skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On Twitter, for him, it is a completely justifiable approach, and he would be correct 99.99% of times.
Probably because despite how the media is portraying things, people are concerned and can actually act out of altruism. Plus, individuals who are practicing social distancing probably don't need to go through PPE like you would in an intensive care ward.

I'm in China and have sold over 30,000 masks to the US (not for profit, but I don't have the cash to just donate them). We've sold to hundreds of different individuals at this point, and none of them are using the buying patterns you describe. The only people buying more than a hundred or so are buying for employees, hospitals, or doing a good job of lying about their intentions. Everyone is buying just a few and making them last.

So far I've personally taken one 10-pack of KN95s from our stock (of which I use 4 so far, on rotation. the other 6 are still in the pack), and about 5 surgical masks. There are strategies for extending the life if you do a little research.

The vast majority of regular people just aren't currently using PPE in the way you describe. After reading up on it, personally I think there's a useful middle ground between throwing away masks like you would in an ICU and completely doing without.

Sanitizer and gloves I know less about. But we do sell gloves and nobody is ordering more than a few boxes of those, either.
The Coming Mental Health Crisis as Remote Working Surges
"RSS Feeds for the 20th Century" feels pretty dated. I want to see "RSS Feeds for the 19th Century".
Currently nothing, ran out of books to read and amazon is taking forever to ship them, despite the hefty shipping fee I paid(currently two weeks from Austria to Bulgaria which is just over 1000 km away)... Rant aside, all of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's books are a very good choice for anyone that hasn't read them.
Hypothetically speaking, if there existed individuals who appeared to be able to achieve acts of magic, sorcery, or witchcraft -- choose your preferred term -- then there could be entirely rational scientific explanations.

It could be that the accused individuals have no special innate abilities themselves, but that for some reason there are people around them who wish to make them feel (or appear) as if they do, by altering their surroundings and experience.

That could be for kind reasons; for example, to provide respite and entertainment to people who had experienced trauma in the past. Or it could be for nefarious reasons; for example, to lead someone to make unusual and/or risky decisions. Either approach could, over time, result in psychological effects that could probably be measured and quantified by professionals.

If that's a reasonable hypothesis to start from, then even if you do not fundementally believe in paranormal abilities, you could still argue that there's benefit in researching reports of paranormal actions - it could help you discover targeted individuals and the groups who protect or attack them, and potentially turn those individuals and/or groups to your own benefit.
The way I see it, it's the cheap money problem. Big businesses with lots of capital are incentivized to borrow cheap money and make stupid investments with that borrowed money.
His masks cost 10c where Chinese-made masks cost 2c.

Once you factor in the cost of this crisis as an externality, the cost of Chinese-made anything skyrockets. Outsourcing is a bait-and-switch, always was.
Space Pioneer raises $14M to develop green liquid rocket engines
I don't know why you're downvoted, you're right. AIUI USA's Fair Use is usually negated by selling the result of that use when it amounts to a derivative work (but some commercial use can be Fair Use).

I think that the mention of DMCA [down thread] doesn't really work here, that's for sites with primarily legitimate use; if the site in question has a route for acquiring permissions, and has a system to check with users before they (the website service's commuters) download content - to check they have a license - then safe harbor provisions could apply.

Even torrent sites, I gather, tell you not to put up copyright content before giving the opportunity to do so.

All that aside, such sites are definitely copyright infringement in the UK (but I don't now how jurisdiction applies over the internet; I've yet to find good sources on that).
It's not as convenient, but you can always scroll horizontally with shift.
I would go through these three videos :
- Ray Dalio for one view https://youtu.be/PHe0bXAIuk0
- Yanis Varoufakis for another https://youtu.be/zi-dXc0bKUM
- Charles Mackay for an ancient, wise and entertaining read : https://youtu.be/FxgRbnh2ouE
I did say it wasn't a good choice, all I said it did is work as a decongestant. Nobody is making claims that you should take amphetamines (let alone street amphetamines), sick or otherwise.
Deustche's “Unproven Theorem Paradox” for time-travelling virtual machines
No idea about user dropoff studies.

Slack did (do? I no longer use it) it, Scaleway (https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/console-magic-link-authenti...), medium.com, https://www.topicbox.com/ at least.

Yes (unless you are launching an email provider or an end to end encrypted service), because it reduces the number of passwords users have to keep (one of the biggest problem of our time, password managers are not a viable / good solution) and it reduces your attack surface (you no longer have to store password hashes nor can't chose an insecure hash function).
Half of American workers would rather work from home forever: poll
Sadly, it's hard for me to imagine Weird Al will have much appeal to younger generations. If you've heard "Bad" 1000 times then his parody of it is hilarious, if you've heard "Bad" once on an oldies station maybe the parody still sounds goofy and funny, but you won't have the context to totally get the joke.
Right. And there’s no way to have an exception just like there is today. I can’t tell if you’re all be obtuse on purpose. Is this some sort of political movement to equate minimum wage to eugenics? As is now conservatives care about the poor, disabled, and minorities? What’s crazy is that I agree with OP of this thread that economists should refrain from saying what’s moral. But that’s because most economists are just old white men, and I doubt they’re able to judge what’s moral better than others.
I've worked with "developers that can't code".

One example was an external contractor who, according to their CV, had multiple years experience with programming in C.

The person was tasked to fix some errors in our code base that the static code analysis tool found, e.g. remove implicit type conversion, etc.
They submitted their changes for review, claiming the analysis tool reports 0 issues now.
Their code simply did not compile (and the analysis tool only works with a successful compilation)!

Even after explaining the issue, the developer asked if the task is completed now and if they could move on to the next one.

This wasn't the only time this developer proved that they "can't code".

The issue is that it is very easy to claim to have experience.
There are a lot of self-taught programmers out there who learned coding at home by themselves.
How do you differentiate those from people who "can't code", but claim to do?

I like the approach to let them implement a small(!) piece of code ahead of time and in the actual interview let them explain their code, their decisions and ask questions.
Economists do not claim to know the economy, much less to the point of becoming rich. They are far more likely to insist that nobody can know such thing. You must be thinking of somebody else.
You do realize that we have done more than DOUBLE the number of tests than the next country in the world (Germany), right? That's 2.9m tests vs 1.3m. The infrastructure to support testing can't magically expand over night. The hypochondriacs are consuming many of those tests, with positive tests being a tiny portion of that 2.9m number.
The establishment you describe in step 1 is the government. Wall street could not do what they do now without government involvement. They will run out of money, and have to suffer the losses of the bad loans they make, instead of relying on the Fed to save them by depreciating the money of regular working people.
To me, the question that springs to mind then is: does that kind of attitude work as well for “lesser” mathematicians/people?

(I'm not sure it does)
A couple of years ago my wife treated my to a Weird Al concert in the Melkweg in Amsterdam. It started with Tacky, but Al wasn't on stage yet. Instead he appeared on screen, singing and walking through the streets of Amsterdam, pushing someone into a canal in front of the venue, and then he entered and moments later appeared on stage, where he seamlessly finished the song.

It was absolutely the most spectacular opening of a concert I'd ever seen. And after that, the concert just kept getting better and better. It was a unique experience. Particularly the encore with the Star Wars songs.
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The entrails of birds.
I didn't know about that.

I tried control-x escape, that only does variable expansion (and it appears to expand aliases too)
What Makes Portable CCTV a Better Low Vision Aid?
Right now I enjoy reading The Coming Plague
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases-Balan...
Written 1995, but incredibly actual. Shows that most of epidemics are function of political will and economy and vice versa.
That’s why you should have an emergency fund or some other sort of cash reserves.
Could use mv -iv for interactive and verbose if you want a rollback or commit alternative.

The real question is: why move files at all?
Kindle?
Na, you’ve misinterpreted what people say.

They aren’t so much concerned by “people buying what they don’t need” - hardy a major concern of most hackers - they’re concerned about invasive data tracking being used to target ads. So I think you’ve gotten the first one wrong. And there’s no contradiction with the second in that case.
But he shut down the department that was especially created to make sure the US is prepared to health crisis like COVID-19?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
Close, it's derived from Syriac. Arabic and Syriac have a common ancestor, Aramaic.

http://enwp.org/Mongolian_script
How many pageviews are you doing per month and what is your Google Adsense RPM? Before throwing advertising out, wondering if the ads are working as effectively as they should.

In addition, agree with keiferski that ebooks could be a good path forward.

You could also do classes or "bootcamps" for skills training.
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Wow, what a great idea, and largely fantastic implementation! It really looks good.

Do RSS feeds have "just" text that you pull to get the article content, or are you parsing the webpage somehow? If so, how?

I've done something slightly (well, about 1% :-) similar for the "Popular" page on pinboard[0]. It used to have a line or two from the start of the article, using a webpage content extractor that got turned off, so I can't use it anymore.

One arguably nice thing about mine is that it's updated once a day, and it remembers what you've read yesterday, so new articles are marked, and you can flip a switch to see the new stuff first.

Thanks!

[0] https://pbpb.cls.cloud
> It sounds to me that you think the Chinese people do not have the right to write a blog and post it on the Internet.

baybal2 can be quite trollish, but he gets accused of pro-China bias much more frequently. This is actually the first time where I've seen the opposite accusation.

One time, dang (who moderates the discussion here, in case you're not aware) even commented specifically to defend baybal2 and clarify that he's not a "pro-Chinese agent":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195898

Impressions based on single comment threads can be very misleading about the character of individual participants here.
> what's amplified and not amplified

Euphemistically this is generally called spin, and is practised by every large company and every large paper with any kind of state involvement (in a very real sense they all do, even in the west). Criticising a Chinese publication for containing propaganda while being mired in it constantly ourselves is just another example of picking "what's amplified and not amplified", because it's part of a broad push to demonise China (the big scary Other).
I keep reading that tech moves so fast that your tech stack becomes out of date. But, if you avoid the front end, it’s not hard to choose the technology that’s the right place on the hype cycle.

In 2008, I was looking for a job after being in at one company for nine years. I happen to keep all of my job search emails in a folder by year. Looking at the job reqs for standard enterprise development in 2008, they were looking for either Java, C# or a few were still looking for C++. Java has been in demand since 2000, C# since around 2004 they both still are.

As far as databases, the big four were Sql server. Oracle, Mysql and I think Postgres (wasn’t on my radar until 2012). I’ve been going back and forth between Mysql and Sql Server for two decades.

Javascript has been in demand since 2002. Definitely by 2008 when employers were asking for “AJAX frameworks”.

As far as your examples, it’s not hard to guess that you should stay away from basing your career on anything built on top of Google’s infrastructure (GCP) when they are in third place behind AWS and Azure, and aren’t really making that many inroads into large corporations. As far as Metro, by the time Metro came out, it had been clear for years to avoid desktop development of any kind outside of games if you wanted a technology with broad appeal.
Google cancels legacy Google Play Music subscriptions
It's a bit tragic that he is remembered for something he himself wasn't very fond of. From his biography:

"Do you know something? I hate the Life game. I've really realized that I hate the damned Life game. ... I'm scared of the following thing happening. I'm scared of it becoming another one of these, 'John Conway, inventor of the celebrated Game of Life...' I told you, every time I turn to a book, a new math book, I look up the sacred name and it says: 'Conway, Game of life, pages 34 to 38.' And that's roughly all it says. And how can I say it---it's not character assassination, exactly, it's quality assassination. I regard Life as trash, and frankly. I mean, it was a real part of my life to have discovered it and so on. And I don't think it should be totally removed. But it seems to be all that I'm known for, among the general public. ... This was never a big deal as far as we were concerned. This was just a recreation, a game we played. Somehow it became a bit more important later on, or at least it did in the eyes of other people. I never thought of it as very important, I just thought of it as a bit of fun. In fact, in a way, I felt ashamed of it. I don't think it counts in the mathematical community, or at least in the serious mathematical community. I don't think any of my Princeton colleagues think this Life game is of any importance. I don't know. In a way it doesn't count for me."

Apparently his favorite work was on the surreal numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number
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Economist here. Mostly agree with this sentiment.

I listened to the National Association of Business Economists webinar yesterday presenting survey expectations for Q2. To say there was difference in opinions is an understatement. Opinion ranged from barely any impact to 50% GDP loss (annualized, so 1/4 of that for a quarter).

You hear economists say things like "guns and butter do well in recessions." The same idea applies here: what do people need during this time? That is what creates the market.

Outside of that, my only thought is don't pay attention to the short run volatility of the stock market as an indicator for long run economic outcomes.
The Infinite Monkey Theorem Experiment
What has English given to the world? Scat porn and scantily clad women? Lol
>My girlfriend is a camgirl

yikes
By most measures, both for ad platforms and advertisers (and subsequently users), audience-targeted ads outperform context-targeted ads. You could go back to a world of only context-targeted ads, but publishers would need to make their business models work with lower RPMs, advertisers with lower ROAS, and users with less relevant ads (to them).
To make it clear:
If you were google play music subscriber, which in 2014 offered plan with lifetime guarantee of price: You've been silently cancelled by Google :)

Upon contacting support, the only remedy they offer as for now is to subscribe to You Tube music (higher price and no lifetime guarantee) and are 'investigating' while of course they hadnt provided any solution.

Additional info:

* you did not get ANY information about this cancellation, up to the moment people starting flooging their support which was yesterday :)

* at that moment, you probably got two cancellation mails without any usefull info

* this is Google problem/action (not known atm), not your bank or CC

Additional info v2:

* Google did NOT try to do monhtly charges for the service on the usual date, bank/CC confirms NOT a single charge attempt until, YTM resubsbription on support request.

* The problem affects probably (?) subscribers with renewal dates between April 1st and 12th (incl.) as on 13th Google noticed problems and stopped "auto-cancel-feature".

Additional info v3:

* Looks like that only some subscribers (Europeans for sure) were affected by it, so smaller impact, maybe related to country of subscriber (unknown atm)

* It was probably part of the glitched (?) and multi-steps transition of google music to youtube music services (speculation atm)
I'm thinking of this as a temporary hysteria. Nothing much you can do to reason with hysterical people. The only thing that sometimes works for hysteria is a good slap in the face.
There is also category of people who did not died of corona, but would not died had there been no corona epidemic. Hospital being overflown means that many people are not getting same care as they would had there been ventilators, drugs and doctors available.
That HK government website is amazing.
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There was a particularly childish fight between Taleb and Nate Silver about a year ago on Twitter. I couldn't stand following either of them after that and I haven't looked back.
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Hey all - I find myself going retro to avoid all the Covid insanity. I wrote a Teletext webpage generator in BBC basic and made this site. If anyone is interested I’ll release the source. BBC Basic supports teletext in Mode 7 and it’s a wonderfully fun and simple rabbit hole to go down!
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Total Number of Mortgage Loans in Forbearance Jumped from 2.73% to 3.74%
The attribute used on the Mongolian president's site linked above is "writing-mode: vertical-lr;". It seems like Electron & co. may be the best options for apps.
Hmm... they do, but this is actively incentivised with low interest rates, which directly inventivise borrowing, and also have secondary effects, such as easily available mortgages leading to increased house prices, which leads to further borrowing.

You can also see this in student loans. Sure, people volutarily choose to take them out. But this is because they live in a society where access to a lot of jobs is gated on having a degree, and degrees are so expensive that a loan is the only option more often than not.
The 'copy all urls' and 'bulk open urls' Chrome extensions.
Did you read to the end? The article does actually make that point:

> But [Bannister] and Laughlin introduce a new wrinkle to the mystery: They’re skeptical that ‘Oumuamua is actually a cigar-shaped object, pointing to a paper published last summer that revisited the original observations of the object. The newer analysis concludes that ‘Oumuamua may actually have a pancake-like shape—a shape that Bannister likens to an overstuffed pita, similar to an object in the outer solar system called MU69, or Arrokoth.

I get your point that the article doesn't promote the significance of the disc-shape analysis enough however my takeaway from the article wasn't that it was claiming the origin of Oumuamua was solved but rather new research has identified potential scenarios where cigar-shaped objects could be naturally created (research which was spurred on by the discovery and mystery of Oumuamua).

If that was what the article intended to cover then it doesn't make sense to cover the disc-shaped analysis extensively throughout the article however for clarity the mention of Oumuamua probably should also have been demoted in at least the title. Sadly I think there's little chance of putting click-bait headlines back in the proverbial genie bottle.
Why shouldn’t you have decent writing skills? There are so many highly skilled developers who get frustrated because their ideas aren’t taken seriously because they don’t communicate well and don’t have any persuasive capabilities. My career was stuck in neutral for a decade before I started working on my interpersonal skills and learned how to navigate corporate politics.
Fail as compared to what? Is there a system that handles disasters so well that no one complains? Or that does much better without sacrificing in other relevant areas?
The contract market in London is in a difficult place at the moment. IR35 has generally made buyers weary (in a way they weren't before) as well as limited the type of work contractors are given; budgets have also been very tightly squeezed because of Corona, it's hitting contractors pretty hard.

As a 'buyer' of these services myself, full-stack JS dev contractors are in one of the most oversaturated parts of the market and many in my network are attempting to find full-time work at the moment. Those that aren't are having to compete on rates in a way they never have before, definitely a buyers market.

The other side of this is how much more volatile contractor work is than before, many companies with a mixed full-time/contractor team see their contractor pool as the most 'expendable' when cuts need to be made. Many people in my network have had existing long-term contracts ended with little to no notice.

I've also seen limited evidence the pushing back of IR35 to next year is changing the policies towards contractors at large corporates, where (by volume) most contractors get their contracts.

In short, I don't think it's the best time, but: if you do make the jump, make sure you have contracts SIGNED before you make any big decisions. Not a hand-shake or an email, a written contract. If you can get that, then you'll be in a good place.
What were the ideologies that shaped the economic systems in which we live you ask? Welp do I have a book for you, friend:

Capital and Ideology by by Thomas Piketty

Spoiler alert
Since way back inequality was baked-in as a featue.