skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but the vast majority of the money is going to salaries. I'd even argue that there is absolutely no problem in funding even most of the "non essential" businesses. And to say that businesses were on thin ice by april is an understatement by the way: revenue disappeared overnight, lending froze almost overnight, liquidity became almost impossible to access. Even by early april half small businesses could not afford to pay rent, much less salaries. The financial system has never seen anything like what happened to march, I can't stress enough that almost every single "pipe" that make up systems we all depend on was collapsing. Programs like these took aways tons of uncertainty and deep fears of a recovery that would take a very, very long time. Things got much better when government support boosted confidence and guaranteed that people will still have money to spend.

Now I've heard people argue that compensation for lost salaries should've been paid directly to the employees if they lost their jobs. But to put it mildly, recovery and return back to normal would have been extraordinarily harder if most of the non essential parts of the economy don't exist anymore.

The price of letting everything go bankrupt only to reopen from scratch later is enormous and would amount to incredible waste not only of money but also years of work. The 150k may have been way too much for a local pizzeria, but it's better to overshoot than to aim for much better money allocation and risk losing precious time. You have to keep in mind that not only do businesses have to pay back the loans (if the money didn't go to salaries) but also that we will have ample time to take a closer look at each individual claim and punish fraud retroactively. The process is already starting as we can see with the linked website.

At the end of the day, we just couldn't afford to have a better PPP program because no matter how much money we lose on fraud and waste, the alternative would have always been more expensive.
I’m not the OP, but I doubt anyones saying that. If anything you’re asking for a long drawn out fight over why some sexes don’t major in STEM more.

The argument is going to boil down to the “pipeline” problem, ‘there’s not enough to begin with for it to be represented in proportion’, which leads to the moral hazard dilemma of do we just started filling quotas.

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Any guides on setting up IoT VLANs for some of us who have UBNT but not the full network knowledge to do the best practice?
Zebrium and Grafana =
> Such things are quantifiable. We can have an exact rule which says that you can use an ad-hoc list as a structure if (for instance):

So what happens when you have a datum that is used in exactly 17 functions, but you need to add another feature?

Or, what happens when people combine functions into larger ones to avoid having to define a real datatype, or...

These concerns exist for each thing.

"Don't use a list where you really have a struct" is much more concrete and quantifiable.
Yes, I would have exactly the same reaction. I’m also not American.
This is not elegant, this is an ugly hack at best.
Instead of downvoting you I thought I'd ask, how likely do you think people do see you gaming and don't call you on it? I've been in many more situations where you don't have the power or ability to call someone out on something because it's more complicated than just "I'll tell on you".
I know there isn’t a grand conspiracy. It’s just a consequence of capital owners also being the decision makers. Why would the capital owners make a decision to reduce their power?

And a lone businessman can’t just pay workers more and make the world right. If I decide to pay people more, and run the numbers and figure out I can afford to spend $5M on a piece of land to develop, and my competitor decides to project paying people much less, they can afford to spend $6M for the same piece of land. So guess which business ends up existing? The one that doesn’t pay higher wages. Same situation with people choosing to shop at stores that offer lower prices.

It would have to be a nationwide effort to transfer wealth, such as UBI or higher minimum wages. Otherwise we keep going as is with an ever widening wealth/income gap.
In the Bay Area we can either bring our own reusable bag or get a paper back for 10c. That charge is enough for most people to bring their own bag or lug the groceries in the cart to the car.
I'm sure this wasn't intentional though. It doesn't even benefit them in any way. It's not as if they were doing it to steal information. It's just a bug, at least it's known now and they'll fix it.
This page has a list of questions but not a license statement.
> Nice thing to do

I don't believe Google does anything because it's a "nice thing to do". There's some angle here. The angle could just be spurring general innovation in this area, which they'll benefit from indirectly down the line, but in one way or another this plays to their interests.
Dual Universe single shard Metaverse launches in beta next month
Yeah, the wording of the title is in poor taste to say the least.

Seems like "Unexpectedly" would be better than "Suddenly" given the circumstances.
Wow that’s awesome, I have an app installed on my MacBook that pops up something when the mic is in use and it’s a great addition.
Note that this doesn't work on macOS, where the builtin `man` command doesn't support the `-l` option.
Loans always have delayed payment terms, you're being willfully obtuse.
LMAO the right to use a public restroom of your choice == the right to exist.
I find this opinion to be rather odd. FANG and e-commerce firms like eBay solved scale by partitioning functionality into services for scalability.

What is key is to have a scalable time series db to monitor the interactions of the components and services (and microservices) that comprise your platform. Measure the KPIs around hardware, OS, software and services interactions. Monitor and alert on them, via real-time dashboards.
It's illuminating to also compare Harvard demographics vs the US. Sorted by most to least represented:

Jewish: 14.0% vs 2.6% (5.38x)
Asian American: 25.3% vs 5.3% (4.77x)
Native Hawaiian: 0.6% vs 0.2% (3.00x)
Native American: 1.8% vs 0.7% (2.57x)
African American: 14.3% vs 12.7% (1.13x)
Hispanic or Latino: 12.2% vs 17.6% (0.69x)
non-Jewish white: 33.0% vs 58.9% (0.56x)

Sources:

https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics from 2019

https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/how-many-jewish-undergraduat...

https://features.thecrimson.com/2016/freshman-survey/lifesty...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews, upper estimate used
> ” The reason that we haven’t been doing any significant work on this HAProxy stack is that we’re moving towards Envoy Proxy ”

I truly don’t understand the cycle of churn. Once most edge cases and bugs of Haproxy have been found, the right decision is not migrating to completely unknown territory again. No project is a silver bullet, and changing stacks after you find the bugs makes for a terrible return on your bug-hunting investments.
You might have a point but FB also owns WhatsApp.
Allegedly sea water is a pretty good fixer too. It's not the NaCl which does it, but some other elements in the sea.
> The alternatives require more reuse than actually occurs.

Where I live, we banned plastic bags in 2017. Every store at first sold cloth bags, for buyers who didn't bring their own. Some weeks later, everyone had several reusable bags, that they would bring when buying stuff, not a hard thing to do.

Those bags last even years, so I don't understand why you think people wouldn't reuse them. They actually are quite better (they don't make my fingers hurt, won't break so easily, etc).
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> Except we already had godep. It worked. It was in widespread use.

> un-eyeballable, merge-review-hostile, another-arbitrary-c-hacker-mini-language, shas-upon-shas version

godep shared the same problem.
We can argue that godep was good enough and the Go maintainers handled the situation poorly with this whole "ask community and then ignore the community" trick.
But you're focusing on the transition; if this system had been part of Go 1.0, I would have had nothing bad to say about it.

I'm not arguing the the transition process wasn't a mess.
I'm arguing that it became a mess precisely because they wanted to attempt backward compat.
They could have said "this is go 2; if you want to use your library with go 2 you have to use this standard, tag your release, or upload it to some central index"
Most of these aren't proactively done by Microsoft - it's usually a customer who says "in order for us to purchase N licenses, we need features X, Y, and Z, where X/Y/Z are quite often "disable/customize this behavior"
In fairness, when I went to that site as an experiment, it did eventually appear to save my preferences. And in more fairness, go look at the list of cookies and especially under advertising. Yeah, that's a lot fucking bigger than it should be, and a minority allow opting out. But imagine the implementation in your head: you've probably got to make some web call (REST, WebSocket, whatever) for each one of those.

In summary, I could see how that might take a minute or two without a requirement for evil.
I remember C&C being hard until you realised that you could ring your base with sandbags that the enemy would never destroy.
My main hesitation there is adding a pay to win dynamic. I guess the in game benefits could be aesthetic-only, or else just prestige things like having characters named by you

Also, how on earth do you measure who contributes accurately?

The author is right, if somebody solves this problem it would make for an interesting company
Quarter turn before breaking is the right torque ;) Again, super job. Be prepared for a lot of brass polishing.
I'd be interested to learn more about the technical problem. Any problem that takes months to fix must have been deep. Can you share some details about that?
It has lasted 2 years for me if done with distilled water and stored in soda bottles with no air.
I think it was 4 floppies.
Nun Soup? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOUFdQmLVR8
So you have to pay extra to go round corners?
Actuarial Mathematics
Which are the best books to fully understand the first year of Actuarial Mathematics degree?
The NSF funds about 10,000 grants per year. 16-20 (which is it!?) of those might have done something wrong.

I'm all for action on China, but this is Reds Under The Bed for the 2020s IMHO.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation
> Ultimately the point of separating code into microservices is to develop the interfaces between teams. They certainly do not make sense compared to a monolithic app until a certain scale.

Exactly. This is the idea that I haven't been able to articulate. And it is rarely addressed in the literature.
This is true with regards to fresh fixer but, once it's used it contains silver which, as reported by, sciencedaily.com:

"We found that silver nanoparticles are extremely toxic. The nanoparticles destroy the benign species of bacteria that are used for wastewater treatment. It basically halts the reproduction activity of the good bacteria."

I photograph onto paper, develop with caffenol, digitize after the stop bath (quickly) and discard the paper so as to avoid using fixer. Yes, there is silver on that paper but I'm hoping that silver in an incinerator or even landfill is better than silver in the wastewater.

Back in the day when analog photography was just called photography, there were inexpensive silver recovery filters available. Now, if you want to use fixer, try to find a local film lab that will take your "spent" fixer.
Oh wow definitely looking up to you as my motivation
Really interesting work! Not sure if you are familiar with recent developments in Unity3D development but this reminds me of the new approach with "tiles" and "subscenes". Were you inspired by developments in game engine asset streaming?
True but there's an app for that (that probably works better than doing it in the browser, otherwise why did they make it?): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jitsi.meet...

Though I have to admit I didn't try. I've only used it on the PC and Mac. I love Jitsi though, for some reason it's sooo much smoother video than MS Teams. Really adds a lot to the communication. I wish I could use it for work, but there it's Microsoft or nothing :P
Most cultures including european have mythologies and folklore around the dark. So there is psychology surrounding this. It’s why a good portion “scary movies” involve darkness. But it’s also prevalent in other cultures.
Yeah, that's where it would be interesting to see compatibility. Like using your favorite messaging app to talk to your friends without being limited by app/platform choice.
You might be disappointed. Larry Page has vocal cord paralysis on both sides, and as a result, his in-person presence is not very satisfying.

Moreover, Page would not have substantially more interesting testimony. For any Googler at the top, the answer to the question of "Why is Google so dominant?" is "Google's services are free and high-quality," and there's not really any extra thinking that goes into that line of thought.

We shouldn't expect that Page, nor any other executive, would say something like "Yes, Doubleclick was operating fraudulently," or "Yes, we agreed with Apple to fix salaries and avoid poaching," or "Yes, we developed tools to help China commit human-rights abuses," or "Yes, we knew about Eric Schmidt's trip to see Julian Assange," or "Yes, we successfully avoided tax burdens in multiple jurisdictions." It's one thing to have strong circumstantial evidence and informally-recognized smoking guns, and another thing to expect a top executive to directly and nonchalantly incriminate themselves in front of Congress.
We need to rate the performance of our economy not by how much we produce, but by how little.
I'm curious too. I assume it's better, but I don't know firsthand. I tried googling it and every result was about manually opening the Camera app from your lockscreen.
In imminent domain if your property is taken you receive compensation, here many businesses closed and didn’t get PPP money, the government picked winners and losers.

Again feel free to cite any law supporting your argument: 1) the shutdown orders were a government taking of private property; And 2.) compensation for a temporary taking.

You missed the entire point of hurricanes, before any damage occurs governments order shutdowns and evacuations, there is no taking and there is no compensation for those shutdown and evacuation orders.
Nice pretty demo. It's for a software engineering consultancy?

Thanks for the demo, it's pretty cool to see how fast a detailed map can be rendered outside google maps.
It matters where the problem lies if you want to fix it.
This book sold well enough to score a tv series, a disney movie, a musical, and a theater play.

How much more successful do you need it to be? Odds seem very high that a kid growing up in the past 50 years was exposed to this story and phrase
What exactly are you trying to say?
what is light and what is darkness?
Another interesting way to formulate it is as a differential equation in the number of empty buckets as a function of time. Given k empty buckets, the probability of picking an empty bucket is k/n. For large values of n and k, we can pretend it's a continuous and not-particularly-stochastic differential equation dk/dt = -k/n, with k(0) = n.

That's classic exponential decay, the solution being k = ne^(-t/n). Thus k(n) = ne^(-1).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ancient_Art_of_War

> published by Broderbund in 1984. It is generally recognized as one of the first real-time strategy or real-time tactics games.
This is a simple solution for verifying that a document hasn't been altered after the fact. What it doesn't solve for is the permanence of the document itself, i.e. the central authority owning the S3 bucket can easily delete the file. Using something like IPFS can improve this model.
Why not twitch.tv?
Those companies are bad. There’s ways to train users and secure material on slack. Picking bad tools and firing users for trying to work around IT rules punishes innovation and results in worse employees.

I used to work for a company with 200k employees that banned any use of google apps. In 2009. Even working on a different company’s doc was banned. They threatened firing. It was ridiculous.

One day a partner was presenting from google drive. One of the IT execs said “you can’t use google drive” during the presentation. The partner asked what he should use and the IT guy said something about opening a ticket with AV and emailing the presentation.

The partner kept going and the It guy said “no seriously, you’ll be fired.” The partner laughed, kept going and said “I’ll risk it.”
Edit: Oops you were talking about the mic, not the cam.. So the green light I spoke of doesn't apply.

I wouldn't be surprised if this feature came to Big Sur too though! But the current beta doesn't have it.
Re: Google maps, the recent change where the map orientation changes when the phone changes orientation was almost enough to get me to quit using it. I just want to lock in my preferred orientation and forget about it, not have to fiddle with my phone because it got bumped, the car hit a bump, or something.
Lovely work!

I can imagine a game based on this where you get dropped somewhere on Earth and your score is based on how few double clicks to load new tiles it takes you to recognise where you are.
How could they downvote a post like this? Must be someone on the Wikipaedia staff. Blasphemous.
>I don't think this is the case in reality though. I live in a coastal city in a "first world" country and waste management here can't deal with seagulls getting hold of bin bags and ripping them to pieces for the food inside, scattering plastics that blow into the sea.

By "bin bags", I presume you're talking about the bags you use to put garbage in. If you get rid of those, what are you going to replace it with? Paper bags? Those aren't going to hold moist garbage very well.
I used to drive a restaurant website's menu using a shared Google sheet. It was an easy way for multiple people to have access to update the content. I'd cached the recent versions in-case anyone made a breaking formatting change or Google was unavailable. Worked very well for our use-case.
Thank you for this discussion. Suffice it to say I think you are dead wrong here. But a debate on the points you now raise is beyond the time I have to devote now.
The OP was suggesting, however, that this little "enable censorship" checkbox be checked by default.
>I think the first two are based on sex, which is not really disputed. You can gender identify how you'd like though.

I specifically addressed this with my opinion which I feel confident won't get me fired in my comment. I could have been clearer in saying, I don't believe that the idea that sex males are not sex females is a radical idea. Gender wise I'll respect anyone being called whatever they would like to be called.

I don't understand the gender issue, I don't really think I need to. I do respect that people have complex feelings which are made easier by me addressing them in the manner which they prefer. It's no sweat off my back as long as it doesn't impede the scientific study of sex differences in order to better treat and identify diseases specific to sex.
> I don't think there is an obvious solution here, no matter how much it cost.

The issue is centralizing social decisions to a single entity. We already have a model where corporate entities provide services at scale without taking on much of the social aspect: Utilities and infrastructure. So find a way to become a video hosting utility. An uncaring pipe. Create tools for users to build their own fiefdoms and branding and have it moderate themselves. Tying advertising into that might be difficult, but perhaps it would be up to those users, pay for the services or automatically enter an agreement with advertisers. If advertisers pull their content for whatever reason then people could choose to pay themselves or perhaps make a deal with different advertisers.

Hosting adult-related content that most brands don't want to touch? Perhaps make a deal with seedier advertisers. Youtube would still take its cut, but only as part of infrastructure fees.

Want to promote your content to other circles? Well, you're essentially an advertiser yourself now.
I also really like the "flag" package for Go, it generates the help text for you and easily lets you set defaults as well as helps you type-check inputs.
There are also those idiots that will flush anything down a toilet. Regularly causes trouble where I live.
It's a difference of degree, not of kind. Any indirection forces the user to reason about a constructed concept instead of the literal facts of what's happening. By introducing one, you're making the assertion that the abstract concept is easier to reason about (including any effort required to learn it) than the contents being abstracted away.
Heck even for video. Google is hammering youtube pro down my throat for the benefit of continuing pkaying while backgrounded
Googling the library appears to be about ~8,000 lines of code (core.py is ~2,000 alone).

Is that really reasonable sounding to most people for parsing CLI input/output and display manpages or helptext?
None of them caught on because the regulatory environment makes it effectively impossible to implement efficiently and all of the attempts had to make fatal compromises in order to comply which made them useless.
Cool. I did this on 7th Edition UNIX in 1977. I forget how. It's interesting that ....

* NIX makes people do creative things

All that Bell Labs stuff still works the way it always did.

* People are still reinventing this particular wheel, and

* This embedded help stuff still somehow hasn't made it into the infrastructure along with autocomplete.
I agree that a business folding is a bad outcome. I think the goal is to have the business not fold at all, paying back the investment. Open question how many businesses will ultimately fold or survive -- no way to know yet, right?
In Mac OS you can record video from your iPhone in Quicktime (screen record), but you can't stream the video from the camera. It would be really great if Apple allowed that.

edit: I just found a free app by the same developer which allows just that! Yay

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/telecast-camera-usb-webcam/id1...
Any plans on adding support for displaying GIS data? I would love something like this I could drop a point, line or polygon onto!
I guess we can agree to disagree, because in my opinion people who are connected to a group, and participate in the "give and take" that goes with it, bring additional value to the job. I don't see how that wouldn't be good for co-workers and the company.

Maybe I should clarify that these aren't things I would do on the job. I engaged with co-workers through volunteer work, at those goofy socials at the Chamber (which I refuse to do now), going out for lunch or drinks with folks I met in the halls, etc.

Either way, to me work isn't just going in, punching a clock, and cranking out canooter valves and cagibilt rings. As a program manager, I've always had an appreciation for the relationships and motivations of others. I do the canooter valve thing too, but I always enjoyed the brainstorming sessions and mind maps, and solving problems and making deals happen. I dunno, networking is part of the job if you ask me.
The inability to receive future (prepaid) self-driving software updates on a Tesla if I remove the GSM interface to prevent corporate tracking my driving movement 24/7 is the main reason I am likely never going to buy a new one.

This sort of rent-seeking is really terrible.