skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Inflation rather than deflation.

The situation is more like the one in the 1940's. Back then, the Fed pegged the entire yield curve and bought enough treasuries of all durations to effectively shut down the free market.

The idea was to support the war effort through monetary policy. Today, there's another kind of war, but policy makers will use the same economic response.

The federal debt rose to just over 100% of GDP during WWII, but inflation in later decades took care of the problem. Translation: those who bought treasuries during that time paid the price later.

2. Debtor nation vs. creditor nation.

The US entered the Great Depression as a creditor nation. It enters this crisis as a debtor.

Most holders of treasuries are outside the country. Pegging the yield curve causes the dollar to fall and so they sell, putting further pressure on the Fed to keep the liquidity flowing by buying treasuries.

The upshot: nominal returns may do just fine. The stock market can make new highs without a problem. However, real returns will be hit hard. Look to foreign assets, gold, and silver as hedges.

But.. I can't help thinking about this:

> In 1933, United States put forth an executive order saying that all citizens must turn in their gold for payment at the prevailing rate, other than jewelry, and they made it illegal to own gold in bulk for the next few decades.

It's not inconceivable that something similar capital controls could be tried this time around.
I did think it was odd to have such a large, ugly bezel on a contemporary phone, especially one from Apple.

I absolutely want a smaller device, and the trend towards phablets becoming the new "normal" really annoys me. But why does this have to be so damn ugly?!
Stripe has great and interesting products but this valuation seems very high. They are competing with companies like Global Payments and First Data but they aren't disrupting them.

First Data has a lower market cap than this with $9B in annual revenue and $1B in annual profit.
Seems like a great idea. Mental Health impacts of this pandemic are being massively understated.
Maybe someone could do a VR "proper pub experience"? ;-)
Most don't, but Facebook does have its own equivalent of jQuery, lodash and angular. A few other very large tech companies are similar.

Most C++ shops don't have their own equivalent of Folly, they use Boost or Google's Abseil or something else.
Do Workstream VMs come pre-installed with the pro software they mention in the blurb? If so, this sounds compelling.
> On the face of it, their main products in 2020 (i.e. action cameras) are barely innovative

The built-in software image stabilization on the Hero 7 Black is absolutely incredible. There simply isn't a competitor in the space that even comes close.

I've owned a HeroHD, a Hero4, and now a Hero7 Black. I have recorded countless dirt bike rides, mountain biking, downhill mountain biking ie. stuff that is incredibly bumpy, and with the onboard stabilization it looks like a walk through the park with the 7 Black. I thought it had peaked when I got the Hero4, but the 7 Black is just insane.
That's done throughout all Emacs addons: basically its text-modification API seems to have been constructed backwards from what's available to the user and the UI, instead of the other way around, and depends a lot on the cursor position. Even the more-or-less popular string library ‘s’ is a third-party addon. So Org pretty much went on with the common practice here.

With the volume of addon development that Emacs managed to get, it's a quite solid case of ‘worse is better, but you're now stuck with the worse for your life’.
I've used perforce in the past both for work & gaming. Gotta say, awesome experience!
Have any sources on that zero?
Any time!

Where did you look for this information? I can file a bug, but knowing where to put it would be helpful.
"Super heavy sticker" means it's overweight from what the ISO standard says a shipping container should maximally weigh?
Or really bad!

My GoPro videos are wipeout compilations, action packed and fun to watch.
The impact of Covid-19 on many businesses around the world is very sad.

That said, it's less clear to me that the medium-term impact will be pro-incumbent or pro-large company. Big incumbents tend to be less adaptable and to benefit from large fixed cost barriers to entry (e.g. real estate). We're seeing a lot of nimble small businesses migrate to online business models far faster than the behemoths they used to struggle to compete against.
I think you need to educate yourself on how Americans are doing financially.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/20/heres-why-so-many-americans-...
Kanban relies on sensory intuition. Org-mode requires you to build up a whole new epistemological relationship to the elements of an outline. They are pretty different, and Org-mode requires a _lot_ of time investment.
I remember the login screen burned into every Mac G3 at my school.
thank you for the clarification
Right, I already have the comment voting in mind, and I will add that feature soon! Also, thanks for bringing up the reporting option, by having that our community could help together on doing the moderating. Such a good suggestion! Thanks a lot!
I'm in Virginia right now (near DC) and most people appear to be going about their lives like nothing happened. I'm also not worried, I think the whole thing is largely mass hysteria and blown wildly out of proportion.

There's a doomsday pandemic narrative that some people are trying to push, but I think there's a significant portion of the population that simply does not care and isn't worried.

Of course, trying to have a real discussion about this on the internet is hopeless because people downvote anything they dislike or don't agree with. Facts don't matter, and this whole virus mania is the greatest example of facts not mattering I've ever witnessed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

If only...
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I made a free and open-source browser extension to access easily to merge requests you are assigned to and the ones you created.

If you want to go straight to the point, here is the code: https://github.com/Mikescops/gitlab-notify-extension
This seems conceptually similar to differential dataflow.

https://github.com/timelydataflow/differential-dataflow/blob...
The OP indicated natural origin. The rest is speculation/gossip.
I think it's possible that there is no correct number of layers for a 1 million person company, i.e. such a company should not exist and should split up into smaller, more focused companies.
These Americans you witness see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires looking for moonshots to catch their big break which will never come.
Although they are particularly picky at the moment, which makes sense given the situation.

Anecdotally, I couldn't get an interview, even though I had an offer from them in the past.
Great idea. What do you recommend as a good standard/tool we could use to publish benchmarks? We have some CPU/memory-centric instances but our primary focus is on GPUs.
>> There is a big difference between a change-stream and a realtime query. For example mongodbs cursor-stream is a good way to observe the events that happen to a specific collection or documents that match some criteria. If you want the realtime-results of a query that has sorting, skip limit etc. than it is really hard to warp the changestream into this.

Have you actually tried it from mongo shell or any mongodb client driver ?

In the official document link which i shared it is clearly mentioned it supports aggregation pipeline. Any operator which is compatible with aggregation pipeline framework including "$sort" and "$skip" can be used. You can also use JOIN like operator "$lookup" or "$graphLookup".

See this link for info
https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/aggregation-pipeline-op...
Thanks so much for this link!
It also explains what I am seeing in that picture:

"Now comes the fun part: Buttons to push that will take me from one desktop to another.

Being a control freak, I am not trusting FvwmButtons to find the correct button layout; I'm building it myself. The goal is to have a 64x64 ASClock at the upper right, preceded by four 32x32 buttons that will aim my display at another desktop, all above a 16x128 CPU load display. Geometry-wise, I consider it to be an 8x5 grid of 16x16 squares (although I could have regarded it as a 4x5 grid of 32x16s)."
Have you compared with an in-memory data store like Redis? Due to the lack of support for joins, that seems like a more natural comparison than A relational database.
Do you know any people who will beg, borrow, or steal to purchase alcohol off-sale?
The U.S loves its private monopolistic cartels imposing a private tax on all XXX.

I don't think this is changing any time soon. We don't even have public healthcare.
> no time or effort should be "wasted" writing unit tests, that's what QA is for.

This is not my experience at all, everywhere I worked unit tests are required.
I don't agree at all, writing unit tests is not a waste of time, this sentiment comes from people who don't know how to avoid brittle tests.

It's impossible for QA to test every single path in your code. Unless you wanna cover all of those in your slow end to end tests?
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I'm very happy with Stripe and for their success, but I plan on switching all my payments to go through PayPal again. I did some math and PayPal offers a better deal for Canadian businesses after Stripe bumps me off of their grandfathered conversion fees in a couple months.

I love the slick interface, but it's simply not worth the thousands per year I'll be saving with the switch.

For me the main selling point for any payment processor is the minimization of fees. Sure, the API's are nice, but I already use a payment gateway for that.

I'm a few clicks away from saving thousands. Am I missing anything?
Require a % of stocks be distributed to employees.
Allow them to vote as a shareholder block.
Limit C-suite pay to a multiple of employee pay.
Eliminate golden parachutes.
Tie C-Suite compensation to some metric measuring employee quality of life.
FYI - the Emacs binary that's bundled with pre-Catalina versions of macOS (as /usr/bin/emacs) is 22.1, which is an ancient version from 2007. Apple kept that version because it's the last one that was released as GPLv2, and they've avoided bundling anything that's licensed GPLv3. This is the same reason that macOS includes an ancient version of Bash, and why they're switching to zsh as the default login shell.

Because it's so old, no one bothers to maintain compatibility with it anymore, and almost all modern elisp will break in some way if it's loaded in 22.1. Somewhat fortunately, it seems like Apple has removed this emacs binary from Catalina, so it won't be an issue on future versions of macOS.

To get a modern Emacs: https://emacsformacosx.com/ has binary builds of the official Emacs releases, with some additional scripts that let you launch it from Launchpad, etc.
In what countries can you do free electronic transactions?
They also invest in fraudulent DMCA takedowns for negative reviews. I wouldn't touch them with a 10' selfie stick.
Sure, but the other weird thing is the author uses Protonmail... which can support PGP natively, so why the fart-arsing around ?

https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/how-to-use-pgp...

The whole article is basically "lol look at this thing that is actually relatively well supported with a small amount of work, but I couldn't be bothered to spend time doing some research about my use case and instead just read the first google result I found, so I'm going to crap all over it and make it look worse than it actually is for Internet Karma."

And the comment about being a novice, looking at the rest of the blog site implies the user has some level of competence when it comes to computing technologies as they are messing around with webserver configs etc.
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The hardest part about professional music, is that you have to perform at a schedule. It takes a lot of effort to perpare your body physically and mentally for peak performance ... and often-times you just fail. Have a bad day. That happens.

There will be many concerts, where you are just at 70% of your peak ability.

As a professional musician, you have to make sure your 70%-version is good enough that people gladly pay for seeing it.
A preferred share issue.
Premature optimization would be doing things in static HTML even though the rest of your code is in React because static HTML is "lighter" or "faster."

Also, Next.js does static HTML export out of the box if that's your preferred end target.
There are a lot of mentions that this is untested, are there any hints about why the author hasn't gotten to try it out yet? Maybe it's unfinished?
If they are so successful, why do they need to continuously raise money?
Contour cameras was a very promising competitor that briefly had an edge over GoPro. They went out of business in 2013.

The market for action cams just isn’t big enough for multiple manufacturers. It’s an expensive, high risk industry.
>The writes are not tunneled somehow through this algorithm

Then I fail to understand how it works. How Event-Reduce becomes aware of these "write events"?

>this is an open source project, not something I want to sell you

You made it open source so others can use it, right? They better be making an informed decision whether your solution suits their needs.
I'm lucky enough to still have a job in a crisis. If that weren't the case, then a pet project of mine would be a LetsEncrypt-like service for personal certificates. Certificates you could install in your browser for TLS authentication, and some templates and examples showing how to configure nginx to authorize clients using one. I imagine email would be pretty similar. I'm just not as familiar with how to configure email clients to use certificates.
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I don't want to end up splitting hairs over terminology so please correct me if I'm wrong. I would like expect a c++ library (folly or the standard library) to provide concurrency primitives and not patterns.
Once you start providing patterns you are wading into framework territory. Is that the case with folly?
#4 are conversations carried on in comment sections or forums.
The benefits of /return on playing team sports is probably more essential than is watching others do it.
Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22887773
If there is a known reservoir of pandemic causing virus it should be managed in such a way so as to avoid pandemics.

Seems like not enough lessons were learned from SARS. How many pandemics are going to come from this reservoir before the world gets fed up with the mismanagement of it?
"China is going to engineer a virus..."

Yes, that is part of what they were doing at their labs in Wuhan. That is not a conspiracy theory, they have research papers, conferences, press releases and job offers about this very topic.

"release it in its own population?"

Could you point out where I wrote that they "released it"?

I only suspect it was a potential accidental leak from one of their labs in Wuhan. It happened already twice in the past, including SARS lab leak in Beijing lab for which Chinese CDC officials were punished at the time:

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-07/02/content...

Not to mention researchers who warned us years ago about dangers of engineered bat virus leak scenario in an article from Nature Research Journal.
I do not think 5G caused the corona virus BUT... EMF seems more dangerous than I thought.
Their next hire should offer to work for free + Human Utilization Charges.
I hope they are letting the employees cash out at these rounds. Otherwise they will end up like Uber, Lyft and other unicorn employees that not only got screwed by the IPO, but the subsequent taxes because of that. I know many Uber employees that need to sell at these low prices just to pay taxes and their RSUs leaving them with very little actual gains.
Shopify is going to pull back payments from stripe. It's the only logical thing for them to do for them to boost revenue. They already ramped up the Shopify Pay branding and removed the "powered by stripe" cobranding on Shopify Payments. Stripe helped it along by not refunding payment fees on returns. Shopify's largest merchants are apparel companies who have high return rates.
That's completely inaccurate. Considering the instant depreciation once you drive off the lot, loans are dependent far more on your credit history/income level than linked to any specific style of car.
Thanks for the suggestions. Take a look at project5474.org if you want to see the internals of many 7400-series chips explained. Also, I've done a 555 timer teardown: http://www.righto.com/2016/02/555-timer-teardown-inside-worl...
I knew that you were going to post this.
"Here's my burner number, hit me up on Signal."

job done, assuming you want to transmit files under 100 MB/message.
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I'm looking for a smart scale that will just sync over Bluetooth without requiring me to sign up for an account and that doesn't sync to the cloud. I do want it to to be able to sync to Apple Health locally on my phone.

I've been looking at withings, medisana and eufy apps, but they all require you to sign up for an account. I've also been looking through reviews and none of them mention this, because apparently privacy is not a concern.

Since HN in general is pretty privacy conscious, I hope someone here has been able to find something like this.
A thing I never knew before: Donald Knuth, the paragon of scholarship and of a life well spent, not only cleans his own toilets but bought a specific janitorial uniform to make the process more efficient.

I find this inspiring enough that I am going to clean my toilet now.
Look at Google and the Closure standard library for an example of a company writing a lot of JS that ended up writing it's own "standard library"-like thing.
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The idea is nice. Look forward to more features tho.
The intent of my comment was that I am surprised to now be seeing that there may have been some substance to the comments on Reddit.
Good to know. I was also interested in the full environment, e.g., IDE's, package management, build chain, etc.
If you're doing enough business they'll usually cut your fees if you ask (according to a friend who did just that).
This article was an eye-opener for me on how that works:

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/04/08/w...
Because they're aiming to be even more successful. $36B is still a tenth of Visa, and I think Stripe believes they can eventually become an equally important part of the financial ecosystem.
I don't understand this idolization of small over large (or vice versa for others). The thing that matters most is that businesses best satisfy their customers, whether they are small or large.

There's no benefit to having a small business that provides inferior products or inferior service relative to a large company.

I buy from small companies all the time and many of those that I do will likely survive because they provide better goods and services than any large company.
Don't forget that part of the negativity towards SoftBank comes from the source of most of their funds. At least the majority of their funds in the previous fund they raised.
Apache Superset is ok but the maps support is shit.
Oddly, this comment seems mainly to put down the GP precisely for thinking and judging for themselves.

Please allow people to like and utilize the good ideas of others. Thankfully, we don't have to invent every wheel we use.
Working on this!
I get a message that reads: "Paperspace.app" can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.

This software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information.

It's not the normal open security settings and allow message.

I am on a MacBook pro running Catalina 10.15.3.
Yes I used it. I actually know it really well.
I also did performance comparisons with mongodb and mongodbs change stream and cursors. What I posted here is just an algorithm. You could now compare it to mongodb (a product) and say it is a "more flexible solution" but I do not see the point in directly comparing it simply based on the documentation of both.
Totally not relevant for this post, but this is how we do this in Nim:

const a = readFile("mydata")

The `const` makes the expression evaluate at compile time, conveniently slurping the file into `a`, where it will be available at run time.
Interesting old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17967372
We use Ansible for all of our legacy tech, the non-container stuff.

Rather than a dev ask a server guy to make a vm, then join it to the domain, then move it to the right OU, then install anti-virus, etc. then ask a dba to install SQL server, import the database schema, setup permissions, and enable network access, we write an ansible playbook that does it all in a repeatable manner, the same way every time.

You have an n-tier app with a reverse proxy load balancing for 3 web servers and 1 database server, and you want one copy of this app for dev, one for staging, and one for prod, and you want them all the same?

Ansible to the rescue (or better, Terraform, which gives you more control IMO)

You need one more environment for testing the changes to a new system? Add a line in Ansible and rerun the whole thing.

CM systems like Ansible or Terraform let you do Infra As Code and treat your servers like cattle, not pets.

A server acts weird? take out of load balancer, delete the entire VM, re-run ansible to recreate it, poof its happy again.
Not that you're not correct but if I wrote a post with words like that, I'd get busted by the mods for flamebait. Bad behavior by others doesn't excuse more bad behavior.
Canada if you want to pay the Interac (our debit system).
Asymmetric PAKEs level the playing field considerably.

The way we typically use passwords (you just outright tell the other party the password and we hope that's fine) is terrible security design. But everything about passwords is pretty terrible, their only "benefit" is that they're easy which is often undone by measures layered on top to try to deliver security, such as password rotation policies.

But this was still a dumb bug.
No mac option :(
I think that's the key point, the scale in which this starts happening is the sizes of the Googles and Facebooks of the world (in C++: Abseil and Folly) but also in Java (at Google: Guava), JavaScript (at Google: closure, Angular/Polymer/Lit/and many others).

So people extrapolating from a ~100 person company or a ~1000 person company using JS might as well think it's about the language, but it's really about the size, I think.
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I sympathize with that, but I'm a bit surprised they'd want to 'claim' Chernobyl/Chornobyl despite its location. Doesn't the Ukrainian government still try to persuade the Russian government to pay for the mess?
Companies are made of people; it makes sense that the assemblage would have the same rights as the pieces.
Why use this over GeForce Now? Really curious, I don't see a lot of advantages.
How true.. it's the 'debt economy' - raise, spend, grow, pick up the tab later/never.
You have to provide the events by yourself.
See EventReduce as a simple function that can do oldResults+Event=newResults.

And yes, you should always do testings before you use open source stuff. There is no warranty use it on your own risk.
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