skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or maybe pent up demand will have the opposite effect. There's no way to know.

I've had the same thoughts about the restaurant industry. Will lockdowns create a generation of home cooks, or will be so tired of staying in that the restaurant industry booms after this is over?
sounds like everyone forgot what an RSS reader is already. that was fast...
As Supermarkets Feel Hazardous and Sparse, Small Farms Deliver
If you mean Jorge Luis Borges, sadly no Nobel for him.

P.S. Local press had an item about an "International Writers Committee" naming Borges for the 2018 prize posthumously: https://www.dn.pt/lusa/comite-internacional-de-escritores-at...
I don't know, in theory that's why they get 30%, to figure that out.

So what platform has 4.5 million products and can showcase them all?

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.

So some products get showcased and some languish in obscurity. Apple also showcases a few apps....

And those products that get showcased on the end cap pay extra. You can also (sadly) pay extra to run search based ads in the App Store.
what is it you think they're not going to hear about eventually that their family, neighbors or strangers wont inform them of?
I have to say. Staying off Twitter and avoiding any non-local news has been incredibly beneficial to my mental health over the past few weeks.
Hugely. Taiwan is an 'isolated island' with no outbreak i.e. no community spread. They have the 300 cases there nailed down. So anyone coming in the country is a source of contamination.

Otherwise - this is still a problem.

In my little regional city in Canada - cases are small and they've already peaked. Case load is small enough that we are now a 'landlocked' island. Within days we could feasibly 'go back to work' were we to be sure nobody is 'entering the bubble'. That won't be the case, but you see what I mean.

I think borders are a pretty big deal in terms of being able to contain this problem.

I suggest that in order to travel internationally in the next little while, it might be required to have a 'test card' indicating you're clean from COVID within the last x number of days for example.

Either that or everyone coming into a country has to isolate for x days.
Indeed, it is your duty as a citizen to consume as much media as possible. To do to otherwise is anti social and actively harmful to your country.

Try to refute both arguments.
Pixar pioneers behind Toy Story animation win “Nobel Prize” of computing
> You're showing your true face with this projection and it is a very bad look.

I was personally attacked in SF but keep ignoring that there is not problem.
That is obviously not what you meant, and one way we know that is you wrote a comment insinuating this at length and in particular about multiple people quoted in the article, one of whom you now find yourself conversing with.
This is what anti-depressants, anti-anxiety meds, alcohol, stimulants and all other drugs do to your brain.

Pretend the problems aren't there, and they'll actually just go away all by themselves!

"Close your eyes, and the world disappears."
I've never seen an article about the Kardashians. Maybe your news sources are the problem.
Cheap food is not the reason for ‘amazing progress’ ..can you explain why you feel this way?
If you don't actually look at the data, yes that is the conclusion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22294594
"...payments are direct from patient to medical provider, and so prices are constrained by what the market will directly bear. "

This nice gross oversimplification is how, maybe, it was envisioned in the 1960s when we should have fixed it, but bears no resemblance to how it actually works today.
> If you don't have a car and can't commute, either you move closer to your job or

Totally, everyone can afford to move to SF right?
In exciting news for Jump, their new update added proper mouse/trackpad support on iPads with 13.4!
Pi-hole has done wonders for my (and my family/friends) internet browsing experience. Just threw it up on a DO droplet and very occasionally ssh in to update.
Because most (all?) of the large companies issue RSUs now, not options, with the quantity of RSUs determined at issue time.
Yes but i think we would both agree that in html/markdown it should be "this is book title" because medium allows it. "format this with italics" makes as little sense as "format this with emphasis" they are both wrong. Interestingly "format this with italics" is right solution in print because we encode that meaning in aesthetics and conventions and i guess thats why people think it is also right solution in web. But even in typesetting program that book title will have class .book-title and same italic in footnotes will be .footnote.book-title
Most of category theory as used in ordinary mathematics can be formulated in ZFC. The category of all groups, etc. is just a propositional formula. If you prefer to explicitly talk about classes, then you can go with NBG, which is a conservative extension of ZFC.

Grothendieck needed an extra axiom because he wanted to consider large Grothendieck topologies. The consensus seems to be that universes are avoidable: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/35746/inaccessible-cardin...
Did the data change?
Dark reader actually has a js library you can add to your site to allow people to essentially toggle it on, wothout having the extension. Dark mose for free, basically.
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Quote me where I insinuated it was a paid piece.
I imagine it's pretty difficult. I'm not a mainframe programmer, but from my understanding you not only have to understand the COBOL languages, but various mainframe environment parts like the OS, APIs, databases, etc.
For those who don't want spend too much time on news, but want to stay informed, do check us out : https://www.thefactual.com (daily newsletter with summaries and multiple viewpoints from curated news sources)
They think the effects people are experiencing aren't from millimeter-wave 5G radiation at all, but from mass hysteria. Same fear as WiFi but on a newer context.
I don't think the comment was meant to exclude him or herself from humanity. I interpreted the sentence as inclusive of him or herself, but riddled with shame for our species, ie: why do you human beings like trash tv?
Receiving investment, or not, or making money, or not, has nothing to do with whether or not a company is a "startup" (at least in the YC sense).

Startup = Growth

http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
‘Dreich’ tops poll of favourite Scots words (2013)
Stardew gets much more intense than AC. AC is chill, slow. No hard consequences. No mistakes..

It is fun though.
I've used these on occasion. They are an amazing way to get rid of shoulder pain with very little exercise and are very convenient.
Yet I’m sure they’re offering $60K/year.
I use Instapaper for bookmarks, and Quiver for saving whole pages, and writing notes. Quiver is Mac / iOS only and the iOS version is read only, but I push most of my notes / clips to iCloud and have had good results for a few years with this workflow.
I have no idea if bounty providers are benefiting from the spray-and-pray bogus submissions that characterize the majority of all bounty submissions. I rather expect that they aren't, and that they're a scourge for everyone involved (other than the sprayers themselves).

But you didn't say "these submissions are bad". You said no incentive caused them to exist at all. As I've said repeatedly, without even a faint rebuttal: you can't ever have managed a bug bounty program and believe that statement is true. It is a crazy thing to say.

I honestly don't give a shit about "CSO Online" (I had no idea anyone from Latacora was quoted in it). As you saw upthread: I think this is a dumb article. But your response to it managed, somehow, to be even dumber, and that's what we're litigating now.
It was announced during the tournament with a grace period, which has now expired. I feel bad for Rajubov who actually predicted this happening and they kicked him out of the tournament.
What will motivate reports?
I see. Let’s tease this out.

1. You are saying that food is worth less than what it costs.

2. Production of food is not ‘compulsory’ and that food must be produced is ‘completely insane’. I don’t understand?

English is not my first language. So please help me understand.

I also don’t understand this : “you should try to find a less stupid way to spend your time, something that is not actually worse than nothing”.
Straw man.

> “There’s a problem, it matters, but I don’t personally have the fix handy

That is not what is happening is it? I am okay with that.

> “There’s a problem with X, it matters, but I don’t personally have the fix handy AND YOU ARE EVIL FOR USING X

That is what I call virtue signaling.
You can see the phenomenon I described for yourself in:

http://demo.nimius.net/video_test/videos/test.mp4

This file contains audio, which in the Zoom pseudo-RTP is separate so you should strip that out with your preferred tool without changing the H.264 video though it won't change the results very much (it only re-assures us that the recurring data is in the video stream as I assumed) so if you don't have such tools don't worry too much.

It has the case we're interested in, because it's the simplest to understand: I-frames with identical content.

If you've put together a "codec test harness" that's what you want to simulate. Don't feed in penguins or "solid-coloured blocks" just feed in a still image, and watch as (unsurprisingly) it outputs the same I-frame each time it needs to do so, regular as clockwork. You're not simulating a Zoom stream of abstract art, but a shared desktop that's showing Pauline's Q3 revenue forecast for two whole minutes while her team discuss Tiger King or the desktop of a guy who left five minutes ago but didn't leave the meeting, or (more speculatively) an empty meeting room on camera.

This is the beginning. If we stop dismissing it as just "more complicated" than just a Penguin pixmap and bring in people who know more about video codecs we can explore how much more can be done. If every slide show has the company logo and the presenter's name on the first slide, does that correlate? Can we make a watermark that would survive being played back through one codec and then encoded by Zoom?

But there's a strong sense in which I don't care to do all that actual work. Some of these things might be possible and some not, but we're not building a cool demo for a convention we're just here to say that Zoom is terribly insecure and if people feel they must use it, treat it like a meeting held in the local coffee shop, assuming your local coffee shop is bugged by both the US and Chinese government.
And where do I keep it?
Sure it often looked like crap but sometimes it was great too.

The important part is that you could change it relatively easily if you didn't like it, but the "modern" trend has been to remove that ability.
I'm comfortable with what the thread says about our respective arguments. It's all right there for people to read.
I did mainframe COBOL for a few years in the 90’s (Y2K fixes). It’s actually not that difficult - I could probably bring a Java developer up to speed on it in less than a month. COBOL is actually extremely easy to program in, but it’s also limited in its expressiveness, so you end up repeating yourself a lot, which leads to complex debugging sessions.
The poster said 'better shape' not 'good shape'. A biz that's dead in X months of runway is still in better shape than one that's dead in a week.
I'm sure there are great reasons, but why is it that we can't detect the virus in wastewater at a personal level? Could this be a less invasive way to test for covid19?
This would be a great DOS attack tool!
That's not a lifestyle business, it's just a business.
I would say it's possible that the zombie myth has been independently reinvented in multiple places. I don't think it's necessarily been "appropriated". Though there is an obvious parallel in that both myths are about lack of freedom.

IMO, zombie movies symbolize a desire that people have to be free from the usual norms of society. More broadly, there is some part of us that desires chaos, and sees it as freeing. In a post-apocalyptic zombie world, there are no jobs, no rent to pay, no worrying about grooming yourself or fancy clothes, etc. Zombies are irredeemable, unsalvageable enemies. It's kill or be killed. In some ways, you could say that's simpler than modern society, with its many parallel games, hierarchies and rigid structures. In zombieland, there are no rules.

Beyond that, zombie movies are also an outlet for people to channel that pent up rage. They like to fantasize that they would be the badass survivor, shooting zombies in the head with a shotgun and chopping them up with axes, in some kind of ultimate "fuck you" to society. But hey, it's okay to kill people now, in that world, it's completely legit, they're no longer people.

Personally, I don't watch zombie movies because I feel like there's enough real drama in the world that I don't need to worry about gross imaginary drama. I also don't think it's the healthiest thing to cultivate violent fantasies where you kill everyone. Your life, your real life, may have its share of problems, but this definitely isn't how you're going to escape them.
I did a project where I collected a ton of links using notion’s chrome extension. It took several days to do. My intention was to then go copy all of those links into an Excel sheet with additional data.

Nope. Every single link was a Notion URL. I was pissed. Never using that app again because it made me realize my options for migration away from Notion would always be very limited.
The thing about old COBOL systems is, the language isn't the problem. Snark aside, it isn't that bad.

The major issue is the code written in it. Remember, a lot of COBOL code comes from a time before a lot of programming best practices were discovered. Structured programming-- as in, actually having function calls instead of just GOTO statements everywhere-- was a novel hoity-toity concept when COBOL first existed. Relational databases? Forget about it, they won't exist for another decade and a half. You get flat files; if you're lucky there might be field separators, if you're unlucky you'll have to find the column widths in the code somewhere. And don't even think that any of it is documented.

That's the sort of thing you're taking on when you jump into a legacy COBOL system.
I'm curious what would be motivating here, too. Of all times to dilly dally in a grocery store, now's not the time. I want to get in and get out to reduce exposure time--not spend time updating an app with what I see on a shelf.
Or you just think it's awesome.
Thank you for this response, I was about to answer the same but you've done a much better job of expressing my sentiment.
Are we talking about the same people and same area? You mentioned the top 30% of tech companies. Those folks aren't living in the far flung suburbs in the East Bay. They are living in SF and on the Peninsula, where median home prices have been well over $1M for a while now[1]. There are certainly some tech people that managed to buy real estate back in 2010-2012 at the bottom of the market, and who have been saving plenty of money for rainy days. Those folks will probably be fine. But there are plenty of others who took on large loans to buy expensive houses with incomes that were heavily based on stock based compensation.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/
The real skill was not in the cover-up (which left a ton of breadcrumbs) but in browbeating the American public into accepting and ignoring it.

Right there in front of everyone's eyes

Greatest magic trick ever under the sun

Perfectly executed, skillfully done
Most of this experience has not been made public though, but yes, it's quite different
92 comments no-one noticed that Cstross' Zombies weren't actually zombies qua zombies & the entire twist was that 'finding and feeding a zombie before it became truly dead' was his 1st chapter. i.e. If you find and feed a "zombie" chicken nuggets, its brain ceases to degrade.[1]

It's a riff on Metaphysical P-Zombies and Cognition hidden in his usual "here's the guff that gets you a sale pitch in modern media" coupled with a "What if Mind [i]thought[/i] it was a zombie, but wasn't, and Humans did not act like the movies, but as if they were plague victims".

92 comments: no-one spotted the philosophy. Or the kinda obvious morality hit-you-with-a-sledge-hammer meta-tale.

As a note: HackerNews seems to not have noticed this at all or read the entire piece.

OH, and it's probably not going to be published because the entire Western world just proved that in a Capitalist system, they're going to back-stab each other over contracts, run prices past gouging and into actual piracy between NATO states and the like.

But. 92 comments, and none of you spotted even the basics.

[1] Mr Stross might be aware of the "Chicken Tendies" meme. He probably is, seems clued up about Frogs and Alt-Right memeology these days.

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Interesting. That's also been done for recreational drugs. And artificial vanilla flavoring.

I wonder whether sampling from sewage pumping units could be done. That might produce higher resolution data. But getting representative samples would be harder. You'd probably need to take large samples, mix, and subsample.
FYI, these are referring to the indian clubs from the indian subcontinent. In india, they were mainly used by wrestlers in a wrestling sport called Pehlwani : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pehlwani

Indian clubs used : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_club
No, Express will be available under dual AGPL/commercial license.
What is a dataframe? I wish libraries would define their key terminology. Especially when the term is rather generic.
You seem to be talking about something else. We're talking about how this library is not React in 33 lines. It could be better labelled as a "VDOM framework in 33 lines".
depends on the codebase, some people showed me long lasting, semi patched, semi generated code and it was not pretty

the language in itself is archaic but there's nothing difficult in it
I didnt find it too hard, I played with it a little in the IBM master the mainframe challenge.

The hardest part for me, is IO was not handled by the application, so all your file IO was setup by the JCL job that called the cobol program, which just feels weird.

It's actually quite easy to read, and much closer to plain english than say, C.
Yup, and they wanted to shove nation-state malware in to Onavo to do it, it sounds like!
Apologies for the tone, I understand that it didn't fit with the guidelines. But, to me, the idea behind the app seems blatantly morally wrong.

We should not be encouraging people to either converge on the one grocery store that has the thing that everyone wants. We should not be encouraging people to go to multiple stores to get everything on our shopping list.

This is a disaster, we've got to make some concessions.
But what about companies that achieved that hyper growth (Google, Airbnb, etc). Are they still startups? How would you view this dialogue?

"I'm working at a startup".

"Oh? Where?"

"Google."
Agreed.. was a bit disappointed by AC when I was hoping for something more like stardew valley. Would love a recommendation for something like that if it exists.
I'm getting almost 4x on a 10TB production database! A little surprising the first time you see all the z_wr_iss processes flying :)
"They now have no other choice but to do it on their own with their own IP, either home grown or purchased."
-Charlie Demerjian

gasp! What a frightful state of affairs that China has to PURCHASE or DEVELOP their IP.
> A common anecdote between people who deadlift 600lbs ... is how much pain they live with in later life

I haven't heard those anecdotes and I'm curious. Where is the dividing line between building your body up and wearing it out?
He should have written the proof in Lean or something.
Behind the iron curtain, the final frontier: Soviet space art – in pictures
The cloud service providers will survive because they have a serious and relatively stable revenue from their services; even if they drop revenue to half, they cut contractors and investments for some months or a year and they are fine. Companies that rely on ads (like FB) will take a bad hit, ads are not essential services and companies will cut hard on that.
That'd arguably be less convenient than nasal swabs. But on the other hand, it might be more sensitive for early infections, given that TFA notes:

> Studies have also shown that SARS-CoV-2 can appear in faeces within three days of infection, which is much sooner than the time taken for people to develop symptoms severe enough for them to seek hospital care—up to two weeks—and get an official diagnosis, says Tamar Kohn, an environmental virologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

Still, that'd be a lot of samples to test.
Programming a net new isolated Cobol may not be difficult for experienced programmer.

Difficulty (and/or downright hate, for many;) lies in

1. Ecosystem - obscure libraries rules and os that don't jive with posix-like mindset

2. Legacy code - having to dig into a ginormous monolithic program and figure out what some obscure pieces of code do, untouched and undocumented by anybody in your team, with ridiculous interdependencies and complexities.

So it tends to be more of "how hard is Cobol in this particular application for this specific client" :-/
Mobile friendly quote (don't use code formatting for quotes):

> In 2001, my co-workers at PayPal and I would often get lunch on Castro Street in Mountain View, Calif. We had our pick of restaurants, starting with obvious categories like Indian, sushi and burgers. There were more options once we settled on a type: North Indian or South Indian, cheaper or fancier, and so on. In contrast to the competitive local restaurant market, PayPal was then the only email-based payments company in the world. We employed fewer people than the restaurants on Castro Street did, but our business was much more valuable than all those restaurants combined. Starting a new South Indian restaurant is a really hard way to make money. If you lose sight of competitive reality and focus on trivial differentiating factors—maybe you think your naan is superior because of your great-grandmother's recipe—your business is unlikely to survive….

> The history of progress is a history of better monopoly businesses replacing incumbents. Monopolies drive progress because the promise of years or even decades of monopoly profits provides a powerful incentive to innovate.
I used to work on mainframe COBOL during the Y2K times. While the language is easy to pick up and the OS specific things are not too hard, the style of programming can lead to issues. Typically, shared data structures are often stored in separate files called copybooks and they can be hard to track down. Most of the code is not in any source control repositories which means no one knows which is the actual deployed version. It was all fun times then..