skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many countries, esp in East Asia, have slowed COVID spread down a great deal. Vaccines will likely be invented before it penetrates the populations there. They are among the largest groups of graduate students, ie key research workforce, in the US.

If a vaccine developed in East Asia is either cheaper, more scalable, or more effective, increased self-confidence would mean many top students will choose to pursue graduate studies at home instead of the US. This is in addition to fear of being discriminated against because of the pandemic.

Given the number of top people in East Asia with strong quantitative skills, it would significantly shift research momentum to the east.

https://www.oecd.org/pisa/PISA-results_ENGLISH.png
Finance and central banking don't operate according to the laws of thermodynamics. It's hard to argue that finance is a closed system in the physics sense because wealth can absolutely be created and destroyed.

You're kind of getting at Hyman Minsky's work - the notion that stability in financial markets is inherently unstable. But otherwise you're not really quoting any evidence for some pretty wild predictions.
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Feels like it sometimes!
This should be followed by a terrorism charge maybe?
VPNs: Hey, we really respect your "absolute" privacy and anonymity and security winkwink*

also VPNs: WE MUST KNOW EVEYRTHING YOU'RE DOING ONLINE!!!11!!!
Also, annoyingly, there is still no platform tag for python wheels for alpine/musl, so you cannot get binary wheels for it from pypi.
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> The fed is buying debt right and left, and the government surely doesn't want to borrow money and remove that liquidity.

That's why the tax cut was a bad idea. It should have been a tax increase. We should be saving more in good times so that we have enough for the downturn.

If we had a safety net - like UBI, we wouldn't be spending 2 trillion.

Its time for UBI & some wealth distribution for proper prosperity and growth.

I paid $14 in federal taxes for every $100 I made in 2019. I am in top 1% earners in my state and nationwide. That is just ridiculous.
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Link?

What's the average price someone pays though? Or is this a corona discount?
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So they don't stop all the time. Those events you gave did not cause 3 billion people to be forced to stay at home. A tsunami or earthquake is isolated to a particular place. It may affect a few million. This is a different order of magnitude
My family and friends who lost their jobs or got furloughed can't pay their rent with equity.
Have you considered what the cost of adding these “mandated buffers and redundancies” to the overall economy? Have you attempted to integrate these costs over time when there isn’t a pandemic going on, and made any attempt to determine the net effect?

Have you considered that you can’t start a small business with buffers and redundancies? And that small business accounts for 50% of overall employment?
Who’s boycotting JavaScript? I’m still using it. I’m writing JavaScript libraries right now.

There’s not really a hard line between “compiled” and “interpreted” languages, and there is really nothing that makes JavaScript beat “compiled” languages for dynamic extensions and scripting. The only advantages that JS have here are in the work that we’ve put into e.g. V8 and SpiderMonkey, but those are a bit harder to drop into your project as a library than you might like. I don’t see how they’re radically better than, say, Mono, which accepts any language compiled to CIL (and has P/Invoke!).

I’ve done some pretty deep comparisons of extension languages and my conclusion is still the same—differences in language implementation dwarf differences in language. You need a sandboxed extension language? That’s an implementation issue. You need to avoid dynamic libraries or run-time code generation? Implementation issue.
Config Management Camp is the main conference for config management: https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/
I'm still trying to reconcile "most influential" with "nobody's ever heard of". It may be that CLU implemented in premiere some concepts, but if later those concepts may as well just have been rediscovered (like the iterator design pattern) as the obvious thing to do, then what that leaves us?
Moderate, constructive and polite people can leave also because there is a CoC. Reasonable people don't like when a community is lawyer-ing over rules, when rules get enforced ambiguously or nontransparent. All which are very common with code of conducts.

As someone who ran a medium sized community for almost a decade, I saw such reasonable people leave for both a lack of rules (X should be forbidden, I am leaving) and also when we had a fully fledged code of conduct (I am tired of all the drama over X, I am leaving), and ambiguous/transparency issue (I am leaving because of the cabal who try to enforce their own interpretation of the rules). When the first happen followed with the second and third what you are left with was only members who either completely did not care or where inactive. At that point we removed the code of conduct and replaced it with a more common sense guideline of "just treat people with respect, and if you don't you get a friendly warning/reminder" and we slowly regained stability.

Code of conduct has an inherently risk of becoming a weapon for those who want to use passive aggression or hidden-not-so-hidden bullying against an out group. The more strict the rules the more you need to have a transparent community process for enforcement, but sadly those tend to be mutually exclusive.
Even more obnoxious is on sites like LinkedIn where your results get little red by the same position repost-spammed by various recruiting agencies. More than often my job search results yield more noise than anything else.
Google photos tags my images and I don't have to worry about uploading myself.

Why would I use this?
Also the knockon effect on landlords ... many bossiness want some sort of rental relief or those with limited cash flow are saying they are not going to pay.
I estimate twenty minutes as the average cost of answering a question. I'm only obligated to help co-workers if it costs me less time than it saves them. if a manager in your tree asks you a dumb question, they are squandering their own resources. I'm not obligated to stop them.

to be clear, I only use the twenty minute rule deliberately on people who consistently ask low effort questions. usually I just finish whatever subtask I'm working on, then think of a response. fortunately I don't have many people like this where I work, but they do exist.
> If this lockdown continues indefinitely the death numbers from the economic fallout will likely eclipse those of the pandemic.

Seeing that doing nothing will likely lead to lead to millions of deaths, how would the lockdown possibly kill more than that? Are you under the impression people will just willingly starve to death, or that fighting over food will get so bad that millions of people will die?
Quick summary: Top VPNs don't actually care about your privacy.

Shoooockkeer of the century
You need quite spiffy hardware to get useful utilization of a 25G connection though, it's ~3GB/s after all. For me the 10G cards are plenty, given that my NAS is all spinning rust.
But what if you have Netflix and your buddies have HBO Now?
This dual monitor capture bug was a pain point. Unhooking the monitor each time I wanted to capture a non-blank gif wore me down.
Thank you! Yes, I will look into that. I have noticed that the keyword "entry-level gov jobs" is very popular.
I genuinely have no idea what you just said.
I'm kind of confused by what it means for a gig worker to become unemployed; specifically the criteria. Is it along the lines of "I normally drive Uber. There are no riders anymore. Therefore, I can't collect income?" I mean, it'd be hard to verify such a statement is fact. A gig worker could just stop logging into Uber, then file an unemployment application. I hope there's an angle to this I'm missing.
> Its not individuals buying, individuals sold to secure cash during this unknown period...it is the corporations themselves buying in bulk now, because they are flush with cash, cut all costs, and have $5.75T in cash coming their way in the form of loans that will not need to be repaid ($1.75T worth) and negative interest loans ($4T worth). Point is companies will be buying today while they can.

Or maybe they are buying because their factories have been shuddered and they have capital sitting with no other place to put it. Or maybe they are buying because they are worried about inflation and are moving out into a better asset class for the condition. Or...

I realize there is some redundancy there from yours, but even "only" large investors acting (which, itself, seems an assumption) there are still far too many to claim to know their individual justifications.
What were the specific impacts awk had on Self?
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You're talking about it, so they achieved their goal.
My least favourite was Quentin Tarantino demanding a songwriting credit for Fun Lovin' Criminals' Scooby Snacks, just because it sampled a few seconds of dialogue from Pulp Fiction.
Everyone can go right back to work after the event is over in a few minutes.

This more comparable to a nuclear bomb where the area is still radioactive and people cannot go back without PPE.

Edit: and like another reply said, this isn't local, so it's more like multiple nuclear bombs in multiple countries across the globe.
You normally will not get wheels with compiled binaries on alpine anyway because it is not compatible with any of the platform tags (manylinux* is glibc only). I think they're saying numpy won't compile with musl off the shelf, you need patches for alpine. Pip just won't help you there.
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Slack was a really great idea at the beginning, perhaps.

but mannn the way it is now -- at least, more accurately, the way people are using it -- it's such a huge distractor

and these damn messages at 9pm or 8am or saturdays and sundays...
Yet the bumblebee flies: other libc implementations successfully implement code unloading and no amount of pointing at the standard will make me okay with musl not implementing code unloading, especially when part of the rationale is that other people write buggy code. It's not the place of libc to break functionality because the author believes other programmers can't use that functionality correctly.
This was an amazing project for its era. There are millions of people who can trace their livelihoods to this project, and billions of people who can trace something they use everyday directly to it as well.

I know its fashionable for Brits to kind of beat up on themselves for how the computing industry shook out, but from this project came ARM and modern mobile computing. And without the inspiration from this time, we wouldn't have the Raspberry Pi series. It's an incredible global legacy that actually worked as it should have even if precisely the effect of it wasn't what was intended.
The standard is called "web app manifest". You can find it at https://w3c.github.io/manifest/.

Note that Apple does support PWA to some degree. My understanding is that they don't support onbeforeinstallprompt, which means you can't create an ergonomic, in-browser installation flow. You have to manually go in the browser menu to find an "Add to Homescreen" button, or something along those lines.
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Entry-level generally means the minimum point someone will accept you for that title/role. It has no meaning with respect to experience since some entry-level roles require prior experience. However, there are not widely enforced definitions of the minimum requirements in many roles. Amazon asks more of its entry level developers than a small company might for example and for good reason. In other cases, entry-level is an attempt to hire people more cheaply.
You mean giving third parties control of your privacy, security and anonymity was a bad idea all along?
None of that has anything to do with what I said about "you're always very free to simply walk away when that's the case" means in practical terms. People use to sound smart and mature and it is easy to use to make people stop talking about problems they see. Whether the complainers are right or wrong, "those who dont like how treats them should leave" as universal strategy is neither mature nor smart.

I picked on that, because it is common cheap talking point that I was forced to re-evaluate few months ago (not just because of online issues).

The linked article is in fact code of conduct and even specifies what will get you banned.
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Just to be clear, Apple didn't kill Flash, mobile killed Flash.

I don't think that generalisation is warranted.

Apple refused to support Flash at all, meaning everyone who wanted to provide (among other things) audio/video content had to switch to the nascent HTML5 functionality, which was at that time and for some years afterwards inferior to Flash in almost every way except availability.

In that situation, it made little sense to invest in better Flash support on Android as it was presumably seen as a dying technology. However, there was no inherent reason why Flash couldn't have been improved to use less battery in the same way that the browsers themselves were, or that Flash could not have taken advantage of better hardware support on mobile devices for computationally expensive tasks like video decoding as this became available with newer devices.

This revisionist history, of seeing people wanting the proprietary Flash to come back, is crazy.

There's nothing revisionist in saying that people wanted A/V content on their sites, that Flash player had been by far the dominant way of providing that content up to that point, or that the then-new HTML5 alternatives were also very poor in quality and performance on mobile for several years afterwards.

Remember how for several years everyone with iPhones couldn't watch the videos on a lot of websites, and how excited people were when the big video hosting sites started adding HTML5 players and, in time, support for better codecs? Probably many of those people had no idea what Flash or HTML5 even were, so I don't suppose they did "want Flash to come back", but they certainly weren't happy that they couldn't watch videos on websites like everyone else.
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This should be really easy using k3s.
Mortgages and by extension rent provide liquid funds to banks so that account holders, including essential business's like hospitals, farmers, and factories can pay their employees and bills.

You are delusional to think it is possible to suspend payments without printing massive amounts of money that will certainly lead to more death.
Taking 20-30min to respond is still helpfulness.
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It's here in the US, too, but on a much reduced scale. My wife made some masks to hand out, getting the idea from her cousin who was putting her children who are not in school to work making masks for donation.
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It could very well be a bad assumption, but efforts seem ot be being made now to get people support. Hopefully they get there or this is going to be really bad.
You've rightly identified the question as a false dichotomy. People in the US don't _have_ to die for lack of resources.

The state helping the people to survive this crisis or not is a political choice.
Eh, I was speaking of the world. China lied about the coronavirus right from the beginning, when having two weeks of lead time worldwide could have saved thousands of lives. They arrested, silenced, and probably killed the doctors who blew the whistle on the cover-up. These are facts, not conjecture.
Overquantification
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That's not an issue with the tool, that's an issue with people's usage of it.

The company could just as easily expect you to be reachable by phone or email at all times.
Nat existed in somewhat wide use in 95, PIX had come out recently. It's not necessary today either.
Because people previously (falsely) believed it could not happen in the US, with the last true pandemic being so far in the past. The Bill Gates TED talk from 2016 shows that some people understood what we should have done, but it involves not only changing minds but also putting money into it. Whatever the total fallout from this pandemic, I expect the creation of a medical reserve (as suggested in the talk) is one that will certainly happen.
It forces you to include a C++ compiler in your toolchain, which might not be possible for older systems, etc.
If you allow both

int area(int length, int breadth)

and

float area(int radius)

to exist, then in the future you won't be able ask what the type of 'area' is. (If that's your kind of thing)
I'm sure they really care about your "privacy" -- as long as they can track you and up their profits

so, in total: a regular business
I didn't quite get the moral of the story.

Can someone explain to me frankly what he meant.?
No. The authority was never given to the federal government. Key difference. The federal government cannot grant that which it does not have
Sure it can. Compression. Kolmogorov complexity.

I don't need to 'store' the infinite set of natural numbers - that would require infinite space (memory).

But I can describe the infinite set in a single line of Python. Nat = lambda x=0: Nat(x+1)

It's just a space-time tradeoff.
Cost was likely an issue for Eiffel adoption in the 1990's.

There were a couple commercial implementations, with ISE being the dominant player. I bought a copy, but it wasn't cheap.

The open source SmallEiffel (later SmartEiffel) compiler by Dominique Colnet (and others) from loria.fr [1] didn't implement implement some parts of the language until the late 1990's.

It never had a big community.

[1] http://smarteiffel.loria.fr/
Anecdotally, here in Nebraska my residential fiber connection remains 1gbps symmetric. Haven't seen any fluctuations at all over the last few weeks.

Living in less densely populated areas does have its advantages at times.
At my day job and can't talk in detail now, but yes.
There's no guarantee that they do and I certainly don't expect any random manylinux wheel off pypi to work on alpine. I maintain one that definitely doesn't. We build a musl wheel too but there's no musl platform tag so we don't have a good way to distribute it on pypi.
One of the things I see ignored in these discussions is the strategic timeline. Yes, dev teams can yeet out software like crazy without an ops team. But eventually you build up this giant mass of software the dev team is responsible for. Ops was never involved until one day the mgmt chain for the dev team realizes he can free up a bunch of capacity by dumping his responsibilities onto ops.

IMO, some of these practices come from businesses with huge rivers of money who can hire and retain world class talent. I’d like to see some case studies of how it works when your tiny DevOps team is spending 80% of their time managing a huge portfolio of small apps. How then do you deliver “new, shiny” business value and keep devs and business stakeholders engaged and onboard?
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Neat.

I implemented the student facing course catalog web interface for a single org. One of the funnests (most fun) parts was the heuristics in the query parser. Like patterns for recognizing course numbers and boosting those exact match results. Really helps you appreciate all the fit & finish that goes into proper search engines.

This was the olden days, when we just used Lucene directly.
I don't believe it would be considered public. IANAL but "According to the U.S. copyright law (Title 17, United States Code, Section 110), a public performance is any screening of a videocassette, DVD, videodisc or film which occurs outside of the home, or at any place where people are gathered who are not family members, such as in a school, library, auditorium, classroom or meeting room. " https://www.prattlibrary.org/research/tools/index.aspx?cat=1...
I think you mix up latency and throughput.
Thank you for your feedback!

Entry-Level, to us, means students, recent grads, career changers, individuals with less than 3 years of experience and so much more. I think those with years of experience as a hobbyist / open source work in the domain should be counted, but many employers only count professional experience. Someone with lots of experience and switching to a different domain may be categorized as "entry-level" in that new industry. And for your last questions, I believe that a person with that profession would still have professional experience/skills that transfer to web development.
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Psst, don't tell anyone...
https://slack.com/intl/en-lv/help/articles/214908388-Pause-n...
Any third party will behave this way. This is the behavior of businesses that need to increase their effectiveness.

of course, if you want "absolute" privacy and security, NONE of these VPN companies will fit the bill
Hello! We've been working on Cardybot for some months and are excited to share it!

Send fun, personalized, and physical birthday cards to your co-workers with ease. All organized and mailed automatically through Slack. Great for remote teams or teams that just want to send birthday cards that co-workers will cherish forever.

The story: I started my career in a non-remote company where (like many other teams) we signed birthday cards for co-workers. Unlike most other birthday perks it was actually fun and personalized. But my last couple of roles have been on remote teams so it's been impossible to do cards like that. While I love working remotely, I wish we still did birthday cards and our early customers agree - that's why Cardybot was created. As a Slack integration, we take the fun in this for all teams (remote and non-remote) to the next level .

When we started building Cardybot, we (off course) had no idea we would be launching during a pandemic but I hope this brings some fun and engagement to your team during this tough time.

We'd love to get some feedback and are happy to answer questions!
I don't know how many of these machines are already deployed, but if there are a lot of them already at many doctors, it could be a huge thing, as suddenly, the tests can be run on existing infrastructure.
Most wealthy nations already have a robust social safety net in place. They don't need to rush to cobble together a temporary one in the same was the US does.
Why stop there? I can finish nearly all of their work faster, maybe I should do that too.
Most remote companies use Slack or some other IM message.

But remote companies tend to have cultures of async communication, so they don't suffer from the problems described as much.
FYI: It's not really clear how to apply for a remote role. All of the positions are linked to a city.

Should I just apply to whatever and indicate that I'd be remote?
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