skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that solves anything, it creates a whole host of problems, and of course, the notion of the government taking a % ownership of every business is a kind of ideology I don't need to describe.

Governments don't want a stake in future profits, they want to tax income. Dividends payouts are taxed 'again' at the time of payout. Share buybacks are taxed 'again' as capital gains and FYI that has nothing to do with the corporate tax rate, that's part of personal income.

Your Amazon example is flawed:

If Amazon is worth $100B it's because people think they will eventually have $100B in the bank. Or a financial equivalent of cash flows. Either way, it means people assume profits. If that's true, then the taxable income will also be there, in which case they'll have to make $150B in income, then pay tax THEN have the $100B in the bank (or financial equivalent).

So the government 'taking an equity stake' at formation, and sitting on the stock is moot: they already get a 'stake' of the income stream that forms the basis of that valuation.

That Amazon pays no tax is not such a bad thing - it means they're making $0, which means the surpluses are going to their suppliers, customers or employees etc. All of whom are taxed for those surpluses (except for consumers).
Wow, nice work. How long did it take you to write this?

I see that you are using the Cluster API which is currently v1alpha1. I would be curious to hear your thoughts on the state of this and how it has been to work with so far. It looks like you use Kind to bootstrap everything is that correct?
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The tax system is designed by the government to get people and companies to act a certain way.

There are discounts for capital gains and extra taxes for gasoline, travel and cigarettes.

So companies act the way they are told to act.
I wish the whole experience wasn’t so laggy (on 2020 iPad Pro).
Yeah but for giving someone an intro to what dataframes are, I think pandas might leave a sour taste where dplyr would allow someone to learn comfortably.

Although, one might run into a "true level" situation. This is when Morty feels what true level is like, then says "everything is crooked, reality is poison" when he has to live in the "fake level" world.
During undergrad, I was only exposed to logic in my set theory and theory of computation classes. Any recommendations on good books/textbooks that are good for a relative beginners exploring set theory and type theory?
> then civilization as we know it becomes one more step closer towards total irrecoverable collapse.

I love how pop culture always portrays the collapse as coming from our inability to maintain or repair some mythical machine or technology. Never once did I imagine that it was the state welfare software.
Article about a complete non issue.
Here's a source backing my assertion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22787076
I recently used Zapier to integrate with a few APIs and the ability to plug in your own code (https://zapier.com/help/create/code-webhooks/use-javascript-... ) was useful. And it was certainly less brain-demanding to deploy than something on a server I manage.
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It's impossible. We live in a global world. How can the US enact a law that a company in Seychelles is forced to follow?
Checkout the work of Alex Edwards [0] and his book on Go [1]. Great guy and he even helped me with a consulting project.

[0] https://alexedwards.net

[1] https://lets-go.alexedwards.net/
Yep, corticosteroids are used for immune suppression. That's why they're used in autoimmune conditions

https://www.mayoclinic.org/steroids/art-20045692
This makes me realize I have been here since 2008. This is the first site I open in the morning. I come here for the comments. I wish I had more to contribute.

But to your question, I have noticed the comments in general appear shorter, less useful, more "armchair expert", and in more of a bubble. And yes I feel like I am partially to blame.
Thanks a lot! This version has been the work of two months in my spare time (it's true that with confinement I had some full weekends to spare!).

I'm not using Cluster API, but the oneinfra's defined set of API's, that are reduced in purpose, to reduce the complexity of spawning new clusters. Let me know if something doesn't click, I can help!
Right. The difference being the "."

The article proposes using basic function call syntax. That makes no sense to me. And with .(), you now have 3 characters to type instead of 2 with []. Obviously all of this is pedantic, but then again so is the article.
I love Keyboard Maestro for macOS. Made over 1,000 macros with it so far and automated pretty much all frictions I have with using my mac.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/macos/macos-apps/keyboard-ma...
Hard to respond to a smorgasbord of irrelevant tangents, but I'll try.

I believe the public capital markets are often efficient, but not always. I have no doubt that credit markets are less efficient. How they are or aren't, and whether they reflect bailouts, is immaterial. Lenders have to make smart lending decisions or they will cease to exist as lenders, they have every incentive in the world to properly assess risks. The fact that some times some lenders do a poor job at it doesn't change that fact. The market, red in tooth and claw, will eventually chase down and devour dumb lenders.

It's true leverage was heavily subsidized by the tax code, the interest paid was subsidized about 40% when the federal corporate tax rate was 35% (plus whatever state corporate income tax you were subject to). Ironically when Trump signed the new tax cut bill, by cutting corporate rates he reduced that subsidy to only 25%.

The best solution for ending that subsidy is simple and hugely beneficial for everyone in our country. Stop taxing corporate income, and increase tax rates on dividends and capital gains to compensate. No longer would we be taxing reinvestment creating better jobs and raising productivity faster, and we could start taxing investors investment incomes in proportion to their incomes, restoring a lot more progressively to the tax code.
This is more a matter of taste than anything else.
Compared to the Java I would say it's much cleaner (Personally I don't care for Java). Compared to Kotlin, it is more different. Flutter uses a declarative programming model so it is conceptually very different in terms of how you think about an application. There are a lot of nice things about this model for basic applications, but things get complicated for certain applications (AR/3d for instance).
Also it is also open sourced (BSD) so the fear of Google dropping it is not as grave as the company's proprietary 1p product offerings.
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I don't know about seniors but I routinely need a browser to fill out government forms. I routinely need browser to apply for employment or unemployment,to purchase esse tial goods, to operate a viable business. Your logic is that people can walk so cars should not be regulated. My logic is even if people can walk, cars are used so much and are critical for so many and their lack of safety could be so catastrophic that it cannot be left to the manufacturer to have good faith and know what is best for the public. I don't really care about your survival as an individual but I do care about stability of society,economy and not having to depend on corporation's good will for things I need.

Your logic can apply to healthcare as well. Plenty of healthy people. Plenty of people have good jobs and insurance. So does that mean healthcare affordability for everyone should not be regulated?

Oh and the whole electoral college b.s., so you're saying we should disband FTC,FDA,EPA and all other regulatory agencies as well? Come on!

> How can Google restrict the websites I go to?

Easy, they can block it out right or simply deprecate support for the site. A close-enough example is ublock origin and how google basically crippled their ability to block ads. Were there regulations, it would not be up to google. The first thing that should be regulated is their ability to deprecate random things on a whim.
love the gantt charts
How to Install Docker and Docker Compose on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa
That is the thing. I feel like the build quality and design of the board is so good, but having no warranty or replacement parts in case something breaks is a deal-breaker.

I've been looking around on Craigslist for a few boards and they seem to still hold their value despite the announcement a month later.
See there: https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/covid-19/
I've found that Azure's Logic App Service has been shockingly useful to me! The hard prerequisite is that you are within the Azure ecosystem, but using Logic Apps instead of defaulting to writing PowerShell for Function Apps significantly decreased development time, has increased the ease with which I can debug workflows, and when you're on the free tier (with both aforementioned flavors), then Logic Apps still reign supreme as they don't have any cold start issues that users of Function Apps (that don't get hammered all the time) do.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/logic-apps/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/understanding-serverl...
Truth Value as Magnitude of Predictions
Show HN: Home-based online trial for Covid-19 remedies
The idea was proposed here on HN under WHO online trials for 4 drugs
(can't find link now): run multiple trials in parallel and treat them as
a multi-armed bandit problem. E.g. try treatments that are more successful
more often, optimizing for outcomes from the very beginning.

I adapted it for people treating COVID-19 at home in hopes,
that some supplements could reduce the chance they end up in a hospital,
thus easing the load for less fortunate cases.

Here's the site: https://home-trial.losttech.software/

I've been also working on a version for doctors and nurses with blind
testing aka placebo, but still not sure if it is of any use, as many
countries define specific protocols for COVID-19 hospital care, and
it would be nearly impossible to deviate. Just in case that still sounds
interesting, here's the demo of the version for doctors and nurses:
https://trial-demo.losttech.software/Doctor (note: a different domain)
If it is a list, access like that is a function. Even in the context where it's an array with the depedence we have these days on function inlining, it could still be a function

fn someArray(offset: usize) -> T* {
self.base + (offset * T.size) as T*
}
Mayo Clinic has a really good writeup of the trade offs associated with compassionate use: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health...

Essentially, if a patient has no other options and might die, the FDA allows the use of unproven drugs.
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Some of the modifications done to titles are indeed weird and contraproductive IMHO.
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I would say it's the other way around: A really good transmitting antenna is necessarily a really good receiving antenna (at least at the frequencies it's tuned for), but a purpose-built receiving antenna might make a poor transmitting antenna because of power handling and matching considerations.
In terms of the properties of the antenna itself, it is reciprocal -- the "How Antennas Work" part. You comment is more along the lines of "How to Use Antennas", that is a different question.

The places where there is a benefit to having different antennas for receive and transmit depends on the characteristics of the channel and on the application. The classic example being where a receiving antenna that reduces reception of local noise can give a better signal-to-noise ratio than an antenna that has been optimized for the best transmitted signal footprint at the location of the other station.

So, while I agree that in practice there are plenty of times where separate receive and transmit antennas have a benefit, it isn't because of antenna physics.
It's not going to happen, but my favorite solution to the parsing ambiguities would be to parse < as a comparison if there is whitespace around it, and as a template bracket otherwise. Kind of how "puts -1" in Ruby prints -1, and "puts - 1" tries to subtract 1 from the result of puts.
Pelosi is exercising political leadership at the moment, and there doesn't seem to be anyone up for that level of high-stakes gambling. It may be bad leadership, but nobody has the guts to be up there right now.

She is definitely punching above her station.
The expression must be wrapped in curly braces: Type<{ expression }>
Perhaps the difference is not in the "donations to politicians" that the cynical like to say, but in the "ability to afford expensive tax consultants."

Small companies pay what the government tells them to pay. Big companies hire someone who figures they can save 5% on their taxes by having their factory in Tennessee instead of Kentucky.

It's just the ability (and scale) to afford to employ any advanced tax strategies.

I have friends who live in Hawaii. A high tax state. Another friend moved to Puerto Rico, a low tax one. You don't have to be big to save on taxes.
Colin Percival's Tarsnap: https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/tree/master/libcperciva
There is little need of any sort of trade off as simple enough sites are trivial to make accessible.
I'm always sceptical with people said to be asymptomatic. It might be asymptomatic for 3-28+ days. The existence of antibodies will be a better measure.
Thanks for pointing it out! I don't know anybody working on it any more, but I encourage you to contact GCF and let them know.

You're welcome to evaluate the government contractor sites yourself. You can start here, but the tool varies by county: http://www.benefitscal.com/

Picking the first one, I see more errors: https://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://www.mybenefitscalwin...

And I should add that technical compliance with standards is one thing, and actual usability for people with disabilities is another. Given that the contractor-built application tools were hard for everybody to use, I would be surprised to learn that they were notably better for people with disabilities.

The specifics aside, I think you make a great point. Governments are mandated to serve everybody, while startups are mostly interested in people they can easily profit from serving. So startup-world techniques need to be applied differently in government contexts."Up and to the right" isn't enough.
I’d never heard of that keyboard before. Is this something that’s handy for programming because it had extra keys?
Yes, I've used the Sony's for a couple of hours, but I've never owned a pair. Couple of my colleagues have them and they seem to be happy with them.

My biggest issue with touch control is the user experience. That is, when it works flawlessly it's as good as physical buttons, but I rarely experience the same level of reliability with touch as with buttons.

If you have the Sony's and you're happy with them, then good for you. They're good headphones, just not the best ones for me.
I guess this varies a lot. To my shame I don't have hard numbers (! I really should have.)

Personally I've worked on a half dozen global research network projects bringing together both public and private funding and 10-15 organisations, mixed universities, research institutes, and small to behemoth companies.

The target is always some wide ranging new radical technology platform and they spawn a bunch of startups and spin off projects.

Some targets can turn out to be too difficult, or simply wrong, but I've never seen a project that hasn't lead to at least one startup / product / new technology.
> Based on Diamond Princess data, where almost everyone was tested, the lower bound of COVID19's IFR (Infection Fatality Rate) should be > 0.5% for many/most countries.

No, you can't compare a country's likely outcome to that of a cruise ship. On ships, the virus propogates very differently and the viral load will likely be much higher in infections due to constant contact while onboard. When viral loads are higher, the severity of the disease and mortality rate are also much higher [0].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/opinion/coronavirus-viral...
The ambiguous const generics have to be surrounded by { }:

fn function<T, { ambigous const generic expression }>(arg1: T) -> T {
> How can you say that? The Netherlands still has people going to cafes.

Because vast majority isn't, certainly not in Germany. I can say that because I have been experiencing it for weeks now.

> Even if you can point to a figure saying people are moving less and adhering to their government's guidelines I don't think it follows that you can say the majority of people are acting like they are infected.

Those guidelines to after entail acting like people oneself might be infected. That's why people are to keep distance from anybody, never ever touch their face while out and about, and wash their hands thoroughly when they come home (and I might add, also before they leave home).

> As for the second part, by definition, if those companies actions benefit everyone.. it would help.

I ask how surveillance help, and you say "if it helps, it helps by definition". That is hardly an answer.

Let's say 10% simply don't take it seriously. If they don't keep distance from anyone out of the 90%, those people will know. In Bavaria, someone already went to jail for 8 days because of exactly that, for not paying heed despite repeated warnings.

There is no surveillance necessary for that because -- by definition -- the only way for those 10% to "secretly mingle" would be with other people of those 10%. Movement tracking also doesn't tell us anything about if people cough right at other people or into their elbow, or if they wash their hands when coming home. Mere distance itself isn't saying all that much.

As for the Google thing: super general, anonymized "where do people move around how much" is something else entirely than the location data of all indiviuals.

> What data is included in the calculationdepends on user settings, connectivity, andwhether it meets our privacy threshold. If theprivacy threshold isn’t met (when somewhereisn’t busy enough to ensure anonymity) wedon’t show a change for the day.

That isn't the kind of surveillance we are talking about, like the kind of German justice ministry previously rejected, for example.

Information that harms nobody, violates no rights, is 100% anonymous, doesn't even have to be useful for me to have no problem with the collection of.

Palantir on the other hand "declined to comment", so you give me something completely different from Google. If what Palantir have in mind is so benign and useful, why don't they proudly explain it? It's not like CoV19 could overhear that and adjust, like criminals or terrorists might.

And from a PR perspective, declining to comment is the ONE predictably bad move here. If they want to help, if they have something helpful to bring to the table, why aren't they open about it? With something like this, they should have had their story straight before even anyone asked them, before they even finalized their offers to those governments. This is nowhere good enough. That isn't "the second part", that is the main issue.
The bracket ambiguity in C++ is much worse than the article describes.

Foo < a , b > x;

This can be either a template installation or a sequence of comparisons.
An antenna doesn't amplify a received signal. It takes an actual electrical amplifier to do that. When an antenna's gain is being mentioned, that gain is actually how much better the antenna is at taking in more of the signal than the standard candle isotropic antenna, e.g., one that transmits and receives equally in any direction.
I initially read your second paragraph as, "Sometimes you have to sacrifice your view of the horizon to catch an eagle."
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> I feel like over the years things have changed a lot on HN. The content here have a very different taste to them now. It might look like I am following the hashtag-X-is-dead trend and trying to play devil's meta-advocate here. I am just wondering what have changed and why I feel this way.

What, roughly, is it that you say has changed a lot? Would it be the broadening of topics, from purely software/tech to news and political topics which software/tech has influenced, and is now enmeshed with?

I read HN for years before I signed up. In my case, I joined because I wanted to become involved in some conversations - now open to me as a potential participant rather than as a clueless but interested observer. For me, HN changed - for better or worse - in ways that included me more. My background is as a production-side journalist (sub-editor, deputy editor etc) who became fascinated by tech when, in 1994, I took an online role in a pioneering news project in the UK. After that, I combined news roles with informing the design of CMSs and other newsroom tools; I have worked with many developers. Now, I am more in project/product management of, mainly, media tools.

For me, at any rate, HN has shifted from an interesting source of tech news - what are the latest frameworks, what's happening with search/tracking/social technologies - to discussions of how these things impinge on or affect my work and life. I still enjoy reading all the way-over-my-head stuff, anything from Hubble to Ligo to quantum mechanics, though.

Is your objection to HN now vs then because you see it along the lines of the "Eternal September"[1] influx of inappropriates who in effect choked Usenet to death?

I see it differently - and, of course, I am just guessing at your objections - and enjoy my time on HN; so many subject specialists and practitioners, pioneers even, chip in across so many domains.

The success of HN for me, I suspect, hinges partly on a self-policing group of contributors and commentators, but also and even more so on some deft, even-handed and nicely judged moderation by real people.

Edited to add clarification of Eternal September:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
I believe the current proposal (partially supported on nightly) is to require expressions in generic arguments to be enclosed in {}
Anyone have a link to the actual paper? Couldn't find it on the author's page and the article doesn't appear to name it.
I've always found the idea of inalienable rights rather odd, as if they were in some way outside their societal context. If so, where are they located?
This sounds like Zoom hate, which I am seeing a lot nowadays. The irony is that it is coming from tech while the av Joe's doesn't really care.
No. One, the needs often aren't in conflict. Building an accessible website doesn't hurt people who don't need it. Two, government is there to serve everybody, and in practice a lot of the people it serves directly are the ones already neglected by commerce, so it needs to be especially good at not just ignoring "the few".
Have only seen colleagues use them but MS powerapps is pretty powerful. It lets just about anyone with basic computer usage knowledge to connect different data sources and applications to make mobile apps. I've seen people who don't know a single programming language make crazy-good apps with it.
I thought it will be easy to implement and also a bit of nostalgia.

I was a 2nd/3rd semester CS student at that time when I saw BF code for the first time on a Competitive programming platform named SPOJ[0]. Later, I found it again on a code golfing website[1].

I thought it would be fun to learn as the language only had 8 commands! I learned it and wrote a tutorial[2] on my native language for my best friend so that we could have some fun together with it :D

[0] http://spoj.com/

[1] http://golf.shinh.org/

[2] https://github.com/wasi0013/Bangla-Brainfuck-tutorial/blob/m...