skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree 100% as well. A couple things:

1. They already own the short-term rental market. Why not expand to the long-term rental market and undercut the broker fee that currently occur right now.

2. Pent up demand for travel: Reality is that once/if vaccine hit you can bet consumers are going to travel like crazy due to pent-up demand after being stuck at home for months.

3. Movement to WFH: The movement to WFH will only become more pronounce after Covid. If this is the case you will see a bunch of consumers ask why bother staying in the city I was working at if I can WFH anywhere in the world? Thus AirBnb rentals would be the key to doing this.

4. Fear of the crowds: If you had a choice of staying in a crowded hotel where perhaps the cleaning is slightly better vs. staying at a home where minimal crowd what would you chose in a world with Covid? In fact what they should do is offer an extra add-on for guest to pay for a more deep clean of the unit prior to rental.

5. Hotels with fixed cost are going to drop like flies: Means less hotel inventory globally as they go out of business.

6. Due to loss of jobs/income: More folks will need to securize their fix assets meaning house for additional income which means more inventory for Airbnb

Anyway this all assumes that a vaccine comes out and in the near-term it is going to be pretty brutal for them.
The Shrine of Ise in Japan is rebuilt every twenty years. A construction company with a family history going back for centuries builds a copy on lot 2, then they tear down lot 1 and wait another twenty years. It’s been preserved like this for over a thousand years. This is the only way to do something “permanently”.
When buying is illegal, it still imposes risks on sex workers. First, it hurts their income, meaning fewer sex workers are available, meaning it’s more likely victims will be coerced. Those who participate willingly can be put at risk from their customers when those customers are prosecuted.
I can't help with a solution,

but I would rather be in your situation than mine!

all the best
>And the interesting thing is that it's actually in the fund's best interest to allow negative valuations, because that way they're not left holding the bag

Why would the fund care? They're a separate entity from the company managing the fund. If it goes negative with no hope of going back up, it will go into liquidation like any other company. The ones left holding the bag are the counterparties to those derivatives, not the investors or the company managing the fund.
it's knative, istio, managed gke, a VPN tunnel into other infra, scripts to migrate stuff, and IAM middleware.
> How can you still say that when the crisis show us that critical jobs are underpaid, sometimes practically slave labor. Your arguments get countered every single time in this thread, so I'm not surprised he or she didn't reply to you anymore

Economists have studied the question of value basically since the founding of economics. Many ideas have been proposed and rejected. The one you are probably subscribing to is something like Marx's "Labor theory of value".

I could write an argument explaining why the labor theory of value is wrong, but you can just read the Criticisms section on Wikipedia, which will do a better job of it than I could:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value#Criticis...

If you want to assert that some job is "under paid", you have to have a reference valuation that the current compensation is "under" with respect to. The perspective of modern economists is that value comes from "marginal utility":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalism

Here is a list of common value theories from the history of economics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_value_(economics)
This is one of those "either a major breakthrough or total bullshit" articles. OK, first, who's "Brightsun"? These guys? [1]

- Last news item on their site is from 2015. No mention of a battery breakthrough. No mention of battery R&D at all.

- Address on web site is 50 Hidden Grove Blvd, Keysborough Vic 3173 Australia. That's somebody's house.[2] An alternative address on the web site is Level 1 530 Little Collins Str, Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia. That's an office building. Level 1 seems to be a strip club.[4]

- Related companies. [3] They built an electric bus prototype in 2015, and it got a record for longest distance on a single charge, but not using any exotic battery technology. Just a big bus with a big battery.

Where did "newmobility.global" get this story? They don't cite a reporter. They don't cite a press release. Is someone doing a third party pump and dump here?

[1] http://brighsunauto.com/Index_En.asp
http://brighsuntech.com/

[2] https://earth.google.com/web/@-38.00666219,145.15557573,13.3...

[3] https://www.aubiz.net/company/brighsun-ev-group-pty-ltd-1668...

[4] https://bigboysclub.com.au/
Glad you asked. Even the main Anthos landing page leaves me scratching my head.
Nvidia RTX Voice in action – background noise cancelling
Ten Problems for Manufacturing in the 2020s
The only ranking that matters to the vast majority of people:

Median starting salary / median cost to attend.

Sure, there are other considerations such as. If it will get you into a better grad school or something, but for most it’s really this simple.
As far as scheduling goes that basically mirrors the US and UN. Those categories aren't "levels of danger", but whether something has accepted medical use.

That will always vary country to country - in the UK diacetylmorphine is medicine, despite being highest schedule. And poppy straw is class A just as fentanyl. Does that make it correct to say they are "literally equated"? That's absurd.

(Not saying there aren't very dumb things about the national anti-harm reduction approach, but the scheduling isn't exactly unique internationally, nor really an aspect of what makes the system a massive mess).

Sex work is not criminalized, as you yourself point out.
and a big chunck is contractors or low-level customer support right?
Wasn't heartbleed a fairly typical buffer overflow?
Seriously, such verbosity makes you to lost the 90% of your readers past the third paragraph. You even copied the captions of photos that aren't in your post.

In this cases, less is more
Does that ever work?
Many SAS disks offer larger sector sizes, which in turn allow storing such ECC/checksum data right there. But, what e.g. Btrfs does is to just checksum and raid, because silent corruption is _really_ rare, and you'd want some amount of raid anyways. Keep in mind that the disk already implements FEC on a low level.
All ETFs are a kind of bet ok some real-world good. (on virtual too? Now I'm not sure)

No bet has good/amazing returns if there's no risk. No matter how remote it is, to be safe you sacrifice some profit. When you don't protect yourself for those remote risks, _if_ they bite you, it hurts real bad.
CloudAPI, a free API generating/management tool [FIXED BAD LINK]
Off-topic question: does this graph mean that top two people write 99% of the code? Or they're just sharing the account(s)?
Denver backed off social distancing in 1918 pandemic, the results were deadly
You're not reading it wrong, however what they're saying is incorrect.
First comments about Bitcoin in HN
Crude oil and it's vapors are highly toxic. Maybe you could store it there if you capped the giant hole, but that wouldnt be feasible.

https://www.amfs.com/effects-of-crude-oil-exposure/

Why wouldn't you have leeching problems? If you filled that mine up the oil at the bottom would be under a lot of pressure.
huh this seems very similar to https://browsewithintent.com/ which has been around for a while?
Could basically say the same thing about half of your post: theory that won't come up in practice so why should it be on my certification?
Even inside a container, you want stuff in the standard places, for minimal surprises.
Offtopic: Anything similar for phone and music ?

Nvidia product page
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/guides/nvidia-rtx-voice...
Well you just explained it better than the author. The introduction definition of a 'side dish' was not clear.
Yes, it might be more convenient when built into a filesystem. But now you must keep alive an OS that can handle that filesystem. That seems like a much greater burden for the long haul.
The part where they claim a proper mask, like N95, wouldn't provide you any protection is dishonest.
They perform faster than the government and have the expertise to deal with businesses. Compared to 2008, I see their role as "good guys" this time round.
Shameless age discrimination. Very smart people exist at all ages. I've seen 21yo junior grad developers outperform 45yo 'senior' developers.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries there was in the US a proliferation of medical schools -
many unaffiliated with Universities - with very few entrance requirements, extremely uneven quality of education and little standardization in curriculum. In fact many people became doctors through apprenticeship right up through the turn of the 20th century. Many states had extremely lax or nonexistent licensing requirements. It was quite chaotic and unregulated.

In light of this, Abraham Flexner was commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation to produce a report on the state of medical education and to make recommendations.

The Flexner Report was published in book form in 1910 and set forth a programme of reform for medical education and the broader healthcare system in America. The structure envisioned by Flexner largely remains with us to this day.

The crux of the problem is that in response to a very chaotic system, order was imposed in the form of strict licensing and educational requirements which made sense given the problems of the time but have contributed to new problems in our time. Outdated regulations, standard practices and conventions have artificially restricted supply of qualified medical personnel in America and it's time we address these structural issues.

Targeted reform of the system is the best solution for American healthcare.
You're absolutely right. As a follow up I wrote https://commoncog.com/blog/the-mental-model-faq/ where I finally figured out the three categories that Farnam Street was mixing up:

The origins of mental models as a psychological construct may be traced back to Jean Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development. However, much of mental model writing today is not about Piaget’s original theory. It is instead used as a catch-all phrase to lump three different categories of ideas together:

1. Frameworks. A large portion of mental model writing is about frameworks for decision making and for life. Frameworks do not sound as sexy as ‘mental model’, so it benefits the writer to use the latter phrase, and not the former. An easy exercise for the reader: when reading a piece about mental models, substitute the word ‘mental model’ for ‘framework’. If this works, continue to substitute for the rest of the piece. You will notice that the word ‘framework’ comes with restrictive connotations that the term ‘mental model’ does not. For instance, writers will often claim that ‘mental models are the best way to make intelligent decisions’ — a claim they cannot make when talking about frameworks (nobody says ‘frameworks are the best way to make intelligent decisions!’). This is understandable: writers optimise for sounding insightful.

2. Thinking tools. A second, large portion of mental model writing is about thinking tools and techniques. Many of these techniques are drawn from the judgment and decision making literature, what I loosely call ‘rationality research’: a body of work that stretches from behavioural economics, philosophy, psychology, and finance. This category of mental model writing includes things like ‘reasoning from first principles’, and ‘cognitive bias avoidance’. The second part of my Putting Mental Models to Practice series concerns itself with this category of tools, and maps out the academic landscape that is of interest to the practitioner.

3. Mental representations. This is Piaget’s original theory, and it references the internal representations that we have of some problem domain. It is sometimes referred to as ‘tacit knowledge’, or ‘technê’ — as opposed to ‘explicit knowledge’ or ‘epistêmê’. Such mental representations are difficult to communicate through words, and must be learnt through practice and experience. They make up the basis of expertise (a claim that K. Anders Ericsson argues in his book about deliberate practice Peak).
I think you’re misquoting. He says “ for those 18 to 44 years old, hospitalization is 0.1 percent per 100,000”. Is that not true?
what should software engineers focus on learning then? should they avoid typical subjects such as operating systems & compilers?

src: http://teachyourselfcs.com
> The AIDS epidemic peaked in 1995 in the USA at 40k deaths per year. People absolutely made permanent changes to their sex practices as a result of the disease such as safe sex, regular STD testing, and taking preventive medications (PREP).

This is not a good example. Most people in the United States were never in a position to get AIDS because they are not MSMs and not promiscuous. Most sex takes place between spouses.

Gay men still have much higher prevalences of promiscuity and unsafe sex practices than the population at large. Promiscuity and 'unsafe sex' was never an issue in the general population.
Chrome and privacy don't go together. Are you planning on releasing a version for Firefox?

Porting extensions to FF is very easy because of how similar WebExtensions is to the Chrome extension API: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions
Sheesh, I hope no-one looks up my user name on wikipedia..
I've heard about some database drivers/middleware being smart and optimizing/caching queries like "SELECT 1" to save the round trip, so now I do something like "SELECT now()" or similar to do health checks.
The US has nurses and PAs for this stuff. A doctor is only needed as a staff supervisor, much like an engineering project only needs one licensed engineer to sign off.

It costs <$300 of an MD's time to set a bone, even if you get MD service. GP doctors aren't very expensive. The costs are elsewhere.
Viable form of money is not what is being talked about. Crypto currencies can have strong properties of ideal money. My comment said store of value which isn't the same thing.

> Long-term, Bitcoin is a Store of Value.

Repeating an assertion doesn't make it true. People could use bitcoin as that but saying it is true is a prediction of the future which no one truly knows and history does not support.

The big picture is that no one is going to put their money into a crypto currency whose 'big idea' is inflation. It makes zero sense. Sorry if I'm the first one to actually tell you this.
Article about www.facemash.com by Mark Zuckerberg (2003)
You can use Learndash on top of any WordPress site, using WooCommerce with this combination will help sell the course with a payment gateway of your choice, easy peezy.
Teracube's phone has a 4-year warranty and white glove service. The downside is, they're a brand new company.
Totally! My understanding of the current situation is that the market wanting more oil has shrunk considerably. Investors were stuck with the chance of having to actually receive the oil they had contracts on, and did all that they could to get rid of it. This compounded and squeezed the price so low.

I'm not sure how many people planned for oil to ever go under zero. I think that many people are going to be eyeing the current storage level (and consumption!) and deciding that the risk (and cost) of having to settle a shipment might not be worth it. But I don't really know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's not, though. It takes under an hour to set a bone, so that doctor's time is not driving the expense.
Everyone with absolutely no knowledge of our healthcare system "look(s) at the medical profession as the racket it is." They then proceed to point at things as the root cause that every health policy expert in the country can tell you is not the root cause, and that doesn't hold up to even slight scrutiny by comparison with other, similar, countries.
> If you think that's a given, think again. Many countries base their maternal/neonatal care on common sense and old wives' tales instead.

Not a general attack on what you write, just a warning against taking this too far.

As both a father of small children, and as someone born in the early eighties I recently found reason to take a closer look at SIDS which peaked around here around the time when I was born:

Turns out it was explained by doctors and nurses telling people to let their infants sleep upside down instead of on their backs which is what has always been done. And they had good reasons for what they did as well, at least thats what they said:

- sleeping upside down was supposed to strengthen the kids neck and improve early development

- another argument was that it would protect them from being choked if they vomited

Once people went back to allowing their kids to sleep on their backs, SIDS almost vanished over night.

Turns out Chestertons fence is there for a reason.

Same goes for a number of other BS ideas that doctors has pushed even around here like the idea that mothers should use wipe their breasts with antibac before allowing infants to drink milk.
If you were using Outlook in other languages, you would have seen Microsoft making the exact same mistake with it comes to localisation that they made so many times before. So you'd have email subjects like this:

Re: SV: Re: SV: Re: SV: Re: SV: Re: SV: Re: SV: Some topic

And adding one of those every for each message in the thread. (SV is short for "Svar" which means "Reply" in Swedish).

You'd have thought he mess of localising the actual directory names in Windows (i.e. c:\Program Files, etc) rather than making it a display property in the file manager would have taught them something, but it didn't.
If your interested in learning how servers/databases and websites work it might be an interesting tool to try out.

Or if your a software developer you might be able to automate your job a bit with it ;)
Without public prices, this could be anywhere from really relevant and worth considering to overpriced and not worth your time. The price is an important feature. We need something for small and midsize at least.

Thanks for the info. I’ve been pretty happy with the designs (K8S, Istio) and services so far (GKE, Cloud Run).
There used to be a format that was highly resilient to errors. It was called film.
Gosh, if a top professor said it then it must be true!
...because they didn't have a killer app that could focus their efforts

This is easy to assume but a far more common reason companies go broad is that it makes it much easier to sell big vision and big dreams.

Most investors in magicleap probably wouldn’t have invested if the pitch was “right now we are focused 100% on a product that serves $INDUSTRY_X well before moving to $INDUSTRY_Y”

In fact, many investors wouldn’t even have taken the pitch, let alone writing a check
That’s a good point. There would still be an element of risk but that’s true for any plan. The lockdowns certainly aren’t without risks of their own. I guess it comes down to which option is least bad.
Ask HN: Intro macroeconomics book recommendations?
Current events have made me realize how little I actually know about how global economies work, and I'd like to fix that. What are y'all's favorite intro macroeconomics books? Textbooks okay but not necessary.
My sister is a veterinarian. Honestly, I think I’d rather have her give me stitches than most doctors. She’s had to give so many more than most doctors.
Why do I need to see a doctor to get a mole or skin lesion checked? Why is it necessary for someone to go through 4 years of undergrad, med school, etc etc just to examine a mole and remove it with a scalpel?
The question rarely asked is, "Can your team go from zero to sixty on this sort of thing when this happens?"

Technically optimizing as you go might be a 'waste' of time, until it isn't, because your team can handle a serious performance problem in days instead of months (or IME, never).
It feels like a marketer trying to use what they learned in school to sell a programmer a framework. If you replace "architecture" with "vehicle" it could be a car commercial. You build up this idea of a person, then the person reading feels if they bought the item, they could be that person. In this case someone who's not "limited by yesterday's technology decisions".

Whoever it is sure ain't a good marketer. They really don't know who they're marketing to - some people respond really negatively to this type of copy.
> Wouldn't it help to have a language for working with it that isn't outright terrible?

There is a language like that, and it's downright elegant. It's called LINQ, and it's built into the C# language. It inverts FROM and SELECT, which lets it reliably support autocomplete. LINQ was built using concepts from category theory/relational theory and is widely used in C# to make code tighter and simpler (even though some eschew it because simple for loops are faster). It also transpiles to SQL via Linq-to-SQL. It looks like this:

var results = from c in collection
where c.Fld1 < 10
select new {c.Fld1, c.Fld2};

It's the closest thing we have to SQL that Typescript is to Javascript.

That said, most people who access databases in C# still either write SQL or use an ORM like EF or Dapper.

Databases speak SQL natively for better or for worse. And the SQL language, despite its flaws, is actually mathematically very deep because it's been developed and extended over so many years. See [2] for some serious SQL-fu. To replicate all this functionality into a new language that transpiles into performant SQL is a huge undertaking.

SQL is one of those incumbents that is extremely hard to displace, partly because it's so ubiquitous and that in practice, not everyone finds outright terrible.

True, it's not good, but it's not terrible. I write it day in and day out. The analogy I can think of is the Erlang language -- it doesn't have a pretty syntax but it solves the concurrency problem really well. SQL for better or for worse solves the complex analytic query problem really well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query

[2] https://modern-sql.com/slides
No, I can't elaborate because I wasn't on the process team, I just used their parameters. I watched the agony on faces of friends on-call 24/7 who owned the yields... that was close enough for me. :)

Yes, I meant bringing up the process node.

Yes, more so than other nodes, but for context I only go back to p854, so earlier might have been worse.
Give it five minutes – Signal vs. Noise
I think then statement was "wouldn't the planes have detected the solar storm" vs "wouldn't the planes have set them off"
As long as you didn't send it through an airport X-ray machine, among other issues.
I forgot you can't edit comments on HN later.

Here's a study linking unemployment and suicide: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1732539/pdf/v05...

Note that they call it "causal" but it's still using statistical magic, but I think the idea that unemployment leads to suicide is one of those that seems like a sane default assumption, so as much as I distrust these kinds of analyses in general, I think it's relevant here.
Or to put it another way: geeks fall in love with capability, but everyone else wants utility.
And you're still making the mistake of focusing on one particular facet of the economy. Whether it's meat or vegetables or surgical masks or electricity or water or what-have-you, the economy is vastly interconnected. The way that tugging on one piece of that network may cause failures in other areas is all but unknowable. It's just wrong to shrug off one particular shock saying that you're ok with an alternative. You have no way to know what's going to fail next.
Looks like a very useful utility, and it keeps the ECC in a .par2 sidecar file exactly as I wanted. Unfortunately it's Mac only.