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An out of place argument can be misapplied to "discredit" anything. So is what you did there any "smarter"?

This isn't both sideism. It's a simple observation on the state of things. Now this state could be propagated by one side, and I could certainly name which side I think it is. Then what? Are we any closer to the earnest discussion I proposed? Or have I just propagated the narrative I'm critiquing that prevents that discussion?

So, my point was deliberately meta--a commentary on the logjam that has prevented solutions to the problem stated by my parent. Did you have an actual response to that? Or are you just in a bad mood?

Because, I then proposed we need a discussion around creating a version of capitalism that is sane (which I am happy to define, but that wasn't my point). You are either claiming that's morally tantamount to a pro slavery argument or you're being deliberately disingenuous.

EDIT: My original comment could've been clearer. Please see "EDIT" there. That's my bad. But your slavery comment is still out of line.
This would be a sound theory if the fed weren't printing money.

The fed, however, is more interested in preventing deflation and/or complete economic collapse, than it is in rewarding prudent investers.
If you want to check, I have a small (and not very good tbh) benchmarking chapter in my thesis where I detail the steps I have followed to get fairly low scheduler tick times of my software - for simple graphs the best I could do was to go to less than 100 microseconds with ~20 microseconds of jitter (p.187) for a tick:

https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01947309/document ;

also see the intro of section 10.4 with a couple relevant references. Of course that only benchmarks the part that you as a developer can have a meaningful impact on, not the time spent in JACK / ALSA / ...

To give an anecdote, with the hardware mentioned at the beginning of said chapter I can reliably put JACK in a 16 samples buffer at 44100 (~0.7 ms) and do a few things without crackles. not a lot though :p
We should be able to dial up folks' computers directly and look inside their /public or /www folder.
Well, I've spent the past week tuning our boss fight camera algorithms so that the camera does its best to track the boss if they dash across the room or leap into the air. Nobody can really tell me how to do this outside of our company, because nobody else is dealing with a boss that moves like ours, nobody else has the same camera language constraints, and frankly dealing with algorithmic camera motion is not something most programmers ever have to do.

I can look at our other code, I can look at other cameras in game & film, but ultimately it's just me down there in the code deciding whether the pull the camera in or pitch down or lengthen the lens or how to handle blends or whatever.
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They are just mad that they didn't get to buy in at low prices.
Very nice! I will use it for the time being via Stylus.
Of what relevance is SOX other than dating the period?
GDPR has reverted the web to Geocities. It’s popup hell.
Not going to collapse. The factors that drove it up, lack of willpower to build anything, growth in workforce, not being Texas, are staying.
Google intentionally slows or cripples many of their products on Firefox - simply changing the user agent makes them load faster and have all their normal features. See: Gmail & Google Photos on Firefox desktop (painfully slow, fixed with user agent), Google Images on Firefox Android (functionally crippled, fixed with user agent).
I was also confused by this.
How does the mere existence of that code hurt your workload?
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> ... opinionated and half functional logging layer.

And I still have to to run rsyslog to send things off-machine to a centralized logging server.
I found this article about a global dollar short squeeze particularly useful to better understand why the US market may have decoupled:

https://www.lynalden.com/global-dollar-short-squeeze/
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Could you elaborate or point to an accessible article?
On Jan 1 2018 the Shiller PE ratio was 24.02. Today it is 26.81. That's hardly a decoupling from fundamentals.

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe/table/by-year
Why? Or source?
Go through the wikipedia list of illegal numbers, encode them into latin letters...
So basically I pointed out a novel feature that is great and you refuted it with.. that it exists a library? Well, yea. That’s not really a point.

Having it built into the language is the feature - it means compile time optimization and much better vertical integration for errors, analysis.

Also there is absolutely a good pace, you admitted it! I didn’t say “fast” note, hah.

Finally, yes. I know all the trends, etc. Not sure what your point is, it doesn’t refute anything I said.
I blog on Facebook and it works really well for me because I have a built in audience that is interested in what I have to say. I can tell stories about my life that my kids and parents enjoy. I have no need for NSFW posts. I avoid politics. I keep it fun and interesting. Hot takes on local issues sometimes. I have 60 followers who I don't know and don't understand why they follow me, although I do try to explain the latest technology trends to my immediate family, being the lone geek, and maybe other people find that helpful.
> In the 23andme case there was a worry that people might commit suicide or make massive life changes, if they discovered they had a potential terminal illness. Here, the 2x2 matrix of positive vs negative and true vs false, seems most dangerous on the false-positive side for people who believe it grants them freedom to do whatever they like. False negatives are dangerous for those who then feel certain they don’t have the disease currently and thus expose others unwittingly (but this is already likely!).

So you suggest it's better to not test people?
Yes, they do say that about the children of wealthy people. The conventional wisdom is the first generation earns it, the second spends it, the third is back where the first started.

Wealthy people are well aware of this, and will often try to make their kids earn their things, send them to a military school, etc.
It'd be a boon for the Chinese tech giants.
This is the CFR (known deaths / known cases of people infected), not the IFR (best estimate of deaths / best estimate of infected). Most cases are mild, so many people never seek medical attention and never become a case. South Korea has done a good job tracing contacts, so they're finding a much larger share of total infections than elsewhere; but they're not claiming to find every single one, so their CFR is still an overestimate of the IFR.

Estimates of the IFR come either from isolated populations that were fully tested by PCR (often ships, like the Diamond Princess) or tests for antibodies in a random sample of the population. The antibody studies are tricky when the incidence of antibodies in the population is low, since the tests have some nonzero false positive rate, but much easier in a place like NYC (with ~20% infected).

ETA: But any single IFR is misleading--this disease really is no more lethal than the flu for children (which doesn't mean no one dies, just that very few do), but is >10x worse for the elderly. To ignore that promotes both needless panic in the young and dangerous complacency among the old.
> I don't understand why use CoffeeScript instead of plain JavaScript

I didn't say I don't use plain JS today, I do! And indeed for the exact same reasons you mention :)
The stock market has turned into a get rich quick scheme in the minds of many retail investors. The WallStreetBets subreddit isn't helping. They even made the cover of Bloomberg recently. People with little to no financial education see someone make +5,000% returns with a lucky trade or options contracts, and it becomes hard to resist the pull. WSB is the 39th most active subreddit today. At the beginning of the lockdown I overheard two people on the street - likely not finance professionals - chatting casually about stocks. That triggered a red flag in my head. If stock trading becomes a mass popular hobby, like video games and movies, I have a nagging feeling that people are in for a rude awakening.
I use Uberspace [1] – they're a Germany-based shared hosting provider with proper shell access, a pay-what-you-want model and they're generally very nerd-friendly – to host a fairly basic Jekyll blog [2], among other things.

The domain is managed via Hover [3].

[1]: https://uberspace.de

[2]: https://excessivelyadequate.com

[3]: https://www.hover.com
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Ohh boy, right here why blogs might not be best suited for this hyper-connected global world we live in... HN Hug of death is real I guess
Yes. Prices.
> Legendary investors Stan Druckenmiller and David Tepper were the latest to weigh in after a historic market rebound, saying the risk-reward of holding shares is the worst they’ve encountered in years.

True, but what are they going to do about it?

They would be hard-pressed to find a rewarding asset class today that has billions in liquidity, with less risk.

If they hold cash/tbills, they risk losing a good chunk to inflation from the new monetary policies.

They could try to hedge for a market crash, but timing it seems difficult - the market can remain irrational longer than they can remain solvent. And hedges are aren't cheap with the higher IV levels today.
Is this something that a new search engine could solve? or is it that countering SEO is so hard that not even Google can do it?
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I don't know that I'd want a search engine to specifically exclude or limit the results of specific sites of their choosing (even if top 500 as the example is fairly unbiased), but I think I'd really like the ability to say "move these specific domains a few pages back. Don't eliminate them outright, but I have felt dumber having read them previously."
Your link says to use the very attribute that Mozilla are breaking in this change. Can you explain whatever point you're trying to make?
I agree and have personally found it quite easy to setup small websites hosted on AWS using Route53, Certificate Manager, S3, and CloudFront. They cost nearly nothing at low scale and are quite cost efficient until you hit serious scale, which few personal website ever achieve.

Yet, I don't think most people are going to want to go this route and it would take a fair amount of tooling to automate everything. It's not sufficient to just abstract away the cloud provider, people also need tools for creating and managing content. In theory you could run such tools locally, but I think most people would expect a web interface similar to that provided by Wordpress and medium.

Further, there's a big difference between free and essentially zero cost. How many people are going to be motivated to pull out their credit card to create blog when free alternatives already exist? Not only are existing blogging sites free, but they also promise the opportunity to actually make money through their affiliate program if the site becomes popular.
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I'm glad that taxpayers who work for a living will end up subsidizing property owners, who have other people work for their living.
You're right. I wish NY Times were slightly above this practice, of including a polarizing celebrity with no relation to the story as if he is either A. an authority, or B. an actor in the narrative. This attracts both the audience who thinks Bill Gates' work is humanitarian, and those who think he is doing this for selfish (money/power/influence) reasons. It seems his only connection, from what I can tell, is proximity and endorsement, which are irrelevant, and only tangential to the story, which is already scant.
As someone who gets vivid lucid dreams as well as sleep paralysis, you don't want them. Trust me.
Yes, that was the point of my second paragraph. It doesn't have to. The systemd d-bus api is only if you want your containers to show up in systemd as well. From the perspective of a container manager, all you have is your own little hierarchy sitting somewhere in the tree, the parent leaf is not particularly important. This distinction is relevant for ANY combination of container managers under cgroupsv2, for example if you try to run it multiple levels deep (systemd within an lxc container within a docker container or something like that).

The situation with LXC is basically the same anyway. You just dump your containers in a sub-hierarchy and if you decide you want to integrate further with that, you have to use liblxc. It's funny that systemd still for some reason gets these long rants directed at it though.
People on WallStreetBets and the like are loud but relatively few in number. They don't have enough money to significantly move the market expect in rare cases and illiquid issues.
Monadic let syntax would be a big win (allows for async/await-like constructs) in Bucklescript, and inline variant records have been nice once or twice (I see reason newcomers at dojos do this naturally almost every time shortly after introducing variants).
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Seems like "when pasted" can be squeezed in.
For me, the site only shows a multi-step hCaptcha. I solved it the first time, then the page reloaded and showed me the second one, which after two puzzles told me to try again.
> have average pause times of 0.3 milliseconds on heaps less than 4GB

The answer is that one user thread would have a lot less memory than 4GB, and the GC only needs to work on heap sizes of KBs to MBs for most cases.

There is no shared memory(well, mostly).

It's comparing apples and oranges.
Older people often take jobs so they have a reason to get up in the morning and a purpose. It keeps them active and engaged in life. Retirees without jobs and no purpose tend to die earlier.
This, and seamlessly mirrored in IPFS whenever I'm offline.
I find that all Google results are increasingly useless spam. Even searching for programming Q&A is becoming less viable and I end up landing on one of those "you need to upgrade your flash player" phishing sites at least once or twice a week.

The open web has had a great run but it too is being brought to its knees by spam just like every other open platform.
Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22800136
> especially when he has much of his wealth invested in the very industry that is likely to be affected by the results of this Coronavirus study

Citation needed. As far as I can tell, his only healthcare related holding is Schrodinger, Inc. which is new, and at 300M out of his 106B net worth could hardly be considered "much of his wealth" .
My first thought is that they're just attempting to manipulate markets so prices will drop and they can buy some more.
What inflation? CPI is currently negative.
That's an interesting point. What would you recommend? Follow street sign structure?
I know this thread is about game development, but not everyone has hard deadlines to churn out frames. The comparison is useful because it separates Java from many other languages that are possibly 10x slower, which make them unsuitable for a huge number of domains where Java can still be useful.
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If I could take two things away, it would be upvotes and targeted advertising.

They allow for manipulation of the new commons and the societies of the people therein.

The manipulation existed before, but not in such an effective way.

US army in Eglin, various Russian bot farms, and effective private firms are open to deep-pocketed millionaires.

There must be a way that's /less/ open to manipulation. Or at least a way that openly expresses this happens.

As the world comes even more digital, the bigger risks this manipulation has on society.
These guys are just as prone to bandwagon and herd mentality as those in Venture Capital. When they're all saying the same thing I feel it's the best time to do the opposite of what they say.
Google has an unusual situation where search now only needs to be good enough. They are much more focused on the knowledge engine of providing direct answers and the advertising business.

With such a dominant market share, search has certainly lowered in quality
There's a book about this as well https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Chain-Defending-America-High-Tec...
The Cannonball Run record has been broken seven times in five weeks
I use Firefox Night mode on iOS, and it works great!
isnt medioum blogs
Users don't expect the length limit! that info isnt presented to them until the text is over-long and the clue is: Surprise! Truncate w/o warning. On more than just password fields.
Thanks for the reference! It's been awhile since I've taken statistics so this will be a good refresher.
There wont be another crash like March, probably just a slow bleed over the next 6 months. My personal plays are Put option Leaps (2022) on a few retailers whose stocks have semi-recovered for now but are definitely destined for the graveyard in the next few years. Don't try to predict the next crash/recovery.
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> I blog on Facebook

That is not a blog.

You don't have control over it, you don't have archives, and it's not world readable.

None of what you listed is a reason to not to use a real blog.
Thankfully these are usually harmless (to us humans, anyway)and slightly funny. There are unfortunate ones like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog#Controversy_sur... out there though.
RSS is truly a blessing, and it's such a shame that the side effect of Google is to essentially corrupt a vast portion of the internet such that most of the stuff you see and read has the sole purpose of pleasing the search engine, not the reader. That relationship is the wrong way round.

I'm just re-setting up my own blog (to complement a Youtube channel). Without designing one from scratch (with a static site generator or some such), it's quite difficult to get an off the shelf one that isn't bloated as hell though. I should suck it up but design isn't my strong-suit, and I'd rather just get straight to writing and recording.
What are some good vlogs?
Is it not what steemit is for?
It also provides ways to tip authors for their good writings.

Other that or ipfs.
> They’re in the bar graph, expressed as rates per 100k.

AFAICT that's per 100k total population, not per 100k infected (which amounts to 0.2% total FR citywide, not even IFR).

Or am I missing the graph you mean?

> The values cited by the OP (>>1.5%) are far too high, and based on severity-biased samples were gathered early in the pandemic.

I am OP. They're based on an antibody study currently ongoing in my country so... no, they're not far too high nor severity-biased. (I'm trying to find links in English, but no luck so far).
You lost me at nowadays especially
The "herd immunity" plan can only work with more than 50% of the population infected, of which about 1% will die and some slightly higher percentage suffer lingering ill health, which in the US means at least a million people.

That's current US policy. That's what the "Get and Keep America Open" plan does.[1] Current death rate for the US is around 1,400 per day.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/open-america/i...
You're absolutely right, but unfortunately we can't customize HN that way; we need a general approach.

The problem is that no one, not even those of us who spend excessive time here, sees every thread or even every major thread. HN's front page is a tiny aperture given the firehose that flows through it. We added 'past' to the top bar a few years ago to give people a way to catch up on the biggest threads they missed. Unfortunately relatively few people use it. For example, this month about 4% of logged-in users who've viewed the front page have also used 'past'.
Any you can blame the media for jumping on positive increases and ignoring increased testing.
The answer is they don't know how to value cashflows or businesses, they just buy brand names they like.
Letting authors pay for hosting/infra is what commercial plans for WordPress.com do.
> Most modern potatoes descend from the ones cultivated by the Inca and their predecessors.

While the first potatoes introduced in Europe were high Andean in origin, the modern potato stems mostly from lowland varieties cultivated in southern Chile[1].

[1]: https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3732/ajb...
I don't frequent the sub but I saw a lot of crazy moves where people were losing money not making it.
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Personally I hate the trend toward video content. I prefer to read as I can skim and highlight the important content as I see fit.
For a more observable example, think about sorting American coins.

A dime is the easiest because it is the smallest. Quarters are much larger so are also easy. In the middle are pennies and nickels which are the hardest to separate from one another because they're so close in size.

Here's a video that demonstrates it: https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/cub_coinsor...
Flip side: I would destroy Twitter.

Twitter is absolutely the worst thing to happen to the internet. Low effort, inherently self-aggrandizing and standoffish, literally impossible to express a complex or nuanced thought. The only people I know who regularly engage with Twitter are extreme narcissists and conformist thinkers, and yet all of Twitter considers themselves to be the Important People. This mentality has crept into all spheres of public life.

Good blogging requires effort, effective communication and something interesting and original to say. Those days are long gone.
I was just thinking pages with external dependencies, in the spirit of the old web, but your idea sounds a lot more reasonable. Not sure if that exists, I'd be interested!
Near the bottom of the market in March, HN said to wait. N% of past crashes went lower than this. It's like catching a falling knife. It will get worse.

I bought any way.

I'm up 24%. The average annual increase for the S&P 500 is 6%.

Now HN is saying it's crazy to buy.

I see stores reopening. Local stores in Seattle, but also chains. Apple is planning to reopen its US stores soon. Grocery store shelves are full.

NYC is opening its beaches for Memorial Day.

Yet again, "it will get worse." I see the market going sideways.

I think I'm going to hold on.
MAC address tracking is one approach but it's imprecise and with the proliferation of "things with antennas," you have to do a lot of reconciling on the backend to not count 1 person as 3 when they have multiple devices on them. Euclid analytics tried this. It's a common but flawed approach to count (use depending).
I always disliked video content with minor, rare exceptions. Text survived hundreds (sometimes thousands) of years; I don't think video will.
Wonder how this differs from exokernals: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/exo/
I’m convinced that the barrier to entry in this field in terms of technologic and financial investment is too high for FOSS projects to compete with the commercial solutions

We don’t see FOSS pharmaceutical research for instance, I believe for the same reason. The amount of coordination needed and the impossibility to separate TTS projects into sub-parts could also factors.
Cash is an investment.
> several frightening figures

It's hard not to imagine some pretty frightening scenarios on how this might play out over the next 12-24 mos. The far-reaching unemployment this could cause (if/when lenders start calling these loans) has significant long term implications.