skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider soylent or other meal replacement items and military rations for emergency.

Stock up on non-perishable grains, pasta, tomato sauce and canned fish. And I really mean stock up – at least 3-4 weeks worth of meals.

Not in the SF Bay Area, but WF through the Amazon app is still what's been working for us, though I have to log in repeatedly to find a delivery window available...
Not really, but imagine that one senator in the US says they like to support UBI, there is still a lot of work that has to go through to actually make it work and has to have support behind it.

General consensus in Spain is that this proposal don't have enough support to actually go through, but the world media is reporting like it's already been passed and will for sure happen. It hasn't.
It just didn't pass the cut. I had plenty of other interesting questions to chew, and moved on. There is not reason anymore to revisit it. Most of those bones would be unreadable today in any case.
It's sad how many mistakes they've made with foursquare along the way. The checkin thing was fun, then they moved the only fun part of the app to a mostly neglected junk drawer secondary app (Swarm) and turned the name brand app into just another yelp.

Now it seems it's just going to double/triple-down on the data mining part, and there's no clear indication of what value this adds to the user.

The only thing I really use Swarm for is to keep a little calendar-integrated diary of places I've been (with an IFTTT), but I can do all this myself much simpler and with less data mining. So long, 4SQ.
I see, but what did they do with that information? Did they just randomly browse employee's screens? What triggered that level of monitoring? Are there ways to detect when a screenshot is captured?

It seems like a lot of effort to monitor screens, it makes me think there has to be a compelling reason, and not just browsing around looking for "problems".
Woah these are great. Only a few key topics, but the curation is exactly what I seek. Thank you good human!
> One could argue if VScode is an open source project or not

I mean... not really, no?! It's MIT licensed and fits any definition of OSS I've ever seen.

AFAIK, the only non-OSS part is the installer.
thanks! (probably right)
I needed some surge protectors. The ones I really wanted were all May, but then the AmazonBasics one was this week. Hmm...
I just published PreflightAPI API on RapidAPI. Check it out
Amazon has massive network of 3rd Party Sellers who ship items directly from their own warehouses, not relying on Amazon’s currently-hobbled fulfillment centers

You can find these by selecting “other sellers” on the Amazon product page.

This has been the way to get stuff quickly on Amazon for the last 3 weeks.

Then on Friday, with no warning or explanation, Amazon extended all shipping times quoted out to April 20th, including the shipping times provided by 3rd party sellers.

This extension has no basis in reality, as 3rd party sellers have not experienced any shipping delays because they don’t use Amazon’s warehouses.

This was a hugely anti-competitive move by Amazon that has severely impacted 3rd party sellers and directly misleads consumers.

Numerous 3rd party sellers have reported this situation to the DOJ.

If any reporters want more info, please reach out. Email in profile.
If anyone is looking for computer parts, I gotta shoutout Newegg. Been using them for more than 15 years, and they’ve been extremely great at delivering during the pandemic.
Yea, it does, right down to the graph visualization that doesn't fill the screen.
> I really wish they could provide more clarity.

I'm not sure but I think this is because of some virus or something, from what I've heard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability
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That's a very good recommendation. And if you can't find the preprint on the authors website, I've had good success just emailing the author and asking for a copy. That's successful in 99% of the cases where I couldn't find it officially for free or as a preprint. Most authors seems more than happy to provide you with a copy.

And if that finally doesn't work out, there is always sci-hub.si and their alter egos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub)
One of the largest Italian email provider hacked, data sold on darknet
It seems the kind of charge I would dispute with my credit card company.
This isn't really accurate – independent retailers have quite the advantage right now because they aren't constrained by centralized fulfillment. The reason Amazon has shipping delays is because:

1) Amazon has observed a massive influx of orders and fulfilling centralized orders requires a large amount of workers in fulfillment centers – Amazon is hiring more than 100,000 workers for this reason[1] – and getting those orders in and out of those warehouses takes a good chunk of logistics planning and time. Independent retailers don't need to deal with this, particularly if they're shipping direct or use their own facilities.

2) They use their own delivery networks for a majority of deliveries in cities these days to bypass sending via the normal postage system. The platform, Amazon Flex[2], saves them money on postage but likely needs to ramp up scale–Flex usually actually means deliveries are faster, but as order volume scales up, it'll slow down deliveries.

Amazon is bottlenecked on both fronts: a massive influx of orders means needing to get those products into its warehouses, then actually having workers fulfill them, and it needs to manage the shipping side, due to its reliance on Amazon Flex in city areas. Independent retailers just aren't bottlenecked like this – they have their own set of inventory that isn't super broad, and they ship with normal delivery networks, which are generally delivering on time in North America right now.

[1] https://blog.aboutamazon.com/operations/amazon-opening-10000...

[2] https://flex.amazon.com/
It's great to see so many people sharing the same challenge I have as well.
As developers, we always want to build things. Things we find interesting.
Maybe we "finish" some of them. Maybe we don't ever finish something because there's always improvements to be made.

"Meaningful progress" also is hard to define. One day you feel it's "save humanity level" meaningful. The other day is just lines of codes that don't work.

Some companies like JotForm evolved from a side project, but not all side project will become an actual business.

I think the reason why we even call side project a side project is because we have options.

It's ok to fail. It's okay to explore, experiment, and create.
As long as it doesn't deeply offend your core values, side projects are supposed to be fun.

If it blossom into something that you can't ignore, then you will come back to it no matter what.

I wrote an article back in the days when I documented why I couldn't start a side project here: https://medium.com/swlh/this-is-why-you-will-never-start-tha...
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Yes. It is basically a UBI. But they also don't have a firm date for a rollout.

My speculation: For one, it's really just talk until something happens. Also, I'm thinking if not for the eye-opening shock that is coronavirus, a lot of things would not be happening that are probably going to happen now. No one can really say with authority what the world will look like when this is over.
Paul is referring to Fox News: https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1246146713523453957?...
Check out the book "Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries"

In a way it's the concept of MVP but really from the point of view of picking up projects.
The only time HR will be your friend is when you get to align both yours and their interests.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"
This sounds a little like an argument that it's simply impossible to get this done any faster, so we shouldn't try.

I mean, I like to think we have clear enough standards for reliability and testing that if we manage to perform some excellent engineering and meet all of those standards in record time, and the federal government is willing to expedite the approval red tape, there's no technical reason we shouldn't be able to get it done a lot faster than what is typical without sacrificing safety.

Or put another way: I really hope the safety of our existing medical devices isn't simply based on the process being slow.
I am not allowed to post because Dang is kind of a dick, but I can tell you that you should go out and shop with PPE at local Lunardi's markets. They are really doing a great job, have lots of inventory, and enforce social distancing.

Wear a mask and gloves, come in to your house, strip down and wash/throw everything away. Delivery is just not going to work.

Conversely, you could post on CL offering $100 cash (Venmo, square) to someone who can get groceries for you.

Hopefully a shadow-mod sees this and lets it appear.
For what it's worth, the solution is just to order whatever you want anyways, and watch it ship to you 2-3 days later.
Check out Sweetwater next time. They are significantly better. Their site actually shows you each guitar/bass they have in stock and they have an entire gallery Of photos for each. If you order one they’ll send a zip or the whole collection of photos.

If you call and talk to the sales rep for you (you’re assigned one) they can usually knock 5-15% off.

They also make sure each guitar/bass is setup to factory spec before sending it out.
Or.... small companies don't have economy of scale logistics operations?
Yes, that's called insurance, and it is about ordinary risks not tail risks, and about only the financial component, not the real-world component.

Having fire insurance is NOT the same as installing detection and response systems and having a prepared and active fire department.

Getting an insurance payout for your dead children is not the same as having the fireman with his ladder and gear go into the building and rescue them.

Insurance manages only PART of the financial component of risk.

Read an insurance policy and you will find dozens of pages AVOIDING the real tail risks - the rare events with massive potential losses.

If you really want to insure against tail risk, you need to go, not to the overall insurance industry but a small subset of specialty insurers, such as Lloyd's of London (which actually isn't even actually an insurance company).

Even with those specialty insurance-type products, no amount of insurance can protect you from the practical consequences of not being prepared for tail risk.

As in the firemen example above, you might be able to get a massive payout for your inability to buy masks this week, but no payout will guarantee that you can actually get the items you need if they don't exist.

In contrast, a properly prepared govt would spend the funds to have them on hand, just as we have on hand an inventory of fire trucks, water pipes and hydrants, etc.

So, no, insurance not an example where a business runs like a govt. should

The goals of a business vs a competent govt are fundamentally different. Business is run for current profit, govt is all about building infrastructure, both physical & institutional and preparing for (not insuring against) massive tail risk.
I've been using eBay lately. Sellers have been consistently delivering in 2 days and it feels just as likely that I'll get fake shit as from Amazon these days.
Instacart releases slots throughout the night. 2am to 5am are great for getting one. There are many currently lesser known delivery systems - search for ones targeting minorities. For example Yamimeal (despite having meal in the name - they do groceries). Also, buy bigger orders if you can. I have been getting at least a couple hundred dollars at once, good for 7-10 days. I would get more at once, but I want to eat some vegetables.
I realise that this might sound privileged/gate-keeping but if you're a developer in 2020 I'd expect you to at least have 8GB of RAM. I'd say it's the minimum you should have for a decent computing experience nowadays. I have 16GB and usually idle around 50% usage with just a general task load. Especially with Windows 10. Not that it's a good thing but it seems to be the way things are going.

1/8th of your memory for your IDE doesn't sound too bad?

I've seen native tools use more.
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I live in Boston. I seem to be getting most things in around 5 days, even though Amazon estimates 2 weeks. Almost everything was delivered before their estimates. But everything is still slower than usual (normally, I'd get things delivered in 1 to 3 days)
The 10% of items that show as available for 1-day or 2-day shipping are likely the ones in your nearest Amazon warehouse. There's 119 other warehouses products can be in that they would have to ship by UPS/FedEx/USPS instead of a local delivery by their own contracted drivers.
I have a side project for you. There is currently a very functional prototype and yet I need a technical co-founder to build beyond this proof of concept.
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Show HN: A &lt;chess-board&gt; HTML element for any web page or app
Hello HN,

For a few months I'm been working on a fun side-project to port the (awesome) chessboardjs library to an easily reusable and embeddable web component. The quarantine has finally spurred me to put the finishing touches on it.

https://justinfagnani.github.io/chessboard-element/

It works in plain HTML files just by writing an HTML tag:

<chess-board></chess-board>

And it works in any framework because it's just an HTML element.

Styling is encapsulated and customizable with CSS properties and parts:

chess-board {
--dark-color: darkmagenta;
}
/* Highlight the e2 square in red */
chess-board::part(e2) {
box-shadow: inset 0 0 3px 3px red;
}

I hope it's useful or fun for anyone who wants to do chess things on the web. You can try it out in plain HTML here:

https://jsbin.com/jajijab/2/edit?html,output

Or in a React app here:

https://stackblitz.com/edit/react-chess-board
Totally. Especially when the sun is out and it's a beautiful day.
Bet any money the answer will be "No".
Personally I have been utilizing Costco same day delivery powered by Instacart. The next available delivery day is usually 5 or so days out but you can modify your order until they actually start physically shopping so I just add groceries all week once I have my delivery day. I start a new order the day my last order arrives so I have a constant flow of fresh groceries every 5 days. Totally affordable (free delivery and only slightly marked up over sticker prices) and I haven't left my house in 3 weeks. Just make sure you setup replacements as I'd say 15% of items I choose are out of stock. Instacart now leaves your groceries at your front door and sends you an SMS so you don't even have to interact with anyone.
HomeDepot's ecommerce is a joke. Not only the shopping experience is poor, they treat logistics as if they were doing you a favor. And, on top of all that, you get damaged items. I made 7 purchases and all 7, in different periods of time, had to be returned or replaced.

Same for Lowe's. There's a reason people shop on Amazon. Other than BestBuy, no other retailer "gets" ecommerce.
Not if your organization uses PGP!
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We installed hardware on each train to monitor them. So from each moving train we received a coordinate every minute to our servers.
UBI isn't being implemented anywhere. And there are no plans to. Saying it is "taking off" does not appear to be accurate.
Your list, with the exception of Persona 5 and somewhat Nier, are all games in the same, 3rd-person-open-world-AAA action/adventure genre. Claiming that ‘the best games’ are all one only one platform and that they are all in the exact same genre says much more about personal preference than the quality of game play experience on various consoles and PC.

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At time of filing H1B, the employer makes an LCA (Labour Condition Application) which includes information about the job like salary range and hours (which may be a range, maybe 30-40 hours). If the job changes enough that the LCA is no longer accurate, some action is required (an amended filing may be sufficient, to be honest I'm not sure).

If job responsibilities have changed, especially in a way that reduces the qualification requirements for the job, again they might be required to amend their H1B petition.

I'll just add again that I'm _not_ a lawyer, and only have a cursory understanding from being in the middle of all this myself :)
Contains a section on the rational and real numbers. Mathematicians might want to start at section 11.5.
Offtopic:

I stopped reading an introduction to Toki Pona when I learned that „complicated” also means „bad” or „evil”.

How I see it, lots of things can be complicated. Calculus equations. Some emotions. Some recipes. Etc.

It’s hard for me to call them bad at the same time.

How others are looking at this?
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If that's the best example, I'd almost count that as an argument against.

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All the "full language" version is done is avoided me having to use the incredibly powerful calculator I'm sitting in front of to calculate some numbers for all of 5 seconds.

Programatically solving something which changes very infrequently isn't really a good case for all the other complexity and potential issues something like this would drag along with it.
I don't think you need worry that your employer is watching everything you do. But they can and there are some common cases:

1 - some program is scanning ingoing/outgoing data looking for compliance violations (typically finance, some classified work; should be for medical privacy/PII but I don't see much of that happening). Also scans for liability issues such as porn at work etc. Easier to screen that stuff out up front rather than later, frankly.

2 - you have a highly restrictive job (e..g call center) and are being spot monitored from time to time; statistics are likely kept continuously. Distopian but yes, happens.

3 - Sysadmin ends up looking at some of your mail while debugging a problem or doing some investigation not necessarily related to you e.g. some employee is terminated for fraud: let's look at their correspondence, some of which -- innocently -- is from you. Or there was a disk crash and some data is being reconstructed, which includes your call logs or email or whatever.

The third case is the most common and is why there is often a blanket "we can read and get all your data" statement in the employee handbook. There are others, and you can guess them.
No country in Europe is implementing or planning to implement UBI. You have been consuming propaganda.
I wouldn't rule out the pandemic being an issue here. These are not _normal_ times, and is an additional stressor. For me stress _definitely_ impacts my ability to think clearly, and the higher the stress (even if not immediately obvious to me), the worse my thinking skills are.

As another commenter mentioned, migraines can also do this. Not all migraines come with a lot of pain, so that's not always a dead giveaway. But during a migraine, my thoughts are muddy as hell.
In the background global warming is a much greater threat to human life and has the exact same dynamic with the exact same players. There is also zero introspection - the people who were wrong about covid-19 are simply denying they said what they said. The truly scary part is they are getting away with it in real time, and changing a large populations' memory of contemporary events. I realize it's hard to remember further back with the enormous amount of information we're all bombarded with, but you can just go back to 2005 and see Larry Kudlow (Dir. NEC) just as wrong about economic policy and the depth of the financial crisis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Kudlow#Economy) but here he is again. Consider Navarro vis a vis trade. I don't think anyone will learn anything, and for smart enough people, that needs to be the lesson.
Where does Factual get their data from? They've got tons of big name partners, who I assume share it with them, then combine it to get a wider view:

https://www.factual.com/company/partners/

Since Foursquare seems to be caring less about their consumer-facing products I'm guessing they'll shift more towards a collection + analytics style product? Where they integrate with other popular apps instead of collecting their own data.

But I'm just speculating.
Hm, there are plenty of DNS records (not to mention all the custom ones all around the world) that you won't be able to `dig` but most people would still call DNS.
It's certainly going to shift manufacturing of some "essential items" for emergencies closer to home. But you can't do a knee-jerk reaction based on something like this. This is a very rare event and it would be foolish to annihilate your existing global supply chain over this. It will probably mean that countries (the smart ones anyways) will start to stockpile and ensure they have plans to follow in the event something like this happens again.
Someone working somewhere "temporarily" (however long that may be) and living in company-provided accommodation, or where that is more secure than private accommodation.

- A politician with a state-provided residence in the capital city.

- A soldier living in a barracks

- A teacher living at a boarding school during the term, or someone very senior at a university with an on-campus house/apartment. Or a PhD student.

- A vicar or priest living at the vicarage

- A diplomat or embassy staff posted abroad
If you can't make the point now, when can you make it? Once the pandemic is under control, no one will care.

The bottom line would appear to be that capitalism is, by far, the best system we have, but only when it operates inside a walled garden.

We should impose tariffs on essential items so as to allow local employees to be paid a fair and living wage, put restrictions on the multiple between the lowest wage in a company and the highest, limit growth to preserve the competitiveness of markets, and ensure that the true cost of production, including the environmental damage associated with production, distribution, and disposal is accounted for locally.

Imagine if this small business was allowed to charge a fair price for their product without competition from a totalitarian state that has bred 1.6 billion slave workers to exploit the planet and conduct a covert economic war to undermine democratic free-market countries.

Imagine if the earnings of every CEO were capped at 3x the lowest wage on the factory floor. Imagine people having stable jobs that fulfill a genuine need while producing something in a sustainable and environmentally-responsible fashion. Imagine that those hard workers get health care and generous vacations and a living wage.

Is it so ridiculous to dream of limited capitalism? Sane capitalism?
But Ford doesn't build their cars from Toyota parts and software and then just slap their logo on it and call it a day. So I'm not so sure that's a great analogy.
- Using it doesn't feel as smooth as my times with a (3)DS or even the original PSP.

I think the biggest difference is that Vita wasn't clicky; hit a button on a Nintendo handheld, and you get a very pleasant tactile sensation. Pressing a button on Vita felt like you were smooshing the button, which isn't a great experience. The PS3 controller ran into a similar problem because of the analog face buttons it had, but it's not as noticeable on bigger controllers.
The correctness of emotions is separate from the effectiveness of the strategy. It is perfectly reasonable to be upset if mugged by a seven foot slab of muscle - even if frontal unarmed attack back would be a bad idea.
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