skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd just assume it needs to be rescheduled into 2021. Should group gatherings resume before the end of the year, which seems unlikely, it seems a safe bet that turnout would be rather low just due to people not wanting to risk it. On top of that, we're most likely going to be neck-deep in a pretty painful recession (at least) by then.
I know of an MSP that laid off all their non-critical-infrastructure field staff, and even the (now remote, THANK GOD) helpdesk staff had a paycut.
Back in January, my friends were trying to convince me to do a spring break type vacation in Miami in March. I said, I dunno if we should book just yet, this Coronavirus in China is certainly going to become a global pandemic. They thought I was a tinfoil hat lunatic.

Then, in early March, right when SF starts it's social distance / lockdown, and SXSW and stuff like that starts getting canceled -- the Spring break thing we wanted to do in Miami is canceled, too. No surprise.

Immediately after, my friends try to convince me that we should do this thing in Chicago in early May. Flights and hotels are stupid cheap right now, they say. We should take advantage.

I'm like, guys, there is enough data from China, SK, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Italy, and Iran to know that this is going to be at its worst by early May.

They think I'm insane. This will be over in a week or two at best, they say.

Now there's yet another event in October. They're trying to convince me to do that now! I'm like, GUYS! Hopefully the world is somewhat back to normal by then, but who knows? Why don't we just wait a bit. The deals will be around for a while.

It really seems like Fusion energy. Instead of always being 40 years away, everyone seems to think Coronavirus is always 2 weeks from just going away in its own.
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I think this is a positive thing and like the idea of being protected even if the machine is compromised. However I would still prefer the convenience of a switch in addition to this.
A new business is far riskier than keeping an existing one. You seem to have forgotten the need for prroven product-market fit.
Under current USCIS policy and practice, almost certainly you will lose the H-1B and have to go back into the lottery again. But like a lot of U.S. immigration now, this could change and there could be some exception/forgiveness.
Everyone I know who has died could have been at least temporarily saved by extreme, civilization-destroying efforts.

“Temporary social distancing” is much less benign than you make it sound. More like “intentionally creating an economic depression of unknown severity”.

Life went on mostly as normal after the Spanish flu, by the way, which is the closest thing we can compare this to.
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I think, and hope, that this is the best case solution, and its what we pursue. As long as people take the core of the "social distancing" measures to heart, and practice them every day, we can control the spread without Stay-at-Home. Wash hands. Sanitize high-touch surfaces every few minutes. Wear a mask, maybe even gloves. If you feel sick, stay home.

If we are diligent, we can "have our cake and eat it too". But we have to be diligent.
While I agree that things like SSO can be more secure and more convenient for the user, that doesn’t actually make them more convenient overall. In your example it’s mainly the fact that Okta has abstracted away the complexity so that businesses don’t see it.

I’m open to being proven wrong, and as eythian implied, I may in fact be subconsciously cherry-picking times where security and convenience were opposites and missing times where they were not, but even with that awareness no counter examples are coming to mind.
I second everything that pwg said[0]. Why should I give a random website information? There has to be an exchange, and it has to be fair. Do they provide enough value for me to give them information?

Rarely.

Do they need the information to perform the service they are offering?

Rarely.

For me, login-in / password. If they're asking for more then it had better be obvious from the start that it's worth the trade.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22771460
Don't Crohn's and IBS nigh disappear when using CBD heavy Cannabis? Pointing towards a combination of inflammation and stress.
The PMS7003 looks like a great option, thanks!
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Hi Peter, thanks for doing this.
My Question: I have got the green card through diversity lottery and I am currently outside of the US since January. I know that I would lose my green card if I would be away too long outside from the US. How would the COVID-19 situation affect me I don't enter the US next 5-6 months.
Enough grocery stores are still open, and grocery delivery services are doing roaring business. We're not remotely (yet?) at risk of people starving from inability to obtain food.
That's what the next essay is about: how to move the Paranoia Line
Considering/selecting Jitsi due to the self-hosted option shows evidence of a privacy/security oriented mindset. But I agree -- it's not sufficient.
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What the actual f?
A Patriots plane full of 1M N95 masks from China arrived Thursday
Why not the girl's right on the father's property?
Almost certainly you will be fine to leave soon after getting your green card. The risk, which should be low or even nonexistent, will depend on when the I-140 was approved and when you filed your I-485 application.
LDAP is amazingly convenient. Why not centralize the user/group structure and use it for db access as well?
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There are also grocery delivery services that are not Amazon if you actually care about local grocery stores.
Weebs are not the only target demographic of scalers, though. They simply lifted the work of others to associate decent image scaling with anime fandom. Importantly though, scalers shouldn't need a brand since they are not a product. They are a tool that can be implemented, and to that end "neural net edge detection" is much more informative and less likely to turn off an audience than "waifu2x". waifu2x is a product name. All it tells me is something about the publisher and their target audience.
Thank you, Peter. My follow-up question is if my company don’t survive the covid-19 crisis. Can my approved H-1B petition be transferred to another company?
Yeah, this year has been especially weird for me. I typically don't get sick with the flu or common cold - until Dec 12 last year, which I remember well because it was immediately after a convention, I'm usually not affected by con crud, and it affected me that Thursday and Saturday (but I was fine on Friday and afterwards except for a cough that's repeatedly come and gone since then).

It really doesn't fit the timeline since it didn't officially hit the US until a month and a half later, so I don't think this is what I had then, but still, there are reports that this was active in China in November, so sometimes it really makes me wonder.
Thanks for saying so. My response there stands.

Neurotypical humans anthropomorphize things excessively. So much so that whole societies get built around perception of pervasive mind, from the Greek gods and the Hindu pantheon to Christian and Muslim single pervasive intelligences to Mesmer's magnetism and the Jedi force. A lot of minds just like the idea that minds are fundamental

The obvious explanation for Radin's work is what's behind a lot of other fringe science: people looking for the thing they want until they find it. Over time any particular fad fades away due to lack of corroborating evidence and results. And then we get a new one, and another new one.

So personally, having spent a bunch of time digging into previous waves, I'm not going to invest a lot of time in this one. That a lot of minds like to think that mind is fundamental isn't surprising. But at this point neither do I think it's very interesting.
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In the end of the day, the PostgreSQL optimizer is just great, and will probably beat anything in a well balanced comparison.

But MSSQL also has a fairy good optimizer (from the ones on the GP relation, those are the only two good options) so you can set things to get better than an unset Postgres. It is also possible (but unlikely) that you get a problem where it fits better.

About Oracle, it is pretty great on doing `select stuff from table join table using (column)`. (I dunno what it does, but it does spend a lot of memory doing it.) So if you only does that, it's the best option. But if you do anything else, that anything else will completely dominate the execution time.
Look, if you are completely devoid of empathy that's fine but don't act like this is how most people think.
Sweden is the country to watch as they are the policy outlier.

It appears that their infection, hospitalization, and death rates are not higher than other countries which implemented lockdowns.

It also appears that their economic activity has declined by a similar amount as did that of countries which implemented lockdowns.

So if staying at home is made voluntary, the economy won't reflate all of a sudden, and illness and mortality probably won't increase. Because even if staying at home is voluntary, many people will still stay at home, including potential patrons of reopened businesses.

We'll see how things progress in the months ahead, but our course seems set regardless of policy.
Would enabling LDAP auth at PAM level be too hackish for the purpose ?
Pollution and inefficient consumption of resources are much more important factors in climate change.
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I had a DUI like 10 years ago and I still get taken to secondary screening every time I enter. Will submitting a complaint help my case too?
Well the other option is that everyone already catches it by then, and we move in without the immediate need for a vaccine, depending on length of natural immunity. Which I think is becoming the more likely outcome, given the increase in non symptomatic carriers.

The catch will be if we attribute a drop off in hospital admits as successful containment or as the result of natural immunization/ herd immunity.
Covid-19 forecast death toll for Spain as of April 3rd 2020
It wasn't long ago that they renamed from Apple Computer, Inc. to just Apple, Inc.
Most of the names are Indian... is it safe to assume contractors are the ones being laid off first at the moment?
Since you are close to this space, do you have any sense of whether the number of ad views is increasing because more people are home?
I am someone who is young, relatively healthy, upper middle class, and a non-essential worker (I would guess this describes a majority of HN readers). I am doing everything I can to reduce my risk by following the various guidelines out there. However, it feels distasteful for me to outsource my risk of infection and force poorer people to become essential workers on my behalf and bring my needs to my door. I will go out and do my necessary errands myself and take that risk on my shoulders.

Also your timeline is a little off on those 7 days. There can be a longer gap from exposure to symptoms plus there is also a gap of a few days from first symptoms to needing medical attention which is when we usually find out about the case.
An excellent point, and I’m hoping some examples come up to show that convenience and security actually can be in the same direction.
That's an annual number while Coronavirus is one and done. A better comparison would be lifetime risk of dying in a car accident.
That's a really good point about an opposing process. Of course, there are opposing processes in business too, but I guess not the same - multiple, not always directly or continuously opposed, vs. a single implacable enemy. Do you think OODA still applies to business, or does overcoming these differences change it into something else? Not trying to be snarky or refute what you said here. I'm genuinely curious.
Does Gallup do that survey? ('Are you self-actualized?') I suspect you're joking, but the notion that self-actualization can be measured with percentage points is a perversion of the term.
this is maybe my least favorite bit of transit-related pedantry, but it's officially designated the 'L' (in single quotes) by the CTA.
As a general rule yes, you can work for another company on your EAD, but you should consult with an attorney regarding the continued viability of your green card application.
Given the large number of layoffs in the economy, do you think it's going to be more difficult to get H1B applications passed by USCIS given they might argue that it should be now "easier" to hire qualified Americans?

(particularly for people currently on an F-1 completing their work experience and going on to apply for an H1B through their current employer).
Are you inside the U.S. in valid immigration status or outside?
Yep [0]. However GIMP does not use Guile, it uses TinyScheme for it's Script-Fu [1].

[0] https://www.sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb.html#Guile

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyScheme
Hendrik Streeck, the researcher who identified loss of smell and/or taste as a covid symptom in the first place, recently stated that it seems to occur primarily in the later stages of the disease (although he cautions that this has not yet been studied enough to be sure about it). So I'm not sure if this is really useful to track the disease.

Unfortunately I only have this German source handy: https://youtu.be/VP7La2bkOMo?t=178
Apple Computer already changed its name to Apple in 2007!
Are you saying that it's literally impossible for the CEO of a company to care about the well-being of people that are being fired to keep the company from going bankrupt?

I'm not saying that they should lie about caring, having empathy for someone costs nothing and doesn't require you to solve their problems.
Confirmed cases depend on testing. What’s the testing capacity in Indianapolis vs rural areas?

There’s also a time lag. I think it hit New York first because of all the travel connections.

But why would rural areas be immune? People do still meet each other. They do go to church.

Tellingly, flu death rates tend to be higher in rural areas:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/19/rural-areas...
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Maybe the service Netflix is not in the creative industry, but the production company Netflix is absolutely in the creative industry, they produce their own original content and shows. Netflix is not only a content provider but producer as well.
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Sorry... it did sound snarky. I actually am familiar with few of the apps and devices and they do just make those recommendations. They throw fancy charts and nice UI at you and then make similar recommendations. I honestly don't think the data collected factors in much. They try and get you to normalize your routine and eliminate distractions and known sleep disruptors. I truly mean that you do not need the devices in order to get that advice. If you have a medical condition then by all means seek medical attention.
>> because their owner is being irrational

You state this like it's an obvious measure; you're irrational over 2 months is my rational over 2 years.

Vancouver was absolutely booming in February after some of the steam was released in late 2019. Those vacancies are primarily because owners are using the house as a value store. How would caps on initial rental rates help at all? Those same owners would just never list them.

Rather than arbirtrarily cutting owners off at the knees, forcing them out, it would seem easier if you just left the area.
But Slack still creates the expectation of immediacy in a way that other tools don't. Handling the same number of clients via email is a whole different experience. And Slack makes it very hard for people to filter out noise.

To my mind, Slack is to virtual work what open offices are to physical collaboration. They can be used well, but the default is a continuous drain on attention.
Due to the nature of how we believe this virus spreads, it's likely too soon to read much into what's going on in Sweden. A month from now will probably give a much clearer picture of the differences in the two approaches.
its a program to keep business afloat, not launch new ones.
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As I wrote, I don't like Windows much and are happier not having to use it. I still don't like the overly flat UI style and well, it is still Windows with all its oddities over the ages. I also get the impression, that Windows handles HiDPI way worse than MacOS, which is an important criterium.

WSL certainly has the potential to be a game changer and this has made Windows potentially interesting to me. What would really be a huge step, if Microsoft would built a Wayland server into the Windows UI. Having Linux GUI apps running on the native Windows UI with all acceleration, could make it a premier desktop for running Linux applications.
I would like to hear an estimate of how badly this would effect demand. If a million people who spend a thousand dollars a month die then isnt that 12 billion shaved off spending over that next year? Im sure its more complicated due to ecnomic rent relations and other things I don't even know about but isnt this by itself a disaster?
I'm a fan of "The Single Best Investment" by Lowell Miller. It's a nice intro to the philosophy behind the dividend-growth investment strategy.
You just can't compare Sweden to a country like the US. Sweden is largely homogenous with regard to race, religion, and culture. Their poverty rate is 1%. The US on the other hand is extremely diverse, has 30x+ the population, and has a 10% poverty rate.
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> Are we really gonna ask

Yes. We shipped jobs over seas, we have tons of immigration and low to no tariffs, high taxes and regulations domestically. Domestic labor has been completely gutted.
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If I understand your question correctly, there is no option to pay below the prevailing wage other than by utilizing or commissioning a private wage survey - but these are often rejected as invalid.
Email + password. I can isolate the email in case of breaches and it helps avoid leaking behavioral data to social networks.
Are people expected to suffer the disruption of having a substantial number of people taking two weeks off to recover from this disease with a non-trivial chance of needing medical intervention?

Are you going to be willing to postpone all medical interventions for the next three months because there's just not going to be available hospital capacity for your broken tooth?
The internet is built to handle Covid-19 traffic spikes
Thats interesting, I've heard mathematicians remark that "the study of the theory of infinity sets can lead to madness". I didn't realize that there was actual science behind that.

Thanks for finding those details. I didn't know that Grothendieck was hearing voices.
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I didn't read this comment as promoting means testing. I read it as "Even if they make the meals available to everyone, mostly just the people in need will use it". It was addressing the moral hazard risk that people often associate with these programs.

NYC will be able to publish just how many people took advantage of the meals. That's the baseline to price the program out nationwide, not the total number of US citizens.
e.g. last election.
Yes it was, it was 13 years ago.
If the real goal here is to save jobs, this is all completely irrelevant.
Curve flattened.. Vertically.
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You're overestimating the impact. The worst case scenario is more like 1 out of every 100-200 Americans dying. Concentrated mostly in the elderly. The majority won't have anyone close to them die and few will have "many".
The article doesn't say we are all going to be shut in for he next 12-18 months, it just says life is going to be different for a while. Once the number of cases is dropped down to a manageable level again, which for many states in the US is projected to be somewhere from the end of April to the end of June, we can open things up a bit provided we have a strategy for extensive testing, following exposures and isolating people that test positive. Yes that will still be significantly different than our previous lives, but for many people it will be much closer to how things were before. The key is we need to continue to ramp up testing and we need a system in place for authorities to randomly test healthy people so that they can monitor the extent of the outbreak before it turns into hundreds or thousands of deaths a day again. So the average person will be able to go to work, socialize and more or less return to life as normal but they may have to submit to a nasal swab once in a while on the way into the grocery store or something like that. It doesn't seem like a terrible trade-off.
My Lenovo Laptop has a little physical shutter you can slide over the camera. It's very handy.
Tweet starts with:

> Preliminary (...)

Wouldn't call that disinformation.
How does one go about gaining the skills to do something like this? Love the demonstration of real low-level engineering and understanding.
Worth pointing out that China's on the ground response was light years ahead of ours in the US. Faster, more coordinated, more robust, calmer..
Okay, feel free to slice and dice it however you want and share the results.
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Are you using Jester or another framework?
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It's a company with multiple people making multiple decisions each day. It shouldn't be surprising that there's variation in quality, just like at any other company.