skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess that using safari online on remarkable is not possible or at least difficult with exporting chapter by chapter. Any recommendation for 10 inch e-ink which works with safari online?
How so? Take the current target of the initial article. It has support from both sides and I think of the 4 lawmakers who initially brought it forward, there was a 50/50 split Republican and Democratic. It is more that we get to pick the flavor of totalitarian capabilities we live under, not if we have them or not.
How to not practice emotional distancing during social distancing
Best example of the above is YouTube. Have to reload like 3 times to get the real desktop site on iOS just to have background video playback and access to all videos on most pages.

(This is with YouTube set to request desktop site always in settings).
as someone who worked previously at google, and went back to the start up world working with php mysql, this is not true at all
Anyone else find it interesting how well taken and high quality these photos are? It seems to contradict the article's agenda. Photos from within police vehicles, showcasing weapons, and some where the person "under arrest" has hands behind their backs but no cuffs.
The problem with all of these is that different browsers such as firefox and safari have trouble with negotiating connections.

For example we built the software we use on https://intercoin.org/meeting or any website. It works across safari on ios and chrome and we even made a workaround for webviews:

https://mobile.twitter.com/qbixapps/status/11564841564250398...

But the sdp connections between the browsers fail and A can hear B but C can’t. Weird.

Zoom or Google Hangouts doesn’t have such issues because they always assume one specific environment. Cross browser videoconferencing is not easy

But hey ours is open source and not locked into Twilio or these guys:

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

Search for the string WebRTC
I don’t understand why this couldn’t be a mobile site. Usually native mobile apps are a subset of the desktop site. Many lag in features and the apps get abandoned since their teams get re-orged.

GitHub, you could have shown the world what a truly responsive and progressive website GitHub is.
5% of cases need hospitalization for ~2-3 weeks; 2% require an ICU; 1% a ventilator. We have 96k ICU beds (and 160k ventilators) in the USA. Most constrained means we can't have more than 4.8 million sick at a given time -- but that's over 2-3 weeks, which yields ~2-3 years for 200 million people.

I assume the "41 years" people are using some other constraint.
Better go get guns if you believe that ‘cause a 3 month lockdown will be much, much, much, much worse than the virus.

This ain’t gonna be more than a few weeks tops. People have lost their damn minds. Go outside and get some fresh air.
Quite a few actually. Cooking isn't that difficult.
I'm not able to log in on Android. Clicking "Sign in" opens browser (Firefox Preview in my case) where I get the standard GitHub login flow with 2FA. But after logging in it goes back to app and the Sign in button is still there and nothing happens.
I can only tell how we were taught 10 finger typing, some 30 years ago:

Don't aim for speed! Aim for typing without errors and - more importantly -
a constant rhythm. Music helps. Start extremely slow and spell out each word letter by letter in your mind.

You should find many exercises out there for how to get started with all fingers. But the key is really to slow things down. It's very much like learning an instrument.

If you keep practicing this say 10-20 minutes per day you'll soon see progress. Speed then comes very naturally and without much effort.
There are so many plain wrong points here I simply dont know where to start. It feels like the person who wrote it has no real commercial experience or very little experience with described services.
Well, I see no third party apps for having a full client for Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook or Discord at least on the iOS App Store due to this rule [0], but I certainly won't be surprised if they do the same for Google Play if they succeed on the App Store with Apple.

GitHub can easily file a complaint and Apple will happily remove any infringing app off of the App Store.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#int...
Having cash on hand is independent of being a lean company.

40 years ago it was illegal in the US to pile on debt and use that money for stock buybacks. Which frankly is reasonable as looting struggling companies is bad for the economy and arguably fraud.
How long until those ICE agents themselves contract COVID-19?

I don't see gloves, or masks or any protection at all.
But this presidency also believes in the unitary executive theory of executive power. From that perspective, this bill wouldn't limit the powers of the president to direct domestic surveillance however he sees fit, it would only limit the types of surveillance activities that as a practical matter are directed in the first instance by the DoJ as part of their delegated powers for general law enforcement activities and restrained by the FISA court process.

In other words, all it would do is prevent the type of activities that Trump finds personally threatening, without restraining him at all.

Of course, all of this assumes that Trump actually thinks strategically and analytically. But all the evidence is to the contrary. Even conservative, pro-Trump supporters describe him euphemistically as a "transactional" president.
This is literally why I hate native apps... they will always take resources away from the website which is an absolute necessity. Unless the service is app only (rare), now you have 3 separate teams working to build the same solution.
In my case it's a SEP-IRA, which makes it significantly more complex. But the other factor is that for cashflow reasons I'd have to sell assets to make the contribution and take the capital gains tax (or maybe a loss... ugh) on that sale, which can't be reversed later. As to whether this makes financial sense, it depends on if I have an underpayment penalty, which I'd have to finish my taxes to figure out...

So yeah, it's complicated. For reasons.
Jails are going to become death camps. This is beyond stupid, forget inhumane because they really don't care.

Joe Biden is no prize but at least he can be shamed into behaving better. Hopefully we'll get vote by mail and end this.
I did some digging for those interested.

Compile on Stable (Rocket): https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues/19

Stabilize Proc Macro Hygiene (Rust): https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54727

Partially Stabilize Proc Macro Hygiene (Rust): https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/68717
There is so much doomsday nonsense like your post I don’t know where to start. People have lost their god damn minds on the internet. Go outside and go on a walk. If you don’t understand why a 3 month country wide lockdown would be orders of magnitude more dangerous than this virus, you need to snap yourself out of the trance you are in.

People have lost their minds around here.
Those are black zip ties.
> Google places very little emphasis on things like code readability and testability.

Why do you say this? I've seen the opposite.

I can't submit untested code or code that doesn't have "readability" approval. It's certainly not perfect but testability is a huge part of any project I've worked on.
My script looks very similar to yours, but with an additional (and optional) CloudFront cache invalidation step (on `/*`).
NJ Woman Submits False Credentials at Hospital. Tests Positive for Covid-19
You're saying you don't agree, and then agreeing with one part of what I said without addressing the core of it. Yes people could anticipate that stocks will drop, but stocks are not the economy. a recession isn't about stock portfolios going down, it's about GDP decreasing. What does a restaurant having to close because of a public health countermeasure have to do with a hedge fund anticipating that stocks might go down?
This pandemic is bringing forward a lot of social issues that we as society should be addressing: if our healthcare system is so bad that leads people to submit false information just to receive care while not incurring a burden of debt, shouldn’t we have done something about it? Now we have an unidentified corona victim running around in the most densely populated state in the US.
So... being forced to wear clothes at all when in public is a breach of civil rights, too?
You might well be right, but I, along with lots of other firefox users run extensions like NoScript which blocks 3rd party javascript unless explicitly whitelisted, so I expect a much higher proportion of firefox users probably don't show up on analytics packages (which is how statcounter stats are generated). DuckDuckGo Privacy essentials plugin also blocks statcounter, as I'm sure do many other privacy related plugins.

Even if you are a firefox user who doesn't use third party plugins, firefox itself will block statcounter if you have enhanced tracking protection turned on. I couldn't find a similar setting in Chrome.
Is goverment helping small and medium sized companies in someway?
Well, the browser market is, simply put, in a state of complete fucked up-ness for the past two? IE6 was released in 2001, so yes, two decades. there was a brief period of huh, thigh might finally be okay when Firefox launched, and when MS finally - literally - buried IE in 2010, but that did not last long.

That moment was never a stable equilibrium. Too few participants in the market. Too much money in it indirectly, so Google gives it away for free. This of course absolutely makes it impossible for a real market to emerge where someone pays for the browser tech itself directly.
Switching to colemak didn't make me any faster at typing compared to hunt and peck, but it did make it much more comfortable
Assuming this is true, it's a terrible idea. Regardless of what you think of the politics of deportation, doing it in such a way as to encourage the spread of disease is wrong. Coronavirus doesn't care about citizenship. It reminds me of the CIA's fake vaccination program:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/02/aid-groups-cia...
> please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Is there any evidence ICE is "using state of emergency to arrest people obeying the shelter in place order", or are they just continuing to do what they were doing before the shelter in place order?
In what way(s) do they deviate from proper form?
I'd agree with going with blank keycaps or similar. I learned to touch type in Jr HS, so my typing wasn't terrible. But I definitely had some bad habits. One that I particularly wanted to unlearn was I always looked at keys when typing numbers and somewhat less the corresponding symbols. Plus a few other small ones.

My beloved thinkpad keyboard died one day, and I decided to finally try a fancy-schmancy mechanical keyboard. I spent a long time working on a laptop as my primary box, and didn't want to carry another keyboard, so I just stuck with ThinkPad.

I spent a couple weeks feeling like I couldn't type, to varying, diminishing degrees. But I really focused on doing the right thing rather than the fast thing.

Now I'm super happy I did spend that time on it. I love my mechanical keyboard, but it wasn't necessary to improve my typing. Though there are a number of benefits I do see because of it's ability to be programmed. I have a bunch of custom settings on it just for my workflows.
This is why I use GitLab
Ask HN: Any book recommendations in the time of a pandemic?
After having Laurie Garrett’s The Coming Plague on my bookshelf for over 2 decades, I’ve started reading it in earnest. I also have on my read and reread pile:

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

Spillover by David Quammen

The Great Influenza by John Barry

The Rules of Contagion by Adam Kucharski

The Mathematics Behind Biological Invasions by Lewis, Petrovskii, Potts

The Plague by Albert Camus

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
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Well, technically, yes.
“100 Years Ago, We Feared the Virus”
For those of you who don't have make-guile, your GNU make probably still supports loadable modules in C (or your favorite C-ABI-compatible language): https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Loading-O...

I've been using that at work recently.
I would say that’s already functionally the case with the debt ceiling, and that’s a catastrophe every time it comes up.
Is it smart to pick a lot of random people off the street and put them in crowded spaces? That’s surely a perfect breeding ground for covid -19.
Thats only true if regular crashes aren’t allowed to take place.
maybe it's because I live in Denmark and my wife's family is Italian, but I guess the answer to how many people I know is essentially everyone I know (even the younger 20 year olds at my work) and the answer to am I kidding you is no.

I admit when I lived in the U.S the answer might have been less but it was probably still "lots of people", I have generally been the worst cook I know and I can still put together about a dozen decent meals.

on edit: but note that I did say the spur left was the tastiness of delivered food so actually I am confused as to are you kidding me based on inability to produce tasty food?
Setting up a CI/CD pipeline to publish a static website to S3 using (for example) GitHub actions is pretty much a triviality.
Even on the coasts, most restaurants focus on salt, sugar, and oil. I find there’s often just no spice used (not just heat).

Also, due to the low margins of the restaurant business, I assume they’re using subpar ingredients.
>In the House, a bipartisan group of representatives called for meaningful reforms to federal spying powers, including Section 215. Democrats and Republicans who voted against the bill—and even some who voted for it—joined together to say that this legislation didn’t do enough to protect everyone’s privacy rights

>Yet in the Senate, Majority Leader McConnell has prevented Sens. Steve Daines (R-MT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Mike Lee (R-UT), Ron Wyden (D-OR) and others...

And "The act passed the house..." is the second sentence of the article.

Or how about last week's headline

>152 House Democrats Join GOP to Reauthorize 'Abusive Government Surveillance Powers

What are your expectations exactly?
Still, restaurants are commodities. Even in normal market conditions, there's plenty of churn in gastronomy. It's harder to restart a factory, and consequences on the supply chain might be more profound.
macOS's does.
It's nice but I don't think json is such a great format for it. The overhead of parsing it is incredibly annoying along with being unable to pack binary data which is what unix tools can deal with to some extent
I am sure all the waiters, cooks, restaurant owners, shop owners, shop staff, cleaning crew, construction workers, gardners, pilots, cabin crew, airport staff, taxi drivers, dentists, haidressers and business operators staff for all these businesses will be more than happy to stay at home for 3+ months without pay.
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Agencies with bad PR hop at the opportunity for ride-longs from reputable journalists - I assume the LAT journos buttered them up and led them to believe they would write a flattering article, then dropped this.

...so they're probably excluded from doing ride-alongs with ICE now.
Could you help me in understanding this? In my head if dividends are paid out, wouldn't this drive the stock price up the same as if a buyback happened? Or is this some sort of market inefficiency / irrationality where the market is rewarding stock purchase volume rather than just looking at the total expected value of the company?

Edit: sorry about that, I get it now after thinking through it more.

Let's say the stock is truly worth $100 (assuming we could figure that out). Then if the company does buybacks, the stock trades at $100 - great for the executive with stock options. However, if the company pays dividends, then the stock price is reduced by the expected value of those dividends. So total expected value is the same, and long term executive comp is the same because they get the dividends as well, but short term they would prefer the buyback because of the higher stock price. They only benefit the same from dividends if they have a long term view.
Unfortunately, the physical and mental health of people in detention is not well-regarded.
+1. Although the dev experience is convoluted on AWS, you end up learning more and I think it is quite cheap as well. I have a tutorial as well on how to deploy a static website using CloudFront, S3 and Route53 : https://raviramanujam.com/post/blog/meta.html
‘Semantic Generation Pyramid’ for Image Generation and Manipulation
There's a difference between adapting to different forms of demand and what you would do in a traditional recession versus your customers not being allowed to visit you because of government intervention. There's nothing for a restaurant to do here to respond to this particular kind of shock. Sure, you could sell through doordash etc, but setting that up and building a remote customer base was not a risk mitigation strategy 3 months ago - it was an expansion opportunity.

And demand shock isn't the extent of it. How many companies could reasonably have been expected to anticipate that their employees will have to work from home? Remote work isn't an option for everyone (good luck remoting into a wetlab), and some companies have built cultures that thrive on people coming into work to meet employees face to face, find opportunities for teamwork and innovation etc. This is a fundamental set of behavior changes, not just a simple demand shock.
What percentage of shareholders are retirement funds - owned by retired people that saved rather than spent?
Just so people know, you can use "favorite" for that.

You can also favorite comments.
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yes to action, not surveillance. but i remember the patriot act having lots of popular support (but not from me). it still makes me mad thinking about it.

police powers (internally delegated coercive power) are largely the domain of states and localities, not the federal government (who's responsible for externally targeted force), along with an FBI that's limited to federal concerns, like interstate commerce and crimes against the federal government.

citizens need to be ever vigilant about maintaining those distinctions.
This sounds backwards:

Electric cars are fungible, social fabric is not.

So we can lose Tesla and be fine with remaining electric car manufacturers or new ones. In contrast, losing a long-term social hub is a lasting negative impact.
A business like this is not insane per se. The time horizons relevant in investing are so small that you can round the probability of a black swan to zero. So there will be investors, and reserve capacity will be cut.

Unless some completely new regulations are passed, nothing will change about the basic incentive structures of markets. And these incentive structures are more powerful than whatever an investor or a CEO may feel.
>The reason that this comes up so often is that HN is a much larger and more diverse community than it seems.

I agree with what you're saying, and appreciate the point, but there's a practical basis to the frustration as well:

Sometimes seemingly banal comments are down-voted with no explanation or reply, and this starts the "You're posting too fast" chain, and next thing you know any slightly contrarian view (which, apparently, I hold in spades) is prevented from being presented. (It's literally happening to me as I attempted to post this comment).

If people want to down-vote, that's their prerogative; I'm not interested in accumulating points. But the mechanism of throttling people with down-voted comments contributes to an echo chamber, even if it serves a higher purpose. I've been hanging around here for a long time, and it feels like it's gotten a lot worse, especially for someone on the less common side of the political spectrum. It's hard to participate sometimes.

I realize even the discussion of voting is against guidelines, and I have no solution, so I'll bow out. I appreciate the thoughtful reply.
I read Google, I upvote.
I don't think you changed my mind on banning buybacks, but I'm grateful for this insight!
Did I read this right?

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Edited: seems not, but juries out, looks like I might have read the intended but un-evidenced subtext. Apologies.
I write guides for people who do not speak English fluently. I keep my sentences short, I use simple words, and I use the Oxford comma. It helps a lot.

I moved to Germany when I didn't speak German. The government uses complex language to talk to people who don't speak German. It made me angry, and I wanted to do better.

In my opinion, sentences that start with the condition are easier to read. You already know if they are relevant to you.

For example, "If you meet condition A, you must do B" is easier to parde than "You must do B if you meet condition A".

I also avoid idioms. They are fun, but they are hard to understand.

I have many other tricks, but your two tricks are the most important.
Taking on debt is an unusual way to return money to investors. Taken to its extreme there are two mechanisms to unwind a business by returning money to investors.

1. Steadily pay out dividends or buy-back stock based on profits. Buy-backs benefit those who hold onto an unwinding venture longest, whereas dividends provide an even return. Eventually when the company has nothing left to sell the business shuts down.

2. monetize the companies balance sheet and distribute money to the investors - Mortgage the assets and borrow against future earnings. The goal in this approach is to steadily transition from low-risk to high-risk debt and eventually bankrupt the company. Naively one would expect such an approach to yield ~5x the value of an otherwise mature business, and leave creditors on the hook.

The latter approach needn't be malicious either, simply leveraging a mature business until it can only support interest payments would be viable - bankruptcy would occur when the company runs into trouble and has no assets to invest.

The latter path needs to be regulated to have a healthy and stress resistant economy.
For sure dude. They can just play video games and order from Uber eats for all their meals! They totally won’t riot out in the streets....

(/s)
Arguing that cars aren’t a commodity but social institutions are comes across as satire. At best.
Yeah, I know this one is incorrect. I wasn’t sure whether to include it or not but decided to because I think people generally say it for the same reason as the others: to sound fancy.
> If your app uses, accesses, monetizes access to, or displays content from a third-party service, ensure that you are specifically permitted to do so under the service’s terms of use.

GitHub provides an API to access all of these things.