skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many migrant workers in Singapore are the only breadwinners for their families back home in Bangladesh/India/Myanmar. One of the reasons the Singapore government has done extensive testing way beyond global standards is that many of these foreign workers are financially disincentivized to seek medical help the moment the first symptoms appear. The fact that Singapore's leader has publicly promised stable incomes for this affected group speaks volumes of the government.

As a fellow south east asian, I am deathly afraid of the under-reporting and testing in other ASEAN countries. Singapore. A 2017 statista study of migrant worker populations in South East Asia (https://www.statista.com/statistics/711513/asean-number-of-m...) shows that Malaysia and Thailand have much larger migrant worker populations than Singapore. Their living conditions are either on par or worse than the ones living in Singapore, yet there are apparently no Covid-19 clusters among migrant populations in other ASEAN countries. This is extremely alarming.
That depends on where you live. Where I live (Seattle) my property taxes are <1% of property value, but rents are quite high. My property tax bill is probably around 15% of the market clearing rent for my place. Rent would still be damn high.
In case anyone (else) is wondering why a right-wing Tory supporting organ of Rupert Murdoch would effectively defend Corbyn and his policies by implying Labour was recently defeated because it secretly promoted right-wing policies to the voters, this story is from 2018.[0]

To be fair, it's not (overtly) trying to make the reverse claim but mostly sticking to the point about political advertising.

> "Corbyn’s aides sometimes demanded big spending on Facebook advertising for pet projects which Southsiders [officials at Labour HQ] regarded as a waste of money" Baldwin writes.

> He quotes an official explaining: "They wanted us to spend a fortune on some schemes like the one they had to encourage voter registration"

[...]

> A Labour source said [in response to this activity]: "At the next election, we’ll have a fantastic and co-operative party machine to match our incredible mass membership and popular policies.”

Unfortunately for Corbyn by the next election (three years earlier than expected) the attacks and undermining had got drastically more abusive and destructive, and the kind of people who think voter registration is a waste of money are now back in control of Labour.

In the 2019 election it was reported that "almost every Tory [Facebook ad was] dishonest, compared with none of Labour's"[1]; or as reported by the BBC - brazenly pro-Tory in the election[2] - dishonesty "across the party spectrum"[3].

[0] http://archive.is/HuMeO

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/03/electi...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50726500
There are hundreds, if not thousands of viruses we can't be immunized against. They either mutate too quickly, rendering any antibodies we develop moot, or they kill us too quickly. We don't have a great track record in developing vaccines for viruses either.
That's a tiny step away from a GAN, which works very well for image generation, so seems promising here too.
Fravia.org when he was still alive. Absolutely fantastic reverse engineering resource. RIP +Fravia.
Some possibilities: there is widespread infection from a common source around the same time, and many of those "asymptomatic" inmates aren't going to stay that way; the test has false positives; the population of this prison is comprised mostly of people who tend to be asymptomatic carriers (for example, if most prisoners are in their early 20's); COVID-19 has a lot more asymptomatic carriers than we thought.
A great many companies are still doing business just fine. I can name several that are doing better than normal.

The capitalistic approach is to say this is the 3rd major respiratory pandemic of the last 110 years. Get some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_interruption_insuranc... if you’re at risk for a prolonged shutdown or accept the risk of failure. Governments trying to hedge business risks are a giant slippery slope that doesn’t end.

If you disagree that’s fine, but perhaps come up with a general idea of how you want the country to operate longer term for the next crisis. Or worse, as what’s considered a crisis changes over time.
Your comment reminds me of the kind seen from Russian bots. Everything about what you said matches the algos I've seen. Very interesting.

But yes, I would be happy to contribute to a support fund to support such individuals.
Anecdotally, 100% of the legitimate small businesses in my area have been denied access to PPP due to lack of availability of funds.

The research of others has shown that the lack of funds is due to big businesses receiving them. Seems to kinda go against the purpose.
Can you share a link? Do you think would it be possible to play with the code from the (free) book "Machine code for beginners" [0] with that emulator? I'd like to get some familiarity with machine code, and thought maybe it's a simplest way to start with. Or maybe you can give other suggestions for the emulator?

From the book (page 3):

> The book is specially written for computers with a Z80 or 6502 microprocessor.

[0] https://usborne.com/browse-books/features/computer-and-codin...
I loved Digg.com before the redesign fiasco. And Diggnation was fun.

Rev3 was cool too.
No mention of NAFTA and the elites of both parties selling out the working class? I was all for NAFTA at the time but then I saw the consequences. People forced to train their replacements for a chance at another month of pay. Plants going to Mexico, etc.

The people of the Boomer, Xer generation were told to work hard and everything would work out.

When you find your body wrecked from 12 hour shifts, your employment opportunities limited and as a cherry on top labelled "deplorable" in the popular media, is it hard to see why older white Americans with less education might be depressed?

You don't need a PhD and a bowtie to figure this out.
Look up Dr. Andrew Kaufman on Youtube. Medicamentum Authenticam.
It's nuts to me how much peole despised MS at the time. I remember getting a hacked/modded version of Halo 2 (2004) and it came with a picture of Gates with a bullet hole in his head. Which is sick and not appropriate, but people despised him.

They've done a really good job of rehabilitating their image. Having grown up at the time, it's hard for me to see Gates and them as different than that. It does make me somewhat sad that we've embraced a future where the bad guys won, that the schoolyard bully that tried to stifle progress is now succeeding by adopting that which they tried to strangle int he cradle.
I am curious, why stopped at a one time 1,200 dollar check?

If the Congress had already ordered to print money, they surely can do more than that and for longer. Instead they delegated to existing programs for the rest, which aren't optimized enough to roll out that much money at this short period of time.
Many have already mentioned Slashdot.

Ultima Online isn't a website but, for me, is synonymous with the earlier days of the net. I guess it's still around, but I played during the beta and when it first came out. There was something so exciting about it. It was all such a new experience.

I also miss the original Rainbow Six (and Rogue Spear). Loved the gameplay (stealth, planning a mission, etc.) and it brings back memories of LAN parties. I'm not sure if there's a modern game that has a similar style of gameplay? I hardly play any games so am out of the loop.
On the upside, some content of independent authors is largely supported via avenues like Patreon and tips, not ads.

Most of the websites I produce do not have ads on them. I don't make much money, but I do make some and it's better than it used to be. I'm hopeful that there will be more of a trend towards small content producers making enough to survive and we can begin to crowd out the "cancer" that is some of the worst commercialized stuff.

It doesn't have to go away completely. We can just refuse to let it choke everything.
So what happens when JS queries the size of something?

Is the answer only correct for one pane?

I can only imagine that this is a big source of pain once any JS gets involved. It doesn't sound like a very solvable problem.
Huh, the water in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is only 91/100, worse than the US and Canada.
Price is set by the declared value of the land on the most recent tax filings. Add 10% for safe measure.

This would cost nowhere close to the trillions of dollars that we’re printing to hand out to large corporations, banks in transaction fees, and then, of the little money that does make its way to consumers, the vast majority of that going straight to landlords.
Joyent (SmartOS/Triton) has promoted something like this they called the "Autopilot pattern". However it's more comprehensive than scaling because it also includes other operations like startup and recovery (similar to Kubernetes operators but not for Kubernetes).

http://autopilotpattern.io/
https://www.joyent.com/blog/dbaas-simplicity-no-lock-in
This. You should avoid memory access and branch like plague.
Politics and economics are inseparably connected.
Fuckedcompany.com

Exurbannation.com (a site that was full of people in 2007 calling out the looming mortgage crisis)
Those three options can be very blurred.

Some people may have different responses, including due to different age, genetics, and health.

Some strains may have different results than others.

Reducing all those variations to one of three fundamental descriptions may therefore be highly misleading.

While I agree with your statement "look at other coronavirus ... based on available data", I'll point out that there simply isn't enough data to determine if an "immunity passport" is operationally meaningful because, to quote the NPR piece quoting WHO, "No study has evaluated whether the presence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 confers immunity to subsequent infection by this virus in humans."

What do you do when there isn't data? Issue immunity passports on the untested hypothesis that it will be fine?
That’s obnoxious. Cars and vehicles are necessary for many people and many purposes and cities should not use this crisis as a Trojan horse to force changes hastily. Deploying furniture to make it permanent sounds like the doing of a renegade cycle club and not everyday people, however.
We have no idea how long lived the antibodies we develop in response to SARS-CoV-2 last. And obviously, an initial infection to COVID-19 will generate antibodies that will immunize the patient, as long as the antibodies persist. Don't you think that if this was a foregone conclusion, we'd be able to demonstrate that? Isn't it odd, that with people having been infected and recovered months ago, that no one is saying how long the antibodies persist?

In science, it's incumbent on those making the claim to provide studies and proof. That means you...

And to say that this is unsupported, unsubstantiated is ridiculous, and you know it. It's straight from the WHO's mouth.
The accompanying GitHub repo with example is here: https://github.com/peterj/square-service-gateway
Yes, at the time the magic was also clean and uncorrupted by SEO — Google’s algorithm sidestepped the SEO targeted at simpler search engines. And then the arms race began to get to the top of google’s search results, which probably encumbers the algorithm today.
Mortgages seem a lot simpler to me. You just keep accruing interested and add payments onto the end of the mortgage. With rent there are a few issues--you just get to live there for free? Do you add rent onto the backend (good luck collecting on that)? If you own a property and are renting it out there are other expenses rent covers; sometimes it pays for utilities, it covers insurance, property tax, and maintenance, sometimes it pays the salaries of a property manager or lawn service.

One would hope that mortgages are the largest cost and other services could be negotiated with.

I think eliminating property tax is infeasible for almost all areas. Depending on the area, that's where a majority of the local government's income comes from and most local governments are not allowed to run a deficit. However, like income taxes, many areas are delaying the due date.
The networks have always entirely owned Hulu. It's that way because they want it to be.

Netflix has no such network licensing problems.
#hack on efnet

Old-school MUDs.
Apologies for neglecting the date in the title. Seemed worthy of discussion given the other recent #LabourLeaks news. I can't edit the title anymore but would appreciate if a mod could add the year.
>which one, knowing there is no bailout in the future, will plan better for emergencies like this one

The government making your business illegal for multiple months is not an emergency businesses should have expected, or be expected to expect.

>and run on even thinner margins and bigger stock price growth and dividends for the shareholders.

Thinner margins, stock price growth, and dividends for shareholders are all good things that we want more of not less.

It's also bullshit to call financial aid from the government, that's needed because of government action, a bail out. It's compensation.
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That street runs both ways. Car culture is already amazingly pushy and obnoxious in the degree to which it makes life difficult for pedestrians, cyclists, etc.
It’s more efficient to implement a universal basic income.

Having to funnel it through businesses just adds dead weight. Many businesses are no longer economically viable or sustainable, and that will only continue to accelerate as time goes on. We place far too much emphasis on jobs, which doesn’t work in the age of automation as humans become, at least productivity-wise, more and more unnecessary.

Once you decouple a person’s worth from their productivity though, then you can start to better see the inherent value that exists in everyone which is both foundational and immutable.
Destroying the foundations our society is built on for temporary gain is generally really bad. People look at say gerrymandering and think, it’s just how you play the game. But, they forget elections are there to avoid civil wars.

On it’s own, just this time, it’s no big deal. But this is the 4th black swan extraordinary event leading to bailouts in the last 20 years and they don’t stop coming. If we are giving up on the idea of capitalism, perhaps we should consider what we are replacing it with.
That's a very loose link in a world where fiat currency and reserve currency exist for printing money.
The first game I ever played online was R6. Kids these days don't know the joy of finding a cable host so you could do 2v2 with tolerable lag, nor what it was like to fill someone up with a mag and for them to fall over dead 10 seconds later. I think part of the joy of that was the imagination of how cool it would be if it all worked right vs the actual experience, but yeah, I'll never forget it. I dunno why but I'll never forget one time playing with this guy isoplus. I don't know we even communicated, nor if we played more than a single game together, but isoplus, wherever you are, be well.

You ever play Tribes?

UO. Wow. It's really another experience that can't be recreated. So incredibly magical. EverQuest and Asheron's Call were similarly formative experiences. I never could have thought at the time that massively multiplayer games would seem boring and even lame (what, I've gotta play with people?) now.

My parents would make sure I wasn't sneaking on EQ late at night by picking up the phone next to their bed to make sure I wasn't on the phone line.
> keep accruing interested

Why? Why does some particular type of business get a free pass to profit from this scenario?
git-revise is what you want here. It’s rebase, but without touching the working tree. This makes it vastly faster, avoids changing file mtimes (which is very useful property if you have a build system that operates on mtimes, such as make, or something that is watching for file system changes), and if you do need to resolve conflicts it’s easier to confirm that you haven’t changed anything in the final result, because that’ll produce warnings and a dirty index.

https://github.com/mystor/git-revise

Since learning about this, 90% of my rebase usage has switched to revise, and I’m much happier with it all. I also probably revise commits twice as often as I used to because it’s so much faster and has no file system modification side-effects.

When there are conflicts, it only gets you a two-way merge, so that occasionally I reach for rebase to help with handling non-trivial conflicts from reorderings.
The total funding was barely enough to cover 1 million small businesses, and there are close to 30M in the USA that are affected in some way by this pandemic. The second round of funding was just passed but the pace is too slow.

Most small companies will be bankrupt within 3 months without any cash flow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombo.com
I miss kuro5hin, which had a very interesting way of submitting content for peer review. Unfortunately it was overrun by trolls and eventually closed.

I miss Jyte, which was a weird side project by the company janrain, where you just make random statements and people vote whether or not they agree with the statement, and can post comments.
> It will also shard data between machines to allow analysis on data that is larger than memory.

https://yourdatafitsinram.net/
No one uses them because SSR is either non-existent or clunky with them.

Ignoring a common use case when inventing something is a good way to get your shit ignored in turn. Which is what happened.
But not possible in native apps which have largely supplanted the use of web pages.
World New York, long gone, but hand curated interesting stories :till about 2000. I still miss it.

https://web.archive.org/web/19991129051036/http://www.worldn...

Memepool. Another curated story site. Silly but fun.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000301230131/http://www.memepo...
Very interesting, thanks for posting! Here's a follow-up video that shows the PCB being populated with components and tested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUlhNg42qFg
Why is this just so much more fun than trying things online?

I bought so many games because I became addicted to the demos, particularly a few Sierra games.
Zombo.com

Hands down
No brainer for what (or to who)?

Gainfully employed people already can't buy enough with their paychecks you want to increase their cost of living. What good is that going to do?

It's funny (but it's becoming horrifying, especially in this election year in the US) how economically clueless most people are.
The Danish approach to closing down the economy in the face of a pandemic made more sense to me than that used by Trump and the US Administration. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/denmark-fr...
From the creator of Elixir (Jose Valim) himself:

> I’ve learned a lot also from Clojure because, at the time I was thinking about Elixir, Clojure was already around. I like to say it’s one of the top three influences in Elixir

[...]

> The main, the top three influences are Erlang, Ruby, and Clojure.

[...]

> I was like, no, but I’m going to call them protocols because there are a lot of similarities between Clojure and Elixir in terms of them being dynamic languages and in terms of the macro system. I was like, okay, I’m going to call them protocols because the closest thing we have today to what I want is Clojure

And he goes on talking about more inspiration and similarities from Clojure like Agents, etc.

Full exert is here: http://blog.cognitect.com/cognicast/120

Edit: Ah I see where you could have gotten confused. By "version of Clojure" I meant in that it is very similar and has taken a lot of inspiration from it. Elixir isn't an actual dialect of Clojure the way that ClojureScript and Clojerl are. That's not what I meant to imply. Having used both language, they do share a lot of similarity in design, with most of the differences being Beam/Erlang vs Jvm/Java, and Elixir pulling more from Ruby, while Clojure pulls more from Lisp. This is what I meant by "a version", I should have said "is like Clojure, but..." instead I think to avoid this confusion, but too late for me to edit now.
In regard to the NYT style: that’s because WHO, DOD, and UN are not in fact acronyms, while NASA is. So it’s entirely consistent.
This is crystal clear from the WHO:

""There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection.""

They were prompted to issue this because some people were touting this idea of immunity being granted perpetually and allowing people to safely return to work.

"Broadly speaking, a positive test for antibodies means you're pretty likely immune at the time the test is taken."

That's in complete contradiction to what the WHO is saying. Read carefully: There is no evidence.

You're using circular arguments to provide bad information. Something you've consistently been doing.

"...but we need a study."

Why? You've said it's unlikely to be different than other viruses. Of course we need a study, because we don't know.
But now it looks like a Theta!
Yes, this, a multi-fold of thanks.
A lot of Russians also believe things like drinking water with ice cubes will give you a sore throat. I wouldn't put too much stock in something just because the locals believe it.

Personally, I think the water boiling thing is one of the dumber things they do because, at least in most of the big cities, the thing that is most likely to be wrong with the water is not bacteria and other things that would be killed by boiling your water but rather heavy metals (and, last I checked, boiling my water does not remove lead!).

Also, anecdotally, I've yet to die from drinking from drinking unfiltered Tomsk tap water & never noticed abnormal levels of anything nasty during blood work. I think there is a lot of paranoia about the water system here that has generally been undeserved over the past decade or so.
That's not the alternative. Millions of people have been serviced completely through online portals. There's no phone call required.

The tech is definitely old and a few states are still dealing with issues preventing payments but it's rapidly getting fixed. UI is still faster for continued payments than the federal govt, as seen by the pace of the original $1200 stimulus checks which have yet to reach the majority.
As far as I know, beer yeast is different from bread yeast these days. Instant yeast for baking is said to be dried using a process that is gentler and kills fewer cells.
>> It’s impossible for junior team members to observe the day-to-day patterns

Those day-to-day patterns are changing though. There are many young people working on team projects, pursuing their interests while remotely located and never meeting their collaborators, Discord enables many of these communities so that stands a chance of becoming the new normal.
Stonehenge Remodelled (2012) [pdf]
Companies aren’t people though, and the people embracing it now might have very little overlap with the old stranglers.
I’ve worked personally w Ray and can attest he’s the real deal.

If the “financial circles” you run with don’t respect $100bn+ AUM, there not really “financial circles,” sorry.

If you want to make up your own mind, take a look at their work on debt crises. Sometimes hard to see how it connects to day to day trading, but not the hallmarks of a fraud.

https://www.bridgewater.com/big-debt-crises/Principles-For-N...

All that being said, still think he’s wrong about China.
Technology still works even if it's copied. Don't confusing "copying" with "only copying".
Modern US tech is in large part created by Chinese emigrants and their children. Do you think every technologist emigrated?

Infrastructure is a sign of a healthy economy and capability to build a war machine.
yes, SUCK.COM was awesome.