skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you really think this president will issue a moratorium on rent?
They allow multiple addresses and domains if you pay for premium, its not per address but a monthly fee which includes the functionality of handling them. Their UI is actually really friendly for multiple addresses unlike for example gmail.
> both depend on ads

True, but their value to advertisers depends on users. Facebook is likely seeing a massive spike in (ad-viewing) users, whereas Google a much more modest one. I'm sure Google Search and YouTube have gone up, but the former won't have gone up much, and the latter has not yet been profitable for Google in the first place.

> I'm wondering why one is tightening the belt and other is moving full speed on expansion

Neither needs to tighten belts. Both have enormous amounts of cash.
Could these be the drivers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22885689
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22886182
>You have been given the citations you asked for

I disagree. I see a lot of speculation not actual proof.

>you want something specific but you haven’t said what. What are your criteria for something you wouldn’t just dismiss?

How about proof to back up these claims? It's amazing how some people can be so invested in a story that they'll throw basic logical reasoning out the window.
> Sandberg announced last week or so that they are going to do accelerated hiring spree

That was a message to the stock market. In reality I haven't heard from a Facebook recruiter in a month now.
That's the thing about tech of that era, a moderately equipped machine shop can build almost any of it.

If there was a big crisis, We could retreat back to 1930 level of technology with relative ease in fact, maybe even later. That gives us radio, telephones, telegraphy, et al. All that tech can be made in small workshops.
No, I don't think that's rational at all.

Part of what you're saying is right: it's rational to cooperate to achieve goals.

However, you're wrong in 2 ways:

1. Group identification is not a necessary component of cooperation. I can vote to support gay rights without being gay. I can vote to support gun freedom without owning a gun. You're using the vague word "align" to mean both identifying as part of a group and cooperating, but these are not the same thing.

2. Your post is only looking at cooperating toward goals that arise from shared identification as part of a group. This is a myopic view: there are lots of people who despite identifying as part of the same groups, have different, incompatible goals. This is exactly why not identifying as part of a group is rational: if you identify as part of a group, then you will have the human impulse to take actions that achieve the goals of the group, even if those goals are incompatible with your own goals.

For example: I find myself cooperating with a certain political party more often than not--I've fairly consistently voted for them, and even worked for some of their political campaigns. But I don't identify as part of that party. This means that when someone criticizes that political party, I'm not offended: they're not criticizing me, because I don't identify as part of that party. I don't take it personally. And it also means that when I disagree with that political party, I don't fall prey to the Granfalloon technique. If I disagree with them (and I do) I don't feel any pressure to conform my views to the political party. I can rationally support my own goals, not theirs.
How to port 100k lines of Python 2 to Python 3
More like getting kicked out for failing your mortgage despite knowing what you're getting into.
HN is a great resource with plenty of important news posted, along with the HighScalability blog [1] and SoftwareEngineeringDaily podcast [2].

1. http://highscalability.com/

2. https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/

Other than that, reading the blogs of the various vendors is how I keep up (using Feedly with RSS). The modern projects are Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, Azure DW, MemSQL, Clickhouse, YellowBrick with older projects being Vertica, Teradata, Greenplum. It's also useful to follow the "new" distributed SQL projects like CockroachDB, Citus, TiDB, Vitess, Yugabyte.
I would take the other side of your bet in a heartbeat. There is no love for FAANG in France, especially when they are paying fewer taxes than local businesses.

The respectful admiration that people have in the US for big businesses and successful entrepreneurs doe not exist in France. Instead, there is the same feeling for the rebellious, for the one the fighting against big businesses, for the people.
I dropped a hint right there that the AC frequency is definitely not 60 Hz where I am.
I'm starting to doubt this.

What about Sweden vs Norway -- sure, the data is 4X worse for Sweden, but we are only talking thousands of infections and hundreds of deaths. Maybe this can't scale to bigger countries though.
What are you getting at? You are dangerously close to referring to human beings as “useless eaters.” [0]

—-

[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/useless_eater
That's what they said at the start of the financial crisis too. I'm too tired to write an essay, but wait until there's a de facto default on college debt.
Content moderators for the election to make sure Uncle Joe wins?
If your million/billion dollar deals are swayed by social media and jokes, you need better risk management.
As an anecdote, I got an email from a Facebook recruiter yesterday. They're still hiring, though I'm not sure at what rate and for how long.
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A long time ago, before MyPy, I did a python schema checker for JSON. It grew into argument checking too: https://pypi.org/project/obiwan/

Simple stuff like:

Person = { "name": str, "age": int }

The basic idea was to use a file full of obiwan types to document the rest api. The schema was both human-readable and valid python. The api could then trivially check the schema. Once the schema is checked, of course, its safe to go walk the json knowing that things aren't going to crash on you etc.

It worked great. Still works great. I still prefer the syntax to that of MyPy.

No real adoption, of course :) But fun to remember what could have been :)
I might need some help with Blender, rendering minecraft worlds. I can’t get the lighting and textures right.

It’s for a side project, creating isometric renders of builds to create minecraft tutorial videos
This is a very stupid question and I apologize in advance, but could somebody explain to me (as if I were a five year old) what this does?

Like literally what does it do? I'm assuming there is a theoretical use case, even if as a toy project just for shits and giggles but I'm completely at a loss.
That’s definitely true, but can you blame them? They’ve been psychologically assaulted and bombarded from all digital directions to buy those symbols. It’s not like Facebook and YouTube are showing ads that encourage people to save their money.
But in Sweden vs Norway, we are talking about 4x the case numbers adjusted for population, and a few hundred dead.

The data might turn much worse, but right now I don't think it's bad for Sweden.
I am not so sure about that. Maybe you can relate a little to the needs of mammals but fish and reptiles are wired totally differently. For example as mammals we like touch from our parents and others because our parents took care of us. Reptiles or fish who never even saw their parents don’t have that concept. It’s foreign to them.
job title inflation is a thing.
You can archive most site on the internet on archive.is for free.

Most of the time, archive.is can defeat the paywall and save a copy of what you see for ever.

As a matter of fact, I think people should directly post archive.is links on HN instead of the original.
240hz is butter smooth. But if there's a 200ms delay, then you will still lose before you even see the enemy. The problem here is buffering. Stadia can produce 60hz video, but that doesn't mean you will see it immediately. It first needs to be encoded, buffered, transmitted, buffered, decoded, buffered, sent to the screen, buffered, refreshed, and then you'll see it. And unless people find a way to increase the speed of light, the transmission will always take time proportional to the distance between Stadia's servers and you.
Creative Engineering Mindset: Creativity and Curiosity in Engineering
My wording could be better I admit and yes I have looked at the NYC numbers that show 86% of deaths are due to underlying illnesses, source: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/04/07/new-yor...

Being old and having underlying illnesses is by far the biggest reason for deaths in NYC, with Hypertension and Diabetes being among the top risk factors.

Worryingly, in Sweden in the capital Stockholm, around 15% of the staff caring for the elderly have had Corona virus.
rational stigmatization isn't a bad thing.
I’ve asked about this last week because I was curious and considering whether the switch would be worth it.

Very few answers and this who did unanimously said that cobol doesn’t pay well and is outsourced to sweat shops overseas.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22854225

Sorry but I’m not buying it. There is a reason why there are no cobol developers anymore.
> It’s just using the down economy in your favor to sell mediocre stocks (everybody looses when the market sags so much) to buy really low stocks/funds that either recover before everything else or grows tremendously from a tremendous loss.

If you can reliably identify good vs mediocre stocks, why aren't you a billionaire instead of messing around with pennies in your 401k?
I'm a 43 year old software engineer. I definitely do not have the ability to focus on coding (and mathematics) the way I did 20 years ago. It's difficult to describe why exactly, but it's sort of like my ability to reason formally is more prone to breaks in concentration and lapses. I can still do what needs to be done but it takes longer and I have less patience, especially for bit-twiddling.

At the same time, I think I'm a better programmer than I ever was. The programming abstractions I design are better for years of work with different systems. Also, not being able to fit everything in my head as easily helps me write code that is more modular with simpler pieces.

So I feel like I've lost the ability to do the trickiest stuff, but that is a small part of coding and I'll take the skills in overall design any day.
> Ideally, I'd like to leave this world with an extremely high dose of a psychedelic drug.
I'd be afraid of the potential for a bad trip.
> All votes shall be counted by honest and stalwart men of virtue

Hah, had a good laugh out of this. Thanks for sharing.
Lol, nice try.
Architects and engineers are turning old shipping containers into mobile ICUs
I take the "Ok boomer" to be the canary in the coal mine, or atleast I hope so, because without the young people revolting this planet is royaly screwed.
Yep, we took advantage of that at Netflix. Our average time from first contact to walking in the door was about two weeks if you wanted to move as quickly as we did.

We got a few folks who were in the final stage at Google, and we contacted them, interviewed them, made the offer, and got them in the door before Google ever got back to them.
how loud my roommates can be when i'm trying to fall asleep
There may be more page views ("supply") right now, especially on certain types of social media, but I suspect that advertising demand has taken a huge hit.

Lots of companies out there, especially retail, are taking huge hits and I would suspect that an advertising budget is one of the first things to be reduced.
It's important that we can't buy smaller good smartphones even if we want.
In addition, recently smartphone's screen is getting bigger without expanding the body. AQUOS R2 compact is smaller device but has 5.2 inch screen.
Which is your favorite paper?
I've heard from at least 2 since the lockdown began, so anecdata all around :)
Because there is a shortage of food, and a glut of cars
> Without that, we risk losing all of the progress we’ve made flattening the curve.

I personally believe that the worst could be done in many places.

New York was too slow to institute controls and stopped just short of catastrophe. But, it's likely (based on extrapolation from serological data elsewhere), that 15% of people in NYC are immune and 20% will be soon. A disease with an Rt of, say, 1.8 is still scary and still requires controls and distancing, but it's a whole different ballgames from one with an Rt of 2.5. (-0.5 Rt for reduced susceptibility, -0.2 Rt for seasonal effects, say).

> There are also a growing number of experts saying that we’ll be in flux for the rest of 2020 unless we establish that survivors can’t be reinfected, which hasn’t been confirmed yet.

The case reports we have and clinical experience suggest reinfection is very rare. The bigger question is lasting immunity. Will most people be totally protected for 3 years like with a typical cold coronavirus? Or can we expect more like the 5+ years seen with SARS-CoV-1? And even if people become susceptible again, will the disease be less severe?

I also believe that in the long run, 2019-nCoV will become "just another" endemic common cold virus, and will kill small numbers of people every year just like the other endemic respiratory coronaviruses (229E, OC43 etc) do. I bet those would be pretty fearsome introduced into an immunologically naive population. Which really sucks-- say, 10% more severe respiratory illness forever is not good. But I think it's the path we're on unless we get a truly terrific vaccine, and I don't think we can bet on that.
The market seems to be pricing in a full recovery. Anything less than a return to normalcy when it comes to demand or unemployment by end of year will send markets lower than now, I’d imagine...
Reversibility is the key to further understanding in physics.
He said "funding secured", the board knew nothing of what was going on and scrambled to make it retroactively true.

> because they put too much stock in Elon's twitter feed.

That would be a wonderful argument, if the company had not put into an actual 8K that Elon's twitter is a source of official information about the company. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000119312513...

"Tesla investors and others should note that we announce material information to the public about our company, products and services and other issues through a variety of means, including Tesla’s website, press releases, SEC filings, blogs and social media, in order to achieve broad, non-exclusionary distribution of information to the public. We encourage our investors and others to review the information we make public in the locations below as such information could be deemed to be material information."

"For additional information, please follow Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s Twitter accounts: twitter.com/elonmusk and twitter.com/TeslaMotors"
Bone meal can be applied topically to your teeth to help soothe aches.
A cop married to a nurse could easily belong to the top 10% of households, so you're not exactly contradicting the parent post.
But YouTube traffic must have increased, and Android app usage as well.. Google is more than a search engine
The Age of Bugs (2008)
>Wang's
It's actually Wong.
Setting Up Windows for Development
I do most of my thinking and planning on Trello boards. It almost feels like a part of my brain.

Ever since Trello was acquired by Atlassian, I've been planning to replace it - in the long term - waiting for signals that Atlassian is degrading my experience. It hasn't happened yet but I am assume that it's a matter of time.

I've been wanting an open source Trello clone with a native desktop client for a while now. Going to give this a try.

First impression: promising but seems a bit clunky/ugly compared to Trello. Hope I can contribute to the development in some way.
Economics and related industrial, business, and commercial activities are designed to systematically control and subjugate individuals by imposing a way and manner of thinking that effectively short-circuits individual thought and responsibility - one feels obligated to deliver arbitrary end-goals because of a misplaced sense of "responsibility" despite having limited (in some cases, zero) real/effective ownership in the created output, while still feeling the brunt of "production support" and sometimes even the product decisions in and of themselves.

In spite of this, the owners of capital still reap all the reward, in spite of their distance from the actual decision making that actually shapes and molds the end-result.
Emacs user here. I think Jethro Kuan's modern emacs:

https://github.com/jethrokuan/emacs-workshop/blob/master/mod...

is pretty good as an introductory resource.

Disclaimer: I picked up Emacs from Jethro Kuan
> Why do you think then that EVs have a "profitability cliff" after which it will just magically work, bubble capital access or no bubble capital access?

When Tesla started out, there was no model for this. Nobody had ever made an electric car that was reasonably competitive with gasoline powered cars. Nothing before Tesla was that fast with that much range. They might have spent billions of dollars trying to develop it and failed. It's hard to raise that much money when there is that amount of risk. But once you're actually doing it, the risk is proved out and there is a known viable model for success and all that's left is to mass produce the design. So now they've essentially done that for sedans and we're waiting on trucks.

> To rephrase the question: what will change in the structure of reality that will make EVs a great business?

Have a look at oil prices right now. They're a lot lower than they were end of last year. That's what a reduction in demand does. The reduction in demand came from the coronavirus, but you get a similar effect from replacing a relatively small percentage of vehicles with electric ones, because they use 0% as much oil as ICE vehicles.

In theory low oil prices are bad for electric cars, but they're also bad for oil producers, who are then making dramatically less money. And the amount of money they're making is the primary lobbying force against having a carbon tax. The other impediment is the pinch the consumer would feel at the pump, which low oil prices also address, as does a larger number of consumers driving electric cars. Take all those things together and it becomes a lot easier to get a carbon tax.

So you build enough electric cars to make the oil industry bleed enough that they're no longer strong enough to resist the need of everyone else in the world to kill them, they are then killed, and ~100% of new cars become electric. Which makes electric cars a good business to be in.

But first you have to get over the hump.
OnePlus 7 Pro here. Just too big for one thumb to get to all the corners it needs to go to. Not a deal breaker for me, but slightly smaller would be great. Not sure how the pop socket would fix that.
Just to give a visual example of my own experiences, the first image is a typical shot from 2017 iPhone 8, 12MP, shot at ISO 20 (lowest possible noise), and the second image is from a 2011 Lumix GF2 Mirrorless, 12MP, shot at ISO 200.

The first image is a splotchy mess, while the second image retains fine details, only the outside edges are blurry due to the toy lens I used. The other big differences that people are quick to notice, depth-of-field and focal length.

[1] https://www.naut.ca/dropbox/IMG_1827.JPG

[2] https://www.naut.ca/blog/content/images/2019/09/P1040326.jpg
If you are ugly, then your life will be harder. The converse is also true.
You can use Vim style macros in Intellij with the Vim plugin
shhh don't tell them
Seems like doing this after handling the virus in the US would be more pertinent in order of priority, but the White House is more hell bent on finding a scapegoat to take the blame.

Maybe poor safety standards in China’s lab did lead to the virus getting out. There’s probably a bunch of other impacted countries that would like an explanation too. There’s plenty of time to do this after the problem first gets fixed.

This is like having Chernobyl explode, going “sucks for you” at the USSR, ignoring the situation, then when the radioactive dust drifts into the country, obliviously scramble half-baked solutions, then blame Chernobyl for exploding. There’s some delusional world out there where because I didn’t originate the problem that exempts me from having to deal with it and automatically makes it go away. Yeah... go tell that to climate change.
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I fully agree that test accuracy is a problem and that cause of death when Corona virus is involved varies a lot between countries.

Excess mortality could be one way of getting more information, though I don’t know when those data are available.
This explains everything. Central banks all over the world will do everything they can to prevent deflation, which means inflation absolutely will happen.

Market priced simply included that as a fact. Verbal interventions work!
I dont think anyone thinks hes going to
The Psychological Price of Limitless Information
It's both dificult and rare to store months worth of food.

Most people have an average of 3-4 years worth of car. Ownership runs 7-8 years, or a mean of 3.5 - 4 years remaining ownership.

People run out of food long before they run out of car.
> it’s certainly not crazy to bet that you make more money off Netflix vs Disney

when the price of a share is high vs its earnings, there's actually low chance of making money. Buying it when it's already high actually leads to a loss of money when the earnings expectations don't eventuate. One would need to have purchased NFLX during it's hayday years, when nobody expected it to be as big as it is today, and sell today when it's trading at high P/E ratios, to make a hefty profit.

Disney, on the other hand, is a distressed company. It's price is much lower than the assets it holds, and the operations it normally conducts. This means buying disney right now is taking on a high risk, but this risk comes with rewards, when disney resumes its business (in a year or so i presume).

So if you're a risk taker, disney is a better buy than NFLX, and i would dare say, you'd earn much more with DIS than NFLX will ever return to you.
We should clone attractive people to enhance the population genetics present on the planet right now.
Giving food to the needy and taking care of the biosphere makes sense if you don't value human life?

You lost me there, pal.
I was incorrect. Recently they have been lobbying for an expansion.
Serious question: am I the only one worried that this is yet another EEE strategy, typical of MS?
Is this quora now?
I'd prefer if we don't have this kind of question here.
How can anyone even know that they are the only people that know a piece of information, it's not like they're going around asking people if they know it or not.
If you're talking about the past-past (say up until the mid-nineties) IMHO you're wrong. Pre-mass-internet there wasn't really anywhere to share code. People were swapping floppies, or dialing bulletin boards. The competetiveness was absolutely real.

Also, pride.. If you wanted to figure out how an effect was done, either you reverse engineered the binary, or you figured it out on your own, based on your own experience and the occasional hint.

You have to remember that the demoscene largely grew out of the cracking scene (well, that + Compunet) in the mid-eighties, where _being first_ to release a cracked version of a game was of great importance. Likewise, being first to create a new effect for a demo.
https://archive.md/SIXk8
Doesn't it sound more like "We can"?
my car also doesn't have BT, i use a cheap adapter to charge and have audio out at the same time. It's not great, but in your case you would also have to run two wires, so not really a difference.
An architecture of having both row-based database and column-based data might also be interesting to explore. This post explains how they work together.
https://pingcap.com/blog/delivering-real-time-analytics-and-...