skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is sort of where I've ended up as well. Many other countries have taken incremental reopening steps already. Some states have as well, and despite it being over 2 weeks, there hasn't been a spike in cases in those areas yet (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/so...). Some countries also never issued a strict shelter in place order in the first place. And I don't mean just Sweden. For example, per IHME data, none of the Scandanavian countries ever issued orders that met their definition for a "stay at home" order.

There is no avoiding reopening. General availability of vaccines will take a very long time, simply because manufacturing 1 billion of anything is nontrivial. It is simply not feasible to ask people to put aside their personal lives and business for 18-24 months. We can do so reasonably safely with clear common sense guidance, without vacillation on the effectiveness of masks or distance or precautions.

In the least we need to stop issuing blanket orders that apply over broad geographies like entire states. The risks are different for different people and different circumstances. For instance, the infection fatality rate (IFR) is so low (less than 0.1%) for those under 50 that they should be permitted to go about their business. I am very much in favor of individuals assessing the risks to themselves in choosing which activities they participate in. From https://reason.com/2020/04/15/people-not-politicians-will-de...:

> Who has the best information to weigh these risks, the costs and benefits of each trip out versus staying home? Not a governor or a president, but an individual. Different people may have different tolerances for risk. For some people that trip to a restaurant or a place of worship may be a risk worth taking. For others it is not. For sure, each individual decision can affect other people—one person who takes too much risk and gets sick means one fewer hospital slot available for someone else. But that is true in many areas of American life, and it hasn't until now caused the country or states to be locked down.
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> the US will start to see more and more brain drain to other developed countries

Why? The social contract exists for skilled people through their employers as part of their benefits package.

Highly skilled people generally have compensation packages to match and that includes healthcare and parental leave.
As someone who's regularly on the receiving end of far-right anti-communist rhetoric that, in places I have lived, includes death threats and a reasonably credible suspicion government may soon want to arrest and disappear some people, I welcome some measure of hate speech suppression.

Before I hit submit, let me add a mandatory "burn, karma, burn" because I know what I'm stepping into.
Does John Carmack have a blog somewhere? I did a quick search and couldn't find anything.
Honestly about a year ago I decided to switch to an iPhone once the "contract" is up. I have used iOS and I didnt find it anymore special, but it isn't really that much different to me to be bothered by using either one. I will also take that moment to ungooglify my life including email and such.
America MUST fight more wars in order to keep the US dollar primacy in world markets.

If it doesn't, and if people switch to another currency (see for example the attempt by Iraq and Libya to create the African Dinar to replace US $), the USA will rapidly become a third-world country.

It is currently over-valued as a nation primarily because of the threat of force it uses to keep its currency in peoples hands.
It was flagged by users and set off the flamewar detector. We review those, but not while asleep.

The site guidelines specifically ask you not to post like this, but to send such questions to hn@ycombinator.com instead. Would you please review them (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)? The reason we ask that is that such comments routinely spark completely speculative subthreads that range from completely off topic (at the high end!) to outrage mobs. They're extremely repetitive and they basically act like a drug and not a nice one.

We're always happy to answer questions—it just takes time to deal with the firehose. Yes, you have to wait for an email reply, but you've had to wait for a reply to this comment too, and if you'd sent an email you wouldn't have damaged HN. This digression (I'll use a nice word) was the #1 subthread on the #1 story of HN when I saw it.

You can't compute a post's rank from its timestamp and score. The software is more complicated than that, plus user flags affect things, plus moderator action. The "why is this post at rank N when given the score X and the timestamp Y my mental algorithm tells me it should be at rank Z?" question is an HN classic, but people grossly overweight moderator action, or rather sinister-moderator-misdeeds in the answers they give themselves.

I mean, think about it you guys. Do you really think we're suppressing discussion of the suppression of the phrase "communist bandits" from YouTube? I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a.
> nothing good would come from the Go team quitting over unrelated political stuff.

Are you sure about that? It might actually harm google enough that they respond by giving into some demands.
You naively think that western governments are immune from being influenced by China.

You're wrong. Governmental institutions like the WHO have been influenced by China. The German government has been influenced: they have been reluctant to criticize China.

There is no magical governmental institution that is immune from this. If the president was a Democrat we'd be in this same situation.
> Anyone have any insight in to why people shifting to eat at home would lead to less overall food demand though?

If you're calculating demand based on ability to pay (which is how markets work), it might be helpful to take a look at the pictures of food bank lines across America[0]. Tens of millions of people have filed for unemployment in the last several weeks, and demand at the food banks have skyrocketed. But since food banks don't operate as typical market, we don't pay attention to them. With so many millions at risk of starvation, we need to rethink how we understand demand in the context of food consumption, because millions of people waiting for several hours in order to get a bag of food tells me that the demand is there.

0: https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/04/these-photos-show-t...
It goes beyond private companies. We can't even rely on the WHO to do the right thing when it risks annoying the CCP.
> and destructors for moved-from objects not called

This doesn't work entirely cleanly in cases the compiler can't track liveness, which is more of an issue for C++ than Rust, since you want to be able to move out of pointers. A simple solution is to replace move operators with an `invalidate` function the compiler calls after doing a shallow move, that sets the old value to a moved-from state.

Copy constructors (as opposed to copy assignment operators) are already a fine way to copy a value, there's no real need to change that.
How to Implement Authentication for Statically Generated Sites (Next.js)
> it's inherently a subjective question, based on what you value.

It's not. It's an objective question that compares "how the world is" vs. "how people think the world is".
I'm not arguing that the German system is bad, just that it is a very different product from what American universities sell. It might actually be a better model for America to provide higher education to more people at a better cost.

> As for TAs: yes we absolutely have higher-grade students doing teaching or scientific assistance at university, source: many friends have done this.

Neither of those are called TAs. The first kind is a graduate student lecturer, the second is called an RA (research assistant). One or more TAs for a large course typically helps the professor in running sections and grading homework, those two things being missing from most German courses (from my understand being told by my friend about his college experience in Germany; they might have homework, but it wasn't graded).
Sure, but that only works if countries' laws find that acceptable. If China says that you have to delete something from US users if you want to do business in China, they have every legal right to do so: As the sovereign ruler of the land, they decide who does business there, and they can set any requirement they see fit.

So Balkanized rulesets might work for some countries but not others. China is well known for exercising their market size to make companies jump for them, the US is as well.
The numbers are skewed because of the nature of this pandemic. People are scared of being in close proximity with each other.

I would argue some portion of the accommodations industry is essential (avg. occupancy rates of around ~%60 in normal times, so let's say ~%60 of hotels/motels are essential) and yet I know multiple hoteliers who have had to close shop for the next few months due to zero volume. This doesn't mean that day-to-day, hotels aren't an essential service.
To get a better programming job, explain your problem-solving skills
Really nice story. Have you written again about it, more recently? I think I'm finally tackling a commercially viable idea, with potential customers in the enterprise sector, and it would be very insightful to learn more about your story.
Thanks and congrats on your success
just to play devil's advocate: this day and age, is there anything better they could've invested in? Equities PE ratio is at all time highes and it's getting ever harder for early stage start ups to succeed. There's more and more monopolies and fewer and fewer startups able to succeed. But, there's a ton of money out there sloshing around looking for returns. I think it's just a case of too much capital chasing too few opportunities.

Until, we as a society start creating the necessary conditions for more opportunities to create actual wealth, we're going to keep seeing these types of low yield investments.
I have: https://plebia.io

The moderation is 100% transparent and you can see a log of every comment/submission that a moderator has removed. Furthermore, each subforum can control their own moderation team through a voting system. Moderators should serve their users, not rule over them as dictators.
Is it possible Occulus has a big need for such an OS and this is the cause of the contributions? Or is this Carmack being a hobbyist and simply making contributions for its own sake?
New AI technique detects and classifies galaxies in astronomy image data
DoorDash loses money, but it’s not like they care anyway
That may well be true. Perhaps those covering these kinds of phenomena aren’t explaining and giving this phenomenon enough context and would rather leave their audience in shock to ponder what.
The great idea is you don't have to worry about paying the driver, it's all online safely with your credit card. You get a receipt that is easy to expense. There's a record of the trip. The bad things are drivers don't have benefits, there's little or no safety training for those drivers. Contrast with taxis have lots of rules on them, yet still its very common in my experience that they are not clean, the drivers are surly, argue about things like routes, and often don't have working credit card payment systems (and you worry more about a personal transaction stealing something). But many taxis are great, just like many uber drivers are great. There's no perfect system.
Any price is illegal -
Too low - product dumping
Too high - price gouging
same as everyone else - price fixing

I don't know why you're being down voted, especially since you're right.

The best part is when prices sky-rocket, people don't horde, and others see a chance to make some good money, so they switch to the new market. Its simple market signals.
I live in a country with paid maternal leave and paid paternal leave up to an extent.

I've always been in favor of it but since I have joined the workforce I'm kinda on the fence if not against it.

The amount of people exploiting it is enormous (at least where I live). I have seen some time up precisely their pregnancies to maximize time off work, but still getting paid 100%. Others getting pregnancy leave while planning to resign the day they have to come back to work, sucking up all that their employer has to give and then leaving him.

Employer bias exists for a reason, and it is precisely the existence of this behavior.

The ways in which a system like this can be exploited, in my opinion, are countless and far outweigh the benefits. And since maternal leave is paid for with tax money, I as a taxpayer, am against use of public money to fund private activities.

If anyone, be a male or a female has no mean of having a family due to poor financial planning, it is not my problem to solve.
It sure seems like the majority of the lockdown effect has been voluntary, across the world. Except for places where the police are actively beating people who refuse to comply, of course. I think it's likely that we could throw open the entire US and it wouldn't fundamentally change much, aside from an initial surge. As soon as the death count started to climb steeply again, people would voluntarily go right back indoors and stay there.
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There is no abuse involved. You employ a young woman, and in a year she gives birth and is out for a year or two. Nothing wrong with that, and many businesses with large employee turnover won’t care, but other businesses, especially small ones, which require significant training for company-specific processes, or which have small pool of candidates, will be very unhappy about the fact that now they have to find and train a temporary replacement.
Three Risks in Building Machine Learning Systems
I feel that one problem is that transparency and independent oversight is not wanted by government or by businesses.

A public requirement for more transparent business practices may result from populations wanting to fight climate change. It's currently easy to release some data about emission reduction and how green a company is, when it's an estimation that nobody can reproduce (because access to the majority of the source data is privileged).

Regulatory punishment isn't realistic, because the companies involved are just massive and crucial for nations to even exist (e.g. petro-industry giants). Thus, only foreign companies get regulatory punishment.

The only lever here is a company not being able to do business without conforming to a certain base level of transparency. We already have nascent forms of transparency requirements in terms of non-proliferation of defense knowledge or equipment, some environmental laws and worker's rights requirements (e.g. child labor iirc).

But it will have to go much further in order for companies to be held to higher standards, to a degree that business intelligence is almost nonexistant and every customer can retrace the logistics chain of what they're consuming.

And that's sadly utopian, since any smaller company that publishes what contracts it has with which company (and is legally able to, due to new regulation) will not get new contracts, as long as there is competition that keeps silent.
EU robotics project gives maintenance workers a 'second pair of hands'
Regardless of legality and what the parties agreed to contractually, the fact remains that abrupt termination with zero severance is harmful for the former employee, especially in this economic climate. If the corporation pays a generous severance, the harm is reduced or eliminated. On a scale of ethicality, the more harmful an action is, the less ethical it is, so yes, paying severance is more ethical than not paying severance.
Can Open Source Be Ethical and Fair?
>new efforts such as Google Play Protect to outright block software obtained outside the Google Play store

Wait a sec, does this affect F-Droid as well?
So are cab drivers.
[Disclaimer: AAPL engineer, technically classified as ML]

I would argue that ML researchers/engineers have a clear impact on AAPL products in several areas:

* FaceID

* Steadily improving speech recognition accuracy in Siri

* Considerable improvement in speech synthesis quality

* Increasing sophistication in camera image processing
It's not that complicated. It's a country of 23 million people vs a country with 1,393 million people.
AFAIK The Ryzen/Threadripper CPUs are all support ECC perfectly fine. Where things get shady are with motherboards that advertise support but don't quite do it right. Make sure you get a reputable motherboard and you should be fine.
I don't think it should be on my shoulders to pay for someone else deciding to breed, and I wouldn't expect them to pay for me. Over population is going to kill this planet and people are still breeding like rabbits.
I imagine some of this comes from the waste of the restaurant system. So far in the lockdown, I've made every meal I've eaten and I have only wasted a couple of sweet potatoes and some onions that went bad. And seeing those ingredients go to waste really upset me. From my past experiences working at restaurants tons of food goes into the garbage every week.
You're missing a couple KEY points that we NEED.

We NEED contact tracing so we can dynamically quarantine.

We NEED enforcement of the new rules(6ft, masks) because they're not being followed where I'm at.

We NEED financial support for those who are immuno compromised or those who have to take care of the immuno compromised.
I assumed his use of an armadilloaerospace address was a signal that it isn't work-related.
You're downplaying the damage those murders do black communities. And for every black person murdered, 1,000 more are terrorized with less than lethal force.
VMware Distributed Switch: What, Why, and How
>Our lockdowns were so badly done they didn't even decrease the daily case count.

Is it any wonder? Look at the comments here. Look at guys like Elon Musk breaking quarantine for economic reasons and getting praised for it. Conspiracies abound.

This didn't happen in less partisan countries. Like absolutely everything else in the US, the lockdown became a political issue, for and against it.

Where I'm from, everyone took it seriously and in a matter of weeks we got down to ZERO active cases. Then again, we don't hate people who have different politics.
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Thanks for posting this Joseph! I wrote this post after a few years as a Data Scientist watching other teams struggle to work with the data my team was producing. SQL is probably the easiest "language" to pick up, but being a good data literate teammate takes more than technical chops. Getting good at finding bugs, writing informative tickets, answering your own questions, and optimizing query performance can go a long way!
Do you have any data you could share on the 10%/90% divide when it comes to working conditions? I assume you're talking primarily about compensation and benefits here.

One of the interesting things about the American work system to me is that even high-status, highly-paid careers are still built around 60+ hour work weeks for many. The system doesn't seem geared towards life balance at all, it seems geared toward giving outsized rewards to workaholics for whom there is little going on in life besides their jobs.
Google Anthos is an attempt to do the same with business software? Soon, if you have to list your business software in Anthos store, you will be at mercy of Google.
Weird Stackoverflow URL? (Fuckshit)
Per-capita and absolute numbers are both incorrect. What matters is local concentrations. For example, If all of cases were contained to a few metro areas then there would be no problem outside those areas. This would not be reflected in per-capita numbers.
I've had a private email address and domain for years, sending and recieving via gmail. I'm looking to move away from gmail to some other hosted solution that I can keep my personal domain emails with, without having to have my own SMTP servers running. Any suggestions?
Generate Go model from database design
https://www.dbml.org is awesome, so I have wrote a tool, which parse DBML from both local file or from dbdiagram.io to go struct model.
"Eventually?" Where were you? There already were and are shortages. Costco at the beginning of March and seeing 10 gallons of only whole milk and no eggs, when they usually had 4-500 gallons of milk and thousands of eggs out for sale. The place was empty and there was little stock for months.
The title is a reference to this series of slides in the Softbank earnings presentation:

https://imgur.com/a/90bxNjo

https://group.softbank/system/files/pdf/ir/presentations/201...
What the heck is JavaScript Callback?
YC wound down YC China, but still committed to funding Chinese companies[0], in a blog post carefully written to avoid explaining YC's motivations. And beyond that - how much Chinese money is invested in YC startups? How many YC companies have exited by bringing Chinese money to YC's coffers?

[0] https://blog.ycombinator.com/an-update-on-yc-china/
I find Techno-Utopianism vaguely amusing.

We are currently residing on a better "Worldship" than we could ever engineer, and we've been knowingly destroying our life support systems in the face of ever-growing warnings from scientists. Ignoring the other planetary crises we face - biodiversity and ecosystem collapse - our continued existence on our planet depends on somehow sucking billions of tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere and storing it somewhere, somehow, forever. This is trivial compared to colonies in our solar system, much less interstellar travel.

Ignoring the question of technological and engineering feasibility I propose the hypothetical World Ship Thought Exercise ( 100,000 people (on average), 10k year journey, each individual lives around 100 years). How would the population be structured? Would it be democratic? How would crime be dealt with? How would people decide who does what? Would there be castes? An underclass? Would there be rationing? Could there be homeless? What about birth control? What if a portion of the population simply didn't want to have kids or didn't have enough to replace the population? How would religion be dealt with? Would, could and/or should a 10k long civilization remain static?
"Normal people" do not just use their phones for everything. Normal people use their phones for getting around and they stare at the screen when they are bored, for example waiting for a bus or waiting in line.

When they want to do real work or real play they don't do it on their phone, they need a larger form factor with more power, a bigger screen, and better input technology, whether that is a laptop/desktop or game console.

This idea that if something isn't available on your phone, then it's not available is silly. There are many things that, while you can technically put on a phone, really don't thrive there. Phones are low powered, minimal form factor devices with inferior inputs. You do stuff on the phone because the benefit of doing it from any location far surpasses the unpleasantness of the interface. For example getting a cab, or figuring out how to get from A to B, or sending a quick message to someone when you are away from the house.

If it's not related to helping you move around from place to place, or helping you connect to a friend quickly, it's not going to thrive on the phone even if you put it there, and if you look at the usage statistics of phone apps versus regular PC apps, you'll see this confirmed.