skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have a handful of 0% credit lines in use at the moment for just this reason

Would love to connect with you as now I'm outright jealous!

The best offer I have had Q1 2020 is 21 months 0% BT with 3% BT fee but only if I suffer a hard inquiry. OTHERWISE it's 12 mo, 5% BT fee.

This is essentially a 22 (21 + 1) months 0% loan with an effective 7% processing fee (I have to pay ~3% to create the credit card charge on my 2% cash back card, pay 3% to the processor for their troubles and another 3% BT fee)

> That's not so much bragging--I'll never achieve a six-figure CL with any of them--as it is a data point

I did want to clarify that I stated I have an aggregate mid six figure credit line excluding mortgages.

I do not have a six-figure CL with any one of them, not even near. I also don't wish to have one because it would likely be rated as a charge card instead of a revolving line which would negatively affect my scores.

> Also, for what it's worth, moving money electronically in the States has gotten easier

Not if the objective is to gain access to hard cash.

Even with my relationship with the institutions, the most I can withdraw in cash is $1500/day. During economic downturns, the ATMs run dry - you know this.

... and any place that allows me to use a debit/ATM card accepts a credit card as well! Let those sweet credit card rewards pour in.

> but it's not a good tool in an economic downturn because that's when it will break the fastest

My objection is your use of "not a good tool in an economic downturn".

Here's my point:

During economic downturns, relief is provided. Saw it in 2008, 2010, 2018, 2020.

I have recieved notifications from two of my credit card issuers that they are willing to offer me 0% payment plans - and all I have to do is press a button agree to pay a fixed, principal only monthly payment.

Who would offer such a fantastic deal outside an economic downturn?

THERE'S absolutely 0 reason for me to tap into the 1.75% CD I have at Ally. I was lucky to get that on the very Friday, the day after which the Fed published their effectively 0% policy.

I go on with my life taking advantage of 0% payment plans while my "emergency cash" makes me money (although at a terrible 1.75%, which after effort and inflation is NET NEGATIVE! I hate cash with a vengance!)

I hate cash. It's a liability, a headache.

What I really love is positive cashflow. Now that really gets me perky

Let's connect and happy weekend!
Fair enough, although if you look at my posting history, you will see I learned that years ago :D

Just look at my post about Youtube censoring COVID19 from yesterday.

I continue to post because among the 1000 downvotes, there's one person who emails me and we start on a great relationship together!

That 1 person makes all the noise and "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." - which is what happens when you post highly flagged comments that stops you posting on here anything at all for hours on end, essentially silencing you, worth it :)
luna-lang.org has a hero gif that shows zooming in a visual editor.
Running MacOS may be better in VMWare Workstation.

But it also depends if you using VMware Fusion on MacOS or VMWare Workstation on Windows and Linux.

But if you use Linux I would suggest using KVM/QEMU and on Windows, Hyper-V.

You can use Vagrant with both KVM and Hyper-V.

I can't use Windows boxes with Vagrant on Linux. It doesn't seem to work that great.
Exactly! What are the chances of that, compared to a gross error in the testing, like someone processing the samples was infected and not very careful?
Seems wind turbines contribute significantly to this. Germany also happens to be one of the most active countries in investing in them.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/06/26...
Was there something about the design of Python2 that would have prevented these features? Honest question.
I think the GP's idea is that a keyboard could report to the host how its keys are labeled so that the host could automatically select the correct keymap. This is indeed a very cool idea, but would certainly be a big effort to get implemented across all platforms.

This would be somewhat similar the more boutique input devices which are configurable in hardware.
There are plenty of Chinese diasporas all around the world. I'm willing to bet that if you asked around 20 people or so in an average American or British city you'd end up being understood in Chinese. Yet I don't see many people calling Chinese an international language.

It'll take more than just stats gleaned on wikipedia to make a coherent case. A large majority of mankind has no use for English and thus doesn't use it, and this can be readily witnessed firsthand by travelers who stray off tourist paths. (For instance I say rural Germany is rough going because I've been there and witnessed it firsthand.) That doesn't mean English isn't a lingua franca, it's just not the lingua franca in most of the world. In Latin America people will use Spanish or Portuguese, in Africa people will use French, Arabic, English or Swahili, in much of Central Asia people will use Russian. Even then, knowledge of those languages isn't a given.

The fact of the matter is that English isn't known or used by most of the world population. Arguing about the rest is just semantics.
Migrating from Medium and Other Maladies
It’s less about Democracy vs non-Democracy, and more about virtuous Democracy vs corrupt Democracy.

It’s better to live in a virtuous aristocracy than a corrupt Democracy, and but a virtuous democracy is better than both.

It’s easy to idolize Athenian democracy, but by the time of Thucydides, it was on its last legs.

The only question is “what comes next.”

The answer history gave was “2500 years of subjugation to foreign rulers.”

Something to consider as modern Greece integrates into the EU: they have no tradition of independent democracy.

For example, Greece is currently raising cash by letting the Chinese take over the Piraeus.

To Americans that sounds horrible!

But the Greeks have been pimping their country for over two millennia, and aren’t about to stop now.
Scratch is really fun and with a big budget I bet a lot of improvements could be made to it.

GoAnywhere MFT is drag-and-drop and available for commercial use. I enjoyed it. My programs were pretty and powerful, if not well architected.

Tasker programming is visual; it lets you program on a mobile phone with taps and not typing.
What clued me in to even check was that both houses of Congress would have had to have passed this, and that makes no sense today.
If you put it to most people, I don’t think they would agree.

Check it: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/nov/15/bernie-s/i...

Adjusted for inflation, that 90% rate would only hit individuals making $1.7 million/year. I suspect most people would be just fine with that top rate if it meant they could keep their homes and feed their families.
I understand Spanish but Malaysian? Why?
Python tried to pull a Perl 6 and failed. Python 3 was done as a flag day, a big breaking change you need to switch over to. Originally Python 3 and Python 2 lacked features that would make it possible to write code that is compatible with both versions (like `u"foo"` syntax). Slowly they added things to Python 2 and 3 to make it easier to slowly transition.

But it was still full of unnecessary breaking changes.

- The `print()` function is nice, but they could have left in the `print` statement for a transitional (deprecation) period. Or left the `print` statement in, and advise against its use.

- A lot of the incompatibilities are just stdlib modules being moved around unnecessarily. They could have made both import paths work for a transitional (deprecation) period. Or let the old paths continue to work forever, and just document usage of the new paths.

- All the new features in Python 3 (async, nice helper functions, etc.) are compatible with Python 2. They could have added them to Python 2.

The only true breaking change was unicode literal strings. But again, that could be handled with a slow transitional (deprecation) period. The Python 2 stdlib could have been made compatible with both types of strings (as nearly all third-party libraries have). And users could have been told to `from __future__ import unicode_literals` for a transitional (deprecation) period, to ensure their code is compatible before it becomes the default.

Basically Python 3 could have been a single hard breaking change (unicode literal strings), with a smooth transition. Instead they decided to make Python 2 and 3 diverge from each other, making it harder to do the transition.
Cryptocurrency Security with Cybon; Protect Your Digital Assets
I miss The Weasel, an old mac warez and crack site from the 90s. It had mp3s and midis too I think. "Eagles may soar but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines" Seems like it wasn't archived, sadly.
I do a fair bit of UE4 coding in both Blueprint & C++. Each has benefits and drawbacks, many of which have been mentioned already.

The biggest unmentioned one from a learning perspective though, is that with node-based editors, while you can still make logic errors, it’s difficult to actually make syntax errors. When you get used to it, you might not mind forgetting occasionally to match brackets, remember semicolons, use the right keywords in the right places etc, but as a beginner, all of these things can be quite frustrating and opaque, with often cryptic error messages.

With visual node-graphs though, many of these things are just non-issues, which I think helps beginners gain confidence way faster without bouncing off and giving up in frustration. You can’t even connect pins of the wrong type most of the time, so you get some pretty well communicated type safety to boot.

I’d actually love to see an evolution of a fairly advanced visual programming tool like Blueprint turn into a more general-use language, although preferably with files that are still stored as plain text (so at least play nicely with git etc) rather than the binary black boxes that are currently chewing up my LFS...
The good-looking textured light-sourced bouncy fun smart and stretchy page

https://web.archive.org/web/20160418004131/http://freespace....

Inspired a lot of learning about graphics.
Linux user on ThinkPad here, I believe the firmware upgrade system is only for the higher-end ThinkPads.
It is blatantly racist, and I believe it should change. But I also believe the "deal with it and work harder" mentality is one of the important reasons why Asians tend to be more successful. My mother always told me I had to work 10 times harder because I am Asian.

It is okay to complain, but remember that we can't fix all wrongs in the world. We don't have time to wait for society to change. We will and have always found a way to survive and thrive.

My parents grew up in the Vietnam war. My mother had to do her homework in the shelters while American planes were bombing her city. My dad comes from a poor village and lost several brothers in the draft. My grandfather his brother fought against the french colonialist.

Despite all this, they don't hold a grudge against the west, and they still look up to western societies. Being a victim forever is not the way for success and happiness, and you will only hurt yourself in the long run. Practice gratitude, keep your eyes open for opportunities and keep hustling.
Look up VDJ recombination[0] for a sense of how antibodies are generated. Ling story short, yeah its pretty random in a really clever process that generates enormous variability. There are also only so many features to bind on the covid virus protein, which are what we test, but there are a lot of antibodies that our body can make against them
"The United States has more people behind bars than any other nation, a total incarcerated population of nearly 2.3 million as of 2017 — nearly half of which is in state prisons. Smaller numbers are locked in federal prisons and local jails, which typically hold people for relatively short periods as they await trial."

More than N.Korea, Myanmar, Communist China, Russia, you name it. "LAND OF THE FREE !"
One potential cause: We habe hints now (Charité Study) that previous infections with other, less harmful corona viruses may provide some degree of immunity (unconfirmed).

Maybe one or more these other coronaviruses made rounds in this prison earlier this year?
Tesla Achieved the Accuracy of Lidar with Its Advanced Computer Vision Tech
MacOS just killed anything with only a 32bit build. Who knows, in 10 years they might do the same to 64bit. Even on one of the most conservative platforms ever, Windows, old programs will often struggle to run. And now that the network is also essential, there are a bunch of other sources of rot: can the platform speak TLS 1.99 with randogenerated certitokens? Will it understand http/5 and blockchained dns?

That’s “where this mentality comes from”.
I am waiting to see what kinds of pernicious little nasties have been hibernating beneath the Arctic ice cap since the middle Holocene.
hi, as i know, The Archive is not a free mac app, is it?
I'm guessing you'll get a warning when installing or updating pip on Python 2.7. I know for Python 3.4, pip has been showing a deprecation warning whenever it's installed for a while now. I assume they'll do the same for 2.7.

So, I suppose the answer to your question is yes--if you blindly update pip and/or you don't heed those warnings and pin your pip version accordingly.

Edit: I was curious, so I installed the latest Python 2.7 and pip. `pip install` (or any other pip command) shows a deprecation warning with info about dropping support for Python 2.7 every time you run it.
Like any proper thermostat. Except when it loses Internet connection or Nest/Google decides it's bored with the platform and bricks your thermostat remotely :).

I think depending on third-party subscriptions should be considered an UX antipattern.
That is a great idea. Push more people to crowded public transit where infections can spread easier.
That is not the keyboard map. It's the engraving, which has zero effect on the keyboard, neither electrical nor mechanical. Keyboards can be re-labelled with little bits of paper and sticky tape or by swapping keytops, and that does nothing. There is no keyboard map here.
The nature of exponential growth is such that no matter when you test, 50% will have gotten it within the last doubling period. If it’s doubling every three days, half have caught it in the last 3 days, 75% in the last 6 days, 86% in the last 9 and so on. Given the long incubation period it makes sense that the vast majority are currently asymptomatic. I think that will be the case at every point during exponential growth, even if the ultimates fatality rate is quite high.
You're using the death count for the entire state, not just NYC. The blood antibody test positive % for the overall state is 13, not 21. And the population is around 19.5 million.
I am not sure that these antibody tests mean what people generally think they mean. For example, there seem to be multiple events where people get sick even after it has been established that they have antibodies.

Furthermore, people in environments with a lot of virus (i.e., cruise ships, hospitals, or just northern italian towns where the virus has run amok, tend to get sick and die at much higher rate than those antibody tests would suggest.

There may be a mechanism for multiple infection which makes multiple exposure more dangerous even if you have antibodies.
We are quite a lot of people that fear the operation will be successful but the patient is dead with the Corona actions being taken. Case in point, 26.5 million americans have sought unemployment benefits (https://vastuullisuusuutiset.fi/en/weben/women-bear-brunt-of...).

The deaths in New York are quite telling for who is at risk, see https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109867/coronavirus-deat....

Over 90% of the dead so far are old with comorbidites such as Hypertension and Diabetes, see https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-25/most-nyc-....

So i agree that "not serious" is an accurate statement.
It's still there and being updated
What is cache penetration, cache breakdown and cache avalanche?
You can do that in most (all?) Unix terminal emulators. It's the -ls option to xterm and rxvt, or a checkbox in {gnome,mate}-terminal.
Until 3.8 py3 was slower than py2 in practically all benchmarks, and 3.8 is a marginal improvement at best. So I’m slapping a massive <citation needed> on your “massive” performance improvements
How about an actually randomly sampled test, for starters?
In the mid 1950s a young investor fresh from a Walk Street hedge fund pitched his investment partnership to doctors and dentists in Omaha, Nebraska. Those who participated earned an average 35% annual return for the next 12 years, increasing their investment by 35 times.

Then around 1970 investor shut down the partnerships and switched to running a public company he controlled. Investors who rolled over their investments could buy into the company for around $12 per share IIRC.

By the late 70s the stock traded for hundreds of dollars per share. In 1990 it hit $7,000, and $70,000 in 1998.

There is a group of Omaha residents who invited this young kid named Warren Buffett into their living rooms in the mid 50s, liked what he said enough to give him $10K, and ended up as billionaires because they believed in him.
It's a very basic version of IRC but for audio, and only for invitees for now.

And it's great for all the reasons IRC is great, but everyone thinks it's all a totally new concept so they're just waiting for it to get its unicorn horn and start pissing cash money.
I can but that exposes me to clear liability that will be hard to argue against (and I'm easily reachable both by you and your attorney) as I am also a shareholder at those institutions and hence have a clear selfish motive in suggesting that you use them even if they later cause you harm.

So I think I have a reasonable suggestion for you: look into credit unions that are looking to hand out business loans.

In my experience, it's less risky than investing directly into said business (honestly that's where you make the most money!) and you're backed by the NCUA upto $250k per account
Dr. David Katz was just in Bill Maher’s show indicating the test has a high false negative rate
I got on python-dev recently and tried to make the case that breaking changes should be delayed to a X.0 release. It didn’t get very far, they seemed to determined to keep the current low predictability system.

The response was they don’t have enough manpower. The though ignoring deprecated stuff a few releases doesn’t sound particularly hard. I suspect Guido just likes it that way.

Btw, almost no one supports forward compatibility.
Which in itself is a reference to a 1903 silent film The Great Train Robbery, widely considered to be the first of what we'd now recognize as an action film, and the first western.
This goes to the comments section. Link to the article https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Wife-s-email-may-have...

Edit: Reposted by someone else in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22982731
> If you’re planning ahead consists of opening up credit lines via credit cards for your household finances, then you’re going to have a bad time

If that's the exclusive and only back up, yes.

A financialy savvy person will mix both credit and debt classes for their situation.

There is no one true answer in engineering and this is financial engineering.

If you dont drive a car, you probably won't die in a car crash. However, you're less likely to get exposed to opportunities than a person who does drive a car.
Computers used to exist in some far away place and take up a room. There were very few in the world. Computers eventually shrunk and moved into the home- occupying a desk in the house. Computers shrunk further into laptops, then to tablets and mobile phones. The computers are now constantly pressed against our skin. Soon we will wear them on our face. The implantation of computers under our skin or inside our skulls has been a story happening in slow motion over the course of 60 or so years. This is the inevitable conclusion.
Are you talking about PEP-0492? It was added in 3.5.2 with deprecation of previous behavior in 3.7, release dates of those are separated by exactly 2 years, with deprecation warnings in 3.6.
Most infectious diseases are dose dependent in their effects actually, which can be a bit counterintuitive. I dont know of any data for covid yet, but heres a paper on influenza, another viral disease:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4342672/
The RSS/ATOM syndication was created for this purpose. No need to collect email addresses.

Point your favorite RSS/ATOM reader to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events and it'll pick up the feed. Done.

Or, if you prefer, setup the feed manually: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentCha...
Long live the King.
A backwards compatible and incremental move would have been much better. Microsoft has been doing that on C#, can't be happier.
> It feels like getting offered shiny glass beads while taking things of real value

It indeed is if you consider majority of work is not time sensetive even if the person explicitly telling you so, absolutely convinces you that's the case.

This becomes clearer when you move on from an employee to a business owner and the only person you answer to is your customer.

Unless there's a literal environmental disaster, like when my community went up in flames during the California fires - everything else can wait.

Even during the flames burning, houses that were almost on fire were in a waiting line behind houses on fire.

The only reason why "it was due yesterday" works is because the employee believes their value is worth less than what the employer values them at.
People can and have been fine without those things for a long time. Many of them could have been added to Python2 without any trouble. And yet we still have a GIL.
I think you're making a very similar point to the comment you're replying to --- that "dead" really means stability; no more worrying about changes that make things stop working.

But you're missing the same point that the parent commenter is missing - stability only came because Python 2 has been sitting at 2.7 for so long.

And you're also missing the point that you can have the same stability by sticking to 3.6 or 3.7 or 3.8 or whatever your fancy is. If you stick with 3.7, I assure you that 3.7 will remain exactly the same and no one is going to pull your rug out from under you. Just don't upgrade.

But don't ask for new features either.
It’s a shift though and can’t simply be an expansion. This means giving up a chunk of the high end market to be taken by themselves but with lower margin products. If 10 would be android buyers get the SE that makes them money. But if also just one or two would-be iPhone11 buyers get the SE that’s probably a net loss.

I interpret it as a shift more towards software and services and away from hardware. They are realizing that phones get better and better and once they are this good people will keep them for longer (while still buying software and services like iCloud).

It’s musical chairs and Apple knows the music is about to stop and want to expand before it does.
In Italy they're personally tracking every confirmed case. Meanwhile, here in NYC, I called 311 to report my suspected case and that wasn't even a thing they were tracking. We just don't have our shit together over here, not at a state or national level.
It's lack of PRIVACY!
Here are some good alternatives IMHO.
https://www.ecosia.org/
https://www.startpage.com/ (uses Google but respects privacy)
https://www.qwant.com/
https://duckduckgo.com/