skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Business as usual has come after Snowden

I can't disagree with that; honestly, it felt like the media and politicians conspired to bury it. Revelation after revelation was made after outlets like The Intercept went through the evidence, yet hardly anything made the mainstream news, and when it did, it was fleeting. The CIA destroyed evidence and lied to congress, but there was little impact.

> The question isn't how to stop it; it's how to live with it

This I disagree with. We've been shown that the supposedly "benevolent" Western governments of today can't be trusted with laws that permit over-arching mass surveillance and the dampening of civil liberties and human rights, and we've seen the inevitable creeping escalations - who knows what a worse government of tomorrow might do?
In the NYT article on Italy today, frontline medics were saying that clinical symptoms were anecdotally more reliable than the tests because there are too many false negatives. Not sure whose tests they're using but I've heard similar things about US PCR tests.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/27/world/europe/...
Just read this which is relevant: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763852
On a disposable laptop on an isolated subnet. Then burn it after use.
IMO I've seen praise in literally every news article and very few criticisms and skeptics.
All of these predate the policy change.

https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-has-a-name-the-deadl...

> In 2015, after a few decades of what came to seem in hindsight like culturally insensitive missteps, the World Health Organization issued a policy statement on how to name emerging infectious diseases. Part of the point was to help scientists generate names before the public does it for them. So there are rules. The names have to be generic, based on science-y things like symptoms or severity—no more places (Spanish Flu), people (Creutzfeld-Jacob disease), or animals (bird flu).
Most of them require you to create an account, often confirming an email in the process, which is a big barrier to setting it up. Accountless video conferencing is valuable if you don't have everyone at your company setup with Google or 365 accounts.
I investigated where the generation if images where created. Took me some time but it comes from a forked repo from long
ago. :)

Here is the code: https://github.com/Elf2707/react-native-image-processor/blob...
You should absolutely get "Masters of Doom", which is exactly about the early days of id and how they build Keen, Wolf3d, and Doom. A really great read that sort of gives you a real-world "Halt and Catch Fire"-vibed story.

Smile/Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cu...
I think this is a great idea. How we see our decision making process in the moment is often vastly different than how we see our decision making process retrospectively.
Ble.sh – Bash config with syntax highlighting, auto suggestions, vim modes, etc.
> Every new product is useless.

Most new products fall in two categories: bros trying to recreate mommy hotel by introducing new and new ways to exploit poorer people but since it's an app it's not seen as bad as hiring servants. The other is just pure rent seeking. Products genuinely creating value and making the life of normal people are extraordinarily rare.
Show HN: Japan's mask culture saves lives. The West needs to adopt mask culture
I wish the article contained more than 1 image of a coyote on a SF street. Nonetheless, very "12 Monkeys"-esque.
That's what we all are.
Yeah maybe a tiny village in Africa has an issue. But I imagine the entire nation of China would survive it. E.g. the German Measles haven't impacted tourism in Munich...

And to be frank, if this virus was in fact generated by the markets in Wuhan (like so many other flu viruses over the years?) then maybe they should own it. Housing mammals and birds so closely together in large numbers is a health hazard to everybody, as we're learning to our dismay. They've had 20 years to do something about this.
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> Without other policies it is atomizing and ineffective,

However, since you asked, yes Mexicans, who have been abused would flood into the richer north. Socialism is ultimately about creating an equal society, not about preserving disparities between the rich and the poor. However, we would need policies to help preserve American's livelihoods, such as a Federal Jobs Guarantee otherwise open borders would be unpopular and damage living standards.

It's worth asking yourself why people born on one side of an invisible line deserve comfort and power and a baby born on the other side does not deserve to walk one foot north and find a better life.
Sure. The point is that a gardener can not force plants to grow, neither can he create them by himself; only assist in the proper conditions for growth. There is such a thing as too much water and fertilizer which is more problematic than none at all
But that doesn't explain false negatives, does it?
> I have seen realistic assessments of the ultimate effectiveness

I'm afraid we only see the chinese government's report and data on how the epidemic is spreading within China.
Ag robotics startup Tortuga comes out of stealth with Tesla co-founder on board
This fake looking optimism and positivity is HN's own policy though. They are not moderating out shallow positivity and praise, like they do negativity, and even tried to actively push people to be positive at some point. This is might be the reason why negativity looks genuine, i.e. too much non-genuine positivity.
Even if you could talk to them, they wouldn't be able to tell you what you did wrong.

If they did tell you what you did wrong, you could figure out what the rules in their spam detecton system was and game the system, and their losses from you or anyone gaming their adspam detection system are far greater than loosing a few false positive customers.

Sux for you, but works great for them.
You probably do grasp it better than you think.

For instance; you know people have gotten laid off in record numbers. That means people aren't getting paid. People who aren't getting paid are clamping down on any expenditure possible aside from absolute necessities. That means, if you're entertainment in any way, you are likely hosed unless your specialty is direct to consumer last mile service.

Production/producers may see some growth. There may be more growth in sectors that enable remote work/telepresence. Otherwise, just about everything else will be dropping, and stimulus will likely slow the drop but not reverse it until the pandemic has run it's course sufficiently that healthcare systems are no longer overwhelmed. Most likely, other shareholders are seeing this too, and are trying to cash out, further fueling the drop in share prices across the board. The people who correctly timed the market have already gone and converted their assets to cash, which is king in deflationary periods.

The stimulus might provide some liquidity/stimulated demand, but I have the feeling a liquidity trap situation may occur where people will hold onto any injected value for dear life.

I wouldn't hold much faith in any type of securitized asset right now unless it's from a big (established) player; and Note that that isn't necessarily "good" for the economy if that complacency gets noticed and acted upon by major players. It may be a good time to look at a new entrant who is providing a service to ease the pains created by the new pandemic; just make sure to do due diligence, because the fraudsters all know that too.

Collectively, I think we're going to have to come to terms with deflationary period. I don't think it can be avoided. At least we shouldn't have to worry about stagflation in the same way They did in the 70's. Oil is uh... Quite plentiful. Unfortunately for those long in the petroleum industry.
I can't stand that it's only 720p video.
Why not?

It was a global pandemic that didn't even start in Spain. We happen to be paying a lot of attention to it because it's the last really global pandemic of similar severity/spread to the COVID-19 outbreak. The increased attention to this little bit of history has us asking whether we should correct the inaccuracy in its name.

Even the CDC calls it the "1918 flu pandemic". https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoratio...

Not as a reaction to COVID-19, either: "Page last reviewed: March 21, 2018"
I've been visiting HN (many years) and mostly enjoy it. The difficult thing for me is how hard it is to post anything and have it stay in the headlines long enough to have anyone give you feedback.

Very easy to add comments though. So guess what? You end up with a lot of 'noise' in the comments and very little 'signal' elsewhere.

I don't have a proper 'solution' and maybe HN is just perfect the way it is, flaws and all.
They are riding dolphins through the crystal clear canals of Venice, hunting swans.
I believe Discourse can do this as well, as least they did something like it for a while on their blog posts.
This makes me very happy. I wonder if we could some day come up with some way to coexist with nature instead of blindly blanketing it with asphalt and concrete.
> I guess I'd like to know the details of how its easier than the other of myriad of products on the market for you?

I haven't comparison shopped yet. And, for that matter, I haven't initiated any Zoom meeting myself, except once when someone else requested I do so. (I used Blackboard to meet with my classes.) I just noticed that it's been popular with others, and I've gotten it up and running with no effort.

I am trying out MS Teams, but it's a pain to setup. Multiple emails back and forth to tech support, and apparently I have to go in and manually add every person I want included. From what I can tell, it seems to be designed around a rather elaborate setup, in a situation where you consistently communicate with the same handful of people.

With Zoom, it's "click on this link". You don't have to have configured anything in advance. Especially useful when you want your meetings to be open.

As an example, you can now watch the Number Theory Seminar at MIT, live:

https://math.mit.edu/nt/

(The password is there to prevent trolling, but there's no serious need for security.)
Is there any recommended books for CSP concepts?
Could be running multiple staged, interdependent data migrations or upgrading critical sub-systems that have dependencies on other updates or a whole host of other possible reasons.

Hard to tell without having inside knowledge.
Related:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-27/stacks-of...

China is likely hiding the real numbers for unknown reasons
I have the (older, discontinued) 6+1 USB mic array, but I'm in general wary of the ReSpeaker stuff. I have the original ReSpeaker Core v1 hardware as well, and it's incredibly unstable. It comes with a tiny amount of flash that you're supposed to augment with a SD card (which then gets overlayfs'd onto the root filesystem), but the hardware is so buggy that running things from the SD card causes random SIGSEGV and SIGILL all over the place (and yes, I've painstakingly verified that this is not a software issue).

They essentially abandoned development of the v1 line (but appear to still be selling it!) for the v2 line, and I have a hard time trusting them.

Admittedly, I haven't done that much with the mic array I have, mainly because I got burned out dumping tens of hours into trying to get ReSpeaker Core v1 working (which I ended up trashing; it was that bad). I'd like to use it with a Raspberry Pi; hopefully that works out.
I get your joke, but want to push back on it. First, insight from D is relevant for many other topics. Second, if this forum gathers leading experts in a wide range of niche specialties (which I believe it does), that is a remarkable achievement and one that cannot be claimed by most other discussion groups.
The Hardest Program I've Ever Written – How a code formatter works (2015)
But Google made Hangouts/Meet G Suite only. My university is not using G Suite beyond student email (employees have outlook).

I only started using Zoom now and it solves a lot of my problems: virtual backgrounds while talking to students in my bedroom, recording my lectures, handling large live streams (50+ people), painless set up for non-tech-savvy users.

The only problem I had is that it would corrupt sound from my mic about every hour in a 4 hour stream.

They will be successful, but in part because other chose not to be.
I've been on HN for 11 years now, and each year its been more negative. At some point the best way to get upvotes turned into "say something pedantic that contradicts the parent post or criticizes it."

This is a big part of the reason why I dialed my contributions way back, and I've heard the same from many other great people in the IRL tech community that I respect. Unfortunately each time a positive person stops contributing on HN it just leads to the site becoming more negative. It is a vicious cycle.
Free version of Brightback helps subscription businesses reduce Covid-churn
If you work for company with subscription model and loosing customers because of COVID - we've just released free version of Brightback to help reduce churn and retain customers that want to leave due to COVID related reasons.

https://brightback.com/free-cancel-page-for-covid19

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/subscription-businesses-seeing-more-churn-right-now-we-guy-marion/
Part of the idea of a universal standard in bigcorp is so that you can shuffle engineers between projects as they want to and as your strategy/needs change over time. And for cohesion.

Also I think there is a huge benefit for having generally capable employees, even if they are not directly utilizing many of their talents, and not counting the fungibility: they will make generally better decisions when reasoning about things outside their specific work domain and do better in ambiguous, not perfectly-specced situations. And in software at least, having general/complete knowledge and problem solving ability is absolutely vital if you want to be self-sufficient in diagnosing and solving problems, IMO.
Have you worked on Discourse as well or just borrowing heavily from their styles because you like them?
So basically re-inventing microformats2 mark-up and webmention notifications: https://indieweb.org/
It's healthier than many other online communities, but that's not a terribly high bar to clear.

The moderation is reasonably effective against the most extremely toxic content, but IMHO has a tendency to privilege toxic opinions stated in measured tones against the pushback they create.

As for member downvotes, I can often predict which comments of mine will attract downvotes: humor will tend to get downvoted as irrelevant, while the relevancy of replies complaining about said humor is rarely questioned.

Certain subjects are downvote magnets: Criticism of Elon Musk, scepticism about nuclear power, support for intellectual property rights (especially in the case of music), support for ethnic and gender inclusiveness. It's possible, though, that these are just hot button issues, and the opposite opinions also attract downvotes.

The technology backing HN is still massively inferior in every respect to what Usenet was 30 years ago. I tend to read each thread only once, and then only follow up discussions of my own comments. Following a thread over several days is a near hopeless endeavor. Why doesn't anybody combine the light touch moderation of HN, combined with the tools that a decent newsreader like nn or GNUS could provide?
I read until I saw "As an article for Farnam Street recommends", and then I stopped reading.
Thanks! I've put myself on it. In the meantime, I dug an iPhone 6 out of my test device box to try it out. It's wonderful! Exactly the bridge I want between busy-busy and sitting to meditate. 5 stars, and I wrote you a review!
It's all about the "ends of the earth." There are people who hike all 7 summits (continental high points) and the poles. This adds one more that was previously unachievable, so I'm sure there will be customers. You need money and good physical condition (strength & stamina) for the others, mostly just money for this one--though a sense of adventure and risk help too.
Also people that chronically pick their nose.
The Virtual Machine of Quake 3
I'm not certain, but I gather in this case the person who bought the house for a dollar would also take over the mortgage. Canadains are weird around home ownership, our markets don't behave like other developed countries'
A lot of posts that are "more or less facts" are spoken with a certain connotation, which the posters sometimes are not even aware of. I see a ton of "why is this post downvoted?" edits when someone just says facts, but the way they say it is often snarky or condescending.

Displaying intent online is difficult through text, especially when correcting someone, and a lot of people come off as rude when they're not trying to be.
> That merits a strenuous response, even if it does damage the economy.

You say that as though it's "just some boomer's 401k", and not people becoming homeless or suicide rates going up. As for the political side of things, shutting all the stores and making a significant percentage of people unemployed is a good recipe for looting. If that happens, this could get really ugly.

> You simply can't accept the number of 2 million deaths because it's outside of your experience.

Please spare me your presumptuous psychoanalysis. I doubt you're qualified, and you don't know me from a hole in the wall. Is an extra 2 million US deaths in 2 months within your experience?!?

I question your prediction because I've seen a lot of "the end is nigh" statements over the years and they've always been wrong.

If 2 million people die from this in the US before summer, you're certainly right - extreme measures are/were justified.

If 60 thousand die, it's no worse than a bad flu season and you're just another self righteous drama queen spreading fear.

> You're asking us to roll the dice and hope that the best information about the R_0 and mortality rate of the virus is incorrect.

You really should quit that. I'm not asking anyone to trust me on anything. However, I'm allowed to question whether all of this is justified. If it turns out to not be, we should know to be more skeptical/cynical towards people like you the next time.
It was my impression, that OP was using the term "shit jobs" to denote jobs with low pay, but high effort, manual, dangerous, etc.

"Plumbing" is therefore not a "shit job". It's well paid compared to most (Uber/Taxi/etc-)driving, cleaning, trash-collecting and many other jobs.
Pretty cool but weird choice of logo... are they run by The Umbrella Corporation?
It's not a mystery. China is for sure not telling the truth. Remember this is a country with massive censorship issues and have even kicked out foreign reporters.

I'd like to know what the downvotes are? Because everything here is factually true.
Hm, not OP but I'm guessing 5-10% maybe?
Here's why: http://fabiensanglard.net/bloated/index.html
More meant as a mitigation to "The ambulance will be here in 15 minutes. Go next door, get this, and bring it back so I can keep him alive until then." You are by no means helpless as a medical practitioner with modern pharmaceuticals minutes away most anywhere.

Not "Stop at CVS on your way there." Once a medical practitioner sees you are in need of more intensive care the onus is on them to ensure they do what they can to get you there alive.

I'm fairly secure in my assertion of these courses of action. Even bounced it off an RN to make sure; so I'm not just pulling it out of my ass here.
The author should first discuss what is already out there and working very well. Start with Pleroma (Mastodon) and IndieWeb.
What happens when your inventory runs out ?
Every test in the real world shows false positives and false negatives. I would expect that doing multiple tests on a massive number of people could show such results.
"[S]imple things chopped up beyond recognition" sounds like a hyperbolic argument to me. What is an example? When is the maxim "A function should do one thing well" not applicable?
its not the direct praise. its more like newspapers compare x-country to Chinas "80 000" infections and few thousands death. its false basis. there could 500 000 deaths for all we know in china. They wont tell the truth and should therefore be rejected from any statistics
https://footwearnews.com/2020/business/retail/brightback-sub...
But are you still passionate?

I think the industry has matured and lost its fun and sense of adventure. Once upon a time captain crunch and blue box, war dialling, or office-wide unreal ctf at the end of the day; now we have sprints, OKRs, and codes of conduct. It's becoming accountancy.
Right, so a simple mapping I'd want is given a Zip Code, what is the corresponding FIPS Code.
Most evaluations from 3p sources like Gartner put Amazon a nose ahead in a virtual tie with Google regarding uptime and reliability with Azure pretty far behind. The latest numbers I saw were for 2018:

AWS - 99.9987

GCP - 99.9982

Azure - 99.9792

Source: https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-may-cloud-computing-...

There's a huge anti-Google groupthink here and negative news about Microsoft seems to be pretty muted.
I think praise of nuclear power and criticism of anything done with the goal of inclusiveness also attract downvotes, so those two fall under the "hot button" case rather than the community being one-sided.

I would agree that the site is pretty strongly pro-Musk and anti-copyright though.
> how infuriating it is to have your computer restart in the middle of something

That last happened to me a couple of years ago and I used Windows 10 every day since.
K-12 education uses zoom because it's HIPAA and FERPA compliant. My understanding is that Skype and Hangouts aren't.
My particular case is just an example.

The most important thing to know is that getting a loan now, without a very good plan to paying it back, is extremely risky.

For example, if you own a restaurant and have a lease, it would be a very bad idea to get a loan to pay for that lease. We don't know how long this is going to last. So by the time you are able to reopen the restaurant you might have an insurmountable debt which takes out the business and potentially makes you personally liable.

I haven't looked into the details of the SBA loans, but usually if you get a loan and then file for bankruptcy without paying it, you could be liable for fraud if you knew you wouldn't be able to pay back the loan (at the time you signed it) - which is potentially the case for most businesses that might be looking into loans now.

Loans are not a silver bullet, please business owners be careful.
Seems the key issue is that they can't supply enough which creates a shortage for the Netherlands as the machines (?) rely on this specific product. It's called lock-in and is every company's dream. But the situation is severe enough that a strong government like NL and the EU won't let them get away with it. If you're a big company one the things you really want to avoid is the European Commission coming after you for antitrust rules, that's where for once legislation has teeth and the price tag for abuse can be steep.
The normally extremely anti-racist newspapers in Sweden have some very weird racist thoughts about the use of masks in Asia. It's just plain idiotic.

The thinking tends to go something like: "Oh, that's just asians doing things without any scientific grounding out of group think. I know that because I read an article in The Guardian which said that wearing a mask is not a 100% protection against getting infected, so because of that they are ignorant."

The messaging has also become confused by journalist-activists attempting to do some public good by saying masks are meaningless, just so that the public doesn't hoard the masks that the people in healthcare needs.
Unfortunately Apple and Google are banning non-government COVID-19 apps from their app stores. Are you having any luck getting past review?