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> Eventually, these bonds will pay out, and that will take most of the money just injected into the money supply back out of it.

That's the theory, first given when the Fed expanded from buying treasuries in to buying bonds back in 2008. Looking at their balance sheet [0], it isn't working that way in practice.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
Ask HN: Is there a way to block out your property in Google Map et al.?
wondering if you can gray out that zone in google maps et al?
Amazing how many downvotes all the redux critical posts get. Redux is indeed horrible and leads to all sorts of bloat and bugs.
Clipping finger nails in public is my kryptonite.
Despite the media's presentation as such, the Dow is not a measurement of the economy.
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Even if japan (or any other country) manages to pull production back within its boarders, wouldn't China still be more competitive due to cheaper labor/supply chain costs?

IMO, the reason why companies outsourced their production to china still holds today. Companies pulling out will be at a competitive disadvantage against companies who don't.
If you watch big animals hunting (wolves, bear are the ones we have here), they also stand significant chance of being injured by prey (horns..), and as a result tend to harry the prey until it is exhausted and basically gives up.

The other strategy is a quick surprise coup de grace, like lions. We have lions/pumas here but they're hard to spot and I've never seen one hunting but I assume it's like a scaled up version of a house cat, or big felines seen on TV.
yelp has more than 2k employees?

what do they do?
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Because currently I cannot switch Rust libraries without rewriting my code to depend on another probably incompatible async implementation.

Even C++ has learnt the pain of not having basic language libraries as standard library type in what concerns interoperability across libraries.

Async runtimes not being part of std was a surprise to me.
Exciting! let me know how you get on.

Yes there are limited options and can get a lost in endless setup.

Re mobile site, exploring performance and some other features, will post an update in time.

ps thanks everyone who has clicked and signed up!
Why would we open the economy at "peak"? We need to wait at bare minimum until contagion goes back down below the level it was when we shut the economy down. That's a couple months off I'd imagine, and even then we'll just have to shut it back down again shortly after, once the contagion gets back up to the level where we shut the economy down initially.
Some things are a zero sum game, some aren't. Vaccine IP is absolutely in the latter class. You want everyone in every country to be vaccinated, and you absolutely don't want to be poisoning and derailing this universal goal by talk of putting up national barriers around vaccine IP.
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I don't know if I agree... I've used "traditional" Redux in very large projects and the boilerplate far from minimal, and it grows in the same scale the app grows. And it's in the parts that grow more, which is app code: action types and action creators are very un-DRY and repetitive. Switch statements are way noisier syntatically compared to other solutions such as classes or objects (used in VueX and RTK createSlice). Etc.

I think it speaks volumes when the Redux maintainers are going into a direction that uses less boilerplate, like Redux Toolkit.

Honestly, there's nothing wrong with boilerplate, but I guess it's time to admit that some people love it and others hate it.
Pretty much all modern web servers support per-user virtual hosts using wildcards that allow for URLs like http://username.users.example.org/ (instead of http://users.example.org/~username/ when using mod_userdir).

Unless I'm missing something, it seems that this would eliminate most of the issues raised in the article by using a separate subdomain for each user/site.

Using lighttpd, you can do this with this very simple configuration [0]:

$HTTP["host"] =~ "users\.example\.org" {
evhost.path-pattern = "/home/%4/public_html/"
}

Add a "wildcard" record for "*.users.example.org" pointing to the proper host to your DNS zone and you're all set.

---

[0]: https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs_Mod...
I am reading the below paragraph from the guidance, and thinking that it would, necessarely, cause 'over reporting' of COVID-19 related deaths.

However, I am not a doctor, and do not know what was the guidance in previous years, as related to flu.

>"...
In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID–19 cannot
be made, but it is suspected or likely (e.g., the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty), it is acceptable to report COVID–19 on a death certificate as “probable” or “presumed.” In these instances, certifiers should use their best clinical judgement in determining if a COVID–19 infection was likely. However, please note that testing for COVID–19 should be conducted whenever possible. "
It's a shed, but it's a fairly expensive shed.

Preparing the ground isn't mentioned. If you've never tried to make a chunk of ground perfectly level and compacted so that your shed won't sink and tilt... you won't get it right by yourself. Not the first time, anyway.
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Right, the question is "why does the Earth just warm sometimes, specifically 20 millennia ago?"
There is plenty of Helium-3 on Earth too, which doesn't matter because Helium-3 doesn't matter. We can't build working fusion reactors now, and won't be able to do it for decades, and Helium-3 may not even be the best fuel when we do have working fusion reactors.

It's like Columbus asking Queen Elizabeth for billions to explore Texas so we'll have fuel for Model Ts.
Don't forget C# and Scala are better Javas as well.
In context of Kafka, hopefully KIP-500 [1] will get implemented sometime soon.

If you're feeling lucky, you can also use zetcd [2] to connect ZK apps to etcd. I've been able to actually run Kafka with it as a toy project a little while ago.

[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-500%3A...

[2] https://github.com/etcd-io/zetcd
> “ but in my opinion this is a baseless and overly cynical view of things, not truth.”

It’s neither baseless or overly cynical if you’ve ever lived in China or have just spent enough time observing the CCP’s actions.
Perhaps the most valuable writing advice I've ever received: “When you think one sentence needs 35+ words what you really need is two sentences.”
If this were true we wouldn't have done so much research into programming languages over the last 50 years.

PL design is not a problem to solve, it's the study of the way to express problems and their solutions. As long as their are new problems and ways to solve them, we'll find new ways to improve PL designs.
I don't know that the ML community necessarily _needs_ a better language than Python for scripting ML model training. Python is decent for scripting, a lot of people are pretty happy with it. Model training scripts are pretty short anyway, so whatever language you write it in, it's just a few function calls. Most of the work is in cleaning and feature engineering the data up front.

Perhaps a more interesting question is whether the ML community needs a better language than C++ for _implementing_ ML packages. TensorFlow, PyTorch, CNTK, ONNX, all this stuff is implemented in C++ with Python bindings and wrappers. If there was a better language for implementing the learning routines, could it help narrow the divide between the software engineers who build the tools, and the data scientists who use them?
I will also have to disagree on that one. I was born in China, I now live in Europe, and "CCP doesn't give a shit about people" is a bad western stereotype.

Of course, define "caring". Does any other government, including democratic ones, truly care about people? Debatable. But what I'm saying is that CCP is not the mass-murdering villain that Hacker News makes it out to be.

What about censorship, etc? Yes bad things do happen. Lots of good things also happen. Just like all countries, nothing is perfect. I don't need to remind you of all the human rights violations by the US. The point is: you need to have a more nuanced understanding of the CCP than that of a cartoon villain.

Here are some facts: all coronavirus patients got free treatment, free stays in isolation hotels, all Wuhan residents got free food delivered to their homes. In contrast to what happened here in Europe, the CCP took a strong stance to save as many of their own citizen as they can instead of worrying about economic impact.

You may not believe me. But take a look at these:

"I'm sitting home in Wuhan and eating free vegetables and fish govt sent me and you tell me it hurts my human rights???" -- https://twitter.com/ClaireRChen/status/1241971786062770176?s...

New Wuhan Doctor Speaks Out From Ground Zero -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyUHz62Uan8

American and Canadian, living & studying in China, talk about how it is actually like there -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufxfSJgQuSI
> they ordered the wrong thing. China did not intentionally send bad masks, nor was it a manufacturing quality problem.

That doesn't align with what's being reported (by other countries as well):

> "Thousands of testing kits and medical masks are below standard or defective, according to authorities in Spain, Turkey and the Netherlands."

> "Dutch officials said that the masks did not fit and that their filters did not work as intended, even though they had a quality certificate,"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52092395
Even if you weren't the sort of person who could build one in a weekend, you could almost certainly hire somebody locally to do it for less than $9k.

And as a bonus, they'd know your local codes and inspection requirements.
I recall a time many moons ago when I was doing some research on the way in which my state determined their own employment/economic statistics.

It was quite an eye opening experience and exploration. State level economists/demographers are using totally obsolete methods, worse was they they didn't want to disclose certain key elements short of a DPA (state equivalent to FOI) which further led to believe that their archaic approach may be intentionally misleading because "look at how great our unemployment rate is" ;)

I can't speak to fed stuff, never dug in to deep. Totally agree with what you are saying and wondering what (trusted) existing KPIs out there would make sense to look at as say a subcategory of unemployment, if it gets any more granular?
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It's an idea and definitely worth exploring, but my gut tells me that that is both far easier said than done and it likely comes with many unintentional consequences that we should figure out first.

One challenge is that the world is run by software. I have no clue how we would begin even modifying everything to account for such a dramatic change so broadly. Also, who do we suspend this for? Everyone? Only those that can't pay? This solution gets very messy very fast due to the layers upon layers of creditors, who themselves may have creditors. Among those creditors it's likely you can count both the American government and regular Americans (people with pensions and 401k's).

One of the potential consequences that concerns me is what all those creditors do when this is all over? Is there any a new element of risk (suspension of payments) that gets priced in that makes all credit more expensive in perpetuity? Is more expensive credit in perpetuity more expensive than the solutions we're pursuing? Do the creditors pull out of the system entirely and move their money to systems that didn't suspend rent and debt repayment obligations? I really don't know, but doing that is uncharted waters that should not be taken lightly since there may be consequences worse than the solution we're pursuing.

All the solutions are going to be imperfect. Generally those solutions that leave the machinery intact are easier to manage and reason about. Messing with the machinery in a time of crisis is generally inadvisable. It's the equivalent of changing code live in production.
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What graph query languages are you using or have used? Cypher? Gremlin?
> The government paying for Coronavirus also provides a financial incentive to not fuck it up so badly next time.

It absolutely doesn't. Time and time again, corporations have proven their shareholders (management as well) will simply strip as much value as they can, and leave us (taxpayers via government, citizens with devalued currency via the Fed and their monetary policy) holding the bag with any losses or externalities to clean up.

For example, the Tax Reform Act was sold as incentivizing "jobs and investment"; all it incentivized was share buybacks [1]. Shareholders and management have proven themselves unworthy of trust, or more accurately, public and fiscal policy benefiting them that operates on the honor system. "Fool me once!"

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/10/investing/stock-buybacks-re...
it's basically a green house, it is going to get uncomfortably hot and humid during 5 or so months of the year in most of North America.

The single room air conditioners by mitsubishi would be a great option for a space like this though.
Rust isn't even five years old yet (its birthday is in May). It's not entirely surprising that it has gained a few major features in its early years that weren't ready for the 1.0 release, or were found to be useful once more people had actually started using the language.
That ought to depend on how heavily the Japanese government is willing to subsidize them
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I've been impressed by the Go Time podcast from Changelog. Good topics, interesting interviews, well-researched and well executed. Not a huge fan of the other podcasts on that network, but Go Time seems good.
The soft power only works on those that haven’t been exposed to it long enough. If you’ve dealt with China for a while, you know the real deal.
Maybe. I learned redux because I was told to.

The official tutorial was outdated and it set me back weeks because I thought I was wrong.

I suppose the structure was good to learn, my first concept of middleware and reducers.
2) China trying to use soft power, but the whole drama feels fake. It is good that they are sending supplies (often faulty and not up to the quality, see dutch story around this) but it doesn't feel genuine.

I am curious what will be considered not fake and genuine support? Damned if they and damned if they don’t. AFAIK Dutch issued a article clarify the mistake they made which nobody seems to care. I don’t think any single nation can or will survive this alone unless they want to serve all connections to
the world. So why it is not in China best interests to offer genuine support when they can? Not like a short sighted prick?
Red are linear, though, so as a replacement for blue switches you may need brown or a hypothetical more silent version of them.
Here's the relevant section from the article for this comment.

https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-im-leaving-elm/#why-d...
I agree, but somehow most of my managers over the years don't. :-(
>it's plain as day that it's true even if it's not formally true

What does this mean? It's either verifiably true or it is not.
> I intuit that if you are insanely dedicated enough the universe has a weird appreciation for that kind of thing, and eventually throws you a bone. I know it's wrong and irrational but everytime I've tried that it's worked, so there's some anecdotal personal truth.

This is an unfalsifiable assertion. It also implies that if you failed, you just didn't want it hard enough. That's not a message that people who are having trouble finding a job need to hear.
> I was born in China

Did you earn your red scarf?
History books? You could read about the Weimar Republic.
Want to give which geographical region you're from so I can put it down as an anecdotal datapoint?
Sure, if you time everything right, you can make out very well. All these things have to line up.

(FYI I bought MSFT stock for half that, back in 2017.)
Will Silicon Valley coding plantations be changed to give each worker more room?
See the charts for yourself: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed managed to unload a mere $800B (balance sheet went from $4.5T to $3.7T) in the longest bull run in history. Now that it's an order of magnitude bigger, you can draw the logical conclusion yourself.
> conditional on what?

I don't remember. I think it might have been for dependents. Go read the text of the first bailout bill. It's all there.
Not from this series, but if you like these kinds of things, the FFIV documentary is pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0yQKI7Yw4

(However it's bit more about organizational failures than technical failures.)
That's what they initially said, before the research happened. That caused China to be upset. After the research it turns out to be an order problem on the Dutch side after all.
They're literally buying JUNK bonds....

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-09/fed-unlea...
I turn on Bluetooth when using my handsfree, but don't leave it on all the time

Too much tracking already goes on via Bluetooth beacons
Obviously "more powerful" doesn't imply the capability of solving the halting problem. What exactly do you want to say? You are not impressed with "differentiable programming"?
Docker CVE scanners test. False negatives and what they mean for your security
Yes, it's still scummy. Bad practice doesn't make another bad practice good...
These posts (and HN comments) really make me wonder if adopters of fringe languages are always going to be thin-skinned developers who get emotional when they realize they won't be part of the language's design decisions. That "On Whose Authority" rant about Clojure complains about the exact same things. And I'll refer to Rich Hickey's response: https://old.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/73yznc/on_whose_au....

Elm in particular has this weird problem where there are vocal people in the community who you can count on to drape a wet, accusatory blanket over every discussion, and you wonder why they can't just find another language that they do like. Sometimes you need to leave the theater so other people can enjoy the show.

Also what are these languages yall are using where you're part of steering committee level decisions?

This blog post is full of the usual suspect complaints, like being annoyed that a language can use features like custom operators but they can't in their user lib even though most people would agree that user packages shouldn't be able to invent yet more custom operators. It's such a weird jealousy for a point to be "but core libs can do it, why not me? :(". Well, simple: think of the rest of us who don't want every user lib to define its own custom operators. But the complainer here gets hung up on what seems like an ego / entitlement issue.
But that's not what you do in Rust? That's more of a C++ thing. I think you'd be surprised, Rust is much more similar to Swift than you'd think. The biggest layer of complexity is fighting with the borrow checker in some cases, but that only really comes into play when you want to write something concurrent.
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> 2) China trying to use soft power, but the whole drama feels fake. It is good that they are sending supplies (often faulty and not up to the quality, see dutch story around this) but it doesn't feel genuine.

Given that China seems to force countries to pay for PPE the same countries previously donated to China, you're right for being skeptical.

https://abc14news.com/2020/04/06/china-forces-italy-to-buy-s...
No, it is not at all obvious. Read up on the papers written about QE after the 2008 crisis. Monetary base increases significantly but the money multiplier falls in tandem. The net effect is that the price level is not strongly impacted by this type of program, outside of pre-empting deflation by providing liquidity to counter a potential fall in economic activity due to seizing credit markets.

See also "banks don't lend out reserves." The linkage from "cash" (i.e. bank reserves) to the market price level of goods is not very strong.
"Saleem Abdulrasool is the release manager for the Windows platform (@compnerd), is a prolific contributor to the Swift project and the primary instigator behind the port of Swift to Windows." Saleem's github, https://github.com/compnerd, lists swift-win32 repo, which is a "a thin wrapper over the Win32 APIs for graphics on Windows." So it's one person wrapping Win32. Not too promising yet, but it's early and there's room for Windows programmers to get involved.
Yes I did. Not even kidding. You get it when you generally behave like a good student at school. Maybe you associate it with something else (probably Mao mass murdering or w/e) but most Chinese see it as a pretty normal school thing.
>Isn't it obvious this will lead to hyperinflation?

I thought that QE was going to lead to a lot of inflation, and it hasn't seemed to. If inflation has shown up anywhere, it's been in the stock market and housing prices due to low interest rates. Even then, I'm hesitant to say that it's primarily responsible for the rise in housing prices because I think demand from my generation (millenials) is helping to cause the sharp spike in markets such as NYC LA, Atlanta, etc.
wow!, Internet is still there...
It's funny, I agree with your points, but I'm concerned for a very different reason!

The Fed is an institution staffed by unelected, career technocrats. It's not supposed to have such sweeping powers (and, by charter, it really doesn't), but, like most parts of the executive branch, it has expanded in scope over time due to a steady erosion of our lawmaking institutions.

Put bluntly, the Fed can do what it does for the same reason the President can start pseudo-wars without going to congress: it's inconvenient for lawmakers to cop to such responsibilities. The other branches of government are simply shoring up the holes.

To be honest, I like the Fed a lot... In so far as grossly unchecked power goes, we could have far less competent people at the helm (The fact that so few in monetary policy wind up in congress is the real tragedy, if you ask me). That being said, future performance is no guarantee. History shows that it is not so simple to take back power once ceded for the sake of expediency when it is no longer convenient.
I disagree... I use useSelector, and now all my actions.js files export a default useActions method with a wrapper I wrote...

Yeah, the boilerplate setting up the middleware and initial reducer isn't fun... but it's been really rewarding and the react-redux hook has been a godsend.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-redux-actions-hook
“False positive” and “false negative” are pretty good.
Sellers will still be competing to sell to the Fed, and if the Fed openly announces that it's buying then the market knows that the surge of demand isn't introducing any new information about fundamentals.

EDIT: This doesn't mean the price won't rise. The purpose is to cause price rises, i.e. inflation. But they won't be overvalued; the true dollar value will have increased.
Sounds like you ordered a second hand crystal ball there.
Let me guess. Now trying to destroy careers of security folks and replace with bad practices from the mouths of managers at Google. Wow! Gee. I'll buy a paper copy and burn it. 99% of people here are not in Google's use case, so this info can not apply. Brag brag. If you didn't learn the lesson from last book, enjoy. I'm just amazed by Google's ability to run huge kubernetes clusters all on windows, with zero networking or Linux skills, I'm impressed.