skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The alternative is GitLab not being able to hire developers to actually build GitLab since the "kindly ask to please pay"-model doesn't really work very well.

"The community" is often vastly overrated anyway IMHO. Patches are always good, of course, but people who actually consistently invest time in a project are exceedingly rare. You can't build a product based on sporadic patches. Besides, a lot of the time "the community" is just users (people with no contributions) complaining you're not doing stuff right.

Unless you have a viable (preferable proven) model that allows GitLab to hire developers and keep everything 100% open source, it seems to me this is the best and most balanced option. To the best of my knowledge, such a model doesn't really exist.

I continue to be surprised at the hesitancy (or even outright hostility) whenever someone tries to make an economically viable open source product, which usually involves things not being 100% open source because turns out, that's the only way to make things viable. "90% open source" is a hell of a lot better than 0% open source in my book.
By all means donate your n95 and surgical masks, but many studies show that DIY masks are nearly as effective in stopping asymptomatic spread so the messaging should be around asking everyone to wear a (DIY) mask when they go out.
Science is accidental, boring, repetitive, focused, finicky, wasted, political, ... A beast not easily tamed. Think of Edison's 100 trials to develop the light bulb. I continually think of my own truncated scientific career. I couldn't, early on in my projects, see the woods for the trees. About the only thing, I recognised was that I was just one cog in a vast enterprise. Looking back, I wish I had had the energy and insight to see beyond my lab work to where it might lead.

Back in those days, you needed the term "business model" in your grant submission in order to attract funds. I walked away, thinking I had interests that could better generate a business.
Gotta be subversive somehow ️:)
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I think you’re conflating the success of Meetup with the success of individual meetup groups. In the time the 20 groups you mentioned grew quiet and languished I’m sure Meetup signed up hundreds if not thousands of new meetup organizers.

(It’s also ~$200 / year, not $300 / year, but now I’m just seeming pedantic.)
On the DIY mask issue: I've tried making a couple, based on online instructions. It's very obvious in use that without literally taping the filter material to my face, the airflow goes around the edges.

Anyone who's done any rural polypipe plumbing knows how hard it is to control water flow. Air is harder. None of the DY mask designs I've tried are worth a pinch of the proverbial.

Anyone here know of any better designs? I'm not fussed myself (live in the sticks, very easy to avoid people), but I'd like to make something useful for my elderly mother.
Not nearly as fast as if everyone simply kept the job they already had, and go back to it immediately upon things open back up.
> And that no one else knew about.

Yep. I've encountered a production issue that was traced down to a Location service- you pass in some info, and get location information back- that had been running for 3 years without an owner. The developers had all left, and the team was dissolved.

Not an inherent fault of microservices, but having 1000s of them running around will cause some to slip through the cracks.
I'm mildly hopeful this acquisition will be an improvement. I really depend on Meetup for scheduling open source community meetings. It's quite useful but over the last couple years it seemed as if they had stopped trying.

p.s., It's kind of a mystery to me how anyone thought Meetup would be the next big thing. It's hard to monetize.
So I don't get why stock repurchases are being singled out here. The original model for corporations was that companies make a profit, pay taxes on that and then either retain those profits, return them to the shareholders in the form of dividends or both.

This model has disadvantages. Not every shareholder wants to receive a dividend they then have to pay taxes on. The company also drops in value by the amount of money disbursed, which has its own issues (eg triggering wash sale rules).

Share buybacks are an alternative to returning money to investors. You use that same pool of money to buy shares on the open market. The company has lost that same asset (the disbursed cash) to those investors who want to receive that money (ie by choosing to sell) and the stock price remains unchanged.

So this is (IMHO) concentrating on the wrong problem. The real problem is that companies can borrow money to return to shareholders through dividends or buybacks rather than repatriating foreign profits, which would otherwise make those profits subject to US taxes. So this is a near-indefinite deferral of US taxes.

In my opinion, we need to treat any form of borrowing as effective repatriation of retained foreign profits that then get taxed accordingly.

As for bailout funds, I'm totally fine with all of these restrictions until the loan has been repaid:

1. Any borrowed funds are treated as repatriation of foreign profits as per above. Why bailout companies who are choosing not to pay US taxes?

2. A freeze on executive compensation, including no extraordinary bonuses, additional stock grants and so forth. Additionally, all such compensation from the previous 12 months needs to be clawed back.

3. No disbursement of any kind to investors while the bailout loan remains unpaid. This includes dividends and buybacks.

Focusing solely on stock buybacks is misguided.
Ah yes, sorry, will fix. Thank you.
There is no need to put “stolen” in your last sentence.
Maybe it’s a matter of not letting things that go wrong bother you? Or being able to think in your feet and mitigate as events roll in, rather than thinking out myriad possible mitigations for things that will never happen.

Small example: last weekend I was out in the wilderness camping by myself, no cell service. Accidentally locked my keys in my car. Someone in that situation might be upset/stressed/worried. Someone else in that situation might be totally at ease because they have a backup key/slim Jim hidden on the chassis. I was neither. I quickly realized I could bash a window in with a rock and did so.
that was a tearable pun if intentional.
But sucks they neglected gifcities. It hasn’t worked for a while https://gifcities.org/?q=dog

What happened?
Poster above was not equating COVID to Influenza. They were making a point that at a certain point we have to weigh the tradeoffs of halting our economy versus saving X numbers of lives.
I pirate stuff too (although I try to limit my piracy) but one difference between me and many other pirates is that I know that I am sometimes hurting people when I pirate.

Question: Is losing a sale when it would otherwise be necessarily a moral harm?
These are oil paintings. I don't have much expertise in that but I think it'll be impossible to counterfeit the smallest details.
We are thinking about masks wrong. You want every one else to wear a mask because they might have the virus, and if they do, the mask will stop droplets and aerosols from entering the air you breath and landing on surfaces that you may touch.

And of course, you should wear a mask too -- to protect others.

Had we all worn masks right when this started (simple cloth masks would do) this virus would not have spread so much and so easily.
its close any way you cut it. theres a billion benchmarks out there with the data you want
Fast food isn't that expensive. Especially not if you economize; McDonalds has a dollar menu for a reason.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17304619
> Loo roll manufacturers are going to have several thin months while consumers work through their backlog. Demand will be wiped out.

But consumer behavior will shift to keeping more inventory on-hand.
Nice and compact. It looks like there might not be a way to read or write a null byte though.
You could go with "Saas," which stands for "Saas as a service."
This is incorrect; Chinese government kicked out American journalists to retaliate Trump expelling Chinese journalists that work for state-run news medias [0].

As a China national, I'm disappointed to see Trump's action somehow feeds into CCP's rhetoric.

Sorry for replying to an old comment, saw this while looking at another article. Hope you don't mind!

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/business/media/china-expe...
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One could argue that a stock buyback does that for employees who get stock.
The ship is sinking and there aren't enough scuba diving suits.

There are professionals willing to jump into the water to try and patch the hull so it sinks more slowly, giving everyone time to get airlifted off by helicopter. Unfortunately, they're drowning while attempting the repairs because they're not wearing proper scuba diving gear. Meanwhile, normals are keeping the gear for themselves in the hope it might be easier to swim to safety once the ship goes under.

This isn't a very good analogy—but I hope my point comes through. It's not every person for themselves. We need to help the people trying to help everyone.
> we should also standardize

Windows tried, and failed (unfortunately).
It could happen... but that won't make things go back to normal. People will be keep getting sick (and dying.) Others won't go out due to fear or quarantines. It will be a slow spiral downward.
For me it's about what works the least, and 'high price' is usually the main consideration since I __rarely use__ the laptop in question. My use case for a laptop is a couple times a year when I'm at a tech or similar convention for a weekend, or very very light use when visiting a relative's house for an hour or two.

I agree that the screen and keyboard quality are also factors that veto a laptop; but those are much more subjective and difficult to actually rank. I think that might go in to an 'editors choice' within a given price point. Then you'd compare the 2-4 that fit within your budget needs.
I was responding to a silly post with a silly (though good faith) retort.

The OP posited that China's practice of selling animals in open air meat markets as being a cultural distinction that makes the US entirely different. There are plenty of open air meat markets in the United States, and we've had plenty of issues over time with this.

Maybe it would've been simpler to say "Making jokes and insinuations about bat soup (or whatever other Wuhan memes are currently popular) is to intentionally downplay what actually happened in this scenario. Congrats on the reductive racism, you've established that you're superior to others and your culture is surely blameless in the spread of this GLOBAL pandemic."
you ever read "The Varieties of Religious Experience" by William James? It's a good book despite its late-19th-century understanding of the brain and nervous system.

In talking about individuals who have had profound religious experiences, he distinguishes two types. One is the "healthy-minded" type, like the kind of relentless positivity you get in American evangelical religion, and perhaps could be extended to modern New Age thinking.

He also describes another type of religious experience, the "sick soul". These are the types of people who constantly agonize and worry and wonder, and are very in tune with human suffering and cannot accept the evil in the world. This can involve a fear of damnation but not necessarily.

He's able to come up with Christians of both types -- Tolstoy, for example, as a "sick soul".
I was just thinking about this recently. SAAS tools have gotten so expensive. For any given tool you use, inevitably the team building it is VC backed and wants to continually expand into more and more tangential areas and be able to afford a higher and higher CAC to grow into a 10 billion dollar business. There's often really no need for it, either the expanded use cases are irrelevant to many customers or it starts to overlap-but-not-quite-fully-replace another tool customers are already using and happy with.

Pagerduty is a prime example I have followed for a long time. It used to be so simple and just let you set up recurring rotations and used twilio to alert the current on-call person. You might even be able to set the original product up today with zapier for just a few cents per alert. I don't remember their early pricing, but my memory is it used to be very cheap. Now they're a public company with a huge enterprise sales team and their lowest tier is $29 per user, and there are all kinds of extra features they want to up-sell you on from there that most people don't need. Sure that's not so expensive in the scheme of things, but if there are 20 different little utilities like this you want to use it adds up.

(While I'm at it, that reminds me of another of the terrible patterns I see from all of these kinds of companies now, the per-seat pricing model even when the resource you're using doesn't scale that way. Want to set up CI builds in CircleCI? Surely they'll charge us for machine capacity. Well guess what, they also charge $15 per month per seat. You want folks on other teams who use different tools to ever be able to check in on the status of a build? Too bad, buy every one of them their own seat. If someone new ever even accidentally tries to sign in with github and you haven't provisioned a seat for them, CircleCI will actually stop running your builds until an admin goes in to upgrade your plan).

Anyway, it feels that there's a massive opportunity for a self-funded team of 5 or 10 people or in some cases maybe even 1 person to build a great lifestyle business that takes on the original focused use case of some of these ubiquitous SAAS platforms, but undercuts the big bloated business they are today on price by a huge amount.
Perhaps so, but:

The new ventilators might not last. They might be banned due to low quality after the emergency passes. Some will be damaged by use. Parts might become unavailable.

New companies may enter the ventilator business. We still have the ventilator business, even if the companies change.

The demand might remain high. The disease could stick around. This isn't the first respiratory disease to start spreading right next to a Chinese biohazard lab, and likely won't be the last.
Why do they need to not know that it was recently stolen from a museum?
Bailing out the Airlines is a Moral Hazard
Discussion from a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569007
A legendary impact on the field of condensed matter science and emergence.

I recommend go and read his “more is different” paper right now if you haven’t. http://robotics.cs.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/anderson72mo...

It’s remarkably readable for the layman.
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Those police sketches of the thieves look an awful lot like Mario and Luigi...
Sure, Intel sold some to Apple, but I’ve been seeing 1/3 to 1/2 of the laptops Costco carries with Ice Lake since before thanksgiving. Warehouse stores, not even premium channels.

They’re not in nearly the short supply that some people like to imply.

AMD is quite late to market with their mobile 7nm products. Their desktop products are far more timely, if their mobile had been launched with the desktop they would have beaten Intel, instead they basically are 6 months late to market.
Who says they don't? China's likely smart enough to figure this out: https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-chinese-art-heist
I looked up the 4004 earlier today, thinking about DIY microprocessors. It was 10 micron process. 20 micron is more like 1960-level technology, unfortunately.
I gotta say staging this whole event, again, has been pretty successful agitprop so far.

Afaik WHO officials were maneuvered into similar "Gotcha!" moments about Taiwan before, the interesting part: This reaction by WHO officials isn't exclusive to Taiwan.

If somebody would ask them about the COVID-19 situation in, for example, Palestine, then their answer would be equally evading or just referencing Israel [0].

Kurdistan is another territory that comes to mind that you will never see a WHO official acknowledge in any way.

This is the result of the WHO being forced to play "political triage" or risk losing support and funding from major power blocks that always want to dictate their particular territorial politics.

In that equation, where the goal is to help and reach the most people on the planet, it's sadly those smaller territories that end up as the "casualties" trough their lack of recognition.

This is most certainly not fair, but if the WHO would recognize every disputed territory in the world, which would include Palestine in addition to Taiwan and others, then it would suddenly lose support from major parts of the rest of the world. A WHO with Palestine and Taiwan, but without China, the US, Israel and whoever else would leave, would be a rather inconsequential WHO.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_t...
This is much less the case now that anyone, be it a company or organization or even a solo organizer, can link a Facebook group to a public Facebook page. (It isn’t immediately obvious how to do that, though, which perpetuates the discovery problem.)
Sometimes digital copies of things just aren't for sale, but I still want them.
>As far as I'm aware there's no way a healthcare worker could get access to the masks I already have.

AFAIK locally (Czech Republic) hospitals have accepted donations of respirators and even hand made cloth masks. Maybe something similar is possible with hospitals in your are as well ?
Why doesn't it? If that password became public knowledge, then it certainly does exist in lists and tables. Its high entropy is only protective as long as it remains secret. This is why it's important to avoid common patterns, even if those patterns are a result of a random number generator.
It's almost certainly better than nothing.
I wasn't clear: they should be tax advantaged, particularly for companies, relative to capital gains. If you tax capital gains at the marginal tax rate + 10%, they are unattractive in relative terms in most cases, even when deferred. And then letting companies deduct them against their profits encourages the companies to pay out profits (and to attempt to be profitable.)
Very much so.

Also, in my bouts of depression I always try to remember the concept of unfiltered perception.

It is what the depression at its peak looks like. Unfiltered perception. Pessimism is just a pale shade of that.

Thanks to Douglas Adams for introducing me to it.

See
I was not aware of this, but this sort of thing is one of my personal interests. If you don't mind me asking, where did you learn the answer to that question?
Wearing a face mask is compulsory here in Czech Republic for a third week now and you can even get fined for not doing so. According to our government this is one of the most important measures introduced to slow down the spread of the virus. Our PM is even trying to convince other EU governments to do the same. People are advised not to touch their face and clean their mask by washing it in boiling water every day. It’s not too complicated and hopefully will be effective.
> The thieves smashed a large glass door at the front of the museum to access the building.

So let me get this straight. A fairly sized museum that holds, possibly, millions worth of art has absolutely no 24/7 security guards at the front door. Not even a single guard.

Come on.
I live in New York City. I haven't left my building in weeks, but I can see people on the sidewalk outside of my window, and I see other residents of my building in the lobby when I go (briefly!) to pick up laundry and mail.

Many of them are wearing surgical masks. Not N95 masks, true, but not home-made masks either. I don't know where they're getting the masks, but clearly they have some.

Every time I see this, I honestly kind of want to scream at them.

If you want to wrap a piece of fabric around your nose and mouth, by all means, it certainly can't hurt. But if you have a supply of real masks somewhere, you should donate them.
Jeez could this site have anymore adware?
I agree that pirating vs. not pirating a given item of content is rather binary. What I mean by "I try to limit my piracy" is that I try not to pirate too many distinct items of content.
Late to market, but better performance.
And studies have shown only a small decrease in effectiveness of technically expired masks.
No longer a Christian, but I grew up quite passionate about my faith. Here are my two cents:

Your objection is spot on. It's a common critique and conundrum that Protestant Christians have been wrestling with and philosophizing about for quite some time.

The Christian bible is riddled with contradictions, absurd pronouncements, and obviously bad advice. However, my thinking is that those are where the meat of Christian practice lies. A bible, itself, is simply ink on lots of pages, while it is a spiritual practice to try deriving meaning and value from the jumble.

Newtonian mechanics, Maxwell's equations, Quantum Field Theories; all of these excellent descriptions of our world each contain absurd infities, false predictions, and sketchy philosophical foundations. However, the standard rhetoric is that these cracks are where all the interesting research happpens!

While I reject Christianity for personal reasons, in my experience, choosing some spiritual conundrum and working hard to resolve it goes a long way to generating personal spiritual growth, whatever that means. At the very least, many find such work deep and valuable and meaningful.

::fist bump::
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Use standard html then

A select is a select using a native widget

An input is a standard OS input widget

And so on
This is a traditional objection to Christianity from powerful and successful people. If you became a Christian, it’s quite possible you would cease to be driven by the same motivations. There are many stories of people making drastic life changes after becoming Christians, forgoing advantages they had accrued.

However, there are also Christians who do your job well and embrace similar hobbies. They may not have changed much yet, or they have developed different motivations. For example, someone might have been working hard to spite someone and they learn to work hard to love their coworkers.

It’s hard to say whether you would change very little, change your motivations to do the same thing, or do something totally different.
I kept waiting for some specific example of the problem being complained about, but never found one

What was your next reaction?
Yes a vacancy tax would help in that scenario. But why would landlords leave the place empty rather than taking some rent. Are a lot of them without debt and own the buildings outright?
Hmmm, it seems like the idea that we have too much fighting is not very popular. Maybe I have it completely backwards, maybe we need more fighting.
You are right in that medical professionals need proper equipment. At the same time it is very dangerous not to say that anyone else should have at least a home made mask when going out, to avoid possibly spreading the infection further if they are infected and do not know it yet.
My favorite review so far has to be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aLH0Q6CZF4&t=0s
"Now Intel is in (even more) Trouble - AMD RYZEN 4000 Mobile Review (ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14)"

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If things aren’t highly reproducable, similar studies aren’t needlessly redundant.