skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well before that a "market correction" was imminent from about 2013 to mid-to-late 2017 at least, so who knows what'll really happen. But valuations do seem high across the board and we're pretty late in the business cycle, so it seems like we should at least expect lower returns for the foreseeable future.
First I've heard or thought about stockpiling chemicals for the apocalypse! What an interesting thing to theorycraft about. Here's a few ideas:

Potassium permanganate - A swiss army knife of a chemical. It can be used to clean certain contaminants from water, clean wounds, start fires, and it's cheap as dirt.

Aqua Regia - A mixture of muriatic acid and nitric acid. I can imagine this being useful to smuggle gold through bandit warlord checkpoints. George de Hevesy dissolved a nobel prize medal to hide it from nazis. Acids in general are useful.

Sulfur - Depending on your location, this is the hardest component to obtain for making gunpowder. The other components can be made from pee and cooked wood.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Note: I am neither a chemist nor a prepper.
The FDA also uses black-box warnings for antidepressants. It's an association closely tied to a high risk population.
Thanks, love the post! Your DNS method is fine for basic redundancy, but what about actual load balancing, for when 1 of the 3 servers gets hit hard?
This debate feels a bit like people talking about how much money is 'wasted' on a Mars rover, ignoring the difference between "the value of materials shot into space" and "the total cost of building something, including salaries and capital expenditures that aren't destroyed".

The cost of doing something is not the same as an economic loss from doing it.
Isn’t http2 resolving the latency problem (after the first connection of course) ?

You open one connection and then the rest flows. For static sites it might be enough.

Of course, in case of worldwide audience it might be a problem, but with DNS anycast can’t you resolve this with putting your website on local providers ?
You don't understand what NIMBY means, then.
"I would like my visitors not to be spied upon by a huge CDN, which I only have to use due to DOS and my own wastefulness wrt bandwidth bc holy moly computers are fast nowadays"
It would make me sad to remove windows on small commuter jets, since it's so much fun looking out the window and you spend a significant proportion of the flight closer to the ground anyways, watching interesting things like cities.

But on long-haul flights like Emirates has? Only 2/10 people per row have a window seat to start with, and airlines usually require everyone to close their window shade anyways for much/most of the trip, for people who want to sleep.

Sure you lose a bit of romance, but honestly for the majority of the passengers and for most of the time there's going to be zero difference... except burning less fuel means being better for the environment and hopefully slightly cheaper tickets.
Forbidden love: The WW2 letters between two men
I'd take issue that it needs to realistically speak like a person.

In a sense, the Google search bar is a type of chatbot, but we don't converse with it in grammatical English. It doesn't present as a human, so there's no uncanny valley effect. What gets typed into Google is a sort of lingua franca that we've all collectively learned through 20+ years of increasingly capable search engines. What we need is that level of lingua franca, but for a full, state-change-driving conversation, instead of just a one-step search.

It's not the machines that need to learn, it's us.
You can do the same redundancy with CDNs. Most big sites use a multi-CDN solution, and balance traffic based on price and performance, with the added benefit of automatic failover if a CDN has issues.
Facebook never made any good deeds.

Microsoft, as much as I hate them, has actually made a lot of of them.

And in general, actions speaks louder then words. And people do remember what they have done. Forgiving was never going to be a easy thing, especially when you audience are developers.
> if you just wrote a double to a union member, you can’t expect that reading integer from the same union has any meaning at all so they optimized that away “per standard”.

gcc 4.9.2 for sure does not (-O3 -fstrict-aliasing). Not sure what clang does, but I'd be surprised if it ignores the standard. The standard makes it pretty clear what meaning it will have. Sure, gcc and clang maintainers may seem to read the standards like a lawyer looking to void a contract, but in this case it is actually very clear what they should do.

> what is not said that it “must work” in spite of other “must work” and “undefined” standard statements.

The standard makes it clear how to deal with the semantics: "In the abstract machine, all expressions are evaluated as specified by the semantics. An actual implementation need not evaluate part of an expression if it can deduce that its value is not used and that no needed side effects are produced (including any caused by calling a function or accessing a volatile object)." Only constraints directly use "shall"/"shall not" type language, but the expressions should still be evaluated as specified by the semantics.
Ok, but if you go bald, you have to get rid of sideburns too, which is a touchy subject for a lot of guys.
I find it equally implausible that you willfully ignored the context of my quotes. To the extent that you literally changed the colon that lead to the context of those quotes into a period to make it sound like that was the extent of my statement.

Yes, human drivers crash into crash barriers, as noted.

Now, how many of those human drivers "actively aimed at the barrier", as the NTSB stated? And how many of those human drivers, having aimed at the barrier, "then accelerated in excess of the speed limit" as they did so?

And if you do reply, try not to take sentence fragments as an excuse to change quotes to misrepresent someone's statements.
Is it possible that the fact of receiving a diagnosis is more strongly correlated with the likelihood of getting help than you accounted for? Also, what is "diagnosable" – that sounds suspiciously different than "diagnosed." That doesn't even sound like a statistic that tracks against individuals, so I don't know how you could make an inference like that.

Even if we saw the statistical effect you predicted (eg. diagnosed mental health issues correlated with a lower rate of suicide), you should consider that the stigma of getting a diagnosis of mental illness, is likely to cause some people who may even know they have a problem, to intentionally avoid getting diagnosed.

Also, these: "I can't seek help because if I do have a mental health issue then my insurance is going to skyrocket / I don't have any health insurance / my insurance doesn't cover mental health."
The nice thing about the 787 Dreamliner is that the windows don't have physical shades. They have remote controlled dimmers that the crew can operate centrally.
I can't speak to this problem in tourist destinations or Europe generally as I don't have enough data to have an opinion, but I frequently see Airbnb blamed for high housing costs in some American cities and it strikes me as being a bunch of bullshit. Sure Airbnb doesn't help the rental problem and it is a contributor to rising rents, but the primary problem isn't Airbnb, it's lack of supply of high density apartment living options. Many US cities are composed primarily of 2-3 story houses which have been converted into dingy expensive apartments. This is utterly unacceptable from an efficiency standpoint. Many of these units need to be bulldozed and replaced with high rise apartments if cities are to become affordable again.
You can purge content from most CDNs through an api.
PHP: The “Right”… by Phil Sturgeon Et Al. [PDF/iPad/Kindle]
Actually I could see chatbots being useful if they behaved more like command line applications, with functionality known ahead of time and a language model that doesn’t change. Then I could just prepare a script and do something like:

cat cancel_service.script | /use/bin/comcast_dialer

and let the bot talk to my script and execute the needed task.
Testosterone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrotestosterone#Biological...

(though there is some margin for discussion, see the last paragraph of that section)
The language here is interesting. "Wile E Coyote moment" in the abstract looks and feels like a bubble, but he doesn't use the term bubble.

So a sharp correction? But isn't that what a bubble does? Why not just say we're in bubble fueled by artificial growth caused by numerous government subsidies.
wait, hashing relies on a seed?! isn't that a salt/pepper?

to be "deterministic for the lifetime of the program" sounds like a pepper is being applied, not that the hash algorithm is different.
That. Also amplified by hype, money and thinking that you could learn the required skillset fast.
Likely because that would mean rewriting public history, which I believe Linus is opposed to, particularly in the case of a huge project like the kernel.
Particularly that last point stands out to me. Lots of automations I’ve seen assume the customer knows the problem. Which they may not they are contacting with a symptom to which they may not know the problem. They aren’t necessarily going to say billing issue/expired credit card when contacting about why they can’t access thier premium features on your app anymore.
Yeah, there's a very deep end it's possible to go off.

However after this winter's experience where two feet of snow ran the supermarkets out of fresh food, I'm going to keep slightly more food and folding money on hand.

But remember these are long-term processes. Ultimately your connections and community will become important in economic collapses, because they're usually very slow-motion.
I briefly used windows while installing Ubuntu and it was generally much smoother. If windows can get the Linux subsystem stuff working 100% my guess is that it will start to gain momentum as a developer OS.

Right. We may be in a transition now where Apple has given up on the geek market (except for iOS developers), and Microsoft has realized there's an opportunity. I'm also keeping an eye on the upcoming Linux support in ChromeOS.
My main desktop is an old 2008 Mac Pro tower that is still going strong. However I've recently been developing on an old(5+ year out of warranty corporate) Dell desktop and laptop running Mint. Because it basically supports nothing I use on my desktop, it's completely distraction free. When I want a gaming experience, I jump on my Windows rig. I agree on all your points though, the MacOS environment is what Linux desktop wishes, and should be. It won't ever reach that level. Until Apple figures out what they ultimately want to do with professionals, I'll continue using 5-10+ year old hardware until it just dies.
> our very nature as living beings.

That might be true but another poster already debunked that apparently.

Regardless of the other living beings, you are too quick to dismiss the human side of things, specifically our complex minds and our irrationality regardless of mental fitness.

Does the primitive survival instinct kicks in when suiciding? Surely.

Can it be outweighed by every single bad instant that a person has lived and what they see coming down their way?
I don't see why not, and probably more so if your mind isn't thinking rationally.

But I'd argue that none of us are completely rational and so at times even 'healthy' minds can do the unthinkable.

I believe our biggest gift - powerful brain, self awareness and other capabilities that contribute to making us unique; is also our biggest curse :

"What's my purpose?"

"Is there any meaning?"

"Why do all my relationships fail?"

"Do people really like me?"

And so on ...

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My uneducated perspective.
It's become apparent that the "pro" moniker is just a buzzword to Apple and not something that actually indicates anything about the machine. The 2015 MBPr still runs circles around the new models in usability outside of display quality, which is only marginally worse.
Vendors do this because they know they can get away with it, i.e. no perceived counter party risk. However what they don't understand, is that there is a HUGE counter party risk.

If its a charge on my credit card or checking, that's what I do, I give them this counter party risk. I call and do a charge back. Basically after 20 minutes with a vendor on hold, I declare that they are being unreasonable and they are unable or unwilling to refund me, I call the bank to do this charge back.

Now, what you tell the bank is critical. For whatever reason, vendors have been able to un-do my chargeback. So instead, I tell the bank that I dispute the charge -- but that I am also disputing the method of payment. So if they argue that the charge is valid in the investigation, I say that is fine -- however, the bank is not authorize on my behalf to pay them, and if they think the charge is authorized they must contact me to arrange a different method of payment. And under no circumstances can they use the bank to make payment. So yeah if they argue the charge is legit, that's fine, contact me (I wish I could put them on hold haha), and I'll pay them -- but the bank can't. The bank likes this because they are off the hook and I like it because they don't get to screw me. Worked every time.

If everyone did this, and made this a huge country party risk, these vendors would stop putting people on hold and ignoring or purposely inadequately addressing their greivences with their product/services.
This is mine: http://dilbert.com/strip/2007-03-20

Same spirit.
that's so cool,
I don't understand if this is available in the standard distribution. it seem so, but when i tried to use the command-line tool i get "no such VFS", maybe i am missing something.
Is there a tutorial/introduction on how to use it?
is exactly what i needed for a couple of project

edit: found! i need to use the '--append' option
>I can't wrap my mind around people that think that 'too many tourists' or 'too many jobs' are a problem.

Step outside of theoretical economic thought experiments and try living in a formerly quiet neighborhood or building suddenly experiencing an influx of loud drunk littering assholes. Residential areas are desired as residential areas for a reason. I live in NYC and sure as hell don't want to live around Times Square. There are actual people living in these cities who want a decent quality of life where they live.

Echoing many others in the this thread, in a previous apartment in a residential area of Manhattan someone down the hall starting renting their unit to Airbnb visitors. It was a nightmare, but thankfully the landlord caught wind in a few weeks and kicked the person out.
What is a SQL injection vulnerability and how do you protect against it?
" 2020: policies put in place under this administration will come home to roost during the next administration, which will get the blame."

That has often been the case. Bush suffered through Clinton's internet bubble. then Obama suffered through Bush's real estate bubble. Trump now benefits from Obama's policies. We'll see what happens after Trump.
Principles of Economics by Greg Mankiw is the intro text at most universities, it's very well written.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-7th-Mankiws/dp/1...
They never announced they retired.
This algorithm can tell which number sequences a human will find interesting
Interesting concept, but note this can't be used for training an LSTM network.

it's the training that involves far more computation and memory, because rather than just storing the latest state of the LSTM cells, one needs to store all past states and activations of the cells.

For forward inference, this logic looks good, although I'm unclear what use cases it would apply to.
Being prepared is not an exercise in mutual exclusivity. You prepare for inflation by owning non-cash assets. You prepare for a rapid drop in the value of stocks and real estate by having cash.
His early work on trade policy is good, his other stuff is not great
I like what the guy did, but am I the only one who feels most of these "I did x with y" articles always end up trying to sell you something? What happened to just sharing our knowledge with each other?
> a progressive daily tax that's charged to every visitor

Lots of places already have this as a "hotel tax" .. which AirBnb doesn't pay.
Become a good strategy? Pensions for government workers have been a thing for a very long time.
https://gethuman.com/ is an excellent resource!
The Pixelbook with Crostini (for full Linux support) solves some of these problems. I have one and love it, having switched from a Mac. The Crostini Linux support is way way better than I expected.
Maybe ipv6 or upnp helps?
That's an argument against gentrification in general; not AirBnB. An area progressing is a good thing, but there are pointy edges to it and local residents not keeping up with the local market is one of the thornier ones.
I look forward to being able to pinch zoom to magnify interesting landmarks
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Richard Cory

BY Edwin Arlington Robinson

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
Or have a CDN (e.g Cloudflare) support IPFS and get the best of both worlds.
> the market worked very well before it

I don't think AirBnB was the cause of the Greek debt crisis.
Yep. My partner has had Windows laptops where the hardware is just junk too. I had my previous Macbook Pro for 7 years and just upgraded the internals. The Touch Pad is still today unmatched on that thing (except by my new macbook pro) and the hardware was always top notch in terms of its integration with the OS. In my niche field of audio programming Mac is basically required as most commerical software is released to be used by live musicians who also use Mac. Can you guess why? Superior audio drivers with minimal latency. To get something comparable on windows you have to use an external audio interface which is fine, but on windows is generally more buggy. Mac definitely still has the strangehold for audio on 'just works'.
I can only agree. I wrote a CMS with Zend Framework 2 which is heavy on DI and tries to be like Spring + Hibernate (Doctrine). Apart from being very hard to understand for new devs in the project, it's also very, very slow.

The way PHP is evolving is definitely towards the Java world and I think it's the worst decision they could make.

Moved to Go 5 years ago, never looking back.
Clintons internet bubble?
Yes, in 2008 he didn't see the problems right in his face. He was supposed to be a great scholar of the Great Depression but seemed to have learned nothing from it. Maybe he has learned from his own crisis...
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Yes, and after Gene Roddenberry died the showrunners turned away from his vision. They made the Federation much darker when they introduced Ro Laren and the Maquis. This tonal shift took centre stage in DS 9 and Voyager. From the low key lighting to the interpersonal conflicts, these shows marked a dramatic departure from Roddenberry's vision.

We saw how deep this rabbit hole really went when they introduced Section 31 and even went so far as to do an episode where the Federation imposed martial law on earth, something I never would have imagined Roddenberry doing.
HTML has had the potential to fill that role since day one, but while today we're talking about sites sitting blank for 5 seconds because they're downloading megabytes of garbage, back then we had pages sitting blank for 60 seconds because they were downloading 101KB+ of totally insane HTML and animated GIFs of dancing babies and nuclear explosions.
What's your usp?
What if the three letter agencies are the bad guys? I personally think that Edward Snowden is one of the great American heroes of the past 50 years.
> I’m saying that without the Fed and the federal government acting to rationally steer markets the markets will go off a cliff and not come back.

So how did markets exist at all when the Fed was created? By your logic, they would have "gone off a cliff and never come back" long before that.

> When the government stimulates the already hot market with lax taxes and high spending it’s like pouring liquid oxygen onto a flame

Even after all the stimulus so far? No diminishing returns, ever?
His rants are also pretty particular about not rewriting published history. As he said on the linked message, "[...] I didn't notice the history screw-up until too late, [...]", so he probably already had pushed to the public "master" branch on the git.kernel.org servers. Once it's there, other kernel developers might already have pulled from it, so trying to rewrite the git history to remove the commit would only lead to an unholy mess (and the offending commit coming back) the next time he merges from them.
You post doesn't seem to really be advocating not using a CDN, but running your own CDN. Many people don't have the time / budget / inclination to do this themselves.
You just have to parse it as a tree
If the government wants to step in, maybe they should create a state sponsored and run ride share service of their own.

We call them buses. And yes, Honolulu has buses. Flat fee however far you go or however long the trip takes. Bonus: they take the same amount of time as Uber or a cab to get from the airport to Wakiki.
and to top it all off, the zoning laws in some cities...
At the very least, you can live knowing that you ended up where you are in life because of who you are, not because of something you pretended to be. I have a techy friend from Harvard class of 2006, but he didn't want to be thought of as a nerd when he got there, so he pretended to be an alpha banker type instead.

Well, fast forward 10 years, and no one bought the alpha schtick, and he missed his chance to be a billionaire working with Zuckerberg.

You never know how positively the world is going to react to you being comfortable and confident with yourself.
The keyboard is really the main problem as the laptop performs very well otherwise. You have to turn off force feedback etc. I don't recommend taking your laptop to the beach but i kind of tend to and the butterfly keyboard will utterly fail if you get a single grain of sand near it as its too damn flat. Otherwise, I like the dynamic bar and trackpad and the thing just works without heating up.
>>> AI applications for weapons and technologies that "gather or use information for surveillance,"

Couldn't be more ironic. Google's core business is surveillance and serving ads - all aided by ai.

This whole thing is a joke - a bunch of know-it-all overrated and overpayed jerks pretending to know what's best for the world/country. Why and how is it assumed that they know better than lawmakers, government officials and security agencies?

At the very least, this is a vote of no-confidence against the very institutions and people instilled to defend the country and further it's interests!!

When Motorola was acquired by Google, plenty of googlers commented on how much more smarter the average Googler was. And how the new genius Google upper brass world turn Motorola into a money making machine. However, they failed miserably at building and selling good hardware, and that struggle continues to this day through their pixel, Nexus and HTC devices. So - a bunch of cocky software engineers couldn't even build and sell better phones, why'd they be right on national security?