skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering that at least Google is a direct competitor, and Amazon is very aggressive at stealing ideas from their partners, I think choosing an alternative like Oracle makes sense simply from a business ecosystem and competition perspective.
Your backup plan is to differentiate from younger developer.

I have defined my advantage should be experience, wisdom and maturity. I try to deliver something to my managers that they just can't get from a developer that is very bright but has just couple of years of experience. I try to spend more and more of my time learning and deliver with less time expenditure.

Also, don't get discouraged when you don't get a job somewhere because you are an older guy. You should be thankful that you did not get the job, probably it would be a dead end anyway.

You don't need every place to accept your age. You just need one -- one where you will feel at home and be happy offering your services.
Twitter thread with examples:

https://twitter.com/tkasasagi/status/1250427941567094786
It sounds like you aren't taking advantage of browser profiles properly. I have two Google accounts, one personal and one for work, and they live in two separate Chrome profiles, both of which are always open. On MacOS the shortcut for switching between the two windows (when both are open) is command-`
Factorio is an indie game, I guess it might not be easy for indie developers to make use of multithreading, whereas AAA game developers have entire teams dedicated to engine development and multithreading.

Anyway, traditional graphics APIs like OpenGL are practically single-threaded. Modern APIs like DX12 and Vulkan have been designed with multithreading in mind and support scaling with number of cores much better (with added overhead of having to do manual synchronization).
The thing about renewables is that almost all the cost is upfront. I have solar panels on my roof and they're going to keep producing energy at the same rate regardless of what the price is, because the marginal price of running them is basically zero. If places are installing them to meet carbon targets, that's also unaffected by price.

Also, oil and electricity aren't so much directly in competition with each other while the EV market remains small. Natural gas, yes, but that was already cheap.
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This sounds like him trying to do PR to get everyone thinking everyone else is already doing it so they try to catch up. Act like something is true to make it true when everyone jumps on the bandwagon.
> It's not a fair choice if people can't safely stay home without going broke.

Life's not fair bucko.
Through kube and terraform? Are there other major tools?
SARS-CoV-2 is also at a really awkward point in the fatality curve (with the best estimate of the IFR being around 1%) that you really want to do something, but you also can't really accept a significant chance of that something having a significant side effect.
We use it for storing user sessions, for caching responses from a third-party API we access, and for imposing per-IP address rate limits on the use of that API. We've also previously used it for lightweight worker queues.
I used to work for one of the largest independent power producers in Canada. Even in 2014, they were divesting from fossil fuel based generation and pouring everything into renewables. Great ideal, but it takes time!

Small plug for https://enviro.work (project I built that aggregates environmentally positive job opportunities)
An 8700k has 12 threads. If the game was only capable of using 4 threads effectively, I would expect to see something like 1 thread at 100%, and the other 11 threads at 300/11 = 27%.

If all your threads are sitting at 40-60% you're using more than 4 threads worth of execution... (if all 12 threads were at 50% that would be 6 threads worth).

So, by the numbers you are giving, yes.
> What do we do w/ 40% permanent unemployment?

This assumes that somehow people cannot be re-trained to do other things, if those jobs really all disappear, which they probably wont.

There's always more work to do, things to improve, people to help. It will be like that forever.

The question is, who allocates labor? Perhaps the kind of market system we have has run its course, perhaps this time it's over.

I predict that the market will recover, just like it always has, but feel free to disagree.
> I've never understood why students would even want the college to be so involved in their student life.

If I understand the American system, there is pressure from parents as well. The students might not want the college to be so involved in their student life, but many parents would be unwilling to allow their children to attend an institution that is not highly focused on keeping them safe, to the point of treating adults as children. Rules requiring you to live on campus for the first 1–2 years, college-organized sober social activities, mental-health personnel on university staff, etc. is all meant to say “See, parents, your kid is safe with us.”
This is a very important question that is explored at length in [1] and related work.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3128375
Sure but then repairs/maintenance will have a bubble. Rent or buy, folks will be able to get out and do transactions that've been put off.

Recently I took all our vehicles for service. Got an appointment the same day. They were essentially idle.
Anything high refresh rate(120+Hz) benefits immensely from these high clock rates.

The high clocks result in less pipeline stalls meaning your high frame rates are more achievable as well as significantly reducing the dips (0.1% lows is what every reviewer hates).

This isnt about "average", this is about having the best experience possible, which Intel provides in this very specific scenario.

Intel has three things going for it(in the consumer space), which matter a lot or not at all to different folks:

- better idle/low usage power consumption than AMD (low load laptop battery life)

- Intel's QuickSync is fantastic for media encode/decode (NVENC is typically better, AMD is basically non-existent)

- Intel has the highest clock rates.

Outside of these niches, AMD is dominating at every level of the product stack.
It looks like maybe a page of code / if statements.
A Tailor-Monk Explains Monastic Clothing
They would need the value before to do that which isn't exactly easy to gather and prove meaningfully.
There is no squiggle that I can not hypothesize some way of using in a text message. The question is more, is there already some existing demand for it, before you asked the question? To which the answer would seem to be "no".

That's a contingent answer. If you, say, set out to try to convince the world to use it that way, and created that demand, then by golly, that demand would exist at that point and the answer could change. But hypothesizing some possible text message that could use it isn't strong enough to argue for inclusion in the standard because every possible proposal passes that test.
Why is a intelligent, qualified, experienced team of epidemiologists "only in a position to identify the (medical) benefits of the lockdown and not the costs."

After all, you were able to recognise both parameters?
True, Oracle is so old and docile that they'd never attempt a competitor
It is possible.

In a few days Tesla will hold its "Battery day". Some people [1] expect them to announce a $100/kWh battery. If this happens, and with further future battery cost reductions, the ground transportation will shift from gasoline to electric in a matter of 10-15 years.

Solar and wind power generation are on a tear. California only has installed 27 GW of solar power generation and will install an additional 15 GW in the next 5 years [2].

There's a chance some nuclear power generation will come into the mix.

More people will move to higher density urban areas, and will reduce their carbon footprint.

After Covid19, more work will be done from home, more conferences will be virtual, leading to reduced transportation.

With some luck, we will have synthetic meat in the not so distant future, which should lead to substantial agricultural emissions reductions.

And we should be planting trees. Trees are nice.

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2020/04/15/what-will-tesla-tell-us...

[2] https://www.seia.org/state-solar-policy/california-solar
If the price of oil drops by 20% the demand for oil from marginal sources like tar sands could go down by 70%, since they were barely profitable when prices were 20% higher. On the other hand, oil (or natural gas) prices are only a fraction of the total cost of electricity or gas/diesel, so demand for renewables will probably not drop by too much. In fact, since a sudden shock in the price of oil could kill off a lot of marginal producers, the long term average price of oil could increase from previous expectations. This would make renewables even more attractive. Another factor to consider is that if marginal oil producers die out the price of labor will decrease in many places. This will also serve to make the price of solar lower, since labor costs are a decent fraction of total costs. There are a lot of cascading effects from a change in the price of a commodity as big and important as oil.
> 1000% agreed. Everything about current life has done a good job siloing and isolating people to be nothing but worker drones. There is no sense of community, no sense of belonging to something, or even being allowed to be human.

It's not something that happened by accident.

People like it and gravitate towards it.

Doing one, and preferably only one thing is really comforting.

When my friends who live in the city complain that their sink is backing up and how hard it is to get a plumber even after offering $350/visit, I listen to the symptoms, figure out the tools needed, pay a visit and fix the problem.

When I tell them how easy it is to diagnose a plumbing problem, and how next time they don't need to pay me in beers or even the plumber - they are just. not. interested.

Writing the same React application a 100 times is far more enjoyable (and profitable).

People really like to say they want to do more things in life, but when push comes to a shove, doing the same old thing, repeatedly, is extremely comforting.

Doing different things is risky and non-comforting.

That takes deliberate practice and planning.
A few fellow OpenStack developers and I half-jokingly suggested we rewrite some or all the services in Go. Python gets to be a bit hard to deal with at that scale.
that sounds like wishful thinking. modern sustainable energy sources are not yet sustainable really unfortunately. also the crisis will end much sooner than economy could possibly make a switch.
Presumable you could choose different routes and a different organizational structure
Ask HN: Alternatives to Q2 Biller Direct API?
Hi, anyone knows alternatives to Q2 Biller Direct API? Apparently, Q2 is not taking new clients for this product right now.
What are the chances of Rust or another language coming to the fore for cloud infra?
Nitpick: the 4-second sprints weren't evenly distributed into each hour. They were done in sets of 5 with 45-second rest periods between sets.
docker.

Its the devops language in last 2 places i've worked.
Plus, Oracle will end up acquiring them, it’s unlikely that Zoom will last as a long term standalone business.
replying to your reply via edit:

> _you_ assuming that the US is a linear relation to GB may or may not be accurate.

Right, this is why I called it 'naive.'

My main point stands: your comment misuses the prediction that does not assume full suppression as if it applied to the current situation of aggressive social distancing.

> The US beat every single explicitly enumerated via a integer expert pre-peak total deaths prediction; by a lot.

From 'nodamage's comment pointing to the ICL's "Report 12," they predicted 84,000 deaths for the U.S. in a situation where suppression measures were put in place around 3/19.

Given that the U.S. reported number of deaths is at ~61,000 and still seeing 1,500+ deaths per day, this doesn't exactly make me want to claim victory against the estimate - more like 'thanks for the predictions, ICL team, for helping convince people and governments to shut down.'

The ~60k could be an overestimate, yeah. Maybe it's counting people that have coronavirus and are then hit by a truck, or people who would have died of pneumonia regardless of covid19.

But it could be the other way around, too: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/28/us/coronaviru....
What a wild generalization. I skimmed the article, and I see his point in "Go was designed by people working at Google to make it easier to write Google-relevant software, in particular network-resident servers", but that doesn't mean Docker and Kubernetes (and other tools that enable communicating with/usage of cloud infrastructure) being written in Go made it become the de-facto standard, and especially not "the language of cloud infrastructure". What about ALL the other components NOT written in Go?
I feel like you can learn quite a bit now with just online material.

YouTube and the algorithm have really forced content creators to improve the quality of the content.

It's going to be tougher for schools to charge 30-50K a year when there are credible alternatives.
Born 4 BC
Died AD 65

Absolutely incredible that his words can speak to someone 2000 years later and make them feel something in the core of their essence. Thanks for sharing this really helped me with some things this morning.
The average consumer has gotten dumber in regards to tech over the last 40 years. People have treated computers like appliances. When I meet a 70 year old that can't email, it's not 1995, they were 50 in the year 2000. People's heads are in the sand and want tv apps. Good they can pay the price for thier stupidity.

Sorry for the rant but, seriously?
Actually you don't need a credit card for Blogger; it's a free Google service. And while people have beefs with Google as well, Blogger uses pretty much standard HTML if you want to export it.
http://archive.is/VX8ms
What very specific use case? I have found Cue to be versatile and usable anywhere yaml / json / config is used or needs to be validated. I'm mainly focused on code generation with Cue as the input. https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof
>> do people really expose Redis on the internet??
The same logic could be applied to exposed MongoDB and we know there's been a plethora of leaked data in recent years.
Because of kubernetes, the "language" of cloud infrastructure is YAML...
Go is the language that made me realize I’m not much of a production quality software engineer.

Normally I would be quite happy riffing with ideas in Ruby or Python, and just running my code and iterating trying to figure out what to do.

When I tried this in Go, every time I wanted to change the shape of my code to try doing things slightly differently I had to do a lot of work to get the code to compile again.

I feel like a professional coder wouldn’t hit that road block because they’d have a better idea what they were doing in the first place.

I have scurried back to Ruby with my amateur tail between my legs, but I hope to try Go again some day and find a style that’s a bit more forgiving of my not-Staff-SWE skills.
If that came across as an attack, I apologize.

I was trying to express disagreement specifically that the text makes simplifications that don't make sense to either consumers using blockchain-derived products or developers thinking about using blockchains.
> It would be interesting on HN if we developed a habit of interrogating everyone for their credentials and shouting them down immediately if they're just another software engineer.

HN is a rich source of ironic behavior indeed.
This seems relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy
If I remember correctly I found a few edge cases, but they weren't ever hit by OTP, just by partially implemented VMs like mine :)

It was kind of interesting exploring the OTP internals, especially some of the parts that haven't changed in a long time. One example is the PAM: I think it stood for "patrick's abstract machine" and it would compile erlang terms into bytecode for pattern matches (intended for fast ETS lookups). It's all there in one file and it took a fair bit of digging to figure out how it works since it's been static for a long while and nothing on the internet really documented it.
Linux distributions are walled gardens. They're just community maintained instead of corporate. Linux of course lets you install anything but so do MacOS and Windows, and downloading random apps off the web for either of the latter can be dangerous. It would become dangerous for Linux if Linux acquired a large non-technical user base, but as it stands malware pushers don't target it much since there are not enough victims.

MacOS is targeted a bit less than Windows because its user base is smaller, tends to be a bit more technical, and running arbitrary apps while allowed requires magic incantations like right click open (twice) the first time or opening a terminal.

Every non technical person I know loves iOS because it just works and doesn't rot from malware or badly written apps that trash the system.
any visualization that compares totals rather than normalized data with regard to population or testing is useless, if not misleading
My anecdotal evidence based on my own kids (3 of them) is that despite having (empathetic) parents, siblings, grand parents, friends, pets, and more, they still sometimes find comfort in material things like a stuffed toy animals, blankets, or figurines. I see Moxie as an experiment in making a more interactive stuff toy rather than a replacement for living things, and I'd probably try the toy for a week if it was less than $200.
Astrophysics Signal Constrains Quantum Gravity and String Theory
If you're too busy, you're doing something wrong.
Build more housing in the major metropolitan areas to meet demand is a fantastic start to it all. Look at how much is built in the big desirable cities. It's not enough, which is driving up prices to absurd levels (looking at you specifically San Francisco in particular). Decommodify housing where possible and take away it's ability to devolve into strictly a monetary investment vehicle.

>Better cultural opportunities outside major metropolitan areas?

There is so much historical inertia behind the cultural opportunities in many places that this one will be hard to do and take an inordinate amount of time I think.
On the flip side, $38B is a great deal
Mozilla has been making pretty good progress with parallelization of firefox with their oxidation project. All browsers are splitting different tabs into different processes which means they are taking advantage of multithreading if you have more than one compute intensive tab/window open.
I think they were trying to make a joke about sprints and agile software development.
As an immigrant I feel "western" life is especially isolating. There are pockets of community like church, but not everyone is religious. Once school is done, we're mostly left to ourselves with usually a small circle of friends that occasionally interact.

Question is what to do about it? I'm not sure if this requires a cultural shift, but other places in the world seems to be better at it.
I don't agree at all.

Profiting from people who can afford stupid only encourages stupid. Then we end up with stupid being promoted as what people want because it's profitable.
Yep! They appeared shortly after I started and were backed by Dockyard. I think they didn't have much success finding external contributors either though :/
Not me. I am like a high energy dog that needs to be walked until the owner is annoyed.
I love my normal life. This lack of stimulation right now is terrible for my mental health.
There is a pretty big disparity between these numbers and the optimism in the stock market. The S&P indexes are only down about 14% right now since February and were priced based fairly optimistic growth assumptions at that time.
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You wouldn't want to, for various reasons. See this blog post about Lumen and the decision decisions:

https://tylerscript.dev/bringing-the-beam-to-webassembly-wit...
Blizzard (I suspect) did exactly this with the original Warcraft III.

To play on an emulated Battle.net server you had to apply a patch to the client .exe or it would refuse to connect.

I remember chatting with one of the emulator developers on IRC and they said it was practically impossible to reverse engineer the key, so that sounded to me like public/private key encryption.

I suspect Blizzard reasoned that it made the emulated servers less legitimate and that people uncomfortable downloading "cracks" would be put off. It didn't have to be fool proof, just raise the bar high enough to encourage more sales.
How about elderly landline subscribers still paying equipment lease fees for their wall-mounted rotary handsets?

https://komonews.com/news/consumer/family-discovers-deceased...
I don't know about most, but I'm seeing local gyms, fitness studios, restaurants, retailers, etc. announcing permanent closure on pretty much a daily basis. Many landlords are refusing to forgive or decrease rent, and pretty much any path forward involves a small business taking on additional debt while having zero revenue for an indefinite period of time.
I agree that the fiscal stimulus, under the control of Congress, was much less that it should have been. However QE is monetary stimulus under the Fed’s control and as I recall there were several rounds of it, in addition to other programs.

Edit: reading your comment again, and I think you mean that Congress didn’t do any further fiscal stimulus after the Fed did QE1, which seems right to me. Leaving my comment up for clarity.
It's a statistical fact. It's not racist to acknowledge that racial minorities in the US are disadvantaged.
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Just tried out this Tactiq extension which will save the Closed Captions. Freaking sweet! Instantly the new standard for our meetings.

https://tactiq.io/
If that were the case, why can a16z profit from that?
Evidence, preferably all collected in one place and properly analyzed. Something like this:

https://rantt.com/gop-admins-had-38-times-more-criminal-conv...
Because oil is the competition. If I can burn oil to generate electricity very cheaply, then I'll do that. I might be willing to pay a little more for renewables, but not a lot more. If oil prices drop, renewables will have to cut their prices too or else lose their customers. The cost of making solar panels probably don't fall that much, so renewable energy companies will lose money.

Only very strict regulations could decouple the prices of oil and renewables.
> AFAIK, there is not yet a web browser core that can parallelize tasks in a meaningful way.

Firefox is getting there. The CSS style engine is parallelized already, and graphical compositing+rendering will follow shortly (already enabled experimentally in some configurations). Other parts of the browser will be next, including the DOM.
> They're cheaper, willing to work longer hours, and easily molded into an image the company wants.

There's no intrinsic reason why older workers are more expensive than younger workers. If you think your experience warrants a compensation premium, then it's up to you to persuade your prospective employer of that; you can't just unilaterally insist that you deserve more pay. If you demand extra pay because of your age and no one is willing to give you that, then your compensation expectations are just out of line with the market. The employers who won't pay you more money aren't discriminating on the basis of age (illegal and unethical), they're discriminating on the basis of salary expectations (legal and perfectly reasonable).