skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also air freight volume is off the charts! We’re starting to see airlines use their 777’s with cargo in the belly and boxes on the seats.

Yes, after resumption of commercial activities, air freight was record cheap for a few weeks, than it was hit again by airport closures.

Now I got news that SZ airport will be reopening again for freight only flights under some special regime

As for ports, we have a container stuck in Yantian since Feb 14, no news from the shipper when they can load. The freight broken says the shipping company says the ship is there moored, but they have no permission berth or to do anything besides pass instant noodles to the crew.

Yeah, it's best to say we are having a monumental pileup that is continuing since the spring festival
The original 1994 Intel Pentium did not have any vectorized instructions.
Brent Simmons is definitely not talking about an Electron app.
Run for office if you want to contribute towards a fix.
A long time ago, I read that you could double the wages of farm laborers and it would add like two cents or four cents to the cost of a box of breakfast cereal.
Well I’ve seen at least three recent CppCon talks where they say that ‘for’ loops are harmful and a template function should be used always, so I would hope there would not be a removal of these things, just a non-concern with requiring that changes don’t break the compilation of 10+ year old code.
The SWF spec was completely open, there were multiple Flash players both open source and commercial. So a lie.

Flash was designed, as its very first use case, for touch screen kiosks. So a lie.

Flash Player was perfectly performent, shit code that ran on it is different to the platform. When the first round of HTML 5 demos came out I made my own Flash equivalents, the HTML 5 demos ran at 80% CPU on my machine, the Flash versions ran at 5%.
True. BC only exists due to rampant resource exploitation. We are certainly more diversified than Alberta, but should definitely do better. Alberta built their whole economy on garbage quality oil and didn't prepare for the inevitable. Adapt or die. It sure makes the "prosperity" cheques look premature.

Fun fact, Albertan politicians wanted to nuke the tarsands[0] in the 1950's and the plan got way further down the road than it ought to have. They thought it would liquefy the oil and they could just pump it out.

If there will be a silver lining to this pandemic, it will be people realizing how precarious their ongoing existence is. Maybe people will be more willing to drop the entitlement, accept reality and do what needs doing.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Oilsand
This is true in theory. But in practice that revenue/profit often is allocated inefficiently anyway in the form of excessive exec compensation and stock buyback programs when valuations are high. Such as when your stock is trading at a high multiple. So the company is trading cash (which has a book value) for stock (which also has a book value but is probably overvalued) which juices the stock price in the short term. But stock assets vs cash are far more volatile to shock and thus provides less operating flexibility for big companies.

Imagine if you had that substantial cash reserve. This would be an opportune time to buy back shares on the open market after taking care of operating expenses.

One reason cash reserves don't often exist is "activist" investors and private equity who calculate (book value - market cap) as their potential upside from buying undervalued shares and stripping the cash assets before dumping the remains.

Anyway it's an complicated mix. I'd like there to be more emphasis on sustainable valuation growth from some adminstration and the SEC, but I don't know enough to suggest solutions to improve governance.
have you read the article?
That seems overly simplistic, especially considering my phone bill today is still billed by the byte, for instance.
I saw it working with teams too, it becomes part of the onboarding, and as soon as you have one feature used everyday nobody forgets (or anyway everyone else will remind you soon enough).
I stand corrected, also the model does not take into account the Z axis, magnitudes of area added by highrises.
Yes, but I would say as you go down in income, there’s almost zero of “wanting” to do the job and mostly “needing” to do it.

Whereas an engineer might answer that they like the work they do, I doubt someone bending over all day and picking strawberries would.
It frequently goes the other way. If people are spending more on food that lowers the demand for services which thus lowers those services costs. Housing for example is limited by people’s ability to pay for it, with clear long term trends showing an inverse relationship between housing costs and food costs.

PS: In the short term inflation and deflation can be caused by a huge range of effects, but in the long term it’s bound by government spending and taxation.
I'd say that it hasn't been Tor's goal.

But blocking has become so common that user pressure to prevent it can no longer be ignored. If they don't act, they risk being replaced.

I typically get around it by routing a VPN service, or a private VPN, through Tor. That also enables apps that require UDP. There is the risk of deanonymization, if VPN connections last too long and pin Tor circuits. Or if users don't adequately anonymize payment for VPN services or VPS used for private VPNs.

I started playing with a set of bash scripts that creates multiple VPN connections, with each using a different Tor circuit, and tests them. It periodically switches from one to another, and kills the old one. So both Tor circuit and VPN exit IPv4 change periodically. A script ongoingly starts and tests new VPN connections, to maintain availability. It's basically a crude hack of Tor's approach to circuit management.
Civboot: A civilizational bootstrapper: 001-Introduction [audio]
Is it possible to filter it, or bubble it though a chlorine solution, or something?
>We kind of have to do it all at the same time.

I totally disagree. The all or nothing concept means nothing will be done. There will always be a single reason someone can come up with to not do something. Why let that one thing stop other advances?

I much prefer the accomplish a goal, move to the next goal concept. In the 70s, it would literally rain acid. Luckily, we realized that making a few small changes would have a drastic affect. The ozone layer was getting destroyed, and again we make a few small changes with great affect. The proof is there that incremental changes are worthwhile.
One book that I have enjoyed is "The (Mis)Behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward" by Benoit Mandelbrot. Have a look at his Wikipedia page, it has a link to the book on the Internet Archive.

Many here have mentioned "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"; let me add that there exists a book called "A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street", but I haven't read it yet.

Browse Wikipedia on any trading-related topic you find interesting and you are probably going to find some books, such as "The Quants" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quants

Finally, you might want to check out the works of Jack Schwager [1], Michael Lewis [2] or Ed Thorpe [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_D._Schwager

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp
Davidzweig, thanks for posting. I'll take a look at your initiative. I'm already involved in one COVID-related volunteer effort, but may be able to spare some time.
I get that you wouldn't put it into -products, but what about solutions? Don't they also make a lot of the stuff around the sensors?
Switching from wood to coal for home heating does improve air quality, at least. That's the one benefit I'm aware of.
Sorry for the delay! You should definitely just attend the conference: https://www.knowledgegraph.tech/
OMG. I hadn’t read Right Ho, Jeeves in ten years and it’s perfect for today.

Beautiful clean interface and I have not noticed any typos so far. Kudos.
If All Lives Matter, why does Bill Gates support shutting down the U.S. economy?
Fair enough. I disagree however that the health of a community will always fall within normal courtesy bounds.
The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life
Unfortunately if such things are banned, even a video discussing it is impacted. Youtube often takes down videos when they are discussing wrongdoing simply because wrongdoing is bad so any mention is automatically bad. Then there is a fight to get it restored.
Nevertheless, scope wise it behaves like an implicit parameter with lexical scope. It just muddies the issue to talk about dynamic scope.
This is incredible, and shows how much China has now pushed over the WHO. I'm almost certain Chinese pressure on the WHO also influenced a lot of their statements.
> I think all moderation activity should be transparent to the users of the community

It's a reasonable thing to think, and a lot of people do, but the worry is that a full moderation log would lead to reams more meta-discussion and litigation, which would amount to a DoS attack on the limited resources we have. That is, resources which ought to go into making the site better for everyone would get squandered answering objections from the litigious sort of users who make two new objections for every answer you give them. That would be a catastrophic outcome, not only because of the DoS aspect, not only because those users are a tiny minority, but because of what it would do to moderator morale, which is precarious to begin with and could easily tip into burnout.

That doesn't mean we don't care about transparency—we do! We always answer users' questions. We just do it on an ad hoc basis rather than with a bureaucratic system.

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Protecting your interests (economic, freedom or whatever else) sounds like your goal. Ultimatums are the route you are choosing to get there.

And the point to remember is ultimatums work when you have established authority and power over everyone else ala Xi, Putin etc.

In democracies it doesn't work because power is distributed. To force the political/judicial/business/military/intelligence/religious/social/media circles in all parts of the country to all bend over is probably the most complicated route to choose to get to your goal.
Also the standards, produce being wasted too much.
Are they only allowed to think thoughts that nobody else has had?
And switching from coal to number 2 heating oil also improves air quality -- drastically.
Kaz, you are the best!
Canada wins 500,000 jobs lost at 10% of the population. Oil and gas prices is a double whammy.
I submitted this because it thoroughly chronicles, with citations, the spread of the coronavirus in the United States, and the failings of the federal government in responding. I personally found it intellectually stimulating, despite the political aspects.
Can I get a link to your finished project? Thanks!
> olives could become a major problem (Nov/Dec)

I don't think so. My country is a top olive oil exporter and I can tell you that stocks and harvest are at full capacity. Many people (my father included) did not harvest this year because of the low prices. Many exporters are also struggling to sell their produce.
It originated from a meme of the Federal Reserve printing more monopoly money. "Printing machine goes brrrr". As they turn the crank ever faster making the printing machines smoke.
Is this the same space as oxide computers?
Gargantuan chaotic gravitational 3-body systems:irreversibility to Planck length
I was put off by the title of this book, but after reviewing the Table of Contents, I'm quite intrigued and I'll be picking up a copy. Thanks for the recommendation -- I probably wouldn't have gotten past it's title without it.
How are their options today limited by that decision? It’s not like there is some class of expert fruit pickers that was decimated and would take years to train again. Unless they had the power to deny their domestic workforce whatever other opportunities they had that made them unwilling to do farm work, it would have ended in the same spot.
> Cheap good food => more people can afford to buy it => less hunger/suffering in the world.

You can have cheap good food with mechanical and/or high-scale production. Just means you'll be eating bananas instead of strawberries. And whatever's in-season or canned out-of-season instead of fresh anything year-round. And chickpeas instead of beef. Sugar instead of honey. Lettuce instead of kale.

If anything, this is an opportunity to make cheap food even cheaper instead of using that land resource to make luxury fresh fruits/herbs year-round.

People will complain about it non-stop though.
It's funny how everybody (in the first world) just takes for granted the fact that a large part of the agricultural workforce is low-paid migrant workers. All of us want our food to be available all year round, and cheap. It's been my opinion for a while that food prices do not represent the real cost of food production when taking into account all the externalities. Low-wage labor is just one of those externalities.
LTP is only a small part of testing Linux.
"You mine orders of magnitude less uranium ore."

I suspect this is true, but the amount of material you need to turn over to get this uranium ore is tremendous. I wouldn't be surprised to learn it is roughly equal to coal mining.

There is a fairly detailed chapter in the excellent William T. Vollmann book _No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies_ where he describes in fine detail the process of mining and refining uranium - it is much more energy intensive than I imagined ...
Ask HN: What is HN definitely bad at?
Has the empty container imbalance problem been fixed?
A "jobs program" that would have kept (more) manufacturing capacity of surgical masks in-country seems like it would have been a very good thing right now.
And Rust is very, very expressive and concise for a bare metal language. Serde is a beautiful thing.
I’ve spent at least $2000 using Apple Pay on the Web that I wouldn’t have otherwise.
"My workplace just sent out an email Friday afternoon saying that they're Fedexing layoff paperwork out starting Monday."

Ugh, feel for you. Hopefully they have some sane severance package.
Tristate area here, I am willing to donate time and skills as well. But this would require more than just tech skills - how are we going to find jobs for potentially a few million people fast, for example?
One of my job tasks was improving our custom string library. In VB!
Sure InStr was slow: but we were trying to do "starts with" across very long strings.
Sure, it worked, but a slightly smarter solution was 100 times faster.
Upon finding it I went on a search, I found it written nearly identical 10 years before me, in a different version of a string library (hint, that one was faster).

The trick to knowing we needed to improve it: profiling!
Among the other things we do - we produce long 4K videos with production quality that we have to transfer elsewhere using the Internet. Traffic wise it dwarfs our programming needs and everything else and not much I can do about it.
I'd go to the fields at once if it be worth my time.

That means 50€/hour plus benefits, and fully paid transportation and accommodation.

There are enough jobless people in Germany that should be able to pick any number of fields. For this kind of money, that'd be a no-brainer.

Here we have two problems: Wages are too low to pay for higher food prices that could sustain local field labour, and the majority of average people are already having their hands full with and pockets empty from paying rent, gas, transportation, emergency fund & food as-is. That means, all other jobs also don't pay that well here, and there is simply no local money that could pay high prices.

It's the consequence of having an export-oriented economy: labour must at all cost be as low as possible.
Thank you for your insight, it is great to get to hear from someone in the trenches and an "average SAAS Joe" as you call it. The keyword in my opening statement is "eventually" as I do understand the need to hustle initially, potentially for a long time. When work is fun it is no longer work, as someone smart once said. What is hard to motivate for me is doing all that work for (mostly) someones else gain and for a product that I personally wouldn't work on on my own time, like I do now in my day to day. Thanks again!
Will inequality worsen the toll of the pandemic in the U.S.?
Failing that, have you heard of spamgourmet? Along with a password manager, I have unique logins and passwords to most websites I use.
It would be an exercise in autodidacticism to do so yourself.
A Primer on Emergency Occupational Licensing Reforms for Combating Covid-19
It worked for our neighborhood. A retired engineer down the road did exactly this- started a private company to provide good wireless P2P internet to our rural, mountainous community.

He’s about 7 years in and now serves 70% of our area. It ain’t cheap, but he’s been profitable enough now to be able to buy additional bandwidth from his upstream. We’re about to get 50/25 in the coming months.

I offer my services to him for free just to help contribute and make sure he doesn’t go out of business. It feels like a community effort! I set up the online billing portal and recurring payments, another guy goes on people’s roof to install the ubiquiti receiver, etc. we all chip in.
CQRS and microservices has so much overhead, I'm amazed at how many companies adopt microservices without having anyone know a single thing about distributed systems. I think people underestimate the glue required to make microservices be useful. I had a similar situation at my last company where they spent a year and a half converting their monolith into half ass microservices and it still wasn't working properly. They also stopped releasing new features on their product during this entire conversion which obviously lead to a drop in customers. The mass exodus of employees at the end was something beautiful though.
Everyone was raising wages, so everyone’s prices also went up, and Walmart still likely has the best cheap:convenient ratio. Point is Walmart can’t choose to raise everyone’s wages 6%, unless everyone else does too, because the whole reason people go to Walmart is it’s the cheapest.

Costco targets people with more disposable income, so not exactly a comparable market.
>As Tim explained to me, first off, the reason why VB does this seemingly bizarre “find the first character match, then check if query is a prefix of source” logic is because the skipto method is not written in the naive fashion that I showed here. The skipto method is a single x86 machine instruction.

oh my bad then, from this text it sounded like it was written in assembly.
This is highly opinionated, since I don't know Greg Wyler at all, but I do remember his Terracom broadband satellite effort in Rwanda, which looked noble at first, but was more a pretext to pay himself a generous salary, than doing anything.

So when he started OneWeb and then Ob3 (or vice-versa) I was skeptical. Now, reading about OW, and how it was mostly a middleman, I would say I am not surprised at all that he would pull this one and blame a virus. With chapter 11 he gets to protect his equity and compensation

I expect him to rebound, with even better compensation.
How to Configure AspectJ in Spring Boot
Maybe there could be some form of insurance.
100%. Running a SaaS is a ton of work. You will get far busier. If you are successful even more.
First Order Motion Model for Image Animation
My boss will never sign off on using a new language?
Radical Solutions
Not OP, but one of the biggest issues that I've had with prometheus is that doesn't support the backfilling of timeseries data. Bringing it up to the prometheus devs led to oddly indignant responses that they had no intention of supporting backfilling, because that's not what prometheus was designed for. In large production systems, like prometheus is meant for, it was a very disappointing missing feature, and I could absolutely see why someone would want to fork if nothing else, just to get away from that level of indignancy.
It's not going to happen. Europe will handle it better than anyone else if they use their imagination and not loose their minds - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-...
Thank you! That makes me feel less like I wasted my time...it's embarrassing to realize how long I spend writing one of those.
The point of video meetings and "who goes next" is valid. Have actually had the exact issue. Simple fix could be to order the faces the same way on everybody's screen.

If I'm have one-to-one meeting, I prefer to site face-to-face with other person. Of course with multiple participants this is not possible. Wouldn't it be an example of "bad skeumorphism" if the video conferencing would take these real-life limitations to software? While the grid-of-faces is not natural, it allows you to see everybody at once.
So then you know that I am calling out the headline of scientific article for being a lie.
Do you think headlines of scientific articles should be lies?
Historically, Walmart thrived in relatively small town, rural areas. When I was homeless in downtown San Diego, I had to take a bus elsewhere to occasionally visit the Walmart. There aren't any in the downtown area. They don't typically do well in the big city.

You presume people have those options. You presume they can readily and conveniently get to them in a way that makes financial and logistical sense.

In my small town, people who hate Walmart and are happy to drive an hour to a bigger city once a month to "visit the city" and do some of their shopping grudgingly shop at Walmart because it's the only source for a lot of things, even if you are happy to pay more money just to spite Walmart.

People from even smaller towns around us take the bus to shop here (or drive here), mostly at the Walmart. My small town is a regional shopping hub and has shopping and eateries more like a city several times larger because of it. We still can't reasonably get away from shopping at Walmart.

Don't get me wrong. I'm a Walmart fan and wouldn't have moved here if there was no Walmart. I'm just saying I've spoken with a local who hates Walmart and grudgingly does some of their shopping there anyway because they can't always find reasonable alternatives, try though they might.
<disclaimer: have been volunteering for an org fighting food waste by organizing volunteer pickers>

It's simpler than you think.

1. Commercially viable picking actually requires some training (identify pickable fruits, avoid damaging plants, don't half pick)

2. Farmers (rightfully) don't like people who have no knowledge in growing crops hanging around in their fields. They just do dumb things like drink from irrigation pipes (for some crops irrigation is periodically mixed with fertilizer or pesticides).

3. Volunteers are not trustworthy. You have 30 RSVP-ed and 5 show up. Picking season is usually a narrow window of opportunity.

4. Most importantly - the vast majority of people (from the subset of human race who may volunteer for picking in the first place) really don't know how to work consistently for 8-10 hours. They show up 8 AM (3h too late), then they sit down to drink coffee. Your equation is 10 volunteers ~ 1 professional labourer. And then you have to bring professional labour anyhow to clean after them.

All in all, this doesn't work.