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This month has been pretty good news for the economy. Vaccines entering trials, states passing the peak of infection, potential positive news with treatments, large amounts of government intervention indicating that the government and the fed are very focused on putting a floor on the economy, bernie sanders suspending his campaign, lowering how much influence he can have on the democratic platform, and so on and so forth. All things the market likes.

also, even if there is a decrease in earnings, interest rates are also lower, making stocks more attractive.

The market is still down from overall highs. We're not as far down as we were since we don't think it's going to be as bad anymore as we had feared. For 500 large cap stocks listed on US stock exchanges, perhaps about 12% better.

Also, in any recession situation, there's very high volatility. The days with highest stock gains tend to occur right before and during recessions. Even if there's a net downward trend, we'd expect things to be swinging all over the place as people keep overcompensating to the daily news
Web garbage software with web garbage update antics behaves like a web garbage. Unsurprising, really.
Google and Facebook definitely are not being helped right now. Advertising is drying up.
"voices of experience pointing out that most decisions are made based on the best information available at the time."

funny in my experience with digital and particularly larger corporate jabronis. The people who makes decisions are fucking McKinsey consultants who know nothing about the actual project, are only contracted for 6 months, then they are gone. Rinse and repeat, maybe one out of every 3 or 4 attempts somebody actually gets it right and the project doesnt completely fail.
I have discovered that Facebook can be manageable only if you are extremely diligent about unfollowing people whose posts you don't care about. You can unfollow while still remaining "friends". I have been really good about it and there are now at most 15-20 people whose posts actually end up in my news feed. Sometimes nothing new will show up in my news feed for several days, which is really nice. I think joining good, high quality groups of a not-too-big size is also a way to make Facebook a valuable experience. I was 100% off of facebook for a long time and even though I denied it for a long time, my social life suffered for it. I now see it as a necessary evil that can be not so bad with some effort.
Where do you think those small businesses buy their supplies/inventory from?

The employees of these businesses also consume products from large cap companies. Who is going to buy things if they’re out of work?
Wow, this is the first time trying this. Very responsive, and has real-time traffic information, which was the killer feature of google maps for me.

Maps and youtube are the two google features I routinely use. I'll have to install this on mobile and see how it goes.

Thanks for the tip!
Everything should be case sensitive, except things that shouldn’t.

Case-insensitivity by default everywhere will be a pain.
Ok tell me then, let say the government give people money for not working then why would people then want to work on let say grocery store where you suggest its risky ?
I had the same notes file, and a piece of paper where I would write stuff like that down. I'm glad you like it!
'Communicating' is almost a better term.

There are great writers who are not able to organise their ideas very well.

I think good business writing isn't really the same thing as creative writing though they are both assets.

The ability to explain something very quickly in simple and succinct terms, so that the value is really well understood by an audience without any context ... this is the key.
And this post is why I get so infuriated when I see all the blue-checkmarks on Twitter, calling people who want to go back to work "Selfish, stupid, idiot, etc".

People don't want lockdown to stop because they need to go to their hairdresser, or because they need to go hangout at the pub, or whatever idiotic reason these privilege a-holes put in their tweets. People want to get back to work, because they need money, to have a roof above their head. To feed their kids.

Edit: Just to clarify because I see a lot of misunderstanding in the replies: I am not advocating to end the lockdown. I am criticizing the tone deaf, patronizing, rude, caricatural comments attacking people who want to end it to get their paycheck back.
I don't mean to insult, sorry. But the politics around this are very real and there are intense emotions. I think it inhibits the discussion of reasonable approaches and tends to lump positions together unfairly.
So if I were building a house today would it make more sense to wire it with leaky coax or POE cat 6?
It's from Bhutan.
I'm hopeful here in Illinois we'll support this. We already have BIPA (Biometric Information Privacy Act) which has already been used against tech companies.

As it is, CCPA is pushing essentially companies to start treating the US like it is also under GDPR and the like. A complicated privacy landscape in the United States is fine: It will force companies to collect as little data as humanly possible for fear of running across one state or anothers' privacy laws.
Waiting for the gifs to show the output Drives. Me. Nuts.
To make things look good on the Web, you just find something that you think looks good and steal what it's doing.
> Due to the current efficiency of electrolysis, hydrogen could easily become less expensive than gas.

I did the math and while it's possible, it's still not the case today. Even worse - hydrogen is more expensive per mile driven.

> There’s no reason to think hydrogen cars won’t be able to match them on price in the future.

I'll give you one then: expensive parts in the form of platinum catalysts and generally higher complexity, since all hydrogen cars which don't rely on combustion of hydrogen are actually hydrogen-electric hybrids with a buffer battery - something necessary due to the low power density of fuel cells.

> A gas stations failure mode is also a giant fireball

But would be rarer if we had enough cases to compare. Petrol being a fluid doesn't combust as easily - its NFPA flammability rating is 3, while hydrogen's is 4.

Sure, natural gas is also highly flammable, but has less than 40% of the energy density.
a number of months? I'm 56 and have spent some fraction of my entire life devoted to the hardshell question.

For me, my current Berghaus (bought while visiting the UK) ticks every box. Just perfect. But that took 40+ years to get to, not a few months.
No, deepfakes are relatively new. It's a specific term meaning a fake video produced with ANNs, not any type of picture that's been faked or photoshopped. The case you reference is a just and paste job, not a deepfake.
(Sad R2D2 noises)
Lineage OS has auto updates. As well, APK Mirror does test the checksum, so it will contain no malware that isn't on the play store.
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I used to think that too. The buildings and are still there, and the workers can come back easily enough. Unlike, say, a hurricane, we should be able to just start things up.

However, I think two factors make that unlikely now. One is the inadequate, spotty government intervention. They should have strongly pressured banks and landlords to just extend mortgages and defer or suspend rent. They should have encouraged utilities and other large, stable suppliers to stretch bills. And then they should have paid workers to mostly stay the fuck home.

The other is inadequate, spotty government response to the virus. When you look at SF and Seattle vs NYC, it's pretty obvious that strong, early government intervention can make a huge difference. And when you look at S Korea vs the US, it's even clearer. If we'd had good test-and-trace capacity ready, or if we'd locked down while quickly developing it, we'd be done with things by now. But governmental half-assing of this means that we're looking at a much larger impact than is necessary.

I think the first failure means that both businesses and consumer spending will be slow to recover once the crisis is past. And I think the second failure means it's going to be a much larger crisis. So I'm now expecting a much more significant reaction than I was 6 weeks ago.
The economy's response to "a large segment of the population has no money to buy things" seems to be selling more stuff and more expensive stuff to those who do. The economy is essentially trying to cut many people out of it entirely.
(and yes, I know 'the economy' isn't some sentient monolith)
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

Leftist ideas were big in the US around the turn of the century,[1] if nothing else maybe the silver lining of this recession will be a revised look on how society needs to be structured to avoid starvation and "feral dogs" in the streets.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_socialist_movem...
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The author of this post has rediscovered some fundamental ideas in optimization just by tinkering around! Neat!

> The objective function for linear regression is quadratic (and convex). This explains why Newton's method finds the optimum in one step--the local quadratic approximation turns out to be a global approximation!

> Notice, however, that Newton's method requires us to invert the Hessian matrix (f''), which is expensive in general. I don't think autograd software can get around this limitation.

> The KeepStepping optimizer is performing "gradient descent with line search", which is a more Googleable term.

For more about optimization for solving linear systems (as is the case for linear regression), I recommend Shewchuk 1994, "Conjugate Gradient without the Agonizing Pain" [1], which has some nice geometric insight.

[1]: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake-papers/painless-conjugate-gradi...
Free Speech allows you to say whatever you want, not guarantee you no repercussions.

Besides, private businesses don't need to allow free speech...
Societal development is more or less limited by economic growth. We grow more food that we need due to past economic growth, without it almost everybody would be subsistence farmer, like they were couple hundred years ago.
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MicroG still sends all of your data to Google! The only thing MicroG is doing is making the Google API client code on your phone open source. But it's not really protecting you from sending your data to Google.
Or close the other program.

Also, "You cannot force the other program to release its grip on the file; the workaround is to set the "pending delete" flag for the file and schedule a reboot. " is somewhat wrong. You can close the handle the other program holds on the file, it just might crash that other program.
Children are many things, but I would never count "boring" among them.
If you're coming from Reddit, Imgur or YouTube it seems like hate, but I've found it's simply a lack of humor...

Any jokes, memes or puns are frowned upon the community 99% of the time. I suppose it's considered redundant or not-constructive...
I believed this too for a while, but in the end, happy Venezuela was a fairy tale like the GDR, built on oil. One strong indicator was the brain drain that was going on for decades, long before harsh sanctions.
Amazon isn’t taking over the global economy.

For instance, in retail, Walmart does substantially more business — via brick and mortar stores — and is rapidly growing online.
It might help to remember that a recession is economic decline over a period of time, so a steep decline over a very short period is not considered a recession. As we move into a longer period of time (in the past, the rule was two quarters, but that doesn't seem to be a "rule" of the definition anymore), it starts to officially be considered a recession.

So it's not that it was being dismissed as not significant before this but, rather, it hadn't been going on long enough yet to officially be called a recession.
Debian can be a really great base for something like this. But I just assumed that most people are more comfortable working with something like Ubuntu.
Who cares if it takes 3 or 4 years to recover if retirement is 20+ years away? Everyone knows you should buy at the bottom of a recession and people are betting that we've already bottommed out. And even if we haven't, stocks have been so cheap that it doesn't matter that much if we miss the absolute rock bottom. I'm up 60% for this month.
> There is no moral imperative that says you are obligated to pay for something you did not voluntarily asked for

Is that accurate? If you follow a link to watch a video, is that not asking to watch that video?
Well, that's a 12% increase following a huge drop. So the market is still 15% or so under its February peak.

A significant number of S&P 500 investors (roughly 40%) hold their investments in retirement accounts. These people are not going to sell unless forced to because they lost their jobs. If you're looking for a huge drop in the S&P 500, then keep an eye out on laws that allow for penalty-free withdraws from retirement accounts and reports that Americas are taking money out of their retirement accounts to live.

Also, there are plenty of people betting on the market going down.
I doubt that you can measure this already, it has only been two days (also when the lockdown started it took over a week until the effect was visible). That's why at least some countries want to take it slow, after each small step you need at least two weeks to judge the effects.
Repossession is a slow process. As a practical matter a homeowner who loses their job is in a better short-term position than a renter (all else being equal) because eviction for non-payment of rent is much faster than foreclosure.
The biggest contributor to this economic downturn is the pandemic. Demand and market valuations plummeted in February, long before any stay-at-home orders.
Largest pay rise I ever got, was when my employer accidentally published the "internal/official/never-published" salary for my role. Quick trip to HR brandishing a print-out, and I got a 25% bump within the week.

Of course, that only worked as I was seemingly good at my job, and my employer needed to get the head-count up.
(and I might have muttered that if this got out, I guessed they'd have a lot of disgruntled people)

Other reason they're kept hidden, is that (at least in my industry) a fair number of positions are filled with specialist recruiters. They are made aware of salary guidelines the employer is willing to pay and also have a rough idea of what people on their books are wanting.
They prove their value to employers by filling interview sessions with the best people at the lowest cost.
The EFF has a good breakdown of their concerns with Washington Privacy Act:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/tech-lobbyists-are-pus...

ACLU WA openly opposed the bill:
https://www.aclu-wa.org/docs/letter-community-organizations-...

It seems the issue lies in tech companies preempting privacy legislation with proposals that are largely toothless. While the EFF sought to add amendments that would make the bill more robust, ACLU WA sought to quash it all together which makes me wonder what the reasoning was for not attempting to amend the bill.
Microservices working well is entirely about the team, and my current group of teams works very well with the monolith pattern. A big part of this is because (for business reasons, not technical ones) they frequently trade ownership of parts - so if a service isn't well constrained it will be very quickly. We also have mature DevOps practices and engineers handle significant parts of DevOps themselves instead of just kicking the can.

But the reason I say this is about the team is because I've seen a well built, well groomed service be passed off to an outside team and immediately turned into a disaster. Same service, same business case, just a team without the DevOps savvy and willingness to follow the patterns.

Netflix does some.. unusual things with microservices, mostly with how they treat version rollovers. It's not bad or good, but it looks different from how many other shops handle the same problem and it means asking the question "is everything working?" is extremely difficult but asking the question "how many people are able to start watching?" is pretty easy.
I had an example inspired from his work in the first book I wrote back in the 1980s(Artificial Intelligence in the Era of Neural Networks and Chaos Theory). He had a great career!
I understand their thinking because not working is causing a massive amount of collateral damage, but the virus doesn't care about any of that. If everyone goes back to normal too early, this all just starts over, and folks are forced to be inside even longer, there's just no way around it.
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You're right, and I think you've highlighted what makes a good monolith so hard to build and maintain.

You need to be disciplined to keep a monolith highly modularized. For microservices, in contrast, their architecture encourages modularization.
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Nothing leads to starvation faster than socialism and central planning of food production (which is different than welfare/redistribution). Right now in socialist Venezuela they've introduced price controls on food. And yes, people are eating dogs there.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5449023/Venezuelans...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/venezuela-announces-pri...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

Regarding downvotes: The US government couldn't even manage PPP and the new unemployment benefits correctly. And people actually think it's a good idea to hand over more power and food production to them? Maybe it will only work if "your party" was in charge (whatever that means)?
Let's just say I've yet to hear a compelling argument for the average employee.
Ok I feel like an idiot, but where is the code in the repo that produces the GUI - ie where is the Suitcase code?
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In theory it's a large range, but in practice it really isn't. Candidates regularly negotiate starting salary to 10-20% above an initial offer, so a range like this is pretty common. You also need to keep in mind that job ads can cost $, so a small company on a budget doesn't want to be placing a bunch of ads for each potential level of hire when all they want is someone who can do the job.

"Junior" and "Senior" probably oversimplifies it. You could have a senior with 10 years and one with 20 years. The salary difference often won't be as pronounced (because salaries tend to plateau at a certain point), but there will usually (and should) be a difference.
It took me a while to appreciate that. A long time ago i noticed that a lot of famous bloggers didn’t really write about groundbreaking things but relatively trivial stuff. This annoyed me for a long time until i realized that being able to write this stuff is a great skill by itself. I think I am a decent developer and have done interesting things but I am having trouble communicating my stuff. My impact could be much more if I could write about it in a compelling way.
Every Bolivian Spring is accompanied with skies filled with soot from the farmers burning rain forest to plant crops. If that's conservation, I want none of it. I'll take my ever expanding forests and healthy wildlife even if it takes a few coal and ammonia plants to make it happen.
I have a great story...

I worked for a startup in the back of someone's house. They had built an extension on the back of their house which was basically a greenhouse (it was like a steel and glass construction). The glass was supposed to be thermally coated but apparently it was installed backwards, with the thermal coating on the inside not the outside.

So the story goes, we had our server room and workstations all in this addition. During the summer it was routinely at or above 100 deg air temperature. I had a small portable AC unit we ran 24/7 and eventually they got a dedicated AC unit for the room. We also ended up covering the glass roof with tarp to try to block out the sun.

It was a pretty insane setup, but it was a cash strapped thing and the owners didn't want to do more than what they did. I was a naive kid fresh out of school, and thought it was so cool to work at a startup - even if it was sweating constantly in a noise filled environment working nights and weekends.

That said, the startup succeeded and grew into a company.

There was also that one time there was a rain storm and the "greenhouse server room" was not sealed against the side of the house, and the rain poured in through a crack. I will never forget when my colleague called at 1AM to let me know the server room was flooded, and that one server, which had it's case open, had the case fill with rainwater - while it was still turned on and running. And it kept running as most of the water collected at the base of the server chassis.....

If you think this sounds crazy, you're right, but I'm sure somebody else has a story just as crazy or even more so!

Ah, the early days, before the cloud... when we did it all ourselves. Yup, I had to wear the HVAC hat too.
Something I learned from reading "The Future of Life" is that a third of the world's landmass is enough to preserve a healthy representative sample of all of the world's ecosystems.

If the world were a third smaller than it is, we'd certainly still have economic growth.
> Buying tools: Start by buying the absolute cheapest tools you can find. Upgrade...

Strong "no" on this one. Always buy quality tools. These are priced at a premium, but unlike "inexpensive" tools will:

• Do the job expected of them w/o creating a new problem

• Be enjoyable to use

• Last a long time (often, a lifetime)
Yes, msquic should be a good general purpose transport. We already have usage from SMB (file sharing) and HTTP in Windows. Both are very different and provided good test cases for msquic.
There are extraordinarily few actions that can be taken by just a small group of people that have more than a vanishing impact on carbon emissions. But that doesn't mean that these actions shouldn't be taken.
I'm sorry, your situation sounds terrible, and this is hard on a lot of people. I truly feel for you and everyone impacted. Speaking from personal experience, not even STEM people are immune from the economic impacts of the pandemic.

1) Have you tried the IRS website to check the status of your payment? My status finally flipped from "GO F YOURSELF" to "Please give us your bank information"

https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/get-my-payment

2) As your hours are cut, you may qualify for Unemployment from your state under modified rules from the CARES act, have you applied?
Yes, it's very dangerous. Files in Unix-style systems can have invisibly shared mutable state. Like having shared memory without any mutexes.
> Canvas (that thing all us students use) gets random rendering errors on gecko that makes the UI malfunction a lot.

I use Canvas every day in Firefox and have never had a single problem or error. Anecdata, I know, but that's my experience.
On what grounds exactly?
Most people who don't have money don't want to go back to work. They feel like the have to go back to work even though it's a terrible idea, because the rest of the country is refusing to support them while they can't.
Yes, security through isolation.
> Even if I could live forever, I'd never reach von Neumann's intelligence

Forever is a long time ...
Unfortunately I am familiar with this 4 year old answer, yes. I rather hoped there is a better solution since.
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