skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You act like these are wild approaches. But during this this current term we've already done #1 via the 1Trillion tax cuts to mostly the wealthy. Those (many of us on here) who won't use it for goods and services, but instead to further prop up your asset bubble of choice. Ie not improve the economy much, but make the appearance of improvement via higher asset pricess.

Then we've done #3 via re-introducing QE via the fed. Both back in September, and again last week, and why yet again just 30 mins ago. While we call them short term loans, they still haven't been paid back since the start of the GFC. And not only have we continued printing more via the Fed, when the fed finally tried to get some companies to pay them back a year ago the repo market siezed up last fall. The fact that there was a flood of Treasury Securities on the market to pay for item #1 (it increased supply by 50%) likely had a lot to do with it.

If you want the economy to function, then get money in the people who will spend it. What's the factor? For lower incomes every extra dollar they have, introduces 1.5x or 2x or something into the economy. And for every dollar given to middle-high and high incomes only 0.4x or less actually goes into the economy.

Propping up assets isn't a functioning economy.
Generally if you're sick enough to need hospital care, traveling even by ambulance is a challenge
Yea that's wrong. I think many our the most profitable, but the model requires consistent volume in a way that the other models dont.

Theres just less room for error.
Quarantines will be in place until 2023, since vaccines can take multiple years to develop. It's very, very likely that the healthcare and economic systems will have completely collapsed by the end of the year so it all depends on whether the military and government will still be functioning by then.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Things are bleak and society may never recover. Godspeed.
About 80% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. So you are in the minority

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/01/09/shutdown-highlights-that...
It's sometimes incredible how far-sighted some of his talk is. Unfortunately most people only ever learn after the fact.
And EasyJet made £430m in profit last year.

http://corporate.easyjet.com/investors/results-centre
We'd love to use Session Manager, but we're running into the same issue mentioned here:

"Tunnel created using SSM only allows single connection to destination port" - https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=314882&ts...

This has been sitting open in the support forums unanswered for over two months :/
You could also listen to the Harvard epidemiology department: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/15/epidem...

Or the British Society for Immunology: https://www.immunology.org/news/bsi-open-letter-government-s...

Or the two distinct open letters from UK scientists, which are now hitting 1200 signatures total: http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia/UK_scientists_statement_on... https://sites.google.com/view/covidopenletter/home

If you believe nobody credible opposes the UK government, you've been fed a narrative.
Generally taking Ibuprofen chronically might be a bad idea.

We don't know how chronic the chronic is through. So to stay on the safe side, use as little as needed to control bigger fever and pain.

This unlike antibiotics (not for viral infections) where you are supposed to take exactly the recommended amount for recommended time, preventing resistance.
Both HOA and property taxes are a lien on the property and will eventually lead to losing the property if you don’t pay them.

You seem to be assuming landlords are “rich” and tenants are “poor”, which may be true in many cases but it’s not a given. If you want means-tested benefits, just hand out cash based on means.
It's somewhat disingenuous to say that repeatedly "giving me the option for my convenience" is anything other than pushing me to take action.
Great piece of story to get inspired!
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The entire world was unprepared, period. If you haven't noticed, the world economy operates in a global capitalist mode. Being #1 among losers is still losing.
For me, everything actuated by opaque models trained with user data and evaluated based on profit-oriented metrics (clicks, attention, ...).

One can dream.
I wasn't suggesting anything apart from making better use of resources we have. Yourself and others seem to think that the only alternative to our current model of Capitalism must be a Totalitarian Regime or simply Soviet-style Communism. That's just a weird way to think.
Plz keep in mind that with all those measures employed in China, we don't know exactly which ones are effective and how effective they are. Also S.K. Taiwan, and Singapore has a different set of measures that seems to work. What I wanted from posting that video is to show the virus is containable once everyone is onboard.

And as a Chinese I know everyone is onboard on day 1. Tons of volunteers. Tons of volunteering health workers from day 1. The people keep temperature readings from many communities and neighbourhoods are volunteers. Many elderly volunteered to do that. Everyone is onboard to contain the virus on day 1 by themselves, not forced. Ask any Chinese you know, I guarantee you no one thinks it's just a flu. I would bet that people from S.K. Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore all share the same attitude.

In startup world we say people would achieve wonders once the vision is clear and everyone is onboard. It's the same with this pandemic.
> Closed loop insulin delivery systems functionally “cure” t1 diabetics and are here today.

You should be careful using that word around type 1 diabetics. Incidentally I was on medtronic's loop system for about a year and a half, but you couldn't pay me enough to go back to it. Not saying it doesn't work for some people (often people with very stable hormonal systems who don't have large variations in their physical activity levels), but even in the best case calling it a cure is rough claim to hear being familiar with the reality of dealing with these things. I'm glad that it was a success for your friend though.
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I've owned a mid-segment Roomba in 2019 for about 48 hours. The downsides included aggressively bumping into my thin-legged chairs, moving them for a couple of centimeters before coming to a stop. Not being able to vacuum black carpet. Not being able to vacuum dark rooms, so I either have to leave all the lights on when I leave or leave the curtains open (thus letting in cold). It broke the delicate moulding at the base of the radiators by ramming into it. It would distribute the coconut fibers of the doormat all over the house. It would go under the bed but would not be able to get out. And I had to enable 2.4Ghz WiFi after all these years. Which was troublesome because my iPhone was connected to the 5Ghz network and it tries to copy your iPhone network to the Roomba.

Returned it. Doing a 15 minute vacuum every Saturday morning is easier for me than to deal with all this, and it keeps the house tidy during the week.
> Who says they’re incompetently run?

I'd say any company that requires a bailout is incompetently run. Maybe that's too strong of a word, but by definition they're not "successfully" run.
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Assume the code is going to be changed by first semester CS students. Dumb it down as much as possible. Don't do any clever tricks. Make the patches as small as possible so they can be (i) easily reviewed and (ii) allow easier bisecting.

Example: if a computation requires some intermediate value, create a new variable with a proper name and assign the intermediate value to it, instead of just inlining it in a bigger statement or assigning it to "res". The compiler knows how to deal with temporary variables like these in an optimal way.
I think people misunderstand the patent system. It's not perfect, but to expect it to be so is entirely absurd. People do not realize it is a set of laws that is supposed to categorize and provide structure... to the unknown. If people realized this is the starting point from which all patent laws must be developed, it would create the context to understand why everything else happens. It's kind of absurd, even amongst the quite intelligent folks here, that this goes without notice. To say software patents shouldn't exist outright is to say that no one could invent anything in software that is novel and beneficial to society. I'm not sure how people come to that conclusion!

I think people also fundamentally misunderstand that the "patent troll" is kinda like the "jaywalker" a term made up by an industry attacking the very concept. The car companies made up jaywalking once they got cities to switch off streetcars and to free the roads up for individual's motor vehicles. Similarly, patent troll is something used by large corporations owning vast troves of IP that get attacked by a smaller company that owns less IP. Is every patent litigation great? No! But our legal system already prefers to let a guilty man free rather than put an innocent man in jail... yet there is some absurd belief that the patent system should be more perfect than this. And lets be fair, it's a lot easier to say "killing people is wrong and deserves XYZ punishment" than it is to determine every unknown thing in the world. Patent trolls aren't really trolls, they are the inventors. Most of the time, if you invent a patent, you still can't find the funds to take on a big corporation infringing your patent. At least if "trolls" exist, the founder can sell his patent right to an entity that specializes in enforcing it. This is the market working.
Except the $1.5B injection was a loan, not an actual expenditure.
but i'm not retiring in 30 years?
I drive a 91 Ford F350 with factory headlights sometimes and at night the difference in headlights is amazing. Mine are this orange glow that light up the road nicely when it's dark. But when driving with other cars it's very hard to see. I can see why people want brighter lights to compete with the bright glare coming from other cars.
My 2 cents, Flutter for the desktop will disrupt this market in the near future.
I can't deny that they declared profits, but that doesn't necessary mean that they earned those in a sustainable way. And scraping the bottom of an already under-priced airline industry doesn't seem like a safe long-term bet to me.
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Why does everyone love JSX? If they'd kept the DOM separate from the code, they might have had me—
Market expects dividends when a company has a penny of profit. The whole system is built with optimism at its core. if things go bad we expect governments to bail us out.
$28B in profits over what operating expenses?

Assuming they could sock all $28B in profit into a rainy day fund... how can you make any reasonable claim about airline responsibility without also addressing their operating expenses? taxes? investments into remaining competitive? While I absolutely don't favor bailouts no matter whether they acted irresponsibly or responsibly... all I can tell from your position is that you think $28B is a big number and so beat 'em up on that without any further consideration.
Make code easy to change by changing it often, thus forcing you to either structure it so that it's easy to change, or die
this is all really good feedback/food for thought for me as I learn about what matters to people. thanks!
Then make it a tax credit. Regardless of what you pays in tax (it could be zero) you’ll get $X amount as a direct credit.
It's unclear to me why most arguments leave this data point out -- it drastically changes the entire equation!
Isn't flying uncomfortable for everyone and dangerous for ill people? Dry air, pressure changes, limited space...
I have a "Rust Evangelism Strike Force" laptop sticker, but I will caution: the more aggressive evangelism stuff that you cite here is not coming from the core team or people who actually build the Rust ecosystem.
I'm not arguing with you, I didn't say "You're wrong because you're malding", I just said "you're malding".
The Roomba e5 I briefly owned only worked with all the lights on.
Don't think thats going to fly (pun intended). It's not dissimilar from some of the cruise ships that can't even go into an harbour?
> I was planning to create some free github repos but after this, thanks but no thanks.

Github is trembling in their boots.
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Encapsulate the concept that varies.
Think of them more like a loyalty program that happens to fly planes.
How about instead of simply getting bailed out they have to create additional shares that they sell to the government at the current price set by the open market. The government is then free to sell the shares after some time or to actually exercise the voting right that come with the shares if they decide to hold onto the shares.
That is all true, but money cannot change facts. If there is no factual basis for a claim, you lose on the first motion. I'm not sure what about that you don't get. Expensive lawyers can do many things, but they cannot change the factual basis of a litigation and whether or not it supports a claim.
Other than the logistical difficulties specifically imposed by Covid 19, I believe good companies should be able to weather a couple of months of double-digit reductions in sales. Like if airlines or large events are forced to close down, I could see helping them.

Everyone else who simply has to deal with a reduction in consumer spending should take some responsibility for overbuilding for an overheated economy. For whatever cause, the Fed has predicted a recession months ago.
Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily lay off 90% of staff
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Are you seeing that Porsche track car on your streets? Doesn't look street-legal.
This complaint is going to be an interesting test, because if it ends up with legs it could go two ways:

1) it fails, and the GDPR has some precedent to constrain its application in the future

2) it succeeds, and Google actually pulls out of the European markets completely. Internal responsible data-sharing and data-aggregation is extremely core to Google's entire business model (it is the "special sauce" that drives the entire application suite, from search to speech), and if the GDPR is incompatible with that business model, Google is incompatible with Europe.
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I rarely if ever come across a github repo from a search engine or from github's site. It's almost always linked from some module's info page, documentation, or some website that links to the repo. In that respect, it makes no difference to me if it's github, gitlab, or some random site.

Finding some random github repo is almost worse than nothing to me. without some third party indicator as to quality, it's not worth my time, because I don't have time to review and assess everything I come across, only the items that I have some indication actually do what I need and do it sufficiently.
There is a proxy called IAP [1] which is used to create SSH tunnel over HTTPS to instances without public IP.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/connecting-a...
European cars are also required to be able to change the angle of the lights. Even my super basic 2007 Skoda has it.
Lots of comments here on keeping this as simple as possible and not over-architecting. This is a good value, but its equally important to add architecture and abstractions before its too late. Software projects become tangled spaghetti messes slowly, over time, by adding "just one more thing" to existing modules and functions until they are large and impossible to fully understand. My simple rule of thumb is this - no file should be longer than 300 lines of code and no function should be longer than 15 to 20 lines of code. If your file or function is longer than these guidelines, its trying to do too many things and its time to break it down.
Yes, and the trend towards codes of conduct and ethical licenses are producing projects ripe for this sort of hijacking.
The author's interpretation is completely spot on. C89 does not allow the implementation to deliberately break a program that invokes undefined behavior, unless they document what they are doing. It may allow the program to break due to ignoring the situation.

> There is absolutely no requirement to document what those "unpredictable results" might be.

Only in that case: when the situation has been ignored completely.

If the situation has not been ignored completely (for instance, the compiler analyzes for the absence of that type of undefined behavior and optimized based on that), then it is not permissible to behave with unpredictable results. The behavior now falls into a "documented manner characteristic of the implementation", or else terminating at translation or execution time with or without the issuance of a diagnostic.

One way to look at this is that they changed "permissible" to "possible" for a reason. What might that reason be? Almost certainly that the word "permissible" gives requirements.
This and include conversational comments that explain in plain terms what problems you're solving and why.
You're right in a sense, but there's no aws-managed bastion. Session manager communicates with your instance via an outbound-created websocket connection. Inputs and outputs are piped through it.
im worried this article will eventually get whitewashed into "corona caused the financial crisis." HN and others have repeatedly pointed out numerous factors in the market that definitely were not corona, that would have caused this crash eventually. untenable levels of credit card debt, automobile debt, and unreformed student loan structures as well as stagnant wages and rollbacks on a number of legislative efforts to police markets and protect investors.
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"Github acquires npm" would be a better title IMO.
Nope, as pointed out by others. This doesn't do anything to solve the systemic problems that allowed this to happen and us to be woefully unprepared for this.
Separate policy from mechanism. [1] I usually reframe this as separating the what from the how. Back in the 80s and early 90s people would commonly call this "data driven design" (this is distinct from "data-oriented design" which lives more in the how).

One area you can quickly see this in action is with user interfaces. So many modern applications construct their UI tediously by coding each component and all of the aggregations by hand. If you take a step back, it's usually very easy to see that the configuration of the UI is just data. Why not just build one layout "engine" and feed it data to generate your UI? The engine part can use whatever hotness you like, but you only have to write that code once. The configuration of the UI (the policy) is what changes frequently (the business requirements); not the mechanism underneath. (This doesn't mean you won't have to change the mechanism, you will. It just requires change at a much slower pace and the changes are bound within the context of the mechanism itself.)

This approach separates layers of a system which have different change vectors and velocities. The mechanism tends to have a much lower rate of change and it's where we programmers like to live. Build tools for "the business" -- whatever that means in your context -- so they can maintain as much of the policy as possible.

If you think through designs like this; however, you will realize that our modern fascination with massive "scaling" of teams is no longer attractive. This may explain why it has fallen out of favor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_mechanism_and_po...
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>If my tax money is being used to rescue a business, I want to either own a part of that business, or receive market-rate interest payments on it.

Contrary to popular belief, this did generally happen with the bank bailout:

But, the fact remains, due to interest, dividends and other revenue streams, the government has received more money back ($266.7 billion, according to the Treasury) than it handed out to banks under the bailout law ($245.2 billion). We rate this claim Mostly True.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/oct/25/barack-oba...
Then, the solution could be very easy: Let those airlines borrow money that they will pay back with future profits. Or force investors to pay back a part of previous dividends. That way, nobody can "correctly criticize" them for keeping money around to survive the next rainy day.
That might then lie in the eye of the beholder - I certainly didn't feel like being pushed or pressured at all but naturally your mileage might vary.
Wait until the depression.
Most of that rent goes towards a mortgage, which can also be suspended. The landlord still looses income, but not in a worse way then other bussiness which had to close.
Its unfortunate, but that's not Github's problem. If the Government imposes sanctions against other nations, companies have to follow 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.

Clearly throwing insults exposes a weak hand.
Interesting transitive ownership/dependencies here.
I did not see that coming. I trust Microsoft to be able to offer great availability and nice software. It is maybe not the best overlord we could have hoped for but it's way better than the status quo.
It would be nice if the US adopted a law like that... I guess that requires too much governmental competence.
Tailgaters are a monstrosity. I slowly lower my speeds until they overtake me and go annoy someone else.
My feelings exactly. I just wrote a similar comment before seeing yours. I'll let mine stand because I cover some other points as well.
This is what bankruptcy is for.

I strongly recommend you read a primer on corporate finance, but the gist is that creditors have first dibs on assets in a bankruptcy (and there may be multiple tiers of creditors), and shareholders usually get wiped out.

The tradeoff is that when times are good, shareholders can gain far more than creditors.

Now, if creditors really believe that the bad times will only be short-term, the credit markets may refinance the debt, or allow the airlines to issue more debt to cover the existing debt, allowing airlines to avoid bankruptcy, assuming that good times return in a timely fashion, as predicted / hoped.

If creditors believe that the bad times will last for the long-term, they can force bankruptcy, and then liquidate the assets in the hopes of recovering as much of their original investment as possible. As mentioned before, shareholders would get wiped out.

You said that this would be a "senseless destruction in value," but it's really not that simple. As an example, perhaps the proceeds from the sale of an airline's assets can be invested into promising treatments for COVID. Or perhaps the creditors have debts of their own to repay, and by liquidating the assets of an airline to cover their debts, they prevent a cascade of defaults that could take out an outsize portion of the economy. So it's not actually clear that the net effect on the economy would be a "senseless destruction in value."
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