skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think you understand how valuation works in the stock market. The prices of the securities are based on what investors think the company will be doing in 6-12 months, not what it’s doing now.

That’s why in really uncertain times the stock can drastically move without any of the current financials changing drastically. Everyone knows companies are shut down now and are bleeding cash, that was why the market quickly crashed immediately after the shutdown. Now that we’re into the shutdown and it looks like maybe a re-open by summer, how do the businesses look then? Especially when they’ve had bailout money to help pay expenses during the shutdown.
I for one appreciate that Microsoft is allowing these dev related acquisitions, such as Github, to maintain an individual brand image.
I can't think of anything worst if they decided to reskin/theme these brands to be all Microsoft-y.
SARS-CoV-2 is pretty specific. Comparing with covid-19 seems more reasonable. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Wuhan%20virus,cov...
I'm not about to go searching, I'm watching WION on youtube at the moment which is a (new, 2015) news outlet in India which often refers to it as Wuhan Virus, but if I posted anything that wasn't CNN or NYT or such I'll prob just get downvoted with comments saying "oh thats fake news" or "thats not a creditable because we don't have it here in America".

To be clear when I say "most of asia" I don't mean, every country, and every news outlet. But that it's not uncommon.

I've seen news in Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, all refer to it as Wuhan Virus.

Singapore (where I live) I don't recall seeing it referred to as Wuhan Virus since maybe mid-march.

In any case if someone refers to it as Chinese/China Virus, I completely agree that it's racist. But Wuhan is the origin, and the original name given. Renaming has probably only hurt china more as people are very angry with the WHO and ccp.
How long can people usefully work?
It's got to be because major institutional investors are expecting inflation.
Ask HN: Would you monetize this without Ads
So a year ago I started my sideproject - https://www.colorsandfonts.com and now I am working on the redesign.
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I also send a newsletter, before I showed how to use colors through design systems, now I share resources, articles, inspiration for web developers and digital designers.

So long I haven't been able to monetize it. I tried ads, I still have an ad on every page from codefund, bit is not worth it.

The UI gets uglier and it gets into the UX...

I have decide to find sponsors for the newsletter, but I am not sure if this is feasible.

Some stats.

Daily users: from 300 to 500, mostly new users.

Subscribers: 740.

I would love to listen to your ideas.

Thank you so much.

You can also contact me here. Michaelandreuzzavega@gmail.com

/ mike
There exist successful veterinary coronavirus vaccines, and an optimist (at least, a sufficiently cynical one) would posit that we don't have any human examples because it has not previously been deemed sufficiently profitable (or, more charitably, an efficient use of resources better spent on more pressing issues) by whoever makes funding decisions for vaccine development, not because of a failure of science.

Edit: That being said, efforts to develop a SARS vaccine were quite horrifying on whole, so there's certainly no natural law that says a vaccine must exist to be invented/discovered.
Because public transit is a joke for most Americans. It’s simply not possible to have a job without a car in the vast majority of America.
Development. At work we rely heavily on it to get work done because having an almost-linux-like environment is much better than having to run a WAMP stack or similar silly stuff.

It's made mine and my coworkers lives so much easier compared to before, so I'm certain use cases exist. Since WSL2 runs on HyperV, for some of my coworkers it's not an option, since they rely on VMware and similar for other essential work.
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That's something!

The closest I have is a rejection letter from Radio Shack HQ, I received as a kid, maybe around age 12. I'd spent many hours ogling parts and gear in their stores, and practically memorized their catalogs. So I was a big fan, and I'd written to their headquarters, proposing that I would write a hobby computers&electronics book, in the vein of some of the Forrest Mims projects articles I'd read. (With the difference being that I had almost no knowledge worth sharing.) I got back a polite letter, on Radio Shack stationery, not mentioning that I was obviously just a kid, and saying that they didn't wish to develop a hobby book, but if I developed it otherwise, they'd be happy to review a copy off the press. I had my first rejection letter framed for a while, but lost the original during a very lean move right after grad school, and now I only have a scan of it.
Not everyone will have accounts with those other services. Some people will want to make the account separately, or alternatively to use OpenID.
Hey, looking for a cofounder interested in quantum computing!
Definitely interested in someone wanting to tackle some of the software problems in this space and figure out a useful application for these computers. Please email me at: saljimeely at pm dot me.
> In 2009, the economy collapsed because of bad loans.

There are a lot of credit defaults coming if quarantine doesn't end very soon. The crunch could make 08 look mild.
“Compensation” doesn’t pay my rent. Wages do. I can’t exactly offer my landlord a part of my health insurance coverage I’m not using this month in lieu, can I?

Speaking of rent, that has also gone up faster than real wages since the 70s — does an increase in productivity explain that as well? [0] Oh, and there are no company pensions anymore, either, so I have to somehow figure out how to fund my retirement, too.

Tell me again how much better off we are?

—-

[0]: https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/rent-growth-since-...
Death of open source? Don't get me excited
Seems we've all been busy. I made a simple browser version. https://animate-object.github.io/life.

Life was one of my first introductions to programming in school. Mr. Conway also a strong impression on me through his interviews with Numberphile, which I'd recommend, not so much for their mathematical content, but for the very human portrait of a genius in his later years.
> No such luck this time.

How do you know that? If you could predict that for certain, you could turn 10000$ into 1000000$ with ease.
I feel like bootstrap and jquery stand a decent chance of being caches in a large enough portion of the user base.

And even ignoring my user's bandwidth, it would still save me significant bandwidth (depending on the size of my website).

I guess eventually your site might grow such that your dependencies are not a significant portion of your total download size, but I am not currently there.
Value is measured (by currency). Are you referring the combination of inflation in currency and the price to earnings ratio seen here: https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio ?
I'm not OP but there is him talking on his blog about cookies:

https://montulli.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-reasoning-behind-w...

https://montulli.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-blocking-3rd-party...

He doesn't come across as overly prescient there, but there's definitely some of the familiar juggling trade-offs in his design decisions.
This is just a textbook example of whataboutism.

One can object to a use of language that is likely to stir racist sentiment against Chinese people, and more broadly Asian people (as we very much have seen especially early in the outbreak), without implying support for the CCP.
> I'm honestly puzzled as to why so many people seem to be actually offended by the very fact that I'm asking the question

Comment quality and civility has dropped in the last few months.

I don't use or even like Atom but if this natfriedman says it will be continue to be supported post-merger, then it isn't, then he needs to clear the air.
I've been curious about ProtonMail for a long while - my greatest hesitation is that I use multiple addresses and ProtonMail seems to be based around a single address. I'm not sure why email providers all want to charge per address - why not allow multiple addresses and charge for transit or storage? However at minimum multiple instances of this running could be a step towards multiple accounts.
The stock market dropped nearly 35% from it's all time high. So it did tank. But also the value of stocks is largely speculative. And they are priced compared to the next best alternative. The bond market is not great now, and investing in real estate is impractical in some ways, and it has different risks.
> The continued gains in productivity we have seen since that time have come by way of mechanization/automation.

but that has been true since the first chimp figured out how to shove a stick into an anthill and get more tasty bugs than just picking off the ants on the surface. We use tools, better tools are how productivity advances.

Yes, yes, we have better tools than ever before, to the point where they don't look like tools. We can build a machine to do a thing and then leave, and only come back and tinker with it when it breaks.

Some time in the previous century basically everything switched over to assembly-line type production, where nobody built the whole widget themselves. the current switchover is to, uh, I guess you would call them robots. Tools that do the thing with one time input to guide them (and, of course, lots of ongoing maintenance)

But make no mistake, these "robots" we have are still just tools; tools that give massive leverage to the labor that programs those robots and that maintains those robots.
It tanked down to basically 2018 levels.

2009 saw lows not seen in over a decade.
>>Something will be the breaking point for this level of restriction/overreach in the name of surveillance.

Their policy must be to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it
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There's a ton of viruses named after the place of origin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononegavirales#Order_organiza...

Informally that number is way higher.

It's as common to use the original geographical source of the virus in the name as it is to use some chemistry/biology/latin driven name or in your case an acronym.

Following formal guidelines in scientific papers and other formal discourse is another matter. Newspapers, social media, interpersonal communication, etc isn't a big deal IMO. People know what they are referring to. That's all that matters in that sort of language, humans are smart enough to figure out context and intention. Especially since there's nothing inherently 'wrong' with using relevant identifiers like geography.

Trying to constantly redefine and re-purpose certain words/phrases in absolute terms is an arbitrary and endless fight against the reality of everyday language. It's ultimately a giant waste of time that only adds more personal/political/ideological baggage than it removes, to what common-sense was already more than sufficient to handle. It's also just as often used to 'spin' and attack people and purposefully misinterpret people's intentions and context of usage, despite it being obvious to the rational reader, as it is about 'protecting' others. It then makes us question your intentions in 'correcting' them as much as theirs in using it, and we're no better off in terms of clarity. The less of it, the better.
Hats off to you, sir! This is brilliant.
It will be an interesting test to see what happens after things return to "normal".

Real economic downturns happen because deep structural issues have developed in the economy that cannot be dealth with other than by broad scale cyclical restructuring. But in this case there is not an underlying structural issue - everything was "fine" and then an externality prevented normal productivity. So in one theory of things, once the lockdowns are over people will mostly go back to doing what they were doing before and apart for some one-off bad debts, etc life will just resume. In another theory, economic downturns are like self-fulfilling prophecies and once started will take many years to work out.

It will be interesting to see which one of these happens.
Hopefully the Emacs is also configured to not leave tilde backup files everywhere!
I have a reasonably top-speced phone - A K20 Pro, with a Snapdragon 855 - and it stutters. It stutters more than the last iPhone I used, a 2016 SE, and I used it until early 2018. The only top of the line phone I found that was responsive and fun to use was OnePlus, and they seem to have made speed and responsiveness their company motto. It's a shame they dropped the headphone jack, because that was my deciding factor for picking the K20, which I find painful to use at times.
This seems like the correct answer.

When the Fed prints money, you buy SPY and real estate.
The 3% drop refers to productivity, not wealth. So it's like the average of 7.8 billion people is creating and consuming 3% less.
> a 3% loss of private wealth

GDP is a flow variable.
"Buridan's ass" was a philosophical intuition pump to argue for the reality of free will. If we were really ultimately determined by our appetites, as the Neoplatonic determinists would have it, then we can construct a scenario where the perfectly determined ass would end up starving to death when surrounded by the foods it most craved.

Since there are not dead asses all over the place, the philosophers took this as evidence that free will exists, even in asses.
The crisis.
It's a mystery how DockerHub remains free. The network and storage costs must be massive. Docker also sold it's enterprise business, so I am not sure who is paying for all this.
What I mean is that new phones which have a headphone jack are the exception rather than the norm, and their number seems to be diminishing. Maybe if people voted with their wallets it would stop the development in this direction, but it seems like too few people are concerned with this issue (I’m one of them - it’s just not going to turn me off a potential phone).
The whole world is suffering. Why did you expect to be immune just because you're a...checks notes...codemonkey?
This works well and is worth installing: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v93rcPkFkZc
This makes sense if you don't value human life. Maybe you do, and then it makes sense.

We've had "unchecked economic growth" for 250 years. Human life is immeasurably better now.

Life for many other species is worse. I'm OK with that tradeoff.
People might be consuming 10x advertising but 1) people can't go out to the store and buy what's being advertised or use it outside after it's been boughts and 2) a lot of people are freshly unemployed or terrified about being unemployed in the near future and are not going to buy anything nonessential. Therefore, their ad impressions are worth less and so companies are spending much, much less on advertising.
The tech sector as many other industries is always recruiting cheaper workers anywhere in the world to make more profits distributed in priority to the leaders.

Nothing new in a capitalist world...
Dictatorship. They sense--rightly or wrongly--that they can get away with more repression so they try it.

Covid has been, like 9/11 to us, a great way to introduce police state measure in a lot of countries.
I think many European countries could do the same, Denmark also had its fair share of the demo scene back in the day.

I still remember names such as Kefrens and Dexion and it’s a bit amazing to find a detailed account of a demo event that took place in 1990, http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/party.php?id=92

Link to Megademo 8 by Kefrens with a runtime of almost an hour: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Megademo%208+Ami...
It's only "racist" if enough people start using it in a way to discriminate against people from Wuhan in perpetuity; beyond the lifetime of the virus.
I work the same way. Drop out of phpStorm or inteliJ into emacs to do some Marco recording. I tend to use f3 to record and f4 to run said macro.

That and white space mode for examining files..
Things were far from "normal" before.

This is still the same crisis that started in 2007.
How does this translate into human deaths? Does that amount outweigh the potential human deaths adverted by causing the economic downfall through worldwide lockdowns in response to covid-19?
> I had already started investing in some real estate on the side

I have a few questions, if you don't mind.

How did you get started with this? Is investing in real estate something you can do while being a salaried employee or do you need to do it full time? Also, what kind of investments were/are you making?
> There isn't any reason the world cannot be fed during the current crisis.

But there is!

The reason we can't consume as much in this crisis is that we don't produce as much, because a lot of people aren't working anymore.
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https://medium.com/technicity/researchers-have-created-an-ai...

This link also captures back arrow on Brave.
Any other suggestions for common yet generally unknown chips?
The comparison you should be making isn't with Google, but Apple.

My experience with custom ROMs was unfortunately a lot worse than yours. I had the original Galaxy Note, and picking a custom ROM for that was a "Updated, has features, doesn't kill your battery - pick 2" kind of deal.
This is true when I perceive the examiner as more knowledgable but more often than not I perceive them as less knowledgable and ignorant. This can both be true, that they are less knowledgable and ignorant, and that it's wrong of me to assume so. Often it comes from the belief, based on my perceived tone of the examination, that the other person believes they are the expert and are correcting me, the noob. So, feeling perceived as a noob feels disrespectful, especially given a topic for which I'm an expert. That in no way means I shouldn't grow and welcome all examination. But I'm not the Dalai Lama. I'm a normal flawed human being who gets upset when they feel insulted. It will probably take me a lifetime to get better at not feeling insulted. In the meantime, when I remember, I try to couch my examinations of other's code in ways that will hopefully not make them feel insulted.
Xscreensaver has BSOD mode, with all these different error screens. And a toasters clone :)
It’s so hard to see that happening though, and if it doesn’t, we’re in trouble.

We still don’t have scalable testing in the US, which is absolutely vital to reopening the economy safely. Without that, we risk losing all of the progress we’ve made flattening the curve.

Then all of these businesses have to open back up and hope they’re able to generate income quickly enough to stay afloat, which isn’t a guarantee.

There are also a growing number of experts saying that we’ll be in flux for the rest of 2020 unless we establish that survivors can’t be reinfected, which hasn’t been confirmed yet. Even if some areas are able to open up early, the economy will continue to suffer to its global nature. We’re just in no way able to say it’s going to be normal in 2 months.
Except there is no concentration of private wealth in the long term, and income from capital plays an exceedingly small role in the overall economy. Even those in the top 0.1% mostly make their money from wages.

What you observe is that fact that a great majority of people live on fixed income which doesn't get hit (because these people are useless anyway, like most government employees), and many live off pensions, plus government boosts it's spending. So those who actually make their living, lose a lot more. But same is true about good times, when economy books it's not policemen or school teachers who get biggest raises. Those with capital are even further up the risk curve: when stock market drops, they directly lose money. And dividends on the stock can easily drop to almost zero.
> cartels and monopolies would be permitted

Last time I checked both of these still exist and wield massive power globally. Just because something is “illegal” doesn’t mean that it isn’t part of the system. The system was “designed”, it’s behavior is emergent. States institute laws which have side effects and those side effects are part of the system.
Fear mongers are fishing for another stock sale!
Does anyone know if the visualizations are savable/shareable?

I'd love to stop pasting screenshots in slacj
For a consumption based economy where 15-25 million people will be unemployed temporarily, I don’t think business is going to look like July 2019. More of those jobs will be lost permanently than most people are forecasting, and consumer confidence will take longer to rebound as well. Once the second wave of infections hit when places start reopening, people will voluntarily head back inside.

I have a large short position on IWM right now and have since last week. If the next leg down doesn’t start from Q2 earnings, Q3 earnings will.
Didn't take long for the communism strawman to come out. You're the only one suggesting that as an alternative though.
Let's say a vaccine happens. You still have to get it to 7 BILLION people or at least disseminate it across the entire globe. It's going to take forever and even if the developed nations are back to normal it's going to be a shit show in the rest of the world.
Not OP, but I want to say there's a lot more that goes into the development process than just source control, versioning, and code search. There's linters, and dozens of different kinds of tests, and ways of automatically running those tests, and layers of procedure before code changes go public. This seems much harder to do for stored procedures. Especially considering that stored procedure languages are fragmented between different databases; you don't just pay the cost of having to change the stored procedures when changing databases, you are also paying for the fact that it is harder to build automated tools to analyze the stored procedures, because the API for each database is going to be different.

That being said, there are lots of factors that influence how maintainable a specific stored procedure is. Team size, business needs, company culture, etc. Stored procedures get a bad rep from the places where they are train wrecks. YMMV.
No, it goes deeper than that. The CPP is more like a symptom.

The culture is so fundamentally different that it's almost impossible to understand. Sure, there's a "westernized" minority, especially in Hong Kong, but they're ~irrelevant.
> Which apparently becomes self fulfilling.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift
There was a video going around of the logo hitting the corner perfect and a room full of people got real excited
Time goes on, machines get cheaper, the surplus doesn't go to the inventor but to the people buying the machines. So wealth turns into more wealth.

Even if a person can't provide productivity "on their own", productivity per person increases, and it's bad for that to be tied to an increase of wealth inequality.

And trying to have everyone invent solutions sounds like a weak justification for a broken system to me, along the lines of the temporarily embarrassed millionaire.
So randomness produces free will?
People were incredibly leveraged before the this virus. Not earning for several months could prove fatal to enough people to create a wider catastrophe.

Think about cascading failures in software systems. One relatively smaller sub-system fails which others were dependent on. These other dependent subsystems now fail because their dependency is now unavailable. It snowballs until the entire system is unavailable.
I love the size of my iPhone SE. Every time my partner uses my phone, they always mention how nice and compact the size is.
Pam claims that she saw it one day when she was alone in the conference room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOtuX0jL85Y
Because employment is indeed like marriage. Divorce and bad marriage is costly.