skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would people be as mad if the airlines had paid dividends (like utilities or many established non-growth companies)? I (not a financial expert) looked at their 10-Ks, and it looked like they are prohibited from paying dividends because of their loan agreements.

And yeah, they did borrow money for capex like buying airplanes and maintenance facilities, but they also operate at like a 10% profit margin. With low interest rates that seems kind of reasonable?

I get that using taxpayer money to maintain airlines is unfair, but the bailout (grant) money is contingent upon the airlines maintaining flight routes that they would otherwise shutdown (non-hub airport). The Sec. of Transportation is saying that those routes are critical infrastructure to be able to ship supplies to those places. (Ok she works for Trump, and has worked for Bush & Regan and is married to Mitch McConnell, not sure if that's relevant). But prima facie I don't see what's wrong with saying small towns should have access to medical equipment now, nor for the government paying for it.

The bailout loan money I don't think they really need. Delta and United were both able to borrow $2B each from the banks, and they have plenty of airplanes to use as collateral for more loans. But the bailout loan money is also contingent upon the airlines not having any other access to capital.

I'm just saying the airlines now do not look like the banks did in 2008. They were all profitable from basic operations (flying passengers), and were not over-leveraged in speculative deals (they borrowed to buy airplanes). Delta and United each ended 2019 with over $4.5B cash, and over $2B of easily accessible credit. Their operating costs are like $3.5B/month, and that's running at full capacity w/ no oil war. I'm not a businessperson, but I wouldn't really expect most of my local restaurants (or individuals!) to have enough cash to last two months with zero income.

Anyways, that's all based on looking at their SEC filings. Full disclosure I bought some shares (also is there some moral argument against business owners taking profit from their earnings?), but that also means I'd be really interested if anyone has a good counter-argument.
Everyone is so obsessed with never repeating themselves that they've forgotten to ask whether they are still removing duplicated effort instead of just duplicated text. Every tech cycle we get people trying to compress the text long after the power of the system has already been maximized.

Particularly, as a species, we discount the future heavily, so as developers we do not accurately estimate the variance introduced by something that works by magic until it doesn't. So on some unnamed day in the future when you had other plans, you will be completely blocked while having to learn a bunch of things we were avoiding learning in the first place.
To be fair it is more likely that this will be used by existing enterprise customers of SAP who otherwise would consider migrating off.
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Expanding on this, the skill of figuring out the odds of bin Laden being in the compound is unrelated to the skill of figuring out how to handle both outcomes, and whether that is a worthwhile risk to take.

So a good Bayesian can inform a good decision maker, but the Bayesian is not necessarily a good decision maker.

Similarly in the book, one of the superforecasters made the point that listening to well-informed experts who might be bad at making decisions was very useful. Because the expert really did have a good grasp of the current situation and could explain it clearly, which was a great starting place for the Bayesian who lacked background. Preparing background and making predictions are both required, but the combination of skills need not start in the same brain.
It's just one (and hopefully the only) step in a very troubling direction. Several places in Europe are much further along, for example:

https://www.thelocal.dk/20200313/denmark-passes-far-reaching...

Apparently there's a newer law that makes posting crackpot theories illegal, but I can only find one source:

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=da&tl=en&u=htt...
It looks like the Blink based browsers do. https://caniuse.com/#feat=loading-lazy-attr
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Thanks.
Landlord service Naborly makes blacklist of tenants who missed 4/1 rent (YC '18)
> upstream SAP to change the API or remove API features

Valid in equal measure with any API provider though.

> powerful startup which SAP enterprises love to use

you mean a startup which provides “enterprise grade”, definition of which SAP itself helped to make? (also rhetoric)
Just use Java and get over it.
Yup, it was done with Google Web Toolkit, mostly
By Stephen Haustein and Joel Webber (I contributed the OpenAL emulation and some other bits of code)

Here’s a deep dive we did at Google I/O on it https://youtu.be/aW--Wlf9EFs
"How far are we going to be under projected death counts for Covid? A factor of 1000?"

What do you think the projection was?

The US has tragically seen 12,242 deaths (which is an undercount, but it's the authoritative number right now). There are over a thousand deaths a day adding onto that.

Did someone predict 12 million deaths? No, they didn't.

The absolute worst-case projection was 2 million deaths if there were zero reduction steps taken. Maybe you haven't noticed, but society is basically shut down. The spread has dramatically slowed. With extreme social distancing the US is on target for 100,000-200,000 deaths. This is a good thing relative to much more dire outcomes possible. Note that this happened at the state level with zero federal leadership. Quite contrary, with constant federal pushback.

Not sure where your "factor of 1000" nonsense comes from. I assume from the echo chambers where you're fed your pablum.
You might consider reaching out to your local association for the Blind and Visually Impaired. There's also a Radio Reading service in some areas of the US, that give you a special radio.

You don't have to be "legally blind" to receive these services.
Clever Hans a horse that was claimed to have performed arithmetic tasks
Balisage Conference is Attendee Online this year
You say that like it's a quick install. You have to build it on your machine apparently:

https://github.com/webcamoid/webcamoid/wiki/Raw-build-and-in...
Lozya: RPG-style map on top of Jitsi
Android isn't the problem, I mentioned iOS. I know WebRTC works and all starting iOS 11, but the problem remains with the way Jitsi configures SSL in the nginx conf. iOS Safari is simply unable to establish a secure connection despite the server having a valid LetEncrypt cert.
I’ve had a slightly buggy mail setup that can’t quote email sent from Outlook for a few months now. So what I’ve done for shorter replies is simply delete the entire fudged quote and write my response.

It works all the time, except for exceptionally complicated cases that wouldn’t be helped by quoting a random messy email thread anyway.
How about "ARM STRENGTH alone is capable of pulling the sword from the stone."

Does that mean that your leg muscles (which are stronger) are NOT capable of pulling the sword? Does that mean a tractor can't do it?
Plenty of companies have raised capital without a product or biz model. So sure, it's a non-zero expectation but not much more than that.

My point is that companies that are already well capitalized to go through the product/market discovery and build phase without any revenue shouldn't be claiming financial distress since nothing has really changed for them.
My initial thoughts are that this does not actually tell me anything. Take this...

"What traits do you value in engineering managers and leadership?"

"Servant leadership is everything to us. We want managers and leaders who are humble and know that their role is to support their teams and make sure nothing is standing in the way of doing great work. So not only work blockers but also ensuring our team has the time and energy to balance their personal lives with their work lives."

Every company I have ever worked for claims something similar. This doesn't actually tell me anything. I would still need an inside person to tell me how it actually is to work at the company.
Ask HN: In 2020, what do CSS frameworks offer that is attractive?
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulator for ADD and ADHD [pdf]
Nice to see Mozilla keeping up. Don't really have much reason personally to use Firefox nowadays though due to the new Microsoft Edge being so good.
Neat device cleared to treat ADHD in pediatrics. Looks simple enough to DIY.
> You don't get to arbitrarily stop paying

Yes, as has been demonstrated.by lots of companies lots of times, you do get to do that.

If other people don't like it, they have a variety of options of how to respond, of course. But those options kind of suck, because they cost money and, ultimately, you can't get blood from a turnip.

The biggest problem facing trying to do this is getting people to extend new credit, which tends to place a hard wall for most efforts to do it, as not being able to pay your old bills might not shut you down, but being unable to get new goods and services will.
If it's promising, compartmentalize it and spin it out, even if to a subsidiary or JV. focus on your thesis
The people making the decision judge their personal risk to be higher if they initiate the change than if they stick with the status quo, even with the chance that it causes a major breach—they might not get blamed for that, anyway. Same as most business decisions.
I would add a caveat: Docker compose is nice for setting up development environments as long as everyone's developing on the same platform.

I work in a shop where various developers work on Linux, OS X and Windows (useful for dogfooding - we support deploying to multiple platforms), and, there, Docker Compose has ironically turned out to be our chief source of cross-platform headaches, due to annoying differences in how it works on each host platform. Particularly with the networking subsystem.
They mention in the post that Chrome has implemented lazy loading for both images and iframes, suggesting it's also in Edge and Brave.
Woman Says Coronavirus Patients Cremated Alive – NTD
Algorithm for Simplifying Decimals to Fractions
Tangentially, it is a little irksome how the docker-compose tool is released completely independently from Docker itself. There are binaries published on GitHub for amd64, but if you want it on an ARM platform, you need to install with pip. But pip can't install system packages, so you also need to know the incantation to install those (python3 python3-pip libffi-dev libssl-dev).

I'm sure there's a historical reason for it not being `docker compose ...`, but it sounds like it's a good time to promote it.
Latest advice from the WHO is that masks are not useful outdoors unless you have symptoms.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/no-need-for-he...
There is still a fiduciary duty to the minority shareholders by the majority shareholder
As much as I agree with you when it comes to pretty much anything else, I have to draw a line when it comes to conspiracy theories which are undeniably false such as anti-vaccination ones, which harm others who cannot medically get vaccinations.
> If lockdowns were determined on an individual / localized basis, the outcome might have been different.

And medical systems would suffer from a horrific tragedy of the commons
Then let me bluntly reply. That is wrong. We suppress all sorts of speech and have well before the internet. I don't need to enumerate it, but there are all sorts of content encouraging or causing harm or violence that is already illegal, policed, and most people will have no problems with agreeing should not have a platform.

Now, let's look at Youtube specifically. It is a business unit in a US corporation. The company has an obligation to make money. That is completely at odds of the role of a public forum and we all shouldn't pretend it is one. If we want a public forum (which only makes sense in the universe of a federal government with robust protections for individual rights) then the it should be a publicly funded resource. The government should run a free video site or should bid out a contract to have a private company operate one. If that existed, then certainly, yes Icke's video should stay up there.

But Youtube is a private business and it should operate under what makes best business sense for its social platform. Anything else is an harmful illusion.
I understand Softbank is walking away from the deal. Does that mean they didn't put in any money yet? How much are they losing from this deal?
? The government is the public. Am i missing something?
> What psychology experiments face the same kind of obstacles as these? Your subjects are not billions of light years away, nor smaller than an electron, nor whizzing by at just under the speed of light, or behind 20 miles of rock.

I'm not a scientist or researcher but can't this all be explained by the fact that we know much, much more about these fields than we do the human brain? And therefore, isn't it likely that at least some of the difficulty in reproducing results can be attributed to as-of-yet unknown mechanisms of the brain?

> In other words, they find the methodology is at fault, not the fundamental difficulty of the subject matter.

Why not both? And who precisely is claiming it's not a difficult subject matter besides yourself?
Ask HN: Unexpected consequences of the Sars-CoV-2 outbreak?
Dear HN,

an event of such magnitude often has unexpected consequences that are, ex ante, quite hard to predict. I assume most of us have already seen evidence of nature "returning" to cities in the form of otherwise wild animals roaming main streets.

But what about other effects have you stumbled upon?

I have recently discovered that weather forecasts will be more uncertain, as less airplanes are flying, hence there is less data about wind. [1]

Would love to see some more!

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/24/weather/aircraft-flights-weather-forecasts-coronavirus-trnd/index.html
Staggering Surge of NYers Dying in Their Homes Suggests City Is Undercounting
True, but how can a non-technical founder know who is good, or who is just expensive? I've seen dev consultancies that are very expensive, and they play the part in every way, but they produce total garbage. There really isn't any way to know unless... well you know.

The best way to figure it out is through a vigorous investigation of references I think, but even then, the past projects they worked on may have been better suited to their skills that what you're hiring them for.
I have no idea, do you know if those folks haven't shown symptoms of 5g poisoning? Probably something worthy of looking into since many people have concerns about 5g.
"But another 200 city residents are now dying at home each day, compared to 20 to 25 such deaths before the pandemic, said Aja Worthy-Davis, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office. "
One benefit is that a well crafted inline reply can be shared out of context with a new recipient and they have a chance to understand the important points without wading through an entire garbled thread with lost formatting and a billion HTML signatures :)
A little automation can help you here. Errors could be auto-transformed into bugs somewhere and duplicates just add +1s or votes, etc. How you detect duplicated depends on your configuration but it should be doable (eg. use the stacktrace sha as a tag).
Thanks - it is powered by https://github.com/christian-fei/Simple-Jekyll-Search and it is a jekyll theme modified underneath
https://pct.adventuresnotvacations.com

In 2017, I hiked the PCT from Mexico to Canada and kept a journal.

Being a software developer, I wanted an easy way to keep a blog up to date so I cobbled something together using Jekyll, Github Pages, and a custom built iPhone app.

The iPhone app would build out the general markdown structure for the post and allow me to easily choose and add photos. Then it would send the markdown file and the images to a git client I bought for the iPhone.

This let me blog offline in the wilderness, writing several posts at a time and when I got into a town with cell service or wifi, I just had to "git push" and my blog would be automatically published.

I've been considering building it into a "real" app for the last few years but haven't gotten around to it. Thinking about doing another long hike in the next year or two, so maybe by then I'll get around to it.
When the companies are the main lobbyists of corporate tax law, they effectively become judge/jury/executioner. You can say "Boycott Apple" but that's not really viable either for an injustice that is not seen by most as severe enough to give up something so centrally important to them. That importance should not give Apple a free pass to do any minor things they care to though, regardless of morality. These are not easy problems and for companies to throw their hands up to "well the law says X", especially as they lobby for X to stay, then IMO falls back morally on the company.
WhatsApp limits message forwarding to counter coronavirus misinformation
Where's a DMC-12 when you need one?
Is this informed by any data or facts whatsoever?

Last time I checked, WeWork was a going concern with 600,000 customers more or less happy with their service. What would tank them? Are their lease obligations too large and can't be renegotiated?

This entire thing is blown so far out of proportion. Like Tesla, it seems like a company that mostly makes products people like, whose equity is extremely hard to value. Maybe WeWork is worth $40 billion, maybe it's more like Regus and worth $4. This only affects you if you're a shareholder. As a WeWork customer, I absolutely couldn't care less about any of this nonsense.

I'm reminded of a classic finance quote: "If I owe you $100, I have a problem. If I owe you $100 million, you have a problem." This summarizes the dynamic between WeWork and its landlords right now.
That sounds promising. With the only choice for a while seemingly being "single container" or "k8s" for deployment - docker-compose for development seemed a bit of a dead end (ie - might as well go back to vagrant, and at least get proper heterogeneous host support as everyone would be running VMS, with no need for a Linux kernel on host).

With an option like swarm, that fits a certain on-prem type scenario (eg: what gitlab now does with its horrible (working, but still horrible) omnibus installer would be a good fit for swarm).

I never did understand why docker-compose wasn't treated "better" by docker - I guess they focus on non-linux devs? Docker without an orchestrator is a bit like a daemon without a supervisor - if everything fits in a single container - why not just run it as a Linux process?

And compose was a perfectly OK orchestrator - it did some minimal, sensible things that you need, to compose a couple of containers. But it felt scary that you never knew what upstream intentions were.
Thank you for your writings! Your "Learn in Public" gist inspired me to do so: https://ivov.dev/
Not to mention that if your software sends out emails with links to your application, chances are high that your client's email client (Outlook) will open the links in the default browser (which still might be IE).

So even if you can convince them to use a different browser, be prepared to tell them how to configure the browser to be the default one.
You don't know that. As California chose to suggest staying at home (it's basically voluntary not even enforced particularly aggressively except for a handful of corner cases) earlier than the rest of the country, proving that decentralized authority can lead to better outcomes.

Imagine if California chose to defer to federal authority; a huge chunk of 40 million people would have been put at higher risk.
How to steal modern NLP systems with gibberish?
I've always wonder how large SaaS companies (e.g. Salesforce, Workday, etc) ensure they don't let their domain mistakenly expire.

It'd be devastating to their business if someone were to purchase the expired domain of say, salesforce.com (e.g. customers wouldn't be able to log into their paid for SaaS service, potentially corp email would be down, etc).
I'm more hopeful. The remission rate probably won't hold up in subsequent studies, but the current remission rate is enormous. I think there is a very good chance that some effect holds up.

Also I don't think your analysis that it's all or nothing, i.e. that it has a true effect size of "Nobel prize winning" or nothing is true. I think it's very likely that there is some effect size it's just not world changing.
The release page doesn't have what you want?

https://github.com/webcamoid/webcamoid/releases
> This would not change even if an entire country used it (putting aside that it is not technically capable of doing so).

This is the point you need to expand on. When I asked what the difference between bitcoin and the dollar is, you said the defining difference is that the dollar is used by a country. So if that's not the difference what is?

If bitcoin was adopted, would it not also represent a unit of the economy?

Does your argument boil down to "it's not officially backed by country therefor it cannot serve as a medium of exchange"? If so I ask you WHY that prevents it from being a medium of exchange?

I really don't follow the "negative sum" argument. It seems like that applies to every currency, so it's kind of an irrelevant point
I found the source file:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/data/...

I can't find where this is linked to on the CDC site, but that is the source data for the tweet.

From the csv, here is "All Deaths" for first 12 weeks of each year:

Year,2020,2019,2018,2017,2016,2015,2014
Week
1,58961,58289,66134,59763,55788,61737,53277
2,58962,58351,67495,60980,55525,61141,55620
3,57371,58193,64647,59293,55182,58628,54580
4,56666,57834,62780,58047,55606,57269,54085
5,55849,58122,60974,58432,54896,57284,53955
6,55992,58489,61110,59038,55106,56420,53397
7,54246,57915,59779,58479,55785,56348,53815
8,53745,57856,57793,58288,54873,55668,52642
9,53382,57915,56692,57256,55875,55732,51674
10,51978,58488,57093,57477,56112,55272,52058
11,47655,57869,56326,56656,54462,54262,51782
12,40002,57086,55766,57045,54662,53238,51385

Year,2020,2019,2018,2017,2016,2015,2014
Week
1,58961,58289,66134,59763,55788,61737,53277
2,117923,116640,133629,120743,111313,122878,108897
3,175294,174833,198276,180036,166495,181506,163477
4,231960,232667,261056,238083,222101,238775,217562
5,287809,290789,322030,296515,276997,296059,271517
6,343801,349278,383140,355553,332103,352479,324914
7,398047,407193,442919,414032,387888,408827,378729
8,451792,465049,500712,472320,442761,464495,431371
9,505174,522964,557404,529576,498636,520227,483045
10,557152,581452,614497,587053,554748,575499,535103
11,604807,639321,670823,643709,609210,629761,586885
12,644809,696407,726589,700754,663872,682999,638270

Plugging it into a graph is more dramatic, especially looking at the numbers in 2018 (2017-2018 season).

I wish I could find a page on the CDC website that links to these reports, but you can easily get the latest report by just increasing the week number by 1.
No, but there's a fiduciary duty of the management (even if installed by the majority shareholder) to the minority shareholders.

It's a fine distinction, especially when those roles are often exercised by an overlapping set of individual people, but it's the management as a collective agent of the shareholders that owes a fiduciary duty to all, including minority, shareholders. Shareholders, as such, do not owe each other or the firm a fiduciary duty.
So it’s forms + ability to automate stuff based on response? That’s pretty cool.
Alas, that would be too pasty. The hivemind breaks out in hives with that much repetition.