skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm looking at the timeline on wikipedia, and it looks like you should be saying 'January' instead of 'December':

Dec 30: The Wuhan Municipal Health Committee reported to the WHO that 27 people had been diagnosed with pneumonia of unknown cause.

Dec 31: China contacts the WHO and informs them of "cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology (unknown cause) detected in Wuhan".

Jan 4: The WHO waited for China to release information about the "mysterious new pneumonia virus".[51] The United Nations agency activated its incident-management system at the country, regional and global level and was standing ready to launch a broader response if it was needed.

Jan 9: The WHO confirmed that the novel coronavirus had been isolated from one person who had been hospitalised. The WHO also reported that Chinese authorities had acted swiftly, identifying the novel coronavirus within weeks of the onset of the outbreak, with the total number of positively tested people being 41. The first death from the virus occurred in a 61-year-old man who was a regular customer at the market.

Jan 14: Maria Van Kerkhove, acting head of WHO's emerging diseases unit said that there had been limited human-to-human transmission of the coronavirus, mainly small clusters in families, adding that "it is very clear right now that we have no sustained human-to-human transmission"

Jan 20: After two medical staff were infected in Guangdong, China announced that the virus was human-to-human transmissible … the WHO has said [it] is deeply concerning and could signal evidence of a much larger outbreak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2019%E2%80%932...

China probably could have informed people earlier, but it seems easier to not tell the WHO than to pressure the WHO to keep a secret. Also, there's a difference between possible human-to-human and confirmed human-to-human transmission.
I have a leather Leap, Embody (every option), Aeron (every option; upgrade).

I can agree, it's probably the better of these 3 I have. It's a tank and Steelcase told me it doesn't come apart and it's shipped assembled. My favorite part is that it reclines instead of rocking.
I'm sure physical violence happens against men as well. Many would never retaliate or really physically defend themselves against a woman. And you can be very vulnerable when you sleep or look away.
The Role of Technology
You could claim you were hustled!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hustle_episodes#Series...

Hustle, S08E02: "Picasso Finger Painting"

Ash and Mickey have tried to capitalise on the theft of a rare Picasso by selling a fake to a well-known collector, Petre Sava (Peter Polycarpou), a vicious Eastern European gangster. They learn too late that Sava who owned the stolen original. Mickey is taken prisoner by Sava, leaving Ash and the others with just a few hours to return the real stolen painting, otherwise Mickey is a dead man. With their usual contacts unable to give any clues, except only the word that a Scottish crew were behind the theft, the gang visit renowned Picasso forger Dolly Hammond (Sheila Hancock) (the one who helped to create the fake). She points them in the direction of the McCrary brothers, the thieves in question, and are told that they stole the original painting for another renowned gangster, Harry Holmes (Martin Kemp). Time is ticking and Mickey is edging closer to death; if the group can't find the real painting, Ash will have to devise a plan that can get him back...
Any movement where continuing my expected duties considers me a "scab" and views me in an unfavorable light, simply for showing up, doing my work, and providing for my family. Under your description, that covers any movement
WeWork doesn't own properties. WeWork-leased, maybe.
Canadian Shield DNS Service from CIRA
So this book is a sidewalk strewn with junk, trash which I throw over my shoulders as I travel in time back to November eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two.

It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.

Vonnegut, "Breakfast of Champions"
No one would think of/plan for a crisis that involves stocking 1m ventilators. Beyond that, that stock would need to be rotated out.
Toslink: That one consumer fiber optic standard (2019) [video]
The Seven Stages of Remote Work
They're also spending half their time in grocery stores.
Melting lead also creates lead vapor, so it doesn't require that you touch or eat it.
> That means people who quit or are laid off will end up having to pay more for their healthcare at a time when they don't have any income.

(ignoring tax issues) They aren't really "paying more", it's just their salary when they were working was higher than the top-line number.
Er no. It is waiting for a pandemic, and then removing your labour to demand a significant wage hike (I have no idea how this will work out but it is clearly significantly beyond 20%+..."modest" is not an accurate description). There are likely vulnerable people who rely on this service to feed themselves, removing their food so you can make a quick buck is pretty scummy.

Again, how would you feel about Amazon hiking the price of hand sanitizer 50%?

It will be great to see this play out though. I live somewhere (unf) that had unions running govt for a period of decades. The US never really had this so is under the illusion that this kind of thing achieves it aims. It doesn't. What happens is most of these people don't have jobs anymore, you have to hike interest rates so most people lose their homes (and bye bye, VC funding...that will just stop overnight...I would guess the majority of the people on here will lose their jobs, and modify their opinions too late), and the price of food starts increasing daily.

And btw, this should be obvious but apparently isn't, this is going to go on for at least a year. At some point, people are going to have to learn how to go about their daily life without infecting other people. The alternative is: most of these jobs stop existing, and the economy shrinks significantly (10%+). Lockdown and people deciding they need "hazard pay" to do their normal job isn't a permanent solution (central banks will be watching this closely and will be ready to hike rates as soon as it starts).
WireGuard VPN makes it to 1.0.0 – and into the next Linux kernel
Why can’t a user share their approximate location (city / country) in iOS?
Letting a user share their approximate location, for example on a country, state or city level, should suffice for a lot of apps and services to provide a good experience. But as a user, you can either not share or share your (pretty) exact location. This applies to Android and other systems as well of course but as Apple is big on privacy, my question relates to iOS. Now that most people are confined to their homes, all apps a user shares their location with know where they live.
You gotta vote then. You need to get other people to also vote for candidates who would do it. You need to convince the other sides supporters to abandon their support for the other side.

It would really help if we had a politican who was somehow electable in the primary and didn't hold policies which are deal breakers for the other sides voters. For example, on gun rights or (god forbid) abortion

Unfortunately, if you try to be pro gun in the democratic party they will eviscerate you in the primary. Just look at Bernie sanders in 2016 vs Clinton on the Brady Bill. Until we can convince republicans that the dems won't take their guns away, it's basically impossible to convince a good portion of Trumps base to abandon their support. I don't advocate for pro-life dems but if you really want republican votes you may have to at least pretend to be pro-life.

None of these are easy, but it must be done or else it's more of the same crap.
They're free.. you had to harass the management enough to get their head off of their ass just to "disable group discussion" (aka spam the group)

Suffice to say.. I'm not a fan of meetup, however for group management they're better than FB groups.
The US doesn't have an Ai Fen [1] as far as I can tell.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/11/coronavirus-wu...
That's the sort of thing I had in mind. Low-level Arduino-type microcontroller programming on a bigger engine.

The Arduino development environment is just an IDE and a library for board-level systems. It's C++ underneath, and all of the C++ language, although not the libraries, is available to you. You can do the same thing without the Arduino system, but setting up the build environment tends to be complicated.

If you need precision timing, you either need to program bare-metal, or use some hard real time OS like VXworks or QNX. Here, where it's all stepping and reading encoders, bare metal is the way to go. If you were coordinating a multi-axis machine, a real-time OS might be better.
The PiVPN project makes installing / administering WireGuard on the raspberry pi super easy - it has some scripts that nicely wrap WireGuard [1]. I'm not sure how generally applicable they are, but it might be a good starting point.

[1] https://github.com/pivpn/pivpn/tree/master/scripts/wireguard
True, thanks for the correction.
This is the plot of _From the Mixed Up Files of Ms Basil E Frankweiler_
Interesting, Why is it only the Safari Option is not free while Chrome and Firefox are?
This is awful and Europe unworthy.

Get that Chinese influence out of it, immediately, please! Taiwan should get the information they need period
There are also "backroom" sales, where these sorts of items can be sold in countries who have been embargoed. You trade this type of painting for a ridiculous amount of an embargoed country's goods or something and then you can smuggle this into Russia or China to trade for a non embargoed currency with an oligarch, since oil prices have plummeted. They, in turn, can hold on to it for a few generations, and sell it in grey markets for a good profit and some time.
Servers? I don't know how many total members there are but they are running 140k groups? That doesn't sound like you need a to pay Amazon millions of dollars to run it.
One excellent option is BYU Pathway Worldwide and associated programs. It requires a Church affiliation but not necessarily membership (I think) or the same standards for on-campus BYU attendance. I think tuition is lower, bachelors programs (like business) are available, and the programs are excellent, and can be done entirely on-line, and is also suitable for those who need to become qualified for entering a university, then provides that university. More info is in Wikipedia and I have gathered a bit of info including linking to a news article that explains it well I think, here: http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854578440.html .
Our current era -before the virus panic and now - reminds me of the great unwinding after the dot com boom. Ironically meetup was born lean and hungry in 2002 and took advantage of Web 2.0 later that decade as they matured. Now they are an old, fat company that failed the networks effect business goal, got bought by the crazy softBank/WeWorks 'let's take over the world' Saudi and Japanese megafund who just like the later dot com founders last century seem to be completely deluded. Meetup had already missed the boat and is twisting in the wind. Big opportunity for the next generation when the dust settles post Covid 19 for a '20's next generation iteration...
While I agree with the GP, I don't agree with the jab at Bloomberg terminal. There is nothing needless in Bloomberg terminal - it comes with a special keyboard and everything is keyboard driven. There are no animations such as the ones you see in macOS and Windows that take up 300ms. There are no distracting popups and notifications. It is probably the most incredible feat of UI/UX design...ever, perhaps airplane cockpits and nuclear power plant control rooms would rival.

Just because UI is dense does not mean it is not easy to learn. Dense UI provides more information than something with 5 levels of hierarchical layouts, each screen animating with 300ms of bullshit animations. Furthermore, learning curve should be acceptable for people that truly want to use a tool on a daily basis (for e.g. emacs or vim).

There is a reason why people who use Bloomberg terminal will never want anything else. Here is a video of the thought process that goes into designing just the keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_juj1MIRJVE

Have you used Bloomberg terminal or talked to a user? Regarding lock-in: I think its the opposite - when the users don't want to switch to anything else, that's the best a company can do. That's the kind of "lock-in" every company should aspire to.
Or classify buybacks as a prosecutable form of market manipulation like they were before the rule changes in the 80's that enabled this flavor of unnecessary financial engineering.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22728665.
Reqwest is an easier-to-use wrapper around Hyper. By the same authors.
But by that logic, all laws by their existence and enforcement enables abusers. Even laws against abuse.
Enforce the law against an abuser and send them to jail? Another abuser will use that to scare a victim of the same gender as the abuser jailed.
> but I’ve had plenty of friends who have at various stages had to face questions about health insurance or rent

Do affordability tests not apply once you are laid off? I would think your premium subsidies would go up and you can get an ACA plan.

At least living in CA, it generally feels like we have universal, affordable (by some definition) healthcare, but I'm sure there are edge cases where the affordability calculation breaks.
I like his example at the beginning, something I've thought about too. I've noticed that most of the time people don't seem to ask at all.

https://zalberico.com/essay/2017/02/21/asking-questions.html
Some companies are already doing the 'hot desking' thing.

In ~2017 I did a contract with Ericsson, in their offices they had no assigned desks. Some days you'd show up in the morning and find another team had moved into your space, claiming that some other team had taken theirs. In those days we became desk refugees, wandering halls to find/take a space large enough for the team.
An Employer's Cheat Sheet for the 854-Page Virus Relief Bill
> The reason women's shelters exist is because activists in the 60's and 70's decided to build them and gain support, and eventually fought for funding. What is stopping any of you from actually building a movement to help homeless men, instead of complaining about the activists who try to help women in need of housing?

Do you feel this way about institutions built for and by men, that women have demanded (rightfully so) access to, instead of building their own from the ground up?
WireGuard 1.0. (because the other post didn't explain what WireGuard is)
That's funny. I know it shouldn't be, but it is always surprising when actors turn out to be very unlike those they portray. Infamous villains played by famously kind people, violent goons played by erudite and talented members of the arts community, etc.
Sure, but is spyware the thing that would change that for you? Or would you still be less productive only now also feel greater fear, further reducing your morale?
If you leave the costs to the businesses then the businesses that find the most effective ways to cheat will have huge advantages over the ones that do not.

That's the opposite of what you want here.
"Smart" companies (e.g. Stack Overflow, Apple, Reddit, even YCombinator) outsource moderation to users themselves...
The ethics of such a practice would be dubious at best.
Give me a decent size office over that any day.

I don't think most tech workers have really had a proper office.
How would overwhelmed hospitals decide who to treat first?
> has no worthy support on windows

Actually, with Rust you can even link with msvc toolchain, which Go cannot.
Sorry I'm not very familiar with European labor protection laws. Which ones cover privacy concerns on workplace computers?
Or you are just too deep in your personal bias.
Even if you don't trust the numbers at the face value, there are external things you can observe. Provincial movement bans are lifted, factories are returning to work, restaurants are opening again. No government, authoritarian or not, would make that call if the cases are not under control.
This is pure fantasy, who would spend $250m to acquire a stolen painting that they cannot resell? If it really is rich people buying them the purchase price is going to be a fraction of a percent of the amount you're talking about.
Don't worry, politicians in your country are taking notes.
Cognitive Biases in Software Development
You forgot the part about never having any meaningful revenue.

Growth of metrics that don’t translate to $$$ in the bank means only your costs are growing.
It's the same price as what your employer was paying. It's only more expensive than getting it yourself if you are A) younger than the average of your employers' pool or B) qualify for premium assistance/medicaid.
Agree with you!

And yet, if people want to liquidate it does drive the price down, but, the market is about price discovery and valuation - the company may have different beliefs about its value and different preferences, hence buybacks.
Reminds me of the story of Gumroad.

Good idea, got VC money, couldn't live up to VC expectations. So it's a failure.

Sold back to founder for $1.

So they run lean and does just fine...

https://marker.medium.com/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build-...

I worry there are a lot of 'VCed' ideas that given a lean system and time to grow / adjust could be productive but otherwise are shutdown for not being Facebook.

It would be interesting if there was sort of a VC Failed Exit Market where folks could pickup the crumbs and see what they could do... granted there's a lot of variables in that (first comes to mind is the lost knowledge base of the original team / staff).
A Small Business Owner’s Thoughts in the Corona Crisis
If there are any provisions for bootstrappers who haven't pulled a paycheck in 2020.. Let me know. I can't find any.
Ryzen 4000 Review
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1HLrm0pqBN_5bdyysOeoO... (linked on the page) was what I was referring to, not the list of references which I agree are not very compelling. SSC did a writeup too: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/23/face-masks-much-more-t...

Thanks for sharing more detailed thoughts!
I'm only like that because I know that someone looking at my screen will either misinterpret what they are seeing or they will ask a question that requires a lengthy answer(a domain they have little understanding over yet is under their authority), so my brain goes into overdrive trying to figure out how to answer them in a way that gets them to go away as soon as possible.
> [...] how many insanely wealthy private collectors can there be out there, who are willing to risk substantial prison time to own a stolen painting?

I think there are more of them than you are realistically considering. Art theft, while making for attention grabbing headlines, has gone on for thousands of years. Age old thievery just with a different class of buyer at the end of the chain.
I did a little searching to see if there's anything to my guess that global warming could postpone the next ice age, and there's a lot of people suggesting that is in fact the case. One example: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/13/fossil-f...

Ice ages are actually scarier to me than global warming, so I think that's a good thing on the whole. It's just we have to deal with the negative consequences now, whereas an ice age is a much further future concern. One reason ice ages are so scary, is it would cause much larger mass migrations of people than global warming, and it would devastate our ability to grow crops in the northern hemisphere, where we currently produce most of our food.

Global warming may actually enhance our ability to grow crops in the northern latitudes - with longer growing seasons, for example.
Plus things are often over engineered...
Seniorless – Tips for Effectively Onboarding Juniors
I was about to argue, but then I looked at the project.

This isn't just config-file YAML.

This is programming-language YAML. :/
The Fed’s Response to Covid-19 Is Impressive – and Alarming
... but it doesn’t work on mobile, where dark mode was first popularized and whose screens tend to look best in dark mode due to the prevalence of smaller OLED panels which make white on dark truly pop... kind of disappointing then.
I find it amazing that humans have the capacity to have empathy for one class, people who might die from an illness, yet have zero empathy for another, people who are currently working in a now high-risk job who are demanding fair pay. The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
I mean there must be something, because otherwise taking down AWS would be as simple as the above. After 50 steps, you've created a quadrillion images.
It's not you – it's your knowledge base
Windows and Firefox and Chrome support dark mode. You can see for example on twitter_com.

How it works: OS setting is propagated to the browser, which propagates it to the websites via CSS `@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)`.

For now StackOverflow is in beta, so it's only opt-in for logged in users.
Who decides what pay is fair?
If anyone here is a Meetup organizer looking for an alternative - I'm building one!

It already has > 100 live groups around the world, and all the basic features work.

I'm adding a bunch of new features all the time, including virtual events and (soon) remote groups (super important given what's happening):

https://meetingplace.io/

Happy to answer any questions!
"Sure, we lose money on the transaction, but we make it up in volume!"
> Beer and chairs are not a cost worth mentioning.

I mostly agree, but it says a lot about a company's command of their expenses.
If we can have "Security Theatre," perhaps we can also have, "Growth Theatre," growth that is accompanied by lots of young go-getters that "look the part," who meet in glass-walled offices so everyone can see how much busy-ness is going on.

Meanwhile, the actual growth is being driven by investors burning cash to offer the product/service at an unsustainable price plus spending money like water on advertising.

Which continues until the company is unloaded onto the public markets.
Japan bans entry for travelers from U.S., China, Korea, almost of of Europe
So somebody is making money off this.
There are a huge number of rubber trees in Africa, too. Firestone is/was one of the largest employers in Liberia. The rubber plantations in Ghana are massive.
Not in certain states. My friend in the hotel industry just got furloughed link Macy’s for 100 days, keeps his benefits but no pay and can’t get unemployment.
Sadly the original meetup concept might be irrecoverably lost - and WeWork is only slightly to blame (with their high costs).

I belonged/actively participated in at least half a dozen groups several years ago but now - none. Many of the groups simply disbanded due to poor/disinterested organizers.

Some turned into for-profit (vs. for-fun) groups by the organizers. A couple went fully into becoming travel agents or middle-men flogging another companies travel itineraries (for a kick-back) as the organizer's full time paycheck.
this is my favorite extremely annoying but massively useful "acktually..."

begging the question as a logical fallacy is prevalent in politics and media representations, and is a differentiatior between reasoned debate and talking head nonsense.

Polictician 1: UBI!
P2: free market competition!
P1: why do you want poor people to suffer, P2?!

P2: 2nd amendment!
P1: Ban firearms!
P2: why do you want americans to be put in danger, P1?!

both of these are begging the question