skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stock options and RSU's are a big part of the compensation packages for that group. So lower stock prices are essentially pay cuts.

And unlike 2008, many of these companies are more mature and much more exposed to the broader economy. Cloud computing, Ads, GSuite, etc... There are a handful tech companies that will probably thrive (Netflix, Zoom, etc...), but most of them are probably going to see big drops in revenue.

And considering that most of these companies have plenty of fat to trim (how many Alphabet moonshots are bringing in meaningful revenue, let alone profits?), I don't see how declining revenues won't result in some belt tightening. And when that starts happening, how many of the top 30% are going to be buying $2M-3M homes. The mortgages on those things are like ~$15k a month, and CA unemployment maxes out at ~$2k.

It is certainly possible that Bay area real estate weathers the storm just fine. But I really don't see a compelling case for it. Salaries can, and likely will go down. And bay area real estate is at all-time highs relative to incomes.
Hi — author here. The answer is no. At least, I’ve never heard of such a case.
> The theory of interstellar trade is a well-understood topic, with an extensive literature consisting of one paper (pdf) I wrote in 1978. Interstellar finance, however, is less well covered.

> That’s all about to change, however. I’m reading an advance copy of Charlie Stross’s Neptune’s Brood. (Hey, I have connections!) And it is the best thing by far written on the subject to date, partly because it is, as far as I know, the only thing written on the subject to date.

> It’s also a fantastic novel.

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/the-theory-of-i...

> This paper extends interplanetary trade theory to an interstellar setting. It is chiefly concerned with the following question: how should interest charges on goods in transit be computed when the goods travel at close to the speed of light? This is a problem because the time taken in transit will appear less to an observer travelling with the goods than to a stationary observer. A solution is derived from economic theory, and two useless but true theorems are derived.

https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf
Fun fact: Katsuya Eguchi incepted the game as a result of his move to Kyoto to work at Nintendo - because he missed his family and friends from his hometown.

"Animal Crossing features three themes: family, friendship and community. But the reason I wanted to investigate them was a result of being so lonely when I arrived in Kyoto! Chiba is east of Tokyo and quite a distance from Kyoto, and when I moved there I left my family and friends behind. In doing so, I realised that being close to them – being able to spend time with them, talk to them, play with them – was such a great, important thing. I wondered for a long time if there would be a way to recreate that feeling, and that was the impetus behind the original Animal Crossing."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuya_Eguchi
>and did not win overwhelmingly

That would be quite the understatement. If USS Ronald Reagan had been sunk in a real war the US would instantly have either lost all interest in further war or use the big red button.
On the other hand, if you add up the national GDP of Sweden+Norway+Denmark+Finland you get about 538+398+324+251 = 1.511 trillion dollars, similar to that of Russia (1.578) as of 2017.

So, just these four nations have combined economic power to match Russia: Russia can't afford a sustained war, though it may afford a quick act of aggression (a la Crimea) followed by everyone pointing fingers at everyone else. But it's a risky game because it will push their economy even further behind.
Hey, I'm the person who wrote the blog. I was slightly interested in the pattern too but didn't take the time to look into it. I assumed it was either something to do with a service sending us traffic in that pattern or maybe just something to do with Grafana. It could also be some unexplained behaviour in our system, maybe something to do with how we are pulling items off the queue. If I find some time next week I might take a proper look though!
No paywall: https://archive.is/ejcpk
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i been impressed with guatemala’s overall speed and depth. they were on top of the ball in latin america by weeks, to the initial derision of many countries.
I keep a long list of blocked words in Twitter, Feedly, and I try... as much as I can, to only consume news on reuters.com (and 4 print weeklies). I block CNN and Facebook in my hosts file.

And yet, I'm barraged on the web with celebrity news, popular news, Tiger King (never clicked on it, never wanted it, can't get away from it), whatever the foamy coffee thing that's big right now.

I know about the shelters in place. I knew not to bring my re-usable bags to the grocery this morning.

The whole of media, content, everything you see when you open your browser and leave the house, is a monumental barrage of trending, overwhelming, unavoidable content. Memes you can't get away from but which you'll see hundreds, thousands of times.

Whatever people need to do to get away from it... you'll still get it, but if you choose and are aware of the filters you use, by all means.
The case of North Korea will be very different from (insert middle east/central american country here). It's surrounded with robust countries like China, South Korea and Japan. There are so many interests that it's impossible for a simple militia or a government of their own to hold a grasp. They will go down and they will be absorbed by their neighbors. At least for now.
> So should Amazon not be allowed to host the third party marketplace?

The whole point is that they should. Why can't I buy iOS apps through Amazon? Or on a USB stick from Walmart or Gamestop like boxed software for Windows? Why can't I get it directly from the developer's website?

The problem isn't that Apple or Google has a store, it's that everybody should be able to have a store, without having to be the size of Apple or Google or Amazon.
Wow. Dailymail tech news. That’s a new low.
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If his objective is to "keep this knowledge in Japan", circulating the preprint and then publishing it in the journal he edits is a weird strategy.
Just any a-tag containing the listed phrases.
Thanks! I'm very far from making a CPU. Check out Sam Zeloof's work to see some of the other parts of home IC fabrication. Creating the mask is just one part of the process, and dialing in diffusion, oxide growth, metal deposition would take a lot of additional effort.

Yes. My original attempt (years ago) was to use a standard photographic enlarger: replace the lens with quartz, place the paper or plastic master design on a UV light source on the table, then place the microscope slide with photoresist in the enlarger where the film would normally go. One problem is the lens is not setup to cover a whole microscope slide. Another problem is not enough UV light getting through the whole optical system -- exposure would have been hours if it worked at all.

Haven't tried electrostatic. Considered low-tack adhesive (3M post-it).
If you think StackOverflow needs to be “saved” you’re deathly mistaken.

Just because some complain about it it doesn’t mean that it’s failing.
How do you define success if not revenue or popularity?
i just discovered this and wow this is great
Is the BBC article talking about the same thing?

The OP blog post says

> we have 2 different [text message] providers

but the BBC article says

> Vodafone is the only one of the UK's big four networks that has not finished the task.

If the two articles are talking about the same thing then it’s worth noting that the other major providers seemingly had no problems, and Vodafone chose to not send the messages at night time to avoid waking people up.
Anyone who thinks FAANG will survive without a contraction is deluding themselves. What happens to the ad market during a depression? How about luxury IT hardware? Entertainment subscriptions? Web services?

If there isn't a bounceback in three months or so, the entire tech sector will deflate like a balloon.

FAANG will probably survive in some form because of cash reserves, but there will absolutely be cancelled projects and mass lay-offs. And those will have an effect on the the property and rental markets, on startup funding, and on everyone's cash flow.

Business is a herd phenomenon, and as soon as panic spreads through the herd it reverses direction - until some new excuse for optimism appears.
It’s a human interest article, not a research study; I did not wish to die on the hill of “almost all” vs. “mostly all” vs. “a great many” vs. “a sizeably major proportion of” ... they all look approximately the same from Low Earth Orbit, and “approximately the same” was sufficient for the argument being made — namely, that housing payments for the housing itself are something one has to factor into a conception of Life In America, whereas this is far less to be taken for granted in the fUSSR.
The coronavirus crisis is making travel cheaper but
Hey, I'm the one who wrote the blog post. This was originally a talk a colleague on my team gave internally about 2 months ago and then I wrote it up as a blog post a few weeks back, before we had that big incident so there wasn't any particular thought on not mentioning it.

As the postmortem mentioned, it wasn't related to any of this load balancing work or our providers, it was us running into trouble with a different part of our system. That was a busy week (both in terms of numbers as you can see on https://www.gov.uk/performance/govuk-notify/notifications-by... but also in terms of us fighting fires).
that sounds like pretty wishful thinking.
Hi Mike, nice work! I noticed that you have some problems with UTF8 characters like German umlauts. Might want fix that: https://treendly.com/trend/Künstliche-Intelligenz?geo=DE
Nice aesthetics.

I wouldn't want to upload my notes and snippets to your website unencrypted.
I'm in favor of paper ballots too! But surely you see why it's more concerning to say "alright, elections are cancelled, and we won't hold an election again until unaccountable public health experts make a subjective judgment that it's safe". What would happen if they don't?
I believe current tech uses 4x reduction from masks down to actual chips. This works well with sizes needed for quartz lens systems, etc. Older processes used 1x reduction (either direct contact, or very tiny offset). This is cheaper and easier because you don't need any quartz lenses, which are needed instead of standard glass for their UV transmission ability.
Would you be able to offer a web version? There are a lot of us who don't have iphones, and that might provide a simpler cross-platform alternative.
I can not digest dark mode when working with the text. I know it is individual as I saw that many programmers do use it. To each their own I guess.
Facts about the Kockums:

> stretching them out from forty-eight to sixty meters

It reaches a prodigious length.

> hull will also be unusually resilient to underwater explosions

It's hard.

> a special ‘multi-mission’ portal for deploying special forces

It's ready to unload high-quality seamen.

If they staged an invasion of America, when the tears of laughter finally subsided, we'd already be completely conquered.
What did you think of stardew? I thought it was addicting but terrible. Like an awful cellphone game.
My understanding is that if airlines stop running flights they may lose their access to a given airport or terminal. So they run flights even if they aren't full or in major demand.
I’ll be happy if we get Medicare for all out of this. Insurance companies are not going to get people who have been laid off for 6mo to pay their crazy bills for Covid treatment.
Sometimes the comments are only required because the code is confusing.

In this case the function both mutates the state, and renders the app. If using a framework like React/Vue etc it might make perfect sense to call this function `move`, but here it has a lot more responsibility and would need a more representative name like update/setState/renderApp/etc. But I think it's pointless to debate as it breaks the single-responsibility principle and you're unlikely to find something like this in a large scale app anyway.
I saw the first episode of Tiger King, expecting to see some epic, thrilling dramatic series, given all the buzz. I was severely disappointed. Is this really what humans love to watch?
Thanks for the feedback!

I hear you on this. I actually am an Android guy myself. Android is on it's way, and we've talked about adding a web version too. it's a bit tricky since we have some feature ideas we have could be tough to implement via a web app.
Get a 20lb sledge and ~400lb tractor tire. Alternate flipping the tire and using the sledgehammer on it. Almost better than any gym workout (it's what I'm doing right now while my gym is closed). Your forearms will be so sore the next day you'll barely be able to type (at least for the first few weeks).
When swinger's club referred to something else.
Well that explains what the hell my upstairs neighbors are doing every day.
Awesome! I knew Hacker News would come through - thank you!
The paper is written in English and scholz for example traveled to Japan and communicated with him in English
I've been using wallabag for years too and it's worked well for me. I like that the mobile app downloads the articles for reading offline later and with minimal distraction.

I'm currently considering using Zotero so I can keep better track of topics I'm researching so I'm curious to hear more about people's experience with it, including across devices. For example is there as easy a way to share a URL to it on Android as there is with wallabag?

For notes I was using Evernote once upon s time then migrated to nvAlt synced via Nextcloud. On mobile app the notes are available in the Nextcloud app and editable in any markdown or text editor. Since switching back to Linux I've been using nvPy.
Thanks but no thanks.

https://whatsinstock.app/privacy
I expect they're basing two years on the time a vaccine will take to get to market, and judging that everything that happens prior to then won't help much.
And don't hit yourself on the shin as I did once :-(
I can't speak to your skillset or your job, but there are a lot of people working in our industry not because their skills are valued, but because investor dollars are often thrown at growing headcount.
This is so successful. Great choice of piece + performance. IMO there are really cool things you could do with the UI. (Like being able to skip back to sections that you reference to remember what they sound like. Also, would be cool if all sections were displayed all the time instead of only showing the current movement.)

Props, I really enjoyed this!
This should have been built into the game. Nintendo fans are so forgiving of glaring flaws.
I've not read anything yet that actually matches the headline of Amazon "not paying the tax". All I've seen is that users can now purchase content without going through Apple's in-app payment pipeline and instead use Amazons. The agreement with Amazon could still demand that Amazon pay to Apple 30% of the value of anything sold through the in-app channel.
Startups are having their great reckoning.
No longer can they just come up with fancy catch lines, and get bought by a billion dollar company.
Now they actually have to provide something unique, something useful, something worthy of them actually being acquired.
your startup is going to fail lol
I have a native Android app.
In the US there is the well-known phenomenon that during big catastrophes the media will concentrate on looting, as if this was a big problem and not the reasonable response to closed stores, full of products that people need.
They completely skip over Schubert's patented "quick-cross-over to flat-VI" in the first theme. It's even followed by-- you Schubert fans already guessed it-- a German sixth to sneak back to B-flat. So smooth.

Highlight reel.

Listen to the famous third movement of the String Quintet in C major. Where does it first modulate? You guessed it-- flat-VI. And after he stops on that German sixth chord, where do we go? Well, to G here, but that's just prep for the repeat signs back to-- you guessed it-- C major, baby! Yeah, Schubi ftw!

How bout the Unfinished Symphony in B minor-- where's that 2nd theme? Well ok, it's regular VI there but still... Schubert likes going to VI. It's his signature move. And if I start reading through one of his Lieder at random I bet I don't go 4 pages before hearing another such moment.

I like the idea of realtime notes, but you gotta have a pretty wide context for them to be anything more than an arbitrary collection of trivia for newcomers. That's a nice way of saying if you're a newcomer, you got to listen to a lot of music before things make sense. Just like you can dribble in one square meter of a basketball court and understand the game.

I mean, what could F# minor as a "distant key" possibly mean to a newcomer who hasn't had music theory? Without the context it's the musical equivalent of talking about some new software including "blockchain" technology. Maybe it means something significant. More likely in the context of mid-19th century harmony, it doesn't.

But if put on your Schubert jersey and get a season ticket, ask yourself-- how exactly is F# minor related to anything? Well, we started changing keys earlier by quick move to a sublime melody G-flat major. Any musician will tell you F# is just another way to spell G-flat. Wait a sec: Schubert took us to the minor version of that same key for the second theme. Minor-flat-VI. Holy cow!

Austria wins the championship! Austria wins!
First, that's a different, much more specific variation that is clearly from Howl. I have heard the phrase "the best minds of a generation" in old movies and books before, but they would have been around 1950 so maybe Howl came first. Second, your link isn't actually about the Howl quote anyway, which makes me suspicious that you didn't even read the link you posted. The link investigates a quote from 2011 that contains a play on the first line of Howl and investigates that quote, not Howl, nor the phrase which appears in Howl that we're discussing.
Little CSS bug in the nav bar. 770px to 1200px screen width causes a horizontal scrollbar to appear. The problematic rule is coming from bulma.css, so it might be easiest to just set div.nav-left { overflow: visible; }, that fixed it for me.

Chromium on Debian, FYI
I remember reading about one...

Here’s a simple command-line tool: http://ben.com/jpeg/

This one has a UI, but no screenshotS of it (scroll down to jpegcrop), and it also mentions lossless rotation which I haven’t investigated: https://jpegclub.org/

This page explains a bit more about lossless operations and mentions that Irfanview has them—it’s a great image viewer for that I use, and I didn’t even know: https://www.impulseadventure.com/photo/lossless-rotation.htm...
You’re claiming google is ethical? Bit of a stretch.
Indeed. Spinning/tossing a rifle or flag takes quite a bit of strength and control, especially when doing it in time with music (as most guards do).
I’ve recently used the “HAL_I2C_IsDeviceReady” function to scan the whole address range to find devices on the bus with no issues. I’m not near my PC to double check but I’m pretty sure that does what you’re talking about and seems to work ok for me - unless you’re suggesting it’s intermittent?
Frankly, that's why I consume nothing but torrents. There's no other way to avoid being assaulted by ads for the trash you describe.
> ...shelves built, home improved, practical skills acquired.

Shoveling snow/dirt/other substances, chopping wood, pushing wheelbarrows, or loading trucks would be better examples of real-world equivalents to the more-maligned functional exercise regimes, but there's only so much of those most of us have opportunity to do. Apart from adding sheer volume it's also a little harder to build a progressive overload program around those types of activities.
Or become the front of the US China cold war...
xarray is more geared towards physical sciences data, data formats like HDF5 and so on, but the general concepts overlap a lot with a dataframe.
I made and use this to do exactly that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ssure/

I recently added "covid" and "corona" to my desktop list, I wouldn't have seen this post, or your comment (because you said Kardashian) but I dont use my phone to browse much so I haven't updated the list much.
Is it reasonable to assume, at this point, that international travel is still a relevant contributor to the spread of the virus? Apart from reducing travel overall, I don't see how the ban could have an impact once the virus is distributed. Especially since domestic flights seem to continue.

Initially, yes. It could have changed things. But this action now feels way too late. Like two months late. It feels like a nationalistic rally of blaming others for the spread.
I'm sorry, but I really don't understand why ignoring is not good.
Those people inside closed gates are just another symptom of the disease itself.
> How are they suppose to “promote” 5 million+ apps?

I don't know, in theory that's why they get 30%, to figure that out.

> Apple never claimed promotion they claimed access.

From their website [0]: "the all-new Mac App Store beautifully showcases your apps and makes them even easier to find."

> Do physical retail stores actively promote your SKU over the thousands of other products?

They most certainly do. If you've ever worked in retail you'd be familiar with the daily restocking sheet, where we had to move certain products to the eye level shelf and other ones down.

Look at your supermarket. The end caps change all the time. This is a combination of those brands paying for those placements and the store putting high margin popular items up front.

But the point is that stores accept different payments from different vendors for different levels of promotion.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/distribute/
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Why are lower stock prices pay cuts? Strike price is rarely fixed, usually it is some percantage of current stock price. So if stock price falls you get more shares.

You have no way of knowing what the price might be when you are able to exercise your options. You also don't have to exercise them, it's your choice. Equity compensation is always a gamble.
The company I work for has been profitable from day one. I think we'd be proud to say then that we were never a startup :-)
I can't stand the invisible syntax like a double trailing space is some valid syntax.
I'm on episode 4 as we speak, taking it for what it is (low brow entertainment). Still waiting for it to live up to the hype. I've seen far more engaging junk.
> I've tried disabling scripts,

I have javascript disabled and see no paywall.
I can't stand the invisible syntax like double trailing space.
I’ve always heard good things about Screens on iOS, it’s $20

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What's left of customization is the choice of an "accent color", plus light and dark modes.
The plantation owners in Haiti knew fully well that the revolt was deserved.
I would have been in that camp. But it is probably unfair.

I still think the company is a dumpster fire but the big investments that Musk is making are, in part, driven by actual revenue.

...now that isn't wholly true. Musk seems to be able to keep raising debt without hitting equity. Over and over, he just finds utter idiots to keep bailing him out. The deal with the Chinese govt was incredible. Eventually, this will run out of road but the bankruptcy will show that Telsa did create some value.
Orthodox Christianity is not a big thing among the current generation of Russian diaspora, so Easter doesn't have any cultural significance to most of them.

Summer is a good time to visit because of the mild climate, and New Years', because it has always been a big holiday, culturally.