skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are great questions. When I look at religious institutions (I'm thinking of the Catholic church, or the LDS church that I grew up in) there are formal ways to achieve absolution. I wonder if we need a secular version of that, other than "prison time"? (And even "prison time" typically carries life-long stigma, rather than absolution).
> That would be a sad indictment of our society if true.

You say that like it's evidence against (rather than for) it being true.
Laura (https://twitter.com/carlsonlaura64) hosted the "Ag of the World" twitter account (27k followers; https://twitter.com/AGofTheWorld) for the past week, and there was a lot of demand on Twitter for her to upload her videos to YouTube.

So you could say that the market was already primed to receive the product :)
But isn’t that what people said of the National Highway System? That it wasn’t feasible? And yet here we are almost half a century later...
I worked at walmart labs for 3 years and that is correct. We had one, on premise, service that phoned home for license information to an AWS address and our request to whitelist the ip address had to go up to the CTO.
I've seen this same method used on multiples apps I've requested an account deletion on. It's super frustrating. Most companies either don't respond back, say they deleted it when they merely disabled it, or they updated the account name to something else.
Obviously saying it is not obviously true is false if 0.999... == 1.0
Printers have done this for decades
>It's also arguable that the central government is responsible for the coverup activities by the Wuhan officials, because they're the ones who've created and sustained the system those local officials operate in.

I like this line of thinking, I think it better reflects reality then the often heard knee-jerk reaction assuming that China is an evil monolith.

I wonder sometimes why I bristle at the comments painting China as an evil monolith. They probably do the same to us. Both systems have their own ways of enriching and defending those in power.

Perhaps it is because I don't like to blame others for our problems? The US bungled tests, was late to quarantine, the feds were contradicting states, states were contradicting cities, hospitals muzzled health care workers, etc. None of that really has anything to do with China. It comes across to me as propaganda to blame them for all that!
> I think, unfortunately, the definition of decent in this case is viewed as luxury. Most specifically the concept that everyone should be able to own a house within a reasonable commute of work in a desirable location.

A house or a place to live? There's not enough physical land adjacent to places of business for each person who wants one to own a single-family home. They're an awfully inefficient use of space -- see the entire western half of San Francisco.

> This cannot happen while also respecting the idea of properties as investments...

Property can't be affordable and a good investment. Those two are mutually exclusive. An investment goes up relative to inflation. Affordability by definition goes down relative to inflation. You can't have something that goes up as it goes down.

> ...the wealthy wanting to be able to purchase disproportionately large places in multiple desirable locations...

You can, if you do something along the lines of what Singapore does with the HDB. Some 90% of Singaporeans live in government homes built by the HDB, and the remaining 10% is available to the wealthy to play.

> ...and the idea that so many people may desire to live in a city that the city cannot possibly take them all.

They city can absolutely take them all if you allow building up. There's no excuse for down-town San Francisco north of market limiting buildings to 6 stories when downtown Hong Kong has 118 story buildings.
Those aren’t different real numbers. That’s the whole point of the conversation.
The poor British government, forced by its accountability to the public not to turn children into vectors that would kill their families?
That is probably true though.
naming scheme referenced in a prior post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23010877
Heck, if you use Twitter a lot you've probably seen the return of the failwhale over the past several months: https://imgur.com/a/p6mYfIw
Doesn't Bitcoin need miners in order to continue to exist? Why would it possibly make sense to drive the reward for mining down to 0 asymptotically? At the end of that curve, doesn't Bitcoin cease to exist because it can't be spent?
My guess is because many employers had contracts with them and if you're using it at work, it's likely your go-to for leisure at least if you don't know any better about other options.

It bothers me that people are willing to jump to use their company license of zoom for personal gatherings. I have no idea if it's possible but what if a license holding company, whose employees are utilizing their zoom account, can record any sessions in use by the account?

Even if it's not possible, I hate mixing my personal life with work, and when I see the opportunity I always bring up Jitsi as an option over Zoom.
They are not alone in this practice. I still receive emails from sitepoint to my email (As recently as March 10th), and the user name finishes in _DELETED (Not kidding).
Thanks! And that makes complete sense - even for a company with that scale and budget, there's some fights not worth fighting when you can get back to doing what you do well and let someone else deal with the stuff you'd have to spend a bunch of effort getting good at.
How close will this be to being able to resolve starspots on something other than our sun?
> It is a blindness

It's very much not a blindness. They just look out for n.1 first and foremost; everything else is a philosophical veneer to justify their instincts.
Miners also receive transaction fees.
Thanks! For your question, check out Open Drone Map, which is an open source toolkit for doing just that:

https://www.opendronemap.org

I also provide instructions in my (free and open source!) masterclass on how to take LIDAR data from cities and build 3D surface models that includes buildings:

Github Course Materials:

https://github.com/tylermorganwall/MusaMasterclass
Amazon.de delivers to the Netherlands and Poland, for example. They offer Prime for the Netherlands too. And you can set language to English.

No Amazon would mean I’d have to use comparison sites, make a bunch of accounts on different websites, pay for shipping each time, and make more orders in total. I’m beyond happy that Amazon.de works perfectly for Poland. I see almost no upside to the alternative.
This reminds me of the final sentence from Tragedy and Hope, the 1000-page history of the first half of the 20th century by the late Carroll Quigley:

“Some things we clearly do not yet know, including the most important of all, which is how to bring up children to form them into mature, responsible adults, but on the whole we do know now, as we have already shown, that we can avoid continuing the horrors of 1914-1945, and on that basis alone we may be optimistic over our ability to go back to the tradition of our Western society and to resume its development along its old patterns of Inclusive Diversity.”
When you see an Elvis impersonator, do you think it is Elvis? Probably not. Elvis is dead.

If you heard an Elvis song in the background of an advertisement, would you assume it is actually Elvis? Probably, unless the ad was featuring impersonators.
Wow, that is an impressive rant.

>Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison

That is just brilliant comedy. :)
Spotify. The Mac desktop app often stops being able to play songs until you can restart the app, an issue they've been aware of for months if not a year. The catalogue is an absolute mess and there's no way to report metadata issues, or transparency about which editions records are based on.

But it syncs nicely with my phone, lets me download songs for listening on planes, and has decent little features like discovery playlists.
Many more on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/AGofTheWorld/status/1252965311269273602
> I recall that when processed meats including bacon were classified as carcinogens, people basically said "screw that, it's bacon for crying out loud." I'm not sure to what extent they were joking.

I love bacon. I know it's unhealthy. I still eat it.

You seem to be coming from a perspective where the only goal is to maximize life. But that's not how people operate. People are trying to maximize living.

I could probably live to 110 if I ate nothing but tofu and mineral water and lived in a sanitized bubble. But would I even want to?

I don't want to make choices so unhealthy that they significantly impact the quality and length of my life. But I sure as hell want to pack as many experiences as I can before I reach that point. Some of those experiences are going to take their toll on my body. That's the price you pay for living and for many experiences, the price is worth it.

Personally, I don't think it is for cigarettes. (And, in particular, it is certainly not fair to make people in the vicinity of smokers pay that price.) But many people love the sensation of smoking. I do think it's worth the price to have some bacon with breakfast and a whiskey nightcap before bed.

> I feel like if there was data stating every potato chip took X seconds off my lifespan it would be easier to deny myself from buying them by looking through the items at the supermarket and being able to think "17 minutes, 22 minutes."

You are describing a dystopian nightmare. Can you imagine this applied to every choice you make? You see a cute person on the other end of the bar and a little chat bubble appears in your personal heads-up-display "They will break up with you two years after you begin dating." You look at a cute puppy at a shelter. "She will die young of congenital heart disease."
From what I understand, covid is a relatively small rna strand vs e.g. the flu which makes significant mutation way more rare
ok, but supply of PPE and ventilators to medical workers mainly concerns treatment rather than transmission.

stay-at-home and physical distancing primarily concern transmission.

we want to control transmission to reduce death and suffering, not eliminate them. even with dystopian and draconian measures (not to mention economy-destroying), reducing death and suffering to zero is effectively impossible (and seasonal recurrence is highly likely). moreover, the US is simply not designed, for good reason, to willingly tolerate such measures.

life is full of (similarly likely) risks, and we don't generally panic over them. if this were plague-levels of bad, more draconian measures might be warranted, but this isn't that.

sub-linear transmission is likely the best we can do.

with that in mind, physical distancing (combined with other carefully targeted guidelines like quarantining the sick and having workers wear masks) doesn't need to be perfect to be effective at reducing transmission to sub-linear levels. people who are likely to cough for any reason are already highly discouraged from going out, and most people in public are already hyper-aware of not coughing openly, especially not into each other's mouths.

stay-at-home doesn't meaningfully decrease the risk further, but it's a huge risk to social order.
Learn how to create custom React hooks by example
Processing the carcass after the animal has been killed is very labour intensive and you need to have the skill and the demeanor for that kind of job.

You are not going to send in the national guard to man these plants if the workers get sick or walk off the job.
Short version: Bitcoin block reward halves every 4 years. Next halving is this May. Much speculation over whether the price will go up or down. Profits to miners decrease 50% if price stays the same.
I'd interpret it as being free to use for individual teachers, but if the school integrates it into their standard curriculum, then they've gotta pay.
For me the answer is “no”. I can’t do video learning without getting distracted quickly.
I doubt it.

Sure, I’m sure there were complaints about the costs, but the value of a massive road network has been known for millennia.

Spending a trillion ripping up a perfectly good road network in order to try out a new technology that’ll generate profits for a small number of companies is an insane plan, and genuinely might not work.
Charter schools seem like the best opportunity to vet this style/evolution of education.

There are sure to be holes, like does this lead to treating the in person teacher as a commodity and reducing the value of that in person time?

But definitely this is a time for disruption in this space.
Can't speak for the poster, but for myself it's much easier to pay attention and be present when I have a bit of a push through the simple desire to appear engaged. Otherwise it's easier to zone out.
Video and audio quality in hangouts is terrible, it also doesn’t support gallery view so groups larger than 2 are a lot worse than zoom for that reason alone.

You also do need gmail, an app, and to have it enabled.

Zoom is in a class of its own in terms of actual call quality and UX, it’s a lot better.
a - b certainly isn't counterintuitive to read, and neither is max-pos - cur-pos.
Will the establishments then turn away from Macron next election, when they can put up more formidable candidates? My American birds-eye view is that Macron is not very popular.
I agree.

Source - hopped around 6 poor schools
When you get on the SF portion of the 101 you used to be able to see their hiring billboard with living in Pittsburgh as a plus. I wonder how how much of their being able to fly under the radar is due to their location.
Businesses are people. They're just groups of people selling shit to other people, who likely do the same. Consumers are leaf nodes in this graph, so every business that dies due to lack of consumer demand could mean a dozen more are going to fall as a result.

Businesses failing == people poorer
> What's so lucrative in running a warehouse that packages shipments to people?

I had to check the definition of lucrative to make sure I wasn’t missing anything, but it seems to be both something that generates wealth and/or something that generates profit. There can be no question that amazon generates wealth. The company is now worth almost 1.2 trillion dollars [1], and the founder is now on paper the wealthiest man on earth.

The company also generates quite significant profits, after its initial long phase of investment in growth.

“Amazon annual net income for 2019 was $11.588B, a 15.04% increase from 2018.” [2]

Technically you asked what makes the business lucrative, not whether or not it is in fact lucrative. Well I am not qualified to articulate why the business is lucrative but with 11.5B in net income last year and a total value of 1.2 trillion, there is certainly no question that it is somehow quite lucrative.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/market...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-in...
"The Amazon rep told us that he had quotas to hit of new margin targets for us every quarter."

That is truly wtf.
From what I've heard, the top talent they are hiring are not being allowed to actually do anything useful. They are getting paid to be in the PR.

Maybe someone who actually works on Oracle cloud can jump in here and clarify.
No you wouldn't. You'd go to jail.
first times a tragedy (security), second times a farce
[Late reply -- forgot to hit the button. ;]

Thank you for the pointer and, more so, your contributions.

That screenshot of SICP in Emacs -- running side-by-side with the built-in Guile interpreter -- induces peculiar sensations. An echo of how things could've been and possibly still are in some obscure(d) corners of the Net. An interactive learning environment that at least points in the right direction. It certainly looks elegant and somewhat inspirational to me (though my inner Alan Kay is voicing some profound objections ;).

In any case: you carried that torch for a while, don't be hesitant accepting apparently undue credit -- there's too little, in any case, to warrant worry. ;)
Catch all addresses? If you self-host email (we do), you are able to catch email with typos etc with a catch all address
Do you both work?

I've seen parents try to work from home remotely, while also taking care of and schooling their kids, and it seems like a nightmare.
It doesn't actually try to undo anything, it just translates Wasm instructions 1:1 (they're in your link at lines 205-221). wasm-decompile does try to "undo" some thing, but it is generally impossible given LLVM's optimized output and how low-level Wasm is (see also article).
Composable https://composable.ai is another tool in this space
So... Amazon employees are forced to use Chime for chat. It's crap for that and the Chime team doesn't care, it's not what their external customers care about.

Also, it's gotten much much better in the last 2 years. By the time I left, it's video was handily better than any non-zoom video chat I've tried, and competitive with zoom.
Most programmers are completely oblivious to the world of sales and how large it is.
As someone who recently did the remote on-site via Chime, its stability left a lot to be desired. Audio dropped regularly and constant video freezes. It felt a little half-baked and dog-fooded internally and, by extension, externally to interviewees. Nearly every person who interviewed me also expressed some unhappiness with Chime as well. This is all anecdotal, of course.

It mostly just feels like a byproduct of not-built-here syndrome.
ask: I prefer this to dark theme why is it not popular?
What was the reason GOOG didn't have work from home before March?
It would be a good product.

To work well the schematics would have to be well-formed, there need be a chip database of pinouts, clocks, enables and address strapping, and Linux would need a dts schema (its ad-hoc now). Lots of spadework I guess.
I have an issue with the android app will it will randomly show as offline. This is a pain in the ass when I'm using my phone to play stuff on my desktop, pick a new song and it plays from my phone. The only way to fix it seems to restart the app and / or wait a little while
You're welcome. It has been fifteen years. I was trained as an electronics engineer. We mainly used that expression in EE starting with the first two years of common core (people who plan to do engineering - except CS-, maths, or physics go through two common core years where it's mostly physics/maths/chemistry/alloys/machining/materials strength, etc. and it is in that cohort that this was popular).
Here is a summary of IPFS white paper http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/02/paper-review-ipfs-c...

The improvements announced are substantial.
I also worked at a similar place, and fantasized about rewriting everything so that soft-deletion wasn't a per-row technical detail, but was instead an explicit modeled business-flow. Perhaps stored as a flag on an Aggregate Root (like "Customer" or "Project") at a much coarser level of detail. Sure, your queries still need to account for it, but at least you don't have a potential patchwork of inconsistent flags.

P.S.: Random advice to anybody working on enterprisey stuff:

1. "Deletion" is too vague and broad. I strongly suggest you call it "deactivation" and some other word like "purging."

2. Deactivation is typically what a company actually wants, even if they don't know to ask for it. By phrasing it that way you also encourage stakeholders to think about "reactivation" before it becomes an architectural problem.

3. True purging is rare, and tends to be related to either disk-space issues or legal requirements. In the latter case, you'll want an audit-trail or tombstone of some sort, meaning it's still a real workflow and not just an easy SQL DELETE statement or something.
Here's a list of companies/tools in the Git for Data space:

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-03-06-so-you-want-git-for-...
I think the stock to flow model is a little silly. S2F and price are both coincidentally exponential, it's like the old pirates vs global warming joke. That being said I do believe there's a chance the halvening isn't fully priced in since this will fundamentally disrupt the amount of sell volume.
This doesn't seem to narrow the interpretation very much to me besides noting that imitating a random, unrecognizable stranger off the street would be a different situation.
So, what you're saying is that teachers are trained professionals, and that school environments are engineered to be spaces for learning?

Shocking.

Perhaps teachers and schools don't suck as much as people thought ...
That’s not the same thing as using their customers’ data to compete against their customers.
Author here, thanks for the thoughtful reply!

> Perhaps Google is doing a decent job eliminating crap from their search results (debatable), but that’s not an outcome of a naive application of PageRank.

Is this actually the case? We don't have a good way to test it, but I believe that you wouldn't see the crappy articles I referred in the first N results even with vanilla PageRank (and for a very large N at that).

Keep in mind that my definition of fake news is pretty narrow here: it's "Pope Francis endorses Trump" rather than "Fox dismisses COVID-19 threat" or spin of that sort, which is probably what you meant by crap.

There will certainly be blind spots like the ones above, but my goal is to eliminate the most egregious miscreants and the method outlined will achieve that (well, we'll test it and see how it goes).
That seems like a big over simplification. Speaking for myself as someone who was very much an above-average student, I often thought I was following along fine in the lectures but then when I would go to solve a homework problem or answer a test question, only then would I realize I skipped over some important parts in my understanding. So even the best intentioned students are likely not in a position to diagnose their own understanding of the material, that's what tests and quizzes and homework are for.

And that's not even to mention, any of the students that know they aren't following along, but don't really care and would rather zone out/sit on their phone the whole lecture than get 1:1 help. Do you really expect most students will seek help for themselves?

Perhaps you could modify your plan and say that students who got lower than a B+ or something on a recent quiz are required to attend the breakout group to get help from the teacher, it's not up to them to self-select. But then you're back to... the status quo, that "breakout group" is just the regular classroom. You have one class for the advanced students to go through material quicker, and another class for everyone else. That's already the way many schools are structured.
if you think its nonsense get your logic circuits checked. India is closer geographically speaking. Their lock-down was extremely late in the game. The 5 days after NYC puts in context just how far late it was; I'm sorry you do not have the ability to see the importance of that.
Perhaps then it would make sense to shorten types in a smart way.
How hard is it to reactivate these planes?
You're still missing the point of what I'm saying.
The USA doesn't have philanthropy.

It has tax dodges where the wealthy can still control their capital, but with tax adantages.

You can always tell when you're talking to a rich American ...

The conversation invariably goes, "I don't mind paying taxes, as long as I can say what they're used for." That's not how it works, and they know it.
That says little about Amazon. There’s a pandemic.
Submarines Regularly Fight Off the Bahamas. Where Is the Russian Version?
as long as it works well on out of sample data at deployment time, it is okay.

Until some major data drift happens, but you would notoce it anyways
> most households need two working parents just to survive.

Only because we created a world where every household had two working parents.
Earn IT Act: Will the New Law Disrupt Encryption and Censor the Internet?