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>> I hope we can also see an unwinding of the ridiculous cost of living that is part of the rationale behind unsustainable wage growth.

From your mouth to god's ear. The ridiculous cost of living is what made me reconsider the Bay Area (South Bay) after 5 years there.

My wife and I are very financially conservative. We pay cash to own assets - car, house etc. That just wasn't possible out there. And I couldn't imagine shelling out >$1M (not that I have it) in cash to own a mediocre house that would be worth 5 times less almost anywhere else.
The eclipse language server powers the vs-code Java plugin. I've found it to be quite good.
That's highly doubtful. If you really think that you should be raising a fund right now.
Correct, Russia is going to decline radically in the next few decades due to renewable energy, and none of Putin's geopolitical adventurism is going to alter that fact.
A lot of things are being described as a panic at the moment, and a lot of it is really just rational risk mitigation behaviour. The factors the influence risk management decisions are all pretty straightforward. You’ve got an assessment on the likelihood of the risk causing an impact, as assessment of the potential magnitude of that impact, a judgement about how much risk you’re willing to accept, and decision about how much resource you’re willing to commit to managing the risk. The way these panic discussions tend to go is first, ignore the fact that different people/organisations have different resources available to commit to risk management, then if you disagree with any of the judgements they make, describe it as a ‘panic’, rather than what it actually is, a rational decision that you might disagree with for some reason.
That would be my assumption as well. I would hypothesize that once the virus is well seeded within a country, the contribution by new travelers is dwarfed by internal propagation.

Using the famous Washington Post simulation as a reference:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-si...

I imagine it's like the second scenario in reverse. Rather than the wall opening, picture it closing after the virus is already spreading uncontained on either side.

Of course, it could be a significant factor in keeping the outbreak initially contained. But that involves an even more fanciful assumption in my view: that you could impose and really tightly enforce a ban early enough to matter. The continued pressure from Trump and many of his political allies to "open the economy" -- and their resistance to "shutting it down" in the first place -- shows such a proposition, offered at a point it would have mattered (if that were even possible with the initial stonewalling by China on the severity of the outbreak) would almost certainly have been cried down as paranoia and overreaction by the kind of business and political interests who hold real influence over these matters.
Can you provide a link to tube launched SAMs currently deployed? The RN once experimented with Blowpipe MANPADs for a similar role, but to my knowledge no navy is deploying SAMs on their subs.

Also, don't discount SSNs in terms of ASW. There's a reason that submariners say the best ASW is another sub.

I wouldn't say the USN relies heavily on helicopters for ASW. They don't really rely on anything since they've let these skills atrophy. About the only investment they've made is in the P8. They've shitcanned the S3, shitcanned SOSUS, and will be in a world of hurt if the PRC decides to get serious about subs.
Do they mean that SDLC? Or do they mean "synchronous data link control"?
I think I agree (assuming I understand your meaning). Individual experimentation and experience is the leading edge. Only much later does it get codified into institutionalized forms. This in fact is the history of what we call science, but somehow we've dropped the "find out for yourself" aspect and returned to something that uncomfortably resembles the priesthood that the original scientists were deviating against.
Tell that to the South Koreans who don't want to reunify due to the amount of money it will cost the South Korean economy. https://intpolicydigest.org/2018/03/11/why-young-south-korea...
No, a Venezuelan naval ship rammed a German antarctic cruise ship. and the Venezuelan ship sank.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22765172
Yes, it did. In fact, CASE tools were going to be all the rage: computer-aided software engineering.

One of them was METHOD/1 from Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). If you wanted to create a variable to hold, for example, a part number... you'd create an entry in the CASE tool for it and from then on, everyone was supposed to use that one. It would have validation rules, like 30 characters, alphanumeric, whatever.

The CASE tool would do code generation for screens and forms and whatnot. And.... that's about as much as I remember at the moment.
Not necessarily, a startup could be boot strapped by founders themselves, and they might prefer to keep it a closely held operation with minimal third parties adding pressures. They might still be looking to cash out, just on different terms.
Thanks, I thought fitness would have some sort of group aggregation/hierarchy and possibly pick up niche tend underneath it.
>Tell China they can control the territory in exchage for them stopping all hostilities in the South China Sea

What does China gain here? Integrating North Korea would be no simple task, and there would be no real military benefit over the current situation. Meanwhile they'd give up their (legitimately weak) claim over parts of the South China Sea oil reserves and trade routes.

>That + making NK a nuclear free zone could be a compromise that benefits everyone

North Korea has been offering that compromise for decades, the US refuses to make all of Korea a nuclear bomb free zone.
as sort of a poor man's rate limiting, I have written spiders that will sleep after every request, for the length of the previous request (sometimes length of the request times a sleep factor that defaults to 1). My thinking is that if the site is under load, it will respond slower, and my spider will slow down as well.
They're STILL offering pensions? WTF, will they NEVER learn?
You're shilling for a regime that has gutted engineers and experts out of PDVSA in favor of political allies with no industry knowledge, and then claiming that the US is responsible for the extreme poverty in Venezuela that predated US sanctions by years.

Below, you are shilling for a Bolivian leader who introduced a new constitution with term limits, and then violated those term limits himself by claiming that he had a "human right" to run for reelection.

Shame on you.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

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

Your comment might be just fine in an in-person conversation, but if you respond to someone this way in a broadcast medium [1], it comes across as a kind of social enforcement and shaming, especially if (like this one was) it sits at the top of a thread accruing mass—which happens easily because because indignation routinely attracts upvotes [2]. The OP has every right to think about what interests him, nor does it somehow follow from this that he doesn't care about people dying.

[1] Which HN is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22780144

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The first one is the one I've read and recommend. I haven't seen the second one before.
Dylan's notorious for leaving brilliant songs on the shelf, sometimes for decades. Some of them leak and circulate among collectors/rabid fans, but some of them don't.
I can tick the 10+ years COBOL box nicely, though that was 30+ years ago and with that, somebody with 1-3 years COBOL would be more effective than somebody as myself.

Still, in an era of movie superheroes, who knew that having 10+ years upon your CV would enable you to go, step aside good citizens, for I shall save you. COBOL man to the rescue.
> There are plenty of Remote Desktop apps for the iPhone.

Not screen sharing, something equivalent to Windows Remote Desktop Services or X11 forwarding, where your device acts as a thin client for an application running on a remote server. It's expressly prohibited by the Apple guidelines, presumably because any such client would allow someone to compete with the app store by using remote apps. But it's also useful for other things, like keeping all your data on your company's trusted servers instead of on a device that could be lost or stolen.

> What policies are in place that don’t allow Signal to do backups using its own service - something that other apps do?

It doesn't use a service because the entire point is to not have all your data in the hands of a third party service. On Android it stores the backup in the filesystem which you copy off the device via USB.

> And you’re worried about “security” but you want a File Browser to have unfettered access to your data? It’s a feature that third party apps can only access files outside of their own sandbox that you explicitly give them permission to.

"It's not a bug, it's a feature!"

There should obviously be a permission required to do that, but if the user wants to use the app to view their files, they should be able to use the app to view their files.

This is the problem with Apple deciding everything for everybody. Some people have really stringent security requirements and don't want their data getting uploaded to a service, someone else wants a copy of all the data from every app to be backed up to some third party cloud service. But Apple restricts things to such an extent that you can't choose to do either one. One size fits none.

> No company wants to deal with the hassle and legality of bit torrent. Most people aren’t using to “download Linux ISOs”. I’m definitely not.

BitTorrent is not illegal, that isn't Apple's problem any more than it is with anything else anyway (what if someone pirates movies with Safari?), and "no company wants to deal with that hassle" is exactly the problem with putting the decision of what you can use your device for in the hands of a third party that isn't responsive to your needs.

> But before as far as bit torrent, my use case is starting and downloading things on my computer from my phone and adding them to my Plex library. I can do that by pairing my mobile browser to Vuze and going to remote.vuze.com.

Which is a fully generic counterargument, because you can make any app a web page and then do whatever you want on the web page. That's a total cheat when you're asking for things there are no iOS apps for.

> There are plenty of Windows only consumer apps - especially games.

There are plenty of Android only games, like Doom 3.

Not to mention all of the games that can be played in emulators on Android but not iOS because Apple doesn't allow emulators.

> Even from Microsoft, Access and Publisher are Windows only and are included with Office 365.

You must realize the equivalent to this would be Google apps for Android that don't exist on iOS, which there are several of.
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Again there is an existence proof that isn’t true. Marco Arment and David “Underscore” Smith are well known indie developers who are often featured on the App Store.
Any state government it department is going to be a royal mess. I worked for the Washington state government for 6 months a few years ago and it was the worst job I’d ever had.

I was at the top of my pay grade just under architect and only two years out of college making around 68k a year in Olympia. Olympia is not a cheap place to live. On top of that you’re basically legislates NOT to do work.
For what it's worth, traditional (i.e. not Tesla) OEMs generally had a "no open source anything" policy for a long time, for a variety of reasons I don't really agree with. That's changing a little bit these days, but not a whole lot.
When you put it that way it makes me more sympathetic to the idea, horrifying as it is. War has been one of the biggest things that led to progress, unfortunately. And we don't seem to have learned how to do without it. Walter Scheidel's work has been interesting about this.

https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/10/can-inequal...
This will sound weird, but they should call up Northwestern State University of Louisiana for an alumni list. They were one of the last 4-year places that had a COBOL-focused degree program, through to at least 2012.
Nope - http://www.ambysoft.com/essays/agileLifecycle.html
Though I would of prefered your flavour as way more fun and less admin work overheads.
With FFmpeg builds being produced for browsers[1], it'd be great see this working in a web app. I tried making one a few years back, but it was a little early. It only worked in Chrome, on a desktop, and with smallish MP4s at the time[2].

[1] https://github.com/Kagami/ffmpeg.js/
[2] https://zvakanaka.github.io/vidslicer/
I recognize an app is more convenient but I do find that sometimes people forget that they can call the store to check if they really need something.
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As someone who grew up outside of the USA, I feel like the problem in America is the diametrically opposite one.

People have too much faith in "normality", rule of law and relative stability and don't realize that stuff like that breaks down and stops working very easily, with even minor disruptions. Power plants are suddenly not supplied with oil, being stopped by a cop can be scarier than being stopped by a robber, and if you confront someone trying to break down a building door in the middle of the day their response is "so what are you going to do? go away before you get in trouble". etc. Or as some guy from Argentina described, if someone steps in front of your car you hit the gas, not the break. Heck, the order broke down in NO after Katrina - and it was a small, short-lived, localized inconvenience by developing world standards.

The "elite panic" is spot on and should not be confined to the elites, especially given the non-existent safety net, and the widespread accessibility of firearms.
Maybe, equally we have every idiot going to the useless John Hopkins site because it looks pretty.

I guess it's an arms game in part.
The Russian submarine fleet is anything but formidable. Yes, the Yasen class is nice, but Russia can't afford them. The Borei is a decent SSBN, but the numbers are just too small to be formidable. The Lada isn't bad for an SSK, but again, no real budget.

The rest of the fleet is comprised of Kilos, Akulas, and Oscars. These would have been formidable in the 1980s, but they're outclassed by most NATO fleets (excluding Germany which has let their entire military collapse).

Your sub-launched ASMs are nice though. Wouldn't want to be on the receiving end, but since most of the SSGNs don't leave port, not really much of a threat.
Relatively nobody goes out of their way for local food reviews. If advertising was suddenly banned I feel like people would end up much less likely to try anything new and life would be more stagnant overall. New businesses would struggle to attract customers and everyone would gravitate to McDonald's and Wal Mart even more than they already do.
I feel the phase means something different entirely - let's say I start a software consultancy with my friends, and my goals are to run the firm how I want, be my own boss and that we have fun working on interesting projects together.
That to me is a lifestyle business.

If there is a profitable decision I could take, like investment / partners / whatever, I prioritise the fact that I want to keep running this company myself without interference over profit. I prioritise my job satisfaction.

Maybe I could hire a more competent CEO, but that's not what I am trying to do here. I could get a mentor thou.

This business could be funded by debt, or investment, though not normally.

Now I might make a lot of money and grow the firm to 10k people, or I might take long holidays and go bankrupt - that's a different problem entirely.
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It needs both.
did you read the site?
Flights get cancelled all of the time though. That should be built in.
This doesn't align with their propaganda that claims coronavirus has no more harm than regular flu.
People are told there is no coronavirus in Russia, just couple minor cases.
The vast majority of Jewish people who died in the Holocaust were not elites - however, it is true that German resentment against rich and influential Jewish people in politics, business, the media, and arts played a huge role in leading to the Holocaust. Anti-Jewish sentiment in pre-WW2 Germany was not very different from anti-Jewish sentiment today. Already back then, as still is the case now, antisemites tended to target their ire against Jewish people's disproportionate influence over politics, the economy, media, the arts and so on. The fact that most Jewish people are not rich and influential does not dissuade those types. For many or most antisemites, resentment against rich and influential Jewish people soon swells into a generalized resentment against almost all or all Jewish people. So, for example, the Nazis ended up killing huge numbers of poor Eastern European Jews who could not be described in any way, shape, or form as elites. But this does not mean that the resentment did not originally largely stem from resentment against well-off and influential Jewish people.

In my experience, most antisemites are fairly stupid* and it is hard for them to understand the logic which says "just because a small subset of a certain ethnic/cultural group has disproportionate influence over the society in which they live does not mean that every member of that ethnic/cultural group has disproportionate influence over that society".

This fallacy is sort of like thinking that, because most NBA players are African-American, it means that most or all African-Americans must be really good at basketball. Rather obviously flawed logic.

*Certainly not all, though - the more intelligent ones probably contribute the bulk of antisemitic literature.
There is also the other advantage pointed out in the article, in that typing a comma and hitting tab lists all his custom commands.
More precisely 'users'. Every user can access it.
I'm sensitive to complaints about Zoom's privacy/security shortcomings. I wouldn't have an important conversation on the platform.

But Zoom clearly offers the best videoconferencing product along many dimensions: ease of use, quality of video, etc. Students are already receiving subpar instruction due to the unceremonious transition to remote learning by schools that clearly aren't prepared. So unless the privacy/security issues are actually impacting learning on a large scale, perhaps it makes more sense to stick with the product people are already using.
That's not really going to give you a taste for what it's like to "do" COBOL in a real-world scenario. Realistically, no one is running COBOL on a modern Linux. They're running it on something like z/OS and there is so much utterly bizarre and incredibly tedious stuff you have to deal with on those mainframe OS's that you'll run away screaming. And that's not even mentioning the code itself, written over several decades and likely not well documented.

When I worked at IBM not TOO long ago there were times when I had to fix a bug in WebSphere that only manifested on z/OS or zLinux and those were hands down the hardest bugs to fix. And that was a relatively modern codebase, by mainframe standards.
This issue highlights one of my main fears about a pandemic such as COVID-19: if enough people with the necessary amount of knowledge to maintain necessary infrastructure die without sufficiently and timely trained replacements, then civilization as we know it becomes one more step closer towards total irrecoverable collapse.

The prevalence of COBOL and other older programming languages in many parts of the world's critical infrastructure (unemployment claims here, finance, government, defense) means that the average age of someone maintaining these systems tends older. Older people tend to have more health issues. From the summaries of reports I read about COVID-19, the majority of the deaths happen among the elderly and those with other health conditions.

The idea of civilization collapsing might seem fanciful and farfetched, but the idea struck me after watching a video that was submitted here on HN and the videos it references [0][1][2][3].

[0] Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk

[1] Preventing the Collapse of Civilization [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19945452

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiNmTVThNEY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiNmTVThNEY

[3] Eric Cline | 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyry8mgXiTk
> With Zoom, a 10-person meeting is often set up in a grid that reminds us of “The Brady Bunch.” Each person stares right at you from the screen for the entire meeting.

This has not been my experience. The person speaking is full screen, and you have a floating carousel that shows 4 or so meeting attendee's video (if enabled) or a still photo and/or that participant's name.
AMEN. You could set up any color scheme you wanted in Windows 3.1, 30 years ago. You could do so in Unix GUIs as well.

The vaunted Apple UI was the exception, forcing an inverse color scheme on all users, all the time. They refused to admit the failure of the "screen as a piece of paper" analogy that ascended during the "desktop publishing" rage of the late '80s/early '90s.

So now Microsoft inexplicably REMOVED user-definable color schemes from Windows (around the time of Vista, I think), and Apple has clumsily implemented a hard-coded "dark mode." If you're a developer, you know how hideously broken numerous Apple UI controls are now as a result (rendering nearly invisible text and arbitrary background colors).

You could spot Web designers and even design tools that didn't know what they were doing when you'd pull up a Web site to find it mostly blank. This meant that the page overrode your system's dark background color with white, but didn't override your white text color. The result, of course, was white text on a white background.

Google embarrassingly introduced this defect into the Google News page at some point, rendering all the story abstracts invisible.

Good times.
I didn't say it wasn't a big deal. I said it wasn't a cyberattack. Crashing my car into an electronics store isn't "hacking" either.
No, it's definitely possible. But I think your definition of what you want and my definition aren't wholly compatible.
add = (a, b) => a + b

xs.filter(x => x > 10)

Are so elementary I'm not sure how they can look new to you unless you're new to programming.
Chaos engineering: a 10-minute tutorial to run your first chaos experiment
Had source code control, albeit printed manual audited to the nth degree with any production changes having to be fully audited and signed off and compared with original with light boxes twice by separate people level of SCC. Yeah experienced that back in the 80's, it got easier though.

As for standards you would see from one company to another - early days and lucky to have separate department use same standards. So payroll would have different standards than marketing, but separate ecosystems and less of an issue, beyond team cultural changes and analysts quirks.

But then, standards change over time and become usurped.

So could very well ask the same question in 20 years time as the approach is always changing. May even be a call for C programmers then.
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