skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When banks lend to people who will default, it's usually because they issued a secured loan. You can repossess a car quite easily. I couldn't keep up with my car payments in 2009, and my car got repossessed. They got (most of) their money back. Since I had been paying a high interest rate, maybe they even made money.

When I ran a service business & wanted to borrow money for growth, even though I was profitable, there was no risk formula I fit into that would allow the bank to determine the likelihood my business would pay them back, so they wouldn't lend to me (unless I used personal assets as collateral).
This is surprising to learn, since I am using nvidia-driver-435 and fractional scaling (150%) on one monitor.
> It is vital that, in coming out of the current crisis, we do not create a tool that enables large scale data collection on the population, either now or at a later time. Thus, solutions which allow reconstructing invasive information about the population should be rejected without further discussion. Such information can include the “social graph” of who someone has physically met over a period of time.

- Hear, hear.
Autodesk Burns the Planet
> I'm reminded of the now-vanished JWZ post about "groupware".

It’s not vanished; here it is: [redacted]/doc/groupware.html
More like youtube is doing what they can to support a certain political position with disregard for human lives. If anything the WHO recommendations themselves are misinformation.
You should put all of those "has another byte" bits together, so you can look at just the first two bytes to figure out what to do, and then perform your load. In your most common case, you can perform an 8-bite MOVBE, an LZCNT/BSR, and if the number of leading 0s/1s < 8, just shift and mask to get your value.

Have a look at how UTF-8 is encoded for a similar scheme. The space taken is exactly the same as LEB128, but your code is less branchy and needs fewer masks and shifts.
Please ignore all these experts, all they want is to make you feel special because you drink/eat their stuff.

Above a certain threshold one cannot tell the difference between good and very good. Wine tasters know it and it has been very well documented.

When it comes to flavours, as long as it doesn't harm you, your judgement is as good as anybody else.
Previous discussion from last week:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22897962
> The problem with student loans is on the higher level in the system; their existence causes runaway cost increase of higher education.

If the loan is meant to pay for tuition then perhaps that's true. My loan was something like £1600/yr which covered about 5 months of rent, but the government paid for my tuition.
I’m definitely looking for premium support when something goes wrong. I think Apple no longer offers this service in real terms.

Ubuntu is ok. I’ve used it before. OSX is usually very good. Just Catalina is dreadful. I’ve picked a surface because it’s as close to the Mac as I can find.
I would recommend adding "--rm", to avoid leaving leftovers when the container exits:

https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/#clean-up---rm
Lightweight and Simple OGM for Neo4j
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...

Still many countries are >2 but they're falling rapidly too. Its surprising to me to see Bangladesh at 2.1 and India at 2.2.

Places like S Korea 1.1, Italy 1.3, Japan 1.4 you can do the math yourself. (1.3/2)^N means without immigration their populations nearly disappear in 100 years.

Russia 1.6, China 1.6, Thailand 1.5 takes maybe 12 generations to do the same.
Some interesting commentary on the work Canonical do with OEMs, and a statement of commitment to the Desktop - which goes against a common criticism of Ubuntu.
I am not a philosophy grad nor is English my native language so I am sorry but I am not educated enough to continue this discussion.

I agree with you that he could have been more specific, but I do not agree with > said life was great (I summarise). In my interpretation of their comment, I took it to mean life has the potential to be great.

For the other two terms I have no opinion, will leave that to OP. But damn, if this is at all representative to what studying philosophy is like, isn't it exhausting?
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you believe that the notion of free will is specious, even partially in significant cases of vice

Don't mix your modalities.

It's possible to reason in terms of free will and decisions between right and wrong; or in terms of causes and effects, from mental illness and broken childhoods through to poverty and criminality; but separately.

The problem with reasoning in just one modality or the other is that you miss what the other modality captures. Reason entirely in the former, and you can miss out on social and political changes which can result in better outcomes in the aggregate. Reason entirely in the latter, and you miss out on the ability for the individual to improve themselves, and deny them agency in choosing their own destiny.

(Personally, I think "believing that the notion free will is specious" - actually wrong - is incredibly disempowering, and will have the effect of causing people to blame externalities even when they have the power to change their situation. It has an effect all of its own. You don't need to have free will at the Physics level in order for belief in free will to have a positive mental effect in a mechanistic cause and effect way.)
In my case it was Q vs R. For what I was trying to achieve and with my level of statistics background R was an obvious choice.
The language/runtime AND RStudio are entirely free. Give it a try!
Isn’t snap entirely optional? I don’t understand why all of a sudden this is being brought up with each of these releases, as far as I know it was in Ubuntu for years already?
> For example here's a release announcement I wrote recently: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2020-February/msg....

Request to please start release announcements by saying what really a "Network Block Device (NBD) server" is. Don't assume that people are familiar with every possible piece of software already.
Show HN: I have created a web app to anonymously share links
You could say the same thing about security guards too though.
Microsoft wasn’t broken up.
I've just read it based on your recommendation. I enjoyed it but I don't find that it obviates Wolfram's work, or even overlaps with it much at all (and I'm no big Wolfram fan).
Twitter's criteria for using the Twitter website correctly is to be looking at ads. Seeing useful content in between the ads is a side-effect only necessary to keep you there so you can look at ads.

They have absolutely no incentive in making your usage of Twitter more efficient as it would 1) decrease the "engagement" metrics and 2) give you less opportunities to look at ads if you just see the content you want directly.

Social networks need to strike a fine balance between extracting the maximum value out of the user (profit) while giving them the least possible value (expense). They believe the current system achieves this balance, which I sadly have to agree with because the average user's bullshit tolerance is orders of magnitude higher than ours and they will put up with a lot of shit without leaving the platform.

> which employs most skilled 10x workforce

There are still scammers replying to high-profile accounts with obvious spam such as fake cryptocurrency giveaways, something which can be filtered out with simple regular expressions. I would like to add a very big "[citation needed]" to Twitter having significant skill in house, whether it's engineering or management. Whatever skill they had when they initially built & scaled the platform seems to be long gone.
This being a federated network you should be able to follow and interact with users in other instances. That's what ActivityPub is about. I haven't checked Pixelfed specifically but it's how Mastodon works.
This alone is reason to upgrade -> "R now uses a stringsAsFactors = FALSE default, and hence by default no longer converts strings to factors in calls to data.frame() and read.table()."
They may not distinct visually, but iPhone user without chrome can definitely tell.

I totally agree with you, I developed a PWA and 'native app' which is mostly an webview of the same content. I often use the PWA version but it seems most (if not all) of my users are using the app version even when the app stores approve updates in a notifiable slower rate.

My native app do used some native plugin, but those functions are not often used by the users. So I feel they just blindly ask for apps.

Maybe they think native app loads faster than PWA?
People don't want to wait for a SPA first-time loading but they won't blame the download and install time of native apps.
Ints are automatically converted to bool, there is no need to cast.
What this does is it restricts the int to 1 or 0. The clean way to
write this is x ? 1 : 0. This is understandable even if you don't know
the Boolean inversion of 0 is 1 (Which isn't self-evident. For example
in Basic its -1).
Keep in mind that ecosystem services are crucial for keeping you alive too.
What makes a brand (stand out) & the 6 elements of successful brand management
My thoughts exactly when I saw that bullet point.
Is that true?

Excess mortality in the 0-4 yr cohort for example shows some negative number of excess deaths...
c19.se reports 921 total deaths by April 12th, and 23 dead by March 22nd. That results in 898 dead for weeks 13 to 15.

You said 500 deaths for that time period, but your own source says 898. Your numbers are wrong.

> I don't think we're going to agree about statistics.

898 vs 500 is not a matter of opinion or agreeing.
>Seems to follow that apple varieties ended up lost to the dustbin of history because they didn't taste very good?

Nope. Cider varieties fell out of favor because cider fell out of favor, and most don't taste very good for eating. But heritage eating apples fell out of favor because they do not ship well, or don't grow well in synthetically fertilized dirt, or due to marketing. Most heritage varieties of eating apples taste WAY better than bland crap like honeycrisp. Red delicious were the most produced apple for many years even though basically nobody likes them. Because they look very appealing, and they are very durable so they can be handled roughly and shipped all over. Try a Cox's Orange Pippin and you'll never be able to eat grocery store apples again.
What? How can meat possibly be more efficient for nutrients? Where do you think the animals get the nutrients in the first place?

Everything originates from plants.
N.Italy: I'm quarantined [well, it's lockdown, really] with two Italians, one is my wife (other is son): I'm not allowed even remotely near the kitchen. Every mealtime has become a stereotypically-italian ultra-marathon. 2.4kg heavier since. Yes, i am trying to keep fit but going from 30-200km daily bicycle rides (eas 28km commute and back for work) to balconia+pasta+pasta sure takes it toll.
And yet the message appears here, on a general tech news site, and no doubt many other places. Assuming only R-announce readers will see it is plainly wrong.
The secret to great pizza sauce is more sugar than you’d expect.
Unrelated to banks, but more to the point of organizations.

I was reconciling a firms bank account. I had four transactions from their payroll company, but the last payroll was weeks ago.

I called the payroll. The first person I spoke can explain one charge is a tax reconciliation, but don't know about the other three. The next human in another division explains a service fee. Because I'm not authorized, I won't be able to get more information about the last two charges.

Each group is compartmentalized and siloed. Each department is focused on administering their part, but no one person can accounting for the bank activity.
> 2. Both Taiwan and China claim to be China, so that statement wasn't even factually wrong.

Taiwan nowadays is kinda forced by China to claim to be China actually.
Try this link instead :)

(JWZ has anti-HN measures on his site.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20050217051819/https://www.jwz.o...
Try this article: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/can-you-beat-covid-1...

"To start with, it’s a myth that Sweden is doing nothing about the virus. Most Swedes have changed their habits a lot. Schools for older kids are closed, as are universities. People are working from home, when they can, and the elderly are being urged to keep to themselves. Gatherings of over 50 people are prohibited, and ski resorts are closed. Restaurants and bars are allowing table service only, and grocery stores are installing glass dividers between customers and cashiers."

"Second, contrary to the claims of John Fund and Joel Hay and many others, Sweden isn’t trying to develop “herd immunity,” meaning a state of affairs in which so many people get the virus that the virus runs out of kindling. (At least, Swedish officials claim they aren’t doing this, and they would have a lot to lose by lying about it.) Instead, Sweden intends to take as loose an approach as possible that still keeps case growth down to nonexponential numbers."

"With these premises in mind, Sweden has pumped the brakes instead of slamming on them. You close school for older kids, but you keep grade school going, because evidence so far suggests that younger children are not a major cause of transmission for the novel coronavirus."
Trump ridiculed for suggesting disinfectant as Covid-19 cure
Years ago, my wife ordered it in a restaurant in Luzerne. They served it in a little metal bucket. She said it was very good.
This is a fair point. I think earlier versions did try to explain what NBD is but they were a bit wordy, and just expanding NBD was deemed sufficient. Next time I'll see if I can get that better.

Of course there's a level beyond which you don't really need to go - I wouldn't suggest explaining what Linux is or what software is.
How long until black hat SEO elevates the wrong numbers? If you search for Apple support, you already get ads for sketchy people in India that look like regular Apple support.
Does the Xubuntu 20.04 installer has ZFS install option as well?
I think otherwise.

https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/DemographicProfiles/Pyr...
A 'cargo clean' every once in a while helps
Stupid question but could Rust skip monomorphization during development builds and use dynamic dispatch? I heard generics were often to blame for slow builds.
WhatsApp Destroyed a Village
Personally I think OS X peaked in 2010, and the keyboard debacle sealed the deal for leaving. But fair enough.

The terminal you'll be using is Windows Terminal. It's good, and has a lot of attention from Microsoft.

What language are you coding in?

Personally a Surface Book 3, non Alcantara is the best dev machine. They all have great keyboards though. If you want to save money Surface Laptop 2 is on sale.
> It’s also okay to take risks. Staying at a company that’s slowly dying has its costs too. Stick around too long and you’ll lose your belief that you can build, that change is possible. Try not to learn the wrong habits.

I love this. I recently decided to move towards quitting at a job that is slowly dying and find something else to do. My mood immediately lightened, even though nothing except my mental direction has changed. I don't want to let cynicism seep into me; I want to find something I'm excited about.
0.9^9
So Ubuntu is also a Toy project because it's fully at Ubuntu's whims?
Counterpoint: Aristotle's life is widely documented, having been born in the small ancient city of Stagira, and famously taught Alexander the Great.
Gas grills make good-tasting toast and they're less problemmatic to do cheese toasties in than a toaster... .
Those fees are for everyone's safety. If other people have deliveries, I'm less likely to get sick and die.

Delivery fees should be part of the stimulus.

If everyone who can afford them paid delivery fees for everyone who can't, we'd all come out way ahead, both health-wise and economically. This is one of the biggest economic no-brainers since some states started making everyone wear a $2 cloth face mask to reduce R0.
The general evidence for washing hands as an effective counter-measure is very very strong. It is a complete no-brainer, while decisions regarding face masks are complex and have to take into account lots of variables.
Show HN: Java Solitaire Game University Project
Why exactly should we care about wealthy borrowers at this point, when millions of people are losing their jobs/health insurance...? So what if they get told no - it is not like they are living in a 500 sq ft apartment anyway
But here we are reading it on a general tech news site.
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I’ll see some YouTube videos about Microsoft terminal. If the new Ryzen CPU is in the latest surface laptops I think my mind will definitive made up.
This is one of the most useful posts ever to grace the front page.
P(simultaneously within middle 50 % of n independent distributions) = 0.5^n = 2^(-n), like my parent comment says.

But interestingly, every relevant comment here either got something wrong about the final frequency or percentage, or corrected the wrong thing. (Parent comment, grandparent, 2 aunts and 1 cousin.)

0.5^10 = 2^-10 = 1/(2^10) = 1/1024 [i.e. exactly 1 person per 1024] ~= 0.00097656 ~= 0.09766 %.
Kurtis Baute and Adam Levy: Living with Climate Grief
Are people using values to mean interests? I need to share some interests: sports, beer, model building, architecture etc...

Values though? I can't see that being the norm unless your shared interest is politics, religion, or social order/dynamics.
Can your code work on AWS Lambda with one of their DB services? If you need it to scale with growth starting on a cloud platform will save headache later. If you don't need scaling it's possible you could run it on the permanently-free tiers or very low cost once you utilize the free quotas each month.
People shouldn't get paid in tips. The fees should go up to cover cost-of-living and hazard pay, or at least until there are enough shoppers to cover demand.

I should be able to get reliable orders with $0 tip. I shouldn't pay less, and people shouldn't get paid less; it should go into the fee.

If it is a tip, I should have control. One shopper got me the wrong bag of food. If tips are there, tips are intended to manage that, not to bribe someone into taking an order.
It gets a bit awkward there because the interest return is afaik taxed as it is earned through income taxes while the gold return is capital and taxed at sale.

I know in Australia if you are looking for wealth preservation it is a hands-down win for gold but I don't know enough about the US tax system to comment on what would happen. I suspect the returns are a lot less rosy and it turns out most of the real wealth ends up being transferred to the government.
It definitely counts, it’s changed so much from cryengine 1 and, as you say, plenty of the other engines are based on earlier engines.
Effect of Alert Level on Effective Reproduction Number (Reff) Covid-19 [pdf]
> The hardest part is having to wait 11 hours to eat it!

That's mostly a matter of perspective. You have to plan your Pizza a day ahead, but making the dough on the day before and putting it into the fridge doesn't feel as bad as waiting with a hungry stomach before food is served :-)
Client framework for consuming JSONAPI services
Hello HN!

I was looking through my older Github repos and found this Solitaire game I made as an university assignment a while ago. I tested the game and it still runs fine.

I also changed the license to MIT. Maybe it's useful for someone in any way. :)
From the Microsoft website: “The telemetry reporting can be disabled by setting the environment variable POWERSHELL_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT to true, yes, or 1. This should not be done in your profile, as PowerShell reads this value from your system before executing your profile.”
An experiment with type-erased datastructures
There's a kind of snobby attitude at play here sometimes I think, as in: 'of course I wouldn't socialise with my colleagues outside work! They are nowhere near as interesting as me and my super-awesome, quirky and unique bunch of mates, I'm just slumming it for the money'.
> Nicotine may be suggested as a potential preventive agent against Covid-19 infection. Both the epidemiological/clinical evidence and the in silico findings may suggest that Covid-19 infection is a nAChR disease that could be prevented and may be controlled by nicotine.

> One should not forget that nicotine is a drug of abuse [55] responsible for smoking addiction. Smoking has severe pathological consequences and remains a serious danger for health. Yet under controlled settings, Nicotinic agents could provide an efficient treatment for an acute infection such as Covid-19.
That does not seem much worse than using NYT for example.
>I’d love to try this variety!

It sounds like a telephone game re-telling of these:
https://www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/tomatoes/heirloom-tom...

They aren't really anything special, you probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference between them and amish paste or san marzano in a taste test.
A new iOS text bug is again crashing iPhones
Don't get me started on buying "American" ketchup.

When I was 10 and overseas and could only find 'American ketchup' aka spilva (think red tomato sauce and sugar), I and my family by happenstance bought three bottles of Heinz ketchup from a Chili's Picca in downtown Riga, after stopping there to eat dinner in defeat, having shopped for real ketchup all day and come up empty.

I suspect by now that there are several grocery stores in Riga with Heinz brand ketchup, but at the time, there were none that we could find.
I was only looking at the graphs for all ages.

EDIT: Ah OK, I see what you're saying. Yes, my statement that the cumulative graph is defined to be monotonically non-decreasing was indeed incorrect because it assumes that excess mortality itself is non-negative, which is not the case (total mortality would be non-negative though). Still for the cumulative graph to decrease the weekly excess mortality would have to go into negative territory, which is far from the case for the "all ages" group.
Frankly my reply was just rhetoric, and I don't like the suggestion of explaining the base of things in release notes. If someone is interested enough they would care to look it up. Those who are not interested would skip the notes anyways.

Release notes are usually for people who are already using it.
You can take payments powered by Apple or Google on websites. The UX is quite similar for the user.
> I've never seen anyone be consistent in their kneejerk cries of "but free speech!"
You are not looking hard enough then.
They are converted to bool in bool context. Outside of that you have to force it.

int countNonZero = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < values.size(); ++i) {
countNonZero += !!values[i];
}

Also c++ has explicit operator bool();

edit: not a great example as values[1] >0 would be better.