skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During the dot com bust - they began building Santana Row, on the site of a very old shopping center called Towne and Country.

The developers wanted to revamp the site to take advantage of all the tech money and provide upgraded experiences etc...

While they were in the middle of building it - the bust happened.

Then, one of the largest buildings that was ~65% complete or so caught fire. It was HUGE - I think it was an 11 alarm fire....

There was a crap ton of speculation as to how this happened - and the prevailing theory among many I knew at the time (I lived right down the street and actually stood across the street watching the thing burn down for a few hours) - was that it was insurance fraud to recoup some of the investment in the multi million dollar development due to the fact that its demographic was now largely out of work.

Obviously they did fine eventually, but lots thought it was an opportunistic attempt to take advantage of the situation.

As an aside, not too long after that, I had a pool aprtty at my place for all the tech people in our circle. 65 people showed up and out of that, only 2 were still employed.

The tech industry is a hell of a lot more resiliant this time - as actually many of the service provided are actually of great value to those stuck at home or unemployed. So this collapse will be nothing like the dot com bust.

However - the wealth transfer this time will be far greater than the 2008 collapse.

The next Black Swan [0]:

[0] - https://youtu.be/NEnuWv38urI
I can't speak for every city, but where I live, a lot of Airbnber's are hurting for the sudden drop in revenue. Hotels might get bailouts or credits from the government but short term rental companies will get nothing and be hard pressed to find the resources to continue paying their mortgages. We're already seeing condos that were rented out as Airbnb's pop up on the real estate market.
I think you misunderstand. I want to use my computer normally while the microphone and camera are disabled.
They go the extra mile to explain it to other experts. When Perelman produced his proof of the Poincare conjecture, he traveled all over the place explaining his result.
> Even the term “elite panic” is lie. The elite are fine in a disaster and they know it. Look at Venezuela, the rich and elite simply moved behind walls and continue on.

Sounds to me that the need to move behind walls is a pretty strong indicator of the elite panic concept you are criticizing.

After all, if they didn't panicked then why did they felt the need to coward behind those walls and man them with armed minions?

And by the way, "fear the walking dead" is packed with seasons where the protagonists find themselves in a gated community where armed guards and passive protection measures are extensively used to keep the menacing zombies at Bay while living a pretty comfy life. Sounds a bit like Venezuela, doesn't it?
Dear Kockums, could you please quote one (1) medium sized A26 configured without weapons for use as a private yacht? Will I need permission from the State Department for that? Regards...
That is a fantastic write-up of those movies. Thank you for offering this in this thread.
Right, we changed it a while ago. The submitted title was "The US has 727 million barrels of oil hidden in underground salt caverns". Submitters: it breaks the site guidelines to do that, and we eventually take submission privileges away from such accounts. There's plenty of explanation for anyone who wants more:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

(If you want us to know something, please email hn@ycombinator.com. We only see comments like this randomly.)
Well it's also a good low effort strategy. I'm at work most of the time markets are open and I don't have to stay that up to date.
It seems perfectly well named to me! I love when code bases have more lines of comments than actual code.
A Speech-to-Text Practitioner’s Criticisms of Industry and Academia
When you have 100 billions, 10-20-30 even 99 billion are nothing special... You spend it all, you're still a billionaire, and you and your descendants up to 4-5 generations can still live independently and wealthy...
Made a free tool that makes your screenshots socially shareable
I skimmed the paper but I still wonder how a (practical) memory would be implemented, and how many bits it could contain.

I think these computations all happen in a "soup", and this means that the memory can only exist as a superposition of concentrations, which I suppose has its limits.
Sharing YINN milestone for first time
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In a perfect world, buyers and sellers both benefit from every exchange. That’s the type of world we want to create. Our secure platform and pricing system Pay What It’s Worth use AI to help creators connect with buyers, and use their feedback to facilitate better transactions.
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I’m getting messages from Whatsapp groups. Taking a hot shower or sitting in a hot tub kills the virus. Drinking Eucalyptus with vodka gives you immunity. Millions of people are doing it and doctors are recommending it.

It’s not clinically tried but it works. Otherwise why would others do it? /s
When you control the content of the stream, you control whether there are repeated blocks. If there are none, do any objections to ECB remain?
I don't know who you're trying to fool, this thread was scrubbed from the front page. Anyway:

He gave evidence to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on the 15th and 16th of July, and was found dead on the 17th.

...

> One of the witnesses who gave evidence to Hutton was David Broucher, the UK's permanent representative to the Conference on Disarmament. In 2002 or 2003 he had asked Kelly what would happen if Iraq were invaded; Kelly had replied "I will probably be found dead in the woods".

Don't remember BBC making much of a deal of that quote.

His wife was probably scared shitless and in no space to fight. And there were many who didn't find the official line credible including doctors, the former leader of the Conservative Party, and MP Norman Baker, among many others. Try checking your own facts before calling people wrong.
While I agree, I think the main thing they have in common is they're pre-IPO with intent to IPO, not just a privately owned company.
Is Amazon booming? In Canada, some Amazon shipments for non essential equipment is going to take over a month which is why I'm not bothering to order anything from them during this time and finding other stuff locally.
On the gold mining in different countries, maybe historically gold-based countries did all their mining back in the day and now have none left?
Well that and you don't get health care unless you are employed, independently wealthy or someone else's dependent that does work.
Big rental car companies can keep coming after you for the damages though. A lot of people don't have the same fear of some startup making the same effort for a vehicle that isn't theirs in the first place.
Mixtape – relaxing vaporwave to get you through the day
I think this is definitely true for venture-backed startups which scaled conservatively. However, scaling conservatively runs directly at odds with what a lot of venture backed startups are expected, told, or cajoled into doing. For those that went along with the conventional wisdom of the times, they're now extremely overextended having spent all that potential runway with no way to get it back and no hot marketplace nor profligate VC to carry them over the next threshold.

You're absolutely right though. There are folks who are getting decimated who are part of the sustaining normal economy, and comparatively speaking having a "war chest" of capital, either VC supplied or otherwise, is a much more comfortable place to be.
California. I suppose it's just a difference in accent, because I've always heard Frigid pronounced somewhat like fri-jid, with a clear enunciation between the parts, rather than the blended "dg" sound.
I also use QOwnNotes to take and manage my notes and I've been looking for a solution to store and organize bookmarks for some time, never thought that Zotero would be a good fit for that.

Could you share, based on your experience, what are the good parts of Zotero for this use case and where it falls short?
This is a point about economics. It's only ideological if you are ideologically wedded to the ideas that are destroying the western world.

If someone posts that stock markets are good, or that it would be great if we could lower taxes because govt wastes money, I never, ever see anyone admonished for this. Because it fits with the currently accepted view.

This is simply a comment that doesn't match your economic view that you see as "ideological".
TempleOS is awesome

Being able to mix text, images, 3d models, etc in a terminal session is something that modern OSes still haven't gotten around to doing. Terry may have been crazy but he was right about a lot of things and unlike many, he had the skills to implement his ideas
> The elite are fine in a disaster and they know it.

Not all the time, though. For example, Bloomberg reported a few days ago that Nigeria's elite, which normally flies out of the country for healthcare, can't do it now due to the travel restrictions across countries [0].

> The panic strikes the middle class more than any other group, because their status is the most easily lost. Unlike the rich, their power goes away with their jobs. Their lifestyle, however much you’d like to mock trips to Starbucks, weekend shopping at Pottery Barn, and all that - it all goes away. The tenuous advantage they’ve built up vanishes.

Makes sense.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-02/trapped-b...
next commands I find very useful

git diff # see diff
git diff master..develop # see diff between branches
git show <commit> # see changes in specific commit
git log -p <file> # see log for specific file with diff
git checkout - # checkout in previous branch
I'm sorry for some of my schadenfreude here, but really, so many of these startups are overfunded with way too many employees to begin with. They've often paid top dollar for expensive technical talent in locations with very high cost of living.

I can't wait to see a pull back to solid fundamentals. I don't see why a daily vacation rental company honestly needs 240 highly paid employees. One company cited in the article (WanderJaunt) laid off 56 out of its 240 total employees, but honestly I bet they could do just well with 20 total employees.

Let's put the Lean back in Lean Startup and provide real value instead of playing the magical, mysterious game of VC musical chairs.
This comment criticizing the exaggerated headline seems more substantive than the headline itself.
It even has zombies!
Some highlights:

1. Suburbia is very distinct from European-style cities. It is monotonous, very sparse and requires a car to live there. Most of the people in the US live there!

2. The life there is very lonely for someone accustomed to less individualistic societies. And for Americans as well, so they heavily medicate their mental problems which would probably just not show up in more close-knit societies.

3. The legal system is obsessed with letter of the law and disregards its spirit. For-profit prisons lead to the highest incarceration rate in the world. Plea bargaining practice also contributes to codifying unreasonably harsh punishments. It can be traced back to the Bill of Rights that sets basic procedures and not basic principles.

4. Compared to Western Europe, the taxes are on average somewhat lower but the services provided by the state are much worse.

5. Healthcare is costlier than either a truly free market would provide or a socialized system.

6. The war on drugs is fought brutally from all sides, and you are very likely to suffer some damage from it.

7. It is a good place for you if you are young and entrepreneurial. It can provide you with great opportunities but it's hard to lead a stable and calm life there.
the ones on the left, that you select, will be added to the mating pool and will have a chance to reproduce on the next generation
We're supposed to be celebrating a global pandemic, because (if we weren't forced to shelter in place) we might see the mountains? Hardly.

Hopefully, technology will offer other options to decrease emissions than simply slowing economic growth, because that has real human costs.
The problem is that producing a formal proof that can be verified by a computer is incredibly boring. Since it's incredibly boring, nobody is going to do it. It's not a matter of a universal formal proof language existing (there are lots of frameworks that are powerful enough), it's matter of one being easy enough to use that people will willingly use it.
I'm actually assuming it pronounced with a more enunciated J sound than other poster accents seem to. I've always heard frigid with the emphasis on the "J" sound, rather than the softer blended j sound that produces the "dg" blend.
Little off-topic but can anyone here compare to Stardew valley? I feel like I’ve kinda “finished” stardew after going through the core story and wondering about switching trains
> this narrative got appropriated and transplanted to America, in film, TV, and fiction. Where it hybridized with white settler fear of a slave uprising. The survivors/protagonists of the zombie plague are the viewpoint the audience is intended to empathize with, but their response to the shambling horde is as brutal and violent as any plantation owner's reaction to their slaves rising

I think it's a pretty fair to say the modern zombie story starts with Night of the Living Dead, and this viewpoint couldn't possibly be any further from how Romero handles themes of race, class, and authority.

I mean, maybe it's because I don't watch Walking Dead, but I've never seen a zombie film where I thought I was supposed to empathize with the protagonists. Except maybe Shaun of the Dead!
That is a different topic. Yes, your friends in manufacturing, hospitality, services (FIMHS) are on average probably worse off. If we compare your FIMHS to the poor in India, then suddenly your FIMHS are well off and are not deserving of attention either...
Hope GitHub is next to release dark mode
> say governments use unused hydroelectric power to mine BTC

This would be predicated on there being unused hydroelectric power, which there generally is not (unless you factor in over production via other means of generating power that are less environmentally friendly). Unlike wind and solar, hydroelectric power is generally very predictable and controllable how much is produced and when.
Please don't post flamebait to HN. Your comment turned the thread into a generic (I really want to say stupid) flamewar, which got more tedious and nastier as it went along, as such things predictably do.

Worse, it sat at the top of the entire page, sucking oxygen away from everything else, because indignation routinely attracts upvotes. HN readers belong to the same species as Jerry Springer attendees. I've flagged it and marked it off topic now.

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
These prices are set by the top 30% employees of the big tech firms. Unless there are massive layoffs there (e.g. 250k employees are let go) and this situation lasts for a few years (they have savings for 3-5 years usually), I wouldn't expect the prices to move.
Bionic took pieces from OpenBSD, as well as other places[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_(software)#Components
They may have had a plan, but very few boards and investors were letting management hold excess resources for a rainy day.
The real problem is that his response to Scholze and Stix didn’t manage to convince anyone who wasn’t already in his camp. At this point there is a major and clearly stated objection to the proof out in public to which no reasonable refutation has been offered.
Dismay as DR Congo ‘offers its citizens’ for Covid-19 vaccine testing
For example Alexander Grothendieck did not care much about the formal logical foundation of his work.

So, I believe that this would make it highly complicated to even formulate some very new math at the borderlands of our knowledge.
Indeed. Ended up being a little disappointed after first excitedly following the links to the source video.

dang - the title should be updated.
Ya, but wouldn't you rather have a parachute?

It sounds like a lot more fun.
When a user runs 'sh -c "foo"' on the command line, how do you think that is executed?

Taking a step back, Unix's programming model is heavily influenced by the design requirements of interactive bourne shell. It's hard to outlaw shell-like things without breaking shells.
Why couldn’t they just change the client code to exfiltrate the user’s data?
Startups are more than just "us tech bros", though. If your company sells a physical product, for example, then you're typically reliant on either warehousing personnel on your own payroll or a third-party logistics (3PL) provider, both of which have been hit hard with COVID-19-related shutdowns. Pickers or packers or forklift drivers can't (usually) do their jobs from home; they need to be onsite at a warehouse to to do their work, and if the warehouse is literally not allowed to let employees in the door because the company is a "non-essential business", then guess who's getting laid off? For companies selling physical products, this threat is existential.

There are lots of startups that sell physical products. I work for one of them. We're doing pretty great for now (we sell, among other things, toilet paper and hand sanitizer / soap and cleaning supplies), but we also recognize that we're lucky, and that luck is unlikely to persist if this "great unwinding" lasts longer than the COVID-19 panic unless we do everything in our power to reduce costs and extend that runway as long as possible with the current tailwind. Most startups selling physical goods ain't so lucky (see also: the ones in the article, even if the article didn't really go into much detail on it).
Online dance parties are curbing loneliness
This is in my opinion one of the greatest piano pieces ever written, but it can be difficult to engage with for the first time, since it really needs careful listening. I wanted to help people unfamiliar with the music to find a way into it, because it's so easy for it to just become background music.

Originally I wrote this to accompany my own live performances, but I think it's perhaps even more useful for helping people stay present with the music when watching online. Would love feedback!
"About 647,000 Americans die from heart disease each year" [1]

So even if 200k die from COVID19 it is a long way away from heart disease.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm
Had we a slick method of formalizing proofs for computer verification, no polemics would be possible.
Name one thing in this photo. No one could
What are you talking about? Webrtc has mandatory encryption. The only issue is using a simulcast middleware server. If you’re doing mesh p2p then it’s e2e.
Ask HN: Which Startups open-source their tech stack?
Hi,

How do statups go about when building a tech product that would bring an idea to life?

I would like to know if there are some startups that open-source their entire stack. I would like to see building blocks for their web/mobile applications.

I have checked https://stackshare.io/, but it is high-level for me, I'd love to how people put code together.

Some (Small) startups I came across:

- RASA: https://github.com/RasaHQ/rasa
- MapZen: https://github.com/mapzen/

Could you please share some links of an open source stack (for a product).
I wonder if an extension can be made to scramble your keyboard for x minutes. Rendering your keyboard input unusable while you take a break.
More Multiply-Accumulate Operations Everywhere
Because lots of people actually do want to kill them, and the walls keep those people out. It's the same phenomenon you see in South Africa - everyone who can afford it builds high walls and private security, because everyone who can afford it is a target.
You weren’t around in 2000 or 2008 were you? Your startup is only in “better shape” as long as VCs are willing to keep funding you. VCs are only willing to keep funding you if they have confidence that you will have a profitable exit.
Colored pencils, pens and notebooks. Excellent opportunity to rest my eyes away from the computer screen.
I might in danger of failing to get another joke here, but she was lying on the floor while I was typing that, so yes literally literally.
Well, what do you think life is? It’s a product of chemical computation.
I compute 35M sesterces = US$140M.
A solidus of gold weighs 8 grams and was worth 100 sesterces.
A gram of gold $52 today. A sesterces would be about $4.
> we changed it a while ago

I saw that, yes.

> (If you want us to know something, please email hn@ycombinator.com. We only see comments like this randomly.)

Ah, good to know, thanks!
Thank you, I will try to grab one of the issues and see if I can help.
I used some go code generation while working with gogen-avro
Is it saving the US right now?
> It captures the text in images and indexes it for searching

Funny thing, that happens to be one of Evernote's selling abilities—I guess MS is really thorough in replicating the feature set. From seeing the screenshots and the description for the first time, I knew it's basically ‘MS Evernote’.
That's because their customers are going bananas and buying everything. Amazon is trying to hire like crazy. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/amazon-seeks-hire-100000...
I already provided one, what are you talking about?
To quote, "To take an extreme example, if Mochizuki had carved his argument on slate in Linear A and then dropped it into the Mariana Trench, then there would be little doubt that asking about the veracity of the argument would be beside the point. The reality, however, is that this description is not so far from the truth."
Saving this to Trello to come back and read the recommendations later.
Should you take VC -- while an important consideration -- is kind of a separate question.

Assuming you've decided to take VC, good ones won't invest small amounts of money. And this is separate from valuation; this applies even at the A stage. The reason is they want 18%+ ownership, ideally 22%. If they get less ownership, even if they have a big enough fund to fully exercise their pro-rata rights, they don't get a big enough return in a success. Hence someone who would be willing to put in $4m for 20% will be unwilling to put in $1m for 5%, or even $500k for 5%. The upside just isn't there.
Rust Dataframe: Update 1
This subcategory of unit tests is known as regression tests, and those exist too.
You don't have to guess at what happens when governments collapse. Just look at what happened to Europe in 1945.

https://www.amazon.com/Savage-Continent-Europe-Aftermath-Wor...

It's very ugly, but not what you describe.
The big crazy difference is that Stardew Valley goes faster while AC is real-time and this is... super frustrating.