skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not clear what "black swan readiness" means.

In terms of a company having a healthy balance sheet, there are many well known metrics that can signal that a company is at higher risk of bankruptcy.

E.g. acid test, interest coverage ratio, Altman z score: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altman_Z-score

The Altman Z score was defined over 50 years ago and can be approximately competed using the standard accounting data that public corporations are required to report to investors.

I'll push back a bit: there are ways of measuring/ estimating some of these. If you read an old school book on value investment, some of these ideas may be covered. Why not use them when considering how to invest wealth?
I bought one last Christmas. It broke my heart (and my wallet), but its only purpose is to serve as the CPU and screen for my wife's new ultrasound probe [1] that only has good support of iOS.

Even when you bundle the cost of both the probe and the iPad pro, it ended up being cheaper than the (much less portable) alternatives in the market.

[1] https://store.butterflynetwork.com/us/en/iq/bundle/
Which is why I hope this doesn't pan out either. I like desktop OSes and I like having major OSes that are not locked down by ridiculous app stores. Stop doing app stores.

They work in Linux because they're open package repos, we can add our own tress/signatures in and can have a lot of control over them. App stores are bastardizations of this concept. They offer some additional security for the non-tech user (maybe? It's questionable) but it also makes your devices not your own.
Ouch. When will web developers learn to use HTML5 video? Not only it weighs 10x smaller, but user can actually stop and replay more interesting parts, instead of waiting for another loop. They at least should use loading="lazy" attribute.
Relevant user name.
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> This article has 50MB of GIFs to download. Be careful if you're metered.

Might want to not use Slack if you're metered. It downloads some 400+ MB into your browser cache.
In regular cmd.exe you can use "title xxx" to rename windows. Maybe this works in the terminal too?
You're missing the point. We're not influential because we can make or break a platform. We're influential because we're early adopters and thus we can see where the future is going. And as early adopters we interface between a given technology and the general public. We're not just individuals working out of a dungeon. We have friends and family and a social cycle who turn to us for advice for their technology needs.
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No, it's Apple's scissor switch keyboard which is considered one of the best low-profile keyboards around. Lugging around even a compact mechanical keyboard for use with an iPad is a hassle.
Isn't this what muting channels does?
While this is probably too niche to make economic sense as a product, this seems like a perfect use case for a vertically-mounted PCIe slot, creating a tall GPU pedestal for the Mini in a similar vein to the G4 Cube.
If you were going to train and support users that may not already be programmers, it makes a lot of sense to use a language that is similar to English.
Seems like this isn't so true now with the COVID crisis. Lots of talk about giving everyone checks. Lots of companies continuing to pay workers who aren't working. What drives your statement?
> Dna could be falsified

Cool! That’s an interesting idea. I could see particular attributes of DNA being corrected, but How would a molecular basis for inheritance be disproven? After all, we see the molecule on microscopy, we modify it, etc. A dis-proof would have to remain consistent with all of that. What would that look like?
Yes. It could all be a conspiracy or some sort of insane natural illusion. Or a dream.

Will a future experiment disprove it though? Of course not. But could one? Sure. There's an important distinction.

Also, we could end up redefining what we mean by a mountain, or come to some scientific consensus that somehow redefines mount Everest as not a mountain or something. I know that's not in the spirit of the question you posted (Pluto may be declared to not be a planet, but nothing actually changed and it doesn't know we put it in a different bucket). The height could be redefined, etc. All that is super nitpicky and of course, I'm being a bit unreasonable in this response, there will not be any experiment that disproves its existence. But there still could. In the binary of is there any possibility however minuscule or not, the coin lands on the side of there is a possibility.

The important point is falsifiability works as a tool here that actually helps continuously support the mountain's existence. If it was impossible to falsify and you could not conduct experiments where you would be able to evaluate whether or not the mountain is actually there, you'd have no way of being actually sure. One experiment is just looking at it. You could not see anything and falsify it, but because it's a testable hypothesis, you have run an experiment providing more evidence for its existence. It's why non-falsifiable statements are looked down on science. If it wasn't possible for a future experiment to disprove the existence of the mountain, many or all scientists would say it's either a meaningless question or a question of faith instead.
> Takes "the cloud is expensive" to a whole other level.

What do you mean by this? It seems pretty much on par with the expensive cloud pricing of the big players.
I think it will really depend on how long the hit lasts and, at least in the US, how much the government does to help keep businesses afloat in the meantime. If most businesses can come out of this in bad shape but intact, then things might pick up quickly. However I think that depends almost entirely on how well "social distancing" etc reduces the spread of the virus. If it works well and reduces outbreaks to a minimum, it's in the realm of "manageable" economically, though even then, as you point out, it's a "not in our lifetime" event. If the virus isn't well contained though, then we're probably looking at the timeframe for a vaccine as the minimum time before things can start their long trail upwards again.
Eh, Chernobyl is not that bad. It's basically a wildlife refuge now.
One thing that can absolutely be happening is people just pulling money out of whatever assets they have, due to margin calls, risk reduction, etc.

That would explain why all assets are going down.
The gym might be closed, but Covid-19 doesn’t have to prevent your workout
Try looking for local organizations that coordinate help with elderly on a normal day to day basis. There are likely to be non-profits, NGOs and maybe some local government programs that already exist. Therefore, they will probably have a good idea of who needs help and how to coordinate it.
Edit: disregard
For one example: 36 deaths where the court system assigned fault, probably much more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly...
you mean the guy who is trying to get his factory workers to come in and build luxury cars during the greatest pandemic facing mankind in generations.

he seems trustworthy.
Guess which model we (the U.S.) will choose - Chinese model or S. Korean?

Also, very cool chart in the article.
For better or worse, VB is still very much alive as an embedded language inside Office. It hasn't been enhanced in years but it probably won't be removed any time soon.
Yep. We will still be pushing critical updates.
Care to provide any references?
> technique of compiling language constructs to runtime function calls.

That can be as basic as generating a function call AST node directly from a construct, or doing a node-to-node transformation.

The compiler doesn't see anything but a function call node (though any source code tracking info and whatnot still references the original construct).

If you're doing things with the AST other than just generating code, you may want to have a node for that original construct. (For instance, feeding cross-referencing info to a language server or whatever.)
Thank you. This closure makes sense.

"their strategy involved selling options on volatility exchange-traded products, which is essentially a bet that profits when markets stay calm."

Would this fund be considered "large" at 600mm?

There are also some older ones in the news e.g.:

https://www.ft.com/content/da193096-63af-11ea-b3f3-fe4680ea6... (March 11, Solus's flagship fund, 4.3bn, distressed debt focus)
That would be a significant area for most western countries.
> They are cooperating to destroy US efforts at self-sufficiency.

That's simply impossible. Best they can do, is bankrupt the current owners of fracking oil wells. But the equipment and sites / wells remain, and will be taken over by new owners, which will remain pumping oil as soon as price reaches sufficient levels (or until the US needs it for "national security").
History has a lot to teach us. By not examining burial sites knowledge is lost. The spirits who's bodies are buried have moved on don't get stuck on form or belief that culture is static. Ignoring a culture is probably more disgusting.
Customer keyboard people will sometimes buy outrageously priced aviation connector cables. The ends though are cheap and work well. A custom connection would not be too hard to make so that the actual USB plug isn't where force is being applied.

I've done the hack version and just super glued the start of a cable coming from a keyboard to a case so that the actual connection wasn't stressed.

It might be better if they made it easier but it is a problem that can be solved.
home work and education is technology. it might have not been build to save the environment , but it could save it. None - zero - of the remote solutions were advocated by politics, in fact management and politics is hostile to it as has been attested in these forums many times
I don’t see how they’re completely useless for protecting the wearer. If someone infected sneezes in my face, would I not be better off with a physical barrier over a point of entry into my system?
Indeed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull
I'm not sure what you're getting at here, bluetooth & USB keyboards all work fine. I've used aftermarket keyboards exclusively for the past... 6 or so years on the iPad.
I'd be happy with cherry picking out all the marketing/semi-literate pop culture influences making a mess of it, but that's just as unlikely as any kind of upgrade.
It's a mix of many things. Our teams all working remote for the first time and dealing with the same issues all people are dealing with. And then also at the same time if we put pressure on external developers with breaking changes or new bugs then it doesn't seem the right thing to do for users and developers at this time.
People are advised not to eat too much tuna, because coal polluted the entire ocean with mercury.

The worst nuclear disasters pale in comparison to what we did with fossil fuels.
When converted to MP4 the same video weighs only 2.46MB, and probably even less if exported directly from source, not converted from gif, like I did.
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Sure it was. Why would the soviets have build it if not for profit?
You can hide that in a smaller widget called SomethingWidget(param:...) to make it more readable.

From my experience, using the above style with its data binding is nicer than hunting through XML or whatever GUI you use and seeing how that relates to your code.

Easier to navigate and debug. But I agree it can look overwhelming if it’s not split into smaller widgets.
If you aren't on the betas[1], that's a good place to start. I got an update today, haven't seen any new behavior yet, though.

1: https://slack.com/help/articles/226192087-Join-Slack%E2%80%9...
I wish more marketing sites just had a description like the one in the root comment, usually I have to read a bunch of docs before I get a grasp on what a product does when they introduce them on HN, if I could just read a description like this I could either look at more info or ignore it if I don't care about it.

Instead, I'm trying to make sense of APIs to figure out what a product called Floozbobble.io does and it turns out that it's SaaS for making SaaS product factory factories, and I don't care about that, but then some other product called Dizmeple.cloud comes out that makes it easier for me to manage my database deployments, which I do care about, and I can't tell I would want it because it has no fucking description!

When did we start to prefer these crap marketing sites that take 12,000 spins on my scroll wheel to get through and still don't tell you anything?
They can collect interest on their rainy day endowments. Nonprofits do it all the time.
The jury is still out. The Piper hasn't come for the pay yet.
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You have to mute all channels individually. I basically want "global mute"
I'm largely mirroring a comment I made below. Re-organization under Chapter 11 is so costly and disruptive that threatening it has been used to extract public bailouts [1].

This is one of the reasons that Dodd-Frank included a TLAC provision, which was heavily watered down throughout the Fed's implementation process.

The bankruptcy code is really boring, but a lot of high-stakes politics plays out there. Like the tax code.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jan-16-mn-12864...
Maybe in order for it to fully make sense, you have to understand that we'd warned that account four times already, as well as some other things that aren't public.

But even apart from that, there is a litany of comments that broke the site guidelines. It's not like these were hard to find:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22321296

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22313537

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22447855

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22291539

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22251922

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22209247
Few people who support nuclear power are against renewables, they are against fossil fuels. Coal mining is dangerous/destructive, burning coal is poisoning the oceans and has killed many, many people. For example, even with the advanced air pollution controls on coal plants in Europe, an estimate is that over 20,000 deaths are caused per year due to burning coal. I am not sure how many of these deaths Germany is exporting every year to countries downwind, but it isn't zero.

https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/burning-coal-responsible-f...

A NASA estimate is that the use of nuclear power has saved approximately 1.8 million lives in the years 1971-2009.

https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/kharecha_02/

Long term, coal usage is also obviously a big driver of climate change. What many don't realize is that natural gas, it might be as bad for climate change as coal due to methane releases during the extraction and transportation of n

History will not look kindly on those who want to shut down nuclear power and keep coal and natural gas.

Unfortunately trying to rely only on intermittent power sources has huge storage requirements due to weather along with daily/seasonal variation. If grid energy storage was a simple problem it would have been done decades ago. For example, one estimate is that for Germany to rely on solar and wind would require about 6,000 pumped storage plants which is 183 times their current capacity:

>...Based on German hourly feed-in and consumption data for electric power, this paper studies the storage and buffering needs resulting from the volatility of wind and solar energy. It shows that joint buffers for wind and solar energy require less storage capacity than would be necessary to buffer wind or solar energy alone. The storage requirement of over 6,000 pumped storage plants, which is 183 times Germany’s current capacity, would nevertheless be huge.

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/144985/1/cesifo1_wp5...
For anyone interested, a hygienic shower works even better, and needs no extra space like a traditional bidet does.
Can you put a running mill inside your apartment? (I'm not a gym fan, so I don't understand if it is useful to get enough physicals activity.)

It is impossible to be sure, but I expect than two month of food is more than enough. In the long term, I expect problems with food than need a lot of handwork, like strawberries or raisins, but corn is very automated and it will be fine. (I like corn, I hope you like it too.) (Obviously you can't eat only corn every day.) From Wikipedia:

> Indiana is the fifth largest corn-producing state in the U.S., with over a billion bushels harvested in 2013.

I live in Argentina, so we are somewhat used to natural and artificial catastrophes every ten years. For example, a few tears ago the food producers refuse to send food to the city due to the high taxes. To avoid the empty spaces, the supermarkets filled the void with toilette paper packages. I could have bought a hundred of toilette paper packages those days.

I work in the university, so I understand the problems to change the job at a random time. Good luck with the wedding. Remember to post some photos here!
I've been to Japan 3 times now and the toilets are amazing. You can have things like motorized up/down seat + cover. Water heater, seat heater, drying. And, something I never tried but there is also a music thing to cover up the sounds too.
> is it that hard for a giant of Apple’s size to put a fully fledged terminal in iPadOS?

Of course it isn’t. And that tells you that it’s a deliberate decision not to, because it’s miles from the platform’s intended use by the intended users.

Besides, it would be very confusing for users to have a terminal that can only connect to remote systems (which most people likely don’t have access to), because it’s rather improbable that Apple would choose to expose iPadOS through a shell.
To all German speakers: There will be a government-sponsored hackathon from Friday to Sunday, please think about participating!

https://wirvsvirushackathon.org/

We think about building tools for anonymous health data collection or a tool to fight misinformation / fake news using passive DNS data and some (simple) machine learning. Help is greatly appreciated :)
http://animaionic.com/
I agree, but those groups have always had that problem, and progress on that front is orthogonal to other issues.
Great, although i really wish they focused on performance first... on my year old xps typing in slack is like trying to run in a vat of custard. I wish I could turn of their horrible wysiwyg thing until it sees a line ending because it's clearly evaling on every keystroke.
The Navy has the advantage that they don’t have the same cost pressure a civilian reactor has. I am pretty sure their MW/$ cost is much higher than would be acceptable for a nuclear power plant.
least squares with a fixed population value?
There is a summary of the imperial paper on Twitter

https://twitter.com/jeremycyoung/status/1239976309456916482

Not a very pleasant reading if people are hoping on a quick fix.
I was surprised that the article did not mention the key role of testing and contact tracing - without these elements, it would not be possible for the US to follow the South Korean model.
containment is a very ineffective tool, as is the wooden cart wheel. The fact that we don't have a more effective response other than containment should be extremely worrying. What if this was a more dangerous terrorist bioattack? These questions will rise up soon after this initial shock has passed. Unfortunately, fear seems to work better as a motivation for scientific progress
We know enough now to act decisively against Covid-19
That doesn't matter. Italy has about 3.31 beds per 1000 citizens and these are already way over capacity, so much that doctors have been forced to "triage" patients between whom to save.

The Netherlands only have 4.18 beds which isn't much more so with more people being infected thanks to inadequate protection they will be overloaded, sending the mortality through the roof.

The US have it worse, they only have 2.89 beds and many people who are sick will still go to work to survive PLUS many won't dare go to the hospital unless they are facing death due to fear of extreme bills so coronavirus has the potential to be a massacre. Plus, unlike Europe where most citizens believe the experts, large parts of the US population takes pride in ignoring science (40% per https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/glaring-partisan-di...).
Logical "and" is also called "conjunction", so you would call it the "conjunctive identity". "False" would be the "disjunctive identity".
It appears that an OS X server can take any compatible printer and expose it to the network as a generic PostScript printer. Clients on the network only need to support PostScript, and the server handles everything device-specific.

I've been tempted to buy a Mac for that alone. If there's any similar options for Linux, I would be very interested.
I don't think I like the failure mode of your app getting slower (losing your ApplicationDN) right at the time it's really popular. I don't have a better solution though.
I've made a MUCH more comprehensive list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wiuf6EXWJrtd9NWF9w7a...
In the Slack options, there is: `Show a badge on Mac on Slack's icon to indicate new activity` which is by default checked and `Bounce Slack's icon when receiving a notification` which is by default unchecked. Perhaps you want to flip both of these?

I also don't get notifications for general messages anywhere. There are 3 levels of notification settings, "Notify me about...": 1. "All new messages", 2. "Direct messages, mentions and keywords", 3. "Nothing". I use (2) everywhere.
> Even basecamp, which is highly remote, postponed their email service launch.

I’m sure the added stress didn’t help, but I would imagine it’s more related to marketing. Do you really want to launch a new product at this time of uncertainty?
Here's the Anandtech version: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15621/marvell-announces-thund...

> If we use the TX2 figures we have at hand, this would mean the new chip would land slightly ahead of Neoverse-N1 systems such as the Graviton2, and match more aggressively clocked designs such as the Ampere Altra.
Thanks! And fantastic job on increasing both your salary (by 2x!) and your job satisfaction.
He did not. Review the declassified releases...he left.
I'm a hiring manager and we're hiring engineers: senior frontend and backend. Interviews are over Zoom; they're a bit choppy but people seem to be bearing with us.

If you work for a company funded by SoftBank or your company is chasing froth, I'd start making plans that involve your current employer no longer paying you.

I'd be remiss if I didn't say if you need a job, meet the above qualifications, and are willing to work in SF 4 days/week only -- comment below this. (Though obviously we're fully remote until at least April 7; I expect after that it's going to be fully remote at your choice for probably another month minimum. More depending on if / how Trump bungles the covid response further).
Barely hanging on at the independent news organization where I work. Lost a lot of colleagues to layoffs last week.

I'm super worried about the coming year.
Take whatever you can get, if you are lucky enough to get an offer. Look for contract work. Reduce your expenses. The gaining market share idea is too optimistic. Consider cashflow and sector and aim for stability over upside. Consider headhunters/recruiters.

Really consider your expense and have a plan if you cannot find computer work when you will look outside of that. The general employment picture is a disaster, though.

Read up on COBRA (ensure you have continuing medical coverage) and your state's unemployment benefits and how/if they have recently changed.

Personally, I experienced the .com crash and worked through the 2008 financial crisis. I am absolutely terrified right now.
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