skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it you could be provided with such clear evidence, yet you still insist on being absolutely correct?

What is your explanation for the graph on this page, which clearly shows that wearing a mask has massive effect on the spread of the disease?

https://www.maskssavelives.org
Of course, but that suggests Apple isn't smart enough to know this and hasn't sufficiently anonymised the data, which is pure speculation?
Keeping the data for a week but completely inaccessible would not be a huge cost for AWS yet a big relief for startups.
> A new airline might form to take its place, which would probably be a little more prudent than the last one.

It's a pretty innocent view of the world.

Or the new company would just behave exactly like the old one because it is the best short term strategy for shareholders.

And anyway, in case of new crisis, their new high executive will sell their share right before (exactly like Jeff Bezos did https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/27/jeff-bezos-...) and look for a new job.

Any public company stopped to think long term a while ago. Prudent means less profitable.
There's a major difference between 600 components that follow the fallacies of network computing and 600 that don't.
A positive aspect of the coronavirus is that it allows you to determine which politicians are sociopaths and which aren't.
Is confusion or cynicism bad? How do you measure the saturation? Why will it continue? Should it not?
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But the Reuters article isn't talking about that. It is talking about the companies receiving direct state aid, which will not be permitted to pay dividends, under penalty of paying the money back to the state, with interest. So the Reuters article is absolutely correct. You are just dismissing an unrelated claim.
I think you could also autorun from disk as everything is memory mapped on the C64, but you couldn’t make it reliable nor portable.
Germany will issue antibody certificates to allow quarantined to work again
Years ago I have made a bargain deal by buying a used Vitra office chair https://www.vitra.com/en-us/office . Some company got rid of a whole lot of them, and another company refurbished them.

I think adjustable armrests are indespensable for a good office chair.
>looks at captcha

Oh look Google has competition in free slave labor.
It's fucking stupid. It's like seeing condom denial because some priest says only abstinence works.
Something similar also based on Next called Blitz that popped up recently.

https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz

RedwoodJS, a new rails like full stack framework for JS is also very interesting: https://github.com/redwoodjs/redwood

They focus on a classic server side Rails like workflow but embrace the separation of API and clients on the technical side, for a future as a multi frontend framework (web, mobile etc.).
I don’t have a big problem with stock buybacks in general. But if companies buy back stock when times are flush they ought to be issuing new stock to raise money when times are lean. Not putting their hands out to the public fisc.
And even then people should make their own mask and wear that.
any good source on the tfidf exemplar svm model that was used for this?
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5....
I’m tall too (190) and found standing very uncomfortable too. I had a standing mat and monitor arms too, and I think it made my mid back pain worse than it was before. I think a lot of ergonomic recommendations are very personal.
This one needs some love www.heroicrobotics.com
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Why isn't there alternative to soldering? Laser for fusing component leads to PCB?
While I agree with you partly, many of these arguments sound like some feeling of Swedish exceptionalism to me. As someone living and working in Sweden, I hope we are doing the right thing. Your last point of "getting to conclusions right now is premature" is on point.
One big thing is that from now on, Wireguard is included in the official Linux kernel.

https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2020-March/00520...
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Yes, that type of class is known as "actor".
I'd like to see the terms 'hording' and 'panic buying' discouraged. They're being almost universally used to simply refer to people who simply have different needs, preferences, or concerns... and the net effect is shaming people for being cautious or prepared.

The end result is that in some places people are being denied the ability to purchase up more than a few days of supplies at once, forcing repeated trips out that increase everyone's risk.

Virtually no one simply concerned for their own safety is creating a big problem for anyone with their purchases (at least not above and beyond the background level of synchronized need)-- sure, a gouger wanna-be here or there is a problem-- but that is its own separate thing.

> better at filtering than random t-shirt cloth,

Cotton is pretty good at absorbing water, if we're in the land of pure speculation it wouldn't be unreasonable to guess that it's not bad for droplets.
Is it not a little bit patronising that American companies think they can regulate political speech in Brazil? It's quite clear they don't think they can regulate political speech in the US. What exactly is the difference?
Pretty cool Joao, works fluent!
Now for instruction videos where e.g. typing is involved, I'll prefer ScreenToGif still (e.g. because of frame speed and export options (webm, mp4), but if it's to record a video on screen or something quick, this works just as easy, if not easier.
NASA picks SpaceX to deliver cargo to the Lunar Gateway
maybe people might realise through the ensuing turmoil what a shitshow business has become actually...
There were some things I did once the virus becomes clear. Planning started in January.

* I was looking for other jobs in January, but backed out of that. Choosing instead to keep the job I already had. I did not like the job but it’s safe employment at a large company in an essential industry.

* I refinanced my house at a higher interest rate for a massive bucket of cash. I paid off some debt and kept the rest as a large savings net in case things get really bad.

* I waited until the recent market spike on Friday to sell any stocks. I sold 10% of what I had so I could buy stock in industries that are really hurting like airlines or cruise.

* I am writing a shared/distributed operating system. It’s not a true OS as I am avoiding work on low level features like kernel, drivers, or hardware acceleration and instead just working on distribution of application execution and multi-computer file system stuff. The pandemic is opening greater demand on data distribution, but aside from media most distribution is pretty archaic and limited to VPNs.

* I should be trying to take my software skills to the next level, but the job doesn’t care. I am in an area of spaghetti code, utter reliance on third party code tools, and out dated practices. Instead I just have to make the best of what’s there and be glad I still have employment.

* Be patient. All the data suggests the US is still far from peak bottom. Things will get much worse still and then recovery will be very slow. The prior high stock market was highly inflated by developer speculation. It will take many years to recover that. Know this now and plan accordingly.

* If everything falls apart I have a backup employment plan. I am an officer in the Army Reserves. My part time job could become a primary full time job.

* I am also doing research on foraging and trying to figure out home gardening on the cheap in cases everything else fails. 1 Fairytale pumpkin can supply a family of 4 with high nutrition food for a week and they store for 9 to 15 months and 1 plant will produce 2 to 6 fruits. I have several plants already in the ground and some large pumpkins sprouts indoors. I have sprouts of a variety of other vegetables as well.
The rage against buybacks is how many are funded - through debt. Boards are gearing their companies to the hilt to fund shareholder returns (in whatever form), to the point the ship itself is rendered unable to whether significant storms.

If bailouts are normalized, there is no disincentive against such reckless behavior. I would like there to be permanent cash buffers to fund 1 year HR costs before any form of shareholder returns are allowed.
> Why is bailing out a compay different from "investing" in it? What is an investment besides a non-emergency bailout?

Bailing a company out is just a euphemism for making a very high risk investment that the market is unwilling to do. Putting aside whether that is the correct thing to do or not, the option would likely (in a recession) be mass unemployment, so there's an incentive from the state, that likely wishes to avoid that scenario, that doesn't exist in the same way for "regular" investors.

That said, it makes sense that if you pull the emergency lever and request a state bailout, you should pay future dividends back to the state for at least a decent amount of time since they basically gave you a loan that no-one else would.
can you explain to me, why we can not regulate the very same companies in the good times then?
In the way it's being used here it is rendering out every page to a bundle to be served as a static site - there is no server side rendering to speak of really.
Just for the sake of argument, isn't the argument against buybacks that it may skew the indicators for how well the company is doing? You have earnings and then you have amount of shares: buy some shares from the public, and your "earnings per share" goes up even if the earnings haven't changed.

In my view, this is radically different from, for example, buying the whole public stock and going private.
I was stunned to hear that. Service in whatever form is def a rite of passage. Signing over your life to something bigger than you is def a rite of passage. Especially when there is a chance you might lose your life as a result.

Government is us, it does great good and some bad, but ultimately it is civilization. If you want to change it go vote and get involved, but don't complain about the people trying to make the world better in their own way.
It can be, but I’m not running a server in production: I’m using the static site generation feature in Next (comparable to Jekyll or Gatsby). It takes an input (Markdown in my case) and spits out a bunch of HTML files that are later deployed on a CDN. No server-side runtime required.
He might not buy them if the gov was going to bail them out, as they could wipe out shareholders (hopefully).
Upgraded to a system with an X570 motherboard and an RX 5700 XT graphics card... for the most part, since Kernel 5.3, every release has been more stable and mostly better performing... though having to manually download drivers a couple times from the kernel git repo has been a pain, I really appreciate the effort.

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Rant ahead...

If only the front end could button up more... Gnome's blank screen + password seems to have a bug that I didn't have the time/ability to overcome and switched to kde/plasma, which imho is really disjointed as an experience in so many ways. I spent about 4 months mostly in Linux, until a few weeks ago, I had to switch back to windows.

As to why the switch back, I couldn't use a VM, as most of the stuff didn't yet support the ahead of LTS kernel I was using, and I needed that for hardware stability.

I will say the efforts of the Kernel team consistently impress me, and is a big part of why I target Linux and/or Docker for most of the work that I do. Docker+WSL2 has been nearly the best of both worlds to me. I still have Linux on another drive, so will probably give Elementary's UI a try next.
An alternative to your alternative: science and medicine still work. Let's try and make it better. The better we understand our situation the better we can react appropriately.

Yes, it's really bad in a few places right now. It looks like it's going to be really bad in a lot more places in the next 15-20 days. How _long_ will it be really bad for and for how _many_ people will it be really bad are important questions to understand.

Don't let the dire situation make you irrational.
If you had a random sample from two weeks ago and one from today, you think this provides zero information on how to react now?
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Software development is a perculiar mix of generalised principles and incredibly specific edge cases that you need craft unique solutions to. When you start working with a business to develop software for them you need to talk extensively with the experts in that business so you can share a common understanding of the solution you're going to build to solve their problem. Domain Driven Design provides a toolkit and language for engaging in that conversation so that you can extract the specific edge cases you need to understand in order to craft the solutions for that particular business.
"political correctness" is not innocuous thing. It drains the ideas and the energy of those who are indignated by some aspects of our world. These people should fight to change the world and they just change words. It is easier to fight on the symbolic level than in the real world. And in the same time the world goes on drifting as symbols will not stop it.
You could have expected that these Glimpse "symbolic heroes" would have invest time and energy to promote that people in the US do not use the word "gimp" anymore... Or even better they could have dedicated their life to help the disabled.
Nope they found it more useful to rename a Photoshop-like program...
It is the matter with the US so-called left. They are totally useless.
.. or dividends as the article says.

Devil is in the details. Maybe French government has good conditions for the aid, but the article is not giving details.

Aid should be exchangeable debt for public companies. No dividends and buybacks. No executive bonuses or options until the debt is paid full. After (5-7) years the remaining debt is exchanged into company stocks in a rate that leaves the government in the neutral position or with small profit. I think it would be OK to give compensation package to executives if it's tied to the profit that the government makes from the aid.

The aid should be available to everyone with same conditions. Not doing so punishes companies with good finances.

Having right incentives as a whole is the issue, not some implementation details.
1. Posture.

plug a monitor and real keyboard into your laptop, get a real chair and desk. Correct your posture.

2. Stop

Just stop for a few days and let things heal.

3. Don't ask the internet for health advice

Talk to a doctor or physio before taking my advice
Austria to make basic face masks compulsory in supermarkets
If you're shocked by this, just wait until you find out what the US government has been up to in Central and South America over the past 50 years
It basically ruins most isolation/security benefits containers provide, since having root access to this socket allows to nearly have root access to the host.
This is something you want to really avoid.

I don't really have a good solution to this "reload service when certificates are updated" problem that doesn't involve heavier container orchestration.
Everybody should care. The most important thing, knowing the situation would enormously help with shaping up the response. If 0.0005% of the population had COVID-19 would require different actions compared to a situation where 30% had it.

Not everywhere ICUS are being overloaded and morgues are overwhelmed with the dead. And ignorance was the first reason why it happened where that's the case. So anything that could decrease the ignorance should be met with open arms.
> in my free time

Thank you! To make it even more rewarding for you :) - I remember there was a report mentioning that most of the work on Linux kernel nowadays is done by salaried employees.
It's a loan with conditions. Not all that unusual. Each company can decide if they accept the conditions or want to reject the loan offer and get their finance elsewhere.
Because we’ve nationalized the mortgage lending industry while keeping up a very expensive veneer of a private market in the form of originators and servicers. It’s the pessimal combination of capitalism and socialism.
Once I welded Galvanized pipe and I was sick for a week, I drank a lot of milk to counter that which I learned from my welding instructor
Reminds me op xttp.com back in the days. Where you "just" had to add one line to regedit to allow xttp://mydomain. Good times!
I think it says Next generates a static site - in that case the cost of SSR is only incurred when compiling the site, so speed isn't really that much of an issue unless it's a gigantic site.
The same discussion is happening in Sweden.[1] The minister of finance has basically said that (my translation):

> The tax payers are taking a risk, so they should also have the possibility to join the rebound, when it comes, and get some of that money back.

And regarding dividends:

> If you take part of different forms of state financed support, of course it will look bad if you at the same time give out large dividends.

[1]: https://www.dn.se/ekonomi/magdalena-andersson-oppnar-for-oka...
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3M makes 1 million N95 masks every day in the US, about 1/3 of their global production. The problem is that it isn't enough to respond to the situation.
I agree, and it's not unusual, but presumably if the company could get a better deal from the market they wouldn't be taking the state bailout in the first place.
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When talking of inflation we really do have to recognise that monetary expansion only causes wage/goods/services price inflation when there is too much money chasing too few things to buy. At the moment, the real markets are all over the place but it looks like there is huge physical production capacity which is idling. Inflation risk through demand is low.

It is quite hard to have inflation without either near full employment (can't hire workers without increasing wages) or forex problems (foreigners stop wanting dollars which seems .. unlikey)

What this is mostly doing is stopping a huge property crash. Maybe that's overdue, but it would also mean ruining the retirement of a lot of the middle class.
Heh, if it comes down to it we will see a lot of creative new processes that are apparently beyond the imaginations of many here.

The army knows how to train people to basic competency very fast, and they know a thing or two about drafting volunteers ;)

Not everyone need be coming in completely untrained. And job shadowing is the obvious thing most people are over looking. Nobody is going to dump a bucket of scrubs with 30-days classroom training all over the ER floor. Groups of trainees would be shadowing trained professionals 15 hours a day.
... use them for some quick profit for their shareholders and executives and rescue the business.

One can't spend half the money and have one but not the other.
There have been studies that indicate that masks are effective. There have been studies that showed no effect which also had low compliance. There has never been a study which showed people taking risky behavior because they were wearing a mask, as far as I've been able to determine.

To me that above comment sounds like rationalizing to justify misleading the public and risking their lives, out of some paternalistic assumption which has not ever been even suggested by the applicable science.

In practice, what little I've seen of people wearing masks causes a change in behavior -- additional distance, etc. from people around them. It raises awareness, and looks like it should reduce risk.

Most of the concern that people might take on additional risky actions would be adequately addressed by making it clear that masks aren't a sure thing-- especially if not expertly fitted and coupled with additional PPE and procedures.

Plenty of people are in "essential" jobs or just need to get groceries. In the bay area, many people already have used masks due to the history of fires... and many of those people are failing to use them because they have been materially and intentionally mislead by people who have, or ought to have, a professional obligation to provide honest information to them.

The loss of trust from this, as the public realizes it was mislead, will have lasting negative effects.
Something so orwellian about a tech company censoring the speech of an elected president of a major country.

Political speech should not be censored. Especially of elected officials. It should be regarded as part of the historical record at the very least.
You think that bailing all these companies out has no effect on how companies run their business going forward? And you claim I have an “innocent view of the world”...
been colouring with crayons a lot more since quarantine, daughter loves it, so I'm happy. And just one 'wall/crayon' incident... took me a good 20 minutes of cleaning :)

bought 500 sheets of A3, people luckily not buying that yet to wipe their asses :)
Using SMS only as a fallback option is useless because the authentication chain is only as strong as the weakest link.

Bank apps need to be easy to reset if you lose your phone but if you can do that just by receiving an SMS, or by entering a password you can reset using SMS, the system is easily broken.
Bruno Le Maire said so himself this morning on TV:

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/maladie/coronavirus/bruno-...

J'invite (...) toutes les entreprises qui ont accès aujourd'hui au chômage partiel, c'est-à-dire qui ont leurs salariés payés par l'Etat, à faire preuve de la plus grande modération en matière de versement de dividendes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQnzcCyh7Bc
I like it, but I don't get it.
That is a market. What might improve matters for actual humans is a non-market solution of some kind of rationing. Max 1 per customer, locals preferred.
Okay, but why is buying a company's stock not the same as bailing it out? If you're "investing" in the business, why does money have to be given to them directly, using a completely different mechanism?
We could try the glass half full angle: perhaps it's a baby step towards doing something about life threatening tweets in the US.
If that were so, then the accounting profession has failed at its core responsibility. But I don’t think it has, the information is there for investors to see. If some investors choose to obsessively focus on a single metric, well—-a fool and his money are soon parted.
Investing is privatizing the risks and the benefits.

Bailing out is privatizing the benefits but mutualizing the risks.

It's taking what favors you from both capitalism and socialism, call that a free market, and pretend it's for the common good. You always win.

People says communism didn't work looking at Russia and China. But the ruling class will abuse any system to the point it doesn't look like the original idea at all, if not kept in check. It's true for capitalism as well, as we can see.

To me, being able to do this is proof we are still not in a democracy.

We enjoy a lot of freedoms, so we are not in a dictature. But we are still not in power. We're just told we are.
Heh, we were close in age when we read The Hobbit then :)

I don't remember exact age, but I think I was 6yo, and I think I was already in first year of primary school, very early into it.

The rest is history, Hobbit was a big book and now I devour million-word epics for light weekend reading.

I also encountered the 8bit game, but much, much later, during my first forays into retrocomputing as 12yo :)