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Well, all I can say is get a new dictionary, because companies really can and do borrow money to pay dividends.

Of course, any bailout would have to have terms preventing this, and it should prevent immediately spending it on stock buybacks too.
The iPhone has been updated every September for many years.
Expecting to likely get laid off (if I should even care now, having pay dropped below $2/hour as a full time backend dev). But I'm more worried that here in Russia this situation unties hands for the government to close off the borders permanently, and then quietly isolate the internet access.
In my life we will probably never have a man on the moon and never replace POSIX.
Interesting info and interesting website. Do they pay a small fee for each W2? Otherwise I don't see the motivation to go through that whole process
These aren't really naval vessels. They're converted tankers, with civilian grade construction. I doubt they have NBC protection, though they should have what you'd find in a normal hospital.
I think S&P is about to sink much lower, we are about to enter a depression.
It takes a few days to confirm a trend so I'd wait until late next week before drawing any conclusions.
You're not the only one.

Ada is a lot like this too. I can read, compile and run it in my head during a gerrit review with almost no glitch by now. Written once, read 20 times at least.

There was some talk on HN yesterday about making your code easily changeable. First step is to make it easily readable, understandable. Little things help. End loop helps. Exit loop_name helps. Non-fallthrough case statement help. in / out / in out help so much. Pre and post conditions help also. Clear static types help. Internal functions help. Explicit generic instantiation, while a pita to write, helps a lot at code read time... Lots of lead bullets.
Understood. Thanks for clarifying.
Generally speaking If you need any heavy computational workload for more than a few min the MacBook Air doesn't fit. The 3.4Ghz Boost only works in seconds and it long run it could only sustain at about 2 Ghz.

Not to mention previous MacBook Air were Dual Core only.
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> on average, everything I post online is being read by a minimum of 99 people...

There are also big differences within this 1%. Even among the people who write regularly, there is probably a tiny minority that generates most of the text. Imagine people with no life, spending each day at least 10 hours online, typing without thinking too much, which allows them to post at least one comment each minute... doing this for years. Your comments are mostly lost in this ocean.
It absolutely has to be legal and normal to distribute profits to business owners, in order for capitalism to function.

If you want to entirely abolish capitalism, so be it, that's a position many smart people do indeed hold, but I'm not sure if you realized that that's what your position is basically tantamount to.
Any improvement in metabolic health derived from nutritional improvement can improve immune function.

Why is this controversial?
Paper gold, like $GLD and $IAU, is safer than hoarding physical gold, since many vaults can't be trusted. They are scams at many levels: coin purchases, physical vaults, fraudulent miners (remember Bre-X).

If one wants to buy 2 lbs of gold jewelry, or even wear a 'gold shirt' every day, that's fine. One such gold shirt guy, Datta Phuge, in India got beaten to death. Another gold man in Hyderabad, who wears 2.5 lbs gold all the time, need four buddies around whenever he goes out.

Or go the wild west way: buy guns, live in a bunker.
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Companies used to take their profits and either invest in R&D/Capital if they were trying to grow, or give dividends if they were mature. But once C-level compensation became focused on stock options, top management have an incentive to increase the stock price over other concerns. If a company spends every dollar of profit (or cheap loans) on buybacks, they aren't spending money on things that will sustain the business long term like R&D, having funds to weather a downturn, etc. Not that every buyback is a problem. Apple has done buybacks because they felt there stock was the best place to invest their money. It's not like they blew through their cash account just to boost the price.
Our current kits would not work for that, but the 3D Hologram Printer that we are building could make those.

The printer takes multiple images, each from a slightly different perspective (maybe 1 degree apart each), and then synthesizes them into the final hologram as a full 3D hologram image.

So could do landscapes, portraits, 3D computer graphics, etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/18/trump-cor...

The federal government is planning on sending thousands of dollars out to Americans directly.

That is in addition to unemployment, which in the currently proposed bill also provides for paid sick leave

What more do you want?
No, it’s retained earnings ending balance = retained earnings beginning balance + net income - dividends

Nothing about dividends vs buybacks has to do with where the cash comes from.
> is being read by a minimum of 99 people

I think of that sometimes when writing. I try to avoid, for example, abbreviations: It's shorter for me to write, but it means 99 other people will need to decipher them.

Or not editing my post, things like that, that might save me time, but are multiplied by 99 on the other end.
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.

Cheers,

Miktor
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Long as upper management works in the same space as everyone else, right?
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Its easy to convert to cash in any major city.
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Really? Every job I have had has bonus tied at least in some way to company performance (though I have never held a C-level job either).
Did you take a look at the research section (https://www.grassrootshealth.net/research/)?

You can find the papers we've published that support our claims.
I'm not sure I understand the hate on stock buybacks. Consider how this evolved.

The traditional model was that companies would make a profit and would return some or all of that to shareholders in the form of dividends. Retaining profits, generally, doesn't help anyone.

Some investors like dividends but some don't. Some use stocks as an income-generating stream. Some don't need or want the income as it generates tax events.

So the share buyback was born. This allows a company to return profits to shareholders who want to sell while generally helping the share price as the supply of stock is decreasing. This is kind of a win-win for shareholders.

What's different in that post-GFC we had zero or near-zero interest rates on corporate bonds such that what companies would do is borrow money for buybacks. Now this is a little different but I'm not sure I have a problem with it either. If the interest rate is fixed, this is essentially free money and it's really the government's fault that exists.

What I do have a problem with is retaining profits overseas (to avoid US taxes) and then borrowing money to pay for buybacks and general operations. If your interest rate is near zero this is essentially deferring taxes indefinitely. Combine this with moving IP overseas and paying "royalties" to further reduce US profits (and thus taxes) and your tax bill essentially goes to zero.

What I think should happen is that every dollar borrowed counts as a dollar of foreign profits repatriated to the US (and is thus taxed). If the company has no foreign profits retained offshore then no problem, it's not a taxable event.

Executive pay is another matter. It's clearly out of control. I'm honestly not sure what you do about it however.

Another thing that should change is that when a company goes through bankruptcy, there is a pecking order for creditors. Secured creditors are first, then bondholders, then preferential shareholders and then ordinary shareholders. There may be other classes too.

Top of that pecking order should be non-executive worker pay and benefits.

Additionally, pension funds should be held in trust such that they can never be spent by the company or claimed by creditors.
Thanks! The holograms are pretty cool too!
Can they not just sell their stock to get the operating cash they need for the next 90 days or so? Maybe next time airlines will figure out a better balance of reserve cash vs stock buybacks.
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Telling companies how to operate, other than health directed concerns such as during a pandemic, when their operations are not the reason they are in a bind is a great way to destroy process and effectiveness of companies. Due to the health concerns, make loans sufficient to carry them through at minimal staffing levels so that they can recover quickly, and otherwise stay out of their way. Their executive-to-employee compensation level is not the concern of government.
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Two words, moral panic.
There’s usually an expected range. When your bonus is 300+% of salary, getting $0 means you find a new gig.
Packet charges for outbound bandwidth. The places you can get close to free on outbound bandwidth don’t give you the ability to do anycast and tend to over subscribe their networks.

We’d like to grt network prices down but we can’t run our service on ovh or Hetzner.
and requires you to, like, add physical real estate to your bathroom.
That 1% really flatters themselves if they think of themselves as "creators".
Why would you expect them to encourage people to put the money into the stock market?

If the government wanted to print money to make the stock market go up, it could do so directly. That's not the point of giving money to all citizens.
>> 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

Executives and wall street like to talk about free markets when they're fucking the public, but when their company loses, that's the last thing they want.

The worst ever was handing the pensions over the xxx (whatever the Gov pension guarantee thing is) because "hey it will let us avert bankruptcy" which would land the pension fund there anyway. It became a way out rather than a safety net.
For the current kits, you are correct. For the 3D Hologram Printer, we will be able to open it up a lot more.
Maybe Charter doesn't have the technology and/or resources for call center staff to work from home. Is that possible?
You’re assuming that four months have gone by and they didn’t have to sell assets to pay bills. Or relocate. Or lay off employees. Or employees quit because they couldn’t be paid with the loss of revenue.

You’re modeling makes a lot of assumptions and discounts too many human-driven variables.
> seen that it is effective.

I'm curious if this is why we'll actually learn. Reading r/sysadmin this morning was fun, a lot of stories about companies realizing that people who have been "remote working" a few days a week for years don't know how to sign into the vpn.
Last year we were hiring, for both junior and senior positions, and had a hell of a time finding people to make offers to. We were absolutely serious and did end up hiring someone.

I will say though that we were definitely on the picky side. Our company tends to have a very hard time getting rid of employees that aren't working out, so we are extremely reluctant to hire a "maybe".
Don't get me wrong I think wet markets, especially ones that deal with wild caught animals need to be shutdown. That needs to be a worldwide priority.
And? let them leave ... if there's another airline, that didn't take federal bailout money, then they should be able to hire that executive and give them whatever compensation they want. Clearly if they didn't take bailout money, then they have nothing to be limited by.

But for the airlines that take bailout money ... well, if that executive leaves, someone else will step into their place. Who cares ... you people act as if executives are some magical breed of superhuman; they're not. Sure they might have a strong business network, but nothing the new executive can't build over time.
It's yet another attempt to step back to two-tier. (It's the usual thesis-antithesis cycle. First, we had that, then we figured out it doesn't work so we turned towards three-tier then we saw that was pretty tedious so we started to look at two-tier again. But this time in a disguise.)
Being in the 1% that contributes does not necessarily mean you're the top 1% by quality of thought.
Awesome to hear!
“Privatize gains and socialize losses”, is how many executives see the free market.
Roger that! Trying to convey the concept, but the goal is certainly to outperform.
We don't ban accounts only for using that phrase. If someone just said "ok boomer", I'd either not reply or do a "please don't" (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). In practice, though, accounts that do that kind of thing tend also to do other things. Combining it with personal attack is already an escalation.

In any case, it is generational flamebait, which is off topic on HN regardless of generation.
The bill, as I understand it, temporarily allows telemedicine to be billed via government programs, whereas prior to this ‘war’, it was not possible. After the ‘war’ is over, telemedicine will not be covered by such programs.

Additionally, for a doctor to practice in a particular state, the medical board of that state grants and revoked licenses, restricting the practice of medicine to only doctors licensed in the state or states.

The bill also temporarily waives that, to allow for telemedicine to be conducted across states, but only temporarily.
Preserving privacy may inherently contradict with public interest coming from aggressive contact tracing. This is really unfortunate, but the S.Korea case could be even worse if adequate CDC agents were not granted with the authority to aggregate/join arbitrary private data (very likely against the subject's will).

This was especially important for early actions taken by S.Korea's CDC since a single super-spreader (#31) had contacts with thousands(!) of people within just 2~3 days. I'm 99% sure that Europe and America also have similar cases, but just remains unveiled because they couldn't really do the same thing with the given authority. S.Korea was in a similar situation during the MERS outbreak but now they passed a law to allow such actions.

IMHO, this trade-off is no brainer. The cost is can be controlled/minimized while the economical/societal damages caused by full lockdown is not. And yes, this is also not 2019 style free society.
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Setting up this system would be really tough while making it impossible to game. For every one smart person in the public sector writing laws, there are 10 smarter people trying to work their away around them to make more money.
Agreed. Incredibly bad idea and there are a few others like it that are very popular. Yikes.
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> or interpreter that doesn't care about speed much.

This is the same approach taken by Lua and many of the original Pascal compilers, which had to run on very slow hardware, so there's pretty good precedent that you can get adequate performance.

> But you're also using bytecode, which involves more caring about speed, so you've got a bit of a mismatch

I wouldn't describe it as a mismatch as much as it is a trade-off. Because the compiler only has a peephole view into the source when it needs to generate code, many optimizations are off the table. However, because we have full control over the instruction set, we can sometimes tweak the bytecode format in order to more naturally align with the compiler.

In return for not needing an intermediate representation or AST, we get a much simpler compiler, especially in C where you have to worry about memory management.
I think the hoax is that people were saying it was a hoax. Which blows my mind a little. That was the take I originally believed.
We're all in our little alcoves of the human experience, trying the best we can to make the most of the situation we find ourselves in. For most of us, no matter how good we are at something, there are probably 100-million other people just as good as you.

The 1% rule reflects this reality: every snowflake is unique, but individual snowflakes are not special.

The 1% of people who contribute to an online community are either people who've gotten to the point that they think they have something to contribute, or they're crapflooders with nothing better to do.

Sometimes a few people (say, 1-in-10-million) rise above the ruckus and do something exceptional, or lay the groundwork for a future generation to build upon. In the last two centuries we've had a series of developments by people who laid the foundation for our species to achieve liftoff: James Clerk Maxwell, Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace, Nikola Tesla, Hewlett & Packard, Grace Hopper, William Shockley, and a hundred thousand remarkable/mildly-remarkable others.

Hopefully in the next few decades our species can capitalize on the foundations provided by our predecessors, and we can make it into orbit.

But most people are "average" or below average. My pseudonym started as my reports of an unremarkable person trying to make observations of average people's struggles. I grew up in a top 10% income household (parents took my sibling and myself on vacations), had a reasonable college fund (which was not well-spent), and didn't appreciate how the other 90% lived until I started driving around in my taxi.

Our present engineered shutdown of the economy for a significant percentage of the 90% of people who are no longer needed as farmers should be used as an opportunity to reconsider how things are done for the 99% of people who are just trying their best to get by.
Why flagged and hide my comments?

1. HN does not allow free speech

2. HN does not allow to challenge authority

3. HN suppresses innovation

4. HN lacks the ability to appreciate technology and must use more technically competent administrators.

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My comment:

I think "The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow v3.0 with Warehouse/Workshop Model" should win the "Turing Award".

1. Perfectly defeat other messy and complex software engineering methodologies in a simple and unified way.

2. Realize the unification of software and hardware on the logical model.

3. Achieve a leap in software production theory from the era of manual workshops to the era of standardized production in large industries.

4. The basics and the only way to `Software Design and Develop Automation (SDDA)`, SDDA is an innovative and revolutionary approach to develop large-scale software, just like `Electronic Design Automation (EDA)`.

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
JAL is not the best example for many reasons.

The cuurent leader is a former monk (who was appointed after the airline "froze" - stopped flying due to gross mismanagement,)

In Japan, leaders get massive benefits.
The tests are finally materializing, though they did keep running into new issues after promising they had it all worked out.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/test...
Yeah, things have moved forward since 2011! Should probably update that.
Only two? That IS savage.
On Twitter that still seems to be a bad problem but it's less so here. Those types tend to say the same things over and over again and get dismissed or downvoted. Unless there are posters on HN that just happen to be 100x more interesting than everyone else... are there? :)
Yes... But even on Linux I've been bitten so much by changes in 'standard' tools just on successive versions of centos, the last 10 years... ifconfig changing its output syntax (I know 'just use ip' well it changes sometimes too...), hostname sets a transient hostname now, hostnames with _ are now refused... netstat had some subtle changes some time ago too. free changed too. df, fricking df output format changed. So now, I just hit /proc and /sys, and document the hell out of it. Sure, new fields can appear there but they're new columns. The parser has to handle 'additional' columns. I trust Linus more with not-breaking-userland than the folks that make 'portable' tools.

Glad I don't have to support other OSes...
I have never heard of that site before. Is it worth visiting?

I have wanted to visit Great Zimbabwe.
The Soviet version of Omni Magazine?
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Purely in terms of the Options of MBA 2020.

i3 - Dual Core
i5 - Quad Core
i7 - Quad Core and slightly higher Clock speed.

That is it. Apple has kept it fairly simple most of the time.

Worth nothing the i7 is only very very very slightly faster as you are limited by thermals. I dont think it is worth the price. If you ever need the processor power then the current ( and future ) MBA isn't for you.

And in all honestly the CPU performance between your 2013 MBA and this MBA isn't all that different if you are getting the Dual Core. After all your 2013 CPU had 15W of thermals to play with, this newer CPU only has 9W peak, ( and 7.5W average ).

But the overall package of MacBook Air still many times better. Screen Quality, Ports, SSD Speed. Speakers. Not sure if they have updated the WebCam, if not it will be worst than your 2013 MBA.
This plan of action makes perfect sense to me, and I'm confused why American companies aren't doing the same? Or are they? If so, why would they need to be bailed out?
No, the definition is a payment from a company to stockholders that's labeled "dividend". I know of companies that were losing money that still paid dividends.
Moving to C++ seems wiser than using a dubious hack like this.