skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> guess I will never know..

Well, you could take an antibody test when they become available. The first occurrence of the virus in Europe (I suppose?) is almost certainly underestimated. I'll add a reference to the paper if I find it again later.

EDIT: Found it: [1] J. Lourenc ̧o, R. Paton, M. Ghafari, M. Kraemer, C. Thompson, P. Simmonds, P. Klenerman, and S. Gupta. Fundamental principles of epidemic spread highlight the immediate need for large-scale serological surveys to assess the stage of the sars-cov-2 epidemic. 2020.
> It's not a thing that happens any more

Except it literally happened again 2 years after the left-pad incident:

https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/41zfb8qpvrdj
https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/3701
https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/9113

But anyway whether or not the module is un-published doesn't really matter. The module could also just become malicious. Ownership changes, quality of code changes, etc... If you're pinning with lockfiles you're basically back to copy/pasting or checking in a clone of an upstream repo - the maintenance burden shifts back to you at that point. You still then have to manually go update, and remember to do that, or you become just as easily obsolete as the copy/pasted snippet.
The actuarial value of the typical human life is roughly in the neighborhood of 5-10 million dollars. It wouldn't just be spending shaved off in one year, it'd be every year after that too, and then there'd be all the knock-on effects of more government required assistance for dependents that can no longer be supported properly, lots of foreclosures, a reduction in childbirth and size of the next generation ...

And by the way, your math is off by a factor of one thousand.
Oh, God. For everybody there afraid of moving form Oracle to Postgres, I have one fundamental piece of information:

Postgres backups work.

You can simply backup your database. And you simply restores your backup. And the result is a working database, without errors.
Half my team just got put on a 30-day minimum furlough (myself included). The other half has been reduced to working one week on and one week off. The car rental business is not in a good place right now.
Stop exporting N95 masks to Canada, Trump administration tells U.S. manufacturer
> I really think that people notices when a loved one dies, whatever the cause.

Oh I agree, but hundreds of thousands die from infectious disease every year, and while their family mourns (and ought to of course), life goes on.

> Your divisive message is out of place and does not help.

I simply said what I thought would happen, not what I think is right.

> I am happily impressed by how much people, from doctors to retail clerks, are doing their part and how governments have moved the economy to support that in need.

All governments worldwide have actually and intentionally neglected to help people suffering from depression, mental health, and suicidal thoughts, which are almost certainly also going to lead to more deaths quite soon. I give it a few weeks before suicide numbers come out and indicate these lockdowns as a direct cause. Again, I'm indifferent to whether or not these sanctions are warranted, but I'm just pointing out what I think will happen.
20% cut in hours from one of my contracts but I haven't lost any yet.
The "S" in SNAP means that if you have income, you have to cover some of your food expenses. What's wrong with that?

If you have no income/assets, you can get $600+/month for a family of 4.
https://aix-xweb1p.state.or.us/caf_xweb/SNAP_Estimate/actCal...

There are logistical complications around ability to complete the red tape, and personal irresponsibility or access to low-cost options when spending the SNAP money, but big-picture SNAP is fine.

Should people be entitled to spend all their post-tax income on luxuries and get welfare support for basic needs? That's a more extreme position than supplemental support for people with some wealth.
Legally, no since there's no requirement to test the labor market before sponsoring someone for H-1B classification. As noted above, however, this could impact the green card process.
You'll get no argument here that it's hand-wavy! My goal was to point out that both our immune systems and our minds are imperfect at assessing threats and we can suffer greatly as a result. I'm glad you still found it thought-provoking.
Java Developers got laid off, while C# Devs remain working.
By far my favourite feature of this release, dark mode in docs: https://nim-lang.org/docs/lib.html
i'd say so: i think many rails/django concepts are translate-able to metaprogramming in nim, not always with the same idioms, but usually there is a way to do it, and you can typecheck some things
You can get that functionality with Microsnitch. It works for the microphone too.
Hi Peter,

Thank you for doing this. My question: Are non-founders who are chief executives (like CTO, CSO) in a startup eligible to apply in O-1 category? What is the success rate for O-1 applications you have seen?

Thanks!
The archetypal example of the former is Georg Cantor:
https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-nature-of-infinity-a...
Redeploying Plant Defences
You know, there's a vast spectrum of economic policy options between central planning and laissez faire, and you don't even have to be consistent about which gets picked for each industry. I think the OP was advocating for a different spot on that spectrum for certain things, not one of the extremes for everything.
In Austria government collects more VAT than it does from income tax.

Then you have property tax, car tax (an additional 20% to the already 20% VAT), drugs tax (alcohol, beer, cigarettes ...), gas/fuel tax, flight tax, capital gains tax and probably many more i am forgetting now. those are just consumer taxes though
A general leftward trend is inevitable after this crisis passes. Neoliberalism is facing its toughest challenge; the nordic socioeconomic model has never looked better.
Yeah, but GP has a point; from a total employment standpoint, there is no difference. In fact encouraging new business at this time could create a burst of new, lean, innovative startups solving real problems from a time of hardship, rather than fake problems from a time of prosperity.
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How "easy" you mean? Can the worker do it by themselves? What is the cost compared if we go with a lawyer?
I haven't seen anyone out in public wearing gloves who comes close to observing the required protocol: touching their personal possessions, using their phones or my favorite, the guy who had pulled up his mask onto his forehead so he could have a smoke, while still wearing his gloves.

I would also imagine gloves are a better transmission medium for the virus as well...

I then go to my car and see used plastic gloves thrown all over the parking lot. It made me so mad. I just want to yell out "Be Better, People!".
whoops, meant to write:

i'd say your js qualifies as "vanilla"

in the first paragraph, can't edit anymore
Yeah, one of the suggestions on that page was a compressed filesystem.
Firstly, I usually don't have the methods being asked for. I don't use Linked-In, I barely use FB and certainly can't remember my password. And seriously, would you go around giving your phone number, email, physical address, etc., to everyone? The opportunities for social engineering abound.

And just because the people I give it to may be trusted today, there's always (a) buyouts, (b) security breaches, (c) going rogue.

Why are you asking these questions? Are you trying to learn about security? Are you surprised at the responses?

Would you, without reservation, give random people your email, phone number, login-id for other services, etc?

If so, why do you not have concerns?
Mustache / Handlebars is pretty widely available throughout languages these days too and is pretty basic. Doesn't help you at the default posix level, but there are even command line versions IIRC
Are you not aware that, during the Spanish flu, entire cities were shut down for months, exactly like what's happening now? And that without these actions the effects of it would have been much worse? You bringing this up is exactly proving the opposite of the point you're trying to make.

Enforced social distancing is nothing NEW. It's as old as pandemics themselves.
Can you provide a link to your source on the 100k net worth figure?
3M's response: https://news.3m.com/press-release/company-english/3m-respons...

Trudeau's response: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/03/3m-warns-of-white-h...
Other than a STEM extension, your options would be an O-1 or green card application (in a category where there is no backlog).
Used it for some C code, because CPP was not able to accomplish what I wanted. m4 was more powerful and I was able to finish my task.

Thankfully I never used it in context of sendmail or autotools, so no reason to hate it for me, I guess.
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11 is still early into its public testing phase -- developer previews are essentially pre-beta -- so it's hard to really make concrete guesses at what user-facing stuff will show up in the next version at this point.
Every bit of negative Elon Musk oriented news brings out an apologetic post excusing failure and painting it positively, with a pile of democratic support.

This is a failure, and failure is perfectly ok working on something like this, but what drives people to volunteer their time to spin such things as positively as possible or even signal boost ? I can’t believe it’s purely investor driven. It’s almost as if people are finding personal purpose in sacrificing their time to this cause.
We've now realized that we're paying slightly under the prevailing wage and will be giving the employee a raise to be over the prevailing wage. Is there a correct procedure to document that for LOC?
I landed my first job as full-time professional software developer doing React-Native development right before the Coronavirus pandemic struck. By the time I finished filling out all of the hiring paperwork, drug tests, etc., they reneged on the offer. Was pretty upset about it at the time, but I guess it's hit everyone else just as hard.
As I wrote, I believe there would be a recession either way. The question is whether the recession caused by the lockdowns will be worse than one caused by an uncontrolled pandemic.

Why do you think those unnecessary deaths would cause more economic damage than a government-mandated shutdown of almost all work that cannot be done from home?
> * Having two protocols/data types that two the same thing (text / binary) isn't the end of the world, but it just adds confusion. Also it adds complexity for a different server/proxy/pool implementation. Recommendation: better document binary and add an intent to remove text data types.

I don't see us removing the textual transport, unfortunately. The cost of forcing all clients to deal with marshalling into the binary format seems prohibitive to me.

What's the server/proxy/pool concern? I don't see a problem there.

> Not having an inline cancellation (in same TCP/IP connection) means cancellation isn't supported by many drivers, and even when it is, there are many edge cases were it stops working. Each client implementation has to work around this.

Yea, it really isn't great. But it's far from clear how to do it inline in a robust manner. The client just sending the cancellation inline in the normal connection would basically mean the server-side would always have to eagerly read all the pending data from the client (and presumably spill to disk).

TCP urgent or such can address that to some degree - but not all that well.

> - (C) Named parameters

I'm a bit hesitant on that one, depending on what the precise proposal is.

Having to textually match query parameters for a prepared statement for each execution isn't great. Overhead should be add per-prepare, not per-execute.

If the proposal is that the client specifies, at prepare time, to send named parameters in a certain order at execution time, I'd not have a problem with it (whether useful enough to justify a change in protocol is a different question).

> A driver or shim can indeed use text replacement ... b) server computation / allocation cost

How come?

> - (D) Protocol level language selection. PostgreSQL always starts execution in plain SQL context. If you always execute functions as PL/pgSQL it is just extra overhead. In addition, running ad-hoc PL/pgSQL with named parameters isn't the most easy thing. It is possible, just not easy. This feature plus named parameters so by the time I'm writing my query, I know (a) that I have all my sent parameters available to me bound to names and (b) the first character I type is in the language I want.

I can't see this happening. For one, I have a hard time believing that the language dispatch is any sort of meaningful overhead (unless you mean for the human, while interactively typing?). But also, making connections have state where incoming data will be completely differently interpreted is a no-go imo. Makes error handling a lot more complicated, for not a whole lot of benefit.
Hi Peter,

I have been told that opting for premium processing leads to hurried decision from USCIS and subsequently to poorly crafted RFEs. Is that true?
loss of advertising revenue?
Tech’s Lobbyists Are Using the Pandemic to Make Gains
> The second you allow cloud recording (which the article acknowledges), E2EE becomes meaningless

Not sure I agree with this one. Assuming a design where the server is just jockeying around encrypted streams because it doesn't have the keys, it could store the encrypted stream upon instructions from the client. The client would need to keep the key so it can retrieve and decrypt the recording later.
Original paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2020/01/07/191083711...

TLDR - The robotic building blocks are skin cells and heart cells, which naturally "beat."

Computers evolve simulated body designs, which are then assembled by hand using real cells.

You can see the actual robots here: https://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2020/01/07/1910837117.DCS...
Wikipedia put it around 1% for celiac disease.
I'm sorry but the people who most complain about diversity and inclusion being the downfall of our civilization have not exactly been shown to be the brightest minds in this whole thing.

I don't see top performers being actually concerned by this at all. On the contrary, top performers seem to be fairly concerned about how traditionally exclusionary measures have impeded a lot of talent from being developed.
Frozen foods are cheap and healthy. Freezing is a cost-effective way to distribute vegetables and meat.
Show HN: Internal.io – No Code Internal Tools
Absolutely. That's hard to say because the outcome depends on the strength of the individual's background but lots of O-1 petitions get approved for talented non-founders.
Google Sharing Location Information with Governments
2,813,503 people died in 2017

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
What's a virus, anyway? Part 2: How coronaviruses infect us
Extremely well I'd say. Nim has a very powerful macro system, and DSLs are very common across various modules. Haven't used Django myself, but something like Jester (https://github.com/dom96/jester) or Karax (https://github.com/pragmagic/karax) is a good place to start if you want to do web development in Nim.
Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom
I'm sorry to hear that. What are you going to do to pass the time while you are laid off?
I make ice cream sandwiches that I sell wholesale as a side business.
It's hard right now, good thing I have my full time.
While the government is shoveling money out the back of a truck right now to try to keep the economy afloat even they, IMHO rightly, have limits right now. This is to keep established businesses such as restaurants, small manufacturers etc. alive, not to fund risky startups.
The problem for the mob rests on the fact that they advertise the system as being e2e, when it is not - at least with the definition I use for e2e. https://zoom.us/security

My rule-of-thumb (NOT A LITMUS TEST) for e2e is as follows: If you have exchanged the public or pre-shared key(s) with the partner(s) out-of-band OR you had your public key signed by a NEUTRAL (key word) third party who is mutually trusted, then yes - you are likely using e2e.

If Zoom generated the keypairs, signed them, and transported the public keys themselves without an external independent library - I don't consider that e2e because they are the middle man every step along the way.

Should we treat other companies the same way if they claim they use e2e but don't? Yes, absolutely. This situation is bittersweet, it's (a bit) unfair to Zoom, but hopefully this will spark healthy discussions around what e2e is and more importantly, what it is not.
Is E2E encryption desirable for video chats with >2 participants?

Let's say I'm talking with two other people: is there a way to do E2E encryption without having to send out the same stream twice?

edit: Just realised a common key would allow this. But I am still interested in schemes for deriving a key amongst multiple parties using a middleman without the middleman knowing the key. It seems like a rather hard problem.
Tbh I cant figure out what you're asking for
Great summary! Reminds me a lot about Leon Bottou's work on using deep learning to learn causal invariant representations. (Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbZNQt0Q5HA)

We can view the augmentations of the image as "interventions" forcing the model to learn an invariant representation of the image.

Although the blog post did not frame it as this type of problem (not sure if the paper did), I think it can definitely be seen as such and is really promising.
If this happens before October 1, 2020, then under present law, no.
You absolutely need both for quality, public-facing docs. The process of explaining the logic to your docs expert is just invaluable. Without the docs expert, the engineer(s) is too in-the-weeds to meet the audience's needs thoroughly. Without the engineer(s), the docs expert has too steep a hill to climb to understand the intent and edge cases.
How is responding to a less than once in a lifetime pandemic a condemnation of the economy? The economy is largely shutdown.
This is the first time I have heard a kerberos/ldap setup referred to as “easy”.
build/render farms are far more likely than the MacOS Server tools.
Here is a good overview: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3871783

Proof:

1. China's numbers simply do not match models that take all their measures into account.

2. China only tested syptomatic people, and did not classify pneumonia sufferers as COVID: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-...

3. Wuhan crematoriums are seeing way more deaths than reported: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/88435z/wuhans-crematorium... http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Wuhan,-endless-queues-for-ash...

China's new outbreak: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/china-fears-wave-covi...
Interesting. It's a private document so it's hard to pull any stats out. I did manage to get the top ten companies (back of the napkin hack so take it with a pinch of salt):

amazon | 13
thumbtack | 10
student | 8
wework | 8
wayfair | 6
google | 6
uber | 5
cisco | 4
oracle | 4
adobe | 3

Surprised to see Amazon at the top. I thought they were the best poised against this. Again, it may not be signal of a wider problem but interesting nonetheless.

There was also an interesting row from a senior (VP level) at WeWork that would lead you to believe that they aren't in a good state ("f'ed"). Again, take it with a pinch of salt since we can't verify any of this data.
It is possible to save as many jobs with "more expensive money" when in comes to Private Equity firms - and that would be a better investment for the taxpayers
Ibuprofen doesn't make the flu go away, but it protects you from having a seizure from high fever.
There is some research on this. I'll try and find an article I read about it a while ago.

Here it is:
"Body weight homeostat that regulates fat mass independently of leptin in rats and mice"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5777058/

It's different than exactly what you were talking about, but the idea of "gravitostat" is interesting so I thought I'd still add it.
That’s pretty meaningless. Everybody is on twitter.
Y’all need to not compare absolute case numbers on an exponential curve between countries with vastly different populations.
Thank you Peter.

My EAD will expire on Sept this year. We have filed for an extension since we don't know when will my green card be issued.

Another question is, will my unemployment for a period of time affect the processing of my EAD/Green Card?
That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is that people should strive to be self-reliant. Not: "how can we meet people's needs?" but "how do we help people meet their own needs?". Like the old proverb about giving a man a fish vs. teaching a man to fish.

Everyone always shuts down that second question with "they can't help themselves until their basic needs are met" which is incredibly hand wavy and disingenuous, in my opinion. Half of being poor is in the mind. If poor people are to become middle class people, there needs to be a change in the mind. This change doesn't automatically happen "because money". Changing the mind needs to come from teachers and mentors and the poor person has to want to change and start thinking and acting differently.

If you get everyone reliant on a monolithic omnipotent government, then when said monolithic government fails all of helpless leeches will die (and that could be millions).

I think it's better if we strive for a minimalistic government where members of society strive to be self-reliant and in terms of "safety nets" the government's goal is to promote and encourage self-reliance.
I would. By that time, it should have been very apparent that human-to-human transmission was a certainty.
As fan of Wirthian languages and GC enabled systems languages it looks nice to me, but it is still miles away of the tooling experience available to Java and .NET developers, and yes, you can make use of AOT or JIT caches with them.

But the more the merrier, so I look forward to its bright future.
As a Canadian, does the lack of a college degree significantly act as a disadvantage for visa programs such as TN/H1-B ?
In the case of a pressing move to the US, what would be some options for someone with no degree?
Define normal in this context. The effects of the 1918 flu pandemic really were region dependent, because some regions were more strict than others (in terms of social distancing, curfews, etc.) and those regions that were more relaxed were affected more heavily (the classic American example is Philadelphia vs St. Louis). We see some evidence of this happening now in places taking stricter measures globally, although the data is too early to say anything conclusive.

> intentionally creating an economic depression of unknown severity

Okay, assuming it's a strict trade-off between 1) no social distancing, economic disruption happening at some point in time in the future, and significantly higher death rates; or, 2) social distancing, economic disruption now, and lower death rates, which is better? This is the reality of the situation -- there will be economic disruption no matter what, and so if we don't attempt to quantity the disruption, the two differences here are social distancing and number of deaths.
I imagine a lot of these decisions were pretty rushed this year. There are a ton of Universities, businesses, etc, that hadn't previously done any large scale video conferencing. They didn't have much time to do a thoughtful selection.

Zoom is under scrutiny largely because it's a suddenly a highly popular choice. All the hoopla incented skeptics to take a closer look.
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