skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I bet you anything that if you polled Saudi Arabians and asked "Would you be willing to be ruled by a monarch?" and then do the same for Americans, you'll get wildly different results.

To my point, you'd get the same results in both places: some people in each country would say yes, and some other people in each country would say no.

Assuming one's ideology based on their geography is entirely outmoded in the age of global information systems.
300 to 800 factories yearly closed their doors in France since the introduction of the Euro. Italy faces a lesser but still steep industrial decline. In the meanwhile, industrial output boomed in the German hinterland of Eastern Europe.
That's not what inflation means.

And if the OP is trying to protect (?) against rising asset prices, then they should invest in the assets that are appreciating not in silver which isn't really correlated with asset prices.
The inflation has been in speculative assets. This happened because the expansion of the money supply did not go to the people. In addition, there is debate about how accurate the inflation figures are. Some alternative measures are far higher.
Yes, thank you. I really wish scientists (and the general public) learned more about the fundamentals of their field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science
It all depends on how long the shutdown goes for. If it is a couple of weeks then yes a micro loan makes sense, but if this is something that goes on for many months then not so much.

My guess is these business are just going to sit there empty and the cost of restarting should be low. If the restauranters have the money (provided by their loyal customers) they will probably go straight back into the same location where they were.

The other factor to consider is even once the restrictions are lifted it is likely that we will be in a deep recession/depression. I can’t see there being huge demand for eating out when everyone is broke.
it sucks - but i think a better option is to use a charity to do this rather than give 'em cash. You lose taxes twice - once from your own end, and once from the restaurant's end.
The problem with thread^W event loops
Good luck keeping $1milion in canned tuna.
After my rant day, here examples from my work day:
I need to lay out two data-tables in a dialog, with 50% to each. I also need label headers above each section. The tables must grow and share available space, the labels stay put. In WPF, this 'daily driver' task, requires this:

- it can't be solved with DockPanel (which is OK.)
- it can't be solved with hbox(StackPanel), because of StackPanel's broken design (ie not handling resizing children.)
- so I'm forced to use Grid.. Which, for this trivial task, requires this:

<Grid Margin="0,10,0,10">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="30"/>
<RowDefinition Height="*"/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>

And then, on each of my 4 children, I have to put these:

..Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1"

What a bloated inelegant mess.
I don't want to specify absolute indices on my grid children, I want it handled by nesting or symbolic row identifiers (anything where I don't have to count/update row/column indices by hand.)

I'm not happy, that the layout rules for grids have their own "", "number", "number", "number%" system independent of the hor/vert alignment system.
I don't want to specify an absolute height on my label row.
> demand you wear a monitor

Looks like that'll cover the rest of us..
"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program." Milton Friedman
> no boolean answer we could give would satisfy the principle of least surprise

I think True follows the principle of least surprise.

> I don't think there's anything particularly related to 'functional programming' about the arguments used here

It imparts a better understanding of algebraic abstractions, including what it means to recursively reduce a data structure.

I'm not sure how that python code is supposed to be especially simple or elucidating. I think the following Haskell code is reasonably elucidating, since it elides any need to manually define a special case or base case:

all = getAll . foldMap All

Where "All" is the conjunction ("and") monoid, as defined in Data.Monoid.
Consulting Biweekly Update 1: Remote Work is the best work
Back when I was a wee young graphics programmer I taught myself to use Catmull-Rom splines to interpolate between camera positions (among many other things) for some stuff I was doing. Great to see one of the inventors getting recognition of all the cool stuff he's done!
Why the coronavirus outbreak is terrible news for climate change
From https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/l...

"The Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) is designed for Windows 10 devices and use cases where the key requirement is that functionality and features don’t change over time."
Not quite true, although it tends to be used a lot as Vulkan sales pitch.

Nintendo uses Vulkan on the Switch, but they also have their own Metal like API, NVN.

Vulkan is mostly used by PC ports into the Switch.

Exclusive Switch titles do so via NVN, Unreal or Unity bindings to NVN, not Vulkan.

Android has optional support for Vulkan, since only flagship devices ever bothered to actually provide it, with Android 10 Google has changed it into compulsory API. So only Android 10 or later devices are guaranteed to actually have proper Vulkan drivers available.

Windows supports Vulkan on the classic OpenGL ICD driver model, not available in Win32 and UWP sandboxes, which only allow for DirectX based code.

This is the actual reality, and not that typical Vulkan sales pitch.
London Underground switches on mobile phone coverage in tube tunnels
Great story, I love these! Personally I always thought that the difference between `bin` and `sbin` was that `sbin` contained binaries with Superuser privileges (hence the `s` at the beginning).
Here's my explanation as an ex fund manager:

Gold is the Schelling point flight-to-safety, anti-inflation good. Silver has similar qualities, and might as well be the same thing economically, but it isn't. You're more likely to have heard of gold bugs than silver bugs.

When it comes to a massive market panic like this, people think about what other people think about. Well, they always do that, but when there's a panic people have certain safe haven assets that everyone "agrees" are more likely to be safe than others.

Bonds are another one, though of course there you have historically had massive government intervention, making it a little less unintuitive why people should buy them.
In reply to nl. Actual inflation is the expansion of the money supply and there has been a vast expansion in it since 2008.

Where that extra money supply ends up going, is where the inflation is.
So in that case Neumann was a damn smart individual, he saw the money flood coming and tried to siphon off as much as he could in creative ways.

On one point, well done getting as much of the flood as he could, even though a lot of it was done in incredibly dodgy ways. Though these ways don't actually sound at all that ridiculous given some other accounting and financial practices that exist. He just got caught.

On another point, this shows how much of a divide there is between normal or even high earning people and the ultra wealthy. Even if you make six or seven figures working at a big company, you're not part of that ultra wealthy crowd, not even close. There is all this money and opportunity if you are already rich that doesn't seem to exist for working class people in general.

On my last point, it just goes to show how much of a divide there is between capital and society. Yes new taxes could be introduced but it will most likely hit those people earning six figures (and lower) than the ultra wealthy that got almost a billion dollar payout for failing. There are a lot things that society needs to reflect upon and consider, perhaps now is a good time because of the isolation.
My impression of the gold market is this: The gold bugs always say, that now is the right time to buy. It rarely is though. That's because issuers and supporters of fiat currency have an interest in the gold price not exploding, because it's basically a counter currency.
So you see the current divide of reported gold demand and the price being "artificially" depressed.

But the gold bugs can't really win, because the fiat currency owners wield infinite power, unless inflation really kicks in at some point. So gold is usually not that great of an investment.

That's my perception, I am not at all an expert on these matters.
Hopefully there is a general cure found against this virus, this is necessary as soon as possible.
Apple releases new MacBook Air and iPad Pro
It's not all that different to the annual medical everyone has to do in Japan - and all costs related to that are covered.

You don't get the neurological or bone density scans but you can request them for a few hundred dollars. The larger Japanese clinics also have all the big scary science machines you would expect in a hospital, so you can get everything done on the same day.
This is a centralized upgrade, so they won't change the contract just for me and we don't have a BYOD policy here. Anyway - external KB alleviates it mostly, I'm just ranting at a corporations making "Pro" or "Workstation" devices clearly downgraded for these same categories - professional workers. Macbooks without F keys, lenovo cutting keyboards from best in industry to "meh" and so on.
From a sovereignty perspective, that's a nonstarter.
Gold fell, but silver fell more.

So the ratio of gold:silver went up
Entrepreneurial Science Perspective on Luck and Value Propositions
It goes back to OpenCL, that is why you also hardly saw any OpenCL improvements on Apple platforms, after they offered the initial version to Khronos.
You can now download over 300k books from the NYPL for free
There's also https://en.coronahelpers.nl but I think it's only for Netherlands.

Although I misunderstood. Above site is for finding volunteers to help with daily tasks.
I like how the decline in formal systems is linked to the scourge of casual culture
For what it's worth, I agree with you. JSON is meant to be machine readable rather than human writeable and while I don't mind reading through JSON files, I really don't enjoy editing them because it's easy to break (eg including a trailing comma on the last entry in a map or array).

The lack of comments in JSON is an often raised point and it's really useful being able to add comments in a "living" config file.

The other issue I have with many JSON config files is they don't always contain all the options, so you end up having to search around for what the right directive is to add to a particular config file (this is my biggest gripe with hacking VS Code config files). This is less of an issue with other formats because you can often comment out lesser used directives.

I think the reason JSON is popular for config files is because it's easy to implement rather than easy to maintain and I see JSON as a regression from the TOML / INI etc formats that used to be commonplace beforehand.

I also agree with your frustrations with the replies about "people who know how to use a terminal know how to use JSON"; sure they do but that doesn't mean it is appropriate usage of JSON. I could write a config file using golfed Bash and say "but you should know how to read and write Bash" but people would understandably dismiss that saying it's still not user friendly and I don't see your point here any different.
Unbelievable that science still has to be proved - Aren't we living in a modern world?
Currently the issue is that the fed has removed the overnight liquidity requirements. This opens up the threat of a bank run. All of this is due to years of aggressively propping up the economy for political means, in reality we should have had a market decline a few years ago, but the government massively mismanaged their responsibilities and pushed us into more than one bubble, while hamstringing their ability to respond.
We are not a "believe me" kind of crowd last I checked. This is the kind of forum where many enjoy data and empiricism. Self-reflection on anecdata and personal bias is welcome as insightful when exploring data and interpretation.

As someone who vaguely works in healthcare, I have asked for journals that compare information systems management for public healthcare systems of different countries with different approaches and measuring outcomes. Contractors and US agency employees alike in my limited experience cannot point me to any, and this is the domain I am interested in. I am sure it will count in this crisis and countless others.

Do such periodicals exist? Anyone know?

When people say US or country X has a sucky healthcare system even computer scientists don't seem to care for scientific measurement of policy and supporting IT systems to do that a high level (ie US Medicare and Medicaid, for a small example, don't run themselves).
> little less unintuitive

a little more intuitive?

or you made a typo? (context suggests a typo, but the double negative makes it difficult to understand)
Transport is one of the least taxed emission sources there are, in o e way thats subsidies.
Seriously, the market has gone to hell so I bought $300 worth of silver and some coins. Sounds like a recession proof plan.
This is a great initiative, but it looks to me like most of these projects are directed to help the US. That's totally understandable, but there are many people all over the world willing to help with this, and it would be great if we could also collaborate to help everyone.

For example, as an engineer, I was interested in helping with the 1M ventilators project, but reading the description it looks like the goal is to create a reserve for the US of more than 740000 ventilators. Sorry, but I want to help people everywhere, not just in the US. The whole world needs ventilators.

Maybe I just misunderstood, and the US numbers were just indicative, but it does not look like a global effort. Does anybody knows of a similar initiative that is not so focused on the US?
> are buying crazy amounts of things with little reason

Seems like there is a good reason to buy more than usual - what constitutes "crazy amounts"?

> Consider for instance the absolute run on bottled water

Water being one of the most essential requirements for human life beyond breathable air?
How Founder of Gyana Is Leading the Movement from Ignorance to Knowledge?
> there are no headlights that meet DOT requirements that are purple or yellow.

FMVSS 108 doesn't directly define a permissible color for headlamps. It references some SAE documents that define it, but you have to pay money in order to access them.

Headlamps can have a range of permissible color output (e.g., halogen vs HID vs LED), and, apparently, bulb manufacturers like Sylvania manufacture halogen bulbs with a blue filter that apparently complies with FMVSS 108 even though they have a bluish color.
Physicists are amazing in coming up with names, from WIMPs (Weakly interacting massive particles) to something like Nuclear Pasta[1], with all sorts of culinary phases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pasta#Phases
But that's quite different from your original statement. We weren't talking about what matters at the end of one's life.

You simply said "[family is] all we have". I think it's fair to interpret that as applicable to any point in one's life, or broadly all of one's life (barring emergencies), not just on one's deathbed.

Life is pretty long. It's great to have family, and I love mine. But I can't admire them all day.
> As far as I'm aware

To what extend do you expect your awareness of what's happening in China to be accurate?
cough legal reasons cough
Yeah, politicians need voters to not completely hate them so they can get re-elected. Imagine if instead politicians were selected by lottery, served shorter terms, and had their appointments staggered.

I wonder if any authors have given this a shot in fiction, I'd read it.
They may have simply not understood. I’ve read your post half a dozen times and I’m still not sure what you’re trying to say.
It's been shown by a few documentaries (by ARTE european channel) that up to at least the 3rd of march and in Beijing, you are not authorized to go out without a face mask (for grocery shopping for instance). Each family has a few "permits" available to go out but facemask (chirurgical type) is not an option for those going.

Your temperature as well as your mask compliance will be checked pretty much at every venue/transportation/shop.

Source (in french): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQD_-2KI244
What does the Terminal app has to do with WSL? And WSL 2 will be in 2004
The problem with silver is the much larger supply compared to gold and the market cap is comparatively tiny (even less than the cryptocurrency market!). It's if course possible, but I find it quite unlikely.
New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
For a tiny valve that size, you'd almost certainly need to use a MicroCT scanner though. I dont know how many hospitals keep one on hand since they're very niche and there are obvious issues imaging anything living (movement, radiation exposure, etc).

Its typically used outside of hospital environments for scanning. The large scanners won't give you the level of detail you'd need, at least not the ones I worked with.
I wish the pi 4 was available in a compute module, it’s a great idea.
Ask HN: Is your business suited to these economic conditions?
Finally a great terminal (although still bare bones) for Windows! Just 20 years late... we wanted that back in 2000. Instead if we had to use Windows, we got CMD.EXE that could easily resize vertically and not horizontally.
Apple announces new iPad Pro with trackpad support and a wild new keyboard cover
I don't think so. This finding is just one piece of the big paleolithic complex, which is systematically excavated for a century. Human remains from the complex cover almost twenty thousand years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostyonki-Borshchyovo_archaeol...
> Plus bees are probably interdimensional beings.

You misspelled "mice".
HCL (HashiCorp's version of JSON) would be ideally suited for this kind of configurations.
There’s been buzz this week about upside. Reality is likely to end up somewhere in the middle. Unless it doesn’t.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/climate/coronavirus-habit...

https://qz.com/1812670/a-design-trends-forecaster-calls-the-...

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/17/coronav...
How is breaking the 1940 not more accurate?
> His results speak for themselves.

Do you mean creating the technical underpinnings for world-scale software-as-a-service systems that devour our society whole?

Or do you mean slaving hopelessly for decades trying to convince people of his rightness and attempting to force a rigid, legalistic approach to humane software development on the world, only to lose what good reputation he had developed due to an utter refusal to account for human frailty, emotions, and impatience when discussing difficult topics in the public eye?

To be clear, I think the media treated Stallman terribly in the debacle around Epstein's Media Lab ties.

I also think his failings as a software theorist are the same ones that led to him creating a situation that could be so easily and dangerously misunderstood.

My overall point is just that his results are not flawless, unmitigated good. They suggest to me that his software philosophy was not sufficient to guarantee good results.
You can transfer ownership of gold without moving your gold. Just as you can transfer ownership of a house without moving the house.

Paper money began as a claim on an asset stored in a vault.
Silver is an industrial metal. Gold has no real industrial application and is mostly a store of value. So the article is comparing apples and oranges...
Downvote and flag this all you like, but it's too late.

The pieces of the puzzle were out there for anyone to assemble.

Sorry 50cent party members, but the truth is coming out. Soon the whole world will hate you (if it doesn't already).
Subspace – A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI (fork)
Hi, we have just set this on top of the OpenVidu Call roadmap. We'll fix it soon.
Srcinv v0.5: source code static audit tool
The Fed and other central banks have almost total control over nominal inflation because they control the printing presses. They can create money by buying bonds and destroy it by selling them. They have bugger all control over real inflation but that’s a matter for the fiscal authorities to try and deal with by demand management.

“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” Milton Friedman

Edited to fix elementary mistake as pointed out by forkerenok
If an ancient Roman owned gold and traveled in time to today, he would still be a rich man. Can't say the same about any currency or stock. Gold holds value long term.
got it. this is my first time posting, my bad
Seems like a good time not to have a phone made by a company whose profits mainly come from selling you data.

oH BUt It'S NoT a waLLeD GArdEn!1

ffs.
This is incredibly fucking asinine.
I would say 40 years late, but our point is the same!
Try alacritty
1) If you can't already ten figure touch type, then learn that. (Plenty of resources already recommended in other comments.)

2) Use an ergonomic split keyboard of some sort so your posture is much more relaxed and you're not hunched up trying to type on a straight keyboard.

Those two things will get you a long way. You can worry about other productivity improvements after that, but honestly I think they will be incremental once you've done the above.

Other fast gimme. Remap the capslock key to something useful but usually more awkward to reach. I've remapped it to ctrl, but considering switching to esc as I'm a vim user. Mind you, I've also got a FS3-P USB Triple Foot Switch Pedal under the desk with one of them mapped to esc, so not so urgent there. I wouldn't go remapping too much else otherwise it'll trip you up too much whenever you're at someone else's keyboard.

I learnt to touch-type in 1986 on a mechanical typewriter in school. I knew I was going to work with computers and so knew touch typing would be a valuable skill. I was the only male in the class as everyone else perceived it as a class for women looking to go into secretarial work.

I am absolutely amazed that touch typing is no longer taught in school in this age of ubiquitous computing.

As far as split keyboards, I love my MS Natural Ergonomics 4000. If I could get one with the number pad cut off (less reach for the mouse) it would be perfect. They do tend to last and last which is good as they're getting harder to find when one finally breaks. I've tried the MS Sculpt but I find the mushy esc key a real drawback (again, vim user). Overall just not especially nice to type on. I also do use the function keys and the extra media keys on the 4000 a fair bit, so missed them on the sculpt.

One of the advantages of vim is you can do almost all the editing without having to move your hands from the keyboard. You don't event have to move to the arrow keys as you can use hjkl for movement. Once learnt, it can be very efficient.

If I hand the time and energy, I would consider learning the Colemak layout. Given vi is hardwired into my brain by now I suspect it would make Dvorak too awkward.

Funny story. Once you can touch-type, you learn to unconsciously position your hands properly by feeling for the little marks on the J and F keys. When I worked in Japan, they didn't have these marks and I was forever drifting my hands over they keyboard until getting annoyed and having to look down to put my hands on the right row. You don't realise how many times a day you rely on that.

It wasn't until one of the locals pointed out to me that the curve of the J and F keys was deeper than the other keys on their keyboard that that particular stressor was solved. I learned to feel for that instead.