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Side effect from all the Windows VM's spun up by IT departments trying to lift and shift into the cloud ASAP due to COVID?

Eh. A legion of non remote, non technology, companies were forced to quickly thrust themselves into the web. Want to bet how many of those companies were already running as a Microsoft shop? Nearly 100%.

I would love to see details on the total requests placed on AWS and Azure during the time frame of COVID. My instinct tells me that Azure got hammered driven by those microsoft shops scrambling to get into the cloud while AWS had only a small increase, driven by technology companies (a small portion of companies) where the devs have final say and prefer AWS.

Small companies with less than 50 employees are exempt because most of them cannot afford to pay employees for two weeks without receiving any labor and continue as a going concern. This is the same reason why most regulations exempt small businesses, because without it the only companies that could last would be mega corporations.

On to companies with more than 500 employees. They are being exempt because they are large enough to afford paying for their own employees to go on sick leave with it only affecting the profit for the year rather than sinking the company.

Now personally I think that 500 number should be 5,000 instead but at the end of the day any line you draw is arbitrarily arrived at (think some countries banning gatherings larger than 10, while others picked larger than 100).

Suicide...thanks for the daily push to do it. Not today.

This title (article, not HN) seems like complete click bait. Nothing in the body of the article suggests the guys at GS said anything of the kind. I don't have access to the actual report out of GS to verify, but I'm guessing this "recession-proof" nonsense is all coming from the financially illiterate journalist alone.

Direct quote from the article:

“Overall, the changes underlying the Great Moderation appear intact, and we see the economy as structurally less recession-prone today,” Goldman economists Jan Hatzius and David Mericle wrote. “While new risks could emerge, none of the main sources of recent recessions — oil shocks, inflationary overheating, and financial imbalances — seem too concerning for now. As a result, the prospects for a soft landing look better than widely thought.”

They are just refuting the recession hysteria that has been popping up a lot recently, not in anyway stating they believe a recession cant happen.

Wait who would recommend making that journey unarmed today?

It is and is shared by many other people not commenting. Creating a product targeted at children and then naming it the same as a dangerous addictive street narcotic is not a wise decision.

Those titles are not damning at all. You can’t think of a single way that hunting and shooting wildlife helps wildlife? Of course he’s not referring to the actual animals shot and killed but the population of wildlife holistically.

We turned our monolith into a bunch of micro services almost 6 years ago to the day. For a long time I was very happy with the new pattern but over the years the weight of keeping everything updated along with the inevitable corners that fall behind and have...questionable..security due to how long they sit neglected has really left me wondering if I am happy with it after all.

I would love hear some thoughts from others that made the move, especially anyone that decided to move back to a monolith repo.

I assumed it was the presidential candidate. Would support a title change to clear up the confusion.

Can we change the title to soon free for all or soon available in all EU languages? As you can tell from the comments here the title is unnecessarily divisive and doesn't seen to jive with what the website says or the Finnish governments intentions:

Quote from website: "The Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU has decided to invest in people’s future skills and will make the Elements of AI online course freely available in all official EU languages."

I can't read it, outline it, or use a private browser. Would someone be so kind as to provide a method for reading the article?

I am you and you are me! I have to reign in the day dreaming or I can sit on a bench happy in my mind for hours. I too would have to shock myself at least once to assuage my curiosity.

We are on Azure using Spark via Databricks. We had to abandon sci kit learn because of this choice. Does your service require AWS and can it be used in conjunction with Spark? Thank you for your time and consideration.

Doesn’t have to be bias. Could just be that a higher percentage of women in engineering are here for the big money and not for the love of spending 14 hours with their head down coding. If that’s the case you would naturally expect a significantly higher percentage of them to jump on that management pay raise when offered instead of turning it down for a pay raise.

Not in anyway stating I believe this is true or is what is happening, just offering a counter point for how it could happen with no bias on anyone’s part.

Most likely only a small fraction of the people who were going to make a purchase heard this news and only a fraction of them decided to follow through and purchase the next day.

Thank you for your well thought out explanation! It is clear now and I was committing the cardinal sin of speaking generally while assuming context that was explicit only to my understanding of the situation. Have a great day!

They haven’t solved it! A group has wrangled the power and Wikipedia represents their vision of the truth. This is fine where talking about objective things like Trump was at the White House for Thanksgiving in 2019. This is not fine for subjective things which is WAY more of the world then people want to admit.

We eat food for breakfast.

Is this statement true or false? You could mark it either way and both could be supported by rational thought! If you don’t come up with a framework for answering first and then evaluate that question within the context of the agreed upon framework the truthiness of the statement will remain subjective.

What mistake is that? The left hand variable equals the right hand value assigned to it.

Foo = bar and 1 = 1 are equivalent in my mind.

From a security standpoint can you discuss the life of my data as it goes from my computer, through your service, and into my coworkers computer. What is stored where? Who at your company can access what? Thank you in advance for any information you are able to provide.

I tried it for awhile and had to go back to google. I type in “relevant error message stackoverflow” and NO WHERE in the first three pages of results can I find the same stack overflow post that’s purple from my 20 visits over the last 5 years because I just can’t memorize everything. I google the same thing and it’s top results every time. I don’t understand search so it could easily be personalized results remembering what I looked at but it doesn’t matter. What matters is it just works and DDG didn’t.

I’m 90% teams doesn’t work on Linux and have been using the web app for a long time now. I sorely miss the slack desktop app and would to be corrected if this is possible now.

For everyone outside of the biggest cities there are truly rough roads you may need to traverse to see a friend or take your family to the strawberry festival. Remember that a very large part of America looks nothing like the New York (or even Raleigh’s) of the world.

In this instance no not at all. I can compare the sun to a box of Cheerios based on that fact that both are yellow and bringing the moon or Fruit Loops into the conversation because you missed the context is “yellow things” is not appropriate. Democracy has no place in what I am discussing.

Monarchy and capitalism are both drivers of aggregating individuals labor into a small number of goals. Socialism and Democracy are both sources of driving individual labor into individual pursuits.

Only the eye of the beholder can determine what is good or bad. A socialist democracy is most likely incapable of putting a man on the moon. A capitalistic monarchy is most likely capable of solving poverty within its borders (be careful what you wish for as you may be determined to be part of the cause of poverty and excised for the good oc The many).

Sadly you will be met with the same arguments that have been brought out since before the time of the moon landing. Why? The money is better spent on maintaining our military advantage over other counties. It’s better spent on housing programs for the poor. It’s better spent on upgrading our crumbling bridges and roads. It’s better spent on new infrastructure like trains and nuclear plants.

The list will be endless and all of these people are right. Their world views are no less correct than yours and their interpretation of how our shared resources should be spent equally correct.

This is why capitalism is so effective. This is why Monarchies we’re so effective. These systems exist to channel the theoretical 1,000,000 humans away from spending all of their resources advancing 1,000,000 goals a single unit and instead advance one goal a million units (monarchy) or 5 goals 200,000 units (capitalism).

Speaking more to the topic at hand, it’s great that we were able to make the progress that we have and let’s be honest that’s owed almost entirely to the moon race going public (same way gluten free everything is available now making the people that really need it very happy because they never would have received nearly as many units of productivity spent on advancing their problem if it hadn’t gone mainstream for a time).

This is 100% what I was reading between the lines and it become more and more clear as the article went on. This WAS a low performer that the company was trying to manage out the door.

A quick google shows the same thing is true in France and China. Those were the first two arbitrary countries that came to mind.

This seems to be a non story explained away by globalization or at least only of interest when discussed in the context of globalization as the trend seems to have little to do with the “US” specifically.

I remember reading that something like 80% of large companies are multi cloud. This stat came from some group that puts out a big report on the state of the cloud industry each year.

No you are not alone. I have no crossover with the Python world aside from hearing about it on HN and Reddit. I too assumed it was like a Bloomberg terminal for data scientists and was surprised to discover it’s just a virtual environment wrapper you install. Poor name for the project if you are marketing it outside of your domain which I doubt they care much about.

Can some kind soul provide the body of the text for us poor souls or instructions for how to access the article? No luck with the web button or outline.com.