skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you learn all the letters, as you walk around, pick various items you encounter, and say their name in Morse code. A car: "dah-dit-dah-dit. Dit-dah. Dit-darrrr-dit."

For fun, pronounce "R" like a pirate would.
Well the hospitals have plenty of excess capacity now. We’ve very successfully flattened the curve. It might be time to ease up.

I thought this doctor explained the idea better than I could: https://medium.com/@jbgeach/eight-reasons-to-end-the-lockdow...

But I’m just winging this like everyone. I could certainly be wrong.
I don't relate but this is extremely interesting to me.
There is no "obvious bias". Firouzja is an "Iranian teen".

The fact that "a teen" has beaten the undisputed world champion and number one chess player in the world for the last 10 years at anything involving chess is very surprising and called out in the title (also a lot more click-baity).

Believe me, if and when Firouzja achieves Magnus status and if he then gets beaten by a teen unknown to general audiences we will see a similar headline with Iranian replaced by the teen's country of origin and "Magnus Carlsen" replaced with "Alireza Firouzja".
Yes. And the difference is a small minimum amount of intelligence. Anyone can argue anything. See eg lawyers for the classic example.
The financial system is a mess these days... I think being lazy is a good thing. Just find a 9 to 5 job and do the bare minimum work that you need to be able to eventually retire.

Don't waste your life chasing success. Success is completely random.

The journey to learning this terrible fact will teach you a lot of things, none of which will make your life any better. It's far better to be a lazy idiot. Stupidity and laziness are very useful tools for succeeding in our modern economy. Lazy people don't get burned out.
I have been pushing to go 1/2 time or 3/4s time for a while* with a large state agency and the primary reason I was given that I could not is because part-time jobs are more difficult to fill in the future. Which makes sense to me: in my field, and a lot of professional fields, most people have large student debt (I don’t) a family (I don’t) and barely manageable mortgages to boot (I don’t) and, therefore, they need a full-time paycheck. I am on my phone so I could not search all the comments to see if this had been said.

* I am hoping the unavoidable budget shortfalls following this pandemic make this possible.
Why would debt not cause inflation? “Money” today is almost entirely made up of credit, increase credit and you increase the money supply, which is more less the definition of inflation.

The thing about shifting demand causing inflation seems to me more like an adjustment. Not really the kind of inflation that cause trouble.

Also, since you mentioned landlords. Check out geo-libertarian take on this. Financing an UBI from a land value tax is in my opinion the most interesting approach. Since it would be based on a principle of justice, not just another welfare scheme.
Thanks! I like that you can delete on mouse movement -- I think it's actually better and more intuitive than my original suggestion.
This seems to be a fully paywalled article.
Yes, I meant log-structured filesystems.
Tim's Funny Money: “Where's George” does not support non-US post codes
It's astonishing how virulently your very sensible post is getting downvoted. By bots? Or actual HN real people? Either possibility is very very bad for humanity.

> even people who recover, this does long term lung and maybe heart damage

The problematic ACE2 receptor sites are also in the brain, intestines and liver and have seen damage. The brain one is the most alarming one from a survival perspective. We survive, but with irreparable permanent brain damage. We're no longer ourselves, we have a different personality, and we are incapable of doing our previous jobs. Is death preferable?
In modern globalized economics the only things that really inflate uncontrollably are things those supply is constrained by forces beyond production scalability. IE patents, copyrights, or things of extremely finite supply like land.

TVs keep getting cheaper because economies of scale keep growing and the industrialization of billions of people in the last 40 years has produced enough supply to more than meet rising demand combined with technological innovation and automation efficiencies dropping the resource and labor requirements substantively. There are probably orders of magnitude more TVs made and sold today than in 2000, but the cost per unit has fallen in that time (or you get a radically more complex / better product for comparative prices).

Insulin, college, rent, etc prices rise uncontrollably because they are supply constrained by monopolists. But dealing with those anti-competitive markets and industries needs to happen for the health and wellbeing of society regardless of the institution of a UBI or not.
> It's a given that most users view the Web as a unified resource and combine sites for many of their tasks. Neither browsers nor sites have caught up with this new user behavior. Both will need to change in the coming years.

From their web usability study 14 years ago!

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/users-interleave-sites-and-...
I don't know what you mean? I can name dozens of still trusted brands. Eg Germany is full of them. (Danish) Lego is as good as ever, too.
I thought about this too. Multiple choice A, B, C, etc... just play the chord. :)

But that's pretty challenging from an engineering standpoint and Alexa skills can't be controlled externally yet. I briefly added a footswitch and could get Thingamagig to cycle through the tones of a particular song with it, but the Alexa screen won't update on that "outside" information.

Amazon has said they'll consider it but my gut says that's way down the list of things they're trying to do.
I would refuse to work for an employer if they wanted me to use that.
http://archive.md/D9JmL

>In Orlando, home to more than 70,000 Disney cast members, Florida offers unemployment payments of up to $275 a week for 12 weeks — among the lowest rates in the US.

that's a quarter of the population of orlando (or the entire population of kissimmee depending on where you presume disney employees live). wow.

edit: lol i got downvoted for posting a link that subverts the paywall?

edit2: as per dang's imperative: when i posted the archive.md link i was immediately downvoted (twice actually). now this comment sits comfortably at +3. there now my "complaint" isn't inaccurate. but alas it still commits of the grave sin of being off-message oh whoops i mean off-topic.
I think the inverse of this (RTMP to Websockets) would be more interesting.
> I'm just opposed to putting everything on hold for 2 years to do basic classes. I don't think a community college is the place to explore interests.

In my state a 2 year community college degree allowed you to transfer as a 3rd year student into any state university. You could also pick and choose individual classes, but they may not transfer directly. I believe a lot of states are like this. The only thing you have to be careful about is if you want to transfer out of state. Schools aren't incentivized to allow you to transfer credits (or test out of classes).

I just wanted to let others know that's an option and it shouldn't be stigmatized. I think I was a little too arrogant to pursue community college classes and because of my frustrations with the university I left.
Yes, there have been professionals offering all types of services for 508 ever since it came out. Might be wrong, but none of the companies I have seen offering these services seems notably successful as a result of their 508 services. Compliance based services are rarely a money maker, though in some situations given predictable need and clients, compliance based services are frequently a way to build relationships that lead to more lucrative deals.
Pot prices in the original legal states are already very low (with the possible exception of California which is double that of Oregon or Washington). There is a massive oversupply of the stuff on the west coast. I wouldn't complain about 80$ oz's turning into 50$ oz's, but it doesn't seem all that necessary.

Also, folks shouldn't be smoking or even vaping right now (what's the point of making your possible lung complications from COVID worse???) Just make edibles.
"The decision leaves Disney staff reliant on state benefits — public support that could run to hundreds of millions of dollars over coming months — even as the company protects executive bonus schemes and a $1.5bn dividend payment due in July."
And then I have an employee without health insurance.

That's a hard no both ethically and because I don't want a sick employee.
Look into becoming an ADA consultant for web/mobile. It's a growing market that companies are forced to pay attention to due to lawsuits. There is recurring work every time they redesign parts of the front end, which is often.
It's almost as if there is a world outside HN happy with their services.
Extended lockdowns are positively correlated with deaths per million residents.

https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1251943418860728320

I'm saying that lengthy lockdowns, shelter-in-place, and shutting down non-storefront businesses did not provide much value, if any, and possibly had a negative effect.

The IHME trended into 95%+ CI territory over half the time. So when posters here say "well the variance was high," that's accounted for in the confidence intervals, which they also missed on wildly.

The models justified harsh authoritarian action, and the actual data way, way undershot it. Popular sentiment is "oh well, it saved lives at least" but few, if any, are looking at the acute - and more importantly, chronic - economic costs of these policies that may or may not have even helped beyond just telling people what the risks were.

>> How does one evaluate the OpenTable data and feed it into the model they were using to estimate the amount of social distancing?

Pretty simple; it was clear that news of COVID-19 alone was enough to cause people to stop going to restaurants and start basic social distancing protocols on their own without government mandating it.

EDIT: Shockingly, a bunch of downvotes without explanation are forthcoming.
Only in some areas. New York is still teetering right at capacity. Active cases have not dropped much at all, in fact. It's the rate of new infections that has leveled off. This is good evidence that the exponential growth has been halted.

No, it's not time to ease up. Unlike in February, we have effectively zero buffer in many areas. A sudden increase in cases (which is what "easing up" means!) would push us right over the edge.

We ease up when the outbreak can be sustained. It can't now, and won't for several weeks, maybe two months more. Stay home.
An UBI based on dividends such as from a land value tax, or a carbon trading, would follow GDP more or less. No reason not to double it if possible in a sustainable way.
I also rely on the "inner voice" for reading and writing. But I can skip that when programming. I think it's related to how you learn that language in the early stage.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03603...

The best case scenario like you described is about 98%. FYI, 80% is already being hit by real world normal electrolysis reactions.

It’s very likely we’re in the same position with fuel cell cars that solar was back in the late-2000s. Arguments that it is “too expensive” are really falling apart, especially considering that green hydrogen is around $2-3/kg today, and that platinum loading has dropped to around 10 grams for a car sized fuel cell.
I don’t have any experience, but I had a girlfriend in the late 1980s who’s dad was a totally-blind programmer. Surely in the past 30+ years technology has made a lot of strides so that it should be even more doable now than it was back then. Or in other words, if a guy who had been totally blind from birth could be a programmer in the 1980s, you can definitely do it in the 2020s.
> This is not the flu, but it could very well come back next year or in ten years in a different form.

There has been no evidence of substantial mutations so far in COVID. There's no evidence that COVID will come back in a new and different form, any more than there's evidence I'll come back next week as a velociraptor. I mean, it could happen, but it's not something I'll plan for until I start sprouting scales and and a giant tail. Mutations are pretty random and the vast majority of mutations are harmful to the virus.

It's worth considering we live with coronaviridae all the time, something like 15% of the common cold is attributable to coronaviridae. [2] There's as much evidence of the common cold becoming Ebola as there is of me becoming a velociraptor.

The flu death range is likely more to do with how good a job we do guessing which the predominant strain will be in a given year, as the flu vaccine efficacy rate ranges from 10% to 60% each year. [1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/effectiveness-studies....

[2] https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/cold-guide/common_cold_ca...
Yes, exactly this. I am working on this. Nothing big to announce yet, but slowly getting there.

What is it that you love doing? Mind sharing a bit?
1. Every seemingly hard problem can be broken down - or at least, approximated - by a series of easier problems. Do the easier problems.

2. Separate the thoughtful from the mechanical - some tasks need you to shut down your thinking and just wing it. Like installing a new computer or a development environment or boilerplate code and all that. You solve these with time: put in an hour and it will be done. Just tell yourself that as time passes, so will this issue.

On the other side are problems which require thinking rather than doing. You solve these by concentrating and shutting out noise.

Mixing the two types of actions is devastating.
> I don't know what I would have to gain by such an exaggeration.

I think Googlers like to believe their employer cares about them, and the internal activists in particular, like to believe they are effective at creating real change. Ultimately though, I believe the Congressional hearings created that change, and more Congressional action will be necessary to curb their other issues.

> Are there other companies that regularly survey (see Googlegeist) their employees and actually make some progress on issues?

This is actually incredibly common. My employer does it, and it's one of hundreds of companies in my local geographic area that participate in the given employee survey system. At our all hands meetings, the best and worst results are shared, as well as a plan to address where employees most feel improvement is necessary.

> Do those companies hold regular meetings with the CEO (TGIF) where anybody can ask a question?

No, but then again, neither does Google after they started getting real questions that they didn't want to answer: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/15/google-cancels-tgif-weekly-a...

(Side note, reading Steve Yegge's original platform rant was an incredible highlight of my early days on G+!)
but the curve will just steepen when everyone goes back to normal ... angela merkel summed it up nicely I thought : https://twitter.com/BenjAlvarez1/status/1250563198081740800
HR has traditionally been viewed as a cost center and it seems like most companies still treat it that way. Its expenses are going to be cut earlier than other things when companies feel the squeeze.

In general, this must be a pretty bad time to be selling business software for use in cost centers.
Many many Googlers are happy. Also many have stopped coming here because of this circle jerk / echo of many many posts against Google. Some posts clearly state how the author has it against Google after not clearing the interviews "they deserved" to clear.
It would be cool to be able to click on the end of a line one drawn and toggle through some arrow ends.
It's pretty simple. You can use the known laws of gravitation and the visible distribution of matter in a galaxy to predict how fast stars at the edge of the galaxy should move. But when we do this we find that the stars are moving much faster than expected. So EITHER the formula for gravity is wrong OR there is extra matter there which we can't see, i.e. dark matter. Dark matter is currently the preferred explanation because it also explains a bunch of other, unrelated, phonenomena, but it has as yet never been directly detected or measured.
I have trouble focusing on work most of the time and lack the motivation for almost everything, unless not doing it would cause problems.

But everything I've read about ADHD doesn't sound like a me at all.

Never heard of your way of describing it though.
Japan's Nikkei index is still down from the late 1980s, and likely to stay down for many more years to come.

The chronic effects of shutting down the economy are vast. People think money can be regenerated; it can. But what Americans have seemingly forgotten is the past where American autoworkers feared Japanese efficiency and where the Japanese economy looked to crush ours. Today, the Japanese salaryman works at least 50% more hours and his purchasing power is less than his counterpart in the United States (just look at patio11's posts on it).

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan...

It's not a popular take because of recency bias (the same thing happened on 9/11 with the PATRIOT Act and always doe when outliers happen), but the data will be pretty clear in the end.
1) I was unable to get past the popups to read the article until I tried opening the link in a "private" window. If you are having trouble, that might work for you as well. Alternatively: https://archive.is/DUdqz.

2) Growing up in Northern Wisconsin, the only public radio station we reliably received was from the Ojibwe reservation (https://www.wojb.org) and featured a segment called "Ojibwe word of the day". I thought I'd remembered the word for "moon", but checking the wonderful online Ojibwe dictionary at UMN (https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu), I think I must be mistaken --- or maybe there are multiple words for moon.

3) Anton Treuer (the subject of the article) teaches at Bemidji State, while his brother David teaches at USC. David's 2013 book "Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life" is an accessible and I think accurate introduction to the complexity of life on modern reservations (https://www.amazon.com/Rez-Life-Indians-Journey-Reservation/...).
This is fantastic - thank you Fast Grants!

Mental health is an area that could really use your support in the next round of grants.

Spikes in post-traumatic stress disorder are being documented among vulnerable populations, health workers and other front-line personnel.

- https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/04/17/covid-19-mental-health-...

- https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/16/grocery-store-workers-need-f...

- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/video-dept/the-mental-heal...

Sadly, no one appears to be funding the COVID-19 mental health crisis. This would be a great opportunity for Fast Grants to be proactive. I personally know clinical psychologists and researches desperately looking for funding to get ahead of this next wave. LMK if you're interested in helping.
>Disney over the past month has raised debt and signed new credit facilities, leaving the company with about $20bn in fresh cash to draw upon for a downturn. “They could afford [not furloughing staff]," said Rich Greenfield, analyst at BTIG.
Trump has fucked this entire response up and hopefully this is what leads to his loss in election. But to be fair, doing a test in August and October and then expecting anything significant to have been accomplished by any government by February is ridiculous.

Even those that took it seriously would not have any sense of urgency to get things ready right away. You need to budget for it, etc and that takes months/years.

To draw a similar point, all of the N95 masks in stockpile were used up in 2009 and never replenished by Obama. No one in 11 years and 2 presidencies took it seriously since then, so I would assume the same with this simulation as well.
> Let's be honest, nobody loves F or G

I think this is probably just your HN bubble; lots of the criticism of Google here is tinged with irrational bitterness, along with the classic tech culture distrust centralization and the power structures around control of data. I happen to align fairly strongly with the latter view, but neither of these have much purchase in the wider population, where Google remains wildly more popular than most institutions that you think of as benign or popular.

> to think they are above state jurisdictions is delusional.

How do you explain the situations as they played out in Spain (in 2014) and France? It seems a lot more delusional to me to ignore precedent and forecast based on wishful thinking about the power dynamic between these companies and states.
Facebook to introduce gaming app on Monday
See also this article from the LA Times, comparing the LA vs. SF reactions to the 1918-1919 pandemic: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-19/coronavi...
Meat of your comment to me is this phrase, “he had this insight about the balance between when to use hardware and when to use software that I think is somewhat lacking today” - would you attempt to clarify what you’re expressing he would have said about balancing the design of how software & hardware work together? Thanks.
I've tried kxstudio and still struggled. Is it easier to buy a separate audio interface for studio audio, to avoid having to route Pulse/ALSA and JACK into each other?
I'm sorry, you're right. There was a narrow window where there were concerns, but that passed. New York DOEs face ICU bed shortages.

My response here was mostly dismissive because the poster above is clearly trying to downplay the crisis for reasons I can only speculate on. After taking a lot of time to read through the poster's previous links, I'm quite frustrated with how much time I wasted on disingenuous garbage links.

But yes, I lumped Seattle (which briefly did have a ventilator shortage) in with New York on ventilators. This is pretty much the only thing I was wrong about and I'll take this opportunity to own up. But I won't engage earnestly with the previous poster any further.
But nobody is suggesting that industrial hydrogen will be natural gas based forever. Furthermore, we must have green hydrogen for steel and ammonia production. So this is a “must solve” problem no matter what.

This is basically the same kind of argument that BEVs are “secretly powered by coal.” These are backwards looking statements that are going to be wrong in the near future.
How the Coronavirus Is Changing Facebook Moderation
> a car may need 5 kg of hydrogen for a range of 500km (bbc's claim, I'll take it at face value)

It is about 1kg for 100km range. The Hyundai Nexo Blue has better than 600km range on 6.5kg of hydrogen:

https://www.drivingelectric.com/hyundai/nexo/1005/hyundai-ne...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Nexo