skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, remember those mysterious "Google layoffs" back around Valentine's Day, before this virus mess? The ones they were so secretive about?

That was one of the new Oracle execs firing the entire Seattle-based cloud marketing team.

The reason for firing those people was solely to open up headcount to get more salespeople. The marketing team was not happy, for obvious reasons, and company PR worked pretty hard to spin this one. This is not how Googlers expect the company to work. But it is exactly what Oracle refugees expect.

My take: GOOG is in for some Ballmer doldrum years of its own. They've well and truly arrived for the employees, but Wall Street hasn't quite figured it out yet.
Unfortunately, the belief that everything will be back to normal by Easter is coming from the President.
Atlas Shrugged was wonderful for me as a young adult. It helped me break free of a religious upbringing that was filled with guilt.

And then it was good for me in my middle age when I realized how flawed other parts of Rand's philosophy are and how much I disagreed with them and why, and got to move past it to even better places. :D
Also, in the pro audio sector it's common for people to spend quite a bit more than the cost of the Mac on Intel-specific DAW plugins.
That raises a good question: what proportion of small businesses (SBA definition or JPM's sample definition) have shareholders? Vs. being sole proprietorships or partnerships?
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore...

99% of active cases in Korea are mild. There is some difference between countries in terms of reporting but typically "mild" indicates no hospitalization, "severe" requires hospitalization and "critical" indicates ICU.

It's hard to estimate true hospitalization rate when you don't know the spread of the disease, and we don't have good data for that anywhere. But here is a repo with the data we do have:

https://github.com/beoutbreakprepared/nCoV2019
1. A patchwork Planet: A Patchwork Planet is a novel by Anne Tyler. Published in 1998, it tells the story of Barnaby Gaitlin, anti-hero and failure who suffers from more than the usual quota of misfortune. The book is noted for its complement of old people and eccentrics, and its sharply ironic humor.

As a teenager/young adult (can't remember), the ending left me puzzled until someone older tipped me about what was going on.

2.

edit (this was my first answer before I could remember the title of two other books which aren't as famous but left a mark on me):

Steppenwolf could be a good candidate.

Wind, sand and stars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind,_Sand_and_Stars

There's something in it about going on.

I can't say they had a significantly positive impact on my life though.

I think reflecting back on events, trying to put things and traumas into perspective has had a positive impact.

What I am trying to say without knowing where you are coming from: there's no magic pill and books are not magic pills either.
Huge respect to the author for ealizing this - however, I'm honestly sceptical of including yet another turing-complete configuration DSL without sufficient debugging capabilities.

Seems to me, now you've added several more sources of complexity:

- You have to get the JSONnet syntax right and learn about th various functionalities and expressions.

- You have to ensure Jsonnet is correctly translated into the GMail filter chain.

- You still have to ensure the GMail filter chain works correctly - this is one of the original problems this project set out to solve, but I don't understand what additional tools the project gives you to archieve this.
>If this is cheaper for Apple will they actually lower product prices or just enhance their own margins.

If this would happen, most definitely the improvement on margins. Why would they lower prices?
Four Ways to Lead Your Sales Team Remotely
utter garbage clickbait “source”
Most cellphone providers provide you with a text message when you're over 90% of your hard cap, and you can login and buy more bandwidth if you really need it.

The same could be done with cloud doo-dads.
Dude's got a savior complex
Show HN: Single C++ header image resampler with 14 configurable kernels
Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
Two questions:

— I thought US shale break-even is between $45 and $55, is that correct?

— What's your opinion on how long until the debt starts imploding with the US shale producers?

Cheers,
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For the logistic function the relation is

y' = y - y^2

This is why the linear relation later on bends back to lower values until y' becomes 0 for the end of the infection.
And if you're looking for Apollo-era photos, they have a gallery organized by mission:

https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/index.htm...
This is unbelievably absurd. Insurance companies don't want to do their one and only job, paying healthcare costs, so they want a bailout from the government too. How much money are we going to pour into these useless entities before we just get rid of them altogether? How backwards does America need to be on this issue before there's a will to fix it? How many people need to die and go bankrupt over medical bills while insurance companies make 100% profit off of any premium raises? Is being the new epicenter of the global pandemic of the century not enough? The greed and cruelty is just unbelievable. So much for helping others when it really matters.
We had an instance when some consultant dev wrote a lambda function which gets triggered when a new image is saved in S3, takes it resizes it and re-save it in same S3.

For non-technical guys, that is recursion. We were surprised to see $5000 bill in 10 days.
They’ll do it on a select model or two. By passing on some of the cost savings to purchasers, they will drag the market along with them as they gradually replace Intel. I would guess that they target the MacBook Air first, because there are likely large power-performance benefits in that form factor. They will build multiple processor targeting into the default build process in Xcode and will invest a great deal of effort and time into ensuring that app developers are well supported with the targeting of ARM.

They did this before with the move to Intel from PPC. And back then, Apple was a great deal smaller.
Illusions - adventures of a reluctant messiah by Richard Bach

Jonathan Livingston seagull. Same author
His other book A Deepness in the Sky is amazing as well
This is the complete opposite of what my friends and family have experienced. Many of their favorite teachers worked at community colleges. Specifically at Austin and Houston community colleges. And they got their undergrad at more prestigious universities like University of Texas at Austin.
I hear OU is surprisingly hard work and surprisingly expensive.

You think you'll do an online degree in your spare time and it turns out it's a decade of work and costs thousands of dollars.
>Once the pandemic is over, the company will return to normal.

I wouldn't say that. Your employees who did the work and had tribal knowledge are now gone. If they didn't document something, it may not be found for a good while.

Point is, it might take a lot of work to get it back going. Or it's as easy as putting some equipment on firesale and shredding everything else.
This is the complete opposite of what my friends and family have experienced. Many of their favorite teachers worked at community colleges. Specifically at Austin and Houston community colleges. And many got their undergrad at more prestigious universities like University of Texas at Austin.
> There is absolutely no reason why a website should be build with c, sry...

Please tell this Felix von Leitner (fefe.de, blog.fefe.de), and post his reply in this forum.

His blog software is written in C. It's one of the most frequented blog in German speaking countries and running on a single machine (AFAIK).

Of course, not everybody has the expertise to build something like a blog in C.
Because the title is clickbait. The article is interesting but it’s not about pizza.
Does the $3.5 per month include DB as well?
It's hard to reform when many Americans are in an abusive relationship with their own party. A Pew poll in 2017[1] showed that the majority of the most partisan supporters choose their own party because they hate the other one, rather than they like their own. You cannot make reform on destruction and hate. There is little positive energy to create really new proposals.

[1] https://www.people-press.org/2017/10/05/8-partisan-animosity...
Most unskilled labourers are presented with non-routine problems frequently throughout their work
This looks like the most promising treatment at the moment, well-known molecules available at low cost.

Expanded results should be available within days.
entertaining alternative points of view, outside of the liberal HN viewpoints.
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek - this book is pee-in-your-pants funny. A Czech satire about WWI. Definitely shines a light on the absurdity of war and various institutions - a lot still applies today. There is profundity in the dark humor, and at the same time it is a great mood-lifter. The character Svejk stays with you as a sort of idiot-genius-rebel, a cool archetype
Teaching to code sounds great but it has to be combined with critical thinking and digital literacy. Plus a lot of people don't have access to a functioning browser or laptop. To answer your question you can check out freecodecamp
I think it would be a better fit for a C++ book.
Then it's a wide open field for a company who can do it to get the contract at whatever price they want. See how markets work?
"Yes, you're legally obligated to pay the bill"

Yes in civil court. So, no don't pay it. This isn't London 1689. Debtors prisons do not exist.

"Claiming an unfounded dispute or transferring funds to a new company is fraud"

Explaining to the credit card company you were tricked or confused in this purchase is not fraud.
They clearly did understand what they said. The "Medicare for All" proposals do not simply extend existing Medicare benefits to everyone, they also expand what Medicare covers for the people it covers.
Your response gives me zero confidence that you know what you're talking about. Having "hundreds of thousands" of users tells us nothing (which is why TPS was brought up). Also if you do have a high concurrent user count then there's no way there have been "no issues scaling". There are always scale points in systems that actually grow.
Everybody Can Make DeepFakes Now! [video]
Jonathan Livingston seagull by the same author is also an amazing book
Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time
or rather the small business goes bust and in a few months, when people can finally come out, you have high streets full of closed shops and restaurants.
You don't have to declare bankruptcy to shut down a small business - even with huge debt. You just dissolve the business entity and the debt goes down with the ship (unless you have a contract that says otherwise).
That depends on how soon we get scared enough to act.

Or is it too late with anthropomorphic effects of deeds already done hitting their peak after decades?
Some things I'd mentioned are already mentioned, so I upvoted these instead of double mention.

I'd like to add if you like SF and Star Wars, you'll enjoy The Thrawn Trilogy [1]. I read them as kid, somewhere in the 90s. Not sure if they're still relevant.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/series/42348-star-wars-the-thrawn-...
How is running the same code in two different machines and reporting the results objectively "laughable"?
Mishire. I don't want to doxx anyone, but the tech team realized pretty quickly that he was more of a technical manager and not a real engineer. He had a serious neckbeard mentality about being right about everything yet couldn't write a Hello, World on his own. He did little to win people over and got caught reusing work he'd taken from his team at his last job.
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Meh this is obvious. In NY, if you DON'T do this, you get the Niagara Falls of pizza-goop straight onto your lap.
This is hilarious.

But serious question: the original tweet is about a single instance that costs over 3 million dollars.

Is that genuinely a single physical instance? Like is it even technically possible to build a traditional single physical server of CPU+RAM+disk that costs that much?

Or, being a database server, is it some kind of clever abstraction that actually splits it up physically (e.g. relying on the fact that different database threads might be able to get away without sharing memory)?
> And how do you "stop" the bill? Delete everything? What if you need that data? Does it make sense to delete all your backups from the past year over $1?

What would you do if you were manually monitoring this and taking action yourself? Can't you code an approximation of that for common scenarios?

There must be a middle ground between no help and "delete all your data when you go over your bill limit by $1".
I think it's likely.

They may provide sandboxes for development, some kind of WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) or Docker on Mac, and a "Classic" emulator for apps that haven't been recompiled like they did for the transition between Mac os 9 and Mac os X, and from PowerPC to x86.

Meanwhile they will continue to limit web apps.
My intention was really not putting pressure on the publisher as a buyer of this book. I rather wonder why certain books have an early access option and others don't.

I probably won't be able to read it before July, anyway, because I have to finish my bachelor's degree first. But I think it's not a bad time for a financial contribution to my favorite tech book publisher, so I already bought the book "blindly".
Yes. The $425b that will be leveraged into $4 trillion of basically free loans to large corporations is going to make things considerably worse for every ordinary American. Increase massively the consolidation of the economy and reduce competition. It’ll be used by the large corporations that can access it to buy up competitors.

Here is just one topical example of how this kind of consolidation over the past decade has hurt us. And this program is more than five times the size of the 2008 program: Ventilator company Covidien acquired Newport to prevent it from building a cheaper product that would undermine Covidien’s profits from its existing ventilator business. [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-v...

This is very bad for America and - (I know politics is frowned on hut this is the real world and this is a political problem we are discussing) - and if anyone thinks the Democrats are not equally to blame you need to look again, they could have stripped this program from the House bill and passed it without and forced the Republicans in the Senate to either show their hand that they’re holding Americans hostage for this or force them to blink first. But they refused to do that, IMO because they're clearly aligned on giving $4T to large business. If you disagree with that please explain what prevented them doing that. I would like to know.
It is impossible to time the market, so it doesn't really make sense to answer this in absolute terms. Is it a better time to invest than last month? Yes. Than last year? Yes. Could it be even better to invest next quarter? Possibly. But this is a unique situation and the markets are forward looking, so it is difficult to say.

The safest thing to do is average into it. Say you have a target to invest $2K/month under "normal" conditions. On a really bad month, maybe make it $4K. If conditions worsen next month, increase your investment even more. Eventually you might not be able to stand it...
I wonder if you could do it as a kind of near universal social and economic time-out? Let's say it starts on a Sunday night and is to last for two weeks.

What happens is that everything starting Monday is pushed back two weeks. Stock markets close. Non-essential workers stay home. Non-essentially businesses close.

During the two weeks, government pays for everyone's utilities, food, rent, and so on, both for people and companies.

The idea is to as much as possible pause the normal economy for a couple of weeks, and then resume it hopefully pretty much right where it left off, with the government seeing to everyone's needs during the economic pause.

Do this once a year as a readiness exercise, probably trying to time it around when that year's flu season is getting serious so that it may also help reduce the intensity of flu season.

Over the years, the government should over fund this to build up a cushion, so that whenever the next pandemic comes around they have enough to do longer than a two week pause if necessary.
Kitty 0.17.2 Released
This course is offered by a reputable university and is supposed to be equivalent to it's on campus course.

https://www.coursera.org/degrees/bachelor-of-science-compute...
I am a huge Vonnegut fan and just read Galápagos last month. It wasn’t one of his best, but I still really enjoyed it.

Part of my enjoyment of Vonnegut comes from his writing style. I just love how he writes, no matter the story.
No, I meant exactly what I said, nothing else.

Entertaining games solve people's desire to be entertained.
Most small businesses would be required to personally guarantee the debt (unless they were able to show a history of revenue to an amiable lender); owners will either cover out of their pocket to protect their credit reports, and only failing that, declare BK. Of course, walk away from the debt if you’re not personally guaranteeing it.

Leases will be broken and debt will be defaulted on at scale; it’s going to take years for everyone to fight over the scraps in court.
Please give attribution more prominently. Like maybe on the about page.

As of this is just a blatant ripoff of someone else's work.
It doesn‘t matter if the output is a „document“ or if it runs in a browser. And more so with SPAs. These are not more like documents than any desktop application twenty years ago.

And of course software development is about solving problems. And of course it‘s not just about where to place data.
Reinventing P-Values
I figured that would be the response, and the current price drops proves that the be wrong as the it is not just falling demand that is causing the price collapse, not that started long before COVID, it is a price war between 2 (of many) large suppliers,

This idea that OPEC controls everything in oil is simply false
Probably helped them predict severity of winter since they didn’t have the weather channel. Or maybe free water when it melts?
> By passing on some of the cost savings to purchasers

We're talking about Apple here. I expect the new machines to have less perf but be as expensive as before.
If that got to the right person on the right day and they knew it was going to kill the company, it seems likely to help. And combined with the fact that it would probably guarantee future revenue way off into the future...
Accidental overspend is probably a big part of cloud revenue. When you have an AWS account being used by 6 dev teams with their own microservices, how does anyone know whether you're paying for resources that you don't need? Very few people even understand how to create a cost-optimized setup for their own project.
looks really cool! congrats, seems like a lot of work went into this, and code generation is always fun.

i do have some feedback about the readme though...

maybe i'm not the intended audience, but the examples didn't work great for me - the readme just shows the code without the inputs/outputs, so you kind of have to guess what it does. ("show me your tables, not your flowcharts" etc.)

i also think you should add some more basic examples / common tasks, e.g. converting AOS to SOA:

[{'a': 5, 'b': 'foo'},
{'a': 10, 'b': 'bar'} ]

c.fun['stuff'](data) # look how concise!

{'a': [5, 10 ],
'b': ['foo', 'bar']}

and build up to more complex stuff from there, to help readers get a feel for the library.

and i think the examples should be a bit higher up in the readme –
ofc wanting to describe how cool the implementation is is natural :) but honestly, when i'm looking at a library like this, i want to be able to make a quick assessment if might be useful for me - the implementation is kind of secondary in most cases.

now, despite what i wrote above, i'd love to hear some stuff about the implementation :) as someone who also wrote a library that does runtime python codegen, what's your approach to that?
In this case the victims would be the workers. So you could either buy the company out, nationalize it, or let it go bankrupt and pay the employees directly.

None of those solutions incentivize the kidnapper like a ransom payment (bailout, no strings) does, and they’re likely cheaper.
I am torn, whenever I hear the rumors about the ARM Macs. On the one side, I am terribly excited from a technology perspective. I grew up with homecomputers in the 80ies, and in the 90ies, all Unix-workstations had several different, non-x86 architectures. So any disruption of the x86-monoculture is interesting. Also, looking at the performance of the iPhone and iPad, I think Apple has the potential to create some great hardware. It would also give them more flexibility to roll out new features.

On the other side, such a transition always is painfull. A lot of software needs to be rebuilt, and even more legacy software gets killed, as it is not ported to the new platform. Though Catalina already did a lot of that, and that might not be a coincidence, if you think about it. Catalina might be intentionally restrictive to ease the transition to another architecture.

Also, a lot of Mac users are running VMs on their machines. Running Windows and Linux VMs on your Mac was one big benefit of the switch to Intel. I myself use a Linux VM for my professional work on a MB Pro. And that VM needs to be able to run x86 software. So it remains to be seen, how Apple deals with the MB Pro (and of course the Mac Pro).
I feel many if not most responses are missing the latter, key part of the question, namely "had a positive impact on your life". Everyone is piling up to list their favorite novels, but very few explain how it has impacted their life.
I took two of your colors, lol. :D hehe Thanks a lot!
Probably. That's what happened with the surface RT tablet a few years ago.
> Saying impaired people shouldn't have to work and from there arranging a world where they aren't allowed to work is a nightmare scenario where any defect cuts you out of the system entirely.

This really struck me. There's an interesting stain of American progressivism that sees a bad situation and, in earnestly attempting to address it, makes the problem worse. See the death of SROs and various forms of actually affordable housing: a veneer of compassion justified restrictive zoning ("nobody deserves to live in conditions like that!"), but without a suitable replacement occupants often just ended up on the street. Same effect with asylums: horrible abuses spurred public interest in dismantling them, but absent a replacement you just end up dumping the patients on the street without their meds. Sex work? Nobody should have to sell their body to survive! Therefore, let's persecute Backpage and force sex workers back out on the street where they can't meaningfully vet clients! Oh...

There's a pattern here. This history makes me apprehensive that well-intentioned (or not, just wearing the mask) attempts to reform gig work will end up being a huge fuck you to the people actually impacted by them. That's not to say the gig economy doesn't enable abuses - it absolutely does, but any action should at minimum involve a lot of genuine consultation with those affected and, preferably, address root causes rather than symptoms, e.g. a workable solution to lack of job-provided healthcare probably shouldn't involve reenforcing our already-fucked system of employer-provided healthcare serfdom.