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Airbnb Raises $1B from Silver Lake, Sixth Street Partners
So, LinkedIn isn't solely recruiting, I see very significant use by sales people. And I'm in a position where I have directed purchasing for my company and essentially every salesperson I've worked with has connected with me on LinkedIn.
Medtronic boasts ventilator with 1 million lines of code
I feel like this is what an engineer who doesn't really understand businesses would write. The models he writes about don't even come close to the complex realities of politics, externalities, market factors, accounting, funding, etc... When he started talking about workers like cpu cores, I knew immediately, this is not going to go anywhere.
"No true pro..."
Anecdotally, I've heard a lot of people point to the CRE bubble right up there with PE and student debt.

I would imagine that cumulatively in the US there will be hundreds of billions in defaults before this all blows over, which could easily be 12 months before even bottoming out.

Edit: yeah I'm going to bump that to a couple tril in defaults if the aggregate market is actually 15-17T (as of late 2018 per https://www.reit.com/data-research/research/nareit-research/...
not only was this entirely predictable, it was actually predicted.
This is the result of Google trying to compete with Facebook. The search results page is their answer to the news feed.
"This sort of speculation is not helpful in any way."

I disagree. Our curiosity leads us to ask "Where did Covid-19 come from?" Children ask this question today.

Failing to answer this question invites wild speculation and consequent fruitless accusations. It is preferable to answer the question, understand the world and take control of it rather than live in fearful ignorance. The ability to do so defines us as humans.

It is standard procedure in epidemiology to trace the origin of an outbreak. There is always a search for "patient 0", the index case. Lessons can be learned from doing so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_case

There is or was a "patient zero" for Covid-19. I think the odds favor that she/he was Chinese and lived in Wufan, China. I want to know how she/he caught Covid-19 and so does the rest of the world. There's a story there and undoubtedly many lessons we can learn from it.
I mean, I think that is a sign of fragility. If I carefully make sure my laptop is far from the edge of the table every time I put it down, it's a smart, rational, well-advised response to knowing just how fragile my laptop is.

The interesting point to me is that we have an economy which, when the going gets tough, can afford to employ some 75-85% of the people it ordinarily does, and that when we've been close to 0% unemployment, it's been because of unstable luck and not underlying robustness. It's somewhat surprising to me that we don't live in a time where we can comfortably afford to employ >>100% of the people in the system.

(Well, either that, or we do live in such a time but our economy doesn't know how to allocate resources in a way to make it work.)
linkedin is way too big for any sort of layoffs.
California funds schools by actual attendance, not enrollment, and we're around 10% of the US school population.

Sources: https://edsource.org/2019/californias-school-funding-flaws-m...

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_203.20.a...
It'd be painful but it might make sense for mall owners to forgive the rent while everything is closed. If their tenant goes out of business, they're not getting the back rent and now they'll have a vacancy in a time they're unlikely to find another tenant quickly. Waiving back rent might enable some of their tenants to stay in business, paying rent going forward.

In the case of enclosed shopping malls, if the entire facility has shutdown, it seems unethical to charge rent to stores that no one could physically access. This situation is probably covered in the lease in boilerplate language somewhere.
The arbitration vendors (and lets be clear...they are vendors not a system of justice) could and probably should write this into their rules.

They rely on the appearance of fairness to enable corporations to use their services against consumers/employees. If they aren't careful there is a risk of the courts increasingly observing how tipped the scales of arbitration are.

The jurisprudence, to the limited extent I understand it, relies on the assertion that arbitration is fair. Upholding that believe is in the arbitrators interest.
PMS? That sure does a number on me.
I’ve had good luck ordering lumber and landscaping supplies from Home Depot. No problems in half a dozen orders.
"my guess is that property valuations are going to go down fairly steeply as well." Yes and how much depends on how much the gov props them up?
How does my location factor into it?
I usually have to set time and location on apps and sites and dont see any mention of lat/long here...
Show HN: Dogpark, a platform to integrate and manage FIDO keys in your org/site
The FCC still levies fines for certain levels profanity and certain forms of nudity for over-the-air broadcasts for TV and FM/AM radio (I dont think satellite is bound due to being a paid service). Granted the standard for finable offenses has loosened over the years, and you can get away with more late night (presumably because the kids should be in bed).

I dont recall if the "wardrobe malfunction" in the Janet Jackson/Just Timberlake Super Bowl half time show resulted in a fine, but pretty much all live broadcasts are now delayed 15-30 seconds or so that so a producer (or whomever) can hit the censor button if something comes up.
I can’t even imagine how annoying a system like that would be to implement. So you credit everyone’s account but then you have mark this money as special to ensure that it eventually gets paid out to every account in either credit or cash. Then you have to monitor the accounts for policy cancellations and issue checks.
> The whole thing is just a contest for who can get the most pithy soundbite for the day.

This is exactly it. The Rock isn't really going to dust anything off, turn it sideways, and ram it into anyone's candy ass. He's cutting a promo. It's kayfabe.

Similarly, the American process is entirely promotion. Are you a good fundraiser? Can you win popularity? Will you appoint the right cronies to the right positions? Can you cut a good soundclip? Then you've got a shot at the heavyweight title. Notice that at no point was anyone actually assessed on leadership capabilities. Professional Government. Politics Entertainment.
> I have become convinced he is somehow listening in to my conversations using the company communications app

Who would have time to do this in addition to their normal responsibilities?
What a truly remarkable time to be alive.
The pandemic might disappear in a few weeks. It will take far longer to fix the economic debacle.
Unless, the definition of fragility for a laptop is different than that of say a basketball. The former is expected to not be dropped, while the latter requires it.
I love the last comment:

> As well we recognize the existence of Greenspun’s 10th Dual:

> Any sufficiently complicated dynamically typed program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a type system.
Maybe a dumb question, but can I run Krustlet in the browser? (maybe via browser WASI polyfill?). Does this mean you could assemble ad-hoc clusters using volunteer browsers? Not saying one _should_, but could you?
In case you don't get a response, this seems topical.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/...

It seems that there has (a) been no paper, so his theories remain too vague to even properly criticize, but (b) as far as people can tell from the vagueness, his theory predicts the existence of particles that the LHC should have detected but has not.
> Everyone knows this pandemic is going to last WAY longer than a quarter. Probably a year+

It's not gonna last a year+ lol. Lately it seems that people of hackernews and r/coronavirus have an extreme overlap. Extremism is bad no matter which end you stick to.
What? Big firms lay off people all the time.
Maybe they used javascript.

Seriously though maybe someone's counting LOC in packages or something? 1 million lines for a ventilator?
There is more nuance. It’s actually because an insurance company is required to pay a certain percentage of premiums out for claims. In health insurance, there is the “80/20” rule where at least 80% of premiums are required to be paid as claims. Auto/property has similar rules set by relevant state insurance commissions.

If claim volume drops, they means they don’t get to necessarily keep the extra “profit.” I am not familiar with the rules around auto (I used to be a disaster home/property claims adjuster,) but I suspect auto rules are similar. It isn’t about risk being reduced, but more about claims payouts being projected less than the premium rates have accounted for. Insurance companies actually want lower rates — it means they sell more insurance which further deepens the risk pool.
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This might all be pedantic, but in this vein: one draft horse can pull 8,000 pounds, while two horses together can pull 24,000 pounds [1], even more if the horses have worked together.

Horses do not become exponentially more powerful as you add additional horses. Similarly, if you had me make something by myself I could do some work, but if you had me make something partnering with someone with complementary skills (for me a good frontend designer) then the result would be more than 2x what I would do alone. This also does not scale... you can't add a chef and an ops person and a ballet dancer and a plumber to the team and keep getting better results.

But maybe you add a whole ops team, and now I can do work and almost forget about that task, and the work is more effective and our little team stays little and the big ops team is professional and reliable so that once something is up it is up. Can whole teams complement each other?

So you get all matrixed [2] and that's good and bad, but you can only have so many of these groups. Maybe you go long and blow everything up into microservices [3], but it can't go forever.

Can whole business units become complementary? Or are there other ways to break it up? I haven't read the article so I'm not sure if it answers this ;) But from skimming it, it seems Malthusian in its perspective, hell-is-other-people, that scaling up is unfortunate instead of a process of becoming something new.

[1] https://timmaurer.com/2012/01/16/horse-sense/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_management

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
It seems to me the host was just being obtuse. There was no other reasonable excuse, so they used this one as an excuse.
Sorry I may have spoken inaccurately. Wires can carry signals right-to-left (as you mentioned - this is necessary in any circuit containing feedback) but the _symbols_ should be drawn left-to-right in a digital logic schematic.

Certainly there are different fields that follow different rules, for example in schematic representation of feedback systems the feedback blocks are often drawn right-to-left. They get away with it because their schematics are generally much simpler--usually a dozen or so blocks, compared to hundreds or thousands in a nontrivial digital circuit schematic.

Also - I am not sure I understand your comment about 'extra ugliness and confusion of crossing signals'. Flipping the inverter backwards does nothing to remove the signal cross, it just moves the cross outside of the region you showed. Note how one of the inputs to your flipflop is now on the right hand side--in most cases the crossing will reappear when you connect the rest of your circuit.
I guess that means they weren't bound anymore.
Has the key to a coronavirus vaccine been staring us in the face for a century?
Going out and getting a loan from a bank or anything else is fine. That's what people do to invest.
"7 words you can't say on TV" was a great George Carlin standup special.
This comment brought back some lovely memories of my grandfather, who got into computers late in his life and had all sorts of games on his Windows 95 (I think it was originally Windows 3.1) machine. One of them was Chip's Challenge, and it was the only game my brother and I could play together (at about 5 and 7 in the late 90s) and take turns without squabbling because half the fun was puzzling out the solution to each level.
> erasing the past

Wouldn't it make sense to archive the old articles and put no-crawl rule on them? Deleting just seems extreme no matter how you look at it. That being said - content that is controlled by such people is probably not worth keeping.
That plus possibly the banks' actions: the availability of things like mortgage deferrals and extensions.

Another thing to consider, which is a big unknown at this point, is what immigration policy will look like after the dust starts to settle. If it becomes more stringent than it was, that means less demand for housing in the future, and the valuations of property would likely reflect that.
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Only a Miracle can save him!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXH69LabyPw
Something tells me there's a significant chunk of the total CRE market in terms of sq ft and rental income that is not coming back even if everything reverts to normal in a month.

Plenty of companies were already overextended financially, or outright unnecessary in the first place. Some the owners burnt out, ready to retire, etc. that have been forced early.

In other words, that market has since peaked - does anyone think otherwise?
Most Chrome extensions can now be run on Firefox without alterations.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter...
This sounds like a great system on face value, but it also adds a perverse incentive for insurers to drive up repair costs (and hence their premiums) in order to increase their own revenue. I've heard this effect put forward as one reason that the U.S. medical system's prices are so overinflated.
My favorite parts site is PartsGeek. Pretty easy to find what I want and every product has a picture so I can make sure it matches what I need. Never had a bad experience with them.
JPMorgan's Athena is 35M lines of Python; not updated to Python 3 in time
> MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter awarded $75 million on Friday to help a consortium of high-tech firms and researchers develop electronic systems packed with sensors flexible enough to be worn by soldiers or molded onto the skin of a plane.

> Carter said funding for the Obama administration’s newest manufacturing institute would go to the FlexTech Alliance, a consortium of 162 companies, universities and other groups, from Boeing (BA.N), Apple (AAPL.O) and Harvard, to Advantest Akron Polymer Systems and Kalamazoo Valley Community College.

> The group will work to advance the development and manufacture of so-called flexible hybrid electronics, which can be embedded with sensors and stretched, twisted and bent to fit aircraft or other platform where they will be used.

A $75 million research grant into a consortium of 162 companies (of which Apple is a member) to develop flexible wearable tech is not remotely what I am talking about in this thread.
The biggest problem with financial bubbles is that people get super-risk averse. As soon as there is talk of over-indebtedness, everyone throws the book at them. Then the bubble pops.
Every time I land on websites that have such content I am wondering why anybody would want that kind of traffic.

I mean, don't they have server costs? It's like they own an infinite amount of money bucket that constantly gets refilled somehow.

Why are advertisers even paying them for such impressions? Are they so ridiculously retarded in their business model? Can we all hurt advertisers by setting up a website like this?
Tom Scott has a lot of great videos, including: Why Snow and Confetti Ruin YouTube Video Quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI
Maybe that's the problem: using Duck Tape [TM] instead of Duct Tape.

https://www.duckbrand.com/
Roughly, if an org is considered as a system, then entropy of it will continue to increase. To keep the order, more and more energy needs to be spent. This energy is in the form of developing internal tooling, more explicit communication which is repeated often, hiring more, establishing processes (which in turn itself adds more tasks on people's plate), etc
> How is that legal for binding arbitration?

It doesn’t appear to be legal. But that would require a court order to enforce the arbitrator’s ruling. Benefit here being, there can be excess damages found against DoorDash if they’re acting in bad faith.
Yes, that's not what I was implying though (or at least didn't mean to). I meant they can't both be right all the time. The point being that fans think their side is always right and the other always wrong. When the reality is their side is sometimes right and sometimes wrong.

Certainly in any specific dispute one may be correct. Or both partially correct. Or both wrong. And one may be better or worse than the other in sum.
That's ridiculous. With that logic, if you're supposed to save X months of cash, then the very first cent you take out of that X months of cash savings, you already fucked up, b/c now you have less than X months of savings. Suppose you wanted to overcome this. So then you decide to start working a second job so you never have to touch the emergency savings. Then that defeats the entire point of the emergency savings, which is to be used when there is an emergency.

The company could also be said to be fucking itself over if it can't have enough cash to prevent layoffs of necessary employees. If it doesn't have enough cash at hand, it will need to lose talent and be forced to try to rehire when the economy rebounds. A competitor with a good savings account could instead leap past b/c they could simply dip into their savings and continue to build for the rebound, with all their engineers on board.
Ask HN: How does your company do L&D (Learning and Development)
Any horror or fairy tale setups/stories?
Kind of strange a non move counts as one, if I just hold the arrow key over on a block that can't move, it will be 157 moves in no time.
The weakness is that those kids are still being raised by losers who can't bother to feed their offspring.

Food is dirt cheap. Grew up in poor schools with mostly free lunch recipients. Parents were mostly shit bags who spent money on typical crap you'd expect.

The idea that it's anything more structural than culturally dysfunctional idiots not investing time in cooking for their kids because it's less work to let the school do it is wishful thinking.
Starting two B2B startups is easy and while there's lessons to be learned in failing, before reading your advice...one must ask/know if you financially succeeded in either via profit/exit? Sorry, the title isn't clear.
It's not the first sokoban game to score based on number of moves.

But heck, writing an original clone of an already-extant game is an interesting exercise especially for beginner game devs. So cherish the victory of having finished and released it!
Oh yeah, things like sale navigator I think? But does that bring in much revenue compared to postings?
Apparently with a global pandemic. /s
Biden is not your mainstream Democratic candidate, in a good way.
Wow, that's terrible IMO. Public schools are quasi-governmental entities with largely fixed costs. Aren't the taxes getting paid either way? Doesn't regulation require a specific number of school days per year? And there are certainly truancy laws on the books.
Not in every US state. I think compulsory liability insurance is only required in 48/50 states.
Gov Cuomo gave his personal word that he would either return them or buy new ventilators for return. I'm sure he is good for his word, but it will be a sticky situation if NY still needs them when CA needs them back.
My wife recently sent me a recipe that had a link right at the top: "Jump to recipe". It was amazing :)
Fortunately (afaik) there are no in/out of network auto mechanics, and the mechanics don't negotiate rates with the companies (again afaik). The barriers to setting up an auto repair shop are also far lower than setting up a hospital.
Clickbait article, they are very similar. On PC the CPU was hardly ever the bottleneck so I expect not much from the options MS is offering there.
If that were true (even within just tech) Cisco would never do layoffs.
That's how I like to code. That's just called good abstraction.

What microservices allow is for different teams to use different technologies and to upgrade components independently. On service might by Python+postgresql, another Ruby, and third also Ruby but two versions ahead.

It feels fast and agile in the short-term to decouple teams like this. In the long-term, it's almost always a maintenance nightmare. You end up with way too many different technologies.

I usually break up my projects into libraries (in Python, independent pip-installable packages) with their own unit tests, and some pretty weak glue in the middle. The service layer is omitted. I design things to scale horizontally too.

I've built apps with a few services, but I've never seen a good example of a microservice architecture that beat good old-fashioned clean abstractions in libraries.

Every few years, someone comes up with a new way to do abstraction, and compares that to no abstraction (rather than good abstraction with the previous model. Microservices seems like the dumbest of the bunch I've run across in my career.
Why does an article have to do both: raise the problem and provide a fix for it? Do you also expect journalists to catch serial killers?
The premium is calculated based on a certain set of risk factors. Miles driven is one of them. If that changes, it's reasonable to ask for a refund.
Political dysfunction seems to be when politicians manufacture divisions between them and their opponents over issues that ought not to be divisive.

A particularly painful example for me was the way Trump said during his campaign that Obamas (and Hillary’s) policy of threatening to bomb Syria if they used chemical weapons was wrong because the US could not afford to police the world, and it was nothing to do with the US. Within weeks of becoming president Assad used chemical weapons on a civilian area, including a maternity clinic, and a Trump ordered air strikes. Clearly in reality he knew he had to do it, but during his campaign the priority was to distance himself from his opponents even on issues where he actually agreed with them.

I worry that we’re seeing similar effects over the response to the virus. The Labour opposition here in the UK seems to be unable to stop criticising the government even when they are following policies driven by a professional medical consensus, and broadly supported by the population. I think this is backfiring on them quite badly.
The correct model is that of bacteria in a petri dish. As long as you have a few bacterium left, they can regrow. And as long as we're getting reports of a few cases in major cities or countries, those cities or countries will lock down. So it doesn't matter how many bacteria are left as much as how long it takes to get the last remainder eliminated.
Cisco doesn't have a monopoly product. Do you expect Facebook to lay off people that are working on Facebook.com too?
I drove through Los Angeles at rush hour last week without slowing below 45 miles per hour at any point. It was like driving inside a pinball game where multiball had just been triggered.

The usual weavers were rocketing across all lanes, suddenly unimpeded by the usual dense line of cars. But you still had the occasional slowpoke traveling waaaay below the prevailing speed of traffic.

It was freaky to watch as the clock ticked over to 5:00 while rolling along the I-5 downtown at full speed. But it was also necessary to stay on alert because there were so many terrible drivers out and about.