skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's not intended to be basic research, right? From what I understand, a company shouldn't be applying for the contract if it has serious doubts about the feasibility of the project.

Otherwise, what's stopping a schmuck like me from creating a shell company and promise the navy state of the art ships? Shouldn't there be accountability here?

Btw, the pdf mentions that the military signed off on the purchase after the inspection, so my assumption was that they still could avoid paying.
Fines are not maxed out at the amount of money the culprit can give, which in and itself can be quite difficult to determine (I don't want to enter the merit of the amount requested being right/wrong).
> >“Buy mattress at $400. Sell at $1,000. Refund/return 20% of them. Keep $400, on avg. Then spend $290 of that on ads/marketing and $270 on admin (finance, HR, IT). Lose $160. Repeat.”

I don't know much about the business side of things but asuming the $290 on marketing and the $270 on admin don't scale less than linearly (preferably much MUCH more flatlined), then the $160 loss could be closer to a $300 profit. Even if you lower the sale price by $299 (extreme scenario), you still get a dollar in profit.

At the end of the day, I think the product has to be consistently good enough and the branding will "stick". I imagine the goal is to gain enough market share.

I'll share an anecdote: I bought an InstantPot for a decent discount a few years back on Black Friday. I've personally "sold" at least three since to people I know. I'm sure the cheaper brands are likely almost as good as InstantPot but for me to take a chance on them, I'd need to trust they have a no questions asked return policy.
Ah no, aircraft control is outside of my province, so this is new knowledge.

Advanced control can be deterministic -- through parameterization. Explicit MPC [1] does this. It pre-computes the quadratic optimization problem offline, so all the solutions are enumerated and stored, and are verifiable. However, as far as I know no one has implemented this commercially.

Interesting that it's all PID. Not surprised though because PID is tried-and-true (but even so, has a lot of tiny nuances which takes years to understand).

[1] https://www.mathworks.com/help/mpc/explicit-mpc-design.html
That makes a lot of logical sense. Every single ms counts in those cases.
Traders can trade 24/7 in markets around the world, as well as in crypto assets. If all trading was 24/7, what would happen probably is centralization of all trading to 1 or 2 huge exchanges.
The previous thread on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22451302
Even if the fatality rate were as high as 2% (which is exceedingly unlikely), "2% of humanity is about to die" assumes that 100% of all humans will get the disease, which is unlikely.
Early versions were causing even more extreme cytokine storms than the SARS virus did without the vaccine.

This shit is trial and error with some difficult to handle results when things are still in development. Which is why the idea that we'll have a safe and effective vaccine within the year is a complete pipe dream.
They are both units of power the fact that they have different numbers does not have bearing on the question asked, power is power, torque is torque regardless of units.
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Could be.

I do wonder what the professional relationships type situation is with the network.

I suspect someone at Sequoia can call some buddy at another place if he has a question and get some good information "No man that dude is bonkers / reckless." that might save them a lot of time. Same goes the other way.

Not sure how much good info I get calling up Sequoia "Hey man I got a $1b ... what do you know about...."
I turned 40 a few months ago so I am going to start fortifying my existing skillset to knock some rust off, make it compatible with the sprint to the public cloud, and just try to be hungrier than any of my younger peers so that I don't start getting painted into a corner before I am able to financially call it quits. I figure if I can beef up 10 more years of legitimate problem solving, I can sorta coast my way out for a meager retirement and shift to rice, beans, and dog walks til entropy gets me.
That's my biggest concern with Twitters future right now. It already does what it does best, why should new and unnecessary features be added, and like you said Jack seems to understand that. The Investors however think otherwise, since unfortunately the tech industry has adopted the unnecessary change for changes sake for the last decade.

I can already see what such a mentality has done to many other sites, and In the end it drives away the core users of the platform. I can already see this in progress with Reddit for example.
Obviously, you are completely unwilling to accept the fact that Trump won the election, and somehow you're creating utterly insane logic to continue the fantasy in your head.
Not only does WP do that, they have a page dedicated to it.

https://www.warbyparker.com/progressives
Facebook with its core business should cease to exist anyway and this is good step forward in doing so, there's is nothing wrong with this fine.
> the code examples are given in a language everyday programmers will probably not recognize

The code examples are given assuming the reader already knows the language and runtime -- not once in the article does it say what this language is or explain the syntax/grammar rules. I would take it to mean this isn't meant for a broad audience, or the author has made a common curse of knowledge[0] mistake.

[0]: "The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when an individual, communicating with other individuals, unknowingly assumes that the others have the background to understand." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
What does "actively poisonous" mean in this context? You've used that phrase numerous times as if we should know exactly what you're referring to.
Panic sell is the correct thing when your doctor gives you a short time to live. Since your money will be worthless no matter what happens you may as well get it all now and spend it on whatever can buy a moment happiness.

There is an exception if your religion lets you take your stock with you. I don't believe in one, but I guess if you want to.
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Mainstream is typically taken to be known and widely used which Clojure is. You seem to have a personal much more restrictive definition which only includes the top few languages for reasons unstated.
Germany and France now have 1,151 and 1,209 patients, with latest daily increase of 31% and 27%, respectively. What do you mean they are "fine"?
Azure SSO? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/mana...
On a personal level Ya, it's horrible for sure,

That being said, the Renaissance came about right after the Black Plague and it is theorized the plague played a significant role due to smashing antiquated and counterproductive social structures and reducing the power of the church allowing new ideas to emerge.
Thats weird because because both Twitter and Facebook were the things that got Trump elected in the first place...
The endlessly bad/conflicting advice

- dont wear masks, save them for the actual sick. For a disease most people dont know they have and incubates for days seems like the advice should be “wear a mask if you have a cough”.

- dont cough on your clothing, cough into tissues, toss them and wash your hands. This seems almost impossible given most people seem to cough multiple times a minute. Why not teach them to contain the spray. Eg Best: Dont go out. Next best: wear a mask. As a last restort, cough into your shirt (as in pull the collar up over your mouth an cough down inside the shirt so the spray is contained inside it).
It appears to me that both Perl 6, as well as Raku, are NOT supported at repl.it (anymore)
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This very much feels like "Do a bad, do a good"
I think the lack of standardization for a general purpose PKI is the biggest barrier, and the reason why Joe Schmo has no idea what a key pair is.
Just as a datapoint: I have never written any code in APL, J, K, Q, etc., and I think & = min is perfectly defensible. If I had to switch regularly between K and (say) C or Python where & is bitwise (also perfectly defensible, of course) I'd probably find it irksome and make mistakes from time to time, but I don't think it's an unreasonable choice.

(But: I am a pure mathematician by background, and the idea that logical AND is a special case of MIN is pretty familiar to us. The thing whose only values are TRUE and FALSE is a particular Boolean algebra. A Boolean algebra is a particular kind of lattice, and lattices have MIN and MAX operations, though we usually call them MEET and JOIN instead. I would expect & = min to be less comfortable to people with different backgrounds.)

[EDITED to fix an inconsequential typo.]
Many websites are not accessible for clients with an IP address from EU after GDPR. I believe it’s called geo-blocking!
Online eyewear is maybe 5 to 10% of all eyewear, but rapidly growing as consumers realize they can pay $7 for glasses instead of $200 (e.g., zenni.com).
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For a while I've been running a Twitter bot that tracks the comings and goings of major ships. I did not expect it to become extremely topical!
If respected sources waited until they knew the answer, the only available sources would be unreliable.

So if that is the only conclusion, at least there is an authoritative one published.
I have an unexplainable urge to scream : "THE LIBERAL GOVERMENT!!!"

This is really cool news though, it's about time that Facebook take some serious ownership of this mess.
Well I agree with you a lot of reasoning is very uninformed.

But I don't agree Facebook isn't to blame.

Power comes with responsibility. At least that is what most countries believe.

So if you make money with a very powerful tool that could potentially bring down a government (this is what a judge has to decide) then you are to blame when your APIs where to lose.

It's like building a nuclear facility with mud.
> If you're looking at this and wondering when to get in, to bargain hunt essentially, and you're asking yourself questions like "today? next week?", you need to step back and think again.

> Bear markets are paved with the blood of optimists.

I agree with exercising caution in the sense that trying to time the market is difficult and probably inadvisable in general, but I don't agree that people should be careful specifically because of the recent drop.

IMO the time for caution was weeks ago when the market was much nearer all time highs and it was clear the Coronavirus' growth rate was not under control (and that the measures necessary to contain it might reduce economic growth). Now is a considerably worse time to exercise caution.

People investing for the long term should probably have equities as a substantial portion of their portfolio. If someone doesn't already, I think it would be a mistake to hold back just because the market has dropped. The market may go up or down from here, but the alternative investments of cash and bonds aren't obviously better choices (and it's expected that stocks will be pricier than they were in the past if bonds return less than nothing after inflation). I think a lot of how things play out will depend on future political decisions around monetary and fiscal policy that are not realistically predictable.
I thought their whole pitch was to be an “anti-Stripe” that lets you own your own payments platform
As with much of the economy, it's winner-take-all. I would put Zenni Optical alongside Luxottica as the duopoly at the moment. Warby is popular, but it's driven a lot by marketing and VC.
For a couple years now I've kept the vast majority of my savings in investments (Betterment) to keep them from depreciating, and because I can withdraw them in an emergency given 3 days' notice.

Obviously we're entering a season where that's to be avoided. So I'll probably start redirecting my surplus income to my regular savings account for a while just to give myself an extra buffer. Not withdrawing from the market, mind you, just taking a break from depositing into it.
If no masks and one needs to go to supermarket, what measures would help?
eg wearing bandana/kerchief is completely useless?
Mattresses are crazy-overpriced and near-monopolistic, though. Not quite to Luxottica levels, but close. At least before companies like Purple and Casper and so on came along.
Likely good lawyering on the part of Finix. If Sequoia could recover the investment, it would. $21M is not a joke even to them.
Pornohub -> Pornhub in title
I had ACA coverage before we offered group health insurance to our employees and did not find these things to be true: the network for my ACA silver plan was the same (fine) network as we get now, the deductible options are the same (but I was opting for higher deductibles to go with an HSA on the ACA plan, which is what I think most startup employees should do), and the out-of-pocket costs were the same.

I suspect that a lot of people alarmed by ACA costs are really just observing that their employers were subsidizing a lot of stuff for them. That's true! Employers who give you group coverage directly are usually giving you a shadow pay raise in the background to make the numbers look better!

But for startups, the difference between the individual market and the small group market probably aren't usually that big --- as you'd expect, since a small startup isn't really aggregating much risk.
What's to stop me from receiving a $500 benefit tax-free and buying a $250 plan?
I've asked the Initial Algebras for the Uninitiated speaker to see if we can get the video of that talk (which is superlative). I promise the idea is actually quite natural and does not require maths at all, but it does need to be taught, and it probably is quite hard to pick up from just slides alone.
“Massive necrosis of the lung on a CT scan. That doesn't happen with flu”
Maybe "tears" works better..
I can't say anything definitive about why they are imploding, but I can say that exactly zero of the many sites I tried offered any frames at all that I could use. Every optometry shop I stopped in had at least three or four.
>the right policies in place

Do you expect this from the current administration?
They could probably add app that displays your cart live.
Along with the sick and elderly, some younger and healthier ones also die. If the economy booms in the aftermath but you're dead, why do you care about the economy booming?
No, I'm not saying its a solution or a problem.

It's completely orthogonal.
There is a JavaScript port of the Closure compiler, available from npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/google-closure-compiler
That's not a dimension I care much about. As a product, it's stagnant. I think it could be a much better product. Better meaning serving a wider audience and serving different people in different ways.
If you happen to see this, during an editing pass it would help to include information about what language you're using to present your code examples when the article is standalone for a wide audience.

Something like:

"For this section and the next, let us imagine the guts of a very basic calculator application, expressed in the initial algebra style, using [your language and environment]."
I would bet that the money maker isn't the actual technology. The data they could collect on consumer shopping habits, tied automatically to a cross-store profile + an expanded Amazon SSP/DSP would create huge value to Amazon and brands. Added onto their already fast growing advertising business.

If this is in fact their revenue play they could even sell this at a loss just to build up the ecosystem, get a unmovable majority monopoly on the tech -> and data.

Maybe even add on top something like Good RX where retailers pay amazon on top to drive traffic to their stores. And even combine with Brands who want to offer discounts. Double dip.
I prefer RPM packaging over all major styles of dsc (Debian Source Control) packaging as well, but...

It's actually possible to use RPM spec files to build Debian packages: https://github.com/debbuild/debbuild

And I've been going through and slowly porting much of the RPM ecosystem common macros to run on debbuild so that spec files can be reused to comply with Debian packaging policies as much as possible: https://github.com/debbuild/debbuild-macros

(Disclosure: I'm the current maintainer of debbuild)
Ask HN: Is there an increase in negative headlines?
Seems like a recipe for mass hysteria.

Maybe I'm wrong in my perception?
It's up what, 30 % over the last few months? The real economy didn't grow nearly that much.

In terms of real value, the only way for the economy to take that degree of a hit in a day would be a natural disaster. But these numbers are mostly speculation, so yeah they can go up and down very fast minus techinal restrictions like these halts.
It doesn't really matter how good the bed is if there isn't one left for you.
This doesn't seem to be guaranteed by any law of economics, though. Despite the massive economic growth since the 19th century, the absolute number of job openings for horses has decreased substantially.
I'm looking forward to using Golang. I built my personal website using Hugo and was very pleased with the simplistic nature of Goland. I Will also probably work to use more VIM in my daily editing for easier navigation. Also going to be learning website design, because I can build any feature, but I sure dont know how to make it pretty :'D
And as a startup raising capital, you'll still consider Sequoia. They didn't screw Finix at all, here.
Something something regex and two problems. \s

Seriously though, nice find! It's often surprising how tiny little curiosities can lead down the rabbit hole to such interesting problems. In this case, it was a fairly logical flawed assumption, but the mess of regex made it just hidden enough to be tough to spot.
I don't think change for the sake of change is valuable. But I think it can't get better faster until it is better at changing.
> Now under pressure to grow even faster and at greater scale than they otherwise would have had to naturally, they are being confronted with what happens when growth slows down, the cash starts running out, and investors are expecting their returns.

Are we near the beginning of an anti-VC wave in public opinion?
This falls in the exact same vein as Google and Facebook and the inherent issues with Section 230: Platform immunity very directly enables and promotes illegal content, because platforms lack an incentive to moderate them effectively.

Article is from the UK perspective, but this is arguably, an easy example of where the United States could utilize the new SESTA-FOSTA and take down Pornhub, since Section 230's immunity no longer applies to sexual exploitation of children or sex trafficking. And multiple examples here are given of videos of underage persons without their consent.

In addition to this, the recent case against Girls Do Porn, PornHub has allegedly done an extremely inadequate job preventing reuploads of videos that constituted rape and abuse, and for which the creators are in jail.
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I'm not sure it is possible to rationally recognize once-in-a-lifetime events, since by definition you've never seen them before and don't know how they'll play out.
Possible... Amazon is probably seeing higher than typical sales of items they probably don't do high volumes of and are trying to manage that logistical issue as best as possible.

People are starting to get just a little nuts on these things... Shouldn't need to stock up months of stuff... a few weeks of food and water with some rice and beans and/or lentils and lard as backup staple items for core items with other canned goods.

I, personally, cannot handle legumes and not really a fan of grains... that said, having enough hand sanitizer for a year is a bit nuts. Having more food than you will cycle through in a regular time-frame will only serve to add undue pressure to short term supplies because of over-stocking up... then the relief may not come, or can kill the other end of the line, or increase tainted supply.

Panic just isn't a good idea.
You're not really answering my question. Assume the standardization falls into place, and it's all JSON instead of X.509 so that Javascript developers will actually use it. What gets better? What thing out there was just begging to be encrypted by a giant tree shared by the whole Internet?
Sure I believe that the virus is here and that it is serious. I wouldn't be surprised if my neighbors had it, and I might have had it a week ago judging from symptoms, but so what? I'm staying away from at-risk groups like the elderly and immune-compromised, I have enough food and water to last a few weeks, and I'm not running out to social gatherings. But I also believe that it is not an excuse to suspend the Constitution. Jesus man open your eyes, a lot of people died for those rights and it's insane to throw them away over a momentary panic.

The markets crashing is overdue IMO; things have been overheated for a long time now and a correction has been expected for awhile. It had may as well come as a result of herd behavior rather than market fundamentals, and I say let it ride. Like the old adage goes: be greedy when people are fearful, and fearful when people are greedy.

Also, the Hajj isn't until July this year; it's not surprising that Mecca is not crowded, and closing it for most business at this point in time is not beyond the pale in a global sense.
It's almost as if...hear me out for a second... different industries have different unit economics. And these aren't tech companies, just product companies with tech operating models.
> If they all die suddenly, then their assets get passed on to their prime-working-age children, who have no need to cash them out.

It feels morbid talking about this, but:

It depends on how the assets are passed. If most of them are in IRAs, then they'll get passed to heirs as inherited IRAs, and the new SECURE Act in the US will require the heirs to distribute the contents of those IRAs over the next 10 years, which is likely similar to how the retirees might have timed their withdrawals.
'I ain't playing': LeBron James scoffs at games without fans due to coronavirus
Exactly right. After all humans co-exist with much more serious illnesses in many parts of the world. Somehow people adapt to circumstances and life goes on.
If commercial usage of the language by companies big and small around the world along with funding of the ecosystem is not an indication of mainstream usage, then I guess we'll have to disagree on what constitutes mainstream.
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