skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not that they were excessive... and they do last for years. Its that immediately after getting funding the startups of the period immediately spent a good chunk of it on high end quality of life items. The most visible was the chair. And they weren't that cheap then either (they're much less expensive now - in 2000, the chair was $1100 - which is $1650 in today's money. I can find a new Aeron chair for about half that and a refurbished one for a quarter)

https://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/21364/

> Aerons were hailed as triumphs of industrial design and were a whole different beast from the overstuffed leather power chairs that dominated the Old Economy. “They’re not in my mind an example of hubris as much as they are an example of companies trying to treat their staff more generously than they could actually afford,” says information architect Chris Fahey.

They were the most visible symbol of the excesses of the dot com startup office. The new pool table, the foosball table, ping pong table, espresso machines in the break room in the office that they just moved into. The chair is the one that people can point to being common to everything (and was also part of the stuff that was getting sold after the 95% layoff).

These are not companies that had lasted years to get the value out of the chair but rather in the range of months to a few years. They were spending money like it was free in hopes to get acquired before they had to sell it all and try again.

The chair? I love it and I would have seriously considered (gulp) another a month or so ago instead of a different mesh chair if I had realized that the refurbished ones were as affordable as they are.
Aren’t DVDs popular anymore?
Yeah, kind of like that (except laptops have a built-in keyboard/mouse, so it's not as much of a problem as, say, a desktop where people rely on their own existing hardware would be). I'd wager most people buy those devices because the rest of the machine is so compelling, despite the lack of ports.

Anecdotally, it seems like each HN thread about new macbooks also has plenty of comments from people complaining about the lack of ports and/or wishing for more. I don't see a lot of people saying the equivalent of, "Apple's never gonna bring those ports back, get over it and get used to it."
Why do you prefer that outcome? Social and economic collapse could cost millions of lives, and mostly among the poorest parts of the world.
You could get brick and timber office space for free. Vacancy of 50% in SOMA. Try to imagine that today... we might get there once again.
I remember being told as a child that it "wears out the tape," but I'm going to guess it's specifically because the same section of tape stays wrapped around the capstan (the metal cylinder it loops around to be read) when it would normally be passing through. Keeping the same section of tape under tension for a prolonged period presumably weakens or risks distorting it.
italian doctor proposed a working cure .... his name is molinari
> once you get through the nonsense

I'm not going to trudge through clear marketing/sales copy to get down to a few common-sense nuggets of information. Stuff like this is clearly a sales pitch for books/courses/etc vs. any sort of real-world education around management and entrepreneurship.

Typically when it gets implemented in an org it's just a cargo cult "Simon Says" game that'll get ya fired if you don't drink the koolaid.
And that's how you know the situation is improving in the world. The shorts are back to manipulating TSLA through their lapdog - mainstream press. The lawsuit is a nothingburger that will go nowhere. It's kind of difficult to prove shareholder injury if the stock doubled since then.
As a shareholder, I’m still long, but want Musk to be held accountable. Incentives are important.
Everyone not involved in healthcare thinks that healthcare dependent businesses are safe. That’s far from the truth. Hospitals make their money from elective surgery. People are both postponing elective surgery and hospitals are keeping beds clear in anticipation of an outbreak. Also reimbursements for Covid related treatment is low.
I will refer back to my original post:

>"
That is caused by putting disenfranchised, poor and troubled people there, and no longer giving a damn about them once they have a simple roof over their heads."

It is not an inherent nor universal trait of humanity.

It happens because people often feel uninvolved, disconnected, and self-concerned to a fault; they do not trust their neighbors, because they have been given no reason to do so. They have been propagandized for decades with the message that they must be self-sufficient, responsible adults, and the way you measure that is in wealth, and that in that regard they are, at best, in competition with their neighbor.

One consequence of this is not giving a damn about anything you do not own yourself, which is a sick mindset, a symptom of a sick societal order.

Most of the western world has adopted this neoliberal mindset, and it is making us increasingly more callous, the longer it goes on.
> I have a hard time seeing anything new here.
> Just .. [a] new perspective...

okie dokie
National Security, but what about the children?

Those two excuses are the all purpose, catch all ones that work every time.
I would like to present – my son.
I can tell you I'm working in a F50 bank and it's heavily used all the time.

If someone ain't marked required, then that person probably ain't coming up to the meeting, and they won't tell you that they couldn't make it because they assume they're not needed.

Similar thing as in To and Cc for emails. No need to reply to emails where one ain't in the To line.

Ah. Social conventions in large organizations. An infinitely complex topic. But you're probably not trying to cater to Fortune 500 so nevermind.
Is this an ad post? Sure feels like one.
Bullshit at the Data Lakehouse
Probably same people/crowd that sent death threats to Fauci...

Unfortunately we live in a country where anywhere between 18% and 31% (depending on the question/pool) of the population doesn't believe in evolution at all.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-many-c...
Because it was higher before, may reach those heights again and people think that right now is a good time to buy in?
> It's insane that the "phablet" standard from ~5 years ago is now not even the new standard, but the only standard.

Is it? The market shifts to where the money is.

There apparently isn't enough money to make it worth the OEMs' time. If there were, they'd capitalize on it.

While I abhor huge phones, I see more Plus model iPhones than I do the "smaller" models, in the wild.
Over? You are assuming immunity... also like 2% of the population would of died min... that’s 600k+
My father is an entrepreneur, with multiple successful companies under his belt. He's got a knack for seeing opportunities others don't, synthesizing those connections. Anybody who's had a conversation with him can tell you that.

His younger brother, my uncle, was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 20 after becoming severely erratic while away from home on an LDS mission. The diagnosis devastated their family, and has been followed by decades of difficult treatment and heartbreak.

What is it about my uncle that pushed him over the edge? Environment? Genetics? Pure chance? I wish I could know. My dad says that there's not much left of him except for a few moments here and there.

My dad had a big family, and he's said that his younger brother always showed the most promise, growing up. Smart, charming, super friendly. 30 years on he continues to greet everybody with a smile and hug, even if he doesn't know them!

It's sobering to see it in my own family, and it keeps thoughts like the one you articulated so well in the back of my mind constantly.
I haven't heard of anybody hating on Bill Gates lately. Do you have a link perhaps to show me some example of this because I don't know what you're talking about
You attacked me, your up and down.

A local community college, when the epidemic is over, should be able to give you a course in remedial reading sufficient for you to read and understand my posts I referenced.

For your 300 pieces of evidence, I asked for only three. So, you were unable to give even three and, instead, attacked my "rationality".

Rationality? I hold a Ph.D. in applied math from a world class research university, and have published peer reviewed research in several technical area.

Let's see your three best pieces of evidence.
From a Tesla Form 8K in 2013: “For additional information, please follow Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s Twitter accounts.”
This is a common and known consequence of long term ventilator use generally.

It is more common a problem in cardiac patients with cardiopulmonary bypass ("pumphead syndrome") but is apparently a not-uncommon issue with ventilator usage as well

Being on one of those things for even just overnight has potential consequences, and in COVID patients, ventilator use is often extended for extreme durations.

This is just one of the many issues with ventilator use in COVID (survival rates for ventilator use are really bad as it is -- some estimates as low as 20%).

I'm personally very unsure that I would want a ventilator if I were in ICU do to covid.
I think the old school office will be dead. Processes that employ thousands will be automated away.

Cities are screwed.

Banks will be loaded thanks to bailouts and further consolidate.

You may see a leftward political swing and unrest as safe healthcare, education, insurance, government and corporate jobs get zapped.

Some of these effects will be cascading. Millions of people will be off COBRA in a couple of months. Those health insurance premiums that keep hospitals, doctors, pharmacies, and insurance people employed will create a trickle down.
Then you haven't read Tesla's SEC disclosures which specifically clarify that Elon's twitter account is an official news source for Tesla.

Tesla later issued a press release where they doubled down on the seriousness of taking tesla private: https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-taking-tesla-private

So you're just wrong on both counts.
Why does the US need to maintain peaceful, diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia?
Not really a full overview but a nice intro that covers much of what is done day to day, maybe most of it for a basic client or straightforward low capacity server:

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
Sapienz: Intelligent automated software testing at scale (2018)
I've found the opposite. It can take a long time to get your head into that space but it produces much more maintainable and robust systems in my experience.
The case in between is the developer who's been with the company the longest (>2 years) and so just gets bubbled up the chain into the CTO role while the dev team consists entirely of graduates/juniors
I work with one extremely large application written in Oracle stored SQL procedures. It is a pain, but pretty efficient.
For a reason or another, Saudi Arabia means a lot to the Trump admin and generally speaking, to all US administrations. Someone was chopped up and ...you know the story.

So everyone in our admins closed both eyes and their three ears when the Saudis did this and that, because the Saudis are smart enough to be useful to us in very, very important things. So we protect them from small stuff, and maybe the Saudis buy this protection with concessions to us in certain things
thank you for the feedback! we are certainly not married to the name, but simply prioritizing the product/features ahead of it currently
I want to find a way to incorporate this into a dashboard for suits. Seems like it would let them solve a lot of their own requests - in theory. In a lot of companies they'd probably still make requests to create the graphs and sql queries for them.

Give a suit a fish and he's happy for a day. Teach a suit to fish and he'll still be back tomorrow for his fish. Who wants to fish when you can get a code monkey to do it for you.
Company resources have to be spent on this crap, soley because of his tweet. If I were a shareholder, I would be tired of the wasted resources spent cleaning up after his twitter account.
Scaling applications easily without giving up control
How to Completely Ditch Google
Minimal LZMA Project (Minlzma)
Hate to say it, but you should probably be eying your next phone based on what is on the market now - new models with headphone jacks are increasingly unlikely.
Keeps compensation high for physicians. Also, residents are very expensive for hospitals.
I agree civil movements and bloodless revolutions through the political process are good. Violent overthrows are bad, AFAIK almost always resulting in a much worse regime than the one being overthrown. The USA's founding is a fortunate divergence from the norm. More recently, look at the Bolshevik revolution, resulting in over 100 million dead.
Right, but the economic impact is largely determined by the protective measures taken. It's entirely fair to conclude that less restrictive measures could have led to substantially less economic loss for relatively little in terms of health impact. Some countries, like Sweden, are not nearly aggressive in social isolation as others. Time will tell whether this was the right approach.
تحميل برنامج فيجوال ستوديو Microsoft Visual Studio اخر تحديث رابط واحد
Simple ClojureScript React Native Tooling
It isn’t about tension. In order to display a paused image, the head must continuously rotate and scan that section of the tape. You can literally overheat and wear the tape out in that spot because there is a spinning piece of metal against it. Only specialized VCRs such as high end professional/broadcast or security recorders have something like a framebuffer.
The definition of shareholder doesn’t require that somebody hold the shares for a given amount of time. It’s clear that you don’t have sympathy for people who aren’t long on Tesla stock, but that doesn’t change the fact that they were shareholders, and they were misled because Musk made false statements about the finances of his company to the public.
I very likely had it with mild symptoms. Testing is not available to people with mild symptoms in my area.

I could feel, and still do feel a mild Bronchitis-like feeling in my lungs. But have/had no difficulty breathing despite that. No shortness of breath.

Had a mild headache and mild sore throat at the height of it. Body was mildly achy in the evening near/at bed time. Occasional cough near the tail end of the recovery.

No medication used. Lifted weights throughout the entire process. Symptoms were very mild but last forever. It's been maybe over a month since I felt the tingle in the lungs, and it's still there.
Julia Evans wrote something great about this, as she always does:

https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/08/12/what-happens-if-you-write-a-...
I was under impression that "28 pages" document was mostly declassified? Or this is some another documents?
The Odds of Finding a Four-Leaf Clover
Will have to try it, thanks! I haven't baked with Medalgia d'Oro before.
I wish the media would focus more on the outliers of the doomsday narrative, as well as the long term consequences of the lockdown solutions being pushed.

covid-19 is bad, but seems nowhere near comparable to what much of the developing world faces on a daily basis (4000 kids die a day from malaria?!?)
Spacemacs[0] is probably the best Emacs configuration for discoverability. Not only do the maintainers rearrange key combinations to be thematically grouped and mnemonically sane, they added/configured a really nice discoverability layer into Emacs.

Even after close to a decade of Emacs usage, I learned more about Emacs using Spacemacs for a month than I thought possible.

[0] https://www.spacemacs.org/
Isn’t that B in the grandparent?
Thats a good point! Every company (F500 or not) has different cultural/social norms about how they treat attendees (and even cc on emails!)
NIST and OSTP Launch Effort to Improve Search Engines for Covid-19 Research
These people are willing buyers, it's their own fault for not having a good crystal ball. They ought to hire better risk management.
Waterloo Station (in London, named after the bridge, which is in turn named after the battle, which was in Belgium) for a while had these full colour panels which I guess may have been plasma? These were used to display train information.

They suffered terrible burn-in, and I was never sure why they were used. Eventually they ripped them out and replaced them with panels using the same technology (monochrome panels made of amber LEDs) that is used in the rest of the network for displaying information.

The thing about information is that you don't want it to spin or hop about, it needs to remain perfectly still while a potentially large number (tens of thousands of people use the station in an hour, if anything goes wrong all those people want information) stare at the information and so it can't avoid burn in. I can see that for the advertising screens, the opportunity for huge full colour screens is worth the risk of burning in an image, and worst case you could in theory even charge an advertiser who insists on holding a single image for the cost of repairing/ replacing your screens. But the information screens don't much benefit from colour, the pixel-addressable LED screen is only a small improvement over prior electro-mechanical devices which of course couldn't burn in, why allow burn-in just to get a colour screen? Maybe they were cheap?
Then I won't be getting a new phone. I'm quite serious.

That said, the situation doesn't seem to be as dire as that. Last I checked there seem to be plenty of inexpensive phones that "still" have headphone jacks. It's ironically the top end of the market where people buy phones for signalling that you can't get them.
Blu-ray has been around for a good while now.
Does anyone have any recommendations for configuring emacs so it's easy to use with a standard MacBook keyboard and a full external keyboard?

I used emacs for a couple years on a linux laptop with a full keyboard, and I loved it. Then I got into more teaching than programming, so I moved to some beginner-friendly editors; I wanted to use the same tools I was recommending for my students.

Now I'm doing more dev work again, and I really miss emacs. But I'm a little lost about how to map keys so I can jump between my laptop in standalone mode, my laptop when I have an external keyboard connected, and non-mac linux machines.
"The Minimal LZMA (minlzma) project aims to provide a minimalistic, cross-platform, highly commented, standards-compliant C library (minlzlib) for decompressing LZMA2-encapsulated compressed data in LZMA format within an XZ container, as can be generated with Python 3.6, 7-zip, and xzutils. Additionally, a simple, portable, command-line tool (minlzdec) is provided for excercising the functionality on a provided input file."
What is your profession and what speciality is your wife in?
Do you think this happened in early February? If so, I agree. Sort of.

The problem is that according to the data, none of us that had the "weird cold" in February ever went to the hospital and tested positive for COVID-19. So it was probably something else, but it is weird that there was a widespread "weird cold" in New York right before the COVID-19 cases, isn't it?
With a sample size of 8 deaths, 0.45% is easily comparable to 1.1%. We are talking different infected populations, different healthcare systems, and so forth it’s expected to see that kind of a range. The US had what ~19 deaths out a single nursing home.

Also, deaths/recoveries is the least useful metric to compare countries as people with minimal symptoms recover first, again look at the South Korea or China graphs of the number of infected over time.
Look reasonable. sad. Hopefully the bezels are smaller.
I don't know you enough to call you "ghoulish" and wouldn't be inclined to, but the sentiment itself hopes that a treatment for an illness killing tens of thousands of people per week will fail in order to secure supplies for a chronic but nonfatal ailment. I feel like the absolute morality of that sentiment is something we can actually evaluate.

(It's all hypothetical, of course, because in fact HCQ does not appear to be effective for C19).
> Only ten were made. NASA bought six to send round the dark side of the moon. Stanley Kubrick bought the other three.

That makes nine.

An instance of "The Lord Jehovah has given unto you these fifteen... Oy... ten! TEN Commandments! For all to obey!"? [15...10 Commandments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXeTsWGPT0w)
> Not all technologies are good. Not all organisations are good. Sometimes it's one. Sometimes it's the other.

And sometimes it's neither; some organizations are perfectly competent at what they do, but for whatever reason are poorly suited to a particular technology that would work fine elsewhere. (Dumb example: a company overwhelmingly built with Microsoft technologies that only has expertise working with that particular stock has basically no chance of being a good fit for nixos)
It’s still unclear to me whether Cuomo dropped the ball, or whether he was hindered by De Blasio.

Either way, Inslee and Breed deserve more credit. Preventing a crisis is superior to responding effectively after its started.
What year are your numbers from?Per medscape 2019 study average compensation is 330k. Q1 around $250k iirc.
Possibly related?

https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20190827/judge-rules-fbi-...
It was worse than that. The head drum continued to spin throughout the entire duration of the pause, rubbing against the film at high speed. That's because the VCR didn't have any "memory" to hold the entire frame¹, so the lines of the frame had to be read from the tape over and over again.

¹ It was actually an interlaced field, not a frame, but that too much nitpicking.
start with using graphical Emacs on your platform of choice. Avoid using Emacs through a text terminal, to begin with ...

then start with

Absolute Beginners Guide to Emacs
http://www.jesshamrick.com/2012/09/10/absolute-beginners-gui...

follow up with Emacs' tutorial and online help

follow up with Mike Zamansky videos on YouTube
https://cestlaz.github.io/stories/emacs/

finally check out the blog entries (and the book !) at
https://www.masteringemacs.org/
I didn't know this existed. However it seems California’s Governor, Gavin Newsom, has issued an Executive Order to suspend the state’s WARN Act until the end of the COVID-19 emergency.
You are right. I was eyeballing the daily stock chart. That $969 peak was a few weeks before the general market selloffs began. However Tesla was right around $900 when the market started to dip in late Feb so my general point still stands.
Yes! And it's so much fun to watch. Those are my go-to videos when testing audiovisual setups. Every time I hear his voice I want to get more efficient with emacs.
So many questions...

Are young women better leaders than old women? Than young men? Old men? Is it truly causation? What prompted you to make this association? Any other countries make the list that don't have young women leaders?

Gender and age probably do matter in lots of things. Usually when I hear it brought up, it's either to grind an axe, an act of defense, or a hidden agenda. Almost universally lacking objective truth seeking.

I also dislike the current US president, but IMO calling him out and then promoting the idea that young women are best just polarizes people... In fact if I was a Trump 50-center that's exactly what I would do to try and alienate as many people as I could under the guise of a "lefty socialist".
Wow you worry too much. Maybe call your senator and have the government deal with it.