skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And from a later New York Times article:

> Lawmakers and the White House are already drafting another economic stabilization package that would send direct payments to taxpayers and provide loans to businesses.

I hope they do something a lot better than loans for small businesses.

Even direct payments won't be enough, unless they give small independent shops money to pay their leases every month until this is over, so they can keep their locations while there is no foot traffic.
I recently implemented Levoy & Hanrahan in a game engine—a genuinely great read and easy to digest. One of my favorite papers in CG/Comp Photo.
Because to earn dividends you must be a owner i.e. actually hold company stock.

To profit from buybacks you only need the option of buying the stock at a lower price than the buyback price.

The CEOs and other CXXs of these firms often have large amounts of options included in their comp packages.

This is why buybacks happen at market highs instead of market lows as sound management principles and common sense would suggest.

Increasing shareholder value by increasing equity value is just a pretext. The real purpose of buybacks is a swindle to funnel company money directly into the pockets of the C-Suite through what in the books appears a routine management operation.

These executives decide on the buybacks and exercise their share options just before, thus pocketing millions in company money and actually hurting shareholders.

Shareholders get the blame despite having little to no power and seeing their investments ruined and looted. Also, in many firms, a lot of shareholders are also employees.

You can find it better told here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/the-sto...
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I've had zero success with a dryer -- I end up just drying with toilet paper...
try being on lake superior. 2C all year
we are hiring at https://getcloudapp.com. Looking for a strong ruby and rails developer who knows devops pretty well. Email is in my profile.
It wasn't a pandemic, it was dealt with as soon as the problem was identified.

Wet markets have been known to a problem for over a decade, nothing was done until after this crisis started.
What platform would the protocol handlers be built for? Would they have full access to the system like most native programs, or run through a sandbox?

I think it would be ideal if the handlers were able to run on a platform that was defined by open standards and well-sandboxed by default... the web is a good example of this.
That's not what clickbait is. Also, despite my skepticism I just volunteered for something. I can be skeptical but still hopeful :)
I have been laid off just before 2015 and I haven't found any stable work since then. I have been under-employed for a long while before the outbreak, and I don't even know what new change-ups in job hunting I should be doing now.

For a long time, many people have said that my years of experience make me valuable so that I should have gotten offers very quickly, but the reality hasn't shown that. Heck, even the founder of the startup company has told me, when I asked for his reference, that he was "very confused" that I haven't found any work for so long. And that was only a year in.

He unfortunately can't give me work anymore as he's tied up with his business. He did consider me for a follow-up freelance job before, but that was more due to a technicality that they needed a US developer for a particular job.

After being evaluated on mock interviews, turns out I'm in the peculiar situation where I am too underqualified for my years. But at least I have some experience working remote that should make me more appealing to employers.

I just can't call it impostor syndrome anymore if I consistently fail at getting full-time offers even when the economic climate was good.
Playboy magazine will stop producing a print version
Criminals are disguising themselves as WHO to steal sensitive informations
Personally, I think employment in the US should look more like it does in Europe. People rely on work to survive, and shouldn’t be fireable easily, and unemployment should cover at least 75% of your previous salary.
Can you stop payment on the deposit check?
Depending on the way the hologram is printed or created, the hologram recreates the full wavefront, so the hologram replays the image without needing to know how your head is oriented.

Will need to look up beer pump logos. Interesting.
And in most US states that never changes. You can generally be fired without cause all the time.

I've got a 4 year record of bi annual performance reviews where I've gotten 120% of the available performance based bonus, but I dont have tenure or anything. If my boss decides he hates my shoes and fires me, Im gone.
The 3D Hologram Printer we are building does exactly that!
If the value prop is that you're Heroku, but faster, I can understand that.

I think it's misleading to say that deficiencies of Heroku have anything do to with AWS though. It's really, really easy to set up anycast [https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/] with ECS [especially if you're willing to pay for Fargate]. If your product does something meaningfully different than that, I'd love to know more.

NB: I'm in no way affiliated with AWS or Heroku, just have experience with both in the past.
I guess you are not following the news. There has been a rumor for a low end iPhone coming out this March. Nothing to do with the high end iPhones of September.
Apply for jobs at defense contractors, they're always looking for people that know C++. It will not be glamorous work, but I think it might be a good bet for you. Raytheon Missile Systems is hiring in Tuscon Arizona, inquire about remote work. Also, I recommend you learn SQL (just learn SQL Server or Postgres).
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All restaurants, museums, bars, cinemas, gyms, airlines and so on are currently closed in Europe.

The economic damage is going to be at least a 1000 times worse.
Why should their landlord be entitled to 100% income? Only the peasants and serfs should take on this burden, go into debt, in order to prop up all the lords?
We already trust our auth cookies and the actual content of the connections to our browsers. Having them be more in charge of the auth process makes a lot of sense. Especially given that modern browsers have a lot more security hardening (sandboxed multi-process architecture) and professional review than other applications.
In the final analysis, it will be said that Trump sacrificed his crown jewel, the American economy, to save lives.

I think better of him for it.
As an artist, there's nothing even remotely close to the iPad's hardware quality and software environment anywhere near its price range. Even well beyond its price range, it's hard to beat the software quality and comfort with regards to usage.

As a programmer, I use my desktop.
Monastic backstory aside do leaders not get non-monetary benefits in American society?
I think this compares a fully off pixel to a fully on pixel.
On normal LCD's this is maybe 1000x luminosity difference or something like that.

OLED's could be much better.

I don't think this comparison has anything to do with bit depth.
How are you liking gVisor? We started with Firecracker and only spent a little time with gVisor, but it seems really nice.
Gold has value only if people value it. Same goes for money, stocks, etc...
My question exactly. Especially as airlines have very tight relationships with credit card issuers who historically have provided debtor in posession financing as the us majors have exited bankruptcy. They do this by prepaying for large quantities of miles to hand out in reward for credit card spending. Ask them first before coming by with hat in hand.
Mapping the Burden of Covid-19
2-4% is huge for a novel highly infectious disease. Our healthcare system is not prepared for that at all, without aggressive measures that's potential for hundreds of thousands if not millions of deaths in the US.
For those without a Facebook account, can you post a summary, or the content?
That review was incredibly well done and effectively dismantled many of Apple's overblown claims.
Mullvad works great with WireGuard on iOS. It’s step by step instructions allow me to install it without problems.
Great point. Bum washings would mostly be pretty warm due to unique features of our bathroom and condo heating... mostly. And I guess for the cold times, variety is the spice of life!
> This seems to be a Kubernetes thing. Why the hell does it idle using 25% of my 4 CPUs?

Remind me why we need this technology again?
It's much more likely people just reused bones emerging during permafrost thaws, and not tried to hunt mammoths
I don’t know. Alot of these schools have been on real estate development binges for the last 20 years, and there is alot of physical space that seems like it will remain unused for the foreseeable future.

I see telemedicine finally becoming viable.
Thanks! That's interesting, I didn't know about the state lines and billing issues.
That sounds like the definition of “utopia” to me.
The swine flu was manageable, because it's a type of flu.

The problem with those wet markets, just like with bush meat in Africa, is that they promote new types of viruses. Fixing those markets is not going to stop all new diseases, but it will prevent some of the most dangerous to emerge.

The main concern here is that the issue has been long known, and unlike poor, wild Africa where taking action is nearly impossible due to severe economic and political difficulties, the Chinese dictatorship's inaction was avoidable.
Oscar Wilde's got you covered.

https://www.wilde-online.info/the-critic-as-artist.html

> THE CRITIC AS ARTIST: WITH SOME REMARKS UPON THE IMPORTANCE OF DOING NOTHING

Reflecting on my internet posting history, sometimes it does seem like a whole lot of nothing. But I still like it.
Although actually, that's an interesting proposition. Offer your landlord a percentage of your equity in exchange for reduced rent. Who knows, you might find a well-financed investor who's willing to take a risk on you.
The monitor was released back in December but the manual was just released in Feb and people may find it more interesting: https://www.apple.com/pro-display-xdr/pdf/Pro_Display_White_...
> It seems like you've not tried reading actual physics books written by real physicists

I find it pretty baffling you think this is the inescapable conclusion. Of course I've taken physics courses, that's where the frustration comes from. Many physics and astronomy books are riddled with errors and that's almost entirely down to how frequently they skip steps. Not only are 90% of underclassman physics texts written lazily at best, when I got into Modern Physics, half the answers in the back of the book were flat-out wrong, while the example problems elided a third of the steps or neglected important edge cases. The book was Tipler / Llewellyn by the way.

> You don't need this book

Apparently I did, considering that none of the other relevant courses I took which included calcs 1 through 3, differential equations, linear algebra, mechanics of materials taught this material. I'm sure it would've come up again if I'd stuck with mechanical engineering but regardless the whole point of recommending the book is to say "this has value" not to say "other things do not have this value."

> haphazard approaches

Compared to the other books I've seen, this is one of the most verbose, consistent, and generally anal-retentive approaches. It does not take shortcuts, and its notation alone is refreshing considering its lack of ambiguous styling aside from minor issue of the bold being used for tensors and vectors. (On the whiteboard, this is resolved with a double-underline being used for tensors and a single-underline for vectors). I would consider most other physics textbooks to be the haphazard ones, and when you compare the rate of errors in the text I have a strong suspicion those other books have much higher rates on average.

Granted, I'm not a physicist and make no claims to be. Of course there is truth out there to be found among the vast sea of physics textbooks, but from my own experience and also that of someone I know well who is postgrad in plasma physics, the textbooks are generally shit and to gain a correct understanding you need to wade through multiple texts that are extremely fragmented in both notation and correctness. So I'm not sure physics is the gold standard here. I'm sure there's a good math textbook out there about coordinate systems, but like I said, I didn't post here to say "everything else is worthless."
What specific standards would a user-respecting browser not implement? I can't really think of anything besides maybe EME and third-party cookies, though it's not like those are really core features.
The VESA mount is compatible with basically any third-party stand or arm.
Doesn't work that way. "Market value" isn't a count of funny-looking pieces of paper, or the total weight of various commodities. It's a popular consensus of the power to command future use of resources. It's a general I.O.U. If the market says I'm worth $100, then everyone is agreeing that sometime in the future I'll probably be able to request a certain amount of resources in exchange for passing on control of the I.O.U. So the market may say I can get ten hamburgers, or get four suits dry-cleaned. Changes in total market value happen when that consensus changes. If everyone realizes I'm only going to be able to get five hamburgers, or two suits, then I've lost 50% of my worth. If the market decides everyone is in the same boat, then the market has lost 50%.
What do stock buy backs do that makes it unethical?
>Available VESA Mount Adapter

Finally. The crazy lengths that 3rd party adapters go to to convert Apple displays are crazy, and it's absurd that they haven't used VESA for this long.
I would guess for SEO as links from HN are probably high value for google rankings.
Well I just signed up and tested one of my Heroku apps, got it working with just a few clicks, really impressive.
Are there any way to see stats like memory usage? What happens if an app goes over the limit? (heroku has some swap space before it kills an app, and then I can see it in the logs)
This is clearly false: there are plenty of value companies with high volatility of profits and low volatility of dividends. Certainly I have seen loss making companies still pay dividends.
Trump announced the China travel ban on Jan 31 - effective Feb 2nd - which was over 6 weeks ago. Even then he was called names and the "it's just the flu" mantra started. Huge segments of the world saw what was coming and started moving, most didn't move far enough fast enough.

Ref: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/21117403/trump-coronaviru...
Yes, quite! I mentioned that and async.h in issue #1. I also opened a PR with a Duff's device version.
While everybody is 'discussing' the technical and use-case merits in that manner for which HN is (in)famous i would like to point out that this device looks like somebody decided the iPads could do with some design flair so they took a photo of an iPhone SE and enlarged it and then basically said "Done!".

Specs, users, emotion aside at least as a physical device it actually has some style. At last. Thank you somebody inside Apple for not producing yet another round edge, nearly anonymous, soap-bar slab.
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Lots of smokers though
also there is a machine made by Roche Cobas 8800 and 6800, which can process 4k samples a day.

I don't think some liquid handling machine can outperform this.
Serious question, is this normal for TC or journalism in general?

> We are actively reporting this; feel free to reach out to me or other staffers at TechCrunch if you have tips here.

Seems wildly unprofessional/sloppy to me.
I’m personally unaffected and unlikely to be for a while longer because my SaaS serves a class of businesses that will be remaining open during quarantine. We’re pretty slim as an organization and fully remote so I’m hopeful we’ll be fine through this.

However, my SO is a physical therapist and several of her colleagues at other businesses have been laid off as people stop coming to appointments (rehab not being acute care and many patients being elderly or otherwise vulnerable). All of my service industry and entertainment industry friends are unemployed for the foreseeable future. The knock-on effects of even a short shutdown are likely to be significant.
I have had every single MacBook Pro update since the 2015 and had either been returned or sold off. It was simply crap. I cant believe they have been making that crap for 5 years. Although judging from the 7 years of Mac Pro I guess MacBook Pro already got a better treatment.

At the end I stuck to my MacBook Pro 2015. Perfect Size Trackpad with Zero false positive. Most people put up with a few false positive on the larger TrackPad. But I dont see any reason why this have to be this way. The keyboard felt way better, even the new Magic Keyboard on MBP 16 felt exactly the same as butterfly. Touch Bar is Junk, again it sometimes freeze. And some people put up with it thinking it is a non issue.

The old Apple and its users used to be perfectionist. Nowadays a lot of people settle for mediocre.

I just wish they make MacBook Pro Classic. Just throw in a new CPU will do.
Unless your popularity pays your bills, it's the most graceful degradation you can have.
If you're over 35 then you have at least 0.2% chance or so of death, sorry to say.

Knowing what might kill you might give you the chance to deal with it, or choose how to live with it.
That would be a dream setup
> This is a direct consequence of their agricultural practices

Sorry, but you seem very certain of this claim, and I don't see evidence to back it up. Please point us to evidence that Chinese agricultural practices are directly responsible for pandemic viruses. If anything, the common agricultural practices of over-using antibiotic, which the both the US and China engages in, is what most scientific studies have pointed to sources of public health concerns because they can breed super germs. Point us to evidence of practice unique to Chinese agriculture that's causing pandemics. It is concerning when an audience that's supposed to be fact-based like Hackernews is circulating this type of uninformed "cultural shaming". Please exercise evidence-based reasoning, and exemplify the values of Hacker News community when you feel the urge to cast broad judgment about an entire cultural system.

I'm not here to defend the Chinese agricultural system specifically, but I'm happy to stand up and call out this kind of nonsense whenever and wherever it pops up, may it be directed toward an Asian culture or Western one.
Which Path Are We On?
> You’re assuming that four months have gone by and they didn’t have to sell assets to pay bills.

That's exactly why the government is giving them loans. To cover the fixed costs during a period of temporary disruption.
I freaking love that summary format. What is already known? What does this add? What are the policy implications? Boom!
Exactly my thought... How is fragmentation exactly gonna help this?
checkout HIV
checkout "Spanish flu"
You can self host open source alternatives such as Gitlab
I have an idea - if companies are legally persons and also too big to fail, maybe they should be required to put a portion of their profits into a rainy day fund that will be used for bailouts when the "once a decade unforseen cataclysm" comes. Yes, some companies would benefit more than others and lots of them would grumble about lost profits but it would save everyone a whole lot of headaches.

We can call it Corporate Social Security.
Notions like Kolmogorov complexity make information a measurable quantity. E.g. most possible configurations are incompressible. Only a few are compressible.

Additionally, having access to the information of one system allows us to reduce the amount of information needed to describe another system, and we get mutual algorithmic information.

So the notion of information is not just syntactic sugar, but distinguishes between different types of physical configurations in a way that enumerating their parts cannot.
You want to stop the bleeding as soon as possible, but you don’t want to lay anybody off during the week, so they have time to collect their thoughts over the weekend.

Whereas, if you fired them on a Monday, they may show up Tuesday and cause issues.

Salary is probably the most costly expense.

In the early 2000s, the warning sign was reducing the cleaning staff, and having developers empty the trash.
Sorry, I assumed you were defending them. It's definately true that virus (and other pathogens) jump species in nature. We just need to stop accelerating the process...
That's great to hear! Apps are allowed to burst over the limit if the host has free resources. We don't offer much visibility into metrics yet but we're working on it. All our metrics are going into prometheus with some awesome dashboards in grafana that we can't wait to expose to customers.
If your savings are diverse stock, you'll probably get your value back just fine in 3 years if you go long.
Just came here to say big thanks to you and everyone else at Khan Academy for the tremendous work you're all doing. As a working parent who has now been thrust into the role of teacher, it's been incredibly helpful. Thank you!
Let them fail.

I'm tired of this getting-more-frequent cycle where corporations come crying to the government for bailouts. You want balls-to-the-wall free market capitalism? Then live with the downsides, including that "changing market conditions might render your company insolvent on very short notice."

Otherwise, it's just corporate socialism; seemingly a dirty word only when people and healthcare is involved.

If corporations only get rewarded for maximizing profits, they'll never learn to store some for a rainy day (or weeks/months/quarter, etc.) Without heavy restrictions, who can say the money will be spent directly benefiting people?

So airlines (probably will) get bailout money... why? So they can keep operating and don't have to layoff employees? Well how about giving bailout money directly to those employees without filtering it through the corporation first which will skim a certain amount off the top?

If the goal is to keep the airline in business... why? Leisure travelers have dried up, leaving business passengers... how about jacking up the rates for business travel instead of essentially subsidizing it?

I thought corporate taxes were a waste of time because corporations would just increase their prices to make up for it. Well if that's true, how about skipping them in the bailout process, let them jack up their rates, and consumers can opt in/out of the services they offer at the going rate. Isn't that how the free market is supposed to work?

Bailout money should go to PEOPLE who need to eat. Corporations can renegotiate contracts, delay payments, raise prices afterwards, etc.

Maybe some good will come from this pandemic, namely a rethinking of the importance of a safety net for citizens, and a readjusted attitude that wall street's metrics shouldn't be the only goal of a corporation.
OP specified they live in Northern Ireland so it is unlikely they will be able to get a job with an American defense contractor as a non-citizen who can't obtain a security clearance.
I thought the goal was to be more hygienic. I can see this maybe working if you live by yourself but anything beyond that is: no thanks.
I know Lockheed Martin is also hiring for software developers in the East US, might be worth a look. A job is a job, and the culture at the company doesn't seem too bad.
Interesting, I will have to keep an eye out for that printer. I'd love to see something like that used on one of the iconic scenes in Yosemite. I'm currently riding out the pandemic at my place nearby so I'm thinking a lot about it.