skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the efficient markets hypothesis applied to AI. "If the AI could make more money by showing something else, it would be showing something else".
Well I would include larger private companies in that group, you could have 100 employees and still be a small business - for example you could own a small chain of restaurants or franchises, or several hair salons.

But yes really small businesses employ about a fifth of the population.
A republican fundraiser started Blueflame Medical at the end of March and boasts of being able to fill 100 million orders of masks and PPE. I don't know how he secured these supply lines out of thin air, but I wouldn't be surprised if the federal government is indirectly propping up their stockpile with these seized shipments.
I heard it wasn't funded, but can't the US strategic reserve take these contracts at a negative price and fill up on cheap oil?

It would seem like a prudent thing to do because it can then be used to restart the economy later and make a decent profit to pay off things like all these Covid checks.
Great answer! Now let's forget about storing to sell later at a profit, at negative 37$, can't you just burn it for a profit?
Came to this thread to say: The GTD methodology talks specifically about breaking tasks down, and in fact is the first place I even came across the idea of breaking things down as a way to overcome procrastination.

Really great stuff
Well, almost every aspects in human civilization try to affect your behavior and I think a translation of this into a binary question of free will is very likely over-simplification. Historical arguments on free will has been a very complex one and prone to errors, so I wouldn't step into this landmine.

Beside of free-will arguments, I'm seeing the huge (both positive and negative) impacts of ads on both societal and economical aspects and there's no real practical way to make it undone, it's pretty important to guide it to the right way. Yes, you can argue that it's better not to have it from the first moment but it's not the reality so the only option is making it better.
I'm sorry, but characterizing Python 2 as a completely different language than Python 3 just makes me laugh. Is American English a completely different language than British English? (I realize this isn't the best comparison, just trying to make a point.)

Like I said, I acknowledge there were costs to transitioning. Python 3 was pretty rough around the edges upon first release. But that first release was in 2008 ...

I realize not everyone needs to upgrade, and that's totally fine. But how people internally justify the cost of keeping Python 2 going when the momentum and most of the community is with Python 3 I cannot understand. Unless you're in a very inflexible corporate setting ...
Ever looked into San Francisco prices?
It’s a very fine line but you can keep this going for a long time.
https://archive.md/Kmhr1
if it really makes no apparent difference to you then I guess Google has decided I'm somebody who cares about using the - operator and you're not and for this reason serves me greatly different results because shirt -stripes is quite different from shirt with stripes or shirt without stripes.

not that there aren't a couple of striped shirts in there, but nothing like otherwise. So I mean, there is an extremely apparent difference from me, even though there is not the perfect result you might wish for.
I was think of Iran Contra when I read it
When you say the Feds, I am finding it hard to believe they even have the capability locally (logistically/politically) to pull this off...doesn't make sense.

Maybe a couple of areas there is an over enthusiastic Trumper in a Fed office...but I doubt many have the balls to tell Governors to fuck off. They have to continue to live in those states you know...
It does, hence tends encapsulates that niche. But then nothing is perfect so their will always be an exception.

Reminds me of an old IT joke - We finally made the perfect code, it debugs itself. Alas when we run it, it electriculted the programmer.
That still doesn't answer: why wasn't it anticipated and reflected in earlier pricing (even if volume-weighted it would be a much smaller drop, it still seems to have been missed even from futures options)?
If it's just density, why does SF have so few deaths (20), fewer than cities much less dense than SF? eg Seattle is much less dense but has 15x as many deaths as SF. There is clearly an element of chance/which sub-population was infected/timing of responses in play here.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2020/04/07...
If the oil tanker can hold 2,000,000 barrels at -$35/ barrel you are being paid $70 million to store the oil for a few months...

Of course, the next question is who pays for transport to/from the tanker, labor, dock fees, employees in ship (unless you can simply "park" it for a fee)
The question is why is getting into a US college so important for you? Is it academically interesting for you, or is it getting the rights to add some letters at end of your name?

Once you have answered it, it may turn out that it is not so important after all. My advise is to look deeper.
There are some questionable complaints in this blog post (I have not encountered the issue with separate layouts for different DPIs, for example), but it’s true that native Android development is frustrating on a semi-regular basis, with some of the most unexpected and random tasks posing more of a challenge than they have any right to.

I frequently find myself wishing I could write Android apps with Swift and UIKit. They have their own warts, but the majority of difficulties you’ll face with them involve more advanced/less used SDKs… its base UI components work very well and mostly act as one would expect them to, especially with the improvements to UICollectionView/UITableView brought in iOS 13. Way fewer surprise NullPointerExceptions too thanks to Swift being a much cleaner break from Objective-C than Kotlin is from Java.
This is the truth, Android API's are poorly designed, Architecture is like a spaghetti code and fragmentation of the OS is horrible in comparison with iOS which sends a message how much Google cares vs Apple about developers and User Experience. Not to mention Kotlin, still love Java and prefer to use that.
Prop nVidia has fantastic Linux support. I have been running GTX 1060 for about 3 years driving 5 4K screens on Debian 8, 9, and now 10, including video playback with no tearing. Rarely when a card experiences a crash after being fed a corrupt h264 chuck, it freezes for 10-20 seconds but it recovers by itself.

The open source driver... the open source driver crashes at least one a week driving two monitors. I gave up on it.
What makes you think it's a choice of just one of those? Company can do both.
I still buy and sell all my cars on craigslist, I don't think I've ever dealt cars elsewhere.
Water runoff and sludge from landfills is treated, however only final very time consuming steps of biological sedimentation and treatment can remove most of them. Or very fine reverse osmosis or treatment with micron level filters, very energy intensive. So they do tend to end up in clean drinking water.
There are many sources and no norms.

Sometimes even metals bordering on norms can be detected near landfills.

Sample efficiency ranges:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00431...

I had a link with site in Sweden barely keeping norms for lead and cobalt... due to organic decomposition and incomplete runoff collection. Bad enough that I wouldn't build a well within some 10 km radius.

Read up on what happens to all this thing called leachate.

This is a main reason why European Commission wants the landfills to remain as exception.
A couple of "problems" I've had with Jetbrains' (more specifically IntelliJ IDEA's) shortcuts are:

- Not everybody uses a "standard" set of shortcuts (understandable); so whenever I need to do something on another's system, unless they're on "IntelliJ IDEA Classic" keymap, I'm clueless for a while.

- Not wanting to re-learn the "default" (shipped with) "macOS" keymap in case they change it again because of clashes with system shortcuts

- When switching to Linux (when my MBP just decides to limit all cores to 0.8GHz for thermals and I can get no work done), I have no idea what shortcuts are there. It's a hit-and-miss, hoping Cmd maps to Alt and it's the same combination. If it were possible to replicate the entirety of the Apple keymap on Linux, I'd switch to using IntelliJ IDEA on my beefier linux machine in an instant. (Oh and if there's a terminal configurable such that I can set up iTerm's shortcuts, bliss!)

- "complex" shortcuts, like Cmd-Shift-Option-N; afraid to remap it to something (moreso, figuring out what'd be the best remap option), afraid to hurt my little-finger the more I use that.
You need to actually build up noun comprehension though, because "evidence of no remaining cancer" or other qualifier words can greatly confuse the situation.

You'd also have quite a bit of fun trying to parse the phrase "no means no" or other usages where "no" is being used as a noun... And for bonus points, folks talk to search engines in broken english all the time so "shirts no single striped" is a totally reasonable query to submit to a server and expect to be parse-able.
The part about depending on only semi-reliable third parties for your logistics, or the part about the supply chain costs being 1000x your material cost?
Yes, I was just countering that it’s more involved than recognizing the importance of “no” in a sentence.
"The federal government has dropped the ball when it comes to this epidemic and needs to show more leadership".

-Feds seize and take over PPE procurements and distribution-

"Why did you steal my masks?"
"...and way too high rent in cities..."

Rental cost merely reflect the supply and demand. A significant drop in demand should put pressure on rental costs. However, I'm skeptic that such a drop will come from "the desire to be close to family/friends/social groups". People moved against that before and I don't see that changing. I also don't see any time soon people getting less interested in the opportunity that comes with city life.
I get that through remote interpreter and automatic upload features.
Immediately thought of the Bosch Light Drive[0] product when I saw this. There's been no news since they were unveiled, though, as far as I can tell...

[0] https://www.bosch-sensortec.com/products/optical-microsystem...
For me the big one was using linux VM's on a windows host. If I want to work with Linux command line tools by far the easiest way is to have VS Code ssh'd into my VM and a few terminals open. I get the comfort of my normal daily driver and access to whatever command line tools are best suited to my current project.
You can maybe get a micro studio in cap hill for $1500/mo, but any 1 Bed / 1 Bath at that price point probably hasn't been renovated since 1974. You need to spend 50% more to get something "decent", and your walking commute to actual jobs is going to approach 30 minutes for the lower priced stuff.
I'm going to venture a guess that lifestyle is a huge factor in the difference. People are generally more active out west (better weather, more open spaces/ parks/ mountains, better beaches, etc.) and smoke far fewer cigarettes.
It's been at least partially blocked since August last year: https://en.greatfire.org/https/news.ycombinator.com
>but what are they measuring?

>They're measuring the attitudes of the employees in the store.

You answered your own question here. This is the exact same thing all corporate surveys and evaluations are measuring.

When a company does performance reviews, annual surveys to get employees feedback on things, re-evaluates what kind of candidates they need to attract and how to adjust their recruiting efforts appropriately (e.g., "we hire too many people from target schools, we need to start reaching out more to the talent pool outside of those"), etc. It is all the same thing, and every single company over a certain size does it.

You don't think McDonalds or Home Depot or Kroger do a similar kind of "heatmapping" to evaluate the state of their branches and the employee feedback? Even at tech companies, it is a thing. My employer does an annual company-wide (anonymized) survey, asking all employees for their opinions on their work engagement, fairness of compensation, etc. And from what I heard from my friends working at other tech companies, they all have something similar.
> The only thing I see that Seattle has going for it is low taxes.

The Seattle City Council is tirelessly working to fix that.
This is the Python dev community telling people that it isn't supported.

Demand for fixes will occur but it would probably best be handled by a third party that would specialize in that or developing it internally.
Well, of course all of that would not have been possible, without the long hard work and experiences of all the people involved with creating WINE in the first place.

That said, I think it's great that Valve contributes. It might be naive though, to believe, that they'd do any such thing, if the license did not force them to. I am quite sure, that they'd see some kind of advantage to take, if those contributions could be limited to only their own platform.
Commodity markets are not Elon Musk tweets.

Oil gult takes 3-4 years to clear.

Now is a good time to bet on consumption, not on commodities.
Growth in those areas is supply-constrained, though. There aren't a ton of available homes; construction lags demand; there isn't all that much undeveloped land left in those counties; and they'll all be resistant to denser zoning.
It is down, it's just not down to $0.
Also the per day price of a supertanker (~2mm barrels capacity) has been skyrocketing to well above 100k$ so speculatively buying and storing is getting riskier. My favorite quote about the storage play comes from the WSJ:

'One of the great trades in modern history involved steep contango and a lot of oil tankers. In 1990, Phibro, the oil-trading arm of Salomon Brothers, loaded tankers with cheap crude just before Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait and crude prices surged. The trade’s architect, Andy Hall, became known for a $100 million payday and bought a century-old castle in Germany.'
https://archive.md/CIOhR
That occurred during drilling not production so all the standard well head facilities were not in place.
> And realistically, are landfills in the US and Europe leaking or not?

Yes, they are. See https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-040-03/. A key quote:

> The USEPA has concluded that all landfills eventually will leak into the environment

We can minimize the amount of material that leaks, but it seems that all landfills will eventually leak at least some of their contents.
People are lazy and selfish. If government doesn't give them a disincentive: fines for littering, high taxes for buying unrecyclable plastics or banning them outright, people flat out do not change their behavior. If everyone on earth consumed and trashed as much as the average American, the whole planet would be a toxic waste dump. And we've seen that in the early part of the industrial revolution in the U.S., toxic rivers and streams, that took decades and billions of mostly public funds to clean up those superfund sites.
Unbound, which is a lot easier to configure, is also a good alternative: https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/
Anecdotally, CME wouldn't load quotes or charts for Oil Futures for me for a while around 1pm.
Creating, Managing, and Understanding Large, Sparse, Multitask Neural Networks
Well, this aged well:

"The story of how I came to own physical oil begins in late 2008, when fallout from the financial crisis spurred the crude market into severe contango—meaning the price of oil for future delivery was higher than the expected price of immediate “spot” delivery. While contango is the usual and persistent state of the oil futures curve, this particular "super" version helped create the perfect conditions for an almighty oil storage trade as the price of crude for future delivery vastly eclipsed the cost-of-carry and storage expenses of petroleum bought in the spot market."

This is exactly where we are now, only the prices are much lower and the demand even weaker?

I remember reading this the first time it came out. Only better the second time.
Double kettle bell complex: cleans, military press, front-squats.

A free standing pull up bar. Randomly do 2-3 pull ups through out the day.

Pushups.

kettle bell swings.

Loaded carries through the house. Waiter walks, farmers carry, racked carry.

No long cardio specific training, but the heart gets worked.
> it still makes sense to provide socialized housing and free mental health support to people who are homeless, because there is no other way they'll become "productive" again without that base.

People that agree with this statement should organize and do just that. Leave everyone else out of it.

> Or you can view it as us paying for the negative externality of rising housing prices forcing people onto the streets from so many of us software engineers moving to the area.

No one "deserves" a house. Move somewhere cheaper if you can't afford to live in Seattle.

> Or you can view people experiencing homelessness as humans inherently worthy of dignity. No matter which way you view it though, your approach of letting them die in the streets is the wrong one.

Your stated alternative is worse.

1. Tax a productive person.

2. Make a big fuss about new government social program.

3. Drug users still die in street.
More details here [1]. 4 million masks from Sweden (although newspapers had initially reported they were for Sweden) were seized while stored in France. This includes 1 million that were shipped towards France, 1 million towards Switzerland, 2 millions towards Italy and Spain.

After much diplomacy, 2 millions were released. My guess is that these are the masks meant for Italy and Spain (part of the EU) and that the masks shipped outside of the EU (Switzerland) were requisitioned.

[1] https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2020/04/03/la-france-a-t...
If you have the answer to the question you are asking, you should change careers into oil contract trading; you'll probably make a bundle.

In short, the reason nobody anticipated it is because the future is unknown. The reason any market is unpredictable is because there are too many variables to account for.
Then you might want to look at some pictures of Tiananmen Square protests - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/gabrielsanchez/pictures...
"Running out of oil" and "peak oil" would be two completely different things. Lightheartedly pointing out something as if it didn't happen when in fact it did happen, will get you downvoted.

It is easy to agree that "running out of oil" sometimes was conflated with "peak oil", but alas, that's just ignorance.
> low taxes - directly contributes to the issue of homelessness and half of your complaints.

I've lived here for 40 years. It's always had low taxes, but the problems you're talking about are very recent.
in that case the applied AI stops being a Search tool (as was the purpose of the search bar) and becomes a new Ad tool. And this masquerading is not a great thing at all, for the same reason why people don't like bots pretending being humans during phone calls.
barely. It's not something they do regularly.
I really love the syntax, especially the dereference operator being the @ symbol and the usage of val vs var for constants/variables. (For context, I started off with Java and prefer writing in Kotlin nowadays.) Compared to languages like Zig or V, I think you strike a pretty good balance between being familiar and introducing new/different syntax.
In light of the other comment about ample green space in Bern, and how songbirds have refuge because of it, we should consider whether cats killing songbirds is a more suburban phenomenon, and if so, why.

Given that both cats and songbirds have been around for much longer than suburban lifestyles, could the flatness of nothing-but-Kentucky-Bluegrass lawns be to blame?
I think he's asking why the market didn't have a better estimate of storage capacity and utilization and what changed in the estimate from yesterday to today.
Our migration to Python 3 occurred with a new generation of the product. No new development is happening on the Python 2 product, and customers are being migrated off. The vendor who runs our old product (GAE) has promised ongoing Python 2 support, so there’s literally no reason to spend the time or money to migrate it, no matter how long it takes for the last customer to get off the old product.
Yes but your comment comes after I have posted clarification on my initial poorly worded comment.

Given the added context it is clear that I didn’t mean to imply anything of the sort. I don’t think a charitable interpretation of my comments is that I have some primitive notion of ethics as a binary property.
You can get 720p pico projectors off the shelf, but to do 8K, you have to make a custom design with faster laser modulation.
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Of course it’s possible to do both, but that’s not what Amazon is doing.
I was almost ready to start an argument. But the bottom line (verbatim) nails it!

99.999…% of all software is utter crap. If people would build houses like they build software we would generally all live in paper boxes glued together by duct tape. And those paper boxes would explode on a regular basis for unknown reasons…

Still you will hear most people in this business saying: "That's fine". Look, "it works".

I don't think this will ever change. One of the reasons this won't change (besides development costs of course) is imho the overall mindset that "bugs are unavoidable, any software has bugs". As long as it's a "natural" thing to deliver buggy crap, and people declare you outright crazy if you even mention that there's something quite wrong there, no chance that this will change (at least not until software will be produced mostly by machines).
> Shift F6 refactors the variable name.

Funny you mention that. As a long-time Windows user, that is the first thing I remap when I set up any JetBrains IDE. F2 is the rename shortcut in File Explorer, so I set it to be the refactor variable name shortcut too.
Oh no, it’s the whole “IceWeasel” fiasco all over again.

Maybe they could call the new 2.7 interpreter IceSnake.
Fake Windows XP Simulator
One of the problems with the "freedom of speech" (lack of) is that in western countries, sooner or later (most) records open and we find out the Truth. In other cases we have whistleblowers (i.e. Wikileaks), and/or kick-ass journalists that expose scandals, and we get a glimpse of the Truth on the very important issues.

I feel that in China a guy like Snowden would have been tortured and executed, his family imprisoned, his neighbours interrogated, everyone in his vicinity would have everything confiscated and searched.

With that said I fear that we will never learn the truth about what happened to those captured in the protests. China's history is drenched in blood, and current government doesn't seem to want to change this.
I've found it to be pretty effective to simply not engage with those who keep taking the worst possible interpretations of your (or others) arguments. It sort of simulates an environment where everyone is charitable.

In other words, "Don't feed the trolls"