skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their projections will not come true. I live in a small town 150kms away from Accra Capitale of Ghana(West Africa). WE ARE WELL INFORMED through whatsapp and local radio shows. People have taken protective measures.
We will surprise the world in this Covid19 OUTBREAK.
Price ceilings cause shortages. Every time. Let’s not use Venezuelan-style economic illiteracy as a model for how to incentivize the flow of critical supplies to those who need it most during a crisis.
This sounds like exactly what is needed right now!

I'm particularly impressed with the Board of Directors.

From "Charitable Web Leaders Launch Cooperative Alternative for .ORG Domain" [0]:

> Some of the world’s best known charitable web leaders have created a new cooperative that includes all .ORG registrants. The articles of incorporation were filed on January 6, 2020.

> Leaders from Wikimedia, the foundation behind Wikipedia.org; Internet Archive, which runs archive.org; Mozilla Foundation, which runs the Firefox web browser; and Packet Clearing House, are among those who supported the effort to create the Cooperative Corporation for .ORG Registrants (CCOR). CCOR is designed as a viable alternative to selling the dot-org domain to private equity firm Ethos Capital.

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[0]: https://medium.com/@ccor/charitable-web-leaders-launch-coope...
It's not only that every app has a different style these days, but some of them change their style or add new features via auto-update every few weeks. Even office 365 (desktop version) does this.

It's not just a usability nightmare, it's an accessibility one too (although the two go hand in hand most of the time). Imagine teaching some elderly neighbour how to write a word document, and after weeks of practice they get it into their muscle memory that the thing they want a lot is the 5th button from the left ... then microsoft adds another one in the next update so it's now the 6th.

This would be one place where free software could really shine - you could convert a lot of people with "every application works the same, and we promise we won't change the UI more than once every two years unless we really have to.
> The diamond princess' fatality rate was less than 1% -

You're using old data. 2% of the diamond princess infected have died so far. Another 7% of the infected are still reported as not recovered yet.

https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/newpage_10867.html
I think you can forcibly revoke that permission from the snap store interface.
Luxembourg has a population of 600 thousands people

Lichtenstein has 38 thousands citizens

There are 164 countries in the World with less than one million citizens and 159 with one million or more

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populat...
The carnival hoops I've examined all have ellipsis shaped rims. Impossible to distinguish from a circle when observed from the front, but clearly squished if you walk around and get underneath it.
Absolutely psychotic, who would think it's okay to do this to someone else's stuff?
We’re FRB customers too. Their excuse was that they weren’t originally set up to be an SBA lender. They were communicative during the inquiry process, but obviously had no idea what was going on.
It would be a reasonable thing to attempt with today’s technology, but it would be a serious R&D project.

It’s harder the older the sample and vastly more difficult if few closely related species survive.
The company has erred in not giving their employees a better way to express themselves and be heard in the first place.

It's not like these people would walk out if an email would make their point just as well.

Incidentally paid sick leave, which warehouse workers don't have and this protest is in favor of, is estimated to actually save money, not cost it. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5649342/

As best I can tell, there's evidence that everything these workers are advocating for would have no effect on or better for the company long term through people liking the brand more reducing hiring and training costs by increasing worker retention, reducing the lost of productivity associated with sick workers getting other workers sick, etc.

https://medium.com/@amazonemployeesclimatejustice/amazon-sic...

But I guess some people think well paid executives always know better then regular employees.

Personally if I had a say at Amazon, I'd suggest given the 47.3B they had in cash on hand as of nov of last year and how they've been raking it in since people have begun sheltering in place that they at least could afford to experiment.
Maybe, but it's a fast solutions. Social isolation is important enough to be imposed, like, now!
Skateboarding is de facto illegal. You can't stop kids from skating without making it physically impossible because they are already dismissing the law and its enforcement. Notice the sand has already been cleared in enough areas to start skating again.
Companies preparing to IPO start 'reporting earnings' internally a few years in advance. This is because of both SEC requirements and expectations of the banks working on the IPO. While quarterly earnings reports would not be publicly available, AirBnB certainly does do them internally.
> I think the general population has not yet appreciated the possible severity of the ensuing economic downturn.

My fear as well. The swiftness and ferocity of this downturn is like nothing ever, AFAIK. 22 million out of work in 4 weeks. Many are unlikely to get their jobs back. So while certain companies are seeing upticks due to logistics of the lockdown, I don't think it's safe to assume it would continue long after SIP ends.
Pharmacists are not a dangerous and expensive layer. They are often more aware of proper dosage and drug interactions than doctors are. When you are seeing multiple specialists, pharmacists may be the only ones that see the bigger picture.
Free Mental Health Support for Our Frontline Workers – COVID19
I see, thanks. FWIW, if your phone has an APU or GPU, it is quite easy to implement with CUDA. Is pretty much a massively parallel problem.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a finger scrolling on a touchscreen -- forever.
This now returns a 403 Forbidden, probably related to the ongoing problems between archive.is and Cloudflare.

Are there alternatives to archive.is?
Shopify is majority GCP, minority AWS for its cloud infrastructure [0]. Curious how they are splitting workloads between these two clouds during this extended usage spike.

[0]https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2018/03/29/shopify-picks-...
> If IPv6 is a response to IPv4 limits, maybe we need something better than .tld, too.

You get 63 bytes (really, ASCII chars, fewer Unicode codepoints using IDNA) per-label in a DNS domainname, and you can have many labels per-domainname, which means we really can't run out of names the way we have run out of IPv4 addresses. The comparison you drew is just not valid.

By "tld" you seem to mean "DNS". DNS is basically irreplaceable at this point. We can replace the UDP port 53 protocol with, e.g., DoT (DNS over TLS) or DoH (DNS over HTTP), maybe nice RESTful APIs -- whatever, but we can't replace the DNS data model because it's too deeply embedded, and not exactly busted and in need of replacement.

That is, domainnames are here to stay. DNS Resource Records are here to stay. Access methods and representation on the wire can change, but their semantics can't.

Given that, more TLDs, or not, makes no difference whatsoever to availability of domains for all sorts of organizations, as well as individuals.
Both lightsail Wordpress and this template are provided by Bitnami :) Different use cases
Tim Cook to employees: Apple 'isn’t immune to worldwide economic trends'
I meant mentioning it here.

I don't care about what sides did what when.

I care that this program that was successfully lending money out has been allowed to dry up and is being used as leverage.

Up the fund once more because it's being distributed too well, then start working on any restrictions you'll need on the future funding.
Please don't make baseless accusations like these. They only serve to promote the "left is attacking Trump for no reason" feeling that many people have. This isn't YouTube.

If you have evidence or a report of such behavior, by all means, post it.
https://www.xsplit.com/vcam
and
https://www.chromacam.me

both work with OBS, but only for Windows or Mac.
We have randomized PCR studies and ships where everyone got tested. Yes, there is error there (false negatives), but there's an upper bound to how much there can be.
Is there a sane mode or config for vanilla Ubuntu 18.04? I'm considering upgrading from my trusty old 16.04 LTS (both home and office laptops) and I dread the usual pointless UI changes that come with all the reasonable bugfixes/improvements.
Uh, yeah, what you said. I'm not a linguistic expert so my experience with this is just "that's what it does" rather than "you can drop copulas" ;) Another one of the nice ones is that you can drop pronouns from context too–compared to English the Romance languages are pretty cool.
Nah they were predictions assuming the measures we put into place a month ago. But as far as I could tell their assumptions also used data from Italy, whose population is significantly older and whose health care system is less functional.
Virus lockdowns send European car sales down 55%
Ok, we can't conclude anything about the rate of symptoms from testing that was only conducted on people showing severe symptoms. I don't think we can conclude much of anything from the OP either, because its rate of positives seems compatible with the rate of false positives from the test. They could have 0% infected, they could have 5% infected.

An example where testing was conducted without requiring symptoms first: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/uss-theodore-roosevelt-sailo...
XB-1's wings are officially closed out
I tried Ubuntu and the soundcard was not detected at all because the kernel used is too old (requires 5.5 apparently). I tried upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 and the kernel there was too old as well...

Arch was the best distro I could find that used the latest kernel by default. Audio worked there.
> 37 tons is about one truckload

Sand is 1.5-2 ton per cubic meter, it depends on how wet it is.

A decent truck can be loaded with about 10 cubic meters and it’s trailer a little more 10-15 cubic meters.
Based off a DIY project, so someone may know better.
fascinating story - got any more details on the proposed design you abandoned?
Most standard household stuff can be bought via eBay from small shops or directly from the vendors. I recently bought from a small online shop that even has a YouTube video with an employee person showing how he prepares a package.

Obviously most businesses cannot realize fully automated picking yet, but even those who can't: preventing employees from drinking water is a human right violation.
The post claims (without any reference) that in New York City only 8,500 hospital beds were occupied. This Bloomberg article reports at around the same date that 23,000 existing beds are occupied. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-new-york-coronavirus... I'd put more trust in Bloomberg's reporting than on the post's claim.
Late February.
> good wages is justification for tough working conditions

It's the other way around. People won't do tough things without higher pay. It's always been that way.
This is a level above doing blame game, for sure, but a governor of a state should always be the No.1 emergency responder.

They should not be just asking for help, they should lead, and command the emergency respone.

With the state of emergency declared, they have full authority to order businesses to make supplies, or requisition manufacturing facilities for that.
Show HN: Staying Safe? Make your business great again A Twitter for business
Deleting email messages is 100% a thing. I saw it happen myself (and confirmed with coworkers) at one unicorn I worked at.
Sometimes they'll change their style every time you go to them! Aggressive A/B testing is truly awful.
This is already the case with GDPR, which is clearly ignored here since plenty of people from GDPR regions seem to be affected.
I went to my local big box store maybe three weeks ago and the whole fitness section had been cleaned out. It seems like bikes are getting very popular (at least here in PNW) and I wouldn't be surprised if it's very hard to find a decent bike in 2 or 3 months. As we cycle through the seasons different items / categories are going to get unexpectedly popular. Nobody really knows how to keep themselves sane during August in a pandemic, but there's probably a product or product category that will help with that.
This is a silly semantics game and a boring one at that. the presumption that the words are contradictory, or that mathematics is a monolithic entity that plays a single role of invention or discovery, is a poor way of exploring the social and cultural (co)evolution of mathematics and methodical experimentation and observation.
Ask HN: Help 22M people get unemployment and stimulus claim. State/IRS needs you
Title says all.

If you work in tech and want to help the >22M folks in pain (many backlogged due to technical errors), the IRS and state unemployment office could use your help with their software and infrastructure.

If you want to step up and offer your help, Google Form here: https://bit.ly/2xrZ0Q9

Related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22901660
Try many different things. Or think what excited you when you were young.
It easy to estimate the revenue and hard to estimate the inefficiency.

Revenue scales linearly while the inefficiency grows exponentially (even though it starts small). Inefficiencies such as Customer service rep training, brand dilution, shopping cart conversions rates, etc. all suffer a little when you add additional products. The "Wow look at the TAM of X!" is a powerful distraction that is hard to avoid without discipline.
I've only used it twice, and it was mixed. The worst was the smell in the 2nd place.
In many regions Amazon and other large retailers with similar conditions are some of the very few employers left to even offer a decent income, to the point where local governments are groveling in front of these companies.

The classism of the managerial tech class is always on pure display in these discussions, because contrary to developers who can pick and choose their workplace in some free competitive market, unqualified blue collar workers are often more or less forced to work under these conditions if they even want healthcare or be able to send their kids to a decent school.

If healthcare and education was free like it is in other developed countries and not employer bound you could make the argument that they're free to work another job instead. In the US it's a facetious point.
I think this is basically par for the course for media organisations. Let's face it, ad spend is gone and it's not going to be coming back for a while. I suspect we'll be see a lot more of this coming in the near future.
> All of these title bars denote active windows. The top one, Outlook, looks exactly the same when inactive ..

Yes, when did active-clickable-elements go out of fashion and everything became the same faded shade of cold blue brushed aluminum.
We can't just leave the people up there to fend for themselves. The US needs a capability to get it's people back that doesn't rely on the Russians, and protect it's national interests on the station.
Ask HN: Books or resources to learn how KVM works deeply?
I'd like to learn more deeply how virtualization works, any help with resources or interesting books in this topic would be a great help.
And that's in the present. What's more frustrating too is that if we're still debating about the present, there will certainly not be any accountability for the lack of preparedness from all levels of government in the past to prepare for health crisis.

Compare to these images

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/雁塔...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Ch...
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic_i...)

where even the random person checking your temperature at subway entrances and toll stations are armed to the teeth in PPEs in China. And that's coming from a country that wasn't even able to genetically map SARS themselves <20 years ago.
The issue is a lot of the factories that make these products are in China. The US has foresight to ensure military supply lines aren't dependent on China, but that foresight didnt extend to medical equipment. There simply isnt the capacity enough masks in the US.
> the seasonal flu averages 0.1%

That figure includes all mortality from pneumonia, a minority of which is caused by the seasonal flu.
And interestingly, not everyone sees the illusion: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27847925
He's not answering my calls sadly. （⊙ｏ⊙）
What's your direct knowledge of the situation? As far as I can tell, Amazon PR and actual reports from warehouse workers, especially contract workers, diverge greatly.
Changed now. Thanks. Submitted title was "PatchAttack: Image classifier adversarial attack, 99% with black-box RL".

Submitters: please use the original title and then, if you like, add a comment to the thread explaining what you think is important about the article. You'll have more room for your explanation that way, people won't complain, and you won't be breaking the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would like to exercise my rights under GDPR, but are not allowed. Why is Norway excluded from the GFPR form? They only accept EU/UK/Switzerland
All over the world, I see people trying to stop people from being outdoors, regardless of the health and safety implications. In the UK, police are issuing citations to people in parks. NYC has set up a tip line to report "social distancing violations" and is closing some parks.

I don't understand it. I understand the imperative for social distancing, of course. But it seems like enforcement has been targeted at relatively low-risk activities (hanging out in large, public outdoor spaces) and not at all at the high-risk ones (e.g. where I live in Brooklyn, half the laundromats have closed and the remaining half are constantly crowded).

I can't help but think that part of this impulse comes from a certain sour-grapes mentality that sees people trying to enjoy themselves during a trying time and wants to take it away from them. A real public health intervention would ensure that all necessary activities - getting groceries, doing laundry, going to work - are just as safe as going to the park.
No it's not, and the US is far from the only country that has a diversity of culture. The Canadian maritime provinces are extremely different from Nunuvut or downtown Vancouver. Paris is significantly difference than Nice. Shanghai is significantly different than Xinjiang province.

This is yet another annoying expression of American exceptionalism. Of course, it only ever comes up when someone says, "Maybe we should stop people dying because they can't afford healthcare."

The US is probably one of the most culturally uniform countries of any significant size I can think of honestly.
Show HN: Covid-19 outbreak in the U.S., by county
Airbnb (anecdotally form what I've seen) is one of the largest employer for data-engineers and data scientists. I wonder if this will be a watershed moment to see if they actually do need the amount of data work business wise.
I always assumed "experiences" was a hedge against being made illegal by various jurisdictions.
One nice thing about recent Ubuntu is that even though they hide the password box, you can start typing on the unlock screen and your text will be entered into the password box.
I'm sure, given a bit of time, one could come up with a consistent design language based around "hamburger" menus. At the moment though, as the article states, a lot of previous consistency (e.g. open/save/exit will be in the "File" menu) is being sacrificed as everyone rolls their own.

I've actually seen applications where the first button on the toolbar is a hamburger menu and when you click it you get a dropdown with File/Edit/... etc options, that work as expected. I can live with that for now.
Slacks design does look quite goofy in Safari, though, since Slack's toolbar design matches the browsers so it looks doubled-up…
>Amazon is paying them $17 an hour at minimum

Until the end of April, when the $2 per hour "bonus" goes away.

>I also do not believe that there were no changes made at Amazon's warehouses in response to the coronavirus.

It does appear that employees are not being punished for things like adequately washing their hands or getting sick for the time being. They were being punished for these things at the start of the year, and that blog makes it sound like they will be punished for them again when the pandemic is over.
"Who is Monte Carlo?" Monte Carlo is for Europe what Las Vegas is for the US. The first name that comes to mind when you think gambling.

Monte Carlo method is repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results.

Monte Carlo algorithms are heuristic algorithms that solve problems with random process that can give wrong answers.

Las Vegas algorithms are algorithms that solve problems with randomness but get always correct result or knows that it failed. Runtime is finite.

Atlantic City algorithm is a probabilistic polynomial time algorithm that gives correct answer > 50% of the time (or 75% of the time by some definition).
Ironically this page only uses 70% of my screen's width on mobile, the font size is uncomfortable and paragraph sentences are broken into 6~7 words which is really annoying. Chrome suggests "show simplified view" and that definitely makes it better.
Using just resizing as an example: there are no visual queues you can resize any macosx window without hovering over an edge; the edge is visually 0 pixels wide; the resizable area extends outward from the window a few pixels which means you're clicking on the window underneath to resize the top most window (unless it is near the edge of the window underneath, then all bets are off); The resize cursor is unreliable, sometimes it does not show but clicking and dragging do resize the window; resizable windows are visually indistinguishable from nonresizable windows, and the same relative pixel that resizes one window either moves the nonreziable window or brings forward the window underneath.
I find the entire Windows/Mac/Linux desktop experience has regressed terribly, with inconsistency the primary offender.

I suspect this is because usability testing is only ever (a) app-specific and (b) short term. Nobody is studying the collective desktop experience across multiple applications, so every vendor thinks they have nailed it, but never notices that their version of “nailed it” is different to everybody else’s.

The commercial nature of most desktop software would seem to render this problem insoluble as there is no incentive for vendors to cooperate and every incentive for them to churn their UIs to push new versions out.
Shower thought: vinyl car wrap with a bunch of pictures of stop lights at various angles
> Where did this money go and who got it?

Call me skeptic but it's likely that banks prioritized applications of companies that have significant debt with the bank. This way the bank can essentially pay itself.

Louis Rossman reported that banks were doing this openly (explicitly saying they only allow applications from existing account holders). They have now removed that but nothing is preventing them from doing it behind closed doors anyways.