skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m asking the exact same question. If we expect to find ourselves in a long financial winter, what can we do?

Specifically, I’m considering buying a house and renting out my current house right now...to buy or not to buy. Leveraging up is great until house prices drop by 30%. Then again, the previous recession was specifically a housing crunch, so perhaps the next recession won’t create the same housing drop.

No one on this thread knows the future, but it’s hard having lived through a very long bull market to anticipate the results of what looks to be a pretty severe bear market.

Hussman Funds is calling for negative total returns on the S&P500 for the next 10 years, which feels like a very long time.
There's a big difference between 3% cobalt and no cobalt. Cobalt is important for safety, skimping on it to save some money is a big risk.

I'm not saying it won't happen, just that I wouldn't put money on it.
> focus on censorship instead of combating spam/bots

There isn't really a distinction between these two.

The crackdown on abuse was absolutely necessary, although it doesn't really go far enough, because the platform was getting a name for driving off high-profile users.
Why Having a Fiduciary Process in Place Is Important
Suspect so. The fact that we can name them in advance implies they aren't that black.
It shouldn't surprise us that Twitter/Instagram/Facebook/Reddit are more widely addictive than alcohol. They are designed to be addictive, because it's good for business.
I wonder if, once both technologies are more advanced, a network of solar sail "tugboat" drones could be used to transfer launches to other inclinations and orbits after orbital insertion - with the exception of normal wear and tear, there should be little to prevent such a network from operating indefinitely with negligible material cost once launched.
I had the same dumb phone from 2007 until it fell apart in 2015. I got a smart phone, but didn't use it for anything other than dumb phone tasks. Sure, the screen and camera were much nicer, and I could browse the web, but it didn't seem alluring. I only needed to charge it about twice a week.

Having maps and GPS turned out to be more useful than I expected, but once I go somewhere once or twice, I don't use it to get to that place anymore. I thought Google Authenticator would be the killer app for me, but I use it so rarely, and I have KeePass do that now anyway. I've never gotten the point of social media, so I completely missed the bullet there.
On premise deployed stacks are usually shielded off by network firewalls though, which cannot be said about most cloud based services (yes, I get it from a convenience point of view).

In order to attack an on premise application that is safely behind a firewall in a private LAN, one would have to come up with more creative, staged attacks (such as DNS rebinding or blind XSS attacks).

So, put simply, whereas the attack vector of a cloud based service is basically "the internet", this isn't usually the case with on premise deployments, and therefore they are inherently safer, or at least much harder to attack.

On top of that, cloud based services are usually multi tenant environments, so the assets to gain there are huge. One serious hole in such a service (be it Slack, logz.io, Github private repos, New Relic, etc.) will probably be a disaster.
I also opened this thread to recommend Vim Adventures. I tried teaching myself vim with standard walkthroughs but it was too difficult to remember all of the different key combinations.

Vim Adventures was so effective because it only lets you use the keys that it teaches you, and slowly expands the key set over time. Well worth the $25 if you want a guided introduction.
slack threads suck I might look into Zulip though, this seems interesting. Having subchatrooms compiled into one giant chatroom is also how I organize my gmail as well. So you have the option to look at individual rooms or just one room to see the same content
Any ideas about where the users (twitter/facebook) are going to? What these users that are not on twitter anymore are doing instead?
If you stop eating at a certain period every day, you'll stop feeling hungry.
If a major player like Facebook adopted ActivityPub it would be enormous validation and success, and I seriously doubt they would ever do that.
Show HN: SoccerPassingNetworks – website for visualizing soccer passing networks
I hope this doesn't sound callous, but is there anything (beyond pancreatic cancer's aggressive mortality rate) to suggest that the disease is somehow "ripe" for increased research funding?

"How much money should we spend on cancer research?" has been in the HN aether lately, so I'm curious.
Texas has far less population than California. If you adjust they perform about the same. Oh, perhaps you should look at GDP per capita, where California isn't at all extraordinary. Hmm, it's almost as if you should compare properly?

Imagine bowing down to a state and ignoring facts. I never said California wasn't performing well. But in a pro-business country (far more than France), one of its biggest states, with its largest population, that is bigger than most countries on earth, why is it so shocking that their GDP is that high?
Your MacBook Pro's Next Big Mistake
No. Again, tools like Mastodon are implementing multiple accounts / account migration.
You are mistaken. I have an active phone. A smartphone even. I don't have any hangups on using it myself. I just realise the possibilities and enjoy that I can carry less stuff, play games while waiting, and have a map on me most of the time. mine is prepaid because my use is too low to bother with a monthly contract. As a bonus, the time doesn't expire nearly as quickly as prepaid phones in the states did and I can buy a modern phone.

But I was alive before the smartphones were available and didn't always have money for phone service and rent. So were a lot of folks I knew. And i simply understand the ways folks can get around having phone service... even if I think it is personally weird to do so out of choice instead of necessity.

I have also been in situations where I don't have the phone for a variety of reasons: Not working, for got it, spotty service, and so on. Of course you have to rely on others in these situations, the same as before everyone had such things. Actually being in an emergency has been a pretty rare thing, with or without cell phones. I've called 911 a few times, but only twice when not at work. Once for a car accident outside the house (a pretty bad one, lifeline helicopter and all), and one for someone's suicide attempt.

As a side note, it is a shame that the doctors offices do not have it. Most of them have it around here that I have seen. I avoid calling unless absolutely have to. As a bonus, the phones here are such that if I've run out of money on my prepaid phone, folks can still call me.
Perhaps you are a programmer and not an investor so you are going to have a different perspective. (I tend to agree your view btw...)
Except for when the content wasn’t included. That was the problem with RSS. It could never decide whether it was supposed to be distributing the content or distributing notifications of the content.

That decision was made by the drive for “pageviews” both by ad-driven pages and others that just wanted to know how many people were reading.
I switch between Manjaro with Gnome3 on my laptop and Mint with Cinnamon on my Desktop. When i use gnome it annoys me regularly with things like:

If i want to open a file in a different program than the default i have to open another menu instead of immediately being shown the other programs being associated with that filetype.

Just connecting to wireless took me approximately 10 Minutes.

Hiding the topbar automatically to maximize the screenestate on my 13" screen is not possible without installing an extension, which last time i looked was not ready for 3.28 and could crash the session if badly written.

This guy talks about how important this Appmenu is, which rarely contains useful options if any.

He claims he tried Linux Mint, but for me Cinnamon is far ahead in usability. The Mint devs actually listen to their users and work on solving their problems.
> Information density isn't configurable

Just zoom in/out with Cmd-+ / Cmd--, it's just a browser after all.
You seem to be confused between acceleration and escape velocity.

A Tesla Model S can accelerate at 1.14g while going from 0-60mph, but it can't continue that acceleration for long.

A dragster can accelerate at 5g for almost a second. It won't get into orbit if you send it off a ramp.

The train with a centripetal acceleration of 2g will not launch anything into orbit unless it can magically keep providing that acceleration to the vehicle.

On the other side, you don't need to accelerate particularly hard if you want escape velocity, you just need to get up to that speed after accounting for atmospheric drag. You could launch a winged rocket that accelerates at 1.12meters/s^2 -- in ten thousand seconds or so, it would be up to escape velocity.
I have played around with Google's Cloud Vision API and it is the best OCR I have ever experienced - a big step up from my old poorly trained tesseract setup.
AWS tests out two tools to help users keeping their cloud usage safe
What type of container do you use for your browser?
Polluting the environment is damaging someone's property (private or state), for which they will eventually demand restitution. It's part of market forces.

Conversely, a certain amount of pollution/environmental destruction is a price people are willing to pay.
I think we are a long way from anyone walking back from Windows. It will be an uphill battle for Google due to the lack of privacy awareness (I'm not saying Microsoft is better or worse, just that Google is not looked upon kindly in the privacy regard)
Confirmed black holes include Sagittarius A* and the GW150914 primary and secondary objects.

As for quasars, the source region is very compact, mere light minutes in some cases by the constraints from variability timescales. Further, the emission is from very many is obviously from a relativistically orbiting emitter (or otherwise explain the Iron alpha line profiles), so an accretion disk around a massive, very compact object: a black black hole.
Elon Musk threatens to sue a Seeking Alpha contributor
> Social media apps are easy to uninstall

They're also easy to reinstall, and often times have good enough mobile web clients. Can't uninstall the browser, unfortunately.
I've had discussions with coworkers on why you shouldn't ve downloading putty from putty.org. Sure, they seem to be linking to the official downloads now, but imho it's just poor hygiene to use such pages. It takes just a moment of carelessness to get pwned
I wrote another comment, but I deleted it and made a new rule for myself: If I can't avoid being snarky, I'll just not reply at all.
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The problem basically being what happens when you marry the logic of commodification (money, oil, grain, etc equally interchangeable) with the growth requirements of a debt-interest based economy. Either we have to make off-world into the new growth industry or financial capitalism will be the end of us.
A DIY, Open Source Spacesuit Is About to Get Its First Life-Or-Death Test
That sounds like the most likely solution, but I didn't know they already had those, thanks for the tip!
The company didn't want to invest in my department but kept setting higher expectations. It caused the team to be overworked and understaffed. You couldn't focus on a project because you were always needed somewhere else. The people in my department were great but their hands were tied. The pay wasn't great and there were some other less important issues, too. I've seen a number of people leave since me, but turnover was always moderate.
I'm on the same boat. I have debating for the longest time if I should buy a house and everyone keeps on telling me that interests rates are going up so now is the time. But buying a house will pretty much wipe out all my savings and if I ever lose my job during a downturn, foreclosure is almost imminent.
What market forces allow them to convert their demands into action?
also Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer from SNL
The key is to buy during a downturn and save during a boom. It's far easier to negotiate a discount if the person selling it to you doesn't have anyone else in the store. You make way more money on the market if you buy when there is blood in the street than if you get in when unemployment is at a ten year low.

The rest is the same advice you get everywhere: It's expensive not to exercise. It's expensive to own a car. Biking to work solves both those problems. Don't overspend on depreciating assets until you don't need to work for the rest of your life. Don't underspend on your education. Don't waste time fretting the small stuff, focus on maximizing income. Be tax efficient. Don't buy overheated assets. In the short term it always looks like it will be the end if you don't get in _right now_. Things always correct.
Sounds like much the stuff that Ivan Illich said a couple of decades earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschooling_Society.

He didn't convince those in control of education either.
While on the train, I've started knitting instead of futzing around on my phone that I had been doing before. For me, it's been a very therapeutic exercise - a good time to deliberately shut out the noise of the internet and social media in general.

Now that I'm becoming more comfortable with the new hobby, I've started listening to audiobooks or streaming music while I knit - it seems to strike a nice balance.

Certainly the phone has enriched my life - it enables me to stream music and listen to audiobooks easily, but in my experience it's a dangerous tool as well, since it enables you to check social media more than is healthy. Everything in moderation I suppose.
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The biggest issue is that'd take a really really long time. The amount of dV you get out of a solar sail is minuscule at scales that will work well in the neighborhood of Earth.
Amazon face recognition falsely matches 28 lawmakers with mugshots, ACLU says
If you don't want a specific person's comments? You'll need moderation or blocking tools.

If you don't want any comments from the fediverse in general? Well then activity pub doesn't benefit you at all and you have no need for it.

> Is this essentially just the same as the trackbacks I already get from other Wordpress posts that link to my page, but with every single tweet (or rather, “toot” (oh, pardon me, how rude. Can you please tell me where the bathroom is?)) generating a trackback?

You can interact with people's content from any interoperable website/service/client basically. It's not just a link on some site or a meaningless metric that gets bumped up. The comments may very well be from people who actually did read your blog post and genuinely want to interact. They just don't have to actually visit your site to do any of those things.
A chatbot friend who knows you as a student when you start university and provides you with simple and personalized co-curricular information and interaction.
Very nice. The agate library (by the same author of csvkit) also prints out text charts, though I don't think it has a CLI: http://agate.readthedocs.io/en/1.6.1/
I guess that's why we want to use https? So the content cannot be altered easily?
I thought nickel-colbalt has a significantly lower specific energy / energy density than other lithium-polymer batteries. They might be cheaper to make (or maybe not so much anymore), but they have a large space form factor.

I don't know of any laptop today that's using a nickel cobalt battery. Those ones usually allowed you to remove the battery pack from the laptop. Now there all based on lithium-polymer now. Same with smartphones.

I did some research in lithium polymer batteries a few years back. I distinctly remember there being almost 10 or so variations of lithium polymer mixes being used in battery production.
> when on earth do people use video calls?

I actually see people using facetime in public all the time -- I think its one of those things if you aren't looking for it you won't notice. I've actually used google hangouts on my phone a few times -- recently I was in the airport w/o my computer on my Dad's birthday so we did a video call and other scenarios like that one.
Also, I lived abroad for a few years and I used video chat extensively with my parents and other friends back in the states. (TBF though a majority of the time it was on my laptop -- but sometimes I did use my phone!)

> Mostly teenagers yes, but them being the next generation of adults I doubt they'll just stop once they're into their twens. It'll just become the norm.

That one is potentially true although I'll say based off of our interns they seem to be pretty good about not being on their phones all the time when the situation calls for it. I think like most things its super individual because of my coworkers the person who is on their phone the most is actually a middle aged guy.
Also,

> extending the lifetime of IPv4 by 20 years and providing isolation between internal and external networks are not inherently bad.

It's hard to see how things would be worse in the alternative history without NAT. IPv6 deployment would have come much sooner - it's been ready for so long even in our current timeline.

Ambiguous addresses (RFC1918) aren't good for isolation, firewalls are. It's a common security problem that people end up joining different RFC1918 networks, and then don't know what the ACLs mean anymore. Isolation is provided by firewalls, not NATs after all. A NAT's job is to try to proxy traffic back and forth, not block it.
Which bubble? The social networking bubble? Yes, probably.

The rest of tech is actually doing remarkably well considering Twitter and Facebook's record setting decline yesterday.
I saved a lump of money for the short-term and took a very long vacation. I have a bit saved for the long-term from before, but now the focus is long-term saving.
The only thing lacking in magit is the graph log renderer, which is just ASCII and can't deal with complicated graphs well
Yeah, RSS feeds that aren't full content annoy me. But it's very few blogs that have them; mainly newspapers.
HATEOAS could have been the future too - many people wanted it to be.

With all these standards, the successful ones need to find some magic moment to take off - like HTTP did.

Too early to tell if ActivityPub (which I like as a protocol very much) will be an HTTP or an XML.
That's against the instagram rules. Fetlife is where we generally post those.
I don't think the parent is confused, I think they are talking about the velocity you'd reach after being subjected to that acceleration over the whole 2000km track.
The problem with Rare Earth is that the West collectively acts like 3 year old who are to dumb to solve incredibly simple problems.

Rare earth contained lots of Thorium and that has to be handled as nuclear waste and that means you have 1000s of tons of nuclear waste on your hands. This is of course completely idiotic because Thorium not really a big problem as it is not radioactive.

The few Rare Earth mines that do exist only extract the lower group so you can avoid the Thorium.

Because the US drives policy for the whole West, there is basically no Rare Earth mining in the West.

China on the other hand understands that the more expensive rare earths are outside of China the more likely people will manufacture in China.

While I am 100% with Simons (one of the best economists ever) the unlimited stupidly of government is stopping a real market solution.

There was quite a bit of effort to change this and it got traction in congress because many people are really concerned that all US military equipment depends on rare earths from China.

See:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7QNZ56j-HM

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxwF93wnRQo
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Not sure about good on prem products, but if you want to broaden the scope - there are a couple of others including Glip, Flock, and Twist which I have come across in some reviews, including the PC Mag reviews. Have tried out Flock and Twist, specifically- you might want to add these to your consideration set
No, but you can get a good idea of it. If your UX is as "world class" as you claim then I would expect you'd want to show it off as a main selling point.

Giving me nothing but a bunch of marketing fluff on the home page makes me immediately lose interest.
Networkeffects when it comes to maintaining, buying and switching?

The desktop OS was the hub of hubs before the mobile revolution and for company's who still dwell mostly in that world, still is.
I don't know a lot about GPU compilation/offload, but I'd expect normally to dispatch to library kernels the way linear algebra frameworks do, given we can't even compile GEMM effectively on CPUs. Sufficiently smart tools always welcome, though.

For a free avx512 BLAS, use the current release of BLIS.
OpenBLAS recently gained skx (but not knl) gemm support, but I don't know how good it is as I don't have the hardware.
From https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/why-stephen-ha...

> He also explained that he was able to change the accent of his computer when the technology advanced, but he decided against it.

> Hawking added: “My old system worked well and I wrote five books with it, including A Brief History Of Time.

> “It has become my trademark and I wouldn’t change it for a more natural voice with a British accent.

> “I am told that children who need a computer voice want one like mine.”
Why, starting I think about 30 or so days ago, does Discord start using insane amounts of CPU time when it is started on a system that doesn't have network connectivity? On a Surface 3 Pro, A newer laptop, and a desktop system I have seen this happen. It will just use 20-40% of available CPU unit networking is restored.
Sorry, here's a cached copy: http://erewhon.superkuh.com/library/Space/Spacecraft/Debris%...

Regardless of any redaction errors, the basic idea is sound. While the particle engine is not able to produce the large impulse of ion drives (low specific ionization), it turns out the optimal impulse for such an application is in the 100-200 range. Any higher and the thrust drops too much prolonging the mission duration, for a given amount of electric power available.

For this application the opposite is true: you want maximize thrust and throw away the full mass of the previous target before reaching the next one to be consumed.
Ebola mysteriously hid in a woman for more than a year before spreading
Hmm. The books I put up here are frequently criticised for focusing on pedagogy at the expense of rigor. So I'm not sure what to say to that.

Overall I agree that too much of mathematics is obfuscated. Whether that's because it makes the author sound smart or because excellent prose isn't a big timesaver for a reader who has to grapple with a complex proof anyway I don't know. Could be both.

But I will reiterate is what I said above: deeply understanding an unfamiliar result or method often is irreducibly hard work that simply must be ground through. That's no reason to make simple things needlessly hard but when it's time to work through something tricky, well, people should expect to spend some time on it. Importantly, they should not feel stupid or bad at math when they have to do so, which I think is probably the thing that loses us the most mathematics besides obfuscated intro calculus.
Another point the article missed: although batteries have a lifetime of 15-20 years (which they claim makes recycling infeasible), most people currently replace their cars far more frequently than that. Which means that either the cars will be scrapped and the battery materials recycled (if they really are all that valuable), or the global production of cars per capita will slow as people keep their cars for the lifetime of the batteries.