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a recession is happening, let's hope it doesn't turn into a depression
While GitHub has a clear advantage in terms of discoverability, if push comes to shove I think this could change fairly quickly.

Language package repositories (npmjs.com, crates.io, etc.) or documentation hosting sites (docs.rs) tend to rank pretty well on Google, generally about the same as GitHub. For me personally a lot of project discovery also happens via either Reddit or HN.

It's still a pretty big barrier for contributions, but at least discovery seems to be decently decentralized.
There aren't a heckuva lot of dirigibles in the world. There aren't a heckuva lot of Viking style rowed ships, though they had a brilliant design compatible with both ocean travel and river travel.

Things change. New things often don't show up until the old thing has died.

The world existed for a long time before we had airlines. It won't cease to exist if many of them go out business.

I haven't flown in years. Lots of people would like to see people stop flying because it's hard on the environment.

This is potentially an opportunity to see something better rise from the ashes of a suddenly dying civilization that the world has long decried as unsustainable anyway.
Yeah I'm not sure if OP knows what he's talking about. None of those other things are correcting... ONLY the asset market.
Yes, but perhaps now is the time, given the circumstances.
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I sometimes drive a 3500 chevy van around that's as high as a pickup truck. Most of the vehicles which blind even me aren't trucks but modern cars with HID high beams on or aftermarket headlamps. And I even think its a thing to just drive around with HID high beams because fuck everyone else on the road. And most of those blinding cars seem to be owned by tuner knuckleheads and car culture wanna be's. Usually a modified BMW, VW, Merc or similar.

Of course I live in NYC and work out in Suffolk county on Long Island. So the type of vehicle blinding you varies by region and its local knuckle dragging car culture.
You're absolutely right. We (EU+US) will be lucky to get over it with less than 30% GDP loss.
Mostly because the schmuckery that got us out last time doesn't appear to work this time.
I'm surprised there's not a single mention of "Microsoft" in this or the npm announcement [1], given the old-evil-history of Microsoft and the new-nice Microsoft we have today.

I would expect that there was at least a mention, considering the reason that most modules in npm are still in ES5 is exactly because of the monopolistic practices that Microsoft followed back in the day which makes Internet Explorer still relevant.

Not negative, not positive comment. Just surprising there was no mention. And I do think Microsoft is doing a great job recently with Open Source in general.

[1] https://blog.npmjs.org/post/612764866888007680/next-phase-mo...
Oh dear, Remember the ridiculous 2020 predictions made by several soothsayers? It appears my so called 'machine learning crystal ball' was to some extent correct over this. Not that it was caused by coronavirus, but eventually in 2020 a crash will come. [0]

The next phase of this Act will claim all those profitless companies with high costs and burn rate who will soon collapse.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21926473
Interesting subtle implications that the NPM paying users are going to be moved to Github's distribution system, while maintaining the OSS version of NPM for everyone else.
Personal prediction: California will continue to follow the GDPR up until the point it threatens Google's core business, at which point someone will pull the legislature and the governor aside and have a frank conversation about the state GDP tradeoffs of constraining the R&D of their major technical companies.
Oops. So NPM will go down, soon.

I just finished reading this related HN post
"How GitHub blocked me (and all my libraries)"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22593595
> Part of the point of open source is that you're not beholden to any individual contributor.

I am skeptical of this being the case with Google's idea of "open source"; does anyone other than Google actually have any material say in any of its projects? Or is it like Apple's open source: code dumps with no path to upstream?
no, this is microsoft "embracing" (buying control of) a huge point of centralization in a software distribution ecosystem, positioning them to have greater power over a huge number of developers.
I'll be fascinated to see which airlines make it out of this alive (with and without a bailout) and the long term repercussions. Seems like the cheapo airlines will probably go under relatively quickly because they're on razor thin margins but even United and anyone with global route exposure is going to get hurt really badly by this.
It's a straw and camel argument. Realistically we were due for a correction. But the current 20%+ fall wasn't on anyone's menu.

FWIW: I think the much bigger long-term risk to this wikipedia article's framing is that the crash almost certainly isn't over. We have months of VERY bad economic news in the future still. Realistically the recovery won't even start for real until either the virus runs its course over the population or a vaccine is widely available. Both of those are going to take a year or more.

(Well, it's possible to get the virus to go faster of course. We don't want that.)
This is an unpopular opinion on HN, but government overreaction caused the crash.

Rather than having at-risk people self-quarantine for a month, with government financial assistance of course, while the rest of us build up antibody resistance, we collectively lost our shit and decided all people needed to self-quarantine for months -- just delaying the inevitable.

It's actually quite easy to self-quarantine everyone over 70, since they're receiving government assistance anyway (Social Security). But now there are already thousands of job losses from young, healthy, productive people that have almost zero chance of dying from this disease.

The UK will be mostly done with Covid-19 in two months, with much less dire economic consequences -- and the US will still be playing whack a mole and killing the economy with healthy 25 year-olds holed up in their apartment.
Number 3 will not create inflation. Not in all cases and not in our current environment. That is a myth pushed by the banks in order to keep the current system in place.

Debt spends the same as money. We have already had the inflation, paid for with debt. Now the debt system is becoming unstable and will lead to deflation unless we put non-debt spending power in the average persons hands.

Read Keen's site, he explains the situation:

http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/manifesto/

Most economists view debt as a wash. "We owe it to ourselves." But, at Keen demonstrates, that isn't the case. We need a debt jubilee if we want the economy to function properly again, and he, alone and mocked by any mainstream economist who actually paid attention to him, came up with a modern, fair way to do it.
I live in Virginia, and we have annual vehicle inspections. Yes, headlights are among the test-points. It doesn't help; tons of vehicles have poorly-aimed headlights. Doing vehicle testing for $16 doesn't actually help anything when the testing places don't bother to test anything except that the lights all turn on. What incentive do independent garages have to do the tests thoroughly, instead of doing a quick half-assed test to get it done and maybe make some money if there's a burned-out signal marker bulb?
Is there any for-profit company that doesn't think that their competitors are "evil" and should receive huge fines from regulators?
It does have a bit of a 'value add' feel to it.

But, you know, we've had decades of companies whose 'business model' is just their exit strategy...
Ok, so there are two parts of the work rich enough to support advertising companies. They are the US and Europe.

It's super implausible that Google will pull out of Europe (the EU at least), because they are forced to implement the laws.

It's as likely as them pulling out of the US because they are forced to refuse to deal with countries under US sanctions.
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You can have as many nines of reduction as you want; they are all worthless the moment the social graph reconnects. I'm skeptical that "life-as-usual" is a serious possibility.
Cloudflare itself will host a cached version (plus a little Cloudflare-injected banner at the top) in this situation, but not apparently not all of the time reliably. It has worked for us in other "520" error situations.
The problem with those kinds of glasses is that they still reduce the amount of light. If someone doesn't have their headlights on, you are much less likely to see them with the blue-light filter glasses.
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I've been going back and forth on this for a week. On one hand we've been clearly headed towards a Minsky Moment / Big Debt Crisis for years. On the other hand, the impact of COVID-19 on the real economy is unprecedented. A sudden, global halting of all in-person social interaction??? Wow.
I think that part of the problem is to define data structures in a way that can be produced and consumed in multiple languages, algebraic data types are a good "least common denominator" for this.

Also w.r.t. reinventing the schema for databases, I have got a lot of mileage out of deriving the schema from code. Shameless plug, I have this little project (https://github.com/Morgan-Stanley/hobbes/) where we have a self-contained header-only library to push structured data out of process with minimal latency, query data concurrently with a Haskell-like PL. It works well for our kinds of systems (millions of orders per day, ~1 billion market data ticks, structured log data from multiple systems involved, ...).
Honeywell to start making masks in RI for Covid-19, White House official says
Why Microsoft Teams is a big deal (2017)
The history of this crash starts in 2008.
Right, tax credit then.
I don't see any problem with syntax not allowed by the standard being a breach of the standard.
There's also the likes of console-flat-table-viewer . One would have to convert the comma-separated stuff into one of the table types, but that's what Miller is for. (-:

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/console-flat-...

* http://johnkerl.org/miller/
I dunno who this we is. I can't afford a Tesla.
We should all be supplementing with vitamin D
Am I weird for thinking it didn't need to go anywhere?
Wait until there are mass defaults because of the loss of income.
There is way higher number of situation where US Americans need to have 1000$ ready.
Leave history to the historians!

We understand nuance from the past. For example we understand that the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand didn't cause WW1, even if it directly led to it.

Why worry that future historians won't understand such nuance from the present?
The biggest bang for the buck for me has been using functional techniques where immutability is perhaps the most important thing. A good way to get started is to make a project with react/redux.
In Massachusetts, everything is either illegal, or requires a license.
"Github is acquiring npm" then. "NPM is joining Github" sounds like you're just using Github to host your stuff.
I've been considering a motorized "chrome mudflap", guided by some OpenCV blob tracking.

Purely passive, but if they're close enough for it to reflect their glare back at them, it'll do so with devastating accuracy.

Yosemite Sam "BACK OFF" decoration optional.
So one third of the remaining flights won’t have a pilot?
Yes but I assume you don't have a bunch of individuals who are about to have their lives ruined, potentially becoming homeless. The country as a whole bears the weight of the crisis, no?
Exactly. I assumed this crash wouldn't happen until after the election but now we will have a double whammy to deal with. I hope this bubble truly pops so we can reset to a sustainable economy.
I think this is silly. The idea behind this is to induce demand, but there isn't a lack of demand due to lack of purchasing power. People aren't spending because they aren't leaving the house. (which, in the case of a pandemic, is a thing to be encouraged)

I sincerely doubt that giving everyone a thousand bucks will save the restaurants and bars and movie theaters and retailers and cruise ships and hotels and airlines etc...
I don't think 15 days is a good number for infection to diagnosis, though obviously it depends on how rapidly we can accurately diagnose cases. (In the subsection of the population without access to healthcare, it's a divide by zero error). I'm not qualified enough to provide an estimate myself, but happy to link to an authoritative review: https://www.uptodate.com/contents/coronavirus-disease-2019-c... (see "Incubation period" for input on what you're looking for)
Strictly speaking, the Space Cadet keyboard was JLK's creation (John L Kulp, who ran the MIT Plasma Labs computing facilities, and who went on to help found Symbolics when they split off from the AI Lab).

I had a Space Cadet on my desk in the EECS department along with a Plasma TV system monitor.

Had fun times hacking the PDP-11 software driving the Plasma TV system.
If anyone is so inclined, I would encourage you to do a web search for "how to make seed bombs".

Essentially a ball of clay, seeds, and a small quantity of organic matter to facilitate distribution of seeds and reduce bird predation.

Please, please research native species if you decide to go this route.
Microsoft turned their reputation around in recent years with developers but I wonder how long it will last.
If it is anything like 2008, you are right. Bear Sterns collapsed in March 2008, which at the time felt like rock bottom, but it got much worse by the fall.
I search for libraries or programs with Google. While lots of software hosted in Github because it's convenient, it does not really matter as long as Google is functional.

I have no idea why would I search on Github exclusively. That's sounds too limiting.
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You're trying to convince people who are sick not to work. Nearly everyone who is sick this month won't be sick next month.
Sure, but if the database is compromised, the attacker will have the server's private key. They can still bruteforce passwords, except against SRP's less battle-tested hashing algorithm.

It's simply a lot more complexity for essentially no benefit. You now need to trust both the code on the server _and_ on the client to do the steps properly. Sending a password over HTTPS and hashing it is much easier for a developer to implement. There's definitely room for the password to accidentally be logged, but the same applies to SRP's password verifier, or the client's secret key, et cetera.

And if this is in the browser, then there's the issue of figuring out where to get an adequate amount of entropy on the client when generating the private key, or finding a polyfill to ensure keys are generated properly across browsers, or making sure you sandbox the code so that any third-party scripts can't access it. The general consensus is to avoid doing any crypto in the browser. These are just a few of the many reasons why people don't hash passwords on the client-side before sending them to the server.
"Microsoft acquires npm"
Any form of entertainment is going to feel empty eventually and then you're right back at square one.

A universal jobs program makes more sense as a form of containment; it needn't even be particularly onerous.
The same is true for Flutter also, since the desktop support for both MacOS, Windows & Linux is available in the master channel at the moment.

Actually I prefer this future instead of a JS dominated world.
> They are the US and Europe

... and China.

And the refusal of the ability to deal with countries under US sanctions doesn't strike at the core of Google's R&D techniques and resources.
That's actually the recommended[1] way to adjust the side mirrors.

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.dot.gov/files/blindzonegla...
Per capita / adjusted by population numbers would be great, thanks. :)
Predictions so far:

- "to me it seems like it's a way of abstracting all the different infrastructure tooling that a large-scale company has."

- "It looks like an onboarding tool, monitoring, and knowledge database."

- "So it's a frontend to put in front of your existing frontends so developers can infrastructure the infrastructure?"

- "Seems like a developer-oriented version of Confluence, if I'm reading it correctly, but I'm also a bit unsure."

- "Seems like a competitor for Datadog and other monitoring tools to me."

That message really couldn't be more unclear.
And ESR warned us of that. Although I can understand that signal getting lost in the noise that is ESR's writing, unfortunately.
People lost their jobs and therefore their income, so there was a material loss in demand.
You shouldn't really see your car or the car behind you in your side views. Your side views are for seeing the other lanes. You should turn your mirrors just far enough that you can't see your car at all in any of your normal sitting up position, for both mirrors.
There should probably be a sense in which it is criminally negligent to run a business of this size in such a way that a ~6 week period of market crash behavior can imply a need to to layoff 90% of staff.

I understand businesses have to make tough choices, but this seems like egregiously irresponsible planning, akin to using every paycheck for exorbitant luxury while figuring you can use a credit card for necessities and coast on some equilibrium of credit card payments.

It’s ridiculous for large corporations like this to not have sufficient reserves to ride it out for lengthy periods of time while disallowing “lay everyone off” from being a side effect.
Saying that covid-19 caused the crash is like saying that the assassination of the archduke caused WW1. The accuracy of these kinds of statements depends on how you define "causation". If you follow this down, it turns into a deep philosophical question.

Also, consider that there are always people (especially on HN) predicting stock market crashes. I'm not sure it makes sense to ascribe the ability to predict the market to people who happened to be right.
I estimate that it's quite risky to follow that strategy. If you allow the virus to spread uncontrolled among younger people, who is to say that the then smaller fraction of serious cases doesn't still overwhelm the health system? There are rare cases where perfectly healthy people are in need of hospitalization.
thanks, i may need to stop opining and start actually mending one of these days!
The road rage isn't that likely, because we're talking about two vehicles going opposite directions. Depending on the road (such as a median-separated highway), it can be very difficult to impossible for an angry driver to turn around and come after the person who beamed them.

Personally, when I see people beaming me on the other side of the road in a rural area, and I'm sure it isn't just overly-bright factory lights, I flip my high beams on and leave them on until they turn theirs off. I see way too many people on rural roads driving around with their brights on because they just don't care about other drivers, and prefer to leave them on. This isn't such an issue in cities.

I've really gotten to the point where I absolutely hate driving at night, especially in rural places or highways.
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> We understand nuance from the past.

Do we? We don't always have all the information…
I'm not liking the consolidation. Never ends well, ever. Not even in one case in the history of humanity.

I'll be switching from Github to other providers for my own projects, and use a different editor soon (using vscode now).
Similar here (also untested because my government has a policy of not testing non-hospitalised cases, but none of the symptoms [or absence of symptoms] feels like other respiratory infections I've had before)

Symptoms somewhat similar to yours; I'm also the same age. No proper fever [some of my sleep is the slightly fitful sleep I'd associate with fighting off mild infections, but my temperature is normal or very close], I've coughed only a literal handful of times and not painfully, so clearly sufficiently mild to miss those characteristic responses, no headache and only occasional feelings of fatigue and a bit more sleep than usual. Just inflamed lungs which are more uncomfortable than painful. Back when I felt completely healthy last Wednesday and went for a 3k outdoor run (no more uncomfortable or slower than I'd have expected considering I haven't run much this year) I obviously felt like I was breathing a bit too shallowly and breathing deoxygenated air. This is basically that same feeling coming back the following day, except with a normal breathing rate [and heart rate]. I can still take a deeper breath whenever I want and I'm far from worrying I'm about to run out of oxygen, but just feels uncomfortable and I can imagine how it can cause much more serious problems for people with more severe symptoms, pre-existing lung conditions or immune system issues. It's been steady for most of this period.

I appear to be one of the lucky ones. Expect to make a full recovery, able to work from home and if the run helped accelerate symptoms showing then I'm quite glad it saved me from passing it on to other people.
Gotta respect how Microsoft couldn't build anything the open source community wanted to work with/on so instead they used their Windows and Office monopoly to buy everyone's favorite playgrounds.
Forget about just global routes, all or nearly all routes might be grounded soon enough. It would be the sensible thing to do.
Thank god. NPM is so crappy it desperately needs institutional support.
Or may be Github geodata bugged and registered him in Crimea. May be your US provider will buy IP block which was used in Crimea yesterday and you'll get banned for the same reason. Fascinating.
Airlines Slash Costs, Seek Cash as Virus Saps Demand
Yes and no. As we've seen with empty or mostly empty flights to keep an airline's spot at the gate, airports are a finite resource. If airlines go bankrupt, you're likely to see consolidation exacerbated by a barrier to entry, absent regulation and/or antitrust enforcement.
A retractable mirror in your back window (inside the vehicle) would also do the trick. Deploy it to both shield you and send the light back to the vehicle behind you.
People like to sit up higher so that they can see over the other people who like to sit up higher, recursively.

People like to have a heavy vehicle so that they feel less at risk in a crash with other people who like to have heavy vehicles for the same reason, recursively.

The base cases are more mysterious.
The problem with the airlines is that pretty much everyone has been bitten by them one way or another(unexpected fees, unreasonable policies, etc..) so it will be difficult to get any sympathy from the public.
The doubling time of deaths appears to be much slower than the doubling time of confirmed cases, and is probably a better comparison. It could be slightly faster than reports, if deaths are getting missed, or misattributed to other illnesses. But it still seems more accurate than judging the doubling time of confirmed cases, which is more just a measure of how quickly we are able to increase testing when there's a backlog of "actual cases".
We have those here too. They aren't very effective. https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/images/photos/accident/graphi...