skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data on how COVID19 is impacting local business revenue across U.S.
T-Mobile will be shutting down the Sprint CDMA, LTE, and 5G NR networks, and the T-Mobile UMTS network will probably also be shut down around the same time leaving just the T-Mobile LTE and 5G NR networks. While the Sprint network is still running existing Sprint customers will have access to both the Sprint network and (on a "roaming" basis) the T-Mobile network but T-Mobile customers will not have access to the Sprint network.
I’m really awestruck that’s somebody took the time to write an article about Common Lisp, made the approximation of conditions as exceptions, and has many commenters like you and others nitpicking and claiming newbiness.

If every time somebody writes something about Lisp and it doesn’t tell 100% of the story, and somebody else chimes in “well ackchewelly you must not be very experienced”, nobody is going to write Lisp.

I think the author did a phenomenal job referencing the book they’re reading, and discussing what they learned.

Besides, when’s the last time you or anybody else in this thread actually defined and used in a serious manner a non-error condition? It happens, but beyond WARN, it’s so rare and you probably want to use other dynamic constructs anyway.

The author could improve simply by saying “Conditions are most often used for error handling” and change little else.
The lockdown still reduces the risk to essential workers in three ways:

1) Much of our normal daily contacts is outside of work, that part of a lockdown affects everyone;

2) The essential workers encounter less people because others are out of the streets;

3) If the general spread is lower and slower, then there's less chance for everyone, including the essential workers to get infected.

It's just as with vaccination - if we get a sufficient number of people vaccinated, then everyone is protected because the disease doesn't spread; and if everyone non-essential is on a sufficiently strict lockdown (instead of classifying anything remotely related as essential) then everyone including the essential workers is protected as the disease dies down instead of infecting everyone who's susceptible.
This is a really cool idea and implementation. I am a big believer that Lambda has so many different areas to grow into and impact and this is a perfect use case for the Lambda value prop.

We are working in a sort of similar space of automated web testing, but we're at a different part of the pyramid since we're strictly end-to-end, point-and-click testing at the user level, and we don't use Lambda. Link is in my bio if you're interested, don't want to hijack! :)

Really cool work here. Kudos.
I've been fascinated by SSTV in the amateur bands, but I am never quite certain which frequencies to listen in on to try and hear some activity. What frequencies are the most common to catch some interesting SSTV transmissions? Obviously things like the space station ARISS on 145.800 is neat to tune into as its overhead, but I'm looking for more.
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This study gets absolutely demolished by the fact that all the major old world democracies were trade/citizen empires in the tropics and sub-tropics; Athens, Rome, Carthage, the Malaccan states, Phoenician states, Swahili city states, etc. While Northern Europe and China were the kinds of totalitarian states that the DPRK would envy.
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It might be hard for them to get jobs after, though. I'm not in healthcare, and I know that doctors are always in high demand, but we can't ignore the cost to those protesting by risking their careers. So many whistleblowers face intense retaliation and career problems after coming forward, and I'm sure being perceived as a snitch wouldn't do one any favors down the road, even if you're a doctor.
That's always the problem with "guaranteed" loans. Who's the counterparty, how much money have they got, and how strong are your claims against them?

Trying to fund a guarantee with some clever trading strategy usually comes apart in the next downturn. See the history of "portfolio insurance".[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portfolio_insurance
Did you mean a new scheme? AFAIK both http, https, and ftp, ssh, rtp, whatever protocols refer to names in their URIs. Names, which may be resolved by different, configurable methods, a few of which are popular, DNS among them, but also hosts files, avahi, netbios, maybe others. There are usually at least 2 of them active.

ICANN is a corrupt organization that has usurped the power to delegate all names, relegating all of them¹ to their² DNS system where, ever since gTLDs, they may be expected lend just about any name. In effect, you are expected not to use a hostname, even on a local network, without paying tribute.

IMO, ICANN needs to be put down, or put to its place, as they do not have a natural right to all hostnames. If they wish to remain an authority on hostnames, they should reserve names for other uses besides DNS.

And stop with the gTLDs - it they give out all interesting TLDs, then there can't be non-colliding alternatives. IMO, if they collide, both are to blame, but ICANN more so than Opera, as they apparently reserve 0 viable host name hierarchies for uses other than DNS.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, some details may be incorrect.

¹ AFAIK exceptions are reserved TLDs: test, example, invalid and localhost. Not really a place for an alternate name system.

² AFAIK there used to be alternative DNS roots.
I think their pay being market driven is fair, honestly - the government granting them hazard pay or whatnot will just end up being eaten by the farm owners in the long run - but I do think we need to seriously reconsider privatized healthcare in America - it's insane that yall folks can end up destitute because you get sick.
I mostly agree with you. I wouldn't recommend doing the rewrite for this reason alone. There were other reasons involved in doing a rewrite. The pain of maintaining a duplicated code-base was only one of many pain points in the status quo.
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Correct :) But it generally is and I didn't wan't to go all too deep
When I was first diagnosed with my tumors, it was a 3-4 day scanning process. A year later NIH said we could go to an MRI and do the same. I'll probably get this at some point.
This is the only movie I've watched that has left me feeling disturbed for weeks. I couldn't even watch all the parts and I haven't been able to watch again.

It is really well done.
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> I immediately submitted an appeal as suggested but still got no reply from the support.

The equivalent of throwing a stone into the abyss.

The best thing is to make a stink publicly about it, and, if your project is high-profile enough, will probably catch someone at Twitter's attention to reinstate your account.

Otherwise, you should just make a new account and be up front as to what you're doing.
China's regime has everything to do with the outbreak, mainly due to failing to crack down on those dirty ad hoc markets that trade in unsafe meat.

That deliberate inaction is directly linked to authoritarianism. The regime avoids taking action in order to appear to be lenient, which gives it leverage in taking other important freedoms away.

That creates a situation in which you can't speak critically of the government, but are able to sell a sick bird that starts a global pandemic.

We can readily identify this with the situation of the "proles" in George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proles_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four)

The proles are a class who enjoys significant personal freedoms. Activities that would in fact be crimes if perpetrated by members of non-prole classes are permitted to the proles. Proles have access to pornography, and can practice religion, if they want. The regime plants moles among the proles who disseminate misinformation.

Orwell nailed it on the head.
From what I know about influencers, a lot of them are just a pretty face that brands can slap their name onto.

I think this is the most common understanding of the term, as well.

To me "influencer" is no different than the "brand representatives" that used to be known as "booth babes" that are bussed in to conventions and trade shows to draw eyes while they stand next to products.
I'm not following how that's different from WebTV. The memo predicts a product like WebTV and that product materializes almost instantly. In the enterprise space, 'thin client' was already every second word out of Larry Ellison's mouth.
I don't think any solution based on video streaming can ever match what X11 provides, which is, remote apps use the settings of the client computer for rendering. e.g. with ssh -X, if I set my dpi in my .Xresources, no matter the machine to which I'm ssh'ing to, I'm always getting a correct font size for my local screen.
TL;DR: Internet Archive decided to remove the restriction that their books could only be borrowed by 1 person at a time. No limit on renewals. Effectively, any book in their library is now a free-for-all with no restrictions.

In other words, they've gone from library-style lending books in their archive to distributing them without restrictions.

Very disappointing move by the Internet Archive. This seems like a home-run case for authors and publishers whose copyrighted works have been distributed.

Regardless of your stance on copyright law, this puts the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine at serious risk of being lost to inevitable lawsuits. Not a good move as the economy is grinding to a halt.
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I think you accidentally replied to the wrong thread. Consider reposting your comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22749076
> Is there anyone out there with a good argument for why remote workers should be paid less?

If I don't care where my team members are, why would I want two when I could have four of the same quality? Sounds attractive, I should think.
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(You might consider approaching things with less flames. Also, no, that's not historically accurate: Ubuntu didn't push GNOME until quite recently; they pushed their own Unity environment for a long time, and only recently switched to GNOME to better align with other distributions. And as mentioned in the comment you're replying to, no, "everyone" doesn't hate GNOME 3. Some people do. Loudness does not indicate quantity or proportion.)

Yes, I mean GNOME 3, which Just Works for me, far better than GNOME 2 ever did. Before that, I ran GNOME 2, which was far better than GNOME 1. And before that I ran GNOME 1.

The parallels between GNOME 2 and GNOME 3 are remarkable: GNOME 2 was also a major new version, much simpler with less configuration options and more focus on good out-of-the-box behavior, people hated it at first for daring to change at all, in addition to legitimate criticisms that they'd removed too much, and after the first couple of versions they found the right balance and the result turned out much better.
Some others buckled under the load. Our organization had plans to use Microsoft Teams, the first time we needed multiple mass meetings at the same time, it didn't work for whatever reason, so the organizers sent out a Zoom link and that worked then and there. So we've been using Zoom instead since that.
Hard to consider it "dumping" when you look at competitive offerings. For example, Comcast (Xfinity Mobile) offers a $12/month 1GB prepaid plan, and they don't even own the networks they use. $15/month for 2GB on your own network is entirely reasonable.
A related thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22731928
Doctors and nurses get to choose the hospitals they work for/with.

Unfortunately, new entrants to the hospital market are prevented by large state-sponsored moats, and most of the large incumbents are shady in similar ways, so the ability of the staff to choose employer based on ethics/practices is basically meaningless. More options for medical care and medical employment is the answer; the vast majority of people in society are not greedy/shady.

Fix one, and you fix the other. You might also bring prices down, too. (Caveat: it's not "swift", as you requested.)
> Is there anyone out there with a good argument for why remote workers should be paid less?

Lower expenses from commuting. Perhaps initially somewhat offset by the need for home office equipment/space.
I've been using OBS for a couple months for live streams on YouTube (see https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/ansible-101-jeff-geer...), and I have had rock-solid reliability, using an external mic interface, an external camera (displayed PIP), and sharing one of two displays during some instructional sessions.

One thing to keep in mind, though—unless you have a dedicated video card, and it's supported by OBS (the list of supported cards on macOS is very thin), your CPU has to do all the compositing and compression, meaning you need a lot of CPU to be able to manage the streaming.

On my 2016 MacBook Pro 13", it barely has the horsepower to do a stream and also run processes that I'm explaining (e.g. manage some VMs, run some database operations, etc.). I had to turn down the compression method to 'ultrafast', which is lowest quality (but still pretty good with 1080p output), and I also use SwitchResX to set my shared display at 1080p 1x resolution (instead of 4K/2x resolution).
Fair 'nuff -- thanks dang. It has been a long two weeks, and the fight has only barely begun.

I thought long and hard before hitting 'Send', but I was too-frustrated not to. It wasn't a political statement, but rather one about the organization under which the USDS sits.

Thanks for keeping HN, HN!
I just want to share my favorite remote work pair programming tool for MacOS: Tuple

https://tuple.app/

It has much better screen sharing than any of the other commonly used tools (Zoom/Slack/Skype/VNC, etc) with higher resolution, very low latency, and no distracting overlaying UI components (I can't emphasize how important this particular issue is to me).

It's essentially a reborn and upgraded version of ScreenHero (from back before Slack bought them out and then utterly destroyed what was so great about it).

I am not affiliated with Tuple in any way, but I want their product to succeed because I love it so much, so I evangelize it whenever I can!
That's clearly not the strategy any more. I mean, I was just as wrong as I was saying the same thing a week ago. But the numbers don't add up.

You can't have 100,000-200,000 deaths in a country of 327 million people if it infects 80% and has a mortality rate of 1-2% if you have medical intervention (which is their best guess).

Without intervention I assume it kills the up to 20% (probably more like 10% as we're still not clear on asymptomatic infections) who require hospitalisation.

For the US that's 2.6-5.2 million dead to reach herd immunity with a shallow peak, or something like 25-50 million if its not flattened and the health service get overwhelmed.

By saying only 100,000-200,000 will die, the strategy must ultimately be lockdown to stop spread, then release the lockdown and contain the infections using test, trace, quarantine like S.Korea, China and Japan. Or lockdown until a vaccine is ready in 18 months, which I can't see happening.
Anonymous new profile, my apologies. My partner wasn't comfortable with me saying this stuff in a public way. They work in the emergency department of a hospital in North America.

It's not just that they'll be fired if they speak out...

The hospitals are also threatening to withhold worker's compensation payouts if a staff member is caught using anything brought from home, even if it's real, name brand equipment. Got some N95s leftover from that home improvement project? Leave them at home and use this surgical mask instead (still better than nothing, to be fair). They are asking staff members to inform on other staff. To be clear: these policies were in effect for an area with coughing COVID patients. They do put surgical masks on the patients, which is very helpful, but I'm livid that they then ask the nurses to NOT use N95s in this scenario.

They are also undertaking dubious re-use and cleaning procedures that are not scientifically proven. For example, masks (both surgical and N95s, which are only for workers doing things like intubation) are being used for an entire day (also not correct usage) and then placed in paper folders for a week. At the end of the week, the masks are deemed 'clean' and reused by the same staff member. Kind of like a mask for each day of the week. There is not strong scientific evidence this is an effective or safe procedure. These procedures might work, but there isn't testing proving that fact.

I understand hospitals are in a bind here. There are simply not enough masks available (both surgical and N95) in the world. If the hospitals admit their ad-hoc procedures are ineffective they risk short term mutiny in their staff ranks. They also risk long term litigation by admitting they can't protect staff. Unfortunately their approach of 'clamp down hard on dissent' is preventing the real message from being broadcast loudly enough: It should be blindingly clear we need a crash program to ramp domestic PPE manufacturing by an order of magnitude (or two).

As an aside, please call your senators and representatives and ask them to force the Trump administration to use the DPA to bring more PPE capacity online. It's really too late now, but better late than never. We'll need to establish permanent manufacturing capacity for this anyways so we never get caught out like again.
Should you really use machine learning for that?
Most modern computers can software/CPU blit to a 4K screen at multiple frames per second. So this explanation doesn’t make much sense as is.
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Automatically categorize transactions and find abnormalities. I'd love for my bank to tell me "hey, you spend about 10% more on groceries this month" so I can go investigate why. Or even better, give me a warning that if I keep this up, I am going to be spending more than usual this month.

I am also frugal, but I still would like to cut some out of the hassle. I watch my finances like a hawk. I spend too much time on that.
Some finding WfH as a developer:

- It requires more effort to communicate with colleagues which made my queries more concise (less time wasted in pointless discussions).

- The effect of walking/cycling/driving to my office prepares me for the working day, there is no substitute for this when working from home.

- Not having any colleagues around felt freeing and I spent more time exploring avenues I would not have done otherwise.

- Not being in the office, I had little other social interactions during the day.

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I'm really really amazed how creative and productive someone can be. Meanwhile I can't even find one ideas. It doesn't help that I'm not an app user. I keep my digital stuff minimal.
Source code is closed source and at an old employer, unfortunately, but I once used Ragel to write a non-blocking MySQL client library using the regular expression features for packet parsing and, separately, a state chart for query and session state--basically, which type(s) of packet to expect next and otherwise documenting how session states transitioned.

If I had to do it again[1] I might not use Ragel for either packet parsing or session state. The MySQL wire protocol is rather simple, and Ragel has a steep learning curve, which made hacking on the library unnecessarily difficult for others. At the time I was already knee-deep in Ragel for other stuff, so it was the path of least resistance for me. But for more complex state management I would definitely return to Ragel as the expressive syntax is worth all the documentation and commentary in the world. And because of how well Ragel supports embedded code blocks (including for non-blocking/asynchronous I/O designs), you can maintain proximity between critical code and the state chart directives, which improves both expressiveness and self-documentation. That's the real power of Ragel--it's source code-level interfaces. On the surface the interface seems a little clunky (no interoperability at code AST level), but in practice it's second to none.

[1] Of course, the second time around you already know the pain points and contours of the problem so it's much simpler to open-code an elegant, minimal solution. So it's not much of a comment on Ragel to say that I wouldn't do it again.
If I were a business owner trying to figure out how much to pay, I would not be able to deduce the numerical figure from your comment.

I understand what you're saying, my intention is to display how easy it is to say, but how difficult it is to execute. Currently, we pay people what it costs to replace them, but it would be nice if we could snap our fingers and give everyone a global standard of living equal to whatever the top 5% live in. Unfortunately, that's not possible, and short of a country wide or world wide effort to implement some type of UBI, I don't see much chance of success.
SF-NY works fine
I can also recommend Vultr, they have one killer feature that I've not see with other VPS providers: They let you upload custom ISOs
Except the people who worked in the office also volunteered to stay, so why wouldn't they work harder too so they don't have to start working at home when they don't want to?
In many cases "sales people" (at least outside sales people) are not cold calling. They're getting qualified leads from digital marketing campaigns.

However, your basic point stands. I get that some people don't want cold outreach through any channel, ads, etc. While there may be some companies that can organically grow through maybe a combination of organic search, stories being written about them (at which point someone here will dutifully post a link about submarine PR), word of mouth, etc. I'd respectfully suggest that most companies that try to do so will be out of business in a very short period of time.