skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. The reason I say theoretically is because, from a business perspective, they aren't different. Whether you buy your own stock or distribute a dividend shouldn't matter from a market cap perspective. It's still cash the company used to have, but no longer does and the market cap will reflect both equally.

Now some investors prefer buybacks for tax reasons, others may not. It depends entirely upon how they invest. If you're a buy-and-hold, then it's favorable due to lack of taxes, but if you rebalance a lot (which most mutual funds do), then it doesn't matter.
>The value of Design Patterns is the shared vocabulary.

English is shared vocabulary. What is the point of "design patterns" when you can already define a word for a pattern in english.

My argument is design patterns is 100% the abuse of words.
What you are saying is disinformation. Nobody has suggested injecting bleach. Bleach is a disinfectant, not all disinfectants(i.e agents that disinfectant) are bleach. It was poorly worded enough without you spinning it, the spin only strengthens his base of people who don't trust the media because of sophistry like this.
That's fair, I guess depending who you play with, some people may not have a Discord. You do have to have a Discord account, correct. All of my friends and I are already all together in a Discord server, so it makes sense, but if it was new people playing that could def add to the hurdle.
> Greater male variance in humans has nothing to do with ... the the evolutionary benefits of sexual reproduction

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04184
"And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. And is there a way we can do something, by an injection inside or almost a cleaning?"

Bleach, isopropyl alcohol, hydrogen peroxide...

Whichever disinfectant he was suggesting injecting into the body, it's not a good idea.
Driving people inside is probably precisely the problem here - coronavirus, like other diseases, doesn't seem to transmit well at all outdoors, especially in warmer weather.
I can speak to one of your points! I got dealt a bad hand in terms of health issues. However, a few years before I developed my health issues, I happened to have a long talk with a guy who had advanced MS. He told me that after his diagnosis, he tried to sock away as much money as possible and go for higher-paying jobs, as he knew that one day he'd become fully disabled and have to live on disability. Also, disability is pegged to your latest or average salary, so that's important to consider!

(SS is an average, LTD is your most recent)

During my 10 years of illness leading up to my eventual disability, I tried (with varying success) to do the following things:

- Looked for jobs with slightly under full-time work loads to allow me time to rest (found only one for 2 years, but the extra rest helped me slow down disease progression a lot)

- Looked for jobs with full benefit packages, including Short Term / Long Term Disability. If the job didn't offer it I signed up on my own

- Maxed out HSA every year

- Reduced my fixed costs as much as possible to prepare for living on a fixed income; moved to a LCOL area

- Moved to a climate that was better for my health

- Didn't have kids because I knew I wouldn't be healthy enough to bear them / raise them :-(

- Researched how long term disability / social security disability worked (this site is really good: https://howtogeton.wordpress.com/social-security-disability/ )

- Tried to do excellent work so my employers would still like me even with all my sick days
Absolutely agree. Getting back to stability is going to be... interesting.
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Right, I just hope they do it quickly! I'd love to see a low cost (e.g. RPi priced) RISC-V based SoM that runs Linux.
Yesterday we saw a report saying herd immunity was working there ..now bam the next day they are starting to lock things down?

Which is it?
The Joy of Lockdown Laziness
A laughable comparison. The man who said "The only thing I know is that I know nothing" is a far cry from the man who said "I don't take any responsibility at all".
Ever-increasing numbers of solar power installations, clear weather, and reduced pollution resulting from the lockdowns... I suspect the latter is the least significant, but "Hey, it's Sunny" isn't much of a headline.
>[...] but quietly so they don't have to admit it's a change of course.

Where exactly does this come from? Sweden has no need to save face. We've been transparent and had open discussion from the beginning with the spoken assumption that we may, in fact, not be doing the right thing and that we may have to alter course as the situation changes.

The ones who need to save face are the ones which are committing to full lockdown right now. They're the ones who are making a big sacrifice and need to motivate it with the fact that "it's a necessity", seeing Sweden succeed otherwise would be a big blow to their egos and their personal sacrifices.

I will also say that voluntary compliance is still occurring here, which is notable both in what private companies are doing in adapting to the situation, and how the average person has changed their behaviour. This doesn't mean 100% compliance for everyone, which is unfortunate.
Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die
Of course, there's other confounds. Like the somewhat recent discovery that we end up with antigen experience / "memory" of diseases that we've never contracted. (Perhaps from viral fragments in the environment??)
Why was this a category to begin with?
Are there people who "like" pseudoscience?
Or is Facebook sophisticated to know which topics are pseudo-scientific, but not ethical enough to stop making money from it.
Not just attempted. The poor guy was evicted:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/22/nhs-paramedic-...

The same also happened to a doctor in the UK:

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-nhs-doctor-evicted-fr...
Second that. As much as I want to believe a $10k La Marzocco is absolutely essential to good espresso, a $100 Nespresso machine and Kazaar roast is the best espresso I've ever had.
"Someone once wrote: Hell is the impossibility of Reason."

I kind of wish the press didn't report on his 'press briefings'. Why even bother sending people to listen to his incoherent babble?
Similarly “The Story of Philosophy” by Will Durant is one of my all time favorite books
Sure, but if you look closer you will see that all of the cells have holes for stuff to go in and out, and the proteins sticking up from the surface have shapes, and so on. That's why I said "the atomic scale" not "the microscopic scale."
In Malmö you have no (proper) metro. The Stockholm metro had about 800k trips per day iirc.

IF you work in Stockholm you probably commute by commuter train and or bus into the city, where in Malmö you can walk through the city center in 15 minutes so biking or owning a car to commute with is the norm.

In Malmö most stores close at 5pm, and malls much earlier than in Stockholm so they are visited on weekends instead of whenever (this also sucks since there is nothing to do after work), FNM starts at something like 15:30.

It's just a lot fewer crowds and situations with close contact in general.
I don't have any definitive inside knowledge, but based on history and reasoning by analogy, I doubt there will be much - if anything - that is Fedora specific. My hunch is that it's very likely that Ubuntu will install and run well on these machines as well.
I do something similar with dataclasses using the `dacite` (https://github.com/konradhalas/dacite) library as a constructor for python dicts to dataclasses with runtime type-checking.

Works really well with marshmallow for additional validation.
Immediately following someone stating that disinfectants like alcohol and bleach can destroy the virus, the president did say it's worth trying out injecting disinfectants. [1]

He didn't specifically say "mainlining bleach", but he was referencing injecting one of the aforementioned disinfectants. It's kind of hard to say he didn't.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtgVxGkrX1Y#t=2m5s
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Sweden's strategy isn't only about deaths by Covid-19. It's about preventing total number of deaths including deaths caused by the things we do to prevent the spread of the virus. The line is to keep things as open as possible. Quarantine is problematic if you take things such as suicide, alcohol and substance abuse, child and spouse abuse and depression into account. The list goes on.

And yeah, people are idiots for going to bars.
I don't think it was the subject matter that was the cause for dispute, but the initial approach.
How does the virus get to the lungs? Directly via inhalation or via the blood stream?
It's hard to defend Trump's words on this topic. He's not a medical expert and doesn't sound like one.

But, in my opinion, it would benefit people more if the media tried to educate instead of "hurr durr he wants you to inject Lysol". Sadly I am optimistic in thinking the media exists to educate rather than accumulate ad views...

We need to be pursuing all treatment options right now, even if the gut feeling is that they won't work. We're in a situation that we have never been in before (i.e. pandemic with modern medicine), it is not far-fetched to believe the solution is something that we never expected to work.

edit: downvoters, feel free to respond..
The mechanism has to make sense, too, though.
Oh, yeah, I mean, that's definitely why this is here, but it's extremely doubtful that it's what Trump was promoting; he was probably just confused about sterilisation vs treatment of humans, and grasping at straws.
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For those that don't get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3boy_tLWeqA
Well, it hasn't been exploding like some critics said it would.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/new-covid-deaths-per-mill...

The rolling 7 day average shows they're still on a bit of an up-tick.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-deaths-per-mi...

However, if you normalize for start time they're not really doing any worse than a lot of other countries.
As others have mentioned, house rules often ruin any fun.

It is, by name, a game about being cutthroat towards other players and emphasizes that you optimize in the long-term purely for personal gain. This actually doesn't come naturally to a lot of people. Even the ones that seem to be more selfish often end up losing because they only optimize for short-term games and make it where nobody will trade with them.

Point is that a lot of those house rules slow down the main driver for the game: forcing people to go bankrupt. The house rules often put money back into the economy, which prolongs bankruptcy. To a large degree, the faster you can speed up bankruptcy, the more fun it is.

One of my personal favorite additions to the game was the Speed Die included in some versions. In a pretty elegant way, it greatly speeds up both the property acquisition and bankruptcy phases of the game.

Also as others are pointing out, the fun a of a board game is 90% dictated by the people you are playing with. That's not to say Monopoly is inherently or intuitively conducive to keeping the experience enjoyable, but it also can't completely prevent you from having fun. As evidenced by plenty of people, myself included, having immense enjoyment from it with the right group.
I know personally that's not true about NZ. My ex is immune compromised and they have "Levels" there (L0, L1, etc.) and she most likely won't be able to leave her place for another two months.

Another kiwi I worked with sent me a video of walking through an empty Wellington. It's a small nation, 4 million people, plus ACC (health care) and solid unemployment for all, so it's much easier for them to cope. It's also easier for them to close the country, as it is a set of islands. The friend who did that walk said it was still Orwellian though.
It's way worse than when you did it 25 years ago. The reason is the harder it is for us to bill insurers, the less they have to pay. We're only willing to spend so much money in order to get a certain amount. It also discourages patients from seeking care, which keeps costs down.

Some doctors are, but not most. Doctors are bad business men, as are lawyers. It's part of their training, they spend years learning how to avoid risks for their patients and clients. Business is risk management, not risk avoidance. So most doctors just try to struggle along as best they can with the current environment rather than rocking the boat. Don't get me wrong, they're not struggling to pay the rent, but running a health care provider is not easy.
Is it still the case that when you have an error in your script (and aren't using RStudio) that you don't get the line number of the error, you just get a traceback?
Does anyone have recommendations for a cheap laptop for playing around with Ubuntu? Will use it for light programming, poking around. Wifi needs to work reliably. I can work around all other quirks.
This is THE time for the small business community to come together as we navigate these challenging times.
If you have a service that you could offer to small businesses for free or deeply discounted - pls add your name. Feel free to reach out to those listed to avail of their generous offers.
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I believe Dell ships their XPS line of laptops with either Debian or Ubuntu preinstalled. Friends of mine who use them say the driver support is quite good, and the experience overall is also good.
Here's an actual science-based report detailing how we can start to reopen with proper testing and tracing. I think Germany is doing something along these lines?

https://www.nga.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/NGA-Report.pd...

It's by the national governors association in the US and seems pretty well done.
All true except reduced resource consumption, I don't believe that's an universal truth. Some native apps drain a lot of battery because they do more than they should, like the Facebook app spying on you on every conceivable way (and probably also in some inconceivable ones).
https://epic.org/foia/epic-v-ai-commission/EPIC-19-09-11-NSC...

Here's the original document from EPIC's FOIA. I recommend reading it; Whitney Webb did a good job summarizing the document in the interview linked above.
Really glad they decided to launch this with Fedora. Nothing against Ubuntu per-se, but I - and many others - prefer Linux from the RHEL / CentOS / Fedora family. And there already are, or have been, OEM's shipping Ubuntu. Nice to see somebody go with Fedora.
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heats my mac
RE: functions/variables -- you don't quite have this right. Let's walk through when this can occur and when this can't. First, this cannot occur if you're talking about your local environment:

z <- function() { print("hello world") }
z <- 3
z # Outputs 3
z() # Errors because there is no function z()

What the actual quirk you're talking about has to do with attaching other namespaces. So, the way R works is that by default it loads several packages. For instance, the reason you can call `mean()` is that the "base" package is attached when you open a blank session in R. It is absolutely possible to have multiple symbols take the same label across namespaces. Here's an example:

mean <- 4 # Creates variable called mean in the local namespace
mean(c(5, 10, 20)) # Uses the mean function in the attached base namespace
mean # Uses the mean variable in the local namespace

But this is not unique to variables versus functions, it also works with functions:

mean <- function(x) { sum(x) * 100 }
mean(c(1, 2, 3)) # Outputs 600
base::mean(c(1, 2, 3)) # Outputs 2
rm(mean) # Drop local namespace function
mean(c(1, 2, 3)) # Outputs 2

You can use sessionInfo() to see the order of attached namespaces that will be searched. In RStudio, you can also press the little dropdown arrow next to "Global Environment" in the environment pane to see the order of attached namespaces -- it'll search them in that order. Alternatively, you can be defensive and always prefix all functions in any namespace with the namespace name (equivalent to always using module.function style function calls in python).

Finally, you can use the built-in function "find" to see the order in which R will try to resolve a symbol, e.g.

sum <- function() { print("i like sum coding in R!!!") }
find("sum") # .GlobalEnv first, base second

I'm not sure this is a quirk. What are your options as a namespaced language? 1) Allow users to import multiple functions/variables with the same name across different namespaces and resolve the conflict via some kind of hierarchical order; 2) Don't allow users to import multiple functions/variables with the same name, so you can never use overloading to monkey patch; 3) Always require namespace prefixes at all times; 4) Make function dispatch a blocking operation that asks REPL users which to use? I dunno, it doesn't seem to me like R's approach is any less sane.

I guess one thing that is different about R's approach is that "built-ins" have no special priority, they're all part of some namespaces that are attached by default but otherwise exactly like third-party libraries (base, stats, graphics, etc.)

In R, the only reserved words that cannot be overloaded are while, repeat, next, if, function, for, and break. (Note: else does not appear here because of a genuinely baffling quirk about how else is implemented in R)
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> And you can't eat gold. It's as fiat as anything else.

It's a good way of inter-generational wealth storage still. Also it's useful along with a basket of currencies to diversify with especially in countries with high inflation or value volatility e.g. Venezuela. It's highly regarded in 2 of the most populated countries in the world (India and China) and that is not apt to change any time soon.

Sure, in a full grid-down situation it's useless and "junk silver" would be more useful as a temporary currency but that is a slim possibility.
That would only be true if their tests work well. In my experience, IgG and IgM suck big time, and I wouldn’t trust results. Would love to see one of those randomized studies with qRT-PCR tests.
Not downvoted by me! Appreciate you sharing this information, it is helping me better understand how researchers mitigate non-response bias. Interesting stuff.
Here's the briefing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsQnfpfIa_o.

Can you please point out the timestamp when Trump attempted to clarify?

The closest I found was at ~31:00, some reporter asks for confirmation that there's no scenario in which disinfectants would be injected into the body. Bryan declines to comment, Trump responds with "maybe it works, maybe it doesn't work," which doesn't really provide any clarity.

And then at ~50:00 he asks Bryan to "talk to the medical doctors" to look at applying light and heat as a cure. Then he says "maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. I'm not a doctor, but I am a person with a very good you-know-what."

Some reporter suggests that the President of the United States should not spout random stuff and say "maybe it works, maybe it doesn't", Trump responds with "I'm the president, and you're fake news."
A quick search says the average us residency salary is $61,200 as of 2019, which is above the unemployment maximum even taking into account the additional $600 a week in pandemic funding.
"At the hospital, about 10 nurses and other staffers have left since the first COVID-19 case was found on the medical staff. The list included clerical workers."

I fear this is going to be an increasing problem if we continue to rely on the belief that medical personnel can be abused indefinitely.
It depends on what you are aiming at. If you are aiming for the herd immunity then the best approach is to get there as quickly as you can, while keeping within the limits of your health care capacity and protecting those with highest risk of severe outcomes. Certain amount of deaths is inevitable.

We really need to wait a year or two before we can tell which strategy was the best. It is not clear if the countries which managed to limit the infections will do any better in the long run than for example Sweden.
Statistical models exist primarily for the falsification of hypotheses. The Austrians didn't submit such models so their theories could never be subjected to the same scrutiny that mainstream theories are. "It's too complex" is a cop-out, and Austrian theory's lack of math is enticing to people who don't want to put forth the effort involved in rigorous study (i.e., internet scholars). They pretended to be agnostic about economic principles, when really they just applied ad hoc explanations for economic events (which they were free to do because they weren't constrained to those pesky mathematical models).
They don't want to see any restaurants that are full, not a statement about restaurants that are fully open-air.
The corporate state in Weimar Germany was faced with a popular communist movement, and to defeat it they threw money at the fascists, who they saw as the only credible opposition. But, history never repeats, it may go down differently next time. Just look at how the supposedly left wing media responded to Bernie Sanders. When money is on the line, they will align with the right wing. Plus, left wing is by definition a movement that opposes the current power hierarchies in society. Look it up on Wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics

By that standard, none of the people you would call totalitarian liberals are left wing at all, they’re just corporatists with socially liberal virtue signaling. Trust me when I say that those people are the very first to suppress labor strikes or call the cops on protesters. They would absolutely support a fascist coup if it was their only way to keep their money, power and influence.
> The core Google products barely changed in the last 5 years

Frontend development and UI updates are not the only way progress is made on the technical infrastructure in technology companies. How do we know that Google isn't battling an adversarial web with 1000s of engineers just to keep the search quality where it is? It must be quite an arms race to behold between Google teams and the coordinated and well motivated spammers, scammers and other bad actors (who also might be leveraging automation, AI and more!)
It really depends. I've worked in games for fifteen years so have had my fair share of experience with both licensed and proprietary engines.

Some companies made it a priority to build a reusable engine some didn't. Some went on to license it and some didn't. Some tried to make their engine reusable and didn't really succeed.

When you make "an engine" very specifically for a certain game you are making a choice to make it less reusable because that's a waste of time to ship your game. This was how things were at one stage. You'd take the codebase, grab out as much as possible and that'd be the start to the next engine. Reuse came later as mid-sized studios dominated and is seen en masse in really big studios. As indies restored the smaller end of studio size it makes more sense to either use a commercial engine or make your tech more specific.
And yet... asking us to sign up for Board Game Arena and Discord is exactly what the weekly game night I've been involved with the last month did, and they have 8+ people every week. (For that matter, I asked the folks in my new D&D campaign to sign up with D&D Beyond and Discord, and that went fine as well.)
In a turbulent time in the politics of country X, an important part of the army of that country rebels against the elected government, wins a terrible civil war, and proceed to establish a 40 years catholic-fascist dictatorship.

I tried to take away all the propaganda and ideology.

Everyone can judge now by itself if what happened in country X was evil.