skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you can use your own anecdotal case to disprove a huge societal movement affecting tens of millions when in some cases the current market offerings albeit inflexible in some of their aspects and need a revamp already exist and cover the great majority of the market ie: cabs vs uberlikes.

Edit1: Could you clarify, I'm curious as to what kind of the jet set class items would be accessible at the entry level or not so far high in the gig-econ?

Edit2: Also I do not mean to say that the gig-econ does not offer economical sustenance or reinsertion for workers that cannot endure more classical jobs but they're the great minority in these kind of jobs but that is just my own opinion and read on the market
Think of the systemic effects. If everyone ordered online, fewer shoppers would go to the stores, changing the topology of infection from a mesh to a star. Spokes would likely develop immunity, and would be less surface area to test, if we had any tests /s

edit: not star, hub and spoke, sorry
Sure, it’s likely a mixture of cash, short term treasuries, i.e. TBills and a few other things. None are volatile, and short term investments generally exist to protect against inflation, with an easy eject button if you need to convert to cash quickly.
Why in the world would you stock it and use up valuable space, and fuel on carrying it around the world?

Also, it surely cannot be a good idea to keep massive amounts of acid around for non essential purposes.
What do you iPhone users do with all of your power?
Khan Academy don't care about users feedback for years, so, no donations from me.

https://khanacademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115...
I think that the main complaint is that the early versions of python 3 had deep issues with this and it took years to fix them.
k8s has no performance overhead and can be useful even for simple applications (like for reproducible dev environments and CI). Agreed, otherwise.
Note that Wikimedia has a huge income already. They're important and valuable, but if we're talking about who doesn't get enough publicity and donations, it's not Wikipedia/Wikimedia.
Why run KA as a non-profit at all then?

If you run something for the common good, you extract whatever you need to live and to run the thing — not $800k.

At least, that's what I would do if I ran a non-profit, I would take only the money I need to live/perform my duties in the upkeep of the service.

Which would not be anywhere near $800k.
If all that can be flushed is human waste and paper, then why not put it directly into the ocean? It's quickly and completely bio degradable (eaten by fish and micro organisms).
Because Angular, React, Vue aren't needed for like 90% of those applications, server side rendering is more than enough.

Specially when tons of "native" applications are actually Cordova and Ionic garbage that take longer to start than a HTTP server reply to the native browser.

Native applications are great, when we are talking about stuff that actually makes use of the GPGPU or hardware sensors.

Outside games, office and drawing applications, I don't have any applications installed that couldn't easily be done as mobile Web sites.
That is also a very interesting way to think about it, if I understood you correctly. Seeing the host as another player, any "bad luck" he has, should translate into myself having a higher chance of success if used correctly.
anything going against hivemind of majority, see my downvoted comment above, I just expressed unpopular opinion and they can't they it as adults
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To me that speaks more about the wage disparity between normal folks and those working on Wall Street, etc. No one needs that much money, and someone willing to take such a pay cut yet still be well above the average only exposes that truth.
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geekbench have unreliable perfromance stats that've been favoring iphone for a looong while.

check your conclusions - 90% of articles with rocking iphone performance cite geekbench.
maybe he's got the cash - but i'm doubtful he would blow it on them. As he's indicated, he's gotten better returns from buying parts of companies than buying them out whole. I would be surprised if he does any M&A during this downturn, likely instead opting to invest more into the positions he's already got.
I hold the position represented by Dan Palotta in this Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_abou...

There is nothing distasteful about non-profit CEOs wanting high pay. We're speaking about the founder of something that has and is helping millions of people around the world with arguably one of the most difficult and important educational needs. Khan Academy wouldn't be here without Khan himself and the world would be lesser for it. I see absolutely no reason why the CEO of such an organizations shouldn't paid in the same manner as for-profits.

I'm snarky, because the implied notion of "people doing good instead of chasing profits don't deserve the same pay/good life" is nothing short of crazy to me.
https://twitter.com/nathanlawkc/status/1243889673207832577?s...
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If West was reduce to entertainment provider, I doubt we'll get to keep or flawed democracy and freedoms. I'd rather have slower cellular network rather than CCP-style government...
The US government gives out debt of varying duration. Generally speaking, the shorter the duration the lower the interest rate and the higher the liquidity ("ease of conversion to cash").

Treasury bills are is debt with a duration of less than a year and BRK has a lot of those:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/treasurybill.asp
Long as in centuries long.

It's been an ongoing problem.
I don't think its jealousy. Millions of people became unemployed in the last 2-3 weeks, so it feels disingenuous to ask for money when he's making $800k when people are living off their savings.

It might be better to donate to a local school, food bank, or neighbors who are having a hard time instead.
But Khan Academy is a non-profit. In a business, the relationships between various parties are structured in a locally rational manner. When someone offers $1000 to a business they expect value back.

Khan Academy is soliciting donations, an avenue of human interaction which asks us to suspend this local rationality and instead transact on hope and trust. That's the difference to me between a business transaction and a donation.
Face flannel, I think. The Dutch is "washandje".
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Well, sadly NGO are just financial investment types for people like that, they see they can get away with no IRS and donations and go for it...
If China will get stronger, they'll force other governments to follow their rules. And it's likely that those Chinese-friendly governments will do Chinese-style stuff locally too.
If you have to make 120m each in campaign donations to 3 senators to get the contract, plus another 40m in actual cost of research, supply and profit margin and then the navy only wants to buy 1000 units because its new and they get in trouble for buying necessary supplies instead of cool shit like torpedoes, then you sort of have to charge 400k a unit...
How is it non-essential if that's the only way to get the toilets going?
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We had a huge influence right up until push came to shove and then we had none. I agree we can't become great - isolation or not; I believe that isolation isn't on the table either - next few weeks excluded. The reality is that France and Germany shafted the UK publicly and conclusively during the euro crisis, they also shafted the Greeks - but I'm not Greek so that's less of a problem for me. Remember also that they removed an Italian government and installed a technocrat. Yet lots of people seem to have forgotten that and either don't care or can't bring themselves to see the reality of the situation.
> SpaceX had only a very small (single digits) number of test launches they could do before running out of money. A couple more grid fin unknowns causing failures and SpaceX would have gone bankrupt so it wasn't clear back then.

This is in no way true. When SpaceX was working on F9 reuse, their business was (very) profitable at their launch prices. They are still pricing F9 launches at a point where the launches would be profitable if every launch was expendable. Reusability was not what they needed to win -- it was the victory lap after they had already won.

There is a lot of fud arguing otherwise based on external estimates, but they all fail to take into account that the internal cost of F9 is only less than a fifth of what all the competitors pay for their comparable rockets. The reason is that SpaceX is extremely vertically integrated, and every component that goes into their rockets is heavily optimized for cost first and performance second.

For example, most other American launchers use RL-10's for their upper stage engines. There is a good reason for this -- RL-10 with it's best-in-class Isp is quite possibly the best upper stage engine that exists. However, this comes at a rather steep cost that is not public knowledge but was in 2017 estimated to be ~$25M. The costs of the rocket engines on a F9 is not public knowledge either, but is known to be less than $500k each, or at most ~$5M total.
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If/when the corporate grip on the internet is tightened enough that even VPNs and onion routing become impractical or sabotaged, I could absolutely see low-bandwidth mesh networks provide a primarily text-based unfiltered communications channel. The caveat of course being that strong encryption would be absolutely mandatory.
This isn't particularly radical, arts and science already receive quite a bit of government funding in many countries. I suggest doing more of it and expanding it to new areas, and adding the CC0 requirement. I doubt that it would cost much compared to the amounts governments are throwing around these days to support people, and at least some creative output would come from it.
Donating or not is up to you, and absolutely your choice.

But that link shows that they did listen, they understood, they debated, and they decided that they don't want that functionality. They think it's counter-productive for how they're trying to educate their students.

Right or wrong, you can't say they don't care. Merely that they don't agree with you.
> I'm not sure western media is eager to portray China's doom

Then you definitely don't know how the world functions. There are allocated funds exactly with this purposes. There are the whole groups of people whose main agenda and work description is doing exactly that. But it will be often wrapped in some different wording like "responding to the propaganda" or something, even if the "response" is actual new propaganda being created and then published in the most media.
A Letter to the UK from Italy
So answering the question and explaining their decision is not caring?

I'll donate a little extra for you.
How are you going to have a PWA that works offline with server side rendering? The latest “Apple wants to force everyone to develop apps instead of using the web so they can get their 30% cut of mostly free apps” controversy was about offline storage expiring after 7 days.

Not to mention that the same people who are buying cheap Android phones probably have limited data plans and/or low bandwidth.
>foxnews.com

Not just no, _hell no_.

Here's the interview in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLvg0KnTKhU&t=19m10s
What about no.js?
But not out of the pockets of tax payers (or in Khan's case, donations). If people pay for Trump hotels, Trump speaking at their party, Trump endorsing their book, that's not the elected government's choice. Similarly, non-profit CEOs are free to have a hotel chain on the side, but I'm not sure it should come from donations that people gave to the platform.

That said, compared to other ceo salaries I've seen in the USA... This isn't that ridiculous indeed, it gets much worse (and I'm talking only about non-profits).
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You assume that everyone reading a copy of the book, would also be willing (or able) to purchase it. That’s not the case.
I worked for a not-for-profit where, 3 years in, we learned the CEO was making as much as everyone else combined for the first year. Guy was also doing minimal work.

I got fed up with these things.

If Khan either open-licenses the platform, or takes a pay cut to $200,000, I'll donate. If he does neither of those, I'm treating this as a 501(c)3-by-technicality only. It's a good for-profit, mind you, but still a for-profit by any definition I (rather than the IRS) would use.
It doesn’t matter if you have transactions or not. Just make sure you execute things in the right order! Same for referential integrity, if you just make sure nothing ever goes wrong, there’s no need for it! /s
Don't forget the other direction: the people who die due to the shortage of ICU beds. There will be uninfected people who die that in normal times would have survived.

Only the excess deaths will allow us to have a true comparison, but sadly we only get those long after.
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Good idea, I will look at adding revisions. Thanks for your comments
The most transparent number is a direct comparison between deaths last year and deaths this year, in the same timespan (eg. Jan 2019 vs Jan 2020, and so on). But there is a lot of gamesmanship at play among nations, both for internal security and external geopolitics reasons, so these numbers are too much too often false after convenient miscalcultation or plain manipulation.
Dubai firm tied to Trump posts loss as virus downturn looms
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There was a recent article on HN about nurses being evicted from their homes for being nurses because of the pandemic. So it's really honest to god not just gig workers who are getting shafted here and treated like "lepers" so to speak.

Some of the stuff described in the article is really unfortunate and all too often an outcome of a large bureaucracy. That doesn't make it okay. They need to come up with better procedures and err on the side of making sure people don't deliver while infected and that they get any sick pay they deserve.

Supposedly, there's a stimulus package coming out that may help give some people relief as well. And I think we need a whole lot more emphasis on preventative measures generally for this pandemic.

If the US had universal healthcare, this would be less of a problem. If we solved some of our other issues, like our housing supply issues, this would be less of a problem.

Blaming the distress these workers are experiencing entirely on the fact that they are gig workers isn't reasonable. That's just one piece of the picture here.
It wasn't Unreal Engine that gave you that perf. It was your GTX 1080. Unreal Engine (or any Engine) in this situation is doing next to nothing.

Sorry it's just this kind of thing pushed my buttons. I see someone showing their engine and claiming perf when their example is 99.999% GPU and 0.001% anything to do with their engine.
> a pretty inefficient allocation of capital

Why? If it would help with scenarios like this, what's the argument for it being "inefficient"? Should we only think of the happy path on our books?

The reality is that these costs are offset to the customer, in the name of increased profits. I wonder how different pricing would be for airlines (and other businesses) if they didn't rely on revenue to bail them out of market fluctuations like this, and smaller ones they're sure to experience during the year.

The economy lately is like a Formula 1 engine that is designed for acceleration and short 15,000 RPM bursts of insane speed but only lasts for a few months of use.
I would like to correct your statement slightly:
Authoritarianism and totalitarianism of any ideological color leads to abuse of power.

All political systems are susceptible to being abused by those with a desire for power over others. That is why leaders must always be accountable to the people. Most politicians are deeply vested in trying to break that accountability.

We shouldn't have to choose between one-party political rule or corporate drone bought-and-sold rule as the only options.
This seems a little unfair, given while the compiler is an even bigger pedant than I am, Rust does allow you to abstract away quite a lot of stuff and still get performant results.
Dear fellow devs,

if I may ask you to take a look into a 2nd () post in my entire life-time, this is the one.

neo.mjs - just hit 5000 commits () and 400 GitHub stars.

It has been a blast since the public release and there are more new features & enhancements than I can even mention here.

In short: The concept of neo.mjs is, that the framework & the apps which you build run within a separate thread (webworker) which leads to an idle main thread with an incredible performance.

The framework is based on top of ES8 and can run without any JS related builds.

At the moment I am mostly pushing the covid19 demo app, to create a perfect showcase for you on how to craft apps using the framework. A new wrapper for amCharts is in place: you can now simply add the chart config json into the component tree.

In case you have not looked at the neo.mjs yet, now is the time!

() The first one was the public release announcement on Nov 23, 2019

() 3720 commits prior to the public release

online demos here:
https://neomjs.github.io/pages/
WHO covered up Corona at China's behest
It's the dark zones I really worry about.

A useful heuristic I've formed for anomolous situations (and especially disasters /emergencies / catastrophes) is that it's where there's no signal at all, or where the signal makes. no sense, that you should be most concerened.

After major natural disasters, looking for regions in which there are _no_ reports of damage frequently repressent worst-hit areas -- all comms and monitoring are knocked out.

In the case of pandemic, it's the capacity (and often willingnes) to sense which is lacking: medical infrastructure, personnel, diagnostics, reporting standards and organisations, etc.

First signs will come a month or two in as 1,000s are dropping suddenly dead. Or before, as "patriotic" and tourist cases emerge -- nationals being diagnosed after leaving the country (this occurred in China with SARS giving rise to the sardonic term), or travellers transiting or arriving from the country testing positive, as happened with Italy and Iran recently.
Why do people keep asking for a source to back up pretty straight forward statements. Was that an unusual or surprising statement?

It would seem like common sense at this stage that if someone with an infectious disease sneezes on your raw salad leaves or your cold lasagna, you're probably getting it too no?

If you think the OPs comments are important, maybe you could also go verify this information yourself and post back if you find something worthwhile refuting the original claim.
Bats and pangolins are not poor people's food. If a poor farmer poaches a pangolin, they're more likely to try selling it to someone who's seeking the thrill of exotic food. I found a Zhihu answer that's mostly talking about how pangolins are protected animals and you'll get fined if you get caught, but it also mentions one case where a pangolin changed hands for 1800 RMB: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/89829943
I don't think it is clearly implied. There is an old UK quiz show called "strike it lucky" where the host would show future symbols which might be good or bad for the players, rather than explictly showing "good" things.
This whole startup scenario is likely to end badly for Khan Academy, or that the drive for money at all cost is killing Khan Academy's value as an education platform.
they recently posted about how they are doing exactly that.
There is a lot of evidence about US backdoors. The invisible dots on every printed page in the world. The Snowden leaks. The fact that the US is publicly trying to get Apple to install backdoors on their phones and threatening to pass laws to make them do so (they don’t seem to be speaking up as much about google which makes me wonder if Google has already capitulated). The ability to get any cloud provider to share any info with the US government (this is theoretically better than China, because unlike China’s case, it requires judicial approval...in practice it isn’t much better, because judicial approval is given 100% of the time).

I still strongly believe that if I had to lose my privacy, and needed to install a backdoors on my devices, I’d much rather it be to an American 3 letter agency than a Chinese one of any form. That doesn’t change the fact that the NSA and co have been proven to do much worse than what Huawei is being accused of doing potentially in the future.
I think it's more than 'pretty low issue'. Someone already connected to the LAN may just sniff the login credentials since the Pi-hole web interface doesn't use https and then gain root access where all LAN clients trust with their DNS queries.
I think the key here is that most people equate "non-profit" with "charity". The idea is that as much money as possible is used to fund the services provided by the entity. However, there are many businesses run as non-profit entities that are not in it to provide a charity. It's just that the entity of the company is designed to take no profit. Often these entities invest heavily into growth as opposed to taking profit (and often this is even the stated goal of the organization).

If you take donations, it sounds like you should be a charity, but there are lots of examples of organizations that rely on donations, but are not charities. Basically anybody living off Patreon, for example.

Having said that, I don't think it is wrong for a donator to decide that they don't want to donate because one person is taking the lion's share of the wealth. In fact, there are for profit organisations that I will avoid simply because they don't seem to provide a service other than to line some fat cat executives' pockets. People are free to choose how they want to spend their money.
Yeah, we could really do with it being owned by actual conservatives instead of the liberal junior Murdochs.

James' wife works the The Clinton Climate Initiative. The Fox network is LARPing
It's way too late for widespread testing to stop the initial big spread. We missed that window thanks to lapses in leadership, technical mistakes, and bureaucratic nonsense. Statisticians and doctors estimate that 600,000 to 1,200,000 are already infected.
Thanks ... I take your point .... but it's not really about being comfortable with git. It's more about what kind of activity you are doing. When I'm an exploratory process with Jupyter it's iterative with a feedback cycle that is almost subsecond. I
often have 3 - 4 versions of the algorithm I am exploring visible at the same time
in different cells. I'm using autocomplete and interactive evaluation continuously to
understand what state the algorithm is in and what attributes and methods are
available to me and how they behave.

No amount of git or anything else an IDE can do achieves those things.