skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it makes sense. When you're small, you don't have a lot of power. If you create CodyStore tomorrow and do things I don't like, I'll just ignore you. When you become as large as Amazon, you start crowding out competition and so even if I don't like some of Amazon's actions, I have no choice - I end up doing business with them regardless of my personal feelings.

Plus, as you get bigger, you start looking at how you can marginally increase your growth. You go from "just make people happy" to "we could probably exclude a lot of low-margin items from Prime shipping and not see cancelations while improving our profits". You start trying to tie things together so that if people want one part of your experience, they need to accept other parts. You start trying to figure out how to optimize your labor cost, potentially in ways that aren't great for your workers. You start getting a lot of people that can improve the company in ways that aren't necessarily evil, but aren't exactly friendly. By this time, people don't really have an alternative.

I mean, a lot of people loved Walmart when it was new. It was this all-in-one store with great prices. Over time, competing businesses were crowded out of the market by Walmart and customers had less choice. It also meant that retail labor had less choice with Walmart becoming a greater percentage of the jobs. It also meant that businesses selling things like TVs had less choice and Walmart could pressure them.

I think power is ultimately pretty toxic. Amazon has succeeded in part because it's really good at what it does. However, another part of its success is the power it exerts on competitors, over labor, over suppliers, and over customers. Small companies just never have power to exert so they can never seem that unfriendly. Unfriendly small companies just cease to exist or at least can be ignored. Unfriendly large companies can use their power to force a lot of things to try and keep their throne.
> If we find that everyone who was infected with a particular deletion strain only had a mild case of COVID-19, then we have our candidate attenuated strain which could be used to accelerate vaccine development in a challenge trial.

Heavy emphasis on "candidate". How can you tell if people had a mild case because the virus had deletions or because they mounted an appropriate immune response? It's not clear that the vaccine will be protective.
It uses tag syntax, which regular JavaScript doesn’t at all. Browsers cannot parse it. These are meaningful differences.
Covid-19 Reveals
Mostly agree but Apple often cuts support by RAM capacity. iPhone 11 has 4GB but SE has 3GB. I expect 11 gets a bit longer support.
> My day job is working on charter cities, arguably the most quintessential act of institution building. Last fall I applied and had an interview at a prestigious accelerator. I told them the Charter Cities Institute helped draft regulations for Enyimba Economic City, a new city in Nigeria with a target population of 1.5m residents.

The idea that a city can 'target' a population is laughable and absolutely terrible. Honestly, I stopped reading right there.
about 15 years, just the one account. And I'm sure my account isn't much more than a roundoff error compared with most of their business.
In hypotheticals I would agree with you.
Yet, at the time of the writing of that article, the data from several countries regarding COVID 19 were in, and we have an indication on what metrics work to limit deaths.

We also see what we could have done to prevent and outbreak, China, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan seemed to be extremely prepared.

Germany followed the virologist, epidemiologist consensus (and is going now off track to open businesses again ... a lot of scientist believe too early).

We will see in the long run which approaches worked and which didn’t. Yet, calling for an opening of businesses (because we cannot be sure about the death rate), when none of the successful countries did that, is ethically dubious to me.
I must be broken because this is reasonably sensible to me. The boy was too naive and his life too austere to know fear, and thus was able to survive the night (and his other challenges). It wasn't until he knew what it was to have a warm bed, food and a wife that he was able to shudder with fear.
Interesting that you're getting your point of view from a book by Bezos. Regardless, people don't hate Amazon because they're big. They hate Amazon because they feel empathetic towards the thousands of workers who complain about the working conditions and how they're treated.
Many college towns and rental properties relying on student income will be devastated.
At what time? It could be any user you’ve been in contact with for two weeks.
Time Isn’t Money – It’s Inefficiency and Waste
Thanks for the feedback. The personal information (gender, birth year) is asked to refine the recommendations. So that you don't get recommended a child book if you're an adult for instance.

But it is not mandatory to submit the personal info, you could select "Prefer not to say" for those fields. Seems like that wasn't clear enough.

The first name, it's only asked so that I can write "Hi, [first name]" when you log in :)
I see, the javascript world usually it call the "persistent" data structure as "immutable" data structure
This is often the problem I see with people mixing up Wealth and Income. A person with $100K income could also have millions of wealth or asset from stocks to property. Jeff Bezos has most of this wealth from Stocks. And I am willing to bet $100 given the current market cap and PE or PEG, his resignation from the company and liquidations of his Amazon Asset will trigger a sell off that its value differs quite a lot to his current value.

Someone might as well set up a gaming site called How to Become A Billionaire. Simply paid the cheapest amount of money to set a a company somewhere, issues a billion shares and get someone to buy one share for a dollar.

While I do agree on the world in large has inequality problem. Focusing on the ultra rich doesn't fix it.
Persistent B-trees do seem like they'd work fine. You will have to copy whole blocks that get modified, but I don't think that should hurt much. I'm fairly curious how benchmarks will look compared to the usual choices (Haskell has what, finger trees and radix trees or something? And red-black or AVL have persistent implementations all over of course.)
iPhone SE: The One-Eyed King?
I’m 32 and got the most sick I’ve ever been in February. I had to go to the ER and they told me it was likely just the flu and bronchitis. My illness lasted over two weeks and I had many of the symptoms of Coronavirus. I got a Zithromax pack and that seemed to help more than anything. Also some anti-nausea chewables because without those I couldn’t even keep water down. It was the most scared I’ve ever been before it was just so intense and so long. I felt drained for weeks after.
About car buying: I think you missed his point. (Or else I'm missing your point.) He's not saying that his choice of car as not personal, he's saying (as would I) that the kind of car your "friends or colleagues" buy has nothing to do with the kind of car he (or I) buys.

Speaking for myself, I bought cars based on what I valued, which was often different from what friends and colleagues valued--which is exactly the meaning of "personal."
I sincerely doubt they did anything right.
Is this surprising? I'd expect the shelter-in-place to be extended until at least the end of the summer.
This is well known in the Austrian School. It's not that cheap money drives out good ideas, but it dilutes them, because cheap money allows bad ideas to persist - there is no Schumpeterian creative destruction.

The corollary is that average productivity declines, because inefficient zombie companies are still encouraged to walk the earth, which is exactly what we have seen since the GFC triggered money printing and artificially low interest rates. Of course, non-Austrian economists are perplexed, and create many spurious explanations, which is an ironic example of the ineffectiveness of (economic) research.

[The US legal system is a separate issue of rent seeking by an entrenched lobby, which creates and preserves laws and legal frameworks that reward litigation. US healthcare is another anomalous parasitic example. Other countries do not have these problems to the same extent, but they often have other types of rent seeking, bureaucracy, inefficiency and corruption to compensate.]
It’s complicated a bit because of limited hospital capacity and related treatment supplies. If where ever you are is still below saturation later is better than now probably but once your local system is in the band where they’re running out of supplies things can get pretty dire.
> Essential workers (who make less) required to work and get infected at higher rates

Honest question: has anyone published infection rates by occupation? Obviously medical staff reusing face masks in NYC are more likely to contract it, but I'm not as sure about grocery store workers, delivery drivers, pickers at Amazon, etc. Some essential workers in food production (think farmers) are probably pretty low-risk.
The Andy Weir example. "The Martian" was originally a blog series, and actually his 3rd book.

He created an ebook version of The Martian, freely downloadable at the time. People did give him donations though. He only added it to Kindle for $0.99, because Amazon wouldn't let him distribute it for free. It look off from there.

When people would rather give the author $0.99 to make it easy to access on Kindle, than download it for free, and it becomes a bestseller, then that is a plausible way for an author to make money.
Couldn't you have tested a real number first, and if the target phone rang, then you knew you goofed?

Although obviously testing an emergency number requires no SIM cards...
I started out a project by copying RK4 verbatim. Over several months it morphed and took on a life of its own as I integrated it into other parts of the program and smoothed out the inefficiencies. At what point does it stop being a derivative work I wonder?
The Google SRE book (online here: https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/toc/index.html) might be useful. Specifically chapters 6 and 10 on monitoring and alerting.
Maybe because they don't get extra money for labeling a patient as a COVID patient:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fac...
You can't hide overall mortality so the truth will come out eventually.
Noam Chomsky on forgotten methodologies in artificial intelligence
You follow along and build a toy B+-tree based sqlite clone in this (incomplete) tutorial.

https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/
Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as Covid-19
What ad-hoc code generation lacks, as a rule, is type constraints and structured expression(syntax and semantics). If it has those, it is bordering on being a complete compiler.

But if your base environment doesn't have notions of types or structured expressions either, which is mostly true of assemblers, then you are free to use macros to program at a higher level. The expressive power you gain by leveraging macros doesn't have a real downside because the core language is already so limited that it won't be more legible or maintainable to do it by hand.
I feel like there's a lot of pedantry in this thread and this topic in general. The point is that people not wanting to work is just so very far from our problem that it is ridiculous to see people harping on it so much. People aren't working because they were furloughed or laid off because aggregate demand is way down, it has nothing to do with the unemployment benefits they're getting. The vast vast majority of those people just want their boss to call them and say "good news! our customers are back! see you tomorrow!".
Lunar, macOS app to automatically control brightness for external display
There is a JavaScript implementation of this parallax checkerboards effect with just 140 characters of code, including 3D animated perspective:
https://www.dwitter.net/top/all
In this page you can also find an implementation of Pouet's tunnel effect.
Regarding the conscience, it's blabbering of the mind. while you're busy in some activity you may not notice it, but it's there in your subconscious. To observe it, just sit for few minutes and try to see thoughts originating in mind.
This constant chatter, which may include grudges, guilt, complaints, fear, phobia, jealousy, envy , worries etc. are emotions that spring up when we're too focused on ourselves in our life. The virtuous, kind actions that we do for others help in expanding our consciousness; our prospective toward life changes and consequently the self-obsession decreases resulting in greater inner peace, calm and contentment.
Vietnam isn't an information blackhole like China, people have access to international social media, information circulates well to the outside, if you had something big going on, you would have traces somewhere.
A brand new Nissan Versa, maybe. Unless you are putting half down or getting a ten year loan.
You gotta wonder about the morality of a society that allows a person to amass 40,000 lifetimes of wealth and lets others starve. The ultra rich are a mathematical anomaly that exposes what a sham this "meritocracy" is. It is physically impossible to create $140 billion dollars of actual value for people in a single human lifetime (2.5 billion seconds). The only way is the amplification and exponentiation of that work through millions of other people, and to make the incremental cost of adding that value essentially zero. Which means that the market has absolutely failed to price the "goods" created by these people according to their incremental cost.
DJI’s new Mavic Air 2 has an upgraded camera and much longer flying time
That's the thing - I think the economics have changed.

When it was first a thing - solar hot water was expensive and pv was very expensive.

Then I over time the prices dropped. Sites like https:://sunelec.com made me think... I could afford a pallet of panels... or a container!

Also, pv water heating wouldn't strictly require an inverter.

As to the maintenance, I recall the carter vs reagan white house situation.
I have addressed this many times before, but yes almost everyone with a mild case just has an immune system that is good at controlling the virus. This is irrelevant to finding an attenuated strain.

The real value of finding an attenuated strain (one that causes mild illness in everyone) is that it would be ethical to use it in a challenge trial of a conventional vaccine. The Oxford vaccine group for example are planning a large field trial because they don’t think it is ethical to expose people to the normal dangerous strains. If we found an attenuated strain we could speed things up massively.
Sector, yes, but I'd think businesses in similar industries with similar cash on hand for their size would do similarly well, regardless of size. As ancestor said, it's a class divide, but it's by sector and cash-on-hand, not so much by size. E.g. J.C. Penney is big-ish, but struggling because of store closures and cash-on-hand.
Cause they wouldn't open everything up at once and people have shifted their behavior for the foreseeable future. I imagine a series of flattened curves one after another through the end of the year will be what happens as they open up pieces of the economy, presumably with better testing and tracing to control outbreaks (still to be seen).

Bay area new case count is pretty much flat at this point, and I don't see why it would be that much lower in June, the thing is bubbling under the surface and won't go away until a vaccine.
As mentioned above, some algorithms are so simple that there's only one canonical way to write them. (Take 'looping through an array' for example - in each language there's generally one canonical way to do it.) You could argue that the text of that canonical way is copyrightable.

(It's similar to the early days of heat engines, where a guy called James Pickard managed to patent the crank, preventing other engine manufacturers from using cranks and forcing them to use a sun-and-planet gear arrangement instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_and_planet_gear )
Yes, I honestly wonder if, with a few minor changes to make it more conventional js, you could address a lot of the criticism.

Suppose you replace:

const [count, setCount] = useState(0);

with

const [count, setCount] = this.useState("count", 0);

I'm just speculating idly, but if you use `this`, it's clear how the function knows it's component. If you pass an explicit key, I don't think you need the order to matter. And if the order doesn't matter, well, conditional logic ought to work normally, even if it's a bad idea?

I have no idea if there's a compelling reason this wouldn't work, but if it would, it seems like it could take a lot of the magic and nonstandard behavior out of the API.
It's an interesting question. To rephrase, I think the market is undersupplied with new construction skewed towards lower quality apartments. This would suggest that high quality apartments would be extra valuable.

I have less experience in the high end of the market, as it's firmly out of my price range. Perhaps that alone is the answer? If while earning ~2x median pay, I don't consider staying somewhere more livable it would suggest prohibitively high prices. I'm unsure if the price is dictated more by the aforementioned undersupply or the higher quality. It probably reveals something about inequality in society.

I can't be certain the motivations of the developers choosing to build smaller apartments, the reasons I alluded to in the parent comment were an attempt at an educated guess. There is however an obvious ground truth that apartment sizes are shrinking (47m2 2014/44m2 2015 for 1 bedroom -10% in one year!) [1]

- [1] https://www.afr.com/property/melbourne-new-apartment-sizes-s...
The biggest problem society faces right now is not how an individual gets from $1 billion net worth to $10 billion net worth, or $100 billion.
hmm, I'm OP and you might have a good point there. I will think about that. I'm not saying you are right ...lol btw i dont know why literally every single fucking thing i say on the internet no matter what always gets downvoted even when im talking about a neutral subject and being positive but where was i? oh yeah, I'm not saying your right but at first thought I think you are making a good point.
I think it’s the other way around. Instead of redefining operator new() to allocate from an arena, user allocates memory from the arena and then constructs instance there using placement new.
I'd love to see an antibody study in Vietnam. I have a theory that with a low enough viral load, most people won't be symptomatic. If you can infect someone with a single copy of the virus, they won't notice. You cough directly in their face and the constant factor starts from that virus population and your immune system doesn't have a chance to catch up.

This is why healthy medical staff die and the prison population tests positive for antibodies but didn't show symptoms.

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To be clear, I am not advocating for an unethical study, but that infection rates in Vietnam are much higher than their case count would indicate.
I wish there were more decaf options. Good decaf is delicious. There was this startup: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/a-bold-new-w... that unfortunately never got off the ground. There are also beans from the Swiss water decaf process that you can find at some speciality cafes. What I'd like is a 50/50 blend of decaf/regular beans, something with the content more of tea than coffee.

My dad drank 5+ cups per day, into the evenings. I can't attribute anything, but the guy was the biggest mess of nerves I've seen in my life.
Not paxos, but if I recall, Hashicorp has open sourced their Golang Raft implementation and it seemed reasonably abstract. It’s late and I’m totally blanking on the names of their products though... it’s the etcd-like one.
That would probably depend on if you were left or right handed, and which side of the toilet the paper roll was located... and I realize I've just been sucked in.
As someone who uses Arch as a daily driver and has spent plenty of time messing around with rpmbuild I disagree with your claim that yum (RPMs) is tedious to maintain. RHEL and CentOS are behind on software releases because they actually freeze functionality when they make a release and updates within a release will not upgrade to the latest and greatest major release of that software. They tediously backport bug fixes and security patches to keep the old version up to date and only upgrade to the latest and greatest when a new release comes around years later.

Arch is just a rolling release, it's basically the equivalent of running Rawhide but waiting for a couple weeks to install updates. RedHat spends more effort supporting the old versions that they ship than just following upstream. The whole point of an enterprise distro with long term releases is that they don't do any of those major updates to add features between releases. I can install CentOS and not worry that an update is going to suddenly change how a package works. Just look at https://www.archlinux.org/news/, most of those almost bi-weekly news entries are stuff that I don't need to sweat on CentOS because they won't make any changes like that between releases.
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I must admit, this was a much more cogent and well-reasoned argument than I expected to receive - and, in fact, the only argument more coherent than "but muh freedoms/portfolio!" that I've heard in favour of ending quarantine orders. Thank you for that - and I apologise for prejudging you.

If I could summarize your argument, it appears to be that "a large segment of the population are at low-risk from infection, and unemployment (which quarantine often causes) and isolation have a larger negative impact on mental health"? That certainly hangs together.

The filthy European socialist in me naturally responds "Great, so have the government actually do its job and provide UBI or some other form of financial support, and permit going outside so long as safe distances are maintained, and you've solved a large chunk of the latter problems while still minimizing infections" - but I know that that's sadly unlikely.
The two headlines are exactly what the WHO said, so of course they are reported correctly.

> So for WHO/media to put out a headline like they have they must have collated or found new information that breaks us from our current beliefs.

The statement comes in the context of member states implementing immunity passport programs, not in the context of having new information, which is neither stated nor implied.
There's no way you can say that all the open/close decisions were analytically/objectively supported, and you can tell by the selective (rather than universal) 'social distancing' enforcement that the authorities know it doesn't really matter. I saw so many people congregating on the golden gate bridge the other day, yet, the authorities shut down San Mateo county parks for violations of social distance that were much less flagrant than the ones at Golden Gate.

Consider how quickly they moved to shut down gun retailers, they didn't show that animus to abortion clinics. Or in New York, some mosques remain open for prayer but the mayor has specifically threatened to permanently close Synagogues and Churches that didn't immediately submit to the mayor's edict.