skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe you would do well in studying the details of the deals you have mentioned before concluding they are failures.

Berkshire financed Occidental Petroleum's acquisition of Anadarco by giving $10 bn in cash. In return, BRK received:

- $10bn wort of perpetual cumulative preferred shares with a coupon of 8% (e.g. $800m a year). OXY can choose to pay in common shares instead of cash, but in this case Berkshire will get a discount. They have done this for the most recent quarterly dividend payment, since OXY's share price is so depressed, the $200m add up to a sizable position in OXY. If OXY doesn't pay the dividend, the coupon rises to 9% and has to be paid latter. OXY can redeem these shares at 105% of the nominal value in about 10 years.

- warrants to purchase 80m common shares until 2030, the strike price is $62.5, so this option is far out of the money. But given the extremely long duration (11 years) it is quite possible that those warrants become extremely valuable over time.

Let's wait for a few years and see how Berkshire does on the OXY trade.
What authority?
What's so funny about Turdus Maximus? I have a very great friend in Rome called Turdus Maximus.
Stocks represent ownership of business producing goods and services and selling them for profit. Cash, bonds, and precious metals are just an accounting mechanism. The value is created by business. So it pretty much is universal truth.
It’s hard to prepare for a black swan event. Most likely you will run out of money before the event. As a company it would be irresponsible to bet on an event that may happen or may not happen for a very long time.
ATTIC: A visual search and discovery engine to help you find the latest products from small, unique businesses near you.

https://attic.city/

Currently for three product tiers (furniture, home decor, and fashion/clothing) in 14 major US markets, where stores within ~100 miles or a ~2 hour drive are considered as part of the market.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders.
iNaturalist, their license allows your pictures/data to be used in academic research
> How many predicted during WW2 that upon its exit would be a period of unprecedented social progress & economic equality?

There was some precedent there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties
Montreal Metropolitan Express Network
The tracking is too tight for light-on-dark.

You focused on colors and forgot about the content. You can't just invert colors and think that the typography automatically works. It often doesn't.
We're getting to the point where I'm having to argue that water is wet, so I can't tell if you're being serious or trolling me at this point. And, now that you've played the "tyranny" card, it's easy to read your mischaracterizations as deliberate pseudoscientific pretense in the service of something else.

Still, I will answer in good faith.

Are the droplets on which the virus is carried all exactly .06 to 0.14 microns? No. They are as large as 5 to 10 microns. If you really aren't understanding how you're misinterpreting some of this information, then it's why I am unable to persuade you. I could point you to more info, including back to some that you linked, but you don't suffer from a lack of info. Your errors are in interpretation.

The report you linked shows increases in some reopened states. Where's your explanation for that? Just compare them to NYC? Of course every locale is not NYC, with its density, etc. Using that as some sort of benchmark is a strawman.

I never said the lockdown was voluntary. I said many are still voluntarily staying at home in states that have reopened, which will skew the numbers towards the lockdown numbers, depending on degree. So, here you're simply putting words in my mouth. Another strawman.

I also pointed to the fact that many are only partially reopened, which you yourself acknowledged. But, you just gloss over the limiting impact of that on the numbers. So, where's the line between "tyranny" and common sense here? How "partial" is OK? And, do you get this angry and threatened over vaccines, seat belt laws and helmet laws? Did you grab an AR-15 and head downtown to "fight" over those?

Every one of the arguments in your comment is based on an error in interpretation or outright misrepresentation. Every one.

Look, I don't like being stuck at home, but I understand it. If there's a "fight" here, it's against ignorance and fear-mongering over some make-believe tyranny, starring Fauci as some sort of devious, Palpatine-like deep state operative gunning for our freedom, while posing as a concerned septuagenarian scientist who happened to also lead the charge against HIV. It's pure fantasy. You see this right?

If you'll allow just a little daylight, step back and consider the outright absurdity of this tyranny narrative and see it for what it is, then you have to ask where this narrative is coming from, who benefits from it and what's the effect?

Because, I submit to you that what's far more frightening is the war on facts and Americans with assault rifles in our streets with the idea that they are some kind of freedom fighters in resisting public servants--and threatening them with death--who are simply trying to keep Americans safe. Someone's getting into the heads of some of our fellow citizens and pushing them toward the brink of something truly catastrophic here. These are nothing more than thugs in the streets, deployed in the service of something or someone, and made to believe they are heroes for threatening violence and disobeying any laws with which they disagree.

That is the end of rule of law, and it is the only real danger to our freedom here.
Generation C
Tell that to the Gauls!
I would personally use for loop without size_t. It is short and simple and works as intended, anyone can understand it.
> The problem is that in, say, C# or Kotlin, subroutines with the same semantics come in two different colours. The type system "helps" you distinguish between things that aren't meaningfully distinguishable.

The distinction is important though, because it affects the observable behaviour of other effects present in these functions. https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2014/02/unyielding.html

The only cases where you want the same function to come in two colour variants is when it's a higher-order function, and in that case what you really want is not to ignore colour but for the function to be polymorphic over colour. (i.e. higher-kinded types).
Structural basis for the exceptional gloss in extant cassowary feathers
Shotizam analyzes the size of Go binaries
Scientists break the link between a quantum material's spin and orbital states
BTW I achieved "Financial Independence, Retire Early", but didn't like it - though it was tremendous fun getting there, by creating value that I and others valued - being a good, contributing member of society felt good. (And the motivation of FIRE helped.)

Plus, you don't really retire, your job is now investing. If you really love that particular job (like Buffett does), then this works out well.

But if your innate talents and interests lie elsewhere, you'd be happier doing that... and the need for money can help motivate you, during those times you don't feel like it.

It doesn't seem like extra motivation should be important, but is was for me personally. Maybe I'm lacking somehow, as I note that many independently wealthy people do keep working without that motivation. e.g. YC itself. (Though pg now does seem to have really retired, or maybe is a fulltime career parent - there is no more important job!)

Thoughts on motivation?
Nice. You can also add a `hue-rotate(180deg)` to somewhat preserve colors and add `img` to invert images back to normal again.

I have this as a bookmark and work well in many cases.
As the article explains (I know it's hard to comment after actually reading), Java moved away from using several green threads on top of a single system thread.

What Loom and Go do is to schedule green threads on a bunch of system threads and spawn more system threads when they get blocked doing synchronous system calls.
Golang occupies an interesting spot here. They never had to migrate from a predominantly blocking, thread-based ecosystem to async. Does Golang really have two colors, is explicit threading a thing (I honestly don't know)? Or is it really just one color, namely the async one?
I do. I've never used DoorDash or GrubHub and will try to forever avoid them. I avoid Yelp like the plague due to their mafia like (pay us to improve your score, whether true or not) BS tactics. And I've never heard of Zomato.
The positions in GS and WFC have been reduced over the last few quarters, these sales should not be interpreted as "dumping equity" - besides the large private holdings (insurance, rail, energy, lots of manufacturing, retail etc), Berkshire still holds $200bn worth of equity.
This would be great. Then we could reliably use something like vault to store secrets with individual acls per-workflow, and have reasonable confidence that only that single workflow can access them.
Why is 70% isopropyl alcohol a better disinfectant than 99% isopropanol?
isn't it hard to develop/debug/monitor an application with this approach? I mean you can't just run a debugger as another process and attach to the thing, you can't run tcpdump or strace, nothing of that sort. Also every bad pointer access will require a reboot, wouldn't it? I mean how do you develop an application with this approach?
"I'm sorry, but your son has Sanic's[1] Disease."

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sanic-hegehog
No elected official is libertarian. So I don't know why you would think that.

What we have is, those in power take from those that aren't.
This is somewhat ironic because 20 years ago, hobbyists would frequently put their obscure personal pages on Geocities and other large corporation's web space.
No coding approach will ever solve an issue caused by a lack of discipline.
For reference, a long discussion about real-time code sharing in SubEthaEdit, Atom, VS Code, floobits and elsewhere took place in this HN discussion from November 2017:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704730
Clean itself doesn't sell, specially in utility vehicles. And the reason Tesla gets the 'benefit of the doubt' is because they are already selling 100ks and have many more orders and they are riding a cost curve of battery improvement that doesn't exist with fuel cells.

Some people want luxury cars, so I don't know what to tell you.

EV are gone expand increasingly fast every year, in 5 years buying a new ICE Porsche will seem idiotic, mark my words.
It’s up to the administrators of each instance to decide. spacepub.space will decide one thing, FramaTube will decide another, &c. Instances can decide to federate with or block other instances depending on how they like their policies and such.
Yeah, or Haskell.

But those have been out there in a more or less mature form for decades, with no major uptake in sight. I guess they're just too esoteric for them to reach critical mass. So here I am, stuck with bash/python/C, and dabbling a bit with Rust..
Secret way to stay fit during summer holidays
Serious question, why does anyone still use Jira. It's a huge pita and everywhere people are essentially forced to use it, they hate it.
It's become clear case of too many knobs.
What are we looking for? The top relevant comment on Google is literally your comment / this thread.
Would be easy to just inject a negative site clause into the query, e.g. `-site:fandom.com`
As azeirah writes, subreddits or Facebook groups for people interested in the particular group or location will often help.

For general wild plants and animals (and fungi and everything else) there's a computer vision tool from iNaturalist, which can be used independently [1], or when submitting an observation to the site -- by web browser or in the app. I usually start with that, then look at other observations on iNaturalist and Wikipedia pages for the species.

If the photos are of ornamental plants, I think PlantNet's [2] model is trained on them.

(I work at GBIF[3], where suitable data from iNaturalist[3b] and soon PlantNet is sent, and can then be freely downloaded and used in research etc.)

[1] https://www.inaturalist.org/computer_vision_demo

[2] https://plantnet.org/

[3] https://www.gbif.org/

[3b] https://www.gbif.org/dataset/50c9509d-22c7-4a22-a47d-8c48425...
Australia, 98 deaths and 16 people in ICU. Entire economy destroyed. Either we will make money meaningless by printing it out of thin air or coming decades will witness crushing tax. 5 million people unemployed out of population of 22 million.

Someone fucked up.
> But why?

This is basic foundation building. It's true there aren't too many good use-cases for Swift on Windows or Linux now. But that can't really start to change until Swift has decent support for Windows and Linux.

Of course, it will take a lot more than this for Swift to catch on outside of its home territory. This is just one necessary step.

More broadly, I think we're still in the middle of the language wars, where the limitations of the historically dominant languages (like C, C++, Java, Javascript) have created openings for one or more newer languages. I think Apple and other Swift proponents would like Swift to become one of those newer established languages and take steps like these to at least keep it in the running.
that the tourist sector is in trouble isn't exactly a secret at this point, so additional shorts seem risky.

Avis Budget, a car rental company, does 2/3 of their rentals at airports and they carry a huge amount of debt. The car rental space is extremely competitive as it is and new ride sharing offers don't make things easier. Hertz is already very close to bankruptcy
For Google, you can ignore specific sites by adding "-example.com".

See this example of filtering Stack Overflow out of search results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=loop+over+array+items+in+jav...
That's pretty speculative given the amount of extra time a smoker might spend outside - combined with another speculative idea that small amounts of sun exposure has a meaningful impact on outcomes.

Seems more likely that nicotine itself might have a direct interaction, or that there is no benefit at all, and it's all just noise in the data.
> I mean, they're only readable to people who have dabbled in variadic templates in their free time. That's how many people on your (future) team?

This line of reasoning is vacously true for any syntax and semantics though. Move semantics and rvalue reference are only readable to people that have taken the time to understand them -- they're undoubtably useful though.
Or you know, people who respect their time.
Convert between different color formats and use them in the CSS generators
Get Harmonies and more.
I'm not sure why you're being down voted. Is a valid point, the title reads like it's introducing an editor (I haven't heard of it, so it's an introduction to me), but saying native and not which platform in the title when it's one single platform, MacOS, is pretentious. It happens fairly regularly with Mac OS things.
>historically high price relative to the estimated earnings potential

It's high compared to expected earnings over the next year. Which is to be expected, because the ratio of expected lifetime earnings over expected 12 month earnings is also at a high, owing to a pandemic significantly impairing earnings for a year or so but not forever. Looking at 12 month numbers is usually fine as a proxy, but terrible now.
I've used Pivotal before and would 100% go with that if I had the choice.

If you need to do a bunch of crazy, waterfall like, interdependencies and formal planning, Jira is probably still the way to go. If you need a reasonably usable ticketing system, Pivotal is good enough.
> I’m betting that the U.S. economy will not stay depressed for 10-20 years, which seems like a pretty good bet.

Not to mention most americans' retirement is tied to their homes\ equity and their 401k/stocks. So it is political suicide for the government to let either drop in value for an extended period of time. Therefore, over the long term, house prices and stock prices will likely go up because politicians want to be reelected.

The only caveat is that eventually, we will reach out "limit" ( demographically, economically, etc ) and then housing/stock prices will drop and stay down for decades/maybe forever. Japan hit their limit in the early 90s and their housing prices and the nikkei today is a fraction of what it was back then.

https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/stock-market

If the check the 50Y chart, you'll see that the nikkei was at 37000 in the early 90s and is now at 20000. 30 years in and still nearly 50% down.
So libertarian are in power?
Libertarians are non-interventionists, so clearly not effecting foreign policy. Against gov spending and gov debt, clearly not winning there. We are making progress on civil rights, gay marriage, ending the drug war.

The size and scope of government continues to increase every year, so I don't see how anyone could call that libertarian.
because he didn't predict a global pandemic and a government ban on flying?

Selling at a loss is hard, Kudos to Berkshire for understanding that the world has changed and acting accordingly, most investors are going to try to sit this out and might well lose everything in the process.
Any more reading on taleb’s take? Could it be bottom up but kind of ignited and fed by media coverage?
But it literally is whataboutism. If a friend of yours expresses concern about big tech firms, and then you say, "But what about this other industry?" you have not engaged at all with the original statement and attempted to shift the conversation to something else entirely.
> As a downside you have to spend serious time to implement your workflow

That's actually the benefit of Jira.

It lets you define your own fields and workflows.

Most other apps force a specific workflow which may not work for your specific business reqs.
https://twitter.com/cpswan/status/971335126566211585?s=20

Maybe not exactly what you're thinking. But somewhat in the same domain.
> An inflation of the money supply is by definition inflation.

Not true. Inflation refers to changes in the price of goods in services, not changes in the money supply. This is basic economics anybody who graduated high school should know.
Dominos is a $14B company. It is much easier for a smaller company to return 4,595% when compared to FANGs, which are worth north of $1T. You aren't going to see a company of that size have such large returns. All of global wealth is estimated near $350 trillion. Apple, for example, could literally only grow 350% more before it composed all worldwide wealth.

The comparison to FANGs isn't all that compelling.
I really need saviors like you! Learning a new programming language / framework is often too redundant initially.
Can you maybe elaborate why this model is better than async/await? I have to admit, I don't really know Loom, but from a first glance, it looks like this is just (green) threads, and async/await is anyway an orthogonal concept to this, or not? But maybe I am confusing things here.

Can you maybe recommend a good overview over all the current concurrent approaches and concepts, like async/await, and alternatives, and their advantages and problems? I would love to get a more recent overview on this.

I had the impression that most recent languages follow on the async/await concept. At least JS and Python. Maybe also Rust? Go? Erlang? And there are probably libraries for C++ to do the same, or maybe it is already integrated? I have to admit that I did not fully follow all this development.
> the rules state that an arbitrary combination of letters is also perfectly acceptable

To be honest, I always suspected this.
Serious answer: there's a relative dearth of project management tools that have anything approaching useful reporting and analytics, and the requirements of the organization outside of engineering often require that that reporting exists (if not in the pointy-haired boss "measure the productivity of your individual engineers" sense, at least the "tell me when big project will be done and how many resources you need" sense).

GitHub issues and Trello have more or less just abandoned the idea of being able to do any useful analytics or reporting, tools like Pivotal Tracker have some but require that you work in exactly the process they dictate, and the other big ones that have reporting generally are even worse than JIRA.
They also tend to need to be debugged & administered.
Army researchers advance toward quantum computing at room temperature
RE: Food prices

This assumes that the prices for all of the inputs for food production remain static in the face of either increasing taxes or as we both seem to agree upon, an increased monetary base. Land and energy will go up in price as more money is available to chase the same scarce resources. Similarly taxes would increase production costs.

>UBI doesn't change the deficit because the deficit will always be as high as politically possible.

More spending won't increase deficits because they're going to spend anyways? I'm not sure I follow your logic here.

It is true that price inflation helps debtors. Those who have homes have their debts minimized while their asset increases in price. Lately it seems that we have been incentivizing this behavior, rewarding those who borrow and punishing those who save in cash. I'm not sure how this helps low income individuals. Especially those who are trying to build savings for their first home.

>Food and rent are a disproportionately large expense for the poor because they are poor; if we redistribute wealth towards the poor we should expect it to become a proportionately smaller expense for them

And they will still be poor relative to everyone else. What is needed is not a money printer to merely print more paper and distribute it into the economy, but a similarly effortless method to print supply into the economy like a Star-Trek replicator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicator_(Star_Trek)

Worse yet, in the case of COVID-19 production has actually decreased.
In the US it can land you in jail. See the case of Anthony Levandowski who took Waymo's self driving code over to
Uber.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/19/21187651/anthony-levandow...
Other than `@case`, are there other examples of macropy macros?? @case means nothing to me.
Have the financial markets become decoupled from the real economy? Like a parasite consuming its host, now they just wait to be bailed out to bankroll stock buyback schemes...
I've been using Clubhouse recently and I'm a big fan. It has about the same level of analytics and reporting as Pivotal, but it's more flexible and the UI is nicer to work with.
That, or perhaps a lack of sun exposure is linked to having preexisting conditions. Diabetics, COPD, asthmatics, etc as a group probably tend to spend less time outside.
Sunnier countries can still have large vitamin D deficient populations. I read a study regarding the correlation between mental illness and vitamin D deficiency a few years ago, and Italian patients were still often very deficient. If people don't go out in the sun enough, or wear too much sun cream, it doesn't matter how sunny it is.
What makes you see a second wave as likely? (Not challenging you, I’m just curious)
>In the five centuries between Caesar's conquest and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the Gaulish language and cultural identity underwent a syncretism with the Roman culture of the new governing class, and evolved into a hybrid Gallo-Roman culture that eventually permeated all levels of society

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Gaul

Can you point to symbiosis with native American culture that resembles that to any extent today in the US? All we have are racist football team mascots
The only thing more HN than debating the usage patterns of reaction gifs is to... veer further into discussing the file format used to share them. At least today it’s topical!
The Go and Rust program in that benchmark are really not equivalent. Rust is using threads.