skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangential: The mill a mile up the road from my house was was listed in the Doomsday Book in 1089AD (though has likely burnt down a few times.) And when "attached" the local cathedral it produced the original hot crossed buns. It was printed in a visitor centre leaflet so it must be true.
Digital Corona Health Certificate
Credit for the effort, but it has been a consistent issue over the last month and employees are still voicing concerns.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/21/enough-enough-l...

Once the vast majority of employees say it's actually fixed I'll give Amazon real credit for it, but it's empty PR until then.
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>What's a few avoidable deaths between friends, after all?

There is no vaccine coming for a year, maybe two, maybe never. "Flattening the curve" is ONLY a delaying strategy to not swamp the health-care system and hope that some treatments are developed (no guarantees there either). COVID is going to be part of our lives.

Are you saying we should shelter in place forever?

>A starting point would be Amazon providing tests

What tests? Are you expecting every employer to test their workers every day?

>along with ensuring everyone has masks and gloves and enough time to thoroughly wash their hands throughout their shift.

That's reasonable. Masks + social distancing + gloves, and policies for hand washing and disinfecting of commonly used surfaces. I suspect Amazon isn't too far from that, and if they are it's only because of the global PPE shortage.
I used to have a Gaggia Classic with an updated steam wand that did pretty well. I think it ranks well against the Racillio and is cheaper. It's basically the cheapest decent machine you can buy, AFAIK. People also hack it, with PID controller mods and such.
At the moment, they have been trying to offload it for some time.
Virtually money:China aims to launch the world’s first official digital currency
Instagram unlocked a lot of stuff here, though tbh it was mostly chatting with people on insta messaging rather than any kind of open discovery.
That site selectively quotes the literature and misrepresents the scientific record. See here https://rssdss.design.blog/2020/04/24/the-effectiveness-of-c...
Pay and benefits were the conversation before, and Amazon was a villain. Now it's having a job vs. not having a job, and Amazon is a hero.
What dollar figure would make you happy?
Maybe ask a local bakery or pizza shop.
Unpaid time off is forcing low-income workers to show up unless they want to starve.
In my limited experience Amazon UK's prices are lower than the seller's/manufacturer's own website. I always check, it's always been significant when I've checked.
That person is not playing anything. They are noting what the facts are right now.
This was true for us. I live with my fiance and we started cooking an omlette to be split between us every morning since this started. At three eggs a morning we can go through a dozen every 4 days. At one point we were trying to skip a trip to the store so I made a batch of black beans that we were eating for breakfast with tortillas and fresh cilantro.

Store pickup also complicated things as you usually only get about 60 to 70 percent of the items you ask for, and usually it's the sundries that get knocked out. So you can ask for all the ingredients for a complete meal plan and wind up with all the vegetables and a little meat but nothing else. Or you get shorted on other aspects of the pickup(this is just a bare statement of fact). We gave up and just went into the store with homemade PPE.

I do think this situation is revealing just how fragile our system of just-in-time delivery and globalization is. For things like N95 masks national borders are very real, and being dependent on China for everything in the US is really really bad.

It's also highlighting for me how important it is to know how to cook and be fluent in different kinds of cooking besides the standard American diet. When this first started the store shelves were picked clean of anything that most people recognize as nonperishable food. So I grabbed things like textured vegetable protein and millet. The shortages are really only a problem if you don't cook from first principles or don't have much experience with spices or other sources of flavor.
The point is that the way the system is currently set up, it sustains itself by using poor and working class bodies as consumable parts which are replaced when they inevitably crack under the pressure. Yes if you get a good education and get a desk job you can work from home. That's obvious. What is less obvious is who, on average, has the means and access to get to that position.
Unpaid time off. How are people supposed to eat and pay rent if their only available leave is unpaid? How will they afford their hospital bills after being exposed?
Well some people need to be told.

In. Simple. Ideas.
Ah, if you're aggregating links, I've seen some pretty comprehensive Google sheets listing the different online board games to play in quarantine. Here's one: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nwZkqIoIkkUakCvjiiLu...

Also, plug for my own site https://oneword.games. It's an implementation of Just One, the 2019 Spiel des Jahres winner. I built it a month ago just to play with my friends; now I'm getting hundreds of daily players and I can't figure out where they're even coming from =P
The useful content of his(her?) reply is that the so called "price gouging laws" can not only have good effects, but also bad ones.

This flour could be selling higher, and creating more incentive to produce.

But I agree, that publicity stunt bit is needlessly agressive
It's really quite amazing what a hobbyist can make these days (and sell on the internet).

I would prefer a device that supported network storage, so I could just point it at my server which has thousands of disk images.
IMO a starting point is: Single test for all employees before return to work, 100% guarantee that everyone has a mask for their shifts, the facility has ventilation, and they have gloves. 100% guarantee that facilities have soap and running water.

In the past all of what I mention has been a problem in warehouses, and it's why employees are protesting. Amazon can fix this, but it's been a problem very recently.

It's super reasonable if they can't gather up a bunch of N95s and medical grade gloves, but paper surgical masks or cloth masks should be feasible by now. It sounds like they're working on their own testing infrastructure, which is great.
Not talking about it in absolute terms. How about talking about it in terms of median wage per job title? Putting big numbers in glitzy blog posts only serves to dazzle and obfuscates how easy it would be for Amazon to double or triple that number with basically no dent in the wallet from doing so.
Policies take time to develop as people develop understanding of the situation , then there’s availability and putting policy into practice.
I don't think the results would be much interesting. Lots of sites will be default homepage/about/contact, where the author never started the site. Then a ton of useless pages like auto-generated indexes and summaries, that humans don't care about. An endless amount of duplicates because query string ?arg=value can crawl infinitely. And last but not least, copies of major sites and spam pages trying to fill search results.

I personally made a few websites and in my opinion it is fairly easy to get indexed by Google. If you open a pizzeria in small city, should be trivial to be top result in google for "pizzeria in town" after a week.

Despite all the critics Google is incredibly good at finding readable relevant content.
Noam Chomsky: A Green New Deal Can Create Jobs and Livelihoods
That but also Java doesn't really give you a better option here. There's no IntPtr type in Java like there is in C#.
How is that a valid concern? The only way the virus could spread would be through the building door, and maybe elevator buttons. It's a matter of cleaning those regularly and washing your hands when you get home. It's not rocket science.
I tried doing that, but I ran into some performance problems due to streaming raw video. Instead I streamed the audio via stdin and created a HTTP MJPEG server listening on localhost and pointed ffmpeg there. I was limited to maybe 10 FPS top and the JPEG encoding overhead was also getting noticeable, but I limited the framerate to 1 per second because it was mostly static (song name and current/remaining time of the track).
Ah yes because they're not being held at gunpoint it's not forced.

Do you really have a very literal definition of forced? No nuance or anything?
I doubt that much more flour is being consumed.

It's probably all logistics and supply chain issues because everything was geared towards delivering 1000lb loads of flour to a bakery instead of 100 x 10 lbs bags of flour to the grocery store.
Frozen airline food to feed those in need
This is going to be like the 9/11 first responders where they had to beg for health care and health insurance for the rest of their lives.

We have no idea what the lifetime implications are for someone getting sick. Put lifetime healthcare coverage with no cap in their contract. What are they going to somehow be "too healthy" ?
Nothing would happen, except for the fact that it would be a bad public health policy. If HQ employees had to be at the office, then they would be at the office. What, you think an office worker wouldn't come to work if they had to?
“Run” scripts: keeping track of commands in coding projects
I prefer memcpy() for those (or a custom function that calls memcpy() for ergonomics and perhaps static_asserts something about the type) rather than reinterpret_cast since it risks UB if you get it wrong.
If anything, TDS is the continued mental gymnastics required to paint his actions in anything resembling a positive light.

The man was literally following up on a conversation about UV and bleach being used as disinfectant on surfaces and then suggested that they might be a good for use on humans. Chemotherapy would sound crazy on it's face - and in a lot of ways it still is, people do die from chemo - but the push for further research for chemo was done by scientists and researchers who had a grasp on why and how it could be of use as a treatment.

It's also disingenuous to compare chemotherapy with injecting disinfectant. It is trivially easy for someone to inject themselves with disinfectant. It is not trivially easy for someone to give themselves chemotherapy. Trump's verbiage here is also the same as his playbook on chloroquine over the past few weeks - frame things as questions to be asked, but then pepper it all with words like "great" and "powerful"

It's the same way he operates on every single subject he's a fan of but can't come outright and say that he likes and wants you to think that way or believe in it. This is nothing new, and neither are the backflips and contortions people go through to try and justify it.

And, fundamentally, your entire argument falls apart now that Trump himself is claiming it was just a sarcastic joke, and that he was never ever suggesting that it's something we should do or even research. He's trying to walk back the statement and pretend he didn't mean anything by it at all except to be mocking because of how stupid the comment was.
Thanks, will check out Wingspan. Haven't heard of it before.
I like the structure of Mark's definitions, but I think it wouldn't define products like Neko Atsume, The Beginner's Guide, or Minecraft as video games. I think we generally consider the aforementioned to be video games, so it doesn't make much sense to 100% claim that a video game needs structure or goals. We can start calling them "interactive experiences" or something, sure, but if not I think we should accept that video games are a wide variety of things in our world, and appreciate the variety.

Or maybe to be more short, I think it might be good to be a bit less prescriptive of what qualifies as a video game, as we otherwise will blind ourselves to why people enjoy them as entertainment, competition, or self-expression.
I'd assume "sending commands to the satellite" would involve some sort of digital encoding. If you just want to bounce signals off of it then you probably just need to figure out the frequency and polarization (trial and error?), but if you wanted to issue a command I'd assume you need some sort of protocol.
> I did not work for GM in the 1930s

Thank you for this clarification
What I love about linux is that we have the option of doing this. My main machine in my office is from 2009- 4GB RAM, linux mint and fluxbox. It's time to upgrade as I've gotten away a bit from slinging 1s and 0s but damn- still does a job for that.
The median wage is an absolute term (in real units of currency), and so any multiple of that would also be an absolute term.
I see that you're in favor of people working to end political corruption. You're claiming that it would be more effective at making the world a better place.

But it also seems like you're claiming that people should not donate to charities, because that is actively bad.

But then, what about donating to charities that work on ending the political corruption?

Given that it's very hard for an individual to change their career mid-life to focus on fixing corruption; or to even use their free time to do that; what is the problem with sharing a message that encourages people to do research (focusing on cost-effectiveness of charities) before giving money to charity?
From what I remember, her class involved a lot of logical proofs using propositional logic, but in the form of word problems, not logical statements. I.e., if Bob is larger than Alice, then... instead of P -> Q. They also discussed probabilities, but I'm not sure to what degree.

Those two topics are discussed in entry level CS courses as well. So I assumed that the fields might be semi-related if they require the same mathematical foundations.
CMU Professor Creates Innovative App to Anonymously Trace Exposure to Covid-19
> Ok, I studied algorithms, got rejected at the paper round. Now what? The tough part isn't passing the interview, it's getting a chance in the first place.

This resonates. I'm a senior engineer with CS master from top university, 10yoe with leadership skills that prepared the past 4 months and solved over 200 coding challenges. I contacted 18 companies (starting 3 months ago), some of them referrals, some of them from company recruiters reaching out to me (Facebook, Google).

I passed the Google onsite and made it to the FB onsite. I passed all the stages for another company with a "did fantastic" rating but then got denied onsite for unknown reasons.

That means I got through one single paper round from 18 outreachs and it's very frustrating since the ratio is much worse than when I applied 4 years ago with much less experience and requiring a H1B sponsorship.
I have so much fire in me to work on consumer products (which my current job doesn't allow) it makes me explode.
The novelty of updating firmware via a GUI on Linux still hasn't worn off.
The bulk bins are still open in my neighborhood.
None of this really disagrees with the article; it's an issue because people typically on a leave of absence don't get paid (notice the lack of "paid leave").
For what it's worth, I'd have been more positive about your post if the website weren't solely a meditation blog and a link to the app stores with very little info on the app itself.

I like checking out apps via Show HN -- via their websites or technical blog posts. I'm not generally going to up someone's download count from one of these posts by actually spending time with the app before I'm introduced to it.
Is there a similar VHS reader anywhere?

I've looked for a VHS-to-digital converter, but couldn't find any. The only seeming solution is getting a TV tuner card, plugging an old VHS player to it, and actually playing the VHS on it, and using TV Tuner software to record it.
Disagree.

Amazon is doing pretty well due to the quarantine (as they deserve to given the services they provide). Them having to reduce their share of the profits from these extraordinary times is not particularly noble, but rather just average.

The United States hasn't even passed the first stage of Corona yet (in SF, daily number of deaths is still rising). It is too early to mandate come backs.

Here in SF, multiple employees at 3 Whole Foods locations have already contracted Covid. Amazon has not done nearly enough thus far. The fact that they are now providing masks and cleaning up door handles is again, a bare minimum.

They should let exigent time off policies rein for at least 2 more months, before going back to business as normal policies.

Please realize, that even despite all of the above, their profits will keep rising through this period; there is no reason to think of them as victims, when they very much so are winners in this situation. Foregoing just a little bit of your extra profits to ensure your workers stay healthy in unprecedented times of a pandemic is not asking for too much.
There is but one interweb.
We have these for many models and parts of models. On one side, you have sample complexity [0] (how much data do you need?). On the other side, in deep learning you also have optimization convergence rates (how many steps do you need find the right parameters?). For example, newton's method converges at a quadratic rate for many problems. I know people work on similar theories for non-convex optimization, but the actual work there is outside what I know.

It would be great to have a breakthrough there.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_complexity
Amazon has by now spent millions of man-hours on addressing COVID-19 -- meetings, designing splash banners, etc. They are a very big company who pays big money for top talent. Amazon is not the scrappy upstart it was 15 years ago. Let's hold them accountable according to what they are capable.

Edit: it would seem obvious in retrospect that if most major governments have action plans in case of global pandemic, a global logistics company should have done the same. I would be very surprised if they hadn't, frankly, and my view of Bezos would be lower than it already is if they hadn't because this is really something that should have mattered to him before it was a real situation.
Homemade vanilla takes a few months but it's easy and tastes fantastic. Some vanilla beans with some vodka or rum.
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>>> Basically, what is even one practical thing I should care about with regards to this issue?
>>> I really, really don't care if some of those brands go out of business.

There is an immediate positive impact to the consumer, that you're getting a good, cheap thing possible from a well-known brand on their own site - Amazon. However, there are second-order effects to this.

How did those dozen-version-products actually come into being? Amazon didn't discover in the beginning that, usb cables were high-demand products. Those no-name-brands 'seeded' that idea. Amazon noticed that there was demand and supply for something that they could easily scale; they discovered it without being in the usb-cable-selling-business. Going forward, those no-name-brands could either:

- not risk coming up with such products (dont think this will happen, but bad for consumer)
- move away from Amazon (they could, but at a huge loss of eyeballs)
- continue operating at lower margins by making cheaper products (bad for consumer)
- compete amongst themselves for being the Amazon producer for rebranded product. (all your products are now mine)

>>> but stops showing any iPads altogether, and I can only buy the Fire tablet? I don't really care about that either, I would buy it from a different retailer.

You are comparing 2 known big giants (Amazon, Apple) in your example. What if it was an unknown company that didn't have the budget to get ad space on your Search results for 'best tablet'. (reviewers would look at amazon for 'best tablets', those perpetuating the best-tablet-cycle)?

I guess my point is - if a single company 'runs' a marketplace, and wants to win top products on it as well, its not a marketplace, its a casino from the sellers POV - the house always wins. The game is skewed.

You, as, the consumer (and spectator in the casino), will, I guess, win?
Drive managed SMR is borderline. Host managed is stupid and only worth the effort if your a hyperscaler with a particular workload. A workload that happens to look a lot like old school tape workloads, which is probably what they should have sold SMR as.. Hard drives that look like tapes.

Which is why beyond some basic hinting its not worth putting in mainstream filesystems.
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That and they should go outside in the heat and humidity as much as possible. The virus can live indoors for 5 days to 2 weeks in air conditioned environments. Outside in high humidity? Minutes. Open the parks, encourage people to go outside and exercise.
Yep.

How I caught ring worm

Cats are filthy creatures
How to manage your GitHub Organization with Terraform
Do you not grasp that having flour around provides optionality that your friends didn't previously have?
Yeah... Until a country-wide food delivery company starts an advertising campaign and floods the results with their website even though their services aren't available in that town.
By starve do you mean "go hungry", or "eat less", or "starve to death"?

Edit: I find "starve" to be a hyperbolic and emotionally manipulative choice of words, but I don't want to assume the worst. Maybe you have good reason to use this term?
I’m very skeptical that any nation state group is foiled by leaked ip addresses or language identifying strings left in code. Both seem like such obvious red herrings that it makes me question anyone that puts stock in them.
The trade-off is simple to me (both as a reader and more recently as a provider): it is time vs money. How long would you need to collect, organize and present the material you are buying? Any well conceived eBook or mini course you need is so cheap compared to its cost, in that sense.
COVID tests aren't DNA tests. It's a swab of the back of your throat (through the nose, oof) to test for a specific virus. It's not hard to find the specific stuff used to perform the tests, it's out there on the internet, the CDC published it. Are we really descending into paranoia about Amazon trying to genetically profile employees?
I used the 20.04 Xub test DE on an AMG Picasso desktop machine for over a week without this problem - although it had failed to detect the usual display setting I use, which I'd had to fix with xrandr. (I'd had to xrandr Mint 19 too, but it stayed fixed.)

However, on the day I tried switching to the XFCE DE, then switched back to the Xub DE, I was greeted by the block staircase display. Later I found that by replacing the 'home' folder with the installed original, it was gone. But only one (the wrong) display setting worked.

Glad to see this is getting attention. For that first week, 20.04 was a rock.
When the virus persists for days on most surfaces and everyone is required to wear disposable gloves, customers bringing their own reusable bags has never been less appealing than it is right now.

NYC (coincidentally) banned single-use plastic bags a week or so before the COVID-19 outbreak, and it was quickly reversed on sanitation grounds.
Tangentially related, has anyone tried to implement the ideas described in Juval Lowy's new book, "Righting Software" (https://www.amazon.com/Righting-Software-Juval-L%C3%B6wy-ebo...)? His methodology of project management seems much more systematic than week-by-week sprint planning.
Longtime Silicon Valley CEO says coronavirus could kill the open office
Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't even scratched the surface with TTS.