skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
20% of the population trying to burn up .5% of the population, with collateral damage, is not the same thing as self sabotage.

There's a difference between burning your own neighborhood down, and burning Wall Street / Washington / Hollywood / Silicon Valley down.

Lighting a fire doesn't affect everyone equally, it burns up who has the most wood. It's an attack proportional to inequality, not a uniform one.
> Employment and GDP contracting at historic rates. A pandemic that is not close to being over.

I think you've made my point, this is a short term reality, and a pessimistic one. We don't have a model for the long term economic reality of this situation. We only have speculation and guessing. So we have a short term economic reality but nothing more.

To say that the US stock market hasn't historically effected the economy at large seems to forget the Great Depression. I believe it is taken as economic fact that the Great Depression started with the crash of the stock market in 1929. There was quite a bit of speculation and the market went up and down all over the place, but finally settled with a huge amount of unemployment and a massive reduction in GDP. We have put into place numerous measures to make sure that doesn't happen again, and we are using them, effectively.

Also, I disagree that the markets are entirely divorced from the performance of the businesses that comprise them. Most people don't look at the entire market. We look at indexes. Look at the DJIA. With the exception of Nike, Disney, and Boeing, which of the 30 companies in the index are hit hard by this pandemic? If anything, which of those companies are increasing substantially before of the pandemic? They aren't steaming towards an iceberg. They a solid, recession resistant conglomerates that have substantial production power.
Ah yes, I haven't used gevent for years and now associate gunicorn with wsgi. I have far easier experience with nodejs and golang when I need to do async parts on the backend (usually for websocket stuff), then use some message queue/passing system with celery or zeromq to communicate back and forth with the python backend.
Sort of but then no one can agree on things like whether particles are part of the word or not. To the fluent reader, the kanji/kana switching breaks up the text enough to lex it. I'm non-native and actually reading all-kana is much more difficult for me than the usual mixture.

Many all-kana texts employ spaces. All-kana with no spaces is a nightmare.
And it's worked and happened in the past:
https://www.npr.org/2015/09/23/442801731/director-chronicles...
Everyone agrees that a collapsing healthcare system would be very bad, but Sweden's healthcare system is not collapsing.
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Try go :) it's got the speed and "here's how the machine works" of C plus a) batteries included for all the modern things, and b) excellent multi-core scheduler.

On the grandparent, I never much wrote a ton of C and then compiled, did more "skeleton of the app/lower level bits/stich them together" incremental stuff. So lots of compiling and testing along the way. Not quite Lispy but Lispy for C.
this doesn't look at all like marketing to me. the guy barely mentions his company.
Moikka, I'm happy you've found a stable life. The thing is that subtle/implicit racism is quite difficult to pick up on. It involves not being:

* given the benefit of the doubt in difficult situations

* realizing how easy it is to socialize normally

* given a fair shake in a candidate pool

I, unfortunately, was a witness to many minorities not being given these benefits easily (not being one of them). Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink" explains the mechanisms of these implicit biases well, and unfortunately, they're much more evident in Finland than most American metropolitan cities. It's difficult to pick up on them and unless you realize the hurdles in front of you, you're just built to jump higher without giving it a second thought.
Is Mauldin paid for his campaign work? If he is, what difference does it make if the political campaign site he's running (and that's what it is) has its development/hosting paid for by anyone?

Regardless of the answer to that question and the validity of the information on the site, the site looks like expert craft in sketchy campaigning. It isn't being very honest about what it is and it is not a good faith attempt at informing voters, all under the direction of effectively the Trump campaign. I think FB should be allowed to block crap like this.

edit: and to be clear this opinion applies for the reverse political ideologies as well. I wouldn't want to see e.g. Apple/Android blocking stuff in text messages, but I don't have a problem with FB/Twitter/Reddit doing it because that's where problematic discourse festers, by design.
While working on it my comment explains what the block should be doing. Extra points for lists of harebrained ideas that will likely never happen.
That looks like fairly standard code for defining UI behavior in native frameworks as well, it's not particularly nightmarish.
The guys who installed new tile in my shower put in a custom shower niche that incorporated an interesting tile pattern, and I was glad to notice them taking pictures of it when they were done. It was neat to see their pride in creating an elegant one-of-a-kind feature (in what was otherwise a fairly routine project).
Yes! I always thought it was a weird joke that they give away the feature that makes you organise & focus your meetings, but charge for the one that lets people ramble on forever.
I would bet that js bundling and splitting might prevent that from being true?
The article straight up mentioned arguments against what you're saying. Sweden has more deaths per million than their neighbors and it's only getting worse as the confirmed number of cases grow.

Your idea of a level-headed response is letting people die straight up to the coronavirus.
After the twitter update, I can't seem to get the initial load of an individual tweet to work. Ever, on any device, on any network. I encounter this issue on my laptop (on both Windows and Ubuntu), on my desktop (also both Windows and Ubuntu) and on my Android phone. It doesn't matter if I'm logged in or not, I always get "something went wrong" when I load the page and have to refresh at least once.
That depresses me because it's clear who is being ignored here: the user.

A 3MB bundle size instead of 1MB does make a difference, and if you're working on the kind of site that relies on conversions/purchases to succeed then you're absolutely leaving money on the table. Not to mention that Google factors in page load time to rankings.

> our UX was worse than our competitors

If your competitor has a < 1MB bundle and yours is 3MB then any user on a low end Android phone is absolutely going to have a worse UX experience. Maybe stakeholders aren't aware of all this. Maybe you should tell them.
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>Warning: not for the faint of heart - banned for obvious reasons.

I lived through it - on 4chan, reddit , and HN.

It's still not obvious to me why he'd be banned, I don't think you should hand wave it that easily.

The guy had mental issues, but he had some amazing lucidity at times.

If I owned a movie theatre or restaurant I surely wouldn't ask someone with vocal tourettes to leave the establishment, and if I did i'd be ostracized all over the media and community -- so it's not as clear to me as you seem to think it should be why he was treated the way he was on the various forums.

I get that he said abrasive and racist comments routinely; but I think there is something to be said about the fact that his voice was routinely listened to and considered on 4chan's /g/, and routinely sequestered and removed on HN and reddit. 4chan turning their attention to him wasn't a good thing, nor is it usually ever, but that forum did give him a place to talk without fear of bannings, karma struggle, deaded comments, whatever.

Treating someone as good as they are treated on 4chan is a low bar. Back then the HN method of constant deading and shadowbanning felt heavy handed and unneeded; we're supposed to be adults who are aware that mentally ill individuals exist in real life and here on HN, but the way it was dealt with was by silencing an already schizophrenic person so that the 'normal' crowd could go on with business as usual.

I can't think of a more head-in-the-sand response, and I'm not even saying that it wasn't a required action to keep the forum discourse on some level of civility , but boy does what happened to Terry make me feel nauseous -- the same kind of feeling I get in the pit of my stomach that is usually a sign for me that I am witnessing something morally uneven. I don't know the solution, nor do I claim to. I just feel bad about what happened.

As someone who chatted in emails with him after his bannings, I still feel bad about his treatment and demise, and I miss him and his technical insights immensely. I think he got a poor run of life, and I wish that more people had been supportive of him, able to filter out the profane for the insight -- especially since he became fascinatingly technically capable and astute when spoken to personally with your 'vocabulary filter' on.

Terry was an individual by which most mistook his trees for the forest -- and I'm glad to read in this thread that I'm not the only one with that positive sentiment towards him and his memory.
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2004/2004.06098.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.14621.pdf

That's two, I think the second one is better though as it uses more recent data and from more states and they raise a point that I think speaks to why the studies are not more prevalent and that is that many stay at home orders went into effect middle to end of March so the effects would only really be seen at the end of April.

I imagine you'll see more of these popping up in the coming weeks.
It is, not using IDEs in 2020 is like cutting trees with a knife.

You will eventually cut it down, but I see better ways to use my time.
Ya this doesn’t really make any sense to me. Intels attempts at shrinking the node failed due to diversity hires? I have a very hard tome believing this. If you’re capable of working at that level at all, I can’t imagine skin tone or gender is holding you back...
How Australian and NZ Game Developers Are Coping with the Coronavirus Pandemic
There are particularly clever one liners that need a bit of unpacking on the what - Python is bad for this but anytime you are patting yourself on the back for the cleverness, a brief note (at least on the test) is probably warrented. I supposed one can code without cleverness but it's less fun :)
... what's so bad about it?
The article says:

“Imperial College London’s Neil Ferguson has said, as many of two-thirds of 'Covid deaths' would have happened anyway”

Would these deaths have happened in a massive spike? If not, then it isn’t anything like the same and if so, why?
I don't really follow your response here. The idea that lockdowns have serious costs is not a "strawman" and doesn't imply other options have no costs.
All About Polymorphics (1960) [video]
Fear of covid killing more than covid? Happening in Australia apparently.

Sociologists are learning a lot from this situation
Don't worry, I'm not thrilled how the rest of it was spent either. Doesn't mean I can't take issue with this.

That 1/10000th of the budget could have went to nursing homes or other critical areas.

No matter how much a trillion is, several hundred million dollars is still a lot of money...
I don't think most of the replies realize that you might be pretty familiar with Netflix's infrastructure.
Right, and this article is titled "There is one, and only one strain" which is an affirmative statement, and calls for a burden of proof.

What this piece should be titled is "We don't have any evidence yet of multiple strains."
I can't remember the last time I loaded FB on a computer. At this point it's clear that they care far more about the mobile experience than the desktop. Even if I'm sitting at my computer I'll still use my phone for FB.
This isn't true, deaths reported lag, so the numbers continue to go up after the week is over.
ICU (International Components for Unicode) provides an API for this: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis

Assuming Blink is using the same technique for text selection as V8 is for the public Intl.v8BreakIterator method, that's how Chrome's handling this-- Intl.v8BreakIterator is a pretty thin wrapper around the ICU BreakIterator implementation: https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8/+/refs/heads/master/...
Interesting point. Have we commoditized and securitized the storage of commodities yet? Can someone purchase oil storage futures contracts to mitigate this risk?
That makes sense, when I was first starting to program and parse data formats, the quoting the quote problem baffled me for awhile until I understood in-band vs out-of-band encodings.

I recently realized that multipart text encoding could be used as a container format like tar. If one embraces web technologies as foundational, lots of things become easy. I have a fondness for the IFF/RIFF format as being a kind simpler binary XML (before I knew what XML is) that encodes those sized, tagged blocks data, no EOF scanning.

Later I found netstrings [1,2], I think they share lots of properties with the systems you mentioned. I do think having hybrid encodings/protocols can really advantageous in terms of understanding and portability.

[1] https://cr.yp.to/proto/netstrings.txt

[2] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/netstrings
I wish that were what happens. Then maybe management would learn over time and the industry would smarten up.

Instead what happens is that the old developers built big things on-time so they were "good developers," and then the new developers struggle with the code and so management assumes the new devs are less competent.
So, how does the AI/ML/whatever work for, the customer/end user?
Mostly because for all the development done on it, Javascript is still a %50 accurate name; it ain't Java, but it is definitely a scripting language. Node may be popular, but it's lightyears away from being able to say that it's chasing all the other languages out of the server niche, and it's been around for long enough that we can judge it's unlikely ever going to. In 5 years it's going to be a lot easier to get a non-scripting language compiled on to the client than it is to make a scripting language work as your sole backend language.
Cities and States rely on the market for their pension funds. CA has ~$2 trillion in underfunded obligations ($83K per household)[1]. If the market doesn't magically make up the difference, the state will in the form of new taxes, budget cuts, and restructuring - or it can just go into a debt spiral like Illinois and default in 30 years.

Universities rely on the market for their endowments ($500 billionish). When the market goes down, tuition goes up.

~60 million Americans have a 401K worth about $6 trillion. Many of those people are approaching retirement or have already retired.

> The fact that it’s going up helps only a minority of the people.

You may not be directly helped, but you will definitely feel the pain (eventually) when it goes down.

1. https://us.pensiontracker.org/stateSummary.php?idcode=06
I have previously described Seattle as "car hostile" and this is continuing evidence that this descriptor is apt. Anyone who has been to Seattle recently will probably attest to the serious quality of life improvements these moves create.

Next step: soak the hell out of Amazon for public transit. Seriously. They should go fucking nuts.
He could have stopped with everything before...

“Despite the impact to our Talent business...”

Why mix in a lay-off announcement with a marketing spiel?
It’s governments overreacting not the people. I haven’t met a single person who is actually “scared.”
> You and I seem largely in agreement, but I wonder if we agree on how well we here at HN, as a community, execute these principles. In my experiences, most people are "not very fond" of even discussing the topic.

My feelings are people here will tolerate a few anecdotes (as long as you're not pushing it as absolute truth) but generally if you post appeals to nature, appeals to popularity etc. it'll be challenged and downvoted pretty quick.

Certain topics seem worse than others though e.g. eating meat, x10 programmers, job interview processes and programming language comparison topics are full of anecdotes and fallacies with bold statements.
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But muh private companies...

WeChat is owned by the 'private company' Tencent. And most here think it's perfectly valid when Facebook or Google censor things they don't like. I'm sure you think that Google is a real private company, while Tencent is not. But the difference isn't really all that valid anymore; the US government has backdoors and special access to our tech behemoths, just like the Chinese do for their tech companies.

Maybe it's not such a good idea to cheer for Google, Facebook, and the other companies when they censor whatever it is you currently dislike politically. Do you naively believe they'll not someday censor you, too?
was looking for that last link myself -- thanks!
> Please leave this type of intellectual dishonesty at the door. Hacker News is smarter than this. Jeff Bezos also loses $9,000,000/hour some months. He lost billions in minutes after the earnings report a few days ago. That's what happens when you have equity in something. He bore the risk when the company made nothing and was nothing and he continues to bear that risk and reap the rewards.

Haggling over the exact number Jeff Bezos makes hourly misses the point very intentionally, and that's certainly not honest. Can we agree that whatever Jeff Bezos' hourly income is, it's many, many orders of magnitude more than $15/hour?

> Amazon is attacked because it's an easy target.

Tell me another company that's mistreating their workers, in any industry, and I'll happily condemn their actions too.

We need to talk about specific companies and specific abuses, because if we don't, then there's no action that can be taken which addresses the specific problem.

And incidentally, it's not like people are pushing for laws that are going to be written to only apply to Amazon. Workers don't have realistic ability to use the bathroom at Amazon: so we should have a law that says workers (at any company) have a right to use the bathroom.

> Warehouses have abused workers long before Amazon and continue to do so while flying under the radar despite being significantly worse than Amazon. If someone is unemployed and another person is employed but wants to get a raise with a new job, you help the unemployed person first. Your argument amounts to "well, just because this person is employed doesn't mean they don't deserve a raise". Sure, you're technically correct, but the net result of your efforts is less than if you find a job for the second person first.

Ah yes, the "we're only allowed to talk about one thing so it shouldn't be this" argument. Why can't we talk about Amazon and the other companies?

What's the net result of your effort? You want to talk about the entire warehouse industry? Why stop there? Aren't there even more employers in other industries? Are you just picking on the warehouse industry? Is talking about the entire warehouse industry really going to result in a larger net improvement than talking about Amazon?

> It's why a lot of people not in the line of fire don't take these initiatives seriously. It's also why workers from other warehouses flock to Amazon by the 100,000s despite these alleged poor conditions.

Please leave this type of intellectual dishonesty at the door. Hacker News is smarter than this. Amazon also loses some workers some months.

Or that's what I would say if I were trying to sidestep your point. Instead, I'll say that there are other explanations for why people go to work at Amazon--namely, a lack of other employment options. If my options were become homeless or work at Amazon, I'd work at Amazon too. That doesn't suddenly mean Amazon gets a free pass for everything they do.
nice, me too. donglegate is really the only reason im lurking in this thread and considering going back. the thinkpad given to me when i was a child still works(!) but it's gunky and the finish is a bit worn, while the mbp i've used every single day for the last 5 years is still going strong and looks brand new (apple did replace the screen under a recall).

this is just my own experience but i think they both have well-deserved reputations as being tough machines. i would sooner drop a thinkpad than a mpb, for sure, but i love using the macbook so much more. i think apple's problem is they stopped innovating, and while their systems should be getting cheaper as a result, they are getting more expensive. while thinkpad continues to grow.
Best of luck to anyone working for Uber in these times.
> This website uses cookies for basic traffic analytics stuff, plus extra stuff so we can maybe show you design sprint ads in the future.

At least it's honest. We should find a solution about cookies.
Also, there's a difference between the minimum feature size that can be fabricated (mostly a lithography challenge), the minimum size of a reliable device that works well (e.g. with enough doping atoms in the channel) and the size and shape a specific transistor needs to be for its particular requirements.
If you scroll down that link you sent, you'll see where Google talks about recently introduced "Restricted Scopes".

When we say that we are "Verified by Google", it is because we have been verified by Google as complying with their OAuth policies for Restricted Scopes. You can see the detailed requirement process here: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/9110914#restricted-s...

Note: I hope that doesn't come off the wrong way, there is literally a rigorous verification process that you must meet to be verified to connect to the Gmail API via OAuth.

To your point about the badge: we believe Google should provide this type of badge to developers that have paid between $15,000 - $75,000 for the third-party security audit to be able to be even considered verified by Google. Unfortunately, all you get is an email and a fat receipt.

So, we made this badge ourselves. I can understand your point of view that this implies more of a relationship with Google. That is totally fair. If you look at our back and forth with their Trust & Security team last year to secure this verification, you might feel like we had a relationship with them too, haha.

We certainly don't want it to be problematic or misleading. We do think it's important for users to realize that our app is indeed verified and safe to connect to.