skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think society was a little different then. People had a shot at changing their life and switching to legitimate work.
That's not really possible any more; once you have a felony arrest, you've got a black mark against you. Low-level jobs that might be willing to hire ex-cons don't realistically pay enough to support someone.

I'm not saying we shouldn't legalize drugs; I'm just saying any such policy change should also include some help for individuals to move away from that life or they'll more-or-less be forced into other illegal activities.
Curious where you came up with "phonetic characters with no semantic component". It's just an alphabet with spaces. With each block representing a syllable. It's easier than Latin.
Huh? People move states all the time. There are IRS rules about which state you should be deemed a resident, and you'll need to file state tax return in both states for the year in which you move. But there's no magic about needing a lease. I'm sure there are thousands of people living in their cars still paying taxes.
IT support friend of mine told me a story how the place where he worked (major US bank) basically took its whole email infrastructure offline when the company essentially DDOSed itself with a single email.

Someone in IT was testing an email distribution list for the whole company (CEO announcements, that sort of thing) and sent out a test email to the effect of “Hello, did this work?”.

Two problems.

1. They had emailed the whole company for real, not the test list they thought they emailed

2. The list was setup such that anyone in the company could email it and also send a message to all other employees in the bank.

Within about 5 minutes everyone in the bank had hundreds of emails turning up. Initially this was people saying “Yes I got it”. Before long people were emailing to say “Please stop sending all these emails” which in turn got sent to the whole company.

Of course some people then started replying all to tell people to stop replying which only added fuel to the fire. The exponential traffic growth effectively brought the email system to halt for many hours until the mess could be cleaned up.
Current versions of O365 work really well, especially if you spend time at an organization still using pre-O365 versions of Office things.

I pay for O365, and G Suite and Adobe CC (among others) at our small shop. I think G Suite could be the easiest to lose.

And I wouldn't have thought I'd prefer MS over G for Office stuff a year or two ago.
The original risk associated with Covid19 was lack of hospital resources. With most hospitals having plenty of capacity, the risk of getting Covid19 and not getting access to hospital resources is much lower than expected, so it was true.
> did the company and the investors ever actually believe that the robotaxi stuff was even close to viable

IMO, absolutely. The hype for self driving cars a few years ago was massive. I forget who, but a prominent SV investor offered to make a bet with someone that self-driving taxis would be on the road in five years. There was plenty of it in HN, too.

That's the investors. Did Travis think so too? The insane amounts of money they spent on acquisitions and developing the tech suggests yes: they were trying to be first to a huge potential market. But maybe he was doing all that to scam investors, who can tell.
> It's all to fight spam and to better track user activity (and, if we're being charitable to them, perhaps to stymie deliberate propaganda/fake news).

Who is that being charitable to? The Chinese government also censors to stymie deliberate propaganda; it's just that in their case we typical HN posters happen to be on the side the propaganda that is being censored is for, whereas in our case we are on an opposing one.

I'm not convinced by the usual counterargument that "China blocks true information whereas we block fake news". There doesn't to seem to be anything qualitatively different between a cartoon of Liu Xiaobo ascending to heaven from a Chinese prison and most of the examples on https://www.cbsnews.com/media/russian-ads-on-facebook-a-gall... (which I assume is meant to be a sample of deliberate propaganda that we want FB to block); both tend to contain some kernel of factual statements that are probably not contentious (you can probably get official documentation that Liu was jailed and died in China, too), but the point is not in this content but in an exhortation that the reader should feel about them in a particular way and translate this feeling into support for a particular political movement.
"She did not think of [further] ideas [, perhaps being unable to]"

Hmmm. Isn't "further" somewhat related to space or distance? And in any case, it doesn't convey the same meaning as "she ran out of ideas", which is quite definitive -- we're not unsure, we know there are no more ideas left in her mind.

I'm sure we all agree (even Julia and Maggie, it would seem) it's not practical or clearer to talk like this.
Is there a simple rest API where I can poll such information?
Would like to build one for my country.
It certainly could be apocryphal, but ....

I thought the commodity was coal. And the issue was that the trader was at a fancy new office park with a river view that was an old dock specifically for coal.
Ah. Definitely very different thinking behind the naming then!
Why Tahoe? I'm on the NV side. Super crowded.
https://webwide.io/
Correct. Even lock-downs haven’t slowed this down much.
Misleading title, at least for the link — but it uncovers highly interesting material, as OP notes below.

The internet draft expired last year and hasn’t been renewed. Direct quote warning others not to overstate it:

> Note: This isn't a proposal that's well thought out, and stamped solidly with the Google Seal of Approval. It's a collection of interesting ideas for discussion, nothing more, nothing less.

A better link would be to the Cookie Store API proposal, or to the mailing list post linked by OP:

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!msg/blink...

> Although there are long term plans to deprecate cookies, we recognize that with the existing heavy usage of cookies, it will take a long time for this to happen. We think that by introducing this API now, it will help the current state of cookies by allowing developers to use them more judiciously and make better decisions about security while also improving performance.

They do link “deprecate cookies” to that same expired spec, but it isn’t really good context for what their plans are, compared to the above list post.
Twitter warns of legacy site theme shutting down on June 1
These aren't really much of an improvement in efficiency though - self-checkout kiosks for stores have been around since at least the early 2000s, and they're still much slower than minimum-wage cashiers with a little experience (maybe Amazon will finally change this, but the tech my local grocery has is definitely as bad as the kiosk I worked alongside in 2003). It takes me much longer to order using a kiosk at a McDonald's than it takes me to tell a cashier what I want. I remember using a touch-screen kiosk at a Subway back in 2005, and my local subway 15 years later still doesn't have them. This ultra rise in productivity just isn't actually happening despite what conversations on hacker news (and before that, digg, and before that, slashdot) keep insisting on.
Measuring low-force, high-temp flows like can be pretty difficult, especially in academic labs where researchers are typically pretty limited in terms of instrumentation. I don't have 1-to-1 experience in this field but have briefly worked in plasma physics and ion thruster propulsion.

Doing a quick scan of the group's AIP paper, I'm generally okay with the methodology and the results they've drawn from it. It seems like their results are mostly establishing a rough thrust value with a force ceiling on each measurement, not a high-precision continuous dataset. Assuming the quartz tube and sphere don't seriously deviate from one another, the equations and physical assumptions they're using check out fine. It's not something you'd want to doing a full characterization on a flight model or anything, but for lab-scale experiment, I think it works.
> I've been staying away from Uber stock because they have a market cap of 50B

Not defending Uber here in the slightest, but given your post history on Tesla, I find it amusing you think Uber's market cap is egregious
That typewriter/terminal thing: Wow!
The nice thing about Kotlin is that you can just bind to the existing Java GraphQL libs. Clojure is similar in this respect. Sure it means you have to also be familiar with Java and the Java ecosystem, but it's actually great to interact with Java-the-ecosystem when you don't have to write any java. ^^
How do you square this with what happened in Lombardy, Spain, France and other places in which the healthcare systems were overwhelmed and tens of thousands of people died in just a few weeks?
We can just pencil in a California Biden win now.
In this specific situation, I think the grandparent left their employer with no options after the "email that I was leaving and would not be returning for at least two weeks and pending further info about any spread". Putting this in an e-mail really forces the employer's hand. Remember that the manager does not know who is being BCCed on the conversation, and must assume the worst (that everyone the employee knows is on a BCC list). Given that state of affairs, I think any competent HR department would insist on treating the e-mail as a resignation.

Imagine someone gets up at their desk, and yells out: "I am leaving, and not coming back until you agree to my terms". That is the (assumed) situation here, and leaves management with almost no options.
We weren't there when someone entered it, or there might have been a bit of GTFO discussion.
I'm pretty sure both AWS and Google Cloud have a free tier enough to run basic websites. I've been running mine on Google Cloud. AWS has all kinds of nice freebies too. Like 25GB of DynamoDB with 200M requests/month, and AWS Lambda with 1 million requests/month.
You also miss out on the community aspect of things. Working with a framework like React means that there is a worldwide community of developers that you can tap into when you run into a roadblock.

It is incredibly frustrating to run into an issue with a home grown framework and have to ask around only to discover that the person who wrote the part you're having trouble with left the company 2 years ago and no one else understands it.
Doesn't sound like he gave an ultimatum... he said he wasn't going to come into the office for two weeks, he didn't say UNLESS the company did something... there was no demand, and a demand is required for an ultimatum.
What's the political situation like there? I hear about things like voter suppression by the Republicans and other shenanigans in those states.
Thanks for reposting(?) this, I was trying to remember what this project was the last time it was mentioned on HN.
Well, in fact, I have contributed to killing 0 people by getting a haircut during COVID! Can you maybe try a little harder to grasp the analogy?
The people are losing jobs and their businesses, and you only care about your parents?

I work for a startup, full-remote - I wish we all agreed upon the amount of people who could die from the epidemic and relaxed the rules.

There’s just too many people I know who are not going to get their jobs back after all of this is over (this will affect their lives for way longer after it all ends).

Dying is a natural part of living. Many people would prefer to die rather than continue living in isolation.

The quarantine is doing it’s work, but isolation is not an answer because that’s not living.
Twitter disputes State Dept claims China coordinated Covid-19 disinfo accts
Original title was too long. It was:

Twitter disputes State Department claims China coordinated coronavirus disinformation accounts
Perhaps, but we already could.
It's hard to make money by pure market-making, so it's common for market-makers to also do some amount of speculation.

After 2008, banks were banned from speculating (ish) [1], but were allowed to do market-making. It's common for market-making desks to do speculative trades under cover of market-making activity. It's hard to conclusively prove that any given trade is speculation rather than market-making (which involves hedging), so they generally get away with it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcker_Rule
I've using this site for improving my touch-typing:

https://www.keybr.com/

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
It's been years since I've asked a question on Stack Exchange. There comes a point when any place I get caught up nobody can help me. So there are several questions I've answered myself. Of course, working in the same space six months later, I'll have a problem, search for it, and land on the question on Stack Exchange that I've answered months earlier. It's happened a few times.
There is an excellent overview of how to use the interface by a YouTube channel called Allieway Audio[0]. It was the explanation that made this software make sense for me personally.

[0] https://youtu.be/RaI_TuISSJE
Just because everyone dumps their savings in the stock market doesn't make it any more functional. I think it's obvious by now, considering the actions of the Fed, that the market is propped-up. The debate is actually whether this action is good to the broad economy. A pro argument would sound much like yours - because many people's life savings went into 401k it would be a disaster to let it fall (read be accurately priced). The cons is that this disproportionately helps the upper echelons of society, further increasing inequality - main street gets mostly decimated.

There was a good analogy I read some days ago by someone on HN:

> Equity markets are not supposed to be so timid that they hide behind the skirts of grandma and cling to grandpa's legs. The picture is more like they're holding a gun to your grandparents' heads.

So basically protecting your life savings is now entirely correlated with speculators winning big. This wouldn't be a problem if we'd all be winning and the pie was large enough for everyone but it definitely is not and it's going in the wrong direction.
Work at a startup of about 70 - so just slightly larger than your ask. M n of 1 data is that we're out until Labor Day, for all of the same reasons as the big boys
I agree with you, but for fun's sake let me try:

"The sticks supporting a chair"?
> That SARS-CoV-2 was in our environment for months longer than thought, that 20% or more of Americans may already have antibodies

That would be a reasonable conclusion, perhaps, if the curve was flattening somewhat informally, and not specifically in places that have stronger lockdowns.

> That there's no evidence social distancing did anything at all

There’s reams of evidence in data across the world, and comparing locations in the US, that distancing has a substantial effect. Even most of the nutballs clamoring for radical reopening, like the President and his Republican allies, acknowledge that there is a trade-off in reopening, but argue that the lives to be lost from COVID-19 are a price worth paying for the near-term economic gains.
Aren't you the guy famous for scraping everyone's Mastodon toots, even when people don't want you to?
>I have never in my life had a stakeholder get on my case because our site was 3mb when it could have been 1mb.

As cloud costs become tougher to swallow, this is going to change.
https://archive.md/EGIGB
Great to see Orca on here! Really really fun to play with for generative music; I made a song with it last year that I posted: https://www.instagram.com/p/BzVjW7LBv1K/

I also learned a lot from watching Allieway Audio's Orca series on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeo2Fo1OidWpT83BT5xmCZw/vid...

Orca is fascinating because it is so limited compared to most "programming languages", and trying to figure out how to express ideas 1) compactly, 2) without abstraction or recursion, and 3) flexible enough for real-time editing, is a great, rewarding challenge.
I think this will only be true while there are still weeks left on UI and not many places passing peak infections. Eventually, people are going to want to lock down a job before everyone rushes back onto the job market.
Probably in plain sight, disguised as a COBOL compiler.
I'd also be curious about approximate battery life. Personally, I'd rather a decent ARM SoC and longer battery life than a beefy x86 CPU that's going to drain the battery in two hours.
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At one point a couple weeks back someone at the WHO said they don't know exactly how immunity works yet with this virus, which was followed by a flood of articles screaming about how we can't become immune (with a little "maybe" shoved in somewhere way below the headline).

Care to share a link or two? I’m skeptical that any respected news outlets reported that we can’t become immune.

Agreed on local TV news though; it’s a cesspool.
KEEP NOTES. Write everything down. Write down what you were thinking about, how you felt about decisions, things you tried for bug fixes. you never know when this stuff will be useful to you again.

I keep really basic markdown notes in a git repo, roughly one file per day with an ISO date name, but some things I give a separate file name (still with the iso date, but with some descriptive words) for things that might be good to re-access or are part of a series of similar notes (like a TIL file or a recurring meeting with the same person).
tiny violins fit well in tiny hands
Ah yes, very good, the "slavery" argument.

In your own words, "legality" isn't everything. Moral rights aren't absolute, nor are they objective — different people have different morals.

There is probably no moral framework in which slavery can be justified.

There are LOADS of valid moral frameworks in which economic vs number of lives cost/benefit tradeoffs are made.

Many things can be true at the same time. The world isn't as simplistic as you seem to make it out to be.
You can find just as many atrocities and missteps of the law by scrutinizing other 1st world countries. The West as a whole benefits from the system that America has created and protects. History books will give just as much a shit about this era as they have any other and while America has the most dirt on her face, nobody is clean.
Yikes. How are they determining if a resident moved away from CA? What about if they're dead? What about if they're voting for another relative, friend, or neighbor that isn't paying attention?

It seems that without voter ID, this is destined for fraud.
The city and (most) of the suburbs are very blue. Atlanta itself is rated as one of the most LGBT-friendly cities in the country [1].

Unfortunately, the state is still red due to the population living outside of the MSA. The city and the suburbs are resoundingly blue, though [2].

The governor pulled some very shady voter suppression tactics in the last election. [3, 4] They're afraid, and they know their time is short.

We need more blue voters. We're close to turning the state, and that would be a huge victory.

[1] https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/top-places-for-lgbtq-fol...

[2] https://www.ajc.com/atlanta-neighborhood-2016-presidential-e...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/30/did-racia...

[4] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/6/18253689/vo...
My number one favorite time is after I sold a company. Two years later, the company contacted me as the old CTO and asked me about some piece of core technology. They asked me to take them through it and show them what was going on since they wanted to migrate it into something else.

My first question was, "Haven't the other developers ever touched it." They said no. This core piece of technology scaled to way more users and was essential to making 100s of thousands of dollars for the company. It didn't even break once in two years. It was core to the service and they were just asking how to move it. I was so proud of previous me.
Svelte source code is not Javascript; it's a mix of JS, HTML, CSS and mustache-like syntax, so you wouldn't necessarily be able to compile to Svelte using out-of-box tooling from other ecosystems. I suppose you could compile to Svelte output, but then you'd just be reimplementing it in a different language.
If there was an active shooter in the building and the email was “yo, I’m leaving for the rest of day and not coming back until I have more info on the active shooter situation” does the corporation have any option other than to immediately terminate that employee?
There is no analogy to be had. When I get in my car, the overhwelming probability is that absolutely nobody will be killed by my action, including myself. If we resume "normal life," the overhwelming probabilty is that I will eventually contract the coronavirus, and there is a significant probability that I will be killed, or that my actions would kill someone else.

Do you not see the difference? Try a little harder to grasp reality.
The 'pretty much' part is very important, though... you can fire people for no reason, but you can't fire people for protected reasons... I am not sure if firing someone for following legal social distancing orders are protected or not.
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as a caps-to-ctrl remapper, I can't imagine how crippling it would be to have serious remaps or Dvorak or something and try to use someone else's keyboard. Doesn't seem worth it.
The amount of risk.
This is important not only for the Presidential election (which is mostly a foregone thing anyway), but is a big boon to all the down-ballot races. Folks will have time to research other choices at home.

More than that, main-in ballots go a long way towards reducing voter disenfranchisement. No need to wait in long lines (way easier if you've got a job that allows that!) or take time off work on a Tuesday.

Honestly, there's no good excuse for all states not following suit.
But they are? Lyft laid off 17% of its staff the other day, despite promising no layoffs weeks ago [1]. Lyft doesn’t have Uber’s exposure in other business sectors like food delivery or scooters (a sector it actually exited in November), and it doesn’t have Uber’s global business (for better or for worse — it could be better now but be worse if other parts of the world recover before the US), but I would hardly call it the “smarter, more mature company.”

This sector is in trouble, period. Lyft is the smaller player. That could work to their advantage or not — but I would say both companies are experiencing the same pain and are equally troubled.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/laid-off-lyft-employees-desc...
There's a nice demo of this here https://youtu.be/RaI_TuISSJE (with the explanation starting 3 mins in)
A Twitter biography of Hal Finney
While I don't doubt that what you say is true, systems which, by spec, should be able to handle a given situation, that then years after they were written finally are called upon to handle that situation, fail more often than not.

The CEO also said they would pay $100million to clean up, which is not chump change, even for them I bet.

I'm not saying they were blameless, but I think most systems which have never had a given variable go negative, that years after they were written finally have that variable go negative, will have problems.
Yeah, I'm thinking more of an automated welcome.
Until Team Trump starts recruiting 'thousands of volunteers' to assist voters.