jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Different crises have different effects on the economy. Or, to paraphrase Anna Karenina, "All healthy economies are alike. Each depressed economy is depressed in its own way."

What we need to do with coronavirus lockdowns is essentially to pause the economy. Cut all social contact off, let the virus run its course, develop a treatment or vaccine, and then reboot the economy. If the economy was healthy before (and most people say it generally was, despite a few doomsayers), that shouldn't be impossible. You could do it either by guaranteeing basic needs for the duration of the crisis, or by lending money on a short-term basis for the duration of the crisis, or by pausing all time-based payments like rent and debt.

Other economic recessions have had different causes:

2009 and 2001 were because the financial sector invested lots of money in unproductive sectors (real estate and dot-coms, respectively), and then that malinvestment needed to be written off and reinvested in more productive sectors of the economy before it could return to normal. That takes time, and it takes capital, and for people in the unproductive sectors it never happens. Tech started recovering in about 2011, while folks in coal mining or steel milling will probably never get their jobs back.

1973 was a supply shock. The price of oil went up rapidly. Everything else in the economy depends upon oil, or transportation using oil. Therefore, the price of everything else went up, and many marginal sectors of the economy were eliminated. All the massive bailout managed to do here was increase the price of everything.

1929 was a combination of everything going wrong. There was a speculative bubble during the 1920s which meant that a lot of capital was invested in Florida real estate, rum runners, consumer fads, and other unproductive sectors. There was a contraction of the money supply from 1929-1931 because the Fed screwed up. And then there was the dust bowl in 1931, which was a force majeure that added a supply shock.

Climate change is a much broader problem that affects the whole world. It'll likely result in massive migrations and productivity differentials across nations. If you have a free global market with porous national borders, the global economy will likely adapt, but there will be massive regional winners and losers. If you close the borders and try to deal with it on a national level, you'll probably get war.

Poverty is a consequence of liberty. If you let individuals make their own deals, some will inevitably make bad ones. Totalitarian regimes often have much lower inequality (excepting the ruling class), at the expense of everyone being poor. On an absolute level, even the poor in America are much better off than the rich in say the DRC.

Note that if the coronavirus isn't contained - if we just let people die instead of stopping it - we're likely to end up with a 1973-style supply shock rather than a graceful reboot. Except much worse. Labor is a factor of production for everything, and if people are dead, they can't work. When this happened after Black Death, the whole feudal system collapsed and we got the Rennaissance and modern market economy.
That I agree with, but as far as I can tell the degree of measures we're trying to take are unprecedented even in non-living memory. School closures and public gathering bans, sure, but those measures happen pretty frequently during lesser scale outbreaks. If anyone tried to ban social calls during the Spanish Flu, I'm not aware of it.
3M just doubled its production to 100 Million a month. That should do it I think.
This is trivial to do for a number of feedback/analytics/cdn/socialnetwork companies. Basically, the people who have JS living on large swaths of the web. There are some names you sorta expect (Facebook, Google, Twitter) and other names like Mixpanel, Foresee, Opinionlab, Survey Monkey that might not be as obvious.

It would be pretty easy for a Foresee to deliver a customer profile aligned on verticals in near real-time to clients based on data their network captures from major websites around the world.
What do they provide in phone service that Google Voice doesn't already do for free? Google will give you a local number and forward it to specific phones for free, and I don't see why someone would use a paid service over that.
Are there any downsides to this design?
Just to clarify, homomorphic encryption does not expose patterns. At every point in the computation the ciphertexts are computationally indistinguishable from random. The result of evaluating the ML model will be an encrypted prediction that you then need to send back to whoever encrypted the data (or more precisely whoever has the key - doesn't need to be the same person) so they can decrypt and use the prediction.
Yeah, I don't understand this theory that if your tools are at all configurable or learnable you'll be compelled to waste time yak-shaving them. I think you're right that the problem is with the stuff you're NOT doing. I use emacs every day, but there's a ton of stuff I don't use emacs for because the investment to become proficient in the emacs solution won't pay off in my circumstances. There's a middle way between writing code in nano and getting lost trying to program emacs to do your job for you.

As with everything (programming languages, build tools, optimization, etc.) there are people who go much further into the rabbit hole of text editors than you could practically justify in your own work, but 1) they might be doing it for some intrinsic satisfaction rather than out of delusion, and 2) thank goodness for people like that, because they build and improve a lot of the software we benefit from.
The story of Rome’s fall is both complicated and relatively straightforward yet it eerily resembles America: The state became too big and chaotic; the influence of money and private interests corrupted public institutions; and social and economic inequalities became so large that citizens lost faith in the system altogether and gradually fell into the arms of tyrants and demagogues. If all of that sounds familiar, well, that’s because the parallels to our current political moment are striking. Edward Watts, a historian at the University of California San Diego, has just published a new book titled Mortal Republic that carefully lays out what went wrong in ancient Rome — and how the lessons of its decline might help save fledgling republics like the United States today.
No regulatory body watching the production is one thing. You are buying from criminals. I'm all-in on the legalization of all drugs if only for the consumer protections it would introduce. Then there's the issue of harm-reduction for those that truly have a dependency/addiction problem AND generally freedom for freedoms sake.

The psilocybin treatment is also reported as way more effective when administered as part of therapy. You are supposed to trip under the guidance of a professional.
>Aaaand the rest of the article is pay walled by medium...

AFAIK Medium doesn't paywall content (at least like this?). That modal you get has a button to close it in the top right corner. I understand the aversion to paying for things but please make sure your attack is valid before throwing it out there.
Maybe we should also start speaking Chinese since it may not be a bad idea to use something a large number of people will easily understand.

Edit: this is not sarcasm. It’s simple logic, unless there is something wrong with learning other languages.
Signal will be become popular -- if it does -- just like how every other network based app became popular eg. MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Instagram, Snapchat. Examples from work... Zoom, Slack etc.
First it's used among a small group of people, has a "cool"ness factor and a USP. Then slowly spreads as other people want to be seen as ahead of the curve and want to be part of an exclusive group. So the Hacker News crowd using it is actually a good sign.

What we need additionally in this case more than the "WhatsApp but better" argument is continually making people aware of the incumbent's behavior, since WhatsApp is well entrenched, to cast doubts in people's minds.

SMS lost because it was costly and lacked features. What will make WhatsApp lose?
an IDE which covers multiple languages
Why? Every industrialized country on the planet now has an interest in making Afghanistan an industrialized country so that they can get a piece of that sweet lithium pie. Granted, there are chances for folks to take advantage and Afghanistan to get some generally raw deals, but it's overwhelmingly better than being poor with an economy built primarily on the drug trade.

Afghanistan went from having no chance to a moderate chance. It's no cause for celebration, but it's not necessarily the worst thing in the world either.
I figure by the time they can pack so many pixels into a single 30 inch display, a single graphics card will be able to drive it. Hopefully :)
It's a problem with the division of strategy throughout a company. The job of sales is to turn people who don't pay into people who do. They have no incentive to keep current customers; in fact, it's sort of the opposite—every customer that quits, and then comes back later, counts as a new sale.
I wonder what is the exact date of the discovery of valuable minerals in Afghanistan. Do they look for minerals while at war?
Calling this the worst thing that could have possibly happened to Afghanistan indicates both a lack of historical knowledge and imagination.
No, it won't go to the Afghan people. It will go to a select few warlords and politicians that are savvy enough to realize that by making deals with the right people, they can become oligarchs overnight.
no, and I'm not sure what part of my comment made you think it is.
And using delegated, for local development, multiple versions with a few commands is really great.
> Clues about how privileged people in the Middle Ages regarded peasants can be found in their courtly songs, sarcastic proverbs, nasty jokes, and pious sermons. Knights and ladies were fond of songs known as pastourelles that told, among other things, about how easy it was for knights to have sex with peasant women or, failing that, to rape them; monks and students enjoyed jokes that portrayed peasants as ludicrously dumb and foolish; and priests, friars, and bishops preached sermons that depicted “those who work” as objects of pity, charity, and disgust. Even Piers Plowman, a sympathetic portrayal of rural life, portrayed the peasant’s lot as hard and pitiable. These literary texts are useful for understanding the often astoundingly negative attitudes of elites toward peasants, but they tell little about the peasants themselves.

They also seem useful to contrast the American / protestant view of work as the path to salvation with the European / catholic view of work as something pitiful

EDIT: See e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the...
This site is literally for voicing your own opinion. If it wasn't valid it wouldn't be near the top. Have a decent counter point because arguing by aggression isn't arguing.
I'm not sure what you mean by "has to be". Google is a not-insignificant force in world politics. And - Google is not the only place to intern in Silicon Valley.
I don't see how business travel goes away. You just can't effectively build relationships over zoom, phone calls, and email. It's just not possible. Ask anyone who's been in a long distance relationship.
The 90s were the peak of legislators trying to shift blame onto violent videogames and other media. Do you remember the uproar following the release of Mortal Kombat? Or the mini-satanic panic over magic cards?
Why should the government decide what's age appropriate?
For example, Child's Play was founded as a response to that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%27s_Play_(charity)#Histo...

Jack Thompson was also making news at that time for filing lawsuits over the original Grand Theft Auto game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)#Grand...

I seem to remember that the Child's Play founders had a particular rivalry or conflict with him over this.
Oh, I'm not saying it's great. What I'm saying is that the process often looks like this:

1. Release a project on GitHub

2. Get busy with other things / deluged in issues

3. “I don't have time for this. Let me install the auto-close bot!”

4. Issues get closed

5. [sometimes never] “I better configure the auto-close bot to only act on untriaged issues”
I think 6" is still pretty manageable for most people--you can probably fit it in the trunk of a sporty two-seater car. It's really only when you get to 10" and beyond--telescopes that are probably not a good "first scope" purchase for a variety of reasons--that the Dobsonian becomes a beast.
> That situation is choice, pure and simple. You appear to be some sort of web or database developer, or possibly a system administrator. You can afford to support a family.

I think characterizing mothers (or perhaps all parents?) who choose to work rather than stay home to care for children (and taking the consequential career hit) as "Keeping up with the Joneses" is a pretty blinkered view of human motivations, quite reductive, and frankly insulting.

It's often a choice for parents to both work. But many parents choose to stay in the workforce because they derive meaning from work and a career, not so that they can enjoy entertainment, restaurants, single-use items, and excessive travel. In fact, some parents are forced to leave the workforce because childcare can cost more than their after-tax income (think an infant and two kids in daycare / with a nanny).
> if that's how the "principle of charity" starts off, where do we go from there?

Assuming your premise is correct, it's easy to see where the principle of charity would have us go from there: by responding to the strongest interpretation of what that sentence might mean. Its substantive point is clearly something about how companies like Facebook and Google have different interests than H1B body shops do.
RSI is curable almost always! Read "Pain Free at Your PC" or "Pain Free" by Pete Egoscue. Message me and I'll gift either to you.
I have eaten it, had trouble, and didn't put two and two together until I read an article explaining the phenomenon of fish mislabeling.

SO...maybe go do an experiment: Go eat a nice big portion of escolar (nee "white tuna") and report back. For science.
Around Chicago we have problems with Asian carp making their way closer and closer to the great lakes. I've often suggested they be renamed 'river tuna' and our problems will be solved.
The one thing with Rust is that it seems to me to also offer so much fine control on memory ownership that it would start to develop its own set of "gotcha"s.

With that said I'm looking forward to seeing progress on the language as I think we've been needing a systems programming language where you can express ownership semantics as part of the language itself, and have the compiler check those for you.
ABOUT time!!
> Personally I think the notion that C++ offers "precise control" as you call it is overrated. For instance flexiblememory allocation is touted as an advantage, but in practice this is limited by the fact that there is only one global implementation of new the operator.

I don't quite follow, who's stopping you from using sbrk(), mmap() and all the other low level allocation system calls if you really have to? AFAIK, many high performance applications have their own allocation mechanism. Furthermore, new/malloc is worlds apart from GC when it comes to precise memory management.

Now, to be fair, I have no experience implementing high performance servers. But speaking for games, GC gets in the way a lot. You can make it work by essentially avoiding allocation altogether, at least on systems where you can use tons of memory, but that's just a very crude workaround.
Teams in particular recent had a massive security breach where the client could be drive through exploited to own whole orgs and any org connected via guests, right?
One of the hallmarks is lower back pain. If you get this frequently for no explicable reason you should be looking to get your levels tested.
you lose history for eg stack traces and debuggers.

I remember javascriptcore solving this issue by using a "shadow stack"
> Where do you live where grocery stores accept checks?

Are you in Europe? I hear it's unusual there. In the US virtually every store will accept a check. There are still stores that will not take any card. And some stores that will take a a debit card but not a credit card. But they'll all pretty much take checks.
Unless you have video of this woman posing a lethal threat to another human, it won’t be very convincing.
> Does it have to be "sustainable"?

Well, yes. Sustainability doesn't only mean "in the face of expected large growth", it means (for example), here's a culture that the company likes, can that culture continue to thrive through the coming years?
The human intuition starts out naturally oriented around cause and effect, linear timelines of events, and state change over time, because that's how we've evolved to conceptualize the physical world around us. When you're designing large systems this model doesn't scale, but it's absolutely the most intuitive on the small-scale. This is why languages like Python and Basic are so accessible for newcomers.
So a search engine?
Dont ask questions you dont want an answer too.
>failure will lead to death

But not before you've made millions, and walked away with no repercussions.
Keep your phones secure

Ok, so I get arrested and my phone is taken. Lucky for me my phone is encrypted and I was able to shut it off before it left my possession. So I've made it more difficult for the phone to be searched on the spot, but what is preventing the authorities from compelling me to decrypt the phone eventually?
Imagine that you just started a new job at a big company. It's a "Java shop". You're allowed to use any technology stack you want for your apps, and all the other apps have APIs, but there's hundreds of useful Java libraries that already exist for talking to these APIs.

This would allow you to use NodeJS but still leverage the existing Java libraries, not requiring you to rewrite them.
Yes, as I was writing that post.

I'd been considering rocketry analogies, where one software error (Ariane) or bad seal (Challenger) will blow the whole thing up, but I wanted to convey leakiness. Mtgox found a slow puncture and went down like a deflated bouncy castle.
Ah, that would make more sense.

That said, half a million vehicles would make them 1/4th the size of BMW and 1/5th the size of Chrysler. For me, that's "roughly in the same league as household-name auto brands."

(For reference, right now, they are around 1/100th the size of BMW and Chrysler.)
Racket is my first functional language and its been fun, but is it more of an educational language or is it used in production?
If you've got a problem with ReaderWriterLockSlim, email me (check my profile). I'll get it to the right people.
So you decommission and deorbit anything that can't be controlled. Once you have a functional beanstalk the entire cost/benefit of doing everything in space changes. It becomes a lot easier to put things in orbit and it becomes a lot more important to keep the beanstalk up.
And, as I recall, part of the agreements to fund the Space Shuttle to begin with came from the military and spy agencies: a better capability to launch and service spy satellites.

When the Space Shuttle program began, they planned for hundreds of flights, around 50 per year. The shuttles were only designed to last 100 missions before retirement. We were supposed to get a new shuttle rotating into service every 4 or so years.
How is this different than https://avatar-js.java.net/ ?
Probably a pretty good baseline.
Your correct! What a shocking display of poor reading. Suddenly the article is less bad.
Not necessarily, because people don't submit stories in the same way that they write comments.

Comments, and the links they comment on, are different things, so we should not be surprised if the best solutions for ranking them are different.

There is already precedent for treating them differently --- it is possible to downvote a comment, but impossible to downvote a link.
Set up firewall rules that prevent torrents from coming through on the open network, and do a bunch of other stuff. You can make open access points pretty robust if you're willing to put in the effort.
Good question. With my understanding, being that Greplin has access to all private information, they have an incredible amount of power -- in fact more than Google who just has one/two aspect(s) (albeit large ones). Just for the sake of privacy, imagine Greplin agreeing to giving up private user information to the gov't, just like all these other companies? They'd have access to everything.

Scares me a bit too much to sign up for the convenience.
With bitcoin, they do. No backdoor, but the entire transaction log is public. It's even easier for the tax man because they don't have to query data from banks. Bitcoin is not a tax avoidance scheme and never meant to be.

The sooner they come up with a legal way to tax bitcoins, the better it is for business adoption, I guess...
Whether or not this is true, please note that the post has not one single piece of evidence. Just a rumor.
* Boiler Room

* Layer Cake (for the speech at the end amongst other things)

* Wall Street

* Glengarry Glen Ross
Or get yourself some chickens, if you have a lawn.
Neruda + Pop band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWnM45HLe_A
or Advertorial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertorial)
Timing. I was a Rhapsody user in 2003. I even had an AV receiver that supported Rhapsody back in 2005 or so, assuming it was connected to my computer (for stuff like track listing and whatnot on the device). But it didn't take off because timing wasn't right. People were just at a place to start buying digital tunes -- streaming music was awkward.

But beyond that, it took the iPhone (and devices like it -- but really, let's admit it was the iPhone. I loved my Treo, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices too, but it was the damn iPhone) to usher in a device where people could stream on the go. Before that, using Rhapsody (or even Spotify, early on) was kind of a PITA.

Spotify made it easier by letting you sync offline stuff with your iPod or iPhone, but it took widespread 3G and beyond, good data plans and saturation of smartphones for people to be like, "yeah, I can replace my iTunes with streaming music."

The same is, to me, true of streaming video. You could do live streaming close to a decade ago. On your cellphone. Shit, I remember envying people using Qik on the Nokia phones in 2008. But it took a long time, there was massive latency and the quality sucked.

Meerkat and Periscope are fast, easy to use, have restreaming features and are easy to drop-in, drop-out of.

Whether they last or not, I don't know. But just as it took e-sports to make the Justin.tv model work (and I remember when they launched Twitch. All of us, myself included, thought it wouldn't work. But then the devices for livestreaming game videos became so inexpensive and the experience so compelling, Sony and Microsoft built it into consoles. It took the barrier getting super easy and the content being compelling for the user case to be seen).

So again, timing.
I have seen some incredibly good 'legacy' codebases written with vary old tech. There is a huge advantage when someone works with a technology for 10+ years and knows all the rough edges to avoid and then bakes it into their design.

Java may be the worst example of a ‘bulb’ language I can think of. However, I recently spoke with a team which had an awesome response to all the things I hated about the language. The closest analogy I can think of is mechanics working on popular cars get to the point where they can diagnose problems in seconds because they know the kinds of things that break. Cars come with plenty of sensors to help diagnose problems, but in this case familiarity often beats better tools.