skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is also completely ridiculous considering new deal, WWII command and control economy, korea/vietnam draft, and other various 'high alert' scenarios which have occurred while 'the America that all America loves' is a little locked down for a while
How do you explain hundreds of people dying every day in Italy?
Yes, but at the same time, it is absolutely, immensely true for me, and I doubt I'm in a minority small enough for OP's point to not have some merit.
Appropriate disaster reading :-). Others have pointed out how the black plague killed off a lot of serfs and really put a dent in feudalism because of it. It is all well and good to own a thousand hectares of land but without the serfs to work it, its just a nice park to go walking in.
> "In part because they've realized that they can complete their core work duties in less time, with less distractions, and zero commuting."

Not me. I actually want to go back to the office, despite the hassle of commuting. Working from a jury-rigged home office is incredibly inconvenient.
It won't be a popular take because there is little to no evidence to support this assertion.
As soon as the CEOs and Board Members are willing to shake the hand of everyone coming back into the building we can resume work.

The rich aren't going to be exposed to risks like the working folk whether they're at the office or not due to their normal distancing.
I'm assuming that the salt is pMNXMNt7rQlb96XH
and the hash is pMNXMNt7rQlb96XH|VPa7diLcpJCimd9K1pj+qP1HA9AKnI6uvV/t7HcVVL8=

Here is one of the snippets i tried to generate the hash with
https://dotnetfiddle.net/Daj5mG
Yeah, do your due diligence. All there is here are HQs with upper management, just enough to tax corporations here, and often some research. Manufacturing - almost zero, zilch, none. And if there is something, it can't manufacture anything without all parts supplied from outside (cheaper) countries.

Of-topic a bit, but you know that 'swiss' army knives (victorinox, wenger) are manufactured piece by piece in Germany/Austria, and only final assembly is done en Suisse? Just enough work to pass the criteria to get the stamp 'swiss made', not a nanometer more.

I understand it from cold corporate logic, it really minimizes the costs and they ask for premium price nevertheless due to that swiss tag. But as we see now, this approach hits the wall hard in certain, very real scenarios. At least they kept the milk industry with long term subsidies afloat.

Go talk to Swiss doctors if you care, ideally in cantonal hospitals that will take most of the sick. Most of our friends are doctors in the biggest one in whole country, quite a few in emergencies. You will hear stories...

None of the stuff I mention is in mainstream media, all act like all is under control from day 0. Talk about independent journalism.
Bringing Astropad and Luna Display to Windows
Absolutely, I'm getting very tired of the constant hacker news posts telling me that working from home is the future, that I'm getting twice as much done in half the time. I'll tell you what I have, I have chronic back pain from my uncomfortable dining room chairs and chronic anger at the fact I can't get timely answers to my quesitons.

Some people like working from home, fine, but for many of us it's just not right.
In the late 90s, I worked with a small team, about four of us, and ported a DSL soft modem from Windows NT running on a Pentium II running at 450Mhz to VxWorks running on an ARM SA110 running at 120 Mhz. The original software and hardware team that developed the Windows drivers claimed that it would be impossible to meet the processing requirements on that platform. In the end, under worst case line conditions (R-S correction thrashing like mad) we could still get it to run with the clock turned down to 60Mhz.

Because that was all the processor was doing. No virtual memory, no disk, no IO, no graphics. Just feeding the DSP data on one side and NAT routing on the other.

Under the same line conditions, the PII running windows was useless running at 450Mhz. Mouse would barely respond, keyboard was lagging, screen wouldn't update.

Like you said, depending on what you are trying to achieve, you can perform near miracles on confined hardware if you have confined demands.
I get disappointed when cool stuff like this is made with <canvas> instead of <svg> because I want to look at the DOM, and understand how it was made, but I can't.

That being said, this is a great visualization.
If for some reason somebody joins late / gets kicked off, and you're watching something on youtube, youtube supports time-index URL fragments like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4-SxcCO5d0#t=3m17s , and you could start a new watchparty with that URL.

It's heavyweight and probably better to just sync by somebody shouting a timestamp, but if you need things synced there you go.
75W 5v bricks can't be that easy to come by were as 12 or even 19v we're usually tripping over.
You’re lucky today. Tomorrow isn’t so clear.

Ad spends are dropping and dropping fast. Amazon is a retailer. Apple sells luxury goods. Cloud and Microsoft are dependent on big spends from enterprise.

All of this is at risk. Tech isn’t independent of the Main Street economy.
>“The more people are infected, the more likely it is that Blankfein and other billionaires will become infected as well.”

May be true, but at the same time

>Billionaires and other members of the elite have the luxury of social distancing while making money.
That's assuming people live "in town." Many don't and work out of a suburban/ex-urban/rural apartment/house where they admittedly tend to have more room.
I’m fully aware of how much cash Apple has, but they’re known for having very relatively small software teams looking after whatever app needs updating that release.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Safari/WebKit was one of the larger teams within Apple dedicated to a single app.
How the Czechia through community effort got to 100% mask usage in 10 days
Not during normal times. ;)
You can explore the same world easily in AVR, ARM M0/4, or PIC. And really be running on bare metal.
Alternatively - what if we come out of this with a positive view of Medicare for All and labour unions to empower workers to reclaim their lives.

I hope this time at home "spoils" workers as to what they're missing out on in life due to working themselves to the bone so that they can reject calls to return to our prior broken society.
Once jobs can be sourced to anyone who can work from anywhere and businesses get it down to a "science", guess what: your job can now be replaced by anyone working from anywhere. In any country, with much lower wages.

No-one's skillset is that unique.
The Joy–and Exhaustion–Of Nonstop Video Chatting
Maybe just buy a decent chair?

I picked up a liquidation sale Aeron on Craigslist - totally worth it.

Also I’ve found it easier and faster to zoom since everyone is remote (don’t have to try and find an open meeting room).
Awesome attitude! That's probably what got you the internship in the first place.
Yeah I think I'm in agreement with you... That's why I'm working on my own project, hoping to get it off the ground so I can set my own rules and do something like you describe :)
Same, would love to live in a community with businesses interspersed with homes and be able to bicycle/walk everywhere and let kids roam around without risk of being hit by a car.
As a navive app/web/backend developer and most importantly as an iOS user I can definitely live with this.

We don't want filthy legacy webapp shit, but 2020 high quality user experiences.
> Now they will just use cookies instead

In the linked article it actually mentions that this policy is being widened from cookies to the rest of script-writable storage.
One of two books I plan to read as well! Starting with a re-read of Thomas Sowell's "Basic Economics" as a refresher on the field.
HTTP2 and GraphQL solve different problems. HTTP2 solves the connection per concurrent request problem of HTTP. GraphQL solves for lower overall request count.

With “just” HTTP2, you’d be doing one of the following:

- creating bespoke endpoints

- creating an adhoc GraphQL-like API

- introducing latency equal to the round trip latency multiplied by the number of layers the query is deep
You don’t lose your healthcare when you get laid off unless you choose to not pay for it.
You need to put some real money into good home office furniture, if you work there permanently.
Perhaps installation and config are not as streamlined as one of the many available k8s setup tools, but the tools themselves are much easier to understand and less broad than the k8s system.

Used nomad/consul/fabio at a previous job for running containers, it was very easy to adopt. Way less new concepts as well.

It's worth mentioning I later chose GCP managed kubernetes for a small cluster to run at my startup. I had to learn a few new things, but I'm not familiar of any "nomad as a service" offerings, so I went with k8s on Google cloud.
My company threw in the towel as soon as this whole thing started and has since adopted a "remote first" ideology. This means a block for meetings from 12 to 1pm PDT with no meetings to accommodate folks with kids needing to feed them and allowing children in zoom meetings. It hasn't been exactly smooth sailing, but it's starting to work.

I'm sure the guys with the spreadsheets in the back would love to knock off that expensive SF office space as a line item.
Forced working from home while during a pandemic. It's nothing like working from home under more normal circumstances.
Then those billionaires should pour some of their billions into research to find a cure. Even one that is not perfect, like the one we have for HIV/AIDS currently, should do the trick. A HIV positive going treatment still has the virus but the plethora of drugs it takes daily stops AIDS from developing. Just ask Magic Johnson, he's doing it for almost 3 decades now.
Maybe this virus will kill enough baby boomers to balance the social security solvency and transfer wealth up a few generations.

I’d you don’t agree with me, than what makes what I said any different than the Topic of this thread.
Thanks for the feedback. I love SVG and actually iterated with that at first, but getting the site to be zippy and responsive required using WebGL
(also shilling)

Another similar site (that a friend of mine built) is TeamFlix. He built it to stream with his brother and didn't find any alternatives (this was a few years ago now).

https://teamflix.com/
Not even the trolley, just the shareholders of the trolley company (and not even all of them, just the preferred class).
"Slack Overflow" ;)
one way to fix the Social Security funding shortfalls...
Until someone they consider a peer gets it, and then they'll change their tune.
There are sources out there you can trivially find to better inform yourself, please do so.
It’s not going to be a popular take because it’s ignorant. It’s crushing health care systems wherever it spreads. The common cold doesn’t do that.

It’s possible the fatality rate is slightly lower than is commonly reported and the infection rate is slightly higher, but that’s not going to make a tremendous difference in terms of the number of deaths or in the impact it has on the health care system.
Lipstick: How Choosing and Using?
Madrid is literally turning ice skating rinks into temporary morgues because they can't store all the dead bodies: https://news.yahoo.com/madrid-ice-rink-morgue-coronavirus-11...

edit: And South Korea has tested 345k+ and only 9k have come back positive: https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=&bid=0030
They've got an ice rink in Madrid piled with corpses. Pretty sure that never happened from the cold.
You are making the very false assumption that we have a choice between deaths and economic collapse. Like it or not, we are seeing faster growth rates than Spain. With our awful response, we could be easily heading for 2+ million deaths if hospitals get overloaded as expected. Workers will not show up anyway because it is dangerous for them and their families (this is already happening). This will cause the economy to collapse at least as bad.

Sacrificing grandma to Mammon is not the answer.
The KubeAcademy courses are nice little (free, no-reg) intros, and they have transcripts if you read faster than you watch: https://kube.academy/courses
Getting a good home-office setup is critical here. In my previous house I had a separate office and enjoyed working from home. In my current house we do not have a separate room (adding it now) and I can't get anything done there (doesn't help that the kids are home from school).

On the response times, if your office is one of constant interruption for that, then you can simply just have video conferencing on all day rather than just for meetings. This helps with "Hey Bob, what's the answer to this?". It has the same level of distraction as being in the office and just interrupting each other all the time. (which is awful for some, and useful for others)
Likely due to a much slower USB controller on the phone as well as the overhead of having to convert between multiple types of file systems and data transfer protocols.
I currently use an Oura ring, which I like, but it only tells me how I sleep, I'm looking for the data around WHY I didn't sleep well.

So I'm building an app (still in dev) https://withbliss.net in order to track my day and activities so I can look for trends around what is affecting my sleep positively or negatively.

Please sign-up and I'll drop you a note when the beta is ready. Shouldn't be too long. Very keen to hear get this out quickly and get feedback.
I tend to agree unfortunately. I've spent 10+ years working remotely and the past two weeks have been brutal productivity wise now that my wife is working from home and both kids are home too. As a self-employed individual, it's worrying to me what the next 6 months of this will do to my output.

edit: and I feel bad for worrying because we're in a much better position than many others.
Trouble is, that nowadays the serfs are in China. In the Middle Ages, servants would flee a lord that was too harsh. The Church and the towns with their rising merchant class would be another way out.

Instead we have healthcare tied to the job and the tech hiring cartel. Where is the revolution?
That is the what lies at the rotten heart of capitalism.

I mean, people say a lot of horseshit about what capitalism is or isn't ("I'm a capitalist because I'm for making money and profits.", etc), or creating a fake context where the only alternative is ownership by the state.

But at the end of the day it's about the worker employer relationship, period, end of story.
It's like talking to a brick wall. Medical technology is approximately monotonically increasing, so it's absurd to think the test we cobble together in the first month won't be improved upon. The CDC FUCKED UP. I expect careers to be finished. I want a criminal investigation, just in case of corruption, and I hope some people lose their license.

But even in the current environment, testing is important. It guides public policy, and it helps doctors triage patients in serious condition. It still helps to limit the spread, and will do so even more when testing overtakes the infection rate (aided by lockdowns). If testing improves, then it could cut weeks off a global lockdown, because the long tail will die that much faster.

Not everyone is a neckbeard with a programming job who can live in a basement for two weeks without a single human contact, so anything that helps extinguish this disease helps. Now if you'll excuse me, I should go shave.
Elon Musk wanted employees to stay in the factory, working, while he himself ran into hiding. He doesn't want to be stopped, even if it means people will die on the way:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4333698-tesla-elon-musk-win...
It seems that remote and office work both have their pros and cons, and they are complementary. So how about a world where you can go back and forth? I've worked from home about once a week before the crisis, and I might make that twice in the future. At the same time I'm missing the ability to do sessions at a whiteboard and just learn what others are doing by just walking around, or simply having lunch with colleagues.
Yes, to me being "in it together" means suffering is shared.

I said it was a nice gesture, and it is, but to me in the long run (assuming the book store doesn't go out of business) you still get your pound of flesh, you just get it a bit later, that's not really suffering together.
Yea, I mean a lot of businesses are terrible, but there are good cases as well, including all those businesses that budgeted and paid for equipment to allow their employees to remote once this became a clear issue in early March.
There are a lot of factors at play here, and it's highly unlikely anyone has enough information to know the exact optimum response.

From a pure health perspective, physical isolation is taxing both physically and mentally. Not everyone has a home gym; is 6 months of sedentary behavior going to cause more cardiovascular complications than coronavirus in the same at-risk groups?

Economics also has health and well-being effects for the many people.

When we flatten the curve, we extend the length of sedentary behavior but reduce the number of people turned away from the hospital. However, as a previous article [0] describes, if we end up turning 90% of people away anyway, because the virus is just too contagious to control, will sedentary people have weakened immune systems or encounter other complications at a rate that challenges the benefit?

As another person who doesn't really know: if I were the feds, I would be using this time to mass manufacture masks and testing for every single American to wear daily, and once those were produced and delivered, reactivate significant parts of the economy, with voluntary precautions.

The mask culture in Japan may be contributing to the slower spread. It will go down as a great gaffe all the people who shamed others from not wearing masks in the western world.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22598009
Better yet, switch to standing!
Seniors playgrounds benefits: reduces hospitalization
Ah yes, because there are so many people in the market to buy rental properties in a giant economic downturn. Nevermind the reason you are selling is because its impossible to rent out.
> This is a precursor to some straight-up Orwellian evil.

Not sure how someone who cares about this stuff isn't already aware by now (judging from the surprised tone of your post), but Canada has been investigating, harassing, and interrogating people for some time now, for doing things like writing books that criticize Trudeau. Look into Ezra Levant.
Please see my reply to CiscoCodex's comment.
"is the standardization of life to be deplored if we can have a house like Joe Dobson’s, a standardized helicopter, luxurious standardized household appointments, and food that was out of the reach of any Roman emperor?"
Are you just militantly unaware of the news or something?
I used to have a membership to this small co-working space. I could walk there in 5 min from my apartment, had 24/7 access, free snacks and drinks, etc. Sadly, they ended up renting the whole space to one company.

I wonder how hard it would be to start a small, community co-working space.
If productivity turns out to be similar (or better) despite this handicap, I'd be genuinely curious to see how companies respond!

I'm personally very pro-remote (have worked remote at corporate gigs before) and it'd be great to see more companies adopting it. There are some seriously big benefits and, if the tooling keeps improving, I think it could be a real competitive advantage for companies.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197121...
Maybe I didn't express myself properly at the end - I meant be pissed off, I sure as hell am, but these massive failures that will cost many lives can be found everywhere. I really did expect more, not strictly from politicians (they should just listen when SHTF), but many 'experts' with influential roles in government.

In strictly just society, those with powers for this situation should be judged afterwards for their effectiveness, or lack of it. I wonder if we will see this in some form somewhere
Specific questions about a software product are better answered at support forums (of that product) or stackoverflow.
Great idea!

My wife was just doing this with a friend in st Louis over text.
I'm a little sad that I'm pointing this out but Trump is maybe the only politician in the entire US with big enough balls to stand up to billionaires (and really mean it) in this sort of situation if he wanted to.
I live in one of the COVID-19 infection centers and I have to say I'm a little distracted by all of it. It's hard to focus when I'm worried about where I'm going to be able to get food and not being able to relax on the weekends because I can't go outside.
Yeah so maybe try making a real native app instead of trying to hackaround with web sites?

Apple isn't obligated to implement every single "this is now cool on web"-thing on it's platform to satisfy small niche of people who will find value in them.
Every presidential campaign website executes suspicious third-party code
I tried using your app on an iPhone (with Add to Home Screen).

- If I press the settings gear, the text on the settings page is about twice as wide as the screen, requiring horizontal scrolling.

- On the front page, if I open the color picker, it's partially offscreen.

- On all pages, if I do a scroll gesture in the wrong direction, it scrolls the entire UI rather than just the scrollable part. Admittedly, iOS has long made this hard to avoid without hacky JavaScript, but it's been doable, and it's much easier now [1].

- The hamburger button on the left opens a modal view that covers all of the screen but a small margin on the right, making it unreasonably hard to exit.

- If I try to create a tag or folder, the name prompt appears under the other modal view and is improperly sized.

- Oh, and the UI looks thoroughly non-native, e.g. Google-style floating action button, UI not covering the status bar, bottom tab buttons too short, etc. The animations are also haphazard.

My point is not just to nitpick. It's just that while I sympathize with the idea of PWAs in principle, almost every single time I see someone talk about theirs, the PWA in question has immediately obvious glaring UI defects that have nothing to do with browser limitations, and leave it far below the standard of a good native app, or even a bad one. I honestly don't know why this is, but experiencing it over and over makes it hard for me to care about PWAs.

[1] https://benfrain.com/preventing-body-scroll-for-modals-in-io...
Although I don't care much about billionaires (I care about the thousands of people they employ though), I'm pretty concerned about small businesses. Many local non-network non-franchise businesses go bankrupt these days.
The National Response Framework
You can't overstate quite how sub-optimal.

I work almost completely remotely; my colleagues are as a result of this situation, and many of them having to try to work a daycare job at the same time with nurseries/schools closed.

I'm sure they don't think their experience is representative of normal remote working, but it certainly won't make anyone in a similar position think 'hey this is great'.
I’m saying selections are harder than React, not that D3 is harder than React (because you can use React with D3 without selections). And selections are harder because, although they are functions of data, they are used to apply transformations (deltas) rather than declare representation (state). And as I say in the tutorial, thinking in terms of transformations is most useful when you want animated transitions and to optimize incremental updates. So for example I try to let Observable’s dataflow handle as much state as possible, rather than doing everything in event listeners.
Yeah, but I mean people (with children) don't get to experience what a normal time working from home looks like.