skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matt Levine: "This is also a model for Hertz, etc.: Famously, the stock of a company is a call option on the company’s assets, with a strike price of the nominal value of the company’s debt. When the company is bankrupt, the call option is out-of-the-money, cheap and highly speculative. That is, it feels more like a call option; if you are trading for fun, and call options are fun, then you will prefer option-y stocks like Hertz."
White magic?
> Sure, but the US is 82% urban

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_Sta...

Alaska is substantially larger than any of the European countries you listed, and is not very urban.

> I'm merely questioning your claim that "it won't scale".

Given how badly the US has mucked it up? With that level of technology sophistication, social dynamism and money? Pretty solid evidence that it can't be done. It got stuck in the morass that is politics at the US Federal level.

> Why is this relevant? That's like saying "the flags are very different".

European countries are coordinating healthcare at the equivalent level of a US state and it is working. The US has made moves to coordinate at the Federal level and it is not. The separate legal systems indicates that these are highly independent policy-wise.

> I still don't understand an iota of what you mean when it comes to healthcare and education.

Healthcare is similar to housing. Sickness is location-specific and population-specific. For education the arguments take a slightly different flavour; but boil down to different industries have different educational needs and a one-size-fits-all educational system will either systematically under- or over- educate students in different cities with different industry needs/opportunities.
In this case two of them hadn’t committed crimes and the third had a statute of limitations that had passed so there wasn’t really corruption involved, just a refusal to listen to protests.
They should but then big projects also need an additional testing team. Especially for something like Windows, there are too many possible variations for a non-dedicated person to test all of them.
The idea of govt just taxing all and funding the services has already been proven out in the US. Medicare. I don't think the issue is that these things won't scale. BUT, Medicare comes with price controls.

Free tuition, free healthcare for all has been proposed. Not free of course, it's simply taxed to the general public. Politically in the US, it doesn't sell. Not knocking it, a good argument can be made for these systems, and its a debate that needs to occur.

"Socialism" (which it isn't really) evokes a visceral negative reaction in the US among many. Being stoked by the media (aka those who have an opposing financial interest) of course.
Most Americans say wealth hasn’t improved during last three years
So, racial profiling is bad, except when you do it?
You have any actual data to back up those claims? Recumbents own the unfaired bicycle speed records.
An external perspective from a non-American; I think curbing any kind of foreign influence is a good thing based on China related news in my own country. Also I think a large part of criticism of these actions are generated by people thinking such actions are racist and hence just wrong and no matter what, unjustifiable. That kind of weak thinking is just not acceptable when China has been openly hostile on so many fronts...
You might be surprised that some people consider the US gov pretty bad as well. Just watch the news.
France and Japan don't try to influence in the same way that Russia and China do. The difference in the kind of operations matters.
Why are y’all still using chrome?
Their are tons of factors pushing a defendant to a plea...bail/bond are not one of them, perhaps you could explain.

There are cases where the defendant is in jail pending trial gets a bail set and can’t afford it, then gets a plea that would result in his release so he takes it...but that in no way is the primary purpose of the bail to force the plea. I don’t think you would ever find such a case where the defendant hasn’t waived their right to a speedy trial. But feel free to link such a case.
No but the issue is a statement on the project’s page, which is a public good. Expressing support for a just and important movement for social progress like BLM is, in this respect, expected and thus asked. It has nothing to do with politics. It’s a social movement that the right is trying to vilify and turn into a political wedge issue, as well as cultural “Other”.
I have not taken this course. I do feel I have a second brain. I have constructed my own system of keeping my thoughts organized and making progress in better understanding in a cohesive manner.

By taking longer to finish grad school and ending up with mountains of debt.

And this second brain would be lost to the wind as soon as I take up a 9-to-5 Monday-through-Friday tech/STEM job where I have to do mainly what my boss tells me to do.

Go figure.
https://music-grid.surge.sh/#128-32-64-32-8-32-0-32-0-0-0-12...
https://music-grid.surge.sh/#320-0-320-1024-128-0-160-0-16-1...
How do you imagine that scales for an operating system the size of Windows ? Every time you check in code you check against each of the 2000 printers released in the last 20 years ?
Mother is no longer political correct word either. The correct word is now "parent 1" (or maybe "parent 2", it's so confusing...)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/france-replace-words-mother-fathe...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-mpps-approve-...
> I remember when I built Chromium for the first time and was awed at how it was made up of hundreds of modules, but they were all built as static libraries and then linked together into one monster binary module at the end.

This is how Gecko is built too—essentially everything ends up in libxul unless it has to be split out so that link.exe doesn't OOM on 32-bit (sadness). I believe it had been this way when the first version of Chrome was released, so this wasn't something Chrome introduced.

(Also, based on my experiences with Node and other Google projects like Skia, I wouldn't consider gyp a great build tool—it's always been a nightmare for me. gn is better, but Google projects still have a tendency to be difficult to build for those who aren't Google employees.)
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson.
How did WHO downplay the threat of the virus?

They've pretty consistently given good advice on how to handle the outbreak, and countries that have done the things they've emphasized (notably, test, trace and isolate) have done well.
You are kidding right? There’s no studies that prove lockdowns are effective
Instead of restarting Xcode you can also flip the file target, changing it will trigger an index.
I have no idea to be honest. But when ever I read about these sort of things it seems like people are seeking after some insight that requires meditation or introspection of some sort and I have absolutely no idea why people are seeking it or find it in any way necessary? Am I missing out on something? I am perfectly content with existence and whatever idea I have of "I" or "self" seems sufficient. But I still find it curious that other people don't?

For example, I'd rather study mathematics than meditate or seek enlightenment. I'm not sure why I should spend time pursing that over other things I enjoy.
Slavery is still practiced in the United States.
Ex-Minneapolis officer charged in George Floyd’s death is released on bond
You should check out The Dispatch (https://www.thedispatch.com) if you haven’t already. Co-founded by Jonah Goldberg, formerly of NR.
I recommend they check out Apache Lucene as many of its core contributors have mentored college students during summer of code projects and the community is fairly stable and professional (last I checked.)

https://lucene.apache.org/core/discussion.html
There was a "mock" mathematica a few years ago called "mathomatica" which was the mathematica language implemented in common lisp (if I recall correctly). It was a pleasure to use and a drop-in replacement of the language (but not for all the standard library of functions). Unfortunately, they god bullied to death and its trace is almost gone. The author just wanted to prove a point "you are so damn crazy by that silly language that anybody can re-implement in a few hundred lines of lisp", and once his point was proven he did not want to pursue it any further. And here we are.

EDIT: got some names wrong, here's a possible starting point for this rabbit hole https://def.fe.up.pt/pipermail/maxima-discuss/2009/029211.ht...
>as far as your comment goes: nope. Amazon cannot afford a legal battle for each and every one of their employees. Also Amazon knows they’re going to look really stupid if they do go the route of suing you. Only case where I have seen NCAs trying to be enforced is in case of high profile executives where they are actually trying to send a message more than enforce the NCA.

Do you have any source whatsoever for this? Companies enforce non-competes all the time. Wall Street Journal thinks it is rising 60% over the last decade (2013)[0]. I think your experience of what you "have seen" is wildly out of touch with reality.

I tried to find a source supporting your position, that companies don't enforce non-competes, but couldn't. The best I found was this[1] article about one lawyer willing to take on NCA cases for employees on extreme-contingency arrangements, since he apparently practices in a state where fee agreements must be reciprocal (i.e., if there is a fee agreement in your NCA, you get your fees paid if you win). If you live in such a state and can get that man to represent you, great. Otherwise, as he describes:

>There have been several cases where we have invested $100,000 worth of attorney time and $10,000+ of hard, out-of-pocket costs to defend a poor or working class person against a bogus non-compete agreement. And there have been a couple cases where it’s gone far past that: $200,000+ in attorney time, $20,000+ worth of case expenses. I’m sorry, but no other lawyer in America does that. I’m the only one.

>In many of these cases, you will need to execute perfectly or you will lose. You have to make 100 perfect moves and the other side only has to get 1 thing right. It’s absurd. It’s messed up. But that’s how it is.

Now, in reply to you saying: "It’s a stupid posturing game that rarely works."

This individual does agree that in many cases the companies are posturing and will lose. But unless you can afford the $XX,XXX-$XXX,XXX to pay a lawyer to get there (or find a unicorn, like him, who will work on contingency), you lose by default. Whether you think it's a "stupid" move to posture or not, the companies do it, routinely, and at an increasing pace.

[0]https://www.wsj.com/articles/litigation-over-noncompete-clau...

[1]https://www.pollardllc.com/poor-people-non-compete-cases/
Amazing how americans destroy themselves with self censorship. It is like watching a building on fire.
What matters on curvy descents is how much speed you can bring out of the turn. And that mostly depends on how efficient lines you can pick.
Maybe they should. Then they could optimize for what they really want.
The policies proposed in this editorial seem pretty tame, but they aren’t all the policies being put forward on this issue.

A recent executive order does target individual students who come from universities with military ties, even though many of these schools have mostly civilian students.

The recent prosecutions of scientists who failed to disclose Chinese funding on grant applications did uncover some real malfeasance but could easily turn into a witch hunt as well.
I would assume by downplay they mean: “didn’t call it a pandemic when everyone else thought it was one”
Looking at the linked article[0], it looks like this is the result of a broader investigation into any undisclosed foreign ties, but it that the Chinese influence has been disproportionately large.

Lelling rejects criticism that the department has unfairly targeted ethnic Chinese people and other Asian Americans. “Dr. Lieber is probably the most prominent academic charged in this kind of case so far,” Lelling says, “and he is not a Chinese national, nor is he of Chinese descent.” But Lelling says China’s aggressive efforts to become the world leader in many high-tech fields has meant devoting more resources to tracking those of Chinese ancestry.

[0] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/us-prosecutor-leadin...
Google and LinkedIn are your friends.
Are you aware of any of these banks having published anything insightful about their data models and relevant tech?

(I'm not trying to claim you don't somehow know this, I'm genuinely interested to read about this stuff!)
If you want to learn more about Music Theory, I highly recommend Adam Nealy's videos on YouTube. He takes a refreshingly relaxed, entertaining, and overall very enjoyable approach to music theory, in stark comparison to a lot of the extant music theory material available. Which is kind of ironic since one of the reasons people play music is to relax, entertain, and enjoy themselves: https://www.youtube.com/user/havic5

I also like Rick Beato, as he tends to do more song deconstruction, though sometimes he can come off as a bitter, old man (though most of the time it's endearing): https://www.youtube.com/user/pegzch

Finally, I also like Signals Music Studio. He takes a little more of a traditional approach, but still in the camp of positivity rather than criticism of "crappy modern music": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRDDHLvQb8HjE2r7_ZuNtWA

I love WebAudio stuff. It's so much fun to bang out a jam with some code. I could never get the gumption to get SuperCollider or any of the other systems working, because I was much more interested in the interactivity and sharing that are fundamental to the web.

Here's a multi-touch capable keyboard: https://codepen.io/SeanMcBeth/pen/meaQvj

Here's a game I made (about the consequences of following orders) that used nothing but WebAudio synthesis for the sound: https://www.seanmcbeth.com/yabs.html

Actually, I've been hacking on audio stuff in the browser before there was even a WebAudio API. Here's a synth I made that generated raw WAV files on the fly and played them in a standard <audio> tag (note: it pretty much only works correctly in Chrome): https://www.seanmcbeth.com/html5/synth/

Always keep playing.
Yeah, here either, we're mostly concerned with Russia, China and the US.

I never though about how you folks have one less election tampering aggressive state to worry about actually, and it's the one that spends the most too.

Must be nice.
I hope you give the words of people proposing improvements to language as much consideration. They aren't all mindless screamers on Twitter or people looking to remove all character from communication.
While that's true, I do wish there would be some "no technological limits" athletic events where they could go all out on technology just to see what the extreme would look like.
Automatic metrics are only one tool in a toolbox that includes focus testing and design aesthetic.

But if a whole subset of users exclude themselves from that tool, they're going to get the UX that's only as good as the other tools in the toolbox are capable of building.
Oracle has this clause. It's the main reason I chose not to work there.
When polite petitions and humble pleas are ignored, protest is essential
Static Hosting Benchmark 2020
Early days of Mosaic and Netscape (1997)
Ask HN: 2 sided global platforms – how are you handling sales tax?
Assume you are a platform connecting buyers and sellers of service globally. Lets say this is a marketplace for graphic design service.

Handling sales tax appears to be very hard:

* EU wants you to charge the buyer at the point where the buyer is located and rates differ by country. Are there any companies offering APIs for this?

* Each state in the US has its own rules. There are companies like TaxJar offering APIs to east this pain. Can any users comment on their experiences with similar services?

* Repeat for literally every country in the world.

* But charging the right amount of tax appears to be the easier part of the problem. Now assume you have charged sales tax/VAT to buyers in various countries at the correct rate. At the end of the year you now supposed to make payments to the tax authorities in each of these countries? And each state in the US?

How are you solving this?

Thanks.
The problem with even having it well-documented which entities fall under which jurisdiction is that you can just change your mind and fight and lose in the courts later when it serves the purpose of delaying the inevitable outcome.

It is often the case that the nation-to-nation relationship is very complex. But even where it is simple the existence of the relationship as a barrier can be exploited to the detriment of the citizenry. (IMO in Canada the courts have been getting fed up with these maneuvers and are levying large penalties in the hopes of deterring the strategy.)
As a Brit living in the US, I have a real problem with the sugar in bread. As a bread lover I detest it. Everything I eat DOESN'T have to be sweet. I can't stand it and I avoid it as much as possible.

In the last few years, I've started making my own sourdough bread (salt, water, flour, homegrown sourdough yeast) with no chemicals and I'm loving it. I can't remember the last time I've bought bread. (Dutch-oven method)

>most cheese was of the horrible processed variety

I had this experience as well, but in the last few years, things have massively improved IMHO. Don't go the deli section (where they cut cheese), go to the area where there's brie/english-chedder etc. However Wisconsin has really stepped up to the plate and now creates very reasonable European styles cheeses (of course, more expensive). It's worth trying it again if you've not done recently.
I would question that your rust example is better than the named argument example. I think it's situational at best, and a workaround at worst.

For instance, even in the example you gave, it could be argued that the SearchCase type is really just a boolean which is being introduced to do the job of an argument label. If this enum is only used in this function call, that's going to add noise to the docs with fairly tenuous justification.

And this only works in the case of arguments which can be easily converted to enums. For instance if I have a signature which looks like this:

void search_buffer(int match, int start, int end, int stride)

It's going to be very difficult to look at the call site and infer what the meanings of these arguments are.
It was the republicans that first that made the CCP problem popular. The left wasn't really focusing on China at all.
None of the things you mentioned about Brave make them funded by Google, and the system they want for ads is clearly better for the consumer than the status quo.
They can influence the direction and conclusions of the research. Undermining the science altogether. Leading to bad policy and harming the NIH’s and science’s public reputation as a whole.

Not unlike what Coca-Cola has been doing to nutrition science.[]

[] https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/how-coca-cola-disguised-its...
As argued elsewhere in this thread, there is plausible evidence that the name of the „master“ branch in git is directly derived from the bitkeeper concept of „master“ and „slave“ repositories: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2019-May/...
I'm curious if anyone has opinions about the legality of this? Why can a town do this but cryptocurrencies have to be so cautious about the way they present themselves to the market?
It's not so much the funding as the lack of disclosure of said funding. These researches were trying to hide their ties to China/foreign governments from the NIH. That's a pretty big red flag for all sorts of potential reasons.
Conspiracy theories, FUD, and relying on Nixon's think-tank as a source is just too much.
Chess has exploded on all the platforms. Here in India, Many people have started streaming chess
It's the default at Google, but if you want to have an open source project or even a side business you can. You have to disclose it first and get sign-off. This seems reasonable to me and avoids any grey areas.
Author here!

First time doing some data analysis which might not be up to standard for HN folks. Let me know if I missed anything or I could this improve this in some way.
I dont see any problem either from a public health perspective. I suspect what they are trying to go after is chinese institutions scooping US researchers through IP theft. I have heard this is a particular problem in medical research because everything is so commercially oriented. By comparison, i don't believe NNSA grants prevent researchers from receiving funding from elsewhere, and those grants are focused on nuclear technologies.
You know software with good UX used to exist before telemetry became a thing?
What the hell? In no place did I defend the CCP, so please don't put offensive words into my mouth. It's insulting and you should be ashamed of yourself for making false accusations.

And you are aware that Zoom's founder, Eric Yuan, is an American citizen? He grew up Chinese, but he acquired American citizenship, and therefore lost his Chinese citizenship. He and his family live in California where they're not going to be "disappeared".

So explain to me again why you think Zoom's founder and CEO, or its board members representing prominent venture capital firms, are doing the "bidding of the CCP"?

I'm not engaging in any kind of false equivalence or defending China. I'm pointing out that Zoom and China are totally different things. Using Zoom doesn't mean you're supporting China or being spied on by China. It's an American company, not a Chinese one.
Note: The info on that page is 3 years old, the situation could be different today.
I work for a large consultancy - we have large teams dedicated to COBOL, and I believe others (e.g. CapGemini, TCS) do too.

I wouldn't claim they are any good, just mentioning that grads are being trained in COBOL.
I wish there was a guided path from this playful but limited introduction to computer assisted music to full-fledged products like Ableton Live.

https://music-grid.surge.sh/#2-1-2050-260-258-2312-66-2056-3...
Just so its clear, I'm not aligned with the collective view that Trump is a Putin agent - I think this is an excuse used to ignore America's true, real crimes, against humanity which occurred way before Trump came to power, and is a deflection from the real issue - which is that America has been getting away with the murder of innocent people for decades in its illegal wars. From my point of view, it'd actually be GREAT if America could get along with Russia. This would require a great deal of humility and a vacation of vast amounts of hubris on both sides, however.

"Trump is a Russian agent" is a meme designed to protect fragile American ego's from the truth, which is that America, through its unhindered asymmetric, illegal wars, is the #1 cause of violent, murderous upheaval in the world today - and therefore actually kind of deserves the orange buffoon tearing things to pieces. When war criminals are allowed to roam free, eventually the society they choose to rule becomes their target.

That said, I don't love/hate Trump as an idol, either way. He is the least of America's problems.

You're right though, we will trigger a great deal of animosity from the Trump-hating(,-loving) collective when we point this out. Agitprop is designed to push the collective mind in a desired direction - all the hating of Trump right now is doing, is preventing Americans from inspecting the real, legitimate war crimes and crimes against humanity that their nation has been committing - Trump-hatred is an Emmanuel Goldstein-like distraction mechanism. "The Party" (Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CFR) still gets away with murder, whoever is the figurehead...