skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can appreciate the problem here, but right now, the majority of the layoffs seem to be furloughs in the service industry and I'm betting they already weren't getting health insurance besides what they received from ACA.
Jordan Peterson makes a clear point about how the right is for stable hierarchies but they can destabilize and become corrupt, and that's where the left comes in to balance them. Wanting to see the best doctor if you get cancer or seeking out the best construction worker to remodel your kitchen IS a hierarchy and it's a good thing.
Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco
They're ruining so much goodwill that they've built up over the years by cheaping out on customer support that even customer hostile companies like Comcast do better.
Bummer their site is still down. Not sure why a marketing site needs to maintain connectivity to a database to render the homepage?
I think we are are seeing the first images of how organizations are trying to fight the massive forces of deflation - no one wants to be the first to start cutting prices. You'll see companies giving away or donating more and more of their inventory or product, but I think it's inevitable that prices in certain sectors of the economy will start coming down.
We actually do exactly that: we retire hurricane names for being associated with a bad one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_retired_Atlantic_hurri...
The difference is, the Supreme Court has already made a ruling on IQ tests.
Spatial Interfaces (2019)
This. Unless you are big enough to have a customer engineer assigned to you, as good as their services are I see people having similar issues again and again with their lack of support
I don't know why people always expect companies to do things the government should do. And when they do things that the government should do, they then say the the company could do more. It's false. The government could do more. And if they're out of money they should tax these companies more then.
Sure. Apple is after all that free app money from their free app.

It can’t possibly be because their app was developed with government guidance and they have no reasonable way to auditing all the 3rd party apps for accuracy and safety in a reasonable timeframe.
When you factor in this news:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/27/china-re-closes...
It would certainly appear that this virus is not yet finished with China.

More importantly, it would seem that premature lifting of restrictions is done at our peril.
Sure, documentation & automation works for the majority of cases. The problem is with the other cases where you hit a wall and have no way to talk to a customer service rep to get your issue resolved.
Since nobody's mentioned it yet, you would be very wise to pay attention to the demographic(s) of this community vs other communities. They explain a whole lot of the behavior and opinions that are popular here vs elsewhere.
Looking at that homepage, I have zero idea about what it does or even looks like. It seems to be all mission statement fluff and no description of the actual tool.
The real question is: was it ever allowed to happen? There have been bailouts in some form since forever, it seems.
by "classic" do you mean the "if you were stuck in a blender?" questions? you haven't interviewed in a while if you think they're asking those. it's all standard DS&A whiteboarding, etc. there's nothing even close to resembling a general aptitude test
That's an appreciable step a startup can take, at the same time I'm curious how're you maintaining the revenue and for how long will this be valid?
Those avenues tend to involve being physically present at some bank branch (or perhaps an ATM). Something that's not really feasible in the time of Corona.
If, over the long term, CAPEX spendings do not produce profits, it means that the purchased assets did not produce enough payoff to compensate for their depreciation charges. You could argue with the accounting depreciation rules (i.e. how much needs to be written off per year, i.e. you think the asset is longer lived than the accounting rules say), but the general idea stands - it is a sign of bad capital allocation.
One interesting datapoint that I think distinguishes HN from even well-curated subreddits: the culture actively discourages humor-only comments. Making a thoughtful post that happens to contain a pun or a comic exaggeration is fine; but cluttering up comments with one-line jokes, off-topic cheap shots, etc, that contain no real information, tends to be aggressively downvoted.
You seem to be referencing:

>$340 million in Google Ads credits available to all SMBs with active accounts over the past year. Credit notifications will appear in their Google Ads accounts and can be used at any point until the end of 2020 across our advertising platforms. We hope it will help to alleviate some of the cost of staying in touch with their customers.

And you seem to be overlooking/ignoring:

>Google offers every employee annually to $10,000 from $7,500. That means our employees can now give $20,000 to organizations in their communities, in addition to the $50 million Google.org has already donated.

$20,000 x 100,000 employees = $2B in discretionary credits (not dedicated to new customers, but certainly does not exclude them)
> Ah the misguided enthusiasm of youth.

OK boomer. My dad has fond memories of the socialist regime he grew up under, and my mom has worked incredibly hard to provide for our family given the difficulties she's faced in life.

Just because you ended up jaded and subscribed to the garbage system which we have to participate in doesn't mean my generation will too.
Detecting Privacy Badger’s Canvas FP Detection
My choice for best headline of the year to date. Am I right, or am I right?
It does skew heavily toward complaining. I think part of reason is that people feel more compelled to comment over gripes than to express appreciation. When I see something I like, I usually upvote and move on. If I see a problem with something I'm reading I will often comment.
Despite that there's quite a lot of positive content and conversation that I would miss if I stopped reading and participating. Even the negative can be informative and valuable.
Your app seems really similar to Tot by Iconfactory:

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2020/02/meet-tot-your-tiny-text...

That could be the reason you're seeing sales drop?
False Positives. This would be the first time in history that a sizeable number of those "cured" of a virus where actually shedding live virus ? Depending on the type of test, it can read antibodies to the virus from those "cured", which gives a false positive.
Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan never went into lockdown. People there can still go to restaurants and mostly carry on with their normal lives.

The reason they can do this is they acted quickly and they have mass testing and contact tracing of the people who test positive. We can't keep the entire world locked down for months on end. At some point, we have to start opening things back up and the only way to keep the viral coefficient below 1 is if we can quickly and efficiently identify & isolate everyone who has potentially been exposed to the virus.

Today, only a tiny percentage of the people in your city have corona virus. In the US, we have around 100k official cases out of 330M people (0.03%). Obviously that number is way under-reported, but it gives us a rough idea of how far along we are on the exponential curve. For now, we're still searching for a needle in a haystack. First, you need mass testing, including people without symptoms. Otherwise it will keep spreading from person to person unknowingly. Second, you need to figure out who else they have possibly infected and isolate them too.

For the first time in history, most humans on this planet are already carrying a tracking device with them at all times. We just need to figure out how to utilize this data while still respecting users privacy and making sure we don't unwittingly usher in a new-era of government and corporate surveilence. The crazy thing is Google, Apple, Facebook, the NSA, and all of the phone carriers already have this data collected on just about everyone. But they don't want to freak us out by revealing just how much data they have on all of us.
That's terrible from a privacy standpoint. May be I don't want to give up my location.
You can work around it: https://github.com/gaubert/gmvault/issues/335
Where was this?

I used to work as an intern at a shipbuilding company making aircraft carriers. People wore stuff when they were required to, so hard hats were always worn, and the attached earmuffs seemed to be generally worn when someone was working with something very loud.

However, at one point I was helping an inspection in a tank and there was a noxious odor, and I couldn't breathe in it. The shipyard worker with me went ahead and went in and did the test, but after this I tried to procure a respirator and they refused to get me one, saying it wasn't necessary for the work I was doing.

Music concerts are another place where you don't see people using personal protection much, though I will say that's changed in the last 10 years from what I've seen. I do see a minority (but a growing one) of people wearing earplugs, and we now have a lot of choices for "musician's earplugs" being sold which are designed to have a neutral frequency attenuation.
Not a "boomer".

Misguided as usual.

As you grow up, you will, as I said, realize how much smarter all those people you dismiss actually were than you believed.

The world is a complex place. The "old people are dumb and we should throw out everything they built" mantra is a silly trivialization of reality, one that every generation believes fervently as children, and one that the intelligent ones reject when they find out what the world is really like.

You haven't gotten there yet. Don't worry.
Sorry, to clarify, their profit hasn't been growing.

Since 2014, Profit (before taxes) has been roughly $2.2 trillion every year.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=qx3r
Instacart’s workers will strike for safety protections and hazard pay
If only I could put it into my crontab ...
Ask HN: We're Cloud Security Team, Help Us Find a Name
We're a team working on Cloud Security, We're looking for a name fr our team, but couldn't come up with anything easy to pronounce, meaningful and preferably funny.
I call upon you, the great HN community, help us please!
Not in non recourse states. (https://homeguides.sfgate.com/happens-give-keys-back-mortgag...)
Interesting. Garmin watches have had this for a while. I've confirmed but am surprised that it doesn't automatically sync up to the Apple Health app.
"Spanish" Flu is not derogatory when used in the context of explaining the Spanish press were progressive and free to report on their surroundings without gov oppression.

Unlike the rest of world, who were covering up their military losses due to illness.
Then it would be 70% accurate
I'm using screen sharing on Slack just fine.
I suspect it's because this virus is optimized to enter cells that line the lungs/respiratory tract, then also sheds back that same way. Meanwhile, cells in, and along, the bloodstream aren't infected – and are most-trafficked by the body's immune response, including virus-destroying antibodies.

(Why are rodents more prevalent in the walls/crawlspaces of a dwelling, rather than the hallways?)
And indeed on reddit, the highest quality subreddit, /r/science, is the one most aggressively moderated

Although IMHO their extreme stance on moderation is not always a good thing. For example, they have an unwritten (at least, the last time I checked) policy of nuking entire threads where there are some poor comments, even if this also results in deleting many useful comments later in the same thread.

The first time I contributed substantially to a discussion in /r/science, on a subject where I did have something resembling an expert opinion to offer, my entire contribution (which took several hours to write across a handful of comments, with carefully backed sources etc.) was summarily deleted without warning. I queried this with the mods, and they explained the policy about nuking entire threads. Given the nature of some of the early comments around that thread, I couldn't disagree with the assessment that they were not a constructive contribution. However, I also immediately filed the whole sub in the same dustbin as SO and have made no further attempts to contribute, for much the same reasons.
Except the horrible "trap" is not something many people care much about.

Zoom seems VERY focused on making stuff easy to use.

They clearly are doing things like installing in user folders etc to get around organization "protections". Same thing with the crazy web server launcher. Yes - creates privacy / security risks but also made things marginally easier. Same with the Facebook SDK integration etc. They are going for ease of use FIRST.

HN is treating zoom as if it's some devil software. Part of the REASON for it's success (vs the fully end to end encrypted offerings etc) is because it DOESN'T emphasize security / privacy, it can be installed in a shadow IT manner etc.

That is why it is successful.
Because it’s a respiratory disease
In a company using Google Apps for Business, administrators can reset any user account.
I blame it in part on "hot take culture". From sports to politics to business to tech, it has become an unfortunate part of public discourse. Think of it like contrarianism or playing devil's advocate to the extreme. I don't know the cause, perhaps some see it as the only way to stand out when its so easy to publish your thoughts. Maybe its yet another negative externality from social media.

It's easy to spot in comments, posts, and articles–they have titles like:

"... is actually bad"

"... is actually good"

"... considered harmful"

"Actually, ... "

"No, you don't ... "
Related case report: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-17319/v1
Somewhat related... At our company we once deleted a G Suite account that had a balance on its AdSense account. They let us delete the account with a click of a button without checking if all the associated accounts for other Google products should actually be deleted. So we received a letter that the account was sent to collections, but there was no way to login and pay the bill because the account didn't exist anymore. Eventually we got ahold of support and had them link the AdSense account to another Google account so it could be accessed. Theres a lot of systems at play with Google and I imagine stuff like this is overlooked quite often.
I would generally agree but think it's a bit better than this. The thing that makes HN remarkable is that there are often top subject matter experts participating in discussion. Just to pick one example of many, Walter Bright often participates in discussions involving the D language or related topics.

Similarly, this is the place where valuable discussion and insights around WebGPU have been shared, even though some of that discussion is in the form of complaints ("Apple is trying to sabotage a SPIR-V based approach").

I don't think the better health is just because of smaller size and niche appeal, I think the reach of HN is considerable. I think we really do need to thank the tireless moderation work of dang and others for that.
Even a common well established test like a quick strep test has a significant (10% iirc) false negative rate. I'm sure that a rapidly developed test to an emerging target is going to have a significant error rate.
I don't think that's true, source? At least I've never seen that as an Enterprise admin.

Based on some quick googling, are you perhaps mistaking Zoom the video conf software with the confusingly similarly named ZOOM International, which does call-center / agent software but is a completely unrelated and a much older company?
'A privacy breach is inevitable with this this privacy violating software, so no point in having privacy' is quite an unconventional take.

If you could post your real name, address, phone number, email, sexual orientation, religion, employment status, performance review, salary, hobbies, political viewpoints etc we can get started processing your revocation of privacy.

Oh you didn't realise your boss was having meetings with HR over Zoom? Sorry, we can't have different rules for some.

Oh and you'll start seeing ads for '5 step sobreity' now since we see you were in the local AA Zoom. Sorry about not getting that new job -- that company ticked the 'no addicts' flag in the selection matrix, and, well, the job market is kinda competitive now.
I don’t think non Boomers are any better about it. When push comes to shove, everyone wants their kids to go to school with other kids whose parents earn as much or more, so the situation will tend to non dense housing as long as there is a wide wealth/inequality gap.

The root cause is technology obviating many jobs and letting labor from around the world compete with the same labor in the US.

Obviously if middle class people live like kings in the US compared to 90% of the world where people don’t have single family homes with garages and two cars, then there exists a tremendous arbitrage opportunity which will have to be taken advantage of if a business/country wants to remain competitive globally.
problem is somewhat ill-posed, but see

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bgruber/zip2fips/master/zi...
I don't think it's generally possible. The FIPS code just identifies the county (the first two digits are the state, e.g. 06 for California) and the final three identify a county in that state. So technically that column is redundant with the "county" and "state" columns; I suspect they've included it to make joining this dataset to other data that might use different name-formatting of counties/states easier.

ZIP/postal codes are generally smaller (in the county I live in there are almost a hundred ZIP codes). I'm not sure they're even guaranteed to be entirely within one county either. We tend to think of ZIP codes as boundaries but they're actually delivery routes (which if you squint can be converted into boundaries by joining the properties that those routes serve together).

You might be interested in this article: https://carto.com/blog/zip-codes-spatial-analysis/
In most communities, the more skeptical you sound the "smarter" people think you are. Optimism is native and therefore stupid.

Sadly that mentality has found its way here.
Not that I know of. There is (or was?) an extension to tighten the integration between the browser and native client, i.e. for use with calendar and email.
I can get the same thing with Rimworld. The dude devs the thing for free and he can do what he wants. But I'm not going to pick troll husbandry or dwarven venereal disease over a usable user interface when it comes to what I spend time gaming on.
As it's beginning to look like my days as a Zoom refusenik are numbered, what is the safest way to use it? Android, iOS, Chomebook, some form of virtualization or container?
It is not "unproductive" from the perspective of the economy, but it is "unproductive" (i.e. low-returning) from the perspective of shareholders. We would not expect to see share prices rising if corporate profits in aggregate are not rising (unless there is some financial engineering going on).
Cloudacure?
Python Is Not Java
HN is a unique outlier for being highly informative and somewhat rational while being designed around an inherently toxic and emotionally charged format (the popularity/upvote system).

I believe this is entirely due to the strict rules in place here and the great moderation.

However, there's obviously a couple filter bubbles at play. For example, if I write a post claiming that [insert tech company] is doing [insert thing] to abuse privacy, it will reach the front page and be accepted as fact regardless of whether I made it up. This applies for numerous themes/topics, ie. VC is evil, Marketing is evil, etc. HN tends to be cynical about everything.

Don't get me wrong, I've probably learned more from this community than any other place on the internet. It is my preferred portal through which to explore the internet. But I also wish we could improve on the undercurrent of frustrated cynicism here.
I hear they are a series of tubes and that Al Gore may have invented them.

I might be thinking of something else though...
> Google recently blocked advertisements around COVID19

I hadn't seen that, thanks for pointing it out.

There are still ads for terms like "breathing mask" though, so it could probably be circumvented to some extent. But that's to be expected and probably unavoidable.

Especially in light of these efforts, it still seems weird to me though to encourage institutions to use ads for information.
FIPS codes are only specific to the county. It'd be a one-to-many mapping (or many-to-one, depending on if it was a rural area, I guess? I'm not sure if ZIP codes ever cross county lines.)
this kind of lazy thinking is probably no small contributor to the rest of the wider world squandering its 2 month advantage over this virus.

I don't disagree with you that there are many suspicious acts surrounding China and this pandemic, but a blanket statement like that is nevertheless unconstructive.
VaporLock
BoilerRoom
It's still in a very early stage. But there's a forum with a bunch of activity, and it sounds like people are writing code.
That's a great idea to donate proceeds to restaurant workers, though not sure how much it will help. Wonder if it will prevent some authors from publishing health data that shouldn't be published
Trump Administration Suspends All EPA Enforcement Citing Coronavirus
For those interested in data, the COVID Tracking Project (http://covidtracking.com/) doesn't have county data, but it does have test data (both total, positive, and negative). Very helpful given how relatively useless all of these case counts are without knowing how many tests were conducted.
Wait, you're saying "Apple requires me to sign in with an account to use the App Store". Yes, that's completely correct, and absolutely normal for iOS since year 1 day 1. Nothing Covid-specific there.
French government launches in-house developed messaging service, Tchap
Look on twitter what people think about HN. The general opinion I hear about "the orange site" is that it's a toxic trash fire (this is also my opinion, which I will not be defending here).
As a note for readers: to get a mobile SIM in South Korea of any kind, you pretty much need identity verification.
>>If, over the long term, CAPEX spendings do not produce profits, it means that the purchased assets did not produce enough payoff to compensate for their depreciation charges.

Even if CAPEX generates profits, if the returns were lower than your capital cost then company would have been better off not investing and returning that instead to shareholders.
From my perspective it’s pretty healthy. It’s just very insular and inward focussed. Checkout n-gate which does a great job of pointing out the inherent contradictions here. My only other criticism is that moderation tries too hard to make this place “of great minds discussing ideas” outside of material conditions. Lots of nasty stuff gets a pass for being academically delivered.

I do find it funny that a lot of posters find this place left leaning. I guess I could see it as such if you take left wing as Democratic neoliberalism but from a lefty European perspective it’s the same uninspired, technocratic guff we get from our mainstream right wing parties.
"community" is a stretch considering the amount of astroturfing that goes on here.
Normal SBA loans require a personal guarantee. The Disaster Loans for Coronavirus do not.
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