skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is it inherently a good thing that a larger company survives the pandemic and a smaller one doesn’t?

That is the wrong framing of my argument. Here is a better one:

It is inherently good that some companies survive rather than none. The ones most likely to survive are big, and Americans are increasingly reliant on big companies during the lockdown. Therefore we should be glad we didn't break up those big companies, and after the pandemic we should be more skeptical of calls to break them up.
AI History Panel: Advancing AI by Playing Games
Related:

"Problem of time"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22787020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_time
interesting. do they know why it's happening ?
I think most have moved on to supercollider or puredata.

A proprietary but much more approachable and functional offshoot is Max/MSP.
Yes, once they're on a vent, your main problem is not even the viral load, but rather that the body reacts to the infection in desperate ways like cytokine storm [0] which destroys organs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_release_syndrome
Oh wow, QWTF was my absolute first contact with online gaming and it is so dear to my heart. They were such innocent times. People asking strangers on servers to join their clan and I remember cherishing my clan tag so much. I was on dialup and didn't start using the mouse for a least a couple of months, but like I did, innocent times and no one was whining or rude.
We're not talking about Amazon specifically. The issue is profits hidden to the tax man that can still be paid out as profit to the investors. I mentioned Amazon solely to talk about a company that doesn't return much profit but may in the future. The corporate income tax isn't touching them anyway. But a company like Apple, which has hidden a lot of its profit in schemes that pass money through other countries, would have less incentive to do that sort of thing if it didn't reduce the effective tax. Investors wouldn't be happy if Apple's tax machinations also reduced their returns. This plan just makes it so that the public gets a percentage of the same returns the investors get.
Have just tried a little bit, and from the brief toe in the water so far, yes, I think that some people will find this useful - or fun.

Thanks :-)
I like this library; I used it for a tic-tac-toe game, combined with the Amatic SC font (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Amatic+SC) for a nice hand-drawn look.
Don’t discount domain experts. Models are meant to predict the real world. In order for them to be accurate, the model itself needs to capture how the real world works, and the math underlying the model has to be correct. Domain experts are the most likely to have experience in both areas. Drawing an example, a physicist models the universe and knows the math and model behind electromagnetism. A mathematician probably knows the math but maybe not the model.
Also checkout Wired Elements - a delightful set of fully interactive components built with Rough.js that work in any framework, by the author: https://wiredjs.com/
Terrastruct (https://terrastruct.com) supports this too (diagramming tool specifically for software architecture)

Example: https://app.terrastruct.com/diagrams/1914249269
- sometimes the schema is strict (and you might not be able to control it)

- you might not be certain if you break something with such a comment (i.e. you have to double check that all the "comment" fields are filtered)

- you're not geting highlighting from your text editor, it's easier to miss a comment

- you can't have a comment for a list item

Basically, you can leave the comments, but you're really discouraged to do so. Most people would just give up and not bother.
Name a standard with 3 or more implementations and at least one of them will have violated the standard. Sometimes it's all three. Sometimes it's the implementation of the people who wrote the standard.

This is inherent to all standards implemented by different products. There's no implementation police going around checking on and forcing people to implement standards properly. And in the course of just regular product development, it often starts to slowly violate the standard without notice.

It sure does help when there's a test suite that you can validate your implementation against, but I find them rare.
Something that really annoys me about that intro:

No, I can’t identify what’s wrong with it. Why am I spending what feels like 5 minutes studying a code sample to find a flipped ‘I’ and ‘L’?

Every time I read about dahl, I remember this and it sours my patience for the language.

It’s a good point, but there’s got to be a better way of communicating the value. Or, maybe just having a button that says “spoilers” and reveals the issue.
Would you be willing to invest in a company that refused to pay a dividend until an unpredictable event in the future? Perhaps, but it wouldn't make a lot of sense.
And then you have a bunch of code that's even harder to understand than the original, working in ways you don't expect from the language it's now in.

And not working with the normal build or debug tools on the mainframe it runs on.
AFAIK the org-roam main author has strong reasons for not allowing links to headers. There is another project that you can check out - org-sanpo [1].

1. https://github.com/kamoii/emacs-org-sanpo
Government should take a hit, in my opinion. It's inefficient for every individual and entity to prepare themselves against things like this, especially since government action (stay at home orders) is exacerbating it. The business "bailouts", at least the in US, are mostly just loans anyway. Taking a "too bad" stance and letting businesses cascade fail prolongs the pain and leaves the country worse off when the crisis is over.
Yes, there simply hasn’t been enough time for proper studies to have been made one way or the other [0]. The only “study” showing in vivo efficacy is pretty much a bunch of bunk and has huge issues. It did not report on actual treatment outcomes but only on nasal swab results without a control arm, never mind that covid-19 has been demonstrated to move from upper respiratory down into the lungs in most cases that progress to pneumonia or respiratory distress anyway (so a nasal swab says nothing and can come back negative while the patient is dying of respiratory failure).

[0]: https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/chloroquine-and-hydroxychloroq...
Presumably, hard:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/automated-refactoring-of-a-...
> The debate is now mostly focused on what to do with undocumented immigrants who are already here, perhaps with families, etc. That's one issue which has been debated to death.

Which is exactly my point. According to the law, these people are illegal aliens and the government has every power to stop them from crossing the border, detain them if they're already here, and deport them to their countries of origin no matter how long they've been here. And they have no legal right to reside in the country. And a lot of conservatives argue that "sanctuary city" proclamations represent a fundamental disrespect for the rule of law.

A lot of people balk at this notion and start arguing that US immigration law is fundamentally unjust and that it's reasonable to make exceptions. And that's a perfectly reasonable perspective, but it's hard to keep that consistent with the idea that taxicab medallions, for example, are some unquestionable pillar of society.
I prefer to zone in for 3-18 hours then rest the day after.

Been doing this for 12 years and I'm healthy (according to my doctor).

It's not manual labor, it's not that strenuous on the body. I filter the blue light to help eye strain and stretch when I feel like it.
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Reminds me of the Michel Thomas method, and not in a good way. Too much narrative in English, and not quite enough of the target language.
you make relieveing the government of its social obligations so it can do more wars / interventions / bailouts sound like it has some kind of humanitarian dimension...
According to general relativity, the time order of events is relative depending on your position and velocity. This also seems to break causality in textbook quantum mechanics since local changes can lead to global adjustments (collapse, for one) of the wavefunction.
It is puzzling I must say. On the one end people here are into American things such as MacDonalds, Krispy Creme and Apple is probably the ultimate technology brand. Its a status symbol to own an iPhone. If someone goes to Harvard or MIT the rest of us will be sure to hear about. Probably a few local papers will have the story. Then the same people holding the iPhone aspiring to go to Harvard will be some of the most cynical people.

An example of how "patient" I felt New Yorker's were was on Brooklyn Bridge. Even though I was a tourist myself I was annoyed at how just unaware/selfish some of the tourists were in the search for a selfy, standing in clearly marked bicycle lane. I was amazed at the restraint of the cyclists. The most they did was ring their bells. One guy did sort of say in an exasperated tone, just get out of the way. Where I am from people definitely not as polite. Look no society is perfect but America's problems are put under a microscope by the free press and because you are the biggest economy.
Thanks. As a rule on HN, everyone should act like the author of what they're thinking of trashing is reading through the comments and will take your comments about their hard work in open source to heart, this happens more than you think.

If you wouldn't say it to the author, don't say it here, because it's often the same thing
Ask HN: How companies have a BIN vulnerability?
Many companies have some BINs where you can enter any fake credit card and it just works for premium accounts, I want to know how this works ?
Curious, how does a small commercial janitorial business survive for so long? My naive understanding as a non-business-owner is that small entities can survive or even do well if they offer a product that's hard or not worth it for big entities to replicate at scale. Some examples might be art, or a nice feeling of "buying local" from people you know and like, or a niche product whose market is just not big enough for giants to bother with.

A janitorial business doesn't seem to be any of those things. So it seems like an area where a big company would dominate (because, say, a lot of 1000 janitorial carts is way cheaper than a lot of 10). But, no?
> The part that you're not taking into account is that it's very easy to use creative accounting to "not make money", despite actually making lots of money

You may be thinking of "Hollywood accounting" where costs are shifted onto a profitable movie in order to not pay profit based royalties. This is possible because the movie is not an independent accounting entity. This doesn't work with federal income tax, which is applied to the corporation as a whole.

> more favorable tax regimes

That is true, but leads to the problem of the money being stuck in those countries and not spendable in the US. Apple has this problem big time. But it's also true that it is propaganda to count a company's properly profits earned in a foreign country and where proper taxes were paid in that country as somehow evading US taxes.

For example, if X Corp was half in Germany, and half in the US, and paid 50% taxes in Germany and 50% in the US, if the headline says "X Only Paid 25% US Tax On Global Profits!!!!!" then it would be propaganda, wouldn't you say?

> this is often not the case

When the influence of unprofitable or low profit companies is not accounted for in the statistic, then the author has an agenda and the article is propaganda.
The named offenders are:

> SIPJoin of Suffolk, Virginia; Connexum of Orange, California; and VoIP Terminator/BLMarketing of Lake Mary, Florida

SIPJoin: http://www.sipjoin.com/wholesale, http://www.sipjoin.com/about-us

Connexum, a subsidiary of Gawk (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2016/02/02/124061...): https://www.gawk.com/voice-servers.php, https://www.gawk.com/about-us.php

VoIP Terminator/BLMarketing: https://www.voipterminator.com/

Here’s the FCC letters sent to these carriers, which name the customers as well: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-363522A4.pdf (about “VoIPMax,” Philippines), https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-363522A3.pdf (same), https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-363522A5.pdf (about “Oberlo Peer BPO,” Pakistan)
> NASA has its Artemis program which is doing exactly this

They've been designing Orion for a couple decades now, and the SLS is a shuttle-derived expendable launcher where what we see as key innovations are mounting 25% more SSMEs (still expendable) on the bottom of the fuel tank, extending the SRBs by a couple segments and putting the payload on top of the main tank.

Ares was interesting and we learned, with Ares I, that we shouldn't put humans on top of an SRB. There would probably be cheaper ways to find that out, but at least they tried something different.
I like Integromat (https://www.integromat.com), it's Zapier on steroids, hitting the sweet spot for developers. The minor downside is that it can take time to get used to the whole layout and the concept of connecting apps in their editor.
The mistake is the landlord didn't take payment upfront, 6 month / 1 year.
In that argument case, what about average citizens? Businesses seem to get bailouts when they fail because of unforeseen circumstances, but citizens are left to pay the bill. so in the end it is either fair, or someone takes a bigger hit.
That’s fine going forward but it’s not priced in yet so it’d be get another unfunded liability.

It’s like extending unemployment benefits to gig workers who never paid any unemployment tax.
I managed to get them back in there with a space in between.

Input sanitizing and escaping is one aspect of the HN code I've never dug too much into. There are a lot of corner cases that don't work, but it's never been a high enough priority to fix them.
At work, we generally do configs via Python that builds to json. It's a good best of both worlds imo, as it avoids a bunch of the downsides in the article.
For the impatient reader: this effect is typically achieved with the SVG filter "feDisplacementMap".
It does

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S134035400...

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjfs1953/37/7/37_7_298/...

> vanillin was also detectèd as a product of wood degradation by some other wood destroying fungi.
A fair amount of doctors tend to believe it is promising [1]. If I was in the hospital, of course I would want to take it regardless of how anecdotal the evidence is.

[1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/2/hydroxychlor...
This is what happens when people drink the deadly cocktail mix of low interest rates and leverage. A landlord who has paid off mortgage can afford his tenant to not pay rent for a couple of months. That's not how the world is running now: REITs, individual landlords, partnerships, etc--all of them are profitable when there is a cash flow. The moment rents stop flowing under a certain limit, deleveraging starts. That's what happening in this market.
> Nobody gets to make any money right now.

This is a fantasy, and will never, ever happen... At least in the United States.
> Government should take a hit, in my opinion.

Government means "everyone who pays taxes".

I'm not sure that's fair. I think it's fine to spend taxes rescuing people (including the business owners if they're in personal trouble), but rescuing businesses feels like a very different story.
That means your claim that it “only works in vitro” is false, though. The right claim would be “we don’t know yet”.

Also you do a lot of work to make it sound like a foregone conclusion it doesn’t work (appeals to authority in “anyone paying attention”).

The problem is there is now a lot of anecdotal evidence of it working from good sources (teams of doctors on frontlines from around the world). So really you can’t appeal to anyone paying attention.
Show HN: MercuryMS, a message receiver for Twilio MMS interfaces
Related: This is the same reason I've always preferred doing server config management with Chef (which uses ruby for everything) to Puppet (which has it's own DSL). Ansible, which uses YAML config with Python behind the scene is sort of a middle ground, but often wins out because it's simpler to learn and operate than a full Chef setup. I still find myself missing Chef when I have to write stuff for ansible though.

To me, from best experiences to worst: Real language (ruby, Python) > Yaml/Toml > ini config > JSON > DSLs
That's the most interesting rebuttal I've heard but I don't think it's true. Everything else being equal, you could estimate the stage of the epidemic by the number of cases per capita. The Marseille department, Bouches-du-Rhône, has 3% of the French population and about 4% of cases.

Also, in your example, the crude CFR for the US is 2.9% right now, so only 2.2x that of Pennsylvania. We're talking about 8+ here.
A few key businesses can be carved out as exceptions. It's not a hard and fast rule - we have to be pragmatic.

People can't starve. You shouldn't require businesses to pay mortgages or rent. This is where the government needs to step in and provide guidance, leadership, and subsidies.

It's pretty clear we're headed for a recession at this point. Forgiving debts could help reprime the system.
DeRonde2020 cancelled, so belgian racers do the race from home
I don't use emacs, but I love the concept of organizing your notes and knowledge in plain text, so much that I made my own thing. It's in private beta right now [1], and I've been dogfooding it for the past two months and really enjoying it.

The graph overview may seem like a gimmick, but it's surprisingly useful in reviewing stale notes. Tracing semantic connection is more fun than just browsing a folder.

It's also super nice to be able to embed local copies of PDFs, images, and voice notes, so I know as long as I back up my hard drive, I'll never lose them.

Next I want to add plugins to do periodic reviews of notes, and maybe space repetition for term/definition pairs. Honestly, these efforts only make sense when the data is available for the long haul.

[1]: https://obsidian.md/
> Raising awareness about the implications of taking in that third party dependency the moment they do it.

Sure, but if that was the goal then I think it should show that a package has "578 subdependencies with 935 authors that have had 7681 vulns that took an average of 67 days to be resolved. No currently active vulns (that we know of...) though!"

Currently I think it more encourages shifting the blame to the tool and I think some engineers would say something along the lines of "well, it didn't show me any vulns when I installed the package, so it should be fine, right?"

Taking on deep or complex dependencies should be treated as code that needs to be maintained in the long run, not as a one-time decision.

When a vuln appears in either a PR or in released code the checks in CI/CD should alert and refuse to build that release or approve that PR.
Lua is perfect for this. Simple syntax, one of it's design goals was to be a config language.
Writing PLC Services in Strolch-PLC is quite simple
I don't mean "it's not a high tech native experience with dark mode". I mean the app works poorly, all the time, and gets in the way of actually using the headphones. For example: whenever my headphones are paired with both my phone and laptop (because the app allows for two devices to be paired at once??) I have to manually disable my laptop in the app to listen to phone audio, the "drag down to connect" interface rarely works properly, etc. It really is a very poor experience when compared to BT headphones that don't require an app to manage their state.
So it's not just me? There is just an overabundance of commentary in the lessons which distracts from learning the languages.

It would have been better if they modelled the courses more on Pimsleur than the way they did it.
Ah, I don't use CLJS, and I had thought it was self-hosting.
6-12 months of cash reserves, whether you’re an individual or business. The yield drag is offset by avoiding insolvency.
Those were fun. One of the cool thing about them is that most of the stack was written in Java.

The JVM itself was written in Java, the operating system was written in Java, and there was only a small bit of C code for initial bootstrapping and some C microcontroller code for some things (interrupt handling if I remember correctly).
I think the real loss here is that with a # or // the person reading the file immediately knows this is a comment. This line won't be read by the interpretor, and it's purely here for me to read it, so I probably should do.

The following however

{
"comment": "Some comment",
...
}

Suddenly I'm not sure if this is meant for me, or if it's actually a configurable state without going into the program itself and checking if it uses it.
Income from labour is shut down for some entire professions. It's time for those making their income from capital to be furloughed as well. If they have no income they are entitled to the same benefits as the restaurant staff.
Just allow both. https://docs.raku.org/language/unicode_ascii
A major Belgian cycle race, De Ronde Van Vlaanderen, was cancelled because of Corona. Hence the champions race from their homes, official commentators do their job, and the race and circuit is 3D rendered.
I'm actually not sure, but it's one of the most common side effects. These are pretty intense drugs. Methotrexate quite literally stops cell division; in much higher doses than I take, it's used to abort nonviable pregnancies.

EDIT: I should probably note that stopping cell division isn't the primary mechanism by which Methotrexate treats Sarcoidosis. You basically take Methotrexate then 24+ hours later counteract it with folic acid. They actually don't know how it works!

In my case it probably doesn't help that "brain fog" is also a side effect of Sarcoidosis itself; I mean that's obviously pretty minor in comparison to the fact if left unchecked it'd destroy my lungs.
What happens to the people living on fixed income from the dividends of those bonds backed by those mortgages?

This is why I think some of the European countries have the right idea. Don't stop people from paying rent or mortgages, instead give all those who lost their jobs some percentage of their income until this is over. This lets people continue paying their bills so all of the second, third, and forth order effects keep happening.

It's like the pig farmer story out of Las Vegas. Once the strip shut down along with all the buffets, the local pig farms lost their primary source of food (buffet throwaway). Now the farmers are struggling to find enough food which may end up impacting the pork market.
Governments are made by people, of people, and for people. If you disagree with how the US government functions the answer is to get more involved, not less.

Slinging COBOL for New Jersey is not going to drop more bombs in Syria, but it might just save some lives by managing government operations more efficiently in a moment when every hour and dollar counts.
We just passed the CARES Act in the US, which gives small businesses a loan about 2.5 X their average monthly payroll. It is fully forgiven if used for payroll, rent, or utilities in the first 8 weeks.
Please leave comments like this on reddit where they belong.