skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More money or less money isn't the issue. I would have no problem with way paying much more to the government if it's for services that are beneficial, and I think we're paying too much for services that are not.

When it comes to healthcare, the vast weight of the evidence supports strong government intervention in healthcare. When examples of profit driven healthcare exist, the vast weight of the evidence would lead you to conclude that it is less efficient and more expensive, delivering worse outcomes for higher cost.
It's less dumb than usual Java code in the sense that it's less obvious. Java Lambdas are anonymous, inline implementations of single method interfaces (or abstract classes with a single abstract method). In classic Java you would instantiate an explicit object, from an explicitly named interface (anonymous classes were still allowed, but at least the code would have the name of the implemented interface and the overridden method). This made the code more explicit, therefore more cumbersome but also more obvious. I like lambdas because they make the code considerably less cumbersome but only a little less obvious. But they do make the code a little less obvious, and as such, I would say that they make Java less "dumb".
Iperf and Iftop are your friends
I'd imagine if you specify a limit or market price they just get a better price, and pocket the difference.
Looks better and more professional.
Did you have specific areas where there should be more automation? There is a lot of automation in farming.The tractors can drive themselves and planters continuously monitor and correct themselves. What is your definition of milking by hand? I suspect the percentage of cows milked by hand is extremely low. Even small family farms use milking machines.
I like your posts on this topic. Talk to wealthy EU citizens about their tax rates. They hate them. And bringing that model,here won't fund the social plans we are told we need.

Why? There just too few people in that echelon for higher taxes to make a dent.

So one might think these pushers of more social aid might realize, "ok we have to raise taxes on the middle class to get the funds we need... and introduce a national sales tax (VAT) that everyone, even the poor, must pay."

Do they say that? Do they come to that conclusion?

No, they imstead promulgate ideas such as wealth ceilings: anything you earn over 100 million is taxed 100%. There can be no billionaires.
Thanks. I will check it out.

I don't personally have plans to start a food business from home, but I run r/GigWorks and several websites and I actively try to foster micro-enterprise to whatever degree I can as just one person with a lot of personal burdens myself.
True. The US has not lost any of their own wars.
The table's garbage. It's showing the total volume as exactly equal to water volume plus alcohol volume, out to four digits. That's not how it works. A mixture of water and alcohol (whether ethanol or isopropyl) gets more compact because the different molecules can pack together better, by up to a few percent.
I was not aware that swift had affine types. Never been a big fan of Swift, I loved objective-c, so there is some built in bias there.
No, there are winners. And it's important to understand that otherwise a huge % of people would be speaking German these days as an example.
Actually, I think what would be more useful is the ability to vote directly on all things and delegate your vote on specific topics or in general when you want not every 4 years.
We can have the technology to enable this and it would effectively kill a full time politician as a job.
That think would instead be done by retirees in their spare time.
And if things were not going to work in the right direction, you can vote immediately, any time.
If, on the other hand you don’t care or don’t know enough about the subject, you can delegate your vote and that person can also delegate your and her vote too.
That's because it is. What makes restaurants different is their specialization in an area, and excelling at that along with atmosphere. Without that there's no value add.

I have worked with these large kitchens that can make different types of cuisines depending on your want, but they all turn out mediocre.

My family completely stopped ordering out during this pandemic because most restaurants have lost the key employees who make their food special, there is no atmosphere, and GrubHub et al add no value.
bitcoin, just make sure you sell it after the next big rally that all the money printing sparks
In that case they'd 100% fix or replace it.
That's right, the generated Terraform code is for > 0.12.x. That said, it's pretty easy to change it to generate < 0.12.x by editing the templates at https://github.com/houqp/vpcstudio/blob/master/src/terraform....
Gifiot: A person who makes animated gifs from videos.
It's because they are poisonous, and also look roughly like a troll's testicles.
I probably wont have time to add it myself, but PRs welcome at https://github.com/houqp/vpcstudio :)
Except it does do that. It's called persistent maps, and it's how the feature where you can say "Go vacuum the kitchen" works[0].

Also, I think you're underestimating both how valuable and complicated VSLAM is. Sure, it's not a multi-billion dollar state-of-the-art composite deep learning model trained on thousands of hours of data running on custom silicon, but it's hardly "This area is dark, and there's a bright thing over there!" Even if VSLAM only included visual odometry, that would still be a major improvement over other options in autonomous navigation, which is absolutely key in other domains that you seem to consider state-of-the-art. It's the same technology, and investments therein that make things like the RangerBot possible[1]. In a competitive market where BOM cost is a serious consideration, if you could get better results by not using VSLAM and relying only on something like laser odometry instead, that's what would be done.

Also, I'm honestly a little annoyed at your implication that I'm the one not having a good-faith discussion, while you have blatantly and repeatedly made false statements that could have been figured out by doing your own research, notable by your failure to provide any actual sources, instead making tangential anecdotal references to try to back up your statements. Heck, let's not forget your initial claim wasn't "limited vision" (which I debate anyway), but "no vision", and "no model of their environment" which again isn't simply true.

[0] https://store.irobot.com/default/roomba-vacuuming-robot-vacu...

[1] https://good-design.org/projects/rangerbot/
>> Using this anonymous ballot system provides identity protection from vote buying or trading since these exchanges cannot be verified by the buyer or trader.

I'm really split on that one. I'm not sure that anonymity does much to curb vote buying. I think it allows vote buying to fly under the radar. If we know how a politician votes we can then compare that to fundraising and lobbying records. With anonymous voting we are blind.

A modern lobbyist doesn't care about verifying individual votes. They lobby multiple people, entire parties, to shift trends. If they fail on an issue that only means the people they were lobbying don't have control of their party. The lobbyists move to other people for the next round. Eventually they work out where to send their money and start winning regardless. At least with non-anonymous voting outsiders have some hope of tracking what is going on.
While we are discussing this, please don’t mind if I ask which is more effective - 70% ethyl alcohol vs 70% isopropyl alcohol?

I am using the hand sanitizer by 3M which has 70% ethyl alcohol.
Zoom Now Worth More Than the World’s 7 Biggest Airlines
Ask HN: Are you a frontend or backend developer?
I would like to know the distribution of frontend vs backend developers here (if you are fullstack state where you feel more comfortable or what's your main).
I'm confused what the implication of the title is supposed to be. Should he have given each restaurant $50 million? It really makes no sense to think of it as a percentage of his wealth, because it clearly brings $800k in benefits to the people he gave it to. And they even mention that he's pledged to donate 99% of his wealth... so why does it matter what amount of that goes to this specific cause? Doesn't the fact that he's giving away 99% of his wealth imply he's plenty generous?
Great work! It's interesting to see that Windows XP's blue and gradients design didn't age well compared to Mac OS X's blue and gradients.
https://www.thelancet.com/cms/10.1016/S2666-5247(20)30003-3/...

Table C lists the various disinfectants they tried including ethanol at 70%. All of them found undetectable levels of SARS-CoV-2 after 5 mins except hand soap, which took between 5 mins and 15 mins.

I was off in my recollection that the study showed that alcohol killed the virus immediately. I may have confused that with a press conference several weeks ago but that data is probably suspect. All we know is that within 5 mins alcohol killed it to undetectable levels.

Also note that the 20 second rule has never been tested. There is some value in washing in a sink with running water since it is physically removing the virus off your hands. And it’s been socialized that is will work in general for bacteria but no one has actually tested to see if 20 seconds of hand washing with soap will clean you of coronavirus specifically. The study above actually tested for coronavirus although I don’t think the soap test was for running water.
VLGSX(Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Index) has actually had really good ytd returns. Dunno how long it will last.
It was $100 before some currency conversion/etc., I'd guess.
yes, tetris is not as easy as it seems :) breakout and space invaders are other popular choices. You can make breakout in a weekend (assuming you already know how to program).
I have subscribed to your channel. Do you know of any services that allow non US residents to join? I am in New Zealand.
I miss the Windows 7 start menu. It really was peak Windows.
I've spent more time on the front end, but that's just because I like it. I don't like to pigeonhole myself and at my current job I'm full-stack.
Do you believe those jobs wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for Facebook or Zuckerberg?
Both, but more comfortable doing backend development
I did copy the dot points directly from the paper. It was behind a university login for me, so I wasn’t sure anyone could read it.
Alpaca is great! As far as brokerage APIs go, theirs is top notch and a breeze to code for. The founders are also really responsive and helpful.

I know this because I wrote an app that connects to Alpaca accounts (as well as other brokerages) to help people build their own custom index funds [0]. It only took a few weeks to build our Alpaca integration, whereas other brokerages often take months/years just to get access to their APIs.

[0] https://getpassiv.com/
Did you have a bad experience on a farm?

> full of generational land princes who are hicks

That is pretty uncalled for and ignorant. You seem to have an agenda so I'm not going to waste much time other than to say that I see no evidence that you know anything about actual farming.
This reminds me of a blogging by email service I used called Posterous. Loved it but got shut down after Twitter bought it.
Thanks, I looked briefly at IEX. Seems like a good source of historical data (maybe real-time as well). One thing that caught my attention was their use of SSE - I typically see WebSockets-based APIs. I also noticed the free account gets 50K messages, which sounded like a lot, but it turned out it was just enough to set up one alert on the account - somewhat underwhelming, but I understand they'd like to convert the free accounts to paid users as fast as possible.
I like that a lot! could work for personal python packages too.
> used against you in job interviews

I used to think blogging come as complementary to your skills. How will anyone use them against you?
Yes, but you would have to add the AWS peering resource yourself, which is not included in the generated code.
It could make for an interesting Firefox extension I think
>There -are- people that truly have issues that lead them to a homeless condition, but this person is not one of them

Interesting that you determined all that from reading a single blog post and have no ideal what her diagnosis is. Very classy.
Firefox has image.animation_mode on top of which one could probably build an extension that does what you want.
While I agree with this pro-user sentiment, you best believe I will be there in 5 years to complain about all the unbelievable choices made by software developers for the sake of pleasing the lowest common denominator users who just gets used to whatever UI they learned first and now all future programmers are forced to copy that UI, no matter how bad it is for future generations to come.
...which you should avoid as much as possible do.

Passing std types across API boundaries is a code smell.
thanks. this is really helpful.
Completely agree. I've always considered Floyd-Steinberg dithering to be a 2D version of Sigma-Delta. It's all about diffusing and minimizing error quantities, to trade higher sampling rate for lower sample resolution while conserving total information content.

Another example is Bresenham's algorithm for drawing straight lines on raster displays. The quantity being approximated there is the slope of the line, which is approximated with minimal diffused error as the line is being drawn with only integer adds and subtracts. No divisions and no floating point needed.

These are some of the most subtly beautiful algorithms in computing.
The kerning is part of the font, which is part of the experience.
So no downsides to dropping Facebook permanently. Being disconnected from current events is definitely an upside. Not unlike many addictive drugs, really. The benefits long term are great too.
There could be a scandal, but how would it be "huge"?

You could throw darts at a list of large companies and weight them with some really dumb rules and get an index that's pretty close to "the market"; that's basically what the Dow is.

The difference between even the S&P 500 and a total market index (i.e. all the smaller stocks that exist) is pretty insignificant to returns (and recently bad for them), and I believe the total market funds have become more popular than the traditional S&P 500 ones anyway.
I don’t believe it’s fake. The earth’s climate has been changing since the plant was created, without humans. It’ll change regardless of what we do. Do you think humans could have prevented the ice age by using plastic straws?

My beef with the media is the pointless fear mongering
interesting idea: I think one issue is that the write throughout of a single master Instance is very limited.

But if working set fit in memory on the instances processing the writes, you could use PostgreSQL logical replication to update materialized view on other server easily.

but then it start looking like Amazon aurora or Datomic database.
NZ doesnt have much going for it in terms of access to international equities. If you have over $10k USD, you can get an interactive brokers account, their API is a bit rubbish and commissions are normally around $6.00 USD flat. Otherwise Direct Broking via Jardens, commissions are c. $30 NZD per trade. Sharesies are apparently launching international equities later in the year, but they dont offer API access.
Easy: Once the stock is valued at x nobody is going to sell it for x/2.

We have to separate the reality of the price of a stock from the value of a company.

I mean, the numbers don’t have to be very complicated: If a company makes $1MM per year, how much would you pay to buy it? $5MM? $30MM?

In the first case you get your money back in 5 years (simplified). In the other case in 30 years. A lifetime.

Another way to look at it: The guy who paid 5x will make $25MM in 30 years. The one who paid 30x walks away with zero profits in 30 years.

When people pay 20x, 30x, 100+x for stocks all they are betting on is that someone will be willing to pay more in the future.
Any alternate source? The car looks pretty but I can’t read much of the article.
Maybe some inside joke, if 101 denotes a first lesson (or an introductory course at college or university in the subject specified), 102 would be the next lesson.
That will only work until the RFC is approved, at which time the X will be dropped.
Even better if people would stop with their fake outrage at what other people like.
You want Gibbard's. It is an extension for cardinal systems.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbard%27s_theorem
This is addressed in the Wikipedia page under "Criticisms of quadratic voting mechanisms".

Potential solutions include giving everyone the same amount of starting artificial "money", using one-person-one-vote when issues are polarized along wealth-lines, or making votes more expensive for the wealthy.

To me, the first option of delegating everyone the same starting votes seems the most reasonable. However, I think allocating vote prices based on wealth could create some interesting incentives and resulting politics.
For now it's fueled by VC cash so people will adopt it because of it. This gives Tillable growth numbers that impress investors to give even more money and so on, until it's so large that it can apply ideas of scale, like integrating vertically in some form.

The vertical integration Uber envisions is self driving cars. Any company which has a foot in the hauling market will have an advantage over a purely self driving research company. The vertical integration of Tillable would involve things like buying the land, renting out machines, completely automating the work, etc. Something like that.
I don't know Francisco but I'm sure he deserves better than this

https://github.com/franciscop/picnic/pull/203/files

+If you spot a bug or any other issue you may go to hell because this software is officially Bug Free(TM).
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Ok, but what's going to be your business model if you don't charge commission?
Alpaca is US-residents only unfortunately
Coronavirus is going to smash the U.S. university system
I can assure you not much in high finance is "earned".
> Are many of these women coerced into prostituting themselves?

We lack studies on this in the US. I'd argue that most people who are involved in an illegal profession (in the US at least) often doing so for lack of viable alternatives.

In other countries where prostitution is legal and regulated, it seems is less likely to be a profession of last resort.

> Do you have a similar moral problem with people doing other jobs out of desperation, like back breaking labor?

Very much so.
Well, it depends on what you blog about.

If, say, you blog about some social/economic/political position that is (or becomes) unpopular/unacceptable, your career may be toast. Such as, for example, happened for James Damore.

So if you're going to blog as your meatspace identity, you gotta protect your brand.

If you want to blog carelessly, you'd better do that using a persona that can't readily be linked to your meatspace identity. That's why I'm here as Mirimir.

But even then, Mirimir has a reputation to protect. And that's why I use other personas, which can't readily be linked to this one.
> Why?

Long story short, corporate earnings can absorb small and moderate inflation shocks. That lets dividends, and enterprise exit values, respond to low inflation.
This is "straight BS".

Typical COGS on food at a dine in restaurant is 30-40%. It certainly isn't marked up "thousands of percent".
Arguably taxes on the wealthy are too low in Europe too. There is constant talk about taxing the wealthy more in Germany for example.
Jessica Snouwaert may not understand this from her ivory journalist tower, but if I were running a charity, I don't give a damn about who gave me the $800k and no one can tell me $1.02 has anywhere near the same effect on people's lives as that $800k.
> You can delete emails by just sending $DELETEME.

Does that still fit with the view that this is suitable for “Grandpa and Grandma” if it exposes one’s email address? Shouldn’t a service intended for non-technical audiences take more care in not exposing the users by default?
In addition to the well made points of client software treating videos in the same was as images, server apps need to as well.

Currently there are lots of forums and other similar software that allow embedding of images (including gifs) but don't allow embedding videos.
Https://blog.rraghur.in

Gitlab pages with custom domain. Ssl from lets encrypt.
Domain managed by cloudflare.

Static site with Hugo and I use asciidoctor for authoring entries

Let's encrypt cert renewal is via a cron job running on rpi in my home network
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My own personal view as someone who works in Wall Street (but not in trading) is that the market is currently too optimistic in the wake of surprisingly positive (or "not terrible") Q1 2020 earnings reported in early April.
The problem is that those earnings don't really say anything about the world we live in today, because (a) the U.S. only really started panicking in mid-March, when most of Q1 was already over and (b) companies did their very best to make Q1 look as good as possible since they realized Q2 was going to be absolute shit anyway. That includes trading long-term, sustainable results (good) for near-term gains (bad, but which they felt "necessary" given the current environment) including not only cost-cutting and "rightsizing" but likely some liberal / aggressive accounting.

At work, people say we're in the second inning of the COVID-19 game, and although I hate baseball, I tend to agree. Valuation multiples have essentially recovered to pre-COVID-19 levels. The S&P 500 was down only 10% this year (as of some date last week). Intuitively, does anyone feel the economy is just "10% worse"? Especially coming off of record highs that many already felt were in need of a correction...

I think the "second wave" everyone keeps worried about is more likely to be defined not only by a surge in cases but perhaps more significantly by the massive market crash as the current house of cards begins to unwind. Grab your hot dogs, the third inning is about to start.
I've a little anecdote on this. Once at a community potluck, our table ended up with several wine bottles...but no corkscrew. I reasonably asked a neighboring table to borrow one of their own (nice ppl, but strangers). Well, nicely, they lent me some suspiciously plasticky version of a corkscrew, literally, the screw was made of some sort of plastic!). Shitty, in one word... Sure enough it snapped, the cork still stuck, I'm embarassed, offered the owner another wine bottle in apology. Had a laugh about it together and fun time. But it was a lesson on shittiness-in-disguise-of-utility.

Similarly with an open source libs or utils. If it's shitty by your own admission, then either keep it to one-self or properly warn people that it's just that ... shitty, not MIT kind of AS-IS.
In the past, a team would wait until the statue of limitations had lapsed before publishing their evidence.

https://jalopnik.com/alex-roy-reveals-transcontinental-run-c...
While `left-pad` certainly wasn't the most optimized implementation, it wasn't a "click-grabbing" project of the sort saurik was positing. It solved the problem the name suggested it would solve. The fallout around it really didn't have anything to do with "resume-driven development"

EDIT: Not sure why this was downvoted, maybe people forgot that padStart and friends appeared in ES2015, long after left-pad was created
Which is why I gave numbers for North America.

The stats I was looking at appear to be based on a definition of Europe that is about 700 million, while "North America" is about 590 million.
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