skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Capacity dropped because China shut down. That's temporary (we trust), but it's a drop in global capacity.
Fred Brooks could have identified a third problem: accidental complexity is fun; inherent complexity is boring.
Amen.

Tell any given hall-monitor type about a seemingly coordinated effort toward a single goal, then watch them scoff and dismiss. It is so tiresome.

Then reveal the steady paychecks behind the effort--that the endeavor was ordinary commerce all along--and watch the same awful people hamster up even more fantastical conspiracy theories to support the original take.
I've heard this "mass productivity" claim from Lisp fans multiple times before, and am skeptical. Lisp has been around for about 60-ish years, yet no software house has been able to conquer the software market using it. It doesn't seem to scale to bigger teams and long-term maintenance. Developers can easily create abstractions that fit their own head, but not necessarily other heads. They blame the problems on the other readers rather than their spaghetti mind map.

If I could make my own language and stack, I too would be mega-productive. However, others likely wouldn't like it and be confused by it, even though it's dirt obvious to me. Roll-your-own has limits. Sometimes 2 or 3 like-minded Lisp developers connect and roll for a while, but over time they will find it a lucky match-up that the real-world can't repeatedly recreate. Lightning in a bottle evaporates easily.

The bottleneck of "paycheck" programming productivity is communicating between human beings, who may shift over time. Cranking out compact code fast is secondary to this. Program for people, not machines and not cleverness graders.
Files criminal complaints in which jurisdiction?

Switzerland?

If so, what do they hope to gain from it?
> Microservices are a design philosophy that people confuse as a deployment strategy.

I'm going to print this and show everyone, great words, thank you.
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Making such a comparison is non-trivial; does any highly developed western democracy share China's population size and density?

I'm more curious about how this will affect India, where the population situation is more similar to China's. I haven't seen any mention of the virus there in the news, yet.
Inflation is not as bad in the US as it is in Argentina because the demand of US dollars is still high. When that changes you can say good bye to a nice, stable inflation rate.
the key issue when compared to Epyc is that this is mono-die, and not much faster (even with metrics straight from Ampere). Mono-die means that the die is huge, the yield is low, it's probably pretty expensive to produce (and the reason why they went for 32MB cache, well below Arm's recommendations, core count is a bigger seller than cache it seems).
Unless they get massively better performance (they don't), this has no chance vs a multi-die solution which has a much better yield. Intel is cornered in a similar situation right now. The same applies to Graviton, this stands absolutely no chance in the long run.

Not saying that the future has to be multi-die, but if it is not, then it has to be way faster than the cheaper-to-manufacture competition.
> Upsides: more secure (in X.org every client can read every other client's keystrokes, pointer position, and do screen grabs)

What if i want this as a feature? Does wayland allow this per app?
did you use them on Packet?
This solution is absolutely beautiful
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On average a person gets the common cold 3 times each year. You probably got the cold, but had zero symptoms.
AFAICT offsets are "We stopped one tonne from going in", removal is "We took one tonne out".
sure nuclear carriers cannot be dry docked and serviced like a container ship but they can be deployed for long periods of time without refueling and other routine services.

My point here is that the way you measure reliability is subjective and there are likely trade offs associated with “simplicity”

For example, having a global signal point of failure, like keeping all of your api servers in one cloud region, or having a single database with no replicas is much simpler and easy to understand than a more distributed alternative. However, global resources make your system more likely to fail catastrophically when there are outages.

There are trade offs here and _oftentimes_ in complexity arises in distributed systems because of reliability issues, not the other way around
If you thought about it for 2 seconds more, you would realize that it will take up much longer to truly expand to even Solar system - I mean offloading billions, not some tiny colony.

Meaning that almost immortal general population would be doom long term and thus has to be managed. Either by bans, which might be circumvented in more favorable jurisdictions (ie orbits or moon), or by setting the price too high.

You would think management via price is impossible? Look how one of the first gene therapy single-pill 'cure' for spinal muscular atrophy Zolgensma is priced - 2 mil USD. Small cute kids are dying in pretty horrible ways because of this price all over the world.

When saving babies lives is (also) about money, why aging wouldn't be?
Not really. The entire first world is suffering a demographic crisis but the US is doing slightly better than Europe and Japan with population set to keep increasing for the foreseeable future.
Us GDP to debt ratio is not dramatically worse compared to where it was 30-50 years ago if you just look at how other countries were during this period

Boomers are the ones who tell you to be scared of the debt. Same boomers tell me that gold is the best investment
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"Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well." :-)

Yes, that's from "TRANCE-formations" by Bandler and Grinder.

And, yeah, for my money, Heller's "Monsters and Magical Sticks: There's No Such Thing as Hypnosis?" is the other best book on the subject. Well met.
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Not sure why you are getting downvotes, your post feels largely non-partisan, and the question is interesting.
That's the beauty of it, since the workers still don't control the means of production. But they do depend on the valuation of their "portfolios", so they're invested in the continued existence of the system, and they're pitted against each other as they are both labor and owners. But not enough owners to matter.
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Supposedly the climate may impede the virus’ ability to spread.

https://www.click2houston.com/weather/2020/02/26/will-housto...
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I've been putting together a suite of tools based on Logback that ticks all the boxes for modern day observability. You can see logs on STDOUT, flat file, JSON file, and logged to a database, and you can even store tracing information in a ring buffer (like dmesg) and dump it when there's an exception so you can see the flow of the operation when things went wrong.

Documentation is here https://tersesystems.github.io/terse-logback/

Showcase project in Play is here: https://github.com/tersesystems/terse-logback-showcase

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I will respond as the most Sr. Engineer at my company:

Architecting - you do that while coding. And have your team follow by example and code reviews (with good debates and team buy-in).

Managing Teams - Teams? Team. One team.

Managing managers - Again, a eng manager? We don't have the resources for that.

Directing Divisions - Divisions? We have founders to do that, we don't have enough people to fill 1 division.

Hence the problem.

The most valuable person to us is a Sr. Full-Stack engineer. They won't scale you to 100m users daily, but they need to know how to build a functional and flexible product where the only guarantee is change.
First, you are conflating mortality rate with case fatality rate (CFR). Mortality rate is deaths with respect to a total population; CFR is deaths with respect to diagnosed cases.

Second, since this is an ongoing outbreak the CFR is a moving target. Your calculation assumes the ratio of deaths to recoveries remains what it is now for the ~40k active cases. However, the CFR by that calculation has been steadily falling. Additionally, since CFR is only based on diagnosed cases the struggles with testing capacity, particularly in the US, will distort it by biasing diagnoses towards more severe cases.
"Enforce" gets thrown around a lot, but that's approaching silver bullet expectation levels, in my opinion.

A core skill problems on a team that would prevent building a maintainable monolith do not go away because you've added more things for them to manage.
Unfortunately that mindset is bleeding into our governing system. Make the short-term numbers look good at the expense of long term prosperity.
Inflation is their favorite tool to steal from the people. It's even illegal to purchase a high amount of US dollars now.
The statistics are also totally different (right now), which affects their risk profile. You probably wouldn't have gone to it if it were hosted in China. Or maybe in a year or two from now if double-digit percentages of US residents become infected. But right now, it's not a hugely dangerous gamble.

Even if you do catch it now in the US, if you're not very old or have other health issues, the healthcare system has enough slack space to treat you (potentially crippling debt afterwards notwithstanding), and you'll almost certainly be fine. This may not be the case in the coming months and years, but it's difficult to predict how things will progress (considering there could possibly be vaccines and anti-virals that arrive in time to prevent a full US epidemic).
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This piece is extremely readable. Kudos to the author.
What exactly does it "wrap", splitting a single string into an array of strings ?
There is a modern version: https://getfreewrite.com/. It's way too expensive though.
Brazil had 379 sugar mills in 2014, thus there is already a land dedicated to sugarcane. This is a real business that makes money without subsidies.

Ethanol plants produce CO2 as a byproduct of fermentation which is nearly pure and easy to purify to the point where it can be compressed to 1200 psi and not have nitrogen phase separate out and not have water vapor mix with the CO2 and make carbonic acid that eats pipe.

So it is a small add-on to existing plants. A larger and more complex add-on would capture CO2 from the bagasse furnace.

This could lead to more land-use changes if it improves the economics and if the ethanol industry can find more markets for fuel and electricity.

Most of the ethanol plants are located near Sao Paulo and Rio because that is where the fuel and electricity are in demand. None of them are in the Amazon basin and few in the area to the south of it that is in risk of "savannafication".
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Argument by "they said" should really only be used when it is the same "they" speaking now and then. Otherwise, especially when no reference is given, the "they" can be no one, a general sense the writer remembers, a low-quality they (talking points for manipulation purposes), etc.
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Austin's city government is famously unresponsive to its citizens, viz the city's "CodeNext" building code reforms that are roundly hated by hippies, environmentalists, businesspeople, homeowners, and liberals and conservatives alike. Worse, SxSW pretty much calls the tune the Mayor and City Council dance to. They'll allow SouthBy to go ahead, and the deadly fallout won't be evident for another month or two.
What about binutils? Is it removed too?
Trust an exchange with a Fancy UI.
That "revenue" is a rounding error compared to investment in fully autonomous technology.

I am fairly confident that revenue will still be a rounding error in the next 3-5 years.

Investors are betting on a really long game here. This is another indicator of capital being really cheap in the current environment.
that’s just not smart
This is a very important idea. I like the shipping container metaphor. I have often used the idea of a 2x4 (as in lumber) in building houses. The humble 2x4 is such a simple product, but when put together with nails and screws becomes the cornerstone of a complex structure.

It is simple and it just works for its intended purpose.

I am working hard to apply this to the design of Webase [1] which is a #nocode platform that is inherently complex. But I really believe that if we get the design right it will support a large number of sophisticated use-cases.

Thank you for sharing!

[1] https://www.webase.com
Do you have any source for that? I found a post[0] on Slashdot from March 2000 that Apple "plans to assign the copyright for its changes to gcc to the [FSF]." Neither the post nor the comments I skimmed seem to make reference to a victorious GPL lawsuit. (Unfortunately the original mailing list post is lost.)

The earliest snapshot[1] of opensource.apple.com on the Internet Archive suggests that the compiler sources were available (under "cc") as of October 12, 2000.

Although that snapshot suggests the first release was version cc-792, I can't find older than cc-798 on the site today. But the NOTES file[2] is interesting, detailing NeXT's/Apple's earlier changes including release codenames. (3/19/97: "This is the first fully functional compiler for the PowerPC.")

I would guess that the earliest Apple shipped gcc was with ProjectBuilder in the Mac OS X Developer Preview which was in 1999. Maybe things start to get blurry with NeXT, WebObjects, etc. but it doesn't _seem_ like Apple was shirking it's responsibilities under the GPL.

0: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/00/03/17/1656240/apple-plan...

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20001012121451/http://www.openso...

2: https://opensource.apple.com/source/cc/cc-798/NOTES.auto.htm...
> DNS resolution error.

archive.is has a beef with some DNS resolvers:

https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/
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and uh the metaphors were obviously about non-consensual anal sex so it was just weird to keep on the same theme.
in short terms, the immune system does it, but it has to learn what it is first.

there are "tags" on the virus, these are antigens.

the immune system samples the antigens presents them to the "antibody librarian" and the librarian publishes a bunch of antibodies that stick to the virus antigen.

This can take some time to get to this state, during this time the virus is replicating making you ill and doing damage.

when enough antibodies are being produced, new copies of the virus will be tagged with the antibody and destroyed with haste.

here is a big read with all the real [complicated] terms:

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

this is basically the same process for virus, bacteria, and even some nonliving materials.
> right now I am trying to learn that humans will never learn from history. I vaguely remember somebody mentioning that to me in the past, but I dismissed it as a nonsense.

Perhaps it was in reference to the famous Aldous Huxley quote:

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
We've actually done remote experiments at Stripe in order to do just that. Where whole teams will get spread across as many places as possible and we attempt to keep everything as it was in order to discover the holes in the daily processes we have.
Yes, but God has been helping us all already and it has been going on for decades, through QE and interest rates and bailouts, and a lot of top economists seem to be set on milking this as long as they can and keeping the cow on life support and drugs for a very very long time. And why shouldn't they? Nobody knows how long we can keep the cow alive, there is no real precedent. It can go belly up tomorrow or in 50 years. It works really well right up until the point where it doesn't at all anymore.
Why would you play with real money to learn instead of doing simulated trades? You can set up a paper trading account with Interactive Brokers for free. If simulated trading doesn't feel "real enough" because there are no stakes, then I don't think it's about learning.

You can learn the ropes without wasting money.
Yeah, the problem is it happened exactly 4 years ago as opposed to 4 years and 1 day ago.

March 1st, 2016 was the leap year. Not March 2nd.
I totally agree when designing man-made, synthetic systems. But it is interesting to consider that the most reliable, self-healing systems that exist -- animals! -- are incredibly complicated...
One established possibility is that corona won't be contained. With 2009 H1N1 outbreak it spread quickly, eventually to an estimated 11 to 21% of the global population.

H1N1 turned out to be much milder than initially feared, causing little more than runny noses and coughs in most people. And H1N1 is now so commonplace, it's simply seen as a part of the seasonal flus that come and go every year among the global population.

If you're of this school of thought, then the panic may seem a bit much.

[1] https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2020/03/02/how-is-the-coron...
You could have a stock market crash while hitting full employment, for any number of reasons e.g. non-listed companies expand while listed contract; families scale down and take earners off the market; war mobilization that involves long-term high taxes; and probably all kinds of scenarios I'm not thinking of. "Stopping recessions" is not an automatic justification for propping up asset prices.
Can anybody explain the hate/aversion towards GCC? As I see it clang used to generae more meaningful error messages thats why many people turned toward clang. But it seems those days are gone.

Gcc still produces better=faster machine code. So why the hate? Are there political reasons involved?
It has real effects until the economy is at full employment, after which it only causes inflation.
All great suggestions - can highly recommend Magnatiles and Duplos as well.

Just a word of caution on buying Magnatiles - there are lots of knockoff brands out there, not just for these but almost all kids toys these days (duplos and trains included), and some can be dangerous:

> Last December, Jennifer White of Appleton, Wis., received Imden Magnetic Blocks for her 4-year-old son as a gift. Her son was rushed to the hospital after the toy broke and he ingested some magnets, Ms. White said.

> The worst part? The Imden-branded product was listed right next to industry-leading brands like Magformers and Magnatiles, which meet U.S. safety standards.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-shoppers-this-is-how-to-...
Funnily enough, I asked about this two years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16315334
i mean except for the banner at the top and bottom! but yeah, an SEO article with actual substance, well formatted, not grey-on-grey[1], no trackers[2], is rare these days.

[1] recently read an SEO post on okta's site. who can read that garbage?

[2] only GA ... which isn't a 3rd-party tracker.
I think this is a terrific example of normalcy bias, a "tendency for people to believe that things will always function the way they normally have functioned and therefore to underestimate both the likelihood of a disaster and its possible effects"[0].

China has provided roughly a month's advance warning on how this virus plays out in terms of infectivity and severity (~20% of cases are serious / require medical attention, ~5% are critical, and ~2% are fatal).

People prefer to believe that media coverage of the effects in China are fearmongering or even a political "hoax"[1], that it will peter out with warmer weather (it's spread quite quickly in Singapore which is hot and humid at the moment), and that because it's possible to misuse masks and because they don't provide complete protection by themselves they're useless and should be left for healthcare workers[2].

The kind of critical thinking that helps you prepare for things like this seems to be in short supply. Last week people thought I was silly for stocking up on dried goods and essentials, this week every store around me is sold out of hand sanitizer, clorox wipes, and isopropanol.

[0]: Wikipedia, right now

[1]: The US president, at a rally a couple of days ago

[2]: The US surgeon general's twitter page, a couple of days ago
PyCon US will be held in Pittsburgh in the middle of April. They have not cancelled, but are offering full refunds for people that decide not to go.
Man, amen. This is the worst one yet because it was clearly political. If this wasnt an election year, theres no way we get a .5% cut
> We have a no refund policy as part of our terms and conditions, so we are unable to reimburse you for your purchase.

But they can go ahead with multi-100k person event in the midst of a pandemic, knowing that doing so carries a credible risk of thousands of deaths (or even creating an outbreak throughout Texas and surrounding states).

This is deeply, deeply disappointing, considering the power, influence and connections they have.
> Ah, the old C level exec decision to outsource to your "India team". Usually immediately followed by said company having severe and often crippling issues immediately after doing so.

Or the small onshore team they kept burning themselves out trying to hold the ship together.