skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now would be about the worst time to join 99% of startups. Unless you are financially set and looking for an adventure, stick it out at the safe gig.
We have some customers doing CPU heavy tasks like image and video processing, but we're not specifically optimizing for that right now. If there's demand we might offer better processors or GPUs for those workloads, or maybe even spot pricing on idle nodes, but that's far off.
Keeping live animals in markets is not the issue.

They don't keep live fruit bats in African markets. Ebola happened nonetheless.

In fact, keeping live animals is a very sensible thing to do when there is no cold chain. It is the traditional way to insure that the meat you buy is safe(ish).
I would suggest doing research on that subject. The US has one of the world's largest, most expensive social safety nets. The primary problem the US has isn't spending on its social safety net, it's not controlling costs properly (as with healthcare in general) and not directing its spending effectively enough.

The US spends approximately the equivalent of 40% the entire EU economy on its social safety net.

This new spending is a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the existing US spending on its social safety net.

It's precisely why the US poverty rate and US homelessness rate are comparable to Canada and France. Because the US spends very large sums of money on its social safety net.

It's why the US spends $650-$700 billion each year on free healthcare for the poorest 25%.

It's why the total government expenditures in the US are now $8 trillion every year. What do you think that's all going to? Roads? Military? Total government spending in the US is almost 40% of GDP.

You can find the information you're lacking here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni...
Working from remote is probably the only way for at least weeks if not months.

And yes, don't check the news too often. The real world doesn't move as fast as the refresh button.
If there is on thing you can count on it’s people over reacting. If you hold uncorrelated assets and rebalance them at mechanical levels as people react you’ll have a much smoother ride to the top. Gold and long term treasures play a big role in this type of portfolio.

Edit: lookup volatility harvesting
Read all of this thinking of platinum. More valuable than gold and similar utility to silver. Wonder how that ratio looks.
just start buying gold etfs now if you're so worried
I don't think that's what they meant. I read that as there's no material difference between factory farming and wet markets.
It seems like this would be permanently contaminated. How do you store it, etc., in a sanitary fashion?

And for that matter, filling it without contaminating the sink/whatever seems iffy.
Production of cars for civilians stopped in WWII. On the other hand, it was so the factories could make products for the war which doesn't seem applicable now.
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Netflix CEO talked with an EU official about how to keep the internet running
Is Poloniex remote or is everything onsite in BOS?
I have wondered this myself as to why most developed countries have washlets and bidets but not in America. Americans (I am one$ are obsessed with being clean and presentable. But when you come to think of it this prolly the most yucky things. I dunno why people are comfortable with “Let’s just wipe feces with a dry pieces of paper :)“
How do you not get water everywhere, and what do you use to dry? I’m assuming you’re also using soap and your hands, or toilet paper or something.
I assure you I am not talking about the aggressive curve-fitting community. Just...normal people. Nobody famous, not even any Chinese nationals. Just...fairly normal, if tech-worker-y, Americans and Europeans.
This is probably the best time for some businesses like Airlines to upgrade and migrate their legacy software foundations. I hope they see it that way. But unfortunately that's not how investors look at it.
And not just wet markets.
Proper, as in, as capable as. That is, all the features are there, you can do the same work.
I'd say anyone buying a pro careas at least about the generation.
What human-capital organizing platforms do we have, or can we stand up in short order? Linked and Indeed are overly spammed and enterprise, I don't expect them to pivot quickly.

Surely we can make a matching platform for and by tech.
I’ve had two interviews I the last two weeks, both over VC, and both FAANGs. So there seems to still be some activity, at least. But I feel like I’m cutting it a bit short here.
America Needed Coronavirus Tests. The Government Failed
If you're using Arch, the zfs hook that comes with the archzfs package takes care of this:

https://github.com/archzfs/zfs-utils/blob/master/zfs-utils.i...
> Assets don't just disappear because they're not used.

This is fundamentally incorrect insofar as the only asset of any small business is typically the labor it employs. Large businesses have intellectual property, capital, real estate, vehicle/equipment fleets, and so on, but nearly all small business have a lease, their on-site inventory (frequently perishable), and their people. All of their ability to continue operations is represented by their ability to retain those people.
The wacoms with bonded glass (everything except the cheap cintiq 16) are better than the ipad but its very close. The ipad is more than good enough, its good.

Meanwhile the portability of the ipad and apps like procreate have made the ipad a very compelling tool for artists.

Most professional digital artists I know of use both a large cintiq in studio and an ipad.

There are a trillion comparisons on youtube. Also a contender (but a smaller size) is the ipad air 3 which also has a bonded glass display.
Exactly. You want thinner bezel, slimmer Screen, and the trade off is simply the camera. Unfortunately there doesn't seems to be enough interest in it for Apple to innovate.
Actually the plan is for 2 x 160Wh cells.

We thought of single 300Wh, but discovered half way that this would impede some users who need to use their notebooks on flights outside of China.

So we rewired the setup for 2 x 20V packs. This way each pack will be below 160Wh limit used by many airlines.
That same technique is used by https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html
> Regular cold water is nowhere near as bad as you'd assume.

Perhaps not in California. But here in Calgary, Alberta, I assure you it is much worse than you'd assume.
AMA: Was it any different than a bad flu for you?
> An EU database has recorded almost 80 cases of disinformation about coronavirus since Jan. 22, it said, noting Russian efforts to amplify Iranian accusations online, cited without evidence, that coronavirus was a U.S. biological weapon.

Why not mention that a spokesperson for China's foreign ministry is saying the same thing? [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1238111898828066823
env hasn't always been in /usr/bin. I've worked on systems (probably SunOS 4.something) that had /bin/env but not /usr/bin/env. But you're unlikely to run into any reasonably modern Unix-like system that doesn't have /usr/bin/env .

See also my Stack Exchange answer on the advantages and disadvantages of the "#!/usr/bin/env ..." convention:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/29620/10454

Quick summary:
The advantage of "#!/usr/bin/env INTERP" is that it will use the first INTERP in the user's $PATH.
The disadvantage is that it will use the first INTERP in the user's $PATH.
Some animals show more viral diversity than others. Amongst mammals, bats are somewhat unique:

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/where-coronavirus...
https://www.the-scientist.com/notebook/why-bats-make-such-go...
http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature22975

The research on Chinese coronavirus outbreaks indicates that bats are a large reservoir for these viruses, and they frequently infect other animals, but it is difficult to pinpoint the final jump to humans exactly. Given the unique status of bats in this regard, it's probably best to keep live ones away from humans or other animals intended for human consumption.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pelosi-healthcare-pass-the...
Beautiful. Like a work of art.
They're not Socialist policies, that's a confusion over what Socialism is (total state control of the means of production, as one of several requirements).

What you're referring to is called a welfare state. They're welfare state policies, not Socialist policies. The US has been a welfare state nation for many decades now, and increasingly so.

For example, there are no Socialist nations in Europe at present, including Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, or France. Those are overwhelmingly market based economies that have large welfare states.
You can lower docker resources in a settings. I use it on my air.
Author makes a good point. Hard to dispute that they made a massive difference in organizing the worlds knowledge.

>artificial intelligence about five even before Hinton/Bengio/LeCun when it actually started working.

That’s hilarious
This is the most intriguing thing for me, perhaps second only to the fact that you guys are working with Rust. I have followed Deno since it was announced and it has been fascinating to watch it evolve. How much Deno code do you all have working in production right now?
As I mentioned, the cruise ship was full of old people, so no, it's not the best case scenario. It's likely the worst case scenario.
We have some benchmarks comparing us to Heroku (on AWS) and the performance gains from faster networking alone are nothing to sneeze at: https://fly.io/blog/turboku/
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I was in the process of a job search while working at a foundering startup back in December. Interview processes were paused over the holidays and scheduled to resume in early January. Jan. 2, first day back at the old job, I was laid off. Had my final interview at another startup the following week and got an offer. Started end of January. We're all WFH for at least 2 weeks, and it's beginning to look like much longer than that. We've got connections to the retail sector, so I do wonder about that, but we have seen at least a short-term uptick in activity, presumably due to hoarding. Fingers crossed we all make it through this.
any IDE that is compute bound should be thrown out, especially for a language that is never compiled.
i was thinking this, too. http://postgrest.org/en/v6.0/ comes to mind. Its security is based on postgres user permissions.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/29620/10454
If they were lying in a big way then they wouldn't have been able to hide the bodies from WHO inspections.

Iran is way behind them and can't even hide the mass graves from satellites!
The ESF is a foreign-facing economic support fund. The idea is to stabilise Middle- and South-American countries, for example, to avoid mass migration. Or at least that's what we tell Republicans. The real purpose is obviously to help the poorest countries, because that's what you do when you can.

And, yes, $250M is a rounding error. But the foreign aid budget is famous for being estimated as 20% of the federal budget if you survey the general population, when in reality it's <0.5%. So this isn't unusual or anything.
I don't get this argument. Run local for basic testing, else use it as an ssh machine. I work with super computers. The power of my development machine usually doesn't make much difference, I spend a lot of my time ssh'd anyways. So if something has a nice screen, good battery life, and a comfortable keyboard then I'm good. As long as it works for presentations and can compile my latex files, I'm good.

I don't see Airs as development platforms. They are portable platforms.
It's not only the company violations that we need to worry about. "provide a service" can mean different things. Are phrases where the transcription wasn't clear sent to people for verification and training? Are transcriptions saved for unsupervised learning? Even if they're not shared with third parties explicitly, what happens when the company itself is breached?
Why not use soap?
Study on the Spread of Covid19 in Pediatric Patients
I'm not sure. My intend was only to point out what I believed the previous comment meant.
Search this site for toilet paper needs
Rainbow SDK for Android. An SDK to connect to different Cloud services
> SO happy that our GOVT takes this so seriously.

Can you elaborate? Don't know much of what's going on in NZ at the moment.
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Ask HN: What're some uplifting things that could result due to the Covid crisis?
Scroll around the comments you'll find some here.
Hey, you're right :) I was talking past you because I didn't realize you were the OP that prompted my thought. Also I was thinking about a more general trend in points and not yours specifically. You've got a great point about land too. I'm in Texas so I hadn't considered some places don't have a land tax because while it has it's challenges (disagreements between state and citizen on land value) it's kind of backwards not to have one.

I'm not saying the argument fails because there is a circular loop. I am saying there is something more to the system and we shouldn't drop consideration for UBI based on the argument that inflation will gobble up all of the increase because that argument holds true equally if we improve equality to everyone gets a wage increase.

Which really makes your point even more important. Particularly the one about land having the strongest growth pressure.
And for that concept generalised see scope statements in D
Gosh, sorry to hear that, friend. I hope your situation stabilizes soon. Depending on where you live, a lot of municipals are suspending evicts, asking land lords to forgo collecting April rent, and considering giving citizens cold hard cash to help weather the COVID-19.
not every small business is set up as an LLC, although I'd imagine most restaurants are. sometimes you just can't get the loans you need as an LLC; the lenders want an actual person to go after if the business goes under. if I were running a business under a sole proprietorship, I would have to think pretty hard about whether to take the loan or just cut my losses and move on.

I do feel it's generally inappropriate for the government to just give money to a privately owned business, but this is an extreme case where businesses are going under as a direct result of actions taken by the government (reasonable as they may be). not sure where I stand on this one.
I couldn't resist the little jab about AI. :)

Saying this as a big fan of the old guard, McCarthy in particular.
Traditional medicine includes the use of medicinal plants, which usually turn out to have actual properties.
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Sure, but that's not how statcounter or most advanced analytics packages work.

Your browser doesn't make a request to the analytics server if you're blocking it, so while the content server might know the user agent, the analytics server generally doesn't.
It's great for edge computing. Chick-fil-a is using something like this at all their restaurants.

https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at...

https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/edge-computing-at-chick-fil-...
For us Apple nerds, his voice suddenly pops into your head when you read the sentence.

Cant believe it has been 9 years.
With the way market is doing today, all you get with that 1t$ is suffer inflation.
This a highly dangerous view. Everyone is at risk of serious illness from this virus. The old are less likely to survive a serious illness but many young people get very ill. When many young people get very ill and overwhelm the health care system, those young people die also.

People believing this approach is sustainable and acting on it are killing people and will not solve the problem.
Data – the new oil, or potential for a toxic oil spill?
I understand your pain but it's worth the switch.

I tried to aggressively go Type C exclusively starting in 2017 and have pretty much been there for about 18 months. There are two devices that need an adaptor which I simply glued onto the cable, but then again a lot of devices have gone completely wireless.

People had the same problem with the 30-pin to lightning transition, ADB to USB type A, the super messy VGA->various kinds of DVI and DisplayPort -> (mostly) HDMI and the like. They've been worth it in the end.
The US will likely end up with national paid sick leave policies. Probably two weeks of paid sick leave per year for full-time employees.

I wouldn't call that strictly uplifting per se, it's important non-the-less and uplifting to the average worker.
> The only ones that any idea of specifics are the staffs to members of Congress

The bill [1] has been available on House.gov since it was introduced.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6074
I left work due to burnout and wanted to try my hand at doing something creative - creating a new product.

Had some time set aside for travel before I started, but then this all happened.

Could not have picked a less convenient time to try and travel and make money off SaaS / AppStore.

I remain optimistic and am expecting to learn so much more than I would have in the more comfortable market we are now leaving behind.

To health and family first though.
As far as I'm aware, that is only true for L1, not H1B, which has a 60 days grace period. I don't know how it affects folks with AOS to an I-485, though.
Most small business owners don't have "wealth" these days; working assets are usually leased so if they're not working, they're an active drain on your cash reserves. Businesses go bankrupt for cash flow reasons all the time. I know a few small business owners with 5-10 employees, and they all take home less annually than I do working a salaried job.

The other challenge is that when customers do start buying again, you have to start whatever marketing engine you had back up again at the same time everyone else is doing the same -- which is going to make it really expensive for everyone (while also ramping up the velocity of Google's money printer).
Where is my API Gateway?
I agree with the author's assessment of the state of the web and browsers today. Both are far, far too expansive and risky for my comfort.
SARS-CoV2 is the name of the virus for the 2019 Coronavirus. The previous one was just SARS-CoV.
Hand Mirror App: One-click webcam check
I built this project to help track covid trends in countries and states.
https://covidtrend.com
Charter staff told to report to offices despite positive coronavirus tests
yes, but I believe that, while urgent can get bumped by emergency, urgent is not covered by elective and urgent can proceed when elective is banned.
What would you invest in right now to make money?
A large display is one thing, but it's the usage of a 45W DTR CPU that pushes requirements to the extreme
We've been using fly.io at Draftbit for the last couple of months and have nothing but amazing things to say about the platform, Kurt and the team!

I've gotten several friends to switch and they've all said the same thing. If you haven't given it a shot yet, there's a simple 1 click Heroku to Fly deployment you can use to give them a shot.
Mathematicians develop new theory to explain real-world randomness
> That being said, I feel like I'm being a little picky, especially when I think of how nightmarish it was to get any of this shit to work with my Windows machines.

It would be different if it had always been like this with Apple. The older models show that it used to work pretty much flawlessly. It is such a big step backwards and just because other manufacturers are crap at it doesn't make it okay. :)

I feel like I could live with the performance issues. But I'm doing a lot of switching between offices and having external screen/mouse/keyboard not working straight away is such a major pain. Even sometimes during the day after walking off with the laptop and coming back to the desk it doesn't work. It could be my specific setup but then Apple doesn't sell any official docking setups either AFAIK.
from another thread: We're not solving db latency yet. A good place to start is aggressively caching at the edge. We offer an in-memory redis cache for this that can replicate commands globally. Beyond that you'd need read replicas which will be possible once we launch persistent storage. That said, latency between data centers on the same continent is often less than I would have thought!

You should also checkout something like FaunaDB.
I thought that, but then how do you explain situations like Italy? Such a tremendous number of people are suffering.
> Yes, business owners will eat some loss to their personal wealth.

You might be overestimating the extent to which many business owners have any wealth at all.
Consultant. Projects seem to be drying off (Same story for a couple of other friends as well).
- Lower carbon emissions
- People becoming more introspective
- Time spent with family, if this goes on these kids will have more time with their families than before
- People can actuallly see that global changes are possible
How coronavirus is disrupting public transit (data from Transit App)
ah ok, so you mean the "node membership is homogenous". i thought you were talking about the transport layer.
That's really not a concern in recessions. You'd really have to go out of your way to get that result. I expect deflation due to demand destruction.
Ask HN: Why don't employers post an applicant-to-job ratio?
We’re not talking about Coca-Cola Corporation there buddy, we’re talking about non franchise restaurants, bars, hotels, salons, etc.

A year of no income for these businesses will cripple them, and coming back to a mountain of debt (even if low interest) will essentially ensure that they never become profitable again.
There was a Freakonomics podcast episode I recently heard that further expands on your point regarding socialist vs. welfare states:

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/socialism/
After a week long light dry cough, it was rapid onset and more resperatory/lung focused kind of immune response, almost like a lung infection. The acronyms SARS is a pretty good description.
Improving Pretty-Printing in Python
Why is this flagged
If GDP contracts 10% this year - a real possibility - there is literally zero chance of inflation. The real enemy is deflation.
Depends on the country and what they're doing right now, as well as how far the situation has come there. I think it's probably going to peak in places like Italy soon enough, likely within the next month or two. In places where it hasn't peaked yet or not much was done to contain it (like the US), I can see it lasting about twice that time, maybe three times as long.

Either way, it'll likely be about July/August before things have started to calm down worldwide, and a bit later before things have completely returned to normal.
There is an ancient tradition of Sabbath Years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmita
It'll be after we hit 4, 7, 10, 14% inflation. And right now inflation is less than 2% and falling.
Wow, my heart goes out to you people, in my mind the tech industry was safe but apparently I hadn't thought this through.
> this crisis has been downplayed over and over again?

This crisis has been overplayed. California governor suggesting schools be closed for 2.5 additional months? This is getting absurd. More people were in Baltimore shootings last week than died in Santa Clara Country from Wuhan virus.