skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So yeah people totally lose their health care when they lose their job. Typically it runs through the month and then you’re on your own. You can by law keep buying the same plan at full price (employers typically pay between 50-80 and sometimes up to 100% of the premium).

However, when you get sick that rate doesn’t go up, so there’s no incentive from your employers standpoint to fire you when sick. Because of the “losing coverage” part it’s still extra shitty when they double up (cancer plus being fired sounds pretty awful).

Obamacare notably created markets for folks not receiving health insurance through work to purchase it directly (in addition to subsidies for low to middle income folks to do so, and several regulatory changes around other parts of the system), but that basic system wasn’t fundamentally altered and has been more or less how the US has done things since world war 2.

Fun bonus fact, employer based insurance was first offered as a workaround for world war 2 era wage controls.
I don't get this. Don't resturaunts use flour and make bread? Why are stores resistant to selling the industrial size bags?
Covid-19: We Need More Than Data, We Need Insights
Off topic: I used to love lemondoor's blog when I was into lisp.
With Zoom, apparently there's the app bundle, some browser plugins, and an audio kernel extension (the latter two of which are majorly deprecated?)
What % of infosec/privacy-focused and crypto users will move to the alternative/s due to this?

Surely it's a minuscule amount if any, they are addicted to it like a drug and won't leave at all, complaining and feeling persecuted is all they have.

Twitter played their hand well and could easily go further down the line without any consequences.
Also the Bios of a couple of the authors at the end:

"Dr. Sanche is a postdoctoral research associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA. His primary research interest lies in complex disease dynamics inferred from data science and mathematical modeling. Dr. Lin is also a postdoctoral research associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His primary research interest lies in applied stochastic processes, biological physics, statistical inference, and computational system biology."
This is just a personal anecdote. It is the very definition of survivorship bias.
> BTW, can't Web pages link to the app store?

Yes. But neither are distributed on the App Store, so…
Landing Page Infrastructure/Experiments with Cloudflare Workers
There's a third "use at your own risk" option between the two extremes. Sure, install your favorite terminal emulator, but if it steals your production credentials you may get fired...
Oh, duh. Thanks.

Thats https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/option/enum.Option.html..., I think?
I wouldn't recommend failure, its current maintainer and original author will be deprecating it:

https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/failure-to-fehler/

From the article:

> The crate I would recommend to anyone who likes failure’s API is anyhow, which basically provides the failure::Error type (a fancy trait object), but based on the std Error trait instead of on.
I think in an ideal world you would do API changes to a live system in much the same way as you do with a live Database Schema: Carefully, and in a backward compatible manner.
The e-commerce entrepreneur became the richest woman in Russia
Interesting! From the smallpox wikipedia page:

> The term vaccine derives from the Latin word for cow, reflecting the origins of smallpox vaccination.
To fully connect the dots: after spending many years doing something really well, it can be humbling and depressing to try to extract purpose or identity from something you're comparatively terrible at. Impactful competence (or at least, the belief thereof) is a tough drug to come off of.
> Alex Waugh, director general of Nabim, says the issue isn't being able to mill enough flour - but the lack of capacity to pack it into small bags for retailers. Only around 4% of UK flour is sold through shops and supermarkets, according to the association. The majority is produced in bulk and delivered in tankers or bags of more than 16kg to bakeries or other food manufacturers.

So there's plenty of flour, it's just that small, home-sized bags used to be 4% of their sales and now that ratio has been flipped on its head and they aren't yet equipped to package it in that way.
Reasons You Shouldn't Use MoSCoW for Product Prioritization
I was terribly sick in early February, in CA. I went to my urgent care multiple times as I got worse.

The doctor tested me for influenza, but told me that he was seeing hundreds of patients, all day every day, with "an unusual flu" where they were mildly sick for a few days, recover, and then suddenly got much worse with high fevers and chest infections -- and most of those patients were turning up with negative influenza tests. But influenza tests have a high false negative rate, so just because I was negative on the test didn't mean anything. The doc said that this year, the influenza test only seemed to show positive for folks that had a high fever the first day of their illness (which, between you and me, is very common with influenza and very uncommon for COVID)

I was out of work for over a week, and only got out of bed when I had no choice the entire time.

None of my doctors asked me about travel or contact with recent travelers, and nobody ever even suggested getting a coronavirus test.

When I got back to work a week later, I learned that nearly 10% of my office had gotten sick either the same day as me or while I was out.

Did we all have COVID-19?

maybe. Maybe not.

None of us were tested. None of us will turn up in the COVID statistics.

But in early/mid February, there definitely was some coronavirus here -- we had a few known travel cases, and we had tons of travelers between all regions of China and all parts of CA. It is entirely possible for folks to have unknowingly brought the virus here in moderate numbers.
It's a way to pass the time during quarantine. It isn't about baking as much bread as you would normally eat if you were eating at a restaurant. It's about having something to do other than go stir crazy from being confined to home while scared about what's going on.
For Implementing Continuous Integration with Jenkins
https://diveonci.blogspot.com/

Kindly have a look on procedure linked in URL.
It seems unnecessary for core functionality at least -- I installed Zoom by unpacking the .app from the .pkg by hand (without running any installer scripts) and it works fine.
Having spent a few years working with DynamoDB to build multi-region, multi-tenancy platforms, I must say that DynamoDB is a good fit as a supplement datastore i.e. you should only store a sub-set of information managed by your serverless microservice. DynamoDB multi-region replication is just amazing. Unfortunately, we had a few massive billing spikes with DynamoDB, and we end-up adding pricing measurement and tests to track read/write units in all our functions.

I generally don't recommend DynamoDB as primary data store irrespective of your use case. It takes too much time to model the data. With every new requirement, you have to redo a lot of modelling exercise. Choices you made in beginning start looking bad and you will not remember why you created that particular combination of the composite key or local secondary index which offers no benefit due to incremental changes. Transaction support is painful, existing SDKs just don't cut.

I often wish some of the GCP Firebase features are available in DynamoDB like namespace, control on daily throughput to avoid billing spikes and transaction support.
They've been used for centuries in one form or another and are a fantastic tool, lauded even by world-record holders in the deadlift.
> It would be like asking a pro NBA player to also take a shot at being a pro NFL player.

I meant, the point of being rich is that you don't have to be a pro anything. You can just learn to grow radishes, or whatever suits your fancy. Or just sit and read the great books.
Artistic integrity.
If you have a vehicle which is ten years old, even with low miles it generally won't be worth very much, and you can't lose more than the remaining amount by putting additional miles on it. You can't even lose the entire remaining amount, because it will always have at least scrap metal value. This means that for a vehicle you hold for several years, the depreciation due to miles will be very low.

You could easily spend many times that amount on maintenance and repairs. One transmission rebuild could cost more than the total amount of depreciation due to miles over the entire life of the vehicle. Just oil changes add up to more than $10,000 over a million miles.

Maintenance is a significant expense per mile, even more if you're using "average" vehicles (as companies setting per-mile rates would) which can have significantly higher maintenance costs than the sort of vehicles people choose when they know they're going to be driving a lot of miles.
I don't have any insight into the why. Only that the growth rate in tests per day has slowed to an almost stagnant level.
Observation: I never thought about it until now, but...

Data Centers exist at the nexus of technology, real estate, and marketing...

In other words, to succeed as a new data center (should one decide that that is a business they would want to embark on!), one would want to know not only the technology side of things -- but would ideally also have a background in real estate -- and marketing as well...

Yes, I'd love to run a data center business in the future, but I don't have a background in real estate or marketing -- at least, not quite at this point in time! <g>

So the data center will have to wait... for now... <g>

(Other unrelated observation: A bidding system for colocation space would be one heck of an idea for someone to implement...)
At least for Australia, flour was already in unusually short supply prior to Coronavirus. Primarily due to drought.

https://www.afr.com/companies/agriculture/drought-shrinks-gr...
If 16kg bags are what you have sell them!
There's also the traits of adaptation and resilience.
The parent made two claims, I only responded to one of them. You seem to think I responded to the other one. I'm sorry for not being more clear about that!

> But the rate at which it is growing and changing means it won't actually take 30 years to become the new C++.

I very, truly, seriously doubt this is true. First of all, as I said elsewhere in the thread, Rust has been changing very slowly lately. But beyond that, a significant reason for C++'s complexity is that it's sort of two, possibly three different languages: Modern C++ is very different than C with Classes. It is a miracle that they retrofitted a new language on top of an old one, but there's no indication that Rust will ever do that. The quantity of change is one thing, but the qualitative aspects matter here too, and I feel like you're only considering the quantitative aspect (which, I also disagree with, to be clear.)
I wish we could just make people smarter instead of having to dumb everything down with handholding UX. Too bad that's impossible.
Restaurants in the UK (which the article is about) are currently closed, since it's on lockdown. People want flour at home to make cakes and sourdough bread.
The sandboxed APIs should be more than enough for a video conferencing client. (Which, after all, can run in a browser…)
Baking is such a wonderful way to relieve stress and there's so much chemistry involved that it's great for geeks, too. A good book (available in ebook) is The Bread Makers Apprentice: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39910
It's something I would strongly recommend against, since it gives your employer easy access to monitor you, and if for some reason your employer winds up in court, everything you used the machine for could end up read into the record.
And as the article notes—the demand is not for more flour but just a demand for the same amount of flour but in smaller bags which is exactly what you would expect.

Bread-making is not such an alien or quaint skill set. People have either already made bread, or know someone who makes it. We have friends or family members who are into Martha Stewart, Food Network, or Bon Appétit.

Especially with the internet, we are not confused people who are panic buying flour, but people who know (or can find out online) that making bread is not especially challenging, it’s just time-consuming, and much of that time is spent waiting. It’s hard to fit making bread into your schedule if you go to work every day, but if you’re stuck at home anyway and the store is low on bread…
I too read that blog post and the supposed science that the author purports, which caused me to search for some scientific explanations and found this article by two Chinese Scientists: https://bit.ly/2VaR39G
"falling rocket"... on a parachute.
Lack of demand, shelf space is expensive.

When was the last time you think most consumers tried to buy anything more than 1kg of flour?

To buy in bulk wholesale restaurants and bakeries don't go to the local supermarket, they go straight to the source, or through a wholesale grocer or supplier.
My guess is that the sizes are wrong. Bakeries want 50-pound bags, consumers, even pandemic-panicked consumers, want 5 or 10-pound bags.

> Only around 4% of UK flour is sold through shops and supermarkets

> existing packing lines can't easily be adapted to produce smaller retail bags.
From a pure cut-throat capitalist perspective, this seems like a stupid move. Teams like this are not easy to replace, and Disney has plenty of money.
Jenkins Installation and Configuration
Please have a look on the procedure which i given in link.

https://diveonjenkins.blogspot.com/
> there’s no incentive from your employers standpoint to fire you when sick

except that if you get a severe illness and can't come to work, they can fire you for that
Many of my local restaurants are buying extra 50lb flour sacks and making 2lb ziplock bags of flour go customers to buy. They are having no problem getting their delivery each day, and they barely have half the custom, so they have plenty to spare.

The thing about 50lb sacks is that you can't store the flour in the sack after you open it -- and very few homeowners have enough sealed containers to put 50lbs of flour in, nor the cabinet space to put them in.

My local store does stock 50lb sacks, in addition to the 2, 5, and 10lb home-sized bags.

The small sacks are always sold out, unless you get there before opening (I asked), bit the 50lb sacks last most of the day each day.

I managed to snag the very last 10lb yesterday morning, so I can finally bake again.
So the "best practices" under EARN IT are to be made by a committee of law enforcement agencies, with no congressional oversight.
This is a cool way to get people to label data and validate data models with a varied set of people
At risk of stating the obvious, but the advantage of making sourdough bread specifically is that you don't need to buy yeast (which is also in short supply), just flour, water, and salt.
Who sent the email scheduling the meeting?
A new one released today on Homeworld.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q38556KTTR0
Easily outperformed by the more traditional TensorRT, which TF also supports: https://devblogs.nvidia.com/tensorrt-integration-speeds-tens....

In fact, also seems to be outperformed by plain PyTorch using a single V100: https://github.com/NVIDIA/DeepLearningExamples/tree/master/P...
Think around $2000 a month for a family of 4 or $600 for an individual.
Monthly cost for a married couple with children can easily be over $2000 a month.
I did the same a few weeks ago. Here's the automated response from Feinstein's office:

> Dear [Name]:

> Thank you for writing to me to share your concerns about law enforcement access to encrypted communications. I appreciate the time you took to write, and I welcome the opportunity to respond.

> I understand you are opposed to the “Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act of 2020” (S. 3398), which I introduced with Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Josh Hawley (R-MO) on March 5, 2020. You may be interested to know that the Senate Judiciary Committee—of which I am Ranking Member—held a hearing on the “EARN IT Act” on March 11, 2020. If you would like to watch the full hearing or read the testimonies given by the hearing witnesses, I encourage you to visit the following website: https://sen.gov/53RV.

> The “EARN IT Act” would establish a National Commission on Online Sexual Exploitation Prevention to recommend best practices for companies to identify and report child sexual abuse material. Companies that implement these, or substantially similar, best practices would not be liable for any child sexual abuse materials that may still be found on their platforms. Companies that fail to meet these requirements, or fail to take other reasonable measures, would lose their liability protection.

> Child abuse is one of the most heinous crimes, which is why I was deeply disturbed by recent reporting by The New York Times about the nearly 70 million online photos and videos of child sexual abuse that were reported by technology companies last year. It is a federal crime to possesses, distribute, or produce pictures of sexually explicit conduct with minors, and technology companies are required to report and remove these images on their platforms. Media reports, however, make it clear that current federal enforcement measures are insufficient and that we must do more to protect children from sexual exploitation.

> Please know that I believe we must strike an appropriate balance between personal privacy and public safety. It is helpful for me to hear your perspective on this issue, and I will be mindful of your opposition to the “EARN IT Act” as the Senate continues to debate proposals to address child sexual exploitation.

> Once again, thank you for writing. Should you have any other questions or comments, please call my Washington, D.C. office at (202) 224-3841 or visit my website at feinstein.senate.gov. You can also follow me online at YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, and you can sign up for my email newsletter at feinstein.senate.gov/newsletter.

> Best regards.

> Sincerely yours,

> Dianne Feinstein

> United States Senator

I don't know why I still bother.
This article says that people with mild symptoms have fewer antibodies and says it’s unclear if they can be reinfected. Further it doesn’t mention asymptomatic cases.
The article is literally about a huge increase in demand for more flour by consumers. The industry is "working round the clock" to meet demand. People have a lot of extra time at home so they are baking a lot more, which they did not do in the past. Thankfully there's enough wheat to meet the increased demand, but the bottleneck is currently packaging.

I've personally had to order flour in bulk (50lb bags) online.
Most Popular Arabic Keyboard Application for Android in 2020
About 6000, apparently: https://twitter.com/tldtoday/status/1225602339056189445
The reward for (let's be honest) suffering through Myst is that you get to play the absolute joy of a game that is Riven, possibly the finest exploration/discovery/puzzle game ever created by humans. I love it really quite a lot.
> I also think that partners are well aware of the possibility of Twitch getting rid of them at any time with no recourse; this is why they heavily advertise their social media, Discord, and YouTube channels.

I believe this is just good self-marketing, not paranoia. If you're a content creator in today's age, you're going to be trying to get traction on every major platform. It's like in SEO, make sure all your site pages are linked to each other, aka "Make sure people can access all relevant content". It's a way to increase retention and traction, not a fail-safe for being banned.
This is an issue with the installers. The fact that installers on macOS still work like in the 90s baffles me -- I thought they had done something smart with sandboxes, APIs for system privileges, and a "secure path" where user consent uses system-controlled GUI.

This issue mainly tells me that macOS installers are largely like a Windows .exe and Linux curl | sh (well, that's not true since it still needs to be signed…).
How is Go anything like a C 2.0. It's more of a server-side scripting language if anything
It’s become more common to eschew long-lived release branches for SaaS applications. For example: https://engineering.fb.com/web/rapid-release-at-massive-scal...
Well Amazon is in the process of automating package delivery and cashiers. The current pandemic has only sped up their efforts IMO. So anything in relation to automating what you do in the office like IT or automating away parts of sales will be in demand. Yes these are difficult problems, but they wouldn't be multibillion dolar problems if they were easily solved.
> Upshot: You use quantum mechanics to decide a classical potential for you (e.g. you chose the classical potential that factors into pairs such that each pair energy is 'closest' in the Hilbert space metric to the quantum rest) - Downside: You're missing the variance.

Couldn't the quantum mechanical state become multimodal such that the classical approximation picks a state that is far away from the physical reality?

And, couldn't this multimodality excaberate during the actual physical process and possibly arrive at a number of probable outcomes which are never predicted by the simulation? Is there more than hope that that doesn't happen?
Unfortunately there's no downvote button. This is not the kind of thing I come to hn to read.
If I hadn’t been on large corporate projects that were wildly successful in extreme shortened periods of design and development, I wouldn’t make my arguments.

Adapting to the needs of a given domain may require a relational data store, but it’s my experience those are rare occasions.
I can’t believe how cloud has been so popular and every company is pushing towards cloud and I totally agree with you cloud is basically someone else computer but people make it seem like its something big
You know what i mean
Glad someone else noticed this. We are yet to have a crash from the coronavirus pandemic. You'd need another compound 50% off before I call it a crash.
It’s been every 7-8 years for me for my entire life. I find it very difficult to make large bets.
I graduated at the height of the dot com era and haven't made it - you may too.
IMS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Information_Management_Sys...) called and wants its segmented hierarchies back. :-)
Brings back memories. Love it.
I thought the same thing until I was recently introduced to the Wikipedia article [0] that suggests it’s actually for the purpose of family vacation.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_vacation#United_State...
Perfume Used to Catch a Tiger (2018)
Sure, but Scala supports monads via the 'for' construction and yet, no monad trait or class is defined in the base language at all. Even if they are defined ad-hoc on each type, there's value there.
For what definition of real time?
Not sure I completely understand it, but Jenkins is apparently auto-tagging things (maybe every commit that passes tests?). I think their actual releases have "stable" in the tag and release name, so "current" is "stable/jitsi-meet_4384".

4384 matches the latest versions I'm seeing for Ubuntu and Debian at https://jitsi.org/downloads/ under "Jitsi Desktop stable build line". For some reason other OSes seem to be much further behind.
the Swedish state epidemiologist used that measure as a way of measuring the effectiveness of the social distancing and quarantine measures.

apparently, the number of people receiving hospital treatment or dying from yearly virus infections like the flu has dropped significantly.