skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boeing is one of few companies using program accounting. Won't this kind of slump drastically cut the number of planes they can distribute their development costs over for the 787 and 737 Max projects also?
“I think hurt people tend to cling to their anger because they hope to use it as a shield. They hope to not be made a fool of again. They think being mad as hell will serve as protection from bad things.”
This way of thinking about it resonated with me. Thank you.
Surprised no one has said it so I will: conferences provide a business deductible way to have a nice vacation. Witness how many conferences are in Vegas/Hawaii etc.
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
In fact, my worry is that this event will actually impede WFH. You've got a bunch of people who don't want to WFH, or who have kids at home or other handicaps; the productivity hit will be tremendous, and bosses will feel this.

Sure, we can rationally explain it away, but I doubt any of that will stick to a boss who was already on the fence or somewhat against WFH. They will just see their biases confirmed.
High Dividend Yield Stocks
I am interested to know how you have found networking and informal discussions surrounding conference talks.
To the point.
3) the short film that 12 Monkeys was based on
What is interference?

A bit of history. Several years ago, as part of an internal project, we tried to create a data analysis service that meets the following minimum requirements:

- as simple as possible integration with an existing java application
- support for persistent data storage
- indices support
- support for a distributed database and distributed operations, such as the ability to insert or modify data in a database from any of the available nodes
- the easiest cluster deployment
- transaction support
- basic SQL support with complex event processing and stream SQL support

One of the outcomes of this development was an open source product branch called interference. What can this service do?

Easy integration with java application. You include the library and then simply manage all the interference functions from within the java application using session methods, JPA annotations, queries and direct access to table objects.

Interference is a distributed service. This means that this service can be used within a distributed cluster, or you can build a distributed event-driven application based solely on this service, without any additional services like coordinators and so on.

Now, we suggest you use interference as a distributed platform when developing data analysis applications.

Interference is not an RDBMS in the usual sense. You do not use JDBC or anything like that to access the data. Instead, direct object-relational mapping is used that works directly with persistent storage and remote event transport mechanisms.

In the next time, we plan to publish an article with a detailed review of the service architecture and performance metrics.

Now, read the documentation for a detailed understanding. We are always happy to answer your questions.
Of course!

My conspiracy theory is that because the stole 700billion with the bank bailouts and that resulted in OWS, which was quashed pretty quickly - and resulted in no consequences for those that stole that.

They have ossued the “stay inside orders” whole the now steal four trillion dollars so there wont be another OWS at scale.
> Write it all out, then re-read it carefully, ideally after a bit of time has passed. Edit with an eye toward making it shorter. Rewrite it from scratch if you have to.

That's what I've been doing. I'm not an amazing developer, but with time and effort I am able to refactor my way to decent code.

Forgetfulness has been my ally - if you forget about something you're obviously not attached to it, so it's easier to throw it out and replace with something better.
If you take a look at some of Segment's open source code, it isn't hard to see why they wound up struggling with microservices. It looks like they subscribe to the "left-pad" style of software development. They have tons of repositories that have less than 10 lines of code. They have a two line repository for calling preventDefault[0], a four line repository for getting the url of a page[1], and a eight line repository for clearing the browser state that calls into eight different packages[2].

Disclaimer: I run a Segment competitor. I'm pretty biased, but still...

[0] https://github.com/segmentio/prevent-default/blob/master/lib...

[1] https://github.com/segmentio/canonical/blob/master/lib/index...

[2] https://github.com/segmentio/clear-env/blob/master/lib/index...
It's not a pointer to a parameter, it is just the parameter itself.

var is a typedef for void* and no & appears in the function.
What does that have to do with corruption and denial of facts?
Well, a humane billionaire would just set very low interest and repayment terms of "when you can". In the end it would just be no different to charity. I wonder what's better, donating to the Indian version of food banks, or giving them money so they can buy food.

There are (were?) already microcredit websites where people in the developing world place loan requests like "I need a $500 loan to start a little shop", and a bit like Kickstarter, you can give them the loan, but also you accept this shop idea might not work and they would default on their loans -- and the site tells you this, so from your point of view the loan would become charity.
Covid-19 and Libraries: E-Books and Intellectual Property Issues
MissingNo.'s Glitchy Appearance Explained [video]
You'll need to roll middleware to get full MITM request body debugging capabilities.
If you research the history, you discover that the 401k was designed for the C-suite, not ordinary workers. Some calculating Wall Streeter(s) somewhere decided that it's a reasonable retirement vehicle for ordinary shlubs. It is not.
See this:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/teresa-ghilarducc...
Some businesses can be easily put on hold and restarted later. I’d wager it’s not that easy for most.
No, you are saying "centrally planned economy" on their behalf. They are calling for extreme but temporary emergency measures to handle what may be the greatest economic crisis of our lifetimes.

Are you seriously confusing support for these measures with support for ending the market system in the United States? Can you see what a fantastical stretch that is?
Well, they will work that up later. Money is transferred as compensation and everyone is happy.
Nationalize Boeing in the interest of national secuirty.
The problem is that these companies are so inefficient and the conserved the 30 years old business practices very well internally because the governments are keep bailing them out. Maybe it would be for the better to let them fall and start over. Build an airliner that operates effectively and widen the margin. There are other alternatives. For 10 - 15B EUR (estimated) we could connect the major European cities with a high speed train network powered by renewables / green energy. If we keep bailing them out this surely won't happen.
If I may respond in the same way, but simpler: your (and I normally don't use these personal labels on this site but here it is necessary) mistake is that you try to respond to a concept by attaching labels to either the response or the responder.

This kills any chance of having a sensible debate and there is no doubt it is very effective if that is the intended effect. It is a net negative in all other senses.

So, apart from applying labels to my response - and with that showing proof of the original premise I was trying to make - do you have a more constructive response? What, in your opinion, is the good done by attaching negative labels to concepts or persons? Can this be used in constructive ways or is it, as I propose, just a way to silence critics? As far as I can see it only serves to polarise the discussion and will cause people to throw up (virtual) barricades from behind which they can throw epithets at each other. My position is that there is far too much of this labelling and epithet-throwing and far too little sensible discussion where people of differing opinions get to meet each other to try to defend their positions in the open, without those barricades. Anything which will lead to more polarisation is in my opinion a net negative and as such something to try to keep out of the discourse.
Job boards.... is it me or are they all shit?
The Green New Deal is not a call for an end to market capitalism, nor is it a call for a centrally planned economy. Your point is utterly invalid.
Boeing has not taken a bailout, they didnt like the fact that the government would take an equity position. The bailout was as much targeted at Boeing suppliers as it was at Boeing itself.
> A renter does not get anything of inherent, transferable value out of the exchange.

Your getting a roof? And maybe a garden?

> A renter is also subject to the whims of his/her landlord and, from my experience, a renter has to move regularly to avoid rent increases and bad landlords.

You have a contract that sets the duration. If you have a flexible contract you also have the option to change (if you have more money or need less space).
IMO, 4 year university degrees in the USA in their current state are basically a scam

We're promising kids that if they study hard in school they'll be elevated to the middle/upper class by their degree, but in reality most of those degrees are almost completely worthless for building a career.

People are graduating with 4 year degrees in business, math, assorted liberal arts, and then they're saddled with 6 figures of debt and not any more appealing to companies than someone with a year of experience in a desk job

Another problem: So many people are getting pushed into getting 4 year degrees now that they're now a requirement for many jobs that don't even need them. Sure, a CS degree will help if you're building some Google-scale backend code, but you really don't need one to tinker with a small web storefront's layout bugs
Built in "New File" functionality is definitely on the to-do list, and a very popular request from Windows users.

Running a support/issues website on GitHub without hosting the code is perhaps slightly weird, but it has been working well for me. GitHub does not mandate any licensing requirement.
I started degoogling when they killed Inbox. I would have happily paid for that, it was the first time I’d ever been able to maintain ‘inbox zero’.

So, I’ve switched browsers (Edge), switched search engine (DDG), but I don’t know an email system that’s as good as Inbox was, so I can drop gmail?
It doesn't. Bankruptcy courts and courts in general are pretty wise to the idea of "debts" and dubious last minute transfers to family members, close relatives, and so on. This guy is definitely not the first person to think of the idea.
Did Trump have to compromise with the left wing of the Republican Party? Did Biden have to compromise with the left wing of the Democratic Party? No, because of the implicit threat of being primaried, or for the party to be shifted. Which Obama did not even threaten, but all others presidents did (towards the right).

He also openly compomised in the name of "bipartisanship" multiple times despite it being uneeded.
The hardest part about entrepreneurship is making a product/solution people actually want. Keep in mind, most things you build, no one will want. Most entrepreneurs have a GitHub account filled to brim with dozens of projects that no-one or few ever really wanted. When you do build something people want: that's gold, that's rare.

The technicals can always be learned later, or you can pay someone to do it. These days, there's a LOT of apps that can build apps/websites for you.

On the other hand, if you want to become an engineer, then by all means, learn the technical stuff and ignore the rest. try to make a conscious choice: 1) i want to build a business or 2) I want to learn engineering.
That’s not an example that is a vague hand-wavy allegation. Which cities? What specific acts of corruption?
They're still being paid? :-)
It's even worse because the lockdowns hurt young people economically for the sake of the health of the elderly. The lockdowns are financed by debt which will be paid by the young. The young are also probably much poorer and browner than the elderly.
I have very mixed feelings about this. While the proposal is new and commentary, thus far, is limited, I mostly see discussions of how this impacts the big players (Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc...) and the small startups that would otherwise be scooped up.

What is an interesting question is how this impacts the companies in the middle - i.e. sizable tech companies with, say, $50 million in annual revenue, who don't typically have the resources to acquire startups that are being pursued by the big players.

Would legislation like this allow those middle-market players to grow via acquisition and, thus, create a larger pool of "big players" post-pandemic?
Not really. It's informative of the policies on sharing confidential information, yes.

But it has nothing to do with what the actual policy on customer data is. My guess is that you'd be pleasantly surprised be the policy. I just can't find it documented publicly anywhere, so I don't know that I can share the actual policies. There are people who's job it is to share such things, they're like account managers and support people and they have guidance on the way the things they can say. My guidance is more like "don't unless it's clearly public".

Put another way, the training on data handling is longer than the training on corporate communication. So if I'm this careful with my communication, imagine the ridiculous lengths I go to with user data safety.
Deep data visualization for Covid-19
I use Postman daily and I have never created an account. I think it only nags you when you start the app for the first time. I just import/export my collections to the git repo of the API I am working at.

Sure, the whole cloud login, team synchronization stuff is totally useless for me, but it is not mandatory. Anyway I can understand why it may be frustrating to see all this bloat.

On the other hand I found that Insomnia lacks a few features that Postman has. For example there is no way to do scripting in Insomnia, there only is request chaining which is IMHO way more limiting than the Javascript sandbox that Postman provides. Most notably there is no way to generate request data on the fly.
Not affiliated but I've been enthusiastically watching the development and launch of userbase.com which might be just the layer of abstraction you're looking for
Chromatic 2.0 – Code review, but for UI
In boom towns there is a lot of construction. Having up to date data would be exceedingly valuable there. Downtown Springfield, maybe not so much.
want to use google chat to replace the hangouts that I have with a certain group [because the hangouts interface and mobile notifications aren't great].. it's available for my G Suite accounts, but not my generic @gmail account. which is kind of maddening.
Technical conferences switch to videoconferencing software. But they got much much worse in the process.
While the short to medium-term impact of this is terrible, I am optimistic that a few of these individuals (not the usual high profile stars) will kick start the next big idea.

Do we have a list of affected individuals listed to work on interesting projects?

Wish HN can curate a Database of individuals open to working on special projects that could lead to a YC submission
Interesting idea! Even though I became pretty fast with spitting out Flask APIs it remains cumbersome.

You say my "computer serves as the server", would I be able to scale beyond that as well?
That is not a complete summary of the technique, though. The key insight here isn't the integration method used. Rather it is applying integration (whatever method used) until the loss increases, then starting from scratch.

It's like saying that Maxwell's equations "are just general relativity."
Parent said state level as in states within the United States.
Thanks, I'll take a look. I like that kind of thing very much.

I use applied math. I haven't taken a class in real analysis. But it's fun how often grinding out the solution to a "real world," practical PDE turns out not to actually be the nicest (simplest and/or clearest and/or sufficiently insight-producing) way to understand the (hopefully) corresponding physical problem in the lab.

Stripping off the "calculus" and replacing it by limits sometimes seems to help highlight alternate perspectives that the magic "integrals" and "derivatives" kind of conceal.

Even when it's not more effective, it's definitely more fun.
Sharing databases across services (micro or not) is generally a pretty bad idea exactly for reasons around versioning.

Versioning APIs is a pretty standard way to get around this.

If your deployment relies on synchronized service deployments you really dont have independent services at all.
They said "looking at more results," not "relax our reasoning standards."
One Line of Britney
The audacity of Apple and their $700 wheels
Not sure if huge. i ve enjoyed lectures more, and there is a lot of interaction in breakout chat rooms , probably more that RL conferences

Also, conferences easily scale to thousands now
I'm curious what domain you are using Apache NiFi for? I have used it before for analytical graph based pipelines. It is very capable but it definitely takes a different mindset to architect problems with NiFi.
Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' virus fragments: experts
Including all those taxes, the top 20% still pay 66% of all taxes.

https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2019/04/ch...
Except these people would never get loans without Uber's backing. Indian lenders are notoriously risk averse and make it very hard for self-employed people to get loans.

Moreover, without Uber's (formerly) juicy carrot, they would never be in the market for a car in the first place
You end up with thousands of lost jobs right now, not just Lufthansa going under but all the businesses that serve them. That's why governments bail out companies.
And this ties into the whole field of experiment design, and the design of statistical tests. You often conduct an experiment with the goal of making some kind of binary decision. So you figure out what an acceptable risk of type I and type II error would look like, and then you can figure out how much data you need to collect, and where to put the cutoff when analyzing data.

But the binary decision “let’s use drug X to treat condition Y”, and the binary decision “let’s investigate the efficacy of drug X on condition Y” each come with radically different tolerances for type I and type II errors.
Good Read on Pandemic Rent Collections
Or let these companies fail and free up the air routes across Europe and create a more efficient company? I do not think that we need to keep bailing out airlines at all. Lufthansa has so many issues, starting with their website, internal problems (try to get an invoice from them), etc. Why do we (the taxpayers) have to pay for their failures of these airlines?
Power structures! At least in my country, most (good) developers are more comfortable in English, because English is the way to economic success (thanks colonialism). These people are not really interested in doing the hard work necessary to fix the many RTL bugs present in various programs.

For my language, Urdu, the web is far more broken than for Arabic. RTL fonts used on most major websites are adequate for Arabic, but not for Urdu, because the Urdu script contains additonal characters that Arabic script does not have. Moreover, Arabic fonts are in the Naksh calligraphic style, while Urdu speakers are more comfortable with the Nastaliq calligraphic style.

I personally use Greasemonkey to force Nastaliq fonts for RTL content on various major websites.
Good Days, Bad Days, Impossible Days
hard to trust Google with personal data, Zoom is lesser of two evils.
We've been struggling to get storybook integrated in our actual dev/design feedback loop but this looks like a great way to do it by having a way for design to review stories before they get merged vs needing them to land in staging or some other test environment.
Maybe Facebook?

“Bringing People Closer Together”

Seems to fit...
Because the presidency is vastly more powerful than what you think. Obama could have pulled an FDR, or a Trump, and shifted the party very hard, but didn't. It's quite simple: you go to your opponent, you tell him that if he doesn't follow the whip you will use your vast reach to get him primaried, threaten to modify the rules of the DNC, hell, drum up support for a general strike. Threaten to slash the military budget, threaten to cancel a defence program, or to stop shale oil subsidies, play politics. But for some reason, from FDR onwards, no one plays politics except to concede towards the right. Literally no one in power. The platform of the Democratic Party has become "Let's be Republican-lite in order to win those elusive moderate independent" that for some reason seem to shift more and more towards the right for every single election cycle for the last 40 years, almost as if they were illusory or weren't as ideologically unmovable as asserted.

And it's total bullshit that the Democratic Party wouldn't consider a public option. The Republican Party was considering a public option.
Not to mention that even if demand rises the ability to pay doesn't necessarily rise as well. Value and price are not the same.
That's just arbitrary. Is 999 million okay? Or is the threshold different? And if someone's net worth crosses the threshold where should the extra money go?
Soybeans, I think (from the same channel): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PpJ2Xe_cyeU

So likely growing for animal food.

Or possibly the field is corn, for either animal food or ethanol.

Growing human food can be somewhat less complicated (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a_7TRko1VwQ), but can also be backbreaking (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O1aHpSu7F4o)
Voice AI that screens for Covid-19 symptoms and helps fight pandemic
It's really comforting to hear this explained. In the past, when I saw a username with several reasonable comments showing as dead, I was worried it was the work of bots or some conspiracy flagging things unfairly. I'm glad that's not the case.
> How about breaking down by religion or something else that at least points to what kind of media/message the group is more exposed to?

I'm an American that fits into neither of these groups but nearly everyone I know does, so from my third party perspective I think you might be underestimating how different the sources, messaging, and conversations are between white and black Americans on average. That being said, I think it is still vastly overused in polls, and is perhaps a self-fulfilling prophecy to some degree.
>>This case sounds like an unfortunate mistake, I’m sure they intended to present the material in a somber manner. That said, it begs the question on if what should be expected behind closed doors.

Which OP sort of implied the sentence right after.

I'm pretty sure if most people heard the discussions that go on in management meetings, especially at high levels, they'd be pretty irate. I've been in a few at different organizations and I don't have the moral flexibility to treat people like disposable garbage our sociopathic business 'leaders' have. Most people suspect this is the case but are satisfied to hear PR lies--as long as the message isn't offensive (which I don't understand why, I prefer direct messaging so we can cut the BS).

We need a serious social revolution in labor rights and expectations in this country. Not sure if its a really bad or good time for it but I think its one of the two.