skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One issue is they run a marketplace platform where they also sell and push their own products on that platform. People sell products on the platform, Amazon gathers data, and eventually undercuts them out. They can exploit their 50% market share on top of control of the platform to make it almost impossible to compete in many product areas. Not a monopoly perhaps in the definition, but extremely suffocating.
I guess you're being sarcastic, but what value is being provided to society by having landlords rent houses out to people who would rather buy them?
I’ve never seen a published report on zinc and chloroquine, and this combination seems to only appear in YouTube videos. Do you have any links to clinical studies?
and whose better at designing systems than you and me?
> python 2.7.x (does not work with python3)

Python 2 has a very, very long tail.
For a long time, it was the cameras. We couldn't get smaller things into focus and still preserve high-resolution images. Now that the camera problem has been solved with CMOS detectors, the next problem is likely going to be the contrast-transfer function [1]. If we can solve that (such as with an energy filter, as I suspect the authors of this paper used), we can get smaller and smaller samples in focus without losing high resolution information from the electron scattering.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPynoF2j6zc
Slack drops 10% after its revenue growth guidance fails to impress
It is not a clear cut 50%, but it is about options. There are plenty of alternative for books, ebooks etc.

In a monopoly, a single seller controls or dominates the supply of goods and services.

The term you may be looking for is monopsony.

In a monopsony, a single buyer controls or dominates the demand for goods and services.
Or straw man companies pretending to advertise products when they are advertising political statements.
What evidence have we seen that Leetcode translates to people that write clean, sensible code?

It feels like Leetcode is more of an aptitude test, but there’s tons of people that do great on the SATs but don’t necessarily excel in college.

From my experience, the number one thing a team should be assessing for is sensibility. Give someone the shittiest piece of code you’ve encountered at work and have that person write their true feedback about it. If it’s mostly what your team would have said, there, you found someone with the right sensibilities.

Then hit them with a few easy/medium Leetcodes as a fizzbuzz, and feel good about making a good hire.
Late reply: I used to do this. These days, I treat my projects like cattle, not pets.[1]

Using nix I made everything reproducible. So given a project name and branch name, everything is checked out (shallow checkout for big projects) and setup for me. If I'm working on another machine, just run "launch org/project <branch>" and profit.

There are edge cases: if I forget to push, I do remote in and do that. When I'm done with a branch, I make it a habit to purge that "instance" of the project. But first I have git go through the project and its submodules (if any) and ensure everything has been pushed and the repo not modified.

Note: my projects are database backed and have state etc. All of that is part of the setup script, per project. If your database is in a customized-state for development for a super specific scenario, then you're probably not automatically testing it and that's a code smell to me.

[1] https://medium.com/@Joachim8675309/devops-concepts-pets-vs-c...
Influential Lancet hydroxychloroquine study retracted by 3 authors
I disagree. Police should never be the aggressors, and force should be proportional. Otherwise, they are legal bullies.
There is nothing magical going on.

Step 1: Fed conjurs D dollars into existence

Step 2: Fed trades D dollars for a stack of paper

Step 3: Fed trades paper stack for (1-r)D dollars

The net effect is the Fed giving away rD dollars. If the Federal government gives away any dollars, it is taxpayers footing the bill.
> ... investors had expected the firm to more aggressively beat expectations

I know this is the norm nowadays with companies sandbagging guidance, but the above statement is still absurd.
It's front page on the Washington Post right now.

I haven't been on HN regularly in years; is promotion by the HN and silicon valley dabblers-and-blowhards crowd the reason the drug (one of dozens being tried) become so talked about? Did Elon Musk spend an hour browsing the preprints and tweet it to the world or something? I'm confused
Doesn't seem to be happening in the UK yet, where many mortgages are suspended.
Motorhomes are kind of interesting. If you look at the price of a new one it wouldn't be hard to hide the cost of a 150kwhr battery in the price tag. And likely you could run everything off solar panels on the roof.
The information was circa 2017, I do believe the kexts and bootloaders for hackintosh configurations have since improved significantly.
Again - I think this is misleading and I should have specified. In California, most of the money for schools comes from the state.

So, when I say school budget from LA is 4x the police budget, that is just covering the 21% and 12% part of this graph. Doubling the LA school budget would only increase the total school budget about ~33%

Again - if I was in charge I probably would lower police budgets and raise school budgets - but I think those sharing the slices without being informed are doing a disservice.

Source: https://ed100.org/lessons/whopays

I would love to be corrected on some of these issues, but in general looking at just discretionary funds from a city and ignoring all other funds will lead you to some wild conclusions.
> Banks shouldn’t have a ton of this stuff on their balance sheets

I don't understand what you mean - banks issue millions and millions of mortages.
At what point is looting the response to wealth inequality. Does looting ever become justified when the feedback loop of lobbying, plutocracy, and tax code get out of control?

Looters, rioters, and arsonists would have a stronger arguments if their attacks were targeted, and not against small businesses and local grocery stores. Vandalizing Gucci and Dior sends a very different message than destroying single location restaurants.

Comparisons of this to the Boston Tea Party omit that it was an extremely targeted attack that allegedly self policed against collateral damage to other businesses.

"The People should never rise, without doing something to be remembered—something notable And striking." - John Adams
How does this make any sense as a security measure? Real criminals will always find a photographer who would produce whatever a picture they want and stamp it.
BTW, we have designed a new super cool data structure, where we we wrap it into a database engine, then put it back to PostgreSQL, even okay for MYSQL (actually easier). The repo is a byproduct for us.
Oh hello, guy that complains about the way that the term "software engineer" is used!

Outside of your head, the job title "Software Engineer" is mainly used to describe computer programmers that do not do formal engineering. The battle to "protect" the term (as a designator of formal "engineer" status) has already been fought and definitively lost.

As such: Regardless of what C0D3 or its students desire, any successful grad of the platform will have to learn that "software engineer" is a job title that they qualify for. Unless you care more about this linguistic drift than you care about junior devs' job prospects, you (and everyone else) should be quiet about this forever.
I stand corrected. Let me rather say that Plantin shares a lot more with (say) Bembo than it does with Times, and I don't see why either would be a times "alternative".
Task Representations: Deep Learning Models Perform New Tasks with O Training
Uh.. is this in jest?
The name was recently referenced by a satellite of another pseudonymous group, Wu-Ming (previously "Luther Blissett"). Under the name "Nicoletta Bourbaki" * , they published a number of very detailed analysis of historic revisionism and disinformation efforts, focusing particularly on material peddled by right-wing activists from the Italian North-East border.

Bunch of links, in Italian:

Published on Wu-Ming's own blog: https://www.wumingfoundation.com/giap/tag/nicoletta-bourbaki...

Published on Internazionale magazine: https://www.internazionale.it/tag/autori/nicoletta-bourbaki

Medium: https://medium.com/@nicolettabourbaki

* Nicoletta is the feminine form of Nicola, the Italian equivalent of Nicolas/Nicholas.
So like every other big retailer? Like Walmart, Costco and many others?
This is surely a satirical comment?
Direct capture cannot capture a neutron, as it is not a charged particle. Charged particles are relatively trivial to block with the lithium blanket. Not sure how direct capture could possible be more efficient. Do you have a reference that explains what you are talking about?
Noteplan: https://noteplan.co

Doesn't attach, but uses a calendar view.
Plus, it's text based.
> But if you have to slog at boring jobs for a lot of years in order to accumulate that big pile of money allowing you to become FI you'll have to consider if it's worth it.

It's not mutually exclusive.

> my approach is having enough to live several years without income, allowing me to reject things I really don't want.

This is what "FI" part means. the financial independence.
Why is this hyperbole? My understanding is that the Fed has set aside $454 billion of taxpayers’ money via the CARES act to absorb the losses in the bail out programs set up by the Fed.

And this has more detail, from an earlier article [1]

Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania asked Quarles to clarify if the taxpayers’ money ($454 billion handed over by the Treasury to the Fed, which will then be used as equity in Special Purpose Vehicles set up by the Fed and leveraged up to $4.54 trillion to make loans and purchases of toxic assets on Wall Street banks’ balance sheets), is in fact going to be used to absorb losses on what the Fed is taking off the balance sheets on Wall Street. Quarles responded as follows:

“The Treasury has the fiduciary responsibility, if you will, to the Congress for the use of the funds that are appropriated to it. So I wouldn’t want to speak for them as to how that equity should be handled. But it is true that in the construction of the 13(3) facilities [Fed’s emergency programs] that use Treasury equity, the Treasury equity is there to insure the Fed, which statutorily cannot take losses, has to be sure that it won’t, is there to insure that that cushion exists for the funding portion of the facility.”

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has already admitted that the $454 billion is to be used to absorb losses that it anticipates it will take.

[1] https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/05/wall-street-banks-pai...

Does this not imply exactly that, the taxpayers will be eating the losses?
Yup. I temporarily switched from an iPhone to an Android BlackBerry when the one with the slide-out keyboard first came out and I did not receive SMS messages from iOS users for the entire duration.
Plus, Amazon actually doesn't have a monopoly on Kindle. All an author needs to do is render their book to a MOBI and then put it on their website for a paid download and have the downloaders use "send to kindle" through their phone or email. It's that simple, I do it all the time for free ebooks not published on Amazon.
Woosh. I know the legal definition of Corporate Personhood. This is not the same idea as saying "I believe corporations are human-people", which is what the sarcastic poster was playing with. That distinction is the point of the satire: we all know you meant the former when you agreed with the sarcastic-poster on the latter; hence the satire exposing the absurdity of it.
Yes, they are more different that I initially thought.
All I can say is that I’m not on Facebook and I have no issue staying in contact with my friends. Since I haven’t had the experience of being on Facebook or hearing about events via Facebook for several years now I can’t relate to your experience.
Actually, a maximally confusing thought (and illegal if they did it) would be for all the protesters to show up in high quality police uniforms. Though things like piercings, tats, and hair styles would be giveaways that some of them weren't cops. The police would throw everything could at them if they did that though.
Pipes are wonderful! In my opinion you can’t extol them by themselves. One has to bask in a fuller set of features that are so much greater than the sum of their parts, to feel the warmth of Unix:

(1) everything is text

(2) everything (ish) is a file

(3) including pipes and fds

(4) every piece of software is accessible as a file, invoked at the command line

(5) ...with local arguments

(6) ...and persistent globals in the environment

A lot of understanding comes once you know what execve does, though such knowledge is of course not necessary. It just helps.

Unix is seriously uncool with young people at the moment. I intend to turn that around and articles like this offer good material.
The only real change I've seen to Microsoft since the 90s is that it finally "embraced" open source in markets it was losing in when the only other alternative was irrelevance.

They're still playing dirty tricks on open source. They're just not stupid enough to use the ones that would do more harm than good.
This is a gross misrepresentation of what actually happened. A flawed study was published claiming HCQ was extremely effective. The right was clamoring to re-open the economy and started promoting HCQ as a miracle cure. Rational people pushed back, said the evidence was thin and more research was needed. The right accused those people of trying to sabotage the economy for political reasons.
I don't think you've seen enough photographers if you think what I'm doing is average. You're right that the barrier to entry is low, but so is the skill level of those just starting out. In my experience most don't have the drive to improve themselves much either. They just putter along, and their family and friends feel like they need to use them and that's enough gigs to suit them until they bore of it.

Make no mistake, if you gave my gear to someone that had little or no experience they wouldn't get the shots that I do. They would have no idea how to find good light, or in the absence of that use strobes or reflectors to create good light. Just posing people is a huge task. Some people are naturals, but most are far from it. Even if you know exactly how a person 'should' be posed, getting them to do it and be comfortable in front of the camera is tough.

After that is editing and retouching. Most low tier photographers throw on a preset and call it a day, and wouldn't have the first clue how to do anything in Photoshop.

I've had multiple couples that have done an engagement with me, and I later went to their house on their wedding day and they had several large prints up. Families have also ordered large prints of their shoots from me.

Most of my work isn't particularly unique, but I'm in a rural area where I don't have the amount of potential customers where unique work would sell. My strobe lighting is unique though - very few photographers use anything more than a speedlight. That lets me pull off shots that other photographers could never do. If you ever see a photographer claim to be a "natural light photographer" that means they have no idea how to use any artificial light at all. They're literally using ignorance as a selling point, and it's not uncommon.

One of the bad aspects of marketing in this job is that even bad photographers get lucky sometimes, which with enough shoots can equal an OK portfolio. There's also a disgusting trend of "workshops" where good photographers set up a shoot with lighting and paid models and photographers pay to take those photos for use in their portfolio. It's rare that I get asked to see a full wedding when someone is inquiring and it's by far the most important evidence of the skill of a wedding photographer.

I'd put up my senior photography against the best in my state, and I've been hired by companies like Hormel to do photography even though they have an in house team.
> Even a temporary measure to bring them to heel and forcing them to recognize who is really in charge could be useful for relations.

The police have a trump card. There really are bad people. And force is required to stop them. In protest, they can just slow walk all calls and say this is due to the budget being cut. If crime rises in the cities, people are going to blame the city leadership. Remember that a lot of the “tough on crime” emphasis of the 90’s came because of rising crime in the 70’s and 80’s. People hate chaos.
Not many people ended up taking up these offers. Less than 10% I think.
No doubt there were a lot of good faith / peaceful protests that were shut down and hindered, but there has also been a lot of looting. Here are couple good long form videos showing some of the looting in and around Santa Monica on a couple of the days:

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=vr3LrRUfJsY

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=PbxTqyW8yI0
Yes, most places I've seen suspending rent and mortgage are also giving continuing monetary assistance as well.
I'm inclined to regard talk of judgement of who is a "great mathematician", who is the "greatest mathematician" and so on as mathematical criticism. And I'm inclined to regard mathematical critics in the same way G. H. Hardy did, as he explained in A Mathematician's Apology [1].

To put the matter more bluntly: if the pilots of Top Gun were in the business of criticism, there wouldn't be any left because they'd blow each other to bits.

I think mathematicians and other high achievers should rather consider their relation to the Mary Sue and their domain of expertise as a LARP. Nobody likes a Mary Sue, nobody likes a Spock. And everyone should remember what rock music has to say about the fortunate sons who can aspire to the Mary Sue, Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

[1] https://archive.org/details/AMathematiciansApology/page/n29
Co-routines: Java has project Loom coming very soon, which (IMHO) shows the way how it should have been done.
Every time I see that sort of stuff I end up | perl, still after 20 odd years. Sometimes i fine perl is not installed and I die a little.
I think the most likely business unit that would be considered a monopoly is its IAAS business unit called AWS which has a very high profit margin. Ecommerce and E-books/books are probably the runner ups.

With those two business units, Amazon can then subsidize short term loss making business strategies and M&A that focus on gaining an eventually obtaining a monopoly advantage such as grocery, general brick and mortar retail, shipping and logistics, tablets, etc.

The other companies in technology focus on PAAS, self driving cars and VR, etc. and haven't used their profit margins to extend into the real world thus far.
My most complex use of the shell is defining aliases in .bashrc and have never felt the need to go further. Do you recommend learning all of that for someone like me?

If so, what resource do you recommend?
Link with highlight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Principles:~:te....

It highlights the text

> Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
With high-def video (Which can now be taken by most cellphones), the names and numbers are clearly legible.

As another poster commented, police have reacted to it by putting electrical tape over those numbers. The problem of getting that tape removed is considered near-insurmountable by Seattle's mayor, and the SPD police chief - who both acknowledge it, but for multiple days in a row, are somehow unable to get it solved.
Yes, I've read the limitations of the paper (after the Lancet debacle, I too learned my lesson and read a little more thoroughly).

I believe it was done the best they could, given that UMN had to use very little money for it (~100K USD, as far as I understand). That's why IMO the limitations need to be fully read and understood.

But I think it was done in good faith (unlike the Lancet study): the PI tried to his best to avoid spilling the beans until it was published to avoid sensationalism, and at the same time, he signed the open letter against the Lancet paper (after he sent the paper for review, so he knew the results already).

Larger studies will likely be needed. It's clear that the effect size (if any exists) is quite small, like with remedisivir.
What motivates a research mathematician to publish their work under a collective pseudonym? I can't imagine that something like that is good for one's career.
> also suggests a possible misunderstanding of the fundamentals of how the Fed operates.

Translation: "You plebes just don't understand."

Typical Fed policy apologia.
Thanks so much for crafting and maintaining imapbackup, Rui! It worked a treat in backing up tens of thousands of messages that Mail.app refused to archive properly.

The feature set is likely to appeal to many HN users:

* ZERO dependencies. (other than Python 2.5 or higher)

* Copies every single message from every single folder (or a subset of folders) in your IMAP server to your disk.

* Does incremental copying (i.e., tries very hard to not copy messages twice).

* Tries to do everything as safely as possible (only performs read operations on IMAP).

* Generates mbox formatted files that can be imported into Mail.app (just choose "Other" on the import dialog).

* Optionally compresses the result files on the fly (and can append to them).

* Is completely and utterly free (distributed under the MIT license).
Unlike Amazon, Google has more domain-related services than just Cloud - i.e. Analytics, Sites, Places, etc - which is probably why it's still independent.
A better summary would "orange man not a medical researcher therefore HCQ needs evaluation."

Your version of this summary is disingenuous and not in the spirit of Hacker News conversation, where we try to take the best possible interpretation of the conversation as it happens. There is no way to take the text "orange man bad" as anything but a petty dismissal of anyone who is not entirely supportive of a particular politician.

People have interpreted a broad array of responses to Trump's advocacy to mean "orange man bad," from actual blind hatred to observations that full trials need to be put on to confirm effectiveness. I have no problem dismissing the former, but when calls for scientific rigor are met with "oh, you're just a Trump hater" we have a real problem -- in that the act of discovering a fact is now politically risky for anyone who suggests it.

Fortunately in this case the publication process is working; the paper came out, was questioned, those questions were investigated, and it was determined the data was insufficiently open to defend the study, so it was retracted.

Ask yourself what would have happened if a paper agreed with the president's assertions, but was based on faulty/unavailable data? Would anyone questioning the paper be met with "orange man bad" dismissals? What effect might that have on NIH/NSF-funded research, do you think?
I agree with this.

It scares me that there are people (even in this thread?!) who say Tegnell is some wicked scientist experimenting on the swedish population.

Feels like some people read a buzzfeed article on viruses and suddenly they are an expert that somehow figured out the things that the government agency for national health did not. "No, my extremely limited knowledge about virology tells me that I am right and the only logical conclusion is that Tegnell is a wicked scientist". For gods sake... Grow a brain, will you?
There absolutely are advantages to libraries that work independent from, or across multiple frameworks. Most webdevs have experience with multiple frameworks. It’s nice knowing you can use a library in whatever project you’re working on.
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