skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't care about people trying a new hobby. That doesn't account for the lack of TP, flour, and now even chips and butter. Like you say: hoarders. Everyone is acting selfishly, and the stores aren't policing purchases enough.
Just reading the headline, what this means to me is that the "world economy" is doing a lot better than most of us are doing as individuals. I'm on a 25% furlough. Sales from my side business have dropped to zero. My other side job has dropped to zero. Among working people, I'm one of the lucky. My family actually has a little bit of money in the kitty.

"The economy" refers to a system that's primarily designed to concentrate and protect private wealth, and a 3% loss of private wealth isn't all that bad at all. The people who are really hurting have no wealth to lose.

I hope an outcome of this crisis is that we start to think about "the economy" in more humane terms.
The giant vacuum of shuttered businesses should make an easy opportunity to start or expand business after the pandemic, right?
Lots of people have lost lots of money trying to short the market. Your fighting the fed and their trillions of liquidity they dumped into economy. Even shorting junk bonds etfs which seemed like easy money is getting helped by the Fed.
Because open source has always been defined in its very definition by its definition to the for-profit software industry, which Microsoft basically invented? Because in spite of having made a turn towards open source, Microsoft once treated it like a mortal enemy, akin to cancer? Because of how other large companies like Google have smothered open source projects?

I'm personally not worried about the acquisition (I think it's a net positive for the community), but there are plenty of reasons to discuss this interaction.
My take on that is...

For those fundamentally interested in developing development environments, coding tools, or making your editor your hobby, diving deep into emacs customization is a reasonable thing to do. In other words, if creating things like evil-mode or spacemacs excites you, a dive deep into emacs is a good option.

For those who aren't interested in those things, try to actively avoid deep diving into emacs. It will be an unfulfilling waste of time. There's no magical developer productivity pot of gold at the end of that rainbow.
Reverse-engineering the TL431: the most common chip you’ve never heard of (2014)
Yes, but the software and hardware capabilities in the phones are decades ahead. My Pixel 4 categorically takes better low light photos than my 80D because it takes dozens of photos, does AI voodoo on them, etc. If the DSLRs had that software who knows what they could do.
Any Office fans here, waiting for it to hit the corner?.
Other than behaviour, are they self identified as a junior dev, or is the title just kinda being a jerk?
For terminal stuff, you can't beat the ease of use of asciinema.
Is the extension not hosted on Mozilla’s website?
Anecdotally, I know some people who did not come from well off families who got need-based financial aid that covered the entirety of their medical school tuition. There was still some loans for living expenses but that’s about it.
The actual report that this article is based on is here:
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2020/04/14/we...

including the terminology "The Great Lockdown"
Yeah, that screams micromanagement.

If you so lack in trust that the people on your team can make good hiring decisions, even to the point of rejecting somebody you haven’t actually met...well... that’s just nuts.
Yeah sorry, I don’t think you understand how control groups work.
That’s what I call them and I was born in 89...
No it's not. The HN crowd has a vocal group of people who advocate for phones like the iPhone SE. The main complaint of this group is that other phones are too big. So a new release of the SE brings a lot of hope for extending that experience.

The fact that this phone is bigger doesn't sit well with this vocal minority, because they want a small smartphone and now see that medium is the only available in stock.

Expectation, expectation, expectation. It's being shattered, that leads to emotions and that leads to comments.

I'm also not too happy about the new SE, if you search my comment history I don't think you see me talking about it, but I'm in the same camp. I think other phones are preposterously big, and the SE is the only normal one.

Alas, the new SE is not normal for me. Going back to a dumber phone is now something I have to consider more seriously. I don't want my pockets to bulge out and I want to handle my phone with one hand without straining it. The old iPhone SE was perfect for that. I have pretty tall hands but with the iPhone 8, it didn't strain but felt clumsy (and I use the device quite often in order to help my grandparents with their iPhone 8).

I hope I gave you some insight into the marketing persona of people who want the old iPhone SE to come back and how that persona is well represented on HN.

See also:

Search on HN Algolia for iPhone SE to see these sentiments repeated. Example: the top comment in the this thread [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22878515
No, the halting problem says that one cannot determine whether an _arbitrary_ program halts, while this says that one cannot build a _particular_ physical device that is guaranteed to output in bounded time.
I think one of the main problems with Android is how _varied_ different versions are. When I pick up anyone's iPhone I find it equally easy to do everything. Even when I had an Android, picking up anyone else's phone and trying to change settings (you know, being the only computer person around, I had to help people fix problems) was an enormous difficulty. Just because I had figured out my phone well didn't mean I could even find the same setting on someone else's phone. It's been a few yeas - it may be more standard by now.
> Meaninglessness. Most of the projects are simply not necessary, they do not help society in anyway, they just exist to make someone else wealthy.

True. Right now amidst the pandemic, it turned out the farmers, medical people, janitors, delivery guys are the most essential jobs.
What are the odds some of that non-toxic debt turns into toxic debt as unemployment lingers?
Start buying stock.
https://www.playmidair.com/ ... there's a discord, but no true "play" community like you remember.
400+ points on Hackernews for... this?

There have been a variety of studies and reports, both for and against, the use of hydroxychloroquine. Is there any reason this particular study is so highly upvoted? Or is this just an attempt to dunk on Trump for suggesting the drug showed promise?
So, your described situation almost never happens. There are candidates who get 100% hire votes, and they get hired. Most candidates have some variability- it is rare that everyone is 100% onboard. The svp review is to make sure that the hiring process has worked and nothing major has been missed.
The real dream for me would be something solving the satisfiability problem of conference rooms (obviously not an issue this moment anymore). If it was possible for every meeting to have a priority the computer could figure out which meetings should be when to allow as many of us to have rooms as is possible. The current system is horribly inefficient, with the first person to book getting whatever room they happen to choose.
They are free to do so, but when they do it for arbitrary reasons, it instills a lack of trust in leadership. Leaders that lead through fear are much less effective than leaders that are able to motivate their followers in positive ways.
That's only true if your prospective buyers didn't get shuttered too.
The GDP (i.e. “the economy”) is a measure of all goods & services produced and consumed. Even if someone is paycheck to paycheck or hand to mouth, this means less goods and services they can make and consume.

If this response was about crashing financial markets the blasé tone would be OK (ignoring that many retirees rely on pensions or bank accounts tied to financial markets). But this is about the entire economy.
"the system" isn't designed to protect wealth so much as encourage productivity. There is a direct correlation between increases in productivity and increases in wealth, but a system designed to protect existing wealth would look much different than ours. For instance, cartels would not be illegal.
"The economy" refers to a system that's primarily designed to concentrate and protect private wealth, and a 3% loss of private wealth isn't all that bad at all

This isn't really true.

A 3% contraction in the world's economy is the sum of all countries GDPs. That's a measure of how much "stuff" (goods and services) is produced.

It's more closely correlated with unemployment than with the stock market (ie, with private wealth).
This also shouldn't be treated as a signal for a market correction, for ex: from 'bad' behaviour in the marketplace, and making the subsequent moral hazards that were abundant in the various bailouts of the post-2008 crisis less likely (depending on your tolerance for 'rainy day' funds I guess, which for most small/medium-businesses is pretty unrealistic beyond a 2 months lockdown IMO, larger firms slightly less so).

I'm curious how this will influence economic research on the matter, possibly providing greater insight into 'force majeure' scenarios instead of merely propping companies and executives who helped cause the crisis in an effort to offset even worse consequences.
Basically every non-Western (and some Western) F2P MMO game installs a rootkit.

Look at anything by Aeria, Gravity, etc. They're significantly worse than Riot's Vanguard - everything from all plaintext data exfiltration, copying clipboard contents and forwarding them to giant glaring vulnerabilities letting malware hide using the rootkit.

GameGuard ring0 does not check or sign or verify anything and will load whatever you want to replace the data files with - and was completely unremovable, runs on boot, never killable, not removable with the game, not removable when the game uninstalls.

Xigncode is quite literally malware and sends PII in plaintext, no TLS, to random IPs in Korea.
Emacs has a great interactive live tutorial integrated.
I emailed them a while ago, to encourage pursuing an open standard for their protocol, such as through the IETF.

Open sourcing Bridge is helpful, and perhaps a step towards that.

Perhaps, with this reference, some other mail providers will implement the server-side protocol to Bridge, and some MUA developers will implement/integrate the client-side protocol.
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But when we're measuring the "world economy" it's not like we're measuring the heights of the stacks of gold behind scrooge mcduck's coffers, right? These numbers represent things like society's ability to make products people want, and peoples' willingness to spend their savings on things that are useful (instead of stuffing it in their mattress). The effects on labor are terrible, and your furlough reflects that. I personally was recently laid off, and likewise many individuals are hit much harder than 3%. But it's not like we should wish that other parts of the economy were hit as badly. None of it is good.
Is there a reason we think this is even a good metric to strive for?
Here's the one I've been playing around with, written in go with the SDL2 library - https://github.com/bcl/sdl2-life
A 3% contraction seems really optimistic.
The best part about having a bulky case is it removes so much stress. Dropping your phone doesn't matter. You can throw it across the room. It's insane how something designed to be taken everywhere and used regularly is so fragile.
Note: I believe the commentary here is copied from the Lamport's website, http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html#buridan which has similar commentary alongside each of his papers.

This makes perfect sense classically, but the quantum argument I'm not sure about; as he admits, he only finds fault with a particular apparatus using quantum behavior. But it seems that any implementation of a quantum bit that is eventually "measured" would violate the principle--is there something I'm missing, or is the problem just smoothed over by the probabilistic error already assumed in quantum circuits?
What "other hand"?

Your comment essentially backed my point. Isn't it great to have both ancient greek and english rather than only ancient greek? Ain't diversity great?
You can use GitHub's automatic generation of archives even for specific git commits.

There is no version 4.0.0a of Electrum, it has not been released, it is misleading to refer to it.
A lot of loans are about to go bad because we shut the economy down. Do you think people are going to be keeping up with car payments and student loan payments and credit card payments?
China and India grew substantially during the recession, just at a lower rate than they would have. No such luck this time.
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Yes we use the scientific method of epidemiology - has been working since John Snow used it to determine that there was a cholera problem with the Broad Street Pump [1].

I am not encouraging anyone to do anything other than look for a natural attenuated strain. This point seems to be missed time and time again.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb...
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Congrats! Enjoy your time there. There's lots of good people, including some programming language luminaries.
Okay so what I am to understand by the phrase

> cannot be made within a bounded length of time.

Is not that it will not happen within a certain time period but rather I cannot with certainty fix an upper or lower bound on the amount of time it will take to reach a decision for all possible values of the input X.

Thank you for your reply I had to noodle on it a bit but think I get it now.
Does anyone have an explanation (preferably with source links) for why the US stock market is not absolutely tanking given the depths of economic disruption? I mean I get that the government is supplying stimulus, but I don't see how that can make up for the years of rebuilding that will be ahead even after we reach the bottom of the current jobs-and-small-business freefall.
This was probably posted as related to recent discussion of Riot Games’ anti-cheat running at ring-0.
Yeah I put half my 401k into inflation protected bonds instead of shorting.
One of the issues of such a contraction is its impact on stocks. People often think it's just for the rich. It's not! Think of all the teachers, firefighters, nurses, police - all those first responders whose pensions are invested in stocks. Such contraction will terrible for their eggnests.
The economy was showing cracks before the shutdown happened.

Now it's also due to bad loans but not for housing like in 2009 but corporate debt(stock buybacks anyone?) but it's just easier for the economists and politicians to point fingers at a new enemy without a face than to accept that the economy boon was a bubble.

The Coronavirus shutdown was bad timing but it's not the main culprit, it just accelerated the inevitable bubble burst.
As I see it GDP measures national revenue, not national profit. The closest proxy to national profit has historically been net exports, which is why every country wanted to export a lot but import very little.

Frankly, if "the economy" falls 0.1% in a Great-Depression (as alluded to by the current Democratic presidential candidate) scale catastrophe (for reference, the Great Depression was more believably 25% of GDP) maybe we've massaged the statistics too far. So frankly, why not just gauge "the economy" not by GDP but by estimating actual human profits of working, the money they have left over after rent is paid, food is on the table, and health taken care of. Further, take into account diminishing marginal utility of surplus income. How much do people have left over and how does that change over time?
Sweden as the great success story when it is suffering the same economic devastation as its neighbors but a higher death rate is an interesting argument.

The thing about the lockdowns is that evidence so far indicates that stopping 80% of non-essential economic activities voluntarily is about as bad for the economy as stopping 90+% on a mandatory basis, but it seems that the health outcomes are much better in the latter situation.
Nobody is being experimented on or proposed to be experimented on. The proposal is to go and look for an attenuated strain and then decide what to do with it if we find one.
I am quite confident that it will come back. Demand is there. My dad owns a chain of bicycle stores. Sales have been absolutely through the roof during quarantine (they are "essential"). Like, blowing-away-previous-sales-records good. His customers represent all walks of life in the city he serves. He has stores in the wealthy areas and stores in the poorer areas; all are doing well. People want to spend money and they are desperate for places to do it. I predict that we will see a retail boom if we can find a way to reopen the economy and still be safe (masks everywhere, distancing). The trick is figuring out that safety. It starts with PPE and cleaning commodities. We need universal availability of good face masks, hand sanitizer, and effective cleaning wipes. We need to flood the world with so many masks that you get one for free every time you walk into a store. Figure that out soon and this economy will rebound.
This info adds interest to song "The Kids Aren't Alright" , if he is doubly-accomplished but his childhood friends all burned out. Apparently Dexter did inspire/write the song: http://www.mtv.com/news/504023/offspring-rock-back-to-basics...
I was surprised by this article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/opinion/covid-economy-une...
> This is important if you are doing or using Web Apps like Discourse which requires JS processing.

I'm not sure this is impacted by the CPU speed really for many reasons.

1. For a popular app, you can't target the latest / the best model. We already cycle through the phones less often than a few years ago. By the time this gets to become popular, other phones will have comparable speed.

2. Developers will work both ways: To speed up the current code, (positive impact) and to add more features (negative impact).

If JS is required, people will find solutions. If JS is not enough, we'll get native apps. Current speedups in raw CPU are meh.
What's SVP?
I mean, not to mention everyday people who have 401ks with their employer or their own IRAs.
There were troubles in the debt markets brewing before this whole virus thing happened. I don't think every thing that is happening in financial markets and the economy is because of the virus. It will be blamed but it was merely the trigger for a trap that was already set in some sense.
Probably because it is perceived to be a fairly uninformed question. It's sort of like talking about the USPS potential insolvency and someone asking how many postmen will be replaced with gig economy workers.
As far as I'm aware, major leading American tech companies have never really exported jobs to India, it has been almost entirely companies that need mediocre quality work contracting out to companies that fill those contracts with workers from India or elsewhere. Without carefully developing an office, culture, and employee pipelines over 3-5+ years you carry extremely large risk outsourcing important work.
I've worked with a lot of developers who have provided business value by importing leftpad rather than writing code.
Not to be an arse

Too late.

but it seems very backward in many ways.

In America we have both checks and online banking. It seems very backwards to have only one method of doing things.

A single point of failure is a hallmark of a bad system.
Indeed. I don't want anybody's money to just vanish. And while as others have pointed out, the numbers are a measure of productivity for somebody, the ability of workers to capture their own productivity in wages is not guaranteed.
Jim Cramer was talking about this very issue yesterday. I have an explanation for this but will reserve it till I get a source for you (I think big investors are playing the market).
You can do that only if you have the excess savings to do so, since you'll have very tough luck getting a decent loan in a bad economy.
We didn't do this to benefit the economy, and it didn't. Losing 0.3% of the population (and maybe my mom) is a tragedy for the families but would not cost the economy $10T (that's half of GDP!)

We did it because risking 30M pneumonia victims was unthinkable, even before we count the extra heart attack/assault/cancer victims while the hospitals collapse.
The US never 'recovered' from the 2008 crisis, we just printed money and used it to pay those 'bad loans'. That bad money is still in the economy, and since the loaning didn't stop, there are even more bad loans now. That is the reason for this crisis, it is why not even one week after the virus started hitting the US everyone was asking for a bailout.

People and Companies have no savings, they live paycheck to paycheck, loan to loan. This crisis is way worse because the loans are way worse and involve everybody.
China to ban online gaming, in-game chat with foreigners outside Great Firewall
Interesting. Could you show me a Chromium implementation for your 1999 DVD? Since we're comparing apples to oranges here, it shouldn't be a problem.
I don't know what Mirror is. But this was so cool. How did you get this? The WSJ article I posted is behind a paywall.
Or the Ruby webserver

https://github.com/socketry/falcon
Dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22884375
I think Derek might object to being called a biochemist - he is actually an organic chemist by training.
Thanks for the numbers. That is bigger.

Are there any Android phones for sale that are smaller than 138.4mm x 67.3mm though? (That are 'standard' phones, not gimmicky super small ones like the unihertz).

Some of the Android phones that seem to be known for being 'compact' are the Samsung Galaxy S10e (142.2 x 69.9). Google Pixel 4 (147.1 x 68.8) (slightly smaller Google Pixel 3, 145.6 x 68.2).

I'm having trouble googling to figure out the smallest 'reasonable' android phone available, I'm not super familiar with the market.

Aha! Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact is only 135mm x 65mm. Found one! Few mm smaller.

But I think the new SE may still be one of the smallest phones out there, even if it's bigger than the old SE. The market seems to have moved... larger.

There are certainly people (including me) who would prefer it be the old SE size... but it's not like there's really anywhere else for us to go. Except experimenting with the specialized 'oddballs' like unihertz.

With the new SE, Apple has still put out one of the smallest phones on the market, so is still serving the smaller end of the market. Which, yeah, that is weird.
No! It's too soon. Stocks will go down again. They went down in the 30s and also during 2007-2009. The first dip was not the final dip.
The book called "Mom Test" by Rob Fitzpatrick has a section on this. He likes to organize Meetups targeting the types of people you want to meet. But maybe those people don't have time. So also he says there's almost certainly there's a chance you know someone, who knows someone etc. So know what you want to ask, and just put it out into the world on your network e.g. LinkedIn, Facebook etc. "I interested in finding out about x, does anyone know someone in Y/someone who works at Z" etc.
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Fallout 76's initial anti cheat efforts were quite funny. Literally based on checking if applications called "IDA" or "Cheat Engine" were open.
Airlines are broke yo - I guess you can try.
how do you know the dependency bound is too tight?