skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you expect the search engines to understand natural language, because your expectations are influenced by what is "touted". Do you think that's a realistic expectation?
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Btw, if you want to be even lazier and not involve the other hand—services can be run from the context menu (which is a bit busy but at least it's available).

Also, regarding Swift, the language is pretty simple: I did't know either ObjC or Swift but was able to make a small program in it. The most annoying thing is that Swift's APIs and types constantly change between versions, so you have to translate between the docs and your version of OSX.
Yes, if we look at the bankruptcy scenario only (and provided the debt is not secured). But the shareholder is typically better off if there is an upside. What we saw in the last financial crisis is that large corporations quickly paid off their loans and the government - the taxpayers - missed out on the upside.

The natural way to give government ownership would be through convertibles so they could chose whether to convert.
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If we are going by analogy, that would be more like plugging the USB camera directly into your CPU bus instead of USB. Your eye is a fine interface. Messing with the literally wet neural interface sounds very complicated.
As a variation on this, I've discovered over the years that "resistance" to working on a task sometimes comes from a clash between a conscious thought that the task should be easy and an unconscious realization that it's actually not going to be easy at all.

It's sort of the internal version of having a manager present you with a task and telling you up front that it will be "easy". That's enough to elicit a silent, knowing groan from most of us.

The good news is that often once I accept that a task is really quite complex and will take a long time, the resistance fades, and it becomes easier to start working on.
Empty Oil tankers. They are charging over $300,000 per day for storage now. Some think this is the greatest trading opportunity in over a decade.

https://adventuresincapitalism.com/2020/03/19/crude-contango...
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> If the pandemic lasts longer than 6 months, which is quite likely, many high-cost oil producers might not survive. Some would argue this could lead to shortage and a much higher price later on, but long-term oil demand could also be affected.

Even if they all declared bankruptcy, their infrastructure would still be there. I'd imagine someone would buy it and bring it back online if/when prices recover.
Yeah that works, but it's not the point. The author isn't saying there's no way to search for shirts that don't have stripes. They're saying search engines still don't understand how to find shirts without stripes in the same way humans do.
> They’re usually looking to discount your salary

In my experience, less than 1/4 of the organisations and projects I help go remote / distributed do it for cost reasons. Most do it for brain power and efficiency. It's easier to recruit globally, especially when you're looking for very good people. We have strong data that asynchronous transparent communication increases efficiency, agency, autonomy, and decreases both the rate and cost of mistakes. It also drastically reduces the necessity of coordination management.
There's quite a bit more to COVID-19 prediction than standard derivation of a logistic curve found in introductory differential equation books. SIR models would perhaps be the simplest place to start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmental_models_in_epidem...
Literally the point of markets is for companies to eventually pay back investors. A market without buybacks or dividends is a ponzi scheme.
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The rise in the markets has been driven by the fed/treasury stimulus actions, and the fall in new coronavirus cases in the US and Europe. Stocks would still be very low without the government manipulating everything.

I know this is the case because I invested my entire life savings on this one. (I have been glued to CNBC and E*TRADE.) I decided to start buying on March 16th...
Linking the main discussion [1].
This list is surprisingly small and perhaps the issue of tax havens needs better visibility.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22923670
I am amazed at the amount of things people are willing to treat as "solved problem".

At a point there was a TED talk explaining social networks were a solved problem now that facebook was dominant. Recycling was seen as solved problem until it wasn't etc.

I wonder how many actual "sovled problems" we have.
>so why should taxpayers face all the risk and none of the reward.

Simple, bail the companies out (thus saving all the jobs), but wipe out (or significantly dilute) existing shareholders.
And then cruise ships are by faaaaar not the worst offenders in abusing flag's of convienence. They are under the most scrutiny so, having passengers on the ship 24/7.
Vaguely similar to a joke from Ninotchka that Zizek often uses about the difference between 'coffee without cream' and 'coffee without milk'. He usually uses it to reference the concept of negation in the Hegelian dialectic, but he's also mentioned the difficulty of computers understanding negation in the context of the coffee/cream example.

The joke from Zizek:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmJVsaxoQSw
That's what the UK government did with some of the banks here in 2008 - although in the case of RBS, HMG ended up with a 58% stake.
Not necessarily

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/09/zebra-pse...
Exactly. Those who want the search engine to "understand" what they are asking for when they use words like "without" may not have thought through the unintended consequences. For there is no combination of search terms that might not be interpreted in a variety of ways that the searcher never imagined, because of the ambiguity of natural language. Better to learn and use search operators, and the strategies of careful choice of keywords.
Are you including the cost of the 27" 5k screen when comparing the value of the iMac Pro?

Or the ECC RAM? Or the insane I/O with four thunderbolt 3 ports?

I find that people often don't compare Macs spec for spec. They just pick and choose the specs that they care about which isn't a great comparison. However this also speaks to the freedom of PC building - you can pay for only what you need.
Every attempt I'm aware of to do a general population survey has indicated that confirmed case counts really are at least an order of magnitude lower than the real spread. I don't think it's a possibility we can reject out of hand - frankly I'm starting to swing to the position that it's been proven true.
One of my biggest frustrations with modern gaming is the lack of single payer games, everyone focuses on Multiplayer, I have zero interest in playing with others,

I play games to escape from people.... People suck, I do not want them in my games
>The other option is for Apple to pull their heads out of their asses

A non-option is not an option.
I run Manjaro too. Having up to date versions of software is nice instead of having to wait until ppa's are updated.

Also there is a community version that includes just i3 the tiling window manager out of the box.
So, it's really just a series of if statements?
One of my possible choices for a future career path is to go into consulting full time. I'm sure this is a common thought here on HN.

Prohibiting small contract work sounds like an excellent way to prevent that sort of thing from ever happening. It would severely stunt the ability for tech workers to leave traditional employment to found a small consulting firm (usually composed of "just them", or perhaps a them and a couple of former colleagues) while simultaneously entrenching the concept of a large, established firm.

In short, it would make it much more difficult to transition from "employee" to "business owner" in our industry. That strikes me as a terrible idea.
I have to imagine you are being facetious. "good oil" peaked a long time ago, and while it is still being produced, the only reason we have oil at all is because of all the dirty fracking, shale and sand oil out there.
And parent is saying it isn't working. (It doesn't work for me either.)
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Google started doing that with its regular search queries several years ago. There are thousands of complains on HN about how it's almost impossible now to find anything without "quoting" "every" "word" "of" "your" "query".
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For this data to be useful, I think we first need to establish that people who use Facebook and participate in its surveys represent a relatively random sample of the general population. Or adjust for all the ways in which it does not.

Otherwise, it's likely biased.
It's not enough to say "Oh, we should add a rule that 'without' means negate the next word" because that only applies to this one situation, in this one language. Let's generalize the problem: We aren't correctly translating from English (or other spoken languages) to Computer/Logic.

The state of the art in machine translation (from what I've read at least) is translating from language-A to a language-less "concept space" and then from there to language-B. Could that be done where the output language is something a search engine can use to find what you want correctly?

Given that pattern, I suspect we could see much better results in cases like this.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22782814
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I care a lot more about making the computer quiet than I do about making it small. Those are competing objectives.

I'm currently using a fairly large case from Fractal that has a bunch of big, slow-spinning fans as its only moving parts. I'm sitting right next to it and can't hear it at all. (When I'm playing a game, I can hear the GPU fans.) My life would not be improved at all if it took up less space.
Shameless plug: I am currently working on a free, open-source, mobile RSS reader which doesn't require a server or any kind of registration, because everything happens and stays on the device.

Currently it's in beta testing, let me know if you find it interesting.
https://github.com/felfele/feeds
There are lots of things Google could do improve their search and ad revenue that they haven't done yet.
From what I gather, they're basically saying that the 10 year old housing boom is at an end now.
This doesn't capture all the state correctly even. When you first load the page, if it is dark mode the XKCD loads a black on white (aka light) image. If you toggle to light mode and back to dark the XKCD comic becomes a black on white image. The state of image filters isn't consistent in the current implementation.
Some wells can't be turned off without permanent loss of production.
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The oil companies have learned and try to keep some staff around. However they can only keep so many and for so long. If this is a fast recovery as some expect then the people will be needed next summer and it was a smart decision. If not...
Well, not a GitLab you couldn't because they'll cut your salary tremendously (40% if I moved to my second home in Oregon). Oregon is a whole lot cheaper than the Bay area, but it's not 40% cheaper.
Leaving aside the misleading title...

I hate crappy poorly thought out measures like this.

Is this a loan? If so, no dividends should be paid (or buybacks offered) until it's repaid. Otherwise companies just need to hold fire for 18m and it's free money!?

And if it is a loan, there should be interest and compulsory payments after (say) 6 months. Otherwise you're bailing out companies that SHOULD go bankrupt and penalizing ones that don't.

This is like when my country (the UK) bailed out banks. We got equity in exchange (smart). Then we decided to ban bonuses because politics. So we got sued and lost and had to pay them and legal costs. Then we said no more bonuses, so the good bankers, the ones that made a profit and who were not involved in the BS mortgage crap all moved to private banks. And we were left with hollow shells of companies we'd paid a fortune for.
Back in approx 2008-2009 there was an effort to drive away a new more reddit-y crowd by flooding the front page with Erlang articles, it seemed to work for a while :)
That's not right, because that would not include pages that have the text "shirt without stripes" on them.
Interesting - from that if you combine the macOS and Linux users together they do make up the majority which may be why I thought they were an even larger percentage overall.

Though I bet if this survey was restricted to the bay area the percentage would be even higher.
Only slightly related but a couple of years back I got an alexa as a gift. When you open the alexa app, they had the option to add list of todos as a reminder. The first thing I did is to say something like - Alexa, add a reminder to get milk and eggs and paper. The app literally added a single item like this - milkANDeggsANDpaper.

After that I facepalmed myself and turned it off.
"Look at this. It's worthless. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless. Like the Ark."

~Belloq
Isn't paying out a dividend similar to just paying employees and those who should rightfully earn an income from any enterprise? I understand the need for meaningful checks and controls here, but why would this be singled out?
Because the action of checking the feeds or whatever is so ingrained, it's effortless and, more importantly, thoughtless. Even though that extra step is tiny, it can often be just enough of a jolt to make you notice the habit and decide more consciously whether to indulge it this time. After becoming conscious of it more and more, you can choose to break it. Although, in my experience, it's easy for it to come creeping back, too. Once you've destroyed the reflexive nature of it, setting some rules around it can be helpful. And again, even though those rules are just simple, easily-overcome agreements with yourself, they can be enough.
>>If a company wants to be eligible for benefits inside a country, they have to follow all the laws.

Minimizing tax liability is not necessarily doing anything outside the law.
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This is a very good game that I personally enjoy with my cousin and friends. This is mainly about the topic of WW2 as It's involved into the stragety of WW2. There are about 50k downloads of this game, and it has good reviews. There might be some bugs but the devoloper is active everyday to fix these problems. The devoloper is easy to get a hand of, if you want to give suggestions to either feedback.

The game has single player and multi-player modes. Single player has many hundreds of missions or maps to do. Many are made by fans and other are made by the game. Fan made maps also get added,make your map and export it, contact about information and hopefully it would get published. The currency in this game is gold, you can earn gold through many sorts ways one easy way is watching ads or getting gold from single player maps. There is much more to explore there. In multi-player you can play with friends of course or other online players, the formats is easy as you just create a game and your friend searches for it. Continuing on yiu begin with some sorts of troops, there is a upgrade session where you can get new buildings to build and new soldiers, tanks, artillery, missiles, planes, navy, and even strong technology tanks like the experiments the Germans had on. There is a lot more to explore in the upgrade session too. You can also edit and have fun on making your own map in setting section, or either way in closer ones. You can choose to make a map of anything. It starts with a normal water baseplate and you add grass, either sand beaches and mountains and so on.

I hope you download this game and enjoy it, I really recommend this, you can download it in play store or other download platforms.
Ha. Somewhat relevant, I've discovered that an umbrella is a nice, nonconfrontational way to keep jackass bicyclists at a safe distance. It doesn't need to be open, just moving around with some energy, kind of like a walking stick.
Macs as development machines is a SV/US bubble.

In Europe most development is done on Windows by a long shot with linux second and Mac a distant third.
None of them make an attempt at filtering this. While I found it amusing because they advertise with AI magic in other areas, those search engines all advertise to be keyword searches and one of them being "the worst" means it's either random (since none of them are trying) or they are the best (since it matches the stripes keyword).

To be honest I wish they actually were keyword searches and that the machine doesn't try to be smarter than you. Many times when I carefully specify which keywords must appear on the page, it'll ignore parts of the query or add unrelated synonyms. Usually one can work around it with operators but it's tedious and doesn't work reliably.
Kind of strange to refer to "laptop like performance" considering the parts he's using.

And why not? Aesthetics are very important for a lot of people. Unless you're doing some sort of watercooling or need multiple GPUs or other expansion cards or need to put it a bunch of HDDs there's no reason you can't go for a smaller form factor. Why should a mid or full-sized ATX case be the standard?
Just replying to myself, I was incredulous that cruise lines were requesting a bailout from the US taxpayer. They've been registering their ships in Panama, the BVI and Liberia to avoid minimum wage law, labor laws and paying taxes. They make staff work 8-20 hours a day 7 days a week for months on end, paying well below market wages. [1]

Need a bailout? Ask the Liberians.

Similarly, these companies should be asking for bailouts from the tax havens in which they are registered. Surely all those "registration fees" they've been paying to avoid taxes are being kept safely for just such an occasion.

None of this is making me feel super patriotic/moral/righteous duty for them.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/cruise-line-workers-reveal-g...
Either that or vague network of trial and error generalizations (deep learning/gut learning).
Don't get ahead of yourself: it's SELECT with GROUP BY.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/reopened-wynn-resorts...

I hold a position in WYNN. I also think that the CEO has a realistic plan for opening in May, and we should all get behind that.
Huh? It's supposed to be the opposite, hence the "I"
he's 16, a child is defined as somebody before puberty.

stop infantilising others.
The problem then comes (regrettably) when national/regional/local government next tries to get another round of capital-intensive fixed investment form the captains of industry.

They find themselves talking to themselves for the money.

They hate that.
> Learn you some Google-foo.

That is, learn to structure your query in a way that Google understands what you're trying to say. This used to be what yuo had to do, but now that Google tries to understand the intent of what you're trying to say and advertises as such, it's clearly a hack.
Right - it helped out a year ago when those companies used their profits to buy back stocks, giving executives piles of money, while leaving the companies broke and in need of a bailout.
Google's result is noticeably better though. :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22719949

This is a big deal.

I think EURN might hit 40% divyield which would be nuts.

I'm a gambling lunatic, this is not investment advice.

Floating storage thesis.
If you're an oil producer, you don't need to "dump" oil in the surrounding environment. You can just pump it back into the oilfield you've been extracting it from.
>It’s the subterfuge that makes it astroturfing.

One might call it subturfuge.

Sorry I’ll delete my account.
At the time of this comment Italy has 181,228 confirmed cases and 24,114 deaths which comes out to about 13%.

Even ignoring the mortality rate, this thing is causing lasting and perhaps permanent damage to the body.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
That could be the real answer, for sure. Or the aggregate answer, maybe, in the sense of "we need to do X, but can't do too much of Y, because then voters will notice and get angry." In that case, it might not be a deliberate choice at all, just the reality of politics in a democracy.

If it was a deliberate choice, my instinct would be that designing one policy with a dual mandate sounds a lot more complicated and less effective than designing two policies. It's a lot simpler to target a bailout to saving jobs only, say, and then separately change the tax code to disincentivize tax havens. That would also separate the part that needs to be done urgently, from the part we could do whenever.
The point you're missing is that the tax cuts were unfunded and paid for by huge deficits. So that huge overhang will limit how much deficit spending politicians might undertake to offset any downturn. And they may need to raise corp taxes now and create even more drag.
I don't know if it's bullish - down 30% at one point off the peak, the quickest selloff in history, followed by an impressive run -- it's certainly volatile right now...

I think the thing people don't understand about the market, is buying stock is buying a right to participate in a company's future earnings and risk -- it's _forward_ looking. Where as most economic data (jobs reports, earnings, etc) is _backward_ looking - by the time we get that data, it's effectively already priced-in in an efficient market.

If I'm buying right now, I'm thinking stocks are actually on sale; I get more for my money - and I'm looking to hold for multiple years, so any one day's news good or bad doesn't really matter to me.
I remember when proton was literally a pipe dream, and that was only only a few years ago. The improvement across linux drivers for GPUs as well as these technologies is great.
shirt -stripes does not mean "solid color shirt", as the - operator looks for that text on the page, instead of performing a semantic "I don't want stripes".
It wasn't about stupidity. A reminder that many aspects of the coronavirus response are being farmed out to brand new companies started and run by the Trump family.
That's what producers would do in a competitive and rational market, but oil is not that. Oil is notoriously anti-competitive and political.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Russia%E2%80%93Saudi_Arab...
querying "shirt no stripes" yields slightly better results.
This is the only interface you really get into the amazon catalog. What if you really are looking for shirts that don't have stripes? How would you formulate the query?
If it's going to do that, it should do it right. If not, then I think it's fair to criticize it for not getting the search query correct.
i'm 51% confident this article is pure sarcasm
This is also confusing what you search for vs. what the vendor thinks you will buy. Product catalog searches often intentionally return items outside your search parameters.
That's why I said "supposed" to do. I'm not sure if it's working at the moment.
> tons of jobs have similar working conditions

I get the impression commercial air travel isn't that bad, but it's not great. Cruse ships get away with it by using workers from developing countries. Airlines pitch it as "travel the world" and a lifestyle, so there are a lot of people who want the job. It's like software in the video game industry.