skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fed cannot give directly to consumers. However, congress can and did give directly to consumers with the 1200 check, the 600 a week increase in unemployment, and indirectly by funding payroll for small businesses and the airlines. However, that created a whole lot of debt which the fed has been predominantly buying with their printed dollars as you can see in their balance sheet [0].

[0]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm
Duplicates are allowed and often stories are reposted on the weekend.

Why would people who read source code for a living need a frilly marketing puff type site? Slashdot is still around if you wanted something different.
AKA "Cargo Cult"^1

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
Soothing videos to unwind during WFH breaks
Waiting for old TIVOs to reboot.
Why implement a new duplicate detection feature when their well-trained neural net seems to be working just fine??

https://xkcd.com/2173/
Maybe don't try to look ambitious, just be honest about what your 5 year plans are? Homeowner, family, dog? Or perhaps travel the world? They may not be looking for "ambition" but work life balance fit, for example, and a family might preclude that. Or if you want to travel, they might have remote options in mind. Coming off as one dimensional might not help their decision making process.
With Google/Apple pay, I can order on most restaurant websites as easily as ordering on grub-less. Restaurant apps have a similar experience. Restaurants use third party services for apps/websites that provide experiences comparable to grub-less without the discovery platform. These services have a fixed price (<$100/mo) and reasonable card processing fees.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -someone else i think
I'm working for a big aerospace company and a lot of it (tech-wise) feels like/is a huge time waste, even more so the last four months where I've been working remotely.

1) Turn-on the computer, log in Windows, enter the overcomplicated encryption software password, launch IE6 to go to a webpage which will launch the VPN native app. (at least 5 minutes)

2) Opening Microsoft Project takes ages since the Project Server is in Europe. Then there's some kind of macro that has to run which in the end fails because I'm not on-site. You pick a plan to open it, it takes another 30 seconds, another macro/prompt/check fails. The whole process takes a good 3-5 minutes until you can actually work on it and I have 18+ plans to manage.

3) You can run reports of said Project plans and export them in Excel format but the formatting is all junky. You have unused columns, titles, hidden columns. I had to create a macro to import the exported file, import all the data, and creating a pivot table automatically instead of doing it manually X times a day.

4) We're still using Office 2010 while working a lot with Excel. The limitations of the 10 years old software is a real pain. Do you want to manage two Excel files in two separate instances of Excel? You'll have to open a separate instance first then open a file. You also can't use all the new formulas or enjoy the improvement made on the ones that already exist. I get that Office licences are not cheap and the "Fix What’s Broken, Don’t Break What’s Working " motto but the time wasted on all this by everyone working for the group worldwide must be way higher.

5) Enterprise network is slow on-site, it's even worse on a VPN. Opening up a simple Excel/PPT file takes a good five minutes.

6) We're still using Lync, it's easier to send a screenshot/file via email than using this nightmare of a software.

7) IE6 is the "default" browser for everything

8) With the COVID-19 situation, we're not allowed anymore to use conference tools while being connected on the VPN. You have to save all the files you need for the call locally, log off the VPN, join the call, and then re-upload everything on the network.
That is a perfectly reasonable and honest answer.

It also is NOT what most of the companies want to hear. Giving that answer will close the door on a lot of job opportunities.

It is up to you to decide if you want to filter out those companies or not.
It seems to be behind an access-wall. From the comments it seems the points are about the code and not about the model itself. Is that right?
shame! cheers :)

PS. if you're interested in weird perspectives on this, you might find Coinduction (and "codata") interesting. from wikipedia:

> Informally, rather than defining a function by pattern-matching on each of the inductive constructors, one defines each of the "destructors" or "observers" over the function result.

it's a deep rabbit hole, but i remember it being applied OOP-ish things – "destructors" would roughly correspond to exposed methods.
I feel the same! Moving between Jira, Github, E-mail, Slack, etc, all day.

Besides unproductive, these apps are extremely slow.

I started using Superhuman a few weeks ago, it's nice, but would need the same thing from Jira, Github, and other to get near something good.
Brave for Mobile is still my favorite mobile browser.

Good interface and builtin, high-performance ad-blocking.
Evidence of extensive lunar crust formation in impact melt sheets 4,330 Myr ago
I would think unless and until you have tested that hypothesis (wearing of the talisman in a tiger rich environment) it's an invalid conclusion.

Now if you have successfully avoided tiger enclosures and subsequently not been attacked by any tigers, (regardless of what you are wearing) that method probably works ;)
How to integrate your Go service with ELK
But with proper static typing you don't have to check it because you already know it's correct since it's construction. It relieves a lot of mental burden for me to not even have to consider the case that it might be incorrect, as long as I'm dealing with structures internal to my program.

I have a lot of respect for Rich Hickey and I feel like he Understands something that goes straight over my head, but his appreciation for generic, shapeless maps and lists is something I just don't get.
With moisturizers, somewhat. The best hand sanitizers (Avagard, for example) are good at preserving the skin texture. The lipids can be replaced with typical moisturizing lotions. Dish soap is probably not more effective than Dove soap, so use milder soap.
My understanding is that extension support got bumped high in priority after the unrelated extension breakage (due to an expiring certificate) in the old Firefox for Android. When that happened their rating in the Play store positively tanked with people commenting about broken extensions, even though it was fixed fairly shortly.
What seems fishy to me is that all the news I hear about Firefox Preview is "this extension will be available" and so forth, when what I should be hearing about is whatever new innovation broke compatibility with existing extensions and what its benefits are.
We don't use SCHED_DEADLINE with audio, because things are driven by hardware interrupts/requirements, which makes SCHED_FIFO more appropriate ("wakeup! time do the work! right now! until it's done!"). macOS doesn't really have SCHED_FIFO, so we end up forced to use something to deadline scheduling there. It works fine.

I commented a lot on PipeWire when it started. Thankfully Robin Gareus and others managed to get its developer to change course somewhere along the journey to use a better basic model (notably, pull not push). I no longer follow its development. If it works, it will be good for Linux audio. I don't know if it will, or won't.

[for anyone who doesn't know, I'm the original author of JACK]
I'm a C++ developer who occasionally writes Rust.

The experience of writing new code in one is very, very similar to the experience of writing new code in the other, right down to the compile times. The lifetime analysis in Rust is nice and pretty far ahead of what static analyzers can do in C++, but Rust Generics are a pretty weak approximation to Templates. Rust has better Browser integration, C++ has Qt. One imagines the languages will catch up to one another on these fronts. C++ has Inheritance, Rust settles for Interface Polymorphism (one can reasonably prefer either).

The one really big difference here is actually cultural - the Rust community all agrees on Cargo, and it's a bit happier to compile the world and distribute static binaries, which removes massive headaches for both the developer and the end user while setting the language up for an eventual, Electron-style tragedy of the commons where a user is running like 8 Rust apps with their own copies of the same 14 libraries resident in memory (but that's a good problem to have because it means you've displaced C/C++ as the linguae francae of native app development).

I guess the other really big difference is that there is no legacy Rust code.

I like C++, but I can understand hating it. But if you have written new code in C++17, and hated it ... I suspect you are going to hate writing Rust too. And if you love Rust and hate C++ ... I suspect what you hate is legacy C++ from 2005.

Finally, I was explicitly not concluding anything about C Programmers beyond that they hate C++.
First version of this book was an immense help for me early in my career.
No, skin is regenerated regularly. You need to destroy it pretty deeply to permanently disrupt this mechanism.
Welcome to the weekend.

Expect to see 4-5 pieces that may have appeared already but perhaps were overlooked.
Fed shipment of Q-tip-style coronavirus swabs puzzles Washington state officials
Thanks for the agreement, and obviously the problem isn't directly your fault, or one person's job to tackle alone. Also a tinkerers paradise is probably what I'd also do if I had the capital to cash out.
Most growth-oriented tech companies are “unprofitable” in the sense they invest their revenues into growth rather than dividends. This does not mean their core products necessarily make less money than it costs to operate them, without those massive growth investments. The real question people are asking here is: what necessary costs do the food delivery apps actually incur in operating their business that causes them to have such high commissions and fees and still lose money per transaction?
I have the same todo.txt ordered by priority with the history of everything I've done the previous weeks at the end.

Something like this:

Urgent Task to do

X Task done

==May 11-May16==

X Task done

X Task done
What does FIRE status mean?
i couldnt answer it honestly in an interview because the truth is, in 5 years i hope im as far away from software development as possible
I do get that urge sometime. I use Debian with gnome3. When I get that urge, I go find a good looking theme. The new theme makes it feel like I have a something different. This used to happen quite a lot when I was in my 20s and early 30s. Not so much anymore. I guess I have many things that need to care about other than my computer. I haven't changed my theme in two years, not even the background.
No. The CTO wasn't working full time on something that is not technical. He was unavailable but not replaceable. He couldn't write code but knows what's going on, and I don't want to pollute the core team. I filled in to ensure we're fine product wise and business wise. We've seen it through and will continue to do so now he's one week away.

We're both technical but I concentrated on freeing him and the CEO from everything that I could do so they could focus on the things I can't do.
This is a really good book - I bought the Print version a few years ago.
If their supply chains are decimated, they won't receive new equipment for additional manufacturing.
Big ones:

1. Looking for niche domain or institutional/social knowledge produced by experts or insiders for an informed audience that isn't necessarily available in a scientific journal.

Especially with respect to the social sciences and literary analysis, there's a wealth of intelligent commentators that don't surface well on Google without very specific search terms, and the willful subtraction of domains like quora, medium, and tumblr.

They're usually contained on poorly maintained WordPress sites that the author has long-since forgotten about, or as invalid, handcoded html docs hidden in the personal subdomains of university professors and students.

2. Finding online communities that aren't a part of Reddit or a similarly prominent platform
> when you need that bit of info you never know where exactly your colleague put it

> So I have my own todo.txt ... if there's some time left I update all the other tools.

Do you see the irony?

Not saying this is wrong, just that you are a perfect example of how incentives perpetuate this problem.
> Also curious what the mechanism is why you become nauseous under the 90fps. Perhaps the brain observes you are moving abruptly with lower frame rates, giving a constant sense of acceleration.

It seems to be some form of motion sickness... it seems nobody is 100% sure why that happens either?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_sickness#Pathophysiolog...

I'm lucky enough to not suffer from the effects myself... supposedly Habituation can help, so perhaps I just read enough books in moving vehicles as a child?

> About telemetry. It feels weird that they are so flexible about their license, I am come from the corporate world, where licensing is set in stone. Is the game industry mostly informal?

It varies a good bit. Gamedev middleware shops are often small companies not burdened by large bureaucracies, dealing with high price, low volume sales - so they can afford a more high touch, personalized, and perhaps informal approach to sales. They also want to maximize the amount of devs trying their software - even if they don't use it for their current project or company, they might use it for the next, which is more sales - so they're quite happy to hand out evaluation licenses, or talk about missing features / platforms you might be interested in.

Those licenses are partially enforced by software, and for console versions, they might need to verify your lawyers have executed an appropriate NDA with Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo/??? before they even let you download those versions, however. Possibly via posting to shared, restricted access forums.

More standardized pricing systems are also common.

> You do your game development in Rust? I have interest in Rust, because it has an interesting type system, but perhaps it would be nice to make a simple game in it to learn it and look how that goes.

Just for my side projects so far - my professional gamedev work is generally C++ plus a dozen other languages that vary by company for scripting and supporting tools. There's a lot of interest in Rust, though - it's type system and borrow checker do a lot to catch the kinds of heisenbugs that plague large high-performance C++ codebases (which in turn lead to crunch, missed milestones, etc. depending on the company culture.) On smaller codebases, the borrow checker feels more like a nuisance than a help until you get quite used to it, but at this point I feel like I have gotten used to it (and perhaps become a better programmer in the pursuit).

In my next job search I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for the chance to play with Rust professionally...
> Calling on a phone works not so great in crowded and loud places.

Sure, but it works perfectly fine elsewhere, most people aren't calling the taxi from loud, crowded areas. Having an app is convenient but not having an app is hardly a horrible experience.

>Quotes on the phone aren't in writing and I've never had them honored. "Oh that's just an estimate."

The price I've been quoted has always been the price I paid. It's unfortunate that you appear to live in a wretched hive of scum and villainy but your personal experiences are hardly universal. There are plenty of places around the world where taxis work just fine.
I am sorry but this is a ridiculous thesis. This will be over eventually, either by developing a vaccine or by mutation into a more benign strain. Nobody in their right mind will practice social distancing just because they are used to it. No system that goes against basic human drives is stable. Right now there is a risk, benefit balance but once that risk is gone, what exactly will balance this? Laws? They are already in conflict with the constitution, good luck justifying any of this if there is no deadly pathogen around.
This happens a lot in my company. When things fall behind, first you tell your direct manager what’s going on. Then you tell the same thing in a meeting two levels up. Then somebody really high comes and wants a meeting too. But he doesn’t really understand the project so you have to spend a ton of time explaining what this is really about. And this goes on and on. Everybody wants to have their own meeting.

It always amazes me that we have this whole reporting structure and tracking tools like Jira but somehow the critical information doesn’t really flow up. In theory they all would look at Jira and some status reports and then be up to date without wasting the time of the people who are doing the work.
The word "latency" covers many things, many subtly different from each other. One of its meanings, unrelated to the one you're talking about, is the delay in signal flow caused by algorithms (many digital filters, for example). Often called "plugin delay compensation", or more generically "latency compensation".

Let me just point out that it has taken 20 years and a guy whose PhD thesis was about latency compensation in a DAW to finally "fix" this sort of "latency" in Ardour. This is a massively harder problem from a design perspective than the scheduling latency issues you've referred to.

[ EDIT: to be fair, the actual correct solution to latency compensation didn't take 20 years to implement, more like a year or so when taking place within the context of a large existing code base. ]
Any new resource will be either too small or it will contain only "approved content" or it
will be labeled white-supremacist or similar (if it is a free site, controversial/revolting content may be added by adversaries).
The Great Exhibition of 1851 (London)
The risk is in financial contagion. The economy can handle individual firms going bankrupt - they'll just get replaced by other firms. The problem is when creditors start taking haircuts and going bankrupt themselves. At that point, things that people thought were secure assets (like, say, their bank accounts) suddenly get called into question, and markets lock up because of panic.

In 2008 we thought that the problem was contained to the subprime housing market, and once the Fed started supporting that market people breathed a sigh of relief and there was a rally and recovery from March-May. It wasn't until first Bear Stearns and then Lehman Brothers failed that people realized we were in a crisis. These were centuries-old, multi-hundred-billion-dollars institutions. The idea that they could cease to exist was unthinkable to anyone not actively looking at their balance sheet and doing the math, which is why there was such a panic when they did cease to exist.
He’s an amazing writer. I couldn’t put this book down when I first read it. At the time I sent him a message saying that it was the best technical book I’d ever read and his response was along the lines of “thanks! It’s the best (though, only) one I’ve written”. I’m glad that’s no longer true.

Even reading his writing about writing risks reducing you to tears.

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2020/04/05/crafting-crafti...
Financial independence, retire early.

In other words, having enough savings to walk away from a job and being able to work on or do whatever one desires regardless of if it pays well or at all.
As I have mentioned in another thread, when you're dealing with an extreme process with exponential growth and a large absence of information, """"fear"""", also known as respecting your fucking ignorance, is most rational.

Even if after the fact it looks like the pandemic didn't have catastrophic long term effects, it was still rational to be extremely cautious.

Car accidents don't have the potential to collapse society. A car crash has a chance to cause other crashes but that correlation dies off exponentially fast over relatively small time and distance scales. A pandemic in our modern connected world is basically scale invariant without mitigations.

With exponential phenomena, if you wait for evidence of extreme downside it'll already be too late. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. You can't wait, you have to act on your ignorance. This is not "panic".

Rationality is not just about reasoning about what you know, it's about reasoning about what you don't know as well. In typical, mundane processes you can act on ignorance by collecting evidence. In extreme, self-propagating processes, one needs to apply the rationality of ignorance: extreme value theory and the statistics of extreme distributions.
Punch Corona Using PoseNet.js to build a browser-based workout game
I used to be a security analyst which meant I spent a lot of my day waiting for a security incident to either happen or be escalated to me. Now I’m a consultant which means I spent a lot of time waiting on clients. I’ve come to appreciate semi-mindless games like Rimworld, Cities: Skylines, Factorio, The Sims, or clicker games on my phone. I can fill my waiting time with those which I find fun, but they don’t require so much of my attention that I miss a client email or Slack message come in and I can quickly switch back.

It’s still wasting time, but it’s less mentally exhausting than trying to switch to something more “productive” for a few minutes.
I built exactly this once. Here it is as a microservice you can deploy to heroku in 1 click:

https://github.com/scosman/zipstreamer
FIRE = Financial Independence, Retire Early
I disliked JIRA and we switched to Microsoft DevOps about a year ago. Now I really miss JIRA. DevOps is so painful in comparison, especially doing really specialized things like, you know, tracking work items and answering questions like "what's done; what's outstanding". sigh.
Good point. But Yes and no ;)

Grub-less et.al are as much about ordering and checkout as they are about discovery. I can rank and view all restaurants offering Sushi in my delivery radius. This is what makes them powerful.

Uber et.al are a marketplace. You are absolutely right in that they have zero switching costs but they have a two sided pool of supply (drivers) and riders (demand). This is hard to replicate.
The FED is mainly buying U.S. Treasury securities and Mortgage-backed securities [0]. They just started buying bonds this week but haven't bought very much and they haven't bought any equities.

[0]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm
This is such a beautiful answer. I never thought of that, what we consider today as the absurd was knife the norm, so challenging the quo is so important
What if Google Advanced Search produced a visual network map which showed you the salient clusters of terms related to your search? You’d then be able to click on a cluster and the search results would change to adjust to what you’re really searching for.

Ex: The network map for “weightlifting” would include many clusters, but 2 big ones would be the hypertrophic cluster (surrounded by a bunch of related terms) and toning cluster (calisthenics would be under this cluster for example). Click on either and the results will change accordingly.

This would actually work even better for subjects you don’t know much about, because Google will teach you about the salient clusters in that field. The clusters could be enhanced with popular images associated with each term. Popular clusters would display as larger than others.
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