skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But "stay at home" has been a mantra for weeks anyway, with everybody acting as if they and everyone else is infected.[..] But we are at this point already.

Singapore isn't. (the government that is building this app). Neither is Taiwan. Through a combination of contact tracing, surveillance, national health databases and enforcing compliance of quarantined individuals by for example regularly checking in on them they have been able to both contain the spread of the disease and keep a reasonable amount of economic and social life intact.

I will continue to be mystified by this weird and abstract notion of privacy that keeps others away from my data but results in mass lockdown, quarantines, shutdowns and curfews, while people in Singapore give some data to authorities and they can still go out and live their lives. I want material freedom to buy groceries and go to work, not some sort of religious dogmatic privacy while some plague wreaks havoc and I need to haul up in my apartment for months.
The PCR can detect if there is virus in the swab. But the swab may not have scooped up any virus even though the person had some.
Morning....just wanted to drop you a quick note that I will be replying to eventually but it will likely be several hours from now at least, have some work to get finished first, and then also I imagine I'll respond in my standard excessively long manner.

As an aside, I don't know how you think about such things, but I believe conversations like this are, or perhaps more accurately could be, very fruitful. Without diversity of speech & ideas and the inevitable passionate disagreement that comes with it, how is mankind to find the best path forward? I think it is via this process that we can discover new ideas, or bring attention to rare and underappreciated ideas. If some of these ideas were pondered more deeply, perhaps we could start to get a clearer picture of what is really going on here. It seems to me that something like 90% of people, on both sides of all divides, currently hold the stance that their ideology is right, that their roadmap for the future is The Right One. I suspect this style of thinking is not only majorly flawed in a logical sense, but also very dangerous. I believe this style of thinking is a major root cause of this pandemic, and many other of the issues we have in this world.

Back soon-ish.
Very little that’s new here
No.

Gasoline and diesel go bad because they are solutions of many hydrocarbons, and the lighter hydrocarbons are the first to evaporate, leaving a heavier-than-intended slurry of what's left plus accrued moisture from atmosphere.

It has little to nothing to do with bacterial growth.

'Fuel Stabilizer', additives that are intended to be added to tanks of vehicles which must have fuel sitting in them for prolonged periods, are oils which are designed to prevent the evaporation of the lighter hydrocarbons and prevent water infiltration; usually through the use of molecules that either bond with water readily, or by layering oil atop the fuel mass to encapsulate it from evaporation to atmosphere.
I would say try another therapist or psychoanalyst who can help you with this. I got a lot of help from such person. I'm much happier than years ago when I started. I hope you the best.
To be completely fair, it's not "Alberta" transferring that money, it's money paid in tax to the federal government being transferred to have not provinces. It's not an additional tax placed upon us, it just happens that the math works out because we've been lucky to be earning more on average, which I think only makes sense as a Albertan and a Canadian.
I like how I was downvoted here by some number crunchers for bringing a bit of humanity to the discussion. I guess I should have mentioned something about javascript and an illegal business plan (uber, airbnb etc)
This is precisely the focus of the book "Working Effectively With Legacy Code", and my impression on reading it was that the advice seemed sensible (although I haven't tested any of it deliberately). Worth looking into if you haven't.
Pretty healthy, as a comparison, is a lot better than Stackoverflow as it feels I can’t say anything without getting voted down unless I please their gods
I tend to agree with you (and I'm a Googler), but good luck passing that tax legislation in the next few days. This emergency is now. There will be plenty of time to evaluate the degree to which our country has disabled and defunded government institutions, leaving us vulnerable in this sort of crisis - but first we have to get to the other side of the crisis.

We should acknowledge the fact that these corporations are acting now, while keeping the perspective that the cash they are spending isn't in government coffers to spend on this pandemic in part because of the low corporate taxes.
Here you find a lot of people trying hard and learning or already building something in accordance with proven and successful guidelines, which is much better than many similar internet aggregations out there. After that, sure, there is some latent negativity on here, it sometimes resembles a cult and it is not the Red Cross charity for sure. All in all, healthy maybe, a daily nudge for sure.
The theory of infectious origin of the Alzheimer’s disease
It's just textual flavor and not HN specific.
This wins today's award for least necessary question mark.
Conspiracy Theories R Us.
Thinking about the systems I work with I can only think of a few cases where logging is semantically relevant (the way I understand it).

One is replaying critical failed requests when a downstream was offline and the other is gathering tracking statistics from apache access logs.

Everything else I would classify as diagnostic, wondering if you would consider that semantic as well.
This exactly.

What's really funny is if a VP says, we should start evaluating enterprise conferencing software, get's down the road with the webex and friends sales teams, and then everyone tells them to go home because it's too late when they finally have the roll-out meeting or the feedback meeting - everyone is using zoom already.
But they were not found to shed viruses.
HN is not a healthy community for me to participate in, but it's got high variance output to a greater degree than anything except my Twitter follow group and my Slack private groups - i.e. it's the highest quality uncurated source I have.

The reason I say that it is not healthy is that it is full of misinformation and sensationalism. I get upset at reading things I know are lies or errors perpetuated through confident ignorance and end up attempting to even it out by sensationalizing the other side (and perhaps in my anger doing some of the things that annoy me). I've noticed this weird behaviour in my parents arguing with their friends about politics and for the most part I'd removed myself from that but HN brings it forth.

What is valuable about HN is that you get some real experts talking about stuff they know well and startup entrepreneurs engage here in a way that's often closer than just posting on ProductHunt, and I like talking to other people like that.

Actually, thank you for asking this question, I think it's pretty obvious at this point that I should just stop using this website. But I needed the question to be asked. Should just use that time building and spend it on my private groups.
>, but they won't have to due to performance or other constraints,

They have to because a GC runtime is too heavy for embedded environments with low resources.

>That's what the macros are for. All part of the plan.

But there's still the motivation for another language that doesn't require creating the macros. E.g. Lisp macros are so powerful that they can recreate C#'s syntax feature of LINQ queries. That's true -- but C# doesn't require making the macros.

Each programming language has a different "starting point" of convenience. If you try to invent the One Language that can create all other languages' convenience syntax via macros, you've simply motivated the existence of those other languages that don't require the macros.

And the NAND gate is an abstraction. It's an abstraction of decidable logic based on rules instead of thinking about raw voltages. We do combine/compose billions of NANDs abstractions to create higher abstractions.
Assets across the board are and were massively inflated because there's tons and tons of money out there any not enough investments for it.
Plumbing will unlikely ever any time soon be fully automated... it's too varied in terms of existing structures until AI becomes actual life. Similar for a lot of "dirty jobs."

Just look at how poorly the couple of attempts at McD's to automate the cooking processes, they failed miserably... Even today there's a lot of manual work in automated factories.
It wont, they just showed that they rather let the system explode than implode; the balance, proper self-organization, invisible hand etc, was lost ten years ago
Could you provide a source for that? A quick googling returned nothing for me.
Yes.

I shouldn’t have clicked Submit - it was out of frustration.

It’s one of those things we won’t know except in hindsight.

So: frustrated at the situation and at the article and at my inability to grasp what the hell is going on on markets. Misquoting Scott Adams, we have now Confusomarkets. Though probably they were always confusing but the more I try to interpret them logically the more duped by them I am.

The only move is to be cynical, which gets me depressed.

/rant
You might be right, but this sounds like Austrian School policy thinking after the crash of 1929. That depressions are good in the long run, bankruptcies are fine, the economy will self correct, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression#Common_positi...
That bill got approved 9 minutes ago:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/27/politics/coronavirus-stim...
> Once we use it, it's pretty much gone.

Oil is as renewable as any other renewable resource. It's made from plants.

We're only at risk of running out of cheap crude mined from the earth with a positive net energy return at a low price. We aren't ever at risk of not being able to have oil.

It's an open question whether our access to cheap fossil fuel will outlast our demand for it.
Comments which make grandiose claims about getting banned on HN almost never come with links. There's a reason for that: the claims exceed reality, and a link to what actually happened would reveal that. Typically, the reason why we banned someone is very different from the reason they give when they come back here to linklessly declaim about it. This is one place where absence of evidence is evidence of absence.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Edit: it's easy to make authoritative-sounding claims, but to be taken seriously, you should supply links so readers can make up their own minds. In the majority of cases, we ban accounts for breaking the site guidelines after multiple requests to stop (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). (I'm talking about established accounts. We handle brand new accounts that break the site guidelines differently.)
I’m not an accountant, but I do know that gift cards should be recognized as revenue at the time of services rendered, not at the time of a sale of a gift card. Are grants similar in that a “gift card” is being granted and the revenue can be realized at a later date?
> They essentially are the government as they have a larger impact on your daily life than the actual government!

Even if that were true, "the organization that has the biggest impact on your daily lives" is a weird definition of "government".
Absolutely not! We pay for both. Uberconference has higher latency (test with a click track inside your office with two phones on a call).

Contention on uberconference is MUCH worse when two people are speaking. You get that weird halting sorry I spoke on top of you effect.
To add to your point (which I fully agree) (and I am surprised of the downvotes - I don't care for the karma but it looks that I didn't write it clear enough and/or people misunderstood my comment 2-3 levels up).

I am not touching the "add value" bit, I will stick to the ethics. Some businesses are (imho) scum (Facebook, Google, Zoom, every tracker, every data aggregator, etc.)

They may uphold the law or they may ignore the law. Since we should not burn their buildings down in retribution, we can sue them (or whatever the local privacy laws state), we can stop giving them money (our free/paid information). But it is up to us. Zoom clearly needs a (sic) phat penalty by EU to get their stuff straight. Then every EU user should bombard both Zoom and FB with questions on their data practices and "right to be forgotten". Then we should burry them in the sand and move to other service providers.

I am adamant on the issue of privacy and the reason for that is that these scum KNOW they are violating our rights, and the voice in their minds tells them "screw them, £€¥$ goes first".
exactly. The subscription model only makes sense for loyal readers- which I am not.
In some contexts, snapshots can also serve as documentation. Making (some, chosen) outputs visible to git can be pretty cool.
> If there was no oil, these workers would mostly go work and be productive elsewhere, increasing local tax revenues.

Can you provide examples of equivalent work at the same pay level these young workers would engage in if not for O&G?
I thought the same, and had to ask some friends to provide another point of view:

If a company like amazon generates very little corporate profit, is that unproductive growth? Aggregate corporate profits are not the only stat that matters when discussing economic growth/value.
I'm sure that felt like a celebratory victory while typing it, but there is no small measure of hilarious irony in attempting to score points about who's displaying more empathy and self-awareness, and feeling satisfied pointing out a perceived lack of it where none was warranted.

I asked for information hoping to expand on a position so far from reality that it's almost nonsensical. Asking that question more nicely is orthogonal to empathy.
There was an interesting interview with Chamath Palihapitiya on CNBC last week. Whether you like him or not, he made some good points around buy-backs and earnings per share manipulation.

Worth listening to the full interview if you have 15 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvEWez59fbI
In what way do you have to fool with this? https://meet.jit.si/

It is quite possibly the simplest videoconferencing I have ever experienced (Google Hangouts, BlueJeans, Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams being my experience.) I like the Teams experience but the simplicity of just copying an URL from that Jitsi Meet page and having it work within a minute of 5 elderly non-technophile users receiving it in their emails is incredible.
2008 made that blatantly clear.
No, but constant anger is unhealthy.
Put another way, would you want your children to live in a world where their government abused and spied on them? Borrowing from the future seems free at the time, but the true cost can be enormous. Everyone has to make their own value judgment, but I fall on the side of protecting the freedoms of people now and in the future. If people in the future choose differently for themselves, that will be their choice when their time comes.

Of course, 'you can only surrender your rights once' and 'you can only die once' aren't equivalent either. Once a nation of people surrenders their rights, nobody ever has those rights again (even if the loss of those rights costs lives). A person, or a group of people, becoming ill or passing away doesn't take away the lives of the next generation.

If you think back on the experiences of the last century, how much harm would be done if we couldn't freely assemble because a government decided to intervene? We'd have stayed in Vietnam longer, black folks may not have ever won their civil rights, and its possible women would be unable to vote.

For the record, I don't downplay the suffering of illness. I've lost a parent to cancer, as well as many other family members. Everyone else alive is in the same boat. We're all mortal.
I don’t think so, have a look at the official guidelines for reporting Covid-19 cases (in German):

https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...

Basically every patient that shows symptoms of pneumonia gets tested for Covid-19 now, as well as all persons that were in direct contact with such a patient. Currently about 360,000 tests are done per week in Germany, next week more than 500,000 are projected. No country in the world tests more people per capital currently, so I really don’t think the numbers are underreported.
I'll just say I'm usually as interested or more interested to read the comments on a link as in the link itself.

I now find it annoying when looking at other links that I don't have the usual skeptical/thoughtful HN take on it.
To boil this interview thing, you are trying to make a very far prediction of someone based on very little data. The industry standard way to gather that data will probably get you to see if that person has done it before but not how well. Unless that person is sorta famous and even then he could be an asshol to the team and a disease
And if you swabbed an infected part of the body in the first place!

In 205 patients with proven COVID-19 [...] bronchoalveolar lavage fluid was positive in 14/15 (93%), sputum 75/104 (72%), nasal swabs 5/8 (63%), brush biopsy 6/13 (46%), pharyngeal swabs 126/398 (32%), feces 44/153 (29%), blood 3/307 (1%), and urine 0/72 (0%).

https://www.jwatch.org/na51116/2020/03/17/pharyngeal-and-nas...
Please email me (email in profile) and I will try to get you support internally.
Aha, I wrote vim script to achieve that function, not difficult at all.
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>They essentially are the government as they have a larger impact on your daily life than the actual government!

Amazon and Walmart's power comes from being cheaper/better than the alternatives (though they may engage in unfair and unethical behavior as a means to that end). Government's power comes from having a monopoly on violence. These are very different and one has to be very far removed from government violence to think otherwise.
I wondered, have any others been expected, to reverse the interview direction?
As in ask the company manangment, sales and tech ceos, to answer your test scenarios?

"You have developed a new product with broad market appeal, and sales already found you a huge first customer, which would secure you for years to come. In return they expect you to tailor the product to there needs. How do you react?"

It sounds mad, but it seems somehow to be expected by some. Like they expect you to test your company for warning flags as thoroughly as they test you..
Lol they offer free ads because there's a financial crisis, they probably lost of customers and they're trying to attract new ones.

Fine. I offer free ads for 3 months worth 1B$ in my website, can I use it now for PR as well?:-)
You realize investors are laughing their way to the bank because of the ease of use focus of zoom? The investors in the fully encrypted privacy based video conferencing platforms (yes, they exist) are broke now.
> but the economic situation was and is much different in the other nordic countries and the model still works well

Other nordic countries, like the market economy of Denmark[1]?

> Claiming SD was abandoned is a pretty drastic interpretation.

I think it would be pretty drastic to claim that the political situation has been largely unchanged from the 70s, which is the period of Social Democracy which Piketty is defending.

[1]https://www.investors.com/denmark-tells-bernie-sanders-to-st...
“the young will be left to rebuild a more intelligent and caring society.”

Make sure they really do this. The boomers started out with “love and peace” before they turned to “greed is good”. I can easily imagine the next generation to create an even tougher society if they aren’t careful.
...great job structuring data!
It's happening at some layers above where personal finances occur. There is a massive demand for digital USD (bank liquidity) around the world, this is coming from a few directions such as domestic and international companies taking out new loans and calling in terms of existing loans to keep afloat without having income right now. International banks needing more USD to meet increased demand. It's like a perfect storm of massive hidden types of debt and leverage all came crashing down at once, there are 10x the amount of the stock market in derivatives such as futures and options so when these bets went bad it is causing the ultimate dollar black hole to occur worldwide at the same time.
on the contrary, i treat my phone as an entertainment device so that my computer isn't used for that. i used to read hackernews on the computer, but i found that if i read it on the phone instead, i don't get distracted when i am working on the computer. i can put the phone and all distractions in it away more easily than i can put the computer away.
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Coincidentally I had a bottle of Cheerwine at Central Market in Texas, which is also part of the HEB company.
Everyone always seems to knee-jerk forget that corporations are employers...the economy is run for people. People work for companies. Companies compete, and the financial gymnastics they do to get there is done by people also. Companies are not sentient. (you could argue that they have some meta-sentience, but it is pretty unspecific)
I've had this happen in the past. I used another GSuite account I had access to to get a phone support PIN and actually got someone on the phone and then kept calling back until I got a rep who would work with me on the account I did not have access to.
Pregnant Startup CEO on Work-Life Challenges During Coronavirus Pandemic
> Outside of the US Millenials have enjoyed cheaper (when adjusted) education than ever before

Do you have a source for this? Considering the disparity between nations, that seems to be painting with an overly broad brush.
What's the volume being traded at that price? I'll bid -$10 to buy your house, doesn't mean that's what your house is worth.
try adding a period after the .com
I really thought they are owned by MillerCoors now.
That’s what they think, there is a bias when all you do is the same interviews. Is like eating Your fav cake from the same bakery and thinking that is the best in the world
Profits don't (really) matter. If your revenue is growing 100% YOY, and your profit is -10%, who cares? If your costs aren't growing as fast as your revenue, then it's easy to turn a profit if you choose. Companies choose not to because it hurts them long-term. They choose to grow and enter new markets as fast as possible to get a foothold.
My guess is that the answer to that is cheap debt from the fed keeping interest rates so low for so long. The stocks had value beyond what you'd expect from P/E ratiosand assets alone because there was added future value in the form of anticipated stock buy backs.
Unless the metabolic pathway requires some super-specific and limited resource, thus garbage facilities could supply the catalyst and the microbes would begin consuming the plastics.

Essentially none would survive outside designated plastic eating situations.

Until ... life finds a way ...
Why not just give an actual IQ test?
Do you think you would get better services or obviate the need for corporate charity if the US government had an extra 10% revenue?
Profits do not need to go up for the value of a business to go up.
That might very well be the case.
Well, there is some current research in Europe at least on how to make voice assistant technology more respecting of their user's privacy: https://www.compriseh2020.eu/ It's still far from market-ready, though...
Sharing this essay published in Skift by my pregnant wife, who is also my co-founder at Boutiq. We recently went through the Techstars Austin accelerator and also graduated from the YC Startup School 2019 class.