skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The essential motivation for people to want to feed their families/pay bills is completely logical, but it's important to keep in perspective that the virus doesn't care about any of these things. We don't need to look too far back in history to see that ending isolation in a pandemic too early can have huge consequences (much bigger than an economic slowdown/unemployment).
The top percent have spent the last fifty years severing worker productivity from worker compensation. In doing so they have made the stock market less and less related to the status of the average American. Only the two wealthiest people I know cared at all when the initial covid panic dropped the market by thirty percent.
Well, for me it was the opposite. Trying vanilla js was empowering!

There was no; tool chain, bundling, virtual DOM, render function, countless layers of library abstraction, sourcemaps, node_modules... etc. Just a simple index.html file

Some projects don't require a state of the art virtual-DOM-diffing-machine, just to display a list of ToDo items...
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affluential = affluent + influential

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/affluential
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Personally, I'm super wary of any ____ developer. It's a fixed (vs growth) mindset that tells me they are specialists. I think specialists are best to be consulted by generalists, but not trusted with larger decisions outside their scope.
Absolutely. There will be some of those effects for sure, and they'll be pretty big. They will nonetheless be nothing compared to the small business owners that have bills to pay but no money coming in. Microsoft, on the other hand, is facing more of a blip.
Conway's Law is a physical law in the same sense as Murphy's Law.

It's also obviously true. The organization builds the architecture. The architecture either helps or hinders the organization. The organization builds a new architecture. There's no indirect connection here. If you've seen hierarchical organizations implement microservices, it's because that organization's complement was a microservices architecture. And likewise for a chaotic organization.

--well, sidetrack: Aren't strongly hierarchical organizations the best suited for microservices? With all the strongly divided responsibilities and whatnot?
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Apple will automatically find trip details and events from your Mail app and add them to your Calendar.
This video does a great job explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus

The summary is that the USA does not have an official national person identity number. The SSN is the closest approximation, so it is being (ab)used as one. This is despite that it is explicitly not designed for it and has some qualities which make it less suitable (the numbers are small and very predictable).

In general, nearly every national-identity-system suffers from a contradiction between assigning identities and identifying. Where the number you get assigned is simultaneously your identity and a secret you use to establish your identity. There are initiatives to solve this using cryptography, but this is complicated by political attitudes towards privacy and government tracking. I dare say in the USA this is more pronounced due to both the problem and the political attitude against solutions being more pronounced.
So both are evil, must be suck to be the one affected by the "less" evil decision.
How are they working out right now? It's one thing for an insurer to have a steady but small stream of policy payouts; it's another when half of your customers suddenly need a bailout at the same time.
Mastery is hardly needed for the bulk of software development work. Just like with the building trades, most coding can be done "good enough" with apprentice or journeyman skill levels as long as the team has a few masters to provide guidance and check the results.
Can NiFi pipelines be versioned in Git?
I'm sure the technical definition of a recession makes him feel much better.
In my experience, a flat org-chart goes a long way towards establishing a less hierarchical culture.

I've definitely had some discussions about salary with my friends at the company, although they're very guarded. A lot has to be inferred.

The only real way to gauge your value is to collect more data- if you don't have developer friends that share that information, the only way to collect that data is to cross-shop offers. Or you can try to glean as much as you can from recruiters.

One thing I asked when I initially spoke to recruiters, "what do you think a prospect with my skillset could command in the market?". In that first phone call they're still trying to convince you of their value, so that's when they're least incentivized to low-ball you
Maybe I should consider adding sync and creating MonkeyMind for iOS as well...
I'm very disappointed that the very first entry in the list is a bogus story confirmed to be false.

I mean, if you simply want general computing legends of unconfirmed veracity, read “The Devouring Fungus” by Karla Jennings.
Stewart Brand is 81, and he doesn’t want to go on a ventilator
On the flip-side, putting all businesses in this situation means most of us are in the same situation; and every market/industry needs to work together to get out of this crisis.

If no one can pay their mortgage, loan holders HAVE to make exceptions.

That shared spirit of sacrifice isn't a reason to institute lock down orders, but my opinion is that it will allow us to lesson the economic damage long term.
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Just to pile on here, running in kernel mode was the primary reason for using C. Windows kernel does support some limited set of C++ features, but we decided to go with pure C instead because of the confusion of which C++ features were available, especially in an open source environment, where not everyone is familiar with Windows kernel.

As far as what we do to keep quality high, we have a large number of automated test (> 4000 cases per CI run) automated on Azure Pipelines. Our code is deployed on several interop servers used to test with all the other QUIC implementations out there, and we do additional testing and fuzzing internally at Microsoft.
Vulnerable, yes but the google earnings from yesterday show even in advertising, there seems to be a temporary floor.

Entirely possible the floor is a temporary illusion and falls out over next 3mo, but the market is betting that won’t happen (I don’t know why, I’m not an expert on ads)
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I could do that in a weekend (2016)
Unrelated to a strange bug story or anything but you just reminded me of when I was also helping someone set up a, as you called it, mini-supercomputer. It was to do quantum simulations. We were setting it up and the researcher who was going to use it made the root user name skynet. Now I know that joke has probably been played out at campuses around the world but it just seems unnecessary to tempt the fates like that.
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Good writing is a business advantage because it encompasses many other useful business skills.

- Writing clearly requires empathy. If you write documentation, you must put yourself in the shoes of your confused users.

- Writing requires storytelling skills. Writing something pleasant to read is no small task.

- Writing requires social skills. How you write things dictates how well they'll be received. You have to sell your arguments and convince people with very different priorities.
By sheer number of attempts somebody probably got good results with microservices somewhere.

Netflix runs quite well in practice. I think they do redundant service calls, what is the only minimally sane way to develop a distributed system. The funny thing is that I have never seen any serious discussion of redundant calls, except for it being implicit on practical designs on the anecdotal "how it works for us" articles that pop once in a while. Most times people won't even discuss redundant servers. I imagine everybody thinks it's obvious, and well, I would agree, except for the fact that most people I see do not think so.

But well, Netflix couldn't avoid having a distributed system, so they aren't really representative for nearly anybody.
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In Scandinavia we've had some sort of pragmatic market socialism, not much central planning but reasonable redistribution in various ways. Seems to work fairly well, although large parts of it has been (and is being) dismantled by the liberals (those are the right here, not the left).
Making usable interfaces that work in a single directions is really hard. Making them work in both is much much harder.

The bugs might be funny, but I have great respect for the programmers trying to make their applications more accessible, be it for right-to-left languages or otherwise.

(I wrote the linked tweets.)
> I've always found the best distinction between a framework and the library lies in who-calls-who?

I've heard this referred as the 'Hollywood principle', as in 'Don't call us, we'll call you'.
openbsd. a coherent, complete, simple, pretty secure, and very readable unix.

It's my desert island OS. Most especially because of such great offline documentation and build infrastructure, I won't need to consult google for random factoids.
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How can I stop the networking service by using init.d for the Ubuntu operationg system?
People victimized by capitalism (and I totally agree that this is the current situation btw) don't need to be called names or selfish, or idiots, by people who are not victimized.

I'm blaming privileged people for lecturing and gaslighting people who are not as privileged.
> The thing that worries me is that by attempting to prolong it as long as we are, we are basically setting up a stage for a greater depression

Killing thousands of people in the name of the economy would also set the stage for an even longer, deeper recession...
I was always amazed by windows losing my preferences on update. As a software engineer who's worked on front end before I feel like I would have to hand in my union card if I shipped software which did that.
This is wrong. We are not forced to be inside because of the virus. It would have been totally possible to have this pandemic going on with zero lockdowns, which would have probably led to worse health effects, and less-bad economic effects.

It's a pet peeve of mine when people claim that we must lock down or that the virus is forcing us to do this or that, as opposed to it being a political choice based on tradeoffs.

In fact, I predict that after things open up, they will not shut back down, no matter how bad the second wave of the outbreak gets. People simply won't accept it.
The wealth bubble is still alive and well. Mass layoffs of low-wage workers don't change that very much, and the wealth bubble drives demand for investment vehicles as a class of goods. As long as it keeps inflating, the price of investment vehicles will keep going up, which includes the stock market. And as long as you expect it to keep inflating, you should expect the stock market to keep going up, unless there's a mass exodus into some other type of investment.

This may also help explain why many people are terrified of the wealthy getting less wealthy: it'll cause a massive market correction as the demand for investment vehicles decreases to a more reasonable level.
Nasa says earth is greener today then 20 years ago. Thanks to India & China.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/02/28/nasa-says...

Nasa: CO2 is making Earth Greener
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2436/co2-is-making-earth-green...
The knowledge-gap of closures is simply an indication that you need to solidify your Javascript foundation prior to understanding hooks. I only see this as a benefit.
Not a single sane person is arguing going from isolation to business as usual overnight.
It seems to me that gradient descent would be, often, a better solution than the moore-penrose inverse. Is it not more efficient in most cases?
Agreed, but when you're forced to solve the same person's same problems day after day after day after day after day, results on your own psyche can vary.
React introduced this concept into the mainstream but it wasn’t at all new.
Not likely, unless we get a customer ask for it. But when we start accepting external contributions it shouldn't be too hard for someone else to add the support. We already (unofficially) support 3 different TLS libraries (schannel, openssl, mitls).
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The liberation of Dachau, 75 years ago
The recommendations in the article are just a bunch of generic advice for whatever is in style right now. Zero evidence any of it will work. It might actually make you feel worse.
IIRC that desugars to a >>= (\x -> b >>= (\y >>= return (f x y))) . I don't write Haskell, so that might be slightly off

This could be doing any one of:

- flatmapping over lists

- doing a computation with Maybe types, producing Nothing if a or b are nothing

- doing IO

- managing futures

- pretty much anything, actually

Don't confuse 'x <- a' with assignment, or 'return' with returning a value.

Another way of looking at it, (f x y) might be invoked:

- once

- never

- more than once

- later
> I keep wondering how many of the psychological problems arise from people having children much much later in their lives than used to be normal.

It's so cruel. Come on, it's way more complex than that...
How about sterile people? Are they all mentally ill?
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Show HN: I rewrote my Web Extension (70k users) with clean-architecture
I am sitting at home since Mar 16 leaving for about 30 minutes every 5-6 days for groceries.
AT&T classified Unix as “Industrial Waste” for tax purposes
Last time I tried it, classic Edge had HDR support. I don't know whether the new Blink-based Edge has it, but it might be worth testing!
i am almost with you there, but i see youtube as a biased actor

also, when experts themselves (not these 2 guys) have come up with different recommendations - and cant agree with themselves, youtube should allow a free exchange of ideas.

they are free (and should) to add a notice that says that it is potentially false, etc.
I have two younger kids and it's great and exhausting at the same time. But it did not change the motivation to do other things in the evening, when they are asleep.

I still have week-long phases of ultra hyper focus and phases of absolute bat-shit boredom where I binge-watch or play everything half interesting.

It's a personality thing. I have a real hard time doing something evenly across a long time. Either I give it all I have until I power-out or I leave it aside and rot.

Kids don't help in this regard. The only thing which changed is that I have less time to work on personal projects. I tell myself, that I'm better at it because time got really valuable, but actually I know that I'm still the same lazy bugger I was like before.
stock market will make new all time high any day now lol
The S&P is where it was in October last year, there, it just erased the massive gain in Q1 this year. No serious recession is priced in really.

And the only thing that can explain where the stocks are now is that the Fed has pushed 2 trillions of liquidity into the market in matter of weeks, which is just unprecendented (the previous QE were much more gradual) and that lifted all asset classes.

But at one point stock prices will need to get back in line with earnings. I don't really hear anyone talking about v-shaped recovery anymore.
Suspect....free trial without any mention of price. Makes no sense.
Ah yes, Canada, that socialist utopia everybody bring up as a counterpoint.
It could be, but "annoying ads" aren't really the problem. Ad-block is self-defense against privacy-invading ad and analytics networks.

When a site serves ads and tracking from its own first-party domain and I can reasonably determine this, I do not block it and often unblock it if it defaults to blocked.

When a site farms out adverts to third parties to share my browsing habits across the web, I default to blocking everything.

If there's a site that decides that it won't show me content because I'm using an adblocker, then I move on. They don't want my eyes, and I don't want their practices - no reason to stick around.
I know this isn't popular on here and it doesn't always apply, but ...

... I actually like it most of the time. Not the annoying update message, but when I open a .rs file I actually do want the plugin for syntax highlighting. VSC makes getting such stuff wonderfully easy.
I worked as research staff for an OS research group at a university in the 90s. We had a new building, with a nice new machine room. However, the machine room had tightly controlled access which was limited to department IT staff only, and we wanted our grad students to have physical access to our machines. So we took over a "lab" that was never intended to host machines.

By the time I left, we had 2 racks with networking gear (Myrinet and 1Gb/s ethernet, which was a big deal in the 90s), and probably 40+ 1U servers, plus several tables full of larger pedestal storage servers (one of the projects was a cluster filesystem).

Just like in Rachael's story, we would have times where the HVAC would go out. I remember dragging giant 4' fans up from the basement to put in the doors of the room to cool it off during HVAC failures.

Oh, and we had a fume hood too!
>The default state is a very limited platform (those immediately around you at any given time perhaps), but when you explicitly provide a platform for the public to use and then censor voices because you don't like what they have to say you're violating free speech principles.

If the You I highlighted was the state, you would be correct. But it isnt.
A long journey starts with a small step.
I purchased a motorcycle air filter at a price that was too good to be true. It arrive after almost 2 weeks (basically from China) damaged. I returned it waited another two weeks and it arrived damaged again. Left a bad review and got an email response asking about my experience. Can't really fault amazon too much. The price told me there had to be a catch. At the same time, I'm annoyed that was allowed to happen at all on the platform. Now There is always a thought in my mind to have a backup plan when I purchase something I really need on Amazon.
I don't understand why this essay starts with an excursus on economic decline before veering around the corner to talk about writing and the author's---no shit---comparison of himself to Einstein? And then closes with a bunch of screenshots of BMW ads, evidently (?) as an example of Good Writing of the Past, but where those ads (that is, the alleged exemplars of writing) are too blurry to read, even zoomed in?

This is, dare I say it, exceedingly bad writing.
Look at the Russell 2000.
Is there any example where this works (articles, presentations, etc)? In particular, anywhere with more than a couple dozen developers?
Wasn't it something similar with a chrome auto-update which bricked a bunch of $10k+ mac pro workstations in hollywood?
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> It is clearly not, otherwise that 4.8% would be a much bigger number. Hyperbole doesn't help here.

Uh buddy, you know the first quarter is January, Feb, March right? The country was in shutdown mode for maybe half of March at most. Extrapolate that out to the full quarter (ie multiply 5% by 6) and you get a 30% drop. And on top of that, in March many businesses were still trying to partially pay or at least remain in business on paper. That's all done, plus now we start getting secondary effects.

The Administration's mismanaging of this situation is one of the single most costly screw ups in our country's history.
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Your first paragraph makes a thesis that is not easily falsified by anecdote (both capitalist British Raj India and communist Stalinist Russia had large famines).

However I agree that US food production is already highly centralized, at least where big ag is concerned, with the characteristic that profits fill private pockets while losses are subsidized by the people at large.
It's more like 'I have the right to choose which voices get heard on my private platform'
> I don't need to explain what a 10-20% death rate would do to society, however.

Not much if 80% of them are very old and sick.
This is very much what most people don't understand. The primary driver of market stress is uncertainty. Once that is gone and the bad news has been digested, that's it. If lagging indicators further confirm the bad news, that's almost irrelevant because there is no new information content there. Most traders are not stupid, they know the economy is going to tank. The information that there is going to be a recession is already known and pricd in. The question at this point is how much is it going to tank? If it tanks more than expected, or 2nd/3rd order effects materialize (e.g. solvency issues, deleveraging, etc...) then prices will fall more. At this point I'd also like to stress that what you personally expect is not neccessarily what the market expectation is. The market is never wrong in this sence, it is just a consensus of opinions. Opinions are by definition subjective. When new information arrives, the opinions change.

In a mathematical sense, the relationship isn't as much between the absolute level of the economy and prices, it is the tendency of the economy and the prices. You should look at the first (maybe second?) differentials.

Furthermore, values like GDP are inherently lagging. They show data that has happened months ago. There's almost no new information content in that number. Yes the number is bad, but everyone knew it's going to be bad. It sounds like (judging by the market action) that it wasn't worse than consensus.

Now, all the above is viewed through a lens of efficient markets. Reality is again more complex. As it has been pointed out, the price is not just driven by expectations about the economy or stocks, it is very much driven by central bank and government action. Easy money distorts prices. When Tesla which makes a puny 400k cars a year and has just about stopped being loss making is priced higher than VW which makes >6 million cars a year and made $17 billion, something is off. Let's put that into context, Tesla shares have priced in decades of non-stop geometric (20% YoY) sales growth to justify the _present_day_ valuation.

Don't think for a moment that traders don't know this. It's absolutely a game of musical chairs and they know it. Everyone, and I repeat, even the most boring, backwater pension fund board knows that this is a bubble. Everyone is participating and hopes that when the music stops, they'll have already made some safe haven stockpile to weather the storm.
Maybe, maybe not. CEOs are replaceable as well. But if the society is dependent on Microsoft, we will remain dependent even after Satya. Look, I'm not trying to preach anything. I love this MS as much as the next guy. It's just useful to think that companies can change both ways because ultimately what a company wants is to maximize profits, it's naive to think MSFT is trying to accomplish anything other than this. It's useful to think this for the long-term picture.
I'm just landing on their homepage so
> "victimized by capitalism during a pandemic "

Care to explain? Last time I checked, it was governments (monopoly of force) who issued stay at home and quarantine orders.

The US economy in not capitalist despite the popular belief; it's mixed. The current pain would not be as bad right now if it were not for the artificial asset bubbles that were created by Keynesians via cheap money in response to the last recession...
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