skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In parts of Europe the employment situation is significantly less bad, in particular in countries with proper corporatist structures. In Germany unemployment went up by 250k. The US has seen 10 million unemployment claims already, mind you per capita that's worse by a factor of ten.

The US saw 10 million unemployment claims because the official policy of all governments (Federal & State) was forced unemployment. The CARES stimulus includes a $600/week unemployment insurance _on top of_ the existing state UI. The state with the least generous UI is Mississippi, at $940/month — with the CARES stimulus clocks in at $3340/month. You can see the full break-down here [1]. In every state, the unemployment benefit is actually higher than the median wage. Businesses know this, and proactively lay off / furlough their employees so that they may collect this benefit (which extends to gig workers as well).

In European nations, the approach has been to offer stimulus packages to employers to keep their employees paid while they temporarily shut down.

The net effect is the same, people are getting money to be able to sustain themselves during a global social distance shutdown. In America, because half the stimulus is in the form of direct insurance payments to people, and unemployment is the means of receiving that, you will see high unemployment numbers. Not only is this expected, it is intended.

> You don't need to pray for a potiticized safety net if you have employers and companies that take care of their workers and invest into their long term human capital and don't lay them off during the crisis, that is you have organisational capacity, something the American labour market lacks completely. It's everyone for themselves as soon as the alarm bells go off.

This seems directly at odds with your point about Coronavirus. In a Coronavirus world, if governments are forcing enterprises to pause their business, the only way to make sure people don't starve is to have a politicized safety net. Either it is in the form of corporate subsidies to keep employees on payroll, or it's in the form of direct cash to people. Right now, the US is doing both[2].

[1] https://imgur.com/a/AifRmdD

[2] https://imgur.com/a/db2DC2s
R0 is also culture dependent but before countermeasures are applied.
Stanford just tested 3200 people in Silicon Valley for antibodies at a drive-through location.[1] There are similar group tests being run in LA and Colorado. In a few days there should be more solid info on how many people have had the disease without symptoms.

[1] https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/04/04/stanford-researcher...
This is clearly a temporary situation though. I wish I could invest in Airbnb right now.

Meanwhile, I have less sympathy about hosts angry at Airbnb's cancellation policy which offers guests refunds due to the pandemic. If their units are not occupied, then they shouldn't expect to be still making money. Meanwhile, if they were still able to receive their guests' money without said guests actually residing at their units due to the pandemic, it looks like theft on the host's part more than anything else -- they are profiting off a pandemic for free because of an overly strict policy that prevents their would-be guests from being refunded for social distancing and ensuring public safety. That just isn't fair.
A lot more people live in SEA than Australia, so it's probably both easier and cheaper to find people. SEA also speaks English and I'm sure there's good programmers around there somewhere.

Another good reason to have remote support in Asia is it's a different time zone. Not for Australia obviously, but that's a harmless thing for a US company to do.
While I'm not interested in learning Prolog at this time, I skimmed through both your book and site and find it really easy to understand. The writing is simple (I bet it takes a lot of effort to produce simple to undestand writing) and what seems to be lower-than-usual text/information density of the page both helps with reading and makes the text beautiful - a joy to read. Thank you, I hope to revisit this bookmark once I have free time again.
If that were true, most recruiter emails wouldn't start with "hi, I'm [name] from [company] and your profile looks like a great fit. [Company] is a company that [description of company]."

Sure, you're aware of FAANG companies, but you're not aware of their HR practices, their healthcare, etc. In other words your knowledge is likely shallow, and that's what first line contacts expect.
How China Uses LinkedIn to Recruit Spies Abroad
System Update with Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden and Cassie King
Note that the $15/hr figure from the source includes tips, but does not count gas, insurance, nor vehicle wear and tear
Burning coal is generally known for being really bad for air quality. The ash is somewhat radioactive, and if there's any sulphur in the coal it'll cause acid rain. The exhaust from burning the coal nowadays ends up going through treatment to clean it up (remove sulphur and particulates), which is an added expense. In comparison, natural gas tends to be rather pure, so when burned it produces just carbon dioxide and water.
Well you very quickly run out of mass, space, hosts etc so on a long enough timescale...

Like an exponential process that starts at 1 atom with a 1 year doubling time would affect all the matter in the universe in less than a century (lets pretend it happens spookily at whatever distance).
I great worry that China's intelligence service has the zoom traffic of American's routed to the Chinese zoom servers, so they can intercept.
I think so, at least in theory. In practice, I suspect that would eventually get challenged in court. But (IANAL), I also suspect that you're right, and a platform like Signal would fall under the same category as CompuServe and could make a strong argument for itself using that case.

Here's where it gets tricky though -- Signal is kind of an anomaly, and there are a lot of platforms being built that both moderate content and incorporate E2E encryption. Matrix is the prime example, but even non-obvious platforms like Mastodon are talking about e2e encryption for DMs. To get a really good fediverse rolling, or even just to encourage platforms like Facebook to start using more zero-knowledge encryption, we need the ability to use E2E encryption alongside moderated content.

Pure distribution platforms are rarer than people think. I'm not particularly worried that ending Section 230 will be a disaster for private, closed, encrypted channels. But most of the best parts of the Internet happen in public channels and semi-open communities, and getting rid of 230 would have a really big negative impact on the general discourse within those communities and the freedom of like-minded people to get together and form communities online without a fear of lawsuits.

That being said, I think Signal does itself something of a disservice by not strongly asserting it's a pure distribution channel. They could talk about how this is dangerous for encryption overall while still advocating that the law wouldn't apply to someone in their position. We can simultaneously say that repealing Section 230 would be really bad for online communities, but not existentially bad for closed communication channels like Signal.

And purely from a strategic point of view, we should be interested in saying things like that, because if Section 230 does get repealed it would be very nice to have a fallback position that's already been articulated and made clear to Congress and general audiences, and that preserves at least some encryption.

But, Signal has their own set of real lawyers, so it may be that they disagree that CompuServe would apply, or it may be that they think that Congress would just keep challenging them until it found some attack that worked, or it may just be that they think aligning themselves alongside Open platforms like Matrix is more valuable than making a case that they would be exempt. I'm not going to pretend to know what's going through their minds.
> They're just more frequently called: 'company cars', 'employee meals', and 'corporate housing'.

Sure, and we are fortunate that such perks are in-frequent, and unexpected. In a world where that's not the case, cars, food, and housing would be prohibitively expensive to those that are unemployed, and we would call for nationalization of the auto, food, and real estate industries.
How the Oxford English Dictionary was brought to life in a rustic 'scriptorium'
Estimating a cost of 1 cent per core-hour, this cost more than 200k€. Since INRIA is a national research institute, I am guessing at least part of this has been paid with taxpayer money, either directly from the Institute or from grants.

I am wondering how such an expense can be justified.

It's an honest question: I find all of this very exciting and brilliant, however having written grant proposals myself, I am wondering how could they 'sell' factoring larger and larger numbers as worth funding.
AWS Fargate switches from Docker Engine to containerd
Indeed, levels are private at Apple. And so are the level requirements, probably to stop people thinking they'll get promoted by fulfilling them, when it's all made up anyway.
It includes gas, maintenance, and insurance.
But it's only the portion of consumers that get rewards that don't lose, as much. And its the more well off portion of consumers that are offered and receive good reward cards. Those without end up subsidizing those who do.
The new hobbyist program is somewhat useless to people who want to tinker with old retro hardware. I suppose you could extract the install from the VM, but that's more trouble than it sounds. If you bought a VAX or Itanic box off of ebay, you're still out of luck.
Renewable GW capacity in the US has grown at a 7.8% per year compound annual growth rate. [0]

That is more than a linear increase in renewable capacity, indicating that renewable capacity will be increasing faster and faster in absolute GW terms.

[0]https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/72170.pdf
I don't think you can compare on average someone today with someone from 40 years ago and reach a conclusion of which is better.

I would say that prospects are always better for those that command expertise in the technology of the day.

Ex: A developer has much better prospects today than in the past. A library probably has the same prospects now as then.
Everyone can't. You can adjust the privacy settings such that you have to add someone to your Telegram contacts before they can discover you are on Telegram. It's easily done in Telegram's privacy settings. This is a primary reason I prefer it to signal despite the screeching from armchair crypto experts on HN anytime Telegram is mentioned.
Writing cleaner code with the rule of least power
Office is business productivity software. You don't buy it for every employee, you negotiate a license for the number of seats in use. It has way more features than google docs and is standard everywhere. It's like saying you could save money by having programmers write code on pencil and paper. You saved the money on the computer but you have a net loss because you lost the power and efficiency of real time editing, compiling and debugging. These corporate guys just drink the internal koolaid/spin from hr or whatever and come here repeating nonsense as if its fact and it annoys me. It's dogfooding with some minor privacy/security concerns since microsoft is competitor, we get it, just call it what it is and move on.
I understand that some people know more than others. But this was a perfectly legitimate question. Not everyone is following Mozilla leadership. We are genuinely curious.
I can, because I use ajv and JSON Schema instead because I can trivially just take those models and use them in OAS3 documents. The web framework I've built on top of Fastify--and will be open-sourcing soonish--uses pretty simple model and property annotations to let you define your systems in those terms, and I find it to be really flexible and pleasant to work with.

EDIT: Also, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, io-ts is a pretty good option too!
> I think you're forgetting the part where those existing so-called "decentralized" ID systems are by-and-large using a centralized system (your SSN) which is magntitudes worse than a cryptographic card.

It's orders of magnitude worse at authentication because that's not what it's for and everyone should immediately stop trying to use it for that. For that matter it would be better if they would stop using it for anything other than its original purpose as a tax ID.

> Now compare that to public-key encryption. Not only is it better assuming you only have access to a single private key (because you are still authenticating with the output of the key, not the key itself as with SSN), but also because a cryptographic card could store MULTIPLE private keys, allowing you to authenticate with a different "identity" to different providers, making it impossible for them to cross-reference you in that way.

But that's exactly the point. That isn't a national ID, it's ordinary public key cryptography which anyone can use right now already. You don't need a national ID for this, just create a new public-private key pair whenever you first interact with a new entity and use it to authenticate yourself to that entity going forward.

> Your bank knows that you are the same John Smith as your employer has on record, because you needed to use the same SSN for both.

But there is no good reason they need to know this, because having a bank account has really nothing to do with having an employer. All your employer should need is your bank account number so they can deposit your paycheck -- or not even that, just to give you a signature authorizing their bank to transfer money to you, where "you" means the person who can prove they hold the private key corresponding to a public key you gave your employer.

Banks shouldn't even need to know your name if things were being done securely, much less your SSN. Having them is nothing but a liability because someone who doesn't know what they're doing could mistake them for an authentication method.
I haven't once thought, "Gee, I really wish I could use Microsoft Word". I have thought, "there's a capability I wish I had in Docs" a few times.

I did most of my doc writing in LyX before Google, though.
Agriculture is unlikely to be the reason it evolved, as agriculture is only a few tens of thousands of years old. However fertile soil is also a good sign if you are a hunter/gatherer; it implies rich plant life, and therefore things to gather and maybe also things to hunt.
That's a crowd that skewed older in age, amongst other issues.
Perhaps, but almost certainly not. This sounds exactly like things that were said in sexual harassment trainings I've been to at other large companies. These trainings often provide examples of what can be construed which ways, because a non-trivial slice of any given sample of humanity totally lacks social graces. They don't want someone to later complain that, "I was only looking," when they get reprimanded for leering at a colleague.

Examples like this can accidentally or intentionally be misread as policy, but it is not actually policy. It's an example of what can be not OK in some contexts. Of course, I'm happy to be corrected if someone who works there wants to jump on and say otherwise. But I very much doubt that such a policy exists. Doesn't pass the sniff test.

https://qz.com/work/1306193/is-it-sexual-harassment-to-stare...

"A spokeswoman clarified there is no such “rule” at Netflix. However, she confirms that the recommendation was, in fact, discussed in an anti-harassment training session, though it’s not an official guideline."
That's not what i've seen. They're looking at it for blood transfers and finding asymptomatic people have sufficient loads.

edit: i think this is logical (for my rudimentary knowledge) given the cause of death is not directly related to the virus. The symptoms of dry cough and fever are all the bodies response. Even the shortness of breath and pneumonia might be attributed to inflammation. Perhaps the asymptotic people just don't have such a strong response for whatever reason.
"Zucked", by McNamee.
72% of workers are covered by the employer mandate. And it was merely one example out of a list of differentiators.

>FICA contributions have nothing to do with full time employment

Employers have to pay part of the FICA contributions for the W2 employees. 1099 employees have to pay all of this out of their own pocket via the SE tax.
> ...R0 of 3 meant you needed 66%. This would mean it'd need to be even higher - the article says 82%

For anyone curious,

R0 = 3 means iff 2 in 3 people (66.66%) [0] are immune would R0 drop to 1 [1].

So, when R0 = 5.7 (the value proposed by tfa for SARS-CoV-2), 4.7 in 5.7 (82.45%) would need to be immune for it to drop to 1 [1].

Why should R0 drop to 1 [1]?

It means each case leads to only 1 successful transmission of the infection. This implies constant incidence over time. If a greater proportion are immune, then incidence will decline.

Why "herd immunity" isn't enough?

...problems arise because herd immunity is not the same as biologic (immunologic) immunity; individuals protected only by indirect herd effects remain fully susceptible to infection, should they ever be exposed. This has advantages, in protecting individuals with contraindications to vaccination or those who for other reasons miss vaccination, but it also has its disadvantages. Measles and mumps outbreaks among university students, and pertussis in adults, are among examples of the consequences of accumulation of susceptible individuals who have not been protected by vaccination, and escaped infection because of a herd immunity effect earlier in their lives... This means that there is a need for immunization programs to maintain high vaccine coverage, together with surveillance and outbreak response capabilities, as numbers of susceptible individuals accumulate in older age groups.

From: https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/52/7/911/299077

[0] This assumes a 100% effective vaccine (E = 1) in ((R0 − 1)/R0)/E. If, for a given vaccine, E < (R0 - 1)/R0, it'd be impossible to eliminate the infection through that vaccine. (R0 − 1)/R0 is known as the "herd immunity threshold."

[1] What I really mean is R0 x S = 1. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemic_(epidemiology)
Agreed that actually doing the transformations is a bit of a mug's game. However, TypeScript's type system treats class definitions interestingly, particularly around metadata. You can attach validation metadata to a class and pass plain objects around that structurally match that class so long as you don't define methods or a constructor.

As mentioned in my sibling comment to yours, I do this to define DTOs that are then expressed in JSON Schema and passed through ajv, and it's pretty slick. The objects being used are all just JavaScript objects, the class is just being used as a metadata holder and something you can reference/get via `design:type`/`design:paramtype`/`design:returntype`.
In most contract work, expenses incurred by the contractor to fulfill the contract are almost always included in the contractor's invoice.
There is plenty of contracting work that both pays for travel and reimburses expenses, including all white-collar contracting and most blue-collar pay-for-hire. You're right that very little "gig" work does but that's the entire point; they push all these anicillary expenses onto someone else, either the individual or public/state systems.
I think that's a valid point. Cyc consisted of a set of frames/predicates with real world relations and concepts. And then the logic part on top would try to find inconsistencies, generate new predicates, and of course some kind of unification to answer questions over predicates.

They worked on it in isolation for decades, building new frames laboriously by hand, and made a few corporate sales I guess, but withdrew OpenCyc and that's about the last we heard from them. Major bummer.

I feel like an open source business model would have allowed the public to use and extend the frames, propelling Cyc to mainstream, while Cycorp would consult and advocate and curate.
On a long enough timescale they may burn themselves out, but on a long enough time scale everything comes to an end. Things happen, and then they stop happening. Exponential growth occurs, and then it stops occurring. Its eventual end does not disprove its prior existence.
Chrome has similar installers etc
I use buster to solve recaptcha.
Being effectively forced to use a product with security and privacy issues because of network effects. Zoom is pushing all the buttons.

Google, Facebook and others get criticism for exactly the same reasons
Sure, we can agree it's exponential until it's not.

And then we can start to think about whether it's going to be a logistic curve or oscillate and what factors might amplify or damp and our model is much more interesting.

Like, the original statement is about systems that people study and model, and how the exponential condition can really only exist for brief periods relative to the lifetime of almost all systems of interest.
Maybe not 16TB, but it is possible to have a desktop computer with 1.5TB of RAM (16 RAM slots, with 128GB per RAM stick). It is going to be fairly expensive, though.
> What we really need now to level is to make individual health insurance effectively a pre-income-tax item like it is when you get it via employment.

The ICHRA[1], which came into effect on January 2020 is an interesting step in this direction. It allows employers to provide a pre-tax cash monthly allowance to buy health insurance on the individual market in lieu of the monthly premiums they would pay anyway as part of the employer mandate to provide group health insurance directly.

There's even a YC company that offers ICHRA functionality for employers[2].

[1] https://ichra.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22527102
Also, I should point out that in terms of achieving correctness, it's possible to get similar value as what you're describing simply by having good tests.

I don't want to get into this argument now though because it could last forever but hopefully it highlights why it's important to keep arguments tightly bounded and not make blanket statements when the domain is so large and complex and we can go off on a tangent in an infinite number of directions.

Ultimately, I enjoy JavaScript and I don't want future employers to force me to use TypeScript because of articles like yours (with those kinds of titles)... I was already forced to use TypeScript at my last company, it went well but it would have been even better if founders had let me and my team use JavaScript... For one, I might not have quit the company. I was tired of debugging mangled JavaScript (compiled from TS) using vim over SSH whenever there was a problem (it was a large decentralized P2P project so often that was the only way to debug it). The drawbacks of TS were definitely not worth its benefits for that specific project.
I've been meaning to try this - corn starch slurry mixed in with the eggs see this Egg Foo Young recipe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnRBW7F3TOg
Please just stop.
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Do you have a source for this? Haven’t read that yet.
Better title: 800 Gb/s Ethernet Specification (from page 6)