skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
eh. Most Americans support a public option.

M4A is down to about 26% support as of yesterday.
https://i.imgur.com/H9bAwV9.png
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cool idea, but do you have a list of what is included?
>that python is not that complicated to install

This is not the instructions to install Python.

Those are the instructions to teach anybody in any OS with any configuration to install python and deal with 3rd party dependencies.

E.G: if you are a Windows 10 user, instructions to install python are 2 lines:

- install from the store

- run "py -X.Z" to start python

The complication comes when you have people with Windows, and Mac, and Linux, and they already have some Python installed in various ways, and then want to install stuff with pip, etc.

Which is true for Ruby, JS, PHP, etc.
In an ideal scenario, we would re-open the ACA enrollment to provide reasonably priced health insurance. Unfortunately, our current administration doesn't want to do that. [1]

==The Trump administration has decided against reopening Obamacare enrollment to uninsured Americans during the coronavirus pandemic, defying calls from health insurers and Democrats to create a special sign-up window amid the health crisis.==

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/31/trump-obamacare-cor...
And I have always disagreed with that motto, as has many others here at HN.
I know that's what the courts say, I just think it's insane and indefensible. And that erodes my trust in our judicial system and my respect for our institutions.

Or it would, if I had any left. If the law doesn't apply equally to everyone, it's not a legal system so much as a way to selectively keep people down.
I think everyone should know how the DOM works under the hood but the HN hate for frameworks and love for vanilla JavaScript is just unbelievable. As soon as you venture past small JavaScript sprinkle you will regret using vanilla. It feels like a made-up opinion by people who are actually not developing front-end JavaScript seriously. The DOM API is simply unfit for real web apps without a proper framework on top.
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Depends on the phone I guess but I can't say I've ever spent more than 30 minutes following an XDA guide to flash a new Android OS.
You hit the nail on the head as to why people don't use Slack & Jitsi, and barely use Hangouts: it's the call quality, stupid. Zoom drops out less, video & audio quality is better, screen sharing works. It's as close to a "gets out of your way" piece of videoconferencing software as has ever existed.

Competitors, take note. Get the basics right - don't concern yourself with fluff - and customers will flock to you.
How to Value a Website with No Revenue
For the Love of Computer Science
We need a different unemployment system than the one we have. We need criteria for unpaid leave but makes you eligible for unemployment benefits. Then when the issue is resolved the employees continue as usual with no laps in work history or anything else. This is also the reason one of the biggest thing we need to do to fix healthcare costs is to detach it from employment (this was the case pre WW2). This would allow people to accrue money in the HSA over time and still be able to pay premiums during an unemployment window.
How to get in touch (woops!):

https://www.promptworks.com/contracting
Let's switch to Tox
In some positive light, 3-4 years ago Google or Facebook would've jumped on and published a contact tracing app without thinking twice. I wonder what's going on inside in terms of discussions. Some positive side effect of the tech slash to step back and think twice of side effects or maybe they've learn to avoid possible bad PR.
> And there are too many human vectors who can be compromised by bribes

Those bribable humans will be just as bribable when they're working in an electronic voting system. Just that instead of tampering with ballots, now all they have to do is change a number in a database table.

Same argument for online crime. Some election manager will demand the machines be put online, and someone perhaps half-way across the world will find a vunlerability.

Electronic voting is not a secure system without -- at the absolute minimum -- an auditable paper record. The computer expands the attack surface dramatically.
Because no good technology is written in an out-of-style language! \s
In many places being unemployed pays more than being employed.

Not sure why the downvotes. It’s literally true for the first time ever. The way the new benefits work out your unemployment check STARTS at the equivalent of $15/hr x 40hr/week = $600/wk. In California, for example, you can get up to $1,050/wk instead of the old maximum of $450/wk.
Granted, I have not been on facebook in the past few years but Nextdoor looked pretty similar in level of rantiness and fearmongering/racism. Could be the people in Central Florida though, don't know. Was shocked by the amount of East Asian targeted racism on Twitter the other day, not surprised but shocked :(
Hard Decisions Require Empathy
Seeing how they voted for Joe Biden who openly mocks the idea, as a non-American, I am very skeptical of how the support is manifesting.
I think we're a long long way from someone declaring that "we have found the best way to arrange the transistors - there are no further improvements to be made".
In my haste, I forgot to mention how to get in touch! https://www.promptworks.com/contracting

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Even well defined, non-commercial use exemptions would only lead to the same systematic abuses that so called non-profits (or not-for-profits) exploit today for tax purposes.

I'm not sure what the right answer is for copyright, but I think going back to a 10,12, or even 20 year time frame for protection is a better starting point. Let's get the definition of "limited (time) period" fixed before subjecting another term to misuse.
We're down to a one income household now and my company has already let people go. I've been foolish with my money and kept it all liquid until now so the market drop didn't hurt my reserves, but I'm painfully aware I'm one job loss away from slowly going destitue and homeless.
Covid-19 could affect businesses in the long term
my understanding is that group FaceTime calls really are E2E.

i don’t know about skype, and i don’t think Signal even supports it.
Unfortunately no group calls yet.
I understand that his method was rerun by the Met Office and when they excluded the bad source data they got the correct answer.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/who/our-history/celebr...
Good point. So how would something like HN work with end to end encryption? I guess users see each other’s posts but the server can’t.
Just like the constructors (whom you actually pay), supporting additional devices comes with a cost unfortunately :'(
This is cunning PR diversionary bullshit.
Well, there's no guarantee. It's shipped by unpaid maintainers that have to deal with a barrage of users that treat them like absolute crap.

Source: created my own ROMs and witnessed the hell that it is to be a developer on XDA.
Moderna's SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine's Fast Track to Clinical Trials
The financial probelms are a given. Joining some political death cult to sacrifice the weak and elderly portion of our population to feed the COVID-19 Volcano isn't going to make the virus end any sooner, and you'll have even fewer consumers left after it's all over if governments choose to go that route. The virus doesn't care, and as far as I'm concerned any economic system that isn't capable of protecting the vulnerable isn't worth reviving.
well, one may "forget" it on purpose to avoid being quarantined after seeing someone else who gets tested positive later on. This could be even used as a countermeasure to the second point above.

Another reason: "lets meet at a corona party, no cell phones permitted".
Alternatively, you can use a simple web-server without needing all of webpack:

using npx (included with npm):

npx serve .

using the php CLI:

php -S localhost:5000 -t .

You weren't hitting the limits of vanilla JS, you were hitting the limit of reading files directly from disk instead of through a web server.
There are many colleges that haven't yet changed their internship and/or foreign study requirements. So, this sort of thing is helpful.
A similar concept is found in the CARE Act related to employers that reduce the hours or wages of employment.
That’s awesome! I mean that’s what they’re for, makes a ton of sense.
Angular UI and Web Components UI
When the overwhelming majority of computer users will probably struggle with something a bit more complex than a Hello World type project, nice scripting and introduction to programming is light-years ahead of every body else.

This is no small feat.

Also the ecosystem of libraries is the same.

You can't see that from your ivory tower but those things matter a lot to people on the ground.

Don't let you prejudice get in the way, it never helps :)
My statement was based on an interview with Congressional representatives aired on NPR yesterday afternoon after APM's Marketplace. They were the ones who said what has already been passed is woefully insufficient, and I agree.

> If the quarantine lifts by the end of May and businesses reopen then it will be enough.

> Obviously that's a big if

Show your work. Forecasting does not align with your statements.
Why is it only 12.5%? Why not 50%? Or 80%?
Current administration supports Peter Thiel's Palantir and getting them contracts: FDA, CDC, NIH. Apparently Mr. Thiel was one of the few Silicon Valley supporters of Mr. Trump.

https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/fpdsportal?q=palantir+DEPARTME...
We are now 500+ members
>What massive environmental impact?

The one you describe in the rest of your post. Billions of tons of CO2 emissions and the outcome is a negative burden on society rather than a benefit.

>It's the fault of the farmer that is using diesel tractors, fertilizing his plants with artificial fertilizer, shipping his food with diesel trucks.

None of those things are the farmer's fault. They are the inevitable and mandatory cost of urbanization. Were you planning to just starve while making ads?

>All of these pollution sources will have to switch to renewable energy one day

That is physically impossible. What will have to happen is techno-industrial society will collapse as we exit the tiny blip in history of abundant energy.
bloom filters to the rescue (:
Does anyone know how the audio quality and latency of Jitsi Meet compare with Zoom?
The SAG is a labor union. “Guild” is just part of the name.
The issue here is that we accept that these very intrusive measures are necessary because epidemiologists tell us that they are necessary. If politicians want to implement similarly intrusive measures that are not backed up by science, we won't accept them. So direct approval by scientists is vital for our acceptance of these measures.
Jobs Aren’t Being Destroyed This Fast Outside the US. Why Is That?
> Remember that 100 years ago, and then again 80 years ago, large percentages of men in Europe were removed from their own countries and sent somewhere else; ships transporting food and supplies were actively sunk, houses and factories were bombed to smithereens. In spite of the massive economic damage that caused, civilization did not descend into anarchy, and very few people who weren't prisoners starved to death.

> COVID-19 isn't going to destroy any of our infrastructure, and if we mobilize properly, isn't going to kill nearly as many people. If our [great-]grandparents made it through WWII, there's no reason we can't make it through this.

In The U.S., WWII was funded by the savings of that generation, which is really amazing considering they had been in the longest, deepest economic depression in the nation's history prior to the start of the war.

After the war ended, cooler heads prevailed and all wartime orders were lifted and capital and labor could reform, as it saw fit, and as such, the year immediately following the war produced the greatest annualized economic gains in the history of the country.

Going into what we are doing right now, Americans don't have any savings plus many private and nearly all public institutions have a lot of debt.

There is no indication that the government will permit such a freely flowing economy even after whatever it is we are doing has ended, so I don't find direct comparisons relevant.
Primarily price and power consumption. Having the ability to run something like this on a cheap ARM single board computer would be significantly cheaper. Plus, I have a stack of Raspberry Pis in my office. Who knows how long it would take to order and receive a small form factor x86 system right now.
You can still find 'unofficial' builds for these devices on xda, they're simply not officially maintained.
"These employees will be strained to pay for COBRA."

That is a huge understatement. Especially for anyone that needs family coverage. The rates I paid when self-employed were more money per month than my entire paycheck until I was in my late 20's.
The fact that voter turnout is greater for high profile elections and lower otherwise suggests that turnout is not limited by the method of voting but more by voter engagement. Switching to online voting would not change that.
Having OnePlus phones running OxygenOS completely removed any need I previously had to flash a custom rom as soon as I bought it.

It's such a nice out of the box pure Android experience with monthly updates. They are doing a stellar job.

Its still great to know once they drop support I can keep my OnePlus 6 going for a few extra years with LinageOS.

If you have a phone that runs like crap because of all the bloat I can't recommend flashing Linage enough.
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You have very few people who agree with you. 95% of the time "the national debt" is only used a cudgel against proposals to help the working class.
More instructions builds a slightly higher moat for new companies who think they might design a CPU, and adds a bit to AMD's costs to keep up. Customers who use those instructions will stick with intel for a generation or two until AMD comes out with something compatible, and if intel is smart, they'll contribute patches to opensource software projects which make use of them, and have some low performance fallback path for non-intel processors.

As those instructions become part of the regular software ecosystem, other architectures like ARM will have to add something similar too, again increasing the cost of playing catchup.
People hate those large players too. Just look at how much hate MongoDB got for ignoring both reliability and safety.
Playing devil's advocate for a moment, 1% would be approximately the same number of deaths we get in a typical year. Slightly more, yes, but some number of the COVID deaths are probably people that had a high likelihood of dying this year anyway, so it seems like an okay estimate.

In that case we are doubling our deaths for a year. Very significant, but in the grand scheme of things it poses no real danger to the species. I haven't decided if I agree with the position that collapsing the economy is worse than letting those deaths happen, but I understand how someone could feel that way. Ask me again after I lose my cushy software job because it's a luxury companies can no longer afford with nobody buying anything.
CFR is always wildly overestimated initially.

Various models and data sets put asymptomatic cases at between 20% and 50%. Those are fully asymptomatic - i.e. total end-to-end progression with either very mild symptoms indistinguishable from a minor cold, or no symptoms at all.

It's almost impossible to estimate expected population mortality with limited and noisy data, but I've seen estimates from 1.5% to 0.05%.

The only thing that can be said with certainty is that social distancing, testing, and tracking all do a lot to prevent initial infection, and good access to ICU hugely improves chances of survival after infection.

The rest is guesswork at this point. Having said that - my current hand-wavy estimate of deaths in the UK is high five, low six figures. Multiply by five or so for the US.
We do know that things will get worse as we've seen how things have tracked in China, Iran and Italy. And if this quarantine lasts till May, I foresee many small businesses won't be around by then.
An Introduction to the Diff Command
This "economy is paused" idea is getting more and more unjustifiable by the day, weeks, and months.

We're not going to emerge from this and just hit the unpause button. Yes some industries will bounce back quickly, but 9 million people over two weeks losing their jobs is an absolutely massive number, and we haven't hit peak yet.

There's no way they'll just be simply rehired when this is "done".
>Also I'm not sure if I'm in agreement with the tactic of immediately pushing employees to unemployment.

I think everyone definitely understands academically that the actuarial models underpinning unemployment collapse in that kind of environment.

>I dont want to utilize that unless I need to and my other options fail. I expect businesses to do the same and be responsible contributors to society.

Here's the issue game theoretically speaking. I'm pretty sure most businesses and people are likely not going to settle on your strategy as being optimal. (Even though, as you've pointed out, it is the communally optimal strategy given the system we have.) I'd imagine most people will opt for the immediate unemployment strategy.
Is the title incorrect? Reading the article it says an additional 3M, for a total of six million
Good point. Hadn’t considered that.
Ask HN: How may of you are applying for the government (no payback) “loans”?
I work with Chase bank and they are having an event tonight for business owners on how to apply starting tomorrow.

I was told loans are limited to about 3 million in the US so there is going to be a massive backlog. THe best way to jump the line is to apply through a larger institution (your bank). How many of you guys are doing this?
> Source: created my own ROMs and witnessed the hell that it is to be a developer on XDA.

"What works: You tell me!"

see also "VoLTE, when???"
I presume they also resize video, so that you download small streams for thumbnails, plus a bigger one for the main view. If it's just two sizes you could do it before uploading, but this would be harder if it's actually 10 different qualities.
It could be worse. You could have a business facing physical layer made by the same people and spend weeks trying to decipher what someone means when they says 802.3bj as opposed to 802.3-2015 when referencing 100GBASE-CR4, or it's medium-less counterpart: CAUI-4.
If you want to spin up a project without doing config first then https://parceljs.org/ is a really good place to start. It does 95% of what most people use Webpack for, but with no config.

It's also worth noting that if you just want a bundler (with no server or hot module reload stuff) then Webpack with no config usually works for most projects that aren't doing anything advanced.
Ah I remember reading this in high school. It's a recommended read/resource for kids learning to control their FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) robots in autonomous situations or non-drivetrain mechanisms.
If polling stations are not in fact accessible, then the criticism doesn't apply: strengthening voter enfranchisement is commendable.
this doesn't address that in this crisis at the end of all "we need money to pay the bills" problems, there are actual people getting the money on top of their existing pile. If we could identify these individuals, we could essentially just freeze everything in place (rents, industry bonds,...) and the fed only had to print money for the ag/energy/medical sector (and even there we could just use some of the individual savings to pay the bills...). Once it's over, noone will be bankrupt, the Gini coefficient will be lower and the recession will be small. Problem: some individuals will have lost a lot of power.
Why is using webpack not considered “vanilla”?
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Money gives cachet and prestige. Who cares about TLS/SSL abstractions when you're driving a new Lambo?
Why do we have to stop with the tu quoque, it's a relevant point especially how we are posting anti-drug ships outside of Venezuela and talking about Iran sneak attacking us. Even in the throes of a pandemic we haven't missed a step in trying to throw billion dollar military platforms into useless trillion dollar wars.
Excellent project, and glad 10 finally came through. I never buy a phone that isn't supported by LineageOS, and it's the first thing I install when I get a new (or old!) one.

I see my Pixel is not yet supported though (by 17.1). Could not find a list of phones that should be getting support later on. Anyone know if I am missing something?
I outsource that. I find 3D design sculptors on Upwork and CGTrader and tell them what I need. When I'm satisfied with the result, I send it to my 3D print guy who makes a print for me.
Isn't prometheus an implementation and not an interface? I have "prometheus" running in my cluster, if it's not cortex, what implementation am I using?
My first job involved RPG (Report Program Generator), one of the most loathsome and repulsive languages. Compared to RPG, COBOL is Python.

I'm surprised to see RPG is still a thing, not surprised its ranking is so low.
Dead people can't go back to work.
Repeating the truth is not helpful?

Many deny it mate.
I think it’s going to take more than 90 days to fix this. I’d rather they say no new features until security and privacy are satisfactory then we’ll do performance.

No new backgrounds!
Goodbye-Civil-Liberties virus.
As a person that had the opportunity to work with them and their products, seeing a post like this makes me angry and sad. I personally find the company extremely incompetent, that hires young postgrade students without any prior experience to solve big problems for the biggest companies around the world. How it ends up is technical depts and gigantic costs. Not to mention few shady things that seems normal for them - full access to their customers business data and source code. Epidemics should not be a time for business opportunities. It's not like they have any closed patented solution that will suddenly solve any problems... It's definitely not a equivalent of openai in data engineering world. They are just experts in marketing bs.
Almost every American agree that the current system is bad.

There is wild disagreement about what a better system would be.