skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can speak from my experience as a Salvadoran/Latin American where visa restrictions affect Northbound travel.

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Take El Salvador and Mexico:

They are two countries that are close to each other, they also share language and have historical events in common. It is just a 1.5 hour flight from San Salvador to Mexico City, or a 7 hour drive from border to border.

If someone from El Salvador wants to travel to Mexico for business purposes or tourism, and they would be required to have a US/EU visa or do the following:

Estimated time required | Task

30 min | Make an appointment (next available slot is in three months)

??? | Have a monthly income higher than 100 days of the mexican capital. This excludes most of Salvadorans, I'd have to check the Labour Ministry for the statistics though.

1 hour | Research mexican minimum wages, convert currency and evaluate if you can apply.

1/2 day | Proof of income signed by the manager /HR / accountant of the company

1/2 day | Notarized copy of the Tax ID and National ID of the signee of the proof of income letter

1/2 day | Notarized copu of the Tax ID and terms of incorporation of the company

2-4 hrs | Account statements of the past six months in official bank letterheard, in a letter format, addressed to the Mexican embassy.

2 hrs | Photo taken according to the specifications in a photo studio.

4 hrs | Hotel / airplane reservations

3 months | Wait for appointment

1hr-6hr | Drive to the Embassy in the capital.

1/2 day | Day of appointment.

5 min | Interview/Aprpoval/Rejection

1 day | Wait for passport to be handed in

Visa price: It's actually free :)

Other circumstances can cause more paperwork: If company or family members is paying your expenses, or if a Mexican company is inviting you.

El Salvador is around haldway on the Passport rankings, and this is not the most complicated case. There is a Mexican Embassy in El Salvador, no translations or apostilles are needed for documentation, and the country is small enough to allow for same day travel to the embassy.

Somtimes it requires travelling to another country for the visa interview, mailing your passport and having no passport in the meantime, or to have biometrics taken in a third country (!)

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Some countries don't ask for a local visa if the traveller has a US/EU visa. Like Salvadorans don't need a Mexican Visa if they have a US/EU visa. Or Nicaraguans to Costa Rica. Or Ecuadorians to El Salvador.
Yeah for sure, I was just sharing the example. There's a lot of executive actions testing the bounds of the law currently.
I don't think banning tiktok because it works as spywware for the Chinese government is the same thing..
When was the last time a union carpenter, welder, electrician, or engineer was caught on camera murdering someone, and their peers went up to bat for them explaining how they were really the victim, and they did nothing wrong?

When an engineer's structure causes injury or loss of life, it is studied and taken very seriously. Liability falls on both the engineer and their employer, if there is one. Blatant negligence means the removal of licenses or the ability to practice in the field they're licensed in, along with civil lawsuits or even criminal charges.

When a cop causes injury or loss of life, the entire system tries to brush it under the rug completely, and learn nothing from it. Then their peers go up to bat for them explaining how they're being unfairly persecuted and that they did nothing wrong. Cops are often shielded from civil and criminal liability for abuses that other professionals would end up in prison for.

Trying to place the blame on unions is pretty far-fetched, and you're speaking to someone who is against the idea of police unions in particular.
Maybe this is "died down"... That is scary to think. It could get worse in the winter. We just don't know.
>American here, I've been to a number of the countries on that list that you say are not "worth traveling to,"

>Your edit is bad by the way and a gross mischaracterization.

Ironically your comment is also a mischaracterization. I never claimed that all of the countries on the list weren't worth going to. In addition, in the edit I was posing a question rather than making a statement.
If you didn't know, Discussions is already live for some repositories[1]

[1] https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions
Intel Rolls Out Leadership Changes Following Last Week's 7nm Delay Announcement
There is no support to bitcode, but there is no major advantage to support it, so it doesn't seems to be worthy
Romania is in wave 2, much bigger than wave 1.
"CPU" is a "Cayce Pollard Unit", an outfit she wears that is effortlessly cool and blends into the background, consisting of black, grey, and white.
The problem is the decadent conspiracy driven culture that makes a significant portion of the US population to fight initiatives that are in their best interest. That's why the US is now unable to contain the virus.

For every reasonable person there's a tin foil hat that thinks that Bill Gates wants to forcibly vaccinate them with a nanoscale identification chip under the guise of a coronavirus vaccine. Or that masks don't work and are against their freedom. Or that vaccines cause autism, or that the earth is flat, or that diversity is bad or Trump is not a racist. What a fucking circus. How could the country that sent men to the moon end up like this?

Plus, traveling to the US is not what it used to be. There are better destinations in the world with more historic richness and more beautiful architecture and scenery that do not require a stranger to check your social media activity, taking your shoes off and walking feet on a nasty airport carpet full of skin diseases or being yelled "Go back to your country" by a homeless junkie at a Starbucks (the latter happened to me).
Indeed. In fact, I just compared them.
I think the concept of turning to entrepreneurs to solve unseen negative consequences of COVID is awesome. I wonder how to ensure founders actually focus on COVID-related issues rather than taking advantage of the visibility and funding to focus on other issues.
It wasn’t on westerners radars until February in any serious way.

It spread through Winter 2019, Spring 2020, and is spreading during Summer 2020 when trying to “re-open.”

Pretty sure measurable science to support the idea exists. Oh sure that trend may change, but come on, RIGHT NOW it’s literally showing no signs of fading away if we “live normally.”

Why do you need 18 more months of plotting data to decide on what’s literally happening right before your eyes?
That's a good point, and it reminds me of the saying - don't invest more than you're willing to lose. I'm definitely open to making $100 investments, but I guess my question was more directed towards higher risk/volume investments that might beg for a more structured DD process.
> We also see that the virus can not be brought under control without permanent lockdowns. As soon as you open up, the virus starts spreading again. Countries that now have the virus "under control" have had a significant amount of uncontrolled spread beforehand.

I think this is the point. They are not saying it could get worse in winter months, they are saying that summer is not a "low season" and that it will spread just fine without controls. The data supports that.
In Argentina a military governor from our last dictatorship banned teaching Set theory because it was a "collectivist idea" and was "against the individual". You can learn more here (spanish): https://www.nexos.com.mx/?p=3404

Specifically, they banned the book "Conceptos básicos de matemática moderna" (Modern Maths Basic Concepts) / Hernández-Rojo-Rabuffetti
> We can't possibly have enough data, and even enough time since the start of the pandemic to come to this conclusion.

For, Pro, Against, Anti, WHO, CDC, vaccine, masks, orders... etc etc etc... I’ve been thinking this same thing since March. I’m absolutely fine being cautious and doing the right thing, but I think everyone pretends “the science is settled” on these things and it changes weekly - and it should because a lot of it is new - but now that’s used as a weapon by everyone invoked. Kinda sick of it.

It should be totally OK to say “we don’t know, so we won’t guess”.
Thanks. I guess it's difficult because 'working' is not binary, rather a question of yields etc and how those are progressing as the process matures. Intel can clearly manufacture 10nm parts - I have one in my laptop - but the economics need to work too.
Show HN: Guess a Date's Format
Ancient, unsupported, and shrinking as older devices are broken or unused and no new device is built. There aren’t many reasons to target 32-bit iPhones, unless it’s a hobby.
I believe that makes for implicit racial bias.

E.g. a person could go to a store and either Find or Not Find a camera. For stores where they Find a camera, they can choose to form an opinion about cameras and whatever 'races' shop here, and leave.

E.g. a person could go to a store and see they are on camera. They can make an association about anti-theft cameras if the store is dominantly in a neighborhood of a specific 'race'. Then they go to another neighborhood dominated by a different 'race', from the same Store Chain, and see they are not on camera. They can speculate this neighborhood is trusted more by the store to be lower in theft.

E.g. two people could then be shopping in one store which has no cameras. One person belonging to a 'race' where cameras are typically found is seen by another. The other assumes, based upon prior observation, that this person of that 'race' is associated with theft. They are suspicious of that first person. ==> Bias against a person of a different race.
Influenza is no Corona virus.
Can you explain why? I really don’t see the draw of public roadmaps. I buy a product because it works for me now. If there are improvements I need in the future the company either implements them or they don’t. A public roadmap doesn’t improve my experience at all. In fact, I might be less likely to buy the product.

This feels like it opens github up to the vocal minority to scream and yell publicly about features they want. Some of which could negatively impact other users. And github will have to succumb to the pressure of that minority.
You would not really want so many "private" ports exposed on a public facing machine.

A machine which has IMAP open tends to look like it has some good stuff.

I just forward incoming emails to an internal SMTP server which also serves as IMAP server, so MX records won't simply reveal your IMAP server as well.
IIRC they did it as a political statement and have a bunch of exceptions/loopholes that more or less make it so that anyone who doesn't want to doesn't have to.
Even companies like Google seem incapable of using all the information they gather in a very helpful way.

There are some small ml cases that seem to work ok, like suggestions for message responses.

But YouTube video suggestions for example seem so facile. If I click a few videos about today's news, then every video suggestion quickly becomes similar content. Even though I am subscribed to a dozen niche channels and may have watched a bunch of science and engineering videos, I don't get any suggestions related to that unless I directly seek them out. After which, all my suggestions turn to engineering videos.
I would assume so, but that alone doesn't explain why regions that haven't been exposed strongly until summer fare so much better than regions exposed earlier.
You often end up with three accounts. Asset (balance sheet), accumulated depreciation (balance sheet), and the depreciation expense account (P&L).

In which case the depreciation is cr. acc. depreciation and dr. depreciation expense.
This is why working from home is so much better for one's quality of life and mental health.

Wake up when your body has rested enough. 0-minute commute. No dead time where you fake-work or time where you are not working anymore but can't yet do personal projects. In fact it's sometimes the other way around: you can multiplex activities by doing chores without breaking your work-related train of thought (I have solved multiple bugs while hanging clothes on the drier rack). When you are done with your task (even if it took less time than anticipated) it's a 0-minute context-switch to your personal life. No social pressure to eat at specific hours (much easier if you are into intermittent fasting for example).
Gates is not a self-made man. His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother was on the board of directors at a bank. He was already basically guaranteed to be successful, even without forming Microsoft.
This isn’t generally true. You might want to try disabling WebM to see if it’s something like falling back to software rendering.
Yeah, that was one of my concerns as well - some of these startups seem to be targeting issues that are tangential at best to COVID, and that was a little confusing to me given the article's title.
Just took a glimpse of the chapter on Isomorphism pg. 91 (http://www2.math.umd.edu/~jcohen/402/Pinter%20Algebra.pdf )and now I'm indebted to you.
Well ... the banning is _partly_ in response to border violations by a neighbouring country. They're not dissimilar in spirit to sanctions, economic and otherwise, that a certain empowered country imposes on other less-empowered states.
The economic damage from allowing Americans in is probably bigger because the health care systems will be overwhelmed again.
Depends on the kind of software. POSIX compatible C requires few, if any, source changes. Code that makes direct syscalls will need more work.
A simple CLI utility for guessing a date's format, try `npx moment-guess --date 'Fri, January 30th 2020, 10:00 AM'` in your terminal.
I don't trust the WHO but I have certainly not written off COVID. I think the WHO has too much China influence but I think they may still have some accurate information.

I don't know if its seasonal or not yet although I could see experts could start making predictions already. To me though it is not one big wave. Watching the numbers in the USA and other countries it appears that as restrictions are lifted cases rise. When they rise we add restrictions and they go down at a much slower rate. Its many smaller waves.
I generally like next.js, but I have since built some things in Svelte [0] and prefer it for simple projects. Not dealing with JSX and complex React components is refreshing. It just works. There are some upsides to its static generation (with sapper) as well - it can create static pages for things that would need API routes in Next.

TLDR; For large projects that must make use of the React ecosystem I'd take Next. For smaller SPA projects I prefer svelte.

[0] https://svelte.dev/
As a founder I've raised through crowdfunding multiple times. The experience is great on both the startup and the investor side, and I love that crowdfunding lets more startups get off the ground, especially ones that don't have access to SV money.

But this should really be thought of as "gambling" instead of "investing." There's very little ability to do due diligence and the companies are usually so early that it's impossible to know if it's going to work or not. However, if you have money you're willing to lose it's a lot more rewarding than spending it at the blackjack table.
The post reminded me about something a friend said to me once: sure, you can be a consumer with a conscious mind. But if you want to change the world, run a business with that same conscious mind. If we want to fight against climate change, do we stop at living sustainably and persuading others to live sustainably, or should we go further and build products that will make the world more sustainable at scale?
That's been my hunch too. It's going to be a dark winter.
In China, "996"(9am-9pm, 6 days a week)[0] is popular in tech companies, now more and more compnanies are adopting this work schedule, so employees have much fewer choices if they want a "normal" schedule. The administration did not enforece labour laws well in order to pursue economic interests. What makes it worse is that, as this work schedule becomes a trending, some companies and employees take it as granted.

[0]https://996.icu/#/en_US
I had a Hilux (although not called that as it was in the US) until a few years ago. Amazing vehicle, thing was damn near 30, and just a dream to work on. I can definitely understand the utility of them in a conflict scenario.
That’s really only speaking to the ignorance of readers as progressive refinement in agriculture generally involves close relatives rather than direct descendants. Disease resistance for example is frequently the issue causing such jumps. Availability is what’s important to consumers not genetic history.
32-bit iPhones run iOS 10, so if you have a deployment target set that far back you should support them.
> Google translate, maps and search has no competitors that even come close in terms of quality. I will get mad when those products have better alternatives but it's not the case.

Just think about it: where do you think the money to fund development of maps, translation etc comes from? Nobody pays a dime to use these services, so they clearly aren't self-sustaining.

Now think about your own income. Imagine google comes up with some way to provide the same skillset you offer by pouring ad money into researching some hypothetical singularity AI or whatever, and then offering that to your employers for free (in exchange for ad placement in your company's end product), causing you to lose not only your job, but your ability to get any related jobs anywhere.

That's obviously an extreme and highly hypothetical scenario, but it illustrates what anti-trust laws are supposed to stop.
Categorizing Workers as Baby Boomers or Millennials Is Not Supported by Research
The issue isn't so much one of knowing how to invest, it's more the friction involved in investing in small companies. Random terms on sheets, weird cross-country concerns (like Canadian startups that want to maintain CCPC status), not being able to liquidate on demand.

What I want is something closer to a stock market for startups. But I get why that can't happen: Too many scams with small companies. Even today on places like TSXV there are tons of scams and it would only get worse.

If the market existed the bad would probably outweigh the good. I'm just sad because the good would have been great for me.
Doesn't that put it on par with the flu, of which is also a coronavirus?
That’s what happens on a clean install on Windows or MacOS. You might want to reset any custom settings and remove any extensions to see if it still reproduced.
Visualization of PPP Loan Data
This is what worries me. Although I would imagine that if that was the case we might be seeing it in the southern hemisphere already.
I've spent much less time looking at global numbers after ~April, as our focus has turned inward to making things go well locally.

As a matter of experimental practice, however, there should be sufficient information to infer whether or not to expect much seasonal variation in COVID-19 infections. The pandemic emerged at the end of winter in the northern hemisphere. It is now full-on summer. In the southern hemisphere, however, the sign is flipped. It is now full-on winter.

Unfortunately, the Covid pandemic is now a high-statistics event. There are oodles of cases in locations that span the full gamut of humidity and temperature distributions. Societal variations (policy, economics, politics, etc.) complicate the experiment, but the opportunity to make a reasonable quantitative statement on the impact of seasonal climatic variation on Covid transmission is surely there.
chrome on osx Version 84.0.4147.89 (Official Build) (64-bit)

works fine in safari, something is up with the dark theme.
You couldn't have... you know...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_man
Where would you search license plate data without being law enforcement?
Having a professional photo can make a big difference. I can see how phones and technology has made it so that anyone can take photos. The studio takes a hit because people don't need to go. Much like a music studio. People can record at home, but the professional makes a difference. The internet is a tool to share the photographer's work (if properly branded). The internet has also made a huge supply of photos, so the general demand for quality has declined. Music is much the same. I have a belief that the demand for high quality, professional photos and music will come back in style at some point. It will come back to people happily paying for music or photos as it once was. You can't expect things to be free and also expect quality
I've seen a few startups (For example https://www.getoutline.com/) using the GitHub Discussions beta as a defacto support forum. I like that use case and it seems like it will help both developers and users.

For devs, you'll get a forum setup without requiring time/money to set up your own hosting, which is big for small or bootstrapped projects. It will also help move specific questions out of your issues section/ticketing system.

For users, it lowers the friction associated with getting support since many already have a GitHub account.
I always get so depressed when I see things like this. I know they're true. I also know there is a concerted effort to influence the things i see/think.

How am I going to be able to sort through the noise to find the signal? Is there even a point? What is the purpose of even trying? Why not just step into traffic?
I don't know how untouchable US citizen ever were, but there has been a change in perception over the last couple of decades. Some of it has to do with political actions or inactions, but I think big part is just due to information becoming more easily and quickly available worldwide, the facade of the "american dream" started crumble. So I think for the most part it just that US citizens in a foreign nation simply aren't considered special anymore and in many parts of the world the perception shifted from generally positive to negative. But this is not just since Trump took office as I have heard some people think. Neither with the military power and fear thereof.