skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no less cash in the market than a month ago, so at the right price there should be buyers? But since alongside cash, there's also credit and assets, I actually have no idea how much less cash-like "value" there is, even if the fed or somebody helped turn it all into cash. I suppose the government could always be the buyer instead of giving loans.

Good question ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is what was needed.
Augh, give me a break. This corny junk is far from fun.
Some Heinlein book mentioned a minor medical procedure that helped me resolve a very painful minor medical issue when medical staff sort of shrugged and moved on.

I'm sure there's lots more, but that's particularly memorable.
I have to disagree with #2. Landlords can charge whatever they want, and there is little reason to suspect that they'll lower rents after this.
Wise decision. It wouldn't have gone well with the Twitterati.

Also, there are better ways to spend resources and digital real estate at the moment (say, just give ad discounts to small businesses) than to create pranks.
As a test for product market fit? This product is more meant for notifying users when your product is ready to be used and thus is launched :)
The Martian Chronicles is worth reading, especially as an allegory.
This show hn is blatant ripoff and fork of muaz khan's webrtc experiment.

That project is several years old.
When I was young, the Wilbur Smith novels dealing with the Courtney's, especially When The Lion Feeds. Also around that time, the WWII novel series by Sven Hassel. Great adventure stories.
My favorite Vonnegut was Bluebeard.
A huge number of folks, perhaps an overwhelming majority of americans, are living paycheck to paycheck[1]. When they get "airdrop" money, these folks tend to pay their outstanding bills or make large purchases that they would otherwise need to save up for. Who's getting that money in the end? Businesses whose services are in demand. This, in turn, incentivizes hiring and maintaining capacity to deliver their services.

But what's happened when we've airdropped money on businesses? They pocket the cash. Executives get bonuses, companies buy back stock and cut dividends to their shareholders. And to show their commitment to belt-tightening, they punish consumers and lay off workers. Trickle-down economics does not work. Paying companies does not help the workers as much as paying the workers directly.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2019/01/11/live-pa...
> The most powerful lesson I learned here is what anthropologists call cultural relativism. This book also taught me that everyone is under the influence of Mother Culture and her stories. I think internalizing this can help a lot with understanding other people, building self awareness, understanding politics in general, and also history in general.

Apart from that this appears to be the purpose of history, Sapiens contributed to that for me. However, it is clearly non-fiction.
>>It doesn't necessarily require us to continue our presence in the middle East

History Proves that to be wrong

>ensures that that the dollar system is the most important system. Global dollar system is what allows the us to print so much money: there isn't any alternative safer currency.

That is not really a good thing. We can print those larges amounts of dollars because they never really get circulated. At some point the music will stop on this moronic policy and the current economic disaster will look like a fun time
>Go is better supported than Kotlin by a broad range of editors

Lol is this a joke when Kotlin is literally made by IntelliJ?
I can't speak for the others, but I wouldn't use Google as an example there. Java is something like half the LoC but only 1% of the compute cycles (handwaived). It's very rarely used in the systems that do the heavy lifting. Though Go is growing on that metric, and also uses a GC.
given their bungling of the MacBook lineup over the last 5 years

Wouldn't this stand as a reason to not be skeptical of the big move? Switching to ARM (badly) and breaking everything seems like it'd be exactly in line with all of this bungling.

I ordered a new MacBook Air just over a week ago, right when it was announced. If it turns out to be the last Intel-based MBA before years of pain and suffering with the ARM transition then I expect to be hanging on to it for a long time.

Having said all that, Apple is well known for having successfully navigated multiple CPU architecture transitions over the life of their operating system (s). If anyone can do it again successfully, I would expect Apple to do so.
I see this as an inevitable consequence of the fact that most small business owners assign a large value to the intangible of "being your own boss" not to mention the potential for wealth, and this drives everyone to have no margin for downturns.

I mean, think about restaurants. Who starts a restaurant because they think it's the easiest way to make a dollar? The very fact that many people want to do something for reasons other than sheer profit means that profit will be driven below normal which will cause pain over time.

What can the rich do to prevent this? Unless they got together and eliminated the ability of the non-rich to seek wealth. Sometimes, that's the conclusion elites reach about things; they do it to some extent. Like the way in the US you have to be a "qualified investor" with a certain amount of assets to invest in unregulated securities.
If it's time to make another CPU change, why not switch it to one that you control completely? Motorola->PPC->Intel->Apple. It just makes sense that's where they'd ultimately want to go.
Whats the business model here? You still need turn servers if hole punching fails, and video is pretty bandwidth heavy.
Why is pdf the default/de facto single-file publication format, even in public domain or copyleft works?

It has so many drawbacks: it's usually unparseable; it's usually unsearchable; incompatible with all sorts of format conversions; its rigid pagination makes it cumbersome to read when not in zoomed-in, especially on mobile; its best features require proprietary software when authoring them, yet most people seem to use generic pdf file export; it's been subject to exploits... and the list goes on.
Once you set up a subscription service and are selling that service to a huge number of people/companies, rarely that you or one of your salesmen don't want the clients to spend a large sum of money on the service unintentionally and then discount partially as a goodwill. Have seen it in sales of all kinds of services. It's just that they have different tricks.
Creating a waiting list for your product launch shouldn't be hard, get notified
I'm a little confused as to why the readme rants (entirely accurately) about text templating ... and then shows an example in react, which isn't using text templating at all.

In fact, the code jsx compiles into (which, yeah, you said no compilation in dev so that argument applies, sure) is not honestly that different to the JSON structure for the DOM, it's just made out of function calls rather than nested objects but the "returns what's basically a data structure" is still there.

(I'm mentioning this not to complain, but because it's so obviously Not Even Wrong that it looks like a brain fart and is probably worth correcting)
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This 19th century math genius taught us how to add the numbers from 1 to 100
> Why would someone like that work for an online school when they could work for one that would give them tenure, funding, lab space, grad students, etc?

Well, someone like that would love to not have to waste time lecturing. By not being on campus they could go to more conferences and spend more time in the field. They could recruit ideal grad students from anywhere on earth without worrying about immigration restrictions or family ties.
Business owner here. First, let me dispel the myth that business owners are wealthy. All of my friends from school have more liquid assets than I do. I am utterly broke unless you count for the paper wealth of my company shares.

When COVID hit, within a week we had customers dropping out of our sales funnel. Half of our expected revenue growth disappeared as customers decided to reduce risk and stick with existing solutions. This is what happens when the market goes “risk off”.

My company, like most, is leveraged. If I don’t earn positive cash flow, covenants on my debt will trigger a default, instantly ruining the firm. One default cascades to all the facilities, because that’s how debt works.

So, if I need to get to cash flow neutral, I am going to lay people off. I have no other option. It’s either that, or ruin.

This is why the government is supporting businesses by effectively becoming a lender of last resort. By tapping government loans, I can maintain my employees while we wait out what will probably be a short period of downturn. The money I have been offered is three year. Three years from now, we have either figured this thing out or we are living in caves. I’ll pay back the loan and my employees will keep their jobs. That’s how this works.

If I could provide feedback to policy makers: government should get something in return for the largesse. A small stake in each company, for instance, that we have the option of buying back at cost later. Because if society is supporting my business, society should have a stake in its recovery. I have not seen that happening anywhere.
That's not really it. Our company is small enough that I can talk one-on-one with the head of the tech department and I did give direct feedback about this person. That head of tech was responsible for the mishire, but also got rid of this person pretty quickly once all the feedback accumulated.

My company is service-based and just over 1000 people. Timesheets equal billable hours. It's occasionally very pressurized and we lose people pretty quickly when there's a lull in work, but it also means that useless people have absolutely nowhere to hide.
Python3 has pretty good built in modules for asyncio, multiprocessing, and multithreading. Maybe port to py3 and utilize these features as an intermediate step while you are working on the jump to Go. I like to take a function for a single work unit "do a single thing" and then call it from a function utilizing asyncio and multithreading, this link shows a great examples.

https://pymotw.com/3/asyncio/executors.html
Before the company was bought:

> Every three months, officials with the biomedical research agency would visit Newport’s headquarters. [...] The federal officials “would check everything [...] If we said we were buying equipment, they would want to know what it was used for. There were scheduled visits, scheduled requirements and deliverables each month.”

> In 2011, Newport shipped three working prototypes from the company’s California plant to Washington for federal officials to review.

So up until the sale, the government was actively supervising the project, and working prototypes had been made. It doesn't sound like some unrealistic, pie-in-the-sky bet.

But the kicker for me was:

> Government officials and executives at rival ventilator companies said they suspected that Covidien had acquired Newport to prevent it from building a cheaper product that would undermine Covidien’s profits from its existing ventilator business.

Who knows for sure if that's true, but it seems extremely plausible.
If you don't mind sharing, what was the procedure?
I don't understand the point hiring fact checkers if you're going to make shit up that contradicts what he says. Interpreting "hinting dog" to mean "sheep-herding dog" makes less sense than interpreting "hunting dog" as meaning "cat". At least cats hunt!
“Creative people don’t have a goal of wanting to be creative,” Flaherty says. “Their goal is to solve a problem.”
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Having a text version of the graphs in this site is really helpful. I wish more sites would do this .
> I have doubts they understand what their users need from a laptop

Better battery life and less heat, no? Isn't that the point of ARM?

They've done processor transitions multiple times before.

And whatever "bungling" you're talking about, I don't see what that has to do with it. It's not like people have stopped buying MacBooks and Apple has serious remedial stuff to work on first. Besides, whether or not your MacBook has a touchbar or whatever its key travel is has literally nothing to do with what it's doing with processors.
Kou wouldn't be able to use data from the supply chain to know what software is running on future hardware. If Apple is releasing ARM based desktops its more likely they'll be iOS derived devices to meet new niches. Something that competes with the large Wacoms would need to be more easel like than the current iMacs.
AWS gives you the tools you need to answer this question. Cloudtrail logs every api action (there may be some esoteric corner cases, I think some aws services have launched features and then weeks later launched "oh those api calls are now recorded in cloudtrail", that kind of thing, but by and large it's good enough).

You should have a "global" cloudtrail turned on in all your aws accounts, with the integrity checksumming turned on, either feeding directly to an s3 bucket in yet another account that you don't give anybody access to or at least feeding to a bucket that has replication set up to a bucket in another locked-down account.

The cloudwatch events console can find some cloudtrail events for you, but you might have to set up Athena or something to dig through every event.
> The problem with auto-generated voices in videos like this is as a viewer I can't distinguish between work that someone put deliberate production time into, and something churned out by a content farm.

If machine voiced vs human voiced is the only discernible difference in the end, this seems like a non-argument.

As someone that is building a tool in the roughly same space (machine voiced video generation), I can just say that the use-cases go far beyond "content-farm". It also enables a lot of useful content like e.g. internal training videos, or paired with browser automation, you can have narrated always up-to-date video manuals of your product. In the education space, it enables a more iterative way to produce material where you previously couldn't afford to tweak parts of a video, as you would have to narrate it again.

And I also don't think that it will amplify the existence of such videos significantly. There are already Youtube channels that already do just that, and people don't seem to mind. E.g. there is a channel that uploads "car news" content, which basically just has a narration on top of a series of pictures of a car, and the amount of views and the rating on those videos is pretty good. In the end its just a few fact bulletins stretched into an overly long video using the same old worn out phrases (just like regular "car news"), and I don't see why a human would need to waste their time to voice that.
Coronavirus has led to 775% increase in usage of Microsoft Azure cloud services
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Research departments work well because they are a supporting role. The author must correct inaccuracies, but it's still basically the author's voice.

Fact checkers who publish on their own are a problem. They can't resist bringing their own perspectives and arguments into the dicussion.

A lot of stuff is technically true but misleading. So the fact-checkers write something of the form:

"Pants on fire: technically true, but [inject rebuttal essay here]."

That's all fine except that it's done under the moral banner of correcting lies. People who disagree with the viewpoints of the fact checker are understandably put off when they to take this moral high ground.
The other day I saw Governor Cuomo speaking to audience of soliders at the Javits center who were setting up a field hospital.

Hospital ships are also going to NYC and LA to add some capacity as well.

There also is the VA which offers medical services to veterans, both for injuries they get at war, but also other conditions. My Uncle Norman was a marine who served in Korea and he received excellent care for ALS in the last few years of his life from the VA.

They are doing what they can, but it's still a difficult problem because a person affected by the new virus doesn't just require a ventilator, but could require a ventilator for two weeks.
They didn't pay into the insurance fund, so they didn't have 'unemployment insurance', so if they are getting an emergency payment without years of paying into the program, that is by definition a bailout.

Going forward gig workers should have to pay into the program like everyone else, these programs are designed to protect workers and make sure people can survive when times are harder, everyone should pay in when things are good, and everyone should be protected when things are bad. They shouldn't need a bailout (because they should have been protected and part of the system, and therefore entitled to these payments), but I'm glad they weren't left to try to survive on their own.
"block user input until we think they should interact with it" is not really a fix per-se is it
1) Civil vs criminal does not change the fact that incurred bills are a legal obligation.

2) AWS did not take advantage of you and making a mistake does not absolve you of responsibility. There's nothing to dispute.

3) Bankruptcy is allowed, and is also exactly what happened. You stated other things like filing fake disputes and transferring funds to a new company, which is fraud. And that does come with criminal charges.

EDIT: to your completely revised comment - Bills are still owed, even if it's only civil, and judgements can result in wages, taxes and other assets being garnished. Saying you were "tricked or confused" when you weren't is fraudulent, and credit card companies are not going to defend you from that. Unless AWS forced those charges or failed to deliver services, there's no dispute.
Outflows include owner distributions, which may be in addition to salary.
Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2500/2500-h/2500-h.htm

This book resonated at a perfect time for me, opened my eyes to what peace in human mind could be, peace through acceptance, and above all the rejection of strict god-judging religions. This was important because instead of chasing "happiness" I began to work towards "contentness" which has lead to minor emotional improvements in my life.
The U.S. tried to build a new fleet of ventilators
Dune holds up way better if you pretend it's just one book (the first one). It stands alone very well and IMO is completely worthy of its status in the classic sci-fi pantheon.

On the other hand, I finished TBP, but I disliked it enough that I didn't go back to the other two volumes. What makes them better than the first, in your opinion? (purely for my own curiosity re: whether I should go back and read them)
But there's a middle layer between the database instance and the schema, which is also called a "database" (great naming /s). The "foo" in postgres://u:p@host/foo . What's that? So you have database host / instance, database "...", and schema (not to be confused with the schema being the column and view etc definition...!).
Not to the point that it actually matters, in a world were plenty of people are deploying node, django and rails applications.
> Always a year away.

Citation needed. We’re not talking about Year of the Linux Desktop here.

I’ve been hearing rumblings and speculations about ARM Macs since at least five years ago, but IFAICR never heard a concrete timeline attached to it, let alone “a year away”. And 2021 would be fairly consistent with speculations.
I've given a couple presentations along these lines and found it's important to make another point: Code is just one tool in our toolbox.

We can make our interfaces more intuitive. We can make our documentation clearer and closer to the user's terminology. Our examples can be more explicit and tuned to people's common use cases. Our FAQ can address actual frequently asked questions instead of what we guess people will ask. We can treat FAQs as bug lists/things to improve so people stop asking.

If code is the only tool we use, we'll always write more code which comes with costs now and down the road.
Of course, we should care. We are talking about losing the standard x86 platform support (which allows for Windows/Linux support if not total OOB support) to a custom Apple platform that may be more locked down to the point that Linux may not even care to add any support for it (T2-Macs have been difficult to add support in Linux). This drops the value a lot if you're not an exclusive macOS user.

1. We don't know what impact this will have for Bootcamp and Windows, since Windows 10 on ARM right now is customized for specific ARM CPUs like Snapdragon.

2. Same for virtualization, we don't know the performance hit it is going to have. A lot of people still need to use Windows for specific software that is not available on Windows or macOS where 32-bit support can be retained with older macOS releases.

3. Going the other direction, ARM means we could also see easier porting of iOS apps to macOS via Catalyst with more consistent APIs. But that could also mean less focus on macOS overall and everyone switching to iOS to port to macOS rather than working on two separate versions. This has both pros and cons and we won't know the full extent until a few years later.
Every time you collect or pay out money it's just some 'accounting detail'. We should make sure the 'accounting details' are fair to begin with, and we don't let Uber freeload on the system. This situation isn't because of the workers, it's about Uber finding loopholes in the tax system so they can run existing taxi systems (which did pay into the unemployment system) out of business.
This. Preventing cheating in an online-only course requires meatspace infrastructure: testing facilities where students can be monitored. That infrastructure is still patchy.
Yep, the real give away was the A12Z. It isn't shit all faster than the A12X with the exception of the added GPU core.

The A12X was so fast when it came out, reviewers were like "holy shit, this is nearly as fast or faster as comparable x86 laptop," and that was what... two years ago?

Apple's ARM processors are likely _so fucking fast_ that they'd absolutely be showing their hand if they put one in a tablet right now. Reviewers would probably be like "uhh this is faster than a 13" macbook pro and it's a fucking tablet?!" Not to mention, that'd be the nail in the coffin for a good (for Apple) relationship with Intel until they're totally ready to transition.

My guess is Apple is probably just not "quite" there yet for it's highest-end products or we'd see them this year. It's pretty lucky for them their custom silicon to-date has been so far ahead of everyone else or (appearing to be) sitting on their asses for a year or so might hurt.

TSMC is already capable of taking a shit on Intel (Ryzen 3000) and Apple is obviously capable of making very fast custom CPUs. It's a pretty dangerous combo if you're Intel right now and already getting hammered by AMD.

For me, the real question, and pipe dream, will Apple partner with AMD during the transition and perhaps make some some hybrid AMD x86/Apple ARM machines since they're both being built by TSMC?
It really does kind of feel gross that these sound like business pitches.
How do you know that? Descartes believed that animals couldn't feel pain. We're all shocked by that now, but he could have (in fact probably did) use an argument similar to "that's anthropomorphising".

There's a long history of humans making claims about what animals don't experience, in order to justify how we treat them, only to later discover evidence that overturns the claims. It seems to me that this has to be the default explanation for zoos as well.
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