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I think people are too quick to discount the importance of failure and feeling bad. If failing has no consequence, there will be far less motivation. However, in my opinion, this is a balance. Failure has to be sufficiently painful, but no more than that.

From the research I’ve done, two major items have made failure too painful: stagnant wages and rapidly inflating rent prices. People can no longer hold onto savings in case something doesn’t work because they barely make ends meet. Our system is inherently broken. We need unions, raises in minimum wage, worker strikes, etc. This is not going to be a generation of people going through economic hardship just because of the economy, but also because we are no longer willing to fight for each other.
I'm sure you'll get it.
Did they fix the import error message? That one has been a PITA on 1.14
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That's the point of bugfix releases (x.y.Z).
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Is that really all it is though?
Cases in point: Java Applets, VB, Flash, Dart ...

All of these were at one point or another "built into the browser", but where are they now? Give credit where it is due, the success of the web as a platform lies not in its technical superiority over alternatives, but in its inclusiveness and flexibility. Any tech that is trying to replace HTML, CSS and JS in this regards will seriously have to consider and accommodate this, or suffer the same fate of hundreds of other pretenders to the throne. Long live the king! Long live open, approachable and flexible tech!

Exhibit A: List of very different and diverse languages that compile to JS ( https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu... ). If this does not demonstrate the flexibility and malleability of the language, then I do not know what does. Take web assembly for example, which has been around for over five years now, and was specifically designed as a "compile to" language. How many languages compile to web assembly in comparison?

Any tech that is as divisive as TS is simply not going to get far. Flash ActionScript was massive 10 years ago compared to any alternative to JS tech today, and where is it now? The creator of TS even quotes ActionScript as one of the main inspirations for TS. ActionScript even had a more powerful version of Reacts JSX (ES4), where is it today? CoffeeScript was all the rage 5 years ago, JS simply absorbed all its good ideas, where is it today? The things that last, that stand the test of time are the things that are flexible and accommodate different ways of doing things. For your beloved TS to stand the test of time, it has got to accommodate the whole JS eco-system, not just those who favor the static object oriented way of doing things.
This sounds like to going to the neighborhood psychic to know whether you'll find true love.
> Who knows, it might work.

Frightening!

Whereas, we know the debt-fuelled-collapse-cycle works, insofar as it inspires economic-confidence in those that need that sort of thing.

My guess is that’s why we keep doing what we’re doing: there doesn’t appear to be any reason not to, and the alternatives might cause a whole lot a whole lot of discomfort.
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>I can fathom why governments call deflation the big enemy.

The answer lies in who the governments are that are saying that. They're the advanced economies which are well developed and have good regulatory systems, the ones that have little to no risk of hyperinflation. And, for them, deflation is worse than some (non-hyper) inflation. It's also much harder to get out of, Japan is still sort of stuck 20-30yrs later despite taking more and more extreme measures.

To circle back to the parent comment topic, ie. people think printing money always causes inflation:
You mention Japan. They have printed so much that their central bank owns about 45% of the national debt. And they still have no inflation.

>we keep having mysterious debt-fueled collapses.

I don't think they're that mysterious. Most seem to be caused by human irrationality / group-think (bubbles), in combination with complex financial instruments that magnify the effects of a burst (ie. unwinding of massive leverage).
> TS done the proper idiomatic TS way is just very different from JS done the proper functional + dynamic way.

Where do you get the idea that Typescript code should be structured like a static object oriented language? Is it because it's a Microsoft product?

Letting Typescript try and figure out the types while coding in a "dynamic and functional way" is what works best for me. Is this wrong?
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Mostly, to help prevent you the asymptomatic carrier, from spraying your respiratory droplets into the environment.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/face-masks-cor...

The CDC is recommending then now. Do you disagree with their expert opinion (nevermind their stand a week ago)?

Finally, with respect to the mask wearer's protection, look into viral load.
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Agreed. I know plenty of codebases still written in C++03 style and work fine. I'm still using 2015 edition Rust crates and they work fine. I won't say there's no cost to evolving idioms, but evolving idioms on this front means it's more of an affront to asthetics than it is to productivity or anything else actually important to business goals, IMO.

The one exception perhaps being async/await, in that a bunch of crates are making breaking API changes to accomidate it and bumping their major versions - because it's bloody useful and a bit more than your typical syntactic sugar - which means changing your code if you want to keep getting patches.
> inflation is just the trend in average prices

Price inflation is not some force of nature - it’s deliberately induced by the central bank out of a belief that falling prices are bad. The trend in market economies is for everything to get cheaper every year. Look at TVs for example.

There’s no “magic” in inflation. If you have more dollars chasing the same number of goods, those dollars will have less purchasing power. Because the Fed creates new money if the form of bank reserves, the things that to tend to be inflated the most are assets purchased with loans (real estate, equities, businesses, etc). Nobody takes out a loan to buy tomatoes but they will take out a loan to fund a new business.
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This matches my experience as well. I want to write code that works for years (dependencies make this hard) and is understood by everyone. So explicit is best.
What about the symptoms?
So I'm not familiar with the dapp apps internals like the ones described in the article. Does anyone have a quick summary of: How do you do user authentication and other "secret data" cases if the data is visible to everyone? Let's say there's an app with user-configurable webhooks which need to be used by the server, but shouldn't be announced to everyone.
It's because the true, severe deflation is accompanied by mass unemployment and contraction of the economic output.

1930s is a great example, you know well what came next after the economies got almost killed and people got angry.

I, too, would personally prefer deflation - I could buy cheap assets.
A migrant crisis is the least important issue when it comes to third world countries. Massive death toll is the immediate worry.
It's not a rant. It's a very restrained statement of fact.

Given how monstrously callous the world was to me when it was just my world in the toilet and on the brink and there were adequate resources for me to be helped but I couldn't access them because fuck me, no, I don't have any empathy for some privileged person who has remote work and a lot of protection from the pandemic whining about how they are back to checking the news constantly and, oh, there isn't even any good discussion anymore on effin Twitter.

And this makes the front page and then people have the gall to defend the click bait title.

Meanwhile, when I posted about actual solutions to help less privileged people try to access remote work during this crisis, it was dismissed as content marketing for the service I work for and sometimes write about.

I also spent some time criticizing the emphasis on ventilators and being attacked for talking about my firsthand experience with lung clearance techniques. Yesterday, I posted a piece about how some doctors are concerned with the 80 percent death rate for people on ventilators and trying to do other things, some of which are very similar to things I talked about. That got three upvotes and the only discussion was someone letting me know the link was broken and someone asking me how the pandemic is impacting the homeless population.

I'm downright disgusted with quite a lot of things. But I also know from being on HN for more than a decade that people here literally don't care if I'm in danger of dying and they certainly don't care about my feelings about the whiny oversensitive BS that very privileged people have ridiculously big feelings about because they are too fragile to face a real problem, good god.
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There won't be any interesting thing anytime soon due to the strong belief in the "status quo" framed as "stability" in the Go community. The people in the community (thus outside google) like me that wanted (very minor) changes are long gone.
> In a lot of the world it's nowhere near as well paid as most of the professions which have comparable requirements in terms of the amount academic study, vocational apprenticeship and natural aptitude needed.

Teaching/Academia isn't a real job and can be replaced with the internet
If you can’t read a hopeful, personal story without screaming “Survivorship Bias” and plunging headfirst into self-victimhood, good luck with the rest of your life!
Same things that changed in 2000-2005 and 2005-2010.
From what I can tell, they were trying to get it adopted as RFC, but then a couple more things popped up on the CFRG, so they're planning a new version[1]. It's been adopted by the CFRG officially[2]. I haven't seen any sign of when the next version may be out (which will be draft-irtf-cfrg-ristretto-00[3]), however.

I kind of hope they'll also add ristretto448 since RFC 7748 and 8032 include X448/Ed448, so that the draft has feature parity (and covers the h = 4 case properly).

[1] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/3RRpX9hME5ErtAzCo...

[2] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/wd8pprUfJoNhvEQE0...

[3] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/pT2ML68BapPAcUiSk...
One of the things that amazes me is that the US press has also managed to take their government's attempts to prepare for a scenario like this and twist them around to attack the government. For example, it turns out the US government had a really long-term, forward-thinking program to develop and stockpile cheap, mass-producable ventilators for exactly this scenario - and we're talking really long-term, with the design contract signed in 2014, FDA licensing last year, and delivery in the next presidential term. This is how ProPublica titled their article about this program: "A Company Promised Cheap Ventilators to the Government, Never Delivered and Is Now Charging Quadruple the Price for New Ones". [1] They literally took the existence of this long-term, forward thinking program and used it - together with a more normally-priced rush order of less cost optimised ventilators - to create a narrative of corporate and government malfeasance.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/a-company-promised-cheap-...
Trying to understand this one - this is saying we take an standard 3-tier app and instead of storing data in our normal sql/nosql database, we route it through some kind proxy called a "validator", which is a blockchain based data store, that uses the same database API.

And the benefit of doing this is to allow other users to be able to validate the integrity of data and ensure historical changes cannot be overwritten?

So who pays for the transaction storage costs? and how does this validator thing work?
One thing that may be different here is that when we come out of this, there will be pent-up demand, for most industries and trades.

There will be some that will take a hit (the ones enjoying a surge now, like furniture, electronics, entertainment/distraction, PPE manufacturing, etc), but many categories will have pent up demand, some will recover slowly, some may never reach the levels we had before, still most I think will recover)
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You don’t have savings just after graduation.

Also: thinking about these people helps the rest of us, the economy is extremely fragile because most people aren’t able to save (high rent+low wages) and have limited mobility.

I used to think all the SWEs getting paid well would make the world a better place because they were more capable of dealing with complex problems but comments like this make me question that.
You're quoting figures that a lump of rock has doubled and doubled in value since 2000 (plus a little bit). The BLS inflation calculator [0] tells me that inflation would have gotten the price to $420 by now (heh) which is not a doubling in anyone's book.

The trend is persistent, the rock is much the same as it has ever been. Do you have an alternate thesis to QE for why this is happening or are you happy to write it off as a mystery?

[0] https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
Having to log into an external account makes this a hard pass for me.
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> 42.000 cases based on cemetaries

42.000 unoficial deaths / 3335 ( reported deaths cases) * 81865 (reported cases ) = 1.030.983 total cases in China.

Sources:

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/wuhan-deaths-03272020182846.html

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

There is also one day that the real numbers leaked, which could mean that the numbers are way higher:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/

Any thoughts?
Alcohol does well in recessions. There are lists out there for sectors that have low beta w.r.t. recessions

How is it unethical to ask for compensation for your work or the value you provide? Why would a downturn change this?
This is quite clearly a policy failure. I don’t understand why the US isn’t subsidizing production for something as important as masks or other medical supplies. Obviously it is a national security issue, the same way food security is and which is why agriculture is so heavily subsidized.
What places and professions are you talking about? I'm genuinely curious. I've worked with programmers outside the US and Europe, and my impression was that programming was still one of the "easier" ways (in terms of training and credentials) to reach the upper economic strata.
> Japan is a pretty classic tried-deflation example and they ended up a really stable, well organised society that honestly looks like a pretty nice place to live. Well educated. Modern. One of the leading countries on the Asian continent in fact.

All the exact reasons I don’t think anyone in the USA is keen to try deflation!
Where did they go and why?
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You’re only looking at one side of the equation. Assuming demand stays constant, if you reduce the number of tomatoes, their price will go up. Likewise if you increase the number of dollars, the price of tomatoes will also go up, because each individual dollar isn’t worth as much.
Gold started increasing in value in 2001

QE didn't start until November 2008 (gold = $814)
That stopped by Nobember 2014 (gold = $1232). 51% increase in gold over 6 years, or 7% per year.

That is far lower than the increase in gold in other 6 year periods which didn't have QE.
Editions are opt in. You don't opt in, nothing changes for your code.
Helicopter money is a new tax on taxpaying individuals and savers, or simply - theft.

Will they steal? Of course they will.

It's not a way out of crisis, it's merely a means to getting reelected.

Helicopter money in all its forms destroys rather than creates wealth. It's a form of theft that increases unproductive consumption.
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Much of the US is dependent on welfare paid for by a few industrial/financial centers. As a whole, we are also known of late for currency manipulation and political issues. Ask anyone about the effectiveness of our military should there be a funding crunch, with how much is spent maintaining overpriced, underperforming equipment.

On the primacy of the dollar: we walk by faith, not by sight.
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I don't think it makes sense to design a language by picking the closest existing suitable language and adding one major innovation. You want to do the minimal innovation necessary to achieve your goals --- no more, no less.

Rust designers did consciously try to minimize innovation. To that end, Rust error handling is linguistically parsimonious: the standard library Result type used idiomatically, plus the ? operator (itself very simple). To the extent it innovated, it did so by excluding dynamic exception throw/catch and dedicated error result syntax from the language.

Rust async/await is also not unnecessarily innovative. At heart it is the same as async/await in JS and C#. Getting it to work with the Rust ownership model was hard and did require some innovation. LWT was dropped from Rust because it was not compatible with Rust's goals.

Likewise, higher-kinded types aren't especially innovative but will require significant work to flesh out for Rust because of the ownership system.
Nokia was not interested in license revenues but in popularizing the platform, especially their open source OS based on Qt. That's why they spent that much money to buy Qt ($150 mio) and then released it under LGPL. And there will always be people who find a hair in the gold pile. That's just the way the world is. Fortunately, most people appreciate what they're given.
You're not understanding that many people are buying nice NEW cars for the purpose of driving them for rideshare, because of the requirements of the platforms, and that these new cars are then depreciating heavily (up to tens of thousands of dollars' worth in a few years) because of the absurd number of miles being put on them that absolutely trashes their resale value.

The typical rideshare car here in NYC is purpose-specific (needs different plates), has an average new cost of at least $30k, and is pretty new. It's absolutely correct to count the full cost of the depreciation of this vehicle as a rideshare expense.

And the average stats for cars in general in the US are irrelevant; what matters is what's being used for rideshare. You can't use old clunkers for that.
In VA we've done 30,645 tests and have 3,645 confirmed cases. That tells me that 88% of people tested were negative. Either they're spreading a whole lot of "potentially" exposed people or there are a lot of people with symptoms who actually have something else.
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I remember a thread about their writers being rewarded when moving the market.
Have you considered Digikam? It does a lot more, but you don't have to use that.
When I was living in Vietnam, I bought Bose QuietComfort. It's amazing how much they block and you don't even need to connect any player for noise compensation to work.
Nothing can change perspective more than a miss programmed self replicating Von Neumann swarm. ;-)
I agree people should be wearing masks, but IMO without any training PPE is probably going to make things worse. The last time I went to the grocery store people had their (often gloved) hands all over their faces readjusting masks. For some reason I thought people understood how to use gloves and masks but now I’m pretty sure most don’t and think they magically make you safer.
The "how" doesn't make as much difference as you imagine. That still sounds like "The exact medical pathway by which I acquired an honest to God brain infection." It really doesn't clear it up.

(I'm only replying because you say you aren't a native speaker. The word doesn't really add clarity in this case.)
Are you looking to eventually do sales? Is cold emailing the first step?

If so, there are some good books for engineers who want to transition.

If not, the books are still probably good because they help you learn how to talk to people outside of your product / app / business.
If I was on the diamond princess during this outbreak and in a balcony room, that balcony door would have been wide open the entire time.
If this continues, they'll catch up with Tesla and other green frauds.
Which one of those years wasn’t Turkey involved in a war?
A very fair point with which I can only agree. Care to hazard a guess as to why gold is rising though? The rock isn't changing.
I'm in a similar boat, in that I'm not really a front-end designer but occasionally have the need.

The single most insight-dense resource I've found are Steve Schoger's "design tips". They are not all layout-specific; a lot deal with design, but I figure it's still relevant content.

Here's a list of his tips: https://twitter.com/i/events/994601867987619840
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Ok, a bit more than last year. One should also analyze what parts were commited. There is a significant difference in the commits by company to the core framework and the new 3D tools and other parts that The Company wants to make money with.
What was worse about Rust 1.0's error handling that, say, Typescript's Result? They look very similar to me.

What do you mean by "a lot of churn"? The only significant thing I can think of is that the try! macro turned into the ? operator.
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Agreed. They're over-dramatizing the typical bumps that you hit in any major software engineering project. "X was hard, and we had to spend longer working on it than many other parts of the project, but we figured it out."
I work for a large SaaS company (SimilarWeb)and Covid-19 has caused real churn issues, this could be really useful.
MAD being mean absolute deviation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_absolute_deviation
I thought you implied that they started printing vastly more starting in 2010:

>The reason why inflation "officially" is lower then what one would expect given the amount of money printed lies in the way it is calculated.

I think comparing over a long period of time makes sense to see if something really fundamentally changed about the value of money lately.

>Your argument would have been much more precise and useful if you focussed on the same timeframe as I did: 2010-2020.

If things were really different over the past decade than any other, you'd expect to find discrepancies when comparing to previous decades. You're the one "muddling" it here in my (poorly educated) opinion.

I must add that you using Bitcoin, an insanely speculative asset, as an example of things becoming more expensive over the past decade didn't really help your point in my mind. It seems to imply that Bitcoin's value is somewhat stable and we can use it as a reference for the value of a dollar. If you used Beanie Baby prices instead we're in the middle of a huge deflation!

Real Estate is not quite as bad as a reference point, but we have to remember that the decade started right at the end of the mortgage crisis so that distorted the prices somewhat (in what direction? I'm not sure).