skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention the delivery and curbside pickup programs that are only possible with tech logistic systems. E-commerce and work from home are all small miracles of this age. Video chat is another wonder of technology when in recent memory a long-distance phone call could easily cost more than a nice dinner, and much more if international.
How and why will C combat Rust?
My comment was made in reply to GP's and was a description and criticism of what he said. You seemed to have either genuinely or deliberately missed that point. When I clarified this you did not address the content of any of my arguments and instead went on a rant about how "pro CCP" people argue, which is off track because neither the article or I are "pro CCP".
Benchmarking KeyDB vs. Elasticache vs. Redis6
After reading quite a lot about economic policies it sounds a lot like some sort of engineering - you have some levers/gadgets that you can use, but you have to understand the consequences of each of them and how the interact with the "real world" of companies and people participating in the economy.

Sure, people being certain about what's going to happen and when is akin to snake oil, but using good insight and tools to try and control how people are affected by something like a pandemic seems to me to be the role that economists need to play.
I disagree about hardware support on server grade machines. It's very rare that FreeBSD lacks there. many vendors of server-grade hardware (network and storage controllers, etc) have FreeBSD teams and either release their drivers or contribute to the in-tree drivers.

With desktop-class hardware (Wi-Fi, input devices, various non-standard USB gadget, setc) the situation is much worse.
None are available to purchase at the old, lower price, because demand at the old price outpaced production. The higher price drives some consumers out of the market, meaning there are still some for sale.
Reagent and rum both wrap react right? Do they mirror the react hook logic in some way? E.g rum/react might be a ones to one with reacts use state hook.
You, my friend, need a LISP
I bet if remote work became the norm, many people would co-rent shared offices with their friends, relatives, neighbors, etc.

Social interactions at work without the burden of hierarchy, work etiquette, etc. That would be the dream.
From the horse's mouth: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2020/04/14/we...
no love for the "rename" commmand
'rename foo bar *'
From the article:

> That compares to a January projection of 3.3% expansion and would likely mark the deepest dive since the Great Depression. It would also dwarf the 0.1% contraction of 2009 amid the financial crisis.

Growth would have an impact on the decline in absolute dollar values (inflation adjusted or not). But wouldn't have much of an impact on relative decline measured in percentage.
> I've found that having a dedicated work environment can help

I would also definitely recommend that if you work from home, you get a separate office room. But I also struggle with bouts of not feeling motivated to work. The office is no miracle cure for that.
A decade or more? Really? I honestly think that we're going to see a U shaped recovery as the amount of people who want to get out and do things is increasing every day.
Using FreeBSD + KDE as my desktop (on a PC, not laptop) since early 2000-s as well.
> In electrical engineering, there are practical reasons to do this.

> Here, there are none, except to be contrarian.

I know that in electrical engineering, there exist good reasons. But doubt whether the reason for loobeans is to be contrarian. I rather suspect that if you look deeply into the architectural details of Nock, you will find a good reason for loobeans, too. In this sense, I suspect that loobeans are "contrarian" is rather a welcome side-effect than raison d'être.
For completeness, here’s Weird Al’s style parody of Frank Zappa, Genius In France: https://youtu.be/ZwFf9vGRqcs

His style parody originals are as much fun (and as numerous) as his song psrodies.
I've tried both, I prefer `hub`. For those thinking of switching, a couple of things to consider (also feedback for the `gh` team):

1. `gh` will error out if it encounters an escape sequence it doesn't understand. E.g., I have `⌥backspace` delete the previous word, and I hit it frequently without thinking about it. This works in most TUIs, but instantly interrupts `gh` and I have to start over.

2. There's no way to use your `$EDITOR` to edit the pull request title. This is how `hub` works by default, and personally I find it perfect and natural.

3. There aren't very many flags, so it forces you to manually interact with the TUI. For example, most of the time I'm doing a quick PR that doesn't need a body, and that I don't need to preview in the browser. I can't pass flags to `gh` to skip these steps, so I have to manually interact with the TUI to get past them every time.

In general, I get the impression that `gh` is designed for people who aren't comfortable with command-line conventions, e.g., using your `$EDITOR`, and setting options via flags. Nothing wrong with that, but if you are comfortable with (and prefer) those conventions, then it's a good idea to stick with `hub`.
Gloomy
Interesting take on accounting - I've never understood why anyone competent would be drawn to it.
Very well written indeed, unfortunately owned by globalists since 2015 (check out the ownership change, if you are interested [1])

I had been an avid reader for 30 years, cancelled my subscription around 2015-2016, and I was not even aware of the new ownership at the time, I just sensed the change of their ideological orientation and did not like it one bit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economist_Group
> I have a room I go into and close the door

That would be awesome to have, unfortunately, I live in a small 1 bedroom apartment. So I either work on the living room, were the TV and my wife are, or on the bedroom :(
I find this fascinating. For me, the lifelong learning is a chore, completed in order to do what I love: creating things.

And watching people use my creations to do things they couldn’t before is a reward on its own. I imagine it’s like a teacher watching their students apply their lessons in daily life.
Does this mean we can get Songza back? Was pretty bummed out when google acquired them, really enjoyed that music app although Spotify basically has the same functionality now.
How is it a depression if it's only been a few months? Also the IMF article predicts a 3% contraction for 2020 and a 5.8% growth in 2021, so by what definition is this a depression?
From what I've read they think it's already around 15%. It just takes a while after the fact to figure out what it is.
I was under the impression that in some states there is a percentage profit rule, is that not the case or a better interpretation of how that works?
There's none available to purchase at the old, lower price. So he's providing value to me, someone who wishes to buy one.
I like how Cthulhu is shown as kind of a guide for the robot.

The C==Sea brings to mind the book Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets.
Zephyr: A secure peer to peer private messaging system
I would say that the more generalized software is, the larger the audience, the more likely there will be Strong Boundaries between the Practical and the Theoretical.

That said, Licklider was a very special person.

This video from Alan Kay talked about him @ 32:42

https://youtu.be/id1WShzzMCQ
It's a junket for his new book, probably summarized from a longer interview for the radio.
Okay, is there a starting thread for today's C Experts panel?
I miss the old net newsgroups.
Best discussions on the economy I have found are on Macrovoices[0] podcast and Realvison[1] TV Both are macro focused and take as a given the audience is trying to make money or at least preserve assets. It's been an amazing few years listening to all the interviews and working over the ideas in my own head then seeing things play out in the markets and economy.

[0] https://www.macrovoices.com/
[1] https://www.realvision.com/
What I'd like to know is that is the middle class going to shrink further as a result of the current set of events?
Not in my case, no. They're not school aged, and are at home during the day. Elementary schools where I am run roughly 9-3 as well, except on Thursdays when they run 9-2.

Maybe I could make it work, but I would still prefer to have an office to go to most days.
Would love to be able to use a personalizable version of this
If you feel like coming over to this side of the pond I’m hiring. We assist in relocation.

https://www.massive.se/job/online-infrastructure-engineer-si...
I also worked at Google after almost 20 years of working at home. I didn’t mind the cube environment because I worked from about 6am to 3pm, giving me a few hours of quiet heads down time every day. My last job before retiring at Capital One was the same, I started work early in the morning for heads down work time, was available for brainstorming, etc., then knocked off work mid afternoon. I really recommend time shifting for people having problems concentrating in a cube environment.
I know, it's amazing to me the number of people that are blowing the risk way out of proportion. I think there is a degree of "survivorship bias" in the news. People who get covid-19 and have a mild case dont get reported because it's bland and everyday.
Fair enough, it was just an offhand comment I should have run the numbers. It looks like if you are under 50 and have COVID, you are ~3x more likely to die of COVID then to die of a car crash in that same year. So that's probably the better comparison when looking at risk, although it probably says more about how we underestimate the risk of car crashes rather than overestimating the risk of COVID.

Rough average COVID deaths per 100k infected under 50 (using average death rate from categories 0-50): 36

Deaths per 100k by car crashes in a year in the US: 11.2
You already got a good replay from coldtea.

To expand a bit on how to think about the problem in general:

Don't focus on revenue when looking at the situation, focus on productivity and what people can and do produce.

A few people are busier, some are just as busy as before. Most are less busy and severely restricted in what economically useful activities they can do.
>[2136 book idea]....a world in which 80 percent of the population has been wiped out by climate change, but also a world where characters time-travel to create an alternate past in which Clinton won the election.

This is strange on so many levels...sort of pathetic that these are the plot ideas the grandfather of cyberpunk fiction is dreaming up...
P/E ratio is only meaningful for companies with little or no revenue growth. For companies with very strong revenue growth, like Amazon, revenue growth is financed with earnings, which creates a misleadingly high P/E ratio. Investors know this. For these companies, it is more useful to look at metrics like market cap/revenue to determine if they are overpriced, which at 3-4x for Amazon is in a very healthy range. Simple metrics like P/E ratio tell you little about the health of a company when taken out of context; a low P/E ratio is often a sign of a failing company.

As more of the largest companies in the market exhibit strong revenue growth, it drives the P/E ratio of the broader market higher without implying anything about the underlying equities.
I'd rather not work forever regardless of the location.
>lifetime upgrades of licensed software

"we initially made a higher priced plan to get more from our customers for the same, since we'd have supported all our customers anyway since broken or dated software would have put us out of business. But now that we're commercially stable, it's time to moralize about how unfair a burden our voluntarily offerings on the market are to ourselves!"
Gawk 5.1.0 Released
There is zero doubt in my mind life will never, ever be the same again. We've seen this by example of 9/11. That was one tragic day and daily life changed forever.

So many people are looking forward to getting out of lockdown and resuming their lives. I don't think those lives exist any more, and they will not return to us. Whatever is on the other side of this isn't what we had before.
Federal Law

Under section 361 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S. Code § 264), the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to take measures to prevent the entry and spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States and between states.

CDC’s Role

Under 42 Code of Federal Regulations parts 70 and 71, CDC is authorized to detain, medically examine, and release persons arriving into the United States and traveling between states who are suspected of carrying these communicable diseases.

As part of its federal authority, CDC routinely monitors persons arriving at U.S. land border crossings and passengers and crew arriving at U.S. ports of entry for signs or symptoms of communicable diseases.

When alerted about an ill passenger or crew member by the pilot of a plane or captain of a ship, CDC may detain passengers and crew as necessary to investigate whether the cause of the illness on board is a communicable disease.

State, Local, and Tribal Law

States have police power functions to protect the health, safety, and welfare of persons within their borders. To control the spread of disease within their borders, states have laws to enforce the use of isolation and quarantine. In some states, local health authorities implement state law. In most states, breaking a quarantine order is a criminal misdemeanor.
The script is well supported, it was introduced in 1999 with Unicode 3. Vertical writing is a concern of text rendering, so this has nothing to do with Unicode. https://caniuse.com/#search=writing-mode

This is still a bit lacking outside of Web pages, but generally work-arounds are in place which come with their own problems.

HN test: Монгол бичиг ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠌
That's something we've been looking at recently, actually -- moving somewhere cheaper, but the problem we've found is that there just really aren't any jobs that she's interested in in the area we've been looking at (even outside of her current field, which she wants to leave anyway) -- we're looking at one spot in particular because of my mountain biking hobby and because I've lived there and have a lot of family there --, and we don't have kids, so it's hard to determine "okay, is it fine for us to just move and for you to have no idea on what job you want to do there?" even though my income is more than enough to sustain us (4x hers).

For her, the idea of doing that -- moving with no job or even an idea of what job to do there -- doesn't sit well. She doesn't like the implied dependence on me and that others may see her as a failure because she doesn't have a job for X time or an idea of what she wants to do. I can do all I can to convince her that that isn't the case and that not everyone has their sights set on something when they're in high school/college (I did, which doesn't help). Ultimately I think the change would be good since I think her job/boss in our current city is toxic and mentally rough, such that moving to an entirely new area with totally different prospects could create a positive.
I'm in a small apartment too, where my partner (and dog) are also here. We've both got corners set up in different rooms (I'm in the bedroom) and if I'm in my corner, I'm working. It's less about having a full room to dedicate to being a home office, and more about making a space (no matter how small or open) dedicated to working.
The "weird" annotations are (almost) all part of regular Latin glyphs, which is unsurprising since the Portuguese who created modern written Vietnamese patterned it after Portuguese.
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_purism_in_English
I don't know if apple makes any cheap phone, but either way, the problem isn't apple's brand, it is apple's profits.
Especially for music, piracy has always been the easier route.
Basically a single month so far.
Show HN: Check the credibility of any news story
I think it's more about your intent. I'm not too bothered I don't care about soccer any more, I'm not after therapy to change that.

In this case though, I see someone who badly wants to be enjoying programming, but for whatever reason they don't understand they don't. It's probably a good time to talk to someone. Usually I'd start with my girlfriend, maybe my mum, perhaps take a few weeks off and then see how I feel. If that doesn't sort it, I'd probably want to talk to a therapist.
Hehe. Just before this started I was named a finalist in a board game design contest where there was enough entries that my chances of being selected as a finalist were just a little bit higher than the likely death rate of me getting Covid-19, with my higher risk factors.

I'm using that as a bit of a self-reminder. If I can win that, then I can "win" (i.e. die) from Covid-19.
It happens... you can't measure dependencies loaded by third party scripts since the server doesn't run any JS.
I'll chime in there. Same experience. I've got a nice office upstairs away from everyone. I do two things every single day, all day, in that room by myself, and it feels amazing.

I do my work for a few hours, and then I hack on a personal project the rest of the day.

Then before bed I catch up with my wife for a couple hours and we watch something.

I'm in heaven. Introvert heaven.

Communal offices drain my life.
I wonder if it’s complexity that makes it less fun? I have been programming for 38 years and went through a similar feeling. After the lockdown I picked up RISCOS and BBC basic, and learned the Teletext display standard (mode 7) in BBC basic. The feeling of being able to quickly understand a simple system and make stuff is great fun. Learning Teletext layout is only a few pages of reading and the standard itself for mode 7 fits on one A4 sheet. RISCOS is another simple thing to learn and you can access every aspect of the OS through BBC basic calls. I spent a few weeks doing this and then returned to unity c# work. I started with the Pico build for raspberry pi and thus - no mouse and using the text editor to write BBC basic. When I returned to using modern tools I had a new found appreciation of the power at my fingertips and got my mojo back. Having a break and doing something completely different for a while worked for me.
Soapy the Germ Fighter (1951)
Best of luck finding your next job. It can be hard while you're searching, but some how it always works out for the best.
The EU is not going to intervene in domestic sovereignty. The human rights violations would have to get extremely severe for that to happen, and I don't think there are explicit clauses in the treaties about it. That is a particular Rubicon they are not willing to cross.

(or in this case, the checks map Oder)
Whenever I read these WFH HN threads and see all the comments about people who "just can't do it" I'm always curious if it's truly that they can't enjoy working from home, or that they are doing it wrong. Have worked from home for the better part of 10 years off and on and some things that make all the difference:

Have a dedicated office. Yeah you aren't going to be as productive on your kitchen table or your couch on a laptop as you would be in a quiet dedicated room with a desk, multiple monitors and clear delineation between work and play time.

Get the kids/dog/whatever distraction dealt with. You don't have kids at your office, why would you think your productivity wouldn't take a hit if you have them around at home while you are trying to work? Not now obviously because Covid, but under normal circumstances, send them to day care or whatever arrangement you gotta make to have quite during your business hours.

Figure out your coms! If your team/company isn't built around remote work, obviously there are going to be issues. You have to have a strategy for communication that's designed for remote. Both to keep you from feeling like an island or second class citizen and also because remote communication requires a totally different regiment than the random water cooler check in.

If you are doing all of these things and remote work still isn't your cup of tea I'd love to hear about it. If you aren't doing most or all of these things, It's probably not remote work that is the problem, it's how you are treating it.
Price controls might work within the US but we can't enforce them internationally and they've already been a big problem for US firms making purchases abroad where they're competing with others willing to bid up the prices of masks.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2020/03/30/i-spent...
GitHub Actions and Homebrew = ️love
That's definitely part of the appeal to me. 45min one way of walking plus subway (and ±10min for subway schedule shenanigans, thanks MTA) is gone, so now I have a significant chunk of free time at the beginning and end of my day.

And as a subway commuter, there's also definitely a "getting yourself mentally prepared to go out into the world and endure the subway" period that I'm quite glad to skip.
> how can you ethically defend everyone not getting a minimum ration

To me, the fairest way to distribute any good is to the highest bidder. If someone is truly desperate for food, they will find a way to get the money to pay for it. I would rather that food be instantly available to that highest bidder with a true need, rather than having to jump through some kind of Soviet bread line to get their “ration”.

Are you saying it is “ethically” better to have an empty shelf with government price controls than a full shelf with prices set by your high-bidding neighbors?

With an empty shelf there is no negotiation possible, simply the will of the government bureaucrat or store manager (with a government gun to his head). They don’t have any personal knowledge of the hungry.

With a full shelf the food is right there, and it’s only money. The hungry can communicate their immediate need for food on the spot by forking over the cash.

So hell yes the capitalist system is the most ethical. Hunger is a private matter that affects individuals - not a faceless mass to be treated as robots with a government program.
We won't have the numbers for sure until the end of the month, but based on the insane spike in initial claims [0], the US probably hit 10% last week [1].

That said, the past two weeks the claims seem to have hit their processing limit, with people still not getting through - it's guaranteed to continue rising for the rest of the month, past the numbers I have here.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ICSA

[1] 3.3 million + 6.8 + 6.6 = 16.7 million, 16.7 / 160 million (number I've seen for estimated working-age people) = 10.4%, 10.4% + 4% (previous unemployment rate) = 14.4%

Quick edit, unemployment rate is updated monthly here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE - based on when it updated, that 3.3 million is already included in the 4.4%, so actually more like 4.4% + ((6.8 + 6.6) / 160) = 12.8%-ish (and more than likely still rising)
The simplest way I found to explain that the representative sample size is independent of population is via coin flips and dice:

We can flip a coin an infinite number of times. But to get a good handle on whether it's biased or not, we only need to sample a very finite number of flips.
That's probably not what you are looking for, but FreeBSD has some container infrastructure around it. E.g., https://www.bsdstore.ru/en/about.html
I think that's the case. Even when lockdowns start being lifted, people won't have money to spend, meaning more companies closing doors...