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Precisely. Each group can equally seek wages per whatever marginal utility it attaches to obtaining that particular form of marginal income.
I thought the Nextdoor crowd were more concerned about coons.
PlayStation is under Sony Interactive Entertainment. To be honest PlayStation is very important for Sony so I would not worry. Sony can change their name all they want but the PlayStation brand is incredibly valuable due to its cultural significance.
The issue is not the stock buyback but the debt binge these companies have gone on to to buy back that stock. This has left them unprepared and exposed for any kind of a downturn. This exposure is being remedied compliments of the tax payer. "Privatize the profits but socialize the risk" seems to be their mantra. The buck only ever seems to stop at the CEO when the going is good. This is why they are being demonized.
Yep, Britain in India is hopelessly complex. For most of the time they were there, the Brits (or, more precisely, the East India Company...power over which was nominally British but was actually responsible to no-one) were the balancing act in all the regional conflicts between the Marthas, Mughals, Bengals, the Portuguese, the French, etc.

It was only after the 1850s that power really consolidated, and that wasn't through war. Definitely, you had famines...but where do you the draw line or attribute agency? It is very tricky to say: this famine wouldn't have occurred otherwise (the only circumstance I have ever come across where this was true was Mao).
Abbott receives approval for test that can detect coronavirus in 5 minutes
For better or worse I believe short-term vacation rental owners will have access to up to $10,000 emergency cash that can be forgiven if used for mortgage payments during the disaster. I don't know the specifics, so there may be details I'm unaware of.
> WWII is the quintessential transformational war, not only because of the sweeping changes it brought to the global order but also because of the decades-long shadows it cast over the rest of the 20th century.

This is funny because my history professor used ww2 as the quintessential example of a non-transformational war. Nothing essential changed as a result of ww2. All those lives lost for essentially nothing. The power structure pre-ww2 ( US, Britain, Soviet Union ) was precisely the same post-ww2 ( US, Britain, Soviet Union ). The same people who ruled the world before ww2, ruled it after ww2 without any systematic change. There was no paradigm shift as a result of ww2. The international world order remained in place.

WW2 was the bloodiest war. It was the most destructive war. But it wasn't transformational because the side trying to cause a transformation ( reshape world ) lost and they lost badly.
Wow this is bad at a totally different level - it is a new league og messed up.
These companies - and more importantly the human garbage at the upper / top level of management of these companies - need to be remembered and when the global situation will return to normal they will need to be given the treatment that they deserve.
BEING FIRED VIA A PRE-RECORDED MERSSAGE DURING THE WORST GLOBAL CRISIS SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR! - talk about being kicked when you are down, huh?
So what’s the consensus on Disney buying Sony Pictures and acquiring the rest of the Marvel movie rights?
If the government is almost guaranteed to bail them out, it makes sense that they would prioritize other things.
do you know how prevalent this is ? maybe you met other people in other fields.
It always amazes me how the discussion can go so quickly go from "The mighty market solves all problems!" to, "The market is an incredibly fragile flower, and the slightest worker protections will result in mass unemployment and starvation!"

Before Instacart, people went to the grocery store just fine. If Instacart has to pay workers a living wage, some people at the margins might return to shopping themselves, but I doubt it would make a huge difference. And if it did, that just means Instacart would have been a business built on worker exploitation, meaning it's a bad allocation of labor.
Exactly. It's nothing new either. The retirement age was last increased in 1983. As people live longer we need to adjust payments into the trust, retirement age, and payments from the trust proportionally.

https://www.ssa.gov/planners/retire/background.html
"Rudderless death cult" is just denunciatory rhetoric, and the rest of your comment contained no information either. That's what I mean by unsubstantive. Perhaps you were alluding to some important truth, but you didn't communicate it in a way that readers could learn from.

It happens a lot that commenters who feel certain that they possess some important truth come to HN threads to fulminate about it. When moderated, they tend to feel like we're against the truth, but no—we're against the fulmination.

If you know some truth that others don't, you actually have a greater responsibility to express yourself thoughtfully and substantively, because if all you do is vent, it just discredits that truth further for others who don't see it yet.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The same could be said of poor software practices. With so many developers out of work why would any company hire a developer that needs a 3mb JavaScript framework and 1000 NPM packages to write 3 lines of code? The argument against reinventing wheels just because talent is rare just evaporated.
Your notion is that nobody who has ever been laid off had a idea it was coming? And you want to build your security with that foundation?
But they're still heavy, relative to everyday items.

Dumb anecdote: I once made a comment to a co-worker about handling hay bales. When I pointed out that the ones I needed to move weighed around 1,600 lbs his amazement was palpable: "Seriously? Grass shouldn't weigh that much!"
Sure, what about Taiwan? Is there anything that Taiwan did which was significantly different from what South Korea or Singapore did to prevent the wide spread of the virus?
This is equally true for in-person layoffs done as individual meetings, which happen all the time.
On the plus side, US revenue / GDP figures are also pretty large so that’s not too insane of an obligation. One day we’ll get back level, perhaps.

Also on the plus side: at this point money is construct and it doesn’t much matter how much debt you’re in, provided there is not too much money to be inflationary (not gonna happen in a depression) and there isn’t so little that liquidity dries up and there’s a panic to withdraw what’s there. So... queue the magic money machine for a bit until we can get this sorted.
> ..bailing them..

Because some people may not realize/forget the source of these billions, these billions are either taxpayer money, OR these are new/fresh money (which means diluting the value of the currency for everyone).
Why Android review takes 7 days or longer now?
Public transportation. They don't need to both be 5 minutes walk away
Here some more facts I found interesting:

* It works on isothermal amplification [1] rather than temperature-cycling PCR, so it's much faster.

* It detects the viral RNA directly, so it should be detecting pretty much the same thing as existing PCR-based tests, just much faster.

* It's the same platform as a flu test. Obviously the Covid-19 version was done in a rush, so it might not be quite as good, but the sensitivity and specificity rates for influenza are amazing: sensitivity above 95% and specificity near 100%. If the numbers for Covid-19 are close, I can see why Gottlieb is calling it a game changer.

I really have to be impressed by our collective technical ingenuity, both the scientists figuring this stuff out in near real-time, equipment manufacturers such as Abbott who can do this, and of course the front-line health providers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop-mediated_isothermal_ampli...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31558351
next: type based dispatch

nzxt^2: predicate based dispatch
Is always a question mark,And you are the onealways answering that questions?
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Do that tax and make a dividend. Amen.
In every team i joined at later stages, it was an uphill battle to try establishing this. In the end i was always the only one maintaining it and management saw it as a waste of time. It is absolutely beyond me why decision journals are not standard. But i guess the source of the problem is that thorough evaluation of alternatives does not show immediate results to PMs and is against most devs "just starting to code" reflexes. Also if your choice is made by thinking "facebook also uses react and i already had to use it at my last job" it would be embarrassing to write this in a public document. (this is true for most EU projects, i really hope its different in the US)
I thought Renegades of the Empire was a fascinating look into the internal machinations at Redmond and a bit of DirectX history too

https://www.amazon.com/Renegades-Empire-Software-Revolution-...
Abbott's official statement is here: https://abbott.mediaroom.com/2020-03-27-Abbott-Launches-Mole...

> [T]he U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the fastest available molecular point-of-care test for the detection of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), delivering positive results in as little as five minutes and negative results in 13 minutes... The ID NOW platform is small, lightweight (6.6 pounds) and portable (the size of a small toaster), and uses molecular technology.
...especially right now.
I came here to recommend The Dream Machine. Wonderful book and extremely well written.
The data recovered in this paper, though, was recovered by direct readout of flash chips in order to locate pages which had not actually been overwritten at all. This is a very different kind of problem and attack than the one that led to multiple-pass overwrites and falls into my point 3. The reason that multi-pass overwriting can be effective on SSDs is because the increased number of write operations encourages the SSD controller to remap more blocks in and out of the page space which increases physical coverage of the overwrite.

There is a potential benefit to multi-pass random write to SSDs in this case, but this paper shows exactly why you shouldn't do this: because the improvement in security from random overwrites is stochastic at best and cannot be guaranteed without full knowledge of the behavior of the controller, as can be seen in the paper in the drives which continued to contain remnant data after many passes.

As the paper finds, multi-pass overwrite is not a valid technique to sanitize SSDs, and is still cargo-cult security.
I'm surprised it was necessary for the author to design and write Dart's formatter essentially from scratch. Is there not prior art - formatters for other languages that enforce a maximum line length?

Also, I'm surprised that enforcing a maximum line length was considered so important that it was worth all this work. Even though I personally like to limit line lengths (and I know plenty of people who don't), I'm not sure enforcing such limits are worth this amount of complexity in the formatter, nor the sheer amount of labor required to implement and maintain that complexity. I think the sweet spot is probably Go's `gofmt` - automatic formatting that allows unlimited line lengths (possibly emitting a warning if formatted code exceeds a desired length) seems to provide almost all of the benefits of a formatter while being a much simpler solution.
Yes, but Cars are the intersection of the two. That's a big intersection.
do you think there's a threshold of being 'healthy enough' that online communities should reach?

They should obviously aim to be as healthy/good as they can be. "Healthy enough" is just a baseline.

is this threshold constant?

Nothing is constant when the participants aren't constant.

can it be met then lost then met again?

Of course. A community can get worse and then recover, though drastic recovery is very rare.

I also find your suggestion of examining places that were 'fantastic for year but died to events' unrelated to the core function of the community really intriguing as well.

Glad to hear!
Great. Now examine the history, power relations, and social structures that determine all of the inputs into your imaginary model.
True, but they can try to make both the recently laid off and soon-to-be-laid-off employees be too busy to communicate, or they can round up the ones who will be staying so at least they don't pass around the news to those who aren't going to be laid off before they know they're not on the chopping block.
Is Former 'Unicorn' the RealReal Leaving $425M on the Table?
Hardly agree. I suppose if you're a patient or one of your family is, there's no room for stupid jokes that might make them feel better such as "developed a working vaccine" only to know it was a joke and they'll feel even more depressing than before.

I've always hated April fool's as nothing seems to be funny but only for those who pull it off. I tend to "turn off" the internet on the day just to avoid feeling I've wasted time.
Soul of a New Machine is fantastic!

Also on computer architecture / story of developing a new processor, "The Pentium Chronicles" by Robert Colwell is a really interesting book on the story of the Pentium Pro, the first out-of-order CPU from Intel.
So if people are broke, landlords are broke, stores are broke, companies are broke -- just who exactly has the keys to the kingdom here? Who isn't broke? Just banks?
The only way is face to face. If you can't do that then you are shit. Video? Really?

I've been an employer for 20 years. They come and go and quite right too. I encourage my troops that if they are looking elsewhere then we'll give them time off for interviews and assistance in how to interview effectively. I really am not joking. If you think you own someone completely then your name is Satan! I just want a decent day of work out of you, when you want to work for me. If you no longer want to work for me then I want to get rid of you as efficiently and as fairly as possible ...
I did not mean to be dismissive of real threats. But I also think an overwhelming majority of calls on zoom could be leaked wholesale and no one would be harmed. And just because they use the Facebook and Google SDKs to measure their marketing does not mean they’re “selling user data” or inadequately protecting the privacy of video conversations. And it’s a very far leap to blame an educator for choosing zoom (a free and easy to use product) as insensitive to the persecution of minorities, when it’s really not a factor for most use-cases.
I hope you realize this is the same argument used in support of child labor.
Maybe they'll now start making ungimped smartphones? Ah, who am I kidding.
I'm surprized they haven't ended up in dumpsters.
Bird doesn't have any shares; they are on series D.
3.3 million people successfully signed up for unemployment insurance in one week, but that's almost certainly a significant undercount.

Some can't, because they're self-employed. Some lost their jobs but have another. Some weren't able to sign up because their states' systems couldn't take the load. Some just didn't sign up.

I'd bet the actual job loss count is at least 2-3 times that, but I have no real data to back that up.
You sound like the critic that has never been in the arena.
There's no need to wonder. Humans are.

Right now the planet is drawing a great big sigh of relief.

Yet we have politicians that are just busting to get things ramped back up to the crazed consumption-driven frenzy that we treated as normal until a few weeks ago.
Aspirin is a blood thinner it might cause your lungs to bleed once they sustain enough damage to their epithelial layer which might make your pneumonia worse.
It’s a joke. I know people who have been to the ER with severe symptoms who were turned away without testing (mostly because they’re young and “expected” to recover).

Every company that’s using testing as a precondition for benefits, when testing has been widely reported to be unavailable, is despicable.
IF you still work
TabNine is now part of Codota
I wonder how much of this has to do with the lack of development in the bay area. With a huge amount of undeveloped area all over the bay area, there's probably a lot of places for coyotes to live, since so much living space has been zoned and allocated for them and other wild life. It's too bad, we're not this kind to human beings.
Yes, but not for that reason.
Cool idea. And cool execution. Good luck.
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Who is servicing their debt this month? No one. The banks are just as fucked as everyone else.
> The power structure pre-ww2 ( US, Britain, Soviet Union ) was precisely the same post-ww2 ( US, Britain, Soviet Union ).

Actually, it's even worse than that, because the main reason for the US and Britain to fight Hitler was supposed to be to save Eastern Europe from a totalitarian dictatorship (WW2 started because Britain and France decided they had to honor their treaty commitments to Poland when Germany invaded), yet at the end of the war Eastern Europe was in the hands of a worse totalitarian dictatorship, the USSR. So while the main great powers were basically the same (but see below), the territorial situation was worse.

> the side trying to cause a transformation ( reshape world ) lost

I'm not so sure the Allies weren't also trying to cause a transformation. There was a key difference in the power structure after WW2 as compared to before: the United Nations. The previous attempt at a single world organization, the League of Nations, failed miserably. The UN did not. Whatever you think of the UN's actual policies (I'm often not a fan of them), the fact remains that for 75 years now the world has accepted the existence of a single world organization that has at least some governmental or quasi-governmental powers. That is not an accident.
So no methyl (1R,2R,3S,5S)-3- (benzoyloxy)-8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1] octane-2-carboxylate? Got it, good to know.
I'm really interested in the point that you are making about 'there's no coming back' at the level of the community (i.e. ratio of 'those folks : total users) and the level of its members (i.e. deciding to leave) - do you think they both register with members/community in the same way, as either are happening? As in, other members in the HN community may not be aware if another member decides on 'not coming back' at any one point in time, whereas it could be the case that all members of some certain relation to the community (i.e. 10 years of membership or longer) knows when the HN community is not what it was once.

By contrast, is there a case to make for when 'an un-informed, un-thoughtful, un-pleasant person decides they're not going to post anymore'? If so, what would you say that tells us about an online community?
Most people don't need a multi-billion dollar app for that..they just knock on their neighbor's door.
That's true only if you're unwilling to put a price on risk.

What dollar figure should be put on the potential demise of the company versus "saving earns you next to nothing"?
The website is a bit sparse on information about how it works. Anyway, not bad not bad. Would have loved a bit more info though.
Of course the CCP can intercept those videos, Snowden's book talked about how the NSA is doing what they are doing specifically because China was doing it.

It's not specific to Zoom, they intercept at the global fiber lines, they can watch ANY video they want.

So yes, the CCP can watch your videos and so can the NSA.
I'm willing to put a finer point on that: If there is some sinister force behind your work that you can't talk about, you can't hint at it either.

The organizations that are really that sinister will smash you just as hard for hinting that they're doing bad things under cover of darkness as they will for outright saying it.

If you can hint at it without being smacked down hard, the org you say you fear only has aspirations of evil world domination; it's not there yet.

Of course, maybe OP was scrubbed for hinting at it and we'll never know. Let it be a warning to others who would make vague hints of disclosure regarding their evil overlords.
Zoom Removes Code That Sends Data to Facebook: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708233
Could Dart use this solution, which Python uses and Oil shell now uses?

1. Newlines are significant tokens and they behave like semicolons (this is how shell is)

2. Within () [] {}, newlines are suppressed. The lexer has to recognize the matching pairs. (Oil added an expression language to shell which does this)

This means that

var x = 1 +
2

is not valid because there's a statement terminator after +, but

var x = f(1 +
2)

is valid. I feel like this captures the fast majority of cases where you want to break a statement over lines.

I don't know Dart, but since it seems to have JavaScript-like syntax, I don't see why that wouldn't work? JavaScript has some weird rules, the common gotcha seems to be is:

return
{
} // oops this does not return a dictionary like I thought

With those rules you would write:

return {
}

and hopefully the former is a syntax error, not a mis-parsed program.

----

edit: OK my guess is that Dart probably doesn't want to enforce a brace style like Go (and Oil) do?

That is in Go only

if (x) {
}

is valid, rather than

if (x)
{
}

which is pretty much like the 'return' example. I have been using that brace style for so long that I forgot other people don't :)
The sudden idea is to separate metadata and content on different services and merge them only for viewing and interaction. Then users can selfhost content and request its distributed social metadata (upvotes, emotes, other people's comments etc) dynamically without easily losing control over the content itself.
Guys from AdaCore working on a new Ada parsing and semantic manipulation library had a small try, fun read : https://blog.adacore.com/a-usable-copy-paste-detector-in-few...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2612112367?book_show_a...
Yes, there can be habitable exoplanets around binary stars
it's the hardest of them all, many-to-many
Please don't post flamebait to HN or take threads further into ideological flamewar. That's not only not what the site is for, it destroys what it is for. We've had to ask you this more than once before. Ignoring those requests and continuing to flout the guidelines will eventually get you banned, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'd like this to be independently verified. There were a lot of comments on the other threads that "Of course Zoom was sending data to Facebook" because they're using Facebook's SDK. It made it seem like such data leaks were inevitable, when apparently they aren't.
Well compared to all the companies that claim they cannot last through the lockdown it is.
The city of Chicago employees coyotes for rat control. They’re seen all over the metro area and have become familiar faces.
I wondered if the scooter only companies would be better off than ride sharing companies with small scooter revenue.

Anec-data: one of my relatives brokered a post lockdown lease in a large _redacted_ city for one of the two large ride sharing companies. It was for scooter storage.
Ahem. Photoshop* vibes. While the tool has utility it falls nowhere near the "photoshop vibes" category. I understand it's all marketing but come on man...