skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have the same discussion here in the Netherlands now, one of the poster childs of the (entirely rightful) public anger being Booking.com.

Companies like this have been raking in billions of revenue and profit until very, very recently, but instead of using even a tiny proportion of it for contingency planning they decided to take on more debt and buy back their own shares to boost their stock price instead, to 'reward' their shareholders. And at the same time they used every loophole imaginable to evade taxes, effectively contributing next to nothing to tax revenue to be used for the public cause.

Now things went sour and within 1 month they are already out of money and cannot continue paying their employees, so they are begging to be bailed out with money that was intended to save small businesses that were forced to close by the government. They made $15 billion of profit last year alone, which would be enough to pay their ~17.5K employees for years to come, but decided to throw it at all their shareholders. The hotels and BnB's that use their platform will go down because the government aid is limited, but Booking.com needs to be saved...

Privatize the profits, socialize the losses, always the same thing. It's frankly quite disgusting and I have no sympathy for these companies at all.
I prefer to use other languages on backend something like C#, because JavaScript is too error-prone. You can't even just add two numbers (try (0.1 + 0.2) === 0.3) without some workarounds. and there are millions other issues with the language.
Its not 500 employees per location [1], it is 500 employees total but there are exceptions for restaurants, hotels and franchises.

[1] https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/PPP--Fact-Sheet.p...
> In fact they later announced up to 88% of their COVID deaths likely weren't actually COVID deaths

I wonder if you can back that up with a reference.
Very, very disturbing it took so long for this to be ruled on. Honestly, I'm shocked.
Juries seem like a bad idea for criminal conviction in general.
This is what I do too, either watch videos of other people playing new games or play the old games that I already know and love (Diablo, Alpha Centauri, Starcraft, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Minesweeper, etc.).
My wife works at a hospital.

Where I live is mildly rural, it's not like Silicon Valley where everything you need is within 2 miles of your house.
The worst is ahead if people miscalibrate their habits based on threat fatigue, impatience, conspiracy theories, hype, and/or lies. Without a vaccine or 100% quarantining+contact tracing, the pandemic will restart after each lockdown and keep going until essentially everyone is infected. Roughly between 3-25% of NY state and 5-15% of Santa Clara county has/had it, and removing the lockdown will just make it spread like crazy. New cases would've stopped completely after 2 weeks if people obeyed the rules or lockdowns were enforced strictly and the infected were uniformly isolated.
Fast.com probably helps quite a bit. If ISPs throttle Netflix' traffic their fast.com measurements will look bad and customers will complain/sue. (AFAIK there's no way to distinguish between fast.com tests and actual Netflix video consumption since the former's traffic patterns are identical(?) to a Netflix video streaming client's.)

Creating fast.com always seemed like a pretty brilliant move by Netflix to me.
> And if it isn't a simple majority then unanimity is the only reasonable option

That's not how the constitution works - supermajorities (55%, 2/3, 75%) exist in many areas around the world, so while majority and unanimity may be reasonable options, it's arguable that other points may also be reasonable.
I think that can work well, as long as people also adopt the military/aviation habit of speaking crisply and not rambling on to hog the channel until they're absolutely sure they've emptied themselves of every possible thought they could ever have on the matter. Like I just did with every word after "rambling on". ;)
Well after I wrote that I did some reading and it seems that Northern Italians have more Germanic (e.g. Lombard) ancestry while farther South you get Greek and even some Arab. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the reunification of Italy in the 19th century there was little movement or intermarriage between regions hence less gene flow.

I would expect American natives as tribal societies to be even more distinct though not likely along current borders.
With computers, which excel at memorization, why not off-load out faulty memory there? And use time, and brain capacity, for things that we are still better at, or at least at fun or fulfilling?
For each prompt, my first thought was "yeah, I have it in Evernote/1Password/Google Calendar" followed by that it makes my life easier. So basically, let's embrace our extended phenotype!

I am sure that there are people around that can flawlessly remember hundreds of complex passwords and numbers, even ones they have used in a decade.
Also, knowing something does not guarantee that we can use that. For example, I guess a lot of you had:

A: Honey, when is our anniversary?

B: April 20th, obviously.

A: And which date is today?

B: April 21st... oh f-.
I actually followed up with you on this one recently. This is in fact what's happening, and it varies by country/region/city to what extent.

In some countries they absolutely do count anyone who dies while in the possession of COVID as a COVID death, for instance Italy. " Italy’s death rate might also be higher because of how fatalities are recorded. In Italy, all those who die in hospitals with Coronavirus are included in the death counts."

“On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88% patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity – many had two or three.” [1]

In New York they're counting speculative COVID deaths of anyone with respiratory illness even if they've never tested positive [2].

"A subtler issue is what to do when the patient has other serious medical conditions. If the person suffered from chronic lung disease, then became infected with the virus and died of pneumonia, the immediate or primary cause would be pneumonia as a result of COVID-19. The lung disease would be listed as a contributing condition, said Sally S. Aiken, president of the National Association of Medical Examiners." [3]

The CDC has guidance on this but it's fair to say its interpretation will vary from place to place. "COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death" -- that's pretty broad. [4]

Sorry, Dan, this is looking like it's not the Ebola infection you're making it out to be.

[1] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/15/coronavirus-new-york-city-st...

[3] https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-covi...

[4] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-I...
Doing a quick search of TESS2 for trademarks look they already have the trademark registered for ZEIT (registered in 2017). So it was probably for other reasons. Which is a shame, because Zeit is very concise, easy to remember, and has a strong brand today - at least with their initial audience.

Sounds like they're trying to go for a more corporate customer with their new name.
It makes me feel nostalgic to read about the times when people still tried to understand the hardware and make things work amazingly well despite harsh resource limits.

Nowadays, even simplistic programs take ages on a device 1000 times more powerful. I had time to read this article because restarting our ruby development server is so excruciatingly slow.

It seems the craftsmanship aspect of computer programming is getting lost, and all that remains is the large leverage that one can use to drive profits with software.
I'm using Jamulus for making music with others. It has can reach latencies of < 25ms. Chatting over Jamulus is much more pleasant than talking over a video conferencing application.
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True, Mexico is quite ruff. It's hard to even guess where to start from and what to do.. Maybe go after the people who are responsible for selling the weapons and laundering the money? E.g. US based weapons manufacturers and German banks?

There are countries that are not as hopeless where I can see potential for change, or so it seems at least:
https://www.dw.com/en/murder-of-jan-kuciak-13-judges-arreste...
I think it's not that simple. Flying to see your family is always more costly than being close to your family, even when flights are "cheap". What causes people to want to move? What causes people to be ok paying the cost?
They're Netflix, though, so they've got a lot of use cases where they control both ends of the connection (e.g. they've got a native app for the end user). If it's important to them to have ESNI support, they presumably could do it for those use cases.
Thanks! By the way, I noticed this video https://www.youtube.com/embed/WkA0dMudUG0 showing TempleOS didn't make when building from Markdown to HTML.

* I'm going to fix this later today + some misspells.
So do white bread and white rice count? They're both processed and are mostly just carbs. White rice for example has to have Thiamin added, otherwise you would get Beriberi.
Good point. Smaller players can't make the same move though.
So all this ecommerce categories are not profit making..!
Doubt is essential for science – but for politicians, it's a sign of weakness
Alexander+Sander+-+FSFE
The idea of "seeing the ending" of Factorio undermining its appeal seems disconnected from my own experience. I'm not sure how giving up a game with no micro transactions helps that issue with the gaming industry either.
>I find that people often don't compare Macs spec for spec

I find people often hold one thing from the iMac that's not really relevant as justifying a whole laundry list of failings.

I'm including my screen in the price of my build, I have ECC ram and two GPUs and I'm still a fraction of the base model price and outperforming it.
It can help with loneliness when you're living alone, isolating alone, and are used to having people around you for 8 hours a day in an office.

This isn't true for everyone, but certainly is for many.
The question that follows naturally is how do you define "processed food"? Different people have different definitions for this, so it's a rather vague term.

To some people, it means anything you can't make in your own kitchen. However sausages are commonly cited as an example of processed food, and those are relatively simple to make at home, using the exact same ingredients as the commercially-produced sausages you buy in a store.

Others consider it to mean anything made commercially, in a factory and not by hand, others would only include pre-packaged ready-to-heat box meals, others again have yet another definition, and may talk about "minimally processed foods" and "ultra-processed foods".

Without context, we may not even be talking about the same thing.

Unfortunately coming up with a concise definition of exactly what constitutes "processed food" is exceedingly hard, because all food preparation includes some amount of processing.
Funny, I just heard today that Oktoberfest was going to be cancelled. That's hardly a back to normal situation.

Germany is one of the few countries that has managed to do test+trace well enough to contain outbreaks. It's definitely a model to be copied .. but you have to get the testing in place first!
Nobody wants to “tank the economy”, but lots of panicky people are on HN and reddit, every day, calling for extensions of these lockdowns “because people are dying!”, even though the original pretense was quite different (“flattening the curve” doesn’t change the area under the curve). The premise of the thing is shifting, and censorship of contrary opinions is growing (as you can see from reflexive downvoting of comments here).

The people who are doing this are mostly well-off enough not to feel the direct consequences of their actions (yet), which is why they do it.

It’s the same moral hazard that leads politicians into war: gauzy moral sentiments can be very compelling when you’re paying with someone else’s lives.
I'll take a 1 hour Zoom call over the 1:30h commute to meeting in traffic jams, 1 hour meeting, 1:30h back in traffic jams any day.

Any 'Zoom Fatigue' I'll shrug off with a nice walk and a coffee in 30 minutes. The stress from spending 3hrs bumper to bumper ruins more than just the entire day.
I gather some senior military people answer calls with a curt “Speak!” - and will get the hump if a junior presumes to “Out” them.
It's not clear that 100% of excess mortality is COVID, or how that actually relates to its IFR. More data needed.
Yeah that sounds like something like Harfbuzz could do.
Wow. How much can half-written software be worth? I bet this guy offers some very deep discounts.
What about using the "-" sign to filter results instead of relying on complex language understanding?

=> "shirt -stripes" works pretty well on google at least
Sorry - typo, meant late March (obviously, since it was only written mid-April!).

And the other restrictions were reducing the size of allowed gatherings (500 to 50) and importantly for this discussion introduced sanctions for non-compliance.
> UNIX could be simple, because it was targeted for a very small group of people, mostly always using ASCII. Trying to cater to a large group of people will always be complex. And trying to cater to a large group of people is NOT the definition of ‘bloated’.

The main author of UNIX is also the author of UTF-8[1]. The software hosted at suckless.org often isn't very useful and the people associated with the project often aren't very nice, but the comment about the people behind UNIX here is unfounded.

[1]: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
People aren't catching type 1 diabetes because they are sick by coronavirus - they already had it. Comparing it to an immunodeficiency disease is not the same. It makes zero sense to generalize the fatality rate across a healthy population and include those with pre-existing conditions when trying to gauge the response for an entire state/country when the vast majority are healthy and those who are dying are not. When I want to know the risk to me or my family, I don't care that an 81 year old with stage 4 lung cancer died when he got COVID-19 - I want to know what my chances are among healthy people - but the media hysterics cling to the vulnerable people when it has no bearing on healthy ones.

We need detailed demographics of infections and deaths. We need to break down the risks, because a blanket totalitarian response of "SHUT DOWN LITERALLY EVERYTHING" is absolutely ridiculous when the general population is going to be fine. We didn't shut down the world economy for SARS, H1N1, MERS or any particularly bad flu season and we shouldn't shut down for this. We should focus our limited resources on protecting the vulnerable and let everyone else get back to work. More lives will be destroyed from an extended shutdown than this virus ever could.
The two concepts seem related, at least if we assume that jurors are reasonable. A single reasonable juror having a doubt indicates that the verdict is not beyond reasonable doubt. I agree that unanimity is not as obvious when the standard is "preponderance".
As someone who has been involved in many branding projects, it is amusing to see all the negative commentary on the rebrand. This is human nature 101. Everyone always hates rebrands. In fact I am willing to bet that the executives who eventually bought into this new name also hated the new name when they heard it.

Whenever we presented a new name to a company that wanted to be rebranded, we always asked them not to provide any feedback on the name until they had given it a day or two to sink in. Almost invariably the feedback was, “I hated it when I first heard it, but it has really grown on me.”

Examples of names that would be very easy to criticize on first hearing that have become incredibly successful brands abound. Google is a stupid and juvenile-sounding name. Now it’s a verb. I won’t waste your time with more examples.
You should take a look at Microsoft's Durable Functions which pairs event sourcing + (optional) actor model + serverless. It's some pretty neat tech.

I tried doing something similar to this several years ago, and here's a few issues I ran into:

1. Pub/sub in Event Sourcing is a bad idea. It's really hard to get right. (what to do if sub happens after pub due to scaling issues/infrastructure, etc?) Instead it's better to push commands deliberately to a process manager that handles the inter-domain communication and orchestration.

2. Concurrency. Ensuring aggregates are essentially single-threaded entities is a must. Having the same aggregate id running in multiple places can cause some really fun bugs. This usually requires a distributed lock of some sort.

3. Error handling. I ended up never sending a command to a domain directly, instead I sent it to a process manager that could handle all the potential failure cases.
> I'm Mexican

Sure but why is this relevant to your question
SYN cookies ate my dog – breaking TCP on Linux (2018)
Yeah, not having your name instantly googleable in Germany (a big economy with a lot of developers) is probably a hindrance. Not to mention how stupid it would be to use in a sentence, imagine calling your product "Time", and a developer says e.g. "we're having issues with time.."
I'd not recommend using the older versions because it corrupted my library, and it removed some photos from Flickr after I removed a set (I hated it so much... it wasn't supposed to work like this, Apple), and made the original ones very hard to find. The new Photos app seems way better, though. However, I admit my trust in it is not great either because I'm afraid these experiences might happen again... So I'd either stick to Lightroom or go to something light that I know I can always just rely on organizing the files by directories on my filesystem.
There were legendary stories of elaborate pranks, also:

https://tech.gaeatimes.com/index.php/archive/april-fool-pran...
On a 1440p screen at 14 inch you end up at 210 dpi which is 2x integer scaling.

Everyone puts in 1080p or 4k panels at 14 inch and both require fractional scaling. It makes no sense why so few vendors opt for 1440p.
How to make money from watching videos
Thank you so much :). I'll try some of these next time I go down the wormhole!
>I noticed they didn't explicitly mention why they feel the need to ensure authentication+confidentiality+integrity for their streams, given that the data they're dealing with is films and TV shows, rather than, say, payment details.

Because secure should be the default where we can do it.

If I'm watching a show, I don't necessarily want every single router along the way knowing what show i'm watching. Either because of advertising profiles or just because I don't want people knowing that I'm binge watching a specific show, or to go to an extreme, perhaps because what I'm watching isn't legal where I live.

If I'm watching a documentary or news show, I don't want the possibility that someone could modify my stream and change parts of it. Misinformation is a big deal, and if we have a simple solution to get rid of whole attack vectors (especially before they become common), why not use it?

And TLS gets rid of other attacks as well. token stealing is a lot harder if EVERYTHING is TLS encrypted vs if only some things are. It can also secure against vulnerabilities in the software that reads the streams. They no longer have to harden their systems as much against potentially hostile data, they can be behind well tested TLS termination that only allow verified data through to the "backend".

Everything should be encrypted in transit, zero exceptions. Just because you don't think it's important to hide doesn't mean that others don't. Just because you think your parsing is secure doesn't mean that another layer isn't useful for defense in depth. We have the technology. It's free, cheap to run, and doesn't hurt the user experience in any significant way, so why not use it?
My wife and I decided we did not want to pay for Crossfit and the math worked out that if we built a home gym, we’d eventually be saving. Olympic bars and weights, two racks, pull up station, kettlebells and dumbbells, assault bike, rower, treadmill, ghd, wallballs...

We do a mix of an app called StreetParking, some Instagram workouts, and some stuff we just make up. StreetParking is nice because it has daily workouts all the way from body weight to oly and power programs.
The autohinter was a noble attempt, and in some cases it eventually did a passable job. But enabling it by default is the part that I think might have been a mistake.
No.

"Low lead" gas destroys power tools.

The airport that I go to sells both unleaded and "low lead." It's very easy to choose the "unleaded" pump. It's lower octane than 100, but I don't remember the exact value.
Oh man, I've been saying this for years, count me in. Let's find a way to reduce or eliminate the need for personal hygiene while we're at it. Robot bodies! We could theoretically still have sex virtually, too.
> but anything that involves the GPU

Even on Metal?
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We're far too lenient with everyone. If, as a society, we were to suddenly start holding people to most basic ethical standards, half of the small businesses would have to close.

I'm not saying this to defend corporations - just pointing out that the market discourages ethical behavior all across the board. If one can't see it, then one hasn't seen restaurants, fast food or grocery stores up close.
I'm sure Dropbox is first-class behind the scenes, but the desktop app has become simply awful with time, so that I almost feel sorry for them and embarrassed towards other people when I use Dropbox.
> Especially not when they work a 9-5 job which pays the same regardless of being a 1x or 10x.

This is a failure of forethought on their part. It's true that their _current_ job might not pay more for that knowledge, but it absolutely pays off in their career and during interviews as they develop their professional network and people begin to recognize them as a source of in-depth knowledge.
- end-to-end encryption

- able to see the conversation on other devices

You can choose only one. Otherwise I can't see how it would be end-to-end encrypted. Your devices should create some sort of a group chat to make this work.

Group chats have large enough attack surface and "end-to-end encryption" will create false sense of security.
I’ve had the same problem with 3 different 2011 MacBook Pros

There’s an nvram variable you can change to disable the discrete gpu, details here:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/166876/macbook-pro...

I didn’t go the Linux-live cd route so I have to reapply the fix when nvram is reset but other than that the machines work fine now :)
Stop using it and get Actual Work done
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Congrats Guillermo!! Vercel is awesome, can't wait to see where you take the business. Keep up the great work.
Facebook censoring in favor of Trump. strange days
> to get such (relatively) good battery life out of the pig that Windows running non-UWP apps can be.

What does UWP change regarding battery consumption ?
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More info (in Dutch): https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/bookingcom-staatssteun-coronacr...
It's not just JavaScript with that issue...
https://0.30000000000000004.com/
People have made memory-safe compilers for ANSI C (e.g. Fail-Safe C.)

Unfortunately clang and gcc don't (yet?) have --safe or an x86-64-safe compilation target.