skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The business 101 was unnecessary.

What matters in this scenario is that these businesses are under government order not to operate. They are unable to make money. Deferment, then, amounts to a catch-22: pay now and go bankrupt; defer, have finances hampered well into the future, and still go bankrupt; or break the lease, shutter the business, and start up elsewhere. The building owner loses a tenant should any of these scenarios play out, and only receives income in the first (wildly cynical) two.

The proper thing to do would be to either waive rent, ask for a percentage relative to the business that could be completed, or to automatically defer payments if they don't arrive on schedule.

You can understand why some would find it unconscionable to insist on anything resembling business-as-usual during this time. Capital owners should be expected to be active supporters of their community interests. If not, I'm unconvinced that they shouldn't simply be chucked out with whatever charity proffered; what good are they?
> And this is their new hoax. But you know, we did something that’s been pretty amazing. We’re 15 people [cases of coronavirus infection] in this massive country. And because of the fact that we went early, we went early, we could have had a lot more than that.

> So a number that nobody heard of that I heard of recently and I was shocked to hear it, 35,000 people on average die each year from the flu. Did anyone know that? 35,000. That’s a lot of people. It could go to 100,000, it could be 27,000, they say usually a minimum of 27, it goes up to 100,000 people a year who die, and so far we have lost nobody to coronavirus in the United States. Nobody. And it doesn’t mean we won’t, and we are totally prepared, it doesn’t mean we won’t. But think of it. You hear 35 and 40,000 people, and we’ve lost nobody, and you wonder, the press is in hysteria mode.

- POTUS

> No, the reason is that in the west we're more resistive to storm troopers locking us into buildings and arresting people for being in public. An authoritarian nation that regularly suppresses free speech is obviously going to have an easier time dealing with this type of problem, but that's not something to admire.

I think you've taken my paragraph out of context. I was talking about the deterioration of the west as a world leader and power - not the corona virus outbreak here.
This is how legal documents are always written. It's a convention that goes back to the typewriter days which never changed.
Some background: CoreJS is a widely used JavaScript library, apparently used for polyfilling by Babel. The author was previously know for asking for a job in npm install logs (https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548), and recently seems to have gone to jail for vehicular manslaughter, leaving the project without a maintainer.
I'd prefer capital owners to hedge their risk appropriately.
Does this work for surgical masks as well? Are they actually comparable in filtration size to N95? I need to look up all the values...

Edit: from cdc guidelines:

>SARS appears to be transmitted mainly through direct contact with infectious materials (including large respiratory particles), and surgical masks will provide barrier protection against droplets that are considered to be the primary route of SARS transmission. However, surgical masks may not adequately protect against aerosol or airborne particles,

Presumably as coronaviruses SARS and COVID19 are similarly sized, and I don't know that the aerosolization of COVID19 has been confirmed. So at least in a casual setting like stores I imagine masks should reduce the probability of inhaling viral particles.
I think the benchmark should be distribution. For instance, you mention "JavaScript and Python obviously don't have any problem", but say you want to create a distributable program for the 3 major operating systems, based in one of those languages, and you can't assume the user will have an installed interpreter. I don't think you will find any _standard_ solutions.

Most other languages make it _possible_ to generate some sort of artifact usable from different operating systems but not necessarily easy. I think Java only relatively recently included a standard way to create a bundle including a minimal JVM distribution with an app to make it usable when the user doesn't have an installed JVM (and again, there were a bunch of different non standard solutions of varying quality before that). Even now I wouldn't say the Java solution is easy to use.

I could continue in this fashion with different languages, but you get the idea.

I heard go is pretty good in ease of cross compilation, and well, looks like Zig is doing great in this area too. Ah! .net core is apparently pretty good in this area these days too.
Yes, it's not just the current heel in the top job, but there were a lot of unforced errors owing to his team's problems.

Trump's a germaphobe, & a deregulator, & big on border security.

But he left the pandemic office in the White House go unfilled, & his CDC eliminated an in-China monitoring position, & he proposed additional cuts.

After initially considering people like FDA critic & aggressive deregulator Balaji Srinivasan as FDA Chair, that was ignored as a priority – & FDA delays in approving alternate, distributed diagnostics added weeks or months of delay to testing capabilities. Even now FDA inspection delays have medical supplies from reliable, longtime suppliers held from delivery. The steps the FDA has finally taken are waivers they could have granted by administrative fiat months ago. And key discoveries of community-spread in the US required researchers to disregard CDC guidance. (The agency designed to sound the alarm had instead removed the batteries from the smoke detector!)

And while countries with a sense of seriousness about foreign disease threats have closely monitored visitors by origin-of-travel, recent countries visited, and fever-monitoring from early-on, even when Italy was in full outbreak there were no health-screenings or fever-monitoring on US arrivals from there. Trump responded late, with crude bans by entire country-of-origin, even when those countries have no greater prevalence-of-community-spread than the US itself.

So yes, the rot is deep and crosses multiple administrations. But the current Administration is also especially inept, even in areas like disease, deregulation, and borders where they've touted their vigilance.
It only feels like the US locked down earlier because we were under the false impression that we got the virus later than Europe.

Indeed we probably got the virus at the same time as European countries but had no idea because we didn’t test....that’s why we have more cases than any other nation except Italy and China (and soon will have more than Italy).
It's interesting how collecting or distributing files with music is a grave crime and corporations can take down anything they don't like with a half-assed DMCA request, with no repercussions for "mistakes", but a person's face image doesn't belong to that person and the same corporations can safely collect and distribute these images for profit.
libc++ was a big problem for a long time, I'm not sure if that ever got ironed out properly or became easier.
Can NPM not just override "core-js" when performing dependency resolution and point to a maintained fork?
To compile C code, you need a bunch of different things: headers for the target system, a C compiler targetting that system, and a libc implementation to (statically or dynamically) link against. Different libc implementations are compatible with the C standard, but can be incompatible with each other, so it's important that you get the right one.

Cross-compiling with clang is complex because it's just a C compiler, and doesn't make assumptions about what headers the target system might use, or what libc it's using, so you have to set all those things up separately.

Zig is (apparently) a new language built on Clang/LLVM, so it can re-use that to provide a C compiler. It also makes cross-compilation easier in two other ways. First, it limits the number of supported targets - only Linux and Windows, and on Linux only glibc and musl, and all supported on a fixed list of the most common architectures. Second, building Zig involves pre-compiling every supported libc for every supported OS and architecture, and bundling them with the downloadable Zig package. That moves a lot of work from the end user to the Zig maintainers.

Like most magic tricks there's no actual magic involved, it's just somebody doing more and harder work than you can believe anyone would reasonably do.
It's not pennies, and it's supposed to be evidence of fiscal sophistication. That's what Capitalism is marketed as: the people who are most responsible and talented gain the most wealth. Are you telling me it's not true?
You're assuming people don't split with friends downstream.
Show HN: Socks Protocol Version 5 Library in Go
I highly recommend either smothered and covered or all the way. They’re one of my favorite eateries, and working the grill for a short stint is on my bucket list to buy a few shares of stock to frame on the wall (their stock is private and can only be bought by employees).
Private companies can do whatever immoral garbage they want, and in exchange for access to the data or the product they developed in an unethical manner, the government slaps them on the wrist, or does nothing, allowing it to get worse and worse and allowing them to assert more control over us.

Imagine the story when people find out this or another company started skimming the porn sites with facial recognition, starts gaining access to surveillance footage from Nest or Ring, or maybe even gets access to state and federal DOT cameras and real time feeds from body cameras!

Facial recognition is going to need some regulation, ASAP.
It may be a technically superior API but even so I'm not thrilled that if I want to stay current with MacOS updates past the phase-out period then I have to pay for a Little Snitch 5 license. v4 works fine for me and without this API deprecation issue I almost certainly wouldn't be interested in upgrading.
Facebook says coronavirus pandemic has hit advertising revenue
This document was probably written in WordPerfect which is popular in the legal profession due to the typesetting options. It stores its documents in XML format.
BTC-E is alleged to have committed crimes that would bring it/Vinnik under the jurisdiction of the United States. The US did not just waltz in to Greece and arrest a Russian national with no assertion of jurisdiction. It also appears that many other nations agreed that the US has jurisdiction to prosecute him...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/russian-national-and-bi...
I've been on the West Coast so long I've forgotten the lingo. How do you order it with onions?
What about just waiting for the virus to be inactive then reusing the masks? I haven't found any general consensus, but I've read reports of COVID-19 staying infectious on objects ranging from 1 day to 9 days. If a rotation of masks are used, then there would be no need for washing or baking, which also avoids damaging the microfibers or removing the static charge in the masks.
Would you want all packages you're responsible for being taken over by whomever happens to be NPM's preferred forker in the event of your getting into legal troubles? I'd be strongly against that.

This should be handled the way any other fork happens: people create forks, other people audit them for stability and choose which to update their dependencies to. This isn't up to NPM to decide.
Smothered is onions, smothered and covered is onions and melted cheese.

https://www.wafflehouse.com/waffle-house-menu/
Now Microsoft's preferred forker. Yikes!
Typesetting Markdown
Workers in 8 Amazon Warehouses Test Positive for Coronavirus
Is there an archive of Startup Engineering (CS184) that used to be on Coursera?
I've been trying to find content from the startup engineering course that used to be on Coursera. I've managed to find the lecture slides and videos from the first few weeks, but I can't seem to find the homework tasks etc. Does anyone have a copy of these?

Also, the archive.org Coursera archive is unsearchable, and is too big for me too download.
Not a great precedent, is rather have them forcefully depreciate the package, eventually, suggest a few alternatives in the error log, and let the user decide.
To add to this, he was actually asking for a job to help with the legal fees from this incident. https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/issues/548#issuecomment-...
I remember problems compiling this in older C++, circa 2000. Maybe was just a compiler's "opinion"...
I haven't read the full coverage, but it does appear it occurred at a pedestrian crossing, and there doesn't appear to be any dispute that it was properly signposted.

Most countries require greater care at pedestrian crossings.
Covid-19: Do you need to change / wash clothes after visiting the grocery store?
Here's a study on the surface lifetime of SARS-Cov-2: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2004973
Smothered is my standard order. Or I get two orders: One plain, and one smothered.

You can't have too many hash browns. That's just not a thing.

(Please do not actually take my dietary recommendations. My body isn't normal and eating like me might kill a normal person.)
It's probably a better idea for individual depending projects (all 19k of them!) to evaluate their own use of this module. They may issue new versions with new dependencies, or they may not. It's not as if this code will start killing puppies just because the maintainer is unavailable.
> Overall, the Ford’s estimated lifetime operations and sustainment costs have grown to $123 billion from $77.3 billion, the most of six programs GAO evaluated.

That's an expensive boat.
I'd rather hear Microsoft's suggestions on libraries to use than some random Joe Developer. They have/had unethical business practices, but their tech is really good and they have very smart people working for them.
The people who left their tribes (or were forced off) were effectively anonymous to any new group of people they might come across. So if you were kicked from your group for a misdeed, sure you could continue your bad deeds in the new group or you could turn over a new leaf without the weight of your past mistakes holding you back.
Evidently, it was his legal problems that provoked the job request and console ads, so I'm sympathetic. And based on the description above, it's highly unlikely that he would have been charged in most countries. The person who died was lying on the road at night, in dark clothes, intoxicated. Sympathy to her family, but that would count as an exculpating circumstance in most Western countries, I'm fairly sure.

I sure as hell that I'd do whatever I could legally to avoid going to a Russian (or American) prison, if what I'd done was an accident and of very doubtful criminality from the perspective of most countries. Wouldn't you?

Now he'll be stuck in a Russian prison for 2 years because of a tragic accident in which he was arguably not that negligent.

Edit: All of this is based on the facts as I have been able to find them online. I may be wrong in my interpretation.
That seems like it'd be much harder to manage. Given the uncertainty about how long the virus takes to inactivate, you'd have people juggling at least a dozen N95 respirators with varying amounts of contamination.

A quick disinfection protocol with greater certainty seems preferable.
I know I'm out of fashion :-), but I don't really use containers for anything. I think Swift looks really nice, but when I check out other languages (such as Go, Rust, or any of the gazillion others), I don't have to jump through any hoops other than using the system package manager or something like "./configure; make install". I wish Swift was in this camp.
Yes, but they were lying flat on the road, intoxicated.
One could go to prison for this in USA, but only if the local police and prosecutors already hated one's guts for other reasons. In most cases a drunk pedestrian would be considered less sympathetic than a sober driver. Yes it is a pretty shabby "justice" when sympathies rather than facts determine verdicts.
Couldn't someone he trusts just ask him for credentials? It may be harder to contact him right now, but not impossible.
The Re-Unification of Science
Leaked details for Intel’s Rocket Lake-S point to a new microarchitecture
Read the article completely or the comments. Your question has been addressed multiple times in this thread.
An alternative would be Dart/Flutter, though I’ve heard web UI perf is awful atm.
Little Snitch is wildly successful, and there are many people in security, myself included, who can not and will not use a macOS daily driver without it being available.
I don’t see any derivatives on Dow or oil on binance or ftx yet.

But those things have been around before crypto anyway like the weekend dow : https://www.ig.com/en/indices/markets-indices/weekend-wall-s...

Cme just launched options on bitcoin futures. That could bring a lot of trading back to the us over night, once wsb can bet on those options.
This simply doesn't work at all.

First, the situation is not that dire to start with, most people and businesses can meet their obligations. We don't have anything remotely close to a financial crisis. It makes no sense to effectively turn the entire economy into a command economy and effectively declare a default to save what appears to be a fairly small part of the economy that will have trouble. You can have targeted intervention and get most of the benefit without dragging the rest of the economy into this.

Second, you can't just remove credit from the system. Credit is fundamental to nearly all transactions at scale - transactions in the real world aren't atomic, which means businesses are always dealing with receivables and payables, not to mention lines of credit that are designed to help businesses manage them.

There are tons of offsetting contracts, whether in terms of derivatives or insurance, and no one is going to be able to figure out which side of each contract is covered and which isn't and how to price anything given the uncertainty. Do health insurance companies have to pay hospitals? Do car insurance companies have to pay? These are all payments. Nothing happens in an economy without a payment. Do you have to pay insurance premiums? The effective result of this would be all financial markets not functioning and nearly all real markets too, since they are tied to the financial markets for pricing, settlement and credit.

It would be like the global financial crisis but a substantially worse version where every company becomes the Lehman Brothers. You'd have to basically nationalize everything across the entire world and run a command economy because the markets simply won't function at all even on a purely basic level.
It was 1/23/20. Wuhan was under lockdown but there was no clear evidence of human to human transfer? Cmon
So would I. Maybe I should ask a different questions: would you give OP the same critique if they'd offered their tenants rent reductions instead of deferrals?
Yak Shaving – Swift Edition
They knew it all by Jan 23rd
For anyone else who's hunting all over for a rendered example, just open devtools -- the site dogfoods itself.
It's certainly a first person shooter, and I'd say an apt one.
I love blameless postmortems. And, it isn't really whether the team or the team lead decides to do a blameless postmortem. It's whether the company values looking at things this way. And, those values change over time, and shift when the times are good or bad (financially).

I would really love to read about a blameless postmortem that happened in a dying company where everyone was backstabbing each other. Now, that would be a good story!

In fairness, this story does convey that. The "second story" part is great.

I do wish there was a little more about how management came around to seeing it, how they rectified bonuses and pay and PIPs. There is an untold journey here.
> to determine the effect of a storm
Looking at the covid-19 hackathon and wondering if there would be an advantage of a dedicated social network for doctors and labs. Perhaps with possibility of making data publicly readable but not submittable. Thoughts?
We will need negative interest loans, not just 0 interest to buy overpriced assets such as real estate.
It's two different philosophies of publishing. Markdown mixes style with meaning. Something like latex separates meaning from style.
It’s Basically Just Immoral to Be Rich (2017)
Is Transcendental Meditation a Scam?
If you'll permit a tangent, there are a lot of drunk pedestrian fatalities. I don't think we talk enough about the risk of drunk walking.

Over one third of pedestrians killed in the US each year have been drinking too much to drive.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/05/drunk-...
People are having a lot of fun with this headline, and it is shockingly expensive, but it's pretty important to point out that the costly "flush" is a periodic maintenance procedure. It doesn't literally cost $400k every time someone flushes a toilet.
This is wild. You really only need the first and (weirdly) last paragraphs though:

> "New toilets on the Navy’s two newest aircraft carriers clog so frequently that the ships’ sewage systems must be cleaned periodically with specialized acids costing about $400,000 a flush, according to a new congressional audit outlining $130 billion in underestimated long-term maintenance costs."

> ...

> “The pipes are too narrow and when there are a bunch of sailors flushing the toilet at the same time, like in the morning, the suction doesn’t work,” said Oakley. “The Navy didn’t anticipate this problem.”
Most of the country is very much governable.

Breaking down countries doesn't always work. Most of the African countries are smaller than India and you still have issues.
Watch one, Do one, Teach one. Isn't that the MD way?

Send some to China, get some Chinese surgeons and EMT over in the US.

Oh right: we shouted at them because reasons. Hard to be nice, when they have knowledge we need and the posture is shouty.
Proposed bounty for adding virtual camera / microphone support natively to OBS
Rather, the previous administration was just more successful bringing the full weight of the media machine on turning down news of the previous H1N1 pandemic which had 2 orders of magnitudes more cases and deaths so far. https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-compared-to-sars...

This current pandemic just happened to have happened outside the US so it couldn't keep the lid on the news.
“New toilets on the Navy’s two newest aircraft carriers clog so frequently that the ships’ sewage systems must be cleaned periodically with specialized acids costing about $400,000 a flush..... The pipes are too narrow and when there are a bunch of sailors flushing the toilet at the same time, like in the morning, the suction doesn’t work,” said Oakley. “The Navy didn’t anticipate this problem.”

Sure you can quantify the cost of the flush job. Harder to quantify is the cumulative stress put on sailors due to basics things like toilet not working properly.

My home toilet is serviceable, but it isn't great. So I absolutely adore powerful toilet flush at our corporate office. It's like airplane toilet at sea level.
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