skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a major metropolitan city in the US that is not on the west coast. Most jobs are bog standard software as a service CRUD/bespoked internal system roles. They all pay about the same at the same level of experience - maybe there is a $20K variance but you can usually negotiate that. Also, senior engineers come on the market infrequently and there are many open reqs (I’m speaking pre-Covid). Meaning that historically (over two decades) its never taken me more than a month to go from looking for a job to offer. Most interviews in my pure software engineering roles have involved soft skills questions, explaining past projects, sometimes standard multiple choice prescribing tests and occasionally simple on site at the computer coding tests.

All that to say if I both have a job and have two or three companies vying for me at about the same salary - I’m no special snowflake. I’ve just done a lot of targeted resume driven development and have built a strong network - why would I do a take home test?

I’ve scheduled six phone screens with different companies in one day.

My record for looking for a job, to having an offer is four days. I called an external recruiter on Monday, had a phone screen on Wednesday, in person Thursday morning and offer that evening. It was for a job at a recently acquired subsidiary of what was then a Fortune 10 company.
Google is just following the law: Like in law, where a life-long sentence does not necessarily mean life-long, at Google lifetime guarantee does not mean lifetime. Perhaps guarantee, but not lifetime.

(Don't take this too seriously, especially not from me.)
At what percentage would you speak of broadly? 6M cases are 1.5%.
Rotation group maybe? And those gauge symmetries... heck, just look into quantum mechanics operators.
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Maybe when the plans were grandfathered their duration was set to 5 (or 6) years with a //FIXME and the FIXME part was forgotten
There’s no way we can assume that the coronavirus was a pin to a bubble.

Look at the unemployment claims chart. This has never happened before in the entire 20th century. That’s not a pin. That’s a collapse in employment.

It doesn’t really matter whether or not people have savings.

Economic recessions don’t mean “people don’t have their savings anymore.” They’re a reduction in economic activity. That doesn’t have to happen because people are literally out of money, it can happen because people are unwilling to spend as much as they used to.

Take the best-off person right now as an example. They still have a job, working from home. They have 6-12 months of emergency fund. Despite all this, are they going to buy anything but essentials right now? Plus, in many cases, they don’t have a choice. They’re not allowed to pay for their gym membership. They’re not allowed to take dance classes. They’re not allowed to go on vacation.

They’re sitting at home buying groceries and nothing else just like the person with no savings.
A very interesting one that's helped me understand a lot right now is Goliath by Matt Stoller. He frames todays economy in a similar light as the 1920s. Very compelling and interesting.
The difference being, upgrading the OS was your decision. You still had a license for something that worked on a dated version of the OS, if you so chose.

This is out of your control.
Mine renews on the 14th and the payment was already made last night. Everything I look at shows my sub. is still active. I'm one of the original 7.99 subscribers.

The death of Google Music is long awaited and feared. Once it does die it'll be like the death of Google Reader 2.0. People are just getting twitchy with any little mistake Google makes.
First, the usual disclaimers about 'do your own research' and all that. Also, people come into econ for different reasons, have different focuses, and expect different things from their news. Some people read news about the economy because they have specific decision making responsibilty, and some people read it because they're just curious. I'm somewhere in the middle depending on what is specifically being talked about.

Here are some random links that I check from time to time when I have the time.

https://wallstreetonparade.com/

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/

https://mattstoller.substack.com/

And then many mainstream ones like newspaper sites and the like.
NewPipe is an Android app.
Lifetime guarantees from companies are wishful thinking, IMHO. The company can get bought out, go bankrupt, etc., and your guarantee is worth nothing.
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Even if the number of tests stay the same, but just the testing criteria shift over time, it would invalidate the daily positive test count for use in determining Rt without somehow adjusting for the resulting bias.
Ha! This is the best! Why did all those people not think of that, are they insane? :D
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Maybe this is a subtle hint about the lifetime of Google Music, now that they have YouTube Music as the new “hot” product.

They’ve semi-threatened it will be killed off sooner or later anyway, so I wouldn’t be surprised.
All subscription contracts provide that they can be cancelled by either parties with reasonable notice. If that was not the case we would have open-ended contracts that can never be brought to an end, which would be obviously unfair (and in fact such contracts are deemed unfair in many jurisdictions).

That’s not the case, and it needn’t be the case. In common law jurisdictions courts rarely order specific performance. So for perpetual contracts, which do exist, a party would just need to pay expectation damages to the other party to end the contract.
Thanks for sharing this -- I especially appreciate the statistics.
You and the poster above you have fundamental differences in how you understand the world. He seems to believe in a world of abundance and you seem to believe in a world of scarcity, not simply limited resources but literal scarcity.

Why do you take it as fact that there isn't enough to go around? Are you sure that's the case?
Windows, all of it. Random hard drive spin and you think to yourself maybe all computers are like this? Maybe the 1000$ I spent on. A laptop wasn’t good enough? And then you go back to your 200$ Linux laptop and get things done.
It is true though. Where we live 70% of the COVID-19 patients which are currently in intensive care are very overweight men. Just being fat itself puts a huge strain on your health, you're more likely to get a lot of illnesses with age and a lot of these patients probably should be taking already medication in order to prevent a heart attack or other issues coming up and the only reason why some of them are currently "without an existing health condition" is because they didn't go to their GP yet who took some blood samples and decided that they are a risk group who should start making some lifestyle changes.

Like it or not, but I'm not going to sugar coat the reality of the situation because I might hurt some obese person's feelings.
Sure, if you always rebuild your container images - but surely a more typical approach is to build them and put them in a container registry?

Of course, they would be rebuilt when base layers change, but if you really want exactly the same image, you reference it by a digest, which will give you a point-in-time image.
Ben Franklin's Famous 'Liberty, Safety' Quote Lost Its Context (2015)
I am going through pretty much an identical situation, except that a doctor prescribed antibiotics over the phone (assuming that the chest pressure and shortness of breath are due to the bacterial secondary infection) and I seem to be getting better.

The uncertainty has been eased by a little gizmo to measure the oxygen saturation in blood, which I got on amazon for £75 as soon as it was obvious that I could not breath well. I am probably fine as long as the saturation is > 92% or so.

Of course I have doubts about the reliability of a medical device off amazon, but it seems well done and, interestingly, it gives my mind a piece of seemingly objective truth to latch on.

[Edit - saturation level that will make me go to the hospital]
At best I'd expect you would get a ruling that they should restore your free service. But enforcing it would be another matter... I expect to see Google Play Music retired (in favour of YouTube music) first :)
Hardly. Economists may believe in the idea, for example, that you can't time the market, but I have yet to meet an economist who doesn't have very strong ideas about the types of policies or interventions that are good for bad for the economy, and again it often feels like you get 10 economists in a room and you get 10 different diverging opinions.
NewPipe has subscriptions without having a need for an account.
I've followed the 'Calculated Risk' and 'Naked Capitalism' blogs since the last crisis. On twitter I follow @MkBlyth and @nntaleb.

Disclaimer: NC is fairly leftish, but I don't consider that a flaw. I'd be interested in learning about rightish blogs of the same depth and quality.

[0] https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/

[1] https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
> But I see no reason why I should reject Moroccan or Turkish olive oil as a matter of principle

But this is the point you're missing: it's not just a matter of principle. It's a matter of reasoning. For a EU citizen buying from Italy, Greece, or Spain makes more sense (money permitting) than buying from Morocco because it's far more likely that a weaker EU country economy will negatively affect their country or the whole EU than a weak Moroccan economy.

What happens to the UK economy if all or many UK citizens start buying stuff made abroad out of some moral obligation? Because if it is negatively impacted in any way then it pretty much proves it was not just a matter of principle.

And to counter some more of your points, local olive producers are already the highest on the value chain and at this point any productivity boosts will come at a cost many are not willing to accept and that conflicts with the previous point. Think chemicals, think lower quality, etc. Why are free-range chickens (and eggs) so popular in the UK if you could just increase productivity with high stocking density?

With every comment you throw the goalpost in another zipcode.
You might have come across this already, but we maintain a collection of article extraction rules for various sites here https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config - it was adapted from a database maintained by Instapaper in its early days and today has contributions mainly from users and developers of an open source Instapaper/Pocket alternative called Wallabag: https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag

Also usable with a free version of Full-Text RSS available here: https://bitbucket.org/fivefilters/full-text-rss/src/master/
I really suggest you read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22854475
I subscribed in 2016 when they were doing a special - $7.99/mo lifetime including youtube premium. My subscription does not seem to be affected yet, although my renewal date is April 22nd, so I guess we'll see what happens on that day.

Honestly I've been thinking about moving to spotify, but the youtube ad-free premium has kept me on google play music because it's just not worth it to switch. But Google Play Music has not been updated in what feels like ages. And the iOS client is terrible (I only switched in the last 6 months).

Seems like they're getting ready to pull the plug. I subscribed in Oct 2016, and over that time I've saved $2/mo on equivalent music subscriptions and had youtube premium included (yeah yeah I know adblock or pihole or nextdns negates the value, but it's nice to be able to use the youtube client on my phone without needing to set up those solutions). Net value has been $83 though I've paid for it with a drastically sub par music experience (sharing is pointless, can't see what my friends listen to, playlist management is terrible).
There are pros and cons to this lifestyle. I quite agree that experiencing different cultures is fantastic and will radically change a person for the better. However, I've moved around quite a bit, different countries, different US states, different companies and IMO it gets extremely exhausting after awhile (judging by the OP's question, we are probably about the same age). Not to mention, having your friends and family in all parts of the world is tough. Throw in a partner (and even kids) and the only thing you start to desire is stability.

Plus, changing jobs every few years means that you are constantly in interview churn mode and as you age, you have less and less desire to deal with the moronic ways in which interviewing is conducted. Personally, I still enjoy programming and would still write programs even if I hit the jackpot in the lottery, but the way the industry behaves these days is a big part of why people get burned out.
I found this on Hacker News. does it count? https://onezero.medium.com/the-morning-paper-revisited-35b40...
I find myself not buying lifetime subscriptions to stuff because I find them dishonest.
Thanks for sharing, and glad you are well. However, you can't possibly know this to be definitively true: "People with a pre-existing health condition who don't know about it yet because no doctor has diagnosed it yet". It could be that some people just aren't as good as fighting it off, perhaps because they hadn't had the "right" set of previous illnesses, or who knows what else, that can lead to fatality. I don't think we know enough to make such bold claims.
Sounds like he just asked if it was going to be about food:

"I told [Kurt] I want to do a parody of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' and his first thing was: 'Is it going to be about food?' and I said, 'no, it's going to be about how no one can understand your lyrics.'"

Cobain thought the concept was funny and signed off on it."

https://www.howardstern.com/show/2016/5/17/weird-al-mandator...
Day 1 subscriber here as well. One thing that is interesting is that both youtube and youtube music show a price of $9.99 but once I click the manage button it displays the $7.99 price through google play music.

Honestly, I'll be pretty bummed if they increase the prices. I stopped using youtube music / google play music awhile back as they ruined the experience for me there but have kept it for the ad free youtube.
> The US economy around 1800 was the first economy in history to produce a consistent food surplus.

Poland was a big exporter of food (mostly grain) around XV and XVI century. There was also no hunger in the country, which means that the exported grain constituted a pretty consistent surplus.
https://superuser.com/a/1467966
Weird Al does a great live performance.

I caught that tour in Berkeley. And I thought it was good-- but he's done better: The "strings attached" idea was fine enough and I'm glad he did it. But if that's the bar for you I expect you'll be pleasantly surprised by future tours.

[As someone who's seen Weird Al in concert ...uhh... 6 times? I think that's right.]
Not available there I'm afraid.
> The whole language specification is actualy very specific about making sure each line can be simply tokenized individually and parsed one way

This is the rationalization given, but it doesn't make any sense. Carriage returns could just be ignored. It is completely trivial, especially compared to all the other changes. Can you explain how this explanation actually connects to reality?
On the other hand a lot of companies have these kind of offers when they're trying to reach critical mass. Buying it in the early stages of a companies lifetime can be rewarding.

But it is always a gamble, yes.
Isn't that a breach of contract?

You could class action them
It's always a good idea to determine what object is that we are measuring the lifetime off.

Is it you, the customer? The offering company, or the 'lifetime of the offer' - which can be any number, as here.
From similarweb.com, https://imgur.com/Gd9FG8o, I see the page has over 80% bounce rate which might be the problem?
*Google product's lifetime
It more a reflection of what I'd like them to do.
Sorry for the confusion, our COVID tracking analytics predicted an end to your lifetime subscription this month.
> I wonder if it's, in particular, a phenomenon of affluent societies that haven't had to deal with serious stressors in a long time.

Most likely it is, and I'd much rather live with occasionally being scared shitless by a global pandemic that might not be as bad as we feel it is than to deal with continual serious stressors day-in day-out.

> cultural response here worries me a lot

Why? I get that resilience is an important trait in a number of walks of life, but being concerned about a quite-deadly airborne respiratory virus that could be transferred by any Tom, Dick or Harry within close proximity seems like quite a valid thing to let get on top of you.

There's also the sense of unknown about this all.

Dying by cancer is, unless it's especially niche, quite well documented. And though you wont be around to rationalise it, being killed by a bomb is also a well understood process too.

Being killed by something that someone might just exhale into your general direction, that has no documented cure, isn't that well understood by most of the population any more (and damn well shouldn't have to be).

"It is what it is" is a great way to build mental resilience in trying times, but when you can't really identify what "it" actually "is", it becomes a lot harder.
Great time for YouTube competitors to step in . . .
It was lifetime, but not lifetime lifetime.
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Wouldn't all contracts still remain valid if the company got bought out?
but "command" implies you know what you want to do, and you want to directly do it.

It's like going into a restaurant and ordering, without needing a menu.
> With HTTP/2, any interruption (packet loss) in the TCP connection blocks all streams (Head of line blocking).

This issue is really noticeable on my crappy home mobile internet when loading web pages, in combination with the timeout being absurdly long for reasons I don't understand.
From a company’s perspective, why spend time mentoring juniors and doing on the job training - both of which takes time away from your senior resources - instead of just hiring someone else who can hit the ground running? Yes I realize someone has to train them, but you might as well let someone else do it and poach them once they have experience and they are looking for another job.

Inevitable as they gain experience at the other company, their market value will go up quicker than their HR policy will allow for raises (salary compression) and you can still offer them slightly below market rates and they will be glad to take it because they don’t know their worth and it’s a big jump for them. They probably don’t know how to negotiate either.

I’m not making a value judgement. This is just the world we live in.
I basically agree with what you said, but want to point one thing out:

> All subscription contracts provide that they can be cancelled by either parties with reasonable notice

Apparently no notice was given. Either way, this seems to me like it's a bug rather than a contract issue
An article with almost the same photo and some info: https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-curiosity-rover-popped-a-whee...
Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: The 1918 Flu
This is true, there is always some outliers, but I was just trying to speak generally that for the most part COVID-19 is not this scary crazy lottery. I see currently so many young people getting mentally more ill than COVID-19 would ever make them ill, because they are constantly being drip fed scary news stories which makes everyone believe that as soon as you step outside your house you can breath in a killer virus which will make you suffocate the next day.

Like with everything in life there are some outliers who just happen to have really really bad luck, but you can't look at those and be afraid. It's like with cancer, most people who get cancer are old because for obvious genetic reasons, but there are some poor children who also develop cancer, but no child should live in fear thinking that one day they could wake up with a bad bowl cancer. It's irrational.
Non-medical view: this sounds a bit like a sudden switch is happening at one point.

In COVID-19 cases, large areas of the lungs (article states 60% as an example) may be affected and only mild symptoms experienced until some point in time. Then comes the switch and you have sudden deterioration into critical condition.

In other viral pneumonia cases, more serious symptoms are subjectively experienced earlier, when much less area of the lungs is affected (article says 20% for H1N1).

As if the problem causing breathing trouble is strong in H1N1 from the beginning and suddenly switches on in the affected area for COVID-19 which had time to grow large beforehand.
A lot of manufacturers have already put programs into place that are eerily similar to what they did during the Great Recession: https://yourautoadvocate.com/guides/coronavirus-car-deals/
The prospects are poor. Cost improvement comes from iteration and learning, and demand for new reactors is low. Even when they are built, the time span is so long that learning is balanced by forgetting.
There are a few common instances where I'm in the terminal doing git stuff and have to break the "flow" by switching to the browser to go click some buttons.

Creating a new repo is one; creating a pull request is another.

That said, I like to leave the vendor lock-in out of my sacred terminal as much as possible, so I might prefer to just click the buttons in the end.
What if being more fluent in English leads to better economic outcomes for Mongolians, and hence more secure access to resources?

I notice that in our family and friends of immigrants, the parents who were fluent in English and able to access all the resources in English, were able to provide their children better advice and their kids are more economically successful than those who didn’t have that resource.
There was a discussion the other day about whether it's bad when HN gets derailed from TFA by incredibly minor details. I'm in favour of the tangents, which can often be more interesting than the primary topic - as is the case (for me) with your comment. Thanks for sharing :)
The issue here is that the center has become decidedly rotten; something has to give, and everyone knows that on a political, social, and economic level, there is no longer any normal to go back to. The good times were never a product of our national unity or our figuring out the best way to do things. They were a historical phenomenon arising from a specific set of circumstances. You can’t just go back to how things were in the 90’s or 80’s, that time is gone.
The thrust of ABC is that artificially cheap credit, induced by the central bank, causes malinvestment. Interest rates are signals of risk. When you artificially lower interest rates, people take on more debt than they normally would and invest in capital improvements that only make sense in a low interest rate environment. When the central bank attempts to raise those interest rates to the natural level, or there’s a large change in consumer preferences that causes a drop in aggregate demand, all of those over leveraged business fail en masse, which results in layoffs, reduced production, and falling asset prices. It has nothing to do with inventory.