skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the 7 day moving average of new cases and deaths is also slowly trending up [1]. I think we all wished COVID would just go away, but that seems unlikely.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
I think that's probably the smart move, at least for commercial property in this situation. The waived rent is essentially an insurance premium against the risk of vacancy coming out of the recession.
How do things look without using the questionable guidance of "asking price"? "Asking price" (and the notion of above asking) often seems like real estate agent reality distortion to me.

Mortgage rates are super low, so some may see this as getting an asset they can leverage in an improved environment later.
This blog seems to make the same mistake that all programmer management does- that programmers are interchangeable and domain knowledge doesnt matter.

Sorry, but I know developers with way more natural talent than I have but without context to what they want to accomplish it means little. Can those developers learn what I know and then be 10x what I am? sure. But there are few domains where there isnt a learning curve. That creates inefficient markets. That creates disparity between salaries.
> In the Win3.1 era, noone sane would have predicted this.

That's a bold claim!

We went from 4-8MHz 286 chips to 20-50MHz 486 chips in the decade leading up win3.1's first release. By the time we were approaching windows 95, pentiums were up to 133MHz.

Those chips already had really fast branch instructions.

So you're already staring down the barrel of calibration taking 15 milliseconds. It's a reasonably obvious step to consider LOOP being a cycle faster than adding and branching, which takes you all the way down to 7 milliseconds.

So taking that all together, x86 clock speeeds have doubled 3-4 times in the last dozen years. A chip could come out tomorrow that takes 15 or even 7 milliseconds on the calibration loop. Your code breaks if it hits 2.

I think someone sane could have predicted the problem.
can you please elaborate what is "globals-based architecture" and its disadvantages?
> when things come easy to people

I think you have a very misguided idea of what it's like to live in poverty.
Where does audio come from? From DSLR? If you need a separate mic, is there a/v sync issue?
Thank you for posting this.

Here is a facebook free link https://outline.com/gY2JRt
Seems like it still falls under the condition that "you can get to recovery mode after the PC fails to start 3 times," as parent mentioned. Just a more explicit way of forcing the PC to fail to start.
The post is ignoring key ideas of economic geography: benefits of agglomeration, and transport costs.

Agglomeration is the idea that there are a cluster of benfits arising from clustering people doing an activity together. Inter-firm sharing of technologies and practices, in particular. A lot of the transferred knowledge is informal and implicit, and a lot of the transfer happens outside of the formal workplace.

Transport costs: as transport costs decline (and they certainly have done so for information, voice and video communications), then previously negligible differences in costs become significant.

So, paradoxically, cheaper communications increase the relative value of clustering together, and especially the value of being physically near your biggest customers.

This is true even for whiteware manufacturers, let alone high-information services.
I can't speak to the general case, but there's no `libc` compatibility cruft in my app. None of my dependencies try to talk to the operating system, and the Rust I wrote in this project uses `js-sys` and `web-sys` directly.

If you're minimizing binary sizes, the biggest thing to avoid is `std::fmt`. This requires a little planning but is still quite achievable. #[no_std] crates are always safe to pick, and most of the popular std-dependent crates can be used too though you might need to toggle some features off.
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And yet latency to RAM goes almost unchanged, which has a lot of very interesting effects.
For mortgages I don't see why the deferrals are a problem as long as they are just tacked on to the end of the mortgage.

It is going to be a major problem for renters.
I've been expecting a "cash crunch" too but the Fed seems happy to keep making me wrong.
I've found two important self-reinforcing principles to be more important than the details:

* Don't let bare files exist at the "top level" (~), have a limited number of buckets
* All new stuff goes into an inbox (pragmatically, ~/Downloads) and gets REGULARLY moved over

Putting all the stuff from Downloads into folders takes <10 minutes if you do it once a week!

For me, the different buckets end up as either "browseable" or "searchable". For example, ~/ebooks is pretty sensibly organised into programming, fiction, etc., and all the files have human names, whereas I have a "statements/receipts/leases" bucket that's just a big bucket of junk that will hopefully pop up in search if I ever need it.
>The problem is these protest are not effective, period.

I highly doubt the police officers in the Floyd case would've been charged if not for the riots

I find it pretty disturbing how you think just because you are dating someone it makes you an authority ?
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> Being a hateful bigot and or an ignoramus should both be unacceptable positions for the leader of the US

That's something you take up at the ballot box or with your Congressperson/governer, not Facebook.
I'm heartened by city council members Tammy Morales in Seattle, Nury Martinez in LA, and Steve Fletcher in Minneapolis who are all seriously discussing significantly defunding or disbanding their police departments. While we've had protests like this in the past, I don't think I've ever seen so many places seriously asking how much we need our police, and how equipped they should be.

Clearly, the answer is that police departments are filling roles they do not need to fill, and have expensive, military style equipment they do not need to have. I hope we see more cities bringing these ideas to the table.
> Yeah, most of the US is one medical emergency from absolute financial ruin.

Most Americans have health insurance of some form.
A wave of more layoffs will happen as soon as the Paycheck Protection quiet period ends.

After June 30, companies that took PPP money are free to fire people without repercussion.
I have experience with someone who was sexually assaulted in a well-to-do area. Cops don't want inconvenient stats like sexual assaults ruining their town's image, so those crimes don't get investigated. It isn't for a lack of resources, either, as those cops make well over $100k before overtime.
Your edit is just a long way of saying "Nuremburg Defense" which at least in the West, we've decided is wrong. Hell, soldiers are trained to kill, but even they have ROE to follow and are held accountable for bad shoots. I'm not sure why police officers always seem to get a pass.
"ObjectWorks for C++" was a ParcPlace IDE which iirc provided incremental compilation.
I believe it was the gentleman calling them “murderous criminals” that introduced this concept; obviously I would not consider a ritualistic cannibal to imply being a murderer and just don’t accept the “murderous” label.
you have to be careful. I've noticed Section 8 neighborhoods tend to attract a lot of Crime.
Leases are typically for a fixed period, so it's really the integral of these charts that matters - how many people are currently in a rental.

I suspect that number is still a long way below normal, because lots of people are moving in with friends or family (students, young professionals, etc.).

My experience in London is the ratio of people looking for a house to houses advertised is the lowest I've ever seen in 10 years.
OT - lets face it. Half of the country wants to see Trump fail and another half want him to succeed. For covid we should hope 100% of country want to see him succeed.

The problem is, part of that half is entire media enterprise (BTW, next adminstration will face the wrath of the other half of that enterprise) who have invested so much of their own credibility on Trump failing.

As a result I have little confidence (just knowing how the CYA-mindset works inside any type of corporations) that we will ever hear a correction with (or nearly with) the same magnitude that will inform the public of the updates. It's unclear what data ultimately comes out of the Hydroxychloroquine research, maybe no update is needed. But I just don't have the confidence we'll get any mea culpa broadcasted across the airways. Nor will I expect much, if any, of my social media contacts who posted some of the articles to post the correction.

Trump is a polarizing figure, but I don't understand (outside of increase ratings) why the media falls for his traps day after day.

It's possible Trump might accidentally be right once (or not completely wrong), if the media can not remain objective, the entire nation will lose faith in the institution of journalism as a whole. Opening the doors for all types of conspiracies and people searching for alternative news sources.
This will eventually lead to a showdown between Facebook and these media entities that Facebook should ban anything outside of the few established news outlets to prevent the spread of disinformation. Which is another bad policy, because people ultimately leave Facebook to other places to find these disinformation or alternate sources.

Doing some basic fact checking on this company, before taking their research at face value, especially given there was so much red flags, is what should separate established media from someone writing a blog post in Romania. This is really a massive failure, given the vitality of information around COIVD.
Outsourcing has more problems than it solves. The language problem. The timezone problem. Communication rate issues. Import/export issues. Currency issues. Culture issues (will a contractor contradict the boss if they are wrong? etc).

It goes on and on. Hard enough to manage a remote worker when that's the single issue; compounded with the rest it becomes a hard sell. So the price has to be low, to make it worth the effort.
The QEternity money being discussed is going into checking accounts well above the median.
The point I’m getting at is taxes should be for raising revenue, period. The minute you step into trying to influence behavior via tax code, as the US has done, you are doing something wholly different from raising revenue.

> Jesus Christ, yes you can. It’s like you’ve never heard of offshore banks

I don’t think you appreciate how governments already monitor wire transfers, and how they are reversible within a certain timeframe if a legal authority chooses to intercept one.

Again, this is not a complex problem since the tools and authority already exist, it’s a political will problem, in that there are nearly zero elected officials willing to cross a billionaire.

> How someone can speak like this and not see the value of a wealth tax in the form of a land tax blows my mind.

Because I live in a state in the US without income taxes and with a high reliance on land taxes. It makes no difference, corporations bribe their way into temporary (as in decades) exclusions from land taxes, and individuals are left to pay what the chemical plant literally polluting their back yards is exempt from.

There is no logarithm or formula that fixes all of this. What fixes it is 10 years without parole at hard labor for any owner or officer of a business entity who gives anything of value to any employee of the state, whether that employee be elected, appointed, or hired. The same penalty will automatically be applied to the state official who has been paid.
> who feel goodwill towards you and the product they're building for you

This is why developers must be paid well. It is extremely hard to focus on a problem you don't care about. Every little bit of lost focus is lost time/money. It's more bugs in the future. It's more churn.

There aren't many jobs that are this dependent on the workers will to do it.
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Particularly in California -- it makes no sense for landlords to pay artificially low property taxes. Prop 13 should be reformed so you pay property taxes on the market rate of the property if you're renting it out.
THIS, so much this ... for years people said bottom-up stimulus plans would inevitably cause inflation. Injecting the money on top changes little, now it's just trickle-down inflation.

(and if this doesn't hold, I would love to understand why)
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If I have 3,400 to my name and my deductible is 2,000 (common from what I've seen). And my rent is 1,500 due next week, I'm not in good shape financially.
> Also the increase in deaths you link to is not statistically significant, given it is in the rage of 10-30 over the course of several months in a state with 10 million people.

A penny doubled daily is $0.64 after a week, $81.92 after two, $10,485.76 after three, and $1,342,177.28 after four.

Upwards movement in cases and deaths in something that spreads exponentially is... not great.
No, but the point was to ensure people pay what they're expected to pay. Not to give them a handout.
Tangentially related, but not really a comparison of cellphone cameras, but: I find the incompatibility of lenses between the different manufacturers really annoying. I have to choose between say nikon/canon/sony and then if I buy lenses, which I have to, I am stuck with that manufacturer, unless I replace everything.
Seems fine for me (in the UK).
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People underestimate the power of human connections and (tech) hubs. The job market is still far from a cold, optimal algorithm.

I was born in a cheap city in southern Europe, and all my life I moved to increasingly bigger and more expensive cities. Why? In my home town job opportunities are very poor. Local jobs are scarce and for full remote positions you are competing globally.

Sure, London is expensive as hell, but there are many more opportunities, so I can progress my career, and drive up my salary. A bigger talent pool attracts more companies, more job opportunities attract more people, and so the snowball goes...
> I personally find it hard to believe that the police believed they had probably cause after the journalists told them that they had been instructed to stand there by another cop.

At what timestamp did the journalists tell the police officers that they had been instructed to stand there by another cop? I must've missed that part when I watched the video.
If you read OP, he chose not to renew their lease and this caused them to do damage. I think the suggestion here is if a landlord chooses not to renew the lease of qualified tenants, the tenants will voluntarily leave.
Shocking does not mean surprising. You can be paying attention and still find things shocking. If something is no longer shocking, it means you've allowed yourself to become desensitized and accept it as an acceptable compromise of society. No one should find this kind of behavior acceptable.
If enough people call their representative and ask for change, change will happen!
Our government is trying. But we have to be realistic: Canada doesn’t have much power.
>Functional MRI measures blood flow as a proxy for brain activity. It shows where blood is being sent in the brain, presumably because neurons in that area are more active during a mental task.

>The problem is that the level of activity for any given person probably won't be the same twice, and a measure that changes every time it is collected cannot be applied to predict anyone's future mental health or behavior.

>Hariri and his colleagues reexamined 56 published papers based on fMRI data to gauge their reliability across 90 experiments. Hariri said the researchers recognized that "the correlation between one scan and a second is not even fair, it's poor."
Will emailing your state representatives a bullet list of demands actually result in any laws being changed?
Their prejudice.
Tesla had positive non GAAP EBITDA, which means nothing.
Bless you for taking a chance on the less fortunate. It sounds like you treat your tenants like people and they in turn repay you in something way more valuable than money: their time and kindness.
"flatten the curve" changed once people realized they can use the shutdown as a means to political ends.
Isn't the smarter move to defer payment of the rent for a few years?

One day, they'll be able to pay, and then you'll get paid.
> Planned parenthood isn't an organization created to defend a constitutional amendment. It relies an a particular Amendment to provide some of it's services, but it's not a fair comparison.

Frankly I don't see why that's relevant. My point is that the amendment itself has become a partisan issue. The GOP and the NRA agree on their interpretation of the amendment, while the other party opposes them. Why would you expect two allies to support their mutual opposition instead of each other, and how does not doing so equate to fascism?

> performing illegal coordination

Political corruption != fascism, and it is certainly not unique to it.

> the 2nd Amendment is far too vague to be considered libertarian

I disagree, but I can see how some interpretations of it (that it's meant to arm militias which are agents of the state) could even be considered authoritarian. However, the NRA advocates for the interpretation that says people should have the means to overthrow their government if necessary. I'm having a hard time seeing how that aligns with fascism.
That's on OP to decide for themselves, though, not you.
Beyond the first amendment is the 4th estate doctrine, origin ating from British concepts.

While less legally defensible it is much of the reason why the BBC, FCC exist, why we have camera crews embed with troops.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate
Is there any proof that police having a Humvee makes them more violent or is that an emotional reaction?
What I can't figure out is how, in this day and age, to get a digital camera that does both macro and telephoto without requiring interchangeable lenses.

15 years ago, you'd get a Canon Powershot S1 or some other "bridge" camera, but as far as I can tell the industry stopped making those. My S5 just recently broke, and for my purposes (bugs, plants, and birds) I really need something that has excellent macro without having to carry around a whole bunch of kit, but can also zoom in on stuff in the distance. Last I checked (5 years ago) there was nothing on the market, so I just bought an unopened S5 off of eBay. -.-

Maybe things have improved since?
Thanks for the link! It's a very thoughtful piece on his part.
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This has been an argument not just made about tech but also other sectors, usually with a nationalist bend, for example Mexican immigrants taking industrial jobs from domestic minorities, and so on.

Many things wrong with this (including an odd definition of diversity that excludes nationality, culture, language and so on), but I'd want to stress one thing in particular.

In contrast to ivy league college admissions, the private sector is not a zero sum game. It is not a game of musical chairs. Immigrants coming to join any given economy aren't just occupying jobs, they're creating new jobs, both indirectly and directly. Indirectly of course by contributing to the overall wealth by creating value and creating demand, but also disproportionately(!) by becoming entrepreneurs.

The rate of entrepreneurship among immigrants particularly in the US is very high. A significant amount of the companies providing the jobs that Mr Jackson is talking about have been created, or are being led by immigrant executives or founders.
yep, also plenty of inflation to see at the grocery store. the 'family size' of cereal is actually the 'baby' size of a few years ago. that's how they can maintain the same price over time.
> giving them work is often a form of programming... they will do exactly what you tell them to do

Yup. My anecdote: There was a middleware business application. Two database fields were last-changed-timestamp and last-changed-username. The spec document accidentally flipped the definitions, defining the value for last-changed-timestamp = current-username and vice versa. You can guess what got implemented.

"I ran this and got a type conversion error. Did you even test this?"

"Yes that is what should have happened based on the spec."
I think you have a very misguided idea of what it's like to be a landlord....and perceptions of who/what 'landlords' (a very unfortunate term) are from some tenants... no good deed goes unpunished etc. Plenty of great people around but you have to be very careful who you rent to...
Landlord aren’t the ones imposing the artificial limitations though. It’s the same group who created the rules that would punish a landlord for temporarily lowering rent.
Are that many people really moving away? I understand the logic, but it's a major life decision, so I'm surprised if it's happening so rapidly in response to covid. I've heard of people leaving the city temporarily, but assumed many of them were maintaining their apartments.

I would have guessed the lower rents were more about money drying up, and landlords being desperate to hang onto any tenant who can pay.
Yeah like I said, I largely agree with you, I was just tacking on QI.
Will work on that one! Sorry about that.
That doesn't mean the law cant change.
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