skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are having a really hard time with this - every argument I see about 'oh it's not that bad' seems to be missing that we already have the next 1-2 weeks of infected walking around, totally oblivious to their nature as ticking time bombs. Few seem to realize anything we do now will be at best apparent in 2-3 weeks of exponential growth.
The Board reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26
The resolution is only 800x480. What reference page or cheat sheet would fit on that?
I've been keeping an eye on largish-format epaper tablets for a while (I'm an avocational organist and singer, and would love to have my whole music library with me at all times). ReMarkable is actually on the cheaper end of the spectrum. I think it comes down to low volume and target users (professionals who wouldn't balk at paying this much for a business tool). Basically, a typical vertical market.
At this point, you would have to use 2018 tax year info. 2019 tax filings aren't due for another month, and I think most people file in the week before the deadline.

There's a lot that can happen to income levels in that time period.
We're all scared right now. It's more important than ever we try to remember to be better people than our fear tries to make us.
People are conditioned by experience to not present to hospital with mild respiratory symptoms. As they get older it gets more common and you still apply the same rules. Often too late by then to do anything other than ventilate.
For patents like the one in play here, they should be invalid on their face with or with out a crisis

We need MASSIVE patent reform and to put a end to patent trolls like the one in the story
That's because all your normal shippings are way worse than Amazon's experience.

Otherwise, the situation is physically impossible.
> every state has infected people

West Virginia does not have any confirmed cases.
So do you think grocery stores should just shut down? What about their workers, or the workers at their warehouses/logistics companies?
Interesting. It would appear I have been downvoted by someone for asking a question, which is a strange thing to do.
Anyway, I thank you for your comment. I now feel I understand the matter / intent behind AMP a little better.
Tesla Plans on Staying Open Despite Shelter in Place
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It's fortunate that this started out in China, where the bulk of manufacturing takes place.

Hopefully they've been able to rapidly shift production to meet the upcoming demand for respirators and other products this pandemic will need.
Ok, let's call it CPC bashing then, if that makes you feel better. What they have done during this whole debacle is despicable, and their attempts to push the conspiracy theory that the virus came from the US Military is just the icing on the cake.
I believe the moderators will on occasion reset the timer for submissions they feel didn't get a good enough reception the first time around. Presumably this post is one such.
> the evolution of the 1960s terminal I/O model into the console I/O model during the 1980s.

Are you talking about MS-DOS-style memory-diddling to achieve things like colors and reverse video?
Some of the Arweave community are working on building various archiving tools to store vulnerable and censored information on Corona. Check out Weibo Uncensored and Corona Archives: https://weibo-uncensored.github.io/
https://samrahimi.github.io/
> I STILL can't figure out how to unsubscribe from those incident alerts. There's no link in the email to manage notification settings, and their website is unusable, so I just send them to spam now.

Are you me? :)

Seriously though, the email alerts I've been getting (for the last 4 years I think?) have some sort of link in the footer that says "To change your Email Preferences, please go to [...]".

However, it's annoying right off the bat because it requires you to log in with some ancient set of credentials. When I finally got it working and logged in, I saw that all notifications/alerts are disabled anyway, and yet I end up getting a bunch of alert spam!
Italy rushes to promote new doctors to relieve coronavirus crisis
Sure, their headline is accurate, but the way it is written creates ambiguity by relegating the factual turn to the end. Headlines are often skimmed and propagated. Unless every viewer reads the headline in full and every aggregator replicates it exactly, the headline may be misleading.

Journalists aim for clarity in communication, an ethos that is infringed on increasingly more as web-only publications live or die off clicks.

I agree that we shouldn't "blame the media", but we can blame Business Insider for playing with ambiguity in this headline's structure.
Screen readers and accessibility software have never worked well* with arbitrary applications, and that’s what sites using the shadow dom aim to be.

Screen readers especially only do well on simple documents, and only work with apps well they’re specifically designed to interface with which for the most part are apps that are used in document creation or text communication like Word, or Skype.

*Disclaimer: “well” is in the eye of the beholder. It’s challenging to use them with arbitrary apps, and the time investment is only useful if that app is going to put food into your table.
As a software developer and someone who worked at Home Depot doing stuff like loading lumber for a few years I really think warehouse workers have it worse off. Especially since it seems like Depot was a cake walk compared to what Amazon puts their lower paid workers through...
Steve Jobs and the Usable Computer
> As long as the money is given to folks who need and/or will spend it

only if admin cost to determine if a person needs it is low enough.
> Who said that it is better to have one person touching thousands of packages and sending to people's homes is a good idea?

A small number of interacting people + most people hiding at home, is WAY better than having everyone still going out there.
We are doing far worse.
I cannot fathom the stupidity behind this...
https://www.gemalto.com/financial/cards/payments/dynamic-cod...

Already used to make dynamic CVV codes for cards which change every 30 minutes.
Just because Theranos as a company was a scam doesn't mean literally all their patents are invalid?
> The concept of viewing activities as DAG is going to be huge and ubiquitous, I think.

What do you mean "is going to be"? Activities as a DAG is how it's already done. This is how Work Breakdown Structures are generally constructed. Tools like MS Project can display them as Gantt charts or network diagrams or as an outline (where you can set the dependencies used to create the Gantt and network charts).
I guess a third option is that they dont have the mental capacity?

I've lived on minimum wage for many years. It takes discipline to not buy booze, drugs, and electronics, and not have children that I know I can't afford.

I know many people that would be considered poor and they refuse to stop buying luxuries.

I would consider these poor life choices and the cause of a large percentage of poverty.
Absolutely. Canada still only tests people with symptoms AND (have traveled recently OR have been in contact with a confirmed positive case).

Yet the messaging until recently was "no evidence of community spread, risk remains low" with very lukewarm response. Of course there is no evidence if you don't look for it.

I understand they don't want to incite panic but anyone who's been paying attention to other countries can see that community spread is inevitable unless you have strict measures and robust testing, very early on. I'm pissed our politicians have ignored lessons from other countries.
"BioFire shouldn't need a license for Theranos' bullshit patents that never worked anyway"

There seems to be a lot of hate for the patent system. The idea of protecting investment in innovation and allowing for public disclosure through a patent is a good thing. Patent Trolls and, sometimes, corporations weaponize these by twisting the language or intent of the patent, but that doesn't mean all patents are BS, even if a company flounders. The patent office also grants its fair share of questionable patents.

Theranos raised more than US$700 million in funding. That's a lot of money and research, regardless of the execution or product failures.

My honest questions are, have you looked at the patents in the lawsuit? Are they really "bullshit," or did Theranos innovate in a way that BioFire is now using?
I don't know that I'd go that far but there is definitely a lot of influence, indirect mostly, and direct for those operating within China of course.

I can't find the % value but the stake that tencent owns in Reddit is a little concerning. That's a lot of propaganda potential.
You impress me as a healthy person who is financially secure and/or has a strong safety net of family/friends/governmental support, who finds it not difficult to stay on the sunny side of life. I'm not sure you have much to offer people who are struggling with health problems, overwhelming family responsibilities and/or financial insecurity as we head into a recession. Some people are wondering how they are going to support themselves and where they are going to live in the near future, so "Just enjoy the sunset" comes off as a little vacuous.
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I'm not sure what the author means by "sensitivity", in this context. Do they just mean "particular details"?
Don't use China numbers as the kind of quarantine they implemented no other country did. Italy is the more realistic marker. And it is too soon to tell if the Italy lockdown was effective maybe 2 weeks after the lockdown comes down.
To clarify on the "app-wide layout".
You can specify things like "OK, let's have a 10px margin around the outer containers". But that doesn't really help you specifying the internal spacings _between_ items.
You end up having to do lots of one-off adjustments, with the first or last button/panel.
I don't want to spend my time messing with all that, it's trivial and boring, it should be something solved in a single place, once.
After that, I just want to add "semantic" controls to my interfaces/screens, and have the application-wide layout rules make sure it's laid out nicely in the same way.

When I look for solutions to that, I end up with useless "guides" like this:
https://www.wpf-tutorial.com/styles/using-styles/
Then how does that square with the data from the west, which broadly confirms the CFR China reported originally? Why are Italians dying like flies to this thing the Chinese were able to hide?

This "The CFR is much lower!" thing is rapidly becoming a conspiracy-level fallacy... It's probably true that there are a bunch of unmeasured cases (a reasonable study yesterday guessed at a 6x undercount) and that the CFR is currently overstated because of sampling problems with test availability.

It is absolutely not possible that there were a million cases in Hubei in december. Not from this disease. Come on, folks.
So people say, but China's infection numbers have not grown over the past 3 weeks.

Nature doesn't do exponential curves; they're inherently unsustainable. It does logarithmic ones, which look exponential when you extrapolate from the right point on the graph.
> The seven-year-old, 135-employee Ventec is a fairly small player in a market dominated by Medtronic (under the Puritan Bennett brand), GE Healthcare and Allied Healthcare in the U.S., and Hamilton Medical, Getinge, Drägerwerk and Philips Healthcare in Europe. Kiple estimates that worldwide production capacity is in the range of 40,000 to 50,000 units a year, but some of this output is of machines not suitable for intensive care units.

Forget about start ups and tiny companies now. The government needs to call on the big players here - those mentioned in the quote above look like a good start. Not just for ventilators but for everything else like masks and gowns that will be needed. And field hospitals capable of handling massive numbers of people. Something will need to be done about training and deploying large numbers of medical staff quickly too.

In WW2 Roosevelt commandeered the car factories to build planes and tanks. It didn't hurt the car factories as far as I know - the government paid them in full. We sorely need a leader of that caliber at this time with the vision and capacity to make bold moves like that.
Italy will rush 10,000 student doctors into service, scrapping their final exams, in an effort to help the struggling health service cope with the coronavirus onslaught.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy/...
The Web Ascendant: Five years from 2015(2015)
The bad news, fearmongering, pessimism, empty market shelf pictures, etc clogging my otherwise interesting forward thinking RSS feeds feels like a case of the hiccups.

People just want to rally around something - you've now got access to more prompts for conversation with complete strangers under looming conditions that appear to threaten your species.

There is also a reverse psychology element in your biased Media Mogul Controlled "News" telling you to stay away from other people for a few weeks (when authority announces the end of this phase there will be a burst of interaction and crowded events to restore social equilibrium ).

Since we all learned through standardized curriculum grade school about large fractions of past populations dying off to disease spread - all of this is ancient memory tellling us to be careful.
They have fewer people in that category, and also more room to make lifestyle adjustments so they can remain afloat. Also, access to credit and family loans.
Raspberry Pi sized SBC is smallest Ryzen R1000-based model yet
True, I think the nice thing about Vault Helm chart (and Consul) is that you can swap in the enterprise image. You can customize the image to your liking as well. It is lightweight and easy to scale comparably. There is definitely extra work involved, but the Ansible playbook is just sequential tasks that could be baked into the container and make it a lot faster.

I'm a big fan of Kubernetes and Helm/Kustomize as a whole, though there are times where Terraform and Ansible makes sense too.
And "Ohio Governor calls New York Governor, who dispatches a truck to Ohio" is also coordination. Where each understands local conditions on the ground and can perform the necessary tasks to actually get something done.
No one is forced to do anything.
Personally I want to live in a world where the only form of legally enforceable IP is a trademark, but I'll take any improvement I can get.
https://archive.md/DwZIK
I agree. My point is to force these people into state hospitals and get them help.

Shame on the liberals for getting rid of these facilities.
If this happens, how does an ordinary someone, with a solid buffer in a regular savings account, protect the value of that buffer?

That's an investment in financial stability, with returns valued in peace of mind rather than dollars. I'm not rich enough or reckless enough to qualify for a bailout. So how do I protect myself?
There are a lot of businesses out there that are non-essential services, that will be hit hard by this. Someone still has to shop at the local bookstore when this is over, because those people – even with direct stimulus – will be struggling to stay afloat. If we want to start the economic flywheel spinning again, it's gonna take stimulus at pretty much all levels.

Most working class people will spend that money directly on essential goods and services. But for the health of the overall economy, it's important that enough people will have enough that they feel confident they can start going out again and supporting all sorts of shops.
Can't suspend elections if it's not a real disaster after all .
https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000670215...

Found an article in the "remarkable 2" section of the support site. No mention of support for offline/private syncing, which is a real shame. (The "read more" links go to v1 pages and seem to be autogenerated.)
The worse it gets, the less willing states will be to do that.

No one wants to be the governor who gave supplies to another state when the next election comes up.
Unfortunately, this feels like it relies on the same mechanism as trickle down economics.
Please tell me what your relatives have been up to, I am preparing your tattoo.
Shouldn't one at least start by giving tough punishments to officials i.e. years in jail etc, before reaching for the more monstrous punishments? I worry that the extreme suggestions distracts people enough that the focus instead becomes on the extreme, rather than punishing the officials. Then, like US white collar criminals, they walk away with no punishment.
Because AMAZON BAD in precisely the same way that ORANGE MAN BAD (and for the same fundamental reason)

If they were cutting hours, the spin would be "Amazon throws helpless workers on the street".
To many people those were crying wolf rather than wake up calls.
> Digital content isn't essential for your well-being

It is essential for one's erudition, which historically has been considered important for an informed citizenry that knows the good and the beautiful.

Take the mid-20th century canon of films, works by directors like Ozu, Kurosawa, Godard, Truffaut, Antonioni, etc. These are recognized as classics of film art and part of our general cultural heritage now. However, due to changes in legislation in the years since they were made, they are still under copyright, and so a person would have to spend thousands of dollars to legally obtain a cultural education that, in this day and age, ought to be available to anyone regardless of their means. A person pirating such films is not necessarily doing it for daft entertainment (because often these classics are not particularly fun and entertaining), but simply to learn and be familiar with the canon.

And before you say that one can turn to the library instead of torrenting: many countries around the world never had well-stocked libraries to begin with. In fact, in some of these same countries it can be less than straightforward to purchase the content even if one has the money to spend.
> The narrative in China right now...

Because there's one narrative in China, folks, and this douchebag knows what it is.

But seriously, don't buy what he's selling.

The only narrative China needs right now is its victory lap. It's nearly stopped new cases. Xi visited Hebei/Wuhan.

The comment above is wishful thinking of the highest order, and perfect projection. It's Western media and nincompoops like this clown who seem to need to play the "blame game"

China got on with solving the problem. Now they're taking a victory lap and responding to requests to help overseas. The Chinese, if they are blaming anyone, are not blaming foreigners for this, they're blaming the Hebei provincial authorities for their initial mistakes in handling it.

Because they've been successful at containing a virus in the largest country on Earth, they don't need to play the blame game. It's slow-to-act and complacement Western-style governments that are in desperate need of a finger of blame to point at anyone but themselves.
Hopefully they'll consider the functionally minded customer soon.

I would be happy with a cheapish form factor option, it doesn't have to be the slick looking product that is the only option currently available.
The fall of the USSR is attributed in part to the Chernobyl accident in Mikhail Gorbachev's memoirs.

I'm not saying the CCP's days are numbered, but maybe, just maybe they will live in interesting times.
If we regularly have virus outbreaks, will we usually need ventilators, or is this something specific to COVID-19? Is viral pneumonia a common effect of these kind of viruses?
They have blown things out of proportion (see parent comment). Only extremely minor browsers will be affected. Chromium (Chrome, Edge, Opera), Quantum (FF) will be fine. I suspect even the likes of KHTML will add support for it.

Pale Moon is a fork of Firefox made before the removal of XUL (as I believe is their selling point). They would have to back-port Web Components (which may be impossible due to Quantum) or write it from scratch. This is all really hard for them because they likely have fewer than 10 active developers.
You're referring to what I call "pop Austrianism," and that's definitely an adjacent issue.

Austrianism is a rationalistic theory of economics. By rationalistic in this context I mean it's not empirical. It's the sort of thing you get when smart people sit around and reason through something and come to a conclusion based on that alone without bothering to observe, experiment, or evaluate their ideas in practice.

A wonderful classical example of this kind of rationalism is Aristotle reasoning that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects. Of course they do! Heavier objects are subject to more force, therefore they fall faster. It's perfectly rational.

BTW I'm not saying that other economic schools of thought have it all correct either. They clearly continue to make incorrect predictions all the time. I really don't think anyone understands economics very well. It's a subset of complex auto-adaptive systems, but with an added layer of adversarial behavior. In economics when a major economist, government, central bank, or business makes a prediction, the market acts so as to attempt to invalidate that prediction. Economic systems actively attempt to invalidate theories about them.
I am not convinced. "Built in elements" are really a small part of what makes a web application, and in many cases are replaced anyway by custom solutions. In fact, html tags are now meant to only express the semantic of a portion of document, not a specific behaviour.

I'm not sure in what sense web components are different from the components of any other modern application framework, except for the fact that they can be easily imported (probably wrapped) in your framework of choice. But if you're using one of the main frameworks, there is already no shortage of components available for it. Each component will come anyway with a complex behaviour that will need to be wired up with the rest of your application, so the idea of just "source some js then add the element to the page" seems naive.

And web components come with their set of problems: more opaque, harder to style, hard to make accessible. They break the paradigm of "everything lives in the same document" that it's part of what defines the web. They can evolve at a slower pace than frameworks because they're native apis that need to go through slow standardisation processes.

It sounds like an idea from the '90s: what if we could create those damn widgets ourselves with custom tags and drop them in the html? Well, it's been possible for many years. But it is only useful if you do it in the context of an application framework which already gives you the same feature, with better tooling.
Liberal societies around the world are afraid of making strong statements and criticism of the way China handled this outbreak. The CCP is separate from the Chinese people and it has created an aura of defiance, callous behavior and intolerance for truth that collides with their image. When someone says "Fuck the CCP", it should not be met with liberal racist card - this is not racism, but criticism of the goverment and IMO the CCP needs to be criticized, dismantled and revolted against by the Chinese themselves. This is starting to happen but on a very small scale after the Coronavirus mishandling. It is very much productive to play the "blame game" because ultimately, we want the Chinese government to shutdown these wet markets, allow free speech of their citizens.
Some math:

A US Letter sized pad made of 20lb paper is 1lb per 100 sheets[1] so an 88 page pad would weigh 400g, neglecting the cardboard backing. If it were made of 16lb paper then you would get a bit over 100 pages in 400g.

1: 20lbs means 500 sheets of the basis size weighs 20 lbs. The basis size for US Letter sized paper is 4 sheets (22x17), so 2000 sheets weighs 20lbs.