skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CEO make $824,000 in salary in 2018.. non-profit my ass.
>conspiracy theory

There's also footage of a working model further down in the replies.

https://twitter.com/Tony_T_rex/status/1244148977420734464

And the fact that China has been supplying the west with defective tests,

https://www.thedailybeast.com/coronavirus-stricken-countries...

And masks,

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/a-goodwill-gesture-coun...

Next up, defective thermometers.
What can Extroverts learn from Introverts in the times of Corona
For some reason it's actually a lot less fun taking pictures with my fancy camera these days now that everyone has a pretty decent camera with them all the time. A shame!
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> Would moving to torrents reduce the load?

Only if they could figure out a way to host their learning platform, content and scoring on it.
If anyone from Khan Academy is reading this: I tried to donate and my transaction was flagged as "suspicious", now my card is blocked. Probably because their PSP doesn't seem to implement 3DSecure. What's grating is that after I tried to donate I had to solve a bunch of reCaptchas before it showed me the failure status.
I began doing gig work while deathly ill and homeless. It was the only kind of paid work I had access to and the world absolutely wasn't throwing money at me out of compassion for my terrible sob story. (I have a genetic disorder, no criminal record etc etc so I'm one of the clearly "unfortunate and deserving poor.")

I happen to work for a service that is well designed and gives me control over the things that matter to me. It also has a low barrier to entry but doesn't have a low ceiling. It's possible to make a middle class income this way.

So I'm quite convinced that efficiency isn't simply some polite euphemism for "fuck you." I think it's possible to design gig work platforms that work well for the workers.

I'm hardly the only person on the planet for whom many regular jobs are simply out of the question.

I think the efficiency gains are real and can be managed in a way that is good for all involved parties.

I think gig work can be the next industrial revolution where we make it possible for ordinary people to have some of the things historically reserved for the jet set.

Because my income was portable, I was able to take a train to another state and get back into housing in a cheaper state than California. For many poor people, that's unimaginable. They would need to look for a job in the new location, which would mean having no income for a time because, say, waitressing jobs don't hire you from out of state typically.

I got to work as much or as little as I chose. It was dictated by my health to a large degree, which was enormously frustrating, but it meant that when I was feeling better, I could immediately earn money again. I didn't have to job hunt.

For me, gig work was nothing short of a miracle allowing me to have some earned income under circumstances where that should have been simply impossible.

So, sorry, I don't think so.
That's a pretty awesome project! I wrote something to automate label manipulation too, but I used a simple scripting language.

I migrated from self-hosted mail where I had the power of procmail, to gsuite, where I had less flexibility. Making simple filters via the google UI is easy, but it gets complicated when you want to look at both the subject and the sender - to file "Facebook comment replies", "Facebook messages", and "Facebook event invitations" under different labels for example.

It's a pain to authenticate, but once that's done I like my solution. Downside is you need to run it under cron:

https://github.com/skx/labeller/

The appeal of this gmailctl is that it keeps everything native, and doesn't require a server to run a cronjob. Nice work.
Simulating an epidemic [video]
It's not so simple imho. Denmark has much higher population density than Sweden. I'll wait a few months before passing verdict on who got what right and what model works where.
This will be quite interesting.

This is literally, the ultimate Trump card, that Trump himself will play.

If TSMC does this, then they will not only lose Huawei, but they will lose the entire 1.4 billion population market of China. As well as Africa, and likely, Southeast Asia, and India, and Pakistan too. They will probably also lose Eastern Europe, and Russia too. They’ll also probably lose South America too, and the Middle East.

This move might actually kill Android as we know it. Google will lose their preeminence and importance in mobile devices, and operating systems technology. They would also even lose their relevance in the search engine market. They will continue to do fine in the western markets.

This might even make ARM an irrelevant sideshow, and push RISC-V to the forefront. The world could even bifurcate into ARM vs. RISC-V.

Why? Because China will go full throttle and build out their own foundries. Huawei will now push their Harmony OS to the forefront. They’ll make it run on their own Kirin processors, that they built in China. They might even make it run on other processors, like the RISC-V.

Then the other Chinese mobile phone makers will all switch too, knowing that Trump, and the USA now has a target painted on all of their backs.

Alibaba is at the forefront with their RISC-V processor, that they can probably supply this to the other Chinese mobile phone companies.

Now, Intel, AMD, and nVidia, which make billions of dollars from China, will all have a target on their backs, and will end up losing the entire Chinese market too. Good move Trump, you just put 2 bullets into each of your best hardware companies.

Now, the world will have two standards: the western companies of Apple, Intel, nVidia, Google. Versus the upstart Chinese companies that will compete against them, lead by Huawei, Alibaba, and Tencent. They will first dominate the Chinese market, and then they will expand out to Africa, Southeast Asia, and all the other southern third world countries. These countries were never going to buy a $1200 flagship iPhone 12 anyways.

This will indeed, be the most exciting technological challenge of this decade. And we are about to have front row seats, as we watch it play out.
Care to give some examples?

I live in the UK and most of the online stores let you pick the delivery slot after filling the basket, which is an infuriatingly poor UX, given the current circumstances.
Heh. I just found 40 minutes of BBC's hot air balloon idents. https://youtu.be/tdKbtvaSskA I love the internet.
In this case I meant Section 230
They can also move from Python.
No, it's quite sensible to do the basket first. If your slot is not available just wait a day or two and try again with the same basket. The vast majority of people have more than enough for a week in their cupboards and do not need to book right now.

Ocado has slots for existing customers. They took a while to get it right but they now have limits on orders per week and show you slots for the next few days. If they are empty just try again later and your basket is still there. I had a delivery a couple of days ago.

I hope not too many people try to subvert systems like this with a script to grab slots, because they're just contributing to the problem.
+1 for [0] and [1]. Exactly what I settled on when jumping in to these roles and both great for giving you enough comfort to start acting.

Now I have to have a look at [2] and see if it's as good, too :)

I also struggle with being the product manager at the same time and also stretching beyond my team in that role, even if in my team it's just ~5 directs for now.
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The power of humans is that they adapt.

Mentioning something of 50 years ago won't help, since I live in the present. Not in the past
What happened to Qatar? This one country's plot looks weird after clicking "select all".
Worthy internet causes: Khan Academy, Wikipedia and Electronic Frontier Foundation

Any other suggestions?
Not true AFAICT. Given Chrome on iOS uses a webview and overrides all networking and given Firefox can inject JavaScript it seems trivial to use both of those features to spy on any webview activity
We had a huge influence over the EU, that's gone out the window now. You can't become great by isolating yourself.
Internet Archive
It's already been established by the Assange fiasco that Sweden is a US lapdog.
Whatever Warren Buffet does at this stage is going to be a success. Everything he does becomes self-fulfilling.
People like him don't predict market movements, they cause them.
You are solving the wrong problem. Curbside pick up is about as safe as delivery for 1/3 the labor cost and the grocer already has enough people if he uses everyone.

A food delivery auction would in some segments drive up the cost drastically when some can least afford it fuelling panic. This panic would fuel buying and hoarding.

Meanwhile the poor flock to the shelves to buy before the rich can pay to have it all delivered for hoarding.

Surge pricing for groceries during a crisis may be one of the worse ideas I've seen on hacker news.
The IT staff also get paid... How very dare them. Go to work and earn a living... It’s disgusting I say. They should do it completely for the love of it. Same goes for those pesky YouTubers.

Long story short. If you don’t offer a decent incentive package, you won’t incentivise people to come and take a CEO roll.

If you look around you will find that CEO at other charity’s also get paid well.
Instead of link to vid replace it (or place side by side) with link to torrent (probably with a note about torrent clients the same way Kiwix does). The rest of the platform can still be used as is.

Most people will just click and download will be pretty quick (most vids are quite small).
Spire?
https://epiccastle.io/spire/
> stolen from

That kind of issue is solved in court with proofs and compensations. Cisco is no small bullied kid and should deal with it without us crying a river about it. They also infringe patents, get caught, pay up settlement fees and continue business as usual.

Not going down this route in this specific case makes it look way more dirty on US side IMO.

> hacking

Cisco has been caught countless times spreading NSA backdoors to the world, they shouldn’t get any moral pass.

I think it comes down to who’s wrongdoing you are willing to turn a blind eye on. If you’re not an US citizen nor don’t see US gov as a reliable ally, the whole Huawei vs the US feud has no clear moral or ethical split.
This is racist! LOL
Video doesn't cost them anything. It's hosted on youtube anyway. It's the rest of the stuff that costs them money.
For context, up until the IA made the lending unlimited, they were adhering to the practice of Controlled Digital Lending:

https://controlleddigitallending.org
A possible (I think probable) explanation is that we're seeing in this graph a ramp in testing, not a ramp in infection.

If we were to just randomly select individuals for infection and antibody s teeming, we could generate a clearer picture of this. Absent that, look at total death figures 14 days later for a decent proxy...
I wonder when the first ad-network based solely on getting celebrity deepfakes to endorse products for cheap will pop up.

is it even illegal? even if it is, could we do anything if they operated out of Russia or the middle East?
Yes I know and it does disgust me. I wasn't talking about IT staff and regular employees. The CEO founded the "company", does he really need to incentivise himself with a near million dollars a year? I thought NPOs were created by people who want to change the world, but with this salary it seriously skews my perception of his true intentions.
First, the relevant comparison is the relative reliability of deaths vs. confirmed cases data.

That clarified: overloaded healthcare would probably exacerbate this. Dead bodies don't require medical treatment, though registration as a COVID casualty requires post mortem testing. Live infecteds might well be turned away from facilities, choose not to seek treatment, or expire before receiving it. All of which contributes to case undercounts.

The difference in overall CFR would likely be at best a modest multiple of best-case treatment -- admissions are stil only a fairly small fraction (4-20% figures that I've seen, lowest in Iceland) of total infecteds.

Italy's nominal CFR is still 55%, and has ranged as high as 75%. (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/) That suggests to me (and far more qualified commentators) a huge undercount of actual total cases.

At 1% mortality with 10,000 dead, Italy would have had 1 million cases two weeks ago. The current confirmed total is 92,000, an undercount by a factor of 10, even discounting the time lag. We might assume Italy's CFR is higher than elsewhere, but pick even fairly high values and testing still seems higghly inadequate. Two weeks ago, total confirmed cases were 21,000. A fifty-percent mortality is not credible.

TL;DR: Deaths are a vastly more reliable, though still approximate and undercounted metric, than confirmed cases.
I have to say that I agree with this sentiment. The CEO of a non-profit organization with a revenue of 52 million dollars should not be compensated with 824.000 dollars.
On the flip side, China has a long tradition of lying to international community. I know it actively and persistently misrepresents its economic data.
Didn't realize that - that is also a good explanation for why Germany has less deaths per million in published numbers: they just aren't testing everyone that dies.
Could the reason be that the US and the others have different access to the companies?

The US was caught when somebody blew the whistle, just Google for PRISM, for example. China and others could not have done that, therefore they would do something else. They make and ship hardware, therefore their vector of attack would be expected to be that hardware.

Unlike the US though, I am not aware of any substantial attack that goes beyond speculation. There was supposed to be an IC implemented into Apple and Amazon servers according to Bloomberg but that story was refuted and went nowhere.

So far, in reality, we have proven US surveillance(and Obama was very sorry about it) and speculations about Chinese surveillance.

I am not sure that there's much going on here beyond the propaganda.
Not that familiar with Khan Academy, but shouldn't their income also be at 250% normal load?
Nextstrain site they are discussing here: https://nextstrain.org/ncov

Note that I'm sure that's great for SEO but the "8 strains" figure from the headline is pretty non-informative here.
If you don't pile abstractions on top of abstractions on top of kubernetes on top of docker, you'd be surprised how much you can do with a single small-sized instance.
Thanks for linking to this.

A unique string to find this line item in the linked filing is "Information technology"

This was their second-largest functional expense area for 2018, behind "Other salaries and wages".

Although I'm not an accountant it also seemed noteworthy to me that their "Revenue less expenses" was negative for 2018 (not overwhelmingly in relation to their assets, but still by a sizable amount).

I'm not really qualified to comment on what that means, but naively it does seem to imply to me that they can continue to benefit from donations and external funding.
Look at the wuhan virus. Trust china you are doom. Just not worth it.
They don't charge anything for the content.
> Buffett prizes financial security and has vowed to never exhaust Berkshire's cash pile.

Supreme risk management, risking only a fraction of the cash. Do the same and there will always be opportunities to buy on any valley/dive. The biggest the valley/dive, the biggest buying opportunity.

I admire his motto: http://enrichwise.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Fantastic-W...

and he keeps proving it right!
they are non-profit
It’s primarily a free website.
"Infected" means exposed to and replicating the SARS-COV-2 virus. Antigen or antibody tests should be able to detect this (subject to false positive/negative rates), if systematically and comprehensively administered.

The tests are not being administered, for numerous reasons, chiefly availability.
Did you let them know?
(Replying to a trollish comment, but don't want to push it to the top).
There was a comment about the salary that CEO Sal Khan takes, with is over $800,0000 per year.

I think Khan Academy is fantastic, and was going to donate until I saw this figure (verified). I think that it's entirely inappropriate to extract that much from the donations.
Parent comment is probably referring more to the next monster natural disaster(s) racking up many billions in damages: hurricane, flood, earthquake, etc. The insurance business feels good when it's bringing in payments and not paying out much.
Covid19 – Supermarket and Pharmacy waiting times map
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

"that's attributing too much competence to the upper classes to think they could mastermind such a plan"

ROFL
Do the world a favor and buy Fox news or News Corp O:)
Please add a screenshot of code to the readme and also fill your online editor with a block of example code.
Huh, really? Against the law, or against the contract? In what country do you live?
It's a non-profit educational organization.
I see now China is at the very bottom, below Timor-Leste.
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I’m a bit surprised it’s so little. Our servers are at something like 1000% of normal load. We’re a data visualisation company: naively I would have expected online education to be affected more than us, rather than less.
Where your money goes is detailed here: https://khanacademyannualreport.org/financial-information/ (see PDF downloads).

The most recent data is from 2018, when they had an income of about 43M of which about 3.4M goes to the top 10 paid employees and the top two get 0.7M and 0.8M. The total salary budget is 35M, 25M of which are for "program services" (I guess creating content, developing the platform, etc.). This looks more reasonable compared to an organisation like Mozilla. Other things that jump out are half a million in legal fees and 1.8M for fundraising. In total, 43M out of 49M expenses in 2018 went to "program services", and they were running at a slight deficit. Looks pretty OK to me.

Assuming "information technology" means hosting, that's about 5M. Doing that times 2.5 would indeed create quite a problem, and that's assuming they don't need more people working on it to keep up with the new crowd.
At population scales, anomalous excess mortality can be detected and shown actuarially, based on expected mortality rates.

Which raises another key point: in an epidemic, it's the population at large which is affected and diseased. Individual assessments (or treatment) are often of limited use or applicability.
because....?
The easiest explanation I've ever heard and which immediately made me understand it was the following:

Instead of 3 doors, imagine there are 100. 99 of which have a goat and only one of which has a price behind it. Now blindly choose a door and the host opens 98 of the other doors which have a goat behind it. Would you switch your door now, given the choice?

It's easy to see that your probability of choosing a "wrong" door when you had 100 doors to choose from was much higher than choosing the right door when you only have two doors to choose from.

This method of thinking, i.e. increasing or decreasing the problem space by some orders of magintude has helped me a lot in thinking about problems and their solutions in general.
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This 1m/yr is nothing compared to the impact KA has. It's no longer just a site with videos; it is a huge e-learning platform that is widely used and integrated in schools across the world. Being the CEO of KA must be a lot of work and I think most people would agree is worthy of that level of compensation.

Or to put it another way: the government is also a nonprofit organization, but it needs good workers to fulfill its goals and those workers should be fairly compensated. We wouldn't get anywhere if the government paid everyone minimum wage.
> ... I get the feeling that they are managing the outbreak and the economy far more effectively than their western counterparts.

What gave you that impression?
Android user here. The addition of "Focus Mode" has completely changed my approach to my device and, by extension, my life. Various personal relationships have been noticably improved for the better as I can concentrate on them better.

I block all of the classic social notifications/apps, and I keep it on 24/7 apart from times I deliberately go out of my way to consciously press "Take a Break" for 5/10 minutes. The deliberate friction here is, of course, a welcome feature.
People will drive into them.
Flu, and numerous other infectuous diseases, are independently testable. Within reasonable error bounds, COVID-19 is "respiratory disease. not otherwise indicated", or "ideopathic pneumonia". Diagnosis by exclusion is nonideal, but often accepted, at least for other conditions.
Hey do you have any suggested readings on how to better understand these structures and your reasoning?
> the chances of getting contaminated food are incredibly high

Source?
There’s definitely a double free, provided that nowhere you proved that your conditions can’t be simultaneously true.
There's even an interactive version...

https://brrr.money/
No one gets in the government gets paid $800k, the highest paid salary is the president, at $400k.
This comment's getting downvoted but I can't really see anything here I disagree with. Would any downvoters like to share an alternative opinion in the interests of discussion?
Many languages do offer both toolchains (AOT / JIT), including Java and .NET.

The alternative is to leave JavaScript to the browser, where it belongs.
But why not talk about the IT staff? You want their site to run to well right? You want some decent site reliability engineers right? Well you might find some that will do the job for less then they can earn for the same role in the for-profit world, you are still going to have to pay a decent wage for their skill and let’s be honest here so they can continue to live in a comfort they have become accustomed too.

The CEO doesn’t earn no where near the CEO’s for other charities in the US go have a look over here https://www.charitywatch.org/top-charity-salaries

Edit: You can “change the world” (even if it’s a very small change, in a small part of the world) and still earn a fair living for your actions. You are completely free to feel that 800k isn’t fair payment. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. I’m not embedded into khan to know if he is really worth that paycheque. But I know the charity hasn’t been run into the ground.
Are you not the one trolling?

So will the figure be less of it's he is doing the same work for a company?
Yes, truly terrible that non-profit organisations serving the common good should provide high salaries. Founder and employees should just go into banking, because those guys absolutely deserve their high pay.

Imagine, just imagine a society, where doing non-profit could be a valid career option without a disadvantage in the income department. The horror.
I failed to mention that it's only useful to do this manually if you need to decode path with mixed encodings, or share said path with the rest of the world.

If all you need is to work with arbitrary mixed bags of file names, you can just pass "str", and Python will use automatically and transparently surrogateescape everywhere.
The Biggest Distance-Learning Experiment in History
Another toilet problem was in a WWII submarine which had worse consequences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-1206#Fate
It helps that Khan Academy's videos are hosted on Youtube. I imagine thats a large chunk of the bandwidth.