skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The opinion articles are on the same webpage, about the same topics as the “non-opinion” articles. The single indicator of the “opinion” status of these articles (which in the case of all papers mentioned here is just the word “opinion” above thw articles) is easy to miss on a skim.

If you ask me, the same journalism standards should apply to every word on the website of any news outlet that wants to claim to be “unbiased.” Whether a paper without opinion sections would stay in business is a good question of course.
Zoom Phone System experiencing issues
I remember a very different consensus on that when it was Russians and fake news, with a lot of fear that the disinformation would destroy our democracy.

Why is China somehow different? They even have paid online trolls at a level that other countries can only dream of.
For sure but don't forget that many people cannot work right now and are not getting paid so many people and spending far fewer dollars in whole so their spending may be far far less as a result, for example, buying some bags of rice, beans etc.
The devil is in the details; a lot of the things they're getting tax breaks for don't benefit the public. Why are they getting tax breaks for building warehouses and data centers for themselves? Stock based compensation for executives?

Also, regardless of what breaks are available for what activities, their baseline tax burden ought to be much higher. We should be drawing funding from people who can afford it and use it to lift the burden on people who can't.
The only box that rust has over others is runtime performance. One would consider languages such as Kotlin/modern C# to be the modern sweet spot as they tick all the boxes, and for performance they are ~2 time slower than rust which is just fast enough for anything that isn't HPC/AI/very specific need
It depends what you want to use it for. It's a distraction free device, which has no notifications, web browser, social media, etc. If you get easily distracted by that, then it's worth it as a note taking device IMO.
Well I am still in computer engineering, but I've always considered that engineers always have a "minor" in whatever discipline in which they are working. Of course you can be a generalist web-dev; however, anything more interesting usually requires specialization into either a technology or domain.

To answer your question, I used to be an engineer more focused on front-end work, UX, and design. These days, I've gone back to my educational roots in economics and mathematics and moved more towards ML and prediction markets.
I can't read this without creating a free account, which I refuse to do. Is there another way?
It always feels that the mods are biased against your side. I've personally posted countless chidings of anti-US comments.

More explanation, if wanted, is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22386811

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Yeah I agree, it's likely not an engineered virus at all. It was likely incompetence on the part of the handlers, and a subsequent cover up to try and reduce/deflect culpability.
Giving money universally benefits people universally. Suspending debt payments only benefits those who (irresponsibly?) took on lots of leverage.
All of the delivery apps have much higher prices than what you can get at the place yourself. I suggest take-out or drive-thru if you're able.
I wasn't aware of a car shortage in the US.
Thanks for this. Of course it stands to reason that this is a defacto reduction in capital requirements no, if reserve requirements are lowered?
It's not clear to me whether the no-new-cases in China is real, temporary or biased sampling.
Lockdown is a temporary measure to prevent any new infections is betting that something will change (vaccine, season-related drop in R0). It can't go on forever without destroying the economy.
Do you think it's reasonable to trust reports of no new cases? Is the sense that is just "no new symptomatic cases that get reported officially", or really none?
I find it difficult to believe that there can be no new cases in a vast country where almost everyone is susceptible, but perhaps I underestimate the degree of lockdown.
The Chinese government caused many virus-related deaths around the world. They covered it up for months and silenced any medical professionals that attempted to warn the rest of the world.

The press has also recently tried to float the conspiracy theory that the US government planted the virus in Wuhan back in October.

Chinese government officials should be put on trial for mass murder. I'm glad he's expelling the Chinese press. They are basically just arms of the government and most likely there to exfiltrate information.
Easily done. I always double check the URL after submitting, just in case it's not what I intended.

But easily done ...
One example: an interview with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Reisman

https://youtu.be/GNG6ZzDh9C8?t=383

I'm a fan of Musk's work, but there's plenty to criticize about the man.

However, there's little doubt that he's an extremely smart person.
>because they're concerned about the efficacy of tests other countries are running.
That's rich. I understand that the US developed test had a lot more issues that the standard not-invented-here one.

And a lot of countries do the test twice, and only act on double positives or double negatives.

>doing nothing is not doing harm
How can this be OK? People will spread it if they think they are not sick.
How so? Borrowed money can only be re-lent if the person who borrowed it puts the money in a transaction account. Why would anyone bother to do that?
I’m curious if phone calls are more resource intensive than video streams or if there are a disproportionate number of callers.
Airlines have been issuing refunds. Also, new bookings have fallen off of a cliff.
Yeah, and if my (high) income goes towards helping people who need it, THAT'S GREAT. I'd love to give more to those in need, but my cost of living is a function of competition with other high earners, many of whom would also probably give more if not for the high cost of living. If we all give, problem solved.

This is exactly what progressive taxes are for.
Hilarious but probably time to leave this site...I got down voted into oblivion for pointing out the US economy would probably collapse due to repo operations 44 days ago...

Too bad, I guess anyone thinking outside the box and pointing out that our herd is going off a cliff is problematic...
Well, until the first western cost accountant tells you to go back and "sharpen your pencil" by 20%.

Your well constructed arguments about resilience will fall on deaf ears come bonus time.
Can somebody explain to me how saying ‘generic bad thing’ and ‘China’ in the same sentence is racist? Is this question racist? Serious answers only because I’m in EU.

Bonus question - is Spanish Flu racist?
I doubt that the VC boom would have ever reached the heights it has without easy money policies and quantitative easing from global central banks. You would likely still have homeless people, but you would certainly have far less rich people.
How many people order takeout beer at restaurants? Depending on the city it's often not even legal.
Similar and different in some ways. Our SSO is free, which makes it a lot more accessible to startups and companies just beginning to go up-market.

We also provide a more generic abstraction than Auth0. They essentially "take over" your auth screens and show Auth0 UI. If you use WorkOS, it's not visible to your end-users and you can customize the sign-in experience how ever you want.
Sick Man of Asia though was mainly referring to the opioid addicted Chinese population at that time.
okay but they're only raising wages by $2. It's disgusting. Jeff Bezos makes millions of dollars an hour.

no bootlicking responses please
>You’re diverting the conversation from “China has expelled legitimate reputable journalists from many Pulitzer Prize winning newspapers” to “Hey, look at US, who expelled CCP propagandists”. I find this infuriating.

The CCP apologists on this site are getting out of hand.

Comments about the inability to trust CCP data getting down-voted in other threads, now the CCP are expelling journalists? Wonder why that is? Hmmm...
What would France stand to gain if these companhias are forced to shut down due to a "force of nature" event, or worse be bought out by a foreign investor due to the restructuring you're advocating?

I'm all for market efficiency, but the real world works differently than text books.
And how do the restaurant staff pay for food and shelter in the meantime?
The Great Anglo-Saxon Health Experiment
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...
John Oliver claims Disney censored his jokes about them
> It's also shielded by plastic around the edges so you can't get to it with a more blunt object, such as your elbow.

My guess is the idea is to protect the relatively fragile button against blunt impacts, like vandals or bicycle crashes.
Yea -- that's very interesting and insightful. It sounds like false positive rate is hard to nail down in practice, but I think from what you say there's a good chance it's well below 1%.

I won't delete the comment for now, but generally I am trying to be wary of giving actual advice -- I do know stats, but I am not an epidemiologist and I definitely don't want to give out wrong information during a time like this.
Don't forget that the US Government has sought to pursue charges against journalists under the espionage act for reporting on government misconduct, and that America's great firewall (Facebook) started suppressing RT after the 2016 election. Also, Al Jazeera is not carried by most US cable providers.
Wal-Mart, Sears, Costco, target, dollar general, Sam's Club, etc could do the same thing. FedEx, ups, and USPS aren't beholden to Amazon. Likewise, how hard would it be for grub hub and the like to detail their drivers to make last mile deliveries from local stores? I'm serious. Is it 1000 work hours or 10,000,000? Hell if I get laid off I'll need work and slinging boxes out of my suv is as easy as it gets while providing a valuable service in a crisis.
Dropping reserve rates to zero massively increases FDIC's and NCUA's risk exposure, and simultaneously increases the size of craters that individual banks can make.

FDIC and NCUA are not bottomless pits of money, and I expect that, with a key safeguard removed, banks and credit unions now have the power to discover their bottoms more quickly than anyone should care to contemplate.

I should disclaim: I am not a banker, I am just a completely random person on the Internet, possibly a troll, and certainly someone who occasionally posts with a trollish twinkle in their eye. Don't take this as financial advice. Anyone who assumes I know what I'm talking about will get what they deserve for their efforts.
because.... they're working from home? if that's the case, that was a piece of info I was missing.

I suspect even if they're working from home, having a nanny/cleaner/etc at home isn't "no value" just "less value".

But I still don't know why - if this is the case - why people who are still employed/working full time, getting their regular paycheck, just working from home, would feel the need to stop whatever domestic services they had in place.
There's growing resentment against Western media for the way the news reported. Take a look at following links. I saw one of them personally on NYTimes couple of days ago. The one from CNN below the banner reads "California prisons" but the picture is from a mosque in Istanbul. One incident is a mistake, but multiple times same "mistake" only show malevolence.

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg...

https://img.piri.net/mnresize/840/-/resim/imagecrop/2020/03/...
Ah, so reading up on this, it really is unintuitive. I guess the only worry then is if this will bite tax payers. Thanks for the expanation
$1000 stimulus for every American
Well, certainly not “the clinton foundation” for starters...
Thanks, but I am not a big fan of open source products :)
This is untrue - please don't spread misinformation. The order explicitly lists "Home-based care for seniors, adults, or children" as a permitted essential business.
Who would order a takeout beer? If I was going to get takeout and wanted a beer I’d stop at a liquor store or gas station on my way home.
They're just permatempts. Every company has them these days.
The content moderators specifically work out of an Accenture office and aren't really contracted to facebook. They are Accenture's w-2 employees.
Minnesota too
Holy cow......I really need to learn Italian
that's only limited by how you define the industry you're in. we'd have a lot more to worry about if no NPV positive opportunities existed at all (which would imply an exhaustion of relatively free raw inputs).
Factories like this do seem that they might be better suited for operating during semi-lockdown conditions than e.g. offices. Large, ventilated spaces, probably more separation between employees, etc. If I were looking at a stepped reduction in lockdown conditions for businesses, I'd look at operations like this first.

That said, I think the prudent thing right now is a complete shutdown of non-essential (and it's nonsense to say these factories are "essential") businesses until we see a blunting of the infection curve. When we've measured an effective baseline response to full lockdown conditions, then we can start thinking about what to bring back online.
Assuming it’s done on a per-country basis, how else do you not get taken advantage of?
It is not clear if this is temporary. I do not see an end date just an effective date. Does anyone know?
I think you made an error in saying those Chinese journalists are world-renowned. Certainly not peddling as many bald-faced lies as US journalism, but they certainly also qualify as propaganda?
Don't ask me to re-enter the same thing again and again. For example, don't keep asking me to enter my address over and over again. I'm filling in a mortgage application and the fact that I need to type in my address for a 3rd time made me come back to this thread.
Help. Police. Murder. Stop. Don't. Come back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9ZD3_ppcPE
Part of me wants to say, "oh we've overreacted a bit, we should keep working while observing safety precautions like distancing and hygiene." The other part of me is doomsayer permabear saying that even giving humans the chance to mess something up will result in catastrophic failure. At the end of the day, I certainly wouldn't want to be the one responsible for killing someone's mother or father.
True story in college I used to play arcade games down in the basement of the student union. I discovered that by not touching my nose or face while playing and then washing my hands afterwards meant I stopped getting colds.

I totally think that non-contact buttons and doors would help a lot to reduce the spread of colds and flu.
People Fleeing Coronavirus Head to a New Safe Haven: China
I simply responded to what you wrote, without assumption or prejudice.

This is a far more interesting statement: “The restaurant industry is brittle and consolidating, and the the American middle class might not be strong enough to support it anymore. Recent events just magnify the weaknesses of the existing system.“

If that is what you intended to communicate, then maybe that is what you should have written.

I would conjecture that it describes much of the US economy, not just the food service industry.
How will someone start or grow a business or buy a house, without banks?

Is it your claim that the past 200 years of economic develop were stunted by the banking system?

Without fiat money, you have to disable value-generating productive resources as placeholders.
Germany's Robert Koch Institute just spoke of "up to two years" today...

(Near the bottom of the page if you can read German: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/coronavirus-deutschland-rki... )
It's at least the opinion of the latest languages effort on concurrency:

Kotlin, project loom, etc
I think you must be spoiled by modern high-dpi displays if you can't see any use for 800x480 displays. When I was in school I used to put cheatsheets on my TI-83+ which had a 96×64 monochrome display!
It is like CPR. It is better than doing absolutely nothing and gives extra time for more extreme measures, but on its own it is just delaying the inevitable.
IIRC, I read somewhere that brass/copper doorknobs naturally disinfect themselves. If that's true, I really with they were more common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_co...
Did you factor in an asymptomatic rate?
I really liked Remarkable hardware, but I ended up returning it. The Software and general workflow to send and manage documents was cumbersome. Simple things like sharing meeting notes with colleagues shouldn't be that complicated.

It's one of those cases where the hardware is amazing but the software is just too painful to use (and I really wanted to like it)
There may be Pulitzer winner journalists working for these newspapers, but that does not prove the quality reporting is homogeneous. Actually the worst type of lies are the ones mixed with truth to hide the lie.
The pricing was a big turn-off for me. The way it added more to the delivery cost per-item rather than being some kind of flat delivery fee, which didn't make much sense, and how it seemed like they were trying to hide the cost of delivery.
On the off-chance any Simpsons fans here haven't seen it yet, Frinkiac [0] is a really fun tool (and generally cool project) that makes every shot of the series searchable by dialogue.

[0] https://frinkiac.com/
I noticed the same thing a while back with DoorDash when trying to order some Cracker Barrel breakfast. It was something like a 30-40% hike across the board. I emailed DoorDash to ask what was going on with the prices and got a super misleading response along the lines of "our partner restaurants set their own prices" [1]- basically deflecting the blame back at the restaurant. So I emailed Cracker Barrel, and they are not (or were not at the time) partnered with any delivery service.

[1] actual text from email: "As stated in our Terms and Conditions, the prices for menu items on DoorDash may differ from the prices on the restaurant's own menu. For example, our restaurant partners are responsible for setting the price of their menu items on DoorDash, and some restaurant partners choose to set different prices than they offer for in-store diners."
Before voting on this post, please note that the body of it is a copy/paste of the linked Reddit post and does not appear to be newsletterguy's personal opinion.
Agreed (I nearly mentioned it in the original post), and stricter capital requirements now than for much of the period since 1981. (Capital requirements don't entirely restrict the capability of the commercial banking sector to expand the money supply either, but they do require undercapitalised banks to raise more equity funding or similar if they want to continue to expand their loan portfolio)
I've had my Remarkable for a little over two years also and it's easily my favorite tech gadget.

Occasionally I'd go from regular work (notes on a project file), to a business or client meeting (pull up notes from past meetings, update with new notes), to a volunteer meeting after work (pull up the previous week's training notes). At each point I had all the information I needed without having to juggle binders or loose-leaf papers.

And I love that I can rework my notes as I write them. So, during a meeting, first draft is just scribbling stuff down, then while people are busy listening to themselves talk, I can drag my scribbles around into priorities and tasks, add a diagram, clean a few things up. This is a completely different workflow from either plain paper or laptop/tablet, and it really works for me.
Author of `linter` / `linter-ui-default` here. The package in no place in its code rewrites the entire Atom package configuration. It does however observe it's own configuration. If observing in itself resets the Atom config, then it's out of the hands of the package and a bug in Atom core.

It's possible that one of the linter providers had that issue, and since Linter providers are only called by the linter package, they wouldn't exhibit the issue on their own. It's not uncommon to have issues that seem like it's the linter's fault since all of the providers do nothing and seem harmless unless invoked by the linter package.

I would've helped to debug this, had somebody pinged me on any of the issues. Oh well :)
You can still put the most recent data on the right, and zoom in to show the rightmost data points. This is an established practice in stock charts and works well.
I'd rather have autarky than a global supply chain, but good work none the less.
White House wants to send individual $1k stimulus checks
I think there is a more reasonable explanation why they are not testing you.
Simply because they wouldn’t do anything with that information anyway. If the test is positive they’ll send you home to quarantine telling you to call back if your fever worsens. If the test would show negative, they’d tell you, guess what; “please call back if your fever worsens, and stay in quarantine anyway”.

So the information doesn’t really matter.

In Sweden once they change tactics from trying to track each and every case, and who they might have gotten it from etc, to a a strategy more about just accepting that it’s spreading and trying to limit the spread in general, and protect the weak. Then they also stopped doing testing here.

Unless you are in a risk group, the test doesn’t really make a difference.
Chloroquine being OTC there may be beneficial, I am eager to see more data on its efficacy.
Crazy. Over the weekend my friend Brent and I built something to help - https://givelocal.co/

Basically, a site that helps you buy gift cards and support your favorite local restaurant through the COVID pandemic.

Would love community feedback!
> Why can't we collectively say, no Americans have to pay mortgages/rent for x months.

Who would say this? The Federal government? I'm no lawyer, but essentially, they would be voiding hundreds of millions of contracts (?)

The Government can't just wave a wand and take an action like this. Even if they could, I don't think you would feel very good about this 'eat the rich' approach for long.

Think about it: Why would I as a landlord keep paying utility bills, taxes, insurance when my tenants don't pay me rent? Why would I pay my mortgage? I wouldn't. I would simply walk away. How long after you stop paying rent before your apartment doesn't have running water?

The real estate market would be decimated. Banks would fail. Trillions and trillions in value and investments destroyed. Unemployment would skyrocket. Goodbye recession, hello depression.

A back door approach to this is a moratorium on evictions, which some states have done. Good luck trying this approach if you're a tenant tho. If this crises is shorter than expected, you'll shortly be evicted and carry that on your record.

I think you're operating on the misconception that landlords and businesses are making outsized margins and 'hoarding' wealth. To think that they somehow would have the ability to continue providing you with services and incurring all expenses without any income is naive.

Direct cash payments to all taxpayers is the easiest, fastest, and probably cheapest way to achieve your goals of bailing out those at risk.
That kind of defeats the purpose of "shelter in place", doesn't it? With so many asymptomatic carriers and children being germ magnets, those babysitters are going to become a very effective vector for spreading the virus.