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Investors invest in companies because they expect to receive money back in the future. Therefore investment won't happen unless companies have ways to pay back investors.

When a company has extra money, their options are to keep a rainy day fund, invest in growth, pay dividends or do a stock buyback. Rainy day funds are generally not big enough for extreme events. Investment opportunities only sometimes exist. Dividends are received as ordinary income by all investors, whether they wanted it or not. Stock buybacks as capital gains only by the investors who wanted it.

Incidentally, contrary to most reporting on the topic, a stock buyback should not appreciably change the price of the company.

Here is why not. Suppose that a company is worth $50 billion today, has $10 billion in cash reserves, and has a billion shares outstanding. It's stock price is $50/share. Now we do a $5 billion stock buyback. The company loses $5 billion in value (the amount of the buyback) and so is now worth $45 billion. For that $5 billion it purchases 100 million shares and destroys them. You now have a $45 billion dollar company with 900 million outstanding shares, and the stock price should still be $45 billion.

You can enter different numbers, but the same result holds. Performing the stock buyback reduces the value of the company, and destroys shares in an equal proportion. Therefore the company price should be approximately the same.

The theory here ignores higher order complications. For example dividends require more paperwork. But stock buybacks increase the volatility of the stock price, which increases the value of options. (Particularly long-term calls that are mostly held by people in the company.) The increased value of options comes out of the stock price. But still it mostly comes down to a choice of how to receive money.
Edit: nvm, confused STUN and TURN
> Zero SAP knowledge necessary

That’s a tall claim.
If one has ever worked (or tried to) within SAP world, you know what I am talking about.
Yes you can. However, it doesn't mean it's good lossless compression.
This roughly lines up with how long it takes to form a new habit.
Well, yeah, humans are different than cars.

IMO having some sort of universal care paired with optional enhanced private coverage for acute issues or other things would make sense.
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Passengers are choosing to be treated like cattle, by aggressively bargain hunting for the lowest available sticker price.

You have lots of options to get better service - economy plus, priority boarding, buying food onboard that you no longer get by default. And of course upgrading to business class.

All these things cost more and you could either pay for it by default on every ticket like in the old days, or you can purchase them separately. Consumer demand has overwhelmingly indicated a preference for the latter. Sure the airlines could lower their margins and drive down prices on these things for customers slightly. We'd be in the exact same situation now though without any cash reserves so I don't see how that would have helped.
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I think a lot of things these studies have in common is someone else is making you do self care.

As someone who has suffered severe depression on more than one occasion, in those times I know I should practice good hygiene, nutrition, exercise, sleep habits, etc., but the very nature of depression is that it takes away the motivation to do those things. If I were in a study where someone actually prepared the bath for me at a spa center, I bet I would also improve.

IMO, "fixing" depression really means fixing fundamental self-motivation, not just a transitory "oh this feels a little better".
Docker is not in the "supported deployment" business any more. We sold Docker Enterprise to Mirantis, to focus on developer tooling. The aim of open sourcing Compose spec is to help make it easier for people to make better deployment tooling, and to clean up the parts of the spec that were specific to the methods we had before to make it more general.

There are quite a few ways now, and we will be helping make them better. These include Kompose (the maintainer, Hang Yan, is involved with Compose spec now) which converts to Kube Yaml, some work on Compose-Helm integrations that is ongoing, Amazon ECS has Compose support, compose-on-kubernetes (we think this needs rewriting to use a CRD again, after having changed it to use API extensions), and some other projects which are being worked on that I have heard about.
i would recommend two ( of many ) springer book that are free to download, and i find that complement each other nicely:

- Concise Guide to Software Engineering: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-57750-0

- Guide to Discrete Mathematics: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-44561-8
Slides available without a loginwall here: https://gotocon.com/dl/goto-cph-2012/slides/iconoclasts/Impe...
Both Firefox and Chrome have implementations of scroll anchoring which is intended to fix this. The implementations are different and neither is perfect, but in a lot of cases they do help with jumping.
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I know everyone likes "the good ol' days" but this is a teachable moment. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
The trick here is, did they have the cash? Or did they bought shares with borrowed money?
> Does diabetes even exist?

Yes, absolutely.

> For example, the current guideline is to diagnose a patient as diabetic if their uncontrolled hemoglobin A1c is over 6.5%.

Several other objective tests can be used to diagnose diabetes. The disease could present with characteristic symptoms which match diabetes. The presence of comorbidities such as obesity also help with diagnosis.

> But the reality is that it's a spectrum with no clear dividing lines, significant fluctuations from day to day, individual genetic variations, etc.

This spectrum is called pre-diabetes. At some point, the risk becomes unacceptably high for the patient and treatment is indicated. This point has been determined through research.

Yes, blood glucose does vary during the day depending on the person's metabolic state. This variability is well understood. Normal and abnormal is well-defined. Fasting blood glucose > 126 mg/dl is evidence of diabetes mellitus. Blood glucose 2 hours after ingesting 75 g of glucose > 200 mg/dl is evidence of diabetes mellitus.
To some degree, the media needs to treat its audience like grown ups who are capable of thinking rationally and coming to reasonable conclusions. The more they try to handhold everyone, it will produce two effects: reduce audience ability to make informed decisions, and reduce audience trust in the media.

Someone showed me the Icke lecture, and so we discussed what are easy ways we could falsify his claims. E.g. countries with high incidence of covid19 and no 5g.

Especially when the conspiracy theory is so easily debunked the media should handle such cases more liberally. Think of it as inoculating the population against misinformation.

I do tentatively agree there are some kinds of misinformation that should be suppressed, but any such thing should be very exceptional, and very well explained. Otherwise, the media will end up being the modern Catholic church and go the way of the reformation. The church has spent centuries undoing the mistakes it made handling Luther's and other's criticisms.
see comment bellow https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22804464 and other comments talk about it too
What a surprising surprise.
The problem is all of the people making money on the stock market. The (somewhat shaky) justification for them making that money is that they are taking on risk. If they are not in fact taking risk, because their short-sighted investments are going to be bailed out by government, then we really need to start questioning why the private investors are the ones making the money in the good times, and not the government who is actually taking on the risk.
Good timing on the article - I was just setting this up yesterday with some luck (Snap Camera doesn't seem to respect the virtual cam instance) but still very cool.
> But, Kubernetes using Istio is a different platform from Kubernetes where applications use Ingress

This. After almost a year working with kubernetes I came to the same conclusion. I am/was studying for the kubernetes certification (cka) but in some way it's useless.

I mean, it would prove basic proficiency, but the whole ecosystem is so varied that wouldn't necessarily mean actual and practical proficiency.

It would probably help passing through vogon recruiters but a technical interviewer that knows his way around kubernetes wouldn't necessarily buy that.
Totally agree on your last point. There's little connection between DSM and treatment guidelines (which do exist, separately). And treatment is so fragmented between multiple care providers (with most people accessing a small subset) that many obvious things get lost.

(Caveat: my wife is a psychiatrist. We wrote a book on this: https://mhnav.com/book/)
Fenix is also now stripping https:// and https://www. from the address bar, which I strongly approve of as it has none of the downsides that doing that would have on desktop (OK, OK, so www. stripping can be theoretically significant), and I have a not-huge device so that that was taking up around half of the space allotted to text. Now if only I could do away with the padlock (only show it when it’s problematic, not all the time) and shrink the remaining badge much smaller. And/or if you could scroll the text horizontally like you could in Firefox for Android.
It doesn't seem significantly different from issuing a dividend, both return money to investors. But a buyback allows investors to defer taxes.
Good memories. In 1994, about 5 years later after Steve Deering published RFC1112, IP multicast got implemented in our Dutch spanned amateur packet radio network [1]. There were about 20-30 network nodes acting as Local Access Points for access to users, and interconnected via interlinks. The nodes implemented the AX25 packet radio protocol with rates of 1200-9600 baud, on top of that you could transport IP datagrams hence these nodes were part of the 44.0.0.0 AMPR.ORG Internet network. There were nodes that had an Internet gateway through a local origanisation or university, but these gateways were mainly used to support linking the subnet of the 44.0.0.0 network and connecting the AX25 networks (via AXIP and wormholes).

The nodes here in the Netherlands used the multicast to distribute link information and IP autorouting. It was very well possible to join a multicast group somehwere in the network by multiple parties, and then stream UDP frames accross the network.

A very fun experiment at the time was to send CELP-compressed (1-2kb/s) audio packets through the multicast network, and hence it was possible to have conversation with multiple people spanning a distance larger then the radio horizon. The latency and packet loss were disrupting good operation, but it more or less worked.

[1] https://www.jj1wtk.jp/nos/history.html
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Some HN readers who seem to be knowledgeable about genetics were discussing the spread 73 days ago [1]. If you don't want to read the whole thread, I'll also link to a couple specific sub-threads [2] [3].

However, I will note that a colleague of mine saw the virology institute's location change on Google Maps around this time. Free software legend Eric S Raymond mentioned this on his blog as well [4].

I'm pretty sure the Google Maps thing is a sign that the Chinese leadership heard these bioweapon rumors, and figured the best way to combat them was to require Google to lie about the institute's reported location.

There are plenty of ridiculous rumors on the Internet, why would the Chinese government react so strongly to this particular one?

It could be because the Chinese leadership has something they're trying to hide. But in China things are often censored all over the place with little rhyme or reason as well. "We know this rumor's false and ridiculous, any serious scientist knows it came from some country bumpkin eating an improperly cooked bat, but this rumor could potentially be destabilizing, so let's force Google to tell this lie for us" is certainly a way the Chinese government might think.

Is it created in a lab?

The Google maps thing is pretty weak evidence. It could be explained by the "oh crap people are catching on, we'd better make Google help with the coverup" hypothesis, but it's equally well explained by the "we know it's false, but we'll censor things willy-nilly because we're China and that's what we do" hypothesis.

I don't know enough about mol bio to really understand the genetic sequences.

To summarize: The evidence seems to be inconclusive, but certainly consistent with the possibility the virus is a Chinese bio-weapon. "Coronavirus is a Chinese bio-weapon that somehow accidentally escaped" is a possibly true hypothesis. There's not nearly enough evidence to say for sure. But it's a reasonable possibility, not tin-foil hat territory.

Suggesting it was let out on purpose probably does get pretty close to tin-foil hat territory; it seems hard to figure out a sane and reasonable motive for unleashing this on the world, without also requiring some much bigger, more complex conspiracy (which greatly weakens the prior probability of the hypothesis).

If it is lab-created, it probably escaped by a mistake, or someone not following the rules (e.g. the janitor who's supposed to burn the dead infected research bats sold them to a market instead to make an extra buck).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146446

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22147320

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22147369

[4] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8587
You could also look at it the other way (the correct way):

Service hasn't declined in airlines. If you spend the same on a ticket today as you would have had to in the 1970s to fly, you receive better service. That's because you'd have to be flying first class.

We just decided over time that we were only willing to pay at most $200 to fly across the country round trip, yet still romanticized the idea of having a great experience while doing so.

Keep in mind that of the $200 ticket price, about 30% usually goes to fees and taxes; not airlines. You should be grateful a system so robust exists. One that can take you across the country for such an incredibly low price, given that your only alternative is to drive across the country or take a train; both taking an order of magnitude more time and cost an order of magnitude more.
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> the media needs to treat its audience like grown ups who are capable of thinking rationally and coming to reasonable conclusions

Sure, right after we feed them some unicorn tears for breakfast.
> who the hell could have predicted the world was going to shut down like this in 2015-2019?

The people American Airlines employ to predict future risks to the business.

Their SEC filing:

> Our business, results of operations and financial condition have been and will continue to be affected by many changing economic and other conditions beyond our control, including, among others:

> • outbreaks of diseases that affect travel behavior

> In particular, an outbreak of a contagious disease such as the Ebola virus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, H1N1 influenza virus, avian flu, Zika virus or any other similar illness, if it were to become associated with air travel or persist for an extended period, could materially affect the airline industry and us by reducing revenues and adversely impacting our operations and passengers’ travel behavior.

https://americanairlines.gcs-web.com/node/37211/html#s1E0EED...
https://afnan.io

Most of my older posts are dumb and I will probably remove them from the site.

I have one article in particular that people seemed to like:

https://afnan.io/posts/introducing-oars/

It's about my experiences writing a Rust library to generate and verity orthogonal arrays, that I used as part of a graphics paper that got published at EGSR.
Ditto, and what's worse is when those white lists conflict with other requirements, such as "must work on latest Chrome version" but there's no way to test that without making a production release, because on the internal networks you're only able to use the whitelisted version, which is usually months to a year behind, and even that's an exception made specifically for devs because otherwise you should really be using IE. When pointing this out the answer typically goes like "well, try your best I guess?"

It's really something.
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> If you understand the underlying implementation you know its limitations

Maybe in some cases, but then I could probably make a case for that being a poorly built abstraction.

All you really need to understand about an abstraction is the required inputs, and the expected output. Having knowledge about what's going on in the black box inside doesn't really serve a functional purpose IMO. This is the very purpose of abstractions. If we sat and reflect on all the abstractions we utilize every day, we would realize we can't possible have intimate knowledge of how they all work. We just don't have enough space in our brains.

I have no idea how my OS runs under the hood. I don't care as long as the inputs I provide yield the expected output. Same goes for how my phone connects me on a call, or how my car manages air/fuel ratio in order to control engine power.
Simplistic in the extreme, especially given nobody has ever really enumerated all the (many, many) forms of depression in a meaningful way.
Also could be great for using up spare CPU/GPU cycles or having an AWS spot instance that triggers when pricing is low to compress images.
(if the study replicates), the targeted precision and long term persistence of therapeutic effects. If someone prescribes you a pill for being gay and you don't want to be cured of being gay, you could always just stop taking it later if you were able to leave the despotic regime / cruel family structure / religious community binding you.
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https://simonwillison.net/ - been running it since 2002(!). Tag cloud telling you what it's about here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/

Read it if you're interested in Python, JavaScript, web application security, web application architecture (scaling etc), weird little museums, other random projects I'm working on.
It'd be really OK if they brought it back, with a better, less-aggressive formula. Or perhaps as a mild seltzer.

They could call it "OK2" and admit in the marketing, "The original OK was not as okay as we'd hoped. This is okayer."
There seem to be no shortage of people on HN who confuse clinical depression with some kind of angst or broodiness.
I don't necessarily buy this argument - if they would have distributed their earnings via dividend, they would be in the exact same boat (maybe a little bit worse because of the additional tax on dividends). Keeping share prices up is an objective of executive compensation because it benefits the average shareholder.

> The reason that I'm harping on share buybacks is that in theory, money for them is supposed to consist of cash that's surplus to the companies' needs. But in the real world, companies frequently borrow money to help fund buybacks. That works great to prop up their stock prices - until one day, there's a problem.

I've been told by corporate accountants that this is a huge misunderstanding of how corporate finance works. Companies borrow money all the time for everything, because sitting on cash is the equivalent of slowly losing it.
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I certainly hope so - Swarm is a wonderful orchestration system for small deployments (at least, I haven't tried to use it for large ones), and is really easy to use. It's also vastly simpler to comprehend and operate that Kubernetes, and doesn't eat CPU & memory for breakfast. I'd wager that Swarm would be a better fit than Kubernetes for most systems.
involving tax laws

property dev incentives - airbnb & student housing

planning laws - airbnb & student housing

policy - airbn and student housing

All of these except possibly the first item could directly address airbnb & student housing. I'm not seeing where you 2 disagree.
There's interesting data but the personal opinions seem weirdly shallow.

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"I was predicting that once all good features of TypeScript end up in JavaScript itself, it would be discarded just like CoffeeScript"

There's almost no "feature of Typescript" apart from typing. We have "?." and "??" now, but that's almost it? Building features on top of JS has always been a non-goal.

Also, "My thoughts on TypeScript did not change, of course" - why "of course"? It's nothing obvious, and revising your opinion is always wise
You're ignoring two things:

1) that the aggregate savings from compressing the images needs to outweigh the initial cost of distributing the decompressor.

2) to be lossless, decompression must be deterministic an unambiguous, so you can't compress _everything_ down to zero bits; you can compress only _one_ thing down to zero bits, because otherwise you wouldn't be able to unambiguously determine which thing is represented by your zero bits.
Two thoughts:

* there's a structured process for when a company can't pay its bills but is possibly viable in the long run if it can restructure its obligations called Chapter 11. The airline industry has tons of examples of companies that continue operations through chapter 11 proceedings and end up as profitable on the other side. I don't see why that process is suddenly off limits today. It would require equity holders (and likely some liability holders) to take a haircut, but I'd argue investors knew the risks they were taking given the history of the airline industry.

* if the $45B was returned to shareholders in the form of dividends, would that be somehow less evil? I keep seeing articles citing share buyback numbers, but the whole point of publicly traded companies is to return capital to shareholders.
Anothe comment mention that the Chromium edge will have IE mode so maybe we will have to convince IT use that
Treating `depression` or claiming to have cured depression is something a lot of people look forward to. Couple that with the fact that we are all sitting in the midst of an ongoing pandemic, news stories with catchy titles like these are bound to attract extra eyeballs.
Nothing is wrong with it. But the belief is complete incorrect and Icke is clearly mentally unwell, and social platforms have a right to defend their communities from people like him. They should not have to indulge lunatics that reduce their brand value or community health. Icke has the right to believe what he wants, and speak/write about it freely. Youtube should be under no obligation to provide a platform for him on their private service, either.
True although that scenario is hardly uncommon.

Lots of investors have board seats and there are decisions (like if to invest in the next round) where the desire of the board (get more money for a new round) may conflict with the desires of investors that have seats in the board (we think the company has run its course and don’t want to put more money in).

Like any VC SoftBank likely has lots of internal walls and controls to keep those decisions separate. Just because a VC has a board seat doesn’t tie them into perpetually funding every need of the company.

Regardless the case here seems to rely on the breach of conditions and WeWork seems to have offered little evidence that these breaches did in fact not occur. If they failed to meet the conditions SoftBank can walk away.