skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this is a naive question, but... why can't we temporarily just stop the whole chain of debt instead of forcing individuals and small businesses to bear the brunt of losses? Right now the issue is that if we're not working, we're not making money, and we can't pay for rent and debts. But is the only solution to find a way for the government to give the people money and let the businesses collapse? Why can't we put the burden further up the chain? Doesn't it all end up at the banks? I pay my landlord rent, my landlord pays mortgage on the property to the bank. Can we pause rent and mortgages and debts for a few months? Sure, there would be big damage done to the economy still, but why do we have to let the damage happen at the individual level? I'm sure there's some simple explanation, but I don't understand why.
Looks dead, seems the maintainer gave up.
This Twitter-thread was very enlightening for me.

Craig Spencer is an ER Doctor in New York City, one of the worst hit places for COVID19 in the entirety of the USA. He's written a set of twitter posts (tied together with ThreadReaderApp) describing his experience.
So like Amazon? Have they never paid taxes? Because that quote seems to be referring to a single year?
> just a minimum of 10% over the next 2 years.

Misleading... Sure breakeven is 10% if you assume all-else-equal. Your path to profitability is path dependent. If it moved 10% tomorrow, you would probably be hard-pressed to make any money considering spreads and other trading costs. You really need a bigger move to breakeven in a short amount of time.
Outsourcing.
Covid-19: A wake up call for eCommerce and retailers
Have you tried your experiment with the Muslim converting?

Typically involves a good stoning. Except in Malaysia - there they file it under a mental disorder.

If you are going to play the we are all brothers card…
Forgetting the overload of medical infrastructure for a bit, here are some of the myriad of issues that this leads to:

1. There are 20-50 year olds with pre-existing conditions such as asthma who are at higher risk. For example, a colleague on my team has asthma. Another colleague on my team has a husband who has asthma. As a Manager, I can't ask either of them to come into work.

2. What about 20-50 year olds who come in contact with 50+ year old or live together with them? They may be at low risk, but they will definitely spread the virus around more

It becomes quite complicated dealing with these things on a case by case basis.
Virtues when writing comments on HN, blog posts, READMEs or whatever. When you are writing non-trivial, lengthy technical documentation, at some point you may need markup for examples, notes, tables, figures, cross-references, function parameters, class methods, etc. Sure you could still do something like that with basic markdown, but you would need to write down all your conventions somewhere if you are not working alone. At that point you could just use whatever comes with those conventions baked-in.
Is this really the time to add all this crap? People need financial relief and they need it yesterday. Fokus should on how to get this money to people the quickest way possible.
Moving spacing concerns to the parent is an interesting idea, would be fun to try out.

That said, I almost didn't read the post simply because "Considered Harmful" is the most obnoxious title format I know of.
>...looks more like a clever parasite hack

We call this "the federal reserve model" IRL
Spotify is revoking support for all third-party DJ apps
There is a large contingent of itinerant fools who travel the world endlessly in search of identity yet never locate it.
He is right on 0 deaths in Italy, Spain has one but 15% hospitalized rate.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/3...
Agreed on both of your conclusions. Looking at the island's topography [1], I'd be hard-pressed to believe there's a pond anywhere on that island, excepting maybe the northeast corner. But, their story doesn't add up. The timeline of the article states they paddled to Ryan Island and then it immediately jumps to them getting lost on the paddle back to camp. The whole story is about verifying the existence of this "island", so why is this crux of their journey not mentioned?!

I frequently canoe and camp around northern Minnesota and Lake Superior. I do not understand how they could have possibly traveled a total of 18 miles from Malone Bay to Ryan Island, as the article states. At most, it would be a 1 mile portage and a 5 mile paddle. Getting lost and adding 12 miles seems very unlikely, as you mention, due to all the navigable landmarks in Siskiwit Lake. And that's ignoring GPS.

My guess is that they are not strong paddlers and/or navigators, got to the island already tired, saw the amount of bushwacking that would be required to explore the island, and bailed.

For the record, I think this is really cool. Something about the story, as presented, doesn't sit right though.

[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/48.00956/-88.76993&lay...
And now you are trying to squirm out of what you said.

You were not not endorsing them, you were claiming that they had to be sought out and that that was unnecessary complexity. It is no more added complexity to install some other Debian/Arch/FreeBSD/Fedora/whatever package than it is to install those operating systems' nginx and Apache packages, and saying otherwise is really looking for any excuse to reinforce an existing narrowminded prejudice rather than a real evaluation of complexity.
Happy to read a good interview, i have couple of doubts

can we use payhere as an alternative to stripe or mollie?
Completely agreed. Margin should only ever be used at the page layout level, where multiple components are being integrated. But spacer components are a terrible idea. Just use CSS.
If the government doesn't shut down businesses, we get hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths in addition to the economic crisis, which is here anyway.

Spain's hospitals are collapsing, sick people are now laid on the ground, they are improvising by making new beds in expo halls, etc. It's not just Italy now, we're seeing how bad it gets and it only takes another week or two for the rest of the world.
My girlfriend already accepted a job in Dublin! I have to relocate :(
It has crossed my mind that there's an awful lot of information available online and we often, as individuals, can't really know what's true and what's not. So we tend to rely to some degree on "consensus" -- on the idea that if "a billion people" say it's true, it must be true.

While not a completely useless metric, it's also not a completely reliable metric either.

With having this thought, I have doubled down on trying to stay out of things I'm not personally knowledgeable about. For me, this means trying even harder to stay out of most kinds of political discussions, which frequently boil down to gossip and name calling and deciding which "people" you want to be seen as and who you want to be for and who you want to be against.

Political discussion tends to not be about good policy and what kinds of policies we want to have and why. And I have concluded I honestly don't know enough in most cases to have any idea which candidate I should be talking trash about or whatever. And it all too often ends up a case of me parroting sentiments of acquaintances just to try to connect socially.

I wonder how much that's true for other people/"in general." And I wonder if we need to revisit how politics gets done and revise our de facto use of popularity contests now that you are so unlikely to meet people you are voting for or know someone who actually met them and we are reliant on Facebook and what not, which has proven to be very much game-able.

The degree to which modern politics so often looks to me like the plot from "Wag the dog" is pretty disturbing.

Which isn't actually intended to take this into the direction of politics. It's just to say that rubrics of social proof that were probably more reliable when the world was a smaller place have gone weird places in the internet age and we maybe need to think about that more than we do and try to find solutions.
oh..

Well, here's a kinda similar European version

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_(weapon)
5 minutes to compile the 4500 regexps? Seems like a major tradeoff.
Telemetry data shows traffic falling by as much as 85% in parts of Europe
In my county, during the 1918 flu, they just banned public meetings and enacted a mandatory mask law that said you had to wear a cotton mask if you went out in public. It worked really well. The town that enacted the mask law the earliest and pushed it the hardest did the best through the first 2 waves of infection. It worked so well, that they decided it was an over reaction and repealed the mask laws and then they got absolutely hammered in the third wave.

I don't see why we couldn't do a mandatory social distancing & mask law (even an improvised one) and let people otherwise go about their business. It would help lessen the impact to businesses, and arguably could result in significant reduction in the transmission rate.
Not all toilet papers use recycled paper.
"Major toilet paper brands have refused to use more sustainable materials, the report says, because Americans tend to more concerned than the rest of the world about ideal toilet paper texture in their homes, largely due to decades of marketing around toilet paper softness."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/01/canada-boreal-...
> If you are interested in learning web app security but can't get into Stanford...

there's slides, video, and linked readings for all the sessions in this class, though.
> not about which of the laws of physics are invariant under time reversal.

If I recall from Brief History of Time, it's the combination of charge, parity, and time all together which are invariant. Some google searching also yields that time crystals were shown to disprove time symmetry/invariance.
Many people don't like ad blockers that let in ads. That's the obvious issue with the brave browser. The shocking thing to me is that some people tolerate this behavior. I'll take an ad blocker that blocks all ads myself, not one coming from the ad industry itself. Nowadays, this applies to chrome and safari too if they've gotten rid of their old plugin apis that enabled ublock (hard to keep track of spyware features).
We'll get through this, regardless. Plenty of brilliant minds coming to the fore right now.

When the going gets though, the tough get going. This is really what you will see in the near future.
> - Speed matters. The main reason why Screenhero was loved was because it was fast. We did a lot of work to reduce latency and increase responsiveness — which is critical when working remotely. We weren’t able to bring the speed improvements over to Slack (because of the constraints described in the previous point), which made it far less useful.

This resonates with me, and is definitely why I loved Screenhero so much, it felt VERY fast, and visually looked crisp. Even the initial connection speed was fast, while Slack takes about 3–8 seconds to connect. And also why I was so disappointed with Slack's product, now it's back to the same level as Google Hangouts.

It's surprising that having the same lead, and access to the same source code, that the product was unable to achieve the same level of quality & performance. What would you say the culprit is? And if I may lead the question... Bureaucracy inside Slack? Managing a new team? Having to rewrite on presumably a new language & software stack? Rushing to meet deadlines?

Anyways, awesome to see your back at it again, and that you have such care about latency, people do notice & care!
How well did giving up the USSR nukes work for Ukraine?
Bill Gates, the giving pledge guy, is somehow richer than before he took the pledge. His organization is also mysteriously involved in encouraging the women of developing nations to get IUDs under a Malthusian theory that mysteriously benefits the people of rich nations over poor nations.

This guy may be talking to health experts, but he's not someone we should be taking advice from. He represents the right wing of international development aid.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/whos-racists-bill-gates-spend...
And they specifically advertise it for people pair programming. facepalm
People are going to be behind rent sooner than that.
It’s not their fault their underfunded.
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What's "early" and when, in the opinion of Reuters, would it not be too "early"?
We live in an HN bubble. Most people have no idea there exists a GNU utility called `screen`.
Im sure 1 to 4 is best case and best practice. In an emergency, I guarantee someone can and will handle more.

Additionally, the 1 to 4 ratio doesn't match with the 50k number.
If you avoid them at component definition time and only inject them when using a component, things should be fine.
Only when they have made up their mind to respond. It took the soviets a very long time to respond to Chernobyl. The first instinct of authoritarians is to pretend problems don’t exist.
So the hosts that abuse the system are upset they can't keep guests money they don't deserve. Boohoo
Just start looking - you don't even have to make any decisions until an offer is on the table. It will take time to get to that offer, and you will then be able to see how this crisis has progressed. With more information at that time, you will better be able to decide whether to take the new offer or wait on the old job.
That's basically how medicine or AI works
I'm a Physics major and I thought the article was a perfectly fine summary in plain language.

But I agree, it would be nice to have the primary source handy, right here on this page.
I think many liberally minded people realize that (nothwithstanding a few libertarians). In the US then even have the concept of "The Constitution is not a suicide pact", and during WWII a lot of free speach was limited. I think the reality is that most people don't view COVID-19 as an existenial threat to the liberal regime the live in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Constitution_is_not_a_suic...
I'm a bit of a privacy advocate, so I turn all of the voice assistants off when possible. I have found precisely one situation where they make my life better - cleaning out the fridge and asking how long various items last.
It’s been honestly pretty fun to run this at BackerKit. Sad to say it caught my COO, but actually more inspiring seeing my team banding together and fighting back and letting folks know in Slack. Also, a bonus, a really cool lean use of Drift which inspired us to use that tool better.
This is day 1 of our public beta, and we’re looking for feedback on things we may not have considered. The name is one such thing — based on the response, we’ll think about changing it.

The point of the intro is to convey that I’ve built a similar product before, and have experience in the videoconferencing space, and that this product builds upon the ideas of the previous products I‘ve worked on. Sorry if it came across as haughty, I didn’t mean it that way.
Thanks for the reply. What kind of market analysis did you do before building this, err, again (and better)?

You support Linux (well!), I’m surprised your beta testers didn’t say anything. That’s an interesting problem —I wonder what other blind spots like this can be avoided.
In tech-world speak, he's basically saying innovate or die.

On a long enough timeline, the entities that do the work to understand the problem and respond to it are rewarded, the entities which try to coast by on their past success and "brand" will be punished.
Ive seen a lot of comments like this recently and I think they're really a bit lazy and simplistic. China made some grave errors as others have pointed out, and those are directly attributable to their authoritarian system. Also democracies and be highly organised and co-ordinated. Look at the speed and efficiency with which South Korea and Germany have responded. It's as much about culture as politics.

Also on high volume manufacturing, China's success at this has nothing whatever to do with authoritarianism. None of the big manufacturing concerns in China are state run, they're all private companies build using private capital. Their success is a result of the government getting out of their way.
I honestly don't get why people are getting so caught up on the name. The number of people who use screen is so small compared to the target market (which encompasses anyone doing work on a computer) that I highly doubt any significant number of people will be confused.

If you're intelligent enough to use screen, surely you're intelligent enough to understand the difference between a terminal app and an app that shares your screen.
But what if you work for amazon?

/s
Unclogging Toilets at $400k a Flush Hits Navy’s Costs
Screen has worked really well for us and a handful of companies that use us daily in our private beta. If you do have any issues, let us know and we’ll fix them asap!
Love the idea! Unfortunately the IT group in my company is swamped with COVID-19 related work at the moment. But will be sure to bring it up with them once things calm down a little.

My company recently had a user fall for a very poor phishing attack (entered password into a Google Sheets request) so something like this could save IT and the company a lot of money.
It depends. On the days I've WFH in the past, it was clear that I could concentrate better. Now that I've been doing it for a week, there's no contest: I am definitely far more productive working from home, even though at work I have an office to myself. The interruptions, hallway conversations, miscellaneous noises are all gone. I can choose to temporarily ignore an email or a Teams notification; I can't ignore a noisy label printer screeching from across the office.
I heard Trump and his lackeys were talking about dates as early as a few weeks from now. Meanwhile healthcare officials are all claiming many months, upwards of longer than a year.

It's not easy, but we must listen to the experts.
What made this so ridiculous was that iTunes had a supported method to interface with other devices that worked well (it's the reason why I stuck with my Nokia devices for so long before jumping into the iOS ecosystem with the iPhone 5s). Palm just wanted their devices to be treated as an iPod for no good reason that I could see.
> get IUDs under a Malthusian theory

3 new people per second.

Out of curiosity, which developing nation problems get easier with more people?

Mankind's time of easy answers is behind us.
Is this any different than a PiHole?
HireBounty – Make up to 20k referring your network to their next job
Something we've been working on and would love any/all feedback or for you to try it out

http://hirebounty.com/

Taking the headhunter model and allowing knowledgeable peers to refer their friends/people they know for bounties.

Usually peers know much better about candidates' capabilities than headhunters and we've set up the system to avoid spam submissions, too (you get limited refers).

On the company side, we're thinking about charging either a monthly fee along with the bounty or just the bounty for a candidate being hired.

We has some sweet referrers signed up for the beta, but would love any and all feedback!
Me and my coworkers know screen but we don't call it "screen sharing", it's more of a "tool that makes processes not die after you quit ssh".
I hope we exceed your expectations!
Great to have BackerKit on board!
How does that work if you want a table or a figure or an equation? Is it still markdown and still as easy to read and edit by everyone if there are LaTeX blocks sprinkled throughout the document?
The bank sells the mortgage to Fannie Mae. Fannie puts it into a mortgage-backed security. Your life insurance company or pension plan buys that mortgage-backed security. So it comes right back to you. There’s just no good way to compensate for weeks or months of economic activity that just doesn’t happen.
I love it Binu! I love the interview
This is really exciting. I loved screenhero and I thought the screenhero acquisition was going to play out differently at Slack. However, the features they adopted never worked as well in slack as they seemed to before the acquisition.

Were there any issues from slack corporate with you launching this? Seems like it competes pretty directly with the features they already bought from yall...
So I've been using it in production for about 4 years. I still have a couple of projects there, unfortunately.

Firebase lets you grow super easily at first but the bigger your project the more of a problem it becomes in terms of development.

The biggest problem is that databases are extremely inadequate for anything that goes beyond prototypes or very simple uses cases. There are no relations, very basic querying / filtering, no ACID, etc. your logic to interact with the databases becomes super tedious. Fauna is by far a much better serverless DB.

There is huge vendor lock in and their client libraries are huge. The JS library is like 200kB minified and gzipped. You can in principle use REST to interact with the backend but you lose most interesting features (realtime, sync, etc).

https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=firebase@7.12.0

Cloud Functions are extremely tedious to work with. Most of your functions cannot be tested locally and they take forever to upload. Sometimes even minutes. Sometimes deploy gets stuck and don't you dare cancel the upload otherwise it will take more time to be able to upload again. With Cloudflare Workers you can do all in local dev and deploy takes seconds. With Zeit Now you can also make all dev locally.

The Firebase Console is a huge piece of bloated JS made in Angular 1 IIRC. It's also very basic as far as functionality goes.

Firebase hosting is good. Nothing to complain but all other options are equally great (Netlify, Zeit, Cloudflare Workers Sites, etc).
Alexa, Google Home, Nest, Ring, Apple iHome, all smart TVs newer than 2016 and all PCs running Windows 10 1903 or later are on my banned devices list because of the privacy risks they present. (iOS and Android devices are admissible as long as their digital assistants are turned off, and I may add stock Android ROMs to the list and only allow Replicant, LineageOS, etc.) I've already notified my girlfriend of the list, so if/when we make a home together, she knows not to bring anything on it into the home. I'm also training her in how to use Ubuntu and KDE for small-scale productivity.