skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can corroborate. Schools care about GPA too much even in the face of work experience (most doctors on admission committees have never had another job..) + MCAT score. Median GPA is 5% of the grading in the US News research rankings and that matters a ton to the schools. Went from software to med school, now in my second year (4 since software). 3.67 GPA (bioinformatics)/ 3.55 BioChemMathPhysics GPA with 100th percentile MCAT. ~140 hrs clinical experience when I applied. 20 applications, 6 interviews, 4 waitlists (to rejection), 1 immediate post-interview rejection (screw you too NYU), 1 acceptance.

If you read about this CEO and are thinking about making the switch be very realistic with your chances, particularly about your GPA like parent post said. Without a 3.7+ you're going to have a tough time, and there's no guarantee that you won't spend 2+ years and get rejected. You'll have to overperform on the MCAT. Expect bias against your work experience (only software really). Whenever I said I used to be a software engineer you could see the light leave some of the interviewers eyes... Though if you're FAANG or another name-brand company I wouldn't expect the same.
I think Amazon is prioritizing based on product category. That's entirely reasonable given the size of their catalog.

The problem is, any single category will have any number of non-essential items along with the essential ones. Case-in-point was a D*ldo just mentioned by John Oliver on Last Week Tonight that Amazon is shipping. As I understand it, sex toys are categorised under "Health and Personal Care" (or something similar) so it makes sense that this category is still shipping with priority.

Side note: I think there's a valid (no doubt controversial) argument that while sex toys are not "essential", they are indeed helpful at time when everyone is confined to their homes for literally months on end. But that's another debate.
See, by NAS HDD they mean "fit for the rapper Nas," so any problems these users have are their fault for not being Nas.

This is hyperbole, but "network attached storage" could basically refer to every hard drive now and not be false advertising. No matter how unacceptable you view this, it's the kind of shit hardware manufacturer's often do.
I am sure there will be some arguments along that line or similar, so we will see, but the situation would be entirely different had the stock been at say, $220 today.
None of the ibuyers are going to survive. They need a liquid market for their business model to survive. Covid19 is the blackswan event that i am sure their risk models didn't account for. Its not like we had a nationwide downturn in whole real estate sector 10 years earlier.
After Dark's "flying toasters" weren't just to prevent burn-in on your Trinitron.
What's the motivation?

I see plenty of motivation in some states to try to minimize the potential magnitude of the problem, or avoid "bad" numbers of infection rates.

I don't see a motivation for "milking" the crisis. The current actions by governments are restricting economic activity and revenue streams. Many states only make money on sales tax and that's probably not going super well right now.

I agree that there is hesitation to do widespread testing, but I don't know which government would intentionally cause a recession using this virus as an excuse.
(Note to the KeyDB people who are probably reading this. On your front page, "Atlernative" is a typo.)
No Linux?
I’m curious to know to what extent these shutdowns are affecting alcohol sales.

In New Zealand, which is still under full lockdown, supermarkets and dairies still sell wine and beer.
You can have access to the google play store and browse with firefox, use fastmail for email, use maps.me for maps, and text messaging + a million and one different messaging apps.

Then google knows what? That you installed fastmail, firefox, and maps.me?
Management and politicians are notorious for doing this; if there is threat of a union forming, historically the management’s first move is to sow discord between immigrants and natives, French and Irish, or black and white- anything to keep people from forming groups based on actual shared economic interests. 90% of the acrimony in politics is just this phenomenon writ large. Urban vs rural, native vs immigrant, it’s just a control mechanism.
There are tons of people out there who will handle these things for their communities without expecting an exorbitant amount of money. Your scenario is also completely different from someone trying to buy up the existing supply so that he can gouge people.
Apple software is pretty nice with their user experience. But I feel like 90% of this complaint stems from people comparing a $200 Android phone with $1000 iPhone.

Happens in laptops too. Its just silly. Go in the same price range and then make a judgement.
If what you care about is money, why do tech at all? Sure, it pays well, but not ibanker-well. The replacement-level investment banker is doing to make a multiple of all but the best-compensated engineers.
it's like a watching a 1-player version of Pong only the only player is Comp
Ok then my memory was correct about the versions at least. Long-press or not, the arrow is still a great indication that there's an action besides a single click - wish everyone implemented something of the like.
GitHub has completed its acquisition of NPM
I made a tutorial series a few years back:

- episode 0: introduction => https://mickael.kerjean.me/2017/03/18/emacs-tutorial-series-...

- episode 1: the basics => https://mickael.kerjean.me/2017/03/19/emacs-tutorial-series-...

- episode 2: org-mode => https://mickael.kerjean.me/2017/03/20/emacs-tutorial-series-...

- episode 3: interesting built in features => https://mickael.kerjean.me/2017/03/21/emacs-tutorial-series-...

- episode 4: installing plugins => https://mickael.kerjean.me/2017/03/22/emacs-tutorial-series-...

- episode 5: extending emacs with elisp => https://mickael.kerjean.me/2017/03/23/emacs-tutorial-series-...
I find it interesting that the lens matters much on a 2 megapixel sensor.

On a lot of the photography forums, people talk about how much a lens "out resolves the camera's sensor", meaning that any improvement in the lens will go unnoticed until they upgrade the sensor. They often use the DXOMARK score (perceived megapixels?) as a metric of this. It seems to make sense but I really have no idea how much truth is behind this!
Shareholder lawsuits provide money to all those shareholders who were damaged as a result of the tortious action. In this case, that includes shortsellers, current and former shareholders who sold their shares, and current and former shareholders who may have purchased their shares on the false news and then sold them for losses when the truth was revealed.

Yes, lawyers make a lot of money compared to individual shareholders. But in a class-action lawsuit, they make less overall money then they would if each shareholder had their own lawyer, and it costs the company far less to defend one shareholder class action then several thousand (and this is the entire point of class actions).
You can still use the google play store and switch email, maps, and browser and give almost no data to google and anyone can install apps in google play.
Have you considered that I might be thinking of the problem that it will be hoarded up by some individuals who have neither the illness nor the ailment? Few who needs it for any reason will be able to get their hands on it. That's my thinking, more or less.
If you must err, err on the side of liberty, freedom, and privacy.
It's not the same code - OpenZFS has substantially diverged from ZFS v28 which was last common version between OpenZFS and Solaris, that's one thing.

Another is that all the porting work in ZoL that isn't already GPLv2 is CDDL - and Oracle is not the copyright owner. In fact, the copyright owners would not want to change the license to GPLv2, unless maybe it was done as dual license.
Many people fail to become doctors and or lose their license for various reasons. So, it’s a huge gamble in the US that can easily cause massive financial issues.
I think it's a bit unfair to blame a people for every sin of their government, especially when the government is not a democracy.

To me, it seems that there are people that you know are racist, but that's a smaller and smaller fraction of people as time goes on. When someone adds themselves to the list, then you can be disappointed, sure, especially if they were someone you respected. But you should then go on to deal with people who are not on the list.

And as for "just let him be"... you exposed him on HN, which might matter rather a lot to a VC.
I think the filesystem supported naming files PRN, CON, AUX, LPT, COM1, etc. just fine, it's just DOS wouldn't let you "get to" them because it (and by "it" I'm not sure if COMMAND.COM or lower level DOS functions) parsed those characters as special devices.

I think you could make those files manually in a disk or sector editor just fine, and it might even show up in DIR, but of course accessing them via normal DOS usage would be hard if not impossible.
Sure, but I think they are tracing the worst case scenario based on the underlying assumption that the virus increases exponentially.

What going to happen is indeed inherently uncertain so we pretty much have to prepare for the worst plausible series of events. Once it becomes clear that a better outcome is fairly likely, then the plans can shift.
> "Rich monopolies like Google and Facebook are going to do fine."

Both of those are primarily dependent on ads for revenue and ad spending is already dropping precipitously, as far as I've heard?
I Have a Crush on Cuomo
It was a bad comment. Ignore them and move on. I'm not sure why someone that makes a bad comment on Twitter deserves eternal punishment.
Everyone seems happy on facebook.
"99% luck and 1% talent" essentially means Buffet's success is down to luck.

There are many many people who were born as privileged as Buffet was, who got as many doors opened as he did, but there is only one Buffet. He may be extremely lucky, or he is a genius. It's impossibly hard to quantify the reasons.

> Basically, if Buffet's father was anything other than a US Rep and businessman, he never would've stood a chance. He would be working 40 hour weeks making someone else rich like the rest of us.

Mark Cuban was a counter example. Or Oprah Wilfrey. They stood a chance despite not having rich parents.
It's certainly possible other countries have passed the US since I last looked, the exact leaderboard does seem to vary depending on things like which country is hitting the biggest roadblocks in their test rollout right now. (Though Italy's lead in total per-capita tests is mainly because they were the first Western country to have their outbreak hit catastrophic levels and they ramped up testing fairly aggressively early on in response to that. I presume their testing wasn't so great prior to the collapse of their healthcare system, since they went from reporting only three cases to disaster alarmingly quickly.)
Your point doesn't really make sense, because the purpose of a study like this is not for making treatment decisions; it's for making research decisions.

I don't see anything in the study that discredits HCQ as a potential treatment, and therefore it makes sense to keep researching.
There is well off, and then there is paying 400+k to several schools while also supporting their other kids and retirement savings etc.

A family in the top 5% of incomes with one child and zero financial issues and can pull it off. But, that’s well past just middle class.
a case that essentially triples the size of your phone doesnt seem like a solution
Why are people so entitled to be made whole for harm caused to them by someone else acting with the intent to cause harm?

Because the law says they are. You're arguing against more than 200 years of Western law that underpins the basis of the Western economic system.
>“Trigger Happy is a two-player deathmatch game I made when I was 12 years old, using the Klik & Play game-making tool.

Ha, I played that game when I was around that age myself. It's one of those things that you don't remember until you see it again and the memories come back.

The article conveniently has a download link included.
I've worked with someone who couldn't tell the difference between a coworker and a competitor, and I hope I never do again.
You don't really need hoarders to have a problem. If only twice as many households are cooking now than before, instead of stores having say 10% slack, they run out half way through the week. If you have four times as many people cooking, you run out your slack in two days.

So the store increases their orders. But their suppliers only have X% slack. So they have to ramp up too. The whole supply/demand balance takes time to stabilize.

The same number of people are eating the same calories as before, but the supply chains for those calories have shifted rapidly. Same for toilet paper: No one's pooping on company time anymore!

Yes there are some hoarders, but we'd get temporary problems even with 0% hoarders.
Oh, I met the Zume guy last year. His whole thing was to sell the idealized future without worrying about whether it was feasible in the present or even the medium term - if he could just convince people to keep funding it, he’d make it happen. If an engineer said - real example
here - you can’t charge an electric delivery truck in 5 minutes without melting the charge plug, he’s say “then we’ll refrigerate the charge plug,” they say you’d need more than refrigeration you’d need to pump liquid nitrogen through it, he’s say “great, we’ll pump liquid nitrogen through it”

Sort of like the Fyre Festival of startups, really

Someone must have said “pizza delivery isn’t green because of all those boxes” and his response to was have someone invent a new box. And then ship the first attempt without worrying about whether it’s food safe! Well, it sounded great as a slide in a pitch deck.

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Thanks for the encouragement.

I was also eying his other books because I realized that the principles of those design also extends to society, community, and governance. Meaning, with the right living architecture, we can have permissionless community, a lot of similarities to the "Te" chapters of the Tao Te Ching.

I know one of the things that keep coming up is how can one balance between global and local concerns. Our society is coming apart at the seams with a culture war, and the pandemic highlights that tension between global and local. Everything I have read about Alexander's work suggests that he cracked open a way to pull that off.
For updates, you hit the update button. When something goes wrong, same as others.
yes, i should have been more specific that i meant the excess levels of concentration we see in many so-called capitalistic economies.

edit: should also note that capitalism expects wealth concentration, but it's not a pre-condition.
We know this is not true because the mutation rate is too low.
People who don't have stock in Tesla and profit when the stock price goes down think that Musk doing things that make the stock price go up is bad. People who have stock in Tesla and profit when the stock price goes up aren't going to be particularly mad when Musk makes the stock price go up, and they're the only ones who get to participate.

Holding a short position is similar to having a friend with a spare old car. Their lazy kid is going to get a job and their license eventually, and they definitely want to have the car for that, but who knows when that will be. You buy it for $3,000, promising they can have the car back whenever they want. But you sell it immediately to a third party. You're planning to buy them a replacement car on the used market when the car depreciates (they'll never know the difference), hopefully next year that old gas guzzler engine is even less popular and that model year's styling is considered even more dated. When your friend asks for the car back, you'll buy one for $2,000 and make a tidy profit! What happened to these folks was that the car didn't depreciate from $3,000 to $2,000 like they expected it to, that model had the lead role in a blockbuster movie and overnight, it became a coveted classic car. Turns out there are only a couple hundred still on the road, and now, if your friend asks for it back, you'll have to go to a big auction and pay $50,000 to replace it, suffering a loss 4700% greater than the profit you expected to make.

This is a lawsuit for car owNers, not car owe-ers. The owners are $47,000 richer, they don't want to sue the car manufacturer, regardless of any underhanded dealings that got it that movie role.
It's kind of dividends but without approval from majority of shareholders and bondholders. Company draws down credit line, shareholders receive cash, lawyers receive their %. Shareholders still have same amount of shares, win-win for everyone.
She moved in with 17 roommates for the company and to save money.Then came Covid
> "It's entirely fair to conclude" does not mesh with "Time will tell whether this was the right approach".

It doesn't mesh because you're omitting, "...could have led to substantially less economic loss".

It won't be years before good conclusions can be drawn. Some states are already reporting that cases have already gone past their peak. Most countries that had outbreaks in March are seeing rates of cases going down. We'll probably be able to have a good idea of the scope of this pandemic by the end of summer.

The economic harm is not hallucinatory. What is hallucinatory about 3 million people out of work in the span of a few weeks? You write that these people can go back to work when the crisis is over, but that is not true. If your employer goes out of business, or has too few customers to sustain as many employees, people are going to have to find new jobs. You also write about the loss of productivity in terms of the people who died due to the virus. That is something to account for, but the bulk of the virus' victims are not of working age.

Whether or not you're comfortable with valuing human live does not alter the fact that we put value on life all the time. Whether it's deciding insurance payouts, worker's compensation, or healthcare spending we're constantly expressing the value of lives in dollar terms. Current predictions put the economic impact per life saved by social distancing at ~$190 million. Even if we assume that social distancing is only responsible for half the economic downturn, we're still talking about nearly $100M per death averted. Saying that this is excessive, and concluding that restrictions were excessive is entirely fair. How much money would a state funded healthcare system spend on its worst case patients? A lot less than $100 million.
I've been using Emacs for everything since highschool and through University and my career. The best way to get used to it is to bootstrap with tutorials and then just keep using it.
I learned a lot about it from doing basic projects and then homework assignments, and then at work.

I started out by following basic tutorials, like this one [0], and working my way up. You may want to find a guide to get themes setup, and some rough edges ironed out.

Alternatively, you could dive into distributions. I highly recommend Spacemacs, and have written an article about it [1]. It is a lot of learning especially if you're familiar with vim. The github page is also a great introduction [2]. I would recommend using the develop branch over master, as master tends to be very stale.

I have also heard good things about Doom emacs, another vim style distro.

[0] http://www.jesshamrick.com/2012/09/10/absolute-beginners-gui...

[1] https://dpbriggs.ca/blog/spacemacs-for-fun-and-profit

[2] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs#introduction
It's not.

There's no such thing as fair allocation of a scarce resource. Offering it at a surcharge is, in my not-disingenuous opinion, the least unfair option for this particular one.

Outright reserving it for tall people is discrimination against the short. There are other reasons someone might want the emergency row which are just as legitimate, knee surgery leaps to mind. Should we make a comprehensive list? How do we determine if someone is just lying to get the premium leg room?

I'm open to the argument that the federal government should mandate a larger minimum seat distance. But then, I'm not poor.

As I said, there's no fair way to allocate a scare resource, only degrees of unfairness.
It stutters on iGPU graphics but not on dGPU graphics, both on firefox.
It was an easy way to make some initial capital. I would've done that in the banking sphere if I could.
Google Play adds a ‘Teacher Approved’ section to its app store
They get the exact same thing, actually. That’s how insurance works (or is supposed to): it spreads the risk among all subscribers.
Agreed, and this is not specific to Emacs or even text editors. The same can be applied to operating systems or even hardware. There are a lot of people out there that will spend more time tweaking and playing with their tools than actually using them. It's fine if you're doing it for the experience or for enjoyment, but don't delude yourself into thinking you're actually spending your time productively and that all of that work is "eventually" gonna pay off.

My biggest increase in productivity was to stop tweaking and just switch to a mainstream OS and use a mainstream editor using the stock config as much as possible (I only changed a handful of settings). I honestly can't think of anything in my current workflow that is a bottleneck to my productivity; the tools are fast enough that the bottleneck is now my brain and thoughts and tweaking the tools won't fix that.
Re-reading the end of the "Lemmings" guy's comment more closely, there's one other point that I would like to speak to - After traveling around the world extensively for 100% of the last two years, I definitely prefer public transit in almost every form over driving.

However, one good thing about the U.S. that is true of few other places, is the ability to go on super long road trips, seeing tons of the countryside, and getting far away from other people. This is truly a benefit and a joy.

However, it also comprises 5% of the driving that I wind up doing, the other 95% being shitty commutes and errands fees and tolls and road rage. And finding parking! No need to find parking when using public transit.
The stock price today is immaterial, as it relies on information that no investor had at that point in time. Hindsight is always 20/20.
I think Seagate has always been low on reliability; the ST3000DM001 is an outlier but I've heard far more reports of data loss from them than any other brand. The number of threads in HDD recovery forums that refer to a particular brand makes for an interesting analysis... and even before that outlier they were below WD. From what I've seen, WD is somewhere in the middle.
> I don't understand why Carta or Opendoor should be affected by Coronavirus.

In the abstract, I'd guess the primary theory is that you never let a crisis go to waste. These exigent circumstances allow for making moves which otherwise would cause such a ruckus that it is avoided. Deprecating products which aren't viable. Eliminating groups / etc which aren't proving value.

We shall see.
Par for the course.
Monsento was immune in the US... until it got bought by Bayer
You're attacking something I didn't say. It's very bad if people die of starvation or can't get medical care, and bad for much more important reasons than whether or not they'll buy things.

Business closures, for example, are a problem that doesn't have much to do with income inequality. Redistributing wealth won't stop businesses from closing, nor will it produce the goods and services those businesses previously made. If we get more money but lose the goods and services we wanted to buy with that money, it's not a good trade.