skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've also heard that large investors are much more cautious about doing large deals right now. I think with all the uncertainty with Covid-19 would mean a major acquisition would be unpredictable.
iOS 13.5 Makes It Easier to Unlock an iPhone with Passcode When Wearing a Mask
Useful marketing tools you've probably never heard of
You should look in to private equity firms if you're so eager to lay people off.
I'd love to know why downvoters disagree, if you start a competition between companies where some companies have better technology, state help or finance and put them against companies who don't have all that, yes big companies are more likely to become bigger if you combine the market where all these companies operate.
Interesting... It has gotten a lot better over the past few years. The Google issue is not a deal-breaker for me, want to move away from GMail/Calendar for my personal account anyway.

Will probably try to make the switch again at some point.
> If there's a notion that a company will be worth more in the future and will either pay out a nice dividend or can be later sold at a profit, shares of that company will be in demand and the price will go up.

Or if they are sure the FED will keep it from falling
AmE speaker here. I have never heard anyone use "spot out" as a verb, but on the other hand, prepositions seem to pretty frequently attach themselves to new verbs or drop from common phrases. It still bugs me a little to hear colleagues talking about "building out" a new feature instead of simply building it, for example.
This is not finding people, is massively tracking people, without a jury order. Is a fishing trip.

Policemen do not need this apps. There are several police agents in each village, the 95% of the territory could be covered in a weekend just paying a visit to the five local hotels in the city, all at the same time. For bigger cities it would just take more time but is not an unfeasible task. Secret police could just book as travelling salesmen in any place of interest and silently comb the place for hours registering each crack in the tiles and each stain in the wooden floor.

As most hotels buy in mass furniture, pictures and machines, a combination of common objects will appear in all rooms. To make a database covering the 98% of hotels opened to public would not take more than two years probably, specially if they forget about pictures on the wall and focuse in rarely changing furniture or machines. To cross the database with vendors of some air conditioner model is not an unreachable goal. To estimate the area max of a room (or the size of a bed) in a photo showing a crime, can be done as long as you have enough pictures in the video. Tiles came in standard sizes. Maybe even a IA machine could be developped to search for a crack with the form of a particular broken polyline in the filtered results. Maybe police has it yet since 10 years ago... I don't know.

And there is facebook also to achieve a finer grain definition in particular areas.

Therefore the only thing new that the app adds to the equation is "you". You and the aspect of your room when you were using it.

The app is just an excuse to lure people into agreeing to be tracked, (maybe hoping that they forget about it later?). Moreover, to be tracked unnecessarily (it would only take a further visit to the place of interest to confirm the info, as I said. Policemen visit hotels in their area routinely).

But this info and agreeing can bite hard later the user in many unpredictable ways of course. For users is a "loser" situation.
> not needing to communicate

sighhhhhhhhh

API documentation is a medium of communication as much as any user interface.

If you don't keep this in mind, then using your service's application programming interface will be a bad experience.
Stimulus money flowing into assets and supporting their prices. i.e. The Cantillon Effect.
If it's an ultralight, why do you need an ICE? All of this will add weight and impede your ability to glide.
H2 can be stored as a liquid, it’s more difficult.
Check out AeroDelft who are building a liquid hydrogen plane: https://aerodelft.nl/
You could just as easily say that 0.000…54234 can be written as 1/∞. Surreal Numbers is a bit of a detour in this case. The premise of the idea that 1 - 0.999… could be written 0.000…1 is the mistaken concept that there is some point "after an infinite number of steps" where the expansion of 0.999… stops and you can leave the remaining 1. The expansion never stops and there is no final remainder. The result is 0.000…, which is more typically written as 0. Plain zero, not an infinitesimal.

Personally I find the following algebraic proof to be the most approachable:

x = 0.999…
x = 0.9 + 0.0999…
x = 0.9 + (0.999… ÷ 10)
x = 0.9 + (x ÷ 10)
x - 0.9 = x ÷ 10
10x - 9 = x
9x - 9 = 0
9x = 9
x = 1
0.999… = 1
Sure, what I mean is you'd never use a React.Component like you would a class in Java or another OO language. You never instantiate it, pass instances of it around, or call any of its public methods. It serves just as a container for some functions and provides a binding for `this`. Dealing with `this` caused things like componentWillRecieveProps to be buggy so hooks allow you to use a function as the container and remove the need to reference `this`. The move from classes to functions was not a paradigm shift just a different implementation of the same approach.
Node.js – v14.1.0
Law of Demeter!

That idea had a lot of influence from Smalltalk, where the natural way of developing was in a monolith. So tactics like that which are about decoupling by default were a good idea in that context.

https://wiki.c2.com/?LawOfDemeter
Lufthansa: Where fuel surcharges don't match up with reality.
Basically all the issues of the Max come down to the pilot certification issue: the shared "type rating" with the prior 737s. That's why they needed to make the necessary changes to fit bigger engines on the old design, why they added MCAS to basically "simulate" more similar handling in some situations, and why they made so many decisions to downplay the existence of the system or offer new indicators or controls.

The whole business case for the Max was to fend off the A320neo, and if airlines were going to have to retrain pilots, that's one less reason for legacy customers to stay.
Toy Story 2 files wiped by accident, restored thanks to work-from-home employee
You are more than welcome to email me. I'm very short of sleep, so nothing is occurring to me as something more I want to say, but I'm happy to reply to you about your thoughts on the topic and engage in further discussion.

Cheers.
Better still with an electric motor you have more options for motor placement. You don't have a big fat engine that has to be placed in the front[1]. The batteries don't have to sit in the wings, they can theoretically sit at the bottom of the plane making weight easier to manage.

You also get more options for blade types. Like ducted fans.

In short, your plane doesn't have to be designed around a fat gasoline engine and tanks. There's still constraints, but you get much more creative freedom.

I expect when we see planes designed around the motor/batteries we'll see aerodynamics get electric planes into GA territory.

EDIT: aerodynamic efficiencies.
[1] Yes there's that tractor/pusher Cessna, no one liked it.
To OP's point of "features are more complicated than they appear" I always like to point to the flowchart of Slack's notification logic.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6ROe0mU0AEmpzz?format=jpg
Boeing was negotiating with gov to drop the equity requirement - does anyone know what the upshot was? They also did take money from other programs targeted at Airline industry, though I don't know exactly how much.
Isn't fiddler intended to be used to capture requests sent from already running apps and not to make standalone requests to APIs? Additionally it is not multi-platform as far as I know, you can only run it on Windows machines.
Perhaps its time to go back to basics. A focus on health, store-able foods, alternative investments which might survive bond/stock market issues, and family would be imperative in such a "new normal."

Vaccination certificates and debt forgiveness incoming? Who knows anymore - what harm is there in being ready?
I would find it hilarious to throw a QA team at one of those weekend builds.
At least in my little bubble at Boeing, a large fraction of us are union employees, and our union contract stipulates that involuntary layoffs also provide the same severance benefit (1 week per year of service, capped at 26 weeks). The medical coverage may be different, I'd have to refer back to our contract to see.
Just want to remind everyone to be consistent. President Trump touted Remdisivir while it was not approved for treating C19 and had no clinical trials.
I entered into the discussion with the context that Uber slashed local taxi market prices to a fraction of what they were previously so that might be where we had different assumptions. I'm saying that even if Uber turns anti-consumer, the situation can hardly get worse than it was so it is probably a consumer win.
Doom Eternal Review (Techstomper)
Can you make "Budget" multi-select checkboxes instead of radio buttons?
Thank you for this. My college French classes were long ago and far away and my knowledge of French is quite limited.
What bothers me more than anything else is the unpredictability of it all. We don't know how this thing will pan out. There is way too much conflicting data about it. Will it burn out and mutate into less lethal strains? Will we get it in the waves? Will it be a seasonal thing we have to live with? Will there be a cure or better, a vaccine? Or will it be like the common cold with no vaccine?.

We don't know. And without that knowledge, you can't plan for the future. I wouldn't want to invest money into any business right now. Who knows what shape we will be in in 12 months time?
I read this as another step by Boeing to get rid of its unionized workforce in Washington in favor of plants in other states and in China. The market downturn provides a nice rationale for doing so.
,,Preliminary results indicate that patients who received remdesivir had a 31% faster time to recovery than those who received placebo (p<0.001)."

This sentence doesn't make any sense. They should have at least published a 95% confidence interval in the difference or ratio between time to recovery.
Better stay inside, the outdoors are bathed in a torrent of EM radiation from around sunrise to sunset, every day.

In fact, the other people in your home are bathing you in infrared radiation when you're near them.
Nobody uses React that way.

Hi. I make complicated web UIs. I call React that way sometimes, because sometimes you don't want your entire UI to be one big React component.
It's about average for salaried office workers in the US, but probably pretty good for their South Carolina laborers (where only about 2% of Boeing employees are unionized).

Boeing has factories in multiple states and in the US labor law and employment contracts vary based on state laws and labor union presence.
Vint Cerf – Interplanetary Internet (2011)
Ahh yes, making a joke in a meeting title to make fun of the employees that are about to be fired. A comedy classic.
Should have done lyft eats
Possibly related: Word used to have a note taking mode that allowed you to have an audio recording synced with your document such that audio could be played back from the point in time at which the line was written to help with transcription and such: does LibreOffice or an alternative to that exist? I don't have as much use for it now that I'm no longer a student, but it was a huge help in school.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#Disputed

"Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.
"I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew — at least they claimed to be Communists — couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves."
I'm not sure what exactly is meant by BAAS (I get backend as a service... but that seems quite vague to me). I don't have experience with firebase, but I have used serverless on AWS API Gateway / Lambda with AWS Cognito for auth and dynamodb as a backend database. While the raw hosting cost is more expensive I assume than if I were to roll my own docker/kubernetes/elasticbeanstalk/etc solution, it scales without me worrying about it and the the extra time it gives me can be invested elsewhere. I believe that extra time has given me--as an indiehacker--a significant advantage over other, larger, competitors.

My experience with managing servers, doing deployments by hand, setting up automated deployments has been 100% not enjoyable. So I prefer to pay AWS to handle as much of that as possible for me.
I always thought Big 4 was because they were basically the top 4 biggest market cap companies in the US
Which fails to explain why the stock market was cratering in March.

The reason that it's up now is because the Fed printed 6 trillion dollars, and is spending it at the financial markets.
That would be quite amazing if it was possible to find such a document. I'd still want to know why the court accepted it, though... But I'd enjoy finding a rogue letter like that more than a "valid" one... Unfortunately I doubt we'll ever know.
Thank you so much for that attitude and I have to add: I'd definetely spend money on a license if there a pro/everyday-user features that make it worth it, while having a free version so that others in the team can still collaborate and use my output/exports. I'd often find it hard to convince teams or new users with which I collaborate to convince to spend money on a tool upfront just so they can collab with me. But if its only additional/pro features, that won't be an issue.

I gave the designer a quick try and it seems there are issues with importing OAS 3/yaml APIs making heavy use of $ref and multiple files, but I will dig deeper into this in the next days and open a bug report if needed.
How very droll. Most of your COBOL gigs are with insurance companies, local.gov, and banks. OP's dad is going to have a hard time even getting an interview with outfits like that.
GP referred to the prestige as a workplace for SWEs and not to the viability of a business.
Fossil of Gondwanan 'Crazy Beast' from 66M Years Ago Discovered in Madagascar
A big part of the challenge of many of those other things is that, they're not "fun", the way coding is. Well, they can be, but programming is a job that is regularly enjoyable, and that's something rare.

I told myself for years that it would be "easy" to quit smoking, and in the end, it actually was. The hard part is that it just plain isn't fun. In a funny way, quitting smoking gave me more empathy for nontechnical work.
The issue with statistical significance is that it might have a strong effect in some people and no effect in most people and statistical significance cant detect that.

For example, statistically chocolate doesnt cause acne. Yet I 100% get acne from chocolate.

There is enough variance in people that many things that work anecdotally cannot be proven statistically.
Or the big one. An extended family around help out.
I don't own a car, and use one less that once a month on average. Somewhere around half the folks who bring me food don't use cars to deliver, either.

But I'm certain you walk literally everywhere you go, wear only second-hand clothes, avoid buying necessities with packaging or that has to be transported far, don't use disposable paper products, compost everything you can, and so on, right?

Because surely only the environmentally saintly would feel entitled to off-topic carp about trivial energy use when they don't know anything about the lifestyle of the person they're trying to call out.
> but far too often we focus on formal, legal means of compelling the super wealthy to part with their money, such as through taxes that are easily avoided.

Taxes are easily avoided only because they're designed to be easily avoidable. Simplifying[1] the tax code costs a lot of political capital due to entrenched interests but is technically trivial - ask a seven year old to design a fair tax system and it'd be less of a trainwreck than ours.

Deductible expenses need to be significantly curtailed and capped and alternative minimums could be introduced to be a stop-gap against any loop holes that were missed. Then you just start playing whack-a-mole with various tax credits to cut out targeted and unjust programs like child-credits and mortgage relief.

1. Actually doing this, not just granting a bunch of money to corporations like the GOP did.
Pokémon: Reflections from a Gen 1 Native
I haven't read the full study, so I don't know whether those have been addressed, but judging from the summary, it may not have been a consideration. I've heard of a few other studies recently where this was completely overlooked; they pick patients who are the most severe and give them the drugs.

Antiviral drugs won't reverse damage that's already done.
It's possible if you're like my friend whose job was to drive all around Europe hauling specialised parts for construction equipment, sometimes doing 2k km in a single day.

I think he did 60k km (37.5k miles) during the first year, but you couldn't tell that from the shape the car was in, since he cared for both the exterior and interior.

The only thing that showed any visible signs of aging were the windshield wipers - he had so much on his plate that he couldn't squeeze out a few minutes to refresh them.
Coronavirus pandemic reshapes Bay Area shopping habits
Not worthless, but trivially easy, to be fair to the misguided folks I've worked with in the past.
Why does a tech company want to get into taxis?

They might as well buy a cheese company that is in financial trouble.
I don't think it's because top are lotting, more like people at top have bigger leverage. But in all, all people are equally likely to loot if the places were changed.
That's if you assume there is no publication bias and there is no upvote bias.
Eh... you really shouldn't get a big hang/freeze if you're just talking about inserting 1000 nodes into the DOM. It's not going to be fast enough that you can do it at 60fps, but that's not the point of the DOM -- 60fps insertion is not something we care about.

I mean, yes, some of this is dependent on CSS. If you're doing complex rendering, or doing something strange with your fonts. I'm not going to make absolute claims about performance in every case, and different people have different interactions and requirements they're dealing with. There's caveats.

However, if someone comes to me and says, "I put 1000 DOM nodes into the browser and my page froze", I might not immediately make strong claims about the application, but I am going to immediately start looking around the codebase suspiciously to see if they're doing something strange or abnormal.

The current HN page you're on right now has ~2500 DOM nodes. Does it freeze for you when you load the page?

People complain a lot about DOM insertion, but while DOM insertion does sometimes cause problems, I've found it's more often that the problems happened before the insertion. At the point where DOM insertion actually becomes a problem, I suspect we're usually no longer talking about lists of 1000 simple table elements, or just putting 100 search results on a single page.
> Capitalism sort of implies competition...

Actually, I don't think it does:

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/capitalism:

> An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

A privately-owned monopoly that ruthlessly crushes all competition is just as capitalistic as a privately-owned competitor in a market with perfect competition. The key concept is private ownership and control, not competition. Competition is is only required if you want the resulting system to have some positive externalities for consumers and society at large.
Real questions. I'm not a history buff.

Has there ever been a time in US history that the federal government has been so openly antagonistic and overtly willing to attack opposite-party state governments? If so, what were the outcomes? If not, is there anything even close?

Current question - what is the endgame for those who what blue states to go bankrupt? What do they get if that happens, outside of talking points? I assume they profit off of it (because that's the reason anyone does anything that I can tell), but how?
You know, my 'white privilege' have me SOOOO much more opportunities than my black afro-russian compatriots ever had in Russia. :-/

Jokes aside, I believe my parents income in 1993 was less than 10% of the poorest non-white guy in the US. So your 'white guy' accusation kinda lands flat.
> If people who shouldn't have political power gain it by listening to the neglected, the proper course of action isn't to denigrate the people.

He didn't get it by listening to the neglected. He got it by spending money. The protests in my city, like in most places, were primarily people saying "I want people to work for me!" and not "I want to work!". Also had some confederate flags thrown in, because why not.

> Take back that power by listening.

If I were to listen, I would hear that people don't want to be forced to choose between survival and health.
Yeah, the civil war.
Yeah, as I've heard it described from other private pilots is that you should never have a hard requirement be in place X at Y time.

In other words you should always be willing(and able) to cancel a flight under any circumstances or areas of caution.
Exception triage often requires examining the stack regardless— even if you have multiple processes, you're still going to have errors bubbling up from your pool of shared library code.
We did this, but on the trip back we made some major improvements.

We didnt stop at monolithic service. We stopped at monolithic repository+organization. There is now 1 VS2019 solution that covers our entire business. All of our services can be built out from this one solution via various configurations. We've even created additional solution "views" for more focused work (i.e. so you don't have to load a bunch of projects you don't care about for a specific task).

At this point, if we ran into scalability issues with a monorepo, I'd start looking for better source control/CI/CD technologies rather than splitting things up in hopes of arbitrarily keeping git viable. The benefits of having all of your source code in 1 repository with strongly-typed models throughout are impossible to overstate. When checkbuilds complete successfully in GitHub, we know the entire business is clean. Not just 1 little aspect of the product stack.