jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Whether market timing is ever a viable investment strategy is controversial. Some may consider market timing to be a form of gambling based on pure chance, because they do not believe in undervalued or overvalued markets. The efficient-market hypothesis claims that financial prices always exhibit random walk behavior and thus cannot be predicted with consistency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_timing

What you are planning seems like a good idea but buying bottoms can be really hard. Lot of info in that wiki article. I like that you are thinking about it though! That already puts you ahead of a lot of the game.
Oracle has a very significant cloud business:

$26.7B in 2019

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2019/06/21/or...
Hmm I guess I'm getting old. ehhh senior
Though the employer-tied insurance issue is a problem generally, it’s somewhat less dire for the situation you describe above because of COBRA. (Especially less dire for the first 60 days, because you can retroactively opt-in for some period.)

https://www.healthcare.gov/unemployed/cobra-coverage/
I find these “devil’s advocate” perspectives a bit trying at times - yes testing would lead people to stay at home (since we could simply post a cop outside), yes testing would reduce PPE use (we would reduce transmission before a new case ever could walk in the ER door). You don’t need GPS data to do contact tracing.

Really, there’s no excuse for the abysmal US testing regime. We’re beyond a point where contact tracing is feasible, but there is no reason we had to get to this point.
How is it a failed system? I'd say people cannot afford insulin is proof enough that Capitalism is a failed system.

Just go ask Argentina[0], collapsing months after IMF was praising the "good" work Argentina was doing and how a good Capitalist country it has become[1].

This pandemic just made most people feel what the lives of billions is like all year long under Capitalism. And your dismissive comment is just shameful and disgusting.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2%80%932002_Argentine_gr...

[1]: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/03/pou.htm
> with a record increase of 627 in the last 24 hours.

Worth pointing out that the record increase in 630 deaths was the number of two days ago...
Yesterday, the increase in deaths was even bigger: 790 (from 4035 to 4825 total casualties).

Source: https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19
I think the Dutch system gives you the best of both worlds. Everyone is required to have at least basic health insurance. Every year, there's a new definition of what "basic insurance" entails and all insurance providers are required provide a "basic insurance" package at a specific cost. Of course, there are all sorts of addons to increase your coverage.

If you are unemployed or earn below a certain treshold, you get a monthly stipend to pay for basic insurance.

In the end, I can choose where to get my insurance from, but "basic insurance" is the same price everywhere and if I lose my job or I have very little income, I am guarenteed to get that stipend to help pay for it.

Basic insurance is roughly ~100 euros/month.
As someone outside of the US, news about people of the City of Corona queuing to buy guns was quite shocking. Things are difficult everywhere but a rush to buy guns, not least in the most powerful country, is probably one of the most shocking of all the responses I have read and seen so far. I hope none of those guns will need to be used. The virus is already enough of an enemy
Q: Will the SARS epidemy of 2002-2003 get repeated? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...

A: Yes

Someone said that one of the reasons that Taiwan has controlled the epidemy is that they are preparing for SARS2 since 2002-2003. (And it is an island, that reduce the entry points.)
> China and Russia are both (quite unique) examples of countries with an unfathomable degree of control over their citizens. It can be hard to grasp occasionally, coming from a western mindset but for the vast majority within said countries, the entire reality they see and what they believe to be true is heavily distorted--in that, it is defined by the vision of the oligarchy and information is carefully controlled to produce a desired set of beliefs. North Korea is an extreme caricature of this pattern.

Perhaps you ought to read the retracted preface from Animal Farm [1].

[1]: http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/Orwell.html
I wish they'd done a better job of re-implementing segmentation. I can't tell you how many times my programs have stopped thanks to a segmentation fault. /s
>>> NASA Startup Studio is intentionally designed to be completed alongside a full-time job or MBA program, as participants need to commit an average of 15 hours per week

Makes it sound more like an engineering co-op, than a full-time accelerator. NASA has the iTech program targeting aeronautics this cycle. And Space Apps Challenge Hackathon in the fall ;)

Ignite the Night AERONAUTICS, a virtual event

https://www.nasaitech.org/

Space Apps Challenge 2021: Oct 2-3, 2021

https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/
I think it's simple to make great returns if you only pick products that are in high demand by consumers and are crushing their category. And preferably get in as early as possible. I completely avoid investing in anything that is less than stellar. That's one of the reasons I can't stand index funds. So many stocks in a fund are obviously losers or mediocre companies/products.

I'm very patient. I don't go looking for investments. I keep money around to invest, and when an opportunity is clearly a winner I put money into it.

A year ago I think it was obvious Bitcoin, Ethereum, Handshake, Taiwan Semiconductor, Tesla, Apple were all going to be great investments.

To me, diversification means not to put everything into one basket, but not to spread it around into a bunch of mediocre or obviously bad investments.
Honestly, I don't see the point of using Flask anymore. You can set up a Django project and just use a single module with a bunch of view functions, built-in testing and sensible defaults. Done. Not choosing that approach just because it takes a few more MBs on disk or needs a few more KBs of memory is shortsighted, IMO. You can't always predict what a project will end up needing.

I'm legitimately asking: why would you use Flask instead of Django, even if you don't (but might) need the ORM, admin etc.? Thanks!
I believe their app uploads the address books of other people and those address books might contain your phone number and other details.
I have ADHD but know medication will turn me into an addict. I have experience and had to quit everything.

It's better for me to live a mediocre life than to ruin what I have going for me.

I've found habits and shaping the world around me is the best I can do.
> Really says something about what delete means for fb.

Since the storage of data is so cheap, any company will archive data, for future profit.

Why did you believe any data will be deleted in the first place? Were you counting that government will take action if it finds out? Are there any case like this in the past.

I find it surprising even programmers believe their data will be deleted by the company.

Most people even programmers believe a company will delete their data.
Whats your background? Are you a coder?
It makes sense that most distributed version control system features wouldn't apply to a single user.
pakistan seems to be missing. Any ideas why?
The logo looks like the USB logo.
At best this will provide an excuse to keep internal combustion cars on the road. This proportionated fuel will have a lower calorie contant. It will use air, it will have high temperatures = NOX, it will NOT escape Carnot's law.
All it will do is allow wasteful practices to continue.
People have to realize that the end of the line is in sight. We now see we can not stop the 3C rise that approaches. The time will come when people will realize the only good use for cruise missiles is to wreck coal/gas based power plants AND oil refineries. Sounds harsh? Death is also a cruel mistress (as someone wrote).
We approach a state of affairs where only destruction of ALL ASPECTS of manmade CO2 production will help us all.
> You honestly think he didn't do it?

I honestly haven't heard anything that classifies as evidence. Even if there is real evidence, all I have is hearsay about that evidence.

So how the fuck would I know?

I bet you have opinions on whether Bill Cosby is really a rapist too, eh?
I agree with you. I would go so far as to say that the Conservatives are to the left of the Democrats, even economically. Look at the extent of public borrowing funding all the furlough schemes etc. Not to mention both Labour and Tories are fully behind free public healthcare, which Democrats are having to be dragged kicking and screaming towards. Although that is rather a special case.

Come to think of it I can't think of any policies on which the (mainstream) Democrats are to the left of the Conservatives, but maybe I'm not thinking hard enough.
Can the government seize Bitcoin directly? No.

Yes, it can. The U.S. government has in fact seized Bitcoin directly and sold it at auction several times. It is arguably the single largest non-exchange seller of Bitcoin in Bitcoin's history.
<rant>

Maybe if those "modern" video-conference apps had one, decades old option that was (and still is) avaliable in

almost all gaming-oriented voice software (ventrilo, mumble, teamspeak, discord) called

PUSH 2 TALK

then this problem would be solved, same with the problem of kids/other people in the background (especially this)

but yea, we need AI/Blockchain based solutions that require thousands of hours of engineering effort that probably will be provided by some Startup and cost 15$.

It's insane how enterprise software is behind gaming in that particular matter, do those people even use their software?

</rant>

edit.

What's PUSH 2 TALK?

PUSH 2 TALK is not TURN ON / TURN OFF switch where you actually mute yourself. It's that you talk while having some button being pushed down e.g MOUSE SCROLL (MOUSE3) (for me it's probably one of the most practical choices)

so in this case you're always muted unless you want to talk

Why it's so great? because you can e.g play game, write code, do stuff on your PC and when you want to mute yourself, then you don't have to try to find some shortcuts or even worse - put video-co app on focus and click mute button, but instead you just stop pressing your PUSH2TALK hotkey! :P
I'm just talking. That's it.

Have a good day.
I'm saying that violence is not condoned on the Parler platform. I was a moderator for a while and this is quite specific. You can get on there and say Trump is an idiot or Trump is a saint and you will not be silenced. But you can't say "so-and-so should be killed" that's a total violation of TOS and will get you removed from the site.
And a fairly delicate one at that.
Well, I'm not going to make a kitchen-sink affair out of the title by stuffing Amazon up there as well, so I've reverted to the article title above. Now would you please stop posting this tedious off-topic stuff?

Everyone who has preferences for one $Bigco over another thinks that HN and HN mods are biased against their favorite $Bigco and biased in favor of whatever $Bigco they don't like. You could substitute any other $Bigco for Google in your comment and it would be exactly what other commenters claim. This is tedious, as I mentioned; it is merely a projection of the commenter's own preferences.

It's the same phenomenon by which zealous sports fans think the refs are totally biased. It's actually a cognitive bias rooted in the fact that the bad (what you dislike) stands out more than the good (what you agree with)—i.e. people heavily weight what they dislike, and underemphasize, or simply fail to notice, all the countervailing data points.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
There are hormonal signals sent from trunk to trunk. All trunks share a root system.

More from the discoverer:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-trembling-...
what kind of problem were you trying to solve that you found sizing a thread pool to be difficult? generally when I've worked on high performance server code I've been coding with a target machine in mind, so it's more a matter of mapping the thread pool size to the resources available on that machine. but I'm interested to hear about circumstances where it wouldn't be easy.
I love this theory. Thank you for sharing.
>>> Are your direct colleagues all working remotely as well?

Yes, we do hardware work in our basements. 


Ironically, I actually did hardware work in my basement during the lockdown.
your literally named qsort why are you complaining
I work at a large org. And we require a programming test using JavaScript for front end engineers. It's the best way to see how skilled someone is. I would recommend it to anyone hiring for a programming position.
Two more - Linux users more likely to be developers who appreciate the value of software, and probably more likely to be wealthy/educated/sophisticated.
Hrm on Assange's personal blog on the item called 'Sun 18 Jun 2006 : NetBSD foundation Membership Agreement' he mentioned a new legal document everyone in NetBSD had to sign. Did something change in 2006? Mac OSX/Intel took off as an OS.

http://web.archive.org/web/20071020051936/http://iq.org/

The link for this thread states it may have happened in 2000-2001 around the time of the terror frenzy which is possible. But BSD has gotten more corporate, and with that backdoors usually such as NSA/Windows in the late 90's (http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html).
LastPass gives you the ability to generate one time passwords [https://lastpass.com/otp.php] ahead of time that you can print out and keep in your wallet for use on public machines.

There are also several options for multi-factor authentication for an additional level of security.
> Mono was painful, at least for me

I'm interested to hear more about mono, what was painful exactly? How is the performance compared to the MS implementation?
Would it be possible to delegate to an account ran by a web service that would then have access to your email? For instance, to do things like auto-responses, auto-filtering, etc.
Notational Velocity was designed from the ground up as a desktop password manager and follows all of these rules, using PBKDF2-based key derivation with a default of 8000 iterations, adjustable in units of measured CPU time. Security features are described in greater detail here:

https://github.com/scrod/nv/wiki/Database-Security
When you hear a pronoun mix like he/they, that's usually shorthand for "I use both he/him/his and they/them/theirs pronouns."
Congrats, weweb.io definitely looks exciting.

For anyone interested, recently I had to research opensource visual page builder/websites options and these were top of the list:

https://github.com/prevwong/craft.js (React)

https://github.com/paperbits/paperbits-core (Full website, uses Firebase)

https://github.com/react-ui-builder/react-ui-builder-editor (React)

https://github.com/premieroctet/openchakra (Editor for Chakra UI)

https://github.com/BuilderIO/builder (Not sure if this really is open source)
When people say this, they usually mean that HN is all in favor of X where X is something they personally disagree with. In fact, though, the community is divided on most issues. There are a few exceptions (anti-Snowden doesn't do well here, pro-CFAA worse) but not as many as it seems.

I think this impression of 'the community lined up against my view' happens because when you read HN threads on any divisive topic you're inevitably confronted with comments you dislike and disagree with. That follows simply from the community being divided while the threads are all in common (i.e. no subreddits into which people silo themselves).

Such comments are unpleasant—indeed painful—to read, and therefore more memorable, so we notice them more. These impressions accrete into a mental model of the community all being on the opposite side. But this is actually a side effect of the community not being homogeneous—of the fact that for most X, everyone who feels strongly about X has anti-X comments in their face, and vice versa.
I would argue that safety regulations are not at odds with the laissez-faire model. Laissez-faire is not the same as anarchy; injuring another person -- including through faulty products or workplace hazards -- should still be punishable.
I was initially curious why Google/DoubleClick were in there myself, since there aren't ads on the healthcare.gov site. Those requests look to be retargeting tags so they have the ability to do things like show banner ads on CNN only to people who have an incomplete marketplace application, along with conversion tracking so they can see which marketing campaigns led to completed applications or other goals. Presumably whoever controls the rest of the healthcare.gov marketing budget also runs the DoubleClick/AdWords account.
In big metros, Uber and Lyft could just have on-call backup drivers that are specifically employees who are there to handle this situation. If the metro is not "big enough to warrant it", then Uber and Lyft shouldn't be there.
If you really need to scale beyond what Postgres/PostGIS can handle, then you might want to check out GeoMesa[1], which is (very loosely) "PostGIS for HBase, Cassandra, or Google BigTable".

That being said, you may not need it, because Postgres/PostGIS can scale vertically to handle larger datasets than most people realize. I recommend loading your intended data (or your best simulation of it) into a Postgres instance running on one of the extremely large VMs available on your cloud provider, and running a load test with a distribution of the queries you'd expect. Assuming the deliberately over-provisioned instance is able to handle the queries, you can then run some experiments to "right-size" the instance to find the right balance of compute, memory, SSD, etc. If it can handle the queries but not at the QPS you need, then read replicas may also be a good solution.

[1] https://github.com/locationtech/geomesa
Man, so sorry to hear what you went through, but your comment carries a lot of weight and meaning. Thanks for recounting this for us, even though it must have been painful. Your wife sounds like a true champion.
SMR is very dependent on capacity and SKUs.

The vast majority of SMR hard disks are 6TB capacities and below, and I'm only aware on one 8TB Seagate SKU that is SMR. Though I'm aware HGST shipped a 20TB SMR drive late in 2020.

NAS Compares has a fairly good starting list of drives and whether or not they are CMR or SMR, though there may be more exhaustive lists out there: https://nascompares.com/answer/list-of-wd-cmr-and-smr-hard-d...

-- -----

In general, check the R/N of shucked white-label drives, and you should be able to quickly find a corresponding datasheet (hundreds of pages) from the manufacturer.

For example, some 16TB WD Elements I'm in the process of testing after shucking are R/N US7SAR160, which are 16TB HGST Ultrastar DC HC550. These are SATA 6Gbps 7200rpm helium-filled CMR drives with 512MB of cache.
>Avoid, above all, the kind of jargon that tries either to dignify nonsense with seriousness (Working in an empowering environment, a topic discussed at a recent Economist conference)

I can see why I need to reach for the Wayback Machine to read this great style guide. In the modern world, giving this example is far more trouble than it's worth. People do get touchy about challenges to their carefully promoted jargon, and now they are on the twitter.
Couldn't this result in anyone just abusing this system when they don't want to drive with service dogs in the car?
So could I write something like this?

// returns a heap-allocated buffer of length new_arr_length
fn my_malloc<T>(new_arr_length: usize) -> Box<[T]> {
todo!()
}

The answer seems like no, looking at it, but it's possible there's a syntax for it I don't know about

I guess what it comes down to is: slices can't own their data, can they (I'm genuinely not sure)? If so, and this is indeed a slice, then it should be impossible for this to work in this way

Though, in that case it would also seem fairly pointless (as opposed to a &[T])
And given that the malware version was signed using SolarWinds' keys, it's likely the attackers just built and deployed their compromised versions using the regular TeamCity CI servers. No need to exfiltrate the signing keys if you can get control of the CI/CD system. It's less likely to be logged, it has the same effect, and such servers regularly contact the outside world to download dependencies. And if the admin password to the CI/CD was "Solarwinds456!" or similar (as seems in character, if possibly overestimating their intelligence by adding "special characters") it wouldn't matter what CI/CD software they'd used.
The historical comparison is not that great. About half of the American population is not unemployed and at the risk of starving. Most of the production of food and resources is not being sent to nearby countries in the form of payments for a lost war. There is no hyperinflation that is causing a massive drop in living standards.
> Please don't delete and repost. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.

By the way, I've read the guideline again, but it seems repost is not allowed? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>"So the trick is finding a way to mathematically

convert a nonlinear system into a linear one.

“We want to have some linear system because that’s what our toolbox has in it,” Childs said. The groups did this in two different ways.

Childs’ team used

Carleman linearization

, an out-of-fashion mathematical technique from the 1930s, to transform nonlinear problems into an array of linear equations."

[...]

"It modeled any nonlinear problem as a Bose-Einstein condensate. This is a state of matter where interactions within an ultracold group of particles cause each individual particle to behave identically. Since the

particles are all interconnected

(PDS: You mean like a WAVE ??? <g>)

,

each particle’s behavior influences the rest

(PDS: You mean like a WAVE ??? <g>)

, feeding back to that particle in a loop characteristic of nonlinearity."

[...]

>“Give me your favorite nonlinear differential equation, then I’ll build you a Bose-Einstein condensate that will simulate it,” said Tobias Osborne"

If you can get a Bose-Einstein condensate for a given nonlinear differential equation -- perhaps the reverse is true as well -- perhaps, for a given Bose-Einstein condensate, you can get back a nonlinear differential equation...

If that's true, and if it's also true that the nonlinear differential equation can be turned back into a linear differential equation (via Carleman linearization), and if so, then you can possess a linear differential equation representing your Bose-Einstein condensate, er, wave, er, fluid equation, er, linear differential equation, er, Bose-Einstein condensate... <g>

Perhaps all of these things -- are just different ways of viewing, different VIEWS -- of the same underlying physical phenomena...

To quote a famous Musician(!):

"We always didn't feel the same,
we just saw it from a different point of VIEW..."

-Bob Dylan, "Tangled Up In Blue"
Not to say that you’re wrong but the algorithm takes into account location. A user in the US is going to see a different feed than a user in France. I think it is largely the algorithm and the narratives being pushed by news sources creating the divide. There is a history of trust in newscasters that is being taken advantage of to spread propaganda and it works.

The US might be too big. I want to agree, but I know I’m biased by the media. I want to disagree, but I haven’t traveled to enough of the country to say it confidently.