skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prediction: The great unwinding is going to be felt much more severely by Big Tech employees, but many months out from today.

Source: I don't work at Big Tech, but personally know many folks who do. For the most part, they are not really thinking very far into the future, because they think (with some justification) that their jobs are much safer than startups and smallish companies.

1 The usual reasons of less people spending money on stuff holds, of course. If your customer is now unemployed, they will eventually cancel your software subscription too.

2 Most employees working at these companies have stock options which will plummet once people start pulling money out of the stock market because they actually need the cash to survive.

3 There will be the usual letting go of people because the manager doesn't like them. In a big company, ironically, this is much easier because no single employee is indispensable.

4 The actual problems are not going to start at Big Tech till about a year from today. This is one of the main problems. Most predictions of economic recovery are way too optimistic. Unless something extraordinary happens (e.g. a combination of off-the-shelf medicines, all in large supply, which miraculously just negates the virus, and we learn about it tomorrow). There is an excellent chance that the layoffs will hit Big Tech precisely when most of their employees think they are safe.

5 The biggest problem, in my view, is how much these employees are used to the cash cushion. There will always be a few prudent folks who save a large chunk, but generally the lifestyles have already been elevated to match the income. The folks who never raised their lifestyle to that level will not really have much to worry about, but that is a small minority.

One can imagine these folks - who are basically going to be the last to be laid off, having to compete with much more hungrier folks while simultaneously having to significantly downsize their lifestyle. And suppose they also bring an "attitude" with them (not that everyone does, but some do), who will want to hire them?

Some folks will point out the large cash holdings of these companies and easy access to credit. But how far can that runway last, realistically, under these types of circumstances?
No, they don't. They say "the software" must be from licensed developers. Not the code itself. All those numbered sentences have "the software" as the subject.
How can I prove dfs graph termination in Agda? I tried passing "visited" subset but nothing
What city are you in? A few years back I quit my QA job to travel from city to city in Europe and stayed in hostels. I loved Paris. The people running many of the hostels there are still friends to this day.
There is no name-calling in my comment, which is merely an expression of my (rather obvious) view that the analytical framework Stross employs to critique zombie literature is drawn from Marxist literary theory, rather than, say, New Criticism, formalism, romanticism, structuralism, or any of the other analytical frameworks he might have adopted.
It’s Canadian style
Fast on Good Friday for Covid19
President of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints calls for global Fast for relief from Covid19 on April 10th (Good Friday). Invites everyone to join.

If you are unable to go without food for health reasons (or you just wish to do so), consider giving something else up. Typical fasts are for 2 consecutive meals or 24 hours. Do it with a purpose
(covid 19)--otherwise you're just starving (or dieting).

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/april-2020-general-conference#saturday-evening (scroll down a bit to find the part on fasting)--I've included it below.

-----relevant parts from article below-----

President Nelson called on everyone around the world to fast and pray again for relief from COVID-19. (A previous fast for relief from COVID-19 was held March 29, 2020.) This global fast will take place on Good Friday, April 10, 2020.

“Let us unite in pleading for healing throughout the world,” the prophet said. “Good Friday would be the perfect day to have our Heavenly Father and His Son hear us! … Let us prayerfully plead … that the present pandemic may be controlled, caregivers protected, the economy strengthened, and life normalized.”

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/fasting
> From 4% to 10%. Still below 20%. So, where are you getting 20%?

From the graphs of all countries that publish their data. Those that publish give you statistic of the number of tested, number of tested positive, those needed hospitalisation and the dead. The death happens with delay of up to two weeks, hospitalsation one. The doubling time of positive tested is 3 days typically. Calculate.
Your [3] link is "404 Page not found" for me currently.
I guess this could work but I have lots of questions. What happens when your hardware changes (new RAM, upgraded CPU, etc.)? How would this work with "virtual" desktops (AWS Workspaces, etc.)? Does your Office365 account follow suite or do you continue to use a password there?

I'm all for getting rid of passwords there just seems to be a lot of holes in this abstraction.
A Microsoft Employee Literally Wrote Washington’s Facial Recognition Law
Cycle Time Days Concept
I'm suggesting 2x30m of fullbody compound exercises twice a week for general population. Push/Pull/Legs using the least stressful lift variations per individual anthropometry for 3x10,8,6 reps with 2-3 minute rest is enough for most people to get 80% of where they need to be be if done consistently over time. Some sort of cardio for heart health. Low intensity (NEAT) activity + diet to manage weight to healthy BMI range. It's not training where you maximize personal potential, more exercise / going through the motions of the minimal routine for maximum benefit. It's not even designed to get people "fit" but just healthy enough to be preventative against diseases of affluence or common trauma like hip fractures that burdens health care and have disproportionate impact on quality of life. Also pour research into steroids, any low effort magic pill that enables people to retain lean mass later in life with minimal side affects.
The BCG vaccine against Covid-19 – really?
They aren't getting scammed. I used to work for a mezzanine lender (a type of lender who mostly lends to PE deals).
Is this good too (NSFL): https://www.youtube.com/embed/eMN9uLeq0ZY
If you go outside you need to know what is legal or not and that could change day to day though. Your city could have a curfew, require a form justifying your errands or whatnot. I normally don't read news at all but in this specific times some type of awareness is required.
It's not just lending to PE firms but to the original businesses before they get bought.

Say Basecamp gets a ~ small 100m loan from syndicate. Basecamp is quite healthy, well managed, low leveraged, so they secure 4% rate for 5yrs, without many covenants.

Then PE buys Basecamp, leverages it to the sky and beyond, Basecamp sells, and suddenly the original 100m loan is now junk-grade. The original lenders never interacted with the PE firm, but they still got screwed.

Could they have prevented it? Sure, with lots of covenants, but they have lots of added costs for all parties and often have ways around them. Which means every possible firm that might get bought by PE is now a) having to deal with lots of covenants, and b) paying 6-7% instead of the 5% they would get if the likelihood of PE acquisitions was lower.
They'll change their tune when they won't be able to find anyone. The free market is as honest as it gets. If you underpay and undertreat your employees, they will seek an alternative. It is simple opportunity cost.
The question isn't whether it's going to be better than Itanium. Of course it will (assuming it ever becomes a real product, of course), since it's using a several generations better process.

Itanium was never particularly impressive compared to its (roughly) contemporary competitors on the (roughly) same process, why would Tachyon be any better?

You say that tradeoffs change as a function of the process. E.g. wires becoming ever more expensive compared to transistors. Is that enough to tilt the playing field in favour of VLIW? I can see VLIW having an advantage here if the VLIW instruction bundle lines up 1:1 with the hardware pipelines (less routing inside the chip), and the workload is static so you can use profile guided optimization to work around the lack of dynamic scheduling (OoO).

However, once you try to create a VLIW ISA that maps to several generations and/or high/low end implementations you lose that 1:1 mapping, and for general purpose code compile time scheduling isn't particularly good. As Intel found out.
Discover the Potential of Artificial Intelligence
Do they then go on to be script consultants for Breaking Bad?
This is nice! I have been baking my own bread for a while now in a large masonry oven, it takes a while to learn when the temperature in the oven is right and the dough is good. Baking bread is more an art than science IMO. You learn it by doing it, this is a nice starting point.
There is no RNA cloning machinery in our cells. The RNA is instead copied from the DNA in the nucleus. Viruses like the coronavirus actually bring their own RNA cloning machinery that's assembled by the cell. Remdesivir only blocks the RNA cloning proteins of the virus.
Wonder if there was a business case for making a captcha service that labels open data for the social good. IMHO even a pay-for-hosted open source model sounds feasible. I would have initially expected that the labels and not the security would provide the cash flow ( I know a company who puts labelling tasks in online games and actually pays the game host)
Yes, you're right. It really doesn't take a genius to make a sourdough. But you're misunderstanding the tech people. They will take tying shoelaces to the genius level. Same with baking bread. And it's a lot of fun for a lot of us.
Doing a bit more digging, it looks like the report from Bose is testing the wrong issue. They tested 4.1.3 to 4.5.2 where as the issue is from 2.x.x and 3.x.x update to 4.5.2.

https://community.bose.com/t5/Around-On-Ear-Headphones/Bose-...
No, about every 8 years we see contractions.
42hrs of Buckminster Fuller might be just the vision we need (2019)
Great performance from Mitsuko Uchida and really nice commentary on the side. It's the first time actually reading text describing the music for this piece, although I have heard it many times. The commentary brings new structure and context to feelings that I have found difficult to articulate before.

I also enjoy Murray Perahia's playing of this piece as well.

I can imagine this type of exercise would be very excellent way to really study and analyze a piece, because you're forced to rationalize the ineffable.
uTorrent has a search tab for example.
The author lays out a general rule that if a bet has a complex payout structure, then it is a scam. Them he applies this to PE deals without giving an example of a complex payoff structure. The reason that he doesn't give an example is because the payoff structure to PE deals is simple. If the company increases in value, the PE firm wins. If it goes down, they lose. I think the author here means "scam" in the sense of "a bunch of people are making a lot of money doing something I don't understand, and I'm not getting any of it."
Design is an actual discipline that people work hard at to produce the results that they do. Colors are a core aspect to UI design.
Come on now. That kind of go to programming was primarily pre- 1980 (remember the Alter verb - pretty powerful and used a lot in the late ‘60‘s/early ‘70’s). Ha! Alter was used to Change a goto statement to go somewhere else. I only saw it where the key driver paragraphs only had one instruction, the goto. That was before goto depending on existed in the ANSI instruction set. But that stuff was wasshed out when new compilers no longer get supported the verb. Point is, languages aren’t static, they grow and change as do programming practices.

I saw another post claim that COBOL programs primarily used flat files and had no concept of ISAM/VSAM/DB2 or relational constructs. Nothing could be further from the truth! In the late ‘70’s COBOL became the primary langauge for processing in CICS or IMS real time transactions. Flat fileS, eh. Ha

Youdon structured design was introduced about 1976 and 1977 - by 1980 only the very smallest IT shops weren’t coding in compliance with structured programming standard that did not allow goto’s. A programmer was unlikely to find a job in a good shop without structured coding experience.

Given New Jersey only began constructing applications in the 1980’s, then evolved for 30+ years - it is very likely most of the code containing go to’s and like code that were difficult to maintain were updated and rewritten in conjunction with other enhancements. Major enhancement projects were often used to fund rewrites in this manner. I am not saying New Jersey did this, I am saying any competently managed IT organization would have done this because that was considered best practices.

Let someone who has actually examined the code tell us how bad it actually is. Heck, if they are really an SDLC shop, there may actually be documentation! Lol
Get an engineer for a year or two at the cut-rate price and once they've gotten ingrained into your org and code base they'll head off when (if?) the economy recovers. Not very forward-thinking.
I don't see a problem in feeling good that a bad company failed and feeling bad that employees at that company are losing their jobs and going to suffer. Conflicting emotions are a natural result of complicated situations.

This is part of why I think we need a much stronger economic safety net with UBI and universal healthcare. Too often, we protect objectively bad institutions and companies because of the very real need to preserve the jobs they provide. If involuntary job loss became a less disastrous event, we might be more keen to cut out waste and inefficiency in the system because we're no longer potentially destroying people's lives in the process.
What were your breads' problems?
You could be a hoarder in a tiny apartment, too.

Or you could be a minimalist who prefers the mostly empty feeling of a large home filled with few things, just like web designers who place huge margins everywhere.
The site looks very slick. I like the end-to-end shaded background on code blocks.

Regarding content, it is very hard to write this kind of introduction because there are so many choices on how to set up the first project and most of those choices would be completely unfamiliar to those comming from other languages. My only recommendation would to set up a repo that would bootstrap the process, or direct people to Maria [0] CLJS notebook so they don't have to deal with compiler, REPL and unfamiliar IDE while also learning language.

[0] www.maria.cloud
What a coincidence: I have that book on my night stand. Now 75% of it is card games, loaded dice and carnivals, but the same patterns emerge over and over.
This is absolutely false. Just one more fake news about Russia.
Governments (like the UK here) are trying to borrow then lend money to business like that so that at the other end of this, they can just return to normal.

But honestly I think it's too complex to attempt. Perhaps some form of managed debt jubilee will work "no rent for six months" or something. but the unintended consequences will be huge.

Good luck to your friend

Edit: we should probably focus on the areas that can be easier made whole - finding landlords with extant contracts and just paying them for the contract will be easier than getting their tenants paid, finding businesses with employment contracts easier than paying individuals...
The author of the book referenced in this article, Kyle Chayka, was on my podcast recently https://www.lumi.com/wellmade/110-kyle-chayka

I like that the book doesn't attach itself to any one definition of minimalism, but instead tries to explore all its definitions, what ties them together, and why we keep coming back to these ideas.

I would consider myself a lifelong minimalist, but this book challenged my notions about minimalism in many ways. It's a good read!
Now who's the real boogieman? Even after the US shafts everybody, does anybody believe things will change once this is over? The world will still bow down to the US and give it whatever it wants.

Nothing ever really changes
Maybe the person got a new keyboard? Maybe you just didn't notice it before but now that you've started thinking about it it's impossible not to notice?

There can be a thousand factors, and these 20 objective tests are easier to trust than subjective listeners.
My rent has gone up ~5-7% per year for the past 3 renewals and just recently (1 week ago) I got one that was 0 increase. I wouldn't have thought that was possible in the Bay Area until recently, so I'm not sure if I should renew or just wait until the last day and haggle a bit.
Doubling-down on my (open source) knowledge management application: https://contextualise.dev/
And they will simply continue after the bankruptcy
Any labour you pay is paid with your post-tax income, with sales tax on top. You'd need to work two hours to buy an hour of your own labour. You usually get paid for a fixed number of hours, so the time you save by hiring an expert can't be spent at work paying for it.

There's usually some overhead involved too: finding labour, scheduling appointments, bringing your car to the dealership etc. Doing your own oil change takes less time than driving to the garage.

You don't have to do everything on your own, but I'd save the experts for the important challenges.
Ecmascript 2020's Feature Set Finalized
> Thermal Camera Imager for Fever Screening with USB Video Output - UTi165K. PRODUCT ID: 4579
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4579

> This video camera takes photos of temperatures! This camera is specifically tuned to work in the 30˚C~45˚C / 86˚F~113˚ F range with 0.5˚C / 1˚ F accuracy, so it's excellent for human temperature & fever detection. In fact, this thermal camera is often used by companies/airports/hotels/malls to do a first-pass fever check: If any person has a temperature of over 99˚F an alarm goes off so you can do a secondary check with an accurate handheld temperature meter.

> You may have seen thermal 'FLIR' cameras used to find air leaks in homes, but those cameras have a very wide temperature range, so they're not as accurate in the narrow range used for fever-scanning. This camera is designed specifically for that purpose!

... USB Type-C, SD Card; no price listed yet?
This is amazing! It's really nice to see how much Bose cares. Contrast that with Apple for instance: they are both selling products on which they emphasize quality and craftsmanship at above market prices. Yet Apple never ever acknowledges QA issues until a few years after the product is out, and does all it can to pretend everything is fine. Really impressed by Bose. I would seriously consider purchasing their headphones if active noise cancellation didn't make me feel like my nose is all congested and didn't give me a headache.
When a company is recapitalized in a PE buy the existing lenders need to either be paid back in full or explicitly approve of having their debt rolled over into the new structure. They can't be forced.
There's also the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund currently evaluated at 1.1 trillion dollars. The fund holds stocks, property and other assets all around the world.
> What are you talking about that requires encryption?
your health, your finances, your PII

>If so there are tools for that - signal, etc.
a service that requires a phone number to not let you share your desktop screen with multiple people at once certainly isn't going to be the right tool.

> I am mystified by all the security hype

https://zoom.us/healthcare

they are selling a product at a markup for seats to a play at the local high school security theater.
> The only thing that went thus far were the leather cups (twice) that are fortunately easily replaced. OEM are $$$, while after market alternatives I found to be just as good and are only $.

The analysis in the page discussed in this thread doesn't match what you're saying: knockoff cups are inferior and degrade noise cancellation.
This comment shows how little westerners know about Russia and Russians. Easter is of very little importance in Russia, especially for Russians living abroad.

For religious Russians abroad there are Orthodox churches in almost every country, even in Thailand and Cambodia.
Nice, there are definitely people trying to push more of their datascience/ML stack to Rust and a good dataframe implementation would be useful.

As a side note, a small usage example in the readme would be good.
Analyst: Ethereum is now “Bitcoin’s backbone” and big money is taking notice
Covid-19 is Testing the World
> I use them about 70 hours a week every week

Do you work too much, or do you only ever take them off to shower and sleep?
> Here are the real numbers for the reactions in Scheme 1: 0.25 x 0.58 x 0.74 x 0.21 x 0.23 = .005 (0.5%)

This reminds me of the problems to scale up EUV lithography which are bottlenecked on producing strong enough EUV light. They put in 20 kW of power to get out 200 W at the target wavelength of 13.5 nm, so light generation itself only has 1% efficiency, and then you need to reflect it at mirrors etc. to focus it (lenses don't work at those wavelength) and that makes only 2% of the light actually reach the waver [2].

[1]: https://www.laserfocusworld.com/blogs/article/16569161/the-s...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithograph...
Post Pandemic Premonition
Russia is the leader in nuclear energy which is the only viable green energy source at the moment.
I've had this issue (and posted about it with several people chiming in). I tend to toggle manually the input back to the macbook and it usually works. Kinda annoying though.
To me that's like setting up a complex and interesting WW2 story, and then just smiting the earth with an asteroid. Lazy and boring. Never mind recycling all the usual zombie tropes. Oh, and throw in the usual Star Wars trope of the mass enemy has a single weak spot that one person can attack to wipe it all out. Zzzzzz.....
> Unfortunately I don't think I can get a dutch oven during the lockdown.

ymmv and I don't know where you live, but I was able order one off Amazon and get it in about 4 days about a week ago. Just mixed up the dough for my first bread a few hours ago :)
PPE Is Accepted Pastafarian Religious Garb
Silicon Valley Live Hospital Bed Data
If you do this, while simultaneously keeping a practise of wearing out your user's battery with no option to switch it off and no option to change a worn out battery (except to buy a new device) — then calling this a PR move is not far fetched.

Bose might care, but they care magnitudes less when it goes against their environmentally unsustainable business practise.
Minimalism is luxury. You know you could replace whatever you just threw out (which in turn is a way to declutter; mentally allocating money for a pair of pants to potentially replace the 3 pairs you're never wearing helps getting rid of those). You know you could go back to your parents after "selling everything and backpacking around the world). Instagram-minimalism additionally requires replacing and color-matching a lot of perfectly fine furniture, electronics and toys.

Another messy reality of society is overproduction, manifesting in that box or drawer with extra HDMI cables and USB thumb drives and USB-to-PS2 connectors, and throwing some of that crap out feels good :)
They sell it on their website (in the US). You can also call them to place an order .