skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The term was coined by psychiatrist Tamaki Saito in the late 1990s

{Citation needed.}

This seems unlikely given that "hikikomoru" is a compound verb which means to stay inside.

If it's nice weather but someone stays at home all day, the hikikomoru verb is used for that; it (still) doesn't have automatic connotations of it being a way of life.

The "komoru" part has various meanings (according to EDICT): "shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to seclude oneself; to hide away; to stay inside (one's shell)" as well as "to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be stuffy; to be dense", plus others.
>> illogical

Yes, that's what ADHD does to you.

Source: Have it. Not as severe as Foone, but I empathize.
“The Bane of My Existence”: U.K. Sportswriting’s Access Crisis
Sounds like the days of self-funding through junk mail might be over?
"We have democracy. We survived George W. How much damage a dumb person can do, even in the highest office?"

Now we know, apparently a lot, if he thinks he's a great businessman.
Thanks for this! I'm doing an undergrad thesis applying TDA to EEG.

Currently I've been trying out using a sublevel set filtration on EEG data using a sliding window. For some reason the total persistence (sum of barcode lengths) can classify seizure vs non-seizure time segments.

Do you have any idea why it's able to do this, or where I can learn more?

I know that seizure events correspond to less determinism, as opposed to more chaos.
People in quite a few countries I've been to are more and more reluctant to try and form a relationship with a stranger, especially one who does not seem outgoing. No idea about the root cause of this general mistrust.

It's also easier to have substitute "network" relationships which are not complete.

Abd it shows we're geared towards living in relatively small communities whee everyone knows everyone, but new forced mobility breaks that, and so do long work hours. (I believe the optimum size is somewhere around 10k and average 30h workweek, more bursty.)

My personal solution to what almost happened to me was to fix the underlying problem with medication and start building from ground up. It took two lost years of my life (funny enough, during studies) and it's always a risk of relapse...

The solution is unfortunately to get really creative in finding actual humanity around. It's rare but happens.

It is actually quite hard for an adult to find an actual connection who isn't a spouse nowadays. You get to dig into weird social spaces like clubs (some are really niche too) and there are few guarantees. It's also for some reason harder for men because women still tend to build minimum social groups as a reflex ("coffee clatches" or rumour Mills)

A lot of it is extremely superficial too which can be annoying.
Flux Capacity: Flux-Readings of Apple Computer Floppies
???

Software has these everywhere. iOS and Android homescreens are carousels. Netflix 'rails' are carousels. CSS Snap Points is a way to create native snapping scrolling views, which Safari and IE supports, but Chrome does not.
Our line so far has been to change provider of service if we start getting copy - paste answers from support. We always make sure we can get hold of a human on the phone even without a big uptime contract. This has so far lead us to small companies that are not overrun by free accounts used as spam or SEO accounts. That means they have no need for automatic shutdown of accounts and instead you get a phonecall if something goes wrong.
It’s not, read the terms of your credit card. It’s basically “I didn’t intend to buy this. I tried in good faith to contact the merchant for return and support. I was ignored. I’m contacting you.”

It’s pretty convenient for companies like Comcast and Google that have poor customer service.
JavaScript - everything is a hack, except when it's not a hack.

Therefore "hack === hack // false"
Can you please add some details. What is it about Kundera that you find deplorable?
>>This isn't even actual scrutiny either. These are stupid questions. If someone answers yes to being a terrorist, for example, congrats. You've barred someone stupid from entering the country. This is the same tactic used by "nigerian" scammers.

Weeeeeell. No, not entirely. If you think "terrorist" you probably think ISIS and Al-Queda. But someone could have been a member of the IRA 30 years ago, and should still technically answer "yes" to this question. In theory, that shouldn't bar them from entry(given that everything else is ok). But lying on this form and saying they have never been a member of a terrorist organisation would ban them for life from visiting US if they were ever found out. So this question is not as stupid as it seems.
It also depends on which country you want to watch through a VPN. The most desired countries like US / UK usually have a lot of working VPNs available as the VPN companies put a lot of resources into keeping them working. Using a VPN for a smaller country usually doesn't work in my experience.
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Is there such a thing as an "African millennial"? Are there Gen-Xers in Africa? Was there a baby boom to produce Baby Boomers? Aren't these generational terms relevant to the USA only? NYTimes recently covered the distinctions between Millennials and Gen-Xers, and none of those cultural touchpoints or characteristics of Millennials seem to be appropriate for describing any generation in Ghana.
I've gone through the hurdle of reading it, and as someone just curious and not specifically interested in the topic, in the end more it was more pain than pleasure.

Also there's a great tool made to settle this endless dispute : https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1135354815259656192.html

But seeing how chronically and rudely the guy cries about this issue, without even looking for the halfway compromise, he just looks like a jerk to me. And I'm not impressed enough by the content to get over it in the future.
>Immigrating to a new country is taking the risk that you can’t stay. I accepted that when I immigrated.

But it doesn't need to be so tenuous.

Emigrating to the Netherlands seems like a friendly walk in the park compared to the capricious bullshit that immigrants to America are subjected to. I'm ashamed my country treats people like this.
100 pounds? That ain't so mega. Wouldn't the prefix mega- imply they'd have to be, oh say... around a million pounds or so? A measly 100lb critter would just be a centifauna, right?
A Monoid Is a Category with Just One Object. So What's the Problem?
It's not actually that complicated. There are templates that let you deploy both in a single click on a webinterface. You can use free crawlers for content out of the box.

Various usenet providers provide you with picture-by-picture guides on how to setup Sonarr and Radarr.

There are single-click Usenet and Torrent clients with VPN integration. Just upload the ovpn file as provided by your VPN provider and you're done.

This is all either single click or explained thuroughly and easy to understand on-site or in the products FAQ/Installation Guide.

Once you have it all, you can share Plex with others, which is even more easy than all of the above. Your friends and family have access to all the movies for very low cost (up to free).
Also every 2 seconds twitter has a full screen popup saying to use the app or to sign up or that I have been rate limited.
Exactly, built-in delegation and impersation features solve this. AWS IAM and Kubernetes have great implementations. Hopefully we get some more standards like OAuth so people talk about this stuff more.
Review of Deep Learning with Special Emphasis on Architectures and Applications
TLDR; Terrifs are the root cause. With continued increase terrif recession might be official within 3 quarters. JP Morgan has taken u-turn and is expecting 2 rate cuts from feds. Other central banks around the world are planning rate cuts as well. South Korea production fell by 2X than expected. Not all economies are loser, however, India and Vietnam might see increased business.
Let's not go through this again. Many people disagree with you and find no problem reading tweetstorms, which are becoming more popular, not less.
It’s an easy problem to fix as basically services should emit performance data, openly, and the status page should just summarize that. So if a service doesn’t report out, it’s assumed down or erroring out.

Having an excel file where people enter statuses is not very useful to me as a customer. That’s more like a blog.
At the end of the thread, Foone posts this:

'correction, which explains some of the weirdness like the "buy-back" thing.
This isn't a Cellebrite UFED Touch, it's a Cellebrite UME (Universal Memory Exchanger ) Touch. This means it's designed for phone stores to transfer data off old phones onto new phones and such.
This is why it can't hack the phones, just copy data off them.
It just seems they built their UFED platform and UME platform on the same hardware base.

It also makes a lot more sense why this ended up in a thrift store.'
Atleast edit history is public in wikipedia
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The status page is the kind of thing you expect to be hosted on a competitor network. It is not dogfooding but it is sensible.

Reminds me of when I was working with a telecoms company. It was a large multinational company and the second largest network in the country I was in at the time.

I was surprised when I noticed all the senior execs were carrying two phones, of which the second was a mobile number on the main competitor (ie the largest network). After a while, I realised that it made sense, as when the shit really hit the fan they could still be reached even when our network had a total outage.
I was just reading yesterday about another case too - https://forums.watchuseek.com/f2/my-oiled-casio-f-91-dives-d...
The big picture of how recession will affect IT industry (2009)
Giant clams have an average lifespan of 100 years. They are filter feeders. The nuclear testing was done in the 50s and 60s. They were sucking up the fallout for decades.
> cinema is having its most successful years ever, so clearly many people are enjoying the films Hollywood is putting out.

Is that really true or is it just films like "Avengers" who make Hollywood's balance sheet look better than ever?

I'm not entirely convinced that the film industry can survive without giant blockbusters like that.

You might say that there's always been blockbusters, but although I don't have any data on this I imagine the proportion of $ that these films make up has only grown over time. Maybe leading to a reliance on a few big hits.

I consider this one of the reasons we've seen a proliferation of super-hero/comic adaptions (an endless supply of material here) and other giant movies tapping into an existing fanbase (Star Wars, Fast/Furious, etc).
No, the need for growth is not related to uneven distribution. You can have perfectly even distribution of a really unproductive economy and everyone will be just as poor.

If we want to get enough food, shelter, and medicine for the population of the world to just not be in the brink of starvation, homelessness and death from simple diseases, we need more economic growth.

The economic output of a society is independent of the wealth distribution mechanisms. We wouldn’t magically gain all of the output we needed by just switching to socialism.

A simple example is a workforce building houses without tools and a workforce building houses with tools. The latter will have more economic output than the former and will be better for society overall, regardless of what share of the profits the workers get.
You will usually get far better entropy by simply stitching together a random array of everyday words. Example: stitching better everyday words array entropy level. Anyway, as for the too-long problem, then I guess we're back to square one. :)
Did a little research, and it seems like pure silicone oil is much less aggressive to rubber/latex than mineral oil (and you can get it from Amazon pretty cheaply).

Does anyone have any idea what the chemical differences between the two are that affect how they interact with rubber? I’d love to learn more.
This bitcoin/gold fantasy is cute but most people choose real estate. For millenia the only store of value with positive long term return wasn't gold but landholding (with it's terrible side effects like unpredictability of returns, correlation with population growth and the need to tend to the land). I guess real estate is modern version of landholding.

It seems like XIX/XX century which made the landholding class bancrupt due to emergence of bonds, rents and industrial investment were just a short term abberation.
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> and it follows that the need for continuous growth is then _exacerbated_ by the continuous increase in income disparity.

Not necessarily, not only is growth not bound to income disparity; once people's basic needs are meet (health care, minimum living benefits while out of job), the disparity is no longer a humanitarian issue.

More yet, what today goes to middle class in most developed and developing countries used to be the best upper class could get. There is a lot that can be done, of course, but the general state of humanity is on an upwards trend with economy.
Oh and I forgot: even 20 years ago the infamous DivX ;-) codec was already out. It wasn't xvid, it was DivX that started the digital movie piracy big time.
Continuous growth itself is irrational.

But in a system that presupposes "continuous growth" for sustaining itself, and all its structures have been built with that assumption, fear of recession is totally rational.
Those numbers probably aren't as absurd as you think. 16 9s is, I think 10 bytes lost per exabyte-year of data storage.

There's perhaps the additional asterisk of "and we haven't suffered a catastrophic event that entirely puts us out of business". (Which is maybe only terrorist attacks). Because then you're talking about losing data only when cosmic-ray bitflips happen simultaneously in data centers on different continents, which I'd expect doesn't happen too often.
Aaron Turner posted this useful link to a good AssemblyScript example a while ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=torch2424

torch2424 7 months ago | unvote | parent [-] | on: Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly

I help out every once and a while on the AssemblyScript team with like issues, docs, and things. And made wasmboy, which uses AssemblyScript:

https://github.com/torch2424/wasmBoy

But that being said, usually when people are interested in the language, we usually direct them to the "n-body" example:
https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/blob/master... . Which kind of looks more typescript-y :)

Also, just to stay on topic, I think walt is awesome. Stoked to see so many projects coming up with a "Wasm for JS devs" approach/story.
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"A Brief History of Generative Models for Power Law and Lognormal Distributions":
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.im/1089229510
> Fear of recession is irrational.

Not if you rely on selling labor for the income necessary to acquire the needs of daily survival, it isn't.
But A lot of stuff is made in factories that are not smartphones, tv's, or laptops. If this was the cause, I think it'd be easy to point out.
Well, hopefully we see a decline in CO2 emissions for a while because of this.
Information in the Yield Curve about Future Recessions
Adding restrictions to "keep it open" is oxymoronic. Folks can do whatever they want with their software licensing, but please don't deceive people by pretending it's FOSS if it's not.
A country that still heavily relies on paper document, still using fax machine, and its most popular internet forum has not changed its design since inception.

Yes, I would say the innovation in Japan has died out since the bubble.
I don't think evolution cares about anything really. Plenty of species live pretty miserable lives, and evolution can lead them to even more miserable lives.

Evolution is not a conscious being, it is not positive nor negative, it does not try to achieve anything, and particularly not happiness for anybody.

In a similar way, we don't need to protect the environment in the sake of nature. Nature does not care, evolution does not care. Humans are the ones who care. We are the ones worrying about other animals lives, preserving species and landscape, both for romantic and practical reasons.

A super foreign virus could come tomorrow and kill all complex life on earth. Would that be a disaster? For us yes, but in general life would follow its course anyway and evolve again. Nothing has a meaning except the one we are to give.
Assuming there is no zero day exploit. But then I'm paranoid.
>Everyone should be spreading their savings around different banks.

Depending on the country this will not save you. You can have it in N banks, and still get back up to a fixed X amount, because the amount is per person, not per account.

And this assumes people have "savings".

Most people outside of the 10% echo chamber live paycheck to paycheck.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/09/shutdown-highlights-that-4-i...

https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/pf/emergency-expenses-house...

https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/financial-security-...
If I don't restart my laptop after changing my password, I'm saving up for a whole load of shit. The proxy logins may, or may not, continue to work, but it's highly likely that at some point in the next few hours, Outlook is going to trigger 3 failed password checks and lock me out of my mailbox.

And that's assuming it expires when I'm in the office, whereas what seems to happen roughly half the time is it expires when I'm connected via the VPN.
Income disparity and need for continuous growth are not strictly dependent on each other. Assume that everyone was given exactly equal portion of global GDP. This will still end up everyone at $9/hr. While this might be above poverty line, no one would be able to afford virtually any expensive technological advances. The bottom line is that current total world GDP is not sufficient to experience full technological advances by all humans which calls for further growth.
The Japanese economy kept growing in terms of real GDP during that time: http://wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Japan+real+GDP
I do have ADHD, it’s odd that you would presume I don’t.

This is why I thought the “too adhd to blog” is odd because there are blogging platforms easier than twitter. Even Wordpress has drafts where you can update one sentence at a time.

All the futzing and sequencing to get this out of twitter requires lots of effort that seems, to me, similar or greater effort than other formats that wouldn’t make me abandon an otherwise interesting post.
The problem, IMO, is less that the file metaphor is not capable of expressing some things and rather that it expresses some things very poorly.

For example, a GPU device doesn't have like a file. You cannot effectively control a GPU via read/write. read/write are excessively slow for anything you'd want to do, including a simple VGA buffer. Almost all operations on a GPU in Linux involve mmap'ing it and then applying ioctl() liberally.

You can do almost everything using the file metaphor, Plan 9 proves it. But it's at times going to be a very poor metaphor that is better at working at all than working well.
He he. Your argument is that cinema is dead because it's not as popular as it was in the 50's, before TV, video games, home cinemas, and the internet?

Even the fact that the numbers are comparable in 2019 says about cinema's staying power ;)
Thank you for the TLDR.

Terrible writing and Twitter is a fatal combo.
>If there shall be no growth, there may be no innovation.

That's not a problem. We already have too much shit for the good of the planet and for the good of our sanity. We should focus on quality, not innovation of more gadgetry.

Considering diseases for example, we could save hundreds of millions with spreading existing drugs and techniques, and give many years or longevity to billions with access to water and food and vaccines, etc, than what we'll "might" do with some (diminishing returns) cutting edge drug research.

We know how to cure lots of diseases people all over the world suffer from, and we don't do it. It takes a lot of hypocrisy to say we need more "growth" and "innovation" to help them.
That's not an "issue" but more like why you shouldn't trade in the first place. My point is, long-short timeframe are no different if you don't know the direction it is moving.
chicken evolution might simply be biding it's time.

until one day when an avian virus spreads through chicken and wipes out humanity, leaving them to become the ruling species on this planet.

"the one who clucks last, clucks the loudest" (-- old chicken proverb)
Dota 2 has that. Except for subbing players (would be probably a bit of a mess).
Do laypeople know or care about the details of password hashing too, and if not does it matter if they know what TOTP stands for?

“Scan this barcode then enter the six digit number from the app; we’ll sometimes ask for the number when you log in” isn’t particularly onerous - 1Password for example will insert your one time pass along with your password so in some cases there isn’t even an extra step to log in. I’d be more worried about people losing/wiping phones and getting locked out of their logins - who needs those backup codes, right?
The solution in my mind is simple (and therefore entirely possibly wrong): keep autonomous communities small.

I like to think of this as the "Tower of Babel" problem, where basically all the world's people cooperated on one monumental task, and God "confused their language" so they couldn't complete it. We see this pattern any time people form a critical mass: fragments form, there's a falling out, and the whole thing comes apart. Take any sufficiently old group of people and the pattern asserts itself.

The great thing about the internet is even if all the primary communities are small, it's trivial for members to inter-mix on their choice of small communities, self-selecting for culture fit rather than requiring armies of moderators to keep the conversation on track (though some moderation is still necessary).
Thank you! The role I am interviewing for is also responsible for system architecture and design, not at the code level but at the level of services and components, sort of a Technical Director who is at the same time the Chief Architect (small company). Do you see this working or do you think it's too much of a scope?
Reagan was entertaining - he was an actor. Dukakis was not.

I like your theory on the entertainment value of Presidential hopefuls.
I’m watching from Sweden, so that may be the reason, but my suggestions are laughably bad: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1120410479954993153
It’s the first time for me :)

That’s cool that lots of people like tweetstorms, I don’t. That’s cool that there are different people in the world with different preferences.

Expecting me not to comment on something that is novel to me and seemingly pretty annoying and easy to fix (use a better tool) is something that would make me frustrated if I tried to apply that to others.

Imagine if I stubbed my toe. Imaging if someone said “lots of people don’t stub their toes, your complaint bores me” when I said “Dammit.”
I work in the travel industry in the West and we see a significant drop in sales compared to the last 2 years. That supports your hypothesis since travel is something usually consume every year.
My interpretation of the parent was that there is some hypothetical point at which basic needs (whatever they are) of all humans are satisfied and additional growth is about more comfort/less work. At that point one could in principle stop with growth. And with very skewed distribution, this hypothetical point is way further into the future than with even distribution.
How deep, how rapid, and where, does recession need to be in order for there to be food riots?