skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that provides coverage for more than 24 million motor vehicles owned by more than 15 million policy holders as of 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEICO
> government agencies and law enforcement … to be honest, I have no idea why they should be interested, but surely, they will.

This one’s easy. Bob commits a crime. Police think there’s an accomplice. So, they use a contract tracing system to identify and start investigating Bob’s direct and second-order “contacts”.

Note - this is independent of the actual implementation, which does seem fairly secure against such uses. Still, I worry that given the public nature of the “infected” list, and that phones automatically add themselves to the list, there are some statistic correlations which could be made.
Choosing Clojure: Part 1
I’m a recent subscriber and i really enjoy your material. Have y’all through about something similar for the aero side of aerospace?
This follows a similar move by JP Morgan Chase:

> Due to the economic uncertainty created by COVID-19, we’re temporarily not accepting applications for new home equity lines of credit (HELOC). This will protect both you and the bank.

https://www.chase.com/content/chase-ux/en/personal/home-equi...

From Wikipedia:

> A HELOC differs from a conventional home equity loan in that the borrower is not advanced the entire sum up front, but uses a line of credit to borrow sums that total no more than the credit limit, similar to a credit card. HELOC funds can be borrowed during the "draw period" (typically 5 to 25 years). ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_equity_line_of_credit

This has two main implications:

1. Two major banks are now worried about consumer solvency (and/or real estate prices) to the degree that they're forgoing HELOC origination profits across the board. An alternative response could have been to simply raise interest rates on these loans. The fact that the loans were suspended suggests a lot more afoot than meets the eye. Those suggesting to "cash-out refi instead" may be surprised to find in the coming weeks that these loans have also been terminated, or saddled with terms that make them unattractive.

2. Consumers who were planning to tap home equity to pay for monthly expenses will not be able to do so.

This could spell a lot of trouble moving forward. US consumers view their homes as a kind of ATM, dispensing dollars on demand through HELOCs. That money can be used for literally anything.

Without an easy source of credit to tap, where will the American consumer turn? In increasing order of existential risk:

1. Sale of big-ticket property (houses, boats, cars, cutting short college degrees).

2. Credit cards

3. Payday loans

4. Default on other loans

5. Bankruptcy protection

These options magnify bad decisions made in the past. Selling big-ticket items drives down the market price of the underlying assets, which leads to more distress, and so on.

Credit cards and payday loans charge indefensibly-high interest rates that can easily lead consumers further down the ladder of insolvency.

Bankruptcy filings destroy money by wiping loans off the balance sheets of banks. Banks respond by tightening lending standards, which drives the cycle further down.

How will employers likely respond?

1. Hiring freezes

2. Pay cuts (nominal or real, through increased employee contributions to health care plans)

3. Bankruptcy

All of these things, from stress on consumers to pressure on businesses, are deflationary. Expect the value of cash to increase compared to the value of stuff.

How to approach what lies ahead? If you're in debt, get out now. Then stay out. Deflation wipes out debtors as they're forced to pay back loans with ever-appreciating dollars.
One nice thing about Go and C vs Java, is that a program can be (statically) compiled into a single, stand-alone executable that have no external dependencies.
Major Shareholder.
Did the Fed never buy corporate bonds?
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, even when another comment was provocative. It just makes the thread even worse.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Note this one:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
"In 2008, a recession triggered mass job loss. Today, mass job loss resulting from the virus lockdowns has triggered a recession"

While what triggered this is different, because one has a direct impact on the other the OP is still right about the housing bubble IMO.

Trigger (virus) --> mass job layoff in directly affected industries (e.g. travel) --> recession --> more job losses in
second order affected industries (e.g. advertising, food supply) etc. ... --> ultimately impacting asset prices like houses which grew too much too fast
There are many AWK implementations, OSX I think have subpar AWK. GAWK was fast, last time checked.
45 to 90 mins to update my Macs. They might not reboot 5 to 10 times but it's not quick.

19.04 Ubuntu just died on me today (I know some expert could have gotten in working). Apparently 19.04 support ended and someone took down the servers. So trying to update would tell me something about the servers having no release file. And they wouldn't let me update to 20.04 until I patched 19.04. I never modded anything. Whatever broke it broke itself. I searched the net for answers but my search foo sucked. Someone said download the 19.04 ISO and extract the sources.list file out. I did, it had different repos but got the same errors (with the source urls pointing to the new places of course)

So, 8 hours later I just finished reformatted the drive and installed 20.04

Yep, Linux is painless :rolleyes:
law enforcement already has location from cell tower data.

to be able to read the ids from contact tracing apps, they need to capture the phones and decrypt them, at which point there's probably more evidence to be found than some random ids
On the other hand, the migration into cities that we hear so much about is mostly among a fairly narrow demographic (young and college educated) and isn't really a huge number in percentage terms. (And it's essentially just a reversal of a net outflow that took place over decades.)

So I'm not really convinced that if some of the people who thought urban living was for them now have second thoughts, there will be a lot of problems accommodating them with housing. And again, a lot of the jobs are out in those suburbs anyway. A lot of the people who moved into cities did so because they wanted to, not because they could walk to their jobs from there.
were you using a desktop or a phone?
With one ever so tiny tweak, this would be an apt metaphor.

It should be "The Design Squiggles" plural.

Design process is rarely a continuous line or a singular path.

You generate, observe, understand, and decide. Repeat. The squiggles can take on different forms (they are squiggles!) but they do take on a shape of their own.

If anything, I think it would be interesting and valuable to look at the patterns of the squiggle groups to see what those may tell us about the designer and the scenario.
1) there are winners and losers in gambling too. 99.9% of trades are gambles, not value investments. you can more charitably call it providing liquidity to the value investor, but that's only true of the better known ~20% of equities.

2) retail passive funds are long-term investors, and pricing blips like this will be washed away in the long run. and it's likely a tiny exposure relative to the overall size of the fund.

3) it's an ingenious and mirthful move to target the greedy vs. true investors. if there aren't negative repercussions to the gambling, you'd lose the drive to optimize mispricings and arbitrage opportunities out of the system.

edit: note that the likely purpose of opening up the market to "unsophisticated" investors is to provide added volume and liquidity to "sophisticated" investors, not to provide economic opportunities to the unsophisticated.
This is not adequate. The + character is very well known part of standard and it is very simple to remove it, one search and replace would do on whole email list.
Houston, TX commits to purchasing 100% renewables, $65M in Savings over 7 Years
Top Python Functions I Wish I Knew Earlier
I shipped a word processor that formatted the hard drive every 1024 saves
It was also a way for small timers to get into mail order business without an inventory.

Of course it meant thin margins, especially if you were getting print ads as well, but some people got it to work.
I Use it to manage my personal backlog (work and personal goals boards) and as a note-keeping replacement (lots of templates for meeting summaries, daily meetings, one on one etc).

I have a daily page that summarizes all of my tasks for today (from all of my workspace) professional and personal and I start my day looking at this board.

I think Notion is very good for this purpose. I had no luck trying to convince my organization to transform from Atlassian tools towards this unified solution.
This is one of those "hidden in CSS" sites so disabling JS doesn't help. Anyway, the squiggle is a disappointment. Closing the tab is the best option.
"Non complaince? Do situps, get beaten with a lathi. I wish I was joking."

Wait, what ?
"FYI the law enforcement, legal system is a complete joke in India."

I kind of got the impression they don't like the police when watching "Extraction" which is an Indian movie with Chris Hemsworth in which they mow down cops for an hour.
New to freelancing, and while I get the hustle and pricing according to the value for the client, it's still hard to wrap my head around people charging 500$/h+. Like, what is the value an AI contractor can deliver in ~50h that easily justifies spending 25k (and without much prior knowledge about the product, systems in place, etc.). Honest question, trying to understand the game.
You're supposed to announce an offering so investors are properly informed. If you can just pump up the share price, short it, then cover AFTER the offering has been announced, shareholders are not being properly informed about the offering.
Users care when stuff doesn't work the way they expect, and those expectations are built from experience with other apps.

VSCode goes to great lengths to feel native on Mac, though it doesn't reach 100%.
> FYI the law enforcement, legal system is a complete joke in India

Please keep nationalistic flamebait off this site. It leads to much lower-quality discussion. Edit: I'm sure you didn't mean it as a swipe and were just talking the way one does in normal conversation, but unfortunately these throwaway phrases act like bombs in threads, so it's necessary to edit them out of one's comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks for telling me I guess?
This is not unusual or unexpected in the current environment. In addition, when you are invested in stocks, you don't loose anything until you sell. I'm sure Mr. Buffett has been at this point before and actually see it as a buying opportunity rather than a negative.
It seems irresponsible to inject devices into your network that that indiscriminately MITM all traffic and can easily be configured to log passwords and auth cookies, no matter what setting you're in.
Maybe you're right, but what about the CCP culture of covering things up and finding scapegoats? Do you trust the CCP to conduct this investigation? Because I do not. And I doubt they would let a board of international experts conduct it and cooperate with them. They'll just cover things up like they're used to, punish some innocent people for spreading rumors or alleged negligence or who knows what. Let's not forget that he CCP is a totalitarian state actor which throws innocent people in reeducation camps, harvests organs from Falun Gong practitioners and sells them abroad, abducts people critical of its regime, claims that Taiwan is part if China etc. The only thing we can do is handle it like we handle Iran or North Korea. They only get a free pass because they're the PRC and we build stuff cheaply there with their blessing and the blood sweat and tears of Chinese people working in subhuman conditions.
There is no loss of speed on any CPU that supports AES instructions, which is pretty much any CPU released after 2010.
Generic CI/CD pipeline is a way to execute your automation. But you have to code everything yourself at least initially.

With Appliku you have your web server installed, databases provisioned and settings applied.

With CI/CD pipeline you have to write all that yourself.

You may think that one of the core features of Appliku is a niche CI/CD that has a pipeline written for you for the task of deploying and running your Python app.

Could you build it yourself? yes. Question is, should you?

Additionally, you have servers provisioning and setup, DNS records, SSL certificates issued, and many more things taken care of.
Obviously there will be false positives and false negatives with this app. If you could catch even 50% of cases though it would go a long ways towards stopping spread. The question is whether you can get that without a huge false positive rate. My guess is that you can, since it appears that the primary transmission mechanism is sustained indoor contact, within about 15 feet. You could probably increase the accuracy if you could detect being indoors.

On the cost issue, the obvious solution is to make testing free and easy, and to provide a financial incentive to get tested quickly after the app alerts them.
I've been using Ubuntu Server non-stop on a wide range of differently configured (real aka bare-metal as well as virtual) servers for over 10 years.

As a server OS I've really found it useful.

(Except for that time when they shipped buggy versions of high-availability tools, warned against by the upstream maintainers, which segfaulted occasionally and showed inconsistent state across different nodes - thanks :/)

I found it an improvement over Debian. And that an improvement over Red Hat (before it was RHEL and Fedora). And that an improvement over Slackware. CentOS and RHEL got used too in parallel on some sites, and were very solid, but with their own annoyances.

But recently, on the server, LXD (aka LXC 2) switched from being a .deb package to being a Snap. They made a policy decision to stop shipping the .deb, to force server admins to start using Snap whether they wanted to or not, I guess.

So I was forced to use Snap just to run LXD, which was annoying as things like configs and paths to the container images are buried inside the Snap somewhere, and various things with container-uids and host-container shared mounts stopped working. At least, the upgrade broke a bunch of working scripts.

But it wasn't too painful, just a bit of work that felt like it was caused by an unnecessary annoyance.

Ironically given other comments, the Snap does not seem to auto-update unlike all the other .debs on the system!

Now, hearing about Ubuntu 20.04 and application snaps, I'm extra cautious before assuming Ubuntu 20.04 Server will be a smooth change. I'll take a look, and if the server software is much like 18.04 (except for annoying LXD) I'll use 20.04.

But if they've moved a lot of things away from .deb to Snaps-only on the server, that's going to be some overhead to deal with, and it will at least result in evaluating whether switching distro is no more effort and a better choice.

I've not been a fan of CentOS, but that time I was burned by the high-availability tools due to Ubuntu (and Debian) shipping a dangerously buggy version in an LTS release did make me realise that RHEL/CentOS are well maintained in that department and just wouldn't do that.
AVX – SSE transition penalties, VEX encoding, and why they matter
I've never examined a permissions dump for android before, but I see:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH"/>

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN"/>

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"/>

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/>

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE"/>

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED"/>

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION"/>

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK"/>

<uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE"/>

<uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE"/>

... and I am surprised to not see carte blanche access to photos, contacts, SMS messages, etc.

Which is to say, the granted permissions seems surprisingly restrained...
In situations like these, there is a very hard line to draw.

Some of Epstein’s associates actively participated in or facilitated his crimes, if they can be unambiguously identified they have to be fired right now, and possibly prosecuted.

But a huge number of his associates should have known, but chose to avoid learning more and remained silent. What do we do with these people? They deserve some level of social opprobrium, no doubt, but should they be fired?

And that’s not even digging into how difficult it is to distinguish the former from the latter.
> Using this weird syntax I didn't know was legal: <body vlink="#ff0000" text="#000080" link="#800080" bgcolor="#ffffff">

They're deprecated attributes[1], but back in the 90s before CSS became meta, it was the norm.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.1
C-levels and other executives of large enterprises typically approach companies like Gartner for this. As a SaaS startup, we’ve been quite successful partnering with Gartner which opened doors to us we otherwise would never be able to.

In general, I think it’s better for a technology provider to partner with organizations to handle this tough enterprise sales process than to do it yourselves, but it depends upon your market and organization (we’re a database provider).
> These have been an issue mostly because Microsoft had been using a random subset of Home users as beta testers for new updates.

Oh, that might explain my experience a bit. I've never had any issues with automatic Windows Updates managing 50+ with a mix of common software. Every one of them was always Pro or Enterprise though.

Ran Arch for a couple years for dev with a nightly cronjob of (iirc) "pacman -Syuw --no-confirm". That broke regularly but I knew it was a bad idea.
I haven't needed to look in years, but I'm pretty confident it was around that back then. This site [1] says the average is $596 for collision and $192 for comprehensive. So for a brand new car for someone in their 20s I don't think it would be too far out of line for what I would have paid--but wouldn't represent everyone.

[1] https://www.insurance.com/auto-insurance/coverage/comprehens...
Using DynamoDB as a Calculator
I'd probably look at this one as well: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04339
Art Galleries Are Broken (2016)
Patient vital sign monitoring has been a regular practice much longer than server monitoring.
Many studies have shown that inequality is bad for society irrespective of the overall absolute wealth of the society.
Well, there is higher chance to get better advice from a survivor than someone that didn't made the money in the first place.
I never really thought of LOGO as a programming language as a kid. It just seemed like a game to me. I also had no concept of anything with a computer being fast or slow so its speed seemed normal.
Oh yeah, sure! I should have been clear that when dredging a really large log file or such it can be faster to run awk on a much smaller subset when your awk program has a lot of productions. I find it easier to think "OK, just run awk on these lines that matter."

Six of one half dozen of the other.
For my usage I find OneNote way clunkier dealing with large numbers of documents. I’m sure it has awesome advantages for people with other workflows. I have also only dabbled in it so maybe I’m missing something.
Perhaps I'm wrong but this would be contrary to the nationalistic policies of the state.

Personally, primary sources are what I come to the forum for—I understand the resulting discussion might be toxic, but the post itself is certainly valuable.
> Then out of nowhere a major inferno starts within spitting distance from their playground

Instead of descending into conspiracy logic, two things need to be pointed out.

1. This virus did not come "out of nowhere", zoonotic corona viruses are common, and as you probably know at this point have started pandemics multiple times over recent years. This was not an unexpected event, it was a matter of time, which is why people like Gates as well as the scientific community have been warning us for years.

2. That labs studying those diseases are found in close proximity to the locations where they're prone to break out doesn't imply anything. Fire stations tend to be close to the places where fires are common, doesn't mean they cause them.

It's sad to see that the blind tribalism in the absence of any evidence is even taking place on this site.
ES2020 – Promise.any
When we need to know whether at least 1 promise got resolved among an iterable of Promise objects, Promise.any() is the solution we are asking for.
> I think many executives / entrepreneurs have developed a similar adversity towards incoming offers, and my own experience with cold outbound selling seems to confirm this.

This article wouldn’t disagree with you. When you’re building the product the trick is to build your product almost alongside your first customers - invite them in and show them Figma mockups and ask what would provide them value, and bring them on the journey with you. Come with a compelling enough value proposition and solve for a large enough pain point and you’ll absolutely get executives of at least SMEs on calls.

Once you have that first customer, the outbound motion becomes a lot easier as you have references. It’s easy to fall into an ‘if you build it they will come’ attitude with inbound sales. In truth it rarely works on its own. (Work in sales / marketing for a large vertical SaaS)
I've looked into Nix, and I like what it's accomplishing in principle with atomic upgrades/rollbacks, but I felt very frustrated by their clunky package "DSL." I use quotes because it appears that they are trying to encompass an entire programming language worth of constructs. Why they didn't go with an existing real programming/scripting language is beyond me.
I haven't needed to look in years, but I'm pretty confident it was around that back then. This site [1] says the average is $596 for collision and $192 for comprehensive. So for a brand new car for someone in their 20s I don't think it would be too far out of line for what I would have paid--but wouldn't represent everyone. Comparing to your number I'm surprised how similar the numbers are to Europe.

[1] https://www.insurance.com/auto-insurance/coverage/comprehens...
Is this actually more fuel efficient than a hydrolox expander cycle like a RL-10? Any sense of how much?
Magic mice are also dicey ergonomically, imho. Best to avoid in general.
I'd be curious to read a study as to productivity tools actually do help people be more productive.

Anecdotally, I used to use many different tools from EverNote, WunderList etc.. but over the past 2 years my process has been use Google Drive as a journal and write down my top priorities on a post-it.

Post-it naturally forces me to prioritize a small number of tasks and my journal is to help me document everything I learn. I don't see ticking off low leverage items as a value add to anyone even though the dopamine rush does feel good.