skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i'm asking in a very unofficial position.

The company I work for is in the travel industry and we've received a large number of charge backs compared to normal. Our agents are working as best as they can, but our tools were never really designed for 5000+ tickets to be active at 1 time, so it's slow going for them as they contact the guest, then contact the provider, then talk to the guest, etc.

Are you going to offer some lenience to companies who have gotten a huge spike in charge backs just due to an increase time in support tickets?

We are trying to find ways to just refund the guest where we know the hotel has closed, but there's no master list of that so we can't just blindly refund everybody
Is there a succinct explanation of why some terrestial bodies in the solar system (Earth, Titan, Triton, Pluto) have mostly nitrogen atmospheres, but others (Mars, Venus) are mostly carbon dioxide instead?

I mean, aside from specifics about each, what's the pattern that you would apply to an arbitrary planet?
Python library for object oriented headers and headers parsing to objects
Depends on your definition of evil. IMO taking an already-produced product and spending actual resources to weaken it / rebrand it as inferior is worse for everyone as a whole overall, and looks like a really selfish move. It's a stereotypical "late-stage capitalism" meme that betrays the good parts of capitalism and its place in public opinion.
That sounds concerning -- could you email mjahr@stripe.com with more details?
Booking.com applies for help to pay salaries, is grateful for support
One problem with correcting the benchmark datasets is that it's important for the algorithms to be robust to labelling errors as well. But having multiple versions sounds important anyways.
They already removed time left on battery because of that.
it’s free and they do it for everybody

Do you have details on how to take advantage of this? Their website says nothing to to that effect:

https://med.stanford.edu/covid19.html
Are there solutions that don't care about user location? Getting "not available in your country" from Shadow and Nvidia Now.
Additional idea - alongside RAM and SSD size, one chooses also supercharge size while shopping (the same battery, locked to the amount you paid for). Great, isn't it?
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Don't miss out on the opportunity to have Travis Oliphant answer your questions!

Travis will be doing a LIVE video AMA on Twitter today at 6 pm CT!

Travis' Twitter profile (https://twitter.com/teoliphant?s=20)

As the creator of NumPy, SciPy, Numba, the CEO of OpenTeams, Quansight, and founder of Anaconda, Inc., NumFOCUS & Pydata, Travis has more than 20 years of experience working in open source.
I was their lead UX/UI Designer a few years ago, and now's probably a really good time to share this incredible platform. It has a quite extensive Filtering Criteria.

Enjoy. Make a difference!

p.s. Happy to help other startups get their product into top shape.

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We added that last year! (Or maybe the year before...)
Isn't this the genius of capitalism? If your coworker makes a billion dollar product all on their own, you're less likely to become resentful because you own stock in the company and will therefore cash out on the reward.
Thanks for the reminder.

About 25? years ago I bought the book How to make a Telescope and two six-inch blanks and grinding materials and set off to grind my own mirror. I never finished (it was super boring and really humid in the basement of my rented apartment) and I have no idea where the "blanks" are anymore but now I live in an area well outside of town where I can see the Milky Way with the naked eye if my neighbors turn their lights off so it might not be a bad project to restart.

Bonus: I have the room to build a grinding machine so I don't have to do it all by hand.
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Sure. I had in mind something like "average parent IQ" as a top predictor. Next to that, probably almost everything else pales.
Built-in batteries can be replaceable.

Modular batteries can have firmware, and can still be attached to systems that reduce current draw when the battery health diminishes... these are not exclusive or required features of internal batteries.

And reducing current draw to prevent voltage sags is an engineering feature to compensate for the limits of physical science, not an arbitrary business decision. There are alternative solutions, like not booting at all, or letting the system crash. Those are not necessarily good solutions.
To recap, a lot of people think the bay area should have more deaths and more cases, similar to Seattle. The proactive stay-at-home orders are interesting but still seem to be too effective - as if maybe more people are immune already. California has failed at testing for active cases, but there also aren't many deaths in the bay area. Is it completely from the proactive lockdown, or maybe the anecdotes about similar symptoms earlier than expected have merit.

"Safe" meant "maybe we don't need a lockdown as long either" or that "a larger portion of the population than you might think doesn't need to be in lockdown" and that it loses utility to keep them in lockdown. At the very least, it would allow for the Mayors offices in bay area counties, and the Governors offices to take a holistic view at the blanket order - or FUTURE blanket orders when this flares up again throughout the year. But only after antibody tests occurred.
I get that you think you're being clever or something, but being a bad member of this community by using words you know cause harm to people really degrades everyone's experience.
No, that only means it can't be charged will on burst load (turbo boost). Intel's chips can consume > 200% of their TDP during all-core turbo.
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How is it disrespectful? They might be cutting features but they are also cutting the price at the same time. Savvy customers can get superior hardware for a lower price if they decide to patch the firmware themselves.
I mean... this is what Tesla does? All their cars come crippled if you don't pay them more money?

Maybe the only difference is Tesla let's you pay to upgrade and not buy a new Tesla to get some feature?
In Germany, being a high-performer also is rather a stigma...

A top engineer from a top university will barely make more net income than an assembly line worker at the same automotive company in Germany (it’s bit of an exaggeration but not much).

Germany has a very strong “support those that do not perform and make everybody believe that people create equal value”-mentality.

Unless you join a company that has incentive systems in place that reward high-performers (e.g., american companies tend to favor that with their subsidiaries) there is indeed a “regression to mediocracy”. Considering that the average household-income is surprisingly low in Germany (much lower than Austria or Switzerland) this might explain the high productivity.

I am sorry if I sound sarcastic or a bit cynical - but it took me well to my 30s to understand that a large portion of productivity stems from a small fraction of high performing individuals; and it was even harder to overcome the feeling of guilt and shame to actually get compensated for that.

A 10x software engineer making 150k p.a.: outrageous, tax the rich! A soccer player making 50 mio: well, he IS the best, right?
>> I don't know what exactly contributes to this

Proper mental models, tool mastery, love for hyperfocus, brutality of testing, passion for solving interesting, difficult problems, along with the proper work environment involving a proper problem.

The same could be said for Andrew Wiles' process of solving Fermat's Last Theorem, tho in a vastly different arena.

If I had to nail it down to a single characteristic, it would be obsessive tenacity in the pursuit of a high standard of craftsmanship. From that, all else comes with time.
We just revamped our Connect docs... would love to hear any thoughts you have on the revised version. (Feel free to email me directly -- patrick@stripe.com -- and I'll forward your thoughts to the team.)
layoffs.fyi is an email harvester's dream...
Collective ownership is an feature of capitalism?
> Hussein, who has previously reported security issues at several startups, including MoviePass, Remine and Blind, said he reported the exposure to Clearview but declined to accept a bounty, which he said if signed would have barred him from publicly disclosing the security lapse.

seems grey to me
If one wants a function that will compute xy/z when xy doesn't overflow, and yield some arbitrary value (but without other side-effects) when it does, wrapping functions will often be much slower than would be code that doesn't have to guarantee any particular value in case of overflow. If e.g. y is known to be 30 and z equal to 15, code using a wrapping multiply would need to be processed by multiplying the value by 30, computing a truncated the result, and dividing that by 15. If the program could use loosely-defined multiplication and division operators, however, the expression could be simplified to x+x.
This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
So that raises a question, one I ask because I honestly don’t know the answer: have the policy makers who authorized the release of these monies even made a supplemental mechanism for returning it outside of the established parameters for funds distributed as an explicit loan?

Taking your argument of the morality of individual choices at face value: how is one supposed to put that money back? Are they obligated to report this action as they would others? What’s the enforcement mechanism like?

I get your point but it opens up a lot of questions IMO that maybe adds some sediment to the purely moral water being poured out
MongoDB has full ACID support in the Database.
Thanks! Very helpful on all counts. (And thank you for the kind words on the Dashboard... the team has made a lot of progress there.)
Wow that's crazy. In Seattle liquor stores, breweries (take-away only), beer bottle shops, and marijuana stores are all included under the "essential" exemption. I can't imagine the upheaval we'd have if the government had shut them.
This is equity financing, not debt. There's no tab to pick up.
ha, well I've noticed my battery discharges if I play Civ 6, even when plugged in. so that confirms it too.
laughs in tmux
Autocrypt is a sensible approach leveraging PGP but avoiding most of that ceremonial UX. Unfortunately the gnupg project is heading in its own direction with major clients such as Thunderbird and Protonmail following. Few clients actually implement Autocrypt.

The group that has used PGP largely seems to like the ceremony required and chooses not to understand it is an impediment for both pervasive encrypted email and usability for nontechnical users. Hell even for technical users PGP is a hassle.

I'm doing what I can to spread the word on Autocrypt, but nontech types can't or won't switch to the few clients implementing it and the PGP fanbase sees their 6 levels of trust as Zimmerman given dogma that must not be altered under pressure of earthly realities, or security insights developed after the Code was written down.
Unfortunately Facebook and Google also log everything. At least Facebook lets you delete your copy, but Google does not allow even this.
we are working on a blockchain based card processing solution which depends on your volumes. Ping me
Encryption is not signing, and relying on it to tell if someone has interfered with the content of a document has a track record of disaster.

You need to rely on signing for that.

Even if you're using an encryption scheme that claims to preserve integrity.

Signing is easier, because only the sender needs to set it up for it to be effective.

At any rate, I think I see your point, and that's why I chose the word "suffered." People have suffered from not using server side TLS. Practically no one knows of any consequence they've suffered for sticking to plaintext email.
the case where the laptop draws more power than the AC adapter can provide is probably some sort of brief turbo state for the cpu and/or gpu. it can't maintain this for long without overheating.
Honestly, if there is nowt there atm, then a basic simple knocked up app to show what it can do, even very basic - pop on app store for something like a dollar or less and lap up the sales from those curious like everybody else.

As you have the device and plan on doing app stuff, I'd go for that gold rush.
this looks awesome. I wish i could rent machines preloaded with the applications i use. but i guess the incentives for the licensers aren't aligned there.
A friend of mine works in a finance dept at Mayo and is getting furloughed. FTE not a contractor.

Quick edit: since he's been working there for the last 18ish months he has made it clear how poorly run and awful that place is to work for, sentiment is from way before covid.
SQL is designed for rows of flat data. GraphQL is designed for nested data. It's two very different use cases. Trying to say one is better than the other completely misses the point.
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It's the oft-forgotten detail from the original "10x developer" study - it had a whole lot more about importance of teamwork
I started making YouTube videos of them, but gave up pretty fast after realizing the enormity of the project!
That reminds me of the original PowerBook Duo, which couldn’t run plugged in if the battery was missing.
You still don't seem to understand that most of the social distancing was inevitable, not a choice. There is the worst fucking worldwide pandemic going on in over a century now. People are not going to be going about their everyday business. There was always going to be many trillions of dollars in economic damage once COVID-19 reached our shores, period, end of story. You're living in a fantasy land by pretending that none of that was going to happen without the social distancing measures.

I would love to be able to look inside your head and see what you think society would look like right now in the middle of an uncontained global pandemic with everyone just going about business as usual, continuing to pack bars and restaurants, no companies cutting back on jobs, etc. It's an utter, complete fantasy land.
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Certainly not necessary. TB looks to be a bit more economical. The fiber setup is pricey in the second video.

I do love the idea of being distant from primary compute. I run a Threadripper desktop and my mobile option is an old, low-powered laptop from which I can remote into one of several environments hosted at home.
Plenty of HN users post about all those issues without difficulty, and the idea that HN bans people for criticizing VCs is just silly; criticizing VCs is the house special. The issue is ideological rhetoric, internet ranting, and other forms of flamebait. We don't want that because it leads to shitty flamewar threads that are all the same and drive away the best users. On HN, the idea is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

I know that when your comments are moderated, whether by users (through downvotes and flags) or by moderators, the temptation is to feel like you're being suppressed because of your views ("thoughtcrime" is a common term; "groupthink" is another). But if you read the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and think sincerely about the intended use of the site, you'll soon notice how your posts have been breaking that.

In terms of helping YC's business interests, our imperative is simply to try to keep HN a good place for curious conversation on the internet. That's what keeps the community happy and what keeps the best users—the users who come for intellectual curiosity, not smiting enemies. A happy, high-quality community is by far the most valuable thing about HN [1], so it wouldn't make sense for us to optimize for anything else [2]. That's one reason why we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or YC startups are the topic [3].

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I think you completely misunderstood me. I did not copy any content and I have no affiliation to that linked website. I just found the link to the article on reddit and decided to share it on HN, because I found it to be a worthwhile read. I was not aware that they copied the whole article from the NY Times.
I always thought lua and luajit would be great at this but no ones ever done it.
> seemingly counterintuitive notion that organizations could best encourage effective individual performance by rewarding team performance

This works in both directions, unfortunately & almost always accelerates your current direction.

If the team is starting to fall behind, the employees who are the high end of the scale start to lose motivation or develop resentment towards those who are not pulling their weight.

Rational decisions can sometimes be the wrong one in a prisoner's dilemma.
You might have mixed up whose call was "to own the means of production"
Words can cause harm? That's the first time I've ever heard of that. Do they jump out of the screen and slap you across the face?
It's an interesting point. I've met many developers who might be great at what they do, but like to focus on the tech itself (e.g. spending a lot of hours on improving infrastructure or fixing code style), so there's little appreciation from the business owners that don't understand how their work helps earn more money for the business, but at least they feel like they're doing their work the "correct" way.
Delayed Initiation of Remdesivir in a COVID‐19 Positive Patient
Publicly funded healthcare does not work the way you think it does. There is a budget allocated to healthcare every year, if one year the hospitals don't have enough money to cover expenses but that there is still money left in the coffers (for example, due to less electives), then they will end up getting the money they need to operate.

Were it not for for-profit healthcare, the US would almost certainly operate this way.
Thanks for the clarification, I wasn't successful in reading your original comment that way.
I like this Hussein guy though. Glad he acted selflessly. Need more like him.
What are the main differences between Branca and PASETO?

Based on my brief reading of both, it seems like the main differences are:

* Branca has no signing mode, just authenticated encryption (eg. only "local" mode)

* Branca's payload is just arbitrary bytes, whereas PASETO has a defined payload format

* Seems like the same ciphers are used for Branca and PASETO v2/local.

Is that a fair assessment?
If a compiler decides that it's going to process:

unsigned mul(unsigned short x, unsigned short y)
{ return x*y; }

in a way that causes calling code to behave in meaningless fashion if x would exceed INT_MAX/y [something gcc will sometimes actually do, by the way, with that exact function!], the hardware isn't going to have any say in that.
There's this thing called equity that is distributed to co-founders and early employees of startups that serves as a form of collective ownership of the net assets and future profits, as well as decision making of the company. It's great! Genius even. This would be a good thing to read up on!
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Why? If that would be the case they would only sell in the higher price tier. Currently, the more expensive product covers most of the R&D of the cheaper product.
love stripe, but you have a death spiral in your process. I tried to reactivate my account. no longer have the old domain. so I can't contact support because I can't log in. it takes WEEKS to get paid with a new account. after more than five years [on and off] with you, I would have hoped for a better process. #justSayin since you asked.
p.s. i emailed this too.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjwKQCiDgBQ

Oh my goodness, is that what his older videos looked like? He's grown an incredible amount as a storyteller and video producer. Wow
If I were graded solely on quantity, I would produce stuff that only just barely passes the bar of being a pot. (If you take a clump of clay and stick your finger in it, you basically have a pot.) Therefore, I think the story is false.

Nice story though.
I have destroyed three MBP batteries by having the laptop plugged in to the wall 24/7. Luckily Apple always replaced them in warranty for free.
Well if you define a black swan event as important then, sure, it's bound to be important.

"Black swan defining characteristics:

First, it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations(...).

Second, it carries an extreme 'impact'.

Third (...) we concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable."
There's related study work mentioned in Peopleware when they were testing for signs of low and high performing organizations, including a lot on "10x developer" and how the team is more important (because it's also the team that helps high-performers reach the high performance).
Yes.

My wife works at an orthopedic office as a PA and they're talking about how they'll probably have to work weekends just to catch up with the backlog of surgeries.
Angela Merkel draws on science background in Covid-19 explainer
If people weren't messy and went about infecting each other left and right, healthcare workers wouldn't be under this kind of strain, and I wouldn't blame them for just going home and saying fuck it, they didn't start this and they're in my opinion under _NO_ obligation to lift that burden beyond what can be considered a normal call of duty in any other job. It's simply unfair to say "Oh, yes, I get to go home after my 8 hour workday, because I'm not a doctor, but _YOU_ chose to be a doctor so you're have to work yourself to the bone while I sit on the couch and infect my friends while watching the game."

Childcare, if the fact that well educated people with good jobs and (assuming) reasonable income is in need of childcare, is not a demonstration of how wrong a society we've constructed.. Sure, in prehistory, some had to stay back when them while others hunted, but we didn't need to keep that structure in place as we progressed.

How is it not crazy that we have constructed society in such a way that one has to offload them to someone else to be considered "a productive member of society".

How is is not entirely broken that, despite the enormous amount of wealth generated in the world, people still starve, and there's pretty much no help for them if they lose their jobs?

Community does not have to mean that we physically come together, it can mean that we pull the load we can, we contribute and share, we treat each other well and respect each other.
> Why the hell would they do this?

Is the basis to half of the software industry.

e.g. The cost of developing and installing the full Enterprise version of Windows is the same that to develop and install the Home version. Still, Microsoft took the time and effort to create the different versions, to test them, etc.

For some reason, it seems more outrageous when it applies to hardware.

I have no answer if this is an ethical move or not. But, it seems a moral paradox that requires some extra though even if market segmentation makes monetary sense.