skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate to say this, but I feel like the only way we'll ever have a popular and coherent linux desktop is if some large company found it worth their while to consolidate all of this (and actually had the muscle/influence to get people to go along). (I guess you could kind of say that's what happened with Android -- though obviously for mobile and not really in the right spirit). The current linux user-space reminds me of like feudal Europe or something, the idea of anything important coming out of all the bickering just seems like a lost cause. It's forever doomed to be just-usable-enough but never in any way that it'll gain any sort of adoption.
I would further refine them from "adult" words to "coarse" words.

Everyone needs to know when to be polite and when to be coarse as various situations require. (It's a social skill.) Furthermore, they need to be capable of being polite when required.

As a child, you can't be allowed to be coarse all the time because learning politeness takes practice and work, so it'd be like skipping your homework in this area.

At some point, hopefully you've mastered that, and then can be a responsible person (probably an adult) who applies things as appropriate.
> Critics are dismayed. Citing forecasts that COVID-19 deaths could rise to 3,000 per day in June, they say that reopening without better defenses against infections is reckless.

The problem at this point is that there is little evidence that shutting down is improving our defenses. The federal effort is not there. The state efforts are haphazard. Worse, while the shutdown was strong enough to destroy the economy, it was enacted unevenly and poorly enforced so that transmission outside of the NY area has barely dropped at all. Without reducing transmissions significantly, there are simply too many cases and too little infrastructure to trace, test and quarantine.

The United States will likely serve as a cautionary tale for the rest of the world for a long time to come.
37% of Americans struggle with hunger [1] and 57% of Americans have less than $1000 in savings. [2]

Would you be buying stocks if you didn't have enough to eat?

[1] https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/facts

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/58-americans-less-1-000-09000...

EDIT: Apologies, first should be 37 million Americans (NOT 37%)
When you remove income by eliminating Treasuries from circulation, where do you get your income from?

There is a need for a supply of income - from pensions largely. There’s less income in circulation, so the price of income generating assets go up.
And now that we know more about the mortality rate, what comorbidities lead to a worse prognosis etc., models that project deaths, hospital stays and the capacity of the health service to cope have been refined.

That's not to mention that many places in rural America have no capacity to deal with a pandemic - just think about the hospital in the Netflix Pandemic documentary ...
This article seems to have an odd relationship with nuanced facts.

While it is correct that nobody knows for sure how long it will take until medicine or vaccination are available, there are estimates that one can use for planning. But the article goes from "there is a level of uncertainty" to "impossible to know, let's ignore it completely".

Similarly, while the article is technically correct that the US is currently doing deficit spending, it really isn't the immutable fact that they present it as. It would be quite easy to levy taxes so that there's no deficit. Taxing the rich could finance the current level of stimulus spending for years, but the article goes from "we'll need to make adjustments to our system" to "it is impossible".
Yes, quantum computing is not a problem in modern fundamental physics. Yes, collider construction is not a problem in modern fundamental physics.
there is kind of a wink wink nudge nudge understanding that we'll (us fed) do it if there is a dire need for it. just not yet.
Yes, I think you are right about that.
>wordpress (I really don’t like wordpress).

I really don't like your blog
That makes sense, thanks for the reply. At those energies, I guess you'd be hard pressed to make a useful 'finding' that could be utilized outside of a huge collider.
> so small ones would not live very long

Actually, this is completely unknown. While Hawking radiation is a well-established effect in the semiclassical limit (read: when gravity is weak), we don't really know what happens when the Schwarzschild radius reaches scales where tidal effects become noticeable already near the event horizon and, eventually, quantum gravitational effects (supposedly) take over.

In fact, this whole question lies at the heart of the black hole information paradox. Do black holes evaporate completely? Or will evaporation stop at some point, leaving behind a black hole remnant?
I currently work in finance, and particularly with dividends, and my opinion as a casual observer is that a prudent investor looks for stability. So, the key is not whether you can find the strongest performance, but that you can predict better how things are changing.

Two months ago everyone was waiting to see what would happen. Now the chips are starting to fall and investors can act accordingly. A simple example is that agriculture is now seen as a more stable investment where, especially in South Africa, it's actually a high risk business. But it is much less risk now in comparison to hospitality.

The only other reason I can see for (perhaps premature) quick rallying is with today's technology you can move around investments much more quickly and hence corrections and speculation are all sped up in terms of their time frames.
You lost me at poker. Poker is not against the house, and a rake simply changes various betting expected values. Poker is very much a game with varying levels of skill. A good player will consistently outplay a bad player. It is, however a game of high variance, so you need a bigger bankroll than most people realize. Also the skill level goes up quickly. a 10-20 table is much harder to beat than a 5-10 table. In fact these 2 facts makes a common meme with regular poker players. They find they can win at a lower stakes table then take their winnings only to lose it at a higher stakes table that they might be good enough to play but don’t have the bankroll to survive. Then they go back to grind it out at the lower stakes table. Rinse repeat.
Most countries are doing that.

The one-off $1,200 in the US is fairly unique.
Yes, original intent was to flatten the curve. However, as more people got sick, we learned that covid may cause permament damages on patients. Therefore if there is a way to prevent people from getting the diease at all, I think that is path we should follow . If not possible, we should still slow down the spread of the disease until vaccination efforts start to give results or we have better medication.
I'm not sure I follow all of this? Also, it's a bit strange to have this discussion in the context of the Nth outrage of the Musk Sequence, where the dominant factor is obviously internet drama. But I'll give replying a try.

This is one of those cases where it's super helpful to have one thing you're optimizing for, i.e. to know what kind of site this is and what it is not. In HN's case that's clear: we're trying to optimize for intellectual curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). It's not the only kind of website, nor the best kind, certainly not the most important kind, maybe not even a good kind—that depends on what you like. But it's this kind. You can call it "apathetic sophistry" if you want, but that just means you don't like it. No problem—there are other places to like.

Since HN is a specific kind of website and that's what the community comes here for, we need to preserve it for its focus. There are always strong winds and flames blowing about, and it takes work and care to withstand those and keep this place itself. What good would it do to let it burn?

p.s. Would you please stop making accounts with trollish usernames? We ban those, because such accounts end up trolling every thread that they post to (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). Doubly so when there's a prior history of abusing the site and getting banned here.
Unless you think the bombs are going to fall, you'd be better off getting some sort of cabin than a bunker. Living underground has a lot of challenges; it's expensive to build down there and you'll constantly be fighting moisture and mold.
I can't think of a single Jepsen test that hasn't demonstrated issues with data loss.
It depends on whether you regard quantum gravity as SM/beyond SM or not.

Even if you don't, though, there's still cosmology and black hole physics.
Here, I made a quick dump of this data pivoted by Senator/Date/Side into Perspective, a wasm pivot-table project I work on:

https://bl.ocks.org/texodus/8fe1596e298720dff9e1051668e240ce
Do you mind to share the model of your 43" monitor? I'm looking for a setup like yours, but I'm not really sure which monitor fits the purpose. Thank you!
MS Flight Simulator 2020 vs. Real life
Propagating user-facing errors in Swift
Pi-hole v5.0 is here
That's not what the article says, though. It merely says that lockdowns do have consequences too, particularly prolonged ones, and we should consider those too. But such discussion is largely impossible because the whole issue got framed as good vs. evil, and even just questioning some aspects of the lockdown (say, school closures) gets you labeled as someone who essentially wants to murder vulnerable people.

FWIW I do live in a country which is in lockdown for ~2m now, and I do think it was the right thing to do. But it's not really feasible to stay in indefinite lockdown - not just because of economy, but because of impact on public health etc.
I can’t make sense of any of the virus or the response. The data (writ large) is a mess, response has been contradictory at all levels, nothing seems logical, the models aren’t open source, the rationale opaque, the secondary and third order social issues (according to popular media narrative) also completely bizarre, and what little ground truth I’ve been able to obtain is altogether a completely different reality.

I’m absolutely done with any and all media. When it mattered most (literally life and death) it was click bait, politics, and outright fakery.

There needs to obviously be a public health retrospective on this but also a policy and communication retro as well.

I want to read a book on WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. I want people with subpoena power and a 500 page report. This whole thing has just been bizarre. I can’t help but feel like I’m being punked.
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The issue with comparing it with the flu is that people who are at an increased risk of serious complications have the vaccine made readily available to them - yes, each flu season there are spikes in cases, and deaths, and yes, some hospitals (especially in densely populated areas) struggle to cope - but it's kept somewhat at bay.
Because the stock market doesn't represent the economy as most people experience the economy.

First, 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--not even perception of the reality of the company's value, but perception of the stock's value, which is increasingly just speculation. The stock price might remain tied to the performance of the company in broad strokes, but without regular dividends, sales, or buybacks to tie the stock back to the company, there's nothing to keep it from becoming disproportionate with regards to the company's value.[1]

Second, when companies do pay dividends or buy back stock, it's sometimes done by borrowing money. This actually drives down the value of the company (since now the company has to pay interest on those loans) but drives up the value of the stock--the value of the company and the value of the stock are going in opposite directions.

Third, with the wealth disparity in the US, even if 90% of people pull out of the stock market, it's quite possible for the stock market to go up, because the other 10% own >80% of the stock market. 90% of Americans can divest completely from the stock market, and it could at most lower the stock market by 20%.

This is why stock market metrics are not metrics I care about when determining how the economy is doing.

[1] EDIT: What I mean by "broad strokes" and "disproportionate" here is: Events occur which change the value of the company and the value of the stock, and at least the direction of these price with regards to these events is likely to align. In broad strokes, because people believe the value of the stock is tied to the value of the company, if a "good" event happens, the stock price goes up, and if a "bad" event happens, the stock price goes down. But it's pure speculation how good or how bad these events are. If big bad events are downplayed so they only are represented as slight drops in stock price, and small good events are marketed well so they are overrepresented as big upticks in stock price, then over time this can result in a stock price that goes up, when the value of the company is actually going down.

It's actually even more complicated than that.
Thanks, it's really confusing because there are multiple conflicting sources with different guidelines and the governor's statements have indicated Phase 2 is still case-by-case and phases 3 and 4 are "sometime soonish". In addition to the metrics that SF Chronicle page is tracking for Bay Area counties, there's also [1], [2], and [3] in addition to the original governor's slides a few weeks ago. I can't find any concrete goals from official sources for completely reopening the state (phase 4).

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Here-s-a-checkl...

[2] https://apnews.com/2c69fe294f73a1120c2dad4a738966e3

[3] https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/5.4-Report...
C# is a primary interface to the Windows platform.

Java is a primary interface to the Android platform (2008). When it was originally made decades ago (1996), it was supposed to be the first language for cross platform development (compile once run anywhere), it may not be one platform per se but it is equivalent in a way.
Yeah, performance certainly has come a long way. The bigger issues these days are stability and compatibility. Both nouveau and nVidia proprietary are pretty crashy (and not just for me). nVidia proprietary isn't great with wayland. Catalyst is pretty bad. AMDGPU is great, but I haven't really pushed it beyond a low end workstation card. Intel is fine, but intel doesn't offer high end graphics.
I took the usage of "truth" in that quote to mean a philosophical truth, which I understand to be rather different from the way you are using that word.

In consideration, I just discovered this article, which I haven't read completely but seems to at least partially address this:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/
It is definitely not splitting hairs. The "but Google asked him to do it and then fired him" line of defense hides relevant details. He wasn't assigned to write it, he wasn't assigned to publish it, and he wasn't assigned to not back down despite how much trouble it was causing.

It's true that sharing opinions is a common activity. But that again elides key facts. A highly political document attacking company programs and company culture was not the sort of thing people normally pass around for discussion.

Your notion that Damore just, gosh golly, thought he was sharing some helpful feedback is hard to square with the content or with his subsequent behavior both before and after his firing. I think what fits better with the text and his behavior is that he was engaging in political activism, and was well aware that he was going to cause a stir.

I agree that it's possible Damore wouldn't have ended up being fired under a variety of circumstances. Maybe it's true that if it hadn't hit the press, he'd still be there. Although given that what made news was the level of internal upset it was causing, he could well have been fired anyhow. And regardless, any employee should know that, "Don't cause the company a giant PR problem" is a reasonable rule to follow. Indeed, that apparently is explicitly part of Google's orientation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23124750
There's nothing to be taken seriously. These skeptics seem to be the equivalent of anti vax people. They read a couple bias confirming articles and studies and fill in the blanks for the rest of the argument. These skeptics aren't experts, they don't have all of the information. The continue to act enlightened. The internet has given a loud voice to minority. Why would I trust someone who has only just started to read about infections and policy over our actual leaders who are being briefed each day, working with real experts and getting constant data.

really this whole think just shows either lack of critical thinking and foresight or that there are a lot of sociopaths that can't have any empathy.

For anyone calling for the reopening of cities, even something like try it out and see (maybe this is better on this site, filled with engineers who don't just test stuff out live and see what happens) are you willing to die for this cause? Or are you willing to let a loved one die for this cause?
I’d recommend both; folks who want to use the API natively can, but those who are going to use Zapier can rely on the integration. You’ll need the API endpoint regardless for the Zapier integration.

I propose that having the ability to manage clients and quotes through an API would be a powerful feature. If you’re worried about rapid iteration and backwards compatibility, remember to version your API route(s), and use a sub domain so you can scale out the API easily in the future independently of other app components. Consider firing off web hooks for any events that your customers would want action taken on faster than polling your API could support.

Congrats on the launch!!
> The original argument was to "flatten the curve" to prevent hospitals from becoming overwhelmed.

I don't think anyone sensible ever said "flatten the curve, and we're done!"

Flattening the curve was the first and most urgent step, to avoid the overwhelming of medical systems like what happened in northern Italy.

Quite a few countries took advantage of that time to ramp up testing. Certain ahem countries kinda squandered it.
They're too old now, health issues keep them house bound.

There was a time where they had the money and vitality to tackle the things that kept them out of their comfort zone. They were forced out of their country by a military invasion, and so in their mind, the country as it turned out wasn't theirs anymore either.

But they meet up with others who left under the same circumstances.. there's a shared culture, but it's all stopped in time. Frozen.
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23116055

Ask HN: What the heck is going on with the stock market?
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I think people who at least had a bearable relationship with their parents can't even imagine the horrors a parent can unleash on their children, so can't imagine a scenario where someone would want to cut contact. They can't conceive of not having a connection with them at all because the parent (or parents) prevented one from developing with their behavior. They don't know the warden-terrorist spectrum of parents.

Some of those people make a friend or two who had a different experience and at least develop a little empathy. I don't expect you to understand, but I hope you can at least understand that many people lashing out in this thread are projecting a diminished form of the horrors done to them. It's not meant to be personal.
The initial goal was both to flatten the curve and to ramp up wide scale testing.

The federal government has largely failed in the latter, you can't reopen if you can't isolate and so we've wasted lots of the time that was gained.
wasn't that injection more like a loan that was paid back? IIRC we actually made a tiny profit on it. but this time they are just given it away or some terms that amount to it. so eventually there is a bigger chance of it. but then BOJ has been purchasing stocks for what a decade now and japan still does not has that level of inflation.
But imagine telling your licensor "hey we had to put a warning that says players may see inappropriate body parts made out of Lego brand bricks".

That would go over like a lead ballon.
One interesting possibility is that the people most likely to get infected (different from most vulnerable if infected) are going to get infected this first round.

What that potentially means is that they will act as effectively a fire-break for the broader population.

Basically a burning of the highest throughput avenues for mass spread.

If true, that would mean we get lots of localized outbreaks, but the probability of that spreading back out into an uncontrolled pandemic is much lower.
> Lately, the prevailing argument seems to be that we need to shelter in place because virus cases will increase if we don't. That was not the original justification. Of course cases will increase! The question ought to be, will they increase to the extent that they overwhelm hospital capacity?

But that was the original reasoning.

"Flattening the curve" is reducing the number of virus cases that happen. The number of cases of the virus will increase -- the number of PEOPLE with life-threatening or life-changing injuries will increase, if we don't reduce the number of people spreading the virus.
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Linux apps pretty much universally do font rendering via FreeType. Have you tried switching to Cantarell? I for one fell in love with Inter UI back when I used Plasma.
> Wuhan shut down on January 25th, and they were still seeing 500 new cases a day by the end of February.

Wuhan was still on lockdown until April - almost three months.
He did specifically say asset bubble. And look at how much the stock market has grown since 2008. It has outpaced CPI by a huge margin.
Zombie satellite hunter finds 53-year-old signal in the noise
> I have a feeling it'll also sway MacOS DAW users to take a closer look at just what Linux has to offer pro audio users

I'm sorry but I just don't see this happening anytime soon. Linux distros like this don't have the mindshare that Windows and macOS already have and these users still use the proprietary software like GarageBand, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Reason and Omnisphere. And no, wine doesn't count for them.

'Professional Audio Users' won't bother with a Linux distro that doesn't have 'official support' for their existing proprietary setup if they were to attempt to migrate. If they're lucky to get exactly everything running on their unsupported system via Wine on their chosen distro, plugging in their favourite hardware should better recognise it or not crash Wine. The moment one of those issues occurs, they'll go back to macOS or Windows and will be staying there for a long time.

Also, one needs to define 'Linux support' in terms of DAW software.