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No, the absolute worst thing you can say is "It's fine to give up as soon as it gets hard."

If you have a pile of cash you can lead a life of not much. But lottery winners and multimillionaires almost invariably seem to get bored by constant holidays, permanent no-destination travel, and other kinds of freewheeling.

Most people need a goal and a focus. And as soon as you have one you're going to frustrate yourself by definition, because you don't have the skills or the character to reach your goal immediately.

Which means work is involved. And that's going to suck in at least some ways at least some of the time, because work does - even if you're financially self-sufficient and are doing it for passion not money.
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> I can only wonder what the debt holders for oil and gas companies are thinking right now.

decent chance they're asking for a federal bailout, and praying that russia capitulates soon
Arbitrage means that these barrels will flow into the US and offset some of the US production.

Of course, Trump could slap some tariffs there, but high energy costs are never popular (no matter how good they may be).
Async-by-default from the perspective of the developer is one of the chief sins of JS, in this writing-JS-since-the-90s developer's opinion. I've seen and written so damn much code to work around async-by-default. Now most of the code I read is comically full of (justified!) awaits, so at least we got the sugar to fix it without so much fuss, but we shouldn't have to in the first place.

Let async code surrender control, but don't continue executing the current logic unless the developer asks for that behavior. Await-like behavior by default. That would have been much saner, less bug-prone, more helpful, and easier to learn & reason about. It's the desired behavior at least 90% of the time, in my experience.
There’s a brilliant animated gif that explains this visually

https://twitter.com/SiouxsieW/status/1236721200291655680
Why would your management want to ‘manage’ such a blatant conflict of interest? They are not incentivized to do so, even if your solution is the best in the market. Their job will be much easier if they either choose a vendor without such conflicts or fire you from your day job after signing contracts with your corporation.

Also, just by pitching this, you are admitting that your side gig is directly related to your day job, which is likely in violation of your IP agreement with the day job. Using another person as point of contact doesn’t change that.

This is absurd and will get you fired or worse, unless your day job’s lawyers are asleep at the wheel.
I guess neither of us want to out our employment history here, but for the ones I know about, that's absolutely not true. Reading from another service's database is sometimes possible but always considered hacky tech debt.
CPython is a particularly nice codebase to dig into. Plus, there's a big todo list: https://bugs.python.org
People shouldn't mock your concern.

Economic declines cause very real harm to real people -- mostly the working poor.

People lose their jobs, their houses, and their healthcare in recessions.

You may feel immune if you're a tech worker -- and you may be for a time -- but you're not immune to layoffs either.
You're betting against all of documented history.
Also, your concern shouldn't be interest rate risk.
Your concern should be a reversal in perceived credit risk.
You benefited from a flight to quality. While these can persist much longer than one would expect (see LTCM), you will eventually lose.
Ask HN: Can we stop Coronavirus if enough people volunteer to catch it?
A virus would stop spreading in community if 40%-60% of people are immune, for example by catching it and producing antibody. So a radical approach would be to have people who are more likely to survive volunteer to catch it in quarantine and under care.

It would make volunteers immune so that they can get back to life and work without worry and will stop the virus from hitting more vulnerable groups.
A decade ago I got to try a Vectrex at Penny Aracde Expo in Seattle. I was enamoured with it for those few short moments, as it had a unique look and aspect ratio. I’d love to play one again.
Yeah I work from home 3 days a week. I have a big deal, monitors of my own.

I was talking with someone recently and they were excited to work from home since they bought a new home... so they don't have to work from home from their kitchen table that maybe seats 4 people... maybe.

I think we forget that work from home generally requires some space. Not everyone's home or family situation allows for it.
The biggest issue with WFH is how poor peoples’ written communication skills are.

Take a spoken conservation:

- Person A says something

- Person B thinks what they said is derailing the conversation

- Person B uses body language and makes subtle modifications to their response (“Uuh.. sure. Anyway...”) to express their opinion of Person A’s behavior

- Person A notices this and will begin to reflect

- Person B takes the opportunity to actually say “I think you’re derailing the conversation, we need to stay focused on X...”

- Person A learns from this experience

Now take a written conversation:

- Person A makes 18 points in an email (I find people say a lot in emails — especially if you include the assumptions of the author that are a part of each sentence.)

- Person B reads the email a day later.

- Person B thinks of 26 points of feedback they’d like to make, but they’re much harder to express. The bandwidth of written communication is higher, so the “derailing” feedback becomes invalid. Instead the feedback is “You’re saying too much, we can’t keep track of all this” but that comes across like “I can’t handle this many things” — which if you think about it is fine, but it’s definitely weirder than the in-person form. Also feedback like “you should use a comma here” seems pedantic, but it can be really fucking important to avoid miscommunication.

- Person B gets into a fluster and decides not to give any feedback, because it’s too hard.

- Person A doesn’t learn from this experience.

I’ve found people that are very self-critical become quite good at written communication.

I read my own emails three or four times before sending them, to be sure they’re easy to understand. Yet when I read others’ emails, the mistakes present indicate they didn’t read their own email even once. This is indicative of a lack of desire to self-reflect.

Feedback culture is important. I feel a remote-only company could be far more effective than a traditional company if they figure out interpersonal processes that lead to results — feedback on written communication being a part of that.
I got tired of all the bad news, so I added a filter.

It's about 100 lines of JavaScript (a SPA?) that uses the official HN API. It's designed mostly for mobile use.

Since I read HN a lot, it keeps track (using localStorage) of which articles I've already seen, so I won't see them again.

Source is on GitHub. Feel free to fork, open a PR, etc.
Yeah -- Adding in GPUs and doing a deeper dive on how using some of the low-cost VM types (w/ small but burstable CPU, etc...) impact both cost & performance are things I hope to take a look at in the future!
Semantic Primes
Going back to an onsite college for it doesn't seem like a great idea. It's already a field that doesn't really value credentials in general, especially academic ones. You could probably instead do a tour of the commercial certifications while paying for it with the law salary, and come out equivalently-or-more employable and with much less debt.

Not an expert, just sharing intuitions.

I think there are probably some subreddits that would get this question often and have in-depth suggestions.
AspnetO
Centralized data warehousing is possible as long as you constrain the number of distinct database engines and provide connectors for those. Services having private databases doesn't preclude data warehousing. It's why we have data warehousing! To enable joins across data from different silos.
Agreed. This post should be 100% be titled as supported instead of recommended.

I recall that John Mueller recommended[1] JSON-LD over the other options during a Google Webmasters office hours session.

Many of Google Search's Structured Data features[2] primarily have JSON-LD examples.

[1]: https://youtu.be/gS4_JH-QqSg?t=2085

[2]: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/search-gall...
HTTPS Obsolescence
This article is about death rates, not infections rates. Spreading out deaths does not have similar benefits.
I was wondering the same.

Help with efforts to develop at home testing kits:
https://twitter.com/JMRothberg/status/1236748928177131525

Help with data visualization:
https://twitter.com/jb_mouret/status/1236202203251200003
The links you posted don't back up your summary.

The "livescience" link is a confusing story which seems to be talking about the US, CDC test: Last week, the CDC had begun to ship about 200 testing kits to labs across the U.S. and 200 more to over 30 other countries so that more facilities could conduct testing for the new coronavirus.... The CDC is working closely with the states to correct the issues in the testing kits, Messonnier said.

The BBC link is about the WHO test, says no one knows what is going on but gives multiple possible explanations:

One possible explanation is the tests are accurate and the patients do not have coronavirus at the time of testing

Alternatively, there could be a problem with the way the tests are being conducted... There has also been some discussion about whether doctors testing the back of the throat are looking in the wrong place.

A final option is the RT-PCR test for the new coronavirus is based on flawed science.... if there is a poor match between the primer and the virus in the patient, then an infected patient could get a negative result.

The Propublica link is about the CDC test: The CDC designed a flawed test for COVID-19, then took weeks to figure out a fix so state and local labs could use it.
I built https://sneezemap.com to help track local infection levels

[Edit] US cities screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/Vzm9wN5
It's far from clear that having it actually provides reliable immunization.
what is scary to me is that the average american seems to be ignoring this and are more scared of lice and bedbugs, which are not lethal. telling folks to treat this as worse than lice and bedbugs, has worked in waking up some of my acquaintances. i think because it triggers more of an emotional response, though just a guess.
It still requires the user to install and admin a postgres instance which already makes it a non-starter for 99% of the target audience, this design choice is tragically stupid - the chance that an instance of pleroma will reach a usage volume that can't be handled by sqlite and basic caching is not on the horizon, if they ever reach this problem they could then develop a version that works against an actual rdbms.
I don't trust any of them. The point is Android gives me an escape hatch. If necessary I can use an Android phone and apps without ever logging into any Google service. This isn't possible on an iPhone
Per the book, his dedication was not considered appropriate as he played other sports and had other interests.
> Many of the parents with young children at home are dreading the loss of their office space right now

As someone without kids can you explain this? Where I work at many employees with kids come to work much later and leave much earlier since they have to pick up their kids or send them to after school activities. Wouldn't working from home better this process?
Absolutely this, regarding any conclusions people might draw for the current pandemic. I'm almost surprised that peak flattening had a measurable effect on total outcomes at all given the state of medicine in 1918. They hardly understood the difference between viral and bacterial infections back then. Medicine still can't do anything against a new virus, but the art of giving the body a longer time to fight it has advanced considerably. And as far as I understand it, bad cases off CIVID19 draw themselves out much longer than the 1918 flu
For what it's worth, only 1/4 of the toolchain (Red → Red/System compiler and Red/System → native compiler + loader/linker) depends on Rebol2, which in turn is 90% compatible with Red.
It's not that older engineers are worse at them (from an intelligence standpoint), it's that younger engineers have more time to study for them.

Take a standardized test like the LSAT. Young single people can spend 4-5 hours a day taking practice LSAT exams. Older married people with small children barely have 2 spare hours after work let alone 4 (without neglecting their spouse/kids).

Assuming both the older and younger devs in this scenario have identical IQs, who is likely to do better come LSAT test day? It's a war of time attrition.
Agreed with kasey_junk.

Also assuming you are sane and give every service/user/etc their own user account into the DB, your DB logging will easily show user X did action Y.

Databases these days scale very well. PostgreSQL, which is a great OSS database can scale very well out of the box on any single system, and the size of X86 boxes are getting pretty giant these days(not to mention other platforms). Plus there are loads of 3rd party, but well supported, options for scaling past a single instance.

There are other systems like FoundationDB, etc that scale well out of the box, but I'd argue most people don't actually need to scale that large, 99% of us will never get to Google size and one can get very far on a single DB instance. Especially for new projects, scaling should be near the bottom of your todo list, until it starts to hurt, and then the general answer is, just throw money at the problem, since if you are having scaling problems, you better not also be having money problems or you likely have larger problems than scaling your DB.
> (though admittedly I don't spend as much time on it as I should)

It's pretty much just a howto and link repository for myself and my friends right now. Still mostly a work in progress. Consider it as an example for look rather than for function.
Rebol2 was closed source, and is no longer maintained. Red has a non-restrictive license.
Every few years, we get the X will normalize WFH. I remember when oil prices skyrocketed a decade or so ago and the cost of travel was supposed to normalize WFH. Oil prices dropped and hence nothing.

Coronavirus will be forgotten about in a few weeks/months. People will move on. Especially with modern news cycle where a new catastrophe or controversy somewhere in the world will distract the public.
"we need to get over this idea that WFH is the best option for everyone"

This is a strawman that always appears in every remote work thread and it is always treated at face value: If anyone proposes that they can/should work from home, somehow will reply that everyone can't work from home. Then cue a procession of people giving their tale about how they don't like working from home.

No one is saying, or has ever said, that everyone should WFH. But somehow the notion that some people WFH is threatening to people that don't want to / don't approve of it, and it's always cast in this binary manner. It's a completely dishonest tactic that is boorish.
> He just came back from India with yet another arms deal.

Yes he did. No doubt about that. 3 Billion USD worth arms deal is definitely not the true potential of the Indo-US Strategic Defense Partnership though. It can be so much more! But it is a good start. It can be sped up if US can relax its norms in relation to transfer of technology.

The Rafale deal which India signed was a 7.87 Billion Euro deal [1]. India is going to modernize its defense capabilities this decade and this is the right time for the United States to relax its norms if it wants to be a major player. Especially with Make in India being given a thrust in Defense sector.

[1]: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/et-explains/rafale...
Sure, you can ride a bike. Now, tell me how you would transport groceries for a family of 4, or how you transport the kids to doctor's appointments, for instance. What about people who physically can't ride a bike? What if I'm coming from 15 miles away?
That site does a really poor job demonstrating what a Microformat is. There’s good descriptors but I was looking for an example or scenario to better elucidate their use...
I would say that with the rise of mobile, most gmail users are using the Gmail app or their native Mail app.
Corona really looking like the black swan event that ends this expansion. What a time.
Previous versions of GMail had a good experience but was significantly faster than the current version of gmail. Loading basic HTML mode can get you a previous version of it.
Based on rgbrenner's link oil and gas make up a little over a quarter of Alberta's GDP
Looks like it's also not entirely correct in what it wants to convey. If assumption is that having overall amount of cases under health care capability threshold lowers total amount of deaths then area of the second chart should be much smaller. Now they look approximately equal, which means overburden health care system or not, it didn't make a difference.
The sound that happens during sleep paralysis is a different phenomenon to this, this sound is a very short “shock” sort of sound.
The intent is for users to style it themselves.. or it was, until browsers stopped having that functionality.
Do you use something like kops for setting up and maintaining your cluster?

Most of my direct experience with Kubernetes has been on GKE, but I have been meaning to work through https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way to gain more appreciation for what is going on behind the scenes.
Yeah,

The thing is that Trump indeed seems to be following the standard corporate CEO script: "stop bad news by any means necessary, then sweep the rest under the carpet when the press isn't looking". But this doesn't quite for running an actual country /s/understatement.
>Says who? I understand that the underlying structures of the web are all about transferring documents and other resources. But Gmail showed us that web 'apps' are useful.

I have always thought Gmail wasn't really an App, and shouldn't / doesn't need to be an App. There are lots of so called Apps are nothing more than some documents with some interactivity. But people start using Javascript for everything. I hope Hey.com will prove this soon.
So where’s the lesson? What are we applauding?

If your position is that changing your mind about anything ever is a sin, then what use is a 'lesson' to you? You can't learn it.
On what frequency did that eDRAM worked?

If the effective freq was 100mhz, you being hit by cache misses will indeed be "only" 2-3 times less bad than as if you used memory round trip
I think people and small businesses are going to need a bailout, similar to the banks during the Great Recession. I wonder a) would the gov't do it and b) what will be the financial impact. W.r.t. (b), the banks were able to pay back the funds with interest. I don't expect that will be the case for individuals and small businesses.
Unfortunately many of the best jobs are in CA and other high tax states (additional income tax, sales tax, etc.) where it starts becoming much closer.

Also unclear if that link takes into account family transfers like the original link.
Because everyone who is working from home goes to Starbucks to get stuff done.
TIL a hypothetical example equates an accusation.
> I bet you, they also rather use their own private washrooms.

Underrated perk. I used to have to go down 6 floors and search for a nice, hidden restroom on a mostly female floor to be comfortable.
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That's for rutting damage, which doesn't necessarily translate linearly to particulate formation/flaking.
I can understand the car part (pounds per square inch) but why would a person's feet have more than 35 psi? If I have something like 60 (30 per) square inches of feet, and I weigh 180lbs, would that be 3 psi for my feet? Even if only parts of my feet were striking the ground at a time, how would that be more than a car?
They're saving for a rainy day.
The article seems to miss the concept of criticizing an idea without criticizing the individual. This approach is ineffective as a means of communication. It just looks like mud-slinging and it always comes off as a defense mechanism. Even when one is genuinely interested in addressing the issue this obscures that intent.

Edit: Also, thank you for posting the text. I came to the comments hoping this had been done.
IIRC Ghawar has a production cost of something ridiculously low like $7.50 per barrel
Proper etiquette is to report a potential vulnerability through the appropriate channels, give them sufficient heads-up that you will publish your findings and then go ahead and do a write up.

Ideally, your startup is related somehow so you can take this opportunity to get people curious enough to check it out and drive some traffic.

I always like a good story about how people find new vulnerabilities and if it's written well would definitely read it and probably click through to your startup.

Your efforts are much better spent on your startup than trying to find short term hacks.

Also, I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.
Beat me to it. If this gets bad there's going to be a global recession and associated political unrest on top of the actual toll of the pandemic.
this is a amazing! I'm working on a flight controller and vertical stability system for a high power model rocket and it's so freaking hard. You have to be an expert fabricator, electrical engineer, controls engineer, and software engineer. You also have to have the drive and dedication to get it done. It makes the webdev I get paid to do seem so trivial.
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Had. And then floated away down the stream, never to be seen again, at least not with 128MB.
Global Economy Is Gripped by Rare Twin Supply-Demand Shock
> From there, it’s only a few more levels of difficulty to unlock international talent at 1/4 of the price.

You say that like outsourcing engineers is a new thing. This has been happening for as long as tech has been a cost center and will continue to happen until U.S. salaries are commensurate with the rest of the world, I don't see why this virus will accelerate the trend any further.
Related: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/03/03/w...
I have a trading bot that consolidates a lot of price information in order to make decisions. I'm currently using Redis due to data structures (lists and scores) and Pub/Sub.

I wonder if memcached would give me performance benefits and lower my CPU costs.
wow, didn't know that!

So parenthesis are the trick, thanks!
Seattle's lucky to have a benefactor, though it may highlight yet again the stark differences between the have's (in this case a rich tech companies) and have not's - everyone else.
hmmm, redis is a high profile open source project and sits in a pretty interesting spot in the world of software architecture. I'm sure lots of developers would love the opportunity to be paid $220k/year to contribute to redis. Not everyone of course, but it really doesn't sound like a bad gig.
> I still have to explain to people why ITIL doesnt work with Agile DevOps ever since I left

Do you have any interesting reading on this subject? I'd like to get some material for my heavily ITIL-aligned shop.
Yes the commute is incredibly draining
prima facie this is good for businesses which rely on oil (airlines, etc) but most of the big companies hedge the price risk (both up and down) via futures contracts, so the price cuts are not likely to help any major businesses in the short-term. feels like red for the foreseeable future...
HN like FB suffers from the same thing... we basically like a good story regardless of the truth behind it. Even facts have become opinionated.