skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, all over Europe (at least EU and EEA) this is the norm. Americans are usually quite surprised when they learn the level of detail these checks go to.

Even for a 20 year old car, you will be told stuff like "you need to replace the front left wheel bearing and the tie rod bushing, both rear springs, and that ABS sensor which is not working". You'll even get a fail if you show up without wiper fluid (since then they can't verify that your wipers are working correctly). They most definitely check your lights thoroughly.

Around here, just having the test done is almost $100. Then there is the (potential) garage bill or DIY work+parts to fix whatever didn't pass, and then $20 for the re-test to fix whatever was necessary. If you don't do it, you lose your plates and insurance coverage.

But usually the people who run aftermarket lights take the required 1 hour to put the stock ones back in before the test.
It seems that the people who made Firefox back in the day are still mad that Google launched a more performant and secure browser that ate their marketshare.
The problem with that approach is it inhibits a lot of perfectly-sensible optimizations. If you force the compiler to leave it up to the machine, you force it to preserve the same stack layout, the same memory write, and the same execution order relative to everything else.

You basically forbid it from working with an execution model at any level higher than "a giant array of bytes," because now you have to preserve the naive behavior of that giant array of bytes. But this is not really useful for correct programs.

The committee's intent may have (accidentally, indirectly) been to codify compilers that do very little optimization, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea.
Tech CEOs' guide to Covid-19 market changes and opportunities
cheap hosters did.
China seems to be doing well relative to, say, Italy.
No, I said nothing of the sort. I said they should have been putting money aside during the good years so they can weather the bad years.

The fact they were not shows they're terrible at sustaining a long-term successful business, and they deserve to fail. Only well run future-looking companies will survive something like this. i.e. all those companies in Japan that have been around for eons.
Sounds more like a way to increase the spread of viral clusters.
I actually shifted my mirrors outward so the light isn't reflecting on me at all times. So now to use my side mirrors I shift to see. This is obviously not ideal.
I highly recommend Matt Stoller's book 'Goliath' about the 100 year battle between US democracy and monopoly. Also his current newsletter 'big' which brings the book up to date for what is happening right now.
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-to-structure-the-coro...
Forget 'rainy day' funds - the vast majority of modern businesses are financialized ATMs to pull value out of massively leveraged assets to distribute to a tiny percent of humanity.
Airlines are a good example of this. They'll get bailed out but hopefully there will be some guard rails put in place to prevent these funds going to pay for shareholder executive jets and yachts
>The police are not going to send in the SWAT team and divert their best men to the case - they're going to note it down in a file somewhere. Come on.

Right, that's exactly the response we don't even give to all sorts of crime with a victim unless the victim is very pushy about getting a police report filed. If we're not going to at least make some token effort to enforce petty theft and vandalism laws then I see no value to society of making a point of giving that level of enforcement to even lesser crimes.
You can do this but it depends on your setup as to how. If you have AWS IAM users (not federated), then you can use MFA conditions in your policies as documented here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credenti...

For federation you need to rely on the config in whatever your identity provider is, like Okta.
i just don't see how UBI survives a highly polarized, segregated society pumped out by the US media. imagine the headlines by Fox News as soon as they find 4 people living together playing video games all day. or smoking pot. or etc.

in a weird way it dangerously exposes people as, according to "the economy", particularly not valuable. the framing will go: these people are literally doing nothing and we're supporting them financially, no questions asked. that will draw a fair amount of outrage, i assume, given that the US can't even get that done for older and poorer people.

that's why i think if you buy in to UBI, you sort of need whatever else Yang brought with it - measuring societal value differently, etc. otherwise you are looking at a situation where certain persons are going to be portrayed as truly valueless, bc in the US the economy dominates so much. and i don't think that bodes well for those people.
Positives to Embrace During the Coronavirus
Start by 100 people, monitor for 1 month.
If it looks promising, add 1000 people, monitor for 1 month.
If it looks promising, add 10000 people, monitor for 1 month.
If it looks promising, add 100000 people, monitor for 1 month.
If it looks promising, add 1000000 people, monitor for 1 month.

And so on. The exact rate could be set according to the actual infection and death rates in the population. Given the current costs of curfew, we could create an entire government agency just to administer this, and still save trillions.

For inspiration, consider the Manhatten project.
It's looking to me like the only way to fight the coronavirus recession is to have a strong enough testing capacity that we can be relatively sure that the people we are interacting with in the world do not have the virus.
Ah... still, 8k@60 is exciting.
Aren’t airline profits small with respect to their operating costs? No one really thinks of an airline as a good business to make money on these days.
Thousands of people out of jobs at a time when they won't be able to get another one. Yes, that is good news /s
Gompertz type 2 fits somewhat better.

Ultimately for such complex things like spread with barriers Tsalis statistics are good. That could mean q-Weibull distribution.
That has two problems:

1) this technique doesn't work if you need to keep part of the DOM (e.g. a focused input or a running video)

2) this technique is O(n) in IE
No one has used the service for a few hours, and it has disappeared from the first page of new show HN, so I've taken the server down.

A few people connected and watched the video, one person actually completed a call, and I found a bug, so thanks!
I 100% agree. This is a silver lining to Coronavirus. My fear is, these companies will get bailed out like the banks.
Oh, that's a good idea. I actually have a friend who tilts their mirrors really far out so they can barely see their own car, and they did say that it helps them see more once they got used to it. Thanks for the reminder.
I think the world would be better off if the incompetently run airlines went bankrupt, and a few better run ones took their place.

Otherwise you're just setting the scene for large corporation bailouts every time there is a hiccup in the world.
this angle of where to inject money into the system is the only potentially reasonable argument i've heard for UBI so far (but doesn't address its many other adverse consequences).

without much consideration by us commoners, we've come to accept that money must be injected into the economy through large financial institutions that gatekeep and rentseek.

money is literally the intermediary for trading the fruits of labor (not capital) with each other, and the closer money is injected into the system at the point value is created (when labor turns raw materials into desirable goods), the better.
One of my concerns is on the security front, specifically credit card info, if PayPal isn't an option. I'm interested in trying out Privacy's one-time use credit cards to reduce that risk.
Alternative fuels for airplanes?? I’m curious what you propose to haul 200 people across the Atlantic. Batteries? Solar?
It’s not about helping those in need. It’s about putting money in hands that will actually spend it.

A solution to recessions is increasing Aggregate Demand. People spending money does just that.
If the LED bulb is properly rotated and installed in a projector housing then there is no extra glare and you get a good beam. It’s when you get super bright bulbs put into reflector type headlights you get a problem.
Big Data and Analytics in the Covid-19 Era
great answers, thanks very much!
Your first concern is a problem in the current situation, but wouldn't this be immensely helpful in avoiding/preparing for a second wave in the fall (if weather has any impact) or next year (if it becomes pandemic and endemic)?
With GitHub, you are only cloning part of the repository -- you are missing the Wiki (which is a separate repository), Issues, Milestones, Release Artifacts, etc
Specific equipment that we can buy and stockpile is one thing, but manufacturing capability seems even more important to have within our borders so we can keep making N95 masks not subject to foreign interference, in the event of a sustained epidemic.
in a free society every mind can participate in solving the crisis on a voluntary basis, whereas with the model you are suggesting a far smaller group of minds would make these decisions for everyone and try to force everyone else with threats of violence and force.

In a free society every free individual can think up a solution in a totilitan society on the other hand a smaller set of people will make the decision.

I like to think for myself and would prefer to let the question of a solution be handled by as many people as possible and based on reasoning and politely asking instead of appointing a group of technocrats to be worshipped as priests.
os login is probably a little closer to ec2 instance connect because you still need ssh inbound access right? whereas aws provides a bastion here
Those who are curious about why use Fossil SCM is this: You can carry it with you in the form of a .fossil file which is a portable database (SQLite).

I should start using Fossil more; seems like things are getting out of hand in an implicit way.
Xbox Series X: Microsoft reveals full specs
It gives a month to implement more complex measures. This is something that can be done pretty much instantly, a better solution needs time, this gives time.
OpenType, Harfbuzz, Qt: Not a Love Story – Krita's Text Tool
The most authoritative source is (still) the WHO guidelines [1], though the audience for this is health care professionals, not patients. Your national and local public health departments may have more updated and tailored information.

A popular article is "What Will You Do If You Start Coughing?" by James Hamblin [2], though this is heavier on public policy concerns than specific targeted advice.

If anyone can find a really well-communicated set of advice on this, I'll gladly add it to my resource list. The need for such things is urgent, and I'm extremely frustrated about the poor quality and distribution of resources, which is why I'm putting time and energy into curating my own resource list.

[1] https://www.who.int/publications-detail/home-care-for-patien...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/where-do-...
Every console since game consoles were invented in the 70's has had too little RAM compared to computers of the day.
Yours is a grossly ignorant comment. This crisis was started and worsened by the Chinese Communist Party who used their one-party, autocratic power to jail doctors and journalists who were trying to help early on. Every supply-and-demand crisis in history that was managed by a non-capitalist regime such as in the USSR and Venezuela was worsened by many orders of magnitude. I'm talking about people starving in the streets while warehouses full of pork, milk, and grain rotted due to an inability to centrally manage supply chains. I'm talking about once-productive farms shutting down once the "evil greedy farmers" were run out of the country and the farms turned over to "the People" -- go read about what happened to these farms and the people who depended on them.

I know it's fashionable to rail against The Man and watch your Reddit Gold™ roll in, but I really wish you'd press pause on that until becoming a smidge better educated on the subject.
It's not so. Both CSV (despite of its name) and DSV are able to use an arbitrary character as a delimiter. The real difference between them is the way to escape the delimiter (and to escape the escaper itself). DSV use C-like syntax: \, will be treated as literal comma, \\ will be treated as literal backslash. CSV use quotation marks for this purpose, and in a completely different way.
No one is looking to jail people who did not break the law. If you knew one of your colleagues was doing something illegal and you let it slide or even participated, then by all means you should be held to account. If they did it without your knowledge or consent, then you'd be fine. This willingness to immediately threaten to hurt your employees financially at the mere suggestion of increased accountability for criminal actions is a great example of how a sense of entitlement and an addiction to the VC model has turned our economy into a fragile and easily corrupted mess.
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard put a bill last week on the house.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolutio...
It is not a bug in the broken sense since it was intended.

There is simply no way to create an infinite loop in LLVM IR.

You could argue it is Clang generating bad LLVM IR for C mode, same as Rust. They could add something to the generated IR to make it formally finite.
Tax rebate doesn’t help if you don’t pay any tax, and if you’re out of work, you’re also not paying tax.

For example, if you normally make the median income of $30k, but quarantine put you out of work for 3 months, you’re down to $22,500, your federal tax bill is ~$2700, and so this is most you can get from tax rebate. If you have children, this is even lower.

While I agree that tax rebates are typically correct approach, here it’s not the case: they won’t help much those who most need it, and they’ll help most those who don’t need them at all.
Hospitals Hit by Ransomware During Coronavirus Pandemic
In this scenario, if they actually stole your invention without a valid IP assignment clause in your work agreement/contract, then the law absolutely provides a way for you to make this claim and enforce it via a court of law. Without the patent system, how exactly do you think the inventor would fare here?
I used to focus on making my code easy go extend. I still enjoy that style in personal projects, but on large teams, I find it is better to make your code easy to delete.
China also sealed people in their apartments and left them to die to stymie the virus.

15 or so years ago China allowed ~500,000 people to die in order to build a hydroelectric dam (Three Gorges) for several other million.

If you consider that kind of machiavellianism a good thing, I suggest you move to China.
The problem being required large number of ventilators which even US will have problems delivering in such case. Only China has the hardware on hand.
This is hardly a UBI. It's also been done before, for example in Australia during the GFC.

The idea is to get money into the hands of people who will actually spend it - the poor will tend to go buy their kid a desperately needed new pair of school shoes, for example, whereas the rich will just throw it in with their other savings. Only one of those stimulates the economy in the short term.
The ability to clone the entire repository, not just the code base portion of it -- and thus make it available somewhere else with low effort. So all the issues, wiki articles, release artifacts could be re-homed (or even have multiple simultaneous homes).
https://github.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean works great on ft.com
> A mistake driving a car could easily kill or land the driver in jail (and this happens all the time).

And nobody is dying from App Store policies. Violating a civil regulation is much different than violating criminal statutes.
Under capitalism, the spare capacity that hospitals could have had to deal with this crisis, in beds, ventilators, equipment, supply chains, personnel are all defined as waste. That's what hospitals have been cutting for decades under the rubric of efficiency and profitability. Profitability under normal conditions quickly becomes systemic failure under exceptional circumstances.

You have to be drunk on ideology to not see the impending cascading failures which will occur because the profit motive necessitates the coupling of systems and reduction of their ability to absorb unpredicted shocks. Like every system, of course capitalism will fail under certain circumstances, usually circumstances that it itself creates.
Yep. Here's an example I found once:
https://godbolt.org/z/XQBcR9

pub fn mul1(mut a: i32, b:i32) -> i32 {
let mut out = 0;
while a != 0 {
out += b;
a-=1;
}
out
}

pub fn mul2(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32 {
if a == 0 {
0
} else {
b + mul2(a-1, b)
}
}

Both are optimized to imul. But that's not actually correct: neither of these should terminate for negative a!

Incidentally, this is actually a rust bug, caused by LLVM performing this optimization despite it being illegal in rust.
Borg, Kubernetes, et al? Abstracting complexity away is great, but at a certain level you just can't hide it, I think. Would love to be proven wrong, though.
There are 3 main ways this crisis can go for a bussiness:

1) Keep operating throughout the crisis while remaing solvent.

2) Cut losses by suspending or reducing bussiness during the crisis. Service debt and other non suspendable bills through credit or savings. Reopen after the crisis and return to bussiness as usual.

3) Attempt to do 1 or 2, but become insolvent. Don't reopen after the crisis passes, because your bussiness failed and is now closed for good.

Providing credit can move companies from 3 to 2, which will greatly improve our ability to recover.
I think the IRS is much better set up for this than state run welfare programs. Send a check out to everyone now but collect $950 more in taxes next year from only folks that made more than $XX,XXX amount of money in 2020. Also you could make it so that uncashed checks would be cancelled by next year and you get a $50 extra refund.
Well, they did not expect you to try and run VS Code on it.
Not the whole calendar, but just the clock part: https://www.amazon.com/Kikkerland-Wheel-Revolving-Wall-Clock...
Seems up at the moment. I'm sure there will be some outages as data centers are running with reduced staff and some companies don't know how to do teleworking well.
Travis CI and Bitbucket Integration
A Survey of Long-Term Context in Transformers
Petty theft does not put lives at risk.

I cannot imagine how anyone with minimal understanding how the world workd could suggest that is a "petty" concern.
Make it easy to delete conceptually

It should be removable in a way that does not break other systems and it should be easy to identify when "it" ends and when something else begins
I like this feature, too! When I first got mine I had it set up to run only on certain days, as my small place doesn't need a lot of vacuuming. Then I discovered that the closer I got to the robot run, the tidier I was. So I wrote some code to make it run on random days, and that finally got me to stop trying to cheat.
You can already for Win10 and Oculus Rift, not sure if mobile is supported yet but probably will be soon.

https://beta.support.xbox.com/help/games-apps/apps-help/how-...
Yeah, my partner just started climbing the ladder at a regional. I'm not seeing a silver lining in his career being flushed down the commode.
> This is rubbish.

Please mind your manners.

> The bug exists in LLVM regardless of whether Rust has its own fork, and you don't even need to use Rust to reproduce it.

It is not a bug in the broken sense since it was intended. There is simply no way to create a formally infinite loop in LLVM IR.

Clang in C mode (and rustc) are generating known broken LLVM IR for their semantics, Clang in C++ is fine. They could add something to the generated IR to make it formally finite in the IR instead of waiting years until LLVM IR adds something for that niche case.

> Furthermore, using your system (ie. unmodified) LLVM with Rust is supported, and still exhibits this bug.

That has nothing to do with what I said. The point is that if no frontend cares for such a feature, LLVM may not care about adding it.

If rustc was inside the LLVM project, like Clang and others are, then it would be a "bug" of LLVM and they would have an incentive for fixing it.

But given Clang does not care either in C mode, I don't have my hopes up.
We have social safety nets here in Sweden and we're in a free fall too.
That's obvious bullshit, given that most modern businesses provide actual value to people.

Like an airline: people can hop on planes and go to places, to do business or meet people.

You can't do that with an ATM. ATMs don't fly.
There is obviously a huge demand for airlines. To me that implies that new airlines will appear when old ones go bankrupt. Since airlines don't own any infrastructure, I don't think much would be lost.
> Github not providing reasoning is also unfair, but seems to be standard practice among corporations (maybe to help with liability?).

Possibly liability, but also to keep people from gaming the system. Hard policy lines about exactly what is and is not okay end up being gamed by people that technically don't violate them but cause all the same problems that the policy was instituted to stop.[1] If the reasoning for the ban is explicitly laid out, but the person doesn't quite meet it through definitive evidence (but possibly easily meets it through a preponderance of circumstantial evidence), that's may indicate someone is gaming the rules. Acting on that person in that case may just lead to a bunch of bad press as people argue over whether it was justified. It's in the company's interest to keep it vague so a defense of that sort is harder to put forth.

That's not to say I think this is necessarily good, just that I can see how it came to be somewhat the norm. In a better world, we'd have something more like the legal system, with a case, a defense and offense, an a jury of peers. Unfortunately, that's too time consuming, resource intensive, expensive, and takes control away from the business, so it will never happen.

1: This is easy to do. For example, continuously make statements that are construed as attacks by the group you are targeting, but are less known as attacks outside that group, and feign ignorance when called on it. It polarizes those around, and also causes the targets to become hyper-sensitive to benign statements and causes false-positives, which is more evidence to others that the same group is overreacting, causing more polarization. Open source communities have been ripped apart by this. America seems to be getting ripped apart by this.
...ok?

I was more responding to the person about gloves, but what you say is also true.
No, your comment was spot on and I agree with everything you've written so far. I'm just mocking the rhetoric used to blame people who fall upon hard times.
You, me, others may not need it, but then again we'd be paying for it with assets getting hit because if I understand correctly, this would be in place of bigger bail-outs so our stock/401k/real estate etc would take a hefty hit knowing we won't starve even with big losses.
How I Made $1K MRR with GSuite App – Story of Drive Explorer
It seems that it only tells half the story.

Perhaps he was pushing code from his holiday in Crimea and his IP got tagged. Something like that would possibly do it.
Exactly. Blind a cop, get a ticket. I think drivers would appreciate that enforcement more than speed traps.
GDPR weaponizing privacy-oriented companies and the ability of the EU to walk the GDPR talk (as opposed to simply producing legislation) is going to be an interesting development to watch.