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Google stock has fallen significantly since its highs. So has FB. MSFT has been doing well because of cloud and Teams.

Airlines are heavy advertisers and their industry is crushed. We’ll see the next quarterly results. I bet at-least 30% revenue quarterly loss compared to last year.

The economy is very intertwined. Especially when people start defaulting on mortgages en-masse. The 2 trillion stimulation hasn’t yet started sending out cheques to those who need it. Banks haven’t figured out how to loan to businesses that need it.

The worst death count / day of virus is still to come.

People can may be weather one or two months, after that. Shit will really hit the fan.
I'm running the course every Friday at 10 a.m. Eastern, in 1-hour segments. Recordings are available to anyone who signs up. So far, it has been lots of fun!
"Someone told me git reset --hard. Oh shit!!! My extant work is all gone!"

"Hmm, how to start from scratch? I guess I could save a few files, delete the workspace with good old trusty rm -rf, clone again, and restore those few files."

If you can't see the difference between those two...

Yes, the Git power user will know how to "start from scratch" without really starting from scratch and without losing extant work they'd rather save. And beginner users can do the second of the above. But teach a beginner to use git reset --hard and they'll hate Git and they'll hate you.
Radical reforms are required to forge a society that will work for all
I heard about hydroxychloroquine here, 38 days ago--long before Trump, or this "simple country doctor" said a peep about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22426143
I Found the Source of the Corona Virus
Well, I end up implementing the thing I was originally thinking about and the project is awesome now. I was able to create beautiful fractals from the crossing of two.

There's room for improvement and I'll implement the ability to view and share the rules that generate the fractals
In rebase-happy workflows the commit date doesn't mean much.
Trying http://roamresearch.com/ nowadays. I'm thinking of moving to-dos somewhere else now, though. Maybe into Notion or Trello.
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I kept looking at the site to find some indication that this is satire. As near as I can tell, this was a legit study. I'm genuinely perplexed.

Edit: Silly me. It turns out that while BMJ is a legit journal, the study itself is satire and does identify itself as such near the end and via a linked opinion.
The course is aimed at people who have never programmed before. There are many participants who have, but they realize that I'm assuming they don't even know what a variable is, or that you need quotes around text to distinguish it from an identifier, etc.

Session 1 was about basic input/printing. Session 2 was about "if" statements. Session 3 was about numbers. Session 4 will be the first of several talking about strings.

My goal is to help people learn to program if they haven't done so already, or (especially) if they have been frustrated.
You can use CRDTs on top of pretty much any database and while they could simplify things, any database won't be optimized for specific constraints of CRDTs, so you won't be able to achieve certain levels of performance, availability, reliability and operational overhead possible with a well designed CRDT based system (I'm talking an order of magnitude difference here).
Airbnb claims to make money.
Expedia and Booking have been around nearly 25 years and both have well over 20k employees. Seems like travel has more than enough margins to support multiple companies that size.
Strongly disagree there. If there was a crash at line 4, in the first example you would only see this:

> results.append({categoryName: c.name, products: p, manager: m.name})

In the second example you would see this:

> results.append({categoryName: internalProductCategory.name, products: products, manager: manager.name})

Do you know what the error would be? Probably that you're assigning the manager's name to a property called `manager` ;)
Use of Cloth Face Coverings to Help Slow the Spread of Covid-19
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Good questions!

I'm teaching Python because... well, because I teach Python, and this is my way of helping people who want to learn.

I also believe that Python is a good first language for many people. Not everyone, but for a lot of people. It's not only relatively easy to learn, but it's practical. Many people want to learn Python because of their jobs.
I definitely talk about mutability in my course. It's super important, I agree!
Massive hard to read code makes up 99% of software in the real world
Just learned git rebase -i last week. Added tip: git rebase --abort at any point in the process if you're not sure if you did the right thing.
No, I'm not "moving the goalposts".

The accusation is that Apple downclocked the phone in order to degrade the phone's performance and make people buy new phones.

In fact, Apple downclocked the phones so that already degraded phones could continue to function without becoming unusable.

That's all it was.
The term "start up" generally means any relatively young company (compared to companies that are multiple decades old) that's growing rapidly in revenue and/or valuation. The number of employees isn't as relevant.
mozgi=brain(s) in russian for anyone else who was wondering.
After 7 years and multiple updates no one “noticed”?
Finding a good hour that (a) fits my schedule and (b) fits the schedule for as many people as possible around the world was... challenging. I apologize for making it early for people on the West Coast, and hope that you can benefit from the recordings.
K10S pulp is definitely used in surgical masks. This is a fact and I admit it.

So far I've shown that K10S is not used in N95 respirators which is the original statement.

I've shown evidence in good faith and you have not. None of your links makes reference to N95 Respirators.

Please provide a direct reference that K10S pulp is used in N95 Respirators.
Click the bit that says:

> Linked opinion: We jumped from planes without parachutes (and lived to tell the tale)

"The PARACHUTE trial is our satirical attempt at bringing the parachute, as well as the almighty RCT, back down to earth."
My most useful tool for working with and fixing weird branch structures is the graph based log output together with `git branch -f move_me to_here`
I have a Discourse forum that's open to anyone who registers for the course. I've been helping people there to install Python and Jupyter, as well as an IDE (typically PyCharm) if they want.
Derp - i assume they’re in large containing tanks - but the question was more “what happens in the mine if some of the oil does ignite?
Is it this bit?

https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-api/blob/e386d2ac3...

I'd like to clarify that the remark about load handling was aimed at your SMS gateway providers.
But they are, for the buyer. More sellers = more liquidity. It just also turns out they (the sellers) are making money by picking up pennies in front of a steamroller.
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> VLIW was a good idea that failed at the time due to the pure momentum of x86 and Moore's law.

It also failed because of Intel's very poor handling of the developers who wanted to switch to the Itanium architecture and eventually gave up because there was only support for big shops.
People always write about coming recessions. I could "recession year 20NN" and find someone proclaiming a recession would happen that year. Given someone in the peanut gallery is always claiming recession is near imminent, when are businesses supposed to prepare? Leaving piles of purposeless cash is poor business acumen: it could be put into R&D, expanding operations, or returned to shareholders.
The Russians could also lob a tactical nuke at Malmo and take their ships out into the Atlantic as well. For sure the US isn't going to risk a major US city to defend Sweden, so there's also that. Also, if memory serves, flattening the Copenhagen/Malmo area was considered an obvious Russian opening move during the cold war, if things had gotten hot.
I'm aware that there are different types of loans in the CARES Act. But the OP was not referring to the large business loans, they were referring to small business loans. And the comment we were both replying to was mistakenly imputing issues with the large business loans to the OP's comments about small business loans. In your parent reply, you were doing the same--stating that large businesses do not qualify for CARES Act loans, which is wrong, but is also not relevant to any of my comments about the small business loans.
The best kind of satire is the kind that goes all the way. This is what you get if nobody tries to accept new information without a "double blind randomly controlled trial" for it.
Actual title: "Billions of people are under coronavirus lockdowns – and now the upper crust of the Earth is shaking less"

Note "less" and not "left"...
I store my text notes on Dropbox, using various subfolder layers. The android app allows both creation and editing of .txt files.
The site is not that great, and there are a lot of what look like shoddy print-on-demand books that Amazon also sells. Not exactly your indie-bookstore mix.
I bet you know about that salt cavern that collapsed at Lake Peigneur[1]. There should be a documentary on youtube where you can see the footage, including a really big boat going "phoomph" into the whirlpool created by the bayou water filling in the cavern. Edit: here's one[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_iZr2-Coqc

still blows my mind
All media should be viewed as satire

It’s so emotionally compressed into one vibe and hyper stylized visually how anyone can sit down with the intent of making real sense of it is bizarre.

It’s highly customized to satisfy a target audience. Not generalized like so much other media.

Go interact with real people, or create your own.

I’ve been curating a space opera for a decade. 3,000+ typed pages.

I have no desire to give it up to the public and find it almost meditative. Haven’t seen any of the new SW movies, or sci fi in the last decade. I borrow ideas as Lucas, etc did. It all just flows.

I don’t really owe society a financial return on my endeavors either.

Grew up this way though. I honestly don’t care if anyone ever finds value in my efforts.

Putting in work to satisfy others isn’t why I get up in the morning.

Let go of market economics and free yourself to be a multi disciplinarian.
> the burden is on them to go the extra mile to explain their reasoning

that’s not how extraordinary math worked in the past
Not sure why you are downvoted, I completely agree with you, Russia isn't afraid of Sweden.
> really hope they open source their compiler and allow people to program directly to the machine code.

Be careful what you wish for.

Writing compilers (and hand-coded assembly) for theses types of 'poison bit' architectures is not for the faint of heart.
I disagree that GUI tools like STM32CubeMX are useful. They end up being a crutch that end up adding increasingly complex wizard driven autogeneration, rather than just exposing the configuration in easy to consume ways. Sure, you can get something running fast, but it’s incredibly difficult to move from “blink a led via this template project” to “build a useful project integrating multiple peripherals”.

I think there’s some actually interesting work being done with standardization like SVD files, but too many vendors treat them like second class citizens compared to their bulky code gen solutions.
The definition is now so broad as to become meaningless.
This one is interesting, because if I recall correctly, if you are using the single symbol they more or less mean the same thing. You can do ~~~ or ^^^ and get to the same spot

The difference is in their numerical notion. ~N means go to my Nth first parent. Where ^N means my Nth parent, which is really only valuable/useful on merge commits (Or more specifically octopus merges that merge more than two commits)

This is why ~ and ^ in the single form mean the same thing.

So, in one mental model of the DAG you can think of ^ as horizontal navigation (Right) and ~ as vertical (Down)
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Yes. It is impossible to generate a billion dollars of value. The only way to be a billionaire is, in some way or another, to divert resources from other people, be it workers or consumers.
Fellow Joplin user and I love it, but do you know of a better alternative to their search? I wish I could grep the raw files, but I think they're stored locally with some kind of encoding.
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Indeed. Startup = entirely new business model. That's what venture capital is designed for.

Otherwise it's just a small business, until it becomes medium, big, public, etc.
The reason AirBnb is a startup is because it makes no money. A company stops being a startup when you aren't relying on someone cutting you a check every month to keep it all going.

Most of these companies will now fold. The number of employees or, even, revenue is irrelevant.
You say it's stupid but don't say why. Honestly dorm my experience this is a useful feature I'm not a tech expert but in most team meetings I'm the most technologically able person in the room. I end up quietly muting people that forget to tune themselves out while typing. Not sure thats useful for a classroom of 10 year olds though.
They are being built and have delivery dates in 2024 and 2025.
dnl This is a comment: M4 is insane.
I wouldn't even call it intrinsic value because it's not like you can convert bitcoins back into the energy used to produce them.
Foley mixing is still the state of the art in the majority of cases, but there is a lot more DSP power to throw at spatial positioning and acoustics, which makes the resulting mix a lot smoother.
That's the solution I use with mod_lisp running behind Apache too, but I'd like to get away from Apache. I'll try haproxy.
That doesn't answer the question at all. It sounds like you are saying you wouldn't work in those conditions. Why? Because the conditions are poor. Poor conditions with little alternatives... Hmm, one could say such situations are ripe for exploitation.

Just because the alternative is potential death, it does not excuse exploitative practices.
There is no such thing as tactical nuke warfare.
To most of America, the term "startup" means a vaguely tech-ish company which doesn't know how to make a profit.

As a former techie, I strongly agree with that usage.
I applaud the author for having the courage

Writing a blog post of your own opinions is courageous?

This seems like a pretty standard blog post where the author has strong opinions about how people should live and then critics his adopted country using those same opinions.
https://github.com/codecoll/org-backlink
The problem with most commercial aircraft is you can't reach the door in time.

Hence I use an airbag suit.
If you suspect you're talking to a scammer, the best solution is to—waste their time.
Agree. It's really missing the point of how this has been used in reality for the sake of promoting semantics in an area where semantics rarely matter.
For me, I found it very useful to stop using tracking branches. This means I move all of my branch pointers manually and once you get used to it, you’ll begin to find rebases and cherry-picks more intuitive. In fact, it’s made me really distaste merge commits in general.

Flow might be something like:

git checkout master
git checkout -b my_branch
git push origin my_branch
...
git fetch
git log -p origin/my_branch
git reset --hard origin/my_branch
Ah, I didn't realize that was a link. Nor did I read all the way to the end where they mention that it's satire. Absolutely brilliant, especially since it's in BMJ and not, say, the Journal of Irreproducible Results.
This is the official CDC page on cloth face masks that I believe got put up yesterday or today. Over the past couple weeks there have been a number of HN discussions on this topic, many flagged outright or removed from front page:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22737062

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22733249

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706216

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22760634

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22756773

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22602592

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22756773
Is the narrative that big companies are safe havens for job seekers actually true? Isn't Airbnb a "big" company?
Most programs are not correct. You'd have to refer to number of bugs.
It doesn't show which commits have two parents. Which is usually useful for a `git revert`.
Do you have a Side project with traffic that you don't know what to do?
What does "best" mean here? Successful? Affability? A tautology that the people with rich, fulfilling lives outside of work are the best people in business?
You do realize that suburbia was created because of demand? People wanted to work in a city, but have a home with more space, more families, hence suburbia.

The way you describe it is that it's some bizarre form of living that was forced upon people.
Exactly, most of the votes don't matter. There may be a big shareholder whose vote does matter, but it's probably the management, look at Google and Facebook. They sold the company and kept all the ownership.

"This is still true in most young companies, which need capital to get going, and in many small ones anyhow. But in most successful American concerns which have grown to maturity, and especially in the very big ones which between them do a very large proportion of American business, the stockholders are no longer in control in any real sense: they are subordinate in authority and importance to the management... ...Suppose a stockholder doesn’t like the way the corporation is being run? Only if he is eccentric, or a special sort of crusader, or a politician (union or otherwise) trying to make a stir, does he try to oppose the management of a really big company. What he does, instead, is to sell his stock and get out... ...Looking at this segment of American business, we would almost find it appropriate to call our present economic system “managementism” rather than “capitalism.”."
- Frederick Lewis Allen in "The Big Change: America Transforms itself 1900 - 1950"
You're confusing real estate with dwellings. Renting land is an issue for farmers. Adam Smith had a lot more sympathy for sharecroppers than for apartment dwellers. Even the most basic apartment represents tens of thousands of dollars in investment. No one is going to make that investment without hope of charging "rent". Modern standards don't allow for hovels to be built of local materials on vacant land in a few weeks, as was possible in Smith's time.
Ask HN: what are the questions that keep you up at night ?

For me: How do viruses really work? How to antiviruses work? I’ve gone into basics of DNA -> RNA -> Ribosome -> protein -> cell organelles -> Cells. We know how to sequence DNA and it’s pretty cheap right now. How do we simulate compiling DNA -> proteins and how they interact with each other? How do you find weak spots in a virus and figure out what proteins will inactivate them ?

2) what is the best course of action for people who lost their jobs? Taking <20k from 401k/IRA should be free of taxes and penalties. Everyone has lost >30% of value since Feb already. Sure most people don’t have 401ks, but those who do could weather this storm a bit better. Should we stop payments for all loans for 2 months. No mortgage, auto loans, student loans etc. stop those foreclosures from happening. No rent.

3) will US have the most deaths? Most likely. A large population + most states haven’t locked down. This means unless >80% of population gets infected and recovers to build herd immunity, or we have a vaccine, we’re in deep trouble. Should we infect everyone >10 and under <30 and in clusters so we build up herd immunity in weeks? And get most of the young population back to work? Like if you’re gonna be sitting at home for two weeks, may as well get sick and build up immunity while we’re at it.
And my recollection was it wasn't easy to sell apps on those phones without the phone ISP gatekeepers getting involved
> git rev-parse branch-name: gets the hash of a branch name, useful for verifying two branches are at the same place

I believe the same thing can be done by running git log --oneline -n1 branch-name (though you will also get the commit message title in addition to the sha).

> my_branch^ points to the commit 1 before my_branch, and can be repeated multiple times, ie. my_branch^^^ to get the commit 3 from the top.

The ^ notation only references the first parent of the commit. You would have to do something like commitish^2 to reference
the second parent (though this would only be an issue for merge commits or any commit that has more than one parent).
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While PG tried to redefine the term "startup" to include "growing rapidly in revenue" or whatever, this redefinition never took hold outside of a very limited sphere centered in Silicon Valley.

Outside of the valley, startup means a company that doesn't know how to make money.
How does the response manifest? Is it overt?
How likely is a total economic collapse due to the potential coronavirus impact?
Most signs show that lockdown could easily stretch through the summer. A freeze in consumer spending would cause multiple industries to fail causing a ripple effect. Why does it seem like no one is concerned about an economic collapse due to the coronavirus?

To be specific, if lockdown lasts through the summer, and a second virus wave occurs in the fall as expected, then lockdowns will continue further into the year. The timeframe for a vaccine is 12-18 months earliest. Then, the vaccine must be manufactured and distributed. Since the virus is so widespread that it is now assumed that it will reach a global critical mass, this essentially guarantees the collapse of the restaurant, airline, tourism, and hotel industries as they cannot sustain prolonged losses in a capitalistic structure. If they fail, their suppliers fail, and so on. History has shown that large systems are prone to failure time and time again, esp. when accountability is obfuscated (e.g. the Titanic, the World Wars/Holocaust, and now this). In the past Egypt fell, and then Rome fell. What is to say our current systems won’t fail, even if as a slowly sinking ship?
No idea rly.
I know that some played starcraft before openttd xD
And now most seem to be too busy with real life...
What I’m seeing:

- Forget funding. The window is closed.

- Big customers are battening down the hatches. Cash is king. Lots of asks for payment terms.

- Little customers are failing.

If you run a startup or work at one, implement Plan B now. Cut.
Company size is positively but not perfectly correlated with stability.
It’s because the owners are trying to squeeze as much value as they can out of you in as short a time as possible. This might be obvious but owners want as much they can show an investor as soon as possible to make their ownership of the company more valuable in the shortest amount of time, and also often trying to make the amount of money they lose to you as small as possible.

I think you probably already know this but for those that need to read this - the chances of you becoming a millionaire at a start up are zero. Better to go buy a lotto ticket. That said, much like owning a home in Southern California there are many good reasons to join a startup- money is not one of them.

There is of course the caveat that of course some people win the lotto but planning your financial life around winning the lotto is idiotic.