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After the depression the US emerged as the global hegemon because of major shifts in power that happened as a part of WWII. The US was uniquely adapted to grow to be the global super power at the same time that European nations were taking a huge hit from the war.

I suspect this will ultimately lead to China as the new hegemon. We're seeing key advantages to the Chinese state that the US cannot adapt to. Decades of pushing the US government to work more and more exclusively in the interest of capital has lead to a completely impotent state that cannot take care of its people. Likewise we have a complacent populace who, as many here have argued, won't be able to endure extended isolation.

The pandemic is not just a rogue wave that has done some damage and we'll bounce right back. This event has shown deep systemic vulnerability to certain very real risks that the US is incapable of adapting too. And all these same risks are what leave us extremely vulnerable to other similar events like climate change.

The US will recover in a sense, but this is very likely the start of a long process of a major shift in global power, and the end result will look very, very different than the world of a few weeks ago.
> losing health insurance, losing homes, not paying electrical bills, communication (internet / phone) bills, etc.

None of this is true because non-essential bills have also been shut down.
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Yes things did change around then,before you had to write your own game or type them in. Then suddenly lots about and in part that IMHO played a part in removing the need-appeal to learn more for many.

Though for some the challenges in hacking games and redoing boot loaders did happen, it was more niche scene wise and not part of schooling.
Note: you should be eligible to work in France (EU citizen, have a visa etc.; the work permit process is complicated lately.)
Ask HN: Long-running polling jobs in FaaS?
Scenario: We need to deploy several long-running polling servers that poll some source (e.g. web page, database). Deployment should work very much like in FaaS such as projectfn, fission.

Problem: projectfn and fission both only support short-lived function calls, but no polling servers. This limits what you can do pretty much.

Alternatives might be dokku or using a straight forward k8s deployment descriptor.

Thoughts?
They're both right. Neither the Republicans or Democrats will be able to conduct business as usual going forward.
I have some models as to how this changes the US electorate, based on the burn rate. Curious to see how right I am.
I think fast casual already did that and going say delivery only ... might be a dead end for most small businesses.

Especially as folks get out of their homes and WANT to be out and about ;)
Mental games or brain teasers to activate your brain the morning
Chinese company shipped out millions of Australia's masks, gloves and other PPE
We haven't yet seen the full effects of the current political shift or of the measures being taken. It may be premature to believe we know all of the lessons that are to be learned from this, or even that the ones we believe we are learning are grounded in data. Hindsight will make all of this much more clear.
Each country has economic and market mitigations. Some are beginning to copy US model of Gov paying bills outright for a period. If everyone can do this with low cost, there's no reason for high risk and damage to economy later. This incident will make us learn fast.

The medical experts do consider economic and market impacts, and there are alignments in governments how to balance everything. However, since this is an unprecedented health crisis with unknown ramifications, that is first priority. Many measures are to create wiggling room to handle what unknown unknowns may come down the road as well.

This shows us systemic vulnerabilities, and societies will be forever changed, probably for the better.
> I doubt it will continue for another 18 months until a vaccine is developed.

If any of the 40+ trials going on for drugs is successful and makes COVID-19 clinically manageable, it would improve the situation earlier than just waiting out a vaccine (which, like the drugs, may not work at all).
...and that's why my ISPs router is running in modem mode with a non-ISP-controlled router from Ubiquiti behind it - which I may replace with a pfSense box in the future.

I'm pretty happy that my cable ISP is allowing this mode so I don't have to double-NAT in my setup.
Wasn't the internet a product of the US government?
That's cool, though if you feel nostalgic for worms, get a retro emulation version as the play store version will cause all sorts of WTF moments and utter price gorge.
Make it delete the account instead.
cool good luck with your task force!
Sadly I think the effect might be the opposite. The massive financial hardship seems poised for a backlash where a group promoting 'economy above all else' will gain the support of millions who feel their financial future has been unfairly taken.

I see little threads fraying already.

I have heard even normally fairly left-leaning people saying variations of 'this will kill more people from poverty'.
Some info: https://www.thebalancecareers.com/can-i-collect-unemployment...
And mental health too. How many new Alcoholics will this create? How many suicides?
Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News for music production?
Is there a Hacker News for music where people discuss the technical and creative side to music production? I follow a couple of subreddits but I'm super interested to hear if there is any dedicated sites with their own communities.
As someone in ops I do both types of work, and having spent the last six years in an open office environment I know all about how distracting interruptions can be. At the same time, you are at work and cannot expect to behave like a recluse.
My personal experience has been that quality of restaurant/food/dining experience has always been negatively correlated with number of tables, or even total sq. ft.
Very true. Yet at the same time, it does route traffic to the appropriate boxes. And the name 'router', when referring to something someone has at their house, has entered the vernacular to mean "the box at home which lets me share the internet connection across all my computers".

Most folks have no idea how it works behind the scenes, which typically is a combination of NAT (IPv4), routing (IPv6), DHCP, DNS, UPnP, and more. So, it's just "the router".
>> glibc was maintained by the biggest asshole in all of software engineering
> You mean Roland? What did he do?

Ulrich Drepper
It's a very tricky scheduling problem with a lot of dependencies and limitations. Essay exams kind of have to happen at the same time, because it's so easy to say "hey, there's a 5th Amendment question on there" and give someone a huge advantage in last-minute studying.

The questions are hard to write, hard to calibrate, and take a massive effort to grade consistently.

There are only so many venues that can accommodate thousands of simultaneous exam takers, so rescheduling is a nightmare.

Remote proctoring can't scale to this. "AI" remote proctoring is a surveillance, enforcement and due process horror.
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> we use Slack all the time to facilitate our communications.

> Pro tip: set your notification settings to silent by default.

You're lucky that your company lets you treat Slack like an asynchronous e-mail inbox with multiple channels. If you have the luxury of ignoring Slack notifications until you're ready to respond, you're in a good place.

But your company isn't using Slack the normal way. The implicit expectation is that Slack is an instant messenger, and that you're expected to reply right now. That's why the default settings lean toward aggressive notifications, and that's why you need to take extra steps to turn them off.

Slack has been a powerful tool for remote work and distributed teams, but it's also an interruption factory by default. Before I left my last company, I routinely had 300-500 notification pop-ups per day as people shifted toward DMs and managers started abusing @channel to rise above the noise and get their answers ASAP.
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I think you answered your own question with the ´Dopamine’ comment. Slack clearly has an addictive game effect on its users. And since it pleases the crowd and has no visible downside, it’s tempting for busy small/medium business owner to just let it sail initially.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses estimated yesterday that 30% of small business might not survive the quarantine.

I'm with you; people are underestimating the last impact of this pandemic.
Example of low latency connection: Morse code via flashlight.

Example of high bandwidth connection: van full of books.

These are orthogonal properties and must be considered separately.

The massively parallel machines will give you 200 samples per day, but in the very best case you have to wait until the end of the day to get the first one. This technology gives you a result a couple of hours after taking the sample.
I totally understand that. And you'll probably come out the other side of this with a socialized healthcare system of some sort.
It is actually a native and fast Swift app and its only feature that can be considered 'bloated' is instant upload to giphy.com (which I have never used).
Rare catastrophes are hard to prepare for, because the cost of preparation is expensive.

"Routinely happening" once a century or two isn't an easy target.
>> Setting up rules on the mail (e.g. bounce the icon on MacOS)

I don't agree with this. You are exploiting a biological imperative intended to prevent us from being attacked by surprise so that I read your email? There goes the 30 minutes I just spent getting into the zone invetigating an evil little bug.

If someone has these ridciulous expectations about email I prefer (the still very annoying) follow-up email or physical visit. At least that requires some effort.
The problem with that black and white reasoning is that on some level "the market" represents people's livelihoods and eventually there comes a point where it's reasonable to say "X people should die to prevent Y amount of hardship for Z people".
If you're a healthcare worker, the cost of a false-positive could be high.

For them and others one cost is that they'll feel themselves somewhat immune when they're not and may not take precautions. It will also confuse study of the disease if it starts to look like your "2nd" infection can be much worse than your first.
You should read Utopia for Realists: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316471917

It addresses a lot of concerns about UBI in a very accessible way. UBI isn't a new concept and it has been well studied. (It was almost implemented in the USA as a more streamlined alternative to the byzantine welfare state, but the Democrats sunk it.
This actually goes further than that as different version of glibc aren't ABI compatible with one another.
Sadly everyone seems to be doubling down on their existing strong opinions.

(Any ideas to improve that?)
Don't even start to think about climate change, a phenomenon we're completely aware is happening, but still do nothing about, despite consequences that will be worse than this virus.
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I don't understand what this has to do with the question I asked. Feels like a non sequitur
You never know. The same technician credentials could potentially work on many routers from the same ISP, maybe even through WAN.
Aha the Dragon, I actually knew somebody who had one of those, great bit of kit, just one of many at a time and didn't tractions - shame.

Though iirc there is some history about the building used and current RPi production - though that may be that they are both in Wales.

But many great initiatives back then, then we just sold it all off/let it go.

ICL sold to microsoft, Inmos....history footnote.

Only thing that lasted was ARM and even that was sold off.

RPi been amazing at capturing those early days, but never be the same as early days, that was it, today - choice saturation and that boils down to games based systems like consoles and indeed phones soaking up the attention of the masses.
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I think you are misinterpreting. Besides, it goes way. Where I work, and I will take a guess and say it is like that most places, sometimes people need an answer promptly (might not be life or death, but sometimes, in my line of work, it can be), from me, from others. If that is the case, I think an @-interruption is appropriate.
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To draw an analogy to snail mail, sending an email is basically the equivalent to chucking something in the cheapest post option there is. It may be delivered in the future, it's often delivered particularly quickly but not always, and the sender doesn't really have any indication that it's actually been received by a human.

This is why there's more expensive options you can buy - guaranteed delivery, signed for etc. that provide more robust guarantees. There's no equivalent for email, so trying to layer similar expectations on top of things that aren't designed to meet them is going to sometimes go badly.

> As a system admin, I have found folks expect e-mails to show up immediately and judge their response as such. There are certain departments of the US government who expect an e-mail response immediately when they send out one of their queries.

What do these people do when their expectations are challenged? What if an intermediate SMTP server decides to hold onto the message for 2 weeks for no real reason (yes, this happens).

In the UK, if the government needs you to do something, you get a letter. Usually multiple, sometimes sent with proof of delivery required, depending on how important it is you receive it.
>> Create channels that are explicitly described as being for non-immediate communications and get your team to use those for that kind of conversation.

This sounds a lot like an email thread.
I am making my money with Kubernetes and the ecosystem around it and I wholeheartedly disagree on K8s being the future.

However I do agree on vendor lock-in. At least to a degree. KVM and Xen didn't really prevent this for cloud environments.

I do think the main takeaway from a lot of this is the way software is designed. It is becoming more self-contained. Docker in many respects is like a static binary. FatJARs are a similar approach. Also Go in general seems to go that path.

What Kubernetes really does is providing an agreed upon standard for infrastructure, similar to what Docker gave for software packages.

They enabled concepts like Unikernels to at least become interesting, because they smoothed the way for the thinking of software that should be self-contained.

I think the future really is one where Kubernetes and Docker are just annoying overhead, where we find it odd how something "emulates" them, just how terminal emulators emulate... well, terminals.

We are in a feedback-loop where we put a more and more tight corset on the software we develop. First there were compute clouds, where developers learned it's bad to keep state around, then there was Docker, then Kubernetes where certain best practices, that have been best practices for a long time "forced" them to be followed more and more, especially because whoever provides your infrastructure and the developer are able to agree on the interface.

Docker and Kubernetes are standards due to their dominance, similar to Internet Explorer back in the days and Chrome today. As of now there is only minimal written specifications. Most of it is standardized by the implementation. Hopefully this will change some day to stabilize the interface and give opportunities for competing implementations, so more innovation can happen outside the boundaries of these projects, allowing for competition.

Maybe this has a positive influence on complexity as well.
I think this is wrongly attributed as puritanical
This isn't the same, and your bad-faith interpretation is exactly the kind of issue with traditional CoCs.

"making a scene" isn't the same as any and all complains, nor does the wording imply any kind of complains is "making a scene". But there are plenty of example where people purposefully make a complaint as public as possible to shame the accused before any formal complaint is made in order to influence the outcome - it's the community equivalent of "trial by media".
This is why Edgium calls itself “Edg”, not “Edge”, in the UA string.
By being all in the nose about other Codes of Conduct and effectively codifying the expected behavior in your community, you're having a Code of Conduct yourself. I do agree that CoCs are little more than a distraction, but you just need one line to state you don't have one for your project- or perhaps even none at all.
Why don't you do the calculation then, instead of dismissing an article/calculation based on something you're not even sure is true?
Are you doing uptime checks?
>Is that because of circular dependencies of glibc on the kernel

That but also because lots of code in glibc would simply not work in kernel space
I think by default some Android-based devices and iPhone in recent years (since about 2014 I believe but don't quite me on that) can use cellular data even when we are on WiFi if the WiFi signal is weak like when you've wandered too far from the access point.
RFC 1918 does allow that the internet was changing rather fast back in 1995 and accepts it probably wont be the final word: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1812#section-1.3.1
UBI redistributes money. The total amount in circulation doesn't change. So the deflation argument really comes down to: if everyone has money, no one has money. I don't think that's the case. Even in the unrealistic case where we all have the same amount of money, we wouldn't spend it on the same things and that fact alone is a moderating force on inflation. Prices reflect people's ability and willingness to pay. In cases where we are forced to buy the same things, like housing, healthcare, and education, prices are out of control anyway.
Not from the US, so not quite in phase with how things work. What can this tell us about actual unemployment and actual people that won't have a job now (short, medium or forever)?
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YouTube's algorithm will demonetize you, but it's very rare that they will make your content inaccessible.

We deal with Native American history and YouTube is a true pain in the butt where the brutality of the truth is concerned. Plus, the instructors have many more tools available on GoToMeeting, and would also like things we put on YouTube to be a bit more polished then a broadcast from their dining room table. Also, both YouTube and GoToMeeting are commericial, non-open source solutions.

Also, the probability is very high that if you would have run into problems with OBS, then you're going to run into problems with whatever commercial solution you go with.

OBS is a very fine, professional solution to streaming. Its capabilities bring complications and is not specifically designed for facilitating meetings. GoToMeeting has a paid professional support staff to answer any questions and provides tools to help.

Most of the problems people have with video capture and streaming don't stem from the specific recording software you use.

I would need to see proof of this statement. GoToMeeting seems very easy for our instructors to start and work with.

I love open source, but we are dealing with something here that requires a solution now which mean spending $380/month on GoToMeeting is a very good idea. We cannot do face-to-face training and deploying OBS and a working setup to 20 laptops at homes, just doesn't seem like a good use of time and way more costly than the $380/mo for a couple of months. Plus, its an easy recommend to other institutions that don't have full IT departments.
Economic "experts" usually don't know anything about the future.
My commendations on the effort to get this curated. It could be a great tool for visual learners. I suggest adding Jest as a test runner under testing.
When I think about the people who won't take back their jobs, I think about the business owners mostly.

Australians love cafe culture and 6 months ago, if you opened a cafe in the Sydney CBD and if you could make good fast coffee, you'd have a great trade with good revenue to match. But now, those small business owners are going to lose business and homes.

And a lot of workers may come back, but they won't stay.

It's really really bad because we don't have a lot of industries that have openings that can just absorb new hires. Industry doesn't train up people any more, maybe that trend will revert but I really worry for a bubble of people in my community that may loose out and never get a strong footing back.
Would you also take gradually losing access to other modern web standards apps rely on as time goes on until the only realistic option we have for building, deploying, and consuming apps are the walled gardens controlled by 2 corporations who have arbitrary rules on who can and can't participate, freely stifling innovation/competition as their interests dictate, and taking a more and more outrageous cut of all economic activity on the platform?

That's where this is going.

> "first they came for localStorage and I did nothing"
> All the anti-CoC people seem to assume

some, not all. It's a strawman that being anti-CoC means you are that naive.
> That first sentence feels a bit like an ad hominem attack to me. There's no call for that here.

I meant stuck in the past as in unwilling to move beyond email for primary communication, and that second part of the sentence as in not being able to see that his problems with IM might not be others'.