skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More importantly we have figured out algorithms for time that account for timezone, daylight savings time, different calendar systems, and probably something else I'm not aware of. These all work by counting seconds since a fixed date.

Note that the algorithms were known since at least the late 1960s. Storage space even then shouldn't have been enough of a concern. However people still screw it up all the time.
The down voting has begun! @dang, I wonder if this is something you can address somehow?!
The death rate is likely to vary depending on the strain and on the ability to treat effectively, both of which may change over time.
I'm 26. In the last week, I've shifted my financial focus from paying off debts as fast as possible to making the minimum payments and buying capital.

This whole thing might stop the FIRE blogs from being as popular, but those who have truly internalized the teachings of those blogs will see this as an opportunity to buy capital cheaply and make good long-term(20+ year) returns.
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This reminds me of a podcast I listened to recently about creativity. Maybe its not about the idiomatic question of whether classes are good or bad but more about the act of placing the limitation that helps drive the masterpiece?

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/719557642
> I'm assuming he's talking about toilet soap, not liquid soap.

... what's toilet soap and how does it differ from liquid soap?
Let's try to pick some of your claims.

Let's start with Global Cooling. Although popularized by the media, this theory was very fringe and not accepted scientific consensus. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling)

The glaciers in Glacier National Park; they are melting. And melting fast (https://www.nps.gov/glac/learn/nature/climate-change.htm)

The polar ice caps are melting. We've had a 11% reduction in are in about 20 years. (https://i1.wp.com/ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/plots/icecover/osisaf_...)

If we continue like that, widespread famine and destruction are just around the corner. We're currently running into that, head first, full speed ahead.
if the market bounces back my RSUs goes back and I'm back to where I was. I don't plan on harvesting my put profits, I'm secretly hoping I lose it all.
You'd be surprised. I can imagine they've got a bit of link submission karma, which allows them to downvote.

For what it's worth, I'm upvoting you!
There was a related story here on HN recently. A system was assuming a 101-year-old was actually only 1 year old, presumably because of 2 digit arithmetic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22356373
> it refers to the immoral fabrications and contextual transformations needed to maintain mass discontent with one individual person.

It's a bit amazing to me that we live in the same reality.

I can listen to Trump speak for perhaps 30 seconds because it's transparently in some new way that he is malignantly narcissistic, corrupt, and proudly uninformed about every subject he opines about. No "fake news" needed.
Tell it to the investors in the Russian stock exchange before 1914. Once you’re investments drop to zero they don’t go up again.
Virus behave like life in some ways. They're made out of the building blocks of life, and are indeed subject to evolution. But they don't absorb nutrients and don't reproduce themselves. They are created by the cells they infect.

But it's a thin line, and it depends on which definition you want to use.
That certainly helps.
This is a great reply. If you don’t use classes to define behavior for objects that manage their own state, there’s no point in using OOP.
Same with Google Glass. Failed as a consumer product, but companies used it and Google has now relaunched it as a product aimed at business users: https://www.google.com/glass/start/
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I assume the first sentence in your comment describes the rest of it?
> $500 Automatic Tissot: after a couple of years, it couldn't keep time (it added minutes in a period of a week).

Sounds like it got magnetized (https://wornandwound.com/watches-and-magnetization/), which can happen quite easily. For instance, the magnetic closure of Mac laptops did that to one of my watches, from resting my wrist next to the touchpad.

The good news is it's easy to fix with an ~$10 watch demagnetizer.
did you miss the second part of my sentence?
Working from Home During a Global Pandemic Bingo
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> Also native apps don't have ads (afaik, never saw one except windows 10's shell but then I use 99% libre software), and I can stay at version 1.5 of the native app if it works better for me while this is impossible with web apps.

Not much of an Android user, I gather.

By the way, recent versions of Android allow apps to self update.
Well ya, of course, many that we care about and/or innocent in that group.

But among the young we will see a lot of, "I'm pretty stoned, working a double shift and got the sniffles. Did I remember to wipe that pan? Ahhh fuck the boomers!"

This isn't a clear-thinking kind of situation.
I use C structs in the same way. I think it's fine to use classes for this purpose. The problem with classes is that certain people go crazy with inheritance and polymorphism, things which sound smart on paper but almost always lead to horrific unmaintainable code in practice.
Interesting link. I wonder how that actually went down, since Jupiter and the other gas giants have relatively circular orbits. Is it just the gravity exchange of all the planets together? Quite difficult maneuver to just adjust your orbit height I would think.
Not only were custom types invented decades before classes, but the languages with the strongest emphasis on type safety tend to either lack them or consider them to be unidiomatic.
The total return (including dividend payments) of Nikkei 225 between 1989-2019 is around -20%.

I don't know any handy English source for it, but I can tell you that this is the correct number.

Note: It's called "Nikkei 225 total return index" (N225TR). AFAIK the monthly numbers since 1979 are available from Nikkei Inc.
In VoiceOver on a Mac, one way I know is to press VO-U to open the Web Rotor then use the left-right arrow keys to navigate through the options, one will list landmarks if they are present on the page.

I don't recall how to call up the Web Rotor on iOS devices.
Ah, yeah, that's fair. I'll forward this feedback onto the team.

The option is documented in our config docs, though, and also appears in the config editor's autocomplete in the app if you type `telemetry`, though, so it's not really a secret https://docs.sourcegraph.com/admin/config/site_config#disabl...
And as always, first thing a classless society does is to find a way to emulate classes.
Within a short period my work BFF got RIF'd, my job transitioned from +/- 2 office days per week to permanent WFH, and I split with my wife and she took most of "our" social group with her.

As introverted as I am, the sudden and extreme social isolation hit me hard. Then I coped by just making myself get out of the house and being more receptive to random social interactions at stores and whatnot. Made myself pick an interesting meetup to attend every week or so.

Now, with the whole point being to isolate ourselves, I don't know what I'd do if I were still living alone. Group chats and videoconferencing really aren't a substitute for in-person human interaction.
Can you explain what is the "Shiller P/E" , and why it matters?
Underwrites and actuaries are two different things. Actuaries can generally make a lot (or not, depending on where they look). Underwriters make ok, mid-level office worker money, think 45k-75k, or more if they live somewhere expensive. You can get paid more by working for a broker instead of an actual insurance company.
I don't know if I'd call that blatantly partisan. Stupid, perhaps, or a hamfisted attempt to prevent panics and economic crashes, but it's not especially political.
It seems that if you want your app to be available on the KaiOS app store, your app must have ads, and must use KaiOS' platform for those ads:

"Currently, we are prioritizing apps for QA that use KaiAds for monetization. Visit the KaiAds website to learn more.

After you have integrated KaiAds, go through this checklist."
Even if employers were happy to pay the wages, most small employers aren't going to be able to keep going when incoming cashflow goes to zero

I assume the U.S. government will be pumping money directly into the hands of small businesses and employees.
Yes, but options trading is not for the average trader/faint of heart. You can easily lose your entire position if not timed correctly.
Imo they dont have much more to offer currently, its just marketing. Some people will have positive experiences with their products but the hardware is just rebranded. They have potential to be more which could develop but I've had poor experience with them, so I won't work with them anymore, though I'm still rooting for them to improve.
Theory: Do you expect there's a risk you're going to need to money you put in crypto soon? If yes, would you rather turn it to cash now, or after the price has fallen further?
There could easily be much more going on here than you acquiescing to your "brain is just not wired for software development" or "you don’t know the basics about the stack you’re working with." Frankly, we would need more information to know.

But in the absence of such, let me read between the lines and infer that you've been in a continual state of stress for the past five years you mention. Stress will kill you. Elevated cortisol and adrenaline levels, over a prolonged period, will seriously mess you up. It will lead to adrenal fatigue, which affects memory and cognition, etc.

There's not a dev alive who can perform well like that, because you're not physically digging ditches or laying pipe, you're performing mental work; the hardest type of work there is.

Now, if you doubt yourself, stop. You know what you can do. And if you don't know, make the time time now to persuade yourself. This is something you can control. Same for the stress. It's an internal reaction to external events or internal thoughts, for the most part. You don't have to react. The pressure you're feeling is imagined, because it's in your head.

It's the result of limitations you put on yourself to produce outcomes you don't control. When you focus on the outcome, you begin to expect things out of your control and that sets you up for failure. But the truth is, you can't control the outcome. You can only control your attitude, your mindset and your actions. And once you're content with that, you'll feel much better not trying to manage things external to you. Those things include what others think about you personally, how they may assess your skills or job performance, and what they expect you to produce. All of that is out of. Your. Control.

Software engineering has little to do with memory (how to call that JS map function) and much more to do with thinking logically (applying the appropriate function, framework, library or language, in a methodical series of steps, to the solve the problem at hand). As I've mentioned, nobody is expected to think logically under continual duress.

If you're truly not adept at software engineering, that's perfectly okay to admit to yourself and others. But none of that means you cannot begin to be a proficient software dev, given the opportunity and desire. You'll have to tackle the stress first. YMMV.
I don’t think the investors on the Shanghai stock exchange on 1939 would agree. Nor would anyone invested in any company between Germany and the Soviet Union at that time.
Washing your hands with bleach is not very convenient.
>But if their function is "professor at university X", my gut feeling tells me that they might like the public attention a tad too much.

This is a very interesting perspective, which is very different from my own. Being in the US, my attitude is that officials are usually chosen based on criteria other than their skills in the domain they are administrating, and I would expect the best knowledge on any subject to be found among low-level people who deal with it professionally. I am also suspicious that officials might prioritize maintaining public order over disseminating true information, which caused many unnecessary deaths during the Spanish Flu.

>I would prefer to not get these from some journalist writing his tenth article today.

That's true enough. But I would rather have information from front-line experts than administrative officials.
Riighhttt, but you missed the part where they aren’t repairable for a reason.

If you want your iPhone to be the size of an old bag phone then it can probably be repairable by any idiot with a screwdriver and soldering iron. If you want to keep it the size of something that fits in your pocket, that’s just not going to happen unless you’re fine with it doing the exact same things as a phone from 20 years ago did. I don’t think you’d be willing to pay $1200 for a smart phone that only makes calls just because you could replace every part in it.
I think that's the case with bacteria, and maybe viruses that are put together in a different way. But from what I understand, these particular viruses are particularly vulnerable to soap.
What OP is saying is that the current price reflects the average investors best guess at how bad it's going to get. If some more people start thinking it's going to get worse they will sell and that statement will (essentially be) instantaneously true again.
In my highschool biology class (that makes me an expert... right? :) ) The definition of life included self replication and, IIRC, having some sort of metabolism. The reason my biology book classified viruses as not alive is simply because they are incapable of self replication and they don't really have a metabolism to speak of (Old viruses are still infectious).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap
This is a crash, not really a bear market, it's happening too fast.

This is what a bear market looks like:

https://www.macrotrends.net/2593/nikkei-225-index-historical...

NB: The graph is log scale, uncheck that to see what the fun looks like on a day-to-day/month-to-month basis.

Until we prioritize dividends over capital gains in the tax code, we can expect these massive swings due to investor sentiment and liquidity. As I have said elsewhere: make dividends deductible to the company (akin to LLCs) and tax capital gains at a windfall rate. Watch how fast the financial world sobers up.
Perception is reality, so goes the Old Line.

It's certainly true an absurd amount of resources went into 'fixing' the problem.

Apply to this to any crisis du jour-- drugs/terrorism/climate/viruses etc...

Never let a Good Crisis go to waste.
Is that even true? In the end it’s all the same code. You can write classes that need a lot of context but the same can happen with functions.
The felony bar gets lower and lower: it’s not hard to get anymore.
When's the lowest point? I did some rough fits with some stupidly simply logistic function:

http://s9w.io/corona_2020-03-12.png

US point of highest increase according to this is in "2.6" days with a standard deviation of 0.76.
It is basically defined by distance to the sun since it has ~99.8 of all mass of the solar system, so the change of Jupiters orbit would have a large effect (edit: for Jupiter).
I’m perfectly fine with our mishmash. The US has a strong economy, smart people and smart solutions will emerge.
It sounds like it.

> As we move into manufacturing laptops, the factory will provide an ideal environment for research and development. We now have the resources to create more accurate prototypes in-house to get an up close look at various materials, chassis builds, keyboards, and more, empowering us to create a computer fit for the incredible creators, makers, and builders of the world.
I'm in favor of any solution that even so much as attempts to price-in externalities into the market. Examples are carbon taxes and tariffs.

Now what's your solution that doesn't tread on my individual liberty?
Android and UWP do support "app" in the "store", though.
In Kotlin classes and methods are closed by default, making avoiding inheritance and polymorphism the default. It also makes you mark each variable as mutable or immutable, by declaring it with a var or val, making you think more about (and enforce) state being mutable or immutable, thus avoiding a lot of state problems. It also has a concept called data classes, which works really well for most well designed classes. I now consider the case where a class is not a good candidate for data classes to be a code smell. Most classes should be a good candidate for data classes or else you are usually using classes in a way that causes more problems than it solves.

The thing is, it doesn't prevent you from creating classes or methods that are open for inheritance, nor does it prevent you from allowing mutable state, but it does use the defaults and the language design to encourage limitations that are usually good.

Perhaps they could take these concepts a step further by making classes data classes by default, having a keyword for it to not be a data class.
They're like memes, I suppose. Cannot live on their own, but replicate like mad when the circumstances are right.
This is absolutely crazy in a good way.

And if you let me paraphrase a bit:

Your developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
Certainly not cheap...
30 year fixed at 2k / month, 3bed 2bath in Berkeley. I plan to continue paying 2k / month for the next 22 years there's no point paying it off early. Like I said originally, the puts are there to make sure that if market dips I make enough to pay off my mortgage, so any money above 2k / month is extra for me (minus personal expenses).
Honestly, that is always the mentality of the market. Its going up with no top in sight! The next day its going down with no bottom in sight!

Except that bottoms have more natural barriers than tops.
Venus still rotates. It rotates on it's axis very slowly, every 243 earth days, and goes around the sun every 224 earth days. Its direction of rotation is opposite ours, so when combined with the orbit you get a sunrise every 117 earth days.

Mercury is weird. It is tidally locked, but not like our moon. Mercury rotates around its axis three times for every two orbits. (Which I just learned while writing this comment because as a child my books told me it had a permanent sunward side.)
All good points. I wanted to echo your suggestions on taking breaks. I think WFH can easily cause one to think that they must be active and immediately available at all times to avoid any presumption of loafing. If you feel this way, remind yourself that you're not a robot. You're human and your body and your mind both need periodic breaks from the keyboard and monitor. It's good for you and also good for your employer.
I wonder why Slack hasn't at least done discount rates for large memberships, or a cheap version that just gives chat access. It supports a big group very well, but a group of curious strangers meeting online is going to be obscenely expensive.
Oh this is cool, it wasn't this one from what I recall (which isn't a lot).

The main things I remember are; it was an FPS, it was indoors/enclosed, the lighting was bad so it was really hard to tell where walls/corners were and it was very, very red.

The controller was sort of ring/oval shaped, I remember basically nothing about the headset other than that it was tethered.
It looks like a great cover up, which will be used if/when origins of virus will be traced back to RF. Such behavior is typical for RF. IMHO, it's better to watch actions of RF government and army. AFAIK, they already agitated some desperate Chinese, which lost someone they love, to spread virus at Evil West. They have plans to spread virus within Ukraine, as reported by Ukrainian intelligence agency. It looks like they have no fear of this virus and plan to use this situation for their advantage.
It's the same problem EBay had 20 years ago.

User growth is always a KPI that people care about, so there's a bias to not get aggressive about purging fake accounts. Being aggressive will also flag unsophisticated real people as well.
I'm downvoting you, to be able to follow your advice.
Agree completely. I completely understand, and even appreciate, the utility of a numpad, but I can't deal with the offset keyboard that comes as a result.

Even on desktops, numpads bother me.
> washing hands at home is a bit of a struggle because the sink is so high

Buy a stool for crying out loud, they're like $10
Thank you for ripgrep! I will mention it in that thread too but I'm AFK so before I forget...

I'm imagining a "drill down" TUI with rg and fzf. fzf can be good for both filenames and other filter-downs. Thinking of breadcrumbs and easily stepping forward or backward, ability to easily bookmark/"pin" parts of search paths as presets for easy reuse later, etc.

EDIT: I recognize this would be outside of the scope of rg itself, I'm voicing it in case it sparks ideas about the functionality you're thinking of adding. I'll think more about it and see if I can explain better
My understanding is that only the storage layer should care about that, and only if it's a relational store. The concept of looking things up by "id" will obviously make it to the application layer but the application layer "id" isn't directly linked to the PK column of a particular SQL table, even if it's going to be the most common use case.
It is stated quite explicitly in the article: "Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place."

It follows that you can't remove a fence if you cant figure out why it was created in the first place.
This is the closer to what I imagined the Dip from "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell" would be that I have encountered so far - maybe I'm miss remembering and it was not a software at all but I have been looking for some kind of hub like this since I read that book. So glad I checked this link. Thanks for making it!
You're reading too quickly! :)

GGP wants numpads, GP wants no numpads.

Edit: Nope, I'm the one reading too quickly, oops.
It was a miss opportunity not to call the article "I'm Classless" or "Class is cancelled"
I don't think you're wrong here. Remote itself does unlock advantages that aren't accessible to colocated companies (e.g. hiring anywhere), but one of the primary things that remote-practices unlock are surrounding communication.

Organizations approaching remote have a helpful speedbump that encourages them to take an intentional look at the way they disseminate information. Being fully remote is an accountability structure that helps ensure that everyone is following those practices.

There's nothing that would prevent a well-run colocated company from capturing those particular advantages, but such a company would probably slowly drift remote as companies like Buffer (and GitLab!) have as they grow and look for new talent.
Doesn't that just make you identifiable again?
I have heard through word-of-mouth (third hand) that there are models made by experts not being shared publicly (but presumably with governments etc).
classes are OOP. FP doesn't need them. The end.
From a technical standpoint a subset of SPIR-V that is safe to use in web browsers is exactly what is needed. However, there are IP problems that prevent direct usage of SPIR-V. [0] In short W3C needs full ownership of the spec so that it can be completely independent from Khronos. A textual representation of SPIR-V basically sidesteps these problems while still maintaining the ability to have a trivial SPIRV -> WSGL and WSGL -> SPIRV compiler.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22539633
You were implying, that sloppiness leads to reduced cancer statistics, painting a better picture for the US. Well, if another cause of death is used instead, the picture will look worse for it. There is no escape.
The ontology on those concepts goes in the other direction.