skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a child, but I have 2 nephews that I watch. And I can 100% say that kind of boredom is just the mind numbing repetition of doing stuff thats frankly just not that interesting. Then having to do it over and over again really starts to wear you out. Especially from the ages of like 2 to 6 is tough in my opinion.
Don't forget the opposite. Some people have the opposite problem. If all you do is produce/create then you're going to burnout and feel like you don't care anymore.

Consuming gives you new ideas on what to produce and enthusiasm about what you could create. You can't produce without consuming, and you likely won't be satisfied just consuming indefinitely.
Can we please stop pretending that economic destruction doesn't kill people? Because it does.

If the food supply chain gets disrupted, as many fear that it may, that could be a lot of people.
Crap, I was scheduled to go on internship with them this summer, but I feel like that might quickly no longer be an option..
I would interpret the evidence 180 degrees in the opposite direction. Wouldn't the increased footprint mean that Uber has more costs in less profitable areas? (It seems logical that Lyft would have pretty equal coverage in the profitable areas). And Uber Eats + other services hemorrhage money -- I read that Eats has something like a $1b/year burn rate, even leveraging much of Uber's other infra.

(Also, aren't Q2 earnings are usually in July?)
>a number of these people donated money years ago to avoid taxes

This isn't how taxes work. If you donate money then you've only reduced your taxable principal.
You "avoid taxes" in the sense that it's as if you never made that money. You don't magically reduce your burden any further than that.

People won't take your otherwise fine point seriously if you include this commonly made error.
Testing for all or some? A town's key lesson in testing everyone for Covid-19
Aren't state aids forbidden in the EU?
this is like, basically all of non major urban area America
That depends on what p points to. If it’s the address of the char[1] array inside a valid PMyStr, then as far as I’m aware you can subtract the correct number of bytes (offsetof is your friend) and cast the resulting pointer to your MyStr, then get the size from there.
It's not a secret to any investor that Lyft's business has gone way down. These sorts of layoffs tend to only spark panic selling when they are not expected.
Yeah, sorry it was unclear but I was more confused by the "siphoning" value part.
Admittedly, you're probably right. I don't know the personal conquests of Dorsey or Buffet, so part of me was hoping at least a little bit that they weren't as ruthless as the others.
I'm a diehard Firefox fan, but I will be honest: its JS and rendering performance is garbage compared to Chrome.

I play games and use complex web apps (GCloud, Office 365) exclusively in Chromium
That's because there is at least 17% less share dilution than there was a day before, let alone the runway being marginally extended.

So speculators don't get dumped on by employees with RSUs all day every day, and the business prospects are not adversely impacted any more than they already were. Thats when you pay more for shares.

Layoffs are proactive for investors, not an omen for investors, don't get that confused.
> The wealth isn't the problem if it's distributed evenly.

Isn't that what these billionaires are doing? Giving their money away. The more billionaires donate, the closer we get to your world where everyone has as much agency over their lives as possible. (Including the donors, of course.)
You have to pick your battles. Changing the election system is really hard. There are legitimate policy disagreements one can have with the Democrats, but one thing you cannot say about them is that they are brazenly corrupt and hostile to facts. Donald Trump is both. He is proud of these things. He thinks they're features, not bugs, and about 40% of American voters seem to agree. As long as that remains the case, nothing else matters. Policy is moot when the country is run by a personality cult.
This is hilarious and pathetic at the same time. They should be paying tax.
Thanks for your taxes.
Where do all the used cars come from to support such a used-car market?
Imagine an analog of such a ranking from 300 years ago.

"Which of our Gracious Lords are doing the moste Good?"
The flip side to your example is, of course, artists like Rodgers & Hammerstein, Sondheim or Bernstein, all of whom produced good works in their youth but some of their best works as they gained more experience and developed more style.
I didn't use this specific course, I came across it later, but pretty much everything in it I taught my children early on; My parents taught me some of these things when I was young but these are the skills to teach and practice:

Learning How to Learn: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/

And we use the Trivium as the curriculum to guide them and we used this resource primarily to develop their curriculum:

https://welltrainedmind.com/?v=7516fd43adaa

I will say this - I am excellent at math; even higher math such as Calculus. My wife is excellent with Grammar. So we are able to help them when they do run into some difficulty - but for the most part they can consume a subject on their own at this point.

In terms of reading early on we checked out the hooked on phonics at the library. With Math I made them memorize their math tables and how to do math in their head with one of those "Mental math" books - also from the library. I also taught them some common ways to memorize things and had them from early age to memorize songs, scriptures, and poems.

Learn these things early and there is no stopping a kid...
You can read if that way. What I see is them propping up business so that there are actual jobs to go back to once things stabilize.

It does little good to send people thousands of dollars if when that dries up, and it would, there are no above board jobs to go back to.
Meme AI
I just asked this on another version of this I saw, but how does this compare to the original Insomnia? Are they two completely different products?
Thanks. I keep [dead] comments turned on and I thought that one was pretty reasonable so I was going to vouch for it but wasn't sure if there was some context I was missing. Your comment provides it.
Does it mean that every german will have to pay about $10B / 80m = 125 euros for that ? So it means that they'll have, for example, to wait a little longer to buy their next phone, or lunch ? (I ask the question here because that's the kind of reasoning I read in the press but I'd like to know if it's as simple as that)
Yes.

I haven't met a single senior dev in person that could write good.
Well in Seattle, their homeless charity money is less so far than the money they have spent against the politicians trying to do anything about homelessness besides passively asking for business to "be responsible".
"Dilutes" stock value (per share) would possibly be more accurate? Keep throwing shares at execs; if the company is successfully, it's a dilution. If it fails, then at least they didn't waste real money.
SaaS growth strategy: a product marketing approach
Uber/airbnb/lyft were considered in the same tier as facebook/google before corona. With google also slowing hiring, are the engineers laid off all going to be absorbed by facebook?
Yahoo finance says their market cap is 4 billion [0] and yet they are getting a bailout worth 2.5 times their market cap. That's crazy.

[0]: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/lha.de/
And international exposure, Lyft is just in the US and a little in Canada.
Google Cloud opens its Las Vegas region
This is a garbage take
Are you still getting paid?

If so, maybe you could take your next several checks and send them to people who are out of work.

You should be willing to do your part, right?
You Need ModelOps to Scale
The folks participating in the protest are not at all lower on the socioeconomic latter, but predominately middle class. Black Americans, who tend to be poorer and less secure, support the lockdown at a higher rate than whites or other racial groups [0] (at least in Florida). Whites have the least support for a lockdown, but most still oppose reopening.

Lastly, at least some of the protests were funded by the DeVos family [1].

[0] https://poll.qu.edu/florida/release-detail?ReleaseID=3659

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/26/devos-family...
> entirely populated and funded by the public

You just described every single business in the whole world except those funded by taxpayer money (which is generally what is meant by "funded by the public"). Actually, YouTube isn't even funded by the public -- they're funded by advertisers.

> Its reasonable to have different rules for a local newspaper vs a worldwide monopolist.

All local newspapers are owned by large companies. As for monopolist, you can't just throw that around without argument. YouTube is far far from the only provider of online video.
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* Donated last month
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https://billionaireboard.com/billionaires/jack-ma
Wait, are you an owner of this?

> No terms are required to be agreed to if downloading directly.

That’s not how terms work... Downloading something from a deep link doesn’t mean it’s automatically WTFPL. (Unless you’re an owner and you say so, of course.)
I see that motion as the status quo. The velocity, maybe even the acceleration, towards enriching the 1% is the status quo. This is how things will continue to go if people leave the system alone, pandemic or not.
Yes, now "donate" to a health charity which buys pharmaceuticals from a company you have stock in. Bam, tax rebate for investing in your company.
> Meaninglessness can be countered by the voluntary adoption of responsibility.

This reminded me of Jordan Peterson
[dead] by itself is a shadowban. [flagged] [dead] is not.
Germans being German about coronavirus
you need mental power, intelligence to become a coder.
That seems like a fair criticism, this site appears to buy fully bought into the American exceptionalism story. While these folks should be taxed into the ground the wealth and experience they can personally contribute - while overwhelming compared to other individuals - is absolutely dwarfed by the ability of our society at large to address the pandemic. They may be a noticeable part (and I really do appreciate Bill Gates getting out on the media circuit to make it clear to folks that this happened once and it can happen again) but they aren't the solution themselves nor even a significant portion of it.
I don't really understand what you're saying here. Can you explain what you mean?
it reminds me of how i read somewhere the average citzen in china approves of their government while in the west this is hard to comprehend. think of the furor when google tried to do business there: dont they want the truth, dont they want freedom?? it turns out that actully more importance is placed on values like stability and order. its interesting to see in america the head nodding, that yes, health and safety is #1 above all else, no matter what cost (i dont mean economic cost!) -- i mean not freedom, not choice. anecdotally, it also reminds me of how doctors treated my terminally ill friend. submit yourself to drugs and surguries and live like hell but you will live a few months longer. instead the doctors should have been saying go away, live as best you can while you can! but that sentiment is technically against their duty. technically they were 'treating' her, 'helping' her. anyway this is just to say, a change is happening, a change possibly for the worse, but a change we ourselves are asking for (secure us, keep us safe, keep order... to hell with the truth and freedom, those values are for confederate flag waving 'rednecks')
Agreed. And looking at Koch donations... he's only "donating" to his own companies:

> Koch Industry's Molex is transforming its production line to help produce Sense's Biodetection new COVID-19 test that produces result in less than 10 minutes.

I wouldn't ever classify this guy as doing something "good", unless good is coincidentally beneficial to him.
There Is No Noise in a Covid-19 Emergency Room
Uber used to have higher prices (in my area) and a lower-quality UI. That's changed in the last year or so, especially now that Uber has all of the "ride safety" features that Lyft lacks.
My guess is both, they’re doing some cleanup and will go back to hiring.
Meanwhile American Airlines needs like 12 trillion dollars to keep the lights on. Can't wait for the day where we let that pathetic airline fail.
Sure, but billionaire money can often also be the result of other things being forcibly taken from society. You're not looking for gifts, you're looking for them to pay the actual cost for what they've obtained.

Examples include: Your data, subsidies from your tax dollars to create asymmetric markets, common things like water quality or environment, or legal asymmetry that allows for rent-seeking.
The ones who are properly taxed?
Do you count it as "unrest" when people just quietly ignore the restrictions without actively protesting? Because I see a lot of that, and more every day. In some rural counties the local Sheriffs have unilaterally decided not to enforce statewide "shelter in place" orders. I'm not justifying that behavior but it will inevitably increase week by week.
Isn't that just an excerpt? It links to WSJ at the end...
This is cool - thanks for sharing!
Not if the shortfall is made up via asset price inflation and dollar devaluation. Then the non asset owning class takes the brunt of the pain.

Which is what I believe has been happening for decades. Progressive taxation can help, but I doubt the political will exists to tax capital gains.
Interesting idea, but this implementation has UB:

typedef void* var;

struct Header {
var type;
};

// ...

#define alloc_stack(T) header_init( \
(char[sizeof(struct Header) + sizeof(struct T)]){0}, T)

var header_init(var head, var type) {
struct Header* self = head;
self->type = type;
return ((char*)self) + sizeof(struct Header);
}

The section "struct Header* self = head" is UB.
The alignement requirement of the local char array is 1 but the alignment
requirement of struct Header is that of void* which is probably 8.
Interesting site but they frequently use those donations for tax purposes and moving money around in particular ways to get it back (outside of just taxes).
Lets just say some of these things you claim I can't imagine - I have experienced myself as a child. So you are the ignorant one.
You really don't have to think about it. This all falls into the category of performance hacking. React renders are cheap, DOM renders are expensive. Extraneous React renders are only a potential issue if you're doing something ugly in your components.
I am surprised that nextcloud isn't cited in this article.

It could effectively replace iCloud, hackmd (maybe) and has calendaring features too.
I recall Lyft being the highest paying company with respect to rank, according to levels.fyi.

I guess I'm glad I don't work there right now.
Do you believe that the system of censorship by the CCP for China's population is worse than what YouTube did, and do you understand that the two doctors weren't detained by authorities and that they could find a host to post the video on again that isn't YouTube - and so how are they being prevented from speaking?

Distribution is very different than freedom of speech, and distribution of their video is allowed on the internet - however the internet is a platform to allow decentralized moderation, so then platforms on top of the internet can moderate depending on what they believe is [hopefully] best for society - and based on that people, viewers, will decide what platforms they will trust or watch content from and give their attention and support/money to - whether through shallow manipulative ads or payment.
VHS and TiVO have already established legal precedent: watching a video does not legally bind you to also watch the commercials.
Altruism doesn't exist. There are a lot of reasons people do things that are helpful to others, but they're all selfish. Maybe they're trying to assuage guilt; maybe they're doing it for attention; maybe they're doing it to deflect bad PR or engender good PR for their organization; maybe it's a pragmatic financial decision; maybe it's political; maybe it just pumps up their endorphins. No matter what, it's done because they get something out of it.

This doesn't make giving bad. You can be selfish and do a tremendous amount of good for others. There's nothing wrong with feeling good or being socially rewarded for helping. This idea that some forms of giving are "altruistic" and others are schemes or manipulations isn't helpful. Attacking a generous person's character because you suspect their motives are somehow impure for unrelated reasons isn't helpful.

By all means, call people out for their bullshit when their motives are hypocritical and transparent, but don't beatify some and demonize others because of unrelated faults in their character. They're all giving for selfish reasons.
Could be even crazier:

Air France / KLM has a 2B cap; they are getting bailouts to the tune of 2B-4B (dutch gov., amount to be determined) + 7B (french gov.)
First-time internet users in Nigeria use the internet in a unique way
She who pays the piper calls the tune
Yes, everything in Insomnia (Core) is now part of Insomnia Designer. You will notice the Core interface when switching to "debug" mode for an API spec. This mode provides access to existing Insomnia features to let you manually test and debug your API during the design process.
Or, instead of taking the lives of those who cling to it, we could enact sensible policies to re-engage the capital squandered by the richest in our society. "But that would be tantamount to thievery!" you say. Perhaps, but that seems better than murder.
It's pretty insane that the S&P500 is higher than it was during October last year, hell even something like 7% higher than it was last year May. There was a post on reddit joking about a guy going into a coma last year after having purchased a share of an S&P500 ETF, waking up today and hearing the news of a global pandemic, people were told to quarantine at home for more than a month, a quarter million people died, more deaths in the US than 20 years in the Vietnam war, unemployment at 20%. But when he looks at his stock account, it's in the green.

It feels like this is trickle-down economics again. Bail-out large companies by issuing cheap money, stock markets stay pumped, big companies don't go bankrupt, and hope employees don't get fired, and give each individual about 1 week of average income in the US as a little boost.

Meanwhile, 20% of people have last their jobs, the $1200 hasn't arrived or was already spent.
I think clarity is more important than conciseness. Furthermore, sometimes when explainng a complex topic I find myself being deliberately too verbose. I try to provide more context, like giving examples, anecdotes, explaing the same concept from different points of view, exploring contradicting ideas, etc.

good writing != concise writing
To call it socialism is incorrect.

Carl Bildt (former Prime Minister of Sweeden) said "Bernie Sanders was lucky to be able to get to the Soviet Union in 1988 and praise all its stunning socialist achievements before the entire system and empire collapsed under the weight of its own spectacular failures." [0]

Lars Løkke Rasmussen (former Prime Minister of Denmark) said "I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy" [1]

Seems like they both reject the idea of them being socialist countries. They are both non-socialist countries that have market economies. They just happen to have a larger welfare state than a lot of countries. Having a large welfare state has nothing to do with socialism though.

[0] https://twitter.com/carlbildt/status/1100039769810235393
[1] https://www.thelocal.dk/20151101/danish-pm-in-us-denmark-is-...
Insomnia is an extremely powerful tool, but most users love it for how simple and easy it is to use. In order to maintain this core tenant, Designer needs to be simple too, which is why we're releasing Insomnia Designer as a separate application, focused entirely on API design.
Well one thing - as an just an investor rather than a company owner, he doesn't get flack for the stuff 'his' companies do.

Perhaps he should - he owns a large stake in Coca cola - one of the largest plastic polluters in the world.

He also is a 'good investor' - ie an actual investor, helping to build conpanies over a long time, rather than a speculator.

Personality - being soft spoken and all that - has probably a big part to play as well.
How would you fix it?

I see the constant rehashing as a byproduct of the fact that the same old topics get reposted over and over again as they resurge in relevance.

I see this as a byproduct of crowd consciousness. Not everyone is going to see a post before it dips out of sight, so it's bound to pop back up again eventually (if it becomes relevant again), and then new people will see the second/third/fourth postings.

As such, the same rebuttals have to be posted over and over again, so that the new audience has contextual information.

It's not an easy problem to solve.
Some companies should be billion dollar companies with 30 employees, like when Instagram was bought out in 2012. Headcount is mutually exclusive from how much the enterprise makes and can return to shareholders.

If headcount is not directly helping that then it should not be an indefinite relationship.

Also, I'm available for hire as a CFO or board member if you think your company has challenges with adopting this market-relevant predilection and needs to make "the hard decisions".
Essentially, Microsoft/ Gmail/ whoever implemented your idea would develop an ecosystem of user generated content. So many different GUI's developed using a specific API to that platform (E.G. Outlook). I can download Outlook, and pick whichever GUI I want, some free, some I pay some outside developer. This 'Saves' Microsoft from ever becoming irrelevent some how, cause it has infinite addaptability. Kind of like Wordpress for email.
Nope. Because they have already paid all of this in taxes. It means, that the 10 bn won't get 'invested' by the government in another project, e.g., welfare benefits, infrastructure, health, or education. Alternatively, it means: nothing of all of those, but inflation will rise an additional 0.0001% (if the funding source is printing money vs. using tax payer money)
The distribution of RSUs at all major tech companies is very uneven. Most job titles don't get any, or just a token amount. Only executives and software engineers can negotiate for the large grants.

I'd guess less than 10% of employees probably hold more than 90% of RSUs everywhere (not that different from the stock market as a whole, where 10% of Americans own over 80% of the market).

So a 17% layoff might not touch the RSU-rich employees very much at all.
Thank you for this article.

I don't have the words to express how this article so accurately reflects my experience, other than gratitude that you have put this into words for me.

During Kavanaugh I told my partner that I would never stop being angry. He was shocked and eventually understood what I meant, which was that violent anger would evolve into the kind of stewing anger that would ultimately protect me, and us.

Thank you for caring. Thank you for caring for my soul. I wish I had the words to express to you how meaningful this post was to me.
That “she” is very forced.
Those that take an upper middle class salary and give away the other 999.9 million dollars. Funny how much that shortens the list.
RFC 2119:

> MUST NOT This phrase, or the phrase "SHALL NOT", mean that the definition is an absolute prohibition of the specification.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119