skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For New Zealand the largest source of tourists are from Australia. The opposite isn't true due to the nations population imbalance but New Zealand is still a large source of tourism for Australia.

It may surprise some people but the number of Australians that visit countries overseas is roughly equal to tourists visiting Australia. As wealthy diversified nations tourism for Australia and New Zealand is a net wash in terms of foreign cash flows. Citizens spend as much overseas as tourists coming to Australia. The issue isn't foreign currency gains/losses but a more simple case of the economy and jobs are setup to service a certain number of tourists who are no longer there.

Both nations leaders have met and discussed encouraging bilateral tourism. Honeymoons, family overseas trips, etc. will be bilateral and internal for the time being. If the previously external tourism can be directed internally it'll actually more or less be a wash on topline numbers.
>The two nations are also close to eliminating COVID-19 internally.

And all it takes is one person to coof somewhere in their country and bada bing you're toast. I don't see how this is beneficial, unless moving forward they has no travel period which is completely unrealistic.
>We're don't have herd immunity to Ebola. Instead we just don't let it take hold.

Well, COVID-19 isn't Ebola, and it has taken hold, and we are under lockdown. So what are the conditions for reopening? Vaccine?
TL;DR

In one week Wink requires a $4.99/month subscription. If you don't pay it then starting 13-May-2020 you lose all access to your Wink device.

Seems a little ransom/blackmail-ey given how little time they are giving people to switch over :(
Can a Broke America Fight a Cold War with China?
Perhaps in theory. But in practice, nobody wants to risk being fined because a court determines that some data wasn't required to provide the service. Do you really need to have persistent carts for non-logged-in customers? Can't you just only offer the cart for logged in customers? It's not required, just beneficial.

Thus, these cookie disclaimers are like Proposition 65 warnings in California. They're everywhere so people ignore them.
Honestly I'm not sure about what the outcome is there, has it ever been tested?
That would be insane. They probably mean until they figure out how to reopen borders and with whom without risking too much. And given how many countries are doing the same thing maybe even an international agreement of some sort will emerge where only people from virus-free countries or recently tested people will be allowed to take flights.
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It makes sense. Just like "economy" vs "first class" for travel. As a business, it needs to partition out the consumer buckets into various groups for profit maximization.
That has been a common and reasonable understanding of Spain's veto potential for a while; that said, their foreign minister has indicated otherwise:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/02/spain-drops...
Testing border crossers is more realistic.
Those examples are either not very contagious or not contagious at all.
Has anyone else looked at his GitGardener project and thought it seemed pretty shady? I'm not sure I understand why github would allow it.
There is rich irony in exploiting a country that rejects global capitalism while believing that "the shadow hands of globally sanctioned socialist labor" is socialist at all.
Make sure you get 8 hours of sleep each night. Eat healthy. Exercise daily. Keep anxiety in check.
> it has taken hold

New Zealand had zero new cases yesterday. Zero. Australia had 24 new cases and trending to zero.
We'll reopen our borders, probably soon (they're already open to legal residents), but until there's a vaccine we will have 2 weeks quarantine for all incoming travelers

We've had single digit new cases for almost 2 weeks now, 2 new cases in the past 3 days, none in my region for over 2 weeks, there are ~150 active cases nationwide, dropping every day. The goal is for all new cases to be occurring in quarantine.
hahaha, nice, i love the cloud and peoples naive mindset, its a never ending entertainment
This is at the convergence of several problems:

1. Companies that are selling a thing, but don't have a sustainable business model selling that thing, and;
2. The Internet of Shit, where you buy things that used to Just Work, but now they require subscriptions and access to servers, and can be turned off or bricked at any time.
That makes the law stupid, dude. I want my lawmakers to apply a slight modicum of systems thinking.
If any of that is profit you've surpased WeWork! Congrats! :)
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+1. I was on my way to recommend this documentary.
I'm a developer and given the things I've seen users do, calling most users stupid would be a gross offense towards stupid people. It is precisely because I know how twisted and convoluted a system could be that I'm incredibly... "Meh" towards the whole cookie fiasco. What's more there's things such as AmIUnique[1], which are pretty significant. In my case some stats:

User agent: <0.01%
Content language: <0.01%

On the subject of content language alone I'm willing to believe I'm more likely to be <0.00000001%. So combine all those together, and I'm pretty sure you can narrow down my identity to a single digit number of possible individuals, if not pin-point me exactly, without bothering with cookies at all. Which makes the whole privacy argument pretty stupid to begin with. Take someone like google and how many people use google analytics. Forget the cookies, forget everything: "oh I know this guy"! Same story with facebook like buttons and whatnot(if I hadn't blocked all traffic from facebook that is).

[1]https://amiunique.org/
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The Scroll Hijacking Usability Nightmare (2016)
Oh I think there was some value in WeWork. OfficeSpace-as-a-Service that was hipper than Regus and offered consistency across many cities. But obviously far less value than the money being pumped into WeWork would suggest.
You should add increased number of options there as well. I know there's a ton of resturaunts near me that didn't care to get into the delivery business but had no problem working with a delivery company like uber eats. This may be a much smaller niche though as I'm paid enough that the time savings I get from delivery are worth the extra 20-30% I pay from going to pick it up myself
For the unaware I also recommend prof Gelman blog.
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/
Worth sacrificing my karma for: https://www.quitfacebook.org.
Except that's not the case at all. It is easy to track and isolate a small number of cases. The New Zealand government listens to its advises who know more than you do.
That's inaccurate. Bat coronaviruses that were close to SARS-COV-1 were indeed found in a cave in Yunnan, but that doesn't mean SARS-CoV-1 literally evolved right there or that it first spread to humans in the region - who then somehow carried it to Guangdong, where the actual outbreak occured.

SARS-CoV-1 was also found in civets in Guangdong sold at a wildlife market. It is unknown whether the first human transmission went through civets or through bats, but the local civets probably didn't take a trip to Yunnan to get infected.

Either way, it doesn't make a difference whether it is Yunnan, Guangxi or Guangdong, those are the areas where these bats live and where you would expect a human transmission to occur.

You wouldn't expect it to occur in Wuhan. That's not my personal assessment, that's the assessment of the virologist that personally led the expedition to that Yunnan cave - I quoted her in my previous reply.
“Devs” and “Westworld”: Sean Carroll on free will onscreen
Elon's long term plan for Falcon is to switch customers to Starship as soon as it's available, and they're comfortable switching. (Which might be a while for the Air Force and NASA.) In the meantime, any major changes to Falcon would be a serious distraction, which he'd probably forgo for that reason alone, regardless of the technical merits.
Does anyone not accept cookies when they visit a website? If not why not? I often clear mine out or use private mode to get around "you have read your maximum 5 articles please subscribe now". What are genuine reasons for not wanting to visit a website with cookies?
I started watching the video of hooking the Trance Vibrator up to Rez Infinite but I got distracted by the intense wave of, well, pretty much ASMR that ran up my spine once I saw level 1 on the screen along with its music and now I guess I am spending a while playing that instead. I shall not say what I am doing with my second controller or hint a ways I may be enhancing the reach of its vibrations.

100% analyzation, 99.6% shotdown, 100% support item, one hit taken during Earth [Tera] - not bad for the first time picking it up in years I guess, especially on a dim projector with some intense Sensations and Emotions going through my head as I was dancing with the first level's boss.
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Screen with blue todos is using white text on gradually lighter background in the end the contrast is terrible IMO.
Also the gradient looks tacky and pointless
An unfortunate domain name that didn't learn their lesson from expertsexchange.com or penisland.com
> you are not completely reliant on someone to employ you

I don't think that's where the feeling of empowerment comes from. Instead of doing a good job to impress your boss you do a good job to impress your customers. That feeling, I believe, comes from the fact that generating your own revenue stream makes you a "one man team". You pulled all the right strings, you pushed the right buttons, you spoke to the all right people. You took your idea from back of the napkin drawing to actual functioning and successful business. You don't get to do that as an employee.
I wasn't implying that nations should choose this course. But say a year from now when most of their population is immune and the disease is no longer worrisome within that nation (relative to the zillion other things you can die from), then from that point they my ironically be better off.

Of course this assumes

1. some kind of immunity (which I'd think indications are pointing toward, or I'd expect to have seen more repeat contractions by now)

2. the response was dorked up down to the individual level (which is most decidedly not the case -- plenty of individuals (especially among highish-income) are choosing to self isolate and take precautions, and thus will not contract the virus for quite some time no matter how bad the government response was, so immunity within these groups will never form, so the government will not be able to reopen anyway)

So even in the absence of other considerations, the 2nd point above pretty much cancels out my original post.
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I'm willing to bet the writers have never seen the site in its modern form.
This is great news! I've been doing a similar setup to this for years with Jupyter Notebooks.

However, if I get to make a teeny tiny feature request (Nat, if you're out there...) it would be about this:

> What if I don’t want to develop in a browser?

> If you prefer, you can open a codespace in GitHub and then connect to it in VS Code.

I really kinda wish I could do the oposite, kinda like how Google Drive's Colaboratory (essentially Jupyter Notebooks on Drive[0]) do: I would launch a CodeSpace on GitHub, and it would handle all of the UI and automation bits, but I would keep the "environment" hosted somewhere else (i.e. a Docker container exposing a CodeSpace agent/headless VSCode through localhost:8080 that my browser talks to)

All of the gears seem to be already in-place for this to be possible given:

> How is Codespaces different from VS Code?

> Codespaces sets up a cloud-hosted, containerized, and customizable VS Code environment. After set up, you can connect to a codespace through the browser or through VS Code.

The reasons for this are several:

- I bought a beefy computer for a reason, and want to use it. I don't want to pay boatloads of money to Azure to have equal firepower to what I currently have idling;

- From an SRE perspective, your code, several times needs to be "inside" your infrastructure to run properly (because of roles, latency, you might be running Data Loss Prevention solutions, what have you), and this allows me to point the CodeSpace to a dedicated instance I have running inside a VPN on my own infrastructure;

- There are more, but I don't want to make this too long and I'm failing to recall some of them.

So to sum it up: I think this is a potentially great feature, as long as it doesn't come coupled with the need to buy Azure instance time. This would (and I'm asserting this purely from my own gut, without a shred of evidence) probably lead to increased adoption for this feature, and as a corollary lead to selling more Azure instance time for those who do not want the hassle, without crippling those who actually need to keep some things "in-house".

[0] https://colab.research.google.com
If you've noticed it during the demo, the Live Share extension is preinstalled and logged in with your GitHub account, so you can start a session right away.
>> Vi defines a "language" for operating on objects.

And the objects are text-centric (word, sentence, etc). Add on top of that a powerful macro system, and you get a really powerful tool for text manipulation.
I wonder if people above 60 should then start taking acyclovir if the have the virus in their system, as a potential preventative?
They should do a study on this.
The law uses the word "cookies".
I suppose this will mean the end of free content in the EU.
My first purchased CD as a teenager, back in 1991, when music actually cost a lot of money: Kraftwerk - The Mix:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mix_(Kraftwerk_album)

There is so much genius on this particular album. Critics weren't happy, but to me it was just perfection.
> I don’t understand how my desktop i5 4690k with an old SATA SSD is SO much faster than this laptop that has an 8th gen i7 8650u, DDR4, NVMe SSD, even for basic tasks like having more than 20 browser tabs open and just surfing the web.

The surface book is in a strange bind. the 8650 is much much weaker than your 4690k and has very little thermal room to play with. The thermals are particularly tricky because the CPU lives in the tablet portion; meaning there is a tension between cooling it properly, providing a touch screen and keeping it thin and light enough to not have awkward weight distribution.
I think the point is that it creates positive feedback and that helps people remain motivated. One of the reasons I give my team for trying to break up a large task into smaller subtasks is the enjoyment of completing something and closing out that task. It makes the overall goal seem like something achievable.
It's much higher than than. New York had an ~1% IFR.
> careless parents/extended family

> benign branding of "cold sore"

This is a dangerous, hurtful opinion and you need to be downvoted. No one is to be shamed for this virus.

A third of teenagers will acquire HSV-1 during childhood from simply putting things into their mouths. There is no way to prevent this sort of transmission. [1]

Most of the world's population has the virus. [2] Given these odds, you probably have the virus yourself and may or may not be asymptomatic.

The focus should be on finding a cure, not changing social norms or shaming people. The stigma is obstructing our focus. It's also impeding research, which as it may turn out, is a cause for Alzheimer's and related neurodegenerative disorders.

So much suffering from something that isn't anyone's fault, yet everyone blames "bad parenting" and "sexual promiscuity" for. It's shameful and we need to do better.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db304.htm

[2] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/herpes-simp...
I need quitHN.org these days
Since when HN is a political outlet?

Also, we are still democracy as the ruling elite didn't win the elections on a lottery. The article is just complaining about we are not globalist regime like the rest of the EU.
Just stop. We've seen what happens when this virus is let loose. We've seen it collapse the Italian healthcare system. It almost came close to collapsing the healthcare system in NYC. So it isn't just a big conspiracy to quarantine everyone. The initial numbers were higher, but that's expected given the lack of data. The new numbers are better but still flawed. We won't know the true infection rate and the death toll for a while still, but the models are constantly refined.
As a customer I would rather they solve the problem that their pickers decrease the usability of their stores.
So I imagine this is similar to codesandbox.io which already lets you do frontendy bits?

I imagine the way Code spaces works is you spin up a container in azure with checked out GitHub branch, vscode on the browser then interfaces with the container(s).

Pretty neat idea if you can customize the docker container setup like a simple docker compose file or something.
So cause damage and then try to fix it vs don't cause damage in the first place?
Emission thresholds in EU green finance taxonomy are too high. Here’s why
On those first two, we use Tampermonkey as a research platform for A/B testing integration with stock web interfaces.

https://github.com/buttplugio/buttplug-tampermonkey

On the tracking of muscle contractions, I'd recommend checking out the Nogasm project, an open source orgasm denial system that uses air pressure changes to track pelvic floor contractions, which are indicative of arousal levels. These could be tracked against, say, bug rates in code to monitor affective states in developers.

https://github.com/nogasm/nogasm
The alternative is indefinite lock down and lots of prayers for an effective vaccine?
There won't be many sites you will be able to click on, nor services. No more free email, no more free news, no more free chat forums. Your web will be a lonely place with a very small number of sites you're able to visit without paying.
yup :) https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.6.0#sending-en...
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> The on-screen-keyboard should completely disable itself if I attach a keyboard. (Did Windows figure this out yet?)

This always works fine for me on my SP6.
Github CodeSpaces is explicitly VS Code. Their tagline is "Get the full Visual Studio Code experience without leaving GitHub."
It's also completely unnecessary. You can just create a repo and backdate commits to do it instantly.

Like this for example:

https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti
One can only hope that is the case. Otherwise, this ruling is basically a decree that journalists must give away their work for free.
They can still act on it. They just don't have the power to strip Hungary of their voting rights (or theoretically kick them out) without unanimous support.

They can do things like block the Hungarian govt's access to EU funds, bring a case to the European Court of Justice, etc.
There's definitely going to be a usage based metric to pricing in the long-run.

The problem now is that the obvious metric ('bot runs') is too crude for a DIY bot-builder, and may stop users during development.

It's very likely our pricing system will evolve to resemble zapier's multiple tiers - they have the closest business model to ours. We're basically "The Zapier of RPA".
> GDPR doesn't make website owners ask people if they can use cookies, you can use cookies just fine without asking people. You have to ask people when you want to collect or process more data than is required to provide the service.

I don't have any first-hand knowledge here, but my guess would be that the corporate lawyer's recommendation is always going to be "just get consent for every cookie". The alternative is to risk lengthy litigation over whether specific cookies required the consent. If they ask every time, they can avoid that nightmare.

Because of this, the notice doesn't really serve any purpose of a signal of sysop goodwill. Virtually every business large enough to have lawyers will add it where there's the possibility it'd be required, regardless of the cookie's intention.

Well-intended law that causes many negative side effects is still bad law, just as well-intended software may very well still be bad software.
If I were to read a book about rebuilding a car engine, I wouldn't feel comfortable with actually doing so. Experience remains necessary to reach that comfort level.

Define concrete goals with learning any language and that will help you measure progress. Rust is a massive language with many features that aren't required learning in order to accomplish many types of development. Over time, you'll probably learn them out of curiosity and continued personal development. You'll also return to code that you seek to optimize.
Ask Ireland or its overlords how choosing short term economy over people worked out for them with the Irish Potato Famine. Andrew Carnegie became wealthy in the US instead of generating income for the UK - regardless of one's opinions of his overall morals or lack of them he was far more productive than the harvest they sold.

That was a more extreme case of 20% to 25% of the population but losing a sizable percentage of productivity with the population is very expensive in ways apparent both on and off the balance sheets. It is the epitome of penny wise pound foolish to make such a trade - the bloody gains will fade away in time while the loss echoes.
> Wait what?! What kind of apartments are we talking about here?

All of them, that was the range from the cheapest to the priciest. Idk why that seems unbelievable, I literally just looked at apartments in AMS now and the range appears the same.

> What does the medical insurance cover?

It’s full medical coverage via a PPO plan. $40 copay, $250 deductible, $1500 max out-of-pocket per year.

> How much did your car & car insurance cost in LA and did you need one in Amsterdam (probably not)?

I already owned a car, and would have sold it if I moved. Insurance is paid semi-annually but isn’t a major expense. Additionally, I included public transit as a benefit for Amsterdam in my original post, so I’m not sure what your point is.

It really seems like you’re grasping at straws to justify the difference. The reasoning is obvious: the tech industry is massive, highly competitive and California is currently the global leader in that industry.
We (NZ) had -1 new cases a couple of days ago, it's working pretty well.