skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why this mechanism (converting potentially derelict bonds into equity) isn't more widespread. In cases where the underlying company reasonably could be expected to continue operating were its debt ratio lowered, apart from legitimate resistance of bondholders expecting debt+interest payments why wouldn't this outcome be preferred to bankruptcy?
If you want to use a 'dynamic' script, why not pipe from stdin instead?
TBH (and IMHO of course) both OpenGL and Vulkan aren't all that great APIs to work with.

OpenGL was a nice API up until early 2.x versions, after that the move away from the fixed-function-pipeline would have needed a clear cut instead of the gradual stacking of new features, and since then two or three other of such "clear cuts" would also have helped, similar to how each new D3D version was incompatible with the previous version (but still supported for a long time).

Vulkan had a problem right from the start that it had to wrap an explicit low-level API over very different GPU architectures. And without the "wiggle room" of more abstract APIs this ended up in a complex API and high number of vendor-specific extensions in a very short time. As a result Vulkan was already bigger and more complex right from the start than OpenGL was after two decades.
From the product overview page (https://blockstream.com/satellite/):

"The Blockstream Satellite network broadcasts the Bitcoin blockchain around the world 24/7 for free, protecting against network interruptions and providing anyone in the world with the opportunity to use Bitcoin."

Jesus...
There’s way more now. If it’s not part of the joke that’s pretty sad.
I am surprised the Avis has to goto the junk bond market - the cruise line I can sort of get
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Just a comment, that i don't want to sound as a critique or a judgement of any kind...there's is a great value in re-evaluating and without this step the "grit" becomes easily stubbornness...BUT it's also very important not to use the "re-evaluation" to mask or hide 1) lack of clear objectives (why am I doing this thing that i don't particularly enjoy) 2) laziness (it's sooooooo easy to fall into the "i'll do it tomorrow" mentality).

But honestly having a clear objective and a reasoning behind achieving it that we believe in and you get all the grit you need to achieve it!

The gym is the classic example, most people sign up but they aren't too convinced about it...why are you there?where are you trying to get?will this reasoning motivate you after the initial "this is not bad" or "hey I am improving quickly" phase?

ps disclaimer I don't go to the gym (but I do other sports)
Even people with jobs tighten their belts in a recession. Your job could be gone tomorrow. Who was taking vacations in 2008, or 2009 for that matter? Maybe if you have scratch, but 4 in 10 American's can't come up with $400 let alone a vacation.
What Arduino to Use?
I know `nano` does this.
And for the numerically challenged like me who like to see visualizations. First line is 200k and second is 3M

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End unemployment permanently in the USA, Stephanie Kelton style.

Which would then force capitalists to compete for labour driving wages growth and productivity. Once the threat of unemployment is lifted, Uber, et al can be allowed free rein and the magic of capitalism will rapidly deliver a more effective transport system (for example).

"But what about the jobs" is about protecting the old and staid from disruption by the new and vigourous.
I think you are framing the problem incorrectly. I think that is this only about sheding some light to this problem, and beeing the intelligent humans that we are, take action. We are consuming much more meat than we need, as soon as you notice that, you can act and reduce some of you meat intake by replacing it with some good source of plant protein. When was the last time you had chickpeas, for example? Or any good source of legume protein?
It is easier to start and grow a business when there are less regulations around employees. Every employee in America is also free to walk away from their job without any notice. These are both facts and have allowed for vast commercial growth and innovation in America (and in countries with similar setups).

Whether you (can) take advantage is completely orthogonal to the original question of why the USA is "an aberration in this regard", and I would rather not devolve into yet another rehash about fairness and opportunity.
I used to but then I had one app where the developer switched to a rental model but didn't let existing customers continue with the old model.

I don't have any particular problems with the rental model but in this case I had bought it on the basis of it not being that.
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I used one extensively to map residual stresses in sintered ceramics
Of course! I believe almost all PHP devs noticed, they have terrible slowdown by Doctrine and used XDebug to check where is the problem. I am not PHP dev anymore and I hope it has improved a lot since my last adventure with this ORM but I'd still advocate to not use it on client-facing interface - you can use Doctrine only for database management (CLI), while for web interface use raw PDO or equivalent (Eloquent). You can also use cache or transform page into static-site. Sky is the limit.
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Are we looking at the same markets? We are still below where we were, and a pullback after an initial legdown is expected. Look at the chart from 2008. Leg down, pull back, some time at the top of the roller coaster to look around, then the real big second leg down that just pummels the market.
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I don't know the extent to which this is true, but even then, we do know the average deaths in previous years and we do know the actual deaths reported and can get an idea of high how the discrepancy could've been.

In the case of Germany, there would be 12,000 weekly deaths on average, versus about 2000 weekly deaths due to COVID-19 at the peak - that is within the variance caused by the seasonal flu. It would not have been a suspicious rise.
Why is there most capital available in America? Why would investors choose to go there if businesses were not easier to start, grow and exit?
Unfortunately I am with you.

I even decided to close the browser tab when I see any of the following:

* Full screen "Join our email list".
* Full screen "Subscribe now".
* Annoying ReCapthas.
* The loading takes more than 10 seconds (it's unbelievable how often this happens).
* Login to see our content you just found on [search engine].

You could argue I miss out by doing so, but this is not how I experience it at all. I just don't want to waste time one such crap. I'm voting with my visit so to speak.
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Title is pure clickbait, plus Medium limits free views, so I’m not going to click your link. That doesn’t mean it’s not potentially an interesting article. May I suggest editing the title or providing a synopsis in the comments.
> Basically computers can run much faster if you use incredibly expensive or experimental materials. The major roadblock is really mass production. I'm certain there are black projects doing all sorts of custom hardware behind the scenes, most likely for military applications.

No. The CPUs on supercomputers are basically the same as what you can purchase commercially. What distinguishes supercomputers from "the cloud" is better networking.

> Single threaded performance is a huge priority because most problems we are interested in cannot be made parallel and hence do not benefit much from multicore.

The few big problems very interesting to militaries are all embarassingly parallel. There are no super-secret CPUs that have better single-threaded performance than what is available commercially.
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Interestingly, a documentation overview says that tb-rl is an allowed value:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/P...

But the detailed documentation it links to does not:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/w...

I had a look in Bugzilla and couldn't find anything specific to tb-rl, but did find an ancient meta bug for writing-mode which links to millions of other bugs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=writing-mode
It's weirdly nostalgic, like playing the original "Wolfenstein 3D": there were effectively no visual cues for which wall panels were secret doorways so to find all of the goodies I ran along the edges of rooms pressing each panel in turn, endlessly hearing the flat farting tone that confirmed that yet another one did nothing useful.

Note to UI designers: nostalgia doesn't necessarily mean "good". I can be nostalgic for my grandmother's cabbage soup, doesn't mean I want a daily banquet of the stuff.
The proof are the many valuable American companies making world-changing products used globally and constantly copied by many other nations with their own domestic clones.
Is there a <vague object name with high number of definitions> in this picture?
Windows .bat files are notorious for this behaviour; disappointing to see it in bash.
There are UIs on Linux (& *BSDs) that you cant get anywhere else - tiling window managers. I'd argue that a tiling WM is the greatest UI for a poweruser/programmer/devops. There is a learing curve, but once you memorize a few hotkeys you wont be able to go back to a floating windows mess.
I'd argue, its not impossible. There might be people who are able to manage everything, we just don't know.
It's not the whole web, but there's a lot of development going on in terms of the semantic web on Wikidata (wikidata.org).
They might not be a gritty writer. But they are a good writer.
Huh? Literally the first sentence in that article starts with

> At-will employment is a term used in U.S. labor law for contractual relationships [...]

Emphasis on contractual.

Or am I missing something?

A contract that can be dissolved at will is still a contract. Just like you can cancel your Netflix subscription at will, and it's still a valid legal contract.
There's a pretty interesting podcast interview with the author here: https://cppcast.com/circle-language/

I find the idea of using this as a rapid testing and exploration of potential new C++ features quite interesting.
But can't you make the same argument about bandwidth? Every second that the processing units are computing, terabits of bandwidth are unused.
I still have issues with the back button. Sometimes I have to open the location bar before being able to press back (and then back again to go where I want), but otheriwse I am a huge fan
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In a recession? I think not, even without a pandemic.
Thanks, indeed with nano I can reproduce this.

One way to check how the editor behaves is to run

ls -li run.sh

before and after editing the script. The first number in the output is the inode of the file; if it stays the same then the file was overwritten.
User name doesn't check out. ;)

Truth be told, you hit the nail on the head for me, at all the different levels of the issue that you covered. As the years go by I feel more and more grateful that I'm still alive, and though I didn't do as much as I should have in nurturing my relationships as a young man, I'm really grateful I either did just enough - or am plain lucky - to have relationships to which I can now give my time and attention.
Ok this is nice but you this would be rougly the same in Lisp, apart from AST constructors ("newIdentNode()",...), which would simply be backquote/unquote. Plus you have to write enumInfo[0], enumInfo[1] instead of pattern matching.
I can't think of any way for 1 * 1 to be concatenation.

I think the point GP was making is that a monoid has something to do with a function f that takes two arguments a and b where there is a single value for b such that f(a, special_value) == a. I think.

As someone who doesn't really understand FP concepts I would probably call those functions "functions that can sensibly be used in a call to array.reduce"
This is actually one of the possible outcomes of bankruptcy. The business may be liquidated but it's not the only option. There may be a restructuring and creditors may become the new shareholders after the orginal shareholders are (in most cases) wiped out.
Invest 500k+ in the US to get the investor visa.
If x and y are finite floats (not NaN or ±Infinity), with x != y, then x - y != 0. This is true for any pair of floats only because of denormal numbers. If there were no denormals (or denormals were flushed to zero), then if |x - y| < 2^-127 then x - y would become zero.
Yeah, PHP scripts in CRON, especially those using some relational database were my nemesis that time too. The nice thing, which in PHP 5.5 was introduced is generators, that almost completely resolved the problem with memory leakage in such scripts IMHO.

[0]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.generators.overview.p...
The rental car market is strongly tied to the travel (both business and leisure) which has crashed. Why would it be surprising if a rental car company is in financial trouble?
Because the dollar is the world reserve currency, and lots and lots of large pension funds, university endowments and family offices spend tiny proportions of their assets on VC (as it's expected to be uncorrelated with market returns).

VC's tend to be look a person in the eye and judge his (almost always) character. They don't like travelling, so most of their investments are made in the Bay Area.

Coupled to this, there's much more availability of angel funding because of the previous unicorns (paypal, eBay, Google, Facebook et al) so it's easier to get started.

There are definitely some cultural issues at play also, but fundamentally the reason that the US has such a high proportion of tech giants (which seems to be what you're focusing on) is the low cost of capital caused by the dollar's exorbitant privilege.
I'd assume most of their business is renting to people who've just flown somewhere, and right now hardly anyone is doing that.
I am married to a Buddhist. Shit like this is always offensive to her. Using the Divine Teacher to sell random stuff.

That's why actual buddhist countries absolutely ban this sort of thing. (Try to name something after Buddha in Thailand or Sri Lanka.)

They are using religious and holy words for their benefit.

I personally do not care that much, since I am not a buddhist.
Meh, it's not impossible. You probably need to move to Ireland or the UK though, as that's where most of the larger tech companies have most of their roles.
So, what can you actually do with this knowledge?

Short their stock?

Raise awareness of their fraud, while holding a short position?
I am very close to many, although I am not one.
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Oh I know. I have toc:nil as my default because it annoys me.

It's just a bit of a giveaway as to how the file was made.
>Why ban that, but not misinformation about the pandemic?

Wearing Mask a few months ago was misinformation by many. Which most of the world finally revert course later but still not agreed by WHO.

So who is to define what is "misinformation"?

For every single downvote I got on HN for stating Hong Kong got it right with mask in March, do I get a brownie point for every single US citizen that is wearing a mask now?

I dont have an answer, but I am leaning towards the same thinking as OP. Because everything I said right now is considered as misinformation by the Hong Kong government. Personally I think "misinformation" is a pandora box that should never be opened / used.
> The reason I’ve stuck with the things I have isn’t because of grit, as I might have once believed. It’s because I enjoy doing them.

“Enjoyment” is only one way of achieving the focus required to succeed. Frustration and ego (e.g. proving yourself) are just as common and useful. The trick is priority ranking what we focus on given our comparative advantage and the opportunity for improvement. What drives our relative ranking algorithm differs between people in any given situation.

Grit is the ability to overcome what Paul Graham calls “schlep blindness”. Grit applied to low impact problems is what the cool kids call “bike shedding “.
Two popular Japanese grammar books among beginner adult learners are Minna no Nihongo (popular within Japan) and Genki (popular outside Japan and among English speakers) series.

Pimsleur Japanese audio series is a good start if your interest is listening and speaking Japanese.

The writing and reading system is made up of Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.

Why do you want to learn Japanese? Answer to this question will be the primary driver on deciding an appropriate learning strategy.

Review the starter guide in wiki and beginner sticky threads at https://www.reddit.com/r/learnjapanese

You can find inexpensive Online tutors on iTalk.
Because it uses a religious and holy figure to sell something banal.

Try to imagine naming moving service "movingJesus" in a deeply Christian country, for example.
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You can still distribute macOS apps on your own, just have to get users to trust you.

Why do you want to publish on the Mac App Store? If you think there's an advantage, then the costs are justified.
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COVID-19 isn't giving everyone "the worst flu", certainly not to the extent that it requires a hospital visit. Most confirmed cases report mild symptoms. Without the expectation of having contracted COVID-19, getting a cold - even a relatively bad one - would not cause panic.

You're also more likely to develop pneumonia from Influenza than from COVID-19, especially if you're young. If you presented to a doctor oblivious of COVID-19 (or SARS), they would assume it is Influenza.
It exists since the very first Firefox version (and probably even before)

After Firefox 3 (which introduced site specific zoom feature) you can set the below config option for old behavior

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.zoom.siteSpecific
It's basic microeconomics. Firms produce widgets until the marginal profit they get from the widgets goes down to 0. The marginal profit is based on the marginal cost of producing a widget and the current price of the widget. If the price goes up, the firm can now afford to produce more widgets. If the state introduces price controls to keep the price fixed during increased demand, the company cannot afford to produce more to meet this demand and shortages will result.

Normally shortages lead to increased price in the short term and in the long term lead to increased production and movement to the price equilibrium.
You realize other countries have VCs too right? Yet hundreds of foreign billions still go to America because it's a better environment for innovation and produces bigger and more impactful companies. Your 3rd point even relies on it.
Was this in classes for English as a second language?

Because, as a native English speaker, this seems like misinformation to me, perhaps partly influenced by your teacher having a first language where nouns do still have gender.
Are you wondering how much CO2 you have emitted using Netflix during lockdown?
Well you're right, we just need to get rid of half the people then we can start working on that. What do you suggest we do with them?
Bazel is definitely superior if you can switch to it. If the rest of the teams are using their myriad different tools then it takes time and resources to migrate to Bazel.
Perfectly agree that this is preferable to bankruptcy. I might have worded myself ambiguously -- the emergency government loan might be a sort of bailout, but it wasn't a gift to the shareholders. When I hear bailout, I normally expect the latter.

The government is expecting the loan to be repaid, and to make that expectation likely, they're requiring the company to use market mechanisms to strengthen its balance sheet. The result in this case is that existing shareholders are practically wiped out.

In the case of Norwegian, this is pretty clear-cut. They've been on the verge of bankruptcy before, and their losses now are mostly due to foreign routes shutting down. Even if you accept the somewhat dubious rhetoric that compensation is mandated when losses are partly due to government involvement, it doesn't apply to this case. There was no way they could service their debt during the Covid crisis.

Some sharehoders were expecting the government to give an unconditional loan to be defaulted on later, or participate in a stock offering at prices high enough to preserve their ownership percentage.

This is an unequivocal message to shareholders not to expect that sort of rescue operation in the future. Run your company with a debt ratio that will let you survive unexpected hardships, or accept the risk of facing such hardships on your own.
I think I have a PTSD and I get scared of Firefox announcements. I feel like it is a Russian Roulette of speed improvements or random removal of features.

This looks very positive but I don't understand it, I have the extensions installed on my mobile since ages. So I look at the text and it says that it is based on recommended extensions. Recommended on what criteria I always wondered ? Business or security friendly? Or user friendly? How come uBlock is not recommended? That means that "recommended extensions" is not only a label for user assistance but also part of Firefox strategic decision making, oh my.

Is it a ploy to finally embed them to the severely limited IPhone experience as preexisting features rather as extensions, a long con to bypass Apple restrictions through initial Android introduction?

As I said I don't see what will change for me, I have already installed them for years. And they will stay installed until they become unavailable due to one strategic decision or another.
Thanks! So I dont need to register every sub-domain? I thought that I must register every sub domain name on my DNS config.
> Choice example: does a time period "from January 2019 to January 2020" include two Januaries? The answer to this question would change, sometimes twice a week, when asked of the "product owner".

Unfortunately, the only way you can protect yourself is to have a paper trail. If the PO says something, write it down in your tracker (Jira, Trello etc.), or at least an email. If the PO is unclear, write the answer according to how you understand it and ask directly ("Is my understanding correct").

If the PO changes its mind, document that as well.

It shouldn't be necessary, and in many companies it is not, but some environments are toxic.
For California residents, the top state schools are ~$57k in tuition for all 4 years (total). Yes, American private universities would cost more, but that's a choice to pay more if you think it's worth it.
I guess Objective-C/Cocoa might have not changed much between the last HyperEdit version and now. If the developer organized his codebase well, replacing the old webview with the new stuff and so on should be less work than rewriting the whole app (IMHO).

I haven't coded for the mac in more than a decade but what I remember from ObjC/Cocoa was that it was quite pleasant to use and very powerful. By powerful I mean that the ratio between LoC and smiles on my face was skewed towards smiling.
Looks like we're setting ourselves up for a junk bond bubble down the road.
Can you detect any shenanigans going on at Tesla?

If so, then this would be a very good stock to short.
Well now that I know it was a binary choice, yes taking the 95% dilution seems like the best option without knowing anything else about that company's financials.
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That is not a proof for the question. You seem invested in your believes and either don't know or care about scientific evidence to back them up.

There is nothing more to gain here, have a good day.