skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are not wrong, and I do think that on the individual level, company employees will feel it. Unemployment may go up. This administration though uses the stock market as their barometer so if they are able claim that the S&P and DJIA are up they can claim victory. There are a lot of things they can do to keep stocks artificially inflated such as more rate cuts, corp. tax cuts, removing regulations, reducing the capital banks are required to keep on hand, etc. All of these can work towards keeping stocks high for a limited time but do essentially nothing for the normal person. At that point then its just a race between when the election occurs and when the market no longer responds to the artificial scaffolding.

I have no doubt this administration will hesitate for even a second if they are able to implement a feature that results in short term (through November) gains at the cost of long term ruin.
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Configuring Travis CI and Coveralls with Flutter
Pandemic: A Slowdown or a Recession?
I don't know man, the world is a big place and growing trees parallelizes nicely.

Cut them down and make buildings out of them, land area problem solved. The fresh water cost I don't buy, there's rain man, it's free.
I've discovered page-oriented processing in awk, which is a godsend for parsing PDFs.

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22156456

In the GNU Awk User's Guide:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Multiple-...

Tracking column and field widths across page breaks is ... interesting, but more tractable.
The great thing about badly fitting masks is people wearing them tend to touch their face a lot more.
Is it possible to view the number of tests ran? I keep seeing in the news that the current numbers for US are probably very off as very little tests are performed.
Renewables presently look more labor-intensive because they are still being built at a rapid clip, whereas there are no coal plants under construction in the US. "Coal power jobs" presently include only the permanent employment for operating and maintaining plants that were built in the past, plus associated mining jobs for fuel.

Most wind and solar jobs are temporary construction/installation jobs. It takes a year or two for hundreds of workers to build a solar farm. Then the site can operate for 20 years or more with just a handful of permanent employees. Jobs in manufacturing the equipment used for renewable generation are steadier but also less plentiful. Factories for making batteries, turbines, inverters, and solar modules are already thrifty with human labor and becoming more so over time.

I actually think that these characteristics of renewable generation are benefits, overall. Aging populations benefit from technological developments that enable the same material standard of living with fewer prime-age workers. Low labor intensity also means that renewable electricity prices can fall further until hitting a price floor set by the wages of plant workers.

See a previous analysis here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13750787
One of the most fascinating incidents with the Koch brothers is when they funded Richard A. Muller, a prominent skeptic of global warming with actual scientific chops, to do his own temperature reconstruction via Berkeley Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Earth

According to Richard, the Koch brothers were genuinely curious about climate change (an odd claim when they were aggressively funding propaganda casting doubt on it). In the end Richard's team got the exact same results in their temperature reconstruction as the other 5 or so efforts had (NASA Giss, NOAA, Japan, UK, etc). and Muller wrote this piece for the NYTtimes, detailing how he was no longer a skeptic https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of... (it was a bit amusing to see how he characterizes the whole episode, "NOW we know this is real" because he had a hand in it, despite 5 other groups already getting the same result decades earlier!)

Anyway, this event did not then cause the Koch brothers to apologize and stop funding climate science denialism, they still do it.
I was just about to suggest Software Lead Weekly [1], but if you're following Oren you already have that covered.

[1] Posting the link anyway for anyone else: https://softwareleadweekly.com/
Somehow I don’t think the ability to borrow money 0.5% cheaper than yesterday is going to make a material difference to a lot of firms.
If you're in a class/lecture, you should write the notes, not type them. It slows you down such that you're really forced to interact with the content. If you touch type, you're really not ingesting the content as much as if you were writing because it goes in and out so fast.

Anything that you do after taking notes by hand is additive. I personally suggest trying to convert your notes into summaries of key topics or step by step problem solving strategies. It just depends on the type of content. If your exams are more "trivia" based, you need to know intimate details and verbatim notes are better and synthesis will help less. If your exams are more problem solving, then you'll need synthesis more.

If you take anything away from this thread though: hand write notes. I bought an iPad Pro just because of the Pencil and it saved me in my last year of uni because I could hand write without dealing with paper.
Force majeure. If that would not be in insurance agreements then every insurance company in the world could go broke in case of a pandemic.
Now I see control panel icon is hammer and screwdriver and not cold and hot water tap as I always thought.
You're arguing that it's possible, I'm saying that I haven't seen any data showing genes defining behaviour in a way that can be called "prewired to perceive the world".

Not really a conflicting statement, but neither to contradict my skepticism.
when was that ?
Hate to pull a Godwin, but that sounds like socialism: let's improve the lives of the common folk by screwing companies. We all know it all ends.

The truth is that free licences gave us the iPhone, the PlayStation, etc.
> We are in a bind here. If you ship GPLv2 software on a locked down device then nobody downstream has the professional opportunity to contribute, because they simply can't get any of their changes onto the device.

I should clarify - what I meant is that if we're shipping GPLv2 software like Busybox, then I'm able to spend billable time improving Busybox and upstreaming my patches. That's labor that could be going to GNU coreutils instead, if it was the userspace on my product. But since I'm not shipping it, that means I don't find bugs or need features very often. Which means I have way less of an opportunity to pitch in.
They started raising rates but then Trump successfully bullied the Fed.

Though inflation had remained low, so it's not clear that it was necessary to raise rates.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1168/
If you want to do your own analytics on these data, here's one approach, which I'm using. Start your project as a vanilla Git repo, then add the JH repo as a submodule.

git submodule add https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

Then you can do pulls to have the latest data.

git submodule update --remote COVID-19

Have cron run that daily and your data are always fresh.
>Nothing about the protocol itself mandates such short validity periods though I presume?

Actually, revocation is broken. Which is a large part of why LE uses 90 days.
If you want make your money work against climate change, I wouldn't recommend this service - it's simply not competitive compared to voluntary carbon markets, in which well-certified projects can offset a teqCO2 for less than 10 USD (that's 100 times more efficient carbon offsetting than ClimeWorks, for high-end projects), and do so with additional co-benefits in terms of biodiversity and livelihood of local communities. REDD+ projects such as https://www.standfortrees.org are good examples of that.

The differentiating factor of this service is that it's "Permanent: turn CO2 into stone". That benefit is mostly psychological, not pragmatic. Aside from that, the 'small land and water usage' metric is also biased. Yes, rainforest protection projects use land, and you know what else they do? Protect rainforests!

It's also not that promising as a CCS technology. Just like energy, CO2 is most efficiently captured where its concentration is highest - that is in power plants, steelmaking plants, etc.

I know we love revolutionary startups and shiny new things here, but there are scientific bodies and certification standards which have already done the work well in this space, looking at the problem with a holistic approach and with numbers.

I know people mean well here, but for climate change what matters is results, not intentions - so run the numbers before you throw your money out of the window. Cool startup branding is not what makes a project impactful.
I've struggled with wanting to write for the past couple of years. The biggest aspect that allowed me to get started was realizing I don't need to write for an audience. After that realization, I soon discovered:

1. I like to write because it's therapeutic, and
2. I don't do it for others to read, only myself

To touch on the second point, rarely do I go back and read my own work. I don't think it's necessary outside the initial editing/revising for grammar mistakes. Personally, I'm just happy to be able to create something as opposed to always consuming other media.
DevOps with GCP experience are most needed :)
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I see it called Kraft Dinner here in the southeast US. I figured since roux-based mac and cheese is a staple in southern cooking, they wanted to let everyone know to expect something quite different. But now I see on their website the full name is "Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner".
I'm glad to see that the Seattle Flu Study has been able to start doing localized community testing for COVID-19 in the past week and that their work will be able to help 'decrypt' the transmission among the community.
Yes, that is a better definition, but nonetheless you can design erlang systems with a single domain, or design erlang systems as a monolith, even if it has a billion actors running around underneath.
Is there a way to download all of them in a single archive? I am tempted to train a GAN. What is the license?
The imitators did what Jack Welch advocated for. He did not advocated for firing 10% of people once when company is clearly bloated. He advocated to do it again and again and again.

When I give you advice and you follow my advice, it is rightful to blame me for that advice.

But also, these articles primary blame him for massive short-termism, corporate raiding and likely creative accounting to get numbers he wanted at the expense of company health.
This is quite unclear to me. Is DMA-BUF so generic that the memory it refers to can be in different types of RAM, including GPU RAM and CPU RAM?
Google Assistant Supported Colors
Well for starters you stop reducing the participating rate to make things appear better.
Big Oil is becoming Big Brother
There are still many other countries with cheap labor (Bangladesh, Pakistan, lots of Africa etc). It will still take a few more decades for the majority of the whole world to get out of poverty (assuming we don’t go off the rails).
Ask HN: Did you develop an in-house license server or buy it?
I'm working on a couple of projects that require a licensing system; think of engineering software like Solidworks.

How does everyone else do this? I'm basically interested in a vote of whether most people roll their own, or if there's a popular off-the-shelf choice to simplify the task.

My requirements are:

* Should be manageable through a web interface (activate, de-activate, etc)

* Ideally, the software would be able to tolerate a lack of network connectivity for some amount of time

* Should allow us to charge using either a single payment model, or a subscription model

* Should be easy to integrate with a C++ application
> Yeah, not sure where this idea has come from. Seems like RN haters just jumping on any opportunity to slate it.

There seems to be a much more obvious explanation as to why people are assuming it used to be React Native. The article says:

> > Compared with the previous iOS version, this new Messenger is [mentions improvements].

> > We accomplished this by using the native OS wherever possible […]

That seems to imply that it wasn't native before and they got the gains by switching to native. And since Facebook are well-known as the creators and biggest users of React Native, it's not a big leap to make the assumption that that's where they were coming from.

[Also, in case there's any confusion please note the distinction between "native", meaning it is compiled to native code; and "React Native", which is a cross-platform framework that is not compiled to native code. "React Native" is a horrible name for something that is not native.]
Or it could be an indication that in some countries, the current weather enables exponential growth. This could rapidly change as it did in China.
Ethereum Blockchain Stats – February 2020
I heard the Final Four is considering contingency plans, but at this point that's just due diligence.
For simple cases, I've also found "pdftotext -layout" useful. For a quick on-off job, this would save someone the trouble of assembling the lines themselves.

I have used this in the past to extract tables, but it doesn't help much in cases where you need font size information.
LEGO DUPLO.

I also second the suggestion of reading to your kid. There are plenty of child-friendly stories that are still engaging and fun to read for an adult. e.g. The Hobbit.
I just found out yesterday that you can import a picture into word and then remove the background, ala the selection tool in PS. Now while I'm sure most technical people would use PS or gimp or Paint.Net the fact that for 99% of other people there's an easy way to quickly edit photos is pretty incredible.
Yup companies like Pentair have been doing this industrially (and on more consumer stuff like pool filter pumps) for years now. I would guess the newer part might be adjusting parameters in a coordinated way via a network... enabling those hacker movies where someone on a laptop can startup all the machines in a factory with a few keypresses.
Yes, a "Boot-ROM", bleep, bloob, blergh.

You are basically saying we are born with a brain and corresponding nervous system. That's a deep insight, but nothing fundamentally novel.
> Feels like I’m constantly stuck in traffic while coding.

Nice metaphor!
You need clean, low-cost electricity near your city to support this.

And to scale to a impactful level this will also require a very large amount of new, clean electricity generation...
Good insides on what companies can and cannot withstand a once-in-a-lifetime event. My look into the 2008 Great Recession was very helpful with my pattern matching. 98 out of 100 stocks lost money during that recession, but most of them did super well during the longest recovery period in U.S. history. Even AIG made people a bunch of money.

Here's the full dataset of 1363 mid cap + stocks that traded during the 2008 recession, and their performances: https://shan.io/writing/learnings-from-the-2008-great-recess...
Does the added regulation, oversight help prevent the problems that led to the 08 crisis? Also curious to know what/how these learnings manifest themselves outside of goverment imposed regulations.
Not comparable. SXSW increases Austin's size by almost 50% for a couple days. With that said, the event generally doesn't have a large international presence/component to it, so I think the worry is excessive.
Big brain time. Biodiversity isn’t at risk if you plant different kinds of trees in different places. You don’t need to build a massive forest in any given place. Simply rebuilding the forests we used to have would go a long way.
Iirc Slack's backend is PHP.
To be clear, AC motors can already be 98+% efficient. So, those double digit gains are inherently limited to a subset of relatively inefficient motors. It’s very much useful research, but don’t expect miricals.
Hiding page content unless rendered via JS is the darkest dark pattern in HTML I've noted.

Though absolute-positioning of all text elements via CSS at some arbitrary level (I've seen it by paragraph), such that source order has no relationship to display order, is quite close.
> almost every HA (high availability) system I've ever seen has been less reliable than the original system was (without HA).

I've seen similar things with rabbitmq, in situation where the load & number of events to process is tiny but HA is some checkbox item to deliver without a serious QA process to measure if the setup is actually working effectively. Number of events in production we genuinely needed multiple rabbitmq nodes in the cluster to cope with failure of one or more nodes: 0 . Number of times when rabbitmq got too excited processing large messages that it delayed heart beating & subsequently decided that there was a network partition when there was in fact no such thing, leading the prod support team to step in and manually recover the cluster: > 0
I appreciate and believe I understand your perspective. I do not refute your criticisms of the research.

I have a different perspective, however. As someone who is expected to die of cancer within a few years, even early/flawed research is of interest. Especially with the cognitive impairments I feel from chemotherapy, I find it challenging to wade through all of the ideas and opinions to get to information that's useful in guiding decisions about my treatment.

In particular, this thread acquainted me with jcims's life experiences. I take his statements at face value and believe that he's indeed spent countless hours researching various treatment possibilities. That he is left with the belief that vitamin C has promise as a treatment option gives me cause to further explore the relevant science. I lack the time, energy, and knowledge to investigate the plethora of options/speculation, so I greatly appreciate when another credible person points me in a direction that's worthy of greater attention.

This doesn't mean I'm planning to ask my oncologist about vitamin C or pursue this as a treatment option at this time. :) It just gives me a promising area of further exploration and I'll see where it leads me.

From this thread, I also gained reinforcement (in part through pazimzadeh's summary, below) of my understanding that taking vitamin C oral supplements during chemotherapy is ill-advised. I'd come across this guidance before, but have been reminded of it by this article and this discussion.

So, my request to you is to please not discourage posts such as this article here on Hacker News. If you prefer to not have your "time wasted [by] this stuff" then please don't click on such articles or please suffer in silence. Or, better yet, post your summary of the research's limitations, as you've done here. (That is, your summary is useful, but your first line saddened me, as I appreciated having my time "wasted" by this article and the subsequent discussion. I hope others here do not heed your request.)

Edit: minor editing to simplify. (I realize this post is still rather wordy, please forgive.)
This is obviously a possibility. The longer term is harder to predict.
are you posing your counter-advice as a question in an attempt to fly it under the radar ?
There's no 'first' - it's a battle we must fight on many fronts :) Destroying Bitcoin, and more generally digital sobriety, is only one of them!
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My area has something called POP club (power of produce?) at the farmers markets. Kids try some sort of produce, decide if they like it or not, and then get $5 of fake money to spend on produce or seedlings. It's really been interesting watching how my kids decide what to get, and how much, and negotiate the transactions. In the spring we often get starter plants for the garden. Even if you don't have such a club you might consider a "produce allowance" when you go to the market.

Not much to do with STEM, so I'll add that my youngest really likes changing the batteries in his toys, especially if a screwdriver is required.
Right? I love the OCR for Google Drive. It's such a useful, hidden feature.

By the way, why do you wait 10 minutes? Is there a signal that the PDF is done processing?

Or is there just some kind of voodoo magic that seems to happen that just takes 10 minutes to do?
I think it's all okay. China has the biggest cities of the world and they censored it for 2 months, while the virus was spreading.

This isn't happening in the rest of the world. ( Except some dictatorships)

Some minor outliers like you mentioned, eg. Italy. But these are getting handled. It will not spread anymore like it did in China.

It's possible that some parts will need extra handling, but sharing information is the key for handling this.
Even if that responsibility exists, and a number of individuals have questioned whether it does, it doesn't necessarily follow that such maximization needs to be solely focused on short-term gain.
In what universe does saving stimulate the economy? It's literally the opposite of consumption.
> keeping our generation's preferences and habits in mind

Wow, you might as well have answered with 'OK Boomer' (which I am not). I'm not your target, which is okay with me, would have been a better way to say that.
"con crud" is how I've always heard it.
Ask HN: When do you think Amazon will enter the food delivery business
Or should they?
Sure, as long as we're going to be even-handed about resource-wasting products rather than singling this one out. There are a billion things that produce no net social value but are ignored. And even if we did target Bitcoin, then -- like everything else -- it should be a matter of "are you paying your environmental cost? Cool, then carry on", not "hey I didn't like this for unrelated reasons, so this is my pretense for shutting it down regardless of how much its users are willing to pay for the damage they're doing".

My longer comment on this point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19193938
it depends on the targets distribution, is it diffuse in the body or is it localized to a certain tissue type.
Most bitcoin power estimates assume all the miners are using horrendously outdated mining hardware.

Mining is pretty centralised, and most players keep secret exactly how efficient their hardware is - and you can bet it'll end up much more efficient than publically available hardware.
Yes, every AC motor with IE3 has already an effciency something like 90 to 92%. For the double price you can get a synchron motor with an effciency around 95%.
Inverters for the drive generate heat in the cabinet .. so you do need active cooling quickly in the cabinet. So somebody also has to change and clean the filters. Just be careful with all the numbers.
The big news here is that Koch industries is actually issuing a press release bragging about reducing energy consumption. The mere fact that Koch industries publicly states that using less energy something to be proud of is a big change.

As far as the actual energy savings, technology wise they are not really anything new. Such savings are only possible because their machines seem to have been very energy inefficient to begin with.

If they really want to push the edge they should get rid of their lossy induction motors and install BLDCs or reluctance motors.

But they are correct that electric motors use up a lot of the worlds power and existing known improvements in electric motors can greatly reduce power use.
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