skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The estimates can be helpful for policymakers and health researchers to forecast potential COVID-19 outbreaks. These estimates don’t represent confirmed COVID-19 cases and shouldn’t be used for diagnostic or treatment purposes, or guidance on personal or business travel. Facebook’s research partners are committed to only using survey results to study and help contain COVID-19."

The dataset is explicitly not intended for general public consumption, and having access to flu and COVID symptom overlap is important for epidemiology research and disease surveillance.
And the existing fleet is rapidly being saturated. Building new tankers to serve as floating storage is economically unfeasable (negative ROI), though repurposing idle fleet capacity is rational as a means to recover some variable costs. The activity doesn't make profit, rather, it slows losses.
Steam has an important reason for growing alternatives to Windows gaming: stop Microsoft from being able to extinguish non-Microsoft PC gaming.

Just imagine if DirectX 13 was XboxTM Game Store exclusive...
https://tt-rss.org/wiki/InstallationNotes
Docker is now the recommended way to run tt-rss
The only way? No, as evidenced by the status quo.

Neither does getting money without labour mean that a UBI is wrong in principle.
Disney stops paying 100k workers, nearly half of workforce
Eh, not really.

I live in Texas and had worked for a company that developed a software product for management of things like oil leases. The big issue is not the inability to re-open oil wells, it's not that hard. It's the people.

When you shut in production you lay people off. Eventually they go elsewhere. This is a big problem in oil boom/bust cycles. Getting trained operators that don't mess up the equipment or cause environmental disasters is one of the bigger problems.

Also, once shut in, the operators that survive the downturn will want to open later, than earlier. They can profit more by waiting.
I've been using https://pomelloapp.com/
I will definitely do it if YouTube rejects my quota requests. Otherwise, I plan on keeping in close for now.
Even better if the certificates are cryptographically signed in a chain and their custody is verified though a solution of the Byzantine generals problem.
The world produces approximately thirteen billion liters of oil (83m "barrels") a day. A billion liters is a cube a hundred meters on a side. Given that it needs to be stored in a tank and not just pooled in a huge lake, that's a bit of a problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-class_supertanker store about three million barrels.
That work sets you free is an unsubstantiated claim. I'm working and I don't think that this set me free. On the contrary, I think it's pretty shackling.

What would be a not naive understanding of the quote? I think it is reasonable to want a future for your own children. How are we living in a world where this is controversial?
Maybe, but casually throwing out an accusation like this without supporting evidence is reckless at best. I would downvote this comment if I could.

Update: Found this old HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16726998 with vague recollections of certain encounters on the bug tracker. My takeaway is the maintainer(s) didn't put too much effort into understanding some bug reports (not good but doesn't deserve the "abusive" label) and was perceived as rude (which in my experience could sometimes be attributed to lack of tact from non-native speakers). So, hard to conclusively tell without more concrete evidence.
Mobile is a lot of fun, some things are different other things are the same. Some stuff off the top of my head, I know some of them still apply to web dev but they're more pronounced on mobile:

* Your data should be cached across sessions and refresh periodically, be pushed or respond to the user refreshing. Depending on how complex your app is and what it does you may need some partial syncing behavior, this is a difficult thing to get perfect and often people opt for using a service to handle this. You may need to implement migrations, polling and queues to get your app syncing correctly and have your UI reflect all of these states.

* On the web your app throwing an error may or may not crash the whole app depending on how it's built, it might still be partially useable. In either case users on the web generally know to just command+r or reload the page. On mobile the whole thing dies and worst case scenario the user deletes your app or leaves you a bad review.

* Developers often complain about the review process (understandably) and it can be really irritating, especially you're used to just pushing fixes immediately. At the same time it does add an extra layer of QA to the app, sometimes app store review will catch something you missed.

* React Native specific I would say depending on what you're doing don't assume you won't have to write any native code or understand some platform APIs. If you're doing anything unusual then be prepared to write some bridging code or debug some cryptic errors. Keep your dependencies low if you can, this is a real pain to deal with in React Native and turned me off it. If you're using Expo, it'll balloon your binary to around 50mb and you won't have access to a lot of hardware APIs without ejecting. The whole expo release / publish / hot update stuff is great though.
In addition to defining “Done” I think it’s also important to define “Enough info to start” and “Enough info to finish”. In a lot of projects the stakeholders aren’t willing to commit to anything which then leaves the dev teams without direction. I have been multiple times in situations where the deadline was ticking but somewhere between project management, project management and development management (too much management?) they couldn’t make their up their minds and critical questions didn’t get answered.
Not an economist, but here's what I know:

It should, because among the factors that contributed to this pricing is the ongoing price war between major oil producers.

Shale oil has a much higher cost of extraction, achieving sustainability at ~$50/barrel. Those businesses are out of the game for now and unlikely to come back anytime soon.

Meanwhile those who are poised to survive this war of attrition will be the ones dictating the prices - at least until shale producers recover.
Yes, they can be furloughed. This happened during the 2008 financial crises, and it already happened a few days ago at Univ of Arizona.
I wish Proton (with an hypothetical DXMetal) would help solve this conundrum on macOS, especially now that 32-bit native code has been dropped.
Nothing at these corporations changes until both executives and low level minions get charged with felonies, and taken to trial. They must be deposed, brought to stand. Simply settling by paying the equivalent of x days of profits is not justifiable anymore.
Bruce Lee – Train Every Part of Your Body
And of course whether charity is applied or not is all about the presumed social fault lines in the situation. For example, in the U.S. right now, if you say, "The expert predictions about the coronavirus are all over the place and changing every day," it's an uncontroversial statement when everyone's politics are assumed to be the same. Among liberals, it will be interpreted as meaning that the coronavirus is extremely dangerous and not fully understood and we need to play it safe. Among conservatives, it will be interpreted as undermining expert authority and casting doubt on social distancing. In a mixed group, though, the important aspect will not be the meaning, which nobody will bother thinking too hard about; the only thing that matters will be the presumed intent to precipitate an argument.
No one really knows, and the answer depends on how the industry manages the downtime.

But in principle sure: storage filling up means that production needs to be halted because there's nowhere to put the oil. Production being halted means that facilities are going to be shut down, workers laid off or furloughed, and equipment mothballed. Some of those processes, as with all industry, are going to be expensive to start back up.

So if the industry doesn't (or can't, if it actually runs out of liquidity) have the agility to get things moving fast enough during the recovery, we might see a price shock in the other direction.

Or we might not. Certainly no one here is going to be expert enough to make a good prediction. But the principle is sound.
Which is fine as a user preference. But modern software no longer allows for controlling information density. Even "compact" layouts, when available in modern software, are typically large and sparse by historic standards.
We have two kids, my partner is a stay at home parent (their choice), and I earn enough on a single income for our family to enjoy a reasonably high quality of life in a low cost of living locale. You’re absolutely right that kids are expensive. They are a choice, and to each their own.

Agreed, there are serious problems to solve (healthcare, income and wealth inequality, clean energy, electric mobility, justice and drug law reform). I hope my children take my lead in understanding why their role will be to continue the fight when I’m no longer able. “Apathy is the glove into which evil slips it’s hand.”

We borrow the world from our kids, and we should act accordingly. I’m planting trees whose shade I know I’ll never sit in.
So what happens if you have gas in your car and don't drive it for 4 months???
macOS has BSD date and Linux ships with GNU.
https://www.protondb.com/ is a crucial companion, letting you generally know whether stuff runs.

Mentally-downgrade ratings by one, as a rule of thumb.

Also, tfw the native Linux port runs worse than the Proton version PepeHands
The point is that so long as there's weak demand, the oil's going nowhere, and the ships would be sitting regardless.

Though otherwise agreed: capacity is rapidly being saturated, and this isn't much of a win for shipping companies either.
That didn't stop UAE from attracting nearly 16M tourists last year.

Only Saudi Arabia beats them (barely) in the Middle East, and that's mostly from religious tourism to Mecca
I agree with you, I think. To me it seems that you pretty much need AGI to drive IRL. And there are a lot of cheaper and easier things to do in the meantime. Cheers
I run tt-rss and I like it a lot.
The FreshRSS GUI, if the home page screenshots are representative, looks like a lot worse than tt-rss IMO.
Lots of wasted space. tt-rss is highly customizable and support hjkl navigation.
>The marginal damage done by existing plus going on cruise vs. just existing is infinitesimal.

Depends on your definition of "just existing". I can't claim to live in a way that's very good for the environment, but I do try to limit meat consumption, purchases of new goods etc. Most online calculators for carbon footprints give me a ~8 ton yearly Co2 equivalent. According to [1] a cruise from Southhampton to New York (one way) is ~4.5 tons per person, so that would be a whopping 50% increase for me, and more than double if I did a return trip. That's just the Co2 emissions too, so not factoring in the various ocean-polluting effects (also mentioned in [1]).

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2006/dec/20/cruises.green
And yet Europeans roared across the Atlantic in the millions when it took >1 month to sail. Europeans colonized Australia and New Zealand, even further away (~250 days), and only about half the total number of people on board the First Fleet were convicts, the rest went along because it was their job or their choice.
Also worth noting that you can pipe the result to `pbcopy` to put it in your clipboard. Super useful if you haven't seen it before.

$ date -r 1577733633 | pbcopy
It's true. You could still use cheap foreign labor and provide decent working conditions under flag of convenience, but it's the fierce competition that really forbids it. These massive cruise ships have become part of mass tourism. People look at the price first. If the price is 5-10% above competition without better service, it does not work as a business.

It's the non-caring consumers that enable consistent bad treatment of workers in the large scale. People like OP who stop are the only force besides enforcing tighter labor laws in the blue waters that can fix this.

Then there are billionaires in their yachts treating cheap labour as animals just because. That's just cruelty for fun.
This is a great read. I am especially happy that they are not asking for an email to download the report. I understand why some companies are doing this, but I went from web page to reading with no friction.
In not entirely unrelated news, some electricity providers in the UK have been paying you to charge your electric car[0] today. There have been other days recently where the "agile pricing" has also gone below zero, e.g. 5 April[1]. With the lockdown no-one is supposed to drive anywhere unless absolutely essential though (so e.g. the NHS doesn't have to deal with casualties from traffic accidents), and they're talking about banning cars on some roads for a period when lockdown is lifted[2] (to make it easier for people to walk or cycle).

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2020/04/20/a-rare-...

[1] https://www.energy-stats.uk/agile-price-plunges/

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52353942
1 No.

2 No.

3 Yes.

The KSA spends 8.8% of its GDP on military expenditure. Seemingly the largest of any country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
I don't think you can construct "It's okay to be white" as something wrong, because it's just inherently correct. It worries me, that you even try to find something wrong the the slogan.
You're right. I'm finding a way to explain it better.

Tip shows related actions that can be performed on a piece of text.

A suggestion is very welcome here.
This article sits weird with me. I am not having kids, nor is my partner. We are both medically unable to do so. I never really wanted to have kids, however this article is full of cons and almost zero pros to having a kid, something OP seems to have not even thought of.

Are kids a massive responsibility? Yes. Can they be a burden? Yes. Can they also bring parents an immense amount of joy, happiness, pride and adjacently a sense of accomplishment? Yes. One of my favorite memories as a kid was going to Disney World with my parents, and seeing them enjoy mine and my brothers reactions to something they both enjoyed. That gave them so much joy.

I won't judge people for choosing to have kids or not. But this whole childfree/look at me and all my money & less responsibility attitude is lame.
It's not an oxymoron. The first ever cryptocurrency was a centralized cryptocurrency. While the centralized aspect was the reason why it failed, the old systems from decades ago were indeed cryptocurrencies. Look up David Chaum.
Maybe I'm not understanding something but why do they consider paying dividends as something bad? They are essentially excluding the majority of businesses using this criteria.
>Which brings up the topic of oil prices: there are many. Every blend, every location, has its own price. In fact the same oil can be sold at different prices if the seller so chooses.

True but largely irrelevant. WTI is a widely-cited benchmark because all those oil prices are highly correlated and so it's a good general measure.
Denmarks Radio guide on the different help packages
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/dr-guider-gennem-junglen-af-...

in Danish of course.
The so-called ActiveRecord:Migration
That seems pretty reasonable to me. Bailout money should come with very unattractive conditions so companies use it only as last resort.
You can't be this naive?

Please search for "arbeit macht frei" and get back to us.
The rationale would be that they would expect tax payers to be paid back, ahead of shareholders.
If they have excess cash to pay a dividend, why do they need a bailout?
Simulating Clock Skew in K8s Without Affecting Other Containers on the Node
Emirates A380 dipped below 400ft as crew mistakenly chased glideslope
Seems like this will not affect companies that funnel profits into subsidiaries in low tax countries, e.g. the Maltese Patent Box scheme.

There are always some loopholes, governments should know.
If a company can still afford to pay out dividends it probably isn't really in need of aid.
> Frankly, we need to get to the next generation of nuclear because renewables will not be enough.

How close are we to seeing this right now?
No, they are not. The vast majority of companies do not pay dividends.
The 'last cruise ship on Earth' finally comes home
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation is asking its donors to give 5% for cor
Yes, but the magnitude can vary widely. The world used to use 100m barrels per day (bpd), and the last oil crash in 2016 had 2m bpd of oversupply. Just 2% unbalanced in supply/demand caused wildly fluctuating prices, due to the same reason as today - nowhere to store oil.

Now we've knocked off some 35m bpd of demand, and have millions of bpd of voluntary and involuntary shutdown, some of which will not return. This is a gigantic variation compared to any other crash in history.

So why won't prices necessarily skyrocket if demand returns? First you have a huge amount of stored oil to work through. Second you have potentially fast response shale to quickly increase production again.

But, shale only increased 1m bpd per year even during good times, so it can only make up for so much supply destruction. Secondly, this time shale companies may be mortally wounded. Even if they get taken over in bankruptcy you can have a lot of displaced workers and service companies.

So it really depends on how long the downturn lasts. If there is a quick rebound, like if a cure to covid-19 is found, then it shouldn't be too bad. But if this drags out through 2020, I think even $100 oil will start to look cheap in a few years.
It seems trustless Ethereum platform requires developer-level skills for those who have them and implicit trust for those who don't. It's not just Ethereum of course, it's similar across the board. No wonder 99% of users just pick a government-regulated, centralized exchange to participate in permissionless space.
Cloud NVMes: the blind side of them
The only thing that helps me concentrate on work (coding) is exercising. When I come back from bike/run/whatever, catch my breath and take a shower, only after that my mind is calm enough so that I can concentrate well for ~2 hours. After that, you have to eat again, participate in a meeting, read your email, deal with messages from family, check the news, the latest coding tutorial, etc etc, and the concentration is gone, no matter how hard I try again later.
If they have the money to pay out dividends then they shouldn’t need bailouts.
Cozumel’s entire economy is based on cruise ships docking.
I guess it depends on whether that restriction is for past dividends or ones after the crisis has started?

I certainly don't think it would be appropriate to bail out a company that's throwing money out the window unnecessarily.
These measures don't imply that paying out dividends is "bad" at all?
For those interested, here is a link to the paper referenced in the article:

https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S109671761930401X?...
Looks like you can request to beta test it here - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wOal6PSRxXcMmmzXXHygDC5_rGR...
The population has increased and the economy is at an all time high. Shouldn’t we expect more talented artists?
You pay out dividends or buy back shares if you have surplus cash, and it's hard to convey to voters that businesses with surplus cash need help I guess.
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant (2012)
I'm not a photoshop user, but this is exactly the sort of thing I would expect Photoshop to be aware of. I thought it included all sorts of clever stuff, but if it takes the most naive approach here, that's a bit disappointing.
Yes, but this is solvable by limiting the number of children per person.
The irony of this is that Denmark is kind of a tax haven for international holding companies that can be tax-free.
Great explanation of a bad practice. A company should pay for the value they get, which is independent of the location. These calculations never seem to take into effect all the cost savings of having a remote person (office building/parking/food/working space/etc). Instead, they almost always mark the employee as a second tier of worker
I think context is the important thing here. Taken out of context, the quote is reasonable. I had never heard of this but if you replace "white" with "black" it seems pretty acceptable right?

In context it sort of means repress and kill everyone else though.
Not sure if these are loans or grants or exactly how it works, but I could see prohibiting dividends for some period after the aid. Firms should not be making distributions when they are receiving aid. But prohibiting any firm that has paid dividends is insane.
Renewables aren’t subject to huge price swings.
Just finished building my new PC last week after running the old one into the ground over 6 years. In the 7 liter sized Dr. Zaber Sentry 2.0 case (basically the size and form factor of a gaming console) I easily fit a Ryzen 3700x and RTX 2070 with zero cooling issues and fans I can barely hear. Here's my takeaway:

- If you want a truly SFF PC (no, 20 liters is not small), you're going to have spend extra money and extra time on finding components that will fit. ITX options are very limited, SFX is somewhat pricey, and GPU form factors often don't adhere to the NVIDIA/AMD spec, so clearance-compatible cards are limited.

That said, I love the new form factor - it's got everything I need in a tiny package that I can put anywhere and is easily portable for cleaning or when I need to do some on-site video rendering and laptops just don't cut it.
Graphics is not the primary problem. The DirectX family of APIs also supports audio, input, networking, and other useful things that are in many ways far more difficult to make work across all platforms, at least historically.

So in some sense, DirectX's existence changes the economic equation, which does make it part of the problem.
The thinking goes:
A business should have enough cash to weather a storm. If you've paid out cash you have more than enough to weather a storm (and therefore don't need money). If you need money and have paid out dividends than you shouldn't have, you didn't have enough cash reserve.
Those who work wouldn't necessarily be taxed, so they don't need to support those unable or unwilling to work. The world today has the wealth to pull this off. The government (or some other entity) could employ people to generate wealth like traditional corporations do today. And use that to benefit all. So the billions tied up in mega corps could be used for something that actually moves us on as a civilization.
It could be sanity prevailing, or it could be they're counting in the US to foot the bill for international conglomerates their economy depends on.
3) Russia. Look it up.
This is important! I’ve seen a friend have to take delivery of train cars full of eggs. Not a good time!
The implication is that companies should not be using the aid money to pay dividends or buy back stock, because the aid is intended to help pay employees or otherwise remain operational, not to pass through to stockholders.

The article doesn't make clear whether they're using past behavior (what they did with previous government aid), present behavior (are they currently a public company established as paying dividends), or future behavior (an agreement not to pay dividends or buy back stock, in order to receive aid).