skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> With the Lambda server-less paradigm, you end up with 1 lambda function per route.

Factually incorrect. It takes as many routes as you want. I mostly ok what he is saying but some of his claims are just factually wrong.
Uhm, because P&G is a full out consumer business and there is now 15% unemployment?
Not food, basic shelter, etc.
> When things go wrong it's important to assign blame to understand why things went wrong and how to prevent them in the future.

Exactly. Things have recently been declassified that makes me very surprised pandemics like this hadn't already happened a few times in just the past few years. For example: https://news.yahoo.com/suspected-sars-virus-and-flu-found-in...
It probably doesn’t apply to those struggling with hunger, but just because people don’t have savings doesn’t mean they don’t have expendable income. It could just as easily mean they prioritized stuff over savings, and I bet that’s the case for most of them.
If you’re going to take all my money, why would I want to work for you?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/europe-seeks-to-...

> France, Germany, Denmark, Britain and others have decided to take over the payrolls of struggling companies, so that workers don’t get laid off. The hope is that by paying people to stay home, governments can slow the virus’s spread while also averting an economic depression.

> Since many European countries had similar social safety net programs already, albeit in far more limited form, the salary supports were relatively easy to expand, almost literally overnight in many places, amid widespread consensus. When they imposed their economically devastating lockdowns, countries were thus able to signal to workers that their livelihoods would remain intact and to businesses that they wouldn’t immediately implode.
I believe the parent's point is this: We need an economy that produces a certain amount of stuff - food, water, electricity, fuel, healthcare. We can't just make that stuff appear by moving or printing money, we have to actually produce the stuff.

Now, I know, that was the idea behind "critical infrastructure" - we had to keep those things running, even if we shut down everything else. But the longer we shut down, I suspect the more things we find that are critical. (Made up example: Water is critical, so water treatment is critical, so the chemicals used are critical, so the ingredients to manufacture them are critical, so certain kinds of mining are critical, so eventually mining machinery is critical.)
This is a much more profound insight than is readily apparent. It is really easy to build a Turing machine -- except for the tape. You could probably build a universal TM is a lot less than 930 gates. All hardware design is essentially nothing more than taking common design patterns and moving off the tape and into the engine so that the tape can be more compact and the machine can run faster.

This is the main reason I personally find actual hardware re-implementations of old machines to be fairly uninteresting. There's really very little sport in it once you know the trick.
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I know _exactly_ how you feel. the only number I look at anymore is the one week average hospitalizations in my state. the projections have been wildly wrong, they remind me of 2016 political polls.

I've tuned out all other news pretty much, even HN is getting bizarrely disconnected from reality. see the comment wondering "has testing increased? I haven't read anything". this is getting crazy.
Great idea ha
Is setting up a business the best way to get rich?
There is sort of a Teflon approach to mainstream media which goes something like: contradiction is acceptable so long as the experts tell us so. And the experts include the WHO.
I think what the author means is:

> "Remember redis (in AWS) holds ephemeral data in memory"

(because EC2 machines don't persist their disk data between start/stops and a lot of people don't realize that until it is too late - hey remember that Bitcoin exchange that got bitten by this?)
You should try 1password-linux from snap. It's essentially an Electron app but it works fine for me.
The solution here is a bounce message, not completed delivery.
This model is not the only reason governments have acted. They also saw what happened in Wuhan, Italy, NYC, etc.

Also, the US federal government doesn't use it, they use a model from UW: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/5/2/21241261/coronav...
Very cool. Where is the data coming from?
I don’t think they’re required to. It’s a sign of trust if a politician places their personal business interests into blind trusts but many like Trump haven’t. Legislators are, however, exempt from some portion of insider trading laws.
I don't think it's unreasonable to not want to be holding cash (if one doesn't need it) in the face of so many monetary injections. 2008 showed us that all this stimulus money eventually ends up in assets, aka trickle-down economics, but in reverse.

If have been buying since the lows, you're just front-running the FED. The worse is over in that it is now very unlikely that the stock market will retest the lows in nominal terms.
Well, a cloth mask will provide about 65% protection to the wearer, so its better than nothing.

If others are wearing cloth masks, then the protection is pretty good.

If you need real droplet protection, as in you're extubating a covid patient, then you need a face guard, n95 mask, gown, and a bunch of other stuff.

This link provides more info:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/keeping-the-coronav...
How do trades get mapped back to individuals? Is this possible for anyone’s trades?
"Blindsight" by Peter Watts is just amazingly good, as are his other works. He does have a bleak view of humanity though.

Also check out his friend and fellow Canadian Karl Schroeder's "Candesce" series of books set in an enormous globe of air floating in space. Feels like fantasy, but isn't.

Vernor Vinge has already been mentioned. "A Fire Upon The Deep" is one of my favourite novels. He was a professor of Computer Science and he also popularised the concept of the coming Technological Singularity.
I'm looking to improve the security posture by stripping the kernel off unwanted stuff (ebpf, zillion different file systems, drivers) that introduce CVEs into the kernel.
"Wuhan pneumonia", I think it was.
Yes. I'm sure plenty of Theranos / WeWork style opportunities will emerge to pick up the slack.

It's a fundamental problem of capitalism: the market's notion of "value" is weighted by wealth, without growth to stir things up wealth concentrates, and those looking to create value are increasingly forced to search for marginal "rich people problems" rather than tackle obvious "poor people problems." You wind up in a paradoxical situation where there are lots of obvious problems that could be fixed by obvious application of labor (e.g. crumbling infrastructure) yet nobody can find a job.

This is why inequality is bad.

Equality is bad because then you can't incentivize people, but that point generally gets enough air time already.

To optimize this system, we should identify which extreme is currently posing a larger threat and back away from it.
Flatpaks work perfectly fine on Ubuntu, just remove the snaps and you'll be fine.

```flatpak permission-set flatpak updates $APPID no```
I don't get this attitude when applied to small things. Can't it just be considered complete and not in need of enhancements? If it's not supported to the point of not fixing security issues that's completely valid.
You have to try first and oftentimes if you can’t explain it clearly then your understanding of the subject isn’t keen enough.
I've never understood this argument. What keeps, in your example, Zoom from just setting the Linger state via the new API?
Perhaps counterintuitively, it makes little difference. At the energies we're considering, the mass-energy of the particles being collided is completely negligible. Switching to colliding protons and antiprotons does change the details of what you get out, but not the energy scales.
The current policy for my county, state, and federal government is a targeted and phased restriction lift-up, that involves metrics that unclear because we don't really know enough yet.

You might want to re-evaluate the "lockdown skeptics" arguments in that light.
Yeah, but discovery costs resources, and on the margin a new accelerator is a less cost-effective means of producing productive new discoveries, sounds like.
Those saying you're taking this too seriously are wrong - the project is a joke, but the issues you highlight aren't.

I made the font, and if it was a serious attempt at a moderation tool or trying to comprehensively cover 'bad words' then such slurs would certainly be included. But it's VERY limited in scope, there's just enough for the joke to work (core 4-letter words plus a set of words people grumbled were missing) and it's focused around what most people would consider to be everyday swearing (rather than discriminatory or highly contextual terms). I also felt that adding slurs to such a limited word list would risk highlighting them & encouraging their use to make 'funny' screenshots etc

Please keep questioning these things, I'm well aware that even silly projects can raise serious issues and try to give them enough thought.
Would you mind sharing a few of the things you've programmed on your keyboard? I also spent an insane amount of time looking for just the right keyboard for me, which wasn't that easy, as the availability of mechanical keyboards in Europe isn't great, and importing is expensive. My main criteria were:
- need to be able to swap switches easily (if I'm spending a decent amount on a board, I don't want to have to get a whole new one if I don't like the switches)
- want to be able to program the keyboard, preferably because the board is supported by qmk[1].

I have now owned such a keyboard for over a year, but I've barely started to get into programming it. I'm starting to wonder if I really needed the feature that much, or if I just lack the imagination to find ways to program my board.

[1] https://qmk.fm
The microcode here consists of sequences of the eight low-level gigatron hardware instructions, which implement the richer 6502 ISA.
It's 2020, and nix and guix both run on top of Slackware just fine.
I've been a happy KDE Neon user on my secondary desktop, an Intel NUC, for about 3-4 years now. I use it multiple hours each day and it's been a very pleasant experience, as in it does its thing and doesn't get in my way.

Was seriously considering using it for my primary desktop, but that'll have to wait until there's a viable RDP alternative.
Sounds like an extreme view, many people, even lower income still have retirement funds who are being invested somewhere and they're not taking money out.

Sure, buybacks were responsible for a big part of stock buying activity for awhile. But that has completely stopped now as companies prepare for the uncertain future.

Should look into Central Banks activities...

e.g .BOJ is top-10 shareholder in 40% of Japan's listed companies

Central Banks everywhere are dumping more and more money in the economy. The one from Europe is ready to buy Italy bonds even if its moved to Junk bonds.
> firstly being poor isn't necessarily a bad life

No, not necessarily. But at least where my wife grew up in the Scottish central belt, I think that would be the exception rather than the rule - and by a pretty wide margin.

I think a lack of education played a big part in that, but the most disappointing and frightening thing was that so many parents expected - almost bred - their children to repeat the same cycle of limited education, poverty, benefit fraud, crime, drugs and violence.
“Because the stock market doesn't represent the economy as most people experience the economy.“

That’s my theory. The top 10% own most of the stock but their experience of this crisis is quite different from people who already had low wages now losing their jobs. I bet most of the people (not all) on this site don’t feel the crisis economically at all or only with minor pain.

Personally I think we should stop looking at GDP, stock markets or housing prices but instead the economy should be optimized towards raising things like median wages or purchasing power. In the end that’s what really counts.
Good I'm goin to search in my country for "minchesko"
> semiconductors

even after decades of massive use ?
Waiting for godot you mean
The US has certainly endured worse in the past and came through strongly. Neither the coronavirus nor Trump are anywhere close to an existential threat for this country.
Annualized S&P 500 Return with Dividends Reinvested from april 2008 to april 2020 are 8.285% [0] which is entirely in line with historical returns [1]. How is that an asset bubble?

[0]: https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500_Index#Performance
Everybody has limited discipline. The trick is to not need discipline. By making work more fun, perhaps. And this sounds like a bit of fun.

A better way is to only do what you actually, really want to be doing, but

- most of us don't always have that luxury

- often we would like to have something done while not really wanting to do

- fear of failure, fear of success etc can make us procrastinate even on things we actually want to do.
> a lot of companies don't pay out dividends or buy back stock these days, so as time passes, removing their stock price from the price at IPO, their stock price becomes based on perception

ignorant question, if true, how is this not the worlds biggest ponzi scheme? Are we just betting on the possibility of dividends in the future? It just seems illogical. The fraction of meaningless ownership as a shareholder can't be worth that much to most people.

Then to take this to the extreme why do we bother with stocks, why don't humans just collectively put money into a a giant pot where we can withdraw proportionally at any time. Isn't that what we are doing with stocks?
As another weirdo who prefers a trackball, I fail to see how anybody can stand to use a normal mouse.
I frame it like this:

After my mother is gone, and I can't call her and say, "Happy Mother's day, Mom! I know we talked two days ago, but I just wanted to say I love you and appreciate you! Did you have a good brunch?"

how would I feel about not doing that today because of my hate of consumerism? Will I feel really good about myself, that I've lived my values and not bought into to some stupid fake holiday meant to sell greeting cards? Or will I be filled with regret that I didn't take every opportunity to tell the woman who selflessly raised me, who gave up the prime of her life to set me on a course that has led to a lot of happiness and fulfillment, that I love and appreciate her?

When I frame it like that, my values always seem kind of shallow and solipsistic. The point of this isn't for me to feel good about my strong values. It's to let my mother feel good and appreciated for everything she did for me.

Just for context: I text my mom a few times a week and we FaceTime at leat once every two weeks, and I usually let her know how much I appreciate her when we chat, so it's not like I'm using only Mother's Day to express myself.
How exactly can the SEC prove that someone used that site for commercial purposes?
I have 15 years of experience running Ubuntu Studio professionally, and 20+ years doing pro audio with other platforms. I'm currently producing/engineering in a high end studio loaded with all the latest high end gear, and I stand by my statement: Ubuntu Studio is clearly a viable, professional platform now.

I've done a ton of work with this, and its a rock solid and highly stable DAW platform. More so than MacOS' recent Catalina clusterfuck .. and light years ahead of Windows' headaches.

Sure, its not the hype-intensive candy land of Windows/MacOS, but then again .. that's the point, entirely. From the get-go, Ubuntu Studio packs an amazing punch - just installed, out of the box, there's more happening in this OS as a DAW than on either MacOS or Windows, and even after a fresh install of either of those options, you'd still need to spend hundreds of bucks on programs and plugins just to match what Ubuntu Studio offers. Plus, go through all the hassles of installation, iLok, free plugin installation nightmares, etc.

You'd be surprised just how great things are, out of the box, if you'd just get over your prejudice about it not being 'mainstream' enough to support your ideals for what constitutes 'professional' DAW usage.

I run REAPER and have tons of VST plugins from my Windows DAW onboard the Ubuntu Studio rig - they just plain work.

Sure, it doesn't get the attention it deserves from pro audio developers - but that is changing. Lots of devs are seeing Ubuntu Studio rise in the scene. And this is only going to improve with this inclusion of KDE ..
Scratch is rad. It’s so productive. Modeling threads as sprites — a physical version of actors with <touch> being the most common message passing — is such a liberating / accelerating idea.

It’s also a bit too easy to get, ahem, emergent properties in Scratch, but that’s fine for one off playful hacking. Pong bats that accelerate balls etc.
That's an interesting question, and the answer is now discussed daily in most news conferences about the pandemic.

Asking interesting questions is good. Asking commonly answered questions is...
>First, a lot of companies don't pay out dividends or buy back stock these days

As I understand it, a good chunk of of the reason stock prices were originally so high before the crash 2 months ago was that stock bybacks were at an all time high (though of course this doesn't mean every company is doing them). Part of the reason companies are so vulnerable is that a large chunk profits were being used to undertake them - not being kept for reinvestment, debt repayment, or rainy-day funds.
Oh, right. It’s been such a long time since I’ve used unity I completely forgot that was a thing, my bad.

Most of the time when I think about Unity these days I think about the sidebar launcher and the maximized window mode integration, not the rest of the features it provided; I didn’t get to spend a lot of time in Ubuntu.
> The problem is more that TV, movies, social media and YT have created a post-literate culture where the primary model of communication is visual and emotional, not textual and abstracted.

This seems equally well a description of a pre-literate culture, so there doesn't seem to be any reason that the pendulum couldn't swing again.
You can use an SSL proxy/snooper to find out. I use Charles to see what is actually happening at that level, you would be surprised (or not) at how much stuff is sent to third parties.

https://www.charlesproxy.com/
I've never used Ubuntu studio but this caught my attention, and to be honest it makes a whole lot of sense to me. I understand though that it's really bad news for XFCE users.
> The problem is so familiar it has its own acronym: TINA, or There Is No Alternative to stocks.

> the price of real estate is propped up by similar logic.

This is where the idea falls apart. They can't both be propped up by the fact that there's nothing else around. They're two different things.
Is there any reason why they have to be hand pollinated?

Could you not just stick a beehive in there and let the bees do it (for example)?
Graduating in a Recession Can Have Some Silver Linings
If reply all didn’t exists I think the world would be a better place. There are rare occasions it is needed, but in groups of 10+ is it really required? At a minimum an irritating series of “are you sure” dialogues might help.
This is spot on. For all the praise of Belgian welfare I believe there is a 'dark' side to it. It is not doing well in motivating people to perform and there is a lot of systemic slack and abuse, like people claiming they're sick for a ridiculous amount of time every year.

*Note that firing an employee for not performing is quite difficult and the tax bracket at the top is outrageously high.
Yes and no. I mean, how would you study a black hole of radius ~5cm without getting really close? Consider that:

1. Time dilation dictates that it would take ages for any instrument to get near the black hole, conduct measurements and send its results back to Earth.

2. Time dilation also means you would never see anything fall into the black hole. So studying the inside of the black hole is out of question, too. But arguably this is what would be required to make any breakthroughs in our understanding of black holes.

3. Tidal forces near the event horizon of such a tiny black hole would have catastrophic consequences[1] for anything (human or object) that gets too close to it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification
We are very sensitive when it comes to text. 3d games doesn't need to be accurate, compared to text that needs sub pixel perfection. 3d is closer to the metal and thus faster. Ive made a web based text editor that parse the entire file on each key press to get language intellisense and semantic coloring, that however only takes 1ms. Rendering one full screen of text takes around 10ms. That's how slow text rendering is.
Taking into account random GC pauses and graphics layering overhead there's little budget left for parenthesis matching highlighting, auto completion suggestions, auto quote insertion, spellchecking, etc.
The new OpenSSH keys are very convenient if used correctly, but have a crucial disadvantage compared to the PIV-based approach of yubikey-agent: They currently can't be protected effectively with a PIN, so you should take good care of your security key or require multiple authentication methods on your server.
Please elaborate on (3)
Who uses CPS in daily programming? Or do you mean using a compiler that uses it?
I think it's fair to say that what distinguishes scientific activity from other fields, like philosophy is the formalistic methodology. The logical positivists who took this to the extreme actually envisioned a 'unified science' as one of the central goals of doing science.

I don't think it's a stretch to say that much of philosophical discourse, disagreement, in particular, concerns disagreement about fundamental methodology. I don't think that's even something philosophers would disagree with. Theologians, continental philosophers, analytical philosophers, postmodernists and so forth all have vast disagreements about what the tools, or even the purpose of philosophy is.

Likewise, when theories of justice are concerned, religious scholars and bioethicists don't primarily disagree about the results or evidence of some process, they disagree about fundamental assumptions on how to make inquiries at all. That's usually not the issue (or a secondary issue) in science.
> I'm surprised the average Americans (the 90%) don't get that they are providing insurance to the 86% wealth of the top 10%, but get almost none of the gains.

Are you so sure that they don't get this? I guess that many do understand it and either would like a much more inequality-reducing tax structure, or envision themselves as (somehow!) becoming part of the top 10%.
> And sometimes when you see the dice rolling and know that the decision will happen now you realise which one you want.

The old Mr. Bean's method to choose which shirt to carry on holiday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEJ8V_Cnx6I&t=79
Full Speed Gamecube and Wii Dolphin Emulator on 2020 iPad Pro
What add-on are you using to do that? I've been playing around using Lovely Table and Awesome Table for this purpose but not really sure which one I ultimately want.
Not A relevant comparison. The returns and available opportunities for someone investing hundreds of billions are very different from someone investing thousands or single digit millions.