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Sure, an AOT compiler for Java would solve some of these issues, at the cost of larger binaries and loss of the dynamic runtime optimizations that make Java fast for long-running programs (which is why Android uses a combination of AOT and JIT). Some people on this site often point out that expensive commercial AOT Java compilers have been around for a long time. JetBrains even used to provide an AOT-compiled binary of the Kotlin compiler for a while.

However, you were asking why people consider Java to be heavy. When people normally use or talk about Java, Java means a JRE derived from Sun's Java implementation. If you download Java to run the Kotlin compiler or IntelliJ, you're not downloading the Android runtime or some hypothetical AOT compiler - you're using something based on OpenJDK, which suffers from the heaviness I described.
Microsoft didn't NEED to buy the domain, they could have patched their code to handle the issue. Clearly, they did a cost benefit and decided it was worth it to buy the domain to plug a hole they created.

Another poster used the stocks analogy but I think the real estate one is more appropriate. Someone who bought land a long time ago that is now desirable to another party can has no obligation to sell at all (let's not bring eminent domain into this). Let's say instead of corp.com this was land next to Microsoft Campus in Redmond. Why shouldn't someone ask for as much as they can get for their land?
Ask HN: What will happen to recreational driving?
What will happen to car companies like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, Aston Martin? What will happen to cars like the Audi R8, Corvette, Tesla Roadster?

What will be the value of sports cars in a future where all cars on the road have level 5+ self driving capabilities and is illegal for people to drive. This is just one possible future and it's still decades away, but it is a distinct possibility that could arrive by mid-century. You will always be able to drive any vehicle on private property, but the overwhelming majority don't have that much land, so I was also thinking of something like large private and/or public parks.

I haven't heard anyone bring up this specific question about recreational driving, so I'm interested to see how everyone thinks this could play out.
https://marcolabarile.me (blog)

https://marcolabarile.me/notes (technical notes)

I blog about my experiences in tech and life. Also, I have publicly available technical notes for some of the topics I learned about.
Well, the tools I learned to use are not just evaporating. They are still in use at many places and will be for the near term future. New things I tend to learn on the job. (Some examples: react hooks, webpack & build tooling, graphql)

I guess we are now entering into a new world, so we will see. But beside that, there is so much demand and opportunity, I don’t see why I should fear for my career. What are “the rails” and what does falling off them look like?

The other thing is, new stuff tends to just be repackaging of old stuff. Once you’ve seen a couple cycles of this you stop worrying about it.
Not parent poster, but Thomas Powell is the Data Viz instructor at UCSD.
It is essentially a down round if they survive. The loan has warrants that can be converted to shares if their valuation goes above 18b which is half their previous valuation.

In essence they sold options on their equity that if they fail to reach the strike price they are stuck paying back a lot of debt.

An absolutely awful set of terms for them and more like a loan shark than a well planned financing motion.

They are clearly in an absolute existential crisis and ready to take what they can get. Management is at fault here for allowing this type of rail risk be uninsured somehow with more previous financing.
Wait, are you saying that you actually edited the text of someone's comment?
> only containers give you the peace-of-mind that all dependencies, current and future, can be described as part of the codebase.

Couldn't the same thing be done via the package manager and a RPM spec or deb file where all the necessary dependencies are listed and installed as part of the package? It could be done on a VM or could be done on a machine by keeping track of what dependencies are installed when installing the application and handling uninstallation by removing all newly installed dependencies along with the application.
@samatlman check your boys out.
The Abbott machines are point-of-care devices that typically sit in doctor's offices. One really interesting use case I've heard of for the Abbott machines is to test all OB patients who are coming in to the clinic for routine care to make sure that they are COVID-19 negative. This allows the clinical staff to conserve PPE and use less burdensome precautions.

I think that where the Abbott machines might hit a wall is that they are one at a time, and they require Abbott's consumable test cartridge and device to run (think printer ink / printer). I don't have any firsthand knowledge, but I would anticipate that it is difficult to scale-up manufacturing of the devices rapidly enough to keep pace with the pandemic growth.

We absolutely need contact tracing to find everybody who needs to be tested. We're not working on scaling up contact tracing, but I think several people in the tech community are working on making that easier to perform at scale.
The only place I've seen these used are universities (eg each professor gets a webspace) and other small companies and organizations. I think it's relatively safe to assume Alice isn't going to attack Bob—if she did want to, she has better ways to do so.

Now, if someone knows of a host selling ~username spaces to members of the public, that's a different story.
> you've listed some skills that you can bring to bear to a problem, but what are example problems you're trying to solve? i'd think that with most small businesses closed, they'd be hard to help right now for instance.

> it'd probably help to list some of the kinds of projects you imagine so that folks who need help/want to give help can decide to do so (or not).

> for instance, could you use product, project, or general management help? legal skills? do you want to work with government agencies? medical ones? non-profits? how about tenant's rights organizations? etc.
This is just to deal with the current surge. They'll be back, with drones.
Seriously, use your small claims court!

I've used small claims 4 times now. Each time, I spent less time with the court than I did with customer service prior to the court.

Lesson learned. I ask customer service once, in plain english, on a recorded line. If they don't resolve it at that opportunity, I just go to small claims.
A really easy way that I try to explain things to people is like this:

You can't compress information until you have it in a format that is appropriate for compression.

That is:

You can't compress (apply/create algorithms) information (data) until you have it (instrumented data collection) in a format (schema) that is appropriate for efficient compression (structured logging/cleaning).

99% of that is Data Engineering and building good engineering practices which have good data practices as a priority.

For any organization that has more than a handful of employees and more than one product, that is a non trivial task and gets more difficult the larger the organization gets.
Saving the revision history from the previous source control system would require reading the manual or Google for 20 minutes. I got deadlines!

Of course, if the previous system is a proprietary monstrosity, it may well be next to impossible to recover the history short of writing a script to check out every step along the way and duplicate it in the new system. Ugh.

Anybody who went down the path from RCS - CVS - SVN - Git without saving the check in / commit history is being a bit of a jerk, though.
The political part of IT hates this though.
I've only ever seen userdir URLs hosting static content - ideally, static HTML with lesson plans or a resume or something. Why would anyone host a web application on a userdir? This seems like a complete non-issue.

Also - why would a blog be threatened by XSS? A blog is a collection of static HTML files and I assume the creator would be using a composer or just a text editor + browser to add and edit pages. Why would anyone log into a blog? Nowadays anything like a comment section is generally handled by iframes to some other service (like Disqus) anyway.
> Swarm is a (sadly) soon-to-be-abandoned way to spin up a cluster of multiple hosts with Docker daemons; don't waste your time on it.

It seems this inevitable abandonment has been abandoned as of Feb 24, 2020...

https://www.mirantis.com/blog/mirantis-will-continue-to-supp...
What are the regulatory issues involved in reaching 1M/day?
> I don't see any reason they should change based on the medium.

No new legal precedent has been created, nor has any existing legal precedent been changed. Youtube has always had the right to curate or ban content for any reason, and has always done so, albeit typically in service of advertisers and copyright owners. Legal precedent has never recognized "freedom of speech" to mean that no form of speech can be abridged or forbidden, rather, it has recognized that censorship is permissible under certain circumstances for the common good (laws against slander, libel, fraud, perjury, etc.)

>As to your point of information that can potentially do harm, who gets to be the judge of that? That seems like it can be very controversial and subjective.

Just because it can be controversial and subjective in some cases, doesn't mean it is equally controversial and subjective in all cases, nor does it follow, therefore, that no cases can reasonably be judged by any criteria, because all cases cannot be equally judged on exactly the same criteria.

>Otherwise we run into scenarios where people start claiming "your opinions and words I don't agree with are considered violence against me". At which point ALL speech is fair game.

The problem with the slippery slope argument is that it assumes humans merely process the law like algorithms, and that it will consider a statement like "your opinions and words I don't agree with are considered violence against me". perfectly valid merely because it is logically consistent. Even without "objective" criteria for limits to speech, someone making the argument you're presenting will be laughed out of court, both of law and public opinion.

The only way the slope can be slippery is if no one had ever looked at the slope, considered that it might be slippery, and maybe added a sidewalk or some stairs or a railing or a sign or something. We as a society are already aware that the dynamics involved in something like speech can be complex, and that the potential to abuse freedom of speech exists. Feedback has already been added to the system, because the system is self-aware and self-correcting. It may not be perfect in that regard, but it's still there.
Both good corrections. But the point about the difficulty as a non-US person remains.
> With Docker, I feel it's still a bit kinda-sorta.

This was the first time I ever heard anything of the sort. Docker has been not only solid but by far the most performant system available, and running stuff on VMs always felt a half-baked solution in comparison.

Can you shed some light on what led you to form your opinion?
Also, to avoid insider trading issues, companies restrict the times in which shares are allowed to be traded by employees.
> At the end of the day this thing is something that a human will read and map to the real world location.

That is quite an assumption.

I personally would use a field with a structured format e.g. XML (most RDBMS systems can deal with XML easily) and different types of address field e.g. postcode, zip code etc.

Then you could use a strategy for each country when dealing with it in your application.
In the opening snapshot of his code when the video starts, Tom's referencing a URL to YouTube which takes you to, you guessed it, a Rick Roll. :)
> generally it has a lot more to do with economic issues,

Distribution of ownership of real property is an “economic issue”, and one intimately linked to homelessness.

> Ya that worked out super well in the past letting the ruling class own all the land and everyone else worked it..

Common ownership of land is not the same thing as letting the ruling class (e.g., the nobility in feudalism or the bourgeoisie in capitalism) own all the land.
Definitely not simple, but simpler than you might imagine.

Specifically, I'm referring to the fact that the microkernel can't be run from more than one CPU at once and can't be preempted, which is an important design decision.

Its execution time is, however, constrained into the WCET, complete with proof. And that is a very small amount of time, allowing for hard real-time applications to be built on top of seL4.
> tended to rely on illicit schemes that never worked out for him.

I mean, they found one radio one that failed, but almost all the others actually did work out for him?
http://archive.is/v7GUC
Well, you have the window from 12/95 to 11/96 to work with. Before that, and you're predating splitvt, which was the work that mostly set us up to write the 1990s-form stack overflow exploit.
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Hmm.. maybe this is a chance to kickstart a US Sovereign Wealth fund. If all the bailouts are in the form of buying an equity stake, we simply put all that equity in a portfolio, and rebalance it when things stabilize. Presto, that's a sovereign wealth fund right there.
You know what is an alternative plan with built in protections for creditors that will redoubtably watch the restructuring more closely than congress?

Bankruptcy.

United Airline's value is not in its people, or its service, or its business model. The value is in its airplanes, its exclusive rights to fly to some airports and lobbying prowess (Ever wonder why flights to LaGuardia don't fly to the west Coast? United).

The creditors who take over United Airlines will not take the majority of these airplanes and send them to another country.

If there is any value to United as an entity at all, Chapter 11 bankruptcy is what they need to go through, not congress. In chapter 11 bankrupcy new creditors will come in and punish the existing investors/executives who got United in this situation.

If United truly has no value, chapter 7 is the way and United's assets will be repurposed the most efficient way possible for United's creditors and the economy as a whole.

I frankly cannot think of a less sympathetic organization.
What does this do to those with exercised options?
In a 'perfect' buyback which was spread across all investors equally -> it's neutral. (Percentage ownership remains the same, cash was transferred to investors)

That it won't ever exactly happen that way means some will win/lose depending on their individual situation, but it should be something approaching a wash on average.

Again - stock buybacks are not 'windfalls' for investors it's just a normal part of financial operation.

The question of how much cash on hand certain businesses should have to have ... is a separate issue.

If the government wants to regulate this like they do banks, well, that's an idea, but I don't think it's the best one, but spurning businesses because they did a buyback last year and are otherwise operating normally is definitely not the right approach.
But it might go away for a year or two, which is enough time to do an incredible amount of economic damage -- far more than what we save by not bailing them out.

They don't need to be indispensable. they just need to be critical enough that not bailing them out is much more expensive than bailing them out.

The solution is to prevent this scenario from ever happening in the first place, by either requiring sufficient competition, or requiring sufficient capital reserves (see: banking and reinsurance), or just nationalizing the thing.
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It would be very surprising if he were selling shares and donating cash. There is a very large tax advantage to donating appreciated assets (you can deduct the current FMV of the shares, but you never have to recognize the appreciation as gain for income tax purposes).

Whenever you hear about a donor giving $1M and funding a university library or something, assume the donor gave appreciated stock, art, or another asset.
Theoretically they may be equivalent, but they are not equivalent when executive bonuses are tied to increasing earnings-per-share and stock price.
Surely this doesn't belong here?
> the business absolutely doesn't care how you get your answer, only if they're reliable enough (hand grenade close is better than most companies have today).

One of the challenges with this is that "reliable" can mean a lot of things when the goalposts of success are constantly moving in large projects with many stakeholders, all of which are clawing for attention. I've seen politics derail so many Data Science projects and destroy the morale of Data Scientists.

It's only natural that a lot of people will realize that a moving average that confirms what people wanted to see anyway will lead to more success (whatever that means).
Much of the official paperwork in my life has "[First Initial] [Middle name]" in the first name field, which works (usually). But why should I have to do that? It's a pain in the ass.
The situation is similar in WA state, where the current bottleneck is specimen collection, as there is a shortage of swabs, vials, PPE and personnel. This results in large amount of existing lab capacity, such as at UW Virology labs, not being used. Skipping RNA extraction definitely helps with expanding lab capacity in places where that's the current bottleneck, but isn't the most pressing thing in WA.
I admire Gates more, for not just giving his money, but quitting his day job and giving his time. But Dorsey is young, he has time to increase his wealth more before stopping to wield it himself.
~~Please change it back. I appreciate ~dvdt's humorous yet candid explanation that they're using the simplest of machine learning techniques, but unless they explicitly say that it is indeed simple linear regression, I think it risks inaccuracy to describe it so specifically.~~

ETA: never mind, ~dvdt signed off on the change. Appreciate the collaboration!
My understanding is that WeWork's customers are on short term, easily cancelled leases, while WeWork's own leases are long term. In a downturn for office space, that is a recipe for disaster, and it's not like WeWork was particularly stable before the current crisis.

As opposed to Tesla, WeWork's product is fairly fungible, so if general price levels for office space collapse, they don't have much of a moat to lock in customers.
Downvoting for disagreement has always been the norm, even according to 'PG.
Nitpick, but all of those you mentioned are shared with other tenants, just pick your layer of abstraction.
Usually, but I've seen the opposite too.

Sometimes a young startup wants to advertise to the board, and they want you to make a presentation. I've made the mistake of showing near 100% accuracy solving a difficult problem important to the business, and expecting a strong positive result.

Instead I got a, "But, are we using deep neural networks?" type comments.

Sometimes a company just wants to market, be it to customers, or to the board. It's important to know your audience.
Anyone. It was the seller’s decision, not the buyer. If it’s good enough for Amazon and you’re not selling something particularly special with exotic shipping needs due to extra fragility or handling precautions, why wouldn’t you use an option that Amazon felt was good enough for them if it cost you less?
It’s hard to tell since the share are illiquid, but I’d strongly suspect the valuation (ie current share price) just dropped. The question, is how much.
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If it is specific to COVID-19 testing, we will not seek anything, as long as the end-user is not financially benefiting from it or importantly, selling qSanger kits.

If they need our bioinformatics automation & help with set-up, we would license the method for COVID-19 testing for $3-$5/sample as part of each sample that is being put through our pipeline.

If they ask for 96-well plates with all reagents that are ready to use (so that they just need to add VTM), we would work with manufacturers to produce the reactions and plates, and the price of kit (~$15 per test) would include limited license to use our automated bioinformatics calling pipeline.
Im not sure what you think the stronger interpretation is?
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, or if you live in some kind of Kafkaesque dystopia I never want to be part of.

At my employer, the best senior developers are the ones who know they can google the answer to trivia so they don't need to remember it.
I distinctly remember him hacking on stack-smashing techniques while at Cyberworks, during our down-times... he crashed mine and his Indy a couple times, lol .. but maybe it was more of the exploratory work. I didn't pay as much attention as I should have, there were many other things going on at that company at the time, and I didn't really have patience for the people that were being brought in by the money-guy to shore things up, so I lost interest .. But for the brief period Aleph1 and I shared an office, it was definitely an interesting time watching him work. Probably I remember it more fondly than him, though. ;)
>I fear we are centralizing too much power into a few private companies that effectively wield more power than the government and the people for whom it represents.

Youtube is not more powerful than the government. The government has the power to create laws, levy taxes, raise an army and wage war, arrest, detain, torture and kill. Youtube only has the power to control speech on its own platform, governments have the power to do so across entire societies, and to enforce that will on businesses subject to their laws.

You can say the same about any social media platform - none of them are governments, nor are any more powerful than governments. This kind of hyperbole only undermines the strength of your argument.
Hi, Any thoughts on maybe contacting other countries such as India?
If you used that as an address in emails it'd sound very awkward to include a middle name when someone doesn't usually go by it.
They can be the same for that investor, and better (for tax purposes) for an investor who doesn't want that cash flow and would prefer to reinvest.

The enormous majority of US publicly-traded stock is held by institutions who have the resources to monitor the buybacks and sell off stock, if that's what they wanted. Buybacks aren't a scheme where companies or hedge funds make money off careless retail investors.
I also made a guide for connecting with the official iOS and macOS WireGuard clients, as I originally found it a bit difficult with the current UI.

https://www.naut.ca/blog/2020/02/17/setting-up-a-wireguard-v...
I have five flights booked through Lufthansa (2 turned out to be United) for a US flight which is kinda expensive. It's a non-refundable, so fair is fair. The thing that did upset me the most is that their website mentions that I can rebook now. I do call their, rather, horrible consumer service. They suggest that I should go to their office so that I can change the booking. That's, obviously, not possible because of the confinement order.

Now I rechecked their website and it seems that I might be able to get a voucher for my ticket value that will be valid until 31 August. They must be joking as I don't think flights will be open (in any meaningful capacity) until 2021 or late 2020.

My sister had Turkish tickets (non-refundable) and she was able to get miles for them.
The author wants to be an MLE but doesn't know it.