skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Obviously these aren't realistic assumptions and pretty much everyone has some form of monopoly power, such as the saudis in your case which have monopoly power coming from lower cost of goods.

That's not what "monopoly" means. Monopoly power isn't just a fancier word for market power. Monopoly power is power derived from the fact that nobody else is selling what you're selling.

Note that in this example, the Saudis can't raise the price of oil above $50 / barrel. Setting a price of $60 would send their sales to 0 rather than to whatever the level of demand is at $60. They can't do it because they don't have monopoly power.

(If you expand the example a little, saying that world oil demand exceeds the amount Canada can produce, then you can claim that Saudi Arabia has monopoly power by virtue of being able to sell oil that Canada can't sell. But in the model where Canada can produce any amount of oil at $50 / barrel and Arabia can produce any amount at $20 / barrel, there is no monopoly power anywhere.)
In Germany the looser will have to pay the winners legal cost so this would be a sure way to pay significantly more than just the missing rent. Also regarding they could just move out, you realise that these type of shops usually have very long term leases, so it's unlikely that they would get out within the time frame of the pandemic.
"And the principle of really existing free market theory is: free markets are fine for you, but not for me. That’s, again, near a universal. So you — whoever you may be — you have to learn responsibility, and be subjected to market discipline, it’s good for your character, it’s tough love, and so on, and so forth. But me, I need the nanny State, to protect me from market discipline, so that I’ll be able to rant and rave about the marvels of the free market, while I’m getting properly subsidized and defended by everyone else, through the nanny State."

https://chomsky.info/19960413/
Do we hold so low standards of people? Are we so much better than everyone else? What’s wrong with fun?
> Kubernetes doesn't have any advantages over not using Kubernetes for simple applications.

So out-of-the-box support for blue/green deployments and fully versioned deployment history with trivial undo/rollbacks are of no advantage to you?

> Reproducible dev environments and CI you can get easily without Kubernetes, without having to add complex solutions for logging, profiling and other introspection tools.

I'd like to hear what you personally believe is a better alternative to kubernetes.

And by the way, Kubernetes does not support not requires distributed tracing tools not "logging, profiling, and other introspection tools". That's somethings entirely different and separate, and something that you only use if for some reason you really want to and make it your point to go out of your way to adopt and use.

In fact, distributed tracing is only a thing not due to kubernetes but due to you operating a distributed system. If you designed a distributed system and get it up and running somewhere else, you still end up with the same challenges and the same requirements.
I read Galapagos and it was freaking awful. One of the worst books I've ever read.
Companies (with enough lobbyists) will take advantage of things sure. But thats a small subset of companies that will definitely need help restarting.

Many businesses forced to shutdown ops thanks to the lockdown continue to pay staff, bills, rents, suppliers etc etc even though there is zero cash flowing in. Everyday the loss mounts. And its not like govt paying the employees directly wipes that loss out when they return to work.

Most business aren't run by people just sitting around waiting for Godzilla to show up, to lay people off and get bailouts from govt.
I wonder why we aren't hearing about companies selling more stock for funding. Sure it's at a huge discount, but better dilution than destruction, right? Is it just because the bailout loans offer them a better path? Or because they'd rather lay folks off than dilute?
Funny thing is, coding today is mostly understanding how other devs solved a problem.

We're using frameworks and libraries that all come with very specific solutions.
In the meantime, what do you propose people do who have been displaced from their jobs? Or who are unable to work due to social distancing and stay at home orders? Sure, some billers have stated “we will not disconnect/cancel due to nonpayment” but what answer do you have for those people?

This corporate welfare is garbage, and they’re then being stingy with what they’re giving to individuals? Fuck the politicians.
A laptop you take to work?
CEOs at other companies have other types of compensation through stocks and bonus pays, years before. Sal Khan's societal impact is huge.
There are a bunch of tech CEOs who pay themselves one dollar. https://thehustle.co/1-ceo-salary/
Farmworkers key to keeping US fed are wary of virus spread
Thanks. I wish the article provided that context.
i’ve often wondered this. but wrt ROP sled, does it matter? instead of overwriting “this” stack frame’s ret address, you’d overwrite the previous. the effect would be seen when your caller returns instead of when you return.
Must we be always skeptical? Openly announcing sets a standard that forces hands of other companies
Can someone explain how the use case differs from simply using a well-curated hosts file? (like Steven Black's)
Les Misérables was one for me.
Well it's more like using the tools other developed to help you solve your problems faster. If you're spending more time understanding the tools you're using, reconsider your tools.
Because society needs feel good stories right now. I am not even joking. You probably did not realize how close to the abyss we have come last week. In practical terms, people suck when they are scared and hungry.

I rarely go for pop culture references, but it is very much applicable here:

“Their morals, their code; it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be."

And I am saying all this annoyed at the fact that I will be one of the people having to pay massive tax increases that will have to pay for all this.
Depends on the language. I find that in C++, I spend a lot of time working on figuring out the language, while in python I spend far more time solving the actual problem.
I don’t know how this works in the US, but in Iceland they are offering loans with 50% backing from the state. Meaning that if they fail to pay back the state will pay 50%. This is effectively a grant in all but name since the company has no intensive to pay, but full incentive to have have the state pay.
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

Written from a psychologist who survived the concentration camps. A wholly unique perspective on human life.
Private profits, public risk.
What are you talking about? We’re subsidizing every other nations healthcare system. Not just the medications.

The US in finances provides 60% of the worlds medical research. We produce 40% of the worlds medical journals, and research.

People bitch about the United States healthcare being this or that. But what they’re really saying is our healthcare is too expensive, bloated in cost, and inaccessible to lower income and at risk individuals. Which I would agree.
No, I usually defer decisions concerning the marketing and availability of the book to the publisher. I try to stick to the areas where I'm actually a knowledgeable expert.
IP, code, contracts, customers, data

The point of starting a company is that you pay time-limited salaries to employees while accumulating investments in systems, tools, and processes that allow for/increase the efficiency of the generation of profits through doing something valuable for others. The portable assets among those investments remain valuable if that value can be harnessed for some context somewhere. Often, these values are far lower than they would be if you had a functioning organization operating them but something is better than nothing.
Trump signs laws to boost 5G security, broadband availability
rising health insurance premiums will drag down any notion of economic recovery once the pandemic recedes, much like rising health insurance premiums led to the middle class being hard-pressed in the aftermath of the great recession.

quite simply, there is no economy without consumer demand for services. and consumers who pay higher rents to their health insurance company have less money to spend. the money doesn't ever trickle back down into the economy once it is lost inside of the insurance system.

nevermind that millions of people have lost their employer-provided health insurance after being laid off. for them, these discussions of health insurance premiums rising are a bit academic; there is no chance of care being accessible or affordable, even if the monthly toll of maintaining expensive insurance is rising astronomically.

it's clear the the US healthcare system cannot continue in its current form. it is my hope that people will no longer entertain delusions of perseverating the present system. it's decidedly non-serious to consider that the ACA might be reformed further to keep the current system.

the only true debates remaining are about how much of the healthcare system should be under the public's control, which we can boil down to two camps: above 70% public ownership, or above 40% but less than 70%. the former camp includes ideas like single payer and medicare for all, whereas the latter camp includes hybrid systems which are closer to switerland's or germany's systems.
> The terms of the bailout loans are such that they can lay off people before they apply, get the money, and so long as they don't lay off any additional people after they get the money, the loan converts into a grant.

This is false. The formula for the maximum amount of the loan is based on last years employment levels, or optionally, for companies that were not in business last year, based on January-February employment levels.

Any layoffs now do not help make the loan any larger, they will in fact reduce the size of the loan.

See Section 1102(a)(2)(36)(E) and 1106(d)(2).

The formula for the amount of the loan which can be forgiven is based on the employment levels remaining at last year's levels. There is an exemption in the case of tipped workers, as long as any layoffs are hired back by June 30th. (that is to say, the number of employees, not the same employees)

EDIT:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/748/...

The amount of loan forgiveness under this section shall be
reduced, but not increased, by multiplying the amount described
in subsection (b) by the quotient obtained by dividing--

(i) the average number of full-time equivalent
employees per month employed by the eligible recipient
during the covered period; by
(ii)(I) at the election of the borrower--

(aa) the average number of full-time equivalent
employees per month employed by the eligible recipient
during the period beginning on February 15, 2019 and
ending on June 30, 2019; or
(bb) the average number of full-time equivalent
employees per month employed by the eligible recipient
during the period beginning on January 1, 2020 and
ending on February 29, 2020;

(II) in the case of an eligible recipient that is
seasonal employer, as determined by the
Administrator, ...
Philip K Dick. Everything he wrote
If I buy a copy of your book, will you abuse your position to get constexpr into C? It would be a big improvement over complex macro magic.

I'll buy an extra copy if you can get 'defer' in there too!

Those two features would really be the bee's knees :)
It's not crude "nobody needs". It's just storage being too expensive to expand infinitely. If it weren't, it'd be a great opportunity to stock up, because the need will be there for decades.
I agree that there are risks either way, though like you said, the threat model is a bit different. SpicyPass isn't explicitly for web passwords. It's just a generalized key value store with added security. I use it to store my bitcoin keys for example, and that's probably not something you want to expose to the cloud and/or your browser.

With that said I don't rule anything out for the future.
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What if the price of advertising or SAS apps was forcibly cut by 70% or more?

Great for consumers. Not so good for Google and SAS companies and thus their employees.

(but I'm not crying for oil either).
I didn't see the part where anyone wrote that it was "easy".
I don't think life insurance will take a hit. The large majority of deaths we're seeing are among the very ill, ie folks who already had a high short term chance of dying. Within a couple years the insurers would have paid out all that money anyway. And correct me if I'm wrong but most of the time you'd only have life insurance if you have dependents to look after, ie when you're 40 and not when you're 80. The cost of life insurance for an 80yo with 3 illnesses must be prohibitive.
Is that a "no, I have not reviewed Jimmy Comet's instagram"?
> imagine teachers writing tests and quizzes, though. Imagine procrastinating students making a last minute typo in a thesis... at 3AM day of the deadline...

I would hope that in that era, people would be more forgiving of tipex'd mistakes?
I'm not sure if I agree with this, for multiple reasons; it also stinks of classicism and a superiority complex. Besides, even if you made living more affordable in urban areas, that doesn't mean people will necessarily move there. People are complex beings and aren't going to just pick up and move as much as economists, among others, tend to think for better job opportunities. There are other things that tie people to places For instance, one reason I live where I do is because my entire family is there, and being around them is something I consider important, especially with my aging grandmother after my grandfather's passing.
I agree: I also work with Java and JVM languages and I was a fulltime Java dev for 10 years before but the first client (a bank) on our product insisted on .NET 7 years ago and we had some .NET expertise already and went all in.

.NET Core is nice enough to do very large projects in though so I cannot see many reasons of moving away from it (especially from F# which I mostly use now).
> True: Germany doesn't do post-mortem tests on people not tested before. But at the same time, everyone who dies and has a SARS2-infection is counted as a COVID-death, whether or not they died from the infection.

But how do you know that they had a SARS-2 infection if you're not testing?
No, that’s 72k that’s what’s charged. The actual paid price is MUCH lower. Some hospitals have cash based pricing where brain surgery is 15-20k out the door.
I'm not sure I see why you would want to base this on Markdown. Markdown is designed for a very specific niche, and this falls far outside that niche.

It seems it would make a lot more sense to just design the language from scratch, rather than try to bend Markdown to do something it was not at all meant for.

For instance, why would you WANT to have an example like this:

![](london.jpg)

Welcome to London

---

![](berlin.jpg)

Welcome to Berlin
That’s what everything is. And we shouldn’t short programmers for doing the same thing.

Even cutting edge research or new developments in any field are built on lifetimes of other people’s work. It’s always been that way, and it’s one of the things that allowed us to prosper as a species.
fair point. can you open an issue please, ideally with a screenshot. thx!

https://github.com/neomjs/neo/issues
> My first thought was: "Has this death relation to Covid-19?"

Oh come on, he was 86. At that age virtually anything and everything can cause one to die.
I don't think either word, "puzzle" or "problem", requires it to have a solution. I would say the distinction is that the purpose of a puzzle is in the act of solving, while the purpose of a (business) problem is to have the solution.
I decided to start a new batch of sourdough starter last week, because I was running low on (dried) yeast and my local corner-shop in Finland had run out.

The shop got more stock a couple of days later, no real shortages of anything else I've personally noticed.

I like baking bread even when not stuck at home, and this batch seems to work out pretty well today:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-UYTW-DYF_/
Are you sure this is without any potential for legal troubles or credit rating damage that could proove as costly as just resenting but paying the bill and move on. I do not have this experience or first hand hearsay of this situation. You had this experience yourself and have an anecdote to share with us? Or this is common knowledge that I should know
Hourly. You can also set up billing alerts, which will email you.
German minister commits suicide in despair of Covid-19 crisis
Asimov's Foundation series helped me to think on longer timelines.
That's more than a monthly salary in many places.
Khan Academy is a $40m/yr non-profit that provides better lessons than the multi billion $ government enforced Prussian-pedagogy propaganda centers (at infinite scale and for close to zero charge for the end user)
Arguing that these are too extreme actually weakens the case for single-payer because that would require more regulation and more draconian pricing. Meanwhile we could look at even more countries like The Netherlands, Switzerland, or even Denmark, Bernie Sanders’ favorite country to cite, managed without single-payer.
If you just have internet service from Verizon, and your router is already hooked up to the ONT by Ethernet, you can pretty much just pull the cable from that and hook it up to any Ubiquiti unit. I have a USG 3 and it works swimmingly.

For those who also have TV service, it’s more complicated, since the STBs talk TCP/IP over MoCA for various services (I believe including the program guide and DVR functions). The Ubiquiti forums have lots of posts on people trying (and succeeding) to get their gear working with FiOS.
Ok I can contextualize it better perhaps: life disagreements and emotional issues are real. We’re squishy biological creatures in a physical world we don’t entirely understand.

Our framework for solving them, of anointing experts undemocratically who are afforded special say in solving localized trade disputes and creating a market for casual babysitting of adult emotions is pandering to selling frameworks of agency that are outdated.

Historically it was a matter of literal ability to educate and train at scale not existing. It does now.

Law as we know it is hundreds of years old and obviously not working for the species.

Psychology is rapidly being superseded by “take this pill”.

We don’t need to cling to old solutions to problems.

YouTube broke while trying to fingerprint a legal debate of copyright, it became a circular mess. It’s obvious how we’re repeating ourselves: Dems quietly inflate inequality & keep political prisoners, the GOP gaudily so. Enjoy your exceptional legal system.

Sure there’s some psychology, the basics, that “normalize” folks through curve fitting responses. There’s a shit ton of terrible, useless frameworks out there, many do more harm than good. I’d prefer to put my money on a pill then that normalizes my brain as I design rather than some experts favorite rhetorical mess.
Drexel is a pretty good school in Philadelphia and they have online bachelors degrees (https://online.drexel.edu/online-degrees/computing-informati...).

The Open University satisfies the requirements for US visas, so it can check some checkboxes. The cost may be higher for people outside the UK, but I haven't looked recently.
So...when the insurance company profits, they are not lowering premium. when the lose money, the ramp up premium. Sounds like a solid business
How can managers ensure that employees feel that their personal goals are aligned with the goals of the organization?
Pricing power is a better word that monopoly power in this case then, should have been more precise in wording. They arent price takers is the point. They have price making power and a downward sloping demand curve until 50 bucks a barrel
Looks like audio is not supported?
Modern Laws for ClaimJumping
I haven't gotten the chance to try it out yet, but an alternative in this space is Komposition, which bills itself as "a video editor built for screencasters". I gather that mostly means that if you take certain liberties when recording your screen and voice (putting pauses in the right places), Komposition will take care of automatically splitting your input media based on when it determines a transition.

https://owickstrom.github.io/komposition/

Slightly different aim compared to Video Puppet (the source being plain text is not the goal, which means you will likely have to edit and re-record a script multiple times) but still interesting, especially you'd rather avoid an auto-generated voice.
.. this article is clearly bent in the direction of nyc pizza
Complete opposite. Arguably better would be to look at local population density, but even that is just a proxy for how easily the virus should spread.

Total number is much better than per-capita, because the point is to see how quickly the disease spreads, which it does from a single point. No country is even close to majority infected so weighting by the size of the arbitrary borders enclosing the outbreak is only misleading.

What useful information would it convey, when moving the US 4x farther up the line than China? Or Italy? The point is to show how quickly the virus spreads through a population, which it does with great consistency. Per capita doesn't even tell you anything about how effective the response was been, it only tells you how big the country is. Per-capita would de-normalize this data!
Because the problem isn't on the payment side of health insurance, it's on the cost side.

So Medicare for all will solve nothing.
Azure has this, budgets.
sorry! i did cmd-f search the readme. guess i messed up somehow.
Well, sorta but um no. If no profit includes a situation where everyone involved is paid at least enough that they are willing to do the work, then there is by definition motive to do the work.

These economic models are simplistic to the point of stupidity. But motivation to do the work can be totally priced in to the equations as a cost of doing business. Profit beyond that is what must, in the models, end up at zero to be efficient.
But since virus spread is exponential, why is plotting the number of cases vs time a bad idea? It would also give us a line plot.
Too bad you can't segment it to have a hard limit on the non-essential stuff. So at least you can serve the webpage saying what you are or something.
The take away from this article must that we have to automate Ag.

Any job right now that is considered ‘essential job’ and exposes the worker to covid is the exact job that needs to be automated.

What is happening right now is a cautionary tale and answers the question, “what jobs should we automate?”
I have tried many times to break into government contracting and always failed. It's always one of two problems: The award is too small to cover the cost of the proposal and reporting paperwork (e.g. SBIR) or the award is huge and you need a full-time team whose sole job is to navigate all the red tape. And like you said, the people evaluating proposals often have no background in the field, so proxies for competence are used like slickness of marketing materials, whom you know in the organization, or how good-looking you are (not kidding).

After I graduated I thought I wanted to work for NASA. Then I found out most NASA employees spend most of their day not inventing or building things, but managing contractors who did the actual work.

I guess I'm saying I like your suggestion better than mine.