting here and don't want to change that. My bandwidth is sufficient, it's just the IP that I need to figure out.

My current setup is an Asus router with port forwarding rules to a Linux server. Realistically, it will need to be some sort of tunnel or VPN to the linux machine itself.

I've seen VPN providers that can add a static IP for a price. I've got a couple of machines I am hosting on assorted providers that have IPs I could setup a persistent SSH tunnel/etc to, but that would incur bandwidth costs.

Are there any recommended options?
I see that the Developer plan allows for 100 enterprise users, and the Corporate plan for 500. The Free plan allows for unlimited SSO users. What's the difference between an SSO user and an enterprise user?
I'm not sure I follow your argument. Don't most savers put their money in banks who then have to redeploy it to make a profit? In fact, isn't it more useful to have banks utilize this capital instead of a crowds of ordinary people moving small sums? Banks aggregating wealth to be redeployed seems more efficient.
Perhaps you can explain why reducing all reserve requirements to 0% isn't a "wholesale elimination of reserve requirements".
Typical leftist censorship - Say something what the Moz-Nazis do not agree with and you get downvoted.

Disgusting fucking leftist racists!
But empathy can be an indicator of intelligence. If your definition of intelligence is based on ability to answer very limited questions on an IQ test, your definition is flawed. True intelligence comes from being able to reason about incredibly complex systems. This is the type of reasoning that leads you to believe that socialism is not antithetical to capitalism.
I am no economist. What is being solved here? Allowing loans? Who will take out loans in the economy as it is?

I'd think a reserve at the banks is a good protection of solvency, and should be increased instead of decreased. Is my layman interpretation completely wrong? It feels like they ran out of bullets and have thrown the gun.
I think you’re disingenuously interpreting what I have said. The federal government is the ultimate authority in the US. That is established in the Supremacy Clause: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause. This fact directly contradicts the premise the original commentator made - specifically, that the states are “sovereign”, as the Supremacy Clause clearly contradicts.
You can use slick wifi with Gutenberg books!

There is a “send to kindle” function which allows you to either use a desktop application, or set up an email address you can send .mobi files to!

Highly recommended if you get tired of plugging in - thats why I swapped from my old Kobo to a Kindle.
for mac it's FSEveents: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreservices/file_....

> As soon as I paid for the Plus Plan, I started having to wait several minutes for a file to upload. Even from one computer to the other with LAN Sync enabled. The day before that, my files would sync faster than I could hit refresh in the browser I was developing in.

that definitely seems like a bug, could you report it? click on the dropbox tray, click on the dropdown in the top right, and then click "Report Bug." this will collect some information about your client to help us debug.
> This is, I think, good for humanity.

I agree, I will and am gladly working overtime for which I will not get compensation in the hope of preventing layoffs at the company I work for. We all have to do our part to keep what economic activity we can going in the face of this crisis.
Show HN: WorkOS – APIs for enterprise features like SSO/SAML
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Hi HN! I’m the founder of WorkOS (https://workos.com)
We provide a developer API for making your app enterprise-ready. You can quickly add features including SSO/SAML, Director Sync (SCIM), Audit Logs, and more.

WorkOS is “Plaid for enterprise IT systems.”

I learned about these enterprise requirements the hard way. Previously, I founded Nylas where we built an email app called Nylas Mail. We couldn’t monetize that app and shut it down (RIP) and the main reason was that we couldn’t sell it to enterprise because it was missing features.

Here’s a short Twitter thread with more info about WorkOS: https://twitter.com/grinich/status/1239943470271188992

Best place to start is with the docs: http://docs.workos.com/

Would love to get your feedback, questions, and ideas. Thanks! :)
What's your suggestion for improvement?
> reasonable chance of recovery has been treated

This is the caveat of what you said. The West, and especially Americans, doesn't take kindly to the realities of triaging. See the arguments on "death panels" regarding the Affordable Care Act.
One thing that's rarely mentioned about this device, but is the reason I sprung for it, is that the developers left an SSH interface into the device over USB, so you can program custom apps!

People have made some neat stuff, and there's a Rust library for making apps: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
> Or it has to be printed, which is inflation.

No. In this case, monetizing the direct subsidy would be creating less deflation, not inflation. And deflation is something we all want very badly to avoid because of all the concomitant pathologies for monetary velocity and contractionary effect.
Isn't it the case that most countries in the world don't have enough tests, it seems only South Korea does. I live in Switzerland and they are also restricting tests to higher risk groups, and people with worse conditions (which is a bit grim, how dead do I need to be before I can get a test?)

Either it's due to Olympics, or just logistics. Will the Olympics even happen if Japan is declared "OK" but many guest nations still have sick people?
So they can issue back those shares on the market
Coronavirus could finally turn universal basic income into political reality
inflation is used to keep the "time value of money" working so that capital is incentivized to be reinvested, lest it lose all its value over time. this impetus leads capital to relentlessly seek returns, which over time compresses returns to labor in favor of capital.

so suppressing labor is certainly a consequence of our positive inflation policy. the intention can be debated, but note that various govermental units tolerated prejudiced efforts like mccarthyism and redlining too.
I'm very glad it's working well for you, but the software as of January 2020 was unable to properly read PDFs from a particular journal... it may have been Science.
I strongly agree. I can't stop thinking about the potential to completely revamp our society.

The business opportunities and needs are there. Whether it's automating the service worker industries, fully shifting to work from home, new ways of virtual communication, etc. Much of the infrastructure (primarily internet) is there to support it.

This would require an elimination of low paid jobs, which are the typical jobs preventing social distancing. Assuming we can follow a "nobody left behind" mentality (UBI?), imagine the progress we'd make if we raised the bar of entry-level jobs. Investments in creative and new education programs would follow.

Of course, I'm overly optimistic about this, but the potential is there because the whole country (USA) is on the same page right now. Congress is drafting up a stimulus package, which is essentially UBI. It's a very interesting experiment and I really hope we make the most of it and evolve our society and culture.
I think it would look better if they used OCaml's let-operators. Of course Lwt already has a monadic syntax sugar PPX so they could have used that anyway if they wanted to.
Folding home servers overwhelmed by Corona interest
Web Assembly changes nothing to the issues described in the post. Web Assembly still relies on WebAPI in the browser.
I doubt Amazon warehouses represent a significant transmission vector and what little threat there may be is largely outweighed by the good these warehouses are doing to help with the situation.

I also doubt Amazon employs many elderly or high-risk individuals as warehouse workers. I also doubt they would refuse to make exceptions for those workers.

Right about now, I'd just be happy for the job security because the coming recession is going to be rough.
I wonder if they're under-reporting their COVID-19 numbers to win propaganda points.

Naaaaah... impossible.
Thanks for pointing out a rebuttal.

Taking a step back from "good or bad?"... One thing I haven't seen outside the academic literature is a discussion of the leverage ratchet effect [1]. Buybacks are just one lever that actuates the ratchet. A question worth asking: "why has corporate leverage increased so much over the past 30 years?" I don't claim to have an answer, but asking that question could shed some light on whether buybacks are "good or bad".

[1] https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers...
Fair enough point
I think most people reading this who want to protect themselves at home should instead focus on getting an oxygen concentrator and not a ventilator. These devices enrich the oxygen level in air and connect to a person through a cannula or face mask. They are pretty easy to use and safe, and can be purchased from eBay or Ali for around $300 to $400 shipped. Only problem is that shipping from China is slow now so it will likely take 2-3 weeks to arrive. But this is what most people would get at a hospital unless they are gravely ill and require intubation.
Flipboard made react canvas to render directly to canvas instead of the dom. https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas
That attack on another user is egregiously against the site guidelines. Please don't post like that to HN.

You've done a lot of damage with flamewar comments in this thread. I'm banning most users who did that. I'm not going to ban you, because you've been a great user in the past and have a long history here. But please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22606977, stop now, and don't do any more of this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm interested in Rust's future, but not a Rust developer myself.

The author's argument is pretty straight-forward: Rust's borrow-checker makes for complex code, so you should think carefully whether your application is resource-constrained enough to merit using Rust. If not, you should consider using a memory-managed language.

He's pointing this out as a contrasting point to projects rewriting in Rust, which is what naturally happens when a new language starts going down the path to becoming a Mainstream Programming Language™️. This sets up the question that I'm waiting to get answered: is Rust actually complex enough that it should be a niche PL rather than a mainstream PL?

How do current Rust devs feel about that so far?