skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree the situation is clear.

To take the logical extreme, if we were to avoid all possible immediate threat to life, no one should leave the house, let alone drive to work. Obviously, our society would immediately collapse, and many millions would die. So we have to balance possible immediate threats against likely longer term consequences. Something we do not seem to be doing very well in the case of covid-19.
> It's easy to look down on people lower on the socioeconomic ladder. They're still human beings. They've been given this raw deal: For the greater good, you will now give up your job for an indefinite period of time, with no prospect of finding like employment elsewhere. You have no choice, and if you refuse, you are a horrible person and in some cases you may face civil and criminal consequences.

The man in front of the protest to ease restrictions in my mid-sized city was a wealthy local real estate magnate.
> no & appears in the function.

It's an array, so you don't need & to take its address, it decays into a pointer without &.

Imagine:

char buf[sizeof(struct Header) + sizeof(struct T)];
char *p = buf;

Then take away the names so that you are effectively passing p as a parameter... Then returning p.

As in, an anonymous temporary being given to the function, and the function returns its address back.

It's assuming that this temporary parameter buffer will exist after it is used and the function has returned. I'm not sure what the standard says for that but it is crazy sketchy. [Edit: Googling around, it seems like maybe this is illegal in C99 but possibly legal in C11? Or that C11 changed the rules for this. Does not seem like a great thing to rely upon.]
Where I am in the PNW, there's hardly any food and 3+ hour lines just to get in stores to pick over what little is available.
Yeah, it's the same line of reasoning behind farm subsidies: running a farm is risky, and if it's so risky that nobody does it, none of us eats... so we all chip in (whether we want to or not) to farmers to offset their losses.
I'm not sure whether you are serious. But if you are: There are not many people who agree on your opinion, otherwise the share price would be way higher.
Layoffs are mounting, alternative work is limited, and the unemployment systems in many states are either broken or running out of funding. Add the federal governments indicated desire to let blue states go bankrupt and we are looking at a good combination to enter a depression.

Its a pretty sobering time.
You mean pre-purchase. No word on the final release date.
An annoying side effect of extreme wealth is they have a lot of money to spend finding ways around taxes. If any country ever does move to a hard wealth limit I imagine there will be a lot of rich people suddenly getting sweetheart deals on 'renting' all the things they used to own from fly by night offshore companies or something.
Oh my god! Who in its right mind comes up with this? The boilerplate is 10x the size of the actual code :'(
Isn't that effectively the same result with hydroxychloroquine + z-paks?
I think there are a few plugins that provide that functionality, would love to chat more about the use-case to see what we could do in the future for things like this.

feel free to email - nijiko@konghq.com
Is Lyft a sensible work week in exchange for their positively mental salaries?
Actually, it is an example. These reports by the University of Illinois at Chicago have more details. The start of the most recent report:

"Chicago continues to be the most corrupt city in the country and Illinois remains the third most corrupt state."

https://pols.uic.edu/chicago-politics/anti-corruption-report...
Yes, it probably would be a valuable to Amazon. So valuable, in fact, that it already[1] exists.

[1]https://flex.amazon.com/
I also have yet to hear why we would want to save these companies in the first place.

I guess the money is flowing into banks' coffers, paying off airplanes? Or are there other costs they're currently making? What is free money going to do for the airline, pay employees that have no work to do anyway? Wouldn't it be more efficient to give them the money?

I don't care if Lufthansa goes bankrupt and someone else buys their planes for pennies on the dollar, gives them an inspection after covid-19, and life continues as usual. How are these 10e9 spent other than throwing it into a black hole?

There's probably more to it than I know, but I have yet to hear the reason we're keeping those businesses alive.
In India you don't get input tax credit for travel/conferences afaik.
Yes, you should not look at any result in an emergency you wouldn't otherwise - in fact you should probably only increase scrutiny given how much incentive there is to merely get a headline with your drug mentioned as a potential covid19 cure.

The OP is basically arguing for a "something must be done and this is something" reasoning.
Thank you! I understand that from a company valuation/investor perspective it's important to have enterprise features and cloud collaboration / account sign up nonsense. But too many simple tools have gone down that path and ended up becoming bloated and frustrating. Dropbox is a big offender here too IMO.
They deal with real, physical stuff. The virtual world has no externalities (except maybe a solar storm).
I'll argue the other way, even if the parents are social butterflies, they end up socializing with people who belong to the same income strata. I live is a HCOL suburb in the San Jose bay area, and even here, 20% of kids are from low-income families.All races and ethnicities are represented.
Are you doing it to actually build a business or sharpen your skills? If former, start with Firebase and pivot when you have a proven market. If latter, starting with both backend and frontend is a no brainer.

But I'll never underplay the importance of having both backend and frontend skills -

- It's a core set of skills which will pay off multiple times in the future.
- Easier to pay off the tech debt in the long run. People seriously underestimate the capabilites of postgresql + ruby on rails/express + a frontend like react.
- It's much better to be dealing with the problems of an open source software than a proprietary one.
- Learning how everything works together - how to frontend is wired to the backend and how the backend models the data in the database and how to deploy all of it together - is invaluable.
- Almost always cheaper than proprietary solutions.

Learning between the two is a matter of tradeoffs. If time is of essence, then you probably should choose things which are easier to learn and manage. However, in the long run, proprietary solutions rarely beat the combination of postgresql + rails/node + react.
Or it's because of special circumstances and we can stop pretending it's not.
Same here. In fact, unless can understand why whatever it is can’t be offered through a web page, or I have no choice, I will not install an app. The reason is security. The more closed-source binaries you put on your phone, the larger your attack surface.
Starting with a monolith could lead to really difficult refactorings unless you structure the code in a way that it can be easily decoupled.
We have hydroxychloroquine with z-paks- which seems to be pretty much the same effect. But much much cheaper. If you treat early with it- it works, late treatment- and it's not effective.
Okay, so the farmer's risk is low crop yield, farmer bankrupt, no food, people die.

What about airlines? No passengers, airlines bankrupt, only very limited air travel possible, covid-19 ends, someone buys the airplanes from the asset auction, gives them an inspection, life continues as usual?

Solidarity is a whole other matter: if you can't work (because you're disabled or because you can't find work) you get money from the government. Doesn't matter if you're a farmer or airline employee, nor whether the company you worked for goes bankrupt. That's no reason to keep the companies alive, the people won't personally go bankrupt. (That might be different in developing countries, but those won't have 10B bailouts for nonessential businesses anyway.)
Learn-to-hash: Using supervised learning for fast nearest neighbor search
> it means that the sample was too small to say that it works.

If it works! If it does not, in fact, work, no sample of any size will show that it works.
It means the primary outcome of the study is the drug failed their test.

However they found exploratory results in the data that they think deserve further study.
It feels more like an indemnity than a severance.
We've ended up with thousands of lost airline jobs regardless. They aren't paying salaries while flights are grounded. Jobs are ultimately proportional to the number of people flying. More flights, more jobs.

I appreciate that people expect help, and I would be fine with money for airline employees. I'm skeptical that a bail-out does that much for jobs though. The jobs will (or won't) return as flights do, unless the airlines aren't operating.

I'm open to being convinced, the above question was genuine. I don't really understand the alternative. What happens in a no bail-out situation?
Thanks! I've never developed for iOS and was wondering what that was about.
If it was employing 130k for long time then perhaps it's not a crappy business.
Objectively, this is true. Whether the intent is to actually have a conference or not, the real outcome is that employees are A) in a different location and B) the trip is written off as an expense.

Objectively. It is impossible to say that this is not what is happening. It's like saying "The Sun does not shine." It absolutely does shine. We don't know what the motive was for it to shine, but objectively, it is shining.
Wait do you mean The O in Pittsburgh? I haven't heard about that but I'd hate to see them close.
also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23013667
> Does "I didn't have to find a contractor to tear out the kitchen wall when a leak on the third floor got all the way down to my first floor apartment, nor did I have to pay for them to do this, and could just keep on going to work as normal" count as value?

How often does this happen, and how much does it cost? I can guarantee you your time is not worth this much and it is still less expensive and safer for you to buy a house than rent one.

If you rent for 30 years, at the end of these 30 years you will have nothing and if anything happens, you'll be left in the streets.

If you take a loan for 30 years, at the end you will have a roof above your head, for the rest of your life. The small amount of time you spend finding a contractor and cost of those infrequent leaks repairs represent nothing.
"...when I was trying hard to figure out how to put down my anger instead of continuing to cling to it."

McKay's book When Anger Hurts got me onto the right path. https://www.amazon.com/When-Anger-Hurts-Quieting-Within/dp/1... TLDR: Anger starts with expectations. Which leads to disappointment, resentment, blame, and then lands on anger. I keep hoping for followups; surely the state of the art has progressed since.

The next plateau for me was figuring out how to unlearn my anger habit. I heard that habits can only be replaced. So I decided to pretend being happy, positive. Why not? Nothing else worked and I was out ideas.

I was really surprised that it worked.

Next plateau for me was dealing with anxiety. Maybe half of my symptoms had a physiological origin. Only discovered after a lumbar fusion and my anxiety was mostly gone. In retrospect, I'm grumpy for all the wasted effort and misc treatments endured (eg SSRIs).

I still don't have much clue about dealing with trauma, PTSD. I'd like to try psychotropics (shrooms, MDMA), but have had trouble finding trustworthy suppliers.

--

Thanks to u/Dowwie for Bone's Feeling Good tip. Somehow hadn't seen that before. Will try it.
I think this is true in some cases, but there are others where an engineering org is proposing building an internal solution on an open source stack vs fewer dedicated internal resources with a proprietary solution and the argument becomes one of using internal resources to do something which is maybe a little outside of "core competency" areas vs a proprietary solution that may claim to do everything needed with a risk of limiting options either technically or financially in the future. There I've seen a pattern of short term financial cost overriding future risk, but maybe that shifts a little due to pandemic outcomes.
> I was for the lockdowns, and I'm willing to stay that way, but I'm willing to hear more facts ,data, and analysis.

Then look at the data. There's an entire subreddit of all the latest papers and analysis regarding the disease and its spread, and the ineffectiveness of lockdowns has been debunked time and time again, especially now that we have models that have high approximations of the real-time spread of the disease. We have examples from Singapore, Germany, Brazil, and various US states about how easing lockdowns without concern for the necessary sanitary measures has a very measurable impact on new infections and deaths.

In the beginning there were no clear exit scenarios. We have multiple governments that have expressed them now, with specific goals and measures that have to be considered to not reignite the spread of the disease.

So yes, I consider this propaganda because the basic premise of the article is flawed and is the subject of journalists failing to navigate the current state of research, and its implied motivation of defending premature openings at the cost of an additional tens of thousands of lives.
sure, but the reality is that in the beginning of layoffs they will have larger reserves available for severance. As economic hardships mount those reserves will dwindle. Companies pretty much stopped caring about fair a long time ago unless you are lucky enough to have reached the C-Suite. Some companies alter the severance package based on nothing but how much your VP level officer likes you.
Can someone help me understand why the broader stock market is actually up compared to six months ago despite all these dire numbers being thrown around? Heck, Boeing stock is up today!

The economy looked very rosy in October 2019 and NASDAQ was near 8300. Now it's 8900 even when millions are unemployed and even millions more furloughed.

Should the stock market simply be seen as an isolated, self-contained entity with no real correlation to the broader economy?
It's tough when your country isn't much of a democracy. A major difference between Scandinavia and the US/Canada/many others is that proportional representation plays a much greater role in the electoral system here.
You can embed images and attach files using the plugins. https://zim-wiki.org/screenshots.html

But yeah, definitely not as feature full as Onenote.

If you're looking for ink support, I've messed with Xournal and it's pen support was good.
Sounds similar to how Tamiflu works for seasonal Flu.

Does remdesivir work on coronavirus in a similar fashion?
As it should, and as all apps have to, otherwise you end up with problems in any shared workspace.
either 1 or 2 weeks per year of service is pretty normal for a buyout - 2 weeks is more seen in forced layoff, but I suspect this package is targeted at people near retirement, hence the lower value.
Are you talking about pain that radiates out of your ears?
That's what I wonder.

More to the point, their stock is up 8% today on this news, because short term, this quarter, will look better with reduced costs. Who cares about the quarter after that, where production will have to be impacted by reduced workforce.
What I need is a sensible kit of software to let me generate API documentation without the opinions on, "this is actually a web server to be hosted". I just want markdown or HTML outputs without "Try it now!" or other features.

But I also don't want to hand-roll my docs by just writing Sphinx. I like the "provide a schema definition then supplement with hand-written docs and customization" approach.
We have some documentation on GraphQL, would be good to maybe start some tutorials and build guides! Great idea!
how long does it take to build an efficient airline?

why do you think it won't be a net positive for the tax payer? it's literally the government buying low and selling high when this is over.
Ask HN: Update My Dad
So my dad got a computer engineering degree back in the punch card days and ran his own business as a "computer consultant" since the early 90s up until he went to prison for 14 years starting in 2007 and gets out next March (his crime was not computer-related). He mainly used MS Access to develop on-prem apps for small businesses. What [printed] materials can I send to him to update him to modern times before he gets out? I'm sure he can catch up after release, but he's obviously got a lot more time on his hands now, but no computing access.

Also, any ex-con-in-tech related advice is welcome.
No, capitalism is good we just have to reign it in like Europe and Asia.
This is the relevant sentence:
"More detailed information about the trial results, including more comprehensive data, will be available in a forthcoming report."

This looks more like a press release and contains no details that would let one evaluate how robust these results are.
...widely panned...

...in the corporate news media. They have never had the full story, and they have less and less of it recently. This knob has been turned too far; it's broken now. TPTB will remember they have other knobs (every other OECD nation is directly supporting citizens' incomes, for example) or the whole machine will catch fire.
Luckily it is open source https://github.com/Kong/insomnia so if something like that happens, a community KISS fork is possible.

I'm a big Insomnia fan and always recommend it over Postman as it's simple to use. Although even it feel a bit to "modern UI like" to me. I'd really love a old fashioned win 95 UI for this kind of thing. Tortoise git for example is my idea of a nice UI for a tool.
I completely agree with you, but... How about don't vote in leaders that only care about helping out their rich buddies then?

Tone deafness in the media and the social and governmental leadership of any country is a key reason why demagogues and sociopaths get into power. This has been the case across time and cultures.

The Scandinavian countries have moved to pay all payrolls to keep people paid during all this madness, instead of just bailing out large debt holders.

Watch Louis Rossman's YouTube coverage of the US programs as a potential recipient/applicant. As a small business owner, he has a front seat to the incompetence of US lawmakers. It's the same kind of thing which smells like grandstanding incompetence, which also afflicted the "banking reforms" post 2008. The laws aren't written by and for people who actually know how things work.
+1 for this, maybe the people at Apollo could help?
Doing it wrong. Your business buys the conference tickets, travel, and some of the lodging. You stay for an extra week. All you pay for is the hotel.

Business expenses offset revenue reducing profit and in turn taxes.
This sounds like a sophomore engineering student's weeklong nightmare of a thermodynamics assignment.

"Part f) Your boss realizes you don't have any money left in the budget to replace the A/C unit, but he knows a supplier who can deliver individual heaters for cheap. How many 1500W heaters will be needed to maintain a server room temperature of..."
Currently working on the builds for linux and windows. Some left over issues from merging repositories. New builds should be up soon!
Exactly, so many people are missing the point that so many of these events can't just be online and then you call it a day.

It's about building relationships and connections. Not just watching presentations.
Is NiFi that bad to run by yourself?
Heck, we've been hosting online improv shows. It's not the real thing but it's fun. Honestly surprised by how quickly we've adopted to the constraints.
Yes that is the case, some videos that help clarify it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCFkWDdmXG8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ECqDaPjjV0
Clearly, you haven't met many coders
That is definitely true. The salt-rust issue should play a huge role in resale value. I grew up in an area with this situation, and I knew a lot of people who would only buy used cars sourced from southern states because of it.
UberEats is up — higher than Rides even. They can raise prices to turn a profit if they really need (Instacart turned its first profit).

Uber operates globally (and owns minority stake wherever it doesn't operate), so as the world begins to gradually re-open, Uber will capture that revenue even if the US is still fucked.

Uber has $8B cash.

Uber rides were "adjusted EBITDA" profitable for 2 straight quarters before this — take "adjusted EBITDA" with a grain of salt, but it's also not "nothing".
Applying Machine Learning To –.Yeast?
I don’t care. I trust a corporation to make the right decisions when it comes to hate speech (currently) over the general public consensus because they are driven by profit over bigotry. Even if they don’t make the right decisions, I still trust them over the general public.
3) A plank that pirates walk people off of into the water to be eaten by sharks.
Short answer: fantastic ERs in Q3 and Q4. Spy is still 60-70 points down from its woulda-coulda place had covid not happened.

Also: trillions in new spending causing asset inflation further lowering SPY below its price it would have if such spending happened without covid.

Third reason: SPY yields are still above treasury (risk free) yields... significantly.
I don't get how that isn't basically just a lease?
Except that the buyer gets something that looks like a call option that sounds like it's nearly guaranteed to be below expected (normal, maybe not in rough times) value?

Mainly because I've never seen a lease where the dealer doesn't ask you if you want to buy it.
> But more importantly it's the UX difference between these two images: https://imgur.com/a/pt3yQ2q

Thanks for explaining the difference. I have so few services enabled that “New Terminal at Folder” is in the top level of my context menu[0], hence my misunderstanding.

[0] https://imgur.com/ZrHVSPA
I like working at Lyft, and if not for the stock more than halving since the IPO and now the Covid storm, I wouldn't question my decision. There are a ton of interesting problems to solve and lots of smart people (ex-fb, google etc if that is a measure). The leadership is ethical and supportive. We're generally not coasting and it is easier to advance your career faster than Google, while not having the threat of a PIP all the time like Facebook and Amazon (apparently). We don't work on fluff or building tech in house just for the heck of it because we've historically been conservative in entering businesses and focused on rideshare, and we've not been as awash with $ and people to spend on experimental projects. Prioritization is key here.
I thought most executive compensation was paid out of pre-allocated shares.
Is it not possible to add an efficient internal combustion engine, couple to a generator, lower capacity batteries and an electric motor to power these planes?

Battery energy density is very less, but having a constant speed small, optimised IC engine to generate electricity from fuel could increase range and capacity of these planes.
Don't think you have noticed. But there is a chuckling epidemic on HN. It acts as a tool to appear smug and superior while not providing any sensible argument or logic.

The last time there was someone chuckling, I was way more civil.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22712767
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Which IDE was it?