skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks awfully much like back in the days when OOP really took off and people started to brag about how many thousands of classes they have in their systems. They even drew dependency diagrams awfully similar to those in that presentation. And they thought all that complexity and interconnectedness was a good thing, something to applaud! Of course most of this happened in small presentations, not on HN and giant conferences. But it still happened.

Nowadays, bragging about your thousands of classes in your OO application earns you laughs, or at best pitiful stares - rightfully so.

I'm wondering if history is going to repeat itself...
I hope wireguard improves it’s tooling. It feels a bit crude for me.
All else being equal it does not. Shares are worth the same as the company now has less shares but also less cash.
Exactly. " he asked the all companies whose employees are being partially payed by the state to be very moderate in paying dividends", my point.
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> I'm fascinated by the concept of prioritization rules in place rather than simply raising prices.

Given the sudden need and the circumstances behind it putting prices up might not decrease demand enough to make any difference so while the system will be more profitable it won't be any less congested and now you have people paying more but feeling like they are getting less because they had to wait an hour before they could start that little herd of VMs they usually have available immediately on demand.

This could drive people off onto other services, or at least make previously entrenched users look up and scan the horizon.
"Definitely" is a strong word. I'd imagine that it's designed so that you don't need more than a few to interact with each in real time to fulfill a business process.

I think people's anxiety around this comes from thinking that they need to understand every single system in intimate detail, or even a significant number of them. On most days, you probably only need to understand what happens at the boundaries of the ones that your systems need to interact with. Good instrumentation means you have enough visibility into them without needing to understand the implementation details.
Isn't SSR React notoriously slow? Whats the benefit here over a standard templating language?
Depends on what you're building. Client side rendering vs SSR have both different trade-offs and performance implications, and it's best to evaluate which is better for your use case.

For a blog or mostly static webpage? SSR is probably the better choice. But there are many times where serving a minified React bundle to the client and letting it do all of the rendering work is better. It's actually a much lower strain on your server, because all you're doing is serving static files from behind a proxy like Nginx, whereas with NextJS your server incurs significant performance overhead from having to evaluate each page view in JS. Imagine this for a million visitors at once when you have content that cannot be statically cached.
Where are you getting your data from?

This [1] would suggest that the Google/Bing analogy is a little off.

My, anecdotal, experience is that some large corporations, who would like to use Zoom, can't until the major security issues are resolved.

I think it's very possible that Zoom will end up as the dominant player but I see no evidence that it's there yet.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/870061/united-states-top...
It's not stealing from the market, but it's essentially giving away money to shareholders by spending to inflate the stock price.

In a way it's similar to dividends, but not taxes in the same way.

Basically the logic behind the French government reasoning is "we're giving you money to support your business and your employees, not to give it away to shareholders".

Note that this wasn't the initial plan of the French governement, initially the plan was to pose no conditions, just saying "please be responsible in your choice". It's after the public backlash that they finally put conditions.
I clicked on a book at random, and it had ePub and Mobi formats available for download.

I guess it's just down to whatever format the book is in within their archives.
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I'm not even entirely sure the microservice part is the bit that's ridiculous. I remember interviewing with them a few years back and when I was told the architecture I was like "so you have all these services but you run them off the same database cluster, isn't that like super risky?"

Low and behold pretty much every major outage they've had has been because of their Cassandra cluster. To be fair they have addressed this now, but for it to take N outages and 5 years kind of tells me they could focus a little more attention on properties people value in their banks, like I don't know... uptime.

This is why they have to work pretty hard to make me switch over to it being my primary bank, and 1600 microservices communicating over the most brittle part of your stack doesn't win them any points in this space.

To put it in context I really can't remember the last time HSBC had a major outage... Sure it's boring but it works pretty much all the time.

Monzo seems more of a "60% of the time it works everytime" situation, great to send your mates money but I wouldn’t trust it to pay my rent on time. Having 1600 microservices kind of explains this.

If there’s anyone at Monzo listening, please focus on not going down as everything else you do is great.
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Well, we didn't actually have the collapse in 2008. It all got propped up in the vain hope that the banking sector would stop doing stupid risky things.

Now we have the same choice. We can prop it all up again, in the vague hope that bankers will change their behaviour. Or we can let Wall St go to the wall.

If we do prop it up, we have to know that we'll need to do that again in another 10 years, and again after that, and so on. Until the bankers change their behaviour.
You mean like [0][1][2]?

[0] http://www.chinacdc.cn/yyrdgz/202001/t20200123_211390.html

[1] https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/health-advice.html

[2] http://www.cdc.go.kr/index.es?sid=a2
You're not just quoting Le Marie, you're arguing that Reuters is wrong.
I think a lot of people are extrapolating from their experience with monoliths and imagining that Monzo devs are maintaining 1600 tiny monoliths. That's an anxiety-inducing thought.
It's easier to do when you have massive oil reserves and a small population, however, Norway has done an absolutely top notch job imho. I 100% agree with you that we should be looking, and very closely, at Norway and any other countries whose policies in any area seem to be working exceptionally well.

I wonder if doing that would be considered a loss of face in some way.
oh cool, last time I looked I only found ones that didn't support YAML.

Any chance you've used either of these?
As an alternative point of view: who cares?

We know for a fact that ICUs are being overloaded with cases and morgues are overwhelmed with the dead. Arguing over exact figures is like quibbling over your exact velocity as you're falling off a cliff.

Finding some prettier numbers won't change the reality of the situation, no matter how convincingly you argue your case.
This is cool, and you make it clear it's an experiment, but I'd just like to ask you in a bit more detail on the part about not just using React SSR directly because you felt you were just reimplementing Next - to me most of the value Next brings is abstracting away the isomorphic stuff, making everything work the same on client and server in a seamless 'app-like' structure.

But since you don't need the client, you don't need any of that, right? Seems like without having to structure the server code in the same way you'd structure client code, things just get a lot simpler and the native React SSR stuff should be fine to use directly. Just curious which other features of Next you found you wanted for a server-only app?
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The controversial part is that initially the government didn't pose any condition at all.

There was a huge public backlash, which is why the government changed their plan.
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Great point. I'd also add that in the US, individuals that consider themselves to be religous is much higher, by a high margin. As the commenter just above me points out, there are many english names of things that are "rude" words in other countries.
Edit: Latin America doesn't have that prudishness.
What do you think about a DSL alternative?
Okay, so this link loads up to a blank page. You have to edit the CSS and remove the "opacity: 0" to see the content. Presumably there's some Javascript in there that does this after the page has loaded.

So, talking about a hill to die on - can we please stop doing this? There was absolutely nothing else in that web page that required Javascript to be able to view the content. It was completely unnecessary to pull a trick like that.
I think for traditional webservices it sounds a bit strange, but look at things like actors in erlang, or how ROS (robot operating system) uses nodes. It's all individual processes that are fully asynchronous, and the number can run into the hundreds or thousands.
My grandma was basically a Russian subsistence farmer and died as one. She had three children and one of them learned German and met a German man in Poland and eventually married him. That was my mother. However, the relationship became violent and abusive by the time I was 4. When my mother got a divorce she immediately left the city and moved to an different city that turned out to be extremely car dependent. The first thing she did was get a driver's license and a used Golf 3 for $2000. It was 15 year old at that time and pretty much nearing the end of it's life. She managed to bring up two children on unemployment benefits and seasonal work. Unfortunately one of the children has autism, back problems at a young age and major digestive problems and the other child was normal but got a worthless degree. Was all of that struggle worthless in the end? No. I'm the "cripple" but I personally am doing just fine as a developer and I am actually out-earning my other sibling.
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You can use the same components in server and client-side rendering, which can be very useful in many cases.
In some indistries, that means thousands of people without work, and hundreds of other companies in the supply chain going bankrupt, and even more people without work. Sometimes it's cheaper to bail out the main company, then to deal with the unemployed, many more bankrupt companies etc.

But some regulation should be put in place... if a CEO fscked up the company so much, it needed government bailout, they don't deserve a bonus, no matter what their contract says. A good system would also be, to turn a bailout into a 'long-term loan' from the government, and have a mandatory percentage of the companies profits go to repaying the 'loan', with some regulation on internal business (to prevent dumping everything to a new, 'clean' company, and letting the old shell fail).
I'm just a kernel newbie looking at small issues in my free time, but seeing my name in the shortlog feels very rewarding.
People with low well-being report positive outcomes after psychedelics
No, as in you are unable to provide evidence, or no as in your are unwilling?
I agree that the layout of the R7RS document could be further improved.
It's not possible to skip the code generation part because a resulting converter is always compiled from the code written under the hood.
Could you please share what is your concern about this? I'd really like to better understand it!

JFYI: it's possible to skip running "gen_converter" method, it's possible to just use "execute" -- it runs "gen_converter" under the hood:
c.group_by(
c.item(0)
).aggregate({
c.item(0): c.reduce(c.ReduceFuncs.Sum, c.item(1))
}).execute([
(0, 1), (0, 2), (0, 3),
(1, 10), (1, 12),
])

Out[5]: [{0: 6}, {1: 22}]

The downside is that you won't be reusing the converter.
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My Steelcase Gesture has uneven armrests, after I noticed it I also checked other chairs in the office and almost every one of them has this flaw. It's not much - maybe 0.5cm but it is impossible to adjust it to same level. It's not that much of a problem - after sitting for a while and concentrating on work my mind loses 'awareness' of this problem (or maybe body adjusts? skews?)
Another thing is that seat/seat angle is profiled in such way that I have feeling of slowly sliding down over time.
Overall chair is sturdy solid etc. but for this price it shouldn't have mentioned flaws. I wouldn't buy it again.
> You could argue it is easier to read (and better for the environment too) but it wasn't that long ago when fixed width was the norm (typewriters, dot-matrix printers, early micro-computers / mainframes, etc) and people read just fine.

Fixed width was used because the toolchains for it were cheaper (with computers, that included software that allowed to visualize document appearance.)

In the era when typewriters and dot-matrix printers dominated, sag, casual office documents, professional print still used proportional type for all the same reasons that that is the norm today, and that it was for centuries before typewriters, much less dot matrix printers.
Don't they also teach you how to put on that oxygen mask on the airplane?
> Buybacks are just tax efficient dividends, and all of the hate against them is from people who don't realize this and haven't thought through the math

Or from people who do exactly realize this and have though through the math. I mean, its not like there is no reason why dividends tend to be taxed ...
Never used SSR React, but one possibility comes to mind: It makes easier for single page JS apps to have compatibility with browsers that have JS disabled by allowing more code reuse between JS and no-JS versions.
Confirmed. You'll have to temporarily allow javascript for that. What for? Just some text. Come on, people.
HBO better not disappoint us with their Snow Crash series. This was such a fun book.
I am much into hobbyist work, like 3d printing/welding (mig/tig/stick welding/grinding), laser/CNC cutting.

I use a fume hood, I made it myself using Centrifugal fan and filters.

I thought about using scuba gear for welding, but I was worried about explosion from oxygen in case of leak?

Then I wear a respirator.

Is there anyway to respirate using a pipe placed elsewhere? Thinking about having a respirator attached to 20meter long pipe and put other end of the pipe outside to get fresh air instead of breathing the welding fumes.
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Who at Monzo could possibly understand how a significant portion of their platform works, in detail, and be confident that knowledge isn't going to be outdated in ten minutes from now? Who understands how changes to each of these tiny pieces will impact the others?

Tbf, this can apply to any sufficiently complex system, whether or not it uses microservices.

It's why interfaces are so damned important, especially communicating them with stakeholders. Done properly, you only need to focus on the bits of a system that matter to you. At least microservices get to use OpenAPI.
Thank you very much for your kind word, very much appreciated.
Seveneves until the fast forward was engaging but I stopped reading shortly after.
More complicated is that the shorts on MBS which mortgage servicers use to hedge their exposure to non performing loans are also losing money. As Fed buys more and more MBS the loan services can no longer recoup money via their hedge, can’t get payment out of borrowers, and often can’t even resell the loan since lots of them are recently refinanced and now with forebarence have not made their first payment.
Does it make sense to build chatbots to fight COVID19? Not so sure
I guess so. But at the same time. After setting it up to connect into my home network, I'm just surprised at how well it works.
> Buybacks are just tax efficient dividends, and all of the hate against them is from people who don't realize this and haven't thought through the math.

No, a lot of it is from people who aren't too keen on capitalism or the means by which corporations return capital to the capitalist class in general, and particularly when it is “tax efficient”.
I definitely agree. Companies should be allowed to go bust more! Especially if they're in trouble because they didn't maintain a safety net of capital.

Unfortunately companies are often able to convince politicians, and the public that they're critically important, or too big to fail. They say that many other companies depend on them, and if they're allowed to go bust they will be "the next lehman brothers" with many other companies cascading and failing.

So I think bailouts are going to continue be a thing indefinitely. And if we can't stop bailouts from happening, making them come with conditions - like safer capital ratios - that make bailouts less likely in the future would be a good thing.
> I think that requires some citation/argument as to why it should be so - not just a flat statement.

Just plant a tomato in a pot, put it by the window and wait. I could find you citation about the "freshness" of your garden products, but nothing beat experiencing it for yourself.

Hydroponics and LEDs are good for mass-producing a bit of basil and a lot of tomatoes, but the taste is just not there. They're bland, and unsavory.
The tooling right now is pretty much directly exposing the underlying netlink api, so can seem a little clunky. wg-quick does go someway to making it more userfriendly.

WireGuard has been very pro-active at adopting useful abstractions, personally I've used https://github.com/WireGuard/wgctrl-go to build https://github.com/jamescun/wg-api a JSONRPC server for WireGuard, so expect tooling to improve over time.
Ukraine does not. Russia is easier to get in and pays more.
Yes I am. State aid is not only guaranteed bonds. Partial unemployement is, too.
The only thing that would change the status quo would be personal responsibility to the criminals in charge, the actual persons, not a vague concept of "system". Those that rigged the game, that live luxurious lives beyond our dreams off bailouts that we paid in a crisis that caused suffering to billions of people.

If those responsible got life sentences en masse for their crimes which probably killed far more people than any serial killer could hope for, then maybe their ilk would think twice before doing that. When punishment is effectively ZERO, then why not risk it?
From what I've read, Wall Street never recovered after 2008 since nobody trusts any counterparties. That's why the interest rate has been held at zero.

In some sense, Wall Street has been a zombie since 2008.

At that time, mortgage-backed securities were one problem. Today auto loans are supposedly pretty frothy.
Considering it was probably two doubling times (I've been seeing 2.77 days or so as well from the jhu site) to write the paper and get it out- working extremely hard.
I like the color names, but am a bit disappointed there are multiple names for the same color, e.g. #000000 is 'divorced black' in one palette, and 'contributable black' in another.
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The title is

> French companies benefiting from state aid can't buy back shares

You stated "That's a false statement"

However it is in fact a true statement, since a law is effectively passed to forbid the very thing the post title describes.

Hence stating "That's a false statement" is "strictly false", and quoting a part of an article that explains that the exact thing you're quoting is now outdated doesn't make it less false somehow.

If you want to mean that companies "can" still buy back shares, although it's now illegal, well, that's just refusing to give the post title an honest interpretation of what it means.
But your comment may make you sound like a conspiracy theorist on conspiracy theorists, making them the villain.
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace has been the most impactful, but due to the length of the book it's hard for others to compete on the impact-per-page metric. I wrote about it in detail here https://speak.sh/posts/infinite-jest

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera showed me another perspective of love I had never considered. Gave me insight into vulnerability.

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes showed me how by looking through the world via a lens of intellect, you can often miss the point.

The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God by Etgar Keret a collection of some of my favourite short stories. Highly recommend.
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For many users, the important language is the one you use to interface with the language, not the language the library was written in. :)

Not contradicting your point, btw.
I felt the same so I made https://github.com/naggie/dsnet -- just a simple CLI tool to add/remove peers, generating config.
Hehe, weirdly enough, I just set it up on my emacs a few hours ago. It definitely needs more polish, but so far has been a nice experience and definitely has saved me some clicks and context swapping.

Thanks for the package.
People are talking doomsday scenarios, on this very forum. Getting some hard facts would really help temper the hysteria, or allow people to prep further appropriately.

We’re planning for more than the next three days here.
I wonder how much it takes for him to get his account suspended.
Thank you for explaining that simply to me.
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Number of deaths is more interesting, since they usually keep track of that for all that die. This data does not give any good insight since all countries do not test the same amount of people relative to their population.
Keeping those resources for a week but completely inaccessible would not be a huge cost for AWS yet a very big relief for startups.
The Hobbit was important for me too. I wouldn't have read it without the C64 adventure game (same with Color of Magic). I was probably only around 7 years old so it was a big book and took me a while to get through and kicked off a love of reading. Around the same time I read the whole Narnia series. Then next came the Lord of the Rings which was a multi-year epic for me.

Strangely, the Fighting Fantasy series was also a big influence - a cousin gave me Citadel of Chaos just after it came out and it really pushed my interesting in books and a an only child I tracked down almost every solo roleplaying booking I could find.

I also loved Eric the Viking ( the Terry Jones version ), which I now read to my children and The Odysseus books that Tony Robinson wrote that kicked off an interest in mythology.
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While announcing Linux 5.6 is relevant to HN, the particular mailing list message regards differences from a previous release candidate.

Can someone please explain, in layperson's terms, what has changed from Linux 5.5 (or 5.4) to 5.6?
Why aren't shareholders on the hook for bailing out their own companies? They have the financial incentive to protect their own investments.

Why is bailing out a compay different from "investing" in it? What is an investment besides a non-emergency bailout?

Edit: Why don't companies raise money by issuing more stock? Isn't that what the stock matket is for?