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You're defining the term to be meaningless then, because it encompasses almost all employment. If we didn't shut most things down there'd be a catastrophic number of deaths in this country, after which people would be socially distancing on their own out of pure raw fear.

Stores that don't sell groceries were never going to pull through this doing well under any scenario. People were always going to radically curtail their going out and spending, one way or another.
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I fully disagree.

Open up any serious Python project and you'll find significant dependencies. Math, graphics, IO, stats, ML... anything you really want to do requires dependencies. In fact, one of my biggest issues with Python is the cross-platform incompatibility of many packages which makes it a terrible choice for my deployment. (Even worse if the project has Cython components!)

I often end up having to scour github for forked pywheels that aren't vetted. Which are then cloned ad infinitum.

Its a tradeoff between extensibility and open source / free software, and robustness.
Jez kills the dog. Jez then eats the dog. In front of the dogs owner. No amount of hand waving or interpretation changes that it is what happens in the episode. It is also very dark.
tbh, it's something that should be included in a standard library (not a third party package or dependency)
I would love a deb-packaged Caddy as well :(
It is probably the "Don't need to pay" part which is making people react viscerally.
Yes there should be a \ after “Soc.” Proofreading the typeset output might have caught this error. :-)

The “\null” after “NASA” is to show an example where the heuristic fails in the other direction: the “.” after the uppercase letter won't be considered to end the sentence, so you need to either type `\hbox{NASA}.` or `NASA\null.` (where `\null` is an abbreviation for `\hbox{}` i.e. an empty box) or something like that — something so that the period doesn't immediately follow an uppercase letter.
You'd be surprised at how poor business operating metrics here vs there
I wish I had as much time as you. Looking through the source code of the millions and millions of lines of code that get packaged with any modern application before you add things to your projects sounds daunting!
> Figure how/where your application code runs.

Most important advise to become a useful software engineer. I did not want to believe how many developers just did not give a damn about what exactly makes their code execute and when that happens.
The only reason Klimt and Schiele are famous as artists is because they brought sexuality into art, which I personally consider a degrading factor.

Yes you had nudity before but not that pornographic nudity Klimt introduced. Schiele I wouldn't hang in my hall, these painting are neither beautiful nor technically on par with true masters.

I believe these two painters introduced a shift to scammy era of modern arts when we went from masters and beauty to "omg so shocking and different" as well as introduction of pornography into mainstream (feel free to lookup some lesser known paintings of Klimt)

High regard for Klimt and Schiele are, I found, the hallmarks of pretty much every atheist pseudo-intellectual.
Hidenseek
i have no idea what text us and i am new to this place
> Excluding text-based editors (vi/emacs); I'm not a fan

How about both together? => https://www.spacemacs.org/

The git integration under https://magit.vc/ alone is worth the price of admission.
how about "single function" instead?
Good point. I think there's always a certain element of trust here--the law is more important than the implementation sometimes.
The headline does not make the "minimum monthly payment" part clear.
bless your little heart
I don't think your description of Elixir and Phoenix is correct:
Elixir is a language targeting the erlang virtual-machine. it does not seem clojure-inspired. Phoenix is a web development framework written in Elixir.
I literally just installed stock 18.04. In your shoes I'd start with a USB key and this page: https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop

You might check out your old model here, just to see if there are important tweaks: https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki
Exactly. I tried to do some research into the current credit cards rates and found a spread of numbers but around 20%[1] seems like a reasonable guess. The current prime rate is 3.25%[2].

I'm not saying that credit card companies should lend at prime, but I feel that reducing rates for existing balances to 10 or even 15% could make a huge difference to a lot of people.

American Express sent me an email a month ago talking about it being a "difficult time" and nothing is more important to them than their customers "health and safety" but all they can offer is telling me that call volumes are really high so I should manage my account online. That's not really that helpful, sorry!

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/average-credit-card-interest-rate...
[2] https://moneywise.com/a/what-is-the-prime-rate
Inflation doesn’t “kill”. You lose a percent or two a year. Put the savings in a no-penalty CD for emergencies and even that gets better.
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It's not just the Chinese. Doctors have been concerned about the abnormally high death rate for ventilators for months too. I've been seeing comments to the effect of looking for alternatives to ventilators because there were indications that did more harm than good. I guess not every hospital had this idea, but I know the sentiment was around for a while.
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Your reading skills are atrocious.

> ... not a scroll+button. Unix/X middle click paste is a feature I sorely miss on macOS and Windows.
Exactly this. A new essential & non-essential dichotomy is here regardless of lockdowns. It turned out that most consumption wasn't as essential, and market wasn't all powerful. They have been powerless against most of the fundamental problems the virus created. And it turned out that public health, social security and a competent state was more essential than we thought.
Not the same paper, but https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/929345
My experience with the CARES Act
This post baffles me. Your first point accurately describes this article as misleading/wrong, then in your second point you wish it was easier to pay for their wrong opinions. If I'm paying for news and opinion pieces, it better be the highest quality, and I've never been impressed with the organizations that try to paywall their content, at least not more than other mainstream news organizations.
The amount of insight and knowledge in your comment is so dense that my single upvote does not do it justice.

My thoughts:

> Credit issuers, particularly unsecured credit card issuers, have been calling back lines every time there's even a whiff of an economic downturn since time immemorial

I have an aggregate mid six figure credit line excluding mortgages. Have been through this and the last two recessions.

Never had a $1 drop in CL: I choose who I build realtionships with very closely. Infact, I have had CLIs happen during "good times", without me reaching out . One lender even did a CLI without even notifying me (they usually email or mail you "good news!") - the only reason I noticed is because I like to look at my statements manually every billing period.

There is no Bank of America, Citibank or any of that retail nonsense in my basket of credit mix. Majority of them are in geographically diversified credit unions

Finance 101.

> absolutely do not rely on credit being there as a backstop. That's what cash savings are for

cash is an asset class but it's extremely expensive and a liability for me.

cash causes me headaches. Even with my 3% APY bank accounts (people seem to believe there are none of them in the US which is untrue!) after effort and inflation, I barely break even.

I have to track it, protect it try and ensure it does not loose value too much. I have to visit local branches when I need to take it out or deposit it.

Credit is awesome. In the U.S., it's really cheap and consumer lines of credit have extremely strong protections.

I purchased a $500 phone from Best Buy because they had a special promotion that required me to purchase their gift cards. They would not allow me to purchase gift cards using my premier credit card, so I used cash.

A year later, the phone died. I had 0 recourse.

Had I purchased it with my Amex, all I would have to pay is a $50 processing fee, if at that. I would, at worst, get refunded by Amex, the fair value of the phone at that time.

In my few interactions with Amex, I wouldn't be surprised if they just credited me $500.
> Some keyboards also do that to support OSes that have broken HID drivers, like Mac.

What's broken on macOS?
A package with over 11 million weekly installs vs. a brand new implementation by a coworker, when I might not necessarily be around for the code review? Absolutely. I would blindly trust the package 100% of the time. Zero hesitation.
Dealing with Covid-19 – Small Business or Freelancer Depression
>Since a certain class of borrowers are being unable to honor their obligations, other class of borrowers who had opened credit lines, planning ahead, to tap into exactly during such times will now be left without access to that what they had planned for in the past.

If you’re planning ahead consists of opening up credit lines via credit cards for your household finances, then you’re going to have a bad time. Credit from credit cards can be revoked at any time, and it makes no sense that credit card companies would be willing to lend in riskier markets.
Some people are finding themselves suddenly in need of home-office furniture.

But yes, furniture does seem like the kind of purchase that will get deferred when money is tighter.
Came from a third world country to here USA, I was really surprised that a lot of people are living paycheck to paycheck and debt is encouraged, even among people who are middle class. In my 3rd world country, we always are encouraged to save and live beneath our means. But then I guess that's why USA economy is better than my 3rd world country's economy because the money revolves quickly?
> It is impossible to know what is essential and what is non-essential

This is just not true whatsoever. E.g. Food supply & medical services are essential. A hat store is non-essential.
"All of a sudden, I’m explaining my dinky blog post to a guy with almost a million twitter followers!"

OK, so it's the usual app: please let me be famous for 5 minutes because one of my God is talking to me. Facebook did it long before...
you're presuming the value and price are static in that example.

once the capital investment has been made, the price of the bread will go down because less labor will be used to make it, as the marginal cost of the bread goes down. the labor in the capital investment will be amortized over time in the price. the capital investment itself should only capture the riskiness portion of the project, not the majority of the resultant productivity gains.

and in many cases, people do pay more for a product made using more labor--i pay more for my manually-roasted beans than i would for mass-roasted ones. the higher price reflects the added labor in the value chain.

that's what i mean by the labor theory of value being more prominent, not to the exclusion of other theories of value.
For me, it's not even the money right now. I have a few purchase/service types of things that I should take care of one of these days but aren't urgent. So I'm holding off on things that would involve trips to stores (if they're even open), home delivery, etc. I'm not totally avoiding leaving the house, but I'm also holding off on things that can't be handled by a quick run into a store at off hours.
My previous company used to offer both options (Dell laptop with Linux or MacBook) and eventually stopped offering the MacBook because of the RAM limitations at the time (16GB Max) and horrible docker performance.

RAM and docker were very important for our product and whoever chose the MacBook ended up regretting it (devs only, I mean).
To be more clear, the list of of advantages mentioned above make ODROID-C4 a better choice for any server-like application, while Raspberry Pi 4 is probably better for a personal-computer-like application.
I do not use a credit-card-sized computer as a PC instead of my laptop, but I use such computers in server-like applications, so for my uses, ODROID-C4 is better.

After you add all the required accessories, the prices fror RPI 4 and for ODROID-C4 are very similar, for both of them you would reach around $100 for a decent system, but the ODROID shop is somewhat more convenient because you can buy from a single place almost any accessory you might need besides the basic board.
I wonder how they decide which patients would get the cannula instead of a ventilator?

Otherwise, intubation w/ a ventilator generally requires some form of sedation-- I wonder if that sedation has an impact on the body's ability to fight back.
Covid-19 vaccines are moving toward clinical trials
From that list, I’ve used balsamiq, XD and Figma. Balsamiq is good if you want to convey the big picture design layout without design details. I used it for a long time with significant success. XD lets you get detailed. XD is remarkably simple in terms of the primitives you work with but you can achieve arbitrary design fidelity. Figma is best for collaborative design. However, I for one haven’t had much success with multiple people tweaking a design. And I found the in browser interaction a bit flimsy.

These days I use XD exclusively. Sketch is a worthy alternative to XD that is probably cheaper if you don’t have a need for other tools in the Adobe suite.
A lot of people laid off are getting more with unemployment than they were actually working (extra $600/week due to stimulus bill).

The reason why a lot of people can’t pay is not because they won’t have that money eventually but because the state unemployment benefit offices are steeped in bureaucracy and aren’t processing these claims fast enough. Some states make it much harder than others by design. This is a preventable crisis.
In general I have enjoyed the sparseness of the OS X UI, and I knew that there was a key you could hold down to give you more dangerous options in the right-click menu (like run this software you just downloaded).

But only very recently did I learn that there are a bunch of hidden options scattered throughout the System Preferences that work the same way. I have mixed feelings about this, and I wonder if I would almost rather have the about: menu solution.
Many people are spending lots of time at home, enough to realize they aren't totally happy with their furnishings, and are available to accept deliveries. I would imagine the answer to that is yes.
WHO says there's 'no evidence' that recovered Covid-19 patients are immune
It was posted after chore: fix is-promise, they may have not realized that it's just some random pingback that github shows there, and not a message that somebody has committed a fix.
> I think “Seinfeld is a bit terrible people” is really heavily influenced by the final episode.

I agree. Most people who I tell this opinion to who are also Seinfeld fans disagree though.

The social norms violation thing is also why Curb You Enthusiasm comes so close; it is mostly about Larry David’s opaque social norms being constantly violated.
Shouldn't a superscalar CPU figure out concurrent execution chains by itself with register renaming
You may be shocked to find that there are very novice developers as well as those with 20+ years of experience who frequent HN. Using a few poorly written comments is a strawman, unless the comments you're referring to are written by the same people you're addressing here.
I’ve used Google Lens as “if it says unsafe, definitely unsafe”. I would not rely on it for “oh yeah, I can eat this” :).

I doubt your “few dozen years” though. Humans are only so good at it themselves. Computing has improved a lot since 1984 (3 dozen years ago), and so I’d wager that by 2050 we can be better than human at “Eat or not?” for fungi. Up for a longbets.org wager? :)
Very good writing, and very informative. I especially enjoyed the gif of traditional vs. simplified Han.
"I think it’ll feel similar to Twitter, in a lot of ways. Sometimes a famous person retweets you or replies to you. More often, a “famous in your world” person does."

Enough... I'm definetly ouf of this
There's federal unemployment assistance of $600 a week in the US.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/23/business/econ...

The $1200 is a 'stimulus' payment going to everyone.

Paying businesses to keep people on payroll may have been a better policy (as the disruption gets longer that changes).
sadly, i know how that works only because it was the recommended long term fix from an RCA
Exactly. People are talking about "moving goal posts" because the curve has already been flattened. But if I get it, I want to be as far out on that curve a possible so doctors know better what to do about it.
Terra paper

I didn't mean to push Terra in particular, and I agree that doing
meta-programming is easier in the same language you do normal programming in. I
just mentioned the Terra paper since it provided a rationale for using
meta-programming in high-performance programming (I could have pointed
to others making the same argument).

Rust's procedural macros are standard compile-time meta programming.

proc macros do AST->AST folds)

Last time I looked (I have not used Rust for a while) procedural
macros operate over tokens, not ASTs. Maybe that changed?
> but they'd at least get to try to save their own business. Right now they don't stand a chance as it's entirely out of their control.

True. They are powerless over their fate at the moment and they can't even begin to move online.

They probably can re-open. The challenge is just going to be on drawing the line. Furniture is ok, but what about Build A Bear or a mattress store?
It wouldn't completely fix things obviously, but it would clearly help.

If you don't personally collapse then that helps extend the life of a small independently owned business.
All this usually proves is that compilers are smarter than you think.

You can get some gains from SIMD code (i.e. autovectorization is hard), e.g. you've laid out data deliberately but the compiler doesn't quite see it, but modern CPUs are so complicated even executing scalar instructions that I wouldn't bother. I think optimizing memory is more productive half the time anyway, most programs don't spend that much time number crunching.
They still have a chance to try to do some business: Start an online store. But yes, overall it's going to be very hard for them, as it is for many others, because furniture shopping was always going to plummet during a global pandemic no matter what. There's no plausible scenario of social distancing or no social distancing under which they come out OK. They may have shuttered anyway even if they hadn't been forced to simply because no customers were coming through and it didn't make sense to remain open. Here in NYC a lot of restaurants made the decision to shutter entirely in advance of the official orders, because business had already plummeted substantially to the point that they were losing money no matter what.
Fair enough. A case of different perspectives, perhaps. People who pay their full balance every month define "credit card bill" as meaning the full balance, while people who don't or can't pay the full balance (the majority of credit card holders) define "credit card bill" as the minimum payment due.
Kim Jong Un might be dead after a botched heart surgery
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of this. While it's true that the more skilled party in a traditional physical sport will do better over the long run, their advantage will also be more apparent over the short run.

Skill in poker comes from managing variance over a long horizon; the advantage for a particular hand is largely determined by randomness

The advantage in sports does not derive from randomness, but from physical skill, and is generally apparent, and quantifiable, over a single contest (typically represented by a point spread or odds of winning). It would be almost impossible to quantify odds of winning a given poker hand before any cards are dealt.
@subhobroto Today is when you learn that facts and reality are not popular on HN.
The lock downs were necessary to keep loads of stupid people ruining any self-responsibility-stay-home-when-sick-don't-have-parties reasonable, less restrictive tactic in place. If you maximize inconvenience, then even these people have a harder time breaking the rules. Still, ya, people violate, but it's much less.
> the federal government obstructed any efforts at establishing widespread testing practices.

What does that mean?
A hat store is essential to the owners and employees of said store. And maybe they sell items like scarves that could be used for face coverings, etc.

Perhaps we should be thinking high risk and low risk instead of essential and non-essential. A hat store with appropriate distancing measures and cleaning protocols is probably low risk.
The craziest thing about this is that we're going to have mass unemployment, and tens of millions of people are going to lose their healthcare, just in time for a new wave of infections. Politicians don't always understand the secondary and tertiary effects of their policies.
Team might not need Kubernetes
> Maybe we really need the scalpel approach

Which is what, exactly? I mean, it sounds like you just want to open that one furniture store because it's low risk and small. OK, I'd get behind that, but that doesn't really fix anything real, does it? Do you argue for opening all retail shops? All restaurants? All places of business?

What about the employees of those businesses we just opened? Do they have to go back to work? What if they have immunocompromised family at home?

And, at the end of the day, when you open all those businesses, are people going to start buying furniture again? Probably not.

Really, people aren't staying home because the government is magically telling them to. If this was really an unrealistic paradigm we'd see rampant cheating, and we don't.

People are staying home because they're scared of dying. You don't fix that by changing the closure rules. You can only fix that by addressing the actual pandemic.

So... maybe you should aim your scalpel at the disease instead? How much have you read about testing regimes? Have you called your congressperson to get this stuff funded?
But demand for restored furniture wouldn't have imploded without the lockdowns - it's all connected. The government lockdowns (among other things) have whipped people into such a frenzy that you're right, demand is collapsing on its own out of paranoia. I have numerous friends - intelligent people - who genuinely think this is the bubonic plague and if they get it, their whole family is like instantly dead.

This was all a major and obvious side effect from the sweeping lockdowns that few in government considered.
Almost like maybe you should read the article (not just the headline) before commenting ...
Because we didn’t have any Unix systems at MIT while that collection of terms was assembled. I think the first unix system I saw at the LCS was around 80 or 81.

The gnu project was developed on a vax running Unix that somehow had been installed at the AI lab. Nobody used it so RMS decided to use it as a development machine. We had our own OSes, languages, and hardware and at that point in time Unix offered significantly less power for a large investment of effort.
It will do a bit of that, but remember it has to work in real time and and can only look ahead so far. Give it a fighting chance by helping out whenever you can.