skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low end car flipper here, it really depends on what slice of the used car market you're talking about. Think about what kind of people buy what vehicles, the kind of money they have and where the supply of those vehicles comes from and it all makes sense IMO.

Used cars are an immensely diverse range of "products". You've got $500 Aveos that Jimbo or Manuel will have no regrets hauling an I-beam on the roof of, you've got $25k 25yo 4Runners that 25yo software engineers with six figures of salary and minimal expensive responsibilities will talk themselves into paying asking price for because it's what they grew up getting dragged around in.

The market for anything new enough to get a loan on is always inflated, obviously, that's what easy financing does.

For the last 4yr or so the bottom the the market, non-japanese compacts and subcompacts with 15k+, 90s junk that needs work, Altimas in perfect condition but with a time bomb CVT and 80k on them, etc, unfashionable midsize SUVs from the '00s was just fine. You could pick up running, driving, has one or two known mechanical issues that need to be addressed 10-25yo vehicles for $1500 all day long, non-running for even less.

The market for low mile, low flair, A to B commuting and family hauling vehicles in good cosmetic condition that people who think "good schools" means "no poors" and worry about what their neighbors think of their lawn buy for their kids to go to college in or slightly less well off kids have to buy for themselves after college were what was inflated, like 5k+ for a Japanese crossover from '01 with 250k on it inflated. These vehicles have become less and less common because the white collar upper middle class crowd that keeps things nice but changes cars decently regularly has been leasing more and more.

If you were wiling to clean the ever living crap out of a kid-stained interior or get some cosmetic body damage fixed (or just ignore it and live with the ugliness), or (get your pearls ready folks), <gasp>, drive a domestic that isn't a pickup, you could get cars of the same, age miles and mechanical condition for $1500-$3000 instead of $4k on up. These vehicles are plentiful because the middle class has been buying them CPO off lease and using the piss out of them hauling around their families, commuting a ton of miles, etc, etc and then ditching them for another one when they feel they are too old/beat. This is the niche I specialize in and I think these vehicles are a great value.

Basically the stuff that white collar professionals feel is the bare minimum of what they or their kids can drive without looking below their class has been ludicrously overpriced because (surprise, surprise) those people have a decent chunk of change to throw around and supply has been dwindling.
there's an awful lot of unsubstantive bullshit on the site. what do you expect?
The fact that H2 can't be stored as liquid, even under pressure makes me pretty doubtful. I suspect ethanol or plant-derived oil will beat out hydrogen for as long as batteries aren't up to the task.
I wonder on all those donations, how much will grant tax benefits meaning that those donations are actually partially paid by tax donors?
He's always been a friendly looking man, stays out of the limelight for the most part although his reputation precedes him, and gets off scott free for the simple fact that most of the public has no idea what berkshire hathaway invests in, or is really.
Mhm. Looks nice. Is there an equivalent for sway/Wayland?

My external monitors behave nicer w/dock un-dock under gnome/Wayland. I'm planning to give sway a test when I get around to upgrading to 20.04..
Even if the pool is allocated years ago, it's still effectively dilution (as before shareholders effectively owned a fraction of the unallocated sharepool).
What? I can think of several off the top of my head.

J. K. Rowling became a billionaire by writing the Harry Potter books. Oprah Winfrey became a billionaire through her brand as a talented talk show host. Michael Jordan became a billionaire thanks to his basketball skills. None of those are even remotely exploitative.
I feel like the marketing behind React's speed was similar to that of Clojure's. Neither one is particularly fast, though they tend to be fast enough. But I think they included good performance in their marketing to avoid arguments against using them "because they're slow".
activity diagram?
“Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code” at the European Lisp Symposium
I saw the talk live and have been positively surprised. The results are good but most important the approach is not invasive and leverages the bytecode compiler while managing to use the original GC.
This Reddit has a good discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/g9vdd0/bringing_gnu_emacs_to_native_code_at_the_european/

For the curios there is also a docker image: https://hub.docker.com/r/andreacorallo/emacs-nativecomp
VNET jails, as the author is using, also have a completely stand-alone network stack from the host-OS!
Mostly older FPS multiplayer games against friends. Garry's Mod, the Source version of Counterstrike. Haven't seen any issues at all, really feels like it's on local desktop (other than the quite obvious graphical degradation in fast-moving play). I have a hardwired ethernet connection to my router though; I bet it'd stink over Wifi.

Also - am not good. :)

EDIT the latency figures are nothing like 50ms though. Low tens maybe, total. This isn't a huge surprise though: on the same machine and connection I've also (using JamKazaam, not over Paperspace) had decent success doing online realtime music jam sessions with local friends too, where the latency tops out around 25ms - can't really get into the pocket playing funk, but just fine for rock.
How do you look for leads? Just tried and does the job fast indeed
"And I also think you take away responsibility of the viewers if they don't need to be critical about any information."

This is exactly the problem currently though - the general population doesn't have either the time or critical thinking developed to understand this.

Daniel Schmachtenberger on Eric Weinstein's The Portal episode #27 said: “... and the most awesome thing of the current system [of suppressing unruly people] we don’t even have to deal with protestors with tear gas or bean bags or whatever mostly, because mostly addiction, and student debt, and information overwhelm and those things deal with the people adequately so they don’t actually understand enough or care enough or have the capacity to organize very meaningly."

Eric replied: “We just legalize weed and make porn free and everyone’s de-motivated.."

- timestamped link to talk https://youtu.be/_b4qKv1Ctv8?t=3780 - but I'd highly recommend watching the whole interview.

The goal has to be getting the population healthy enough to be responsible and reasonable, rational enough, otherwise these hierarchal systems lead by people are guiding this like parents raise children until people are mature enough; the extreme of this would be CCP controlling China's population.
"none of them would actually have implemented it, except the only one with a history of going against party and lobby"

Why would the person with few allies and hostile relations with various power players be the one who could "actually" implement anything? Barack Obama had a senate majority that Bernie would have killed for in his hypothetical first term, but Obama still couldn't get his own party to even consider a public option. Things have changed compared to them, but not so much that any 51-seat senate majority could pass anything close to what Bernie calls for. It's beyond unrealistic to pretend otherwise.
I see a lot of places that seem to either think that:

1. Microservices will let them ship things faster or

2. It's microservices everywhere or nothing

Microservices might let you ship faster if you are really good at deciding where to draw the lines between services and really good at managing multiple deployment pipelines and all the infra - that's a pretty tough ask.

Also, if you have a monolith it's perfectly fine to pull out one or two parts that need to scale much more efficiently and leave most of your codebase in the monolith, but a lot of times I see companies think once you have created one microservice the monolith is now the worst thing possible and it needs to be broken up entirely.

My general rules for this are to always start in a monolith and break things out as they start to fail or break other parts of the codebase, and don't go all in just because you now have one microservice that works well by itself
Flashpaper is great if you have a trusted server and a trusted operator running it. Seriously, don't use a random flashpaper server on the internet if you want to keep your secrets secret.
As a longtime firefox user, I don't think this is true. At best it's a choice thing, I haven't run into memory issues in Chrome in a long time.

And IE being better than (any browser)? Let's not get carried away. They still have multiple zero day vulnerabilities discovered every year.
Are they? Is wealth inequality decreasing?

Those are rhetorical questions, of course. The answers are no, and no.

If billionaires overall do tend to donate significant portions of their wealth, then the fact that wealth inequality is increasing in spite of that practice is hard evidence that individual charity is an ineffective means of lifting people out of poverty. If the converse is true -- that they aren't donating their wealth -- then that too suggests that something like a state is necessary to force their hand.
I'm not sure that's the case, as they never made it into the FANG acronym. Even Twitter doesn't quite fit up there.
A hands-on introduction to static code analysis
That's sorta the crux of the matter - paying into society isn't a "gift" it's a debt. We all live together and support each other and nobody needs to get showered with glamour for doing their part according to their ability.

I don't want Billionaire to feel forced to give "true gifts" through social pressures or otherwise - I'd prefer if their wealth was properly utilized through a just level of taxation.
We were

https://says.com/my/news/drone-shots-of-bersih-4-show-how-ma...
Certainly Democrats are just as corrupt and hostile to facts as Republicans (the set of denied facts will be different of course). Only a partisan would claim otherwise.
Lyft and Uber are disproportionately impacted by coronavirus news, and the remdesivir drug trial seems to have been a success, so Lyft and Uber are up more than the rest of the market.
On the other hand, over 200 engineers on payroll is way more expensive than a couple handful!

Presumably you're getting significant value out of the additional engineering work in which case the architecture shift probably makes sense (to stay aligned with the expanded organizational structure), but there are also cases where a small and flexible team maintaining a simple monolith would be much more nimble and cost-effective.
>IMO pagination is garbage UX, any sane GUI tookit can render more then 100 items on screen.

Well, I guess that's the web in 2020 in a nutshell, lol. What would you do with a list of 100,000 items? Just slowly scroll them out, one by one while your scroll gets faster and faster? At one point, are you just a billion pixels down? What does "scrolling up" even mean down there? Or do we just limit all lists to 1000 items, period?
Microsoft is hiring for Jedi like crazy.
Homebuyers Confront Credit Crunch as Coronavirus Puts Lenders on Edge
Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing
> That's because Canada isn't particularly socialist

Indeed! Just as those in the States are asking for policies that aren't socialist, but democratic socialism. There is a difference!

No one is advocating for Venezuela, just the rest of the first world.
Indeed my loudest prescription to people doing service-oriented architectures of any kind is to simplify these arrows.

The common mistakes that I see are for two services to share read access to a common database, or to discover each other and send RPCs to each other. Both really dangerous for exactly this reason! The common database obscures how the two communicate with each other, and invariably everything connected to a database becomes one service -- call it a "mini-lith" if the overlapping sets created by databases do not cover the whole architecture. The problem is the preponderance of implicit arrows; when I reason about what it means to make this datetime nullable so that I can store such-and-so, I need to consider whether everybody who can read that datetime will be prepared for its nullability.

RPCs and APIs are the same way. I add a contract about what I am outputting and then everybody needs to know about my contracts and I must commit to them or else modify all of my consumers. So because the arrows are bi-directional everything just becomes one monolith again.

Instead, I recommend message brokers -- all that pubsub stuff. A given service tells all the other services simultaneously "this happened," and it is their responsibility in their codebase to listen for that event and then say "okay, then this must happen." Publishing a new version of the event is done by just emitting both the old and the new version of the event and perhaps having a shared standard for deprecation across the codebase so that you get deprecation warnings in your prod logs.

Every service has its own database and they generally only communicate to each other through these broadcasts, makes the arrows into the "stuff you do see".
Eric Hoffer on Intellectuals
Also no the first time the government is bailing them out
It does, it's the second top-level bullet point:

> Google Talk, a defunct instant messaging service released by Google in 2005

The page was last edited over a week ago, so it's not like I'm seeing a newer version than what you're seeing, either.

Or did you think "GTalk" was an official brand? Google has never abbreviated it that way, only users.
A DAF is just donating to a charity with an extra step, so let's put that aside.

They can't further "any" goal they want, it must be a charitable goal. Bill Gates can't take money from the B&M Foundation to buy himself a yacht. I don't really see what your point is. Anyone that donates money is avoiding taxes to spend money on something they want, where "something they want" is a charitable goal.
Speaking as an ugly person, the problem is the majority(all?) of ugly people dont want their peers.Solitude is preferable.
Few people have the attention span anymore to read all of the copy in BMW's old ads.

Few brand owners or ad agencies also want to produce an ad that doesn't play globally. It's harder for things to get lost in (literal) translation when there are fewer words to translate. It's cheaper too!
Donations this month is a meaningless metric.

Total % of net worth would be the obvious metric, wouldn't it?

Is this only US billionaires? There are 614 billionaires in the US according to Forbes[0], there are only 29 listed here, ~5% of the total.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/
Investing in your primary residence should have a small return, but much less than investing in the market.

So from a purely dollars and cents point of view it makes the most sense to live with your parents forever, or find the smallest apartment in the worst neighborhood with the worst commute and the most roommates. But that doesn't make sense. So what does make sense?

Look at the opportunity cost of your house. What is your expected small return if you buy a large house vs. your larger return if you get a small apartment and invest the rest in the market? Remember to include all the cost of owning, taxes, maintenance, etc.

That difference, the opportunity cost, is what the decision to buy a house will cost you.

My opinion is that you should still go ahead and buy the house, knowing the opportunity cost. What are you working so hard for? A nice sized house, a car, vacations, money for retirement.

Don't buy a home so expensive that you can't save for retirement that you want or the vacation you want. Banks will let you borrow enough money to get yourself into this situation. It's up to you to figure out your whole financial picture, and buy a house that fits your income.

So go ahead and spend your money on those things, as long as they're in balance with each other. A balance that's right for you. Some people really want to retire early. Some people really want a large house. Each person has a different balance that's right for them.
This list is damning to me. So much greed. Who cares if you donated 36 billion if you are removing 74 billion from circulation at the bottom and sitting on top of your pile like Smaug in the Hobbit.
Companies may not want to people who are only after the money, but they also do not ant to pay more than the absolute minimum for the workforce, they can get away with.

Say you are working at company A for $100K/yr for position X. Along comes company B, which needs to fill a Position A which you perfectly fit in. And assume they can pay $150K/yr to fill this position. But if you are like any average employee, a 10-15% increase in your salary can and will make you jump ship.

So, if they announce $150K/yr compensation on the kb listing, your brain will switch to 50% increase mode and knowing that you can get this much from them, you will most probably not settle for something less. On the other hand, let's assume the salary is not in the job listing and you get to the interview and asked the dreaded question, "What is your expectation of a yearly compensation for this position?" I am sure you will dance around a bit saying things like "Market rate" or "I am sure you will pay me in accordance with industry norms" etc. but when the push comes to the shove, you will give them a figure like $120K, a 20% increase if you will, on your current salary, to give yourself a wiggle room. And if they are like any average employer, they will low-ball you a bit to see what you are amenable to and come back with something like $116K. You are happy that you've got 16% raise while 10% would suffice you to jump ship. The new employer saved $34K/yr on you. Only you by the way and this practice can be multiplied many, many times, ending up with a huge chunk of change.

On the flip side, let's assume you were making $160K at your current position and you came to the interview to wrangle say, a $175K salary. When you say that, first they will dismiss your candidacy and look for someone cheaper. Failing to find this person, they know they can come back to you and say, yes we are willing to pay you $170K/yr, knowing your price. All they have lost is a few days or weeks in the process.

It is like the prostitute story: The guy sees a pretty woman at the bar.He approaches her and says,

"I will pay you a million dollars if you have sex with me tonight"

Woman thinks for a moment and says "yes".

The man turns around thinks for a minute and says

"How about $100?"

Woman frowns and feels insulted. Comes back saying

"what are you thinking? I am a whore or something?"

The guy answers.

"We established that fact that you are a whore. I am just trying to figure out your price"

Negotiating for a job is just that and as a company you do not want to trap yourself in a corner.
There is no direct link between printing money and inflation. But 0.0001% seems too optimistc.

For example the EZB has about 5 Trillion Euros out. 10B more would increase the amount of EZB money by 0.025%.
> Cheap self-help porn targeted at overachievers

That does somewhat sum up things. For me, many of these self-help things are there to self-help the author more than anybody else.

But the whole aspect of boredom leading into depression is not wrong, when we keep raising the bar for what we define of happiness, we only increase the scope of what is boredom and deny our brains it's dopamine hits. Over time, we start to redefine ourselves and the long roads of self loathing and useless start to divide the mind down paths that serve no useful destination.

For me, redefining happiness and finding enjoyment in the small things in life works better than any single bit of advice I would give a younger self of mine. Others will have their own ways, but everybody is different. Advise, however great is like a pair of shoes - one size does not fit all perfectly.
STEM jobs are starting to feel the pain too. They also make their money by selling to other companies and people who are hurting. The Behemoths are doing alright but there are so many business areas of software that are about to crash into the rocks fairly soon because their customer base has disappeared.
Once one is there, it's easy to see that there are also many other sequencings in the database, isolated on different locations. E.g.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MT370930

"collection_date="2020-03-22""

"Submitted (22-APR-2020) Center for Research on Influenza Pathogenesis (CRIP), New York, NY 10029-6574, USA"
Source that is linked in the article: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1759509/0001...
If I found out that a bunch of my coworkers had been laid off in a video meeting, I’d be bummed because they got laid off, but I’d understand that companies have to make hard decisions sometimes.

If I learned that the accidentally visible filename of the PowerPoint in that meeting was “EjectorSeat.pptx”, I’d be some combination of angry and alarmed about management’s attitude. That would be a definite “update my resume and call up some former colleagues for lunch” kind of moment at the very least.

I think people reasonably expect that when a company makes a serious decision that affects hundreds of people’s livelihoods, that they effect a pretty somber tone.
It's more complicated than that, as far as I understand. If you shift your money into a foundation, under some constructions, you can retain a lot of control over how it's spent, while avoiding taxes. Later you can pass control (and hence effectively wealth) along to your kids, this time avoiding inheritance taxes.
Punchline - "Although not statistically significant, patients receiving remdesivir had a numerically faster time to clinical improvement than those receiving placebo among patients with symptom duration of 10 days or less (hazard ratio 1·52 [0·95–2·43])."

That said, this morning Gilead reported that in their own pivotal trial that the drug met it's primary endpoint.[1] What we don't know is how big of an effect it was.

[1]https://endpts.com/gilead-pivotal-covid-19-study-of-remdesiv...
For more on this, I highly recommend Anand Giridharadas's 2018 book "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World" on the problems behind billionaire philanthropy.

It feels more and more relevant in a post COVID world.
This is absolutely true and this would get a lot worse if people decide to end the lockdown early. If one needs money to feed their family now, the chance of them either passing or being incapacitated are not to be taken lightly.

I had hoped the government would freeze all the mortgages, bills and offered real assistance to people in need. The stimulus check for the hoi polloi is a joke. I personally don't need it, why did I get it? I know I could donate it to the poor but that's not the point I'm trying to make. That stimulus seems to be a way of saying "but we already helped you".
Sadly the truth is that except inheriting money it's nearly impossible to become a multi billionaire without doing ruthless maybe legal but immoral actions (or having someone do them for your).

E.g. Suckerberg did questionable business tactics to kick out early invester which where the people which enabled him to become successful. After this Facebook under him repeatedly acted in bad faite to gain a competitive advantage even if this meant lying to the government, smaller business being unfairly destroy and even lives being lost.

I'm not sure if he even once put social responsibilities over long term profit. At least it looks that way.

And compared to many other companies this might even be harmless.

Through not that this isn't true for (multi-)millionaires, you can get that while acting morally responsible. It's just harder and you need more luck.