skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As opposed to the people who are wrong and don't admit it:

> We believe the Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchase plan (so-called "quantitative easing") should be reconsidered and discontinued. We do not believe such a plan is necessary or advisable under current circumstances. The planned asset purchases risk currency debasement and inflation, and we do not think they will achieve the Fed's objective of promoting employment.

* https://economics21.org/html/open-letter-ben-bernanke-287.ht...

As Paul Samuelson, an important 20C economist, said:

> Well when events change, I change my mind. What do you do?

* https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/22/keynes-change-mind/
I used to think this, but now that I'm older and don't have kids waiting at home, I don't think it's the real reason. Older talent is simply harder to bullshit. Older talent also tends to have a bit of savings, so they are harder to push around.
Stress resilience is one of the most important things when it comes to knowledge work, also one of the most neglected aspect. Mindfulness, stoicism, exercise help, but nothing helps as much as a good night sleep. Also the other thing people usually fail to note is the vicious stress-sleep cycle (lack of sleep induced stress <-> stress induced lack of sleep). It took me years to realize that so much of my problems with bedtime revenge, burnout, non-clinical depression, permastress was basically just lack of quality sleep. FWIW, it helps to think of productivity in terms of sleep and stress when you are working in the knowledge economy. Just like sleep debt, you can also accumulate productivity debt due to lack of stress resilience, lack of sleep, which can eventually lead to things like burnout.
Fantastic post, think he'll come around on this one

> People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia are insane weirdos
Really good example of a strawman attack, though.
They should have called the new language python.encode("utf-8").
(OP) Thoughts? Maybe this is totally obvious to some people, but it feels like I only just realised this.
Probably both are needed, just makes no sense that Tesla fanboys would try to spin a governments are bad while Tesla is sucking a lot of money from many governments programs around the world and the green electricity was made possible by the green programs and taxes on polution.
I almost can't believe this is true. What possible reason could the Foundation urge such a destructive course of action on something that is so vital for humanity.
Apache benchmark for driving load https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html

Counters to measure

Profilers like pprof to dive deep
https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/pprof/
I do use master for branches. I use also master and slave.

But, outside of tech, the meaning of slave did not changed one big. I did not seen "master" anywhere except master slave relationship (whether history or bdsm).

So I find theory that calling these two master and slave is unrelated to historical slavery implausible. People who use it first time being inspired by that seems most plausible origin of that name.
I disagree: with the vacuum devices you're creating a pressure differential that's likely to pull aroma compounds you want to keep in the wine out into the bottle.
I wonder if it would have helped to move the executable from /usr/bin/python to /usr/sbin/python . Or /usr/sbin/python-for-distro-use-only-dont-run-apps-with-this ...
> often in the form of production outages

Completely unrelated. If you have production outages resulting from new code you have serious gaps in your certification process, especially so if the new code covers existing process/requirements. You are probably insecurely reliant upon dependencies to fill gaps you haven’t bothered to investigate, which is extremely fragile.

The benefit of code reuse is simplification. If a new problem emerges with requirements that exceed to current simple solution you have three choices:

1. Refactor the current solution, which introduces risk.

2. Roll an alternative for this edge cases and refactor after. This increases expenses but is safer and keeps tech debt low.

3. Roll an alternative for this edge case and never refactor. This is safe in the short term and the cheapest option. It is also the worst and most commonly applied option.
Extension rings force lenses to operate far from their original design parameters, so they often result in tons of spherical aberration, field curvature, or astigmatism.

Some lenses work okay with them, others do not.

If you want more extreme macro, Laowa has some rather wild lenses, like their 25mm.
Bookmarklets Every Browser Should Have
wow this is very similar to my experience...also in a .net shop now tho which i am only doing because the insane amounts of pay. I even have some old timers who literally told me they "refuse to learn anything new" but have known the boss for decades.. I've learned my lesson to read the situation better in terms of team makeup and company ethos when it comes to suggesting things like react.
The Problem With 1k True Fans (2008)
Oral History of Pat Gelsinger, part 2 of 2
To me this is a little bit weird, because while OP is totally correct in that monoliths are totally fine too when it's the best tool for the job, the default should still be microservices. It's not really harder to use once you have the practice in place and advantages will usually be quite visible in time. But of course there are times when there are great monoliths you can just use and you should use them.
Interesting problem. I'm not convinced but don't have strong opinions on this. I feel nobody wants to touch the high grade complexity code so it would rot. Ultimately, reading code dominates writing it, so having low grade complexity spread around seems better as the bar for reading is lower
It seems many commenters here have not bothered to click the link and read the paper, or even the abstract.

NO ONE is claiming or predicting that everyone or even a majority of people will work from home.

The authors, from three different universities, surveyed 15,000 Americans and documented a permanent shift towards more remote work going forward, going from 5% of work days used for remote work pre-pandemic to 25% of work days used for remote work post-pandemic.

If you think for even a moment how much solo work must be done by individuals at most companies (think: one-on-one sales calls, proposal writing, spreadsheet modeling, coding, design work, writing employee reviews, updating accounting/ERP data, etc.), the authors' findings make complete sense.

Here's the abstract:

> We survey 15,000 Americans over several waves to investigate whether, how, and why
working from home will stick after COVID-19. The pandemic drove a mass social experiment in
which half of all paid hours were provided from home between May and October 2020. Our survey
evidence says that about 25 percent of all full work days will be supplied from home after the
pandemic ends, compared with just 5 percent before. We provide evidence on five mechanisms
behind this persistent shift to working from home: diminished stigma, better-than-expected
experiences working from home, investments in physical and human capital enabling working
from home, reluctance to return to pre-pandemic activities, and innovation supporting working
from home. We also examine some implications of a persistent shift in working arrangements:
First, high-income workers, especially, will enjoy the perks of working from home. Second, we
forecast that the post-pandemic shift to working from home will lower worker spending in major
city centers by 5 to 10 percent. Third, many workers report being more productive at home than
on business premises, so post-pandemic work from home plans offer the potential to raise
productivity as much as 2.4 percent.
> So, why aren't these high paying trucking jobs reappearing now that Brexit happened?

In the last couple of weeks? While the entire world is closed due to Corona?
I don't need to type it in python also, unless I do some loops or functions.

I tried bc once and it was too big learning curve for just simple calc that indo in python.
My parents have British passports issued in the early ‘80s (expired, obviously, with the corner cut), and those passports are black, quite plainly and obviously.

The new blue colour sometimes being issued is completely unrelated to passports issued before the standard red EU ones (and is indeed closer to the currently-issued EU Croatian blue passports).
yea i don't get it either, i just know i'll steer clear of those things
Coffee is not a diuretic if you consume it regularly
Yeah, it's sad that the author of xBrowserSync seems to be against implementing Safari support.
We could ask the same of the rest of the world economy after large parts of China were locked down at the beginning of the pandemic and people wondered where to buy masks and ventillators. Infrastructure and jobs are slower to appear than opportunity because capital is required upfront and the skills can't be downloaded, they must be trained or moved in.

Long term this kind of thing will lead to new jobs and decent wages that force technological innovation because businesses and the politicians they employ can't push costs down by importing cheap labour. Or, as the Guardian would probably predict, Britain will run out of food and people will starve.

Which do you think is more likely?
He talks about Larrabee project here - https://youtu.be/MxZe1i8z-8Y?t=782

Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTKkY2kZuEw&t=3086s
I think you might find it interesting to look at counterarguments to that as it's been addressed quite a bit. There's this sometimes cited intro [1] but I think [2] is a lot better with a literature review and history. Then there's Douglas Hofstadter's famous "You've Come a Long Way, Guys!" which you can probably find using sci-hub or something.

1. https://ovop.pw/whysexistlanguagematters.pdf

2. https://cogsci.indiana.edu/pub/KerryBodine-CmonGuys.pdf
Show HN: Daft Island – Drawings animated by your current time of day
> Some see the Gates Foundation, a heavy funder of Gavi, CEPI and many other vaccine projects, as supporting traditional patent rights for pharma companies.

> “[Bill] Gates has staked out this outsized role in the vaccine world,” Love said. “He has an ideological belief that the intellectual property system is a wonderful mechanism that is necessary for innovation and prosperity.”
It's not just for legacy purposes. I've written a few useful personal tools in Purebasic, for instance. BASIC dialects tend to provide the functionality needed and can be handy for quickly throwing something together when you don't have the time to deal with GUI frameworks and complex libraries. You can also use Python or Go, of course, but they do not have integrated IDE and do not have a rich command set in the core language. Easy deployment and compact executables are also a plus of some existing BASIC dialects. If I had the money / the investment in a license would give me a good ROI, then I'd also pay for Xojo, for example.

Whatever gets the job done without wasting time.
Dedicated GitHub ORGANIZATION. Dedicated AWS accounts plural - one for prod, one for test. Dedicated and web email domain with a name you can trademark.

All this stuff worth the half day to full day of effort at this stage.
There's confusion when a word means one thing to one set of people, and the opposite to the other set of people. When someone says they're "nonplussed", what exactly are they saying?

The choices are to either agree more broadly to a single meaning ("change the meaning" to half of the people), or find another less ambiguous word.
You haven't noticed a slightly higher risk of heart attack? That's not very surprising
The blog post incorrectly states that Go is a memory-safe language. It is not in its standard configuration. And it does not mention that hypervisor bugs allowing to escape from a VM are typically due to wrong logic, not memory safety. Using memory-safe language does not protect from those. And that in turn is the reflection of complexity of hypervisor interfaces in modern CPU. And with VM one gets much greater exposure to hardware bugs as VM has access to more instructions.
Here's one:

> And so during the 1990s a number of economists, myself included (Krugman 1995), tried to assess the role of Stolper-Samuelson-type effects in rising inequality. Inevitably given the standard framework, such analyses did in fact find some depressing effect of growing trade on the wages of less-educated workers in advanced countries. As a quantitative matter, however, they generally suggested that the effect was relatively modest, and not the central factor in the widening income gap.

> Meanwhile, the political salience of globalization seemed to decline as other issues came to the fore. So academic interest in the possible adverse effects of trade, while it never went away, waned.

> In the past few years, however, worries about globalization have shot back to the top of the agenda, partly due to new research, partly due to the political shocks of Brexit and Trump. And as one of the people who helped shape the 90s consensus – that the income distribution effects of rising trade were real but modest – it seems appropriate to ask now what we missed. What aspects of rising trade did we either fail to see at the time or fail to anticipate?

* https://www.gc.cuny.edu/cuny_gc/media/liscenter/pkrugman/pk_...

One hour talk by him from 2019:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWQ3jCURzy0

* https://fbe.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/paul-krugman-globalisati...
I found my new motto!
It kinda is the "UK government" back in control.

But you have to recognise that UK government is generally harsher to smaller businesses and to people than EU institutions.

In general, EU directives and regulations are more oriented towards easier and fairer trading, and better support of human rights than UK government attitudes towards those things. It's not true of every little directive of course, but the general trend is that way.

For cross-border trading, the problem is that UK business and UK government aren't aligned at all.

So the UK government being in control means screwing a lot of UK business, and government appears to be fine with that, as long as they get re-elected. The current prime minister literally said "fuck business" when anticipated issues around Brexit were discussed some years ago. His position does not appear to have changed.

You can see this misalignment on LinkedIn posted from HM Government that advise on actions businesses "need to take" now. On each post you might see 99-100% of the comments expressing disappointment, annoyance and contempt at the government.

Considering the popular vote split on Brexit, it's striking how the comments on HMG LinkedIn posts are almost universally negative.

I think the government's real priority was made clear by the previous prime minister: Many speeches about Brexit negotiations to UK audiences started with words like "on XXX date, freedom of movement will end". It was strikingly consistent. Preventing people in the UK from freely moving to the EU, and vice versa, looks to me to have been the primary agenda item of those leading the Brexit movement throughout. That's what being "in control" is. Control of people. Some parts of the resulting trade agreement reflect this, for example the EU offering to allow touring musicians so long as it was mutual, and the UK declining, and the UK's decision to decline the EU offer to continue the Erasmus student exchange program.
> They could have fixed most of this legacy code

They could have, but they didn't want to.

It's an open source project. Is there really much of a difference between "I'm not going to work on this system because it's terrible" and "I'm forking this system and I'm not going to support the previous version"?

In both cases you can say "well someone else will just come along and support it", and for py2 they did, for a bit. In fact I believe you can still pay if you happen to want py2 support.

But if you're not paying, you're saying "hey, this thing you work on and provide to me for free - why are you working on it in the way you want rather than the way I want??"
I've given my daughters to learn programming through code and visual tools, got them books on both topics and watched as they learned, they all avoided the visual coding like the plague... this interactive visual method to programming seems to never take on, does MIT have any research on why that is?
I think the answer is money. Lots and lots of money.
This is a work in progress and all the article contains is a couple of cherry picked quotes. No surprise there since the Guardian has been lobbying heavily against brexit.
I just wanted to say that this was a great, well-thought comment and thank you foe your time and writing it. I’d love to hear other, similar comments.
Also a lot of the Koreans in Japan migrated before 1940, peak in 1930. So the Koreans taking up citizenship are often third generation living in Japan, after beeing culturally fully integrated. So according to your numbers it would be fair to put the 'real foreigners' who took citizenship in the 0,1 to 0,3% range.
Title was changed, it was: "How long should we cling to a word's original meaning? (2011)" - clearly containing the word "we", thus implying a "we".
Bitcoin is a liquid instrument of escape beyond any ideology attached to it. You can apply a similar application in other crypto assets but the liquidity factor is critical. Most people outside the crypto echo chamber don't know about even ETH, USDT, USDC, etc.
How many downstream, Python dependent companies were funding its development? Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But if they build their system on a platform outside their control then they'll have to roll with the changes, fork it, or move to a different platform / fork.
Yes, and that is why the alleged initial synchronization concerns surrounding larger blocks are mostly baseless.

As it is, tens of millions of people can easily stream 700 KB/s HD video 24/7, yet Bitcoin is being kept to a throughput of 2 KB/s based on the claim that increasing it to satisfy market demand would lead to Bitcoin becoming centralized, with only large corporate entities left being able to fully validate.

It's pure FUD.
Go to a museum (or pictures online) and look at old coins of the same fixed denomination. Often they will be made of different metals and of quite different shapes and sizes. The point being that the composition of the coin is mostly irrelevant. It’s the nominal value of the coin and it’s issuer which matters. The nominal value of the coin was maintained as long as the issuer of it remained liquid and solvent and the rest of the economy believed this was the case.

If silver coins only had intrinsic value then the metal content and weight of them would be obviously of high importance. A 15g coin would be worth less than a 20g coin. But then these “coins” are not really money. Instead, they are just a commodity.

Whilst there were points in history when coins were made uniform and of a specific grade of precious metal and stamped with a government seal (eg in the US in the early 1900s) those times didn’t last for a very long time because such a monetary system doesn’t work particularly well as deflation inevitably results.

Regarding the unit of account. I can set a unit of account whereby one pound = 15g of silver (let’s call it a £) but the coins which I issue and circulate in the economy don’t have to be made from silver and don’t even need to be convertible to silver. This is how most governments operated coinage in the past. The unit of account is necessary because there must be a numeraire to measure prices, just like there is one for measuring distance or weight. So... a coin which represents £1 may contain only 5g of silver or even no silver and the rest be tin or some other alloy and this coin would not be convertible to 15g of silver.

You are probably confused because people think that the medium of exchange also needs to be the unit of account (and a store of value) but typically that wasnt the case for most monetary systems of the past.
What if I own the company and it's an acceptable Terms of Service use? What if I'm unemployed? Should I still be fired?
People buy financial services because they're really really useful and important. I don't know why some don't see that. But no one is paying bankers trillions just because of our legacy.

I agree the uk and London are high cost. For the uk that won't change. For London, it's high cost and high wage. Maybe when the wages disappear the costs will fall. But I don't think that's what people want. At least not what they claim to want.
From the CDC[0]:

A large number of studies have examined possible relationships between levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in blood and harmful health effects in people. However, not all of these studies involved the same groups of people, the same type of exposure, or the same PFAS. These different studies therefore reported a variety of health outcomes. Research involving humans suggests that high levels of certain PFAS may lead to the following:

- Increased cholesterol levels

- Decreased vaccine response in children

- Changes in liver enzymes

- Small decreases in infant birth weights

- Increased risk of high blood pressure or pre-eclampsia in pregnant women

- Increased risk of kidney or testicular cancer

[0] https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/health-effects/index.html
Python 3.5 is the latest you can get on Debian Stretch (oldstable) from official repositories. Stretch is still in the Long Term Support program until around 2022. Dropping support for Python 3.5 means you can't use latest pip on Stretch anymore.
I have anxiety / stress / depression issues and when it gets really bad I toss and turn all night, unable to sleep. By day 3 all of my muscles and joints ache terribly. During sleep your body is clearing itself of waste and healing. So not only are you a miserable zombie, your body itself is falling apart! I have enormous empathy for anyone who suffers from mental health issues.

I take Lexapro daily, have a low-dose benzo for situational anxiety that I try never to take except it true emergencies, practice mindfulness / meditation, see a therapist off and on. You get better at managing it but it's a problem that never truly goes away.
That's great, now do how much reporting was done by crypto exchanges globally.
In defense of disorder: on career, creativity, and professionalism
For the huge majority of jobs, 10 average people are better, in my opinion.
Its easy, invest more in tech..
"People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia are insane weirdos" -- best one hahaha
> Gates [...] “He has an ideological belief that the intellectual property system is a wonderful mechanism that is necessary for innovation and prosperity"

Ok. That makes me change my opinion of old Bill Gates by 180deg. He is just as evil as when he was ruthless software businessman.
Entrepreneur Sold His Company for $35M and Then He Bought It Back
> Dave Amirault, Pagely’s Director of Marketing, and Jeff Matson, Minister of Propaganda, have had a few moments to gather their first impressions of the site.

I had to google that because for a split second I thought the US had a minister of Propaganda. It's a job title at Pagely.
Because the Gates Foundation is classic philanthropy: launder reputation of rich people and uphold the norms that allowed them to get rich in the first place.
A Criticism of Scrum (2015)
When MacOS build wikk be available?
And with that... I'm going to go take a nap
It is now Turkish, right ?