skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you really surprised Amazon hasn’t implemented them?

It become harmful to them though. At a certain point people feel the hit and avoid the service. Having people spent a little more accidentally and go ‘oh well, oops’ is the sweet spot. An unexpected $80k which kills the company is bad for everyone.
I'd have to say my favorite problem with the ship is that it has to stop flight operations if the new arresting gear needs repairing, and if one catapult needs repairs, it cannot be independently shut-down, all four need to be turned off, which takes ~90 minutes.
Not an end to the lockdown, just the end of the validity of the current State of Emergency declaration, which can then be renewed.

Here in Portugal, they've already stated the lockdown will remain in effect at least until the end of May, and haven't given any hard end dates.
In the PostgreSQL world, the "database instance" is called a "cluster". A cluster contains multiple databases (and the definitions of roles and memberships and which roles can access which databases); a database contains multiple schemas; and a schema is where your tables/views/functions and other database objects live.
One of the fundamental laws of microservices is that each service is responsible for storing its own state. Nothing else is allowed access to its backing store.

Given that, once you have more than one service in your architecture, you cannot coordinate transactions across the distinct storage mechanisms - they are distinct databases and are therefore subject to the CAP theorem and other complexities of distributed computing.

Of course, nothing's stopping you from putting all your features into one service to avoid this thorny problem. It's a wise approach for most of us.

When you do that you have a monolithic architecture, not a microservice one.
I would like to introduce a project which I completed in 2018 and it is almost dead but someone asked me about it few days ago and I decided to revive it again.

The project is a simple JavaScript file which helps in performing AJAX requests to the server.

Note that I'm not a professional JavaScript developer. I made the project just for fun and the code might have many design flaws. But it works for sure.
The thing to note is, if cash inflows stop, some cash outflows also stop.

Like if you're a store and you're not selling any products right now, you're also not buying any inventory. If you're a restaurant that's closed, you're not buying any food.

Revenue has to include cost of goods sold right, unless specifically excluded?
> ...company whose finances are in need of slashing the CEO's salary to zero.

You're only looking at one side of the equation. The CEO wanted to ensure that his employees were all making a living wage. He's so committed to that that he's taking the same wage. To spin that as a foundering business is rather disingenuous.

I wish more executives would take more modest wages. My employer would have a lot more runway if our execs were making the same as the rest of us. Hard to buy into "belt-tightening exercises" where we sack a dozen qualified and necessary employees whose salaries don't add up to a single executive salary...
FWIW I have a home in the rural Sierras (closest hospital is two hours away; industries are agriculture, tourism and meth) but Internet service is faster and more reliable than at my other home in Palo Alto. California at least seems to be able to get services (health care, roads, communications, power, and often water) into most of its obscure corners. Places like Montana or New Mexico may be really sparsely settled, but central Illinois seems less excusable.

According to this map the described situation doesn’t exist; not sure if that’s an artifact of county boundaries or if it’s due to carriers lying to the FCC: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/map-digital-divide-leaves-mi...
Can you share some details?
To be honest, I am super unexcited by this. What I want to see from Apple is a move back to high software quality, high hardware quality and real vision for their products. At the moment their convergence between iPad and Macbook has essentially been to add sub-par versions of macbook features to the iPad and to make the macbook a second class citizen in terms of quality.

My big worry is that actually this is just acting as cover for deep underlying issues in a lack of real vision for how the iPad can become a real replacement for laptops and no vision at all for the desktop line. How crazy is it that Apple is pumping out products that re-implement Microsoft features from 5 years ago (after spending 5 years mocking Microsoft).
Not much. Some electricity. Servers are there either way.
Some misconceptions about wage stickiness
This is the reason why billing alerts exist. Just use them. You can't make joke of money.
Someone already said Vonnegut, so I’ll offer Kerouac.

Also, Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray is something beyond.
British supermarkets have bizarrely cut their hours. Presumably the idea is that staff can stock shelves while distancing from customers, but the effect is to crowd customers together and increase queues.
Is this really about the CPU though? My guess is - especially in the countries where these low-end phones are popular - bandwidth is a much bigger bottleneck.
yes, and in addition, the ipad pro is being developed into a viable low- to mid-tier option that's even more mobile (for video, AR/VR, and whatnot). a perusal of geekbench shows that ARM is performance/efficiency competitive already.

but the transition will likely be more gradual (for instance, replacement times for computers are longer now), so x86 macs should stay around for a long while i think.
I have one that I've been using for some time now: https://github.com/remilapeyre/terraform-provider-gmail

It should work without issues, I need to document it though. Let me know if you have some troubles using it.
Not a big deal if you're mainly writing client-side JS. You're never gonna know how fast something will run in a browser anyway.
Yes nobody is denying that these arent reality. They're models, and you get far more sophisticated models after econ 101
The “prepper” hotel could instead take out a loan (using their savings as collateral) to renovate.
My guess is that opening particular file formats is a much more common problem and PDFs just shine there.
What does this mean for software companies whose consumer base is largely on OSX? Will Adobe, Sony, Avid, etc have to port their library of software over to Apple's new ARM architecture?

Will this allow for greater freedom with ARM devices not running new OSX?

It seems like Apple lately has very much internalized 'if you build it, they will come' even though it seems like it is heavily alienating their professional user base.
Glue language aside (which arguably is a lot more true of unices than other platforms), I'd argue Forth might make a better language / minimal environment for learning the low-level parts of a computing system.

It's got interactivity (bundled compiler/interpreter in one system), a large number of implementations (possibly more supported CPUs than C++, but that might be more due to its age), and a Forth system is easier to "pick apart" and learn how its compiler's implemented than a C compiler.
I'm curious, people who use conda, what's your reason for doing so? When I started using Python I used conda because people told me I would have a really hard time managing packages if I didn't. I used it for quite some time, but kept running into issues. For instance, new versions of packages would be released and it would be forever until they were available in conda. And it seemed every month or two conda itself would have some issue that I'd have to spend a while troubleshooting.

Then I discovered pyenv + virtualenv. I can't think of a single issue over the last 18 months. I can easily run any version of Python, virtual environments are way easier to deal with, and PIP has been so much better than conda for packages.

Is there something else I'm missing about conda? Or was conda something that was needed and great several years ago, but not so much these days?

I'd also love to hear if there's something better than pyenv + virtualenv I should look into.
Exactly. They decided it was cheaper for them to let you make mistakes and then grant refunds.
Alan Kay: “People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”

Apple: People who are really serious about hardware make their own processors.
This is a real time experiment in progress.

People across the globe are watching how the distribution of wealth in each country relates to the economic effects of this.

There are a lot of confounding variables, some more related to wealth distribution (i.e. universal healthcare vs not), and some less related (timeliness of local authorities and government reaction).

At the individual household level in the US at least, household savings are very low among large segments of the population (because of high wealth disparity), so there is very little to fall back on for most people. Depending on the length and severity of the pandemic, the 2T relief/stimulus bill may not be enough.

Overall, this is a huge test for how whether the amount (or lack) of slack in important areas of the system - primarily income and health care, but others too - can cope with this shock.
Existential question about cloud usage: at what point does the risk + cost + knowledge/consultation + DevOps staff required to efficiently manage a cloud provider outweigh the risk + cost + staff of running your own data centre?
No,see that's your assumption I talked about. That's not a targeted attack for example, if someone is targeting you or your org, they will not wait for you to open a random malicious script somewhere.

Example: let's say you are not very technical or fairly new to Linux. You visit a hotel and their legitimate captive portal asks you to install a package with a download link which when installed allows secure access, most people in the category i described will install it. Or let's say you visit ubuntiforums or Linux questions a lot and you receive an email from them(you don't know email can be spoofed like 99% of people) about an emergency security advisory for some package,distros are working on a fix but here's a link to a patched package if you want to help test it's stability, good chance majority of users in the category I described would install that package since it came from a trusted source. And fyi, I just described two TTPs of the APT darkhotel: https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0012/

My point is, if someone studies you well enough to know what you trust and don't trust, their attacks will tuned to work against you. There are many ways to get pwned and attackers need only one to work. Your expectation that everyone should know all the attack vectors well enough to defend themselves is impractical. Even seasoned pros will overlook verifying downloads with GPG here and therr for example.

This isn't just my opinion, you have to assume if targeted, they will at least get initial access.
If the government is going to throw $2 trillion at the problem, this seems like a reasonably inexpensive improvement with large impact.

A CCC style nerd corps could set up a number of rural, micro ISPs. You could start with with fiber in the nearest town, go p2p microwave to each uISP, and then cantennas and mesh networking tech for last mile runs. This is all ancient off the shelf stuff.

A nonprofit could organize the design and deployment, seek grants from feds and fangs, seek spare equipment from idling manufacturers.
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?

There is an interesting thought. Apple could embed one AMD-chiplet with up to 8 cores into their designs, where Apple provides the ARM-CPUs as well as the io-hardware the chiplets require. This would retain the ability to run x86-code, while the system would use the ARM-hardware for most task.
Scientists Use Stem Cells to Treat Covid-19 Patients in China
This is the core philosophy of capitalism: the one with more money wins. Otherwise why would people sacrifice other important things (health, time with family) for money?

The advance of modern technologies (agriculture, transportation) improves everyone’s life standards so we enjoyed quite some time feeling everything works fine. But now the tech advance slows down (largely due to the fact we haven’t had breakthroughs in fundamental physics) so we start to feel the old
pain again but really it’s been there for thousands years.
Some yes. But when rent is one of your biggest one, the impact of stopping is quite high as you can't even cover this one.
Cat’s Cradle has been my favorite book of all time since I found it in high school.
Author here. I understand your concerns, and in fact one of the last things I added is unit tests: https://github.com/mbrt/gmailctl/blob/master/README.md#tests

Getting things right is not easy, especially in complex languages like jsonnet. In my own experience though, every time you limit the expressivity of config languages you end up inventing even more complex workarounds in the end (e.g. external templating and things like that).
China says ‘No’ to the malicious filing of Coronavirus-related trade marks
> 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.

Cash on hand is a lot more nuanced that profit vs not profit. Airlines spend tons of money on stock buybacks due to the drive for "profit" which hurt their cash on hand significantly.

Cash on hand is either: unclaimed profit, capital or loans (Accounts payable that isn't fulfilled). So while having more profit can make it easier to have cash on hand it isn't the only way.

> What can the rich do to prevent this?

I don't understand where this question came from. Are you talking about banks reducing the chance of bad debt due to insufficient liquidity? Are you talking about the rich trying to stop small businesses from increasing competition and reduce their profits?

> Like the way in the US you have to be a "qualified investor" with a certain amount of assets to invest in unregulated securities.

Unregulated securities are often a synonym for "scams" that is why you have to be a qualified investor.
Howard's End, EM Forster, is one, along with all of Forster.

Arcadia, a play by Tom Stoppard, is fantastic. Good for many re-reads (and re-watches).

Ursula Le Guin (maybe The Left Hand of Darkness is my favorite?) might be the best sci-fi/fantasy ever written, as much as I love Lois McMaster Bujold (three worlds to choose from, each offering many more or less independent novels and novellas), who is also great.

A few more:

Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey.

My Antonia, Willa Cather.

Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut.
People have (Jonathan Morrison for an example) , the 4k exports from iMovie or other video/image editor has been proven to be vastly faster on iPad Pro than the fastest Macbook Pro.

Intel CPUs are not customized by Apple for their own APIs, they're for general purpose use. yes, they have ISA extensions that Apple could use like QuickSync but it's not enough for Apple.

Apple customize their A series with the same APIs they use, such as Metal, CoreFoundation, Javascript Core (they have hardware-based JS acceleration support), etc.

It's why they added T2 chips to their Macs to help accelerate a lot of tasks like disk encryption, more locked down security with TouchID and so on.
I've gotten several inquiries (more than in the past 10 years) on LinkedIN recently from 'investors' offering financing for companies 'in trouble'. I run a very small company that is completely bootstrapped and I have never used any outside funding for anything I've done. Yet, they found me.

The sharks are circling, they smell blood.
Ready Player One? Why?
I timed my purchase of my last PowerBook G4 (the last PowerPC-based model) based on similar thinking.

IIRC, It took a while for all the "pro" tools I used to get refreshed for x86.
The Cello concerto no. 2 is his first work I listened to and still holds a special place for me:

https://youtu.be/ApJU2QbbXpc
By the time they reach the Masters, students should know how to learn independently. Masters students often have some work experience as well.

The Bachelors is the period where students go from being taught in High School to learning on their own. It probably is harder to implement effectively online than the Masters.
"AWS did not take advantage of you"

How do you know? That is what a court system is for.

"like filing fake disputes and transferring funds to a new company"

Ah the old straw man. Nope. I didn't say file fake disputes.

"please don't recommend running away from debts"

Having the ability to not pay debts is the entire point of Limited Liability Companies. People out of human dignity should have the right to NOT pay debts. Please don't recommend paying whatever a debtor wants.
It's also called product differentiation. Oil is a commodity, but there are grades of oil and the amount of sulfur varies, so there is "sour" oil, "light" oil, etc. similar to "fair trade" chocolate.
Sorting 1M 8-digit numbers in 1 MB of RAM (2012)
If shared PHP hosting was good enough for your use case why on earth were you on AWS (and running 4K video encoding clusters!) in the first place?
I have never heard of a case where they wouldn’t give refunds. AWS is competing with the 95% of compute that is not running in the cloud (their own statistics). The last thing they want is a reputation that one mistake will bankrupt a business.
Can't think of any, but managed hosting tends to do better. For instance if you are doing your testing in Ruby, I'd suggest hosting on Heroku while you do all your preliminary work, where it's clear(er) what the cost will be, then move to AWS later when the bank account is, well, beefier. :)
This isn’t always worth doing as they buyer typically can only dispose of the assets at fire sale prices.

This is why SV Bank’s collateral pledge always excludes the IP: they don’t know what to do with it while what’s left of the team has a better chance of selling it/getting aquihired.
Because these PDFs are publicly/freely available, it could be undertaken to convert them to mobi and ePub formats (if one were so inclined). Maybe see if existing free ebook processors [1] [2] would accept these into their pipelines?

Heck, the US gov even has a service to do this for departments who pay for it [3].

[1] https://www.pgdp.net/

[2] https://www.gitenberg.org/updates

[3] https://www.gpo.gov/how-to-work-with-us/agency/services-for-...
somewhat reminds me of 'sed', but with less history and less power.
It seems like you are trying to portray the lenders as the bad guys here. If that’s the case there is one thing I don’t understand.

I had no money to fund my enterprise venture. Found someone that believed in it enough to lend me money with the promise I would pay it back. I couldn’t pay it back so they “took” my company.

How are the lenders the bad guys? What are they supposed to do?
If there’s a shortage, new players might enter to fill that gap though. It doesn’t have to lead to concentration in that direction.
I'm wondering if they'll have some solution similar to Rosetta
But you need to know this is possible in the first place. And once you've had to pay the price for it it's hard to ever feel safe using it again.
The government should take ownership of these underperforming properties and make them available to first time business owners in partnership with the SBA.
Yet another password manager. But then...why not? Looks simple enough, works mostly well and is good security-wise. I might try it but the only feature that puts me off is password syncing. Minimalist is fine and all but...come on; most people nowadays use multiple devices and password syncing is very important. In any case, nice project.
That's not possible in that particular hosting environment. I believe some people have done experiments with PyPy, but the difference in performance is nothing like that we see with Go.
Much of my job is embedded engineering, to establish a bit of credulity for the following recommendations. My employer is partial to ST Micro and Renesas, so keep that in mind. Others may suggest Silicon Labs, Microchip, or Texas Instruments. This will also be biased by my own education and work experience (e.g. no robotics, more sensors/lights stuff).

I'd recommend getting a dev kit like the STM32F4DISCOVERY (https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/stm32f4discovery.html). ST Micro's boards are often used for courses (https://www.udemy.com/course/cortex-m/) so you may like to take some of those courses. You'll often hear about the TI MSP430 as another microcontroller but AFAIK it's beginning to be a bit dated. Although come to think of it, there's probably more educational material out there for it, if you're willing to search.

Grab a kit like the Sparkfun Beginner's Kit (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13973) and read some of the tutorials on their website about creating circuits. Tutorials or courses for your dev kit should get you to a point where you can light an LED controlled by the micro.

From there, you may like to do more advanced stuff like communicating with sensors over specific protocols (Sparkfun's Tinker Kit and associated guides may be of use https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14556 though you will have to translate from Arduino to C code, which can be good practice for knowing how Arduino works under-the-hood).

At this point, you'll probably know whether you want to keep learning more about sensors/lights/IoT type stuff, or want to branch out to other embedded-related topics. More advanced IoT material will be things like taking sensor measurements, storing measurements to memory, interfacing with displays, sending data via WiFi or Bluetooth.

Edit: I skimmed over a lot to keep it short. There's a lot hiding behind how casually these recommendations are made, so feel free to reach out with any questions (email in profile).
Covid-19 QR-Code app for tracking visits to public places
App:
create app that allows users to scan QR(on sign at entrance of public places) to show they have been to public location at certain time. App records user’s public visit hist w o using location services. When positive Covid-19 occurs, text users if they were in same public area as positive patient during incubation period.

Initial Distribution:
Get signs w QR in entrances of public places. Open source code. Allow groups in cities to work to dist signs while limited public places open.

Future:
As public places open, get signs to entrances of public locations. Work w employers and encourage HR depts to incentivize employees to use app. Goal to segment people into risk levels for spreading the disease. Right now, our only way of combating the spread is mass quarantine. When we get over initial influx, cases are likely to continue until a vaccine created. For economy to keep going, need to be able to have low risk (for transmitting) people be able to go back to work while high-risk quarantine until no longer a risk.

Challenges: Technical- app will be a challenge. We need to recruit technical talent necessary to work on project.

Distribution- need to be able to convince businesses that spreading information will not be detrimental to their business. Right now we are essentially hiding information, so businesses are protected. How do we share it without hurting businesses?

Privacy- need to be able to get hospitals to share information about where positive patients have been during incubation period.

Goal: Use information from positive cases to determine who is a high risk for transmitting and limit their exposure to others. By identifying high-risk people, we hope to slow the exponential growth now and when future outbreaks occur. We want to gather this info without sacrificing privacy and without requiring location services. We want this to be a non-profit idea created without ties to a business or government.