skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the page hadn't been so "wink wink nudge knudge" about it, you might have a point. But they went out of their way to mention "for educational purposes" in some very awkward ways, several times.
I do the same thing, but with Alt-D. I thought it was strange that there are duplicate hotkeys for the function, but looking at the shortcuts page shows that's not uncommon. It seems F6 does the same thing, but I can't remember the last time I used an F-key.
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I definitely don't get the same learning outcomes without being in a classroom. Everything is harder. It's harder to ask questions and have in depth discussions. I struggle to pay attention. Lectures are less engaging.

None of the campus facilities are available. A large % of my course fees go toward maintaining labs, student groups and sports. I can't touch any of those.
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I think it might actually be more readable (as someone exclusively versed in languages that can be read left-to-right) if the letters were oriented horizontally,

L

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K

E

S

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. Otherwise it's a bit difficult to recognize their shapes.
They aren't a "special win" in general. When they occur a month before a downturn that generates a bailout, they are.
I'm OK with airlines being allowed to never refund fares for cancelled flights on one condition:

Every time a flight is cancelled, the CEO and every manager below him/her is required to commit ritual suicide.
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many companies have multiple types of stock, and only publicly trade a portion of their shares (i.e., not treasury stock) and often only certain classes of their stock. sometimes they trade less than half of the total shares, which is how you can have majority privately-held companies trading shares publicly.
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I managed a high-functioning C++ image processing group for 25 years. I kept senior-level engineers on staff for decades.

We tended to write "engine code." Like pipelines and whatnot.

The company had a very (very) long tradition of engineering (Like, 100 years).

There were many downsides to the way they worked (over-structured, mostly), but they always gave my team and me a great deal of respect.

They didn't use contractors very often.

To this day, design quality, code quality, product quality, documentation, and focus on deliverable are the major cornerstones of my software work, but I am shocked at how little that matters to modern development shops. It's been a really disheartening experience.

I guess I was in a silo of quality-focus, all those years. They would treat very minor bugs like extinction-level emergencies (not fun).
I would love to see a study that shows how much money publicly traded companies are keeping on hand as a percentage of revenues over the last 75 years.

My guess is: (1) The long period of relative peace post WW-II and (2) the collapse of the Soviet Union, and (3) the ever-expanding size and liquidity of global financial markets, have led to slowly dwindling cash reserves for all non-financial, publicly traded companies. (Especially if you exclude the most profitable tech companies)

I'd also love to see the trend in cash reserves post 2008 bailouts.

That data might help settle this debate.

Are companies taking advantage of bailout culture?

E.g. there is a social safety net for large companies that doesn't exist for small companies.

As that safety net has formed, has that led to no change in net cash reserves, an increase, or a decrease?

My guess would be that it has led to a decrease.

Because, it seems safe for the largest companies to understand that every 10 years or so, they will need a bailout for unexpected global turmoil. (A war, a man-made disaster, a pandemic, etc.)
Your opinion is for you alone, doctor keyboard. Declaring what other people should do is supremely arrogant.
Sounds like a bank, a government agency, or any business over a certain size.

I tell people you only call it politics when you are losing. More accurately, it's a layer of literal stupidity above the competent to shield the money side of the company from the leverage that operations people would have if they had any information about how the money side worked.

Instead of a hierarchy, rethink a company as a hub and spoke model with concentric rings. The main differences are the implication in a hierarchy that there is "gravity," keeping people down and that they need energy and leverage to climb "up," which further implies there is a place to "fall," and that there is only one way "up," instead of many possible paths to the centre from all directions. There is no gravity, only gates and barriers, and even these are just information. Politics is how a middle manager runs interference and creates distractions to make sure you can't see over, around, or through them, and that the people behind them closer to the money can't see you. Tech is usually outside the main perimeter, mediated by contracting companies or middle managers whose job is to compartmentalize the value people create, and be sure it is replaceable.

Viewed this way, of course this demented political farce is how Apple works, because it's how everything seems to work when you have internalized the precise and specific mental model someone uses to take advantage of you.

Sorry if you can't unsee it now, but hopefully it will be funny and we can get good, competent people who value tangible skills into positions of power.
Hi HN! I wanted to share a VERY early beta with you. I'm looking to get feedback from interested users so that I can make the right improvements and feature additions.

Please note: there WILL be bugs, potentially even a webpage crash. My goal here is to get early feedback from users who are truly right for the platform.
As for the stack, I worked with Node.js, Next.js/React (TypeScript front end), and MongoDB for the database.

If it looks interesting to you, definitely give it a shot and let me know what you think! I want to hear it all.

The idea is one that has been in my mind for such a long time. I like to look over my finances about one a month, and I want to be able to see everything from spendings to points earned, all in one nicely laid out interface.

Oh, and it's not mobile-ready at all (yet). I suggest using a desktop computer or a tablet for the best experience.

Thanks in advance!
Free to post your neglected projects, saas project, etc. Have a good day!
This rings true to me. I've seen a lot of models get built that are never used. Although in my experience it wasn't that data scientists didn't care about business value, it's just that data science often requires breaking down silos and asking other teams to change their behavior.

This article mentions that leadership often doesn't support data science, but I think it actually doesn't go far enough. Leadership doesn't just have to support the data scientists, it has to actually tell other teams to prioritize data science projects over what they are currently doing. Since these data science projects are riskier than standard projects, it makes sense that leadership doesn't often do this (and focusing on the standard projects could be the right call). However, it also means that it's very hard for data scientists to create business value.
Literally the entire real estate industry thought WeWork would go bankrupt in the first downturn, due to the focus on short-term leases and the mismatch with WeWork's underlying long-term leases.

Well, here we are.

You might try finding more diverse news sources. Even comments on HN pointed out this particular issue.
I also remember vividly those optimistic times. You should show this video to your friend as proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
Fast local quarantines and such as you are describing are great, if you catch it early. If strong measures are taken before it spreads, it is reasonable to quarantine all sick and people in contact with the sick. Taiwan was able to do this, and has had only minimal cases and minimal disruption. There is community spread basically everywhere now, so it is too late for local measures. It's almost as if people should have been listening to public health experts in January when it was clear where this was heading.
Strawman and wrong.
Good grief some of the comments on here. Guy is donating 25% of his wealth. That's pretty f'n noble of someone.
I disagree on one very key fundamental point:

Buybacks increase the share price, which is a typical metric for executives. This leads to a situation where it is in the interest of the exec to increase buybacks in order to drive the price up, even if the company performance is not that good.

Personally, I'm neutral except for this one thing.
Your site seems to be getting hugged to death. Can you answer a few questions here:

- Is this test to see if someone currently has it, or if they have the anti-bodies and are (presumably) immune?

- What are the false-positive/false-negative rates? How does this compare to current leading tests?

- What's the cost per test? How does this compare to current leading tests?
Hmm... website seems overloaded atm.
Why advertise before you've got FDA approval?
> similarly early ... outcomes are worse

It takes time to go from infection -> sick -> diagnosis -> death. IL and CA would have had inertia following the stay-at-home proclamations. CA started with 25% daily case growth and has now dropped to 12%, IL started with 40% case growth but has now dropped to 12%. IL's daily death rate increase is still higher than CA, but it is dropping.

> population adjusted

Population adjustment is much more important for assessing the final outcome. At early stages, the growth rate is far more important for knowing if it's under control.

> climate

Washington/Seattle had earlier outbreaks than CA, started distancing earlier, and have had a much lower growth than CA. We started at 30% case growth, but brought it down 20% by ~Mar 21 and 10% by Apr 1.

I'm using the graphs at 91-divoc for the historical numbers, but I've found NYT to have the best looking graphs for growth rates.

91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/upshot/corona...
I'd go further and say that it needs to be simple above all else, to help communicate the message. Confusing that with the ideas of video editing/compositing and uploading would make the message less effective.
I guess I'm in the minority in these threads..? I've been doing machine learning / model-building / pushing models to prod and maintaining for about 6 years now. It's still 50/50 understanding the data and building/tweaking/training/testing models. But it sounds like most people with this title are analysts? At least that's what posts and threads lead me to believe. I've also met a lot of people with titles like "ML Engineer" or "Data Scientist" who don't do machine learning. They are analysts, engineers, or maintaining data pipelines.
I don’t think those requirements will be met until people like us who miss it put our money where our mouth is ;)
I guess I assumed Stylewarning was representative, although I'm not surprised at the use of python, I probably would've expected that had I not seen Stylewarning's video.
No, because that uses external data.
Penn uses MOSS
If you use google as your registrar they will forward to gmail (or anywhere) for free.
Businesses with bad plans fail every day.
Almost all if you read their 10K: https://s21.q4cdn.com/114365585/files/doc_financials/2019/q4...
Yes. Defense-in-depth. In China, most hospital red zones required 3 layers of PPE, whether that's two masks and a face shield or such. One layer alone is not very good, and a face shield alone is no good. A mask and a face shield are very good, especially for confined spaces like subways and busses where there are jerks coughing and sneezing all over without hygiene or manners.
Sure, but there's no political will to do that, since the elites in charge are the ones who benefit from these policies.
This is a real bummer, Toast was crushing it in Boston this past year -- I have some friends over there, likely part of the downsizing :/
Nope, that is incorrect. You can start working on an OPT work permit (which will have a duration of 12 months with a potential 24 month extension for certain fields), but after that the company WILL have to apply for a H-1B through the lottery.
Elite US students scheme to get into top law, MBA, and medical school programs, but they don't show nearly as much enthusiasm for graduate engineering programs. This is probably rational market behavior, the result of opening engineering up to international competition while sheltering the professions from it.

As policy, the US government gives the bar and AMA tremendous power to exclude foreign degree holders and greatly limit the number of foreign nationals at US med and law schools. At the same time, the US government created a visa program to bring in hundreds of thousands of competitors in STEM fields, and created special exemptions to the lottery that encouraged US graduate programs to fill their classes with students from overseas.

People can agree or disagree that this is good policy, but it seems pretty clear to me that the US interfered with the markets and created policies that encourage people who would like to live in the US but don't have that right to study engineering, and it encouraged people who already have that right to do something else, like law, medicine, or other protected fields.

Even if you agree this was bad policy overall, there's a tremendous amount of room to disagree about how to solve it. Restrictionists might say that we should restrict all professions equally. Libertarians might say the problem isn't that engineering is wide open, it's that law and medicine and everything else aren't open enough.
You should reread that article
Yeah, but 80% of it is point of sale, and I'm not sure they even make a profit on all their other efforts yet.
not if the bank forecloses on it...
Several US state governments are strongly asking people to wear masks now. My local government asked so strongly they had to clarify that no, they could not prosecute you for not wearing one. And while they generally demonstrate masks that cover the nose and mouth, the earlier guidance was to avoid touching the eyes, as that was believed to be a major vector for droplet absorption.

So... how do you reconcile your statement with that?
Observe, furthermore, that References: was in part designed so that a MUA/NUA could reconstruct a tree even if some intermediate messages were missing.
No idea, but the Swedish one works really well.
Related for an other domain, lossless text compression using LSTM: https://bellard.org/nncp/

(this is by Fabrice Bellard, one wonder how he can achieve so much)
If you specify both a width and height, it's not going to be very responsive.
Great, thanks for doing this!

Love the simple, straightforward design.
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This works well if you're:

- In the same or a similar timezone as the person you're talking to

- The one initiating the conversation (this is often not an option if someone else emails you!)

- Don't need to keep a record of the conversation

- In a situation where a meeting or phone call makes sense

Note that many of these are often not the case in e.g. the FOSS community. I'm therefore not surprised that those on FOSS mailing lists avoid top posting.
So something like LÖVE2D with wrapped Win32 APIs? That would be super cool, I wonder if anyone has done something like that.
that only proves that someone looked at the list - not that they made a decision based on it... PROVING that someone based their decision on something they read on the internet is basically impossible, especially if you have even a half intelligent lawyer
Besides the US and UK, NATO deaths in Afghanistan were on par with training exercises. But that's not what the parent comment was referring to. Almost every country in the world was taking advantage of the US pre-Trump. As he renegotiates to even the playing field, he is accused of "tanking US international relations". Pure political BS and an old argument that has mostly been disproven by now.
Well he could also not donate it and still keep it out of the hands of the American public?
Yeah, that is pretty much what I'm imagining. If someone tried to smoke behind a facemask it seems pretty likely that most of the smoke will be caught behind the mask then drift out behind them like a comet trail, or move up/down. Only small wisps would end up traveling forward to where I'd be standing for conversation. The doses of virus would be diluted very rapidly which is helpful.

Ideal scenario would be most of the smoke gets pushed down in a knee-wards direction, which is well within the realm of the imaginable.
Curious if you can provide any links to exactly what you need. 2FA is obvious but what kinds of policy languages are you thinking of? There are numerous variations out there.
LMK if you need help making your site work.
https://justanotherdot.com

I write about language-agnostic mental models as well as Rust specific tips and lessons. I've written about:

* Processes for reading code: https://www.justanotherdot.com/posts/reading-code-is-decodin...

* Treating a codebase as a home (as opposed to a skyscraper): https://www.justanotherdot.com/posts/make-a-home.html

* Writing useful pull requests: https://www.justanotherdot.com/posts/what-makes-a-good-pr.ht...

* Habit formation: https://www.justanotherdot.com/posts/habit-a-tale-of-two-wat...

* Handling the stress of continually learning new skills: https://www.justanotherdot.com/posts/an-infinite-barrage-of-...

* Ways to approach refactoring: https://www.justanotherdot.com/posts/safely-shape-code-with-...

* Tips for using git: https://www.justanotherdot.com/posts/how-i-git.html

* The power of feedback loops, among other things such as principles and patterns: https://www.justanotherdot.com/posts/a-love-letter-to-feedba...

* Mental models for testing practices, such as involution, idempotence, and roundtripping: https://www.justanotherdot.com/posts/the-lowly-assert-roundt...

* A primer to fuzzing Rust programs: https://www.justanotherdot.com/posts/catching-panics-in-depe...

* Ways to pick, and win, a fight with the borrow checker in Rust: https://www.justanotherdot.com/posts/four-ways-to-avoid-the-...
Toast is Toast
From a tax perspective, yes there would be more tax revenue if he gave $1B all this year. But probably the amount was chosen partly because he is doing it in a tax-efficient way. That is, if he gave it all this year, he probably would have given much less.

This is a dynamic system, so changing one parameter would cause other parameters to be changed as well.
Maybe the government should get experts to decide the rules that other people should follow, and we should be taxed to fund these experts and their plans. That's worked so well.
Does anyone know of a central repo for these designs? Not just the face shields, but the masks, the intubation boxes, the ventilator tubes, etc?

Also, is there a way that hospitals can make an 'order/ask'? Like: we need 5 ventilator splitters.

There is this tremendous spirit and untapped generousity, but blind donating isn't the best, nor is getting a bunch of supplies that don't work.

Anyone trying to coordinate all this?
I would bet scraping from Amazon, reducing prices randomly from 20-50%, and being sure search engines and aggregators see it, i.e., Google/Google Shopping.
Mac clients can just download it from the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wireguard/id1451685025?mt=12 It has a GUI, but you still need to understand its concepts to configure it.
The FDA is the lock.
No, none of this is how vulnerability research compensation works.
It’s almost like make-work so that their competitors don’t have a pool to draw talent from...
I think the idea is that stock buybacks can be the same as dividends for an investor who want cashflow from their shares if the investor sells a probationally equivalent amount of shares that were bought back by the company during the stock buyback period.

The challenge is that most investors don't bother to do such tracking. And thus most investors are buying stock at prices much higher than they would have originally bought it at.
lol oh no idiots were tricked on the blue bird page
Gov funded housing projects exist yes - are they majority of the construction .. not even close.

The problem isn't cost of housing it's that income hasn't grown at same rate.
Maybe they aren't downvoting for the fact, but they disagree with you that tying to karma solves the problem.
Perhaps what’s needed for “too big to fail” businesses is to require them to either have a certain amount of cash reserves on hand, or split up in such a way that the risk is mitigated. This would help prevent an aggressively spending company from out-competing savers through excess spending, buying them out, then going out of business itself when hard times come around.
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This sounds a lot like all the gym memberships that suddenly became impossible to cancel (seriously).

Since when is keeping money for doing absolutely nothing as promised the American way?
"It re-defines the world of PPE"
That's not really true, otherwise I never would have had to come up with the GNKSOA-MUA.

* http://jdebp.uk./Proposals/gnksoa-mua.html#ProperThreading
>It sure would be nice to have everyone proactively choose to act in a way that matches the "spirit" of the law or rules, and maybe this did used to happen in more homogeneous/authoritarian societies?

Every society that I can think of that had that kind of homogeneity did it by marginalizing, often violently, the crap out of anyone who stepped out of line. No thank you.
you mean like a condo that only exists because the contractor KNOWS it will sell all it's units, and the reason they know it is because rental companies buy in bulk.
Current tax incentives push companies to spend money (allocate it to productive areas) as much as possible or git hit with corporate income taxes. So generally hoarding money is not only not encouraged, there is a tax penalty for doing so.

That’s also why you see so often companies with “no profit”. If a company is operating efficiently, they wouldn’t be turning a profit (they’d have already reinvested profit).
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What a way to show a lack of respect and kudos to a group doing good for everyone.
Your copy hurts many things JohnWheeler...
Can someone here explain in a couple of points what the idea is? While the site is overwhelmed?

Edit, is the idea (for the non-expert):

1) Repurposing idle gene sequencing equipment left over from Human Genome project

2) Reducing / removing the step of having to extract the RNA of the virus as the marker

3) Making these tests / machines available widely across the country so that the delay to getting a result is minimized
?
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One of my fantasy is to imagine how Apple would design these things out of their regular zone.
The title of this is confusing. It should be something like "Share OBS output as a webcam in Hangouts, Zoom etc."

OBS can do vision mixing between Webcams, pre-recorded video files, Screen shares, NDI streams etc. with picture in picture, chroma key and many other features.

I actually wanted to do this about 10 years ago. I posted a question on superuser and it's still getting upvotes now: https://superuser.com/q/78515/742
This. If you change your gloves whenever you would normally wash your hands, then I fail to see why cross-contamination risk would be any higher with gloves.