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Most consumer technology products are much more complicated under the hood than they appear to be to regular consumers.

Even most programmers -- who are well aware of the hidden complexity of the products they themselves work on -- usually seem to believe that this must not hold true for the products of other companies.

For every feature you're aware of on a random consumer tech product or service, there are probably ten or twenty more that don't concern you, that you haven't seen, or that you don't care about.
And/or the interventions have been working.
It has a very large extortion department.
Hopefully, I don't violate Show HN rules. This week's edition will be sent to your email once signed up. I hope that will provide enough value to the community so that a discussion of sorts would be possible.
Totally out of my field here, but is it possible the stock market doesn’t actually track the economy anymore? Stocks don’t pay dividends that often nowadays; it doesn’t seem to be so much an investment as a guess about where other people think the price is going to go. I mean, what does Bitcoin track, or the price of art? It almost seems arbitrary.
That's the theory, but in practice it's turning out harder than expected to acquire said money. The government isn't just "giving it out" in the sense you can just walk up to a bank and leave with a bag of cash. You have to apply for it and then be approved and then wait for it to show up. This process takes time, and it's not clear how much time.

Another poster noted that Wells Fargo was capped at what they can distribute and BOA was refusing loans to people who were not already customers. So if you're a small business with Wells Fargo and get denied there after an unknown period of time it takes to process that application, then you turn to another large bank and get denied there, this is time wasted while a clock is ticking (rent is still due for your employees and yourself at the end of the month).

So what do you do? Do you lay off your employees because they can apply for unemployment right away? Or do you hold out and hope that the third bank you apply to for a loan will be a success? What if it's not?

It's very easy for Congress to say "We are giving out money. The businesses are saved!" It's quite another in the implementation of that, and to some degree I feel they were so eager to pass something that they didn't think these things through fully.
The author’s story ends up not really adding any meat to that statement though.

Yeah, but it sure helps their SEO rankings. XD
The SFML game engine is very well written and documented, definitely a pleasure to read.
https://github.com/SFML/SFML
Because Ackman made a 1.5 billion dollar bet on a fast recovery, meaning that he invested this money into the markets. The stock market is not a good indicator of economic stability, but rather an indicator of how the top 2% of wealth in America is doing.
While the efficacy is the same, the difference is in the timing. In my testing those pills take ~10 minutes to dissolve, maybe 5 minutes if you are rolling it around on your tongue...for the entire 5 minutes. As a novelty food, it does the trick, but when you're rushing to get your kids to school or in a hurry to get yourself to work you don't have those 5 minutes to get it dissolved before breakfast (assuming your child even has the patience!) You can check the full video in the description but my product takes 30 seconds - 1 minute to dissolve. That's a 10 fold difference. Not only is it convenient but it is also effortless to coat your entire tongue - the surface area does it on its own.

The pills also have a chalky texture and a raisiny taste that not everyone enjoys. While I am still working on the flavor, i have received great feedback saying that it "tastes like a healthy fruit roll-up".
The FED announced a huge new stimulus package (as did the Bank of England earlier today).

I'm also surprised because I'd expect stocks to tank because that's what would make economic sense to me. People at home, not spending money, unemployment soaring. So far I'd assume this situation has more of an impact on the actual economy than the financial crisis but the market seems to disagree.

I guess the lesson here is that FED meddling/cheap money trumps all other factors. But that would mean eventually things should crash really fast.

The best lesson from "The Alchemy of Finance" (my favorite investment book) is that the market just represents the current bias, not the true situation but eventually converges to the true situation. That's subtle but hard to grasp. At least it was for me. Or in other words...what makes economic sense isn't necessarily reflected in the current market prices (as the efficient market hypothesis would suggest).
The most overrated tool I've ever had to misfortune of having to wrangle. Talk about bloat and lasagna code.

I've used mobx and it's better. Now I use apollo, and it's even better.

Just thinking about having to use redux and sagas and all that bloat makes my stress levels rise. I can't believe it became as big as it did.

"muh time travel" is a meme of epic proportions.
Because America is built around the primacy of authoritarian corporate structures. Disintermediating them through sustained direct payments to individuals or even states would upend these businesses’ stranglehold on workers and our democracy.
So how is this more powerful than normal programming?
Only the part that went into the payroll. So a business owner with no revenue borrowed money he did not need and got saddled with the payments.

Oh, and as the vast majority of the loans it is personally guaranteed.

Compare this with:

Don't get the loan. Shut it down. Not owe more money than the owner would owe already.
Liquidity injections from central banks, federal governments, risks of the virus are starting to be known, stairs up & elevator down tends to lead to an over reaction, price discovery, oil cuts possibly happening today with OPEC, the FED announced +2T in purchasing of junk debt this morning, and there are going to be companies coming out of this much stronger than before.
Use mobx! It's 5% of the code you would have to write using redux and their gigantic box of tools.
Wow, this is pretty damning. The author seems fairly level headed and the criticisms feel well reasoned. I've played around with elm a little bit, but this really puts a damper on my desire to dive in further. Hopefully the core team takes some of this criticism on board.
The model that was down revised already took into account the interventions
Ask HN: Is Twitter's feed down?
The most recent tweet I see in my feed is 43 minutes old. No amount of refreshing or reloading the client helps.

This behavior is identical across both the iOS and mobile web clients.
My anecdote: I work for a F100 company that's in the midst of a (long) transition to Office 365. In a mid-level engineering staff meeting 2 days ago where we spent 20 minutes discussing the advantages of Teams over Skype for Business, and what could be done to accelerate our transition. All driven by WFH - Office 365 applications don't require a VPN connection in our org, while Outlook/Skype does.
I survived the Dot Com bubble pop.

I was at the DoubleClick Willy Wonka party where they rented out Centrofly, had topless Chelsea male models made up like Oompa-Loompas. One high up executive said to me "The sushi finally arrived, it's late. $80,000 for food and it's late.".

I saw questionable startups give away $50,000 trips to Monte Carlo as some sort of weird Silicon Alley user acquisition strategy.

When the tide goes out that's your time to strike. If you have downtime start on your passion project. It might even become a product one day.
I do wonder whether zoom wasn't target of competition in news
My understanding is that viral load is always a factor for every virus. Laboratories don't use soap and water, because they want to kill 100% of the viral particles, not 99.9%. They work with samples that have extremely high concentration of viral load.

(Source: lecture by prof. Krzysztof Pyrć)
Yes, giving money to people/governments directly is a good idea, but it's not something the Fed can actually do. The government has to step in for that sort of policy. This isn't "creating money as private debt"-it's purchasing debt. Eventually, these bonds will pay out, and that will take most of the money just injected into the money supply back out of it. The only new loans it's issuing are to states and municipalities.
> were mostly write-only devices.

True.

In the mid eighties though, there were electronic daisy-wheel typewriters (I don't consider those to be word processors in the same vein as the Wang word processors that had full green screens) that had one line LCD screens that would let you edit the line before imprinting it onto the paper.

On a side note, remember how "letter quality" was considered a thing back then, because dot matrix printers could only achieve "near-letter-quality"? Those terms aren't even in today's vernacular.

> Unless you had one of the fancy typewriters with a secondary white-out ribbon,

Even without a fancy typewriter, there were handheld white out sheets you could get, white tape, or you could use liquid paper.
Maybe. Personally, I think the median investor, especially the median short term investor, tends to be more optimistic than the rational market hypothesis would argue. Information availability isn't symmetric, and the news sources favored by these people tend to paint rosier pictures of the recovery than seem likely.

I mean, one very straightforward interpretation of the headline of this linked article is that Yelp will be seeing a 30-40% shortfall in revenue for the medium term future (i.e. long enough to make the firing and hiring process worthwhile). At its worst, the market was guessing at a 38% drop in valuation, and it's now recovered significantly from that.

My guess, and no I'm not buying puts to test it, is that we're going to see another series of shocks to the market when the revenue numbers start being reported and the big employers start running out of money and shutting things down.

Right now the immediate job losses are all in the service sector and small employers, and those jobs are basically invisible to your typical trader bro.
Those are caused by inequality

The economy or money are not always relevant
> can be implemented in a lazy afternoon

Hi, I'm working on making a tensor lib in Rust (think numpy + autodiff) to learn about these topics. There isn't much information online about how projects like numpy and autograd work under the hood.

Do you have any ideas/tips/resources about how it could be done?
Some companies (like today’s Microsoft, apparently) have PR arms that are actually good at their jobs—writing articles that are, independent of their ability to advertise their company, actually intellectually gratifying in some way.

People who post things to HN, independent of being shills for any given company, like to post intellectually gratifying things. Sometimes those things happen to also be PR pieces. I don’t think the people who post these things really think about them as being PR pieces; or, if they do, they post them despite that, because in the balance, the piece still works out to be worth reading (in their opinion) even after giving it a demerit for being PR.

I’m not denying that there are shills on HN, mind you. I’m sure there are many of them. But I would say that even those shills probably have some sort of “standards”—only posting the PR pieces available to them if they think they’ll do well here (which means, only posting the pieces someone else who wasn’t a shill would have posted anyway.) To do otherwise might get them banned as spammers (which I do believe does happen—mods want to chime in on that?)

And then we still have the filter of some amount of upvoting being required to get things to the front page, plus (I assume) some sort of behind-the-scenes voting-ring detection. So the upvote signal is likely to express genuine community interest, and therefore to signal that the piece does have value independent of its PR-power.
I think your 150 estimate is very low— we had 80 eng when I left, nine years ago.
Julia is compiled unlike Python though (at least by default), the moment you call Zygote it will have to run through the entire program you want to differentiate and fail immediately if any type does not match (without the need of any type annotation besides in the method arguments for the multiple dispatch and structs, as Julia has type inference). As some people say, Julia will fail "Just Ahead of Time", and if you're experimenting with live code in the REPL or Jupyter (the recommended workflow) it could very well be just as good.

That said, for machine learning a static type system (as they are now) is definitely not as much of a boom as in most other areas. Most of it involves tensor operations, and embedding things like it's shape in the generics will often lead to an exponential explosion of possible monomorphizations that the compiler will be forced to create. Even JIT languages like Julia will have trouble even though it only needs to compile when it's used (for example StaticArrays will get to a point when the compiler will take so much time that it's not worth it anymore). And even then I feel like most of the issues that actually take time are deeper than stuff like shapes and not naming dimensions, like numerical instabilities, hyperparameter tuning, architecture search and other stuff that gets more benefit of a language allowing quicker exploration.
Religions are pretty similar. At least the most popular ones.
Scryer is not yet as fast or feature-rich as SWI. SWI has been in business for about 30 years longer, so that shouldn't surprise anyone. Also, Scryer is committed to strict conformance to the ISO Prolog standard, which SWI has disregarded for a while now.
I am speculating:

1) pricing in the return of US manufacturing. In a pandemic, it's every country for themselves. We've outsourced items critical for national sovereignty and the ability to respond to crises. I think left and right agrees now, that's a risk which needs to be mitigated.

2) govt has unprecedented support, in terms of small business loans and benefits

3) bonds and stocks are usually inversely correlated, they are not because the fed is buying up a significant portion of the debt, at low rates. Meaning your not getting much return if you hold bonds.

4) Capital flight from foreign markets. If you can't trust China, and emerging markets are going to get hit worse, then the US is where you want your money.

5) Less uncertainty.

6) More speculation that this virus is not as bad as we think. We're well below the expected deaths on the models, which means the models are wrong, by a factor of multiples.
This makes sense, old school game development required paying (relatively high) salaries for years before maybe getting a payday. It would be difficult/impossible for any company to keep 5 years of salaries in savings to mitigate the risk of your next title failing.

Yeah, this ignores the role publishers play, but I doubt a publisher is going to give a relatively new studio too many opportunity. You're game needs to make money if you want another shot.
> Can anyone explain why the dow jones is going up?

That's easy: the market is betting the "help" is another mass wealth transfer from the bottom half of the population to the top half of the population. This happened every time we had a crisis. Why would a rational investor thing it would be different this time?
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>There's one more stage to go: buying equity ETFs, like the Bank of Japan has been doing for years.

People keep saying this, but what is the chain of logic for the fed getting into equities? They aren't in freefall. They've been rallying for the last two weeks.
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> Vegetables have no calories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staple_food

"Typical examples include tubers and roots, grains, legumes, and seeds."

Yeah, don't go scarfing iceberg lettuce when stuck in the woods, but we've been finding and eating starchy root vegetables for probably millions of years.
Who would have thought, that if you let your software to remember your password and use it automatically, it must store it somewhere?

The criticism of not using the Windows API for storing secrets is valid, though, but it still does not help if you, and the malware you run, are logged in.
Has anyone started a full fork of the compiler and ecosystem?

It seems like the size of the pool of the "Elm disaffected" is large enough by now that a fork of the entire project might be worthwhile.

I imagine there are a lot of software engineers (like me) who at one time used Elm, but lost interest under the leadership of the core team.
The Fed is buying a limited universe of high yield by issuers that were recently downgraded. The cutoff date happens to coincide around where Ford got downgraded. They are not (at least currently) buying wider universe HY. The HY ETF purchases are last in their purchase waterfall. Limited HY for "fallen angels" makes sense as these corporate facilities were announced a while ago and did not have much details at the time.
Meat + fire = even more calories out of it.
You don't mind if I port Thun to Scryer Prolog, do you? With full credit to you, of course. I'd like to include it as an example.
>> I think my best speculation is that the economy's fall factored in uncertainty about how bad this really is.

I don't think anyone really understands how bad things are, and the only reason fears have abated is because everyone is operating under the assumption that the country will "open back up" later this month or next month, and things will largely go back to normal in the summer. Once that sentiment erodes and reality sinks in, we can expect the stock market to sink with it.
It's the human endurance piece of these stories that is just fascinating for me. There are times in my very cushy life that I worry about how hard I have it, and don't believe that I can go on.

Then this comes along. Humans really, genuinely are remarkable creatures.
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> Try many finance jobs and big law, also medicine in certain specializations. They all pay much better than 95% of all software engineering jobs.

But the stress levels and amount of hours you have to put in for both finance and law are exponentially higher than being a SWE. I honestly can't remember the last time I had to work 60-70 hour weeks, non-stop for months on end as a developer. The amount of stress in those industries also pales in comparison to the stress of being a SWE.
Sure, but if you list out C++'s warts, you'll find a much longer list spread out over 30 years. The same effect holds, no?
The short version: LastPass doesn't use the login keyring to save the master password when it's saved opting to instead store it in a local file.

I think it's funny that these things are considered vulns since I can't even count the number of random dev tools (hello awscli that needs a 3rd party wrapper to use the keyring) that need password and keys just lying around in plaintext files.

Filevault, Bitlocker, and LUKS are the only real defense against this sort of thing since once you hijack a logged in session the best you can do is make attacks harder, not actually stop them.
The difference is obviously in what kind of changes are included in each "release". C has a specification (something Rust lacks) and C18 simply clarified unclear edge cases in the standard. No new features were added. Rust releases add new features and semantics, Q.E.D.
a lot of good answers here but one's missing:

market effects of the underlying securities themselves. Supply and demand of actual stocks can affect price

The biggest one is a short squeeze

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_squeeze
I could have sworn there was a full-install option that let you avoid disc swapping... assuming you had 2-3 gigs of free hard drive space in that era. maybe I'm thinking of Exile(the 3rd one)?
I would disagree, first Go has been tremendously successful and yes will have generics soon. The ML community really needs a better language than Python, the current alternatives (Julia, Nim, R) are alright but seem to miss the mark in this arena. I see few data scientists excited about Swift, its too heavy handed and deeply embedded in the Apple iOS community.

People are searching for a better language in this space and it's something that often needs a corporate backing. Google is aware of this problem and hired Chris Latner to fix it, its just a bit of unfortunate oversight, I guess we'll keep using Python for now.
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Microsoft thinks coronavirus will forever change the way we work and learn
>I'll be interested to see what they come up with. Still think it's a pity they didn't choose Julia. But it's not my project so I don't get to choose.

I still think it is not too late to admit that was a mistake, and change course to Julia. Especially Chris Lattner has moved on.
websockets or any stream service such as kafka
No one thought that it depends on people's habits, say common social norms? Say in Asia it was commonplace to wear masks even before epidemic and it is considered polite to stand far away from one another, and people bow instead of shaking hands. Quite clearly there, or say in Sweden with their tradition of having a large privacy distance, R0 is much lower than in Italy where people hug and kiss seeing each other.
Maybe some people can neither afford to move nor live in their apartment and will end up homeless. The people having the hardest time living in SF are the people we now call "essential workers" and "heroes" for doing the jobs we all depend on to survive. What exactly do you think happens to the city of San Francisco when all the "essential workers" are forced to move away or are homeless?
Inca Gold and Sahara are some of my favorite adventure books.

You should also check out the "Oregon Files" series from Cussler. Golden Buddha and Skeleton Coast are excellent.
> Today we will let 1,000 of our colleagues go and furlough approximately 1,100 more, while reducing hours for others. Your department leaders will be in touch this morning to discuss how this affects you individually, and letters with more details and FAQs will follow this afternoon.

Honest question - is it normal to announce layoffs publicly before telling the affected employees? I guess I can understand it from a PR perspective, but it must be awful to read that and sit around waiting to find out if you're affected.
2.7B billion minutes of work not being done :)
Yea I don't hate the language I sort of see it as a better Java. I just don't think its right for the ML/Data science community.
It’s amazing to me, seeing the flagrant corruption and abuse of these norms and laws over the past few years, that people still cling to ideas like what the Fed can and cannot do. These prohibitions exist only to the extent that they don’t impinge on the power of Capital owners and their institutions and disappear the moment they need bailouts.
The FreeWrite Traveler[0] seems to be a significant improvement on their older models, and they are offering a pre-order sale price that makes it significantly cheaper than the FreeWrite 2 (I was actually on the verge of ordering one as a birthday present for my writer wife before the current crisis hit). It folds up in a clamshell format for portability and the screen can be angled to be a bit less troublesome for your posture, although the screen size still leaves something to be desired.

[0]: https://getfreewrite.com/products/freewrite-traveler
The Fed (rightfully) does not have the authority to do that.