skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are going to be a lot of interesting conversations with landlords in the coming months. "If you make me pay rent, I won't be around when the crisis is over. If you let me off paying rent, I will get back in business and start paying rent again faster than any other way you could fill my space."
"money has to come from somewhere" is not a bad thing. Not all the money is reasonably allocated with equivalent side-effects.

For example, it could come from the $748 billion dollars that are allocated for the military budget, which would take away $327 billion and still leave the US as the country spending the most money on the military.

Maybe that means we stop wars that break windows in other countries for a year to focus on healthcare issues, and maybe even, down the line, we find money to improve education for the future generations.
On the one hand, not great. On the other, what can someone do with access to your PIA account? I don't think that gives them any ability to snoop on your traffic, and there's no user data in the account for them to steal.

They could mooch off your access within the 5 device limit, or sign in online and pay your bill?
okay,thanks
For whatever reason, video content is tightly tethered to copyright based gatekeeping profits. The cycle can be seen in literally every country.

Similar reasons for why Youtuber film-makers aren't treated seriously by Hollywood film-makers ie their portfolios aren't taken seriously. There's a weird snobbishness in the whole industry
How It Works – From Hashing to Let's Encrypt Issuance
Sandboxes are security features that have to implemented though, and if implemented incorrectly will create vulnerabilities. I’m sure google is on top of these but these random unheard of browsers need more scrutiny
This is FARK. There's a bug. It's fixable. No one is going to give up their phone over a bug that is easily fixable. Come onnnn.
Also 2% of 2 billion is 40 million dead. We are 3 months+ since this outbreak started. Everyone keeps talking about how exponentials are hard to grasp, but whats harder to grasp is:

fear + exponentials + too_many_unknowns == impossible to plot

A feature that everyone talks about is how startups grow exponentially, fine, i get it, but most end up failing and going to zero. What if this was such a case? We ascribe to it an exponential growth path and yet it fails to take off for many reasons like perhaps a dog walking service or WeWork isn't the cat's pajamas?
What deals could a small label make with an unknown trader with no reputation that are better than uploading the backlog to Spotify with little effort and hoping for a bit of income? This is assuming that the label has the right to upload the works.
I think the temptation is to put too many seeds into the mix, creating the problem you identified. When you broadcast seeds you want a certain number of pounds per thousand square feet and instead you have a ball that will cover a few square inches. You aren’t trying to fill an empty lot, you’re trying to get a few self-seeding plants established.

I did some in a couple places where I no longer went, so I have no idea what happened to them, and unfortunately the spot where they seemed to work got turned into a building the very next year. I’m in areas with low clay content in the soils so it’s difficult to source materials without buying them.
The lower 70% includes pretty much the entire middle class.
> Nothing important from CDE is included. None of the technology ideas.

When I used it, the most important thing about CDE was that it was a consistent unified desktop environment with very clear and consistent human interface guidelines and extremely good built-in help. Under the hood things that you refer to may well have been great in their own ways, but from the user's perspective they're just implementation details. NsCDE uses different technology but successfully implements the same design principles.
Giving to everyone is the simplest and cheapest and quickest approach. If you do not need the money just pass it to someone who needs it more.
You think that's bad?

A cruise with 200 people was denied port in Portugal, so the ship went to Spain, dropped all the passengers and they took busses to enter Portugal.

One of the many reasons why the border is being shut
I thought DDG was powered by Bing, like Yahoo. Not DDG by Yahoo by Bing. Color me surprised. Any evidence for this claim?
If you're worried about people coming to funnel this money overseas, UBI could be excluded from expatriation of money with deportation/blacklisting from UBI being consequences for sending the money abroad. Otherwise I don't see why a migrant being an "economic" migrant would make much of a difference. The basic premise of UBI is that ultimately that money is going to flow through the economy (it is going to be spent), why does it matter if it is a citizen spending it on a Big Mac or rent versus an H1B migrant versus a lottery visa holder versus an "economic" migrant?
hey i remember when we did this in 2008. There was a huge economic meltdown, I just lost my job and was living out of my truck, and the Republican party wasnt looking like a real winner in the upcoming election. So it was decided that everyone gets a "stimulus check."

I got $700 from the Republican party...and it basically felt like $700 to keep my mouth shut about how Bush didnt care to find Osama Bin Laden. it was a few hundred and in return i was expected to stop complaining about how TARP bailed out big banks but left me living in a stale coffee scented Dodge Ram. I am a little bitter about the whole gesture but let me tell you what I spent that money on: credit card debt.

Now here we are in 2020 and the Republican party is looking at cutting checks for everyone again and I gotta wonder why. What is this really hoping to achieve? Write me a check and in return I stop complaining about how my health insurance doesnt cover a flu shot? or how the country has more prison beds than hospital beds? That basically everything the president promised he'd do he either ignored or buck-passed to Obama?

I dont want corona cash. I want an economy that doesnt shit the bed like clockwork every ten years and send me out looking for handyman jobs. Id like a healthcare system that doesnt include ambulance rides that are as expensive as a used car.
You can run vault on a single t3.medium backed by s3 with auto unseal and get pretty decent performance.
I'm not poor and I'll totally spend it.

I think it's important to realize that this tiny stimulus, whatever it ends up being, $1k, $3k, whatever, is just the sugar to help the massive bailouts go down.

All the companies that took extra profits from the last round of stimulus saved cash and bought back stocks to inflate the stock prices.

The virus was only the needle that popped the good times bubble. Now the market is in free fall, stopping only to bounce off of the branches (circuit breakers) on the way down the cliffside.

How about we accept the individual stimulus and fight against the bailouts this time? These companies aren't too big to fail. They are just too big to be run by profiteering gluttons who fall back on the taxpayer when their business plan is shown to be a failure.
Why not do a progressive amount based on income (available from the IRS)? Those in higher income brackets would receive less, while those in lower income brackets would receive more.
This was also submitted yesterday [1], but didn't spark much of a discussion then.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22591303
It's called Spotify, Apple Music, Google Music (does it still exist?)

My brother made a song with 10 yearly listens and I can find it on there.

Also Bandcamp is a thing. Very few dinosaurs or really, super niche artists are on neither platform.
The least they can do. I was thinking of all of the strip mall style mom and pop places, and how rent and such would affect that. I cannot imagine a landlord evicting tenants any time soon, because who the hell is going to then rent the space?!
Saying “Property is theft” is a good sign of being a communist. I have no wish to relitigate “True communism” (another hallmark of a communist confronted with reality.) but I will say “tyrannical dictatorship” far from being opposed to communism is a requirement.
Can you explain how your job is directly related to the company's stock trading price? Not being sarcastic are something, just genuinely curious?
Chasing our own tails.

If this virus does very little to zero damage in the US, I’m afraid it will become the worst “cry wolf” situation in the history of humanity.... when the truly dangerous bug arrives.
Everyone who comes to CA for example, citizen or not, can get a drivers license and access to a variety of social programs and they are protected by the state against federal prosecution. It's a legitimate concern.
This is a classic flat earth argument.

‘Because people are saying so...’

Proper definition is the only definition that there is. Improper definitions may be valid uses in colloquial speak, but that doesn’t work for accurate description of products at hand. Success of physical books, as in the data, is a proof of proper usage. I rest my case. Time to go back to work.

Edit: Response to the child comment below:

You're going in the wrong direction.

That 'books are not files' is a plain fact. It has nothing to do with popular opinion or liberal usage of words. Although, if you were to look at it liberally through the lens of popular usage alone then also the usage and growth of dead tree books over the shallow market of files masquerading as ebooks will reveal the same plain fact.
Via yandex I found this repost: https://devsday.ru/news/details/75390

Dunno if the privacy is any better, but you can at least view it with adblockers on.
> Engineering taught me one very important lesson. We can never get something for nothing. There is always a trade off. If the government is handing out money, it has to come from somewhere. Its either taxes, which means that tax money collected can't be spent elsewhere. Or it has to be printed, which is inflation.

If we leave the money aside for a moment, what we're looking at here is the need to massively reorganize our way of life to fight this virus. We need more medical care, more ventilators, less contact, less travel, etc. This is going to be really expensive. We're trying to turn a big portion of the economy on a dime.

Think of it like WW2, when the US converted automobile assembly lines to build planes.

There's going to be economic dislocation, and it's going to be rough. We need to reallocate resources rapidly. Once we've figured out what we need everybody to be doing, we can work out the money end of things.

And yes, we will pay for this with diminished wealth and higher taxes in the future. But if we allow this virus to spread freely, it will overwhelm our medical system and millions will die.
Anyone knows if this applies wordwide? Specifically Europe/Spain
Could it be that Google is biased? Why everything is biased when compared to Google?
This is much larger than a phone which increases the effects of small bends. I managed to break one of the early large-format ebook readers with a glass display in a jacket pocket, for example.

I happen to have Sony's competing 13" e-paper tablet already and I'd be nervous about putting it into a backpack without something non-bendable next to it to prevent flexing.
Which is why they are trying to hire an additional 100,000 people.
And in the meantime, you're just choosing not to consume their content, right?
Literally Youtube. If google actually seriously got into the media business by buying up some smaller film catalogs worldwide(i'm sure AMC/criterion/some other country specific catalog collections will be easily purchasable for them as a starter), we could see streaming services go under overnight.

I think anti-trust litigation from old lawmakers is the only thing stopping them
> Now would be a good time for a general rent strike until the government steps in to help small businesses

If we're talking about the US here, 'until' seems to be an optimistic presumption that our government has any intentional of helping small businesses.
I feel for the OpenBSD developer who apparently expected the project lead to be a reasonable grown-up, but ended up slapped in the face.
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Thank you! This is why I read HN comments before (or instead of) the article.
Has to be that way. Same as Kindle Oasis.
I would note that "ratified by W3C" does not mean much nowadays. WHATWG won that war and the W3C now essentially rubber stamps whatever WHATWG decides.
That's generally the case. Alaska's UBI program requires that the recipient live in Alaska for the previous calendar year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund#Permanen...
This doesn't really explain your position on why you don't just buy/rent $50 worth of movies per month.

edit: I don't have Spotify or Apple Music. Can you expand on this without putting it in terms of those services?
In my country, you get tested even if you haven't had direct contact with confirmed COVID19, but have the symptoms and have travelled to selected countries or states in the last 4 weeks.
I don't know if anyone is still following this post but does anyone know if there are studies around the cost in lives of the shutdown itself? I recall reading somewhere that every 1% of unemployment equaled some number of additional deaths per year. Does anyone know of a study of the human cost of a shutdown vs. the virus itself ?
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Instrumenting Go code via AST, Part 2
I see those on computers run buy laymen who somehow installed one of those nasty toolbars that change the default search to Yahoo or other stuff.
Yeah, the same is happening with internet infrastructure and basically any other service. Because of the centralized nature of these things, everyone is now overloading the few at the top.

Maybe this will equalize when people start using alternatives because the big ones can't keep up?
Heritable genome editing is not inevitable
Streaming music has set the price floor. For the price of an album a month you can stream all the music you want, even new releases.

What makes you think movies should have a multiple of 10 instead of 1 for a monthly subscription fee?

I'll attempt an answer, the cost should be whatever the market will bare. The market could likely boom at $50/mth, but at $200 it would be niche. The industry seems to even be coalescing around $30/mth (my guess) through consumers paying for multiple services.
discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22597395
We have this already. It's called unemployment. We don't need stimulus for people with existing paychecks.

We need conditions and durations on unemployment temporarily lifted, some for of access for self-employed or under-the-table workers, and some form of block grants for companies that would otherwise face bankruptcies (which would cascade) and and obviously enormous increases in funding that would be required by this.

edit: why am I downvoted? The problem is not giving extra money to those with jobs, the problem is giving money to those without jobs.
How about we celebrate them as the heroes they are and get our government to help out where needed?

Ditto, frankly, for gig economy saviors running around delivering for GrubHub et. al. There's no reason these need to be subsistence level trash jobs. If we really care, now is the time to fix that at the regulatory level.
Keeping the wheels moving on the economy is much easier than restarting the economy.
Ask HN: How to load balance WireGuard VPN traffic?
I work for a small business, and like many of us, we fulfill the dev and ops rolls. That meant quickly setting up VPN access for 50 people with the current events in the world.

We're bumping into capacity limits that one cloud box can handle bandwidth wise, and I don't like the "all eggs, one basket" approach we have.

Is there a way to load balance wireguard connections across two or more servers? Thank you!
I"M SO EXCITED.

This is the most online engagement I've seen from a tech conference... and it seems to be better than even usually online things, such as esports tournaments.
You in fact have no inherent right to control other people's computers.

It's hard to justify why you think that creators have a right to the contents of your hard drive and wallet. I don't remember being party to the social or legal contract that created such rights nor realistically do I have a voice in changing it.

If society says that as a poor person in addition to having less of everything else I ought to enjoy less movies, music, books, games then perhaps society can go to hell.
I agree. My point is a safety net doesn't feel safe when it's one election away from being neutered.
Stock prices are an expectation of future cash flows, the rest explains itself.
even on bing ?
I would like to see some kind of survey of Amazon workers to find out what they're thinking. All we ever get are news articles reporting a simple fact (good I guess) and surrounding it with either positive or negative language choices (not as useful).
Disclosure: I maintain an open source web component library.

This is a strange take on what I think the author is fighting against: a less open web platform. What confuses me is how the adoption of Web Components will somehow make things worse than they already are. Take a look at any contemporary web framework and you'll see there's little overlap in compatibility or portability -- sometimes even between versions of the same library!

I've seen first hand how difficult web components can be, but they're still a better solution than trusting the foundations of the web to the teams at Angular or React. In my opinion we need an API that lets young developers start their web apps with plain HTML/CSS/JS without experiencing into the same decades-old issues that created frameworks in the first place. How should an intermediate developer beging organizing their CSS? Or importing helpful libraries? Or even something as simple as making a reusable HTML template without spending any time in Webpack?

The truth is that we don't have easy answers for these aspiring developers, and we won't get any sympathy from them by demanding the web return to it's document roots. I think Web Components can solve all these issues with some guidance from the community. The platform is ready and so are we.
Please do, I'd like to give a talk like that once Covid is over
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no argument here! However, our government hasn't show its ability to "spend within its limits"...
To me stocking up means less trips out. What's the point of quarantine if you're still doing a weekly shopping trip?
Do note the vaccine testing skipped the normal animal testing phase and went straight to human trials.

I'm pretty sure the regulator is willing to work with you. Also you should contact them now. It is actually possible you can tap into a lot of incidental industry experience if they point you toward someone who has spent a lot of time doing medical equipment certs or ventilator certs before.
There are a surprising number of movies that aren't available on any streaming platforms.

https://johnaugust.com/2018/missing-movies
> To flip it some. They say even if you survive, you may have lasting lung scarring. What if that preceded the covid?

That doesn't make sense. Covid follows the same exponential curve in all countries. If the US has a bunch of latent infections, but no huge surge in pneumonia, then that would imply there is something special about Americans that keep them from developing the worst symptoms, or something special about American old people that, despite contact with the young silent carriers, they do not develop the disease. There is no reason to believe either of those are true.

They say we are a week or so behind Italy. Italy is experiencing hospital overruns. If the week-behind estimate (based on actual numbers) is overly conservative, then we would have expected to see hospital overruns in the United States from old people with pneumonia. However, we don't have that. Thus, if the week-behind estimate is overly conservative, we are certainly not at the same point as Italy or ahead of Italy, so we can say that we are anywhere from 1 week to 1 day behind Italy which is still a pretty good bound.
One of the things I love Haskell for, and there are many reasons, is that it's great at building compilers and interpreters. Monadic transformers for effects, pattern matching in functions, strong types, polymorphic typeclasses, the list goes on and on.

Finally, if anyone is interested in building something like this, there is a great tutorial that, which I believe the author used but am not sure: http://www.stephendiehl.com/llvm/
Actually, we should be paying Interest only for the next few months. The Principal should be deferred.
A psychologist's science-based tips for emotional resilience during Covid crisis
Some absolutely will. That's not really what I'm trying to argue against, people who would become homeless or starve should absolutely be helped.

However, a lot of people seem to be under the impression that this would boost the economy (because the idea is that almost everyone gets money so they can spend it instead of specifically helping with rent or food), which I don't think it will currently, or at least it won't in a meaningful way that helps the businesses who need it.
Whom Do You Trust?
I've heard people say this won't change anything, and that rich people will just use it to buy gold-plated toilets while poor people will use it to buy meth waffles.

I remember the last time everyone got checks from the government.† The $1,200 I got was enough to keep my family from living under a bridge.

There are tens of millions of people living paycheck-to-paycheck, so even if this helps some people, I'm in favor of it.

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Stimulus_Act_of_2008
more like quantitative easing.
The stock price is determined by dicounted cash flow valuation of profit, or at least what stock traders estimate it to be. If the stock price is crashing, that means traders are predicting reduced profits. Reduced profits mean layoffs.
The windows aren't broken. And we both know it won't be meth, its the new fancy fentanyl.

those are not mattresses. those are bank accounts.
At this point Amazon's logistical performance is a matter of national security. The degree to which Amazon hiccups is the degree to which the nation is unnerved.
Amazon engineer here. Many of us (engineers, data analysts, fulfillment center associates) are working more hours to cope with extremely high demand coupled with border closures and extra delays in the road system. This is, I think, good for humanity. If your local store is out of stuff, maybe Amazon can bring it to you, and in any case you don't have to leave your house.
Think of all the people that are worried about getting food and other necessities? My family is in quarantine and we couldn't get Peapod to come for a week so we ordered some emergency food on Amazon and then were able to get Whole Foods delivery (after a lot of trying) to come say day. Now I can sleep better at night until we start running out again. It's all a balancing act, but I am very thankful that Amazon is still out there delivering to the masses. I think it would be a much worse situation without them.
I don't know the names just that there are 2 variants. One which is cheap and one which is expensive. The cheap one does not protect you but shall protect others if you've got the virus. The expensive one shall protect you but you cannot wear it for long because it's hard to breath with it. That's what was said in germany from official site a week ago or so. May be outdated now. I Think they also said that you can get infected through eyes.. So a mask MAY not be enough at all
It actually may drop around Greenland and Antarctica, as well. The reduced mass of ice causes the water level to drop despite the overall sea level rise. This of course means higher rises elsewhere. Surprisingly, this didn't occur to anyone until just a few years ago.