skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1000$ a month to every adult wouldn't reduce poverty and homelessness _at all_? Not a teeny tiny bit? Economics sure is unintuitive.
I just wanted to hijack this thread to say thanks for your deep dives into die reversing. They've really turned what always seemed like arcane runes into some sort of actual understanding on my part.

Pretty much figured that would be impossible until this point.
It was not interest-free: https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list
Modern programming language features are overrated. I prefer to choose the tools that are the most portable and involve the least social friction (i.e. something that is widely understood by people I work with).

For "fun" projects (stuff I'm not paid for) and workflow optimization, I just care about portability, which means C (with heavy use of the C stream library, a simple collections library of about 200 LOC, and occasionally POSIX syscalls) and shell scripting. After spending a lot of time learning languages as a hobby, I just don't believe the dark corners and warts of C and shell scripting are any worse than other languages.
In that case, what is the maximum amount of subscription fee that you are willing to shell out before resorting to piracy?
The Feds sold their Government Motors (GM) stock and other stocks they bought during the last bailout. I don’t see why they wouldn’t do it again for Delta or AA. At one point they owned 60% of GM.
Public companies aim to maximise shareholder value, however in competitive markets that usually involves improving service, having a happy workforce (higher benefits) so it all works. And putting money away for a rainy day will never be as beneficial for companies as for individuals.
Got it, the app works well. I did consider using `react-digraph` for Intention, but the UX seems very focused on desktop (lots of clicking and dragging) and I wanted something more mobile focused.
“ It may also explain why some Asian countries in tropical area (such as Malaysia, Indonesia or Thailand) with high temperature and high relative humidity environment did not have major community outbreaks of SARS.”

Iirc, Maylasia has a pretty strong breakout on its hands. They recorded their first death today and are at something like 670 cases. I think their double rate was 2-3 days. Edit-it’s 1 day today. See link. Not good news I think for the hypothesis.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
When they get bailed out, what do you think happens to the shares they hold?

Company is worth $100, has 100 shares. You own 1 share, worth $1.

Company takes $100 from Gov't, not a handout but rather in exchange for stock. Now it's worth $200, there are 200 shares, 100 owned by the government, 99 by other shareholders and 1 by you.

In this situation, you're back where you started.
Could it be that they're including the rest of China in local? Are peering arrangements between HK and the rest of China such that this would make sense?
(editor here) we fixed it. I'm so used to seeing TPC-C, that my eyes missed the "TCP".
Hi, sorry for hijacking. I'm a bedroom producer noob and I'm currently using an NT1-A for vocal stuff although I've recently been working with a female vocalist who's got a very strong (and pretty bright-sounding) voice. Would you recommend giving the Sm57 a go for this sort of thing?
Visualizing how viruses spread in a population: social distancing on/off
False. Government prohibits importation of most medicines from abroad. It's corruption hidden in the form of "please just think of the children."

"FDA cannot assure the safety and efficacy of unapproved drugs" is the main excuse used in drug importation court cases.

Reference: https://www.pharmacycheckerblog.com/online-pharmacies-person...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/iran-coro...
Am I the only one who thought that Aero (Windows Vista/7) looked good?
China develops coronavirus recombination vaccines, clinical trials started
I don't agree with you at all. Autotools boil down to a bunch of shell scripts that enable projects to abstract away the OS/distribution while following a somewhat standard structure.

And binary packages are completely irrelevant and unrelated, because autotools is a build system, thus designed to help build software. Although the availability of source code packages enabled build systems to be also used as installers, thay does not mean the need for build systems is replaced with plain old installers.
Covid-19 Tracker Data API
I don't use torrents etc but to give you a customer perspective: Because of the proliferation of services and the lock-in each one of them is trying to promote, if you want to follow your favourite shows you would have to subscribe to all of them and it becomes expensive very quickly. As an European there is always the problem that some great shows that are available in the US might not be available in your country. To make mattter worse, if you're in switzerland like me you might have the option to watch a show only in German (which I don't speak) and they don't even give you access to the original english soundtrack. Faced with all these annoyances, I canceled them all. If they don't care about the customer experience I don't care about them. I use a (legal) service which allows me to watch on demand any TV show broadcast from most of European TVs in the last 7 days. It works well, it's cheap and most shows have they original english soundtrack. Some other people use torrents or dodgey streaming websites.
A 1000 person test case was ran in isolation and they found this disease to not be very deathly, and this population was skewed toward the elderly.

The mortality seems to be caused primarily by healthcare overload so far. In about 10 % cases the disease requires hospital care, if that’s available, things are mostly fine, if not, people die. How does an isolated test case model that?
Customer2Vec: Representation Learning for Customer Analytics and Personalization
Confinement by itself is not enough. See Donald McNeil's interview on what china is doing: https://youtu.be/e3gCbkeARbY?t=32
Ask HN: Do something you love, or do something you are good at?
With the epidemic happening, and in the time of Lent, I've given up playing videogames which has always been a past-time for me and a frequent escape for real world stress. Besides realizing that this isn't healthy (some escape is healthy, just not as much as I was doing), I've began to go back on games I greatly enjoyed playing when I was younger.

Then it hit me, I'm not old yet, but I am getting older and started to think of how I should be spending my time on Earth here.

My strengths are in software and web development, but I'd love to create a game that I used to enjoy playing (Guild Wars) - except that, I have no experience! The question really burned in my mind, do I do something that I am good at, or do I take the chance at doing something I'd enjoy more?

What are your thoughts?
Demonsaw.com

provides an IRC-router like interface that can be used to share files over encrypted and obfuscated HTTP. Give it a look if you're having torrent problems.
I distinctly remember using CDE back in 2005 on a Sun Ray 2 Thin Terminals. It was serviceable however I must confess I had a hard time getting used to it, especially after using Gnome 2 and KDE 3.

The one great thing about them was that you could use a chip and pin style card. If you used this card when logging in it would associate your session with the chip and pin card and when you logged into another client (by using the card) your exisiting session was moved across. Which I thought was pretty novel at the time.

When I have time I might give this a try out (for nothing other than nostalgia reasons).
You can make a Philips cough assist type device which uses abrupt pressure changes to expel fluid. Need to be super careful with these you can do real damage if not used correctly.

Those are also nowhere near as effective as the real deal i.e. intubation where you stick a tube down the lungs that sucks out fluid and pushes in air.
True, but still mean that the people bail them out. So the taxpayers soften the blow with a loan...
Maybe let the companies go down, and give a loan to the taxpayers instead.
https://stallman.org/articles/end-war-on-sharing.html
Swazm is offering atleast 600$ USD for startups in cloud computing services
>A 1000 person test case was ran in isolation and they found this disease to not be very deathly, and this population was skewed toward the elderly.

Is healthy or dead the only 2 options? I think people with high fever won't be able to work and provide you with services , people that need to stay in hospitals are also a important number that you need to provide, also how many would die if there are not enough hospital bed with equipment and medicine?

Each week we see some new drug that is tested , maybe a vaccine is to be created soon so if possible delay getting people infected especially if the cost is less sport events or similar.
They mention Linux at least once in the article. That's always good to see.
It is illegal use then, what will envolve to theft as soon as they decide to stay indefinitely, what they actually already did, and will realised as somebody try to push them out with or without police force. I don't care if it state or private owned property is: "occupying" homes is theft in my eyes, as it fundamentally shaking the work and merrit based society.
Not a professional so some of my terminology may be wrong, but here is how I understand it: after your immune system fights off a virus it often develops 'antibodies' to fight off the same virus if it should encounter it again. We can detect these antibodies via a blood test and thereby get an idea of whether you've had that particular virus before.
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22604114
Ask HN: Is This the End of the System?
Western exonomies are about to collapse, it is becoming apparent that food is still being produced, we are fed, sheltered and community spirit is high. We are going to survive and the government are going to pump billions into each of our economies.

Given that society is so advanced that our food is ordered through the internet and our total abundance underlined. Will a new system prevail, will we realise that the current insanely inflated asset system is over.

Interesting times.
Yes. Almost no money is given to the artists, most of it is eaten by the organization that claims to be representing them and has good political connections.
Gee, maybe you should buy the shared after the announcement then, and pick up some of that free money for yourself?

(Ignoring, for the moment, that bailouts generally zero out equity holders to ensure debt holders get paid.)

Your cynicism is healthy, but I'm not sure you understand how this process works.
Just back of the envelope, if every Fortune 100 had $100 billion in cash, that would be $10 trillion sitting in accounts as, what, a rainy day fund?

Apple keeps a massive cash hoard in case they want to do a very large strategic acquisition. Airlines would be doing mergers not acquisitions.

IMO it’s entirely appropriate that if a black swan even cripples an industry like air travel for a government to offer low-interest loans until they can start generating cash again.

This is actually significantly more efficient than each company having to put billions of capital on the sidelines “just in case” their entire multi-billion dollar revenue stream goes to $0 for a few months. Capital efficiency is very important to overall economic growth.
But their attempts to promote authoritative sources like news media that also happens to be in a direct business relationship with them is swallowed up like a blessing. Completely delusional. Maybe not true for reddit, I think they do it for random reasons.

This is the actual consequences of stripping down education on every front.
The whole business model of the content industry is based on perverting the idea of copyright and extending it beyond any reasonable limit. And with copyright terms extended to eternity and beyond, they are effectively stealing the cultural intellectual property of every living generation, depriving us of the basic means to creatively comment on our own cultural heritage.

So, I have no problem with "stealing".
And what about when automation makes more and more human work obsolete?
And when will the power imbalance in capitalism actually produce fairness? Ever?

You are going to have to find a different way to solve those problems than wage slavery.
They already do this, in fact it's critical to optimise things like this in a low margin industry like airlines. Any airline that doesn't calculate the best flight paths for fuel economy will quickly go out of business.
The $1.5 trillion was in basically short term loans (bond repurchase agreements) whose purpose is to increase liquidity of financial institutions that have assets generally in investments.
Saying anything remotely positive about Russia is a no-no on HN. Even if you're not even technically praising them (I wasn't and neither are you). Just saying they may not be going down soon is enough to be downvoted apparently.
Just FYI. I ordered a couple of units, and will work on a native Swift SDK for the project, once I get them (AliExpress said "20-40 days").

In the meantime, I have my work cut out for me.
It's useless in the sense that you can still contract the virus with a mask. Let's say they are using the surgeon's mask, someone can sneeze and it can get in through the side. The n95 has a better seal so that can prevent it, but what if someone sneezes and it gets into your eye. I would say some protection is better than nothing, but don't assume you will be protected from coronavirus 100%.
Currently for me 4G is the only option to work remotely (the only alternative would be going with a wimax provider, or sat). I don't normally incur in the data size caps, but I will soon in the current situation, even when trying to be conservative.

It also doesn't seem worthwhile to switch at the moment, since other solutions require a 1-2 year contract which I do not need (not to mention, it would also take 2-3 weeks to get a connection with those anyway).
The argument for piracy is always a mix between those who aren’t willing to pay for the media, and those who aren’t willing to put up with the limitations and restrictions of DRM.

Sometimes you can compromise with one side if the other is really good. Spotify is a good example, where it really is more convenient to pay $10 for every song you could ever think of.

On the other hand, there’s no similar buffet-style movie service that has more than 10% of the movies I want to watch.

It’s hard for someone to justify paying $60/month on the four streaming services (since the market is so fragmented) and still not able to watch Iron Man 2 (though 1 and 3 are there)
i had to tell my international tenants they are quite possibly safer back home.
That is not a good argument to not wear masks.

You could also say "don't wash hands" because it's not effective unless you combine them with social distancing and other quarantine measures.

A preventive measure does not need 100% effectiveness to be recommended. For example, washing your hands.
In Fossil it's all just part of the repository :-)
The combination of UBI and universal health care would mean that combating a pandemic would be much easier than it currently is. Everyone stays at home and self isolates for 2 weeks. Curve flattened. Bills payed.

Ah well, it's a pity the side effects apparently include some McCarthyist caricature of communism /s
Show HN: SwipeableReact demo (or what could one achieve)
> as it should be tbh

Absolutely not. There are very legal reasons torrents are used (its great for releasing large datasets). Isps should treat all data the same.
To me, stealing implies depriving someone of something.

If I take your car, you don't have a car anymore.

If I make a copy of your movie, you still have that movie.

Arguably, you're being deprived of the money from the sale of the movie, but there are already other terms that can be used (piracy, copyright infringement).
If saving money for a rainy day is never going to be a top priority, then going bankrupt should be an option.

I think what's frustrating for me is that under these circumstances, there will be a lot of individuals and small businesses that will go under because they didn't save enough for a rainy day, but if your big enough, we have to save you.
I am growing a vegetable garden in my apartment and last weekend I stocked up on bleach and disinfected my entire apartment. These two are mostly just to make me feel better and manufacture any sort of semblance of control.

In more useful actions, I stocked up on some food (both canned and frozen) to prepare for self quarantine and/or self isolation. I pulled out my moped and de-rusted the chain yesterday after seeing multiple sick people on public transport, ignoring the advice to stay indoors for anyone who shows symptoms. Now working from home but still quite hard to focus with all of the news. I also have some anxiety, but it sort of comes and goes and just cleaning obsessively for a little while seems to settle it :D
Cross-Train Your Programming Brain
Just as much? Mental health crises are exacerbated by desperate conditions like not having a home. The two are linked and keeping someone with bipolar disorder who has just lost their job from ending up on the street in the first place would head off a lot of cases of individuals going off the deep end in the face of despair and nowhere to go.
How many people would take UBI, buy drugs, alcohol, hell go down to the casino every month and blow it all in 30 seconds....
Shame on you. Your hateful and ignorant stereotypes are defective victim blaming and based on myths. The US has almost no mental healthcare system because JFK was assassinated before the transition to community-based residential treatment centers could be stood-up. Reagan destroyed what remained and condemned the mentally-unwell to neglect and misery.
I am not a financial expert but how are buybacks reflected in a company’s balance sheet?

My theory is that buybacks give companies a false sense of complacency. If they do $1 billion worth of buybacks, it doesn’t feel they are really “giving out” $1 billion back to investors. Rather, $1 billion in cash just got converted to a long term asset(their shares). Thus this is how airlines get into a cash crunch. They are lulled to believe they can go crazy with buybacks with no consequences.

If instead they did a special dividend for $1 billion, they would immediately feel the consequences. It is money taken straight out of their bank. Thus they would of course consider more carefully how much to give as a dividend.

Just my theory and why I am against buybacks and for dividends only.
It's also not like "vegan food" is some magic compound beyond the capabilities of us mere mortals... You don't need to buy overpriced ready-to-eat/processed dishes to keep eating vegan. Everything can be made with the same basic ingredients than any other food: canned beans, pasta, tomato sauce, vegetables, soy sauce, spices... All stuff that everyone buys, including vegetarians/vegans.
Sometimes as a legal user you are faced with far more obstacles than the illegal user. All kinds of limitations that are made to curb piracy but actually just hurt legitimate users. This applies to every type of protected content, be it music, video, games, ebooks, etc.

This makes paying users less likely to sympathize with the content provider. And then you see those transparent attempts to skew numbers so they can generate some compassion ("This episode of GoT was pirated 30 million times which means we lost 30 million possible subscribers!!11" type thing) and you start having a really bad impression about them whether you pay for the service o not.

I am forced to torrent content that I already legally pay for just to get a proper subtitle or voice over for example, because sometimes I get a different experience for the same content based on the country I'm in.
You have to separate morality and legal technicalities to answer this properly.

For the legal part, stealing is for physical objects, eg. the victim doesn't have disposal of this stolen good anymore. This is not true for intellectual «property» since it's a copy.
This is why copyright & copyright infringement has been created, whose original purpose was to protect authors from publisher and protect publishers that made advances to authors from other publishers.

For the moral part, you have no clear answer, circulation of free copies obviously reduces revenues of authors, but also it allows access of content to people that wouldn't have paid for it anyways, case where the loss of revenue is shaky.

To extend further, it's related to consumer frustration, while it's no question that being frustrated if you don't own a Ferrai is frivolous, if you can't afford it, you have to steal it from someone, the frustration occurred for copyright content is solely based on publisher/distributor strategy on maximizing revenue. The thing is, total revenue has a, albeit unknown, maximum theoretical possible, hence after a trigger frustration left is purely and solely a strategy to protect revenue.
In the end, you get frustrated people just to have copyright holders a better peace of mind and revenue, and nothing else, so there's a moral balance to keep that you can't reduce to a black and white situation.
That is very similar to what we have in the US; we have 401(k)s, 403(b)s, 457(b)s etc. that tie our retirement to the stock market. In many cases, employers force their employees to enroll in them.

Think about these retirement accounts this way: capitalists take our money now under the presumption we will get it back when we're 60+. In the mean time, while we're working for a living wage, the capitalists get to profit off our labor now. They get to continue destroying the planet and exploiting other wage earners. They don't need a wage to live.

1) While employees have these retirement accounts, we are forced to contribute to them. We are forced into ensuring the well-being of capitalism.

2) Being forced to contribute to these accounts is diametrically opposed to the interests of our class. It makes us wish well for the stock market because our retirement is tied to it. But a more profitable stock market leads to more exploitation of the labor of my class. For these profits to exist, either you keep labor costs low, or increase prices.

I would prefer to extricate our retirement from the stock market and capitalism.
I mean it's probably not something you want to do in production, but it's a godsend for developing and testing configs.
Windows blocks it because the app is not digitally signed with a Code Signing Certificate ($200+/year). You can still install it if you press in the "Show more" button and then "Run anyway".
You already know that answer is going to be different for everyone, so I don't know why you bother asking it.

A better question is when are film studios going to stop profiteering with their license fees and allow their works to be available on any platform (instead of meticulously negotiating with one platform and moving around every couple months).
Which service do you use?
You seem to be suggesting that everyone stuck in poverty is there because they are mentally ill or are incapable of making good life choices... which is outrageously false.
The announced Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 might tick the right boxes.
Haha looking forward to the competition ;). TaskDB sounds good, I'll keep an eye on it. Your approach to keeping the entire history of the graph is a good one, I'm using Datomic in Intention mainly for this reason.

I do hope DAGs become more commonplace, I think a lot of areas (e.g. project management) could benefit from using them.