skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few things to note:

1. These figures are only new claims as of 3/21, so the numbers will get worse.

2. This is ~2% of the estimated ~160-165M US Workforce.

3. This is nearly 5x (!) the prior record of 671K new jobless claims from 1982, and redefines the scale for jobless claims. [1]

4. This does not account for the countless gig workers that are part of the modern economy that likely did not file for unemployment since they were not covered prior to the passing of the senate bill last night.

This goes to show just how sharp of an impact the coronavirus pandemic has had relative to past recessions. Even the '08 Financial Crisis took MONTHS to unravel.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ICSA
Not having a CoC doesn't mean you don't address bad actors, resolve disputes, etc. It just means that these things are entrusted to the project leader's best judgment. And anyone can fork the project if they think the project leader isn't doing a good job of keeping things orderly.
The authority has been delegated to states, each state is making their own decisions.
That musl refuses to implement dlclose() says it all, really. Musl's sin isn't all that different from old glibc's, really: both forget that the system serves programs, not the other way around. The musl author doesn't believe programs should unload code. Therefore, you're not allowed to do it.

Musl also removed access to Linux functionality because the author disagrees with the kernel's design:

"linux's sched_* syscalls actually implement the TPS (thread
scheduling) functionality, not the PS (process scheduling)
functionality which the sched_* functions are supposed to have.
omitting support for the PS option (and having the sched_* interfaces
fail with ENOSYS rather than omitting them, since some broken software
assumes they exist) seems to be the only conforming way to do this on
linux."

LOL. Do you really want to depend on a libc whose author thinks this way? Who removes functionality that the kernel provides because in his opinion the kernel's design is wrong?
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This is the second time this week I've seen Lars Bak mentioned. I'm so glad to have learned about his work on virtual machines, it's a direct line through the history of programming languages, from Self, Smalltalk, Java, V8 JavaScript engine, and Dart as well.
My only problem with this is that I can't get a high enough frame-rate.

Oh, anyone else noticed that it sometimes creates a 1px white line on an edge?
This is the number of people that filed for unemployment in the last week. A staggering number. Just seven days of data.
I remember reading the multimethods post and thinking it was wrong as it does not dispatch on all arguments, as dylan would (and I believe closure would too) - correct me if I'm wrong though.
> All these sibling comments throwing $229 at a newfangled and unproven gimmick based on some anonymous online comment have really got me scratching my head...

Social media is either making money via ads, or their making money via sales of $SOMETHING. This is marketing at work.
Very surprised that ColdFusion isn't on this list. Say what you want about it, but remember this... You know how all you React, VueJS and frontend developers just LOOOOOVE components... Yeah... ColdFusion had that first in what was called "Custom Tags". Heck... It had alot of features that you find today in almost every other language, but it is dying a SLOOOOOOOOW death.
Like you say, things are bad enough without exaggerating the situation.

If you think this is all over in anything less than 4-5 years in terms of economic impact, I don't think you've understood what has really just happened and is about to happen.
Each state does it in its own way, if at all. Then local cities and provinces do their own thing anyway (sometimes loosening the state-wide rules rather than tightening them).
It's like a Keurig single serve coffee machine but for covid-19 testing
Again this is over-engineering. Put functions in modules to namespace them and be done with it.

If you really want types, use classes. It removes the need for single dispatch, creates a self documenting namespace and saves you an import when you want to do the calculation.

import math
from dataclasses import dataclass

@dataclass
class Rectangle:
length: int
breadth: int
def area(self) -> int:
return self.length * self.breadth

@dataclass
class Circle:
radius: int
def area(self) -> float:
return math.pi * self.radius ** 2

@dataclass is of course not mandatory, and just make the code shorter.

We are talking about very simple things here. No need to add complexity to them.
Hey, OP here.

My wife got into a daily design challenge in March 2016, and she's been doing design practices every week day for the past 4 years.

I helped her set up this website to share her work and maybe generate some revenue if all goes well.

UIDesignDaily https://uidesigndaily.com

She uploaded the first 600 designs, currently at day 1059. Hoping to catch up with all the uploads for the official launch.

I’ll get back with some stats and numbers about this soft launch if you’re interested.
Source of Truth should (in my opinion) be used in many sectors but even finance doesn't use it everywhere. Having each data point originate in only one system helps a lot with data quality but is complex to introduce in existing systems.
It's called the ban button, most platforms have one. Despite the lack of formal rules and myriad edge cases, for the general case only, there is broad consensus (in society, not necessarily within small groups) on what constitutes "threads that most people don't want to see [or be subjected to]".

A really good example would be Linus calling people fucking stupid, or screaming at them to shut the fuck up.

(Note: I know there are people reading this who want to read 100% of what Linus has to say regardless of how mean he is in saying it. That is not a refutation of my claim above, as it does not negate the fact that the vast majority of people in society never want to be spoken to in this manner by anyone, for any reason, least of all for making a small judgement error in software that isn't even "prerelease" yet.)
It's not an exaggeration. You should take the macroeconomic effect seriously. This is the first major recession in over 100 years caused by an external market factor. Factor in 18 months for vaccine clinical trials and distribution, 1-2 years for industries to get back on their feet, and slews of international policy regressions...you're looking at a 4-5 year impact. Not to mention, social distancing is really taking a mental toll on the world population, regrettably giving more weight to the word "Depression."
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In Australia, they closed all the 'non-essential' industries. Which turns out to be about 30% of the workforce.
I keep thinking that big shift will be when people come out of this they won't allow themselves to be 'non-essential' ever again. They won't take back those jobs, they'll push for agreements that guarantee a safety net.
great, sounds like we‘ll get to consent to storing cookies more frequently - everybody loves these banners. there’s even more fun to be had, thanks to GDPR dialogs with 73 nested toggles.
I'm more cynical - it's very easy to justify losing your job now as driven by external factors while losing your job before as being due to an internal failing. If people get their jobs back within the next few months, I think it could breed a sense of superiority of "I got my job back with the Coronavirus, and you couldn't even get a job in one of the biggest boom markets ever.' there's no basis in reality for looking down on the poor like you said, and I don't know if this shock will force people to really understand reality as you hope, or simply by the basis of a new false understanding as I fear.
Yet non-default browsers on Android are non-existent. So in practice Android has the same web-engine mono-culture as iPhone. Given how successfully Google was able to ensure Blink domination on desktop and even more so on Android it is very understandable what Apple has done. And for me having at least 2 web engines on mobile is better than 1.
Multilingual Authoring for the Win
I grew up with the puritanical mindset of: "Your intrinsic worth as a human is the money you earn; because the money you earn is from how hard you work; and how hard you work is a reflection of your intrinsic Virtue."

Thus I grew up in a family that loathes the unemployed. I really hope -- though I have grave doubts -- that this event gets through to them, so that they can have some personal growth, too.
http://archive.md/e2Kih
Perl is possibly the clearest example of the "Osborne effect": announcing Perl6 took focus off Perl5, but it took far too long to arrive. So by the time it did many of the community had drifted away and the core use cases were becoming less relevant. Python almost did this to itself with the 2to3 transition.
Would you mind sharing your job board/bot? On this site there are zero results for "golang" and only one relevant one for "go" :/
we have better communication and technology today as well. The trouble is, we have no idea when recovery will even begin. The human spirit can move past this; but many people can't even begin right now.
Yes. Every state has treated it slightly different. Many high-population states are under restrictive rules right now.
P.S.: Thanks for the downvotes, I needed a reminder of the HN reaction to pointing out things people gloss over in articles...
You're absolutely right. Those things are important.

While businesses are shuttering down, they are essentially laying off massive amounts of people. Or they simply stop paying wages, or reduce those wages. That's already happening. All the things you mention between parentheses (institutional knowledge, personal relationships,...) are already in the process of being destroyed.

For instance, a significant part of the workforce works through outsourcing, temp contracts or freelancing. So, those contracts are now rapidly getting terminated in order to keep expenses down. Meaning that you get a domino effect.

At the same time, businesses will get a contribution that partly replaces lost income...

> an economic need

The idea of supporting people directly over businesses can be easily motivated: because the underlying motivation is to save lives.

Businesses can be rebuild. Lives can't. The ghoulish statistics media espouse every hour do represent very real people. Friends, family, co-workers,... You could apply calculus and "write off" a part of the population in order to safeguard businesses, but the true cost of dealing with a massive death toll is a collective mental trauma that will have lasting effects for generations to come.

The sad part is that there's not much middle ground. Many will die, many will impoverish. Whatever actions are taken now and over the next months and years, it's damage control.
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And this is just the start.

While I think the US response to Corona was slower than the response in my country I feel the US is the only country that's seriously discussing economic repercussions and debating the medical experts.

In EU (at least in my country) it's doctors running things and we are in "stop the pandemic at all cost". Everyone is in panic due to Italy situation. But doctors are only trained to see the medical side of the picture - and there is a point at which this approach to fighting the virus is going to have worse consequences than a full blown pandemic itself - I don't see anyone publicly discussing this point around here.
Yes, government is mostly nudging people towards doing the right thing.
That's 60 to 80 percent higher. Large differences in small numbers still look small haha
As we have observed in the Covid-19 pandemic, It could be the case that you were just only lightly sick but also contagious. Not to mention also a few things are difficult to pass, for example, University lectures (skipping one can make it difficult to follow the next) and again lecture halls are cramped so you can easily infect somebody.
The thing about the current situation is that there is still no end in sight and it feels like we are just at the beginning stages of a tough struggle.

Thankfully tech seems to be holding up in terms of employment for the moment, but we have stopped hiring as well so who knows what may come next. Not every tech can withstand or even benefit from the current crisis.
The problem may become that if we all exercise the "right to picnic" at the same time, the nearest green hill will have 5000 people, which defeats the purpose.
Won't know for sure until Apr 03 (The Day BLS releases the official unemployment rate for March) but this may very well trip the Sahm recession indicator, which has correctly predicted/detected every US recession back to 1950 (If it's been further backfitted I can't find the data).

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SAHMCURRENT
I think points 1-6 apply best to someone with an undergrad degree (and maybe even an undergrad degree in physics), since it's hard to grasp ie the action principle and Noether's theorem without having seen at least a bit of Newtonian and classical mechanics and E&M. Certainly my high school self would have struggled here.

I really like the idea of "depth first and work backwards" though. I finished undergrad with a degree in physics about a year ago, focused mostly on AMO, but since then I've seen all these headlines about AdS-CFT correspondence and cool quantum gravity papers and trying to read them is wayyy over my head. What I realized was that to read these papers, I needed to backtrack. I kinda needed to be familiar with some of the toy models for black holes in a quantum setting, which requires quantum field theory, which requires classical field theory, which I never got around to in school.

So now I'm reading a set of classical field theory notes and loving it! Plus I get to look forward to the eventual dig all the way back down to AdS-CFT.
This is just the people who have filed last week. There is bound to be many more soon. And I am not sure everyone who have lost their jobs are eligible.
So... a run on the banks?
> 'circle.area(r)' is even weirder

It's just putting the original area() function in a module, not making it a method of a class. It's the simplest solution you can have, ever.

Adding an object is already more complex, and complexity needs to be justified. Just KISS if you can.
You're probably missing a lot of financial basics if you have to ask this. The reason why we have stock buybacks and dividends is so that the investors can allocate the money any way they'd like. Instead of letting Apple sit on $100 billion and hoping they are smart enough to invest the money wisely you instead pay that excess money out and then you are free to invest this money into more apple shares, an index fund, bonds or even use it yourself. If you want to invest into a holding company that does nothing but own other companies then you can choose a company that specializes into that and that company is definitively not Apple.

Why is it better for the investor to allocate the money than Apple? Well, it is pretty obvious. Apple has a different risk profile. If it keeps money for a rainy day like covid-19 then the value of the assets it owns must not be correlated with the "disaster" that it is supposed to help you against. An index fund under performs during covid-19 so it's an awful choice for a rainy day fund. Meanwhile investors probably don't care about rainy day funds for day to day phone manufacturing. They might be interested in high risk VC investments that lead to a lot of dead companies but a few unicorns. They might be interested in low risk bonds because they are reaching retirement age. That's information that Apple doesn't have and therefore it will never make a good decision on your behalf.
The economical impact of COVID-19 on people's lives will be far more severe than the biological one.

Hopefully this won't discourage governments from taking appropriate action once a more lethal pandemic comes.
The fact that you suggest pencil and paper indicates you do actually see that the working environment makes a difference, however pretentious you may find it.
It is one of the best little tools around AFAICT.

The Windows version "installer" can be opened with 7-zip and double clicking on \licecap128-install.exe\licecap-exe (155877 bytes) the program works just fine from within the archive.
Heh, you're asking a googler who's basically responsible for some of the actions Google is taking with Chrome, trying to make the web only browseable via Chrome and centralizing information under their own Google brand, to contribute to a cross-company/community effort (Mozilla + Microsoft + open source hackers)? While noble, I can only wish you good luck.

I think the sail has long sailed for asking Chrome/Google to help out with the openness/sharing on the web/internet. It's time we just start ignoring them instead.
I do not think anyone knows how long the recovery will take, not even the experts.
The USA is home to ~340 million people (many people here illegally aren't counted). Only about 63.4% (~215M) of them work.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/labor-force-parti...
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I'd caution anyone on this ideological path that I can see you're on. I had a friend who used to say things exactly like this who is now terribly anti-Semitic. It's important to remember that many of these very wealthy, influential people and groups in media, finance, etc are there by merit and what may seem like nepotism to us is merely a coping mechanism by a historically persecuted and oppressed people.

If it helps, you may consider this the (much) lesser of two evils.
Thanks Marshall. I'll yield to you in anything APL as I'm a total noob.

For those that don't recognize his username, I think he works for Dyalog in APL implementation. Is that right?
No morning commute, no stepping over human poo, no one trying to sell you drugs in the Tenderloin, etc. when you're at home.
Can confirm classroom is seeing huge adoption in SEA too
ok keep it up
Born in late 81, I vaguely remember some computers in primary (NW England) school - I think we had a BBC micro. We did some logo (no actual floor turtle) in about 94/95 (year 8), but aside from that it was all Windows 3.1/Netware/Microsoft Works. I think the internet sort of arrived at school in year 12+13 (so 98 onwards), but by then I was playing with Linux and Matt's script archive from home.

My introduction to computers beyond playing games was from my dad, who had brought an PC back from work around 93/94, with windows and VB3, and a modem a year or so later. The "Learn X in 24 hours/21 days" books were really good for bootstrapping -- I remember the VB and TCL/TK ones
> And maybe - just maybe - it's time everybody took another look at the UBI debate, again.

Doesn't UBI directly result in inflation and cause currency devaluation? If the money that you hold loses its value (because everyone has at the very least the same amount of money as a basic, consistent income) then it is worth nothing in the end. It is as good as having no money in my humble opinion. Money has to be valuable for it to be useful in trade. Giving away money to everyone devalues the currency.
Social distancing strategies for curbing the Covid-19 epidemic
Alpine Linux uses musl libc, and SourceHut runs Alpine on all hosts and VMs. It's lean and mean and fast, and together with Alpine makes for a wonderfully simple and auditable system. I wouldn't dream of using anything else in production.
From what I read from various economists, it looks like it will likely be worse than 2008. So it may not be as bad as 1929 but it will still hurt.
Legal _in the US_ is an interesting point. We often see the US trying to overreach and apply US standards when US-owned material is hosted on sites outside of the US (Richard O'Dwyer), or arguing that accessing a server in the US makes you subject to US law (Gary McKinnon). Why would similar arguments not apply here? It may be legal in the US, but that doesn't necessarily place the actions outside the jurisdiction of the other country. Naturally, _enforcement_ may be an issue, but that doesn't make it legal. At the very least, I don't see how it can be seen as OP giving permission - it's effectively another country taking that decision away from him.
Paywalled articles are accepted on HN if there's a known workaround:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

If it's hard paywall with no workaround, it shouldn't be on HN and you should flag it or email the mods.
Must refer to Drepper.
Just the US government. They even have special racist hiring policies to comply with the strict regulations set about who is allowed to be in the building where the US government holds your data.
The Town That Refuses to Drown
Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics is so cool - I highly recommend it, especially to someone with a programming background. It's one of the main reasons I switched from CS to physics in college.
Some governors issued edicts listing the non-essential businesses that were to be shuttered until April 23.

The policing policy is if you are spotted as still open by code or law enforcement, you can lose your operating license.
I wonder how many people feel they have the option to not take back a job?

I have such options, exercised them a few years ago when I was 'done' with a particular industry and I wanted to change (networking to web dev, I'm so much happier with my work now), but my ability to do so was largely because the job I had done was a pretty good job pay wise (so I could save) / I received a severance, etc. The jobs that are getting shutdown are different / the people I suspect have fewer options.... at least in the US.
Trust me on this: PIIGS have the fundamental "handicap" that they lack self discipline. I have lived in some of the PIIGS as well as Denmark and UK. From they way people park their cars, litter their streets, make building code violations, it is clear (to me at least).
It is going to be much worse.

This is the first week when the managers/companies started to pay attention to what is happening.

Small companies are going to lay people off this week/next week. Mass layoffs take time as a lot of states have something like a WARN act.

One should also remember that most of tipped restaurant industry gets tips on credit cards which are included in the next weekly/bi-weekly paychecks, which means people had money coming the week of lock down/last week. It is this weeek/next week's paychecks will have nothing in them.

Here's how you know we are starting to accept reality: Uber and Lyft miss the revenue numbers; at least one of the on demand delivery services abruptly closes. Ordering food at the markups of DoorDash/Postmates/UberEats/Grubhub is denial.
> Wow. What a terrible decision. I'm quite surprised that people actually agreed to that.

It's not really possible in any other way. Building API docs is a compilation process, from source code to HTML. You either use the compiler, or re-implement parts of it. The latter makes for interesting bug possibilities.
I don't pay for this site, but can see the full article just fine. I don't know what the rules are exactly, but some of us do have access (and ublock takes care of ads)
Thanks for your answer!
Toponymic Subjugation
It would be interesting if the fatality rate continues to trend towards a very bad flu for the elderly.

Goes to show the importance of good testing, it’s possible that most of us have already had the sickness with very mild symptoms, and that the media has successfully put us on war footing because of lack of data.
Is it ironic that a page about web development isn’t mobile friendly?