skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't be too hopeful about that. Barcelona in general is a bicycle-friendly city, and most of the city-center bikelanes looks like this (lane on the furthest right is the bi-directional bicycle lane): https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3894796,2.1634847,3a,75y,66....

Most people seem fine with this arrangement, we're pretty used to tight spaces, for people, cars, motorcycles and bicycles. Maybe this lane is only fine because we don't have as much bicycle traffic as Amsterdam or Copenhagen, but seems to work well right now.
What do you mean, the numbers don't add up? From the article: "Insurers’ overhead, the largest category, totaled $275.4 billion in the U.S. in 2017, or 7.9% of all national health expenditures, compared with $5.36 billion in Canada, or 2.8% of national health expenditures."
Bank fees are added on top of the market rate. If the rate is -1% and the bank demands a 2% fee then you will have a 1% interest rate.
There's a lot of indie software that is surprisingly great. Omnifocus comes to mind.
> everyone and their mother would be reverse engineering their designs and building ARM datacenters

Isn't this (more or less) NUVIA's strategy?
Seconded! Wishlist:

• Absolutely minimal latency.

• Ability to run open source software.

• Stackability (to achieve high horsepower via multiple units)

• Multichannel digital i/o (analog is unnecessary, there are lots of great hardware AD and DA converter units)

• Wordclock

There's plenty of cycles in modern chips, but latency is a killer with native CPU processing.

Alternately, I'd love a RTOS which could run open source software on high-horsepower multi-core CPUs.
Show HN: Sam Altman on Hard Startups – Summary
works for me, loaded also very quickly.
I don't understand how for some people it "never works", while for me it's literally never once failed, all the way from 6.10 up until now, my latest desktop install lasting through 12 updates, plus motherboard and GPU change (between Intel and AMD CPU, and Nvidia and AMD proprietary driver and then AMD open source driver no less) and four different desktop environments (Unity, Gnome, Mate, and finally KDE).

The closest it's ever come to failing was literally yesterday when I realized that my desktop was still on 19.04 and they had closed the old repositories so the GUI upgrade utility failed. The CLI upgrade didn't skip a beat, though.
The million dollar question is how long it will be before huge crowds are safe again.
Canada has single payer and rising administrative overhead is a major problem here too. Looking at spending on medical staff vs spending on administrative staff, the former has barely gone up at all while the later has gone up over 500%. Plus we deal with the serious problems of lack of care. I know several people who have waited over 2 years for important surgeries like hip replacements. My mother died because they didn't want to keep her alive, and we get no say in the matter. Single payer doesn't magically make health care work well.
It certainly feels that way. I think that the fragmentation problem might be diluted this time because the software is way more abstracted from hardware (mainstream languages are all very high level, and there is widespread adoption of open compilers - with llvm/clang being pushed by apple)
Plenty of reasons to doubt the claims made in TFA, but I don't think business addresses (and as other commenters have pointed out) a shitty website are good reasons. That just seems like a shallow leap of logic to me.

> 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

Do you have a source for that?
You can try out Paketo with GitLab using CI environment variables:

You can try it out today using environment variables in your CI job.

Example:

- AUTO_DEVOPS_BUILD_IMAGE_CNB_ENABLED: 1
- AUTO_DEVOPS_BUILD_IMAGE_CNB_BUILDER: gcr.io/paketo-buildpacks/builder:base
That page is really poorly designed - I thought by ad/tracker blocker was causing a font to not load, but it turns out you just have to scroll down a third of the page to get to any text.

On the topic, I guess I'm reasonably OK. Work has not been affected (and my current primary client's business is increasing right now, and in areas that at least partially benefit from people 'stuck' at home).

If the unlikely happened and work just literally dried up tomorrow, with no other prospects of work, my company (i.e the company I own, and I issue invoices through) could keep paying salary + the few other expenses it has for about four months without either client invoices or other income (e.g. the government here has pushed banks to allow a 6-month delay on both interest and principal debt repayments).

Personally (well, as a family, not including in-laws etc) we have just over 4-months after tax salary saved, so if push comes to shove (i.e. reducing non-essentials) that could probably be stretched to 8 months or even a year (we have no mortgage/rent repayments, and while we have some credit card debt at the moment, it's not huge).

I am not sure I'd be so confident, if it weren't for the relatively low cost of living here.
In portuguese I'm having a hard time not to read it as "fossa fecal" (~cesspool).
My clue for what? I'm not the one who is saying this, it's Karolinska Institute saying their new antibody test has no false positives: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/11-procent-av-stockholmar...
This is true for short term store of value. Both gold & Bitcoin are doing terrible. In the medium/long term gold & Bitcoin have been historically very good store of value assets
I do think it’s inevitable we will see a switch to work from home for a long time. Social distancing norms significantly reduce elevator capacity, making high-rise office towers impractical. Staggering morning and evening rush hours might be doable, but add the need to schedule lunch traffic, and, I think, the conclusion will be that the building can’t hold as many people as before.

As to a move to cars: if cycling becomes faster than public transport, adding bicycle lanes could speed up car commutes because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downs–Thomson_paradox (“the equilibrium speed of car traffic on a road network is determined by the average door-to-door speed of equivalent journeys taken by public transport“)
This is a valid approach and is commonly used even with large enterprises. It's also the route we're taking with our startup as it lowers the initial friction and allows you to build out credibility. This is also the approach I used when working in consulting - effectively, you're looking for a small ask/commitment before making the big jump. Good example could be Intercom which is broadly expanding it's offering.
That will be really neat.
Considering the XCode on iOS rumors, I'm still waiting for a 27inch iPad to be released myself.
Try this online book by Bartosz Milewski:

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...
Can you share the sort of things you've been doing with it?
Of the Intel 8086 or of the IBM PC platform?

I don't remember anything specific to the 8086 that made it a "horizontally integrated market" w.r.t. its competitors (I might be wrong, of course)
It’s used to “manage virtual machines” to help avoid “lock-in”. If all you’re doing is hosting a bunch of virtual machines on your cloud provider, you have the worse of both worlds. You’re paying more for infrastructure and you’re still babysitting hardware.

Besides, if you are at any type of scale - you’re de facto already “locked in”. Infrastructure has weight. Data migrations alone are a pain let alone migrating your network infrastructure, you’d permissions (IAM$), auditing for security compliance, your DNS entries, etc.

Why add Google to the mix at all if you’re all in on AWS and Azure? I bet few people have ever sat down and work with their project management team or IT people and estimated how long it would take or how much money it would cost to actually migrate to another vendor.
Of course not everyone who is driving will immediately switch to bikes, that would be unexpected. But many do use cars when they could have used bikes, but because the infrastructure is poor, they chose cars. The ones that come from outside the city can now park within range of their work and bike the rest. Paris is notable for it's shitty traffic (and drivers...), so many would want to switch to bikes, just to avoid going insane.
I hope so, but I suspect that the people that is predicting now hyperinflation and the enslavement of our children, will keep doing so despise all absence of evidence.

Unfortunately, economics is a very ideologically charged subject.
While Apple products may be popular with tech bros and aspiring creative like Martin Luther King, John Lennon or Mahatma Gandhi they only represent a small fraction of computing outside California.
Apple has a history of doing everything in their own way if feasible. Not sure if one should extrapolate from them to the entire market.
The Stimulus Package Is Just a Disguised Tax
What matters isn't the size of the Fed's balance sheet or what it contains. The Fed's balance sheet is "invisible" to the private-sector economy. This expansion of their balance sheet is simply a reflection of the stimulus we're doing.

When the Fed expands their balance sheet, what they're doing is replacing private-sector assets with liquid cash. Given that the stimulus is appropriate for the economy, this is all fine. It's not anything that future generations have to "pay back." And it's not going to cause a collapse of the dollar.

The important thing to keep in mind is that we are intentionally shutting down parts of the economy. But some of those parts include mechanisms (jobs) that we normally rely on to supply spending money to consumers and businesses.

Due to the partial shutdown, the economy's productive capacity has taken a hit. But even so, our economy still has the capacity to provide a decent standard of living for everyone. We don't want to compound the crisis by failing to ensure that consumers have sufficient spending power to activate the remaining capacity.

It would be scary if the Fed's balance sheet weren't expanding like this right now.

http://www.greshm.org/blog/printing-money-cures-the-covid-19...

http://bit.ly/intro-to-cmt
The vulnerability is in Windows 10. Windows 10 has been fixed. It's not clear in the article what other mitigations are in place in Firefox to make exploitation more difficult.
What's keeping Adobe from releasing Photoshop for Ubuntu ? Convincing ? Or real technical difficulties ? Like recoding the interface ?
There's a little bit more to our news app than content delivery, even though content delivery is indeed the crux of the problem. Regarding the content itself, it's a more complex than a wall of text, so we need support for each type of content. Our content is also served differently for the website and for the mobile app as we've got an API in there, though both the website and the mobile api are communicating with what we call the content API.

Both the Guardian and the BBC have separate iOS and Android teams, I'm part of the server side team. We touched about how to organise the teams, how to handle request from editorial, how to test and release the app etc.
Simulations in Google Sheets
I can't see a Rust framework becoming one of the top web frameworks simply by virtue that Rust is more complex to learn and implement than Javascript. However, I can see your second point coming true, a fully native framework that eschews the DOM by compiling directly onto a canvas, just as a game compiled with WASM would. The prime example is Flutter Web, which has an experimental WASM renderer that displays onto a canvas. Of course, now they have to reimplement all of the functionality such as scrolling, accessibility and so on. It also somewhat addresses your second point, where you can compile to iOS and Android but also to the web so you can make a Flutter app a progressive web app.
> packaging a deb is difficult. I've done it, and it's a lot of complicated hard work you get to repeat for every release for anything that is not a simple program

Right, but the point of a high-quality distribution is that this complicated hard work only needs to be done once (per package, updated for upstream changes obviously) by your distribution's package maintainer. Then it scales for free. That's the beauty.
For a long time. I once logged in and was limited to 3 articles per month!

Thankfully, the 3-article limit only applies to logged in users, and once I logged out, it was no longer applied
Pick the next neo.mjs roadmap item
The special treatment the WHO gave to China and the execution of their primary task was clearly all pointing to a lost of their objectivity as an institution.

Trump is right to stop the funding in order to prevent more moral hazard. Don't hate the player but the game. In politics scapegoating is the daily bread & butter, the only difference is the media tries to create an outrage about Trump while if Obama did the New York Times would have helped him with the optics.
> So I'm hearing the " the dollar is over, throw everything into gold, fiat money is doomed" in other forums.

Broadly speaking, these people distrust a money supply that can be influenced by governmental powers. They're always making noise about fiat money, gold, and sometimes cryptocurrencies like bitcoin in internet forums. They tend to become extremely vocal whenever the government intervenes in financial markets, such as the current financial crisis.

The first counterpoint would be that the anti-fiat crowd has been declaring fiat dead ever since the gold standard was abandoned ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard#Abandonment_of_t... ). They made the same claims in the recessions of the 2000s, the 2008 housing crisis, during the low interest rates of the 2010s financial boom, and now in the 2020 crisis. Maybe they'll be right one day in the future in the same way that a broken clock is right twice a day, but are you sure this is their time to be right?

The second counterpoint is that outside of very specific windows, gold hasn't performed very well against traditional investments. The gold proponents had a good run for a few years after 2009 when gold was a hot topic, but it generally hasn't been the home run investment that the proponents expect. You can view long-term gold vs S&P trends here: https://www.longtermtrends.net/stocks-vs-gold-comparison/ Drag the bottom sliders to set different start/end dates. It's possible to find periods of time where gold outperformed the S&P 500, but generally you'd have to get both your buy and sell dates just right to come out ahead. That is, market timing. If you bought gold in 2009 and held you're doing okay. If you bought gold in 2012 and held, you just barely came up to net positive returns after 8 years.

The third argument is that it's not a great idea to bet against the weight and power of the government. People declaring fiat dead are assuming that the government is going to destroy the value of money via manipulation, but most of them can't put together cohesive explanations for how the Federal Reserve operates. The Federal Reserve is a complicated system that can be difficult to understand. If you misunderstand the function or purpose of certain steps, it's easy to get the wrong impression that the government is printing money to buy stocks like all of the memes say. In reality, the system is much more complicated than that and you're unlikely to find unbiased explanations in internet forums, especially if they're coming from people who are heavily invested in gold or bitcoin and would like to see everyone else prop up the price of their chosen investments. It's best to spend an hour or two reading up on the Federal Reserve, why the gold standard was abandoned, and what the Federal Reserve is actually doing with their balance sheets. Wikipedia actually has decent articles that explain the high level details well enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve
>I am pretty sure that everyone knows that Amish eat healthier

By what definition? According to mainstream health organizations and even still government guidelines, they eat very poorly. Their diet is very high in saturated fat, which although healthy in reality, is not healthy according to the government. They also eat plenty of sugar, the other common scapegoat for dietary problems.

>don't drink or smoke,

They drink and smoke at lower rates, but they absolutely do drink and smoke.
all sorts of apparmor issues, dhcp client doesn't even work out of box, need to run dhclient on every reboot

https://pastebin.com/PUkH3Y1P

with rtlsdr (RTL2832U) plugged in, every process gets blocked

with nouveau, as soon as onboard HDMI (Intel) is connected, desktop becomes very sluggish and system locks up in a few minutes

I am impressed it works at all on release day. Previous LTS releases are hardly usable until LTS .03
> As a development machine it will be all but useless as you find things that won't compile or work correctly on the new CPU arch.

I'm not a developer so forgive my ignorance, but isn't this what cross-compiling is for? I get that compiling natively can increase performance and find obscure hardware issues, but it's my understanding that, for example, ARM builds of GNU/Linux binaries are just cross-compiled by server farms that are also natively compiling the AMD64 builds.

Also, fat binaries and JIT emulation have been a thing forever, especially for Apple who has dealt with these changes twice now (68k -> PPC -> x86-64).

I just don't see this being any different than current multi-platform efforts like Debian, NetBSD, etc., except it's a for-profit company with billions of dollars and thousands of expert employees behind it.
Apple will still be selling and supporting x86 machines for many years, possibly forever.
That wasn't part of these exchanges, but yes we produce the tools for that in house.

The Grid is a good example of what's been produced in house, and it's actually open source (and I think being used by the BBC?) https://github.com/guardian/grid
Whether money or debt is 'just a number in a computer' or not is besides the point. We built the system that way deliberately because bartering is not efficient, doesn't scale, and doesn't easily allow creating debt that needs to be settled in the future.

What we ended up with is a situation where almost all the wealth/value we (governments, businesses, the people) have built is represented in terms of 'monetary units' (the numbers in the computer), but it's increasingly clear that in the future, these positive and negative numbers will never add up to zero anymore, and we're not going to 'grow our economies out of debt' as was originally the idea of taking on debt now to invest in the future. This means someone is going to lose big time sooner or later.

Printing more money to take some negative numbers from the economy and infusing it with some positive numbers is not a strategy that can save the system in the long term as there are exponential terms involved because of interest. There will be a point where diluting the the money supply (which is exactly what QE is) will result in a loss of confidence people have in the 'numbers in the computer' being a reliable proxy for their wealth. Governments will have a hard time selling treasuries when no-one expects them to have any value in the future. When that happens (which IMO is just a matter of time, how much time is not clear but most definitely not 100+ years) all value that is not recorded in tangible, useful assets or skills will simply disappear, and it will not just mean the 'numbers of the computer' have to be adjusted or reset and everything can go back to normal...
Since when, that's cool, I've been dpkg-ing my downloads. Then apt-fix-ing them to get necessary dependencies.
Except the page linked is the FEDs balance sheet of assets they bought with printed money which is predominately used to buy our government's debt so they are actually basically reducing our governments debt assuming they never sell it like japan. Considering they barely sold any assets from QE during the longest expansion in the history of our country, I'm betting we are going to follow japan on this.

Relevant link that dforrestwilson posted: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sovereign-debt-jubilee-japane...
You can't say yes or no without qualifying your statement. What software specifically is worth getting a Mac for, for you?
I live in Paris and almost only travel by bicycle. It all depends where you're going, but it's improved drastically in the past few years. In fact it started with Vélib, the sudden increase in bikes forced other road users to expect bikes and act accordingly.
Look at the photos in the article. See how it is mostly men but they focus on the one woman in the big group of men? You have to be very suggestible to buy such an obviously conjured narrative.
Yeah totally possible my university sucked (University of Minnesota in the late 2000s). One of my professors thought 0x1 stood for "0 and then a bunch of stuff that doesn't matter and then 1". I stopped attending his classes.
We do indeed have what essentially is a text-editor with Guardian specific features developed in house.

It's used for all of our content, but specifically what you're referring to are liveblogs, where a journalist can write short content and append it to the existing article.

Here's an example of such an article https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/apr/23/coronavir...
Mobile firefox gives me an untrusted SSL warning, after accepting I get a "Dreamhost site not found" error.
People suggest wearing masks for two reasons.

1) To stop the wearing being infected by other people.

2) To stop an infected wearer spreading their infection to other people.

Experts recommend against masks because:

When correctly put on, and worn, and taken off there's some protective value to masks if they're combined with all the other PPE.

Correctly putting on PPE, and correctly taking it off, is hard. Healthcare providers employ staff to act as "spotters" or "dofficers". This person's main job is to help people put on and take off PPE.

If you're wearing a mask by itself you get almost no benefit. You lose all benefit if you're putting it on wrong, or taking it of wrong, or wearing it wrong.

As well as that we see that masks increase risky behaviour. People wearing masks feel that they don't need to maintain 2 metres social distance. It's hard to speak through a mask and it's hard to hear someone talk through a mask so people both speak louder (generating more droplets) and move closer (increasing the risk of contamination).

People who advocate against masks look at the evidence which shows marginal benefits from mask wearing and they look at all the things which reduce or negate those benefits and they say that the balance tips away from wearing masks.

Whether you wear a mask or not you need to keep 2 meters away from people, so what does wearing a mask get you?
Updated List of 80 German Investors
The Mac version of Scrivener is hard to beat. The Windows version isn’t even close to feature parity.
I love how easy it is to install snaps.

And no more including of PPAs of some developer whose apps seems nifty at first glance.