skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You see, that’s not in Apple’s business plan. If they can’t extract money from you while pushing down developers, they don’t care to do it. We don’t own our devices like we used to. The terms of service alone are egregious.
I don't know about intent, bit in terms of scale IIRC Amazon Logistics is already bigger than FedEx and creeping up on UPS
Airbnb provides a service that has enjoyed incredible popularity for more than a decade. Granted, if it collapses, demand for SF real estate will diminish. When people die from COVID-19, demand decreases as well. Those are not good things.
It literally is that simple. My company had ~6 months worth of expenses stashed away in cash, cash equivalents, and other fairly liquid vehicles, and our net profit was ~4% on over a billion in revenue.

Edit: Why should I, as an individual, be held to a higher standard than a group of individuals who have come together in the name of profit (most of which goes to those at the top) and have limited liability in case of failure?
> When you purchase a domain, you're taking a valuable, limited resource, and paying, typically, a pittance for it.

They're not limited, the short ones are. I'm not sure why people think they're entitled to short domain names.

> You're not providing value, period, at all.

I mean, you pay an annual maintenance fee do you not? That funds the registrar, which funds ICANN.

> So stock buyers are providing value to the market, while domain squatters are actively removing value from the market.

Maybe squatting on a domain provides them some satisfaction, who are you to judge how people choose to use their domains? If I choose to host pics of cats on "cats.com" (as the current squatter is doing) am I any less entitled to the domain than PetSmart? Just because you don't approve of what I choose to do with it?

Yes domains aren't specifically fungible, they're slightly different with regards to how memorable they are. You can still do exactly the same with each of them: host a website.

Sounds like there's more market oriented ways to resolve this issue. If you feel like short domains provide the world outsized value, why charge the same $10 annual maintenance fee as a 15-letter domain? The shorter, the higher the registration fee. Problem solved?
I expected this to be for apple factory workers, surprised to see its being sold to other companies.
I just learned cooking white and brown rice together doesn't work because the white rice will keep absorbing liquid until it's saturated, leaving hard/uncooked brown rice. Whoops. Haha.
According to the article they serve Apple Retail, so every time the Genius messes around with the iPad for 10 minutes to check me in just so I can drop my phone off for a new battery, that’s a consumer dealing with IS&T.
"Potential" must mean not yet existing.
Hospitals Furloughing Staff, Altering Physician Pay Due to Covid-19
Buying back shares is, in some ways, paying off your debt. Whenever you need money, you can just create more shares and sell them back. The problem is that you lose some diversification benefits: when you need to sell more shares is often (though not always) correlated to a drop in your own stock price. Ideally though, you're inflating the balloon so to speak so you can deflate it when need be. Or you think that your stock is undervalued right now.
As I read this post for the Apple Face Shield on support.apple.com, my girlfriend looked over my shoulder and said "Hmm. Well, it has a better keyboard than the MacBook Pro."

I thought this was too funny not to share.
It seems so backwards that we would be furloughing hospital workers right now. Hopefully those finding themselves without work can lend theirs skills in locations where we don't have enough workers.
Only a subset of the lockers are open 24 hours. I've had nice employees let me hang out after they lock the doors so I can wait for the delivery guy who is an hour late
Use browser favicon watch videos, camera and play snake games
This has the benefit of preventing you from touching your face after touching things customers have touched.
I'd be willing to bet my next paycheck that cash/credit trends would generally follow the cycle of the broader economy with few surprises -- though I understand viscerally your (very human) impulse to say we'd find cash reserves falling steadily over the years. After all, the reason economic expansion (above and beyond productivity growth) happens is because companies and people are extended credit, and companies and people take credit because they don't have the cash on hand. And of course when this momentum cannot be maintained, recession. To your point, however, I'd also be willing to bet that the largest companies actively consider the current "bailout culture" in decisions concerning their broader strategy.
Another factor could be weather conditions. Heavy rain/snow/wind could all affect range or even accuracy (heavy precip can interfere with GPS to some degree). Drones also probably work better in a suburban environ, but less in a dense urban area or less dense rural area. Also, maps can be terribly slow to update. My home is in a Chicago suburb, about 8 years old now. Google maps still cannot accurately plot my address. Personally, I dont look forward to "we dropped off your package where we think your address is" and yet the package is a few hundred yards away. I'm also reminded of one of my favorite fuckups, this by USPS: my Mom misquote "street" instead of "drive" on my address, street number, name, city, state and zip otherwise being correct, and the overnight package landed in Florida instead of Illinois...
I find that textbooks focus way too much on the strict CS definition of the various normal forms as opposed to practical examples.
> A default rich text preference is bad. Email client can easily apply some heuristics or honoring something mark-down-like, but the base need be always in plain text.

I’m a grey beard, using email since the early 1990s. All these years later, I’ve realized HTML email is better in every way than plain-text email.

Basically, you get every “feature” of plain-text plus important semantic additions like hierarchical lists, <strong>, <em>, <h#>, <figure>, <blockquote> etc. that improve clarity of communication drastically.

HTML email can and should be about much more than fonts and colors. A forum like LKML is basically useless without these, but they insist on old-Skool plain text which makes readability suffer greatly.
If the countries are trying to do contact tracing and isolated quarantines where flare-ups are found, it absolutely matters.

This is what people are talking about at the moment when they mention easing lockdown restrictions.

Imagine a single government trying to get the word out to everyone who may have come into close contact with someone who flies from London to Berlin on a Friday, jumps on a train at the airport, parties for 48 hours, flies home on the Monday and feels ill/gets tested the following Wednesday. Then replace Berlin with "Liverpool" and see how that improves things.
Clojure is the most productive(and beautiful) language in existence(personal preference) as long as you don't have to leave its world.

I stop using it because the lack of Clojure libraries pushed me to use Java libraries, and that was a life-sucking experience. Java is fine as language but you cannot say the same about the APIs of many of its libraries. I also started sensing that new open source libraries are not being created in Java which worsens the story for Clojure.
And yet from the article:

Paul Hunter, an infectious diseases professor at the University of East Anglia, told MailOnline that the cases were far more likely to be “reactivations” — or even just a sign of current testing being flawed.

“Personally, I think the most likely explanation is that the clearance samples were false negative,” Hunter told the site.
Wow, I wasn't sure if it was just me! Coincidentally that was also the same book I learned about those two being dangerous mixed together. Just curious, have you read "Go ask Alice"?
We have an internal platform. I'm writing the SDK before the API. My success measure is the following: I should be able to build a clone of the platform using the SDK. Anything I can do with point and click, I could do with the SDK or sending a request. I should be able to build a CLI that manipulates the platform and does all one can do with the web application. I should be able to fork myself, then hire that fork to write a separate front-end that uses our API, feature match the current product, and have a better user experience. I should be able to use the platform as a building block to something else, and it should be trivial.

Once this is possible, it means that almost all the logic is in separate functions, and not intertwined to the "web" application. Which means these functions are more easily tested, and can easily support whatever CLI/"RestfulAPI" one wants.
Stop giving bureaucracies evil ideas to torture us and waste even more of our time. ;@)

In the future, I want a drone with a replicator to land and make the shipment of products right in front of me. :-P
That is a failing of the Australian government, not Ikea.
>Amazon told shippers the service, known as Amazon Shipping, will be paused starting in June. It was available in just a handful of U.S. cities.
Under the program, Amazon drivers would pick up packages from businesses and deliver them to consumers, rather than ship orders from Amazon warehouses.

How does that work? So it is like Instacart but with Amazon picking it up and delivering it? I don't see how could that scale.

Edit: Incase this isn't clear, I have placed an order for 6 items in 6 different shops. If all these items were in Amazon Warehouse, they would have packaged together and shipped from One Destination. Just reading from the sentence it seems Amazon Shipping will have to go to 6 different places to pick up the package. It is the case that One to Many scale, many to many / one is difficult.
No, I don't think it does. Just because an event of very small probability happens does not mean it is rational to waste half your cash preparing for it. What determines the right actions in regards to mitigating risk has little to do with the realized events; instead, it's better to look at the probability of said event. Not saying they shouldn't have saved some cash for a pandemic, but the fact that it's happened isn't an argument for them to have done so.
> The SCAN study is super fascinating because it would be crazy unusual under normal times for a research study to return results back to patients; I'm very happy they are able to do that, and it speaks to the severity of this pandemic.

The Seattle Flu Study wasn't allowed to communicate back to patients but "By Feb. 25, Dr. Chu and her colleagues could not bear to wait any longer. They began performing coronavirus tests, without government approval. What came back confirmed their worst fear. They quickly had a positive test from a local teenager with no recent travel history." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...

I'm glad to hear they're allowed to do the SCAN study!
Safety I wonder. If they are only carrying 5lb packages having them fall from the sky sound bad but the frequency of rolling robots causing car accidents or running over people or getting smashed by locals might make it more safe.
Apple spends double digit billions of dollars on capital expenditures a year.
To me it looks like they agree with the MS Zune music player choice of color pallete ... for background.
Gut feeling says Expedia will buy them when this all over.
I'm hoping Doctors aren't being hosed down with concentrated gallons of trillions and trillions of virus. PPEs aren't going to do much in that situation.
> Whenever I look it just looks pointlessly complicated.

I would say the exact same thing about the imperative style, and I have lived in both the Imperative/OO world and the Declarative/FP world.

> Given that 99% of software is not written in these languages

citation/elaboration required, and not just because SQL and similar tools are declarative like another comment mentioned: a great majority of imperative languages have begun to include/adopt functional programming tools and ideas (map, reduce/fold, lambdas)... perhaps it's because they are extremely useful concepts.
Well. If you have depression and you’re a business owner or small trader for example. It would be impossible to get out of bed some days and feed yourself. So id say it’s one of the most important financial fixes for every human.

You took it as if it needs to be a fix just so people can be happy. Happiness doesn’t mean you’re surviving.
I tried it a while ago and message delivery took minutes between me and a friend. It also won't do well on Android versions that kill background tasks and effectively force you to use Firebase Cloud Messaging for push (although you can't really blame it for that).
They can invest it into a cash reserve to combat the existential risk to the company from a global disaster which halts airline travel. Investors are too short-term focused and states are too corporate welfare dealing for that to be enticing though.
So the financial equivalent of being beaten and dragged off a plane. Airlines couldn't be anymore customer-hostile unless they needle behind the ear, shrink-wrapped people and threw them into piles like rolls of carpet.
The stock they bought back is a liquid vehicle. Seeing as your company, whatever that may be, had sixth months put away, I imagine you actually mean "invested" and very little of it was cash. Your operating expenses are extremely high and earnings low.

As to why it's a different standard, it's different for the same reason baseball doesn't use the same rules as water polo. Both sports, but very different.

I'm not here trying to defend poor management, but it's hard to take your "maintain a massive emergency cash fund" idea seriously.
> If those projectiles are aerosolized and are in the air that you breathe

It seems like you're imagining that the mucus and saliva particles would behave like a gas, but it's a suspension of liquid particles in the air, which behaves slightly differently. Think of breathing onto glass -- a lot of the aerosol I expel adheres to the glass. Some smaller droplets may move around it, but it's still preferable to receive a smaller dose of the virus.
Here's the Wiki to my open source project, LINQ to Twitter:

https://github.com/JoeMayo/LinqToTwitter/wiki

Same qualifications at others - not perfect. :) I've been maintaining the docs for several years. When people seem to be confused about a particular subject or are asking questions in a certain area, it's an indication that I need to work on that area more. Over time, I've noticed a relationship where targeted improvements reduce my support requirements. Feedback is welcome.
Sure, if you're running entirely separate systems behind each username.

But in that case this has been true since XHR first came into existence 15-20 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest (sub)domains are a fundamental requirement for web security, they essentially always have been.
Moral hazard isn't the only issue with union retirement funds buying stock: you want to mitigate the risk of being laid off or forced to retire and having your fund lose value at the same time. An airline employee with a retirement fund that consists of the same airline's stock is a very bad idea from a risk standpoint: you ideally want your fund and your job to be uncorrelated in order to reduce the volatility of your income stream.
Yes AMZN is currently working on building them, I know people who are working on the prototype hardware at one of their contractors. Expect the coronavirus pandemic to only update AMZN timeline. Both drones and cashier-less grocery stores will become a thing in the next 5-10 years. This means UPS/FEDEX/USPS don't have to pay workers, and more importantly have to pay much less benefits.
That's a sweeping over-generalization. I said find a good textbook.
About half the time, the lockers near me (at a 7-eleven) are full and unavailable for delivery.
Sure, but you're talking about regulation of the companies, not the management within the companies themselves. I think the parent comment's point stands.
Giant siphonophore, a bizarre ocean creature that looks like silly string
They've commited to ordering 100k electric vans from Rivian:

"Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the company has placed an order for 100,000 electric delivery vans from Michigan-based startup Rivian. The announcement came during an event on Thursday in Washington, DC where Bezos unveiled Amazon’s sweeping plan to tackle climate change."

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/19/20873947/amazon-electric-...

This was part of their investment into Rivian:

"In February 2019, Amazon announced it would be leading an investment round of $700 million into Rivian."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivian
I don't think its a very big one. Or at least its on the way down. I saw a few of them about 9 years ago but not since then.
The data coming out of the UK on ventilator use is not reassuring at all. [1] It feels like we are treating a symptom of the coronavirus, and in practice ending up with 50% and higher mortalities. That these people would have died anyway, is not an excuse to rush forward with a technique that results in so many deaths.

Separate research from the SARS outbreak showed promise: "Now Viagra is being explored as a treatment for COVID-19. A pilot study in China is testing the drug in COVID-19 patients with breathing troubles who do not yet need mechanical breathing assistance." [2] "Like nitric oxide, Viagra, known generically as sildenafil, dilates blood vessels. The Chinese scientists investigating it believe it may help open the tiny vessels that draw oxygen from the lungs, allowing patients to overcome the respiratory distress that occurs in some cases of COVID-19."

[1]: https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/07/65-people-put-ventilators-wil...
[2]: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-05/viagra-disc...
Or they will buy Expedia. Who knows which one survives.
Moreso like UPS or Fedex than Instacart, as the Amazon employees aren't picking up unpackaged, unlabeled its.
Artisinal, drone replicated items you say?
Start small. Failure is cheap. Worst case, you seek out local sponsors for a dedicated server in donated colo somewhere nearby. Even if it doesn’t take off, you’ll have learned from the experience.
Faster Virtual Machines on Linux Hosts with GPU Acceleration
I believe they are donated to the medical community, not sold.
> But what's the timeline for gauging efficiency? Any company needing a public bailout even though they had sufficient profit to cover the issue is manifestly not operating very efficiently.

By your definition any company that didn't see the coronavirus pandemic coming would be not operating efficiently, but the reality is even if your company was operating efficiently your company may be killed by it.

That's like saying a healthy person shouldn't need to be put on a ventilator because if they took care of their body well they wouldn't need it, but the reality is this virus is not something anyone could have prepared for.
Back when I had three hundred bookmarks instead of, like, six. God I'd kill to still have that list.
It doesn't matter that they are buying at a higher price, theoretically stock buybacks should have no affect on the market value of the company. All it does is increase shareholder equity and buy the same amount decrease the number of floating shares. The problem is that retail money only looks at the price of the stock without any context for the company as a whole.
Jack Dorsey pledges $1bn for Covid-19 relief efforr
Show HN: Ofte.io, FIDO extended to support continuous authentication
It's still an unresolved "problem" in "fluorescent" (or painted) business signs in the US --Crate & Barrel, for example. You will see this is most business (Main) Streets.

Some rotate 90, maybe most don't, but there are those that do. Also, some "go (read) up" some "go down".
Ars analysis: ~80% of Steam games earn under $5K in first two weeks
Why this again? Why are we getting terrible guidance from the WHO and world leaders?

1. Don’t leave your home.

2. If you absolutely must leave your home, symptoms or not, wear a mask.

It’s that simple.
Today we have affordable wildcard CA-signed SSL certificates (thanks Let's Encrypt!) so there's no excuse for not following https://username.host/ structures.
EPS isn't used to value a company, it's used to value the price of a single share.
I agree with everything you mentioned in your post.

That being said:

> For a few years I lived on a street who's[sic] name appeared three times in the same city

This is why you have postcodes ;p
I'm about to buy a new phone. The slack app stopped working on my phone, won't install on my tablet.
CI/CD is a good enough framework at the moment.
The goal is to build things and ship product to customers. It does that well and thats why it's winning.

The fact that a jenkinsfile starts with groovy and can include N number of different languages is just the nature of the beast. There is always fragmentation in software integration, and devops is integration on steroids.

Any other methods, formal or otherwise, need to provide X value at a cost of Y that makes adoption worth it. Currently if you don't use CI/CD then the value and cost propositions of adopting CI/CD actually start to make a lot of sense if you are mature enough to accurately do cost accounting on your IT management processes.

Yes, it's true, Jenkinsfiles, Cloudformation Json and Yaml all suck to work with. And configuration management is tricky. But I know that we'll all think the same thing about any other system or approach we adopt because it'll end up being work.

CI/CD may be a trade off but it allows us to focus on business problems rather than technical ones.
Sweden is not using smartphone or base station location data for tracking of Corona.

https://www.datainspektionen.se/nyheter/coronaviruset-och-di...
OT: you have a nice misnegation there — “denying that it didn’t have...” I think you meant “denying that it had...”

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?cat=273
DIY an Infrared Thermometer for Covid-19 with MicroPython
If anything there are better JS tooling around writing your code with ESNext or Typescript than just plain javascript.
I still don't know if the fruit or the color come first with orange.
you could have 500 people all at the same lat/lon, with different floors, no?
Asked about the progress of the trials at his daily press briefing, Cuomo noted that state officials have allowed use of the drug hydroxychloroquine in combination with the antibiotic Zithromax in hospitals “at their discretion.” He said the federal government would increase supplies to New York pharmacies, but that New York has imposed a 14-day limit to protect the supplies for people who rely on it to treat other medical conditions. [1]

It would suck to be one of the 200+ people dying daily [2] who didn't have a chance to try this combination to save their life because of a 14 day limit.

1. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/491358-cuomo-use-of...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22805612 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22787800
For the same reason that Chik-Fil-a is open: because people like it.