skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're crossing separate points. Ordinary people are doing worse than a 3 percent drop, so this "world economy" is about something very different from how ordinary people are doing, and this is a problem.

Getting laid off isn't wealth hoarding, but does that mean there isn't wealth hoarding?
> everything was "fine"

There were signs that everything wasn’t fine before the crisis. The periods of inverted yield curve and freeze up in the overnight repo market last fall come to mind.

The tide has gone out and we’ll quickly find out who wasn’t wearing their bathing suit.
It's not hating someone to say they shouldn't have more than XX million dollars.
Yeah, Valve already tries to account for some of this by building a Trust Factor of your account based on how much money you've spent, how long you log in, how frequently you log in and out, etc. (which is especially important since CS:GO went free-to-play).

Of course, that doesn't address all of it: one could still have the very best cheats that never get detected on a highly trusted account. It's silly, but then if they did get detected one day, they'd lose all their precious skins (which have non-zero to significant monetary value), as they become untradeable forever.

But yeah, I think ESEA has some of what you're talking about built in already. Why spend a bunch of money on accounts that keep getting banned?
Calling it Chinese Virus is not racist either. China is not a race.

I never head anybody calling it "Chinese Virus" until right after Chinese officials were found to be spreading rumors that the virus came from a US military operation. When those rumors started, the Chinese ambassador to the US was called in to get a scolding and the president immediately started using "Chinese Virus" very purposely.

In other words, it's simply the mildest justified revenge, without even a claim that anything was intentional.
> capture a tool/ecosystem that developers liked using and benefit from that positive sentiment

So...appeal to devs, something something, money??

I really like how MS are improving our tools and embracing open source, I really do. But I've never quite understood how the return on investment in these things justify the cost. I just struggle to the an obv big picture here.

I.e. is it incorrect to think of the GH acquisition as mostly an azure marketing expense?
The Syrian civil war was started over bread and unemployment.
Yes, you got it. Thanks.
> social distancing likely won't reduce the total of people that will get infected. Social distancing also doesn't increase your chances of surviving an infection.

There is substantial evidence for other viral infections that infection severity (spanning from asymptomatic to dead) is related to dosage.

There is limited information so far for covid19 but some informal evidence that this is true for it too: Young healthcare workers appear to be dying a a much higher rate than similarly healthy members of the public who are sars-cov-2 positive.

If this is the case, social distancing will reduce the number of people who get serious infections and reduce the number who die.

Even if not, preventing overload of the hospitals will significantly reduce the number who die. Delaying infections until we better know how to treat the disease from anti-virals to simply care techniques will almost certantly reduce the number who die.

> Say 310,000 people would have died without social distancing (more than 5x the current projections). T

CDC's projection was 1.7 million dead before accounting for hospital overload.
As the lockdown showed, many people are happy with authoritarianism if they think their government is keeping them safe and well fed. Only until the majority starve will there be revolution.
If you do get it, I'd strongly consider negotiating a severance for the risk you're taking on.
That doesn't work in my browser :(
for me, devices of different sizes do different things; I carry a lot of specialized devices, from a small laptop to a giant e reader to a regular sized ereader to a cellphone to a watch, and for me? the thing that is currently missing is a thing I can input text on with one hand (while doing something with the other hand) the SE original filled that gap; the iphone 7 is slightly too large to comfortably input text with using one hand, it's a little cramped to input text with two, at least for my hands.)

I should try one of those pop-out deals and see if it makes using the iphone 7 with one hand practical.
It would put an interesting perspective on the reasons behind some Chinese officials claiming it was released by the US in Wuhan.
They may be right. But the effects of the virus on the economy will last for more than a year. The IMF is pretty clear about that.
vi is so-named because it is based on VIsual mode for the standard EDitor. There's less distance than one might think.
Death of unfair competition from communist organizations living on private money from anticompetitive tech giants.

Open source have to die to give back value to the software industry.
> One-player online games will also be subject to surveillance, as a new real-name mechanism is going to be implemented in China. Also, the new law will not allow for zombies and plagues, map editing, roleplaying, as well as organizing a union in games — regulations which are believed to be inspired by the sensitive content made by Joshua Wong.

I'll admit the article isn't exactly well written which makes me have trouble trusting it. But doesn't the above quote imply that they are in fact censoring other video games than Animal Crossing.
Was that the one with the demagnitize button? I used to slap the monitor while pushing the button so my coworkers would think I hit it so hard the image bounced around
They are not actually hoarding “wealth”. No one is sitting on a pile of apartments...

They literally are actually. Buying expensive houses and leaving them empty is an incredibly common way of hoarding wealth. https://londonist.com/london/housing/how-many-vacant-empty-h...
> The large quantity of food going to the trash every day seems to indicate otherwise.

These are all kind of bad examples, but I'll go with this one. Food takes time to grow or produce, so you have to accurately predict months out how much food you can sell. So, who is to blame for imperfect predictions of future demand? We could donate all this food instead of just binning it, so then who's to blame for not building the mass infrastructure required to coordinate such distribution, and then running it all for free? And then if such an individual did do this, why didn't they spend their considerable resources instead on a project that could have benefited humanity way more?
I'm more irritated by the huge margins than by the not-hitting-corner thing.
Doctors knew what? That it escaped from a lab?

How many people could have had the information to confirm that in November/December?
and there's no reason this has to happen. the same way we can print money to hand out to companies we can print money and buy food with it and give it out to hungry people WITHOUT causing inflation.
I don't know. If you mean Google, it's been lobotomized over the past decade.
I was at that party in Falster in 1990. I remember we rented a video camera in a local hifi shop and documented the whole thing. The tape has unfortunately been lost as far as I know. Could be fun to watch it again. Do have some photos and possibly the original invitation lying around somewhere.
It's crazy the amount of work that is spent to essentially implement static typing into dynamically / duck typed languages.

Projects like this, mypy and others makes the whole thing bizarre to say the least.
And to think I was going to cancel my subscription because the bridge wasn't open source...

Not to mention that I missed the Linux support announcement:
https://protonmail.com/blog/proton-bridge-linux-launch/
Apollo 13 Mission Ops Report [pdf]
The LCDs you see this on are 6-bit color displays using temporal dithering to pretend to be 8-bit color.
The original paper specifically addresses “noise” as not a sufficient solution to the problem. I’d call a coin toss “noise” in the context of this paper.
I think we'll stop we will naturally stop buying a new phone/car when it stops being worthwhile buying them.

To be honest these days I couldn't fit a bigger TV in my living room if I tried nor can I appreciate the difference between 4k and 8k, so as far as I'm concerned there are close to zero reasons for me to want a new model of this particular technology.

Phones are much the same. I see phones coming out with 5 cameras on the back. I just need one.

It'll all naturally slow down. I'm happy for it to run it's course. So far the innovations have been pretty good. It has to end somewhere eventually.
I agree. The OP suggested a quick and immediate bounce back soon. I’m pessimistic about that for the aforementioned reasons. “Nobody knows for sure” is a reason for short term pessimism not optimism.
OK, I officially do not get economics. Close to everything has stopped for 2 months, lots of lost jobs and econ goes down only 3%?

If I lose 3% in my worst year, I'd be jumping from joy.
Definitely. I guess the interesting part specifically is that, if you aren't the type to care about making a development env a hobby, why would you ever even touch emacs?
It doesn't matter much if they spend much time on their platforms now if advertisers stop advertising everywhere.
Some of us are using a four year old phone that is likely to be EOL in a little over a year, struggling with battery issues, camera issues, general stability issues, etc.

Some of us continued to hold out in the hopes that there might be a new device announced that wouldn’t require spending $700+ on something that is effectively worse than what we already have.

Some of us are pretty disappointed that we now need to spend money to maintain a device that is unlikely to receive security updates past IOS 14, or spend money on something that is explicitly against what we want.

I’ll get over it myself, but it won’t stop me being frustrated in the immediate term, because you’re absolutely right. Instead of being anything new and useful (as price point isn’t a big differentiator on here, given average earnings), it is just another phone, and it’s just like all the other phones out on the market.

It’s too damn big.
How does median vs mean matter here? Maybe only 50% of people are completely fucked? Big deal; I know the CEOs and software engineers are doing fine.
A pretty significant part of stock valuation comes from projected future value. Since most ‘experts’ are saying that we’ll bounce back from this within 6-18 months, the markets reflect this optimism.
I'm against this tendency to alienate the Chinese as some unknowable "other". Yes, the culture is quite different than in the West, but we share vastly more through the common experience of being human. There are a lot of well-educated middle class Chinese who would hope for a more transparent and democratic system. But it is a complex and difficult issue. There are many of us in the US who hope for a similar change in our own country, and yet there doesn't seem like there's much we can do. Except vote, of course.
We can only motivate them because their alternatives are much worse.
Being able to make a change, and being able to make a change without handholding are two different things.

> hire/replace team members in agile manner would help enforce this process more naturally and vice versa

Places where this happens are normally considered very high stress and competitive.
> The prices of the securities are based on what investors think the company

That's a quaint view, but the logistics is completely mathematical. The prices of securities is absolutely and completely based on the bid and offers. It is a completely mathematical outcome of transactions. Of course, prices feed into the psychology of investors, as well as their estimates of future performance. But a huge amount of cash in the market is there to make short-term profits, not long term profits. Automated systems trade huge amounts of money based off technical analysis and price prediction on multiple timescales. There are computer systems with stupid amounts of computational power who only think about how to make two cents by being ahead of the market by 1 millisecond, 1 second, one day, one week. And they make billions.

> That’s why in really uncertain times the stock can drastically move without any of the current financials changing drastically.

I think we're into a rathole here, but this statement basically contradicts your earlier point. If prices are based off the future 6-12 months from now, then crashes wouldn't happen, or be so severe. This is obviously false. Bubbles pop violently.
Maybe because I don't want my CollabQA session to be bombed like how people are doing Zoom Bombing?
Do you think the market is appropriately pricing risk?

Do you feel the economic outlook and prospects for growth are the same now as they were in June 2019 when the S&P 500 was at a similar level?

Honestly I think the jury’s out on whether double-digit percentages of the S&P exist in their current form 2 years from now, even with the US government interventions.
May be you should consider posting some data-driven citation.

AFAIK, jobs have stopped going to India for sometime now. Indian IT companies which relied heavily on offshoring had significant contraction as a result. A lot of modern IT jobs in India are in fact for new startups/companies meant for Indian population itself. Before COVID, India was seeing China like internal uprising with equivalent of many US tech companies poping up all over with jobs that were starting to match US salaries outside of tech hubs. Also, visa process had became unsustainably hard for most companies there so on-shore workforce augmentation sector has been quickly drying up as well.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/how-indian-it...
The current culture in China was created by the CCP. The culture of old China, before the cultural revolution, persists in Taiwan. Taiwan has very few of the problems that China has.
Because those “investments” don’t matter if there are no workers using the tools. Look around you. How is the economy doing with everyone staying at home due to the pandemic?
Spanish Flu - not racist

MERS - Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome - Saudi Arabia - not racist

German Measles - not racist

Japanese Virus - not racist

West Nile Virus - not racist

Japanese Encephalitis - not racist

Guinea Worm - not racist

Ebola - not racist

Zika Virus - not racist

Rock Mountain Fever - not racist

Lymes Disease - not racist

Russian Flu - not racist

Delhi Belly - not racist

Chinese Virus - RACIST?

Wuhan Virus - RACIST?

All are named after a geographic location—cities, forests, rivers, countries. Even inside China, it's refereed to as the Wuhan Pneumonia.
Each generation imagines God as whatever is coolest right then. In Newton's day, the universe was a tower clock.

Humanity will be around for, well, a few more years, not a blink of the universe's eye. Our grandchildren will have time to look into things, if civilization doesn't collapse. What are the odds that they will decide we were right, that the universe really is something we know about already?
It’s sustainable forever since it is just money going around in a circle.

Is having the pump on in your hot tub unsustainable Just because you believe the tub can run out of water?
Stock Emacs and off-the-shelf add-ons are pretty powerful, but I agree that one is really missing something by not writing their own little tweaks.

You can learn Emacs well just by starting with this manual and beginning to tweak Emacs to do things you want:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/

Emacs Lisp is very low-friction to start hacking on. There's no SDKs to download, no IDE to install, no developer mode to enable, no project wizard to run, no source tree of template files to start from, no program to attach, no emulator to run, to separate build to run, no sandboxing, etc. You can just start Emacs, and start editing Emacs Lisp expressions and evaluating them, and you can change the code of your running Emacs in a very straightforward way.

I initially started by writing little fancy editing features for C and C++ coding (e.g., format my comments a certain way, do a expression transform, etc.), and then started writing to editing modes for my employer's proprietary languages. The public bits are at "https://www.neilvandyke.org/emacs/". That was my introduction to Lisp hacking, and eventually I gravitated to Scheme.
If there is racist intent it wouldn't be just about Wuhan...
Will this handle the scenario of “I need to schedule a new meeting with a higher priority to me than others I’ve requested, triggering a wave of automatic rescheduling?”
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2016/1...

The author specifically addressed “noise” in another paper. In this paper, the predecessor to the one linked, the author shows that noise doesn’t fix the problem, rather it makes it impossible to determine which inputs would make it hang for an arbitrary amount of time.
Keep in mind that the old SE was still being sold by Apple until just a year and a half ago (discontinued in Sep 2018). Generally, their devices can be expected to be supported for several years after they were newly purchased. I would be quite surprised if iOS 14 drops it, and have some hope for the release after that even.
I mean, you realize this is a catch-22 argument right?

We don't want the government doing anything in our lives, so we don't expect any sort of mass infrastructure to be built to support for food distribution. We expect the wealthy and corporations to be philanthropists.

But being a philanthropist costs money. So instead we have a bunch of farms and food producers instead tossing out food because it's cheaper to throw it away than it is to donate it.

So how can you claim it's a bad example when people would rather throw food away for profit?
I've used this feature quite a lot and it's important to understand that it is crazy unstable. The fact that it works at all is impressive, but it does explode quite a lot.
The S&P 500 average price to earnings ratio is actually only at about 21, which is not an unusual level for the last 20 years. It's relatively high compared pre-1990 levels, but in comparison, during the 2009 crisis, the PE ratios blew through the top. I was actually surprised when I looked at it because, like you apparently do, I expected prices to be through the roof. As this crises continues, though, I suspect we'll see it creep up. People are burning through their limited savings. When that runs out, there will be a crunch -- I would imagine.
NBC is cutting back on ad slots[1].

> The ad reductions will occur in news programming, late-night NBC and Bravo shows, reality programming, competition shows like America’s Got Talent and other cable originals.

The only reason they're doing this is they don't have enough buyers to fill the slots. Traditional media is great for brand advertising, but it's so hard to show ROI, I can see the wisdom to shifting budget to Facebook and Google.

1: https://www.adweek.com/tv-video/nbcuniversal-will-permanentl...
computer [ kuh m-pyoo-ter ]
noun
...
2. a person who computes; computist.

(This actually isn't a joke)

edit: (super obvious if you click the link, btw)
Hey Justin! Nice to hear that...
I am actually thinking on removing ads completely by now until it gets better.

Is nothing personal, I just think is not fair, the companies displayed get awareness but I get nothing back and the user experience gets touched.
I am working on the redesign relaxed-dijkstra-1e8c58.netlify.com I will see what I do.

I appreciate you reaching out.

Thank you Justin.

/Mike
there is something reassuringly "analogue" about how these artifacts get over the technology limits of diffusion/mask/layer systems, to make building blocks:

"I need a resistor? fine: lay out a huge amount of stuff"

"No, I need it more accurate! fine: lay out tracks, now burn fuses to select from unit-scale tracks the 'right' number, and if you want better use a laser to do it"
That’s because it wasn’t a reduction in our national output (real production output). It was a reduction in perceived future earnings (I.e. loans). Today we are facing real production losses that will lead people to really stop buying. As prices increase and many many more people are out of work.
Very neat. I had a similar need recently which led to a similar solution[^1]. Notably, I used a syntax nearly identical to yours, albeit without the very handy pluggable validators yours has. Nice job.

What led you to choose “!” as the “optional” modifier? My intuition would have guessed that character to have the opposite meaning.

[1]: project: https://github.com/tylerchr/jstn/ — playground: https://tylerchr.github.io/jstn/
Wow this is very clean!
we've reduced demand by realising most of our travel was utterly pointless. things can go on fine without us traversing our cities and the world constantly.
Calling it Chinese Virus is not racist either. Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome, German Measles, Japanese Virus, Japanese Encephalitis, Russian Flu are all named after countries. Also "China" is not a race, it's a country.
The fact that you think so doesn't change the fact that she is proud of it – and that's what matters here, that's the whole point of the article.

But the thing goes deeper: if you chose the attributes of the characters by flipping coin, the distribution would look very different than what it did, according to the article – judging from the earlier stuff, the developers were in "rut" and didn't think outside of the box, at least in this aspect. Male characters are very much the norm in many genres. She's proud that she made a difference against that "normal", and improved the result doing so.
you know what? things are kinda bad right now, I even lost my job but I'm still hopeful. Hopeful that this "thing" will end and we as humans will grow from that bad experience.
1. Write placeholder output, the equivalent of a Hello World for the task.

2. Start parameterizing parts of the program to generate the output, so that more and more of the output comes from a few source variables.

3. Eventually you want a user interface on this and have it load from disk instead of recompiling...and so you end up with a complete program.

You generally don't get there just by concentrating really hard on the architecture. You architect a bit and then try things to get empiric feedback.
Most Americans (richest country in the world btw) don't know how they will pay their rent next month or buy food. No one's signing up for a new subscription now lmao.
But the people that are working are the ones producing the needed goods and services.

Which suggests that most of what we need is produced by about 10% of the workforce and the rest is largely busy work.

The longer this goes on, the more that will become apparent.

Then the discussion starts about what the 90% have to do so the needed 10% do a full week to look after all of us rather than just stopping on Tuesday when they have made enough for themselves.
I have been asking my friends to speculate how us pandemic survivors will be different from other people in the future? How we will be characterized in novels? How would Sherlock Holmes distinguish us from the privileged ones who by luck of birth were not involved in the pandemic? Dr. Watson would say, after Holmes spotted the survivor, "If you worked from home for two years, you'd behave that way too."

I always pose this a little more colorfully, but the part that gets the response is the two years.