skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, but what good did it do? It prevented you from further spreading the virus more than if you had not got the call.

Every bit helps. Perfection is the enemy of good. Rather test weekly than never. Rather test daily than weekly. Why not hourly or every 15 minutes though? Have to have a balance somewhere.

What good does it do to get a test and have results 2 hours later, if you spread the virus in that 2 hours? Better than spreading it for 2 weeks! But it still allows for it to spread. Something is way better than nothing.
What high marginal tax rates do is make upward mobility far more difficult.
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-27...

6.8% increase in median household income from 2018-2019. Look at the stats, most of that growth went into the lower quintiles.

And no, even if income inequality increases, higher incomes for low wage workers have real, immediate benefits.
TL;DR - it's a wish
Don’t be sad. You’re fine. Some people don’t know when to keep their mouth shut. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to talk to your coworkers in person versus sending messages via Slack all day.
In most of the US, you'd just keep going to work until you felt sick, because you never got tested. If you were asymptomatic, you'd keep right on going to work.

One need not catch every case in order to make the epidemic burn out. One needs to reduce the number of transmissions/case below one. As we begin to win, contact-tracing becomes increasingly effective. When multiple-contact tracers can focus on a single known case, it is possible to really dig in and track cases effectively.
Well, the page title in that video says "Consolium Videoconferencing", so it's probably something by this company:

https://consiliuminc.com

Maybe this?

https://consiliuminc.com/product/UniVCX-video-customer-exper...
This has been obvious for months -- Romer has been yelling from the rooftops about it -- and yet no major western govt save the Brits have attempted to even try this strategy. Madness.
The most effective advice is simple and to the point. Enjoyed reading this — indeed what matters is founders that get along, are skilled, and talk to their users.

From my own experience I would underscore Jessica’s point on an organic, strong relationship.

When your cofounder is a life-long friend, the effects are significant: you can emulate their thinking, you two have been through a lot in different scenarios, and make decisions that focus on the long term
I've heard reasonable people define poverty as being in the lowest quintile of income, meaning the poverty rate will always be 20%.
i'm not arguing against [proper] masks lowering the transmission chance in any given case. I just don't see it having any aggregate effect. Basically i don't see the local effect translating into global.

The herd immunity is 2/3. If say 1/3 of population has already some pre-existing immunity (from casual reading of Internet it looks that some noticeable share of population does have it for Covid and it seems larger than 1/3) then the total infection rate until herd immunity is reached is 1/3. The Spanish flu hit 30% of human population for example.

So, for Moscow 1/3 is 4M. They already got 0.5M cases and currently is having, despite the tight masks/gloves/partial lockdown measures, 7K/day cases. I don't see why would it slow down, and if anything i suppose it will only go up in the coming several months. Thus in the year they will have a total of 2.5M of officially registered cases. If one adds non-detected cases one can see that it is would be in the ballpark of 4M. I.e. herd immunity, end of pandemic, masks or no masks, lockdown or no lockdown. Basically like Spanish flu scenario, and i personally just don't see how the numbers can play differently.
Is it not the case that taxpayers in the U.S. can write-off interest on their mortgages? That's insanely regressive.

My understanding is that it's all the deductions that make the US system on the whole quite regressive.

In any case US taxpayers don't appear to be getting good value for their money.

They do have a pretty insane military though...

The Economist article is paywalled so I can't read beyond the intro. But the headline is intriguing: "gov't spending is not." That seems to be me to be the crux of it; Canada's tax system isn't terribly effective and we've been running deficits for seemingly forever, but at least all that debt is on the whole focused on things like health and education; while the US has an absolutely huge debt that seems to produce little of value for its population.

EDIT: I'll add that Canada is no worker's paradise. Inequality here is still very pronounced, and the gov't is also involved in all sorts of stupid subsidies on failing industries, and seems unable to effectively build new infrastructure. And our housing market just gets more and more irrational every year.
It's not that simple, my section managers answer to this (I tried it was), "I go to meetings at awkward hours, so what's you excuse?".

To be fair, this particular meeting I'm supposed to be at is once a fortnight, so I feel that I can't complain too much. Some people I know still commute an hour a day.

It does really inconvenience me in a way that I can't describe, I basically lose an hour of sleep on that day and it really screws me over for the rest of the day, compounding my stress.
It's not that surprising that you were downvoted, given the bias seen lately in HN.

More on point, what works on a national scale might not work only within the white house, because (besides lack of mask) the white house is not completely isolated from the rest of the country.
Vanishing Point: How the Light Grid Defined 1980s Futurism
americans start throwing hissy fits at suggestions far far less intrusive than that.

maybe we will die off and the world will be better off. our last screams from this hill of freedom that we die on.
Parent is posting comments like these all over this post. He’s just a troll.
There's data on the correlation between hand size and national/international acclaim here: http://smallpianokeyboards.org/hand-span-data-recent-austral....

From this, it seems clear that internationally acclaimed pianists typically have quite large hands.
I feel like AWS and the massive amounts of credit they give out just for asking has only made this worse.

Don't get me wrong - I have been a beneficiary of their startup programs, and it's amazing for companies not to worry about compute for a year or two (you're never really using 100K anyway).

That said, I have seen multiple companies get into the hole of not worrying about optimization (at all - who needs to when you have a quarter of a million in credits), and locking themselves into a massively complex microarchitecture by the time that first real bill rolls around. AWS knows what they're doing, do your best to work them rather than the other way around.
Many motorcycles didn't come with cats in the 2000s, combined with lots of high strung 600s running massive valve overlap.

But the modern class of commuter bike has got to be pretty good.
Drag coefficient is poor but they're also a much smaller area, and city driving is more forgiving for aero.
Indeed, I play double bass, two lengths of electric bass, and cello (tuned in fifths). It's remarkable how our brains and bodies can adapt.
Most public schools I have been a part of charge "optional" fees. There seems to be constant fund-raising for both extracurricular activities and general school funds as well as requests from students for classroom supplies. The bulk of the funding comes from the school taxes.
Looks like the old mobile design (https://i.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/jyg1jq/finished_the_b...) redirects to the new Reddit interface for image galleries.
yeah but the Sanders supporters prefer Biden to Trump so they aren't going to get on board with allegations of election fraud until Trump has been safely removed from the WH. This is expected because few people care about election integrity as a good in itself. They care about election integrity because when their candidate wins then they have perceived legitimacy to enact policies.
Because the more effective and proven strategy is to simply pay businesses and people to lockdown.

It has been effectively eliminated in both Australia and NZ this way. And the impact to the economy is significant but it's turning out to be far less severe than the rest of the world and their on/off again strategy.
It was risky then too. MS DOS did have viruses, TSR programs and others could use TCP stacks ( like WatTCP ), data exfiltration via data files was a thing ( eg an infected wordstar that would save other files into a word star document being sent for printing).

I used to sell anti virus, and the threat models for some of the clients were Eye opening.
That is not going to keep designers employed.
The difference is that now everyone is distributed, if someone "important" is in a different timezone, you can be singled out to attend a meeting because you're no longer "out of the office at 6am", you have no excuse not to be able to attend early meetings.

Also I just feel that it's becoming culturally more acceptable to attend/schedule meetings at weird times because everyone else accepts it.

If you're the nail that sticks out (by rejecting meetings), you get hammered.
His figure incorporates both jobless workers — people who were actively searching for work in the past month — as well as adults who are earning below $20,000 a year, or below the poverty line.
It’s about aligning incentives. We don’t want to spend our time fixing prod, so we build robust systems. Configuration is hard, so we simplify that. Upgrades are error prone, so we make them more stable and update more frequently.
>subsidized by hundreds of millions in VC funding for almost a decade

That hasn't stopped any company from total collapse before and it won't now. Other social media sites have people somewhat locked in since it's all about staying in contact with friends and following certain people. You need to push the entire crowd at once to have a good replacement, but those sites still die when they screw up enough. Reddit's a place where people mostly read comments, see some funny pictures or news, and then go about their day. There's a lot less keeping people from dropping it and moving on.
Great work guys, love what you're building at Supabase!

Did you run any loadtests that stressed the system enough to start dropping/failing requests? I'm wondering where that threshold is.
Frankly even though I have been a Linux user for a long time now, I don't even want/wish/hope for Apple to let me run it on Apple hardware. As long as they let me sync my files with something like Syncthing, I'll be happy (also because some of their apps are actually high quality). But even that seems like a no no which is really disappointing.
I agree that’s a handout to the rich that should be eliminated, although it was drastically curtailed with the expansion of the “standard deduction” which made it irrelevant for the majority of taxpayers.

The most hilarious thing of all is that Trump passed a tax cut, and one of the very few tax increases as part of it was to eliminate the ability to deduct state taxes from federal above 10k. The only people this affects are rich people in high-tax blue states. And the democrats are bitching and moaning to remove this, because again, no one likes paying taxes, even those who pretend to love tax increases https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/12/house-democrats-stimulus-bil...
Mmm I don’t think so. Gallery shows up fine. https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/jy14p1/i_combin...

Note that I have my mobile settings to use the desktop version and I only use the old interface.
JavaScript binaries?
Here are two to get you started.

https://youtu.be/mgPJyEfG0C0

https://gellerreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/gov.usco...
Ask HN: Anyone interested in a little programming project?
"anyone interested in a little programming project? re-doing the smp support for bzip2 so that it can be merged into the main libbz2 would be nice..." ~ nbjoerg@ #NetBSD
Incredibly eerie and interesting... thanks for sharing
I want to agree, but don't. Javascript is nice. Leave a comment on HN, then push back to go out to the home page. Wait, you're back at your comment.

This flow is obviously not ideal, and would be prevented with a little Javascript.
Genuine question: What's wrong with XKCD comics?
By "we", do you mean inflation?
To be fair, EBS rolled out many years after.
> One person finding 12 cases of fraud is a huge deal and I think you would be hailed a hero and be on the news.

Sadly this is not the case. The media has done nothing to report on this ballot harvester who was caught on tape:

https://youtu.be/mgPJyEfG0C0
Thanks, I missed this. This image is particularly salient on both the hand span and gender arguments:
http://smallpianokeyboards.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Ri...

Edit: Though interesting to note that there's been some effort at balance in terms of national acclaim, but if smaller handed competitors had access to scaled keyboards, it's possible that their would be better international recognition of female players.... or it could expose a gender bias.
kaniko is really really slow:

- https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/issues/1392
- https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/issues/970
- https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/issues/875

I've observed basically the same stuff.
It's a more meta observation that "poverty" has many subjective definitions. Certainly many (not all) people we would consider living in poverty today would be considered well off even 100 years ago.

For example, owning a functioning automobile was a huge luxury only for the rich 100 years ago.

For another example, the terms of the debate have shifted. It used to be about the objective state of the poor people. Today it is less about that and more about the subjective state of poor people relative to the state of wealthy people, i.e. "inequality".
The most scientific policy would be to physically force everyone to stay in a room alone for months and physically force them to wash their hands after they use the bathroom, etc. This is the best way to get rid of the virus and it describes a horrific, dystopian, society.

Trump isn’t even close to the best man for the job of handling a pandemic but to pretend we should be following science to the t is politically ignorant (as most scientists would tell you.)
Most people don't realize, but you can actually send email from a custom domain with a free Gmail account.[0] You have to go through a 5-minute process for each sender address, but I used it fine for ~10 years.

I recently switched to Fastmail, and one of the features I like about them is that they support wildcard sender aliases, so if I sign up for a service with someservice@mydomain.com, when I hit reply to any emails to that address, it automatically sends from someservice@mydomain.com even though I've never specifically registered that identity with Fastmail.

[0] https://thedigitalnonprofit.com/use-gmail-own-domain-free/
It doesn't make sense from a virus perspective. Public transport is a thing of the past.
Agree this won't get everything back to normal but think of it as an equivalent of "defence-in-depth" of info sec.

Rapid testing and isolating (I doubt the US could "enforce" it but you have to give the benefit of doubt that a percentage of people do care for others and will isolate - FWIW, I've seen this happen in Oz where a large %-age of people did isolate) will reduce/delay the infection surge and give time for the healthcare system to recover from the second shock this year. In addition, with the EUAs in flight by Jan '21 (hopefully), this one-two punch should drastically cut both infections and deaths. Remember, in the world of exponentials, both increase and decrease are exponential.
If you want the code to run 24/7, and you want engineers available to fix it, then you hire people to work off hour shifts and pay them more. You don't hire someone to work 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday and expect them to wake up at 2 am to fix something. On the other hand, an engineer scheduled to work from 9 pm to 5 am would have no issue doing so.
End game is pretty obvious.

US will simply let another few hundred thousand more people die until the vaccine is widespread.
Machining. It started with YouTube. I picked up a lot of concepts and that set my brain to recognize these tools. Then I randomly bought a milling supply company basically for almost nothing while shopping for interesting deals.

Well, now I have multiple tons of milling tooling and so obviously I need a 3-ton milling machine. Looking at an older CNC mill.

So that’s one skill. Another is automotive repair. My skill level is high enough to do engine replacement. Just bought a car lift today to make everything easier. This does intersect with other skills - I use oscilloscope for automotive troubleshooting, which is not far from software engineering and electronics. This led me to almost opening a mobile A/C repair business. I acquired most of the equipment I needed and got certified for federal licenses. This got delayed because of the machine shop company that fell into my lap. That’s just a much bigger opportunity.

I can credit YouTube for introducing me to many interesting skills and hobbies.

Competitive dancing. I have been a good dancer since 16 years of age, but then I studied with world championship teams. At that point, the dance is a tightly choreographed athletic activity. I was going to start competing this year, but that will have to wait a little. There are various age categories, so I can compete on equal terms with other similar couples.

Relearning math. I am not terrible at it, but I am attempting to create a curriculum that does not focus on rote memorization.
> simply pay businesses and people to lockdown

This is anything but simple. Vast majority of businesses and people will not be supported if indefinite lockdown continues. The hidden costs of bankrolling an entire country for an indefinite period is much greater than the cost to deploy a persistent, scalable testing framework. The latter is also an investment into the future as this will not be the last pandemic.
Reddit does this because they have failed to find a monetization strategy good enough to cover the investment in the business. Any competitor without some new approach will have the same issue.
Also, it would be basically impossible to host comment threads on video content if the video reset every time you submitted a comment. By comparison, Twitter's video experience is still awful in that you can't multitask and join the conversation on a video tweet.
Yes. It is true.

If I got a penny for every time Larroccha gets mentioned in the discussions about small hands and alt sized keyboards I would be a millionaire.

First of all, nobody, ever in their right mind would bring up Larroccha when talking about greats. Frankly the only times Larroccha would get brought up... is when talking about pianists with small hands. Severely limited repertoire.

Secondly, isn't that curious that they don't mention what the actual reach of Ashkenazy was? Well, it turns out that he doesn't have small hands, merely on the smaller side when taking the absolutely gigantic hands of every other concert pianist as a reference point.

I've heard by some people that Horowitz had small hands too (compared to whom, a 7ft tall giant who can reach a 15th?)
They also haven’t been following basic safety protocols. Further, we learnt when Trump had COVID that they were actually not even testing Trump on a regular basis. That’s probably also true of other members of the administration.
From 2011. Lots of things have changed since then.
You're obviously, like most people on here, talking from a position of privilege. I don't blame you because I've been there.

You also might not be working for a properly distributed global team. Execs I work for are on the other side of the world.

I've said this before by the exec's at my company tell me they have to attend meetings at weird times, so I should have to as well.

Not everyone at the moment has the luxury to just put their job on the line by telling their manager to go stick it. I for example am not in my native country an I rely on my job to support my visa. If I lose my job right now, my visa is potentially lost at a time where finding another job might not be very straight forwards and where my home country isn't allowing citizens to return home yet.

It isn't all bad, I think distributed work culture is evolving and adapting, it's just right now there are certainly inconveniences for those pioneering it.
Killer virus is lurking in Air; Is it that difficult to comprehend masks4all.co
Wear a mask but do not forget to wash your hands. Seems sometimes hand washing is being less emphasized at the moment.
If you're willing to break with tradition, couldn't you go digital and bring your own keyboard? I haven't played an acoustic piano in years.

In theory, we could have acoustic player pianos available as MIDI output devices, so you could still get the sound of one while using your own keyboard.
It seems that even extremely frequent testing isn’t enough to prevent outbreaks without any other precautions. False negatives are too common.
Banned? Perhaps you are under the impression that the data has been reviewed by the FDA?

IIRC, the EUA analysis is in flight (for a December timeframe) and that is to ascertain that the data is up to the mark and not to take what the companies have announced at face-value.
No. It's very simple. You just keep paying people until the lockdown is over.

Again this isn't some hypothetical exercise. Australia and NZ have just done this and now have basically eliminated COVID-19.

As opposed to manufacturing and distributing 100s of millions of tests each week which is very much an unproven exercise.
> I'm an individual, not a group. You have no idea what I believe about Trump's tax returns.

If you tell me that you don’t believe that he will release his tax statement I will apologize.

I would absolutely love to be proved wrong. Genuinely.
Mycoplasma Laboratorium
What you're missing is that a rapid test like this can be used as an entry check at restaurants and other public venues, allowing them to go back into business. Even if the vaccines turn out not to work for some reason, we can have our economy back, while limiting spread of the virus. It's not so much about getting people to fully self-quarantine, although that would be nice, as about eliminating super-spreader events.
And then what? We're going to impose 2 week quarantines on every flight into the US? Have a dedicated branch of the CDC perform contact tracing on everyone who crosses the borders?

I think you greatly overestimate how politics plays into this. It never ends until we're immune.
Same boat. Eve is my too disabled/elderly to leave the house much plan. Immerse myself and live the rest of my life as a space captain.
Here in Australia and New Zealand we regularly tow boats with Aussie sedans like a Ford Falcon or Holden Commodore e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ford_Falcon_XR8_Ute_...