skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I watch things floating in water, objects below the water seem to move back and forth with the movement of the water, as if the object and the water were the same, but things that are partially in the water, they seem to "ride" the water and shift much more slowly.

Based on that, my guess is either surface tension, or the fact that an object that floats on top of a medium is much less dense than one that floats within it. It would probably be a pretty easy to quantify if you had several liquids with known surface tension, so I'm guessing the information is out there already.
Just saw this from mabbo and it's relevant: https://www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazine/data-downturn

Pretty decent article. TL,DR if you're saving for retirement then ignore the markets and don't try to time things. The markets over time (IRA is for retirement) will always increase significantly.
The Alpha AXP: On treating a 64-bit processor as if it were a 32-bit processor
There is one downside to bypassing the IPO. If the larger banks miss out on their fees, these large institutional buyers can hold a grudge against you. This can impact your stock price over a medium term.
>"You should quit your lofty goals and revert to those more practical in nature.", said no-one who ever accomplished something great

"Never quit on your dreams," said most people who never achieve anything.
I have one of those under-desk exercise bikes. I don't know if it has any overall effect on my health, but it keeps the circulation going anyway.

I definitely recommend this particular model. It's smooth and quiet, works under a normal height desk, and is heavy enough that it doesn't slide around.

https://www.amazon.com/DeskCycle-Exercise-Pedal-Exerciser-Wh...
i write passable poems using ed; it doesn't get more distraction free than that.

i understand the drive to flatten out the learning curve of software for non-software-people. most of these options could be covered quickly with an author oriented LaTeX frontend, and i venture to guess that would be easier to develop. It already has an entire document class for books, covering frontmatter, mainmatter, backmatter, chapters, table of contents, headers footers, bibliography, etc. all that is needed is a author friendly GUI. file management, tabs, etc would then be the main part of the NEO ecosystem. One just has to supplement with templates and never mess with actual document creation.
Librem 13 laptop review: physical security for the paranoid
Instead of thinking about what was said at the conference, who were the best speakers, which people you should talk to more, or one of the million other, possibly much more beneficial, things that would pop into your head if you didn't occupy yourself with this thread.

I'm as guilty as everyone else here, admittedly. What's making me think seriously about something like this is that while I was on holiday recently and kept leaving my phone in my room, I had more random thoughts than I've had in a very, very long time.
The basic rule of thumb is to not try to time the market. In your case I might avoid putting the money in an IRA though until you are sure you are happy at your employment post graduation. That nest egg could give you crucial flexibility in the short run if your job doesn't work out which is probably more important than starting an IRA ASAP.
there is no real technical reason for this fork, which is why everyone will just keep using node.js
"...and before you know what stats are important for what, or even what play style you may enjoy most."

I always found it a bit strange that many games frontload you with decisions (what class? what stats? etc) before you even know anything about the game, what is effective or what you might enjoy.
Just noticed that this lives under bus1 github organization; does that imply that eventually it will be using bus1?

Btw, whats happening at bus1, haven't heard about it lately?
What I believe should happen and what I believe will happen are two different things.

I've described the latter above, as the former is irrelevant.
Debate of the decade – Privacy or Security?
Show HN: An alternative to “The best time to visit any city”
I imagine it might be quite dangerous to transfer people from one ship to the other in heavy seas, and in the article they were talking about seas of 30 feet.
a cron job to disconnect - love it! do you use the break to get up and stretch, too?
This is definitely a confusing sentence, especially for a non English speaker. You can reword the sentence and add something in front (e.g. "The researchers"). "The researchers are using psilocybin assisted group therapy for demoralization in long term AIDS survivors."

AIDS surviors have "demoralization in them". The psilocybin assisted group therapy is being used for that demoralization.
>So you want an institutionalized echo chamber rather than just an organic one?

Yes.

I would love to support a site that puts its foot down and says extreme, offensive viewpoints are prohibited.

And yes, I am afraid of (some of) "these people." Have you not watched the news for like the last fifty years?
Sure isn’t! I just loaded it on my computer and everything is fine. Can you open up dev tools and see what’s failing? We’re on cloudflare — maybe something weird happened there?
Hacker news for your interests
In theory the workers did not have full control over the means of production because they could not sell them or destroy them but as far as using them - there was no dictator standing next to every lathe or tractor and telling them what to do. This mainly resulted in people stealing shit from their workplaces though. Few Russian sayings from that period:

Все вокруг колхозное, все вокруг мое (Everything around me belongs to the collective farm, everything is mine)

Тащи с работы каждый гвоздь, ты здесь хозяин, а не гость (Steal every last nail from work, you are the master here, not a guest).
I think I understand why they forked Node.js, but what I don't understand is what they hope to accomplish. io.js implemented features that node.js didn't have, but all ayo.js has done is replace the word "node" with "ayo". How does forking the entire project help with protesting this perceived break in the node.js code of conduct?
The best day to invest was yesterday. If you can't invest yesterday then today is an alright backup.
I know the data can be gathered. Could go even more direct and measure power usage of the computer before and after the upgrade.

It would be nice if everyone pushing some of these would collect some data for their claims, though. Especially if any of them have better setups (read: more than the single machine I have).
Hmm. If it doesn't have SELinux policy that actually does something, it probably shouldn't run as a daemon. Let's see how I can remove it... :(
That has nothing to do with security, and everything to do with malicious compliance.
What’s your email? I’ll shoot you a live demo!
I think we've gotten so used to it we forget just how awful it used to be.
I wonder if typical car manufacturers who sell cars to other people will really be able to capture this data, technologically speaking.

It's way too much data to send over LTE, so you need to have a bunch of disk space to store it, and then you need your users to be OK with you abusing their WiFi in the middle of the night to send gigabytes of data back, which they won't, because we have data caps.

Whereas if you operate a fleet, you can just connect a data transfer cable to the car every night and dump all the data.

Obviously you can compress the data; maybe throw away the vision and point cloud data, and just keep the object locations, but is control with already recognised objects the real problem here, or is it the actual recognition part?
My personal theory is that recessions are dependent on wealth inequality. It makes sense if you think about it on the personal level -- if there is high wealth inequality, a greater percentage of the country suffers during an economic downturn. That suffering puts a pinch on all non-essential spending for a larger percentage of the population than it would if there were a larger middle class.

A wealthy and prosperous middle class is thus essential to a stable economy. Without it, you get these boom-bust cycles and you condition people to "spend it while you got it" (aka the poverty mindset). This creates a feedback loop that the US had to work really hard to break out of in the early 20th century (the time between the Civil War and the first World War was extremely tumultuous economically because we were learning a lot of hard lessons about monetary policy).

We had some pretty bad economic downturns in the 50s, 60s and 70s as well. But they didn't reach recession level because the wealth gap wasn't as vast. My grandfather was a factory owner in the rust belt during that period and the richest man in his small town. He was wealthier than his employees, but not by a lot. But eventually he had to sell out to a large multinational because he simply couldn't match their prices in the market.
It's not purely an examination of a cycle. They are talking about indicators, especially decoupling of economic dependencies.

For example, they cite that valuation is starting to diverge from corporate earnings, which could indicate a coming correction (and therefore downturn).
I think they will plummet because the main driver of interest is speculation at the moment.
Here's a screenshot of the original posting to restore context: https://twitter.com/maybekatz/status/899760806551666690
There were many other modern init replacements which did the job better than init scripts and better than systemd.

I like my systems elegant, transparent and bloat-free. Systemd is none of that.
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Dollar cost averaging is your friend. You can't predict markets. Buy now, buy regularly. If the price drops, then it is "on sale" for a bit. You won't be pulling the money out for years and years to come. The biggest gains in value come in very small spurts. If you are not in the market, you will miss them.
If savings are put into banks or investments, is there even a significant difference between saving and spending (for the whole economy)?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15079139

He had the audacity of standing up against black-rimmed eyeglass freedom fighters. How DARE he!

How DARE he suggest a code of conduct is bullshit and infesting projects left and right. I deleted my twitter because these goons are known to stir up shit when there is none.

Bleh, will this ever get better? http://archive.is/f2KWf

Note that the fork is just political grand standing. Look at the issues lol https://github.com/ayojs/ayo/issues
Is there any way to do the analogous of regenerative braking on the descent in an electric airplane?
> Which is why, in spite of all design flaws, even Go has a database interface defined on their core library.

It is useful, but Go is less standardized than CL. If we compare features that implementations provide, then we can cite LispWorks's Common SQL (http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/sql-tutorial/index.ht...).
We are going to notice it when people come to the realization that a 3 bedroom house isn't actually worth a million bucks.
Also one of the big reasons Australia skipped a few downturns is we got lucky having a ton of iron ore in the ground. In addition to this when the GFC hit the government just poured money at regular people, (trickle Up! Economics). I got $900 bucks for nothing, with a clear signal from the government that I was to spend that money keeping things ticking over. We got lucky.
invest everything in bitcoin
I've still yet to hear an instance of what the guy from node did wrong except criticize code of conduct policies.

Everyone just clamors about the "code of conduct violations" and it isn't clear what they are.

So they're forking because they failed to kick out a guy for unclear conduct violations?
>Eg Australia and Israel barely noticed the Great Recession.

Do you know why? AFAIK India too did not get very affected by it, maybe because it has a large internal market with both domestic suppliers and consumers. Or I may be thinking of the Asian crisis in 1997-1999 or so - not sure. Had been to S.E. Asia at that time and they were just recovering from it, IIRC.
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Must be time to buy then. These free articles are always herding people in the opposite direction the market is really going so the traders can unload their stock or get in cheaply.
I migrated from a custom database to postgresql. I have to say I am much happier in terms of being able to generate complex reports.

The types and jsonb are also very nice.

I have used mysql early in my career, and I still use it for certain existing projects. I liked the simplicity of its command line, but postgresql has caught up, and they continue to add amazing features.
Right! I've been developing this for almost a year now, and any time I spoke about it at a networking event, each dev says "Wait, you're right. Why doesn't this exist?"

It has been nice to hear that, it helps with the crushing doubt in my mind that I've wasted the past 7 months of my life.
> Pao showed she was pretty deceitful in her suit

In your opinion (and also rather unsupported). She just failed to prove her allegations to the courts standard.

The company’s smear campaign against (a proven thing) shows her opponents in that case as far more deceitful tbh
> I had the urge to google the second most commonly spoken language while reading the article.

:) love it
What kind of funds do you invest in? Most people invest in long-only funds.
SelfControl on OSX works well for me: https://selfcontrolapp.com/
IRA is investment until your retirement. A lot will happen by then. The classical advise is to devise a simple strategy (say age in bonds, 100-age in S&P500) and stick to it, contributing regularly. When downturn or upturn comes you rebalance to stick to you strategy.
Nobody says activism has to be easy or profitable :)
Where do you think the money for business investments and commercial loans comes from? And do you think that either of these has anything to do with economic growth?
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Compiling C# into JavaScript incl Json.NET support
I briefly drove a Honda with 4-wheel steering in the early 90s. All I remember is the amazing turning radius.
For me the most important part of writing longer, novel-length pieces is the organization help that Scrivener gives me. So far it's my favorite tool and as cool as this might be I'll remain skeptical until I see the final product.
Peter's principle and whatnot, but I think there is something deeper. The manager positions are designed, by definition of the word, to manage, and the top goal is to extract values from workers. Managers (and product managers in tech companies) are encouraged to create a `healthy` tension with line workers (software engineers included) in work estimation and commitments. This is supposed to make the work challenging enough, but not so demanding that burn out the workers. The best managers can do that by providing the intellectual challenges and motivational goals. Most resort to processes and plain OKRs though (reflected in the worst ever software tool, JIRA. Also any line manager who's got any clue, meaning who can provide technical/business directions, would be quickly promoted to directors (where they are supposed to direct :-).

Protip for frontline managers: The percentage of time you spend on JIRA is negatively correlated to the chance of being promoted to the director level.
The left always eats itself. Can't believe I can't even find out what he was accused of. Did I miss the show trial? I guess the tribunal already voted.
> Often times it's easy to abuse the system to get high stats quickly and unrealistically.

Or, even if you're not trying to abuse the system, the behavior that's most natural and which results in the best outcomes can modify your character from what you may have intended.

It's typical get the best loot from the hardest quests. You could grind the easy ones, but quick progression requires taking on difficult tasks.

In Skyrim, if you see a group of baddies that are too strong to take on in a brawl all at once, the way to proceed through the quest is to shoot them with an arrow from far away, and sneak until they de-aggro. Or if you don't want to attack it, just sneak around. Or if they're charging you and too far away to melee attack yet, put in a couple hits with your bow to soften them up.

Surprise! You're not a mage or a heavy like you thought you'd be. You're a stealth archer.
The big discussion may have something, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15072866
Fortunately glamour or statistics are not relevant in justice, only truth and proven facts. At the current moment there is zero data available supporting the mobster hypothesis... but also zero data (unless policemen know something more) supporting the hypothesis of a sexual crime or a rape.

Is a murder, pretty obviously, but the reason of the murder is unclosed still. All possibilities are open.
If I understand their concerns correctly, they would prefer this:

> window.addEventListener('online', this.checkStorage);
Only an economist could look at the tulip 'incident' and not see a speculative bubble
You mean, when they started creating bizarre arbitrary username rules for handing out root(!), breaking DNS resolution, time sync, and so on?

Perhaps it is best considered a time/money/sanity redistribution scheme, because I've certainly spent plenty on the above.
Harnessing the Power of Kubernetes the Smart Way
> It's almost perfectly periodic.

And yet the underlying cause of the busts has varied.

People bring up the "due for a bust" observation and they may be right. But I have to ask, "What is going to be the economic trigger this time?"
Yeah, I used to have a whole bunch of shell scripts to automate KDE 3 apps via dcop and then when dcop was dropped in favor of dbus, the complexity of the latter system discouraged me from porting the scripts.

Whatever technical limitations dcop may have had, its command line was amazing: space separated words and a emphasis on discoverability made it a joy to use
> Couldn't they have just as easily built a tall floating rig that could be dragged by the same tugboat? Why do they even need to change to boat form? Can't they tug it when it's vertical?

Gigantic drag, low stability, and inability to enter ports and harbours when you have a 100ft draft.

> Drilling platforms are stable floating structures aren't they? They consist of a stable floating upper platform.

"Truss and spars" platforms usually have the truss floated on its side and the modules mounted on top of it once it's been floated and ballasted in place. Semi-subs can be tugged into place but that requires big tugs (multiple ~20khp units) and is very, very slow, to attain the speeds at which you can tow RP FLIP (7~10kt) you need a heavy lift ship.

These are not the kind of expenses oceanography can usually afford. Not to mention the semi-sub itself would be significantly more expensive than RP FLIP was, a semi-sub is more than half a billion, FLIP's original cost was about half a million.
Checking for Changed Attributes in Ruby on Rails
Is listening for the event really expensive? Honest question. We update the UI when it happens, so I don't think relying on the success/failure of network requests is reasonable for us anyways.
Nope, especially since we'v been loath to raise the interest rates. Lowering rates is often used to stir economic growth. We've been near zero for quite a while now. If it hits soon, the fed won't have much water to put out the fire.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate

Note: Click the Max button on that chart for perspective of where the rate is now relative to historical rates.
Refresh on the home page and it should be fixed (:
Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management?
I don't have like, hard tested data. But the delay is enough that experience was all I needed to convince me.

Nintendo DS / 3DS and Wii U are all resistive screens. I also have experience with resistive screens of Palm Pilot and Palm phones of the early 2000s. And all of those were more "responsive" than a 2007-era iPhone, despite the iPhone's significantly higher processing power.

Play a serious game like Monster Hunter (very timing intensive) and compare it to a serious timing-intensive game on a capacitive screen (I know I've seen people play Marvel vs Capcom 2 on an iPhone emulator...). The lag and delay is noticeable even in the modern era.

But people wanted multi-touch pinch to zoom. Capacitive sensing also requires a microcontroller to literally "charge up" the screen over and over.

When your finger is on the screen, it "charges up slower" (because your finger changes the capacitance at that location). Innately, that "charge and discharge" cycle requires a measurement over time.

And to make sure that power isn't wasted, only one part of the screen is often tested (there are grids and stuff that then calculate where the fingers or multiple-fingers are located). So innately, there's a delay as the "scan-lines" of the sensors test each point of the screen.

Resistive screens instantly tell you where the stylus is without any such delay or processing. So it just makes sense.
> When the bubble pops, people freak out.

What's the causal relationship? You're suggesting the bubble causes fear, but what causes the bubble to pop?
I would put it as, we've forgotten how to not be distracted. The mind needs time to wander.
Dbus is bloated hell. Whoever came with the idea "let's cram all communications from all sources into the single unified data stream, and let the clients fish what they need out of it" had the strange mapping of mental processes, to say the least. Most other forms of IPC are better (more scalable, more elegant, more comprehensible) — "everything is a file" is better, actor model is better, and I nearly think that even plain shared memory is better than a common bus.

There is a reason there is no "shared bus" in Internet communications.
I've enjoyed two books read by Guidall, but I spent several years of my commute listening to Patrick Tull read Patrick O'Brian's Master & Commander series, and I'm not sure any other narrator will ever match that for me. It feels like your British uncle is telling you stories about his time in the Royal Navy.
I much prefer Tim Gerald Reynolds and Steven Pacey.

Listen to these previews for each of them respectively. They were able to bring the characters to life in a way that Guidall was never able to for me.

Steven Pacey: https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/The-Blade-Itself-A...

Tim Gerald Reynolds: https://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Age-of-Myth-Audiob...
> As the author points out, we've forgotten how to be bored.

I find outdoor activity to be one of the best way to be 'bored'. You have to focus on what your body is doing, you're back in nature, you'll be getting exercise.

Leave the podcast/spotify at home.
This is crap--someone is always warning about a downturn coming. The game is as the game has always been--scare the rubes into doing something stupid with their money so the people who know the play can keep making big bucks off the uninitiated.
If it needs to be cross-platform C# and F# are way more reliable than JS.