skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you wouldn't need to actually do any work to get this effect. Consider what happens if tons of people suddenly decides to take home a particular "fancy" food for free. The government pays the grocery store, but the grocery store also runs out of the food and buys more from its supplier. This is driving up demand for the fancy food. Now the fancy food is going to get more expensive, even though people are getting it "for free."

If you take my sibling comment about tax effects into account, this means that, as people over-consume a "free" food, and its price rises, they're effectively making larger and larger "purchases" which will have an effect on their taxes.

On the other hand, if it turns out that the food was only expensive because few people were buying it, in a sort of vicious circle—then when everyone buys it, and forces demand up, it'll force supply up, too, and the food will get cheaper for everyone, not just for people who get it "for free."

For example, if it turns out that we only weren't factory-farming caviar because of the low demand, but it's perfectly possible to do so, then we'll just turn into a society that farms and eats a lot of cheap caviar. No market distortion; just "unlocking" market efficiencies we couldn't previously reach, because the demand side didn't previously have the dollars to vote with. Everybody wins!
It seems like you are arguing against a couple of straw men here.

First off, no one is saying that we should give 100% of citizens foie gras and caviar.

While I understand your point about there being some stigma attached to funding and/or receiving food assistance, I think it would be lessened if it were freely available to everyone at their discretion. People (rich and poor alike) have certainly had no qualms about receiving unemployment in the current crisis and I think you will see a similar reaction to this food assistance program in New York.

Second, your example of a restaurant taking bags of rice is clearly not an issue with SNAP benefits as they exist in every state, nor is it a possible issue with the program in New York, since they are giving out full meals.

In fact, I expect that the system being trialed in New York will actually solve the issue of people selling or trading away their SNAP benefits, since poor folks just above the cutoff for snap, who would still benefit from food assistance, can just go and get a free meal themselves, rather than trading or buying discounted food from someone selling their SNAP benefits.
I realized sheepishly this morning why the emails didn't go through: because the placement code never actually executed. Or rather, it did, but it turned into a no-op because the post was already ranking higher, due to user upvotes, than the rank (#10) where the code would have placed it. I forgot that I'd added that check.

So my complaint turned out to be nonsense, partly because it was 3am or whatever, and partly because "wtf? swear, profanity, curse...oh wait" is my normal debugging process. Just not usually in public.
Dude! I didn't even notice that. If you've ever had to look something up late at night - dark mode is a godsend.
Agreed. "Job guarantee" program. There's a write-up here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_guarantee

I also like the idea of UBI combined with a flat tax (losing progressive taxation) for it's simplicity, but imagine all the tax lawyers and accountants that would be out of a job.
I feel DSL-ish ways of Nim are so much more advanced then python.

I have written UI DSLs in Nim, as well as SQL DSLs. Only LISPy languages come close to the level of DSL you can do.
I'm just curious. Where do you live that you are not allowed to leave your home? I know different places are implementing social distancing differently.
I broadly agree (at least in comparison to the school system -- I'm a former high school teacher and was homeschooled myself).
Buy companies, layoff and outsource staff. Over work those that are left. PE is already bad for employees.
Can confirm. My 5s suffered the random shutdown issue and wasn't part of the throttling fix.
MIT PrivateKit and Safe Paths Webinar COVIDathon
Ambiguity is less tolerable in journalism than it may be in other media.

A good sentence can be a bad headline.

It's the same principle as Murphy's Law in engineering. If it can be interpreted in a different way, you don't put it at the top of your story.

In this case, removing the word "alone" makes a better headline.
I use MicroSnitch on my mac and love it. I just need it for the iPhone. It doesn't exist, does it?
As others have noted, this is data augmentation, and it's incredibly useful to increase variation in training data to help decrease overfitting.

It's not a silver bullet. It won't capture the natural variations that happen in the real world.

But new forms of augmentation (like OP) are helping us get closer.

For example, MixMatch creates "mosaic" images by combining images across the training set [1]. In object detection, bounding box only augmentations are improving models by introducing variation [2].

And an anecdote: I work on https://roboflow.ai , and we've seen customers make production-ready results from datasets <20 images based on techniques like these.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02249
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.11172.pdf
Neat project!
That's correct, you can still qualify for an L-1 (as a transferee after 1 year of employment outside the US) even if you don't have a degree and there are TN occupations that don't require a degree. Further, you can get an O-1 without a degree as well as an H-1B as long as (in the H-1B context) you have the equivalent of a bachelor's degree (essentially 12 years of professional experience).
Hello! My girlfriend is currently an au paire on J-1 Visa but wants to leave her current host family due to bad work conditions. She will attempt a rematch to find a new family and continue working under the program.

However, she knows some au paires in similar situations who filed for Tourist Visa whole working and still in the US, and then stopped working while waiting and being 'out of status' but remaining in the US due to the current conditions.

Would she be able quit her family, apply for tourist visa now, and stay with me during the lockdown while awaiting the decision (not working of course)?
I come to observe suffering in people on the other end of the spectrum - the social butterflies that are like caged wild animals nowadays. Calling acquintances left and right was ok for the first two weeks or so, but as the quality of the discussed subjects dwindled and with it the frequency of social virtual interactions, there's a clear sign that the self-isolation feels more harsh for extroverted people.
While not what you meant, if people with coding skills have free time, it is greatly appreciated if they contribute to open source projects that are widely used. A lot of OSS are critical components in many systems we rely on daily, your contributions can have more value than you can even imagine.

It would be great if all devs could keep this in mind, but especially the ones that are about to get some time off (if life does not get too stressful for you).
Aliasing versus cloning can bite you even if nothing in the program is imperative. For instance, somewhere in the program you choose the wrong one among the available set of equality functions (all of them beautifully pure).

If the immutable language has a single equality operator which makes it impossible to tell whether or not a value has been cloned, you might be safe from this issue.
Hey Peter, I'm about to expire my 60 days of grace period for finding another employer under TN visa, has the USCIS said anything about extending that grace period because of coronavirus? Also, if my visa is still valid until September, can I just go to an airport POE and change my employer there with a letter of employment? Thanks!
Yes i'm currently in Canada now ... No it would not be for my employer. I don't have a job offer currently. I would like to know if it's even possible before attempting to apply for jobs.
Whats the process like if i have a H1B & approved I140 and move over to H4 for some reason.

If i want to get back onto H1B do i need to go through the lottery again ?
Thanks Peter, much appreciated!

Is the US government still processing E2 visa applications. I am Canadian who was planning on submitting in late April.
I’m graduating undergrad right now and I’ve been applying for jobs for months with not much success. Astonishingly, I’ve started getting more responses in the past couple of weeks.

I’ve definitely gotten some companies saying they are freezing hiring and I’m worried as time goes on all of them will do this.

Thankfully I have home and will be fine; it is frustrating however.
Haha, I enjoyed the game.

I'd suggest a 20-25 second long timer.
How is it "obviously absurd"? We've been the ones lamenting that China's been going full dystopia "welding people inside apartments" all the way back in January.

Also for those who read beyond the title:

"the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three U.S. officials.

The officials asked not to be identified because the report is secret, and they declined to detail its contents."

And here I am still waiting for Bloomberg to write the other half of their supermicro chip story.
You can see that with Alphabet: most people associate the "moonshot" subsidiaries with Google.
Do you realize most people in NY have very limited storage space in their kitchens, no cars, and only buy what they can carry in 1-2 bags at a time because of that?
I don't know about "good", but it's certainly much easier to get around in than modal editors like vim and emacs. I find those pretty awful to use.
Ah my lovingly hand-crafted fvwm config & menu files on that 386.
I agree with your points but name calling has no place on HN.
Is there a difference between "tired" amd "stressed" in this context?
Personally I stopped using exercism, when it started to require me to work for Google for free and would not let me log in, if I did not. It's not an ethical platform, unfortunately.
Wouldn't it be better to contribute to something totally uncool instead since those projects are more in need of developers? Something like libraries maybe. If you are new(ish) there's a helpful site here:

https://www.firsttimersonly.com/
There's been no change in the rules yet so a furlough is no different from a termination so your 60-day grace period clock would start once you are furloughed and L-1s must work full time so there is no option for part-time L-1 employment.
Hi Peter, I have a greencard and we would like to apply for an F2A greencard for my wife. At the same time, she would like to pursue further education (masters). Are there restrictions against that while pursuing the F2A?
Do you mean fine to re-enter on H-1B or L-1?
Heh. Never seen that before. I'll have to have a play. Thanks both.
Twitter page: https://twitter.com/COVID19intheUK1
Exactly! 10000x better than blub.
Can Canadians currently enter the US on a B1 visa?
Depends on your organization more than tooling. Even if you have the tool, your orgs security policy may not allow using it.

You may not have an environment that allows switching compiler versions for other reasons.

Even Rust has a similar concept that allows gating of features like this. They call it "editions".
Totally agreed. But for those who feel the need to justify costs -- instead of looking at the good it does -- consider the capitalist benefits:

- Hungry people are not productive to the economy

- Hungry people are more likely to be sick and burden the healthcare system

- Hungry people, if desperate enough, might steal from you

- Hungry children do not learn as well, and become a future burden society needs to carry
> and can't be messed up by employees who think it'd be neat to run local native apps on it, "since it's a computer just sitting there."

Synology actually encourage this. In particular, the Docker package is great and all sorts of uses have cropped up. There are some gnarly rough edges that I have encountered but that package and others make the unit very useful.
I’m a home user so it’s a different use case, but my 918+ is probably my favourite machine ever.
Detection is hard indeed. Here is an interesting research on patients with neurological disabilities though normal imaging (MRI) results, but abnormalities found when inspected using diffuse tensor imaging: https://nn.neurology.org/content/5/3/e456
I ate plenty well as a grad student on $120 a month. If that’s $127/person that’s plenty for just food. If that’s $127 for a family of 3 that’d be rough.
Many school districts do offer supplemental feeding programs during breaks, and our local district is still distributing free lunches to students in need. But this isn't universal across the country and a lot of people do fall through the gaps.
I been trying to get one of my daughters to learn programming (With / through Python) for some time now. She's also willing, but life gets in the way and her dedications was sparse.

This week with lockdown and everything she started to study again.

I had recently "upgraded" her laptop from Windows to Debian, and installed both PyCharm and Miniconda on it.

So, this week she managed to configure PyCharm to use the Miniconda python interpreter, and I gave her a few instructions (That were actually a repetition or some I gave her a while back) on to how to run Jupyter.

Come the next day, and she calls me to ask me how to run some notebook she had in a backup. She had already copied them in a folder (A different one that the one she was using the previous day).

So I told her "Ok, so you go to the folder and run Jupyter in it".

"Dad. Run... WHERE!"

The amount of assumed knowledge we programmers have, and usually assume other people (Even non-programmers) have, is enormous.

I didn't even click in the link, but if all are all the instructions they give to install python, they are off to a not actually bad but chopped foot start.
All Embassies are still open; they're just on significantly reduced staff and only handling very limited matters but if you can't reach anyone, contact your Congressional representative.
The Internet Computer (Bronze) – WEF 2020 in Davos [video]
I would argue that folks like you translating the heavy science into comprehensible ideas to those less deep into the field are doing just as much to advance science as the authors of these papers.

Seriously, this is fantastic work and I cannot compliment you enough on it.
Ask HN: Best alternatives to zoom
Zoom is getting some major bad press lately. I've been using it for a while, and it works great -- but, I've had it with the lack of security. I don't have the time or resources to review all of the alternatives. Was hoping for some real-world pros and cons.

What do you use?
What has been your experience? (Good and Bad)
Would you recommend it?
Most motivational video I ever watched
Yes, the -std flag would definitely still exist: the thing being changed by that flag is a lot of stuff in the parser, some stuff in the standard library, and some semantics bits further towards the backend, but at some point the versions converge and go through the same optimisation pipeline. A pipeline that definitely has seen improvements in more recent versions, so it's totally worth it to use a new compiler with an old language standard on old code: it might very well produce a faster executable. Just using an older compiler would also revert back to the old performance.

Additionally, a C/C++ compiler in an older standard mode would disable certain features, of course, but not completely: it's still able to give diagnistics in the vein of "this thing isn't valid with the current version setting, but it would be valid in C++17", for example. That's useful to a programmer.
"Liquidating" a house is slow and relatively expensive. You're probably losing a decent chunk of that $100k if done in a rush (and of course, you need somewhere else to live too).

Another chunk of that $100k is probably tied up in a car, which has the same problems.
Comparison of Joins: MongoDB vs. PostgreSQL
Thanks for the kind note. The comment was removed and re-posted here as this thread seemed more appropriate for such comment (i.e. in a mood similar to this[0] comment).

EDIT: And thanks for taking time to repeat yourself. Just few hours ago I've been thinking that most of us (unfortunately) will have to actually make some well-known mistakes to learn from them, even if we've been warned about such misdeeds beforehand repeatedly ;-)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767218
Oh indeed, it's eternal morning on HN. Or rather, eternal second breakfast / coffee break. I did not mean to imply otherwise. It's just easy to forget when in dev mode and it's dark outside.

> Did you do any study on HN stats and where its audience is coming from?

I did that 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633521

I keep meaning to rerun that analysis. I saved the code for it using the trick described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22516834.
I took a year off once and strongly considered trying to get a job as a bartender for fun because I enjoy making cocktails.
I got picked up by an Amazon recruiter just before the outbreak. I was really tempted but I'm now glad I took the time to think about it.
I am talking about the former which is true. I concede there is a strain on staff. There seems to be a belief out there that hospitals are already full which is not true.

It's also impossible to know if we if we have peaked or not. It's just like trying to time the stock market. The only thing that really matters is the death rate. The rate of cases doesn't matter and is likely under counted. We are testing more and more people which increases the case rate. If we tested everyone including those with no cases and found a lot more people than expected have the virus the death percentage would go down.

I am also skeptical of how the start of the spread in the US was determined. It's possible it was much earlier and early cases were confused with Flu and we are in fact near the peak of the death rate.
Executive: Everything is important!
Executive: Why aren't you finishing everything?
Where's the twitter mob when you really need them?
https://jitsi.org/ is great. lots of discussion here on HN previously.
Going to go out on a limb and guess that it's because the people who would actually go through these tutorials are people who already know what can be accomplished with raytracing and want to get their feet wet with doing so in Vulkan.

The average person who's looking for "What can raytracing do for me" is going to get their answer from Control, Battlefield, Metro Exodus, or even the Quake II and Minecraft demos, and not some developer-centric Vulkan tutorial from Github.
First time I've seen Apple use Github extensively.
In other materials not much stress is needed once a material is tired. Happens to steel if it gets bent a lot.
>it started to require me to work for Google for free

How did that work?
Having just basic internet and youtube can go a long way. So you can get creative during a crisis and learn to work with a bit less to get almost as much.
It won't impact the issuance of your EAD and it shouldn't impact the issuance of your green card as long as you are employed by the time of your green card interview (but the facts do matter regarding the latter issue and I don't have all of them).
Shameless plug: We created a simple game engine with this technology. I am planning to upgrade it to cross-vendor ray tracing support with the upcoming Vulkan SDK. Cheers.

https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Raygun
How USCIS works right now due to the crisis, do they work with regular mail?
Carnival Cruises is doing just that. They are raising $4bn in bonds. Other companies should follow suit but would rather get a government bailout. Carnival knows they wouldn't get bailed out by the US government (don't even think they have any ships sailing with a US flag).

Companies are already going to get better rates because of infinite QE. But they want even better valuations with bailouts.
Why would we expect the average of 40M SNAP recipients, over 10% of the US population, have their entire food budget provided by the government?
I worry that the people who ran this test either didn't know what they were doing, or were too tired or didn't care.

The top tank was covered in ice, indicating it was nearly full, while the bottom tank had no ice. That leaves three possibilities:

* The intention is the bottom tank was pressurized with gas:. There is no way that much gas at ~4 bar is safe. It would destroy all nearby buildings if it failed. That's a serious safety failing.

* The intention is the bottom tank was filled with LN2. Whoever was running the test didn't notice the tank didn't turn white, and didn't have any kind of level gauge or flow meter?

* The intention is the tank was unpressurized. The design could never withstand the top tank filled and the bottom tank unpressurized and empty. Whoever designed and ran the test didn't understand the basics of the design.

All of those 3 possible explanations point to more than a simple oversight, and IMO suggest the team working at 3am might possibly not really understand what they were doing.
That feedback loop is why need to have widespread testing and contact tracing. First patient may take time to show symptoms but then you test everyone they had contact with and catch positives before they show symptoms or are asymptomatic. Also important is quarantining anyone with symptoms until tests prove they are negative.

South Korea and Taiwan show that this kind of control is possible.
More and more tests means more and more cases. More cases with less deaths means the mortality percentage is lower. The number of cases does not matter at all.

BTW God should be capitalized it's a proper noun.
Really no.
They're using the existing food service facilities in the NYC public schools, which are available since the schools are closed. The only difference is that they're packaging the food for pickup/takeout.
With requirements like this, there is no chance we don't all contract coronavirus, if we haven't already days ago.
Repeated exposure to the idea that anything wrong with one of Musk's projects is the end of the world could probably produce an extreme opposite response, even if they weren't interested in Musk at first.
Unless of course there were problems with the H-1B that weren't disclosed or were missed and these problems come to light in the O-1 filing.
You can get to the raw data, even for private documents, by downloading as csv/xlsx.
It's the Rule of Least Power in action. [0] You don't want to have extreme degrees of polymorphism the vast majority of the time.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power
Hi Peter, I am on STEM extension part of my OPT.

Can I start a company and fundraise on my current visa?

If not, can I be a founder and work as a CTO under an American CEO since technically that is still a supervised job?
Potentially. Stressed could mean something is being pushed to the limit, but not exhibiting performance degradation yet.

Where as tired could imply performance degradation is already happening.

Obviously this isn't that precise, but it's my personal interpretation.
I lived on $200/month in SF (single person) and I definitely didn't "eat like an actual human being". But the problem was definitely me and not that it wasn't possible.

Usually in those financial conditions you also know your time is better spent elsewhere. An extra hour per day practicing for interviews is much better use of your time than cooking. So you do the most efficient thing possible, which is just throw whatever is cheapest per lb into a slow cooker and eat it for the rest of the week. Most stuff is pretty disgusting after a few days in the fridge.

It's probably possible do meal prep cheap/fast/delicious, but I definitely never learned how. Tips appreciated!