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The biggest problem is third-party software support. iPads are great right now for a lot of creative work, and in theory capable of a lot more in their current incarnation, but if you can only afford one computer and you know e.g. your history course next semester is going to force you to install IE6 and log in to some crusty web thing that relies on popups and embedded ActiveX controls (exaggerating, but you get the point), what are you going to buy? It's not really a choice at all, when you think about it.

Techy use cases like building and running "custom" code are unsupported on a more fundamental level, but I'd call that a special case. Slightly more concerning is how tightly locked-down the app store is.
No, Japan has not really tried to create inflation. If they had, they would have succeeded.

If the government prints lots of cash, and then mails a bunch of cash to every person in the country, then there will be inflation. Lots of inflation, if the amount of cash is high enough. And there's no limit to how high the amount can be.

To doubt that, you have to believe that someone of previously modest means who now has a million dollars of cash in hand will just horde it, rather than go out and buy the $40,000 car they've been wishing they had, or the nice $500,000 house they now could live in, or the nifty $10,000 camera and lens set that would be really fun to play with, or the...

Actually, you don't have to just believe that someone will horde immense amounts of cash rather than buy real, useful stuff with it, you have to believe that almost everyone will horde the cash.

People aren't like that.
It’s interesting because in the west we didn’t hear much about what was going on in the Soviet Union.
But is all that thinking really worth it? I mean surely you don't want to say too much bullshit, or mislead people... But take this comment; would I really post it if I thought it would waste the time of some hundreds of people reading it?

Also... then there's the problem of feedback, which is how you make progress in a conversation... but I fear I begin to digress.
Applies well to political involvement of any kind. Or just any social organization supporting a cause
A Redditor did an analysis of Reddit's ratio and it's more like 98-x-y (x and y were not broken out): https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/b5f9wi/let...
Awesome work, congrats!

Do you consider zeit.co or netlify competitors? I saw in a comment that you're interested in making it dead easy to deploy a simple Rails app to the edge. These companies have gone deep on a different segment that's deploying web apps without DBs. Is your roadmap kind of routing around the JAMstack crowd, straight to supporting traditional full-stack apps? Seems much harder, but a more valuable prize if so.
Goldbugs have been waiting for this kind of panic for a long time, because these bugs think that non-goldbugs will increase the demand for physical gold, paper gold (say, $GLD), miners ($GDX), junior miners ($GDXJ), and penny stock gold miners. Today, $GLD has fallen to $140, a level matching Dec 24, 2019 prices. Last Friday, $GDX and $GDXJ crashed. Then some rebound, now crashed again.

Anyone with some semblance of how monetary economics works won't go gold full: maybe, 10 percent. Goldbugs dream that one day every economy will be based on Gold; that train left long time ago. These bugs are busy recruiting new 'fools' on various forums. It is like people hoarding bitcoin, eth, etc, who are waiting for the next btc bull run: imagine all those suckers who hoarded tulips after tulipmania!
I blab online quite a bit (in comments only, no blog or anything), but I rarely vote/like/etc. Does that make me more or less of a narcissist?
One is Epic, they run a majority of systems and fight incessantly against making things better. I think the other major player (can't recall name) is not much better.

There is actual legislation in place, healthcare is just super slow to adopt things. Hospitals are saying not really until next decade.

Each hospital system uses dicom fields and values in inconsistent ways. There is significant one site code paths to handle all these cases and much development time will be spent there.

Getting new software into hospitals is super hard, because bureaucracy. I have a client in this space that is doing rather well creating results and spending way less than the typical health are company. But getting everyone on the same page and willing to buy is difficult, these people are busier than most.

Another hard thing is that you need to get HIPAA consent for each individual, and possibly cross products with the locations?

I wonder if/how much covid will change the above.

The investors will want to see you doing pilots / contracts with US healthcare providers. They don't give a damn about the rest of the world because there is no money in healthcare in other countries.
61f/16c here in the Bay Area
The big issue is, as I understand it, companies borrowing money to buyback stock.
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there's a reason some oceans are infested with sharks
Actively prohibiting telemedicine.

Requiring licensing at the state level that is not reciprocal with other states.

Limiting the number of students admitted to MD programs.
Reimbursing the populace for a natural disaster or -- in this case -- a government ordered shutdown, is actually akin to a simple civil liability.

Like, if you trip on a sidewalk, the city reimburses you because it is their responsibility to allow you to walk on the sidewalk. It is the federal government's responsibility to ensure interstate trade can take place. If they order it to stop, they need to reimburse you because their sidewalk had a giant gaping pothole in it.
I would definitely buy it. Mine (thinkpad p70) already has 3.5Kg I think.
Maybe I didn’t get this right but does it really come without a stand/mount? And only those two options are compatible?
Another socialist rant.

Liberalization failed where it wasn't properly implemented. If you want to blame somebody for that, blame those who resisted liberalization.

But The Guardian may instead want to take a look at territories and areas that have not liberalized and have done much worse, such as the socialist-leaning continental EU.
I have worked closely with some phenomenal 1%-ers. :-) They are really efficient at processing broad information in what you could call a shallow manner. They also don't feel the depth-of-comprehension pressure that some of us 99%-ers feel.

To them it's just interesting, interesting, ah wow, next thing, ok cool...that sort of thing. It's like rolling down the windows in your car, letting in some outside air. Sharing is fun, in part because the personally-felt pressure to _do_ in response (learn about it, make something of it) is low, in their experience.

The 99% audience is comprised of a lot of people who are a FOMO audience, and this flow can create serious stress for the portion of those people who read about a new idea and they feel the need to _do_ something about it. Meanwhile the 1% crew are often sharing third-party info briefly and broadly, with brief commentary, but no real interest or pressure to seriously do something or make something.

IMO each group can be said to carry really impressive gifts/benefits. And encouraging lurkers to post is always nice, but many of them also secretly wish for a more inviting / less critical community. HN has a _lot_ of commenters ready to smash the next idea into bits by intuiting its flaws, and some will naturally take that as a sign of a toxic community, or at least one that isn't as welcoming in their view. It's tough to work on this issue because it can radically affect the balance of the community psychology and upset larger groups of people.
If I already have a setup for developing film, can I use the setup with bulk rolls of film? It looks like the self-developing plates have a lower premium than I expected (if it's really $4 per 3x5 plate), but if I'm going to make a lot of prints, the difference is still there (and film is cheaper than plates anyways).
Links? The people returned from diamond princess were subject to a 14 day quarantine at army bases? https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/s0215-Diamond-Prince...

But, yes america has an obligation to repatriate american citizens, and subjecting them to quarantine is the right thing to do.

I have no doubt people were falling through cracks though. America has an incredibly open border with lax enforcement, mainly due to partisan bickering. Hopefully, this will get everyone on board with border security
The investigation is so far incomplete, with evidence pointing in a couple possible directions. We shall see when more research is done.

Doesn't insisting otherwise make you a US regime apologist?
Seeking remote job due to coronavirus unemployment
Hi fellow hackers.

This is probably a long shot - and I'm sure you'll see quite a few posts like this over the coming weeks - but I'm going to swallow my pride and ask nonetheless.

I've been a data entry clerk for the past twenty years, working for a major bookmaker in Northern Ireland. With the coronavirus pandemic hitting recently, many businesses have decided to lay off large numbers of staff. I've just become one of the unfortunate victims of one of these layoffs today, with a mortgage to pay, a wife and two young children to support.

I've also been programming, in my own time, over the past seven years or so, in Python 3, Javascript and PHP mainly. Over that time I've developed a number of tools that were used in my former place of employ, to scrape data from websites and automate the process of data entry. I've also built some online tools in Javascript and PHP for scraping/munging data. Most recently, until the coronavirus hit and unemployment loomed, I was working on a Mario/NES style level editor in HTML5 and a random tile generator for building platformer levels, while I learned C++ and wrote a platforming engine to develop a platform game for release on Steam.

I've placed a number of these tool in public repos on github. You can check them out at:

https://github.com/Zleet

I've also got a resume ready to go for anyone that's interested. What I'm looking for is any remote programming job that fits my skillset and will enable me to keep a roof over my family's head and food in the cupboard for the next few months.

I apologise for posting something like this here. I've been reading hacker news for years now. It's my favourite website. But, along with many other people right now, I'm in a pretty bad place and I've got several little people relying on me to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads. Be assured that any job offer right now would be gratefully accepted.

Thanks in advance,

Miktor
One way to accomplish this would be to nationalize companies instead of bailing them out, right? If the taxpaying public bears the risks of your business, why shouldn't it get to share in any of the rewards?

I suspect the answer is something having to do with the overlap between the politically powerful and those with a great exposure to those risks and rewards.
Japanese super toilets are great if you've ever tried them. Heated seat and bidet system, though I think paper drying is advisable to avoid filling the air with bacteria.
good thin cameras are hard to make. phones are much thicker than your display.
I am aware, though I thought MERS originated in a (non Chinese) wet market (turns out no one knows) .

You can't stop it happening naturally. That's just life. You can stop shitty wet markets and poor hygiene/food safety causing it to happen regularly. And you can stop letting it spread because you the CCP can't handle bad news.

I don't care which animals people eat or what country their in. But if the way they behave causes these viruses, they need to change. If they won't, we need to stop trading with them and prevent all travel between us. That's not punishment, it's public safety.
That's why I left Quora. I'm a really gullible person, and I was going to respond to somebody who posted something inflammatory, then I realized I had the option to just walk away. So I did.

I remember something similar about companies too. When you have product market fit, customers will sear you when your product doesn't work. If you don't, you'll never hear from them again.
Let's take a typical small business, and say it does $1 million a year in revenue. Cost of goods sold is $600,000 and fixed operating expenses are $350,000. Net margins are 5%, as is typical in small retail businesses. (These numbers are almost dollar for dollar from a local merchant-proprietor I know.)

Let's say the quarantine results in revenue falling by 70% over the next four months. Without a reduction in fixed costs, the business experiences a $76,000 operating loss. (About equal to 1.5 years of pre-tax profits.) Assume a 10-year amortized loan at 4%.

The cost of servicing the loan comes out to approximately $9500 a year. Which only reduces the ongoing annual cash flow by less than 20%.
About every two weeks since January, it seems there are people who say that it's too expensive to take bold action. And roughly every two weeks later it gets much more expensive, and the options become narrower. This, despite having China, and then Italy, to give us a sense of the severity, and urgency.

These are hard choices. There are no easy answers at this stage. I think there's also a large degree of cognitive dissonance at play, where people aren't really able to grasp that this is all actually happening.

Personally, I think we should have done this weeks ago. I think it's good we're doing it now, but we lost time and it's gonna cost a fortune. Rolling the dice on this virus feels reckless. That seems to be the opinion of people like Bill Gates, Taleb, Fauci, etc.
Companies borrow money to pay dividends too.
It is–just a hand-held one.
Would anyone buy the stock if they knew that when the next Black Swan or recession happens there would be no possibility of a bail out? Or are bailouts just welfare for investors (with a happy coincidence of keeping voters employed in bad companies)?

The last time Air New Zealand was bailed out the government in fact bought them out (over 50%). I think governments should have buy outs not bail out.

This way any future dividends or buybacks will benefit the tax payer at the expense of existing investors.
Tesla's space truck!

It's time to start dreaming again because we are about to be able to do it.
This is 90% of American companies including my company, who is supposed to be "family friendly" company and they care about their employees or whatever. The emails they sent out were so empathetic but the leave policies sure were not.
I am seeing people post this like it’s strange. I have the same policy where I work. We don’t have sick days. It’s all PTO. Am I missing something here?
Because for millenniums society had a gold standard on some level. Currently, the U.S. does not and most other nations do not either. Why would we revert to something that is held in extreme scarcity? Will we revert to slavery if we were to have a societal collapse? Absolutely not.

Hypothetical: It's 2021 and a massive earthquake has cause a massive tsunami that has ravaged most of the cities along the Pacific. Shortly after your nation is invaded and a war breaks out. No one has power, food, or water. After a long war with many lives lost and lots of destruction do you seriously think people would care about gold or try and use it as serious form of a new nation's currency?
From a seperate thread a few days ago:

As someone who leans heavily free markets, even I buy the argument that it's not wise to let every airline in the country fail simultaneously, regardless of fault.

Here's the thing, there is nothing unfree market about demanding terms for those bailouts, it should be a negotiation, not an ultimatum from the airline industry. So for example, if you enforced all bonuses to be canceled for the next three years and retroactively fined for the last three years, set executive pay at a max of $50k for the next three years (and banned any new stock incentives during that time), fined the executives equal to 125% of capital gains they made on stock incentives, during the stock buyback period, and made all bailouts loans not grants at above market rates, you could ostensibly let them decide how much bailout they wanted without continuing this endless cycle of letting them run at losses knowing the public will foot the bill. And if they don't take it, then let them die.

Basically the end result of the bailout has to be drastically net negative over the last 3-5 years for every airline executive for this not to create moral hazard. I think that is achievable.

Unfortunately well probably just hand them $50 billion and make poor people pay for it.

note: I get the issue that a lot of execs would just walk away. You'd have to think how to structure it to hold them on the hook. It's just an example.
The thing was absolutely terrible, I hated mine. It was extremely clumsy and unusable. We'll see about this new iPad Pro though, really excited about the trackpad support.
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Not only that, it only lets you query your "root" type by primary key? So it's less functional than the normal interface to the database. I'm having a really hard time understanding the point of this.
It may well be, but in all seriousness, buy a thermometer and do accurate testing.
Because somehow it was decided that buybacks are greedy and dividends are good. Probably because your grandparents talked about retiring on dividends. But paying out the money in a different makes it evil.
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With a much much faster processor. And macrumors is reporting that they all have 6 GB of memory (this was previously an unadvertised upgrade that game with 1 TB storage). Would be a bit less cramped to run macOS on compared to 4 GB in most of the 2018 models.
1,000,000 to 1 seems like crazy hype. I assume that's like the brightest color to the blackest black. The thing is, at 10 bits the brightest white is 1023 times the second darkest gray. I doubt anyone can tell the difference.
Clearly we (taxpayers) can afford it when we bail them out, so businesses must be able to as well.
yup, I'd be interested in that. Working remotely currently so can make most times work!
did they tell you when they expect to recall you? what is that communication like?
I see, that's interesting. Can you fill me in on the relevance to the bill? I'm just a skimmer and didn't pick up on that.
The increased economic opportunity is part of the crowd package. Why don't you think it counts?
Been playing around with GraphQL in the last day or so and just can't see any reason to use it over REST (or REST + an ORM). Am I missing something? Is it just so people don't have to learn SQL?
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I wish there was a similar analysis for comments left on boards like this one and reddit (which I left earlier this year because the website just isn't what it used to be).

Although, I would say it's an interesting take on Amazon reviews. A place not many people believe could be as popping as it is.
We got hung up with the migration tooling for popular frameworks. If we can get those migrations to work with minimal drama, we want to basically show people “global full stack” with app + cache + database.
I once ran the numbers for HN and was surprised at how closely they matched this rule. Maybe I'll do it again.

Edit: here are some estimates. We don't track enough to know about distinct users, so all we can do is guess.

The number of accounts that have posted to HN this year, divided by the number of IP addresses that have accessed HN, is 0.008. How close that is to the '1% rule' depends on which is the bigger factor: users with more than one IP or IPs with more than one user. We don't know. If the former is bigger, then 0.008 is a lower bound.

Here's another way. The number of accounts that have posted this year, divided by the number of accounts that have viewed HN while logged in, is 0.36. That doesn't tell us much, but we can estimate the ratio of logged-in users to total users this way: logged-in page views divided by total page views. That ratio is 0.23. We can multiply those two to estimate the ratio of posters to total:

posters logged-in
--------- * ---------
logged-in total

= 0.36 * 0.23
= 0.0828

So the two ways of estimating produce 0.8% and 8% respectively. Both ways are bogus in that they assume things we don't know and mix units that aren't the same, but they're the two I came up with and I don't remember how I did it before. It's interesting that they're almost exactly an order of magnitude apart. That makes it tempting to say the number is probably in between, but that's another cognitive bias talking.
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Client-side shaping of queried data without directly writing SQL against a back-end database, and without having to pre-arrange queried data structure with the back-end.
This is my favorite Hacker News comment of all time.
I would strongly advise you to reverse this course immediately if possible. Even if you dislike your current job, I’d stick it out until this recession has passed. We don’t know how bad it’s going to get and this startup could go bust in a month and there may not be another job to even apply to at that time.
Made this for my family and friends but not sure how helpful would it be for general public. Please share your feedback.
I am out of my depth here but isn't that because of a shortfall verses expected profits, or restrictions on moving money around the world (apple) verses borrowing huge amounts of money at low interest rates to give investors a tax advantage and giving management large bonuses?
> Will we revert to slavery if we were to have a societal collapse? Absolutely not.

Not sure why you're so certain about that - societies have abolished slavery only for it to come back in subsequent societies before.

Concrete example - India under the Maurya Empire, only for it to come back in medieval times.

> After a long war with many lives lost and lots of destruction do you seriously think people would care about gold or try and use it as serious form of a new nation's currency?

Yes, because it's happened again and again and again and again and again across countless apocalypses.
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This should be fixed in 0.10
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I'm very much a Canadian left-wing type, so what y'all largely call "communists" in America, and I couldn't disagree more. Failing of businesses is a critical part of capitalism. If we let the big ones fail a number of smaller ones would spring up and compete as they had before the last couple of decades of mergers and acquisitions.

Just look at this list of airline M&A in the last couple of decades [1]. Looks like over 50 airlines were folded into 5. That's a 10:1 reduction. I guarantee that in this economic climate, we wouldn't see 50 fall down, but I could see us losing all the big ones without help.

The more we rescue them the more they fold together to the point they have to be bailed out. We should allow them to fold, create short-term pain but in the long-term foster a large competitive ecosystem. I made the same exact case for letting all the major automakers fail in 2008. Ford would have made it out and Tesla would have probably been miles ahead.

Capitalism isn't supposed to be pretty.

As a side-note America has far fewer major international airlines per capita than most major geographies. There's 3 international airlines (American, United, Delta) for ~350M people, or 1 per 116MM people. Canada has 2 for 35MM. Europe has 15-ish for 741MM people, or 1 per 50MM. China has 29 for 1.386BB people or 1 per 47MM people.

[1] https://www.airlines.org/dataset/u-s-airline-mergers-and-acq...