skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My assumption was that at least part of the reason for isolation measures is to prevent what happened with the Spanish Flu, where unfettered transmission created the conditions for a mutation that turned the U curve for mortality into a W curve.
Workers depending on their employers are wage slaves. It is particularly bad when in countries like America, a worker's _health_ is dependent on their employer.

But in general being "dependent" on the government is 100x better than being dependent on individual employers. I'd be much happier making 30% of what I do now if I did not have to plan for existing 30 years down the line when I'm automated, found non-essential, a victim of ageism, or simply invested in the wrong skills.
> I am not really a fan of the art style used in sol levante, but for something like garden of words or other styles I think 4k HDR might be quite beneficial.

I think the main point being made though is that style is far far more important that resolution. I would rather watch a good style at low resolution, than whatever this style was at 4K. Another way of looking at it is that 4K/HDR won't magically make your content look better if it has uninteresting style.

This is true in other mediums too. You can have a game with hyper realistic graphics like the newest CoD, but some indie game with gorgeous art direction will still look visually better.

Now, you could argue, why not both, great style and resolution! Well that could be, but from what I gathered from the blog, it seems like many of the artistic decisions were driven and constrained by their goal of having 4k/HDR content, so it seems like trying to achieve that has negatively impacted the art style. So yes, as it is, I'm happy sticking to non-4K anime.

This whole thing is also a big promotion for Netflix "technology", with behind-the-scene videos that are longer than the "movie" itself. So I'm not sure how much you can really derive from this whole thing.
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I know... dotnet and Go aren't exactly hurting for effort for things like docs and tooling that take a project from good to great.
Why Whiteboarding Needs to Die
Nope. We will just w8 for any vaccine and hopefully this would be over.
But the ones who will go against lockdowns will be the one who have no savings and that means mostly young people who virus affects with less severity than older ones.

It seems old ones are also the people who have most real estate in America?!

So if virus is passed on to old people and they die. Then natural consequence will be that, their property will be passed onto their kids who will most likely sell it immediately and cash out why? Because kids of most wealthy suburban families usually live in huge Metropolitan cities so they are unlikely to hold onto property in suburb.

And does it mean soon lots of cheap properties will be available for sale in suburb?
> $2/meal

So, $5/day ?

Rescuing wasted food doesn't work once you scale it to a hundred million people.

Don't get me wrong, I'm definitely in favor of a food/housing program that's available for everyone. I am also a communist though, so it's an easy sell for me.
Then this will be an interesting moral lesson for them. If they choose to actually learn it.
I never said anything about ethnicity. Maybe "tech with critical security related software components developed and hosted in China, by Chinese nationals, thus clearly subject to draconian Chinese laws and potentially exposed to Chinese government and military influence" would be more precise. That's as close to "Chinese tech" though, as makes no difference.

I would expect a more stringent approach to something used by a government to actually conduct "governing", and in the time of crisis at that!
Which is actually more per person/day than me and my wife spend on ourselves... and we eat perfectly well!
I am reminded of the factoid about how airlines will often announce a extended delay by first announcing a shorter delay and then continuing to push it back several times. That is supposedly done to increase moral. Apparently several smaller disappointments are easier for people to process, accept, and forgive rather than one large disappointment. I wonder if this is the government's approach, because no one looking at the facts of the situation could have believed resuming things by Easter or anytime in the next few weeks was likely.
Why would a mobile (iOS) dev need to virtualize OS X?
With mass surveillance and literally welding some people into their homes. The US isn't even near that level of containment. I'm scared for your guys.

I'd also be scared if you were welding people into homes too. For a different reason.

There really isn't a great solution here other than masks for all, and people behaving responsibly. Which isn't going to happen. :(
A jumbo hula hoop is exactly what I need to maintain a 2m social-distancing radius
Exactly.

I see most of the advocates for "shelter in place until we're safe!" are white collar people with space at home and direct deposit.. not hourly workers who just lost their livelihoods with kids at home and the only internet is on their phone.
For a standard convolutional net, the low-entropy formulation of for isntance rotation is not immediately accessible, which makes rotation a viable data augmentation and regularization strategy. Some designs try to account for natural symmetries by incorporating the related transformation as priors in the architecture.
I'm going to check it out this weekend... I'm very intrigued by what I see.
To understand why LISP matters (in theory anyway) is to understand the concept of reification [1]. What you choose to reify (make explicit) in a particular language is a design decision. It's directly related to point 0 in Wadler's law [2] - semantics.

The design of LISP makes eval() and LISP's very syntax as first-class citizens which adheres to the code is data/data is code pragma. It makes LISP homoiconic [3]. It's an interesting and incredibly powerful property. Often too powerful for inexperienced programmers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(computer_science)

[2] https://wiki.haskell.org/Wadler's_Law

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
This is flat-out not true. People in rural areas still congregate with other people enough to cause bad epidemiological outbreaks. Past pandemics have not only hit the city and spared the countryside.
TN-visa? that's fine. Plenty of people do that each year.
Do you think the 'Who wants to be hired' post accomplishes this or are you looking for companies who are laying off workers?

linked below!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22749306
25,000 cases to 250,000 cases in two weeks.

Give it another two weeks. Thank god people with foresight and basic math skills are the ones planning for increased hospital capacity.
> For now, Amazon is still delivering nonessential products that are already stocked in its warehouses. It just won’t accept replenishments from vendors and sellers for the next three weeks.

So they're still selling non-essential stuffs, just not restocking their warehouse with them.
If I use the words that I think are appropriate for the obstinate middlebrow skepticism of HN in the face of an uncontrolled pandemic, I get flagged :^)
Dynamic ftrace too (see the explanation for how it works here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt).

I thought that paravirt-ops does patching of the kernel at boot time, but I can't find any reference for it right now.
They Rented Their Cars Out Online. Then Things Fell Apart
...yes?

1. pay with your own money.

2. pay with someone else's money, with no interest, and with various other advantages.

Why would anyone, ever chose #1?
Is it too much to ask for a small LED next to each camera indicating if the sensor is powered? Should be standard on every phone.
The Chinese lockdown is much more severe than anything being enforced in the US. They track everyone's movements with their phones, large areas of the cities where cases have been reported are sealed off with checkpoints at the exit points. Your temperature is checked almost everywhere you go, the temperature of anyone working in food production is checked every 30mins, to board the subway you must scan the QR code in the specific carriage. It's very hard to explain just how drastically different the measures China are taking compared to the rest of the world but here is a good video that gives some insight: https://youtu.be/YfsdJGj3-jM

Can you imagine this happening in the US? What happens if this is what it takes to avoid the 60-80% infections required before herd immunity kicks in?
The amount of people trying to defend Amazon in this is absolutely staggering. The amount of people trying to protect what Amazon stands for is revolting. If you are one of these kinds of people you should know that you are the enemy of treating people humanely.
The timeline to plan for is vaccine + 6 months; best estimate for a vaccine is Spring 2021.

If I see the inside of a movie theater in Summer 2021 I will be pleasantly surprised.

Buy two of whatever you get 1 of every time you go to the grocery store, which should be no more than once per week.
it's less "generating more information" and more "presenting the same information in new ways". A more ideal model wouldn't need augmented data, but this is what works well with current architectures. It may be that practical constraints mean we never move away from augmentation, just as we'll never move towards single-layer neural nets, even though theoretically they can fit any model.
Since I am tired of sanitizing packages and no matter how thorough I am, it feels like its never good enough, now I just let packages sit outside the house for a day and then bring them in, wash my hands like a lunatic and let the package sit again for a day before I open it and clean up the contents inside it(easier than cleaning the packaging).And even then use the thing after a few days.
> Q: When does the course take place?
For now, we're meeting at 10 a.m. Eastern on Fridays, via Zoom. Each session lasts for 1 hour, and is recorded. If you register for the course, you'll have unlimited access to all of the recordings.

7am, Pacific. My wife has shown a bit of interest but 7am is just too early in our household to get up and start leaning right away. Seems like it would be a good course though. She could still listen to the recordings, but being able to ask questions live would be more engaging.
Related: https://www.macstadium.com/
How difficult is the O-1 petition?
Approximately 200,000 people will die. All of us will know someone that got sick. Most of us will know someone that died. I think Americans will get over it.
Show HN: Journaling ideas to reframe Covid-19
> Q. What do I need to install?

> Just Python is enough. Other installation suggestions and support are available in the forum.

Speaking as someone who has taught Python to non-programmers in classroom and workshop settings, this seems like far too vague an instruction. For many novice (including the instructor!), the installation and system setup is the most frustrating and confusing part of hands-on learning. With non-programmers, you can never assume a base level of computing understanding – this includes things like not knowing how to get into the command-line, or install a text editor, or even what filenames and file extensions are (I always have students enable display of file extensions at the start; usually it's off by default for most OSes).

I would think you'd want to do this kind of thing having students use something like CoLab or PythonAnywhere. Sure, it's nice to run code from your own system, but that's not an immediate concern for most people trying to learn the basics.
The problem is the risks are orders of magnitude more than the "tradeoffs we make all the time", and clearly not enough people understand this. 40K/300M is 0.013%. It's nothing compared to coronavirus hospitalization or even death rates.
Just so you know, bleach water needs to be made up fresh each day.

https://www.info.gov.hk/info/sars/en/useofbleach.htm
I think there's a shard of truth in the assertion that: if you ask an epidemiologist how long people should remain locked in their homes, they'd tell you "forever". If you ask a capitalist how long, they'd say "lets re-open today". Neither of these answers are realistic solutions to this problem.

Dr Fauci says "the virus sets the timeline; not us". This is, unfortunately, false. Western governments do not have the teeth necessary to enable this to be true, and it is not "naturally" true. Humans, at the end of the day, will do whatever they want. Americans are a weird, maybe beautiful, breed; there's a surprising number of us who would rather just get sick and possibly die than sacrifice the freedoms and amenities of normal life.

At some point, maybe a month or three from now, people will get restless. They'll re-open businesses, remove WFH policies, try to get back to normal. There will be another surge in cases. At that point, what does the government do? Remind people "hey, we never lifted the stay at home 'suggestion', please stop"? Do they put more teeth behind it? Or, maybe then we'll have better therapeutics + small herd immunity, and we should just let the disease run its course without as many economically disruptive mitigations?

Point being, this isn't a situation where predictions about the future are useful. Its constantly evolving.
I think it should last between 18 to 24 months too, but the confinement measures will be lifted much sooner. Once the epidemic curve is going down and its well under control, people will be allowed to go back to work with face masks, slowly industry by industry before the end of the year. This should only take a couple of months.
I'm in NYC and I have no idea what you're talking about. Many of our hospitals are well beyond capacity, the most well reported on example being Elmhurst Hospital. Go look it up.
This is literally how every banking API works. There are not many options aside from screenscraping.
Another thing I'd add is a quasi-sorted uuid generator built-in. Real clustered indexes need approximately sorted UUIDs - which could be version 1 UUIDs with an artificial, per-database MAC address, or they could be something more esoteric such as Twitter's snowflake ID generator.

Using UUIDs for PKs is fine and dandy but clustered indexes and type 4 UUIDs do not play well. Many MS SQL users discover this the hard way when their toy database suddenly has order of magnitudes more rows.
Performance was mediocre compared to Linux. Everything that it shipped with was outdated. There was a weird mix of GUI tools and commandline to get anything done. And to top it off, things were (at the very least) just-different-enough to confuse someone who thought, "I know Linux this will be easy."
The US response hasn't been a monolith. Seattle and Bay Area for example have had fairly successful responses so far.
Well 2.3 now, but that’s based on 4 reviews.
Hey Peter,

There was a recent immigration ban on my country of origin through an executive order.Do you know of any option to apply for a green card in this scenario?
Same. Live in a medium COL area (Portland, OR) and we feed the entire family on about 300/month, and we eat generously, with pastries, sweets, and other 'luxury' items. If we went to a more modest diet, we could probably do it on 200/month.
I did find this python script

https://dev.to/petercour/web-scraping-hn-with-python-41op

I think I'm going to do this:

https://www.benjaminpack.com/blog/flask-on-shared-hosting/
I setup a mac mini with this software (3rd quarter 2019) and I can tell you it deserves every bit of that 1.5 rating.

No magic left in there at all.

Ended up dropping it and using the functionality of Airwatch.
> I always thought Canada was so much bigger than the US but they're about the same size - 3.5m sq miles

That's because the largest state, Alaska, appears like its a part of the Canadian landmass
has anyone actually recieved a payment?
Not sure about you - but there's a 30 day shipping delay for me on non-essential Prime products in stock.

I agree that setting rules and transparency is a good thing - but a lot of that probably depends on the management at that particular warehouse.
Hm. It was more recent than that. Perhaps I am just remembering that it was not possible to get it to trace user defined allocators / wrappers around malloc?
> This reminds me of a class of housing advocates who insist a higher minimum wage or rent control will solve housing problems. No, you still have 1 unit for 1.x people; the overriding issue is supply.

As someone who lives in a housing market where at least 30% of houses + apartments are sitting empty for months/years because their owner is being irrational (i.e. unwilling to drop to a market-clearing price), "rent control" (in the form of not just preventing rents from rising, but also capping the initial lease price landlords are able to ask for) would fix a lot of things.

Of course, anyone who thought the new rules would mean they could no longer profit in the market could get out of the market, selling off their real-estate assets. There'd be no limit on purchase prices for ownership transfer. But, of course, without the hyper-inflated (even though illiquid!) rental income, the units would be inherently less valuable, so they'd lose resale value, too.
Hi Peter, thank you for taking time to help us.
I already have my EAD and just waiting for my green card to be issued. I was expecting my priority date to be current this month however USCIS suddenly had a retrogression back to Jan 2017 plus the covid-19 outbreak so I figure it will probably take more time for them to issue my green card. For the meantime, I can work with my EAD, however due to covid-19, I learned that my project will be cut by end of the month. So I will be unemployed. My question is will I be able to work for another company using my EAD even if it was sponsored by my current company?
17.5% salary cut. Gonna have to get a new security job :-/
Wash your hands, don't touch your face and keep your distance. Basically what we're doing in Europe for 3 weeks.
Found data for the US
https://covidtracking.com/api
Hi Peter, I am from the Philippines, and I got an H-1B petition last 2019, which is valid until Sept 2021. I cancelled my scheduled visa interview last 2019 due to family reasons. I am still working with my employer and working remotely as an independent contractor with them. My question is if I can still use the H1B petition later this year or early next year before it expires (depends on when the Covid19 crisis ends). I got denied twice before back in 2017 and 2013 for B1/B2. Now, I have enough ties in my home country, married with two kids, and have travel history to Japan and Singapore. Do you know if my previous denials for the B1/B2 visa would affect my H1B approval?

Thanks Peter.

P.S. We applied in YC last year but did not make it to the final round. But still, the feedback we got from YC enabled us to pivot quickly which we found to be very valuable.
I just learned that the US classifies my masters degree as a bachelor degree equivalent for the purposes of immigration, putting me in the EB3 rather than EB2 category, having a big impact on the timeline. It seems to be based on a central system, is this something that's possible/worthwhile to fight as I strongly disagree with this decision (won't go into details here). And have you seen previous successful changes of that categorization?
Yes, though the SQL2011 temporal support was a dud compared to the state of the theoretical art. A strong whiff of vendor-vs-vendor nonsense.

Folks in the PostgreSQL community are aware of temporal tables:

https://www.pgcon.org/2019/schedule/events/1336.en.html

https://www.2qpgconf.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Chad-Sla...
CNN is certainly doing things far differently than it did in the early days. It might not have been Reuters, but it was still quite neutral and of good journalistic quality. (These days it seems more reminiscent of Jerry Springer.)
White collar carnage will start by the end of this month.
He literally spells out what they want. Please don't pretend to be stupid.
I've been thinking about this and how talking about the US as a homogenous entity is a mistake. The R0 of a big city is going to be higher than in a smaller city, suburb or the country side. For example, even before the shutdowns I could go to the grocery and count on one hand the number of people I might be within 6' of. Now it's even less. In a place like NYC, that seems impossible.

I and all the people I know are taking all the precautions, but density has to play into how fast something can spread.
nitro infused cold brew is easily the best tasting coffee in terms of flavor that I've ever had.
Ask HN: What's your preferred authentication method as an end-user?
To be clear, looking to hear whats your preferred authentication method as an end-user (not as a developer).

Example:

Phone Number
Gmail
Social (fb, linkedin, github etc)

Sorry, if there is already a discussion around this. Feel free to link me.
I don't think it can be comoletely ruled out. However I do believe that's a maximun as the vaccine will be well tested and released in under a year.
Even if I remained, I would start looking for a new job very fast.
I recall that level 5 (self actualization) is something only 2% of people achieve currently.
> There was a time when merit tended to bubble up into positions of authority but that has been increasingly untrue for decades, for a host of reasons that all point to a rotting western culture.

When, exactly?
Well the BSD-based OS OP's talking about doesn't run loads of questionable telemetry (just judging by CPU usage) and does not turn on at night to install an update that will reset whatever telemetry settings the user hacked to disable.
To run Xcode.
I found this forwarded layoff referral list

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HvI7axSIXsQRQH0IJ2GG...

not sure what the source is.
The Life of Ronaldo and Georgina
And I don't care if this gets downvoted I will just make another account and keep sending this message. I am your enemy.
I'm a fan of M4, and I don't know what these are doing but it surely looks too complex. You have defines within defines and OMG just an extract

.. (just a snip follows)
`define(`_'''$`'1```_LENGTH',strlenc(''$`'2``))'dnl
`; "''$`'2``"'
`ifdef(`PB3', ''$`'1```: calltable($4, $1, estr('''$`'2```))dnl
return',dnl
`table '''$`'1```#, [dec2pbhex(cstr('''$`'2```))]
'''$`'1```: loadaddr($2, $3, _'''$`'1```_STR)
jump __`'$5`'_handler
_'''$`'1```_STR: load&return $1, '''$`'1```#')'
)')'

I have to ask if this is right, or whether a parser would have been a whole lot less work. Credit for your skillz, but that looks like so much pain.
I think his question is why is CLJS an incomplete lisp-on-js solution?

Not why you don't like or use it.
Until the subsidy checks run out.
I am on H1b working for an e-commerce company, can I work for a startup in parallel during off hours and take equity only, no salary. Also the startup is nowhere related to what my e-commerce company is doing
Standalone AArch64 Emulator Library
What data shows median net worth around $100k? Does that include a house?

Median household savings discluding a house, at retirement age, is just barely $100k (that is, enough to support retirement income above social security of a wopping ~$5k/year).