skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would be interested in hearing what heroku users are using for automated failover when heroku goes down.

Obviously can't live in the application code (b/c that's unreachable at that point), but is there an easy way to configure Cloudflare or something to switch to a static site hosted somewhere else?
> So airlines profited around $28 billion in 2019 [1], but none of them thought to sock away money or do anything remotely forward looking or responsible in case of a downturn.

Companies typically do not keep a ton of money around because they're supposed to be distributing profits to the public (i.e., shareholders). Companies that do keep money around, like Apple, are correctly criticized for not re-investing the money into the economy (thus creating jobs and growth) and not returning it to investors (who would, with the dividend, presumably invest the money in another company that had a growth opportunity).

Like it or not, re-using profits is how we have achieved the modern way of life. Keeping money lying around does not spur the economy, which means fewer jobs, fewer products, and a stagnating economy.
China's economy isn't very communist anymore. Also the things that are helping (at least anecdotally, according to family on lockdown now) have more to do with the ability to effectively implement quarantine than their economic system (which, again, isn't really a communist economy).

There's still definitely a communist party regime, for sure.
A loan may not encourage spending in the same way free, no-strings-attached money does. For example, if you're poor and struggling pay-to-pay, would you like the idea of borrowing knowing that it'll bite you later on when you have to survive on even less money due to paying back the loan?

On the other hand, absolutely no-strings-attached money might see you spend it on something that you've needed for a while but haven't been able to afford.
I mean, yes and no. It isn't enough to live for any significant length of time, but it would make a material difference for those living paycheck to paycheck.
Can Google afford your pull out of the EU? How about California, which seems to be following suit?
Who says they’re incompetently run? You, are you a business expert? The fact is that they were victims of an incredible shock to their business model, no different than if a plague wiped out all the chickens in the world. Would you call chicken farmers incompetent in the same situation?
It is comically small, both in terms of impact and necessity.

It costs about $75 billion a week to pay the hourly workers of America. We can do that, even if it's only a fraction for the companies that don't have the cash on hand to do it for 4-5 weeks.
Keep files small and use the file system to your advantage: it's much easier to organize information in a tree than in a string. Keep code for components together (e.g. no "controllers" folder). Write twice as much documentation as you think you need.
Much as I like Nextcloud, Nextcloud Talk doesn't really scale worth a darn. I'd use it for no more than a dozen or two people. For even a medium-sized business it's way too little.
> Driving a small car at night is so difficult for me these days, especially as a person who wears glasses.

Self-defense Step #1: avert your eyes from the bad headlights. One of the problems is our eyes have a natural tendency to look at things which are blue at night, on account of our eyes' hyper-sensitivity to blue light.

It was sort of happy accident that early incandescent bulbs were low-blue sources of light that put out vastly more of the safe portion of the spectrum (infrared, red, orange, yellow).

Self-defense Step #2: screen out excess blue light. I wear polarized yellowish fit-over glasses at night. They help a lot. I found my current preferred pair at a clearance apparel/home goods store for $8. My backup glasses are yellow safety goggles -- these turn the bad headlights greener than the polarized goggles, but I've tended to use the polarized ones since I found them. You can spend more on "swannies" [0] or whatever, but I'm happy with my $8-$11 yellow glasses.

This was inspired by a HN comment, who told about wearing orange glasses to walk his dog: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14170975 My first set of orange safety glasses cut out too much light -- great for dealing with headlights, not so great for noticing pedestrians.

[0] https://www.swanwicksleep.com/
both my sites are working as of right now. Looks to be resolved
The Xiaomi ones map out and display their path in the app, no long exposure photos needed
I have an intraocular lens in each eye. Ill-aimed headlights make it somewhat like driving into a kaleidoscope at night...
Hahahaha, that sounds great. I wish they did that in the US.

I once got a car checked out, and the mechanics noticed that one of the brake cylinders couldn't be bled when they replaced the fluids. When I got it back, there was almost no brake pressure and the report had a note lightly recommending that I get the cylinder replaced at my convenience.

You would be amazed at how averse people are to maintaining their cars in the States. Even the dealerships will avoid telling you about problems because they assume most people would prefer to run things into the ground rather than maintain them. It's pervasive.
The $1.5T injection would have been about 5 months of $1,000 UBI.
> hundreds of ill-defined processing purposes, and unknown legal bases

I have worked in regulated markets for quite a long time. I can understand that many companies do not understand what it means to be compliant. For many years the tech industry has avoided many requirements that affect other engineering companies. Software is at the core of our society and cannot have a free pass any more. Now it's more important to be reliable than to move as fast as possible. I hope this is the end of the era of move fast and break things, software is now too critical for that.
China "communist"? Nominally, but no one here or there actually believes it. It's evolved into some sort of authoritarian regime with elements of state and private sector capitalism.
Seems like an overreaction. Moving to where?
> your side mirrors should be pointed at the lanes next to you

Ironically, this gets harder and harder in some newer cars. My driver's side mirror reaches its limit precisely as my car (a 2018 Outback) side disappears from the view. It's unfortunate how much flexibility we've lost with these mirrors.
The droplet size distribution would be for saliva, covid19 would effect this less than say cough velocity or other variables. The volume of fluid produced does seem to change with illness and influenza may increase the total volume produced in a cough with 63% of the particles in the size range of 0.35 to 10 μm as measured by a laser spectrometer in an influenza infected patient.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4676262/
I agree, the people I had in mind are those who make high 5 to low 6 figures but have extensive credit card debt for things like vacations, unnecessary purchases, or expensive cars. (I personally have been guilty of this in the past)
> only 40% of Americans are able to cover an unexpected $1000 expense. That's the really sobering number, in my view

This is pretty common everywhere across the developed world. The majority of OECD nations have a lower median wealth figure than the US, including Sweden and Germany (their median wealth figures are particularly shockingly low, given the affluence those nations should have vs their national output and given the high German savings rate).

The OECD labor force participation rate is such that about 28% of persons 15-64 do not work. Of the 72% group, a solid 1/3 are typically working jobs where they struggle to make ends meet month to month. The only way a lot of people will have a spare $1,000 in cash for random emergency expense, is if you directly transfer cash to them, and even in that case they will inevitably need to spend it sooner than later.
> As with most things, the truth often lies in the middle. It seems to me at least that this is both a click-baity blog post and complaint meant to drum up media and press for Brave as much as it is a spotlight on Google's data practices. Both are bad.

I agree on this, but if there's a company trying to make a name for itself by attacking privacy violators, and if the benefits of that accrue even to people who aren't customers of the company, then I don't overly begrudge the company a little (or, let's be honest, a lot of) breathless self-generated PR in the process.
All they want you to do is (apart from giving away your privacy) to buy $59.99 games.
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It is always remarkable when capitalist cheerleaders fly into a fit of incoherent rage over reasonable criticism of their favored system. You don't get enough out of capitalism to lick the boot that hard, buddy.
They have to pay them back - with what? Airlines are a low profit business - they have high cash flow, but low profit overall. Even if they do get the bonds now they will still go bankrupt over the next few years as someone else without that debt comes along and undercuts their fares. This problem has driven periodic airline bankruptcies over the past 40 years or so. (deregulation sometime in the 1970s for the US)
It seems very clear to me from the content and tone of their article that their goal is to get regulators to hurt Google. There's a lot of discussion about how dastardly Google's being, and of how different their business will have to be after the enforcement action, but very little about which specific wrong things Google is doing.
I don't like it. I also don't have time to run all over town (or web) trying to find a highly specific bicycle seat post, or go to every sporting goods store to get the one brand of bouldering chalk I like, or every housewares store shopping for the specific coffee grinder that will fit in my 300sq-foot apartment.

Maybe I should go Thoreau and live in a cabin, but until then I'm very busy. I do a lot of other things to adapt my life to try and improve the general world, but ecommerce habits just isn't making the cut yet.
Only write code that's absolutely needed for what you're building.

It's very tempting to make it "extensible" by overgeneralizing. What you get then is overly complex code, most of which is never used.

Cut out everything that isn't currently used, and you have a small system where every line pays for its keep.
You might be surprised that it is fairly complicated and there is not a clear standard on what "novel" means for every single instance of possible novelty
The fed's job is literally to control the money supply, which includes expanding it at certain times. Currently they are doing it through various transactions and loans conducted with other banks. The proposal is to simply give cash to citizens instead.

Saying that this will lead to inflation is moot - this proposal will only take effect when inflation is explicitly desired.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/08/fight-recession.asp
Just trying to combat all of the people discouraging face mask use, since apparently everyone in America is of the opinion that face masks are useless.
> And I am VERY lucky to have a bunch of cashed packed away.

Luck may not be the only factor. It sounds like you live responsibly/frugally as well, and reaping the benefit from it now.
The idea is eliminating advantages people have over each other, not preserving them.
> 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.

Most companies would be correctly criticized for hoarding cash. Companies can also be sued for keeping too much cash on hand, as for example, is the case with apple.
My interpretation was that flat $ amounts are leaving a lot on the table, with the extreme divergence of COL in cities vs. suburban vs. rural areas.

And I agree. I don't think the federal government should frame these things in terms of absolute $ amounts (I see the same thing in e.g. tax brackets and tax credits). The amounts should ideally be adjusted based on the COL and the dollar's purchasing power in the citizen's local area.
The whole idea of UBI is honestly pretty idiotic. Any form of UBI should 1000% be in the form of benefits, goods, housing, or other physical goods.

I'd much rather have tax cuts to reduce money lost through the middle man, as the middle man always wants a cut. Meaning you'd lose far more money to the process than if you were to just reduce taxes.
How do we know the doubling time? That seems like the biggest assumption that we're not sure about. I've seen 1 week, 5 days, and even recently 3 days.
Low aggregate demand. Note that when they talk about low aggregate demand they mean demand for stuff versus money.

So low aggregate demand for stuff (this includes consumables but also investments stuff such as factories) is the same as high aggregate demand for money (including money like instruments such as gov bonds).
Thank you for nice words :)
Oddly enough, all the European airlines that they mention are lowest of the bottom budget airlines.

EasyJet, RyanAir, TuiFly all are famous for offering ridiculous prices like a €20 Hamburg-Barcelona roundtrip and then trying to recoup those ticket losses by charging through the nose for hand luggage, in-flight food, and by being very pushy in selling their duty-free goods.

In my opinion, those airlines have always been operating at a loss while burning through investor money, so I am not surprised the least that they are still losing money.
SUVs are just the worst of all worlds in my opinion. I really don't understand the appeal of them.
Be careful with NSAIDs as they may exacerbate symptoms. [1]

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/anti-inflammat...
So, would you still say that those businesses that took cash to the side for eventualities are “correctly criticized” now?
Deep neural networks and their training process rely on multi variable calculus, this is nowhere near a new type of mathematics.
I'm fine with this, as long as bailouts for companies that redistribute money to shareholders come with haircuts for the shareholders.

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.
If they're not working, they're not producing wealth, they're living off a pension or savings, and in either case that money doesn't evaporate, it goes to someone else who will spend it. Buying a widget doesn't create a widget -- someone building it does.

The labor force not working is what's going to cause the decline in GDP, not retired people dying.

I'm not saying it's not bad, it's obviously horrific, but I think the deaths themselves will not overly impact the economy.
It’s nice to see the use of 4-way SMT on Arm in the server space. The recent news of Ampere Computing (headed by Intel’s former president) launching their 80 core data-center focused Arm processor was great too, however both their processor and AWS’s Arm based Graviton processor attempt to seemingly keep things more power efficient and/or “secure” [0] by doing away with hyper-threading. While it can be argued that the security model is better without SMT as Intel’s vulnerabilities from recent years show, I have a slight hunch (Disclaimer: I have no expertise in chip design whatsoever!) that given the out-of-order execution [1] of instructions in all modern processors that there is potentially a fair bit of unused instructions capacity in each clock cycle without SMT, even for server workloads.

[0] https://www.eetimes.com/startup-ampere-attacks-intels-streng...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-order_execution
When I stopped using Amazon two years ago I started using ebay almost exclusively. I've never received the wrong item or have had things gotten lost. Maybe I'm just lucky.

Even if thats the case, I would rather have an item get lost and wait for it to get reshipped than my experience with Amazon mailing me the wrong product and then waiting to mail it back, get a refund, and then order the right product.

When I'm on a site who's checkout doesn't complete, I spent a minute looking for another seller and buy it from them. I would rather use a minute looking somewhere else then waiting a few days because I have to return the wrong product to Amazon.
I think one of the hard things about making suggestions about how to do a thing like this is that it's unfalsifiable. I'm not suggesting that only things that are falsifiable are worthwhile, but like, let's take what you're saying here at face value: Rust was evangelized successfully. What we can't know is, could we have done a better job than we did? Did some of those choices that I or whoever else would suggest as a best practice actually harm the adoption of the language? How can we tell the difference?
> It's a bold move to attack the main contributor of the opensource project upon which your business is based...

Is it? Part of the point of open source is that you're not beholden to any individual contributor. They can't be cut out from existing code; I don't know if they try to roll in future code developments, but, if they do, then Google can't keep them out of those, either, without a license change.
Means-testing it isn't necessarily that difficult. When Australia implemented the same idea during the GFC, it was paid out on a scale up to ~$130k based on the previous year's income tax report. Whilst not perfect, I'd be willing to bet good money that it correlates pretty decently well across financial years.

It was also distributed via direct electronic funds transfer in the most case (as that's how the vast majority opt to receive a tax return), so it was pretty frictionless here because all of that infromation was readily on hand. That may not apply in the US, I don't know.
This is not my opinion, but I think there are many people out there who would be happy for those four people to live together off UBI and play video games and smoke pot all day and literally do nothing to contribute to society.

Why? Because it contains them. Otherwise, where would they be? If they have little interest in holding down a job, they're probably out committing crimes, or sitting in jail for those crimes. So the thinking goes that UBI is a way to contain them without having to jail them.

I don't think this is the right way to think about this problem, but I think it's tempting to think this way.
One way that I feel comfortable with is publishing clear, real life-ish examples of what can be accomplished in the language by playing on it's strengths. Debating merits never really leads anywhere, all languages have strengths and weaknesses, all languages are compromises in some respect.

I've put quite some effort into the DRY database schema problem over the years. The only reasonable way forward that I've found is defining the schema in code and creating the database from that definition. SQL is a definitely more primitive and limited than most programming languages, so it makes perfect sense to generate it.

And the only way to truly custom fit a language is to create it [0].

[0] https://github.com/codr7/gfoo
If it's free art, why the registration? I see no point. I didn't bother making an account.
Interesting. To me, it didn't feel like I was asked to tweet these quick facts, it felt more like I was given the option for my convenience. I chose to ignore it, however, I understand that they want to encourage people to get exposure.
Simple, direct, democratic. $1000 is a good amount - for those in need it can be stretched to go a long way (just imagine the status quo alternative). For those who are more comfortable, it's an easy amount that can be saved, donated, or spent on discretionary items, all wins for us.
He still has a valid point. He simply expressed it hyperbolically. But intelligent people can ignore his emotional state and focus on the actual issue.
>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 not true, spare capacity is spare capacity. Hospitals have a profit motive to keep spare capacity around because they want to be able to make money during surge conditions. Or, that's how it would work if capitalism was in charge. (I leave open the possibility for a lot of deviation from ideal theory in this case because the US medical system is actually a combination of the worst attributes of regulation and capitalism, committing to neither and shambling along with the most self-serving parts of each).
That is their problem. They should not rely on Github, especially now, that it is owned by MS.
Kraftwerk – We Are the Robots
You are literally describing the catastrophe phase of Karl Marx’s critique of capital accumulation.

>Many people took vast economic advantage of the Civil War.

And the period immediately following restoration is known as The Guilded Age. It’s not exactly considered a high point for capitalism.
You're right and I don't necessarily agree with the original comment but governments have a much bigger place our lives today than in the past. They also have a much better ability to actually permenantly enforce those new restrictions.

The patriot act and all the measures taken because of 9/11 are still here simply since it is now so easy to keep them active which wasn't true in the past at all. Not because they are needed. The same could happen in the future!
How are people going to spend this extra money in their local economy if they are isolated in their home? Sounds like a handout for Amazon really.
European Union Plans Shutdown on Nonessential Travel for at Least 30 Days
Brightness isn't the only problem. Those four-LED Porsche bulbs screw with my vision, making me think I'm seeing double.

Apparently Porsche is proud of this awful design??
https://www.porsche.com/usa/aboutporsche/christophorusmagazi...
Hmm, one side of this argument appears to come prepared with facts and examples while the other side only has name-calling and insults. While I would never dream to try and change your mind, friend, I very much appreciate that you outed yourself for me so other readers are led to the correct conclusion.
> Trading halts are there to let people catch their breath, supposedly

You mean let high frequency trading bots catch their breath?
In a few words?....'Don't write the code in the first place'. Yes, follow best practices of modules etc, but in general write a lot less code. This is harder than it sounds, and often requires multiple rewrites.
The car goes onto a testing platform and is checked for braking symmetry, light geometry, noise and a quick glance at overall rustyness etc. It's a pretty streamlined process but it's quite successful at keeping dangerously undermaintained off the streets. Why would you need to check thousands of components?
Keep a document of your design decisions. It's very tempting to hack away to get things done, but human memory is short and feeble: you will forget why stuff was coded the way it was faster then you think.

I usually keep a Google Docs page open where, as I write the code, I update the documentation. It keeps things consistent and flexible, and much easier to go back and refactor.
Still a useful data point. It would be nice to add this sort of action to the same toolbox which already contains quantitative easing.
This is probably the most valuable advice. Less code has less bugs, is easier to read, test and document.