skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no suggestion that Bezos acted improperly by selling the shares or that he was acting on non-public information about the impact of the pandemic.

Isn't Bezos subject to a blackout period as well?
> Not couple billions

I think we should stop giving them a pass. If they can spend billions on fines, it's possible that they could afford to spend a comparable amount to help people and save lives. Don't you find it insulting that the bulk of the support package is ad credits?

> Google seems promoting the following link in their top page

Only if you search for coronavirus tips and related terms, that is nowhere near the massive marketing campaign Google could pull off across their network to bring vital information to the public.
There are a ton of YouTube documentaries and things.

From John Romero and Tom Hall:
Doom: Classic Game Postmortem: https://youtu.be/NnkCujnYNSo

And a great one made by a fan:
RetroAhoy: Doom: https://youtu.be/6A4-SVUHQYI

You can dig around YouTube and find a lot more. There are proper documentaries for DOOM (2016) by “NoClip”.
The US has an oil industry that is completely unreasonable. The whole idea of US oil production is that the price needs to be high enough to support the costs of shale extraction. But their own existence forces the prices down by oversupply. It is an economic time bomb.
I'd like us to document as much as we can sooner rather than later (and not necessarily dramatized media) as DOOM is incredibly impactful in the games industry and I want us to understand it 200-300 years from now.
From Bats to Human Lungs, the Evolution of a Coronavirus
Sign in is currently disked - "this app has not yet been verified by Google in order to use Google Sin In"
I've wondered for a while now why there isn't something like a cross between Kafka (durable queue broker) and Datomic (a "database" partitioned into storage chunks, where each chunk canonically lives in object storage and is only cached by the instances doing the queries.)

I'd love to see a queuing infrastructure that consists of two parallel clusters, running on the same machines:

• a set of write nodes, which each "own" partitions on a topic (in the sense of being that partition's sole writer); where a write-node receives writes to its partition until it fills up a chunk, at which point it shoves the chunk into object storage;

• a set of read nodes, which serve reads and/or streaming subscription requests by 1. streaming archival data by retrieving chunks from object storage into a read-node-local MRU-on-disk-pressure cache; and then 2. once the read stream "catches up" to the end of the archival data, it would switch to proxying to the relevant write-node, which would serve the query/stream from its uncommitted chunk.

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I feel like this queue architecture would be useful for all sorts of things, at least for my own use-cases. Especially because it'd scale perfectly-well down to running one read-node and one write-node on one machine, while still being able to make durability guarantees about the committed data. (The durability of uncommitted data, I don't much need to worry much about, personally.)

Is there anything like this on the market?
Relying on Google for any business seems like potential suicide. When they decide you violated whatever they come up with, you are basically fucked. That is the reason why I never used Google+ - they were deleting people's email accounts. I hope they won't delete my email because of this comment ;)
No, a DOM that is provided by a WASM instance will provide access to markup contents available to that WASM instance, such as markup requested or shipping with the WASM code, but not outside the WASM instance such as the containing page.
Living Bits: Integrating Living Microorganisms in Human-Computer Interaction
To have a slack call, you must first create a slack team and get everyone onboarded to slack.

So sure, if you're all already in slack it's ok. But my five year old niece isn't in a slack team already, nor my in-laws.
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HN is the only very large, threaded comment forum I know of that is still (a) anonymous, and (b) actually has excellent content in the comments. In my own opinion, the signal/noise ratio is nearly 2 orders of magnitude greater than places like reddit (or perhaps the mathematically correct formulation is that the noise/signal ratio is nearly 2 orders of magnitude less at HN).

I credit the excellent, thoughtful moderators at HN for that.
Lets also not give machine guns to monkeys and let them loose in crowds.

There is a time and place for naive, exploratory, or just plain wrong-headed exposition. Making plausible looking but wrong "scientific" prognostications in the middle of a global emergency isn't one of them.
I'm a big fan of the discussion and insightful comments provided by the community. Things tend to be quite negative though. I wonder if that's just how tech people are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, asset inflation. Which we've seen (in corporate & startup valuations). We have not seen similar inflation of goods in the wider economy (except real estate, health care and higher education).
After reading this I feel like he shouldn't quit his job as a columnist even in the best of times. I think a lot of people keep looking for a dip to buy and being disappointed when they don't see it forgetting that we're so early into this situation that we haven't even had a full quarter of earnings reports with covid influence. If you're investing in 2020 based on what you wished you'd done in 2009, you're going to lose. And to simultaneously claim to be disciplined and "broken" in this/any market means by definition you were never disciplined no matter what you want to tell yourself.
Are they? It's unclear whether KN95 masks are better than a piece of fitted fabric around your mouth and nose. That's the trouble with masks; we don't know what works and what doesn't.
I think the important thing is to realize that you need to rely on realistic factors and many different signals to get useful data.

I've been to plenty of interviews for "senior software engineers," where they used the standard gauntlet of algorithms/problem solving/data structures questions in rapid succession for eight hours.

I tend to deliver most of my projects on time and of a high quality. I value things such as correctness and maintainability, and am conscious of other factors to consider such as viability and availability of time and capital. I spend a good amount of my time writing and seeking feedback from colleagues and think it's important to share our ideas and talk about our work.

And when I practice my work I don't think I've ever been in a time-constrained scenario where I had to come up with an implementation of an algorithm while being judged and evaluated for how I think. I know enough about my work to understand when I need to use BFS or DFS and when to use a tree, a map, or a heap; but I also know that if I can't think of it off the top of my head I can walk over to my library and pull out a book or look it up online.

I'm also a proponent of formal methods. I've written specifications to help solve race conditions and validate implementations of locking algorithms. I can write basic proofs.

And I'm a great writer as a result. I spend a good amount of my time writing and communicating my ideas, seeking feedback from colleagues, and in general improving my understanding of problems.

How does finding a cycle in a sorted array or reversing a linked list signal to you whether I would be a good fit for your company as a senior engineer? Does your company also value clear writing and good communication skills? Do you value engineers that can manage themselves and get work done autonomously?

Modern interview practices at most places I've been through don't know how to get those signals. It's useful knowing that the people I work with are also familiar with when to use a heap versus an array but I also value other things at the senior level that most companies aren't really testing for.

I always prefer data over gut instinct but I feel like the process of hiring people is not amenable to clean signals... it's a very messy process and I'm not hopeful that there will ever be a silver bullet.
> is anger useless?

Far from it.

The way it has been explained to me the core emotions are: Anger, Fear, Joy and Sorrow

You also have feelings: depressed, happy, excited, anxious, etc…

The core emotions are just tools that you have in your toolbox and they show up when needed and if we were all functioning at a high level they would show up when needed and we would use them appropriately.

However, most of us are not functioning at a high level due to many factors; often this can be generational we are learning ‘bad emotional hygiene’ from our parents at a young age and these continually get passed to the next generation.

Examples of your emotions working correctly:

- Your long time pet has passed away: Sorrow

- There is a pack of Wolves outside: Fear

My understanding is that depression is caused by the suppression of Anger and Sorrow. If you are able to work through the emotions you are suppressing then depression is going to go away. This isn’t a one time thing though, you will experience Anger and Sorrow all through your life time, the trick is knowing how to actually feel these emotions so you don’t suppress them leading you back into depression.

Similarly, anxiety is usually caused by the suppression of Fear.

Disclaimer: I am not a mental health professional
I can imagine something like that could lead to people abusing, beating up or killing the infected. It might sound far-fetched, but this was happening in Kenya quite recently.
There are other avenues to deal with your bank.
I demand we stop naming hurricanes after people. I don't know how to handle a reality where my first name is associated with a bad thing.
A quick googling returned nothing? Try "$6T stimulus" or read the Bill itself...

It is true the vast majority of politicians and media are trying to not mention the $4T to the Fed for lending, I won't get into why that is happening (since I am being down voted and even a Googler is saying I am spreading a meme from 2009 what ever that means), so instead of me saying ask why media and politicians are trying to hide/downplay the $6T, maybe ask yourself why you can't even find this info by Googling?

>The White House and the U.S. Senate early this morning, March 25, agreed on a $6 trillion bipartisan economic stimulus package to combat the financial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and assist the Federal Reserve. Some $2 trillion of the measure will assist businesses, workers, and health care systems.

https://www.dbusiness.com/daily-news/senate-and-white-house-...
It's on the healthier side, but it has some strange allergies. I used the term "boomer" once and the reply thread spiraled out of control and included someone suggesting that I was a Russian agent just for using that word. I think we can only really talk in comparitive terms rather than arrive at "yes, it's healthy".

Anecdote: I saw a thread on Facebook a while back in reaction to news stories about fights that were breaking out on a cruise ship off of Australia. One of the commenters was posting horribly racists comments on the Facebook page of the very father of one of those involved. This particular doofus left so much personal information at default privacy settings that in about 5 minutes I knew his kids names. As an experiment, in 5 more minutes I knew what extracurricular activities they were involved in, when, and where. All based on what he left public. No black-hat doxxing shenanigans. Not exactly the kind of stuff I'd leave hanging out in the open if I'm going to make sweeping generalizations that an entire ethnicity of people are violent criminals. I closed it all. Walked away. Said nothing.

So yeah, IMHO HN is a lot healthier than Facebook :)
Unfortunately that's one weakness, but unless you package your application using system packager (which comes with its own set of issues[1])

If you have any dependencies that depend on system libraries there are two options:

- the libraries can be compiled statically, they call them manylinux wheels, this generally works well, except if your dependencies are overlapping with python or other packages' dependencies. Most commonly this happen if package depends on openssl. If the compiled-in openssl is different than the version on the system in certain circumstances python might crash. This is for example why psycopg2 was initially distributed as manylinux but now they opt for the second method (they still provide psycopg2-binary but they discourage its use; most time it works fine but it is a problem on certain distros)

- make python create bindings on installation, this makes installation process do small compilation to create bindings between system library and python, this makes the packages robust, but tied to the OS. In my experience this is not an issue, but it can be annoying, because you still don't have 100% control of dependencies.

This issue is what made me investigate Nix[2] package manager, because it gives you full control of all dependencies down to libc making everything fully reproducible, so you can control the exact version of python to use and all system and python dependencies.

[1] in one of my previous jobs on a team that I joined they were running their applications on CentOS 5 that was already EOL, because rebuilding RPMs to CentOS 7 (at the time the newest version) was a lot of work, another issue was that they were bound to python package version that came with the system, they could create their own RPMs, but no one did it because maintaining that was adding more work. I spent time converting the python code to be packaged using setuptools. Once that was done switching the OS was trivial. We finally also could use the latest versions of many of our dependencies.

[2] This is IMO good article which describes tooling that makes Nix much more enjoyable to use: https://christine.website/blog/how-i-start-nix-2020-03-08
My experience is that Slack video is not nearly in the same class as Zoom. Granted, I haven't used Slack video for work in a year or two but I have been using Zoom at my company for the last 9 months and it has really been flawless. I didn't want to like it but I kinda do now. hah.
Zimbabwean journalist who died of Covid-19 had no water, used bucket toilet
Wikipedia says Zoom was founded in 2011. Google Hangouts has been around for about the same amount of time, and Skype predates them by quite a bit.

I don't quite understand why Hangouts and Skype aren't more robust than they are. I'm sure this is indeed a hard problem, but the utility of getting it right is obvious, and these are massive companies.
Impolite comments do get down-voted pretty consistently but I also see a disturbing number of very gray comments that are more or less facts.
Ok...lets say I am a robot for hypothetical reasons.

So now a robot is on a mailing list. Why is that a bad thing? You may only want human eyeballs I suppose if you were somehow making a profit off knowing your audience was all humans a la broadcast radio advertising rates based on estimated audience size, but OP is using amazon affiliate links, not ads, so that argument is out of scope?
Hah! I've never actually heard that joke but it's a good one.

And yes, that is definitely what they'll do - every time something major happens in our society I've observed the mass media following the playbook from Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" almost exactly.

That being said, every "big event" is an opportunity for mass radicalization of the working class and these "big events" are happening more and more often. It's like the quote from the IRA: "We only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always".
What does that even mean? Is anything I said funny or incorrect?
The journalists here haven't mentioned what kinds of tests each the 4 unnamed sources – 2 doctors, 2 citizens – had at each stage of their 'positive then negative then positive again' journey. They haven't mentioned if any of the individual tests were followed-up with multiple confirmatory tests of alternate methods.

To the extent they mention test types at all, it is quotes from "February" or "a professor... by email" – nothing about these persons' tests.

Yet, the tests in use have some level of false-positive and false-negative. Some variants have had quite high error rates – which may still be acceptable for mass-screening, but not for understanding the course of a single person's infection status.

So, among many millions of people tested in China, a handful have had alternating results not correlated with their symptoms? Not a surprise, even with tiny test error rates, unless each contributing result to the "+/-/+" pattern was reconfirmed by multiple-tests/multiple-methods.

(Note this also suggests many accounts of 'asymptomatic cases' may just be false-positives who never had Covid-19.)
Connecton has decreased price from $9 to $2 to help fight Covid-19
This! Although one could argue for inflationary effects, Google keeps prices stable and that is their main concern here
Your last point speaks to me.

I've become a bit disillusioned with how negative HN seems to have become. Yes I'm well aware this has long been an issue (see: famous HN post from Drew Houston announcing DropBox), but it feels amplified these days. Maybe it's a sign of the times. There are certainly a lot of issues in todays world that seem to be increasing cynicism, but I'll see new tech posted on HN that is incredibly exciting only to see a bunch of comments tearing it to pieces over nit picks. It's like the community has lost ability to hold vision and have excitement for potential.

New creations are full of problems -- there hasn't been time to iron out the wrinkles -- but a lot of HN comments expect perfection from the get go and when they don't see it they rip the creation to shreds. It's demoralizing.
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> People also vastly underestimate how hard it is to produce commodities.

Neither Amazon nor Walmart produce those commodities, they distribute them. Sure, there would be some initial issues, but both the remaining distributors as well as the producers would have strong incentives to quickly resolve those issues.
Not only inflation. Certainly earnings increased in many cases due to tax cuts and tax forgiveness, such as allowing US tech companies to repatriate money at reduced tax rates. If you assume the tax cuts will continue, the stocks are more valuable.
I had an issue with GSuite for Education that I was able to get resolved by cavitching about it on Reddit (and someone gave me the email address of a high-level GSFE Program Manager), when, we had opened about 12 different tickets over the course of a month while waiting for our accreditation to post online.

The woman never responded, but, our issues were fixed the next day.

I needed support from Google Cloud, and the only way I was able to get meaningful support was to bother the Sales guy who started to bother me once he saw the news that we had our Round C go through.

When google punts their partner program at you, they openly say that they suck at support, use partners and get support better/faster. At least they're honest about it...
Hey there. Thanks for trying it. I will try a personal email rather than my work email and see if I get the same result on the same machine.

Edit: It no longer recaptchas me, thanks!
Getting a loan for a business in these very uncertain times is an extremely risky move, especially if you have to personally guarantee the loan.

For anyone here thinking about getting a loan, please get plenty of advice, especially legal advice, and make sure you will be able to pay it back. Otherwise I would urge you to look for other alternatives.

It might seem hard or impossible now to close down your business, but it might get a lot harder to deal with the consequences of getting a loan to prop it up if you don't have a very good plan to recover.

I've been through corporate bankruptcy (chapter 7) with a company that had multiple creditors. Even though there were no personal guarantees, one of the creditors decided to pursue legal action against us. 2 years after filing for bankruptcy, we are still dealing with a lawsuit by this one creditor (who by the way forced the company into bankruptcy in the first place).

Btw, lawyers for a chapter 7 bankruptcy will cost you/your company $10-$20k.
> Is the WHO seriously supposed to have a marketing team optimizing ad spending on Google during a pandemic so they rank higher than some "Coronavirus is a hox" article?

Google recently blocked advertisements around COVID19
and related issues. Would you please at least look it up before making this kind of assumptions?

https://www.blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/...
What does your interview process look like?
Bezos bought the most expensive home in California at this time, so I'm guessing he needed to replenish some of his liquidity. Doubt the sell off is due to "insider" knowledge.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-lauren-sanchez-ho...
There's a phrase for when an online forum becomes less of a bubble and more representative of the real world. It's called the Eternal September, and people usually aren't happy when it happens.
2 factor authentication (w/ security tokens, mobile "apps" etc.) comes with an inherent risk of getting locked out of stuff. Most of the time you can mitigate that risk by generating "recovery" codes in advance, but it's still something to be aware of.
Sounds like a decent reason to nationalize Walmart (other than that their margins are very thin and it’s unlikely anyone could do better)
> plants virtual trees (you can pay to plant real ones too) for every time interval when you stayed focused.

One of my many pet-projects-I'll-never-implement is creating one of these addicting Facebook-driven social games like Farmville (I have no idea what it's modern equivalent is) and instead of distributing profit from ad revenue / in-app purchases, donate all of it to an NGO that does IRL whatever people are doing online. So if planting an in-game tree generates $0.02 in profit from ad revenue / in-app purchases (after operating expenses, taxes, capex, etc) and planting a tree in real life costs $20, the NGO would plant one real tree after users plant 1,000 online trees

I think it's a killer idea for a socially-conscious app and I think users would feel incentivized to play this over any of the stupid casual online games with no positive real-life implications.
Can't PCR tests detect damaged RNA and report that as a positive?

https://www.aim-med.org/hiv-rna-test/
so you're gonna pay us to do these "work samples" at market rate, right?
I'm sure that lots of people would be happy to pay good money for plenty of support issues if that meant not having to use the terrible Google help pages and issue forms, and not having to wait a week or ten for a response.
Two days ago I was in a Zoom Townhall Meeting, shortly after a friend of mine who is working at Deutsche Telekom (largest telco in DE) told me that their internal webconferencing solution is crushing under the load and staff is advised not to use video when it's not critical.

Our Zoom THM with 130 participants ran without any issues whatsoever. I'm stunned how flawlessly they seam to scale. I want to work with the people responsible for this tbh.
Marburg's name is at least accurate.

There are two separate issues here: Place-based names cause a stigma (an issue for new diseases, less so for historical ones) and that "Spanish flu" is actually completely wrong on the origins of that specific disease.
Roche releases Covid-19 test recipe, after EC considers intervention