skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well yeah, you can make the numbers square up if you ignore/offload a bunch of costs, but not everyone who is delivering for one of these companies is a student or has another income stream

Given that it's sustainable if they do, what's wrong with letting those people be the ones who do it? Why is anybody who needs a long-term full-time job required to do this instead of working at Walmart or going to college or learning a trade? Why should we even want to encourage that? It's low-paying work open to anyone who needs immediate income with flexible hours. Let it be what it is.

> and wear-and-tear on a vehicle will manifest as a mechanical fault one day.

Which, for a modern reliable vehicle, you amortize over many thousands of miles. If you're doing this in a 1980s Land Rover, you're doing it wrong.

> This argument sounds like a lot like the argument against raising minimum wage ("it's not meant to be enough to survive on"), however the reality is that large numbers of these gigs/jobs are worked by adults who depend on it as a primary source of income, and in the face of the massive and sudden job losses we're seeing, it's quite callous to say they should "just choose different jobs".

How is it any less callous than saying that most of them should lose their jobs and the rest of them should lose their flexibility? That's what happens if you start requiring a bunch of recurring insurance costs, which increases hiring costs and reduces demand for workers (which lowers overall wages across the economy), and induces the company to schedule the remaining workers during the hours that maximize returns to cover the higher costs instead of letting them work when and how long they actually want to.

I mean, suppose you have millions of college students who need some income. For example, Bob has class from 9AM to 10:30AM, drives for five hours, then has another class at 3:30PM. He drives 30 hours a week like this. You force insurance on him and that job becomes 40 hours scheduled at the company's convenience, which doesn't fit his class schedule, so he needs a different job. The different job is working a contiguous 8 hour shift in an office from 6PM to 2AM -- which fits into his schedule, and actually pays better than driving did, but he preferred driving even with lower pay because the hours for the better-paying job stink. He doesn't get home until 2:30AM and has class at 9AM, and it's 40 hours instead of 30 when he had been using the other 10 hours to study. The people using the better paying job as an actual job also prefer that a million Bobs not need it, because Bob will work for $15/hour when that job used to pay $20/hour, so now half of them lose their jobs to Bobs and the other half get paid less.

Constraining choices pretty much always makes workers worse off. It's worse for everybody. The choices they're forced into in the alternative already exist and they're not choosing them to begin with because the alternatives are not actually better.
Coronavirus cases by country – Two better ways to chart the spread of Covid-19
OK so people will move from Africa to Siberia. Why is it a problem?
Won’t controlling for all those variables in distributed locations (wfh) always be harder than a centralized location (office)?
There's apparently a second edition which goes up through the dot com crash.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/history-modern-computing-seco...
Opt-out of sending anonymised data, to the company providing the credit service.
For companies that haven't built remote cultures with employees that enjoy face to face work, productivity just won't be higher at home. If you're just chugging away at assignments sure, you'll be more productive. But there are a lot of types of jobs where that just doesn't work. Setting aside the obvious areas like biotech and hardtech where you need equipment, any highly innovative/team driven work will be better in person. You don't just work when you're at your desk. Thanks are the types of jobs where you're having discussions with your coworkers over lunch that spark some idea or the like. And anything where that constant access to face to face communication would help is being hurt. Of course not all companies are like that, but not all companies are the opposite either. We've got a diversity in our workforce and companies that just can't fit a single style of work.
In the US there is a lot of law that makes employment discrimination illegal for a number of classes of people.

IANAL: I don't know if it is outright illegal to request a picture but it sure seems like a great way to open yourself up to a lawsuit.

> Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
> the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), which protects men and women who perform substantially equal work in the same establishment from sex-based wage discrimination
> the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), which protects individuals who are 40 years of age or older
> Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended (ADA), which prohibit employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities in the private sector, and in state and local governments
> the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which, among other things, provides monetary damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination.

https://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html
You adjust and you adapt. We've been doing that for all of human history.
>whole 24 hours to process
>100 people.

That's excellent compared to inability to leave an area, or forced two weeks quarantine upon arrival, isn't?
Old Laptop, Tablet or Phone? Here's How They Can Help You
But the testing is somewhat part of the picture. Germany is now testing 400k a week (I think that is what your number is referring to). Again that is a reflection of the German healthcare system.

Another poster mentioned the decentralised nature of the German system, that has been mentioned as one of the reasons why Germany was able to test so much.
It doesn't matter what sort of society we do or should live in. Yelp is in the wrong for doing this without the consent of the supposed beneficiaries. This shouldn't be hard to understand.
FWIW, there was a patent troll trying to get people for the idea of "online shopping carts" which is pretty much "two-click buy" imo.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/how-newegg-crush...
Interesting, if one of humanity's failures (climate change) mitigates another (lack of pandemic preparedness)
And yet, in the presentation slides linked to from their homepage, they brag that it aims to be "programmable as Python, fast as Fortran, scalable as MPI, SHMEM, or UPC, portable as C, flexible as C++, fun as [your favorite programming language]". It's not even supercomputer-specific: they say it runs on "a Mac laptop".

If even half of those are true, why wouldn't I want to use it for every program I write?

(Easy answer: it looks like most of those are still simply "aims", and not actually that close to being true.)
I believe that is where the phrase "bury brigade" originates. here's one older story.

https://www.wired.com/2007/03/hunting-down-diggs-bury-brigad...
> There is much to learn about oneself once you drop the prejudice.

Oh get over yourself - I asked "out of genuine curiosity."
This is a really neat project! Good job.
At least do my social circle, acceptance of work from home just keeps dwindling. this is seen as a sacrifice to fight the virus, like rationing during wartime, something you would never do voluntarily after because of how miserable be experience is. This is a small sample but you at least can't assumed from here that the shift would be towards acceptance in general. I'm sure some people absolutely will shift towards acceptance, but society really isn't built for work from home there's a lot of types of jobs that really benefit from in person interaction, a lot of those employees are not enjoying this at all.
New restrictions in Hong Kong show that a single lockdown won’t be enough
As a junior software engineer at a new job: I think the only reason I’ve been productive at all during this is because I have some experience working remotely. A lot of people aren’t taking it seriously and don’t realize how important discipline and separating everything is. I’m glad I’m at a company that had good plans in place for something like this but I feel like these two things put me in a tiny minority.

The good news is: everyone has learned a lot and if they want to do it again it might be easier.
Hyperlinks in Terminal Emulators
In America,I’m in Silicon Valley so people have money and space in their relatively large houses to store lots of stuff. Stores did not limit purchases early so there was panic buying early even here. Popular stores like Trader Joe’s and Costco have lines out the door for several hundred feet (they limit the number of people inside and everyone outside is six feet apart) but less popular grocery stores/green grocers do not based on my limited excursions on bike. Now purchases are limited but still some items run out because it takes more time for someone to stock items on shelves versus people just pulling it off.
One of the criteria for deletion is accessing the app for 7 days. If you don't access the app for 7 days, it doesn't meet the criteria and won't trigger deletion. It's poorly worded, but it's not vague.
Did you see my name answering it?
I wouldn't blame the person raising the bar for doing so.
It depends on what you think the best use of housing is. Is housing meant to "make money for the owner" or "provide housing for people?"

There, I've just taken class out of the equation. Your answer?
You mean, Vala.
> As far as I can tell, so far in this pandemic, there haven't been any stats that can be totally trusted or compared between nations - on anything at all.

this is correct in general.
i don't think we'll have a clearer picture until at least autumn by which time some basic data has been collected and analyzed.
then the multi-year governmental and private inquiries will surely follow, shedding even more light on the whole situation.
i expect to keep hearing about this disease for years and years from now. but this too shall pass at some point.
US Cities Responded to and Were Affected by the Spanish Flu
Theoretical approaches to managing complexity in organizations (2014) [pdf]
If you sign a contract and the government creates a law that invalidates that contract, you don't get to say you can still enforce it. Kids didn't "optionally" leave the campus.

This is blatant theft. Don't matter if times are tough. You can't enforce a contract that is now void just because you're strapped for cash.
Respiratory Pathogen Emission Dynamics [video]
airbnb has no serious liabilities, in terms of real estate, on their balance sheets.

if they can go cockroach mode, and reduce spending (should be easy with discipline and layoffs), they’ll still be a multi billion dollar company in 2021-2022.

and i say this thinking they’re ultimately a cancer on society.
Really love this, nice job!

Curious, do you have any interest in having the ability to import/export from the various cloud storage vendors (Dropbox, GDrive, possibly even Github Gist), or do you feel like it would go against the offline/"no servers" theme of the app?
And it removes the healthy separation of home and work. It doesn't matter whether or not this is doing WFH "right" or if this WFH is similar to WFH in a non-pandemic situation - this is now what people think of when they think of WFH. A wartime sacrifice they made to fight coronavirus. Not something you'd voluntarily do.
>> Andi Monji, 83, who travelled to the Netherlands to tell his story to the court, was awarded €10,000 (£9,000) while eight widows and three children of other executed men, mainly farmers, were awarded compensation of between €123.48 and €3,634 for loss of income.

Is it just me, or are these astoundingly small amounts of money to compensate people for having their immediate relatives murdered by the state?
> abolish classism

Do you think that is the fairest interpretation of your opponents argument?
I'd prefer to see a revival of multi-family homes. It feels like there needs to be a middle ground for people who can afford to buy multiple houses but can't afford to buy apartment complexes.

"Investors" taking away from the single-family market in order to have airbnb-style rentals probably wasn't at the forefront of the founders' minds when they started it but they've done nothing to try to bring attention to it and the impact it is having on people who are ready to make the move from being a renter to being a homeowner.
For one, the Russians wouldn’t let them in.

A few million Syrians coming into Europe was called a “migration crisis”. What will we call it when a billion people move out of the equator?
Certainly there is. In 2008 there was a fire that destroyed many of the master tapes for old recordings, this will no doubt prevent new releases or remasters of many old albums. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-m...
“blender-osm” source code is back
Interesting how all these self-proclaimed "pro-science types" are easily impressed with minuscule data sets. So science-y!!!
I wonder how early one would need to start treatment to have an effect, and if you could somehow start it a decade or more before symptoms begin, would it maybe prevent onset all together? Since it begins 20 years before the onset of symptoms.
How to Significantly Slow Coronavirus? Masks4All
Show HN: WebRTC with shared pointers and microphone to read books
It doesn't matter how anonymized they claim it to be, it should be opt-in, not opt-out. Of course virtually nobody would choose to opt-in, which is the point.
Housing availability for lower class individuals is not impacted because low class housing generally isn’t rented out on AirBnB.
Tech Worker Coalition Covid-19 Global Survey
It has nothing to do with dynamic binding. "this" has lexical scope just like regular parameters. I agree 'this' is confusing, but you are making it sound more mysterious than it is. It is just some syntactic sugar around an implicit first parameter.
Fires. Warm winters mean little snowpack. Little snowpack means that everything is dry and dead come August. All of the plant life being dry and dead in August means that any fires which occur will be much worse.
No. It's an unrelated set of rules. The best way to simulate a disease is to model each person in the country as an individual agent. Even a naive movement model for humans won't look like anything like bird flocking.
It doesn’t “sound like” that, it’s literally what they’re admitting to. Let’s not spin the narrative here on HN that Zoom didn’t admit to their faults.
Their presentation here explicitly talks about who they're targeting, and their very first target group is "recent graduates" who want "something similar to what I used in school: Python, Matlab, Java".

If this front page makes it look like their position is "supercomputers are hard, this is for pros", that's completely misrepresenting the rest of the website.
COVID-19 evolved to its current pathogenic state naturally
Coronavirus tracker application and news updates built with flutter
It's also a really well written paper. Isn't it impressive how people just read into it and assume that there must be all these criteria that make the data better without them being detailed or a control group? Not many academic papers can communicate things (of differing levels of veracity) that they want to communicate but can't say explicitly so well.
How I Built a Go Mocking Framework in 5 Days
The temporal and spatial diversity in the sample set is still unimpressive.
Wuhan, endless queues for ashes of coronavirus dead cast doubts on numbers
> Short answer: yes.

> Longer answer: Basic data analysis can pick up most if not all the shenanigans. Doesn't matter how much they "age" the accounts or hide their tracks, eg IP address etc. Don't even necessarily need high powered hardware or even machine learning. They do help in particular ways if you choose to use them.

> Fake vote detection is now a choice not to rather than a technical blockage.

I don't believe this is correct. Bots can create simple sentences that very much appear as a human. Spread these out across enough accounts, and filtering noise becomes very difficult.

There are also apps that activists use and I'm certain PR firms as well which alert humans to go and vote in certain ways.

These and other technologies combined with IPv6 make it exceptionally difficult for site admins and moderators to discover manipulators. Plus, many sites have few resources to put into the task anyway.

HN has at least put one step against it by not having downvotes on article submissions, though that doesn't help against upvoting manipulators.
if nothing else, it gives you as an individual the chance to prove you can be just as productive from home.
this one
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/8whoda ?
"In the early 80's, way before the world wide web existed, the French government shipped a $200 terminal to every home with a phone line, and created a service that for decades ran alongside the internet. It was called The Minitel. Producer Carla Green speaks to reporter Jean-Marc Manach, who, in the early 90's, made a living posing as a woman in sex chat rooms on Minitel. "
I can give you an example.
A cheap-to-rent apartment in a central part of an old popular city in Europe, is now a pricy Airbnb.

This means that students, young families, people with lower income have to move out of a suburb they we born, studied, have friends, etc. And now have to find a place elsewhere on the outskirts, where tourists don't want to go.

This is apart from arriving at your buildings front door and having some stranger stand behind you while you turn the key.. a very irritating situation.
The Confused Deputy (1988)
this sure sounds like a lot of work compared to clicking on a few random points of the video and making a determination from there.
> Why would anyone want to back to using INI files? I remember using them on DOS and Windows and I can’t remember liking them that much.

If all you need to do is set some constants and maybe an array, then INI is perfectly fine. Using YAML where you don't need its complexity is overkill, and that complexity would encourage feature creep in order to justify using that format.

I'd agree that a lack of available parsers for TOML might be an issue, except the implementations page of the wiki seems to list implementations for most languages people are likely to use[0].

Also, I don't know what you mean about the hierarchy being "lost" in TOML - obviously things aren't being declared in random order, it seems straightforward to me what's going on when I look at it. I really can't say the same about a lot of YAML code I've seen.

Use what you like but it seems like your issues here amount to aesthetics and personal taste. Personally, I think YAML is too clever for its own good. Just read the recent HN thread about YAML templating - when your config format is so complex you need an entire separate workflow (likely with its own configuration setup) to generate it, and at the end of the day you still can't abbreviate Norway properly[2], maybe it's not the best option for every case. Or even most cases.

[0]https://github.com/toml-lang/toml

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19108787

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17359376
The parent is saying that the antibodies used come from an external source, not from the patient. If what the parent is saying is true, why would the patient need antibodies?
Other than my house and life savings are in Africa?

Trite drivel
You're not wrong, but Jupyter is terrible for everything about programming except in-document HTML/SVG visualizations of expressions (no support for unit testing, laggy
Ui response to user input, broken Undo/Redo that throws away data, buggy browser based text editing), yet that one thing is worth all the suffering, so we'll take any improvement we can get.

I don't understand why VisualStudio doesn't have LightTable like expression playground yet, but until it does, Jupyter is what we have -- a fancy REPL and document publishing format being abused as an IDE.
I bought my kids sleds three years ago after a big snow storm. There hasn't been enough snow to use them again since. When I was a kid (same part of the country) we'd get weeks of sledding every winter.
Just curious about the IP being sent to FB, isn't that PII? How can FB do this legally without the user agreeing to it first? Or did I miss something?
nice tips
> The response has to come at the state and local level, which it is, slowly

I don't think this makes sense. If this is actually true then the US is just completely broken. Coronavirus is a global pandemic - are you arguing that each individual local jurisdiction should develop and manage it's own tests? That's horribly inefficient and slow.

The initially hit states were depending on the CDC and FDA to provide tests (or at least approve tests):

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-went-wrong-wit...

Unfortunately under the current administration the CDC and FDA are understaffed and being run extremely poorly, which greatly hampered initial testing. If your argument is that local jurisdictions should be responsible for pandemic testing, that makes very little sense to me. It is far more efficient for a single organization to coordinate pandemic response at the national level.
Pragmatic stuff first, then emotional. :-)

Pragmatic: when hearing praise, my thoughts are sometimes, "yeah, yeah, cut to the chase." I guess you gotta read your audience.

Emotional: It IS easy to be negative. We also tend to over-experience/over-perceive the negative, which (partially) is how we get over-reaction to criticism or advice, even when asked for. And sometimes we really just want validation. I guess you gotta, uh, read your audience.
Preliminary stats from China/Italy/USA suggested a much higher hospitalization rate: 10-20%+ for 20+ year olds. https://www.vox.com/2020/3/23/21190033/coronavirus-covid-19-...
I don't think this will help against tracking because a the tracker has no problem to refresh the identifier multiple times before the 7 day span would kick in.
I still see it like war rationing though. sure, people will know how to do it better next time, but I dont know if people want to do that again voluntarily
I had not heard of this one, somehow. Will certainly put it on my reading list. Thanks.
How to Tell If We're Beating Covid-19
Contrast this with WeWork, where people have been raising concerns about its business model (short-term revenues and long-term lease liabilities) from its inception.

WeWork is dead. The main question now is what specific necromancy the venture capitalists will be performing on its corpse.
Yeah I should hide social bar on this one not to be hippocratic :)
Ha ha. You should report this to the webmaster, not click the misplaced buttons.
You haven't done much backpacking have you.
Loneliest place I ever worked was in-office at the borg
Topological Funneling of Light
when you can't go out to lunch, go to the gym, or hang out with friends, it feels a lot more like "Live at Work".
That's right. Only the middle class can afford houses, so the lower classes live in apartments. And what happens when the middle class takes the apartments as well? Should the less fortunate build shanty towns to live in?

This isn't about people monopolizing some conveniences; access to housing is a human right (article 25), which is why governments regulate it.
Any startups that use Clojure(Script)?