skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, people are going to raise children over zoom? And do so without a roof over their head?

Remote work certainly seems possible, and that would cause a change in real estate prices in many areas.

But claiming that real estate as a whole will suddenly be worthless on any timeline seems a bit far fetched.
I’ve been an AGM and worked the industry six years plus four years adjacent in catering before finishing college and moving into SWE.

Yes an awful lot of them are lazy. I mention him only to mention the scary accuracy of it, but the late Anthony Bourdain has a chapter dedicated to crappy restauranteurs in nearly every book he’s written on the topic of food service as a career (of course his distaste for crappy restaurant owners is poignantly dotted through the entirety of “Kitchen Confidential” to be fair), and I often wonder to this day to hear his voice on the state of affairs in food service during a pandemic, and the micro economy that’s sprung up in food delivery.
The making of Prism – part 2, Finding the right abstraction
How AI Is Transforming Financial Reimbursement
I'm on hiatus on my main project due to the virus. I came up with https://unirender.io in my spare time.

It does prerendering of React/Vue/etc SPA similar to https://prerender.com. It functions as a cdn however, so it is a simple dns change instead on integrating it into a server.

It's not as fast as I would like and it's not really tested either. It's gonna be free for a long while. I keep meaning to clean it up a bit more so I can publish it on github
Restaurants might not be lazy in their core business functions, but that doesn't make them non lazy on other matters.
Correct, I rent out furnished residential properties on medium term lets. Nice ones. I’m not a dickhead landlord, I had enough of them when I rented.

For what it’s worth, I took abandoned or ruined houses in desirable areas, bought them cheap, and spent my own (and my wife’s) time and labour renovating and furnishing them. I created housing stock from mouldy rubble.

Also, please note, I did not invent capitalism. I would much rather everybody could live like this.
I don't think anybody will mind if the rent was say 1$. The concern is really about the size of the rent, astronomically increased by limiting supply.

We should increase supply. Oh, and wealth tax for rising inequality too.
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But to add my site I have to add every page individually. Nobody ain’t gonna use thst.

I’d have to submit every blog post?
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shutting down civilization

Not a reasonable description of stay at home orders with electricity, running water and (for many anyway) grocery deliveries.
Even better. Atlanta, GA is very different from Savannah, GA and both can act in a way that is best for each city.
This is my dream scenario. I couldn’t fathom having to fight horrendous traffic for 2 hours every day, but I’d be fine to do it once a week/on an altered schedule that avoids rush hour.
I have a super simple explanation for this:

- users see copyright notices on every big brand site, so if you don't include a copyright notice, you risk not looking like a big brand. Adding it is a simple way to look more legitimate.

- everyone else does it, so it must be a good idea and be done for important legal reasons, right?
I haven't had time to read the book yet, but the web version of it is just so beautifully displayed. So, kudos for that :)
> payment processing (3%) + 2-3% overhead.

Is that anywhere near enough to actually pay for a delivery? I have both the Dasher app and the DoorDash app. That delivery I pay $2.99 for leads to the Dasher often being offered $13 on a $30 order with a $4 tip.
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The explanation I was always given when taking my biohazard/biosafety courses was that concentrations of EtOH or IPA greater than 70% evaporated too quickly to have the contact time you needed to sterilize e.g. work surfaces or (even worse) your gloved hand.

Apparently here they mention that higher conc. of water make it a better solvent... which I buy, but alcohols still aren't the worst solvent for e.g. hydrophillic membranes, so I think other factors like contact time are likely in play.
Likewise, there are good reason for flying to visit relatives. Maybe not the reason that you like.

Driving inheritely carry risk of accident.

>If everyone had the attitude that they were going to "continue living their lives", the death rate would be much different

What is the death rate in that case ?
"But what else is there? Holding cash is terrible ..."

Holding cash might be terrible. Certainly the returns are and it makes sense that (the entire world) would be chasing higher yields elsewhere.

However, if those assets take a 50% haircut at some point in the near future, holding cash will have looked like a fantastic idea.

Given the current Schiller P/E of 26 (!) that was mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, a 50% haircut in US equities is not at all outlandish to consider.
i get your point. what i am trying to express is that if things are done well, then a government will not develop custom software if a suitable product already exists.

of course software is created. but the risk a company takes in creating is irrelevant to the decision a government makes. that risk is from the past.

you said that the government can either choose to take a risk by developing their own, or offload that risk.

but that is not the decision it needs to make. when it takes an existing product it is not offloading that risk, because the risk that vendor took is independent of the risk of the government.

the situation should be rather like this: either a solution exists, then we use that solution with a small or no risk because the vendor already took that risk in the past. or the solution doesn't exist, then we don't have a choice but to custom develop with all the risks that that includes.

at no point is there an option to offload an existing risk.

the only way to offload an existing risk would be to say: we wait until vendors come up with solutions.

(it may be that i am getting hung up on little details here. i believe that we are actually mostly in agreement in how a government is handling custom development)
My wife and I live in the SF Bay area and we own our primary residence. I would love to see real estate prices collapse. Why? Because we would like to do a lateral move (i.e. sell our house and buy a different one in our area for about the same price) but right now it's too expensive. The price of both our house and the one we'd want to move to have both doubled since we bought ten years ago. If we moved today we would have to pay capital gains tax and our annual property tax would nearly double. If housing prices collapsed and went back to where they were when we bought we could make the move essentially for free.

That's the insidious thing about rising housing prices. In order to cash in on your gains you have to actually sell your house. But then you still have to live somewhere.
As part of trying to provide benefits one would normally get in the office, we provide unlimited Doordash for lunch/dinner. I would prefer to order from places directly, but the choice is either free for me but I order through DD, or pay out of my pocket and order directly. This isn't common I don't think, and we won't have DD anymore after we all go back to the office, but it's a data point.

The accounting is significantly easier apparently when the company just gets a monthly Doordash bill rather than having to deal with individual receipts on concur or something.
Sorry for asking but is there any reason why you don't just use a different color theme for VS Code?
Yep. This convention also enables the cancellation of a click, which can be useful if you realise your error mid-click.

Another piece of software egregious for violating this UI convention is Adobe Reader. I remember upgrading to, IIRC v9? and finding that all buttons in it had been changed to actuate on mouse-down, and wondering what the christ the developers were thinking. Perhaps they thought it made their software seem more "responsive".
Ask HN: What are the skills you use to navigate the world?
There are a few skills i can think of that cannot be described using just one word:

* avoiding responding in verbal bursts - this allows you to switch to the analytical brain and not provid transactional information as it comes to your mind
* listen to understand not to reply - this seems very click baity, but in my experience it's seems undervalued

* once you understand(see above) you can use this to adapt behavior/answer and not anchor to the previous conclusion while ignoring new knowledge that was created

* Occam's razor is something that is also underrated when searching for motivations/incentives of individual actions(that are not yours). It seems that most of the time, the simplest explanation is also the true one, but that does not stop us from adding unverified assumptions and exit with very personal but complex conclusions.

* when interacting with people always look for the signal, because from the words alone in the message can be very misrepresented. Use the message to transform the signal into something simple as in: i don't know, maybe, yes, no, i don't like that etc - obviously this should not apply when you get specific data on topics where details are important

* context - in my opinion this is also underrated because most of the time the conclusions are not enough or can be easily dismissed. I always like to give as an example "flat earthers". We usually know their conclusion and dismiss it arrogantly, but the deeper context(if you actually were interested in the topic of this movement) is that the people that form that "society" have a deeper reason for their common conclusion: it's belonging. As the rest of us, that movement made them belong and form a deep connection although the premise is not valid. Looking for context in this case and understanding it takes a whole new response from my side when interacting with the above mentioned individuals.
* don't forget that people speak most of the time just to express themselves(think of instagram) not to give information or request new information

I like to force myself in using these tools to understand conversations/ideas or general communication. Also, a [resource](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM&feature=share) i found about people expressing themselves in writing (mind -> text -> reader -> idea you wanted to get across from your mind) is this lecture. It can come off as not relevant but it can be applied also in verbal communication.

If you think of success as getting what you want, having a better understanding of how individuals communicate and being better at communicating with them, can give you a boost in navigating towards what you want.
We were ramping up our remote work as a team for the last year and experimenting because we figured we'd have to at some point, so better learn how. Of course, each individual worked from home from time to time but we shifted the focus to doing it all a once. We experimented goin the whole week, then first day of the week as a transition after the weekend.

We did that to expose shortcomings: what are we unknowingly relying on physical presence to communicate? This forced us to write better and institutionalize knowledge.

We also did that because our CTO was unavailable for contribution for a year, could only read emails without attachments, could not answer, and couldn't visit web pages. We shifted everything to GitLab so he could receive issues and conversations in text emails.

We also did that in case money would run out and we were forced to close down the office to save on rent, and in case we wanted to hire people in other geographic locations. We didn't want to hire before having revenues from the platform and needing people to implement features actual people are requesting. Keeps the team small.

We also did that to allow people to test our internal ML platform to allow people to collaborate on data projects and train/deploy models remotely using standard laptops to run jobs on beefy machines. In other words dog fooding our platform.
the "-" operator still works. E.g. "weird stuff I found interesting -reddit.com -youtube.com -wired.com -w3schools.com"
I never checked, but always assumed the (ba)sh syntax highlighter had to be the most convoluted one. Shell has dozens of weird quirks and context dependent features, exceptions, whatnot, and it's still not working properly. every time I do a dist-upgrade, something about it gets fixed and something else breaks.
I would be happier about capitalism if the government was not actively trying to increase profits and socialize the losses.

"Stop restricting the housing supply, and don't prop up house prices by buying mortgage bonds" I shout to noone in particular.
It uses the blockchain to store pointers to find the data in a p2p network.

Anyone can build an app that interacts with the LBRY network through the lbry-sdk (https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-sdk). To be fair though, our company is the only one working on apps atm. But you could build one in any language you want.
Maybe the big names at Goldman aren't as big as they had been in 1998, but it's all still just a collection collection of social connections and who knows who and inroads into various power structures. And that's not just Goldman, that's banking and finance at a high level writ large.
Why birds don't get electrocuted on power lines
Found the UberEats employee. I’ve only ever heard UberEats employees call it a 3P/2P marketplace (I have good friends that work at Uber as well).
No, the comment above is correct, and your own links show this.

From link [2]:
"SARS-CoV-2 (the novel coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19)"

The previous comment was just making the point that the (new) virus is called SARS-CoV-2 and the associated disease is called COVID-19.
That's a fair point, but most of those Mortgage assets have already lost 70-80% of their value. Look at the REM ETF.

So are you making the argument that mortgage-centric stocks are going to go to zero?

It should be no surprise that Tech/NASDAQ is doing well since both individuals and companies are investing more in tech during this crisis, while industrial/travel/etc are all still down substantially.

Maybe the banks will take a larger hit, but the overall market has already priced in what you are saying.
The role of modern libertarians is not to hold power. It is to foment confusion and conflict around any initiatives that would limit the power of private capital (e.g., anything that would address the climate crisis in a meaningful way).
Can just put [first publish]-[now] and save yourself the trouble.
> I work with people who use MSTeams and it makes me yearn for Jira.

What do you mean by this? As far as I can tell, stock MS Teams and stock Jira are designed for very different goals—they don't fall in the same category.
> almost never includes dithering an anti-aliasing

When you follow the contest link, all three images there on the landing page have dithering, as do the backgrounds and a bunch of examples in the contest rules. Googling pixel art, it’s not a majority that use dithering, but there are lots of examples of dithering. And I’ve just seen a lot of dithering over the years in games and art. So I don’t think your claim about dithering being rare is true.

It is true that anti-aliasing is rare, that’s because it is somewhat antithetical to the intent of pixel art. Anti-aliasing is trying to reduce the effects of visible resolution, where pixel art is intentionally embracing low-res and trying to emphasize the pixels. Anti-aliasing automatically means you’re using a higher resolution and downsampling to a low resolution, where the intent of pixel art is to work at the low resolution in the first place. (Not to mention that anti-aliasing needs continuous color values, where pixel art is often intentionally limited to a small color palette.)

The best pixel art is very creative with the use of pixels and makes different decisions than you would in a higher resolution with anti-aliasing. I think of it a little bit like font ligatures - they exist because they read better and look sharper than antialiasing a higher res version.
Example:

> (len . concat)(a, b)
(len · concat)(a, b)
(len · concat)(a)(b)
(concat[len] · (len · fst, len · snd))(a)(b)
(add · (len · fst, len · snd))(a)(b)
<=> add((len · fst)(a)(b), (len · snd)(a)(b))
> add((len · fst)(a)(b), (len · snd)(a)(b))
add((len · fst)(a)(b), (len · snd)(a)(b))
add((len · fst)(a)(b))((len · snd)(a)(b))
add(len(a))((len · snd)(a)(b))
add(len(a))(len(b))

This raises a few questions:

1. How is this supposed to be point-free? a and b are clearly arguments. Wouldn't you replace them with obscure projection functions if you really believed that being point-free was useful?

2. What about this are inputs of the system, and what are the outputs? I'm guessing > marks what the user input, and the other lines are rewrites produced by the system. In that case, why did it stop after a few steps when it was clearly able to continue?

3. Don't you need induction to prove this theorem? Where is the induction step? Where is the base case?

4. Are some of the rewrites based on lemmas already proved and stored in the system? If so, wouldn't it be useful to mark such rewrites?
>InstantClick provides the smoothest experience possible, while still not requiring as much work as a framework (who give lesser results)

It's not the job of a framework to make such optimizations. But within any framework, you could trivially implement something similar. You could be quite aggressive and fetch + cache on hover.
"and a government ready to spring into action if the market goes down too much?"

This is an important aspect to the current craze not mentioned in the article.

There are people - retail & institutional players - literally banking large sums of money on this dynamic of socializing losses. So long as this continues, we'll see an artificially inflated market.
The home-grown app in Tulsa will never have the capital for marketing and sales reps that allow it to capture a healthy market share of restaurants.

And if they do somehow make it, once they become the market leader, they're going to start asking for a larger portion of the pie. That's how business works, be it in Tulsa or SV.
I did pair programming on XEmacs in the 90's by opening a new frame on a second X server. It worked surprisingly well as long as both people stayed out of the minibuffer.
Latin America solves this nicely. I've done a significant amount of work with teams in central and south America. It has been fantastic.

I also relocated to Puerto Rico myself at the end of March. The rise of remote work and the tax benefits here make it too good to pass up.
Minor correction: not at the time of Macy conferences, but rather at the dawn of the 60s and rise of second-order cybernetics; Macy conferences ended in 1960, while LoF was published in 1969.
If you are looking for a forum search, check out https://boardreader.com/.

I have a theory that web crawling alone is not the best way forward to find the most relevant results because of the volume of content continually being created, much of which is niche and sometimes dynamic.

Instead I believe linking together vertical search sources that have targeted information based on search intent will provide better results.

I created Runnaroo [0] for that purpose. If you search a programing question, it will pull traditional organic results from Google, but it will also directly query Stack Overflow for a deeper search.

[0] https://www.runnaroo.com
I'm going to hell for this but could a virus that removes people past the retirement age be actually beneficial to an economy? I can think of a few mechanisms: 1. Reduced draw from social security and pensions. 2. Less long term medical costs. 3. Increases housing supply.

I am not advocating for removing old people from the economy. I am just thinking of some economic consequences of this terrible pandemic.
Funding a freedom dividend with a retirement portfolio
I am surprised more people are not using these tools
I wonder if they call this passivation like they do in chemistry - https://youtu.be/2yE7v4wkuZU?t=394
What are they blocking anyway? Anything important?

There's so many Chinese forums for hardware/firmware hacking/mods, a shame translators are still very bad...
You are right, lazy is the wrong word, irrational perhaps?

I have worked in commercial kitchens and have plenty of friends who run restaurants and have spend time in their operations. They regularly complain about the 30%+ they fork over to grubless. 30% is an insane fraction in a business that barely makes an accounting profit!

In established restaurants, a significant fraction of the orders come from repeat customers. Moving these repeat customers to a 5% friction channel from a 30% channel can be a game changer.

Now when I walk past restaurants, I see banners imploring folks to order from their website. I guess, one silver lining from this pandemic.
This is why you shouldn't just be dousing your hands in EtOH/IPA regularly, even if it's 70%. Either use hand sanitizers that have e.g. ethylene glycol to simultaneously moisturize and protect your dermis, or use latex/nitrile gloves when handling dangerous things, sterilize those with alcohol, and wash your hands with hand soap.
US really seems to have a problem with black-white thinking. There are gray areas you know.

You don't need to choose between no social support vs UBI. You can actually just have a proper unemployment and healthcare support system (like EU).

Same goes for guns. There seems to be a thought that either everyone has the right to buy guns, or you outlaw guns. There is a middle ground where people get a license for a gun (proven with a blank criminal record, sanity confirmation from doctor and theoretical/practical examination), like EU you know.

So why don't you first try something like giving people that need support, better support. That would be a good start without going all in with UBI.

Maybe that would already help the many homeless people that are living on your streets.
Java didn't deliberately move to OS threads so much as the JDK replaced the "classical VM", which was interpreted and had green threads, with HotSpot, that supported OS threads. Moreover, back then Java was young, and people still heavily relied on calling native libraries, which make green threads much less beneficial.

So it's more circumstance and necessity than hype.
It is kind of funny that we talk about SARS-COV-2 as if it is the only coronavirus. Coronavirus, singular. If I’m not mistaken the common cold is in the corona virus family.
+1 I do those as well. Never really thought about how common it could be, but it is pretty natural for me to drag the mouse and let it up somewhere else to prevent incorrect navigation.
> While neither Uber nor Grubhub turns a profit delivering food, they are nonetheless venture-backed and raking in mountains of cash

The author acknowledges that the delivery services are losing money. And yet, the author is essentially saying that the apps should lose even more money because someone else is willing to fund the apps.
That one is filed! https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop/issues/3134

Just haven't gotten to it yet. We're a pretty small team right now.
If 30% of dine-in prices go to rent / seating / storefront marketing, why shouldn’t 30% of the takeout price (which is the same) go to subsidize the delivery infrastructure?

Why are restaurant owners ok with paying so much for rent on a useless (during COVID) storefront in a high traffic area, but when Uber Eats gives them more marketing and orders than the storefront does, Uber Eats is the bad guy.

Be mad at the landlord or COVID, not Uber.